Patents Examined by Van H Oberly
  • Patent number: 11860912
    Abstract: A system comprises an input interface to receive input indicating a question, a communication module to establish a communication link with an access network, wherein the communication link provides connectivity to one or more packet data networks (PDNs) via the access network, and a computer coupled to the input interface and the communication module, the computer including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to execute an information retrieval procedure including accessing an open-domain context search space of the one or more PDNs and retrieving, from among a plurality of contexts of the open-domain context search space, a plurality of candidate contexts for answering the question using a question-answering model for open-domain question answering, identify a set of non-answering contexts among the plurality of candidate contexts, wherein each of the set of non-answering contexts is a respective context for which the question-answering model predicts the qu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Lucas Ross, Romil Shah
  • Patent number: 11860861
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that grows and/or shrinks a table that is shared between a writer and a plurality of readers is described. In an exemplary embodiment, a device receives an entry to be added to the shared table. In response to receiving the entry, the device remaps shared table to add a new storage segment to the shared table. The device further adds the entry to the shared table, where the entry is stored in the new storage segment. In addition, the device updates a shared table characteristic to indicate that the shared table has changed. The device further shrinks the shared table by remapping the table to remove a segment of the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Arista Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastian Sapa, Duncan Stuart Ritchie, Jonathan Antusiak, Stephanie Elaine Fung
  • Patent number: 11862315
    Abstract: A method includes receiving at least one data object and identifying, for a first aspect of the at least one data object, text strings of free form textual information having a first text string type. The method also includes generating updated free form textual information by removing the at least one text string having the first text string type. The method also includes generating one or more feature vectors based on the updated free form textual information using at least one of a unigram, a bigram, and a trigram. The method also includes using an artificial intelligence engine that uses at least one machine learning model configured to provide, using the one or more feature vectors, an output that includes at least one prediction indicating at least one resource domain and a weight value indicating a probability that the at least one resource domain corresponds to the free form textual information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventors: John C. Petch, Sai Pranay Malipatil, Morgan J. Finley, Christopher J. Greer, Billeigh Barackman, Ryann Ewing, Stephen J. Bergner
  • Patent number: 11847149
    Abstract: Message processing for job title extraction includes receiving a job title query for a message in a message inbox of a communications application and parsing the message into a corpus of text. Message processing for job title extraction further includes identifying a sender of the message from a header in the corpus of text and locating below the header within the corpus of text of a name of the identified sender. Message processing for job title extraction yet further includes constructing a set of n-grams from a portion of the corpus of text positionally adjacent to the located name and mapping the set of n-grams to an index of job titles in order to identify a best matching one of the job titles. Finally, message processing for job title extraction includes responding to the job title query with the matching one of the job titles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SETSAIL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Bertrand Lui, Jen Hsin, Darrin Gilkerson, Danny Pan
  • Patent number: 11847150
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and apparatus for training a retrieval model, device and computer storage medium that relate to intelligent search and natural language processing technologies. An implementation includes: acquiring initial training data; performing a training operation using the initial training data to obtain an initial retrieval model; selecting texts with the correlation degrees with a query in the training data meeting a preset first requirement from candidate texts using the initial retrieval model; performing a training operation using the updated training data to obtain a first retrieval model; and selecting texts with the correlation degrees with the query in the training data meeting a preset second requirement from the candidate texts using the first retrieval model; and/or selecting texts with the correlation degrees with the query meeting a preset third requirement; and performing a training operation using the expanded training data to obtain a second retrieval model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuchen Ding, Yingqi Qu, Jing Liu, Kai Liu, Dou Hong, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11842313
    Abstract: Embodiments include a method and system for conducting human performance assessment comprising memory devices for accessing and storing historical data from multiple sources of unstructured and structured assessment source data for a subject. The unstructured assessment source data includes free-form source data. The system includes a computing system with a user interface presented on a digital display device to enter assessment query (AQ) relating to the subject. The system includes a natural language processing engine to process an unstructured data search model based on the AQ and a semantic reasoner engine to apply unstructured and structured data search model to the assessment domain ontology for the subject to measure human performance and at the same time identify performance gaps. The system includes an assessment report generator to generate a report of the performance and gap assessments wherein the report is configured to be displayed on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lorie R. Ingraham, James H. Crutchfield, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11841874
    Abstract: An approach for transforming a large dataset using user interface-based transformations applied to a sample of the dataset is disclosed. The sample of the large dataset has the same or similar format as the large dataset. A user can quickly apply transformations to the sample dataset using UI-based instructions. The UI-based instructions can be used to create a transformation job that can be configured to run on a backed database, such as a distributed database, to apply the transformations to the large dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory O'Connor, Samuel Fendell, Ethan Breder, William Rhyne, Michael Kodiak, Thomas Haynes
  • Patent number: 11841883
