Patents by Inventor Kuang F. Cheng

Kuang F. Cheng 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: 11679973
    Abstract: A system for advance notification of replacing or ordering a water bottle based on historical consumption data, and a water dispenser. The system includes a server, a water dispenser, a weight sensor, and a user device. The weight sensor measures weights of a replaceable water bottle on the water dispenser at different times and transmits the weights back to the server, so as to make multiple determinations with respect to the weights and accordingly obtain the consumption of the replaceable water bottle over time, thereby reminding a user to replace the replaceable water bottle and to make a new order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventor: Kuang-F Cheng
  • Publication number: 20210292153
    Abstract: A system is described for providing automated bottled water reordering service based on monitored usage. The system comprises a water dispenser, a sensor and a server. The water dispenser is connected with a replaceable bottled water for supplying a drinking water from the bottled water. The sensor monitors a drinking water consumption in the water dispenser. The server receives a data associated with the drinking water consumption from the sensor and then determines whether a trigger event has occurred by comparing the drinking water consumption with a reference. After the trigger event has occurred, The server sends a replenishment message to a customer device for the customer to confirm whether or not to place a replenishment order of a bottled water delivery service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventor: Kuang F CHENG
  • Publication number: 20210078849
    Abstract: A system can coordinate a smart bottled water delivery service, which comprises one or more processors of a network-accessible server and one or more memory resources storing program instructions. The system determines whether a trigger event has occurred based on a first data and a second data, which are related to a total number of bottled water currently hold by a customer, and a total number of the bottled water used up by the customer, respectively. After the trigger event has occurred, the system sends a replenishment message to a customer's device. When the system receives data associated with the replenishment order, it determines a pool of candidate delivery drivers that can satisfy a criterion. Then the system provides an instruction to a device of a selected delivery driver to dispatch the selected delivery driver with a particular vehicle to a designated collection, storing and distribution device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventor: Kuang F CHENG
  • Publication number: 20210073731
    Abstract: A system can coordinate a smart bottled water delivery service, which comprises one or more processors of a network-accessible server and one or more memory resources storing program instructions. The system obtains data associated with a bottled water delivery request, then determines a pool of candidate delivery drivers that can satisfy a criterion. Subsequently. The system sends an instruction to a device of a selected delivery driver to dispatch the selected delivery driver with a particular vehicle to travel to a designated collection, storing and distribution device to fetch bottled water. The system retrieves a record that is generated by scanning a unique individual machine-readable code attached onto the bottled water and collects a plurality of records to obtain a container-relevant data of the bottled water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventor: Kuang F CHENG
  • Publication number: 20200247663
    Abstract: A monitoring and reminding system for water dispenser devices is provided, in that sensors are provided to detect the volume of the water buckets installed in the water dispenser device and the detecting results are transferred to a processing unit. Based on volume of water in the water bucket and update condition of the water bucket in the water dispenser device, volume of water consumed by a customer can be derived. Then relative reminding sentences are determine and provided to users. Therefore, supplement of water can be performed in advance and customers and managers can understand the whole operations of the system based on the data in the customer database and the operation results from the statistical unit. Furthermore such operation can be performed automatically so as to greatly promote convenience and efficiency of water supplement and message communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventor: Kuang F Cheng
  • Publication number: 20200151404
    Abstract: A reusable shipping box management system severs to manage reusable shipping boxes by attaching labels to the boxes. Readers on the distribution stations, senders, and receivers serve to read the data on the labels of the reusable shipping boxes and the data are transferred to the network system. Therefore, the status and message of the reusable shipping box are acquired in the processing of storages and sending. The managers may know the status of all the reusable shipping boxes through the network system so that all the reusable shipping boxes may be effectively tracked and managed. Furthermore the reusable shipping box can be reused many times under a precise control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Kuang F. Cheng
  • Publication number: 20200117966
    Abstract: A water delivery, tracing and management system through plural water stations includes a network system. The network system has a network center installed in a main server. The main server signally connected to a water plant end computer system of each water plant and the water station end computer system of each water station. The network center is connected to the relative applications with the water plant end computer system of each water plant and the water station end computer system of each water station so as to construct the whole network system. An outer side of each water bucket is attached with a label by reading which, messages about the water bucket are acquired. The water bucket is recycled; and the label of the water bucket is read for recording the data stored in the label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventor: Kuang F Cheng
  • Publication number: 20190345019
    Abstract: A monitoring and reminding system for water dispenser devices is provided, in that sensors are provided to detect the volume of the water buckets installed in the water dispenser device and the detecting results are transferred to a processing unit. Based on volume of water in the water bucket and update condition of the water bucket in the water dispenser device, volume of water consumed by a customer can be derived. Then relative reminding sentences are determine and provided to users. Therefore, supplement of water can be performed in advance and customers and managers can understand the whole operations of the system based on the data in the customer database and the operation results from the statistical unit. Furthermore such operation can be performed automatically so as to greatly promote convenience and efficiency of water supplement and message communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventor: Kuang F. Cheng
  • Publication number: 20190318297
    Abstract: A voluntary registered multi-station water delivery system includes a network station which is connected to water plants. The water plants can supply water tanks to water stations. A buyer enter into the network station through his (or her) digital electronic device to provide the request for buying water. Voluntary deliverers (who are not limited to be employees of an entity having the network station) may connect to the network station 250 to request to delivery water tanks to the buyer. If the deliverer is accepted by the network station, he or she could go to a specific water stations to take water tanks and then delivery the water tanks to the buyer. The entity owning the network station need not hire any specific employee and thus the overall cost is saved and the delivery of water tanks may be made in any time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventor: Kuang F. Cheng