Patents by Inventor Rick K. Tipton

Rick K. Tipton 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).

  • Adaptive alphanumeric sorting apparatus
    Patent number: 10496370
    Abstract: A sorter receives a list of elements to be sorted. The elements are supplied to a communication bus. A plurality of processing modules are coupled to the communication bus and examine each list element supplied on the bus to see if the list element has a value that is within a range of values processed by the list element. The range of values of the list are subdivided to ranges allocated to the processing modules. When a processing modules determines an element in the bus is within its range, it stores the value and sorts the value in storage dedicated to storing a sorted list of values with the allocated range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon K. Meredith, William C. Cottrill, Rick K. Tipton
  • ADAPTIVE ALPHANUMERIC SORTING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170161020
    Abstract: A sorter receives a list of elements to be sorted. The elements are supplied to a communication bus. A plurality of processing modules are coupled to the communication bus and examine each list element supplied on the bus to see if the list element has a value that is within a range of values processed by the list element. The range of values of the list are subdivided to ranges allocated to the processing modules. When a processing modules determines an element in the bus is within its range, it stores the value and sorts the value in storage dedicated to storing a sorted list of values with the allocated range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Sheldon K. Meredith, William C. Cottrill, Rick K. Tipton