Patents by Inventor Keh-Li Sheng

Keh-Li Sheng 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).

  • System and method for determining relevance of social content
    Patent number: 11310324
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a computing device, information associated with an entity from one or more social media sites. One or more attributes for the information associated with the entity is identified. A relevance profile associated with the one or more attributes is generated. A plurality of posts from the one or more social media sites is identified, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of posts includes at least a portion of the one or more attributes for the information associated with the entity. At least the portion of the plurality of posts is ordered on a display based upon, at least in part, the relevance profile associated with the one or more attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick A. Kinsel, Alexander P. Lambert, Simon S. Yun, Alexander James Jenkins, Jeffrey Lupien, Keh-Li Sheng
  • Companion timeline with timeline events
    Patent number: 8948567
    Abstract: A time-shifted digital content item is played via a playback screen, and an updateable companion timeline associated with the time-shifted digital content item is accessed. The updateable companion timeline includes one or more timeline events, and each timeline event has a trigger time corresponding to a playback time in the time-shifted digital content item. Responsive to reaching a playback time that matches a trigger time of one of the one or more timeline events during playback of the time-shifted digital content item, the timeline event having that trigger time is rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Fuller Sly, Jeffrey Lupien, Keh-Li Sheng, Howard Benjamin Nager
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING RELEVANCE OF SOCIAL CONTENT
    Publication number: 20130204940
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a computing device, information associated with an entity from one or more social media sites. One or more attributes for the information associated with the entity is identified. A relevance profile associated with the one or more attributes is generated. A plurality of posts from the one or more social media sites is identified, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of posts includes at least a portion of the one or more attributes for the information associated with the entity. At least the portion of the plurality of posts is ordered on a display based upon, at least in part, the relevance profile associated with the one or more attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: PATRICK A. KINSEL, Alexander P. Lambert, Simon S. Yun, Alexander James Jenkins, Jeffrey Lupien, Keh-Li Sheng
  • COMPANION TIMELINE WITH TIMELINE EVENTS
    Publication number: 20120321275
    Abstract: A time-shifted digital content item is played via a playback screen, and an updateable companion timeline associated with the time-shifted digital content item is accessed. The updateable companion timeline includes one or more timeline events, and each timeline event has a trigger time corresponding to a playback time in the time-shifted digital content item. Responsive to reaching a playback time that matches a trigger time of one of the one or more timeline events during playback of the time-shifted digital content item, the timeline event having that trigger time is rendered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew Fuller Sly, Jeffrey Lupien, Keh-Li Sheng, Howard Benjamin Nager