Patents by Inventor Yingliang Tan

Yingliang Tan 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).

  • Method and system for managing categories of an electronic commerce website
    Patent number: 8301506
    Abstract: Managing categories in an electronic commerce system, includes obtaining transaction information pertaining to a set of back-end categories, the transaction information includes user information of users in the system who completed transactions in the set of back-end categories during a preset period, determining, based on the user information, a set of front-end categories that were selected by users in the system during the preset period, determining number of times a front-end category in the set of front-end categories was selected by the users in the system during the preset period, and adjusting the front-end category according to the transaction information and the number of times the front-end category was selected during the preset period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Yingliang Tan, Tianbao Lin, Ya Lin, Minxu Liu
  • Method and system for managing categories of an electronic commerce website
    Publication number: 20100131338
    Abstract: Managing categories in an electronic commerce system, includes obtaining transaction information pertaining to a set of back-end categories, the transaction information includes user information of users in the system who completed transactions in the set of back-end categories during a preset period, determining, based on the user information, a set of front-end categories that were selected by users in the system during the preset period, determining number of times a front-end category in the set of front-end categories was selected by the users in the system during the preset period, and adjusting the front-end category according to the transaction information and the number of times the front-end category was selected during the preset period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Yingliang Tan, Tianbao Lin, Ya Lin, Minxu Liu