Patents by Inventor Ana Ananthakumar

Ana Ananthakumar 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: 12118496
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for utilizing specially configured machine learning models to generate incremental currency value(s) associated with one or more target merchant data objects. Some embodiments, based on one or more market record sets, identify an actual electronic currency value for a total merchant data object set, and include a counterfactual model configured to generate a counterfactual electronic currency value for use in determining a counterfactual incremental electronic currency impact, and in some embodiments for ranking other models. Embodiments, additionally or alternatively, include an incrementality-trained ensemble model for generating a predictive incremental electronic currency impact. The incrementality-trained ensemble model may be trained to predict based on the rankings of the outputs of the counterfactual model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Situo Liu, Al Afsin Bulbul, Andrew Jonathan Lisy, Ana Ananthakumar, Hechao Sun
  • Publication number: 20230297862
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for performing a cross-model predictive inference to generate a cross-model predictive output for a plurality of predictive inputs using a plurality of predictive models. For example, the apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory including program code. The at least one non-transitory memory and the program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, obtain a model selection probability distribution which defines, for each predictive model, a respective selection probability score; obtain, for each predictive model, respective cross-model normalization data; for each predictive input, determine a cross-model predictive score; and determine, based on each determined cross-model predictive score, the cross-model predictive output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Ana Ananthakumar, Afsin Bulbul, Andrew Lisy, Situo Liu, Hechao Sun
  • Publication number: 20230230009
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for utilizing specially configured machine learning models to generate incremental currency value(s) associated with one or more target merchant data objects. Some embodiments, based on one or more market record sets, identify an actual electronic currency value for a total merchant data object set, and include a counterfactual model configured to generate a counterfactual electronic currency value for use in determining a counterfactual incremental electronic currency impact, and in some embodiments for ranking other models. Embodiments, additionally or alternatively, include an incrementality-trained ensemble model for generating a predictive incremental electronic currency impact. The incrementality-trained ensemble model may be trained to predict based on the rankings of the outputs of the counterfactual model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Situo LIU, Al Afsin BULBUL, Andrew Jonathan LISY, Ana ANANTHAKUMAR, Hechao SUN
  • Patent number: 11593694
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for performing a cross-model predictive inference to generate a cross-model predictive output for a plurality of predictive inputs using a plurality of predictive models. For example, the apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory including program code. The at least one non-transitory memory and the program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, obtain a model selection probability distribution which defines, for each predictive model, a respective selection probability score; obtain, for each predictive model, respective cross-model normalization data; for each predictive input, determine a cross-model predictive score; and determine, based on each determined cross-model predictive score, the cross-model predictive output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Ana Ananthakumar, Afsin Bulbul, Andrew Lisy, Situo Liu, Hechao Sun