Patents by Inventor James Andrew McCusker

James Andrew McCusker 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).

  • Ad hoc wireless communications network with node role information routing and associated methods
    Patent number: 9247482
    Abstract: An ad hoc wireless communications network includes wireless nodes arranged in a backbone net and stub nets coupled to the backbone net via respective wireless nodes defining gateway nodes. A method for the network includes transmitting node role information from each gateway node to respective wireless nodes within each stub net. The node role information includes node reactive routing directions for establishing a route outside of a given stub net. A route request is unicast transmitted from a first wireless node in a respective first stub net to a respective first gateway node based upon the node role information. The route request is a request to communicate to a second wireless node in a respective second stub net. The route request is transmitted from the first gateway node across the backbone net to the second gateway node of the second stub net.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: HARRIS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephen Guy Sherman, Justin Roy Dietrich, Timothy Raymond Klembczyk, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Tony Michael Dal Santo, James Andrew McCusker
  • AD HOC WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK WITH NODE ROLE INFORMATION ROUTING AND ASSOCIATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20130034031
    Abstract: An ad hoc wireless communications network includes wireless nodes arranged in a backbone net and stub nets coupled to the backbone net via respective wireless nodes defining gateway nodes. A method for the network includes transmitting node role information from each gateway node to respective wireless nodes within each stub net. The node role information includes node reactive routing directions for establishing a route outside of a given stub net. A route request is unicast transmitted from a first wireless node in a respective first stub net to a respective first gateway node based upon the node role information. The route request is a request to communicate to a second wireless node in a respective second stub net. The route request is transmitted from the first gateway node across the backbone net to the second gateway node of the second stub net.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Harris Corporation, Corporation of the State of Delaware
    Inventors: Stephen Guy Sherman, Justin Roy Dietrich, Timothy Raymond Klembczyk, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Tony Michael Dal Santo, James Andrew McCusker