Patents by Inventor Matthew Cecil

Matthew Cecil 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).

  • Publication number: 20230350963
    Abstract: A system leverages reinforcement learning techniques to determine distribution of items to listing platforms and search ranking rules for each listing platform. Using historical listing data regarding items listed at one or more listing platforms, a machine learning model generates item interaction data, and a reinforcement learning agent is initialized using the item interaction data. The reinforcement learning agent is trained to optimize a function for selecting item distributions and search ranking rules across listing platforms. At each epoch of a series of epochs, the function is used to select an action including a new distribution of items to listing platforms and new search ranking rules to use at each listing platform. After the action from an epoch is implemented, the reinforcement learning agent updates the function, for instance, based on an impact of the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Michele Saad, Matthew Cecil Zimmerman
  • Publication number: 20230316353
    Abstract: An effective stock keeping unit (SKU) management system encodes catalog data into an embedding per catalog item. An embedding space is created by encoding catalog item data into an embedding per catalog item. The embedding is created by generating an index, where a number of rows represents a number of catalog items and a number of columns represents a number of fields associated with each catalog item. The index is then denormalized using customer groups and transformed by compressing the number of columns, to create the embedding space. In some configuration, a machine learning model is trained using catalog data. In the embedding space, item similarity is encoded by clustering catalog SKUs into groups in the embedding space, by placing similarly related items close to each other in the embedding space. Catalog items are then searched for in the embedding, with the closest clusters searched for a particular catalog item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Michele Saad, Matthew Cecil Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 9612669
    Abstract: A method for entering keys in a small key pad is provided. The method comprising the steps of: providing at least a part of keyboard having a plurality of keys; and predetermining a first probability of a user striking a key among the plurality of keys. The method further uses a dictionary of selected words associated with the key pad and/or a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Cecil, Santosh Sharan, Jason Lachapelle
  • Publication number: 20160116994
    Abstract: A method for entering keys in a small key pad is provided. The method comprising the steps of: providing at least a part of keyboard having a plurality of keys; and predetermining a first probability of a user striking a key among the plurality of keys. The method further uses a dictionary of selected words associated with the key pad and/or a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Matthew Cecil, Santosh Sharan, Jason Lachapelle
  • Patent number: 9268764
    Abstract: A method for entering keys in a small key pad is provided. The method comprising the steps of: providing at least a part of keyboard having a plurality of keys; and predetermining a first probability of a user striking a key among the plurality of keys. The method further uses a dictionary of selected words associated with the key pad and/or a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Cecil, Santosh Sharan, Jason Lachapelle
  • Publication number: 20140074458
    Abstract: A method for entering keys in a small key pad is provided. The method comprising the steps of: providing at least a part of keyboard having a plurality of keys; and predetermining a first probability of a user striking a key among the plurality of keys. The method further uses a dictionary of selected words associated with the key pad and/or a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Cecil, Santosh Sharan, Jason Lachapelle
  • Patent number: 8589149
    Abstract: A method for entering keys in a small key pad is provided. The method comprising the steps of: providing at least a part of keyboard having a plurality of keys; and predetermining a first probability of a user striking a key among the plurality of keys. The method further uses a dictionary of selected words associated with the key pad and/or a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Cecil, Santosh Sharan, Jason LaChapelle
  • Publication number: 20100036655
    Abstract: A method for entering keys in a small key pad is provided. The method comprising the steps of: providing at least a part of keyboard having a plurality of keys; and predetermining a first probability of a user striking a key among the plurality of keys. The method further uses a dictionary of selected words associated with the key pad and/or a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Inventors: Matthew Cecil, Santosh Sharan, Jason LaChapelle