Patents by Inventor Ken Soong

Ken Soong 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: 11205128
    Abstract: An online social networking system collects data relating to members, and clusters the data into a plurality of clusters. The system identifies anomalous activity by a member in a cluster, and predicts an update to a profile of the member based on the identified anomalous activity of the member. The system presents to the member a proposed update to the profile of the member based on the prediction, receives input from the member in response to the proposed update, and updates the profile of the member based on the input received from the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ken Soong, Damien Albert Louis Coullon, Luis Steven Lin, Michael Maczka
  • Publication number: 20190370908
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium includes obtaining activities of members of the online social networking system and social graph data of the members and computing an influence score for one of the members by combing an access to content score with an activities score. The access to content score is based on a number of social graph connections of the one of the members with other members and the activities score is based on a number of activities by the member with content items posted to the online social networking system by other members and activities by other members with content items posted by the member. A user interface displays a user interface screen to display the influence score in relation to the member and, in response to a selection, displays an influence score calculation screen including graphical illustrations of the access to content and activities scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Ken Soong, Chanh Nguyen, Yu-Hsin Lin, William Lai, Yuet Man Vivien Sin, Christine Hsueh Chun Chou
  • Publication number: 20190303771
    Abstract: An online social networking system collects data relating to members, and clusters the data into a plurality of clusters. The system identifies anomalous activity by a member in a cluster, and predicts an update to a profile of the member based on the identified anomalous activity of the member. The system presents to the member a proposed update to the profile of the member based on the prediction, receives input from the member in response to the proposed update, and updates the profile of the member based on the input received from the member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Ken Soong, Damien Albert Louis Coullon, Luis Steven Lin, Michael Maczka
  • Publication number: 20170323269
    Abstract: A system determines an intent of a current user who is interacting with an online social networking system, and requests information from the current user based on the determined intent of the current user. The system then receives the requested information from the current user, and provides a service or information to the current user based on the intent of the current user and the information provided by the current user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Jason Schissel, Ken Soong, Carrie Zhuqing Peng, Lizabeth Li, Ling Lin, Joonhyung Lim, Xin Fu, Seyedehmina Doroud, Huangming Xie
  • Publication number: 20170249381
    Abstract: System and methods for calculating member quality are disclosed. A social networking system, for a respective member in a plurality of members, retrieves a member profile associated with the respective member from the member profile data. The social networking system generates a member quality score for the respective member. Based on the generated member quality score, the social networking system determines whether the respective member is a quality member. The social networking system selects one or more members, from the plurality of members, for a social networking related communication, based at least in part on whether the members are determined to be quality members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Ken Soong, Lizabeth Li, Carrie Zhuqing Peng, Jason Schissel, Yang Zhou