Patents by Inventor Michael Robert Hanson
Michael Robert Hanson 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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Patent number: 11908181Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user query inputted on a head-mounted device from the head-mounted device, wherein the user query corresponds to multiple dialog-intents, executing multiple tasks corresponding to the multiple dialog-intents, generating a multi-perspective response by a stitching model based on two or more of execution results of the multiple tasks, wherein the stitching model combines the two or more of the execution results based on natural language processing, and wherein the multi-perspective response comprises a natural-language response combining the two or more execution results, and sending instructions to the head-mounted device for presenting the multi-perspective response on the head-mounted device.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Michael Robert Hanson, Rajen Subba, Heidi Young, Rushin Shah, Jinsong Yu, Benoit F. Dumoulin, Jeremy Gillmor Kahn, Chandrasekhar Iyer
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Patent number: 11842522Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user query inputted on a head-mounted device from the head-mounted device, wherein the user query corresponds to multiple dialog-intents, executing multiple tasks corresponding to the multiple dialog-intents, generating a multi-perspective response by a stitching model based on two or more of execution results of the multiple tasks, wherein the stitching model combines the two or more of the execution results based on natural language processing, and wherein the multi-perspective response comprises a natural-language response combining the two or more execution results, and sending instructions to the head-mounted device for presenting the multi-perspective response on the head-mounted device.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2023Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Michael Robert Hanson, Rajen Subba, Heidi Young, Rushin Shah, Jinsong Yu, Benoit F. Dumoulin, Jeremy Gillmor Kahn, Chandrasekhar Iyer
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Patent number: 11715289Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user query associated with dialog-intents at a client system, executing tasks corresponding to the dialog-intents, generating a multi-perspective response by a stitching model based on two or more of execution results of the tasks, wherein the multi-perspective response comprises a natural-language response combining the two or more execution results, and presenting the multi-perspective response at the client system.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Michael Robert Hanson, Rajen Subba, Heidi Young, Rushin Shah, Jinsong Yu, Benoit F. Dumoulin, Jeremy Gillmor Kahn, Chandrasekhar Iyer
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Publication number: 20230236555Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input corresponding to a task from a first user at a client system, determining that executing the task is to be triggered by client-side events being satisfied and server-side events being satisfied, determining that the client-side events are satisfied, sending a first indication that the client-side events are satisfied from the client system to a remote server, wherein the first indication comprises no privacy-sensitive information regarding the client-side events, receiving a second indication of the server-side events being satisfied at the client system from the remote server, and executing the task.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2022Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Shusen Liu, Michael Robert Hanson, Guangqiang Dong, Xin Ming Fan, Babak Damavandi
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Patent number: 11704900Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, by a client system, receiving, at the client system, a first user input, processing by the client system, the first user input to provide an initial response by identifying one or more entities referenced by the first user input and providing, by the client system, the initial response, where the initial response includes a conversational filler referencing at least one of the one or more identified entities, processing the first user input to provide a complete response by identifying, by the client system, one or more intents and one or more slots associated with the first user input based on a semantic analysis by a natural-language understanding module, and providing, by the client system, the complete response subsequent to the initial response, where the complete response is based on the one or more intents and the one or more slots.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Michael Robert Hanson, Mohsen M Agsen
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Publication number: 20230186618Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user query inputted on a head-mounted device from the head-mounted device, wherein the user query corresponds to multiple dialog-intents, executing multiple tasks corresponding to the multiple dialog-intents, generating a multi-perspective response by a stitching model based on two or more of execution results of the multiple tasks, wherein the stitching model combines the two or more of the execution results based on natural language processing, and wherein the multi-perspective response comprises a natural-language response combining the two or more execution results, and sending instructions to the head-mounted device for presenting the multi-perspective response on the head-mounted device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Michael Robert Hanson, Rajen Subba, Heidi Young, Rushin Shah, Jinsong Yu, Benoit F. Dumoulin, Jeremy Gillmor Kahn, Chandrasekhar Iyer
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Publication number: 20220199079Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes an automatic speech recognition (ASR) module, a natural-language understanding (NLU) module, a dialog manager, one or more agents, an arbitrator, a delivery system, one or more processors, and a non-transitory memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to receive a user input, process the user input using the ASR module, the NLU module, the dialog manager, one or more of the agents, the arbitrator, and the delivery system, and provide a response to the user input.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Michael Robert Hanson, Swati Goel, Leif Haven Martinson, Megha Tiwari, Megha Jhunjhunwala, Ilana Orly Shalowitz, Nicholas Jorge Flores, Kyle Archie, Piyush Khemka, Seungwhan Moon, Kai Sun, Mark Parent, Michael Glueck, Jackson Rushing, Daniel John Wigdor, Stephanie Santosa, Christopher De Paoli
