Patents Examined by David R. Vincent
  • Patent number: 10360513
    Abstract: In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for providing a belief data modeling service for representing and operating belief models data. In embodiments, a belief data modeling service may be configured to perform operations comprising receiving a belief data modeling service request including an input data model representing a set of data, a set of input parameters including at least one of observational data and modeling data, and an operation to be applied to the input data model using the input parameters; and, in response to receiving the belief data modeling service request, generating an output belief data model of the set of entities by generating new states and a set of logical conditionals that constrain the states for at least a subset of the entities by applying the input operation to the input data model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SINGULAR ME CORP
    Inventor: Carlos Luis Araya
  • Patent number: 10353476
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention describe a system to efficiently execute gesture recognition algorithms. Embodiments of the invention describe a power efficient staged gesture recognition pipeline including multimodal interaction detection, context based optimized recognition, and context based optimized training and continuous learning. Embodiments of the invention further describe a system to accommodate many types of algorithms depending on the type of gesture that is needed in any particular situation. Examples of recognition algorithms include but are not limited to, HMM for complex dynamic gestures (e.g. write a number in the air), Decision Trees (DT) for static poses, peak detection for coarse shake/whack gestures or inertial methods (INS) for pitch/roll detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Giuseppe Raffa, Lama Nachman, Jinwon Lee
  • Patent number: 10354191
    Abstract: A method of attaining a linguistic goal output of a process using a linguistic goal oriented decision making system, comprising setting the output value to a linguistic goal, and establishing a set of descriptive rules using historical data, wherein each descriptive rule has at least one variable, a decision variable, and at least one linguistic output value. The method further comprises grouping the set of descriptive rules into subsets of descriptive rules according to the linguistic output value of each descriptive rule and establishing decision rules based on comparing the grouped subsets of descriptive rules, the one or more decision rules describing a modification of a decision variable associated with at least one of the descriptive rules to affect the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignees: University of Southern California, Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Reza Rajati, Jerry M. Mendel, Andrei Popa, Lisa A. Brenskelle
  • Patent number: 10354197
    Abstract: A method includes reading a plurality of historical data from a storage. The method also includes generating, using a processor, a candidate pattern list. The method also includes determining, using the points stored in the candidate pattern list, whether at least one maximal clique exists in the candidate pattern list, each maximal clique indicating a known significant pattern. The method further includes, in response to determining that at least one maximal clique exists in the candidate pattern list, for each of the at least one maximal cliques, determining a signature of the maximal clique and storing the signature of the maximal clique and an identifier identifying the known significant pattern to a library in the storage. The method further includes determining causal relationships between the identified significant patterns and storing in the library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventor: Vidarshana Wijethilaka Bandara
  • Patent number: 10354192
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhancing exploratory data analysis using a recommender system are provided. The recommender system receives feedback when a set of raw data is analyzed (e.g., from one or more data analysts exploring a data set). Based on the collected feedback, the recommender system can automatically infer the need for certain analytical operations to be performed on a data set. These inferences can be used by the recommender system to infer analytical operations when new data sets are analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Mark A. Livingston, Stephen Russell, Jonathan W. Decker, Suleyman Guleyupoglu, Antonio Gilliam
  • Patent number: 10346754
    Abstract: A system and method for determining users personality types, profiles, and infer the likely intent based on the users' musical taste and listening habits. The process involves identifying the listener's musical preferences and linking this to a predetermined scale within the psychological Big 5 that in turn links to a dictionary of descriptors that defines the personality type. This can be further fine tuned by knowing the persons age, gender, and many other lifestyle variables, as well as how a user may use the music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Sounds Like Me Limited
    Inventors: David I. Ritchie, Adrian North
  • Patent number: 10346756
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques for the machine discovery and rapid agglomeration of similar states are provided. A system includes a plurality of network devices, and a decision system. The plurality of network devices may be configured to generate a respective data stream. The decision system may include a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by the processor. The system may obtain, via the plurality of network devices, one or more data streams, determine an anomaly has occurred on a data stream of the one or more data streams, determine a set of data streams of the one or more streams sharing at least one of a set of centroids associated with the data stream, and determine, based on the set of data streams, the occurrence of an incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Kirk, Victor Sletten
  • Patent number: 10339041
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for allocating memory in an artificial nervous system simulator implemented in hardware. According to certain aspects, memory resource requirements for one or more components of an artificial nervous system being simulated may be determined and portions of a shared memory pool (which may include on-chip and/or off-chip RAM) may be allocated to the components based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Venkat Rangan, Jan Krzys Wegrzyn, Jeffrey Alexander Levin, John Paul Daniels
  • Patent number: 10332027
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automated tuning of a service configuration are disclosed. An optimal configuration for a test computer is selected by performing one or more load tests using the test computer for each of a plurality of test configurations. The performance of a plurality of additional test computers configured with the optimal configuration is automatically determined by performing additional load tests using the additional test computers. A plurality of production computers are automatically configured with the optimal configuration if the performance of the additional test computers is improved with the optimal configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Carlos Alejandro Arguelles
  • Patent number: 10325006
    Abstract: In some aspects, a method for performing analog matrix inversion on a matrix with a network of resistive device arrays B, W, Q, and C is described. The method may include initializing arrays W, Q, B and C, updating the connections of array W in parallel and array Q in parallel until a predetermined condition is satisfied, and responsive to determining that the predetermined condition is satisfied, outputting an inverted matrix based on outputs from the connections of arrays B, W, Q, and C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tayfun Gokmen, Seyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 10325202
    Abstract: A method of biasing a deep neural network includes determining whether an element has an increased probability of being present in an input to the network. The method also includes adjusting a bias of activation functions of neurons in the network to increase sensitivity to the element. In one configuration, the bias is adjusted without adjusting weights of the network. The method further includes adjusting an output of the network based on the biasing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Regan Blythe Towal
