Patents by Inventor Xing Yi
Xing Yi 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: 10108977Abstract: A method for online advertising includes: receiving a request for a content stream from a client device; embedding an advertisement in the content stream, and transmitting the content stream to the client device; determining a scroll dwell time of the advertisement when the content stream is presented on the client device; determining a level of performance of a guaranteed presentation amount associated with the advertisement, the level of performance based on the scroll dwell time of the advertisement. In another embodiment, candidate advertisements are identified for presentation in the content stream; for each candidate, an expected cost per time unit (eCPTU) of exposure is determined; one of the candidate advertisements is selected for inclusion in the content stream based on the eCPTU's; the content stream is transmitted to the client device.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2013Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Oath Inc.Inventor: Xing Yi
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Patent number: 10067349Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of adapting a virtual reality helmet, comprising: pre-writing models of a plurality of virtual reality helmets and corresponding parameters into a virtual reality helmet system; obtaining a model of a to-be-adapted virtual reality helmet; parsing out corresponding parameters from the virtual reality helmet system according to the model of the to-be-adapted virtual reality helmet; determining size and position of an imaging area on a screen of the to-be-adapted virtual reality helmet according to the parsed-out parameters. By determining size and position of the imaging area on the screen of the to-be-adapted virtual reality helmet according to the parameters pre-stored in the virtual reality helmet system, the problem of abnormal image contents viewed with various kinds of different helmets is solved.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Beijing Pico Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Xing yi Chen
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Patent number: 10025861Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for displaying a customized news stream. One method includes an operation for identifying dwell times spent by users while accessing a first plurality of items, each item belonging to one media type from a plurality of media types (e.g., news articles, videos, slide shows, etc.). In addition, the method includes operations for determining statistical parameters for each media type based on the identified dwell times, and for detecting a news corpus having a second plurality of items. A priority for each item in the news corpus is determined based on the media type of the item, the corresponding statistical parameters for the media type of the item, and the profile of a user. The news stream is sent to the user for presentation on a display, the news stream being sorted based on the priority of the items in the news corpus.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Oath Inc.Inventors: Xing Yi, Scott Gaffney
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Publication number: 20180053119Abstract: The present teaching relates to method system, and medium for generating knowledge for a chat bot. Training data are used to learn and generating knowledge and are received with at least some labeled training seeds and unlabeled conversation data. The training data are parsed and various linguistic elements are extracted therefrom. Such linguistic elements are then used to perform automated learning in accordance with at least one label used in labeling the training seeds. Based on the automated learning, at least one model associated with the at least one label is generated from the training data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Huajun Zeng, Yi Zhang, Xing Yi, Roger Jin, Yunfei Chen
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Publication number: 20180054523Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, and medium for a context sensitive virtual agent. When information related to a dialog is received, the current context of the dialog is detected based on the information related to the dialog. In accordance with the detected current context of the dialog, the present teaching switches, with respect to a plurality of resources, to context-relevant resource needed to facilitate the dialog. An action to be taken in the dialog is then determined based on the current context of the dialog and the context-relevant resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Yi Zhang, Xing Yi, Huajun Zeng, Jie Li
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Publication number: 20180052664Abstract: The present teaching relates to developing a virtual agent. In one example, a plurality of graphical objects is presented to a user via a bot design programming interface. Each of the plurality of graphical objects represents a module corresponding to an action to be performed by the virtual agent. One or more inputs from the user are received, via the bot design programming interface, for selecting a set of graphical objects from the plurality of graphical objects. The one or more inputs provide information of a first order of the set of graphical objects. A plurality of modules represented by the set of graphical objects is identified. Based on the one or more inputs, a second order of the plurality of modules is determined based on the first order. The plurality of modules is integrated in the second order to generate a customized virtual agent for executing an associated task according to the second order.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Yi Zhang, Roger Jin, Yunfei Chen, Xing Yi, Yueming Sun
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Publication number: 20180054464Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, and medium of automatic re-routing a chat user in a dialog. A request is first received for re-routing the chat user, currently engaged in a dialog involving a first agent, to a second agent. The request comprises relevant information and context of the dialog that gives rise to the re-routing request. Based on the relevant information and the context of the dialog, a re-routing strategy is automatically determined in accordance with re-routing configurations. A second agent to which the chat user is to be re-routed to is then selected based on the re-routing strategy. The chat user is then re-routed to the second agent to continue the dialog.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Yi Zhang, Xing Yi, Huajun Zeng, Jie Li
