Patents by Inventor Shawn C.P. Mei

Shawn C.P. Mei 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: 20230222605
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a head-mounted device a speech input from a user and a visual input captured by cameras of the head-mounted device, wherein the visual input comprises subjects and attributes associated with the subjects, and wherein the speech input comprises a co-reference to one or more of the subjects, resolving entities corresponding to the subjects associated with the co-reference based on the attributes and the co-reference, and presenting a communication content responsive to the speech input and the visual input at the head-mounted device, wherein the communication content comprises information associated with executing results of tasks corresponding to the resolved entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Vivek Natarajan, Shawn C.P. Mei, Zhengping Zuo
  • Publication number: 20220012076
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input based on a plurality of modalities at the client system, wherein at least one of the modalities of the user input is a visual modality, determining one or more subjects and one or more attributes associated with the one or more subjects, respectively, based on the visual modality of the user input, resolving one or more entities corresponding to the one or more subjects based on the determined one or more attributes, and presenting a communication content at the client system responsive to the user input, wherein the communication content comprises information associated with executing results of one or more tasks corresponding to the one or more resolved entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Vivek Natarajan, Shawn C.P. Mei, Zhengping Zuo
  • Publication number: 20190325080
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a client system associated with a first user a user input based on one or more modalities, at least one of which is a visual modality, identifying one or more subjects associated with the user input based on the visual modality based on one or more machine-learning models, determining one or more attributes associated with the one or more subjects respectively based on the one or more machine-learning models, resolving one or more entities corresponding to the one or more subjects based on the determined one or more attributes, executing one or more tasks associated with the one or more resolved entities, and sending instructions for presenting a communication content including information associated with the executed one or more tasks responsive to user input to the client system associated with the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Vivek Natarajan, Shawn C.P. Mei, Zhengping Zuo
  • Publication number: 20160285790
    Abstract: Techniques for automated messaging are described. Some embodiments are particularly directed to techniques for automated business-to-consumer messaging leveraging social-networking information. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a user profile component operative to retrieve a user profile associated with a user account for a messaging service and a messaging automation component operative to receive a messaging initiation from a messaging endpoint on a client device; and configure an automated response based on the user profile in response to the messaging initiation. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Eugene Szeto, Shawn C.P. Mei, Alexander David Ramirez