Patents by Inventor Gaolin Fang

Gaolin Fang 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: 20230342797
    Abstract: An object processing method includes acquiring a historical interaction feature of a user with a historical resource object corresponding to a target resource object, and acquiring a historical status feature of the historical resource object, the historical status feature indicating a change of a resource attribute of the historical resource object. The method further includes determining a conversion prediction feature of the user for the target resource object at a current time based on the historical interaction feature and the historical status feature, and predicting a conversion possibility degree of the user for the target resource object at the current time based on the conversion prediction feature, to determine whether to communicate with the user regarding the target resource object based on the conversion possibility degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Yang QIAO, Liang CHEN, Gaolin FANG
  • Patent number: 11210334
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method, apparatus, server and storage medium for image retrieval. The method includes: identifying a plurality of groups of images having identical contents from images on all webpages; aggregating, for each image group, image-related texts on all source webpages of each image to obtain text descriptions of each image group; establishing an inverted index for each image in the image groups based on the text descriptions of the image group, the inverted index at least including, for each text description, source webpages corresponding to all text descriptions of the image group of the text description; and performing image retrieval based on an inputted query and the inverted index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongjian Zou, Gaolin Fang, Hailang Liu
  • Patent number: 10565253
    Abstract: The present invention provides a model generation method, word weighting method, device, apparatus, and computer storage medium. In one aspect, the embodiments of the present invention obtain other images that are identical to a specified image, and use the specified image and said other images as sample images; and then obtain a text clustering based on the texts of the sample images; and then obtain text features based on the text clustering and obtaining visual features based on the sample images; and carry out machine learning based on the text features and the visual features to generate a first regression model and a first sorting model for word weighting on words in the text of an image. The embodiments of the present invention therefore can improve the accuracy of the word weighting result in an image text, thus improving the accuracy of an image search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongjian Zou, Gaolin Fang
  • Patent number: 10558694
    Abstract: A search method and apparatus. A specific embodiment of the search method includes: finding a set of first time-effective search queries from a search log; selecting search queries meeting one of the following selection requirements as candidate time-effective search queries: included in the search log and semantically associated with the first time-effective search queries in the set of first time-effective search queries; included in the search log and containing a combination of preset keywords; processing the candidate time-effective search queries to obtain second time-effective search queries; performing search with a second time-effective search query, when a search query entered by the user matches the second time-effective search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongjian Zou, Gaolin Fang, Jun Cheng
  • Patent number: 10552422
    Abstract: An extended search method and apparatus is provided. An interest term model of each user is established. An extended term model of each fourth search sequence is established. A corresponding extended search term is determined based on a current search sequence of a current user and based on an interest term model of the current user as well as an extended term model of the current search sequence; and a corresponding search result is provided for the current user based on the current search sequence and the extended search term. The present invention can implement simpler and more efficient personalized searches, and is advantageous in terms of meeting long-tail requirements of users (that is, adding personalized result recalling), reducing calculation and storage costs, universality, practicability, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoguang Gu, Gaolin Fang
  • Publication number: 20200034384
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method, apparatus, server and storage medium for image retrieval. The method includes: identifying a plurality of groups of images having identical contents from images on all webpages; aggregating, for each image group, image-related texts on all source webpages of each image to obtain text descriptions of each image group; establishing an inverted index for each image in the image groups based on the text descriptions of the image group, the inverted index at least including, for each text description, source webpages corresponding to all text descriptions of the image group of the text description; and performing image retrieval based on an inputted query and the inverted index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Hongjian ZOU, Gaolin FANG, Hailang LIU
  • Patent number: 10459971
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and apparatus of generating an image characteristic representation of a query, and an image search method and apparatus. The method of generating an image characteristic representation of a query comprises: acquiring a clicked image set corresponding to a target query based on an image click log of a search user; generating image characteristic vectors corresponding to clicked images in the clicked image set based on image content characteristics of the clicked images; and clustering the clicked images based on the image characteristic vectors, and using a clustering result as an image characteristic representation of the target query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Libo Fu, Gaolin Fang, Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10366093
