Patents by Inventor Will A. Egner
Will A. Egner 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: 11671999Abstract: A system and method including at least one wireless adapter for communicating on a plurality of available wireless links concurrently operating within a shared and licensed communication frequency band and an application processor executing code instructions of a radio resource management system for determining a plurality of optimal wireless links from the plurality of available wireless links within the shared communication frequency band at a location based on a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for the plurality of available wireless links.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
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Patent number: 11496904Abstract: An information handling system includes an application processor that executes instructions to determine one or more communication link options and a wireless adapter that communicates with a conditional shared spectrum wireless link option. The application processor determines whether a higher priority user is occupying the conditional shared spectrum wireless link option and determines an optimal wireless link from among the communication link options, including any available conditional shared spectrum wireless link options, and selects a wireless link from among the wireless link options based on a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile that indicates signal quality for wireless links available at the location and a spatial-temporal user profile, including wireless service usage trend data for the location.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
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Patent number: 11372410Abstract: A drone autonomously operates to track an object, track an object while being stealthy and/or observe the details of an object while maintaining communication at a rate equal to or greater than a threshold. A drone may operate to maintain the image of an object at or above a predetermined resolution in an image captured by a camera mounted on the drone and to maintain a wireless communication rate equal to or greater than a threshold rate. A drone may operate so that the sound intensity level caused by the operation of the drone is less than or equal to a sound intensity level threshold as perceived by an object (e.g., person, target, suspect) being tracked.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Axon Enterprise, Inc.Inventor: Will A. Egner
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Patent number: 11347833Abstract: A method for secure access to a mobile edge-computing system device based on a subscriber location fingerprint may comprise receiving a request to access the mobile edge-computing system, a first personal authorization credential record, and an encrypted token from a requesting client, associating the first personal authorization credential record with a block chain location fingerprint for the subscribing client, including a plurality of time-stamped records of a plurality of estimated or measured location state variables of the subscribing client and an associated confidence interval representing an accuracy of those variables, decrypting the location fingerprint, receiving a requesting client location measurement, predicting a current location for the subscribing client and an associated current confidence interval based on recent location state variables in the location fingerprint, and allowing the requesting client access to the mobile edge-computing system when the received requesting client location mType: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
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Patent number: 11277853Abstract: A system and method including at least one wireless adapter for communicating on a plurality of available wireless links concurrently operating within a shared and licensed communication frequency band and an application processor executing code instructions of a radio resource management system for determining a plurality of optimal wireless links from the plurality of available wireless links within the shared communication frequency band at a location based on a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for the plurality of available wireless links.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
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Patent number: 11112798Abstract: A drone autonomously operates to track an object and/or observe the details of an object while maintaining communication at a rate equal to or greater than a threshold. A drone may operate to maintain the image of an object at or above a predetermined resolution in an image captured by a camera mounted on the drone and to maintain a wireless communication rate equal to or greater than a threshold rate. The object resolution may be a function of the position of the drone relative to the object. The position of the drone may include the altitude of the drone. The communication rate may be a function of the position of the drone relative to one or more base stations. The position of the drone relative to the object and to the base stations may be a function of altitude. A drone may autonomously move to capture an image of an object at an object resolution and maintain wireless communication at or above a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Axon Enterprise, Inc.Inventor: Will A. Egner
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Patent number: 11082860Abstract: A method includes receiving wireless communication device usage trend data for a plurality of available wireless communication devices associated with a recipient and detecting, via an application processor executing instructions for a pan device communication optimization agent, a plurality communication paths with the plurality of wireless communication devices associated with the recipient. The method further includes an end-to-end quality score for a wireless communication device associated with the user, wherein the end-to-end quality score is based on selection of a communication type, wireless communication device usage trend data, wireless link quality for available communication paths with the wireless communication devices associated with the recipient and selecting at least one preferred communication path between the wireless communication device associated with the user and at least one wireless communication device associated with the recipient based on comparison of end-to-end scores.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
