公开(公告)号：US06480774B1

公开(公告)日：2002-11-12

申请号：US09359785

申请日：1999-07-23

申请人： Kevin D. Snow ,  Steven L. Melvin ,  Matt W. Starks ,  Douglas C. Gooch

发明人： Kevin D. Snow ,  Steven L. Melvin ,  Matt W. Starks ,  Douglas C. Gooch

IPC分类号： G06F700

CPC分类号： F16H61/12 ,  F16H61/0213 ,  F16H61/0248 ,  Y10T477/60

摘要： A convertible transmission system for a vehicle having an input shaft for connection to an engine and an output shaft for delivering rotational power to at least one axle. The transmission has a plurality of available gear ratios resulting in a maximum number of available gear ratios. In addition, a programmable controller is provided for selectively controlling the transmission to operate in a first operating configuration utilizing a first predetermined number of the available gear ratios that is less than the maximum number of available gear ratios. Moreover, the programmable control can have additional transmission configurations by selectively modifying certain operating characteristics, including for example, available gear ratios, desired operating gear ratios, maximum torque limits, shift points, default starting gear ratio, data relating to a predetermined shift strategy, a coast down gear ratio, shift delay timing, and/or skip shifting.

摘要翻译： 一种用于车辆的可转换传动系统，其具有用于连接到发动机的输入轴和用于将旋转动力传递到至少一个轴的输出轴。 变速器具有多个可用齿轮比，从而产生最大数量的可用齿轮比。 此外，提供可编程控制器，用于选择性地控制变速器，以利用小于可用齿轮比的最大数量的第一预定数量的可用齿轮比在第一操作配置中操作。 此外，可编程控制器可以通过选择性地修改某些操作特性，包括例如可用的传动比，期望的操作齿轮比，最大转矩限制，换档点，默认起动档位，与预定换挡策略有关的数据， 滑行减速比，换档延迟定时和/或跳跃换档。

公开(公告)号：US06526816B2

公开(公告)日：2003-03-04

申请号：US09681057

申请日：2000-12-13

申请人： Thomas A. Genise ,  Douglas C. Gooch ,  Kevin D. Snow

发明人： Thomas A. Genise ,  Douglas C. Gooch ,  Kevin D. Snow

IPC分类号： G01M1500

CPC分类号： G01M13/021

摘要： An integral gear life monitor system and method for determining gear use and damage is disclosed. The system includes a first and second sensors for measuring the rotational speed and torque of a driveline component, such as an input shaft of a vehicle transmission, for a particular gear ratio at one or more time intervals over a period of time. Each time interval may be in the range of 40 ms to 100 ms. The period of time may be hours, days, month, or even years. A processor performs a statistical summation technique to transform the signals from the first and second sensors into an equivalent amount time for the particular gear ratio during that period of time. A driveline vibration analyzer can perform an online determination of the torsional vibrations for the particular gear ratio to determine whether vibration is a root cause of why a gear ratio is worn or damaged. The transformed signals can be stored in a non-volatile memory of the processor for later retrieval as a diagnostic tool to statistically measure the amount of life used by each gear ratio, to determine if a gear ratio is worn or damaged, to determine the root cause of why a gear ratio is worn or damaged, and to take proactive and/or reactive measures to extend the life of the transmission.

公开(公告)号：US07020696B1

公开(公告)日：2006-03-28

申请号：US09703531

申请日：2000-11-01

申请人： James R. Perry ,  Kevin D. Snow ,  Darryl Black

发明人： James R. Perry ,  Kevin D. Snow ,  Darryl Black

IPC分类号： G06F15/173

CPC分类号： H04L41/28 ,  H04L41/0213 ,  H04L41/0672 ,  H04L41/0681 ,  H04L41/0856 ,  H04L43/00 ,  H04L43/0817 ,  H04L43/0829 ,  H04L43/0852 ,  H04L43/16 ,  H04L63/083 ,  H04L63/102

