Patents by Inventor Alan Chen
Alan Chen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9661924Abstract: Disclosed is an adjustable face plate mounting system for adjusting the position of a face plate attached to a pantry pullout apparatus. The system comprises a slotted bracket adjustably attached to the face plate, a standoff assembly attached to the pantry pullout apparatus and slidably engaged with the slotted bracket, a fastener fixedly attached to the pantry pullout apparatus, and a set crew movable within the fastener and abutting the slotted bracket. A first embodiment of the standoff assembly includes a pair of standoffs and coordinating removable fasteners. Another embodiment of the standoff assembly includes a single standoff and fastener paired with a pin. The face plate is adjustable in three dimensions with respect to the pantry pullout apparatus and surrounding cabinets.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: HARDWARE RESOURCES, INC.Inventor: Alan Chen
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Patent number: 9588904Abstract: Hierarchical address virtualization within a memory controller and configurable block device allocation are disclosed. Respective virtual block devices (VBDs) are defined in flash memory managed by a common memory controller, with data access managed using address virtualization techniques. The common memory controller then tracks the need for maintenance operations independently for each VBD. Information may be received from the common memory controller regarding the need for maintenance operations in respective virtual block devices (VBDs), and commands are then selectively issued to the common memory controller in a manner so as to independently schedule these operations for the respective VBDs; performance of maintenance operations by the memory controller in a first VBD is unconstrained by performance characteristics associated with a second VBD.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Radian Memory Systems, Inc.Inventors: Robert Lercari, Alan Chen, Mike Jadon, Craig Robertson, Andrey V. Kuzmin
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Patent number: 9565936Abstract: Disclosed is a pantry pullout apparatus having side access and designed for simple, adjustable, and accurate installation within a pre-existing cabinet space. The apparatus, slidably mounted within the cabinet space, comprises a top slide assembly mounted to a cabinet carcass and a drawer box. The drawer box is automatically centered on a base slide box. The base slide box is comprised of a slotted template slidingly engaged with a frame, where the frame is mounted to the cabinet carcass. Slide rail assemblies connect the slotted template to the frame. A pin block on the underside of a fixed shelf of the drawer box automatically centers the drawer box on the slotted template. A face plate adjustment mechanism provides for three dimensional alignment of the face plate with surrounding cabinets.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: HARDWARE RESOURCES, INC.Inventors: Alan Chen, Christopher Hahnle
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Patent number: 9542118Abstract: This disclosure provides techniques of hierarchical address virtualization within a memory controller and configurable block device allocation. By performing address translation only at select hierarchical levels, a memory controller can be designed to have predictable I/O latency, with brief or otherwise negligible logical-to-physical address translation time. In one embodiment, address transition may be implemented entirely with logical gates and look-up tables of a memory controller integrated circuit, without requiring processor cycles. The disclosed virtualization scheme also provides for flexibility in customizing the configuration of virtual storage devices, to present nearly any desired configuration to a host or client.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Radian Memory Systems, Inc.Inventors: Robert Lercari, Alan Chen, Mike Jadon, Craig Robertson, Andrey V. Kuzmin
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Publication number: 20160278521Abstract: Disclosed is a pullout apparatus having side access and designed for simple, adjustable, and accurate installation within a pre-existing cabinet space. The apparatus, slidably mounted within the cabinet space, comprises a top slide assembly mounted to a cabinet carcass and a drawer box. The drawer box is automatically centered on a base slide box. The base slide box is comprised of a slotted template slidingly engaged with a frame, where the frame is mounted to the cabinet carcass. Slide rail assemblies connect the slotted template to the frame. A pin block on the underside of a fixed shelf of the drawer box automatically centers the drawer box on the slotted template. A face plate adjustment mechanism provides for three dimensional alignment of the face plate with surrounding cabinets. An alternate embodiment comprises a mounting bracket providing three dimensional adjustability of the upper drawer slide.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Applicant: Hardware Resources, Inc.Inventor: Alan Chen
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Publication number: 20160128474Abstract: Disclosed is a pantry pullout apparatus having side access and designed for simple, adjustable, and accurate installation within a pre-existing cabinet space. The apparatus, slidably mounted within the cabinet space, comprises a top slide assembly mounted to a cabinet carcass and a drawer box. The drawer box is automatically centered on a base slide box. The base slide box is comprised of a slotted template shdingly engaged with a frame, where the frame is mounted to the cabinet carcass. Slide rail assemblies connect the slotted template to the frame. A pin block on the underside of a fixed shelf of the drawer box automatically centers the drawer box on the slotted template. A face plate adjustment mechanism provides for three dimensional alignment of the face plate with surrounding cabinets.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2015Publication date: May 12, 2016Applicant: HARDWARE RESOURCES, INC.Inventors: Alan Chen, Christopher Hahnle
