Patents Examined by Quoc A. Tran
  • Patent number: 11403653
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to administration of an electronic survey via third-party content. For example, an electronic survey system receives a request to provide an electronic survey within a survey placeholder of a third-party webpage provided to a client device associated with a respondent. The survey system determines characteristics of the webpage or the respondent. The survey system then selects an electronic survey by comparing the characteristics of available electronic surveys to the characteristics of the webpage or the respondent. Additionally, the survey system provides electronic questions from the selected electronic survey for display within the survey placeholder of the webpage. The survey system also administers the electronic survey within the survey placeholder without redirecting the respondent client device away from the third-party webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Qualtrics, LLC
    Inventor: Ali BaderEddin
  • Patent number: 11403361
    Abstract: A method may include receiving, from a browser, a request for a tracking pixel including a uniform resource locator (URL) of the tracking pixel and a session identifier (ID) of the browser. The URL of the tracking pixel may be included in a CSS selector. The method may further include sending, to the browser and as triggered by the request for the tracking pixel, a request to scan a document object model (DOM) of the browser. The request to scan the DOM may include the session ID. The method may further include receiving, from the browser, scan results including a set of dependencies on the CSS selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Knudtson, Rajeev Goonewardene, Sonia May-Patlin, Adil Malik, Sina Jalali, Jasmine Woo
  • Patent number: 11397994
    Abstract: A method comprises generating a claim wall comprising a website page and associated with the insurance claim, providing access to the claim wall for an insured party, an insuring party, and a third party service provider, generating a claim entry associated with the insurance claim including one or more tasks for processing of the insurance claim, and posting the claim entry including the one or more tasks on the claim wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Roberta Urrutia, Pamela Glimm Diener, Shanna Ruth Limas, Jennifer Lynn Darland, Richard Paul Proft, Cleburne Robinson Burgess, Regina Rose Van Nest
  • Patent number: 11397892
    Abstract: A method and a system for generating an abstractive summary of a document using an abstractive machine learning algorithm (MLA) and a method and a system for training the abstractive MLA. A document including a plurality of text sequences is received. An extractive summary of the document is generated, the extractive summary including a set of summary text sequences which is a subset of the plurality of text sequences. The abstractive MLA generates, based on the set of summary text sequences and at least a portion of the plurality of text sequences, an abstractive summary of the document including a set of abstractive text sequences, at least one abstractive text sequence not being included in the plurality of text sequences. In some aspects, the extractive summary is generated by an extractive MLA having been trained to generate extractive summaries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SERVICENOW CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Sandeep Subramanian, Raymond Li, Jonathan Pilault, Christophe Pal
  • Patent number: 11386884
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates a new platform and system for the transcription of electronic online content, such as a website, from mostly visual/text format normally seen on screens to a different audio-adapted format for being broadcasted to the user via an intelligent speaker system, such as the Echo® system. More specifically, the platform and system includes an automated engine with artificial intelligence and machine learning for the transformation of written websites into to audible-enable content for use in association with new technology intelligent speakers, for implementing data mining, processing, and summarizing tools. The system primarily relies upon a capacity to diagnose, recognize template-like patterns in html format to create different levels of importance to the content stored online. Once content is triaged, it then is given processed in one of many way to help deliver and render useful content based on one of many features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Inventor: Victor Schiller
  • Patent number: 11379183
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to providing at least one response to a user of a user device using a visual assistant, wherein the at least one response is based on at least one user query. In an embodiment, the virtual assistant system receives the at least one user query through a virtual multimedia contact, wherein the virtual multimedia contact is invoked by receiving a user command from the user through an interface. Thereafter, the virtual assistant system determines the at least one response based on the at least one user query. Further, the virtual assistant system selects a visual assistant (virtual character) for representing the at least one response and subsequently provides the at least one response to the user device using the visual assistant by transmitting the at least one response to the user device using the visual assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: JIO PLATFORMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Efstratios Davlos, Sourja Banerjee, Jitendra Sahu, Mallikarjun S Bidari, Akshay Prakash Gaonkar, Salman Shaikh, Rohan Khanna, Satinder Pal Singh, Vineet Garg
  • Patent number: 11379182
