Patents by Inventor John J. Daly

John J. Daly 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: 6311064
    Abstract: A powered down communication device locates a wireless service provider in a multi-service provider environment by examining frequency bands while powered down until a frequency band having an acceptable service provider is located. The frequency bands are examined in an order specified by a stored search schedule. An acceptable service provider is identified by comparing the identity of a service provider specified by an identifier received from a band being examined with a list of acceptable service providers. The communication device then registers with the acceptable service provider when powered up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: AT&T Wireless Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Bamburak, John J. Daly, Christopher Gregory Lawrence, Michael Edward Prise, Michael Allen Raffel
  • Patent number: 6296514
    Abstract: A module is provided for attaching to a flexible shielded cable including individual conductors. The module includes a die cast housing, a printed circuit board mounted within the die cast metal housing, a metal D-shell ribbon style host connector associated with the die cast metal housing, first and second apertures formed in the die cast metal housing, first and second guide tabs formed on the printed circuit board and arranged to protrude through the first and second apertures, and insulation displacement contact (IDC) connector header mounted within the die cast metal housing, and an insulation displacement contact (IDC) cover insert affixed to the die cast metal housing so as to engage individual conductors and forces the conductors onto the knife contacts of the IDC connector header when the two are brought together. The die cast metal housing having a base member and a cover. The module is hot pluggable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Stratos Lightwave, Inc.
    Inventors: Raul Medina, John J. Daly
  • Patent number: 6298235
    Abstract: A powered down communication device locates a wireless service provider in a multi-service provider environment by examining frequency bands while powered down until a frequency band having an acceptable service provider is located. The frequency bands are examined in an order specified by a stored search schedule. An acceptable service provider is identified by comparing the identity of a service provider specified by an identifier received from a band being examined with a list of acceptable service providers. The communication device then registers with the acceptable service provider when powered up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: AT&T Wireless Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Bamburak, John J. Daly, Christopher Gregory Lawrence, Michael Edward Prise, Michael Allen Raffel
  • Patent number: 6282420
    Abstract: A communication device locates a wireless service provider in a multi-service provider environment using a frequency band search schedule. The frequency band search schedule has a first or home band and a several other frequency bands in a predetermined order. The order of the frequency bands may be programmed by the user or by a home service provider over the air. The communication device searches for an acceptable service provider by examining the home band and then the other bands listed in the frequency band search schedule. The bands are examined in the order specified by the frequency band search schedule. An acceptable service provider is identified by comparing the identity of a service provider specified by an identifier received from a band being examined with a list of acceptable service providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: AT&T Wireless Services Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Bamburak, John J. Daly, Christopher Gregory Lawrence, Michael Edward Prise, Michael Allen Raffel
  • Publication number: 20010001859
    Abstract: A portable lightweight combination laptop and pad computer has a display mounted on a main housing for movement between a closed position and an open position. In the closed position, a keyboard is covered by the undersurface of the display and the display viewing surface remains visible so that the computer may be used in the pad mode with a conductive stylus for data and command entry. In the open position, the keyboard is exposed so that the computer may be used in a laptop or desk top mode, or in a combined mode including the pad mode. The display is mounted to the housing by a four bar hinge mechanism, and a pair of latches are provided approximately mid-way between the front and rear portions of the housing along the side margins to securely latch the display in the closed position for storage, transit or use in the pad mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2001
    Publication date: May 24, 2001
    Inventors: Jeff C. Hawkins, John J. Daly
  • Patent number: 6219681
    Abstract: A portable lightweight combination laptop and pad computer has a display mounted on a main housing for movement between a closed position and an open position. In the closed position, a keyboard is covered by the undersurface of the display and the display viewing surface remains visible so that the computer may be used in the pad mode with a conductive stylus for data and command entry. In the open position, the keyboard is exposed so that the computer may be used in a laptop or desk top mode, or in a combined mode including the pad mode. The display is mounted to the housing by a four bar hinge mechanism, and a pair of latches are provided approximately mid-way between the front and rear portions of the housing along the side margins to securely latch the display in the closed position for storage, transit or use in the pad mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: AST Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff C. Hawkins, John J. Daly
  • Patent number: 6203333
    Abstract: An interface converter module is provided for converting data signals from a first transmission medium to a second transmission medium. The module includes a metallized housing having a first end and a second end. A shielded electrical connector is mounted at the first end of the housing and configured to mate to a corresponding host connector associated with a first transmission medium. The housing includes a flexible metallic shielded cable extending from the second end. The remote end of the shielded cable comprises the media interface which includes an interface connector configured to the connect flexible shielded cable to the second transmission medium. A printed circuit board is mounted within the housing and has mounted thereon electronic circuitry configured to convert data signals from a host device transmission medium to the second transmission medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Stratos Lightwave, Inc.