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Publication number: 20160128470Abstract: Disclosed is an adjustable face plate mounting system for adjusting the position of a face plate attached to a pantry pullout apparatus. The system comprises a slotted bracket adjustably attached to the face plate, a standoff assembly attached to the pantry pullout apparatus and slidably engaged with the slotted bracket, a fastener fixedly attached to the pantry pullout apparatus, and a set crew movable within the fastener and abutting the slotted bracket. A first embodiment of the standoff assembly includes a pair of standoffs and coordinating removable fasteners. Another embodiment of the standoff assembly includes a single standoff and fastener paired with a pin. The face plate is adjustable in three dimensions with respect to the pantry pullout apparatus and surrounding cabinets.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2015Publication date: May 12, 2016Applicant: HARDWARE RESOURCES, INC.Inventor: Alan Chen
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Patent number: 9324932Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a nanoimprinted film which is made from a ferroelectric polymer having a first conformation state and coated on a substrate. The ferroelectric polymer is heated at a temperature between a Curie point (Tc) and a melting point (Tm) of the ferroelectric polymer to cause a change in conformation of the ferroelectric polymer from the first conformation state to a second conformation state, and is then subjected to a nanoimprinting process at an imprinting temperature lower than Tc to cause a change in conformation of the ferroelectric polymer from the second conformation state to a third conformation state that is different from the first conformation state, thereby obtaining the nanoimprinted film.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: National Tsing Hua UniversityInventors: Chien-Chong Hong, Alan Chen, Tong-Miin Liou
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Publication number: 20160055312Abstract: Systems, methods, electronic devices and computer-readable media for charting dental information are described. The method includes generating or retrieving a dental data set including separately-modifiable parameters defining dental information relative to a base parametric model, the parameters providing information for generating signals for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) representation of at least a portion of a dentition represented by the dental data set; receiving an input via the 3D representation; and based on the received input, adjusting at least one of the parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Hisham M.A. BADAWI, Lloyd SUMMERS, Alan CHEN
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Patent number: 9131965Abstract: A swellable, resilient interspinous implant is provided that includes a swellable polymeric medium, said polymeric medium being dispersed throughout the implant, the implant being dimensioned and configured to fit between two spinous processes of two adjacent vertebrae and buttress the space between the two adjacent vertebrae. In embodiments, the implant has a first configuration of reduced size such that it can be inserted into the patient in a minimally invasive manner. Once inserted to an application point within the patient, the implant expands in size to dynamically maintain the adjacent spinous processes in beneficial alignment. Also provided is a method of making a swellable, resilient interspinous implant as described herein. Also provided is a method of treating a degenerative condition of a spine which includes creating an incision and inserting, through the incision, between two spinous processes of two adjacent vertebrae, a swellable, resilient interspinous implant as described herein.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2009Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignees: REPLICATION MEDICAL INC., HYDRA MEDICAL LLCInventors: Ann Prewett, Alan Chen, Frederick H. Hardenbrook
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Publication number: 20140215296Abstract: The present invention provides a computer-implemented method of presenting a webpage to a client user, comprising: generating a parent webpage for providing a three-dimensional panoramic display of the scene of a subject area which includes one or more information providing objects and one or more hyperlinks, both of which are integrated as part of the scene of the subject area; and when a specific condition is satisfied for an information providing object while the client user is viewing the parent webpage, the information providing object automatically presenting specific information retrieved from a database.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Inventors: Alan Chen, Hun-Yeu Lai
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Publication number: 20140175951Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a nanoimprinted film which is made from a ferroelectric polymer having a first conformation state and coated on a substrate. The ferroelectric polymer is heated at a temperature between a Curie point (Tc) and a melting point (Tm) of the ferroelectric polymer to cause a change in conformation of the ferroelectric polymer from the first conformation state to a second conformation state, and is then subjected to a nanoimprinting process at an imprinting temperature lower than Tc to cause a change in conformation of the ferroelectric polymer from the second conformation state to a third conformation state that is different from the first conformation state, thereby obtaining the nanoimprinted film.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Inventors: Chien-Chong HONG, Alan CHEN, Tong-Miin LIOU
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Patent number: 8751731Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods and devices for memory block selection. In one or more embodiments, a memory controller includes control circuitry coupled to one or more memory devices having multiple Groups of planes associated therewith, each Group including at least two planes of physical blocks organized into Super Blocks, with each Super Block including a physical block from each of the at least two planes. The control circuitry is configured to receive a first unassigned logical block address (LBA) associated with a write operation and determine a particular free Super Block within a selected one of the multiple Groups to receive data associated with the write operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Mehdi Asnaashari, Alan Chen, Siamack Nemazie, Dale P. McNamara
