Patents by Inventor Robin L. Anderson

Robin L. Anderson 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: 7747702
    Abstract: A remote access device is disclosed for capturing, digitizing and communicating video signals from a host computer to a remote computer. The remote computer returns keyboard and mouse signals through the remote access device to the host computer to control the host computer as though the remote keyboard and mouse were directly connected to the host computer. The remote access device includes a circuit module interface for the host computer that allows the remote access device to operate independently of any operating system characteristics associated with the host computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Avocent Huntsville Corporation
    Inventors: Robin L. Anderson, Ronald J. Perholtz, Dennis Hawkins
  • Patent number: 7555567
    Abstract: A keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) switching protocol is disclosed in which KVM information is applied to a network of workstations. At least one data converter communicates on the workstation network and retrieves KVM information from the workstation network that is addressed to a server assigned to the converter. The converter places the KVM information in a format suitable to the assigned server and applies the converted KVM information to the appropriate standard device ports of the server. The system provides motherboard access to the servers that is characteristics of KVM switches but provides essentially unlimited scalability not known in traditional KVM switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Avocent Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher L. Thomas, Robin L. Anderson, Robert L. Gilgen, Mark DesMarais, William J. Pinkston, Jamie F. Collins, Stephan Schulz
  • Patent number: 7349956
    Abstract: A remote access device is disclosed for capturing, digitizing and communicating video signals from a host computer to a remote computer. The remote computer returns keyboard and mouse signals through the remote access device to the host computer to control the host computer as though the remote keyboard and mouse were directly connected to the host computer. The remote access device includes a circuit module interface for the host computer that allows the remote access device to operate independently of any operating system characteristics associated with the host computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Avocent Huntsville Corporation
    Inventors: Robin L. Anderson, Ronald J. Perholtz, Dennis Hawkins
  • Patent number: 6681250
    Abstract: A keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) switching protocol is disclosed in which KVM information is applied to a network of workstations. At least one data converter communicates on the workstation network and retrieves KVM information from the workstation network that is addressed to a server assigned to the converter. The converter places the KVM information in a format suitable to the assigned server and applies the converted KVM information to the appropriate standard device ports of the server. The system provides motherboard access to the servers that is characteristics of KVM switches but provides essentially unlimited scalability not known in traditional KVM switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Avocent Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher L. Thomas, Robin L. Anderson, Robert L. Gilgen, Mark DesMarais, William J. Pinkston, Jamie F. Collins, Stephan Schulz
  • Publication number: 20030217123
    Abstract: A remote access device is disclosed for capturing, digitizing and communicating video signals from a host computer to a remote computer. The remote computer returns keyboard and mouse signals through the remote access device to the host computer to control the host computer as though the remote keyboard and mouse were directly connected to the host computer. The remote access device includes a circuit module interface for the host computer that allows the remote access device to operate independently of any operating system characteristics associated with the host computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: Robin L. Anderson, Ronald J. Perholtz, Dennis Hawkins
  • Patent number: 6633905
    Abstract: A remote access device is disclosed for capturing, digitizing and communicating video signals from a host computer to a remote computer. The remote computer returns keyboard and mouse signals through the remote access device to the host computer to control the host computer as though the remote keyboard and mouse were directly connected to the host computer. The remote access device includes a circuit module interface for the host computer that allows the remote access device to operate independently of any operating system characteristics associated with the host computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Avocent Huntsville Corporation
    Inventors: Robin L. Anderson, Ronald J. Perholtz, Dennis Hawkins
  • Patent number: 5787527
    Abstract: A cover for a child's rest mat includes an upper cover section and a lower cover section that conforms to the upper cover section and is interconnected thereto along respective peripheral edges of the upper and lower cover sections to form an interior space. An opening is formed into the interior space through one of the upper and lower cover sections exclusively. A child's rest mat is inserted into the interior space though the opening and the upper and lower cover section have a size and shape such that the cover snugly engages the mat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Inventor: Robin L. Anderson
  • Patent number: 4142695
    Abstract: A vehicle guidance system wherein a vehicle is guided in either a command guidance mode or a homing guidance mode. In the command guidance mode, the target tracking element, used during the homing guidance mode serves as an inertial reference element. Such element is attitude stabilized in pitch and yaw by mechanically driven means used in both modes, such means driving the reference element with respect to the vehicle's body and, in roll, by the vehicle's roll autopilot to aerodynamically control the vehicle's attitude in roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1971
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1979
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: John A. Remmell, Frank Blitzer, Robin L. Anderson, Robert G. Dietrich