Patents by Inventor CLIFF CHIN NGAI SZE

CLIFF CHIN NGAI SZE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11870748
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to subjecting a message to a group rule that causes any message, in a message thread that includes the message, to include certain addresses, regardless of the addresses that are incorporated, by a user, into an address field of a reply message. The group rule can reduce a number of messages that are not provided to a group of intended recipients because of message originators omitting the intended recipients on important messages. Furthermore, this can reduce a number of messages that are sent to compensate for certain reply messages not being received by all intended recipients. A group rule can be modified by any recipient that does not desire to be included in the group rule, and a group rule can expire when one or more conditions are satisfied, thereby causing certain messages to no longer be subject to the group rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Lingyi Zhang, Cliff Chin Ngai Sze
  • Patent number: 11854387
    Abstract: To control vehicular congestion at intersections, a method includes detecting a group of two or more vehicles stopped at an intersection regulated by a traffic light, where for each of the vehicles in the group, movement through the intersection in response to a change in a state of the traffic light is affected by movement of at least one other vehicle in the group. The method further includes determining a time when the state of the traffic light changes to allow the group of vehicles to start moving through the intersection, determining acceleration parameters for a certain vehicle in the group in view of potential and/or actual movement of the other vehicles in the group through the intersection, and providing guidance to a device operated by a driver of the certain vehicle regarding the determined acceleration parameters, in accordance with the determined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Cliff Chin Ngai Sze, Catherine Cardinal
  • Publication number: 20230092676
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to subjecting a message to a group rule that causes any message, in a message thread that includes the message, to include certain addresses, regardless of the addresses that are incorporated, by a user, into an address field of a reply message. The group rule can reduce a number of messages that are not provided to a group of intended recipients because of message originators omitting the intended recipients on important messages. Furthermore, this can reduce a number of messages that are sent to compensate for certain reply messages not being received by all intended recipients. A group rule can be modified by any recipient that does not desire to be included in the group rule, and a group rule can expire when one or more conditions are satisfied, thereby causing certain messages to no longer be subject to the group rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Lingyi Zhang, Cliff Chin Ngai Sze
  • Patent number: 11509620
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to subjecting a message to a group rule that causes any message, in a message thread that includes the message, to include certain addresses, regardless of the addresses that are incorporated, by a user, into an address field of a reply message. The group rule can reduce a number of messages that are not provided to a group of intended recipients because of message originators omitting the intended recipients on important messages. Furthermore, this can reduce a number of messages that are sent to compensate for certain reply messages not being received by all intended recipients. A group rule can be modified by any recipient that does not desire to be included in the group rule, and a group rule can expire when one or more conditions are satisfied, thereby causing certain messages to no longer be subject to the group rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Lingyi Zhang, Cliff Chin Ngai Sze
  • Publication number: 20220351615
    Abstract: To control vehicular congestion at intersections, a method includes detecting a group of two or more vehicles stopped at an intersection regulated by a traffic light, where for each of the vehicles in the group, movement through the intersection in response to a change in a state of the traffic light is affected by movement of at least one other vehicle in the group. The method further includes determining a time when the state of the traffic light changes to allow the group of vehicles to start moving through the intersection, determining acceleration parameters for a certain vehicle in the group in view of potential and/or actual movement of the other vehicles in the group through the intersection, and providing guidance to a device operated by a driver of the certain vehicle regarding the determined acceleration parameters, in accordance with the determined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Cliff Chin Ngai Sze, Catherine Cardinal
  • Patent number: 11380194
    Abstract: To control vehicular congestion at intersections, a method includes detecting a group of two or more vehicles stopped at an intersection regulated by a traffic light, where for each of the vehicles in the group, movement through the intersection in response to a change in a state of the traffic light is affected by movement of at least one other vehicle in the group. The method further includes determining a time when the state of the traffic light changes to allow the group of vehicles to start moving through the intersection, determining acceleration parameters for a certain vehicle in the group in view of potential and/or actual movement of the other vehicles in the group through the intersection, and providing guidance to a device operated by a driver of the certain vehicle regarding the determined acceleration parameters, in accordance with the determined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Cliff Chin Ngai Sze, Catherine Cardinal
  • Publication number: 20210385186
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to subjecting a message to a group rule that causes any message, in a message thread that includes the message, to include certain addresses, regardless of the addresses that are incorporated, by a user, into an address field of a reply message. The group rule can reduce a number of messages that are not provided to a group of intended recipients because of message originators omitting the intended recipients on important messages. Furthermore, this can reduce a number of messages that are sent to compensate for certain reply messages not being received by all intended recipients. A group rule can be modified by any recipient that does not desire to be included in the group rule, and a group rule can expire when one or more conditions are satisfied, thereby causing certain messages to no longer be subject to the group rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Lingyi Zhang, Cliff Chin Ngai Sze
  • Publication number: 20210158693
    Abstract: To control vehicular congestion at intersections, a method includes detecting a group of two or more vehicles stopped at an intersection regulated by a traffic light, where for each of the vehicles in the group, movement through the intersection in response to a change in a state of the traffic light is affected by movement of at least one other vehicle in the group. The method further includes determining a time when the state of the traffic light changes to allow the group of vehicles to start moving through the intersection, determining acceleration parameters for a certain vehicle in the group in view of potential and/or actual movement of the other vehicles in the group through the intersection, and providing guidance to a device operated by a driver of the certain vehicle regarding the determined acceleration parameters, in accordance with the determined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Cliff Chin Ngai Sze, Catherine Cardinal
  • Patent number: 11016630
    Abstract: Interactive augmented reality system is provided. A first geographical location and a first environmental characteristic is monitored by a user device. A viewpoint of the user device is determined based, at least in part, on (i) the first geographical location and (ii) the first environmental characteristic. A digital image request is generated based, at least in part, on (i) the first geographical location and (ii) the first environmental characteristic. A digital image is identified from a database based, at least in part, on (i) a second geographical location and (ii) a second environmental characteristic associated with the digital image request. In response to identifying the digital image based, at least in part, on the digital image request populating the user device with the digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Su Liu, Eric Rozner, Inseok Hwang, Cliff Chin Ngai Sze
  • Publication number: 20200249816
    Abstract: Interactive augmented reality system is provided. A first geographical location and a first environmental characteristic is monitored by a user device. A viewpoint of the user device is determined based, at least in part, on (i) the first geographical location and (ii) the first environmental characteristic. A digital image request is generated based, at least in part, on (i) the first geographical location and (ii) the first environmental characteristic. A digital image is identified from a database based, at least in part, on (i) a second geographical location and (ii) a second environmental characteristic associated with the digital image request. In response to identifying the digital image based, at least in part, on the digital image request populating the user device with the digital image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Su Liu, Eric Rozner, INSEOK HWANG, CLIFF CHIN NGAI SZE