Patents by Inventor Stephen Guy Pulman

Stephen Guy Pulman 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: 20230046337
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. An example process for performing a task includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, receiving a spoken input including a request, receiving an image input including a plurality of objects, selecting a reference resolution module of a plurality of reference resolution modules based on the request and the image input, determining, with the selected reference resolution module, whether the request references a first object of the plurality of objects based on at least the spoken input, and in accordance with a determination that the request references the first object of the plurality of objects, determining a response to the request including information about the first object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Hong YU, Saurabh ADYA, Shruti BHARGAVA, Myra LUKENS, Jianpeng CHENG, Lin LI, Alkeshkumar PATEL, Dhivya PIRAVIPERUMAL, Stephen Guy PULMAN
  • Publication number: 20160217130
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for analysing natural language to determine a sentiment between two entities discussed in the natural language, comprising the following steps: receiving the natural language at a processing circuitry; analysing the natural language to determine a syntactic representation which shows syntactic constituents of the analysed natural language and to determine a sentiment score of each constituent; determining which constituents link the two entities; and calculating an overall sentiment score for the sentiment between the two entities by processing the sentiment score of each constituent of the constituents determined to link the two entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Karo-Henri Moilanen, Stephen Guy Pulman
  • Patent number: 9336205
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for analyzing natural language to determine a sentiment between two entities discussed in the natural language, comprising the following steps: receiving the natural language at a processing circuitry; analyzing the natural language to determine a syntactic representation which shows syntactic constituents of the analyzed natural language and to determine a sentiment score of each constituent; determining which constituents link the two entities; and calculating an overall sentiment score for the sentiment between the two entities by processing the sentiment score of each constituent of the constituents determined to link the two entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Theysay Limited
    Inventors: Karo-Henri Moilanen, Stephen Guy Pulman
  • Publication number: 20130268262
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for analysing natural language to determine a sentiment between two entities discussed in the natural language, comprising the following steps: receiving the natural language at a processing circuitry; analysing the natural language to determine a syntactic representation which shows syntactic constituents of the analysed natural language and to determine a sentiment score of each constituent; determining which constituents link the two entities; and calculating an overall sentiment score for the sentiment between the two entities by processing the sentiment score of each constituent of the constituents determined to link the two entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Theysay Limited
    Inventors: Karo-Henri Moilanen, Stephen Guy Pulman