Patents by Inventor David Frankenbach

David Frankenbach 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).

  • Vehicle entertainment system having seat controller cards programmed to operate as both browser and server
    Patent number: 6390920
    Abstract: A vehicle entertainment system includes seat controller cards (SCCs), each being programmed with a browser and operating as a microserver for managing Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) document requests issued by the browser. When the browser requests HTTP documents that are stored in a local memory of the SCC, the microserver retrieves the HTTP document from the local memory and provides it to the browser without accessing a system file server for the vehicle entertainment system. As a result, the processing load of the system file server is decreased and the response rate to a HTTP document request is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas C. Infiesto, David Frankenbach, Joseph Winston