Patents by Inventor Xin Ming Fan

Xin Ming Fan 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).

  • Conversation summarization during user-control task execution for assistant systems
    Patent number: 11948563
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user request from a client system associated with a user, determining that the user request corresponds to a first suspended task, retrieving a first dialog state of the first suspended task from a dialog history associated with the user, generating a summary of the first suspended task based on the first dialog state using a natural-language generating (NLG) module, and sending instructions to the client system for providing the summary of the first suspended task to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaohu Liu, Paul Anthony Crook, Zhiguang Wang, Shivani Poddar, Seungwhan Moon, Krishna Mittal, Shubham Khandelwal, Xin Ming Fan, Eun Joon Cho
  • Personalized Labeling for User Memory Exploration for Assistant Systems
    Publication number: 20240054156
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a multimodal input from a first client system associated with a first user via an assistant xbot, wherein the multimodal input comprises first images captured by cameras of the first client system and voice inputs by the first user, wherein the voice inputs comprise personalized labels corresponding to the first images, storing the first images and the personalized labels as a first digital memory of the first user, receiving a user request by the first user referencing one or more of the personalized labels from the first client system via the assistant xbot, generating a response for the first user based on the first digital memory and the referenced personalized labels, and sending instructions for presenting the response to the first user to the first client system via the assistant xbot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Joshuah Vincent, Ruchir Srivastava, Leon Zhan, Jiayang Tong, Zhiguang Wang, Guangqiang Dong, Zhenpeng Zhou, Xin Ming Fan
  • Event-Based Reasoning for Assistant Systems
    Publication number: 20230236555
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input corresponding to a task from a first user at a client system, determining that executing the task is to be triggered by client-side events being satisfied and server-side events being satisfied, determining that the client-side events are satisfied, sending a first indication that the client-side events are satisfied from the client system to a remote server, wherein the first indication comprises no privacy-sensitive information regarding the client-side events, receiving a second indication of the server-side events being satisfied at the client system from the remote server, and executing the task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Shusen Liu, Michael Robert Hanson, Guangqiang Dong, Xin Ming Fan, Babak Damavandi