Patents by Inventor Jiayan Gan

Jiayan Gan 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: 10678832
    Abstract: The subject technology provides a search index that maps clusters of semantically similar phrases to documents that contain any one of the phrases of the respective cluster. The subject technology may identify the phrases from a set of documents, such as a document corpus, where each of the documents is associated with a document identifier. The subject technology may generate the clusters of semantically similar phrases from the identified phrases, where each of the generated clusters is assigned a cluster identifier. The subject technology generates an index that stores each respective cluster identifier of each respective cluster in association with each document identifier of each of the documents that includes at least one of the phrases contained in the respective cluster. Further, the subject technology stores the index in a memory such that the index may be subsequently utilized to identify documents that match a search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Saravana Kumar Siva Kumaran, Jiayan Gan, Mohamed Temraz, Santosh Shankar
  • Publication number: 20190102400
    Abstract: The subject technology provides a search index that maps clusters of semantically similar phrases to documents that contain any one of the phrases of the respective cluster. The subject technology may identify the phrases from a set of documents, such as a document corpus, where each of the documents is associated with a document identifier. The subject technology may generate the clusters of semantically similar phrases from the identified phrases, where each of the generated clusters is assigned a cluster identifier. The subject technology generates an index that stores each respective cluster identifier of each respective cluster in association with each document identifier of each of the documents that includes at least one of the phrases contained in the respective cluster. Further, the subject technology stores the index in a memory such that the index may be subsequently utilized to identify documents that match a search query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Saravana Kumar Siva Kumaran, Jiayan Gan, Mohamed Temraz, Santosh Shankar