Patents by Inventor Xiaojun Luan
Xiaojun Luan 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).
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Patent number: 12613868Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to executing a bifurcated computer system for different types of data processing. The system receives a plurality of requests to execute queries and executes a first service of the system for a first query specified by the requests based on the first query specifying a first type of data. The system accesses, via the first service for the first query, a first database storing the first type of data. The system executes a second service for a second query specified by the requests based on the second query specifying a second type of data. The system accesses, via the second service for the second query, a second database storing the second type of data. The system transmits results of the first database to a user device of the first query and results of the second database to a user device of the second query.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2024Date of Patent: April 28, 2026Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Pengshan Zhang, Yuliang Zhou, Nitin S. Sharma, Eswaramoorthy Periyasamy, Xiaojun Luan, Junshi Guo
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Patent number: 12549647Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for implementing cross-zone communication for computing zones executing different coding protocols. A server computer system may receive, via a proxy layer of a first instance of an application executing within a first computing zone according to a first set of coding protocols, a request for a service executed via a second instance of the application in a second computing zone according to a second, different set of coding protocols. The system may alter, via a remote layer of the first instance, a set of data specified in the request to comply with the second, set of protocols. The system may transmit, via the remote layer of the first instance to a remote layer of the second instance, the altered set of data. The system may advantageously provide a simplified development interface allowing for both development and testing within a local environment without deployment of multiple different services.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Xiaojun Luan, Haoran Zhang, Jiaxin Fang, Jun Li, Kun Wang, Pengshan Zhang, Xia Zhang, Xin Wang, Yangxing Liu
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Patent number: 12524484Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to determining a minimum search region with a threshold number of entities within the minimum search region. In some embodiments, a system selects, based on a location of a user device, a first region, where the location of the device is at a center of the first region. The system executes, based on the first region, a query on a database storing entity locations. The system increases the first region by a specified amount to generate a second search region, where the increasing is based on determining that entities returned by the first query does not satisfy an entity threshold requirement. The system executes, based on the second region, a second query on the database. In response to the second query returning a number of entities that satisfy the threshold requirement, the system causes display, at the device, of the entities returned by the second query.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2024Date of Patent: January 13, 2026Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Xiaojun Luan, Pengshan Zhang, Delin Liu, Nitin S. Sharma, Zhe Huang
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Publication number: 20260003872Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to partitioning batch queries for multi-engine execution. A system receives a batch query specifying query data and including a request for geospatial data for regions corresponding to the query data. Based on locations corresponding to the query data, the system partitions the query data into subsets. The system may assign the subsets of query data to query engines corresponding to the locations of the subsets. The system may cause the engines to retrieve geographic region data corresponding to the locations included in the subsets, where the retrieving is performed by a given query engine for a corresponding subset by accessing an in-memory index of the given engine that stores geographic region data for a geographic partition within which the corresponding subset of query data is located. The system may store region data retrieved by the engines for the subsets in an aggregated data store.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2024Publication date: January 1, 2026Inventors: Yichao Yuan, Ying Yue, Delin Liu, Xiaojun Luan, Pengshan Zhang
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Publication number: 20250348615Abstract: A method for operating a graph database, including receiving, by a computer system, a query to a particular graph database, the query identifying a plurality of vertices of the particular graph database. The method further includes performing, by the computer system, hash operations on two or more of the plurality of vertices to generate respective hash values and dividing, using the respective hash values, the query into a plurality of sub-queries, each corresponding to a subset of the plurality of vertices. The method also includes sending, by the computer system, ones of the plurality of sub-queries to a plurality of database repositories for the particular graph database.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2025Publication date: November 13, 2025Inventors: Xia Zhang, Pengshan Zhang, Kun Wang, Jiaxin Fang, Jun Li, Xin Wang, Yangxing Liu, Yu Zhang, Changle Lian, Ying Yue, Xiaojun Luan
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Publication number: 20250278403Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to executing a bifurcated computer system for different types of data processing. The system receives a plurality of requests to execute queries and executes a first service of the system for a first query specified by the requests based on the first query specifying a first type of data. The system accesses, via the first service for the first query, a first database storing the first type of data. The system executes a second service for a second query specified by the requests based on the second query specifying a second type of data. The system accesses, via the second service for the second query, a second database storing the second type of data. The system transmits results of the first database to a user device of the first query and results of the second database to a user device of the second query.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2024Publication date: September 4, 2025Inventors: Pengshan Zhang, Yuliang Zhou, Nitin S. Sharma, Eswaramoorthy Periyasamy, Xiaojun Luan, Junshi Guo
