Patents by Inventor Greg Hodgson

Greg Hodgson 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).

  • Patent number: 10542585
    Abstract: A system and method for allowing legacy devices to be discovered on a DotDot network is disclosed. The system includes a gateway device to interface between DotDot devices and legacy devices. In some embodiments, the gateway device has a plurality of network interfaces to communicate with these legacy devices. The gateway device discovers the legacy devices that it can communicate with. The gateway device then presents information about these legacy devices in a Resource Directory. In some embodiments, the Resource Directory is maintained within the gateway device. In other embodiments, the gateway device utilizes a Resource Directory that exists on the DotDot network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: DeWitt Clinton Seward, Preston Fick, Clay Daigle, Greg Hodgson, Lee Byrd
  • Publication number: 20190098701
    Abstract: A system and method for allowing legacy devices to operate on a IPv6 network is disclosed. The system includes a gateway device to interfaces between DotDot devices and legacy devices. In some embodiments, the gateway device has a plurality of network interfaces to communicate with these legacy devices. The gateway device discovers the legacy devices that it can communicate with. The gateway device then enumerates these legacy devices in a manner that allows them to be accessed by the DotDot device. In certain embodiments, the gateway device enumerates each legacy device as a unique IPv6 address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: DeWitt Clinton Seward, Greg Hodgson, Clay Daigle, Preston Fick, John Hemmick
  • Publication number: 20190098700
    Abstract: A system and method for allowing legacy devices to be discovered on a DotDot network is disclosed. The system includes a gateway device to interface between DotDot devices and legacy devices. In some embodiments, the gateway device has a plurality of network interfaces to communicate with these legacy devices. The gateway device discovers the legacy devices that it can communicate with. The gateway device then presents information about these legacy devices in a Resource Directory. In some embodiments, the Resource Directory is maintained within the gateway device. In other embodiments, the gateway device utilizes a Resource Directory that exists on the DotDot network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: DeWitt Clinton Seward, Preston Fick, Clay Daigle, Greg Hodgson, Lee Byrd
  • Publication number: 20190097842
    Abstract: A system and method for allowing legacy devices to operate on an IPv4 network is disclosed. The system includes a gateway device to interface between IPv4 devices and legacy devices. In some embodiments, the gateway device has a plurality of network interfaces to communicate with these legacy devices. The gateway device discovers the legacy devices that it can communicate with. The gateway device then enumerates these legacy devices in a manner that allows them to be accessible to the IPv4 device. In certain embodiments, the gateway enumerates each legacy device as a port on its IPv4 address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: DeWitt Clinton Seward, Greg Hodgson, Clay Daigle, Preston Fick, John Hemmick
  • Publication number: 20090247101
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for automatic detection of channel spacing for broadcast bands in different regions that use different channel spacing. Using the described embodiments, channel spacing at a users' current location can be automatically detected so that manual settings by the user are not necessary, especially when a user travels with his/her radio across regions that use different channel spacing for radio broadcasting bands. This auto-detected channel spacing can then be used for later channel searching by the radio. More particularly, methods and systems are disclosed for auto-detection of channel spacing for AM broadcasts using different channel spacings, such as the standard 9 kHz and 10 kHz spacings, used today in different geographic regions of the world for AM broadcast bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Ligang Zhang, Steve W. Hanawalt, Greg Hodgson, Liang Wu