Patents by Inventor Shuyan Liu

Shuyan Liu 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: 10979624
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and devices for establishing a photographing template database and providing photographing recommendation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Shuyan Liu, Di Wu
  • Patent number: 10638258
    Abstract: A method, a server, and a terminal device of deleting a piece of push information are disclosed. The method includes: determining geographical location information of a terminal device; determining, according to the geographical location information and a preset database, whether the terminal device enters a regional range corresponding to a place, and if affirmative, pushing a piece of information related to the place to the terminal device, the database storing regional range information of each place and related pieces of information; and after determining that the terminal device leaves the regional range corresponding to the place, sending an instruction of deleting the piece of push information to the terminal device, so that the terminal device deletes the piece of push information. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, interference caused by pieces of push information to the daily life of users can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Shuyan Liu, Tian Zhang
  • Patent number: 10439978
    Abstract: A method for replying to comments is disclosed. The method may comprise obtaining, by a terminal device, a request to reply to a plurality of comments on a published post; determining, by the terminal device, a first target group from the plurality of comments, the first target group including reply targets having similar contents; and sending, by the terminal device, a reply to each of the reply targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Shuyan Liu, Tian Zhang
  • Patent number: 10320720
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and devices for providing user information in an instant messaging application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventor: Shuyan Liu
  • Publication number: 20190141477
    Abstract: A method, a server, and a terminal device of deleting a piece of push information are disclosed. The method includes: determining geographical location information of a terminal device; determining, according to the geographical location information and a preset database, whether the terminal device enters a regional range corresponding to a place, and if affirmative, pushing a piece of information related to the place to the terminal device, the database storing regional range information of each place and related pieces of information; and after determining that the terminal device leaves the regional range corresponding to the place, sending an instruction of deleting the piece of push information to the terminal device, so that the terminal device deletes the piece of push information. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, interference caused by pieces of push information to the daily life of users can be avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Shuyan Liu, Tian Zhang
  • Patent number: 10212544
    Abstract: A method, a server, and a terminal device of deleting a piece of push information are disclosed. The method includes: determining geographical location information of a terminal device; determining, according to the geographical location information and a preset database, whether the terminal device enters a regional range corresponding to a place, and if affirmative, pushing a piece of information related to the place to the terminal device, the database storing regional range information of each place and related pieces of information; and after determining that the terminal device leaves the regional range corresponding to the place, sending an instruction of deleting the piece of push information to the terminal device, so that the terminal device deletes the piece of push information. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, interference caused by pieces of push information to the daily life of users can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Inventors: Shuyan Liu, Tian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190044910
    Abstract: A method for replying to comments is disclosed. The method may comprise obtaining, by a terminal device, a request to reply to a plurality of comments on a published post; determining, by the terminal device, a first target group from the plurality of comments, the first target group including reply targets having similar contents; and sending, by the terminal device, a reply to each of the reply targets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Shuyan LIU, Tian ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10097501
    Abstract: A method for replying to comments is disclosed. The method may comprise obtaining, by a terminal device, a request to reply to a plurality of comments on a published post; determining, by the terminal device, a first target group from the plurality of comments, the first target group including reply targets having similar contents; and sending, by the terminal device, a reply to each of the reply targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Shuyan Liu, Tian Zhang
  • Patent number: 9881359
    Abstract: A video communication method and system implementing video communication between a first user and a second user in instant communication are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a request for video communication; determining whether to perform a blurred processing on a video image of the first user; and if affirmative, performing the blurred processing on the video image of the first user such that a blurred video image of the first user is displayed on a video dialog window of the second user. Using the present disclosure, convenient online interactions via video communication may be achieved while ensuring that respective privacies of users are not overly exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Shuyan Liu
  • Publication number: 20180025320
    Abstract: A method correlating logistics information includes: receiving logistics information entered for a target transaction order; determining a target transaction object identification associated with the target transaction order; determining target object description information corresponding to the target transaction object identification; determining an identification code, wherein the identification code is printed on a target courier waybill in a form of graphic code; and establishing and storing a corresponding relationship between the identification code and the target object description information, such that when the graphic code on the target courier waybill is scanned by an image capturing device, the target object description information is displayed at the image capturing device to provide a preview of the product in the corresponding courier parcel. The present disclosure helps correctly deliver the carrier parcel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Shuyan Liu, Tian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170317955
