Patents Represented by Attorney Fogg & Powers, LLC
  • Patent number: 8126598
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for autonomous data download. The method includes the steps of navigating an autonomous data download device to a first data storage device located in a mobile vehicle and parking the autonomous data download device adjacent to the first data storage device. The method further includes the steps of connecting the autonomous data download device to the first data storage device and downloading data from the first data storage device to the autonomous data download device. The method thereafter includes the steps of navigating the autonomous data download device to a location determined to be suitable for transmission of the data and transmitting the data from the autonomous data download device to a second data storage device after determining that the autonomous data download device has reached the location determined to be suitable for transmission of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Dinkar Mylaraswamy
  • Patent number: 8125785
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an electronics enclosure is provided. The electronics enclosure comprises a base operable to secure one or more electronic components in place. The base comprises a back wall to which the electronic components are secured; a first end plate extending from a first end of the back wall; and a second end plate extending from a second end of the back wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Nelson, Michael J. Wayman, Kevin Thompson
  • Patent number: 8121200
    Abstract: A multi-level signal uses the third/fourth signal level to signal both a word clock edge and a data word boundary. At the receiver, a level detector detects a transition to or from the third/fourth level as a clock signal transition and the word boundary. The bit clock can be recovered using a conventional clock multiplier. Bi-level signaling is used for data between the word boundaries. Additional signal states are available in the multi-level signal by modulating the pulse width at the third/fourth signal level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Intersil Americas Inc.
    Inventor: Dong Zheng
  • Patent number: 8122147
    Abstract: A method of communicating node status in a star network comprising a hub and a plurality of nodes comprises sending a first message to the hub from a first node included in the plurality of nodes; forwarding the first message from the hub to at least one second node included in the plurality of nodes; communicating status information to the hub from the at least one second node after receiving at least a portion of the first message at the at least one second node; compiling a status vector based on the status information received from each of the at least one second nodes; and sending the status vector from the hub to at least the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin R. Driscoll, Brendan Hall, Michael Paulitsch
  • Patent number: 8121140
    Abstract: A method for transmitting messages over a datalink communication system is disclosed. The method comprises assigning each message a cost index value based on prescribed factors for at least one message transmission attribute of the message and transmitting each message that satisfies a select transmission attribute over at least one mobile communications sub-network associated with a datalink communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas F. McGuffin, Tom D. Judd
  • Patent number: 8121487
    Abstract: An optical bench communicates light through free space in a plurality of trenches formed in the bench, each of the trenches formed by deep ion reactive etching and defined by two opposing side walls, such that the free space is between the opposing side walls. An exemplary embodiment has a first trench operable to receive the beam of light and operable to communicate the beam of light through the free space in the first trench; an angled reflection side wall operable to receive the beam of light routed through the first trench and operable to reflect at least a portion of the beam of light; and a second trench operable to receive the portion of the beam of light reflected from the angled reflection side wall and operable to route the portion of the beam of light through the free space in the second trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: James F. Detry
  • Patent number: 8121036
    Abstract: A network system for inter-component communications in an electronic device is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of components for an electronic device, where each of the components communicates with at least one other component over a communications medium for a wireless mesh network. Each of the components comprises a communications transceiver operable to determine network traffic load levels for an exchange of communication data between the components, and allocate the network traffic between at least one pair of the components over a plurality of wireless links within the wireless mesh network based on potential-field based measurements at each of the components. In addition, each of the communications transceivers share the exchange of the communication data between the components based on a prescribed priority level for allocation of the network traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.
