Patents by Inventor Andrew E. Fano

Andrew E. Fano 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: 11797776
    Abstract: A device may receive training data that includes datasets associated with natural language processing, and may mask the training data to generate masked training data. The device may train a masked event C-BERT model, with the masked training data, to generate pretrained weights and a trained masked event C-BERT model, and may train an event aware C-BERT model, with the training data and the pretrained weights, to generate a trained event aware C-BERT model. The device may receive natural language text data identifying natural language events, and may process the natural language text data, with the trained masked event C-BERT model, to determine weights. The device may process the natural language text data and the weights, with the trained event aware C-BERT model, to predict causality relationships between the natural language events, and may perform actions, based on the causality relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Vivek Kumar Khetan, Mayuresh Anand, Roshni Ramesh Ramnani, Shubhashis Sengupta, Andrew E. Fano
  • Patent number: 11625621
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for clustering data are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving feature vectors. The actions further include accessing rules that each relate one or more values of the feature vectors to a respective label of a plurality of labels. The actions further include, based on the rules, generating heuristics that each identify related values of the feature vectors. The actions further include, for each of the heuristics, generating a matrix that reflects a similarity of the feature vectors. The actions further include, based on the matrices that each reflects a respective similarity of the feature vectors, generating clusters that each include a subset of the feature vectors. The actions further include, for each cluster, determining a label of the plurality of labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Maziyar Baran Pouyan, Yao A. Yang, Saeideh Shahrokh Esfahani, Andrew E. Fano, David William Vinson, Timothy M. Shea
  • Patent number: 11593458
    Abstract: Implementations are directed to receiving a set of training data including a plurality of data points, at least a portion of which are to be labeled for subsequent supervised training of a computer-executable machine learning (ML) model, providing at least one visualization based on the set of training data, the at least one visualization including a graphical representation of at least a portion of the set of training data, receiving user input associated with the at least one visualization, the user input indicating an action associated with a label assigned to a respective data point in the set of training data, executing a transformation on data points of the set of training data based on one or more heuristics representing the user input to provide labeled training data in a set of labeled training data, and transmitting the set of labeled training data for training the ML model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Phillip Henry Rogers, Andrew E. Fano, Joshua Neland, Allan Enemark, Tripti Saxena, Jana A. Thompson, David William Vinson
  • Patent number: 11544491
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for clustering data are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving feature vectors. The actions further include, for a subset of the feature vectors, accessing a first label. The actions further include generating a classifier that is configured to associate a given feature vector with a feature vector of the subset of the feature vectors. The actions further include applying the feature vectors that are not included in the subset of the feature vectors to the classifier. The actions further include generating a dissimilarity matrix. The actions further include, based on the dissimilarity matrix, generating a graph. The actions further include, for each node of the graph, determining a second label. The actions further include, based on the second labels and the first labels, determining a training label for each feature vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Maziyar Baran Pouyan, Yao A. Yang, Saeideh Shahrokh Esfahani, Andrew E. Fano, David William Vinson, Timothy M. Shea, Jesus Sanchez-Macias
  • Patent number: 11412305
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for facilitating analyzing media items and to filter inappropriate media items before distribution to the users. In one aspect, a method includes partitioning digital media items such as videos into segments and/or scenes, and classifying the segments into predetermined classes such as “Violence”, “Conversation”, “Street”, “Nudity”, “Animation”. After classifications have been assigned, the segments are clustered and/or grouped together before presenting the segments belonging to a particular cluster to a rating entity in a single user interface, for further evaluation. After evaluation, the segments of the media items that were approved by the rating entity are used to identify media items for which all the segments were approved by the rating entity before distributing the media items to the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Andrew E. Fano, Maziyar Baran Pouyan, Milind Savagaonkar, Saeideh Shahrokh Esfahani, David William Vinson, Ritesh Dhananjay Nikose
  • Publication number: 20220075953
    Abstract: A device may receive training data that includes datasets associated with natural language processing, and may mask the training data to generate masked training data. The device may train a masked event C-BERT model, with the masked training data, to generate pretrained weights and a trained masked event C-BERT model, and may train an event aware C-BERT model, with the training data and the pretrained weights, to generate a trained event aware C-BERT model. The device may receive natural language text data identifying natural language events, and may process the natural language text data, with the trained masked event C-BERT model, to determine weights. The device may process the natural language text data and the weights, with the trained event aware C-BERT model, to predict causality relationships between the natural language events, and may perform actions, based on the causality relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Vivek Kumar KHETAN, Mayuresh ANAND, Roshni Ramesh RAMNANI, Shubhashis SENGUPTA, Andrew E. FANO
  • Patent number: 11250334
