Attorney Bao Q Tran's Legal Cases

Patent application

Personal sports simulation robot

May 26, 2015

OUTCOME: United States Patent 9039547

A sports simulation robot for playing games and drills on a standard court or field during which the robot will simulate the competitive play of a human opponent with specific playing characteristics s ... uch as strategy, physicality, playing style and skill level. The robot is small enough and light enough to be easily stored, transported and deployed; has a ball storage device for retrieving, storing and dispensing the balls; can reload the balls into the ball storage device by catching them or by autonomously reloading them; has a ball firing system that is compact, lightweight and efficient, that can generate the shot dynamics that the corresponding human opponent would be capable of generating; has a drive system that makes it capable of moving around the court at speeds that are comparable to the speed of the human opponent that is being simulated; has the ability to call shots In or Out, keep the score, provide coaching, and keeps a record over time of the player's performance against different categories of simulated opponents.

Patent application

Systems and methods for minimizing network bandwidth for replication/back up

Apr 21, 2015

OUTCOME: Issued as patent 9015122

For more please see images for other issued patents. Systems and methods are disclosed for backing up a client data set on a computer by identifying changed files; generating a first sub-file signature ... for one or more segments of a changed file; subsequently generating a second sub-file signature for each file segment to detect insertions, removals, and rearrangements of data in the file; transmitting one more changed segment(s) in the file; and writing a manifest file reflecting the new target state.

Patent application

3D semiconductor device

Apr 23, 2014

OUTCOME: Issued as patent 8427200

For more please see images for other issued patents. A semiconductor device includes a first mono-crystallized semiconductor layer; and a second mono-crystallized semiconductor layer; wherein said fir ... st and second mono-crystallized semiconductor layers are overlaying one on top of the other, and wherein said first mono-crystallized semiconductor layer comprise repeating memory structure with sub structures defined by etching.

Patent application

Systems and methods for producing organic cannabis tincture

May 21, 2013

OUTCOME: United States Patent 8445034

Systems and methods are disclosed for fabricating a medicine by preparing a cannabis plant material and classifying the cannabis plant material into an acid, neutral, or analog form; extracting cannabi ... noids from the cannabis plant material by either a reflux process through evaporating and condensing the cannabis plant material or an ultrasonic extraction process of the cannabis plant material with ultrasonic waves; and infusing the cannabinoids with an alternative emulsion.

Patent application

Method for fingerprinting and identifying internet users

Feb 28, 2012

OUTCOME: United States Patent 8126816

Various aspects of the present system provide methods and systems for authenticating online purchase by tracing internet actions to a remote computer and to an individual who operates the computer. One ... aspect provides a technique to generate fingerprint of computer and its user based on the information collected through the actions a user conducts on internet. Another aspect of the system provides a technique to compute the fingerprints and find relations between users and computers. Another aspect of the system provides a trust ranking to a user based on the consistency of information collected from the user's various actions.

Patent application

Multi-tier data storage system

Apr 14, 2005

OUTCOME: Issued as patent 6839803

Shutterfly photo storage system. A multi-tier data storage system includes a first data storage unit for storing recently loaded data files; a second data storage unit coupled to the first data storag ... e unit for archiving data files residing on the first data storage unit for more than a predetermined period of time; and, a third data storage unit coupled to the second data storage unit, the third data storage unit caching files archived in the second data storage unit if the data file is unavailable on the first data storage unit.

Bao Q Tran's Legal Cases (6)

Personal sports simulation robot

Systems and methods for minimizing network bandwidth for replication/back up

3D semiconductor device

Systems and methods for producing organic cannabis tincture

Method for fingerprinting and identifying internet users

Multi-tier data storage system