    Abstract: Methods and systems described in this disclosure receive a request for assistance from a device associated with a user, launch a conversational virtual assistant on the device, determine at least one potential subject of the request based on information associated with the user and a tab or webpage from which the conversational virtual assistant is launched, receive a verification of the subject of the request, create a contact menu with options for receiving the assistance, and receive a selection of one of the options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
    Inventors: Brett Knight, Jeffrey William Gallagher, Justin Leggett, Andrew P. Jamison
  • Patent number: 11381529
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums which provide for an agent support application with a plurality of plug-in communication support assistants. Each of the plurality of plug-in communication support assistants monitors communications between the agents and customers for different conversational triggers. Conversational triggers may be any conversation, either by the agent or the customer, that the communication support assistant is trained to detect. Upon detecting one of these conversational triggers, the plug-in communication support assistant provides one or more suggestions to the agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Kimarie Pike Matthews, Richard Castanho, Germaine S. Chee, Robin J. Cusimano, Brett D. Ehrlich, Tyua Larsen Fraser, Colleen Reardon Graham, Gregory Scott Hill, James W. Pedersen, Timothy J. Shipman
  • Patent number: 11361235
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic generating of a Bayes net content graph are disclosed herein. The system can include a memory including a mapping matrix. The system can include at least one server. The at least one server can generate a user matrix having n columns and p rows. In some aspects, each of the n columns is associated with a student and each of the p rows is associated with a content item. The at least one server can: store the user matrix in the memory; retrieve the mapping matrix from the memory; iteratively identify prerequisite relationships between the skills identified in the user matrix; generate edges between the skills in the user matrix based on the iteratively identified prerequisite relationships; and orient the edges between the skill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.
    Inventors: Jose Gonzalez-Brenes, John Behrens, Johann Larusson, Yetian Chen
  • Patent number: 11361035
    Abstract: Batch generating of links to documents in which named content is automatically discovered within documents is disclosed. A selection of a plurality of documents is received from a user. Then, a list of search terms each correlated to a hyperlink destination is generated from the received selection of the electronic documents. Each of the plurality of electronic documents is scanned for text strings that match search terms stored in a list. Without user intervention, activatable hyperlinks from the matched text strings in the plurality of electronic documents are generated. Activatable hyperlinks to the respective matched text strings in each of the plurality of electronic documents are appended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: BLUEBEAM, INC.
    Inventors: Jack Kutilek, Peter Noyes
  • Patent number: 11355035
    Abstract: Certain embodiments involve generating a real-time notification to facilitate the delivery of customized content, based on detecting that a subject activity occurs within a customized subject region. For instance, a computing system updates a graphical interface to display, as a layer on a map, detected instances of a subject activity performed within a geographic area of the map. The computing system determines a polygon corresponding to a region of the geographic area, where the polygon is determined from a graphical input representing lines at locations on the map on which the detected instances are overlaid. The computing system determines that a location of a detected instance of the subject activity performed by a user device falls within the polygon. The computing system transmits a notification to a content provider, such that the content provider delivers customized content to the user device that performed the detected instance of the subject activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Menguy, Navin Chaganti, Aditya Satishrao Borde
  • Patent number: 11356545
    Abstract: A communication terminal and a method of providing a unified natural language interface to the same are disclosed. The method includes: determining, when text information containing many characters is created, whether the text information conforms to one of preset grammatical constraints; extracting, when the text information conforms to one of the grammatical constraints, tokens of one or more of characters from the text information, and extracting, when the text information does not conform to one of the grammatical constraints, one or more characters having an attribute probability higher than a reference probability as a token; and analyzing the extracted tokens to determine a function to handle the extracted tokens, and executing the determined function based on the extracted tokens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sogang University Research & Commercialization Foundation
    Inventors: Myeong Gi Jeong, Young Hee Park, Kwang Choon Kim, Jung Yun Seo, Choong Nyoung Seon
  • Patent number: 11347942
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: an acceptance unit that accepts a process request to an operation system; a specifying unit that, based on the process request, specifies an operation task to be executed in the operation system; an extraction unit that performs text analysis on the process request and extracts an answer item corresponding to an input item required at execution of the operation task from the process request; and an execution unit that executes the operation task based on the answer item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masako Imanishi, Yousuke Motohashi, Koichi Todo, Sawako Umezu
