Patents by Inventor Nancy Lynne Burnham

Nancy Lynne Burnham 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).

  • Conversation interface agent for manufacturing operation information
    Patent number: 10225216
    Abstract: A conversation interface system provides remote access to manufacturing operation information using plain language message exchange. A cloud-based conversation interface service is exposed to an instant messaging application, and receives plain language queries from via the instant messaging application's interface requesting information relating to one or more industrial systems. The cloud-based system synchronizes the queries to one or more on-premise conversation interface agent devices residing at one or more plant facilities. The on-premise agent devices translate the queries and apply the translated queries to local sources of manufacturing operation data. The on-premise agent devices then generate and return response messages based on the retrieved information, and the cloud-based system directs the response messages the originators of the queries via the instant messaging interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Wise, Petr Ptacek, David Wayne Comeau, Nancy Lynne Burnham, Jonathan D. Walter, Michael John Pantaleano, Eugene Liberman, Kenneth S. Plache
  • CONVERSATION INTERFACE AGENT FOR MANUFACTURING OPERATION INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20170346768
    Abstract: A conversation interface system provides remote access to manufacturing operation information using plain language message exchange. A cloud-based conversation interface service is exposed to an instant messaging application, and receives plain language queries from via the instant messaging application's interface requesting information relating to one or more industrial systems. The cloud-based system synchronizes the queries to one or more on-premise conversation interface agent devices residing at one or more plant facilities. The on-premise agent devices translate the queries and apply the translated queries to local sources of manufacturing operation data. The on-premise agent devices then generate and return response messages based on the retrieved information, and the cloud-based system directs the response messages the originators of the queries via the instant messaging interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Jonathan Wise, Petr Ptacek, David Wayne Comeau, Nancy Lynne Burnham, Jonathan D. Walter, Michael John Pantaleano, Eugene Liberman, Kenneth S. Plache