Patents by Inventor Wing Ho

Wing Ho 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: 20250005264
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for automatically generating content, generating API requests and/or request bodies, structuring user-generated content, and/or generating structured content in collaboration platforms, such as documentation systems, issue tracking systems, project management platforms, and other platforms. The systems and methods described use a network architecture that includes a prompt generation service and a set of one or more purpose-configured large language model instances (LLMs) and/or other trained classifiers or natural language processors used to provide generative responses for content collaboration platforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Luke John Woollard, Wing Ho, Bhargav Nallani Chakravarthula, Jerry Qing, George Chen, Kasirajan Selladurai Selvakumarl, Rudra Saha, Puneet Arora
  • Publication number: 20070261043
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for attributing memory usage are presented. The method includes the steps of creating an object graph of a portion of a memory heap, wherein the object graph includes nodes that represent objects and associated properties of the objects, and wherein the object graph includes connectors that represent relationships between the objects in the memory heap; observing nodes in one or more subgraphs of the object graph, wherein the nodes represent objects that are selected for observation by a pre-determined criteria; searching for characteristic node properties of nodes that are sampled, from the subgraph, for observation; searching for characteristic topological properties of the subgraph that sampled nodes participate in; and applying a set of pre-determined domain-specific pattern matching filters to the node characteristic properties and the topological characteristic properties to attribute memory usage to a proper software component in a system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Wing Ho, Johannes Laffra
  • Publication number: 20070125140
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a magnetic detacher with open access are described. In one embodiment, the magnetic detacher may include magnet assembly to provide open access to a hard tag and a magnetic field sufficient to disengage a clamping mechanism of the hard tag. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventor: Wing Ho
  • Patent number: 7215250
    Abstract: A reusable EAS tag that is detachable from an article by placing the EAS tag in proximity to a detaching device is provided. The tag includes an energy coupler, a micro-actuator, and a clamping mechanism. The detaching device transmits a signal to the EAS tag to signal detachment, which is received by the energy coupler. The energy coupler converts the energy from the transmitted signal to electrical energy and delivers the electrical energy to the actuator. The actuator converts the electrical energy to mechanical energy to actuate the clamping mechanism and release the tag's locking or clamping mechanism for removal of the tag from the article to which it is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Norman Hansen, Gary Mark Shafer, Ronald B. Easter, Dennis Hogan, Roy Hannes, Douglas A. Narlow, Sergio Perez, Wing Ho
  • Publication number: 20060283489
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an umbrella device that has a canopy, a canopy mechanism adapted to expand and collapse said canopy, a base, an arm assembly disposed between said base and said canopy mechanism, said arm assembly having a proximal end pivotally connected to said base and a distal end pivotally connected to said canopy mechanism, said arm assembly being operable, by pivoting said proximal end relative to said base, between a retracted configuration and a protracted configuration, said arm assembly protracting when said proximal end pivots in a first pivotal direction and retracting when said proximal end pivots in a second opposite pivotal direction. The canopy mechanism may be disposed in a first direction relative to said base in said retracted configuration and in a second direction relative to said base, substantially transverse to said first direction, in said protracted configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2004
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventor: Wing Ho
  • Publication number: 20060097872
    Abstract: An identification/surveillance device including a tag portion and a tack. The tack includes a button and a pin having a dull end and a sharp end. The identification/surveillance device is secured to an article to be identified/surveilled by inserting the pin through the article and engaging the pin with the tag portion. The dull end of the pin is releasably engaged with either the button or the tag portion such that when the identification/surveillance device is removed from the article the sharp end of the pin remains engaged with either the tag portion or the button and only the dull end of the pin is exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventor: Wing Ho
  • Publication number: 20060070411
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for forming and using a magnetic spring clamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Wing Ho, Franklin Valade, Roy Hannes
  • Publication number: 20040100385
    Abstract: A reusable EAS tag that is detachable from an article by placing the EAS tag in proximity to a detaching device is provided. The tag includes an energy coupler, a micro-actuator, and a clamping mechanism. The detaching device transmits a signal to the EAS tag to signal detachment, which is received by the energy coupler. The energy coupler converts the energy from the transmitted signal to electrical energy and delivers the electrical energy to the actuator. The actuator converts the electrical energy to mechanical energy to actuate the clamping mechanism and release the tag's locking or clamping mechanism for removal of the tag from the article to which it is attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventors: Norm Hansen, Gary Mark Shafer, Ronald B. Easter, Dennis Hogan, Roy Hannes, Douglas A. Narlow, Sergio Perez, Wing Ho
  • Patent number: 6489891
