Patents by Inventor Juergen Kilian

Juergen Kilian 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).

  • Publication number: 20240383337
    Abstract: A vehicle, particularly a rail vehicle, includes at least one brake resistor assembly having electrical brake resistors which can receive electrical braking energy and convert the electrical braking energy into waste heat during braking operation of the vehicle. The brake resistors are divided into a first subgroup and a second subgroup, the first sub-group and the second sub-group are electrically connected in parallel, and an evaluating device monitors functional capability of the brake resistors on the basis of a measured variable indicating a differential current between a first subgroup current flowing through the first subgroup and a second subgroup current flowing through the second subgroup. A method for monitoring electrical braking resistors of a vehicle is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Lennart Kilian, Jürgen Quindt, Frank Budzinski
  • Publication number: 20080189330
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selecting media tracks for playback from among a network of accessible media tracks involve providing a probabilistic network of accessible media tracks and a current track from among the tracks in the network. The network comprises, for each individual track, a corresponding plurality of potentially subsequent tracks and a corresponding plurality of selection probabilities, each of the corresponding plurality of selection probabilities indicating a probability that an associated one of the corresponding plurality of potentially subsequent tracks is selected as a subsequent track when the individual track is the current track. The method also involves selecting a first subsequent track from among the plurality of potentially subsequent tracks corresponding to the current track in accordance with the plurality of selection probabilities corresponding to the current track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Holger H. Hoos, Juergen Kilian, Ronald A. Rensink
  • Publication number: 20080140655
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for organizing a plurality of information objects in a dynamic network. The method involves a network comprising: a plurality of nodes wherein each node represents a corresponding one of the information objects and each node has an associated node strength; and a plurality of links wherein each link represents a connection between a corresponding pair of nodes. The method involves: selecting a first node from among the plurality of nodes to be the currently selected node; and in response to selection of the first node as the currently selected node, increasing the node strength of the first node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Holger H. Hoos, Juergen Kilian, Ronald A. Rensink