Patents by Inventor Jeffrey David Parent

Jeffrey David Parent 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).

  • Flow computers having wireless communication protocol interfaces and related methods
    Patent number: 8938219
    Abstract: Flow computers having wireless communication protocol interfaces and related methods are disclosed. In one example, a method involves receiving a request to be sent to a wireless device in a network of wireless devices, the request to be received via a remote terminal unit application executed on a processor within a flow computer, and communicating the request to the wireless device via a communications interface module, the communications interface module to be communicatively coupled to the processor via a backplane contained within a housing of the flow computer, the backplane to provide communications according to a high speed data bus communications protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Bristol, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Parent, Richard Joseph Vanderah
  • FLOW COMPUTERS HAVING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL INTERFACES AND RELATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20130295859
    Abstract: Flow computers having wireless communication protocol interfaces and related methods are disclosed. In one example, a method involves receiving a request to be sent to a wireless device in a network of wireless devices, the request to be received via a remote terminal unit application executed on a processor within a flow computer, and communicating the request to the wireless device via a communications interface module, the communications interface module to be communicatively coupled to the processor via a backplane contained within a housing of the flow computer, the backplane to provide communications according to a high speed data bus communications protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Parent, Richard Joseph Vanderah