Patents by Inventor Edward Shichung Ho

Edward Shichung Ho 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: 9253137
    Abstract: A client device displays message content from one or more email messages in a conversation thread. The client device displays, concurrently with the message content from the one or more email messages, one or more respective social network objects. Each displayed social network object has one or more selection portions, and each displayed social network object corresponds to a respective post by a respective participant in the conversation thread. In response to selection of a first portion of a respective social network object of the one or more displayed social network objects, the client device displays a respective social network page of the respective participant who authored the respective post corresponding to the respective social network object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Todd Christopher Jackson, Edward Shichung Ho, Mark Knichel, Emily Chang
  • Patent number: 9203792
    Abstract: A server system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors receives from a client device a request, the request comprising a request for message content from one or more email messages in a conversation thread. The server system responds to the request by identifying the message content, identifying candidate authors, and obtaining qualifying posts by the candidate authors, the qualifying posts satisfying predefined criteria. The server system furthermore selects a subset of the qualifying posts, and prepares the selected subset of the qualifying posts and the message content for concurrent display at the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Todd Christopher Jackson, Edward Shichung Ho, Mark Knichel, Emily Chang
  • Publication number: 20150149572
    Abstract: A server system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors receives from a client device a request, the request comprising a request for message content from one or more email messages in a conversation thread. The server system responds to the request by identifying the message content, identifying candidate authors, and obtaining qualifying posts by the candidate authors, the qualifying posts satisfying predefined criteria. The server system furthermore selects a subset of the qualifying posts, and prepares the selected subset of the qualifying posts and the message content for concurrent display at the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Todd Christopher Jackson, Edward Shichung Ho, Mark Knichel, Emily Chang
  • Patent number: 8892666
    Abstract: A server system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors receives from a client device a request, the request comprising a request for message content from one or more email messages in a conversation thread. The server system responds to the request by identifying the message content, identifying candidate authors, and obtaining qualifying posts by the candidate authors, the qualifying posts satisfying predefined criteria. The server system furthermore selects a subset of the qualifying posts, and prepares the selected subset of the qualifying posts and the message content for concurrent display at the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Christopher Jackson, Edward Shichung Ho, Mark Knichel, Emily Chang