Patents by Inventor Pedro Fernández

Pedro Fernández 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).

  • Publication number: 20200013405
    Abstract: A wireless event notification system includes a microphone, a controller, a voice authentication engine, a speech recognition engine, and a wireless device. The microphone is configured to transmit an audible command initiated by a user. The controller is located in a cloud and is configured to receive the audible command. The voice authentication engine is configured to receive the audible command for authenticating the user, and send an authentication signal to the controller. The speech recognition engine is configured to receive the audible command for recognition of the audible command, and send a command text indicative of the audible command to the controller. The wireless device is configured to receive the command text if the controller has received both the authentication signal from the voice authentication engine and the command text from the speech recognition engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Pedro Fernandez Orellana, Ankit Tiwari, Daniele Campana, Hector Moner Poy
  • Publication number: 20200008147
    Abstract: An event notification system includes a control assembly and a wireless device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Ankit Tiwari, Hector Moner Poy, Daniele Campana, Pedro Fernandez Orellana
  • Patent number: 10431411
    Abstract: The invention relates to a melting fuse, especially for a motor vehicle that has a high-voltage circuit, comprising an electrically insulating housing inside of which there is a fusible conductor that connects two contacts with each other, whereby, between two longitudinal areas that are adjacent to each other, the fusible conductor has a rotation point around which the longitudinal areas can be rotated in case of a thermo-mechanical expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: PACIFIC ENGINEERING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pedro Fernández, Jürgen Freytag, Sascha Schulte, Akihiko Shimizu, Hartung Wilstermann
  • Patent number: 9602306
    Abstract: The method comprising: receiving, a controller (106), traffic packets from a device, each one of said traffic packets including a VLAN tag indicating a destination of a second device; analyzing, by a first monitoring unit (101) during a period of time, the bytes content of said received packets and reporting said analysis to said controller (106); receiving, said controller (106), said plurality of different subcarriers to be used for said sending; adding, by a tag unit (102), an embedded S-VLAN tag to said analyzed packets identifying to which subcarrier and to which sliceable bandwidth variable transponder (105) each tagged traffic packets per destination is going to be sent; sending said S-VLAN tagged traffic packets to a switch (104), the latter forwarding them to a given port of said identified sliceable bandwidth variable transponder (105) for sending them via different sub-carriers to its corresponding destination, said plurality of different sub-carriers following a same or different path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonica, S.A.
    Inventors: Victor Lopez Alvarez, Juan Pedro Fernandez-Palacios, Oscar Gonzalez-De Dios
  • Publication number: 20160308709
    Abstract: A system implementing a method for determining QoS degradations comprises: receiving alarms (a) from application layer or from network nodes of a MPLS network, including Passive Traffic Analyzer, Physical Layer Monitoring and MPLS OAM nodes, depending on the alarm, the system requests testing (d) for location and the network nodes answer back with location (e), once the fault is located, the system starts traffic restoration (h) via MPLS Signaling and receives the result (i), the system may need to consult the System Database, optionally query (b)—reply (c) step before requesting location, while query (f)—response (g) step is mandatory before restoration (h), once traffic restored, further testing by the network nodes and/or the application layer are triggered (j) by the system to ensure the correct overall QoS within the new network situation, a loop (i) of further restoration can be triggered by the system until a global stable non-degraded behavior is declared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: Telefonica, S.A
    Inventors: Juan Pedro Fernandez-Palacios Gimenez, Juan Rodriguez Martinez
  • Patent number: 9447992
    Abstract: A geothermal system with earth grounding component for providing electrical grounding is introduced. The geothermal system includes: a geothermal component configured to perform heat exchange; wherein the geothermal component comprises at least one heat exchange tube configured to extend into an underground environment; and an earth grounding component configured to provide earth grounding for electronic equipment; wherein the earth grounding component includes at least one conductive rod coupled to and extended along the at least one heat exchange tube, and the at least one conductive rod is configured to electrically couple to a grounding interface of the electronic equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kelly Johnson, Pedro Fernandez
  • Patent number: 9241426