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Publication number: 20220166733Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, by one or more computing systems, receiving, at the client system, a first user input, processing, by the client system, the first user input to provide an initial response by identifying one or more entities referenced by the first user input and providing, by the client system, the initial response, where the initial response comprises a conversational filler referencing at least one of the one or more identified entities, processing the first user input to provide a complete response by identifying, by the client system, one or more intents and one or more slots associated with the first user input based on a semantic analysis by a natural-language understanding module and providing, by the client system, the complete response subsequent to the initial response, where the complete response is based on the one or more intents and the one or more slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Michael Robert Hanson, Mohsen M. Agsen
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Patent number: 11308169Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user query from a client system associated with a first user, determining a plurality of dialog-intents, each being associated with a particular agent of a plurality of agents, executing a plurality of tasks corresponding to the user query via the plurality of agents corresponding to the plurality of dialog-intents, receiving a plurality of execution results corresponding to the plurality of tasks from the plurality of agents, respectively, selecting two or more of the plurality of execution results for combination, generating a multi-perspective response based on the selected execution results by a stitching model, wherein the multi-perspective response comprises a natural-language response combining the selected execution results, and sending instructions for presenting the multi-perspective response to the first user to the client system in response to the user query.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Michael Robert Hanson, Rajen Subba, Heidi Young, Rushin Shah, Jinsong Yu, Benoit F. Dumoulin, Jeremy Gillmor Kahn, Chandrasekhar Iyer
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Publication number: 20220092131Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user query associated with dialog-intents at a client system, executing tasks corresponding to the dialog-intents, generating a multi-perspective response by a stitching model based on two or more of execution results of the tasks, wherein the multi-perspective response comprises a natural-language response combining the two or more execution results, and presenting the multi-perspective response at the client system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Michael Robert Hanson, Rajen Subba, Heidi Young, Rushin Shah, Jinsong Yu, Benoit F. Dumoulin, Jeremy Gillmor Kahn, Chandrasekhar Iyer
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Patent number: 11263276Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user query from a client system associated with a first user, determining a plurality of dialog-intents, each being associated with a particular agent of a plurality of agents, executing a plurality of tasks corresponding to the user query via the plurality of agents corresponding to the plurality of dialog-intents, receiving a plurality of execution results corresponding to the plurality of tasks from the plurality of agents, respectively, selecting two or more of the plurality of execution results for combination, generating a multi-perspective response based on the selected execution results by a stitching model, wherein the multi-perspective response comprises a natural-language response combining the selected execution results, and sending instructions for presenting the multi-perspective response to the first user to the client system in response to the user query.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.Inventors: Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Michael Robert Hanson, Rajen Subba, Heidi Young, Rushin Shah, Jinsong Yu, Benoit F. Dumoulin, Jeremy Gillmor Kahn, Chandrasekhar Iyer
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Patent number: 11245646Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, by one or more computing systems, receiving, from a client system associated with a first user, a first user input from the first user, identifying one or more entities referenced by the first user input, determining a classification of the first user input based on a machine-learning classifier model, generating several candidate conversational fillers based on the classification of the first user input and the one or more identified entities, wherein each candidate conversational filler references at least one of the one or more identified entities, ranking the candidate conversational fillers based on a relevancy of the candidate conversational filler to the first user input and a decay model hysteresis, and sending instructions for presenting a top-ranked candidate conversational filler as an initial response to the first user.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Michael Robert Hanson, Mohsen M Agsen
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Patent number: 11115410Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first audio input from a user requesting access to information or a service, sending a request for the information or service to an authentication server, where the request includes first authentication information based on the first audio input and further includes a user identifier associated with the user, receiving a second audio input from a client system of the user, where the second audio input includes a first authentication code to be compared to a second authentication code generated by the authentication server, sending second authentication information based on the second audio input and the user identifier to the authentication server for verification, receiving, from the authentication server, an indication of whether the user is successfully authenticated based on the second authentication information, and providing, to the user, access to the information or service when the user is successfully authenticated.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Michael Robert Hanson, Lloyd Hilaiel, Jinsong Yu, Heidi Young, Gary Eugene Baalman, Rachel Jordan Engel
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Patent number: 11086858Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, by one or more computing systems, receiving, from a client system associated with a user, an initial portion of a user input, wherein the initial portion comprises a partial request, and wherein the initial portion is received while the user is continuing to provide further input, generating, responsive to receiving the initial portion of the user input, one or more speculative queries based on the partial request and a machine-learning predictive model, wherein each speculative query is a predicted complete request based on the partial request, calculating a confidence score for each speculative query based on the predictive model, ranking the one or more speculative queries based on their respective confidence scores and associated costs, executing one or more of the speculative queries based on their ranks, and caching one or more results of the executed one or more speculative queries.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Michael Robert Hanson, Mohsen Agsen
