Patents by Inventor William C. Elkington

William C. Elkington 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).

  • System and method for providing wireless telematics store and forward messaging for peer-to-peer and peer-to-peer-to-infrastructure a communication network
    Patent number: 6580981
    Abstract: A system and method for sending and receiving messages, such as status or request-for-help messages, automatically between mobile nodes and ultimately to an appropriate destination via a wireless infrastructure. When a node determines that such infrastructure is not available, the node will communicate the necessary information to another mobile node located in, for instance, a vehicle. In this case, the receiving node stores the information, then transmits the information from that node to the wireless infrastructure equipment, so that the infrastructure can forward the message to an appropriate destination once such equipment is in range of this second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: MeshNetworks, Inc.
    Inventors: Garahi Masood, William C. Elkington