Patents by Inventor Courtney Napoles Cohen

Courtney Napoles Cohen 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).

  • Identifying constructive sub-dialogues
    Patent number: 10628737
    Abstract: Software on a website hosting an online forum extracts a plurality of sub-dialogues from each thread in a corpus from the online forum. The software obtains one or more sub-dialogue annotations associated with each sub-dialogue. The sub-dialogue annotations include an annotation as to whether the sub-dialogue is constructive. The software extracts a plurality of features from each sub-dialogue uses them and the sub-dialogue annotations associated with the sub-dialogue to train a classifier that determines whether a particular sub-dialogue is constructive. Then the software obtains a new sub-dialogue from a thread currently displayed in the online forum and extracts the plurality of features from the new sub-dialogue. The software inputs the features extracted from the new sub-dialogue into the classifier and obtains a determination as to whether the new sub-dialogue is constructive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Courtney Napoles Cohen, Aasish Pappu, Joel Tetreault
  • Identifying Constructive Sub-Dialogues
    Publication number: 20180203846
    Abstract: Software on a website hosting an online forum extracts a plurality of sub-dialogues from each thread in a corpus from the online forum. The software obtains one or more sub-dialogue annotations associated with each sub-dialogue. The sub-dialogue annotations include an annotation as to whether the sub-dialogue is constructive. The software extracts a plurality of features from each sub-dialogue uses them and the sub-dialogue annotations associated with the sub-dialogue to train a classifier that determines whether a particular sub-dialogue is constructive. Then the software obtains a new sub-dialogue from a thread currently displayed in the online forum and extracts the plurality of features from the new sub-dialogue. The software inputs the features extracted from the new sub-dialogue into the classifier and obtains a determination as to whether the new sub-dialogue is constructive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Courtney Napoles Cohen, Aasish Pappu, Joel Tetreault