Patents by Inventor Stephen McCann

Stephen McCann 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).

  • PRE-ASSOCIATION DISCOVERY OF SERVICES
    Publication number: 20190082020
    Abstract: A network node of a wireless local area network (WLAN) filters, based on at least one policy, information about services available via the network node. The network node sends, to a wireless device as part of a pre-association discovery operation of the wireless device, the filtered information about the services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • Method and System for Load Balancing of Sensors
    Publication number: 20190075025
    Abstract: A method for balancing sensors within a sensor system, the method including receiving, at a gateway, data from a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors being connected to one of a plurality of sensor modules or the gateway; determining, at the gateway, that a signal strength from a first sensor falls below a threshold, the first sensor being one of the plurality of sensors; and based on the determining, allocating the first sensor to connect to a different one of the plurality of sensor modules, or to the gateway if connected to one of the plurality of sensor modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Method and apparatus for calculating a coverage signal strength indicator
    Patent number: 10225745
    Abstract: Apparatus and method pertaining to the calculation of at least one value that represents, at least in part, wireless reception signal strength from the perspective of both a local wireless receiver and a remote receiver that receives wireless transmissions from a local wireless transmitter. By one approach the apparatus directly determines the wireless reception signal strength from the perspective of the local wireless receiver and indirectly determines the wireless reception signal strength from the perspective of the remote receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter Montemurro, Khaled Lakhdhar, Stephen McCann, Lizhong Zhu
  • Wireless Network Service Transaction Protocol
    Publication number: 20190069222
    Abstract: A mobile device may retrieve service information about a network prior to associating with the network. Utilizing an advertisement protocol to transmit service query messages, a mobile device may receive service query responses from a network that identify the services available prior to establishing network capability. In other words, the messaging is prior to the exchange of any authentication parameters between the device and the network as well prior to the establishment of a recognized session between the device and the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BATTERY LIFE IMPROVEMENT FOR LOW POWER DEVICES IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20190059050
    Abstract: A method at a sensor module within a sensor system for communicating with a gateway, the method including storing a timing profile for communications with the gateway; waking a radio core of the sensor module at a threshold time prior to a beacon signal being expected from the gateway; sampling a channel for the beacon signal at the radio core; if the beacon signal is detected: waking a processor on the sensor module; exchanging communication with the gateway; and powering down the processor and radio core upon completion of the exchanging communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Mahendra Fuleshwar Prasad, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann, Jesse William Bennett, Scott Leonard Dill, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Communication with I-Q decoupled OFDM modulation
    Patent number: 10212014
    Abstract: In some examples, an apparatus includes a transmitter configured to apply input data as a frequency-domain data sequence to modulate a set of subcarriers, and separate the frequency-domain data sequence into a first subsequence of elements and a second subsequence of elements. A first conjugate symmetric subsequence that is based on inserting a zero value into the first subsequence is formed, and a second conjugate symmetric subsequence that is based on inserting a zero value into the second subsequence is formed, where the zero values are inserted at different positions in the first and second subsequences. A time-domain sequence comprising a first component that is a function of the first conjugate symmetric subsequence, and a second component that is a function of the second conjugate symmetric subsequence is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Shouxing Qu, Dake He, Stephen McCann
  • Discovering network information available via wireless networks
    Patent number: 10200941
    Abstract: Network information may be discoverable without requiring a connection to that network. For example, Access Network Query Protocol (“ANQP”) may allow a device to discover information about a network prior to the device associating with that network. In other words, ANQP allows a network terminal to request additional network information prior to establishing network capability. The additional network information that may be discoverable includes network latency, cellular capabilities, hotspot capabilities, mobility capabilities, neighbor reports, station identification, and multiple hotspot session identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENSOR MONITORING AND ANALYSIS
    Publication number: 20190033172
    Abstract: A method for monitoring performance of at least one component on a moving platform, the method including receiving sensor data for the at least one component, along with supplemental data, at a processing node; and processing the sensor data, the processing using the supplemental data to filter the sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Roland Emlyn WILLIAMS, James Randolph Winter LEPP, Stephen McCANN
  • Network policy configuration
    Patent number: 10171304
    Abstract: In some examples, a configurator device maps a configuration attribute received from a wireless device to a credential attribute, the credential attribute to be mapped to a network policy. The configurator device sends the credential attribute to the wireless device, the credential attribute useable by the wireless device to access an access point (AP), and useable by the AP to obtain the network policy to apply to a communication of the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • Using WLAN connectivity of a wireless device
    Patent number: 10159101
