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  • Patent number: 11900914
    Abstract: An online system receives, from a client device of a posting user, a script for a voice-based content item. The online system retrieves a voice synthesis model stored in the user profile of the posting user and generates a synthetic audio stream using the retrieved voice synthesis model and based on the received script. The online system presents the generated synthetic audio stream to the posting user and receives instructions for modifying the synthetic audio stream. The online system generates a second audio stream based on the received instructions and composes the voice-based tent item based on the generated second audio stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Maria Fernandez Guajardo, Trent Richard Walkiewicz
  • Patent number: 11874840
    Abstract: A method implements a table discovery service. The method includes receiving a query string, converting the query string to a query graph, and identifying a selected graph, of a set of graphs, that matches the query graph. The method further includes transmitting a notification identifying a previously generated table corresponding to the selected graph, receiving a notification response to accept the previously generated table, and transmitting data from the previously generated table in response to the query string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Sheer Dangoor, Aviv Ben Arie
  • Patent number: 11875112
    Abstract: Methods for analyzing elements of a first text collection, and devices and methods for searching for information in a set of digital data, in particular in a computer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Anna Constanze Haetty
  • Patent number: 11868167
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for provisioning a tag schema. The embodiment may include determining data types for tag-keys within an existing ecosystem of tags. Each tag of the existing ecosystem comprises a tag-key and a tag-value. The embodiment may include performing pairwise clustering of the tags within the ecosystem. The embodiment may include identifying a main tag-key within each cluster of tags. The embodiment may include grouping the clusters into a broader category. The embodiment may include providing a tag schema recommendation for the ecosystem based on the grouped clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.
    Inventors: Keri Wheatley, Omar Odibat, Shikhar Kwatra, Manish Mahesh Modh, Ilyas Mohamed Iyoob
  • Patent number: 11861687
    Abstract: A system for conducting a computer-based, simultaneous, multiple round, descending clock auction for basic generation services includes a web server for receiving bid data for one or more users for basic generation service products, an application server host application software, which processes the one or more bids according to at least one auction rule, tracks the auction, monitors the auction, and/or determines when to end the auction, and a database server, which stores auction data. A method of conducting a computer-based, simultaneous, multiple round, descending clock auction for basic generation services includes the repeating steps of receiving bids indicating desired tranche units of basic generation service products, calculating next round prices for each product, and sending round results to bidders. The system for and method of conducting a computer-based auction includes receiving and processing a withdrawal request or a switch request from at least one of the qualified bidders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: Public Service Electric & Gas Company, Atlantic City Electric Company, Jersey Central Power & Light Company, Rockland Electric Company
    Inventors: Chantale Lacasse, Frederick W. Lark, Eugene Meehan, Anthony R. Robinson, David Salant, Colin J. Loxley, Gerald W. Schirra, Robert Taylor
  • Patent number: 11769425
    Abstract: A computer processing system is provided for enhancing video-based language learning. The system includes a video server for storing videos that use one or more languages to be learned. The system further includes a video metadata database for storing translations of sentences uttered in the videos, character profiles of characters appearing in the videos, and mappings between the sentences and a learner profile. The system also includes a learner profile database for storing learner profiles. The system additionally includes a semantic analyzer and matching engine for finding, for at least a given video and a given learner, alternative sentences for and responsive to the translations of the sentences uttered in the given video that conflict with a respective learner profile for the given learner. The computer processing system further includes a presentation system for playing back the given video and providing the alternative sentences to the given learner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: I-Hsiang Liao, Cheng-Yu Yu, Chih-Yuan Lin, Yu-Ning Hsu
  • Patent number: 11763091
    Abstract: Dynamic content tags are generated as content is received by a dynamic content tagging system. A natural language processor (NLP) tokenizes the content and extracts contextual N-grams based on local or global context for the tokens in each document in the content. The contextual N-grams are used as input to a generative model that computes a weighted vector of likelihood values that each contextual N-gram corresponds to one of a set of unlabeled topics. A tag is generated for each unlabeled topic comprising the contextual N-gram having a highest likelihood to correspond to that unlabeled topic. Topic-based deep learning models having tag predictions below a threshold confidence level are retrained using the generated tags, and the retrained topic-based deep learning models dynamically tag the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Nandan Gautam Thor, Vasiliki Arvaniti, Jere Armas Michael Helenius, Erik Michael Bower
