Patents Examined by Kevin L. Smith
  • Patent number: 11954612
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a first query by a computing device and assigning the first query to a plurality of cognitive engines, wherein each of the plurality of cognitive engines include different characteristics for processing data. The method also includes, responsive to receiving a response from each of the plurality of cognitive engines for the first query, comparing the received responses from the plurality of cognitive engines. The method also included responsive to determining a difference between a first response from a first cognitive engine and a second response from a second cognitive engine is above a predetermined threshold value, performing a response mediation process until the difference is below the predetermined threshold value. The method also includes selecting a first final response from the received responses for the first query and the second query and displaying the first final response to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrea Giovannini, Florian Graf, Stefan Ravizza, Tim U. Scheideler
  • Patent number: 11934956
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for training a neural network, wherein the neural network is configured to receive an input data item and to process the input data item to generate a respective score for each label in a predetermined set of multiple labels. The method includes actions of obtaining a set of training data that includes a plurality of training items, wherein each training item is associated with a respective label from the predetermined set of multiple labels; and modifying the training data to generate regularizing training data, comprising: for each training item, determining whether to modify the label associated with the training item, and changing the label associated with the training item to a different label from the predetermined set of labels, and training the neural network on the regularizing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Sergey Ioffe
  • Patent number: 11861455
    Abstract: A computational method via a hybrid processor comprising an analog processor and a digital processor includes determining a first classical spin configuration via the digital processor, determining preparatory biases toward the first classical spin configuration, programming an Ising problem and the preparatory biases in the analog processor via the digital processor, evolving the analog processor in a first direction, latching the state of the analog processor for a first dwell time, programming the analog processor to remove the preparatory biases via the digital processor, determining a tunneling energy via the digital processor, determining a second dwell time via the digital processor, evolving the analog processor in a second direction until the analog processor reaches the tunneling energy, and evolving the analog processor in the first direction until the analog processor reaches a second classical spin configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: D-WAVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Sheir Yarkoni, Trevor Michael Lanting, Kelly T. R. Boothby, Andrew Douglas King, Evgeny A. Andriyash, Mohammad H. Amin
  • Patent number: 11752295
    Abstract: A method for method for classification of virtual reality (VR) content for use in head mounted displays (HMDs). The method includes accessing a model that identifies a plurality of learned patterns associated with the generation of corresponding baseline VR content that is likely to cause discomfort. The method includes executing a first application to generate first VR content. The method includes extracting data associated with simulated user interactions with the first VR content, the extracted data generated during execution of the first application. The method includes comparing the extracted data to the model to identify one or more patterns in the extracted data matching at least one of the learned patterns from the model such that the one or more patterns are likely to cause discomfort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Dominic S. Mallinson
  • Patent number: 11734584
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for multi-modal construction of deep learning networks are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes extracting, from user-provided multi-modal inputs, one or more items related to generating a deep learning network; generating a deep learning network model, wherein the generating includes inferring multiple details attributed to the deep learning network model based on the one or more extracted items; creating an intermediate representation based on the deep learning network model, wherein the intermediate representation includes (i) one or more items of data pertaining to the deep learning network model and (ii) one or more design details attributed to the deep learning network model; automatically converting the intermediate representation into source code; and outputting the source code to at least one user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rahul A R, Neelamadhav Gantayat, Shreya Khare, Senthil K K Mani, Naveen Panwar, Anush Sankaran
  • Patent number: 11727285
    Abstract: A method and system for managing a dataset. An artificial intelligence (AI) model is to be used on the dataset. A data mask describes a labeling status of the data items. A loop is repeated until patience parameters are satisfied. The loop comprises receiving trusted labels provided by trusted labelers; updating the data mask; from a labelled data items subset, training the AI model; cloning the trained AI model into a local AI model on processing nodes; creating and chunking a randomized unlabeled subset into data subsets for dispatching to the processing nodes; receiving an indication that predicted label answers have been inferred by the processing nodes using the local AI model; computing a model uncertainty measurement from statistical analysis of the predicted label answers. The patience parameters include one or more of a threshold value on the model uncertainty measurement and information gain between different training cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: ServiceNow Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Frédéric Branchaud-Charron, Parmida Atighehchian, Jan Freyberg, Lorne Schell
  • Patent number: 11720796
    Abstract: A method includes maintaining respective episodic memory data for each of multiple actions; receiving a current observation characterizing a current state of an environment being interacted with by an agent; processing the current observation using an embedding neural network in accordance with current values of parameters of the embedding neural network to generate a current key embedding for the current observation; for each action of the plurality of actions: determining the p nearest key embeddings in the episodic memory data for the action to the current key embedding according to a distance measure, and determining a Q value for the action from the return estimates mapped to by the p nearest key embeddings in the episodic memory data for the action; and selecting, using the Q values for the actions, an action from the multiple actions as the action to be performed by the agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Benigno Uria-Martínez, Alexander Pritzel, Charles Blundell, Adrià Puigdomènech Badia
  • Patent number: 11715025
    Abstract: A method for time series analysis of time-oriented usage data pertaining to computing resources of a computing system. A method embodiment commences upon collecting time series datasets, individual ones of the time series datasets comprising time-oriented usage data of a respective individual computing resource. A plurality of prediction models are trained using portions of time-oriented data. The trained models are evaluated to determine quantitative measures pertaining to predictive accuracy. One of the trained models is selected and then applied over another time series dataset of the individual resource to generate a plurality of individual resource usage predictions. The individual resource usage predictions are used to calculate seasonally-adjusted resource usage demand amounts over a future time period. The resource usage demand amounts are compared to availability of the resource to form a runway that refers to a future time period when the resource is predicted to be demanded to its capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.
