Patents by Inventor Vijay Lewis
Vijay Lewis 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: 12356465Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for managing a network demand for emergency services are disclosed. One method includes adaptively reserving, by a base station of a satellite network, reserved PRACH (physical random access channel) preambles for a plurality of reserved services, broadcasting, by the base station, the configuration, wherein a wireless device receives the reserved PRACH preambles configuration, wherein the wireless device selects a reserved service from the plurality of reserved services and transmits a PRACH preamble from the reserved preambles, and transmitting, by the base station, a message grant to the wireless device in response to the PRACH preamble, wherein the wireless device transmits to the base station a response that includes the selected reserved service from the plurality of reserved services in response to the message grant from the base station.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2023Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Soham Dhiren Desai, Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal, Sreedar Sambangi, Vijay Lewis, Sriram Subramanian, Anteneh Adem
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Patent number: 12284026Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems of hub communication with a satellite network or a terrestrial network are disclosed. One method includes determining a propagation delay between a wireless communication device and a base station of a satellite network, adjusting, by the wireless communication device, a timing offset between transmit and receive radio frames at the wireless communication device based on whether the satellite network or a terrestrial network is selected, and based at least on the propagation delay, configuring air interface communication protocol timer values including at least a wait time for a response based on at least a frame offset between uplink and downlink frames at the base station of the satellite network, and communicating, by the wireless communication device, with the base station of the satellite network when the satellite network is selected, and with a base station of the terrestrial network when the terrestrial network is selected.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Moshe Noah, Vijay Lewis, Meghna Agrawal, Kalle Ruttik, Yihenew Dagne Beyene, Barry Winata
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Publication number: 20250056541Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinated satellite and terrestrial base station resource block allocation are disclosed. One method includes receiving, by a controller, a data demand of a terrestrial network of a terrestrial base station and a data demand of a satellite network of a satellite base station, generating, by the controller, a communication schedule comprising satellite resource block information of the satellite base station, wherein the satellite resource block information indicates time and frequency blocks of the communication schedule that the satellite base station is only allowed to use for wireless communication, wherein the time and frequency blocks of the terrestrial resource block information of the terrestrial base station do not overlap with the time and frequency blocks of the satellite resource block information, and allocating, by the satellite base station, radio frequency (RF) resources based on the satellite resource block information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal, Christopher Acker, Vijay Lewis
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Publication number: 20250047409Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for adaptive satellite wireless communication parameter selections are disclosed. One method includes predicting, by a base station, characteristics of a communication channel between the base station and a wireless hub, wherein a satellite is located within the communication channel between the base station and the wireless hub, and selecting, by the base station, wireless communication parameter selections including at least an MCS (modulation and coding scheme) based on the predicted characteristics of the communication channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal, Yihenew Dagne Beyene, Keijo Tapio Lehtinen, Vijay Lewis
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Patent number: 12160864Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinating satellite and terrestrial base station resource block suppression are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal, Christopher Acker, Vijay Lewis
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Patent number: 12149345Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for adaptive satellite wireless communication parameter selections are disclosed. One method includes predicting, by a base station, characteristics of a communication channel between the base station and a wireless hub, wherein a satellite is located within the communication channel between the base station and the wireless hub, and selecting, by the base station, wireless communication parameter selections including at least an MCS (modulation and coding scheme) based on the predicted characteristics of the communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal, Yihenew Dagne Beyene, Keijo Tapio Lehtinen, Vijay Lewis
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Patent number: 12119951Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for configuring multicast communication, are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Meghna Agrawal, Andrew Nuttall, Vijay Lewis, Yihenew Dagne Beyene, Keijo Tapio Lehtinen
