Patents by Inventor Alex James Boyd

Alex James Boyd has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11900061
    Abstract: A method and system for predicting an intended time interval for a content segment may include receiving a request for natural language processing (NLP) of the content segment, the content segment including one or more temporal expressions, accessing contextual data associated with each of the one or more temporal expressions, decoding the content segment into a program that describes a temporal logic of the content segment based on the one or more temporal expressions, evaluating the program using the contextual data to predict an intended time interval for the content segment, and providing the intended time interval as an output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Pamela Bhattacharya, Christopher Alan Meek, Oleksandr Polozov, Alex James Boyd
  • Publication number: 20220343079
    Abstract: A method and system for predicting an intended time interval for a content segment may include receiving a request for natural language processing (NLP) of the content segment, the content segment including one or more temporal expressions, accessing contextual data associated with each of the one or more temporal expressions, decoding the content segment into a program that describes a temporal logic of the content segment based on the one or more temporal expressions, evaluating the program using the contextual data to predict an intended time interval for the content segment, and providing the intended time interval as an output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Pamela BHATTACHARYA, Christopher Alan MEEK, Oleksandr POLOZOV, Alex James BOYD
  • Patent number: 10761897
    Abstract: A system for automatically scaling provisioned resources includes an input interface and a processor. The input interface is configured to receive an estimate of a required number of processing threads. The processor is configured to determine required resources for processing the required number of processing threads using a model; provision the required resources; indicate to execute client tasks using the provisioned resources; determine server telemetry or logging data for the provisioned resources; provide the server telemetry or the logging data to the model; determine a resource utilization score based at least in part on the server telemetry or the logging data; determine a provisioning performance reward based at least in part on the resource utilization score; and adjust model parameters using the provisioning performance reward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Workday, Inc.
    Inventors: Montiago Xavier LaBute, Teng Qu, James Michael Stratton, Xiaoqun Joyce Duan, Alex James Boyd
  • Publication number: 20190243691
    Abstract: A system for automatically scaling provisioned resources includes an input interface and a processor. The input interface is configured to receive an estimate of a required number of processing threads. The processor is configured to determine required resources for processing the required number of processing threads using a model; provision the required resources; indicate to execute client tasks using the provisioned resources; determine server telemetry or logging data for the provisioned resources; provide the server telemetry or the logging data to the model; determine a resource utilization score based at least in part on the server telemetry or the logging data; determine a provisioning performance reward based at least in part on the resource utilization score; and adjust model parameters using the provisioning performance reward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Montiago Xavier LaBute, Teng Qu, James Michael Stratton, Xiaoqun Joyce Duan, Alex James Boyd