Patents by Inventor Usha H. Venkatesh

Usha H. Venkatesh 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: 6801865
    Abstract: A commodity-meter management system including commodity meters (e.g., electrical energy meters, gas meters, and/or water meters), one or more servers, and a communications application to communicate between the meters and the servers. The meters are connected to the servers via communication mediums. The communications application can communicate bi-directionally in real-time between the meters and the servers via the communication mediums. The communications application can determine the actual configuration parameters according to which the meter is operating at any given time. In order to detect theft of a commodity, the communications application can compare the actual configuration parameters to default configuration parameters. If the actual and default configuration parameters are not equal, substantially equal, or within a predetermined threshold, the communications application indicates that a tamper event has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Engage Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan M. Gilgenbach, Richard Armbrust, Daniel J. Collins, James P. Conigliaro, Jeffery Zingsheim, Timothy A. Beck, Usha H. Venkatesh, Andrew H. Aiken, Kenneth G. Dunahee
  • Publication number: 20030179714
    Abstract: A commodity-meter management system including commodity meters (e.g., electrical energy meters, gas meters, and/or water meters), one or more servers, and a communications application to communicate between the meters and the servers. The meters are connected to the servers via communication mediums. The communications application can communicate bi-directionally in real-time between the meters and the servers via the communication mediums. The communications application can determine the actual configuration parameters according to which the meter is operating at any given time. In order to detect theft of a commodity, the communications application can compare the actual configuration parameters to default configuration parameters. If the actual and default configuration parameters are not equal, substantially equal, or within a predetermined threshold, the communications application indicates that a tamper event has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Alan M. Gilgenbach, Richard Armbrust, Daniel J. Collins, James P. Conigliaro, Jeffery Zingsheim, Timothy A. Beck, Usha H. Venkatesh, Andrew H. Aiken, Kenneth G. Dunahee