Patents by Inventor Xiao-Long Fan

Xiao-Long Fan 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).

  • Publication number: 20040203653
    Abstract: A method for automatically completing settings of network parameters of wireless terminals with a server in a wireless network system. Each wireless terminal corresponds to a specific setting of network parameters. The server includes a data storage module and a central processor. The method includes: (a) utilizing the wireless terminal to connect to the server and to transmit a request signal to the server, (b) utilizing the central processor to pick a set of parameters corresponding to the wireless terminal from the data storage module according to the request signal, (c) utilizing the server to return the set of parameters to the wireless terminal, and (d) completing the setting of network parameters in the wireless terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Cheng-Shing Lai, Ji-Dong Qin, Xiao-Long Fan
  • Publication number: 20040192366
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of playing an instant game on a wireless network terminal device by installing a network connection software in a wireless network terminal device, so that the wireless network terminal device can use the network connection software to connect to a network and let it be allocated to a network address and defined as a game host in order to create and play an instant game without going through the traditional network server and the network address of the network server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: Inventec Aplliances Corp.
    Inventors: Cheng-Shing Lai, Ji-Dong Qin, Xiao-Long Fan
  • Publication number: 20040192358
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of using a wireless terminal to instantly receive and play back an audio data from a wireless network server without requiring the user to download and save the audio data into the wireless terminal first. When the wireless terminal requests the wireless network server to download an audio data, the wireless network server divides the audio data into a several batches of data according to the request of the wireless network server. The batches of data are sequentially downloaded to a voice download buffer of the wireless terminal, and then sequentially sent to a voice playback buffer of the wireless terminal after each batch of data is decoded. Thus, achieving the function of immediately and continuously play back the audio data online through the wireless terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: Inventec Appliances Corp.
    Inventors: Cheng-Shing Lai, Hong-Yu Duan, Xiao-Long Fan
  • Publication number: 20040186990
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method of encrypting an e-mail comprising the steps of providing a safe connection server in a mail server and an address in a mobile communication device for accessing the mail server and establishing a virtual safe channel from the mobile communication device to the mail server in response to a sending or receiving of the e-mail from the mobile communication device over the Internet; encrypting the e-mail by adding an encryption key; and sequentially transmitting data contained in the encrypted e-mail over the virtual safe channel so as to carry out a normal e-mail sending or receiving via a mail processing module in the mobile communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: Inventec Appliances Corp.
    Inventors: Cheng-Shing Lai, Chang Liu, Xiao-Long Fan
  • Publication number: 20040184425
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method for accessing data from a company over the Internet by a cellular phone comprising the steps of establishing a VPN server in an Intranet within a company and a general connection between the cellular phone and the VPN server, enabling the cellular phone and the VPN server to utilize authorized data transmitted through the general connection to establish a secure tunneling therebetween, commanding the VPN server to issue an IP address of the Intranet to the cellular phone, enabling the cellular phone to directly access data from the VPN server or the Intranet through the IP address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: Inventec Appliances Corp.
    Inventors: Cheng-Shing Lai, Jia-Sheng Mei, Xiao-Long Fan
  • Publication number: 20040180694
    Abstract: A mobile phone has an encryption module, a decryption module, an antenna, a microphone, a speaker, a main memory, and a memory connector for connecting to an expansion memory. When the expansion memory connects to the memory connector to store a document received from the mobile phone, the encryption module first generates a crypto-key and then encrypts the document into a ciphered document by utilizing the crypto-key. The ciphered document is stored in the expansion memory, and crypto-key is restricted from being stored in the main memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Cheng-Shing Lai, Qing-Hua Li, Xiao-Long Fan
  • Publication number: 20040176070
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of carrying out a safe remote electronic signing by a cellular phone coupled to a computer having a browser for setting conditions for accessing the Internet, the computer being operated to perform the steps of registering for obtaining an authorized browsing driver from a server based on the conditions; installing the browsing driver in the cellular phone; and when the cellular phone is activated to access the Internet for remote signing of an electronic document, selecting a safety level by running the browsing driver in response to the selected safety level, adding a corresponding password in the document, and sending the document over the Internet in a form of encryption for transmission on an authorized network channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Applicant: Inventec Appliances Corp.
