Patents by Inventor Benjamin Y. Lee

Benjamin Y. Lee 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: 10755359
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates use of an application. During operation, the system obtains a business-logic stack that includes one or more sets of business rules corresponding to one or more tax codes associated with a specified globalization setting for the application. For each user-interface component from a set of user-interface components in the application, the system: dynamically obtains content for the user-interface component from a content-repository based on an order of the one or more sets of business rules in the business-logic stack, wherein the content-repository is a store of tax-code-specific content for the user-interface components associated with the application; and includes, via the localization mechanism associated with the platform of the electronic device, the content in the user-interface component during use of the application on the electronic device by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Lance Saleme, Benjamin Y. Lee
  • Patent number: 9928085
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates use of an application. During operation, the system obtains a language stack containing an ordered set of preferred languages for a user of the application. Next, for each user-interface component from a set of user-interface components in the application, the system obtains content for the user-interface component based on an order of languages in the language stack. The system then includes the content in the user-interface component during use of the application on an electronic device by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Lance Saleme, Benjamin Y. Lee
  • Publication number: 20140129209
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates use of an application. During operation, the system obtains a language stack containing an ordered set of preferred languages for a user of the application. Next, for each user-interface component from a set of user-interface components in the application, the system obtains content for the user-interface component based on an order of languages in the language stack. The system then includes the content in the user-interface component during use of the application on an electronic device by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Lance Saleme, Benjamin Y. Lee
  • Patent number: D1024132
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Benjamin James Crick, Richard R. Dellinger, YunJae Kim, Eileen Y. Lee, Joseph Mark Willoughby Luxton
  • Patent number: D1026023
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin James Crick, Richard R. Dellinger, YunJae Kim, Eileen Y. Lee, Joseph Mark Willoughby Luxton