Patents by Inventor John L. Meier
John L. Meier 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).
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Patent number: 9853834Abstract: A method is described for communication in a tactical network. A gateway is communicatively COUPLABLE to one or more tactical nodes and to one or more other gateways. The gateway is programmed to transmit information to and/or receive information from other gateways. Information exchanged includes gateway attributes, link attributes, service availability, and/or data availability. The gateway optionally provides quality of service, distributed persistence, load balancing, and/or transformation services. Services are provided in a modular, service-oriented architecture (SOA) to accommodate the addition of services and/or applications.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: John L. Meier, Arun Ayyagari, Brian James Smith, Fernando Afonso Zamith, Carl Joseph Hanks, Ronald J. Howard, Christopher K. Zuver, Michael R. Gray
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Publication number: 20160301546Abstract: A method is described for communication in a tactical network. A gateway is communicatively couplable to one or more tactical nodes and to one or more other gateways. The gateway is programmed to transmit information to and/or receive information from other gateways. Information exchanged includes gateway attributes, link attributes, service availability, and/or data availability. The gateway optionally provides quality of service, distributed persistence, load balancing, and/or transformation services. Services are provided in a modular, service-oriented architecture (SOA) to accommodate the addition of services and/or applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2014Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: John L. Meier, Arun Ayyagari, Brian James Smith, Fernando Afonso Zamith, Carl Joseph Hanks, Ronald J. Howard, Christopher K. Zuver, Michael R. Gray
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Patent number: 9413546Abstract: A network node for a network having dynamic link states includes a processing unit and computer-readable memory for causing the processing unit to monitor a link state of the network; perform QoS provisioning and make appropriate updates to the QoS provisioning based on changes in the link state and QoS provisioning demands of QoS-aware applications; and provide notification to the QoS-aware applications to allow those applications to dynamically adapt to the link state changes.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2011Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: John L. Meier, Kent L. English, Arun Ayyagari, Guijun Wang
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Patent number: 9178829Abstract: A system is described for communication in a tactical network. A gateway is communicatively couplable to one or more tactical nodes and to one or more other gateways. The gateway is programmed to transmit information to and/or receive information from other gateways. Information exchanged includes gateway attributes, link attributes, service availability, and/or data availability. The gateway optionally provides quality of service, distributed persistence, load balancing, and/or transformation services. Services are provided in a modular, service-oriented architecture (SOA) to accommodate the addition of services and/or applications.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: John L. Meier, Arun Ayyagari, Brian James Smith, Fernando Afonso Zamith, Carl Joseph Hanks, Ronald J. Howard, Christopher K. Zuver, Michael R. Gray
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Patent number: 9166963Abstract: A distributed security architecture may include: a mobile anti-tamper hardware policy enforcement point configured to control communication behaviors of a mobile or stationary client by enforcing communication policies within a policy decision point; an anti-tamper hardware policy decision point encapsulated within the anti-tamper hardware policy enforcement point; a policy exchange channel for policy distribution modes configured to distribute and/or update communication and routing security policies to the client; a context manager configured to handle system-wide status change update signaling; and an authentication manager configured to provide clients with registration and credential/role assignments based on access policies. The distributed security architecture may be configured to provide open system interconnection layer 3.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Tirumale K. Ramesh, John L. Meier, Jason Edward Amanatullah, Ming-Yuh Huang
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Publication number: 20150016248Abstract: A system is described for communication in a tactical network. A gateway is communicatively couplable to one or more tactical nodes and to one or more other gateways. The gateway is programmed to transmit information to and/or receive information from other gateways. Information exchanged includes gateway attributes, link attributes, service availability, and/or data availability. The gateway optionally provides quality of service, distributed persistence, load balancing, and/or transformation services. Services are provided in a modular, service-oriented architecture (SOA) to accommodate the addition of services and/or applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: John L. Meier, Arun Ayyagari, Brian James Smith, Fernando Afonso Zamith, Carl Joseph Hanks, Ronald J. Howard, Christopher K. Zuver, Michael R. Gray
