Patents by Inventor Tony Putman

Tony Putman 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: 9473934
    Abstract: A method is provided of authenticating a message from a femtocell base station in a wireless telecommunications network comprising a security gateway and a femto-gateway. The method comprising the steps of: checking by the security gateway that a source IP address in the message from the femtocell base station accords with that expected from that femtocell base station, and checking by the femto-gateway that the source IP address in the message accords with that expected from that femtocell base station by inspecting a database relating a femtocell base station identifier to source IP address data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Tony Putman, Graham Brend
  • Patent number: 9125108
    Abstract: A method is provided of deactivating PDP Context upon transfer of a connection with a user terminal between a femtocell base station and a macrocell base station, the method comprising: the femto base station receiving a message including a first identifier of a PDP Context, altering the identifier of a PDP Context to a second identifier, and forwarding the altered message to the core network, the core network receiving a message including an identifier determines that the received identifier does not match the identifier that it expects and so deactivates the PDP Context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Philip C. Sapiano, Nigel Bradley, Graham R. Brend, Tony Putman
  • Patent number: 8923842
    Abstract: A femtocell arrangement comprises a plurality of femtocells Femto 1 to Femto 13 having coverage distributed over a region, such as, for example, an office. A border femtocell, Femto 3 or Femto 10, of said plurality has coverage at an entrance to the region and is arranged to operate at a higher transmit power level to provide a larger coverage area than that provided by neighboring femtocells. In addition, the border femtocell may be allocated a specific Primary Scrambling Code (PSC) to show its designation as a border femtocell. An approaching user equipment UE 1 or UE 2 tends to attach to the higher transmit power border femtocells. The Femto Gateway managing the connection is aware of the likelihood that an approaching UE will tend to attach to a border femtocell, and this is further confirmed by the use of a specific PSC. Hence, handover is expedited as the most suitable femtocells may be chosen as targets for handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Graham Brend, Philip Sapiano, Nigel Bradley, Tony Putman
  • Publication number: 20130095833
    Abstract: A method is provided of deactivating PDP Context upon transfer of a connection with a user terminal between a femtocell base station and a macrocell base station, the method comprising: the femto base station receiving a message including a first identifier of a PDP Context, altering the identifier of a PDP Context to a second identifier, and forwarding the altered message to the core network, the core network receiving a message including an identifier determines that the received identifier does not match the identifier that it expects and so deactivates the PDP Context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Philip C. Sapiano, Nigel Bradley, Graham R. Brend, Tony Putman
  • Publication number: 20130095792
    Abstract: A method is provided of authenticating a message from a femtocell base station in a wireless telecommunications network comprising a security gateway and a femto-gateway. The method comprising the steps of: checking by the security gateway that a source IP address in the message from the femtocell base station accords with that expected from that femtocell base station, and checking by the femto-gateway that the source IP address in the message accords with that expected from that femtocell base station by inspecting a database relating a femtocell base station identifier to source IP address data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Tony Putman, Graham Brend
  • Publication number: 20120165005
    Abstract: A femtocell arrangement comprises a plurality of femtocells Femto 1 to Femto 13 having coverage distributed over a region, such as, for example, an office. A border femtocell, Femto 3 or Femto 10, of said plurality has coverage at an entrance to the region and is arranged to operate at a higher transmit power level to provide a larger coverage area than that provided by neighboring femtocells. In addition, the border femtocell may be allocated a specific Primary Scrambling Code (PSC) to show its designation as a border femtocell. An approaching user equipment UE 1 or UE 2 tends to attach to the higher transmit power border femtocells. The Femto Gateway managing the connection is aware of the likelihood that an approaching UE will tend to attach to a border femtocell, and this is further confirmed by the use of a specific PSC. Hence, handover is expedited as the most suitable femtocells may be chosen as targets for handover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Graham Brend, Philip Sapiano, Nigel Bradley, Tony Putman