Patents by Inventor Shane Wicks
Shane Wicks 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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Publication number: 20230216700Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for pairing multiple devices into a designated group for a communication session are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes processing, via at least a portion of multiple processing devices, information associated with a network in connection with one or more device pairing requests from one or more of the processing devices; implementing, via at least one the multiple processing devices, a pairing algorithm, wherein the pairing algorithm comprises searching for one or more of the processing devices, in accordance with one or more temporal values associated with the at least one processing device and at least one of the one or more device pairing requests corresponding thereto, and one or more pairing parameters; and automatically pairing, via the network and based on the pairing algorithm, the at least one processing device to one or more of the processing devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Abhishek Vishwakarma, Justin Lange, John M. De Cristofaro, Thomas Mwakibinga, Shane Wicks
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Patent number: 11658699Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for generating a frequency hopping arrangement are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes calculating a number of useable frequency channels between a starting frequency channel and a stopping frequency channel for a frequency hopping arrangement for a communication session; calculating a frequency channel step value based at least in part on a predetermined required minimum number of frequency channels for the frequency hopping arrangement; selecting frequency channel values to be used in the communication session by iterating through frequency channel values for the useable frequency channels between the starting frequency channel and the stopping frequency channel at intervals of a random frequency channel selection offset value; and establishing the frequency hopping arrangement based at least in part on the selected frequency channel values.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Lynq Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Abhishek Vishwakarma, Justin Lange, John M. De Cristofaro, Thomas Mwakibinga, Shane Wicks
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Patent number: 11632259Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for pairing multiple devices into a designated group for a communication session are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes processing, via at least a portion of multiple processing devices, information associated with a network in connection with one or more device pairing requests from one or more of the processing devices; implementing, via at least one the multiple processing devices, a pairing algorithm, wherein the pairing algorithm comprises searching for one or more of the processing devices, in accordance with one or more temporal values associated with the at least one processing device and at least one of the one or more device pairing requests corresponding thereto, and one or more pairing parameters; and automatically pairing, via the network and based on the pairing algorithm, the at least one processing device to one or more of the processing devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Lynq Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Abhishek Vishwakarma, Justin Lange, John M. De Cristofaro, Thomas Mwakibinga, Shane Wicks
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Patent number: 11533735Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for generating transmission arrangements for device group communication sessions are provided herein.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Lynq Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Abhishek Vishwakarma, Justin Lange, John M. De Cristofaro, Thomas Mwakibinga, Shane Wicks
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Publication number: 20220209817Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for generating a frequency hopping arrangement are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes calculating a number of useable frequency channels between a starting frequency channel and a stopping frequency channel for a frequency hopping arrangement for a communication session; calculating a frequency channel step value based at least in part on a predetermined required minimum number of frequency channels for the frequency hopping arrangement; selecting frequency channel values to be used in the communication session by iterating through frequency channel values for the useable frequency channels between the starting frequency channel and the stopping frequency channel at intervals of a random frequency channel selection offset value; and establishing the frequency hopping arrangement based at least in part on the selected frequency channel values.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Abhishek Vishwakarma, Justin Lange, John M. De Cristofaro, Thomas Mwakibinga, Shane Wicks
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Patent number: 11309935Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for generating a frequency hopping arrangement are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes determining a starting frequency channel for a frequency hopping arrangement to be used in a communication session by a group of devices; calculating a frequency channel step value based at least in part on a predetermined required minimum number of frequency channels; and selecting the frequency channel values to be used in the communication session by iterating through frequency channel values for the useable frequency channels at intervals of a random frequency channel selection offset value until a number of frequency channel values equal to the frequency channel step value are selected.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Lynq Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Abhishek Vishwakarma, Justin Lange, John M. De Cristofaro, Thomas Mwakibinga, Shane Wicks
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Patent number: 10972146Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for generating a frequency hopping arrangement are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes determining a starting frequency channel for a frequency hopping arrangement to be used in a communication session by a designated group of devices; calculating a frequency channel step value based at least in part on a predetermined required minimum number of frequency channels and the number of devices in the designated group; and selecting the frequency channel values to be used in the communication session by iterating through frequency channel values for the useable frequency channels at intervals of a random frequency channel selection offset value until a number of frequency channel values equal to the frequency channel step value are selected.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Lynq Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Abhishek Vishwakarma, Justin Lange, John M. De Cristofaro, Thomas Mwakibinga, Shane Wicks
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Patent number: 10958463Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for pairing multiple devices into a designated group for a communication session are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes processing, via a first processing device, information input by a user in connection with a request to pair the first processing device to one or more additional processing devices, wherein the information comprises a number of additional processing devices to which the first processing device is attempting to pair; implementing, via the first processing device, a pairing algorithm which comprises searching for additional processing devices, in accordance with temporal values associated with the input of the first processing device, that carried out a request to pair to the same number of additional processing devices as the first processing device; and configuring the first processing device to a pairing mode configuration upon successful completion of the pairing algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Lynq Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Abhishek Vishwakarma, Justin Lange, John M. De Cristofaro, Thomas Mwakibinga, Shane Wicks
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Patent number: 10904899Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for generating transmission arrangements for device group communication sessions are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes determining a transmission ordering of multiple devices in a designated group with respect to transmitting data packets during a communication session, wherein the transmission ordering comprises device identifiers, attributed to the multiple devices, assigned to sequential transmission slots; determining a scheduled distribution of multiple data packet types transmitted by the multiple devices across the sequential transmission slots, wherein the scheduled distribution comprises an identification of a respective one of the multiple data packet types assigned to each of the sequential transmission slots; and participating in the communication session in accordance with the transmission ordering and the scheduled distribution of the multiple data packet types.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Lynq Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Abhishek Vishwakarma, Justin Lange, John M. De Cristofaro, Thomas Mwakibinga, Shane Wicks
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Publication number: 20200336170Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for generating a frequency hopping arrangement are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes determining a starting frequency channel for a frequency hopping arrangement to be used in a communication session by a designated group of devices; calculating a frequency channel step value based at least in part on a predetermined required minimum number of frequency channels and the number of devices in the designated group; and selecting the frequency channel values to be used in the communication session by iterating through frequency channel values for the useable frequency channels at intervals of a random frequency channel selection offset value until a number of frequency channel values equal to the frequency channel step value are selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Abhishek Vishwakarma, Justin Lange, John M. De Cristofaro, Thomas Mwakibinga, Shane Wicks
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Patent number: 10742259Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for generating a frequency hopping arrangement are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes determining a starting frequency channel for a frequency hopping arrangement to be used in a communication session by a designated group of devices; calculating a number of useable frequency channels between the starting frequency channel and a stopping frequency channel; calculating a frequency channel step value that is greater than a minimum number of frequency channels and is coprime with the number of devices in the designated group; and selecting the frequency channel values to be used in the communication session by iterating through frequency channel values for the useable frequency channels at intervals of a random frequency channel selection offset value until a number of frequency channel values equal to the frequency channel step value are selected.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Lynq Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Abhishek Vishwakarma, Justin Lange, John M. De Cristofaro, Thomas Mwakibinga, Shane Wicks