Patents by Inventor Behnam Attaran Rezaei
Behnam Attaran Rezaei 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).
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Publication number: 20230043911Abstract: Discovering relevant concepts and context for content nodes to determine a user's intent includes identifying one or more concept candidates in a content node based at least in part on one or more statistical measures, and matching concepts in a concept association map against text in the content node. The concept association map represents concepts, concept metadata, and relationships between the concepts. The one or more concept candidates are ranked to create a ranked one or more concept candidates based at least in part on a measure of relevance. The ranked one or more concept candidates is expanded according to one or more cost functions. The expanded set of concepts is stored in association with the content node.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Riccardo Boscolo, Vwani P. Roychowdhury
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Patent number: 11475465Abstract: Discovering relevant concepts and context for content nodes to determine a user's intent includes identifying one or more concept candidates in a content node based at least in part on one or more statistical measures, and matching concepts in a concept association map against text in the content node. The concept association map represents concepts, concept metadata, and relationships between the concepts. The one or more concept candidates are ranked to create a ranked one or more concept candidates based at least in part on a measure of relevance. The ranked one or more concept candidates is expanded according to one or more cost functions. The expanded set of concepts is stored in association with the content node.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Netseer, Inc.Inventors: Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Riccardo Boscolo, Vwani P. Roychowdhury
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Publication number: 20200051093Abstract: Discovering relevant concepts and context for content nodes to determine a user's intent includes identifying one or more concept candidates in a content node based at least in part on one or more statistical measures, and matching concepts in a concept association map against text in the content node. The concept association map represents concepts, concept metadata, and relationships between the concepts. The one or more concept candidates are ranked to create a ranked one or more concept candidates based at least in part on a measure of relevance. The ranked one or more concept candidates is expanded according to one or more cost functions. The expanded set of concepts is stored in association with the content node.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Riccardo Boscolo, Vwani P. Roychowdhury
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Patent number: 10387892Abstract: Discovering relevant concepts and context for content nodes to determine a user's intent includes identifying one or more concept candidates in a content node based at least in part on one or more statistical measures, and matching concepts in a concept association map against text in the content node. The concept association map represents concepts, concept metadata, and relationships between the concepts. The one or more concept candidates are ranked to create a ranked one or more concept candidates based at least in part on a measure of relevance. The ranked one or more concept candidates is expanded according to one or more cost functions. The expanded set of concepts is stored in association with the content node.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2009Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: NETSEER, INC.Inventors: Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Riccardo Boscolo, Vwani P. Roychowdhury
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Patent number: 9443018Abstract: Systems and methods for the creation of hierarchical networks of overlapping informational web neighborhoods using percolation crawling. Each neighborhood comprises a set of closely linked pages that share a common set of concepts and intent and purpose. The neighborhoods represent web pages that share a common set of underlying concepts and semantic associations. Each such neighborhood can be semantically tagged.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: NetSeer, Inc.Inventors: Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Alice Hwei-Yuan Meng Muntz
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Patent number: 9110985Abstract: A method for generating a conceptual association graph from structured content includes grouping content nodes into one or more topically biased clusters, the content nodes comprising structured digital content and unstructured digital content, the grouping based at least in part on the connectedness of each content node member to other content node members in the same cluster. The method also includes, responsive to the grouping, tagging the content nodes with one or more descriptive concepts. The method also includes, responsive to the tagging, establishing one or more associations between the one or more concepts, the one or more associations indicating a relevance of the one or more associations, the indicating based at least in part on patterns of co-occurrence of concepts in the tagged content nodes.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2010Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: NEETSEER, INC.Inventors: Riccardo Boscolo, Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Vwani P. Roychowdhury, Albert Chern, Nima Khajehnouri
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Publication number: 20140351237Abstract: Systems and methods for the creation of hierarchical networks of overlapping informational web neighborhoods using percolation crawling. Each neighborhood comprises a set of closely linked pages that share a common set of concepts and intent and purpose. The neighborhoods represent web pages that share a common set of underlying concepts and semantic associations. Each such neighborhood can be semantically tagged.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Inventors: Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Alice Hwei-Yuan Meng Muntz
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Patent number: 8843434Abstract: Systems and methods are described that facilitate exploration and mining of a corpus of documents using concepts and knowledge, rather than keywords and enable interactive visualization, management, monetization, and personalization of knowledge search results on a user interface. Underlying documents can be mapped into overlapping clusters of knowledge dimensions and the documents can be further partitioned into narrower knowledge dimensions, resulting in a hierarchical structure. Content of knowledge dimensions may be filtered using a knowledge dimension map. Knowledge may be personalized by a user and shared in collaborative and social networks. Knowledge-based advertisement systems and methods are described that associate products and services with knowledge dimensions and concepts. Advertisers can bid on concepts and KDs. Systems and methods are described that distribute a percentage of CPC revenue among content owners and provide revenue to content providers based on relevancy scores.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2007Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Netseer, Inc.Inventors: Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Alice Hwei-Yuan Meng Muntz
