Patents by Inventor Yingchun Ran

Yingchun Ran 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: 7970350
    Abstract: Described are methods and devices for automatically coupling two or more mobile communication devices (502, 541) to share content such as calls, music, documents, video and games where two or more devices automatically determine the feasibility of sharing the content and negotiate to find an efficient manner in which to do so. In this way, the pairing between devices may be transparent to the users. Moreover, a better choice in a transport may be selected without user input. Each device may include a near field communication (NFC) device that when in range of the other device may automatically initiate pairing between the devices so that the devices may share content. The users of NFC enabled devices may have little or minimal interactions except that one or more users may bring the devices within range so that the NFCs may initiate the pairing between the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnold Sheynman, Daniel R. Muehl, Yingchun Ran, Jun Tian
  • Publication number: 20090111378
    Abstract: Described are methods and devices for automatically coupling two or more mobile communication devices (502, 541) to share content such as calls, music, documents, video and games where two or more devices automatically determine the feasibility of sharing the content and negotiate to find an efficient manner in which to do so. In this way, the pairing between devices may be transparent to the users. Moreover, a better choice in a transport may be selected without user input. Each device may include a near field communication (NFC) device that when in range of the other device may automatically initiate pairing between the devices so that the devices may share content. The users of NFC enabled devices may have little or minimal interactions except that one or more users may bring the devices within range so that the NFCs may initiate the pairing between the devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: MOTOROLA, INC.
    Inventors: ARNOLD SHEYNMAN, DANIEL R. MUEHL, YINGCHUN RAN, JUN TIAN
  • Patent number: 7304572
    Abstract: A method in an intercom system including detecting the presence of a visitor at a visitor monitor, communicating (224) information received at the visitor monitor in association with the visitor detected to a remotely located communications network gateway, communicating (232) the presence of the visitor from the communication network gateway to a remote terminal, and forwarding the information received from the communications network gateway to the remote terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnold Sheynman, Michael L. Charlier, Mikhail T. Galeev, Dongmin Liu, Yingchun Ran
  • Publication number: 20050285734
    Abstract: A method in an intercom system including detecting the presence of a visitor at a visitor monitor, communicating (224) information received at the visitor monitor in association with the visitor detected to a remotely located communications network gateway, communicating (232) the presence of the visitor from the communication network gateway to a remote terminal, and forwarding the information received from the communications network gateway to the remote terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventors: Arnold Sheynman, Michael Charlier, Mikhail Galeev, Dongmin Liu, Yingchun Ran
  • Publication number: 20050060088
    Abstract: A pedestrian navigation and spatial relation device including a position finder, a spatial relationship sensor, an input mechanism, and an output mechanism. The position finder can be configured to determine a geographic position of the device based upon received wireless signals. The spatial relationship sensor can provide data used to detect a position of at least one obstacle relative to the device. The input mechanism can specify a destination location. The output mechanism can present device output to a user. The device output can include sensory indicators for at least one of guiding a pedestrian to the destination location and warning a pedestrian about the detected obstacles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Abdelsalam Helal, Steven Moore, Balaji Ramachandran, Yingchun Ran