Patents by Inventor Armineh Nourbakhsh

Armineh Nourbakhsh 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: 10652190
    Abstract: A method of determining locations for social media postings may include: retrieving, by communicating with at least one application programming interface (API) of a social media system over one or more first communication networks, at least one social media posting; determining at least one location mention in the at least one social media posting; determining at least one location based on the at least one location mention; determining a primary location from the at least one location; storing, in at least one database on a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, at least one set of geo-coordinates for the primary location in at least one posting object for the at least one social media posting; and outputting, by communicating with a user system over one or more second communication networks, the at least one social media posting with the stored at least one set of geo-coordinates for display on the user system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: THOMSON REUTERS ENTERPRISE CENTRE GMBH
    Inventors: Armineh Nourbakhsh, Sameena Shah
  • Publication number: 20190012374
    Abstract: A method of providing cross-media event linking may include: receiving, at a first input of an event coreferencing system, a stream of social media postings, and at a second input, a stream of news articles; generating, by the event coreferencing system, a first set of event representations representing events referenced by the social media postings, and a second set of event representations representing events referenced by the news articles; determining, by the event coreferencing system, that at least one of the social media postings references a same event referenced by at least one of the news articles, the determining including determining at least one similarity using data of at least one of the first set of event representations corresponding to the at least one of the social media postings and data of at least one of the second set of event representations corresponding to the at least one of the news articles; and transmitting, by an output of the event resolution system to the user system, an alert
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Fabio Petroni, Natraj Raman, Armineh Nourbakhsh, Tim Nugent, Lucas Carstens, John Duprey, Jochen Leidner, Sameena Shah, Zarko Panic
  • Patent number: 10109023
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for detecting and verifying social media events are disclosed. The system and techniques allow for processing of social media data to extract potentially valuable information in a timely manner and determine the veracity of the detected information. One implementation of the disclosure relates to event detection. Event detection involves ingestion and processing of social media data. Another implementation of the disclosure relates to verification of a detected event and generating a verification score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Sameena Shah, Xiaomo Lu, Qi Li, Reginald Chua, Armineh Nourbakhsh, Quanzhi Li, Rui Fang
  • Publication number: 20180276305
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for assisting with legal research and for aiding in the discovery of information and documents relevant to a user's research focus or input text. The inventive systems receive identifications of relevant documents explicitly or implicitly from a user's research session or input text and, based on issues relevant to those documents, texts and other connections to those documents and texts, recommends similar or helpful documents to the user for their consideration. Recommendations may be ranked and filtered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Xiaomo Liu, Xin Shuai, Quanzhi Li, Eric Milles, Eric Holten, Matt Makosky, Tom Vacek, Steven Sidwell, Ryan Kelly, Matthew A. Surprenant, Scott Francis, Mike Dahn, Armineh Nourbakhsh, Sameena Shah, Merine Thomas
  • Publication number: 20180131654
    Abstract: A method of determining locations for social media postings may include: retrieving, by communicating with at least one application programming interface (API) of a social media system over one or more first communication networks, at least one social media posting; determining at least one location mention in the at least one social media posting; determining at least one location based on the at least one location mention; determining a primary location from the at least one location; storing, in at least one database on a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, at least one set of geo-coordinates for the primary location in at least one posting object for the at least one social media posting; and outputting, by communicating with a user system over one or more second communication networks, the at least one social media posting with the stored at least one set of geo-coordinates for display on the user system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Armineh NOURBAKHSH, Sameena SHAH
  • Publication number: 20180121555
    Abstract: A method of detecting events in and clustering social media postings for display on a user system may include retrieving, via an application programming interface (API) of a social media system over at least one first communication network, at least one posting of the social media system; determining whether the at least one posting has content referring to a predetermined time period; upon determining that the at least one posting has content referring to the predetermined time period, determining whether the at least one posting corresponds to an existing cluster of postings related to an event; upon determining that the at least one posting corresponds to the existing cluster of postings relating to the event, storing, in at least one database on a non-transistory machine-readable storage medium, the existing cluster of postings modified to include the at least one posting; and providing, via at least one second communication network, a representation of the modified existing cluster of postings for displa
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Quanzhi LI, Armineh NOURBAKHSH, Sameena SHAH
  • Publication number: 20180091611
    Abstract: A method of identifying and presenting accounts and postings of a social media system may include: retrieving, via at least one communication interface of the social media system, account information for a plurality of social media accounts; classifying, based on the retrieved account information, the plurality of social media accounts according to account type; ranking, based on the retrieved account information, the plurality of social media accounts according to perceived importance or influence; storing, in an account database, a representation of a subset of the plurality of social media accounts having a ranking greater than a predetermined threshold; retrieving, via the at least one API, postings of the stored social media accounts; and generating, for display on a user system, a user interface to present the retrieved social media postings for the stored accounts organized according to at least one of: account type, or ranking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Xiaomo LIU, Sameena SHAH, Xin SHUAI, Armineh NOURBAKHSH
  • Publication number: 20160371618
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-based system for generating a risk register relating to a named entity. The system comprises a computing device, a risk database accessible by the computing device and having stored therein a set of risk types based on an induced taxonomy of risk types previously derived at least in part upon operation of a machine learning module, an input adapted to receive a set of source data, the set of source data being in electronic form and representing textual content comprising potential risk phrases, a entity-risk relation classifier adapted to identify and extract entity-risk relations from the set of source data, a risk tagger adapted to identify in the set of source data a set of risk candidates (ri) based on the set of risk types, a entity tagger adapted to identify mentions of entity names (ci) in the set of source data, and a risk register aggregator adapted to generate a first risk register based on the set of tuples associated with a first entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global Resources
    Inventors: Jochen L. Leidner, Tim Nugent, Armineh Nourbakhsh, Sameena Shah
  • Publication number: 20160328482
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for detecting and verifying social media events are disclosed. The system and techniques allow for processing of social media data to extract potentially valuable information in a timely manner and determine the veracity of the detected information. One implementation of the disclosure relates to event detection. Event detection involves ingestion and processing of social media data. Another implementation of the disclosure relates to verification of a detected event and generating a verification score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Sameena Shah, Xiaomo Liu, Qi Li, Reginald Chua, Armineh Nourbakhsh, Quanzhi Li, Rui Fang