Patents by Inventor Manish Malik
Manish Malik 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).
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Publication number: 20240019135Abstract: Described herein is an apparatus and method for removing moisture and/or sorbates from airstream and/or other fluid. The system comprises a preconditioning desiccant wheel and a main desiccant wheel. The preconditioning desiccant wheel comprises of at least two first sectors for allowing air to pass therethrough, including a first process sector and a first reactivation sector. The main desiccant wheel comprises of at least three second sectors for allowing air to pass therethrough, sequentially including a second outside air sector, a second process sector, and a second reactivation sector. The ambient airstream is sequentially dehumidified in one of the at least two sectors of the preconditioning desiccant wheel and the outside air sector of the main desiccant wheel, before being at least partially supplied for reactivation to the reactivation sector of the main desiccant wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2022Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Rajan SACHDEV, Varun PAHWA, Manish MALIK, Deepak PAHWA, Kuldeep Singh MALIK, Sachin DHIMAN
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Patent number: 11706122Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage the compression of route tables for communication between networking elements. In one implementation, a network device identifies network keys for a route table by replacing attributes in the tables with values. The network device further generates a compressed route table using the route keys and associating each of the route keys with one or more additional attributes. The network device also generates a dictionary to associate each of the values for the route keys to a corresponding attribute of the attributes.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: VMware, Inc.Inventors: Ravi Singhal, Manish Malik, Ganesh Jayvant Wagle, Yusuf Batterywala
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Publication number: 20220217072Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage the compression of route tables for communication between networking elements. In one implementation, a network device identifies network keys for a route table by replacing attributes in the tables with values. The network device further generates a compressed route table using the route keys and associating each of the route keys with one or more additional attributes. The network device also generates a dictionary to associate each of the values for the route keys to a corresponding attribute of the attributes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: RAVI SINGHAL, MANISH MALIK, GANESH JAYVANT WAGLE, YUSUF BATTERYWALA
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Patent number: 11068474Abstract: Systems and techniques for sequence to sequence conversational query understanding are described herein. A query may be received that includes multiple words. It may be identified that the query is to be reformulated based on an attention value for an attention word in the query. Relationships may be determined among words of the query and words in a previously submitted query and words in results from the previously submitted query. The query may be reformulated based on the relationships. The reformulated query may be employed to retrieve query results.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xiaochuan Ni, Jiarui Ren, Manish Malik, Qifa Ke
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Patent number: 10997221Abstract: Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to provide direct answers to a query submitted by a user. The mechanisms are tailored so that the answers presented have a high confidence of being correct. A plurality of document segments that are relevant to the query are selected. The selected segments are submitted to a trained machine reading comprehension model along with the query. The result is an extracted answer for one or more of the submitted segments. A subset of the extracted answers are clustered and an answer for each cluster having at least a threshold number of answers are selected as direct answers. The direct answers are presented in a format suitable to the number of selected direct answers.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Doran Chakraborty, Manish Malik
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Patent number: 10572598Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods relating to generating a relevance score on a given natural language answer to a natural language query for ranking the answer among other answers for the query, while generating a summary passage and a likely query to the given passage. For instance, multi-layered, recurrent neural networks may be used to encode the query and the passage, along with a multi-layered neural network for information retrieval features, to generate a relevant score for the passage. A multi-layered, recurrent neural network with soft attention and sequence-to-sequence learning task may be used as a decoder to generate a summary passage. A common encoding neural network may be employed to encode the passage for the ranking and the summarizing, in order to present concise and accurate natural language answers to the query.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Doran Chakraborty, Manish Malik, Qifa Ke, Jonathan R. Tiao
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Patent number: 10534780Abstract: Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe a unified ranking model that may be used by a plurality of entry points to return ranked results in response to received query data. The unified ranking model is provided as a service for a plurality of entry points. A query is received from an entry point of the plurality of entry points. Results data for the query data is retrieved. A unified ranking model is executed to rank the results data. Execution of the unified ranking model manipulates feature data of the unified ranking model based on user context signals associated with the received query data and acquired result retrieval signals corresponding with the retrieved results data. Execution of the unified ranking model generates ranked result data. Ranked results data is returned to the processing device corresponding with the entry point. Other examples are also described.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Manish Malik, Qifa Ke, Rangan Majumder, Andreas Bode, Pushpraj Shukla, Yu Shi
