Patents Examined by Michael C. Lee
  • Patent number: 11954438
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide techniques to identify the in-context meanings of natural language in order to decipher the evolution or creation of new vocabulary words and create a more holistic user experience. Thus, disclosed embodiments improve the technical field of digital content comprehension. In embodiments, machine learning is used to identify sentiment of text, perform entity detection to determine topics of text, and/or perform image analysis on images used in digital content. Words, symbols, and images that are determined to be potentially unfamiliar to a user are augmented with a supplemental definition indication. Invoking the supplemental definition indication enables rendering of additional definition information for the user. This serves to accelerate understanding of digital content such as webpages and social media posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Dasson Tan, Emma Alexandra Vert, Matthew Digman, Jessica L. Zhao
  • Patent number: 11954440
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to invoke an image processing module to ingest a digital invoice. An evaluation module derives metrics from the digital invoice. A semantic document processing module forms entity extracts from the digital invoice, where each entity extract from the digital invoice has a potential mapping to a trained machine learning model element. An entity extraction correction module overrides the potential mapping to the trained machine learning model element when user feedback from a similar entity extract from a previously processed digital invoice exists to produce a processed digital invoice with a user feedback element inconsistent with the potential mapping to the trained machine learning model element. The processed digital invoice is delivered to an accounting module for final disposition of the digital invoice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: AppZen, Inc.
    Inventors: Edris Naderan, Parivesh Priye, Amrit Singhal, Arghyadeep Giri, Debashish Panigrahi, Hyram Du, Kunal Verma
  • Patent number: 11941366
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a context-based multi-turn dialogue method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Chi Shao, Dongyan Huang, Wan Ding, Youjun Xiong
  • Patent number: 11935520
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying the beginning and ending of songs via a machine learning analysis. A machine learning model analyzes streaming audio (such as a radio broadcast) in overlapping, 3-second samples. Each sample is labeled into groups such as “song,” “talk,” “commercial” and “transition.” Based on the location of the transition samples, an exact second a given song begins and ends in the audio stream is derivable. The model further identifies when two songs shift between one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Auddia Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Shoebridge, Jeffrey Thramann, Pablo Calderon Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11935543
    Abstract: Methods and systems for multimodal conversational dialogue. The multimodal conversational dialogue system includes multiple sensors to detect multimodal inputs from a user. The multimodal conversational dialogue system includes a multimodal sematic parser that performs semantic parsing and multimodal fusion of the multimodal inputs to determine a goal of the user. The multimodal conversational dialogue system includes a dialogue manager that generates a dialogue with the user in real-time. The dialogue includes system-generated utterances that are used to conduct a conversation between the user and the multimodal conversational dialogue system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Openstream Inc.
    Inventors: Philp R. Cohen, Rajasekhar Tumuluri
  • Patent number: 11907678
    Abstract: A machine translation system, a ChatOps system, a method for a context-aware language machine identification, and computer program product. One embodiment of the machine translation system may include a density calculator. The density calculator may be adapted to calculate a part of speech (POS) density for a plurality of word tokens in an input text, calculate a knowledge density for the plurality of word tokens, and calculate an information density for the plurality of word tokens using the POS density and the knowledge density. In some embodiments, the machine translation system may further comprise a sememe attacher and a context translator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Fan Wang, Li Cao, Rui Wang, Lei Gao
  • Patent number: 11900920
    Abstract: A sound pickup device includes a plurality of microphone elements, a sensitivity correcting unit that corrects a difference in sensitivity among the microphone elements by multiplying an output signal of each of the microphone elements by a gain. The sound pickup device also includes a target sound detecting unit that detects a voice of a speaker as a target sound, a sensitivity correction control unit that controls the gain based on a result of detecting the target sound, and a directivity synthesizing unit that picks up the target sound in a boosted manner using the output signals from the microphone elements of which difference in sensitivity is corrected. The sensitivity correction control unit updates the gain based on the output signals from the microphone elements if the voice of the speaker is detected and does not update the gain if the voice of the speaker is not detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hiroki Furukawa, Shinichi Yuzuriha
  • Patent number: 11893346
