Patents by Inventor Niall ROONEY

Niall ROONEY 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: 20220027398
    Abstract: The present invention provides assistance to a user that is on-boarding an action for a virtual assistant. Methods and systems provide, based on an initial command group, recommendations for additional commands, actions, and applications that are relevant to commands included in the initial command group. The initial command group includes commands that include a sequence of natural language words or tokens. Additional commands are determined. The additional commands are relevant to the initial commands and provided to the user as recommended commands to include in the command group. The additional commands are determined by employing the initial commands as search queries to search preprocessed document clusters. Each document included in the document clusters relates to a potential command to include in the command group. In response to receiving a selection of a recommended command, the command group is updated to include the selected recommended command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Vladimir Dobrynin, David Patterson, Niall Rooney
  • Patent number: 11074280
    Abstract: The present invention provides assistance to a user that is on-boarding an action for a virtual assistant. Methods and systems provide, based on an initial command group, recommendations for additional commands, actions, and applications that are relevant to commands included in the initial command group. The initial command group includes commands that include a sequence of natural language words or tokens. Additional commands are determined. The additional commands are relevant to the initial commands and provided to the user as recommended commands to include in the command group. The additional commands are determined by employing the initial commands as search queries to search preprocessed document clusters. Each document included in the document clusters relates to a potential command to include in the command group. In response to receiving a selection of a recommended command, the command group is updated to include the selected recommended command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: AIQUDO, INC
    Inventors: Vladimir Dobrynin, David Patterson, Niall Rooney
  • Patent number: 10963495
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for the automated discovery and extraction of discourse phrases, or in other words terms that representative of a topic or concept communicated via a plurality of electronic documents, to facilitate the generation of a language model that is applicable to interpreting commands for invoking application-based actions via a digital assistant device. An electronic document corpus can be generated having a plurality of electronic documents that are clustered based on entropy, among other things. The clusters can be associated with a corresponding plurality of cluster attractors that are generally representative of a context of the documents included therein. The clusters can be grouped based on determined relationships, such that the groups can be further analyzed and terms or phrases representative of a discourse associated with the grouped documents can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AIQUDO, INC.
    Inventors: Vladimir Dobrynin, David Patterson, Niall Rooney
  • Patent number: 10963499
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for generating a language model that is applicable to the interpretation of commands for invoking application-based actions via a digital assistant device. In various embodiments, command templates that are each mapped to one of a plurality of action datasets are obtained to generate synthetic documents of a language model document corpus. Each synthetic document can be modified to include a tag that corresponds to an associated command template from which the document's generation was based. The language model can include a plurality of document clusters that are generated based on the modified synthetic documents, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AIQUDO, INC.
    Inventors: Vladimir Dobrynin, David Patterson, Niall Rooney
  • Patent number: 10929613
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for automatically extracting discovered topics and/or from determined discourse clusters for the generation of a language model that is applicable to interpreting commands received from a digital assistant device. An electronic document corpus can be generated having a plurality of documents that are clustered based on entropy, among other things. The clusters can be associated with a corresponding plurality of cluster attractors that are generally representative of a context of the documents included therein. The documents within the cluster for each of the document clusters can be analyzed, so that clusters determined representative of a hierarchical discourse community can be determined and logically merged. The merged clusters can be analyzed, such that topics and/or sub-topics can be determined and extracted therefrom, for indexing and storage, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: AIQUDO, INC.
    Inventors: Vladimir Dobrynin, David Patterson, Niall Rooney
  • Publication number: 20190205391
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for automatically extracting discovered topics and/or from determined discourse clusters for the generation of a language model that is applicable to interpreting commands received from a digital assistant device. An electronic document corpus can be generated having a plurality of documents that are clustered based on entropy, among other things. The clusters can be associated with a corresponding plurality of cluster attractors that are generally representative of a context of the documents included therein. The documents within the cluster for each of the document clusters can be analyzed, so that clusters determined representative of a hierarchical discourse community can be determined and logically merged. The merged clusters can be analyzed, such that topics and/or sub-topics can be determined and extracted therefrom, for indexing and storage, among other things.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Vladimir Dobrynin, David Patterson, Niall Rooney
  • Publication number: 20190205322
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for generating a language model that is applicable to the interpretation of commands for invoking application-based actions via a digital assistant device. In various embodiments, command templates that are each mapped to one of a plurality of action datasets are obtained to generate synthetic documents of a language model document corpus. Each synthetic document can be modified to include a tag that corresponds to an associated command template from which the document's generation was based. The language model can include a plurality of document clusters that are generated based on the modified synthetic documents, among other things.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Vladimir Dobrynin, David Patterson, Niall Rooney
  • Publication number: 20190205325
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for the automated discovery and extraction of discourse phrases, or in other words terms that representative of a topic or concept communicated via a plurality of electronic documents, to facilitate the generation of a language model that is applicable to interpreting commands for invoking application-based actions via a digital assistant device. An electronic document corpus can be generated having a plurality of electronic documents that are clustered based on entropy, among other things. The clusters can be associated with a corresponding plurality of cluster attractors that are generally representative of a context of the documents included therein. The clusters can be grouped based on determined relationships, such that the groups can be further analyzed and terms or phrases representative of a discourse associated with the grouped documents can be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Vladimir Dobrynin, David Patterson, Niall Rooney
  • Patent number: 10278751
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a method of manufacturing a tissue-integration device, and a tissue-integration device so produced, the method comprising the steps of wrapping a porous sheet of material around a mandrel in order to create overlapping layers of the porous sheet material, the wrapped mandrel then being placed in a mould in order to apply pressure and heat to the overlapping layers in order to effect the lamination thereof such as to form a device having spaces defined by overlapping pores of the adjacent layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: PROXY BIOMEDICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Tony Durkin, Cormac Breathnach, Niall Rooney, Peter Gingras
  • Publication number: 20180336269
    Abstract: The present invention provides assistance to a user that is on-boarding an action for a virtual assistant. Methods and systems provide, based on an initial command group, recommendations for additional commands, actions, and applications that are relevant to commands included in the initial command group. The initial command group includes commands that include a sequence of natural language words or tokens. Additional commands are determined. The additional commands are relevant to the initial commands and provided to the user as recommended commands to include in the command group. The additional commands are determined by employing the initial commands as search queries to search preprocessed document clusters. Each document included in the document clusters relates to a potential command to include in the command group. In response to receiving a selection of a recommended command, the command group is updated to include the selected recommended command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Vladimir Dobrynin, David Patterson, Niall Rooney
  • Publication number: 20160242831
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a method of manufacturing a tissue-integration device, and a tissue-integration device so produced, the method comprising the steps of wrapping a porous sheet of material around a mandrel in order to create overlapping layers of the porous sheet material, the wrapped mandrel then being placed in a mould in order to apply pressure and heat to the overlapping layers in order to effect the lamination thereof such as to form a device having spaces defined by overlapping pores of the adjacent layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: Proxy Biomedical Limited
    Inventors: Tony DURKIN, Cormac BREATHNACH, Niall ROONEY, Peter GINGRAS