Having Master Control Element Patents (Class 340/2.24)
  • Patent number: 11837081
    Abstract: Remote control device and method for controlling interactions between the remote control device and a controlled appliance. The remote control device comprises a BLE interface and a battery for powering the BLE interface. Upon determination of a first condition being met, the remote control device sets the BLE interface in a standby mode where the power supplied by the battery to the BLE interface is limited to a minimal value. Upon determination of a second condition being met, the remote control device transmits one or more BLE advertising signal via the BLE interface. The remote control device receives a connection request from a controlled appliance via the BLE interface, establishes a connection between the remote control device and the controlled appliance through the BLE interface, and exchanges data with the controlled appliance via the BLE communication interface (e.g. transmission of a command for an actuator of the controlled appliance).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Distech Controls Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Chretien, Franck Forestier
  • Patent number: 11770683
    Abstract: A visiting duration corresponding to a first current location is determined, on the basis of the first current location and a destination, a first traveling duration that is necessary for a user to travel from the first current location to the destination is calculated, on the basis of a first time, the visiting duration corresponding to the first current location, and the first traveling duration, a first expected arrival time is calculated, on the basis of a first scheduled delivery time and the first expected arrival time, a first difference is calculated, a first message in accordance with the first difference is transmitted to a first information terminal of the user, and the first information terminal displays the first message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANSONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri Nishikawa, Jun Ozawa
  • Patent number: 11594124
    Abstract: Multipurpose systems can include networked devices configured to include microphones, motion sensors, video cameras, touchscreens, optical sensors, speakers, or other suitable devices. The networked devices can include networking capabilities that enable the networked device to communicate with target devices and other networked devices. A system of networked devices can identify a target location or a target device by analyzing audio signals received at microphones of the networked devices. For example, a plurality of networked devices can identify a particular networked device that is in closest proximity to a user by analyzing an audio intensity of an audio signal received at the plurality of networked devices. The identified networked device can serve as a master device that can control a state of target devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Belkin International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Yong Kim, Brian Van Harlingen
  • Patent number: 11529565
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method for constructing or providing a ride surface for an amusement attraction, such as an inflatable surfing attraction. The ride surface may be formed via the connection of a plurality of ride surface portions or segments. A mechanism may be incorporated to smooth the ride surface and define a more continuous ride surface between the plurality of ride surface portions or segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Whitewater West Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Brad Koide, Marshall Corey Myrman
  • Patent number: 11308114
    Abstract: A services platform acts as an intermediary between an existing enterprise analytic environment, and one or more underlying cloud service providers. The platform provides enterprise “big data-as-a-service,” by which an enterprise can seamlessly and easily provision new capacity for processing its analytic workload, and migrate data sources (e.g., data warehouse marts, enterprise data warehouses, analytic sandboxes, and the like) to the cloud for processing. The platform provides end-to-end enterprise class manageability of enterprise data assets, from data collection, aggregation, movement, staging and processing, all while providing service levels, security, access and governance. The platform integrates directly but seamlessly into the enterprise analytic stack, and existing analytics applications work as normal. The lifecycle of data analytics from movement to warehousing, however, is provided by the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Cazena, Inc.