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving a question in a natural language format; deriving a plurality of subqueries from the question; determining that a first subquery of the plurality of subqueries cannot be resolved utilizing a curated knowledge base; resolving the first subquery, utilizing unstructured text; and adjusting the curated knowledge base, utilizing the resolved first subquery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kun Qian, Yunyao Li, Nikita Bhutani
  • Patent number: 11841886
    Abstract: A quality management system (QMS) contains a collection of documents and content relating to interdependent policies, processes, and procedures required for planning, manufacturing, and marketing complex products. Change management refers to the way a company manages modifications to products and processes within their business and the potential impacts of those changes. A core part of change management is to understand what may be impacted by the change, why it impacted, and how to assess and or identify the risk of the change throughout the company and quality/regulatory processes. The impact assessment is a core part of the process to ensure one does not make changes that create a product and/or process failures as well as evaluating the regulatory impact of such changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Soladoc, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Mckibbin, Tyler Foxworthy
  • Patent number: 11829263
    Abstract: The disclosed technology teaches recovering a first virtual machine or an instance with an Internet Protocol address, a first root volume and one or more data volumes that are corrupted. The first virtual machine is hosted by a first cloud server that hosts plurality of virtual machines. The disclosed technology includes instructing the first cloud server to launch a recovery virtual machine. The recovery virtual machine launches one or more new data volumes based upon captured file system images in one or more snapshots taken of corrupted data volumes of the first virtual machine prior to becoming corrupted. The recovery virtual machine detaches the corrupted data volumes and attaches the new data volumes launched to the first virtual machine. The Internet Protocol address of the first virtual machine remains unchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Rubrik, Inc.
    Inventors: Prateek Pandey, Shashank Jain, Vikas Jain
  • Patent number: 11829352
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method comprises storing, in one or more digital data repositories, a body of code configured to execute one or more operations of a Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm on a blockchain node of a blockchain network, the one or more operations including a signing of a block for inclusion in the blockchain network; before executing the body of code on the blockchain node of a blockchain network, generating and transmitting a request to execute the body of code to a server computer, the request comprising a global identification value associated with the blockchain node of the blockchain network; in response to transmitting the request, receiving a response from the server computer, the response indicating whether the global identification value is locked; in response determining, based on the response, that the global identification value is not locked, executing the body of code on the node of the blockchain network, wherein executing the body of code on the node includes performing the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Coinbase Crypto Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon Waite, Robert Christensen
  • Patent number: 11809474
    Abstract: A method for issuing control signals in response to sentiment. In some embodiments, the method includes: assigning, to each of a plurality of comments, a respective topic vector of length k; determining whether a largest element of the topic vector of a first comment of the plurality of comments exceeds a weight threshold; in response to the determining that the largest element exceeds the weight threshold, classifying the first comment into a first topic, of k topics, the first topic corresponding to the position, in the topic vector, of the largest element of the topic vector; calculating a first sentiment score; calculating an average sentiment score, based in part on the first sentiment score; determining whether the average sentiment score meets a criterion; and in response to the determining that the criterion is met, generating a control signal, the control signal including a message related to the first topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: HRL LABORATORIES, LLC
    Inventors: Dana M. Warmsley, Philip Pope
  • Patent number: 11797406
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for moving a consistency group having a replication relation. For example, a first consistency group of storage objects (e.g., files, logical unit numbers (LUNs), etc.) within first storage may have a replication relationship with a second consistency group within second storage (e.g., the second consistency group is maintained as a synchronously replicated copy of the first consistency group). A volume copy operation, a single file move on demand command, a single file restore command, or other functionality is used to move the first consistency group from the first storage to third storage, such as for load balancing, to create a moved first consistency group within the third storage. A new replication relationship is established between the moved first consistency group and the second consistency group, and the moved first consistency group and the second consistency group are resynchronized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Pranab Patnaik, Nagender Somavarapu, Yuedong Mu, Rithin Kumar Shetty, Devang Kundanlal Shah
  • Patent number: 11790889
    Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented process including obtaining a corpus of natural-language text documents, automatically generating questions about information in corresponding portions of the documents, and associating the questions with the corresponding portions of the documents. The process further includes storing the questions and the associations with the corresponding portions of the documents in memory to form an index of automatically-generated questions to corresponding portions of documents that answer the questions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sorcero, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos Fernández Musoles, Unai Garay Maestre, Walter Bender
  • Patent number: 11782964
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for recommending computational commands based on a weighted, ranked hierarchical graph. The system converts a map of intended user actions to canonical actions (commands) into a graph representation. Then, via a chatbot algorithm, the system receives an initial intent as a request by a user of the chatbot algorithm. Based on the popularity of alternative canonical actions, the system makes recommendations of alternative actions which are similar to the initial intent provided by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ADP, INC.
