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).

  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HYBRID COLLECTIVE PERCEPTION AND MAP CROWDSOURCING
    Publication number: 20190339082
    Abstract: A method at a network element for collective perception in an intelligent transportation system, the method including receiving, from each of a plurality of intelligent transportation system stations, a local dynamic map; creating, based on the local dynamic map from each of the plurality of intelligent transportation system stations, a local collective perception map; and distributing the local collective perception map to at least one of the plurality of intelligent transportation system stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Ian Christopher Drummond DOIG, James Randolph Winter LEPP, Stephen MCCANN, Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Stephen John BARRETT
  • VEHICLE WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20190342394
    Abstract: In some examples, a vehicle includes a plurality of network controllers, a WI-FI wireless local area network (WLAN) over which at least a first network controller and a second network controller of the plurality of network controllers are to communicate, wherein a link between the first network controller and the second network controller through the WI-FI WLAN is a synchronized link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Method and system for sensor monitoring and analysis
    Patent number: 10451526
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter Montemurro, Roland Emlyn Williams, James Randolph Winter Lepp, Stephen McCann
  • METHOD FOR ACCESSING A SERVICE UNAVAILABLE THROUGH A NETWORK CELL
    Publication number: 20190313292
    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: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: 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
  • WIRELESS NETWORK SERVICE TYPE
    Publication number: 20190313320
    Abstract: A service type announcement element indicates one or more service types offered by an access point (AP) that supports station a wireless network. The service type announcement element is generated by the AP and included in a beacon frame or in a probe response frame. The beacon frame or the probe response frame is transmitted by the AP and received by a mobile device prior to the mobile device being associated with the AP. The mobile device makes a determination whether any of the one or more service types can assist with an operation of an application on the mobile device and implements a network selection algorithm based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCANN, Michael Peter MONTEMURRO
  • Negotiation of Quality of Service (QoS) Information for Network Management Traffic in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)
    Publication number: 20190289501
    Abstract: An access point advertises a management frame quality of service (MFQ) policy that defines an access category used for transmitting a first type of management frame. Each mobile station associated with the access point is to prioritize transmission of management frames according to the MFQ policy advertised by the access point, unless a policy configuration request for the mobile station to prioritize transmission of management frames according to a different MFQ policy has been accepted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • Notification of discovery activities
    Patent number: 10405167
    Abstract: In some examples, a wireless device includes a wireless interface to communicate wirelessly with wireless networks, and at least one processor configured to monitor discovery activities for identifying services or devices of the wireless networks, and provide, to a target entity, a notification containing information relating to the monitored discovery activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter Montemurro, Lucas Dobrowolski, Konrad Hammel, Stephen McCann, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WAKEUP TRIGGER BY OUT-OF-BAND COMMUNICATION
    Publication number: 20190253859
    Abstract: A method at a wireless station for receiving an out-of-band wakeup trigger, the method including receiving, at the wireless station, a message from an access point, the message providing an indication that the access point supports out-of-band signaling; associating with the access point over a first radio technology; establishing a connection with the access point using a second radio technology; entering a sleep state for a radio using the first radio technology; and upon receiving a wakeup trigger over the connection using the second radio technology, waking up the radio for the first radio technology for communication with the access point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, James Randolph Winter LEPP, Stephen MCCANN
  • Addresses in a wake-up trigger frame
    Patent number: 10383058
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • Negotiation of quality of service (QoS) information for network management traffic in a wireless local area network (WLAN)
    Patent number: 10356662
    Abstract: An access point advertises a management frame quality of service (MFQ) policy that defines an access category used for transmitting a first type of management frame. Each mobile station associated with the access point is to prioritize transmission of management frames according to the MFQ policy advertised by the access point, unless a policy configuration request for the mobile station to prioritize transmission of management frames according to a different MFQ policy has been accepted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • Wireless network service type
    Patent number: 10349341
    Abstract: A station makes a unidirectional announcement (that is, an indication, notification or advertisement) of types of services that are available to devices in or via a wireless network, for example, a wireless local area network (WLAN). The announcement is receivable by mobile devices within radio communication range of the wireless network that are in the pre-associated state, because the announcement is conveyed using low-level layer 2 frames. A mobile device that receives such a layer 2 frame may determine the announced service type or types from the received layer 2 frame. The mobile device may determine whether it can make use of any of the announced service type or types. The mobile device may provide results of the determination to a network selection algorithm implemented at the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Extended service set transitions in wireless networks
    Patent number: 10349321
    Abstract: A mobile device may transition between Extended Service Set (“ESS”) networks seamlessly, such that a consumer never loses the network connection despite the transition. The communication for enabling a transition may be prior to association with that network. The seamless transition may be enabled through the creation and utilization of a central key holder authority that advertises its identity to mobile devices in a pre-associated state. The mobile device can use the key discovery communication along with a key generation method to authenticate and/or associate with a network and transition from one ESS to another. There may be a common root key across ESSs. At each new access point (“AP”) that the mobile device encounters, ESS and key holder identities may be discovered through discovery communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Method for accessing a service unavailable through a network cell
    Patent number: 10341910
    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 informing a second network cell that the UE is requesting to obtain the service unavailable through the first network cell. The request may be received from a user of the UE or may be a paging message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: 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 for accessing a service unavailable through a network cell
    Patent number: 10341903
    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: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    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
  • Method and system for wakeup trigger by out-of-band communication
    Patent number: 10313860
    Abstract: A method at a wireless station for receiving an out-of-band wakeup trigger, the method including receiving, at the wireless station, a message from an access point, the message providing an indication that the access point supports out-of-band signaling; associating with the access point over a first radio technology; establishing a connection with the access point using a second radio technology; entering a sleep state for a radio using the first radio technology; and upon receiving a wakeup trigger over the connection using the second radio technology, waking up the radio for the first radio technology for communication with the access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp, Stephen McCann
  • System and method for controlling network scan parameters for a network connection
    Patent number: 10306545
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling aspects of network communications from a device to a network are provided. In particular, a method of initiating scans for a network by a communication device for a communication network is provided. The method comprises: monitoring for a first condition relating to a network scan for the communication network; and when the first condition relates to a receipt of at least one request to initiate the network scan and when at least the first condition is satisfied, identifying a first parameter for the network scan and configuring and initiating the network scan at the communication device for the communication network implementing the first parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann, Richard Howard Kennedy
  • Discovering Network Information Available via Wireless Networks
    Publication number: 20190159114
    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: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • NETWORK POLICY CONFIGURATION
    Publication number: 20190123964
    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: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • COMMUNICATING IN A NARROWBAND CHANNEL
    Publication number: 20190110227
    Abstract: In some examples, a wireless device transmits a narrowband downlink frame in a narrowband channel, the narrowband downlink frame comprising a beacon frame that is transmitted periodically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Method and system for dedicated short range communication with traffic offload
    Patent number: 10257682
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann, James Randolph Winter Lepp