Patents by Inventor Alan Frost

Alan Frost 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: 8768242
    Abstract: A communications system includes a satellite hub, a remote satellite terminal, and a satellite configured to provide communications therebetween. The remote terminal includes a controller that functions as an enforcement mechanism when adjusting antenna polarization on the remote satellite terminal to facilitate communications with the satellite. The satellite transmits an acquisition signal at a first satellite polarization angle, and a jamming signal at a second satellite polarization angle different from the first satellite polarization angle. If the polarization is not set correctly, then the jamming signal is not filtered by a narrow width null of the receive gain pattern at the remote satellite terminal, and the controller inhibits transmission. This forces an installer to correctly set the polarization of the antenna at the remote satellite terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Frost, Steven Wheelis, Jay Mueller, Greg Myers
  • Publication number: 20130260671
    Abstract: A communications system includes a satellite hub, a remote satellite terminal, and a satellite configured to provide communications therebetween. The remote terminal includes a controller that functions as an enforcement mechanism when adjusting antenna polarization on the remote satellite terminal to facilitate communications with the satellite. The satellite transmits an acquisition signal at a first satellite polarization angle, and a jamming signal at a second satellite polarization angle different from the first satellite polarization angle. If the polarization is not set correctly, then the jamming signal is not filtered by a narrow width null of the receive gain pattern at the remote satellite terminal, and the controller inhibits transmission. This forces an installer to correctly set the polarization of the antenna at the remote satellite terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: ALAN FROST, STEVEN WHEELIS, JAY MUELLER, GREG MYERS
  • Patent number: 8146035
    Abstract: Approaches for estimating power consumption of a circuit from a circuit design. According to one embodiment, a representation of the circuit design specifies a plurality of circuit elements for implementing the circuit design. The circuit elements are matched to structural templates. Each structural template is representative of one or more circuit elements and has associated information descriptive of one or more toggle rates. Respective estimated toggle rates are determined for the circuit elements of the circuit design based on the information descriptive of one or more toggle rates associated with the matched structural templates. An estimated power consumption level is determined as a function of the estimated toggle rates of the circuit elements, and data indicative of the estimated power consumption level is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul R. Schumacher, Smitha Sundaresan, Alan Frost, Pradip K. Jha
  • Patent number: 5041972
    Abstract: A method for evaluating consumer response comprising conducting interviews to obtain emotional, rational and personality descriptors of functionally related items, eliciting from consumers evaluations of the extent to which the non-eliminated descriptors are attributable to each item, creating a discrimination index of the evaluated descriptors whereby descriptors, which provide the most discrimination between items and which account for the greatest amount of behavioral variance over 70% among consumers, are identified as attributes, eliciting from consumers evaluations of the extent to which attributes are attributable to reference items and to given items, eliciting from consumers evaluations of a degree of preference for each given item, performing an independence factor analysis of the attributes in order to form clusters of related attributes, creating a multi-dimensional matrix for each use associated with given items wherein points representing reference items and given items are plotted based upon th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Inventor: W. Alan Frost