Query Augmenting And Refining (e.g., Inexact Access) (707/5) Patents (Class 707/999.005)
  • Patent number: 11893353
    Abstract: To make it possible to accurately generate a word vector even if vocabulary of a word vector data set is not limited. In a vector generating device 10 that generates vectors representing an input sentence P, when generating a series of the vectors representing the input sentence P based on vectors corresponding to words included in the input sentence P, a definition-sentence-considered-context encode unit 280 generates, based on a dictionary DB 230 storing sets of headwords y and definition sentences Dy, which are sentences defining the headwords y, concerning a word, which is the headword stored in the dictionary DB, among the words included in the input sentence P, the series of the vectors representing the input sentence P using the definition sentence Dy of the headwords y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Nishida, Kyosuke Nishida, Hisako Asano, Junji Tomita
  • Patent number: 11895372
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for utilizing a content recommendation system powering a streaming media publisher channel to enhance an ad creative being shown to the user via awareness or performance campaigns. This method allows the platform to present the most relevant exploratory personalized in-channel content to the publisher platform users in endemic banners that run on the platform which then correspondingly helps drive user reach. An example embodiment operates by implementing personalized content banners that may act as a hook for channel users opening their streaming device, both active and lapsed, to enter back into the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ROKU, INC.
    Inventors: Mehul Sanghavi, Rohit Mahto, Kelly Lee, Madhulika Taneja
  • Patent number: 11893128
    Abstract: A query string for an encrypted database storing a plurality of encrypted data records is received from a requestor. The query string is segmented to obtain at least one word. The at least one word is encrypted with the irreversible encryption algorithm to obtain at least one encrypted word. At least one first encrypted item with a co-occurrence weight higher than a preset threshold based on the at least one encrypted word and a co-occurrence statistics model is acquired. The co-occurrence statistics model is built to provide co-occurrence weights, each indicating a probability that the at least one encrypted word appears in a first encrypted data item of the plurality of encrypted data records. At least one second encrypted data item corresponding to the at least one first encrypted data item is acquired from the plurality of encrypted data records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yi Liu, Shao Mei Ji, Peng Hui Jiang, Jin Shan Li, Jian Jiao Wen, Yuan Yuan Jia, Li Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 11893031
    Abstract: Embodiments provide for intelligent auto filing of documents to enterprise content management workspaces. One embodiment of a method includes receiving a document to auto file to a workspace of a content management system; detecting an indicator of an entity from the text of a document, the indicator of the entity corresponding to a value of a workspace attribute; determining a result set of candidate records based on querying a set of workspace data for workspaces with the workspace attribute value corresponding to the indicator; detecting mentions in the document text that match attribute values from the candidate records; generating a score for each candidate record based on the mentions detected in the text that match the attribute values from the candidate record; linking the document to an entity based on the scores for the candidate record; and automatically storing the document to a workspace based on the linking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventors: Matthias Theodor Middendorf, Jochen Matthias van den Bercken
  • Patent number: 11893593
    Abstract: Computer implemented sales prediction system collects data relating to events of visitors showing an interest in a client company from plural data sources, an organization module which organizes collected data into different event types and separates collected event counts in each event type between non-recent and recent events occurring within a predetermined time period, a first processing module which periodically calculates weighting for each event type based on recent and non-recent events for the event type compared to totals for other selected event types, a second processing module which periodically calculates sales prediction scores for each visitor and companies with which visitors are associated based on accumulated event data and weighting, and a reporting and data extract module which is configured to detect variation in sales prediction scores over time to identify spikes which can predict upcoming sales and to provide predicted sales information and leads to the client company.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: 6SENSE INSIGHTS, INC.
