Patents by Inventor Kushal Tayal

Kushal Tayal 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: 11294974
    Abstract: An embedding associated with a query comprising one or more query terms is determined to be not stored in memory. An embedding is generated for the one or more query terms. One or more web documents that are similar to the generated embedding are determined. One or more content cards associated with the one or more web documents that are determined to be similar to the generated embedding are provided in a content feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Shukla, Derek Kisman, Kushal Tayal, Steven Baker, Vishnu Priya Natchu
  • Patent number: 11200288
    Abstract: A curation score associated with an entity is determined. A good interest probability value associated with the entity is determined. A content feed for a user that includes one or more web documents is generated based in part on the curation score and the good interest probability value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Baker, Hang Zhao, Kushal Tayal
  • Publication number: 20180246974
    Abstract: Techniques for enhanced search for generating a content feed are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for enhanced search for generating a content feed includes determining a plurality of interests for a user, wherein the user is associated with a user account; searching one or more websites based on the plurality of interests associated with the user; generating an index that includes a plurality of web documents and relationships between each of the plurality of web documents; and generating a content feed that includes at least a subset of the plurality of web documents based on a ranking, wherein the ranking is based on the plurality of interests associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Anand Shukla, Vishnu Priya Natchu, Srinivasan Venkatachary, Hang Zhao, Steven Baker, Kushal Tayal, Pedro Miguel Martins Roque Marques
  • Publication number: 20180246972
    Abstract: Techniques for providing an enhanced search to generate a feed based on a user's interests are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for providing an enhanced search to generate a feed based on a user's interests includes receiving a plurality of interests associated with a user, searching online content including one or more websites (e.g., news or other content websites, social networking sites, and/or other online content) based on the plurality of interests associated with the user, receiving a plurality of web documents (e.g., links to websites, social networking sites, and other online content) based on the search for online content, ranking the plurality of web documents based on a document score and a user signal, and generating a content feed that includes at least a subset of the plurality of web documents based on the ranking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Anand Shukla, Vishnu Priya Natchu, Srinivasan Venkatachary, Kushal Tayal
  • Patent number: 9043247
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for classifying documents for data loss prevention may include 1) identifying training documents for a machine learning classifier configured for data loss prevention, 2) performing a semantic analysis on training documents to identify topics within the set training documents, 3) applying a similarity metric to the topics to identify at least one unrelated topic with a similarity to the other topics within the plurality of topics, as determined by the similarity metric, that falls below a similarity threshold, 4) identifying, based on the semantic analysis, at least one irrelevant training document within the set of training documents in which a predominance of the unrelated topic is above a predominance threshold, and 5) excluding the irrelevant training document from the set of training documents based on the predominance of the unrelated topic within the irrelevant training document. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hart, Kushal Tayal, Phillip DiCorpo