Steve Lin

US Patent:

20080154879, Jun 26, 2008

Filed:

Dec 22, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/644671

Inventors:

Steve S. Lin - Menlo Park CA, US

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 5, 707E17108

Abstract:

Method and system for improving relevancy of online search results are disclosed. The method includes collecting highlighted phrases from users who review one or more documents at one or more websites, aggregating the highlighted phrases about the one or more documents in a distributed hash table, ranking relevancy of the highlighted phrases according to frequency of occurrences of similar phrases, generating search relevancy data to be used by a search relevancy algorithm of a search engine, and generating search results in response to a search query using the search relevancy data.

US Patent:

46455035, Feb 24, 1987

Filed:

Aug 27, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/769940

Inventors:

Steve T. Lin - Hayward CA
Seshadri Conjeevaram - Stockton CA
Don J. Henderson - Danville CA

Assignee:

Orthomatrix Inc. - Dublin CA

International Classification:

A61F 228

US Classification:

623 16

Abstract:

A moldable bone-implant material containing between about 65%-95% hard filler particles and a binder composed of between about 35%-5% of a biocompatible, biodegradable, thermoplastic polymer which has fluidic flow properties at or below about 60. degree. C. One preferred binder is polylactic acid having a molecular weight between about 400 and 5,000 daltons, and a preferred hard filler is hydroxylapatite. In use, the material is warmed to a temperature which allows molding, and the bone site is filled with the moldable material, which then forms a contour-fitting, semi-rigid implant. The implant retains its contour fit and acquires a rigid final state as the binder in the implant is gradually biodegraded and replaced through tissue ingrowth from the surrounding bone site.