Patents by Inventor Keke Cai
Keke Cai 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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Publication number: 20170064345Abstract: In an embodiment of the present invention, a video file is divided into video frames, and a target object is recognized from the video frames. Then the target object is matched in a data source, and an ultrasonic signal containing information related to the target object is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Keke Cai, Dong Xu Duan, Changhua Sun, Li Zhang, Shiwan Zhao
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Publication number: 20150269174Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing extended search are provided. The method includes receiving user-inputted keywords; extending the user-inputted keywords according to geographical information to acquire extended keywords; performing a search by using the extended keywords; and returning search results to the user. With the present technical solutions, privilege control can be effectively performed in a cloud storage system. With the present embodiments, more information may be provided to a user for reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Inventors: Keke Cai, Hong Lei Guo, Zhong Su, Hui Jia Zhu
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Patent number: 9092480Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing extended search are provided. The method includes receiving user-inputted keywords; extending the user-inputted keywords according to geographical information to acquire extended keywords; performing a search by using the extended keywords; and returning search results to the user. With the present technical solutions, privilege control can be effectively performed in a cloud storage system. With the present embodiments, more information may be provided to a user for reference.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keke Cai, Hong Lei Guo, Zhong Su, Hui Jia Zhu
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Publication number: 20150154537Abstract: A method for categorizing a use scenario of a product is disclosed. The method includes extracting, from a text describing the use scenario of the product, at least one feature tuple capable of characterizing the use scenario and performing a latent semantic association analysis on the at least one feature tuple to obtain a latent topic sequence for the use scenario. Further, the method includes determining a product scenario category to which the use scenario belongs according to the latent topic sequence for the use scenario. Additionally, a corresponding apparatus is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Keke Cai, HongLei Guo, Wei Hong Qian, Zhong Su, Li Zhang, Shiwan Zhao
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Patent number: 9020919Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing extended search are provided. The method includes receiving user-inputted keywords; extending the user-inputted keywords according to geographical information to acquire extended keywords; performing a search by using the extended keywords; and returning search results to the user. With the present technical solutions, privilege control can be effectively performed in a cloud storage system. With the present embodiments, more information may be provided to a user for reference.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keke Cai, Hong Lei Guo, Zhong Su, Hui Jia Zhu
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Patent number: 9015168Abstract: A device for generating opinion pairs having sentiment orientation based impact relations, having: a reception unit which receives a plurality of object-oriented opinions; an extraction unit which extracts opinions having impact relations among the plurality of object-oriented opinions; an analysis unit which analyzes sentiment orientations of the extracted respective opinions; and a generation unit which establishes correlations between the opinions having sentiment orientation based impact relations to generate the opinion pairs having the sentiment orientation based impact relations. The present device can search and locate more implicit opinions as supplementary opinions by detecting impact relations from a plurality of opinions, and help users interested in different objects obtain more comprehensive comments and summaries.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keke Cai, Rui Ma, Zhong Su, Xiao Xun Zhang, Hui Jia Zhu
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Patent number: 8990170Abstract: A method and apparatus for obtaining address update information. The method includes: obtaining webpage information related to an address update of a named entity; extracting keywords representing an address update clue of the named entity from the webpage information; determining the time and confidence of the address update clue; determining the address update information based on the time and confidence. Using the solution of the present invention can determine address update information through obtained website information.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keke Cai, HongLei Guo, Zhong Su, Li Zhang, Hui Jia Zhu
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Patent number: 8983926Abstract: A method and system for tagging original data generated by things in the Internet of Things (IoT). The method includes: performing relativity detection on acquired Web messages to obtain Web messages related to various events; acquiring address information contained in the related Web messages; determining adjacent things for various events based on the acquired address information; and tagging original data generated by the adjacent things determined using at least partial content of the related Web messages as metadata. The system includes modules for carrying out the above method.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keke Cai, Zhong Su, Xian Wu, Li Jun Xia, Jian Yao, Li Zhang, Shuo Zhang