摘要： The present invention provides a method and apparatus for implementing distributed user management information in telecommunications networks. At least a portion of a user's management information is stored in a team session file that is accessible by a network management system (NMS) client. For example, the team session file may be saved in memory that is local to the NMS client or, if a user logs in through a remote system using a web browser, the team session file may be saved as a cookie in memory local to the remote system. The NMS client may then utilize the user management information in the team session file while the user is logged into the NMS client. In one embodiment, the user management information stored within the team session file includes NMS server connection information. Thus, when a user logs into an NMS client, the NMS client uses the NMS server connection information to connect to an NMS server. The user management information stored within the team session file may be retrieved from user profile information corresponding to the user and stored in a central data repository, and since the user profile data is stored in a central repository, changes may be easily made to the user profile data and consequently pushed out to the team session files accessible by one or more NMS clients. Consequently, a user's management data may widely distributed for access by NMS clients located anywhere in the network.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供一种在电信网络中实现分布式用户管理信息的方法和装置。 用户管理信息的至少一部分被存储在可由网络管理系统（NMS）客户端访问的小组会话文件中。 例如，团队会话文件可以保存在NMS客户端本地的内存中，或者如果用户通过使用Web浏览器的远程系统登录，则团队会话文件可能会保存为内存本地的cookie 远程系统。 然后，NMS客户端可以在用户登录到NMS客户端时利用团队会话文件中的用户管理信息。 在一个实施例中，存储在团队会话文件中的用户管理信息包括NMS服务器连接信息。 因此，当用户登录NMS客户端时，NMS客户端使用NMS服务器连接信息连接到NMS服务器。 存储在团队会话文件中的用户管理信息可以从与用户对应的用户简档信息中检索并存储在中央数据存储库中，并且由于用户简档数据被存储在中央存储库中，所以可以容易地向用户 配置文件数据，从而推送到由一个或多个NMS客户端访问的团队会话文件。 因此，用户的管理数据可以广泛地分布在网络中任何地方的NMS客户端进行访问。

公开(公告)号：US06546434B1

公开(公告)日：2003-04-08

申请号：US09290095

申请日：1999-04-12

申请人： Kevin D. Snow ,  Susan X. Wang

发明人： Kevin D. Snow ,  Susan X. Wang

IPC分类号： G06F954

CPC分类号： G06F13/102

摘要： A virtual device driver for processing serial communications in a protected operating system. The virtual device driver adds a time-stamp to each character received at Ring-zero level of the operating system architecture. The time-stamp value is compared to a predetermined maximum acceptable time interval to determine if a valid packet was received.

摘要翻译： 用于在受保护的操作系统中处理串行通信的虚拟设备驱动程序。 虚拟设备驱动程序在操作系统体系结构的Ring-zero级别接收的每个字符添加时间戳。 将时间戳值与预定的最大可接受时间间隔进行比较，以确定是否接收到有效分组。

公开(公告)号：US6094663A

公开(公告)日：2000-07-25

申请号：US52745

申请日：1998-03-31

申请人： Kevin D. Snow ,  Derrick M. Carty

发明人： Kevin D. Snow ,  Derrick M. Carty

IPC分类号： G06F9/46 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F9/52 ,  Y10S707/99952 ,  Y10S707/99953

摘要： Methods and apparatus for implementing queues without disabling interrupts or using locks are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a queue structure, which is accessible to a plurality of threads, that is suitable for use in a computer system includes a head node and a first data-containing node. The head node includes a head field and a disruption field that is arranged to indicate a number of times the queue structure is accessed. The first data-containing node, which is identified by the head field in the head node, includes a link field and a data field. In one embodiment, the head node also includes a rank field, which is arranged to identify a preference level associated with the plurality of threads. In such an embodiment, the head field may be the first field in the head node, the rank field may be the second field in the head node, and the disruption field may be the third field in the head node.

摘要翻译： 公开了用于在不禁止中断或使用锁的情况下实现队列的方法和装置。 根据本发明的一个方面，适用于计算机系统的多个线程可访问的队列结构包括头节点和第一数据包含节点。 头节点包括头字段和中断字段，其被布置为指示队列结构被访问的次数。 由头部节点中的头部字段标识的第一数据包含节点包括链接字段和数据字段。 在一个实施例中，头节点还包括等级字段，其被布置为识别与多个线程相关联的偏好级别。 在这样的实施例中，头部区域可以是头部节点中的第一个场，等级域可以是头部节点中的第二个场，并且中断区域可以是头部节点中的第三个场。

公开(公告)号：US07693976B2

公开(公告)日：2010-04-06

申请号：US10938160

申请日：2004-09-10

申请人： Thomas R. Perry ,  James R. Perry ,  Kevin D. Snow ,  Darryl Black

发明人： Thomas R. Perry ,  James R. Perry ,  Kevin D. Snow ,  Darryl Black

IPC分类号： G06F13/42 ,  G06F3/00 ,  G06F15/173 ,  H04L12/28 ,  H04L12/66

CPC分类号： H04L7/0008 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/1232 ,  H04L41/0806 ,  H04L41/082 ,  H04L41/0853 ,  H04L41/0856 ,  H04L41/22 ,  H04L45/50 ,  H04L61/2092 ,  H04L63/102 ,  H04L63/105 ,  H04L69/18

