Patents by Inventor Richard Zens

Richard Zens 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: 11086883
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to suggest new content to a writer. An intelligent tool is initiated to obtain content of a document that is being written by an author. The intelligent tool then determines a topic of the content of the document, and identifies one or more predictive topics related to the determined topic. The one or more predictive topics are different from the topic. The intelligent tool then performs a content search based on the topic and the one or more predictive topics, and provides results from the content search to the author.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kishore Papineni, Brian Kravitz, Richard Zens, Christopher Welty
  • Publication number: 20170300535
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to suggest new content to a writer. An intelligent tool is initiated to obtain content of a document that is being written by an author. The intelligent tool then determines a topic of the content of the document, and identifies one or more predictive topics related to the determined topic. The one or more predictive topics are different from the topic. The intelligent tool then performs a content search based on the topic and the one or more predictive topics, and provides results from the content search to the author.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Kishore Papineni, Brian Kravitz, Richard Zens, Christopher Welty
  • Patent number: 8990069
    Abstract: A computer-implemented technique includes receiving, at a server including one or more processors, a phrase table for statistical machine translation, the phrase table including a plurality of phrase pairs corresponding to one or more pairs of languages. The technique includes determining, at the server, a redundant set of phrase pairs from the plurality of phrase pairs and calculating first and second probabilities for each specific phrase pair of the redundant set. The second probability can be based on third probabilities for sub-phrases of each specific phrase pair. The technique includes determining, at the server, one or more selected phrase pairs based on whether a corresponding second probability for a specific phrase pair is within a probability threshold from its corresponding first probability. The technique also includes removing, at the server, the one or more selected phrase pairs from the phrase table to obtain a modified phrase table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Zens, Peng Xu