Patents by Inventor Chee Y. LAI

Chee Y. 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).

  • Location evaluation
    Patent number: 10902445
    Abstract: Data-driven evaluation of locations for a proposed business is provided by a method that includes identifying and weighing business success attributes for a desired business segment and business segment requirements for a proposed business, identifying candidate locations, calling to devices to request attribute data for the business success attributes, obtaining success rates and attribute data for other businesses, ranking the candidate locations on anticipated success of the proposed business, and generating digital documents informing of the candidate locations, providing at least some of the attribute data, and identifying a preferred location, of the candidate locations, for the proposed business.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guilherme S. Elias, Tiago D. Generoso, Chee Y. Lai, Marcos Vinicius L. Paraiso
  • LOCATION EVALUATION
    Publication number: 20190147468
    Abstract: Data-driven evaluation of locations for a proposed business is provided by a method that includes identifying and weighing business success attributes for a desired business segment and business segment requirements for a proposed business, identifying candidate locations, calling to devices to request attribute data for the business success attributes, obtaining success rates and attribute data for other businesses, ranking the candidate locations on anticipated success of the proposed business, and generating digital documents informing of the candidate locations, providing at least some of the attribute data, and identifying a preferred location, of the candidate locations, for the proposed business.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Guilherme S. ELIAS, Tiago D. GENEROSO, Chee Y. LAI, Marcos Vinicius L. PARAISO