公开(公告)号：US20110117850A1

公开(公告)日：2011-05-19

申请号：US12620603

申请日：2009-11-18

申请人： Hei Tao Fung ,  Tony K. Mak

发明人： Hei Tao Fung ,  Tony K. Mak

IPC分类号： H04B7/005 ,  G08C19/12

CPC分类号： G08C17/02 ,  G08C23/04 ,  G08C2201/93

摘要： An apparatus comprises a radio frequency (RF) unit, an Infrared (IR) signal unit, and a processing unit that decodes the codes received from the RF unit and feeds them into the IR signal unit. The codes control the home electronic appliances such as TV, VCR, Hi-Fi systems, etc. that can decode IR remote control codes. A smart portable device such as a smart phone is equipped with powerful CPU, touch screen, networking interface, etc. The software application running on the smart portable device can convert the user commands received on the graphical user interface (GUI) into messages that contain the IR remote control codes and communicate the messages over the RF network to the apparatus.

摘要翻译： 一种装置包括射频（RF）单元，红外（IR）信号单元和对从RF单元接收的代码进行解码并将其馈送到IR信号单元中的处理单元。 该代码控制家用电子设备，如电视机，录像机，Hi-Fi系统等，可解码红外遥控代码。 诸如智能手机的智能便携式设备配备有强大的CPU，触摸屏，网络接口等。在智能便携式设备上运行的软件应用程序可以将图形用户界面（GUI）上接收的用户命令转换为包含 红外遥控器通过射频网络将消息传送到设备。

公开(公告)号：US20110153885A1

公开(公告)日：2011-06-23

申请号：US12642814

申请日：2009-12-20

申请人： Tony K. Mak ,  Hei Tao Fung

发明人： Tony K. Mak ,  Hei Tao Fung

IPC分类号： G06F13/42

CPC分类号： G08C23/04 ,  G08C2201/92

摘要： The smart portable device such as a smart phone is equipped with powerful CPU, touch screen, USB socket, etc. The software application running on the smart portable device can convert the user commands received on the graphical user interface (GUI) into remote control codes and communicate the remote control codes as data packets through peripheral bus interface, such as USB, to a plug-in peripheral device. The plug-in peripheral device receives the data packets and drives the IR transmitter using information in the data packets received. The remote control codes in the form of modulated IR signals arrive at the electronic appliances such as TV, VCR, Hi-Fi systems, robots, etc. that can decode remote control codes.

摘要翻译： 智能手机智能便携式设备配备了强大的CPU，触摸屏，USB插座等。智能便携式设备上运行的软件应用程序可将图形用户界面（GUI）上接收的用户命令转换为遥控代码 并通过诸如USB的外围总线接口将遥控代码作为数据分组传送到插件外围设备。 插件外围设备接收数据包，并使用收到的数据包中的信息驱动IR发送器。 调制的IR信号形式的遥控器代码到达可以解码遥控代码的电视设备，例如TV，VCR，Hi-Fi系统，机器人等。

公开(公告)号：US20110144778A1

公开(公告)日：2011-06-16

申请号：US12636792

申请日：2009-12-14

申请人： Hei Tao Fung ,  Tony K. Mak

发明人： Hei Tao Fung ,  Tony K. Mak

IPC分类号： G06F17/00

CPC分类号： H04B1/202 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G08C23/04 ,  H04N21/4222 ,  H04N21/42221 ,  H04N21/42224 ,  H04N2005/4425

摘要： A smart audio plug-in comprises an electrical audio signal receiver, a processor of protocol data units carried in the electrical signal, and an infrared signal transmitter. The remote control codes control the electronic appliances such as TV, VCR, Hi-Fi systems, robots, etc. that can decode remote control codes. The smart audio plug-in can be inserted into the audio jack of a smart portable device. The smart portable device such as a smart phone is equipped with powerful CPU, touch screen, networking interface, audio jack, etc. The software application running on the smart portable device can convert the user commands received on the graphical user interface (GUI) into remote control code and transmit unmodulated, or modulated electrical signals such as amplitude modulated, frequency modulated or phase modulated signals that encode the remote control codes through the audio jack to the smart audio plug-in.