    Abstract: From metadata of a corpus of natural language text documents, a relativity matrix is constructed, a row-column intersection in the relativity matrix corresponding to a relationship between two instances of a type of metadata. An encoder model is trained, generating a trained encoder model, to compute an embedding corresponding to a token of a natural language text document within the corpus and the relativity matrix, the encoder model comprising a first encoder layer, the first encoder layer comprising a token embedding portion, a relativity embedding portion, a token self-attention portion, a metadata self-attention portion, and a fusion portion, the training comprising adjusting a set of parameters of the encoder model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hui Wan, Xiaodong Cui, Luis A. Lastras-Montano
  • Patent number: 11881214
    Abstract: Techniques for sending prompt data related to content output on a voice-controlled device are described. In an example, a computer system receives request for audio output at a user device. The computer system determines a recommendation for content. The computer system also generates customization data for prompt data based on one or more user features, context features, metadata features, and a history of customization data. The prompt data includes the customization data and an acknowledgement associated with the request. The computer system sends the prompt data to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashlesha Vishnu Kadam, Ian Michael Menzies, Cristian Grub Rodriguez, Suyash Parth
  • Patent number: 11875133
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for providing subtitles for a media content item. Subtitles are obtained, using control circuitry, for the media content item. Control circuitry determines whether a character component of the subtitles should be replaced by an image component. In response to determining that the character component of the subtitles should be replaced by an image component, control circuitry selects, from memory, an image component corresponding to the character component. Control circuitry replaces the character component of the subtitles by the image component to generate modified subtitles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Ankur Anil Aher, Charishma Chundi
  • Patent number: 11868730
    Abstract: System and method for aspect-level sentiment classification. The system includes a computing device, the computing device has a processer and a storage device storing computer executable code. The computer executable code is configured to: receive a sentence having a labeled aspect term and context; convert the sentence into a dependency tree graph; calculate an attention matrix of the dependency tree graph based on one-hop attention between any two nodes of the graph; calculate multi-head attention diffusion for any two nodes from the attention matrix; obtain updated embedding of the graph using the multi-head diffusion attention; classify the aspect term based on the updated embedding of the graph to obtain predicted classification of the aspect term; calculate loss function based on the predicted classification and the ground truth label of the aspect term; and adjust parameters of models in the computer executable code based on the loss function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: JINGDONG DIGITS TECHNOLOGY HOLDING CO., LTD., JD FINANCE AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaochen Hou, Jing Huang, Guangtao Wang, Xiaodong He, Bowen Zhou
  • Patent number: 11853340
    Abstract: In one aspect, a system receives a request to cluster a set of log records. Responsive to receiving the request, the system identifies at least one dictionary that defines a set of tokens and corresponding token weights and generates, based at least in part on the set of tokens and corresponding token weights, a set of clusters such that each cluster in the set of clusters represents a unique combination of two or more tokens from the dictionary and groups a subset of log records mapped to the unique combination of two or more tokens. The system may then perform one or more automated actions based on at least one cluster in the set of clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Dhileeban Kumaresan, Sreeji Krishnan Das, Adrienne Wong
  • Patent number: 11853710
    Abstract: Natural language elements are present in both the executable lines and non-executable lines of the code. Rich information hidden within them are often ignored in code analysis as extraction of meaningful insights from its raw form is not straight forward. A system and method extracting natural language elements from an application source code is provided. The disclosure provides a method for performing detailed analytics on the natural language elements, classify those using deep learning networks and create meaningful insights. The system understands the different type of natural language elements, comment patterns present in the application source code and segregates the authentic comments having valuable insights, version comments, data element level comments from other non-value adding comments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Yogananda Ravindranath, Tamildurai Mehalingam, Aditya Thuruvas Senthil, Reshinth Gnana Adithyan, Shrayan Banerjee, Balakrishnan Venkatanarayanan
  • Patent number: 11837254
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for a frontend capture module of a video conferencing application, which can modify an input signal, received from a microphone device to match predetermined signal characteristics, such as voice signal level and expected noise floor. An Input stage, a suppression module and an output stage amplify the voice signal portion of the input signal and suppress the noise signal of input signal to predetermined ranges. The input stage selectively applies gains defined by a gain table, based on signal level of the input signal. The suppression module selectively applies a suppression gain to the input signal based on presence or absence of voice signal in the input signal. The output stage further amplifies the input signal in portions having a voice signal and applies a gain table to maintain a consistent noise floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Yu Rao
