Patents by Inventor Steve Ho

Steve Ho 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).

  • Publication number: 20080244413
    Abstract: A system and method are directed towards enabling centralized registration for managing a selective display of visitor information to distributed social networking websites. A visitor may enter selective personal information, and determine what information is made available on a social networking webpage. The visitor may then return to the social networking website to view selective visitor information, such as within a reader roll. A visitor to a social networking website may select to not have their information displayed at selective a social networking website, while still being displayed at another social networking website. In one embodiment, selecting to not display their information may be performed by ‘mousing’ over their information and selecting a display option. Social networking websites may look to a centralized registration system to determine whether to display the visitor information, while still being able to obtain information about the visitor, and/or provide benefits to the visitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Sampson, John Sampson, Steve Ho, Eric Marcoullier, Neil Scott Rafer
  • Publication number: 20080244414
    Abstract: A system and method are directed towards enabling control of widgets using on-widget data controls. A visitor may enter selective personal information and determine what information is made available on a social networking webpage. A visitor to a social networking website may select to not have their information displayed at a social networking website, while still being displayed at another social networking website. A visitor's information may be displayed within a reader roll, an association listing, a visitor comment page, or the like. An owner of a social networking website may also select not to have a visitor's information displayed on the website. In one embodiment, selecting not to display information may be performed by ‘mousing’ over the information and selecting a display option. Social networking websites may look to a centralized registration system to determine whether to display the visitor information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Marcoullier, Todd Sampson, John Sampson, Steve Ho, Neil Scott Rafer
  • Patent number: 5196945
    Abstract: A facsimile unit including apparatus for simultaneously detecting color changes in image data being encoded and counting the number of pels between the color changes. The unit also includes a decoder having a binary tree embodied in ROMs for fast decoding of received signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Ho, Patrick Law