Patents by Inventor Ryen William White

Ryen William White 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: 20250110995
    Abstract: Multi-modal search systems with improved search request routing are provided. A device can include a module that identifies, based on content of a search request, provider criterion that indicates factors to be considered in making a routing decision, a criterion processor that determines, based on the provider criterion, a routing decision indicating whether to route the search request to a search engine or a chat engine based, at least in part, respective compute costs of servicing the search request using the search engine and the chat engine, respectively, and respective accuracies of responses provided responsive to the search request using the search engine and the chat engine, respectively, and an output port coupled to receive the search request and to provide the search request to the search engine or the chat engine in accord with the routing decision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventor: Ryen William White
  • Patent number: 12265581
    Abstract: Multi-modal search systems with improved search request routing are provided. A device can include a module that identifies, based on content of a search request, provider criterion that indicates factors to be considered in making a routing decision, a criterion processor that determines, based on the provider criterion, a routing decision indicating whether to route the search request to a search engine or a chat engine based, at least in part, respective compute costs of servicing the search request using the search engine and the chat engine, respectively, and respective accuracies of responses provided responsive to the search request using the search engine and the chat engine, respectively, and an output port coupled to receive the search request and to provide the search request to the search engine or the chat engine in accord with the routing decision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Ryen William White
  • Publication number: 20250086398
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for efficiently generating and using intent taxonomies. In embodiments, training data, including data requests for information, is obtained. Thereafter, a model prompt to be input into a large language model is generated. The model prompt includes an instruction to generate an intent taxonomy, an indication of the training data to use for generating the intent taxonomy, and a taxonomy attribute desired to be used as criteria to generate a quality intent taxonomy. An intent taxonomy that includes user intent classes is obtained as output from the large language model. The intent taxonomy is analyzed to determine whether the intent taxonomy is valid. When the intent taxonomy is determined as valid, the intent taxonomy is provided for use in identifying user intent, and when the intent taxonomy is determined as invalid, the intent taxonomy is refined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Longqi YANG, Chirag Shah, Mengting Wan, Jennifer Lynay Neville, Tara Lynn Safavi, Scott Joseph Counts, Siddharth Suri, Ryen William White, Reid Marlow Andersen, Georg Ludwig Wilhelm Buscher, Sathish Kumar Manivannan, Leijie Wang, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Ali Montazeralghaem
  • Publication number: 20250053445
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Alexander SIM, Ryen William WHITE, Omar SHAYA, Bernd Ingo PLONTSCH, Elnaz NOURI
  • Patent number: 12153956
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Alexander Sim, Ryen William White, Omar Shaya, Bernd Ingo Plontsch, Elnaz Nouri
  • Publication number: 20240354713
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Alexander SIM, Marcello MENDES HASEGAWA, Ryen William WHITE, Mudit JAIN, Tomer HERMELIN, Adi GERZI ROSENTHAL, Sagi HILLELI
  • Patent number: 12099938
    Abstract: Recommending one or more relevant skills to a user that are appropriate for the user's current context is provided. A machine learning contextual skills model is trained on data associated with skills that are invoked by the particular user and by various users and context data that defines characteristics of the context of the users, the users' computing devices, and the users' environments in association with the invoked skills. Responsive to a trigger event associated with the user and a computing device, current context data and user data is collected and passed to the contextual skills system. The contextual skills model is applied to the collected data and generates a ranked list of skills. One or more top-ranking skills are selected and provided to the user as one or more skill recommendations that are determined to be relevant to the user and relevant to the user's current context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Ryen William White
  • Patent number: 12051046
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Alexander Sim, Marcello Mendes Hasegawa, Ryen William White, Mudit Jain, Tomer Hermelin, Adi Gerzi Rosenthal, Sagi Hilleli
  • Patent number: 12032636
    Abstract: Biases in search and retrieval (i.e., situations where searchers seek or are presented with information that significantly deviates from the truth) may be detected by comparison to one or more authoritative sources. Once bias or potential bias is detected, techniques may be applied to indicate and/or compensate for the bias. Such techniques may allow users to more easily assess the veracity of search results, and increase the chances that users will locate accurate answers to their questions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Joel Horvitz, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Ryen William White
  • Publication number: 20240171656
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for user interaction and task completion using multiple devices. A set of devices may be used to perform a task, such that different devices may perform different steps of the task. A device management service may update state information at each device of the set, thereby enabling a user to interact with any of the computing devices to perform the task. A device management service may also automatically determine which device should be used by the user, based on task or step requirements, device characteristics, and device capabilities, among other examples. Thus, rather than being required to continue a task on the same device (even when the device is not well-suited for the current step or task), the user is provided with the option to use and, in some instances, is automatically transitioned to use, different devices within the set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Robert A. SIM, Adam FOURNEY, Russell Allen HERRING, JR., Ryen William WHITE, Elnaz NOURI
  • Publication number: 20240114205
    Abstract: A method for monitoring quality of a conferencing session between a plurality of participant devices is described. One or more data streams of the conferencing session are monitored. Presenter contextual information is determined for media transmitted over the one or more data streams by a presenter device of the plurality of participant devices. A mismatch is identified between the presenter contextual information and a first participant contextual information for a first participant device of the plurality of participant devices. A mismatch notification is provided to the presenter device for an identified mismatch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Ryen William WHITE
