Patents by Inventor Shivashankar Balu

Shivashankar Balu 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).

  • RECEIVER-BASED LINK-LAYER PROTOCOL
    Publication number: 20080181130
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of nodes. Each node comprises a transceiver to communicate with at least one of the other nodes over a communication medium. Each node has an associated logical, repeating time period, where each time period comprises a first portion in which the respective node is in a listen mode in which the respective node listens on the communication medium and a second portion in which the respective node is an inactive mode in which the respective node is operated in a low-power mode. When a sending node included in the plurality of nodes intends to transmit data via the communication medium to a destination node included in the plurality of nodes, the sending node attempts to transmit the data to the destination node via the communication medium when the destination node is in the listen mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Shivashankar Balu, Atish Datta Chowdhury