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Patent number: 8838605Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a new approach to the problem of finding communities in complex networks relating to a social definition of communities and percolation are disclosed. Instead of partitioning the graph into separate subgraphs from top to bottom a local algorithm (communities of each vertex) allows overlapping of communities. The performance of an algorithm on synthetic, randomly-generated graphs and real-world networks is used to benchmark this method against others. An heuristic is provided to generate a list of communities for networks using a local community finding algorithm. Unlike diffusion based algorithms, The provided algorithm finds overlapping communities and provides a means to measure confidence in community structure. It features locality and low complexity for exploring the communities for a subset of network nodes, without the need for exploring the whole graph.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Netseer, Inc.Inventors: Alice Hwei-Yuan Meng Muntz, Behnam Attaran Rezaei
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Patent number: 8825654Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a new approach to the problem of finding communities in complex networks relating to a social definition of communities and percolation are disclosed. Instead of partitioning the graph into separate subgraphs from top to bottom a local algorithm (communities of each vertex) allows overlapping of communities. The performance of an algorithm on synthetic, randomly-generated graphs and real-world networks is used to benchmark this method against others. An heuristic is provided to generate a list of communities for networks using a local community finding algorithm. Unlike diffusion based algorithms, The provided algorithm finds overlapping communities and provides a means to measure confidence in community structure. It features locality and low complexity for exploring the communities for a subset of network nodes, without the need for exploring the whole graph.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Netseer, Inc.Inventors: Alice Hwei-Yuan Meng Muntz, Behnam Attaran Rezaei
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Patent number: 8825657Abstract: Systems and methods are described for the creation of hierarchical networks of overlapping informational Web neighborhoods, where each neighborhood comprises a set of closely linked pages that share a common set of concepts and intent and purpose. A general description of a category of information can be used to generate a network of overlapping communities of web pages and objects, where the neighborhoods represent pages or objects that share a common set of underlying concepts and semantic associations. Each such neighborhood can be semantically tagged. Overlaps among neighborhoods and the hierarchical structure of the network capture complex relationships among the concepts that the corresponding informational neighborhoods represent. All informational neighborhoods of the web can be mapped. The systems and methods can be adapted for any digital content and constitute a hybrid network of contents and their relationships.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Netseer, Inc.Inventors: Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Alice Hwei-Yuan Meng Muntz
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Patent number: 8380721Abstract: Comprehensive methods and systems are described for creating, managing, searching, personalizing, and monetizing a knowledge system defined over a corpus of digital content. Systems and methods are described in which a user can initiate in-depth searches of subject matter and can browse, navigate, pinpoint, and select relevant contexts, concepts, and documents to gain knowledge. Systems and methods are described in which knowledge can be personalized through tagged, personalized context, and personalized context can be shared within social and professional networks, securely and confidentially and with the desired access control. Systems and methods are described in which products and services can be advertised in context and advertising can be selected through a bidding process. Systems and methods are described by which a user can navigate contexts and concepts to obtain relevant information, products and services.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2007Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Netseer, Inc.Inventors: Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Alice Hwei-Yuan Meng Muntz
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Patent number: 8301617Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a new approach to the problem of finding communities in complex networks relating to a social definition of communities and percolation are disclosed. Instead of partitioning the graph into separate subgraphs from top to bottom a local algorithm (communities of each vertex) allows overlapping of communities. The performance of an algorithm on synthetic, randomly-generated graphs and real-world networks is used to benchmark this method against others. An heuristic is provided to generate a list of communities for networks using a local community finding algorithm. Unlike diffusion based algorithms, The provided algorithm finds overlapping communities and provides a means to measure confidence in community structure. It features locality and low complexity for exploring the communities for a subset of network nodes, without the need for exploring the whole graph.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2011Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Netseer, Inc.Inventors: Alice Hwei-Yuan Meng Muntz, Behnam Attaran Rezaei
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Publication number: 20120084358Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a new approach to the problem of finding communities in complex networks relating to a social definition of communities and percolation are disclosed. Instead of partitioning the graph into separate subgraphs from top to bottom a local algorithm (communities of each vertex) allows overlapping of communities. The performance of an algorithm on synthetic, randomly-generated graphs and real-world networks is used to benchmark this method against others. An heuristic is provided to generate a list of communities for networks using a local community finding algorithm. Unlike diffusion based algorithms, The provided algorithm finds overlapping communities and provides a means to measure confidence in community structure. It features locality and low complexity for exploring the communities for a subset of network nodes, without the need for exploring the whole graph.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: NETSEER, INC.Inventors: Alice Hwei-Yuan Meng MUNTZ, Behnam Attaran Rezaei
