Patents by Inventor Bay-Wei Chang

Bay-Wei Chang 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: 8719265
    Abstract: A system may pre-fetch search result information in anticipation of a user request for the search result information. The system may receive a user search query and request initial search results from a server based on the search query. The system may receive the initial search results from the server and render the initial search results for display to the user. In anticipation of a user request for additional search results, the system may request additional search results from the server. The additional search results may then be pre-fetched for potential display to the user in response to a user request to render the additional search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Tania Bedrax-Weiss, Bay-Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 8676797
    Abstract: A method of adding web-based content to a web notebook can include producing multiple search results responsive to a search request; generating in the multiple search results multiple corresponding icons, each of which, when invoked, causes content associated with a corresponding search result in the multiple search results to be placed in a web notebook associated with a user account; and forming a correlation between one of the multiple search results and the web notebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Rohrs, Michael Frumkin, Avni Shah, Benedict A. Gomes, Bay-Wei Chang, P. Pandurang Nayak
  • Patent number: 8589421
    Abstract: Embodiments of this invention allow a user to navigate through previously viewed documents. These documents may be associated with a key, e.g. a search or a document. In response to re-entering the search or detecting subsequent interaction with the document, the navigation may be provided. In certain embodiments, the navigation is provided through a button on a toolbar or through a menu listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bay-Wei Chang, Eric Fredricksen
  • Patent number: 8583663
    Abstract: Embodiments of this invention allow a user to navigate through previously viewed documents. These documents may be associated with a key, e.g. a search or a document. In response to re-entering the search or detecting subsequent interaction with the document, the navigation may be provided. In certain embodiments, the navigation is provided through a button on a toolbar or through a menu listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bay-Wei Chang, Eric Fredricksen
  • Patent number: 8468452
    Abstract: A system and method that calls attention to a location of departure in a display includes and interaction system and a content presentation system. The interaction system identifies each interaction with an area in a first display. The content presentation system upon return to the first display from a second display changes the first display to draw attention to the identified area with an animation. The animation expires after a first period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Polle T. Zellweger, Bay-Wei Chang, Jock D. Mackinlay
  • Publication number: 20130117691
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for concurrent display of a reply message and two or more response options are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes, at a computer, maintaining the display of a reply message associated with a plurality of response options. Each respective response option in the plurality of response options is independently associated with one or more recipient addresses for the reply message. While maintaining the display of at least a portion of the reply message, at least one recipient address for the reply message is updated in accordance with a selected response option. In some implementations, the maintaining of the display of at least a portion of the reply message includes maintaining the display of at least a portion of a message body of the reply message. In some embodiments, the selected response option is one of: reply, reply to all, and forward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Inventors: Bay-Wei Chang, Jing Yee Lim, Sanjeev Singh
  • Patent number: 8370367
    Abstract: Embodiments of this invention allow a user to navigate through previously viewed documents. These documents may be associated with a key, e.g. a search or a document. In response to re-entering the search or detecting subsequent interaction with the document, the navigation may be provided. In certain embodiments, the navigation is provided through a button on a toolbar or through a menu listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bay-Wei Chang, Eric Fredricksen
  • Patent number: 8346859
    Abstract: A method, system and graphical user interface for dynamically updating transmission characteristics in a web mail reply are described. In one embodiment of the invention, a graphical user interface includes a web mail reply form that includes: one or more address fields; an input area for inputting a reply message; and a plurality of response options selectable by a user. In response to selection of a response option by a user, one or more of the address fields in the reply form are changed while maintaining the reply message in the input area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bay-Wei Chang, Jing Yee Lim, Sanjeev Singh
  • Patent number: 8321428
    Abstract: Embodiments of this invention allow a user to navigate through previously viewed documents. These documents may be associated with a key, e.g. a search or a document. In response to re-entering the search or detecting subsequent interaction with the document, the navigation may be provided. In certain embodiments, the navigation is provided through a button on a toolbar or through a menu listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bay-Wei Chang, Eric Fredricksen
  • Patent number: 8255819
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of providing information for a web notebook is disclosed. The method can include displaying a web document in a content area of a browser window, receiving a user selection of content from the document initiated by a first user mouse click, and displaying a selection icon in the content area upon completion of the user selection, wherein the selection icon is displayed without the need for a second user mouse click.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bay-Wei Chang, Kushal Dave, Robert Allen Ryskamp, Xiangtian Dai, Paul Fontes, Daniel M. Russell, Joseph M. Ashear
