Patents by Inventor Ming C. Hao

Ming C. Hao 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: 10698910
    Abstract: Automated weighting is performed that includes transforming a behavior of each respective dimension of multiple dimensions of a selected group of events to a respective weight, the respective weight determined based on a distribution of values of the respective dimension, and where the weight determined for a first of the plurality of dimensions is greater than the weight determined for a second of the plurality of dimensions. Similarity values are computed indicating similarities between further events and the selected group of events, the similarity values based on a combination of the weights and distances between the further events and the selected group of events. Cohorts of the further events are generated by performing multi-level ranking that comprises ranking groups of the further events based on the similarity values, and applying merging to the groups to produce merged groups. The cohorts are visualized in a graphical visualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: MICRO FOCUS LLC
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Nelson L. Chang, Justin Aaron Scaggs, Felix Hamborg, Daniel Keim
  • Patent number: 10628412
    Abstract: Visualization of a cohort for high-dimensional categorical data is disclosed. One example is a system including a display module to identify real-time selection of a query data element in an interactive visual representation of high-dimensional categorical data elements comprising a plurality of categorical components. A matrix generator generates a binary distance matrix with columns representing categorical components, and entries in a row indicative of a degree of similarity of respective categorical components of the selected query data element to a data element represented by the row, and determines a category weighting matrix by associating a weight with entries in each column of the binary distance matrix. An evaluator evaluates a weighted similarity score for a data element represented by a row of the category weighting matrix based on entries of the row. A selector iteratively and interactively selects, based on weighted similarity scores, a cohort of categorical data elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Michael Hund, Wei-Nchih Lee, Nelson L. Chang, Daniel Keim, Kevin Smathers, Jishang Wei
  • Patent number: 10614094
    Abstract: A technique for visualizing topics includes depicting topic bubbles including pixels. In one example, selected topics are identified from records based on scoring candidate terms in the records according to a user-specified metric and a metric selected from among frequencies of occurrence of records pertaining to the respective candidate terms, and negativity of sentiment expressed with respect to the candidate terms in the records. A visualization is generated including bubbles representing topics, the bubbles including pixels representing corresponding records. A bubble has a shape dependent upon a number of records and a time interval represented by the bubble. Visual indicators are assigned to the pixels in a given bubble according to values of an attribute expressed in the corresponding records for the topic represented by the given bubble, resulting in the analysis of the selected topics being less time consuming and labor intensive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: MICRO FOCUS LLC
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Michael Hund, Christian Rohrdantz, Riddhiman Ghosh, Nelson L. Chang, Meichun Hsu, Daniel Keim
  • Publication number: 20190065503
    Abstract: Automated weighting is performed that includes transforming a behavior of each respective dimension of multiple dimensions of a selected group of events to a respective weight, the respective weight determined based on a distribution of values of the respective dimension, and where the weight determined for a first of the plurality of dimensions is greater than the weight determined for a second of the plurality of dimensions. Similarity values are computed indicating similarities between further events and the selected group of events, the similarity values based on a combination of the weights and distances between the further events and the selected group of events. Cohorts of the further events are generated by performing multi-level ranking that comprises ranking groups of the further events based on the similarity values, and applying merging to the groups to produce merged groups. The cohorts are visualized in a graphical visualization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Nelson L. Chang, Justin Aaron Scaggs, Felix Hamborg, Daniel Keim
  • Patent number: 9946959
    Abstract: In an example, high-dimensional data is projected to a multi-dimensional space to differentiate clusters of the high-dimensional data. A user selection of at least two of the clusters may be received and a plurality of dissimilar dimensions may be extracted from the at least two clusters. In addition, a user selected of a dissimilar dimension from the plurality of extracted dissimilar dimensions may be received. In response to receipt of the user selection of the dissimilar dimension from the plurality of dissimilar dimensions, a plurality of correlated dimensions to the dissimilar dimension may be determined. In addition, the plurality of dissimilar dimensions and the plurality of correlated dimensions may be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: ENTIT SOFTWARE LLC
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Wei-Nchih Lee, Alexander Jaeger, Nelson L. Chang, Daniel Keim
  • Patent number: 9880086
    Abstract: Non-overlapping visualization of data records of a scatter plot is provided by providing rows and columns in a visualization screen containing cells representing respective data records. The rows correspond to value ranges of a first attribute, and the columns correspond to value ranges of a second attribute. The value ranges are automatically generated for the rows and columns from data values of the data records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: EntIT Software LLC
