Patents by Inventor Weiqi Tong

Weiqi Tong 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: 12235914
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and cause the one or more processors to perform acts of: in response to receiving search queries at a search engine, storing search event data and ranking features in one or more databases; generating, using the search event data and the ranking features, a training dataset comprising training event samples; executing a hybrid labeling procedure that assigns labels to the training event samples based, at least in part, on individual engagement information associated with the training event samples; and training a personalized ranking model to rank search results using the training event samples and the labels. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Jingbo Liu, Jun Zhao, Zheng Yan, Weiqi Tong, Nitin Shailesh Baliga
  • Publication number: 20250022033
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a system is provided. The system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computing instructions. The instructions, when executed on the processor, perform: receiving user search queries and product items, the product items including metadata corresponding to product types, the product types comprising an error, and the error corresponding to one of the product items having a non-compliant product type; modifying the metadata corresponding to the product types based on a product type group to mitigate a computing system from displaying non-compliant material to a user; and in response to a product type of the product type group being the non-compliant product type, performing a computer vision prediction on an image of a product corresponding to the product type to detect a misclassification in the product type group. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Ming Sun, Weiqi Tong, Nidhin Pattaniyil, Antonio Khalil Moretti, Tanwir Zaman, Yiyi Huang, Guang Yang, Zheng Yan
  • Patent number: 12106350
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, perform: receiving user search queries and product items, the product items including metadata corresponding to product types; determining a data relationship between the user search queries and the product items based on a weighting factor, the data relationship including user search query nodes and product item nodes; determining a first vector representation for first ones of the product item nodes in the data relationship; determining a second vector representation for second ones of the product item nodes in the data relationship; grouping the first vector representation for first ones of the product item nodes and the second vector representation for second ones of the product item nodes into a product type group based on a proximity search; and modifying the metadata corresponding to the product types based on the p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Ming Sun, Weiqi Tong, Nidhin Pattaniyil, Antonio Khalil Moretti, Tanwir Zaman, Yiyi Huang, Guang Yang, Zheng Yan
  • Publication number: 20240256768
    Abstract: A method including extracting queries from historical search query data. The method also can include spellchecking each of the queries (i) using a first spellcheck model and (ii) using a second spellcheck model. A latency of the first spellcheck model is lower than a latency of the second spellcheck model, and an overall accuracy of the second spellcheck model is higher than an overall accuracy of the first spellcheck model. The method additionally can include determining first queries of the queries in which, for each of the first queries, a first respective spellcheck output from the first spellcheck model is different from a second respective spellcheck output from the second spellcheck model. The method further can include adding at least a portion of the first queries to a spellcheck cache for runtime spellchecking. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Adithya Rajan, Weiqi Tong, Zheng Yan
  • Publication number: 20230244727
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and cause the one or more processors to perform acts of: in response to receiving search queries at a search engine, storing search event data and ranking features in one or more databases; generating, using the search event data and the ranking features, a training dataset comprising training event samples; executing a hybrid labeling procedure that assigns labels to the training event samples based, at least in part, on individual engagement information associated with the training event samples; and training a personalized ranking model to rank search results using the training event samples and the labels. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Jingbo Liu, Jun Zhao, Zheng Yan, Weiqi Tong, Nitin Shailesh Baliga
  • Publication number: 20230115677
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, perform: receiving user search queries and product items, the product items including metadata corresponding to product types; determining a data relationship between the user search queries and the product items based on a weighting factor, the data relationship including user search query nodes and product item nodes; determining a first vector representation for first ones of the product item nodes in the data relationship; determining a second vector representation for second ones of the product item nodes in the data relationship; grouping the first vector representation for first ones of the product item nodes and the second vector representation for second ones of the product item nodes into a product type group based on a proximity search; and modifying the metadata corresponding to the product types based on the p
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Ming Sun, Weiqi Tong, Nidhin Pattaniyil, Antonio Khalil Moretti, Tanwir Zaman, Yiyi Huang, Guang Yang, Zheng Yan
  • Patent number: D995250
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventors: Feng Xu, Weiqi Tong, Mingliang Zhu