Patents by Inventor Shaobo Kuang

Shaobo Kuang 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: 11039676
    Abstract: A product system comprises a unit for obtaining one or many face attributes of a person; a comparing unit for comparing the person's face with well-known people's face to find matched well-known people; a product unit for displaying and presenting one or many the found skincare, beauty or fashion products used by or recommended by the matched well-known people to the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventor: Shaobo Kuang
  • Publication number: 20210015241
    Abstract: A product system comprises a unit for obtaining one or many face attributes of a person; a comparing unit for comparing the person's face with well-known people's face to find matched well-known people; a product unit for displaying and presenting one or many the found skincare, beauty or fashion products used by or recommended by the matched well-known people to the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventor: shaobo kuang
  • Publication number: 20200294161
    Abstract: A meal table sharing system according to the present invention comprises a sharing mode unit for allowing a user to select one or many sharing modes; a restaurant selecting unit; a table size unit for allowing the user to select a meal table size or the number of people for the meal; an invitation unit for allowing the user to propose a meal sharing invitation based on the selected restaurant, date, time, sharing mode; a dispatching unit for dispatching the invitation to guests; an accept unit for allowing the guests to accept the invitation; and a confirmation unit for, based on the acceptance by the guests, making a reservation to hold a table at the restaurant, and sending a confirmation to the user and the guests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventor: Shaobo Kuang
  • Patent number: 10776615
    Abstract: A social network system for pets comprises a sensor for detecting or collecting a pet's voices or body signals, a translation unit for comparing the detected pet's voices or body signals with the stored sample patterns, determining the pet's emotions or feelings by choosing one or many sample patterns which are most closely matched to the detected pet's voices or body signals, and a processing unit for performing one or many actions based on the determined pet's emotions or feelings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Inventor: Shaobo Kuang
  • Publication number: 20190213401
    Abstract: A social network system for pets comprises a sensor for detecting or collecting a pet's voices or body signals, a translation unit for comparing the detected pet's voices or body signals with the stored sample patterns, determining the pet's emotions or feelings by choosing one or many sample patterns which are most closely matched to the detected pet's voices or body signals, and a processing unit for performing one or many actions based on the determined pet's emotions or feelings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventor: Shaobo Kuang
  • Patent number: 10212277
    Abstract: A phone frauds or scams detecting system comprises a first detecting unit for obtaining callers' characteristics and a second detecting unit for interacting with callers and obtaining callers' additional characteristics. The system determines frauds or scams based on the callers' characteristics and the callers' additional characteristics and plays commercial advertisements to the callers if one or many frauds or scams determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Inventor: Shaobo Kuang
  • Publication number: 20190020759
    Abstract: A phone frauds or scams detecting system comprises a first detecting unit for obtaining callers' characteristics and a second detecting unit for interacting with callers and obtaining callers' additional characteristics. The system determines frauds or scams based on the callers' characteristics and the callers' additional characteristics and plays commercial advertisements to the callers if one or many frauds or scams determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventor: Shaobo Kuang
  • Publication number: 20140362255
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a viewfinder, focusing unit for allowing users to select or focus an object in said captured image, a GPS, a compass, a distance unit for measuring the distance between the mobile device and the object, a calculating unit for calculating the current position of the object based on the position of the mobile device, the direction of the object and the distance between the mobile device and the target, a search unit for searching target, a display unit for display a hint or indication of the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventor: Shaobo Kuang
  • Patent number: 8528021
    Abstract: An interactive media system includes a broadcasting device for broadcasting TV signals, and a receiving device for receiving TV signals. The TV signals, such as a TV commercial for new movie preview, contain screen related action codes that include device type, action type and the detail action information. The receiving device includes storage for storing the reference address for other home electronic devices, and a button on a remote controller for the users to start interactive with the interactive media system. When the user presses the button, the receiving device will send the action codes to the designated other home device or another TV screen channel, to allow users to perform the action on the other home device instead of performing the action on TV. The system also allows users just use number keys to navigate web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Inventor: Shaobo Kuang
  • Publication number: 20100175102
    Abstract: An interactive media system includes a broadcasting device for broadcasting TV signals, and a receiving device for receiving TV signals. The TV signals, such as a TV commercial for new movie preview, contain screen related action codes that include device type, action type and the detail action information. The receiving device includes storage for storing the reference address for other home electronic devices, and a button on a remote controller for the users to start interactive with the interactive media system. When the user presses the button, the receiving device will send the action codes to the designated other home device or another TV screen channel, to allow users to perform the action on the other home device instead of performing the action on TV. The system also allows users just use number keys to navigate web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventor: Shaobo Kuang
