TIMOTHY ALDEN BURKE
Nursing in Hoffman Estates, IL

6453040, Sep 17, 2002

Mar 17, 1999

09/271599

Timothy M. Burke - Algonquin IL
Gregory W. Fuller - Lake in the Hills IL

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

H04M 900

37938701, 37938702, 37939501, 37939902

An adapter ( ) for connecting a telephone ( ) to a telephone wire ( ) has a subscriber line interface circuit (SLIC ) with a jack for connecting a telephone to the SLIC, a line interface ( ) for coupling to a telephone line, a signaling circuit ( ) coupled to the line interface for receiving and providing subscriber line signaling on the telephone line, a codec ( ) coupled to the SLIC, performing a voice coding/decoding function; and a timing circuit ( ) for time multiplexing and demultiplexing of digitized voice signals between the SLIC and the line interface.

6011909, Jan 4, 2000

Jan 6, 1997

8/779083

Douglas J. Newlin - Geneva IL
Timothy M. Burke - Algonquin IL
Robert D. Battin - Palatine IL

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

H04L 1200

39520057

An apparatus and method are provided for multimedia communications with multiple network functionality, such as conflict resolution for multiple simultaneous communication sessions involving separate and independent networks and call types, such as video and voice. The apparatus includes a first network interface, such as a cable interface (120), an ISDN interface (125) or a telephony interface (130), with the first network interface coupleable to a first network for communication of a first network signal; a second network interface, the second network interface coupleable to a second network for communication of a second network signal; a user interface such as a user/audio interface (135) for reception of a plurality of control signals; and a processor arrangement (143) responsive through a set of program instructions, when operably coupled, to determine a presence of a first network communication session, to further determine an occurrence of the second network signal, and upon the occurrence of the second network signal during the first network communication session, to provide a distinctive alert to the user interface during the first network communication session indicating the occurrence of the second network signal.

5694434, Dec 2, 1997

Jan 17, 1996

8/583736

Timothy M. Burke - Algonquin IL

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

H03D 100, H04L 2706

375340

A control unit (102) efficiently decodes burst signal transmissions in a TDMA-based telecommunication system (100) by decimating down the number of samples requiring processing during symbol detection. The control unit (102) includes a sampling receiver (304) that inputs burst signals from cable access units, converts them to a pair of baseband quadrature signals, I and Q. The sampling receiver (304) also includes an A/D converter (314) that samples the I and Q signals at preferably four times the symbol rate. A digital signal processor circuit (306) produces a timing error signal for substantially all of the samples. The digital processor circuit (306) also accumulates a timing error sum for each of the four samples. The processor circuit (306) selects the optimum sample as the sample between the samples having the largest positive and negative error sums. The processor circuit (306) also includes a. pi.

5862451, Jan 19, 1999

Jan 22, 1996

8/589842

Alan L. Grau - Lombard IL
Richard J. Corrigan - Lagrange IL
Kurt W. Steinbrenner - Bartlett IL
Timothy M. Burke - Algonquin IL

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

H04H 102, H04B 1700, H04N 714, H04N 1700

455 51

A method and apparatus in a communication system (100) for allocating and controlling data transmissions to and from communications unit (134) in communications system (100). The communication systems (100) includes a cable distribution network (106) with a base communications unit (102) and a number of downstream communications units (134) all connected to the cable distribution network (106). A plurality of channels are used to transmit data transmissions between the base communications unit (100) and the downstream communications unit (134). Uplink and downlink channels are monitored to determine channel quality for each of the channels in communications system (100). The determined channel quality is used to both initiate transfers of communications links to other frequencies and for assigning channels to various communications units (134).

5818825, Oct 6, 1998

Nov 29, 1995

8/564983

Richard Corrigan - LaGrange IL
Bruce D. Mueller - Palatine IL
Timothy M. Burke - Algonquin IL

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

H04Q 700

370329

A method and apparatus in a communications system (100) for providing communications units (134) access to the communications system (100). The communications system (100) includes a cable distribution network (106) with a base communications unit (102) and a number of downstream communications units (134) all connected to the cable distribution network (106). A plurality of channels are used to transmit data between the base communications unit (102) and the downstream communications units (134). A first set of channels are used primarily for access to the communications system (100) and a second set of channels are used for transmitting data within the communications system (100) after access to the communications system (100) has been gained. The base communications unit (102) sends a first type of data transmission including an identification of access channels used for requesting access to the communications system (100). The base communications unit (102) assigns channels within the second set of channels response to receiving a request for access to the communications system (100) on the first set of channels.

