Patents by Inventor Danny Yiu

Danny Yiu 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: 8015062
    Abstract: A method and a system for providing content on a computer having a memory, a display having at least a viewable position and networking capabilities for communicating with other computers in a networked system is provided. A storepath establishes the relationship amongst related stores having various marketing assets. Each marketing asset has its display attributes as defined by a global marketing campaign. When viewing a store profile, marketing assets are displayed in the viewable position on the display in accordance with those attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Victor S. Chan, Lev Mirlas, Danny Yiu
  • Publication number: 20060080169
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for fairly scheduling the display of personalized marketing messages in a marketing subsystem in an e-commerce system. A method of fairly scheduling the display of personalized marketing messages in a marketing subsystem of an e-commerce system can include allocating each individual space in a visual portion of a virtual store front to a corresponding individual marketing initiative according to a relative priority determined for the corresponding individual marketing initiative. The relative priority can be determined according to the equation RP=(BP/SP)*RS where RP is the relative priority, BP is a base priority, SP is a sum of all priorities for all marketing campaigns and RS is a number of remaining individual spaces to be allocated in the visual portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lev Mirlas, Danny Yiu
  • Publication number: 20040260624
    Abstract: A method and a system for providing content on a computer having a memory, a display having at least a viewable position and networking capabilities for communicating with other computers in a networked system is provided. A storepath establishes the relationship amongst related stores having various marketing assets. Each marketing asset has its display attributes as defined by a global marketing campaign. When viewing a store profile, marketing assets are displayed in the viewable position on the display in accordance with those attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Victor S. Chan, Lev Mirlas, Danny Yiu