Patents by Inventor Bonnie Bills

Bonnie Bills 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: 11531928
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for using machine learning techniques to associate skills with different content. In one technique, multiple classifications models are trained. Each classification model corresponds to a different skill and is trained based on textual embeddings of a plurality of content items and labels indicating whether each content item is associated with the skill that corresponds to that classification model. A particular content item embedding is generated based on text from a particular content item. The particular content item embedding is applied to the classification models to generate multiple results. One or more results of the multiple results are identified that indicate that one or more corresponding skills are associated with the particular content item. For each result of the one or more results, skill tagging data are stored that associate the particular content item with a particular skill that corresponds to that result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Shivani Rao, Deepak Kumar Dileep Kumar, Zhe Cui, Bonnie Bills, SeyedMohsen Jamali, Siyuan Zhang, Gungor Polatkan
  • Patent number: 10740621
    Abstract: Techniques for classifying videos as standalone or non-standalone are provided. Feature (or attribute) values associated with a particular video are identified. Feature values are extracted from metadata associated with the particular video and/or from within a transcript of the particular video. The extracted feature values of the particular video are input to a rule-based or a machine-learned model and the model scores the particular video. Once a determination pertaining to whether the particular video is standalone is made, information about the particular video being a standalone video is presented to one or more users within the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gungor Polatkan, Mahesh S. Joshi, Fares Hedayati, Bonnie Bills
  • Publication number: 20200005194
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for using machine learning techniques to associate skills with different content. In one technique, multiple classifications models are trained. Each classification model corresponds to a different skill and is trained based on textual embeddings of a plurality of content items and labels indicating whether each content item is associated with the skill that corresponds to that classification model. A particular content item embedding is generated based on text from a particular content item. The particular content item embedding is applied to the classification models to generate multiple results. One or more results of the results are identified that indicate that one or more corresponding skills are associated with the particular content item. For each result of the one or more results, skill tagging data is stored that associates the particular content item with a particular skill that corresponds to that result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Shivani Rao, Deepak Kumar Dileep Kumar, Zhe Cui, Bonnie Bills, SeyedMohsen Jamali, Siyuan Zhang, Gungor Polatkan
  • Publication number: 20200005047
    Abstract: Techniques for classifying videos as standalone or non-standalone are provided. Feature (or attribute) values associated with a particular video are identified. Feature values are extracted from metadata associated with the particular video and/or from within a transcript of the particular video. The extracted feature values of the particular video are input to a rule-based or a machine-learned model and the model scores the particular video. Once a determination pertaining to whether the particular video is standalone is made, information about the particular video being a standalone video is presented to one or more users within the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Gungor Polatkan, Mahesh S. Joshi, Fares Hedayati, Bonnie Bills