摘要翻译： 智能音频插件包括电音频信号接收器，电信号中携带的协议数据单元的处理器和红外信号发射器。 遥控器代码控制电视机，录像机，Hi-Fi系统，机器人等可解码遥控代码的电子设备。 智能音频插件可插入智能便携式设备的音频插孔。 智能手机智能便携式设备配备了强大的CPU，触摸屏，网络接口，音频插孔等。智能便携式设备上运行的软件应用程序可将图形用户界面（GUI）上接收的用户命令转换为 发送未调制或调制的电信号，例如调幅，调频或相位调制信号，通过音频插孔将遥控代码编码到智能音频插件。

公开(公告)号：US20130132242A1

公开(公告)日：2013-05-23

申请号：US13300671

申请日：2011-11-21

申请人： Hei Tao Fung

发明人： Hei Tao Fung

IPC分类号： G06Q40/00

CPC分类号： G06Q40/00

摘要： A method for providing bookkeeping service is disclosed. The method, facilitated by a bookkeeping server, addresses some security concerns arisen from using remote bookkeepers using techniques comprising: secure client sessions, work item distribution, organization information concealment, encryption using organization specific private keys, concealment of passwords, and distributed storage. Also, an image capturing system is disclosed. The image capturing system facilitates the process of capturing images of financial transactions for remote bookkeeping. It comprises a low-cost device that provides illumination and facilitates image processing working along with a smart phone.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种提供簿记服务的方法。 由簿记服务器推动的方法解决了使用远程账簿管理员使用以下技术所引起的一些安全性问题：技术包括：安全客户端会话，工作项目分发，组织信息隐藏，使用组织特定私钥加密，隐藏密码和分布式存储。 此外，公开了一种图像捕获系统。 图像捕获系统便于捕获用于远程簿记的金融交易的图像的处理。 它包括一个低成本的设备，提供照明，并促进与智能手机一起工作的图像处理。

公开(公告)号：US08358597B2

公开(公告)日：2013-01-22

申请号：US12571445

申请日：2009-10-01

申请人： Hei Tao Fung

发明人： Hei Tao Fung

IPC分类号： H04L12/28

CPC分类号： H04L45/04 ,  H04L45/48 ,  H04L45/58

摘要： A method for building scalable Ethernet switch network and huge Ethernet switch is provided. The switch network is composed of a plurality of tiers of Ethernet switches forming a fat-tree topology. The bottommost tier connects to the end-stations. All switches except those in the top tier are typical IEEE802.1Q switches configured purposefully such that all packets from the end-stations are forwarded upstream to the top tier and are tagged with ingress port information. The top-tier switches possess a novel learning and forwarding capability such that a received packet is forwarded downstream to the destination end-station through one of a plurality of possible paths selected by a load balancing algorithm. The method can also be applied to build an Ethernet switch of a large number of ports.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种构建可扩展以太网交换机网络和巨大以太网交换机的方法。 交换机网络由形成胖树拓扑的多层以太网交换机组成。 最底层连接到终端站。 除顶层以外的所有交换机都是典型的IEEE802.1Q交换机，有目的地配置，使得所有来自终端站的数据包都将向上游转发到顶层，并标有入口端口信息。 顶级交换机具有新颖的学习和转发能力，使得接收的分组通过负载平衡算法选择的多个可能路径之一向下游传送到目的地终端站。 该方法也可以应用于构建大量端口的以太网交换机。

公开(公告)号：US20150172222A1

公开(公告)日：2015-06-18

申请号：US14107186

申请日：2013-12-16

申请人： James Liao ,  Hei Tao Fung ,  David Liu

发明人： James Liao ,  Hei Tao Fung ,  David Liu

IPC分类号： H04L12/931 ,  H04L12/823 ,  H04L29/12

CPC分类号： H04L49/351 ,  G06F9/45558 ,  G06F2009/45595 ,  H04L49/356 ,  H04L49/70 ,  H04L61/103 ,  H04L61/2038 ,  H04L61/6004 ,  H04L61/6022

