Patents by Inventor Konstantina PALLA

Konstantina PALLA 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).

  • Gathering data in a communication system
    Patent number: 11741357
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising: outputting questions to a user via one or more user devices, and receiving back responses to some of the questions from the user via one or more user devices; over time, controlling the outputting of the questions so as to output the questions under circumstances of different values for each of one or more items of metadata, wherein the one or more items of metadata comprise one or more physical conditions of the user; monitoring whether or not the user responds when the question is output with the different metadata values; training the machine learning algorithm to learn a value of each of the items of metadata which optimizes a reward function, and based thereon selecting a circumstance when the user is exhibiting a particular physical condition to output subsequent questions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Cheng Zhang, Reinhard Sebastian Bernhard Nowozin, Ameera Patel, Danielle Charlotte Mary Belgrave, Konstantina Palla, Anja Thieme, Iain Edward Buchan, Chao Ma, Sebastian Tschiatschek, Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato
  • Gathering data in a communication system
    Patent number: 11710080
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising: outputting questions to a user via one or more user devices, and receiving back responses to some of the questions from the user via one or more user devices; over time, controlling the outputting of the questions so as to output the questions under circumstances of different values for each of one or more items of metadata, wherein the one or more items of metadata comprise at least a time and/or a location at which a question was output to the user via the one or more user devices; monitoring whether or not the user responds when the question is output with the different metadata values; training the machine learning algorithm to learn a value of each of the items of metadata which optimizes a reward function, and based thereon selecting a time and/or location at which to output subsequent questions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Cheng Zhang, Reinhard Sebastian Bernhard Nowozin, Ameera Patel, Danielle Charlotte Mary Belgrave, Konstantina Palla, Anja Thieme, Iain Edward Buchan, Chao Ma, Sebastian Tschiatschek, Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato
  • GATHERING DATA IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200104702
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising: outputting questions to a user via one or more user devices, and receiving back responses to some of the questions from the user via one or more user devices; over time, controlling the outputting of the questions so as to output the questions under circumstances of different values for each of one or more items of metadata, wherein the one or more items of metadata comprise one or more physical conditions of the user; monitoring whether or not the user responds when the question is output with the different metadata values; training the machine learning algorithm to learn a value of each of the items of metadata which optimizes a reward function, and based thereon selecting a circumstance when the user is exhibiting a particular physical condition to output subsequent questions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Cheng ZHANG, Reinhard Sebastian Bernhard NOWOZIN, Ameera PATEL, Danielle Charlotte Mary BELGRAVE, Konstantina PALLA, Anja THIEME, Iain Edward BUCHAN, Chao MA, Sebastian TSCHIATSCHEK, Jose Miguel HERNANDEZ LOBATO
  • GATHERING DATA IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200105381
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising: outputting questions to a user via one or more user devices, and receiving back responses to some of the questions from the user via one or more user devices; over time, controlling the outputting of the questions so as to output the questions under circumstances of different values for each of one or more items of metadata, wherein the one or more items of metadata comprise at least a time and/or a location at which a question was output to the user via the one or more user devices; monitoring whether or not the user responds when the question is output with the different metadata values; training the machine learning algorithm to learn a value of each of the items of metadata which optimizes a reward function, and based thereon selecting a time and/or location at which to output subsequent questions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Cheng ZHANG, Reinhard Sebastian Bernhard NOWOZIN, Ameera PATEL, Danielle Charlotte Mary BELGRAVE, Konstantina PALLA, Anja THIEME, Iain Edward BUCHAN, Chao MA, Sebastian TSCHIATSCHEK, Jose Miguel HERNANDEZ LOBATO