Patents by Inventor Huaping Gu

Huaping Gu 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).

  • Patent number: 9824120
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing search results in a plurality of tabs are described. In one example embodiment, a search term is received. In response, one or more keywords associated with the search term are obtained. Next, respective searches using respective keywords of the one or more keywords are performed to obtain respective results. The results are presented to a client machine for presentation. The presentation comprises a plurality of tabbed pages where each tabbed page of the plurality of tabbed pages including a respective keyword and a respective portion of the results corresponding to the respective keyword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Huaping Gu, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 9442691
    Abstract: Within a network-based system, an entity may be identified by an identifier of the entity. An audio generation machine may be configured to generate an audio piece that represents the entity, and the audio generation machine may generate the audio piece based on the identifier of the entity. Hence, the audio piece generated by the audio generation machine may be representative of the entity, and playback of the audio piece may identify the entity, reference the entity, highlight the entity, suggest the entity, or otherwise call the entity to mind (e.g., for one or more listeners of the audio piece). Thus, the generated audio piece may function as an audio-based avatar of the entity (e.g., a representative of the entity within a virtual world). Furthermore, the audio piece may be shared (e.g., in a social networking context or a social shopping context).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Huaping Gu
  • Publication number: 20150134091
    Abstract: Within a network-based system, an entity may be identified by an identifier of the entity. An audio generation machine may be configured to generate an audio piece that represents the entity, and the audio generation machine may generate the audio piece based on the identifier of the entity. Hence, the audio piece generated by the audio generation machine may be representative of the entity, and playback of the audio piece may identify the entity, refrence the entity, highlight the entity, suggest the entity, or otherwise call the entity to mind (e.g., for one or more listeners of the audio piece). Thus, the generated audio piece may function as an audio-based avatar of the entity e.g., a representative of the entity within a virtual world). Furthermore, the audio piece may be shared (e.g., in a social networking context or a social shopping context).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventor: Huaping Gu
  • Patent number: 8948897
    Abstract: Within a network-based system, an entity may be identified by an identifier of the entity. An audio generation machine may be configured to generate an audio piece that represents the entity, and the audio generation machine may generate the audio piece based on the identifier of the entity. Hence, the audio piece generated by the audio generation machine may be representative of the entity, and playback of the audio piece may identify the entity, reference the entity, highlight the entity, suggest the entity, or otherwise call the entity to mind (e.g., for one or more listeners of the audio piece). Thus, the generated audio piece may function as an audio-based avatar of the entity (e.g., a representative of the entity within a virtual world). Furthermore, the audio piece may be shared (e.g., in a social networking context or a social shopping context).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Huaping Gu
  • Publication number: 20140005812
    Abstract: Within a network-based system, an entity may be identified by an identifier of the entity. An audio generation machine may be configured to generate an audio piece that represents the entity, and the audio generation machine may generate the audio piece based on the identifier of the entity. Hence, the audio piece generated by the audio generation machine may be representative of the entity, and playback of the audio piece may identify the entity, reference the entity, highlight the entity, suggest the entity, or otherwise call the entity to mind (e.g., for one or more listeners of the audio piece). Thus, the generated audio piece may function as an audio-based avatar of the entity (e.g., a representative of the entity within a virtual world). Furthermore, the audio piece may be shared (e.g., in a social networking context or a social shopping context).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Huaping Gu
  • Publication number: 20120110017
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing search results in a plurality of tabs are described. In one example embodiment, a search term is received. In response, one or more keywords associated with the search term are obtained. Next, respective searches using respective keywords of the one or more keywords are performed to obtain respective results. The results are presented to a client machine for presentation. The presentation comprises a plurality of tabbed pages where each tabbed page of the plurality of tabbed pages including a respective keyword and a respective portion of the results corresponding to the respective keyword.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Huaping Gu, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 8112431
    Abstract: Methods and system for processing search requests are described. In one embodiment, a term of a search request may be received. A determination of whether the term is a meta-keyword may be made. One or more linguistically transformed keywords associated with the meta-keyword may be obtained. A search may be run on at least one of the one or more linguistically transformed keywords to obtain a result of the search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Huaping Gu, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Publication number: 20090254536
    Abstract: Methods and system for processing search requests are described. In one embodiment, a term of a search request may be received. A determination of whether the term is a meta-keyword may be made. One or more linguistically transformed keywords associated with the meta-keyword may be obtained. A search may be run on at least one of the one or more linguistically transformed keywords to obtain a result of the search.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Huaping Gu, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Publication number: 20090254470
    Abstract: Methods and system for sharing searches are described. In one embodiment, one or more search terms of a search request may be stored. The storage of the one or more search terms may be associated with an originating user. A sharing request may be received for the search request. The sharing request may be associated with a requesting user. The search request may be associated with the requesting user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: Ebay Inc.
    Inventors: Huaping Gu, Neelakantan Sandaresan