Patents by Inventor Donald Tunnell

Donald 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: 8321045
    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 27, 2012
    Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Weinrich, James C. Long, Eric P. Gove, Donald Tunnell, George E. Bachman
  • Publication number: 20060259515
    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: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Applicant: Invensys Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Weinrich, James Long, Eric Gove, Donald Tunnell, George Bachman
  • Publication number: 20060259912
    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: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Applicant: Invensys Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Weinrich, James Long, Eric Gove, Donald Tunnell, George Bachman