Patents by Inventor Weiqin Ma

Weiqin Ma 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: 11243987
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a set of records from a set of inputs, with each record containing an entity key, a partition key, and one or more attribute-value pairs. Next, the system sorts and indexes the records by the entity key for each partitioned input. The system then processes a query of the records by matching entity key values to the sorted and indexed records for each input partition in the query. Next, the system merges the subset of records with the same entity key values into records, with each merged record containing an entity key field and a single field that includes a list of attribute-value pairs from the subset. Finally, the system outputs the merged records in response to the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Wenxuan Gao, Bin Wu, Weiqin Ma, Weidong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11238087
    Abstract: A machine may be configured to generate an enhanced user interface for displaying social analytics based on viral mentions and threading. For example, the machine accesses a plurality of items of digital content. The machine extracts, for each of the plurality of items of digital content, a title that describes a particular item of digital content. The machine generates a group of items of digital content based on the extracted titles associated with the plurality of items of digital content. The machine identifies, from the group of items of digital content, an original item of digital content and one or more subsequent items of digital content. The machine determines a strength value associated with the original item of digital content. The machine generates and causes a display of an enhanced user interface that displays the title and the strength value associated with the original item of digital content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Weiqin Ma, Weidong Zhang, Yongzheng Zhang, Chi-Yi Kuan
  • Publication number: 20190197125
    Abstract: A machine may be configured to generate an enhanced user interface for displaying social analytics based on viral mentions and threading. For example, the machine accesses a plurality of items of digital content. The machine extracts, for each of the plurality of items of digital content, a title that describes a particular item of digital content. The machine generates a group of items of digital content based on the extracted titles associated with the plurality of items of digital content. The machine identifies, from the group of items of digital content, an original item of digital content and one or more subsequent items of digital content. The machine determines a strength value associated with the original item of digital content. The machine generates and causes a display of an enhanced user interface that displays the title and the strength value associated with the original item of digital content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Weiqin Ma, Weidong Zhang, Yongzheng Zhang, Chi-Yi Kuan
  • Publication number: 20190079957
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a set of features for use by a set of statistical models. Next, the system generates a schema that includes a logical description of data represented by the features and a physical description related to generating and storing the features. The system then outputs the schema for use in managing and sharing the features across the statistical models. Finally, the system updates the outputted schema to reflect one or more parameters from a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Wenxuan Gao, Weiqin Ma, Weidong Zhang, Hong Lu
  • Publication number: 20190079994
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a set of features for use with one or more statistical models. Next, the system generates feature profiling data containing a set of statistics for the set of features. The system then outputs the feature profiling data for use in characterizing a distribution of the features. Furthermore, the system updates the outputted feature profiling data based on a granularity associated with the statistics. Finally, the system uses the statistics in the feature profiling data to perform anomaly detection and alerts users if unexpected feature distribution change is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Weiqin Ma, Wenxuan Gao, Weidong Zhang, Hong Lu
  • Patent number: 10146881
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a first configuration for processing a first set of content items from a first data source and a second configuration for processing a second set of content items from a second data source. For each content item in the first set of content items, the system uses mappings from the first configuration to transform original fields from the content item into required fields in a record representing the content item. Next, the system generates, from the required fields, a document key for the content item. The system also performs deduplication of multiple records with the document key and stores a single record with the document key. Finally, the system uses the second configuration to generate, from the second set of content items, a set of records independently of processing the first set of content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bin Wu, Weiqin Ma, Weidong Zhang, Liwen Zhang, Srihari R. Duddukuru, SangHyun Park, Yongzheng Zhang, Yi Zheng, Hong Lu, Yurong Shi, Chi-Yi Kuan
  • Patent number: 9946703
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for selecting a title for a post of a social network. A method includes operations for identifying a word weight for each word in a corpus based on the relevance of each word, receiving a document that includes several sentences, and assigning to each word in the sentences a tag indicative of a part of speech. Further, the method includes operations for calculating a topic weight for each sentence based on the tags of the words in the sentence, and for calculating a sentence weight for each sentence based on a sum of the word weights of the words in the sentence, the topic weight for the sentence, and a position weight of the sentence within a paragraph. The sentence with the highest sentence weight is selected as the title for the document, and the title is presented with the document to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Weiqin Ma, Bin Wu, Wenxuan Gao, Weidong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180052816
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for selecting a title for a post of a social network. A method includes operations for identifying a word weight for each word in a corpus based on the relevance of each word, receiving a document that includes several sentences, and assigning to each word in the sentences a tag indicative of a part of speech. Further, the method includes operations for calculating a topic weight for each sentence based on the tags of the words in the sentence, and for calculating a sentence weight for each sentence based on a sum of the word weights of the words in the sentence, the topic weight for the sentence, and a position weight of the sentence within a paragraph. The sentence with the highest sentence weight is selected as the title for the document, and the title is presented with the document to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Weiqin Ma, Bin Wu, Wenxuan Gao, Weidong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180032608
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing textual content. During operation, the system obtains a content item containing a set of text units. For each text unit in the set of text units, the system obtains a similarity score representing a similarity of the text unit to other text units in the content item and calculates a ranking score for the text unit from a combination comprising a text unit frequency for the text unit, the similarity score, and a position weight associated with a position of the text unit in the content item. The system then ranks the set of text units by the ranking score and uses the ranking to display a summary containing a subset of the text units in the content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Bin Wu, Weiqin Ma, Wenxuan Gao, Weidong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170364563
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a set of records from a set of inputs, with each record containing an entity key, a partition key, and one or more attribute-value pairs. Next, the system sorts and indexes the records by the entity key for each partitioned input. The system then processes a query of the records by matching entity key values to the sorted and indexed records for each input partition in the query. Next, the system merges the subset of records with the same entity key values into records, with each merged record containing an entity key field and a single field that includes a list of attribute-value pairs from the subset. Finally, the system outputs the merged records in response to the query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Wenxuan Gao, Bin Wu, Weiqin Ma, Weidong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170286551
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a first configuration for processing a first set of content items from a first data source and a second configuration for processing a second set of content items from a second data source. For each content item in the first set of content items, the system uses mappings from the first configuration to transform original fields from the content item into required fields in a record representing the content item. Next, the system generates, from the required fields, a document key for the content item. The system also performs deduplication of multiple records with the document key and stores a single record with the document key. Finally, the system uses the second configuration to generate, from the second set of content items, a set of records independently of processing the first set of content items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Bin Wu, Weiqin Ma, Weidong Zhang, Liwen Zhang, Srihari R. Duddukuru, SangHyun Park, Yongzheng Zhang, Yi Zheng, Hong Lu, Yurong Shi, Chi-Yi Kuan
  • Publication number: 20170154057
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a set of records from a set of inputs, with each record containing an entity key, a partition key, and one or more attribute-value pairs. For each attribute-value pair in the records, the system maps an attribute name in the attribute-value pair to a unique identifier for the attribute name and replaces the attribute name with the unique identifier. The system then identifies a subset of the records with a matching entity key and a matching partition key and merges the subset of the records into a single record that includes the matching entity key, the matching partition key, and a single field containing a list of attribute-value pairs from the subset of the records. Finally, the system provides the single record and the mapping for use in querying from a centralized source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Bin Wu, Weiqin Ma, Qiang Zhu, Yuankui Sun, Yan Liu, Weidong Zhang, Hong Lu