摘要： The present invention provides a method and apparatus for granular management of network resources by accessing network device resources through associated references. In one embodiment, the references are group names, and one or more resources (i.e., a resource collection) within each network device in a telecommunications network may be linked with one or more group names. Group names (or other types of references) may then be used to limit a user's access to particular network device resources. That is, a user may only have access to those resources associated with group names to which the user has access. Over time, network device resources may be associated or disassociated with particular group names. As a result, group names provide users with dynamic access to network device resources. In one embodiment, the groups to which a user has access are defined within a user profile associated with the user. Grouping network device resources, therefore, allows for a granular view of each network device in the network by limiting a user's access to those resources corresponding to group names listed in their user profile. As one example, grouping may allow for customer network management—that is a customer's view is limited to only those network device resources for which they have subscribed.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供一种通过相关参考访问网络设备资源来对网络资源进行粒度管理的方法和装置。 在一个实施例中，引用是组名称，并且电信网络中每个网络设备内的一个或多个资源（即，资源集合）可以与一个或多个组名相关联。 然后可以使用组名（或其他类型的引用）来限制用户对特定网络设备资源的访问。 也就是说，用户只能访问与用户有权访问的组名相关联的那些资源。 随着时间的推移，网络设备资源可能与特定组名称相关联或取消关联。 因此，组名称为用户提供对网络设备资源的动态访问。 在一个实施例中，用户具有访问权限的组在与用户相关联的用户简档内定义。 因此，分组网络设备资源允许通过限制用户对与其用户简档中列出的组名称相对应的那些资源的访问来对网络中的每个网络设备进行细粒度视图。 作为一个示例，分组可以允许客户网络管理 - 客户的观点仅限于他们已经订阅的那些网络设备资源。

公开(公告)号：US07280529B1

公开(公告)日：2007-10-09

申请号：US09632954

申请日：2000-08-04

申请人： Darryl Black ,  Kevin D Snow ,  James R Perry ,  Thomas R Perry

发明人： Darryl Black ,  Kevin D Snow ,  James R Perry ,  Thomas R Perry

IPC分类号： H04L12/66 ,  H04L9/00 ,  G06F3/00 ,  H04K1/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/1433 ,  G06F11/2069 ,  Y10S707/99938 ,  Y10S707/99954

摘要： The present invention provides a method for managing telecommunications networks through user profiles that establish management capabilities and lists of network devices capable of being managed through each user profile. Through profiles, users may be given controlled access to configure network devices, provision services or simply view the network devices, services or portions thereof. For example, customers may be enabled to view services dedicated to their particular networks while being simultaneously prevented from viewing services particular to other customer's networks. This provides security while enabling controlled customer network management. In addition, profiles may be used to limit the management capabilities of network managers to only those network devices and capabilities for which each network manager is responsible and authorized. This controlled access again provides security and may prevent network outages due to inexperienced network management errors as well as simplify network management for each level of network manager. The user profiles may also be used to customize the user interface each user accesses to improve efficiency and ease of network management. Profiles may also be used to establish local network connections and set up appropriate network communication channels to improve the efficiency of user access.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供了一种用于通过建立管理能力的用户简档来管理电信网络的方法，以及能够通过每个用户简档进行管理的网络设备的列表。 通过简档，用户可以被给予受控访问以配置网络设备，提供服务或简单地查看网络设备，服务或其部分。 例如，可以使客户能够查看专用于其特定网络的服务，同时阻止其查看特定于其他客户网络的服务。 这提供了安全性，同时实现了受控的客户网络管理。 此外，可以使用简档来将网络管理器的管理能力仅限于每个网络管理者负责和授权的那些网络设备和能力。 该受控访问再次提供安全性，并且可能由于没有经验的网络管理错误而防止网络中断，并且简化了网络管理器级别的网络管理。 用户简档也可以用于定制每个用户访问的用户界面，以提高网络管理的效率和易用性。 配置文件也可用于建立本地网络连接并建立适当的网络通信通道，以提高用户访问的效率。

公开(公告)号：US07124051B2

公开(公告)日：2006-10-17

申请号：US10767812

申请日：2004-01-29

申请人： Jack D. Patterson ,  Matthew W. Starks ,  Steven L. Melvin ,  Kevin D. Snow ,  Roger Allen Graves, Jr.

