Patents by Inventor James McNamara
James McNamara 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).
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Patent number: 11899675Abstract: A machine reading comprehension system (MRCS) can analyze a larger-sized document that includes multiple pages to predict an answer to a query. For example, the document can have two, five, tens, or hundreds of pages. The MRCS divides the document into multiple sections with each section including a portion of the document. Each section is processed separately by one or more processing circuitries to determine a score for that section. The score indicates how related the section is to the query and/or a probability that the section provides a possible answer to the query. Once all of the sections have been analyzed, the sections are ranked by their scores and a subset of the ranked sections are processed again to determine a predicted answer to the query.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mahmoud Adada, Andrew James McNamara, Kaheer Suleman, Xihui Lin, En Hui Zhuang
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Publication number: 20240012381Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method of machining articles from a disc comprising superhard material, such as polycrystalline diamond (PCD) or polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (PCBN). The method includes providing a disc having a diameter of no more than 100 mm and a thickness of no more than 10 mm, providing a nesting pattern, scanning the disc to identify and locate any flaws in the disc and subsequently creating a machining program that takes into account said flaws.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Element Six LimitedInventors: Eric Curry, James McNamara
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Patent number: 11833422Abstract: This document relates to techniques for addressing disruptions that prevent applications from receiving user input, prevent users from providing input to an application, and/or prevents or impacts users from receiving application output. One example method involves detecting a disruption to an interactive application during interaction by a user with the interactive application, generating automated user inputs, and providing the automated user inputs to the interactive application during the disruption to the interactive application.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mohamed Musbah, Matthew Mitchell Dixon, Geoffrey Jacoby Gordon, Mahmoud Adada, Soroush Mehri, Andrew James McNamara, Jonathan David Morrison
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Patent number: 11724186Abstract: This document relates to techniques for addressing disruptions that prevent applications from receiving user input, prevent users from providing input to an application, and/or prevents or impacts users from receiving application output. One example method involves detecting a disruption to an interactive application during interaction by a user with the interactive application, generating automated user inputs, and providing the automated user inputs to the interactive application during the disruption to the interactive application.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mohamed Musbah, Matthew Mitchell Dixon, Geoffrey Jacoby Gordon, Mahmoud Adada, Soroush Mehri, Andrew James McNamara, Jonathan David Morrison
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Publication number: 20230083335Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods that provide a natural language processing system (NLPS) that employs compressed word embeddings. An auto-encoder that includes encoder circuitry and decoder circuitry can be used to produce the compressed word embeddings. The decoder circuitry is trained to decompress the word embeddings with reduced or minimal differences between the original uncompressed word embeddings and the corresponding decompressed word embeddings. One or more parameters of the trained decoder circuitry are transferred to the NLPS, where the NLPS is then trained using the compressed word embeddings to improve the correctness of the responses or actions determined by the NLPS.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xihui LIN, Andrew James MCNAMARA, Kaheer SULEMAN
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Publication number: 20220335051Abstract: A machine reading comprehension system (MRCS) can analyze a larger-sized document that includes multiple pages to predict an answer to a query. For example, the document can have two, five, tens, or hundreds of pages. The MRCS divides the document into multiple sections with each section including a portion of the document. Each section is processed separately by one or more processing circuitries to determine a score for that section. The score indicates how related the section is to the query and/or a probability that the section provides a possible answer to the query. Once all of the sections have been analyzed, the sections are ranked by their scores and a subset of the ranked sections are processed again to determine a predicted answer to the query.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mahmoud ADADA, Andrew James MCNAMARA, Kaheer SULEMAN, Xihui LIN, En Hui ZHUANG
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Patent number: 11409749Abstract: A machine reading comprehension system (MRCS) can analyze a larger-sized document that includes multiple pages to predict an answer to a query. For example, the document can have two, five, tens, or hundreds of pages. The MRCS divides the document into multiple sections with each section including a portion of the document. Each section is processed separately by one or more processing circuitries to determine a score for that section. The score indicates how related the section is to the query and/or a probability that the section provides a possible answer to the query. Once all of the sections have been analyzed, the sections are ranked by their scores and a subset of the ranked sections are processed again to determine a predicted answer to the query.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mahmoud Adada, Andrew James McNamara, Kaheer Suleman, Xihui Lin, En Hui Zhuang
