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).

  • Publication number: 20100284367
    Abstract: A system and method for handovers in multi-carrier wireless communications systems is provided. A method for communications device operation includes computing a bandwidth requirement, transmitting a handover request to a server controller, receiving a response responsive to the handover request, and in response to determining that the handover request was granted, initiating a handover. The handover request includes the bandwidth requirement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Changhoi Koo, Sean Michael McBeath
  • Publication number: 20100248749
    Abstract: A system and method for low overhead paging in a wireless communications system is provided. A method for controller operation includes generating a compressed map, receiving an incoming call intended for a communications device, and broadcasting the compressed map to communications devices served by the controller. The compressed map includes indications of paging groups of the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Changhoi Koo, Sean Michael McBeath
  • Publication number: 20100128690
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of operating a base station includes transmitting a first control channel to a user device. The first control channel has a subframe partition index that partitions resources of an associated subframe into at least one partition. The at least one partition has a size limited to only a set of possible partition sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Jack Smith, Tao Qian, JueJun Liu
  • Publication number: 20100067593
    Abstract: A base station transmits control information to a mobile station. A first control channel is transmitted to the mobile station. The first control channel contains an indication of the number of control channel occurrences in a frame. A second control channel is transmitted to the mobile station in a control subframe. The second control channel contains information for communicating a packet between the base station and the mobile station. The control subframe is determined from the number of control channel occurrences in the frame. The packet can then be communicated between the base station and the mobile station in a subframe based on the control channels transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Zhigang Rong, Yunsong Yang, Changhoi Koo
  • Publication number: 20090207785
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for dynamically assigning persistent resources in a wireless communications system is provided. A method comprises transmitting a first boundary indication to a mobile station, and transmitting a position indication to the mobile station, wherein the position indication corresponds to a network resource assigned based on a network resource request, the position indication is relative to the first boundary indication. The method also comprises transmitting a second boundary indication to the mobile station in response to detecting a change in a position of a boundary, and transmitting a first transmission to the mobile station using a network resource corresponding to the position indication or receiving a second transmission from the mobile station using a network resource corresponding to the position indication, wherein the position indication is relative to the second boundary indication. The first boundary indication is based on a position of the boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Smith, Sean Michael McBeath
  • Publication number: 20090185534
    Abstract: A system and method for transmitting a reduced header is presented. A preferred embodiment comprises a base station defining a normal header and a reduced header, wherein the reduced header has a smaller number of bytes than the normal header. The base station then concatenates the reduced header with smaller sized payloads and concatenates the normal header with larger sized payloads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip Barber, Sean Michael McBeath
  • Publication number: 20090185483
    Abstract: A system and method for partitioning and transmitting a frame configuration in a wireless communication system is provided. A preferred embodiment comprises a method for determining a frame configuration in H-FDD systems where multiple time domain groups are supported is disclosed. Another embodiment provides a method for a base station for transmitting an indication of a frame configuration in H-FDD systems where multiple time domain groups are supported. Further, if the mobile stations enter into an error condition because they did not receive the frame configuration, an error recovery process may be utilized to self-recover from the error condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Phillip Barber
  • Publication number: 20090149188
    Abstract: A system and method for resource allocation in wireless communications systems includes a method for operating a base station. The method includes receiving a resource request for radio resources for a mobile station and transmitting an indication of unallocated radio resources to the mobile station. A resource assignment is determined for the resource request, and the resource assignment is transmitted to the mobile station. The resource assignment comprises unallocated radio resources and a number of radio resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Anthony C.K. Soong, Jack Smith
  • Publication number: 20090122758
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a method and apparatus for the base station to transmit a series of HARQ sub-packets to a mobile station is disclosed. In another embodiment of the present invention, a method and apparatus for the base station to assign radio resources for the mobile station to transmit a series of HARQ sub-packets to a base station is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventors: Jack Smith, Anthony C.K. Soong, Sean Michael McBeath
