Patents by Inventor Randal W. Higginbotham

Randal W. Higginbotham 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).

  • Extensible device command commutation engine for formatting device commands for the controls of devices
    Patent number: 6862708
    Abstract: An extensible commutation engine for formatting a command buffer in a device commanding system comprises a modifiable list of constants, each constant forming a coded representation of parameters associated with a device command; at least one existing set of instructions for formatting the command buffer in accordance with a device command; and, a modifiable mapping of each set of instructions with a corresponding constant in the modifiable list of constants. Significantly, the commutation engine is extensible to accommodate device commands having new parameters by mapping the new constant with a set of instructions according to said new parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Harris-Exigent, Inc.
    Inventors: Randal W. Higginbotham, Kenneth C. Whedbee, Jr.