    Inventors: Raul Medina, John J. Daly
  • Patent number: 6195532
    Abstract: A communication device locates a preferable wireless service provider in a multi-service provider environment using a frequency band search schedule. Initially, the communications device registers with a less preferred service provider in a first frequency band. While remaining registered with the less preferred service provider, the device examines several frequency bands in the order specified by the frequency band search schedule. A frequency band is examined by dividing the frequency band into many sub-bands, and by locating the strongest signal above a threshold within the sub-band being examined. The examination continues until a second frequency band having a more preferred service provider is located. The communication device then registers with the more preferred service provider. The category of service provider may be identified and displayed on the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: AT&T Wireless Srcs. Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Bamburak, John J. Daly, Christopher Gregory Lawrence, Michael Edward Prise, Michael Allen Raffel
  • Patent number: 6179627
    Abstract: An interface converter module is provided for converting data signals from a first transmission medium to a second transmission medium. The module is housed within a metallized housing having a first end and a second end. A shielded electrical connector is mounted at the first end of the housing and is configured to mate to a corresponding connector associated with a first transmission medium. The second end of the housing comprises a media interface which includes an interface connector configured to connect to the second transmission medium. In another embodiment a printed circuit board is mounted within the housing and has mounted thereon electronic circuitry configured to convert data signals from a host device transmission medium to the second transmission medium. The printed circuit board includes contact fingers adhered at each end in order to form a host connector at the first end of the module and a media connector at the second end of the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Stratos Lightwave, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Daly, Raul Medina
  • Patent number: 6100596
    Abstract: A connectorized substrate and method of connectorizing a substrate is provided, including a substrate having conductive traces mounted thereon and solder paste connected to the conductive traces and conductive spheres mounted to the solder paste. The connectorized substrate of the present invention may be used to provide for components to be added to a motherboard such as a resistor network by mounting resistors to the conductive traces of the substrate such as thick-film ceramic resistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Methode Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Daly, Robert Skepnek
  • Patent number: 6026299
    Abstract: A powered down communication device locates a wireless service provider in a multi-service provider environment by examining frequency bands while powered down until a frequency band having an acceptable service provider is located. The frequency bands are examined in an order specified by a stored search schedule. An acceptable service provider is identified by comparing the identity of a service provider specified by an identifier received from a band being examined with a list of acceptable service providers. The communication device then registers with the acceptable service provider when powered up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: AT&T Wireless Services Inc
    Inventors: Michael D. Bamburak, John J. Daly, Christopher Gregory Lawrence, Michael Edward Prise, Michael Allen Raffel
  • Patent number: 6000954
    Abstract: The invention provides for an apparatus comprising a pin connector, and a method for assembling the pin connector, where the pin connector comprises a unitary insulator and housing, and a plurality of contact holes that extend between a front and back face of the insulator to receive contacts known in the art. The insulator may also contains an intermediate PCB slot that opens from the back face of the insulator and receives a PCB inserted therein. The unitary housing has a front and back end, where the back end receives the insulator from the front face, and the front end contains an open area that accesses the insulator to another connector mated therein. The invention may also incorporate a key element in the intermediate PCB slot that engages a matching notch on an edge of the PCB. The housing and insulator may include aligning fastener holes that receive fasteners shared by the components of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Methode Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Raul Medina, John J. Daly
  • Patent number: 5955703
    Abstract: A circuitized electrical cable having a flat cable having a stripped portion exposing conductors of the cable and having a circuit board mounted to the stripped portion wherein the conductive fingers at a first edge of the circuit board are soldered directly to the correspondingly oriented conductors of the cable. The circuit board may include componentry in order to provide for altered signal transmission of the signal lines of the cable such as for signal line termination. The circuit board may include a second edge having a beam having conductive fingers adhered thereto and the circuit board may be inserted within a housing having a shroud protruding therefrom surrounding the beam in order to provide for a male I/O connector electrically connected to conductors of the electrical cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Methode Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Daly, Oleg Los
