Patents by Inventor Yashar Mehdad

Yashar Mehdad 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: 11907858
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for entity disambiguation are provided. For example, a document may be analyzed to identify a first mention and a second mention. One or more techniques may be used to select and link a candidate entity, from a first set of candidate entities, to the first mention and select and link a candidate entity, from a second set of candidate entities, to the second mention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Aasish Pappu, Roi Blanco, Yashar Mehdad, Amanda Stent, Kapil Thadani
  • Publication number: 20220415320
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes an automatic speech recognition (ASR) module, a natural-language understanding (NLU) module, a dialog manager, one or more agents, an arbitrator, a delivery system, one or more processors, and a non-transitory memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to receive a user input, process the user input using the ASR module, the NLU module, the dialog manager, one or more of the agents, the arbitrator, and the delivery system, and provide a response to the user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Pujie Zheng, Lin Sun, Ram Kumar Hariharan, Haidong Wang, Joshua Saylor McMullen, Mengxi Li, Long You Cai, Keith Diedrick, Crystal Annette Nakatsu Sung, Xi Chen, Stanislav Peshterliev, Debojeet Chatterjee, Sonal Gupta, Vikas Seshagiri Rao Bhardwaj, Yashar Mehdad, Anuj Kumar, Ashish Garg, Justin Denney, Hakan Inan, Iaroslav Markov, Surya Teja Appini, Bing Liu, Shusen Liu, Zhiqi Wang, Alexander Kolmykov-Zotov
  • Patent number: 11488028
    Abstract: A method is provided, including: processing interactions by a plurality of users with a plurality of content items, the content items being provided over a network in response to user requests received over the network, wherein each content item is associated with one or more entities; for each user, determining a user entity set that includes entities associated with content items with which the user interacted; embedding the users and the entities in a vector space, wherein the embedding is configured to place a given user, and the entities of the given user's user entity set, in proximity to each other in the vector space; for each user, performing a proximity search in the vector space to identify a set of nearest entities to the user in the vector space; for each user, generating a user profile using the identified set of nearest entities to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Akshay Soni, Yashar Mehdad, Troy Chevalier
  • Patent number: 11010687
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting abusive language are disclosed. In one embodiment, a set of character N-grams is ascertained for a set of text. Feature values for a plurality of features of the set of text are determined, based, at least in part, on the set of character N-grams. A computer-generated model is applied to the feature values for the plurality of features to generate a score for the set of text, where the model includes a plurality of weights, each of the weights corresponding to one of the features. It may then be determined whether the set of text includes abusive language based, at least in part, on the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.
    Inventors: Yashar Mehdad, Joel Tetreault
  • Patent number: 10915597
    Abstract: Methods and systems for ranking a plurality of articles for rendering on a website for a user account include receiving a request for accessing the website. Features are identified for the plurality of articles selected for rendering on the website. Each feature is associated with a value parameter having a value in a multi-dimensional vector space. A pair of solutions is identified for an article of the plurality of articles, wherein the pair of solutions identifies a portion of the multi-dimensional vector space that satisfies multiple objectives. A vector point defining the optimal solution is selected for the article from within the portion of the multi-dimensional vector space. The selected vector point is used in computing an article score for the article. The article score for the plurality of articles is used to identify and present a subset of the articles on the website for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.
    Inventors: Nikolay Laptev, Akshay Soni, Yashar Mehdad, Jeya Balaji Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 10834211
    Abstract: Software for a content-aggregation website generates a first representation of interests for a geographical location. The representation includes a plurality of entities that are derived from a corpus of documents. Each of the plurality of entities is associated with an expected value that is based on engagement signals from users in the geographical location and that is weighted using a sparse-polarity approach to be discriminative with respect to other entities. Each of the ingested articles is represented by the second representation that associates an aboutness score with each of the plurality of entities. The software uses the first representation, a similarity measure, and a second representation to create rankings of a plurality of ingested articles received. Then the software receives a request for access to the content-aggregation service from a new user from the geographical location and serves the new or infrequent user a content stream based on the rankings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Oath, Inc.