    Inventor: Amanda Kahlow
  • Patent number: 11895248
    Abstract: One or more implementations of the present specification provide a data processing method and apparatus for a blockchain member node, where the blockchain member node includes a plurality of service servers, and at least one authentication module runs on each service server; and a public key of an authentication module of the at least one authentication module is authenticated by the blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaofeng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11893340
    Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems to generate and display interactive graphical user interfaces that receive data inputs from users while emulating a chat session. A server retrieves a set of prompts associated with an electronic form; displays, within a webpage, a first element corresponding to a prompt and a second element having at least one input element configured to receive an input from a user interacting with the webpage. When the user interacts with an input element, the server relocates the first element and dynamically revises the second element by relocating the second element and displaying inputted values received from the user interacting with the at least one input element of the second element. The server then displays a third element comprising next prompts of the electronic form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: CITIBANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Dale Bauer, Matthew Bills, Dante Diaz, Kristi M. Emery, David Hyser, Michael Brandt
  • Patent number: 11893542
    Abstract: A data management server computer (“server”) and related methods are disclosed to enhance electronic documents or search processes related to skill data, including skill names, using machine learning techniques. The server is programmed to organize skill names from a dictionary into a knowledge graph. The knowledge graph includes nodes that represent the skill names and words of the skill names and edges that represent syntactic or semantic relationships. The server is programmed to respond to skill-related requests using the knowledge graph and track access patterns of the knowledge graph in responding to the requests. The replies to the request can be generated based on the structure or access patterns of the knowledge graph and used as search results or skill-related data, such as resumes or job descriptions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SkyHive Technologies Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Hinton, Mohan Reddy, Sergey Bukharov, Yuri Yerastov
  • Patent number: 11886433
    Abstract: A data query for data is received that is associated with a first data node managed by a first executable service and a second data node managed by a second executable service. The data query comprises a subquery that is directed to the second executable service for access to the second data node. From the data query, a selection set is determined. The selection set includes the first data node and the second data node. In view of the selection set, a batch access request is generated to the second executable service that retrieves data for the subquery from the second data node in a single access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Manyanda Chitimbo, Wojciech Julian Trocki
  • Patent number: 11886436
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a first computing entity of a database system, a data set that is organized in rows and columns. The method further includes determining whether to partition the data set based on a parameter associated with the data set. When determining to partition the data set, the method includes determining partitioning parameters for the data set, and partitioning the data set into a plurality of data partitions in accordance with the partitioning parameters. The method further includes determining a first coding scheme for a first data partition and determining a first number of first raw data segments for a first segment group of the first partition based on the coding scheme. The method further includes dividing the first partition to produce the first number of first raw data segments for storage in the database system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Ocient Inc.
    Inventors: George Kondiles, Jason Arnold
  • Patent number: 11888605
    Abstract: Methods and systems for making effective use of system resources. A plurality of requests for access to a resource are received. Each request has an associated group of features. The group of features for each request is analyzed to collect observations about the plurality of requests. A function to predict an outcome of a subsequent request is generated based on the observations. Resources are allocated to service the subsequent request based on the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrey Gusev, Ronald Yang, Scott Hansma, Jesse Collins, Alan Arbizu
  • Patent number: 11886481
    Abstract: A frame represents a concept with a set of roles and a set of linguistic rules. If a linguistic rule is satisfied, by a unit of natural language discourse (UNLD), the frame is invoked and a frame instance produced. A frame instance specifies how the UNLD, with particular values drawn from the UNLD, fulfills the roles of the frame. A frame-based search, of target content, is accomplished in response to a frame-based user query. The search result is comprised of records, where each record is a result of a match, of the frame-based query, at a location in the target content. If the frame-based query is implicit, a match requires only that the location of the target content invokes the appropriate frame. If the frame-based query is role-specific, in addition to invoking the appropriate frame, a query search term needs to be found in the value for a role of the frame instance produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NetBase Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Li, Michael Jacob Osofsky, Lokesh Pooranmal Bajaj
  • Patent number: 11888801
    Abstract: Message filtering and management systems in a chat forward task facilitation communication system are described. One implementation involves receiving one or more pre-filtering inputs from a member, where the inputs include task associations to identify message types to hide or display from a real-time chat interface based on the task associations. A set of messages are processed in real-time using a filtering algorithm to associate one or more tasks with messages of the set of messages, where the one or more tasks correspond to a set of tasks performable by the representative on behalf of the member. A first message is displayed based on the one or more pre-filtering inputs and a first task association with the first message, and a second message is hidden or not displayed based on the one or more pre-filtering inputs and a second task association with the second message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Yohana LLC
