Patents by Inventor Haowen Ning
Haowen Ning 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).
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Patent number: 11310184Abstract: Methods are presented for classifying responses to communications. One method includes presenting, in a first user interface (UI), a message from a sender to a recipient requesting a response. The first UI includes response options of a first classification, a second classification, and an entry field for entering a free text message. Another operation is for receiving a recipient response with a selection of: (a) the first or the second button and (b) the free text message entered in the text entry field. The method further includes generating a featurized recipient response based on the free text message and the selection. An acceptance machine-learning (ML) model calculates a classification value of the recipient response from a set of possible classification values based on the featurized recipient response. The method further includes presenting, in a second UI for the sender, an indicator for the message and the calculated classification value.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Christian Wilhelm Kurt Byza, Jeffrey William Pasternack, Haowen Ning, Pujita Mathur, Yizhou Pan, Ngoc M. Vu, Akshaya Subbaraya Bhat, Arya Ghatak Choudhury, Jia Liu, Neil Cruz Pomerleau, Howard Mario Narvaez, Kelly K. Hosokawa, Ryan A. Espiritu
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Publication number: 20220103504Abstract: Methods are presented for classifying responses to communications. One method includes presenting, in a first user interface (UI), a message from a sender to a recipient requesting a response. The first UI includes response options of a first classification, a second classification, and an entry field for entering a free text message. Another operation is for receiving a recipient response with a selection of: (a) the first or the second button and (b) the free text message entered in the text entry field. The method further includes generating a featurized recipient response based on the free text message and the selection. An acceptance machine-learning (ML) model calculates a classification value of the recipient response from a set of possible classification values based on the featurized recipient response. The method further includes presenting, in a second UI for the sender, an indicator for the message and the calculated classification value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Christian Wilhelm Kurt Byza, Jeffrey William Pasternack, Haowen Ning, Pujita Mathur, Yizhou Pan, Ngoc M. Vu, Akshaya Subbaraya Bhat, Arya Ghatak Choudhury, Jia Liu, Neil Cruz Pomerleau, Howard Mario Narvaez, Kelly K. Hosokawa, Ryan A. Espiritu
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Patent number: 11057557Abstract: Techniques for starting an electronic communication based on a captured image are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a computer system detects that an image has been captured by a camera on a first mobile device of a first user, where the captured image has been captured by the camera at a point in time, and, in response to detecting that the image has been captured, the computer system identifies at least one other user in the captured image. In some example embodiments, the computer system transmits a message to an electronic destination associated with the other user(s) based on the identifying of the other user(s) in the captured image.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Christopher Szeto, Viet Hung Nguyen, Jingwei Huang, Haowen Ning, Haoyang Li
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Patent number: 10715613Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for batching requests for presence information. A client device determines a set of user indicators that are displayed on a display of the client device during a period of time. Each user indicator corresponds to a user of an online service, and is presented on the display as a result of a user of the client device viewing content provided by the online service. At completion of the period of time, the client device determines a set of remaining user indicators displayed on the display of the client device, and transmits, to a server associated with the online service, a batched request for presence information for a set of users corresponding to the set of remaining user indicators. The client device presents presence indicators indicating the status of the users based on the requested presence information.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jack Henry Majoros, Jingwei Huang, Haowen Ning, Christopher Szeto, Sammy Shreibati
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Publication number: 20200112669Abstract: Techniques for starting an electronic communication based on a captured image are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a computer system detects that an image has been captured by a camera on a first mobile device of a first user, where the captured image has been captured by the camera at a point in time, and, in response to detecting that the image has been captured, the computer system identifies at least one other user in the captured image. In some example embodiments, the computer system transmits a message to an electronic destination associated with the other user(s) based on the identifying of the other user(s) in the captured image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Christopher Szeto, Viet Hung Nguyen, Jingwei Huang, Haowen Ning, Haoyang Li
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Publication number: 20190387155Abstract: Techniques for starting an electronic communication based on a captured image are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a computer system detects that an image has been captured by a camera on a first mobile device of a first user, where the captured image has been captured by the camera at a point in time, and, in response to detecting that the image has been captured, the computer system identifies at least one other user in the captured image. In some example embodiments, the computer system transmits a message to an electronic destination associated with the other user(s) based on the identifying of the other user(s) in the captured image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2018Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Christopher Szeto, Viet Hung Nguyen, Jingwei Huang, Haowen Ning, Haoyang Li
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Patent number: 10511763Abstract: Techniques for starting an electronic communication based on a captured image are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a computer system detects that an image has been captured by a camera on a first mobile device of a first user, where the captured image has been captured by the camera at a point in time, and, in response to detecting that the image has been captured, the computer system identifies at least one other user in the captured image. In some example embodiments, the computer system transmits a message to an electronic destination associated with the other user(s) based on the identifying of the other user(s) in the captured image.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Christopher Szeto, Viet Hung Nguyen, Jingwei Huang, Haowen Ning, Haoyang Li
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Publication number: 20190335008Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for batching requests for presence information. A client device determines a set of user indicators that are displayed on a display of the client device during a period of time. Each user indicator corresponds to a user of an online service, and is presented on the display as a result of a user of the client device viewing content provided by the online service. At completion of the period of time, the client device determines a set of remaining user indicators displayed on the display of the client device, and transmits, to a server associated with the online service, a batched request for presence information for a set of users corresponding to the set of remaining user indicators. The client device presents presence indicators indicating the status of the users based on the requested presence information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2018Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Jack Henry Majoros, Jingwei Huang, Haowen Ning, Christopher Szeto, Sammy Shreibati