Patents Examined by Stephen S. Hong
  • Patent number: 11966697
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated, degradation-resistant, tuning of machine-learning (“ML”) models are provided. The systems and methods may identify an inoperative input utterance, retrieve a feature set associated with the inoperative input utterance, and generate an updated utterance-feature-intent (“UFI”) mapping based on the retrieved feature set. The systems and methods may retrain the ML model using the updated UFI mapping, and compare the accuracy of the system after the retraining and before the retraining. In a scenario where the accuracy of the system does not improve, the systems and methods may amplify the updated UFI mapping. In a scenario where the accuracy of the system does improve, the systems and methods may deploy the updated UFI mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Viju Kothuvatiparambil, Donatus Asumu
  • Patent number: 11960828
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for mapping processing. The method comprises acquiring a first table and a second table, and determining a first header of the first table and a second header of the second table based on received attribute setting information. The method further comprises acquiring a group of column names from the first header and the second header, wherein the group of column names includes a first column name in the first table and a second column name in the second table. The method also comprises mapping the group of column names to a mapped column name; merging the first table and the second table based on the mapped column name and outputting a merged table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Inventors: Chenyi Zhao, Kunlun Yao
  • Patent number: 11960881
    Abstract: A system and method for simplifying the creation of documentation, and especially software documentation. A software application, referred to as a source metadata tagger and document compiler is used to add metadata to a final output document. This metadata contains identifiers that are associated with various source files. In this way, the system can easily determine which source file is being reviewed and/or flagged by the reviewer. This information can be used by the ticketing/notification system to create a work item for the appropriate developer or development group. This is vastly simpler than the current system, where human intervention is required to determine which source file is being flagged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Ryan Wellinghoff, Stephen Hahn, Yi-Yang Chen, Bradford Stewart
  • Patent number: 11960792
    Abstract: A communication assistance program is a communication assistance program assisting communication of a user, the communication assistance program causing a computer to perform a step of integrally displaying identification information that can be used for identifying a communication target and a state animation representing a state of the communication target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Guiming Dai, Toshiaki Kakii, Toshifumi Hosoya, Yasushi Nomura, Yuna Okina, Tingting Fang
  • Patent number: 11954431
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for generating an intelligent change summary are described. In some embodiments, a method of generating an intelligent change summary includes obtaining a representation of a plurality of versions of a document, determining a distance score based on a comparison of a first of version of the document and a second version of the document, the distance score representing a magnitude of changes made from the first version of the document to the second version of the document, and generating a change summary of the document based on the distance score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Suryateja Bv, Vishwa Vinay, Niyati Himanshu Chhaya, Navita Goyal, Elaine Chao, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Aparna Garimella
  • Patent number: 11941222
    Abstract: A channel graphical user interface (GUI) of a content sharing platform is provided for presentation to a channel owner. A request is received, via the channel GUI, to enable an online community option that (i) facilitates an online conversation between the channel owner and a subset of viewers of the channel of the channel owner on the content sharing platform, and (ii) allows the channel owner to control viewer responses that are permitted during the online conversation. In response to the request of the channel owner to enable the online community option, the online community option is associated with the channel in a data store, and the channel GUI is modified, the modified channel GUI presenting an online community GUI element representing the online community option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Renato Verdugo, Kiley McEvoy, Shannon Butler, Paul Heider, Molly Nix, Nicholas Jones, Eric Mayers
  • Patent number: 11934623
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, an information presentation apparatus for displaying information on a display device including a display area corresponding to a visual field range of a user includes: a first storage medium that stores presentation information including content information representing a presentation content and attribute information of the content information; a detection unit that detects a gaze point within the visual field range of the user; and a presentation control unit that determines a presentation position of the content information within the visual field range of the user in accordance with the attribute information stored together with the content information to be presented and the detected gaze point and cause the content information to be displayed at a position corresponding to the determined presentation position within the display area of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Saijo, Shinichiro Eitoku, Masahiro Watanabe, Tae Sato
  • Patent number: 11928421
