Patents by Inventor Frank W. Miller

Frank W. Miller 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: 20120185475
    Abstract: A system and method that allow a one:many relationship between personalization/positioning/targeting of audio/visual information and a produced audio/visual message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventor: Frank W. Miller
  • Patent number: 8140611
    Abstract: A scalable method and apparatus for performing a mashup of military Situation Awareness (SA) data in a tactical data link (TDL) with data residing in several databases, using a web server-web browser architecture over an IP-based network. In a preferred embodiment the invention employs a TDL gateway to collect and correlate SA data from a TDL and stores the data in a track database, which is interfaced by a web server to the IP-based network. A SA web browser interfaces with the TDL gateway web server, a maps server and a symbology server to mash data from a plurality of sources into an integrated whole, allowing a more complete graphical representation of the SA data. The invention is capable of operating in reverse, to inject user defined data from the SA web browser into the TDL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank W. Miller, Richard Waldschmidt
  • Patent number: 8103666
    Abstract: A system and method that allow a one:many relationship between personalization/positioning/targeting of audio/visual information and a produced audio/visual message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Inventor: Frank W. Miller
  • Patent number: 7580382
    Abstract: A method for forming channelized groups in a wireless communication network having a plurality of nodes. At least one node in the network is assigned to a first channel that is associated with a channelized group having a first set of nodes. The method determines whether there is contention between the at least one node and the first set of nodes. In addition, the method includes switching the at least one node from the first channel to a second channel based on the contention determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan D. Amis, Frank W. Miller
  • Publication number: 20040114510
    Abstract: A information signal multiplexer/de-multiplexer having application in environmentally uncontrolled remote terminals is described with line interface card redundancy capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Frank W. Miller, Winston Maxon Gadsby