  • Patent number: 11755283
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for human-machine interfaces for utterance-based playlist selection are disclosed. In one method, a list of playlists is traversed and a portion of each is audibly output until a playlist command is received. Based on the playlist command, the traversing is stopped and a playlist is selected for playback. In examples, the list of playlists is modified based on a modification input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Horia-Dragos Jurcut, Henriette Susanne Martine Cramer, Ruth Brillman
  • Patent number: 11734238
    Abstract: A system is provided for resolving data errors. The system is configured to obtain an erroneous data element received from a source system and generate a plurality of probable data values for the data element. For each probable data value of the plurality of probable data values, the system verifies whether the probable data value can be processed successfully by an Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) logic and by one or more target applications configured to process the data element. The system determines one of the probable data values as a suggested data value of the data element, based on the verification of the probable data values. The system outputs the suggested data value for processing by the ETL logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Venkata Durga Rao Medisetti, Naresh Soni, Siju Abraham, Barnali Sanyal, Vinay Jaisinghani
  • Patent number: 11733964
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a processor, and a memory, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive a user input including a request for performing a first task that requires at least one parameter for execution and not including the entire at least one parameter, transmit first data related to the user input to an external server, receive a first sequence of states of the electronic device for performing the first task from the external server, perform not all but some of the first sequence of the states while displaying at least some of states changed in the first sequence, and after the performing of the some of the first sequence, display a GUI that is required for performing the first task and represents that a user is requested to provide at least one parameter omitted in the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Min Yoon, Young II Oh, Hyun Woo Kang, Jin Yeol Kim, Ji Hyun Kim, Da Som Lee, Yong Joon Jeon
  • Patent number: 11734364
    Abstract: A method for document similarity analysis. The method includes generating a reference document content identifier for a reference document, including identifying frequently occurring terms in reference document content, encoding each frequently occurring term in a term identifier and combining the term identifiers to form the reference document content identifier associated with the reference document. The method also includes obtaining at least one document similarity value by comparing the reference document content identifier to a set of archived document content identifiers stored in a document repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Open Text Corporation
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Chao Chen, Kun Zhao, Jingjing Liu, Ying Teng
  • Patent number: 11726987
    Abstract: A technique involves normalizing identification of users (e.g., different customer organizations) across disparate local systems (e.g., different electronic platforms that provide different products and/or services). Such normalization of user identification enables a provider to accurately ascertain a particular user of multiple disparate local systems even when the multiple disparate local systems identify that user using different identification schemes. Accordingly, the provider is able to offer enhanced support to that user across the multiple disparate local systems. For example, with such normalization of user identification, the provider may employ a single authentication system across the various local systems thus enabling the user to authenticate via the same authentication process regardless of which local system the user attempts to access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Ricardo Fernando Feijoo
  • Patent number: 11720754
    Abstract: Claim verification is facilitated by identifying a selection of textual content within a user interface, accessing a claim detection module, inputting the textual content into the claim detection module to detect one or more claims within the selection of textual content, accessing an evidence extraction module, using the evidence extraction module to automatically search one or more reference repositories for one or more related references that have content that is related to the detected one or more claims, automatically determining whether the content in the one or more related references supports or refutes the one or more claims using a claim verification module, and, in response to determining a set of references of the one or more related references supports or refutes the one or more claims, presenting a support indicator or a refute indicator within the user interface in association with the one or more claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Robin Abraham, Liang Du, Zeeshan Ahmed
