Patents by Inventor Arvind Srikantan

Arvind Srikantan 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).

  • Patent number: 11934403
    Abstract: System and methods are described for generating training data for a natural language search system, the training data including synthetic user queries and associated structured query language (SQL) statements. A method includes generating an abstract query representation from a probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG), selecting a sample record from a database using the abstract query representation, generating a tagged user query from the abstract query representation and the sample record, and generating the one or more SQL statements from the tagged user query and one or more SQL templates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Mario Sergio Rodriguez, Arvind Srikantan, Ahmet Bugdayci
  • Patent number: 11841852
    Abstract: A database system may receive a natural language query that is associated with a tenant of a multi-tenant system. The natural language query may be parsed into a set of tokens, and the set of tokens may be tagged, using a tenant specific tagging model associated with the tenant, the set of tokens with at least one pre-configured data type identifier that is configured for the plurality of tenants. A global tagging model that supports the plurality of tenants of the multi-tenant system may tag the set of tokens with at least one category identifier. The global tagging model may use the natural language query and the pre-configured data type identifier to identify the at least one category identifier. The system may execute a database query on a database associated with the tenant using the at least one pre-configured data type identifier and the at least one category identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume Jean Mathieu Kempf, Marc Brette, Francisco Dellatorre Borges, Qianqian Shi, Matthieu Michel Robin Landos, Darya Brazouskaya, Georgios Balikas, Arvind Srikantan, Mario Sergio Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11475048
    Abstract: In disclosed techniques, a computing system causes presentation of a user interface having an input field operable to receive, from a user, a search query for a database. The computing system may classify the search query by: determining whether the search query includes terms that are within a specified vocabulary indicative of a natural language query and determining whether the search query includes terms that identify an object defined in a schema of the database. In response to classifying the search query as a natural language query, the computing system returns query results determined by identifying values in the database corresponding to the object defined in the schema. In response to classifying the search query as a keyword query, the computing system returns query results determined by comparing terms of the search query to values within records in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Kapoor, Christian Posse, Francisco Borges, Guillaume Kempf, Arvind Srikantan
  • Patent number: 11475018
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices supporting determining user and data record relationships based on vector space embeddings are described. Some database systems may receive data record access indications corresponding to data records accessed by users. A database system may generate, based on the data record access indications, user sessions for the users, data record sessions for the data records, or a combination for users and data records. For example, a user session may correspond to a respective user and include a record identifier associated with each data record accessed by the user. The system may generate, in a vector space, vectors from the sessions using an embedding operation, where each vector corresponds to a respective user or data record. The system may determine relationships between the users, data records, or both based on the vectors and may transmit an indication of at least one data record based on the relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume Kempf, Jacob Alexander Mannix, Arvind Srikantan
  • Publication number: 20220156251
    Abstract: A database system may receive a natural language query that is associated with a tenant of a multi-tenant system. The natural language query may be parsed into a set of tokens, and the set of tokens may be tagged, using a tenant specific tagging model associated with the tenant, the set of tokens with at least one pre-configured data type identifier that is configured for the plurality of tenants. A global tagging model that supports the plurality of tenants of the multi-tenant system may tag the set of tokens with at least one category identifier. The global tagging model may use the natural language query and the pre-configured data type identifier to identify the at least one category identifier. The system may execute a database query on a database associated with the tenant using the at least one pre-configured data type identifier and the at least one category identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Guillaume Jean Mathieu Kempf, Marc Brette, Francisco Dellatorre Borges, Qianqian Shi, Matthieu Michel Robin Landos, Darya Brazouskaya, Georgios Balikas, Arvind Srikantan, Mario Sergio Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20210357409
    Abstract: System and methods are described for generating training data for a natural language search system, the training data including synthetic user queries and associated structured query language (SQL) statements. A method includes generating an abstract query representation from a probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG), selecting a sample record from a database using the abstract query representation, generating a tagged user query from the abstract query representation and the sample record, and generating the one or more SQL statements from the tagged user query and one or more SQL templates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Mario Sergio RODRIGUEZ, Arvind SRIKANTAN, Ahmet BUGDAYCI
  • Publication number: 20210224284
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices supporting determining user and data record relationships based on vector space embeddings are described. Some database systems may receive data record access indications corresponding to data records accessed by users. A database system may generate, based on the data record access indications, user sessions for the users, data record sessions for the data records, or a combination for users and data records. For example, a user session may correspond to a respective user and include a record identifier associated with each data record accessed by the user. The system may generate, in a vector space, vectors from the sessions using an embedding operation, where each vector corresponds to a respective user or data record. The system may determine relationships between the users, data records, or both based on the vectors and may transmit an indication of at least one data record based on the relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Guillaume Kempf, Jacob Alexander Mannix, Arvind Srikantan
  • Publication number: 20210081436
    Abstract: In disclosed techniques, a computing system causes presentation of a user interface having an input field operable to receive, from a user, a search query for a database. The computing system may classify the search query by: determining whether the search query includes terms that are within a specified vocabulary indicative of a natural language query and determining whether the search query includes terms that identify an object defined in a schema of the database. In response to classifying the search query as a natural language query, the computing system returns query results determined by identifying values in the database corresponding to the object defined in the schema. In response to classifying the search query as a keyword query, the computing system returns query results determined by comparing terms of the search query to values within records in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Rohit Kapoor, Christian Posse, Francisco Borges, Guillaume Kempf, Arvind Srikantan