Patents by Inventor Yiyu Li

Yiyu Li 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: 11458438
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of composite membrane and discloses a polyurethane/polyvinylidene fluoride composite membrane for extracting organic sulfide from naphtha. The polyurethane/polyvinylidene fluoride composite membrane includes an active layer and a support layer where the active layer is a polyurethane casting membrane and the support layer is a polyvinylidene fluoride membrane. The polyurethane/polyvinylidene fluoride composite membrane is prepared by coating the active layer onto the support layer. At the same time, a preparation method for the polyurethane/polyvinylidene fluoride composite membrane is disclosed. The present invention has the following beneficial effects: the polyurethane/polyvinylidene fluoride composite membrane prepared in the present invention may be used to extract organic sulfide in naphtha with high separation efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM(EAST CHINA)
    Inventors: Yingfei Hou, Yang Xu, Mumin Wang, Congcong Chen, Yiyu Li, Qingshan Niu
  • Publication number: 20210308626
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of composite membrane and discloses a polyurethane/polyvinylidene fluoride composite membrane for extracting organic sulfide from naphtha. The polyurethane/polyvinylidene fluoride composite membrane includes an active layer and a support layer where the active layer is a polyurethane casting membrane and the support layer is a polyvinylidene fluoride membrane. The polyurethane/polyvinylidene fluoride composite membrane is prepared by coating the active layer onto the support layer. At the same time, a preparation method for the polyurethane/polyvinylidene fluoride composite membrane is disclosed. The present invention has the following beneficial effects: the polyurethane/polyvinylidene fluoride composite membrane prepared in the present invention may be used to extract organic sulfide in naphtha with high separation efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Yingfei HOU, Yang XU, Mumin WANG, Congcong CHEN, Yiyu LI, Qingshan NIU
  • Publication number: 20210144118
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of notifications of activity relevant to a user. Each notification has an associated type. The method also includes calculating an inferred subscription level based at least in part on the type associated with each notification; classifying the notifications based on the inferred subscription of each notification; and sending one or more of the notifications to the user. Each of the sent notifications has an inferred subscription level higher than a pre-determined threshold subscription level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Florin Ratiu, Andrew Alexander Birchall, David S. Park, Aleksandar Ilic, Nathan Paul Schloss, Vasanth Kumar Rajendran, Yiyu Li, Patrick Jonathan Varin, Branislav Stojkovic
  • Patent number: 10924445
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of notifications of activity relevant to a user. Each notification has an associated type. The method also includes calculating an interest of each activity to the user based at least in part on the type of each notification; ranking the notifications based at least in part on the calculated interest; and sending one or more of the notifications to the user. Each of the sent notifications has a ranking higher than a pre-determined threshold ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Florin Ratiu, Andrew Alexander Birchall, David S. Park, Aleksandar Ilic, Nathan Paul Schloss, Vasanth Kumar Rajendran, Yiyu Li, Patrick Jonathan Varin, Branislav Stojkovic
  • Patent number: 10769548
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending, through a communications network, several volumes of notifications corresponding to a first notification type to multiple users and several volumes of notifications corresponding to a second notification type to multiple users. The method further determines visitation impacts of the volumes of notifications of the first and second notification types and trains a machine-learning model based on the visitation impacts. The machine-learning model generates an assessment of a likelihood of interaction by a recipient user with each of the notifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Aleksandar Ilic, Ariel Benjamin Evnine, Ashwin Murthy, Yiyu Li, Konstantine Oleksiyovich Kolomoyskyy, Florin Ratiu
  • Patent number: 10728201
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of notifications of one or more activities relevant to a user. Each notification has an associated receipt time and type of notification. The method also includes aggregating one or more of the notifications based on the type of notification; determining a sending time to send the aggregated notifications based at least in part on determining that a pre-determined amount of time that has elapsed from a receipt time of a most recent one of the aggregated notifications; and sending the aggregated notifications to the user based on the sending time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Florin Ratiu, Andrew Alexander Birchall, David S. Park, Aleksandar Ilic, Nathan Paul Schloss, Vasanth Kumar Rajendran, Yiyu Li, Patrick Jonathan Varin, Branislav Stojkovic
  • Patent number: 10587717
