Patents by Inventor Richard Morse
Richard Morse 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: 7693585Abstract: The invention relates to systems and methods that support object oriented access to information at multiple levels in a control architecture, for example. Such data access can be facilitated as a layer adjacent to or part of an MES system or as a white box cooperating to encapsulate data such as in the controller or the MES layer, for example. In addition, such object oriented data access can be built into a controller as a standard behavior of controller data types and tags of those data types. In this manner, data can be encapsulated as a data object to expose properties and/or methods related to the data utilizing a common interface with each data consumer. Thus, the data consumer can employ object oriented concepts, such as properties, methods, scope qualifiers, access qualifiers (private, protected, public enterprise), polymorphism, inheritance and the like directly with their automation system components.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2004Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael D. Kalan, John J. Baier, David W. Farchmin, Randall A. Marquardt, Richard A. Morse, Stephen C. Briant, Sujeet Chand
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Publication number: 20090206154Abstract: An RFID reader and/or writer module in an industrial controller (e.g., PLC). The RFID module interfaces internally to the controller for tight integration therewith. The RFID module can also be part of a controller communications framework and as a standalone module with the PLC as a master device, and interact with the RFID module in the same manner as it interacts with other I/O devices connected to the controller. In another aspect, RFID read/write tag technology is incorporated into some or all major PLC and rack components, and utilized for wireless communication both between PLC system components and between the PLC and other devices, locations, and media. The RFID tag can be used to store and exchange electronic keying data, security information, module diagnostics and warranty information, series and revision levels code, I/O configuration data, and, replacement data. Artificial intelligence is also employed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2009Publication date: August 20, 2009Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: ARTHUR P. PIETRZYK, VIVEK R. BAPAT, SUJEET CHAND, KENWOOD H. HALL, RICHARD A. MORSE, JOSEPH P. OWEN, ANDREAS SOMOGYI, KENNETH A. TINNELL
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Publication number: 20090204684Abstract: A method and system for creating and navigating linear hypermedia resource programs are disclosed. The system includes a distributed hypermedia resource network having a plurality of hypermedia resources residing on one or more remote information nodes. A common remote information node is in communication with a subscriber station and the remote information nodes in the distributed network. The common remote information node contains at least one linear hypermedia resource program consisting of pre-selected media elements from one or more hypermedia resources linked with exclusive linear links, each media element in the linear program having only one forward link to the next media element. The method includes the steps of downloading and displaying a media element in the linear program and responding to user commands to download and display the next media element in the linear program.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: TEXAS TECHNOLOGY VENTURESInventors: BRUCE EDWARD STUCKMAN, BARRY JAMES SULLIVAN, WAYNE ROBERT HEINMILLER, RICHARD OMANSON, JORDAN HOWARD LIGHT, ROBERT WESLEY BOSSEMEYER, JR., JAMES RICHARD MORSE, KENT E. GENIN
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Publication number: 20090192857Abstract: A method for synchronizing activities during design of an industrial automated system wherein the automated system includes a plurality of different features and the design of the automated system requires at least first and second different information types, the method comprising the steps of using a first software program to specify a first type system definition including a set of first information type instances corresponding to the automated system, after the first type system definition has been specified, using a second software program to specify a second type system definition including a set of second information type instances corresponding to the automated system, after the second type system definition has been specified, comparing the first and second system definitions to identify system features supported by only one of the first and second type system definitions and where only one of the first and second type system definitions supports a system feature, the second software program providinType: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2008Publication date: July 30, 2009Inventors: Richard A. Morse, Jason Weber
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Patent number: 7539738Abstract: A method and system for creating and navigating linear hypermedia resource programs are disclosed. The system includes a distributed hypermedia resource network having a plurality of hypermedia resources residing on one or more remote information nodes. A common remote information node is in communication with a subscriber station and the remote information nodes in the distributed network. The common remote information node contains at least one linear hypermedia resource program consisting of pre-selected media elements from one or more hypermedia resources linked with exclusive linear links, each media element in the linear program having only one forward link to the next media element. The method includes the steps of downloading and displaying a media element in the linear program and responding to user commands to download and display the next media element in the linear program.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2007Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Texas Technology VenturesInventors: Bruce Edward Stuckman, Barry James Sullivan, Wayne Robert Heinmiller, Richard Omanson, Jordan Howard Light, Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr., James Richard Morse, Kent E. Genin
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Publication number: 20090089027Abstract: A tool for simulating an industrial control system is provided. The tool includes a simulation component to emulate one or more simulation models according to a simulated execution environment. A switch component is associated with the simulation component to selectively enable or disable variability in the simulation models.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2007Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: David T. Sturrock, Richard A. Morse
