Patents by Inventor Weiping Peng

Weiping Peng 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: 20190095054
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for generating or updating cross-community streams. A plurality of communities can be maintained on behalf of a plurality of member organizations. Members of each community can have access to a corresponding set of records. One or more selections operable to assign one or more records to one or more cross-community streams can be displayed in a user interface on a display of a device of a first user. A first request from the first user to assign a first set of one or more records to a first cross-community stream can be processed. The first cross-community stream can be generated or updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Weiping Peng, HuaSheng Su, Jennifer Yang, Paul Gene Byrne, Rasmus Mencke, David Gary Mendelson
  • Publication number: 20180260579
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for attaching objects to feed items. A publisher can be caused to be displayed on a display of a device of a first user of a social networking system. The publisher can comprise an input area capable of receiving text, a first selection operable to cause the text to be shared in a feed, and a second selection operable to allow the first user to select a plurality of objects to be attached to the feed item. It can be determined that the second selection has been selected by the first user. It can be determined that the first selection has been selected by the first user. The feed item can be caused to be displayed on a display of a device of a second user of the social networking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Miko Arnab Bose, Denis Min Chiat Chai, Disheng Shen, HuaSheng Su, James Johnson, Jennifer Yang, Neil Hayek, Paul Gene Byrne, Weiping Peng, Abhishek Gupta, Anton Zoubarev
  • Publication number: 20170068646
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for interacting with one or more data objects in an online social network. A user interface includes a publisher with a custom action. The custom action is defined in accordance with custom action instructions provided by a first entity via an application programming interface (API). Such custom action instructions may declaratively or programmatically define the data object, the interaction to be performed with the data object, and other attributes associated with the custom action. A user may request to interact with the data object via selection of the custom action by a second entity. Information may be submitted through the publisher to interact with the data object to update a database system associated with the data object. A feed item may be presented for inclusion in the information feed based on the update.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Scott D. Beechuk, Steven Tamm, Orjan Kjellberg, Arvind Krishnan, Benjamin Snyder, Luke A. Ball, Shannon Hale, Khanh Kim P. Nguyen, William Gradin, Anna Bonner Mieritz, Beril Guvendik Maples, Gregg Johnson, Andrew Waite, Evan Michael Moses, Weiping Peng, Scott Peter Perket
  • Patent number: 9529488
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for interacting with one or more data objects in an online social network. A user interface includes a publisher with a custom action. The custom action is defined in accordance with custom action instructions provided by a first entity via an application programming interface (API). Such custom action instructions may declaratively or programmatically define the data object, the interaction to be performed with the data object, and other attributes associated with the custom action. A user may request to interact with the data object via selection of the custom action by a second entity. Information may be submitted through the publisher to interact with the data object to update a database system associated with the data object. A feed item may be presented for inclusion in the information feed based on the update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Scott D. Beechuk, Steven Tamm, Orjan Kjellberg, Arvind Krishnan, Benjamin Snyder, Luke A. Ball, Shannon Hale, Khanh Kim P. Nguyen, William Gradin, Anna Bonner Mieritz, Beril Guvendik Maples, Gregg Johnson, Andrew Waite, Evan Michael Moses, Weiping Peng, Scott Peter Perket
  • Publication number: 20160104067
    Abstract: Disclosed are some examples of systems, apparatus, methods and storage media for providing customized recommendations to users. Some implementations more particularly relate to a recommendation platform that enables authorized third parties to create, customize and add new recommendations that are then available to be served to target users or audiences of users. Some implementations further relate to a recommendation platform that enables authorized users to define audiences, scheduling settings, scheduling policies, and rules to customize or influence the provision of associated recommendations to the users. The recommendation platform includes a recommendation engine that serves the recommendations to users based on such defined audiences, scheduling settings, policies or other rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Zhenhua Xu, Joel Palmert, Johan Philip Magnusson, Rasmus Mencke, Scott Douglas White, Zandra Hird, Ziwei Chen, Kapil Agarwal, Adam McCormick Doti, Arthur Albert Louie, Kamyar Seradjfar, Paul Gene Byrne, Runying Mao, Weiping Peng
  • Publication number: 20140282100
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for interacting with one or more data objects in an online social network. A user interface includes a publisher with a custom action. The custom action is defined in accordance with custom action instructions provided by a first entity via an application programming interface (API). Such custom action instructions may declaratively or programmatically define the data object, the interaction to be performed with the data object, and other attributes associated with the custom action. A user may request to interact with the data object via selection of the custom action by a second entity. Information may be submitted through the publisher to interact with the data object to update a database system associated with the data object. A feed item may be presented for inclusion in the information feed based on the update.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Scott D. Beechuk, Steven Tamm, Orjan Kjellberg, Arvind Krishnan, Benjamin Snyder, Luke A. Ball, Shannon Hale, Khanh Kim P. Nguyen, William Gradin, Anna Bonner Mieritz, Beril Guvendik Maples, Gregg Johnson, Andrew Waite, Evan Michael Moses, Weiping Peng
  • Publication number: 20110119128
    Abstract: An online audience is targeted for advertisement delivery in an advertising exchange system. The method is performed in an advertising exchange system and may include processing a request to delivery at least one message over a network. An audience segment may be stored for a first entity. The audience segment may identify a population of visitors to one or more network locations of the first entity that form a target-group of members based on activity of the visitors at the first entity. The system may retrieve the audience segment for a second entity and the system may deliver a message from the advertising exchange system in response to the request to the target-group of members on behalf of the second entity by using the audience segment to target the target-group of members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Fang Fang, Steven Hartman, Tim Kaiser, Alex Wu, Weiping Peng
  • Publication number: 20100152200
    Abstract: The present invention relates to chemical compounds, methods for their discovery, and their therapeutic use. In particular, the present invention provides compounds as inhibitors of alphaviruses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: David J. Miller, Daniel C. Peltier, Weiping Peng
  • Publication number: 20050267050
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and compositions for treating or preventing the symptoms associated with toxicity induced by ingestion of MDMA. In one aspect, the present invention is related to methods for treating or preventing the symptoms associated with MDMA, or MDMA-related psychoactive drugs by administering to a subject in need thereof a composition that includes a therapeutically effective amount of an agent which inhibits ?-amino butyric acid (GABA) transporter activity or reduces GABA transporter level in the brain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Applicant: YEDA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Rabi Simantov, Weiping Peng