Patents by Inventor Martin DOEHRING

Martin DOEHRING 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).

  • Remote power outage and restoration notification
    Patent number: 11289945
    Abstract: Power outages and restorations at customer premises can be automatically detected and reported. A method may include receiving, from a network terminal, a first notification associated with a power outage; retrieving location information associated with the network terminal; sending a second notification indicating that the outage has occurred and that includes the location information associated with the network terminal; retrieving prior outage information that corresponds to a set of network terminals associated with a group of set top boxes; determining that an outage event is triggered, when a quantity of outages is greater than a threshold, where the quantity of outages is based on the outage and other outages obtained from the prior outage information; and sending a third notification based on the determination that the outage event is triggered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Alessandro M. Meynardi, Jean F. Dubois, Martin Doehring, C. P. Cheng
  • REMOTE POWER OUTAGE AND RESTORATION NOTIFICATION
    Publication number: 20190363574
    Abstract: Power outages and restorations at customer premises can be automatically detected and reported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Alessandro M. MEYNARDI, Jean F. DUBOIS, Martin DOEHRING, C. P. CHENG
  • Remote power outage and restoration notification
    Patent number: 10381869
    Abstract: Power outages and restorations at customer premises can be automatically detected and reported. A method includes receiving, from a network terminal, a first notification associated with a power outage; retrieving location information associated with the network terminal; sending a second notification indicating that the outage has occurred and that includes the location information associated with the network terminal; retrieving prior outage information that corresponds to a set of network terminals associated with a group of set top boxes; determining that an outage event is triggered, when a quantity of outages is greater than a threshold, where the quantity of outages is based on the outage and other outages obtained from the prior outage information; and sending a third notification based on the determination that the outage event is triggered, where the third notification includes information associated with the quantity of outages that enables a server to remedy the outage event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Alessandro M. Meynardi, Jean F. Dubois, Martin Doehring, C. P. Cheng
  • REMOTE POWER OUTAGE & RESTORATION NOTIFICATION
    Publication number: 20120109545
    Abstract: Power outages and restorations at customer premises can be automatically detected and reported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Alessandro M. MEYNARDI, Jean F. DUBOIS, Martin DOEHRING, C. P. CHENG