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Wei-Ying Ma
Also filed as: MA WEI · MA WEI-YING
191 granted patents·45 pending applications·5,315 citations·filing 1999–2024
99Inventor score
Files withMICROSOFT CORP153TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC11MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC7ZHANG LEI5LI MING JING4
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236 records- 0198US8346701B2Answer ranking in community question-answering sitesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2009·Granted Jan 1, 2013·68 cites·20 claims
- 0298US7836050B2Ranking content based on relevance and qualityMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 16, 2010·90 cites·7 claims
- 0398US7433895B2Adding dominant media elements to search resultsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 7, 2008·121 cites·19 claims
- 0498US7260568B2Verifying relevance between keywords and web site contentsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 21, 2007·153 cites·41 claims
- 0597US7647331B2Detecting duplicate images using hash code groupingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jan 12, 2010·78 cites·13 claims
- 0697US7457825B2Generating search requests from multimodal queriesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 25, 2008·75 cites·11 claims
- 0797US7428529B2Term suggestion for multi-sense queryMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 23, 2008·83 cites·43 claims
- 0896US7644373B2User interface for viewing clusters of imagesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jan 5, 2010·64 cites·6 claims
- 0996US7574530B2Method and system for web resource location classification and detectionMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Aug 11, 2009·60 cites·15 claims
- 1096US7548936B2Systems and methods to present web image search results for effective image browsingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 16, 2009·60 cites·14 claims
- 1196US7403642B2Efficient propagation for face annotationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 22, 2008·106 cites·17 claims
- 1295US9554093B2Automatically inserting advertisements into source video content playback streamsHUA XIAN-SHENG·Filed 2007·Granted Jan 24, 2017·32 cites·20 claims
- 1395US8001121B2Training a ranking function using propagated document relevanceMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 16, 2011·44 cites·18 claims
- 1495US7720830B2Hierarchical conditional random fields for web extractionMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted May 18, 2010·48 cites·13 claims
- 1595US7529748B2Information classification paradigmWEN JI-RONG·Filed 2006·Granted May 5, 2009·282 cites·13 claims
- 1695US7366705B2Clustering based text classificationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 29, 2008·107 cites·35 claims
- 1794US8429110B2Pattern tree-based rule learningCAI RUI·Filed 2010·Granted Apr 23, 2013·32 cites·20 claims
- 1894US7805438B2Learning a document ranking function using fidelity-based error measurementsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Sep 28, 2010·45 cites·19 claims
- 1994US7725451B2Generating clusters of images for search resultsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted May 25, 2010·64 cites·13 claims
- 2094US7596597B2Recommending contacts in a social networkMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Sep 29, 2009·71 cites·12 claims
- 2194US7516401B2Function-based object model for analyzing a web page table in a mobile device by identifying table objects similarity in functionMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 7, 2009·39 cites·12 claims
- 2294US7065707B2Segmenting and indexing web pages using function-based object modelsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 20, 2006·103 cites·4 claims
- 2394US6347313B1Information embedding based on user relevance feedback for object retrievalHEWLETT PACKARD CO·Filed 1999·Granted Feb 12, 2002·295 cites·23 claims
- 2493US9063226B2Detecting spatial outliers in a location entity datasetZHENG YU·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 23, 2015·68 cites·20 claims
- 2593US8020090B2Small form factor web browsingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Sep 13, 2011·30 cites·9 claims
- 2693US8019763B2Propagating relevance from labeled documents to unlabeled documentsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Sep 13, 2011·36 cites·20 claims
- 2793US7657504B2User interface for displaying images of sightsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Feb 2, 2010·20 cites·16 claims
- 2893US7650431B2Serving locally relevant advertisementsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jan 19, 2010·45 cites·20 claims
- 2993US7441207B2Method and system for improved viewing and navigation of contentMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 21, 2008·106 cites·17 claims
- 3093US7203901B2Small form factor web browsingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 10, 2007·71 cites·14 claims
- 3192US8001130B2Web object retrieval based on a language modelMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 16, 2011·35 cites·11 claims
- 3292US7849089B2Method and system for adapting search results to personal information needsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 7, 2010·35 cites·16 claims
- 3392US7617176B2Query-based snippet clustering for search result groupingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 10, 2009·129 cites·13 claims
- 3492US7584181B2Implicit links search enhancement system and method for search engines using implicit links generated by mining user access patternsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Sep 1, 2009·71 cites·19 claims
- 3592US7461073B2Co-clustering objects of heterogeneous typesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 2, 2008·31 cites·18 claims
- 3692US7171337B2Event-based automated diagnosis of known problemsMICROSOFT CORPOARTION·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 30, 2007·31 cites·15 claims
- 3791US8224849B2Object similarity search in high-dimensional vector spacesLI MING JING·Filed 2011·Granted Jul 17, 2012·15 cites·18 claims
- 3891US7941442B2Object similarity search in high-dimensional vector spacesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Granted May 10, 2011·22 cites·19 claims
- 3991US7873901B2Small form factor web browsingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jan 18, 2011·21 cites·17 claims
- 4091US7809723B2Distributed hierarchical text classification frameworkMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 5, 2010·47 cites·15 claims
- 4191US7599931B2Web forum crawlerMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 6, 2009·27 cites·14 claims
- 4291US7502789B2Identifying important news reports from news home pagesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 10, 2009·29 cites·24 claims
- 4391US7480858B2Analyzing webpages using function-based object models for web page display in a mobile deviceMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 20, 2009·24 cites·20 claims
- 4491US7437382B2Method and system for ranking messages of discussion threadsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 14, 2008·26 cites·8 claims
- 4591US7305389B2Content propagation for enhanced document retrievalMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Dec 4, 2007·84 cites·45 claims
- 4690US10732783B2Identifying image comments from similar imagesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Aug 4, 2020·12 cites·20 claims
- 4790US8559682B2Building a person profile databaseZHANG LEI·Filed 2010·Granted Oct 15, 2013·13 cites·20 claims
- 4890US7743058B2Co-clustering objects of heterogeneous typesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Jun 22, 2010·23 cites·17 claims
- 4990US7613995B2Vision-based document segmentationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 3, 2009·23 cites·19 claims
- 5090US7565372B2Evaluating and generating summaries using normalized probabilitiesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 21, 2009·24 cites·11 claims
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