公开(公告)号：US20050055251A1

公开(公告)日：2005-03-10

申请号：US10928694

申请日：2004-08-27

申请人： William Ashley ,  Jeffrey Miller

发明人： William Ashley ,  Jeffrey Miller

IPC分类号： G06Q40/00 ,  G06F17/60

CPC分类号： G06Q40/02 ,  G06Q40/08

摘要： A benefit plan system is provided with multiple categories of benefits. The benefits are subject to controls, which are independently variable. The controls can comprise one or more of limit amounts, deductible amounts, coinsurance percentages and copay amounts. A catastrophic attachment point (CAP) can represent a predetermined incurred expense amount, a medical condition or some other criteria. Major medical benefits can be available upon reaching the CAP, and likewise have independently variable controls. A benefit method is provided in includes the steps of providing limited medical benefits, assigning independently variable controls, providing a CAP, providing major medical benefits when incurred expenses exceed the CAP and negotiating with healthcare providers for favorable pricing within said controls. Additional CAPs can be provided, and can correspond to other criteria such as medical conditions, etc.

摘要翻译： 福利计划系统具有多种类型的收益。 好处受到控制，这是独立变数的。 控制可以包括一个或多个限制金额，可扣除金额，共同保险百分比和共付金额。 灾难性附着点（CAP）可以表示预定的发生费用金额，医疗状况或其他一些标准。 CAP可以获得主要的医疗福利，同样具有独立的变量控制。 提供了一种福利方法，包括提供有限的医疗福利，分配独立变量控制，提供CAP，在发生的费用超过CAP时提供主要医疗福利，并在医疗保健提供者内与所述控制内的有利定价进行协商的步骤。 可以提供额外的CAP，并且可以对应于其他标准，例如医疗条件等。

公开(公告)号：US20050193091A1

公开(公告)日：2005-09-01

申请号：US11059070

申请日：2005-02-16

申请人： Clement Taylor ,  Danny Chin ,  Jesse Lerman ,  Steven Zack ,  William Ashley

发明人： Clement Taylor ,  Danny Chin ,  Jesse Lerman ,  Steven Zack ,  William Ashley

IPC分类号： G06F13/00 ,  G06F13/38 ,  G06F15/16 ,  G06F15/173 ,  H04N21/218 ,  H04N21/2318 ,  H04N21/232

CPC分类号： H04N21/2318 ,  H04N21/2182 ,  H04N21/232

摘要： A storage server for efficiently retrieving data from a plurality of disks in response to user access requests. The server comprises a plurality of processors coupled to disjoint subsets of disks, and a custom non-blocking packet switch for routing data from the processors to users. By tightly coupling the processors to disks and employing an application-specific switch, congestion and disk scheduling bottlenecks are minimized. By making efficient use of bandwidth, the architecture is also capable of receiving real-time data streams from a remote source and distributing these data streams to requesting users. The architecture is particularly well suited to video-on-demand systems in which a video server stores a library of movies and users submit requests to view particular movies.

摘要翻译： 一种存储服务器，用于响应于用户访问请求而有效地从多个磁盘检索数据。 服务器包括耦合到不相交的磁盘子集的多个处理器和用于将数据从处理器路由到用户的自定义非阻塞分组交换机。 通过将处理器紧密耦合到磁盘并采用特定于应用程序的交换机，拥塞和磁盘调度瓶颈被最小化。 通过有效利用带宽，该架构还能够从远程源接收实时数据流，并将这些数据流分发给请求用户。 该架构特别适用于视频点播系统，其中视频服务器存储电影库并且用户提交查看特定电影的请求。

公开(公告)号：US06289376B1

公开(公告)日：2001-09-11

申请号：US09363670

申请日：1999-07-29

申请人： Clement G. Taylor ,  Danny Chin ,  Jesse S. Lerman ,  Steven Zack ,  William Ashley

发明人： Clement G. Taylor ,  Danny Chin ,  Jesse S. Lerman ,  Steven Zack ,  William Ashley

IPC分类号： G06F1516

CPC分类号： H04N21/2318 ,  H04N21/2182 ,  H04N21/232

摘要： A storage server for efficiently retrieving data from a plurality of disks in response to user access requests. The server comprises a plurality of processors coupled to disjoint subsets of disks, and a custom non-blocking packet switch for routing data from the processors to users. By tightly coupling the processors to disks and employing an application-specific switch, congestion and disk scheduling bottlenecks are minimized. By making efficient use of bandwidth, the architecture is also capable of receiving real-time data streams from a remote source and distributing these data streams to requesting users. The architecture is particularly well suited to video-on-demand systems in which a video server stores a library of movies and users submit requests to view particular movies.

摘要翻译： 一种存储服务器，用于响应于用户访问请求而有效地从多个磁盘检索数据。 服务器包括耦合到不相交的磁盘子集的多个处理器和用于将数据从处理器路由到用户的自定义非阻塞分组交换机。 通过将处理器紧密耦合到磁盘并采用特定于应用程序的交换机，拥塞和磁盘调度瓶颈被最小化。 通过有效利用带宽，该架构还能够从远程源接收实时数据流，并将这些数据流分发给请求用户。 该架构特别适用于视频点播系统，其中视频服务器存储电影库并且用户提交查看特定电影的请求。

公开(公告)号：US06889245B2

公开(公告)日：2005-05-03

申请号：US09911591

申请日：2001-07-24

申请人： Clement G. Taylor ,  Danny Chin ,  Jesse S. Lerman ,  Steven Zack ,  William Ashley

发明人： Clement G. Taylor ,  Danny Chin ,  Jesse S. Lerman ,  Steven Zack ,  William Ashley