  • Patent number: 11722389
    Abstract: A method for associating a device with a user including the action of receiving from a first computerized device operated by a first user a first data content including a plurality of first data items, including clickstream data. An action of setting rules for computing scores representing similarity between a first data item received from the first computerized device and a second data item received from a second computerized device. An action of collecting the plurality of the first data items and the second data items, from the plurality of computerized devices of the plurality of computerized devices. An action of computing the score representing similarity between at least one pair of computerized devices respectively providing the first and the second data items. And an action of determining that the pair of computerized devices are operated by a same user if the score reaches a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: BI SCIENCE (2009) LTD
    Inventors: Assaf Toval, Kfir Moyal
  • Patent number: 11694102
    Abstract: A device may receive a request to identify items that satisfy parameters of the request. The device may identify a plurality of items that satisfy the parameters. The device may generate a plurality of explanation sets. An explanation set of the plurality of explanation sets may relate to an item of the plurality of items. The explanation set may include at least one of: a positive explanation indicating that the item is positively associated with a first characteristic that relates to a first preference of a user, or a negative explanation indicating that the item is negatively associated with a second characteristic that relates to a second preference of the user. The device may select an item from the plurality of items based on the plurality of explanation sets. The device may provide information that includes an explanation set of the item selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Dadong Wan, Mohamad Mehdi Nasr-Azadani, Charles Anthony Locascio, Erin Blake Wetherly, Jacob Charles Metzger, Maria Margaret Fabbroni
  • Patent number: 11687506
    Abstract: Affinity-based listing recommendations are created and used in a public data exchange. Listings can be evaluated against one another for affinity or similarity such that users working with a particular dataset can be presented with other datasets that share an affinity. Affinity can be determined from both the dataset metadata as well as information from the dataset content. Calculation of affinity scores can be pre-computed and stored, in advance of use, or determined on-the-fly. Presentation of most-similar listings can be deterministic, can contain randomization, can employ time-decay, can be weighted, and can make use of a tiered-sum approach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Orestis Kostakis, Prasanna V. Krishnan, Subramanian Muralidhar, Shakhina Pulatova, Megan Marie Schoendorf
  • Patent number: 11687491
    Abstract: Data-deduplicating includes comparing a first record of a data-store with a second record of the data-store but instead of using a static weight for a field, the present data-deduplicating dynamically assigns a first weight for the first score to generate a first weighted score, wherein the first weight is based on one or both of the first value or the second value; and assigns a second weight for the second score to generate a second weighted score. A composite score is calculated based on the first weighted score and the second weighted score; and it is determined whether or not the first record and the second record are duplicate records, based on the composite score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, ARMONK, NY
    Inventors: Namit Kabra, Manish A. Bhide
  • Patent number: 11677693
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for generating dynamic interface options using machine learning models. The dynamic interface options may be generated in real time and reflect the likely goals and/or intents of a user. The machine learning model may provide these features by interpreting multi-modal feature inputs. For example, the machine learning model may include a first machine learning model, wherein the first machine learning model comprises a convolutional neural network, and a second machine learning model, wherein the second machine learning model performs a Weight of Evidence (WOE) analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Minh Le, Erik Mueller, Rui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11669574
    Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium for determining a data domain associated with data, including parsing a document to generate one or more document indexes corresponding to the document, the one or more document indexes comprising a plurality of index terms and location information, determining a syntactic confidence score corresponding to a non-dictionary term in the plurality of index terms based on a syntactic analysis of the non-dictionary term, determining a proximity confidence score corresponding to the non-dictionary term based on the location information and at least one proximity query associated with the non-dictionary term and one or more other terms in the document index, determining a semantic confidence score based on a plurality of dictionary terms in the plurality of index terms, and determining an overall confidence score corresponding to the non-dictionary term based on the syntactic confidence score, the proximity confidence score, and the semantic confidence score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Informatica LLC
