Steven H Lin

US Patent:

20040061715, Apr 1, 2004

Filed:

Sep 30, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/259467

Inventors:

Edward Chu - Ashburn VA, US
Steven Lin - Manassas VA, US
Soy Chu - Reston VA, US

International Classification:

G09G005/00

US Classification:

345/709000, 345/853000

Abstract:

An organizational system that can organize all of the parts associated with a given system down to a nor least/lowest replaceable/repairable component in a hierarchical manner and store the parts as a Bill of Materials (BOM). Each of the different parts listed in the BOM is associated with a unique part number. The organizational system can display or print the BOM such that the hierarchy between the parts is apparent so that the BOM can be used to build actual systems (assemblies).

US Patent:

6325283, Dec 4, 2001

Filed:

Oct 25, 2000

Appl. No.:

9/695230

Inventors:

Soy Chu - Reston VA
Edward Chu - Ashburn VA
Steven Lin - Manassas VA

International Classification:

G06F 1700
G06K 1500

US Classification:

235375

Abstract:

The NYTBridge allows a user to bridge the gap between data collected by hand-held scanning devices and conventional databases used in the field of inventory management without database or procedural programming knowledge on the part of the user. The NYTBridge does this by first allowing the user to access an existing database. The user may then select data fields, such as the location of an item in inventory, from the database without writing coded database queries. The NYTBridge then allows the user to download the selected data fields as a data set along with a scanner program that will read the created data set. Both the data set and the scanner program are either saved on a PCMCIA card to be used in a scanner, or downloaded directly into the hand held scanner via either serial port communication or communication dock tethering. When the scanner program is run on the scanner, the scanner program creates a scanner file for the collected, verified and/or corrected data. After the data is collected, verified and/or corrected, NYTBridge reads the scanner file from the hand held scanner and allows the user to update the relational database.