Patents by Inventor Kenneth W. Egan
Kenneth W. Egan 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).
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Patent number: 10659179Abstract: A system may comprise a sensor device. The sensor device may be configured to determine a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of a signal received from another device. The sensor device may be configured to determine, based on the RSSI and a sensitivity threshold, a transmission power level. The sensor device may be configured to send a second signal using the determined transmission power level.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: iControl Networks, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth W. Egan, Clay Dearman
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Publication number: 20190158197Abstract: A system may comprise a sensor device. The sensor device may be configured to determine a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of a signal received from another device. The sensor device may be configured to determine, based on the RSSI and a sensitivity threshold, a transmission power level. The sensor device may be configured to send a second signal using the determined transmission power level.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Kenneth W. Egan, Clay Dearman
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Patent number: 10117191Abstract: A system may comprise a sensor device. The sensor device may be configured to determine a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of a signal received from another device. The sensor device may be configured to determine, based on the RSSI and a sensitivity threshold, a transmission power level. The sensor device may be configured to send a second signal using the determined transmission power level.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: iControl Networks, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth W. Egan, Clay Dearman
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Publication number: 20180092046Abstract: A system may comprise a sensor device. The sensor device may be configured to determine a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of a signal received from another device. The sensor device may be configured to determine, based on the RSSI and a sensitivity threshold, a transmission power level. The sensor device may be configured to send a second signal using the determined transmission power level.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Kenneth W. Egan, Clay Dearman
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Patent number: 9867143Abstract: Systems and methods comprise determining a received signal strength (RSSI) of a signal. A sensitivity level of a receiver is determined, where the signal is to be received at the receiver. When a determination is made that the RSSI is greater than the sensitivity level, a transmitter power level is calculated as a difference between the RSSI and the sensitivity level. A transmitter of the signal is controlled in accordance with the transmitter power level.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: iControl Networks, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth W. Egan, Clay Dearman
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Publication number: 20080250184Abstract: Techniques for improving the quality or fidelity of a digital signal transmitted via a two-wire bus interconnect utilizing an open-terminal configuration at one or both end devices of the bus interconnect are disclosed. An intermediate two-wire bus is used to connect two open-terminal-based two-wire busses. A bus adapter device is utilized at each end of the intermediate two-wire bus, whereby the bus adapter device communicates signaling on the corresponding open-terminal-based two-wire bus using open-terminal ports and communicates signaling on the intermediate two-wire bus using push-pull ports. The bus adapter device can utilize control logic to implement a state machine or other function to control the interactions between the different two-wire buses. The bus adapter devices may be implemented as interchangeable integrated circuit devices that can change configuration based on connection, thereby permitting their implementation at either end of a bus transmission system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2007Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: VIZIONWARE, INC.Inventors: Stephen J. Sheafor, Kenneth W. Egan, Geoffrey E. Brehmer, Gregory T. Chandler
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Publication number: 20080247414Abstract: Techniques for improving the quality or fidelity of a digital signal transmitted via a two-wire bus interconnect utilizing an open-terminal configuration at one or both end devices of the bus interconnect are disclosed. An intermediate two-wire bus is used to connect two open-terminal-based two-wire busses. A bus adapter device is utilized at each end of the intermediate two-wire bus, whereby the bus adapter device communicates signaling on the corresponding open-terminal-based two-wire bus using open-terminal ports and communicates signaling on the intermediate two-wire bus using push-pull ports. The bus adapter device can utilize control logic to implement a state machine or other function to control the interactions between the different two-wire buses. The bus adapter devices may be implemented as interchangeable integrated circuit devices that can change configuration based on connection, thereby permitting their implementation at either end of a bus transmission system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2007Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: VIZIONWARE, INC.Inventors: Stephen J. Sheafor, Kenneth W. Egan, Gregory T. Chandler
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Publication number: 20080246626Abstract: Techniques for improving the quality or fidelity of a digital signal transmitted via a two-wire bus interconnect utilizing an open-terminal configuration at one or both end devices of the bus interconnect are disclosed. An intermediate two-wire bus is used to connect two open-terminal-based two-wire busses. A bus adapter device is utilized at each end of the intermediate two-wire bus, whereby the bus adapter device communicates signaling on the corresponding open-terminal-based two-wire bus using open-terminal ports and communicates signaling on the intermediate two-wire bus using push-pull ports. The bus adapter device can utilize control logic to implement a state machine or other function to control the interactions between the different two-wire buses. The bus adapter devices may be implemented as interchangeable integrated circuit devices that can change configuration based on connection, thereby permitting their implementation at either end of a bus transmission system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2007Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: VIZIONWARE, INC.Inventors: Stephen J. Sheafor, Kenneth W. Egan
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Publication number: 20080250175Abstract: Techniques for improving the quality or fidelity of a digital signal transmitted via a two-wire bus interconnect utilizing an open-terminal configuration at one or both end devices of the bus interconnect are disclosed. An intermediate two-wire bus is used to connect two open-terminal-based two-wire busses. A bus adapter device is utilized at each end of the intermediate two-wire bus, whereby the bus adapter device communicates signaling on the corresponding open-terminal-based two-wire bus using open-terminal ports and communicates signaling on the intermediate two-wire bus using push-pull ports. The bus adapter device can utilize control logic to implement a state machine or other function to control the interactions between the different two-wire buses. The bus adapter devices may be implemented as interchangeable integrated circuit devices that can change configuration based on connection, thereby permitting their implementation at either end of a bus transmission system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2007Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: VIZIONWARE, INC.Inventors: Stephen J. Sheafor, Kenneth W. Egan, Geoffrey E. Brehmer, Gregory T. Chandler
