Minh Alva Vu

US Patent:

8468037, Jun 18, 2013

Filed:

Mar 28, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/432788

Inventors:

Geoffrey Clarke - Foster City CA, US
Kenneth William Branson - Los Altos CA, US
Minh Vu - Milpitas CA, US

Assignee:

Guidewire Software, Inc. - Foster City CA

International Classification:

G06Q 40/08

US Classification:

705 4

Abstract:

Managing risks associated with reinsurance includes: obtaining a plurality of insurance policies, each of the plurality of insurance policies comprising a plurality of coverages; identifying, for each insurance policy in the plurality of insurance policies, a set of coverages that corresponds to a geographical location, a policy level liability, or a covered item; and evaluating, for each identified set of coverages, a corresponding reinsurable risk, the evaluation includes determining a total insured value associated with the corresponding reinsurable risk.

US Patent:

59561688, Sep 21, 1999

Filed:

Sep 5, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/924852

Inventors:

Frank H. Levinson - Palo Alto CA
William R. Freeman - Castro Valley CA
Daniel S. Kane - San Francisco CA
Minh Q. Vu - San Jose CA

Assignee:

Finisar Corporation - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

H04B 1000

US Classification:

359152

Abstract:

A dual optical fiber transceiver, for use with first and second optical fibers, includes a laser transmitter for transmitting laser light into the first optical fiber, a laser light receiver for receiving laser light from the second optical fiber, and a controller coupled to the laser transmitter and laser light receiver. The controller includes a multi-protocol state machine for establishing the full duplex connection whenever the other device operates in compliance with either (A) a predefined "on-off-on" signaling protocol for establishing full duplex connections, or (B) a second predefined signaling protocol for establishing full duplex connections. In a preferred embodiment, the predefined "on-off-on" signaling protocol is the Open Fiber Control (OFC) protocol and the second predefined signaling protocol is a standard "laser transmitter always on" protocol. In the preferred embodiment, the multi-protocol state machine disables operation of the laser transmitter whenever a loss of light condition is detected by the transceiver's laser light receiver that is not in compliance with the OFC protocol.

US Patent:

56047355, Feb 18, 1997

Filed:

May 12, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/440088

Inventors:

Frank H. Levinson - Palo Alto CA
Mark J. Farley - Napa CA
Minh Q. Vu - San Jose CA
Calvin P.-K. Leung - Newark CA

Assignee:

Finisar Corporation - CA

International Classification:

H04Q 1104

US Classification:

370360

Abstract:

The present invention provides an improvement in circuit switching for a network comprising a switching apparatus including a plurality of transceivers for interfacing directly with a like plurality of nodes. Each of the transceivers has a receive and transmit through port for passing data to and from nodes. Transmitted data includes a connect/disconnect sequence, a first wait sequence, and user data. The switching apparatus further includes circuitry for isolating each transceiver so as to loop back data when not in use and a switching matrix for directly connecting any pair of transceivers. Each of the transceivers includes circuitry for detecting a connect and disconnect sequence and an interface for connection to a serial asynchronous receiver to derive node requests, routing data, priority and other information from the connect sequence detected at the transceiver. Derived switch configuration requests are processed by a node route control state machine, with each node route control state machine integrated in a bus architecture for configuring the matrix switch. A bus arbitration state machine controls the bus architecture servicing bus requests and providing bus grants for the transfer of routing information to switch control logic and a command sequencer.