    Inventor: Igor Balabine
  • Patent number: 11645321
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for analyzing communication messages (e.g., emails or activities) to determine relationship strength using a distributed graph are described. In some systems, a user may be associated with a specific tenant. A database server of the system may receive communication messages associated with the user and a target user. The server may perform a natural language processing (NLP) analysis on the communication messages to extract metadata, and may generate or update a distributed graph indicating connections between users based on the extracted metadata. Using the connections of the graph, the server may calculate a closeness score between the user and the target user. Additionally, the server may calculate closeness scores between the target and other users associated with the tenant, and may determine the users with the greatest closeness scores. The server may send a suggestion for the determined users to initiate communication with the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: William Christopher Fama Roller, Shardul Vikram, Alex Michael Noe, Noah William Burbank, Alexis Roos, Rohith Ramprasad, Joseph Gerald Keller, Gabriel Starr Krupa, Scott Walter Bishel, Praveen Innamuri
  • Patent number: 11599584
    Abstract: A method and system for processing information in a social network system are disclosed. The method includes: in a network system, especially in a social network system, adding a piece of information having a new information structure to serve as a basic unit for expression intension of a user while enabling a user to be capable of continuously releasing a piece of information having a simple structure as a basic unit for expressing intensions. This information having the new structure describes relative locations of multiple basic units expressing meanings when being exhibited, and the meanings thereof are expressed by using a combination of the recited basic units in a manner of the multiple basic units. As such, information expression efficiency in the system is improved, and the information screening capability is enhanced, thereby naturally implementing structured reorganization of the information and significantly improving the information processing capability of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventor: Jin He
  • Patent number: 11586635
    Abstract: A server system receives a plurality of comments on a post in an online service, receives feedback on respective comments of the plurality of comments from users of the online service and retrieves feedback weights for the users. The server system ranks the plurality of comments using the feedback and feedback weights and provides the plurality of comments, ordered in accordance with the ranking, for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS, INC.
    Inventors: Sean Jude Taylor, Nan Li
  • Patent number: 11580306
    Abstract: Methods and system for determining a similarity relationship between a plurality of digital assets and a target digital asset comprises creating a normalized semantic feature vector associated with a search query, discovering the target asset based on the normalized semantic feature vector, generating a normalized latent feature vector associated with the target asset, comparing the normalized semantic feature vector with semantic feature vectors for each of the digital assets to generate a semantic comparison value, comparing the normalized target latent feature vector with latent feature vectors for each of the digital assets to generate a latent comparison value, blending the semantic comparison vector value with the latent feature comparison vector value to create a target comparison value for each of the digital assets, and reporting the digital assets having the highest target comparison values to the user or group of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: TiVo Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: David Arthur, Doug Mittendorf
  • Patent number: 11568234
    Abstract: A method trains a neural network to identify an event based on discrepancies in answers to factoid questions at different times. One or more processors identify answers to a series of factoid questions. The processor(s) compare the answers from the series of factoid questions in order to determine discrepancies in the answers at different times, and then train a neural network to identify an event based on the discrepancies in the answers at the different times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen A. Boxwell, Kyle M. Brake, Keith G. Frost, Stanley J. Vernier
  • Patent number: 11551441
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and database management systems are disclosed for providing, organizing, and present database search results and, more specifically, systems and methods for a chronological-based search engine. One method includes presenting live image data being captured by a camera of the end-user device. The method also includes determining a pose of the end-user device. The pose including a location of the end-user device. Additionally, the method includes sending the pose of the end-user device to an augmented reality platform entity and receiving closed captioning data from the augmented reality platform entity. The closed captioning data is based on the location of the end-user device and includes indications of first topics within the closed captioning data. The method includes superimposing the closed captioning data onto the live image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Enviropedia, Inc.
