Patents Examined by Imad Kassim
  • Patent number: 11003716
    Abstract: Embodiments for discovery and analysis of interpersonal relationships from a collection of unstructured text data by a processor. A relationship between one or more entities and extracted text data from a plurality of unstructured text data may be identified such that the relationship includes a sentiment of the relationship, a type of relationship, temporal information, or a combination thereof. The one or more entities may be associated with a knowledge graph based on an ontology of concepts representing a domain knowledge. The extracted information and the identified relationship may be automatically aggregated into a multi-graph representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Francesca Bonin, Elizabeth M. Daly, Lea A. Deleris, Stephane Deparis, Yufang Hou, Charles A. Jochim, Yassine Lassoued
  • Patent number: 11003988
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for deep learning-based system design improvement are provided. An example system design engine apparatus includes a deep learning network (DLN) model associated with each component of a target system to be emulated, each DLN model to be trained using known input and known output, wherein the known input and known output simulate input and output of the associated component of the target system, and wherein each DLN model is connected as each associated component to be emulated is connected in the target system to form a digital model of the target system. The example apparatus also includes a model processor to simulate behavior of the target system and/or each component of the target system to be emulated using the digital model to generate a recommendation regarding a configuration of a component of the target system and/or a structure of the component of the target system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jiang Hsieh, Gopal Avinash, Saad Sirohey
  • Patent number: 10997511
    Abstract: Certain aspects involve optimizing neural networks or other models for assessing risks and generating explanatory data regarding predictor variables used in the model. In one example, a system identifies predictor variables. The system generates a neural network for determining a relationship between each predictor variable and a risk indicator. The system performs a factor analysis on the predictor variables to determine common factors. The system iteratively adjusts the neural network so that (i) a monotonic relationship exists between each common factor and the risk indicator and (ii) a respective variance inflation factor for each common factor is sufficiently low. Each variance inflation factor indicates multicollinearity among the common factors. The adjusted neural network can be used to generate explanatory indicating relationships between (i) changes in the risk indicator and (ii) changes in at least some common factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: EQUIFAX INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Turner, Michael McBurnett, Yafei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10986110
    Abstract: Anomaly and causation detection in computing environments are disclosed. An example method includes receiving an input stream of data instances for a time series, each of the data instances being time stamped and including at least one principle value and a set of categorical attributes; generating anomaly scores for each of the data instances over continuous time intervals; detecting a change in the anomaly scores over the continuous time intervals for the data instances; and identifying which of the set of categorical attributes of the data instances caused the change in the anomaly scores using a counterfactual analysis. The counterfactual analysis may comprise removing a portion of the data instances; regenerating the anomaly scores for each of the remaining data instances over the continuous time intervals; and if the anomaly scores are improved, identifying the portion as a cause of anomalous activity. Recommendations to remediate the cause may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Elasticsearch B.V.
    Inventors: Stephen Dodson, Thomas Veasey
  • Patent number: 10970648
    Abstract: Techniques that facilitate semantic and time series analysis using machine learning are provided. In one example, a system includes a data analysis component, a prediction component and a learning component. The data analysis component that establishes one or more relationships between one or more elements of semantic data, including one or more time series identifiers, and one or more elements of time series data in a relationship database. The prediction component generates one or more advisory outputs, wherein generation of the one or more advisory outputs is performed in response to a trigger event, a learning component that determines the one or more relationships in the relationship database, wherein determination of the one or more relationships is based on information indicative of whether the advisory outputs satisfy a defined criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bradley Eck, Vincent Lonij, Pascal Pompey
  • Patent number: 10963774
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating, adjusting and/or evolving a visual personification of an AI interface for an AI application are provided. More specifically, the visual personification of the AI interface is generated, adjusted, and/or evolved based on one or more user inputs and/or the evaluation of other known user data. Accordingly, the generated, adjusted and/or evolved visual personification of an AI interface based on the user increases engagement, trust, and/or emotional connection with the user without requiring any AI interface setting changes by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Neal Osotio, Emma Williams
  • Patent number: 10963812
    Abstract: Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to computer processes for generating and training a generative machine learning model to estimate the true sizes of items and users of an electronic catalog and subsequently applied to determine fit recommendations, as well as confidence values for the fit recommendations, for how a particular item may fit a particular user. During training, the disclosed generative model can implement Bayesian statistical inference to calculate estimated true sizes of both items and users of an electronic catalog using both (1) a prior distribution of sizes for items and users and (2) a distribution based on obtained evidence regarding how items actually fit users. The resulting posterior distribution can be approximated using a proposal distribution used to generate the fit recommendations and associated confidence values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek Sembium Varadarajan, Rajeev Ramnarain Rastogi, Atul Saroop