发明人： Jack D. Patterson ,  Matthew W. Starks ,  Steven L. Melvin ,  Kevin D. Snow ,  Roger Allen Graves, Jr.

IPC分类号： G06F15/00

CPC分类号： H04L12/4135 ,  B60W50/0205 ,  B60W50/04 ,  G07C2205/02 ,  H04L43/50 ,  H04L2012/40215 ,  H04L2012/40273

摘要： A data link tester comprises a computer capable of a connection with a communications bus in a piece of equipment having at least one component in selective contact with the bus. The computer contains instructions for (1) building a roster comprising at least one identifier of the component and (2) then performing a diagnostic step comprising at least one of (i) analyzing communications received from the communications bus to determine the condition of communications with respect to the component, (ii) determining whether a message that contains the identifier has been received from the communications bus within a specified period of time, and (iii) diagnosing at least one fault condition in CAN communications in the communications bus by performing at least one CAN message check comprising determining whether a CAN message has been received from the communications bus and then performing at least one second diagnostic step. In some embodiments, the piece of equipment is a vehicle.

摘要翻译： 一种数据链路测试器包括能够与一个设备中的通信总线连接的计算机，该计算机具有与总线选择性接触的至少一个组件。 所述计算机包含以下指令：（1）构建包括所述组件的至少一个标识符的名册，以及（2）然后执行诊断步骤，所述诊断步骤包括以下至少一个：（i）分析从所述通信总线接收的通信，以确定与 （ii）确定在指定时间段内是否已经从通信总线接收到包含标识符的消息，以及（iii）通过执行在通信总线中CAN通信中的至少一个故障状况来诊断通信总线中的至少一个故障状况 至少一个CAN消息检查，包括确定是否已经从通信总线接收到CAN消息，然后执行至少一个第二诊断步骤。 在一些实施例中，该设备是车辆。

公开(公告)号：US06434455B1

公开(公告)日：2002-08-13

申请号：US09369629

申请日：1999-08-06

申请人： Kevin D. Snow ,  Matt W. Starks ,  Steven L. Melvin ,  Douglas C. Gooch ,  Edward Handley

发明人： Kevin D. Snow ,  Matt W. Starks ,  Steven L. Melvin ,  Douglas C. Gooch ,  Edward Handley

IPC分类号： G06F1900

CPC分类号： G06F11/2294 ,  G06F11/2252 ,  H04M3/493 ,  H04M7/0036 ,  H04M2203/052 ,  H04M2203/553

摘要： A logistic service system includes a programmable vehicle module, a service computer, a central server, a first data link connecting the module to the service computer and a second data link connecting the service computer to the central server. Component information retrieved from the module and stored on the server is used to service the module. The component may be subjected to diagnostics or updated with new parameters.

摘要翻译： 物流服务系统包括可编程车辆模块，服务计算机，中央服务器，将模块连接到服务计算机的第一数据链路和将服务计算机连接到中央服务器的第二数据链路。 从模块检索并存储在服务器上的组件信息用于维护模块。 组件可以进行诊断或用新参数更新。

公开(公告)号：US5949979A

公开(公告)日：1999-09-07

申请号：US798701

申请日：1997-02-12

申请人： Kevin D. Snow ,  J. Rhoads Hollowell, II ,  Derek J. Foster

发明人： Kevin D. Snow ,  J. Rhoads Hollowell, II ,  Derek J. Foster

IPC分类号： G06F9/445 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06F13/00

CPC分类号： G06F9/4411 ,  G06F13/4081

摘要： A technique for dynamic addition or removal of buses to a computer system. The technique operates even though the computer system and its operating system are in use. As buses are added or removed from the operational computer system for each peripheral device added or removed, bus controller manipulators for each of the buses are registered with a system bus manager of the operating system. Thereafter, the operating system is able to communicate with the peripheral devices over the corresponding buses using the respective bus controller manipulators.

摘要翻译： 一种用于向计算机系统动态添加或删除总线的技术。 即使计算机系统及其操作系统在使用中，该技术仍然运行。 由于每个外围设备添加或删除的总线被从操作计算机系统中添加或删除，每个总线的总线控制器操纵器被注册到操作系统的系统总线管理器。 此后，操作系统能够使用相应的总线控制器操纵器通过相应的总线与外围设备进行通信。