Patents by Inventor Gilles Comeau

Gilles Comeau 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: 20200210648
    Abstract: The disclosure related to the field of language processing. A server (30) is configured to respond to a query associated with a user device (21) by sending, to the user device (21), an indication of an item selected based on semantic importance attributed to grams of text in the query. Attributing semantic importance comprises: in the event that a number of occurrences of the gram in a first document is above an occurrence threshold, determining a gram score for said gram based on said number of occurrences; in the vent that the number of occurrences of the gram in the first document is below the occurrence threshold, determining the gram score based on: (i) said number of occurrences, and (ii) a reference score for the gram based on a number of occurrences of the gram in a reference document different to the at least one first document; and attributing the semantic importance based on the gram score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Gilles COMEAU, Simon POOLE, Daniel COOPER, Toby MOSTYN
  • Patent number: 10621283
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the field of language processing. A server (30) is configured to respond to a query associated with a user device (21) by sending, to the user device (21), an indication of an item selected based on semantic importance attributed to grams of text in the query. Attributing semantic importance comprises: in the event that a number of occurrences of the gram in a first document is above an occurrence threshold, determining a gram score for said gram based on said number of occurrences; in the event that the number of occurrences of the gram in the first document is below the occurrence threshold, determining the gram score based on: (i) said number of occurrences, and (ii) a reference score for the gram based on a number of occurrences of the gram in a reference document different to the at least one first document; and attributing the semantic importance based on the gram score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: JUST EAT HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Gilles Comeau, Simon Poole, Daniel Cooper, Toby Mostyn
  • Publication number: 20190065471
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the field of language processing. A server (30) is configured to respond to a query associated with a user device (21) by sending, to the user device (21), an indication of an item selected based on semantic importance attributed to grams of text in the query. Attributing semantic importance comprises: in the event that a number of occurrences of the gram in a first document is above an occurrence threshold, determining a gram score for said gram based on said number of occurrences; in the event that the number of occurrences of the gram in the first document is below the occurrence threshold, determining the gram score based on: (i) said number of occurrences, and (ii) a reference score for the gram based on a number of occurrences of the gram in a reference document different to the at least one first document; and attributing the semantic importance based on the gram score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Gilles Comeau, Simon Poole, Daniel Cooper