Patents by Inventor Wei Hong Qian

Wei Hong Qian 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: 10671686
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for processing webpage data. The method includes: in response to a webpage being opened, sending a link contained in the webpage to a network side device; receiving a group identification from the network side device, the group identification being determined by the network side device according to the link and used to specify a group the link belongs to; determining whether there is a browsed link belonging to the group specified by the group identification; and in response to determining there is a browsed link belonging to the group specified by the group identification, prompting that webpage content pointed by the link contained in the webpage has been browsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Dong Xu Duan, Wei Hong Qian, Chang Hua Sun
  • Patent number: 9818080
    Abstract: A method for categorizing a use scenario of a product is disclosed. The method includes extracting, from a text describing the use scenario of the product, at least one feature tuple capable of characterizing the use scenario and performing a latent semantic association analysis on the at least one feature tuple to obtain a latent topic sequence for the use scenario. Further, the method includes determining a product scenario category to which the use scenario belongs according to the latent topic sequence for the use scenario. Additionally, a corresponding apparatus is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keke Cai, HongLei Guo, Wei Hong Qian, Zhong Su, Li Zhang, Shiwan Zhao
  • Patent number: 9753905
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a document structure. The method includes the steps of: aligning various parts in the first version and the second version in at least one pair of historical versions among a plurality of historical versions of a document; dividing the first version and the second version into a plurality of blocks on the basis of a Levenshtein distance between the aligned parts; evaluating a level of the block in the document structure on the basis of text features of the block among the plurality of blocks; and generating the document structure on the basis of a position of the block according to an evaluation result. An apparatus for generating a document structure is also provided. According to the present invention, document structures can be more conveniently and rapidly generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, HongLei Guo, Zhili Guo, Davide Pasetto, Wei Hong Qian, Zhong Su
  • Patent number: 9684779
    Abstract: An authentication method can include, a random expression prompt, recording of the user's expression actions, and an authentication result. This is completed using a terminal device configured to display authentication information, record the user's inputted information, and send an authentication result. The terminal device may be further configured to package an authentication result, and send it to an authentication server. Subsequent actions of the user are allowed or denied based on the authentication result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Min Li, Wei Hong Qian, Zhong Su
  • Publication number: 20150339278
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a document structure. The method includes the steps of: aligning various parts in the first version and the second version in at least one pair of historical versions among a plurality of historical versions of a document; dividing the first version and the second version into a plurality of blocks on the basis of a Levenshtein distance between the aligned parts; evaluating a level of the block in the document structure on the basis of text features of the block among the plurality of blocks; and generating the document structure on the basis of a position of the block according to an evaluation result. An apparatus for generating a document structure is also provided. According to the present invention, document structures can be more conveniently and rapidly generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, HongLei Guo, Zhili Guo, Davide Pasetto, Wei Hong Qian, Zhong Su
  • Patent number: 9195635
    Abstract: Visualizing content change of a data collection over time. A topic may be split into multiple linear, non-overlapping sub-topics along a timeline by satisfying a diverse set of semantic, temporal, and visualization constraints simultaneously. For each derived sub-topic, a set of representative keywords may be automatically selected to summarize the main content of the sub-topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shixia Liu, Shimei Pan, Wei Hong Qian, Yangqiu Song, Fei Wang, Michelle X. Zhou
  • Publication number: 20150310096
    Abstract: Comparing document contents is provided. An ontological concept is extracted from a text snippet of a corpus document. One or more feature vectors are constructed that include associative information that describes an ontology that includes the focused concept. A topic model is trained using the one or more feature vectors. First and second topic sets are respectively extracted from first and second documents using the topic model. One or more topics from the first topic set are matched, using the topic model, with one or more topics from the second topic set to construct a matched topic set. Semantic analyses are respectively performed on first and second text snippet sets, wherein the first and second text snippet sets are chosen based, at least in part, on the matched topic set. Text snippets are matched based, at least in part, on the first and second semantic analyses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Shenghua Bao, Hong Lei Guo, Zhi Li Guo, Davide Pasetto, Wei Hong Qian, Zhong Su
  • Patent number: 9087117
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for visualization of a data set, the method comprises: dividing the data set into a plurality of information layers based on different information dimensions; and visually processing the plurality of information layers based on different information dimensions, respectively, in order to present respective views of the plurality of information layers. In the present invention, by visualizing the data set through presenting different overviews of the data set from different information dimensions, respectively, the presentation of comprehensive information of the data set to a data set analyst is ensured while distortion of presented contents as well as visual clutter are prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nan Cao, Lei Shi, Jimeng Sun, Wei Hong Qian, Shixia Liu
  • Publication number: 20150154392
    Abstract: An authentication method can include, a random expression prompt, recording of the user's expression actions, and an authentication result. This is completed using a terminal device configured to display authentication information, record the user's inputted information, and send an authentication result. The terminal device may be further configured to package an authentication result, and send it to an authentication server. Subsequent actions of the user are allowed or denied based on the authentication result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Min Li, Wei Hong Qian, Zhong Su
  • Publication number: 20150154537
    Abstract: A method for categorizing a use scenario of a product is disclosed. The method includes extracting, from a text describing the use scenario of the product, at least one feature tuple capable of characterizing the use scenario and performing a latent semantic association analysis on the at least one feature tuple to obtain a latent topic sequence for the use scenario. Further, the method includes determining a product scenario category to which the use scenario belongs according to the latent topic sequence for the use scenario. Additionally, a corresponding apparatus is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Keke Cai, HongLei Guo, Wei Hong Qian, Zhong Su, Li Zhang, Shiwan Zhao
