Patents by Inventor Wilfred Steiner

Wilfred Steiner 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).

  • Autocratic low complexity gateway/ guardian strategy and/or simple local guardian strategy for flexray or other distributed time-triggered protocol
    Patent number: 8204037
    Abstract: A special node is used in a distributed time-triggered cluster. The special node comprises protocol functionality to establish a time base to use in communicating with a plurality of end nodes and to source timing-related frames to the plurality of end nodes in accordance with the distributed time-triggered communication protocol. The protocol functionality establishes the time base without regard to any timing-related frame sourced from any of the plurality of end nodes. In one embodiment, the protocol functionality of the special node is implemented in a low complexity manner. In one embodiment, the cluster comprises a star topology and the special node performs at least one of semantic filtering and rate enforcement. In another embodiment, the cluster comprises a bus or peer-to-peer topology and each end node is coupled to the communication channel using a low-complexity special local bus guardian.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Poledna, Martin Schwarz, Guenther Bauer, Wilfred Steiner, Brendan Hall, Michael Paulitsch
  • AUTOCRATIC LOW COMPLEXITY GATEWAY/ GUARDIAN STRATEGY AND/OR SIMPLE LOCAL GUARDIAN STRATEGY FOR FlexRay OR OTHER DISTRIBUTED TIME-TRIGGERED PROTOCOL
    Publication number: 20090141744
    Abstract: A special node is used in a distributed time-triggered cluster. The special node comprises protocol functionality to establish a time base to use in communicating with a plurality of end nodes and to source timing-related frames to the plurality of end nodes in accordance with the distributed time-triggered communication protocol. The protocol functionality establishes the time base without regard to any timing-related frame sourced from any of the plurality of end nodes. In one embodiment, the protocol functionality of the special node is implemented in a low complexity manner. In one embodiment, the cluster comprises a star topology and the special node performs at least one of semantic filtering and rate enforcement. In another embodiment, the cluster comprises a bus or peer-to-peer topology and each end node is coupled to the communication channel using a low-complexity special local bus guardian.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Stefan Poledna, Martin Schwarz, Guenther Bauer, Wilfred Steiner, Brendan Hall, Michael Paulitsch