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Ruofei Zhang
Also filed as: ZHANG RUOFEI · ZHANG RUOFEI BRUCE
33 granted patents·25 pending applications·374 citations·filing 2006–2023
97Inventor score
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58 records- 0196US7814040B1System and method for image annotation and multi-modal image retrieval using probabilistic semantic modelsUNIV NEW YORK STATE RES FOUND·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 12, 2010·63 cites·15 claims
- 0295US10354182B2Identifying relevant content items using a deep-structured neural networkMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Jul 16, 2019·29 cites·20 claims
- 0395US8204842B1System and method for image annotation and multi-modal image retrieval using probabilistic semantic models comprising at least one joint probability distributionZHANG RUOFEI·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 19, 2012·42 cites·20 claims
- 0493US11461415B2Assessing semantic similarity using a dual-encoder neural networkMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Oct 4, 2022·9 cites·19 claims
- 0593US11263487B2Multi-task GAN, and image translator and image classifier trained therebyMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 1, 2022·7 cites·20 claims
- 0693US7826657B2Automatically generating a content-based quality metric for digital imagesYAHOO INC·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 2, 2010·67 cites·28 claims
- 0791US11301732B2Processing image-bearing electronic documents using a multimodal fusion frameworkMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Apr 12, 2022·4 cites·17 claims
- 0890US10614366B1System and method for multimedia ranking and multi-modal image retrieval using probabilistic semantic models and expectation-maximization (EM) learningUNIV NEW YORK STATE RES FOUND·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 7, 2020·9 cites·20 claims
- 0990US9477654B2Convolutional latent semantic models and their applicationsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2014·Granted Oct 25, 2016·20 cites·20 claims
- 1089US7814513B2Video channel creation systems and methodsYAHOO INC·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 12, 2010·14 cites·7 claims
- 1188US11676001B2Learning graph representations using hierarchical transformers for content recommendationMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 13, 2023·2 cites·20 claims
- 1288US10642846B2Using a generative adversarial network for query-keyword matchingMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2017·Granted May 5, 2020·9 cites·23 claims
- 1387US11250042B2Taxonomy enrichment using ensemble classifiersMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 15, 2022·10 cites·20 claims
- 1487US10654380B2Query rewriting and interactive inquiry frameworkMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2017·Granted May 19, 2020·5 cites·20 claims
- 1587US10248967B2Compressing an original query while preserving its intentMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Apr 2, 2019·15 cites·20 claims
- 1686US10459928B2Dynamic tensor attention for information retrieval scoringMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Oct 29, 2019·6 cites·20 claims
- 1786US9280562B1System and method for multimedia ranking and multi-modal image retrieval using probabilistic semantic models and expectation-maximization (EM) learningZHANG RUOFEI·Filed 2012·Granted Mar 8, 2016·16 cites·22 claims
- 1885US10445376B2Rewriting keyword information using search engine resultsMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 15, 2019·10 cites·20 claims
- 1981US8358837B2Apparatus and methods for detecting adult videosYAHOO INC·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 22, 2013·20 cites·30 claims
- 2074US8108374B2Optimization framework for tuning ranking engineZHANG RUOFEI·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 31, 2012·7 cites·18 claims
- 2171US9659259B2Latency-efficient multi-stage tagging mechanismMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2014·Granted May 23, 2017·3 cites·20 claims
- 2271US2023267308A1Learning graph representations using hierarchical transformers for content recommendationMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 2370US11960573B1Neural network categorization accuracy with categorical graph neural networksMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Apr 16, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 2470US10614118B2Increasing inclusiveness of search result generation through tuned mapping of text and images into the same high-dimensional spaceMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Apr 7, 2020·2 cites·20 claims
- 2568US7827184B2System and method for modeling user selection feedback in a search result pageYAHOO INC·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 2, 2010·4 cites·24 claims
- 2667US11921766B2Generating electronic summary documents for landing pagesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Mar 5, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 2765US11603017B2Query rewriting and interactive inquiry frameworkMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 14, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 2864US11449536B2Generating electronic summary documents for landing pagesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 20, 2022·1 cites·20 claims
- 2961US11551039B2Neural network categorization accuracy with categorical graph neural networksMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Jan 10, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 3059US2015262220A1Dynamic Advertising Based on User PreferencesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2014·Application pending·0 cites
- 3157US2010121712A1Diversity of ads displayed on a publisher pageYAHOO INC·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
- 3256US2023334350A1Predicting matching density with structural causal modelMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2022·Application pending·0 cites
- 3355US2023334320A1Latency-Aware Neural Network Pruning and Applications ThereofMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2022·Application pending·0 cites
- 3454US2013339126A1Campaign performance forecasting for non-guaranteed delivery advertisingCUI YING GRACE·Filed 2012·Application pending·0 cites
- 3554US2009198671A1System and method for generating subphrase queriesYAHOO INC·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
- 3651US2013085865A1Context-contingent targeting in online advertisingZHOU YANG·Filed 2011·Application pending·0 cites
- 3750US12353454B2Look ahead strategy for trie-based beam search in generative retrievalMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Jul 8, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 3850US2012084142A1Bid landscape forecasting in online advertisingLI WEI·Filed 2010·Application pending·0 cites
- 3950US2012284128A1Order-independent approximation for order-dependent logic in display advertisingWANG XUERUI·Filed 2011·Application pending·0 cites
- 4049US2010250523A1System and method for learning a ranking model that optimizes a ranking evaluation metric for ranking search results of a search queryYAHOO INC·Filed 2009·Application pending·0 cites
- 4149US2011191170A1Similarity function in online advertising bid optimizationYAHOO INC·Filed 2010·Application pending·0 cites
- 4249US2011196733A1Optimizing Advertisement Selection in Contextual Advertising SystemsLI WEI·Filed 2010·Application pending·0 cites
- 4349US2011191169A1Kalman filter modeling in online advertising bid optimizationYAHOO INC·Filed 2010·Application pending·0 cites
- 4449US2024054326A1Extreme classification processing using graphs and neural networksMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2021·Application pending·0 cites
- 4549US2012158456A1Forecasting Ad Traffic Based on Business Metrics in Performance-based Display AdvertisingWANG XUERUI·Filed 2010·Application pending·0 cites
- 4648US12260338B2Transformer-based neural network including a mask attention networkMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 25, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 4748US2023394333A1Knowledge injection model for generative commonsense reasoningMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2020·Application pending·0 cites
- 4848US2011196739A1Systems and methods for efficiently ranking advertisements based on relevancy and click feedbackZHANG RUOFEI·Filed 2010·Application pending·0 cites
- 4947US12353998B2Multi-task sequence tagging with injection of supplemental informationMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Jul 8, 2025·0 cites·18 claims
- 5047US11163940B2Pipeline for identifying supplemental content items that are related to objects in imagesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 2, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
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