Destination Address Patents (Class 340/3.54)
  • Patent number: 11563613
    Abstract: Using residential power lines communication (PLC) as the last hop of the CPRI-based front-haul to the indoor users, where unmodified time division multiplexed (TDM) CPRI hyper-frames are transported in between the outdoor distributed unit (DU) and the indoor radio unit (RU) transparently. To countermeasure the hostile environment of power lines, proposed is a novel device, called CPRI-PLC-Gateway (CPG), which serves as an agent for creating a virtual CPRI link between the DU and RU. The proposed CPG aims to meet the desired CPRI options in the presence of the noisy PLC channel while remaining completely transparent to the CPRI protocol operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Inventors: Mai Mahmoud Hassan Salem Ibrahim, Syed Hassan Raza Naqvi, Pin-Han Ho
  • Patent number: 10789002
    Abstract: Facilitating data deduplication in an elastic cloud storage environment is provided herein. A system can comprise a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise facilitating a first deduplication of first data at a first storage device based on a determination that the first storage device comprises duplicated data. The operations can also comprise sending, by the system, a request for a second deduplication at a second storage device after completion of the first deduplication at the first storage device. In addition, the operations can comprise facilitating, by the system, the second deduplication of second data at the second storage device, wherein the second data comprises a copy of the duplicated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Mikhail Danilov, Kirill Gusakov
  • Patent number: 10648692
    Abstract: A building management system includes building equipment, a metrics engine, and a visualization module. The building equipment is configured to provide raw data samples of one or more data points. The metrics engine is configured to collect the raw data samples, and calculate a first metric, a second metric, and a third metric as a function of the raw data samples. The visualization module is configured to correlate the first metric to a first dimension value, the second metric to a second dimension value, and the third metric to a third dimension value. The visualization module is also configured to generate a graphical visualization in which the first dimension value is displayed as a first dimension of the graphical visualization, the second dimension value is displayed as a second dimension of the graphical visualization, and the third dimension value is displayed as a third dimension of the graphical visualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Abhigyan Chatterjee, Rajesh C. Nayak, Barkha Shah, Dhanesh Deshmukh
  • Patent number: 9921981
    Abstract: A master device is provided which is coupled to a shared single line interrupt request (IRQ) bus and a control data bus. The master device group slave devices coupled to the shared single line IRQ bus into one or more groups, where each group is associated with a different IRQ signal. The master device then monitors the IRQ bus to ascertain when an IRQ signal is asserted by at least one slave device. The master device then identifies a group to with which the IRQ signal is associated. The slave devices for the identified group are then scanned or queried by the master device to ascertain which slave device asserted the IRQ signal on the IRQ bus. Each group uses a distinguishable IRQ signal to allow the master device to ascertain which group to query or scan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shoichiro Sengoku, Richard Dominic Wietfeldt, George Alan Wiley
  • Patent number: 9569081
    Abstract: A control method according to the present disclosure causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display a display screen on the touch panel display, the display screen representing a floor plan of a building; display device icons representing target devices on the display screen representing the floor plan, the device icons including an icon representing an electric curtain device capable of opening and closing a curtain through a remote operation; display an operation screen including an image representing the curtain of the electric curtain device as overlapped on the display screen representing the floor plan, when selection of the icon representing the electric curtain device is sensed; and output a first open control command to the network when a pinch-out operation is sensed on the operation screen, the first open control command being for opening the curtain of the electric curtain device corresponding to the selected icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takamitsu Sasaki, Eiichi Naito
  • Patent number: 9477215
    Abstract: An example of an intelligent lighting device or system is configured to control one or more parameters of light output, such as intensity, shape or distribution, color characteristics and position or orientation of light output (e.g. via a motorized luminaire control). The device or system may have other controllable output capability, e.g. display projection or audio. Sensors or other input devices are responsive to the user. Responsive to user input, the device or system, controls its light and any other output capabilities so as to present a defined persona to the user or other occupant(s) of a space illuminated by the intelligent lighting device or system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Darren Blum, Januk Aggarwal, Aaron Engel-Hall, John England
  • Patent number: 8947199
    Abstract: A controller node for an entertainment control network, comprises controller logic arranged to be paired with at least one controlled device over a wireless interface. The controller logic is further arranged to provide pairing information for the at lease one controlled device with which it is paired to a further node within the entertainment control network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Razvan-Mihai Lucaci, Victor Berrios, Bogdan Hobinca, Nicusor Penisoara
  • Patent number: 8614620
    Abstract: In a method for parametering a field device of process automation technology, wherein the field device is connected via a bus system with a control unit, parameter values are packaged in telegrams of cyclic services and transmitted to the field device whose parameter values are to be changed. No acyclic services are required for changing parameter values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Alain Chomik, Udo Fuchs, Pierre Harnist
  • Patent number: 8502649
    Abstract: Systems and methods convey information from a controller to at least one slave unit using a single wire referenced to an alternating current (AC) power supply. A control signal has a high voltage and a low voltage. The high voltage is greater than a voltage midpoint of the AC power supply and the low voltage is less than the voltage midpoint. The control signal is conveyed through the single wire to each of the at least one slave unit. At each slave unit, a comparison voltage, representative of the voltage midpoint, is generated by dividing substantially midway the potentials between the power lines of the AC power supply and the control signal is compared to the comparison voltage to determine low and high states of the control signal; the low and high states represent the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Albeo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Van Laanen
