Patents by Inventor Douglas C. Sommer

Douglas C. Sommer 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).

  • Publication number: 20030236890
    Abstract: A wireless device resource sharer (WDRS) proxies incompatible communications between wireless devices. A wireless network may be formed allowing both compatible and incompatible wireless devices to communicate therebetween. The WDRS allows incompatible wireless devices to appear as compatible devices. In this way, the WDRS may be “invisible” to such devices allowing the wireless devices to be part of a network of “compatible” devices. The WDRS includes physical interfaces to communicate with compatible and incompatible wireless devices in accordance with various wireless network physical layers. The WDRS also includes a proxy server to proxy incompatible network application layer protocols between wireless devices. The WDRS may also share storage and processing resources with wireless devices. A policy manager within a wireless device regulates resource sharing with other devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Roger A. Hurwitz, Marion H. Shimoda, Rajesh P. Banginwar, Thomas M. Cronin, Travis T. Shultz, Douglas C. Sommer
  • Publication number: 20030204582
    Abstract: A scalable migration of resources between devices in a wireless personal area network is described. According to one embodiment of the invention, a local device using a local resource detects an event on a wireless personal area network. The use of the resource is then migrated to a remote device based on a policy rule associated with the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Marion H. Shimoda, Rajesh P. Banginwar, Travis T. Shultz, Thomas M. Cronin, Roger A. Hurwitz, Douglas C. Sommer