Patents by Inventor Oliver K. Ban

Oliver K. Ban 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).

  • Patent number: 8103657
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for locating and retrieving specified data content in a database. The data comprises compressed digital audio or video data files associated with the recorded speech. Retrieval of the specified content requires decompression of only a portion of the compressed data. A method for locating specified content of the above type is provided. A compressed audio file comprising recorded speech is converted into a corresponding text file. A searchable index is constructed from the text file. One or more specified search arguments are used to search respective elements of the searchable index in order to detect one or more text segments. The identifiers of respective detected segments are then used to locate the specified content in the audio file. Only portions of the audio file that contain specified content require decompression, in order to retrieve the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oliver K. Ban, Timothy A. Dietz, Anthony C. Spielberg
  • Patent number: 8009594
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system, etc. for automatic power saving mode insertion when an unknown or an offensive receiver detected in a wireless access system. A method comprises generating a look-up-table from AGWN payloads in a plurality of AGWN packets. The look-up-table is then transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver. Next, the method generates a coded packet from an AGWN packet in a data packet using the look-up-table, wherein a code from the look-up-table is substituted in place of the AGWN packet. Specifically, the substituting of the code from the look-up-table comprises substituting coded symbols representing AGWN payloads in the AGWN packets. Further, the generating of the look-up-table comprises generating the code to represent size and strength information regarding an AGWN, wherein the coded packet is generated with a size that is less than the data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Oliver K. Ban
  • Patent number: 7987310
    Abstract: An apparatus for connecting electronic devices having a flexible cable bus housing containing a plurality of same or different communication and power channels extending along a length thereof and a plurality of bus ports at different locations along the bus housing length. Each bus port is capable of being operatively connected to one of the communication or power channels. The apparatus further includes a plurality of device connectors adapted to connect to a bus port at one end thereof and to a discrete device at another end thereof. Each connector at the device end has a different plug conforming to one of the communication or power channels. The apparatus preferably further includes a switch for connecting each bus port to the communication or power channel conforming to the device end plug when a device connector is connected to the bus port on the bus housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oliver K. Ban, William Bornstein, Anthony C. Spielberg
  • Patent number: 7882188
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of message transmission performed in a server; a method of message transmission performed in a client; a symbol-based method for transmitting a message between a server and at least one client as well as a server; a client and a symbol-based message transmission system, wherein the symbol-based method of message transmission has: at least one client requesting the server to perform message transmission; the server transmitting symbols of the client's message to the client; and presenting the received message symbols on the client. The symbol-based method of message transmission saves a great deal of bandwidth of the communication channel by having the server only transmit symbols that represent the message after receiving a message transmission request from the client. This is done in order to efficiently transmit a message with a large body and/or attachment(s), thereby avoiding the risk of blocking the communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oliver K. Ban, Chun C. Wang, Michael Bi
  • Patent number: 7826667
    Abstract: A system and method of recording digitally stored surveillance images comprises dividing a series of continuous digital picture image frames according to timing intervals; storing a reference image in a frame buffer of a motion analyzer; detecting a motion difference between a captured image and the reference image; attributing a motion code and time stamp on the captured image; and recording the captured image when the motion code and time stamp match a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Oliver K. Ban
  • Patent number: 7643797
    Abstract: RFID tags to provide a relatively low power and power conserving wireless communication system to dynamically and automatically transfer all preselected data developed in designated digital devices to a centralized data processing system. Inclusion, in the target mobile wireless devices from which data is to be transferred, of an RFID tag, preferably passive, to minimize power consumption that is conventionally recognizable by a short range RF transceiver in the computer system to which data is to be transferred. Thus, each mobile wireless device being tracked includes a short range RFID tag, a short range RF transceiver and storage means for the digital data developed by the device that is to be transferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oliver K Ban, Anthony Cappa Spielberg
  • Publication number: 20090119440
    Abstract: A design structure for an apparatus for connecting electronic devices having a flexible cable bus housing containing a plurality of same or different communication and power channels extending along a length thereof and a plurality of bus ports at different locations along the bus housing length. Each bus port is capable of being operatively connected to one of the communication or power channels. There is further included a plurality of device connectors adapted to connect to a bus port at one end thereof and to a discrete device at another end thereof. Each connector at the device end has a different plug conforming to one of the communication or power channels. There is preferably further included a switch for connecting each bus port to the communication or power channel conforming to the device end plug when a device connector is connected to the bus port on the bus housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Oliver K. Ban, William Bornstein, Anthony C. Spielberg
  • Patent number: 7477258
    Abstract: A technique for updating computer-graphic digital images comprises coding a position of pixels located in a foreground of a computer-graphic image frame; sending the coded positions of the pixels located in the foreground of the computer-graphic image frame to a frame buffer of a sprite controller; separating a background pixel group from a foreground pixel group in the computer-graphic image frame based on the coded positions; updating the pixels in the foreground pixel group only; and transmitting a frame number and a frame buffer parameter dimension corresponding to the updated pixels to a computer-graphic image display viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Oliver K. Ban