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of notifications of activity relevant to a user. Each notification has an associated type. The method also includes calculating a level of interest in content of each notification to the user based at least in part on the type of each notification; modifying the content of one or more of the notifications based at least in part on the calculated level of interest; and sending one or more of the notifications with modified content to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Florin Ratiu, Andrew Alexander Birchall, David S. Park, Aleksandar Illic, Nathan Paul Schloss, Vasanth Kumar Rajendran, Yiyu Li, Patrick Jonathan Varin, Branislav Stojkovic
  • Patent number: 10515081
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes one or more computing devices accessing a notification to be sent to a user, where the notification has a context. The method also includes one or more computing devices sending a request to a history service for historical notification data associated with the user with respect to the context of the notification and a ranking of the notification where the ranking indicates a probability of the user interacting with the notification. The method also includes one or more computing devices receiving the historical notification data and the ranking from the history service. Moreover, the method also includes one or more computing devices determining a notification policy to apply to the notification based at least in part on the context of the notification, the historical notification data, and the ranking. Furthermore, the method also includes one or more computing devices applying the notification policy to the notification to be sent to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Alexander Birchall, Aleksandar Ilic, Florin Ratiu, Martin Rehwald, Yiyu Li, Pradeep Kumar Sharma, Vasanth Kumar Rajendran
  • Patent number: 10432468
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication of an occurrence of a triggering event for one or more notifications relevant to one or more users. The notifications are sent to one or more of the users through one or more of a number of notifications channels, and each notification channel is associated with one or more software applications. The method also includes accessing a number of notification policies associated with the software applications. Each of the software applications has at least one associated notification policy. At least one of the notification policies associated with a first one of the software applications is interrelated with at least one other notification policy associated with a second one of the software applications. The method also includes sending one or more notifications to one or more users through one or more of the number of notification channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Yiting Li, Chao Teng, Yiyu Li, Zhengxiao Cao
  • Patent number: 10291741
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of notifications of activity relevant to a user. Each notification has an associated type. The method also includes calculating an estimated click-through rate (CTR) for each notification based at least in part on the type associated with each notification; determining a push threshold value for each notification based at least in part on the estimated CTR for each notification; and sending one or more of the notifications to the user. Each of the sent notifications has a push threshold value higher than a pre-determined push threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Florin Ratiu, Andrew Alexander Birchall, David S. Park, Aleksandar Ilic, Nathan Paul Schloss, Vasanth Kumar Rajendran, Yiyu Li, Patrick Jonathan Varin, Branislav Stojkovic
  • Publication number: 20180309631
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication of an occurrence of a triggering event for one or more notifications relevant to one or more users. The notifications are sent to one or more of the users through one or more of a number of notifications channels, and each notification channel is associated with one or more software applications. The method also includes accessing a number of notification policies associated with the software applications. Each of the software applications has at least one associated notification policy. At least one of the notification policies associated with a first one of the software applications is interrelated with at least one other notification policy associated with a second one of the software applications. The method also includes sending one or more notifications to one or more users through one or more of the number of notification channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Yiting Li, Chao Teng, Yiyu Li, Zhengxiao Cao
  • Publication number: 20170364823
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending, through a communications network, several volumes of notifications corresponding to a first notification type to multiple users and several volumes of notifications corresponding to a second notification type to multiple users. The method further determines visitation impacts of the volumes of notifications of the first and second notification types and trains a machine-learning model based on the visitation impacts. The machine-learning model generates an assessment of a likelihood of interaction by a recipient user with each of the notifications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Aleksandar Ilic, Ariel Benjamin Evnine, Ashwin Murthy, Yiyu Li, Konstantine Oleksiyovich Kolomoyskyy, Florin Ratiu
