Patents by Inventor Alex An

Alex An 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).

  • COMMUNICATING PER-RECIPIENT DELIVERY STATUSES OF MULTI-RECIPIENT MESSAGES IN MULTILINE SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL RESPONSES
    Publication number: 20130262589
    Abstract: A simple mail transfer protocol (“SMTP”) computer fails to deliver a multi-recipient e-mail to another SMTP computer. The SMTP computer generates a multi-line SMTP response including a per-recipient delivery status for each recipient of the multi-recipient e-mail message. The multi-line SMTP response may include a line for each recipient of the e-mail message. The multi-line SMTP response alternatively may include a line only for recipients for which delivery of the e-mail message has failed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alex Dubovik, Gregory Gourevitch, Yehia Ali Zayour, Wilbert De Graaf, Vikram Kakumani
  • SELF-LOCATING DOWNHOLE DEVICES
    Publication number: 20130255963
    Abstract: A technique that is usable with a well includes deploying a plurality of location markers in a passageway of the well and deploying an untethered object in the passageway such that the object travels downhole via the passageway. The technique includes using the untethered object to sense proximity of at least some of the location markers as the object travels downhole, and based on the sensing, selectively expand its size to cause the object to become lodged in the passageway near a predetermined location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Julio C. Guerrero, Gary L. Rytlewski, Bruno Lecerf, Michael J. Bertoja, Christian Ibeagha, Alex Moody-Stuart, Adam Mooney, Jay Russell, Christopher Hopkins, Adam Paxson, Billy Anthony, Dinesh Patel
  • METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTROLLING PLASMA IN A PLASMA PROCESSING CHAMBER
    Publication number: 20130256271
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for controlling plasma in a plasma processing system having at least an inductively coupled plasma (ICP) processing chamber are disclosed. The ICP chamber employs at least a first/center RF coil, a second/edge RF coil disposed concentrically with respect to the first/center RF coil, and a RF coil set having at least a third/mid RF coil disposed concentrically with respect to the first/center RF coil and the second/edge RF coil in a manner such that the third/mid RF coil is disposed in between the first/center RF coil and the second/edge RF coil. During processing, RF currents in the same direction are provided to the first/center RF coil and the second/edge RF coil while RF current in the reverse direction (relative to the direction of the currents provided to the first/center RF coil and the second/edge RF coil) is provided to the third/mid RF coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Theodoros Panagopoulos, John Holland, Alex Paterson
  • NODE DEATH DETECTION BY QUERYING
    Publication number: 20130262937
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with detecting a node death in a clustered distributed system are described. In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting a ping message to a peer node in the network. If a reply to the ping message is not received from the peer node, a query is sent to table of port identifiers that lists ports in the cluster. In one embodiment, the query includes a port identifier associated with the peer node. The peer node is declared as inactive/dead when the query fails to locate a match in the table for the port identifier. When the query locates a match in the table for the port identifier, another ping message is periodically transmitted to the peer node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vijay SRIDHARAN, Huy Nguyen, Jia Shi, Alex Tsukerman, Kothanda Umamageswaran
  • GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING A BONUS OPPORTUNITY WHEN A DESIGNATED RELATIONSHIP EXISTS BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF RANDOMLY DETERMINED ELEMENTS
    Publication number: 20130260869
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a bonus opportunity when a designated relationship exists between a plurality of randomly determined elements. The gaming system randomly generates a plurality of elements in association with a play of a secondary game. The gaming system determines whether a designated relationship exists between the randomly determined elements. If the designated relationship exists between the randomly determined elements, the gaming system determines a bonus opportunity associated with the randomly determined elements and provides the bonus opportunity to a player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Leandro Basallo, Rachael A. Bristol, Colin M. Ferris, John Grime, Ana K. Rollins, Timothy L. Isaacson, Mark C. Nicely, Dacotah A. Petermann-Turner, Alex Present
  • System and Method for Identifying Other Users After a Termination of a Relationship
    Publication number: 20130262984
    Abstract: A system and method allows two users to utilize a shared profile of information about the two users and their relationship with one another. Information from the couples profile and its operation may be used to search or match users of a coupled profile with other users after the relationship between the two users of the couples profile has been indicated to have ended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Alex F. Mehr, Shayan G. Zadeh, Eric R. Barnett, Charles E. Gotlieb
  • IPM MACHINE WITH THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE COMPOUND
    Publication number: 20130257190
