Patents by Inventor Dan Shen

Dan Shen 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).

  • Publication number: 20110099201
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to automatically publish data items associated with a news event. In one example embodiment, a method comprises monitoring search queries associated with a search query category, detecting a change in a search request frequency associated with the search query category with respect to a baseline frequency, determining an event associated with the search query category, identifying one or more data items associated with the event, and generating a visual representation of a relationship between the one or more data items and the event. The search query category may be associated with at least one search term a baseline frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventors: Dan Shen, Xiaodi Zhang, Qiang Wang, Helen Hang Ye, Vincent Jin Yu
  • Publication number: 20110078167
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems to determine a niche market of items or services, the first phase of which identifies a gap between demand and supply for a set of items. Session logs may be evaluated to compare transactions involving a specific item to those of a larger group of items. The resultant information identifies areas of high demand, but with low availability. The niche market information may be provided as direct merchandising items for sellers. In one example, the method generates niche market item web pages in specific categories. Additional methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Neelakantan Sundaresan, Yongzheng Zhang, Catherine Baudin, Dan Shen, Shen Huang
  • Publication number: 20110004508
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system for generating questions related to product aspects. The system may comprise: a product review analyzer to extract product values associated with the products from product reviews, in which the product values may include product categories, product aspects and product aspect evaluations; a product review summary builder to build product review summaries based on the extracted product values associated with the products; and a question generator to generate a set of questions regarding the product aspects based on the product review summaries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventors: Shen Huang, Oiang Wang, Dan Shen, Xiaodi Zhang