Patents Examined by Benjamin Smith
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Patent number: 11501057Abstract: Methods and systems for enabling file attachments in a mobile calendar application are presented. In some embodiments, a mobile device may receive a message comprising an electronic calendar invitation and an electronic file attachment. The mobile device may generate an association between the electronic file attachment received in the message and a calendar event in an electronic calendar mobile application executing on the mobile computing device, wherein the calendar event is associated with the electronic calendar invitation. In response to receiving a selection to display the calendar event in the electronic calendar mobile application, the mobile device may generate a display of the calendar event comprising a display of the associated electronic file attachment in the electronic calendar mobile application.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.Inventor: Lee Laborczfalvi
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Patent number: 11501056Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product may perform document reference and reference update. One or more processors may assign marker information for a reference of a reference source. The reference may reference a target portion of a target document. The one or more processors may determine identification information for the target portion. The determined identification information may be based on content in the target portion and context information for the target portion in the target document. The one or more processors may generate a mapping of at least the marker information, the identification information, and a relative location of the target portion within the target document for use in the referencing of the target portion by the reference source.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Ya Ling Xu, Xiao Yin Zhou, Zhenni Yan, Xin Peng Liu
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Patent number: 11449674Abstract: One embodiment of the invention provides a method for utility-preserving text de-identification. The method comprises generating corresponding processed text for each text document by applying at least one natural language processor (NLP) annotator to the text document to recognize and tag privacy-sensitive personal information corresponding to an individual, and replacing some words in the text document with some replacement values. The method further comprises determining infrequent terms occurring across all processed texts, filtering out the infrequent terms from the processed texts, and selectively reinstating to the processed texts at least one of the infrequent terms that is innocuous.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, Paul R. Bastide, Xu Wang, Rohit Ranchal
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Patent number: 11450049Abstract: A system and method for generating a digital image collage is provided. The method comprises displaying a user interface comprising a collage template including a layout, and a catalog segment; displaying a plurality of digital images in the catalog segment; generating a first aperture in the layout to establish a first arrangement, and populating the first aperture with the first selected digital image; changing the layout from the first arrangement to a second arrangement, wherein the second arrangement comprises randomly dividing the first aperture into a second aperture and a third aperture, populating the second aperture with the first selected digital image, and populating the third aperture with the second selected digital image thereby generating the digital image collage.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM North America CorporationInventors: William A. Fuss, Nathaniel P. Curry, Christopher T. Asbury
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Patent number: 11429785Abstract: Disclosed is a system for generating test documents for context-sensitive spelling error correction. The system includes: an input unit inputting an error-free document for generating an error document; an error target word segment test unit checking possibility of an error in a word segment by sequentially examining word segments of the entire sentences in the document input through the input unit and searching for a candidate word appearing at the corresponding position together with surrounding context; an error word candidate selection unit selecting error word candidates among candidate words found at the corresponding position by considering edit distances to a correct word and keyboard typographical errors; and an error word determination and presentation unit calculating probabilities of an error word candidate and its surrounding context and determining an error word of the highest priority as a final error word.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Pusan National University Industry-University Cooperation FoundationInventors: Hyukchul Kwon, Jung-Hun Lee
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Patent number: 11423094Abstract: A system and method for assessing a potential problem associated with information in a document. In an embodiment, a document for analysis may be received, the document being part of a corpus of one or more documents stored in an electronic format. The document may be analyzed to identify reference(s) in the document, wherein the reference(s) are each selected from the group comprising a natural language statement, a reference in a first part of the document to a second part of the document, or a reference to or from another document. Based on the reference(s), a knowledge graph may be generated to represent information in the document. A risk assessment of a reference in the document may be determined using the knowledge graph. A visual indicator may be applied to the document that emphasizes a potential problem with the reference based on the risk assessment.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Paul R. Bastide, Fang Lu, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo
