Patents by Inventor Zhoutong Fu

Zhoutong Fu 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: 20250200945
    Abstract: Computer-implemented techniques for multimodal content relevance prediction using neural networks involves processing multimodal content comprising a digital image and text. Initially, dense embeddings are obtained: an image embedding from a pretrained convolutional neural network, and a text embedding from a pretrained transformer network. These embeddings encapsulate the features of the image and text respectively. Two pretrained dense neural sub-networks then reduce the dimensionality of these embeddings. A third dense neural sub-network determines a numerical score for the multimodal content using the reduced embeddings and an additional feature embedding. This score reflects various aspects of the multimodal content, leading to an action taken based on this numerical evaluation, providing a comprehensive and nuanced understanding and management of multimodal digital content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Neil Miten Daftary, Yanping Chen, Zhoutong Fu, Shihai He, Di Wen
  • Publication number: 20250005288
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed technologies include generating a first thread classification prompt based on a first thread portion of an online dialog involving a user of a computing device, sending the first thread classification prompt to a first large language model, receiving a first thread classification generated and output by the first large language model based on the first thread classification prompt, formulating a plan execution prompt based on the first thread classification, sending the plan execution prompt to a second large language model, receiving a second thread portion generated and output by the second large language model based on the plan execution prompt and the online dialog, and generating a label for a third thread portion of the online dialog.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Xavier Amatriain-Rubio, Christopher M. Bremer, Carlos H. Lopez, Pierre Y. Monestie, Laura Teclemariam, Yamini Kasera, Michaeel Kazi, Zhoutong Fu, Muchen Wu, Winnie Narang, Yiyuan Tu, Jaime Munoz Alcalde, Nitin Pasumarthy, Thao Bach, David Williams, Priyanka Gariba
  • Patent number: 10180990
    Abstract: System and techniques for activity sensing online preference assay are described herein. An initial indication of an online activity preference for a member of a social network service may be obtained. A plurality of member activities corresponding with the online activity preference for a period of time subsequent to obtaining the initial indication may be collected. Respective decision trees of a set of decision trees may be traversed based on a set of inputs comprising the collected plurality of member activities to determine a probability that the online activity preference corresponds with the member. An actual online activity preference may be derived for the member using an aggregation of the determined probability for the respective decision trees of the set of decision trees. Social network content items may be filtered for the member based on the actual online activity preference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Zhoutong Fu, Huangming Xie, Ying Chen, Xin Fu
  • Publication number: 20170124199
    Abstract: System and techniques for activity sensing online preference assay are described herein. An initial indication of an online activity preference for a member of a social network service may be obtained. A plurality of member activities corresponding with the online activity preference for a period of time subsequent to obtaining the initial indication may be collected. Respective decision trees of a set of decision trees may be traversed based on a set of inputs comprising the collected plurality of member activities to determine a probability that the online activity preference corresponds with the member. An actual online activity preference may be derived for the member using an aggregation of the determined probability for the respective decision trees of the set of decision trees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Zhoutong Fu, Huangming Xie, Ying Chen, Xin Fu
  • Publication number: 20170124472
    Abstract: System and techniques for activity sensing online preference assay are described herein. A count for an action completed by a member of a social network service may be detected over a first period of time. The member may be labeled with an online activity preference based on the count and a subset of the first period of time. A plurality of member activities corresponding with the online activity preference may be collected for a second period of time prior to obtaining the initial indication. Respective decision trees of a set of decision trees may be traversed based on a set of inputs comprising the collected plurality of member activities to determine a probability that the online activity preference corresponds with the member. An actual online activity preference may be derived for the member using an aggregation of the determined probability for the respective decision trees of the set of decision trees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Zhoutong Fu, Huangming Xie, Ying Chen, Xin Fu