  • Publication number: 20170118303
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of notifications of activity relevant to a user. Each notification has an associated type. The method also includes calculating a level of interest in content of each notification to the user based at least in part on the type of each notification; modifying the content of one or more of the notifications based at least in part on the calculated level of interest; and sending one or more of the notifications with modified content to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Florin Ratiu, Andrew Alexander Birchall, David S. Park, Aleksandar Ilic, Nathan Paul Schloss, Vasanth Kumar Rajendran, Yiyu Li, Patrick Jonathan Varin, Branislav Stojkovic
  • Publication number: 20170116195
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of notifications of activity relevant to a user. Each notification has an associated type. The method also includes calculating an interest of each activity to the user based at least in part on the type of each notification; ranking the notifications based at least in part on the calculated interest; and sending one or more of the notifications to the user. Each of the sent notifications has a ranking higher than a pre-determined threshold ranking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Florin Ratiu, Andrew Alexander Birchall, David S. Park, Aleksandar Ilic, Nathan Paul Schloss, Vasanth Kumar Rajendran, Yiyu Li, Patrick Jonathan Varin, Branislav Stojkovic
  • Publication number: 20170118304
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of notifications of activity relevant to a user. Each notification has an associated type. The method also includes calculating an estimated click-through rate (CTR) for each notification based at least in part on the type associated with each notification; determining a push threshold value for each notification based at least in part on the estimated CTR for each notification; and sending one or more of the notifications to the user. Each of the sent notifications has a push threshold value higher than a pre-determined push threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Florin Ratiu, Andrew Alexander Birchall, David S. Park, Aleksandar Ilic, Nathan Paul Schloss, Vasanth Kumar Rajendran, Yiyu Li, Patrick Jonathan Varin, Branislav Stojkovic
  • Publication number: 20170118159
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of notifications of one or more activities relevant to a user. Each notification has an associated receipt time and type of notification. The method also includes aggregating one or more of the notifications based on the type of notification; determining a sending time to send the aggregated notifications based at least in part on determining that a pre-determined amount of time that has elapsed from a receipt time of a most recent one of the aggregated notifications; and sending the aggregated notifications to the user based on the sending time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Florin Ratiu, Andrew Alexander Birchall, David S. Park, Aleksandar Ilic, Nathan Paul Schloss, Vasanth Kumar Rajendran, Yiyu Li, Patrick Jonathan Varin, Branislav Stojkovic
  • Publication number: 20170118162
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of notifications of activity relevant to a user. Each notification has an associated type. The method also includes calculating an inferred subscription level based at least in part on the type associated with each notification; classifying the notifications based on the inferred subscription of each notification; and sending one or more of the notifications to the user. Each of the sent notifications has an inferred subscription level higher than a pre-determined threshold subscription level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Florin Ratiu, Andrew Alexander Birchall, David S. Park, Aleksandar Ilic, Nathan Paul Schloss, Vasanth Kumar Rajendran, Yiyu Li, Patrick Jonathan Varin, Branislav Stojkovic
  • Publication number: 20160170991
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes one or more computing devices accessing a notification to be sent to a user, where the notification has a context. The method also includes one or more computing devices sending a request to a history service for historical notification data associated with the user with respect to the context of the notification and a ranking of the notification where the ranking indicates a probability of the user interacting with the notification. The method also includes one or more computing devices receiving the historical notification data and the ranking from the history service. Moreover, the method also includes one or more computing devices determining a notification policy to apply to the notification based at least in part on the context of the notification, the historical notification data, and the ranking. Furthermore, the method also includes one or more computing devices applying the notification policy to the notification to be sent to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew Alexander Birchall, Aleksandar Ilic, Florin Ratiu, Martin Rehwald, Yiyu Li, Pradeep Kumar Sharma, Vasanth Kumar Rajendran