5793772, Aug 11, 1998

Nov 29, 1995

8/564606

Timothy M. Burke - Algonquin IL
Michael Mannette - Bloomingdale IL
Rob Bahary - Buffalo Grove IL

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

H04J 306

370508

A method for synchronizing timing of signal transmissions in a telecommunication system (100) determines a "fixed portion" (222) of the propagation delay between the central unit (102) and subscribers (206, 208) in a particular node (202). Additionally, the method determines a `variable portion` (226) of the propagation delay that accounts for the variation of spacing of different subscribers (e. g. , homes (206, 208)) on a particular node (202). The preferred method offsets the control unit's (102) receiving window (410) in accordance with the fixed portion, and directs the various subscriber units (206, 208) to offset the timing of signals (314, 322) (i. e. , bursts of data) that they transmit by the variable portion (226).

5764734, Jun 9, 1998

Dec 21, 1994

8/362068

Dale Fredrick Medendorp - Crystal Lake IL
Timothy Mark Burke - Algonquin IL
Paul Louis Vilmur - Palatine IL
Richard James Corrigan - LaGrange IL
Phillip Kent Freyman - Elgin IL

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

H04M 1100

379 9001

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for controlling power consumption and access to telephone channels (36) in a cable telephony system (10). The system (10) has two subsystems for limiting power and access, one, when a telephone (40) is waiting to receive a call and a second when a subscriber wants to place a call. The telephone (40) is usually waiting for a telephone call. The first subsystem reduces power consumption by having a transceiver (114) for the telephone (40) only monitor for incoming calls periodically and turns off the transceiver (114) when not monitoring for calls. The second subsystem, limits system power consumption and access to channels (36) by only allowing loop current and access to channels (36) when a channel (36) is available for use. These two subsystems reduce the system power consumption and regulate the access to the telephone channels (36).

5877821, Mar 2, 1999

Jan 30, 1997

8/791123

Douglas J. Newlin - Geneva IL
Timothy M. Burke - Algonquin IL

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

H04N 540

348724

An apparatus (300, 400) and method are provided for multimedia communications, such as for video conferencing. One of the embodiments of the apparatus for multimedia input and control (300) includes a video input (310) to produce an input video signal; an audio input (320) to produce an input audio signal; a radio frequency modulator (350); a data/control input (330) to produce an input data signal; and a processor arrangement (360) responsive when operably coupled, through a set of program instructions, to produce a first processor signal to the radio frequency modulator to combine the input video signal with the input audio signal to form a composite audio/video signal, and the processor arrangement (360) further responsive to modulate the input data signal to form a modulated input data signal and produce a second processor signal to the radio frequency modulator to combine the input video signal with the modulated input data signal to form a combined video/data signal.

5991800, Nov 23, 1999

May 22, 1997

8/861841

Timothy M. Burke - Algonquin IL
Douglas James Newlin - Geneva IL

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

H04N 714, H04N 102

709218

A multimedia interface station (102) establishes a multimedia sensory data link between the Internet (108) and a subscriber premise (112) eliminating an Internet protocol. Visual and audio data received from the Internet (108) is converted to a multimedia sensory signal at the multimedia interface station (102) and transmitted to a sensory transmission device (150) such as a television (142) in the subscriber premise (112) without using the Internet protocol.

6275468, Aug 14, 2001

Jul 31, 1996

8/690607

Timothy M. Burke - Algonquin IL
Kurt Steinbrenner - Bartlett IL
Michael R. Mannette - Bloomingdale IL

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

H04J 300

370228

A telephony system having automatic timing adjustment for diverse routing of HFC systems has a signal stream routing through a signal line loop between a head-end and at least one communication unit. If a fault occurs within the signal line loop, recognized by the head-end when a short uplink burst from the communication unit does not align within a predetermined timing window, the head-end will cycle through predetermined delay parameters corresponding to various alternate signal line loops made up of redundant signal lines. Once the predetermined delay parameter corresponding to the current alternate signal line loop is determined, normal operation of the system resumes.