Patents Examined by Quoc A. Tran
  • Patent number: 11429268
    Abstract: A computing device and method for providing a user interface for summarizing and presenting information regarding dynamic provisioning and deployment of media processing resources, in a manner that is easy and intuitive and analogizes well to conventional physical media processing deployment. Users are not required to understand hypervisor configuration or virtual machine deployment, or switch through various layers and screens to find configuration information or controls, a process that may be particularly slow, complex, and difficult to learn, particularly for media and broadcast engineers unfamiliar with virtualization technologies. Instead, the present user interface improves efficiency of use of the computing environment for media processing, by providing deployment information in a format similar to physical processing deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: GRASS VALLEY CANADA
    Inventor: Ian David Fletcher
  • Patent number: 11430244
    Abstract: A method and computing device for statistical data fingerprinting and tracing data similarity of documents. The method comprises applying a statistical function to a subset of text in a first document thereby generating a first fingerprint; applying the statistical function to a subset of text in a second document thereby generating a second fingerprint; comparing the first fingerprint to the second fingerprint; and determining that the subset of text in the first document matches the subset of text in the second document based on the first fingerprint threshold matching the second fingerprint, wherein the statistical function is a measure of randomness of a count of each character in a subset of text against an expected distribution of said characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Cylance Inc.
    Inventors: David Neill Beveridge, David Michael Liebson, Yaroslav Oliinyk
  • Patent number: 11418622
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for translating a user-interface of a web-based software application in a web browser environment. The method comprises receiving a request to translate the user-interface from a source language to a target language. A user-interface source code is browsed, the browsing comprising: locating source text elements of the user-interface source code to be translated from the source language to the target language, populating a correspondence table with the source text elements, associating the source text elements of the correspondence table with target text elements, the target text elements corresponding to source text elements translated in the target language, generating a translated user-interface source code based on the user-interface source code and the correspondence table, and rendering the translated user-interface source code in the web browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: BATON SIMULATIONS
    Inventors: Sebastien Cherry, Stephane Gosselin
  • Patent number: 11417366
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing a plurality of presentation slide content with a soundtrack comprises obtaining the plurality of presentation slide content and the soundtrack including a plurality of audio samples. Each presentation slide content is associated with a metadata and each audio sample is indexed with a corresponding timecode. The method comprises detecting, triggering event that identifies a current audio sample of the soundtrack as an audio sample to transition from a first presentation slide content to a second presentation slide content. The method comprises obtaining a timecode indexed with the identified audio sample corresponding to the detected triggering event and associating the timecode with the metadata of the second presentation slide content to link the second presentation slide content with the identified audio sample. The method comprises generating a synchronized presentation multimedia file having the linked second presentation slide content with the identified audio sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventor: William Craig Kenney
  • Patent number: 11410703
    Abstract: In an example implementation, a method is described. The implementation accesses a plurality of media clips including a first video clip and a second video clip, matches a first fingerprint of the first video clip with a second fingerprint of the second video clip. The implementation also matches a first event subject of the first video clip with a second event subject of the second video clip, and determines an overlap of the first video clip with the second video clip based at least in part on the match of the first fingerprint with the second fingerprint and the match of the first event subject with the second event subject. The implementation also merges the first video clip and the second video clip into a group of overlapping video clips based on the overlap, and synthesizes the group into a video presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Gracenote, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale T. Roberts, Randall E. Cook, Markus K. Cremer
  • Patent number: 11409374
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for input prediction. The method includes: obtaining an input current text; obtaining a first state parameter of a first text from a cache; inputting the current text and the first state parameter into the recurrent neural network, determining a state parameter of the current text through the recurrent neural network according to the first state parameter; and determining a predicted text of the current text from the word library according to the state parameter of the current text. The first text is a previous text of the current text; the first state parameter is determined through a preset recurrent neural network according to the first text and a state parameter of a previous text of the first text; the recurrent neural network is trained with a preset word library; the word library is used to store words. Through the method and apparatus, time for determining a predicted text is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Kingsoft Internet Security Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yawei Jia, Xiaoqiang Wu
