Patents by Inventor Shaohan HUANG

Shaohan HUANG 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: 11877016
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technical solution of live comments generating, which may acquire candidate texts highly similar with segments of video as live comments of corresponding segments by matching the candidate texts with the segments, and further generate new live comments based on video segments and existed live comments to enrich the live comments information of related video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lei Cui, Furu Wei, Shaohan Huang, Ming Zhou
  • Patent number: 11705096
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject matter described herein provide a solution that enables a machine to automatically generate a melody. In this solution, user emotion and/or environment information is used to select a first melody feature parameter from a plurality of melody feature parameters, wherein each of the plurality of melody feature parameters corresponds to a music style of one of a plurality of reference melodies. The first melody feature parameter is further used to generate a first melody that conforms to the music style and is different from the reference melody. Thus, a melody that matches user emotions and/or environmental information may be automatically created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Shaohan Huang, Lei Cui, Tao Ge, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230206670
    Abstract: There is provided a solution for semantic representation of text in a document. In this solution, textual information comprising a sequence of text elements (220) and layout information (230) of the text element are determined from a document. The layout information (230) indicates a spatial arrangement of the plurality of text elements (220) presented within the document. Based at least in part on the plurality of text elements (220) and the layout information (230), respective semantic feature representations (180) of the plurality of text elements (220) are generated. By jointly using both the textual information and the layout information (230), rich semantics of the text elements (220) in the document can be effectively captured in the feature representations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Lei Cui, Shaohan HUANG, Li DONG, Furu WEI
  • Publication number: 20230076387
    Abstract: Methods and systems for linking comments to portions of content items. An example computing device receives information associated with a content item produced by a source system, the content item being accessible to other the computing devices via a network and receives a comment associated with the content item, the comment produced by one of the other computing devices. In response to receiving the information and the comment, the computing device predicts a subsection of the content item to link to the received comment based at least on details associated with the content item and the comment, then makes information associated with the predicted subsection of the content item available to other computing devices requesting access to the content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Furu WEI, Ming ZHOU, Yang LIU, Ziqiang CAO, Shaohan HUANG, Li DONG, Lei CUI
  • Patent number: 11516159
    Abstract: Methods and systems for linking comments to portions of content items. An example computing device receives information associated with a content item produced by a source system, the content item being accessible to other the computing devices via a network and receives a comment associated with the content item, the comment produced by one of the other computing devices. In response to receiving the information and the comment, the computing device predicts a subsection of the content item to link to the received comment based at least on details associated with the content item and the comment, then makes information associated with the predicted subsection of the content item available to other computing devices requesting access to the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Furu Wei, Ming Zhou, Yang Liu, Ziqiang Cao, Shaohan Huang, Li Dong, Lei Cui
  • Publication number: 20220141503
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technical solution of live comments generating, which may acquire candidate texts highly similar with segments of video as live comments of corresponding segments by matching the candidate texts with the segments, and further generate new live comments based on video segments and existed live comments to enrich the live comments information of related video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Lei CUI, Furu WEI, Shaohan HUANG, Ming ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20210166014
    Abstract: According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, there is provided a solution for generating a summary of a document. In this solution, feature information of pages comprised in a document is extracted, which characterizes at least one type of content contained in each page. Respective importance of the pages is determined at least based on the extracted feature information. A summary of the document is generated for the document by selecting a predetermined number of pages less than the number of the pages based on the respective importance. Through the solution, instead of providing all the pages, pages containing important content may be determined automatically to serve as the summary of the document. This summary allows the user to learn quickly main content of the document, shorten the time consumed in browsing all documents and/or facilitate location of a document of interest as soon as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Xingxing ZHANG, Shaohan HUANG, Lei CUI, Tao GE, Furu WEI, Ming ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20210158790
