Patents by Inventor Kevin Wenkai Heh

Kevin Wenkai Heh 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: 10848809
    Abstract: An online system receives a video-presentation request from a third party system. The video-presentation request comprises a video and a target audience specification for the video. The online system selects a plurality of users as the target audience of the video based on the target audience specification. From the target audience, the online system generates a sample subset of users and determines a sampled video reach count for the subset of users. A sample user who, as determined by the online system, would have viewed the view for at least a threshold duration, is included in the sampled video view count. The online system estimates a total video reach count for target audience by extrapolating the sampled video reach count for the subset of users to the target audience. The total video reach count can be used to determine a parameter for presenting the video on an online system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiajin Yu, Max K. Comer, Zhengyong Zhu, Kevin Wenkai Heh, Spencer Powell
  • Patent number: 10390065
    Abstract: An online system receives a video-presentation request from a third party system. The video-presentation request comprises a video and a target audience specification for the video. The online system selects a plurality of users as the target audience of the video based on the target audience specification. From the target audience, the online system generates a sample subset of users and determines a sampled video reach count for the subset of users. A sample user who, as determined by the online system, would have viewed the view for at least a threshold duration, is included in the sampled video view count. The online system estimates a total video reach count for target audience by extrapolating the sampled video reach count for the subset of users to the target audience. The total video reach count can be used to determine a parameter for presenting the video on an online system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiajin Yu, Max K. Comer, Zhengyong Zhu, Kevin Wenkai Heh, Spencer Powell
  • Publication number: 20180324489
    Abstract: An online system receives a video-presentation request from a third party system. The video-presentation request comprises a video and a target audience specification for the video. The online system selects a plurality of users as the target audience of the video based on the target audience specification. From the target audience, the online system generates a sample subset of users and determines a sampled video reach count for the subset of users. A sample user who, as determined by the online system, would have viewed the view for at least a threshold duration, is included in the sampled video view count. The online system estimates a total video reach count for target audience by extrapolating the sampled video reach count for the subset of users to the target audience. The total video reach count can be used to determine a parameter for presenting the video on an online system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Jiajin Yu, Max K. Comer, Zhengyong Zhu, Kevin Wenkai Heh, Spencer Powell
  • Publication number: 20180150856
    Abstract: An online system provides a third party system with the trend in the total monetary value over time for groups of users that meet specific targeting criteria provided by a third party system. The target groups of online system users are divided further into segments according to demographics within the group and their respective base values are observed over an observation time period. Trend values for each segment are formulated based on changes in the respective base values over time. These trend values are weighed according to the number of online system users comprising each segment. More users in a segment results in a larger weight placed on the trend value associated with that segment; fewer users results in a smaller weight. The final value associated with the entire target group of users derives from combining the trend values for each segment within the target group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Zhengyong Zhu, Jiajin Yu, Kevin Wenkai Heh