Patents by Inventor Douglas Chan

Douglas Chan 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: 20240129573
    Abstract: A processing system receives a user-generated media recording, and metadata associated with the user-generated feedback, from a first device. The user-generated media recording is a recording of the public end-user captured during a live media broadcast using a public-user interface on the first device. The metadata includes information linking the user-generated media recording to the live media broadcast. The system stores the user-generated media recording and the first metadata in one or more storage devices, and transmits a version of the user-generated media recording and at least a portion of the first metadata to a private-user interface on a second device. The private-user interface is configured to receive input from a private end-user selecting the version of the user-generated media recording for broadcast during the same live media broadcast during which the user-generated media recording was created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Curtis Mitchell, Michael Scott Woodruff, Adam Michael Roberts, Steven Douglas Wight, Siu Leung Chan, Jacob Earl Bolton, Stephen William Bain, Qian Chang, Davis Scott Harlan
  • Patent number: 10522426
    Abstract: This system and method minimize an effect of haze to signal-to-noise ratio and compensate for haze on the haze map. A first mask with a first aperture is disposed along the path of the light beam between a light source and a collector. A first actuator moves the first mask along a tangential direction. A second mask with a second aperture is disposed along the path of the light beam between the first mask and the collector. A second actuator moves the second mask along a radial direction perpendicular to the tangential direction. The first mask and the second mask are independently movable along the tangential direction and the radial direction using the first actuator and the second actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Hongxing Yuan, Dimitry Pokras, William VanHoomissen, Douglas Chan
  • Patent number: 10003476
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a source top-of-rack (ToR) switch may identify multiple destination ToR switches from a group of ToR switches to send data traffic to. The source ToR switch may be connected to the group of ToR switches via a base network. The system may determine whether each destination ToR switch is suitable for receiving data transmission via a point-to-multipoint wireless flyway. The two or more destination ToR switches that are determined to be suitable may be considered flyway candidate ToR switches. The system may establish the point-to-multipoint wireless flyway between the source ToR switch and the flyway candidate ToR switches. The system may then transmit the data traffic from the source ToR switch to each of the flyway candidate ToR switches via the point-to-multipoint wireless flyway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Douglas Chan, David R. Oran
  • Patent number: 9774636
    Abstract: Semantic data corresponding to video data may be received. Next, the received semantic data corresponding to the video data may be analyzed. Caching decisions may then be made based upon the analysis of the received semantic data corresponding to the video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Jen Hsu, Bhaskar Bhupalam, Jay Iyer, Douglas Chan
  • Publication number: 20170214551
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a source top-of-rack (ToR) switch may identify multiple destination ToR switches from a group of ToR switches to send data traffic to. The source ToR switch may be connected to the group of ToR switches via a base network. The system may determine whether each destination ToR switch is suitable for receiving data transmission via a point-to-multipoint wireless flyway. The two or more destination ToR switches that are determined to be suitable may be considered flyway candidate ToR switches. The system may establish the point-to-multipoint wireless flyway between the source ToR switch and the flyway candidate ToR switches. The system may then transmit the data traffic from the source ToR switch to each of the flyway candidate ToR switches via the point-to-multipoint wireless flyway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Douglas Chan, David R. Oran
  • Patent number: 9661357
    Abstract: A user device may send a request for a data file to an access point. The user device may then receive, from the access point, data indicating that a segment of the data file has been previously cached in a local cache at the access point. In response to receiving the data, the user device may display an indicator configured to indicate that the segment of the data file is cached in the local cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Chan, Jay Iyer, Wei-Jen Hsu
  • Patent number: 9654344
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a source top-of-rack (ToR) switch may identify multiple destination ToR switches from a group of ToR switches to send data traffic to. The source ToR switch may be connected to the group of ToR switches via a base network. The system may determine whether each destination ToR switch is suitable for receiving data transmission via a point-to-multipoint wireless flyway. The two or more destination ToR switches that are determined to be suitable may be considered flyway candidate ToR switches. The system may establish the point-to-multipoint wireless flyway between the source ToR switch and the flyway candidate ToR switches. The system may then transmit the data traffic from the source ToR switch to each of the flyway candidate ToR switches via the point-to-multipoint wireless flyway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Chan, David R. Oran
  • Patent number: 9609569
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises: establishing a first broadband data link between a first mobile narrowbeam transceiver positioned on a vehicle and a first fixed narrowbeam transceiver mounted along a prescribed path of the vehicle; and switching from the first broadband data link, by the first mobile narrowbeam transceiver, to a second broadband data link with a second fixed narrowbeam transceiver mounted along the prescribed path after the first fixed narrowbeam transceiver, enabling the vehicle to maintain continuous broadband access to a wide area network via a prescribed sequence of the fixed narrowbeam transceivers along the prescribed path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Calvin Byers, Douglas Chan
  • Publication number: 20170019305
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a source top-of-rack (ToR) switch may identify multiple destination ToR switches from a group of ToR switches to send data traffic to. The source ToR switch may be connected to the group of ToR switches via a base network. The system may determine whether each destination ToR switch is suitable for receiving data transmission via a point-to-multipoint wireless flyway. The two or more destination ToR switches that are determined to be suitable may be considered flyway candidate ToR switches. The system may establish the point-to-multipoint wireless flyway between the source ToR switch and the flyway candidate ToR switches. The system may then transmit the data traffic from the source ToR switch to each of the flyway candidate ToR switches via the point-to-multipoint wireless flyway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Douglas Chan, David R. Oran
  • Patent number: 9344856