    Inventor: Donn M. Gurule
  • Patent number: 11550857
    Abstract: A Searchable Application Representation is generated with the exact structure, content, functionality, and behavior of the Native Mobile Applications and is searchable by Search Engines by providing metadata pointing to the Native Mobile Applications. The Search Engine searches the Searchable Application Representation. When the Search Engine finds the Searchable Application Representation, Pointer, Metadata and Search Material to Corresponding Native Mobile Application on the Internet, the Search Engine becomes aware of the Native Mobile Application and can search the Content contained in the Searchable Application Representation. The Search Engine finds and ranks Content in the Searchable Representation and Pointer, Metadata, and Search Material corresponding to such Content in the Native Mobile Application is passed to the Search Engine, which can use such information to determine the relevancy of such Content according to a certain Search Criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: GADGET SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Fabio M. Chiussi, Parameshwar Hegde
  • Patent number: 11528233
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium configured to facilitate user purpose in a computing architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced Elemental Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Henry Shear, Peter Robert Williams, Jaisook Rho, Timothy St. John Redmond, James Jay Horning
  • Patent number: 11526533
    Abstract: A first client device associated with a first account of a content management system can receive a first or latest version of a synchronized content item. The first client device can determine differences or the “diff” between the first version and a second or next-to-latest version of the content item and upload the first version and the diff to the content management system. Upon receiving the first version and the diff, the content management system can store the first version and the diff and download them to the second client device. The second client device can generate a notification when the download finishes and present the notification with an interface element for requesting presentation of the diff. When the second client device detects a selection of the interface element, the second client device can present the diff.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Jongmin Baek, Daniel Wagner, Yuyang Guo, Kimberly Watkins
  • Patent number: 11494595
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method, apparatus, and storage medium for annotating image. The method includes extracting, by a device, a visual feature of an image through a generative adversarial network model, and sequentially inputting M pieces of random noise into the generative adversarial network model. In response to each of the M pieces of random noise being inputted into the generative adversarial network model, the method includes performing a determinantal point process (DPP) on the visual feature of the image and the each random noise through the generative adversarial network model to obtain N tag subsets, and selecting a distinct tag subset from the N tag subsets through the generative adversarial network model. The method also includes outputting M distinct tag subsets through the generative adversarial network model after the M pieces of random noise are inputted into the generative adversarial network model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Baoyuan Wu, Weidong Chen, Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 11475384
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for calculating an entity's cybersecurity risk based on identified relationships between the entity and one or more vendors. Customer/vendor relationships may impact the cybersecurity risk for each of the parties involved because a security compromise of a downstream or upstream provider can lead to a compromise of multiple other companies. For example, if organization A uses B (e.g., a cloud service provider) to store files, and B is compromised, this may lead to organization A being compromised (e.g., the files organization A stored using B may have been compromised by the breach of B's cybersecurity). Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a technique for calculating a cybersecurity risk score for an organization based on identified customer/vendor relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SecurityScorecard, Inc.
    Inventor: Nikon Rasumov
  • Patent number: 11463579
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for capturing, tracking, analyzing and automating analog and digital interactions. Embodiments include a system comprising one or more end user systems, one or more entity systems, and a computer operatively coupled to a display device. The computer is configured to monitor one or more communications on first and second communication channels between the end user and entity systems, group the one or more communications on the first and second communication channels by communication subject, and display the grouped communications on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Nextiva, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomas Gorny, Raymond Allan Harker
  • Patent number: 11442947
    Abstract: A query is received that requests issues relevant to a user. Thereafter, a plurality of issues responsive to the query are retrieved. The retrieved issues are ranked using a first machine learning model to result in a first subset of the retrieved issues. The first subset of the retrieved issues are then ranked using a second, different machine learning model to result in a second subset of the retrieved issues which are a subset of the first subset of the retrieved issues. Data can then be provided which is responsive the query and includes at least a portion of the second subset of the retrieved issues. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Deng Feng Wan, Yangchun Deng, Zuxing Wang, Hui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11438665
