Patents by Inventor Robert Warren Hepler

Robert Warren Hepler 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).

  • Repeater pass-through messaging
    Patent number: 8837346
    Abstract: Embodiments of this invention include a network communications stack for a system for communicating data over a network. A media access control (MAC) layer running on a radio processor of the communications stack at least partially processes messages received from a network, i.e., before the message is passed to a host processor. Specifically, the MAC layer includes software configured to analyze a destination address contained in the message, and determine whether the destination address contained in the message matches a destination address programmed in the MAC layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Bradley Richard Ree, Robert Warren Hepler, Ryan Marc LaFrance, Vernon Meadows
  • ASSIGNING TOWER MULTICAST ADDRESS TO ELECTRONIC UTILITY METERS
    Publication number: 20120319865
    Abstract: A system including a computer device configured to associate a tower multicast address with a first radio frequency (RF) tower; and assign the tower multicast address to each of a plurality of electronic utility meters communicating through the first RF tower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Bradley Richard Ree, Robert Warren Hepler, Ryan Marc LaFrance
  • REPEATER PASS-THROUGH MESSAGING
    Publication number: 20120307708
    Abstract: Embodiments of this invention include a network communications stack for a system for communicating data over a network. A media access control (MAC) layer running on a radio processor of the communications stack at least partially processes messages received from a network, i.e., before the message is passed to a host processor. Specifically, the MAC layer includes software configured to analyze a destination address contained in the message, and determine whether the destination address contained in the message matches a destination address programmed in the MAC layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Bradley Richard Ree, Robert Warren Hepler, Ryan Marc LaFrance, Vernon Meadows