Patents by Inventor Vincent Vigna

Vincent Vigna 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 for adjusting mobile communication activity based on voicing quality
    Publication number: 20070129022
    Abstract: A mobile communication device (100) includes a vocoder (104) for vocoding speech (500) received at the mobile communication device. The parameters output by the vocoder are used to generate a voicing quality metric (208). The voicing quality metric is used to provide feedback to the user of the mobile communication device by various feedback modalities including visual (114), audible (108), and tactile modalities (118) to indicate when the user should speak louder to overcome ambient noise. The voicing quality metric is also used by other communications equipment (304, 312) to decide if communication activity is needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventors: Marc Boillot, Philip Schentrup, Vincent Vigna, Ali Behboodian, Bradley Rainbolt
  • Method and apparatus for transferring data over a voice channel
    Patent number: 7069211
    Abstract: A voice channel data processor 207 and corresponding method 600 operable in a wireless communications unit's 200 receiver and transmitter to facilitate data transmission on a voice channel includes an encoder 301 for encoding data traffic as a transmit voice frame having a predetermined vocoder parameter and inserting the transmit voice frame into a stream of transmit voice frames with voice traffic and further includes a decoder 303 for parsing a stream of received voice frames to obtain a vocoder parameter for each, comparing the vocoder parameter for each received frame to the predetermined vocoder parameter, routing the received voice frame for processing as data traffic when the comparison is favorable, and otherwise routing the received voice frame for processing as voice traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Gordon W. Chiu, Daniel J. Landron, Vincent Vigna, Chin P. Wong, David R. Heeschen
  • Method and apparatus for transferring data over a voice channel
    Publication number: 20040220803
    Abstract: A voice channel data processor 207 and corresponding method 600 operable in a wireless communications unit's 200 receiver and transmitter to facilitate data transmission on a voice channel includes an encoder 301 for encoding data traffic as a transmit voice frame having a predetermined vocoder parameter and inserting the transmit voice frame into a stream of transmit voice frames with voice traffic and further includes a decoder 303 for parsing a stream of received voice frames to obtain a vocoder parameter for each, comparing the vocoder parameter for each received frame to the predetermined vocoder parameter, routing the received voice frame for processing as data traffic when the comparison is favorable, and otherwise routing the received voice frame for processing as voice traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicant: MOTOROLA, INC.
    Inventors: Gordon W. Chiu, Daniel J. Landron, Vincent Vigna, Chin P. Wong, David R. Heeschen