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving program content and data describing program content from a content source, and automatically identifying, based on user preferences of a first user, one or more relevant products or services displayed in the program content. Product-related metadata associated with the program content is identified. The product-related metadata including data relating to the one or more relevant products or services displayed in the program content. The program content is communicated to a display device for presentation to a first user in a first portion of the display device, and the product-related metadata is communicated to a second display device for presentation to a second user substantially simultaneously with the presentation of the program content in the first display device. A user commentary is received from the second device, the user commentary generated by the second user and associated with the program content or product-related metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Michael George Lenahan, Amanda Johnson, Ben Lucas Mitchell, Chahn Chung, Linda Young
  • Patent number: 11416910
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are generally described for generating visually blended recommendation grids. In some examples, a selection of a first item and a second item displayed on a display may be received. In various examples, the first item may be displayed in a first element of a grid and the second item may be displayed in a second element of the grid. In some examples, a third element of the grid that is disposed between the first element and the second element along an axis of the grid may be determined. In various examples, a third item may be determined for display in the third element of the grid based at least in part on a blended representation of an embedding of the first item and an embedding of the second item. The third item may be displayed in the third element of the grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Loris Bazzani, Filip Saina, Amaia Salvador Aguilera, Angel Noe Martinez Gonzalez, Eleonora Vig, Erhan Gundogdu, Michael Donoser
  • Patent number: 11416137
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing access to contents which are semantically related to a displayed content(s). The access can be provided through a multi-dimensional user interface (UI). The method includes detecting a predefined gesture with respect to a first content. Based on the detected gesture, determining closest semantically linked content (second content). The semantic link between the first content and the second content can be established based on parameters such as sharing history, frequency of usage, type, a location, similarity, hierarchy, key words/phrases, tags, and so on. The semantically linked contents can be assigned onto distinct dimensions of the multi-dimensional UI space. The multi-dimensional UI space can be traversed through different dimensions using the predefined gesture, and each traversal from one dimension to another can be semantically linked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Khaidem Suman Singha, Kiran Prasanth Rajan, Tuhin Chakraborty, Vinayak Pancholi, Saumitri Choudhury, Hallah Zorinsangi, Hema Aravindan, Navin N
  • Patent number: 11416622
    Abstract: A system to create a stacked classifier model combination or classifier ensemble has been designed for identification of undisclosed flaws in software components on a large-scale. This classifier ensemble is capable of at least a 54.55% improvement in precision. The system uses a K-folding cross validation algorithm to partition a sample dataset and then train and test a set of N classifiers with the dataset folds. At each test iteration, trained models of the set of classifiers generate probabilities that a sample has a flaw, resulting in a set of N probabilities or predictions for each sample in the test data. With a sample size of S, the system passes the S sets of N predictions to a logistic regressor along with “ground truth” for the sample dataset to train a logistic regression model. The trained classifiers and the logistic regression model are stored as the classifier ensemble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: VERACODE, INC.
    Inventors: Asankhaya Sharma, Yaqin Zhou
  • Patent number: 11405338
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, document-based resolution of user inquiries may be facilitated. A predicted intent of the user is determined based on chat activity information associated with the user. A response to a user inquiry may be provided to the user via a chat interface based on the predicted intent. User response may be obtained for the response, which may indicate a failure in providing a resolution to the user (e.g., regarding a user inquiry). Upon detecting a failure in providing the resolution, a document associated with the user and matching the predicted intent may be obtained and presented to via the chat interface. The document may have content related to the predicted intent. The document may be presented as a response to the user response to seek a confirmation from the user regarding its relevance to the user inquiry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Anh Truong, Austin Walters
  • Patent number: 11380305
