Patents by Inventor Timothy James Speight
Timothy James Speight 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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Patent number: 9144033Abstract: A wireless communications system including a base station, a relay device, and a terminal device. The terminal device can transmit one or more first type access request messages to request uplink resources from the base station, and if no response to the first type access request messages is received from the base station, transmit a second type access request message. The base station is responsive to a first type access request message received from the terminal device to transmit an allocation of uplink resources to the terminal device. The relay device is responsive to a second type access request message received from the terminal device to transmit a relayed access request message to request the base station to allocate uplink resources to the terminal device. The base station is responsive to the relayed access request message to transmit an allocation of uplink resources to the terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Timothy James Speight, Paul William Piggin
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Publication number: 20140307716Abstract: A network device to send to a user equipment (UE) configuration information to configure a power controlled uplink control channel particular to the UE is disclosed. The UE may send a request to utilize a physical uplink shared channel capable of being shared by a plurality of UEs. The request may be received at a first power and other information is received at a second power.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES HOLDING 81 LLCInventor: Timothy James Speight
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Publication number: 20140226558Abstract: A wireless communications system includes a base station, a relay device, and a terminal device. The terminal device can transmit one or more first type access request messages to request uplink resources from the base station, and if no response to the first type access request messages is received from the base station, can transmit a second type access request message. The base station is responsive to a first type access request message received from the terminal device to transmit an allocation of uplink resources to the terminal device. The relay device is responsive to a second type access request message received from the terminal device to transmit a relayed access request message to request the base station to allocate uplink resources to the terminal device. The base station is responsive to the relayed access request message to transmit an allocation of uplink resources to the terminal device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2012Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Timothy James Speight, Paul William Piggin
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Publication number: 20140204835Abstract: A wireless communications system including a base station, a relay device, and a terminal device. The terminal device is operable to receive from the base station an allocation of uplink resources for transmitting uplink data to the relay device, and to transmit uplink data to the relay device using the uplink resources allocated to the terminal device. The relay device is operable to receive the transmitted uplink data from the terminal device on the allocated resources, to receive an allocation of uplink data resources for relaying the received uplink data to the base station, and to transmit the received uplink data to the base station using the uplink resources allocated to the relay device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Timothy James Speight, Paul William Piggin
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Publication number: 20140198716Abstract: A wireless communications system including a base station, a relay device, and a terminal device. The terminal device is operable to receive from the base station an allocation of uplink resources for transmitting uplink data to the relay device, and to transmit uplink data to the relay device using the uplink resources allocated to the terminal device. The relay device is operable to receive the transmitted uplink data from the terminal device on the allocated resources, to receive an allocation of uplink resources for relaying the received uplink data to the base station, and to transmit the received uplink data to the base station using the uplink resources allocated to the relay device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2012Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Timothy James Speight, Paul William Piggin
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Publication number: 20140161024Abstract: A wireless communications system including a base station, a relay device, and a terminal device. The terminal device can transmit one or more first type access request messages to request uplink resources from the base station, and if no response to the first type access request messages is received from the base station, transmit a second type access request message. The base station is responsive to a first type access request message received from the terminal device to transmit an allocation of uplink resources to the terminal device. The relay device is responsive to a second type access request message received from the terminal device to transmit a relayed access request message to request the base station to allocate uplink resources to the terminal device. The base station is responsive to the relayed access request message to transmit an allocation of uplink resources to the terminal device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2012Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDING INC.Inventors: Timothy James Speight, Paul William Piggin
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Patent number: 8654733Abstract: A scheme for resource allocation for variable rate users in a packet-based radio communication system such as a UMTS TDD system is based on a representation (200) of the resource space organized orthogonally in 3 dimensions by codes, timeslots and frames. The representation (200) is searched to identify new resources that may be allocated and updated when new resources have been allocated.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2009Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Timothy James Speight
