Tom L Chi

US Patent:

7069101, Jun 27, 2006

Filed:

Jul 29, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/363966

Inventors:

John F. Arackaparambil - San Carlos CA, US
Tom Chi - San Jose CA, US
Billy Chow - Menlo Park CA, US
Patrick M. D'Souza - Mountain View CA, US
Parris Hawkins - Pleasanton CA, US
Charles Huang - Union City CA, US
Jett Jensen - Campbell CA, US
Badri N. Krishnamurthy - Mountain View CA, US
Pradeep M. Kulkarni - Sunnyvale CA, US
Prakash M. Kulkarni - Sunnyvale CA, US
Wen Fong Lin - San Jose CA, US
Shantha Mohan - Palo Alto CA, US
Bishnu Nandy - Union City CA, US

Assignee:

Applied Materials, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

International Classification:

G06F 19/00

US Classification:

700121, 700 96, 700115

Abstract:

The present invention provides a novel distributed factory system framework including a novel factory automation lifecycle () having lifecycle activities for SW developing and integrating (), installing and administrating (), factory modeling (), manufacturing planning (), manufacturing controlling, monitoring and tracking () and analyzing of manufacturing results (). The factory lifecycle comprises framework components. The distributed factory system framework also includes application components and software building blocks. The framework components are adapted for managing the application components, while the application components are utilized to provide instructions for managing a process such as a wafer fab. The building blocks are adapted for forming or modifying framework and application components. The distributed factory system framework provides computer implemented methods for integrating processing systems and facilitates process and equipment changes.

US Patent:

7174230, Feb 6, 2007

Filed:

Feb 28, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/084092

Inventors:

John F. Arackaparambil - San Carlos CA, US
Tom Chi - San Jose CA, US
Billy Chow - Menlo Park CA, US
Patrick M. D'Souza - Mountain View CA, US
Parris Hawkins - Pleasanton CA, US
Charles Huang - Union City CA, US
Jett Jensen - Campbell CA, US
Badri N. Krishnamurthy - Mountain View CA, US
Pradeep M. Kulkarni - Sunnyvale CA, US
Prakash M. Kulkarni - Sunnyvale CA, US
Wen Fong Lin - San Jose CA, US
Shantha Mohan - Palo Alto CA, US
Bishnu Nandy - Union City CA, US

Assignee:

Applied Materials, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

International Classification:

G06F 19/00

US Classification:

700 96, 700121

Abstract:

The present invention provides a novel distributed factory system framework including a novel factory automation lifecycle () having lifecycle activities for SW developing and integrating (), installing and administrating (), factory modeling (), manufacturing planning (), manufacturing controlling, monitoring and tracking () and analyzing of manufacturing results (). The factory lifecycle comprises framework components. The distributed factory system framework also includes application components and building blocks. The framework components are adapted to for managing the application components, while the application components are utilized to provide instructions for managing a process such as a wafer fab. The building blocks are adapted for forming or modifying framework and application components. The distributed factory system framework provides computer implemented methods for integrating processing systems and facilitates process and equipment changes.

US Patent:

7949647, May 24, 2011

Filed:

Nov 26, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/324680

Inventors:

Carlos Teran - San Francisco CA, US
Tom Chi - San Francisco CA, US
Don Chennavasin - Santa Clara CA, US
Ashley Hall - Menlo Park CA, US

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707708, 707767

Abstract:

Search assistance is provided to users that submit search queries to search engines. In one implementation, a partial search query input by a user to a search engine is received. The partial search query is predicted to be a navigational query. A web address is selected based on the predicted navigational query. A search assistance list that includes the selected web address is generated. The search assistance list is displayed to the user in response to the received partial search query. In another implementation, a plurality of suggested search queries is determined for the received partial search query. A suggested search query of the plurality of suggested search queries having a highest relevance to the user is determined. A search assistance list is generated and displayed to the user. The suggested search query having the highest relevance to the user is prominently displayed in the search assistance list.