    Abstract: A system and method for using, training, building, and managing a question and answer engine to automatically generate responses to an end-user is disclosed. Specifically, the method and system make use of a topic builder that uses cluster predictions to generate and identify a list of topics and subtopics. A question and answer database may then be sorted by topic and subtopic using a similarity scorer. New user utterances may be analyzed to identify questions, with a cluster predictor identifying the corresponding topic and subtopics for each question, and a similarity scorer may identify the closest known question for the user's question to a recommender as an answer. Analytics of new user utterances are tracked to update the historical utterance database and question and answer database, thus allowing continuous improvement of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Vidya Rajagopal, Marin Grace Mercylawrence, Gaurav Mengi
  • Patent number: 11373257
    Abstract: A data linking system is described herein that links data records corresponding to a particular real estate property even if there are inconsistencies in the data records, the physical presence of the real estate property has changed over time, and/or the data records use different terminology. In some cases the data records are matched using a trained machine learning model. The data linking system can optionally generate a visualization of the data record linkage via interactive user interfaces. By linking data records despite the issues described above, the data linking system reduces the number of navigational steps a user performs to obtain data associated with a property and/or reduces data processing times. The disclosed system may be used to generate and maintain a comprehensive database of substantially all properties within a jurisdiction, in which a unique identifier is assigned to each property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Inventors: Jia Guo, Jacques Truong, Pallavi Wankhede, Susanna Park, Patrick Jacolenne, Aaron Robert Wepler, Stanley Wu
  • Patent number: 11366712
    Abstract: A method for obtaining information and status about a monitored system by adaptively analyzing log messages is provided. A log analyzer receives log messages generated by a monitored system. The log analyzer identifies static and variable portions in the received log messages. The log analyzer generates a template based on the identified static and variable portions of the received log messages. The log analyzer computes a metric for the generated template based on a number of log messages that fall within the template. The log analyzer reports a status in the monitored system based on the computed metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mudhakar Srivatsa, Raghu Kiran Ganti, Jae-Wook Ahn, Shreeranjani Srirangamsridharan
  • Patent number: 11367116
    Abstract: The technology includes an example method for determining matching items. In some implementations, the method may determine a first set and second set of attributes and attribute types associated with a first and second item, respectively, based on description data associated with the items. The method may determine an attribute-type indicator for a pairing of a first attribute of the first set with a second attribute of the second set based on attribute types of the attributes, compute an attribute value for the pairing based on a similarity between the first and second attribute, and compute a match score for a combination of the first and second items based on the attribute value and attribute-type indicator. The method may also, in response to receiving a data query identifying the first item, provide a graphical user interface including a graphical element representing the second item based on the match score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Staples, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitin Verma, Randall L Cogill, Michael Bhaskaran
  • Patent number: 11361571
    Abstract: A language model is fine-tuned by extracting terminology terms from a text document. The method comprises identifying a text snippet, identifying candidate multi-word expressions using part of speech tags, and determining a specificity score value for each of the candidate multi-word expressions. Moreover, the method comprises determining a topic similarity score value for each of the candidate multi-word expressions, selecting remaining expressions from the candidate multi-word expressions using a function of a specificity value and a topic similarity value of each of the candidate multi-word expressions, adding a noun comprised in the text snippet to the remaining expressions depending on a correlation function, labeling the remaining multi-word expressions, and fine-tuning an existing pre-trained transformer-based language model using as training data the identified text snippet marked with the labeled remaining expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Francesco Fusco, Peter Willem Jan Staar
  • Patent number: 11354904
    Abstract: Techniques for generating a grounded video description for a video input are provided. Hierarchical Attention based Spatial-Temporal Graph-to-Sequence Learning framework for producing a GVD is provided by generating an initial graph representing a plurality of object features in a plurality of frames of a received video input and generating an implicit graph for the plurality of object features in the plurality of frames using a similarity function. The initial graph and the implicit graph are combined to form a refined graph and the refined graph is processed using attention processes, to generate an attended hierarchical graph of the plurality of object features for the plurality of frames. The grounded video description is generated for the received video input using at least the hierarchical graph of the plurality of features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lingfei Wu, Liana Fong
  • Patent number: 11347813