  • Publication number: 20240073162
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for contextual messaging in a conference. A method can include receiving, by a first user interface, data indicating content of a message, a recipient of the message, and a condition that, when satisfied during the conference, causes the message to be visually displayed during the audiovisual conference, while the conference is being held via an audiovisual conference application, monitoring user contextual data for whether the condition is satisfied, responsive to the condition being satisfied, augmenting audiovisual conference data from the audiovisual conference application to include the message resulting in augmented audiovisual data, and providing, to the recipient on a second user interface of the audiovisual conference application, a view of the augmented audiovisual data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Ryen William White, Peter Bailey
  • Publication number: 20240073048
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for eye contact assistance in a video conference. A method can include determining a location of the web camera relative to a display, providing a user interface of the video conference on the display, and providing, on the user interface, a graphic display of information at pixels of the display that are most proximate the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: Ryen William White
  • Patent number: 11895214
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for user interaction and task completion using multiple devices. A set of devices may be used to perform a task, such that different devices may perform different steps of the task. A device management service may update state information at each device of the set, thereby enabling a user to interact with any of the computing devices to perform the task. A device management service may also automatically determine which device should be used by the user, based on task or step requirements, device characteristics, and device capabilities, among other examples. Thus, rather than being required to continue a task on the same device (even when the device is not well-suited for the current step or task), the user is provided with the option to use and, in some instances, is automatically transitioned to use, different devices within the set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Robert A. Sim, Adam Fourney, Russell Allen Herring, Jr., Ryen William White, Elnaz Nouri
  • Patent number: 11848900
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for contextual messaging in a conference. A method can include receiving, by a first user interface, data indicating content of a message, a recipient of the message, and a condition that, when satisfied during the conference, causes the message to be visually displayed during the audiovisual conference, while the conference is being held via an audiovisual conference application, monitoring user contextual data for whether the condition is satisfied, responsive to the condition being satisfied, augmenting audiovisual conference data from the audiovisual conference application to include the message resulting in augmented audiovisual data, and providing, to the recipient on a second user interface of the audiovisual conference application, a view of the augmented audiovisual data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ryen William White, Peter Bailey
  • Patent number: 11843469
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for eye contact assistance in a video conference. A method can include determining a location of the web camera relative to a display, providing a user interface of the video conference on the display, and providing, on the user interface, a graphic display of information at pixels of the display that are most proximate the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Ryen William White
  • Publication number: 20230353398
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for eye contact assistance in a video conference. A method can include determining a location of the web camera relative to a display, providing a user interface of the video conference on the display, and providing, on the user interface, a graphic display of information at pixels of the display that are most proximate the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventor: Ryen William White
  • Patent number: 11741437
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for scheduling a task of a user based on a cyber-physical-social (CPS) context of activities. The present disclosure is directed to increasing the efficiency of performing tasks by grouping tasks with the same or similar task CPS contexts so that they are performed in conjunction with one another. A stream of user activities is received that encompasses the CPS context, tasks are identified and classified based on a CPS context model. The CPS model is trained using CPS context and annotations for identified tasks as input to create classes of tasks. The classes of tasks from the model are used to group similar tasks. The present disclosure enables users to receive recommendations on clustering tasks with the same or similar contexts based on an online tool, a location, and collaborators to be performed together to improve productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ryen William White, Omar Shaya, Kevin Michael Carter, Yongli Ren, Jonathan Liono, Flora Dilys Salim
  • Publication number: 20230108358
    Abstract: A device includes a memory that stores a prefetching model. A control module receives a content page including one or more links each associated with selectable content and collects data associated with the content page. The collected data includes at least one of first data indicative of respective relationships between each of the links and a viewport of the device and second data indicative of characteristics of the viewport. The control module further assigns, using the prefetching model, respective scores to each of the links based on the collected data, and selectively generates, based on the assigned scores, a request to prefetch the selectable content associated with at least one of the links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Fernando Diaz, Ryen William White, Qi Guo
  • Publication number: 20230066231
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for contextual messaging in a conference. A method can include receiving, by a first user interface, data indicating content of a message, a recipient of the message, and a condition that, when satisfied during the conference, causes the message to be visually displayed during the audiovisual conference, while the conference is being held via an audiovisual conference application, monitoring user contextual data for whether the condition is satisfied, responsive to the condition being satisfied, augmenting audiovisual conference data from the audiovisual conference application to include the message resulting in augmented audiovisual data, and providing, to the recipient on a second user interface of the audiovisual conference application, a view of the augmented audiovisual data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Ryen William White, Peter Bailey