Patents by Inventor Yanmin XI

Yanmin XI 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).

  • Analyzing a category of a candidate phrase to update from a server if a phrase category is not in a phrase database
    Patent number: 9009031
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide an output method and electronic apparatus for a candidate phrase and an electronic apparatus. The method includes: analyzing, according to phrase categories in a phrase database, category of a phrase selected from a candidate input list that appeared after a user inputs a syllable, so as to judge whether the category of the phrase is contained in the phrase database; increasing the candidate priority of the category containing the phrase in a candidate input list, if the category of the phrase is contained in the phrase database; and transmitting the phase to a text input server, if the category of the phrase is not contained in the phrase database, so as to update the phrase categories in the phrase database according to an instruction from the text input server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventors: Xiaoxiao Li, Yanmin Xi
  • OUTPUT METHOD FOR CANDIDATE PHRASE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20130124188
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide an output method and electronic apparatus for a candidate phrase and an electronic apparatus. The method includes: analyzing, according to phrase categories in a phrase database, category of a phrase selected from a candidate input list that appeared after a user inputs a syllable, so as to judge whether the category of the phrase is contained in the phrase database; increasing the candidate priority of the category containing the phrase in a candidate input list, if the category of the phrase is contained in the phrase database; and transmitting the phase to a text input server, if the category of the phrase is not contained in the phrase database, so as to update the phrase categories in the phrase database according to an instruction from the text input server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
    Inventors: Xiaoxiao LI, Yanmin XI