Patents by Inventor Yuzhu Shen

Yuzhu Shen 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).

  • Detection of boilerplate content
    Patent number: 8898296
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating query recommendations. One method provides selecting one or more nodes of an object model that models a resource as a hierarchy of nodes, and determining that the selected nodes exhibit one or more predefined traits that are characteristic of boilerplate content, wherein boilerplate content comprises content that is repeated in multiple resources of a particular web site or content which is not relevant to the main content of a resource. A score associated with the selected nodes is adjusted responsive to determining that the selected nodes exhibit the predefined traits, and information is provided to a query recommendation engine, the information including textual content associated with the selected nodes, and the information identifying the adjusted score associated with the selected nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Zeng, Youlin Li, Brian R. Murphy, Yuzhu Shen
  • DETECTION OF BOILERPLATE CONTENT
    Publication number: 20120297025
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating query recommendations. One method provides selecting one or more nodes of an object model that models a resource as a hierarchy of nodes, and determining that the selected nodes exhibit one or more predefined traits that are characteristic of boilerplate content, wherein boilerplate content comprises content that is repeated in multiple resources of a particular web site or content which is not relevant to the main content of a resource. A score associated with the selected nodes is adjusted responsive to determining that the selected nodes exhibit the predefined traits, and information is provided to a query recommendation engine, the information including textual content associated with the selected nodes, and the information identifying the adjusted score associated with the selected nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Jian Zeng, Youlin Li, Brian R. Murphy, Yuzhu Shen