Patents by Inventor Lien Tran

Lien Tran 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: 11436610
    Abstract: The system obtains a set of tickets representing customer requests for a customer-support ticketing system. Next, the system produces a set of request vectors by feeding words from each ticket through a model to generate a request vector for the ticket, wherein the set of request vectors is represented as a set of points in a vector space. The system then performs a clustering operation on the set of points to form clusters representing support topics, wherein the clustering operation creates a new point for a new ticket in the vector space when the new ticket is received, and incrementally updates existing clusters to accommodate the new point. Finally, the system presents a user interface to a customer-support agent, wherein the user interface uses the support topics to organize the customer requests, and enables the customer-support agent to perform a customer-support operation in response to a customer request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Zendesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Soon-ee Cheah, Ai-Lien Tran-Cong
  • Publication number: 20220277351
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining classes from a corpus based on topic modeling, data clustering and unsupervised learning. Labels are determined for each of the classes and trained models are generated for each of the classes by assignment of a plurality of textual documents to labels based on a highest number of matches. A raw textual document can be tokenized and stop words removed. A corresponding one of the trained models can be selected according to a class that is applicable to subject matter of the raw textual document. The processed document can be assigned to a target label based on a highest number of matches of words. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Sanjeev Misra, Appavu Siva Prakasam, Ann Eileen Skudlark, Siva Kolachina, Nisha Shahul Hameed, Prashanth Boddhireddy, Lien Tran, Jenq-Chyuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20220224768
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes obtaining metadata from media content and consumed by network subscribers; determining for each network subscriber a consumer context associated with the media content; and determining a media consumption pattern for each network subscriber based on the metadata and the consumer context, thereby generating a plurality of media consumption patterns. The method further includes aggregating the media consumption patterns; determining, based on the aggregated media consumption patterns, a media consumption trend for the network subscribers; and correlating the media consumption trend with a profile including a current activity for a network subscriber of the plurality of network subscribers, thereby generating a recommendation for the network subscriber regarding new media content not previously consumed by the network subscriber. The method also includes communicating the recommendation to the network subscriber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Eric Zavesky, Lien Tran, David Crawford Gibbon, Zhu Liu
  • Patent number: 11386463
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining classes from a corpus based on topic modeling, data clustering and unsupervised learning. Labels are determined for each of the classes and trained models are generated for each of the classes by assignment of a plurality of textual documents to labels based on a highest number of matches. A raw textual document can be tokenized and stop words removed. A corresponding one of the trained models can be selected according to a class that is applicable to subject matter of the raw textual document. The processed document can be assigned to a target label based on a highest number of matches of words. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Sanjeev Misra, Appavu Siva Prakasam, Ann Eileen Skudlark, Siva Kolachina, Nisha Shahul Hameed, Prashanth Boddhireddy, Lien Tran, Jenq-Chyuan Wang
  • Patent number: 11336743
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes obtaining metadata from media content and consumed by network subscribers; determining for each network subscriber a consumer context associated with the media content; and determining a media consumption pattern for each network subscriber based on the metadata and the consumer context, thereby generating a plurality of media consumption patterns. The method further includes aggregating the media consumption patterns; determining, based on the aggregated media consumption patterns, a media consumption trend for the network subscribers; and correlating the media consumption trend with a profile including a current activity for a network subscriber of the plurality of network subscribers, thereby generating a recommendation for the network subscriber regarding new media content not previously consumed by the network subscriber. The method also includes communicating the recommendation to the network subscriber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Eric Zavesky, Lien Tran, David Crawford Gibbon, Zhu Liu
  • Publication number: 20210326896
    Abstract: We have developed a system that automatically suggests macros to help customer-support agents process customer-support tickets in an online customer-support system. During operation, the system receives a customer-support ticket, which is associated with a request from a customer in the customer-support system, wherein the request relates to a product or a service used by the customer. Next, the system converts text from the customer-support ticket into a ticket embedding in a vector space. The system then feeds the ticket embedding into a macro-suggestion model, which correlates ticket embeddings with macros, wherein each of the macros comprises a sequence of commands that performs an operation to facilitate processing of the customer-support ticket. If the macro-suggestion model produces suggested macros, the system presents the suggested macros to a customer-support agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Zendesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Ai-Lien Tran-Cong, Anh Thien Dinh, Stephanie C. Olding, Christopher J. Hausler, Eleanor B. Stribling, Hing Yip Pak, Pasindu V. Dissanayake, Akhil Naru
  • Publication number: 20210203749
