# Wei-Ying Ma — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Wei-Ying Ma has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Search Engines Rank Images Using User Ratings](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/7836050/bing-search-ranking) — granted 2010
  A system that improves image search results by combining how well an image matches a search term with how highly users have rated that image elsewhere.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/wei-ying-ma

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