Patents by Inventor Grant Chieh-Hsiang Yang

Grant Chieh-Hsiang Yang 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: 9053195
    Abstract: A method and system for user and reference ranking in a database or index. Users may provide reference anchors to references and those may be rated by other users. References may be rated by users and the feedback of those ratings may dynamically alter a prior user's score or ranking. The weight of a user's rating thereafter may be influenced by his score or ranking. Users or the system may create categories, which may be cross-referenced, and users may provide ratings of those categories as well. Users may also suggest search fields for categories. Feedback ratings for the search fields and categories may also affect a user's score or ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Inventor: Grant Chieh-Hsiang Yang
  • Publication number: 20140280492
    Abstract: A method and system for distributing data among a multi-tenant system with shared and non-shared users. Shared users may be global across the system or per tenant or developer. Non-shared users would be per app. While some data would be shared across users, other data stored within the multi-tenant system would be related specifically to the app, including gameplay data and non-gameplay data, such as leaderboards, inventory, virtual currency. Userbases may be upgraded and downgraded per app or per developer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Grant Chieh-Hsiang Yang, Jason Yang
  • Publication number: 20140164142
    Abstract: A method and system for method for providing debt-driven cross promotion for an application. Developers register with the system, schedule cross promotion and if there is no conflict or an ability to split cross promotion traffic, receive cross promotion from all the available applications on the network. Cross promotion data is tracked to determine balances of each developer and prioritization for scheduling conflicts. Users that are cross-promoted from a game that may also have a cross-game feature are prompted to share the features across games. Cross-game features may also be used to cross-promote games in the network. Applications not in the network may still take part in the cross-promotion network through a proxy server to verify participation until their approval ranking is large enough for the verification signal to be throttled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Inventor: Grant Chieh-Hsiang Yang
  • Publication number: 20140066191
    Abstract: A method and system for external users to activate non-core features in a game. Users activating features in an opponent's turn in an asynchronous, turn-based, player vs. player game are activating non-core features. Users may also activate non-core features in matches of a game that they are not a part of through a leaderboard. Leaderboards may be presented in various ways, including by score, rating, round, etc. and players may be directly challenged on the leaderboards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventor: Grant Chieh-Hsiang Yang
  • Publication number: 20090024605
    Abstract: A method and system for user and reference ranking in a database or index. Users may provide reference anchors to references and those may be rated by other users. References may be rated by users and the feedback of those ratings may dynamically alter a prior user's score or ranking. The weight of a user's rating thereafter may be influenced by his score or ranking. Users or the system may create categories, which may be cross-referenced, and users may provide ratings of those categories as well. Users may also suggest search fields for categories. Feedback ratings for the search fields and categories may also affect a user's score or ranking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventor: Grant Chieh-Hsiang Yang
  • Publication number: 20080243539
    Abstract: A method and system for storing health information, automatically matching health information to interpreters based on parameters provided by the interpreters and the health information providers, and transmitting interpretations of the health information provided by the interpreters. Interpreters may be rated according to their analysis quality and dependability on providing interpretations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Matthew A. Barish, Robert C. Smith, Grant Chieh-Hsiang Yang