Patents by Inventor James L. Chaput

James L. Chaput 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 system for the optimal formatting, reduction and compression of DEX/UCS data
    Patent number: 7013337
    Abstract: A method and system for communicating data between a network operations center and a remote device is described. Vending machine state information is communicated between a vending site and a network operations center using a delta scheme. A database, maintained by the network operations center, maintains a history of the activity of a variety of vending machines located at a variety of vending sites. To minimize the data needed to be transmitted between the vending site and the network operations center, the network operations center, in one embodiment, will request information from the vending site regarding the change in state of the various vending machines. The vending machines are responsible for restructuring a data block, calculating a delta for the change in state of the machine, applying a compression algorithm to the calculated delta and then transmitting the delta to the network operations center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Isochron, LLC
    Inventors: Erin M. Defossé, Arif Pathan, James L. Chaput
  • Method and system for the optimal formating, reduction and compression of DEX/UCS data
    Publication number: 20010042121
    Abstract: A method and system for communicating data between a network operations center and a remote device is described. Vending machine state information is communicated between a vending site and a network operations center using a delta scheme. A database, maintained by the network operations center, maintains a history of the activity of a variety of vending machines located at a variety of vending sites. To minimize the data needed to be transmitted between the vending site and the network operations center, the network operations center, in one embodiment, will request information from the vending site regarding the change in state of the various vending machines. The vending machines are responsible for restructuring a data block, calculating a delta for the change in state of the machine, applying a compression algorithm to the calculated delta and then transmitting the delta to the network operations center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Applicant: Isochron Data Corporation
    Inventors: Erin M. Defosse, Arif Pathan, James L. Chaput