Patents by Inventor Derek Lam

Derek Lam 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: 20230128021
    Abstract: The invention relates to a box casing (1), such as a transport box, for shipment and/or storing of goods, which is cost-effective to produce and easy to assemble while at the same time having a considerable strength. The box casing comprises a tray-like bottom member (2) and two wall members (7, 8), each having three interconnected casing walls (9, 10a-b, 13, 14a-b). The wall members are foldable to a position standing in the bottom member and to a substantially flat state to be placed lying on the bottom member, for transferring the box casing between an assembled and a collapsed state. Each wall member comprises corner elements (15) configured to hold the casing walls in place by a resilient function. The invention also relates to a kit for creating such a box casing, as well as use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Mattias STEIBERT, David NOWAK, Andreas PIHL, Paulina PARRA, Derek LAM
  • Patent number: 9113755
    Abstract: A method for treatment of human excrement comprises the following steps: (1) providing a chamber (5) having a top opening through which excrement enters the chamber (5); (2) allowing solid excrement to form a layer on a porous plate (6) inside the chamber (5) by gravity wherein excrement is stored firstly at front storing region (13) and secondly at rear storing region (14), and allowing urine to fall down into the urine storing region (15) through perforations in the porous plate (6); (3) ventilating the interior of chamber (5) by a ventilation system, and providing an indirect heat source (7) inside the chamber (5). A device for treatment of human excrement comprises the chamber (5), the porous plate (6) with the front storing region (13) and the rear storing region (14), the urine storing region (15), the ventilation system and the indirect heat source (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Inventors: Derek Lam, Lai Yan Chan
  • Publication number: 20120031855
    Abstract: A method for treatment of human excrement comprises the following steps: (1) providing a chamber (5) having a top opening through which excrement enters the chamber (5); (2) allowing solid excrement to form a layer on a porous plate (6) inside the chamber (5) by gravity wherein excrement is stored firstly at front storing region (13) and secondly at rear storing region (14), and allowing urine to fall down into the urine storing region (15) through perforations in the porous plate (6); (3) ventilating the interior of chamber (5) by a ventilation system, and providing an indirect heat source (7) inside the chamber (5). A device for treatment of human excrement comprises the chamber (5), the porous plate (6) with the front storing region (13) and the rear storing region (14), the urine storing region (15), the ventilation system and the indirect heat source (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Inventors: Derek Lam, Lai Yan Chan
  • Patent number: 7865560
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven L. Rohall, Derek Lam, Mia Stern, Paul B. Moody, Daniel M. Gruen, Christopher M. Schmandt
  • Patent number: 7849147
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven L. Rohall, Derek Lam, Mia Stern, Paul B. Moody, Daniel M. Gruen, Christopher M. Schmandt
  • Publication number: 20080244372
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Steven L. Rohall, Derek Lam, Mia Stern, Paul B. Moody, Daniel M. Gruen, Christopher M. Schmandt
  • Publication number: 20080192302
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2008
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Steven L. Rohall, Derek Lam, Mia Stern, Paul B. Moody, Daniel M. Gruen, Christopher M. Schmandt
  • Patent number: 7392280
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven L. Rohall, Derek Lam, Mia Stern, Paul B. Moody, Daniel M. Gruen, Christopher M. Schmandt
  • Publication number: 20060294598
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to access control in a collaborative environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for community instance access control in a collaborative environment. In one embodiment, a data processing system for community instance access control in a collaborative environment can include a collaborative environment including one or more resources for use by one or more users registered in the collaborative environment. The data processing system further can include one or more community instances, each of the community instances including a one or more roles, each of the community instances further including one or more of the users assigned to respective ones of the roles. Finally, the data processing system can include access control logic managing access to the resources by the users in the community instances based upon softgroups provided by the community instances to the access control logic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Derek Lam, Joseph Russo, Sami Shalabi
  • Publication number: 20030158903
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a pre-processing summarization technique that makes use of knowledge specific to the electronic mail domain to pre-process an electronic mail message so that commercially-available document summarization software can subsequently generate a more useful summary from the message. The summarization technique removes extraneous headers, quoted text, forward information, and electronic signatures, leaving more useful text to be summarized. If an enclosing electronic mail thread exists, the summarization technique uses the electronic mail message's ancestors to provide additional context for summarizing the electronic mail message. The disclosed system can be used with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure, along with existing single-document summarizer software, to generate a summary of the discourse activity in an electronic mail thread dynamically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven L. Rohall, Derek Lam, Mia Stern, Paul B. Moody, Daniel M. Gruen, Christopher M. Schmandt
  • Patent number: 6446131
    Abstract: A bridge or other transparent layer-two device uses a simple protocol to filter duplicate frames and learn about nodes connected to a bridged local area network. Using the simple protocol, the bridge or other layer-two device does not need to run a Spanning Tree algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Masoud Khansari, Derek Lam
  • Patent number: D593735
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Tod's S.p.A.
    Inventors: Derek Lam, Diego Della Valle
  • Patent number: D625499
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Tod's S.p.A.
    Inventors: Diego Della Valle, Derek Lam
  • Patent number: D681320
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Tod's S.p.A
    Inventors: Diego Della Valle, Derek Lam
  • Patent number: D693547
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Tod's S.p.A.
    Inventors: Diego Della Valle, Derek Lam