Patents by Inventor Kenneth Y. Liu

Kenneth Y. Liu 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).

  • Method and apparatus for automatically updating website content
    Patent number: 7383320
    Abstract: A method of updating one or more target website data content items comprises providing one or more links, each of which associates one or more target content items with one or more original content items. The method further includes storing the links in a data storage device, and accessing the links in the storage device, and updating the target data content items according to the links. The method may update the target data content items at predetermined intervals, or on demand. Updating the target data content may further include initiating workflow to update the target data content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: IDOM Technologies, Incorporated
    Inventors: Eric M. Silberstein, Kenneth Y. Liu, Chung-Cheih Shan, Jimmy J. Song, Ryan S. Riney, Andrew W. Pimlott, Russell G. Ross
  • Method of and system for splitting and/or merging content to facilitate content processing
    Patent number: 6782384
    Abstract: A method of identifying units of translation in a block of source content, so as to segment the block of content into the units of translation, includes selecting one or more delineating characteristics of the source content in addition to lexical characteristics. The method further includes determining instances of the delineating characteristics in the block of source content, and identifying pairs of the instances within the text. The method also includes, for each pair of instances of the delineating characteristics, associating a first instance of the pair with a first boundary of a unit of translation, and associating a second instance of the pair with a second boundary of the unit of translation. One embodiment further includes identifying target units of translation in a block of target content, and assigning associations among the source units of translation and the target units of translation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Idiom Merger Sub, Inc.
    Inventors: William N. Sloan, Kem Morehead, Herman Wing Hin Ho, Kenneth Y. Liu, Richard B. Mitchell, Umesh Shankar
  • Method of and system for splitting and/or merging content to facilitate content processing
    Publication number: 20030069879
    Abstract: A method of identifying units of translation in a block of source content, so as to segment the block of content into the units of translation, includes selecting one or more delineating characteristics of the source content in addition to lexical characteristics. The method further includes determining instances of the delineating characteristics in the block of source content, and identifying pairs of the instances within the text. The method also includes, for each pair of instances of the delineating characteristics, associating a first instance of the pair with a first boundary of a unit of translation, and associating a second instance of the pair with a second boundary of the unit of translation. One embodiment further includes identifying target units of translation in a block of target content, and assigning associations among the source units of translation and the target units of translation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventors: William N. Sloan, Kem Morehead, Herman Wing Hin Ho, Kenneth Y. Liu, Richard B. Mitchell, Umesh Shankar