Inventor
ZHANG RUOFEI
US38 patents
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MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
25 patentsUS10354182B2Jul 16, 2019
Identifying relevant content items using a deep-structured neural network
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC29 citations93
US11263487B2Mar 1, 2022
Multi-task GAN, and image translator and image classifier trained thereby
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC7 citations84
US11461415B2Oct 4, 2022
Assessing semantic similarity using a dual-encoder neural network
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC9 citations83
US10654380B2May 19, 2020
Query rewriting and interactive inquiry framework
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC5 citations82
US11250042B2Feb 15, 2022
Taxonomy enrichment using ensemble classifiers
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC10 citations80
US10642846B2May 5, 2020
Using a generative adversarial network for query-keyword matching
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC9 citations79
US10248967B2Apr 2, 2019
Compressing an original query while preserving its intent
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC15 citations79
US10445376B2Oct 15, 2019
Rewriting keyword information using search engine results
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC10 citations77
US11676001B2Jun 13, 2023
Learning graph representations using hierarchical transformers for content recommendation
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC2 citations73
US11301732B2Apr 12, 2022
Processing image-bearing electronic documents using a multimodal fusion framework
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC4 citations71
US10459928B2Oct 29, 2019
Dynamic tensor attention for information retrieval scoring
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC6 citations71
US9659259B2May 23, 2017
Latency-efficient multi-stage tagging mechanism
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC3 citations71
US10614118B2Apr 7, 2020
Increasing inclusiveness of search result generation through tuned mapping of text and images into the same high-dimensional space
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC2 citations68
US11603017B2Mar 14, 2023
Query rewriting and interactive inquiry framework
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations61
US11960573B1Apr 16, 2024
Neural network categorization accuracy with categorical graph neural networks
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations58
US11551039B2Jan 10, 2023
Neural network categorization accuracy with categorical graph neural networks
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations58
US11921766B2Mar 5, 2024
Generating electronic summary documents for landing pages
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations57
US11449536B2Sep 20, 2022
Generating electronic summary documents for landing pages
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC1 citations57
US12579426B2Mar 17, 2026
Training a neural network having sparsely-activated sub-networks using regularization
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations52
US12353454B2Jul 8, 2025
Look ahead strategy for trie-based beam search in generative retrieval
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations50
US12260338B2Mar 25, 2025
Transformer-based neural network including a mask attention network
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations50
US11966428B2Apr 23, 2024
Resource-efficient sequence generation with dual-level contrastive learning
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations50
US11163940B2Nov 2, 2021
Pipeline for identifying supplemental content items that are related to objects in images
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations50
US12530528B2Jan 20, 2026
Generation of data models for predicting data
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations45
US12353998B2Jul 8, 2025
Multi-task sequence tagging with injection of supplemental information
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations44
YAHOO INC
4 patentsUS7826657B2Nov 2, 2010
Automatically generating a content-based quality metric for digital images
YAHOO INC67 citations96
US8358837B2Jan 22, 2013
Apparatus and methods for detecting adult videos
YAHOO INC20 citations90
US7814513B2Oct 12, 2010
Video channel creation systems and methods
YAHOO INC14 citations81
US7827184B2Nov 2, 2010
System and method for modeling user selection feedback in a search result page
YAHOO INC4 citations62
ZHANG RUOFEI
3 patentsUS8204842B1Jun 19, 2012
System and method for image annotation and multi-modal image retrieval using probabilistic semantic models comprising at least one joint probability distribution
ZHANG RUOFEI42 citations96
US9280562B1Mar 8, 2016
System and method for multimedia ranking and multi-modal image retrieval using probabilistic semantic models and expectation-maximization (EM) learning
ZHANG RUOFEI16 citations91
US8108374B2Jan 31, 2012
Optimization framework for tuning ranking engine
ZHANG RUOFEI7 citations83
SUGEN INC
3 patentsUNIV NEW YORK STATE RES FOUND
2 patentsUS7814040B1Oct 12, 2010
System and method for image annotation and multi-modal image retrieval using probabilistic semantic models
UNIV NEW YORK STATE RES FOUND63 citations98
US10614366B1Apr 7, 2020
System and method for multimedia ranking and multi-modal image retrieval using probabilistic semantic models and expectation-maximization (EM) learning
UNIV NEW YORK STATE RES FOUND9 citations84