Patents by Inventor Ryan EDLEY

Ryan EDLEY 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: 11580112
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing natural language inputs to determine user intents using an insights repository are provided. An insights repository system is configured to build an insights repository as a data structure representing a plurality of entities and relationships among those various entities. The insights repository system may receive information from various sources via an event stream, and may process the information using event rules. Based on the application of the event rules, the system may configure an insights repository data structure representing various entities, relationships between various entities, and the strengths of relationships between various entities. After the insights repository is created, consumers may execute queries against the insights repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
    Inventors: Suneet Dua, Luis Beaumier, Marc Nadeau, Ryan Edley, Robert Coen, Jason Victor Randall, Shannon M. Robinson
  • Patent number: 11482223
    Abstract: A language understanding system is configured to process utterances to predict intents of users, including by suggesting utterances and intents based on searches performed by one or more microservices. A central service is configured to receive inputs/queries from a user, to communicate with a plurality of language processing microservices, and to return a response to the user. The microservices may be configured to apply respective search algorithms comparing the input to respective data sources such as databases, indexes, or knowledge graphs. The microservices may rate utterances and/or entities in the respective data sources with respect to the input. The one or more microservices may generate a ranked list and return the ranked list to the central service. The central service may then apply a secondary rating/ranking algorithm in order to select one or more predicted utterances and/or entities to return to the user based on the initial user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
    Inventors: Suneet Dua, Luis Beaumier, Marc Nadeau, Ryan Edley, Robert Coen, Jason Victor Randall, Shannon M. Robinson
  • Publication number: 20210303801
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for creating conversation models that may be executed by natural language understanding systems and/or intelligent assistant systems, particularly in enterprise and corporate environments. A conversation modeling interface may allow a modeler to position a plurality of graphical conversation-element objects on a canvas region of the interface, to specify associations and relationships between the various represented conversation-elements to define a conversation flow, and to provide input data to define various parameters and characteristics of the conversation-elements of the conversation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
    Inventors: Suneet DUA, Luis BEAUMIER, Marc NADEAU, Ryan EDLEY, Robert COEN, Jason Victor RANDALL, Shannon M. ROBINSON
  • Publication number: 20210303636
    Abstract: A language understanding system is configured to process utterances to predict intents of users, including by suggesting utterances and intents based on searches performed by one or more microservices. A central service is configured to receive inputs/queries from a user, to communicate with a plurality of language processing microservices, and to return a response to the user. The microservices may be configured to apply respective search algorithms comparing the input to respective data sources such as databases, indexes, or knowledge graphs. The microservices may rate utterances and/or entities in the respective data sources with respect to the input. The one or more microservices may generate a ranked list and return the ranked list to the central service. The central service may then apply a secondary rating/ranking algorithm in order to select one or more predicted utterances and/or entities to return to the user based on the initial user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
    Inventors: Suneet DUA, Luis BEAUMIER, Marc NADEAU, Ryan EDLEY, Robert COEN, Jason Victor RANDALL, Shannon M. ROBINSON
  • Publication number: 20210303578
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing natural language inputs to determine user intents using an insights repository are provided. An insights repository system is configured to build an insights repository as a data structure representing a plurality of entities and relationships among those various entities. The insights repository system may receive information from various sources via an event stream, and may process the information using event rules. Based on the application of the event rules, the system may configure an insights repository data structure representing various entities, relationships between various entities, and the strengths of relationships between various entities. After the insights repository is created, consumers may execute queries against the insights repository.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
    Inventors: Suneet DUA, Luis BEAUMIER, Marc NADEAU, Ryan EDLEY, Robert COEN, Jason Victor RANDALL, Shannon M. ROBINSON