Patents Examined by Ann J Lo
  • Patent number: 11973841
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for building a user model. The system includes a processor and a non-transitory storage medium accessible to the processor. The processor is configured to obtain user data from a database, where the user data include user behavior for a plurality of apps installed on one or more user terminals. The processor selects at least one rating parameters using the user data, where the at least one rating parameters indicates a rating of relevant app usage. The system builds the user model based on a rating matrix comprising the at least one rating parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
    Inventors: Ayman Farahat, Tarun Bhatia
  • Patent number: 11968414
    Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting who is watching a program are disclosed. Text related to the program can be reviewed, the text comprising: plot information, sub-title information, summary information, script information, or synopsis information, or any combination thereof. Pre-determined genre words and pre-determined keywords can be determined based on machine learning analysis of historical programs. Words from the text which are relevant words can be determined, the relevant words being words that help identify genre words or keywords. How closely the relevant words coincide to the pre-determined genre words can be determined by generating a breakdown of how many relevant words are the pre-determined genre words and the pre-determined keywords. It can be predicted who will watch the program based on the breakdown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventors: Sam Aberman, Binyamin Even, Oshri Barazani, Patrick Blackwill
  • Patent number: 11941502
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for detecting and identifying anomalous data in an input data set are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Optum Services (Ireland) Limited
    Inventors: Lorcan B. MacManus, Conor Breen, Peter Cogan
  • Patent number: 11934946
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for memorizing data signals in a spiking neural network. For each data signal, such a method includes supplying metadata relating to the data signal to a machine learning model trained to generate an output signal, indicating a relevance class for a data signal, from input metadata for that data signal. The method includes iteratively supplying the data signal to a sub-assembly of neurons, interconnected via synaptic weights, of a spiking neural network and training the synaptic weights to memorize the data signal in the sub-assembly. The method further comprises assigning neurons of the network to the sub-assembly in dependence on the output signal of the model such that more relevant data signals are memorized by larger sub-assemblies. The data signal memorized by a sub-assembly can be subsequently recalled by activating neurons of that sub-assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Giovanni Cherubini, Abu Sebastian
  • Patent number: 11934969
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to implement a bias identification engine that identifies bias in the operation of a trained cognitive computing system. A bias risk annotator is configured to identify a plurality of bias triggers in inputs and outputs of the trained cognitive computing system based on a bias risk trigger data structure that specifies terms or phrases that are associated with a bias. An annotated input and an annotated output of the trained cognitive computing system is received and processed by the bias risk annotator to determine if they comprise a portion of content that contains a bias trigger. In response to at least one of the annotated input or annotated output comprising a portion of content containing a bias trigger a notification is transmitted, to an administrator computing device, that specifies the presence of bias in the operation of the trained cognitive computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kristin E. McNeil, Robert C. Sizemore, David B. Werts, Sterling R. Smith
  • Patent number: 11934968
    Abstract: A method and system for determining predictably feasible model designs. The method includes defining a plurality of model designs, wherein the plurality of model designs include a plurality of infeasible model designs, wherein one or more of the infeasible model designs are infeasible due to limits in technology; storing information representing a plurality of technological trends; and classifying one or more of the infeasible model designs as predictably feasible model designs, wherein the predictable feasible model designs are those infeasible model designs expected to become feasible model designs if one or more of the plurality of technological trends continues as anticipated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Matthew A. Stillerman
  • Patent number: 11921861
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing the status of model extraction in the presence of colluding users are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes generating, for each of multiple users, a summary of user input to a machine learning model; comparing the generated summaries to boundaries of multiple feature classes within an input space of the machine learning model; computing correspondence metrics based at least in part on the comparisons; identifying, based at least in part on the computed metrics, one or more of the multiple users as candidates for extracting portions of the machine learning model in an adversarial manner; and generating and outputting an alert, based on the identified users, to an entity related to the machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Manish Kesarwani, Vijay Arya, Sameep Mehta
  • Patent number: 11915138
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for reducing a size of a neural network model, the method including: compressing data of the neural network model; identifying structure information of a vector register, wherein the structure information includes a number of registers included in the vector register; comparing a number of elements in the compressed data with a first condition, wherein the first condition is determined based on the number of registers in the vector register; and in response to the number of elements satisfying the first condition, associating the compressed data with the vector register to enable loading the compressed data to the vector register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Weifeng Zhang, Guoyang Chen, Yu Pu, Yongzhi Zhang, Yuan Xie
  • Patent number: 11915311
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and server for generating a user score based on social networking information is provided. In the disclosed method, by processing circuitry of an information processing apparatus, default annotation information of a plurality of sampled users, an ith user score and an ith relative user score for each of the sampled users are obtained. A user score model is trained according to the ith user score of the respective sampled user, the ith relative user score of the respective sampled user, and the default annotation information of the respective sampled user. An (i+1)th user score of the respective sampled user is subsequently calculated and a trained user score model, for each of the sampled users, is obtained when the (i+1)th user score for the respective sampled user satisfies a training termination condition, The method provides a solution to evaluate the user score for a use when personal information of the user is missing or incorrect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Peixuan Chen, Qian Chen, Lin Li, Sanping Wu, Weiliang Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11900236
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment may provide an interpretable neural network with hierarchical conditions and partitions. A local function f(x) may model the feature attribution within a specific partition. The combination of all the local functions creates a globally interpretable model. Further, INNs may utilize an external process to identify suitable partitions during their initialization and may support training using back-propagation and related techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: UMNAI Limited
    Inventors: Angelo Dalli, Mauro Pirrone
  • Patent number: 11893485
