Patents by Inventor Thomas P. McGovern

Thomas P. McGovern 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: 6971972
    Abstract: A methodology is disclosed for providing a physical therapy practitioner with practice-specific prescriptive exercise routine depictions as an effective way to enhance compliance of a home-based physical therapy regimen. The method comprises various steps, including assessing a given practitioner's commonly prescribed home-based exercise prescriptions, selecting certain of the exercises for comparison relative to a previously compiled digitized motion picture library containing excerpts showing various exercises. A decision is then made as to whether a representative exercise excerpt is endemic to the physical therapy practitioner. If the excerpt(s) are deemed satisfactory, DVD's are developed and provided to the practitioner. The practitioner may then properly prescribe a home-based physical therapy regimen during an office visit at which time a select set of the developed DVD materials are delivered to the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas P. McGovern, Steven L. Mayes
  • Patent number: 6836664
    Abstract: Fixed network equipment (100) initializes a channel aggregation strategy and establishes a default channel aggregation. A request for a service requiring additional bandwidth is received from a device. An updated channel aggregation is generated based upon the request and the channel aggregation strategy to create an updated channel aggregation. The updated channel aggregation is signaled to at least one mobile station (116) via an in-band message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas P. McGovern, Michael J. Crowley, James E. Eastwood, Bradley M. Hiben
  • Publication number: 20040225776
    Abstract: A method of regulating usage and/or concession eligibility in a smart card system is described herein. A card acceptance location (110) detects a presence of a smart card and determines its identification code. The card acceptance location (110) checks the identification code against a list stored locally at the card acceptance location (110). The card acceptance location (110) received the list from a second device. If the identification code of the smart card is listed on the list, the card acceptance location (110) performs an action on the smart card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Applicant: MOTOROLA, INC.
    Inventors: Sam J. DiRaimondo, Ramy P. Ayoub, Michael J. Crowley, Thomas P. McGovern, Clark D. Elmore, Steven L. Mayes
  • Patent number: 6799218
    Abstract: The device (100) includes a processor (132) coupled to a memory (134) containing a program adapted to control the processor (132) to manage communications between data communications systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas P. McGovern, Michael Joseph Crowley, James E. Eastwood, Mario F. DeRango
  • Publication number: 20020142777
    Abstract: Fixed network equipment (100) initializes a channel aggregation strategy and establishes a default channel aggregation. A request for a service requiring additional bandwidth is received from a device. An updated channel aggregation is generated based upon the request and the channel aggregation strategy to create an updated channel aggregation. The updated channel aggregation is signaled to at least one mobile station (116) via an in-band message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: MOTOROLA, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas P. McGovern, Michael J. Crowley, James E. Eastwood, Bradley M. Hiben