Patents by Inventor Pierce Yang

Pierce Yang 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).

  • Building user profiles by relevance feedback
    Patent number: 10698967
    Abstract: A method is provided, including: detecting interactions by a plurality of users with a plurality of content items, each content item having an associated content item vector; for a given user, identifying interactions occurring during a current time period, including identifying positive interactions with a first set of the content items, and negative interactions with a second set of the content items; processing a first set of the content item vectors that are associated with the first set of the content items to determine a positive interaction vector; processing a second set of the content item vectors that are associated to the second set of the content items to determine a negative interaction vector; for the given user, generating a current user profile vector for the current time period, using the positive interaction vector, the negative interaction vector, and a prior user profile vector for a prior time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Rao Shen, Akshay Soni, Troy Chevalier, Xue Wu, Pierce Yang
  • BUILDING USER PROFILES BY RELEVANCE FEEDBACK
    Publication number: 20190171725
    Abstract: A method is provided, including: detecting interactions by a plurality of users with a plurality of content items, each content item having an associated content item vector; for a given user, identifying interactions occurring during a current time period, including identifying positive interactions with a first set of the content items, and negative interactions with a second set of the content items; processing a first set of the content item vectors that are associated with the first set of the content items to determine a positive interaction vector; processing a second set of the content item vectors that are associated to the second set of the content items to determine a negative interaction vector; for the given user, generating a current user profile vector for the current time period, using the positive interaction vector, the negative interaction vector, and a prior user profile vector for a prior time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Rao Shen, Akshay Soni, Troy Chevalier, Xue Wu, Pierce Yang