Hua W Chen

US Patent:

6715126, Mar 30, 2004

Filed:

Sep 15, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/396241

Inventors:

Subrina Shih-Pan Chang - Old Tappan NJ
Hua Chen - Riverside CA
Jeane Shu-Chun Chen - Chappaqua NY
Ephraim Feig - Chappaqua NY

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1700

US Classification:

7155001

Abstract:

A method is described for efficiently delivering a presentation of web content comprised of a media, such as audio or video content, having defined time increments, together with one or more other content sources, such as images or events to be displayed on a monitor, synchronized so that the one ore more other images or events are displayed at predetermined time increments in the media presentation. Furthermore, the entire presentation is delivered in streaming fashion, so that the end user does not have to wait for the entirety of the content data to be downloaded before starting the presentation, but rather can start viewing and listening to the presentation after a relatively short delay period. The media data and the other content need not reside at a single server source. An authoring tool for creating such composite time-synchronous content automatically determines the necessary information for scheduling player requests to the servers.

US Patent:

7376932, May 20, 2008

Filed:

Dec 4, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/727524

Inventors:

Hua Chen - Ossining NY, US
Shu-Chun Jeane Chen - San Diego CA, US
Pierre Darmon - White Plains NY, US
Shang Q. Guo - Tarrytown NY, US
Keeranoor G. Kumar - Randolph NJ, US
Edward C. Snible - New York NY, US
Kshitij M. Vichare - Crompond NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 9/44
G06F 15/00
G06F 3/00
G06F 7/00

US Classification:

717106, 717100, 717110, 717114, 715500, 715513, 715731, 715732, 7071041

Abstract:

Video, stills, panorama, sound and all forms of media as Rich Media in a Multimedia Vehicle Repository (MVR) file editable with a Rich Media Content description file. The Rich Media Content description file enables users to specify a vocabulary that defines the media elements and relations among the media elements thereby permitting the users to easily create and edit the Rich Media Content and compose various raw or compressed Rich Media components using any text editor. A multimedia authoring server side processor accepts the raw formatted Rich Media Content along with description text file in XML format and outputs the Rich Media, text and graphic components as an edited MVR file in accordance with user's design for execution on a multimedia player.

US Patent:

7401046, Jul 15, 2008

Filed:

Jul 25, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/912709

Inventors:

Michael Hollerman - Chicago IL, US
Joseph Hernandez - Tinley Park IL, US
J. Brad Peek - Round Lake IL, US
Rajesh Aery - Aurora IL, US
Hua Chen - Chicago IL, US
Susan DiMagno - Chicago IL, US

Assignee:

Chicago Board Options Exchange - Chicago IL

International Classification:

G06Q 40/00

US Classification:

705 37, 705 36 R

Abstract:

The present invention provides a method of displaying option market information including establishing a communication link between a member computer and a central computer, accessing option trading data from the central computer through the member computer, and inputting at least one signal to the member computer. The signal represents either an underlying asset symbol or an option class symbol of an underlying asset. The method further includes generating a display page listing option trading information for a plurality of option series relating to at least one of the entered underlying asset symbol and the entered option class symbol, and displaying the plurality of option series on the display page such that the option series having a strike price approximately equal to the current trading price of the underlying asset is centrally positioned on the display page. Additionally, a strike price and a first date indicator can be input and the display page can list trading information for the entered option and plurality of option series having at least a second expiration date, the plurality of option series extending over a range of strike prices, the range centrally positioned at the current trading price of the underlying stock, the plurality of option series relating to the at least one of the entered underlying asset symbol and the entered option symbol. A further method of the invention includes generating a display page listing option trading information for a month entered for an underlying asset.

US Patent:

8108827, Jan 31, 2012

Filed:

Mar 28, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/057873

Inventors:

Hua Chen - Ossining NY, US
Shu-Chun Jeane Chen - San Diego CA, US
Pierre Darmon - White Plains NY, US
Shang Q. Guo - Tarrytown NY, US
Keeranoor G. Kumar - Randolph NJ, US
Edward C. Snible - New York NY, US
Kshitij M. Vichare - Crompond NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 9/44
G06F 3/00
G06F 17/00

US Classification:

717106, 717100, 717110, 717114, 715202, 715731

Abstract:

Video, stills, panorama, sound and all forms of media as Rich Media in a Multimedia Vehicle Repository (MVR) file editable with a Rich Media Content description file. The Rich Media Content description file enables users to specify a vocabulary that defines the media elements and relations among the media elements thereby permitting the users to easily create and edit the Rich Media Content and compose various raw or compressed Rich Media components using any text editor. A multimedia authoring server side processor accepts the raw formatted Rich Media Content along with description text file in XML format and outputs the Rich Media, text and graphic components as an edited MVR file in accordance with user's design for execution on a multimedia player.