  • Patent number: 7716715
    Abstract: An interactive media system includes a broadcasting device for broadcasting TV signals, and a receiving device for receiving TV signals. The TV signals, such as a TV commercial, contain screen related action codes that include device type, action type and other information. The receiving device includes storage for storing the reference address for other home electronic devices, and a button on a remote controller for the users to start interactive with the interactive media system. When the user presses the button, the receiving device will send the action codes to the designated other home device or another TV screen channel, to allow users to perform the action on the other home device instead of performing the action on TV. The system also allows users just use number keys/buttons on the remote controller to navigate web on TV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Inventor: Shaobo Kuang
  • Publication number: 20100088314
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for presenting users a search results with choices to display the results in a different sorting or ranking orders. The two or more sets of search results in a different sorting or ranking orders are displayed in the same page. The present invention provides methods and systems to assign truthiness scores to news, messages, or stories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventor: Shaobo Kuang
  • Publication number: 20090031407
    Abstract: An security check or verification method includes generating at least one verification code or number for each user at a security check/verification server, sending the generated verification code or number to user's dedicated mobile device though a secured connection, entering the verification code when user login to a web site, sending the verification code or number to the security check server from the web site server, allowing the user access based on the correct user name, password, and the confirmation form the security check server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventor: Shaobo Kuang
  • Publication number: 20080127280
    Abstract: The present invention relates to method and system for ranking videos/movies, and inserting commercial advertisements in the videos/movies. When a user selects a movie or video from Internet, system will allow him to select advertisements, and insert the advertisements into the movie or video before or during broadcasting or downloading. During playing or watching the movie or video, the inserted advertisements will send signals back to a ranking server. Based on the received signals, the ranking server will rank the movie or the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Shaobo Kuang, Yinan Kuang
  • Publication number: 20080033827
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for diet control; more specifically, to an autonomous portable electronic device, which allows the user easily, input a nutrition facts data about the food he or she takes into the device. The device can extract, display, and store in a cumulative fashion the nutrition facts he or she takes, and possibly give a warning message when the user takes more nutrition facts than their needs, and possibly give a suggestion helping the user to select to meal. Also, the device can easily send the user's nutrition information to the restaurant/food store when they buy the food so the restaurant/food store can make the food based on the user's nutrition requirement. Also, the device can count the energy consumed by the user, and give the user a hint on how to adjust his or her nutrition/diet control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: Shaobo Kuang, Yinan Kuang
  • Publication number: 20070174299
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to techniques for searching or querying information from a small mobile device, such as a cellphone or blackberry. People holding a small hand-held device, like cellphone or blackberry, don't want to type or enter many words to search/query. However, they want the most accurate information from the search results. Present invention allows the small mobile devices, like cellphone or blackberry, to automatically build the real time location/position information into the search/query string so that the users don't need to enter their location/position information when they enter their search/query string. Also, according to the present invention, search engine not only returns the search results, but also the structures of the categories of the results so that the client devices can further search within the search results without connecting back to the search engine hosts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Shaobo Kuang, Yinan Kuang
  • Publication number: 20040178923
    Abstract: An interactive media system includes a broadcasting or sending device for broadcasting or sending content signals and a receiving device for receiving the said content signals. The content signals, broadcasted by the broadcasting device include screen related action codes which include device type, action type and the detail action information. The receiving device includes means for storing the reference address for other home electronic devices, and a trigger means for the users to start interactive with the interactive media system. The receiving device is connected by wire or air to those other home electronic devices. The receiving device will read the action codes coming with the screen contents, and based on the device type and the reference address from the reference address means, send the action type and the action detail information to the designated home electronic device, and perform the action on or interactive with the designated home electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventor: Shaobo Kuang