    Abstract: A computing system may identify a first reference citation within a technical document, wherein the first reference citation is identified based at least in part a length of a first block of text that is included in the first reference citation and an inclusion of at least one numeric character in the first block of text. The computing system may determine, based on querying at least one datastore, whether the first reference citation matches a matching stored reference citation. The computing system may determine, based at least in part on whether the first reference citation matches the matching stored reference citation, an error review prioritization status for the first reference citation. The error review prioritization status may also be determined based, in part, on a specified revision number for the first reference citation. The computing system may provide visual feedback indicating the error review prioritization status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Ireland Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Timothy O'Sullivan, Shane Dempsey
  • Patent number: 11922194
    Abstract: A method of operating a computing device in support of improved accessibility includes displaying a user interface to an application on a display screen of the computing device, wherein the computing device includes an accessibility assistant that reads an audible description of an element of the user interface; initiating, on the computing device, a virtual assistant that conducts an audible conversation between a user and the virtual assistant through at least a microphone and a speaker associated with the computing device, wherein the virtual assistant is not integrated with an operating system of the computing device; inhibiting an ability of the accessibility assistant to read the audible description of the element of the user interface; and upon transition of the virtual assistant from an active state, enabling the ability of the accessibility assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jaclyn Carley Knapp, Lisa Stifelman, André Roberto Lima Tapajós, Jin Xu, Steven DiCarlo, Kaichun Wu, Yuhua Guan
  • Patent number: 11921978
    Abstract: An electronic device having a display and a touch-sensitive surface displays a mediate item representation corresponding to a sequence of images in a first display mode of user-selectable display modes, where the media item is part of a collection of ordered media items such that prior media item(s) precede the first media item and subsequent media item(s) follow the first media item in the order. In response to detecting touch input including movement in a direction, the device: upon determining that a subsequent media item corresponding to a second sequence of images is designated as being displayed in the first display mode, displays the subsequent media item in the first display mode, and upon determining that the subsequent media item is designated as being displayed in a second display mode different from the first display mode, displays the subsequent media item in the second display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Behkish J. Manzari, Britt S. Miura, Stephen O. Lemay, Charles A. Mezak, Andre Souza Dos Santos
  • Patent number: 11922116
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium having program instructions embodied thereon, said program instructions configured to, when executed by at least one server computer, cause said at least one server computer to perform a method for activating editing functionality in a content management system (CMS), said method including the following operations: the CMS providing a content management application programming interface (CMA) enabling management of a content project, the content project having a content model defined by a plurality of content types, each content type defining one or more fields, said content types defining structures for content managed via the CMS; responsive to an application programming interface (API) call to the CMA, then assigning one or more annotations to one or more of the content types; wherein for the content types having annotations assigned thereto, the assigned annotations enable an editing functionality of an editing application interfaced with the CMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Contentful GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Bausek, Luca Bianconi, Andreas Hoernicke, Paolo Negri
  • Patent number: 11916855
    Abstract: A file commenting method includes displaying file content in an instant messaging client, displaying comment content entered via a commenting operation performed on a portion of the file content, and displaying a session page when the commenting operation is completed, the session page including the portion of the file content, the comment content, and a file identifier corresponding to the file content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Fen He, Xuejun Sun, Liqiang Liu, Dan He, Jinhui Chen
  • Patent number: 11907650
    Abstract: Methods and systems for artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted document annotation and training of machine learning-based models for document data extraction are described. The methods and systems described herein take advantage of a continuous machine learning approach to create document processing pipelines that provide accurate and efficient data extraction from documents that include structured text, semi-structured text, unstructured text, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PwC Product Sales LLC
    Inventors: Jacob T. Wilson, Joseph D. Harrington, Vinston Sundara Pandiyan Sigamani, Abhishek Sanghavi, Jayakumar Pillai, Benjamin Cunningham, Lindsey P. Lewis
  • Patent number: 11907977
    Abstract: Described are approaches for assigning tasks between machine resources (e.g., AI task performers, AI task validators), human resources (e.g., task performers, task validators), and/or other smart systems to facilitate collaborative text detection, text recognition, and text retrieval in order to optimize system performance along a variety of different selection criteria specifying various performant dimensions, including, but not limited to improving system efficiency, reducing task performer and/or task validator idle time, improving triage outcomes, reducing data processing loads, maintaining client confidentiality, etc., that may be associated with one or more customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Zaru, Inc.
