Patents by Inventor Tony Fu

Tony Fu 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: 20150113381
    Abstract: Techniques to leverage data from mobile headers are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a network component, a data component, and a web component. The network component may be operative to receive a request for a web page from a phone, the request transmitted using one or more network packets, and to transmit the web page to the phone. The data component may be operative to extract a phone number from a header of the one or more network packets. The web component may be operative to customize the web page based on the extracted phone number. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Tony Fu, Denise Moreno, Danni Liang
  • Publication number: 20140172992
    Abstract: Techniques for communicating notifications to subscribers are describer. An apparatus may comprise a channel component and a notification component. The channel component may be operative to receive an event from a social networking service to communicate to a subscriber of the social networking service and to determine one or more channels of a plurality of channels to communicate the event to the subscriber according to rankings associated with each channel, the rankings specific to the subscriber and determined according to subscriber history. The notification component may be operative to construct a notification based on the event and to transmit the notification to the subscriber using the determined one or more channels. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventors: Adrel Frederick, Tony FU, Martin Rehwald, Denise Moreno, Sam Gadodia
  • Patent number: 6934722
    Abstract: A method for finding application components installed on a computer system for use in a backup system associated with the computer system includes creating a linked list of application components installed on the computer system. The nested directories are then traced back to find a target directory for each application component in the linked list. Thereafter, a request to find a selected application is received from a calling module. The method may further include the operations of searching the linked list for a target directory for each component of the selected application, and making the target directory for each component of the selected application available to the calling module, preferably by returning the target directories to the calling module. A computer readable media for finding application components installed on a computer system for use in a backup system associated with the computer system also is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Adaptec, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael M. Goshey, Guido Maffezzoni, Kristine N. Luong, Tony Fu
  • Patent number: 6477629
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus, a system, a computer readable media, and a method for protecting data of a computer system. The method includes: (a) connecting a peripheral storage device to the computer system; (b) preparing a storage media of the peripheral storage device to be a protection enabled media; (c) selecting a backup set of data stored in a hard drive of the computer system, the backup set of data includes a default set of boot files and operating system files; (d) creating a spare tire backup using file-based copying from the hard-drive of the computer system to the storage media of the peripheral storage device; (e) enabling the peripheral storage device to incrementally copy portions of the backup set of data from the hard drive of the computer system during normal use; and (f) booting the computer system from the peripheral storage device when a failure occurs with the hard drive that disables normal booting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Adaptec, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael M. Goshey, Guido Maffezzoni, Gilbert Chang-Tying Wu, Yen-Chung Lin, John D. Nguyen, Roger A. Stoller, Kristine N. Luong, Robert S. Hudson, David A. Coleman, Dennis M. Sumners, Thanh T. Bui, Tony Fu, Tony G. Kwan
  • Patent number: 6205527
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus, a system, a computer readable media, and a method for protecting data of a computer system. The method includes: (a) connecting a peripheral storage device to the computer system; (b) preparing a storage media of the peripheral storage device to be a protection enabled media; (c) selecting a backup set of data stored in a hard drive of the computer system, the backup set of data includes a default set of boot files and operating system files; (d) creating a spare tire backup using file-based copying from the hard drive of the computer system to the storage media of the peripheral storage device; (e) enabling the peripheral storage device to incrementally copy portions of the backup set of data from the hard drive of the computer system during normal use; and (f) booting the computer system from the peripheral storage device when a failure occurs with the hard drive that disables normal booting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Adaptec, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael M. Goshey, Guido Maffezzoni, Gilbert Chang-Tying Wu, Yen-Chung Lin, John D. Nguyen, Roger A. Stoller, Kristine N. Luong, Robert S. Hudson, David A. Coleman, Dennis M. Sumners, Thanh T. Bui, Tony Fu, Tony G. Kwan