    Inventors: Cheng-Shing Lai, Gui-Sheng Zhao, Xiao-Long Fan
  • Patent number: 6738850
    Abstract: A method of downloading application programs on the editing system platform of an electronic communication apparatus, includes the step of connecting an electronic communication apparatus to the Internet, the step of driving an editing system of a processor of the electronic communication apparatus to define a total area from a memory thereof for use by the application programs to be downloaded from the Internet, for enabling the application programs to be stored in any address within the total area, the step of driving the editing system to directly correct the operating instruction of direct address searching to the correct address when downloading an application program from the Internet and then to search the address after address correction, and the step of using a software interrupt (SWI) to alternate the operating instruction of indirect address searching so as to obtain the desired correct address for the editing system for further indirect address searching operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corp.
    Inventors: Cheng-Shing Lai, Xiao-Long Fan, Jing-Song Wu
  • Publication number: 20040054836
    Abstract: A method of data access by simulating an external device to be a hard disk drive, the method enables an external device to proceed with data exchange directly with a computer. The data access method includes the following steps: firstly, the first operation system of a host detects an external device, and requests for a USB device describer from the external device. Next, the connection relationship between the host and the external device is set up in accordance with the USB device describer. An operation command is sent from the first operation system of the host to the external device, and the second operation system in the external device proceeds with data operation according to the operation command, and sends a completion message back to the host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Cheng-Shing Lai, Xiao-Long Fan, Hong-Liang Liu
  • Publication number: 20040028030
    Abstract: A method for dialing an Internet protocol phone via a GPRS network is disclosed. First, a calling side unit issues a request signal for communication to a receiving side unit, wherein the request signal for communication includes a calling side IP address and a calling side communication port. Then, the receiving side user receives the request signal for communication and sends back a responding user datagram protocol (UDP) packet to the calling side unit, according to the calling side communication port, in which the responded UDP packet includes the calling side IP address of the calling side unit. Next, the calling side unit receives the UDP packet from the calling side IP communication port, and begins to transmit and receive the UDP packet carrying the voice digital data with the receiving side unit, so as to perform the communication via the Internet protocol phone. The present invention allows the user to easily dial the Internet protocol phone with a reduction of the communication cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2002
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Cheng-Shing Lai, Xiao-Long Fan, Xiao-Wen Liu
  • Publication number: 20020174280
    Abstract: A method of downloading application programs on the editing system platform of an electronic communication apparatus, includes the step of connecting an electronic communication apparatus to the Internet, the step of driving an editing system of a processor of the electronic communication apparatus to define a total area from a memory thereof for use by the application programs to be downloaded from the Internet, for enabling the application programs to be stored in any address within the total area, the step of driving the editing system to directly correct the operating instruction of direct address searching to the correct address when downloading an application program from the Internet and then to search the address after address correction, and the step of using a software interrupt (SWI) to alternate the operating instruction of indirect address searching so as to obtain the desired correct address for the editing system for further indirect address searching operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Inventors: Cheng-Shing Lai, Xiao-Long Fan, Jing-Song Wu
  • Publication number: 20020137499
    Abstract: A phone book intelligent dialing method used in mobile phones. The method uses a country code table and area code table to analyze the phone number entered so that the phone number is a complete one, containing the country code and the area code, when being stored to the phone book. By defining related symbol tags for identification in the phone book (such as the country codes, area codes, pager numbers, and usual phone numbers), the data type of the phone number to be dialed can be analyzed to determine the exact phone number. Since the user does not need to manually enter the country codes, extension numbers, or pager numbers using the disclose method, the present invention is simple and does not make mistakes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Inventors: Cheng-Shing Lai, Xiao-Long Fan, Ping Gu