Patents by Inventor Ahmad Hassan El Kouche

Ahmad Hassan El Kouche 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).

  • Modular platform enabling heterogeneous devices, sensors and actuators to integrate automatically into heterogeneous networks
    Patent number: 8631063
    Abstract: A system includes a hardware platform, at least one driver, a plurality of devices connected to the hardware platform, a middleware interface, and a plurality of software services. Each of the plurality of devices is selected from the group consisting of sensors and actuators. The plurality of software services is generated by the at least one driver, wherein a software service associates with a device, and wherein each of the software services complies with the middleware interface. A method for interfacing a plurality of devices to a hardware platform includes communicably connecting each of the plurality of devices to the hardware platform, converting each of the plurality of devices into a programmable software service using a driver, and programming each of the software services to comply with a middleware interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Inventors: Abdelsalam Helal, Jeffrey Craig King, Raja Bose, Steven Lee Pickles, James A. Russo, Steve Vander Ploeg, Hicham Mahmoud El Zabadani, Ahmad Hassan El Kouche
  • Modular platform enabling heterogeneous devices, sensors and actuators to integrate automatically into heterogeneous networks
    Patent number: 7895257
    Abstract: A system includes a hardware platform, at least one driver, a plurality of devices connected to the hardware platform, a middleware interface, and a plurality of software services. Each of the plurality of devices is selected from the group consisting of sensors and actuators. The plurality of software services is generated by the at least one driver, wherein a software service associates with a device, and wherein each of the software services complies with the middleware interface. A method for interfacing a plurality of devices to a hardware platform includes communicably connecting each of the plurality of devices to the hardware platform, converting each of the plurality of devices into a programmable software service using a driver, and programming each of the software services to comply with a middleware interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Abdelsalam Helal, Jeffrey Craig King, Raja Bose, Steven Lee Pickles, James A. Russo, Steve Vander Ploeg, Hicham Mahmoud El Zabadani, Ahmad Hassan El Kouche