Patents by Inventor Thomas Michael Paff

Thomas Michael Paff 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 apparatus for multiuser access in a multicarrier modulation network
    Patent number: 7184393
    Abstract: A multiple access system for a network using multicarrier modulation. To contend for service a subscriber station selects an upcoming frame in whose contention window it will contend, selects a contention slot within the window, selects a contention channel corresponding to a subset of the carriers used by the network, and imposes a contention code differentially on the carriers in the contention channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Manoneet Singh, Jerry Krinock, Thomas Michael Paff