Patents by Inventor Amanda Stent
Amanda Stent has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10255356Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for adaptively generating a summary of web-based content based on an attribute of a mobile communication device having transmitted a request for the web-based content. By adaptively generating the summary based on an attribute of the mobile communication device such as an amount of visual space available or a number of characters permitted in the interface, a display of the web-based content may be controlled on the mobile communication device in a way that was not previously available. This enables control of displaying web-based content that has been adaptively generated to be displayed on limited display screens based on a learned attribute of the mobile communication device requesting the web-based content.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Oath Inc.Inventors: Youssef Billawala, Yashar Mehdad, Dragomir Radev, Amanda Stent, Kapil Thadani
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Publication number: 20190034529Abstract: Disclosed herein is an automated approach for summarizing media content using descriptive information associated with the media content. For example and without limitation, the descriptive information may comprise a title associated with the media content. One or more segments of the media content may be identified to form a media content summary based on each segment's respective similarity to the descriptive information, which respective similarity may be determined using a media content and auxiliary data feature spaces. A shared dictionary of canonical patterns generated using the media content and auxiliary data feature spaces may be used in determining a media content segment's similarity to the descriptive information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Yale SONG, Jordi VALLMITJANA, Amanda STENT, Alejandro JAIMES
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Publication number: 20180349490Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for adaptively generating a summary of web-based content based on an attribute of a mobile communication device having transmitted a request for the web-based content. By adaptively generating the summary based on an attribute of the mobile communication device such as an amount of visual space available or a number of characters permitted in the interface, a display of the web-based content may be controlled on the mobile communication device in a way that was not previously available. This enables control of displaying web-based content that has been adaptively generated to be displayed on limited display screens based on a learned attribute of the mobile communication device requesting the web-based content.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Youssef Billawala, Yashar Mehdad, Dragomir Radev, Amanda Stent, Kapil Thadani
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Patent number: 10121476Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media relating to speaker verification. In one aspect, a system receives a first user identity from a second user, and, based on the identity, accesses voice characteristics. The system randomly generates a challenge sentence according to a rule and/or grammar, based on the voice characteristics, and prompts the second user to speak the challenge sentence. The system verifies that the second user is the first user if the spoken challenge sentence matches the voice characteristics. In an enrollment aspect, the system constructs an enrollment phrase that covers a minimum threshold of unique speech sounds based on speaker-distinctive phonemes, phoneme clusters, and prosody. Then user utters the enrollment phrase and extracts voice characteristics for the user from the uttered enrollment phrase.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Ilija Zeljkovic, Taniya Mishra, Amanda Stent, Ann K. Syrdal, Jay Wilpon
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Patent number: 10095786Abstract: Disclosed herein is an automated approach for summarizing media content using descriptive information associated with the media content. For example and without limitation, the descriptive information may comprise a title associated with the media content. One or more segments of the media content may be identified to form a media content summary based on each segment's respective similarity to the descriptive information, which respective similarity may be determined using a media content and auxiliary data feature spaces. A shared dictionary of canonical patterns generated using the media content and auxiliary data feature spaces may be used in determining a media content segment's similarity to the descriptive information.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Yale Song, Jordi Vallmitjana, Amanda Stent, Alejandro Jaimes
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Publication number: 20180261206Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for dialog modeling. The method includes receiving spoken dialogs annotated to indicate dialog acts and task/subtask information, parsing the spoken dialogs with a hierarchical, parse-based dialog model which operates incrementally from left to right and which only analyzes a preceding dialog context to generate parsed spoken dialogs, and constructing a functional task structure of the parsed spoken dialogs. The method can further either interpret user utterances with the functional task structure of the parsed spoken dialogs or plan system responses to user utterances with the functional task structure of the parsed spoken dialogs. The parse-based dialog model can be a shift-reduce model, a start-complete model, or a connection path model.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Amanda STENT, Srinivas BANGALORE
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Publication number: 20180225576Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for entity disambiguation are provided. For example, a document may be analyzed to identify a first mention and a second mention. One or more techniques may be used to select and link a candidate entity, from a first set of candidate entities, to the first mention and select and link a candidate entity, from a second set of candidate entities, to the second mention.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2017Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Aasish Pappu, Roi Blanco, Yashar Mehdad, Amanda Stent, Kapil Thadani
