Patents Examined by Melvin Marcel
  • Global load smoothing in a real time data imaging network system
    Patent number: 5305314
    Abstract: Real time periodic messages generated by a plurality of stations on a data communication network and having data periods ranging from a shortest to a longest, where the longest data period is an integer multiple of all the others, are assigned by a server station to transmit time slots, equal in duration to the shortest data period, on a global basis to minimize the number of messages transmitted by all stations during each transmit time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Warren A. Edblad, Linda L. Santoline, Carl J. Staab, Charles W. Einolf, Jr., Albert W. Crew