Patents by Inventor Samuel Yen

Samuel Yen 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).

  • Publication number: 20220156861
    Abstract: Systems and methods for blockchain-based data-driven property management are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for blockchain-based data-driven property management may include: (1) receiving, by a property management computer program, title information for a property from a title recordation office; (2) validating, by the property management computer program, the title information with an owner of the property, a lienholder of the property, and/or a recorder of the title information; (3) recording, by the property management computer program, the title information to a distributed ledger, wherein a consensus algorithm executing on nodes in a distributed ledger network update the distributed ledger with a block comprising the title information; (4) periodically polling, by a first smart contract, the title recordation office for updated title information for the property. (5) automatically notifying, by the first smart contract, an interested party of the updated title information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Bridget BRYNES, Samuel YEN, Octavio KEW, Ken TSAI, Arul NARAYANA
  • Patent number: 6724918
    Abstract: For a number of users is a system provided to create, edit, replay and view documents of free hand drawn sketches. The system captures the creation process together with verbal and/or visual information provided by each user and automatically correlates them for a later synchronized replay. The system provides a number of tools and features, mainly to: combine the sketching activity with existing images, to selectively retrieve media information correlated to individual sketch entities and to quasi simultaneously collaborate at a common document. The system architecture can by adjusted to various parameters in the communication infrastructure. The system may be implemented in any software program, a web based service, a web browser, an operating system for computers and/or communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Samuel Yen, Renate Fruchter, Larry Leifer