Patents by Inventor Jinyi Yao

Jinyi Yao 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: 11562328
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine a user embedding for a user of a content provider based on one or more machine learning models. A job embedding for a job posting published through the content provider can be determined based on one or more machine learning models. A determination can be made of a threshold level of similarity between the user embedding and the job embedding. The job posting can be provided as a recommendation to the user through the content provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Wenzhe Jiang, Jinyi Yao
  • Patent number: 11321411
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine at least one real-world scene being captured by one or more cameras of the computing device while being operated by a user, wherein the at least one real-world scene corresponds to a geographic location associated with an entity. At least one real-world surface can be determined based at least in part on the captured real-world scene. Content related to the entity can be obtained from a content provider. The content related to the entity can be presented on the at least one real-world surface through an augmented reality interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Wentao Luan, Jinyi Yao
  • Patent number: 11163843
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine at least one scenario that applies to a user of a social networking system based at least in part on features associated with the user. One or more groups of content recommendations associated with the at least one scenario can be determined. Each group of content recommendations can include a set of content items that relate to the at least one scenario. The one or more groups of content recommendations can be provided to the user as recommendations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Meiying Li, Jinyi Yao, Bradley Ray Green
  • Patent number: 11151209
    Abstract: A social networking system recommends objects, such as pages, of the social networking system to users of the social networking system based on the location of the user. The social networking system obtains location information identifying the location of the user. Based on the location of the user, the social networking system identifies levels of geographical partitions encompassing the location of the user. For each level of geographical partitions, the social networking system accesses relevant objects of the social networking system with connections to users located within the level of geographical partitions. The social networking system may have determined a term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) value for each relevant object. Based on the number of connections and the tf-idf value associated with each relevant object, the social networking system merges the relevant objects accessed at each level into a set of relevant objects to recommend to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Ray Green, James Wah Hou Wong, Jinyi Yao
  • Patent number: 11106859
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to generate multiple channel embeddings for a page of a social networking system. The multiple channel embeddings can be mapped to a shared embedding space. A page embedding for the page of the social networking system can then be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Yixin Li, Wenzhe Jiang, Jing He, Jinyi Yao
  • Patent number: 10915589
    Abstract: An online system maintains a web page associated with one or more page administrators. The online system trains a machine learning model to determine a likelihood of a page administrator account accepting a request for the online system to present content about the web page to other users of the online system. The model uses features extracted from data about the page administrator accounts on the online system, the page administrator interactions with the online system, and the web page. The online system selects one or more page administrator accounts and sends them requests based on the determined likelihood scores. The online system delivers content associated with the web page to users of the online system based on a response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Hannah Marie Hemmaplardh, Jinyi Yao, Ahmed Magdy Hamed Mohamed
  • Patent number: 10803130
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine a profile model for a page that is accessible through the social networking system, the profile model describing one or more modal characteristics of users of the social networking system that have fanned the page. A determination can be made that the page should be recommended to a first user of the social networking system based at least in part on the profile model. At least one page recommendation that references the page can be provided to the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Ray Green, Betty Yee Man Cheng, Jinyi Yao
  • Patent number: 10742756
    Abstract: The social networking system monitors implicit interactions between a user and objects of the social networking system with which the user has not established a connection. Based on the implicit interactions between the user and an object, the social networking system identifies a soft connection between the user and the object. The social networking system may then identify soft connections to include in a candidate list of soft connections to recommend to the user. The social networking system may also extract signals from the set of candidate list of soft connections, and may use the extracted signals to rank the soft connections in the list of candidate soft connections. The social networking system may then recommend soft connections to the user based on the rank associated with the soft connections in the candidate list of soft connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: James Wah Hou Wong, Ashish Kumar Yadav, Jinyi Yao, Bradley Ray Green
  • Patent number: 10614143
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive page information associated with a page and user information associated with a user associated with the page. Confidence scores are calculated for a plurality of categories based on the page information and the user information, wherein a confidence score for a category is indicative of a likelihood that the category is relevant to the page. One or more categories of the plurality of categories are selected based on the confidence scores. The one or more categories are presented to the user as category recommendations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Wenzhe Jiang, Jinyi Yao
  • Patent number: 10482143
    Abstract: A social networking system recommends objects, such as pages, of the social networking system to users of the social networking system based on the location of the user. The social networking system obtains location information identifying the location of the user. Based on the location of the user, the social networking system identifies levels of geographical partitions encompassing the location of the user. For each level of geographical partitions, the social networking system accesses relevant objects of the social networking system with connections to users located within the level of geographical partitions. The social networking system may have determined a term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) value for each relevant object. Based on the number of connections and the tf-idf value associated with each relevant object, the social networking system merges the relevant objects accessed at each level into a set of relevant objects to recommend to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Ray Green, James Wah Hou Wong, Jinyi Yao
  • Patent number: 10339611
