Patents by Inventor ZengZhong Li

ZengZhong 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: 11276037
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, services, platforms, and methods are discussed herein that provide user search services to a communication platform. An example user search service receives a query indicted by a user to find users of a communication platform associated with one or more search terms. The example user search service also presents to the user a search result view comprising resultant users on the communication platform, where the search result view includes one or more graphical annotations in association with ones of the resultant users that indicate a quantity of common users on the communication platform between the user and the ones of the resultant users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Satish Kumar Musukula, Zengzhong Li, Vinod Shanbhag, Vivek Bhaskaran Iyer, Vikas Sabharwal, Bi Xue
  • Publication number: 20210406321
    Abstract: System and methods are directed to operations associated with an approximate nearest neighbor search engine. More specifically, a vector semantically representing content to be added to a search index may be received. The search index may include a neighborhood graph having a plurality of nodes, where each node of the plurality of nodes is associated with content in a content repository. A plurality of nodes within the search index determined to be most semantically similar to the received vector semantically representing content to be added to the search index may be identified. The node corresponding to the received vector semantically representing content to be added to the search index to the search index may be added to the search index and a listing of nearest neighbors associated with each of the of the plurality of nodes may be updated to include an identifier associated with the added node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mingqin LI, Qi CHEN, Jingdong WANG, Zengzhong LI, Jeffrey Song ZHU, Shi ZHANG, Nilesh N. YADAV, Han ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190303869
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, services, platforms, and methods are discussed herein that provide user search services to a communication platform. An example user search service receives a query indicted by a user to find users of a communication platform associated with one or more search terms. The example user search service also presents to the user a search result view comprising resultant users on the communication platform, where the search result view includes one or more graphical annotations in association with ones of the resultant users that indicate a quantity of common users on the communication platform between the user and the ones of the resultant users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Satish Kumar Musukula, Zengzhong Li, Vinod Shanbhag, Vivek Bhaskaran Iyer, Vikas Sabharwal, Bi Xue
  • Patent number: 10366368
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, services, platforms, and methods are discussed herein that provide user search services to a communication platform. An example user search service receives a user query to find users of the communication platform associated with one or more search terms, performs a graph search process based at least on the one or more search terms to identify a first set of users related to the user through at least one common user, and performs an indexed search process to identify a second set of users associated with the one or more search terms. The user search service then presents to the user a result view comprising the first set of users prioritized over the second set of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Satish Kumar Musukula, Zengzhong Li, Vinod Shanbhag, Vivek Bhaskaran Iyer, Vikas Sabharwal, Bi Xue
  • Publication number: 20180081993
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, services, platforms, and methods are discussed herein that provide user search services to a communication platform. An example user search service receives a user query to find users of the communication platform associated with one or more search terms, performs a graph search process based at least on the one or more search terms to identify a first set of users related to the user through at least one common user, and performs an indexed search process to identify a second set of users associated with the one or more search terms. The user search service then presents to the user a result view comprising the first set of users prioritized over the second set of users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Satish Kumar Musukula, Zengzhong Li, Vinod Shanbhag, Vivek Bhaskaran Iyer, Vikas Sabharwal, Bi Xue
  • Publication number: 20130346298
    Abstract: An offline transaction may be attributed to an online activity by receiving a request from a consumer device for a resource that comprises a vendor page. An online-referral source (by which the consumer device identified the vendor page) is determined, and a unique identifier, the online-referral source, and the vendor page are stored in a persistent record. A device-identifier association is created to associate the unique identifier with the consumer device. Subsequently, offline-transaction data is obtained, associating an online-communication address with an offline transaction involving the vendor and an individual or. When a second resource request is received from the consumer device, it is determined to be associated with the unique identifier, and further, that it is associated with the online-communication address and the offline transaction. The vendor is notified that the offline transaction is associated with the online-referral source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Aaron Bird, Peter Thompson, ZengZhong Li