Patents by Inventor Igor A. Podgorny

Igor A. Podgorny 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: 11263277
    Abstract: A method for executing a computerized query includes receiving a new query from a user device. The query includes natural language text. Based on a type of user, and using an alternative term generator, a selected data model is selected from among pre-determined data models. The selected data model is particular to the type of user. Each of the pre-determined data models includes a corresponding semantic graph data model that establishes semantic relationships between words. Query words in the natural language text are compared to the selected data model using the alternative term generator to find at least one alternative term. The alternative term has a semantic relationship to a query word in query words. The semantic relationship exceeds a first threshold value. The alternative term is substituted for a query word to form a revised query. The revised query is executed on a search engine using the alternative terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Igor Podgorny, Faraz Sharafi, Matthew Cannon, Pratik Desai
  • Patent number: 11256733
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing assistance to users by integrating social computing system with conversational user interface. In some cases, a user interacting with a virtual assistant of a conversational user interface provides input that the virtual assistant is not able identify a matching intent. As a result, the virtual assistant can leverage the social computing system to generate a new question based on the user input and post the question to the social computing system. Users of the social computing system can provide an answer, which the virtual assistant provides to the user in the conversational user interface. The social computing system can also generate a new intent for the virtual assistant to increase efficiency of the virtual assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Cannon, Igor A. Podgorny, Yason Khaburzaniya, Jeff W. Geisler
  • Publication number: 20220027745
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to processing support data to increase a self-support knowledge base. In some embodiments, assisted support data is received comprising a record of an interaction between a user and a support professional. In certain embodiments, a support data set is extracted from the assisted support data. In some embodiments, feedback related to the support data set is received. The feedback may include an indication that the support data set is ready to be included in the self-support knowledge base. In some embodiments, upon determining, based on the feedback, that the support data set is ready to be used for self-support, the support data set is added to the self-support knowledge base. The self-support knowledge base may be accessible by a plurality of users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Igor A. Podgorny, Benjamin Indyk, Matthew Cannon, Chris Gielow
  • Patent number: 11222351
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for determining application experience of a user. One embodiment presented herein includes a computer-implemented method, which includes receiving, at a computing device, eye tracking data of a user interacting with at least a first page of an application. The computer-implemented method further includes determining, based at least on the eye tracking data, at least a current user experience regarding the first page. The computer-implemented method further includes predicting, based on evaluating the current user experience, that the user is likely to discontinue use of the application. The computer-implemented method further includes determining, based at least on the prediction, an intervention that reduces a likelihood of the user discontinuing use of the application, and interacting with the user according to the intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: INTUIT, INC.
    Inventors: Igor A. Podgorny, Benjamin Indyk, Michael J. Graves
  • Patent number: 11163778
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to processing support requests, or support queries, in a software application including automated and human interaction-based support systems. An example method generally includes receiving a support request from a client device. A query processor parses the support request to identify one or more characteristics of the support request and identifies a support system to process the support request based at least in part on the identified one or more characteristics of the support request. The query processor instantiates a support session with the identified support system to process the support request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Indyk, Igor A. Podgorny, Matthew Cannon, Chris Gielow
  • Publication number: 20210327412
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing customized automatic speech recognition (ASR) in a customer support system are disclosed. In an example method, one or more data sources for training an ASR language model associated with the customer support system are identified, and one or more weighting models are selected, each weighting model applying a corresponding weight to each data source of the one or more data sources. The ASR language model is then trained based at least in part on the one or more data sources and the one or more weighting models, and a transcript may be generated for one or more customer support calls of the customer support system using the trained ASR language model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Igor A. Podgorny, Michael R. Cowgill, Faraz Sharafi
  • Patent number: 11144836
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to processing support data to increase a self-support knowledge base. In some embodiments, assisted support data is received comprising a record of an interaction between a user and a support professional. In certain embodiments, a support data set is extracted from the assisted support data. In some embodiments, feedback related to the support data set is received. The feedback may include an indication that the support data set is ready to be included in the self-support knowledge base. In some embodiments, upon determining, based on the feedback, that the support data set is ready to be used for self-support, the support data set is added to the self-support knowledge base. The self-support knowledge base may be accessible by a plurality of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Igor A. Podgorny, Benjamin Indyk, Matthew Cannon, Chris Gielow
  • Patent number: 11138382