    Inventors: Yoky Matsuoka, Defne Civelekoglu, Gwendolyn W. van der Linden, Nitin Viswanathan, Malia Beaulieu, Lingyun Liu, Benjamin Deming, Sean Paterson
  • Patent number: 11886496
    Abstract: Example techniques relate to a playback device that facilitates queue identification. In an example implementation, a playback device receives, from a first controller, instructions representing a command to populate a playback queue with one or more first media items; the instructions are associated with a first application identifier corresponding to the first controller. Based on the received instructions, the playback device populates the playback queue with the one or more first media items and forms an association between the playback queue and the first application identifier. The playback device receives, from a second controller, instructions representing one or more first commands to access the playback queue; the instructions are associated with a second application identifier corresponding to the second controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventor: Arthur L. Coburn, IV
  • Patent number: 11886446
    Abstract: Existing research on cross-lingual retrieval cannot take good advantage of large-scale pretrained language models, such as multilingual BERT and XLM. The absence of cross-lingual passage-level relevance data for finetuning and the lack of query-document style pretraining are some of the key factors of this issue. Accordingly, embodiments of two novel retrieval-oriented pretraining tasks are presented herein to further pretrain cross-lingual language models for downstream retrieval tasks, such as cross-lingual ad-hoc retrieval (CUR) and cross-lingual question answering (CLQA). In one or more embodiments, distant supervision data was constructed from multilingual texts using section alignment to support retrieval-oriented language model pretraining. In one or more embodiments, directly finetuning language models on part of an evaluation collection was performed by making Transformers capable of accepting longer sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Baidu USA LLC
    Inventors: Hongliang Fei, Puxuan Yu, Ping Li
  • Patent number: 11887395
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for automatic template selection for extracting data from an input electronic document is provided. The method includes receiving a first set of candidate templates and an input electronic document. For each candidate template, a template similarity ratio value is calculated that represents a similarity of the candidate template to the input electronic document. The first set of candidate templates are ranked according to the template similarity ratios and then matched to the input electronic document resulting in generating a normalized similarity score for each particular candidate from among the candidate templates. Differences in normalized similarity scores of successive pairs of the candidate templates is determined and a breaking point is established. A second set of candidate templates is formed by selecting candidate templates that are ranked above the breaking point. Data from the input electronic document is extracted using the second set of candidate templates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Coupa Software Incorporated
    Inventors: Hanieh Borhanazad, Jimmy Chandra, Jey Jeyaramanan, Thuwaragan Sundaramoorthy, Mark Burch
  • Patent number: 11886402
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for generating analytical data from actions performed on one or more publishing servers. Methods may include capturing one or more audit trails by determining actions performed on the one or more publishing servers via one or more client devices, the one or more publishing servers adapted to publish informational content; generating analytical data from the one or more audit trails; and storing the generated analytical data in a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SDL Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Trese, Frank Closset
  • Patent number: 11880270
    Abstract: Dump file content and other event data is pruned and prioritized to assist analysis of hangs, crashes, and other circumstances. An event data pruner condenses or excludes certain event data. A cluster creator creates clusters from pruned and vectorized event data, using a clustering algorithm and a similarity metric, without any prior specification of the desired number of clusters. A cluster ranker ranks clusters according to event data volume and thread importance, thus prioritizing the event data for inspection. A results presenter configures a user interface to present ranked clusters, their associated data, data reduction statistics, regression analysis results, and other data reduction processing results. Thus, the innovative functionality assists analysis and prioritized inspection of event data by an analyst, surfacing organized event data that is relevant to the circumstance under investigation, or supporting comparison of clusters from before and after a change in the circumstance, or doing both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Rajeev Dubey, David A. Machaj
  • Patent number: 11880417
    Abstract: Provided is a method, apparatus, system, and/or computer readable medium for providing a map service. The map providing method may include extracting region information attached to a posting in response to an execution of a storage capability or a sharing capability by a user to the posting displayed on a page accessible to a computer, storing address information of the posting and the extracted region information associated with the user, and displaying a point of interest corresponding to the region information on a map service screen associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NAVER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hyun Jung Lee
  • Patent number: 11880380
    Abstract: Techniques for contextualizing utility visualization patterns in a utility infrastructure environment are described herein. A utility meter data dashboard associated with a type of event may be displayed. A selection of a portion of a first utility visualization displayed in the utility meter data dashboard is received, the portion being associated with a subset of utility data. One or more previously used utility visualizations may be determined from among a plurality of additional utility visualizations. One or more candidate utility visualizations associated with the type of event may be determined from among the previously used utility visualizations. A ranked list of one or more candidate utility visualizations may be displayed. A second utility visualization may be displayed based at least in part on a selection from the ranked list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ITRON, INC.
