Patents by Inventor Richard Schneider

Richard Schneider 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).

  • Method and device for active radial control of wheel pairs or wheel sets on vehicles
    Patent number: 7458324
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for active radial control of the wheels (11, 53, 103, 108, 115) of at last one wheel unit (8, 9, 10, 51, 52) on a chassis, in particular a bogie on a tracked vehicle, whereby control movements are applied to the wheel unit (8, 9, 10, 51, 52) and an integrated regulation with control movements in at least two non-identical frequency ranges are carried out. First control movements in a first frequency range and second control movements in a second frequency range, different form the first frequency range are superimposed and applied to the wheel unit (8, 9, 10, 51, 52). The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation
    Inventors: Richard Schneider, Wolfgang Auer, Günther Himmelstein
  • Running gear for rail vehicles
    Patent number: 7438000
    Abstract: The invention relates to a running gear for rail vehicles, especially for passenger traffic, wherein a frame (1) is supported, by means of primary springs, on wheels or sets of wheels, and whereon a superstructure (5) is supported, optionally with insertion of a bolster (4). The bolster (4) or the superstructure (5) is supported by means of secondary springs, in relation to the frame (1), on at least one spring carrier (2), the bolster (4) or the superstructure (5) is connected to the frame (1) by means of a shock absorber used to damp vertical and/or rolling movements, and the spring carrier (2) is suspended on the frame by means of pendulums (3). The fixing points of the pendulums (3) on the running gear frame (1) are inwardly staggered, unlike vertically arranged pendulums, in such a way that the longitudinal axes of the pendulums (3) extend diagonally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Schneider, Wolfgang Auer, Uwe Reimann, Siegmund Möhner
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TRANSACTIONS IN A MULTISYSTEM DATABASE ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20080228872
    Abstract: A system for satisfying a request from a client for a send-then-commit transaction includes a front-end information management system (IMS) server. Shared message queues (SMQ) communicate with the front-end IMS server and plural back-end IMS. The front-end IMS server receives the request from the client and transmits the request to the SMQ. A back-end IMS server accesses the SMQ and generates a transaction output in response to the request. The back-end IMS server transmits the result to the front-end IMS server and the front-end IMS server interfaces with the client to communicate the response thereto. The back-end IMS server and front-end IMS server operate in separate system images, but work together in a resource recovery services (RRS) environment to commit or backout the transaction output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Steven Michael Bock, Thomas Phillip Bridges, Richard G. Hannan, Steve T. Kuo, Richard Schneider, Judy Y. Tse, Vern Lee Watts, Jack Chiu-Chiu Yuan, Jerome Joseph Zentner, Mark Neal Ziebarth
  • System and method for processing transactions in a multisystem database environment
    Patent number: 7406511
    Abstract: A system for satisfying a request from a client for a send-then-commit transaction includes a front-end information management system (IMS) server. Shared message queues (SMQ) communicate with the front-end IMS server and plural back-end IMS. The front-end IMS server receives the request from the client and transmits the request to the SMQ. A back-end IMS server accesses the SMQ and generates a transaction output in response to the request. The back-end IMS server transmits the result to the front-end IMS server and the front-end IMS server interfaces with the client to communicate the response thereto. The back-end IMS server and front-end IMS server operate in separate system images, but work together in a resource recovery services (RRS) environment to commit or backout the transaction output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Michael Bock, Thomas Phillip Bridges, Richard G. Hannan, Steve T. Kuo, Richard Schneider, Judy Y. Tse, Vern Lee Watts, Jack Chiu-Chiu Yuan, Jerome Joseph Zentner, Mark Neal Ziebarth
  • SERVER BASED GAMING SYSTEM HAVING SYSTEM TRIGGERED LOYALTY AWARD SEQUENCES
    Publication number: 20080085772
    Abstract: A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming tables. In one embodiment, the gaming system provides players with one or more loyalty incentives, such as one or more loyalty awards, utilizing one or more loyalty incentive award sequences. In one embodiment, the gaming system determines a loyalty award to provide to a player and then determines an appropriate loyalty award sequence to utilize to provide the player the determined loyalty award, wherein the loyalty award sequence is determined based on the individual gaming table at which that the player is currently playing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Cara Iddings, Anthony Baerlocher, Richard Schneider
  • SERVER BASED GAMING SYSTEM HAVING SYSTEM TRIGGERED LOYALTY AWARD SEQUENCES
    Publication number: 20080085771