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing inputs using a neural network system that includes a batch normalization layer. One of the methods includes receiving a respective first layer output for each training example in the batch; computing a plurality of normalization statistics for the batch from the first layer outputs; normalizing each component of each first layer output using the normalization statistics to generate a respective normalized layer output for each training example in the batch; generating a respective batch normalization layer output for each of the training examples from the normalized layer outputs; and providing the batch normalization layer output as an input to the second neural network layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sergey Ioffe, Corinna Cortes
  • Patent number: 11886960
    Abstract: Parallel training of a machine learning model on a computerized system may be provided. Computing tasks can be assigned to multiple workers of a system. A method may include accessing training data. A parallel training of the machine learning model can be started based on the accessed training data, so as for the training to be distributed through a first number K of workers, K>1. Responsive to detecting a change in a temporal evolution of a quantity indicative of a convergence rate of the parallel training (e.g., where said change reflects a deterioration of the convergence rate), the parallel training of the machine learning model is scaled-in, so as for the parallel training to be subsequently distributed through a second number K? of workers, where K>K??1. Related computerized systems and computer program products may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Kaufmann, Thomas Parnell, Antonios Kornilios Kourtis
  • Patent number: 11875243
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving, by an aromatic simulation platform, a recipe including descriptions indicative of ingredients of a consumable, processing the recipe through a first neural network to provide a recipe embedding, processing an ingredients profile to determine an aroma compounds profile representing the ingredients of the ingredients profile, processing the aroma compounds profile through a second neural network to provide an aroma embedding, and processing the recipe embedding and the aroma embedding through a third neural network to provide an aroma profile representative of the consumable of the recipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Alpana A. Dubey, Veenu Arora, Nitish A. Bhardwaj, Aakanksha Saini
  • Patent number: 11868852
    Abstract: A machine learning algorithm, such as a random forest regressor, can be trained using a set of annotated data objects to estimate the risk or business value for an object. The feature contributions for each data object can be analyzed and a representation generated that clusters data objects by feature contributions. Any clustering of data objects with incorrect scores in the visualization can be indicative of gaps in the regressor training. Adjustments to the inputs can be made, and the regressor retrained, to eliminate clustering of errors for similar feature contributions. Correcting the risk score estimations can ensure that the appropriate security policies and permissions are applied to each data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander Watson
  • Patent number: 11861521
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising: obtaining, by way of an input, input data relating to speech provided by a user; deriving one or more hypotheses for each of a plurality of user data fields from the input data; obtaining one or more reference values for each of the plurality of user data fields for each of one or more candidate users; calculating a score for at least one candidate user of the one or more candidate users, calculating the score comprising: calculating a plurality of user data field scores comprising, for each of the plurality of user data fields, a respective user data field score using the one or more hypotheses and the one or more reference values for the candidate user for the respective user data field; performing one or more fuzzy logic operations on the plurality of user data field scores; using the score for a candidate user of the one or more candidate users to perform a verification or identification process for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: PolyAI Limited
    Inventors: Georgios Spithourakis, Pawel Franciszek Budzianowski, Michal Lis, Avishek Mondal, Ivan Vulic, Nikola Mrksic, Eshan Singhal, Benjamin Peter Levin, Pei-Hao Su, Tsung-Hsien Wen
  • Patent number: 11853903
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for learning structural relationships between nodes of a graph includes generating a knowledge graph comprising nodes representing a system and applying a graph-based convolutional neural network (GCNN) to the knowledge graph to generate feature vectors describing structural relationships between the nodes. The GCNN comprises: (i) a graph feature compression layer configured to learn subgraphs representing embeddings of the nodes of the knowledge graph into a vector space, (ii) a neighbor nodes aggregation layer configured to derive neighbor node feature vectors for each subgraph and aggregate the neighbor node feature vectors with their corresponding subgraphs to yield aggregated subgraphs, and (iii) a subgraph convolution layer configured to generate the feature vectors based on the aggregated subgraphs. Functional groups of components included in the system may then be identified based on the plurality of feature vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Arquimedes Martinez Canedo, Jiang Wan, Blake Pollard
  • Patent number: 11853017
    Abstract: Techniques that facilitate machine learning optimization are provided. In one example, a system includes a computational resource component, a batch interval component, and a machine learning component. The computational resource component collects computational resource data associated with a group of computing devices that performs a machine learning process. The batch interval component determines, based on the computational resource data, batch interval data indicative of a time interval to collect data for the machine learning process. The machine learning component provides the batch interval data to the group of computing devices to facilitate execution of the machine learning process based on the batch interval data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teodora Buda, Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, Hitham Ahmed Assem Aly Salama, Lei Xu
  • Patent number: 11847558
    Abstract: A method is used in analyzing a storage system using a machine learning system. Data gathered from information associated with operations performed in a storage system is analyzed. The storage system is comprised of a plurality of components. A bitmap image is created based on the gathered data, where at least one of the plurality of components is represented in the bitmap image. The machine learning system is trained using the bitmap image, where the bitmap image is organized to depict the plurality of components of the storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Sorin Faibish, Philippe Armangau, James M. Pedone, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11842261
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reinforcement learning. One of the methods includes selecting an action to be performed by the agent using both a slow updating recurrent neural network and a fast updating recurrent neural network that receives a fast updating input that includes the hidden state of the slow updating recurrent neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Iain Robert Dunning, Wojciech Czarnecki, Maxwell Elliot Jaderberg
  • Patent number: 11836630
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a neural network. In one aspect, a method includes maintaining data specifying, for each of the network parameters, current values of a respective set of distribution parameters that define a posterior distribution over possible values for the network parameter. A respective current training value for each of the network parameters is determined from a respective temporary gradient value for the network parameter. The current values of the respective sets of distribution parameters for the network parameters are updated in accordance with the respective current training values for the network parameters. The trained values of the network parameters are determined based on the updated current values of the respective sets of distribution parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Meire Fortunato, Charles Blundell, Oriol Vinyals