Patents by Inventor William C. Bonner

William C. Bonner 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).

  • Object-naming network infrastructure for identification tags and method of operation thereof
    Patent number: 7096279
    Abstract: An object-naming network infrastructure and a method of responding to queries for object names. In one embodiment, the infrastructure includes: (1) a central object name server coupled to a computer network and constituting a first hierarchical level and (2) peripheral object name servers coupled to the computer network and constituting a second hierarchical level, the central object name server responding to an object name query received from a querying system by directing the querying system to query instead one of the peripheral object name servers in the second hierarchical level, the one of the peripheral object name servers either responding to the query with an object name or directing the querying system to query instead further peripheral object name servers constituting a third hierarchical level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: RF Saw Components, Inc.
    Inventors: Clinton S. Hartmann, William C. Bonner
  • Object-naming network infrastructure for identification tags and method of operation thereof
    Publication number: 20030145036
    Abstract: An object-naming network infrastructure and a method of responding to queries for object names. In one embodiment, the infrastructure includes: (1) a central object name server coupled to a computer network and constituting a first hierarchical level and (2) peripheral object name servers coupled to the computer network and constituting a second hierarchical level, the central object name server responding to an object name query received from a querying system by directing the querying system to query instead one of the peripheral object name servers in the second hierarchical level, the one of the peripheral object name servers either responding to the query with an object name or directing the querying system to query instead further peripheral object name servers constituting a third hierarchical level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Applicant: RF SAW Components, Incorporated
    Inventors: Clinton S. Hartmann, William C. Bonner