Patents by Inventor Jonathan B. Feinstein

Jonathan B. Feinstein 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: 10937413
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for training a target language model based at least in part on data associated with a reference language model. For example, language data utilized to train an English language model may be translated and provided as training data to train a German language model to recognize utterances provided in German. By utilizing the techniques herein, the efficiency of training a new language model may be improved due at least in part to replacing labor-intensive operations conventionally performed by specialized personnel with machine-generated data. Additionally, techniques discussed herein provide for reducing the time required for training a new language model by leveraging information associated with utterances of one language to train the new language model associated with a different language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Feinstein, Alok Verma, Amina Shabbeer, Brandon Scott Durham, Catherine Breslin, Edward Bueche, Fabian Moerchen, Fabian Triefenbach, Klaus Reiter, Toby R. Latin-Stoermer, Panagiota Karanasou, Judith Gaspers
  • Patent number: 10854189
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for training a language recognition model. For example, a language recognition model may be maintained and associated with a reference language (e.g., English). The language recognition model may be configured to accept as input an utterance in the reference language and to identify a feature to be executed in response to receiving the utterance. New language data (e.g., other utterances) provided in a different language (e.g., German) may be obtained. This new language data may be translated to English and utilized to retrain the model to recognize reference language data as well as language data translated to the reference language. Subsequent utterances (e.g., English utterances, or German utterances translated to English) may be provided to the updated model and a feature may be identified. One or more instructions may be sent to a user device to execute a set of instructions associated with the feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Feinstein, Alok Verma, Amina Shabbeer, Brandon Scott Durham, Catherine Breslin, Edward Bueche, Fabian Moerchen, Fabian Triefenbach, Klaus Reiter, Toby R. Latin-Stoermer, Panagiota Karanasou, Judith Gaspers
  • Publication number: 20200098351
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for training a language recognition model. For example, a language recognition model may be maintained and associated with a reference language (e.g., English). The language recognition model may be configured to accept as input an utterance in the reference language and to identify a feature to be executed in response to receiving the utterance. New language data (e.g., other utterances) provided in a different language (e.g., German) may be obtained. This new language data may be translated to English and utilized to retrain the model to recognize reference language data as well as language data translated to the reference language. Subsequent utterances (e.g., English utterances, or German utterances translated to English) may be provided to the updated model and a feature may be identified. One or more instructions may be sent to a user device to execute a set of instructions associated with the feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Feinstein, Alok Verma, Amina Shabbeer, Brandon Scott Durham, Catherine Breslin, Edward Bueche, Fabian Moerchen, Fabian Triefenbach, Klaus Reiter, Toby R. Latin-Stoermer, Panagiota Karanasou, Judith Gaspers
  • Publication number: 20200098352
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for training a target language model based at least in part on data associated with a reference language model. For example, language data utilized to train an English language model may be translated and provided as training data to train a German language model to recognize utterances provided in German. By utilizing the techniques herein, the efficiency of training a new language model may be improved due at least in part to replacing labor-intensive operations conventionally performed by specialized personnel with machine-generated data. Additionally, techniques discussed herein provide for reducing the time required for training a new language model by leveraging information associated with utterances of one language to train the new language model associated with a different language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Feinstein, Alok Verma, Amina Shabbeer, Brandon Scott Durham, Catherine Breslin, Edward Bueche, Fabian Moerchen, Fabian Triefenbach, Klaus Reiter, Toby R. Latin-Stoermer, Panagiota Karanasou, Judith Gaspers
  • Patent number: 9654438
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for identifying a message deliverability problem. Responses are received from one or more client devices that include information that identifies whether a respective response is associated with a first group of messages or a second group of messages. A message deliverability problem for at least one of the first group of messages or the second group of messages may be identified based at least in part on the information included in at least a portion of the plurality of responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Jonathan B. Feinstein
  • Publication number: 20150188874
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for identifying a message deliverability problem. Responses are received from one or more client devices that include information that identifies whether a respective response is associated with a first group of messages or a second group of messages. A message deliverability problem for at least one of the first group of messages or the second group of messages may be identified based at least in part on the information included in at least a portion of the plurality of responses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventor: Jonathan B. Feinstein