Patents Examined by Stephens S Hong
  • Patent number: 11854432
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for processing a group of essays to develop a classifier that detects nonsensical computer-generated essays. A data structure associated with a group of essays is accessed, wherein the group of essays includes nonsensical computer-generated essays and good-faith essays. Both the nonsensical computer-generated essays and the good-faith essays are assigned feature values. The distribution of feature values between the nonsensical computer-generated essays and the good-faith essays is measured. A classifier that detects whether an essay is a nonsensical computer-generated essay is developed, wherein the classifier is developed using the distribution of feature values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Educational Testing Service
    Inventors: Aoife Cahill, Martin Chodorow, Michael Flor
  • Patent number: 11850730
    Abstract: Eye gaze measurements are used to give input to a surgical robotic system. Eye tracking input is enhanced using a pair of eye trackers positioned to track the gaze of a user observing an endoscopic image on a display. At least one of the eye trackers is moveable relative to the display in a horizontal and/or vertical direction relative to the image display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Asensus Surgical US, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrea D'Ambrosio
  • Patent number: 11856315
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for a media editing application with an anchored timeline for editing captions and subtitles. In an embodiment, a method comprises: causing to display on a display device, by one or more hardware processors executing a media editing application, a graphical user interface (GUI) including a timeline; causing to display on the timeline, by the one or more hardware processors, a first lane including a media object; causing to display on the timeline, by the one or more hardware processors, a second lane including a caption or subtitle object; and anchoring, by the one or more hardware processors, the media object to the caption or subtitle object in the timeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nils Angquist, Zachary Kramer, James J. Hodges, Wesley Plate, Dylan Grant Keith, Peter Matthew Battaglia, Colleen M. Pendergast, Nathan Bingham, Hope Renee Boyarsky
  • Patent number: 11853641
    Abstract: A system and method for audio combination and playback which replicates the sounds made by a crowd gathered together in one place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HEARMECHEER, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Andersen, Thomas Andersen, Elias Andersen, Jason Rubenstein
  • Patent number: 11853401
    Abstract: Techniques for machine learning (ML) model training and deployment using model building blocks via graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are described. Users can use a GUI provided by an electronic device to select and configure ML aspects for one or more ML models to be trained using identified training data. The electronic device can send a request to cause a model construction service to train one or more ML models based on the user configuration, return results of the training to the user within the GUI, and deploy one or more of the ML models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nagajyothi Nookula, Poorna Chand Srinivas Perumalla, Matthew James Wood
  • Patent number: 11847937
    Abstract: A virtual environment may be provided, the virtual environment including a procedurally generated virtual landscape. The virtual landscape may include various components, such as natural terrain elements, infrastructural elements, and residential/commercial properties, that are automatically generated based upon procedural rules so as to provide uniqueness of any one virtual landscape. A user may enter the virtual environment and, via various virtual tools, identify aspects of the generated virtual landscape that affect risk to one or more of the properties therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Rebecca A. Little, Bryan R. Nussbaum, Deanna L. Stockweather, Nathan C. Summers, Vicki King, Teresa Ho
  • Patent number: 11847408
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a document control item is described. The system accesses a text document and extracts a portion of the text document. The portion comprises some but not all of the text document. The system sends the portion of the text document to a trained machine learning model and, in response, receives a classification of the portion as demarking a section break. The system modifies the text document by inserting a document control item into the text document at a location of each portion classified as demarking a section break. The system stores the modified document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tomasz Lukasz Religa, Huitian Jiao, Abhisaar Sharma, Max Wang
  • Patent number: 11838382
    Abstract: Provided are systems, methods, and computer-program products for a proxy network that can determine, for a set of objects, an initial differential, where the initial differential is determined using a rules data store of a host network. The proxy network can further determine a supplemental differential for the set of objects. The proxy network can further determine a final differential that is the sum of the initial differential and the supplemental differential. The proxy network can further determine a final sum for the set of objects that is the object value less the final differential. The proxy network can further generate an outbound data packet that includes values corresponding to the set of objects and the final sum. When the host network receives the outbound data packet, the host network can modify an object data store using the values corresponding to the set of objects and the final sum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LOOP COMMERCE, INC.