    Inventor: Curtis Christman
  • Patent number: 11880399
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed involving user interface (UI) search tools for locating data, including tools for summarizing indexed raw machine data that organize and present results to enable expansion and exploration of initial summarizations. The initial summarizations may be explored and refined to help users determine how to identify and best focus a search on data subsets of greater interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Miller, Jason Szeto, Jose Solis, Jindrich Dinga, David Marquardt
  • Patent number: 11880559
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining proximity information for each of a plurality of assistant-enabled devices within an environment of a user device. Each assistant-enabled device is controllable by an assistant application to perform a respective set of available actions associated with the assistant-enabled device. For each assistant-enabled device, the method also includes determining a proximity score based on the proximity information indicating a proximity estimation of the corresponding assistant-enabled device relative to the user device. The method further includes generating, using the proximity scores determined for the assistant-enabled devices, a ranked list of candidate assistant-enabled devices, and for each corresponding assistant-enabled device in the ranked list, displaying, in a graphical user interface (GUI), a respective set of controls for performing the respective set of actions associated with the corresponding assistant-enabled device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Victor Carbune
  • Patent number: 11880773
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for performing machine learning by executing steps of: generating a decision tree-based machine learning model based on training data; selecting two variables from a decision tree of the machine learning model and determining a correlation between two selected variables; and performing the machine learning based on determined correlation are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chulho Kim, Ock Kee Baek, Inmoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11880851
    Abstract: Store a subscription dataset for each tenant of a multi-tenant system, each of the subscription datasets having a common data format native to the system, the subscription datasets including billing data and not behavioral data. Determine primary features from a particular subscription dataset. Derive secondary features from the primary features. Generate a churn prediction model based on the primary features and the secondary features. Obtain a second subscription dataset, the second subscription dataset comprising billing data that is more recent than the particular subscription dataset. Identify, using the particular churn prediction model and the second subscription dataset, one or more subscribers as a churn-risk. Report the one or more subscribers identified as a churn-risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Zuora, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Gold, Dashiell Stander, Kevin Suer
  • Patent number: 11875390
    Abstract: Various embodiments improve search technologies and computer information retrieval by executing a query via ranking a set of search result candidates higher than another set search result candidates based at least in part on the query and determining that a first set of search result candidates are indicative of a sub-accessory to an accessory or an accessory itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Dingxian Wang
  • Patent number: 11874728
    Abstract: A diagnostics tool aids in the efficient collection of relevant error data for addressing faults in connected software systems. Context information is collected from a software system that is being displayed. Configuration of the software system is collected, and used to identify relevant connected software systems. Error data is collected via respective log interfaces from the error logs of the software system being displayed, and relevant connected systems. The context, configuration, and error data is stored in a database. Based at least upon the configuration information, a query is formulated and posed to the database. A corresponding query result is received and processed to return an error report to a user interface, for inspection (e.g., by a user or a support staff member). Certain embodiments may further generate an appropriate recommendation based upon the query result. The recommendation may be generated with reference to a stored ruleset and/or artificial intelligence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Tobias Moessle
  • Patent number: 11875382
    Abstract: A system and method are presented for customizing a software application for a target market. A request to access an application is received, by one or more computer servers, from a user. At least one of a preferred language of the user and a location of the user are determined by the one or more computer servers, and a target market is determined using the at least one of the preferred language of the user and the location of the user. The target market defines a language and a region. The application is rendered by the one or more computer servers by modifying at least one of a user interface of the application and a content of the application using the target market.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: James Carroll, Philip Davidson, Thyagarajan Lakshmanan
  • Patent number: 11874863
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for query expansion. The method comprises: a) receiving a current query having at least one search term; b) inputting the at least one search term of the current query to a set of one or more query expansion modules, wherein the query expansion modules are configured to predict expansion terms of input terms; c) receiving from the set of expansion modules candidate expansion terms of the search term; d) modifying the current query using at least part of the candidate expansion terms, resulting in a modified query having at least one modified search term, The method further comprises repeating steps b) to d) using the modified query as the current query, the repeating being performed until a predefined stopping criterion is fulfilled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ivan Girardi, Harold Douglas Dykeman, Andrea Giovannini, Adam Ivankay, Chiara Marchiori, Kevin Thandiackal, Mario Zusag
  • Patent number: 11875127