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Publication number: 20080198945Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for spreading the power associated with digital signals being transmitted to reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions by receiving, via a first transmission line, a first power spread signal representative a first digital signal modified using a first power spreading digital noise signal, modifying the power spread signal using a second power spreading digital noise signal substantially similar to the first power spreading digital noise signal to generate a second digital signal substantially similar to the first digital signal, modifying the second digital signal using a third power spreading digital noise signal to generate a second power spread signal and providing the second power spread signal for output to a second transmission line.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: VIZIONWARE, INC.Inventors: Kenneth W. Egan, Gregory T. Chandler, Jitendra K. Budwal, James J. Remedi, Ted Beck, Stephen J. Sheafor
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Patent number: 7386028Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for spreading the power associated with digital signals being transmitted to reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions by receiving, via a first transmission line, a first power spread signal representative a first digital signal modified using a first power spreading digital noise signal, modifying the power spread signal using a second power spreading digital noise signal substantially similar to the first power spreading digital noise signal to generate a second digital signal substantially similar to the first digital signal, modifying the second digital signal using a third power spreading digital noise signal to generate a second power spread signal and providing the second power spread signal for output to a second transmission line.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2004Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: VizionWare, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth W. Egan, Gregory T. Chandler, Jitendra K. Budwal, James J. Remedi, Ted Beck, Stephen J. Sheafor
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Patent number: 7305020Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for spreading the power associated with digital signals being transmitted to lower electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions. After being transmitted across a transmission line, a representation of the original digital signal is recovered and provided to a destination device.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2003Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: VizionWare, Inc.Inventors: Thanh T. Tran, Ce Liu, Kenneth W. Egan
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Publication number: 20070268085Abstract: A method of determining characteristics for electromagnetic shielding for a signal interconnect is disclosed. The electromagnetic shielding is to comprise a shielding dielectric layer and a shielding conductive layer. The method includes determining a set of harmonic frequencies associated with an operating frequency of a signal to be transmitted via the interconnect, identifying a dielectric material based on a loss tangent of the dielectric material and the set of harmonic frequencies, determining an expected appreciable electromagnetic field generated by a transmission of the signal, and determining a maximum extent of the expected appreciable electromagnetic field from the interconnect.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2006Publication date: November 22, 2007Applicant: X-EMI, Inc.Inventor: Kenneth W. Egan
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Publication number: 20070206640Abstract: Transmit-side active signal management circuitry applies one or more active signal management processes to a digital signal at a transmit side of an interconnect. At the receive side of the interconnect, receive-side active signal management circuitry applies one or more corresponding active signal management processes, as appropriate, to the received digital signal to recover the information represented by the original digital signal. The interconnect can include a cable used to transmit the signals between a source device and a destination device, whereby one or both of the transmit-side active signal management circuitry and the receive-side active signal management circuitry is implemented at a corresponding cable receptacle of the cable. Alternately, one or both of the transmit-side active signal management circuitry and the receive-side active signal management circuitry can be implemented at a cable adaptor, thereby permitting the use of a passive cable interconnect to transmit the signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: X-EMI, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth W. Egan, Stephen J. Sheafor
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Publication number: 20070206641Abstract: Transmit-side active signal management circuitry applies one or more active signal management processes to a digital signal at a transmit side of an interconnect. At the receive side of the interconnect, receive-side active signal management circuitry applies one or more corresponding active signal management processes, as appropriate, to the received digital signal to recover the information represented by the original digital signal. The interconnect can include a cable used to transmit the signals between a source device and a destination device, whereby one or both of the transmit-side active signal management circuitry and the receive-side active signal management circuitry is implemented at a corresponding cable receptacle of the cable. Alternately, one or both of the transmit-side active signal management circuitry and the receive-side active signal management circuitry can be implemented at a cable adaptor, thereby permitting the use of a passive cable interconnect to transmit the signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: X-EMI, Inc.Inventor: Kenneth W. Egan
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Publication number: 20070206643Abstract: Transmit-side active signal management circuitry applies one or more active signal management processes to a digital signal at a transmit side of an interconnect. At the receive side of the interconnect, receive-side active signal management circuitry applies one or more corresponding active signal management processes, as appropriate, to the received digital signal to recover the information represented by the original digital signal. The interconnect can include a cable used to transmit the signals between a source device and a destination device, whereby one or both of the transmit-side active signal management circuitry and the receive-side active signal management circuitry is implemented at a corresponding cable receptacle of the cable. Alternately, one or both of the transmit-side active signal management circuitry and the receive-side active signal management circuitry can be implemented at a cable adaptor, thereby permitting the use of a passive cable interconnect to transmit the signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: X-EMI, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth W. Egan, Gregory T. Chandler, Stephen J. Sheafor
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Publication number: 20070206642Abstract: Transmit-side active signal management circuitry applies one or more active signal management processes to a digital signal at a transmit side of an interconnect. At the receive side of the interconnect, receive-side active signal management circuitry applies one or more corresponding active signal management processes, as appropriate, to the received digital signal to recover the information represented by the original digital signal. The interconnect can include a cable used to transmit the signals between a source device and a destination device, whereby one or both of the transmit-side active signal management circuitry and the receive-side active signal management circuitry is implemented at a corresponding cable receptacle of the cable. Alternately, one or both of the transmit-side active signal management circuitry and the receive-side active signal management circuitry can be implemented at a cable adaptor, thereby permitting the use of a passive cable interconnect to transmit the signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: X-EMI, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth W. Egan, Gregory T. Chandler, Geoffrey E. Brehmer, Stephen J. Sheafor
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Publication number: 20040001533Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for spreading the power associated with digital signals being transmitted to lower electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions. After being transmitted across a transmission line, a representation of the original digital signal is recovered and provided to a destination device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2003Publication date: January 1, 2004Inventors: Tranh T. Tran, Ce Liu, Kenneth W. Egan