    Abstract: A synchronous electric machine includes a rotor having a substantially cylindrical core with axially extending slots, a plurality of permanent magnets configured as sets defining alternating poles in a circumferential direction, the permanent magnets being located in respective ones of the slots, and a thermally conductive material contiguous with the permanent magnets and the core for transferring heat of the permanent magnets, the material having a thermal conductivity of greater than 0.3 watts per (meter * Kelvin).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Colin Hamer, Alex Creviston, Bradley D. Chamberlin
  • Apparatus and Method for Manufacturing a Modular Battery Pack with Fluid Circulation Tube and Interleaved Fins
    Publication number: 20130260194
    Abstract: A battery pack includes at least one serpentine fluid circulation tube that extends around part of the periphery of a plurality of electric cells. First and second segments of the tube are disposed adjacent a first and a second edge of a first set of the plurality of electric cells. The sets of electric cells are disposed in an alternating arrangement. A first fin and a second fin are provided between each of the electric cells. The fins have a reverse turn wrapped around the segments of the tube. The fins have internal ends that are disposed between the electric cells and the tube segments. The battery pack may be assembled by folding the fins around the electric cells and the tube or by preforming folded sheets that define thermal fins and assembling the folded sheets over segments of the tube from opposite sides of the electric cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Hornblower Meyer, Robert Alex Mitchell, Neil Robert Burrows, Valerie Jean Allan, Jeffrey Paul Luther, Michael Thomas Kramer, Patrick Michael Brennan
  • SELF-EVOLVABLE LOGIC FABRIC
    Publication number: 20130258905
    Abstract: Methods and systems for achieving self-organized growth of a logic pathway. A number of hardware modules that represents a core can be configured and communicated via a packet routing architecture. Each core includes a plurality of sub-modules that interact dynamically to a growth algorithm. A flow network can be created between a sensor input and a prediction of a desired sensor input and a link can be formed between a regularity within a core and another core via a link-flow-selection process. A digital data packet can be transmitted between the cores for communicating activation of the regularity and to exchange energy. Such physically-self organized circuit fabric system interacts dynamically to a growth algorithm that takes the input to produce a desired output and continuously self-repair and/or heal if damaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventor: Alex Nugent
  • Method and apparatus for global replacement card services
    Patent number: 8548926
    Abstract: A prompt-response card issuing system providing temporary financial transaction cards includes a communications module, a personal account number (PAN) mapping module, and a security measure determination module. The communications module communicates with a plurality of financial card issuers, each having different profile standards for generating security measures, and also receives, from an issuer, an authorization for a new PAN associated with a financial account of a cardholder. The PAN module maps the new PAN to a temporary personal account number (TPAN) for the cardholder. The security measure determination module determines at least one security measure requirement according to a system profile standard of said prompt-response card issuing system rather than the system profile standard of the authorizing issuer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Daniel F. Balistierri, Patricia Bateson, Alex Cunescu, Chris Lomax, Jan Lundequist, Dawn Pendel
  • Imaging system and device
    Patent number: 8547423
    Abstract: An imaging system and method of application, including lens designs tailored to be used with particular transformation algorithms, electronic hardware and algorithms for image transformations is described. Exemplary application of the system including automotive, photographic and medical endoscopic are also described. The system enables improved image view and allows customization of views by the end user even after installation of the image system hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Inventor: Alex Ning
  • System, method, and computer program product for controlling output port utilization
    Patent number: 8547843
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, a plurality of flows associated with packets destined for an output port is identified. A utilization associated with the output port is further measured. Thus, rates of a plurality of the flows destined for the output port may be individually controlled at an input port thereof, based on the utilization to ensure that the utilization remains less than 99.9% and avoid buffering more than 400 packets with a correspondingly low delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Saisei Networks Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Lawrence G. Roberts, Alex E. Henderson
  • Integrated circuit and method of fabrication thereof
    Patent number: 8546873
    Abstract: A method of forming an integrated circuit structure comprising the steps of forming a first and second device region on a surface of a wafer, forming a spacer of a first width on a sidewall of a first gate stack in the first device region, forming a spacer of a second width on a sidewall of a second gate stack in the second device region, with the first width being different from the second width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinping Liu, Hai Cong, Binbin Zhou, Alex Kh See, Mei Sheng Zhou, Liang Choo Hsia
  • Energy management of household appliances
    Patent number: 8548635
