Daniel F Thornton

US Patent:

20090172373, Jul 2, 2009

Filed:

Jan 2, 2008

Appl. No.:

11/968598

Inventors:

Antonio Sousa Lopes - Mineola NY, US
Sharif M. Ibrahim - Smithtown NY, US
Mark F. Bonfiglio - Ronkonkoma NY, US
Daniel Thomas Thornton - Bellport NY, US

International Classification:

G06F 9/24

US Classification:

713 1

Abstract:

An Automotive Infotainment Power Controller. It utilizes a PIC Micro-Controller, TCP/IP Stack, and a 10 Mbit Ethernet connection as an industry-standard interface by which the Automotive Infotainment Power Controller is connected to any number of Personal Computers. This infrastructure allows custom FW to be developed for the Power Controller that can interact with PC drivers. It also opens the door for bi-directional communication between multiple Personal Computers and the Power Controller. Any number of protocols can be chosen or developed to facilitate this communication over standard Ethernet TCP/IP packets. Having this Ethernet-based communication pipeline between the Power Controller and PCs allows the system to be configured, provide diagnostic/status information, communicate with, and individually Start-Up/Shut-Down PCs connected to the system.

US Patent:

20130219383, Aug 22, 2013

Filed:

Feb 16, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/398321

Inventors:

Israel Hilerio - Kenmore WA, US
David Vaughn Winkler - Seattle WA, US
Daniel R. Thornton - Bothell WA, US
Matthew R. Cox - Kirkland WA, US
Karen Elizabeth Parker Anderson - Sammamish WA, US
Jesse D. McGatha - Sammamish WA, US
Adrian Robert Bateman - Seattle WA, US

International Classification:

G06F 9/445
G06F 15/16

US Classification:

717178

Abstract:

Various embodiments enable installable applications that are to be used on a local client machine to utilize an application cache manifest file that resides remotely, on the web, to define various resources that are to be updated and available offline after the installable application has been deployed on the local client machine Whenever the content of the manifest file is updated on the web, the installed application automatically updates its local application cache resources and allows the installed application to use those resources offline. This is done without having to install a new update of the application or burden the user with having to navigate to a location to obtain the updated content.