Patents by Inventor Min Xie

Min Xie 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).

  • Publication number: 20250238854
    Abstract: An online concierge system maintains various attributes for each item. To optimize information about items displayed in an interface, the online concierge system selects a subset of attributes of an item for display based on an item category including the item. The online concierge system applies an attribute selection model to combinations of an item category and attributes associated with the item category. The attribute selection model selects one or more attributes for an item category using one or more of an engagement model trained from prior interactions by customers and an output of a large language model prompted to select relevant attributes based on the item category. When generating an interface including an item, the online concierge system includes the subset of attributes selected for an item category including the item in conjunction with the item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Shih-Ting Lin, Saurav Manchanda, Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Amirali Darvishzadeh, Min Xie, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Danna Weintraub, Satish Boggarapu
  • Publication number: 20250238852
    Abstract: An online system may obtain an image of a receipt from a user, wherein the receipt includes a list of item identifiers and associated charges. The online system may provide a prompt to a first machine learning model including the image or extracted information from the image, and a request to provide descriptors of a list of items corresponding to the item identifiers in the image. The online system may receive from the first machine learning model as a response, the list of items and associated charges. The online system maps the list of items to one or more items in an item catalog of an online system. The online system may add the one or more items to an order associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Min Xie, Shih-Ting Lin, Saurav Manchanda, Amirali Darvishzadeh, Jian Li
  • Publication number: 20250225686
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an image processing method and apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: when it is detected that a main body to be processed on a display interface is a target main body, adding an augmented reality (AR) special effect model for the target main body; according to a current video frame and a previous historical video frame, determining a target display location of the AR special effect model in the current video frame; displaying the AR special effect model at the target display position to obtain a target special effect video frame corresponding to the current video frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Yiling CHEN, Weikai LI, Min XIE, Huilin LIU, Quan WANG, Xiaodong SONG, Yi CHEN, Jiaxin WANG, Guangwei WANG, Aixin HUO, Yongjie ZHANG, Jie LIAO
  • Publication number: 20250209760
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for determining effect video, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: in response to detecting that a target effect template is triggered, retrieving a target configuration file; determining the target edit item corresponding to the target effect template and the edit parameter of the target edit item by parsing the target configuration file, and displaying the target edit item; in response to receiving an effect material to be edited corresponding to a target edit item, displaying an edit parameter, so as to determine a target effect material corresponding to the effect material to be edited based on an adjustment operation on the edit parameter; and based on the target effect material and a video stream to be processed, generating a target effect video with the video stream to be processed as background information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Huilin LIU, Min XIE, Keting PAN, Yiling CHEN, Aixin HUO, Jie LIAO, Yongjie ZHANG, Yi CHEN, Xiaodong SONG, Quan WANG, Jiaxin WANG
  • Publication number: 20250191041
    Abstract: An online shopping concierge platform receives data indicating one or more customer interactions associated with a particular item offered by the online shopping concierge platform; identifies a plurality of different and distinct images of the particular item; generates, based at least in part on multiple different and distinct machine learning (ML) models and for each image of the plurality of different and distinct images, a composite score for the image; selects, based at least in part on its respective composite score, an image of the particular item to be presented to the customer; generates data describing a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising a listing of the particular item including the selected image; and communicates to a computing device associated with the customer the data describing the GUI such that the computing device associated with the customer renders and displays the listing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Saurav Manchanda, Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Shih-Ting Lin, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Min Xie
  • Publication number: 20250124498
    Abstract: An online system presents a sponsored content page to a user in conjunction with a model serving system. The online system accesses a content page for a food item and identifies one or more sponsorship opportunities at the content page. The online system identifies one or more candidate sponsors for each sponsorship opportunity. The online system selects a bidding sponsor for the sponsorship opportunity from the one or more candidate sponsors and a candidate item associated with the bidding sponsor as a sponsored item. The online system provides a content page, a description of the sponsored item, and a request to generate a sponsored content page for the sponsorship opportunity to a model serving system. The online system receives a sponsored content page generated by a machine-learning language model at the model serving system and presents the sponsored content page to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Min Xie, Shrikar Archak, Shih-Ting Lin, Haixun Wang
