Patents by Inventor Hewen Wang

Hewen Wang 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: 20250232014
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for bot detection. A movement of a pointing device is tracked via a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application executable at a user device. Movement data associated with different locations of the pointing device within the GUI is obtained. The movement data is mapped to functional areas corresponding to a range of the different locations of the pointing device within the GUI over consecutive time intervals. At least one vector representing a sequence of movements for at least one trajectory of the pointing device through one or more of the functional areas and a duration the pointing device stays within each functional area is generated. At least one trained machine learning model is used to determine whether the sequence of movements of the pointing device was produced through human interaction with the pointing device by an actual user of the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2024
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: Zhe Chen, Jiyi Zhang, Hewen Wang, Panpan Qi, Quan Jin Ferdinand Tang, Solomon kok how Teo, Yuzhen Zhuo, Mandar Ganaba Gaonkar, Fei Pei, Omkumar Mahalingam
  • Patent number: 12277787
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for extracting categorizable information from an image using a graph that models data within the image. Upon receiving an image, a data extraction system identifies characters in the image. The data extraction system then generates bounding boxes that enclose adjacent characters that are related to each other in the image. The data extraction system also creates connections between the bounding boxes based on locations of the bounding boxes. A graph is generated based on the bounding boxes and the connections such that the graph can accurately represent the data in the image. The graph is provided to a graph neural network that is configured to analyze the graph and produce an output. The data extraction system may categorize the data in the image based on the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Yu, Hewen Wang
  • Patent number: 12277788
    Abstract: A method of categorizing text entries on a document can include determining, for each of a plurality of text bounding boxes in the document, respective text, respective coordinates, and respective input embeddings. The method may further include defining a graph of the plurality of bounding boxes, the graph comprising a plurality of connections among the plurality of bounding boxes, each connection comprising a first and second bounding box and zero or more respective intermediate bounding boxes. The method may further include determining a respective attention value for each connection according to a quantity of intermediate bounding boxes in the connection and, based on a the respective attention values and a transformer-based machine learning model applied to the respective input embeddings and respective coordinates, determining output embeddings for each bounding box and, based on the respective output embeddings, generating a bounding box label for each bounding box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Yanfei Dong, Yuan Deng, Jiazheng Zhang, Francesco Gelli, Ting Lin, Yuzhen Zhuo, Hewen Wang, Soujanya Poria
  • Patent number: 12248944
    Abstract: Systems/techniques for facilitating context-enhanced category classification are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a first textual description of a product or service. In various aspects, the system can identify, via execution of named entity recognition, one or more keywords in the first textual description. In various instances, the system can access, from a set of queryable databases, one or more second textual descriptions that respectively correspond to the one or more keywords. In various cases, the system can generate, via execution of word embedding, a first numerical representation of the first textual description and one or more second numerical representations of the one or more second textual descriptions. In various aspects, the system can identify, via execution of a machine learning classifier, a category label for the product or service, based on the first numerical representation and the one or more second numerical representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Van Hoang Nguyen, Francesco Gelli, Zhe Chen, Hewen Wang, Quan Jin Ferdinand Tang, Amit Nahata, Rushik Navinbhai Upadhyay
  • Patent number: 12216745
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for bot detection. A movement of a pointing device is tracked via a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application executable at a user device. Movement data associated with different locations of the pointing device within the GUI is obtained. The movement data is mapped to functional areas corresponding to a range of the different locations of the pointing device within the GUI over consecutive time intervals. At least one vector representing a sequence of movements for at least one trajectory of the pointing device through one or more of the functional areas and a duration the pointing device stays within each functional area is generated. At least one trained machine learning model is used to determine whether the sequence of movements of the pointing device was produced through human interaction with the pointing device by an actual user of the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Zhe Chen, Jiyi Zhang, Hewen Wang, Panpan Qi, Quan Jin Ferdinand Tang, Solomon kok how Teo, Yuzhen Zhuo, Mandar Ganaba Gaonkar, Fei Pei, Omkumar Mahalingam
  • Patent number: 12159478
    Abstract: A system can comprise a processor that can facilitate performance of operations, comprising accessing a document comprising a plurality of text bounding boxes, wherein each respective text bounding box of the plurality of text bounding boxes comprises respective text, for each respective text bounding box, determining respective text bounding box coordinates and respective text bounding box input embeddings, based on the respective text bounding box coordinates, determining respective text bounding box positional encodings for each respective text bounding box, based on a transformer-based deep learning model applied to the respective text bounding box input embeddings, respective text bounding box coordinates, respective text bounding box positional encodings, and bias information representative of a modification to an attention weight of the transformer-based deep learning model, determining respective output embeddings for each respective text bounding box, and based on the respective output embeddings, ge
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Yanfei Dong, Yuan Deng, Hewen Wang, Xiaodong Yu
  • Patent number: 12118560