  • Patent number: 8289137
    Abstract: Distributed execution of residential device control is disclosed. A system state definition is received for a plurality of residential devices. A set of instructions for the plurality of residential devices is composed based at least in part on the system state definition. For each of the plurality of residential devices, the set of instructions is filtered to identify a subset of instructions for a residential device. At least a portion of the set of instructions is distributed to the residential device, so that the identified subset of instructions for the residential device can be executed by the residential device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Inventor: David S. Labuda
  • Patent number: 8253544
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method of remote control which can enable real time operation of a device in home from a terminal device at remote location through a network are provided. A first server communicates with a terminal device through the Internet and generates device control data for controlling the device. A second server communicates with the device in a predetermined manner to acquire and store a specific address of the device, generates transmission data for transmission of the received device control data from the first server to the device based on the specific address, and transmits the transmission data to the device. This allows real time control of the device from the terminal device through the network to be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Hirose, Ryuichi Sakai
  • Patent number: 8198980
    Abstract: A geodesic locator system having an input for receiving a user-inputted numeric code in a format limited solely to digits and expressed by a fixed code length. The system associates the received numeric code with a unique geographical area on the Earth's surface and communicates that area to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Inventor: Dale J. Luger
  • Patent number: 8130085
    Abstract: A power line communication apparatus, device control apparatus, and device control method are disclosed. By controlling the phase of AC power with reference to a zero cross point during power line communication, the power line communication apparatus enables not only data to be transmitted and received in a manner robust against noise and impedance but also the receiving end to be miniaturized. The power and operation of household devices can be controlled through the power line communication apparatus, thereby eliminating the need for separate communication networks when a remote control system is built in the home.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: FEELUX Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Si Chung Noh
  • Patent number: 8086756
    Abstract: In a client, a system receives a set of transformation functions for use in transforming a first content, requests the first content from a gateway, and receives the first content from the gateway, including an invocation of at least one transformation function maintained on the client. The system invokes the at least one transformation function to transform the first content to access a second content on the server. In a gateway communicating with a server, a system transmits a set of transformation functions to at least one client for use in transforming a first content, receives a request from at least one client for the first content residing on the server, rewrites the first content to include the invocation of at least one transformation function maintained on the client, and transmits the first content including the invocation of at the least one transformation function maintained on the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Valentyn Kamyshenko, Igor Plotnikov, Alexei G. Tumarkin
  • Patent number: 8014503
    Abstract: In a network system, a notifying apparatus located in the network system is specified. If a predetermined event occurs when a function execution apparatus executes its function, the occurrence of this event can be notified to the specified notifying apparatus via a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kiyotaka Ohara
  • Publication number: 20090300507
    Abstract: A wireless medical room control arrangement includes a wireless controller having a wireless router. A room identifier and a device identifier are stored in the controller. A communication interface sends commands to and receives commands from the wireless controller. In response to commands from the interface, the wireless controller sends wireless control signals to operate medical devices in the room. A room monitor adjacent a doorway provides room identifiers to medical devices and wireless controllers entering the room and provides dummy identifiers to medical devices and controllers exiting the room. The room monitors may connect to a global network processor that determines the location of the medical devices in a medical facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Prabhu Raghavan, Travis Morgan
  • Patent number: 7579960
    Abstract: A method provides for real-time asset location tracking. An asset in a wide area network, be it a utilities network or a communication network, registers itself with a network management center. The registration process includes identification of a physical location of the asset usable for mapping and tracking the asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Charles C. Cheng, Xinguo Wei
  • Patent number: 7535336
    Abstract: A network communication and messaging protocol for use in a medical perfusion system, provides the rules which govern how, among other things, information and data is conveyed between the various devices which are connect to the network. The rules define the different types of messages that are used in conveying information and data, as well as the formatting for each of those message types. The various messages provide the ability to configure the perfusion system devices, establish links between the perfusion system devices, and convey various types of information and data, even when the main network controller is unavailable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Richard M. Willems, Richard A. Nazarian, James R. Watts
  • Patent number: 7346051
    Abstract: A stacked device is disclosed which is easily manufactured while identifying a plurality of devices that are stacked in the stacked device. The stacked device includes a stack of a plurality of slave devices and a master device having identical terminal arrangements. Here, the master device includes command transmission unit configured to input an identification command to a terminal of an adjacent slave device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Nakayama, Eiji Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Saito, Yukihiro Ishimaru, Hideki Iwaki
