Patents by Inventor David Au

David Au 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: 20130044113
    Abstract: A system, method and communication device are disclosed for organizing and presenting a plurality of digital flyers. Using flyer stack information, which organizes the plurality of digital flyers into at least one flyer stack, the plurality of digital flyers are presented to allow for inter-flyer and intra-flyer navigation. Moreover, the flyer stack information may be used to allow the inter-flyer and intra-flyer content to be searched. This is achieved by providing a method and communication device that receives the flyer stack information from a server, and presents the flyer stack information in a flyer navigation interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Inventors: Matthew Cheung, Jeff Francis, Wehuns Tan, David Meyers, David Au-Yeung
  • Publication number: 20120188247
    Abstract: A system for contextualizing a digital flyer is disclosed. The system includes a polygon mapping module for incorporating contextual information in the digital flyer using polygon mapping information, the polygon mapping information comprising a polygon for defining a polygonal area on a source flyer image of the digital flyer, the polygon being tagged with the contextual information, and a flyer data store for storing the tagged polygon. There is also disclosed for displaying the contextualized digital flyer and generating feedback using the contextualized digital flyer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: WISHABI INC.
    Inventors: Matthew CHEUNG, David AU-YEUNG, Jeff FRANCIS, David MEYERS, Wehuns TAN
  • Publication number: 20120188246
    Abstract: An interactive flyer system is disclosed. The system includes a flyer image tiler for creating a flyer image tile set, the set including multiple copies of a flyer image segmented into a plurality of flyer image tiles with each copy representing the flyer image at one of a plurality of zoom levels, wherein a copy of the multiple copies is configured to fit within a viewport having a resolution, and a flyer image tile store for storing the flyer image tile set. There is also disclosed a method for displaying the interactive digital flyer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: WISHABI INC.
    Inventors: Matthew CHEUNG, David AU-YEUNG, Jeff FRANCIS, David MEYERS, Wehuns TAN
  • Publication number: 20120188280
    Abstract: In the present disclosure, there is disclosed a communication device including a pre-loading module configured to retrieve a first and a second set of flyer image tiles from a flyer image tile set stored in memory, the first set of flyer image tiles being associated with the most zoomed-out state and the second set of flyer image tiles being associated with a zoom level of a current viewport. The pre-loading module is further configured to associate the first set of flyer image tiles with an underlay viewport. The communication device further includes a display configured to display the first set of flyer image tiles in the underlay viewport that are visible in the current viewport and overlay the second set of flyer image tiles visible in the current viewport onto the first set of flyer image tiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventors: Erik CHARLEBOIS, Matthew CHEUNG, David AU-YEUNG, Jeff FRANCIS, David MEYERS, Wehuns TAN
  • Publication number: 20040256581
    Abstract: A handheld, battery-operated ultraviolet sterilization device having a cold cathode ultraviolet lamp enclosed in a protective chassis. The cold cathode ultraviolet lamp is a low voltage lamp and the power supplied by two AA batteries provides hours of lamp operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: David Au, Wayne Tang