  • Patent number: 10963788
    Abstract: Graphical interactive model selection is provided. A basis function is fit to each plurality of observation vectors defined for each value of a group variable. Basis results are presented within a first sub-window of a first window of a display. Functional principal component analysis (FPCA) is automatically performed on each basis function. FPCA results are presented within a second sub-window of the first window. An indicator of a request to perform functional analysis using the FPCA results based on a predefined factor variable is received in association with the first window. A model is trained using an eigenvalue and an eigenfunction computed as a result of the FPCA for each plurality of observation vectors using the factor variable value as a model effect. (G) Trained model results are presented within a third sub-window of the first window of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Jeremy Parker, Clayton Adam Barker, Christopher Michael Gotwalt
  • Patent number: 10936954
    Abstract: An online system generates predicted outcomes for a content distribution program that distributes content to users of the online system, the predicted outcome indicating a likelihood for the occurrence of an outcome of a content presentation. The online system transmits the one or more predicted outcomes to the third party system, and receives prediction improvement data from the third party system, the prediction improvement data indicating an adjustment to errors in the predicted outcomes based on a prediction by the third party system. The online system updates the properties of a content distribution program based on the prediction improvement data, the updated content distribution program causing the online system to generate new predicted outcomes based on the prediction improvement data in content presentation opportunities. The online system also transmits content to users of the online system based on the updated content distribution program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Donald Yates, Gunjit Singh, Kurt Dodge Runke
  • Patent number: 10915833
    Abstract: Radio signals including modulated radar signals of an unknown modulation type selected from among a predetermined group of modulation types are received, and a plurality of features are extracted for the received radio signals. A plurality of two dimensional (2D) maps are generated for pairs of the extracted features from the received radio signals. The 2D maps of extracted feature pairs for the received radio signals are processed using a binary tree of discriminating vectors, each of the discriminating vectors corresponding to recognition of at least one of the predetermined modulation types based on 2D feature maps and each of the discriminating vectors determined by processing 2D maps for pairs of features extracted from training samples using a support vector machine learning algorithm. The binary tree is derived by pruning permutations of sequences for applying the discriminating vectors according to iterative testing of modulation type recognition accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Phuoc T. Ho, Bruce R. Anderson, Dan Hammack
  • Patent number: 10896384
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a machine learning algorithm is used to train an objective prediction model to output a prediction value for an input member of a social networking service and a potential objective, based on member attribute information and action information. At prediction time, member attribute information and action information for a first user may be fed to the objective prediction model to obtain prediction values for a plurality of different potential objectives, one of which can be selected based on the prediction values. The selected objective can then be used to optimize coordinates, in a latent representation space, mapped to a plurality of different entities in a social network structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Uri Merhav, Dan Shacham, Steven Curtis McClung
  • Patent number: 10891541
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods obtain data in a first modality; propagate the data in the first modality through a neural network, thereby generating network outputs, wherein the neural network includes a first-stage neural network and a second-stage neural network, wherein the first-stage neural network includes two or more layers, wherein each layer of the two or more layers of the first-stage neural network includes a plurality of respective nodes, wherein the second-stage neural network includes two or more layers, one of which is an input layer and one of which is an output layer, and wherein each node in each layer of the first-stage neural network is connected to the input layer of the second-stage neural network; calculate a gradient of a loss function based on the network outputs; backpropagate the gradient through the neural network; and update the neural network based on the backpropagation of the gradient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jie Yu, Francisco Imai
  • Patent number: 10878336
    Abstract: Technologies for detecting minority events are disclosed. By performing a guided hierarchical classification algorithm with a decision tree structure and grouping the minority class(es) in with some of the majority classes, large majority classes may be separated from a minority class without requiring good detection of the minority events by themselves. The decision tree structure may be used only for the purpose of identifying if the data sample in question is a member of a minority class. If it is determined that it is not, a primary classification algorithm may be used. With this approach, the guided hierarchical classification algorithm need not perform as well as the primary classification algorithm for the majority events, but may provide improved detection for minority events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Varvara Kollia, Ramune Nagisetty
  • Patent number: 10867239
