Ying Li

6921711, Jul 26, 2005

Sep 9, 2003

10/605106

Cyril Cabral, Jr. - Ossining NY, US
Paul C. Jamison - Hopewell Junction NY, US
Victor Ku - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Ying Li - Poughkeepsie NY, US
Vijay Narayanan - New York NY, US
An L Steegen - Stamford CT, US
Yun-Yu Wang - Poughquag NY, US
Kwong H. Wong - Wappingers Falls NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H01L021/443

438589, 438592, 438595

A structure and method for a metal replacement gate of a high performance device is provided. A sacrificial gate structure is first formed on an etch stop layer provided on a semiconductor substrate. A pair of spacers is provided on sidewalls of the sacrificial gate structure. The sacrificial gate structure is then removed, forming an opening. Subsequently, a metal gate including an first layer of metal such as tungsten, a diffusion barrier such as titanium nitride, and a second layer of metal such as tungsten is formed in the opening between the spacers.

6982708, Jan 3, 2006

Nov 21, 2002

10/301220

Teresa Mah - Redmond WA, US
Ying Li - Bellevue WA, US
Brian Burdick - Bellevue WA, US
Kevin Paul Kornelson - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/00

345418

Displaying a funnel from clickstream data as a hierarchy to a user for analysis wherein the funnel represents an ordered path of web pages successively viewed by the user. The invention includes clickpath visualization software to enable the user to easily analyze and evaluate clickpaths by focusing only on subpaths of interest. The invention software provides the user with various functions including, but not limited to, zoom, sort, expand, reverse, preview, and activate.

7020643, Mar 28, 2006

Jan 25, 2002

10/056766

Teresa Mah - Redmond WA, US
Hendricus D. J. Hoek - Kirkland WA, US
Ying Li - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/00
G06N 5/02

706 46, 706 11, 706 12

A system and method for extracting funnels from at least one input clickstream (CS) representing an ordered path of successively viewed web pages. The invention stores the CS in one or more tree structures in one scan, then traverses each tree structure to identify funnels satisfying input criteria, if any. The input criteria includes depth criteria, width criteria, starting page criteria, and end page criteria.

7260568, Aug 21, 2007

Apr 15, 2004

10/826162

Benyu Zhang - Beijing, CN
Hua-Jun Zeng - Beijing, CN
Zheng Chen - Beijing, CN
Wei-Ying Ma - Beijing, CN
Li Li - Kirkland WA, US
Ying Li - Bellevue WA, US
Tarek Najm - Kirkland WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30

707 3, 707 4, 707 5

Systems and methods for verifying relevance between terms and Web site contents are described. In one aspect, site contents from a bid URL are retrieved. Expanded term(s) semantically and/or contextually related to bid term(s) are calculated. Content similarity and expanded similarity measurements are calculated from respective combinations of the bid term(s), the site contents, and the expanded terms. Category similarity measurements between the expanded terms and the site contents are determined in view of a trained similarity classifier. The trained similarity classifier having been trained from mined web site content associated with directory data. A confidence value providing an objective measure of relevance between the bid term(s) and the site contents is determined from the content, expanded, and category similarity measurements evaluating the multiple similarity scores in view of a trained relevance classifier model.

7382933, Jun 3, 2008

Aug 24, 2005

11/210305

Chitra Dorai - Chappaqua NY, US
Ying Li - Mohegan Lake NY, US
Youngja Park - Edgewater NJ, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06K 9/36

382276, 382164, 382168, 382171, 382173

System and method for partitioning a video into a series of semantic units where each semantic unit relates to a generally complete thematic topic. A computer implemented method for partitioning a video into a series of semantic units wherein each semantic unit relates to a theme or a topic, comprises dividing a video into a plurality of homogeneous segments, analyzing audio and visual content of the video, extracting a plurality of keywords from the speech content of each of the plurality of homogeneous segments of the video, and detecting and merging a plurality of groups of semantically related and temporally adjacent homogeneous segments into a series of semantic units in accordance with the results of both the audio and visual analysis and the keyword extraction. The present invention can be applied to generate important table-of-contents as well as index tables for videos to facilitate efficient video topic searching and browsing.

7424472, Sep 9, 2008

May 27, 2005

11/138685

Chuang Wang - Beijing, CN
Joshua Forman - Somerville MA, US
Lee Wang - Kirkland WA, US
Xing Xie - Beijing, CN
Ying Li - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

707 4, 707 3, 715200

A system and method for location-specific searching. The invention correctly identifies explicit and implicit locations in a search query, and provides an appropriate dominant location. Top search results are obtained and analyzed to determine which terms in the query often appear in combination, and the query is tokenized based on the analysis. An explicit location indicating a location intent is most likely treated as an individual token, and the explicit location is treated as the dominant location of the query. In the case of a false positive, wherein the explicit location in a query is not the location intent, the explicit location is likely to be present with other terms that provide context. A token will likely include these terms together. The explicit location will therefore not be used to generate location-specific results in the case of a false positive.

7428529, Sep 23, 2008

Apr 15, 2004

10/825894

Hua-Jun Zeng - Beijing, CN
Benyu Zhang - Beijing, CN
Zheng Chen - Beijing, CN
Wei-Ying Ma - Beijing, CN
Li Li - Kirkland WA, US
Ying Li - Bellevue WA, US
Tarek Najm - Kirkland WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

707 3, 707 4, 707 5, 707 6, 707 7

Systems and methods for related term suggestion are described. In one aspect, term clusters are generated as a function of calculated similarity of term vectors. Each term vector having been generated from search results associated with a set of high frequency of occurrence (FOO) historical queries previously submitted to a search engine. Responsive to receiving a term/phrase from an entity, the term/phrase is evaluated in view of terms/phrases in the term clusters to identify one or more related term suggestions.

7620914, Nov 17, 2009

May 22, 2006

11/419641

Yin Li - Redmond WA, US
Jian Sun - Beijing, CN
Li Li - Kirkland WA, US
Weiwei Zhang - Beijing, CN
Xiaoou Tang - Beijing, CN
Ying Li - Bellevue WA, US
Michael Hurt - Redmond WA, US
Eric Picard - Snohomish WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 13/00
G06F 15/00

715854, 715758, 715851

A system that provides binds or associates a clickable hyperlink with an object that appears in a video stream. The hyperlink may be sent in a separate stream from the video stream, and user interfaces are provided to a user to activate the hyperlink. Activation of the hyperlink may cause a redirection to an associated website. Furthermore, feedback may be provided as to the user's activity regarding interest and activation regarding particular hyperlinks in the video.