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Patent number: 8589586Abstract: A communication device that transmits data segments over an interface, wherein the communication device comprises transmission management logic. After receipt of a data segment for transmission over the interface, the transmission management logic determines a sequence number of a data segment to be transmitted and compares the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted with at least one pending sequence number of a previous data segment. Based on the comparison, the transmission management logic either discards the data segment to be transmitted if the sequence number of the data segment matches the at least one pending sequence number of the previous data segment; or adds the sequence number of the data segment to the at least one pending sequence number and transmits the data segment if the sequence number of the data segment does not match the at least one pending sequence number.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2012Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Timothy James Speight, Nicholas Jelbert
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Publication number: 20130286873Abstract: Scheduling half duplex communication in a communication cell of a wireless communication system supporting communication between a base station and a plurality of wireless communication units is disclosed. The method comprises determining an interference potential between the at least two wireless communication units when they are respectively communicating with the base station and scheduling a half duplex communication resource to the at least two wireless communication units based on the determined interference potential.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2011Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES HOLDING 81 LLCInventors: Timothy Wilkinson, Timothy James Speight
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Publication number: 20130064116Abstract: A wireless communications system is described which comprises a base station, a relay device, and a terminal device. The terminal device is operable to transmit a message to the base station via the relay device. The relay device is operable to add a relay header to the message received from the terminal device, the relay header comprising control information for controlling the transmission of subsequent messages from the terminal device to the relay device. The relay device is also operable to relay the message having the relay header added to the base station. By adding such control information to messages being relayed from the terminal device to the base station on the uplink, subsequent downlink communications from the base station to the terminal device can include the control information generated at the relay device (or transmission parameters derived from the control information).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATIONInventors: Timothy James Speight, Paul William Piggin
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Publication number: 20130044623Abstract: A wireless communications system is described which comprises a base station, a relay device, and a terminal device. The terminal device is operable to transmit a message to the base station via the relay device. The relay device is operable to add a relay header to the message received from the terminal device, the relay header comprising control information for controlling the transmission of subsequent messages from the terminal device to the relay device. The relay device is also operable to relay the message having the relay header added to the base station. A problem with uplink-only relaying is that the relay device cannot feed back control information to the terminal device to support efficient future transmissions over the air interface between the terminal device and the relay device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2012Publication date: February 21, 2013Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATIONInventors: Timothy James Speight, Paul William Piggin
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Patent number: 8320250Abstract: A communication entity is located at one end of a high latency communication link to support Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) communications between a first transceiver entity and a second transceiver entity. The communication entity comprises proxy logic arranged to inspect a received segment and, in response to identifying that the received segment does not contain data, the proxy logic transparently allows a plurality of synchronizing segments to pass between the first transceiver entity and the second transceiver entity through the proxy logic such that the proxy logic generates locally at least one acknowledgement message based on the synchronizing segments and the inspected received segment.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Nvidia CorporationInventor: Timothy James Speight
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Publication number: 20120278502Abstract: A communication device that transmits data segments over an interface, wherein the communication device comprises transmission management logic. After receipt of a data segment for transmission over the interface, the transmission management logic determines a sequence number of a data segment to be transmitted and compares the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted with at least one pending sequence number of a previous data segment. Based on the comparison, the transmission management logic either discards the data segment to be transmitted if the sequence number of the data segment matches the at least one pending sequence number of the previous data segment; or adds the sequence number of the data segment to the at least one pending sequence number and transmits the data segment if the sequence number of the data segment does not match the at least one pending sequence number.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Timothy James SPEIGHT, Nicholas Jelbert
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Patent number: 8301799Abstract: A communication device is arranged to transmit data segments over an interface, wherein the communication device comprises transmission management logic. In response to receipt of a data segment for transmission over the interface, the transmission management logic is arranged to determine a sequence number of a data segment to be transmitted and compare the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted with at least one pending sequence number of a previous data segment. Based on the comparison, the transmission management logic either discards the data segment to be transmitted if the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted matches the at least one pending sequence number of the previous data segment; or adds the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted to the at least one pending sequence number and transmits the data segment over the interface if the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted does not match the at least one pending sequence number.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Timothy James Speight, Nicholas Jelbert