US Patent:

20020069217, Jun 6, 2002

Filed:

Dec 4, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/727491

Inventors:

Hua Chen - Ossining NY, US
Shu-Chun Chen - San Diego CA, US
Pierre Darmon - White Plains NY, US
Shang Guo - Tarrytown NY, US
Keeranoor Kumar - Randolph NJ, US
Edward Snible - New York NY, US
Kshitij Vichare - Crompond NY, US

International Classification:

G06F017/24

US Classification:

707/500100, 707/530000

Abstract:

An automatic, multi-stage rich media content creation system includes a network based server executing an operating system, a text editing program, typically XML editor, and an authoring or batch processing program for combining Rich Media in a Multimedia Vehicle Repository (MVR) file. Video, stills, panoramas, sound, film, etc are combined as raw Rich Media from one or more sources and transmitted to the server in a framework over a digital network. The raw Rich Media is incorporated into the framework as a series of related frames. The raw Rich Media is stored on a storage device, typically a disk at the network based server. A creator using a standard graphical or text editing tools has access to the raw media assets on the disk for preparing a textual specification description, typically XML in an electronic template of desired Rich Media content. The template and raw media assets are transmitted by the creator to the server for combining the raw media assets and the XML textual specification in the template as a composed MVR file using the batch-processing program. The composed MVR file and textual specification may be returned to the creator for further editing of the specification, if necessary, and/or stored on the server disk for access by other creators. The template based, composed or edited MVR file of Rich Media content and related textual specification can be transmitted to other servers on the network for automatic, multistage creation of Rich Media content by several user groups. One user group can create a template based, composed or edited MVR file which another group accesses via the network to inject other content into the template for revising the XML text specification to create another embodiment of the Rich Media content.

US Patent:

20030023525, Jan 30, 2003

Filed:

Jun 13, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/880309

Inventors:

Hua Chen - Brooklyn NY, US

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705/035000

Abstract:

The present invention involves a method and an apparatus capable of calculating, in real time, option-embedded coupon bearing bonds by option adjusted spread and linear approximation. The linear approximation uses a first order partial derivative to calculate a vector of sensitivities of bond price against yield curve by which an nth order linear approximation of the bond price can be approximated. The apparatus comprises a plurality of trader's workstations, one of which may serve as an option adjusted spread lattice engine for full lattice computation. The trader's workstations may be actuated by a triggering object, which receives yield curve, bond price, spread, volatility and other bond information updates from a database server. For each security, the Lattice Engine uses the lattice method to compute the price of the security and a vector of partial derivatives of the security price with respect to the yield curve. While other workstations, upon receiving any update of the yield curve, use the results of the Lattice Engine to perform first order approximation of the security prices. Since linear approximation is a simple calculation, the price update of a large number of securities can be carried out in real time. Because the Lattice Engine recalculates the first order partial derivatives when the yield curve has changed significantly, the linear approximations are very accurate in general.

US Patent:

20080208722, Aug 28, 2008

Filed:

Feb 22, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/036062

Inventors:

Michael Hollerman - Chicago IL, US
Joseph Hernandez - Tinley Park IL, US
J. Brad Peek - Round Lake IL, US
Rajesh Aery - Aurora IL, US
Hua Chen - Chicago IL, US
Susan DiMagno - Chicago IL, US

International Classification:

G06Q 40/00

US Classification:

705 35

Abstract:

The present invention provides a method of displaying option market information including establishing a communication link between a member computer and a central computer, accessing option trading data from the central computer through the member computer, and inputting at least one signal to the member computer. The signal represents either an underlying asset symbol or an option class symbol of an underlying asset. The method further includes generating a display page listing option trading information for a plurality of option series relating to at least one of the entered underlying asset symbol and the entered option class symbol, and displaying the plurality of option series on the display page such that the option series having a strike price approximately equal to the current trading price of the underlying asset is centrally positioned on the display page. Additionally, a strike price and a first date indicator can be input and the display page can list trading information for the entered option and plurality of option series having at least a second expiration date, the plurality of option series extending over a range of strike prices, the range centrally positioned at the current trading price of the underlying stock, the plurality of option series relating to the at least one of the entered underlying asset symbol and the entered option symbol. A further method of the invention includes generating a display page listing option trading information for a month entered for an underlying asset. A still further method of the invention includes generating a display page listing option trading information for a strike price entered for an underlying asset.

US Patent:

60468114, Apr 4, 2000

Filed:

Jan 11, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/583865

Inventors:

Lawrence B. Wolff - New York NY
Hua Chen - Baltimore MD

Assignee:

The Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore MD

International Classification:

G01J 400

US Classification:

356369

Abstract:

An apparatus for determining electrical conductivity of a surface of an object. The apparatus comprises a first polarizer for polarizing light incident upon the surface of the object. The apparatus also comprises a camera mechanism for receiving the polarized light reflected from the surface of the object and identifying the electrical conductivity of the surface of the object from phase retardance of polarization of the polarized light upon reflection from the surface of the object. The present invention pertains to a method for determining electrical conductivity of a surface of an object. The method comprises the steps of polarizing light. Next there is the step of reflecting the polarized light off the surface of the object. Then there is the step of receiving the reflected polarized light at a camera mechanism. Next there is the step of converting the received polarized light into a corresponding electrical signal with the camera mechanism.