    Inventor: Pratyush Moghe
  • Patent number: 11291090
    Abstract: A fixture configuration module comprises a connector configured to be removably coupled with a light fixture. The fixture configuration module also comprises fixture control circuitry communicatively coupled to the connector and configured to control the light fixture to produce light in accordance with a range of a lighting parameter. The range includes at least a subset of values supported by the light fixture for producing light. The fixture configuration module further comprises range control circuitry communicatively coupled to the fixture control circuitry and configured to wirelessly receive the range at least while the connector is uncoupled from the light fixture, and designate the range to the fixture control circuitry while the connector is coupled to the light fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: IDEAL INDUSTRIES LIGHTING LLC
    Inventors: Robert Bowser, John Roberts, Kory Liszt, Michael James Harris, Paul Pickard
  • Patent number: 11144457
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to page locality based memory access request processing in a network-on-chip (NoC) architecture. In an example implementation, the proposed method includes determining, at an arbitrator, while selecting a NoC agent from a plurality of NoC agents for request processing for a forthcoming round, if current NoC agent of current round is processing a packet stream and if said packet stream is completely processed at the end of said current round, wherein processing of the packet stream enables cluster requests to be processed at same part of said memory and enhances page locality; and re-selecting, at said arbitrator, said current NoC agent as the NoC agent for the forthcoming round if said packet stream processing is not completed at the end of said current round, so as to enable said current NoC agent to complete processing of said packet stream in said forthcoming round.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NETSPEED SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Rowlands, Joji Philip
  • Patent number: 10944694
    Abstract: This patent application relates generally to a predictive arbitration circuit for use in arbitrating access by a number of data streams to a shared resource managed by a destination (arbiter), where each data stream is associated with a number of sources competing for the shared resource, and the destination provides access to the shared resource based on the number of sources competing for the shared resource rather than just on the number of data streams. Among other things, this approach can more fairly distribute access to the shared resource among the competing sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Joseph G. Tietz, Eric C. Fromm
  • Patent number: 10462881
    Abstract: A lighting system includes a gateway device having a user input interface. The lighting system further includes a first lighting device configured to wirelessly communicate with the gateway device, and a second lighting device configured to wirelessly communicate with the gateway device. The gateway device is configured to initiate wireless communications with the first lighting device and the second lighting device in response to an input provided to the gateway device via the user input interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Geoffrey Granville Hammett, Michael Alan Lunn, William Lee Shiley, Jay Michael Sachetti
  • Patent number: 10172218
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lighting fixture that includes a driver module and at least one other module that provides a lighting fixture function, such as a sensor function, lighting network communication function, gateway function, and the like. The driver module communicates with the other modules in a master/slave scheme over a communication bus. The driver module is configured as a slave communication device, and the other modules are configured as master communication devices. As such, the other modules may initiate communications with the driver to send information to or retrieve information from the driver module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnold Motley, Joseph P. Chobot, Daniel J. Pope, John J. Trainor, Michael James Harris
  • Patent number: 10003676
    Abstract: The invention describes a network lookup engine for generating parallel network lookup requests for input packets, where each packet header is parsed and represented by a programmable parser in a format, namely a token, which is understandable by the engine. Each token can require multiple lookups in parallel in order to speed up the packet processing time. The sizes of lookup keys varies depending on the content of the input token and the protocols programmed for the engine. The engine generates a super key per token, representing all parallel lookup keys wherein the content of each key can be extracted from the super key through an associated profile identification. The network lookup engine is protocol-independent which means the conditions and rules for generating super keys are full programmable so that the engine can be reprogrammed to perform a wide variety of network features and protocols in a software-defined networking (SDN) system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Cavium, Inc.
    Inventors: Anh Tran, Tsahi Daniel, Gerald Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9880844
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to fast and conditional data modification and generation in a software-defined network (SDN) processing engine. Modification of multiple inputs and generation of multiple outputs can be performed in parallel. A size of each input or output data can be large, such as in hundreds of bytes. The processing engine includes a control path and a data path. The control path generates instructions for modifying inputs and generating new outputs. The data path executes all instructions produced by the control path. The processing engine is typically programmable such that conditions and rules for data modification and generation can be reconfigured depending on network features and protocols supported by the processing engine. The SDN processing engine allows for processing multiple large-size data flows and is efficient in manipulating such data. The SDN processing engine achieves full throughput with multiple back-to-back input and output data flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: CAVIUM, INC.
