Patents by Inventor Zhuoqing Wu

Zhuoqing Wu 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: 8843394
    Abstract: Systems and methods for mapping identifiers are provided. Activity logs illustrate activities and/or events associated with a plurality of identifiers. The identifiers may be registered identifiers, unregistered identifiers, or a combination thereof. When at least two identifiers share a linking attribute, the at least two identifiers may be mapped to one another, along with information associated therewith (if any) such as a user profile. Each subsequent line of an activity line may also be mapped to the identifiers of the initial single line when a linking attribute or an overlapping identifier is present. A number of identifiers associated with each other may be increased by mapping identifiers and, thus, a targeted audience for a customized advertisement may, in turn, be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Fei Cao, Shaoyu Zhou, Siddhartha Roy, Michael Elizarov, Zhuoqing Wu, James Zhang
  • Patent number: 8572239
    Abstract: Large sets of unorganized data may provide little value in identifying useful observations from such data. For example, an online merchant may maintain a database of millions of user IDs (e.g., a cookie ID, a login ID, a device ID, a network ID, etc.) along with content viewed and/or actions taken with the user IDs, where minimal associations are known between user IDs. It may be advantageous to link together user IDs of respective users to capture a comprehensive view of respective users' activities. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for identifying a cluster of nodes based upon transforming a set of node pairings (e.g., pairings of related nodes) one or more times are disclosed herein. Iterative transformations may be performed until respective nodes are paired with merely their smallest neighboring node and are paired with no other node. In this way, node clusters may be identifiable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Fei Cao, Shaoyu Zhou, Zhuoqing Wu, Jr., Sijian Zhang, Siddhartha Roy, Michael A. Elizarov
  • Publication number: 20120072554
    Abstract: Large sets of unorganized data may provide little value in identifying useful observations from such data. For example, an online merchant may maintain a database of millions of user IDs (e.g., a cookie ID, a login ID, a device ID, a network ID, etc.) along with content viewed and/or actions taken with the user IDs, where minimal associations are known between user IDs. It may be advantageous to link together user IDs of respective users to capture a comprehensive view of respective users' activities. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for identifying a cluster of nodes based upon transforming a set of node pairings (e.g., pairings of related nodes) one or more times are disclosed herein. Iterative transformations may be performed until respective nodes are paired with merely their smallest neighboring node and are paired with no other node. In this way, node clusters may be identifiable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Fei Cao, Shaoyu Zhou, Zhuoqing Wu, Sijian Zhang, Siddhartha Roy, Michael A. Elizarov
  • Publication number: 20110313847
    Abstract: Systems and methods for mapping identifiers are provided. Activity logs illustrate activities and/or events associated with a plurality of identifiers. The identifiers may be registered identifiers, unregistered identifiers, or a combination thereof. When at least two identifiers share a linking attribute, the at least two identifiers may be mapped to one another, along with information associated therewith (if any) such as a user profile. Each subsequent line of an activity line may also be mapped to the identifiers of the initial single line when a linking attribute or an overlapping identifier is present. A number of identifiers associated with each other may be increased by mapping identifiers and, thus, a targeted audience for a customized advertisement may, in turn, be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fei Cao, Shaoyu Zhou, Siddhartha Roy, Michael Elizarov, Zhuoqing Wu, James Zhang