Patents Assigned to D-Link Corporation
  • Publication number: 20090013257
    Abstract: In a network device with a display unit, a protruding portion is protruded from a top surface of the main body of the network device, a slanting surface disposed on a side of the protruding portion and proximate to the main body, a display unit installed in the protruding portion, a display screen disposed on a side of the display unit and exposed from the slanting surface, a connecting portion disposed on a side of the main body for exchanging network signals, and a press key portion disposed on the main body and at a position proximate to the display unit. When the network device is turned on, the display screen exposed from the slanting surface of the display unit allows user to learn about the status of the network device and the status of a network connection and set up the network device by operating the press key portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Ah-Jee Wang
  • Publication number: 20080311959
    Abstract: In a network device with a display module, the display module is installed on a surface of a casing of the network device for displaying the status of the network device and the status of a network connection completely without requiring another external electronic device. After the network device has received various information on the network connection procedure of an external network connecting equipment, a network connecting device, and a final connection status and a self test status and outputted a control signal of the display module, each procedure and final information on the display module, the display module outputs a text, a graphic, or both text and graphic at the same time for user's viewing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: D-Link Corporation
    Inventors: Ah-Jee Wang, Troy Chen
  • Patent number: 7466543
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a slot assembly of hard disk tower, wherein the slot assembly disposed at one end of the hard disk tower comprises an upper slot assembly cover at the top of the hard disk tower having a plurality of upper directing slots; a lower slot assembly cover at the bottom of the hard disk tower having a plurality of lower directing slots, and a circuit board disposed between said upper and lower slot assembly covers. Each lower directing slot which corresponds to one of the upper directing slots is capable of holding a hard disk tray, such that the space within the hard disk tower will be fully utilized and is capable of holding more hard disk trays because of closely disposing the slot assembly covers at the top and bottom of the hard disk tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Ah-Jee Wang
  • Publication number: 20080273300
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a slot assembly of hard disk tower, wherein the slot assembly disposed at one end of the hard disk tower comprises an upper slot assembly cover at the top of the hard disk tower having a plurality of upper directing slots; a lower slot assembly cover at the bottom of the hard disk tower having a plurality of lower directing slots, and a circuit board disposed between said upper and lower slot assembly covers. Each lower directing slot which corresponds to one of the upper directing slots is capable of holding a hard disk tray, such that the space within the hard disk tower will be fully utilized and is capable of holding more hard disk trays because of closely disposing the slot assembly covers at the top and bottom of the hard disk tower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Ah-Jee Wang
  • Patent number: 7438211
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a paper container comprising an inner case and an outer case, wherein the inner case comprises upper and lower trapezoidal blocks and a connecting member formed between three edges of the upper and lower trapezoidal blocks to define a receiving space for storing at least one object. The upright outer case is of triangular section and comprises an internal space for receiving the inner case and a window facing the receiving space to allow viewing of the at least one object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Tseng-Hung Tseng
  • Publication number: 20080204994
    Abstract: A hard disk tray being pluggable in a plug slot of a server, includes a load plate, a first guide plate, a second guide plate, a grasp portion and a light guide portion. The first guide plate is located at one side of the load plate, for coupling with a guide slot defined in one side of the plug slot. The second guide plate is located at the other side of the load plate, for coupling with a guide slot formed in the other side of the plug slot. The grasp portion is located at an end of the load plate that faces away from the server, for positioning the hard disk tray within the plug slot. The light guide portion is enclosed between the other side of the load plate and the second guide plate, and the light guide portion has two ends extending to two ends of the second guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Ah-Jee Wang
  • Publication number: 20080186150
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a plug-and-play network digital image display apparatus plugged into an existing power socket at home or office through a built-in or external powerline to Ethernet adapter and connected to a webcam through a powerline installed at home or office, so that the webcam in a certain room can send captured video and audio signals to the network digital image display apparatus in another room through the powerline, and the network digital image display apparatus plays the image and sound, without the need of installing an additional network cable to achieve the plug-and-play function at the power socket for the environmental dynamic monitoring function. The invention also discloses a plug-and-play image monitoring system, such that a user situated at a place other than a home or an office still can use a personal computer to monitor the home or office through the Internet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Ken Kao
  • Patent number: 7397769
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an ADSL modem for providing an IPoA, a PPPoA, or a PPPoE based dial-up networking service over Ethernet, which comprises a DHCP server coupled to at least one computer, each computer is adapted to use a DHCP provided by an OS thereof to obtain an authorized IP address and associated settings from an ISP through the DHCP server, and the DHCP server is adapted to assign the authorized IP address and the associated settings to each computer, enabling at least one computer to access the Internet without installing any driver or application program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Shun I You
  • Patent number: 7366197
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide method and apparatus for adapting a GBIC module to an Ethernet switch capable of outputting one of different voltages in which in a case of the GBIC module coupled to the Ethernet switch, a DC converter of the GBIC module is adapted to lower an input voltage thereof supplied by the Ethernet switch prior to boosting the lowered voltage to an operating voltage required by a GBIC logic circuit of the GBIC module without confirming whether the input voltage has the same value as the operating voltage. Thus, the present invention can prevent the GBIC module from not working due to low input voltage or being damaged due to high current when the GBIC module is coupled to the Ethernet switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Chi Yung Ko
