Patents by Inventor Kieran McDonald

Kieran McDonald 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: 20160350658
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for improving the recommendations provided to a user by a recommendation system using viewed content as implicit feedback. In some aspects, attention models are created/updated to infer the user attention of a user that has viewed or is viewing content on a computing device. The attention model may be used to convert inferences of user attention into inferences of user satisfaction with the viewed content. The inferences of user satisfaction may be used to generate inferences of fatigue with the viewed content. The inferences of user satisfaction and inferences of user fatigue may then be used as implicit feedback to improve the content selection, content triggering and/or content presentation by the recommendation system. Other examples are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Gautam Kedia, Kieran McDonald, Qi Guo, Abhishek Jha, Karan Singh Rekhi, Zachary Kahn, Aidan Crook
  • Patent number: 8554700
    Abstract: This patent application pertains to answer model comparison. One implementation can determine a first frequency at which an individual answer category appears in an individual slot on a query results page when utilizing a first model. The method can ascertain a second frequency at which the individual answer category appears in the individual slot on the query results page when utilizing a second model. The method can calibrate the second model so that the second frequency approaches the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tapas Kanungo, Kuansan Wang, Ran Gilad-Bachrach, Kieran McDonald, Kumaresh Pattabiraman, Christopher Meyers, Ashok Ponnuswami, Luke Simon
  • Publication number: 20120143794
    Abstract: This patent application pertains to answer model comparison. One implementation can determine a first frequency at which an individual answer category appears in an individual slot on a query results page when utilizing a first model. The method can ascertain a second frequency at which the individual answer category appears in the individual slot on the query results page when utilizing a second model. The method can calibrate the second model so that the second frequency approaches the first frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tapas Kanungo, Kuansan Wang, Ran Gilad-Bachrach, Kieran McDonald, Kumaresh Pattabiraman, Christopher Meyers, Ashok Ponnuswami, Luke Simon