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Publication number: 20190311064Abstract: Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to provide direct answers to a query submitted by a user. The mechanisms are tailored so that the answers presented have a high confidence of being correct. A plurality of document segments that are relevant to the query are selected. The selected segments are submitted to a trained machine reading comprehension model along with the query. The result is an extracted answer for one or more of the submitted segments. A subset of the extracted answers are clustered and an answer for each cluster having at least a threshold number of answers are selected as direct answers. The direct answers are presented in a format suitable to the number of selected direct answers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2018Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Doran Chakraborty, Manish Malik
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Publication number: 20190278857Abstract: Systems and techniques for sequence to sequence conversational query understanding are described herein. A query may be received that includes multiple words. It may be identified that the query is to be reformulated based on an attention value for an attention word in the query. Relationships may be determined among words of the query and words in a previously submitted query and words in results from the previously submitted query. The query may be reformulated based on the relationships. The reformulated query may be employed to retrieve query results.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2018Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Xiaochuan Ni, Jiarui Ren, Manish Malik, Qifa Ke
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Publication number: 20190188262Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods relating to generating a relevance score on a given natural language answer to a natural language query for ranking the answer among other answers for the query, while generating a summary passage and a likely query to the given passage. For instance, multi-layered, recurrent neural networks may be used to encode the query and the passage, along with a multi-layered neural network for information retrieval features, to generate a relevant score for the passage. A multi-layered, recurrent neural network with soft attention and sequence-to-sequence learning task may be used as a decoder to generate a summary passage. A common encoding neural network may be employed to encode the passage for the ranking and the summarizing, in order to present concise and accurate natural language answers to the query.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2019Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Doran CHAKRABORTY, Manish MALIK, Qifa KE, Jonathan R. TIAO
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Patent number: 10255273Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods relating to generating a relevance score on a given natural language answer to a natural language query for ranking the answer among other answers for the query, while generating a summary passage and a likely query to the given passage. For instance, multi-layered, recurrent neural networks may be used to encode the query and the passage, along with a multi-layered neural network for information retrieval features, to generate a relevant score for the passage. A multi-layered, recurrent neural network with soft attention and sequence-to-sequence learning task may be used as a decoder to generate a summary passage. A common encoding neural network may be employed to encode the passage for the ranking and the summarizing, in order to present concise and accurate natural language answers to the query.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Doran Chakraborty, Manish Malik, Qifa Ke, Jonathan R. Tiao
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Publication number: 20190012373Abstract: Conversational or multi-turn question understanding using web intelligence is provided. An intelligent query understanding system is provided for receiving a context-dependent query from a user, obtaining contextual information related to the context-dependent query, and reformatting the context-dependent query as one or more reformulations based on the contextual information. The intelligent query understanding system is further operative to query a search engine with the one or more reformulations, receive one or more candidate results, and select a highest ranked reformulation based on the candidate results. The system can provide the highest ranked reformulation of the highest ranked reformulation as a response.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2017Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Manish Malik, Jiarui Ren, Qifa Ke
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Publication number: 20180365220Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods relating to generating a relevance score on a given natural language answer to a natural language query for ranking the answer among other answers for the query, while generating a summary passage and a likely query to the given passage. For instance, multi-layered, recurrent neural networks may be used to encode the query and the passage, along with a multi-layered neural network for information retrieval features, to generate a relevant score for the passage. A multi-layered, recurrent neural network with soft attention and sequence-to-sequence learning task may be used as a decoder to generate a summary passage. A common encoding neural network may be employed to encode the passage for the ranking and the summarizing, in order to present concise and accurate natural language answers to the query.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Doran CHAKRABORTY, Manish MALIK, Qifa KE, Jonathan R. TIAO
