Patents by Inventor Alice Hoff

Alice Hoff 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).

  • Communication assets survey and mapping tool
    Patent number: 9112773
    Abstract: A method for determining communications interoperability comprising the following steps: (a) collecting communication asset data that describes communication equipment used by emergency and first responders from local, state and federal entities in a geographical region; (b) determining the communications interoperability between the entities based on the collected communication asset data, wherein the communications interoperability describes the ability of the communication equipment used by emergency and first responders of a given entity to be interoperable or not interoperable with the communication equipment used by emergency and first responders in the other entities in the geographic region; and (c) displaying the communications asset data and the communications interoperability of the entities in a geo-spatial referenced map to geographically-disparate users via an internet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Rita A. Lane, Eric Jay Coolbaugh, Alice Hoff, Jeffrey B. Lee, Walter M. Seay
  • Communication Assets Survey and Mapping Tool
    Publication number: 20140310400
    Abstract: A method for determining communications interoperability comprising the following steps: (a) collecting communication asset data that describes communication equipment used by emergency and first responders from local, state and federal entities in a geographical region; (b) determining the communications interoperability between the entities based on the collected communication asset data, wherein the communications interoperability describes the ability of the communication equipment used by emergency and first responders of a given entity to be interoperable or not interoperable with the communication equipment used by emergency and first responders in the other entities in the geographic region; and (c) displaying the communications asset data and the communications interoperability of the entities in a geo-spatial referenced map to geographically-disparate users via an internet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Rita A. Lane, Eric Jay Coolbaugh, Alice Hoff, Jeffrey B. Lee, Walter M. Seay