Xiaochuan Ni has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft . The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in August 2025. Xiaochuan Ni ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Xiaochuan Ni in Mountain View, CA, US.
Patents per Year Patents granted per year, 2013 to 2025 Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2016. peak 3 2013: 2 patents 2013 2014: 2 patents 2014 2015: 1 patents 2015 2016: 3 patents 2016 2018: 1 patents 2018 2020: 1 patents 2020 2021: 2 patents 2021 2025: 1 patents 2025
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Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx Value ⓘ
12399955
Dataset clustering via language model prompts
Mengting Wan , Jennifer Lynay Neville , Longqi Yang , Tara Safavi , Sujay Kumar Jauhar +6 more
2025-08-26
11068474
Sequence to sequence conversational query understanding
Jiarui Ren , Manish Malik , Qifa Ke
2021-07-20
$255,793,000
10984337
Context-based search query formation
Peng Bai , Zheng Chen , Xuedong Huang , Jian Sun , Zhimin Zhang
2021-04-20
$234,252,000
10726023
Generating modifiers for updating search queries
Satya Pradeep Kanduri , Shakti Dhirendraji Sinha
2020-07-28
$115,702,000
9875302
Mining multilingual topics
Jian Sun , Zheng Chen , Jian Hu
2018-01-23
$52,883,000
9443245
Opinion search engine
Jian Sun , Peng Xu , Gang Wang , Ke Tang , Zheng Chen
2016-09-13
$30,359,000
9430521
Query expansion through searching content identifiers
Zheng Chen , Gang Wang , Jian Sun
2016-08-30
$26,338,000
9336298
Dialog-enhanced contextual search query analysis
Shipeng Li , Ye-Yi Wang , Jian Sun , Zheng Chen , Zhimin Zhang +3 more
2016-05-10
$43,328,000
8942470
Sentiment classification using out of domain data
Zheng Chen , Jian Sun , Gang Wang
2015-01-27
$25,395,000
8843468
Classification of transactional queries based on identification of forms
Jian Sun , Zheng Chen
2014-09-23
$34,148,000
8825648
Mining multilingual topics
Jian Sun , Zheng Chen , Jian Hu
2014-09-02
$31,345,000
8605996
Sentiment classification using out of domain data
Gang Wang , Jian Sun , Zheng Chen
2013-12-10
$31,292,000
8489625
Mobile query suggestions with time-location awareness
Jian Sun , Zheng Chen
2013-07-16
$16,054,000