Patents by Inventor Lingfei Xu

Lingfei Xu 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).

  • Natural language to structured query generation via paraphrasing
    Patent number: 11966389
    Abstract: A method (and structure and computer product) of machine translation for processing input questions includes receiving, in a processor on a computer, an input question presented in a natural language. The input question is preprocessed to find one or more condition values for possible Structured Query Language (SQL) queries. One or more possible SQL queries are enumerated based on the one or more found condition values and a paraphrasing model is used to rank the enumerated SQL queries. The highest ranked SQL query is executed against a relational database to search for a response to the input question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vadim Sheinin, Zhiguo Wang, Lingfei Wu, Kun Xu
  • Learning-based automated machine learning code annotation with graph neural network
    Patent number: 11928156
    Abstract: Obtain, at a computing device, a segment of computer code. With a classification module of a machine learning system executing on the computing device, determine a required annotation category for the segment of computer code. With an annotation generation module of the machine learning system executing on the computing device, generate a natural language annotation of the segment of computer code based on the segment of computer code and the required annotation category. Provide the natural language annotation to a user interface for display adjacent the segment of computer code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dakuo Wang, Lingfei Wu, Xuye Liu, Yi Wang, Chuang Gan, Jing Xu, Xue Ying Zhang, Jun Wang, Jing James Xu
  • Refrigerator with a foldable table
    Patent number: 6532756
    Abstract: This invention relates to a refrigerator with a foldable table, wherein the table can be unfolded when it is needed and can be folded when it is not needed. So the product of the present invention has the functions of both a refrigerator and a table, and also can save some room space providing a more reasonable room layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignees: Haier Group Corporation, Qingdao Refrigerator Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongning Wang, Zhiping Li, Lingfei Xu, Wei Zhang
  • REFRIGERATOR WITH A FOLDABLE TABLE
    Publication number: 20030041611
    Abstract: This invention relates to a refrigerator with a foldable table, wherein the table can be unfolded when it is needed and can be folded when it is not needed. So the product of the present invention has the functions of both a refrigerator and a table, and also can save some room space providing a more reasonable room layout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Dongning Wang, Zhiping Li, Lingfei Xu, Wei Zhang