Patents by Inventor Robert Alexander Sim
Robert Alexander Sim 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: 12353580Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to building annotated models based on eyes-off data. Specifically, a synthetic data generation model is trained and used to further train a target model. The synthetic data generation model is trained within an eyes-off environment using an anonymity technique on confidential data. The synthetic data generation model is then used to create synthetic data that closely represents the confidential data but without any specific details that can be linked back to the confidential data. The synthetic data is then annotated and used to train the target model within an eyes-on environment. Subsequently, the target model is deployed back within the eyes-off environment to classify the confidential data.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Benjamin Levitan, Robert Alexander Sim, Julia S. McAnallen, Huseyin Atahan Inan, Girish Kumar, Xiang Yue
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Publication number: 20250209281Abstract: Natural language generators (NLGs), including large language models, are powerful technologies that are in widespread use. However, typically, as NLGs become more powerful and sophisticated, their correspondingly increased complexity requires substantial processing resources. The present disclosure provides automated techniques for dynamically routing queries between at least two NLGs based on an assessment of query difficulty. Less difficult queries can be routed to a less resource intensive NLG, while more difficult queries are routed to a more sophisticated, but more resource intensive NLG. Routing less difficult queries to a less resource intensive model can thus conserve computing resources, while providing little to no drop in response quality, and in some cases providing improved response quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ankur MALLICK, Daniel Eduardo MADRIGAL DIAZ, Chi WANG, Robert Alexander SIM, Victor RÜHLE, Ahmed AWADALLAH, Dujian DING
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Publication number: 20250124227Abstract: A personalized natural language processing system tokenizes a plurality of sets of raw text data to generate a plurality of sets of tokenized text data for the plurality of users, respectively. The tokenized text data includes a sequence of tokens corresponding to the raw text data, the tokens at least identifying distinct words or portions of words in the raw text. The system appends predetermined user-specific tokens to the sets of tokenized text data from the users, respectively. Each predetermined user-specific token corresponds to one of the users. The system processes the sets of tokenized text data using the NLP model in accordance with the appended predetermined user-specific tokens to predict a personalized classification for the sets of tokenized text data from each of the users, and outputs the personalized classifications of the tokenized text data for each of the users.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Dimitrios Basile DIMITRIADIS, Vaishnavi SHRIVASTAVA, Milad SHOKOUHI, Robert Alexander SIM, Fatemehsadat MIRESHGHALLAH
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Publication number: 20250053445Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for an interactive, intelligent hub built around the completion of a task. This hub brings together resources, information, suggested steps, and other automated assistance to facilitate the completion of the task. AI-based assistance may indicate which steps can be completed by automated processes, and dispatch those processes, or suggest resources to assist in the completion of other steps. The hub displays the current status of the task, and lives until the completion of the task, or abandonment by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Robert Alexander SIM, Ryen William WHITE, Omar SHAYA, Bernd Ingo PLONTSCH, Elnaz NOURI
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Patent number: 12182511Abstract: A personalized natural language processing system tokenizes a plurality of sets of raw text data to generate a plurality of sets of tokenized text data for the plurality of users, respectively. The tokenized text data includes a sequence of tokens corresponding to the raw text data, the tokens at least identifying distinct words or portions of words in the raw text. The system appends predetermined user-specific tokens to the sets of tokenized text data from the users, respectively. Each predetermined user-specific token corresponds to one of the users. The system processes the sets of tokenized text data using the NLP model in accordance with the appended predetermined user-specific tokens to predict a personalized classification for the sets of tokenized text data from each of the users, and outputs the personalized classifications of the tokenized text data for each of the users.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Dimitrios Basile Dimitriadis, Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Milad Shokouhi, Robert Alexander Sim, Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah
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Patent number: 12153956Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for an interactive, intelligent hub built around the completion of a task. This hub brings together resources, information, suggested steps, and other automated assistance to facilitate the completion of the task. AI-based assistance may indicate which steps can be completed by automated processes, and dispatch those processes, or suggest resources to assist in the completion of other steps. The hub displays the current status of the task, and lives until the completion of the task, or abandonment by the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Robert Alexander Sim, Ryen William White, Omar Shaya, Bernd Ingo Plontsch, Elnaz Nouri
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Publication number: 20240354713Abstract: A system and method to provide computer support for a meeting of invitees comprises accessing one or more sensory data streams providing digitized sensory data responsive to an activity of one or more of the invitees during the meeting, the one or more sensory data streams including at least one audio stream. The method also comprises subjecting the at least one audio stream to phonetic and situational computer modeling to recognize a sequence of words in the audio stream and to assign each word to an invitee, subjecting the sequence of words to semantic computer modeling to recognize a sequence of directives in the sequence of words, and releasing one or more output data streams based on the sequence of directives, the one or more output data streams including one or more notifications.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Inventors: Robert Alexander SIM, Marcello MENDES HASEGAWA, Ryen William WHITE, Mudit JAIN, Tomer HERMELIN, Adi GERZI ROSENTHAL, Sagi HILLELI
