Patents by Inventor Ding Zhou

Ding Zhou 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: 20150031627
    Abstract: Provided are methods of treating a cancer characterized by the presence of a mutant allele of IDH1/2 comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a compound described here.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: AGIOS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC
    Inventors: Rene M. Lemieux, Janeta Popovici-Muller, Jeremy Travins, Zhenwei Cai, Dawei Cui, Ding Zhou
  • Publication number: 20150018328
    Abstract: Provided are compounds useful for treating cancer and methods of treating cancer comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a compound described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: AGIOS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC
    Inventors: Zenon D. Konteatis, Janeta Popovici-Muller, Jeremy Travins, Robert Zahler, Zhenwei Cai, Ding Zhou
  • Publication number: 20140372358
    Abstract: User profile information for a user of a social networking system is inferred based on information about user profile of the user's connections in the social networking system. The inferred user profile attributes may include age, gender, education, affiliations, location, and the like. To infer a value of a user profile attribute, the system may determine an aggregate value based on the attributes of the user's connections. A confidence score may also be associated with the inferred attribute value. The set of connections analyzed to infer a user profile attribute may depend on the attribute, the types of connections, and the interactions between the user and the connections. The inferred attribute values may be used to update the user's profile and to determine information relevant to the user to be presented to the user (e.g., targeting advertisements to the user based on the user's inferred attributes).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Ding Zhou, Pierre Moreels
  • Publication number: 20140351343
    Abstract: Applications in social networks support interaction between members through various types of channels such as notifications, newsfeed, and so forth. For each channel, applications are ranked based on their user affinity measures. User affinity is based on measuring positive and negative interactions by users as both senders and recipients of messages generated by applications. Metrics are computed for the different types of messages and interactions provided by applications. For each channel, an application receives user affinity score based on specific weighted combination of the metrics. Applications use channel resources to send messages to increase their user base. Given the large number of applications that are available, the extent to which applications are allowed to use channels is controlled, limiting their resource consumption. User affinity scores of applications calculated for a channel are used to decide the allocation of channel resources for an application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Thomas Scott Whitnah, Alexander Matthew Rush, Ding Zhou, Ruchi Sanghvi
  • Publication number: 20140315860
    Abstract: This invention relates to, among other items, benzoxaborole compounds and their use for treating bacterial infections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent S. HERNANDEZ, Charles Ding, Jacob J. Plattner, Michael Richard Kevin Alley, Fernando Rock, Suoming Zhang, Eric Easom, Xianfeng Li, Ding Zhou
  • Patent number: 8868752
    Abstract: Applications in social networks support interaction between members through various types of channels such as notifications, newsfeed, and so forth. For each channel, applications are ranked based on their user affinity measures. User affinity is based on measuring positive and negative interactions by users as both senders and recipients of messages generated by applications. Metrics are computed for the different types of messages and interactions provided by applications. For each channel, an application receives user affinity score based on specific weighted combination of the metrics. Applications use channel resources to send messages to increase their user base. Given the large number of applications that are available, the extent to which applications are allowed to use channels is controlled, limiting their resource consumption. User affinity scores of applications calculated for a channel are used to decide the allocation of channel resources for an application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Scott Whitnah, Alexander Matthew Rush, Ding Zhou, Ruchi Sanghvi
  • Patent number: 8856235
    Abstract: User profile information for a user of a social networking system is inferred based on information about user profile of the user's connections in the social networking system. The inferred user profile attributes may include age, gender, education, affiliations, location, and the like. To infer a value of a user profile attribute, the system may determine an aggregate value based on the attributes of the user's connections. A confidence score may also be associated with the inferred attribute value. The set of connections analyzed to infer a user profile attribute may depend on the attribute, the types of connections, and the interactions between the user and the connections. The inferred attribute values may be used to update the user's profile and to determine information relevant to the user to be presented to the user (e.g., targeting advertisements to the user based on the user's inferred attributes).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ding Zhou, Pierre Moreels
  • Patent number: 8703742
    Abstract: This invention relates to, among other items, benzoxaborole compounds and their use for treating bacterial infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent S. Hernandez, Charles Ding, Jacob J. Plattner, Michael Richard Kevin Alley, Fernando Rock, Suoming Zhang, Eric Easom, Xianfeng Li, Ding Zhou
  • Publication number: 20140040377
    Abstract: The techniques, methods and systems described herein facilitate the automated discovery and presentation of content created, published or otherwise made public by “experts” and key influencers on particular topics. As such, users that may be interested in particular topics but may not know who to connect with in order to receive the most pertinent information can receive highly-relevant information. Embodiments of the invention use topics of interest identified by the user and/or automatically identifies topics based on previous postings, communication, contacts, etc. Individuals, companies, organizations and other entities that have been recognized as highly influential in those topics are identified and, without explicit actions by the user, adds content generated by the influential entities to the user's content data feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Klout, Inc.