    Abstract: A method for estimating response relevance with respect to a received query includes receiving a set of user feedback items, a set of historical feedback data, and a set of context data, creating a user profile model according to the set of historical feedback data, wherein the user profile model indicates a weighting attribute based on the set of historical feedback data, weighting the set of user feedback items according to the created user profile model, creating a response relevance estimation model based on the weighted set of user feedback items, the received set of context data, and the received set of historical feedback data, and ranking one or more responses according to the created response relevance estimation model. The method may further include adjusting the user profile model and the response relevance estimation model responsive to receiving additional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruchi Mahindru, Xin Zhou, Martin Franz, Sinem Guven Kaya
  • Patent number: 11868343
    Abstract: A method utilizes data discovery to support visual analysis of datasets. A user selects a data source, and the method presents a natural language interface for analysis of the data source. A user specifies an incomplete natural language command directed to the data source, and the method correlates words in the incomplete natural language command with a data field in the data source. The method determines the data type of the data field and a range of data values for the data field. According to the data type and the range of data values, the method presents one or more autocompletion options for the incomplete natural language command. Each option includes respective text and a respective corresponding visual graphic. The user selects one of the autocompletion options, and the method forms a complete natural language command. The method then displays a data visualization according to the complete natural language command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Tableau Software, LLC
    Inventors: Vidya Raghavan Setlur, Md Enamul Hoque Prince, Dae Hyun Kim, Angel Xuan Chang
  • Patent number: 11869021
    Abstract: Segment valuation techniques usable in a digital medium environment are described. To do so, a segment valuation system first identifies the attributes that are significant in achievement of a desired metric (e.g., conversion) and then values segments based on those significant attributes. Attributes are selected from the trained model based on significance of those attributes towards achieving the desired metric. A valuation of a segment may then be calculated based on the valuations of these attributes. For example, inclusion of the selected attributes within a segment, and the valuations of those selected attributes, is then used by the segment valuation system to generate data describing a value of the segment towards achieving the metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Kourosh Modarresi, Jamie Mark Diner, Elizabeth T. Chin, Aran Nayebi
  • Patent number: 11868354
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium containing instructions for responding to a user-initiated query. One method includes logging data received through an input interface of a communication device, receiving the user-initiated query, and determining a context-based response to the user-initiated query based on the logged data stored in the at least one data base and a probability of a user of the communication device receiving the logged data stored in the at least one data base. The method also includes providing the context-based response in reply to the user-initiated query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Alejandro G. Blanco
  • Patent number: 11868414
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for generating contact suggestions for a user of a social network. A first score is computed for each one of the plurality of users, the first score being computed using an edge-weighted ranking algorithm based on the user graph. A second score is computed, using a machine learning model, for each user of the plurality of users, the second score of each user being, at least partially, based on the first score of said user, with the second score of each user being representative of a probability of a first user sending a connection request to said user. A ranked contact suggestion list of one or more users of the plurality of users is generated, the one or more users being ranked based on their respective second score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Leveau, Antoine Sinton
  • Patent number: 11870598
    Abstract: One example method includes hosting, by a video conference provider, a virtual expo; receiving, from a first client device associated with a first participant in the virtual expo, a request to enter a meeting with a second participant in the virtual expo; providing, to a second client device associated with the second participant, a notification of the request to enter the meeting; receiving, from the second client device, an approval of the request; and in response to receiving the approval, joining the first client device to a second virtual meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Pankaj Kumar Prasad
  • Patent number: 11868380
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for hierarchical categorical and sub-categorical topic modeling allowing, in response to a query in natural language, a set of results to be determined which are both semantically relevant to the user and diverse, by containing information complementary or adjacent to that of the query. Such a paradigm permits exploration and discovery of new topics and ideas in large collections of documents. In some embodiments, one or more non-negative matrix factorization (“NMF”) algorithms are applied in determining a hierarchical topic model including the semantically-related categories and sub-categories. The dataset may include authorized social media data collection, and machine learning techniques can optimize the generation of the topic model and/or the search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christina Pavlopoulou, Manish Gupta, Russ Thompson
  • Patent number: 11869044
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for interfacing a decision engine and a marketing engine in order to provide vendor-related data in response to decision-related data is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the system and method may include providing a decision engine on a user-accessible network, interfacing a marketing engine with the decision engine on the network; receiving a plurality of user inputs with the decision engine; processing decision-related data with the decision engine in accordance with the plurality of user inputs; sharing the decision-related data with the marketing engine; processing the decision-related data with the marketing engine; and transmitting vendor-related data via the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Four Charm Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Rawdon W. Kellogg