  • Publication number: 20140244646
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for processing webpage data. The method includes: in response to a webpage being opened, sending a link contained in the webpage to a network side device; receiving a group identification from the network side device, the group identification being determined by the network side device according to the link and used to specify a group the link belongs to; determining whether there is a browsed link belonging to the group specified by the group identification; and in response to determining there is a browsed link belonging to the group specified by the group identification, prompting that webpage content pointed by the link contained in the webpage has been browsed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Dong Xu Duan, Wei Hong Qian, Chang Hua Sun
  • Publication number: 20140123036
    Abstract: A method, apparatus for touch screen display process, and a browser are provided in the present disclosure. The method comprises: identifying Web elements used for Web interaction displayed on a touch screen; in response to a first action of a user on the touch screen, displaying the Web element pointed by the first action with enlargement; and in response to a second action of the user on the touch screen, triggering a Web interaction operation corresponding to the Web element pointed by the first action. According to the above technical solution, by displaying the Web element pointed by the first action of the user with enlargement, the user can preview the Web element that he actually selects, and a Web interaction is triggered only if it is determined that the Web element desired by the user has been correctly selected. Therefore, precise click can be realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Keke Cai, Wei Hong Qian, Zhong Su, Li Zhang, Shiwan Zhao
  • Publication number: 20140082024
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for visualization of a data set, the method comprises: dividing the data set into a plurality of information layers based on different information dimensions; and visually processing the plurality of information layers based on different information dimensions, respectively, in order to present respective views of the plurality of information layers. In the present invention, by visualizing the data set through presenting different overviews of the data set from different information dimensions, respectively, the presentation of comprehensive information of the data set to a data set analyst is ensured while distortion of presented contents as well as visual clutter are prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, Wei Hong Qian, Lei Shi, Jimeng Sun
  • Publication number: 20140019119
    Abstract: Visualizing content change of a data collection over time. A topic may be split into multiple linear, non-overlapping sub-topics along a timeline by satisfying a diverse set of semantic, temporal, and visualization constraints simultaneously. For each derived sub-topic, a set of representative keywords may be automatically selected to summarize the main content of the sub-topic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shixia Liu, Shimei Pan, Wei Hong Qian, Yangqiu Song, Fei Wang, Michelle X. Zhou
  • Patent number: 8446842
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for identifying sub-graphs similar to a sample sub-graph from a network, in particular for identifying similar community structures from a network, are disclosed. Specifically, when a sample sub-graph is a community structure, it usually contains a plurality of nodes densely associated with each other. The method proposes first screening the network via key nodes of community structures so as to find sub-graph candidates that are potentially similar to the sample sub-graph, then strictly comparing the sub-graph candidates with the sample sub-graph to find similar sub-graphs of the sample sub-graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, Wei Hong Qian
  • Patent number: 8245135
    Abstract: A method and system of producing a visual text summarization. According to the method, a plurality of topics may be extracted from a collection of text documents, where each of the topics comprises a distribution of topic keywords. An importance ranking for each of the topics may be determined, and an importance ranking for each of the topic keywords of a topic may also be determined. A graph may be displayed having a plurality of stacked layers representing a group of topics selected from the plurality of topics based on the importance ranking of the topics. A keyword cloud within each layer of the graph may also be displayed, where the one keyword cloud is a group of topic keywords selected from the extracted topic keywords based on the importance ranking of the extracted topic keywords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Jia Cai, Xiao Xiao Lian, Shixia Liu, Shimei Pan, Wei Hong Qian, Yang Qiu Song, Qiang Zhang, Michelle Xue Zhou
  • Publication number: 20110060983
    Abstract: A method and system of producing a visual text summarization. According to the method, a plurality of topics may be extracted from a collection of text documents, where each of the topics comprises a distribution of topic keywords. An importance ranking for each of the topics may be determined, and an importance ranking for each of the topic keywords of a topic may also be determined. A graph may be displayed having a plurality of stacked layers representing a group of topics selected from the plurality of topics based on the importance ranking of the topics. A keyword cloud within each layer of the graph may also be displayed, where the one keyword cloud is a group of topic keywords selected from the extracted topic keywords based on the importance ranking of the extracted topic keywords.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventors: Wei Jia Cai, Xiao Xiao Lian, Shi Xia Liu, Shimei Pan, Wei Hong Qian, Yang Qiu Song, Qiang Q. Zhang, Michelle X. Zhou
  • Publication number: 20100205238
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for intelligent exploratory visualization and analysis. A semantics-based client-server application architecture is provided that enables interactive visualization and analysis applications over the web. From the client perspective, user activities are observed and the client determines if a sequence of user activities comprises one or more predefined semantics-based user actions. Semantics-based action descriptor are then sent to the server, optionally with any related parameters, and a response is then received from the server. From the server perspective, one or more semantics-based action descriptors are received from the client with an action type selected from a predefined set of types, wherein the semantics-based action descriptors are based on a sequence of activities of a user. The server processes the semantics-based action descriptors and sends a response to the client in response to the one or more semantics-based action descriptors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nan Cao, David H. Gotz, Peter Kissa, Shi Xia Liu, Jie Lu, Wei Hong Qian, Zhen Wen, Michelle Zhou
  • Publication number: 20100063973
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for identifying sub-graphs similar to a sample sub-graph from a network, in particular for identifying similar community structures from a network, are disclosed. Specifically, when a sample sub-graph is a community structure, it usually contains a plurality of nodes densely associated with each other. The method proposes first screening the network via key nodes of community structures so as to find sub-graph candidates that are potentially similar to the sample sub-graph, then strictly comparing the sub-graph candidates with the sample sub-graph to find similar sub-graphs of the sample sub-graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, Wei Hong Qian