  • Patent number: 11403361
    Abstract: A method may include receiving, from a browser, a request for a tracking pixel including a uniform resource locator (URL) of the tracking pixel and a session identifier (ID) of the browser. The URL of the tracking pixel may be included in a CSS selector. The method may further include sending, to the browser and as triggered by the request for the tracking pixel, a request to scan a document object model (DOM) of the browser. The request to scan the DOM may include the session ID. The method may further include receiving, from the browser, scan results including a set of dependencies on the CSS selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Knudtson, Rajeev Goonewardene, Sonia May-Patlin, Adil Malik, Sina Jalali, Jasmine Woo
  • Patent number: 11403653
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to administration of an electronic survey via third-party content. For example, an electronic survey system receives a request to provide an electronic survey within a survey placeholder of a third-party webpage provided to a client device associated with a respondent. The survey system determines characteristics of the webpage or the respondent. The survey system then selects an electronic survey by comparing the characteristics of available electronic surveys to the characteristics of the webpage or the respondent. Additionally, the survey system provides electronic questions from the selected electronic survey for display within the survey placeholder of the webpage. The survey system also administers the electronic survey within the survey placeholder without redirecting the respondent client device away from the third-party webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Qualtrics, LLC
    Inventor: Ali BaderEddin
  • Patent number: 11397994
    Abstract: A method comprises generating a claim wall comprising a website page and associated with the insurance claim, providing access to the claim wall for an insured party, an insuring party, and a third party service provider, generating a claim entry associated with the insurance claim including one or more tasks for processing of the insurance claim, and posting the claim entry including the one or more tasks on the claim wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Roberta Urrutia, Pamela Glimm Diener, Shanna Ruth Limas, Jennifer Lynn Darland, Richard Paul Proft, Cleburne Robinson Burgess, Regina Rose Van Nest
  • Patent number: 11397892
    Abstract: A method and a system for generating an abstractive summary of a document using an abstractive machine learning algorithm (MLA) and a method and a system for training the abstractive MLA. A document including a plurality of text sequences is received. An extractive summary of the document is generated, the extractive summary including a set of summary text sequences which is a subset of the plurality of text sequences. The abstractive MLA generates, based on the set of summary text sequences and at least a portion of the plurality of text sequences, an abstractive summary of the document including a set of abstractive text sequences, at least one abstractive text sequence not being included in the plurality of text sequences. In some aspects, the extractive summary is generated by an extractive MLA having been trained to generate extractive summaries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SERVICENOW CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Sandeep Subramanian, Raymond Li, Jonathan Pilault, Christophe Pal
  • Patent number: 11386884
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates a new platform and system for the transcription of electronic online content, such as a website, from mostly visual/text format normally seen on screens to a different audio-adapted format for being broadcasted to the user via an intelligent speaker system, such as the Echo® system. More specifically, the platform and system includes an automated engine with artificial intelligence and machine learning for the transformation of written websites into to audible-enable content for use in association with new technology intelligent speakers, for implementing data mining, processing, and summarizing tools. The system primarily relies upon a capacity to diagnose, recognize template-like patterns in html format to create different levels of importance to the content stored online. Once content is triaged, it then is given processed in one of many way to help deliver and render useful content based on one of many features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Inventor: Victor Schiller
  • Patent number: 11379183
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to providing at least one response to a user of a user device using a visual assistant, wherein the at least one response is based on at least one user query. In an embodiment, the virtual assistant system receives the at least one user query through a virtual multimedia contact, wherein the virtual multimedia contact is invoked by receiving a user command from the user through an interface. Thereafter, the virtual assistant system determines the at least one response based on the at least one user query. Further, the virtual assistant system selects a visual assistant (virtual character) for representing the at least one response and subsequently provides the at least one response to the user device using the visual assistant by transmitting the at least one response to the user device using the visual assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: JIO PLATFORMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Efstratios Davlos, Sourja Banerjee, Jitendra Sahu, Mallikarjun S Bidari, Akshay Prakash Gaonkar, Salman Shaikh, Rohan Khanna, Satinder Pal Singh, Vineet Garg
  • Patent number: 11379182
    Abstract: Methods and systems described in this disclosure receive a request for assistance from a device associated with a user, launch a conversational virtual assistant on the device, determine at least one potential subject of the request based on information associated with the user and a tab or webpage from which the conversational virtual assistant is launched, receive a verification of the subject of the request, create a contact menu with options for receiving the assistance, and receive a selection of one of the options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