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to determining whether to authorize a requested action based on whether an entity is an automated computer. In some embodiments, a computer system tracks, at a user interface of a computing device, a sequence of pointer movements. The computer system maps, based on coordinate locations of pointer movements in the sequence, respective movements in the sequence to a plurality of functional areas. Based on the mapping, the computer system generates a movement graph and determines, based on the movement graph, whether an entity associated with the sequence of pointer movements is an automated computer. In response to receiving a request to authorize an action at the computing device, the computer system generates, based on the determining, an authorization decision for the action and transmits the authorization decision to the computing device. Determining whether the entity is an automated computer may advantageously prevent fraudulent activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Chen, Hewen Wang, Solomon Kok How Teo, Yuzhen Zhuo, Quan Jin Ferdinand Tang, Mandar Ganaba Gaonkar, Omkumar Mahalingam, Kenneth Bradley Snyder
  • Publication number: 20240211559
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for bot detection. A movement of a pointing device is tracked via a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application executable at a user device. Movement data associated with different locations of the pointing device within the GUI is obtained. The movement data is mapped to functional areas corresponding to a range of the different locations of the pointing device within the GUI over consecutive time intervals. At least one vector representing a sequence of movements for at least one trajectory of the pointing device through one or more of the functional areas and a duration the pointing device stays within each functional area is generated. At least one trained machine learning model is used to determine whether the sequence of movements of the pointing device was produced through human interaction with the pointing device by an actual user of the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Zhe Chen, Jiyi Zhang, Hewen Wang, Panpan Qi, Quan Jin Ferdinand Tang, Solomon kok how Teo, Yuzhen Zhuo, Mandar Ganaba Gaonkar, Fei Pei, Omkumar Mahalingam
  • Publication number: 20240153296
    Abstract: A method of categorizing text entries on a document can include determining, for each of a plurality of text bounding boxes in the document, respective text, respective coordinates, and respective input embeddings. The method may further include defining a graph of the plurality of bounding boxes, the graph comprising a plurality of connections among the plurality of bounding boxes, each connection comprising a first and second bounding box and zero or more respective intermediate bounding boxes. The method may further include determining a respective attention value for each connection according to a quantity of intermediate bounding boxes in the connection and, based on a the respective attention values and a transformer-based machine learning model applied to the respective input embeddings and respective coordinates, determining output embeddings for each bounding box and, based on the respective output embeddings, generating a bounding box label for each bounding box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Yanfei Dong, Yuan Deng, Jiazheng Zhang, Francesco Gelli, Ting Lin, Yuzhen Zhuo, Hewen Wang, Soujanya Poria
  • Patent number: 11907954
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed in which a computer system generates a transaction network graph from an initial set of transactions including known labels and attributes. The computer system may generate first and second matrices using first and second graph embedding routines from a training set of transactions that includes a first subset of transactions in the network graph. The first routine is based on anomalies in related transactions occurring at nodes in the transaction network graph that are multiple hops away while the second routine is based on anomalies in neighborhoods of similar transactions. In some embodiments, the computer system generates a final embedded matrix from the first and second matrices and uses the final matrix and a testing set of transactions that includes a second subset of transactions in the graph to train a machine learning model, where the trained model usable to determine whether unlabeled transactions are anomalous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Hewen Wang
  • Patent number: 11907658
    Abstract: Systems and methods for user-agent anomaly detection are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user-agent string may be embedded into a numerical data vector representation using a sentence embedding algorithm (e.g., FastText). A predictive score may be calculated based on the numerical data vector representation and using a probability distribution function model that models a likelihood of occurrence of the observed user-agent based on patterns learned from historic payload data (e.g., a Gaussian Mixture Model). The predictive score may be compared to a threshold and, based on the comparison, it may be determined whether the user-agent is fraudulent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Chen, Hewen Wang, Yuzhen Zhuo, Solomon kok how Teo, Shanshan Peng, Quan Jin Ferdinand Tang, Serafin Trujillo, Kenneth Bradley Snyder, Mandar Ganaba Gaonkar, Omkumar Mahalingam
  • Patent number: 11886590
    Abstract: Systems and methods for emulator detection are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user agent string may be embedded into a first numerical data vector representation. Hardware characteristics of a client device corresponding to the user agent may be embedded into a second numerical data vector representation. Based on the first numerical data vector representation of the user agent and the second numerical data vector representation of the hardware characteristics, and their consistency, the client device may be determined to be an emulator or a non-emulator device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Zhe Chen, Hewen Wang, Quan Jin Ferdinand Tang, Solomon kok how Teo, Yuzhen Zhuo, Serafin Trujillo, Mandar Ganaba Gaonkar, Omkumar Mahalingam, Kenneth Bradley Snyder
  • Patent number: 11741139
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for providing a response to a user query. Reception of a user query is detected. An augmentation machine learning model is utilized to determine one or more variations of the user query that correspond to a semantic meaning of the user query. A plurality of response candidates is determined that correspond to the user query by comparing the user query and the one or more variations of the user query to a plurality of documents. A final response candidate is determined from the plurality of response candidates based on utilizing a semantic machine learning model to perform a semantic comparison between the plurality of response candidates and at least the user query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuzhen Zhuo, Sandro Cavallari, Van Hoang Nguyen, Kim Dung Bui, Rey Neo, Harsha Singalreddy, Lei Xu, Hewen Wang, Quan Jin Ferdinand Tang, Chun Kiat Ho
