Patents by Inventor Yossef Llan Reich

Yossef Llan Reich 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).

  • Method and apparatus for monitoring host to tool communications
    Patent number: 7437204
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention includes a method and device for listening to communications between processes and tools, recording report and report trigger definitions, matching reports from tools with the recorded definitions, and translating messages into a context-insensitive format. Other aspects of the present invention include dynamically enhancing tool status reports, migrating processes form tool control hosts to distributed processors, and screening requests for tool status information from hosts and distributed processors. More detailed descriptions of aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: MKS Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Uzi Lev-Ami, Yossef Llan Reich