    Abstract: A magnetomechanical EAS tag having a bias magnet made of a high magnetostrictive material so that stress, which is a result of ordinary use of an article incorporating the tag, demagnetizes the bias rending the EAS tag inactive is provided. In an alternate embodiment a mechanical mechanism is incorporated with a conventional EAS tag to deactivate the tag upon ordinary use of an article to which the tag is associated. In yet another embodiment, a combination of the bias magnet made of a high magnetostrictive material and a mechanical deactivation mechanism is used to deactivate an EAS tag during ordinary use of an article to which the tag is associated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Wing Ho, Eugenio Morgado, Larry Speciale
  • Publication number: 20020171548
    Abstract: A magnetomechanical EAS tag having a bias magnet made of a high magnetostrictive material so that stress, which is a result of ordinary use of an article incorporating the tag, demagnetizes the bias rending the EAS tag inactive is provided. In an alternate embodiment a mechanical mechanism is incorporated with a conventional EAS tag to deactivate the tag upon ordinary use of an article to which the tag is associated. In yet another embodiment, a combination of the bias magnet made of a high magnetostrictive material and a mechanical deactivation mechanism is used to deactivate an EAS tag during ordinary use of an article to which the tag is associated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Inventors: Wing Ho, Eugenio Morgado, Larry Speciale
  • Patent number: 5949334
    Abstract: A magnetostrictive element for use in a magnetomechanical marker has a resonant frequency characteristic that is at a minimum at a bias field level corresponding to the operating point of the magnetomechanical marker. The magnetostrictive element has a magnetomechanical coupling factor k in the range 0.28 to 0.4 at the operating point. The magnetostrictive element is formed by applying current-annealing to an iron-nickel-cobalt based amorphous metal ribbon, or by cross-field annealing an iron-nickel-cobalt alloy that includes a few percent chromium and/or niobium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Ren Lian, Nen-Chin Liu, Kevin Coffey, Richard Copeland, Wing Ho, Robert C. O'Handley
  • Patent number: 5940362
    Abstract: A disc device includes a disc substrate having an information signal pattern formed on a surface thereof and a magnetic material layer formed on the information signal pattern which permits for detection of the device by an electronic article surveillance detection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher B. Plonsky, Wing Ho
  • Patent number: 5835016
    Abstract: A marker for a harmonic electronic article surveillance system includes three wires of magnetic material arranged in parallel. The material has a magnetic hysteresis loop with a large Barkhausen discontinuity such that, upon exposure of the marker to an external magnetic field whose field strength in the direction opposing the instantaneous magnetic polarization of the marker exceeds a predetermined threshold value, there results a regenerative reversal of the magnetic polarization in the material. The three wires are coupled at opposite ends thereof by flux concentrating elements formed of a highly permeable material so that all three wires exhibit the regenerative reversal simultaneously on exposure to the above-described magnetic field. The flux concentrators have magnetic anisotropies oriented transversely relative to the length of the wires to aid in coupling the wires for simultaneous switching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Wing Ho, Jiro Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 5565849
    Abstract: A self-biasing magnetostrictive element for a magnetomechanical EAS marker is formed by first annealing a ribbon of ferromagnetic material in the presence of a magnetic field applied in a transverse direction relative to the ribbon's longitudinal axis, and then annealing the ribbon a second time in the presence of a magnetic field applied in the direction of the longitudinal axis. The twice-annealed ribbon exhibits remanent magnetization along the longitudinal axis and has plural magnetic domains situated along the longitudinal axis. The orientation of magnetization in each domain is canted by .+-..theta..degree.<90.degree. from the ribbon axis with the direction of canting alternating from domain to domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1996
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Wing Ho, Nen-chin Liu, Robert O'Handley
  • Patent number: 5519379
    Abstract: A marker for a harmonic electronic article surveillance system includes three wires of magnetic material arranged in parallel. The material has a magnetic hysteresis loop with a large Barkhausen discontinuity such that, upon exposure of the marker to an external magnetic field whose field strength in the direction opposing the instantaneous magnetic polarization of the marker exceeds a predetermined threshold value, there results a regenerative reversal of the magnetic polarization in the material. The three wires are coupled at opposite ends thereof by magnetic charge spreading elements formed of a highly permeable material so that all three wires exhibit the regenerative reversal simultaneously on exposure to the above-described magnetic field. The resulting harmonic marker can be formed with a substantially shorter over-all length than previously practical markers of the harmonic type while providing a signal of comparable amplitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Wing Ho, Jiro Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 5351033
    Abstract: A semi-hard magnetic element is formed of an amorphous soft iron-metalloid material containing at least 50 atomic percent iron and at least a part of the bulk of which has been crystallized to give the overall element semi-hard magnetic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Nen-Chin Liu, Robert C. O'Handley, Wing Ho, Richard Copeland
  • Patent number: 5313192
    Abstract: A marker for use in an electronic article surveillance system in which the marker comprises a magnetically soft component and exhibits a pinned wall hysteresis characteristic with a step change in flux at a threshold value of applied field and in which the marker further comprises a magnetically hard or semi-hard component integral with the soft component and whose magnetic state can be switched between activating and deactivating states to switch the marker between active and deactive states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: Wing Ho, Jiro Yamasaki