    Abstract: A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming tables. In one embodiment, the gaming system provides players with one or more loyalty incentives, such as one or more loyalty awards, utilizing one or more loyalty incentive award sequences. In one embodiment, the gaming system determines a loyalty award to provide to a player and then determines an appropriate loyalty award sequence to utilize to provide the player the determined loyalty award, wherein the loyalty award sequence is determined based on the individual gaming table at which that the player is currently playing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Cara Iddings, Anthony Baerlocher, Richard Schneider
  • SERVER BASED GAMING SYSTEM HAVING SYSTEM TRIGGERED LOYALTY AWARD SEQUENCES
    Publication number: 20080076576
    Abstract: A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines. In one embodiment, the gaming system provides players with one or more loyalty incentives, such as one or more loyalty awards, utilizing one or more loyalty incentive award sequences. In one embodiment, the gaming system determines a loyalty award to provide to a player and then determines an appropriate loyalty award sequence to utilize to provide the player the determined loyalty award, wherein the loyalty award sequence is determined based on the individual gaming device that the player is currently playing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Jacob Graham, Greg Schlottmann, Michael Low, Anthony Baerlocher, Richard Schneider, Cara Iddings
  • SERVER BASED GAMING SYSTEM HAVING SYSTEM TRIGGERED LOYALTY AWARD SEQUENCES
    Publication number: 20080076534
    Abstract: A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming tables. In one embodiment, the gaming system provides players with one or more loyalty incentives, such as one or more loyalty awards, utilizing one or more loyalty incentive award sequences. In one embodiment, the gaming system determines a loyalty award to provide to a player and then determines an appropriate loyalty award sequence to utilize to provide the player the determined loyalty award, wherein the loyalty award sequence is determined based on the individual gaming table at which that the player is currently playing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Cara Iddings, Anthony Baerlocher, Richard Schneider
  • SERVER BASED GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY PROVIDING ONE OR MORE DIFFERENT TOURNAMENTS
    Publication number: 20080070693
    Abstract: A gaming system includes a central server or controller operable to communicate a plurality of different commands to a plurality of gaming machines to provide non-tournament game play and to provide tournament game play on the same gaming machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Greg Schlottmann, Jacob Graham, Anthony Baerlocher, Richard Schneider, Cara Iddings, Vince Manfredi, Michael MacVittie
  • SERVER BASED GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY PROVIDING ONE OR MORE DIFFERENT TOURNAMENTS
    Publication number: 20080070694
    Abstract: A gaming system includes a central server or controller operable to communicate a plurality of different commands to a plurality of gaming machines to provide non-tournament game play and to provide tournament game play on the same gaming machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Greg Schlottmann, Jacob Graham, Bryan Wolf, Anthony Baerlocher, Richard Schneider, Cara Iddings, Vince Manfredi, Michael MacVittie
  • SERVER BASED GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY PROVIDING ONE OR MORE DIFFERENT TOURNAMENTS
    Publication number: 20080070695
    Abstract: A gaming system includes a central server or controller operable to communicate a plurality of different commands to a plurality of gaming machines to provide non-tournament game play and to provide tournament game play on the same gaming machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Anthony Baerlocher, Richard Schneider, Cara Iddings, Vince Manfredi, Michael MacVittie
  • SERVER BASED GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY PROVIDING ONE OR MORE DIFFERENT TOURNAMENTS
    Publication number: 20080070692
    Abstract: A gaming system includes a central server or controller operable to communicate a plurality of different commands to a plurality of gaming machines to provide non-tournament game play and to provide tournament game play on the same gaming machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Greg Schlottmann, Jacob Graham, Anthony Baerlocher, Richard Schneider, Cara Iddings, Vince Manfredi, Michael MacVittie
  • SERVER BASED GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY PROVIDING ONE OR MORE DIFFERENT TOURNAMENTS
    Publication number: 20080070680
    Abstract: A gaming system includes a central server or controller operable to communicate a plurality of different commands to a plurality of gaming machines to provide non-tournament game play and to provide tournament game play on the same gaming machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Anthony Baerlocher, Richard Schneider, Cara Iddings, Vince Manfredi, Michael MacVittie
  • SERVER BASED GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY PROVIDING ONE OR MORE DIFFERENT TOURNAMENTS
    Publication number: 20080064502
    Abstract: A gaming system includes a central server or controller operable to communicate a plurality of different commands to a plurality of gaming machines to provide non-tournament game play and to provide tournament game play on the same gaming machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Greg Schlottmann, Jacob Graham, Bryan Wolf, Anthony Baerlocher, Richard Schneider, Cara Iddings, Vince Manfredi, Michael MacVittie
  • METHOD AND ANCHOR FOR MEDICAL IMPLANT PLACEMENT, AND METHOD OF ANCHOR MANUFACTURE
    Publication number: 20080051863