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Patent number: 10869202Abstract: A system and method includes selecting an optimal geographic location of a WLAN AP via execution of code instructions of a WLAN AP base transceiver location optimization system to determine a first weighted potential interference between the WLAN AP and each of a plurality of neighboring base transceiver systems, associated with a WLAN AP operating at a first geographic location and determine a second weighted potential interference between the WLAN AP and each of a plurality of neighboring base transceiver systems, associated with the WLAN AP operating at a second geographic location that is a candidate optimal geographic location, wherein the determination of the first or second weighted potential interference is based on a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile for a plurality of wireless links operating on the WLAN AP and neighboring base transceiver systems, and if the second weighted potential interference is lesser than the first weighted potential interference, defining the second geographic locatioType: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
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Publication number: 20200280860Abstract: A system and method includes selecting an optimal geographic location of a WLAN AP via execution of code instructions of a WLAN AP base transceiver location optimization system to determine a first weighted potential interference between the WLAN AP and each of a plurality of neighboring base transceiver systems, associated with a WLAN AP operating at a first geographic location and determine a second weighted potential interference between the WLAN AP and each of a plurality of neighboring base transceiver systems, associated with the WLAN AP operating at a second geographic location that is a candidate optimal geographic location, wherein the determination of the first or second weighted potential interference is based on a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile for a plurality of wireless links operating on the WLAN AP and neighboring base transceiver systems, and if the second weighted potential interference is lesser than the first weighted potential interference, defining the second geographic locatioType: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
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Publication number: 20200159223Abstract: A drone autonomously operates to track an object, track an object while being stealthy and/or observe the details of an object while maintaining communication at a rate equal to or greater than a threshold. A drone may operate to maintain the image of an object at or above a predetermined resolution in an image captured by a camera mounted on the drone and to maintain a wireless communication rate equal to or greater than a threshold rate. A drone may operate so that the sound intensity level caused by the operation of the drone is less than or equal to a sound intensity level threshold as perceived by an object (e.g., person, target, suspect) being tracked.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2020Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventor: Will A. EGNER
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Patent number: 10659971Abstract: A system and method includes selecting an optimal geographic location of a WLAN AP via execution of code instructions of a WLAN AP base transceiver location optimization system to determine a first weighted potential interference between the WLAN AP and each of a plurality of neighboring base transceiver systems, associated with a WLAN AP operating at a first geographic location and determine a second weighted potential interference between the WLAN AP and each of a plurality of neighboring base transceiver systems, associated with the WLAN AP operating at a second geographic location that is a candidate optimal geographic location, wherein the determination of the first or second weighted potential interference is based on a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile for a plurality of wireless links operating on the WLAN AP and neighboring base transceiver systems, and if the second weighted potential interference is lesser than the first weighted potential interference, defining the second geographic locatioType: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
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Publication number: 20200107338Abstract: A system and method including at least one wireless adapter for communicating on a plurality of available wireless links concurrently operating within a shared and licensed communication frequency band and an application processor executing code instructions of a radio resource management system for determining a plurality of optimal wireless links from the plurality of available wireless links within the shared communication frequency band at a location based on a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for the plurality of available wireless links.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
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Patent number: 10588025Abstract: A system and method including scanning a plurality of radio channels, via a radio scanning modem, in a shared communication frequency band for a plurality of base transceiver station (BTS) systems operating a first wireless link protocol within communication range of a wireless interface for an anchor BTS, detecting a BTS load for each detected BTS systems of the first wireless link protocol operating on each radio channel in a wireless neighborhood, receiving data scanned for the BTS load for detected BTS systems of a second wireless link protocol in the wireless neighborhood, and preparing a radiofrequency band local QoS report for at least one detected BTS system of the first wireless link protocol and at least one detected BTS system of the second wireless link protocol in the shared communication frequency band of the wireless neighborhood for unlicensed broadcast to a user mobile information handling system.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
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Publication number: 20200050747Abstract: A method for secure access to a mobile edge-computing system device based on a subscriber location fingerprint may comprise receiving a request to access the mobile edge-computing system, a first personal authorization credential record, and an encrypted token from a requesting client, associating the first personal authorization credential record with a block chain location fingerprint for the subscribing client, including a plurality of time-stamped records of a plurality of estimated or measured location state variables of the subscribing client and an associated confidence interval representing an accuracy of those variables, decrypting the location fingerprint, receiving a requesting client location measurement, predicting a current location for the subscribing client and an associated current confidence interval based on recent location state variables in the location fingerprint, and allowing the requesting client access to the mobile edge-computing system when the received requesting client location mType: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