  • Publication number: 20090109914
    Abstract: A method of transmitting control information to new and legacy mobile stations in a wireless communications system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method and apparatus for the base station to transmit control information in a system with new and legacy mobile stations is disclosed. In another embodiment, a method and apparatus for the mobile station to transmit control information is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Anthony C.K. Soong
  • Publication number: 20090073932
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Anthony C. K. Soong
  • Publication number: 20090042581
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Juejun Liu, ZhengChuang Ming, Sean Michael McBeath, Anthony C.K. Soong
  • Publication number: 20080310362
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system includes the time-frequency resources into multiple regions; defining a channel tree within at least one region, wherein the channel tree has base nodes which are determined using the area of the region and the area of a base node; determining a channel identifier assignment for a mobile station, wherein the channel identifier corresponds to a collection of base nodes from a channel tree; transmitting an indication of the determined channel identifier to the mobile station; and transmitting a packet to a mobile station or receiving a packet from the mobile station using the physical time-frequency resources, which correspond to the channel identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Anthony C.K. Soong, Yunsong Yang, Jianmin Lu, Jung Woon Lee
  • Publication number: 20080310364
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Jianmin Lu, Anthony C.K. Soong, Yunsong Yang, Sean Michael McBeath
  • Publication number: 20080310363
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system includes establishing groups of mobile stations which monitor a shared group scheduling bitmap; transmitting a group scheduling bitmap to the mobile stations, wherein the group scheduling bitmap contains a mobile station presence bitmap and an SDMA bitmap, wherein the SDMA bitmap is used to divide the group members into two or more subgroups; and transmitting packets to the mobile stations or receiving packets from the mobile stations using the radio resource which is derived from the value indicated in the group scheduling bitmap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Anthony C.K. Soong
  • Publication number: 20080310359
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system comprises establishing a set of virtual resources; assigning one or more of the virtual resources to one or more mobile stations; transmitting a remapping bitmap to the mobile stations, wherein the remapping bitmap contains a resource availability bitmap and a virtual resource bitmap; and transmitting packets to the mobile stations or receiving packets from the mobile stations using the respective radio resources which are derived for the respective mobile stations from the remapping bitmap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Jack Anthony Smith, Anthony C.K. Soong, Jianmin Lu
  • Patent number: 7333561
    Abstract: A postdistortion amplifier that produces a postdistortion amplifier output signal based on a signal input to the postdistortion amplifier reduces distortion in the postdistortion amplifier output signal by digitally predistorting an error signal. The postdistortion amplifier includes a digital predistortion unit that receives a digital error signal and produces a digital predistorted error signal based on the received digital error signal and by reference to a predistorted error signal model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Danny Thomas Pinckley, Sean Michael McBeath
  • Patent number: 6983026
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing base band signals and method thereof to provide low level signals for amplification that will improve performance of a multi-channel transmitter. The apparatus includes a first Transform Matrix (TM) coupled to one or more input signals; a processing unit coupled to the output signals for modifying according to a predetermined algorithm each of the output signals to provide modified output signals; a second TM coupled to the modified output signals for decomposing the modified signals, each of the output base band signals corresponding to one of the input signals; and a compensation function arranged and inter-coupled to either the modified output signals or the output base band signals. The transmitter further converts the output base band signals to radio frequency signals. A sampler couples either the amplifier input signal or output signal back to the compensation function as a feedback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Danny Thomas Pinckley, Sean Michael McBeath
  • Publication number: 20040001559
    Abstract: A postdistortion amplifier that produces a postdistortion amplifier output signal based on a signal input to the postdistortion amplifier reduces distortion in the postdistortion amplifier output signal by digitally predistorting an error signal. The postdistortion amplifier includes a digital predistortion unit that receives a digital error signal and produces a digital predistorted error signal based on the received digital error signal and by reference to a predistorted error signal model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Inventors: Danny Thomas Pinckley, Sean Michael McBeath
  • Publication number: 20030179829
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing base band signals and method thereof to provide low level signals for amplification that will improve performance of a multi-channel transmitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Applicant: MOTOROLA, INC.
    Inventors: Danny Thomas Pinckley, Sean Michael McBeath