Patents by Inventor Lee A. Near

Lee A. Near 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).

  • Customer extranet portal
    Patent number: 7337183
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a computerized method of providing information to a customer in the power industry includes automatically receiving data representing a plurality of characteristics of a power plant device associated with a power plant of the customer based on monitoring of the power plant device, in which the data is received at a location remote from the power plant, processing the data, generating one or more outputs representative of the processed data, displaying, by a web page of a website, at least one of the outputs in response to a request by the customer, and displaying, by the web page, diagnostic information related to the displayed output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Power Generation, Inc.
    Inventor: Lee A. Near
  • Customer extranet portal
    Publication number: 20040111325
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a computerized method of providing information to a customer in the power industry includes automatically receiving data representing a plurality of characteristics of a power plant device associated with a power plant of the customer based on monitoring of the power plant device, in which the data is received at a location remote from the power plant, processing the data, generating one or more outputs representative of the processed data, displaying, by a web page of a website, at least one of the outputs in response to a request by the customer, and displaying, by the web page, diagnostic information related to the displayed output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2002
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Applicant: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventor: Lee A. Near