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for solving optimization tasks. In one aspect, a system includes one or more classical processors and one or more quantum computing resources, wherein the one or more classical processors and one or more quantum computing resources are configured to perform operations comprising receiving input data comprising data specifying a computational task to be solved; processing the received input data using a first quantum computing resource to generate data representing a reduced computational task, wherein the reduced computational task has lower dimensionality that the computational task; and processing the data representing the reduced computational task to obtain a solution to the computational task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Andrew E. Fano, Jurgen Albert Weichenberger
  • Publication number: 20220030309
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for facilitating analyzing media items and to filter inappropriate media items before distribution to the users. In one aspect, a method includes partitioning digital media items such as videos into segments and/or scenes, and classifying the segments into predetermined classes such as “Violence”, “Conversation”, “Street”, “Nudity”, “Animation”. After classifications have been assigned, the segments are clustered and/or grouped together before presenting the segments belonging to a particular cluster to a rating entity in a single user interface, for further evaluation. After evaluation, the segments of the media items that were approved by the rating entity are used to identify media items for which all the segments were approved by the rating entity before distributing the media items to the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew E. Fano, Maziyar Baran Pouyan, Milind Savagaonkar, Saeideh Shahrokh Esfahani, David William Vinson, Ritesh Dhananjay Nikose
  • Publication number: 20210264306
    Abstract: A device may receive unlabeled data associated with a particular domain and may select sets of data from the unlabeled data. The device may calculate Gaussian kernel densities and minimum distances for data points in each of the sets of data and may calculate anomaly scores for the data points based on the Gaussian kernel densities and the minimum distances for the data points. The device may train a machine learning model, with the anomaly scores for the data points, to generate a trained machine learning model that determines a single anomaly score for the data points, wherein a plurality of single anomaly scores is determined for the sets of data. The device may calculate a final anomaly score for the unlabeled data based on a combination of the plurality of single anomaly scores and may perform one or more actions based on the final anomaly score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Maziyar BARAN POUYAN, Saeideh SHAHROKH ESFAHANI, Vivek Kumar KHETAN, Andrew E. FANO
  • Publication number: 20210224584
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for clustering data are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving feature vectors. The actions further include accessing rules that each relate one or more values of the feature vectors to a respective label of a plurality of labels. The actions further include, based on the rules, generating heuristics that each identify related values of the feature vectors. The actions further include, for each of the heuristics, generating a matrix that reflects a similarity of the feature vectors. The actions further include, based on the matrices that each reflects a respective similarity of the feature vectors, generating clusters that each include a subset of the feature vectors. The actions further include, for each cluster, determining a label of the plurality of labels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Maziyar Baran Pouyan, Yao A. Yang, Saeideh Shahrokh Esfahani, Andrew E. Fano, David William Vinson, Timothy M. Shea
  • Publication number: 20210216813
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for clustering data are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving feature vectors. The actions further include, for a subset of the feature vectors, accessing a first label. The actions further include generating a classifier that is configured to associate a given feature vector with a feature vector of the subset of the feature vectors. The actions further include applying the feature vectors that are not included in the subset of the feature vectors to the classifier. The actions further include generating a dissimilarity matrix. The actions further include, based on the dissimilarity matrix, generating a graph. The actions further include, for each node of the graph, determining a second label. The actions further include, based on the second labels and the first labels, determining a training label for each feature vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Maziyar Baran Pouyan, Yao A. Yang, Saeideh Shahrokh Esfahani, Andrew E. Fano, David William Vinson, Timothy M. Shea, Jesus Sanchez-Macias
  • Patent number: 10943179
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for solving optimization tasks. In one aspect, a method includes receiving input data comprising (i) data specifying an optimization task to be solved, and (ii) data specifying task objectives for solving the optimization task, comprising one or more local task objectives and one or more global task objectives; processing the received input data to obtain one or more initial solutions to the optimization task based on the local task objectives, wherein at least one initial solution is obtained from a first quantum computing resource; and processing the generated one or more initial solutions using a second quantum computing resource to generate a global solution to the optimization task based on the global task objectives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Garrison, Andrew E. Fano, Jurgen Albert Weichenberger
  • Publication number: 20200285903
    Abstract: Implementations are directed to receiving a set of training data including a plurality of data points, at least a portion of which are to be labeled for subsequent supervised training of a computer-executable machine learning (ML) model, providing at least one visualization based on the set of training data, the at least one visualization including a graphical representation of at least a portion of the set of training data, receiving user input associated with the at least one visualization, the user input indicating an action associated with a label assigned to a respective data point in the set of training data, executing a transformation on data points of the set of training data based on one or more heuristics representing the user input to provide labeled training data in a set of labeled training data, and transmitting the set of labeled training data for training the ML model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Phillip Henry Rogers, Andrew E. Fano, Joshua Neland, Allan Enemark, Tripti Saxena, Jana A. Thompson, David William Vinson
