Patents Examined by Alan Chen
  • Patent number: 11651277
    Abstract: A processing node in a temporal memory system includes a spatial pooler and a sequence processor. The spatial pooler generates a spatial pooler signal representing similarity between received spatial patterns in an input signal and stored co-occurrence patterns. The spatial pooler signal is represented by a combination of elements that are active or inactive. Each co-occurrence pattern is mapped to different subsets of elements of an input signal. The spatial pooler signal is fed to a sequence processor receiving and processed to learn, recognize and predict temporal sequences in the input signal. The sequence processor includes one or more columns, each column including one or more cells. A subset of columns may be selected by the spatial pooler signal, causing one or more cells in these columns to activate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Numenta, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Hawkins, Ronald Marianetti, II, Anosh Raj, Subutai Ahmad
  • Patent number: 11645551
    Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting inference models based on interrelationships among inference models are provided. For example, information related to a group of at least three inference models may be obtained. Further, in some examples, a plurality of interrelationship records may be obtained, wherein each interrelationship record may correspond to one subgroup of the group of at least three inference models, and each subgroup may comprise at least two inference models. Further, in some examples, the plurality of interrelationship records may be used to determine information related to a first inference model of the group of at least three inference models. Further, in some examples, the determined information may be used to present the first inference model to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventor: Moshe Guttmann
  • Patent number: 11636311
    Abstract: Described herein is a technology that facilitates the production of and the use of automated datagens for event-based systems. A datagen (i.e., data-generator or data generation system) is a component, module, or subsystem of computer systems that searches, monitors, and analyzes machine data. Existing datagens are not capable of detecting an anomaly in machine data. An anomaly is a variance in the input data stream that exceeds some acceptable amount of deviation from the norm (i.e., standard, expectation, etc.). An embodiment of datagen, in accordance with the technology described herein, detects anomalies in the input machine data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Oliner, Zidong Yang, Sinduja Sreshta
  • Patent number: 11636740
    Abstract: Methods and systems related to tracking activity in a store in association with a cashier-less environment are provided. One example method includes identifying actions in a store. The method includes sampling a shopping environment using one or more sensors that include at least one camera capable of providing depth sensing to produce image data of a scene that shows a shopper in the store and tracking data related to one or more limbs of the shopper in connection to an item. The method includes receiving output of the sampling as feature inputs to one or more machine learning models and deriving one or more label inferences of a behavior state of the shopper in connection with a state of the item. At least one processing entity associated with the store detects the state of the item to change from one as item handled by said shopper to one as item queued for purchase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Inventors: Gary M. Zalewski, Albert S. Penilla
  • Patent number: 11631017
    Abstract: Because digital assistants tend to have different areas of expertise and/or different abilities to fulfill a given request, it is sometimes difficult for a user to know which digital assistant is best able to fulfill a request. Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to increase federate digital assistants so that a user's request can be funneled to the digital assistant best able to fulfill the user's request. A meta-assistant gathers information on skills provided by a set of digital assistants. The meta-assistant also gathers completion data for requests for different digital assistants and user satisfaction information. A user submits a request to the meta-assistant. The meta-assistant extracts user intent from the request and redirects the user's request to the digital assistant best able to fulfill the request. Embodiments can utilize trained machine learning models or scored algorithmic approaches to select the digital assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ryen White, Girish Sthanu Nathan
  • Patent number: 11631032
    Abstract: An exemplary system, method, and computer-accessible medium can include, for example, (a) receiving a dataset(s), (b) determining if a misclassification(s) is generated during a training of a model(s) on the dataset(s), (c) generating a synthetic dataset(s) based on the misclassification(s), and (d) determining if the misclassification(s) is generated during the training of the model(s) on the synthetic dataset(s). The dataset(s) can include a plurality of data types. The misclassification(s) can be determined by determining if one of the data types is misclassified. The dataset(s) can include an identification of each of the data types in the dataset(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Goodsitt, Anh Truong, Reza Farivar, Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad, Mark Watson, Vincent Pham, Austin Walters
  • Patent number: 11620879
    Abstract: Method and systems are provided for processing actions in a store. One example method includes capturing sensor output from two or more sensors in a shopping environment. One sensor includes a first camera to capture scene data where the scene includes movement of a shopper in the store performing interaction with an item in the store. Another sensor includes a second camera capturing at least part of the scene from a different perspective. The method includes processing, by a processing entity associated with the store, at least one of the camera's output to generate feature data. The feature data is processed by one or more machine learning models to produce engineered feature data. The engineered feature data includes data relating to tracking skeletal movement of shopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Inventors: Gary M. Zalewski, Albert S. Penilla
  • Patent number: 11615321
