Based On Category Of The Query And The Document Patents (Class 707/731)
  • Patent number: 11934969
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to implement a bias identification engine that identifies bias in the operation of a trained cognitive computing system. A bias risk annotator is configured to identify a plurality of bias triggers in inputs and outputs of the trained cognitive computing system based on a bias risk trigger data structure that specifies terms or phrases that are associated with a bias. An annotated input and an annotated output of the trained cognitive computing system is received and processed by the bias risk annotator to determine if they comprise a portion of content that contains a bias trigger. In response to at least one of the annotated input or annotated output comprising a portion of content containing a bias trigger a notification is transmitted, to an administrator computing device, that specifies the presence of bias in the operation of the trained cognitive computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kristin E. McNeil, Robert C. Sizemore, David B. Werts, Sterling R. Smith
  • Patent number: 11893505
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generation and use of document analysis architectures are disclosed. A model builder component may be utilized to receiving user input data for labeling a set of documents as in class or out of class. That user input data may be utilized to train one or more classification models, which may then be utilized to predict classification of other documents. Trained models may be incorporated into a model taxonomy for searching and use by other users for document analysis purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: Samuel Cameron Fleming, David Craig Andrews, John E. Bradley, III, Scott Buzan, Jared Dirk Sol, Timothy Seegan, Joseph Henderson Ashmore, Christopher Ali Mirabzadeh
  • Patent number: 11868375
    Abstract: A content delivery system for generating personalized content for a user. The system maintains an interest graph that shows the user's current attachment to one or more topics. When a user performs an action, a topic is determined for the action and the user's interest graph is modified based on the action. The system also receives content and analyzes the language of the content to determine a topic of the content. A similarity between the user's interests and the content is determined. The content is also analyzed to determine the popularity of the content. The user's interest level and the popularity of the content are then used to provide the user with a personalized content, such as a content recommendation or enhanced content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
    Inventors: Amit R. Kapur, Steven F. Pearman, James R. Benedetto
  • Patent number: 11841912
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, processes and interfaces provide for refining a list of search results output by a search tool. In accordance with some embodiments, Natural Language Processing models are utilized to process an initial list of search results and the system is operable to identify additional search results that may be considered unwanted by the user based on input from the user for a sub-set of the search results and a word feature characteristic that the search results reviewed by the user have in common with search results not yet reviewed by the user. In one embodiment, a group search feature provides for facilitating a search involving a plurality of users that resorts a list of search results based on inputs from the plurality of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: TWITTLE SEARCH LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
    Inventor: Alan Mark Reznik
  • Patent number: 11775763
    Abstract: Systems and methods for weakly-supervised training a machine-learning model to perform named-entity recognition. All possible entity candidates and all possible rule candidates are automatically identified in an input data set of unlabeled text. An initial training of the machine-learning model is performed using labels assigned to entity candidates by a set of seeding rules as a first set of training data. The trained machine-learning model is then applied to the unlabeled text and a subset of rules from the rule candidates is identified that produces labels that most accurately match the labels assigned by the trained machine-learning model. The machine-learning model is then retrained using the labels assigned by the identified subset of rules as the second set of training data. This process is iteratively repeated to further refine and improve the performance of the machine-learning model for named-entity recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jiacheng Li, Haibo Ding, Zhe Feng
  • Patent number: 11693863
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for ranking query completions based on activity session data. One of the methods includes receiving a query prefix from a user. A reference parameter for the user is obtained. One or more likely queries that are likely to co-occur with the reference parameter in user activity sessions are identified, wherein each likely query has an associated prediction score. A ranking of the one or more likely queries is provided in response to receiving the query prefix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Emanuel Taropa, Ishai Rabinovitz
  • Patent number: 11640413
    Abstract: A content management system categorizes electronic documents stored in a document storage database. The electronic documents include metadata. The content management system includes a categorization rules database of categorization rules. A recurrent categorization engine takes the rules and applies them to the electronic documents to generate a plurality of category groupings. Each category grouping includes groups based on the applicable rule used to create the grouping. The electronic documents are grouped between the groups. The most balanced dataset of groups is selected to generate a user prompt for further categorization of the electronic documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Oleg Y. Zakharov, Aaron Sahagun