    Abstract: The trustworthiness of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) messages received from one or more associated vehicles in the vicinity of a subject vehicle is determined autonomously by a false signal detection system of the subject vehicle. Physical evidence relating to the associated vehicles is collected, and a statistical model is used to perform an analysis of the collected data. A V2V message is received by the system from a first one of the associated vehicles and a trustworthiness level of the message is determined in accordance with a correlation between the received V2V message and the result of the analyzed physical data relating to the first associated vehicle. The correlation may be a comparison of data contained in the received V2V message relative to a result of a stochastic analysis of the physical data. The received V2V message may be any V2V safety message including Emergency Electronic Brake Light (EEBL) messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Douglas Chan, Helder Antunes
  • Patent number: 9332046
    Abstract: An edge server communicates with a client in a local network. The client displays a remote desktop image representative of a virtual desk image generated by a virtual desktop server (VDS). The edge server receives from the VDS a desktop image to be displayed on the remote desktop. The desktop image includes an incomplete window in which graphic media, such as video, is to be displayed. The edge server determines communication link conditions in the local network and a corresponding transmit data rate at which to transmit data to the client device and a suitable encoding rate at which the graphic media is encoded. The edge server downloads the graphic media from the content server, merges the downloaded graphic media into the incomplete area to produce a completed desktop image, and transmits the completed desktop image at the determined transmit data rate for display on the remote desktop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Chan, Jiang Zhu, Hao Hu
  • Patent number: 9276844
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, by an apparatus, a Media Access Control (MAC) frame destined for a destination device; dividing, by the apparatus, the MAC frame into frame fragments; coding the frame fragments into encoded cells; and causing, by the apparatus, transmission of selected subsets of the encoded cells, as distinct flows of the encoded cells, by respective optical physical layer transmitter devices reachable by the destination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Pascal Thubert, Charles Calvin Byers, Douglas Chan
  • Patent number: 9232433
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises determining access network conditions by a network device in an access network, the access network providing communications between a client device and a destination reachable via a data network; selecting, by the network device based on the access network conditions, one of a plurality of coding methods for network traffic between the client device and the destination, including selecting coding parameters for the one coding method; and causing, by the network device, coding to be executed on the network traffic, on behalf of the client device, according to the one coding method and the selected coding parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijaynarayanan Subramanian, Douglas Chan, Ashok Krishnaji Moghe, Rong Pan, Flavio Bonomi
  • Publication number: 20150281057
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, by an apparatus, a Media Access Control (MAC) frame destined for a destination device; dividing, by the apparatus, the MAC frame into frame fragments; coding the frame fragments into encoded cells; and causing, by the apparatus, transmission of selected subsets of the encoded cells, as distinct flows of the encoded cells, by respective optical physical layer transmitter devices reachable by the destination device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Pascal THUBERT, Charles Calvin BYERS, Douglas CHAN
  • Patent number: 9125214
    Abstract: Wider bandwidth transmissions are dynamically enabled in a wireless networking environment. During a transmit opportunity time interval for a wireless network device, a transmission is sent in a primary channel in a frequency band in which the primary channel and a secondary channel may be used simultaneously to send a wider bandwidth transmission. Activity is monitored in the secondary channel. A determination is made as to whether the secondary channel is free based on the monitoring. When it is determined that the secondary channel is free, the wider bandwidth transmission is sent in the primary and secondary channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian D. Hart, Douglas Chan, David Kloper
  • Patent number: 9094223
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for delivering data to a wireless client device in a wireless network via a plurality of access points as the wireless client device roams from one access point to another. A wireless client device receives data via a first wireless access point in the wireless network. An impending roam of a wireless client device is detected. A set of one or more candidate wireless access points other than the first wireless access point is determined to which the wireless client device may potentially roam. The one or more wireless access points in the set are assigned to a multicast group, and the traffic is sent to the multicast group. A message containing a synchronized context enables a new wireless access point to send data to the wireless client device from a point where the first wireless access point stopped sending data to the wireless client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hui Liu, Douglas Chan, Tak Ming Pang
  • Publication number: 20150200957
    Abstract: The trustworthiness of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) messages received from one or more associated vehicles in the vicinity of a subject vehicle is determined autonomously by a false signal detection system of the subject vehicle. Physical evidence relating to the associated vehicles is collected, and a statistical model is used to perform an analysis of the collected data. A V2V message is received by the system from a first one of the associated vehicles and a trustworthiness level of the message is determined in accordance with a correlation between the received V2V message and the result of the analyzed physical data relating to the first associated vehicle. The correlation may be a comparison of data contained in the received V2V message relative to a result of a stochastic analysis of the physical data. The received V2V message may be any V2V safety message including Emergency Electronic Brake Light (EEBL) messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: Cisco Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Douglas Chan, Helder Antunes
  • Publication number: 20150181460
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises determining access network conditions by a network device in an access network, the access network providing communications between a client device and a destination reachable via a data network; selecting, by the network device based on the access network conditions, one of a plurality of coding methods for network traffic between the client device and the destination, including selecting coding parameters for the one coding method; and causing, by the network device, coding to be executed on the network traffic, on behalf of the client device, according to the one coding method and the selected coding parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijaynarayanan SUBRAMANIAN, Douglas CHAN, Ashok Krishnaji MOGHE, Rong PAN, Flavio BONOMI
  • Patent number: D770361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Douglas Chan
  • Patent number: D915261
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Douglas Chan