Patents by Inventor Eric Overtoom

Eric Overtoom 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: 20070160071
    Abstract: A method is provided for managing the operation of a wireless communication device. The method comprises receiving from a source a data stream incorporating at least some data in a generic format to be communicated via a wireless communications connection, determining a selected protocol interface module from a plurality of protocol interface modules, each of the plurality of protocol interface modules being adapted for formatting the data stream in at least one of a plurality of air-interface protocols, and establishing a data path between the source of the data stream and the selected protocol interface module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Eric Overtoom, Robin Adams
  • Publication number: 20050262279
    Abstract: An apparatus, architecture and method for enabling the debugging of USB OTG devices under development is provided herein. An adapter module (100) provides the capability to connect to a USB Dual Role Device (DRD) (102) under development, and obtain debugging information related to the USB interfaces, while also presenting a complete USB OTG compatible interface to another attached USB apparatus (106). The adapter module (100) filters data transmitted by DRD (102), and passes data to attached PC (104) in a debugging setup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Inventor: Eric Overtoom
  • Publication number: 20050182883
    Abstract: An apparatus, architecture and method for enabling the debugging of USB OTG devices under development is provided herein. An intelligent router (100) provides the capability to connect to a USB Dual Role Device (DRD) (102) under development, and obtain debugging information related to the USB interfaces, while also presenting a complete USB OTG compatible interface to another attached USB apparatus (106). The intelligent adapter (100) filters data transmitted by DRD (102), and passes data to attached PC (104) in a debugging setup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventor: Eric Overtoom
  • Publication number: 20050170699
    Abstract: An apparatus, architecture and method for enabling the debugging of USB OTG devices under development is provided herein. An adapter module (100) provides the capability to connect to a USB Dual Role Device (DRD) (102) under development, and obtain debugging information related to the USB interfaces, while also presenting a complete USB OTG compatible interface to another attached USB apparatus (106). The adapter module (100) filters data transmitted by DRD (102), and passes data to attached PC (104) in a debugging setup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventor: Eric Overtoom
  • Publication number: 20050010925
    Abstract: An IPC protocol in one embodiment of the invention includes smart hardware ports such as SSI port (1610). The session manager (1608) includes the capability for negotiating with components such as software threads (1602-1606) in order for a port (1610) to be dedicated to a particular task. The port dedication negotiation process allows for the session manager (1608) which is part of IPC stack (1610) to check for any conflicts the port may have with other op-codes currently dedicated to the port. The session manager (1608) can forward a command block along with the data received from each software thread. The command block informs the SSI port (1610) of any co-processing it may need to perform to the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Charbel Khawand, Jyh-Han Lin, Eric Overtoom, Chin Wong