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the disclosure includes an air-based geothermal cooling system for a telecom utility cabinet. The air-based geothermal cooling system includes a plurality of heat exchange tubes configured to extend into an underground environment. The air-based geothermal cooling system also includes an input/output (I/O) manifold coupled to the plurality of heat exchange tubes and providing an airway between the plurality of heat exchange tubes and the telecom utility cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Inventors: Pedro Fernandez, Shanjiu Chi, Amit Kulkarni, Liqian Zhai, Kelly C. Johnson, Yong Lu, Mahmoud Elkenaney
  • Publication number: 20150335089
    Abstract: The present invention provides improved mirror assembly for safety headgear and the like. The mirror assemblies of the present invention may advantageously allow the wearer to quickly view areas peripheral to and behind the forward field of vision quickly without the need for large movements. Additionally, the mirror assembly includes anchoring mechanisms that sturdily attach the mirror assembly to the headgear such that it is unlikely to be displaced or jostled during violent movement or a collision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventor: Pedro Fernandez
  • Publication number: 20150294829
    Abstract: The invention relates to a melting fuse, especially for a motor vehicle that has a high-voltage circuit, comprising an electrically insulating housing inside of which there is a fusible conductor that connects two contacts with each other, whereby, between two longitudinal areas that are adjacent to each other, the fusible conductor has a rotation point around which the longitudinal areas can be rotated in case of a thermo-mechanical expansion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: Pacific Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Pedro Fernández, Jürgen Freytag, Sascha Schulte, Akihiko Shimizu, Hartung Wilstermann
  • Publication number: 20150200790
    Abstract: The method comprising: receiving, a controller (106), traffic packets from a device, each one of said traffic packets including a VLAN tag indicating a destination of a second device; analyzing, by a first monitoring unit (101) during a period of time, the bytes content of said received packets and reporting said analysis to said controller (106); receiving, said controller (106), said plurality of different subcarriers to be used for said sending; adding, by a tag unit (102), an embedded S-VLAN tag to said analyzed packets identifying to which subcarrier and to which sliceable bandwidth variable transponder (105) each tagged traffic packets per destination is going to be sent; sending said S-VLAN tagged traffic packets to a switch (104), the latter forwarding them to a given port of said identified sliceable bandwidth variable transponder (105) for sending them via different sub-carriers to its corresponding destination, said plurality of different sub-carriers following a same or different path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: Telefonica, S.A.
    Inventors: Victor LOPEZ ALVAREZ, Juan Pedro FERNANDEZ-PALACIOS, Oscar GONZALEZ-DE DIOS
  • Patent number: 8925621
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a telecom utility cabinet and an air-based geothermal cooling system for the telecom utility cabinet. The system also includes a leak detector for the air-based geothermal cooling system. In another embodiment, a method includes detecting a leak in an air-based geothermal cooling system. The method also includes activating a liquid pump for the air-based geothermal cooling system in response to the leak detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pedro Fernandez, Shanjiu Chi, Amit Kulkarni, Liqian Zhai, Kelly C. Johnson, Yong Lu, Mahmoud Elkenaney
  • Publication number: 20140293778
    Abstract: A method for improving the network resources allocation in a TISPAN network, when a network user requests at least one communication service between an access node of the TISPAN network and a destination node, the TISPAN network using MPLS packet based transport technologies and GMPLS circuit switched based transport technologies. The proposed invention defines a communication procedure between TISPAN service layer architectures and multilayer GMPLS network architectures WSON). It aims to minimize total network resources consumption of increasing traffic demands with different requirements in terms of bandwidth and QoS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios Giménez, Francisco Javier Jiménez Chico, Oscar González De Dios, Alejandro Tovar De Dueñas
  • Patent number: 8749976
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the disclosure includes a telecom utility cabinet including a heat load chamber. The telecom utility cabinet also includes an air introducing duct configured to conduct air from the heat load chamber to a geothermal cooling system. The telecom utility cabinet also includes an air discharging duct configured to conduct air from the geothermal cooling system to the heat load chamber. In another embodiment, the disclosure includes a method for managing temperature in a telecom utility cabinet. The method includes introducing air from a heat load chamber to a geothermal cooling system and discharging air from the geothermal cooling system to the heat load chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pedro Fernandez, Shanjiu Chi, Amit Kulkarni, Liqian Zhai, Kelly C. Johnson, Yong Lu, Mahmoud Elkenaney
  • Patent number: 8599540
