Patents by Inventor Devin Guan

Devin Guan 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: 10956454
    Abstract: A storage device including an information structure produced by a method comprising: determining unique cluster names during a time interval; creating, in a storage device, one or more relationship tables, wherein for each unique cluster name, creating one or more relationship tables includes, creating one or more pairings that each includes an individual object identifier member of a cluster corresponding to the unique cluster name and includes a produced association score for the individual object identifier member, and wherein for each unique cluster name, creating one or more relationship tables includes creating a relationship between a unique key name that matches the unique cluster name and each of the one or more pairings created for the unique cluster name; and repeating the acts of determining and updating at selectable time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Devin Guan, Randy Cotta
  • Publication number: 20200175038
    Abstract: A storage device including an information structure produced by a method comprising: determining unique cluster names during a time interval; creating, in a storage device, one or more relationship tables, wherein for each unique cluster name, creating one or more relationship tables includes, creating one or more pairings that each includes an individual object identifier member of a cluster corresponding to the unique cluster name and includes a produced association score for the individual object identifier member, and wherein for each unique cluster name, creating one or more relationship tables includes creating a relationship between a unique key name that matches the unique cluster name and each of the one or more pairings created for the unique cluster name; and repeating the acts of determining and updating at selectable time intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Devin Guan, Randy Cotta
  • Patent number: 10510094
    Abstract: Internet advertising to users of web browser personal computer systems is a very large and mature industry. However, many new digital devices such as cellular telephones, table computer systems, and video game console are now presenting an even larger internet advertising market. Although the techniques used for targeting advertisements to web browsers on personal computers are sophisticated, the techniques for accurately targeting internet advertisements to these new digital devices are limited. To improve the quality of targeting advertisements on new digital devices a set of techniques for accurately pairing digital identities is disclosed. Once various digital identities are linked, all of the accumulated digital profile information from these linked digital identities may be used to accurately select advertisements for all of the linked digital devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, Devin Guan, Tin H. Kyaw, Jerry Ye, Ravi Menon, Yang Yu
  • Publication number: 20190197582
    Abstract: Internet advertising to users of web browser personal computer systems is a very large and mature industry. However, many new digital devices such as cellular telephones, table computer systems, and video game console are now presenting an even larger internet advertising market. Although the techniques used for targeting advertisements to web browsers on personal computers are sophisticated, the techniques for accurately targeting internet advertisements to these new digital devices are limited. To improve the quality of targeting advertisements on new digital devices a set of techniques for accurately pairing digital identities is disclosed. Once various digital identities are linked, all of the accumulated digital profile information from these linked digital identities may be used to accurately select advertisements for all of the linked digital devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, Devin Guan, Tin H. Kyaw, Jerry Ye, Ravi Menon, Yang Yu
  • Patent number: 10248968
    Abstract: A system to pair internet-connected devices comprising: a plurality of Internet servers each configured to share its server Internet Protocol address with two or more internet-connected devices that share a connection to the Internet through the Internet server; means for producing different respective frequency counts of co-occurrences of different respective pairs of internet-connected device identities: means for producing different respective Boolean counts of Internet protocol addresses having co-occurrences of different respective pairs of internet-connected device identities; and means for determining a device pairing of first and second internet-connected devices based at least in part upon frequency counts of co-occurrences and Boolean counts of Internet protocol addresses having co-occurrences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Drawbridge, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, Devin Guan, Tin H. Kyaw, Jerry Ye, Ravi Menon, Yang Yu
  • Patent number: 9514248
    Abstract: A system comprising: an index structure that associates devices with device feature information; a pairing engine to determine device pairs based upon device feature information; a feature vector generation engine to produce feature vectors corresponding to determined device pairs based upon feature values associated within the index structure with devices of the determined device pairs; a scoring engine to determine scores to associate with determined device pairs based upon produced feature vectors; a graph structure, wherein nodes within the graph structure represent devices of determined device pairs, and wherein edges between pairs of nodes within the graph structure indicate determined device pairs; a clustering engine to identify respective clusters of three or more nodes within the graph structure that represent respective groups of devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Drawbridge, Inc.
    Inventors: Devin Guan, Xiang Li, Randy Cotta, Rahul Bafna, Obuli Venkatesan
  • Publication number: 20160125461
    Abstract: A method to transmit information to an internet-connected device based upon information associated with a different internet-connected device, said method comprising: collecting observations over the internet, each observation including an internet-connected device identity, a server source/destination identifier, and a timestamp indicating a time of occurrence of the network connection; identifying multiple potential internet-connected device pairings between internet-connected devices from the observations, based at least in part upon scoring of the observations association score for the pairing; and selecting, for the at least one selected internet-connected device pairing, information to send to one internet-connected device identified by the at least one selected internet-connected device pairing based at least in part on information associated with another internet-connected device identified by the selected at least one internet-connected device pairing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, Devin Guan, Tin H. Kyaw, Jerry Ye, Ravi Menon, Yang Yu
  • Publication number: 20140095320
    Abstract: Internet advertising to users of web browser personal computer systems is a very large and mature industry. However, many new digital devices such as cellular telephones, table computer systems, and video game console are now presenting an even larger internet advertising market. Although the techniques used for targeting advertisements to web browsers on personal computers are sophisticated, the techniques for accurately targeting internet advertisements to these new digital devices are limited. To improve the quality of targeting advertisements on new digital devices a set of techniques for accurately pairing digital identities is disclosed. Once various digital identities are linked, all of the accumulated digital profile information from these linked digital identities may be used to accurately select advertisements for all of the linked digital devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Drawbridge, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, Devin Guan, Tin H. Kyaw, Jerry Ye, Ravi Menon, Yang Yu