Patents by Inventor Richard S. Yien

Richard S. Yien 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: 5724574
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing at a remote workstation, data files that are compressed and collected into groups on a local area network at a central location. The files of a group are transferred to the workstation over an ISDN switched telephone network in response to an automatic requests from the workstations. The workstation requests depend on the inventory of unprocessed files at the workstation as well as the time and date, in order to reduce the connection time. When files are received at the workstation the first is immediately decompressed and presented to the operator. In the meantime the next file which the operated is expected to need is decompressed in the background and is ready for processing as soon as the operator finishes with the first. When the operator switches to the next file the processing results are automatically saved and a further file is decompressed an held in a que for the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignees: Remote Systems Company, LLC, Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Wang Software N.Y., Inc.
    Inventors: William N. Stratigos, Richard S. Yien
  • Patent number: 5568489
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing at a remote workstation, data files that are compressed and collected into groups on a local area network at a central location. The files of a group are transferred to the workstation over an ISDN switched telephone network in response to an automatic requests from the workstations. The workstation requests depend on the inventory of unprocessed files at the workstation as well as the time and date, in order to reduce the connection time. When files are received at the workstation the first is immediately decompressed and presented to the operator. In the meantime the next file which the operated is expected to need is decompressed in the background and is ready for processing as soon as the operator finishes with the first. When the operator switches to the next file the processing results are automatically saved and a further file is decompressed an held in a que for the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignees: Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Remote Systems Company, L.L.C
    Inventors: Richard S. Yien, William N. Stratigos
  • Patent number: 5446740
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing at a remote workstation, data files that are compressed and collected into groups on a local area network at a central location. The files of a group are transferred to the workstation over an ISDN switched telephone network in response to an automatic requests from the workstations. The workstation requests depend on the inventory of unprocessed files at the workstation as well as the time and date, in order to reduce the connection time. When files are received at the workstation the first is immediately decompressed and presented to the operator. In the meantime the next file which the operated is expected to need is decompressed in the background and is ready for processing as soon as the operator finishes with the first. When the operator switches to the next file the processing results are automatically saved and a further file is decompressed an held in a queue for the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignees: Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Sigma Imaging Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard S. Yien, William N. Stratigos
  • Patent number: 4788718
    Abstract: An arrangement and method for compiling telecommunication traffic analysis data includes the steps of collecting call data for a plurality of calls to a single customer from a signaling circuit that commonly carries the signaling for calls to a plurality of customers. The call data is transmitted to and stored in a call data processor which processes the call data to compile a summary of traffic data for the plurality of calls to the customer. Further processing of the summary of traffic data results in a change of a parameter in the customer's call processing logic and a reduction of call blocking for subsequent calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Assignee: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT & T Laboratories
    Inventors: Sandra D. McNabb, Richard S. Yien