Patents by Inventor Frank Andrew Smoak

Frank Andrew Smoak 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: 20100041391
    Abstract: A method or process enables the collection of data from mobile devices and mobile networks using filtering, compression, encryption, memory management, and power management technologies to collect mobile device metrics at the mobile device (client side), and then transmit these metrics from the mobile device to a server for processing by analytics software. The analytics processing may also occur directly on the mobile device. Policies are determined and configured at the processing server to drive and control the mobile device metrics captured, which may include but are not limited to, data usage (e.g. time of day, amount of data sent/received), voice usage (e.g. time of day, calls in/out of network, dropped calls, call duration), the location of the mobile device, cell patterns (e.g. problem cells, roaming), touch interactions, behavioral analysis (programs used, services uses), battery performance, CPU usage, memory usage, network usage (e.g. 2G, 3G, 3.5G, 4G, Wi-Fi, WiMAX), and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Anthony Wayne Spivey, Blane E. Rockafellow, Frank Andrew Smoak, Keith Collins
  • Publication number: 20090017789
    Abstract: A wireless device with a capacity for high bandwidth connectivity adapted to provide access to the Internet or other WAN for a single user or multiple concurrent users. The wireless access device acts as a network point of presence to provide access to a number of different devices. Authorization is performed and billing measures are established in real time. Billing credits may be provided to an account associated with the user of the wireless access device based upon selected metrics (for example, duration of the connection or amount of data passed). In certain implementations, devices that are previously unknown to the wireless access device and that have not received a wireless access device-specific configuration can be provided network access. Thus, instead of a hard-wired point of presence to the Internet, a mobile, ad hoc point of presence is established through the wireless access device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: TapRoot Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Hugh W. Thomas, Michael John Linstrom, Antti Juhani Raina, Jun Xu, Frank Andrew Smoak, Kevin Martin Asbury, William Henze, III, Darrin Jesse Bates, Steven E. Cistulli
  • Patent number: 6904601
    Abstract: A method and system for providing remote procedure calls in a multiprocessing system is disclosed. The multiprocessing system includes a general purpose processor and a plurality of network processors. Each of the plurality of network processors includes a memory. The method and system comprises accessing a reserved address in at least one of the network processors and initiating a software action by a first portion of the reserved address. The method and system further includes pointing to an address within the memory of the at least one network processor to be processed based upon data in a second portion of the reserved address, wherein the data at the address is processed. A system and method in accordance with the present invention provides an indirect software jump in a microprocessing system through providing a reserved address in memory of each of the reserved address includes two portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard John Blasiak, David Wayne Cosby, Anthony Matteo Gallo, Frank Andrew Smoak
  • Publication number: 20030076826
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for reliably transmitting a frame. A transmitting node may be coupled to a plurality of destination nodes. The transmitting node may insert in a frame, e.g., multicast frame, to be transmitted to any two or more destination nodes coupled to the transmitting node two or more sequence numbers in the frame to be transmitted. The two or more sequence numbers may be associated with the two or more destination nodes. Upon transmitting the frame, the transmitting node may store a copy of the frame transmitted. Upon verifying that the frame has been delivered to each destination node to receive the frame, the memory associated with the transmitted frame may be released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machine Corporation
    Inventors: Richard John Blasiak, David Wayne Cosby, Anthony Matteo Gallo, Sridhar Rao, Sonia Kiang Rovner, Frank Andrew Smoak, Colin Beaton Verrilli