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes obtaining metadata from media content and consumed by network subscribers; determining for each network subscriber a consumer context associated with the media content; and determining a media consumption pattern for each network subscriber based on the metadata and the consumer context, thereby generating a plurality of media consumption patterns. The method further includes aggregating the media consumption patterns; determining, based on the aggregated media consumption patterns, a media consumption trend for the network subscribers; and correlating the media consumption trend with a profile including a current activity for a network subscriber of the plurality of network subscribers, thereby generating a recommendation for the network subscriber regarding new media content not previously consumed by the network subscriber. The method also includes communicating the recommendation to the network subscriber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Eric Zavesky, Lien Tran, David Crawford Gibbon, Zhu Liu
  • Publication number: 20210182912
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining classes from a corpus based on topic modeling, data clustering and unsupervised learning. Labels are determined for each of the classes and trained models are generated for each of the classes by assignment of a plurality of textual documents to labels based on a highest number of matches. A raw textual document can be tokenized and stop words removed. A corresponding one of the trained models can be selected according to a class that is applicable to subject matter of the raw textual document. The processed document can be assigned to a target label based on a highest number of matches of words. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Xandr Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjeev Misra, Appavu Siva Prakasam, Ann Eileen Skudlark, Siva Kolachina, Nisha Shahul Hameed, Prashanth Boddhireddy, Lien Tran, Jenq-Chyuan Wang
  • Patent number: 11026236
    Abstract: A more efficient over-the-air software push can be facilitated by leveraging a smart scheduling system for vehicles. The smart scheduling system can use location and network capacity data to prioritize over-the-air software pushes for vehicles. For instance, a vehicle, which is only operational during off-peak wireless network hours can receive a software push during the off-peak times because wireless network capacity is not an issue. However, vehicles, which are used primarily during heavy peak wireless network times can receive software in a prioritized manner based on location data, frequency of use, network capacity, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Lien Tran, Simon D. Byers, Carlos Eduardo De Andrade, Emir Halepovic, David John Poole, Christopher T. Volinsky
  • Patent number: 10979528
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes obtaining metadata from media content and consumed by network subscribers; determining for each network subscriber a consumer context associated with the media content; and determining a media consumption pattern for each network subscriber based on the metadata and the consumer context, thereby generating a plurality of media consumption patterns. The method further includes aggregating the media consumption patterns; determining, based on the aggregated media consumption patterns, a media consumption trend for the network subscribers; and correlating the media consumption trend with a profile including a current activity for a network subscriber of the plurality of network subscribers, thereby generating a recommendation for the network subscriber regarding new media content not previously consumed by the network subscriber. The method also includes communicating the recommendation to the network subscriber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Eric Zavesky, Lien Tran, David Crawford Gibbon, Zhu Liu
  • Patent number: 10958782
    Abstract: Software downloads to Internet of things (IoT) devices are facilitated over a constrained network. In one embodiment a method comprises monitoring, by a network device comprising a processor, data determined to have been sent to a device for transmission to the device via a radio access network device of a wireless communication network, and determining, by the network device, a type of traffic associated with the data. The method further includes based on a determination that the data comprises firmware and that the type of traffic is of a traffic priority that is lower than a defined traffic priority, applying, by the network device, a low priority transport protocol to the data, wherein the applying comprises associating protocol information with the data representative of the low priority transport protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Lien Tran, Simon Byers, Carlos Eduardo De Andrade, David Poole, Emir Halepovic, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Christopher Volinsky
  • Patent number: 10699183
    Abstract: The system obtains a set of tickets representing customer requests generated by a customer-support ticketing system. Next, the system feeds words from each ticket through a model to generate a request vector for the ticket, wherein the request vector comprises numerical values representing words in the ticket. The system then embeds the request vectors in a vector space. If help center articles already exist, the system embeds article vectors for the existing help center articles in the vector space. Next, the system identifies clusters of request vectors, which are within a pre-specified distance of each other in the vector space. If an identified cluster is more than a pre-specified distance away from a closest article vector in the vector space, the system notifies a content creator that a new article needs to be written, or an existing article needs to be updated, to cover the identified cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Zendesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hausler, Michael G. Mortimer, Soon-Ee Cheah, Shi Yu Zhu, Ai-Lien Tran-Cong, Wai Chee Yau, Hing Yip Pak, Anh Thien Dinh
  • Publication number: 20200195748
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes obtaining metadata from media content and consumed by network subscribers; determining for each network subscriber a consumer context associated with the media content; and determining a media consumption pattern for each network subscriber based on the metadata and the consumer context, thereby generating a plurality of media consumption patterns. The method further includes aggregating the media consumption patterns; determining, based on the aggregated media consumption patterns, a media consumption trend for the network subscribers; and correlating the media consumption trend with a profile including a current activity for a network subscriber of the plurality of network subscribers, thereby generating a recommendation for the network subscriber regarding new media content not previously consumed by the network subscriber. The method also includes communicating the recommendation to the network subscriber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ann E. Skudlark, Eric Zavesky, Lien Tran, David Crawford Gibbon, Zhu Liu
