Patents by Inventor Xie Lu

Xie Lu 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).

  • Publication number: 20250110957
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed technologies include receiving a first query including at least one first query term and configuring at least one prompt to cause a large language model to translate the at least one first query term into a set of functions that can be executed to obtain at least one second query term and generate and output a plan that is executable to create a modified version of the first query based on the at least one second query term. The plan is obtained by applying the large language model to the at least one prompt as configured. The plan is executed to determine the at least one second query term and create the modified version of the first query. The modified version of the first query is executed to provide, via the user interface, a response to the first query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Manish R. Baldua, Daniel K. Hewlett, Gregory E. Pounds, Xie Lu, Jonathan Pohl, Peter Rigano
  • Patent number: 12105727
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing a unified search tool for searching data in multiple domains. One method includes an operation for causing presentation of a user interface (UI) for entering one or more search parameters to search items in two or more domains. Each domain is owned by a different entity and data for each domain is acquired by the corresponding entity. Further, the method includes operations for receiving one or more search parameters values, searching, in response to the received search parameter values, the two or more domains based on the search parameters values, and ranking separately search results for each domain. Further, the method includes causing presentation in the UI of the search results for the two or more domains based on the ranking, the search results for each domain being presented in a separate results list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Parul Jain, Brian Hung-Chung Leung, Fenglin Li, Zheng Li, Shidong Yan, Xie Lu, Tao Zheng
  • Publication number: 20230195745
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing a unified search tool for searching data in multiple domains. One method includes an operation for causing presentation of a user interface (UI) for entering one or more search parameters to search items in two or more domains. Each domain is owned by a different entity and data for each domain is acquired by the corresponding entity. Further, the method includes operations for receiving one or more search parameters values, searching, in response to the received search parameter values, the two or more domains based on the search parameters values, and ranking separately search results for each domain. Further, the method includes causing presentation in the UI of the search results for the two or more domains based on the ranking, the search results for each domain being presented in a separate results list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Parul Jain, Brian Hung-Chung Leung, Fenglin Li, Zheng Li, Shidong Yan, Xie Lu, Tao Zheng
  • Publication number: 20190164108
    Abstract: Techniques for merging data securely from different sources are disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Andrew Walter Chimka, Monica Marie Lewis, Xie Lu, Emily Louise Mitchell, Yeqin Zhang, Yixiao Lu