  • Patent number: 7148786
    Abstract: A network communication and messaging protocol for use in a medical perfusion system, provides the rules which govern how, among other things, information and data is conveyed between the various devices which are connect to the network. The rules define the different types of messages that are used in conveying information and data, as well as the formatting for each of those message types. The various messages provide the ability to configure the perfusion system devices, establish links between the perfusion system devices, and convey various types of information and data, even when the main network controller is unavailable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Richard M. Willems, Richard A. Nazarian, James R. Watts
  • Patent number: 7129823
    Abstract: A communications setting method for a communications network system for performing data communications among a plurality of devices through power line has a house code notification including a house code to be uniquely set for the communications network system is transmitted from a first device in the communications network system to a second device in the communications network system more than once in a first predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Shintani, Shigeo Yoshida, Akira Koji
  • Patent number: 7119708
    Abstract: An apparatus and method combine visual addresses and electronic addresses for identification of electronic units. In which, the apparatus is one device per electronic unit. Each device comprises a circuit board encapsulated in a device enclosure, and the circuit board provides electronic identification for the electronic unit. The electronic identification of the electronic unit is communicated via bus pins attached to the circuit board to the electronic unit upon the bus pins being inserted into the electronic unit. A cabinet label is affixed to the device enclosure provides visual identification for the electronic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Avaya Technology Corp
    Inventor: Larry Dale Newell
  • Patent number: 7053752
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to control systems and provides a run time configurable control system for selecting and operating one of a plurality of operating room devices from a single input source, the system comprising a master controller having a voice control interface and means for routing control signals. The system additionally may include a plurality of slave controllers to provide expandability of the system. Also, the system includes output means for generating messages to the user relating to the status of the control system in general and to the status of devices connected thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical
    Inventors: Yulun Wang, Charles S. Jordan, Darrin R. Uecker, Charles C. Wooters
  • Publication number: 20040124964
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to control systems and provides a run time configurable control system for selecting and operating one of a plurality of operating room devices from a single input source, the system comprising a master controller having a voice control interface and means for routing control signals. The system additionally may include a plurality of slave controllers to provide expandability of the system. Also, the system includes output means for generating messages to the user relating to the status of the control system in general and to the status of devices connected thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Applicant: Computer Motion, Inc.
    Inventors: Yulun Wang, Charles S. Jordan, Darrin R. Uecker, Charles C. Wooters
  • Patent number: 6744348
    Abstract: In a security system that has a large number of individually-addressable modules interconnected on a data bus to a control panel, a method of concurrently supervising the modules by first configuring each module with a unique zone number including a group number and a module number. During operation, the control panel initiates a group supervision poll sequence for each group number by transmitting a group poll command including a group number data field populated by the group number currently being polled. If a module is part of the group being polled, then it sets a discrete bit appended to a group poll response message that logically corresponds to the module number for that module. The control panel then determines if any bit in the group poll response message has not been set, and then issues a unit poll sequence addressed to a module that corresponds to any such bit not determined to have been set in the group poll response message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Francis C. Marino, Tony Tung Sing Li
  • Patent number: 6727813
    Abstract: An alarm notifying device comprises a circuit which performs communications via a communication line, a circuit which detects a signal indicative of an operating condition of a facility to be monitored, and an alarm signal sent therefrom, and a CPU. The alarm notifying device notifies an alarm to the outside when the alarm signal is detected. The alarm notifying device has the function of receiving a mail, the function of analyzing the contents of a text of the received mail, and the function of changing information lying inside the device according to the contents of the text of the received mail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Techno Engineering Co., Ltd., Hitchi Keiyo Engineering & Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Iwasaki, Ichiro Takahashi, Seigo Kurokawa, Kiyohiro Nakano, Manabu Fujimoto, Kouji Kakuta, Hiromitsu Kaneko
  • Patent number: 6683526
    Abstract: A communications system is provided for communicating information to and from recipients scattered over wide geographic areas. A computer controlled head end communications interface adds address information to a message in accordance with who the intended recipients are. A media router directs the message through appropriate transport media in accordance with the address information. Preferably, the messages are communicated, at least in part, over existing paging systems. Additional transport media include existing power distribution networks, twisted wire pairs and fiber optics networks. Bi-directional reporting capability is provided. The system is well-suited for applications such as remote reading of utility meters, communication of emergency warnings, bi-directional alarm reporting, time synchronization, and encryption/authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Inventor: Robert W. Bellin
  • Patent number: 6646541
    Abstract: A control system for controlling a plurality of medical devices. The control system includes a controller that receives select and control commands from an input device. The controller compares the select commands and control commands to corresponding lists of commands. The controller provides an output signal to control the medical device if there is a match between the commands and the lists of commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Computer Motion, Inc.
