Patents by Inventor Qiaolin Mao

Qiaolin Mao 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: 10542106
    Abstract: Content pre-render and pre-fetch techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a likelihood is predicted of subsequent navigation to content associated with a network address based at least in part on monitored navigation performed by a computing device to one or more network addresses. A determination is then made whether to cause the computing device to pre-fetch and pre-render the content based at least in part on the prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ritika Kapadia, Venkatraman V. Kudallur, Aniket A. Patankar, Tyler M. Barton, Shawn E. Pickett, Nomita Paul, James R. Wordelman, Qiaolin Mao, Yan Ke, Hao Hu, Anthony T. Chor
  • Patent number: 10498582
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for displaying related content associated with browsing a website. For example, a user may access a website to view content provided by the website. As opposed to the user manually searching for interesting content through trial and error, related content that may be interesting to the user may be identified and surfaced to the user. For example, a user profile specifying user interests of the user may be used to identify related content assigned topics corresponding to the user interests (e.g., content provided by the website or other web source). In this way, the related content may be displayed to the user through a content recommendation reader interface. In an example, the content recommendation reader interface may be provided by a web browser so that related content may be identified and/or provided to users of any website from any device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yan Ke, Serge Smirnov, Qiaolin Mao, Alexander Owen Coll, Ting Cai, Xiaodong Fan, Junaid Ahmed
  • Publication number: 20180084067
    Abstract: Content pre-render and pre-fetch techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a likelihood is predicted of subsequent navigation to content associated with a network address based at least in part on monitored navigation performed by a computing device to one or more network addresses. A determination is then made whether to cause the computing device to pre-fetch and pre-render the content based at least in part on the prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Ritika Kapadia, Venkatraman V. Kudallur, Aniket A. Patankar, Tyler M. Barton, Shawn E. Pickett, Nomita Paul, James R. Wordelman, Qiaolin Mao, Yan Ke, Hao Hu, Anthony T. Chor
  • Patent number: 9832253
    Abstract: Content pre-render and pre-fetch techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a likelihood is predicted of subsequent navigation to content associated with a network address based at least in part on monitored navigation performed by a computing device to one or more network addresses. A determination is then made whether to cause the computing device to pre-fetch and pre-render the content based at least in part on the prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ritika Kapadia, Venkatraman V. Kudallur, Aniket A. Patankar, Tyler M. Barton, Shawn E. Pickett, Nomita Paul, James R. Wordelman, Qiaolin Mao, Yan Ke, Hao Hu, Anthony T. Chor
  • Publication number: 20170272303
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for displaying related content associated with browsing a website. For example, a user may access a website to view content provided by the website. As opposed to the user manually searching for interesting content through trial and error, related content that may be interesting to the user may be identified and surfaced to the user. For example, a user profile specifying user interests of the user may be used to identify related content assigned topics corresponding to the user interests (e.g., content provided by the website or other web source). In this way, the related content may be displayed to the user through a content recommendation reader interface. In an example, the content recommendation reader interface may be provided by a web browser so that related content may be identified and/or provided to users of any website from any device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yan KE, Serge SMIRNOV, Qiaolin MAO, Alexander Owen COLL, Ting CAI, Xiaodong FAN, Junaid AHMED
  • Patent number: 9754210
    Abstract: In one implementation, a computer-implemented method for determining user interests includes receiving user activity data that describes an interaction between a user and digital content. The method further includes generating first interest-level data that quantifies a first level of interest between the user and an entity that is a topic of the digital content, where the entity is of a plurality of entities included within a knowledge base. The knowledge base includes an ontology that indicates relationships between the plurality of entities. The method further includes identifying a candidate entity based on the candidate entity having one of the relationships to the entity within the knowledge base. Additionally, the method includes generating second interest-level data that quantifies a second level of interest between the user and the candidate entity based on an analysis of the one of the relationships of the candidate entity to the entity within the knowledge base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Minghui Xia, Evgeny Podlepaev, Qiaolin Mao, Eric Conrad Ranft, Xiaodong Fan, Ting Cai
  • Patent number: 9699019
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for displaying related content associated with browsing a website. For example, a user may access a website to view content provided by the website. As opposed to the user manually searching for interesting content through trial and error, related content that may be interesting to the user may be identified and surfaced to the user. For example, a user profile specifying user interests of the user may be used to identify related content assigned topics corresponding to the user interests (e.g., content provided by the website or other web source). In this way, the related content may be displayed to the user through a content recommendation reader interface. In an example, the content recommendation reader interface may be provided by a web browser so that related content may be identified and/or provided to users of any website from any device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yan Ke, Serge Smirnov, Qiaolin Mao, Alexander Owen Coll, Ting Cai, Xiaodong Fan, Junaid Ahmed
