Patents by Inventor Patrick Hornberger

Patrick Hornberger 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: 11423345
    Abstract: The disclosed technology teaches delivering scarce test equipment resources to a user within a test organization: receiving a test graph that specifies equipment capabilities needed, by class and times when the capabilities are needed. The technology includes maintaining an inventory of equipment resources and capabilities, by class, and responsive to the user invoking the graph, scheduling the needed equipment: identifying alternative resources responsive to the need and selecting a group of resources to schedule; bundling the group of resources to schedule into an immediate bundle needed to start the test and a deferred bundle needed later, after the start of the test; and queuing a deferred bundle reservation for a later time, after the scheduled start of the test. During the test, the technology includes notifying the user of availability of the equipment resources in the deferred bundle when they become available and marking the deferred bundle as in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Spirent Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Hornberger, Eric Gregory Miller, Yujie Lin, Kalina Stilianova Koinova
  • Publication number: 20210279663
    Abstract: The disclosed technology teaches delivering scarce test equipment resources to a user within a test organization: receiving a test graph that specifies equipment capabilities needed, by class and times when the capabilities are needed. The technology includes maintaining an inventory of equipment resources and capabilities, by class, and responsive to the user invoking the graph, scheduling the needed equipment: identifying alternative resources responsive to the need and selecting a group of resources to schedule; bundling the group of resources to schedule into an immediate bundle needed to start the test and a deferred bundle needed later, after the start of the test; and queuing a deferred bundle reservation for a later time, after the scheduled start of the test. During the test, the technology includes notifying the user of availability of the equipment resources in the deferred bundle when they become available and marking the deferred bundle as in use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Spirent Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick HORNBERGER, Eric Gregory MILLER, Yujie LIN, Kalina Stilianova KOINOVA
  • Patent number: 7480602
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system verification system that automatically generates a behavior model modeling the system under test in terms of actions of a test case and a range of expected reactions corresponding to those actions. In this regard, the system verification system obtains a set of actions and individual reactions corresponding to the actions from a plurality of runs of a test case for the system under test, and automatically generates the behavior model representing the system under test in terms of the set of actions and a range of expected reactions each range corresponding one of the actions. The range of expected reactions generalizes and includes all or most of the individual reactions corresponding to said one of the actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: The Fanfare Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Kingston Duffie, Patrick Hornberger, Carl Hubbard, Satomi Okazaki, Pawan Singh
  • Publication number: 20060161508
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system verification system that automatically generates a behavior model modeling the system under test in terms of actions of a test case and a range of expected reactions corresponding to those actions. In this regard, the system verification system obtains a set of actions and individual reactions corresponding to the actions from a plurality of runs of a test case for the system under test, and automatically generates the behavior model representing the system under test in terms of the set of actions and a range of expected reactions each range corresponding one of the actions. The range of expected reactions generalizes and includes all or most of the individual reactions corresponding to said one of the actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Paul Duffie, Patrick Hornberger, Carl Hubbard, Satomi Okazaki, Pawan Singh