Patents by Inventor Wei Vivian Zhang

Wei Vivian Zhang 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).

  • Publication number: 20150142566
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing fresh product listing advertisements in response to a search query are presented. More particularly, in response to receiving a search query, a plurality of search results are identified, which search results are relevant to the search query. Additionally, a first set of product listing advertisements is identified. A second set of product listing advertisements, which are fresh product listing advertisements, are also identified and combined into the first set. Upon generating the search results page, at least some of the identified search results and some of the product listing advertisements are included. At least one of the fresh product listing advertisements is included in the generated search results page. The at least one fresh product listing advertisement is tagged with an annotation indicating that the advertisement is a fresh product listing advertisement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Vivian Zhang, Tak W. Yan, Ye Chen
  • Patent number: 7844567
    Abstract: Described are a system and method for selecting a training sample from a sample set. The method comprises determining proximities between all data samples in a set of the data samples, forming edges between the data samples as a function of the proximities, computing weights for the edges as a function of the proximities, selecting a plurality of the data samples as a function of the weights to form a subset of the data samples, and storing the subset of the data samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaofei He, Wei Vivian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20090049002
    Abstract: Described are a system and method for selecting a training sample from a sample set. The method comprises determining proximities between all data samples in a set of the data samples, forming edges between the data samples as a function of the proximities, computing weights for the edges as a function of the proximities, selecting a plurality of the data samples as a function of the weights to form a subset of the data samples, and storing the subset of the data samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Xiaofei He, Wei Vivian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20080256035
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating a linear regression model based on statistically frequent query pairs. The method of the present invention comprises storing statistically frequent query pairs, the query pairs constituting a query and a query rewrite. Query pair samples are generated based on the statistically frequent query pairs and an active learning algorithm is utilized to select the most informative query pairs. A linear regression algorithm is then utilized to generate a linear regression model based on the selected most informative query pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Wei Vivian Zhang, Xiaofei He