  • Patent number: 8131736
    Abstract: Embodiments of this invention allow a user to navigate through previously viewed documents. These documents may be associated with a key, e.g. a search or a document. In response to re-entering the search or detecting subsequent interaction with the document, the navigation may be provided. In certain embodiments, the navigation is provided through a button on a toolbar or through a menu listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bay-Wei Chang, Eric Fredricksen
  • Publication number: 20110314391
    Abstract: A method, system and graphical user interface for dynamically updating transmission characteristics in a web mail reply are described. In one embodiment of the invention, a graphical user interface includes a web mail reply form that includes: one or more address fields; an input area for inputting a reply message; and a plurality of response options selectable by a user. In response to selection of a response option by a user, one or more of the address fields in the reply form are changed while maintaining the reply message in the input area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Bay-Wei Chang, Jing Yee Lim, Sanjeev Singh
  • Patent number: 8010599
    Abstract: A method, system and graphical user interface for dynamically updating transmission characteristics in a web mail reply are described. In one embodiment of the invention, a graphical user interface includes a web mail reply form that includes: one or more address fields; an input area for inputting a reply message; and a plurality of response options selectable by a user. In response to selection of a response option by a user, one or more of the address fields in the reply form are changed while maintaining the reply message in the input area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bay-Wei Chang, Jing Yee Lim, Sanjeev Singh
  • Patent number: 7904807
    Abstract: A system and method for copying formatting information between group editable Web pages is provided. The system includes a web server and devices, such as computers, which can communicate via a network. Users at the computers can access one or more of the Web pages and request that the accessed page's formatting information be copied over to one or more specified target Web pages. The Web server is configured to extract a first set of formatting information, such as HTML formatting templates, from a source web page displayed on one or more computers in the network. Further, the Web server replaces a corresponding second set of formatting information in the target Web page(s) with the first set of extracted formatting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David G. Bell, Eric A. Bier, Bay-Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 7810028
    Abstract: A system and methods for copying, deleting, replacing, and moving content in group-editable web pages is disclosed. The system includes a server and devices, such as computers, which can communicate via a network. Users at the computers can access group-editable web pages from the server and request that content operations be performed involving content in a first page and optionally one or more second pages. The server obtains content operation details needed to perform the content operation by finding content operation implementation information in the first page itself and/or in another page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David G. Bell, Eric A. Bier, Bay-Wei Chang, Kenneth A. Pier
  • Patent number: 7552400
    Abstract: A system and method for navigating within a graphical user interface without using a pointing device is described. A set of one or more keyboard shortcuts is defined, including at least one key. Each keyboard shortcut specifies an action effecting a graphical user interface, which is executed upon input of each key in the keyboard shortcut and at least one key corresponding to a semantically-meaningful hyperlink within Web content. The graphical user interface is navigated. The Web content is provided on a view within the graphical user interface and a graphical pointer indicating a location within the view is included. At least one key input by a user is intercepted and the intercepted key to one such keyboard shortcut is mapped. The action specified by the keyboard shortcut is executed and the view within the Web content is updated relative to the graphical pointer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Joe Sriver, Bay-Wei Chang
  • Publication number: 20080098312
    Abstract: A method, system and graphical user interface for dynamically updating transmission characteristics in a web mail reply are described. In one embodiment of the invention, a graphical user interface includes a web mail reply form that includes: one or more address fields; an input area for inputting a reply message; and a plurality of response options selectable by a user. In response to selection of a response option by a user, one or more of the address fields in the reply form are changed while maintaining the reply message in the input area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Bay-Wei Chang, Jing Lim, Sanjeev Singh
  • Patent number: D599372
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kerah Cottrell Pelczarski, Nikhil Bhatla, Adam Smith, Bay-Wei Chang, Dylan Parker, Jennifer McGrath Fitzpatrick, Uri Lerner, Marissa Ann Mayer, Marcellus Paulus van Lohuizen, Karen Anne White
  • Patent number: D601154
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kerah Cottrell Pelczarski, Nikhil Bhatla, Adam Smith, Bay-Wei Chang, Dylan Parker, Jennifer McGrath Fitzpatrick, Uri Lerner, Marissa Ann Mayer, Marcellus Paulus van Lohuizen, Karen Anne White
  • Patent number: D607465
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kerah Cottrell Pelczarski, Nikhil Bhatla, Adam Smith, Bay-Wei Chang, Dylan Parker, Jennifer McGrath Fitzpatrick, Uri Lerner, Marissa Ann Mayer, Marcellus Paulus van Lohuizen, Karen Anne White