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Patent number: 7958120Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a new approach to the problem of finding communities in complex networks relating to a social definition of communities and percolation are disclosed. Instead of partitioning the graph into separate subgraphs from top to bottom a local algorithm (communities of each vertex) allows overlapping of communities. The performance of an algorithm on synthetic, randomly-generated graphs and real-world networks is used to benchmark this method against others. An heuristic is provided to generate a list of communities for networks using a local community finding algorithm. Unlike diffusion based algorithms, The provided algorithm finds overlapping communities and provides a means to measure confidence in community structure. It features locality and low complexity for exploring the communities for a subset of network nodes, without the need for exploring the whole graph.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2005Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Netseer, Inc.Inventors: Alice Hwei-Yuan Meng Muntz, Behnam Attaran Rezaei
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Publication number: 20110113032Abstract: A method for generating a conceptual association graph from structured content includes grouping content nodes into one or more topically biased clusters, the content nodes comprising structured digital content and unstructured digital content, the grouping based at least in part on the connectedness of each content node member to other content node members in the same cluster. The method also includes, responsive to the grouping, tagging the content nodes with one or more descriptive concepts. The method also includes, responsive to the tagging, establishing one or more associations between the one or more concepts, the one or more associations indicating a relevance of the one or more associations, the indicating based at least in part on patterns of co-occurrence of concepts in the tagged content nodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventors: RICCARDO BOSCOLO, BEHNAM ATTARAN REZAEI, VWANI P. ROYCHOWDHURY, ALBERT CHERN, NIMA KHAJEHNOURI
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Publication number: 20090281900Abstract: Discovering relevant concepts and context for content nodes to determine a user's intent includes identifying one or more concept candidates in a content node based at least in part on one or more statistical measures, and matching concepts in a concept association map against text in the content node. The concept association map represents concepts, concept metadata, and relationships between the concepts. The one or more concept candidates are ranked to create a ranked one or more concept candidates based at least in part on a measure of relevance. The ranked one or more concept candidates is expanded according to one or more cost functions. The expanded set of concepts is stored in association with the content node.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2009Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: NETSEER, INC.Inventors: Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Riccardo Boscolo, Vwani P. Roychowdhury
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Publication number: 20070245035Abstract: Systems and methods are described for the creation of hierarchical networks of overlapping informational Web neighborhoods, where each neighborhood comprises a set of closely linked pages that share a common set of concepts and intent and purpose. A general description of a category of information can be used to generate a network of overlapping communities of web pages and objects, where the neighborhoods represent pages or objects that share a common set of underlying concepts and semantic associations. Each such neighborhood can be semantically tagged. Overlaps among neighborhoods and the hierarchical structure of the network capture complex relationships among the concepts that the corresponding informational neighborhoods represent. All informational neighborhoods of the web can be mapped. The systems and methods can be adapted for any digital content and constitute a hybrid network of contents and their relationships.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2007Publication date: October 18, 2007Applicant: ILIAL, INC.Inventors: Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Alice Muntz
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Publication number: 20070203903Abstract: Systems and methods are described that facilitate exploration and mining of a corpus of documents using concepts and knowledge, rather than keywords and enable interactive visualization, management, monetization, and personalization of knowledge search results on a user interface. Underlying documents can be mapped into overlapping clusters of knowledge dimensions and the documents can be further partitioned into narrower knowledge dimensions, resulting in a hierarchical structure. Content of knowledge dimensions may be filtered using a knowledge dimension map. Knowledge may be personalized by a user and shared in collaborative and social networks. Knowledge-based advertisement systems and methods are described that associate products and services with knowledge dimensions and concepts. Advertisers can bid on concepts and KDs. Systems and methods are described that distribute a percentage of CPC revenue among content owners and provide revenue to content providers based on relevancy scores.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2007Publication date: August 30, 2007Applicant: ILIAL, INC.Inventors: Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Alice Muntz
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Publication number: 20070198506Abstract: Comprehensive methods and systems are described for creating, managing, searching, personalizing, and monetizing a knowledge system defined over a corpus of digital content. Systems and methods are described in which a user can initiate in-depth searches of subject matter and can browse, navigate, pinpoint, and select relevant contexts, concepts, and documents to gain knowledge. Systems and methods are described in which knowledge can be personalized through tagged, personalized context, and personalized context can be shared within social and professional networks, securely and confidentially and with the desired access control. Systems and methods are described in which products and services can be advertised in context and advertising can be selected through a bidding process. Systems and methods are described by which a user can navigate contexts and concepts to obtain relevant information, products and services.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2007Publication date: August 23, 2007Applicant: ILIAL, INC.Inventors: Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Alice Muntz