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Patent number: 8924491Abstract: A method and apparatus for tracking a topic involved in a message in an interactive messaging environment containing a plurality of messages by combining with context messages associated with the message. The method includes the steps of: selecting a message from the plurality of messages contained in the interactive messaging environment; identifying context messages associated with the selected message from the plurality of messages contained in the interactive messaging environment; and grouping the selected message into one or more topic groups based on the identified context messages. The topic tracking method and apparatus of the invention can accurately determine similarities between messages in an interactive messaging environment such as microblog to perform topic tracking.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keke Cai, HongLei Guo, Zhong Su, Hui Jia Zhu
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Patent number: 8874604Abstract: A method and system for searching an electronic map. The method includes the steps of: receiving a query entered by a user for searching the electronic map; extracting place names in the query; extracting in web pages searched on a computer network co-occurrence place names that co-occurred with the place names; selecting extension place names from the co-occurrence place names, thereby obtaining a set of extension place names; generating a set of queries, wherein the set of queries includes the query entered by the user, and includes a query obtained by replacing the place names in the query entered by the user with each extension place name in the set of extension place names respectively; and sending the set of queries to a map search engine.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keke Cai, Rui Ma, Zhong Su, Xiao Xun Zhang, Hui Jia Zhu
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Patent number: 8862460Abstract: System, method and program product for text processing using object coreference technology. In particular, the invention provides a text processing method which includes, acquiring text to be processed; extracting subject words and entity words corresponding to the subject words from the text; grouping the subject words; determining entity words that reference a same concerned object according to the grouped subject words; and generating processing policy for entity words that reference a same concerned object. The invention also includes a system with means for carrying out the method. The invention generally realizes automatic, more comprehensive, accurate, efficient analysis and processing on text data. The invention can be used to dig a large amount of comment data about some entity, and the invention can also be used to suggest insertion place in an article where embedded advertisement is inserted.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2011Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keke Cai, Rui Ma, Zhong Su, Xiao Xun Zhang, Hui Jia Zhu
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Publication number: 20140123036Abstract: A method, apparatus for touch screen display process, and a browser are provided in the present disclosure. The method comprises: identifying Web elements used for Web interaction displayed on a touch screen; in response to a first action of a user on the touch screen, displaying the Web element pointed by the first action with enlargement; and in response to a second action of the user on the touch screen, triggering a Web interaction operation corresponding to the Web element pointed by the first action. According to the above technical solution, by displaying the Web element pointed by the first action of the user with enlargement, the user can preview the Web element that he actually selects, and a Web interaction is triggered only if it is determined that the Web element desired by the user has been correctly selected. Therefore, precise click can be realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Keke Cai, Wei Hong Qian, Zhong Su, Li Zhang, Shiwan Zhao
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Patent number: 8630845Abstract: A method and system for generating snippet for review on the Internet. The method includes the steps of: receiving a review and a set of feedbacks corresponding to the review, where the review includes a plurality of evaluating sentences that evaluates product features of a product; calculating support degrees of each of the plurality of evaluating sentences by using the set of feedbacks; extracting, by relying on calculated support degrees of each of the evaluating sentences, at least one of the evaluating sentences from the plurality of evaluating sentences; and designating extracted evaluating sentence as a snippet of the review; where at least one of the steps is carried out by using a computer device.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keke Cai, HongLei Guo, Zhong Su, Hui Jia Zhu
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Patent number: 8630843Abstract: A method and system for generating snippet for review on the Internet. The method includes the steps of: receiving a review and a set of feedbacks corresponding to the review, where the review includes a plurality of evaluating sentences that evaluates product features of a product; calculating support degrees of each of the plurality of evaluating sentences by using the set of feedbacks; extracting, by relying on calculated support degrees of each of the evaluating sentences, at least one of the evaluating sentences from the plurality of evaluating sentences; and designating extracted evaluating sentence as a snippet of the review; where at least one of the steps is carried out by using a computer device.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keke Cai, HongLei Guo, Zhong Su, Hui Jia Zhu