  • Patent number: 11868411
    Abstract: Improved crawling and curation of data and metadata from diverse data sources is described. In some embodiments, improvements are achieved by interpreting the context, vocabulary and relationships of data element, to enable relational data search capability for users. The user querying process is improved by systematic identification of the data objects, context, and relationships across data objects and elements, aggregation methods and operators on the data objects and data elements as identified in the curation process. User query suggestions and recommendations can be adjusted based on the context, relationships between the data elements, user profile, and the data sources. When the user query is executed, the query text is translated into an equivalent of one or more query statements, such as SQL or PostGre statements, and the query is performed on the identified data sources. Results are assembled to present the answer in a meaningful visualization for the user query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventor: Ramesh Panuganty
  • Patent number: 11860928
    Abstract: A method includes receiving input from a client at least partially specifying one or more characteristics, wherein the initial input includes a seed image and a natural language statement describing a desired change to the seed image; predicting one or more attributes of the seed image by operation of a neural network on the seed image; and parsing the natural language statement to identify desired changes to the one or more attributes of the seed image. The method also includes generating an interim target image by changing the one or more attributes of the seed image, according to the parsed natural language statement; selecting a set of images from an image database for output to the client, each of said set of images being determined to at least partially satisfy the one or more changed attributes of the seed image; and displaying the set of images to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaoxiao Guo, Hui Wu, Rogerio Feris
  • Patent number: 11860876
    Abstract: In order to improve the integrating of datasets, improved systems and methods for matching records from a first dataset and a second dataset are provided. Records from the first dataset and the second dataset that are associated with the same individuals are identified. The records are identified using a combination of Euclidean distance, Leviathan distance, and the application of one or more rules. Once the records that are associated with the same individuals are identified, the records can be combined in an integrated dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Monger
  • Patent number: 11861148
    Abstract: A method for rendering context based information on a user interface includes receiving a user request to extract the context based information from a database. The database includes a plurality of documents and the request includes at least one search criteria required to determine a context of the user request. The method includes generating a list of documents corresponding to the context of the user request and rendering on a viewing portion of the user interface the list of documents corresponding to the context of the user request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: AlphaSense Oy
    Inventors: Rajmohan Neervannan, Jaakko Kokko, Mathias Creutz
  • Patent number: 11860943
    Abstract: One example method includes receiving a query that recites a particular question for which a user who originated the query needs an answer, parsing the query to identify the question, identifying information that is responsive to the question, presenting the information to the user in a user-selectable form, and receiving, from the user, a selection of the information. In some cases, the information presented to the user may include one or more datasets, or one or more pipelines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Nicole Reineke, Hanna Yehuda, Stephen J. Todd, Aurelian Dumitru, Donagh A. Buckley
  • Patent number: 11860945
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus outputs answer information corresponding to inquiry information that is input. The information processing apparatus includes a memory and circuitry. The memory is configured to store a plurality of databases each having at least a first field and a second field. The circuitry is configured to: perform morphological analysis on the inquiry information, to divide the inquiry information into morphemes; perform a first matching process based on the morphemes and the first field of each of the plurality of databases, to determine whether to adopt the database as an extraction source from which the answer information is to be extracted; and perform a second matching process based on the morphemes and the first field of the database, which is determined to be adopted as the extraction source, to output, as the answer information, data in the second field corresponding to data in the first field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Takanori Mohri
  • Patent number: 11855905
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for a high availability solution (e.g., a network attached storage (NAS) solution) with address preservation during switchover. A first virtual machine is deployed into a first domain and a second virtual machine is deployed into a second domain of a computing environment. The first and second virtual machines are configured as a node pair for providing clients with access to data stored within an aggregate comprising one or more storage structures within shared storage of the computing environment. A load balancer is utilized to manage logical interfaces used by clients to access the virtual machines. During switchover, the load balancer preserves an IP address used to mount and access a data share of the aggregate used by a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Busick, Rajesh Rajaraman, James Silva
  • Patent number: 11856045
