Patents by Inventor Tom Hsiou-Cheng KAO

Tom Hsiou-Cheng KAO 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).

  • Portable electronic devices with an emergency mode for locating survivors in disasters
    Patent number: 10405139
    Abstract: An emergency mode is provided in a portable electronic device for locating a survivor in a disaster. The device includes a wireless antenna to transmit and receive wireless signals; a memory to store one or more identifiers; a user interface to receive a command that enables the emergency mode. The device also includes one or more processors, which, in response to the command, detect via the wireless receiver a predetermined identifier that matches a stored identifier identifying a sender of the predetermined identifier as a trusted node. When the predetermined identifier and a timing measurement frame are received from the trusted node, the device sends a response to the trusted node to indicate its presence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Chuen-Shen Bernard Shung, Jianhan Liu, George Chien, YungPing Hsu, Yasantha Rajakarunanayake, Dingchung Jann, Tom Hsiou-Cheng Kao
  • Processor memory architecture
    Patent number: 10268382
    Abstract: A processing device includes a first memory interface for accessing a first memory device of a main memory. Each first memory interface is compatible with Low-Power Double-Data-Rate (LPDDR) signaling. The processing device further includes a second memory interface, which has different signaling characteristics from the first memory interface, for accessing a second memory device of the main memory. The second memory device has an access latency higher than the first memory device and lower than a secondary storage device. The first memory device and the second memory device may be used as a dual memory or a two-tiered memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Chuen-Shen Bernard Shung, Jonathan Fuchuen Lee, Zhaoqian Chen, Tom Hsiou-Cheng Kao
  • PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH AN EMERGENCY MODE FOR LOCATING SURVIVORS IN DISASTERS
    Publication number: 20170347234
    Abstract: An emergency mode is provided in a portable electronic device for locating a survivor in a disaster. The device includes a wireless antenna to transmit and receive wireless signals; a memory to store one or more identifiers; a user interface to receive a command that enables the emergency mode. The device also includes one or more processors, which, in response to the command, detect via the wireless receiver a predetermined identifier that matches a stored identifier identifying a sender of the predetermined identifier as a trusted node. When the predetermined identifier and a timing measurement frame are received from the trusted node, the device sends a response to the trusted node to indicate its presence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Chuen-Shen Bernard Shung, Jianhan Liu, George Chien, YungPing Hsu, Yasantha Rajakarunanayake, Dingchung Jann, Tom Hsiou-Cheng Kao
  • Processor Memory Architecture
    Publication number: 20160370998
    Abstract: A processing device includes a first memory interface for accessing a first memory device of a main memory. Each first memory interface is compatible with Low-Power Double-Data-Rate (LPDDR) signaling. The processing device further includes a second memory interface, which has different signaling characteristics from the first memory interface, for accessing a second memory device of the main memory. The second memory device has an access latency higher than the first memory device and lower than a secondary storage device. The first memory device and the second memory device may be used as a dual memory or a two-tiered memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Chuen-Shen Bernard SHUNG, Jonathan Fuchuen LEE, Zhaoqian CHEN, Tom Hsiou-Cheng KAO