Patents by Inventor Hoachuan Sun

Hoachuan Sun 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).

  • Trending topic identification from social communications
    Patent number: 9275156
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying trending topics from social communications are presented. Social communications from one or more social networking sites are obtained. Links within the social communications are extracted. In various embodiments, the extracted links are filtered such that the linked content corresponding to the extracted links that can be categorized as news are retained. Topic descriptors for the retained links are generated and the topic descriptors are stored in a trending topic data store as trending topics. According to various embodiments, the topic descriptors are stored in the trending topic data store with the extracted links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Enkai Zhou, Li Haoran, Hoachuan Sun, Lei Sun
  • Trending Topic Identification From Social Communications
    Publication number: 20140358885
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying trending topics from social communications are presented. Social communications from one or more social networking sites are obtained. Links within the social communications are extracted. In various embodiments, the extracted links are filtered such that the linked content corresponding to the extracted links that can be categorized as news are retained. Topic descriptors for the retained links are generated and the topic descriptors are stored in a trending topic data store as trending topics. According to various embodiments, the topic descriptors are stored in the trending topic data store with the extracted links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Enkai Zhou, Li Haoran, Hoachuan Sun, Lei Sun