Patents by Inventor Michael Frohna

Michael Frohna 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).

  • Patent number: 9344375
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data packets between two communication modules via a transmission medium interconnecting the two modules. To transmit a high-priority data packet in real time via the transmission medium, without causing erroneous transmissions of other packets, it is provided that, for an ongoing transmission of a first data packet, a transmitting communication module embeds a second data packet, which is to be sent urgently, directly into the ongoing first packet, buffers a remainder (not transmitted yet) of the first packet and transmits the remainder of the first packet after transmitting the second packet, and a receiving communication module buffers a beginning of a received first packet, receives the second packet and forwards it for further processing, and receives the remainder of the first packet after receiving the second packet, connects it with the buffered beginning of the first packet, and forwards the complete first packet for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Michael Frohna
  • Publication number: 20140133295
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data packets between two communication modules via a transmission medium interconnecting the two modules. To transmit a high-priority data packet in real time via the transmission medium, without causing erroneous transmissions of other packets, it is provided that, for an ongoing transmission of a first data packet, a transmitting communication module embeds a second data packet, which is to be sent urgently, directly into the ongoing first packet, buffers a remainder (not transmitted yet) of the first packet and transmits the remainder of the first packet after transmitting the second packet, and a receiving communication module buffers a beginning of a received first packet, receives the second packet and forwards it for further processing, and receives the remainder of the first packet after receiving the second packet, connects it with the buffered beginning of the first packet, and forwards the complete first packet for further processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Michael FROHNA
  • Patent number: 8289959
    Abstract: In a system and a method for real time transmission between modules that are serially connected to one another, each module embeds its useful data in a data packet received by a preconnected module, which has a data packet number, if a comparison value formed as a function of the data packet number agrees with an identification number (frameID) that is provided in the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Frohna, Kai Roettger
  • Publication number: 20100046539
    Abstract: In a system and a method for real time transmission between modules that are serially connected to one another, each module embeds its useful data in a data packet received by a preconnected module, which has a data packet number, if a comparison value formed as a function of the data packet number agrees with an identification number (frameID) that is provided in the module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Frohna, Kai Roettger