John T Brassil, 6446 Livingston Dr, Montgomery, NJ 08502

6454681, Sep 24, 2002

Dec 30, 1999

09/475793

Thomas Brassil - San Diego CA, 92117
John M. Brassil - Northbrook IL

Thomas Brassil - San Diego CA

A63B 2316

482 49, 482 47

An exercise and therapy hand device consists of a glove for receiving a hand. The glove includes a palm portion, one or more finger portions for receiving a finger, a back portion, and a compressible substance that is coupled to the palm portion. Also included in the glove are one or more elastic members that span from the compressible substance to respective ones of the one or more finger portions. The compressible substance exercises the muscles of the hand that control the closing of the hand, while the one or more elastic members exercise the muscles of the hand that control the opening of the hand.

6611776, Aug 26, 2003

Apr 12, 2001

09/833057

John Deryk Waters - Bath, GB
John Brassil - Los Gatos CA

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

G01R 1300

702 69, 455 41, 455502, 370913

A signal quality parameter in a wireless network supporting plural network user devices is measured. Each user device measures a predetermined signal quality parameter of signals received from each of the other user devices in the network. Each user device broadcasts the measurements to other user devices in the network. Each user device calculates, for each of the other user devices, a value for the predetermined signal quality parameter from all the received measurements associated with that other user device.

6771644, Aug 3, 2004

Sep 17, 1999

09/398979

John Thomas Brassil - Los Gatos CA
Sukesh Kumar Garg - Sayreville NJ
Henning Gunther Schulzrinne - Leonia NJ

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

G06F 1516

370390, 370432, 370529

Program insertion in real time IP multicast enables the seamless insertion of a secondary program within an IP multicast session of a primary program. A primary content provider transmits its multimedia stream to a first proxy that transmits the data to a destination multicast session. A secondary content provider interested in inserting a program into that destination multicast session sends a request through a second proxy to the first proxy requesting a time slot to insert secondary program. The request includes the duration of the secondary program. The first proxy responds with a time slot or a denial of the request depending if a time slot is available. Assuming an available time slot, at the appropriate time the first proxy transfers control of the destination multicast session to the second proxy which transmits the secondary program. Upon completion of the secondary program the second proxy returns control of the session to the first proxy. All scheduling and control transfer occurs through the development of a new protocol to manage the transfer of control.

6950668, Sep 27, 2005

Mar 16, 2001

09/809427

John Brassil - Los Gatos CA, US
John Deryk Waters - Bath, GB
Peter J. Macer - Bristol, GB
James Thomas Edward McDonnell - Bristol, GB
Salil Pradhan - Santa Clara CA, US

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

H04B007/00
H04Q007/20

455517, 455466, 455 412, 455561

A method of transferring high rate data between a first communications device () and a second communications device () is disclosed. The second communications device () has a first transceiver () for communication with the first communications device () at a first, low data rate over a long range, and a second transceiver () for communicating at a second, high data rate over a short range. The method comprises the steps of forming a coordinated short-range network (piconet) using the second communications device () and a plurality of other similar communications devices (), transferring a portion of said data to or from the first communications device () from or to each of said second communications device and said other communications devices using their first transceivers (), and transferring said data portions between said other communications devices and the second communications device using their second transceivers ().

7065575, Jun 20, 2006

Nov 20, 2000

09/715045

Vijay Machiraju - Mountain View CA, US
James Thomas Edward McDonnell - Bristol, GB
Peter J. Macer - Bristol, GB
Salil Pradhan - Santa Clara CA, US
John Deryk Waters - Bath, GB
John Brassil - Los Gatos CA, US

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

G06F 15/173
G06F 15/167

709226, 709212, 709214, 709216

A co-operative network includes a first device that advertises resources it has available for sharing and a second device that requests at least part of the available resources of the first device. The devices co-operatively execute a task using the shared resources of the first device and the resources of the second device.

7143166, Nov 28, 2006

Jul 12, 1999

09/351597

John Thomas Brassil - Los Gatos CA, US

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

G06F 15/173
H04N 7/173

709226, 725 95, 370329, 370431, 370458, 370468

In a reservation network designed to carry bursty traffic an improved dynamic bandwidth allocation method accounts for reservation latency. In one advantageous embodiment wherein the system is memoryless, a user will request its queue size divided by the reservation latency in the system. Alternatively, a small memory based system can achieve further efficiencies by making available to a user a frame length amount of memory. The user can then request the greater as between its queue size divided by the reservation latency and the number of current arrivals at the user.

7212785, May 1, 2007

Jun 7, 2001

09/875266

John Brassil - Los Gatos CA, US
James Thomas Edward McDonnell - Bristol, GB
Peter J. Macer - Bristol, GB
Salil Pradhan - Santa Clara CA, US

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

H04B 7/00

455 412, 4554141, 4555531, 455517, 705 18, 380258, 36518905, 709206

A method is disclosed of transferring data to a first communications device having a first transceiver for communication at a first data rate over a long range, and a second transceiver for communication at a second, higher data rate over a short range. The method includes forming a co-ordinated short-range wireless network using the first communications device and at least one second communications device of a similar type. Communication is then initiated between the first communications device and said at least one second communications device to establish whether that second communications device has data required by the first communications device. The first communications device then communicates, upon the first communications device receiving confirmation that a second communications device has the required data, with a service provider using its first transceiver to request permission for the transfer of the required data from said communications device to the first communications device. Finally, the required data is transferred from said second communications device to the first communications device, following transmission by the service provider to the first communications device of authorisation.

7370077, May 6, 2008

Nov 21, 2001

09/989111

Salil V. Pradhan - Santa Clara CA, US
John T. Brassil - Los Gatos CA, US
Peter J. Macer - Bristol, GB

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

G06F 15/16

709204, 709227

A networked information resource generation system includes a wireless network (), a transceiver () and mobile devices (-). The mobile devices (-) share information over the network () via the transceiver (). The information shared over the network () is displayed on the mobile devices (-) web-page () which is dynamically updated with information from the mobile devices (-).