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided to perform text classification with a neural network system. The method includes providing a computing device to receive input datasets including user input question text and feed the datasets to the neural network system. The neural network system includes one or more neural networks configured to extract and concatenate character-based features, word-based features from the question datasets and clickstream embeddings of clickstream data to form a representation vector indicative of the question text and user behavior. A representation vector is fed into fully connected layers of a feed-forward network. The feed-forward network is configured to predict a first class and a second class associated with respective user input questions based on the representation vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Igor A. Podgorny, Vitor R. Carvalho, Sparsh Gupta
  • Patent number: 11093951
    Abstract: A customer self-help system employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify self-help content that is responsive to a user query by analyzing and searching a plurality of customer self-help systems. The customer self-help system generates a self-help relationship model by applying one or more processes/algorithms on training set data. In response to a user query, the customer self-help system identifies ones of the plurality of customer self-help systems that are relevant to the user query and searches the relevant ones of the plurality of customer self-help systems for self-help content that is responsive to the user query. The customer self-help system then provides the self-help content to the user in response to receipt of the user query from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Igor A. Podgorny, Benjamin Indyk, Faraz Sharafi, Matthew Cannon, Darren Duc Dao
  • Publication number: 20210209633
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for determining application experience of a user. One embodiment presented herein includes a computer-implemented method, which includes receiving, at a computing device, eye tracking data of a user interacting with at least a first page of an application. The computer-implemented method further includes determining, based at least on the eye tracking data, at least a current user experience regarding the first page. The computer-implemented method further includes predicting, based on evaluating the current user experience, that the user is likely to discontinue use of the application. The computer-implemented method further includes determining, based at least on the prediction, an intervention that reduces a likelihood of the user discontinuing use of the application, and interacting with the user according to the intervention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Igor A. PODGORNY, Benjamin INDYK, Michael J. GRAVES
  • Patent number: 11048887
    Abstract: A method for text classification involves generating, using a bilingual embedding model, source language embeddings for source language documents; obtaining source language document labels of the source language documents; and training a source language classifier model and a label embedding network, executing on a computing system, using the source language embeddings and the source language document labels. The method further involves generating pseudo-labels for unlabeled target language documents, by: generating, using the bilingual embedding model, target language embeddings for the unlabeled target language documents, and applying the source language classifier model and the label embedding network to the target language embeddings to obtain the pseudo-labels for the unlabeled target language documents. In addition, the method involves training a target language classifier model executing on the computing system using the target language embeddings and the pseudo labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Sparsh Gupta, Igor Podgorny, Faraz Sharafi, Matthew Cannon, Vitor R. Carvalho
  • Patent number: 11017167
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method. The method includes receiving a flawed input comprising a domain specific misspelling. The method further includes encoding, by an encoder machine learning model executing on a computer processor, the flawed input on a per character basis to create a context vector. The method further includes decoding, by a decoder machine learning model executing on the computer processor, the context vector on the per character basis to create a rephrased input lacking the domain specific misspelling. The method further includes presenting the rephrased input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Igor Podgorny, Faraz Sharafi, Matthew Cannon, Pavlo Malynin, Jeff Geisler, Yason Khaburzaniya, Greg Coulombe
  • Publication number: 20210133581
    Abstract: A method for facilitating user support using multimodal information involves obtaining an interaction between a user and a support agent, generating a question embedding from the interaction, obtaining a clickstream associated with the interaction, and generating a clickstream embedding from the clickstream. The question embedding and the clickstream embedding form a shared latent space representation. The method further involves decoding a problem summary from the shared latent space representation and providing the problem summary to the support agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Igor A. Podgorny, Sparsh Gupta, Vitor R. Carvalho, Michael R. Cowgill
  • Patent number: 10997254
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for facilitating text inputs with long-tail keywords from a user in a social question and answer (Q&A) application. One example method generally includes receiving, at a server, a text input from the user at a client computer, and applying, a predictive model to the text input. The method further includes determining based on the predictive model, an increase in user traffic that is predicted to be generated from the text input and determining, a user interface (UI) to be generated for display to the user for subsequent interaction based on the increase in user traffic. The method further includes sending the UI to the client computer and receiving a subsequent text input from the client computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Igor A. Podgorny, Todd Frey Goodyear, Bradly S. Feeley
  • Patent number: 10990996
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for determining application experience of a user. One embodiment presented herein includes a computer-implemented method, which includes receiving, at a computing device, eye tracking data of a user interacting with at least a first page of an application. The computer-implemented method further includes determining, based at least on the eye tracking data, at least a current user experience regarding the first page. The computer-implemented method further includes predicting, based on evaluating the current user experience, that the user is likely to discontinue use of the application. The computer-implemented method further includes determining, based at least on the prediction, an intervention that reduces a likelihood of the user discontinuing use of the application, and interacting with the user according to the intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: INTUIT, INC.
