Patents by Inventor Carmen E. DeArdo

Carmen E. DeArdo 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).

  • Adaptive delayed polling of sensors
    Patent number: 4598363
    Abstract: Apparatus (100) and a method (5) are used for polling asynchronous sensors (1, 2, 3) of a computer system to optimize the data load offered by the sensors to a central processor (4). The polling apparatus and method operate in accordance with time delay status (4200, 4210, 4220) recorded in the sensor buffer stores (420, 421, 422) of the memory unit (42) of the central processor. The system determines the amount of data received in a sensor buffer store during the polling sequence and dynamically varies the value of the time delay status to optimize the load of sensor data offered the central processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: AT&T Bell Laboratories
    Inventors: Larry L. Clark, Carmen E. DeArdo, Barry A. Shaffer