Patents by Inventor Ted Cui
Ted Cui 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: 11036810Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to examine and determine quality of objects cited by citations in a search result based on a citation graph that includes citing subjects, citations, and cited objects. First, influence scores of a plurality of subjects/sources that compose the citations of the objects in the search result are calculated. The quality of the objects cited by the subjects can then be determined by examining the influence scores for the subjects of the citations. Finally, the cited objects selected can be presented to a user or provided to a thirty party for further processing together with the relevant citations and citing subjects.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2011Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Vipul Ved Prakash, Lun Ted Cui, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Thomas James Emerson
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Patent number: 10380121Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to determine temporality of a query in order to generate a search result including a list of objects that are not only based on matching of the objects to the query but also based on temporality analysis of the query. Here, the temporality of the query can be defined as the distribution over time of the objects matching the query, i.e., the chronology histogram of the query. Such distribution can be analyzed to provide a classification of the intent of the query. Classification of the intent of the query can result either in discrete classification of the query into categories, or in continuous classification of the query which may be a scalar or vector value resulting from transformations of the chronology histogram.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2014Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Thomas James Emerson, Lun Ted Cui
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Patent number: 10025860Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to provide a ranking of cited objects and citing subjects identified as results of a search, where the relative expertise of subjects or sources of citations to said targets or objects is considered. The relative expertise is a function of the share of the subject's citations matching the query term or search criteria relative to the share of all subjects' citations matching the query term, weighted by the influence of the subjects. This allows the identification of “experts” on “topics” without any pre-defined categorization of topics or pre-computation of expertise. Under this novel approach, expertise can be determined on any query term in real-time.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Thomas James Emerson, Lun Ted Cui
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Patent number: 9886514Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to generate customized subjective search results from the perspective of a user who conducts the search or any other subject entity of chosen by the user. A scored subject list is created from the user's network of sources/subjects/contacts, where each element on the list is a subject/source and the score reflects the subject's potential influence or closeness of its connection/relation with the user. Once created, the subject list is then used as a bias filter on the list of citations from search results. With such influence-weighted citation scores, objects and/or subjects from citations of subjects that have big influence on or enjoy high respect from the user will be ranked prominently in the search result presented to the user, thus biasing the search results from the user's perspective.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Lun Ted Cui
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Publication number: 20170357725Abstract: Described is a system and technique for providing search results in response to a search query for content items. The system may search for content items based on searching metadata associated with the content items. The system may rank the search results based on various criteria to display the search results in an intuitive and relevant manner within a search application. For example, in instances where the search application displays sample text (or a snippet) of the content item as part of a search result, the system may prioritize content items that contain the search query as part of the sample text.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: John M. Hornkvist, Stanley Hung, Hon Yuk Chan, Anubhav Malhotra, Ted Cui, Vipul Ved Prakash
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Publication number: 20160357824Abstract: A system, method, and machine readable medium are described for providing improved search functionality on a client device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: John Hornkvist, Vipul Ved Prakash, Hon Yuk Chan, Lun Ted Cui, Anubhav Malhotra
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Patent number: 9454586Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to generate customized search results as well as metrics, such as aggregated sentiment, counts of targets or sources or citations, or aggregated gross impressions or exposure, of social media content items over a social network while discriminating between the perspectives of individuals from the media and individuals not from the media. This approach can be used to generate search results and/or metrics including only media perspectives, or excluding media perspectives. More specifically, while social media content items are retrieved from corpus based on certain search criteria, for the purpose of providing search results or providing aggregated metrics, the search criteria can include a media or non-media filter, which is applied to the authors posting social media content to exclude or include certain authors meeting media/non-media criteria.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2013Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Lun Ted Cui
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Publication number: 20160232248Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to generate customized subjective search results from the perspective of a user who conducts the search or any other subject entity of chosen by the user. A scored subject list is created from the user's network of sources/subjects/contacts, where each element on the list is a subject/source and the score reflects the subject's potential influence or closeness of its connection/relation with the user. Once created, the subject list is then used as a bias filter on the list of citations from search results. With such influence-weighted citation scores, objects and/or subjects from citations of subjects that have big influence on or enjoy high respect from the user will be ranked prominently in the search result presented to the user, thus biasing the search results from the users perspective.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2016Publication date: August 11, 2016Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Lun Ted Cui
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Patent number: 9280597Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to generate customized subjective search results from the perspective of a user who conducts the search or any other subject entity of chosen by the user. A scored subject list is created from the user's network of sources/subjects/contacts, where each element on the list is a subject/source and the score reflects the subject's potential influence or closeness of its connection/relation with the user. Once created, the subject list is then used as a bias filter on the list of citations from search results. With such influence-weighted citation scores, objects and/or subjects from citations of subjects that have big influence on or enjoy high respect from the user will be ranked prominently in the search result presented to the user, thus biasing the search results from the user's perspective.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Lun Ted Cui
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Publication number: 20160042071Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to provide a ranking of citied objects and citing subjects identified as results of a search, where the relative expertise of subjects or sources of citations to said targets or objects is considered. The relative expertise is a function of the share of the subject's citations matching the query term or search criteria relative to the share of all subjects' citations matching the query term, weighted by the influence of the subjects. This allows the identification of “experts” on “topics” without any pre-defined categorization of topics or pre-computation of expertise. Under this novel approach, expertise can be determined on any query term in real-time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Thomas James Emerson, Lun Ted Cui
