Patents by Inventor Margaret BONING

Margaret BONING 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).

  • Command monitor
    Patent number: 11175649
    Abstract: A method for mediating an interaction between a control station and a remote system includes maintaining, at a command monitor, data characterizing an operation of the remote system in response to execution of commands at the remote system, receiving, at the command monitor, state information from the remote system, updating the data characterizing the operation of the remote system based on the received state information, receiving, at the command monitor, one or more commands sent from the control station, determining a predicted set of one or more outcomes that would result from execution of the one or more commands at the remote system based at least in part on the data characterizing the operation of the remote system, and preventing issuance of at least one command of the one or more commands at the remote system based on the predicted set of one or more outcomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Robert Cunningham, Benjamin Kaiser, Margaret Boning, Jeffrey Brandon, Alice Lee
  • COMMAND MONITOR
    Publication number: 20210318670
    Abstract: A method for mediating an interaction between a control station and a remote system includes maintaining, at a command monitor, data characterizing an operation of the remote system in response to execution of commands at the remote system, receiving, at the command monitor, state information from the remote system, updating the data characterizing the operation of the remote system based on the received state information, receiving, at the command monitor, one or more commands sent from the control station, determining a predicted set of one or more outcomes that would result from execution of the one or more commands at the remote system based at least in part on the data characterizing the operation of the remote system, and preventing issuance of at least one command of the one or more commands at the remote system based on the predicted set of one or more outcomes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Robert CUNNINGHAM, Benjamin KAISER, Margaret BONING, Jeffrey BRANDON, Alice LEE