  • Patent number: 11500917
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for providing a summary of a multimedia document in a session. In some implementations, a message may be received from a user in a session and the session is between the user and an electronic conversational agent. The multimedia document may be obtained based at least on the message. The emotion information in the multimedia document may be extracted. The summary of the multimedia document may be generated based at least on the message and the extracted emotion information. A response including the generated summary of the multimedia document may be provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Xianchao Wu
  • Patent number: 11494442
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for filtering vehicle information. For instance, the method may include receiving a vehicle search request from a user device, the vehicle search request including conditions with corresponding weights. The method may also include, in response to receiving the vehicle search request, forming a search query based on the conditions and the weights of the vehicle search request; obtaining vehicle information; filtering the vehicle information based on the search query to obtain a result set and a partial match set; and transmitting a search result message based on the result set and the partial match set to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Geoffrey Dagley, Qiaochu Tang, Avid Ghamsari, Micah Price, Jason Hoover
  • Patent number: 11481829
    Abstract: Provided is a method for providing product data to a user. The method may include receiving query data associated with a plurality of queries of a database by a user. A classification for at least two queries of the plurality of queries may be determined. A product associated with the classification of the at least two queries may be determined. A potential revenue associated with the product may be calculated based on the user. A probability that the user will purchase the product may be calculated. A score may be calculated based on the potential revenue and the probability that the user will purchase the product. Product data associated with the product may be transmitted to the user if the score exceeds a threshold. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: James McDonald Bostock, Lisa Hammitt
  • Patent number: 11475082
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing context-based keyword searching using a search bar. Based on search terms received via the search bar, the system may be configured to provide suggested search parameters to associate with that search term. The suggested search parameters may each include a type of data and/or a filter to associate with the search term (e.g., name, phone number, date of birth, etc.). The one or more suggested search parameters may be identified based on the search term itself, a list of possible types of data or filters, a preliminary search of one or more datasets, a record of one or more previous searches performed, requirements associated with one or more searchable datasets, the format of user input received via the search bar, and/or one or more other factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell Beard, Jeffrey Bagdis, Christopher Brahms, Ashley Einspahr, Clare Adrien, Arvind Raju, Matthew Elkherj
  • Patent number: 11461382
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for providing a summary of a multimedia document in a session. In some implementations, a message may be received from a user in a session and the session is between the user and an electronic conversational agent. The multimedia document may be obtained based at least on the message. The emotion information in the multimedia document may be extracted. The summary of the multimedia document may be generated based at least on the message and the extracted emotion information. A response including the generated summary of the multimedia document may be provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Xianchao Wu
  • Patent number: 11436505
    Abstract: Techniques for data curation are provided. A data set is received for ingestion into a question answering system, where the data set includes a first question and a first answer. Relevance of the first question is validated by comparing the first question to a first question cluster in the question answering system, and it is determined that the first answer satisfies predefined security criteria. The first data set is evaluated to identify a set of references, and a generalized data set is generated by replacing each respective reference of the set of references with a corresponding entity identifier. The first generalized data set is then ingested into the question answering system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tracy Canada, Jim Dewan
  • Patent number: 11431768
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes a first display configured to display a primary resource, and a second display electronically coupled to the first display. The electronic device also includes a processor, and a data storage device having executable instructions accessible by the processor. Responsive to execution of the instructions, the processor shares the first display, including the primary resource, with at least one network based electronic device, and obtains context data related to a user of the at least one network based electronic device. Also responsive to the instructions, the processor selects between the first display and the second display to launch a network responsive resource based on the context data related to the user of the at least one network based electronic device while sharing the first display with the at least one network based electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Mark Patrick Delaney, John Carl Mese, Russell Speight VanBlon, Nathan J. Peterson, Arnold S. Weksler
  • Patent number: 11429646