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Patent number: 10963273Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user request for a summarization of a particular type of content objects from a client system associated with a first user, determining one or more modalities associated with the user request, selecting a plurality of content objects of the particular type based on a user profile of the first user, wherein the user profile comprises one or more confidence scores associated with one or more subjects associated with the first user, respectively, and wherein the plurality of content objects are selected based on the one or more confidence scores, generating a summary of each content object based on the user profile and the determined modalities, and sending, to the client system in response to the user request, instructions for presenting the summaries of the plurality of content objects, wherein the summaries are presented via one or more of the determined modalities.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Fuchun Peng, Fei Sha, Kun Han, Wenhai Yang, Anuj Kumar, Michael Robert Hanson, Benoit F. Dumoulin
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Publication number: 20210042136Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first user input from a first user, wherein the first user input comprises a partial request, presenting one or more suggested intent auto-completions corresponding to the partial request, receiving a selection by the first user of a first suggested intent auto-completion of the suggested intent auto-completions and a second user input, presenting one or more suggested slot auto-completions corresponding to one or more candidate slot-hypotheses corresponding to the second user input, respectively, wherein each of the candidate slot-hypotheses comprise a slot-suggestion, and wherein each suggested slot auto-completion comprises the second user input and the corresponding candidate slot-hypothesis, receiving a selection by the first user of a first suggested slot auto-completion of the suggested slot auto-completions, and presenting execution results of one or more tasks corresponding to the first suggested intent auto-completion and the first suggested slot autoType: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Jiedan Zhu, Fuchun Peng, Benoit F. Dumoulin, Xiaohu Liu, Rajen Subba, Mohsen Agsen, Michael Robert Hanson
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Patent number: 10853103Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input including a partial request from a client system of a first user, analyzing the user input to generate one or more candidate hypotheses based on a personalized language model where each of the candidate hypotheses includes one or more of an intent-suggestion or a slot-suggestion, sending instructions for presenting one or more suggested auto-completions corresponding to one or more of the candidate hypotheses, respectively, to the client system, where each suggested auto-completion comprises the partial request and the corresponding candidate hypothesis, receiving an indication of a selection by the first user of a first suggested auto-completion of the suggested auto-completions from the client system, and executing one or more tasks based on the first suggested auto-completion selected by the first user via one or more agents.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Jiedan Zhu, Fuchun Peng, Benoit F. Dumoulin, Xiaohu Liu, Rajen Subba, Mohsen Agsen, Michael Robert Hanson
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Publication number: 20190324780Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input including a partial request from a client system of a first user, analyzing the user input to generate one or more candidate hypotheses based on a personalized language model where each of the candidate hypotheses includes one or more of an intent-suggestion or a slot-suggestion, sending instructions for presenting one or more suggested auto-completions corresponding to one or more of the candidate hypotheses, respectively, to the client system, where each suggested auto-completion comprises the partial request and the corresponding candidate hypothesis, receiving an indication of a selection by the first user of a first suggested auto-completion of the suggested auto-completions from the client system, and executing one or more tasks based on the first suggested auto-completion selected by the first user via one or more agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2018Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Jiedan Zhu, Fuchun Peng, Benoit F. Dumoulin, Xiaohu Liu, Rajen Subba, Mohsen Agsen, Michael Robert Hanson
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Publication number: 20190325084Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user request for a summarization of a particular type of content objects from a client system associated with a first user, determining one or more modalities associated with the user request, selecting a plurality of content objects of the particular type based on a user profile of the first user, wherein the user profile comprises one or more confidence scores associated with one or more subjects associated with the first user, respectively, and wherein the plurality of content objects are selected based on the one or more confidence scores, generating a summary of each content object based on the user profile and the determined modalities, and sending, to the client system in response to the user request, instructions for presenting the summaries of the plurality of content objects, wherein the summaries are presented via one or more of the determined modalities.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2018Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Fuchun Peng, Fei Sha, Kun Han, Wenhai Yang, Anuj Kumar, Michael Robert Hanson, Benoit F. Dumoulin
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Patent number: 7984065Abstract: An integrated searching/browsing mechanism employs user-constructed information hierarchies that represent a cognitive framework for the organization of information. The hierarchies are independent of the information itself. This feature permits them to be shared among multiple users, and applied to any of a variety of different sources of information. The hierarchical organization that is provided by the framework gives the user the ability to browse around any available document database in a manner that is intuitive to the user. Two or more hierarchies can be combined to locate documents which match the criteria of both hierarchies, and thereby refine search results to an appropriate level. A relevance feedback mechanism further enhances the browsing experience, by concentrating the search results in areas that are most relevant to documents selected as being of particular interest.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2010Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Richard Daniel Borovoy, Michael Graves, Michael Robert Hanson, Nagabhushan Rao Machiraju