Patents by Inventor Mariana Stepp

Mariana Stepp 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: 10866926
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a system configured to receive a first input into a search interface and perform a first search based on the first input, wherein the first search is performed on a first set of content items managed by a content management system. The system further receives a second input into the search interface and performs, in response to receiving the second input, a second search based on the first input, wherein the second search is performed on a second set of content items managed by the content management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Timo Mertens, Mariana Stepp, Sam Jau, Michael Wu
  • Publication number: 20190179922
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a system configured to receive a first input into a search interface and perform a first search based on the first input, wherein the first search is performed on a first set of content items managed by a content management system. The system further receives a second input into the search interface and performs, in response to receiving the second input, a second search based on the first input, wherein the second search is performed on a second set of content items managed by the content management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Timo Mertens, Mariana Stepp, Sam Jau, Michael Wu
  • Patent number: 10042961
    Abstract: Techniques for providing a people recommendation system for predicting and recommending relevant people (or other entities) to include in a conversation. In an exemplary embodiment, a plurality of conversation boxes associated with communications between a user and target recipients, or between other users and recipients, are collected and stored as user history. During a training phase, the user history is used to train encoder and decoder blocks in a de-noising auto-encoder model. During a prediction phase, the trained encoder and decoder are used to predict one or more recipients for a current conversation box composed by the user, based on contextual and other signals extracted from the current conversation box. The predicted recipients are ranked using a scoring function, and the top-ranked individuals or entities may be recommended to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Yelong Shen, Xinying Song, Jianfeng Gao, Chenlei Guo, Byungki Byun, Ye-Yi Wang, Brian D. Remick, Edward Thiele, Mohammed Aatif Ali, Marcus Gois, Yang Zou, Mariana Stepp, Divya Jetley, Stephen Friesen
  • Publication number: 20160321283
    Abstract: Techniques for providing a people recommendation system for predicting and recommending relevant people (or other entities) to include in a conversation. In an exemplary embodiment, a plurality of conversation boxes associated with communications between a user and target recipients, or between other users and recipients, are collected and stored as user history. During a training phase, the user history is used to train encoder and decoder blocks in a de-noising auto-encoder model. During a prediction phase, the trained encoder and decoder are used to predict one or more recipients for a current conversation box composed by the user, based on contextual and other signals extracted from the current conversation box. The predicted recipients are ranked using a scoring function, and the top-ranked individuals or entities may be recommended to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Yelong Shen, Xinying Song, Jianfeng Gao, Chenlei Guo, Byungki Byun, Ye-Yi Wang, Brian D. Remick, Edward Thiele, Mohammed Aatif Ali, Marcus Gois, Yang Zou, Mariana Stepp, Divya Jetley, Stephen Friesen