Patents by Inventor Behnam Hedayatnia

Behnam Hedayatnia 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: 11194973
    Abstract: A system that can engage in a dialog with a user may select a system response to a user input based on how the system estimates a user may respond to a potential system response. Models may be trained to evaluate a potential system response in view of various available data including dialog history, entity data, etc. Each model may score the potential system response for various qualitative aspects such as whether the response is likely to be comprehensible, on-topic, interesting, likely to lead to the dialog continuing, etc. Such scores may be combined to other scores such as whether the potential response is coherent or engaging. The models may be trained using previous dialog/chatbot evaluation data. At runtime the scores may be used to select a system response to a user input as part of the dialog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul Goel, Chandra Prakash Khatri, Tagyoung Chung, Raefer Christopher Gabriel, Anushree Venkatesh, Behnam Hedayatnia, Sanghyun Yi
  • Publication number: 20210312914
    Abstract: Described herein is a system for rescoring automatic speech recognition hypotheses for conversational devices that have multi-turn dialogs with a user. The system leverages dialog context by incorporating data related to past user utterances and data related to the system generated response corresponding to the past user utterance. Incorporation of this data improves recognition of a particular user utterance within the dialog.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Behnam Hedayatnia, Anirudh Raju, Ankur Gandhe, Chandra Prakash Khatri, Ariya Rastrow, Anushree Venkatesh, Arindam Mandal, Raefer Christopher Gabriel, Ahmad Shikib Mehri
  • Patent number: 11043214
    Abstract: Described herein is a system for rescoring automatic speech recognition hypotheses for conversational devices that have multi-turn dialogs with a user. The system leverages dialog context by incorporating data related to past user utterances and data related to the system generated response corresponding to the past user utterance. Incorporation of this data improves recognition of a particular user utterance within the dialog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Behnam Hedayatnia, Anirudh Raju, Ankur Gandhe, Chandra Prakash Khatri, Ariya Rastrow, Anushree Venkatesh, Arindam Mandal, Raefer Christopher Gabriel, Ahmad Shikib Mehri