Patents by Inventor Tsung-Yuan Liu

Tsung-Yuan 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: 10825110
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for an online community management system. One method includes detecting that a user has interacted with a post on a social network. The social network provides a plurality of entity contents. Further, the method includes determining a topic of the post based on content of the post. The method includes recommending following a related entity content of the plurality of entity contents to the user in response to determining that the topic is associated with the related entity content, the user is not following the related entity content, one or more users of the social network have posted in connection with the related entity content within a threshold amount of time, and the user is not blocked from accessing the related entity content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jon Napper, Tsung-Yuan Liu, Bruce Leendert Polderman, Grace Chung, Edward Kessler
  • Patent number: 9957649
    Abstract: A sock structure includes a sock body in which a wearer's foot is wrapped. A cuff is provided in an upper end of the sock body, and a toe and a heel are respectively formed at a front end and a rear end of the sock body. An instep is formed at an upside of the sock body, and a contracted opening section is formed in the instep adjacent to the toe. The contracted opening section includes a stitching line by which the contracted opening section is closed and seamed. Depending on the contracted opening section designed on the instep adjacent to the toe, the stitching line stays above the foot toes of a person who wears the sock body and prevents the foot toes from discomfort or injury induced by friction between the foot toes and the stitching line when the sock body is worn on a foot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Inventor: Tsung-Yuan Liu
  • Publication number: 20170337638
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for an online community management system. One method includes detecting that a user has interacted with a post on a social network. The social network provides a plurality of entity contents. Further, the method includes determining a topic of the post based on content of the post. The method includes recommending following a related entity content of the plurality of entity contents to the user in response to determining that the topic is associated with the related entity content, the user is not following the related entity content, one or more users of the social network have posted in connection with the related entity content within a threshold amount of time, and the user is not blocked from accessing the related entity content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Jon Napper, Tsung-Yuan Liu, Bruce Leendert Polderman, Grace Chung, Edward Kessler
  • Patent number: 9727926
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for an online community management system. One method includes an operation for detecting a post on a social network, where the post is associated with an article. The social network has a plurality of entity pages associated with respective entities. Further, the method includes operations for determining a topic of the article based on a content of the article, and for determining whether the topic is associated with a related entity page on the social network. The related entity page is recommended to a user accessing the post when the topic is associated with the related entity page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Napper, Tsung-Yuan Liu, Bruce Leendert Polderman, Grace Chung, Edward Kessler
  • Publication number: 20170093934
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for an online community management system. One method includes an operation for detecting a post on a social network, where the post is associated with an article. The social network has a plurality of entity pages associated with respective entities. Further, the method includes operations for determining a topic of the article based on a content of the article, and for determining whether the topic is associated with a related entity page on the social network. The related entity page is recommended to a user accessing the post when the topic is associated with the related entity page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Napper, Tsung-Yuan Liu, Bruce Leendert Polderman, Grace Chung, Edward Kessler
  • Publication number: 20170081793
    Abstract: A sock structure includes a sock body in which a wearer's foot is wrapped. A cuff is provided in an upper end of the sock body, and a toe and a heel are respectively formed at a front end and a rear end of the sock body. An instep is formed at an upside of the sock body, and a contracted opening section is formed in the instep adjacent to the toe. The contracted opening section includes a stitching line by which the contracted opening section is closed and seamed. Depending on the contracted opening section designed on the instep adjacent to the toe, the stitching line stays above the foot toes of a person who wears the sock body and prevents the foot toes from discomfort or injury induced by friction between the foot toes and the stitching line when the sock body is worn on a foot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventor: Tsung-Yuan Liu
  • Publication number: 20030115173
    Abstract: An intelligent document management and usage method, comprising the steps of: extracting at least one keyword from each document respectively, and using it as the attribute row corresponding to the document; then, providing a keyword directory table to the display screen for user usage and management, wherein the keyword directory table comprises a plurality of first keyword directories that are composed of the union of the keywords contained in the document. When the user selects one of the first keyword directories, the document link points contained in the first keyword directory are displayed. Moreover, a parent-son hierarchical relationship of the first keyword directory and a plurality of second keyword directories contained in the first keyword directory is also displayed. The second keyword directories are united by the keywords of all documents contained in the first keyword directory corresponding to the upper layer except for the keyword of the upper layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventor: Tsung-Yuan Liu