  • Publication number: 20200022147
    Abstract: A more efficient over-the-air software push can be facilitated by leveraging a smart scheduling system for vehicles. The smart scheduling system can use location and network capacity data to prioritize over-the-air software pushes for vehicles. For instance, a vehicle, which is only operational during off-peak wireless network hours can receive a software push during the off-peak times because wireless network capacity is not an issue. However, vehicles, which are used primarily during heavy peak wireless network times can receive software in a prioritized manner based on location data, frequency of use, network capacity, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Lien Tran, Simon D. Byers, Carlos Eduardo De Andrade, Emir Halepovic, David John Poole, Christopher T. Volinsky
  • Publication number: 20190312970
    Abstract: Software downloads to Internet of things (IoT) devices are facilitated over a constrained network. In one embodiment a method comprises monitoring, by a network device comprising a processor, data determined to have been sent to a device for transmission to the device via a radio access network device of a wireless communication network, and determining, by the network device, a type of traffic associated with the data. The method further includes based on a determination that the data comprises firmware and that the type of traffic is of a traffic priority that is lower than a defined traffic priority, applying, by the network device, a low priority transport protocol to the data, wherein the applying comprises associating protocol information with the data representative of the low priority transport protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Lien Tran, Simon Byers, Carlos Eduardo De Andrade, David Poole, Emir Halepovic, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Christopher Volinsky
  • Patent number: 10362166
    Abstract: Software downloads to Internet of things (IoT) devices are facilitated over a constrained network. In one embodiment a method comprises monitoring, by a network device comprising a processor, data determined to have been sent to a device for transmission to the device via a radio access network device of a wireless communication network, and determining, by the network device, a type of traffic associated with the data. The method further includes based on a determination that the data comprises firmware and that the type of traffic is of a traffic priority that is lower than a defined traffic priority, applying, by the network device, a low priority transport protocol to the data, wherein the applying comprises associating protocol information with the data representative of the low priority transport protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Lien Tran, Simon Byers, Carlos Eduardo De Andrade, David Poole, Emir Halepovic, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Christopher Volinsky
  • Publication number: 20190130415
    Abstract: The system obtains a set of tickets representing customer requests for a customer-support ticketing system. Next, the system produces a set of request vectors by feeding words from each ticket through a model to generate a request vector for the ticket, wherein the set of request vectors is represented as a set of points in a vector space. The system then performs a clustering operation on the set of points to form clusters representing support topics, wherein the clustering operation creates a new point for a new ticket in the vector space when the new ticket is received, and incrementally updates existing clusters to accommodate the new point. Finally, the system presents a user interface to a customer-support agent, wherein the user interface uses the support topics to organize the customer requests, and enables the customer-support agent to perform a customer-support operation in response to a customer request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: Zendesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Soon-Ee Cheah, Ai-Lien Tran-Cong
  • Publication number: 20180255175
    Abstract: Software downloads to Internet of things (IoT) devices are facilitated over a constrained network. In one embodiment a method comprises monitoring, by a network device comprising a processor, data determined to have been sent to a device for transmission to the device via a radio access network device of a wireless communication network, and determining, by the network device, a type of traffic associated with the data. The method further includes based on a determination that the data comprises firmware and that the type of traffic is of a traffic priority that is lower than a defined traffic priority, applying, by the network device, a low priority transport protocol to the data, wherein the applying comprises associating protocol information with the data representative of the low priority transport protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Lien Tran, Simon Byers, Carlos Eduardo De Andrade, David Poole, Emir Halepovic, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Christopher Volinsky
  • Publication number: 20180197072
    Abstract: The system obtains a set of tickets representing customer requests generated by a customer-support ticketing system. Next, the system feeds words from each ticket through a model to generate a request vector for the ticket, wherein the request vector comprises numerical values representing words in the ticket. The system then embeds the request vectors in a vector space. If help center articles already exist, the system embeds article vectors for the existing help center articles in the vector space. Next, the system identifies clusters of request vectors, which are within a pre-specified distance of each other in the vector space. If an identified cluster is more than a pre-specified distance away from a closest article vector in the vector space, the system notifies a content creator that a new article needs to be written, or an existing article needs to be updated, to cover the identified cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: Zendesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hausler, Michael G. Mortimer, Soon-Ee Cheah, Shi Yu Zhu, Ai-Lien Tran-Cong, Wai Chee Yau, Hing Yip Pak, Anh Thien Dinh