Patents by Inventor Wanlin Pang

Wanlin Pang 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: 8589231
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs for categorizing the sensitivity of web pages are presented. In one method, a space of sensitive pages is identified based on the sensitivity categorization of a first plurality of web pages and a second plurality of web pages. The first plurality of web pages is obtained by performing search queries using known sensitive words, and the second plurality of web pages includes randomly selected web pages. Additionally, the method identifies a third plurality of web pages that includes web pages on or near the boundary between the space of sensitive pages and the space of non-sensitive pages. The space of sensitive pages is then redefined based on the sensitivity categorization of the first, second, and third pluralities of web pages. Once the space of sensitive pages is defined, the method is used to determine that a given web page is sensitive when the given web page is in the space of sensitive pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Dragomir Yankov, Suju Rajan, Scott J. Gaffney, Dun Liu, Wanlin Pang, Adwait Ratnaparkhi
  • Publication number: 20130211906
    Abstract: The present invention provides techniques for use in measuring effects of social sharing, and social sharing user characteristics, on advertisement effectiveness. Measurement information can be used in many ways, such as in optimizing advertisement campaigns and advertisement targeting. Techniques are provided in which bucket testing experiments are utilized. Advertisement performance may be tracked, including downstream advertisement performance, which may follow social sharing, in measuring differences in advertisement performance between content sharing users and content non-sharing users. Techniques are provided in which user social graph information may be used in determining downstream advertisement performance, even without information regarding specific sharing instances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Sumant, Lei Tang, Kun Liu, Wanlin Pang
  • Publication number: 20110184817
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs for categorizing the sensitivity of web pages are presented. In one method, a space of sensitive pages is identified based on the sensitivity categorization of a first plurality of web pages and a second plurality of web pages. The first plurality of web pages is obtained by performing search queries using known sensitive words, and the second plurality of web pages includes randomly selected web pages. Additionally, the method identifies a third plurality of web pages that includes web pages on or near the boundary between the space of sensitive pages and the space of non-sensitive pages. The space of sensitive pages is then redefined based on the sensitivity categorization of the first, second, and third pluralities of web pages. Once the space of sensitive pages is defined, the method is used to determine that a given web page is sensitive when the given web page is in the space of sensitive pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: Yahoo!, Inc.
    Inventors: Dragomir Yankov, Suju Rajan, Scott J. Gaffney, Dun Liu, Wanlin Pang, Adwait Ratnaparkhi