Patents Assigned to Tianjin Bytedance Technology Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12008217
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for displaying an emoji reply, a terminal device, and a server. The method includes: popping up an emoji box quickly in response to an operation performed by a user on a target chat message on a chat interface to pop up the emoji box, sending an emoji selected by the user from the emoji box to a server directly as an emoji reply; and displaying the emoji entered by the user and a user label on the target chat message in accordance with instruction information returned by the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: TIANJIN BYTEDANCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Zhai, Jie Yu, Zhiqin Li, Ran Yan, Eryou Hao
  • Patent number: 11481402
    Abstract: The present application relates to a search ranking method, a search ranking apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium. In an embodiment of the method, acquiring search keywords and determining a plurality of initial search results that match with the keywords; acquiring a plurality of characteristic factors associated with each of the initial search results, and a weight of each of the characteristic factors; performing a fusion calculation on each of the initial search results according to the weights of the plurality of characteristic factors to obtain a comprehensive weight of each initial search result; and ranking the plurality of initial search results according to the comprehensive weights. In embodiments of the present application, comprehensive ranking is performed on initial search results of a plurality of columns, which enables the user to quickly find a desired result, saves the operation time, and improves the searching efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Tianjin Bytedance Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhao Peng
  • Patent number: 11444895
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for sticking a conversation message on top for processing. The method includes: detecting whether an obtained operation meets a predetermined condition when a client determines that a first conversation in a current conversation list region is in a selected state; and if so, displaying an icon of the first conversation synchronously at a predetermined position in a sticky conversation region. In this method, an icon of a conversation in a conversation list region can be displayed synchronously in a sticky conversation region through an operation meeting a predetermined condition, such that a user can process a message based on the icon in the sticky conversation region. In this way, the processing efficiency can be improved, and by displaying the conversation simultaneously in the conversation list region and the sticky conversation region, flexibility in displaying the conversation can be improved, thereby facilitating the user's operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TIANJIN BYTEDANCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhenxing Luo
  • Patent number: 11436403
    Abstract: The present application provides an online document commenting method and apparatus. In an embodiment of the method, an operation of a user on a display interface is monitored, and a commenting behavior of commenting on a first document is recognized. The format of the first document is acquired when the commenting behavior is recognized, and the format of the first document is determined whether a pre-set format. The format of the first document is converted in order to generate a second document when the format of the first document is not the pre-set format, wherein the format of the second document is the pre-set format. The comment information regarding the second document is received and displayed. By means of the method, it is possible to present comment content to a user having a comment requirement, and not present the comment content to a user having no comment requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: TIANJIN BYTEDANCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Cheng Peng
  • Patent number: 11347930
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for automatically displaying a directory of a document. The method includes: obtaining a directory hierarchy of the document, the directory hierarchy including entries of the directory and levels of the entries; and displaying, based on the directory hierarchy, the entries of the directory in a form of thumbnail symbols in a directory display area, the directory display area being an area disposed at a side position in a document display area for displaying the directory. The method and apparatus can generate a directory automatically based on the document structure without manual maintenance, and the directory structure of the document is displayed in a form of thumbnail icons at a side position in the document display area, thereby leading to the simple and clear directory without occupying too much display space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: TIANJIN BYTEDANCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Cheng Peng
  • Patent number: 11283740
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for displaying a name label. The method includes: obtaining an original group message sent in a group carrying an original name label of a specified user; obtaining a target name label corresponding to the original name label based on a language version of a client of a current recipient in the group; replacing the original name label of the specified user carried in the original group message with the target name label to generate a target group message carrying the target name label; and displaying the target group message to a recipient user on the client of the current recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: TIANJIN BYTEDANCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaolin Shao
  • Patent number: 11258745
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for displaying an emoji reply, a terminal device, and a server. The method includes: popping up an emoji box quickly in response to an operation performed by a user on a target chat message on a chat interface to pop up the emoji box, sending an emoji selected by the user from the emoji box to a server directly as an emoji reply; and displaying the emoji entered by the user and a user label on the target chat message in accordance with instruction information returned by the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: TIANJIN BYTEDANCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Zhai
  • Patent number: 11240050
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for sharing an online document, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: providing (101) a sharing interface containing one or more candidate conference events based on a request from a currently logged-in user for sharing an online document; obtaining (102) a target conference event selected by the currently logged-in user from the one or more first candidate conference events, and obtaining an operation permission for the online document set by the currently logged-in user for the target conference event; then, obtaining (103) a participant account number participating in the target conference event, and setting an operation permission of a participant corresponding to the participant account number for the online document based on the operation permission; and sending (104) prompt information to the participant, such that the participant accesses the online document based on the prompt information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: TIANJIN BYTEDANCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xuejia Chen
  • Patent number: 11194822
    Abstract: The present application relates to a search ranking method, a search ranking apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium. In an embodiment of the method, acquiring search keywords and determining a plurality of initial search results that match with the plurality of keywords; extracting text similarity, update time dimension, and objective importance of contacts according to the initial search results; acquiring a weight of the text similarity, a weight of the update time dimension, and a weight of the objective importance of the contacts; performing a fusion calculation on each of the initial search results to obtain a comprehensive weight of each of the initial search results; and ranking the plurality of initial search results according to the comprehensive weights. The method enables the user to quickly find relevant information, simplifies the operation, and improves the searching efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: TIANJIN BYTEDANCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhao Peng
  • Patent number: 11184314
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for prompting a reading state of a message, and an electronic device. The method includes: displaying, when a message having a reading state to be identified is sent in a conversation window including a plurality of users, a reading state prompt pattern corresponding to the message in the conversation window; determining current reading states of respective ones of the plurality of users for the message; counting a current number of users who have read the message based on the reading states; and controlling the reading state prompt pattern to be displayed in a state that reflects the current number of users who have read the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TIANJIN BYTEDANCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xu Zhang
  • Patent number: D894928
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Tianjin Bytedance Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Cheng, Shijie Liu
  • Patent number: D894929
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Tianjin Bytedance Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Cheng, Shijie Liu
  • Patent number: D894930
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Tianjin Bytedance Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Cheng, Shijie Liu
  • Patent number: D894931
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Tianjin Bytedance Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qianmin Zhang
  • Patent number: D894932
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Tianjin Bytedance Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Cheng, Shijie Liu
  • Patent number: D894933
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Tianjin Bytedance Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qianmin Zhang, Hao Cheng, Shijie Liu
  • Patent number: D894934
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Tianjin Bytedance Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuan Wang
  • Patent number: D894935
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Tianjin Bytedance Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qianmin Zhang, Hao Cheng, Shijie Liu
  • Patent number: D894937
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Tianjin Bytedance Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuan Wang
  • Patent number: D895655
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Tianjin Bytedance Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuan Wang