Patents by Inventor Weijiang Xu
Weijiang Xu 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).
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Patent number: 10108726Abstract: An input method editor (IME) described herein couples scenarios of the input of the user with specific network services to offer more relevant and richer candidates for higher input productivity. Data relating to a computer application in which the input candidates are to be input and/or context relating to a user-submitted query is collected and analyzed to determine a scenario. The input candidates may include text candidates and rich candidates. The IME may select a scenario-tuned and type specific engine to identify the text candidates and/or rich candidates. The scenario-tuned text candidate engines leverage scenario-tuned language models and lexicons, and the scenario-tuned rich candidate engines leverage scenario-relevant web services, such as image, mapping, and video search, when available and appropriate.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Matthew Robert Scott, Huihua Hou, Weipeng Liu, Hao Wei, Chiwei Che, Byron Huntley Changuion, Weijiang Xu, Xi Chen
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Patent number: 9959340Abstract: Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements for semantic lexicon based processing, such as in an input method editor. In some instances, a semantic label may be received that is to be defined for a semantic lexicon and at least a first term may be identified as a positive or negative example of the semantic label. In response, some examples may label at least a second term in the semantic lexicon with the semantic label based at least in part on the identification of the first term as a positive or negative example of the semantic label.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Chi-Ho Li, Weijiang Xu, Matthew Robert Scott, Weipeng Liu, Xi Chen, Xi Chen
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Publication number: 20160299984Abstract: An input method editor (IME) described herein couples scenarios of the input of the user with specific network services to offer more relevant and richer candidates for higher input productivity. Data relating to a computer application in which the input candidates are to be input and/or context relating to a user-submitted query is collected and analyzed to determine a scenario. The input candidates may include text candidates and rich candidates. The IME may select a scenario-tuned and type specific engine to identify the text candidates and/or rich candidates. The scenario-tuned text candidate engines leverage scenario-tuned language models and lexicons, and the scenario-tuned rich candidate engines leverage scenario-relevant web services, such as image, mapping, and video search, when available and appropriate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Matthew Robert Scott, Huihua Hou, Weipeng Liu, Hao Wei, Chiwei Che, Byron Huntley Changuion, Weijiang Xu, Xi Chen
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Patent number: 9378290Abstract: An input method editor (IME) described herein couples scenarios of the input of the user with specific network services to offer more relevant and richer candidates for higher input productivity. Data relating to a computer application in which the input candidates are to be input and/or context relating to a user-submitted query is collected and analyzed to determine a scenario. The input candidates may include text candidates and rich candidates. The IME may select a scenario-tuned and type specific engine to identify the text candidates and/or rich candidates. The scenario-tuned text candidate engines leverage scenario-tuned language models and lexicons, and the scenario-tuned rich candidate engines leverage scenario-relevant web services, such as image, mapping, and video search, when available and appropriate.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Matthew Robert Scott, Huihua Hou, Weipeng Liu, Hao Wei, Chiwei Che, Byron Huntley Changuion, Weijiang Xu, Xi Chen
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Publication number: 20150121291Abstract: An input method editor (IME) may include a normal mode and a rich candidate mode. The IME may present text candidates in response to receiving user inputs in the normal mode, and rich text candidates in addition to the text candidates in response to receiving user inputs in the rich candidate mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Matthew Robert Scott, Huihua Hou, Weipeng Liu, Weijiang Xu
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Publication number: 20150121290Abstract: Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements for semantic lexicon based processing, such as in an input method editor. In some instances, a semantic label may be received that is to be defined for a semantic lexicon and at least a first term may be identified as a positive or negative example of the semantic label. In response, some examples may label at least a second term in the semantic lexicon with the semantic label based at least in part on the identification of the first term as a positive or negative example of the semantic label.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Chi-Ho Li, Weijiang Xu, Matthew Robert Scott, Weipeng Liu, Xi Chen, Xi Chen
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Publication number: 20120276504Abstract: A representation of a virtual language teacher assists in language learning. The virtual language teacher may appear as a “talking head” in a video that a student views to practice pronunciation of a foreign language. A system for generating a virtual language teacher receives input text. The system may generate a video showing the virtual language teacher as a talking head having a mouth that moves in synchronization with speech generated from the input text. The video of the virtual language teacher may then be presented to the student.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2011Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gang Chen, Weijiang Xu, Lijuan Wang, Matthew Robert Scott, Frank Kao-Ping Soong, Hao Wei
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Publication number: 20110078188Abstract: Techniques and tools described herein mine social information from a source and store the social information in a database. Responsive to a search object, the techniques search the stored social information and determine social relationships. The techniques further provide, via a graphical user interface, the social relationships determined from the social information stored in the database. In several embodiments, the techniques enable social relationship feedback.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Hang Li, Yunhua Hu, Xin Zou, Xiaoyuan Cui, Weijiang Xu, Congrui Ji, Ruochi Zhang, Guangping Gao