Patents by Inventor Tiancong Zhou

Tiancong Zhou 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: 11935313
    Abstract: Computer servers configured to perform digital image processing are discloses herein. In one embodiment, upon receiving a transcription command, a computer server performs text recognition based on patterns in a digital image to generate digital text data corresponding to the digital image. The computer server can then determine a content format of the digital text data based on the imported digital image and automatically apply the determined content format to the generated digital text data. The digital data can then be inserted into an electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tiancong Zhou, Yong Xie, Honghao Qiu
  • Publication number: 20230376744
    Abstract: A method for data structure modification is described. First data structures that represent user interactions with first user content by a user of a client device are obtained. The first data structures are labeled using content features of the first user content. A neural network model is trained using the labeled first data structures to obtain user-specific weights for the user of the client device. A second data structure that represents user interactions with second user content by the user is received. A predicted value for the second data structure is obtained based on an output of the trained neural network model using content features of the second user content and the user-specific weights as inputs to the trained neural network model. The second data structure is modified to include the predicted value when the second data structure is inconsistent with the predicted value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tiancong ZHOU, Ke WANG, Ahmed MOHAMED
  • Publication number: 20210192261
    Abstract: Computer servers configured to perform digital image processing are discloses herein. In one embodiment, upon receiving a transcription command, a computer server performs text recognition based on patterns in a digital image to generate digital text data corresponding to the digital image. The computer server can then determine a content format of the digital text data based on the imported digital image and automatically apply the determined content format to the generated digital text data. The digital data can then be inserted into an electronic document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Tiancong Zhou, Yong Xie, Honghao Qiu
  • Patent number: 10986060
    Abstract: A messaging system configured for recommending messages is provided. The messaging system machine trains a prediction model associated with a user based on past review and response times for past messages. During runtime, the messaging system generates a predicted user action time for each new message based on the prediction model and tags each new message with a corresponding predicted user action time. Based on an amount of available time, the predicted user action time for each new message, and importance for each new message, the messaging system determines a recommended set of new messages that the user should read and respond to during the available time, whereby a sum of the predicted user action time of the recommended set of new messages is equal to or less than the available time. The recommended set of new messages are visually distinguished for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Honghao Qiu, Chao Chen, Tiancong Zhou, Yong Xie, Kevin Carter, Ke Wang
  • Patent number: 10963723
    Abstract: Computer servers configured to perform digital image processing are discloses herein. In one embodiment, upon receiving a transcription command, a computer server performs text recognition based on patterns in a digital image to generate digital text data corresponding to the digital image. The computer server can then determine a content format of the digital text data based on the imported digital image and automatically apply the determined content format to the generated digital text data. The digital data can then be inserted into an electronic message and transmitted with the inserted typeset digital text data to a destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tiancong Zhou, Yong Xie, Honghao Qiu
  • Publication number: 20200202159
    Abstract: Computer servers configured to perform digital image processing are discloses herein. In one embodiment, upon receiving a transcription command, a computer server performs text recognition based on patterns in a digital image to generate digital text data corresponding to the digital image. The computer server can then determine a content format of the digital text data based on the imported digital image and automatically apply the determined content format to the generated digital text data. The digital data can then be inserted into an electronic message and transmitted with the inserted typeset digital text data to a destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Tiancong Zhou, Yong Xie, Honghao Qiu
  • Publication number: 20200153776
    Abstract: A messaging system configured for recommending messages is provided. The messaging system machine trains a prediction model associated with a user based on past review and response times for past messages. During runtime, the messaging system generates a predicted user action time for each new message based on the prediction model and tags each new message with a corresponding predicted user action time. Based on an amount of available time, the predicted user action time for each new message, and importance for each new message, the messaging system determines a recommended set of new messages that the user should read and respond to during the available time, whereby a sum of the predicted user action time of the recommended set of new messages is equal to or less than the available time. The recommended set of new messages are visually distinguished for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Honghao Qiu, Chao Chen, Tiancong Zhou, Yong Xie, Kevin Carter, Ke Wang
  • Patent number: 10652119
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to systems and methods for self-healing services and automatic recovery of distribute systems. Some embodiments of the present technology leverage all the available synthetic, customer, client, server, support signals from various sources to intelligently and in real-time detect outages, root cause outages to recoverable targets (e.g., for auto recovery actions), identify the right engineering teams (e.g., for faster manual mitigation), and perform the appropriate recovery action (such as recycle service, reboot server, switch out a faulty rack) or other mitigation actions such as routing, collecting debug information, alerting to the right team, or alert suppression. Some embodiments separate signal monitoring and workflow coordination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lei He, Wilson Man-Hong Li, Tiancong Zhou, Swati Singh
  • Publication number: 20190007290
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to systems and methods for self-healing services and automatic recovery of distribute systems. Some embodiments of the present technology leverage all the available synthetic, customer, client, server, support signals from various sources to intelligently and in real-time detect outages, root cause outages to recoverable targets (e.g., for auto recovery actions), identify the right engineering teams (e.g., for faster manual mitigation), and perform the appropriate recovery action (such as recycle service, reboot server, switch out a faulty rack) or other mitigation actions such as routing, collecting debug information, alerting to the right team, or alert suppression. Some embodiments separate signal monitoring and workflow coordination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Lei He, Wilson Man-Hong Li, Tiancong Zhou, Swati Singh