Patents by Inventor Robert J. Swindells

Robert J. Swindells 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).

  • Patent number: 7334041
    Abstract: An improved vehicle communications interface (VCI) is both economical and readily adaptable for running new software. The improved VCI includes a server coupled to a bank of processors. The server can communicate with a host, and the processors can communicate with different vehicle networks. Each processor includes a state machine and a media access controller for a particular vehicle network. The state machine identifies incoming messages that require real time responses and provides the requisite responses directly back to the network, without involvement of the server. Real time requirements of the server are thus relieved, allowing the server to run a non-real time, mainstream operating system for which new product software is readily available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Teradyne, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Swindells, Christopher Roberts