Patents by Inventor Alice Zheng

Alice Zheng 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).

  • Patent number: 10928970
    Abstract: The various embodiments described herein include methods, systems and/or devices used to visualize data. In one aspect, a method is performed by a computing system having one or more processors and memory. The method includes (1) receiving a request from a user to visualize data, the data stored in a graph dataflow processing system, and (2) in response to the request, invoking an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) for display to the user, the GUI including a first set of visualization data corresponding to a first subset of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yucheng Low, Tim Muss, Zach Nation, Eric Wolfe, Brian Kent, Chris DuBois, Alice Zheng, Ping Wang, Srikrishna Sridhar, Carlos Guestrin
  • Patent number: 9330362
    Abstract: Technologies pertaining to tuning a hyper-parameter configuration of a learning algorithm are described. The learning algorithm learns parameters of a predictive model based upon the hyper-parameter configuration. Candidate hyper-parameter configurations are identified, and statistical hypothesis tests are undertaken over respective pairs of candidate hyper-parameter configurations to identify, for each pair of candidate hyper-parameter configurations, which of the two configurations is associated with better predictive performance. The technologies described herein take into consideration the stochastic nature of training data, validation data, and evaluation functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mikhail Bilenko, Alice Zheng
  • Publication number: 20160018962
    Abstract: The various embodiments described herein include methods, systems and/or devices used to visualize data. In one aspect, a method is performed by a computing system having one or more processors and memory. The method includes (1) receiving a request from a user to visualize data, the data stored in a graph dataflow processing system, and (2) in response to the request, invoking an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) for display to the user, the GUI including a first set of visualization data corresponding to a first subset of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Yucheng Low, Tim Muss, Zach Nation, Eric Wolfe, Brian Kent, Chris DuBois, Alice Zheng, Ping Wang, Srikrishna Sridhar, Carlos Guestrin
  • Publication number: 20140344193
    Abstract: Technologies pertaining to tuning a hyper-parameter configuration of a learning algorithm are described. The learning algorithm learns parameters of a predictive model based upon the hyper-parameter configuration. Candidate hyper-parameter configurations are identified, and statistical hypothesis tests are undertaken over respective pairs of candidate hyper-parameter configurations to identify, for each pair of candidate hyper-parameter configurations, which of the two configurations is associated with better predictive performance. The technologies described herein take into consideration the stochastic nature of training data, validation data, and evaluation functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mikhail Bilenko, Alice Zheng
  • Patent number: 7548934
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a list is provided. The system includes a seed item input subsystem, an item identifying subsystem, a descriptive metadata similarity determining subsystem and a list generating subsystem that builds a list based, at least in part, on similarity processing performed on seed item descriptive metadata and user item descriptive metadata and user selected thresholds applied to such similarity processing. The method includes inexact matching between identifying metadata associated with new user items and identifying metadata stored in a reference metadata database. The method further includes subjecting candidate user items to similarity processing, where the degree to which the candidate user items are similar to the seed item is determined, and placing user items in a list of items based on user selected preferences for (dis)similarity between items in the list and the seed item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Platt, Christopher Burges, Alice Zheng, Christopher B. Weare, Steven E. Swenson
  • Patent number: 7313571
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a list is provided. The system includes a seed item input subsystem, an item identifying subsystem, a descriptive metadata similarity determining subsystem and a list generating subsystem that builds a list based, at least in part, on similarity processing performed on seed item descriptive metadata and user item descriptive metadata and user selected thresholds applied to such similarity processing. The method includes inexact matching between identifying metadata associated with new user items and identifying metadata stored in a reference metadata database. The method further includes subjecting candidate user items to similarity processing, where the degree to which the candidate user items are similar to the seed item is determined, and placing user items in a list of items based on user selected preferences for (dis)similarity between items in the list and the seed item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Platt, Christopher Burges, Alice Zheng, Christopher B. Weare, Steven E. Swenson
  • Patent number: 7296031
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a list is provided. The system includes a seed item input subsystem, an item identifying subsystem, a descriptive metadata similarity determining subsystem and a list generating subsystem that builds a list based, at least in part, on similarity processing performed on seed item descriptive metadata and user item descriptive metadata and user selected thresholds applied to such similarity processing. The method includes inexact matching between identifying metadata associated with new user items and identifying metadata stored in a reference metadata database. The method further includes subjecting candidate user items to similarity processing, where the degree to which the candidate user items are similar to the seed item is determined, and placing user items in a list of items based on user selected preferences for (dis)similarity between items in the list and the seed item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Platt, Christopher Burges, Alice Zheng, Christopher B. Weare, Steven E. Swenson
  • Patent number: 7024424
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a list is provided. The system includes a seed item input subsystem, an item identifying subsystem, a descriptive metadata similarity determining subsystem and a list generating subsystem that builds a list based, at least in part, on similarity processing performed on seed item descriptive metadata and user item descriptive metadata and user selected thresholds applied to such similarity processing. The method includes inexact matching between identifying metadata associated with new user items and identifying metadata stored in a reference metadata database. The method further includes subjecting candidate user items to similarity processing, where the degree to which the candidate user items are similar to the seed item is determined, and placing user items in a list of items based on user selected preferences for (dis)similarity between items in the list and the seed item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Platt, Christopher Burges, Alice Zheng, Christopher B. Weare, Steven E. Swnson
  • Patent number: 6993532
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a list is provided. The system includes a seed item input subsystem, an item identifying subsystem, a descriptive metadata similarity determining subsystem and a list generating subsystem that builds a list based, at least in part, on similarity processing performed on seed item descriptive metadata and user item descriptive metadata and user selected thresholds applied to such similarity processing. The method includes inexact matching between identifying metadata associated with new user items and identifying metadata stored in a reference metadata database. The method further includes subjecting candidate user items to similarity processing, where the degree to which the candidate user items are similar to the seed item is determined, and placing user items in a list of items based on user selected preferences for (dis)similarity between items in the list and the seed item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Platt, Christopher Burges, Alice Zheng, Christopher B. Weare, Steven E. Swnson