IPC分类号： G06F13/00 ,  G06F13/38 ,  G06F15/16 ,  G06F15/173 ,  H04N21/218 ,  H04N21/2318 ,  H04N21/232

CPC分类号： H04N21/2318 ,  H04N21/2182 ,  H04N21/232

摘要： A storage server for efficiently retrieving data from a plurality of disks in response to user access requests. The server comprises a plurality of processors coupled to disjoint subsets of disks, and a custom non-blocking packet switch for routing data from the processors to users. By tightly coupling the processors to disks and employing an application-specific switch, congestion and disk scheduling bottlenecks are minimized. By making efficient use of bandwidth, the architecture is also capable of receiving real-time data streams from a remote source and distributing these data streams to requesting users. The architecture is particularly well suited to video-on-demand systems in which a video server stores a library of movies and users submit requests to view particular movies.

公开(公告)号：US06381239B1

公开(公告)日：2002-04-30

申请号：US09125217

申请日：1998-08-13

申请人： Roger F. Atkinson ,  Simon S. Ng ,  Robert J. Siefert ,  William Ashley ,  Kenneth A. Beckman ,  Raymond Klein

发明人： Roger F. Atkinson ,  Simon S. Ng ,  Robert J. Siefert ,  William Ashley ,  Kenneth A. Beckman ,  Raymond Klein

IPC分类号： H04Q1104

CPC分类号： H04Q11/0407 ,  H04M3/005 ,  H04M3/007 ,  H04M9/025 ,  H04Q3/5455 ,  H04Q2213/13003 ,  H04Q2213/1305 ,  H04Q2213/13103 ,  H04Q2213/13106 ,  H04Q2213/13109 ,  H04Q2213/1313 ,  H04Q2213/13174 ,  H04Q2213/13176 ,  H04Q2213/13191 ,  H04Q2213/13204 ,  H04Q2213/13209 ,  H04Q2213/13213 ,  H04Q2213/13292 ,  H04Q2213/13299 ,  H04Q2213/13305 ,  H04Q2213/1332 ,  H04Q2213/13322 ,  H04Q2213/1334 ,  H04Q2213/13376 ,  H04Q2213/13381

摘要： A multiple application switching platform includes a switch having a distributed open architecture and incorporating redundancy for enhanced fault tolerance. The switch includes at least one shelf having a midplane (1) containing message buses and TDM data buses (A and B). Shelves may be interconnected to form a group wherein various circuit cards are connected to each shelf midplane. The circuit cards (4, 5 and 6) perform call processing wherein each card within a group accessing a data bus is pre-assigned a unique set of time slots for each data bus within which that card may transmit onto that data bus. Each circuit card further includes an identification number that enables each card an opportunity to transmit onto a message bus (A and B). The circuit cards (4, 5 and 6) include line or trunk switch cards that function as an independent switch to interface line or trunks to a shelf midplane. Communications between lines or trunks connected to any group shelf is facilitated by switch cards communicating with each other via messages sent over the message buses (A and B).

摘要翻译： 多应用交换平台包括具有分布式开放架构的交换机并且包括用于增强的容错的冗余。 交换机包括至少一个具有包含消息总线和TDM数据总线（A和B）的中平面（1）的机架。 搁板可以互连以形成一组，其中各个电路卡连接到每个货架中平面。 电路卡（4,5和6）执行呼叫处理，其中访问数据总线的组内的每个卡被预分配了用于该卡可以在该数据总线上发送的每个数据总线的唯一的一组时隙。 每个电路卡还包括使每个卡有机会发送到消息总线（A和B）上的标识号。 电路卡（4,5和6）包括线路或中继交换机卡，其作为独立开关，将线路或中继线连接到货架中间板。 通过通过消息总线（A和B）发送的消息彼此通信的交换卡来促进连接到任何组架的线路或中继线之间的通信。

公开(公告)号：US08019809B2

公开(公告)日：2011-09-13

申请号：US11059070

申请日：2005-02-16

申请人： Clement G. Taylor ,  Danny Chin ,  Jesse S. Lerman ,  Steven Zack ,  William Ashley

发明人： Clement G. Taylor ,  Danny Chin ,  Jesse S. Lerman ,  Steven Zack ,  William Ashley

IPC分类号： G06F15/16 ,  G06F15/173 ,  G06F11/00 ,  G06F13/00

CPC分类号： H04N21/2318 ,  H04N21/2182 ,  H04N21/232

摘要： A storage server for efficiently retrieving data from a plurality of disks in response to user access requests. The server comprises a plurality of processors coupled to disjoint subsets of disks, and a custom non-blocking packet switch for routing data from the processors to users. By tightly coupling the processors to disks and employing an application-specific switch, congestion and disk scheduling bottlenecks are minimized. By making efficient use of bandwidth, the architecture is also capable of receiving real-time data streams from a remote source and distributing these data streams to requesting users. The architecture is particularly well suited to video-on-demand systems in which a video server stores a library of movies and users submit requests to view particular movies.

摘要翻译： 一种存储服务器，用于响应于用户访问请求而有效地从多个磁盘检索数据。 服务器包括耦合到不相交的磁盘子集的多个处理器和用于将数据从处理器路由到用户的自定义非阻塞分组交换机。 通过将处理器紧密耦合到磁盘并采用特定于应用程序的交换机，拥塞和磁盘调度瓶颈被最小化。 通过有效利用带宽，该架构还能够从远程源接收实时数据流，并将这些数据流分发给请求用户。 该架构特别适用于视频点播系统，其中视频服务器存储电影库并且用户提交查看特定电影的请求。