Patents by Inventor Timothy D. Andersen

Timothy D. Andersen 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).

  • Efficient lightweight information dissemination algorithm for mobile wireless ad hoc networks
    Patent number: 7420954
    Abstract: A system and method for information dissemination in a wireless mobile ad hoc network. A method describes receiving a request to communicate a message from a source node to a destination, identifying each neighbor node of an ad hoc network, invoking a proactive border node broadcast protocol at the source node when the destination is a neighbor node and wherein the number of hops to the destination is less than a predetermined number of hops, invoking an on-demand border node broadcast protocol at the source node when the number of hops from the source node to the destination exceeds the predetermined number, and communicating the message from the source node based on the invoked broadcast protocol. A computer readable medium containing a computer program for information dissemination in a wireless mobile ad hoc network is also provided. Finally, a system for information dissemination in a wireless mobile ad hoc network is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Tamer A. Elbatt, Timothy D. Andersen