Patents by Inventor John LeRoy Staples

John LeRoy Staples 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: 6009247
    Abstract: A portable or notebook type computer communication interface that permits portable computers to be reliably used in a data processing network. The interface involves communication circuitry, special device inputs and power monitoring and charging. A flexible portable computer wireless time and frequency division network is formed using a time and frequency division multiplexed communication channel assignment feature that together with a wireless link establishes a unique direct communication channel between data processing devices on different levels with data packet type transmission security. The principle permits each portable computer in the network to communicate with any other and any and all can transmit and receive at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frank J. Canora, Michael Frank Cina, Brian Paul Gaucher, Paul Francis Greier, Richard Ian Kaufman, Alphonso Philip Lanzetta, Lawrence Shungwei Mok, Robert Stephen Olyha, Saila Ponnapalli, John LeRoy Staples