Patents by Inventor Wenlu Yan

Wenlu 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: 12626195
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for predicting user attributes using uncertainty estimate modeling. A server trains a plurality of machine learning (ML) models to predict a distribution of values for a plurality of user attributes. The server determines an uncertainty measure of the ML models for each user attribute based upon the predicted distribution of values. The server receives a request for prediction of user attributes from a client device and generates for each user attribute a first predicted distribution using one or more of the trained models. The server classifies, for each user attribute, an accuracy of the first predicted distribution based upon the uncertainty measure and provides the first predicted distribution and the accuracy for each user attribute to the client device for presentation. The server updates the first predicted value for the user attributes based upon input received from the client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Fusting, Lei Zhang, Wenlu Yan
  • Patent number: 12450622
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for automated customer engagement prediction and classification. A server generates a feature vector comprising variables corresponding to historical user activity data for a user. The server encodes, for each feature vector, each variable in the feature vector into a corresponding weight-of-evidence value. The server transforms each encoded feature vector into an embedding in a multidimensional vector space. The server generates, for each user, a user engagement probability value by identifying embeddings of other users in proximity to the user embedding using a similarity measure and determining an engagement outcome for the identified embeddings. The server assigns each user to an engagement probability cluster based upon the engagement probability value for the user. The server generates instructions for a remote device to initiate communications to each user based upon the assigned engagement probability cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2025
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Siddharth Narayanan, Amin Assareh, Wenlu Yan
  • Publication number: 20250285186
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for guided content recommendation using a knowledge graph include a server which determines a user intent associated with a user interaction request. The server determines a graph state associated with a user of a remote device based upon historical traversal information. The server identifies a seed node of a content recommendation knowledge graph based upon the user intent and the graph state. The server generates a digital content display for presentation at the remote device recommended digital content items from the seed node. The server computing device traverses the knowledge graph from the seed node to a connected node based upon a response to the digital content display, including updating the graph state associated with the user of the remote device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: September 11, 2025
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Richard J. Lyons, III, Chander Puri, Benjamin R. Bourque, Brian Thomas Wilson, Nathan Edward Wall, Michele Colleen Davis Collins, Jesse Pezzillo, Annie Ross, Peri Diamond, Wenlu Yan
  • Publication number: 20240273563
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for automated customer engagement prediction and classification. A server generates a feature vector comprising variables corresponding to historical user activity data for a user. The server encodes, for each feature vector, each variable in the feature vector into a corresponding weight-of-evidence value. The server transforms each encoded feature vector into an embedding in a multidimensional vector space. The server generates, for each user, a user engagement probability value by identifying embeddings of other users in proximity to the user embedding using a similarity measure and determining an engagement outcome for the identified embeddings. The server assigns each user to an engagement probability cluster based upon the engagement probability value for the user. The server generates instructions for a remote device to initiate communications to each user based upon the assigned engagement probability cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Siddharth Narayanan, Amin Assareh, Wenlu Yan
  • Publication number: 20240177068
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for predicting user attributes using uncertainty estimate modeling. A server trains a plurality of machine learning (ML) models to predict a distribution of values for a plurality of user attributes. The server determines an uncertainty measure of the ML models for each user attribute based upon the predicted distribution of values. The server receives a request for prediction of user attributes from a client device and generates for each user attribute a first predicted distribution using one or more of the trained models. The server classifies, for each user attribute, an accuracy of the first predicted distribution based upon the uncertainty measure and provides the first predicted distribution and the accuracy for each user attribute to the client device for presentation. The server updates the first predicted value for the user attributes based upon input received from the client computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Fusting, Lei Zhang, Wenlu Yan