Patents by Inventor Yongyan Liu

Yongyan Liu 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: 20140279509
    Abstract: One variation of a method includes: receiving a transaction request, the transaction request comprising an identity of a user, a location of a vendor, and a price of a transaction; identifying a set of payment methods available to the user, a particular payment method in the set of payment methods characterized by a discrete payment structure defining a discrete payment increment; ranking the available payment methods according to a preferred payment method associated with the location of the vendor, according to the discrete payment structure of the particular payment method, and according to the price of the transaction; receiving a selection from the user for the particular payment method for the transaction; and authorizing a payment to the vendor with the particular payment method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Reshma Khilnani, Yongyan Liu, Abhishek Doshi
  • Patent number: 8826226
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses including computer program products for generating a custom language model. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes receiving a collection of documents; clustering the documents into one or more clusters; generating a cluster vector for each cluster of the one or more clusters; generating a target vector associated with a target profile; comparing the target vector with each of the cluster vectors; selecting one or more of the one or more clusters based on the comparison; and generating a language model using documents from the one or more selected clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Wu, Henry Ou, Xiliu Tang, Yong-Gang Wang, Yongyan Liu
  • Publication number: 20110296374
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses including computer program products for generating a custom language model. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes receiving a collection of documents; clustering the documents into one or more clusters; generating a cluster vector for each cluster of the one or more clusters; generating a target vector associcated with a target profile; comparing the target vector with each of the cluster vectors; selecting one or more of the one or more clusters based on the comparison; and generating a language model using documents from the one or more selected clusters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Jun Wu, Henry Ou, Xiliu Tang, Yong-Gang Wang, Yongyan Liu
  • Patent number: D980999
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: LEDEE INC
    Inventor: Yongyan Liu