Patents by Inventor Wenchang Yan

Wenchang Yan 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: 9704165
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating the effectiveness of social media pages. Users of social media systems review and publish various kinds of content on social media pages, including various messages, audio clips, video clips, polls, web links, etc. A social media page evaluation system hosted on a physical server or a cloud receives a social media page that is to be evaluated, and provides results of an evaluation process. The evaluation process involves processing of various criteria and parameters that characterize engagements and interactions between users of social media pages. Results of an evaluation process include qualitative and quantitative attributes in connection with evaluating the effectiveness of published content on social media pages. Such results are useful for purposes of enriching content in social media pages, resulting in greater network traffic due to increased engagements and interaction among users of social media pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: James V. Anderson, John B. Nolt, Michael J. Strutton, Wenchang Yan, Sriti Kumar, Robert M. Maury, Paul M. Broft, Maria F. Arscott, Nancy M. Lim, Jason C. Reynolds, Joe Kearney, John Schult, Melinda M. Weathers, Chad Estes, Erica M. Stanley, Geoffrey Hom, Gregory K. Dunn, Horace Williams, II, Matt White, Reginald R. Bradford, Andrei Erdoss, Andrew Robert Dorr, Brian Culler
  • Publication number: 20160335344
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for detecting, classifying, and/or enforcing policies on social networking activity. The technology can store a content policy, classify content posted to a social network, determine that the classification corresponds to the content policy, and apply an action specified by the content policy to the posted content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Richard Banks Sutton, Anthony Lawrence Dorie, Wenchang Yan, Devin Hugh Redmond, Raymond Kruck, Daniel Oshiro Nadir
  • Patent number: 9400999
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for detecting, classifying, and/or enforcing policies on social networking activity. The technology can store a content policy, classify content posted to a social network, determine that the classification corresponds to the content policy, and apply an action specified by the content policy to the posted content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Proofpoint, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Banks Sutton, Anthony Lawrence Dorie, Wenchang Yan, Devin Hugh Redmond, Raymond Kruck, Daniel Oshiro Nadir
  • Publication number: 20150052138
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for detecting, classifying, and/or enforcing rules on social networking activity. The technology can scan and collect social content data from one or more social networks, store the social content data, classify content data posted to a social network, create and apply a set of social data content rules to future posted social content data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Richard Banks Sutton, Daniel Oshiro Nadir, Devin Hugh Redmond, Harold Nguyen, Anthony Lawrence Dorie, Jorge Iriso, Wenchang Yan
  • Publication number: 20140280570
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for detecting, classifying, and/or enforcing policies on social networking activity. The technology can store a content policy, classify content posted to a social network, determine that the classification corresponds to the content policy, and apply an action specified by the content policy to the posted content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Richard Banks Sutton, Anthony Lawrence Dorie, Wenchang Yan, Devin Hugh Redmond, Raymond Kruck, Daniel Oshiro Nadir
  • Publication number: 20140129632
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes monitoring changes to an account accessible by a group of subscribers that form a social network. The changes to the account are compared to a normative base line to identify deviations from the normative base line. An alert is sent in response to deviations from the normative base line. The normative base line is defined by metadata gathered through an application program interface associated with the account, account entity data and a set of predefined rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: SOCIAL IQ NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Banks Sutton, Anthony Lawrence Dorie, Michael Bixby Villa, Wenchang Yan, Devin Hugh Redmond, Raymond Kruck
  • Publication number: 20110282943
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating the effectiveness of social media pages. Users of social media systems review and publish various kinds of content on social media pages, including various messages, audio clips, video clips, polls, web links, etc. A social media page evaluation system hosted on a physical server or a cloud receives a social media page that is to be evaluated, and provides results of an evaluation process. The evaluation process involves processing of various criteria and parameters that characterize engagements and interactions between users of social media pages. Results of an evaluation process include qualitative and quantitative attributes in connection with evaluating the effectiveness of published content on social media pages. Such results are useful for purposes of enriching content in social media pages, resulting in greater network traffic due to increased engagements and interaction among users of social media pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: VITRUE, INC.
    Inventors: James V. Anderson, John B. Nolt, Michael J. Strutton, Wenchang Yan, Sriti Kumar, Robert M. Maury, Paul M. Broft, Maria F. Arscott, Nancy M. Lim, Jason C. Reynolds, Joe Kearney, John Schult, Melinda M. Weathers, Chad Estes, Erica M. Stanley, Geoffrey Hom, Gregory K. Dunn, Horace Williams, II, Matt White, Reginald R. Bradford, Andrei Erdoss, Andrew Robert Dorr, Brian Culler