Patents by Inventor Robert Baxter Chambers, II

Robert Baxter Chambers, II 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).

  • Methods and systems for managing and controlling an automation control module system
    Patent number: 7904583
    Abstract: A web-enabled automation control module (ACM) system includes at least one network module configured to receive a request for a file from the network, a web server and database module located outside the network module and including a database configured to store the file, and an ACM central processing unit (CPU) configured to send ACM data to the web server and database module to embed ACM data in the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: GE Fanuc Automation North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Baxter Chambers, II, Ferrell Mercer
  • Methods and systems for management and control of an automation control module
    Patent number: 7590712
    Abstract: An automation control module (ACM) includes an ACM central processing unit (CPU), a backplane electrically coupled to the ACM CPU, and a web system embedded within the ACM and electrically coupled to the ACM CPU and backplane. The web system includes a secure web server and is configured to process hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) requests from a network to program and configure the ACM through the network. The HTTP requests are received by the secure web server and transmitted by the secure web server directly the ACM CPU without using the backplane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: GE Fanuc Automation North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Baxter Chambers, II, David Scott Collier, Ferrell Louis Mercer, Jason Daniel Kadingo, Robert Francis Newman, David Charles Elliott, David J. Hietanen
  • Method and system for management and control of an automation control module
    Patent number: 7536475
    Abstract: An automation control module (ACM) is provided that includes an ACM central processing unit (CPU), a backplane and a SOAP/XML and web server system electrically coupled to the backplane and to the ACM CPU. The SOAP/XML and web server system is embedded within the automation control module (ACM) and is configured to process simple object access protocol (SOAP)/extensible markup language (XML) requests from a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: GE Fanuc Automation North America, Inc.
    Inventors: David Scott Collier, Daniel H. Miller, Robert Baxter Chambers, II, Ferrell Louis Mercer, Jason Daniel Kadingo, Brad J. Bolfing, David Charles Elliott
  • Methods and apparatus for updating electronic system programs and program blocks during substantially continued system execution
    Patent number: 6779176
    Abstract: A method of implementing program updates in an electronic system includes requesting the system to accept a program update and loading replacement programs for execution. The method includes using an operating system to determine when programs running on an electronic system have finished an execution cycle and then commencing the replacement process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert Baxter Chambers, II, Abdulaziz M. Ibrahim