Patents by Inventor William Panton

William Panton 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).

  • Controlling multiple modems in a wireless terminal using energy-per-bit determinations
    Publication number: 20060003792
    Abstract: A mobile wireless terminal (MWT) includes multiple wireless modems. The multiple modems have their respective transmit outputs combined to produce an aggregate transmit output. The multiple modems can concurrently transmit data in a reverse link direction and receive data in a forward link direction. The MWT is constrained to operate under an aggregate transmit power limit. Each of the multiple modems has an individual transmit limit related to the aggregate transmit power limit. An MWT controller controls the total number of modems that transmit data at any given time, based on an average energy-per-transmitted bit, or alternatively, individual energy-per-transmitted bits of the modems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Aziz Gholmieh, Douglas Gerecht, Francis Ngai, Jon Anderson, William Panton
  • Controlling multiple modems in a wireless terminal using dynamically varying modem transmit power limits
    Publication number: 20060003793
    Abstract: A mobile wireless terminal (MWT) includes multiple wireless modems. The multiple modems have their respective transmit outputs combined together to produce an aggregate transmit output. The multiple modems can concurrently transmit data in a reverse link direction and receive data in a forward link direction. The MWT is constrained to operate under an aggregate transmit power limit. Each of the multiple modems has an individual transmit limit related to the aggregate transmit power limit. An MWT controller adjusts the individual transmit power limits in the multiple modems based on an aggregate transmit power limit of the MWT and respective transmit power estimates from the modems, to cause each individual transmit power limit to track a corresponding individual modem transmit power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Francis Ngai, Aziz Gholmieh, Douglas Gerecht, Jon Anderson, William Panton
  • Power output control of a car kit by a coupled wireless device
    Patent number: 6600929
    Abstract: Transmit power of an external antenna unit coupled to a wireless device is controlled by obtaining an output power measurement of the information signal transmitting from an antenna unit, which when operating with wireless network technology may also be referred to as an outdoor unit. The output power measurement is used by a hand held device, to adjust the power of the transmitted information signal. The output power measurement is determined by obtaining an output power measurement, modulating the power measurement onto a carrier, and transmitting the modulated measurement signal to hand held device. The modulated measurement signal is received by a cradle or hand held wireless device and demodulated. The hand held device uses the measurement to adjust the transmit power of the information signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Qualcomm, Incorporated
    Inventors: Stanley S. Toncich, William Panton