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Patent number: 9110979Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to provide a ranking of citied objects and citing subjects identified as results of a search, where the relative expertise of subjects or sources of citations to said targets or objects is considered. The relative expertise is a function of the share of the subject's citations matching the query term or search criteria relative to the share of all subjects' citations matching the query term, weighted by the influence of the subjects. This allows the identification of “experts” on “topics” without any pre-defined categorization of topics or pre-computation of expertise. Under this novel approach, expertise can be determined on any query term in real-time.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Thomas James Emerson, Lun Ted Cui
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Publication number: 20150169586Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to determine temporality of a query in order to generate a search result including a list of objects that are not only based on matching of the objects to the query but also based on temporality analysis of the query. Here, the temporality of the query can be defined as the distribution over time of the objects matching the query, i.e., the chronology histogram of the query. Such distribution can be analyzed to provide a classification of the intent of the query. Classification of the intent of the query can result either in discrete classification of the query into categories, or in continuous classification of the query which may be a scalar or vector value resulting from transformations of the chronology histogram.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2014Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Thomas James Emerson, Lun Ted Cui
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Patent number: 8892541Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to determine temporality of a query in order to generate a search result including a list of objects that are not only based on matching of the objects to the query but also based on temporality analysis of the query. Here, the temporality of the query can be defined as the distribution over time of the objects matching the query, i.e., the chronology histogram of the query. Such distribution can be analyzed to provide a classification of the intent of the query. Classification of the intent of the query can result either in discrete classification of the query into categories, or in continuous classification of the query which may be a scalar or vector value resulting from transformations of the chronology histogram.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Topsy Labs, Inc.Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Thomas James Emerson, Lun Ted Cui
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Publication number: 20130218862Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to generate customized search results as well as metrics, such as aggregated sentiment, counts of targets or sources or citations, or aggregated gross impressions or exposure, of social media content items over a social network while discriminating between the perspectives of individuals from the media and individuals not from the media. This approach can be used to generate search results and/or metrics including only media perspectives, or excluding media perspectives. More specifically, while social media content items are retrieved from corpus based on certain search criteria, for the purpose of providing search results or providing aggregated metrics, the search criteria can include a media or non-media filter, which is applied to the authors posting social media content to exclude or include certain authors meeting media/non-media criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: TOPSY LABS, INC.Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Lun Ted Cui
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Publication number: 20120290552Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to provide a ranking of subjects or objects identified as results of a search, where “topicality specialization” and “relative topicality specialization” of the objects is computed and considered. The relative topicality specialization of an object is a function of the share of citations for the object matching the query term among all citations for all objects matching the query term. The computation of the topicality specialization and the relative topicality specialization for objects allow the identification of “specialized objects” for “topics” without any pre-defined categorization of topics or pre-computation of expertise.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2011Publication date: November 15, 2012Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Lun Ted Cui
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Publication number: 20120284253Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to provide query suggestions including real-time suggestion of complete query terms, which can be phrases, to a user by analyzing and indexing the real-time history/stream of content or documents in addition to the stream of queries entered. Since the real-time indexing generates a count of potential results for each term found and/or indexed in the stream, the terms found in that stream can then be used as potential query suggestions, knowing that it will be possible to provide results for those queries.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2011Publication date: November 8, 2012Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Lun Ted Cui
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Publication number: 20120278298Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to determine temporality of a query in order to generate a search result including a list of objects that are not only based on matching of the objects to the query but also based on temporality analysis of the query. Here, the temporality of the query can be defined as the distribution over time of the objects matching the query, i.e., the chronology histogram of the query. Such distribution can be analyzed to provide a classification of the intent of the query. Classification of the intent of the query can result either in discrete classification of the query into categories, or in continuous classification of the query which may be a scalar or vector value resulting from transformations of the chronology histogram.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2011Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Thomas James Emerson, Lun Ted Cui
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Publication number: 20120239637Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to examine and determine quality of objects cited by citations in a search result based on a citation graph that includes citing subjects, citations, and cited objects. First, influence scores of a plurality of subjects/sources that compose the citations of the objects in the search result are calculated. The quality of the objects cited by the subjects can then be determined by examining the influence scores for the subjects of the citations. Finally, the cited objects selected can be presented to a user or provided to a thirty party for further processing together with the relevant citations and citing subjects.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2011Publication date: September 20, 2012Inventors: Vipul Ved Prakash, Lun Ted Cui, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Thomas James Emerson
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Publication number: 20110313987Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to provide a ranking of citied objects and citing subjects identified as results of a search, where the relative expertise of subjects or sources of citations to said targets or objects is considered. The relative expertise is a function of the share of the subject's citations matching the query term or search criteria relative to the share of all subjects' citations matching the query term, weighted by the influence of the subjects. This allows the identification of “experts” on “topics” without any pre-defined categorization of topics or pre-computation of expertise. Under this novel approach, expertise can be determined on any query term in real-time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2011Publication date: December 22, 2011Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Thomas James Emerson, Lun Ted Cui
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Publication number: 20110313988Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to provide a ranking of subjects or objects identified as results of a search, where “topicality specialization” and “relative topicality specialization” of the objects is computed and considered. The relative topicality specialization of an object is a function of the share of citations for the object matching the query term among all citations for all objects matching the query term. The computation of the topicality specialization and the relative topicality specialization for objects allow the identification of “specialized objects” for “topics” without any pre-defined categorization of topics or pre-computation of expertise.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2011Publication date: December 22, 2011Inventors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Lun Ted Cui