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Patent number: 12120603Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for connecting a wireless device across multiple wireless networks are disclosed. One system includes a state machine and a router. The state machine operates to maintain a network availability of each of a plurality of wireless networks for a wireless device, wherein each of the plurality of wireless networks include network characteristics. The router operates to select a one of the plurality of wireless networks based on the network availability and the network characteristics as maintained by the state machine, process data packets according to the selected available wireless network based on the network characteristics of the selected available wireless network, and route the processed data packets to the wireless device through the selected one of the plurality of wireless networks.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal, Vijay Lewis
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Publication number: 20240334490Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for managing a network demand for emergency services are disclosed. One method includes adaptively reserving, by a base station of a satellite network, reserved PRACH (physical random access channel) preambles for a plurality of reserved services, broadcasting, by the base station, the configuration, wherein a wireless device receives the reserved PRACH preambles configuration, wherein the wireless device selects a reserved service from the plurality of reserved services and transmits a PRACH preamble from the reserved preambles, and transmitting, by the base station, a message grant to the wireless device in response to the PRACH preamble, wherein the wireless device transmits to the base station a response that includes the selected reserved service from the plurality of reserved services in response to the message grant from the base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Soham Dhiren Desai, Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal, Sreedar Sambangi, Vijay Lewis, Sriram Subramanian, Anteneh Adem
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Publication number: 20240223268Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems of hub communication with a satellite network or a terrestrial network are disclosed. One method includes determining a propagation delay between a wireless communication device and a base station of a satellite network, adjusting, by the wireless communication device, a timing offset between transmit and receive radio frames at the wireless communication device based on whether the satellite network or a terrestrial network is selected, and based at least on the propagation delay, configuring air interface communication protocol timer values including at least a wait time for a response based on at least a frame offset between uplink and downlink frames at the base station of the satellite network, and communicating, by the wireless communication device, with the base station of the satellite network when the satellite network is selected, and with a base station of the terrestrial network when the terrestrial network is selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2024Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Moshe Noah, Vijay Lewis, Meghna Agrawal, Kalle Ruttik, Yihenew Dagne Beyene, Barry Winata
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Publication number: 20240171260Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for operating a wireless satellite service are disclosed. One method includes maintaining, by a satellite service server, a database of an activation status of each of a plurality of subscriber devices as provided by a plurality of terrestrial service providers, receiving, by a satellite network, a request from a wireless device to access the wireless satellite service through a satellite link, wherein the satellite network is electronically connected to the satellite service server, querying, by the satellite network, the satellite service server to confirm whether the wireless device requesting access to the wireless satellite service is a subscriber device that is activated, providing, by the satellite service server, the activation status of the wireless device to the satellite network, and performing, by the satellite network, a wireless device attachment process with a one of the plurality terrestrial service providers based upon the activation status.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ian Milne, Prasanna Venkatesan Srinivasan Iyengar, Birender Panwar, Prem Shankar, Vijay Lewis, Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal, Anand Radhakrishnan
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Patent number: 11990983Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems of hub communication with a satellite network or a terrestrial network are disclosed. One method includes detecting presence of the satellite network, detecting, by the hub, presence of a terrestrial network, selecting to connect to one of the satellite network or the terrestrial network based on a priority ruleset, estimating a propagation delay between the hub and a base station of the satellite network when the satellite network is selected, adjusting a timing offset between transmit and receive radio frames at the hub based on whether the satellite network or the terrestrial network is selected, and based at least on the propagation delay, and communicating with the base station of the satellite network or a base station of the terrestrial network.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2023Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Moshe Noah, Vijay Lewis, Meghna Agrawal, Kalle Ruttik, Yihenew Dagne Beyene, Barry Winata
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Publication number: 20240040650Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for managing a User Equipment (UE) connection to a wireless network are disclosed. One method includes attaching, by a core network, the UE to the wireless network, storing, by the core network, at least a first subset of an attach context and a UE operational data set, wherein the UE stores at least a second subset of the attach context in memory and network operational data sets, wherein the UE transmits packets using the second subset of the attach context and the network operational data sets. The method further comprises receiving, by the core network, the packets from the UE using the first subset of the attach context, and urging by the core network the first subset of the attach context based on the UE network operational data set.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Meghna Agrawal, Andrew Nuttall, Soham Dhiren Desai, Anand Radhakrishnan, Vijay Lewis
