Patents by Inventor Huming Wu
Huming Wu 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: 11899728Abstract: The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to providing query suggestions based on a number of data sources that include person's personal data and non-personal data. The disclosed techniques may include receiving an input from a person, obtaining a first set of suggestions based on a person corpus derived from at least one data source private to the person, obtaining a second set of suggestions based on information from an additional data source, ranking the first and second sets of suggestions to generate a ranked list of suggestions, and presenting at least some of the ranked suggestions.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Shenhong Zhu, Chun Ming Sze, Hang Su, Huming Wu, Hui Wu, Jiuhe Gan, Xiaobing Han, Mingtian Liu, Yuan Zhang, Scott Gaffney
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Publication number: 20230418849Abstract: A location-aware search assist capability identifies location-aware search query suggestions using location information associated with the location-aware search query suggestions. A user's search query input and location and a location associated with each location-aware search query suggestion candidates may be used to identify a set of search query suggestions for presentation to the user. Location-aware search query suggestion candidates may be ranked in accordance with a closeness of each one's location to the user's location. The ranking may be performed using a score, such as a popularity score associated with each search query suggestion candidate. The location-aware search query suggestion candidates having a location closer to the user's location may be promoted by adjusting each candidate's popularity score upward, and the search query suggestion candidates that are farther away from the user's location may be demoted by adjusting each such candidate's popularity score downward.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Hui WU, Huming WU, Shenhong ZHU, Jiuhe GAN, Hang SU
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Patent number: 11836169Abstract: The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to providing query suggestions based on a number of data sources including person's personal data and non-personal data. The disclosed techniques may include receiving an input from a person, obtaining a first set of suggestions based on information from a first data source, presenting the first set of suggestions to the person, and presenting, to the person, a second set of suggestions obtained from a person corpus when a portion of the person corpus relevant to the input is accessible. The person corpus may be from a second data source that is private to the person.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Shenhong Zhu, Chun Ming Sze, Hang Su, Huming Wu, Hui Wu, Jiuhe Gan, Xiaobing Han, Mingtian Liu, Yuan Zhang, Scott Gaffney
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Patent number: 11762892Abstract: A location-aware search assist capability identifies location-aware search query suggestions using location information associated with the location-aware search query suggestions. A user's search query input and location and a location associated with each location-aware search query suggestion candidates may be used to identify a set of search query suggestions for presentation to the user. Location-aware search query suggestion candidates may be ranked in accordance with a closeness of each one's location to the user's location. The ranking may be performed using a score, such as a popularity score associated with each search query suggestion candidate. The location-aware search query suggestion candidates having a location closer to the user's location may be promoted by adjusting each candidate's popularity score upward, and the search query suggestion candidates that are farther away from the user's location may be demoted by adjusting each such candidate's popularity score downward.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLCInventors: Hui Wu, Huming Wu, Shenhong Zhu, Jiuhe Gan, Hang Su
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Patent number: 11042590Abstract: The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to providing query suggestions based on multiple data sources including at least person's personal data. The disclosed techniques may include receiving an input from a person, obtaining one or more suggestions based on a person corpus derived from at least one data source private to the person, and presenting at least the one or more suggestions.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.Inventors: Shenhong Zhu, Chun Ming Sze, Hang Su, Huming Wu, Hui Wu, Jiuhe Gan, Xiaobing Han, Mingtian Liu, Yuan Zhang, Scott Gaffney
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Patent number: 10776431Abstract: Systems and methods for providing content associated with trending topics relevant to a user are described. An interest detection module identifies topics trending in one or more real-time content sources that are relevant to a user. The real-time content source(s) may include, for example, a source of microblog posts or other user-generated data, a news feed, or the like. The topics trending that are relevant to the user are identified by comparing a search history of the user with one or more trending topics stored in a database. A content retriever module is configured to return one or more documents to the user in response to identifying the one or more topics trending that are relevant to the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Oath Inc.Inventors: Hang Su, Siva Gurumurthy, Huming Wu
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Publication number: 20200151205Abstract: A location-aware search assist capability identifies location-aware search query suggestions using location information associated with the location-aware search query suggestions. A user's search query input and location and a location associated with each location-aware search query suggestion candidates may be used to identify a set of search query suggestions for presentation to the user. Location-aware search query suggestion candidates may be ranked in accordance with a closeness of each one's location to the user's location. The ranking may be performed using a score, such as a popularity score associated with each search query suggestion candidate. The location-aware search query suggestion candidates having a location closer to the user's location may be promoted by adjusting each candidate's popularity score upward, and the search query suggestion candidates that are farther away from the user's location may be demoted by adjusting each such candidate's popularity score downward.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Hui WU, Huming WU, Shenhong ZHU, Jiuhe GAN, Hang SU