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject matter described herein provide a solution that enables a machine to automatically generate a melody. In this solution, user emotion and/or environment information is used to select a first melody feature parameter from a plurality of melody feature parameters, wherein each of the plurality of melody feature parameters corresponds to a music style of one of a plurality of reference melodies. The first melody feature parameter is further used to generate a first melody that conforms to the music style and is different from the reference melody. Thus, a melody that matches user emotions and/or environmental information may be automatically created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Shaohan HUANG, Lei CUI, Tao GE, Furu WEI, Ming ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20210142002
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a method of generating a slide for presentation. Upon a target passage for presentation is obtained, a plurality of sentences are generated based on the target passage, and a label associated with each sentence and an icon corresponding to each label are determined. Then, the sentences, labels and icons are displayed in association in a user interface of an application for presentation. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the illustrated slides can be automatically generated for a passage to be presented, which can improve efficiency of slide making and improve user experience for slide presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Lei Cui, Shaohan HUANG, Xingxing ZHANG, Furu WEI, Ming ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10891322
    Abstract: An example environment can automatically generate content for a conversation in response to a presented content item. An example computing device receives information associated with a content item produced by a source system, the content item being accessible to other the computing devices via a network. In response to receiving the information, the computing device identifies a start comment. In response to identifying the start comment, the computing device identifies a reply to the start comment using at least a ranking model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ming Zhou, Yu-Ting Kuo, Furu Wei, Lei Cui, Shaohan Huang, Kati London, Wei-Ying Ma, Haoyong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10699078
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a comments-centered news reader. Configurations allow live comments to be presented along with the news or similar website content. While a user scrolls up and down in a browser presenting a news article on the user's computer device (e.g., mobile device), linked comments are shown in a selected region. The displayed comments automatically change to adapt to what parts (paragraphs, sentences) of the news article that user is currently reading. At the same time, users can publish their own comments without having to proceed to a separate section of the browser, thus saving the viewer actions and improving the user's experience. The user's system or a remote server records the comments along with the article or the place users are in the article when the comment was entered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Furu Wei, Ming Zhou, Yang Liu, Ziqiang Cao, Shaohan Huang, Li Dong, Lei Cui
  • Publication number: 20180322188
    Abstract: An example environment can automatically generate content for a conversation in response to a presented content item. An example computing device receives information associated with a content item produced by a source system, the content item being accessible to other the computing devices via a network. In response to receiving the information, the computing device identifies a start comment. In response to identifying the start comment, the computing device identifies a reply to the start comment using at least a ranking model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Ming ZHOU, Yu-Ting KUO, Furu WEI, Lei CUI, Shaohan HUANG, Kati LONDON, Wei-Ying MA, Haoyong ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20180159804
    Abstract: Methods and systems for linking comments to portions of content items. An example computing device receives information associated with a content item produced by a source system, the content item being accessible to other the computing devices via a network and receives a comment associated with the content item, the comment produced by one of the other computing devices. In response to receiving the information and the comment, the computing device predicts a subsection of the content item to link to the received comment based at least on details associated with the content item and the comment, then makes information associated with the predicted subsection of the content item available to other computing devices requesting access to the content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Furu WEI, Ming ZHOU, Yang LIU, Ziqiang CAO, Shaohan HUANG, Li DONG, Lei CUI
  • Publication number: 20180150450
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a comments-centered news reader. Configurations allow live comments to be presented along with the news or similar website content. While a user scrolls up and down in a browser presenting a news article on the user's computer device (e.g., mobile device), linked comments are shown in a selected region. The displayed comments automatically change to adapt to what parts (paragraphs, sentences) of the news article that user is currently reading. At the same time, users can publish their own comments without having to proceed to a separate section of the browser, thus saving the viewer actions and improving the user's experience. The user's system or a remote server records the comments along with the article or the place users are in the article when the comment was entered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Furu WEI, Ming ZHOU, Yang LIU, Ziqiang CAO, Shaohan HUANG, Li DONG, Lei CUI