Patents by Inventor Zuli Liu

Zuli Liu 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: 11375259
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a particular item of interest of a user; determining a grouping of a number of items that are similar to the particular item; automatically creating a new video by combining the particular item and the respective number of grouped items that are similar to the particular item in accordance with a video-creation template; and providing the created video for display on a client device of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Haoran Liu, Zuli Liu, Emily Anciaux, Christopher John Marra, Andre Cassal, Peter Saisi, Zhiyao Xu
  • Publication number: 20200366952
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a particular item of interest of a user; determining a grouping of a number of items that are similar to the particular item; automatically creating a new video by combining the particular item and the respective number of grouped items that are similar to the particular item in accordance with a video-creation template; and providing the created video for display on a client device of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Haoran Liu, Zuli Liu, Emily Anciaux, Christopher John Marra, Andre Cassal, Peter Saisi, Zhiyao Xu
  • Patent number: 10779029
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing data of a number of items from a third-party computing system; identifying a subset of the number of items based on a value of a ranking model for each identified item being higher than a pre-determined threshold value; for each identified item of the subset, determining a number of similar items from the number of items; receiving a template for a video from the third-party computing system; for each of the identified items, generating a video incorporating the identified item and the respective number of similar items in accordance with the template; caching the generated videos; and providing for display on a client device of a user, a particular one of the videos selected based on information of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Haoran Liu, Zuli Liu, Emily Anciaux, Christopher John Marra, Andre Cassal, Peter Saisi, Zhiyao Xu
  • Patent number: 10607154
    Abstract: An online system uses classifiers to predict the socioeconomic group of users of the online system. The classifiers use models that are trained using features based on global information about a population of users such as demographic information, device ownership, internet usage, household data, and socioeconomic status. The global information can be aggregated from market research questionnaires and provided to the online system. The classifiers input information about a user and output a probability that the user belongs to a given socioeconomic group. The input information is based on a user profile on the online system associated with the user as well as actions performed by the user on the online system. Thus, the online system can predict the user's socioeconomic group without using the user's income information. The online system can generate content for presentation to the user based on the predicted socioeconomic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan M. Sullivan, Gopikrishna Karthikeyan, Zuli Liu, Wouter Lode Paul Massa, Mahima Gupta
  • Publication number: 20180032883
    Abstract: An online system uses classifiers to predict the socioeconomic group of users of the online system. The classifiers use models that are trained using features based on global information about a population of users such as demographic information, device ownership, internet usage, household data, and socioeconomic status. The global information can be aggregated from market research questionnaires and provided to the online system. The classifiers input information about a user and output a probability that the user belongs to a given socioeconomic group. The input information is based on a user profile on the online system associated with the user as well as actions performed by the user on the online system. Thus, the online system can predict the user's socioeconomic group without using the user's income information. The online system can generate content for presentation to the user based on the predicted socioeconomic group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Brendan M. Sullivan, Gopikrishna Karthikeyan, Zuli Liu, Wouter Lode Paul Massa, Mahima Gupta