Bin Chen

US Patent:

D653287, Jan 31, 2012

Filed:

Aug 30, 2010

Appl. No.:

29/368778

Inventors:

Anastasia Taylor - San Diego CA, US
Bin Chen - North Royalton OH, US
Allison Marsh - Ravenna OH, US
Johnathan Talbot - Bay Village OH, US
Tiger Qiao - Shanghai, CN
Jerry Guo - Shanghai, CN
Eva Jin - Shanghai, CN
Dave Sapp - North Ridgeville OH, US
Seth Larson - Lakewood OH, US

Assignee:

American Greetings Corporation - Cleveland OH

International Classification:

1901

US Classification:

D19 2

US Patent:

D657415, Apr 10, 2012

Filed:

Dec 13, 2011

Appl. No.:

29/408445

Inventors:

Anastasia Taylor - San Diego CA, US
Bin Chen - North Royalton OH, US
Allison Marsh - Ravenna OH, US
Johnathan Talbot - Bay Village OH, US
Tiger Qiao - Shanghai, CN
Jerry Guo - Shanghai, CN
Eva Jin - Shanghai, CN
Dave Sapp - North Ridgeville OH, US
Seth Larson - Lakewood OH, US

Assignee:

American Greetings Corporation - Cleveland OH

International Classification:

1901

US Classification:

D19 2

US Patent:

20120226930, Sep 6, 2012

Filed:

Mar 2, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/411118

Inventors:

Erik Colban - San Diego CA, US
George Calcev - Hoffman Estates IL, US
Bin Chen - Schaumburg IL, US
George Cummings - Gilbert AZ, US

Assignee:

FutureWei Technologies, Inc. - Plano TX

International Classification:

G06F 1/28

US Classification:

713340

Abstract:

A method for reporting a power outage to a communications controller includes detecting the power outage, and selecting a transmission slot from a plurality of transmission slots in order to report the power outage to the communications controller, the transmission slot selected according to a non-uniform probability distribution function, the non-uniform probability distribution function is monotonic with time after the power outage. The method also includes transmitting a first power outage indicator to the communications controller in the transmission slot selected.