Elaine Yiling Chien, 61Lincoln, CA

7006987, Feb 28, 2006

Nov 15, 2000

09/712935

Ying Xie - San Jose CA, US
Elaine Chien - Santa Clara CA, US
Peter C. Williams - Santa Cruz CA, US

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

G06F 17/60

705 26

The invention provides a system and method for determining the winner or winners of an on-line auction accepting proxy bids. Proxy bids are bids that do not have a bid price, but instead have ceiling price that indicates the highest price a bidder is willing to bid for goods. The system and method according to the invention are able to sort the bids from highest to lowest and determine a winner or winners depending on the amount of goods being offered for sale. The system then generates a winning bid price by determining the lowest bid required to win the auction. The winning bidder or bidders pay this winning bid price.

6026404, Feb 15, 2000

Oct 31, 1997

8/962414

Seshu Adunuthula - Foster City CA
Elaine Chien - Redwood City CA
Mala Anand - Palo Alto CA

Oracle Corporation - Redwood Shores CA

G06F 1730

707 10

A system, method, and computer readable-medium for performing operations associated with browser requests are provided. The system includes a plurality of dispatchers coupled to a plurality of web listeners. Each of the dispatchers receives from a corresponding web listener browser requests received by the corresponding web listener. The dispatchers are configured to send messages through an inter-machine communication mechanism to cartridge instances. The messages cause the cartridge instances to perform the operations associated with the browser requests. Each cartridge instances includes a cartridge execution engine and a cartridge. The cartridge execution engine handles all inter-machine communication with the dispatchers, and passes the requests to the cartridges by making calls into the application programming interface of the cartridge. Consequently, cartridges are isolated from the complexities of inter-machine communication, and may therefore by used in a highly distributed system without being distribution-aware.

6247056, Jun 12, 2001

Oct 31, 1997

8/962485

Tsung-Jen Chou - Menlo Park CA
Seshu Adunuthula - Fremont CA
Mala Anand - Palo Alto CA
Ankur Sharma - Belmont CA
Elaine Chien - Redwood City CA
Shehzaad Nakhoda - Palo Alto CA

Oracle Corporation - Redwood Shores CA

G06F 1516

709229

A system, method, and computer readable-medium for performing operations associated with browser requests are provided. The system includes a plurality of dispatchers coupled to a plurality of web listeners. Each of the dispatchers receives from a corresponding web listener browser requests received by the corresponding web listener. The system further includes a virtual path manager and a resource manager. The virtual path manager is coupled to the dispatchers through an inter-machine communication mechanism. The virtual path manager indicates to the dispatchers which of a cartridges is associated with the browser requests. The resource manager is coupled to the dispatchers through the inter-machine communication mechanism. The resource manager is configured to assign to each dispatcher of the dispatchers an instance of a cartridge of the cartridges in response to receiving a request for an instance from the dispatcher. The dispatchers are configured to send messages through the inter-machine communication mechanism to the instances that are assigned by the resource manager to the dispatchers.

2016027, Sep 22, 2016

Mar 19, 2015

14/663383

- Mountain View CA, US
JACOB KESSLER - Mountain View CA, US
ELAINE CHIEN - Santa Clara CA, US
ZHIJUN CHEN - San Jose CA, US

G06F 17/30
H04L 12/24
G06Q 50/00
H04L 29/08

In an embodiment, a technique is disclosed herein to determine a first group of users for which a particular user is a member and automatically generate a first ranking of users in the first group. For the particular user, automatically generate one or more first action recommendations to increase rank among the users in the first group. And to a device accessible by the particular user, automatically provide a particular ranking of the particular user from among the first ranking and the one or more first action recommendations.

2015024, Sep 3, 2015

Feb 4, 2015

14/613642

- Mountain View CA, US
Elaine Chien - Santa Clara CA, US

H04L 12/58
G06F 17/30

A system and method includes a network interface device to receive and retransmit electronic messages between a first user and a second user, an electronic data storage configured to store database entries related to electronic messages as received and retransmitted by the network interface device, at least some of the database entries including a latest message in thread flag identifying a latest electronic message in a thread of multiple electronic messages, and a processor. The processor may create a database entry corresponding to a first electronic message, the database entry including the latest message in thread flag indicating that the first electronic message is a latest electronic message of a thread, and change a status of a latest message in thread flag of a database entry corresponding to a second electronic message of the thread to indicate that the second electronic message is not a latest message in the thread.