    Abstract: As described, an artificial intelligence (AI) design application exposes various tools to a user for generating, analyzing, evaluating, and describing neural networks. The AI design application includes a network generator that generates and/or updates program code that defines a neural network based on user interactions with a graphical depiction of the network architecture. The AI design application also includes a network analyzer that analyzes the behavior of the neural network at the layer level, neuron level, and weight level in response to test inputs. The AI design application further includes a network evaluator that performs a comprehensive evaluation of the neural network across a range of sample of training data. Finally, the AI design application includes a network descriptor that articulates the behavior of the neural network in natural language and constrains that behavior according to a set of rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: VIANAI SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Vishal Inder Sikka, Yoshiki Ohshima
  • Patent number: 11615285
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes generating a functional subgraph of a network from a structural graph of the network. The structural graph comprises a set of vertices and structural connections between the vertices. Generating the functional subgraph includes identifying a directed functional edge of the functional subgraph based on presence of structural connection and directional communication of information across the same structural connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL)
    Inventors: Michael Wolfgang Reimann, Max Christian Nolte, Henry Markram, Kathryn Pamela Hess Bellwald, Ran Levi
  • Patent number: 11599786
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for applying neural networks in resource-constrained environments. A system may include a sensor located in a resource-constrained environment configured to generate sensor data of the resource-constrained environment. The system may also include a first computing device not located in the resource-constrained environment configured to produce a neural network structure based on the sensor data. The system may further include a second computing device located in the resource-constrained environment configured to provide the sensor data as input to the neural network structure. The second computing device may be further configured to determine a state of the resource-constrained environment based on the input of the sensor data to the neural network structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: ALPINE ELECTRONICS OF SILICON VALLEY, INC.
    Inventors: Rocky Chau-Hsiung Lin, Thomas Yamasaki, Koichiro Kanda, Diego Rodriguez Risco, Alexander Joseph Ryan
  • Patent number: 11593685
    Abstract: An omnichannel intelligent negotiation assistant for generating timely, contextual negotiation assistance to a negotiator. The invention includes a semantic term extractor for converting a contract document into a negotiable term sheet. An omnichannel listener captures all negotiation inputs associated with a negotiation event, sequences each negotiation input by time, and analyzes the sentiment of the negotiation inputs in the context of a term sheet. The resulting annotated negotiation input stream is processed by an intervention generator that includes models of the parties and the negotiation itself as well as a referent negotiation model. The intervention generator includes a game theoretic model that, in concert with a trade-off matrix, allows the intervention generator to produce timely contextual interventions to the negotiator that assist in achieving a superior resulting negotiated agreement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: INTELLEXT, INC.
    Inventors: David Chan, Amit Sethi, Rashi Dhir, Rudolph Darken
  • Patent number: 11586924
    Abstract: An apparatus of operating a computational network is configured to determine a low-rank approximation for one or more layers of the computational network based at least in part on a set of residual targets. A set of candidate rank vectors corresponding to the set of residual targets may be determined. Each of the candidate rank vectors may be evaluated using an objective function. A candidate rank vector may be selected and used to determine the low rank approximation. The computational network may be compressed based on the low-rank approximation. In turn the computational network may be operated using the one or more compressed layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Anthony Sarah, Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi
  • Patent number: 11586920
    Abstract: A circuit for performing neural network computations for a neural network comprising a plurality of neural network layers, the circuit comprising: a matrix computation unit configured to, for each of the plurality of neural network layers: receive a plurality of weight inputs and a plurality of activation inputs for the neural network layer, and generate a plurality of accumulated values based on the plurality of weight inputs and the plurality of activation inputs; and a vector computation unit communicatively coupled to the matrix computation unit and configured to, for each of the plurality of neural network layers: apply an activation function to each accumulated value generated by the matrix computation unit to generate a plurality of activated values for the neural network layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Ross, Norman Paul Jouppi, Andrew Everett Phelps, Reginald Clifford Young, Thomas Norrie, Gregory Michael Thorson, Dan Luu
  • Patent number: 11586933
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a soma-related information storage unit in which two or more pieces of soma-related information having a soma identifier are stored; a connection information storage unit in which one or more pieces of connection information for specifying connection between two or more somas are stored; an information transfer unit that acquires soma identifiers of one or more somas that accept information based on accepted input information; an output information acquiring unit that acquires output information, which is information that is output, using the information accepted by each soma identified with the one or more soma identifiers acquired by the information transfer unit; an information output unit that outputs the output information; and a growth unit that performs soma generation processing for generating soma-related information and accumulating the information in the soma-related information storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SOFTBANK CORP.