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Patent number: 10042924Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for adaptively generating a summary of web-based content based on an attribute of a mobile communication device having transmitted a request for the web-based content. By adaptively generating the summary based on an attribute of the mobile communication device such as an amount of visual space available or a number of characters permitted in the interface, a display of the web-based content may be controlled on the mobile communication device in a way that was not previously available. This enables control of displaying web-based content that has been adaptively generated to be displayed on limited display screens based on a learned attribute of the mobile communication device requesting the web-based content.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Youssef Billawal, Yashar Mehdad, Dragomir Radev, Amanda Stent, Kapil Thadani
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Publication number: 20180203843Abstract: Software on a website serves a user of an online content aggregation service a first article that the user views. The software extracts named entities from the first article using a named-entity recognizer. The named-entity recognizer uses a sequence of word embeddings as inputs to a conditional random field (CRF) tool to assign labels to each of the word embeddings. Each of the word embeddings is associated with a word in the first article and is trained using an entire topical article from a corpus of topical articles as a context for the word. The software then creates rankings for articles ingested by the content aggregation service based at least in part on the named entities and serves the user a second article using the rankings.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2017Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Yashar Mehdad, Aasish Pappu, Amanda Stent
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Patent number: 9972307Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for dialog modeling. The method includes receiving spoken dialogs annotated to indicate dialog acts and task/subtask information, parsing the spoken dialogs with a hierarchical, parse-based dialog model which operates incrementally from left to right and which only analyzes a preceding dialog context to generate parsed spoken dialogs, and constructing a functional task structure of the parsed spoken dialogs. The method can further either interpret user utterances with the functional task structure of the parsed spoken dialogs or plan system responses to user utterances with the functional task structure of the parsed spoken dialogs. The parse-based dialog model can be a shift-reduce model, a start-complete model, or a connection path model.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Amanda Stent, Srinivas Bangalore
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Publication number: 20180075847Abstract: The present teaching relates to facilitating a guided dialog with a user. In one example, an input utterance is obtained from the user. One or more task sets are estimated based on the input utterance. Each of the one or more task sets includes a plurality of tasks estimated to be requested by the user via the input utterance and is associated with a confidence score computed based on statistics with respect to the plurality of tasks in the task set. At least one of the one or more task sets is selected based on their respective confidence scores. A response is generated based on the tasks in the selected at least one task set. The response is provided to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Sungjin Lee, Amanda Stent
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Publication number: 20170255862Abstract: The present teaching relates to generating user profiles with semantic knowledge. A first information associated with a user is obtained. One or more entities are identified from the first information. The one or more entities are augmented based on second information to generate a set of augmented entities. The set of augmented entities are clustered into a set of hierarchical clusters. A set of user profiles is generated based on the set of hierarchical clusters so that the user profile is to be used to personalize content recommendation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2016Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: Xiang Li, Sungjin Lee, Aasish Pappu, Yifan Hu, Amanda Stent
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Publication number: 20170228457Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for adaptively generating a summary of web-based content based on an attribute of a mobile communication device having transmitted a request for the web-based content. By adaptively generating the summary based on an attribute of the mobile communication device such as an amount of visual space available or a number of characters permitted in the interface, a display of the web-based content may be controlled on the mobile communication device in a way that was not previously available. This enables control of displaying web-based content that has been adaptively generated to be displayed on limited display screens based on a learned attribute of the mobile communication device requesting the web-based content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2016Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Youssef Billawal, Yashar Mehdad, Dragomir Radev, Amanda Stent, Kapil Thadani