    Abstract: An anchor and procedure for placing a medical implant, such as for monitoring physiological parameters. The anchor includes a central body in which a medical implant can be received. Arms and members extend radially from first and second ends, respectively, of the central body. Each member defines a leg extending toward distal portions of the arms to provide a clamping action. The anchor and its implant are placed by coupling first and second guidewires to first and second portions of the anchor, placing an end of a delivery catheter in a wall where implantation is desired, inserting the anchor in the catheter with the guidewires to locate the anchor within the wall, deploying the arms of the anchor at one side of the wall followed by deployment of the members at the opposite side of the wall, and thereafter decoupling the guidewires from the anchor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Schneider, Nader Najafi, David Goetzinger
  • TRANSMITTER PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (TxPICs) AND OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK SYSTEM EMPLOYING TxPICs
    Publication number: 20080044128
    Abstract: A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip comprising an array of modulated sources, each providing a modulated signal output at a channel wavelength different from the channel wavelength of other modulated sources and a wavelength selective combiner having an input optically coupled to received all the signal outputs from the modulated sources and provide a combined output signal on an output waveguide from the chip. The modulated sources, combiner and output waveguide are all integrated on the same chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: INFINERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fred Kish, David Welch, Mark Missey, Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, Atul Mathur, Frank Peters, Richard Schneider, Charles Joyner, Andrew Dentai, Damien Lambert, Masaki Kato, Sheila Hurtt, Randal Salvatore, Mehrdad Ziari, Vincent Dominic
  • SERVER BASED GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY PROVIDING ONE OR MORE DIFFERENT TOURNAMENTS
    Publication number: 20080045344
    Abstract: A gaming system includes a central server or controller operable to communicate a plurality of different commands to a plurality of gaming machines to provide non-tournament game play and to provide tournament game play on the same gaming machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Greg Schlottmann, Jacob Graham, Anthony Baerlocher, Richard Schneider, Cara Iddings, Vince Manfredi, Michael MacVittie
  • Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) Chips
    Publication number: 20080031626
    Abstract: A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip comprising an array of modulated sources, each providing a modulated signal output at a channel wavelength different from the channel wavelength of other modulated sources and a wavelength selective combiner having an input optically coupled to received all the signal outputs from the modulated sources and provide a combined output signal on an output waveguide from the chip. The modulated sources, combiner and output waveguide are all integrated on the same chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: INFINERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Welch, Vincent Dominic, Fred Kish, Mark Missey, Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, Atul Mathur, Frank Peters, Robert Taylor, Matthew Mitchell, Alan Nilsson, Stephen Grubb, Richard Schneider, Charles Joyner, Jonas Webjorn, Ting-Kuang Chiang, Robert Grencavich, Vinh Nguyen, Donald Pavinski, Marco Sosa
  • OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK HAVING A PLURALITY OF MONOLITHIC PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (PIC) SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS
    Publication number: 20080025726
    Abstract: A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip comprising an array of modulated sources, each providing a modulated signal output at a channel wavelength different from the channel wavelength of other modulated sources and a wavelength selective combiner having an input optically coupled to received all the signal outputs from the modulated sources and provide a combined output signal on an output waveguide from the chip. The modulated sources, combiner and output waveguide are all integrated on the same chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: INFINERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Welch, Vincent Dominic, Fred Kish, Mark Missey, Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, Atul Mathur, Frank Peters, Richard Schneider, Charles Joyner, Jonas Webjorn, Marco Sosa
  • SERVER BASED GAMING SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE PROGRESSIVE AWARDS
    Publication number: 20080020832
    Abstract: A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines. The central server includes a plurality of progressive modules. Each progressive module maintains one or more progressive awards and is associated with zero, one or more of the gaming machines in the gaming system. Upon a determination that a designated one of the progressive awards will be provided, one of the gaming machines associated with the progressive module which maintains the designated progressive award provides the designated progressive award to the player of such gaming machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Cara Iddings, Daniel Dewaal, Bryan Bullard, Chad Little, Vince Manfredi, Richard Schneider