    Abstract: A system and computer implemented method for cataloging database metadata using a signature matching process are provided. The method includes receiving an input name to be matched to a key in a seed table; generating a first fingerprint by decomposing the received input name into a first set n-grams; generating, based on the received input name, a second fingerprint using a predetermined pronunciation schema, wherein the second fingerprint is a phonetic fingerprint; generating a third fingerprint by decomposing the second fingerprint into a second set of n-grams; identifying a matching key by matching any combination of the first fingerprint, the second fingerprint, and the third fingerprint against keys in the seed table; and cataloging the metadata with the matching key as a tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI VANTARA LLC
    Inventors: Tomoya Wada, Winnie Cheng, Rohit Mahajan, Alex Mylnikov
  • Patent number: 11341595
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic device capable of generating a virtual image by using a user input, and an operating method therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Bum Choi, Sangjin Lee, Seung Hye Chyung, Jonghoon Won, Haedong Lee
  • Patent number: 11336596
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to personalized low latency communications. A method may include receiving a description of content of a message, receiving recipient data corresponding to at least two possible recipients within a population of possible recipients, and selecting a relevant subpopulation of the population. The selecting may include, for each of the at least two possible recipients, ranking a strength of an indirect relationship between the description and the recipient data. The indirect relationship may be based on the description, the recipient data and at least one additional data source. The selecting may also include, for each of the at least two possible recipients, adding a possible recipient to the relevant subpopulation based on the ranking of the indirect relationship associated with the possible recipient. The method may further include initiating a two-way communication channel between a sender of the message and the relevant subpopulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bulent Abali, Michele M. Franceschini, Ashish Jagmohan, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Livio Soares
  • Patent number: 11308077
    Abstract: A method for quantifying a similarity between a target dataset and multiple source datasets and identifying one or more source datasets that are most similar to the target dataset is provided. The method includes receiving, at a computing system, source datasets relating to a source domain and a target dataset relating to a target domain of interest. Each dataset is arranged in a tabular format including columns and rows, and the source datasets and the target dataset include a same feature space. The method also includes pre-processing, via a processor of the computing system, each source-target dataset pair to remove non-intersecting columns. The method further includes calculating at least two of a dataset similarity score, a row similarity score, and a column similarity score for each source-target dataset pair, and summarizing the calculated similarity scores to identify one or more source datasets that are most similar to the target dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bar Haim, Andrey Finkelshtein, Eitan Menahem, Noga Agmon
  • Patent number: 11308275
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer program products for processing responses from services (e.g., content providers) and managing content tailoring by services and/or recommender systems used by those services. Embodiments of the present invention can afford users with the ability to control the diversity of content in responses provided by services based one or more detected themes of the responses. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention may be used to provide users with enriched responses from services, without needing cooperation of those services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Claudius Link, Matthias Seul
  • Patent number: 11301926
    Abstract: A system for conducting a computer-based, simultaneous, multiple round, descending clock auction for basic generation services includes a web server for receiving bid data for one or more users for basic generation service products, an application server host application software, which processes the one or more bids according to at least one auction rule, tracks the auction, monitors the auction, and/or determines when to end the auction, and a database server, which stores auction data. A method of conducting a computer-based, simultaneous, multiple round, descending clock auction for basic generation services includes the repeating steps of receiving bids indicating desired tranche units of basic generation service products, calculating next round prices for each product, and sending round results to bidders. The system for and method of conducting a computer-based auction includes limiting the qualified bidders by a load cap to a maximum number of tranches bid during a round.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignees: Public Service Electric & Gas Company, Atlantic City Electric Company, Jersey Central Power & Light Company, Rockland Electric Company
    Inventors: Anthony R. Robinson, Frederick W. Lark, Eugene Meehan, Chantale Lacasse, David Salant, Colin J. Loxley, Gerald W. Schirra, Robert Taylor
  • Patent number: 11301734
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, user command input comprising identification of an object; receiving, at an information handling device, image input comprising at least one object; determining, using a processor, whether the object in the user command input is associated with the at least one object in the image input; and responsive to determining that the object in the user command input is associated with the at least one object, performing a function based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Qian, Song Wang, Jian Li