Patents Examined by Lamont M. Spooner
  • Patent number: 11841737
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for error detection, performed by one or more processors of a computing device according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure. The method includes evaluating an error rate for a sentence to be evaluated, in a first language unit. the method includes evaluating an error rate in a second language unit which is smaller than the first language unit, based on the first language unit error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: ACTIONPOWER CORP.
    Inventors: Hwanbok Mun, Sangyoun Paik, Subong Choi, Dongchan Shin, Jihwa Lee
  • Patent number: 11836455
    Abstract: A call translation system and a method for operating the management system in a controlled environment is disclosed. The call translation system includes a calling device and a call translation server. The calling device receives authorization from the call translation server to conduct call sessions within the controlled environment. The calling device further receives a call session application from the call translation server that enables the calling device to initiate and establish call sessions through the call translation server. The call session application allows a user of the calling device to select outside parties to add to the call session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Global Tel*Link Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen L. Hodge
  • Patent number: 11816444
    Abstract: Provided are a model training method for neural machine translation that enhances an encoder using a monolingual corpus of a target language and improves the accuracy of the entire translator, and a machine translation system for performing the model training method. The machine translation system 1000 uses a monolingual corpus of the target language to obtain multiple pieces of pseudo source language data, thus allowing for obtaining a large amount of pseudo parallel corpus data having diversity. Further, the machine translation system 1000 uses both the pseudo parallel corpus data having diversity, which has been obtained in large quantities, and the base parallel corpus data in a small quantity but with high accuracy, with the applied learning rates changed accordingly, to perform the learning process (training process) for the machine translation model. This allows the machine translation system 1000 to obtain a learned model (machine translation model) with very high accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kenji Imamura, Atsushi Fujita, Eiichiro Sumita
  • Patent number: 11783126
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention detect affective argumentation in text. In an example, an application executing on a computing device accesses text comprising fragments. The application creates a discourse tree from the text. The discourse tree includes nodes, each nonterminal node representing a rhetorical relationship between two of the fragments and each terminal node of the nodes of the discourse tree is associated with one of the fragments. The application matches each fragment that has a verb to a verb signature, thereby creating a communicative discourse tree. The application determines whether the communicative discourse tree represents text that includes affective argumentation by applying a classification model trained to detect affective argumentation to the communicative discourse tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Boris Galitsky
  • Patent number: 11775771
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention calculate a rhetorical relationship between one or more sentences. In an example, a computer-implemented method accesses a sentence comprising a plurality of fragments. At least one fragment includes a verb and a words. Each word includes a role of the words within the fragment. Each fragment is an elementary discourse unit. The method generates a discourse tree that represents rhetorical relationships between the sentence fragments. The discourse tree includes nodes including nonterminal and terminal nodes, each nonterminal node representing a rhetorical relationship between two of the sentence fragments, and each terminal node of the nodes of the discourse tree is associated with one of the sentence fragments. The method matches each fragment that has a verb to a verb signature, thereby creating communicative discourse tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Boris Galitsky
  • Patent number: 11763083
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing inference for word or wordpiece tokenization are disclosed using a left-to-right longest-match-first greedy process. In some examples, the vocabulary may be organized into a trie structure in which each node includes a precomputed token or token ID and a fail link, so that the tokenizer can parse the trie in a single pass to generate a list of only those tokens or token IDs that correspond to the longest matching vocabulary entries in the sample string, without the need for backtracking. In some examples, the vocabulary may be organized into a trie in which each node has a fail link, and any node that would share token(s) or token_ID(s) of a preceding node is instead given a prev_match link that points back to a chain of nodes with those token(s) or token_ID(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Xinying Song, Yang Song
  • Patent number: 11763103
    Abstract: A video translation method includes: converting speech in a video to be translated into text; displaying the text and first time information, second time information, and a reference translation of the text; in response to an operation by a user on the text or the reference translation, displaying an editing area supporting the user inputting a translation; following input by the user, providing a translation suggestion from the reference translation; when a confirmation operation by the user for the translation suggestion is detected, using the translation suggestion as a translation result and displaying the same; when a non-confirmation operation by the user for the translation suggestion is detected, receiving a translation inputted by the user which is different from the translation suggestion, using the inputted translation as a translation result and displaying the same, and updating the reference translation in a translation area according to the inputted translation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzhang Du, Peihao Zhu, Yiming Chen, Chongxing Zhou, Mingxuan Wang, Lei Li
