Patents by Inventor Alex C. Wu

Alex C. Wu 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: 20020198963
    Abstract: The invention is disclosed as a scheme for use in a browser application to schedule the download of the documents from a list of source server uniform resource locators in a networked environment at a specified time, and for a specified duration, and with a specified time interval. It can optionally save the downloaded documents onto a local storage, or storage at local network, or on a remote storage. The document downloaded over the network can be processed and rendered onto the browser at the specified time in the future. The invention further provides a scheme to schedule a download of the document based on a reference time embedded in the document downloaded from the source server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: Alex C. Wu, Sam Zheng Pan
  • Patent number: 6031533
    Abstract: A method of providing a graphical user interface on a client network device is described. The client network device is coupled to a server network device and has a local storage facility, such as a hard disk unit, storing a first version of a software program. The method requires the selection of the first version of the software program as an execution version of the software program. A graphic object identifying the software program is displayed, the graphic object being user selectable to execute the execution version of the software program. A version control indicator, for example an icon, is displayed and indicates to a user of the client network device whether or not a second version of the software program, propagated to the client network device from the server network device, will automatically be selected as the execution version of the software program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Tarakam V. Peddada, Abhay Kumar Gupta, Alex C. Wu, Lance D. Reck