Patents by Inventor Roy W. Krueger

Roy W. Krueger 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).

  • Method and apparatus for managing communication resources using standby slots
    Patent number: 6600754
    Abstract: A method and system for managing communication resources between nodes in a network, and more particularly to a dynamic distributed multi-channel time division multiple access (TDMA) slot assignment method is presented. The method and apparatus include a set of higher level heuristics that enable the wireless channel access scheme to address predetermined characteristics of the wireless channel access system. These predetermined heuristics include using bootstrap slots, adaptive broadcast cycles, channelized neighborhoods, standby slots, speculation slots, neighbor segregation, hard circuits, and soft circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: C. David Young, Henry O. Howell, Roy W. Krueger
  • Unifying slot assignment protocol logical neighborhooding
    Patent number: 6574199
    Abstract: A heuristic logical neighborhooding technique is applied to dynamic wireless networking. Logical neighborhooding, provides for the formation of logical neighborhoods across a plurality of channels when such need arises due to increased network density. The technique utilizes a time division multiple access structure including bootstrap slots, broadcast slots, and traffic slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: C. David Young, James A. Stevens, Roy W. Krueger
  • Method and apparatus for managing communication resources using channelized neighborhoods
    Patent number: 6504829
    Abstract: A method and system for managing communication resources between nodes in a network, and more particularly to a dynamic distributed multi-channel time division multiple access (TDMA) slot assignment method is presented. The method and apparatus include a set of higher level heuristics that enable the wireless channel access scheme to address predetermined characteristics of the wireless channel access system. These predetermined heuristics include using bootstrap slots, adaptive broadcast cycles, channelized neighborhoods, standby slots, speculation slots, neighbor segregation, hard circuits, and soft circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: C. David Young, James A. Stevens, Roy W. Krueger, Michael S. Becker
  • Method and apparatus for managing communication resources using bootstrap slots
    Patent number: 6487186
    Abstract: A method and system for managing communication resources between nodes in a network, and more particularly to a dynamic distributed multi-channel time division multiple access (TDMA) slot assignment method is presented. The method and apparatus include a set of higher level heuristics that enable the wireless channel access scheme to address predetermined characteristics of the wireless channel access system. These predetermined heuristics include using bootstrap slots, adaptive broadcast cycles, channelized neighborhoods, standby slots, speculation slots, neighbor segregation, hard circuits, and soft circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: C. David Young, James A. Stevens, Roy W. Krueger, Michael S. Becker
  • Unifying slot assignment protocol multiple access system
    Patent number: 6331973
    Abstract: A method and system for managing communication resources between nodes in a network, and more particularly to a dynamic distributed multi-channel time division multiple access (TDMA) slot assignment method is presented. The method and apparatus include a set of higher level heuristics that enable the wireless channel access scheme to address predetermined characteristics of the wireless channel access system. These predetermined heuristics include using bootstrap slots, adaptive broadcast cycles, channelized neighborhoods, standby slots, speculation slots, neighbor segregation, hard circuits, and soft circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: C. David Young, Roy W. Krueger, Michael S. Becker, Henry O. Harwell, James A. Stevens
  • Method and apparatus for managing communication resources using an adaptive broadcast cycle (ABC)
    Patent number: 6317436
    Abstract: A method and system for managing communication resources between nodes in a network, and more particularly to a dynamic distributed multi-channel time division multiple access (TDMA) slot assignment method is presented. The method and apparatus include a set of higher level heuristics that enable the wireless channel access scheme to address predetermined characteristics of the wireless channel access system. These predetermined heuristics include using bootstrap slots, adaptive broadcast cycles, channelized neighborhoods, standby slots, speculation slots, neighbor segregation, hard circuits, and soft circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins
    Inventors: C. David Young, James A. Stevens, Roy W. Krueger, Michael S. Becker