Patents by Inventor Christopher Robert Burdick

Christopher Robert Burdick 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).

  • Method of sharing a satellite communication system having a hub with common equipment
    Patent number: 8014771
    Abstract: A method of sharing a satellite communication system having a common equipment includes billing a first user for sending a first message using the common equipment over a first satellite link, billing a second user for sending a second message using the common equipment over a second satellite link, wherein the first satellite link is different than the second satellite link, billing a first network operator for billing the first user, and billing a second network operator for billing the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: VT Idirect, Inc.
    Inventors: David D. Bettinger, Hai Quang Tang, Christopher Robert Burdick, Joseph J. Boone, Gregory Carey Braunberg, Hao Cheng, Jason B. Maiorana, Chao Liu
  • Configuration state management system, method and apparatus
    Patent number: 7694001
    Abstract: A communication system, method, computer program product, and apparatus include common equipment shared between multiple independently administered networks. The common equipment is reconfigurable and expandable and provides changed communication capacity and functions when additional elements are added or reconfigured. Configurable features include, for example, communication bandwidth, Quality of Service, and a number of communication satellites included in the communication system. The common equipment includes expandable elements including, for example, a single hub modem chassis that can expand to communicate with more than one communication satellite and a protocol processor that can share a protocol processing task with another protocol processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: VT iDirect, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Robert Burdick, David Edward Ray
  • Scalable communication system, method and apparatus
    Patent number: 7509144
    Abstract: A communication system, method, computer program product, and apparatus include common equipment shared between multiple independently administered networks. The common equipment is reconfigurable and expandable and provides changed communication capacity and functions when additional elements are added or reconfigured. Configurable features include, for example, communication bandwidth, Quality of Service, and a number of communication satellites included in the communication system. The common equipment includes expandable elements including, for example, a single hub modem chassis that can expand to communicate with more than one communication satellite and a protocol processor that can share a protocol processing task with another protocol processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: VT iDirect, Inc.
    Inventors: David D. Bettinger, Hai Quang Tang, Christopher Robert Burdick, Joseph J. Boone, Gregory Carey Braunberg, Hao Cheng, Jason B. Maiorana, Chao Liu
  • Virtual network operator system, method and apparatus
    Patent number: 7493081
    Abstract: A communication system, method, computer program product, and apparatus include common equipment shared between multiple independently administered networks. The common equipment is reconfigurable and expandable and provides changed communication capacity and functions when additional elements are added or reconfigured. Configurable features include, for example, communication bandwidth, Quality of Service, and a number of communication satellites included in the communication system. The common equipment includes expandable elements including, for example, a single hub modem chassis that can expand to communicate with more than one communication satellite and a protocol processor that can share a protocol processing task with another protocol processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: VT iDIRECT, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Robert Burdick, David Edward Ray, Nicoleta Ionita
  • SCALABLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20080294489
    Abstract: A method of sharing a satellite communication system having a common equipment includes billing a first user for sending a first message using the common equipment over a first satellite link, billing a second user for sending a second message using the common equipment over a second satellite link, wherein the first satellite link is different than the second satellite link, billing a first network operator for billing the first user, and billing a second network operator for billing the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: IDIRECT INCORPORATED
    Inventors: David D. BETTINGER, Hai Quang TANG, Christopher Robert BURDICK, Joseph J. BOONE, Gregory Carey BRAUNBERG, Hao CHENG, Jason B. MAIORANA, Chao LIU