    Inventors: Anh T. Tran, Gerald Schmidt, Tsahi Daniel, Mohan Balan
  • Patent number: 9781245
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for controlling electric and electronic devices. The devices may communicate with each other in a many-to-many, peer-to-peer network to provide control functionality without the need for a central controller. Device-to-device control messages may be implemented over short range, wireless broadcast messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: AVI-On Labs, LLC
    Inventor: Eric L. Miller
  • Patent number: 9497519
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for optical switching. An optical switch device includes a first multicast switch unit; and a second multicast switch unit, wherein each of the first and second multicast switch units respectively include: multiple optical input ports; multiple optical switches; multiple optical splitters/combiners; and multiple optical output ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Oplink Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Kesheng Xu, Kun Liu, Lifu Gong, Feng Qing Zhou
  • Patent number: 8958918
    Abstract: A building optimization system for optimizing an environment of a building is disclosed. The building optimization system includes a number of building optimization switches for controlling the environment of a corresponding space in a building according to a plurality of operation modes, as well as any number of modular, interchangeable binary controllers for controlling various environmental factors of a number of zones of a building. The building optimization includes switch an A/B lighting switch having lighting controls and a graphical display. The A/B lighting switch is further connected to one or more sensors for sensing and measuring environmental data of at least one zone of the building. The building optimization switch further includes a binary controller connected with the A/B lighting switch to control an environmental variable of the zone based on user input or the environmental data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Genea Energy Partners, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith Voysey
  • Patent number: 7653442
    Abstract: A communication system is provided that includes a controller system (1), a master control (2) and at least one slave control (3). The controller system and the master control (2) are connected via a multipole connection (4). The master control (2) is adapted to receive a multipole signal via the multipole connection (4) and output an addressed signal to at least one slave control (3) via an addressable connection (7, 17). This application also discloses a method of controlling a plurality of fluid flow controls using an output (40) comprising an actuation signal arrangement (41, 41?) and an actuator (42, 42?) associated with each fluid flow control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Norgren Limited
    Inventors: Michael Dalby, Mark Densley
  • Patent number: 7551988
    Abstract: A designated function or “golden” slot for implementing and managing re-configurable SDR modules is provided. In an embodiment, the slot includes at least one radio frequency (RF) front end for providing an interface with at least one antenna. In addition, the slot may include at least one slot modem coupled to the RF front end for implementing at least one designated function and at least one input/output (I/O) module coupled to the slot modem. The designated function or “golden” slot is capable of implementing and managing the at least one designated function in a re-configurable module during standard and emergency operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel M. Wichgers, Demetri Tsamis, Terrence L. Leier, Gregory A. Arundale
  • Patent number: 7205881
    Abstract: An interconnection network has a first stage network and a second stage network and a collection of devices outside the network so that a first device is capable of sending data to a second device. The first stage network is connected to inputs of the second stage network. The first and second stage networks each have more outputs than inputs. The data is first sent from the first device to the first stage network and then from the first stage network to the second stage network. The data is sent to the second device from the second stage network. The number of inputs to a device from the second stage network exceeds the number of outputs from a device into the first stage network. The latency through the entire system may be a fixed constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Interactic Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Coke S. Reed, David Murphy
  • Patent number: 6545586
    Abstract: A theatre system operating in compliance with the DMX512 protocol is also able to support remote channel assignment of the various theatre devices included therein as well as other auxiliary operating modes by establishing a device hierarchy based on unique ID numbers assigned to the theatre devices when DMX communication is inactive. The theatre devices communicate with each other bi-directionally to establish a device hierarchy. Each theatre device has a pre-assigned unique device identification number, and a hierarchy is established based on these unique ID numbers. One way to establish a hierarchy is to create a list of the unique device identification numbers of the bi-directional theatre devices in the system, and then determine the position of each theatre device on the list. The list may be assembled by one of the bi-directional theatre devices and broadcast to all when completed, or each bi-directional theatre device may itself assemble a complete list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Inventor: Richard S. Belliveau
  • Patent number: 6307854
    Abstract: A self-routing switch such as a Banyan switch has a controller which recognizes incoming routing requests which would give rise to blocking in the switch and makes and optimum selection of queued requests which can be handled without blocking. The controller is implemented by means of an optical neural network having a light source array to illuminate a photodetector array through a mask, there being a light source array element and a photodetector element for each possible path through the switch. The assignment of paths to array locations is such that, for the path corresponding to any light source array element, the photodetector array element positions corresponding to the paths blocked thereby form a pattern which is a shifted version of the pattern formed by the photodetector array elements corresponding to the paths blocked by a path corresponding to any other light source array element, whereby a single mask may be employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited company
    Inventor: Roderick Peter Webb