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Umeshwar Dayal, Alex X. Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180011850
    Abstract: A user-selected group of data points is received. Weighted distances between further data points with the user-selected group of data points are computed, the weighted distances computed based on respective weights assigned to dimensions of data points. Density-based grouping of the further data points is performed based on the computed weighted distances, the density-based grouping producing cohorts of data points. A graphical visualization is generated including pixels representing the user-selected group of data points and the cohorts of data points. The graphical visualization provides a temporal-based visualized identification of the cohorts with the user selected group of data points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Dominik Jackle, Wei-Nchih Lee, Nelson L. Chang, Daniel Keim, Justin Aaron Scaggs
  • Publication number: 20180004803
    Abstract: Visualization of a cohort for high-dimensional categorical data is disclosed. One example is a system including a display module to identify real-time selection of a query data element in an interactive visual representation of high-dimensional categorical data elements comprising a plurality of categorical components. A matrix generator generates a binary distance matrix with columns representing categorical components, and entries in a row indicative of a degree of similarity of respective categorical components of the selected query data element to a data element represented by the row, and determines a category weighting matrix by associating a weight with entries in each column of the binary distance matrix. An evaluator evaluates a weighted similarity score for a data element represented by a row of the category weighting matrix based on entries of the row. A selector iteratively and interactively selects, based on weighted similarity scores, a cohort of categorical data elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Michael Hund, Wei-Nchih Lee, Nelson L. Chang, Daniel Keim, Kevin Smathers, Jishang Wei
  • Patent number: 9779524
    Abstract: Using a contingency calculation based on a number of events sharing a collection of values of plural attributes, a discriminative metric is computed representing a statistical significance of the events that share the collection of values of the plural attributes. A visualization is generated that includes cells representing respective events, the visualization including a region containing a subset of the cells corresponding to the collection of values of the plural attributes, and the visualization including a significance visual indicator associated with the region to indicate the statistical significance of the events sharing the collection of values of the plural attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Sebastian Mittelstaedt, Umeshwar Dayal, Meichun Hsu, Daniel Keim
  • Patent number: 9679401
    Abstract: Color cell-based data placement systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that visualize large amounts of multidimensional data on an output by rearranging data objects to variably grant more output space to areas with high data density and less output space to areas with low data density, and to variably rearrange overlapping data objects based on a number of data objects already placed at a preferred cell position for the data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Umeshwar Dayal, Daniel Keim, Halldor Janetzko, Walter Hill
  • Patent number: 9613123
    Abstract: A method of processing a stream of raw data from a plurality of distributed data producing devices includes reducing the raw data to a plurality of representative synopsis coefficients, organizing the synopsis coefficients into a data structure with at least three dimensions, including a time window dimension and an accuracy dimension. Responsive to a detected anomaly in the data structure, at least one of a predetermined autonomous action and an action directed by a user is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Chetan Kumar Gupta, Song Wang, Ismail Ari, Ming C. Hao, Umeshwar Dayal, Abhay Mehta
  • Publication number: 20170046597
    Abstract: In an example, high-dimensional data is projected to a multi-dimensional space to differentiate clusters of the high-dimensional data. A user selection of at least two of the clusters may be received and a plurality of dissimilar dimensions may be extracted from the at least two clusters. In addition, a user selected of a dissimilar dimension from the plurality of extracted dissimilar dimensions may be received. In response to receipt of the user selection of the dissimilar dimension from the plurality of dissimilar dimensions, a plurality of correlated dimensions to the dissimilar dimension may be determined. In addition, the plurality of dissimilar dimensions and the plurality of correlated dimensions may be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Wei-Nchih Lee, Alexander Jaeger, Nelson L. Chang, Daniel Keim
  • Patent number: 9529899
    Abstract: Visual structures are produced to represent corresponding motifs, where the motifs correspond to repeating patterns in an input data set, where sizes of the visual structures are based on values of a characteristic associated with the motifs, and where a first of the motifs is nested within a second of the motifs to represent a hierarchical relationship of the patterns represented by the first and second motifs. The visual structures of corresponding motifs are presented for display in a visualization screen, where the visualization screen depicts the data in the input data set with the visual structures overlapping parts of depicted data. Interactive input is received specifying modification of a region containing motifs, wherein the specified modification includes interactive distortion of the visual structures in the region to change a size of the visual structures in the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Manish Marwah, Umeshwar Dayal, Halldór Janetzko, Ratnesh Kumar Sharma, Daniel Keim
