Patents by Inventor Daniel Pfeifer
Daniel Pfeifer 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).
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Publication number: 20240075971Abstract: For reliable, failsafe monitoring of the locking of a closure device of a vehicle of a cableway is disclosed in which provision is made for an electrical connection to be established between a vehicle powerline modem on the vehicle and a station powerline modem, which is connected to the cableway controller, via a busbar in the station, with which contact is made by a current collector of the vehicle, and for the locking status of a locking unit to be transmitted from the vehicle to the cableway controller via this connection by means of powerline communication, wherein, in the event of defective locking, the vehicle is stopped in the region of a busbar in the station and the locking status is transmitted to the cableway controller again when the vehicle is at a standstill.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Daniel Pfeifer, Clemens Mohr, Helmut Nagel
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Patent number: 11858538Abstract: In order to be able to more reliably assess and react to the potential hazard when a vehicle of a cable car enters a station of the cable car, it is provided that the deflection of the vehicle before the station entrance is measured by the sensor and transmitted to the cable car control unit, that at the same time the occurrence of a wind gust before the station entrance is detected by the cable car control unit and that the cable car control unit controls a cable car drive as a function of the transmitted deflection and of the detected wind gust.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: INNOVA PATENT GMBHInventors: Christoph Hofmayr, Daniel Pfeifer
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Patent number: 11679793Abstract: In order to simplify the troubleshooting in a cableway during operation of the cableway, a unique car identification is assigned to each car, with the car identification of each car being known by the cableway control system. At least one function monitoring unit transmits malfunctions triggered by cars during the operation of the cableway to the cableway control system in a function status message FSi. The cableway control system assigns a malfunction that was received to the triggering car and the malfunctions together with the car identification of the triggering car are stored and evaluated in the cableway control system.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Innova Patent GmbHInventors: Daniel Pfeifer, Alexander Berdnik, Stefan Gisinger, Markus Fehle
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Publication number: 20220219739Abstract: For reliable detection of the wear on a cable sheave of a cable car system, the distance between a cable sensor and a hoisting cable is measured when the cable car system is at a standstill and the wear on the at least one cable sheave is deduced from the distance measured at a standstill.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Daniel Pfeifer, Adrian Mohni
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Publication number: 20220169290Abstract: In order to enhance the safety of a cableway, in particular when a cable car passes through a cableway support of the cableway, according to the present teaching a detection device having at least one evaluation unit and at least two sensors connected to the evaluation unit is provided on at least one cableway support. A first sensor is located in the entry area of the cableway support in order to detect the presence of a cable car in a detection area of the first sensor. A second sensor is located in the exit area of the cableway support in order to detect the presence of a cable car in a detection area of the second sensor. The detection device is provided in order to detect a number of cable cars between the first sensor and the second sensor and to generate a fault signal when the detected number exceeds a predefined maximum number.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Daniel Pfeifer, Adrian Mohni
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Patent number: 11332166Abstract: In order to be able to reliably prevent the departure of a vehicle without a locking of the closure device in a cableway with a locking monitor, a second receiving device is provided in the movement direction of the vehicle after the first receiving device. After the start of the vehicle in the first station, the transponder of the vehicle enters the effective range of the second receiving device, and the transponder transmits a signal with the locking state to the second receiving device. The cableway is stopped before the vehicle leaves the first station when the signal to the second receiving device indicates a faulty lock mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Innova Patent GmbHInventors: Clemens Mohr, Daniel Pfeifer
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Publication number: 20210024110Abstract: In order to simplify the troubleshooting in a cableway during operation of the cableway, a unique car identification is assigned to each car, with the car identification of each car being known by the cableway control system. At least one function monitoring unit transmits malfunctions triggered by cars during the operation of the cableway to the cableway control system in a function status message FSi. The cableway control system assigns a malfunction that was received to the triggering car and the malfunctions together with the car identification of the triggering car are stored and evaluated in the cableway control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2018Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Daniel Pfeifer, Alexander Berdnik, Stefan Gisinger, Markus Fehle
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Publication number: 20200156665Abstract: In order to be able to more reliably assess and react to the potential hazard when a vehicle of a cable car enters a station of the cable car, it is provided that the deflection of the vehicle before the station entrance is measured by the sensor and transmitted to the cable car control unit, that at the same time the occurrence of a wind gust before the station entrance is detected by the cable car control unit and that the cable car control unit controls a cable car drive as a function of the transmitted deflection and of the detected wind gust.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Christoph Hofmayr, Daniel Pfeifer
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Publication number: 20200101986Abstract: In order to be able to reliably prevent the departure of a vehicle without a locking of the closure device in a cableway with a locking monitor, a second receiving device is provided in the movement direction of the vehicle after the first receiving device. After the start of the vehicle in the first station, the transponder of the vehicle enters the effective range of the second receiving device, and the transponder transmits a signal with the locking state to the second receiving device. The cableway is stopped before the vehicle leaves the first station when the signal to the second receiving device indicates a faulty lock mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2018Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Clemens Mohr, Daniel Pfeifer
