Patents by Inventor Joseph Barrow

Joseph Barrow 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: 12632673
    Abstract: This disclosure describes one or more implementations of systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that extract viewpoints from content for syntopical reading using an efficient claim-relation graph construction approach. For example, the disclosed systems utilize sentence transformers with claims from content to embed the claims within a metric space (as claim nodes). Furthermore, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems generate a claim relation graph for the claims by utilizing approximate nearest neighbor searches to determine relational edges between a claim node and the claim node's approximate nearest neighbors. Moreover, in some implementations, the disclosed systems utilize the claim relation graph with an edge weighted graph neural network to determine stance labels during extraction of viewpoints (e.g., stance, aspect, and topic) for the claims. Additionally, in one or more instances, the disclosed systems utilize the extracted viewpoints in content retrieval applications (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Barrow, Jennifer Healey, Franck Dernoncourt, Ani Nenkova, Vlad Morariu, Rajiv Jain, Nedim Lipka
  • Publication number: 20250181620
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for generating fine-grain attributions for document question answering systems. The method may include receiving a question for a document. An answer generator generates an answer corresponding to the question. An attribution request associated with a portion of the answer is received. The portion of the answer includes a subset of text from the answer. An attribution generator generates one or more attributions for the portion of the answer based on sources associated with the answer. The one or more attributions are then presented for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Nedim LIPKA, Varun MANJUNATHA, Surabhi BHARGAVA, Sruthi Madapoosi RAVI, Koustava GOSWAMI, Joseph BARROW, Inderjeet NAIR, Christopher TENSMEYER, Balaji Vasan SRINIVASAN, Ashutosh MEHRA, Animesh KUMAR, Ani NENKOVA, Alexa SIU, Abhilasha SANCHETI
  • Publication number: 20240419921
    Abstract: This disclosure describes one or more implementations of systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that extract viewpoints from content for syntopical reading using an efficient claim-relation graph construction approach. For example, the disclosed systems utilize sentence transformers with claims from content to embed the claims within a metric space (as claim nodes). Furthermore, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems generate a claim relation graph for the claims by utilizing approximate nearest neighbor searches to determine relational edges between a claim node and the claim node's approximate nearest neighbors. Moreover, in some implementations, the disclosed systems utilize the claim relation graph with an edge weighted graph neural network to determine stance labels during extraction of viewpoints (e.g., stance, aspect, and topic) for the claims. Additionally, in one or more instances, the disclosed systems utilize the extracted viewpoints in content retrieval applications (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Joseph Barrow, Jennifer Healey, Franck Dernoncourt, Ani Nenkova, Vlad Morariu, Rajiv Jain, Nedim Lipka
  • Patent number: 12147499
    Abstract: Certain embodiments involve using a machine-learning tool to generate metadata identifying segments and topics for text within a document. For instance, in some embodiments, a text processing system obtains input text and applies a segmentation-and-labeling model to the input text. The segmentation-and-labeling model is trained to generate a predicted segment for the input text using a segmentation network. The segmentation-and-labeling model is also trained to generate a topic for the predicted segment using a pooling network of the model to the predicted segment. The output of the model is usable for generating metadata identifying the predicted segment and the associated topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Jain, Varun Manjunatha, Joseph Barrow, Vlad Ion Morariu, Franck Dernoncourt, Sasha Spala, Nicholas Miller
  • Patent number: 12038962
    Abstract: Systems and methods for natural language processing are described. One or more embodiments of the present disclosure identify a claim from a document, wherein the claim corresponds to a topic, create a graph comprising a plurality of nodes having a plurality of node types and a plurality of edges having a plurality of edge types, wherein one of the nodes represents the claim, and wherein each of the edges represents a relationship between a corresponding pair of the nodes, encode the claim based on the graph using a graph convolutional network (GCN) to obtain an encoded claim, classify the claim by decoding the encoded claim to obtain a stance label that indicates a stance of the claim towards the topic, and transmit information indicating a viewpoint of the document towards the topic based on the stance label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Barrow, Rajiv Bhawanji Jain, Nedim Lipka, Vlad Ion Morariu, Franck Dernoncourt, Varun Manjunatha
  • Publication number: 20230409672
    Abstract: Certain embodiments involve using a machine-learning tool to generate metadata identifying segments and topics for text within a document. For instance, in some embodiments, a text processing system obtains input text and applies a segmentation-and-labeling model to the input text. The segmentation-and-labeling model is trained to generate a predicted segment for the input text using a segmentation network. The segmentation-and-labeling model is also trained to generate a topic for the predicted segment using a pooling network of the model to the predicted segment. The output of the model is usable for generating metadata identifying the predicted segment and the associated topic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Rajiv Jain, Varun Manjunatha, Joseph Barrow, Vlad Ion Morariu, Franck Dernoncourt, Sasha Spala, Nicholas Miller
  • Patent number: 11783008
    Abstract: Certain embodiments involve using a machine-learning tool to generate metadata identifying segments and topics for text within a document. For instance, in some embodiments, a text processing system obtains input text and applies a segmentation-and-labeling model to the input text. The segmentation-and-labeling model is trained to generate a predicted segment for the input text using a segmentation network. The segmentation-and-labeling model is also trained to generate a topic for the predicted segment using a pooling network of the model to the predicted segment. The output of the model is usable for generating metadata identifying the predicted segment and the associated topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Jain, Varun Manjunatha, Joseph Barrow, Vlad Ion Morariu, Franck Dernoncourt, Sasha Spala, Nicholas Miller
  • Publication number: 20230033114
    Abstract: Systems and methods for natural language processing are described. One or more embodiments of the present disclosure identify a claim from a document, wherein the claim corresponds to a topic, create a graph comprising a plurality of nodes having a plurality of node types and a plurality of edges having a plurality of edge types, wherein one of the nodes represents the claim, and wherein each of the edges represents a relationship between a corresponding pair of the nodes, encode the claim based on the graph using a graph convolutional network (GCN) to obtain an encoded claim, classify the claim by decoding the encoded claim to obtain a stance label that indicates a stance of the claim towards the topic, and transmit information indicating a viewpoint of the document towards the topic based on the stance label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Joseph Barrow, Rajiv Bhawanji Jain, Nedim Lipka, Vlad Ion Morariu, Franck Dernoncourt, Varun Manjunatha
  • Publication number: 20220147770
    Abstract: Certain embodiments involve using a machine-learning tool to generate metadata identifying segments and topics for text within a document. For instance, in some embodiments, a text processing system obtains input text and applies a segmentation-and-labeling model to the input text. The segmentation-and-labeling model is trained to generate a predicted segment for the input text using a segmentation network. The segmentation-and-labeling model is also trained to generate a topic for the predicted segment using a pooling network of the model to the predicted segment. The output of the model is usable for generating metadata identifying the predicted segment and the associated topic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Rajiv Jain, Varun Ion Manjunatha, Joseph Barrow, Vlad Ion Moraniu, Franck Dernoncourt, Sasha Spala, Nicholas Miller