Patents by Inventor Zengvan Zhang

Zengvan Zhang 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: 9087332
    Abstract: A method for adaptive display of internet advertisements to look-alike users using a desired user profile dataset as a seed to machine learning modules. Upon availability of a desired user profile, that user profile is mapped other look-alike users (from a larger database of users). The method proceeds to normalize the desired user profile object, proceeds to normalize known user profile objects, then seeding a machine-learning training model with the normalized desired user profile object. A scoring engine uses the normalized user profiles for matching based on extracted features (i.e. extracted from the normalized user profile objects). Once look-alike users have been identified, the internet display system may serve advertisements to the look-alike users, and analyze look-alike users' behaviors for storing the predicted similar user profile objects into the desired user profile object dataset, thus adapting to changing user behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Abraham Bagherjeiran, Renjie Tang, Zengvan Zhang, Andrew Hatch, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Ralesh Parekh
  • Publication number: 20120054040
    Abstract: A method for adaptive display of internet advertisements to look-alike users using a desired user profile dataset as a seed to machine learning modules. Upon availability of a desired user profile, that user profile is mapped other look-alike users (from a larger database of users). The method proceeds to normalize the desired user profile object, proceeds to normalize known user profile objects, then seeding a machine-learning training model with the normalized desired user profile object. A scoring engine uses the normalized user profiles for matching based on extracted features (i.e. extracted from the normalized user profile objects). Once look-alike users have been identified, the internet display system may serve advertisements to the look-alike users, and analyze look-alike users' behaviors for storing the predicted similar user profile objects into the desired user profile object dataset, thus adapting to changing user behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventors: Abraham Bagherjeiran, Renjie Tang, Zengvan Zhang, Andrew Hatch, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Ralesh Parekh