Patents by Inventor Derek L. Porter, SR.

Derek L. Porter, SR. 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).

  • Electronic communication modules provisioning for smart connectivity
    Patent number: 10796500
    Abstract: An embedded modem for a vehicle is provisioned by requesting confirmation of the modem configuration from a telematics server. A request is received over a vehicle bus from an electronic control unit (ECU) requesting confirmation of an ECU configuration assigned by the end-of-line systems. The embedded modem sends the request to the telematics server for confirmation, and reports a result from the telematics server to the ECU. A telematics server receives a request to provision an ECU from an embedded modem of a vehicle that was provisioned using the telematics server, forwards the request to a backend system configured to process the request, receives a response to the request from the backend server, and makes the response available to the embedded modem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Harminder Singh Sandhu, David Marvin Gersabeck, Derek L. Porter, Sr., Ken Mueller, Ritesh Pandya
  • ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION MODULES PROVISIONING FOR SMART CONNECTIVITY
    Publication number: 20190043271
    Abstract: An embedded modem for a vehicle is provisioned by requesting confirmation of the modem configuration from a telematics server. A request is received over a vehicle bus from an electronic control unit (ECU) requesting confirmation of an ECU configuration assigned by the end-of-line systems. The embedded modem sends the request to the telematics server for confirmation, and reports a result from the telematics server to the ECU. A telematics server receives a request to provision an ECU from an embedded modem of a vehicle that was provisioned using the telematics server, forwards the request to a backend system configured to process the request, receives a response to the request from the backend server, and makes the response available to the embedded modem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Harminder Singh SANDHU, David Marvin GERSABECK, Derek L. Porter, SR., Ken MUELLER, Ritesh PANDYA