  • Publication number: 20160371350
    Abstract: Selected topics are identified from records based on scoring candidate terms in the records according to a user-specified metric and at least one further metric selected from among frequencies of occurrence of records pertaining to the respective candidate terms, and negativity of sentiment expressed with respect to the candidate terms in the records. A visualization is generated that includes bubbles representing the respective topics, the bubbles including pixels representing corresponding records, where a given one of the bubbles has a shape dependent upon a number of records represented by the given bubble and a time interval represented by the given bubble. Visual indicators are assigned to the pixels in the given bubble according to values of an attribute expressed in the corresponding records for the topic represented by the given bubble.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Michael Hund, Christian Rohrdantz, Riddhiman Ghosh, Nelson L. Chang, Meichun Hsu, Daniel Keim
  • Publication number: 20160321829
    Abstract: According to an example, fluctuations of a metric for events are determined. The fluctuations are for multiple time intervals. A pixel-based visualization of the fluctuations is generated, and the pixels represent amounts of the fluctuations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Xin Zhang, Gregory W. Cook, Nelson L. Chang, Riddhiman Ghosh, Meichun Hsu
  • Patent number: 9460444
    Abstract: A system causes display of a visual representation of a cell-based calendar having cells representing data records, where the cells have corresponding visual indicators corresponding to values of the respective data records. The cells are arranged in plural blocks corresponding to time intervals of the cell-based calendar. Event visual indicators transparently overlay cells in at least some of the plural blocks, where the event visual indicators represent events that occurred in time intervals corresponding to the at least some blocks. The events are separate from activities represented by the data records. Providing the event visual indicators transparently overlaid over the cells in the at least some blocks depict a relationship and relative impact between the data records and the events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Umeshwar Dayal, Lars-Erik Haug, Christian Rohrdantz
  • Publication number: 20160170611
    Abstract: A pattern of geocoded pixels is generated by accessing data point values, where each data point value includes an attribute value and coordinates of a geographic location. Each data point value corresponds to a geocoded pixel that is positioned on the pattern based on the coordinates of the data point value such some geocoded pixels overlap other geocoded pixels. Different levels of the pattern of geocoded pixels correspond to a different degree of overlap between the geocoded pixels. The different levels of the pattern of geocoded pixels are associated with different magnification levels of a geographic map such that changing a magnification level of the geographic map causes a degree of overlap between the geocoded pixels of the pattern to change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Halldor Janetzko, Umeshwar Dayal, Meichun Hsu
  • Patent number: 9355357
    Abstract: A value corresponding to an adjustable control element is received. Predicted data is computed from seasonal data, where the computing is according to applying preservation of peaks in the seasonal data and applying time distance biasing in which more recent data points in the seasonal data are weighted higher than less recent data points. Relative weighting of the peak preservation and the time distance biasing is based on the received value corresponding to the adjustable control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Umeshwar Dayal, Daniel Keim, Walter Hill, Sabastian Mittelstädt, Halldór Janetzko
  • Patent number: 9348881
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed for providing content queries for multi-dimensional datasets. One embodiment is a method for software execution that displays, on an interactive graph, categories and values of a multi-dimensional dataset. A content query is issued from a user for a value from at least one of the categories. Interactive graphs are generated that are responsive to the content query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Umeshwar Dayal, Nimesh Patel, David V. Dodd
  • Publication number: 20160104304
    Abstract: According to an example, in a method for displaying visual analytics of entity data, geographic locations of entities may be plotted as first pixel cells on a first region and as second pixel cells on a second region of a geographic map. A determination may be made that the first pixel cells have a higher degree of overlap with each other in the first region compared to the second pixel cells in the second region. The geographic map may be distorted to enlarge the first region and the first pixel cells may be arranged in the first region in a manner that prevents the first pixel cells from overlapping each other. A color value for each of the pixel cells may be determined from a multi-paired color map that represents two variables corresponding to the entities by color and the pixel cells may be caused to be displayed on the distorted geographic map according to the determined respective color values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Michael Hund, Wei-Nchih Lee, Halldor Janetzko, Nelson L. Chang, Daniel Keim, Sebastian Mittelstaedt