Patents by Inventor William E. LeRette

William E. LeRette 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).

  • Dynamic host profiles for option modules
    Patent number: 9391797
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention support different products having a host device and a communications device. The host device may interact with the communications device to exchange messages containing data objects over a fieldbus network for transporting messages containing data objects. Read/write requests to the fieldbus data objects may be answered locally in the communications device, or the fieldbus data object may be mapped to host data when host access is required. The communications device stores a profile image associated with a designated host type, so that the communications device may map the data object to host data for the host device and then exchange the host data with the host device. The communications device may subsequently interact with a different host type if a corresponding profile image is downloaded to the memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald H. Naismith, William E. LeRette, Achim Zimmermann
  • Dynamic Host Profiles for Option Modules
    Publication number: 20120151017
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention support different products having a host device and a communications device. The host device may interact with the communications device to exchange messages containing data objects over a fieldbus network for transporting messages containing data objects. Read/write requests to the fieldbus data objects may be answered locally in the communications device, or the fieldbus data object may be mapped to host data when host access is required. The communications device stores a profile image associated with a designated host type, so that the communications device may map the data object to host data for the host device and then exchange the host data with the host device. The communications device may subsequently interact with a different host type if a corresponding profile image is downloaded to the memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald H. Naismith, William E. LeRette, Achim Zimmemann