  • Patent number: 10318552
    Abstract: A computer processor generates a topic-based dataset based on parsing content received from a plurality of information sources, which includes historical data and scientific data, associated with a location of a natural resource. The processor generates a plurality of clusters, respectively corresponding to like-topic data of the topic-based dataset. The processor determines a plurality of hypotheses, respectively corresponding to the plurality of clusters of the like-topic data, wherein the plurality of hypotheses are based on features associated with each of the plurality of clusters of the like-topic data. The processor combines pairs of clusters, based on a similarity heuristic applied to the one or more pairs of clusters, and the processor determines a plurality of probabilities respectively corresponding to a validity of each hypothesis of the plurality of hypotheses, associated with the location of a natural resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Thomas B. Harrison, Brian M. O'Connell
  • Patent number: 10311358
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to engage in multi-tiered optimization where there may be a first multi-objective optimization and a second constraint optimization. The multi-objective optimization may be used to drive to one or more goals of the optimization problem. The constraint optimization or minimization may be used to drive towards a reduced and/or no constraint situation where the solution to the overall problem is feasible or near-feasible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: The Aerospace Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy Guy Thompson
  • Patent number: 10304000
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for selecting cohorts. In one implementation, a model-assisted selection system for identifying candidates for placement into a cohort includes a data interface and at least one processing device. The at least one processing device is programmed to access, via the data interface, a database from which feature vectors associated with an individual from among a population of individuals can be derived; derive, for the individual, one or more feature vectors from the database; provide the one or more feature vectors to a model; receive an output from the model; and determine whether the individual from among the population of individuals is a candidate for the cohort based on the output received from the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Flatiron Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Edward Birnbaum, Joshua Daniel Haimson, Lucy Dao-Ke He, Katharina Nicola Seidl-Rathkopf, Monica Nayan Agrawal, Nathan Nussbaum
  • Patent number: 10304039
    Abstract: A product disassembling method and non-transitory computer readable media thereof are provided. According to the components of the product and the disassembling attributes of the components, the disassembling sequence that minimizes the total disassembling time can be planned. The method includes the following steps: an initial disassembling sequence solution is randomly generated. The disassembling sequence solution is updated by using an update mechanism. The disassembling time of the update disassembling sequence solution is calculated by using a fitness function. The best fitness value is obtained after the continuously updating, so as to determine whether to update or maintain the initial disassembling sequence solution. The corresponding disassembling sequence is considered as the best planning result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Wei-Chang Yeh
  • Patent number: 10289981
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for computing relative score and enhancing one or more scores associated with data objects. In one method, the method receives, at a computing system, one or more data objects from a user. The method further extracts one or more internal and external parameters based on the one or more data objects. Subsequently, the method compares data objects of the user with corresponding data objects of one or more competing users, based at least in part on the one or more extracted parameters and the requirement included in the data object of the user. Further, in some embodiments, the data objects and requirements of the user are also compared with the corresponding data objects and requirements of one or more complementary users, based at least in part on the one or more extracted parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Prabhakaran Krishnamoorthy, Uday Sankar Sen
  • Patent number: 10268986
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for requirement feasibility scoring based on a data object and a social network website. In one method, one or more computing devices receive, over a network, a data object that is associated with a user and that includes a requirement. The computers obtain information from a social network website. The computers calculate, based on the data object and the information from the social network website, a score that indicates a likelihood of satisfying the requirement. The computers send the score over the network to a computing device of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Prabhakaran Krishnamoorthy, Uday Sankar Sen
  • Patent number: 10268956
    Abstract: A method and system applies a probabilistic topic model to content in a tax environment to improve user satisfaction with a question and answer customer support system, according to one embodiment. The probabilistic topic model may be the Latent Dirichlet allocation algorithm or other implementations of probabilistic topic models, according to various embodiments. The method and system include receiving submission content from a user, according to one embodiment. The method and system include applying a probabilistic topic model to the submission content to determine submission content topics and submission content statistics, according to one embodiment. The method and system include generating and providing customer support content at least partially based on the submission content topics and at least partially based on the submission content statistics, to facilitate use of the question and answer customer support system by the user, according to one embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Igor A. Podgorny, Benjamin John Koonse
  • Patent number: 10255560
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a history acquisition section configured to acquire history data including a history indicating that a plurality of selection subjects have selected selection objects; a learning processing section configured to allow a choice model to learn a preference of each selection subject for a feature and an environmental dependence of selection of each selection object in each selection environment using the history data, where the choice model uses a feature value possessed by each selection object, the preference of each selection subject for the feature, and the environmental dependence indicative of ease of selection of each selection object in each of a plurality of selection environments to calculate a selectability with which each of the plurality of selection subjects selects each selection object; and an output section configured to output results of learning by the learning processing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Katsuki, Takayuki Osogami
  • Patent number: 10242473
    Abstract: One or more embodiments may include techniques to computer generate one or more plots based on computational clustering performed by a system. Embodiments include performing clustering on a dataset to generate a number of clusters of data for the dataset. The clusters may be processed and used to generate the one or more plots. In some embodiments, the plots may include one or more variables plotted against a weighted average score associated with a cluster, the plot may visually indicate the effect that the one or more variables has on the predicted outcome. The one or more plots may be presented in a display on a display device. In some embodiments, the plots may be segmented and each segment may correspond with a number of individual curves. The segmented curves may be plotted and displayed on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond Eugene Wright, Ilknur Kaynar Kabul, Susan Edwards Haller