Patents by Inventor AMINA SHABBEER
AMINA SHABBEER 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: 11899714Abstract: Voice data from a current conversation between a user and a voice-controlled user device can be used to determine a search constraint for searching a database. Other search constraints can be determined based at least in part on the current conversation, a previous conversation, and/or a previous action. Properties can be associated with the search constraints. Once the search constraints have been determined, a plurality of search query plans is determined and a first search query plan is executed to query the database.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Edward Bueche, Francois Mairesse, Amina Shabbeer, Warren D. Freitag, Jonathan Pollack, Charles Lee Thorp
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Patent number: 10977276Abstract: For balanced partition placement in a distributed database, a first node in a set of nodes is identified, at an application executing using a processor and a memory, for a first primary partition of the distributed database, such that the primary partition and a first replica corresponding to the primary partition reside on different nodes in the set of nodes. A second node in the set of nodes is selected to place the first replica such that the second node does not include a second replica of a second primary partition, wherein the first primary partition and the second primary partition are co-resident on the first node. The first primary partition is placed on the first node and the first replica is placed on the second node.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Garth A. Dickie, Amina Shabbeer
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Patent number: 10937413Abstract: Techniques are provided for training a target language model based at least in part on data associated with a reference language model. For example, language data utilized to train an English language model may be translated and provided as training data to train a German language model to recognize utterances provided in German. By utilizing the techniques herein, the efficiency of training a new language model may be improved due at least in part to replacing labor-intensive operations conventionally performed by specialized personnel with machine-generated data. Additionally, techniques discussed herein provide for reducing the time required for training a new language model by leveraging information associated with utterances of one language to train the new language model associated with a different language.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan B. Feinstein, Alok Verma, Amina Shabbeer, Brandon Scott Durham, Catherine Breslin, Edward Bueche, Fabian Moerchen, Fabian Triefenbach, Klaus Reiter, Toby R. Latin-Stoermer, Panagiota Karanasou, Judith Gaspers
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Patent number: 10854189Abstract: Techniques are provided for training a language recognition model. For example, a language recognition model may be maintained and associated with a reference language (e.g., English). The language recognition model may be configured to accept as input an utterance in the reference language and to identify a feature to be executed in response to receiving the utterance. New language data (e.g., other utterances) provided in a different language (e.g., German) may be obtained. This new language data may be translated to English and utilized to retrain the model to recognize reference language data as well as language data translated to the reference language. Subsequent utterances (e.g., English utterances, or German utterances translated to English) may be provided to the updated model and a feature may be identified. One or more instructions may be sent to a user device to execute a set of instructions associated with the feature.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan B. Feinstein, Alok Verma, Amina Shabbeer, Brandon Scott Durham, Catherine Breslin, Edward Bueche, Fabian Moerchen, Fabian Triefenbach, Klaus Reiter, Toby R. Latin-Stoermer, Panagiota Karanasou, Judith Gaspers
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Publication number: 20200098351Abstract: Techniques are provided for training a language recognition model. For example, a language recognition model may be maintained and associated with a reference language (e.g., English). The language recognition model may be configured to accept as input an utterance in the reference language and to identify a feature to be executed in response to receiving the utterance. New language data (e.g., other utterances) provided in a different language (e.g., German) may be obtained. This new language data may be translated to English and utilized to retrain the model to recognize reference language data as well as language data translated to the reference language. Subsequent utterances (e.g., English utterances, or German utterances translated to English) may be provided to the updated model and a feature may be identified. One or more instructions may be sent to a user device to execute a set of instructions associated with the feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Jonathan B. Feinstein, Alok Verma, Amina Shabbeer, Brandon Scott Durham, Catherine Breslin, Edward Bueche, Fabian Moerchen, Fabian Triefenbach, Klaus Reiter, Toby R. Latin-Stoermer, Panagiota Karanasou, Judith Gaspers
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Publication number: 20200098352Abstract: Techniques are provided for training a target language model based at least in part on data associated with a reference language model. For example, language data utilized to train an English language model may be translated and provided as training data to train a German language model to recognize utterances provided in German. By utilizing the techniques herein, the efficiency of training a new language model may be improved due at least in part to replacing labor-intensive operations conventionally performed by specialized personnel with machine-generated data. Additionally, techniques discussed herein provide for reducing the time required for training a new language model by leveraging information associated with utterances of one language to train the new language model associated with a different language.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Jonathan B. Feinstein, Alok Verma, Amina Shabbeer, Brandon Scott Durham, Catherine Breslin, Edward Bueche, Fabian Moerchen, Fabian Triefenbach, Klaus Reiter, Toby R. Latin-Stoermer, Panagiota Karanasou, Judith Gaspers
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Publication number: 20170032014Abstract: For balanced partition placement in a distributed database, a first node in a set of nodes is identified, at an application executing using a processor and a memory, for a first primary partition of the distributed database, such that the primary partition and a first replica corresponding to the primary partition reside on different nodes in the set of nodes. A second node in the set of nodes is selected to place the first replica such that the second node does not include a second replica of a second primary partition, wherein the first primary partition and the second primary partition are co-resident on the first node. The first primary partition is placed on the first node and the first replica is placed on the second node.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2015Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: GARTH A. DICKIE, AMINA SHABBEER