Bruce R Ladeau from Hampton, NH, age 69

Systems And Methods For Enhancing Firmware
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US Patent:

20130247073, Sep 19, 2013
Filed:

Mar 14, 2012
Appl. No.:

13/419865
Inventors:

Robert Patrick Keeney - Barrington NH, US
Bruce Robert Ladeau - Hampton NH, US
Rajeswara Rao Pasupuleti - Hyderabad, IN
Assignee:

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY - Schenectady NY
International Classification:

G06F 9/46
US Classification:

719321, 719328
Abstract:

A measuring instrument includes at least one processor having at least one processor internal resource. The measuring instrument may also include at least one hardware component external to the processor and at least one storage component. Firmware may be stored in the storage component and is accessible by the processor. The firmware includes at least one application; a virtualized hardware system having routines that emulate at least one processor internal resource; and at least one application programming interface between the application and the virtualized hardware system.

Firmware Upgrade Error Detection And Automatic Rollback
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US Patent:

20140189335, Jul 3, 2014
Filed:

Dec 27, 2012
Appl. No.:

13/728365
Inventors:

- Schenectady NY, US
Bin Zhang - Suwanee GA, US
Bruce Robert Ladeau - Hampton NH, US
Assignee:

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY
International Classification:

G06F 21/57
US Classification:

713 2
Abstract:

A system includes a utility meter. The utility meter includes a network interface and a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether the network interface is operational subsequent to a bootup of the utility meter. The processor is also configured to initiate a reboot of the utility meter using known valid firmware instruction set of the utility meter if the network interface is determined to be non-operational.