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Patent number: 12051046Abstract: A system and method to provide computer support for a meeting of invitees comprises accessing one or more sensory data streams providing digitized sensory data responsive to an activity of one or more of the invitees during the meeting, the one or more sensory data streams including at least one audio stream. The method also comprises subjecting the at least one audio stream to phonetic and situational computer modeling to recognize a sequence of words in the audio stream and to assign each word to an invitee, subjecting the sequence of words to semantic computer modeling to recognize a sequence of directives in the sequence of words, and releasing one or more output data streams based on the sequence of directives, the one or more output data streams including one or more notifications.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Robert Alexander Sim, Marcello Mendes Hasegawa, Ryen William White, Mudit Jain, Tomer Hermelin, Adi Gerzi Rosenthal, Sagi Hilleli
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Publication number: 20240232405Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to building annotated models based on eyes-off data. Specifically, a synthetic data generation model is trained and used to further train a target model. The synthetic data generation model is trained within an eyes-off environment using an anonymity technique on confidential data. The synthetic data generation model is then used to create synthetic data that closely represents the confidential data but without any specific details that can be linked back to the confidential data. The synthetic data is then annotated and used to train the target model within an eyes-on environment. Subsequently, the target model is deployed back within the eyes-off environment to classify the confidential data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2022Publication date: July 11, 2024Inventors: David Benjamin LEVITAN, Robert Alexander SIM, Julia S. MCANALLEN, Huseyin Atahan INAN, Girish KUMAR, Xiang YUE
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Publication number: 20240135015Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to building annotated models based on eyes-off data. Specifically, a synthetic data generation model is trained and used to further train a target model. The synthetic data generation model is trained within an eyes-off environment using an anonymity technique on confidential data. The synthetic data generation model is then used to create synthetic data that closely represents the confidential data but without any specific details that can be linked back to the confidential data. The synthetic data is then annotated and used to train the target model within an eyes-on environment. Subsequently, the target model is deployed back within the eyes-off environment to classify the confidential data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: David Benjamin LEVITAN, Robert Alexander SIM, Julia S. MCANALLEN, Huseyin Atahan INAN, Girish KUMAR, Xiang YUE
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Publication number: 20230306313Abstract: Examples of ensemble knowledge transfer in collaborative learning include: receiving, at a primary node, from a plurality of remote nodes, a plurality of trained proxy machine learning (ML) models, wherein each proxy ML model is received from a different one of the plurality of remote nodes, and wherein each of the plurality of remote nodes is remote across a network from the primary node; training a primary ML model using the plurality of proxy ML models, wherein training the primary ML model comprises: for each of a plurality of training cases of a primary training dataset, weighting results from each of the proxy ML models based on at least a confidence of the respective proxy ML model regarding the training case.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Dimitrios Basile DIMITRIADIS, Antonio Andre MONTEIRO MANOEL, Robert Alexander SIM, Yae Jee CHO
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Publication number: 20230297777Abstract: A personalized natural language processing system tokenizes a plurality of sets of raw text data to generate a plurality of sets of tokenized text data for the plurality of users, respectively. The tokenized text data includes a sequence of tokens corresponding to the raw text data, the tokens at least identifying distinct words or portions of words in the raw text. The system appends predetermined user-specific tokens to the sets of tokenized text data from the users, respectively. Each predetermined user-specific token corresponds to one of the users. The system processes the sets of tokenized text data using the NLP model in accordance with the appended predetermined user-specific tokens to predict a personalized classification for the sets of tokenized text data from each of the users, and outputs the personalized classifications of the tokenized text data for each of the users.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Dimitrios Basile DIMITRIADIS, Vaishnavi SHRIVASTAVA, Milad SHOKOUHI, Robert Alexander SIM, Fatemehsadat MIRESHGHALLAH
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Publication number: 20220350654Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for an interactive, intelligent hub built around the completion of a task. This hub brings together resources, information, suggested steps, and other automated assistance to facilitate the completion of the task. AI-based assistance may indicate which steps can be completed by automated processes, and dispatch those processes, or suggest resources to assist in the completion of other steps. The hub displays the current status of the task, and lives until the completion of the task, or abandonment by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Robert Alexander SIM, Ryen William WHITE, Omar SHAYA, Bernd Ingo PLONTSCH, Elnaz NOURI