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Patent number: 11423357Abstract: Computer-implemented techniques are disclosed for managing reusable collaborative content item components in a collaborative content management system. The techniques include providing locations in collaborative content items where users may store reusable components. When editing a collaborative content item, a user may select a portion, fragment or section of the collaborative content item content and save that as a reusable component. The reusable component is saved in a reusable component catalog. Other users may then insert the same component from the reusable component catalog t into their collaborative content items. When the component in the catalog is updated, other collaborative content items in the collaborative content management system that use that component are automatically updated as well.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.Inventors: Kristof Didrickson, Jeffrey Gochman, Jasvir Nagra, Maryana Bezler
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Patent number: 11416577Abstract: A declarative mechanism is used to manage large documents within a repository. The large documents are sectioned into subdocuments that are linked together by a parent document. The combination of the parent document and subdocument is referred to as a compound document. There are multiple options for configuring rules to break up a source document into a compound document and naming the subdocuments. The compound documents may be queried using statements that treat the compound document as a single XML document, or the parent document of a subdocument may be queried and treated independently. Access control and versioning can be applied at the finer granularity of the subdocument.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventor: Ravi Murthy
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Patent number: 11409961Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques and architectures for evaluating conversations. In some instances, conversations with users, virtual assistants, and others may be analyzed to identify potential risks within a language model that is employed by the virtual assistants and other entities. The potential risks may be evaluated by administrators, users, systems, and others to identify potential issues with the language model that need to be addressed. This may allow the language model to be improved and enhance user experience with the virtual assistants and others that employ the language model.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Inventors: Cynthia Freeman, Ian Beaver
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Patent number: 11409953Abstract: Embodiments provide a technical solution that facilitates the digital enrollment and complex scheduling of activities across families, including blended families. The embodiments register, through a computer system, familial relationships within a family and represent the familial relationships in structured data stored in memory. Based on the represented familial relationships, the embodiments receive at the system information for enrolling children of the family in activities, such as via online provider-specific and state licensing forms, and store the enrollment information associated to the represented familial relationships in the memory. Upon user command, the embodiments search the stored enrollment information based on the represented familial relationships to determine a schedule of enrolled activities across each of the children.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: UpBup Inc.Inventors: Joshua Edmonds, Igor Akhmedov, Dmitri I. Akhmedov
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Patent number: 11392769Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying data strings in electronic documents using pattern recognition. The method includes receiving a first data string corresponding to an electronic reference document from a first database and a second data string corresponding to an electronic legal document from a second database. The method also includes processing the first data string into a first processed data string and processing the second data string into a second processed data string. The method also includes calculating a cosine similarity between the first processed data string and the second processed data string. The method also includes receiving a feedback score from a user which corresponds to an accuracy of the calculated cosine similarity. The method also includes calculating an adjusted cosine similarity between the first processed data string and the second processed data string based on the calculated cosine similarity and the feedback score.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: FMR LLCInventors: Gunjan Narulkar, Shreyash Kumar Sharma, Greeshma Girish
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Patent number: 11347381Abstract: A set of images and a corresponding set of textual information are received, such that a first textual information is to be presented with a first image. The first textual information is translated into a set of translated textual information, each textual information in the set of translated textual information corresponding to a language in a set of languages. A set of layout parameters is determined for at least one translated textual information. The translated textual information is transformed according to the set of layout parameters and overlaid on the first image. The overlaying causes a pixel of the transformed translated textual information to be superimposed on a pixel of the first image.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Su Liu, Yang Liang, Debbie Anglin, Cheng Xu
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Patent number: 11314925Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: generating a plurality of character glyphs of a language that uses diacritic marks; generating a plurality of diacritic mark glyphs of the diacritic marks of the language; anchoring the plurality of diacritic mark glyphs to the plurality of character glyphs to create a set of glyphs for the language; creating, based on the set of glyphs, a duplicate set of glyphs comprising a plurality of duplicate character glyphs and a plurality of duplicate diacritic mark glyphs; editing at least one of the plurality of duplicate diacritic mark glyphs to remove visual appearance capability; designating the set of glyphs as a diacritics reveal font and the edited duplicate set of glyphs as a diacritics conceal font; and providing the diacritics reveal font and the diacritics conceal font for output on a graphical user interface (GUI) displayed on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Khaled Sawaf, Sheikah Alshaihah
