Patents by Inventor Jinchun Xia

Jinchun Xia 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).

  • Determining a user's rank in a social network
    Patent number: 9972057
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a technique is disclosed herein to determine a first group of users for which a particular user is a member and automatically generate a first ranking of users in the first group. For the particular user, automatically generate one or more first action recommendations to increase rank among the users in the first group. And to a device accessible by the particular user, automatically provide a particular ranking of the particular user from among the first ranking and the one or more first action recommendations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jinchun Xia, Jacob Kessler, Elaine Chien, Zhijun Chen
  • DETERMINING A USER'S RANK IN A SOCIAL NETWORK
    Publication number: 20160275080
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a technique is disclosed herein to determine a first group of users for which a particular user is a member and automatically generate a first ranking of users in the first group. For the particular user, automatically generate one or more first action recommendations to increase rank among the users in the first group. And to a device accessible by the particular user, automatically provide a particular ranking of the particular user from among the first ranking and the one or more first action recommendations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: JINCHUN XIA, JACOB KESSLER, ELAINE CHIEN, ZHIJUN CHEN
  • DYNAMIC RANKING OF PRODUCTS FOR PRESENTATION TO USERS
    Publication number: 20140244423
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that processes user data. During operation, the system obtains a set of ranking engines for a set of products and selects a ranking engine from the set of ranking engines. Next, the system provides the user data for a user to the ranking engine and obtains, in response to the provided user data, a list of ranked products for the user from the ranking engine. Finally, the system provides the products to the user based on the list to facilitate selection of one or more of the products by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: LINKEDIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jacob M. Kessler, Tong Yang, Jinchun Xia, Bin Pan, Yining Wu, Wendy Shi, Venu Javarappa