Patents by Inventor Reeve Kit Wah Lau

Reeve Kit Wah Lau 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).

  • Efficient person search mechanism in peer-to-peer networks
    Patent number: 8055788
    Abstract: An efficient person search method utilizing human communications characteristics such as close social network, user-dependent hot list, and high skewness in access popularity. This method makes use of hot lists in the routing process and clusters people of the same community together in the search graph, thereof creating a “small-world” effect to minimize the hop counts routing would have to go through in a Peer-to-Peer environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Gary Shueng Han Chan, Vanessa Meng I Lei, Patrick Chun Sing Fan, Marvin Yuk Kit Kwok, Reeve Kit Wah Lau, Ivan Ka Wai Lee