    Abstract: A co-processor is configured for performing vector matrix multiplication (VMM) to solve computational problems such as partial differential equations (PDEs). An analog Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) can be implemented by invoking VMM of input signals with Fourier basis functions using analog crossbar arrays. Linear and non-linear PDEs can be solved by implementing spectral PDE solution methods as an alternative to massively discretized finite difference methods, while exploiting inherent parallelism realized through the crossbar arrays. A digital controller interfaces with the crossbar arrays to direct write and read operations to the crossbar arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SPERO DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Jai Gupta, Nihar Athreyas, Abbie Mathew
  • Patent number: 10860939
    Abstract: An application performance analyzer adapted to analyze the performance of one or more applications running on IT infrastructure, comprises: a data collection engine collecting performance metrics for one or more applications running on the IT infrastructure; an anomaly detection engine analyzing the performance metrics and detecting anomalies, i.e. performance metrics whose values deviate from historic values with a deviation that exceeds a predefined threshold; a correlation engine detecting dependencies between plural anomalies, and generating anomaly clusters, each anomaly cluster consisting of anomalies that are correlated through one or more of the dependencies; a ranking engine ranking anomalies within an anomaly cluster; and a source detection engine pinpointing a problem source from the lowest ranked anomaly in an anomaly cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: New Relic, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick Ryckbosch, Stijn Polfliet, Bart De Vylder
  • Patent number: 10853722
    Abstract: Aspects of processing data for Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks are described herein. The aspects may include one or more data buffer units configured to store previous output data at a previous timepoint, input data at a current timepoint, one or more weight values, and one more bias values. The aspects may further include multiple data processing units configured to parallelly calculate a portion of an output value at the current timepoint based on the previous output data at the previous timepoint, the input data at the current timepoint, the one or more weight values, and the one or more bias values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Sanghai Cambricon Information Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunji Chen, Xiaobing Chen, Shaoli Liu, Tianshi Chen
  • Patent number: 10839315
    Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting a selected-sub-set of features from a plurality of features for training a machine learning module, the training of the machine learning module to enable classification of an electronic document to a target label, the plurality of features associated with the electronic document. In one embodiment, the method comprises analyzing a given training document to extract the plurality of features, and for a given not-yet-selected feature of the plurality of features: generating a set of relevance parameters iteratively, generating a set of redundancy parameters iteratively and determining a feature significance score based on the set of relevance parameters and the set of redundancy parameters. The method further comprises selecting a feature associated with a highest value of the feature significance score and adding the selected feature to the selected-sub-set of features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: YANDEX EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Anastasiya Aleksandrovna Bezzubtseva, Alexandr Leonidovich Shishkin, Gleb Gennadievich Gusev, Aleksey Valyerevich Drutsa
  • Patent number: 10839292
    Abstract: A neural network system comprises a plurality of neurons, comprising a layer of input neurons, one or more layers of hidden neurons, and a layer of output neurons. The system further comprises a plurality of arrays of weights, each array of weights being configured to receive a plurality of discrete data points from a first layer of neurons and to produce a corresponding discrete data point to a second layer of neurons during a feed forward operation, each array of weights comprising a plurality of resistive processing units (RPU) having respective settable resistances. The system includes a neuron control system configured to control an operation mode of each of the plurality of neurons, wherein the operation mode comprises: a feed forward mode, a back propagation mode, and a weight update mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tayfun Gokmen, Yurii A. Vlasov
  • Patent number: 10839313
    Abstract: For a visit of a user to a web page where the user's identity on an online system is not presently known to the online system, the online system uses a machine learning model to make a prediction of the user's identity. The online system obtains visit data about the visit of the user to the web page. The online system identifies candidate user IDs that may represent the user, based on the visit data and data known about previous visits of the candidate user IDs. The online system derives visit features for each candidate user ID based on a relationship between the current visit data and previous visit data for the candidate user ID. The online system provides the visit features for each candidate user ID to a prediction model that determines whether, or how likely, the candidate user ID accurately identifies the visiting user, and based on the determinations selects one of the candidate user IDs as the most likely user ID for the visiting user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Vladislav Belous
  • Patent number: 10789529
    Abstract: A data entry system is described which has a user interface which receives a sequence of one or more context text items input by a user. The data entry system has a predictor trained to predict a next item in the sequence. The predictor comprises a plurality of learnt text item embeddings each text item embedding representing a text item in a numerical form, the text item embeddings having a plurality of different lengths. A projection component obtains text item embeddings of the context text items and projects these to be of the same length. The predictor comprises a trained neural network which is fed the projected text item embeddings and which computes a numerical output associated with the predicted next item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Alexander Harper Orr, Juha Iso-Sipila, Marco Fiscato, Matthew James Wilson, Joseph Osborne