  • Patent number: 11755837
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for training and using a machine learning model to extract relevant textual content for custom fields in a software application from freeform text samples. An example method generally includes generating, via a natural language processing pipeline, a training data set from a data set of freeform text samples and field entries for a plurality of custom fields defined in a software application. A first machine learning model is trained to identify custom fields for which relevant data is included in freeform text. A second machine learning model is trained to extract content from the freeform text into one or more custom fields of the plurality of custom fields defined in the software application and identified by the first machine learning model as custom fields for which relevant data is included in the freeform text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Naveen Kumar Kaveti, Shrutendra Harsola, Poorvi Agrawal, Vikas Raturi
  • Patent number: 11748572
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention validate argumentation in text. In an example, an application forms a communicative discourse tree from a subset of text by matching each fragment of the subset that has a verb to a verb signature. The application identifies that the subset includes an argument by applying a classification model trained to detect argumentation to the communicative discourse tree. The application further creates a logic system based on a claim of the argument, a domain definition clause associated with a domain of the text, a set of defeasible rules based on the communicative discourse tree, and a set of facts from one or more of the communicative actions of the communicative discourse tree. The application evaluates a consistency of the argument with respect to itself and with respect to the domain definition clauses by solving the logic system, thereby validating a claim associated with the argument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Boris Galitsky
  • Patent number: 11694037
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention calculate a rhetorical relationship between one or more sentences. In an example, a computer-implemented method accesses a sentence comprising a plurality of fragments. At least one fragment includes a verb and a words. Each word includes a role of the words within the fragment. Each fragment is an elementary discourse unit. The method generates a discourse tree that represents rhetorical relationships between the sentence fragments. The discourse tree includes nodes including nonterminal and terminal nodes, each nonterminal node representing a rhetorical relationship between two of the sentence fragments, and each terminal node of the nodes of the discourse tree is associated with one of the sentence fragments. The method matches each fragment that has a verb to a verb signature, thereby creating communicative discourse tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Boris Galitsky
  • Patent number: 11663422
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for providing automated online chat assistance in multiple languages. A query in a first language is received via a chat robot from a user device. The query is machine-translated into a second language and transmitted to an artificial intelligence system that includes a dialog tree configured in the second language. The artificial intelligence system determines a response in the second language to the query by locating a node corresponding to an intent based on the query in the dialog tree. The node includes a node ID and response text in the second language. The artificial intelligence system transmits the second-language response including the node ID to the chat robot. The second-language response is intercepted, and first-language response text corresponding to the second-language response text is determined based on the node ID. The second-language response text is then provided to the user device by the chat robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Pandey, Ajay Aswal, Deepak Raman, Harish Nalagandla, Jian Wan, Vinaykanth Manthena
  • Patent number: 11651156
    Abstract: There is a need for more effective and efficient document summarization. This need can be addressed by, for example, techniques for contextual summarization using semantic intelligence. In one example, a method includes identifying a plurality of senses associated with a plurality of words in a document; for each word-sense pair, determining a word-sense probability score; determining, based at least in part on each word-sense probability score for a word-sense pair, one or more context buckets for the document and one or more sense buckets for the document; determining, based at least in part on the one or more context buckets for the document and the one or more sense buckets for the document, the contextual summarization of the document; and performing one or more document processing actions based at least in part on the contextual summarization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Optum Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay K. Singh, Anshuman Sinha, Devikiran Ramadas, Piyush Gupta
  • Patent number: 11636273
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure sets forth a technique for generating translation suggestions. The technique includes receiving a sequence of source-language subtitle events associated with a content item, where each source-language subtitle event includes a different textual string representing a corresponding portion of the content item, generating a unit of translatable text based on a textual string included in at least one source-language subtitle event from the sequence, translating, via software executing on a machine, the unit of translatable text into target-language text, generating, based on the target-language text, at least one target-language subtitle event associated with a portion of the content item corresponding to the at least one source-language subtitle event, and generating, for display, a subtitle presentation template that includes the at least one target-language subtitle event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.