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Patent number: 10127322Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein increase the efficiency of a search session by determining whether fresh content is likely to be responsive to the user's query. Whether fresh content is likely to be responsive to a specific query is determined by retrieving social media posts that are responsive to the query. The social media posts are evaluated for virality, which is the tendency of a social media post to be circulated rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another. The virality of a social media post can be determined by comparing a number of times the social media post has been re-communicated by individual users. Queries that return viral social media posts may be classified as seeking fresh content.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Doran Chakraborty, Raghavan Muthuregunathan, Manish Malik
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Publication number: 20170124078Abstract: Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe a unified ranking model that may be used by a plurality of entry points to return ranked results in response to received query data. The unified ranking model is provided as a service for a plurality of entry points. A query is received from an entry point of the plurality of entry points. Results data for the query data is retrieved. A unified ranking model is executed to rank the results data. Execution of the unified ranking model manipulates feature data of the unified ranking model based on user context signals associated with the received query data and acquired result retrieval signals corresponding with the retrieved results data. Execution of the unified ranking model generates ranked result data. Ranked results data is returned to the processing device corresponding with the entry point. Other examples are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Manish Malik, Qifa Ke, Rangan Majumder, Andreas Bode, Pushpraj Shukla, Yu Shi
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Publication number: 20170075985Abstract: A natural language query may be transformed to a transformed natural language while keeping sufficient semantic meaning such that the query may be transformed. A natural language query may be received by a computing device and sent to a natural language transformation model for transformation. The transformation may use a variety of techniques including stop word removal, stop structure removal, noun phrase/entity detection, key concept detection, dependency filtering. The techniques may be sequenced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Doran Chakraborty, Manish Malik, Qifa Ke, Miriam Rosenberg, Xinghua Lou
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Publication number: 20160246886Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein increase the efficiency of a search session by determining whether fresh content is likely to be responsive to the user's query. Whether fresh content is likely to be responsive to a specific query is determined by retrieving social media posts that are responsive to the query. The social media posts are evaluated for virality, which is the tendency of a social media post to be circulated rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another. The virality of a social media post can be determined by comparing a number of times the social media post has been re-communicated by individual users. Queries that return viral social media posts may be classified as seeking fresh content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2015Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventors: DORAN CHAKRABORTY, Raghavan Muthuregunathan, Manish Malik
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Patent number: 8255827Abstract: Computer-readable media, computerized methods, and graphical user interfaces (GUI's) for interactively presenting features within the panes of a display area rendered in a GUI workspace are provided. Initially, a computing device memory is inspected to discover a profile that accommodates a user-visual pattern. When the profile is not discovered, a default page layout is retrieved and communicated to the display device for presentation within the display area. If the profile is discovered, commonly viewed screen locations, based upon a frequency of eye fixation upon each of the screen locations, are ordered. Contextually relevant features are selected for presentation within the display area. The selected features are ranked based on predetermined criteria and each associated with the commonly viewed screen locations by comparing the ranking with the ordering.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Manish Malik
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Publication number: 20100191727Abstract: Computer-readable media, computerized methods, and graphical user interfaces (GUI's) for interactively presenting features within the panes of a display area rendered in a GUI workspace are provided. Initially, a computing device memory is inspected to discover a profile that accommodates a user-visual pattern. When the profile is not discovered, a default page layout is retrieved and communicated to the display device for presentation within the display area. If the profile is discovered, commonly viewed screen locations, based upon a frequency of eye fixation upon each of the screen locations, are ordered. Contextually relevant features are selected for presentation within the display area. The selected features are ranked based on predetermined criteria and each associated with the commonly viewed screen locations by comparing the ranking with the ordering.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2009Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Manish Malik
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Publication number: 20050071879Abstract: A method for controlling appliances can include the step of presenting at least one appliance option for a controlled appliance upon a mobile communications device having mobile telephony capabilities. At least one appliance message can be transmitted across the wireless communications link between a smart space control unit and the mobile communications device. In one arrangement, wireless communication link can be a mobile telephony link. At least one appliance signal can be conveyed between the smart space control unit and the controlled appliance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2004Publication date: March 31, 2005Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventors: Nikhil Haldavnekar, Abdelsalam Helal, Sree Kuchibhotla, Manish Malik, Vijay Vokkaarne