摘要： A system, method, and computer program product are provided for providing a multi-tenant data center Ethernet switch fabric that enables communications among virtual machines. A controller assigns location-based MAC addresses to the virtual machines and programs the Ethernet switch fabric to forward packets by the location information embedded in the location-based MAC addresses.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种系统，方法和计算机程序产品，用于提供启用虚拟机之间的通信的多租户数据中心以太网交换机结构。 控制器将基于位置的MAC地址分配给虚拟机，并对以太网交换结构进行编程，通过嵌入在基于位置的MAC地址中的位置信息来转发数据包。

公开(公告)号：US20150139250A1

公开(公告)日：2015-05-21

申请号：US14082369

申请日：2013-11-18

申请人： Hei Tao Fung ,  David Liu ,  James Liao

发明人： Hei Tao Fung ,  David Liu ,  James Liao

IPC分类号： H04L12/26

CPC分类号： H04L43/067 ,  H04L41/142

摘要： A system, method, and computer program product are provided for collecting a snapshot of the statistics of a computer network. The devices of the network that provide the statistics synchronize their clocks to a time source. The statistics collector can request the devices to read their counters at a specified time. The counter values are stored and time-stamped on the devices. The statistics collector can later retrieve the stored counter values from the devices and correlate the statistics by the time-stamps.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于收集计算机网络的统计信息的快照的系统，方法和计算机程序产品。 提供统计信息的网络设备将其时钟同步到时间源。 统计收集器可以在指定的时间请求设备读取计数器。 计数器值存储在设备上并加上时间戳。 统计收集器可以稍后从设备中检索存储的计数器值，并将统计信息与时间戳相关联。

公开(公告)号：US20140307580A1

公开(公告)日：2014-10-16

申请号：US13867045

申请日：2013-04-20

申请人： Hei Tao Fung

发明人： Hei Tao Fung

IPC分类号： H04L12/933 ,  H04L12/947

CPC分类号： H04L49/1515 ,  H04L45/245 ,  H04L49/351 ,  H04L49/50

摘要： A system and methods of using commodity switches to produce a switch fabric are disclosed. The system is designed taking into considerations the limitations of typical commodity switches and the requirements of high availability. The system comprises a plurality of switches organized in tiers. Each switch comprises uplink switch ports and downlink switch ports. The switch is connected to switches in higher tiers via its uplink switch ports and to switches in lower tiers via its downlink switch ports. The switches in the lowest tier are connected to the devices external to the system via downlink switch ports. A management module may provide the capability of provisioning and configuring the switches. On each switch, at least one link aggregation is configured with the uplink switch ports. A packet received from any downlink switch port is forwarded to one of the at least one link aggregation of uplink switch ports. A packet received from any uplink switch port is forwarded according to the first label in the packet. Each switch in the highest tier is configured to insert one or more labels in a packet to be sent out via the switches. A value in a label indicates the switch port to be selected to send out the packet received at a switch.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种使用商品交换机来生产交换结构的系统和方法。 该系统的设计考虑了典型商品交换机的局限性和高可用性要求。 该系统包括以层级组织的多个开关。 每个交换机包括上行链路交换机端口和下行链路交换机端口。 交换机通过其上行链路交换机端口连接到较高级别的交换机，并通过其下行链路交换机端口连接到较低级别的交换机。 最低层的交换机通过下行交换机端口连接到系统外部的设备。 管理模块可以提供配置和配置交换机的能力。 在每个交换机上，至少有一个链路聚合配置了上行链路交换机端口。 从任何下行链路交换机端口接收的分组被转发到上行链路交换机端口的至少一个链路聚合中的一个。 从任何上行链路交换机端口接收的分组根据分组中的第一个标签进行转发。 最高层中的每个交换机都配置为在要通过交换机发送的数据包中插入一个或多个标签。 标签中的值表示要选择的交换机端口以发送在交换机处接收的分组。