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Publication number: 20220176244Abstract: This document relates to techniques for addressing disruptions that prevent applications from receiving user input, prevent users from providing input to an application, and/or prevents or impacts users from receiving application output. One example method involves detecting a disruption to an interactive application during interaction by a user with the interactive application, generating automated user inputs, and providing the automated user inputs to the interactive application during the disruption to the interactive application.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mohamed Musbah, Matthew Mitchell Dixon, Geoffrey Jacoby Gordon, Mahmoud Adada, Soroush Mehri, Andrew James McNamara, Jonathan David Morrison
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Publication number: 20220168635Abstract: This document relates to techniques for addressing disruptions that prevent applications from receiving user input, prevent users from providing input to an application, and/or prevents or impacts users from receiving application output. One example method involves detecting a disruption to an interactive application during interaction by a user with the interactive application, generating automated user inputs, and providing the automated user inputs to the interactive application during the disruption to the interactive application.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mohamed Musbah, Matthew Mitchell Dixon, Geoffrey Jacoby Gordon, Mahmoud Adada, Soroush Mehri, Andrew James McNamara, Jonathan David Morrison
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Patent number: 11213746Abstract: This document relates to techniques for addressing disruptions that prevent applications from receiving user input, prevent users from providing input to an application, and/or prevents or impacts users from receiving application output. One example method involves detecting a disruption to an interactive application during interaction by a user with the interactive application, generating automated user inputs, and providing the automated user inputs to the interactive application during the disruption to the interactive application.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mohamed Musbah, Matthew Mitchell Dixon, Geoffrey Jacoby Gordon, Mahmoud Adada, Soroush Mehri, Andrew James McNamara, Jonathan David Morrison
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Patent number: 11081106Abstract: A spoken dialogue system includes a spoken language understanding apparatus. The spoken language understanding apparatus can include an intent apparatus and a selection apparatus. The intent apparatus is configured to determine if a query comprises a global command, to determine if an intent associated with a query is or is not included in a domain that is supported by the spoken dialogue system, to determine if a query comprises a confirmation type, to tag one or more entities in a query, and to determine an intent probability distribution and a domain probability distribution that is associated with a query. When the query includes an entity that is included in two or more possible entities, the selection apparatus is configured to provide a score for each of the two or more possible entities.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xihui Lin, Andrew James McNamara, Jing He
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Publication number: 20210113921Abstract: This document relates to techniques for addressing disruptions that prevent applications from receiving user input, prevent users from providing input to an application, and/or prevents or impacts users from receiving application output. One example method involves detecting a disruption to an interactive application during interaction by a user with the interactive application, generating automated user inputs, and providing the automated user inputs to the interactive application during the disruption to the interactive application.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2019Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mohamed Musbah, Matthew Mitchell Dixon, Geoffrey Jacoby Gordon, Mahmoud Adada, Soroush Mehri, Andrew James McNamara, Jonathan David Morrison
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Patent number: 10374974Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention monitor and dynamically allocate computing resources to a game service. A game service provides a remote gaming environments to which users connect over a wide area network, such as the internet. A game session runs a single instance of a game title. The game session runs the video game code responsible for creating the playing experience for the users. In another embodiment, the number of active game sessions is monitored and computing resources are allocated dynamically as the number of sessions increases or decreases.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: John Peter Bruno, Donald James McNamara, Ashok Chandrasekaran, Christopher Lane Boedigheimer, Per-Ola Anders Orvendal, Joseph Cusimano, Scott Q. Longstreet
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Patent number: 10327956Abstract: A wound dressing system comprising a wrap and a frangible ampoule is provided. The wrap is configured to contact/surround a wound site and includes an oxygen catalyst. The ampoule includes an oxygen precursor. The catalyst and precursor are configured to form oxygen when combined. A wound dressing system including a container is also provided that includes a powder, wrap, and frangible ampoule. The powder is disposed within the container, which is configured to allow the powder to be dispersed onto a wound site when activated. The wrap, which may include an oxygen catalyst, is also disposed in the container and is configured to contact/surround the wound site. The ampoule, also disposed in the container, includes a liquid containing an oxygen precursor. The liquid is configured to contact the wrap when the container is activated. Further, the catalyst and precursor are configured to form oxygen when combined.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Avent, Inc.Inventors: John Gavin MacDonald, Kelly Dean Branham, David William Koenig, Andrew V. Sweeney, Stephanie Kute, Ramanathan S. Lalgudi, Phillip Andrew Schorr, Alison Salyer Bagwell, Brian Joseph Cuevas, David James McNamara