    Inventors: Ballav Bihani, Matthew James Rickard, Marianna Semeniakin, Ranjith Kumar Shetty, Allison Filemyr Smith, Patrick Brendon Pearson, Sameer Shah
  • Patent number: 11630953
    Abstract: Described herein are embodiments for end-to-end reinforcement learning based coreference resolution models to directly optimize coreference evaluation metrics. Embodiments of a reinforced policy gradient model are disclosed to incorporate reward associated with a sequence of coreference linking actions. Furthermore, maximum entropy regularization may be used for adequate exploration to prevent a model embodiment from prematurely converging to a bad local optimum. Experiments on datasets compared with state-of-the-art methods verified the effectiveness of embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: Baidu USA LLC, Baidu.com Times Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongliang Fei, Xu Li, Dingcheng Li, Ping Li
  • Patent number: 11615247
    Abstract: Disclosed are a labeling method and apparatus for named entity recognition of a legal instrument. The method includes steps: step S1: acquiring a legal text, and transforming the legal text into an index table; step S2: outputting a sentence feature encoding result; step S3: performing training and prediction; step S4: obtaining a set; step S5: obtaining a multi-head score transfer matrix; step S6: obtaining a score transfer matrix corresponding to the legal text; step S7: determining a recognized nested entity; and S8: constructing an entity labeling template by using the recognized nested entity. According to the present disclosure, a user tries to complete recognition of nested entity labeling by changing an input of the BERT model, and a multi-head selection matrix labeling thought of the present disclosure is used to relieve the difficulty in recognizing a long text and a nested entity in an NER task to a larger extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG LAB
    Inventors: Hongsheng Wang, Hujun Bao, Guang Chen, Chao Ma, Qing Liao
  • Patent number: 11605379
    Abstract: Disclosed is an artificial intelligence server. The artificial intelligence server includes a communicator in communication with at least one electronic device and a processor for receiving input data from a specific electronic device, applying personalized information corresponding to the specific electronic device to a recognition model, inputting the input data into the recognition model to which the personalized information is applied to obtain a final result value, and transmitting the final result value to the specific electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jongwoo Han
  • Patent number: 11604928
    Abstract: A dialog change service builds a directed graph of nodes, each described by code for a conversational agent stored in source control, the code comprising one or more dialog-based features. The dialog change service, responsive to receiving a request for a dialog change to a particular node of the conversational agent, evaluates the directed graph to identify an additional selection of nodes that require a similar changes as the dialog change based on textual and structural content. The dialog change service updates the code for the particular node and the additional selection of nodes to propagate the dialog change in the conversational agent stored in source control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rebecca R. James, Lalit Agarwalla, Shane M. Kilmon, Andrew R. Freed, Leo Mazzoli
  • Patent number: 11593561
    Abstract: A phrase that includes a trigger word that modifies a meaning within the phrase is received. The trigger word is identified. The words of the phrase that are modified by the trigger word are identified by analyzing features of the phrase that link the trigger word to other words. The phrase is interpreted by modifying the second subset of words according to the modification of the trigger word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Contreras, Krishna Mahajan, Roberto Delima, Kandhan Sekar, Corville O. Allen, Chris Mwarabu
  • Patent number: 11586827
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods of the present disclosure use discourse analysis and other techniques to form questions and answers from text. The questions and answers can be used for different applications, including providing a virtual dialogue or generating training data for machine-learning models. For example, a dialogue application generates a discourse tree that represents text and identifies a question from a satellite elementary discourse unit of the discourse tree. The dialogue application annotates the text by inserting the generated question and labeling the satellite elementary discourse unit as an answer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Boris Galitsky
  • Patent number: 11580314
    Abstract: A document translation method includes: displaying a source text display region, a translated text region, and an editing region, wherein textual content in a document to be translated is displayed in the source text display region, and reference translated text for the textual content is displayed in the translated text region; and providing a translated text recommendation from the reference translated text according to input from a user within the editing region. The method further includes: displaying the translation recommendation in the editing area as a translation result, if a confirmation operation for the translation recommendation is detected; and receiving a translation inputted by the user that is different from the translation recommendation and displaying the translation inputted by the user in the editing area as the translation result, if a non-confirmation operation for the translation recommendation is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuzhang Du, Peihao Zhu, Chongxing Zhou, Yiming Chen, Mingxuan Wang, Lei Li