    Inventors: Roy Erez, Alex Sirota, Gabriel Saunkeah
  • Patent number: 11829706
    Abstract: An automated method for assembling common commercial documents such as invoices, bills of lading and purchase orders placed in multipage files containing multiple documents without separators is described. The method is applicable in the presence of attachments and utilizes training data consisting of fields of interest and their locations in documents together with invariant fields frequently present in documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ancora Software Inc.
    Inventor: David Pintsov
  • Patent number: 11816426
    Abstract: A system and a method are provided for collaborative data entry and integration. An operation performed by the system and the method include causing a collaborative interface for input to a spreadsheet to be provided via a user interface, receiving a data entry to the spreadsheet via the collaborative interface, validating the received data entry based on one or more validity rules associated with the spreadsheet, capturing a snapshot of the spreadsheet including the validated data entry, and causing at least the validated data entry of the spreadsheet to be integrated into datasets for one or more applications, at least based on the captured snapshot of the spreadsheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Yousaf, Jeffrey Martin, Jasmine Peterson, Julie Tibshirani, Kevin Ng, Rhys Brett-Bowen, Yichen Xing
  • Patent number: 11809676
    Abstract: A computer navigation system that represents categories and sub-categories of material with functionally labeled objects connected in a hierarchical organization. Descending nodes represent more detailed subsets of material. Hovering the computer mouse over a node displays thumbnails of the items available under it, enabling the user to search for items without opening the respective pages, transforming a literal or verbal data filing and retrieval process into a more intuitive and easy to use visual one. Once the user hovers the computer mouse over the node with the desired item and sees its thumbnail the user clicks on the node, opening the screen from which the user can access that item (or upload a similar one), or clicks on the thumbnail to access the item directly. In addition, the system employs algorithms to group items into various categories and sub-categories and assigns them to the appropriate nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Integer Health Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Roloff, William McCallum, Ken Grifno
  • Patent number: 11803699
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product and system for annotating messages with a parsed time expressions is provided. A processor detects a time expression in a message. A processor establishes a time zone associated with the time expression, based upon the message body, the sending client's real-time location and the sending client's pre-determined time zone settings. A processor establishes a time zone of the receiving client based upon the receiving client's real-time location and the receiving client's pre-determined time zone settings. A processor compares the time zone of the time expression and the time zone of the receiving client to determine whether a parsing of the time expression in the message is required. A processor creates an annotation of the time expression based on the comparison of the time zones of the sending client and the receiving client. A processor appends the annotation of the time expression to the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Anthony Philip Papageorgiou
  • Patent number: 11798323
    Abstract: In one aspect, an example method includes (a) determining, via a thermal conductivity sensor of an automobile damage detection device, one or more thermal conductivities at one or more locations on an automobile; (b) transmitting, via a network interface of the automobile damage detection device, a request for anticipated thermal conductivity data from an automobile claims system, wherein the anticipated thermal conductivity data corresponds to anticipated thermal conductivities at the one or more locations on the automobile; (c) in response to transmitting the request, receiving, via the network interface from the automobile claims system, the anticipated thermal conductivity data; and (d) in response to receiving, from the automobile claims system, the anticipated thermal conductivity data, displaying, via a graphical user interface, a graphical representation of the determined one or more thermal conductivities and the anticipated thermal conductivity data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: CSAA Insurance Services, Inc.