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and devices for providing user information in an instant messaging application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventor: Shuyan LIU
  • Publication number: 20170257740
    Abstract: A method, a server, and a terminal device of deleting a piece of push information are disclosed. The method includes: determining geographical location information of a terminal device; determining, according to the geographical location information and a preset database, whether the terminal device enters a regional range corresponding to a place, and if affirmative, pushing a piece of information related to the place to the terminal device, the database storing regional range information of each place and related pieces of information; and after determining that the terminal device leaves the regional range corresponding to the place, sending an instruction of deleting the piece of push information to the terminal device, so that the terminal device deletes the piece of push information. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, interference caused by pieces of push information to the daily life of users can be avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Shuyan Liu, Tian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170223265
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and devices for establishing a photographing template database and providing photographing recommendation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Shuyan LIU, Di WU
  • Publication number: 20170199919
    Abstract: An information prompting method and apparatus in a terminal device is provided, in which the method includes: acquiring geographic location information of a user (S101); recording in a first database a correspondence between geographic location information and time information (S102); upon receiving a request for querying geographic location information of a history time point, determining a target time point to be queried (S103); querying the first database and determining target geographic location information corresponding to the target time point (S104); acquiring target map data corresponding to the target geographic location information from a preset map database (S105); and loading the target map data for display on a user interface (S106). The method can help a user to recall the places the user went to in the past and the time the user went to the places, and the user does not need to perform manual operations like recording.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: SHUYAN LIU
  • Publication number: 20170200211
    Abstract: The present application discloses methods and apparatuses for providing information about target commodities. An exemplary method may include establishing in advance correspondence between information about living scenarios and associated target commodities. The method may also include monitoring a browsing behavior of a user. In addition, the method may include determining information about a living scenario of the user when the monitored browsing behavior satisfies a first characteristic. Moreover, the method may include determining information about target commodities associated with the information about the living scenario. Furthermore, the method may include providing the determined information about the target commodities to the user. The present application may effectively guide users through reasonable utilization of services or resources provided by a transaction platform while reminding users about daily schedule activities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Shuyan LIU
  • Publication number: 20160337305
    Abstract: A method for publishing social network posts is disclosed. The method may be implemented by a server. The method may comprise storing user preferences of social network posts, receiving a request from a terminal device of a posting user, the request carrying identification information of the posting user related to a draft post including characteristic information, determining a contact list of the posting user and user preferences of users on the contact list, determining from the users on the contact list, target users having user preferences matching the characteristic information, and sending information of the target users to the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Shuyan LIU, Tian ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20160337304
    Abstract: A method for replying to comments is disclosed. The method may comprise obtaining, by a terminal device, a request to reply to a plurality of comments on a published post; determining, by the terminal device, a first target group from the plurality of comments, the first target group including reply targets having similar contents; and sending, by the terminal device, a reply to each of the reply targets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Shuyan LIU, Tian ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20160260201
    Abstract: A video communication method and system implementing video communication between a first user and a second user in instant communication are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a request for video communication; determining whether to perform a blurred processing on a video image of the first user; and if affirmative, performing the blurred processing on the video image of the first user such that a blurred video image of the first user is displayed on a video dialog window of the second user. Using the present disclosure, convenient online interactions via video communication may be achieved while ensuring that respective privacies of users are not overly exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventor: Shuyan Liu
  • Patent number: 9369669
    Abstract: A video communication method and system implementing video communication between a first user and a second user in instant communication are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a request for video communication; determining whether to perform a blurred processing on a video image of the first user; and if affirmative, performing the blurred processing on the video image of the first user such that a blurred video image of the first user is displayed on a video dialog window of the second user. Using the present disclosure, convenient online interactions via video communication may be achieved while ensuring that respective privacies of users are not overly exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Shuyan Liu
  • Publication number: 20150234891
    Abstract: Providing code scanning result information includes pre-storing multiple code scanning records in a database, the multiple code scanning records comprising code scanning result information and corresponding geographic location information at times of code scanning actions, receiving a request from a current user to acquire at least some of the code scanning result information, obtaining geographic location information of the current user, acquiring the code scanning result information included in target code scanning records having distances from the geographic location of the current user that are less than a preset geographic distance threshold value, and providing the code scanning result information to the current user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventor: Shuyan Liu