公开(公告)号：US08588972B2

公开(公告)日：2013-11-19

申请号：US13088399

申请日：2011-04-17

申请人： Hei Tao Fung

发明人： Hei Tao Fung

IPC分类号： G06F19/00

CPC分类号： B25J11/003 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D2201/0214 ,  H04W4/00

摘要： A method for creating low-cost interactive entertainment robots is disclosed. The cost of the robots is reduced by using a commodity computing device: smart phone, and by having robotic bodies use a decoder of a set of movement commands that facilitates the interoperability between a variety of smart phones and a variety of robotic bodies. Smart phones are equipped with powerful CPU, touch screen, USB, camera, microphone, Bluetooth, WI-FI, etc. They are fit for being the robot control units with the relevant robot applications installed. The cost of robotic bodies can be reduced by minimizing the amount of processing and sensing there and having them focus on mechanical movements. Furthermore, by defining and using a set of movement commands that promotes interoperability between a variety of robot control units and a variety of robotic bodies, the cost of robotic bodies can be reduced through mass production.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于创建低成本互动娱乐机器人的方法。 机器人的成本通过使用商品计算设备：智能电话以及通过使机器人身体使用一组移动命令的解码器来减少，这有助于各种智能电话和各种机器人体之间的互操作性。 智能手机配备强大的CPU，触摸屏，USB，相机，麦克风，蓝牙，WI-FI等。它们适合作为安装相关机器人应用程序的机器人控制单元。 可以通过最小化加工和感测的量并使它们集中在机械运动上来降低机器人体的成本。 此外，通过定义和使用一组促进各种机器人控制单元和各种机器人之间的互操作的运动命令，可以通过批量生产来降低机器人体的成本。

公开(公告)号：US20130117867A1

公开(公告)日：2013-05-09

申请号：US13632097

申请日：2012-09-30

申请人： Hei Tao Fung

发明人： Hei Tao Fung

IPC分类号： G06F21/00 ,  G08B13/00

CPC分类号： G08B13/1427 ,  G06F21/88 ,  G08B21/0247

摘要： The robot in this invention can detect the fading or loss of wireless network signal as an indication of being removed from its working area and enter into alert mode. The purpose of robot entering into alert mode is to deter physical theft, e.g., by sounding an alarm, to protect confidential data loss, and to render the robot useless to an unauthorized person, reducing the incentives for theft. A number of techniques are employed in this invention: confidential data stored on the robot is encrypted; administrator is required to log in the robot to enable robot operations; robot is to detect abnormal conditions such as fading of wireless network signal, sudden loss of wireless network signal, loss of connectivity to management server, and physical disconnection of any computing part from itself; robot is to resume normal operations without administrator intervention when abnormal condition is rectified; an Internet management server instructs the robot to delete stored data when the robot fails to authenticate itself; and place the reset button of a computing part of the robot such that the reset button is only accessible when the computing part is physically disconnected from the robot.

摘要翻译： 本发明的机器人可以检测无线网络信号的衰落或丢失，作为从其工作区域移除并进入警报模式的指示。 机器人进入警报模式的目的是为了防止物理窃取，例如通过发出警报来保护机密数据丢失，并使机器人对未经授权的人造成无用的作用，从而减少盗窃的动机。 在本发明中采用了许多技术：加密存储在机器人上的机密数据; 管理员需要登录机器人以启用机器人操作; 机器人可以检测无线网络信号衰落，无线网络信号突然丢失，管理服务器连接丢失，以及任何计算部件与其自身的物理断开等异常情况; 机器人在异常情况纠正时无需管理员干预即可恢复正常操作; 互联网管理服务器指示机器人在机器人无法自行验证时删除存储的数据; 并且放置机器人的计算部分的复位按钮，使得仅当计算部件与机器人物理断开连接时才能访问复位按钮。