Richard H Lui

US Patent:

20050144284, Jun 30, 2005

Filed:

Aug 31, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/931651

Inventors:

Lester Ludwig - Redwood Shores CA, US
William Brown - Los Gatos CA, US
Yul Inn - Cupertino CA, US
Anh Vuong - San Jose CA, US
Richard Vanderlippe - San Francisco CA, US
Gerald Burnett - Atherton CA, US
Chris Lauwers - Menlo Park CA, US
Richard Lui - Union City CA, US
Daniel Applebaum - Incline Village NV, US

Assignee:

COLLABORATION PROPERTIES, INC. - Redwood Shores CA

International Classification:

G06F015/16
G06F015/173

US Classification:

709226000

Abstract:

A networked multimedia system comprises a plurality of workstations and at least one storage server. A signal path interconnects the workstations and the storage server. Each workstation includes video and audio reproduction capabilities, as well as video and audio capture capabilities. Any given storage server comprises a set of storage cells that operate under the direction of a storage cell manager. A storage cell may include one or more encoding and/or transcoding converters configured to convert or transform audio and video signals originating at a workstation into a form suitable for storage. A storage cell may further include one or more decoding converters configured to convert stored signals into a form suitable for audio and video signal reproduction at a workstation. Each storage cell additionally includes at least one storage device and storage device controller capable of storing, for later retrieval, signals generated by one or more converters. The storage cell controller responds to signals received from the workstations, and oversees the operation of the storage cells to facilitate the storage of converted audio and video signals in at least one file that can be simultaneously accessed by one or more application programs executing on one or more workstations.

US Patent:

6816904, Nov 9, 2004

Filed:

May 4, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/565192

Inventors:

Lester Ludwig - Hillsborough CA
William Blake Brown - Los Gatos CA
Inn J. Yul - Cupertino CA
Anh T. Vuong - San Jose CA
Richard W. Vanderlippe - San Francisco CA
Gerald Burnett - Atherton CA
Chris Lauwers - Menlo Park CA
Richard Lui - Union City CA
Daniel Applebaum - Incline Village NV

Assignee:

Collaboration Properties, Inc. - Redwood Shores CA

International Classification:

G06F 1730

US Classification:

709226, 709204, 725145

Abstract:

A video storage environment for a networked multimedia system comprising a plurality of workstations, each with audio and video reproduction and capture capabilities. The video storage environmental comprises one or more storage servers. In one embodiment, each video storage server comprises at least one storage cell. Each storage cell internally comprises at least one storage disk, at least one converter, and at least one storage disk, at least one converter, and at least one storage cell manager. The invention provides for various methods of resource allocation under various conditions and policies where there are pluralities of like entities. The invention also provides for transfers of video files among storage disks anywhere in the storage environment, and provides for the same video file to be used simultaneously by multiple users and types of applications. The approach can be extended to included multimedia files comprising any of graphics animations, dynamic annotations, text, and other media accompanying the stored video.

US Patent:

20220196418, Jun 23, 2022

Filed:

Dec 22, 2020

Appl. No.:

17/130490

Inventors:

- Franklin TN, US
David Ilstrup - Santa Cruz CA, US
Liam Pedersen - San Francisco CA, US
Richard Lui - Sunnyvale CA, US
Christopher Ostafew - Mountain View CA, US

International Classification:

G01C 21/34
G01S 19/42
G01C 21/00
B60W 20/14
B60W 40/08
B60W 10/06

Abstract:

Activating an engine of a HEV to charge a battery includes obtaining a first GPS trace from a first trip of the HEV along a first route, where the first GPS trace includes first trace metadata; obtaining a second GPS trace from a second trip, where the second GPS trace includes second trace metadata; adding, to a navigation map, an aggregation of the first trace metadata and the second trace metadata for edges of the navigation map; using the navigation map to obtain an activation action of the engine, where the activation action is selected from a set that includes a first activation action of turning the engine on and a second activation action of turning the engine off; and activating the engine according to the activation action, where activating the engine using the first activation action causes the engine to turn on to charge the battery of the HEV.