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Publication number: 20190138613Abstract: A machine reading comprehension system (MRCS) can analyze a larger-sized document that includes multiple pages to predict an answer to a query. For example, the document can have two, five, tens, or hundreds of pages. The MRCS divides the document into multiple sections with each section including a portion of the document. Each section is processed separately by one or more processing circuitries to determine a score for that section. The score indicates how related the section is to the query and/or a probability that the section provides a possible answer to the query. Once all of the sections have been analyzed, the sections are ranked by their scores and a subset of the ranked sections are processed again to determine a predicted answer to the query.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2017Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mahmoud ADADA, Andrew James MCNAMARA, Kaheer SULEMAN, Xihui LIN, En Hui ZHUANG
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Publication number: 20190066668Abstract: A spoken dialogue system includes a spoken language understanding apparatus. The spoken language understanding apparatus can include an intent apparatus and a selection apparatus. The intent apparatus is configured to determine if a query comprises a global command, to determine if an intent associated with a query is or is not included in a domain that is supported by the spoken dialogue system, to determine if a query comprises a confirmation type, to tag one or more entities in a query, and to determine an intent probability distribution and a domain probability distribution that is associated with a query. When the query includes an entity that is included in two or more possible entities, the selection apparatus is configured to provide a score for each of the two or more possible entities.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2017Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xihui LIN, Andrew James McNAMARA, Jing HE
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Publication number: 20190065486Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods that provide a natural language processing system (NLPS) that employs compressed word embeddings. An auto-encoder that includes encoder circuitry and decoder circuitry can be used to produce the compressed word embeddings. The decoder circuitry is trained to decompress the word embeddings with reduced or minimal differences between the original uncompressed word embeddings and the corresponding decompressed word embeddings. One or more parameters of the trained decoder circuitry are transferred to the NLPS, where the NLPS is then trained using the compressed word embeddings to improve the correctness of the responses or actions determined by the NLPS.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2017Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xihui LIN, Andrew James MCNAMARA, Kaheer SULEMAN
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Patent number: 9701452Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for a vented storage container that includes a container that has an upper mouth-defining structure, a base, and a plurality of walls extending from the base, forming a cavity therein. The lid is fixable to the upper mouth-defining structure, wherein the lid has a top surface and a bottom surface, and at least one hole formed within the lid. A valve is engaged to the lid and covering the at least one hole.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Protect Plus, LLCInventors: Robert William Lackey, David James McNamara
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Publication number: 20170195251Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention monitor and dynamically allocate computing resources to a game service. A game service provides a remote gaming environments to which users connect over a wide area network, such as the internet. A game session runs a single instance of a game title. The game session runs the video game code responsible for creating the playing experience for the users. In another embodiment, the number of active game sessions is monitored and computing resources are allocated dynamically as the number of sessions increases or decreases.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: JOHN PETER BRUNO, DONALD JAMES MCNAMARA, ASHOK CHANDRASEKARAN, CHRISTOPHER LANE BOEDIGHEIMER, PER-OLA ANDERS ORVENDAL, JOSEPH CUSIMANO, SCOTT Q. LONGSTREET
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Patent number: 9694279Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention monitor and dynamically manage game instances within a game service. A game service provides a remote gaming environment to which users connect over a wide area network, such as the Internet. For example, embodiments of the invention may forecast demand for a specific game title. The demand forecast is used to determine how many standby game instances are needed to meet demand as players join and leave game sessions. Games with higher demand may have more standby game instances ready for players to drop in. Games with less demand may have fewer active game instances running waiting for players to drop in.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: John Peter Bruno, Donald James McNamara, Hsiang-Ling Jamie Lin, Christopher Lane Boedigheimer, Per-Ola Anders Orvendal, Joseph Cusimano, Scott Q. Longstreet