Patents by Inventor Fares Hedayati

Fares Hedayati 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: 11947571
    Abstract: Efficient tagging of content items using content embeddings are provided. In one technique, multiple content items are stored a content embedding for content item is stored. Entity names are also stored along with an entity name embedding for each entity name. For each content item, (1) multiple content embeddings that are associated with the content item are identified; (2) a subset of the entity names is identified; and (3) for each entity name in the subset, (i) an embedding of the entity name is identified, (ii) similarity measures are generated based on the entity name embedding and the multiple content embeddings, (iii), a distribution of the similarity measures is generated, (iv) feature values are generated based on the distribution, (v) the feature values are input into a machine-learned classifier, and (vi) based on output from the classifier, it is determined whether to associate the entity name with the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Fares Hedayati, Young Jin Yun, Sneha Chaudhari, Mahesh Subhash Joshi, Gungor Polatkan, Gautam Borooah
  • Publication number: 20220335066
    Abstract: Efficient tagging of content items using content embeddings are provided. In one technique, multiple content items are stored a content embedding for content item is stored. Entity names are also stored along with an entity name embedding for each entity name. For each content item, (1) multiple content embeddings that are associated with the content item are identified; (2) a subset of the entity names is identified; and (3) for each entity name in the subset, (i) an embedding of the entity name is identified, (ii) similarity measures are generated based on the entity name embedding and the multiple content embeddings, (iii), a distribution of the similarity measures is generated, (iv) feature values are generated based on the distribution, (v) the feature values are input into a machine-learned classifier, and (vi) based on output from the classifier, it is determined whether to associate the entity name with the content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Fares HEDAYATI, Young Jin YUN, Sneha CHAUDHARI, Mahesh Subhash JOSHI, Gungor POLATKAN, Gautam BOROOAH
  • Patent number: 11310539
    Abstract: Techniques for efficiently matching two sets of video items are provided. In on technique, an embedding is generated for each video item in each set. For the first set of video items, multiple groups are generated. The first set of video items may have a relatively little amount of metadata information for them. Each video item in the first set is assigned to one of the groups. Then, for each video item in the second set, one of the groups is selected based on embedding similarity. For each video item in the selected group, an embedding similarity is determined between that video item in the selected group and the video item in the second set. If the embedding similarity is above a certain threshold, then an association is generated for that pair of video items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Young Jin Yun, Sneha Chaudhari, Mahesh Subhash Joshi, Fares Hedayati, Gungor Polatkan, Gautam Borooah
  • Patent number: 10887655
    Abstract: The video recommendation system provided with an on-line connection system generates on-line video recommendations using collaborative filtering for clusters of member profiles. The recommendation system clusters member profiles using member profile information as clustering criteria. The video recommendations are then generated for a given cluster, based on aggregation of video viewing history recorded for the member profiles that are in the given cluster, using the video similarity matrix. In order to produce video recommendations for a particular member profile, the recommendation system first determines cluster membership for the member profile, retrieves recommendations generated for that cluster, and provides recommendations to the associated member. A user interface including references to one or more recommended videos is rendered on a display device of a viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Konstantin Salomatin, Fares Hedayati, Jeffrey Douglas Gee, Mahesh S. Joshi, Shivani Rao, Gungor Polatkan, Deepak Kumar
  • 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: 20200007936
    Abstract: The video recommendation system provided with an on-line connection system generates on-line video recommendations using collaborative filtering for clusters of member profiles. The recommendation system clusters member profiles using member profile information as clustering criteria. The video recommendations are then generated for a given cluster, based on aggregation of video viewing history recorded for the member profiles that are in the given cluster, using the video similarity matrix. In order to produce video recommendations for a particular member profile, the recommendation system first determines cluster membership for the member profile, retrieves recommendations generated for that cluster, and provides recommendations to the associated member. A user interface including references to one or more recommended videos is rendered on a display device of a viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Konstantin Salomatin, Fares Hedayati, Jeffrey Douglas Gee, Mahesh S. Joshi, Shivani Rao, Gungor Polatkan, Deepak Kumar
  • 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