Patents by Inventor Jianfu Chen

Jianfu Chen 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: 11017272
    Abstract: An online system actively and randomly selects content items to be labeled for training a classifier. An online system receives content items from client devices of users and selects sets of the content items to be labeled by human labelers. The randomly selected content items are selected at random from the received content items, and the actively selected content items are selected based on the classifier's confidence in accurately predicting the classification of the content items. The online system may use a histogram of content items to actively select content items. The online system assigns the content items to bins of the histogram based on priority scores and selects content items with priority scores of the highest percentile. The online system provides the selected content items to human labelers for labeling. The labeled content items are then used for training the classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jianfu Chen, Timothy Jacoby
  • Patent number: 10740690
    Abstract: An online system predicts topics for content items. The online system provides one or more topic labels for a user to apply concurrently while a user is composing a post, in response to requests periodically received from the user's device. A request includes information such as content composed by the user and contextual information. The online system employs machine learning techniques to analyze content composed by a user and contextual information thereby to predict topic labels. Different machine learning models for classifying individual topic labels, identifying relevant topic labels, and/or detecting changes in existing topic predictions are developed. Some machine learning models predict topics for full content and some predict topics for partial content. The online system trains the machine learning models to ensure accurate topic predictions are provided timely. The online system employs various machine learning model training methods such as active training and gradient training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey William Pasternack, David Vickrey, Justin MacLean Coughlin, Prasoon Mishra, Austen Norment McDonald, Max Christian Eulenstein, Jianfu Chen, Kritarth Anand, Polina Kuznetsova
  • Publication number: 20190164017
    Abstract: An online system actively and randomly selects content items to be labeled for training a classifier. An online system receives content items from client devices of users and selects sets of the content items to be labeled by human labelers. The randomly selected content items are selected at random from the received content items, and the actively selected content items are selected based on the classifier's confidence in accurately predicting the classification of the content items. The online system may use a histogram of content items to actively select content items. The online system assigns the content items to bins of the histogram based on priority scores and selects content items with priority scores of the highest percentile. The online system provides the selected content items to human labelers for labeling. The labeled content items are then used for training the classifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Jianfu Chen, Timothy Jacoby
  • Publication number: 20180276561
    Abstract: An online system predicts topics for content items. The online system provides one or more topic labels for a user to apply concurrently while a user is composing a post, in response to requests periodically received from the user's device. A request includes information such as content composed by the user and contextual information. The online system employs machine learning techniques to analyze content composed by a user and contextual information thereby to predict topic labels. Different machine learning models for classifying individual topic labels, identifying relevant topic labels, and/or detecting changes in existing topic predictions are developed. Some machine learning models predict topics for full content and some predict topics for partial content. The online system trains the machine learning models to ensure accurate topic predictions are provided timely. The online system employs various machine learning model training methods such as active training and gradient training.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffrey William Pasternack, David Vickrey, Justin MacLean Coughlin, Prasoon Mishra, Austen Norment McDonald, Max Christian Eulenstein, Jianfu Chen, Kritarth Anand, Polina Kuznetsova
  • Patent number: 9072764
    Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter provides methods and compositions for modulating gene expression in myocytes. Also provided are cells comprising the compositions of the presently disclosed subject matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Da-Zhi Wang, Jianfu Chen
  • Patent number: 8431542
    Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter provides methods and compositions for modulating gene expression in myocytes. Also provided are cells comprising the compositions of the presently disclosed subject matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Da-Zhi Wang, Jianfu Chen
  • Publication number: 20100292297
    Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter provides methods and compositions for modulating gene expression in myocytes. Also provided are cells comprising the compositions of the presently disclosed subject matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Da-Zhi Wang, Jianfu Chen