Patents by Inventor Cheng-Mu Wen

Cheng-Mu Wen 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: 20120079087
    Abstract: An on-line help method is provided for a user involved in an on-line session. A plurality of session details related to the on-line session, a help request from the user, and session identification information are received during the on-line session. The plurality of session details are retrieved using the session identification information, and agent help information that includes the plurality of session details is created. The agent help information is associated with the help request and sent to a help agent device. In an embodiment, the agent help information includes a plurality of web pages navigated by the user during the on-line session, and the plurality of web pages are organized according to an order in which the user navigated them. A help agent using the help agent device may use the agent help information to quickly and accurate diagnose any issues with the on-line session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, Cheng-Mu Wen, Ping Hu, Qi Hu, Xiangdong Ke, Suresh Ganjigunta
  • Patent number: 7640409
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for data migration are described herein. In one embodiment, in response to data received from an application to be written to a first storage volume, the data is written to the first storage volume and a second storage volume substantially concurrently. When the first and second storage volumes are synchronized, a switchover is performed from the first storage volume to the second storage volume, such that subsequent data received from the application is written to the second storage volume, where writing the data to the first and second storage volumes and the switchover are performed without knowledge of the application. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Arthur Stafford, Norman Allen Abramovitz, Thomas Egan, Jenlong Wang, Cheng-Mu Wen, Juntse Chen, Thomas Rex Bosworth, Steven Bundy Wahl, Bradley David Musolff