Motorola Corporation

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Hungkun J Chang

Dale Robert Buchholz

William K Doss

Michael P Nolan

Thomas A Freeburg

Richard E White

Frederick W Vook

Mark G Demange

James D McGrath

Paul Odlyzko

Brian J Wesselman

John M Kaczmarczyk

Lisa B Johanson

John W McKown

John M Kaczmarczk

Jeffrey W Manning

Mark Taylor

Farzad Farhangnia

John Mckown

A dynamo system comprises a flywheel mounted on a shaft intermediate its ends. A circular track in the dynamo system includes an inward groove structure to keep the ends of the shaft tracked inside while the flywheel rotating and spinning, the shaft's ends is dangling inside the circular track so that the shaft's ends will move freely along the circular course of the circular track while the flywheel rotates and spins.

Dynamo system having a freely moving flywheel in circular track

A crime scene fence post having a post base and an elongated post. The top end of the post has a lead-in notch, a slit, and a slot concatenated along the longitudinal axis of the post for easy installation and hold of a crime scene fence tape. The bottom end of the post has a tenon and the center of the post base has a mortise so that the post and the post base can be joined together to form a self-supported crime scene post.

Crime scene fence post

A power management technique for use in an wireless communication system having a service access point and a plurality mobile battery powered user devices, user devices in communication with each other and with the access point, power management technique for determining when a user device may transition from an active mode of operation to a sleep mode of operation and further for determining when a user device in the sleep mode of operation should transition to the active mode of operation.

Power management technique for determining a device mode of operation

A power management and packet delivery method for use in a wireless local area network (LAN) having a plurality of mobile battery powered user devices, the user devices in communication with each other, the power management and packet delivery technique for determining when a user device may transition from an active mode of operation to a sleep mode of operation and further for determining when a user device in the sleep mode of operation should transition to the active mode of operation. The method further operative to inform an intended destination device that data is forthcoming, thereby prohibiting that device from entering the sleep mode until after the data has been delivered.

Power management and packet delivery method for use in a wireless local

In a wireless TDMA network a control module (CM) sends a time stamp relative to the beginning of its frame in a synchronization packet allowing each of a plurality of user modules (UM) to maintain synchronization relative to the CM. The CM uses a plurality of directional antennas and transmits the synchronization packets over each antenna over a predetermined number of frames. The UMs use a receive time stamp to identify the beginning of a received synchronization packet. The difference between the time stamps combined with a delay constant is used by the UMs to adjust time synchronization to the CM frame.

Synchronization method and apparatus for a wireless packet network

A hierarchical addressing technique is employed in a packet communications system to enhance flexibility in storing and referencing packet information. This method permits packet message data and certain packet control data to be stored in memory locations without having to be duplicated at a different memory location prior to transmission of the packet. This method is preferably employed in a ring configuration in which a series of packets have addressing mechanisms which points sequentially to each other to form a ring of packets received or to be transmitted.

Addressing technique for storing and referencing packet data

Multiple interrupt request data is stored in a queue and handled by a single interrupt sub-routine to provide a batch handling capability to maximize the interrupt handling efficiency of a microprocessor. Events are organized into groups having a common interrupt handling requirement and a data storage queue is provided for each group. At least one data word is stored for each event requiring interrupt attention in a respective queue. An interrupt handling routine upon a single call handles all data words within a queue before exiting the interrupt handling routine.

Linking microprocessor interrupts arranged by processing requirements

An RF communication system contains a control module which communicates with a plurality of user modules that are each connected to at least one user device. The system provides a method for packet communications in which traditional destination addressed packets are communicated to the specified destination point or user module while also permitting information intended for a plurality of user modules to be broadcast simultaneously to all user modules using a broadcast protocol. The probability of each UM receiving the broadcast packet is enhanced by the transmission by the control module of each broadcast packet over at least several of its directional antennas and preferably repeated over each antenna a number of times. Packets of data which are longer than a predetermined number of bytes are broken into packet fragments.

Broadcasting of packets in an RF system

An antenna selection technique is used in an RF communincation system in which user modules (UM) communicate with at least one node. The UM's and nodes each have multiple antennae. The combination of each UM and node antenna is evaluated at the UM. Based on at least signal quality, the UM selects its antenna and the best node antenna for use. An alternate antenna is selected if a person is determined to be present in a predetermined area adjacent a UM corresponding to a predetermined RF power level.

Antenna pattern selection for optimized communications and avoidance of

An antenna selection technique is used in an RF communication system in which user modules (UM) communicate with at least one node. The UM's and nodes each have multiple antennae. The combination of each UM and node antenna is evaluated at the UM. Based on both signal quality and strength, the UM selects its antenna and the best node antenna for use.

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Hungkun J Chang