Patents by Inventor Don R. Tunnell

Don R. Tunnell 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).

  • Patent number: 8117300
    Abstract: A production information reporting/recording system is disclosed herein including a number of features to ensure efficient, flexible and reliable recording of production data in a manufacturing system. Such features include validating the content of event messages to ensure compliance of event report information with a standard. The system also supports caching IDs associated with particular aspects of an event message (e.g., a production request, a process segment) as well as a unique ID corresponding to the ID assigned by the production event database to reduce the need to access the database when assigning unique database IDs to received events. The production event messaging system also supports both asynchronous and synchronous transactional messaging between the sources of events and the production database service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc
    Inventors: Steven M. Weinrich, James C. Long, Eric P. Grove, Don R. Tunnell, George E. Bachman
  • Patent number: 7895315
    Abstract: A production information reporting/recording system is disclosed herein including a number of features to ensure efficient, flexible and reliable recording of production data in a manufacturing system. Such features include validating the content of event messages to ensure compliance of event report information with a standard. The system also supports caching IDs associated with particular aspects of an event message (e.g., a production request, a process segment) as well as a unique ID corresponding to the ID assigned by the production event database to reduce the need to access the database when assigning unique database IDs to received events. The production event-messaging system also supports both asynchronous and synchronous transactional messaging between the sources of events and the production database service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Weinrich, James C. Long, Eric P. Grove, Don R. Tunnell, George E. Bachman
  • Patent number: 7840293
    Abstract: A production information reporting/recording system is disclosed herein including a number of features to ensure efficient, flexible and reliable recording of production data in a manufacturing system. Such features include validating the content of event messages to ensure compliance of event report information with a standard. The system also supports caching IDs associated with particular aspects of an event message (e.g., a production request, a process segment) as well as a unique ID corresponding to the ID assigned by the production event database to reduce the need to access the database when assigning unique database IDs to received events. The production event messaging system also supports both asynchronous and synchronous transactional messaging between the sources of events and the production database service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Weinrich, James C. Long, Eric P. Grove, Don R. Tunnell, George E. Bachman