    Abstract: In some examples, a first wireless device communicates with a group device that wirelessly interconnects a plurality of wireless devices in a group, to obtain, from the group device, information identifying a second wireless device from which the first wireless device is able to use a wireless connectivity of the second wireless device to a wide area network (WAN), the second wireless device being part of the plurality of wireless devices. The first wireless device communicates data over the WAN using the wireless connectivity of the second wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen John Barrett, Stephen McCann, Nicholas James Russell, Anders Fredrik Chronqvist
  • Pre-association discovery of services
    Patent number: 10148769
    Abstract: A network node of a wireless local area network (WLAN) filters, based on at least one policy, information about services available via the network node. The network node sends, to a wireless device as part of a pre-association discovery operation of the wireless device, the filtered information about the services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • Communicating in a second channel while ceasing transmission in a first channel
    Patent number: 10149209
    Abstract: In some examples, a wireless device receives, from an access point (AP), information indicating that the wireless device is to cease transmission in a first channel. In response to the information, the wireless device communicates with the AP in a second channel that is a subset of the first channel, during a time interval in which the wireless device is to cease transmission in the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Wireless network service transaction protocol
    Patent number: 10142921
    Abstract: A mobile device may retrieve service information about a network prior to associating with the network. Utilizing an advertisement protocol to transmit service query messages, a mobile device may receive service query responses from a network that identify the services available prior to establishing network capability. In other words, the messaging is prior to the exchange of any authentication parameters between the device and the network as well prior to the establishment of a recognized session between the device and the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Methods and apparatus to discover authentication information in a wireless networking environment
    Patent number: 10136319
    Abstract: Examples to discover network authentication information in a wireless network involve transmitting during network discovery and prior to authentication, a Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) request to a network access point. The request requests authentication information. In addition, a response to the request is received from the network access point. The network authentication information is retrieved from the response. The network authentication information includes a re-direct frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Wireless Local Area Network Hotspot Registration Using Near Field Communications
    Publication number: 20180332556
    Abstract: A first device that includes a processor configured to transmit/receive a trigger message to/from a second device based on wireless short-range communication. The trigger message initiates a registration process within a wireless local area network (WLAN).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, Roger Paul Durand, Sanjay Nathwani
  • METHOD FOR ACCESSING A SERVICE UNAVAILABLE THROUGH A NETWORK CELL
    Publication number: 20180324650
    Abstract: A method performed by user equipment (UE) includes receiving a request to access a service unavailable through a first network cell associated with the UE, and receiving a message from an access device associated with the first network cell, wherein the message identifies a plurality of second network cells providing the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Richard Charles BURBIDGE, Takashi SUZUKI, David Philip HOLE, Johanna Lisa DWYER, Venkata Ratnakar Rao Rayavarapu, Maiyuran WIJAYANATHAN, Stephen McCann, Mark EARNSHAW, Chen-Ho CHIN
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEDICATED SHORT RANGE COMMUNICATION WITH TRAFFIC OFFLOAD
    Publication number: 20180324544
    Abstract: A method at a computing device for dedicated short range communication with traffic offload, the method including utilizing a radio in a communications subsystem on the computing device for a first category of communications; determining, at the computing device, that a trigger condition has been met; and splitting operation of the radio in the communications subsystem of the computing device, the splitting comprising utilizing a first portion of the radio for the first category of communications and a second portion of the radio for a second category of communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Stephen MCCANN, James Randolph Winter LEPP
  • NETWORK POLICY CONFIGURATION
    Publication number: 20180316562
    Abstract: In some examples, a configurator device maps a configuration attribute received from a wireless device to a credential attribute, the credential attribute to be mapped to a network policy. The configurator device sends the credential attribute to the wireless device, the credential attribute useable by the wireless device to access an access point (AP), and useable by the AP to obtain the network policy to apply to a communication of the wireless device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • ADDRESSES IN A WAKE-UP TRIGGER FRAME
    Publication number: 20180317172
    Abstract: A method for processing a wake-up trigger frame includes receiving, at a wake-up radio of a device and from an access point, a wake-up trigger frame, where the wake-up trigger frame includes a group receiver identity; and in response to determining that the device is associated with the group receiver identity, sending a signal to a primary radio of the device to turn on the primary radio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter LEPP, Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Stephen McCann
  • Method for accessing a service unavailable through a network cell
    Patent number: 10111140
    Abstract: In an access device associated with a first network cell, a method for enabling user equipment (UE) to obtain a service unavailable through the first network cell includes receiving a request for the UE to access the service, and identifying, in a message to the UE, a plurality of second network cells providing the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Richard Charles Burbidge, Takashi Suzuki, David Philip Hole, Johanna Lisa Dwyer, Venkata Ratnakar Rao Rayavarapu, Maiyuran Wijayanathan, Stephen McCann, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Chen Ho Chin