    Inventors: David Friedman, Girish Lingappa, Alexy Khrabrov, Jerome Banks, Andras Benke, Nemanja Spasojevic, Adithya Shricharan Rao, Ding Zhou
  • Publication number: 20140019240
    Abstract: A social networking system extends the reach of an ad by allowing an advertiser to seed a search for suggesting targeting criteria for an ad. Using the seeds, the social networking system identifies a set of seed objects from a social graph. The social networking system traverses the social graph to compute the similarity between the seed objects and candidate objects related to the seed objects. Based on the computed similarity, the social networking system suggests a set of target objects to the advertiser. The social networking system receives a selection of one or more target objects from the advertiser. From the selected target objects the social networking system determines one or more targeting criteria for the ad, so users with an edge in the social graph to any of the selected target objects are eligible to receive the ad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventor: Ding Zhou
  • Publication number: 20130318156
    Abstract: The techniques, methods and systems described herein facilitate the automated discovery and presentation of content created, published or otherwise made public by “experts” and key influencers on particular topics. As such, users that may be interested in particular topics but may not know who to connect with in order to receive the most pertinent information can receive highly-relevant information. Embodiments of the invention use topics of interest identified by the user and/or automatically identifies topics based on previous postings, communication, contacts, etc. Individuals, companies, organizations and other entities that have been recognized as highly influential in those topics are identified and, without explicit actions by the user, adds content generated by the influential entities to the user's content data feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Inventors: David Friedman, Girish Lingappa, Alexy Khrabrov, Jerome Banks, Andras Benke, Nemanja Spasojevic, Adithya Shricharan Rao Srinivasa, Ding Zhou
  • Publication number: 20130304658
    Abstract: User profile information for a user of a social networking system is inferred based on information about user profile of the user's connections in the social networking system. The inferred user profile attributes may include age, gender, education, affiliations, location, and the like. To infer a value of a user profile attribute, the system may determine an aggregate value based on the attributes of the user's connections. A confidence score may also be associated with the inferred attribute value. The set of connections analyzed to infer a user profile attribute may depend on the attribute, the types of connections, and the interactions between the user and the connections. The inferred attribute values may be used to update the user's profile and to determine information relevant to the user to be presented to the user (e.g., targeting advertisements to the user based on the user's inferred attributes).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Ding Zhou, Pierre Moreels
  • Patent number: 8530487
    Abstract: Compounds and compositions for treating disorders related to TRPA1 are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Hydra Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Xinyuan Wu, Spencer David Kimball, Ping Chen, Ding Zhou, Shaoping Peng
  • Patent number: 8495143
    Abstract: User profile information for a user of a social networking system is inferred based on information about user profile of the user's connections in the social networking system. The inferred user profile attributes may include age, gender, education, affiliations, location, and the like. To infer a value of a user profile attribute, the system may determine an aggregate value based on the attributes of the user's connections. A confidence score may also be associated with the inferred attribute value. The set of connections analyzed to infer a user profile attribute may depend on the attribute, the types of connections, and the interactions between the user and the connections. The inferred attribute values may be used to update the user's profile and to determine information relevant to the user to be presented to the user (e.g., targeting advertisements to the user based on the user's inferred attributes).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ding Zhou, Pierre Moreels
  • Publication number: 20130158031
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel alkyne-bridged hetero-aromatics as described in the specification which are PDE10A inhibitors and useful for the treatment of neurological, psychiatric disorder, metabolic disorders, such as Schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, learning memory disorder, drug addiction (abuse), sleeping disorder, depression, obesity, non-insulin dependent diabetes, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, or pain; to process for their preparation; to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them; and to methods of using them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: SU ZHOU JING HONG BIOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhen-Wei CAI, Ding ZHOU, Yougang LIN, Ping CHEN
  • Publication number: 20130124447
    Abstract: A social networking system infers a user's present interests based on the user's recent actions and/or the recent actions of the user's connections in the social networking system. The social networking system also determines a set of concepts associated with each of a set of information items, such as advertisements. By matching the user's present interests with the concepts associated with the information items, the social networking system selects one or more of the information items that are likely to be of present interest to the user. At least one of the matched interests and concepts are not identical. The social networking system then presents the selected information items for display to the user, thereby providing information based on an inferred temporal relevance of that information to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Gregory Joseph Badros, Rajat Raina, Ding Zhou, Tudor Andrei Alexandrescu, Nuwan Senaratna, Hong Ge, Chi Wang, Alon Amit, John Hegeman
  • Publication number: 20130013691
    Abstract: Applications in social networks support interaction between members through various types of channels such as notifications, newsfeed, and so forth. For each channel, applications are ranked based on their user affinity measures. User affinity is based on measuring positive and negative interactions by users as both senders and recipients of messages generated by applications. Metrics are computed for the different types of messages and interactions provided by applications. For each channel, an application receives user affinity score based on specific weighted combination of the metrics. Applications use channel resources to send messages to increase their user base. Given the large number of applications that are available, the extent to which applications are allowed to use channels is controlled, limiting their resource consumption. User affinity scores of applications calculated for a channel are used to decide the allocation of channel resources for an application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas Scott Whitnah, Matthew Alexander Rush, Ding Zhou, Ruchi Sanghvi
  • Patent number: 8343944
    Abstract: This invention largely relates to 3,4,6-trisubstituted benzoxaborole compounds, and their use for treating bacterial infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Xia, Michael Richard Kevin Alley, Yasheen Zhou, Rajeshwar Singh, Charles Ding, Kathy Cao, Jacob J. Plattner, Ligong Ou, Guofeng Jia, Neerja Saraswat, Sreekanth Ramachandran, Ding Zhou
  • Patent number: 8307086
    Abstract: Applications in social networks support interaction between members through various types of channels such as notifications, newsfeed, and so forth. For each channel, applications are ranked based on their user affinity measures. User affinity is based on measuring positive and negative interactions by users as both senders and recipients of messages generated by applications. Metrics are computed for the different types of messages and interactions provided by applications. For each channel, an application receives user affinity score based on specific weighted combination of the metrics. Applications use channel resources to send messages to increase their user base. Given the large number of applications that are available, the extent to which applications are allowed to use channels is controlled, limiting their resource consumption. User affinity scores of applications calculated for a channel are used to decide the allocation of channel resources for an application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Scott Whitnah, Alexander Matthew Rush, Ding Zhou, Ruchi Sanghvi
  • Publication number: 20120278166
    Abstract: A social networking system infers a user's present interests based on the user's recent actions and/or the recent actions of the user's connections in the social networking system. The social networking system also determines a set of concepts associated with each of a set of information items, such as advertisements. By matching the user's present interests with the concepts associated with the information items, the social networking system selects one or more of the information items that are likely to be of present interest to the user. The social networking system then presents the selected information items for display to the user, thereby providing information based on an inferred temporal relevance of that information to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Gregory Badros, Rajat Raina, Hong Ge, Ding Zhou, Nuwan Senaratna, Tudor A. Alexandrescu