Patents Represented by Attorney Breffni Xavier Baggot
  • Patent number: 5338904
    Abstract: In response to a registered hall call, a car announcement is made when and only when an assigned car, of a plurality, has its RRT a calculated number of seconds lower than the car with the next lowest RRT to minimize actual waiting time wherein the calculation is performed as a function of the remaining response time of the assigned car, the waiting time of the passenger, and an RRT inflation factor which is an amount of deviation from the minimum expected remaining response time of the assigned car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1994
    Assignee: Otis Elevator Company
    Inventors: Bruce A. Powell, David J. Sirag, Jr.