Wenjie Fu

US Patent:

8433762, Apr 30, 2013

Filed:

Nov 20, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/623311

Inventors:

Gideon Wald - San Francisco CA, US
Wenjie Fu - Mountain View CA, US
Yanxin Shi - Palo Alto CA, US
Hong Yan - Mountain View CA, US

Assignee:

Facebook Inc. - Menlo Park CA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709206, 709202, 709203

Abstract:

Methods, apparatuses and systems for generating a nickname dictionary that includes associations between names of users and candidate nicknames based on statistical analysis of user communications observed at a network communications facility, such as a social network system, an email provider and the like.

US Patent:

20090210369, Aug 20, 2009

Filed:

Feb 15, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/032111

Inventors:

Zheng Shao - Sunnyvale CA, US
Wenjie Fu - Pittsburgh PA, US

International Classification:

G06N 5/00
G06F 17/30

US Classification:

706 21, 707 5, 707E17071

Abstract:

A method, system and apparatus are provided to train a usefulness prediction model to generate a usefulness prediction in connection with a given universal resource locator (URL), the training of the usefulness prediction model being based on a training set of URLs and a count of negative URLs and a count of positive URLs identified by the training set, and for each feature extacted from the URLs in the training set, a count of the positive URLs in the training set that include the feature and a count of the negative URLs in the training set that include the feature. One or more features of the given URL are extracted, and the extracted features are used together with the usefulness prediction model to generate a usefulness prediction for the given URL.

US Patent:

20130173611, Jul 4, 2013

Filed:

Feb 27, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/779574

Inventors:

Gideon Wald - San Francisco CA, US
Wenjie Fu - Mountain View CA, US
Yanxin Shi - Palo Alto CA, US
Hong Yan - Mountain View CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707730

Abstract:

Methods, apparatuses and systems for generating a name-word dictionary that includes associations between names of users and candidate words (e.g., nicknames) based on statistical analysis of user communications observed at a network communications facility, such as a social network system, an email provider and the like.

US Patent:

20140067545, Mar 6, 2014

Filed:

Aug 28, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/597103

Inventors:

Wenjie Fu - Foster City CA, US
Alon Amit - Los Altos CA, US

International Classification:

G06Q 30/02

US Classification:

705 1466

Abstract:

A social networking system associates one or more objects in the social networking system with a link to content external to the social networking system. This allows information about the object to be used as a proxy for information about the external content. An index associating objects in the social networking system with links to content external to the social networking system is maintained. A received link to external content are parsed into components, such as a domain name, a path, and a query string, and the components are compared to the index to identify an object associated with one or more of the comments of the received link. One or more rules may be applied to increase the likelihood of the identified object having similar subject matter as the external content.

US Patent:

20180174230, Jun 21, 2018

Filed:

Dec 19, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/383919

Inventors:

- Menlo Park CA, US
Xin Liu - Fremont CA, US
Chandrashekhar Nagarajan - Cupertino CA, US
Anand Sumatilal Bhalgat - Mountain View CA, US
Wenjie Fu - Foster City CA, US
Subha Ramakrishna Gummadi - Palo Alto CA, US
Dianshi Li - Sunnyvale CA, US

International Classification:

G06Q 40/02
G06Q 30/06

Abstract:

An online system presents different content items to different sets of users to evaluate how changes to content or changes to the online system affect user interaction with the content items or presentation of the content items. However, if the online system receives compensation for presenting different content items, the online system may receive a disproportionate amount of compensation for presenting one of the content items that improves user interaction. To prevent such disproportionate allocation of compensation between presentation of different contents items, the online system allocates sets of users to whom different content items are eligible to be presented to maintain a specified budget for presenting the different content items. The online system also differently allocates users across sets to whom different content items are eligible for presentation to prevent biasing of users from presentation of other different content items to users done in parallel.

US Patent:

20160291805, Oct 6, 2016

Filed:

Mar 31, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/675009

Inventors:

- Menlo Park CA, US
Meihong Wang - Sunnyvale CA, US
Di Liu - New York NY, US
Wenjie Fu - Foster City CA, US
Lars Seren Backstrom - San Francisco, CA

International Classification:

G06F 3/0482
G06F 3/0484
H04L 12/58

Abstract:

A social networking system selects and presents content items to a user via a feed. Additionally, the social networking system predicts heights associated with various content items, such as content items selected for presentation via the feed. Characteristics of a content item (e.g., a type of content included in the content item, a language of the content item, and a number of comments associated with the content item) as well as characteristics of a client device associated with the user are used to predict a height associated with the content item. When selecting content items for presentation to the user, the social networking system accounts for the predicted heights of various content items when ordering the content items in the news feed.

US Patent:

20160291914, Oct 6, 2016

Filed:

Mar 31, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/674936

Inventors:

- Menlo Park CA, US
Meihong Wang - Sunnyvale CA, US
Di Liu - New York NY, US
Wenjie Fu - Foster City CA, US
Lars Seren Backstrom - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 3/14
G06F 3/0482
H04L 12/58

Abstract:

A social networking system selects and presents content items to a user via a feed. Additionally, the social networking system predicts heights associated with various content items, such as content items selected for presentation via the feed. Characteristics of a content item (e.g., a type of content included in the content item, a language of the content item, and a number of comments associated with the content item) as well as characteristics of a client device associated with the user are used to predict a height associated with the content item. When selecting content items for presentation to the user, the social networking system accounts for the predicted heights of various content items to increase the likelihood of the user interacting with content items presented via the feed.

US Patent:

20150348134, Dec 3, 2015

Filed:

May 30, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/292277

Inventors:

- Menlo Park CA, US
Dan Zhang - Foster City CA, US
Wenjie Fu - Foster City CA, US
Linji Yang - Menlo Park CA, US
Spencer Powell - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

FACEBOOK, INC. - Menlo Park CA

International Classification:

G06Q 30/02
G06Q 50/00

Abstract:

An advertiser specifies an advertising campaign including one or more targeting criteria for presentation to users of an online system, which retrieves information describing previously completed advertisement auctions for presenting advertisement to users of the online system satisfying one or more of the targeting criteria. Based on the retrieved information, the online system associates various bid amounts with the advertising campaign and determines the advertising campaign's estimated performance for various bid amounts. For each bid amount, the online system determines a number of previously completed advertisement auctions that would have selected an advertisement from the advertising campaign, an amount that would have been charged to the advertiser if an advertisement campaign was selected, and a number of distinct users that would have been presented with an advertisement from the advertising campaign.