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to determine seed content items based on interests of a user. Candidate content items can be determined for potential presentation to the user based at least in part on the seed content items. Features associated with the candidate content items can be processed to generate probabilities that the user will perform interactions with the candidate content items. Values can be assigned to the candidate content items based on the probabilities that the user will perform interactions with the candidate content items and the importance of the interactions. The values can be provided as bid values to an auction system to determine constraints regarding presentation of the candidate content items. Presentation of the candidate content items can be optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jinyi Yao, James Wah Hou Wong, Jason Brewer, Bradley Ray Green
  • Patent number: 10296548
    Abstract: An online system maintains a web page associated with one or more page administrators. The online system trains a machine learning model to determine a likelihood of a page administrator account accepting a request for the online system to present content about the web page to other users of the online system. The model uses features extracted from data about the page administrator accounts on the online system, the page administrator interactions with the online system, and the web page. The online system selects one or more page administrator accounts and sends them requests based on the determined likelihood scores. The online system delivers content associated with the web page to users of the online system based on a response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Hannah Marie Hemmaplardh, Jinyi Yao, Ahmed Magdy Hamed Mohamed
  • Publication number: 20190065606
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive page information associated with a page and user information associated with a user associated with the page. Confidence scores are calculated for a plurality of categories based on the page information and the user information, wherein a confidence score for a category is indicative of a likelihood that the category is relevant to the page. One or more categories of the plurality of categories are selected based on the confidence scores. The one or more categories are presented to the user as category recommendations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Wenzhe Jiang, Jinyi Yao
  • Publication number: 20190034973
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can identify a target page and an advertising campaign comprising one or more advertisements associated with the target page. One or more users are identified for inclusion in a base audience based on page information associated with the target page. One or more users are identified for inclusion in an expanded audience based on expanded audience criteria. The advertising campaign is presented to a smart audience comprising the base audience and the expanded audience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Jinyi Yao, Martin Schatz, Arash Ashari, Vijay Rangarajan, Liushan Yang, Iris Yui Chang
  • Publication number: 20190005547
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for supporting online services in providing content items to users of an online system. A request for loading a webpage of an online system is received from a client device. A plurality of content items eligible for being presented to the user is received. For each of the received content items, a trained model is identified based on characteristics of the content item, and a score is determined using the identified trained model and based on characteristics of the user. One or more content items is selected based on the determined scores. The selected one or more content items are sent to the client device for presentation to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Li Tan, Honglu He, Kiranjit Singh Sidhu, David Harry Garcia, Jinchong Zhou, Zhi Zhong, Jinyi Yao, David Shein, Nikila Srinivasan Sarang, Yating Ma, Rui Shao, Han Chen, Hao Wang, Ning Wang
  • Publication number: 20180225718
    Abstract: A online system generates and displays page promotion units to viewing users of the online system. The page promotion unit provides content to the viewing user to promote advertisement of a page that the viewing user administers or advertises for. The page promotion unit may be dynamically generated based on content of the page that the viewing user administers. The page promotion unit may also include suggested operational parameters for a campaign to display the content, which may include budget or suggested targeting criteria, as well as estimated reach for the campaign. The page promotion unit also provides an interface for the viewing user to promote the page and direct the viewing user to an interface for initiating an advertising campaign for the page, which may be prepopulated with content from the page promotion unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Ahmed Magdy Hamed Mohamed, Jinyi Yao
  • Publication number: 20180150560
    Abstract: An online system maintains a web page associated with one or more page administrators. The online system trains a machine learning model to determine a likelihood of a page administrator account accepting a request for the online system to present content about the web page to other users of the online system. The model uses features extracted from data about the page administrator accounts on the online system, the page administrator interactions with the online system, and the web page. The online system selects one or more page administrator accounts and sends them requests based on the determined likelihood scores. The online system delivers content associated with the web page to users of the online system based on a response to the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Hannah Marie Hemmaplardh, Jinyi Yao, Ahmed Magdy Hamed Mohamed
  • Publication number: 20180096390
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine at least one content item to be promoted to one or more users. One or more tokens that describe the content item are determined. A set of interests are determined based at least in part on the one or more tokens using a trained machine learning model. At least one first interest from the set as a suggestion is provided for promoting the content item to users, wherein promoting the content item using the first interest causes the content item to be presented to users that are associated with the first interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Hannah Marie Hemmaplardh, James Wah Hou Wong, Jinyi Yao
  • Publication number: 20170324820
    Abstract: The social networking system monitors implicit interactions between a user and objects of the social networking system with which the user has not established a connection. Based on the implicit interactions between the user and an object, the social networking system identifies a soft connection between the user and the object. The social networking system may then identify soft connections to include in a candidate list of soft connections to recommend to the user. The social networking system may also extract signals from the set of candidate list of soft connections, and may use the extracted signals to rank the soft connections in the list of candidate soft connections. The social networking system may then recommend soft connections to the user based on the rank associated with the soft connections in the candidate list of soft connections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: James Wah Hou Wong, Ashish Kumar Yadav, Jinyi Yao, Bradley Ray Green
  • Patent number: 9729648
    Abstract: The social networking system monitors implicit interactions between a user and objects of the social networking system with which the user has not established a connection. Based on the implicit interactions between the user and an object, the social networking system identifies a soft connection between the user and the object. The social networking system may then identify soft connections to include in a candidate list of soft connections to recommend to the user. The social networking system may also extract signals from the set of candidate list of soft connections, and may use the extracted signals to rank the soft connections in the list of candidate soft connections. The social networking system may then recommend soft connections to the user based on the rank associated with the soft connections in the candidate list of soft connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: James Wah Hou Wong, Ashish Kumar Yadav, Jinyi Yao, Bradley Ray Green