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a query result bottom retrieval method and apparatus. The query result bottom retrieval method includes: acquiring, from a resource library and based on a user input target query, query resources associated with the user input target query; acquiring comparative scoring characteristics of each of the query resources, the comparative scoring characteristics including base relevance characteristics; inputting the comparative scoring characteristics of each of the query resources into a pre-trained rank model, to acquire relevance scoring values corresponding to the query resources and output by the rank model, the rank model being a GBRank model; and ranking the query resources based on the relevance scoring values, and selecting, according to the ranking result, a set number of target resources as a bottom retrieval result corresponding to the target query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jia Gui, Jun Cheng, Gaolin Fang
  • Patent number: 10354170
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus of establishing an image search relevance prediction model, and an image search method and apparatus. The method of establishing an image search relevance prediction model comprises: training a pre-constructed original deep neural network by using a training sample, wherein the training sample comprises: a query and image data, and the original deep neural network comprises: a representation vector generation network and a relevance calculation network; and using the trained original deep neural network as the image search relevance prediction model. The technical solution of the present invention optimizes the existing image search technology, and has stronger capabilities than the prior art as well as various integrations and variations in terms of semantic matching between a query and an image text, semantic matching between a query and image content, click generalization and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Libo Fu, Heng Luo, Gaolin Fang, Wei Xu
  • Publication number: 20190163699
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for information interaction are provided. An embodiment of the method includes: obtaining to-be-processed information, the to-be-processed information comprising textual information and an image; extracting a feature word from the textual information of the to-be-processed information, and searching for descriptive information of the image within the to-be-processed information based on the feature word, the feature word being used to characterize a search request for the image, and the descriptive information being used to characterize a textual description of the image; and constructing response information to the to-be-processed information from the descriptive information. The embodiment constructs response information from the descriptive information, thereby enabling the information interaction with the to-be-processed information and improving the efficiency of information interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Xiaoli TIAN, Gaolin FANG, Xiaoguang GU, Xue MI, Ke SUN, Xinzhe DING, Ruiying SUN
  • Patent number: 10275533
    Abstract: Search engine method includes: receiving a user query request input; searching candidate results matching with the query request; determining a semantic relatedness between the query request and each candidate result based on a click-escape model; sorting the candidate results according to the semantic relativity. The click-escape model has an escape dictionary, a non-escape dictionary, or a combination thereof. Sorting candidate results of a search in accordance with a semantic relatedness can enhance the sorting effect of the searched results, avoid searched results which do not match the user's query appearing in the forefront of the searched result list, and guarantee a good user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Gaolin Fang
  • Publication number: 20180210897
    Abstract: The present invention provides a model generation method, word weighting method, device, apparatus, and computer storage medium. In one aspect, the embodiments of the present invention obtain other images that are identical to a specified image, and use the specified image and said other images as sample images; and then obtain a text clustering based on the texts of the sample images; and then obtain text features based on the text clustering and obtaining visual features based on the sample images; and carry out machine learning based on the text features and the visual features to generate a first regression model and a first sorting model for word weighting on words in the text of an image. The embodiments of the present invention therefore can improve the accuracy of the word weighting result in an image text, thus improving the accuracy of an image search result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongjian ZOU, Gaolin FANG
  • Publication number: 20180137195
    Abstract: A search method and apparatus. A specific embodiment of the search method includes: finding a set of first time-effective search queries from a search log; selecting search queries meeting one of the following selection requirements as candidate time-effective search queries: included in the search log and semantically associated with the first time-effective search queries in the set of first time-effective search queries; included in the search log and containing a combination of preset keywords; processing the candidate time-effective search queries to obtain second time-effective search queries; performing search with a second time-effective search query, when a search query entered by the user matches the second time-effective search query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Hongjian Zou, Gaolin Fang, Jun Cheng
  • Publication number: 20180039675
