Patents by Inventor Yefei Peng

Yefei Peng 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).

  • Patent number: 10614491
    Abstract: The present disclosure discusses the adjustment of a rate of display between different types of content item categories. The system of the present disclosure can determine a content item's rate of display with a first category of content and with a second category of content. The system can determine a relationship between the display rates. If the display rates are outside of a predetermined range, the system can update the display parameters of the content categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Yefei Peng
  • Publication number: 20190287126
    Abstract: A computing system can detect a session trigger corresponding to execution of a service application on a computing device of a user, the session trigger initiating a user session of an application-based service. The system can execute one or more of a plurality of models corresponding to a unique objective for the application-based service, wherein each model runs real-time session data corresponding to the user session. The system can generate, from each model of the plurality of models, a session score indicating a priority level for the unique objective corresponding to the model. Based on the session score from each of the plurality of models, the system can transmit treatment data to the computing device of the user, the treatment data causing treatment content to be displayed on the computing device of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Yefei Peng, Haowei Zhang, James Lee, Weiwei Shen, Shuyang Du, Yi Zheng, Minh Pham
  • Patent number: 10417286
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure are directed generally to facilitating content selection by identifying low impact criteria. In some implementations, a data processing system accesses a data structure storing, in a memory element, a plurality of impression records. Each impression record can include one or more features and an indication of user interest corresponding to a content impression. The data processing system can identify a combination feature based on at least two of the features. The data processing system can execute a statistical model (e.g., logistic regression model) using the impression records and the combination feature. The data processing system can determine a weight for the combination feature. Responsive to the weight being less than a threshold, the data processing system can transmit an indication to disable the combination feature for selecting content associated with the plurality of impression records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yefei Peng, Christopher Kenneth Harris
  • Publication number: 20190066161
    Abstract: A network computer system maintains a service profile for each user in a population of users for a network service, where the service profile identifies multiple service parameters, and each service parameter of the service profile is based at least in part on one or more predefined usage events. The network computer system can identify a service signal in connection with providing the network service, where the service signal identifies an intent for a group of users. The network computer system can determine, using the service profile of individual users of the population, a group of users that is likely to include more users that are to perform an action in accordance with the intent of the service signal, as compared to a baseline value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Yefei Peng, James Lee, Rui Wang, Haowei Zhang, Yi Zheng, Erin Wolpert
  • Publication number: 20180143946
    Abstract: The present disclosure discusses the adjustment of a rate of display between different types of content item categories. The system of the present disclosure can determine a content item's rate of display with a first category of content and with a second category of content. The system can determine a relationship between the display rates. If the display rates are outside of a predetermined range, the system can update the display parameters of the content categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventor: Yefei Peng
  • Patent number: 9767196
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure are directed generally to facilitating content selection by identifying low impact criteria. In some implementations, a data processing system accesses a data structure storing, in a memory element, a plurality of impression records. Each impression record can include one or more features and an indication of user interest corresponding to a content impression. The data processing system can identify a combination feature based on at least two of the features. The data processing system can execute a statistical model (e.g., logistic regression model) using the impression records and the combination feature. The data processing system can determine a weight for the combination feature. Responsive to the weight being less than a threshold, the data processing system can transmit an indication to disable the combination feature for selecting content associated with the plurality of impression records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Yefei Peng, Christopher Kenneth Harris
  • Publication number: 20160335576
    Abstract: A dispatch system is provided to collect and store historical passenger pick-up and drop-off data. The dispatch system can utilize the historical data to construct correlation models that identify spike pairs each comprising a spike in passenger drop-offs and an associated spike in passenger pick-ups at a given location. The spike pairs can be indicative of an event at an event location having a typical duration. The dispatch system can detect a current spike in passenger drop-offs at a respective event location, and predict an associated spike in pick-up requests after a given duration at the event location using the historical data and correlation models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Yefei Peng
  • Publication number: 20140380224
    Abstract: A computing device automatically customizes attributes of a graphical keyboard based on user inputs to the graphical keyboard. For example, the computing device can display a first graphical keyboard arrangement that includes a first representation of a key associated with a target region of an input-sensitive display. The computing device receives a plurality of user inputs, each associated with a respective touch region of the input-sensitive display. Subsequent to determining that one or more of the touch regions is not substantially aligned with the target region, the computing device displays a second graphical keyboard arrangement that includes a second representation of the key, wherein at least one attribute of the second representation of the key is graphically modified relative to the first representation of the key so as to substantially align one or more of the touch regions with a target region associated with the second representation of the key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Xincheng Zhang, Yefei Peng
  • Patent number: 8850349
    Abstract: A computing device automatically customizes attributes of a graphical keyboard based on user inputs to the graphical keyboard. For example, the computing device can display a first graphical keyboard arrangement that includes a first representation of a key associated with a target region of an input-sensitive display. The computing device receives a plurality of user inputs, each associated with a respective touch region of the input-sensitive display. Subsequent to determining that one or more of the touch regions is not substantially aligned with the target region, the computing device displays a second graphical keyboard arrangement that includes a second representation of the key, wherein at least one attribute of the second representation of the key is graphically modified relative to the first representation of the key so as to substantially align one or more of the touch regions with a target region associated with the second representation of the key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Xincheng Zhang, Yefei Peng
  • Publication number: 20130268879
    Abstract: A computing device automatically customizes attributes of a graphical keyboard based on user inputs to the graphical keyboard. For example, the computing device can display a first graphical keyboard arrangement that includes a first representation of a key associated with a target region of an input-sensitive display. The computing device receives a plurality of user inputs, each associated with a respective touch region of the input-sensitive display. Subsequent to determining that one or more of the touch regions is not substantially aligned with the target region, the computing device displays a second graphical keyboard arrangement that includes a second representation of the key, wherein at least one attribute of the second representation of the key is graphically modified relative to the first representation of the key so as to substantially align one or more of the touch regions with a target region associated with the second representation of the key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Xincheng Zhang, Yefei Peng
  • Publication number: 20090198671
    Abstract: A system for generating subphrase queries. The system includes a sequence label modeling engine and a regression modeling engine. The sequence label modeling engine generates a plurality of subphrase queries by indexing through each token in a search phrase and labeling each token based on an association to other tokens in the search phrase. The regression modeling engine scores each subphrase query at least partially on the association according to a scoring model. The regression modeling engine identifies the subphrase query with the highest score which may then be used for identifying a sponsored search list or a web search item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Ruofei Zhang, Haibin Cheng, Yefei Peng, Benjamin Rey, Jianchang Mao