Patents by Inventor Benyu Zhang

Benyu Zhang 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: 10417661
    Abstract: A search system server routes a given query to devices that create a response to the query. For query processing, a mixer server determines a sequence in which various servers are called, formats requests, and aggregates data obtained from the various servers. A query reviser creates various different queries that differ from, but are based on, the given query and prior queries submitted by a same user that submitted the given query or location information associated with the user. Portions of content are incorporated into the search results page including content selected based on the given query and based on the various different queries. A visual representation of the various portions of content within the search results page is generated. A display of a client device that submitted the given query is updated to present the search results page including the visual representation of the various portions of content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Rajat Bhattacharjee, Aranyak Mehta, Benyu Zhang, Vivek Raghunathan
  • Patent number: 10366414
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing selecting relevant and diverse advertisements. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an initial query, selecting one or more additional queries relating to the initial query, including selecting additional queries having a greatest commerciality, identifying one or more content items for each of the additional queries, the one or more content items forming a content block, and providing a content block and an associated additional query to a client device to be displayed along with search results associated with the initial query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Rajat Bhattacharjee, Aranyak Mehta, Benyu Zhang, Vivek Raghunathan
  • Patent number: 9872895
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to antiviral therapeutic methods and related compositions. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to methods of treating or preventing a viral infection by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising a TLR5 ligand, such as a flagellin, to a subject in need thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Emory University
    Inventors: Andrew T. Gewirtz, Benyue Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170185921
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a system and method for deploying customized machine learning services. Specifically, a computing device of a machine learning service provider maintains a meta training component and a plurality of meta data schemas. The computing device also generates a customized data schema based on customization of one of the plurality of meta data schemas by a machine learning service client. Further, the computing device can generate a training component based on the meta training component. The training component is compatible with the customized data schema. Then, the computing device deploys the customized data schema and the training component to one or more client devices to automatically generate a machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: CLOUDBRAIN INC.
    Inventor: Benyu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160267535
    Abstract: A search system server routes a given query to devices that create a response to the query. For query processing, a mixer server determines a sequence in which various servers are called, formats requests, and aggregates data obtained from the various servers. A query reviser creates various different queries that differ from, but are based on, the given query and prior queries submitted by a same user that submitted the given query or location information associated with the user. Portions of content are incorporated into the search results page including content selected based on the given query and based on the various different queries. A visual representation of the various portions of content within the search results page is generated. A display of a client device that submitted the given query is updated to present the search results page including the visual representation of the various portions of content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Rajat Bhattacharjee, Aranyak Mehta, Benyu Zhang, Vivek Raghunathan
  • Publication number: 20160243195
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to compositions including the cytokines IL-18 and IL-22 or biologically active fragments or variants thereof. In some embodiments, the compositions further include a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The compositions can further include other interleukins such as IL-1?, and IL 1? can be used as a combination therapy with either IL-18 or IL-22 or biologically active fragments or variants thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew T. Gewirtz, Benyue Zhang
  • Patent number: 9390139
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing selecting relevant and diverse advertisements. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an initial query, selecting one or more additional queries relating to the initial query, including selecting additional queries having a greatest commerciality, identifying one or more content items for each of the additional queries, the one or more content items forming a content block, and providing a content block and an associated additional query to a client device to be displayed along with search results associated with the initial query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Rajat Bhattacharjee, Aranyak Mehta, Benyu Zhang, Vivek Raghunathan
  • Patent number: 9208260
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing selecting relevant and diverse advertisements. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an initial query, selecting one or more additional queries relating to the initial query, including selecting a first additional query and a second diverse additional query, identifying one or more content items for each of the additional queries, the one or more content items forming a content block, and providing a content block and associated additional query to be displayed at a client device along with search results associated with the initial query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Rajat Bhattacharjee, Aranyak Mehta, Benyu Zhang, Vivek Raghunathan
  • Patent number: 9195942
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying information about people is provided. The information system identifies groups of people that have relationships based on their relationships to documents or more generally to objects. The information system initially is provided with an indication of which people have which relationships to which documents. The information system then identifies clusters of people based on having a relationship to the same objects. The information system may also identify clusters of related objects associated with a cluster of people. When a user wants to identify information about a person, the user can provide the name of that person to the information system. The information system then can retrieve and display the names of the other people who are in the same cluster as the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Benyu Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Gu Xu, Hongbin Gao, Zheng Chen, Randy Hinrichs, Hua-Jun Zeng
  • Patent number: 9152634
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing selecting relevant and diverse advertisements. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an initial query, selecting one or more additional queries relating to the initial query, identifying one or more content items for each query, forming a content block, balancing each content block, and providing, for each query, a content block along with search results associated with the initial query for display or other processing by a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Rajat Bhattacharjee, Aranyak Mehta, Benyu Zhang, Vivek Raghunathan