    Abstract: Computing and communication systems and methods include one or more servers communicatively coupled with a computing device through a telecommunications network. In implementations one or more data stores are communicatively coupled with the server(s). One or more user interfaces displayed on the computing device display a website provided by the server(s) and accessed using a browser. A file selector is displayed on the website. The file selector corresponds with a file that may already reside on the computing device and/or on a file share accessible by the computing device. The file selector is configured to initiate opening of the file locally on the computing device without necessarily downloading a copy of the file through the browser. The systems and methods may automatically initiate calls and/or texts on non-cell phones (e.g., desk phones, turret type phones and/or VOIP phones) in response to selection of a phone number displayed on a website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Breezeway Logic LLC
    Inventor: Brian Robert Lara
  • Patent number: 11853359
    Abstract: Systems and methods for multi-object reporting in a content management system. A report type definition may define which objects are involved and how they are related. A report execution engine may generate a multi-object query language statement to translate the report type definition into query language. A query language execution engine may break the query language statement down into separate single pieces. A cost optimization engine may determine if it is cost efficient to join the objects. An indexed access execution engine may extract unique IDs of the objects and join the unique IDs to generate an index. A Lucene based search engine may be accessed according to the index, and the response is post processed to generate a multi-object report. A case management controller may receive a case narrative for an adverse event in the storage device, and store the case narrative to the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Veeva Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Marius K. Mortensen, Andrew James Mitchell, Scott Immel, Sheeba Padmanabhan, John Peberdy, Piotr Kuchnio
  • Patent number: 11854570
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, method, and computer readable medium are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communicator, and a controller. The controller, based on a first voice input being received, controls the communicator to receive data including first response information corresponding to the first voice input from a server, and outputs the first response information on a display, and based on a second voice input being received, controls the communicator to receive data including second response information corresponding to the second voice input from the server, and outputs the second response information on the display. Based on whether the second voice input is received within a predetermined time from a time corresponding to the output of the first response information, whether a use of utterance history information is identified, and the second response information is displayed differently based on whether the second voice input is received within the predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-hye Chung, Cheong-jae Lee, Hye-jeong Lee, Yong-wook Shin
  • Patent number: 11854035
    Abstract: A method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for providing a reward through a reward account connected to a player. A reward providing method includes connecting, by processing circuitry, a plurality of reward accounts registered by a user on a player, the player being installed on an electronic device, determining, by the processing circuitry, an analysis result based on content playback information, the content playback information corresponding to content output through the player, and providing, by the processing circuitry, a reward through a first reward account among the plurality of reward accounts based on the analysis result, the reward corresponding to the content output through the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LINE PLUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hyeong Jun Yu
  • Patent number: 11853323
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for join operations of a plurality of relations that are distributed over a plurality of storage locations over a network of computing components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Zukowski, Allison Waingold Lee, Philipp Thomas Unterbrunner
  • Patent number: 11853703
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for receiving a plurality of comments at a particular phase of a transaction with a member of a networked system, classifying one or more of the plurality of comments into one of a set of predetermined sentiment classifications, applying a trained machine learning system to select a category from a set of predefined categories for each of the one or more comments, applying a natural language processing module to generate a sub-category for each of the one or more comments, associating the generated sub-categories with their respective categories for the one or more comments, and generating a display of the determined categories for the particular transaction with the generated sub-categories, each generated sub-category being graphically connected to their respective categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Don Kumudu Janaka Ranatunga, Marie Michelle Rhea Foster, Brandon An Lai, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Jason Diran, Canran Xu
  • Patent number: 11847659
    Abstract: Methods and system for a unique coding framework used to create, manage and track instructions for documentation and dissemination of instructions, indicate a particular association or activate a given process. In one example, the present disclosure relates to the online publishing of documentation to demonstrate relationships of parties and compliance with regulatory and other requirements. The present disclosure uses URL hyperlinks, badges, watermarks, icons and visual displays that are representative of a given function and that may be identified by reference of unique coding structure. The present disclosure relates to the publishing and display of relevant visual codes or images for viewing by members of the public, (human readable) as well as machines. The present disclosure enables the tracking and measurement of uses of coded representations in public or private channels. Structured hyperlink codes allow brief messages to be sent in shortened form to instruct or deliver messages or processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: CMP.LY, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Ari Chernaik, Kristopher Wayne Smith, James Edward Graham