Patents by Inventor Keith Palermo

Keith Palermo 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).

  • Power management in a wireless ad hoc network
    Patent number: 8582540
    Abstract: In a wireless ad hoc network (20) of nodes (22), a method (64) of power management entails monitoring (82) a current traffic load of the network (20), and in response to the current traffic load, selecting (106, 132) a subset (102) of epochs (80) within cyclically repeating time windows (78) for network communication. A message (122) is communicated (120) between the nodes (22) in the network (20). The message (122) identifies the subset (102) of epochs (80) for using in communicating network traffic (32). Following receipt of the message, each of the nodes (22) modifies (124) a transmit capability mode by entering a run state (40) during the epochs (80) within the subset (102) to enable communication of network traffic (32) and by entering a low power consumption idle state (42) during the remaining epochs (80) within the time window (78).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael P. La Macchia, Mark L. Wormley, Keith Palermo
  • POWER MANAGEMENT IN A WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORK
    Publication number: 20120170468
    Abstract: In a wireless ad hoc network (20) of nodes (22), a method (64) of power management entails monitoring (82) a current traffic load of the network (20), and in response to the current traffic load, selecting (106, 132) a subset (102) of epochs (80) within cyclically repeating time windows (78) for network communication. A message (122) is communicated (120) between the nodes (22) in the network (20). The message (122) identifies the subset (102) of epochs (80) for using in communicating network traffic (32). Following receipt of the message, each of the nodes (22) modifies (124) a transmit capability mode by entering a run state (40) during the epochs (80) within the subset (102) to enable communication of network traffic (32) and by entering a low power consumption idle state (42) during the remaining epochs (80) within the time window (78).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL DYNAMICS C4 SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael P. La Macchia, Mark L. Wormley, Keith Palermo
  • Method of regulating a flow of data in a communication system and apparatus therefor
    Patent number: 6715007
    Abstract: A flow of data (26) is regulated in a communication system (20). A data rate is established in each of a data source (24) and a data sink (28). The data (26) is transmitted by the data source (24) and written into a buffer (32) at the source data rate, then read from the buffer (32) and received by the data sink (28) at the sink data rate. The level (62) of data (26) in the buffer (32) is monitored, and a rate-control signal (74) is dispatched to either the data source (24) or sink (28) when it is determined the buffer data level (62) is decreasing or increasing while at a lower or upper data-level threshold (66, 68), respectively. One of the data rates is adjusted in response to a rate-control signal (74).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: General Dynamics Decision Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent Ashley Williams, John Abel, Keith Matthew Nolan, Keith Palermo, Scott Demarest