    Inventors: Akshay Soni, Yashar Mehdad, Troy Chevalier, Srikanth Nampelli, Ashwini Bhatkhande
  • Patent number: 10810242
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for adaptively generating a summary of web-based content based on an attribute of a mobile communication device having transmitted a request for the web-based content. By adaptively generating the summary based on an attribute of the mobile communication device such as an amount of visual space available or a number of characters permitted in the interface, a display of the web-based content may be controlled on the mobile communication device in a way that was not previously available. This enables control of displaying web-based content that has been adaptively generated to be displayed on limited display screens based on a learned attribute of the mobile communication device requesting the web-based content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Youssef Billawala, Yashar Mehdad, Dragomir Radev, Amanda Stent, Kapil Thadani
  • Patent number: 10776433
    Abstract: Software for a website hosting a content-aggregation service generates a first representation of interests for a user. The first representation includes a plurality of entities including pivot entities and extended entities, where the extended entities result from a nearest-neighbor search of word embeddings. Each of the extended entities is associated with a nearness score that is weighted using a distance of the extended entity from one of the pivot entities. For each of a plurality of articles ingested by the content-aggregation service, the software generates a second representation that associates an aboutness score with each of the plurality of entities. The software uses the first representation, a similarity measure, and the second representations to create rankings of the plurality of articles. The software receives a request for access to the content-aggregation service from the user and serves the user a content stream based at least in part on the rankings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Akshay Soni, Troy Chevalier, Yashar Mehdad
  • Patent number: 10699077
    Abstract: Software on a website serves a user of an online content aggregation service a first article that the user views. The software extracts named entities from the first article using a named-entity recognizer. The named-entity recognizer uses a sequence of word embeddings as inputs to a conditional random field (CRF) tool to assign labels to each of the word embeddings. Each of the word embeddings is associated with a word in the first article and is trained using an entire topical article from a corpus of topical articles as a context for the word. The software then creates rankings for articles ingested by the content aggregation service based at least in part on the named entities and serves the user a second article using the rankings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Yashar Mehdad, Aasish Pappu, Amanda Stent
  • Patent number: 10552501
    Abstract: A method implemented by at least one server computer is provided, including the following operations: receiving a plurality of training documents, each training document being defined by a sequence of words, each training document having one or more labels associated therewith; embedding the training documents, the words, and the labels in a vector space, wherein the embedding is configured to locate a given training document and its associated labels in proximity to each other in the vector space; embedding a new document in the vector space; performing a proximity search in the vector space to identify a set of nearest labels to the new document in the vector space; associating the nearest labels to the new document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Akshay Soni, Yashar Mehdad, Aasish Pappu, Vivek Kulkarni, Sheng Chen
  • Publication number: 20190387067
    Abstract: Software for a content-aggregation website generates a first representation of interests for a geographical location. The representation includes a plurality of entities that are derived from a corpus of documents. Each of the plurality of entities is associated with an expected value that is based on engagement signals from users in the geographical location and that is weighted using a sparse-polarity approach to be discriminative with respect to other entities. Each of the ingested articles is represented by the second representation that associates an aboutness score with each of the plurality of entities. The software uses the first representation, a similarity measure, and a second representation to create rankings of a plurality of ingested articles received. Then the software receives a request for access to the content-aggregation service from a new user from the geographical location and serves the new or infrequent user a content stream based on the rankings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Akshay Soni, Yashar Mehdad, Troy Chevalier, Srikanth Nampelli, Ashwini Bhatkhande
  • Patent number: 10404813
    Abstract: Software for a content-aggregation website generates a first representation of interests for a geographical location. The representation includes a plurality of entities that are derived from a corpus of documents. Each of the plurality of entities is associated with an expected value that is based on engagement signals from users in the geographical location and that is weighted using a sparse-polarity approach to be discriminative with respect to other entities. Each of the ingested articles is represented by the second representation that associates an aboutness score with each of the plurality of entities. The software uses the first representation, a similarity measure, and a second representation to create rankings of a plurality of ingested articles received. Then the software receives a request for access to the content-aggregation service from a new user from the geographical location and serves the new or infrequent user a content stream based on the rankings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Akshay Soni, Yashar Mehdad, Troy Chevalier, Srikanth Nampelli, Ashwini Bhatkhande
  • Publication number: 20190236086
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for adaptively generating a summary of web-based content based on an attribute of a mobile communication device having transmitted a request for the web-based content. By adaptively generating the summary based on an attribute of the mobile communication device such as an amount of visual space available or a number of characters permitted in the interface, a display of the web-based content may be controlled on the mobile communication device in a way that was not previously available. This enables control of displaying web-based content that has been adaptively generated to be displayed on limited display screens based on a learned attribute of the mobile communication device requesting the web-based content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Youssef Billawala, Yashar Mehdad, Dragomir Radev, Amanda Stent, Kapil Thadani