    Inventors: Jianjun Wen, Abhinay Nagpal, Himanshu Shukla, Binny Sher Gill, Cong Liu, Shuo Yang
  • Patent number: 11694122
    Abstract: A distributed, online machine learning system is presented. Contemplated systems include many private data servers, each having local private data. Researchers can request that relevant private data servers train implementations of machine learning algorithms on their local private data without requiring de-identification of the private data or without exposing the private data to unauthorized computing systems. The private data servers also generate synthetic or proxy data according to the data distributions of the actual data. The servers then use the proxy data to train proxy models. When the proxy models are sufficiently similar to the trained actual models, the proxy data, proxy model parameters, or other learned knowledge can be transmitted to one or more non-private computing devices. The learned knowledge from many private data servers can then be aggregated into one or more trained global models without exposing private data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignees: NANTOMICS, LLC, NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher W. Szeto, Stephen Charles Benz, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Patent number: 11687823
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for outputting a data element to a user for an operation by the user to give a label to plural data elements, includes: selecting the data element by either one of a first strategy and a second strategy, the first strategy being a strategy for selecting a data element which has been predicted with a low confidence level, the second strategy being a strategy for selecting a data element which has been predicted with a high confidence level; outputting the selected data element so as for a user to give a label to the selected data element; and switching between the first strategy and the second strategy depending on a progress degree of labeling by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Katsumasa Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11676038
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for operating to an initial optimized baseline solution to a multi-objective problem. As the initial optimized baseline solution is determined, some regions, such as local or global maxima, minima, and/or saddle points in the objective space may be mapped. The mapping may be performed by storing mesh chromosomes corresponding to some of the features (e.g., extrema, saddle points, etc.) in the objective space along with the location of those chromosomes within the objective space (e.g., objective values corresponding to each of the objectives). The mesh chromosome may be used in subsequent re-optimization problems, such as with reformulation. Although in a re-optimization the objectives, decision variables, and or objective/constraint models may change, the mesh chromosomes may still provide information and direction for more quickly and/or with reduced resources converge on a re-optimized solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Timothy Guy Thompson
  • Patent number: 11636317
    Abstract: Long-short term memory (LSTM) cells on spiking neuromorphic hardware are provided. In various embodiments, such systems comprise a spiking neurosynaptic core. The neurosynaptic core comprises a memory cell, an input gate operatively coupled to the memory cell and adapted to selectively admit an input to the memory cell, and an output gate operatively coupled to the memory cell an adapted to selectively release an output from the memory cell. The memory cell is adapted to maintain a value in the absence of input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rathinakumar Appuswamy, Michael Beyeler, Pallab Datta, Myron Flickner, Dharmendra S. Modha
  • Patent number: 11610098
    Abstract: Systems and methods for data augmentation in a neural network system includes performing a first training process, using a first training dataset on a neural network system including an autoencoder including an encoder and a decoder to generate a trained autoencoder. A trained encoder is configured to receive a first plurality of input data in an N-dimensional data space and generate a first plurality of latent variables in an M-dimensional latent space, wherein M is an integer less than N. A sampling process is performed on the first plurality of latent variables to generate a first plurality of latent variable samples. A trained decoder is used to generate a second training dataset using the first plurality of latent variable samples. The second training dataset is used to train a first classifier including a first classifier neural network model to generate a trained classifier for providing transaction classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Yanfei Dong
  • Patent number: 11580429
    Abstract: A neural network system is proposed, including an input network for extracting, from state data, respective entity data for each a plurality of entities which are present, or at least potentially present, in the environment. The entity data describes the entity. The neural network contains a relational network for parsing this data, which includes one or more attention blocks which may be stacked to perform successive actions on the entity data. The attention blocks each include a respective transform network for each of the entities. The transform network for each entity is able to transform data which the transform network receives for the entity into modified entity data for the entity, based on data for a plurality of the other entities. An output network is arranged to receive data output by the relational network, and use the received data to select a respective action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Yujia Li, Victor Constant Bapst, Vinicius Zambaldi, David Nunes Raposo, Adam Anthony Santoro