    Inventors: Haiyang Liu, Jamal Haque, Andrzej Peczalski
  • Patent number: 8121749
    Abstract: Methods and systems of controlling an autonomous vehicle are provided. A method comprises controlling operations of the vehicle based at least in part on edge costs. An edge is a representation of a path the vehicle can traverse. Edge costs are determined by an estimation system and are based on at least one of an estimated travel time for an edge and a traverse-ability of the edge. The method further comprises sensing conditions of edges the vehicle is traversing and based on the sensed conditions, dynamically updating the edge costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Mukul Agrawal, Daniel Chester Churchill
  • Patent number: 8121593
    Abstract: A system and method for aircraft communications is provided. The system includes a first wireless base station deployed in a first aircraft and configured to establish one or more wireless links, and a second wireless base station deployed in a second aircraft and configured to establish one or more wireless links. At least one ground-based wireless base station is configured to operatively communicate with the first wireless base station or the second wireless base station while the first aircraft and the second aircraft are in flight. During flight, the first and second wireless base stations establish one or more wireless links with each other to create a wireless network for air-to-air communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Pandit, Nagraj Sham, Srikanth Rao
  • Patent number: 8116320
    Abstract: A program product comprising program instructions, embodied on a storage medium that are operable to cause a processor to switch input data packets for ingress to at least one internal-device port of an internal device from all external ports using virtual local area network identifiers and port virtual local area network tags and to switch output data packets for egress from the internal-device ports of the internal device using the virtual local area network identifiers and the port virtual local area network tags. There are more external ports than internal-device ports and applications in the internal device have visibility to all external ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventor: Joe Polland
  • Patent number: 8115468
    Abstract: Pulse width modulation (PWM) controllers and output stage driver circuits and related methods of communicating switching regulator mode information. The controller includes circuitry that recognizes intervals when the load driven by the regulator is in a low power mode. Responsive to recognizing the low power mode, the controller generates a PWM mode signal having at least three (3) different levels including at least one intermediate level that is coupled to at least one driver. Based on the PWM mode signal, the regulator is switched into a power saving low power operational mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Intersil Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Chun Cheung, Weihong Qui, Robert Isham
  • Patent number: 8112722
    Abstract: A method of controlling a cursor displayed on a display device is provided. A three-dimensional environment is displayed on a display device. A cursor and a plurality of objects are displayed on the display device within the three-dimensional environment. The cursor comprises a zone defining a volume to identify at least one object that is at least partially located within the volume. The size of the volumetric activation zone is dynamically adjusted so that a predetermined constraint is satisfied. The predetermined constraint is a function of at least a relationship between the volumetric activation zone of the cursor and at least one of the plurality of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Enyi Chen, Zhao Xia Jin, Thomas A. Plocher
  • Patent number: 8112226
    Abstract: At least one inertial sensor is configured to sense movement of a telephone (or other portable device such as a personal digital assistant, portable computer, portable game device, portable audio player, or portable video player). Information derived at least in part from data output by the inertial sensor is used as input to software executing on the telephone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne A. Soehren
  • Patent number: 8109074
    Abstract: An engine system comprises at least a first volumetric device, and a second volumetric device in which said second volumetric device is larger in volume than said first volumetric device, in which, during continuous flow of a compressible fluid from said first to said second volumetric device work is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Newton Propuslion Technologies
    Inventor: Haim Rom
  • Patent number: 8106822
    Abstract: A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) device, such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) device, uses satellite orbital position information from almanac and/or ephemeris data to change a search parameter, such as reducing the number of analyzed frequency bins or setting signal strength threshold, so that satellite signal acquisition times are reduced. An exemplary embodiment estimates an orbital position for at least one GNSS satellite based upon at least one of almanac data and ephemeris data, detects a signal emitted from the at least one GNSS satellite, and based upon the estimated orbital position information for the at least one GNSS satellite that is determined from the almanac data and the ephemeris data, adjusts at least one parameter used in the analysis of the detected signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Schipper, Kartik B. Ariyur
  • Patent number: 8104339
    Abstract: Systems and methods determine at least one air data parameter, such as an angle of attack (AOA), an angle of sideslip (AOS), a total pressure (pt), and/or a static pressure (ps), from information provided by four pressure sensors coupled to four ports on a surface of a vehicle. Each of the ports may be defined by at least a unit vector, wherein the unit vectors are oriented in different planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Ray Elgersma
  • Patent number: 8107464
    Abstract: One embodiment is directed to an enterprise mobile network for providing wireless service within a coverage area associated with an enterprise using licensed radio frequency spectrum. The enterprise mobile network is configured to have local subscribers thereof. At least one local subscriber has assigned thereto a local mobile phone number and one or more other numbers (such as a PBX extension number, a public mobile phone number, and a Unified Communications end point). The enterprise mobile network is configured so that the local mobile phone number and one or more of the other numbers ring in response to incoming calls made to the local mobile phone number or the other numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Schmidt, Rahul Jain, Mark F. Schutzer, Lance K. Uyehara, Gilad Peleg, John O'Connell, Ilan Vardi
  • Patent number: 8108745
    Abstract: A method of functionally verifying a device under test having at least one processor and at least one memory is disclosed. The method includes creating verification data for the device under test using a constrained random verification data creation process executed on the at least one processor. The verification data includes input data and expected output data. The method further includes storing the verification data in the at least one memory. The method further includes processing the input data with the at least one processor to produce actual output data. The method further includes comparing the actual output data to the expected output data. When the actual output data does not equal the expected output data, the method further includes storing at least one inconsistency between the actual output data and the expected output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Kikta, Lucas Roosevelt, Eric R. Schneider
  • Patent number: 8107412
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus' for operating a communication system between an aircraft and a communication center are provided. One method includes using an aircraft communication addressing and reporting system (ACARS) of an aircraft to control a gatelink communication system of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas F. McGuffin
  • Patent number: 8108171
    Abstract: Calibration systems and methods simultaneously calibrate a magnetic compass and gyroscopes. An exemplary embodiment rotates the field calibration system. Based upon the rotation sensed by the magnetic compass and the gyroscopes, the field calibration system determines compensation for both the magnetic compass and the gyroscopes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.
    Inventor: Tom Judd