Patents by Inventor Yinyan Tan

Yinyan Tan 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: 11265624
    Abstract: A system including a server, a first terminal and a second terminal, where the server is configured to: send video content to the first terminal and the second terminal, respectively, where the video content includes a first hot clip and a second hot clip; send a first tag of the first hot clip to the first terminal; and send a second tag of the second hot clip to the second terminal; the first terminal is configured to display the first tag on a play time axis of the video content, where the first tag is located in a first location of the play time axis; and the second terminal is configured to display the second tag on the play time axis of the video content, where the second tag is located in a second location of the play time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengfei Zhou, Yinyan Tan, Fangshan Wang
  • Publication number: 20210360102
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a video ring back tone interaction method and an apparatus, and relate to the multimedia field, so as to resolve a problem of poor experience of interaction with a video ring back tone caused by an uncertain answer time. The method includes: after initiating a call to a called terminal, a calling terminal displays a video ring back tone on a display, where the video ring back tone includes at least one interactive element; after receiving a user's first interactive operation performed on a first interactive element, the calling terminal caches first interactive resource data corresponding to the first interactive element, where the first interactive element is any one of the at least one interactive element; and when determining that a call status is an idle state, the calling terminal responds based on the first interactive resource data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventor: Yinyan TAN
  • Publication number: 20210120319
    Abstract: A system including a server, a first terminal and a second terminal, where the server is configured to: send video content to the first terminal and the second terminal, respectively, where the video content includes a first hot clip and a second hot clip; send a first tag of the first hot clip to the first terminal; and send a second tag of the second hot clip to the second terminal; the first terminal is configured to display the first tag on a play time axis of the video content, where the first tag is located in a first location of the play time axis; and the second terminal is configured to display the second tag on the play time axis of the video content, where the second tag is located in a second location of the play time axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengfei ZHOU, Yinyan TAN, Fangshan WANG
  • Publication number: 20120266190
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for playing an advertisement, a terminal, and a media controller. The method includes: receiving a program on-demand request, and obtaining program identifier information according to the program on-demand request; obtaining advertisement metadata and advertisement play time that correspond to the program identifier information, where the advertisement metadata includes an advertisement identifier of a target advertisement, and the advertisement play time includes first advertisement play time; receiving a first selection result sent by a user, and obtaining, according to the first selection result and the advertisement metadata, a first advertisement identifier of an advertisement that needs to be played for the user; and playing the advertisement corresponding to the first advertisement identifier when the first advertisement play time arrives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Shao, Kepeng Li, Yinyan Tan, Yuanyuan Zhang, Jieping Zhong
  • Publication number: 20120150639
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, an apparatus, and a system for placing an advertisement. The method includes: after receiving an advertisement placement request, selecting, by an advertisement client or an application server according to the advertisement placement request, advertisement information to be placed; judging validity of the advertisement information according to advertisement metadata that is generated by an advertisement server and associated with the selected advertisement information; and judging, according to the validity of the advertisement information, whether to place the advertisement information. In the embodiments of the present invention, capping of the total exposure frequency on a terminal side and a network side can be implemented in an accurate and controllable manner, so that an advertisement platform can avoid an invalid advertisement placement, a cost of an advertiser is reduced, and a return on an investment in the advertisement is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kepeng Li, Gang Shao, Yinyan Tan
  • Patent number: 8200597
    Abstract: A system and method for managing media contents are disclosed. The system includes: a text classifier, adapted to classify subtitle information according to defined subjects, and obtain content clips of different subjects; and a media content marking unit, adapted to mark the time of playing each content clip of a different subject after contents are classified by the text classifier, obtain the content clips which have specific time information and different subjects, match the content clips with concepts in an ontology library, and mark the content clips through terms defined in the ontology library. Therefore, the media contents are described through standard terms, which is conducive to unification of the content description information and makes it possible to retrieve the media contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fangshan Wang, Qi Fang, Yinyan Tan, Jieping Zhong
  • Publication number: 20110112894
    Abstract: A method and a system for implementing interactive advertisements, and an advertisement client terminal in a terminal equipment are provided. The method for implementing interactive advertisements includes: receiving, by an advertisement client terminal, a request message sent by a service client terminal, in which the request message is configured to request information interaction with a third party platform publishing advertisements; acquiring, by the advertisement client terminal, contact information of the third party platform according to the request message; and triggering, by the advertisement client terminal, a terminal communication module to perform information interaction with the third party platform according to the contact information of the third party platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Yinyan Tan, Gang Shao, Jinjing Zhan
  • Publication number: 20110071902
    Abstract: A method, system, and device for selecting advertisement contents are provided. The method for selecting advertisement contents includes: receiving an advertisement request carrying advertisement request parameters; matching the advertisement request parameters with advertisement description information including a version field; and returning the matched advertisement description information, the matched version field in the advertisement description information, and an advertisement content corresponding to the matched advertisement description information. An advertisement includes multiple versions of advertisement description information, which enhances the flexibility in advertisement description and increases the opportunity of selecting and presenting the advertisement to users, thereby maximizing the benefit of the advertiser, saving the storage space, and reducing the amount of data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Yinyan Tan, Gang Shao, Pei Fu, Daqi Ren
  • Publication number: 20100250349
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention disclose an advertisement measuring and reporting system and method. The system includes an advertisement client adapted to communicate with an advertisement server about advertisement; the advertisement client is adapted to obtain user interactions with advertisement, process the user interactions with advertisement according to an advertisement metrics policy, and report the processed user interactions with advertisement to the advertisement server; and the advertisement server is adapted to collect the processed user interactions with advertisement. Meanwhile, the embodiment of the present invention also provides a terminal, an advertisement client, an advertisement server, an advertisement measuring and reporting method and an advertisement interaction record collection method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinjing Zhan, Gang Shao, Yinyan Tan, Pei Fu
  • Publication number: 20090265350
    Abstract: An advertisement correlation method in a vertical search engine, a vertical search advertisement system, and a key extractor are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a search key input by a user; obtaining the search result information according to the search key; selecting correlation keys from the search result information; searching for the advertisements correlated with the correlation keys; and providing the correlated advertisement information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yinyan TAN, Jieping ZHONG, Fangshan WANG, Qi FANG
  • Publication number: 20090240650
    Abstract: A system and method for managing media contents are disclosed. The system includes: a text classifier, adapted to classify subtitle information according to defined subjects, and obtain content clips of different subjects; and a media content marking unit, adapted to mark the time of playing each content clip of a different subject after contents are classified by the text classifier, obtain the content clips which have specific time information and different subjects, match the content clips with concepts in an ontology library, and mark the content clips through terms defined in the ontology library. Therefore, the media contents are described through standard terms, which is conducive to unification of the content description information and makes it possible to retrieve the media contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventors: Fangshan Wang, Qi Fang, Yinyan Tan, Jieping Zhong
  • Publication number: 20090098863
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a system for selecting a caller ring back tone (CRBT) that includes obtaining at least one CRBT identification (ID) available to a call according to user identifier information and obtaining the corresponding CRBT description information according to the at least one CRBT ID, obtaining corresponding user attribute information in the call according to the user identifier information, and matching the CRBT description information with the corresponding user attribute information according to a matching policy and selecting a CRBT according to matching result. Therefore, the method, the apparatus, and the system can select a proper CRBT for the calling party according to the conditions of the calling party during the current call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Fangshan Wang, Qi Fang, Yinyan Tan, Jieping Zhong