Patents by Inventor Qicheng Ma
Qicheng Ma 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).
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Patent number: 10769677Abstract: A real-time messaging platform allows advertiser accounts to pay to insert candidate messages into the message streams requested by account holders. To accommodate multiple advertisers, the messaging platform controls an auction process that determines which candidate messages are selected for inclusion in a requested account holder's message stream. Selection is based on a bid for the candidate message, the message stream that is requested, and a variety of other factors that vary depending upon the implementation. The process for selection of candidate messages generally includes the following steps, though any given step may be omitted or combined into another step in a different implementation: targeting, filtering, prediction, ranking, and selection.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Parag Agrawal, Utkarsh Srivastava, Kumar Chellapilla, Qicheng Ma
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Patent number: 10769661Abstract: A real-time messaging platform allows advertiser accounts to pay to insert candidate messages into the message streams requested by account holders. To accommodate multiple advertisers, the messaging platform controls an auction process that determines which candidate messages are selected for inclusion in a requested account holder's message stream. Selection is based on a bid for the candidate message, the message stream that is requested, and a variety of other factors that vary depending upon the implementation. The process for selection of candidate messages generally includes the following steps, though any given step may be omitted or combined into another step in a different implementation: targeting, filtering, prediction, ranking, and selection.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Parag Agrawal, Mike Jahr, Yue Lu, Feng Zhuge, Qicheng Ma, Utkarsh Srivastava
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Patent number: 10089393Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media are provided. An example method includes receiving user input in a control, for example, one associated with a search engine. The user input includes a series of input characters that when completed would form a completed user request. The method further includes, while receiving the user input, evaluating the characters to identify completions for the completed request. The method further includes identifying, by one or more processors, a content item associated with the one or more completions and identifying display data associated with the content item for transmission to the user along with one or more completions in response to receiving the user input.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ashish Agarwal, Arash Baratloo, Nicholas Chamandy, Qicheng Ma, Vivek Raghunathan, Chiu Wah Kelvin So, Alice S. Tull
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Patent number: 9892431Abstract: A real-time messaging platform allows advertiser accounts to pay to insert candidate messages into the message streams requested by account holders. To accommodate multiple advertisers, the messaging platform controls an auction process that determines which candidate messages are selected for inclusion in a requested account holder's message stream. Selection is based on a bid for the candidate message, the message stream that is requested, and a variety of other factors that vary depending upon the implementation. The process for selection of candidate messages generally includes the following steps, though any given step may be omitted or combined into another step in a different implementation: targeting, filtering, prediction, ranking, and selection.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Parag Agrawal, Utkarsh Srivastava, Kumar Chellapilla, Qicheng Ma
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Publication number: 20170004210Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media are provided. An example method includes receiving user input in a control, for example, one associated with a search engine. The user input includes a series of input characters that when completed would form a completed user request. The method further includes, while receiving the user input, evaluating the characters to identify completions for the completed request. The method further includes identifying, by one or more processors, a content item associated with the one or more completions and identifying display data associated with the content item for transmission to the user along with one or more completions in response to receiving the user input.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Ashish Agarwal, Arash Baratloo, Nicholas Chamandy, Qicheng Ma, Vivek Raghunathan, Chiu Wah Kelvin So, Alice S. Tull
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Patent number: 9454771Abstract: A real-time messaging platform allows advertiser accounts to pay to insert candidate messages into the message streams requested by account holders. To accommodate multiple advertisers, the messaging platform controls an auction process that determines which candidate messages are selected for inclusion in a requested account holder's message stream. Selection is based on a bid for the candidate message, the message stream that is requested, and a variety of other factors that vary depending upon the implementation. The process for selection of candidate messages generally includes the following steps, though any given step may be omitted or combined into another step in a different implementation: targeting, filtering, prediction, ranking, and selection.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Parag Agrawal, Utkarsh Srivastava, Kumar Chellapilla, Qicheng Ma
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Patent number: 9361381Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media are provided. An example method includes receiving user input in a control, for example, one associated with a search engine. The user input includes a series of input characters that when completed would form a completed user request. The method further includes, while receiving the user input, evaluating the characters to identify completions for the completed request. The method further includes identifying, by one or more processors, a content item associated with the one or more completions and identifying display data associated with the content item for transmission to the user along with one or more completions in response to receiving the user input.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Ashish Agarwal, Arash Baratloo, Nicholas Chamandy, Qicheng Ma, Vivek Raghunathan, Chiu Wah Kelvin So, Alice S. Tull
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Patent number: 9117227Abstract: A real-time messaging platform allows advertiser accounts to pay to insert candidate messages into the message streams requested by account holders. To accommodate multiple advertisers, the messaging platform controls an auction process that determines which candidate messages are selected for inclusion in a requested account holder's message stream. Selection is based on a bid for the candidate message, the message stream that is requested, and a variety of other factors that vary depending upon the implementation. The process for selection of candidate messages generally includes the following steps, though any given step may be omitted or combined into another step in a different implementation: targeting, filtering, prediction, ranking, and selection.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: TWITTER, INC.Inventors: Parag Agrawal, Utkarsh Srivastava, Kumar Chellapilla, Qicheng Ma
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Publication number: 20140201181Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media are provided. An example method includes receiving user input in a control, for example, one associated with a search engine. The user input includes a series of input characters that when completed would form a completed user request. The method further includes, while receiving the user input, evaluating the characters to identify completions for the completed request. The method further includes identifying, by one or more processors, a content item associated with the one or more completions and identifying display data associated with the content item for transmission to the user along with one or more completions in response to receiving the user input.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2014Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Ashish Agarwal, Arash Baratloo, Nicholas Chamandy, Qicheng Ma, Vivek Raghunathan, Chiu Wah Kelvin So, Alice S. Tull
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Patent number: 8676828Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media are provided. An example method includes receiving user input in a control, for example, one associated with a search engine. The user input includes a series of input characters that when completed would form a completed user request. The method further includes, while receiving the user input, evaluating the characters to identify completions for the completed request. The method further includes identifying, by one or more processors, a content item associated with the one or more completions and identifying display data associated with the content item for transmission to the user along with one or more completions in response to receiving the user input.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Ashish Agarwal, Arash Baratloo, Nicholas Chamandy, Qicheng Ma, Vivek Raghunathan, Chiu Wah Kelvin So, Alice S. Tull
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Patent number: 8504437Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media are provided. One example method includes receiving a textual input that forms a part of a user request, the textual input in the form of a prefix that when complete constitutes the request. The method further includes identifying completions based on the prefix, determining one or more content items associated with each completion, computing initial scores including a score for each content item-completion pair including determining a likelihood that a given completion represents the request and a quality of the content item as compared to the completion, computing final scores including scores for each prefix-content item pair using the initial scores, computing a bid for each content item, running an auction to select a content item based on the bids and final scores, and identifying display data associated with the selected content item.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Ashish Agarwal, Arash Baratloo, Qicheng Ma, Vivek Raghunathan, Chiu Wah Kelvin So
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Publication number: 20050107589Abstract: The present invention relates to in particular immune modulatory polypeptides and polynucleotides, recombinant materials and methods for their production. Such polypeptides and polynucleotides are of interest in relation to methods of treatment of diseases whereby immune responses initiated by dendritic cells (DC), monocytes or lymphocytes, play a causal or contributory role.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2002Publication date: May 19, 2005Inventors: Gung-Wei Chirn, Uwe Dengler, Frank Kolbinger, Qicheng Ma, Nanguneri Nirmala, Klaus Seuwen, Gudrun Werner