Patents by Inventor Sean Michael McBeath
Sean Michael McBeath has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9706528Abstract: Systems, methods, and software can be used to process a control channel at a user agent (UA) within a wireless communication system. In some aspects, the method includes identifying one carrier as an anchor carrier and at least one other carrier as a non-anchor carrier; for each carrier: determining a location of a UA specific search space including one or more control channel candidates for the carrier based on a linear congruential random number; and attempting to decode each of the control channel candidates in the UA specific search space to identify at least one of an uplink or a downlink grant associated with the carrier.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Mo-Han Fong, Youn Hyoung Heo
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Publication number: 20170188348Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a downlink message, wherein the downlink message includes a first control channel element; determining a first index using the location of the first control channel element; determining a second index; determining a first orthogonal resource using the first index; determining a second orthogonal resource using the second index; spreading an uplink message using the first orthogonal resource to form a first spread signal; spreading the uplink message using a second orthogonal resource to form a second spread signal; transmitting the first spread signal using a first antenna; and transmitting the second spread signal using a second antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2017Publication date: June 29, 2017Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Hua XU, Youn Hyoung HEO, Zhijun CAI, Andrew Mark EARNSHAW, Mo-Han FONG, Sean Michael McBEATH, Robert Mark HARRISON
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Publication number: 20170181145Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for multi-carrier network operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of performing channel scrambling in a multi-carrier network, wherein the multi-carrier network includes a first component carrier (“CC”) and a second CC between a base station and a user equipment (“UE”) comprises receiving a Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (“C-RNTI”) and a cell identification (“ID”) for at least one of the first CC and the second CC; and using the RNTI and the cell ID to perform scrambling of information transmitted on at least one of the first CC and the second CC.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2017Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Mo-Han Fong, Sean Michael McBeath, Youn Hyoung Heo, Jun Li, Hua Xu
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Patent number: 9660786Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a downlink message, wherein the downlink message includes a first control channel element; determining a first index using the location of the first control channel element; determining a second index; determining a first orthogonal resource using the first index; determining a second orthogonal resource using the second index; spreading an uplink message using the first orthogonal resource to form a first spread signal; spreading the uplink message using a second orthogonal resource to form a second spread signal; transmitting the first spread signal using a first antenna; and transmitting the second spread signal using a second antenna.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Hua Xu, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Sean Michael McBeath, Robert Mark Harrison
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Patent number: 9642129Abstract: A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify at least one of an uplink and a downlink resource allocated by a resource grant within a multi-carrier communication system wherein resource grants are specified by control channel element (CCE) subset candidates wherein the carriers used for data transmission and reception are configured carriers, the method comprising the steps of receiving activation signals specifying active and deactivated carriers from among the configured carriers, for active carriers (i) identifying a number of CCE subset candidates to decode and (ii) decoding up to the identified number of CCE subset candidates in an attempt to identify the resource grant; and for deactivated carriers, ignoring CCE subset candidates associated with the deactivated carriers.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Golden Valley Holdings LimitedInventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai
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Patent number: 9544911Abstract: System and method for assigning communications resources in a wireless communications system. A method for operating a base station comprises receiving a resource request for radio resources for a mobile station, in response to a determining that the base station will service the resource request, assigning radio resources based on the resource request and transmitting an indicator of the assigned radio resources to the mobile station, and in response to a determining that the base station will not service the resource request, returning to a normal mode of operations. The assigning of radio requests makes use of a channel tree comprised of two non-orthogonal sets of mappings between nodes of the channel tree and radio resources, with each node corresponding to at least one radio resource.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2008Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Juejun Liu, ZhengChuang Ming, Sean Michael McBeath, Anthony C. K. Soong
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Patent number: 9439179Abstract: A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system includes transmitting at least one region boundary to a mobile station indicating a division of the time-frequency resources into at least two regions, determining a time-frequency resource assignment for the mobile station, transmitting an indication of the determined time-frequency resource to the mobile station in the same region as the determined time-frequency resource, and transmitting a packet to the mobile station using the physical time-frequency resources corresponding to the determined time-frequency resource.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2012Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jianmin Lu, Anthony C. K. Soong, Yunsong Yang, Sean Michael McBeath
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Publication number: 20160165556Abstract: A method for reporting power headroom-related information for a plurality of aggregated carriers. The method includes reporting in a bitmap the power headroom-related information for a number of the aggregated carriers that is less than or equal to the total number of aggregated carriers, wherein the power headroom-related information is one of a power headroom for at least one of the aggregated carriers and a path loss for at least one of the aggregated carriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2016Publication date: June 9, 2016Inventors: Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Sean Michael McBeath, Mo-Han Fong
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Patent number: 9306709Abstract: A method in a base station of transmitting control information to a mobile station includes transmitting a persistent assignment to a mobile station, wherein the persistent assignment includes a plurality of ACID indications; and transmitting a subsequent assignment to the mobile station including an ACID derived from the plurality of ACID indications. In another method, a mobile station receives control information from a base station, including receiving a persistent assignment from the base station, wherein the persistent assignment includes a plurality of ACID indications; and receiving a subsequent assignment from the base station including an ACID derived from the plurality of ACID indications.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2008Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Anthony C. K. Soong
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Publication number: 20160081067Abstract: A method and system to signal transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports to be used in a multiple input multiple output system, the method including providing a downlink control signal containing information for transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports utilized, the dedicated reference signal ports being associated with the transmission layers; and using the information to demodulate data on each transmission layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicant: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventors: Hua Xu, Yongkang Jia, Zhijun Cai, Youn Hyoung Heo, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Sean Michael McBeath, Robert Mark Harrison