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Publication number: 20240008060Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for communicating through a wireless link are disclosed. A method includes scheduling, by a server, communication between a base station and a plurality of user devices, receiving, by the base station, the scheduled communication, providing, to each user device, a data profile that includes a periodicity, an offset, and a carrier frequency based on the scheduled communication, receiving, by the base station, uplink wireless communication from each of the plurality of user devices according to the data profile of each of the user devices and according to the scheduled communication, and simultaneously broadcasting, by the base station, acknowledgements of reception of uplink wireless communication from each of the plurality of user devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Meghna Agrawal, Andrew Nuttall, Vijay Lewis
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Patent number: 11863292Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinated satellite and terrestrial channel utilization, are disclosed. One wireless system includes one or more controllers. For an embodiment, the one or more controllers are operative to (or configured to) determine one or more communication delays for each base station of a plurality of base stations based upon a maximum propagation delay between each base station and one or more of a plurality of hubs, generate a channel sharing map that includes a timing of communication between each base station and the one or more of the plurality of hubs, wherein each of the plurality of base stations operates to time wireless communication with the plurality of hubs based on the channel sharing map, and the one or more communication delays of the base station.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal, Vijay Lewis
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Patent number: 11811493Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinated access to a wireless link through data profiles are disclosed. One method includes receiving through the wireless link, by each hub associated with a base station, one or more data profiles from a network management element, receiving, by each hub, data from data sources associated with the hub, controlling, by each hub, a timing of communication of the data for each of the data sources from the hub to the base station through the wireless link based on the one or more data profiles, allocating preamble codes to each of the data sources, wherein different preamble codes are allocated to different data sources of different hubs that report within a margin of time of each other, and including the allocated preamble codes with the data of each of the data sources.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignees: Skylo Technologies, Inc., SkyloInventors: Andrew Nuttall, Vijay Lewis, Sreedhar Sambangi, Meghna Agrawal
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Publication number: 20230354337Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinating satellite and terrestrial base station resource block suppression are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal, Christopher Acker, Vijay Lewis
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Patent number: 11800540Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for communicating through a wireless link are disclosed. A method includes scheduling, by a server, communication between a base station and a plurality of hubs, receiving, by the base station, the scheduled communication, providing, to each hub, a data profile that includes a periodicity, an offset, and a carrier frequency based on the scheduled communication, receiving, by the base station, uplink wireless communication from each of the plurality of hubs according to the data profile of each of the hubs and according to the scheduled communication, and simultaneously broadcasting, by the base station, acknowledgements of reception of uplink wireless communication from each of the plurality of hubs.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Meghna Agrawal, Andrew Nuttall, Vijay Lewis
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Patent number: 11799544Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for a satellite wireless communication system are disclosed. One system includes a base station, a satellite, a beam management controller, and a plurality of wireless devices. The base station is configured to wirelessly communicate according to a schedule between the base station and each of the plurality of wireless devices within a scheduling frame. The satellite is operative to form a plurality of beams between the satellite and the wireless devices and support a wireless satellite link between the base station and the wireless devices through the plurality of beams. The beam management controller is operative to assign beam allocations for the scheduled wireless communication between each of the wireless devices and the base station that is time aligned with the scheduling frame, wherein each of the beam allocations includes an assignment to at least one of the plurality of beams.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal, Vijay Lewis
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Publication number: 20230318734Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for adaptive satellite wireless communication parameter selections are disclosed. One method includes predicting, by a base station, characteristics of a communication channel between the base station and a wireless hub, wherein a satellite is located within the communication channel between the base station and the wireless hub, and selecting, by the base station, wireless communication parameter selections including at least an MCS (modulation and coding scheme) based on the predicted characteristics of the communication channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal, Yihenew Dagne Beyene, Keijo Tapio Lehtinen, Vijay Lewis