Patents by Inventor Joseph A. Breddan

Joseph A. Breddan 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).

  • Controllable risk parameter for device control system
    Patent number: 4583182
    Abstract: The subject device control system provides a new method of determining when resource consuming loads are to be disabled to prevent the total resource consumption from exceeding a predetermined threshold. This system bases the decision making process on a customer controllable risk parameter, past consumption, past load shedding activity and predicted future load activity. The controlling algorithm is applied to the present resource consuming situation for a plurality of different time interval configurations and the worst case result of these computations is used to control the load shedding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1986
    Assignee: AT&T Information Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph A. Breddan
  • Device control system
    Patent number: 4489386
    Abstract: The subject device control system provides a new method of determining when resource consuming loads are to be disabled to prevent the total resource consumption from exceeding a predetermined threshold. This system bases the decision making process on past consumption, past load shedding activity and predicted future load activity. The controlling algorithm is applied to the present resource consuming situation for a plurality of different time interval configurations and the worst case result of these computations is used to control the load shedding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1984
    Assignee: AT&T Bell Laboratories
    Inventor: Joseph A. Breddan