Patents by Inventor Rahul Iyer

Rahul Iyer 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: 12019639
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for generating preference profiles that may be used to rank search results. In some examples, a computing device obtains browsing session data and determines items that were engaged, such as items that were viewed or clicked. The computing device obtains item property data, such as product descriptions, for the items, and applies a dependency parser to the item property data to identify portions that include certain words, such as nouns or adjectives, which are then identified as attributes. The computing device generates attribute data identifying portions of the item property data as item attributes. In some examples, the computing device applies one or more machine learning algorithms to the session data and/or search query to identify item attributes. The computing device may generate a profile that includes the item attributes, and may rank search results based on the attribute data, among other uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Iyer, Soumya Wadhwa, Stephen Dean Guo, Kannan Achan
  • Patent number: 11907999
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining item relevancy based on textual information. In some examples, a computing device receives a search query, and a plurality of items corresponding to the search query. The computing device may identify one or more features of the search query. The computing device may generate relevancy values for each of the items based on the features of the search query, and features of each of the plurality of items. For example, the computing device may generate, for each of the items, a plurality of relevance values, each relevance value generated based on a feature of the search query and corresponding features of the item. The computing device may transmit the generated relevancy values for the plurality of items. In some examples, the computing device may rank the plurality of items based on the generated relevancy values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Iyer, Shashank Kedia, Anirudha Sundaresan, Shubham Gupta, Praveenkumar Kanumala, Stephen Dean Guo, Kannan Achan
  • Patent number: 11797624
    Abstract: In some examples, a system may be configured to generate one or more query attributes for a search query received from a computing device of a user. Additionally, the system may be configured to, based at least in part on historical data of the user including data characterizing one or more items associated with the user, generate relevant item data. In various examples, the relevant item data characterizing a set of relevant items. Moreover, the system may be configured to, based on the relevant item data, the historical data of the user and the one or more query attributes, implement a set of operations that generate a set of personalized search results associated with the search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Iyer, Soumya Wadhwa, Surya Prasanna Kumar, Praveenkumar Kanumala, Stephen Dean Guo, Kannan Achan, Rahul Ramkumar
  • Patent number: 11663645
    Abstract: A category recommender system includes a computing device configured to obtain customer information characterizing a customer's interactions on an ecommerce marketplace. The computing device is further configured to determine discovery category rankings for each category of items available on the ecommerce marketplace for the customer based on the customer information, determine repeat category rankings for each category of items available on the ecommerce marketplace for the customer based on the customer information, and determine item rankings for each item in the ecommerce marketplace based on the customer information. The computing device is further configured to merge the discovery category rankings, the repeat category rankings and the item recommendation rankings into final recommendations based on one or more predetermined merging criteria and provide the final recommendations to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Iyer, Victor Anthony Perry, IV, Prashant Chandrakant Saundade, Stephen Dean Guo, Evren Korpeoglu, Kannan Achan, Sandhya Ajit
  • Patent number: 11610249
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining item relevancy based on textual information. In some examples, a computing device receives a search query, and a plurality of items corresponding to the search query. The computing device may identify one or more features of the search query. The computing device may generate relevancy values for each of the items based on the features of the search query, and features of each of the plurality of items. For example, the computing device may generate, for each of the items, a plurality of relevance values, each relevance value generated based on a feature of the search query and corresponding features of the item. The computing device may transmit the generated relevancy values for the plurality of items. In some examples, the computing device may rank the plurality of items based on the generated relevancy values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Iyer, Shashank Kedia, Anirudha Sundaresan, Shubham Gupta, Praveenkumar Kanumala, Stephen Dean Guo, Kannan Achan
  • Patent number: 11609919
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for generating preference profiles that may be used to rank search results. In some examples, a computing device obtains browsing session data and determines items that were engaged, such as items that were viewed or clicked. The computing device obtains item property data, such as product descriptions, for the items, and applies a dependency parser to the item property data to identify portions that include certain words, such as nouns or adjectives, which are then identified as attributes. The computing device generates attribute data identifying portions of the item property data as item attributes. In some examples, the computing device applies one or more machine learning algorithms to the session data and/or search query to identify item attributes. The computing device may generate a profile that includes the item attributes, and may rank search results based on the attribute data, among other uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Iyer, Soumya Wadhwa, Stephen Dean Guo, Kannan Achan
