Patents by Inventor Christina-Ioana Muntean

Christina-Ioana Muntean 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).

  • Publication number: 20240370446
    Abstract: A method and system are described for improving the speed and efficiency of obtaining conversational search results. A user may speak a phrase to perform a conversational search or a series of phrases to perform a series of searches. These spoken phrases may be enriched by context and then converted into a query embedding. A similarity between the query embedding and document embeddings is used to determine the search results including a query cutoff number of documents and a cache cutoff number of documents. A second search phrase may use the cache of documents along with comparisons of the returned documents and the first query embedding to determine the quality of the cache for responding to the second search query. If the results are high-quality then the search may proceed much more rapidly by applying the second query only to the cached documents rather than to the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Ophir Frieder, Ida Mele, Christina-Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto
  • Patent number: 12067021
    Abstract: A method and system are described for improving the speed and efficiency of obtaining conversational search results. A user may speak a phrase to perform a conversational search or a series of phrases to perform a series of searches. These spoken phrases may be enriched by context and then converted into a query embedding. A similarity between the query embedding and document embeddings is used to determine the search results including a query cutoff number of documents and a cache cutoff number of documents. A second search phrase may use the cache of documents along with comparisons of the returned documents and the first query embedding to determine the quality of the cache for responding to the second search query. If the results are high-quality then the search may proceed much more rapidly by applying the second query only to the cached documents rather than to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Georgetown University
    Inventors: Ophir Frieder, Ida Mele, Christina-Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto
  • Publication number: 20230267126
    Abstract: A method and system are described for improving the speed and efficiency of obtaining conversational search results. A user may speak a phrase to perform a conversational search or a series of phrases to perform a series of searches. These spoken phrases may be enriched by context and then converted into a query embedding. A similarity between the query embedding and document embeddings is used to determine the search results including a query cutoff number of documents and a cache cutoff number of documents. A second search phrase may use the cache of documents along with comparisons of the returned documents and the first query embedding to determine the quality of the cache for responding to the second search query. If the results are high-quality then the search may proceed much more rapidly by applying the second query only to the cached documents rather than to the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Ophir Frieder, Ida Mele, Christina-Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto