Patents by Inventor Eric Zhao

Eric Zhao 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: 20250097162
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for reducing placement conflicts between allocation agents tasked with allocating computing resources on a computing zone. For example, systems disclosed herein may identify placement conflicts between multiple allocation agents processing incoming placement requests on a computing zone. The systems disclosed herein may further modify a placement policy based on the number of placement conflicts by reducing one or more restrictions on rules for allocating computing resources. For example, the systems disclosed herein may enlarge a placement zone of server nodes when allocating computing resources to prevent or otherwise reduce conflicts between multiple allocation agents implementing the same placement policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Abhisek PAN, Eric Zhao HAO, Esaias Englebertus GREEFF
  • Patent number: 12184559
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for reducing placement conflicts between allocation agents tasked with allocating computing resources on a computing zone. For example, systems disclosed herein may identify placement conflicts between multiple allocation agents processing incoming placement requests on a computing zone. The systems disclosed herein may further modify a placement policy based on the number of placement conflicts by reducing one or more restrictions on rules for allocating computing resources. For example, the systems disclosed herein may enlarge a placement zone of server nodes when allocating computing resources to prevent or otherwise reduce conflicts between multiple allocation agents implementing the same placement policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Abhisek Pan, Eric Zhao Hao, Esaias Englebertus Greeff
  • Publication number: 20230362103
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for reducing placement conflicts between allocation agents tasked with allocating computing resources on a computing zone. For example, systems disclosed herein may identify placement conflicts between multiple allocation agents processing incoming placement requests on a computing zone. The systems disclosed herein may further modify a placement policy based on the number of placement conflicts by reducing one or more restrictions on rules for allocating computing resources. For example, the systems disclosed herein may enlarge a placement zone of server nodes when allocating computing resources to prevent or otherwise reduce conflicts between multiple allocation agents implementing the same placement policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Abhisek PAN, Eric Zhao HAO, Esaias Englebertus GREEFF
  • Patent number: 10396318
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a stretch removable adhesive tape comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane film having a unique combination of properties leading to a unique stretch removal profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qing Gao, Xiaonan Zhu, Eric Zhao, Yue Dong
  • Publication number: 20160304750
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a stretch removable adhesive tape comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane film having a unique combination of properties leading to a unique stretch removal profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Qing GAO, Xiaonan ZHU, Eric ZHAO, Yue DONG
  • Publication number: 20150317365
    Abstract: A modular search object framework provides modular search results including entity and non-entity search results. The framework includes circuitry that outputs an interactive entity section based on an online search. The interactive section includes a plurality of moveable visual objects, such as cards that can be shuffled, flipped, or swiped around.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Scott Richard Andress, Guy Hepworth, Rafael Vasconcellos Coelho, Carrie Christina Merry Barkema, Andrew Poon, Vanessa Ilona Grass, Conrad Wai, Arnabnil Bhattacharjee, Ivan Young Lee, Abhay Kumar Gupta, Alicia Korn, Eric Zhao, Guilherme de Barros Chapiewski, Michael Eric Plasmeier
  • Patent number: 9153120
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for locating lost devices may include (1) receiving a report of a lost device that specifies a hardware address that uniquely identifies the lost device, (2) collecting information from a helper device that has been connected to a local area network that indicates that a device with the hardware address of the lost device was observed as being connected to the local area network, (3) receiving location data from the helper device that specifies a location of the helper device, and (4) providing the location of the helper device as a location of the lost device in response to the report. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Hong Yong Xiao, Eric Zhao
  • Patent number: 8037053
    Abstract: An improved system and method for generating an online summary of a collection of documents is provided. A list of documents may be received, and the titles of the list of documents may be obtained. A set of terms that frequently occur in the titles of the documents may be iteratively expanded and overlapping phrases may be merged until there may be no more terms that occur in the titles with a frequency that exceeds a predefined threshold. In an embodiment, an article summarizer operably coupled to a search engine may be provided to generate a summary of a list of references to web pages in search results using titles of the web pages. The summary of the web pages may then be sent with the list of references to the web pages as search results to a client device for display to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Li, Eric Zhao
  • Patent number: 8024342
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for determining a tag match ratio. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises selecting a content item, identifying one or more tags that are associated with the content item and determining a weight for each of the one or more tags associated with the content item. The method further comprises extracting one or more keywords from the content item. A tag match ratio for the one or more tags associated with the content item is then calculated and stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Li, Lei Guo, Eric Zhao
  • Publication number: 20100114859
    Abstract: An improved system and method for generating an online summary of a collection of documents is provided. A list of documents may be received, and the titles of the list of documents may be obtained. A set of terms that frequently occur in the titles of the documents may be iteratively expanded and overlapping phrases may be merged until there may be no more terms that occur in the titles with a frequency that exceeds a predefined threshold. In an embodiment, an article summarizer operably coupled to a search engine may be provided to generate a summary of a list of references to web pages in search results using titles of the web pages. The summary of the web pages may then be sent with the list of references to the web pages as search results to a client device for display to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Li, Eric Zhao
  • Publication number: 20100030766
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for determining a tag match ratio. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises selecting a content item, identifying one or more tags that are associated with the content item and determining a weight for each of the one or more tags associated with the content item. The method further comprises extracting one or more keywords from the content item. A tag match ratio for the one or more tags associated with the content item is then calculated and stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Li, Lei Guo, Eric Zhao
  • Publication number: 20060206504
    Abstract: A communication network is described that allows legacy devices to access an IMS network. The communication network includes a switching system, an IMS network, and a non-IMS network. The switching system includes a subscriber database that is pre-provisioned with identities of IMS subscribers using legacy devices. When in operation, a calling party places a call through a legacy device. The switching system receives the call and accesses the subscriber database based on a calling party identifier (e.g., a phone number, URL, etc) to determine if the calling party is an IMS subscriber. If the calling party is an IMS subscriber, then the switching system routes the call to the IMS network. If the calling party is not an IMS subscriber, then the switching system routes the call to the non-IMS network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Inventors: Yigang Cai, Simon Chen, Ivy Meng, Bill Yu Qian, Alexander Yin, Elsie Fang Zhang, Eric Zhao