  • Publication number: 20150248698
    Abstract: Information regarding display of selected content items in assigned slots is provided. The information is based on a selected template that includes areas for groups of slots for related content items, such as content items that are targeted to a common targeting object. Candidate content items, identified based on targeting or other distribution information, are assigned to selected slots to determine at least part of the information regarding display of the selected content items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Rajat Bhattacharjee, Aranyak Mehta, Benyu Zhang, Vivek Raghunathan
  • Publication number: 20150165009
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to antiviral therapeutic methods and related compositions. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to methods of treating or preventing a viral infection by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising a TLR5 ligand, such as a flagellin, to a subject in need thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Emory University
    Inventors: Andrew T. Gewirtz, Benyue Zhang
  • Patent number: 8782805
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting whether an outgoing communication contains confidential information or other target information is provided. The detection system is provided with a collection of documents that contain confidential information, referred to as “confidential documents.” When the detection system is provided with an outgoing communication, it compares the content of the outgoing communication to the content of the confidential documents. If the outgoing communication contains confidential information, then the detection system may prevent the outgoing communication from being sent outside the organization. The detection system detects confidential information based on the similarity between the content of an outgoing communication and the content of confidential documents that are known to contain confidential information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benyu Zhang, Hua-Jun Zeng, Wei-Ying Ma, Zheng Chen
  • Patent number: 8751520
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing selecting relevant and diverse advertisements. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an initial query, selecting one or more additional queries relating to the initial query, including selecting additional queries having a greatest utility, identifying one or more content items for each of the additional queries, the one or more content items forming a content block, and providing a content block and an associated additional query to a client device to be displayed along with search results associated with the initial query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Rajat Bhattacharjee, Aranyak Mehta, Benyu Zhang, Vivek Raghunathan
  • Patent number: 8738467
    Abstract: Methods for determining a predictive rating are disclosed. In an embodiment, an active user is compared to a set of clusters. One or more of the clusters are determined to be most similar to the active user. From the one or more clusters, K users are determined to be most similar to the active user. Prior ratings for an item by the K users may be used to predict a rating for the item for the active user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chenxi Lin, Gui-Rong Xue, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Benyu Zhang, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 8631030
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing selecting relevant and diverse advertisements. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an initial query, selecting one or more additional queries relating to the initial query, including selecting a first additional query and a second diverse additional query, identifying one or more content items for each of the additional queries, the one or more content items forming a content block, and providing a content block and associated additional query to be displayed at a client device along with search results associated with the initial query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Rajat Bhattacharjee, Aranyak Mehta, Benyu Zhang, Vivek Raghunathan
  • Patent number: 8548853
    Abstract: A peer-to-peer advertisement platform is provided to ubiquitously promote products or services supplied by advertisers across content-based applications executing on nodes in a peer-to-peer network. The peer-to-peer advertisement platform may include a registration component to register nodes in the peer-to-peer advertising platform, an advertisement submission component to receive advertisement data from the advertisers, and a distribution component to distribute the advertisement data to the nodes registered in the peer-to-peer advertisement platform. The peer-to-peer advertisement platform also includes a money sharing component to reward nodes based on a contribution level assigned to the node. Accordingly, the peer-to-peer advertisement platform stores the advertisement data locally at the plurality of nodes registered in the peer-to-peer advertising platform and shares a portion of the revenue generated from the advertisement data with the nodes registered in the peer-to-peer advertising platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benyu Zhang, Fengping Zeng, Hua-Jun Zeng, Li Li, Tarek Najm, Wei-Ying Ma, Ying Li, Zheng Chen
  • Patent number: 8548981
    Abstract: Methods, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing selecting of relevant and diverse advertisements by selecting additional queries relating to an initial query, and by filtering additional queries and their associated advertisements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Rajat Bhattacharjee, Aranyak Mehta, Benyu Zhang, Vivek Raghunathan
  • Patent number: 8417568
    Abstract: According to embodiments of the invention, an advertisement-generation system generates image-containing advertisements. The advertisement-generation system includes: at least one feature-selection guideline that specifies at least one recommended feature for image-containing advertisements based on advertiser inputs that specify at least one of advertisement-target-audience information, cost information, and advertiser-industry information; an image-clip library from which images are selected for inclusion in the image-containing advertisements; and at least one advertisement template that is based on the at least one feature-selection guideline; wherein the system automatically generates image-containing advertisements that contain one or more suggested colors that are automatically suggested based on one or more colors present on a web page that will host the image-containing advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shuzhen Nong, Ying Li, Tarek Najm, Li Li, Zheng Chen, Hua-Jun Zeng, Benyu Zhang, Yin Li, Dean Carignan, Ying-Qing Xu
  • Patent number: 8359276
    Abstract: An influential persons identification system and method for identifying a set of influential persons (or influencers) in a social network (such as an online social network). The influential persons set is generated such that by sending a message to the set the message will be propagated through the network at the greatest speed and coverage. A ranking of users is generated, and a pruning process is performed starting with the top-ranked user and working down the list. For each user on the list, the user is identified as an influencer and then the user and each of his friends are deleted from the social network users list. Next, the same process is performed for the second-ranked user, the third-ranked user, and so forth. The process terminates when the list of users of the social network is exhausted or the desired number of influencers on the influential person set is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Zhuang, Benyu Zhang, Heng Zhang, Jeremy Tantrum, Teresa Mah, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Jian Wang