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Patent number: 8301685Abstract: A communication device is arranged to transmit data segments over an interface, wherein the communication device comprises transmission management logic. In response to receipt of a data segment for transmission over the interface, the transmission management logic is arranged to determine a sequence number of a data segment to be transmitted and compare the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted with at least one pending sequence number of a previous data segment. Based on the comparison, the transmission management logic either discards the data segment to be transmitted if the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted matches the at least one pending sequence number of the previous data segment; or adds the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted to the at least one pending sequence number and transmits the data segment over the interface if the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted does not match the at least one pending sequence number.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2009Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Timothy James Speight, Nicholas Jelbert
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Publication number: 20110289234Abstract: A communication device is arranged to transmit data segments over an interface, wherein the communication device comprises transmission management logic. In response to receipt of a data segment for transmission over the interface, the transmission management logic is arranged to determine a sequence number of a data segment to be transmitted and compare the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted with at least one pending sequence number of a previous data segment. Based on the comparison, the transmission management logic either discards the data segment to be transmitted if the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted matches the at least one pending sequence number of the previous data segment; or adds the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted to the at least one pending sequence number and transmits the data segment over the interface if the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted does not match the at least one pending sequence number.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Timothy James SPEIGHT, Nicholas Jelbert
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Publication number: 20110122816Abstract: A communication device is arranged to transmit data segments over an interface, wherein the communication device comprises transmission management logic. In response to receipt of a data segment for transmission over the interface, the transmission management logic is arranged to determine a sequence number of a data segment to be transmitted and compare the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted with at least one pending sequence number of a previous data segment. Based on the comparison, the transmission management logic either discards the data segment to be transmitted if the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted matches the at least one pending sequence number of the previous data segment; or adds the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted to the at least one pending sequence number and transmits the data segment over the interface if the sequence number of the data segment to be transmitted does not match the at least one pending sequence number.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Timothy James Speight, Nicholas Jelbert
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Patent number: 7602719Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium encoded with executable instructions for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) flow control in a communication system are provided. According to embodiments of the invention. TCP flow control includes determining delay in a transmit buffer of the system; and modifying TCP window size based on the determined delay and a target transmit buffer delay. An indication of a modified TCP window size is sent to a TCP server of the system in an acknowledge packet. Embodiments of the invention are particularly suitable for TCP flow control in wireless communication systems (e.g., UTRA) systems, and has the advantage that RTT (i.e., the latency of the system) can be substantially guaranteed, irrespective of the throughput that a user is allocated.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2004Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: IPWireless, Inc.Inventors: Timothy James Speight, Nicholas Jelbert
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Publication number: 20090232110Abstract: A scheme for resource allocation for variable rate users in a packet-based radio communication system such as a UMTS TDD system is based on a representation (200) of the resource space organized orthogonally in 3 dimensions by codes, timeslots and frames. The representation (200) is searched to identify new resources that may be allocated and updated when new resources have been allocated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: IPWIRELESS, INC.Inventor: Timothy James SPEIGHT
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Patent number: RE44576Abstract: A wireless communication system and method employing channel transport format allocation in a shared uplink channel between a UE and a Node B, and wherein the UE can determine a transport format combination which it can support, by: detecting in the UE a change in transport format combination that the UE can support; and sending to the Node B an indication of transport format combination that the UE can support, whereby efficiency of channel transport format allocation in the system may be improved. A conditional delay mechanism may be employed to reduce signalling overhead. This allows uplink shared channels to be efficiently used by providing a means by which UTRAN (UMTS terrestrial radio access network) is informed of the TFCs within the TFCS which can be used in the uplink by the UE.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2010Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLCInventor: Timothy James Speight