Patents by Inventor Qichu Lu
Qichu Lu 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).
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Publication number: 20240098157Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a content system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods determine a breaking news story and track breaking developments in such story. The present disclosure can construct a breaking news storyline from the developments in the detected breaking news story, whereby a user can view the storyline as individual breaking news messages or as a complete timeline of events displayed on a provided page.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Xue WU, Renhui ZHANG, Qichu LU
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Patent number: 11870864Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a content system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods determine a breaking news story and track breaking developments in such story. The present disclosure can construct a breaking news storyline from the developments in the detected breaking news story, whereby a user can view the storyline as individual breaking news messages or as a complete timeline of events displayed on a provided page.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Xue Wu, Renhui Zhang, Qichu Lu
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Patent number: 11153253Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a content system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods determine breaking or trending news stories from social media activity, which are then communicated to users via personalized delivery. Thus, the disclosed systems and methods leverage social data, expert knowledge and/or user feedback, which are all available on-line, to determine breaking news stories, which are then delivered to users in a personalized manner specific to each user.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.Inventors: Maria Zhang, Xue Wu, Qichu Lu, Bill Shapiro
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Patent number: 11144281Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to gather, rank, categorize, and perform other processing of various types of content. In some embodiments, content items such as text, images, video, and other content are received from a variety of different sources and are processed to generate an article containing selected content items. While there may be hundreds or thousands of separate articles and stories regarding a particular topic, embodiments of the present disclosure help provide users with a single concise article that contains high-quality content items selected from among a potentially vast number of disparate sources.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.Inventors: Maria Renhui Zhang, Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla, Qichu Lu
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Publication number: 20210021684Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a content system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods determine a breaking news story and track breaking developments in such story. The present disclosure can construct a breaking news storyline from the developments in the detected breaking news story, whereby a user can view the storyline as individual breaking news messages or as a complete timeline of events displayed on a provided page.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Xue WU, Renhui ZHANG, Qichu LU
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Patent number: 10798193Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a content system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods determine a breaking news story and track breaking developments in such story. The present disclosure can construct a breaking news storyline from the developments in the detected breaking news story, whereby a user can view the storyline as individual breaking news messages or as a complete timeline of events displayed on a provided page.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Xue Wu, Renhui Zhang, Qichu Lu
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Patent number: 10484329Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a content system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide a real-time (or near real-time) push notification delivery framework. The disclosed systems and methods enable the delivery of personalized, location and/or temporally sensitive breaking news to users' devices. The disclosed systems and methods leverage the explosion of social data, expert knowledge and user feedback, all available on-line, to deliver breaking (or trending) news stories to users in a personalized, location and/or temporally sensitive manner.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Renhui Zhang, Xue Wu, Qichu Lu, Bill Shapiro
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Publication number: 20190220475Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may be utilized to analyze a content item comprising text to identify: a quote, a named entity that is the source of the quote (e.g., a person or organization such as a company), and identification information for the named entity (such as a title of the person giving the quote). Quotes may also be ranked to determine, for example, the best quotes to include in an article.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Maria Renhui ZHANG, Nicholas D'ALOISIO-MONTILLA, Qichu LU
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Patent number: 10242095Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may be utilized to analyze a content item comprising text to identity: a quote, a named entity that is the source of the quote (e.g., a person or organization such as a company), and identification information for the named entity (such as a title of the person giving the quote). Quotes may also be ranked to determine, for example, the best quotes to include in an article.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Maria Renhui Zhang, Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla, Qichu Lu
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Patent number: 9940099Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to gather, rank, categorize, and perform other processing of various types of content. In some embodiments, content items such as text, images, video, and other content are received from a variety of different sources and are processed to generate an article containing selected content items. While there may be hundreds or thousands of separate articles and stories regarding a particular topic, embodiments of the present disclosure help provide users with a single concise article that contains high-quality content items selected from among a potentially vast number of disparate sources.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2014Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Maria Renhui Zhang, Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla, Qichu Lu
