Patents by Inventor Ningning Hu

Ningning Hu 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).

  • Unit group generation and relationship establishment
    Patent number: 9436754
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for establishing a unit group dictionary based on user provided annotations. The unit group dictionary may be used to identify relationships between multiple items in a corpus. Those relationships may facilitate the display of object identifiers and/or other aspects used and/or provided by the object management service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.
    Inventors: Ningning Hu, Tze Way Eugene Ie
  • Switching content
    Patent number: 9204061
    Abstract: Displaying video on a video display device is disclosed. A first video stream from a first video streaming source is displayed on the display device. A second video stream from a second video streaming source is processed on the display device without displaying the second video stream. Displaying the first video stream is ceased and instead the second video stream is displayed. Supporting operations on a video stream is also disclosed. At least one video chunk is received at a first granularity. A determination is made that an operation is to be performed at a different granularity. At least one video chunk is requested at the different granularity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Conviva Inc.
    Inventors: Ningning Hu, John W. Heffner, Mei-Hsuan Lu, Aditya R. Ganjam, Ion Stoica
  • Augmenting the functionality of a content player
    Patent number: 9100288
    Abstract: Improving a content player is disclosed. A monitoring module is configured to obtain status information associated with a content player. The monitoring module is loaded. Status information associated with the content player is obtained. A report of at least a portion of the obtained status information is made to a monitoring service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Conviva Inc.
    Inventors: Aditya R. Ganjam, Ningning Hu, George C. Necula
  • Switching content
    Patent number: 8402494
    Abstract: Displaying video on a video display device is disclosed. A first video stream from a first video streaming source is displayed on the display device. A second video stream from a second video streaming source is processed on the display device without displaying the second video stream. Displaying the first video stream is ceased and instead the second video stream is displayed. Supporting operations on a video stream is also disclosed. At least one video chunk is received at a first granularity. A determination is made that an operation is to be performed at a different granularity. At least one video chunk is requested at the different granularity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Conviva Inc.
    Inventors: Ningning Hu, John W. Heffner, Mei-Hsuan Lu, Aditya R. Ganjam, Ion Stoica