Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Simon Tong

104Patents
21h-index
66Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 1, 1997 → Oct 24, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7346839B2 Information retrieval based on historical data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 129 Expired
US7222127B1 Large scale machine learning systems and methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 116 Expired
US7231399B1 Ranking documents based on large data sets Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 95 Expired
US8175914B1 Automatic adjustment of advertiser bids to equalize cost-per-conversion among publishers for an advertisement Physics 64 Active
US8447760B1 Generating a related set of documents for an initial set of documents Physics 63 Active
US7734627B1 Document similarity detection Physics 61 Expired
US7743003B1 Scaling machine learning using approximate counting that uses feature hashing Physics 59 Active
US8417697B2 Permitting users to remove documents Physics 55 Active
US8661029B1 Modifying search result ranking based on implicit user feedback Physics 54 Active
US7505964B2 Methods and systems for improving a search ranking using related queries Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 54 Expired
US7451130B2 System and method for providing preferred country biasing of search results Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 38 Expired
US7409383B1 Locating meaningful stopwords or stop-phrases in keyword-based retrieval systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 36 Expired
US8224827B2 Document ranking based on document classification Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 34 Active
US8024326B2 Methods and systems for improving a search ranking using related queries Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 34 Active
US8346607B1 Automatic adjustment of advertiser bids to equalize cost-per-conversion among publishers for an advertisement Physics 33 Active
US8521725B1 Systems and methods for improved searching Physics 33 Expired
US8972394B1 Generating a related set of documents for an initial set of documents Physics 25 Active
US7836391B2 Document search engine including highlighting of confident results Physics 25 Expired
US8606730B1 Scaling machine learning using approximate counting Physics 24 Active
US8402032B1 Generating context-based spell corrections of entity names Physics 23 Active
US8195674B1 Large scale machine learning systems and methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Active
US7350187B1 System and methods for automatically creating lists Physics 21 Expired
US7454417B2 Methods and systems for improving a search ranking using population information Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Expired
US7657423B1 Automatic completion of fragments of text Physics 19 Active
US7840572B2 Document scoring based on document inception date Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Active

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