Patents by Inventor Steven A. Murphy

Steven A. Murphy 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: 5583505
    Abstract: A radar pulse detection and classification system receives times-of-arrival of pulses from simultaneous emitters over a wide range of pulse repetition frequencies (PRF's). The pulses are deinterleaved into bands of pulse repetition intervals (PRI's) so that a fixed number of pulses are required for detection of an emitter regardless of the PRI of the emitter. The pulse periodicities of the pulses in a pulse stream are determined by autocorrelation, and candidate emitter PRI's are selected from the pulse periodicities which were determined by autocorrelation. The pulses of candidate emitters are time-integrated to obtain time-integrated signals, and emitters are detected from peaks in the time-integrated signals. The time-continuity of said pulses are measured to determine emitter existence. The system receives pulses from both jittered and non-jittered emitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: David P. Andersen, Steven A. Murphy
  • Patent number: 4833468
    Abstract: A Layered Network system may provide varying cost from order NlogN low-cost networds, to completely-routing, fully-Layered networks with cots of order Nlog .sup.3 N. Layered networks are composed of switches and point-to-point connections between them. These networks establish connections from requestors to responders by relaying "requests" through the switches. Each switch has built-in control logic to route requests and responses. The switch setting is determined using the comparison of the request with the request's current location in the network, and with locally competing requests. To provide distributed routing without a centralized controller, each switch routes the requests using only the information contained in the requests that switch handles. The switch setting is remembered in order to route the responses on the same paths as the associated requests, but in the reverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventors: Brian R. Larson, Donald B. Bennett, Steven A. Murphy