  • Patent number: 11347792
    Abstract: A video abstract generation method is provided. The method includes obtaining a target searching condition; searching a video database for structured image data meeting the target searching condition, the structured image data being stored in the video database in a structured data format; and performing video synthesis on the structured image data meeting the target searching condition, to generate a video abstract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hao Zhang, Xiang Qi Huang, Yong Jun Chen
  • Patent number: 11341319
    Abstract: A method comprising receiving an image of an electronic document comprising data fields and corresponding textual regions; processing said image to obtain (i) a collection of said data fields comprising an indication of a location and a field type, and (ii) an array of said textual regions comprising an indication of a location and a content; creating a mapping comprising associations of data fields in said collection with textual regions in said array based, at least in part, on analyzing a geometric relationship between each of said data fields and each of said textual regions; deriving at least one context rule for evaluating said associations, based, at least in part, on identifying a structure of said electronic document; and determining a correctness of at least one of said associations in said mapping, based, at least in part, on said at least one context rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: INTERAI INC.
    Inventors: Imri Hecht, Tomer Suarez
  • Patent number: 11334748
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a manager that manages documents stored in a memory together with history information including version information indicating a history of revision, a receiver that receives extraction criteria selected from the history information, and an extractor that extracts the documents from the memory based on the received extraction criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 11328732
    Abstract: A method for generating a summary text composition can include obtaining historical reading data of a user. The method can include generating, based on the historical reading data, a reading proficiency level of the user. The method can include selecting, based on the reading proficiency level, a summarization model from a set of summarization models. The method can include obtaining a target composition. The target composition can be selected from the group consisting of a literary work, a video recording, and an audio recording. The method can include generating, by the summarization model, the summary text composition. The summary text composition can correspond to the target composition and have a first reading level classification that matches the reading proficiency level. The method can include transmitting the summary text composition to a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yufang Hou, Beat Buesser, Bei Chen, Akihiro Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 11321515
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, computer readable mediums (CRMs), and systems for creating, organizing, viewing, and connecting annotations of web documents within web browsers that are made to be annotation capable. Methods, CRMs, and systems for an annotation capable web browser transmitting annotation highlighted text, annotation comment, uniform resource locator (URL), document object model (DOM) context, screenshot with marked annotation highlighted text, and annotation symbol to an annotation server are presented. Furthermore, methods, CRMs, and systems of organizing annotations within an annotation organization context area, visual queues for viewing and recognizing annotations in web documents, and a notepad for connecting annotations between web documents are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: ExactNote, Inc.
    Inventors: Sunil Pinnamaneni, Rona Sfakianakis
  • Patent number: 11314398
    Abstract: A system and method for predicting an ultrasound image depth selection is provided. The method may include presenting, at a display system, ultrasound image data acquired according to an initial depth setting. The method may include receiving a user input adjusting a zoom level of the ultrasound image data presented at the display system. The method may include processing the ultrasound image data presented at the display system to instantaneously and smoothly transition to the adjusted zoom level in response to the user input. The method may include receiving a user input selecting a selected zoom level of the ultrasound image data presented at the display system. The method may include determining a modified depth setting corresponding to the selected zoom level. The method may include acquiring updated ultrasound image data based on the modified depth setting for display at the display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Sushma Rai
  • Patent number: 11314725
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a review application accesses a review file containing a text-based comment describing a change to an object in a design file. The design file is created and editable in a design application different from the review application. The review application determines, from the text-based comment, a tool in the design application configured to implement the change to the object described in the text-based comment. The review application updates the user interface to include a user interface of the tool along with the text-based comment and receives, through the user interface of the tool, a confirmation of applying the change to the object in the design file. The review application further causes the change to the object to be applied to the design file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Ajay Jain, Sanjeev Tagra, Nitish Maurya, Sachin Soni, Abhishek Jain