    Abstract: A method includes: determining, based on an elapsed time, a priority for each of groups obtained by clustering a plurality of pieces of response information based on similarity between the pieces of response information, each response information indicating a response to an event that has occurred, the elapsed time being measured from a time period in which the event recorded in each response information of each group occurred most often; calculating credibility for each response information, based on a number of times specifications of a system relating to the event have been changed after the response, and an elapsed time from date and time when the response recorded in the pieces of response information has been made; and controlling a presentation mode upon presenting the plurality of pieces of response information, based on the priority calculated for each group and the credibility calculated for each response information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Ichiro Kotani, Makoto Adachi, Takashi Maeda, Takafumi Konno, Kazuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11410115
    Abstract: A computer system monitors network sites to provide expedited delivery services. Operation of a network site is monitored to determine that an item is being obtained from the network site. The network site is scraped to determine that the item is available at a physical location associated with the network site. A courier service is identified to transport the item from the physical location to the delivery location. Delivery of the item is enabled by the courier service to the delivery location. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for monitoring network sites to provide expedited delivery services in substantially the same manner described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Kaufmann, Borja Canseco, Andrea Young
  • Patent number: 11320274
    Abstract: Various embodiments pertain to techniques for proactively delivering navigation options to a user via a mobile device. In various embodiments, one or more navigation options can be determined for the user and delivered to the user's mobile device at a relevant time. Navigation options can be selected based on the user's current location, the user's future plans, the time, and other locally relevant information, such as friends nearby or a nearby favorite location of the user. The navigation options can be delivered to the user's mobile device at a time that the navigation options are relevant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Voronel, Donald Barnett, Timothy Wantland, Ran Mokady, Amid Moradganjeh
  • Patent number: 11301639
    Abstract: A method and a system of using machine learning to automatically generate a reference data structure for a K-anonymity model. A vector space is generated from reference text data, where the vector space is defined by numerical vectors representative of semantic meanings of the reference text words. Input text words are converted into numerical vectors using the vector space. Word clusters are formed according to semantic similarity between the input text words, where the semantic similarity between pairs of input text words is represented by metric values determined from pairs of numerical vectors. The word clusters define nodes of the reference data structure. A text label is applied to each node of the reference data structure, where the text label is representative of the semantic meaning shared by elements of the word cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Roozbeh Jalali, Haolin Guo, Wen Chen, Michael Chih Hung Li, Zanqing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11256867
    Abstract: Systems and methods of machine learning for digital assets and message creation are provided herein. The present disclosure includes mechanisms for receiving one or more assets that include textual content, performing machine learning on the one or more assets in order to determine relevant words, phrases, and statistics included in the textual content, and displaying segments of data on a graphical user interface that also includes an interface that is used to create a message using content of the segments of the textual content that have been extracted from the one or more assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SDL Inc.
    Inventors: Abdessamad Echihabi, Bryant Huang, Quinn Lam, Mihai Vlad
  • Patent number: 11244011
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for generating a plan for document processing. A plurality of electronic documents are received, by a computer, using a network. The plurality of electronic documents are analyzed, using the computer, to identify a plurality of tabular data, based on the analyzed plurality of electronic documents. Textual data is identified within the identified tabular data, of the analyzed plurality of electronic documents. Textual hints are generated, based on the identified textual data within the identified tabular data. References are identified, wherein references are based on matching textual hints with textual data in the received plurality of electronic documents. A count of references is calculated, associated with one or more sets of tabular data. A priority score is calculated based on the count of references, and an ingestion plan is generated, based on the calculated priority score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Donna K. Byron, Robert E. Loredo
  • Patent number: 11113148
    Abstract: Systems and methods for metadata tag inheritance during backup are disclosed. The method includes maintaining a plurality of data storage systems in communication with an external metadata management system, operating the metadata management system to store metadata corresponding to data residing on the data storage systems as a plurality of entries that include or more custom tags, detecting an execution of a backup data operation command on data residing in a data storage system that causes creation of a backup copy of a data set in that data storage system in a destination data storage system, and operating the metadata management system to create a new metadata entry corresponding to the execution of the backup data operation command in response to detecting the execution of the backup data operation command. The new metadata entry includes at least one custom tag created before the execution of the backup data operation command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Dain, Scott Brewer, Sara M. Coronado, Theodore T. Harris, Jr., Gregory Kishi, Raul Saba
