Patents by Inventor Ziming Zhuang

Ziming Zhuang 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: 20150248412
    Abstract: The present application provides an information pushing method and apparatus. The method comprises: collecting a pushing parameter of each piece of information pushed in a time segment T, the pushing parameter comprising information pushing time, an information pushing user, or the number of times of the information being accessed; determining, according to the collected pushing parameter, an information access parameter of each user in the time segment T, the information access parameter comprises at least: the number of times of the information being visited in the time segment T, an information access tendency, and time of a last access of the information in T, and the information access tendency being determined by the number of times of the information being accessed; and selecting, according to the information access parameter of each user in the time segment T, a target user meeting a requirement, and pushing information to the target user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Zhijian Wu, Jia Wang, Bin Chen, Xuejiao Deng, Wuquan Qin, Ziming Zhuang, Yong Zou, Song Lin
  • Publication number: 20150006156
    Abstract: Provided is a user question processing method and system. The method includes: extracting first feature information from a user question; calculating the similarity between the first feature and second feature information of each of at least two websites; posting the question on at least one of the at least two websites according to the similarity. The solution of the embodiment can be applied to a website providing a question and answer service, and the website can post a received user question on another website related to the concerned field of the question, thereby enlarging the scope of the user information exchange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liang Wang, Yuekui Yang, Conglei Yao, Chunbo Liu, Feng Jiao, Qi Guo, Ziming Zhuang, Yukun Wang, Jianxun Zhou
  • Patent number: 8744978
    Abstract: In one embodiment, ranking search results generated in response to search queries comprises: receiving, a search query from a user; identifying a plurality of network contents in response to the search query; determining one or more ranking criteria for the search query; presenting the ranking criteria to the user; receiving from the user one or more weights assigned to one or more of the ranking criteria; ranking the identified network contents based on the ranking criteria and the weights; and presenting the network contents to the user in an order according to their ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Ziming Zhuang, Longbin Chen
  • Publication number: 20140032520
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an image retrieval method and system for a community website page. The method comprises: acquiring keywords of image retrieval from the community website page and retrieving images in a corresponding search engine according to the acquired keywords; and displaying the retrieved images via the community website page. Through the disclosure, the complexity of image acquisition can be reduced for the user in the page entering process, thereby improving the entering efficiency and enhancing the user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventor: Ziming Zhuang
  • Publication number: 20110022549
    Abstract: In one embodiment, ranking search results generated in response to search queries comprises: receiving, a search query from a user; identifying a plurality of network contents in response to the search query; determining one or more ranking criteria for the search query; presenting the ranking criteria to the user; receiving from the user one or more weights assigned to one or more of the ranking criteria; ranking the identified network contents based on the ranking criteria and the weights; and presenting the network contents to the user in an order according to their ranking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Ziming Zhuang, Longbin Chen
  • Patent number: 7818315
    Abstract: A system(s) and/or method(s) that facilitate improving the relevance of search results through utilization of a query log. The relevance of the search results for a target query can be judged based on one or more queries in the log that are related to the target query temporally and/or lexically. The diversity of the top-ranked search results can be increased and/or decreased based on an iterative re-ranking process of the search result set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Silviu-Petru Cucerzan, Ziming Zhuang
  • Publication number: 20070214131
    Abstract: A system(s) and/or method(s) that facilitate improving the relevance of search results through utilization of a query log. The relevance of the search results for a target query can be judged based on one or more queries in the log that are related to the target query temporally and/or lexically. The diversity of the top-ranked search results can be increased and/or decreased based on an iterative re-ranking process of the search result set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Silviu-Petru Cucerzan, Ziming Zhuang