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Publication number: 20180011854Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, and programs for training a ranking model for ranking content items. In one example, a set of content items is obtained. A plurality types of online user activities performed with respect to the set of content items are obtained. For each of the set of content items, a plurality of user engagement scores are determined. Each of the plurality of user engagement scores is determined based on a corresponding one of the plurality types of online user activities. For each of the set of content items, an aggregated score is calculated based on the plurality of user engagement scores to generate aggregated scores. A ranking model is trained based on the aggregated scores.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2016Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: Xing Yi, Liangjie Hong, Yue Shi, Suju Rajan, Alyssa Glass, Zhen Yue
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Publication number: 20180003555Abstract: In an embodiment, an arc light sensor includes: a first polarizer, a second polarizer, a magneto-optical material, a first light filter and a processing unit. The first polarizer is used for polarizing incident first target light, to form first polarized light in a first polarization direction. The second polarizer is used for polarizing incident second target light, to form second polarized light in the first polarization direction. The magneto-optical material, in a current magnetic field, uses the current magnetic field to rotate a polarization direction of the first polarized light, to form third polarized light. The first light filter is used for filtering the third polarized light, to form fourth polarized light capable of passing in a second polarization direction. The processing unit is used for determining whether the second target light is arc light according to intensity of the second polarized light and intensity of the fourth polarized light.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Xing YI, Wei Gang CHEN, Yue ZHUO, Ji ZHANG
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Publication number: 20170344552Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods leverage the display screen sizes of information cards to improve the accuracy and efficiency of displayed search results. The disclosed systems and methods can be implemented in search and recommendation systems for optimally performing a search and displaying the results of the search based on, among other features, the size of the cards providing each search result and the display size of the screen displaying such results.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2016Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Nadav Golbandi, Xing Yi, Liangjie Hong
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Publication number: 20170308537Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for selecting content items for presentation to a user device of a user. One method includes an operation for measuring dwelltimes for a plurality of content items, where the dwelltime for a content item is based on the amount of time that the content item is displayed to a viewer. Further, the method includes an operation for training a classifier of content items based on the measured dwelltimes and based on features associated with the first set of content items, where the training includes calculating a relative importance of respective features for increasing measured dwelltimes. Additionally, the method includes an operation for sending additional content items to be presented on the user device based on the one or more ranking parameters, where the additional content items are associated with one or more ranking parameters that are expected to increase dwelltimes for the user of the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Xing Yi, Scott Gaffney, Jean-Marc Langlois
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Publication number: 20170247280Abstract: An isothermal drop speed cooling method and an apparatus for same. A glass ribbon carried with glass passes through the forced convection area of the glass annealing lehr, and the glass ribbon is moving while the glass is being air-cooled in the forced convection area. The glass is air-cooled by different air volume according to the temperature of the glass, so that the glass is allowed to be cooled at isothermal drop speed during the moving process of the glass. According to the cooling method and apparatus, the specification size of the opening section of multi-row air nozzles longitudinally arranged is increased along the moving direction of the glass ribbon, so that the cooling air volume from the front to the rear can be gradually increased, thereby allowing the temperature drop speed of a glass plate to be uniform from the front to the rear.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2015Publication date: August 31, 2017Applicant: China Triumph International Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: SHOU PENG, XING YI, RUI LIU, MING CHENG, YUAN LIU
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Patent number: 9703783Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for selecting news articles for presentation to a user. One method includes an operation for measuring dwelltimes for a first set of news items, where the dwelltime for a news item is based on the amount of time that the news item is displayed to a viewer. Further, the method includes an operation for training a classifier of news items based on the measured dwelltimes and based on features associated with the first set of news items. Additionally, the method includes an operation for ranking with the classifier a second set of news items for presentation to the user, the ranking also using the profile of the user for delivery of customized news to the user. The ranked second set of news item is then presented to the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2013Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Xing Yi, Scott Gaffney, Jean-Marc Langlois