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Patent number: 7510110Abstract: An RFID reader and/or writer module in an industrial controller (e.g., PLC). The RFID module interfaces internally to the controller for tight integration therewith. The RFID module can also be part of a controller communications framework and as a standalone module with the PLC as a master device, and interact with the RFID module in the same manner as it interacts with other I/O devices connected to the controller. In another aspect, RFID read/write tag technology is incorporated into some or all major PLC and rack components, and utilized for wireless communication both between PLC system components and between the PLC and other devices, locations, and media. The RFID tag can be used to store and exchange electronic keying data, security information, module diagnostics and warranty information, series and revision levels code, I/O configuration data, and, replacement data. Artificial intelligence is also employed.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2005Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Arthur P. Pietrzyk, Vivek R. Bapat, Sujeet Chand, Kenwood H. Hall, Richard A. Morse, Joseph P. Owen, Jr., Andreas Somogyi, Kenneth A. Tinnell
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Publication number: 20090037771Abstract: A method, system and diagnostic tool for diagnosing a problem in CSPF and non-CSPF MPLS networks, including problems with LDP tunnels. This includes one or more of the following: hopping from network element to network element; determining whether an LSP between elements is operational; determining whether the hop was strict or loose; evaluating whether there is an existing path between the elements; finding and remembering an IGP link between the elements; recognizing whether the LSP is an FRR LSP; diagnosing a cause of the LSP between the elements being down; and altering a display of a topology map of the network to indicate the cause of the problem.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2007Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENTInventors: Steve Richard Morse, Attaullah Zabihi, Chuong Ngoc Ngo, Christopher Warren Murray
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Patent number: 7487236Abstract: Techniques for managing tiered communication services in a composite communication service are disclosed. Component communication services for providing a composite communication service are arranged into tiers in a structure of the composite communication service. The tiers and order facilitate visualization of composite communication services and assessment of the effects of events which impact a portion of a composite communication service on other portions of the composite communication service, for example. Related data structures and user interfaces are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2005Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Attaullah Zabihi, Joel Reginald Calippe, Stephen Richard Morse, Chi Zhang
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Patent number: 7478144Abstract: A method and system for creating and navigating linear hypermedia resource programs are disclosed. The system includes a distributed hypermedia resource network having a plurality of hypermedia resources residing on one or more remote information nodes. A common remote information node is in communication with a subscriber station and the remote information nodes in the distributed network. The common remote information node contains at least one linear hypermedia resource program consisting of pre-selected media elements from one or more hypermedia resources linked with exclusive linear links, each media element in the linear program having only one forward link to the next media element. The method includes the steps of downloading and displaying a media element in the linear program and responding to user commands to download and display the next media element in the linear program.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2007Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Texas Technology VenturesInventors: Bruce Edward Stuckman, Barry James Sullivan, Wayne Robert Heinmiller, Richard Omanson, Jordan Howard Light, Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr., James Richard Morse, Kent E. Genin
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Publication number: 20080278328Abstract: A portable RFID reader (or reader/writer) that also employs a location determination subsystem that facilitates determination of the reader (or reader/writer) location. The location subsystem can employ a satellite-based GPS (Global Positioning System) location technology where such signals are unimpeded by structures. Additionally, the location subsystem can employ other terrestrial location technologies that operate inside structures such as warehouses and the factory automation environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2008Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Sujeet Chand, Vivek R. Bapat, Kenwood H. Hall, Richard A. Morse, Joseph P. Owen, JR., Arthur P. Pietrzyk, Andreas Somogyi, Kenneth A. Tinnell
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Patent number: 7446662Abstract: System(s) and method(s) to increase the accuracy and efficiency of an RFID system is provided. A system includes an RFID component that receives a signal from an RFID reader, and an identifier component that interfaces with the RFID component and identifies the source of the signal. The system further includes a signal strength component that interfaces with the identifier component and measures the strength of the signal. The system can include an environment component that analyzes an operating environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2005Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andreas Somogyi, Vivek R. Bapat, Sujeet Chand, Kenwood H. Hall, Richard A. Morse, Joseph P. Owen, Jr., Arthur P. Pietrzyk, Kenneth A. Tinnell
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Patent number: 7424523Abstract: A method and system for creating and navigating linear hypermedia resource programs are disclosed. The system includes a distributed hypermedia resource network having a plurality of hypermedia resources residing on one or more remote information nodes. A common remote information node is in communication with a subscriber station and the remote information nodes in the distributed network. The common remote information node contains at least one linear hypermedia resource program consisting of pre-selected media elements from one or more hypermedia resources linked with exclusive linear links, each media element in the linear program having only one forward link to the next media element. The method includes the steps of downloading and displaying a media element in the linear program and responding to user commands to download and display the next media element in the linear program.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2007Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: Texas Technology VenturesInventors: Bruce Edward Stuckman, Barry James Sullivan, Wayne Robert Heinmiller, Richard Omanson, Jordan Howard Light, Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr., James Richard Morse, Kent E. Genin
