Patents by Inventor Owen Pingchi Cheung

Owen Pingchi Cheung 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).

  • Automated time tracking of events in a calendar and use of the same to generate invoices
    Patent number: 10810640
    Abstract: A method for the automated time tracking of events in a calendar and the use of the same to generate invoices, which includes detecting an event record creation request received from a user, monitoring, based on the event record creation request, user input including event details for an event record, identifying a control character within the user input, while monitoring the user input, populating, in response to identifying the control character, a list comprising one or more contacts from a contact group of the user, displaying, to the user, the list of the one or more contacts, receiving a selection of a contact from within the list, and inserting an identifier of the contact within the event record, based on the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Owen Pingchi Cheung, Mary Elizabeth Kroenung, Rongfei Geng, Peter Allen Vogel, Katja Nicola Spreckelmeyer
  • Prioritizing media assets for publication
    Patent number: 7860878
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described by which media assets may be prioritized and published in accordance with current topics of interest derived from a dynamic data set representing the online activity of a relevant population of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: John Thrall, Michael Elliott, Owen Pingchi Cheung, Brian Evan McMullin
  • PRIORITIZING MEDIA ASSETS FOR PUBLICATION
    Publication number: 20090216741
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described by which media assets may be prioritized and published in accordance with current topics of interest derived from a dynamic data set representing the online activity of a relevant population of users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: John Thrall, Michael Elliott, Owen Pingchi Cheung, Brian Evan McMullin