Patents by Inventor Yinan Kuang

Yinan 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).

  • 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