  • Publication number: 20250117442
    Abstract: An online concierge system receives unstructured data describing items offered for purchase by various warehouses. To generate attributes for products from the unstructured data, the online concierge system extracts candidate values for attributes from the unstructured data through natural language processing. One or more users associate a subset candidate values with corresponding attributes, and the online concierge system clusters the remaining candidate values with the candidate values of the subset associated with attributes. One or more users provide input on the accuracy of the generated clusters. The candidate values are applied as labels to items by the online concierge system, which uses the labeled items as training data for an attribute extraction model to predict values for one or more attributes from unstructured data about an item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Shih-Ting Lin, Jonathan Newman, Min Xie, Haixun Wang
  • Publication number: 20250095046
    Abstract: An online system obtains a target food from an order for a user and alcohol preferences from an order purchase history. The online system generates a prompt for a machine learning model to request alcohol candidates based on the target food category. The prompt includes the alcohol preferences, and requests for each alcohol candidate, a pairing score indicating how well the target food category pairs with the alcohol candidate and a user preference score indicating how well the alcohol candidate aligns with the alcohol preferences. The online system receives as output the candidate alcohol items. Each alcohol candidate has the pairing score, the user preference score, and a textual reason for scores. The online system matches at least one alcohol item from a catalog with each alcohol candidate. A subset of alcohol items is presented to the user as a carousel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Shih-Ting Lin, Saurav Manchanda, Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Min Xie, Benwen Sun, Axel Mange, Wenjie Tang, Sanchit Gupta
  • Publication number: 20250086395
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to utilizing a language model to automatically generate a novel recipe with refined content, which can be offered to a user of an online system. The online system generates a first prompt for input into a large language model (LLM), the first prompt including a plurality of task requests for generating initial content of a recipe. The online system requests the LLM to generate, based on the first prompt input into the LLM, the initial content of the recipe. The online system generates a second prompt for input into the LLM, the second prompt including the initial content of the recipe and contextual information about the recipe. The online system requests the LLM to generate, based on the second prompt input into the LLM, refined content of the recipe. The online system stores the recipe with the refined content in a database of the online system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Saurav Manchanda, Shih-Ting Lin, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Riddhima Sejpal, Luis Manrique, Min Xie
  • Publication number: 20250069298
    Abstract: An online concierge system trains a fine-tuned generative image model for distinct categories of items based on a generative image model that takes a textual query as input and outputs and an associated image. Training of the fine-tuned generative image model is additionally based on a small set of representative images associated with the various categories, as well as textual tokens associated with the categories. Once trained, the fine-tuned generative image model can be used to generate realistic representative images for items in a database of the online concierge system that are lacking associated images. The fine-tuned model permits the generation of different variants of an item, such as different quantities or amounts, different packaging or packing density, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Shih-Ting Lin, Min Xie, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Yuanzheng Zhu, Katie Ann Forbes
  • Publication number: 20250037323
    Abstract: An online system performs a task in conjunction with the model serving system or the interface system. The system generates a first prompt for input to a machine-learned language model, which specifies contextual information and a first request to generate a theme. The system provides the first prompt to a model serving system for execution by the machine-learned language model, receives a first response, and generates a second prompt. The second prompt specifies the theme and a second request to generate a third prompt for input to an image generation model that includes a third request to generate one or more images of one or more items associated with the theme. The system receives the third prompt by executing the model on the second prompt, provides the third prompt to the image generation model, and receives one or more images for presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Shih-Ting Lin, Yuanzheng Zhu, Min Xie, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Shrikar Archak, Karuna Ahuja
  • Patent number: 12210591
    Abstract: An online concierge system receives unstructured data describing items offered for purchase by various warehouses. To generate attributes for products from the unstructured data, the online concierge system extracts candidate values for attributes from the unstructured data through natural language processing. One or more users associate a subset candidate values with corresponding attributes, and the online concierge system clusters the remaining candidate values with the candidate values of the subset associated with attributes. One or more users provide input on the accuracy of the generated clusters. The candidate values are applied as labels to items by the online concierge system, which uses the labeled items as training data for an attribute extraction model to predict values for one or more attributes from unstructured data about an item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Ting Lin, Jonathan Newman, Min Xie, Haixun Wang