    Abstract: A system and method of managing energy use in a home, and more particularly to energy management of household consumer appliances, are provided. Existing appliances can be modified with add-on features or modules, and likewise new energy saving features and functions can be incorporated into new appliances. Communication among a home energy manager, an appliance, and a utility meter measures energy usage and/or a local generator controls operation of various appliances such as a refrigerator, washer, dryer, oven/range, microwave oven, dishwasher, HVAC system hot water heater, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric K. Watson, Alexander Pinkus Rafalovich, Anthony A. Cooper, Martin Christopher Severance, Chris George Bissig, Timothy Allen Hamel, Rita Barksdale, Telema Harry, Alex Fernando Lobos
  • Method and apparatus for high-speed processing of structured application messages in a network device
    Patent number: 8549171
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for high-speed processing of structured application messages in a network device. According to one aspect, a network device receives a set of message classification rules that have been prepared beforehand by a system administrator or customer. The system analyzes the message classification rules to determine what part(s) of the message are necessary to classify a message according to the message classification rules. This allows the system to consider only the relevant parts of the message and ignore the rest of the message. The system extracts the portion of the message necessary for classifying the message and classifies the message using the values of the extracted information and the message classification rules. A unique sequence of operations is implied by the message classification and those operations must then be applied to the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Karempudi Ramarao, Tefcros Anthias, Sunil Potti, Sandeep Kumar, Stephen Cho, Alex Yiu-Man Chan, Yi Jin, Ricky Ho
  • Fumarate salt of (alpha S, beta R)-6-bromo-alpha-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]-2-methoxy-alpha-1-naphthalenyl-beta-phenyl-3-quinolineethanol
    Patent number: 8546428
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the fumarate salt of (alpha S, beta R)-6-bromo-alpha-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]-2-methoxy-alpha-1-naphthalenyl-beta-phenyl-3-quinolineethanol, pharmaceutical compositions comprising as active ingredient said salt and to processes for their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica NV
    Inventors: Jean François Alexandre Lucas Hegyi, Wim Albert Alex Aelterman, Yolande Lydia Lang, Sigrid Carl Maria Stokbroekx, Carina Leys, Peter Jozef Maria Van Remoortere, Anne Faure
  • Non-linear transformations for enhancement of images
    Patent number: 8547444
    Abstract: Imaging apparatus (26) is provided for use with an image sensor (24). The apparatus includes a non-linear mapping circuit (42), which is configured to receive a raw stream of input pixel values generated by the image sensor and to perform a non-linear mapping of the input pixel values. to generate a mapped stream of mapped pixel values, and a linear convolution filter (44), which is arranged to filter the mapped stream of mapped pixel values to generate a filtered stream of filtered pixel values. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: DigitalOptics Corporation International
    Inventors: Uri Kinrot, Anatoly Litvinov, Yoav Lavi, Irina Alon, Alex Alon
  • Method and device for the molding of wood fiber board
    Patent number: 8545210
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device with which it is possible to arrange complicated shapes with considerable differences in height in wood fiber board, and in particular but not exclusively so called MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard). The deformation of the wood fiber board which can be achieved is known in the art as extrusion, wherein a considerable plastic deformation takes place accompanied by flow and stretch of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Masonite International Corporation
    Inventors: Maurice Frankefort, Alex Charles
  • Electric machine module cooling system and method
    Patent number: 8546982
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an electric machine module comprising a module housing. In some embodiments, the module housing can include a sleeve member and at least one end cap. Also, an inner wall of the module housing can at least partially define a machine cavity. In some embodiments a coolant jacket can be positioned within a portion of the sleeve member. Further, in some embodiments, at least one partition can be positioned substantially within the coolant jacket. The partition can be dimensioned to at least partially seal a first region of the coolant jacket from a second region of the cooling jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Remy Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley D. Chamberlin, James J. Ramey, Alex S. Creviston
  • CXP TO QSFP+ MODULE FORM FACTOR ADAPTER
    Publication number: 20130251052
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for an adapter device configured to enable communications between a quad small form-factor pluggable (QSFP) transceiver unit and a CXP host port. The adapter device comprises a first connector unit, a second connector unit, a microcontroller unit and a plurality of reception equalizer units. Data signals are sent by the transceiver unit to a first equalizer unit via the first connector unit. The first equalizer unit adjusts the data signals and sends the data signals to the host port via the second connector unit. Likewise, data signals are sent by the host port to a second equalizer unit via the second connector unit. The second equalizer unit adjusts the data signals and sends the data signals to the transceiver unit via the first connector unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Norman Tang, Liang Ping Peng, David Lai, Alex Hu