Patents by Inventor Rui Silva

Rui Silva 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).

  • Patent number: 11668044
    Abstract: A method of dispensing at least two treating chemistries during a cycle of operation in a laundry treating appliance. The method comprises non-centrifugally dispensing a first treating chemistry into a treating chamber from a first dispenser compartment located within the clothes mover and centrifugally dispensing a second treating chemistry into the treating chamber from a second dispenser located within the clothes mover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Marcos L. Costa, Diogo M. Rodrigues, Rui Silva
  • Publication number: 20210010186
    Abstract: A method of dispensing at least two treating chemistries during a cycle of operation in a laundry treating appliance. The method comprises non-centrifugally dispensing a first treating chemistry into a treating chamber from a first dispenser compartment located within the clothes mover and centrifugally dispensing a second treating chemistry into the treating chamber from a second dispenser located within the clothes mover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: MARCOS L. COSTA, DIOGO M. RODRIGUES, RUI SILVA
  • Patent number: 10815607
    Abstract: A laundry treating appliance with a dispenser and method dispensing where the laundry treating appliance comprises a basket at least partially defining a treating chamber with an open top, a clothes mover rotatable about a vertical axis within the treating chamber, the clothes mover defining an inner chamber and having an access opening to the inner chamber, and a dispenser at least partially received through the access opening and within the inner chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Marcos L. Costa, Diogo M. Rodrigues, Rui Silva
  • Publication number: 20190376223
    Abstract: A laundry treating appliance with a dispenser and method dispensing where the laundry treating appliance comprises a basket at least partially defining a treating chamber with an open top, a clothes mover rotatable about a vertical axis within the treating chamber, the clothes mover defining an inner chamber and having an access opening to the inner chamber, and a dispenser at least partially received through the access opening and within the inner chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: MARCOS L. COSTA, DIOGO M. RODRIGUES, RUI SILVA
  • Patent number: 8204433
    Abstract: A wireless communication system (20) includes a base station (22) that is capable of communicating with a plurality of intermediate cells (24, 60). Each intermediate cell (24, 60) directly communicates with a plurality of end users (26, 64). Communications from an end user (26, 64) may be routed through the intermediate cell to a wireless network (30) associated with the base station (22) or directly to another intermediate cell in a disclosed example. The intermediate cells communicate with the base station on behalf of the end users such that the wireless network recognizes the intermediate cell as a single user and, in one example, assigns temporary listed directory numbers to each of the end users associated with each intermediate cell so that communications from each end user may be handled individually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Vikram Rai, Rui A. Silva
  • Publication number: 20060215598
    Abstract: A wireless communication system (20) includes a base station (22) that is capable of communicating with a plurality of intermediate cells (24, 60). Each intermediate cell (24, 60) directly communicates with a plurality of end users (26, 64). Communications from an end user (26, 64) may be routed through the intermediate cell to a wireless network (30) associated with the base station (22) or directly to another intermediate cell in a disclosed example. The intermediate cells communicate with the base station on behalf of the end users such that the wireless network recognizes the intermediate cell as a single user and, in one example, assigns temporary listed directory numbers to each of the end users associated with each intermediate cell so that communications from each end user may be handled individually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2005
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Vikram Rai, Rui Silva
  • Publication number: 20050220090
    Abstract: A digital communications system for processing at least one of cell and packet information. The digital communication system includes one or more communication nodes interconnected through a fabric. The communication node(s) has at least one network processing devices, one of which may be designated for receiving the cell and/or packet information, for determining a destination within the node for the cell and/or packet information, and for routing and/or forwarding the cell and/or packet information to the destination. Each communication node may also include a shared bus structure for coupling each of the network processing devices together, as well as an interface for coupling the designated network-processing device with the fabric to support communication between other communication nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Kevin Loughran, Rui Silva, Joseph Veltri
  • Publication number: 20050105493
    Abstract: In a 3G CDMA2000 network, permanent virtual pipes of different data rates (153.6 kbps, 76.8 kbps, 38.4 kbps and 19.2 kbps, for example) are provisioned at a base station on the Forward Supplemental Channel (F-SCH) for the transmission of data bursts to requesting mobile terminals by allocating and grouping together a set of resources (i.e., contiguous Walsh codes, contiguous ASIC real estate, etc.). Data bursts arriving from the network are scheduled onto timeslots on all the pipes in a manner such that at least one burst segment of each active burst is scheduled into a timeslot on the highest data rate pipe. The other burst segments of a burst are scheduled onto all the pipes so they migrate through the various rate pipes in order to give all bursts opportunities on the higher rate pipes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Vikram Rai, Rui Silva
  • Publication number: 20050070315
    Abstract: In response to the triggering of a user's mobile terminal, such as through pushing a dedicated button, by inputting a predetermined sequence of digits, through a menu selection, or automatically in response to an external input, a digital record containing user-specific information that is stored in the mobile terminal is packetized and transmitted over a signaling channel through the public wireless network, where the one or more packets are marked as being emergency 911 (E911) packets. From the header information in these packets, a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) in the wireless network, recognizes these E911 packets as being destined to that MSC's nearest Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), and transmits the information contained in those packets to that PSAP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Inventors: Vikram Rai, Rui Silva
  • Patent number: D908991
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Marcos L. Costa, Diogo M. Rodrigues, Rui Silva
  • Patent number: D957769
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Marcos L. Costa, Diogo M. Rodrigues, Rui Silva