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Publication number: 20170147575Abstract: Software for a website hosting short-text services creates an index of buckets for locality sensitive hashing (LSH). The software stores the index in an in-memory database of key-value pairs. The software creates, on a mobile device, a cache backed by the in-memory database. The software then uses a short text to create a query embedding. The software map the query embedding to corresponding buckets in the index and determines which of the corresponding buckets are nearest neighbors to the query embedding using a similarity measure. The software displays location types associated with each of the buckets that are nearest neighbors in a view in a graphical user interface (GUI) on the mobile device and receives a user selection as to one of the location types. Then the software displays the entities for the selected location type in a GUI view on the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2015Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Aasish Pappu, Amanda Stent
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Publication number: 20170062010Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for automatic creation of a formatted, readable transcript of multimedia content, which is derived, extracted, determined, or otherwise identified from the multimedia content. The formatted, readable transcript can be utilized to increase accuracy and efficiency in search engine optimization, as well as identification of relevant digital content available for communication to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Aasish Pappu, Amanda Stent
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Publication number: 20160299968Abstract: Disclosed herein is an automated approach for summarizing media content using descriptive information associated with the media content. For example and without limitation, the descriptive information may comprise a title associated with the media content. One or more segments of the media content may be identified to form a media content summary based on each segment's respective similarity to the descriptive information, which respective similarity may be determined using a media content and auxiliary data feature spaces. A shared dictionary of canonical patterns generated using the media content and auxiliary data feature spaces may be used in determining a media content segment's similarity to the descriptive information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2015Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Yale Song, Jordi Vallmitjana, Amanda Stent, Alejandro Jaimes
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Publication number: 20160203821Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media relating to speaker verification. In one aspect, a system receives a first user identity from a second user, and, based on the identity, accesses voice characteristics. The system randomly generates a challenge sentence according to a rule and/or grammar, based on the voice characteristics, and prompts the second user to speak the challenge sentence. The system verifies that the second user is the first user if the spoken challenge sentence matches the voice characteristics. In an enrollment aspect, the system constructs an enrollment phrase that covers a minimum threshold of unique speech sounds based on speaker-distinctive phonemes, phoneme clusters, and prosody. Then user utters the enrollment phrase and extracts voice characteristics for the user from the uttered enrollment phrase.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Inventors: ILIJA ZELJKOVIC, TANIYA MISHRA, AMANDA STENT, ANN K. SYRDAL, JAY WILPON
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Patent number: 9318114Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media relating to speaker verification. In one aspect, a system receives a first user identity from a second user, and, based on the identity, accesses voice characteristics. The system randomly generates a challenge sentence according to a rule and/or grammar, based on the voice characteristics, and prompts the second user to speak the challenge sentence. The system verifies that the second user is the first user if the spoken challenge sentence matches the voice characteristics. In an enrollment aspect, the system constructs an enrollment phrase that covers a minimum threshold of unique speech sounds based on speaker-distinctive phonemes, phoneme clusters, and prosody. Then user utters the enrollment phrase and extracts voice characteristics for the user from the uttered enrollment phrase.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ilija Zeljkovic, Taniya Mishra, Amanda Stent, Ann K. Syrdal, Jay Wilpon
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Publication number: 20150379984Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for dialog modeling. The method includes receiving spoken dialogs annotated to indicate dialog acts and task/subtask information, parsing the spoken dialogs with a hierarchical, parse-based dialog model which operates incrementally from left to right and which only analyzes a preceding dialog context to generate parsed spoken dialogs, and constructing a functional task structure of the parsed spoken dialogs. The method can further either interpret user utterances with the functional task structure of the parsed spoken dialogs or plan system responses to user utterances with the functional task structure of the parsed spoken dialogs. The parse-based dialog model can be a shift-reduce model, a start-complete model, or a connection path model.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Amanda STENT, Srinivas BANGALORE
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Patent number: 9129601Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for dialog modeling. The method includes receiving spoken dialogs annotated to indicate dialog acts and task/subtask information, parsing the spoken dialogs with a hierarchical, parse-based dialog model which operates incrementally from left to right and which only analyzes a preceding dialog context to generate parsed spoken dialogs, and constructing a functional task structure of the parsed spoken dialogs. The method can further either interpret user utterances with the functional task structure of the parsed spoken dialogs or plan system responses to user utterances with the functional task structure of the parsed spoken dialogs. The parse-based dialog model can be a shift-reduce model, a start-complete model, or a connection path model.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2008Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Amanda Stent, Srinivas Bangalore