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Patent number: 11416290Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for an interactive, intelligent hub built around the completion of a task. This hub brings together resources, information, suggested steps, and other automated assistance to facilitate the completion of the task. AI-based assistance may indicate which steps can be completed by automated processes, and dispatch those processes, or suggest resources to assist in the completion of other steps. The hub displays the current status of the task, and lives until the completion of the task, or abandonment by the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Robert Alexander Sim, Ryen William White, Omar Shaya, Bernd Ingo Plontsch, Elnaz Nouri
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Publication number: 20210373943Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for an interactive, intelligent hub built around the completion of a task. This hub brings together resources, information, suggested steps, and other automated assistance to facilitate the completion of the task. AI-based assistance may indicate which steps can be completed by automated processes, and dispatch those processes, or suggest resources to assist in the completion of other steps. The hub displays the current status of the task, and lives until the completion of the task, or abandonment by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2020Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Robert Alexander SIM, Ryen William WHITE, Omar SHAYA, Bernd Ingo PLONTSCH, Elnaz NOURI
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Publication number: 20210365895Abstract: A system and method to provide computer support for a meeting of invitees comprises accessing one or more sensory data streams providing digitized sensory data responsive to an activity of one or more of the invitees during the meeting, the one or more sensory data streams including at least one audio stream. The method also comprises subjecting the at least one audio stream to phonetic and situational computer modeling to recognize a sequence of words in the audio stream and to assign each word to an invitee, subjecting the sequence of words to semantic computer modeling to recognize a sequence of directives in the sequence of words, and releasing one or more output data streams based on the sequence of directives, the one or more output data streams including one or more notifications.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Robert Alexander SIM, Marcello MENDES HASEGAWA, Ryen William WHITE, Mudit JAIN, Tomer HERMELIN, Adi GERZI ROSENTHAL, Sagi HILLELI
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Patent number: 11113672Abstract: A system and method to provide computer support for a meeting of invitees comprises accessing one or more sensory data streams providing digitized sensory data responsive to an activity of one or more of the invitees during the meeting, the one or more sensory data streams including at least one audio stream. The method also comprises subjecting the at least one audio stream to phonetic and situational computer modeling to recognize a sequence of words in the audio stream and to assign each word to an invitee, subjecting the sequence of words to semantic computer modeling to recognize a sequence of directives in the sequence of words, and releasing one or more output data streams based on the sequence of directives, the one or more output data streams including one or more notifications.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Inventors: Robert Alexander Sim, Marcello Mendes Hasegawa, Ryen William White, Mudit Jain, Tomer Hermelin, Adi Gerzi Rosenthal, Sagi Hilleli
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Publication number: 20210224324Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for discovering relatedness between entities from a corpora of information by automatically extracting attributes from the plurality of heterogeneous entities in a graph. A standardized representation of the extracted attributes from the plurality of heterogeneous entities are propagated across the graph and these propagated attributes are used to find a degree to which the plurality of heterogeneous entities are associated with the extracted attributes. The degree to which the plurality of heterogeneous entities are associated with the extracted attributes is used to create a representation space illustrating a level of relatedness of an entity to another entity of the plurality of heterogeneous entities.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2020Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Adam FOURNEY, Robert Alexander SIM, Shane Frandon WILLIAMS, Paul Nathan BENNETT, Tara Lynn SAFAVI
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Publication number: 20200236147Abstract: Embodiments described herein are implemented in authentication brokering systems where an authentication broker issues security tokens that represent its authentications of users. Client devices operated by the users store the security tokens and send them to resource providers. The resource providers authenticate and grant access to the users based on validation of the security tokens. Authentication related messages exchanged between the resource providers and the authentication broker are used to exchange authentication risk data that is obtained or derived by the resource providers and the authentication broker. The resource providers obtain authentication risk data directly from the authentication broker and indirectly, via the authentication broker, from each other. As security tokens are used or managed, authentication risk data is shared among the participants in the authentication brokering system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Robert Alexander SIM, Akash Atul SHAH, Jisheng LIANG
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Patent number: 10652282Abstract: Embodiments described herein are implemented in authentication brokering systems where an authentication broker issues security tokens that represent its authentications of users. Client devices operated by the users store the security tokens and send them to resource providers. The resource providers authenticate and grant access to the users based on validation of the security tokens. Authentication related messages exchanged between the resource providers and the authentication broker are used to exchange authentication risk data that is obtained or derived by the resource providers and the authentication broker. The resource providers obtain authentication risk data directly from the authentication broker and indirectly, via the authentication broker, from each other. As security tokens are used or managed, authentication risk data is shared among the participants in the authentication brokering system.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Robert Alexander Sim, Akash Atul Shah, Jisheng Liang