  • Patent number: 11823707
    Abstract: An audio spotting system configured for various operating modes including a regular mode and sensitivity mode is described. An example cascade audio spotting system may include a high-power subsystem including a high-power trigger and a transfer module. This high-power trigger includes one or more detection models used to detect whether a target sound activity is included in the one or more audio streams. The one or more detection models are associated with a first set of hyperparameters when the cascade audio spotting system is in a regular mode, and the one or more detection models are associated with a second set of hyperparameters when the cascade audio spotting system is in a sensitivity mode. The transfer module provides at least one of one or more processed audio streams for further processing in response to the high-power trigger detecting the target sound activity in the one or more audio streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari
  • Patent number: 11810550
    Abstract: A computer system may connect to various customer-facing devices and manage or automate the order process between a retail store and the customer. The computer system may perform the dialogue and receive an order for items from the retail store and may perform quality control monitoring of the dialogue between customers and employees taking orders. The ordering system may utilize the ordered items in combination with various contextual cues to determine a customer identity which may then be linked to past orders and/or various order preferences. Based on the determined customer identity, the system may provide recommendations of additional order items or order alterations to the customer before personally identifying information has been collected from the customer. The determination of the customer identity and the determination of recommendations may be performed by machine learning algorithms that were trained on customer data and the retail store products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventors: Vinay Kumar Shukla, Rahul Aggarwal, Pranav Nirmal Mehra, Vrajesh Navinchandra Sejpal, Akshay Labh Kayastha, Yuganeshan A J
  • Patent number: 11804229
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing a processed audio signal representation on the basis of input audio signal representation configured to apply an un-windowing, in order to provide the processed audio signal representation on the basis of the input audio signal representation. The apparatus is configured to adapt the un-windowing in dependence on one or more signal characteristics and/or in dependence on one or more processing parameters used for a provision of the input audio signal representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Bayer, Pallavi Maben, Emmanuel Ravelli, Guillaume Fuchs, Eleni Fotopoulou, Markus Multrus
  • Patent number: 11804226
    Abstract: A method includes providing audio signals of an interaction between a plurality of human speakers, the speakers speaking into electronic devices to record the audio signals. The audio signals, which are optionally combined, include agent audio and subject audio. The method further includes automatically processing the audio signals to generate a speaker separated natural language transcript of the interaction from the audio signals. For each identified question, a subject response is identified. From the agent text, it is determined whether the question asked by the at least one agent is an open question or a closed question. A decision engine is used to determine the veracity of the subject response and the subject response is flagged if the indicia of the likelihood of deception in the subject response exceeds a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Lexiqal Ltd
    Inventors: James Laird, Nigel Cannings, Cornelius Patrick Glackin, Julie Ann Wall, Nikesh Bajaj
  • Patent number: 11797776
    Abstract: A device may receive training data that includes datasets associated with natural language processing, and may mask the training data to generate masked training data. The device may train a masked event C-BERT model, with the masked training data, to generate pretrained weights and a trained masked event C-BERT model, and may train an event aware C-BERT model, with the training data and the pretrained weights, to generate a trained event aware C-BERT model. The device may receive natural language text data identifying natural language events, and may process the natural language text data, with the trained masked event C-BERT model, to determine weights. The device may process the natural language text data and the weights, with the trained event aware C-BERT model, to predict causality relationships between the natural language events, and may perform actions, based on the causality relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Vivek Kumar Khetan, Mayuresh Anand, Roshni Ramesh Ramnani, Shubhashis Sengupta, Andrew E. Fano
  • Patent number: 11790893
    Abstract: A voice processing method is disclosed. The voice processing method applies first and second sentence vectors extracted from first and second utterances, that are included in one dialog group and are separated from each other, to a learning model and generates an output from which at least one word having an overlapping meaning is removed. The voice processing method can be associated with an artificial intelligence module, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, devices related to 5G services, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kwangyong Lee, Hyun Yu, Byeongha Kim, Yejin Kim