Patents by Inventor Wen Hui Fan

Wen Hui Fan 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).

  • Real-time resource negotiation with dynamic options
    Patent number: 10701181
    Abstract: Automatically reserving a requested resource in real-time is provided. In response to posting a resource request message that includes a set of resource request criteria on a network, a set of resource availability options is received from a set of resource service providers via the network using a negotiation communication channel. The set of resource availability options received from the set of resource service providers is ranked based on an amount of matching between constraints of each respective resource availability option and the set of resource request criteria. The set of resource availability options is displayed by rank from a greatest amount to a least amount of matching in a resource negotiation table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nan Dong, Wen Hui Fan, June-Ray Lin, Jin Zhang, Li Bo Zhang
  • Real-Time Resource Negotiation with Dynamic Options
    Publication number: 20180191864
    Abstract: Automatically reserving a requested resource in real-time is provided. In response to posting a resource request message that includes a set of resource request criteria on a network, a set of resource availability options is received from a set of resource service providers via the network using a negotiation communication channel. The set of resource availability options received from the set of resource service providers is ranked based on an amount of matching between constraints of each respective resource availability option and the set of resource request criteria. The set of resource availability options is displayed by rank from a greatest amount to a least amount of matching in a resource negotiation table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Nan Dong, Wen Hui Fan, June-Ray Lin, Jin Zhang, Li Bo Zhang