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Patent number: 10435049Abstract: Data are transmitted from a secondary station to a master station along a segmented path, wherein two contiguous segments are respectively connected by a node and wherein the path has at least three segments with at least two nodes. The data from the secondary station are split into N data packets, where N is the number of nodes. The data packets are marked distinguishably, each marking corresponding to a particular node on the path. Each data packet along the path is forwarded only to the adjacent node or adjacent station. Each node checks to determine whether the marking of the packet corresponds to the respective node. If so, data from the node are added to the data packet. The data packets are collected in the master station. The data transmission is concluded successfully if all N data packets with data from all N nodes are present.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Innova Patent GmbHInventors: Daniel Pfeifer, Bernard Perrin, Gerhard Netzer, Jean-Dominique Decotignie, Philippe Dallemagne
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Patent number: 10198085Abstract: An electronic wristwatch operable in two power modes. The wristwatch has an inertial sensor for detecting a gesture on a cover glass of the wristwatch. A touch panel is provided underneath the cover glass for detecting the gesture. Gesture detection by the inertial sensor is combined with gesture detection by the touch panel for triggering a switch from a first power mode to a second power mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Slyde Watch SAInventors: Alex Bezinge, Adrian Mohni, Daniel Pfeifer, Musa Dogan
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Publication number: 20180327007Abstract: Data are transmitted from a secondary station to a master station along a segmented path, wherein two contiguous segments are respectively connected by a node and wherein the path has at least three segments with at least two nodes. The data from the secondary station are split into N data packets, where N is the number of nodes. The data packets are marked distinguishably, each marking corresponding to a particular node on the path. Each data packet along the path is forwarded only to the adjacent node or adjacent station. Each node checks to determine whether the marking of the packet corresponds to the respective node. If so, data from the node are added to the data packet. The data packets are collected in the master station. The data transmission is concluded successfully if all N data packets with data from all N nodes are present.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Daniel PFEIFER, Bernard PERRIN, Gerhard NETZER, Jean-Domimique DECOTIGNIE, Philippe DALLEMAGNE
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Publication number: 20180067563Abstract: An electronic wristwatch operable in two power modes. The wristwatch has an inertial sensor for detecting a gesture on a cover glass of the wristwatch. A touch panel is provided underneath the cover glass for detecting the gesture. Gesture detection by the inertial sensor is combined with gesture detection by the touch panel for triggering a switch from a first power mode to a second power mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Inventors: Alex BEZINGE, Adrian MOHNI, Daniel PFEIFER, Musa DOGAN
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Patent number: 9804678Abstract: An electronic wristwatch operable in two power modes. The wristwatch has an inertial sensor for detecting a gesture on a cover glass of the wristwatch. A touch panel is provided underneath the cover glass for detecting the gesture. Gesture detection by the inertial sensor is combined with gesture detection by the touch panel for triggering a switch from a first power mode to a second power mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Slyde Watch SAInventors: Alex Bezinge, Adrian Mohni, Daniel Pfeifer, Musa Dogan
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Patent number: 9535715Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for booting from a trusted network image. The image can be executed from a trusted source on a Wide Area Network (“WAN”) to perform a maintenance operation, such as, for example, malware scanning, operating system repair, factory reset, etc. at the computer system. Trust can be established using a Certificate Authority or an out of band communication channel (e.g., voice communication, text message, electronic mail, etc.) to retrieve a one-time pad (“OTP”). Using the OTP the computer can validate that it is connected to the trusted source. The trusted source can chain to additional images hosted on a third-party server. The additional images can provide a user with options for various different maintenance operations or various different implementations of the same maintenance operation. For example, the trusted source can link to multiple different malware scanners.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: William Daniel Pfeifer, Jr., Douglas Grayson Hill
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Publication number: 20140253487Abstract: An electronic wristwatch operable in two power modes. The wristwatch has an inertial sensor for detecting a gesture on a cover glass of the wristwatch. A touch panel is provided underneath the cover glass for detecting the gesture. Gesture detection by the inertial sensor is combined with gesture detection by the touch panel for triggering a switch from a first power mode to a second power mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2012Publication date: September 11, 2014Inventors: Alex Bezinge, Adrian Mohni, Daniel Pfeifer, Musa Dogan
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Publication number: 20140173263Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for booting from a trusted network image. The image can be executed from a trusted source on a Wide Area Network (“WAN”) to perform a maintenance operation, such as, for example, malware scanning, operating system repair, factory reset, etc. at the computer system. Trust can be established using a Certificate Authority or an out of band communication channel (e.g., voice communication, text message, electronic mail, etc.) to retrieve a one-time pad (“OTP”). Using the OTP the computer can validate that it is connected to the trusted source. The trusted source can chain to additional images hosted on a third-party server. The additional images can provide a user with options for various different maintenance operations or various different implementations of the same maintenance operation. For example, the trusted source can link to multiple different malware scanners.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: William Daniel Pfeifer, JR., Douglas Grayson Hill