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Publication number: 20140130095Abstract: The present invention provides a machine-implemented method of displaying an electronic personalized menu applied for a multimedia system, wherein the multimedia system provides a plurality of services for one or more users, wherein each of the plurality of services includes one or more service options/items, and the multimedia system comprises a sever, the method comprising: detecting recognition data corresponding to the one or more users and recognizing the identity and number of the one or more users by a recognition method; automatically logging into a personal or group account based on the identity and number of the one or more users and then the sever recording use habits of the one or more users of the personal or group account; and displaying an electronic personalized menu of the personal or group account based on the use habits recorded.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: CHUNGHWA WIDEBAND BEST NETWORK CO., LTD.Inventor: Alan Chen
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Publication number: 20140096160Abstract: The present invention provides a computer-implemented method of displaying an electronic program guide, comprising: storing one or more program data of a program in a database; sorting the program into a category based on at least one of the one or more program data; associating the program with a property tag of the category, wherein the program data comprises title of the program, hosts, languages, length of the program, main actors, advertisement categories, source broadcasting channel of the program, and a combination thereof; and displaying a program guide of said category based on the property tag in the unit of individual programs.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Inventor: Alan Chen
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Patent number: 8552819Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include a surface acoustic wave device having electrode period, electrode width, and/or ratio of electrode width to electrode period varied in a prescribed manner.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin P. Abbott, Alan Chen, Taeho Kook, Kurt Steiner, Robert Aigner, Suzanne Combe, Timothy Daniel, Natalya F. Naumenko, Julien Gratier
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Publication number: 20130106535Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include a surface acoustic wave device having electrode period, electrode width, and/or ratio of electrode width to electrode period varied in a prescribed manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2011Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: TRIQUINT SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.Inventors: Benjamin P. Abbott, Alan Chen, Taeho Kook, Kurt Steiner, Robert Aigner, Suzanne Combe, Timothy Daniel, Natalya F. Naumenko, Julien Gratier
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Publication number: 20120303931Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods and devices for memory block selection. In one or more embodiments, a memory controller includes control circuitry coupled to one or more memory devices having multiple Groups of planes associated therewith, each Group including at least two planes of physical blocks organized into Super Blocks, with each Super Block including a physical block from each of the at least two planes. The control circuitry is configured to receive a first unassigned logical block address (LBA) associated with a write operation and determine a particular free Super Block within a selected one of the multiple Groups to receive data associated with the write operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Mehdi Asnaashari, Alan Chen, Siamack Nemazie, Dale P. McNamara
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Patent number: 8312245Abstract: One or more embodiments comprise control circuitry coupled to one or more memory devices having a number of planes of physical blocks organized into super blocks. The control circuitry can be configured to: determine defective physical blocks among the number of planes; responsive to none of the physical blocks at a particular block position being determined to be defective, assign the physical blocks at the particular block position to a super block; and responsive to one or more of the physical blocks at a particular block position being determined to be defective, assign non-defective physical blocks at the particular block position to a super block and assign a replacement physical block to the super block for the respective defective physical blocks at the particular block position, the replacement physical block selected from a number of physical blocks within a respective plane that includes a respective defective physical block.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2012Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Mehdi Asnaashari, Alan Chen, Siamack Nemazie
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Patent number: 8239614Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods and devices for memory block selection. In one or more embodiments, a memory controller includes control circuitry coupled to one or more memory devices having multiple Groups of planes associated therewith, each Group including at least two planes of physical blocks organized into Super Blocks, with each Super Block including a physical block from each of the at least two planes. The control circuitry is configured to receive a first unassigned logical block address (LBA) associated with a write operation and determine a particular free Super Block within a selected one of the multiple Groups to receive data associated with the write operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2009Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Mehdi Asnaashari, Alan Chen, Siamack Nemazie, Dale P. McNamara