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Publication number: 20160037496Abstract: A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify at least one of an uplink and a downlink resource allocated by a resource grant within a multi-carrier communication system wherein resource grants are specified by control channel element (CCE) subset candidates wherein the carriers used for data transmission and reception are configured carriers, the method comprising the steps of receiving activation signals specifying active and deactivated carriers from among the configured carriers, for active carriers (i) identifying a number of CCE subset candidates to decode and (ii) decoding up to the identified number of CCE subset candidates in an attempt to identify the resource grant; and for deactivated carriers, ignoring CCE subset candidates associated with the deactivated carriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2015Publication date: February 4, 2016Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai
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Patent number: 9253772Abstract: A system and method for configuring a component carrier is presented. A component carrier assignment message is received. The component carrier assignment message may be configured to identify the component carrier and include at least one of, at least one of a downlink carrier frequency, a carrier frequency of a paired uplink carrier, a bandwidth of the component carrier, and a bandwidth of the paired uplink carrier, an indication of whether the component carrier is a control channel monitoring component carrier configured to signal data channel assignment information for the component carrier, and a logical index of the component carrier. The component carrier assignment message may then be used to configure the component carrier on a user equipment (UE).Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Mo-Han Fong, Richard Charles Burbidge, Zhijun Cai, Takashi Suzuki, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Youn Hyoung Heo, Hua Xu, Jun Li, Sean Michael McBeath
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Patent number: 9231855Abstract: A method and system for hybrid automatic repeat request operation for uplink coordinated multi-point signaling, the method in one embodiment sending a data packet from a user equipment to a plurality of network elements; waiting for a control indication from at least one of the plurality of network element; and retransmitting the data packet to the plurality of network elements if the control indication specifies retransmission is required.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Mo-Han Fong, Sophie Vrzic, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Robert Novak, Zhijun Cai, Hua Xu, Youn Hyoung Heo
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Publication number: 20150312013Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a downlink message, wherein the downlink message includes a first control channel element; determining a first index using the location of the first control channel element; determining a second index; determining a first orthogonal resource using the first index; determining a second orthogonal resource using the second index; spreading an uplink message using the first orthogonal resource to form a first spread signal; spreading the uplink message using a second orthogonal resource to form a second spread signal; transmitting the first spread signal using a first antenna; and transmitting the second spread signal using a second antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2015Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Hua Xu, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Sean Michael McBeath, Robert Mark Harrison
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Patent number: 9119195Abstract: A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify at least one of an uplink and a downlink resource allocated by a resource grant within a multi-carrier communication system wherein resource grants are specified by control channel element (CCE) subset candidates wherein the carriers used for data transmission and reception are configured carriers, the method comprising the steps of receiving activation signals specifying active and deactivated carriers from among the configured carriers, for active carriers (i) identifying a number of CCE subset candidates to decode and (ii) decoding up to the identified number of CCE subset candidates in an attempt to identify the resource grant; and for deactivated carriers, ignoring CCE subset candidates associated with the deactivated carriers.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2011Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai
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Patent number: 9088345Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a downlink message, wherein the downlink message includes a first control channel element; determining a first index using the location of the first control channel element; determining a second index; determining a first orthogonal resource using the first index; determining a second orthogonal resource using the second index; spreading an uplink message using the first orthogonal resource to form a first spread signal; spreading the uplink message using a second orthogonal resource to form a second spread signal; transmitting the first spread signal using a first antenna; and transmitting the second spread signal using a second antenna.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Hua Xu, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Sean Michael McBeath, Robert Mark Harrison
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Publication number: 20150139123Abstract: A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify power control commands within a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of, at a user agent, monitoring for power control messages on a single carrier, decoding a message received on the single carrier to generate decoded information and using the decoded information to identify a power control command for each of at least first and second carriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Mo-Han Fong, Youn Hyoung Heo
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Patent number: 9002015Abstract: A system and method for configuring a component carrier is presented. A component carrier assignment message is received. The component carrier assignment message may be configured to identify the component carrier and include at least one of, at least one of a downlink carrier frequency, a carrier frequency of a paired uplink carrier, a bandwidth of the component carrier, and a bandwidth of the paired uplink carrier, an indication of whether the component carrier is a control channel monitoring component carrier configured to signal data channel assignment information for the component carrier, and a logical index of the component carrier. The component carrier assignment message may then be used to configure the component carrier on a user equipment (UE).Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Mo-Han Fong, Richard Charles Burbidge, Zhijun Cai, Takashi Suzuki, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Youn Hyoung Heo, Hua Xu, Jun Li, Sean Michael McBeath
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Publication number: 20150043508Abstract: A method for designating, by a user agent supporting multiple carriers in a wireless communication network, one assigned carrier as an anchor carrier, at least one assigned carrier as an inactive carrier, and at least one assigned carrier as an active carrier. The method can also include receiving a command from an enhanced node B causing a first carrier to transition from an inactive carrier to an active carrier. Additionally, the method can include responsive to reception of the command, monitoring a control channel corresponding to the first carrier. Further, the method can also include receiving downlink control information (DCI) via the control channel. The method can also include responsive to reception of the DCI, starting a timer, and deactivating the first carrier at the expiration of the timer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventors: Sean Michael MCBEATH, Zhijun CAI, Yi YU
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Publication number: 20150016390Abstract: A method and system for hybrid automatic repeat request operation for uplink coordinated multi-point signaling, the method in one embodiment sending a data packet from a user equipment to a plurality of network elements; waiting for a control indication from at least one of the plurality of network element; and retransmitting the data packet to the plurality of network elements if the control indication specifies retransmission is required.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventors: Sean Michael MCBEATH, Mo-Han FONG, Sophie VRZIC, Mark EARNSHAW, Robert NOVAK, Zhijun CAI, Hua XU, Youn Hyoung HEO