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Patent number: 8761008Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method are described for communication in a tactical network. A gateway is communicatively couplable to one or more tactical nodes and to one or more other gateways. The gateway is programmed to transmit information to and/or receive information from other gateways. Information exchanged includes gateway attributes, link attributes, service availability, and/or data availability. The gateway optionally provides quality of service, distributed persistence, load balancing, and/or transformation services. Services are provided in a modular, service-oriented architecture (SOA) to accommodate the addition of services and/or applications.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2009Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: John L. Meier, Arun Ayyagari, Brian James Smith, Fernando Afonso Zamith, Carl Joseph Hanks, Ronald J. Howard, Christopher K. Zuver, Michael R. Gray
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Publication number: 20130239171Abstract: A distributed security architecture may include: a mobile anti-tamper hardware policy enforcement point configured to control communication behaviors of a mobile or stationary client by enforcing communication policies within a policy decision point; an anti-tamper hardware policy decision point encapsulated within the anti-tamper hardware policy enforcement point; a policy exchange channel for policy distribution modes configured to distribute and/or update communication and routing security policies to the client; a context manager configured to handle system-wide status change update signaling; and an authentication manager configured to provide clients with registration and credential/role assignments based on access policies. The distributed security architecture may be configured to provide open system interconnection layer 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Tirumale K. Ramesh, John L. Meier, Jason Edward Amanatullah, Ming-Yuh Huang
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Patent number: 8434125Abstract: A distributed security architecture may include: a mobile anti-tamper hardware policy enforcement point configured to control communication behaviors of a mobile client by enforcing communication policies within a policy decision point; a mobile anti-tamper hardware policy decision point encapsulated within the mobile anti-tamper hardware policy enforcement point; a policy exchange channel for policy distribution modes configured to distribute and/or update communication and routing security policies to the mobile client; a contextual manager configured to handle system-wide status change update signaling; and a mobility authentication manager configured to provide mobile clients with registration and credential/role assignments based on mobile access policies. The distributed security architecture may be configured to provide open system interconnection layer 3.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2008Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Tirumale K. Ramesh, John L. Meier, Jason Edward Amanatullah, Ming-Yuh Huang
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Patent number: 8103853Abstract: A chip having an intelligent fabric may include a soft application processor, a reconfigurable hardware intelligent processor, a partitioned memory storage, and an interface to an external reconfigurable communication processor. The reconfigurable hardware intelligent processor may be configured to implement a distributed reconfigurable processor, and to provide cognitive control for at least one of allocation, reallocation, and performance monitoring.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2008Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Tirumale K. Ramesh, John L. Meier
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Patent number: 7996350Abstract: An intelligent distributed computing fabric system may comprise a cognitive element, a computing element, a security element, and a network element. The cognitive element may receive inputs from the computing element, the security element, and the network element, and may further receive external information from a sensor interface. The cognitive element may process the inputs from the computing element, the security element, and the network element, and may additionally process the external information from the sensor interface. The cognitive element may make decisions based on the inputs from the computing element, the security element, and the network element, and based on the external information from the sensor interface, to adapt for dynamically varying situations in a fabric infrastructure.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2008Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Tirumale K. Ramesh, John L. Meier
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Publication number: 20110103393Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method are described for communication in a tactical network. A gateway is communicatively couplable to one or more tactical nodes and to one or more other gateways. The gateway is programmed to transmit information to and/or receive information from other gateways. Information exchanged includes gateway attributes, link attributes, service availability, and/or data availability. The gateway optionally provides quality of service, distributed persistence, load balancing, and/or transformation services. Services are provided in a modular, service-oriented architecture (SOA) to accommodate the addition of services and/or applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Inventors: John L. Meier, Arun Ayyagari, Brian James Smith, Fernando Afonso Zamith, Carl Joseph Hanks, Ronald J. Howard, Christopher K. Zuver, Michael R. Gray
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Publication number: 20110103227Abstract: A network node for a network having dynamic link states includes a processing unit and computer-readable memory for causing the processing unit to monitor a link state of the network; perform QoS provisioning and make appropriate updates to the QoS provisioning based on changes in the link state and QoS provisioning demands of QoS-aware applications; and provide notification to the QoS-aware applications to allow those applications to dynamically adapt to the link state changes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2011Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: John L. Meier, Kent L. English, Arun Ayyagari, Guijun Wang