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Publication number: 20130073535Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing extended search are provided. The method includes receiving user-inputted keywords; extending the user-inputted keywords according to geographical information to acquire extended keywords; performing a search by using the extended keywords; and returning search results to the user. With the present technical solutions, privilege control can be effectively performed in a cloud storage system. With the present embodiments, more information may be provided to a user for reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Keke Cai, Hong Lei Guo, Zhong Su, Hui Jia Zhu
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Patent number: 8356025Abstract: A method for analyzing sentiment comprising: collecting an object from an external content repository, the collected objects forming a content database; extracting a snippet related to the subject from the content database; calculating a sentiment score for the snippet; classifying the snippet into a sentiment category; creating sentiment taxonomy using the sentiment categories, the sentiment taxonomy classifying the snippets as positive, negative or neutral; identifying topic words within the sentiment taxonomy; classifying the topic words as a sentiment topic word candidates or a non-sentiment topic word candidate, filtering the non-sentiment topic word candidates; identifying the frequency of the non-sentiment topic words in each of the sentiment categories; identifying the importance of the non-sentiment topic word for each of the sentiment categories; and, ranking the topic word, wherein the rank is calculated by combining the frequency of the topic words in each of the categories with its importance.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2009Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keke Cai, Ying Chen, William Scott Spangler, Li Zhang
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Publication number: 20120323563Abstract: A method and system for generating snippet for review on the Internet. The method includes the steps of: receiving a review and a set of feedbacks corresponding to the review, where the review includes a plurality of evaluating sentences that evaluates product features of a product; calculating support degrees of each of the plurality of evaluating sentences by using the set of feedbacks; extracting, by relying on calculated support degrees of each of the evaluating sentences, at least one of the evaluating sentences from the plurality of evaluating sentences; and designating extracted evaluating sentence as a snippet of the review; where at least one of the steps is carried out by using a computer device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keke Cai, HongLei Guo, Zhong Su, Hui Jia Zhu
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Publication number: 20120278065Abstract: A method and system for generating snippet for review on the Internet. The method includes the steps of: receiving a review and a set of feedbacks corresponding to the review, where the review includes a plurality of evaluating sentences that evaluates product features of a product; calculating support degrees of each of the plurality of evaluating sentences by using the set of feedbacks; extracting, by relying on calculated support degrees of each of the evaluating sentences, at least one of the evaluating sentences from the plurality of evaluating sentences; and designating extracted evaluating sentence as a snippet of the review; where at least one of the steps is carried out by using a computer device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keke Cai, HongLei Guo, Zhong Su, Hui Jia Zhu
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Publication number: 20120221656Abstract: A method and apparatus for tracking a topic involved in a message in an interactive messaging environment containing a plurality of messages by combining with context messages associated with the message. The method includes the steps of: selecting a message from the plurality of messages contained in the interactive messaging environment; identifying context messages associated with the selected message from the plurality of messages contained in the interactive messaging environment; and grouping the selected message into one or more topic groups based on the identified context messages. The topic tracking method and apparatus of the invention can accurately determine similarities between messages in an interactive messaging environment such as microblog to perform topic tracking.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keke Cai, HongLei Guo, Zhong Su, Hui Jia Zhu
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Publication number: 20120084299Abstract: This disclosure provides methods and systems for processing and matching information of a chemical substance, and a storage system. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of processing information of a chemical substance comprises obtaining substructures of a chemical structural formula of said chemical substance; determining a featured substructure of said chemical substance from the obtained substructures; and storing said featured substructure of said chemical substance. The technical problem to be solved by one aspect of this disclosure is to provide a method and system capable of processing and/or matching information of a chemical substance independent of the existing various nomenclatures. One aspect of this disclosure provides a method and system for efficiently and comprehensively indexing and/or inquiring about information of a chemical substance using a featured substructure, and a storage system of the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Keke CAI, HongLei GUO, Zhong SU, Xian WU, Li ZHANG