Patents by Inventor Chiu Ying Cheung

Chiu Ying Cheung 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: 11620304
    Abstract: A method for transforming strings includes identifying one or more candidate example input strings from a database including a set of input strings. The candidate example input strings are presented for example transformation. For one or more of the candidate example input strings, an example output string corresponding to that example input string is received, where each example input string and its corresponding example output string define a transformation example in an example set. A string transformation program is generated based on transformation examples in the example set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sumit Gulwani, Ranvijay Kumar, Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung, Daniel Adam Perelman, Euan Peter Garden, Giovanni M. Della-Libera
  • Patent number: 11372830
    Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to interactive data splitting. A program for splitting an input column of an input data set into multiple output columns can be synthesized based on input-only examples. The program can further be generated based on various user input; thus, the user input can guide the synthesis of the program. Moreover, the program can be executed on the input data set to split the input column of the input data set into the multiple output columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad Raza, Sumit Gulwani, Ranvijay Kumar, Euan Peter Garden, Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung, Daniel Galen Simmons
  • Publication number: 20220035807
    Abstract: A system includes an operating system executed by a processor and memory. A data type identifier changing application is executed by the operating system and is configured to display a table including data entries that are arranged in rows and columns and that include data type identifiers. The data type identifier changing application is configured to generate a list including two or more of the data type identifiers corresponding to rows in a selected column. The data type identifier changing application is configured to change one of the data type identifiers in the list corresponding to a plurality of rows in the selected column to one of another one of the data type identifiers in the list or a data type identifier that is not in the list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Chairy Chiu Ying CHEUNG, Taurean Addair Jones
  • Patent number: 11222076
    Abstract: A user interface that allows the user to lock in a comparison state of an inspector control that provides a view on state of a data set being subjected to transformations. The inspector control visualizes a state of at least a portion of the data set (such as a column, table or database) as that data set is navigated by a navigation control. At least under some circumstances, the inspector control also visualizes a comparison state of the data set. A comparison lock control allows the comparison state of the data set to be locked at a particular comparison state regardless of the navigation control navigating the data set. Accordingly, until the comparison state is unlocked via a comparison unlock control, the inspector control visualizes a current state of the data set along with a visualization of the locked comparison state of the data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung
  • Patent number: 11200214
    Abstract: Described herein are various technologies pertaining to construction and application of a data cleaning template. A data cleaning tool, when applying the data cleaning template to a data set, is configured to identify a column in the data set that has data entries of a data type specified in the data cleaning template. In response to identifying the column in the data set, the data cleaning tool, when applying the data cleaning template to the data set, alters a format of the data entries in the column from a first format to a second format, the second format specified in the data cleaning template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chiu Ying Cheung, Taurean Jones
  • Patent number: 11163935
    Abstract: Examples provide for intelligent navigation of hierarchical groups of items. A current level of items being viewed by a user is automatically detected in response to a context change. The context change includes, for example, a zoom-in, zoom-out, or scroll associated with an item in the hierarchical group of items. A transient user interface control including a contextual breadcrumb list representing a path from a root node to the current level is automatically generated for presentation to the user. An action including, for example, a search, filter, or sort of items within the detected current group of items is performed based on input received from the user via the presented transient user interface control. A result of the performed action is presented for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung, Raghunath Mallya
  • Patent number: 11093516
    Abstract: A system includes an operating system executed by a processor and memory. A data type identifier changing application is executed by the operating system and is configured to display a table including data entries that are arranged in rows and columns and that include data type identifiers. The data type identifier changing application is configured to generate a list including two or more of the data type identifiers corresponding to rows in a selected column. The data type identifier changing application is configured to change one of the data type identifiers in the list corresponding to a plurality of rows in the selected column to one of another one of the data type identifiers in the list or a data type identifier that is not in the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung, Taurean Addair Jones
  • Patent number: 10949048
