Patents by Inventor Ralph Mason
Ralph Mason 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: 10595275Abstract: In a wireless media network a source device provides entertainment content to a sink device over a radio frequency (RF) wireless channel. The source device can go into a receive only quiet enrolment mode until activated by a sink device transmitting enrolment trigger packets or having a signal strength above a certain threshold, thereby improving coexistence with other wireless devices. The source device changes from the quiet enrolment mode to an active enrolment mode when activated by the sink device.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATEDInventors: Ralph Mason, Andrew Burns, Chengbin Fan
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Publication number: 20190090194Abstract: In a wireless media network a source device provides entertainment content to a sink device over a radio frequency (RF) wireless channel. The source device can go into a receive only quiet enrolment mode until activated by a sink device transmitting enrolment trigger packets or having a signal strength above a certain threshold, thereby improving coexistence with other wireless devices. The source device changes from the quiet enrolment mode to an active enrolment mode when activated by the sink device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: Microchip Technology IncorporatedInventors: Ralph Mason, Andrew Burns, Chengbin Fan
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Patent number: 10129831Abstract: In a wireless media network a source device provides entertainment content to a sink device over a radio frequency (RF) wireless channel. The source device can go into a receive only quiet enrolment mode until activated by a sink device transmitting enrolment trigger packets or having a signal strength above a certain threshold, thereby improving coexistence with other wireless devices. The source device changes from the quiet enrolment mode to an active enrolment mode when activated by the sink device.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATEDInventors: Ralph Mason, Andrew Burns, Chengbin Fan
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Publication number: 20180200127Abstract: A safety belt system for paratransit lifts uses a front lift strap and a rear lift strap. The front lift strap and the rear lift strap are safety belts that can be connected in front of and behind a wheelchair that is mounted onto a lift platform of a paratransit lift. The front lift strap and the rear lift strap are identical, and each has a pair of length-adjustable webbings, a quick-release buckle, and a pair of lift-connection mechanisms. The quick-release buckle is connected in between the pair of length-adjustable webbings so that the two length-adjustable webbings are terminally connected to each other. Each lift-connection mechanism is terminally connected to a length-adjustable webbing, opposite to the quick-release buckle. As a result, the length-adjustable webbings can be connected to each other and then connected to the paratransit lift.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Dale Binkley, Ralph Mason
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Patent number: 9857191Abstract: Systems and methods for determination of an access path are disclosed. The access path may include any drivable route that is within a site, and is often, but not necessarily, exclusive of roads in a road network external to the site. In some cases, access paths may include a set of streets between two or more sites without necessarily including a drivable path within a site. Further, the systems and methods may calculate or determine minimum cost routes that include the access path. In some cases, the calculated route may be the minimum cost route that includes the access path, but not necessarily a minimum cost route to a site. In other words, in some cases, the selection of an access path serves as a constraint that supersedes the calculation of a minimum cost route.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Telogis, Inc.Inventors: Ralph Mason, Mark Fryer, Michael Fried, Jeffrey Fiore, Rick Turek, Brad Llewellyn, Peter Lear, Victor Rehorst, Steven Ashley, Ben Burns
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Patent number: 9818302Abstract: Vehicle management systems and associated processes can monitor the progress of assets, such as vehicle, along predetermined routes and report the progress to user. The system can compare the actual status of the vehicle to the expected status of the vehicle and to report any difference between the actual status and expected status to a user. Further, the system can receive a predetermined threshold value of the difference from a user and report to the user if the predetermined threshold has been exceeded.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Telogis, Inc.Inventors: Sean McCormick, Jason Koch, Arthur N. Morris, Ralph Mason, William Elliot
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Publication number: 20160358478Abstract: Vehicle management systems and associated processes can monitor the progress of assets, such as vehicle, along predetermined routes and report the progress to user. The system can compare the actual status of the vehicle to the expected status of the vehicle and to report any difference between the actual status and expected status to a user. Further, the system can receive a predetermined threshold value of the difference from a user and report to the user if the predetermined threshold has been exceeded.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Sean McCormick, Jason Koch, Arthur N. Morris, Ralph Mason, William Elliot
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Publication number: 20160334236Abstract: Systems and methods for determination of an access path are disclosed. The access path may include any drivable route that is within a site, and is often, but not necessarily, exclusive of roads in a road network external to the site. In some cases, access paths may include a set of streets between two or more sites without necessarily including a drivable path within a site. Further, the systems and methods may calculate or determine minimum cost routes that include the access path. In some cases, the calculated route may be the minimum cost route that includes the access path, but not necessarily a minimum cost route to a site. In other words, in some cases, the selection of an access path serves as a constraint that supersedes the calculation of a minimum cost route.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Ralph Mason, Mark Fryer, Michael Fried, Jeffrey Fiore, Rick Turek, Brad Llewellyn, Peter Lear, Victor Rehorst, Steven Ashley, Ben Burns
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Patent number: 9230232Abstract: Vehicle management systems and associated processes can monitor the progress of assets, such as vehicle, along predetermined routes and report the progress to user. The system can compare the actual status of the vehicle to the expected status of the vehicle and to report any difference between the actual status and expected status to a user. Further, the system can receive a predetermined threshold value of the difference from a user and report to the user if the predetermined threshold has been exceeded.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: TELOGIS, INC.Inventors: Sean McCormick, Jason Koch, Arthur N. Morris, Ralph Mason, William Elliot
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Publication number: 20150338226Abstract: Systems and methods for determination of an access path are disclosed. The access path may include any drivable route that is within a site, and is often, but not necessarily, exclusive of roads in a road network external to the site. In some cases, access paths may include a set of streets between two or more sites without necessarily including a drivable path within a site. Further, the systems and methods may calculate or determine minimum cost routes that include the access path. In some cases, the calculated route may be the minimum cost route that includes the access path, but not necessarily a minimum cost route to a site. In other words, in some cases, the selection of an access path serves as a constraint that supersedes the calculation of a minimum cost route.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2014Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: Telogis, Inc.Inventors: Ralph Mason, Mark Fryer, Michael Fried, Jeffrey Fiore, Rick Turek, Brad Llewellyn, Peter Lear, Victor Rehorst, Steven Ashley, Ben Burns
