Patents by Inventor William A. Webb

William A. Webb 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).

  • Publication number: 20230178267
    Abstract: Strength member assemblies including a strength member and at least one glass optical fiber operatively coupled to the strength member. The optical fiber is coupled to the strength member in a manner such that mechanical strains experienced by the strength member are transferred to the optical fiber so that the optical fiber may be interrogated to assess the state of the strength member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: William Webb, Xiaoyuan Dong, Christopher Wong, Ian M. Pilling, Douglas A. Pilling
  • Patent number: 11659540
    Abstract: A communications device transmitting/receiving data to/from a mobile communications network includes a transmitter to transmit data to the mobile communications network via a wireless access interface, a receiver to receive data from the mobile communications network via the wireless access interface, and a controller. The wireless access interface includes plural time divided temporal units and in each temporal unit a down-link control channel and a downlink shared channel. The temporal units may be sub-frames of an LTE carrier. The controller can control the receiver to receive downlink control channel information transmitted by the mobile communications network in one or more control channel elements of the downlink control channel, and to receive the downlink control channel information by searching the downlink control channel in a predetermined sub-set of plural possible sets of control channel elements in one or more of the temporal units according to a fixed aggregation level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Matthew William Webb
  • Publication number: 20230120039
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunications system including a base station and terminal device, supporting a virtual carrier mode with downlink communications made by the base station using a radio interface spanning a system frequency bandwidth while the terminal device can receive at least some communications from the base station within a restricted subset of transmission resources selected from within the system frequency bandwidth providing a restricted bandwidth downlink. The terminal device can measure channel conditions across the system frequency bandwidth and transmit corresponding measurement reports to the base station. Measurement reports for transmission resources not including the restricted bandwidth downlink channel may be aperiodic while measurement reports for transmission resources including the restricted bandwidth downlink channel may be periodic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Matthew William WEBB
  • Patent number: 11589350
    Abstract: A communications device transmits and receives date via a wireless access interface in a mobile communications network. First resource allocation messages are received by communications devices to allocate one or more of plural communications resource elements of a host frequency range of a host carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew William Webb, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yuichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 11570773
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunication system has a base station arranged to communicate messages to one or more terminal devices over a radio interface. The radio interface has a radio frame structure having a plurality of subframes, and a message may be transmitted in accordance with a first transmission scheme or transmitted in accordance with a second transmission scheme. The message may be transmitted in association with an identifier to indicate a terminal device to which the message is addressed. A characteristic for the identifier, for example a value or control region search space for the identifier, is dependent on whether the message is to be transmitted in accordance with the first transmission scheme or the second transmission scheme. A terminal device to which the message is addressed determines the transmission scheme from the characteristic of the identifier and receives the message accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew William Webb, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20230024765
    Abstract: A communications device, and method, is configured with at least one of an indication of first communications resources of the wireless access interface which can be allocated on request to the communications device by a mobile communications network for transmitting signals to one or more other communications devices in accordance with the first mode of operation or an indication of second communications resources of the wireless access interface, which can be used by the communications device for transmitting signals to one or more other communications devices in accordance with a second mode of operation using a device to device communications protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Alexander MARTIN, Lars NORD, Anders BERGGREN, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Matthew William WEBB
  • Patent number: 11533641
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunications system including a base station and terminal device, supporting a virtual carrier mode with downlink communications made by the base station using a radio interface spanning a system frequency bandwidth while the terminal device can receive at least some communications from the base station within a restricted subset of transmission resources selected from within the system frequency bandwidth providing a restricted bandwidth downlink. The terminal device can measure channel conditions across the system frequency bandwidth and transmit corresponding measurement reports to the base station. Measurement reports for transmission resources not including the restricted bandwidth downlink channel may be aperiodic while measurement reports for transmission resources including the restricted bandwidth downlink channel may be periodic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Matthew William Webb
  • Publication number: 20220385055
    Abstract: Electrical line hardware such as termination arrangements and splices for use with overhead electrical cables that enable the interrogation of the overhead electrical cables through the hardware. The hardware includes at least one port to facilitate access to the strength member of the electrical cable so that interrogation instruments may operatively couple to the strength member and to interrogation elements such as optical fibers associated with the strength member. The interrogation may occur after the overhead electrical cable has been fully tensioned and secured by the hardware, e.g., secured to a support tower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaoyuan DONG, William WEBB, Ian M. PILLING, Douglas A. PILLING, Christopher WONG
  • Publication number: 20220369208
    Abstract: The system supports a virtual carrier mode of operation in which downlink communications are made by a base station using a radio interface that spans a system frequency bandwidth while a terminal device is configured to receive at least some communications from the base station within a restricted subset of transmission resources selected from within the system frequency bandwidth. The system supports terminal devices in both a radio resource control connected mode and a radio resource control idle mode. When there is to be a change in system information the base station transmits to the terminal device an indication that updated system information is to be broadcast by the base station and this indication is received by the terminal device while in the connected mode. Before seeking to acquire the updated system information, the terminal device transitions from the connected mode to the idle mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Alexander MARTIN, Matthew William WEBB
  • Patent number: D971266
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Therabody, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime Sanchez Solana, Brian Carberry, Brian Zeng, Washington Alexander Silva Garces, William Webb, Patrick Tufts, Cale Kaufman
  • Patent number: D971267
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Therabody, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime Sanchez Solana, Brian Carberry, Brian Zeng, Washington Alexander Silva Garces, William Webb, Patrick Tufts, Cale Kaufman
  • Patent number: D973104
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Therabody, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime Sanchez Solana, Brian Carberry, Brian Zeng, Washington Alexander Silva Garces, William Webb
  • Patent number: D975747
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Therabody, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime Sanchez Solana, Brian Carberry, Brian Zeng, Washington Alexander Silva Garces, William Webb
  • Patent number: D975869
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Therabody, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Wersland, Jaime Sanchez Solana, Eduardo Merino, Benjamin Nazarian, William Webb, Alex Zhu, Richard Tang
  • Patent number: D977662
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Therabody, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Wersland, Jaime Sanchez Solana, Eduardo Merino, Benjamin Nazarian, William Webb, Alex Zhu, Richard Tang
  • Patent number: D977665
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Therabody, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Wersland, Jaime Sanchez Solana, Eduardo Merino, Benjamin Nazarian, William Webb, Alex Zhu, Richard Tang
  • Patent number: D986290
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Therabody, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime Sanchez Solana, Brian Carberry, Brian Zeng, Washington Alexander Silva Garces, William Webb, Patrick Tufts, Cale Kaufman
  • Patent number: D986292
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Therabody, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime Sanchez Solana, Brian Carberry, Brian Zeng, Washington Alexander Silva Garces, William Webb
  • Patent number: D986927
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Therabody, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime Sanchez Solana, Brian Carberry, Brian Zeng, Washington Alexander Silva Garces, William Webb, Patrick Tufts, Cale Kaufman
  • Patent number: D987832
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Therabody, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime Sanchez Solana, Brian Carberry, Brian Zeng, Washington Alexander Silva Garces, William Webb, Patrick Tufts, Cale Kaufman