Patents by Inventor James Peter John Withers

James Peter John Withers 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).

  • Sequence expander for data entry/information retrieval
    Patent number: 11550751
    Abstract: An electronic device is described which has a user interface which receives an input comprising a sequence of target indicators of data items. The data entry system has a search component which searches for candidate expanded sequences of indicators comprising the target indicators. The search component searches amongst indicators generated by a trained conditional language model, the conditional language model having been trained using pairs, each individual pair comprising a sequence of indicators and a corresponding expanded sequence of indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Alexander Harper Orr, Matthew James Willson, Marco Fiscato, Juha Iso-Sipilä, Joseph Osborne, James Peter John Withers
  • SEQUENCE EXPANDER FOR DATA ENTRY/INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
    Publication number: 20180143760
    Abstract: An electronic device is described which has a user interface which receives an input comprising a sequence of target indicators of data items. The data entry system has a search component which searches for candidate expanded sequences of indicators comprising the target indicators. The search component searches amongst indicators generated by a trained conditional language model, the conditional language model having been trained using pairs, each individual pair comprising a sequence of indicators and a corresponding expanded sequence of indicators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Douglas Alexander Harper Orr, Matthew James Willson, Marco Fiscato, Juha Iso-Sipilä, Joseph Osborne, James Peter John Withers