Patents by Inventor Erhard Steiner

Erhard Steiner 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).

  • Device for in-service monitoring of communication transmission equipment
    Patent number: 5274367
    Abstract: In a device for error locating and/or in-service monitoring for communication transmission equipment comprising a call unit (7, 8) that exchanges information with processor units (6) and wherein the processor units (6) are provided with addresses, a data bus (9, 9A...9H) that connects the telemetry channels of a plurality of transmission links (4; 4a...4g; 4AB...4EG) to one another is provided at at least one location (A...H).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignees: U.S. Philips Corporation, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Herrmann, Ferdinand Narjes, Erhard Steiner, Guenter Weimert
  • Method for addressing processor units
    Patent number: 5262771
    Abstract: In a method for addressing processor units of an equipment for monitoring and/or controlling, whereby a polling unit and processor units (6) provided with addresses exchange information, the processor units (6) are automatically addressed with the assistance of addressing telegrams in that an address contained in the addressing telegram is respectively incremented. The method can be advantageously used in equipment for in-service monitoring of equipment of communication transmission technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignees: U.S. Philips Corporation, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Herrmann, Wilfried Hecht, Erhard Steiner, Ferdinand Narjes, Guenter Weimert
  • Method for controlling and/or monitoring a communication transmission equipment for transmission errors for the implementation of the method
    Patent number: 5166673
    Abstract: In a method for controlling and/or monitoring wherein a polling unit (7, 8) exchanges information with processor units (6) in a callin mode, the processor units (6) can be switched from a first to a second transmission mode. In the first transmission mode, the telegrams are through-connected without intermediate storage; in the second transmission mode, they are through-connected only given freedom from error. The method can be advantageously employed in equipment for in-service monitoring of equipment of communication transmission technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1992
    Assignees: U.S. Philips Corporation, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Herrmann, Ferdinand Narjes, Erhard Steiner, Guenter Weimert
  • Method and an arrangement for address-free fault location by loop closure in message transmission links
    Patent number: 4336610
    Abstract: A method and an arrangement for the address-free fault locating by means of loop closure for a message transmission link which contains regenerating and/or amplifying intermediate stations in specific spacings provides that transmission links of this sort are monitored such that, from a locating end station, in a distant intermediate station, a connection is completed from the one to the other transmission direction and via this connection, test signals are transmitted. For the saving of the switches which separate the further link parts, the transmission of the loop closure signal is interrupted for a specific characteristic duration. The method according to the invention and the corresponding arrangement are in particular suited for insertion in light wave-guide transmission systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1982
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Erhard Steiner