    Inventors: Susheel Khamkar, Lino Fabiani, Edwin Villanueva
  • Patent number: 11907609
    Abstract: A system, a removable memory device and a method for fruition of multimedia contents are provided, wherein the user can instantly mark a multimedia content as favourite by pressing a button while that content is in reproduction. The archive containing the favourite multimedia contents, along with non-favourite contents, is updated immediately, so that said archive, which is stored in a removable memory device, can be moved from one reproduction apparatus to another. One variant of the invention allows also older-generation reproduction apparatuses, which cannot handle playlists and metadata, to reproduce favourite multimedia contents while excluding those that have not been marked as such.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Saronikos Trading and Services, Unipessoal LDA
    Inventor: Robert James
  • Patent number: 11910178
    Abstract: A directional display method and device of audio equipment, and audio equipment are disclosed. The audio equipment comprises a camera module and a display screen that is circumferentially located on sides of the audio equipment. The display screen is rotatable relative to the audio equipment. The method comprises activating the camera module for panoramic shooting to detect a user position in response to an activation signal acquired; determining whether the display screen is in half screen display mode according to a relationship between the user position and a center position of the audio equipment; and when it is determined that the display screen is in half screen display mode, determining a compensation angle of a display direction of a half screen display area relative to the user position, and adjusting the display direction of the half screen display area so that the compensation angle is zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GOERTEK, INC.
    Inventor: Jifu Zhao
  • Patent number: 11900020
    Abstract: A construction management system allows a user to capture an item identifier from an item (e.g., shipment, group of components, and/or one or more components) using a mobile device. The item identifier may be used to identify a project and access a model for the product, identify a component in a model, and/or identify the components in a shipment for staging purposes. Moreover, the system may be used to identify a status for the one or more components. The status may be that the one or more components are shipped, received, staged for assembly, installed, or the like. The status of the one or more components may be automatically updated by capturing the item identifier. Moreover, the user may also select shipment information for past, current, and/or future shipments in order to identify the one or more components associated with each of the shipments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NUCOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Timothy Michael Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11900046
    Abstract: A method and system for providing one or more suggested application features to a user of an application may include receiving an indication of a user action in a document, accessing contextual document data associated with the document, providing at least one of information about the user action or the contextual document data as input to a machine-learning (ML) model to predict a desired intent for the document, obtaining the predicted desired intent as an output from the ML model, identifying based on the predicted desired intent one or more application features that fulfil the desired intent, and providing data about the one or more application features for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Derik Bjorn Stenerson, Bernhard Kohlmeier, Robyn Sambo, HongQiao Li, Jignesh Shah, Riyang Liu
  • Patent number: 11900017
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to optimizing engagement with a display during digital assistant-performed operations in response to a received command. The digital assistant generates an overlay having user interface elements that present information determined to be relevant to a user based on the received command and contextual data. The overlay is presented over the underlying operations performed on corresponding applications to mask the visible steps of the operations being performed. In this way, the digital assistant optimizes display resources that are typically rendered useless during the processing of digital assistant-performed operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Peloton Interactive, Inc.
    Inventor: Rajat Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 11900051
    Abstract: A data processing device (10) includes a vector generation unit (1411, 1421) configured to obtain a number of appearance or a frequency of appearance of a word used in a caption of a row of a cell and in a caption of a column of the cell at which the row and the column of table data intersect with each other and generate a vector which has the obtained number of appearance or the obtained frequency of appearance as a value of an element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Sunaga, Koji Hoshino, Kazuhiro Kikuma