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Publication number: 20170199932Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may be utilized to analyze a content item comprising text to identity: a quote, a named entity that is the source of the quote (e.g., a person or organization such as a company), and identification information for the named entity (such as a title of the person giving the quote). Quotes may also be ranked to determine, for example, the best quotes to include in an article.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2017Publication date: July 13, 2017Inventors: Maria Renhui ZHANG, Nicholas D'ALOISIO-MONTILLA, Qichu LU
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Publication number: 20170031654Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to gather, rank, categorize, and perform other processing of various types of content. In some embodiments, content items such as text, images, video, and other content are received from a variety of different sources and are processed to generate an article containing selected content items. While there may be hundreds or thousands of separate articles and stories regarding a particular topic, embodiments of the present disclosure help provide users with a single concise article that contains high-quality content items selected from among a potentially vast number of disparate sources.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: Maria Renhui Zhang, Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla, Qichu Lu
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Patent number: 9558180Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may be utilized to analyze a content item comprising text to identify: a quote, a named entity that is the source of the quote (e.g., a person or organization such as a company), and identification information for the named entity (such as a title of the person giving the quote). Quotes may also be ranked to determine, for example, the best quotes to include in an article.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: YAHOO! INC.Inventors: Maria Renhui Zhang, Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla, Qichu Lu
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Publication number: 20160357770Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a content system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods determine a breaking news story and track breaking developments in such story. The present disclosure can construct a breaking news storyline from the developments in the detected breaking news story, whereby a user can view the storyline as individual breaking news messages or as a complete timeline of events displayed on a provided page.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Xue Wu, Renhui Zhang, Qichu Lu
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Publication number: 20160359790Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a content system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods determine breaking or trending news stories from social media activity, which are then communicated to users via personalized delivery. Thus, the disclosed systems and methods leverage social data, expert knowledge and/or user feedback, which are all available on-line, to determine breaking news stories, which are then delivered to users in a personalized manner specific to each user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Maria Zhang, Xue Wu, Qichu Lu, Bill Shapiro
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Publication number: 20160359791Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a content system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide a real-time (or near real-time) push notification delivery framework. The disclosed systems and methods enable the delivery of personalized, location and/or temporally sensitive breaking news to users' devices. The disclosed systems and methods leverage the explosion of social data, expert knowledge and user feedback, all available on-line, to deliver breaking (or trending) news stories to users in a personalized, location and/or temporally sensitive manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Renhui Zhang, Xue Wu, Qichu Lu, Bill Shapiro
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Patent number: 9465849Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to gather, rank, categorize, and perform other processing of various types of content. In some embodiments, content items such as text, images, video, and other content are received from a variety of different sources and are processed to generate an article containing selected content items. While there may be hundreds or thousands of separate articles and stories regarding a particular topic, embodiments of the present disclosure help provide users with a single concise article that contains high-quality content items selected from among a potentially vast number of disparate sources.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Maria Renhui Zhang, Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla, Qichu Lu
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Publication number: 20150193443Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to gather, rank, categorize, and perform other processing of various types of content. In some embodiments, content items such as text, images, video, and other content are received from a variety of different sources and are processed to generate an article containing selected content items. While there may be hundreds or thousands of separate articles and stories regarding a particular topic, embodiments of the present disclosure help provide users with a single concise article that contains high-quality content items selected from among a potentially vast number of disparate sources.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2014Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Maria Renhui Zhang, Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla, Qichu Lu
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Publication number: 20150193440Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to gather, rank, categorize, and perform other processing of various types of content. In some embodiments, content items such as text, images, video, and other content are received from a variety of different sources and are processed to generate an article containing selected content items. While there may be hundreds or thousands of separate articles and stories regarding a particular topic, embodiments of the present disclosure help provide users with a single concise article that contains high-quality content items selected from among a potentially vast number of disparate sources.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2014Publication date: July 9, 2015Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Maria Renhui Zhang, Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla, Qichu Lu
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Publication number: 20150193495Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may be utilized to analyze a content item comprising text to identify: a quote, a named entity that is the source of the quote (e.g., a person or organization such as a company), and identification information for the named entity (such as a title of the person giving the quote). Quotes may also be ranked to determine, for example, the best quotes to include in an article.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2014Publication date: July 9, 2015Applicant: YAHOO! INC.Inventors: Maria Renhui Zhang, Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla, Qichu Lu