  • Patent number: 10755196
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining retraining predictive models. One of the methods includes maintaining, by a computer system of an enterprise, one or more predictive models. The computer system receives operational data and uses each of the one or more predictive models to generate predictions using the received operational data. An indication of a systemic change in the computer system is received. The method includes determining that one or more retraining rules specify that at least one of the one or more predictive models should be retrained due to the systemic change, and in response, obtaining updated training data and retraining the predictive model using the updated training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventor: Andrew E. Fano
  • Patent number: 10691976
    Abstract: Implementations are directed to receiving a set of training data including a plurality of data points, at least a portion of which are to be labeled for subsequent supervised training of a computer-executable machine learning (ML) model, providing at least one visualization based on the set of training data, the at least one visualization including a graphical representation of at least a portion of the set of training data, receiving user input associated with the at least one visualization, the user input indicating an action associated with a label assigned to a respective data point in the set of training data, executing a transformation on data points of the set of training data based on one or more heuristics representing the user input to provide labeled training data in a set of labeled training data, and transmitting the set of labeled training data for training the ML model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Phillip Henry Rogers, Andrew E. Fano, Joshua Neland, Allan Enemark, Tripti Saxena, Jana A. Thompson, David William Vinson
  • Publication number: 20190147297
    Abstract: Implementations are directed to receiving a set of training data including a plurality of data points, at least a portion of which are to be labeled for subsequent supervised training of a computer-executable machine learning (ML) model, providing at least one visualization based on the set of training data, the at least one visualization including a graphical representation of at least a portion of the set of training data, receiving user input associated with the at least one visualization, the user input indicating an action associated with a label assigned to a respective data point in the set of training data, executing a transformation on data points of the set of training data based on one or more heuristics representing the user input to provide labeled training data in a set of labeled training data, and transmitting the set of labeled training data for training the ML model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Phillip Henry Rogers, Andrew E. Fano, Joshua Neland, Allan Enemark, Tripti Saxena, Jana A. Thompson, David William Vinson
  • Patent number: 10176494
    Abstract: A method and system for using individualized customer models when operating a retail establishment is provided. The individualized customer models may be generated using statistical analysis of transaction data for the customer, thereby generating sub-models and attributes tailored to customer. The individualized customer models may be used in any aspect of a retail establishment's operations, ranging from supply chain management issues, inventory control, promotion planning (such as selecting parameters for a promotion or simulating results of a promotion), to customer interaction (such as providing a shopping list or providing individualized promotions).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Andrew E. Fano, Chad M. Cumby, Rayid Ghani, Marko Krema
  • Publication number: 20180365586
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for solving optimization tasks. In one aspect, a method includes receiving input data comprising (i) data specifying an optimization task to be solved, and (ii) data specifying task objectives for solving the optimization task, comprising one or more local task objectives and one or more global task objectives; processing the received input data to obtain one or more initial solutions to the optimization task based on the local task objectives, wherein at least one initial solution is obtained from a first quantum computing resource; and processing the generated one or more initial solutions using a second quantum computing resource to generate a global solution to the optimization task based on the global task objectives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Daniel Garrison, Andrew E. Fano, Jurgen Albert Weichenberger
  • Publication number: 20180307988
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for solving optimization tasks. In one aspect, a system includes one or more classical processors and one or more quantum computing resources, wherein the one or more classical processors and one or more quantum computing resources are configured to perform operations comprising receiving input data comprising data specifying a computational task to be solved; processing the received input data using a first quantum computing resource to generate data representing a reduced computational task, wherein the reduced computational task has lower dimensionality that the computational task; and processing the data representing the reduced computational task to obtain a solution to the computational task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Andrew E. Fano, Jurgen Albert Weichenberger
  • Patent number: 10095981
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for solving optimization tasks. In one aspect, a method includes receiving input data comprising (i) data specifying an optimization task to be solved, and (ii) data specifying task objectives for solving the optimization task, comprising one or more local task objectives and one or more global task objectives; processing the received input data to obtain one or more initial solutions to the optimization task based on the local task objectives, wherein at least one initial solution is obtained from a first quantum computing resource; and processing the generated one or more initial solutions using a second quantum computing resource to generate a global solution to the optimization task based on the global task objectives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Garrison, Andrew E. Fano, Jurgen Albert Weichenberger