Patents by Inventor Dean R. Harken

Dean R. Harken 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).

  • System and method for adaptive position-location information exchanges
    Patent number: 10999778
    Abstract: A multi-node communication network may include a clusterhead node including a communication interface and a controller. In embodiments, the controller may be configured to: transmit a PLI request packet in a first iteration to a group of secondary communication nodes; receive a PLI report packet from a first sub-set of secondary communication nodes throughout a first time interval (?t1); re-transmit the PLI request packet in an (N?1)th iteration to the group of secondary communication nodes; receive a PLI report packet from a second sub-set of secondary communication nodes of the group of secondary communication nodes throughout an (N?1)th time interval (?tN-1); re-transmit the PLI request packet in an Nth iteration to the group of secondary communication nodes; determine that no PLI report packets have been received from a new secondary communication node within an Nth time interval (?tN); and transmit a PLI publish packet to a control communication node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: TJ T. Kwon, Naveen Rajanikantha, Dean R. Harken