    Inventors: Brett Knight, Jeffrey William Gallagher, Justin Leggett, Andrew P. Jamison
  • Patent number: 11381529
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums which provide for an agent support application with a plurality of plug-in communication support assistants. Each of the plurality of plug-in communication support assistants monitors communications between the agents and customers for different conversational triggers. Conversational triggers may be any conversation, either by the agent or the customer, that the communication support assistant is trained to detect. Upon detecting one of these conversational triggers, the plug-in communication support assistant provides one or more suggestions to the agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Kimarie Pike Matthews, Richard Castanho, Germaine S. Chee, Robin J. Cusimano, Brett D. Ehrlich, Tyua Larsen Fraser, Colleen Reardon Graham, Gregory Scott Hill, James W. Pedersen, Timothy J. Shipman
  • Patent number: 11361235
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic generating of a Bayes net content graph are disclosed herein. The system can include a memory including a mapping matrix. The system can include at least one server. The at least one server can generate a user matrix having n columns and p rows. In some aspects, each of the n columns is associated with a student and each of the p rows is associated with a content item. The at least one server can: store the user matrix in the memory; retrieve the mapping matrix from the memory; iteratively identify prerequisite relationships between the skills identified in the user matrix; generate edges between the skills in the user matrix based on the iteratively identified prerequisite relationships; and orient the edges between the skill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.
    Inventors: Jose Gonzalez-Brenes, John Behrens, Johann Larusson, Yetian Chen
  • Patent number: 11361035
    Abstract: Batch generating of links to documents in which named content is automatically discovered within documents is disclosed. A selection of a plurality of documents is received from a user. Then, a list of search terms each correlated to a hyperlink destination is generated from the received selection of the electronic documents. Each of the plurality of electronic documents is scanned for text strings that match search terms stored in a list. Without user intervention, activatable hyperlinks from the matched text strings in the plurality of electronic documents are generated. Activatable hyperlinks to the respective matched text strings in each of the plurality of electronic documents are appended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: BLUEBEAM, INC.
    Inventors: Jack Kutilek, Peter Noyes
  • Patent number: 11355035
    Abstract: Certain embodiments involve generating a real-time notification to facilitate the delivery of customized content, based on detecting that a subject activity occurs within a customized subject region. For instance, a computing system updates a graphical interface to display, as a layer on a map, detected instances of a subject activity performed within a geographic area of the map. The computing system determines a polygon corresponding to a region of the geographic area, where the polygon is determined from a graphical input representing lines at locations on the map on which the detected instances are overlaid. The computing system determines that a location of a detected instance of the subject activity performed by a user device falls within the polygon. The computing system transmits a notification to a content provider, such that the content provider delivers customized content to the user device that performed the detected instance of the subject activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Menguy, Navin Chaganti, Aditya Satishrao Borde
  • Patent number: 11356545
    Abstract: A communication terminal and a method of providing a unified natural language interface to the same are disclosed. The method includes: determining, when text information containing many characters is created, whether the text information conforms to one of preset grammatical constraints; extracting, when the text information conforms to one of the grammatical constraints, tokens of one or more of characters from the text information, and extracting, when the text information does not conform to one of the grammatical constraints, one or more characters having an attribute probability higher than a reference probability as a token; and analyzing the extracted tokens to determine a function to handle the extracted tokens, and executing the determined function based on the extracted tokens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sogang University Research & Commercialization Foundation
    Inventors: Myeong Gi Jeong, Young Hee Park, Kwang Choon Kim, Jung Yun Seo, Choong Nyoung Seon
  • Patent number: 11347942
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: an acceptance unit that accepts a process request to an operation system; a specifying unit that, based on the process request, specifies an operation task to be executed in the operation system; an extraction unit that performs text analysis on the process request and extracts an answer item corresponding to an input item required at execution of the operation task from the process request; and an execution unit that executes the operation task based on the answer item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masako Imanishi, Yousuke Motohashi, Koichi Todo, Sawako Umezu
  • Patent number: 11347792
    Abstract: A video abstract generation method is provided. The method includes obtaining a target searching condition; searching a video database for structured image data meeting the target searching condition, the structured image data being stored in the video database in a structured data format; and performing video synthesis on the structured image data meeting the target searching condition, to generate a video abstract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hao Zhang, Xiang Qi Huang, Yong Jun Chen