US Patent:

8010537, Aug 30, 2011

Filed:

Aug 27, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/199138

Inventors:

Raj Gopal Prasad Kantamneni - San Jose CA, US
Ashley Hall - Menlo Park CA, US
Tom Chi - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707748, 707751, 707767

Abstract:

Systems, methods and computer program products are disclosed for assisting search request by presenting suggestion of one or more vertical segments to produce a more focused result. A vertical segment may be selected by the user, the selected vertical segment being associated with one or more query terms and a search is performed on an index associated with the vertical segment. A search engine generates a search result and returns a list of search result pages for presentation to a user.

US Patent:

8484184, Jul 9, 2013

Filed:

Apr 27, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/095491

Inventors:

Carlos Teran - San Francisco CA, US
Tom Chi - San Francisco CA, US
Don Chennavasin - Santa Clara CA, US
Ashley Hall - Menlo Park CA, US

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707706, 707 78, 707722

Abstract:

Search assistance is provided to users that submit search queries to search engines. In one implementation, a partial search query input by a user to a search engine is received. The partial search query is predicted to be a navigational query. A web address is selected based on the predicted navigational query. A search assistance list that includes the selected web address is generated. The search assistance list is displayed to the user in response to the received partial search query. In another implementation, a plurality of suggested search queries is determined for the received partial search query. A suggested search query of the plurality of suggested search queries having a highest relevance to the user is determined. A search assistance list is generated and displayed to the user. The suggested search query having the highest relevance to the user is prominently displayed in the search assistance list.

US Patent:

8600979, Dec 3, 2013

Filed:

Jun 28, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/825304

Inventors:

Yookyung Kim - Los Altos CA, US
Hongjian Zhao - Fremont CA, US
Xin Li - San Jose CA, US
Alexandra Levich - Seattle WA, US
Tom Chi - San Francisco CA, US
Ming Sui - Fremont CA, US
Yihong Zhao - San Jose CA, US
Marc Davis - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

G06F 7/00

US Classification:

707722, 707730, 707732, 707734

Abstract:

An online article is enhanced by displaying, in association with the article, supplemental content that includes entities that are extracted from the article and/or entities that are related to entities that are extracted from the article. The supplemental content further includes information about each of the entities. The information about an entity may be obtained by searching for the entity in one or more searchable repositories of data. For example, the supplemental content may include, for each entity, video, image, web, and/or news search results. The supplemental content may further include information such as stock quotes, abstracts, maps, scores, and so on. The entities are selected using a variety of analyses and ranking techniques based on contextual factors such as user-specific information, time-sensitive popularity trends, grammatical features, search result quality, and so on. The entities may further be selected for purposes such as generating ad-based revenue.

US Patent:

8612891, Dec 17, 2013

Filed:

Feb 16, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/706641

Inventors:

Vik Singh - San Jose CA, US
Su-Lin Wu - San Carlos CA, US
Tom Chi - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

G06F 3/048

US Classification:

715833

Abstract:

The present invention provides a method and system for receiving a user privacy preference that indicates an amount of activity information that the user is willing to share in response to a reward, a value of the reward related to a degree of the user privacy preference. The method and system includes setting a privacy setting for the user based on the received user privacy preference. The method and system further includes tracking web browsing activity of the user during one or more web-browsing sessions based on the privacy setting to generate user activity information. The method and system further includes sending the user activity information and providing a reward to the user based on the user activity information sent.

US Patent:

20090144264, Jun 4, 2009

Filed:

Dec 4, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/950398

Inventors:

Vik Singh - San Jose CA, US
Eckart Walther - Palo Alto CA, US
Jeff Bonforte - San Francisco CA, US
Amit Kumar - San Jose CA, US
Tom (Liang-Yu) Chi - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 5, 707E17108

Abstract:

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for integrating third-party information, such as third-party rating information, over the search results. The integrated third-party information in search results provides users additional information to determine which search results to click on for more details. In one embodiment, the methods and systems allow users to choose which third-party data sources to include (or overlay) in their search results. Whenever a user issues a search request to a search engine, which returns search results that correspond to relevant third-party overlay data, the search engine will return a list of the search results integrated with the corresponded third-party data. The integrated third-party information augments the titles, abstracts and link descriptions of search results to help the user determine which search results in the list are relevant. The information, such as rating and review information, provided by third parties trusted by the user can also help the user judge the quality of products and services described in the search results.