Robert J Willett

US Patent:

46351876, Jan 6, 1987

Filed:

Dec 19, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/563255

Inventors:

Donna M. Baron - Joliet IL
David E. Espenlaub - Carol Stream IL
Vicki A. Haines - Wheaton IL
Gerald A. Inberg - Naperville IL
Steve A. Shilling - Wheaton IL
James B. Truesdale - Wheaton IL
Robert J. Willett - Winfield IL

Assignee:

AT&T Bell Laboratories - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

G06F 900

US Classification:

364200

Abstract:

In a multiprocessing system, a method of efficiently maintaining a program process active while also ensuring that the process is deactivated when no longer needed. One or more subordinate processes are linked to a controlling process. Each subordinate process has an associated overall timer. As long as the controlling process keeps sending periodic keep-alive messages to a subordinate process, the associated overall timer is prevented from timing out. When the controlling process stops sending keep-alive messages, the associated overall timer times out and the subordinate process is deactivated.

US Patent:

20150163458, Jun 11, 2015

Filed:

Dec 8, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/563283

Inventors:

- Los Angeles CA, US
Jafar Adibi - Los Angeles CA, US
Robert Willett - Eden Prairie MN, US

International Classification:

H04N 7/18
G06T 11/00
H04N 5/232
G06K 9/46
G06K 9/62

Abstract:

A system, method and computer program product for locating entities in a compartmented area, including a plurality of sensors devices distributed throughout a plurality of compartments of an area, respectively, and configured to locate entities within each of the compartments of the area; a counting device configured to count a number of the located entities within each of the compartments of the area based on information gathered by the sensors devices; and a display device configured to display the located entries within each of the compartments of the area based on information gathered by the counting device.

US Patent:

20150163627, Jun 11, 2015

Filed:

Dec 8, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/563156

Inventors:

- Los Angeles CA, US
Anuj Rattan Jaiswal - Culver City CA, US
Emil Ettelaie - Los Angeles CA, US
Namhee Kwon - Redondo Beach CA, US
Mahdi Hadjishafiee - Laguna Niguel CA, US
Vivek Basalingappa Hungund - Culver City CA, US
Samuel Kim - Torrance CA, US
Robert Willett - Eden Prairie MN, US

International Classification:

H04W 4/02
H04W 4/22

Abstract:

A system, method and computer program product for requesting help and providing feedback, including a user mobile device, a database, and a service provider device coupled over a communications network. The user mobile device includes a user application that contacts the database and transmits a location of the user mobile device, information regarding the mobile device user, and a service provider name the over the communications network. The database receives the transmitted information from the user mobile device over the communications network. The database, based on the information received from the user mobile device, transmits the location of the user mobile device, and the user information to the service provider device over the communications network. The service provider device includes a service provider application that receives the transmitted information from the database, and displays on the service provider device the user mobile device location, and the user information.