  • Patent number: 11113238
    Abstract: Systems and methods for metadata tag inheritance are disclosed. The methods include maintaining a plurality of data storage systems in communication with an external metadata management system, operating the metadata management system to store metadata corresponding to data residing on the data storage systems as a plurality of entries, detecting an execution of a data operation command on data residing in a data storage system that causes movement of a data set from that data storage system to a destination data storage system that is different from that data storage system, and operating the metadata management system to create a new metadata entry corresponding to the execution of the data operation command. Each of the plurality of entries may include one or more custom tags, and the new metadata entry may include at least one custom tag created before the execution of the data operation command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Dain, Scott Brewer, Sara M. Coronado, Theodore T. Harris, Jr., Gregory Kishi, Raul Saba
  • Patent number: 11100048
    Abstract: Systems and methods for metadata tag inheritance are disclosed. The methods include maintaining a plurality of data storage systems in communication with an external metadata management system, operating the metadata management system to store metadata corresponding to data residing on the plurality of data storage systems as a plurality of entries, detecting an execution of a data operation command in a data storage system that causes movement of a data set from source storage location to a destination storage location in that data storage system, and operating the metadata management system to create a new metadata entry corresponding to the execution of the data operation command in response to detecting the execution of the data operation command. Each of the plurality of entries includes one or more custom tags, and the new metadata entry includes at least one custom tag created before the execution of the data operation command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Dain, Scott Brewer, Sara M. Coronado, Theodore T. Harris, Jr., Gregory Kishi, Raul Saba
  • Patent number: 11093448
    Abstract: Systems and methods for metadata tag inheritance are disclosed. The methods include maintaining a plurality of data storage systems including at least one tiered data storage system in communication with an external metadata management system, operating the metadata management system to store metadata corresponding to data residing on the plurality of data storage systems as a plurality of entries, detecting an execution of a data operation command in the tiered data storage system that causes movement of a data set from a source storage tier to a destination storage tier, and in response to detecting the execution of the data operation command, operating the metadata management system to create a new metadata entry corresponding to the execution of the data operation command. The new metadata entry includes at least one custom tag created before the execution of the data operation command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Dain, Scott Brewer, Sara M. Coronado, Theodore T. Harris, Jr., Gregory Kishi, Raul Saba
  • Patent number: 11062371
    Abstract: The arrangement and selection of digital content to present to a user can be based at least in part upon probabilities of the user selecting to view more information and/or entering into a transaction with respect to instances of the content. For example, user behavior with respect to various items provided through a content provider can be determined in order to calculate a probability that a user was searching for a particular type of item for a given search. The user behavior can include historical action data, such as information that indicates items that were selected in response to a particular search and/or items that were purchased in response to a particular search. The historical action data can be analyzed to generate an index that indicates a likelihood that the search was intended for a particular type of product. Additionally, the historical data can be used to train language models that can be used to determine a probability of interest for a particular type of product for a given search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: A9.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Bing Yin, Francois Huet, Christopher Varano
  • Patent number: 11055357
    Abstract: An object is to efficiently generate a list of data elements that complement a given key element. A computer includes a memory and a controller, wherein the memory stores data, and the controller performs: selection processing of selecting data elements in vicinity of a predetermined data element as cooccurrence data elements; calculation processing of calculating a degree of importance of each cooccurrence data element; and presentation processing of presenting the cooccurrence data elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: FRONTEO, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryota Tamura, Shinya Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11036814
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods of and systems for ranking results returned by a search engine. A method in accordance with the invention comprises determining a formula having variables and parameters, wherein the formula is for computing a relevance score for a document and a search query; and ranking the document based on the relevance score. Preferably, determining the formula comprises tuning the parameters based on user input. Preferably, the parameters are determined using a machine learning technique, such as one that includes a form of statistical classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.