  • Patent number: 7352707
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a processing method enabling each unit in a stacking network device to utilize the functions and the Port Role Selection procedure updtRolesBridge( ) provided by the RSTP to rapidly select the port having the best priority from the stacking network device for executing STP and the relating algorithm in order to effectively reduce the working burden of the master unit through uniformly distributing the work to the slave units, which not only greatly increase the network transmission efficiency of the stacking network system, but also greatly improve the quality and speed of the network information transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: D-Link Corporation
    Inventors: Ho Chien Ho, Jiun Bing Luo
  • Patent number: 7346101
    Abstract: A spectrum measurement system, comprising a preamplifier for receiving and pre-amplifying input signals from a wireless communication device; a down converter coupled to the preamplifier for decreasing frequencies of the input signals amplified and generating corresponding intermediate frequency (IF) signals; an IF filter coupled to the down converter for filtering the IF signals based on a predetermined frequency resolution and predetermined center frequency; a power meter coupled to the IF filter for measuring powers of the IF signals; and a personal computer coupled to the power meter via a first control interface operation to generate frequencies corresponding to the powers, the PC being operative to read frequencies, convert the frequencies into real frequencies based on a calibration table, and plot a frequency analysis graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Kuei Chi Yang
  • Publication number: 20080019099
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a housing structure of an electronic device, which comprises a housing including a slot on a top surface; a plate member mounted in the slot and including a plurality of first ventilation holes formed along a periphery, the first ventilation holes being in communication with inside of the housing; and a cap mounted on the plate member and spaced from the top surface of the housing by a peripheral gap formed between the cap and the plate member; wherein the first ventilation holes are concealed by the cap. By utilizing the present invention, hot air inside the housing can be quickly removed via the first ventilation holes and the gap so as to achieve the purpose of heat dissipation, and the housing's appearance can be preserved since the first ventilation holes are concealed by the cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicant: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Ming-Tsai Chung
  • Publication number: 20070272821
    Abstract: A supporting base includes a base, a first supporting arm and a second supporting arm, wherein the supporting arms are installed on a surface of the base, and an object is clamped and mounted between the supporting arms, and a first gap is maintained at a portion of the connecting edge between the first supporting arm and the base, and a second gap corresponding to the first gap is maintained at a portion of the connecting edge between the second supporting arm and the base, so that the gaps can be used for appropriately reducing the strength between the supporting arms and the base and skillfully controlling the coefficient of friction between the supporting arms and the object, so as to securely install the object onto the supporting base without damaging the appearance or surface of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Ming-Tsai Chung
  • Publication number: 20070268663
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a housing of an electronic device having a plurality of hidden ventilation holes, which comprises an intermediate frame, an upper shell and a lower shell, wherein the intermediate frame comprises an upright flange along the outer edges thereof, the upper shell and the lower shell respectively have its edge secured to an inner edge inside the flange of the intermediate frame, the upper shell and the lower shell both comprise a plurality of spaced cavities formed along the edge of the upper shell and the lower shell, and both the cavities are concealed behind the flange when the intermediate frame is assembled with the upper shell and the lower shell respectively, so as to maintain a structural strength of the housing and to be looked aesthetic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Applicant: D-Link Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Chi Cho, Yong-Jhih Su
  • Patent number: 7291027
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an external box comprising a panel, a housing, a seat, and a body, wherein the panel is secured to a rear of the housing, the seat is secured to a front of the housing, and the body is secured to the seat. The housing contains at least one mass storage device each adapted to connect to a corresponding port mounted on the seat. The body comprises at least one pivotal release mechanism each lined up with the mass storage device. The release mechanism is adapted to pivot to pass a channel of the seat to push the mass storage device in the housing further away from of a rear of the body for detaching the mass storage device from the external box by utilizing the principles of lever. By utilizing this external box, the purpose of quickly easily removing the mass storage device is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: D-Link Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Tsai Chung, Ah-Jee Wang
  • Patent number: 7283549
    Abstract: Method for increasing the transmit and receive efficiency of an embedded Ethernet controller, which is applicable to an embedded Ethernet controller connected with a local area network and a wide area network respectively for handling packet processing by utilizing a direct memory access structure via an independent data bus, includes the steps of mapping each said receive buffer into a plurality fo fixed size packet storage spaces each providing individually separated memory spaces in four-byte alignment to store a packet header, packet CRC and packet data, as well as mapping a surplus memory space from a receding packet, such that it is only necessary to move and change the packet header in the receive packet and then insert a required protocol header into the surplus memory space to convert the receive packet into a transmit packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Jin-Fun Lin
  • Patent number: D556762
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Yung-Li Hsiau
  • Patent number: D556763
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Yung-Li Hsiau
  • Patent number: D568881
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Yung-Li Hsiau
  • Patent number: D579871
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Yung-Li Hsiau