Patents by Inventor Henry O. Howell

Henry O. Howell 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 and apparatus for managing communication resources using standby slots
    Patent number: 6600754
    Abstract: A method and system for managing communication resources between nodes in a network, and more particularly to a dynamic distributed multi-channel time division multiple access (TDMA) slot assignment method is presented. The method and apparatus include a set of higher level heuristics that enable the wireless channel access scheme to address predetermined characteristics of the wireless channel access system. These predetermined heuristics include using bootstrap slots, adaptive broadcast cycles, channelized neighborhoods, standby slots, speculation slots, neighbor segregation, hard circuits, and soft circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: C. David Young, Henry O. Howell, Roy W. Krueger