Patents by Inventor John Whitbeck

John Whitbeck 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: 8862125
    Abstract: Method for disseminating messages or information content in a hybrid network including a network scaffold comprising pilot entities, and a mobile network including mobile nodes communicating in an “ad hoc” manner with one another, the method including: at the level of each of the pilot entities of the scaffold of the network, scheduling the transfers of at least one message by: let SC(t) be the set of mobile nodes that have subscribed to the content of type C, let Mi be a message corresponding to the content of type C, for each message Mi, if a mobile user node Ui is present in the neighborhood of a pilot entity, then if Ui is subscribed to the content of type Mi, transfer the message Mi to the mobile user Ui, execute a control loop to disseminate the messages to all the mobile nodes that have subscribed to the receipt of a content Mi as a function of the progress of this dissemination so as to comply with timescales required for the distribution of said message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Jérémie Leguay, Vania Conan, John Whitbeck
  • Publication number: 20130130615
    Abstract: Method for disseminating messages or information content in a hybrid network including a network scaffold comprising pilot entities, and a mobile network including mobile nodes communicating in an “ad hoc” manner with one another, the method including: at the level of each of the pilot entities of the scaffold of the network, scheduling the transfers of at least one message by: let SC(t) be the set of mobile nodes that have subscribed to the content of type C, let Mi be a message corresponding to the content of type C, for each message Mi, if a mobile user node Ui is present in the neighborhood of a pilot entity, then if Ui is subscribed to the content of type Mi, transfer the message Mi to the mobile user Ui, execute a control loop to disseminate the messages to all the mobile nodes that have subscribed to the receipt of a content Mi as a function of the progress of this dissemination so as to comply with timescales required for the distribution of said message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Jérémie Leguay, Vania Conan, John Whitbeck
  • Publication number: 20060062800
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a poxvirus vaccine comprising a soluble truncated poxvirus envelope protein. The invention is also directed to a vaccine comprising a nucleic acid encoding such proteins. Also included is an antibody which specifically binds to the proteins and nucleic acid encoding the same, as well as methods of preventing and treating a poxvirus infection using the afore-mentioned vaccine, antibody, protein, and nucleic acid encoding them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventors: Gary Cohen, Roselyn Eisenberg, John Whitbeck, Lydia Aldaz-Carroll, Bernard Moss, Shlomo Lustig, Christiana Fogg