  • Patent number: 12204614
    Abstract: An online concierge system trains a classification model as a domain adversarial neural network from training data labeled with source classes from a source domain that do not overlap with target classes from a target domain output by the classification model. The online concierge system maps one or more source classes to a target class. The classification model extracts features from an image, classifies whether an image is from the source domain or the target domain, and predicts a target class for an image from the extracted features. The classification model includes a gradient reversal layer between feature extraction layers and the domain classifier that is used during training, so the feature extraction layers extract domain invariant features from an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
    Inventors: Saurav Manchanda, Krishnakumar Subramanian, Haixun Wang, Min Xie
  • Patent number: 12205157
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for providing recommended items based on a search request. In some examples, a computing device determines a plurality of items for recommendation based on an item type in the search request from a user. The computing device then determines a model variant from a plurality of variants for each item based on a requested variant in the search request. The computing device generates item recommendations by modifying an item title for each of the plurality of items to indicate the corresponding model variant. The computing device then presents the item recommendations for the user's perusal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Qianwen Xie, Shirong Xue, Behnoush Abdollahi, Rahul D. Sharnagat, Lili Yuan, Min Xie
  • Publication number: 20250005279
    Abstract: A computer system uses clustering and a large language model (LLM) to normalize attribute tuples for items stored in a database of an online system. The online system collects attribute tuples, each attribute tuple comprising an attribute type and an attribute value for an item. The online system initially clusters the attribute tuples into a first plurality of clusters. The online system generates prompts for input into the LLM, each prompt including a subset of attribute tuples grouped into a respective cluster of the first plurality. Based on the prompts, the LLM generates a second plurality of clusters, each cluster including one or more attribute tuples that have a common attribute type and a common attribute value. The online system maps each attribute tuple to a respective normalized attribute tuple associated with each cluster. The online system rewrites each attribute tuple in the database to a corresponding normalized attribute tuple.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Shih-Ting Lin, Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Saurav Manchanda, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Min Xie
  • Patent number: 12180140
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and compounds for liquid phase oligonucleotide synthesis employing the use of small molecules with lipophilic groups. Methods for making an oligonucleotide by liquid phase oligonucleotide synthesis using the compounds described herein are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Hongene Biotech Corporation
    Inventors: Gaomai Yang, Min Xie, Hongrong Yang, Shengdong Wang, Aldrich N. K. Lau, Ruiming Zou, David Yu
  • Publication number: 20240378837
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for stylizing a three-dimensional model, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method for stylizing the three-dimensional model includes: acquiring a to-be-stylized three-dimensional model and a stylized target image; and rendering the three-dimensional model by using a predetermined network to acquire a two-dimensional rendered image and spatial feature parameters of a pixel, and stylizing a texture feature in the two-dimensional rendered image based on the spatial feature parameters and the stylized target image to acquire a stylized three-dimensional model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Guangwei WANG, Xiaodong SONG, Min XIE, Jiaxin WANG
  • Publication number: 20240374306
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an ablation catheter, comprising: a catheter, a handle and a connector which are connected in sequence, wherein a plurality of electrodes are provided in sequence at a distal end of the catheter, each of the electrodes has a corresponding electrode lead, which passes through the catheter and the handle and is connected to the connector; the catheter comprises an insulated inner catheter, the electrodes are provided on the insulated inner catheter, an insulated outer catheter is provided between the plurality of electrodes, electrode leads of the plurality of electrodes are respectively provided between the insulated inner catheter and the insulated outer catheter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Min XIE, Tuo ZHOU, Zhencai CAO, Yang YANG, Xiaokai ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240228433
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and compounds for liquid phase oligonucleotide synthesis employing the use of small molecules with lipophilic groups. Methods for making an oligonucleotide by liquid phase oligonucleotide synthesis using the compounds described herein are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Gaomai YANG, Min XIE, Hongrong YANG, Shengdong WANG, Aldrich N.K. LAU, Ruiming ZOU, David YU
  • Patent number: D1062646
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Dongguan Plugood Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongjun Zhou, Shiming Chen, Min Xie, Jiang Liu, Zhiqiang Luo