Patents by Inventor Frank Baehren

Frank Baehren 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).

  • Method of data transmission in a communication network with a ring configuration
    Patent number: 6862289
    Abstract: A method of joint data transmission of digital source data and control data is provided between data sources and data sinks which are subscribers of a uni-directionally operated communication network having a ring configuration, in which source data and control data are transmitted in a format which prescribes a clocked sequence of individual bit groups of the same bit width which are transmitted in a continuous data stream, in each case specific bit positions predetermined by the format are reserved, in which the subscribers sample data in each case with a first sampling frequency and the communication network samples data with a second sampling frequency, which is an integral multiple of the first sampling frequency, in which, within each bit group, at least one contiguous region with a predetermined number of bit positions can be reserved for source data and the contiguous region(s) in each case have a beginning and a defined length and are in each case assigned to a subscriber address, in which at least o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Inventors: Andreas Stiegler, Harald Schoepp, Frank Baehren
  • Method of data transmission in a communication network with a ring configuration
    Publication number: 20020019883
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of joint data transmission of digital source data and control data between data sources and data sinks which are subscribers of a uni-directionally operated communication network having a ring configuration, in which source data and control data are transmitted in a format which prescribes a clocked sequence of individual bit groups of the same bit width which are transmitted in a continuous data stream, in each case specific bit positions predetermined by the format are reserved, in which the subscribers sample data in each case with a first sampling frequency and the communication network samples data with a second sampling frequency, which is an integral multiple of the first sampling frequency, in which, within each bit group, at least one contiguous region with a predetermined number of bit positions can be reserved for source data and the contiguous region(s) in each case have a beginning and a defined length and are in each case assigned to a subscriber address, in whi
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Inventors: Andreas Stiegler, Harald Schoepp, Frank Baehren