Patents by Inventor Bill Li

Bill Li 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: 20170345265
    Abstract: A dynamic acquisition terminal for behavior statistic information of people in a building and an evacuation system and method. The dynamic acquisition terminal for behavior statistic information comprises a sensor, used for directly acquiring video information or audio and video information of people in the building; and an analysis component, used for performing analysis processing to the video information or audio and video information to dynamically generate people's behavior statistic information data. The evacuation system comprises a plurality of dynamic acquisition terminals for behavior statistic information; an escape route generation device, used for dynamically optimizing generation of an escape route at least based on the people's behavior statistic information data transmitted by the dynamic acquisition terminals for behavior statistic information; and an evacuation indicating system, used for dynamically generating and displaying evacuation sign information at least based on the escape route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Jianwei Zhao, Bill Li, Robert Hong-Leung Chiang, Hairun Wang, Aizhong Wang, Qiang Li
  • Publication number: 20120005282
    Abstract: Electronic mail messages may be collaboratively ranked and filtered. User actions on an electronic mail message received from a sender by one or more recipients may be monitored. Statistics may be generated based on the user actions. The generated statistics may be utilized to provide a quality ranking of the electronic mail message based on the generated statistics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nicole D. Steinbok, Jonathan J. Cadiz, John C. Platt, F. David Jones, David John Rasmussen, Thirumalesh K. Bhat, Mark R. Dawson, Eli Y. Tamanaha, Bill Li, Brian D. Williams