Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Lai

Jeffrey Lai 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: 20240135337
    Abstract: Systems and methods for secure updating of allocations to user accounts are provided. In one aspect, a system includes one or more computer readable storage mediums having program instructions embodied therewith, and one or more processors configured to cause the system to identify an external institution associated with the future transfers, and initiate, based on the identified external institution, a proxy instance of a software application of the external institution to determine a set of endpoints and a set of the future transfers to the endpoints. The system is further configured to receive a request from a user to change at least one of the set of the endpoints and the set of the further transfers to the endpoints, and use the proxy instance, executing the requested change to at least one of the set of the endpoints or the set of the future transfers to the endpoints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Plaid Inc.
    Inventors: Michael LAI, Jeffrey Zhiyuan WANG, Raymond CANO, Maxwell Dodge JOHNSON, Thomas FISHER
  • Publication number: 20240115781
    Abstract: Systems and apparatuses for blood oxygenation are disclosed. A system includes a first layer defining a plurality of banks of first channels each extending in a first direction. The plurality of banks of first channels are configured to receive blood via a trunk channel. The system includes a second layer defining a bank of second channels extending in a second direction. The bank of second channels are configured to receive oxygen. The first direction is different from the second direction. The system includes a membrane disposed between the first layer and the second layer and configured to cause the oxygen to permeate from the second layer to the first layer to oxygenate the blood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Brett Isenberg, Else Vedula, David Sutherland, Diana Lewis, Jose Santos, WeiXuan Lai, Ernie Kim, Beau Landis, Jeffrey Borenstein, Bryan Teece, Samuel Blumenstiel, Joseph Urban
  • Patent number: 9153207
    Abstract: A method, a device and computer readable storage media facilitate detecting a scrolling area within digital content comprising a plurality of frames, wherein the detection includes a comparison between a current frame and a previous frame to determine at least one location within the current frame in which pixel values change in relation to a corresponding location of the reference frame, searching for a reference line of pixels within the scrolling area of the previous frame, in response to finding a reference line, searching for a corresponding matching line of pixels in the current frame that matches the reference line, and, in response to finding a corresponding matching line of pixels in the current frame, determining a degree of scrolling of content in the scrolling area of the current frame in relation to the previous frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sawyer Shan, Jeffrey Lai
  • Publication number: 20130117662
    Abstract: A method, a device and computer readable storage media facilitate detecting a scrolling area within digital content comprising a plurality of frames, wherein the detection includes a comparison between a current frame and a previous frame to determine at least one location within the current frame in which pixel values change in relation to a corresponding location of the reference frame, searching for a reference line of pixels within the scrolling area of the previous frame, in response to finding a reference line, searching for a corresponding matching line of pixels in the current frame that matches the reference line, and, in response to finding a corresponding matching line of pixels in the current frame, determining a degree of scrolling of content in the scrolling area of the current frame in relation to the previous frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Sawyer Shan, Jeffrey Lai
  • Publication number: 20120017149
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a plurality of attendee devices may participate in an online collaborative computing session to receive video and audio content for the online collaborative computing session. A particular attendee device may then either initiate or receive a communicated signal between a “whisperer” and “whisperee” that indicates a desire of the whisperer to establish a video whisper session with the whisperee. In response, the video whisper session may be established between the whisperer and whisperee devices, such as through a mutual subscription by the whisperer and whisperee to a video channel and audio channel of each other corresponding device. In this manner, users of the whisperer and whisperee devices may see and hear each other via the video whisper session, and attendee devices other than the whisperer and whisperee are prevented from playing audio from the video whisper session between the whisperer and whisperee.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lai, Huipin Zhang
  • Patent number: 6151389
    Abstract: A telephone, which includes a CPU connected to a keyboard thereof, a first switch connected between first and second telephone lines, second and third switches provided at the first and second telephone lines and connected to the CPU, the second and third switches each having a first contact at the respective output end connected to a fourth switch and a second contact connected to a fifth switch, which controls a hand-free circuit, wherein when the first and second telephone lines are called at the same time, the switches are controlled by the CPU for enabling a first user to pick up one call through the hand-free circuit or talking circuit and a second user to pick up the other call through the talking circuit or hand-free circuit, and a switching can be made through the keyboard to change the connection of the telephone lines between the talking circuit and the hand-free circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Inventec Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lai, Feng Zhang, Ziao-Yun Wang
  • Patent number: 5999602
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a telephone with an interface connection with the television, which includes a basic telephone set, central processing unit (CPU), display controller and a control program. The control program controls the whole operating procedures of the telephone of the invention. Under the operating procedures, the CPU transmits the phone-call information received by the basic telephone set to the display controller. In accordance to the received information, the display controller generates and transports a corresponding signal to a television. With the telephone of the invention, the information of a telephone call can be displayed in a television.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Inventec Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Wei Yang, Zhang Hui, Jeffrey Lai
  • Patent number: 5960062
    Abstract: A method of recording the bi-directional communication between a customer premises equipment (CPE) and a server of a stored program controlled system (SPCS) in an analog display services interface (ADSI) for facilitating the troubleshooting therein is disclosed. The present invention includes accessing the telephone set by a user, therefore initiating the communication between the telephone set and the server. After receiving an alerting signal from the server, the alerting signal and the corresponding received time of the alerting signal are recorded into a trace area in the telephone set. A first acknowledgment signal is sent to the server after the alerting signal is recognized, and the first acknowledgment signal is then recorded in the trace area. At least one message is sent from the server, and then the message, a start received time and an end received time of the message are recorded into the trace area and a message buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Inventec Corporation
    Inventors: Jackson Chang, Jeffrey Lai, Henry Lin, Men-Fu Chu
  • Patent number: 5838777
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an auto-detecting dialing communication system used to make the display of caller numbers in host or communication system consist with that of an extension telephone or communication system, especially relates to an extension telephone or communication system that can also display caller numbers.The present invention offer a device for auto-detecting dialing of a parallel communication system, which composes: (1) a FSK decoder for acquiring a dial-in number. (2) an extension telephone detecting device for detecting whether the extension telephone is off hook. (3) a memory for storing the caller telephone numbers. (4) a ring-back signal detecting device for examining whether a ring-back signal is sent back. (5) a Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (DTMF) decoder for acquiring the outgoing call number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Inventec Corporation
    Inventors: Jackson Chang, Jeffrey Lai, Taing Xu, James Yin
  • Patent number: D1007597
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Beautiwise Limited
    Inventor: Ho Wang Jeffrey Lai