    Abstract: A structure for storing and cooling electronics comprising a frame support, an internal equipment chamber mounted to the frame support, wherein the internal equipment chamber comprises a tubelike structure defining openings in a front and a back of the internal equipment chamber, and wherein the internal equipment chamber is configured to support electronic equipment such that the weight of the electronic equipment is born by the frame support and not the internal equipment chamber, and a plurality of removable panels disposed around the frame such that a gap is formed between the exterior of the internal equipment chamber and the plurality of removable panels, wherein air may circulate in the gap between the internal equipment chamber and the plurality of removable panels to help regulate a temperature within the internal equipment chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Pedro A. Fernandez
  • Patent number: 8590602
    Abstract: A heat exchanger having a wet side separate from a dry side for an equipment cabinet is provided. The heat exchanger includes a heat exchanger enclosure having a wet side fan and a dry side fan. The wet side fan draws air in from the external environment and routes the air through a heat exchanger core and out the heat exchanger enclosure. The dry side fan draws air in from within the equipment cabinet and routes the air through the heat exchanger core and out back into the equipment cabinet. The air from the outside acts to cool the heat exchanger core, which in turn acts to cool the air from the dry side as the air is routed through the heat exchanger core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Asymblix, LLC
    Inventor: Pedro A. Fernandez
  • Publication number: 20130075056
    Abstract: A structure for storing and cooling electronics comprising a frame support, an internal equipment chamber mounted to the frame support, wherein the internal equipment chamber comprises a tubelike structure defining openings in a front and a back of the internal equipment chamber, and wherein the internal equipment chamber is configured to support electronic equipment such that the weight of the electronic equipment is born by the frame support and not the internal equipment chamber, and a plurality of removable panels disposed around the frame such that a gap is formed between the exterior of the internal equipment chamber and the plurality of removable panels, wherein air may circulate in the gap between the internal equipment chamber and the plurality of removable panels to help regulate a temperature within the internal equipment chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Pedro Fernandez
  • Publication number: 20120321307
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for distributing digital signals over wavelength-switched optical transport networks with long-distance optical multicasting capability comprising a transmitter module and a receiver module in the headend of primary network and in the local node, respectively, for multicasting IPTV channels with HDTV, UHDTV and 3DTV signals. The transmitter module comprises an Ethernet switch, three DPSK modulators and a DWDM optical multiplexer. The receiver module comprises an Ethernet switch, three DPSK demodulators and a DWDM optical demultiplexer. In a novel manner, both modules combine 2 Gbps digital transmission, RZ-DPSK modulation and optical multicasting over a wavelength-switched optical network, WSON.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios Jiménez, Francisco Javier Jiménez Chico, Oscar González De Dios
  • Publication number: 20120298341
    Abstract: A system and method for isolating equipment within a cabinet. The system comprising an internal fan disposed within an internal chamber and an external fan disposed outside the internal chamber. The internal fan and the external fan are driven by a corresponding motor disposed within the internal chamber, wherein each motor independently rotates the internal fan and the external fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Pedro Fernandez
  • Publication number: 20120103560
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a telecom utility cabinet and an air-based geothermal cooling system for the telecom utility cabinet. The system also includes a leak detector for the air-based geothermal cooling system. In another embodiment, a method includes detecting a leak in an air-based geothermal cooling system. The method also includes activating a liquid pump for the air-based geothermal cooling system in response to the leak detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Pedro Fernandez, Shanjiu Chi, Amit Kulkarni, Liqian Zhai, Kelly C. Johnson, Yong Lu, Mahmoud Elkenaney
  • Publication number: 20120103559
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a telecom utility cabinet and an air-based geothermal cooling system for the telecom utility cabinet. The air-based geothermal cooling system forms an air circulation loop that receives air from the telecom utility cabinet and returns cooled air to the telecom utility cabinet. In another embodiment, an air-based geothermal cooling system for a telecom utility cabinet is provided. The air-based geothermal cooling system comprises a plurality of heat exchange tubes configured to extend into an underground environment. The plurality of heat exchange tubes are part of an air circulation loop configured to receive air from the telecom utility cabinet and to return cooled air to the telecom utility cabinet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Pedro Fernandez, Shanjiu Chi, Amit Kulkarni, Liqian Zhai, Kelly C. Johnson, Yong Lu, Mahmoud Elkenaney