Patents by Inventor Thomas Cargill

Thomas Cargill 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).

  • Patent number: 10840995
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for improved antenna selection diversity and audio quality. In one aspect, wireless audio devices, such as wireless earbuds, may provide link quality information and timestamps to a source device, which may use such information to select which antenna to use for a subsequent transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Le Nguyen Luong, Thomas Cargill
  • Patent number: 10785527
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a user equipment (UE) is configured to operate in accordance with different wireless personal area network (WPAN) radio access technologies (RATs). The UE prioritizes a plurality of WPAN RATs supported by the UE, and dynamically allocates a plurality of shared WPAN radios to the plurality of WPAN RATs based on the prioritization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yoshiro Fukuoka, Anssi Haverinen, Le Luong, Paul Denboer, Huibert Denboer, Joel Linsky, Thomas Cargill
  • Patent number: 10630357
    Abstract: According to various aspects, techniques to enable implicit and/or explicit transmit (Tx) beamforming in a wireless personal area network are provided. In particular, the implicit transmit beamforming may be enabled during certain events, frames, and/or other conditions when a channel between a beamformer and a beamformee is reciprocal (i.e., packets are received and transmitted on the same frequency). In such cases, the beamformer may estimate channel state information (CSI) based on a packet received from the beamformee and use the estimated CSI to steer a beam in a direction towards the beamformee. In use cases that implement explicit transmit beamforming, the beamformee may estimate the CSI based on a packet received from the beamformer and provide the estimated CSI to the beamformer, which may then use the estimated CSI received from the beamformee to steer a beam in a direction towards the beamformee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Le Luong, Anssi Haverinen, Yoshiro Fukuoka, Paul Denboer, Huibert Denboer, Joel Linsky, Thomas Cargill
  • Publication number: 20190274288
    Abstract: A insect feeding assembly includes a pedestal that may be positioned on a support surface. A plurality of watering units is provided and each of the watering units is coupled to the pedestal. Each of the watering units may be mounted by an insect and each of the watering units contains water for drinking by the insect. A feeder is coupled to the pedestal and the feeder is selectively mounted by an insect. The feeder contains a fluid food thereby facilitating the insect to consume the fluid food. Additionally, the pedestal is positioned in a high traffic area with respect to the insects thereby facilitating the insects to rest on the feeder and the watering units during pollination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Thomas Cargill
  • Publication number: 20190007850
    Abstract: A method performed by a wireless communication device is described. The method includes determining at least one packet type for subsequent wireless personal area network (WPAN) communication. The method also includes determining at least one receive diversity setting based on the at least one packet type. The method further includes receiving at least one packet based on the at least one receive diversity setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Paul DenBoer, Anssi Haverinen, Le Luong, Yoshiro Fukuoka, Huibert DenBoer, Joel Linsky, Thomas Cargill
  • Patent number: 10159105
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may transmit a LMP version request PDU to a second device. The apparatus may receive a LMP version response PDU including at least one of a link layer identification, a version number, or a sub-version number associated with the second device. The apparatus may determine if one or more of the link layer identification, the version number, or the sub-version number included in the LMP version response PDU are associated with a recognized QLM. The apparatus may a first LMP encapsulated header PDU that includes a first QLMP feature request opcode to the second device when it is determined that one or more of the link layer identification, the version number, or the sub-version number included in the LMP version response PDU are associated with the recognized QLM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Joel Linsky, Thomas Cargill, Anssi Haverinen, Brian Redding, Robin Heydon, Laurence Richardson
  • Patent number: 10056961
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for improving performance of short-range wireless network channel scans using receiver diversity. In an aspect, an electronic device having two or more short-range wireless network receiver antennas determines whether to utilize different receiver antennas of the two or more short-range wireless network receiver antennas to perform concurrently scheduled channel scans for different short-range wireless network radio access technologies (RATs) supported by the electronic device, or to perform an accelerated channel scan for a single short-range wireless network RAT of the different short-range wireless network RATs supported by the electronic device, and performs the concurrently scheduled channel scans or the accelerated channel scan based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Anssi Haverinen, Le Luong, Yoshiro Fukuoka, Paul Denboer, Huibert Denboer, Joel Linsky, Thomas Cargill
  • Patent number: 9520987
    Abstract: A method for inductively-coupled communications is described. The method includes receiving a signal. The method also includes analyzing the signal to estimate a symbol timing error. Estimating the symbol timing error may include comparing a location of a pause, a low-to-high or a high-to-low transition in the received signal with an ideal location of a pause or a transition. The method further includes adjusting symbol timing to correct for the symbol timing error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Eunmo Kang, Le Nguyen Luong, Koorosh Akhavan, Rajapaksa Senaratne, Thomas Cargill
  • Publication number: 20150256324
    Abstract: A method for inductively-coupled communications is described. The method includes receiving a signal. The method also includes analyzing the signal to estimate a symbol timing error. Estimating the symbol timing error may include comparing a location of a pause, a low-to-high or a high-to-low transition in the received signal with an ideal location of a pause or a transition. The method further includes adjusting symbol timing to correct for the symbol timing error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Eunmo Kang, Le Nguyen Luong, Koorosh Akhavan, Rajapaksa Senaratne, Thomas Cargill