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Patent number: 7936762Abstract: A network node for a network having dynamic link states includes a processing unit and computer-readable memory for causing the processing unit to monitor a link state of the network; perform QoS provisioning and make appropriate updates to the QoS provisioning based on changes in the link state and QoS provisioning demands of QoS-aware applications; and provide notification to the QoS-aware applications to allow those applications to dynamically adapt to the link state changes.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2009Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: John L. Meier, Kent L. English, Arun Ayyagari, Guijun Wang
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Publication number: 20090274045Abstract: A network node for a network having dynamic link states includes a processing unit and computer-readable memory for causing the processing unit to monitor a link state of the network; perform QoS provisioning and make appropriate updates to the QoS provisioning based on changes in the link state and QoS provisioning demands of QoS-aware applications; and provide notification to the QoS-aware applications to allow those applications to dynamically adapt to the link state changes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2009Publication date: November 5, 2009Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: John L. Meier, Kent L. English, Arun Ayyagari, Guijun Wang
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Publication number: 20090228684Abstract: A chip having an intelligent fabric may include a soft application processor, a reconfigurable hardware intelligent processor, a partitioned memory storage, and an interface to an external reconfigurable communication processor. The reconfigurable hardware intelligent processor may be configured to implement a distributed reconfigurable processor, and to provide cognitive control for at least one of allocation, reallocation, and performance monitoring.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2008Publication date: September 10, 2009Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Tirumale K. Ramesh, John L. Meier
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Publication number: 20090228418Abstract: An intelligent distributed computing fabric system may comprise a cognitive element, a computing element, a security element, and a network element. The cognitive element may receive inputs from the computing element, the security element, and the network element, and may further receive external information from a sensor interface. The cognitive element may process the inputs from the computing element, the security element, and the network element, and may additionally process the external information from the sensor interface. The cognitive element may make decisions based on the inputs from the computing element, the security element, and the network element, and based on the external information from the sensor interface, to adapt for dynamically varying situations in a fabric infrastructure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2008Publication date: September 10, 2009Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: TIRUMALE K. RAMESH, JOHN L. MEIER
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Publication number: 20090228951Abstract: A distributed security architecture may include: a mobile anti-tamper hardware policy enforcement point configured to control communication behaviors of a mobile client by enforcing communication policies within a policy decision point; a mobile anti-tamper hardware policy decision point encapsulated within the mobile anti-tamper hardware policy enforcement point; a policy exchange channel for policy distribution modes configured to distribute and/or update communication and routing security policies to the mobile client; a contextual manager configured to handle system-wide status change update signaling; and a mobility authentication manager configured to provide mobile clients with registration and credential/role assignments based on mobile access policies. The distributed security architure may be configured to provide open system inteconnection layer 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2008Publication date: September 10, 2009Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Tirumale K. Ramesh, John L. Meier, Jason Edward Amanatullah, Ming-Yuh Huang
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Publication number: 20090228407Abstract: A distributed cognitive architecture may extend across multiple systems of networked nodes and/or a wireless network infrastructure. The distributed cognitive architecture may be configured to use intelligent reasoning for actions and configurations extending across the multiple systems of networked nodes and/or wireless network infrastructure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2008Publication date: September 10, 2009Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Tirumale K. Ramesh, John L. Meier
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Patent number: 7561521Abstract: Systems and methods for improving network centric quality of service using active network technology are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes controlling how a packet is passed over at least one of the interfaces using a differentiated services portion of a network management architecture, monitoring a request for a Quality of Service (QoS) level from at least one QoS-aware application, and adjusting at least one service rate of packet travel controlled by the differentiated services portion based on at least one of the requested QoS level and an available bandwidth. In an alternate embodiment, the controlling of how a packet is passed over at least one of the interfaces includes using at least one of a queuing discipline, a class, and a filter.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2004Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: John L. Meier, Kent L. English, Arun Ayyagari, Guijun Wang