    Inventors: Yunshan Lu, Gordon P. Rios, Michael Tanne
  • Patent number: 11030668
    Abstract: There is described a system and computer-implemented method for providing a recommendation based on a sparse pattern of data. An exemplary method comprises determining a likelihood that an item for which no user preference data is available will be preferred. The exemplary method also comprises determining a likelihood that an item for which user preference data is available for users other than a particular user will be preferred based on the likelihood that the item for which no user preference data is available will be preferred. The exemplary method additionally comprises predicting that an item for which no user preference data relative to the particular user is available will be preferred if the likelihood that the particular user will prefer the item exceeds a certain level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Micro Focus LLC
    Inventors: Martin B. Scholz, Rajan Lukose, Rong Pan
  • Patent number: 10965635
    Abstract: Technical solutions are described to arbitrarily order and access email messages based on text analysis and social network analysis. One general aspect includes a system that includes an email server and an email client. The email server generates a topic map of email messages stored on the email server. The email server also generates a social map of users with accounts on the email server. The email server receives an email message from a first user, the email message directed to a second user. The email server sends the email message to a third user in response to determining that the email message is relevant to the third user. The present document further describes examples of other aspects such as methods, computer products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover, Andrew P. Wyskida
  • Patent number: 10846335
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for quickly and easily browsing to points of interest within a recorded video. In examples, the present system works in tandem with a segment list which includes a list of different video sequences of a stored video of an event. One typical example of a segment list is a play-by-play (PBP) which is prepared contemporaneously with a sporting event. Segments from a segment list may be associated with, or indexed to, corresponding sequences from the stored video. Thereafter, a user interface allows a user to interactively watch or browse the event by jumping to a desired point in the video for playback by selecting its associated segment from the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Simon Baker, Eran Borenstein, Mehmet Nejat Tek, Eitan Sharon
  • Patent number: 10817515
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for cognitively filtering data in a storage environment includes generating a plurality of cognitive data filters based on one or more factors to create a plurality of groups. The method also includes cognitively filtering data received by a global data repository to place independent portions of the data into the plurality of groups using the plurality of cognitive data filters prior to receiving a query on the global data repository. Data within each of the plurality of groups share a common definable characteristic. Other systems, methods, and computer program products for cognitively filtering data within storage environments are presented in accordance with more embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Subashini Balachandran, Rui Zhang
  • Patent number: 10810275
    Abstract: Techniques for performing query-dependent and content-class (e.g., with product class as a subset, in which content class can be based on a product class in an example implementation) based ranking are disclosed in accordance with some embodiments. In some embodiments, a process for performing query-dependent and content-class based ranking includes receiving a query for a search for content on a web site; performing a query-dependent and content-class based ranking of content available on the web site (e.g., using a processor); and returning a ranked list of content based at least in part on the query-dependent and content-class based ranking of content available on the web site in response to the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: BloomReach Inc.
    Inventors: Ashutosh Garg, Romil Shah, Vinodh Kumar, Ram Gopalan, Sumeet Khullar
  • Patent number: 10795878
    Abstract: A system and a computer program product are provided for evaluating question-answer pairs in an answer key by comparing a first answer key answer to a plurality of candidate answers to determine if the answer key may have a problem if the plurality of candidate answers are more similar to one another than to the first answer and to determine if the plurality of candidate answers has gradient information which may be used to update the answer key if not already included in the answer key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Anne E. Gattiker, Anita Govindjee, Lakshminarayanan Krishnamurthy, Joseph N. Kozhaya
  • Patent number: 10691740
    Abstract: Implementations relate to relate to interface elements for directed display of content data items. In some implementations, a method includes causing a subset of content elements to be presented in a display view of a graphical user interface on a device, the set of content elements corresponding to a collection of content data items. Search topics are identified based on one or more content characteristics associated with content elements that are within a threshold distance of the subset of content elements in the display view. Topic elements are displayed in the interface, corresponding to the search topics. In response to a selection of a particular topic element based on user input, the collection of content data items is searched to identify resulting content data items that have content characteristics corresponding to the selected search topic. The display view is updated to present resulting content elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Juan Carlos Anorga, Indrajit Khare, Madhur Khandelwal
  • Patent number: 10685073
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for selecting textual representations for entity attribute values. One of the methods includes receiving, for presentation to a user, data identifying a relevant entity and a respective presentation attribute value for each of a plurality of presentation attributes associated with the relevant entity; obtaining user profile data for the user; selecting a respective textual representation for each of the presentation attribute values, wherein selecting the textual representations comprises selecting a first alternative textual representation for a first presentation attribute value based on the user profile data; and providing data identifying the entity and the textual representations for presentation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Inventors: Eyal Segalis, Yaniv Leviathan, Yossi Matias, Gal Chechik, Yoav Tzur, Ran El Manor
