Patents by Inventor Bob Bi

Bob Bi 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: 20020082940
    Abstract: A system and method that integrates all domains of stores into a mart union mounted in a web server coupled to the Internet is disclosed. The disclosed mart union encompasses a financial service unit, customer information table, purchase information table, and web pages employed for introduction of the union mart accompanied with electronic stores included inside. The electronic stores can be further classified based on business or professional characteristics so that traditional stores can employ or trust their electronic stores to advertise goods, commodities, and services they provided. Individuals can browse the web server mounted by the mart union to access information from web pages or electronic stores via communication links. Meanwhile, the browsing sequences or traces are simultaneously registered in the customer information table. Additionally, individuals can purchase goods or order services at electronic stores by putting all the ordered ones into virtual shopping carts provided by the mart union.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Applicant: Global Mart Int'l (Dalian) Electronics Information Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xi-Nam Dam, Brown Duan, Bob Bi
  • Patent number: 5987447
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for searching sentences by analyzing words. The method arranges the expressive conceptual words of words in a sentence data base to establish a corresponding index table of conceptual words and sentences. Next, the conceptual words of words are arranged, namely, by performing the conceptual distinguishing of words to establish a corresponding index table of words and conceptual words. After a user inputs a word, many expressive conceptual words of the word are searched through the corresponding index table of words and conceptual words. After the user inputs an option signal to select an expectant conceptual word of the word, appropriate sentences are searched through the corresponding index table of conceptual words and sentences and a sentence data base. Using the above method, the present invention can effectively raise the ratio of hitting the target for searching an appropriate sentence, and increase the speed of searching sentence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Inventec Corporation
    Inventors: Jackson Chang, Chaucer Chiu, Ha-Bi Ling, Bob Bi