Patents by Inventor Winnie Lai

Winnie Lai 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).

  • Method and system for creating navigational information for an electronic store from virtual and master catalog links
    Publication number: 20050049939
    Abstract: A method for generating navigational links for linking catalog information for presentation to a user of a store in an electronic commerce system, comprising: defining master links between one or more child and parent items of the catalog information; generating first navigational links corresponding to the master links; defining virtual links between selected ones of the child items and parent items; generating second navigational links corresponding to the virtual links; and, joining the first and second navigational links to generate the navigational links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Winnie Lai, Paul Yu