Patents by Inventor Alexandra R. Shapiro

Alexandra R. Shapiro 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: 11227585
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining an intent of an utterance using contextual information associated with a requesting device are described herein. Voice activated electronic devices may, in some embodiments, be capable of displaying content using a display screen. Entity data representing the content rendered by the display screen may describe entities having similar attributes as an identified intent from natural language understanding processing. Natural language understanding processing may attempt to resolve one or more declared slots for a particular intent and may generate an initial list of intent hypotheses ranked to indicate which are most likely to correspond to the utterance. The entity data may be compared with the declared slots for the intent hypotheses, and the list of intent hypothesis may be re-ranked to account for matching slots from the contextual metadata. The top ranked intent hypothesis after re-ranking may then be selected as the utterance's intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandra R. Shapiro, Melanie Chie Bomke Gens, Spyridon Matsoukas, Kellen Gillespie, Rahul Goel
  • Publication number: 20200279555
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining an intent of an utterance using contextual information associated with a requesting device are described herein. Voice activated electronic devices may, in some embodiments, be capable of displaying content using a display screen. Entity data representing the content rendered by the display screen may describe entities having similar attributes as an identified intent from natural language understanding processing. Natural language understanding processing may attempt to resolve one or more declared slots for a particular intent and may generate an initial list of intent hypotheses ranked to indicate which are most likely to correspond to the utterance. The entity data may be compared with the declared slots for the intent hypotheses, and the list of intent hypothesis may be re-ranked to account for matching slots from the contextual metadata. The top ranked intent hypothesis after re-ranking may then be selected as the utterance's intent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Alexandra R. Shapiro, Melanie Chie Bomke Gens, Spyridon Matsoukas, Kellen Gillespie, Rahul Goel
  • Patent number: 10600406
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining an intent of an utterance using contextual information associated with a requesting device are described herein. Voice activated electronic devices may, in some embodiments, be capable of displaying content using a display screen. Entity data representing the content rendered by the display screen may describe entities having similar attributes as an identified intent from natural language understanding processing. Natural language understanding processing may attempt to resolve one or more declared slots for a particular intent and may generate an initial list of intent hypotheses ranked to indicate which are most likely to correspond to the utterance. The entity data may be compared with the declared slots for the intent hypotheses, and the list of intent hypothesis may be re-ranked to account for matching slots from the contextual metadata. The top ranked intent hypothesis after re-ranking may then be selected as the utterance's intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandra R. Shapiro, Melanie Chie Bomke Gens, Spyridon Matsoukas, Kellen Gillespie, Rahul Goel