    Inventor: Yuko Ishiwaka
  • Patent number: 11586963
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for forecasting future states of a multi-active cloud. The method, computer program product and computer system may include a computing device that determines the operating state of the passive server. The operating state of the passive server is one or more of a deploying state and a smoke testing state. The computing device may determine the probability of the operating state successfully completing. The computing device may delay the second asynchronous workflow until the operating state successfully completes based on the probability of the operating state successfully completing exceeding a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alan Byrne, Jason Lloyd, Andrew T. Penrose
  • Patent number: 11568311
    Abstract: The present system and method for analysing sentiment is a response to the growing availability of informal, opinionated texts like blog posts and product review websites, a field of Sentiment Analysis has sprung up in the past decade to address the interrogation about how people feel about certain topics. Sentiment Analysis expands the traditional fact-based text analysis to enable opinion-oriented information systems. The present system and method for analysing sentiment presents a novel learning system and method for classifying text as positive, negative, or objective. It is mainly based on fuzzy set theory and clustering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SEMEON ANALYTIQUE INC.
    Inventors: Alkis Papadopoullos, Jocelyn Desbiens
  • Patent number: 11563841
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to collect a plurality of User Interface (UI) device configurations, receive a request from a computing device to download one or more of the plurality of UI device configurations, and transmit to the computing device the one or more UI device configurations requested to configure one or more UI devices of the computing device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventor: Jacob Wolff-Petersen
  • Patent number: 11556825
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for verifying labels of records of a dataset. The records comprise sample data and a related label out of a plurality of labels. The method includes one or more processors dividing the dataset into a training dataset comprising records relating to a selected label and an inference dataset comprising records with sample data relating to the selected label and all other labels out of the plurality of labels. The method further includes dividing the training dataset into a plurality of learner training datasets that comprise at least one sample relating to the selected label. The method further includes training a plurality of label-specific few-shot learners with one of the learner training datasets. The method further includes performing inference by the plurality of trained label-specific few-shot learners on the inference dataset to generate a plurality of sets of predicted label output values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrea Giovannini, Georgios Chaloulos, Frederik Frank Flother, Patrick Lustenberger, David Mesterhazy, Stefan Ravizza, Eric Slottke
  • Patent number: 11551105
    Abstract: Client instance data including a plurality of incidents and a plurality of knowledge elements comprising information relating to resolving one or more of the plurality of incidents is obtained. A validation set is built based on the obtained client instance data, the validation set including fingerprint data of plural fingerprints of known incident-knowledge relationships, each of fingerprint representing a link between one of the incidents and one of the knowledge elements used for resolving the incident. A knowledge element class is predicted from among plural knowledge element classes for each of knowledge element based on the built validation set, the plural knowledge element classes being defined based on respective threshold values indicating a quality of coverage provided by a knowledge element for resolving an incident. Classification data of the plural knowledge elements classified into the plural knowledge element classes is presented with the obtained client instance data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Walthers, Mukund Ramachandran, Lingzhu Li, Abhay Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11544623
    Abstract: Consistency metadata, including a parameter for a pseudo-random number source, are determined for training-and-evaluation iterations of a machine learning model. Using the metadata, a first training set comprising records of at least a first chunk is identified from a plurality of chunks of a data set. The first training set is used to train a machine learning model during a first training-and-evaluation iteration. A first test set comprising records of at least a second chunk is identified using the metadata, and is used to evaluate the model during the first training-and-evaluation iteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Leo Parker Dirac, Jin Li, Tianming Zheng, Donghui Zhuo