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Publication number: 20080201640Abstract: A method and system for creating and navigating linear hypermedia resource programs are disclosed. The system includes a distributed hypermedia resource network having a plurality of hypermedia resources residing on one or more remote information nodes. A common remote information node is in communication with a subscriber station and the remote information nodes in the distributed network. The common remote information node contains at least one linear hypermedia resource program consisting of pre-selected media elements from one or more hypermedia resources linked with exclusive linear links, each media element in the linear program having only one forward link to the next media element. The method includes the steps of downloading and displaying a media element in the linear program and responding to user commands to download and display the next media element in the linear program.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Inventors: Bruce Edward Stuckman, Barry James Sullivan, Wayne Robert Heinmiller, Richard Omanson, Jordan Howard Light, Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, James Richard Morse, Kent E. Genin
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Patent number: 7388491Abstract: A portable RFID reader (or reader/writer) that also employs a location determination subsystem that facilitates determination of the reader (or reader/writer) location. The location subsystem can employ a satellite-based GPS (Global Positioning System) location technology where such signals are unimpeded by structures. Additionally, the location subsystem can employ other terrestrial location technologies that operate inside structures such as warehouses and the factory automation environment.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2005Date of Patent: June 17, 2008Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sujeet Chand, Vivek R. Bapat, Kenwood H. Hall, Richard A. Morse, Joseph P. Owen, Jr., Arthur P. Pietrzyk, Andreas Somogyi, Kenneth A. Tinnell
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Patent number: 7383323Abstract: A method and system for creating and navigating linear hypermedia resource programs are disclosed. The system includes a distributed hypermedia resource network having a plurality of hypermedia resources residing on one or more remote information nodes. A common remote information node is in communication with a subscriber station and the remote information nodes in the distributed network. The common remote information node contains at least one linear hypermedia resource program consisting of pre-selected media elements from one or more hypermedia resources linked with exclusive linear links, each media element in the linear program having only one forward link to the next media element. The method includes the steps of downloading and displaying a media element in the linear program and responding to user commands to download and display the next media element in the linear program.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Texas Technology VenturesInventors: Bruce Edward Stuckman, Barry James Sullivan, Wayne Robert Heinmiller, Richard Omanson, Jordan Howard Light, Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr., James Richard Morse, Kent E. Genin
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Patent number: 7383324Abstract: A method and system for creating and navigating linear hypermedia resource programs are disclosed. The system includes a distributed hypermedia resource network having a plurality of hypermedia resources residing on one or more remote information nodes. A common remote information node is in communication with a subscriber station and the remote information nodes in the distributed network. The common remote information node contains at least one linear hypermedia resource program consisting of pre-selected media elements from one or more hypermedia resources linked with exclusive linear links, each media element in the linear program having only one forward link to the next media element. The method includes the steps of downloading and displaying a media element in the linear program and responding to user commands to download and display the next media element in the linear program.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2007Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Texas Technology VenturesInventors: Bruce Edward Stuckman, Barry James Sullivan, Wayne Robert Heinmiller, Richard Omanson, Jordan Howard Light, Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr., James Richard Morse, Kent E. Genin
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Patent number: 7216155Abstract: A method and system for creating and navigating linear hypermedia resource programs are disclosed. The system includes a distributed hypermedia resource network having a plurality of hypermedia resources residing on one or more remote information nodes. A common remote information node is in communication with a subscriber station and the remote information nodes in the distributed network. The common remote information node contains at least one linear hypermedia resource program consisting of pre-selected media elements from one or more hypermedia resources linked with exclusive linear links, each media element in the linear program having only one forward link to the next media element. The method includes the steps of downloading and displaying a media element in the linear program and responding to user commands to download and display the next media element in the linear program.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2004Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Texas Technology VenturesInventors: Bruce Edward Stuckman, Barry James Sullivan, Wayne Robert Heinmiller, Richard Omanson, Jordan Howard Light, Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr., James Richard Morse, Kent E. Genin
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Publication number: 20070075832Abstract: A user-programmable (UP) component for an RFID reader. The UP component facilitates reading an RFID tag and interfacing to I/O that functions as a validation mechanism that the read operation has occurred. The UP component facilitates application of the reader to new and/or different systems and products. The UP component can be a separate external device or module that interfaces to the RFID reader, or can be integrated into the reader for operation therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2005Publication date: April 5, 2007Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Richard Morse, Vivek Bapat, Sujeet Chand, Kenwood Hall, Joseph Owen, Arthur Pietrzyk, Andreas Somogyi, Kenneth Tinnell
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Publication number: 20070075128Abstract: Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in a data management scheme that combines both distributed as well as a hierarchical (object-oriented) data management structure. The hierarchical databases will store data records such that each or selected entities of the record will be associated with a pointer that can be written into an RFID tag of an item as the item progresses through manufacturing, production, transportation, and consumer user, for example. Thereafter, once the RFID tag is read, the pointer information can be processed to directly access the data in the database associated with the pointer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2005Publication date: April 5, 2007Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kenwood Hall, Vivek Bapat, Sujeet Chand, Richard Morse, Joseph Owen, Arthur Pietrzyk, Andreas Somogyi, Kenneth Tinnell