Patents by Inventor Melina de Vasconcelos Alberio Guerra

Melina de Vasconcelos Alberio Guerra 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).

  • Embodied negotiation agent and platform
    Patent number: 11437017
    Abstract: Human speech signals that are uttered within an environment are transcribed; the environment includes one or more avatars representing one or more software agents; the human speech signals are directed to at least one of the avatars. At least one non-speech behavioral trace is obtained within the environment; the trace is representative of non-speech behavior directed to the at least one of the avatars. The transcribed human speech signals and the at least one non-speech behavioral trace are forwarded to the one or more software agents. A proposed act is obtained from at least one of the agents; responsive thereto, a command is issued to cause the avatar corresponding to the software agent from which the proposed act is obtained to emit synthesized speech and to act visually in accordance with the proposed act.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jeffrey Owen Kephart, Hui Su, Maira Gatti de Bayser, Melina de Vasconcelos Alberio Guerra, Rahul Divekar, Matthew Peveler, Xiangyang Mou, Lisha Chen
  • EMBODIED NEGOTIATION AGENT AND PLATFORM
    Publication number: 20220028366
    Abstract: Human speech signals that are uttered within an environment are transcribed; the environment includes one or more avatars representing one or more software agents; the human speech signals are directed to at least one of the avatars. At least one non-speech behavioral trace is obtained within the environment; the trace is representative of non-speech behavior directed to the at least one of the avatars. The transcribed human speech signals and the at least one non-speech behavioral trace are forwarded to the one or more software agents. A proposed act is obtained from at least one of the agents; responsive thereto, a command is issued to cause the avatar corresponding to the software agent from which the proposed act is obtained to emit synthesized speech and to act visually in accordance with the proposed act.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Jeffrey Owen Kephart, Hui Su, Maira Gatti de Bayser, Melina de Vasconcelos Alberio Guerra, Rahul Divekar, Matthew Peveler, Xiangyang Mou, Lisha Chen
  • MANAGEMENT OF CONCEPTS AND INTENTS IN CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20210406469
    Abstract: A method of providing examples to a computerized conversation agent includes associating one or more triplets of two concepts and a relationship therebetween with an intent related to a query. The triplet is embedded in a knowledge graph and the concepts in the knowledge graph are mapped to the intent. A call log is scanned for examples of the intent based on the concepts in the knowledge graph and the examples are mapped to the intent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ana Paula Appel, Claudio Santos Pinhanez, Heloisa Caroline De Souza Pereira Candello, Julio Nogima, Maira Gatti de Bayser, Mauro Pichiliani, Melina de Vasconcelos Alberio Guerra, Paulo Rodrigo Cavalin
  • Management of concepts and intents in conversational systems
    Patent number: 11194966
    Abstract: A method of providing examples to a computerized conversation agent includes associating one or more triplets of two concepts and a relationship therebetween with an intent related to a query. The triplet is embedded in a knowledge graph and the concepts in the knowledge graph are mapped to the intent. A call log is scanned for examples of the intent based on the concepts in the knowledge graph and the examples are mapped to the intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ana Paula Appel, Claudio Santos Pinhanez, Heloisa Caroline De Souza Pereira Candello, Julio Nogima, Maira Gatti de Bayser, Mauro Pichiliani, Melina de Vasconcelos Alberio Guerra, Paulo Rodrigo Cavalin