Patents by Inventor Eugene Agichtein

Eugene Agichtein 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: 11960555
    Abstract: A method of providing results from a search engine comprises generating an initial set based on a query received from a user; generating an attention value based on the query and on the initial set; applying the attention value to the initial set; and presenting a set of results in response to the query, wherein the results are generated according to the application of the attention value to the initial set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Home Depot Product Authority, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Ahmadvand, Sayyed M. Zahiri, Simon Hughes, Khalifeh Al Jadda, Surya Kallumadi, Eugene Agichtein
  • Publication number: 20240119059
    Abstract: A method for ranking documents in search results includes defining a first training data set, the first training data set including, for each of a plurality of user queries, information respective of a document selected by a user from results responsive to the query and information respective of one or more documents within an observation window after the selected document in the results, and defining a second training data set, the second training data set including, for each of the plurality of user queries, information respective of the selected document. The method further includes training a first machine learning model with the first training data set, training a second machine learning model with the second training data set, and ranking documents of a further search result set according to the output of the first machine learning model and the output of the second machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jianghong Zhou, Sayyed Zahiri, Simon Hughes, Surya Kallumadi, Khalifeh Al Jadda, Eugene Agichtein
  • Patent number: 11853309
    Abstract: A method for ranking documents in search results includes defining a first training data set, the first training data set including, for each of a plurality of user queries, information respective of a document selected by a user from results responsive to the query and information respective of one or more documents within an observation window after the selected document in the results, and defining a second training data set, the second training data set including, for each of the plurality of user queries, information respective of the selected document. The method further includes training a first machine learning model with the first training data set, training a second machine learning model with the second training data set, and ranking documents of a further search result set according to the output of the first machine learning model and the output of the second machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Home Depot Product Authority, LLC
    Inventors: Jianghong Zhou, Sayyed Zahiri, Simon Hughes, Surya Kallumadi, Khalifeh Al Jadda, Eugene Agichtein
  • Publication number: 20220284066
    Abstract: A method of providing results from a search engine comprises generating an initial set based on a query received from a user; generating an attention value based on the query and on the initial set; applying the attention value to the initial set; and presenting a set of results in response to the query, wherein the results are generated according to the application of the attention value to the initial set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Ali Ahmadvand, Sayyed M. Zahiri, Simon Hughes, Khalifeh Al Jadda, Surya Kallumadi, Eugene Agichtein
  • Publication number: 20220138209
    Abstract: A method for ranking documents in search results includes defining a first training data set, the first training data set including, for each of a plurality of user queries, information respective of a document selected by a user from results responsive to the query and information respective of one or more documents within an observation window after the selected document in the results, and defining a second training data set, the second training data set including, for each of the plurality of user queries, information respective of the selected document. The method further includes training a first machine learning model with the first training data set, training a second machine learning model with the second training data set, and ranking documents of a further search result set according to the output of the first machine learning model and the output of the second machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Jianghong Zhou, Sayyed Zahiri, Simon Hughes, Surya Kallumadi, Khalifeh Al Jadda, Eugene Agichtein
  • Patent number: 10452694
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for obtaining a resource, identifying a first portion of text of the resource that is characterized as a question, and a second part of text of the resource that is characterized as an answer to the question, identifying an entity that is referenced by one or more terms of the text that is characterized as the question, a relationship type that is referenced by one or more other terms of the text that is characterized as the question, and an entity that is referenced by the text that is characterized as the answer to the question, and adjusting a score for a relationship of the relationship type for the entity that is referenced by the one or more terms of the text that is characterized as the question and the entity that is referenced by the text that is characterized as the answer to the question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Wei Lwun Lu, Denis Savenkov, Amarnag Subramanya, Jeffrey Dalton, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Eugene Agichtein
  • Publication number: 20180150468
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for obtaining a resource, identifying a first portion of text of the resource that is characterized as a question, and a second part of text of the resource that is characterized as an answer to the question, identifying an entity that is referenced by one or more terms of the text that is characterized as the question, a relationship type that is referenced by one or more other terms of the text that is characterized as the question, and an entity that is referenced by the text that is characterized as the answer to the question, and adjusting a score for a relationship of the relationship type for the entity that is referenced by the one or more terms of the text that is characterized as the question and the entity that is referenced by the text that is characterized as the answer to the question.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Wei Lwun Lu, Denis Savenkov, Amarnag Subramanya, Jeffrey Dalton, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Eugene Agichtein
  • Patent number: 9875296
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for obtaining a resource, identifying a first portion of text of the resource that is characterized as a question, and a second part of text of the resource that is characterized as an answer to the question, identifying an entity that is referenced by one or more terms of the text that is characterized as the question, a relationship type that is referenced by one or more other terms of the text that is characterized as the question, and an entity that is referenced by the text that is characterized as the answer to the question, and adjusting a score for a relationship of the relationship type for the entity that is referenced by the one or more terms of the text that is characterized as the question and the entity that is referenced by the text that is characterized as the answer to the question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Wei Lwun Lu, Denis Savenkov, Amarnag Subramanya, Jeffrey Dalton, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Eugene Agichtein
  • Publication number: 20160283491
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for obtaining a resource, identifying a first portion of text of the resource that is characterized as a question, and a second part of text of the resource that is characterized as an answer to the question, identifying an entity that is referenced by one or more terms of the text that is characterized as the question, a relationship type that is referenced by one or more other terms of the text that is characterized as the question, and an entity that is referenced by the text that is characterized as the answer to the question, and adjusting a score for a relationship of the relationship type for the entity that is referenced by the one or more terms of the text that is characterized as the question and the entity that is referenced by the text that is characterized as the answer to the question.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Wei Lwun Lu, Denis Savenkov, Amarnag Subramanya, Jeffrey Dalton, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Eugene Agichtein