    Inventors: Roberto Coutinho, Roberto Silveira, Guilherme Gomes, Carlos Nascimento
  • Patent number: 11775534
    Abstract: A computing system can receive event data corresponding to a user's experience with a network service. Based on the event data, the system can generate a set of representations that correspond to the user's experience with the network service. The representations may be analyzed and/or filtered by an artificial intelligence model executing on the computing system, which can predict negative experiences of users at future time intervals. Based on these predictions, the computing system can implement a set of corrective actions to steer the user experience to a more positive path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Benjamin Goldstein, Arjun Vora, Jai Malkani, Nikhil Joshi, Eckart Walther, Mahdi Namazifar, Kathy Brown, Praveen Kannan, Arun Bodapati, Fran Bell
  • Patent number: 11768915
    Abstract: As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for anomaly detection in time-series data with mixed seasonality. In use, time-series data of a mixed seasonality type is received. Additionally, the time-series data is segmented, by a defined unit of time, to form a plurality of time-series data segments. Further, the plurality of time-series data segments are processed to determine one or more patterns across the plurality of time-series data segments. Still yet, the one or more patterns are stored and used to perform pattern matching for an input time-series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: AMDOCS DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Gilli Shama, Yaniv Avrashi, Nadeem Azaizah, Pavel Vodolazov
  • Patent number: 11748339
    Abstract: When analyzing operation of an online system, such as an online concierge system, that receive queries from users and return results in response to those queries, queries received by the online system may include different numbers of terms. The variations in numbers of terms included in different queries makes it difficult to efficiently group queries for analysis, resulting in inefficient analysis of individual queries when analyzing different queries based on their structure. To more efficiently analyze different queries, the online system groups queries based on a number of terms in the query. In some embodiments, queries are grouped based on a logarithmic scale of the number of terms in the query, while in other embodiments queries are grouped based on a square root of the number of terms in the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Maplebear, Inc.
    Inventors: John Paul Meagher, III, Jonathan Brandon Phillips
  • Patent number: 11727059
    Abstract: To enable a user to easily recognize temporal order of elements included in a retrieval sentence, a retrieval sentence utilization device 10 includes: a retrieval sentence division unit 11 for dividing a retrieval sentence into a plurality of retrieval contents each of which includes an event; and a directed graph generation unit 12 for generating, from each of the retrieval contents, a subtree in which the event is an edge and a source of the event and an object of the event are nodes, and integrating a plurality of subtrees generated from the retrieval contents to generate a directed graph, wherein the directed graph generation unit 12 places the plurality of subtrees in the directed graph according to occurrence order of events corresponding to the plurality of subtrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Nishioka, Yoshiaki Sakae, Kazuhiko Isoyama, Etsuko Ichihara, Kosuke Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11726972
    Abstract: A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium stores instructions that upon execution cause a processor to, in response to initiation of a data indexing for a search concept, retrieve content of a first data source via a data connector, the retrieved content including a reference to a second data source. The instructions further cause the processor to, in response to a determination that the retrieved content of the first data source is relevant to the search concept: index the retrieved content of the first data source; retrieve content of the second data source based on the reference; and determine whether the retrieved content of the second data source is relevant to the search concept.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Micro Focus LLC
    Inventors: David Humphrey, Samuel James Jeffrey, Phillip Greenwood