Patents by Inventor Robert McGurrin

Robert McGurrin 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: 9036618
    Abstract: Method and system for providing voice assisted configuration on an IP telephone in a non-DHCP environment includes detecting a data packet including the IP telephone terminal MAC address, transmitting a configuration terminal MAC address in response to detected IP telephone MAC address, and configuring the IP telephone terminal in the non-DHCP layer 2 environment by assigning an IP address, a gateway address, a subnet mask, and additional parameters such as audio and noise level adjustment so that the IP telephone terminal is configured to fully function in the data network. Additional VOIP telephone terminals in the local area network may be configured by the configuration terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Glenn Kosteva, Robert McGurrin, Michael McCormack, Ronald Fowler
  • Patent number: 8792475
    Abstract: Method and system for providing pass through web configuration on an IP telephone comprising the steps of establishing a data communication path in a data network, detecting a configuration parameter in the data communication path, extracting and also additionally, storing the detected configuration parameter, and performing a configuration procedure of an IP telephone associated with the configuration parameter operatively coupled to the data network is disclosed. The configuration parameter may include an Internet Protocol (IP) address, a key value pair associated with an IP address, or a valid communication address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Glenn Kosteva, Robert McGurrin, Michael McCormack, Ronald Fowler
  • Patent number: 8767974
    Abstract: Comfort noise, such as can be used in voice communications can be generated using methods in the frequency domain and/or in the time domain. In various embodiments, a comfort noise spectrum can be generated in the frequency domain as the product of a background noise sample and a random noise sample. In other embodiments, the comfort noise can be generated directly in the time domain as the convolution of a background noise sample and a random noise sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Youhong Lu, Ronald Fowler, Robert McGurrin, Jenny Q. Jin
  • Publication number: 20120275272
    Abstract: A wearable shooter localization system including a microphone array, processor, and output device for determining information about a gunshot. The microphone array may be worn by on the upper arm of the user. A second array, which may operate cooperatively or independently from the first array, may be worn on the other arm. The microphone array is sensitive to the acoustic effects of gunfire and provides a set of electrical signals to the processing unit, which identifies the origin of the fire. The system may include orientation and/or motion detection sensors, which the processor may use to either initially compute a direction to the origin of a projectile in a frame of reference meaningful to a wearer of the system or to subsequently update that direction as the wearer moves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
    Inventors: Richard Mullen, Richard Ciosek, Ronald A. Fowler, Robert McGurrin, Matthew Daily
  • Publication number: 20120182834
    Abstract: A wearable shooter localization system including a microphone array, processor, and output device for determining information about a gunshot. The microphone array may be worn by on the upper arm of the user. A second array, which may operate cooperatively or independently from the first array, may be worn on the other arm. The microphone array is sensitive to the acoustic effects of gunfire and provides a set of electrical signals to the processing unit, which identifies the origin of the fire. The system may include orientation and/or motion detection sensors, which the processor may use to either initially compute a direction to the origin of a projectile in a frame of reference meaningful to a wearer of the system or to subsequently update that direction as the wearer moves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Richard Mullen, Richard Ciosek, Ronald A. Fowler, Robert McGurrin, Matthew Daily
  • Publication number: 20120177219
    Abstract: A wearable shooter localization system including a microphone array, processor, and output device for determining information about a gunshot. The microphone array may be worn by on the upper arm of the user. A second array, which may operate cooperatively or independently from the first array, may be worn on the other arm. The microphone array is sensitive to the acoustic effects of gunfire and provides a set of electrical signals to the processing unit, which identifies the origin of the fire. The system may include orientation and/or motion detection sensors, which the processor may use to either initially compute a direction to the origin of a projectile in a frame of reference meaningful to a wearer of the system or to subsequently update that direction as the wearer moves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Richard Mullen, Richard Ciosek, Francis J. Fothergill, Robert McGurrin, Jeffrey Mazurek