  • Patent number: 11537908
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for dynamically determining a discipline-specific knowledge value of an agent. In one example, the method may include receiving from an agent, via a computing device, a formulation of content that corresponds to an inquiry, determining a knowledge value for the agent based on one or more of the content and a property of the inquiry with respect to a dynamically defined solution to the inquiry, and storing the determined knowledge value of the agent within a storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: HUMAN DX, LTD
    Inventors: Jayanth Komarneni, Irving Lin
  • Patent number: 11531874
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for training a neural network, wherein the neural network is configured to receive an input data item and to process the input data item to generate a respective score for each label in a predetermined set of multiple labels. The method includes actions of obtaining a set of training data that includes a plurality of training items, wherein each training item is associated with a respective label from the predetermined set of multiple labels; and modifying the training data to generate regularizing training data, comprising: for each training item, determining whether to modify the label associated with the training item, and changing the label associated with the training item to a different label from the predetermined set of labels, and training the neural network on the regularizing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Sergey Ioffe
  • Patent number: 11488053
    Abstract: Certain embodiments involve automatically controlling modifications to typeface designs. For example, a typeface design application provides a design interface for modifying a design of an input character from a typeface. The typeface design application accesses a machine-learning model that is trained, using multiple training typefaces, to recognize the input character as a reference character. The typeface design application receives, via the design interface, an input modifying the design of the input character. The typeface design application determines that the machine-learning model cannot match the reference character to the input character having a modified design. The typeface design application outputs, via the design interface, an indicator that the input character having the modified design is not recognized as the reference character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Thomas T. Donahue, Richard Sinn, Allan M. Young, Guy Nicholas
  • Patent number: 11481661
    Abstract: A segmentation platform enables a system that comprises a behavior service and a predictive service for determining a segment from a dataset. The behavior service can analyze data to determine information about behavior that has already occurred. The predictive service can analyze data to determine information about the predicted propensity for certain behavior to occur in the future. In some cases, the predictive service can determine the information by utilizing a training model that indicates predictions related to potential relationships among properties of a dataset. The segmentation platform also enables an interactive user interface that can be utilized to configure attributes of the segment, analyze information associated with the segment, and deliver the information to another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Aman Madaan, Jagdish Chand, Somashekhar Pammar, Venkata Sesha Rao Polavarapu, Kingdom Iweajunwa, Sunil Sharma, Tarun Jain, Dirk Reinshagen, Derek Vroom
  • Patent number: 11461690
    Abstract: A distributed, online machine learning system is presented. Contemplated systems include many private data servers, each having local private data. Researchers can request that relevant private data servers train implementations of machine learning algorithms on their local private data without requiring de-identification of the private data or without exposing the private data to unauthorized computing systems. The private data servers also generate synthetic or proxy data according to the data distributions of the actual data. The servers then use the proxy data to train proxy models. When the proxy models are sufficiently similar to the trained actual models, the proxy data, proxy model parameters, or other learned knowledge can be transmitted to one or more non-private computing devices. The learned knowledge from many private data servers can then be aggregated into one or more trained global models without exposing private data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: NANTOMICS, LLC, NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Szeto, Stephen Charles Benz, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Patent number: 11386322
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for routing in an electronic design. Embodiments may include receiving, using at least one processor, global route data associated with an electronic design as an input and generating detail route data, based upon, at least in part, the global route data. Embodiments may further include transforming one or more of the detail route data and the global route data into at least one input feature and at least one output result of a deep neural network. Embodiments may also include training the deep neural network with the global route data and the detail route data and predicting an output associated with a detail route based upon, at least in part, a trained deep neural network model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Weibin Ding, Jie Chen, Chao Luo, Xin-Lei Zhang