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Patent number: 10552438Abstract: Techniques are provided for automatically determining when to trigger instant search. In one technique, while a user is entering text to formulate a search query, and prior to receiving an indication that the user has completed formulation of the search query, a search assistant system determines the most popular queries that include the text the user has already entered. The search assistant system then determines whether to proactively provide, to the user, search results for the top-candidate of those completed queries. That determination may take into account factors such as whether the top-candidate qualifies as a dominant completed query, a richness metric determined for the search results for the particular completed query, and/or a satisfaction metric determined for the search results for the particular completed query.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Oath Inc.Inventors: Shenhong Zhu, Kazuhiro Nakao, Zhongqiang Chen, Chun Ming Sze, Huming Wu, Farzin Maghoul
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Patent number: 10503764Abstract: A location-aware search assist capability identifies location-aware search query suggestions using location information associated with the location-aware search query suggestions. A user's search query input and location and a location associated with each location-aware search query suggestion candidates may be used to identify a set of search query suggestions for presentation to the user. Location-aware search query suggestion candidates may be ranked in accordance with a closeness of each one's location to the user's location. The ranking may be performed using a score, such as a popularity score associated with each search query suggestion candidate. The location-aware search query suggestion candidates having a location closer to the user's location may be promoted by adjusting each candidate's popularity score upward, and the search query suggestion candidates that are farther away from the user's location may be demoted by adjusting each such candidate's popularity score downward.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2015Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Hui Wu, Huming Wu, Shenhong Zhu, Jiuhe Gan, Hang Su
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Publication number: 20180203909Abstract: Techniques are provided for automatically determining when to trigger instant search. In one technique, while a user is entering text to formulate a search query, and prior to receiving an indication that the user has completed formulation of the search query, a search assistant system determines the most popular queries that include the text the user has already entered. The search assistant system then determines whether to proactively provide, to the user, search results for the top-candidate of those completed queries. That determination may take into account factors such as whether the top-candidate qualifies as a dominant completed query, a richness metric determined for the search results for the particular completed query, and/or a satisfaction metric determined for the search results for the particular completed query.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Shenhong Zhu, Kazuhiro Nakao, Zhongqiang Chen, Chun Ming Sze, Huming Wu, Farzin Maghoul
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Patent number: 9940372Abstract: Techniques are provided for automatically determining when to trigger instant search. In one technique, while a user is entering text to formulate a search query, and prior to receiving an indication that the user has completed formulation of the search query, a search assistant system determines the most popular queries that include the text the user has already entered. The search assistant system then determines whether to proactively provide, to the user, search results for the top-candidate of those completed queries. That determination may take into account factors such as whether the top-candidate qualifies as a dominant completed query, a richness metric determined for the search results for the particular completed query, and/or a satisfaction metric determined for the search results for the particular completed query.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: YAHOO HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Shenhong Zhu, Kazuhiro Nakao, Zhongqiang Chen, Chun Ming Sze, Huming Wu, Farzin Maghoul
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Patent number: 9928313Abstract: A seasonality-aware search assist identifies seasonal search query suggestions using seasonal information associated with the seasonal search query suggestions. A user's search query input, temporal information associated with the user's search query input and a seasonal information associated with each seasonal-aware search query suggestion candidates may be used to identify a number of seasonal search query suggestions for presentation to the user. Seasonal search query suggestion candidates may be promoted in a list of search query suggestions presented to the user, and any non-seasonal search query suggestions included in the list may be positioned below the seasonal search query suggestions in the list. A popularity score associated with each of the listed seasonal search query suggestions may be used to order the seasonal search query candidates, and a popularity score associated with each of the listed non-seasonal search query suggestions may be used to order the non-seasonal search query suggestions.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Huming Wu, Shenhong Zhu
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Patent number: 9672288Abstract: Briefly, embodiments of methods and/or systems for providing enhancements to search query processing are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Hui Wu, Shenhong Zhu, Huming Wu