  • Publication number: 20230260302
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for extracting categorizable information from an image using a graph that models data within the image. Upon receiving an image, a data extraction system identifies characters in the image. The data extraction system then generates bounding boxes that enclose adjacent characters that are related to each other in the image. The data extraction system also creates connections between the bounding boxes based on locations of the bounding boxes. A graph is generated based on the bounding boxes and the connections such that the graph can accurately represent the data in the image. The graph is provided to a graph neural network that is configured to analyze the graph and produce an output. The data extraction system may categorize the data in the image based on the output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaodong Yu, Hewen Wang
  • Publication number: 20230259943
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to determining whether to authorize a requested action based on whether an entity is an automated computer. In some embodiments, a computer system tracks, at a user interface of a computing device, a sequence of pointer movements. The computer system maps, based on coordinate locations of pointer movements in the sequence, respective movements in the sequence to a plurality of functional areas. Based on the mapping, the computer system generates a movement graph and determines, based on the movement graph, whether an entity associated with the sequence of pointer movements is an automated computer. In response to receiving a request to authorize an action at the computing device, the computer system generates, based on the determining, an authorization decision for the action and transmits the authorization decision to the computing device. Determining whether the entity is an automated computer may advantageously prevent fraudulent activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Zhe Chen, Hewen Wang, Solomon Kok How Teo, Yuzhen Zhuo, Quan Jin Ferdinand Tang, Mandar Ganaba Gaonkar, Omkumar Mahalingam, Kenneth Bradley Snyder
  • Patent number: 11695763
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for generating a device fingerprint based on data obtained from one or more sensors on a device. A plurality of data points corresponding to sensor readings are obtained from the one or more sensors on the device. A set of time-domain features and a set of frequency-domain features are extracted from the plurality of data points and inputted to a neural network trained using a triplet network. A device fingerprint that may be used to identify the device is obtained from the neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Zhe Chen, Hewen Wang
  • Publication number: 20230186319
    Abstract: Systems/techniques for facilitating context-enhanced category classification are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a first textual description of a product or service. In various aspects, the system can identify, via execution of named entity recognition, one or more keywords in the first textual description. In various instances, the system can access, from a set of queryable databases, one or more second textual descriptions that respectively correspond to the one or more keywords. In various cases, the system can generate, via execution of word embedding, a first numerical representation of the first textual description and one or more second numerical representations of the one or more second textual descriptions. In various aspects, the system can identify, via execution of a machine learning classifier, a category label for the product or service, based on the first numerical representation and the one or more second numerical representations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Van Hoang Nguyen, Francesco Gelli, Zhe Chen, Hewen Wang, Quan Jin Ferdinand Tang, Amit Nahata, Rushik Navinbhai Upadhyay
  • Publication number: 20230186668
    Abstract: A system can comprise a processor that can facilitate performance of operations, comprising accessing a document comprising a plurality of text bounding boxes, wherein each respective text bounding box of the plurality of text bounding boxes comprises respective text, for each respective text bounding box, determining respective text bounding box coordinates and respective text bounding box input embeddings, based on the respective text bounding box coordinates, determining respective text bounding box positional encodings for each respective text bounding box, based on a transformer-based deep learning model applied to the respective text bounding box input embeddings, respective text bounding box coordinates, respective text bounding box positional encodings, and bias information representative of a modification to an attention weight of the transformer-based deep learning model, determining respective output embeddings for each respective text bounding box, and based on the respective output embeddings, ge
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Yanfei Dong, Yuan Deng, Hewen Wang, Xiaodong Yu
  • Patent number: 11657629
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for extracting categorizable information from an image using a graph that models data within the image. Upon receiving an image, a data extraction system identifies characters in the image. The data extraction system then generates bounding boxes that enclose adjacent characters that are related to each other in the image. The data extraction system also creates connections between the bounding boxes based on locations of the bounding boxes. A graph is generated based on the bounding boxes and the connections such that the graph can accurately represent the data in the image. The graph is provided to a graph neural network that is configured to analyze the graph and produce an output. The data extraction system may categorize the data in the image based on the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Yu, Hewen Wang
  • Publication number: 20230084532
    Abstract: Systems and methods for emulator detection are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user agent string may be embedded into a first numerical data vector representation. Hardware characteristics of a client device corresponding to the user agent may be embedded into a second numerical data vector representation. Based on the first numerical data vector representation of the user agent and the second numerical data vector representation of the hardware characteristics, and their consistency, the client device may be determined to be an emulator or a non-emulator device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Zhe Chen, Hewen Wang, Quan Jin Ferdinand Tang, Solomon kok how Teo, Yuzhen Zhuo, Serafin Trujillo, Mandar Ganaba Gaonkar, Omkumar Mahalingam, Kenneth Bradley Snyder