Patents by Inventor Manuel Zahn

Manuel Zahn 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).

  • Method for configuring an M2M system
    Patent number: 10200240
    Abstract: A method for configuring an M2M system having an M2M frontend with one or more gateways and an M2M backend includes specifying, by an operator entity, one or more commands to be achieved in said M2M system by the one or more gateways of the M2M frontend; specifying, by a stylesheet providing entity, one or more stylesheets for the one or more gateways of the M2M frontend representing information for interpretation of general gateway configurations for the one or more gateways; calculating, by a synergy description entity, one or more synergy descriptions representing an impact of one or more gateway operational parameters on the specified commands; calculating the general gateway configurations for a plurality of gateways by evaluating the synergy descriptions with respect to the specified commands by a configuration entity; and providing specific gateway configurations by applying the specified stylesheets on the general gateway configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Apostolos Papageorgiou, Ernoe Kovacs, Manuel Zahn
  • METHOD FOR CONFIGURING AN M2M SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160112256
    Abstract: A method for configuring an M2M system having an M2M frontend with one or more gateways and an M2M backend includes specifying, by an operator entity, one or more commands to be achieved in said M2M system by the one or more gateways of the M2M frontend; specifying, by a stylesheet providing entity, one or more stylesheets for the one or more gateways of the M2M frontend representing information for interpretation of general gateway configurations for the one or more gateways; calculating, by a synergy description entity, one or more synergy descriptions representing an impact of one or more gateway operational parameters on the specified commands; calculating the general gateway configurations for a plurality of gateways by evaluating the synergy descriptions with respect to the specified commands by a configuration entity; and providing specific gateway configurations by applying the specified stylesheets on the general gateway configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Apostolos Papageorgiou, Ernoe Kovacs, Manuel Zahn