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Patent number: 11301640Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products related to a cognitive assistant for co-generating creative content are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining semantic-level inputs from at least one user, wherein the semantic-level inputs pertain to multiple aspects of a desired content narrative; generating textual content based at least in part on the semantic-level inputs, wherein said generating the textual content comprises applying one or more deep learning algorithms to the semantic-level inputs; generating image content based at least in part on the generated textual content; creating the desired content narrative by integrating (i) the generated textual content and (ii) the generated image content; and outputting the desired content narrative to the at least one user.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Anush Sankaran, Pranay Lohia, Priyanka Agrawal, Disha Shrivastava, Anirban Laha, Parag Jain
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Patent number: 11295072Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for processing a form. A form processing system comprising a computer system and a form manager. The form manager is located in the computer system, wherein the form manager receives a selection of a form from a client application in the computer system; fills a set of fields in the form to form a filled form using text obtained from optical character recognition performed on an image of a document using metadata that defines a relationship between the set of fields in the form and text for a document type of the document; and sends the filled form to the client application in the computer system.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: ADP, LLCInventors: Aravind Sundar, Daniel Derham
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Patent number: 11295069Abstract: A device and method for editing media content analyze the media content to detect words in the media content. The detected words are converted to text and stored in a text container. A characteristic of the text within the text container is changed, and the media content is altered to correspond to the changed characteristic of the text within the text container.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2016Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Robert Helmbro, Ola Thorn
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Patent number: 11295074Abstract: Embodiments as disclosed provide a What-You-See-Is-What-You Get (WYSIWYG) editor for web content, allowing the conversion of previously generated web content to reusable templates or components. Embodiments thus allow, among other advantages, users such as web content developers to easily repurpose or reuse previously developed pages or content by giving these users the ability to review and edit previously developed pages or content in a WYSIWYG editor.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Open Text CorporationInventors: John W. Chang, Paul Kieron Carl Narth, Sampada Khare, Sunil Menon
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Patent number: 11295079Abstract: A method for providing a review process of a document can include receiving, at a document server, the document to be reviewed from a first client; providing, by the document server, access to the document to be reviewed via a second client to start the review process for a user of the second client. During and/or after the review process, the document server can evaluate the quality of the review process and provide information on the evaluated quality to the first client so that the user of the first client can receive an indication of how the review process has occurred or is occurring and have an indication of the quality of that review that is being performed or was performed. Embodiments of a communication apparatus and system for providing information on a review process of a document can be configured to utilize embodiments of the method.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Unify Patente GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Vasileios Giatilis, Lampros Pappas
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Patent number: 11256395Abstract: A system includes a memory configured to store a database including a plurality of documents and instructions. The system includes at least one processor configured to execute the instructions. The instructions include, in response to receiving a request signal from a user device, parsing the request signal to identify salient terms, identifying a set of documents of the plurality of documents based on the identified salient terms, and displaying the set of documents on a user interface of the user device.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Tweddle GroupInventors: Ilya Sterin, Justin Joseph Dickow, Charles Joseph Blaesser
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Patent number: 11243649Abstract: Provided is a method of providing a web browsing interface, wherein at least one tab is provided for a content display region, the method including: splitting the tab into at least two spaces based on a space mode of the tab; displaying web pages respectively in the at least two spaces; while the tab is split into the at least two spaces, determining whether the space mode of the tab is a first mode or a second mode; when the space mode is determined to be the first mode, performing a first mode setting operation of setting one of the at least two spaces as a main space, setting a margin on a periphery of the main space, and displaying a web page in a region of the main space excluding the margin.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: NAVER CORPORATIONInventors: Hyo Kim, Yun Seok Lee, Ji Ho Choi, Hyo Jung Kim