    Abstract: Organizations may comprise a variety of resources that are assigned to various organizational units, and allocated for various projects or tasks. A user who wishes to understand the organizational structure of the resources may examine information sources, such as resource manifests and resource access logs, and interpret such information with the user's knowledge of the organization, but may fail to achieve a comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date understanding of the organization. Instead, interactions among users and resources may be monitored to infer organizational structure; assignment of resources to organizational units; relationships among resources; and usages arising within such resource relationships. Based on such inferences, an interactive visual map may be automatically generated that depicts the arrangement of the organization and the interrelationships of the resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Liensberger, James Eldon Tillinghast, Mark Wade Heninger, Christina Storm, Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung
  • Patent number: 10725720
    Abstract: Examples provide for intelligent navigation of informational items within an augmented reality environment. A hierarchical set of informational items within the augmented reality environment is automatically generated. A current level in the hierarchy includes items currently within a field of view (FOV), a current topic of conversation, items associated with user movements, or items selected by the user. A transient user interface control directed to the current group of informational items and a contextual breadcrumb list is generated and displayed within the FOV. An action is performed on a selected group of informational items based on input received from the user via the transient user interface control. The results of the performed action are presented to the user within the FOV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung, Raghunath Mallya
  • Patent number: 10691655
    Abstract: Various technologies pertaining to extracting data encoded in a tree-structured document and generating a table based upon the extracted data are described herein. In a first embodiment, the table is generated without requiring input from a data cleaner. In a second embodiment, the table is generated based upon examples set forth by a data cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Vu Minh Le, Sumit Gulwani, Ranvijay Kumar, Chiu Ying Cheung
  • Patent number: 10606665
    Abstract: Job execution can be scheduled and monitored. Execution of a job results in generation of one or more data slices, which can be consumed as input by one or more related jobs. Data slices can be presented in an interactive view. Selection of a data slice in the view can trigger automatic identification of related data slices based on dependencies between data slices. Each data slice can also include and be presented with a status indicating the availability of corresponding data, such as pending, ready, or failed. Furthermore, selection of a data slice that failed to generate successfully can trigger identification of related data slices that failed or are predicted to fail to generate successfully.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew J. Peacock, Cheryl Couris, Christina Storm, Amir Netz, Chiu Ying Cheung, Michael J. Flasko, Kevin Grealish, Giovanni M. Della-Libera, Sonia P. Carlson, Mark W. Heninger, Paula M. Bach, David J. Nettleton
  • Patent number: 10585888
    Abstract: A computing device is provided, comprising a processor configured to select at least one pair of tuples of columns including a source tuple from a first table and a target tuple from a second table. For each pair, the processor may select one or more rows from the source tuple and elements of the target tuple. For each selected row, the processor may programmatically generate a script that, when performed on the source tuple, produces a value consistent with the target tuple. The processor may apply each script to other rows of the source tuple and determine that an output is in the target tuple. For each column of the target tuple, for the script with output that meets a matching criterion, the processor may convey the output and, in response to a signal accepting the script, join the tables at least in part by performing each accepted script.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Sumit Gulwani, Daniel Adam Perelman, Ranvijay Kumar, Euan Peter Garden, Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung
  • Publication number: 20200065360
    Abstract: Examples provide for intelligent navigation of hierarchical groups of items. A current level of items being viewed by a user is automatically detected in response to a context change. The context change includes, for example, a zoom-in, zoom-out, or scroll associated with an item in the hierarchical group of items. A transient user interface control including a contextual breadcrumb list representing a path from a root node to the current level is automatically generated for presentation to the user. An action including, for example, a search, filter, or sort of items within the detected current group of items is performed based on input received from the user via the presented transient user interface control. A result of the performed action is presented for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Chairy Chiu Ying CHEUNG, Raghunath MALLYA
  • Patent number: 10546055