    Inventors: Yulun Wang, Charles S. Jordan, Darrin R. Uecker, Charles C. Wooters
  • Patent number: 6642836
    Abstract: A control system for selecting and operating one of a plurality of operating room devices from a single input source, the system includes a master controller that has a voice control interface and can route control signals. The system additionally may include a plurality of slave controllers to provide expandability of the system. Also, the system may generate messages to the user relating to the status of the control system in general and to the status of devices connected thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Computer Motion, Inc.
    Inventors: Yulun Wang, Charles S. Jordan, Darrin R. Uecker, Charles C. Wooters
  • Publication number: 20030197590
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to control systems and provides a run time configurable control system for selecting and operating one of a plurality of operating room devices from a single input source, the system comprising a master controller having a voice control interface and means for routing control signals. The system additionally may include a plurality of slave controllers to provide expandability of the system. Also, the system includes output means for generating messages to the user relating to the status of the control system in general and to the status of devices connected thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Inventors: Yulun Wang, Charles S. Jordan, Darrin R. Uecker, Charles C. Wooters
  • Patent number: 6633581
    Abstract: A data transfer system capable of effectively performing serial communication by dividing communication lines into one or plural systems and using the divided lines, according to the number of communication IC's connected on the communication line and a load condition connected to the communication IC is provided. In this system, plural communication lines 410 and 411 are prepared, and the lines 410 and 411 are time divisionally selected according to the contents of connection information set in a select register 462, whereby the serial communication between communication IC's 402 to 405 and a communication controller 401 can be effectively performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Soya
  • Patent number: 6476728
    Abstract: The invention intends to provide an apparatus and a method capable of measuring power consumption in a home office and informing an integrated value of the power consumption at certain intervals to an employer of a homeworker, etc. The apparatus supplies power to electric equipment connected to the apparatus, measures an amount of power consumed by the electric equipment, and stores it as an integrated amount of power consumption. The apparatus then reports the integrated amount of power consumption at certain intervals to an outside company or organization registered in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 6448901
    Abstract: A controller area network (CAN) has a plurality of nodes connected to transmit and receive data over a serial data line using an interface circuit to connect the node to the data line. Each interface circuit includes an isolation element, typically a diode, to connect the interface circuit to the data line. An indicator element in the interface circuit is powered when the node is transmitting. The isolation element in each node prevents other nodes while transmitting, from powering the indicator element in its node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc
    Inventors: John T. Adams, Steven C. Nichols
  • Publication number: 20020047774
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless home automation system having a controller for controlling a broad variety of functions via two ways communication with a plurality of devices. More specifically, the invention relates to systems having two or more controllers for controlling devices, wherein information related to the system can be shared between controllers, e.g. by updating a second controller with the newly learned information of a first controller, or by replicating a controller by making a second controller a complete copy of a first controller. The information can be shared by, in a first controller, generating and transmitting signals comprising device identifiers of devices controlled by the first controller, receiving said signals at a second controller, and storing said device identifiers in an organized data structure in a memory of the second controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventors: Carlos Melia Christensen, Jesper Knudsen
  • Publication number: 20020047775
    Abstract: A system for managing a distributed array of appliances includes a distributed array of the units, at least some of the relay units being appliance controllers having an appliance interface. At least some communications are relayed through at least two other relay units for coverage over a wide range using low power transceivers, based on automatically generated routing tables that are maintained in the relay units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventors: Byron del Castillo, Diane L. Ginsburg, Robert C. Rosen
  • Publication number: 20020044042
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless home automation system having a controller for controlling a broad variety of functions via two ways communication with a plurality of devices. More specifically, the invention relates to a new and flexible way of establishing a wireless network by using devices which functions as both input/output devices and repeaters. By establishing an even distribution of dual-functionality devices, the user can reach any device without use of dedicated repeater stations. The controllers and devices of the system comprises means for generating a signal comprising a destination identifier, instructions related to the input/output of the destination or source device, and a repeater identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Inventors: Carlos Melia Christensen, Jesper Knudsen