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Patent number: 10499410Abstract: A system and method including at least one wireless adapter for communicating on a plurality of available wireless links concurrently operating within a shared and licensed communication frequency band and an application processor executing code instructions of a radio resource management system for determining a plurality of optimal wireless links from the plurality of available wireless links within the shared communication frequency band at a location based on a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for the plurality of available wireless links.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
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Publication number: 20190324460Abstract: A drone autonomously operates to track an object and/or observe the details of an object while maintaining communication at a rate equal to or greater than a threshold. A drone may operate to maintain the image of an object at or above a predetermined resolution in an image captured by a camera mounted on the drone and to maintain a wireless communication rate equal to or greater than a threshold rate. The object resolution may be a function of the position of the drone relative to the object. The position of the drone may include the altitude of the drone. The communication rate may be a function of the position of the drone relative to one or more base stations. The position of the drone relative to the object and to the base stations may be a function of altitude. A drone may autonomously move to capture an image of an object at an object resolution and maintain wireless communication at or above a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventor: Will A. EGNER
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Patent number: 10452824Abstract: A method for secure access to a mobile edge-computing system device based on a subscriber location fingerprint may comprise receiving a request to access the mobile edge-computing system, a first personal authorization credential record, and an encrypted token from a requesting client, associating the first personal authorization credential record with a block chain location fingerprint for the subscribing client, including a plurality of time-stamped records of a plurality of estimated or measured location state variables of the subscribing client and an associated confidence interval representing an accuracy of those variables, decrypting the location fingerprint, receiving a requesting client location measurement, predicting a current location for the subscribing client and an associated current confidence interval based on recent location state variables in the location fingerprint, and allowing the requesting client access to the mobile edge-computing system when the received requesting client location mType: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
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Patent number: 10439820Abstract: A method for secure access to a mobile edge computing gateway device based on a subscriber location fingerprint may comprise receiving a request to access the mobile edge computing gateway, a first user credential, and an encrypted token from a requesting user, associating the first user credential with a block chain location fingerprint for the subscribing user, including a plurality of time-stamped records of a plurality of estimated or measured location state variables of the subscribing user and an associated confidence interval representing an accuracy of those variables, decrypting the location fingerprint, receiving a requesting user location measurement, predicting a current location for the subscribing user and an associated current confidence interval based on recent location state variables in the location fingerprint, and allowing the requesting user access to the mobile edge computing gateway when the received requesting user location measurement falls within the value of the current confidence iType: GrantFiled: June 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
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Patent number: 10405357Abstract: A first information handling system functioning as a smart vehicle gateway comprising a wireless adapter to communicate with a wireless link, wherein at least one wireless link is a multi-hop wireless link to a tethered second information handling system, a storage device to store a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a plurality of locations where the smart vehicle gateway has operated, a positional detector to detect a location of the smart vehicle gateway, where the application processor determines an available peer-to-peer wireless protocol link operating at the tethered second information handling system to establish a multi-hop wireless link and the application processor determines a list of optimal available wireless protocols at the location based on a mobile wireless traffic report with a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for a plurality of wireless links and based the wireless device usage trend data of the smart vehicle gateType: GrantFiled: February 15, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
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Publication number: 20190208424Abstract: A method includes receiving wireless communication device usage trend data for a plurality of available wireless communication devices associated with a recipient and detecting, via an application processor executing instructions for a pan device communication optimization agent, a plurality communication paths with the plurality of wireless communication devices associated with the recipient. The method further includes an end-to-end quality score for a wireless communication device associated with the user, wherein the end-to-end quality score is based on selection of a communication type, wireless communication device usage trend data, wireless link quality for available communication paths with the wireless communication devices associated with the recipient and selecting at least one preferred communication path between the wireless communication device associated with the user and at least one wireless communication device associated with the recipient based on comparison of end-to-end scores.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2019Publication date: July 4, 2019Applicant: Dell Products, LPInventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn