Patents by Inventor Peter Francis WHITE

Peter Francis WHITE 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: 11580179
    Abstract: A method and system for recommending articles including: receiving a customer request from the customer during the session; generating case data for a case, by an article recommender app; configuring a training set based on the subject and description data of the customer request; identifying, by an artificial intelligence (AI) app, a first pool of articles from a knowledge database; identifying by at least one query, a second pool of articles from a case article database to into a merged pool of articles; assigning, by the AI app, an implicit label to one of the first pool and the second pool of the articles; applying a model derived by the AI app based on customer behavior and a set of features related to the case to classify each article of the merged pool of articles based at least in part on the predicted relevance of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Pingping Xiu, Sitaram Asur, Anjan Goswami, Ziwei Chen, Na Cheng, Suhas Satish, Jacob Nathaniel Huffman, Peter Francis White, WeiPing Peng, Aditya Sakhuja, Jayesh Govindarajan, Edgar Gerardo Velasco
  • Patent number: 11055354
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for processing and answering a natural language query at a database server are described. An end user may submit a question in natural language over a communication platform. An answer engine running on the database server may receive the question, and may process the content of the question using natural language processing (NLP) techniques. The answer engine may construct a search query based on the NLP, and may retrieve a set of documents from a database using the search query. The answer engine may rank the documents, prune the number of documents, modify the documents for the given communication platform, or perform any combination of these functions. In some cases, an intermediate user may review the documents, and may select one or more documents for publication. The answer engine may send the selected documents to the end user as answers in response to the question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Peter Francis White, Michael Micucci, Scott Douglas White, Weiping Peng, Anjan Goswami, Pranav Suresh Shah, Prakash Mallick, Pingping Xiu, Zhenhua Xu
  • Patent number: 11016633
    Abstract: A non-transitory tangible computer readable medium containing instructions configured to cause one or more processors to execute a process. The process comprises monitoring user input, preferences, and navigation patterns of a website or computer application on a user computer device, such as a computer, phone, or tablet. Administrator-defined rules are applied to the user input, preferences, or navigation patterns to generate a suggestion for a customer service application, such as a self-service FAQ page, video chat assistance, live chat assistance, or a case ticket system. The customer service application suggestion is displayed on the user computer device and may be transferred to a different device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Dieter Rapp, Xin Wang, Peter Francis White, Sheila Bernadette Christian
  • Publication number: 20200097608
    Abstract: A method and system for recommending articles including: receiving a customer request from the customer during the session; generating case data for a case, by an article recommender app; configuring a training set based on the subject and description data of the customer request; identifying, by an artificial intelligence (AI) app, a first pool of articles from a knowledge database; identifying by at least one query, a second pool of articles from a case article database to into a merged pool of articles; assigning, by the AI app, an implicit label to one of the first pool and the second pool of the articles; applying a model derived by the AI app based on customer behavior and a set of features related to the case to classify each article of the merged pool of articles based at least in part on the predicted relevance of the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Pingping XIU, Sitaram ASUR, Anjan GOSWAMI, Ziwei CHEN, Na CHENG, Suhas SATISH, Jacob Nathaniel HUFFMAN, Peter Francis WHITE, WeiPing PENG, Aditya SAKHUJA, Jayesh GOVINDARAJAN, Edgar Gerardo VELASCO
  • Publication number: 20190138660
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for processing and answering a natural language query at a database server are described. An end user may submit a question in natural language over a communication platform. An answer engine running on the database server may receive the question, and may process the content of the question using natural language processing (NLP) techniques. The answer engine may construct a search query based on the NLP, and may retrieve a set of documents from a database using the search query. The answer engine may rank the documents, prune the number of documents, modify the documents for the given communication platform, or perform any combination of these functions. In some cases, an intermediate user may review the documents, and may select one or more documents for publication. The answer engine may send the selected documents to the end user as answers in response to the question.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Peter Francis White, Michael Micucci, Scott Douglas White, Weiping Peng, Anjan Goswami, Pranav Suresh Shah, Prakash Mallick, Pingping Xiu, Zhenhua Xu
  • Publication number: 20180095612
    Abstract: A non-transitory tangible computer readable medium containing instructions configured to cause one or more processors to execute a process. The process comprises monitoring user input, preferences, and navigation patterns of a website or computer application on a user computer device, such as a computer, phone, or tablet. Administrator-defined rules are applied to the user input, preferences, or navigation patterns to generate a suggestion for a customer service application, such as a self-service FAQ page, video chat assistance, live chat assistance, or a case ticket system. The customer service application suggestion is displayed on the user computer device and may be transferred to a different device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Adrian Dieter RAPP, Xin WANG, Peter Francis WHITE, Sheila Bernadette CHRISTIAN
  • Patent number: D816686
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Dieter Rapp, Peter Francis White, Xin Wang, Sheila Bernadette Christian