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Publication number: 20170193020Abstract: One or more systems and/or methods of generating a query-goal-mission structure for a set of queries are provided. A set of queries may be evaluated to identify query information for the queries within the set of queries. The queries may be evaluated as query pairs to determine common goal probabilities (e.g., likelihood two queries correspond to a particular goal, such as to identify vacation planning information) for the query pairs. Responsive to the common goal probabilities for the query pairs exceeding a goal probability threshold, the query pairs may be grouped into goal clusters. The goal clusters may be evaluated as goal cluster pairs to determine common mission probabilities. Responsive to the common mission probabilities for the goal cluster pairs exceeding a mission probability threshold, the goal clusters may be grouped into mission clusters. The mission clusters and the goal clusters may be utilized to generate a query-goal-mission structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2015Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Xing Yi, Zhen Yue, Alyssa Glass Owara, Shuguang Han
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Publication number: 20170193057Abstract: One or more client devices, systems, and/or methods of improving mobile searches are provided. A feature (e.g., “snow boots”), generated on a client device, is identified. The feature is evaluated to identify a goal (e.g., finding snow boots) associated with the feature. A mission (e.g., finding outdoor apparel), associated with the goal, is identified. A query (e.g., “outdoor stores near Akron”) associated with a second goal (e.g., find outdoor apparel store) associated with the mission is identified using a model generated utilizing a machine learning method trained using a query-goal-mission structure. A query recommendation (e.g., “outdoor apparel store”) comprising the query is presented to the user. A user satisfaction metric, associated with the query, the query recommendation, a result generated by the query recommendation, etc. is determined based upon user interaction with the query recommendation and the result. The model may be tuned based upon the user satisfaction metric.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2015Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Xing Yi, Zhen Yue, Alyssa Glass Owara, Zhigeng Geng
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Publication number: 20170192236Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of adapting a virtual reality helmet, comprising: pre-writing models of a plurality of virtual reality helmets and corresponding parameters into a virtual reality helmet system; obtaining a model of a to-be-adapted virtual reality helmet; parsing out corresponding parameters from the virtual reality helmet system according to the model of the to-be-adapted virtual reality helmet; determining size and position of an imaging area on a screen of the to-be-adapted virtual reality helmet according to the parsed-out parameters. By determining size and position of the imaging area on the screen of the to-be-adapted virtual reality helmet according to the parameters pre-stored in the virtual reality helmet system, the problem of abnormal image contents viewed with various kinds of different helmets is solved.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2016Publication date: July 6, 2017Applicant: Beijing Pico Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Xing yi CHEN
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Patent number: 9633017Abstract: A method is provided for building a user interest profile. According to the method, features of each of a plurality of articles are identified. For a given user, views of one or more of the plurality of articles are logged. For each view, a corresponding dwell time for the view by the given user is measured. A weight is applied to each view based on the corresponding measured dwell time. User interest scores for features of the articles are determined based on the weighted views, and the user interest profile is generated for the given user based on the user interest scores.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2013Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Xing Yi, Dilan Gorur, Scott Gaffney
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Patent number: 9355078Abstract: A method for determining a display time of a page is provided, including the following method operations: receiving a request for page data from a client; in response to the request, sending the page data to the client, the page data defining a page when rendered by the client, the rendered page including a page event module configured to detect and log events in a beacon for transmission, the events being selected from a group comprising a page unhide event, a page hide event, and a page unload event; receiving the beacon from the client; reading events logged in the beacon; and determining a display time of the page based on the events logged in the beacon.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Xing Yi, Jean-Marc Langlois, Scott Gaffney
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Publication number: 20150324362Abstract: Method, system, and programs for measuring user engagement with content items. In one example, a query is received. A presentation of a content item related to the query is provided on a user interface. A user activity (e.g., related to manipulation of the content item) is determined. A score associated with the content item is determined based on the user activity. Information related to user engagement with the content item is generated based on the score.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2014Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Alyssa Glass, Xing Yi
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Publication number: 20150324361Abstract: Methods, systems and programming for evaluating user satisfaction with respect to a user session are presented. In one example, one or more queries in a use session are received from a user. Information about one or more user activities is obtained. Each user activity is related to manipulation of a content item associated with one of the one or more queries. A score associated with the user session is computed based at least partially on the one or more user activities. User satisfaction with respect to the user session is determined based on the score.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2014Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Alyssa Glass, Scott Gaffney, Xing Yi