  • Patent number: 10671882
    Abstract: A technique for use in analyzing multidimensional data is disclosed. In the technique, a subset of texts specified by a textual feature is selected from the multidimensional data. Each text of the subset is projected into a target image based on the corresponding spatial information to obtain a spatial distribution map for the textual feature. The similarity between the spatial distribution map for the textual feature and each property distribution map for each predefined property is determined. For the similarity exceeding a threshold, the textual feature is outputted as a notable textual feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nasukawa, Kazuki Sato
  • Patent number: 10664537
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for editable search. A computing device displays a term on a network page. The computing device then displays a search result on the network page, wherein the search result is related to the term. Later, the computing device displays an alternative term in response to a selection of the term. The computing device then sends a search query to a remote application executing on a remote computing device in response to a selection of the alternative term, wherein the search query includes the alternative term. The computing device subsequently updates the search result on the network page with a new search result related to the alternative term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Ross Mueller, David Robert Cole, Anna Maria Godfrey, Whitney Gale Spathelf
  • Patent number: 10643268
    Abstract: An electronic device for receiving an account identifier is described. The device includes display; one or more processors; and memory storing one or more programs. The device displays a user interface that includes an area for receiving an account identifier and a first set of candidates for a first set of characters. The device detects a selection of a first candidate of the first set of candidates. In response, the device displays characters in the first candidate in the area. The device, subsequent to detecting the selection of the first candidate, receives a manual input of each character in one or more sets of characters; and displays, in the area, characters in the one or more sets of characters concurrently with at least the characters in the first candidate. A corresponding method and a computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs for execution by the electronic device are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Maocai Li, Chang He
  • Patent number: 10636072
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a memory to results for different search queries. The processing device communicates with the memory. The processing device generates signals for the first search query based on the first search terms, the user context, and behavioral data and interactional data from previous search queries, generates an overall result strategy for the search query based on the signals, determines a first set of results for the search query in response to a first probability that the first search query is directed to a first result strategy in the overall result strategy. The first set of results is a subset of a second set of results available for the first search query. The processing device also generates final results based on the first set of results, and to provide the final results as a response to the first search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Richard L. Claice, Jagdish U. Yadav, Luis E. Bocaletti, David M. Gardner, Matthew Hinze
  • Patent number: 10496715
    Abstract: An electronic device, a keyword management device and a method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a processor that receives a keyword and a keyword search condition, transmits the keyword and the keyword search condition to a keyword management device to perform a search based on at least the keyword search condition, receives a search result from the keyword management device, and displays the search result and combines the search result, the keyword and the keyword search condition for subsequent retrieval. The keyword management device includes a processor that receives a keyword and keyword search condition from the electronic device, executes a search on at least one of a plurality of information providing servers utilizing the keyword and the keyword search condition, acquires the search result and combines the search result, the keyword and the keyword search condition for subsequent retrieval, and transmits the search result to the first electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyungtae Kim, Hyerim Bae, Jungjik Lee, Changhyup Jwa, Yangwook Kim, Sunkee Lee
  • Patent number: 10496751
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for avoiding sentiment model overfitting in a machine language model. A current list of keywords in a current sentiment model can be updated to create a proposed list of keywords in a proposed sentiment model. Machine-generated sentiment results, based on the proposed sentiment model, are presented to identify model overfitting, without revising the current set of keywords. The proposed set of keywords can be edited, and when overfitting is not present, the current list of keywords is replaced by the proposed list of keywords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Jones, Scott Enman, Collin Chun-Kit Lee, David Campbell, Christopher John Nicholls
  • Patent number: 10437418
    Abstract: A method of operating a user device includes, in response to a set of app icons being displayed, monitoring for user interaction with one of the app icons. In response to detecting user interaction with a first app icon corresponding to a first app, the method determines whether the detected user interaction satisfies first criteria. In response to determining that the detected user interaction satisfies the first criteria, the method displays an action list corresponding to the first app. The action list includes a set of action items for user selection. A first item corresponds to a specific state of the first app and is associated with an access mechanism for the specific state of the first app. In response to the user selecting the first item, the method opens the first app to the specific state by actuating the access mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Gilead Mark
  • Patent number: 10387915
    Abstract: A digital magazine server scores digital magazines based on how related the digital magazines are to each of a set of topics in a topic vector space, which allows ranking for each topic the magazines that are most closely related to the topic. The digital magazine server generates a magazine vector for the magazine in the topic vector space by aggregating extracted topics for the magazine and compares the magazine vector to each of the topics to determine a magazine-topic relevance score that indicates the relevance of the digital magazine to each topic in the topic vector space. The digital magazine server then ranks each of the digital magazines by their magazine-topic relevance scores for a particular topic, e.g., a trending topic from a user request, and selects a top number of magazines for the trending topic for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Griesmeyer