    Inventors: Igor A. Podgorny, Benjamin Indyk, Michael J. Graves
  • Publication number: 20210081443
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing assistance to users by integrating social computing system with conversational user interface. In some cases, a user interacting with a virtual assistant of a conversational user interface provides input that the virtual assistant is not able identify a matching intent. As a result, the virtual assistant can leverage the social computing system to generate a new question based on the user input and post the question to the social computing system. Users of the social computing system can provide an answer, which the virtual assistant provides to the user in the conversational user interface. The social computing system can also generate a new intent for the virtual assistant to increase efficiency of the virtual assistant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Matthew CANNON, Igor A. PODGORNY, Yason KHABURZANIYA, Jeff W. GEISLER
  • Publication number: 20210065018
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing assistance to users within a social computing environment to generate questions and answers. In some cases, a user can opt to have a question optimizer generate a question based on the input the user has provided. In other cases, the user can opt to have an answer optimizer generate an answer based on the user provided input. Each optimizer includes a generative model trained with deep learning and artificial neural network to translate the user input with, for example, a long short-term memory model. The generated question and/or answer is displayed to the user in an interactive user interface and posted by the user to the social computing environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Igor A. PODGORNY, Faraz SHARAFI, Leslie M. CAHILL
  • Patent number: 10922367
    Abstract: A method and system provides personalized search results to users of a data management system. The method and system receives a search query from a user and generate initial search results including a plurality of assistance documents relevant to the query data. The method and system utilizes natural language analysis and machine learning processes to analyze the query data, user attributes data, and the assistance documents in order to generate personalized previews of the assistance documents for the user. The method and system output personalized search results to the user including the personalized previews of the assistance documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Igor A. Podgorny, Benjamin Indyk, Ling Feng Wei
  • Publication number: 20210034707
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided to perform text classification with a neural network system. The method includes providing a computing device to receive input datasets including user input question text and feed the datasets to the neural network system. The neural network system includes one or more neural networks configured to extract and concatenate character-based features, word-based features from the question datasets and clickstream embeddings of clickstream data to form a representation vector indicative of the question text and user behavior. A representation vector is fed into fully connected layers of a feed-forward network. The feed-forward network is configured to predict a first class and a second class associated with respective user input questions based on the representation vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Igor A. Podgorny, Vitor R. Carvalho, Sparsh Gupta
  • Patent number: 10878008
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing assistance to users by integrating social computing system with conversational user interface. In some cases, a user interacting with a virtual assistant of a conversational user interface provides input that the virtual assistant is not able identify a matching intent. As a result, the virtual assistant can leverage the social computing system to generate a new question based on the user input and post the question to the social computing system. Users of the social computing system can provide an answer, which the virtual assistant provides to the user in the conversational user interface. The social computing system can also generate a new intent for the virtual assistant to increase efficiency of the virtual assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Cannon, Igor A. Podgorny, Yason Khaburzaniya, Jeff W. Geisler