  • Patent number: 10255356
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for adaptively generating a summary of web-based content based on an attribute of a mobile communication device having transmitted a request for the web-based content. By adaptively generating the summary based on an attribute of the mobile communication device such as an amount of visual space available or a number of characters permitted in the interface, a display of the web-based content may be controlled on the mobile communication device in a way that was not previously available. This enables control of displaying web-based content that has been adaptively generated to be displayed on limited display screens based on a learned attribute of the mobile communication device requesting the web-based content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Youssef Billawala, Yashar Mehdad, Dragomir Radev, Amanda Stent, Kapil Thadani
  • Publication number: 20180349490
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for adaptively generating a summary of web-based content based on an attribute of a mobile communication device having transmitted a request for the web-based content. By adaptively generating the summary based on an attribute of the mobile communication device such as an amount of visual space available or a number of characters permitted in the interface, a display of the web-based content may be controlled on the mobile communication device in a way that was not previously available. This enables control of displaying web-based content that has been adaptively generated to be displayed on limited display screens based on a learned attribute of the mobile communication device requesting the web-based content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Youssef Billawala, Yashar Mehdad, Dragomir Radev, Amanda Stent, Kapil Thadani
  • Publication number: 20180285473
    Abstract: Methods and systems for ranking a plurality of articles for rendering on a website for a user account include receiving a request for accessing the website. Features are identified for the plurality of articles selected for rendering on the website. Each feature is associated with a value parameter having a value in a multi-dimensional vector space. A pair of solutions is identified for an article of the plurality of articles, wherein the pair of solutions identifies a portion of the multi-dimensional vector space that satisfies multiple objectives. A vector point defining the optimal solution is selected for the article from within the portion of the multi-dimensional vector space. The selected vector point is used in computing an article score for the article. The article score for the plurality of articles is used to identify and present a subset of the articles on the website for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Nikolay Laptev, Akshay Soni, Yashar Mehdad, Jeya Balaji Balasubramanian
  • Publication number: 20180285774
    Abstract: A method is provided, including: processing interactions by a plurality of users with a plurality of content items, the content items being provided over a network in response to user requests received over the network, wherein each content item is associated with one or more entities; for each user, determining a user entity set that includes entities associated with content items with which the user interacted; embedding the users and the entities in a vector space, wherein the embedding is configured to place a given user, and the entities of the given user's user entity set, in proximity to each other in the vector space; for each user, performing a proximity search in the vector space to identify a set of nearest entities to the user in the vector space; for each user, generating a user profile using the identified set of nearest entities to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Akshay Soni, Yashar Mehdad, Troy Chevalier
  • Publication number: 20180285459
    Abstract: A method implemented by at least one server computer is provided, including the following operations: receiving a plurality of training documents, each training document being defined by a sequence of words, each training document having one or more labels associated therewith; embedding the training documents, the words, and the labels in a vector space, wherein the embedding is configured to locate a given training document and its associated labels in proximity to each other in the vector space; embedding a new document in the vector space; performing a proximity search in the vector space to identify a set of nearest labels to the new document in the vector space; associating the nearest labels to the new document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Akshay Soni, Yashar Mehdad, Aasish Pappu, Vivek Kulkarni, Sheng Chen
  • Publication number: 20180225576
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for entity disambiguation are provided. For example, a document may be analyzed to identify a first mention and a second mention. One or more techniques may be used to select and link a candidate entity, from a first set of candidate entities, to the first mention and select and link a candidate entity, from a second set of candidate entities, to the second mention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Aasish Pappu, Roi Blanco, Yashar Mehdad, Amanda Stent, Kapil Thadani
  • Patent number: 10042924
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for adaptively generating a summary of web-based content based on an attribute of a mobile communication device having transmitted a request for the web-based content. By adaptively generating the summary based on an attribute of the mobile communication device such as an amount of visual space available or a number of characters permitted in the interface, a display of the web-based content may be controlled on the mobile communication device in a way that was not previously available. This enables control of displaying web-based content that has been adaptively generated to be displayed on limited display screens based on a learned attribute of the mobile communication device requesting the web-based content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: OATH INC.
    Inventors: Youssef Billawal, Yashar Mehdad, Dragomir Radev, Amanda Stent, Kapil Thadani