  • Publication number: 20220245701
    Abstract: A category recommender system includes a computing device configured to obtain customer information characterizing a customer's interactions on an ecommerce marketplace. The computing device is further configured to determine discovery category rankings for each category of items available on the ecommerce marketplace for the customer based on the customer information, determine repeat category rankings for each category of items available on the ecommerce marketplace for the customer based on the customer information, and determine item rankings for each item in the ecommerce marketplace based on the customer information. The computing device is further configured to merge the discovery category rankings, the repeat category rankings and the item recommendation rankings into final recommendations based on one or more predetermined merging criteria and provide the final recommendations to the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Rahul Iyer, Victor Anthony Perry, IV, Prashant Chandrakant Saundade, Stephen Dean Guo, Evren Korpeoglu, Kannan Achan, Sandhya Ajit
  • Publication number: 20220222729
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining item relevancy based on textual information. In some examples, a computing device receives a search query, and a plurality of items corresponding to the search query. The computing device may identify one or more features of the search query. The computing device may generate relevancy values for each of the items based on the features of the search query, and features of each of the plurality of items. For example, the computing device may generate, for each of the items, a plurality of relevance values, each relevance value generated based on a feature of the search query and corresponding features of the item. The computing device may transmit the generated relevancy values for the plurality of items. In some examples, the computing device may rank the plurality of items based on the generated relevancy values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Rahul Iyer, Shashank Kedia, Anirudha Sundaresan, Shubham Gupta, Praveenkumar Kanumala, Stephen Dean Guo, Kannan Achan
  • Publication number: 20220207101
    Abstract: In some examples, a system may be configured to generate one or more query attributes for a search query received from a computing device of a user. Additionally, the system may be configured to, based at least in part on historical data of the user including data characterizing one or more items associated with the user, generate relevant item data. In various examples, the relevant item data characterizing a set of relevant items. Moreover, the system may be configured to, based on the relevant item data, the historical data of the user and the one or more query attributes, implement a set of operations that generate a set of personalized search results associated with the search query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Rahul IYER, Soumya WADHWA, Surya Prasanna KUMAR, Praveenkumar KANUMALA, Stephen Dean GUO, Kannan ACHAN, Rahul RAMKUMAR
  • Patent number: 11321406
    Abstract: A system and method of generating user personalized search results is disclosed. A search query including one or more words is received and a set of relevance-based search results is generated in response to the search query. One or more query attributes are generated for the search query. Historic data for a user associated with the search query is received and a set of personalized search results is generated from the set of relevance-based search results based on the query attributes and the historic data for the user. The historic data includes one or more items associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Iyer, Soumya Wadhwa, Surya Prasanna Kumar, Praveenkumar Kanumala, Stephen Dean Guo, Kannan Achan, Rahul Ramkumar
  • Patent number: 11242298
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides natural gas and petrochemical processing systems including oxidative coupling of methane reactor systems that integrate process inputs and outputs to cooperatively utilize different inputs and outputs of the various systems in the production of higher hydrocarbons from natural gas and other hydrocarbon feedstocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Lummus Technology LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Iyer, Alex Tkachenko, Sam Weinberger, Erik C. Scher, Guido Radaelli, Hatem Harraz
  • Patent number: 11216519
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for generating preference profiles that may be used to rank search results. In some examples, a computing device obtains browsing session data and determines items that were engaged, such as items that were viewed or clicked. The computing device obtains item property data, such as product descriptions, for the items, and applies a dependency parser to the item property data to identify portions that include certain words, such as nouns or adjectives, which are then identified as attributes. The computing device generates attribute data identifying portions of the item property data as item attributes. In some examples, the computing device applies one or more machine learning algorithms to the session data and/or search query to identify item attributes. The computing device may generate a profile that includes the item attributes, and may rank search results based on the attribute data, among other uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Iyer, Soumya Wadhwa, Stephen Dean Guo, Kannan Achan
  • Patent number: 11168038
    Abstract: Integrated systems are provided for the production of higher hydrocarbon compositions, for example liquid hydrocarbon compositions, from methane using an oxidative coupling of methane system to convert methane to ethylene, followed by conversion of ethylene to selectable higher hydrocarbon products. Integrated systems and processes are provided that process methane through to these higher hydrocarbon products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Lummus Technology LLC
    Inventors: Greg Nyce, Erik C. Scher, Ajay Madgavkar, Samuel Weinberger, Rahul Iyer, Lawrence Peck, Joel Herger, Benjamin Saydah
