Brett M Francis, 56232 Jeter St, Redwood City, CA 94062

2010001, Jan 21, 2010

Jul 15, 2008

12/173727

Brett M. Francis - Redwood City CA, US
Clifford N. Baumann - San Jose CA, US
Robert G. Fox - Berkeley CA, US

FAT SPANIEL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. - San Jose CA

G06F 17/30
G06Q 10/00

707100, 705 1, 707E17009

Distributed asset management may be achieved as described herein by representing within a computer database system a collection of distributed assets, and logging within the computer database system time-series data sent from different ones of the distributed assets. Input from authorized users is accepted and stored in the form of tags, each tag being associated with an asset or group of assets. Access is provided to the time-series data or data derived therefrom, and to the tags, by the authorized users. By providing tagging capabilities, diverse requirements of different audiences are supported, and a system can be created wherein the different needs and interests of the audiences are satisfied in such a way as to produce a multiplying beneficial effect. At the same time, complexities are minimized that would otherwise be introduced in order support different taxonomies within a changing heterogeneous environment. Tagging may include such examples as tagging of assets, of time-series data generated by assets, and of pre-defined envelopes of time-series data.

2002007, Jun 20, 2002

Dec 19, 2000

09/741641

Cliff Baumann - San Jose CA, US
Brett Francis - Redwood City CA, US

G06F012/00

707/206000

The invention uses expiration notification events and object references to indicate when a software object has expired. Expiration notification events are occurrences that indicate when corresponding object references and dependent references should be removed. Object references and dependent references are references to objects within the computer memory. Using the object management methods of the Expiration Informer, the object references are stored in a table according to the objects' expiration time. Upon expiration, the managed object is removed from the table and stored in an expiration event. The expiration event is sent to the requester at which time the Expiration Informer has removed any reference to the object. The invention is capable of managing objects is a distributed computing environment. The invention executes these capabilities in an extremely efficient manner adding minimal CPU overhead when managing thousands of time-based objects.

2022032, Oct 6, 2022

Mar 31, 2021

17/219711

- Seattle WA, US
Brett Francis - Redwood City CA, US
David Joseph Mifsud - Lake Stevens WA, US
Michael Garcia - Springfield MO, US

Amazon Technologies, Inc. - Seattle WA

H04L 29/08
B60R 16/023

A system comprising one or more computers implements a synthetic sensor service configured to deploy synthetic sensors to in-vehicle computing devices implementing an in-vehicle distributed computing environment. A synthetic sensor may be placed monolithically at a single computing device (e.g. ECU) in the vehicle, or may be modularly placed on multiple computing devices (e.g. multiple ECUs) of the vehicle that each have resources or inputs that the synthetic sensor requires. The modular components of the synthetic sensor may execute in a runtime environment of the in-vehicle distributed computing environment, such that the modular components function as a unified synthetic sensor even though they are placed on different computing devices of the vehicle (e.g. different ECUs).