  • Publication number: 20080278290
    Abstract: RFID tags to provide a relatively low power and power conserving wireless communication system to dynamically and automatically transfer all preselected data developed in designated digital devices to a centralized data processing system. Inclusion, in the target mobile wireless devices from which data is to be transferred, of an RFID tag, preferably passive, to minimize power consumption that is conventionally recognizable by a short range RF transceiver in the computer system to which data is to be transferred. Thus, each mobile wireless device being tracked includes a short range RFID tag, a short range RF transceiver and storage means for the digital data developed by the device that is to be transferred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: Internatioanal Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oliver K. Ban, Anthony Cappa Spielberg
  • Patent number: 7430398
    Abstract: RFID tags to provide a relatively low power and power conserving wireless communication system to dynamically and automatically transfer all preselected data developed in designated digital devices to a centralized data processing system. Inclusion, in the target mobile wireless devices from which data is to be transferred, of an RFID tag, preferably passive, to minimize power consumption that is conventionally recognizable by a short range RF transceiver in the computer system to which data is to be transferred. Thus, each mobile wireless device being tracked includes a short range RFID tag, a short range RF transceiver and storage means for the digital data developed by the device that is to be transferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oliver K. Ban, Anthony Cappa Spielberg
  • Publication number: 20080186894
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system, etc. for automatic power saving mode insertion when an unknown or an offensive receiver detected in a wireless access system. A method comprises generating a look-up-table from AGWN payloads in a plurality of AGWN packets. The look-up-table is then transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver. Next, the method generates a coded packet from an AGWN packet in a data packet using the look-up-table, wherein a code from the look-up-table is substituted in place of the AGWN packet. Specifically, the substituting of the code from the look-up-table comprises substituting coded symbols representing AGWN payloads in the AGWN packets. Further, the generating of the look-up-table comprises generating the code to represent size and strength information regarding an AGWN, wherein the coded packet is generated with a size that is less than the data packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Oliver K. Ban
  • Publication number: 20080181509
    Abstract: A technique for updating computer-graphic digital images comprises coding a position of pixels located in a foreground of a computer-graphic image frame; sending the coded positions of the pixels located in the foreground of the computer-graphic image frame to a frame buffer of a sprite controller; separating a background pixel group from a foreground pixel group in the computer-graphic image frame based on the coded positions; updating the pixels in the foreground pixel group only; and transmitting a frame number and a frame buffer parameter dimension corresponding to the updated pixels to a computer-graphic image display viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Oliver K. Ban
  • Publication number: 20080181462
    Abstract: A system and method of recording digitally stored surveillance images comprises dividing a series of continuous digital picture image frames according to timing intervals; storing a reference image in a frame buffer of a motion analyzer; detecting a motion difference between a captured image and the reference image; attributing a motion code and time stamp on the captured image; and recording the captured image when the motion code and time stamp match a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Oliver K. Ban
  • Publication number: 20080181518
    Abstract: A system and method of performing digital image compression comprises comparing pixels in various locations in a digital picture image frame; coding a position of pixels located in a foreground of the digital picture image frame; sending the coded positions of the pixels located in a foreground of the digital picture image frame to a frame buffer of a sprite controller; separating a background pixel group from a foreground pixel group in the digital picture image frame based on the coded positions; compressing the pixels in the foreground pixel group; and transmitting a frame number and a frame buffer parameter dimension corresponding to the compressed pixels to a digital picture image display viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Oliver K. Ban
  • Publication number: 20080059593
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of message transmission performed in a server; a method of message transmission performed in a client; a symbol-based method for transmitting a message between a server and at least one client as well as a server; a client and a symbol-based message transmission system, wherein the symbol-based method of message transmission has: at least one client requesting the server to perform message transmission; the server transmitting symbols of the client's message to the client; and presenting the received message symbols on the client. The symbol-based method of message transmission saves a great deal of bandwidth of the communication channel by having the server only transmit symbols that represent the message after receiving a message transmission request from the client. This is done in order to efficiently transmit a message with a large body and/or attachment(s), thereby avoiding the risk of blocking the communication channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Oliver K. Ban, Chun C. Wang, Michael Bi
  • Patent number: 7339501
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide a method and apparatus for recognition and tagging of multiple layered entropy coding system. The method comprises receiving a signal and performing entropy average coding to produce an entropy coded bit stream. Next, the method adds a tag to a beginning portion of the entropy coded bit stream. The tag comprises a plurality of headers, wherein each of the headers differs from one another, and wherein the headers comprise an elongated bit stream. Following this, the method reads the tag when processing the entropy coded bit stream and avoids subsequent entropy averaging on the entropy coded bit stream when the tag is present. The avoiding of the subsequent entropy averaging avoids unnecessary coding and entropy averaging of the entropy coded bit stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oliver K. Ban, William Bornstein, Marie Meliksetian