Patents by Inventor Piali Choudhury

Piali Choudhury 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: 10997226
    Abstract: Examples described herein provide a digital assistant crafting a response based on target sentiment identification from user input. The digital assistant receives unstructured data input and identifies a segment of the input that includes a facet item. A sentiment associated with the facet item in the segment is identified and classified to identify a targeted sentiment directed towards the facet item. A response is generated based on the targeted sentiment and the facet item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Melissa Nicole Lim, Margaret Ann Mitchell, Piali Choudhury
  • Patent number: 9754585
    Abstract: Different advantageous embodiments provide a crowdsourcing method for modeling user intent in conversational interfaces. One or more stimuli are presented to a plurality of describers. One or more sets of describer data are captured from the plurality of describers using a data collection mechanism. The one or more sets of describer data are processed to generate one or more models. Each of the one or more models is associated with a specific stimulus from the one or more stimuli.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher John Brockett, Piali Choudhury, William Brennan Dolan, Yun-Cheng Ju, Patrick Pantel, Noelle Mallory Sophy, Svitlana Volkova
  • Publication number: 20160342683
    Abstract: Examples described herein provide a digital assistant crafting a response based on target sentiment identification from user input. The digital assistant receives unstructured data input and identifies a segment of the input that includes a facet item. A sentiment associated with the facet item in the segment is identified and classified to identify a targeted sentiment directed towards the facet item. A response is generated based on the targeted sentiment and the facet item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Melissa Nicole LIM, Margaret Ann MITCHELL, Piali CHOUDHURY
  • Patent number: 9443326
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards automatically labeling location-related information such as corresponding to GPS data or the like with a semantic label. A classifier trained with machine learning is provided with feature data corresponding to the location-related information and other features, such as user demographics data of a person associated with location-related information. The semantic label is received from the classifier, and associated with the location-related information. Other features may be used, such as other egocentric features corresponding to a person's particular visit, features from a sequence of visits, and/or features from other user information. The semantic label may be used to trigger an action, label a location on a map or the like, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John C. Krumm, Dany Rouhana, Ming-Wei Chang, Aman Kansal, Piali Choudhury
  • Publication number: 20150161439
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards automatically labeling location-related information such as corresponding to GPS data or the like with a semantic label. A classifier trained with machine learning is provided with feature data corresponding to the location-related information and other features, such as user demographics data of a person associated with location-related information. The semantic label is received from the classifier, and associated with the location-related information. Other features may be used, such as other egocentric features corresponding to a person's particular visit, features from a sequence of visits, and/or features from other user information. The semantic label may be used to trigger an action, label a location on a map or the like, and so on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Krumm, Dany Rouhana, Ming-Wei Chang, Aman Kansal, Piali Choudhury
  • Publication number: 20130262114
    Abstract: Different advantageous embodiments provide a crowdsourcing method for modeling user intent in conversational interfaces. One or more stimuli are presented to a plurality of describers. One or more sets of describer data are captured from the plurality of describers using a data collection mechanism. The one or more sets of describer data are processed to generate one or more models. Each of the one or more models is associated with a specific stimulus from the one or more stimuli.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher John Brockett, Piali Choudhury, William Brennan Dolan, Yun-Cheng Ju, Patrick Pantel, Noelle Mallory Sophy, Svitlana Volkova
  • Patent number: 7685199
    Abstract: An information dissemination system provides users information related to topics extracted from event classes. Event classes can generally be thought of as scripts that specify topics and actions for obtaining information related to the topics. The event classes are executed to obtain information related to the particular event class. The information dissemination system identifies a user event that is of interest to a user. The information dissemination system then identifies an event class that corresponds to the user event. The information dissemination system then performs the actions specified for the event class, obtains the action results, and renders the action results to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Raman Chandrasekar, Dean A. Slawson, Michael K. Forney, Arungunram C. Surendran, Piali Choudhury, Erin Renshaw
  • Publication number: 20080027979
    Abstract: An information dissemination system provides users information related to topics extracted from event classes. Event classes can generally be thought of as scripts that specify topics and actions for obtaining information related to the topics. The event classes are executed to obtain information related to the particular event class. The information dissemination system identifies a user event that is of interest to a user. The information dissemination system then identifies an event class that corresponds to the user event. The information dissemination system then performs the actions specified for the event class, obtains the action results, and renders the action results to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Raman Chandrasekar, Dean A. Slawson, Michael K. Forney, Arungunram C. Surendran, Piali Choudhury, Erin Renshaw