Michael Patrick Mclaughlin

US Patent:

7076447, Jul 11, 2006

Filed:

Sep 3, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/390025

Inventors:

Charles A. Peyser - Bethesda MD, US
Constance Beyer - McLean VA, US
Michael D. McLaughlin - Saratoga CA, US

Assignee:

InPhonic, Inc. - Washington DC

International Classification:

G06F 17/60

US Classification:

705 26

Abstract:

A system facilitates the purchase of telecommunication services from a variety of sellers. The system aggregates buyers for purchasing at least one telecommunication service as a group, generates a request for purchasing the telecommunication services, provides the request to the sellers, and receives replies from the sellers in response to the request. The system then provides the replies to the group, receives a selection from the group in response to the replies, and notifies a seller of the selection.

US Patent:

7170988, Jan 30, 2007

Filed:

Oct 27, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/694571

Inventors:

Jonathan A. Gibbs - Southampton, GB
James P. Ashley - Naperville IL, US
Halil Fikretler - Basingstoke, GB
Mark A. Jasiuk - Chicago IL, US
Michael J. McLaughlin - Palatine IL, US

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

International Classification:

H04M 7/00
H04J 3/16
H04J 3/22

US Classification:

379224, 370467

Abstract:

A method of enhanced tandem communication is provided between at least a first portion of a network suitable for voice communications and a second portion of a network suitable for voice communications. During operation, two representations of an encoded signal are transmitted from the first portion of a network. The two representations comprise the encoded signal produced by a first codec and a parameter translation of the first encoded signal into an encoded signal compatible with a single common compressed voice codec (CCVC) format.

US Patent:

7248949, Jul 24, 2007

Filed:

Oct 22, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/970279

Inventors:

W. Dwight Love - Herndon VA, US
Michael P. McLaughlin - McLean VA, US
Roland O. Lejeune - Fairfax VA, US

Assignee:

The MITRE Corporation - McLean VA

International Classification:

G08G 7/00
G01S 3/00

US Classification:

701 4, 342 33

Abstract:

Stochastic models of aircraft flight paths and a method for deriving such models from recorded air traffic data. Each stochastic model involves identifying the flight plan for one or more aircraft; identifying important parameters from each flight plan, such as aircraft type, cruise altitude, and airspeed; optionally identifying flight plan amendments for each flight; representing each route of flight as a series of navigational fixes; representing at least one aircraft flight parameter probabilistically; modeling realistic differences in at least one dimension between each planned route of flight and the flight path as it might actually be flown; and communicating the modeled deviations or simulated flight paths to the user. At least one aircraft flight parameter is represented as a random variable with a particular statistical distribution, such as a normal (Gaussian), Laplacian, or logistic distribution; or with a more complex algorithm containing one or more random elements. The modeled flight parameters may be any of lateral position, longitudinal position, climb altitude, descent altitude, climb airspeed, descent airspeed, cruise airspeed, cruise altitude transition, or response time to a flight plan amendment.

US Patent:

7283956, Oct 16, 2007

Filed:

Sep 18, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/245963

Inventors:

James Patrick Ashley - Naperville IL, US
Tenkasi Vaideeswaran Ramabadran - Naperville IL, US
Michael Joseph McLaughlin - Palatine IL, US

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

International Classification:

G10L 21/00
G10L 21/02

US Classification:

704228, 704233, 704224, 704225, 704226, 704227

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for noise suppression is described herein. The channel gain is controlled based on a degree of variability of the background noise. The noise variability estimate is used in conjunction with a variable attenuation concept to produce a family of gain curves that are adaptively suited for a variety of combinations of long-term peak SNR and noise variability. More specifically, a measure of the variability of the background noise is used to provide an optimized threshold that reduces the occurrence of non-stationary background noise entering into the transition region of the gain curve.

US Patent:

7343283, Mar 11, 2008

Filed:

Oct 23, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/278377

Inventors:

James Ashley - Naperville IL, US
Michael McLaughlin - Palatine IL, US

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

International Classification:

G10L 19/00

US Classification:

704219, 704226

Abstract:

An unfiltered frame portion () from a second frame () is blended together with a filtered frame portion () from a first frame () to produce a combined frame portion (). The combined frame portion () is then buffered () along with the filtered frame () for LPC analysis.

US Patent:

7729944, Jun 1, 2010

Filed:

Sep 3, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/390026

Inventors:

Charles A. Peyser - Bethesda MD, US
Constance Beyer - McLean VA, US
Michael D. McLaughlin - Saratoga CA, US

Assignee:

Simplexity, LLC - Philadelphia PA

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00

US Classification:

705 26, 705 27

Abstract:

A system facilitates the purchase of telecommunication services from a variety of service providers. The system receives a request for purchasing at least one telecommunication service from a buyer via a buyer terminal, provides the request to a group of seller terminals corresponding to a group of the service providers, and receives a reply from the seller terminals in response to the request. The system then provides the replies to the buyer terminal, receives a selection from the buyer terminal in response to the replies, and notifies a service provider of the selection and an identity of the buyer.

US Patent:

7792670, Sep 7, 2010

Filed:

Oct 14, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/964861

Inventors:

Mark A. Jasiuk - Chicago IL, US
Tenkasi V. Ramabadran - Naperville IL, US
Udar Mittal - Hoffman Estates IL, US
James P. Ashley - Naperville IL, US
Michael J. McLaughlin - Palatine IL, US

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

International Classification:

G10L 19/00

US Classification:

704219, 704220, 704221, 704222, 704226, 704503

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for prediction in a speech-coding system is provided herein. The method of a 1order long-term predictor (LTP) filter, using a sub-sample resolution delay, is extended to a multi-tap LTP filter, or, viewed from another vantage point, the conventional integer-sample resolution multi-tap LTP filter is extended to use sub-sample resolution delay. This novel formulation of a multi-tap LTP filter offers a number of advantages over the prior-art LTP filter configurations. Particularly, defining the lag with sub-sample resolution makes it possible to explicitly model the delay values that have a fractional component, within the limits of resolution of the over-sampling factor used by the interpolation filter. The coefficients of such a multi-tap LTP filter are thus largely freed from modeling the effect of delays that have a fractional component. Consequently their main function is to maximize the prediction gain of the LTP filter via modeling the degree of periodicity that is present and by imposing spectral shaping.

US Patent:

7797193, Sep 14, 2010

Filed:

Oct 22, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/425739

Inventors:

Charles A. Peyser - Bethesda MD, US
Constance Beyer - McLean VA, US
Michael D. McLaughlin - Saratoga CA, US
Daniel Jones - Reston VA, US

Assignee:

Simplexity, LLC - Philadelphia PA

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00

US Classification:

705 26, 379 9312

Abstract:

A system facilitates the purchase of telecommunication services from a variety of sellers. The system stores a set of responses to purchase requests for telecommunication services associated with a plurality of service providers, each response reflecting at least one telecommunication service offering associated with one of the service providers and a related cost for the telecommunication service offering. The system establishes a session for considering the purchase of telecommunication services. A purchase request is input, including information indicating a requested telecommunication service. The system accesses the stored set of responses to purchase requests for at least one response reflecting at least one telecommunication service offering capable of satisfying the requested telecommunication service, and permits a requester to accept the response during the session.