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Publication number: 20250272349Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to determining a minimum search region with a threshold number of entities within the minimum search region. In some embodiments, a system selects, based on a location of a user device, a first region, where the location of the device is at a center of the first region. The system executes, based on the first region, a query on a database storing entity locations. The system increases the first region by a specified amount to generate a second search region, where the increasing is based on determining that entities returned by the first query does not satisfy an entity threshold requirement. The system executes, based on the second region, a second query on the database. In response to the second query returning a number of entities that satisfy the threshold requirement, the system causes display, at the device, of the entities returned by the second query.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2024Publication date: August 28, 2025Inventors: Xiaojun Luan, Pengshan Zhang, Delin Liu, Nitin S. Sharma, Zhe Huang
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Patent number: 12353585Abstract: A method for operating a graph database, including receiving, by a computer system, a query to a particular graph database, the query identifying a plurality of vertices of the particular graph database. The method further includes performing, by the computer system, hash operations on two or more of the plurality of vertices to generate respective hash values and dividing, using the respective hash values, the query into a plurality of sub-queries, each corresponding to a subset of the plurality of vertices. The method also includes sending, by the computer system, ones of the plurality of sub-queries to a plurality of database repositories for the particular graph database.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Xia Zhang, Pengshan Zhang, Kun Wang, Jiaxin Fang, Jun Li, Xin Wang, Yangxing Liu, Yu Zhang, Changle Lian, Ying Yue, Xiaojun Luan
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Patent number: 12299037Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for assisting a user to identify and evaluate features for use in a machine learning model configured to perform a task. Based on graph data associated with a graph data structure, a user interface is provided on a device. Based on user inputs received via the user interface, a feature candidate for the machine learning model is determined. The feature candidate is associated with a particular way of traversing the graph data structure to obtain attribute values associated with one or more vertices and/or one or more edges in the graph data structure. Based on the attribute values, a value corresponding to the feature candidate can be calculated. The value can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the feature candidate in performing the task. The feature candidate can then be incorporated into the machine learning model as one of the input features.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Haoran Zhang, Pengshan Zhang, Junshi Guo, Changle Lian, Xiaojun Luan, Xia Zhang, Yu Zhang, Jiaxin Fang
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Publication number: 20240106920Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for implementing cross-zone communication for computing zones executing different coding protocols. A server computer system may receive, via a proxy layer of a first instance of an application executing within a first computing zone according to a first set of coding protocols, a request for a service executed via a second instance of the application in a second computing zone according to a second, different set of coding protocols. The system may alter, via a remote layer of the first instance, a set of data specified in the request to comply with the second, set of protocols. The system may transmit, via the remote layer of the first instance to a remote layer of the second instance, the altered set of data. The system may advantageously provide a simplified development interface allowing for both development and testing within a local environment without deployment of multiple different services.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Xiaojun Luan, Haoran Zhang, Jiaxin Fang, Jun Li, Kun Wang, Pengshan Zhang, Xia Zhang, Xin Wang, Yangxing Liu
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Publication number: 20240086563Abstract: A method for operating a graph database, including receiving, by a computer system, a query to a particular graph database, the query identifying a plurality of vertices of the particular graph database. The method further includes performing, by the computer system, hash operations on two or more of the plurality of vertices to generate respective hash values and dividing, using the respective hash values, the query into a plurality of sub-queries, each corresponding to a subset of the plurality of vertices. The method also includes sending, by the computer system, ones of the plurality of sub-queries to a plurality of database repositories for the particular graph database.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Xia Zhang, Pengshan Zhang, Kun Wang, Jiaxin Fang, Jun Li, Xin Wang, Yangxing Liu, Yu Zhang, Changle Lian, Ying Yue, Xiaojun Luan
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Publication number: 20240045907Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for assisting a user to identify and evaluate features for use in a machine learning model configured to perform a task. Based on graph data associated with a graph data structure, a user interface is provided on a device. Based on user inputs received via the user interface, a feature candidate for the machine learning model is determined. The feature candidate is associated with a particular way of traversing the graph data structure to obtain attribute values associated with one or more vertices and/or one or more edges in the graph data structure. Based on the attribute values, a value corresponding to the feature candidate can be calculated. The value can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the feature candidate in performing the task. The feature candidate can then be incorporated into the machine learning model as one of the input features.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Haoran Zhang, Pengshan Zhang, Junshi Guo, Changle Lian, Xiaojun Luan, Xia Zhang, Yu Zhang, Jiaxin Fang