    Inventors: James Schow, Abhay Gupta
  • Patent number: 11797755
    Abstract: A method for training a machine learning model with parallel annotations of source instances and while facilitating security of the source instances can be performed by a system that generates a coupled machine learning model from (1) a first machine learning model trained on a first set of training data comprising unannotated natural language and (2) a second machine learning model trained on populated target templates which are populated with a plurality of vocabulary words. Once formed, the coupled machine learning model is configured to transform unannotated natural language into annotated machine-readable text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hany Mohamed Hassan Awadalla, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Ahmed Awadallah
  • Patent number: 11790262
    Abstract: An Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based data transformation system receives an input package and enables automatic execution of one or more processes in a robotic process automation system (RPA). The input package includes a plurality of documents and metadata required for the execution of the automated processes. The plurality of documents are categorized into a domain. Entities with their corresponding name-value pairs and entity relationships are extracted from the plurality of documents. An ontology is selected based on the domain. The entities are mapped to output fields identified from the selected ontology. The mappings thus generated are transmitted to the RPA system which employs the mappings to automatically execute the one or more processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Prakash Ghatage, Kumar Viswanathan, Naveen Kumar Thangaraj, Indrajeet, Kavitha Subramanian, Prakash Patil, Rahul Kotnala, Earnest Paul Wesley, Sattish Sundarakrishnan, Shishir Kumar Roy, Yakob Raja R
  • Patent number: 11792257
    Abstract: Systems and methods herein provide for a form engine communicatively coupled to a storage system to retrieve a plurality of graphical control elements from a first of the source systems. The form engine generates a template that controls placement of the graphical control elements into the electronic document based on user-selectable cartesian coordinates, and persists the template in the storage system according to the compartmentalized portion of the first source system. The form engine may then authenticate a first user of the first source system, import an electronic file at the direction of the user, retrieve the template from the storage system, and format placement of the graphical control elements in the electronic file according to the cartesian coordinates of the template and a scale of the electronic file to generate an electronic form for the first source system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Inventors: Henry Michael Broddle, Scott Joseph Wyatt
  • Patent number: 11789694
    Abstract: An electronic device for controlling output of audio data, and an operation method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a display, a communication interface, at least one processor, and a memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein the memory is configured to store instructions, and when executed, the instructions enable the at least one processor to perform setting the electronic device and at least one other electronic device as audio output devices of different applications, based on a user input, detecting a connection to the at least one other electronic device via the communication interface, and controlling the display to display information indicating that the electronic device and the at least one other electronic device are set as the audio output devices of different applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunkyoung Kim, Hyewon Seo, Dasom Kim, Ukhyun Kim, Kyunghui Oh, Sangmin Lee, Hoyeon Kim, Jung-Uk Lim, Hyunyoung Yang
  • Patent number: 11789590
    Abstract: Described embodiments enable device users to share content items directly from the context of a desktop file system user interface. A share bar is displayed in the file system user interface, where the share bar includes one or more graphical control elements that provide additional functionality with respect to one or more selected content items in the user interface. The additional functionality can include sharing the selected item, moving the item, downloading the item, and viewing sharing status, version history, completion status, comments, or other information about the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: Philip LaPier, Maxime Larabie-Belanger
  • Patent number: 11782876
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that has an automatic execution function to automatically execute a file which has been input to an automatic execution folder. The apparatus sets the automatic execution folder in which a process content has been set, and adds, in a case that a file is to be moved to the automatic execution folder by a first application, a piece of uniquely specifiable identification information to the file, and determines, in a case that the first application is to automatically execute a file held in the automatic execution folder, whether or not the identification information has been added to the file, and performs control to automatically execute the file in a case that the identification information has been added, and not to automatically execute the file in a case that the identification information has not been added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryuta Mori
  • Patent number: 11775595
    Abstract: A system and method for associating a document with a concept are provided. One or more idea-electronic document associations is identified, wherein each idea-electronic document association is based on a user performance criteria relative to the electronic document and the idea. At least one of the one or more electronic documents is identified with a concept based on the one or more idea-electronic document associations, wherein the concept is related to the one or more ideas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Wesley T. Chan, Sumit Agarwal, Rama Ranganath, Leora Ruth Wiseman, Deepak Jindal