Patents by Inventor Stefan Schoenmackers

Stefan Schoenmackers 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: 20220020375
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for detecting a mission changes in a conversation. A user utterance from a user device is received. The user utterance is part of a conversation with an intelligent assistant. The conversation includes preceding user utterances in pursuit of a first mission. It is determined that the user utterance indicates a mission change from the first mission to a second mission based on an application of a machine-learned model to the user utterance and the preceding user utterances. The machine-learned model has been trained repeatedly with past utterances of other users over a time period, the determining based on a certainty of the indication satisfying a certainty threshold. Responsive to the determining that the user utterance indicates the mission change from the first mission to a second mission, a reply to the user utterance is generated to further the second mission rather than the first mission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan Schoenmackers, Amit Srivastava, Lawrence William Colagiovanni, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale, Vinh Khuc
  • Patent number: 11170769
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for detecting a mission changes in a conversation. A user utterance from a user device is received. The user utterance is part of a conversation with an intelligent assistant. The conversation includes preceding user utterances in pursuit of a first mission. It is determined that the user utterance indicates a mission change from the first mission to a second mission based on an application of a machine-learned model to the user utterance and the preceding user utterances. The machine-learned model has been trained repeatedly with past utterances of other users over a time period, the determining based on a certainty of the indication satisfying a certainty threshold. Responsive to the determining that the user utterance indicates the mission change from the first mission to a second mission, a reply to the user utterance is generated to further the second mission rather than the first mission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Schoenmackers, Amit Srivastava, Lawrence William Colagiovanni, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale, Vinh Khuc
  • Publication number: 20180268818
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for detecting a mission changes in a conversation. A user utterance from a user device is received. The user utterance is part of a conversation with an intelligent assistant. The conversation includes preceding user utterances in pursuit of a first mission. It is determined that the user utterance indicates a mission change from the first mission to a second mission based on an application of a machine-learned model to the user utterance and the preceding user utterances. The machine-learned model has been trained repeatedly with past utterances of other users over a time period, the determining based on a certainty of the indication satisfying a certainty threshold. Responsive to the determining that the user utterance indicates the mission change from the first mission to a second mission, a reply to the user utterance is generated to further the second mission rather than the first mission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Stefan Schoenmackers, Amit Srivastava, Lawrence William Colagiovanni, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale, Vinh Khuc
  • Publication number: 20180047071
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention can be utilized in multiple ways to assist in generating “predictions” with regards to the expected ratings or rankings of products or services. These predictions can then be used to inform consumers which products or services are expected to be reliable, good values, etc. By using one or more machine learning processes that are trained using product and product review data, embodiments of the invention are able to generate predictions of expected ratings behavior for new products and/or similar products. Further, when the product and product review data is associated with a time at which the data was generated, embodiments of the invention are able to predict how a product or a product's features will be viewed in the future.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: David Wei Hsu, Hsu Han Ooi, Samuel Schuler Clark, Stefan Schoenmackers, Igor Tatarinov