Patents by Inventor Sik Nin Ivan Yue

Sik Nin Ivan Yue 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).

  • Protecting search privacy using policy-based search terms
    Patent number: 9911005
    Abstract: A processor-implemented method for policy-based search privacy is provided, including a search privacy module and one or more privacy policy configurations. The privacy policy configurations include at least one semantic domain, at least one semantic scope, at least one semantic domain database, and at least one lexical database. A web search is intercepted. The search terms in the web search are compared to the semantic domain in the privacy policy configuration. If a match is found, a query is submitted to the semantic domain database to retrieve keywords within a number of levels of the semantic domain, as specified by the semantic scope. The search privacy module generates web searches that are semantically similar to the desired web search, using the retrieved keywords. These generated web searches are submitted to the search engine along with the desired web search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ivy Ho, Diana Lau, Sik Nin Ivan Yue
  • PROTECTING SEARCH PRIVACY USING POLICY-BASED SEARCH TERMS
    Publication number: 20170270316
    Abstract: A processor-implemented method for policy-based search privacy is provided, including a search privacy module and one or more privacy policy configurations. The privacy policy configurations include at least one semantic domain, at least one semantic scope, at least one semantic domain database, and at least one lexical database. A web search is intercepted. The search terms in the web search are compared to the semantic domain in the privacy policy configuration. If a match is found, a query is submitted to the semantic domain database to retrieve keywords within a number of levels of the semantic domain, as specified by the semantic scope. The search privacy module generates web searches that are semantically similar to the desired web search, using the retrieved keywords. These generated web searches are submitted to the search engine along with the desired web search.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Ivy Ho, Diana Lau, Sik Nin Ivan Yue