Patents by Inventor Harold T. Tomlinson

Harold T. Tomlinson 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).

  • Information dissemination method and system having minimal network bandwidth utilization
    Patent number: 7889743
    Abstract: An information disseminating apparatus that transmits information between nodes of a network while expending minimal or no network bandwidth for transmitting the information. The apparatus can include a message processor that generates or receives a message to be transmitted from a first note to a second node in the network, and a transmitter that transmits data packets in a sequence that represents the message from the first node to the second node. The apparatus may further include a plurality of queues each associated with a class and services one or more data packets each having a marker that corresponds to the class, and a queue processor that dequeues the data packets from the queues in accordance to the sequence and the class associated with each of the queues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Scott C. Evans, Harold T. Tomlinson, Ping Liu, Ishan P. Weerakoon
  • Information dissemination method and system having minimal network bandwidth utilization
    Publication number: 20080259927
    Abstract: An information disseminating apparatus that transmits information between nodes of a network while expending minimal or no network bandwidth for transmitting the information. The apparatus can include a message processor that generates or receives a message to be transmitted from a first note to a second node in the network, and a transmitter that transmits data packets in a sequence that represents the message from the first node to the second node. The apparatus may further include a plurality of queues each associated with a class and services one or more data packets each having a marker that corresponds to the class, and a queue processor that dequeues the data packets from the queues in accordance to the sequence and the class associated with each of the queues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Scott C. Evans, Harold T. Tomlinson, Ping Liu, Ishan P. Weerakoon