Patents by Inventor James E. Hoch

James E. Hoch 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: 6141553
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for using fuzzy logic to determine when handovers are desirable and the extent to which the radio transmission power in a cellular telephone network should be adjusted. The mobile phone and the base transceiver station measure certain system parameters, including rate of handover, quality, distance, level, call duration, and power. These measurements are input to a fuzzifier. The fuzzifier applies standard fuzzy-set-theory membership functions to the measurements, and the fuzzifier outputs a set of fuzzy variables corresponding to the measurements. The fuzzifier outputs are input to an inference engine. The inference engine contains a set of rules that, when applied to the inference engine inputs, indicate: when a handover should be performed; when a handover should not be performed; and the amount by which, if any, the transmission power should be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher L. Fernandez, Martine M. Herpers, James E. Hoch, Prashant J. Kurdukar, Masoor Ramesh
  • Patent number: 6089744
    Abstract: A physical process is simulated by storing in a memory state vectors for voxels. The state vectors include entries that correspond to particular momentum states of possible momentum states at a voxel. Interaction operations are performed on the state vectors. The interaction operations model interactions between elements of different momentum states. For a particular state vector, the interaction operations include calculating a desired distribution of elements for a voxel represented by the particular state vector, the desired distribution including a number of entries corresponding to the number of entries in the particular state vector.When one or more entries of the desired distribution has an out-of-range value, the desired distribution is modified to correct the out-of-range value. The state vector then is updated to correspond to the modified desired distribution. Finally, move operations are performed on the state vectors to reflect movement of elements to new voxels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Exa Corporation
    Inventors: Hudong Chen, James E. Hoch, Jr., Christopher M. Teixeira
  • Patent number: 6009329
    Abstract: A system and method, associated with a wireless base station system ("BSS") coupled to a mobile service center ("MSC") via a plurality of trunk lines, that allow the BSS to hunt the plurality of trunk lines for available channels to carry calls from the BSS to the MSC and a Groupe Speciale Mobile ("GSM") wireless infrastructure employing the system or the method. The system includes: (1) a signaling controller, associated with the BSS, that sends a command signal to the MSC to cause the MSC to bypass hunting for the available channels, the MSC acknowledging bypassing of the hunting to the signaling controller and (2) a trunk hunting controller, associated with the BSS, that is enabled when the MSC acknowledges the bypassing of the hunting to allow the BSS to hunt the plurality of trunk lines for the available channels to carry the calls from the BSS to the MSC, the trunk hunting controller capable of utilizing the trunk lines more efficiently than the MSC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Farid Hacena, James E. Hoch, Alex Lawrence Wierzbicki
  • Patent number: 5910902
    Abstract: A physical process is simulated by storing in a memory state vectors for voxels and a representation of at least one surface. The state vectors include entries that correspond to particular momentum states of set of possible momentum states at a voxel. Interaction operations are performed on the state vectors to model interactions between elements of different momentum states. In addition, surface interaction operations are performed on the representation of the surface. The surface interaction operations model interactions between the surface and elements of at least one voxel near the surface. The elements have a tangential momentum relative to the surface, and the surface interaction operations retain at least a portion of the tangential momentum of the elements. The portion of tangential momentum retained corresponds to a friction parameter. The friction parameter is varied based on changes in pressure near the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignee: Exa Corporation
    Inventors: Kim Molvig, Hudong Chen, Christopher M. Teixeira, Stephen Remondi, David Lawrence Hill, Fongyan Gang, Ales Alajbegovic, James E. Hoch, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5226131
    Abstract: A sequencing and data fanout mechanism is provided for a dataflow processor is activated by an input token which causes a sequence of operations to occur by initiating a first instruction to act on data contained within the token and then executing a sequential thread of instructions identified by either a repeat count and an offset within the token, or by an offset within each preceding instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1993
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Victor G. Grafe, James E. Hoch