Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130246219 | RANKING AND OPTIMIZING TRIPS - Ranking and optimizing trips for several items to be purchased is described. In one embodiment, a method for ranking shopping trips includes receiving geographic location information, receiving a product item identifier for products to be purchased, searching inventories of one or more retailers for the products to be purchased and compiling search results, generating one or more shopping trips based on the search results and a compilation metric, ranking the one or more shopping trips according to a least cost metric, and displaying the ranked shopping trips. In other aspects, ranking and optimizing shopping trips further comprises calculating at least one of a total cost for the products to be purchased, a distance and time estimate for each of the shopping trips, a time cost for each of the shopping trips, and a transportation cost for each of the shopping trips. | 09-19-2013 |
20130331960 | SYNCHRONIZING ACTION EXECUTION ACROSS NETWORKED NODES USING RELATIVE TIME - A way of synchronizing action execution across networked nodes using relative time. A command and a first time value can be received at a first networked device, where the first time value can correspond to a relative time at which an action is to occur. The command can be forwarded to another, second networked device along with a second relative time value that has been adjusted to take into account the elapsed time between the receipt of the command at the first device and the sending of the command to the second device. The action, which can include one or more events, can be caused to take place upon the execution of the command at about the first time value after the command was received at the first device and at about the second time value after the command was received at the second device. | 12-12-2013 |
20140169362 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING MULTI-LEVEL OUTPUT DEVICES IN AN UNRELIABLE NETWORK - A method and system are described that allow a device operating in coordination with other devices to synchronize the devices operation with the other devices. A controllable device processor may determine that a received data packet is a retransmission of an initial control command data packet. The processor may obtain from the retransmitted data packet a start value and a time indicator related to performance of the operation. A ramp rate related to the operation to be performed may be obtained. Using the time indicator, an adjusted ramp rate may be calculated. An output value for the device may be set based on the start value, the adjusted ramp rate, and the time indicator. The adjusted ramp rate may result in completing the operation at substantially the same time as though the device received the original command. | 06-19-2014 |
20140173059 | Device Commissioning - The disclosed subject matter may provide a system and methods for commissioning a device or appliance into a network. A processor may detect the insertion of a removable device into a data receptacle of a first device. The first device may be an appliance or a network controller. Information may be retrieved from or delivered to the removable device. The information may be information specific to the appliance, such as model number, or may be information related to the network controller. For example, information delivered from the network controller to the removable device may include a network address assignment and network protocol to be used by an appliance when the appliance communicates with the network. The removable device may be removed from the first device and inserted into a data receptacle of a second device. | 06-19-2014 |
20140286220 | Multi-cast Optimized Medium Access Method for Wireless Network - Collisions in wireless networks may be avoided by stacking acknowledge messages, relaying the stacked acknowledge messages, and reducing the number of acknowledge frames transmitted as a result of successful stacked acknowledge message transmissions. Additionally, a blind relay setup may be implemented to increase successful transmission rates such that a relay node in a transmission chain is configured to relay a frame without addressing the relay to a specific node. Non-neighboring nodes may receive frames out of order and relay the frames despite the out of order delivery. | 09-25-2014 |
20140286229 | Multi-listener Wireless Medium Access Method - Collisions in wireless networks may be avoided by limiting competing transmissions at the same time or within a temporally proximate time range. A relay schedule may be transmitted with each frame in a transmission chain, the relay schedule containing transmission time information such that each participating node in the transmission chain has designated transmission times. The transmission times may be different such that transmissions are spaced out in an effective manner. A non-participant node may receive the transmission with the relay schedule and may delay transmissions during conflicting times based on the relay schedule. | 09-25-2014 |
20150055450 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING MULTI-LEVEL OUTPUT DEVICES IN AN UNRELIABLE NETWORK - A method and system are described that allow a device operating in coordination with other devices to synchronize the devices operation with the other devices. A controllable device processor may determine that a received data packet is a retransmission of an initial control command data packet. The processor may obtain from the retransmitted data packet a start value and a time indicator related to performance of the operation. A ramp rate related to the operation to be performed may be obtained. Using the time indicator, an adjusted ramp rate may be calculated. An output value for the device may be set based on the start value, the adjusted ramp rate, and the time indicator. The adjusted ramp rate may result in completing the operation at substantially the same time as though the device received the original command. | 02-26-2015 |