Chih-Hsiang Chou

6813438, Nov 2, 2004

Sep 6, 2000

09/656103

Cary Lee Bates - Rochester MN
Chih-Hsiang Chou - Cupertino CA
Jeffrey Michael Ryan - Byron MN
John Mathew Santosuosso - Rochester MN

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H04N 585

386125, 386 52

A playback program for DVDs and CDs enables a user to customize the playback of the disk. Regions that are independent of prerecorded tracks are created and/or played back based on the content of the disk, e. g. , visual content or audio content, in those regions. Thus, for instance, certain scenes or certain dialogue of the disk can be skipped over during playback because an attribute to skip or otherwise modify the output was assigned to a particular region during creation of the program. Several start-up modes can be programmed during creation of the program to indicate whether the disk will initially skip to the first region whose output is modified or playback normally until a region with an modified output is encountered. A password may be required to access the playback program.

7346044, Mar 18, 2008

Oct 14, 2002

10/271183

Chih-Hsiang Chou - Cupertino CA, US
Janardhana Reddy - Sinagpore, SG
Wee Sin Tam - Singapore, SG
Poh Yoke Lai - Singapore, SG
Halim Md Noor - Singapore, SG
Sin Ming Ow - Singapore, SG

MediaRing Ltd. - Singapore Post Centre

H04L 12/66

370352, 370354

A network address translation apparatus and method within a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) router is described. This apparatus and method operates within networking devices such as routers, switches, bridges, etc. These devices masks both source and destination addresses and may either replace or complement a firewall in providing security. According to one embodiment, network type information, corresponding to the gateways within connection, is embedded in a port number within a packet header. This network type information is extracted and analyzed to identify the network types of both gateways within the connection. According to another embodiment, a port number is assigned according to the network types of both gateways within a connection. Thus, this network type information may be identified by processing the port number on which a packet is received.

7417978, Aug 26, 2008

Oct 14, 2002

10/270809

Chih-Hsiang Chou - Cupertino CA, US
Janardhana Reddy - Singapore, SG
Wee Sin Tam - Singapore, SG
Poh Yoke Lai - Singapore, SG
Halim Md Noor - Singapore, SG
Sin Ming Ow - Singapore, SG

Mediaring Ltd - Singapore

H04L 12/66

370352, 370354, 370466, 370467

An apparatus and method for increasing available ports on a voice router is provided. A first gateway and a second gateway are assigned a single port number for a data stream, the direction of packet flow is identified to determine a destination gateway. The destination gateway is one of the first and second gateways, depending on the direction of the packet flow. The packets are then forwarded to the destination gateway. The voice router can further consolidate RTCP streams from a plurality of gateways into a single port on the voice router.

20080279178, Nov 13, 2008

Jul 25, 2008

12/180432

Chih-Hsiang Chou - Cupertino CA, US
Janardhana Reddy - Singapore, SG
Wee Sin Tam - Singapore, SG
Poh Yoke Lai - Singapore, SG
Halim Md Noor - Singapore, SG
Sin Ming Ow - Singapore, SG

MediaRing Limited - Sunnyvale CA

H04L 12/66
H04L 12/56

370352, 370392

An apparatus and method for increasing available ports on a voice router is provided. A first gateway and a second gateway are assigned a single port number for a data stream, the direction of packet flow is identified to determine a destination gateway. The destination gateway is one of the first and second gateways, depending on the direction of the packet flow. The packets are then forwarded to the destination gateway. The voice router can further consolidate RTCP streams from a plurality of gateways into a single port on the voice router.