Patents by Inventor Xuetao Yin

Xuetao Yin 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: 20240046332
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for determining a food item from a photograph and a corresponding restaurant serving the food item. An image is received from a user, the image being associated with a consumable item. One or more ingredients of the consumable item in the image is identified along with a location of the user and using a neural network, determining one or more similar images from a database. A restaurant associated with each of the one or more similar images is determined along with a similarity score indicating a similarity between the restaurant and the identified content of the image. The one or more restaurants and/or associated similar food items are ranked based on the similarity score and a list of ranked restaurants is provided to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Julia X. Gong, Jyotkumar Patel, Yale Song, Xuetao Yin, Xiujia Guo, Rajiv S. Binwade, Houdong Hu
  • Patent number: 11830056
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for determining a food item from a photograph and a corresponding restaurant serving the food item. An image is received from a user, the image being associated with a consumable item. One or more ingredients of the consumable item in the image is identified along with a location of the user and using a neural network, determining one or more similar images from a database. A restaurant associated with each of the one or more similar images is determined along with a similarity score indicating a similarity between the restaurant and the identified content of the image. The one or more restaurants and/or associated similar food items are ranked based on the similarity score and a list of ranked restaurants is provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Julia X. Gong, Jyotkumar Patel, Yale Song, Xuetao Yin, Xiujia Guo, Rajiv S. Binwade, Houdong Hu
  • Publication number: 20220164853
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for determining a food item from a photograph and a corresponding restaurant serving the food item. An image is received from a user, the image being associated with a consumable item. One or more ingredients of the consumable item in the image is identified along with a location of the user and using a neural network, determining one or more similar images from a database. A restaurant associated with each of the one or more similar images is determined along with a similarity score indicating a similarity between the restaurant and the identified content of the image. The one or more restaurants and/or associated similar food items are ranked based on the similarity score and a list of ranked restaurants is provided to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Julia X GONG, Jyotkumar PATEL, Yale SONG, Xuetao YIN, Xiujia GUO, Rajiv S. BINWADE, Houdong HU
  • Patent number: 10650804
    Abstract: A “Facet Recommender” creates conversational recommendations for facets of particular conversational topics, and optionally for things associated with those facets, from consumer reviews or other social media content. The Facet Recommender applies a machine-learned facet model and optional sentiment-model, to identify facets associated with spans or segments of the content and to determine neutral, positive, or negative consumer sentiment associated with those facets and, optionally, things associated with those facets. These facets are selected by the facet model from a list or set of manually defined or machine-learned facets for particular conversational topic types. The Facet Recommender then generates new conversational utterances (i.e., short neutral, positive or negative suggestions) about particular facets based on the sentiments associated with those facets. In various implementations, utterances are fit to one or more predefined conversational frameworks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Bill Dolan, Margaret Mitchell, Jay Banerjee, Pallavi Choudhury, Susan Hendrich, Rebecca Mason, Ron Owens, Mouni Reddy, Yaxiao Song, Kristina Toutanova, Liang Xu, Xuetao Yin
  • Publication number: 20180261211
    Abstract: A “Facet Recommender” creates conversational recommendations for facets of particular conversational topics, and optionally for things associated with those facets, from consumer reviews or other social media content. The Facet Recommender applies a machine-learned facet model and optional sentiment-model, to identify facets associated with spans or segments of the content and to determine neutral, positive, or negative consumer sentiment associated with those facets and, optionally, things associated with those facets. These facets are selected by the facet model from a list or set of manually defined or machine-learned facets for particular conversational topic types. The Facet Recommender then generates new conversational utterances (i.e., short neutral, positive or negative suggestions) about particular facets based on the sentiments associated with those facets. In various implementations, utterances are fit to one or more predefined conversational frameworks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bill Dolan, Margaret Mitchell, Jay Banerjee, Pallavi Choudhury, Susan Hendrich, Rebecca Mason, Ron Owens, Mouni Reddy, Yaxiao Song, Kristina Toutanova, Liang Xu, Xuetao Yin
  • Patent number: 9978362
    Abstract: A “Facet Recommender” creates conversational recommendations for facets of particular conversational topics, and optionally for things associated with those facets, from consumer reviews or other social media content. The Facet Recommender applies a machine-learned facet model and optional sentiment-model, to identify facets associated with spans or segments of the content and to determine neutral, positive, or negative consumer sentiment associated with those facets and, optionally, things associated with those facets. These facets are selected by the facet model from a list or set of manually defined or machine-learned facets for particular conversational topic types. The Facet Recommender then generates new conversational utterances (i.e., short neutral, positive or negative suggestions) about particular facets based on the sentiments associated with those facets. In various implementations, utterances are fit to one or more predefined conversational frameworks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bill Dolan, Margaret Mitchell, Jay Banerjee, Pallavi Choudhury, Susan Hendrich, Rebecca Mason, Ron Owens, Mouni Reddy, Yaxiao Song, Kristina Toutanova, Liang Xu, Xuetao Yin
  • Publication number: 20160063993
    Abstract: A “Facet Recommender” creates conversational recommendations for facets of particular conversational topics, and optionally for things associated with those facets, from consumer reviews or other social media content. The Facet Recommender applies a machine-learned facet model and optional sentiment-model, to identify facets associated with spans or segments of the content and to determine neutral, positive, or negative consumer sentiment associated with those facets and, optionally, things associated with those facets. These facets are selected by the facet model from a list or set of manually defined or machine-learned facets for particular conversational topic types. The Facet Recommender then generates new conversational utterances (i.e., short neutral, positive or negative suggestions) about particular facets based on the sentiments associated with those facets. In various implementations, utterances are fit to one or more predefined conversational frameworks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Bill Dolan, Margaret Mitchell, Jay Banerjee, Pallavi Choudhury, Susan Hendrich, Rebecca Mason, Ron Owens, Mouni Reddy, Yaxiao Song, Kristina Toutanova, Liang Xu, Xuetao Yin