Patents by Inventor Matthew Brigham HALL

Matthew Brigham HALL 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: 11720757
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for extracting an entity value from a sentence. An embedding set that may include one or more sentence embeddings is generated for at least part of a first sentence that is tagged to associate a first named entity in the sentence with an entity type. A plurality of candidate embeddings is also generated for at least part of a second sentence. The one or more sentence embeddings in the embedding set may be compared with each of the plurality of candidate embeddings, and a match score may be assigned to each comparison to generate a match score set. A particular match score of the match score set may be identified that exceeds a similarity threshold, and an entity value of the entity type may be extracted from the second sentence associated with the identified match score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Vikas Bahirwani, Jade Huang, Matthew Brigham Hall, Yu Zhao, Pengcheng He, Weizhu Chen, Eslam K. Abdelreheem, Jiayuan Huang, Yuting Sun
  • Patent number: 11003863
    Abstract: A system for training and deploying an artificial conversational entity using an artificial intelligence (AI) based communications system is disclosed. The system may comprise a memory storing machine readable instructions. The system may also comprise a processor to execute the machine readable instructions to receive a request via an artificial conversational entity. The processor may also transmit a response to the request based on a dialog tree generated from at least a model-based action generator and a memory-based action generator. The processor may further provide a training option to a user in the event the response is suboptimal. The processor may additionally receive a selection from the user via the training option. The selection may be associated with an optimal response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Brigham Hall, Weizhu Chen, Junyan Chen, Pengcheng He, Yu Zhao, Yi-Min Wang, Yuting Sun, Zheng Chen, Katherine Winant Osborne
  • Publication number: 20210056169
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for extracting an entity value from a sentence. An embedding set that may include one or more sentence embeddings is generated for at least part of a first sentence that is tagged to associate a first named entity in the sentence with an entity type. A plurality of candidate embeddings is also generated for at least part of a second sentence. The one or more sentence embeddings in the embedding set may be compared with each of the plurality of candidate embeddings, and a match score may be assigned to each comparison to generate a match score set. A particular match score of the match score set may be identified that exceeds a similarity threshold, and an entity value of the entity type may be extracted from the second sentence associated with the identified match score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Vikas Bahirwani, Jade Huang, Matthew Brigham Hall, Yu Zhao, Pengcheng He, Weizhu Chen, Eslam K. Abdelreheem, Jiayuan Huang, Yuting Sun
  • Publication number: 20200302019
    Abstract: A system for training and deploying an artificial conversational entity using an artificial intelligence (AI) based communications system is disclosed. The system may comprise a memory storing machine readable instructions. The system may also comprise a processor to execute the machine readable instructions to receive a request via an artificial conversational entity. The processor may also transmit a response to the request based on a dialog tree generated from at least a model-based action generator and a memory-based action generator. The processor may further provide a training option to a user in the event the response is suboptimal. The processor may additionally receive a selection from the user via the training option. The selection may be associated with an optimal response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Brigham HALL, Weizhu CHEN, Junyan CHEN, Pengcheng HE, Yu ZHAO, Yi-Min WANG, Yuting SUN, Zheng CHEN, Katherine Winant OSBORNE