Patents by Inventor Chip Greel

Chip Greel 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).

  • Identifying and resolving problems in wireless device configurations
    Patent number: 8213333
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying and resolving problems in wireless device configurations in a wireless network. In one example embodiment, a method for resolving wireless device configuration problems includes various acts including identifying all wireless devices that are wired to a network, retrieving configuration information from each wireless device, retrieving wireless device incompatibility information and corresponding configuration solutions for each wireless device, attempting to contact each wireless device over one or more wireless communication channels in order to determine if one or more wireless capabilities of each wireless device are functioning properly, and determining that the incompatibility information of one of the wireless devices with a malfunctioning wireless capability conflicts with the configuration information of one or more of the wireless devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Inventors: Chip Greel, George Meers, Gayle L. Noble, William David Teeple
  • IDENTIFYING AND RESOLVING PROBLEMS IN WIRELESS DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS
    Publication number: 20080013463
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying and resolving problems in wireless device configurations in a wireless network. In one example embodiment, a method for resolving wireless device configuration problems includes various acts including identifying all wireless devices that are wired to a network, retrieving configuration information from each wireless device, retrieving wireless device incompatibility information and corresponding configuration solutions for each wireless device, attempting to contact each wireless device over one or more wireless communication channels in order to determine if one or more wireless capabilities of each wireless device are functioning properly, and determining that the incompatibility information of one of the wireless devices with a malfunctioning wireless capability conflicts with the configuration information of one or more of the wireless devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicant: FINISAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chip Greel, George Meers, Gayle Noble, William Teeple