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Publication number: 20150312860Abstract: In a wireless media network a source device provides entertainment content to a sink device over a radio frequency (RF) wireless channel. The source device can go into a receive only quiet enrolment mode until activated by a sink device transmitting enrolment trigger packets or having a signal strength above a certain threshold, thereby improving coexistence with other wireless devices. The source device changes from the quiet enrolment mode to an active enrolment mode when activated by the sink device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2015Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATEDInventors: Ralph Mason, Andrew Burns, Chengbin Fan
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Patent number: 8745516Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the organization, management, and graphical display of multiple logically related entities. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide the real-time display of status and location information for a fleet of tracked vehicles. In some embodiments, the systems and methods permit the automatic clustering of assets based on a user's view of an underlying map. In some embodiments, the assets are vehicles that are a part of a managed fleet. In some embodiments, the assets are logically arranged into clusters of like assets. In some embodiments, the clusters provide graphical indications of status or class information of their underlying assets.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Telogis, Inc.Inventors: Ralph Mason, Jason Koch
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Patent number: 8706409Abstract: Vehicle management systems and associated processes can consider energy consumption when selecting routes for fleet vehicles. Vehicle management systems and associated processes are described that, in certain embodiments, evaluate vehicle energy usage based on factors such as terrain or elevation, vehicle characteristics, driver characteristics, road conditions, traffic, speed limits, stop time, turn information, traffic information, and weather information, and the like. The features described herein may also be implemented for non-fleet vehicles, such as in personal vehicle navigation systems.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Telogis, Inc.Inventors: Ralph Mason, Jason Koch, Howard Jelinek
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Patent number: 8290701Abstract: Vehicle management systems and associated processes can consider energy consumption when selecting routes for fleet vehicles. Vehicle management systems and associated processes are described that, in certain embodiments, evaluate vehicle energy usage based on factors such as terrain or elevation, vehicle characteristics, driver characteristics, road conditions, traffic, speed limits, stop time, turn information, traffic information, and weather information, and the like. The features described herein may also be implemented for non-fleet vehicles, such as in personal vehicle navigation systems.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2011Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Telogis, Inc.Inventors: Ralph Mason, Jason Koch, Howard Jelinek
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Patent number: 8146009Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the organization, management, and graphical display of multiple logically related entities. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide the real-time display of status and location information for a fleet of tracked vehicles. In some embodiments, the systems and methods permit the automatic clustering of assets based on a user's view of an underlying map. In some embodiments, the assets are vehicles that are a part of a managed fleet. In some embodiments, the assets are logically arranged into clusters of like assets. In some embodiments, the clusters provide graphical indications of status or class information of their underlying assets.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2011Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Telogis, Inc.Inventors: Ralph Mason, Jason Koch
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Publication number: 20120022904Abstract: Vehicle management systems and associated processes can consider energy consumption when selecting routes for fleet vehicles. Vehicle management systems and associated processes are described that, in certain embodiments, evaluate vehicle energy usage based on factors such as terrain or elevation, vehicle characteristics, driver characteristics, road conditions, traffic, speed limits, stop time, turn information, traffic information, and weather information, and the like. The features described herein may also be implemented for non-fleet vehicles, such as in personal vehicle navigation systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: TELOGIS, INC.Inventors: Ralph Mason, Jason Koch, Howard Jelinek
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Publication number: 20120017168Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the organization, management, and graphical display of multiple logically related entities. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide the real-time display of status and location information for a fleet of tracked vehicles. In some embodiments, the systems and methods permit the automatic clustering of assets based on a user's view of an underlying map. In some embodiments, the assets are vehicles that are a part of a managed fleet. In some embodiments, the assets are logically arranged into clusters of like assets. In some embodiments, the clusters provide graphical indications of status or class information of their underlying assets.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2011Publication date: January 19, 2012Inventors: Ralph Mason, Jason Koch
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Publication number: 20110238457Abstract: Vehicle management systems and associated processes can consider energy consumption when selecting routes for fleet vehicles. Vehicle management systems and associated processes are described that, in certain embodiments, evaluate vehicle energy usage based on factors such as terrain or elevation, vehicle characteristics, driver characteristics, road conditions, traffic, speed limits, stop time, turn information, traffic information, and weather information, and the like. The features described herein may also be implemented for non-fleet vehicles, such as in personal vehicle navigation systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2010Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: TELOGIS, INC.Inventors: Ralph Mason, Jason Koch, Howard Jelinek
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Publication number: 20110227324Abstract: A paratransit lift is provided with safety belts with separable components. The components are configured for attachment of the lift without any alteration of the lift structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Inventors: DALE BINKLEY, Ralph Mason
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Publication number: 20110041088Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the organization, management, and graphical display of multiple logically related entities. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide the real-time display of status and location information for a fleet of tracked vehicles. In some embodiments, the systems and methods permit the automatic clustering of assets based on a user's view of an underlying map. In some embodiments, the assets are vehicles that are a part of a managed fleet. In some embodiments, the assets are logically arranged into clusters of like assets. In some embodiments, the clusters provide graphical indications of status or class information of their underlying assets.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: TELOGIS, INC.Inventors: Ralph Mason, Jason Koch