    Abstract: A computing device is provided comprising a processor configured to select at least one pair of elements, including an element in a source column of the first table and an element in a target column of the second table. The processor may detect that the elements are in different formats. For at least one element, the processor may apply a predetermined mapping to a common format. The processor may modify at least one element to have the same format as the other, and may generate an example including the modified pair. The processor may programmatically generate a script that, when performed on the selected elements, produces a value consistent with the example. For the script with output matching the elements of the target column, the processor may convey the output for display, and may join the tables at least in part by performing the script on the source column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Sumit Gulwani, Daniel Adam Perelman, Ranvijay Kumar, Euan Peter Garden, Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung
  • Patent number: 10521448
    Abstract: Transformation pipelines are applied to disparate data sets and domains. An existing transformation pipeline is configured as a stored actionable task structure with a predefined plurality of sequenced tasks for transforming a first data set having a first set of attributes into a modified data set. The existing transformation pipeline is then applied to a different data set having a different set of attributes. Compatibility and operability for implementing the tasks of the actionable data set on the second data set are then determined, based at least in part on the stored attributes of the tasks and the second data set. Interface elements are also utilized to reflect the compatibility and operability of the tasks in the visual representation of the actionable task structure. Some elements are also utilized to provide suggestions for improving the compatibility of the actionable task structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jose Ramon Calzada Gomez, Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung, Taurean Addair Jones
  • Patent number: 10514827
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products that are provided for resequencing actionable task structures include features for detecting and reflecting compatibility issues of discrete tasks in the actionable task structures. After receiving input for resequencing an actionable task structure, attributes associated with the resequenced tasks are accessed and analyzed. Compatibility is determined and reflected in the display of the task identifiers, with one or more visual identifiers. The visual indicators can also be used to reflect suggested changes to the actionable task structure, based on a comparison of the task attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Taurean Addair Jones, Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung, Jose Ramon Calzada Gomez
  • Patent number: 10510012
    Abstract: Providing predictive data predicting data values for a historical dataset. The method facilitates improving the accuracy of the predictive data by identifying for a user, and allowing the user to select ancillary datasets that can be evaluated, using a predictive evaluation, together with a historical dataset to improve the accuracy of the predictive data. A user interface is provided to a user. The user interface identifies one or more ancillary datasets. The ancillary datasets are identified to the user based on the ancillary datasets meeting a threshold condition to a historical dataset. The ancillary datasets are selectable by the user in the user interface. User input is received at the user interface selecting one or more of the ancillary datasets. A predictive dataset is displayed to the user. The predictive dataset is determined by predictive evaluation of the historical dataset and the one or more selected ancillary datasets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Amir Netz, Moshe Golan, Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung, Yury Berezansky, Oded Bar Levy, Yoav Yassour, Yifat Sagiv, Ran Didi
  • Patent number: 10496734
    Abstract: Examples provide for intelligent navigation of hierarchical groups of items. A current level of items being viewed by a user is automatically detected in response to a context change. The context change includes, for example, a zoom-in, zoom-out, or scroll associated with an item in the hierarchical group of items. A transient user interface control including a contextual breadcrumb list representing a path from a root node to the current level is automatically generated for presentation to the user. An action including, for example, a search, filter, or sort of items within the detected current group of items is performed based on input received from the user via the presented transient user interface control. A result of the performed action is presented for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung, Raghunath Mallya
  • Patent number: 10481766
    Abstract: Actionable task structures comprised of a plurality of tasks are generated by systems and methods utilizing interfaces that suggest tasks for assembly into the actionable task structures based on contextual relevance to data set attributes, other tasks in the actionable task structures and user annotations. The Actionable task structures are stored and selectively applied to one or more different domains for transformation data in the corresponding data sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung, Taurean Addair Jones, Jose Ramon Calzada Gomez
  • Publication number: 20190294595
    Abstract: Described herein are various technologies pertaining to construction and application of a data cleaning template. A data cleaning tool, when applying the data cleaning template to a data set, is configured to identify a column in the data set that has data entries of a data type specified in the data cleaning template. In response to identifying the column in the data set, the data cleaning tool, when applying the data cleaning template to the data set, alters a format of the data entries in the column from a first format to a second format, the second format specified in the data cleaning template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Chiu Ying Cheung, Taurean Jones