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Publication number: 20170097939Abstract: The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to providing query suggestions based on multiple data sources including at least person's personal data. The disclosed techniques may include receiving an input from a person, obtaining one or more suggestions based on a person corpus derived from at least one data source private to the person, and presenting at least the one or more suggestions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Shenhong Zhu, Chun Ming Sze, Hang Su, Huming Wu, Hui Wu, Jiuhe Gan, Xiaobing Han, Mingtian Liu, Yuan Zhang, Scott Gaffney
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Publication number: 20170098012Abstract: The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to providing query suggestions based on a number of data sources that include person's personal data and non-personal data. The disclosed techniques may include receiving an input from a person, obtaining a first set of suggestions based on a person corpus derived from at least one data source private to the person, obtaining a second set of suggestions based on information from an additional data source, ranking the first and second sets of suggestions to generate a ranked list of suggestions, and presenting at least some of the ranked suggestions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Shenhong Zhu, Chun Ming Sze, Hang Su, Huming Wu, Hui Wu, Jiuhe Gan, Xiaobing Han, Mingtian Liu, Yuan Zhang, Scott Gaffney
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Publication number: 20170097986Abstract: The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to providing query suggestions based on a number of data sources including person's personal data and non-personal data. The disclosed techniques may include receiving an input from a person, obtaining a first set of suggestions based on information from a first data source, presenting the first set of suggestions to the person, and presenting, to the person, a second set of suggestions obtained from a person corpus when a portion of the person corpus relevant to the input is accessible. The person corpus may be from a second data source that is private to the person.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Shenhong Zhu, Chun Ming Sze, Hang Su, Huming Wu, Hui Wu, Jiuhe Gan, Xiaobing Han, Mingtian Liu, Yuan Zhang, Scott Gaffney
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Publication number: 20160364502Abstract: A seasonality-aware search assist identifies seasonal search query suggestions using seasonal information associated with the seasonal search query suggestions. A user's search query input, temporal information associated with the user's search query input and a seasonal information associated with each seasonal-aware search query suggestion candidates may be used to identify a number of seasonal search query suggestions for presentation to the user. Seasonal search query suggestion candidates may be promoted in a list of search query suggestions presented to the user, and any non-seasonal search query suggestions included in the list may be positioned below the seasonal search query suggestions in the list. A popularity score associated with each of the listed seasonal search query suggestions may be used to order the seasonal search query candidates, and a popularity score associated with each of the listed non-seasonal search query suggestions may be used to order the non-seasonal search query suggestions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2015Publication date: December 15, 2016Inventors: Huming Wu, Shenhong Zhu
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Publication number: 20160350386Abstract: Techniques are provided for automatically determining when to trigger instant search. In one technique, while a user is entering text to formulate a search query, and prior to receiving an indication that the user has completed formulation of the search query, a search assistant system determines the most popular queries that include the text the user has already entered. The search assistant system then determines whether to proactively provide, to the user, search results for the top-candidate of those completed queries. That determination may take into account factors such as whether the top-candidate qualifies as a dominant completed query, a richness metric determined for the search results for the particular completed query, and/or a satisfaction metric determined for the search results for the particular completed query.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2015Publication date: December 1, 2016Inventors: Shenhong Zhu, Kazuhiro Nakao, Zhongqiang Chen, Chun Ming Sze, Huming Wu, Farzin Maghoul
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Publication number: 20160350426Abstract: A location-aware search assist capability identifies location-aware search query suggestions using location information associated with the location-aware search query suggestions. A user's search query input and location and a location associated with each location-aware search query suggestion candidates may be used to identify a set of search query suggestions for presentation to the user. Location-aware search query suggestion candidates may be ranked in accordance with a closeness of each one's location to the user's location. The ranking may be performed using a score, such as a popularity score associated with each search query suggestion candidate. The location-aware search query suggestion candidates having a location closer to the user's location may be promoted by adjusting each candidate's popularity score upward, and the search query suggestion candidates that are farther away from the user's location may be demoted by adjusting each such candidate's popularity score downward.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2015Publication date: December 1, 2016Inventors: Hui Wu, Huming Wu, Shenhong Zhu, Jiuhe Gan, Hang Su
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Publication number: 20150186394Abstract: Briefly, embodiments of methods and/or systems for providing enhancements to search query processing are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2013Publication date: July 2, 2015Applicant: YAHOO! INC.Inventors: Hui Wu, SHENHONG ZHU, HUMING WU