  • Patent number: 10346436
    Abstract: A content delivery system for generating personalized content for a user. The system maintains an interest graph that shows the user's current attachment to one or more topics. When a user performs an action, a topic is determined for the action and the user's interest graph is modified based on the action. The system also receives content and analyzes the language of the content to determine a topic of the content. A similarity between the user's interests and the content is determined. The content is also analyzed to determine the popularity of the content. The user's interest level and the popularity of the content are then used to provide the user with a personalized content, such as a content recommendation or enhanced content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Amit R. Kapur, Steven F. Pearman, James R. Benedetto
  • Patent number: 10346210
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards push signaling to run jobs on available servers. Users may provide jobs or job instructions to a job control node. Job control node may determine one or more available job target nodes from among a plurality of managed nodes associated with the job control node. The job target nodes may be determined based on information included in the provided job instructions. If there are available job target nodes, the job control node may provide the job instructions to each available job target node. Further, the job control node may receive communications from one or more available job target nodes that indicates that the job target node is prepared and ready to execute the received job instructions. Next, the job control node may issue a job start command that triggers the prepared job target nodes to begin executing the provided job instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Chef Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Andrew Anderson, Christopher James Brown, Kevin Allen Smith, John Braden Keiser
  • Patent number: 10346412
    Abstract: A method and a device for recommendation of media content are described. The method includes: calculating scores of media content labels in a computer media content library; in descending order of the scores, selecting a first threshold media content label as a candidate media content label; for the candidate media content label, finding out a media content corresponding to the candidate media content label from the media content library; for the media content corresponding to the candidate media content label, in descending order of the amount of page views, selecting a second threshold media content as a media content to be recommended corresponding to the candidate media content label; and recommending the media content to be recommended corresponding to the candidate media content label to a user. The method and device can recommend popular media contents to users, and reduce the style difference between the media contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Lichun Liu, Jingtao Zhu, Xiang Wang, Chengtao Fan, Bin Zhou, Shenyuan Li, Jianfeng Chen, Siliang Huang, Juan Sun, Huguang Jin, Dan Li, Chunxia Qin
  • Patent number: 10296528
    Abstract: The present inventor devised, among other things, an information retrieval system that determines whether a query is ambiguous or not and based on this determination either continues or aborts a search process. One query evaluation extracts word pairs from an input query and uses features of the extracted word pairs, for example the number of word pairs and their frequencies within a document collection, to determine if the query is ambiguous or not. Another evaluation measures topical convergence, using query related caselaw headnotes that are associated with topics in a legal taxonomy. And yet another checks topical convergence through the lens of full caselaw documents and secondary legal documents, such as law review articles, specifically the minimum number of case law and secondary legal documents that are necessary to span a set of top ranked topics identified using the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventor: Qiang Lu
  • Patent number: 10289739
    Abstract: A content recommendation system includes a content recommendation engine, a trender including a first trender interface to a social media platform and a second trender interface to a search engine, wherein the trender includes an ordered chain of term enhancers to enhance trending terms received via the first trender interface into enhanced terms. The search engine is adapted to receive the enhanced terms via the second trender interface and to form a search result set for the enhanced terms, and the search engine is coupled to provide the search result set to the content recommendation engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: ThinkAnalytics
    Inventors: Peter Docherty, Ewen Cattanach, Bruce Zhang, David Scott, Shahad Ahmed, Alan Ryman, Asim Ullah, Darren Callaghan, Gordon McIntyre
  • Patent number: 10275522
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for presenting relevant information to a customer service representative of a business may include receiving a digitized data stream corresponding to a spoken conversation between a customer and a representative; converting the data stream to a text stream; determining one or more keywords from the text stream; comparing the one or more keywords with a history of keywords that have previously been searched; and/or searching a database for information related to the one or more keywords that have not been previously searched. As a result of the keyword search, information about topics that the customer is interested in, may be located and displayed on a customer service representative display to facilitate the customer service representative timely relaying the information found by the keyword search to enhance the customer experience. Exemplary keywords may relate to insurance and financial services, such as “auto,” “home,” “life,” “insurance,” or “vehicle loan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventor: Sylvia Hernandez
  • Patent number: 10242412
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining a current geo-location of a mobile client computing device associated with a first user; and selecting content associated with the current geo-location that was provided by a second user. The selection is based at least in part on a relationship between the first and second users. The method also includes sending to the mobile client computing device while the mobile client computing device is at or near the current geo-location a notification associated with the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Xiu Deng