  • Publication number: 20160205209
    Abstract: Content pre-render and pre-fetch techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a likelihood is predicted of subsequent navigation to content associated with a network address based at least in part on monitored navigation performed by a computing device to one or more network addresses. A determination is then made whether to cause the computing device to pre-fetch and pre-render the content based at least in part on the prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Ritika Kapadia, Venkatraman V. Kudallur, Aniket A. Patankar, Tyler M. Barton, Shawn E. Pickett, Nomita Paul, James R. Wordelman, Qiaolin Mao, Yan Ke, Hao Hu, Anthony T. Chor
  • Patent number: 9307007
    Abstract: Content pre-render and pre-fetch techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a likelihood is predicted of subsequent navigation to content associated with a network address based at least in part on monitored navigation performed by a computing device to one or more network addresses. A determination is then made whether to cause the computing device to pre-fetch and pre-render the content based at least in part on the prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ritika Kapadia, Venkatraman V Kudallur, Aniket A Patankar, Tyler M Barton, Shawn E Pickett, Nomita Paul, James R Wordelman, Qiaolin Mao, Yan Ke, Hao Hu, Anthony T Chor
  • Publication number: 20150278691
    Abstract: In one implementation, a computer-implemented method for determining user interests includes receiving user activity data that describes an interaction between a user and digital content. The method further includes generating first interest-level data that quantifies a first level of interest between the user and an entity that is a topic of the digital content, where the entity is of a plurality of entities included within a knowledge base. The knowledge base includes an ontology that indicates relationships between the plurality of entities. The method further includes identifying a candidate entity based on the candidate entity having one of the relationships to the entity within the knowledge base. Additionally, the method includes generating second interest-level data that quantifies a second level of interest between the user and the candidate entity based on an analysis of the one of the relationships of the candidate entity to the entity within the knowledge base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minghui XIA, Evgeny PODLEPAEV, Qiaolin MAO, Eric Conrad RANFT, Xiaodong FAN, Ting Cai
  • Publication number: 20140372563
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for displaying related content associated with browsing a website. For example, a user may access a website to view content provided by the website. As opposed to the user manually searching for interesting content through trial and error, related content that may be interesting to the user may be identified and surfaced to the user. For example, a user profile specifying user interests of the user may be used to identify related content assigned topics corresponding to the user interests (e.g., content provided by the website or other web source). In this way, the related content may be displayed to the user through a content recommendation reader interface. In an example, the content recommendation reader interface may be provided by a web browser so that related content may be identified and/or provided to users of any website from any device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Yan Ke, Serge Smirnov, Qiaolin Mao, Alexander Owen Coll, Ting Cai, Xiaodong Fan, Junaid Ahmed
  • Publication number: 20140372511
    Abstract: Content pre-render and pre-fetch techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a likelihood is predicted of subsequent navigation to content associated with a network address based at least in part on monitored navigation performed by a computing device to one or more network addresses. A determination is then made whether to cause the computing device to pre-fetch and pre-render the content based at least in part on the prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Ritika Kapadia, Venkatraman V. Kudallur, Aniket A. Patankar, Tyler M. Barton, Shawn E. Pickett, Nomita Paul, James R. Wordelman, Qiaolin Mao, Yan Ke, Hao Hu, Anthony T. Chor
  • Patent number: 8065311
    Abstract: Described is a paid search advertising technology in which advertisements associated with bidding keywords are ranked by relevance when returning one or more advertisements in a response to a query. A relevance score is computed for an advertisement based on the bidding keyword and page data (text and/or other page content) of the advertisement. The relevance score may be based on a similarity vector score computed from a keyword vector and page data vector relationship, combined with a proximity score computed from the keyword's bigram set and the page data bigram set. When a query is received, advertisements are selected based on the proximity of the query to each advertisement's bidding keyword, providing candidate scores. Each candidate score is modified (e.g., multiplied) into a final score based on its respective advertisement's relevance score. The final scores are then used to re-rank the advertisements relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mingyu Wang, Weibin Zhu, Ying Li, Qiaolin Mao
  • Publication number: 20090327265
    Abstract: Described is a paid search advertising technology in which advertisements associated with bidding keywords are ranked by relevance when returning one or more advertisements in a response to a query. A relevance score is computed for an advertisement based on the bidding keyword and page data (text and/or other page content) of the advertisement. The relevance score may be based on a similarity vector score computed from a keyword vector and page data vector relationship, combined with a proximity score computed from the keyword's bigram set and the page data bigram set. When a query is received, advertisements are selected based on the proximity of the query to each advertisement's bidding keyword, providing candidate scores. Each candidate score is modified (e.g., multiplied) into a final score based on its respective advertisement's relevance score. The final scores are then used to re-rank the advertisements relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mingyu Wang, Weibin Zhu, Ying Li, Qiaolin Mao