  • Patent number: 5905955
    Abstract: A communication device locates a wireless service provider in a multi-service provider environment by tuning to a first frequency band and receiving a geographic identifier from the service provider operating in the first frequency band. The received geographic identifier is compared to a listing of stored geographic identifiers in order to attempt to locate a matching stored geographic identifier. Each of the stored geographic identifiers are associated with a desirable frequency band having a desirable service provider. If comparing the received geographic identifier with the matching stored geographic identifiers does not produce a match, frequency bands are examined until a second frequency band having a desirable service provider is located. The listing of stored geographic identifiers is then updated so that the second frequency band is associated with the received geographic identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: AT&T Wireless Services Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Bamburak, John J. Daly, Christopher Gregory Lawrence, Michael Edward Prise, Michael Allen Raffel
  • Patent number: 5873751
    Abstract: An electrical connector is provided having a circuitized insulator including a housing having an integrally molded shroud and board having an array of holes molded therein and including conductive traces adhered to the board area in order to connect the holes having electrical contacts mounted therein with components mounted on the board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Methode Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Daly, Mark Sidlow
  • Patent number: 5845198
    Abstract: A communication device locates a preferable wireless service provider in a multi-service provider environment using a frequency band search schedule. Initially, the communications device registers with a less preferred service provider in a first frequency band. While remaining registered with the less preferred service provider, the device examines several frequency bands in the order specified by the frequency band search schedule. A frequency band is examined by dividing the frequency band into many sub-bands, and by locating the strongest signal above a threshold within the sub-band being examined. The examination continues until a second frequency band having a more preferred service provider is located. The communication device then registers with the more preferred service provider. The order of search of the frequency spectrum may be based upon registration history of the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: AT&T Wireless Services Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Bamburak, John J. Daly, Christopher Gregory Lawrence, Michael Edward Prise, Michael Allen Raffel
  • Patent number: 5832367
    Abstract: A communication device locates a wireless service provider in a multi-service provider environment using a frequency band search schedule. The frequency band search schedule has a first or home band and a several other frequency bands in a predetermined order. The order of the frequency bands may be programmed by the user or by a home service provider over the air. The communication device searches for an acceptable service provider by examining the home band and then the other bands listed in the frequency band search schedule. The bands are examined in the order specified by the frequency band search schedule. An acceptable service provider is identified by comparing the identity of a service provider specified by an identifier received from a band being examined with a list of acceptable service providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: AT&T Wireless Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Bamburak, John J. Daly, Christopher Gregory Lawrence, Michael Edward Prise, Michael Allen Raffel
  • Patent number: 5636998
    Abstract: A pluggable male terminator for use with a female ribbon cable connector. The terminator is comprised of three basic parts that can snap together. The three members are a shroud having openings in the top, a PC board with pins extending from opposed surfaces, and a cover with recesses therein. The pins are complementary in shape and size to the openings in the shroud and the recesses in the cover. Further, the pins are aligned with the openings in the shroud and the recesses. For assembly, the pins on the PC board are inserted into the recesses in the cover openings in the shroud and the parts are pushed together. The pins extending from the shroud are adapted to be inserted into recesses in the female ribbon cable connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: Methode Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Daly, Daniel S. Poplawski
  • Patent number: D386480
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: AST Research, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Daly, Max Yoshimoto, Jeffrey Salazar, Chia-Chun Lee
  • Patent number: D424031
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Toshiba America Information Systems
    Inventor: John J. Daly