Patents by Inventor Linda Lin Lin

Linda Lin Lin 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: 9589071
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for presenting search query suggestions. In an aspect, query triggers in a resource are identified at a client device. For each query trigger identified in the resource, a rank score for the query trigger based on query trigger attributes is calculated at the client device. The query triggers are ranked at the client device based on the rank scores. Search query suggestions are generated at the client device from the query triggers identified in the resource. The search query suggestions include terms of the query triggers, expansion terms of the query triggers, and search query suggestions generated from templates applied to the terms of the query triggers and expansion terms of the query triggers. The search query suggestions are presented at the client device according to the rank of the corresponding query triggers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Youlin Li, Goang-Tay Hsu, Linda Lin Lin
  • Publication number: 20150339311
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for presenting search query suggestions. In an aspect, query triggers in a resource are identified at a client device. For each query trigger identified in the resource, a rank score for the query trigger based on query trigger attributes is calculated at the client device. The query triggers are ranked at the client device based on the rank scores. Search query suggestions are generated at the client device from the query triggers identified in the resource. The search query suggestions include terms of the query triggers, expansion terms of the query triggers, and search query suggestions generated from templates applied to the terms of the query triggers and expansion terms of the query triggers. The search query suggestions are presented at the client device according to the rank of the corresponding query triggers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Youlin Li, Goang-Tay Hsu, Linda Lin Lin
  • Patent number: 9098568
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for presenting search query suggestions. In an aspect, query triggers in a resource are identified at a client device. For each query trigger identified in the resource, a rank score for the query trigger based on query trigger attributes is calculated at the client device. The query triggers are ranked at the client device based on the rank scores. Search query suggestions are generated at the client device from the query triggers identified in the resource. The search query suggestions include terms of the query triggers, expansion terms of the query triggers, and search query suggestions generated from templates applied to the terms of the query triggers and expansion terms of the query triggers. The search query suggestions are presented at the client device according to the rank of the corresponding query triggers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Youlin Li, Goang-Tay Hsu, Linda Lin Lin
  • Publication number: 20120130978
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for presenting search query suggestions. In an aspect, query triggers in a resource are identified at a client device. For each query trigger identified in the resource, a rank score for the query trigger based on query trigger attributes is calculated at the client device. The query triggers are ranked at the client device based on the rank scores. Search query suggestions are generated at the client device from the query triggers identified in the resource. The search query suggestions include terms of the query triggers, expansion terms of the query triggers, and search query suggestions generated from templates applied to the terms of the query triggers and expansion terms of the query triggers. The search query suggestions are presented at the client device according to the rank of the corresponding query triggers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Youlin Li, Goang-Tay Hsu, Linda Lin Lin