Inventor · Redmond, WA, US

Wei-Ying Ma

191Patents
33h-index
163Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 1, 1999 → Mar 23, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7529748B2 Information classification paradigm Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 255 Expired
US6347313B1 Information embedding based on user relevance feedback for object retrieval Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 161 Expired
US7433895B2 Adding dominant media elements to search results Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 112 Active
US7260568B2 Verifying relevance between keywords and web site contents Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 101 Expired
US7617176B2 Query-based snippet clustering for search result grouping Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 100 Expired
US7366705B2 Clustering based text classification Physics 89 Expired
US7441207B2 Method and system for improved viewing and navigation of content Physics 79 Expired
US7403642B2 Efficient propagation for face annotation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 77 Active
US7289985B2 Enhanced document retrieval Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 73 Expired
US7836050B2 Ranking content based on relevance and quality Electricity 65 Active
US7647331B2 Detecting duplicate images using hash code grouping Physics 65 Active
US9063226B2 Detecting spatial outliers in a location entity dataset Physics 63 Active
US7065707B2 Segmenting and indexing web pages using function-based object models Physics 62 Expired
US7584181B2 Implicit links search enhancement system and method for search engines using implicit links generated by mining user access patterns Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 57 Active
US7457825B2 Generating search requests from multimodal queries Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 56 Active
US7406459B2 Concept network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 56 Expired
US7725451B2 Generating clusters of images for search results Physics 54 Expired
US7574530B2 Method and system for web resource location classification and detection Electricity 53 Active
US7596597B2 Recommending contacts in a social network Electricity 52 Active
US7305389B2 Content propagation for enhanced document retrieval Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 51 Expired
US7644373B2 User interface for viewing clusters of images Physics 49 Active
US7428529B2 Term suggestion for multi-sense query Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 49 Expired
US8346701B2 Answer ranking in community question-answering sites Physics 49 Active
US8001121B2 Training a ranking function using propagated document relevance Physics 40 Active
US7805438B2 Learning a document ranking function using fidelity-based error measurements Physics 40 Active

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