    Abstract: An extended search method and apparatus is provided. An interest term model of each user is established. An extended term model of each fourth search sequence is established. A corresponding extended search term is determined based on a current search sequence of a current user and based on an interest term model of the current user as well as an extended term model of the current search sequence; and a corresponding search result is provided for the current user based on the current search sequence and the extended search term. The present invention can implement simpler and more efficient personalized searches, and is advantageous in terms of meeting long-tail requirements of users (that is, adding personalized result recalling), reducing calculation and storage costs, universality, practicability, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Xiaoguang GU, Gaolin FANG
  • Publication number: 20170351739
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for identifying timeliness-oriented demands, an apparatus and a non-volatile computer storage medium. The method comprises: receiving a query input by the user; identifying whether the query has timeliness-oriented demands based on expression characteristics which are pre-extracted from a timeliness-oriented event reported by a timeliness-oriented site and are capable of reflecting timeliness-oriented demands. The present disclosure sufficiently uses the priori knowledge for timeliness-oriented demands identification, does not rely on the posteriori knowledge such as the user's searching behavior data using the query, facilitates identifying the timeliness-oriented demands in a more timely manner, and improves the efficiency of identifying the timeliness-oriented demands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongjian ZOU, Gaolin FANG, Jun CHENG
  • Publication number: 20170330054
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus of establishing an image search relevance prediction model, and an image search method and apparatus. The method of establishing an image search relevance prediction model comprises: training a pre-constructed original deep neural network by using a training sample, wherein the training sample comprises: a query and image data, and the original deep neural network comprises: a representation vector generation network and a relevance calculation network; and using the trained original deep neural network as the image search relevance prediction model. The technical solution of the present invention optimizes the existing image search technology, and has stronger capabilities than the prior art as well as various integrations and variations in terms of semantic matching between a query and an image text, semantic matching between a query and image content, click generalization and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Libo FU, Heng LUO, Gaolin FANG, Wei XU
  • Publication number: 20170329782
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a query result bottom retrieval method and apparatus. The query result bottom retrieval method includes: acquiring, from a resource library and based on a user input target query, query resources associated with the user input target query; acquiring comparative scoring characteristics of each of the query resources, the comparative scoring characteristics including base relevance characteristics; inputting the comparative scoring characteristics of each of the query resources into a pre-trained rank model, to acquire relevance scoring values corresponding to the query resources and output by the rank model, the rank model being a GBRank model; and ranking the query resources based on the relevance scoring values, and selecting, according to the ranking result, a set number of target resources as a bottom retrieval result corresponding to the target query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Jia GUI, Jun CHENG, Gaolin FANG
  • Publication number: 20170329804
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and apparatus of generating an image characteristic representation of a query, and an image search method and apparatus. The method of generating an image characteristic representation of a query comprises: acquiring a clicked image set corresponding to a target query based on an image click log of a search user; generating image characteristic vectors corresponding to clicked images in the clicked image set based on image content characteristics of the clicked images; and clustering the clicked images based on the image characteristic vectors, and using a clustering result as an image characteristic representation of the target query. The technical solution of the present invention optimizes the existing image search technology, and can significantly improve the correlation between an image search result and a query entered by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Libo FU, Gaolin FANG, Yu CHEN
  • Publication number: 20160371379
    Abstract: Search engine method includes: receiving a user query request input; searching candidate results matching with the query request; determining a semantic relatedness between the query request and each candidate result based on a click-escape model; sorting the candidate results according to the semantic relativity. The click-escape model has an escape dictionary, a non-escape dictionary, or a combination thereof. Sorting candidate results of a search in accordance with a semantic relatedness can enhance the sorting effect of the searched results, avoid searched results which do not match the user's query appearing in the forefront of the searched result list, and guarantee a good user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventor: Gaolin Fang
  • Patent number: 8645418
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for word quality mining and evaluating are disclosed. The method includes: calculating a Document Frequency (DF) of a word in mass categorized data; evaluating the word in multiple single-aspects according to the DF of the word; and evaluating the word in multiple aspects according to the multiple single aspect evaluations to obtain an importance weight of the word. According to the solution of the present invention, the importance of the word in the mass categorized data may be evaluated, and words with high quality may be obtained through an integrated evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Huaijun Liu, Zhongbo Jiang, Gaolin Fang