  • Patent number: 11164092
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for parallel time series analysis. One of the methods includes receiving a plurality of data elements. The plurality of data elements are partitioned into a plurality of chunks, wherein the plurality of chunks, including a first chunk and a plurality of additional chunks, have an ordering according to the data elements included in each chunk. Each chunk is assigned to a particular segment of a plurality of segments. A first iteration of an autoregressive integrated moving average is computed for each chunk assigned to each segment. A second iteration of the autoregressive integrated moving average is computed for each chunk assigned to each segment, wherein computing uses the result data for a corresponding preceding chunk in the first iteration. One or more additional iterations of the autoregressive integrated moving average are computed until stopping criteria has been satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Hai Qian, Caleb E. Welton, Rahul Iyer, Shengwen Yang, Xixuan Feng
  • Publication number: 20210053889
    Abstract: Integrated systems are provided for the production of higher hydrocarbon compositions, for example liquid hydrocarbon compositions, from methane using an oxidative coupling of methane system to convert methane to ethylene, followed by conversion of ethylene to selectable higher hydrocarbon products. Integrated systems and processes are provided that process methane through to these higher hydrocarbon products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Greg Nyce, Erik C. Scher, Ajay Madgavkar, Samuel Weinberger, Rahul Iyer, Lawrence Peck, Joel Herger, Benjamin Saydah
  • Publication number: 20210034945
    Abstract: A system and method of generating complimentary items from a catalog of items is disclosed. A plurality of item attributes for each of a plurality of items is received and a multimodal embedding representative of the plurality of attributes is generated for each of the plurality of items. The multimodal embedding is configured to predict at least a subset of the received plurality of item attributes for each of the plurality of items. A triplet network including a node representative of each of the plurality of items is generated. The triplet network is generated based on the multimodal embedding for each of the plurality of items. A plurality of complimentary items is generated from the plurality of items. The plurality of complimentary items are selected by the triplet network based on an anchor item selection received from a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Mansi MANE, Rahul IYER, Stephen Dean GUO, Kannan ACHAN
  • Publication number: 20210034634
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for generating preference profiles that may be used to rank search results. In some examples, a computing device obtains browsing session data and determines items that were engaged, such as items that were viewed or clicked. The computing device obtains item property data, such as product descriptions, for the items, and applies a dependency parser to the item property data to identify portions that include certain words, such as nouns or adjectives, which are then identified as attributes. The computing device generates attribute data identifying portions of the item property data as item attributes. In some examples, the computing device applies one or more machine learning algorithms to the session data and/or search query to identify item attributes. The computing device may generate a profile that includes the item attributes, and may rank search results based on the attribute data, among other uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Rahul IYER, Soumya WADHWA, Stephen Dean GUO, Kannan ACHAN
  • Publication number: 20210034683
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for generating preference profiles that may be used to rank search results. In some examples, a computing device obtains browsing session data and determines items that were engaged, such as items that were viewed or clicked. The computing device obtains item property data, such as product descriptions, for the items, and applies a dependency parser to the item property data to identify portions that include certain words, such as nouns or adjectives, which are then identified as attributes. The computing device generates attribute data identifying portions of the item property data as item attributes. In some examples, the computing device applies one or more machine learning algorithms to the session data and/or search query to identify item attributes. The computing device may generate a profile that includes the item attributes, and may rank search results based on the attribute data, among other uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Rahul IYER, Soumya WADHWA, Stephen Dean GUO, Kannan ACHAN
  • Publication number: 20210034684
    Abstract: A system and method of generating user personalized search results is disclosed. A search query including one or more words is received and a set of relevance-based search results is generated in response to the search query. One or more query attributes are generated for the search query. Historic data for a user associated with the search query is received and a set of personalized search results is generated from the set of relevance-based search results based on the query attributes and the historic data for the user. The historic data includes one or more items associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Rahul IYER, Soumya WADHWA, Surya Prasanna KUMAR, Praveenkumar KANUMALA, Stephen Dean GUO, Kannan ACHAN, Rahul RAMKUMAR
  • Publication number: 20200354287
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides natural gas and petrochemical processing systems including oxidative coupling of methane reactor systems that integrate process inputs and outputs to cooperatively utilize different inputs and outputs of the various systems in the production of higher hydrocarbons from natural gas and other hydrocarbon feedstocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Rahul Iyer, Alex Tkachenko, Sam Weinberger, Erik C. Scher, Guido Radaelli, Hatem Harraz