Patents by Inventor Steve Way

Steve Way 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: 20250094737
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for managing date-time intervals in transforming natural language utterances to logical forms by providing an enhanced grammar, a natural language utterance comprising a date-time interval, and database schema information to a machine learning model that has been trained to convert natural language utterances to logical forms; and using the machine learning model to convert the natural language utterance to an output logical form, wherein the output logical form comprises at least one of the date-time interval and an extraction function for extracting date-time information corresponding to the date-time interval from at least one date-time attribute of the database schema information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Gioacchino Tangari, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Dalu Guo, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Stephen Andrew McRitchie, Christopher Mark Broadbent, Thanh Long Duong, Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde, Vishal Vishnoi, Chandan Basavaraju, Kenneth Khiaw Hong Eng
  • Publication number: 20250095635
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for managing ambiguous date mentions in natural language utterances in transforming natural language utterances to logical forms by encoding the uncertainties of the ambiguous date mentions and including the encoded uncertainties in the logical forms. In a training phase, training examples including natural language utterances, logical forms, and database schema information are automatically augmented and used to train a machine learning model to convert natural language utterances to logical form. In an inference phase, input database schema information is augmented and used by the trained machine learning model to convert an input natural language utterance to logical form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Gioacchino Tangari, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Stephen Andrew McRitchie, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Dalu Guo, Christopher Mark Broadbent, Thanh Long Duong, Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde, Vishal Vishnoi, Kenneth Khiaw Hong Eng, Chandan Basavaraju
  • Publication number: 20250068627
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for transforming natural language conversations into a visual output. In one aspect, a computer-implement method includes generating an input string by concatenating a natural language utterance with a schema representation comprising a set of entities for visualization actions, generating, by a first encoder of a machine learning model, one or more embeddings of the input string, encoding, by a second encoder of the machine learning model, relations between elements in the schema representation and words in the natural language utterance based on the one or more embeddings, generating, by a grammar-based decoder of the machine learning model and based on the encoded relations and the one or more embeddings, an intermediate logical form that represents at least the query, the one or more visualization actions, or the combination thereof, and generating, based on the intermediate logical form, a command for a computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Gioacchino Tangari, Stephen Andrew McRitchie, Nitika Mathur, Aashna Devang Kanuga, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Dalu Guo, Chang Xu, Mark Edward Johnson, Christopher Mark Broadbent, Thanh Long Duong, Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde, Vishal Vishnoi, Chandan Basavaraju, Kenneth Khiaw Hong Eng
  • Publication number: 20250068626
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to manufacturing training data by leveraging an automated pipeline that manufactures visualization training datasets to train a machine learning model to convert a natural language utterance into meaning representation language logical form that includes one or more visualization actions. Aspects are directed towards accessing an original training dataset, a visualization query dataset, an incremental visualization dataset, a manipulation visualization dataset, or any combination thereof. One or more visualization training datasets are generated by: (i) modifying examples in the original training dataset, the visualization query dataset, or both to include visualization actions, (ii) generating examples, using the incremental visualization dataset, the manipulation visualization dataset, or both, that include visualization actions, or (iii) both (i) and (ii).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Gioacchino Tangari, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Dalu Guo, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Berk Sarioz, Chang Xu, Stephen Andrew McRitchie, Mark Edward Johnson, Christopher Mark Broadbent, Thanh Long Duong, Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde, Vishal Vishnoi, Chandan Basavaraju, Kenneth Khiaw Hong Eng
  • Publication number: 20240232187
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to techniques for converting a natural language utterance to a logical form query and deriving a natural language interpretation of the logical form query. The techniques include accessing a Meaning Resource Language (MRL) query and converting the MRL query into a MRL structure including logical form statements. The converting includes extracting operations and associated attributes from the MRL query and generating the logical form statements from the operations and associated attributes. The techniques further include translating each of the logical form statements into a natural language expression based on a grammar data structure that includes a set of rules for translating logical form statements into corresponding natural language expressions, combining the natural language expressions into a single natural language expression, and providing the single natural language expression as an interpretation of the natural language utterance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Chang Xu, Poorya Zaremoodi, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Nitika Mathur, Philip Arthur, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Aashna Devang Kanuga, Gioacchino Tangari, Mark Edward Johnson, Thanh Long Duong, Vishal Vishnoi, Stephen Andrew McRitchie, Christopher Mark Broadbent
  • Publication number: 20240134850
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to techniques for converting a natural language utterance to a logical form query and deriving a natural language interpretation of the logical form query. The techniques include accessing a Meaning Resource Language (MRL) query and converting the MRL query into a MRL structure including logical form statements. The converting includes extracting operations and associated attributes from the MRL query and generating the logical form statements from the operations and associated attributes. The techniques further include translating each of the logical form statements into a natural language expression based on a grammar data structure that includes a set of rules for translating logical form statements into corresponding natural language expressions, combining the natural language expressions into a single natural language expression, and providing the single natural language expression as an interpretation of the natural language utterance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Chang Xu, Poorya Zaremoodi, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Nitika Mathur, Philip Arthur, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Aashna Devang Kanuga, Gioacchino Tangari, Mark Edward Johnson, Thanh Long Duong, Vishal Vishnoi, Stephen Andrew McRitchie, Christopher Mark Broadbent
  • Publication number: 20240061833
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for augmenting training data for training a machine learning model to generate database queries. Training data comprising a first training example comprising a first natural language utterance, a logical form for the first natural language utterance, and associated first metadata is obtained. From the first training example, a template utterance is generated. A second natural language utterance is generated by filling slots in the template utterance based on a database schema and database values. Updated metadata is produced based on the first metadata and the second natural language utterance. A second training example is generated, comprising the second natural language utterance, the logical form for the first natural language utterance, and the updated metadata. The training data is augmented by adding the second training example. A machine learning model is trained to generate a database query comprising the database operation using the augmented training data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Gioacchino Tangari, Nitika Mathur, Philip Arthur, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Aashna Devang Kanuga, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Syed Najam Abbas Zaidi, Poorya Zaremoodi, Thanh Long Duong, Mark Edward Johnson
  • Publication number: 20240061832
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for converting a natural language utterance to an intermediate database query representation. An input string is generated by concatenating a natural language utterance with a database schema representation for a database. Based on the input string, a first encoder generates one or more embeddings of the natural language utterance and the database schema representation. A second encoder encodes relations between elements in the database schema representation and words in the natural language utterance based on the one or more embeddings. A grammar-based decoder generates an intermediate database query representation based on the encoded relations and the one or more embeddings. Based on the intermediate database query representation and an interface specification, a database query is generated in a database query language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Stephen Andrew McRitchie, Mark Edward Johnson, Shivashankar Subramanian, Aashna Devang Kanuga, Nitika Mathur, Gioacchino Tangari, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Poorya Zaremoodi, Vasisht Raghavendra, Thanh Long Duong, Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde, Vishal Vishnoi, Christopher Mark Broadbent, Philip Arthur, Syed Najam Abbas Zaidi
  • Publication number: 20240062011
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for using named entity recognition to resolve entity expression while transforming natural language to a meaning representation language. In one aspect, a method includes accessing natural language text, predicting, by a first machine learning model, a class label for a token in the natural language text, predicting, by a second machine-learning model, operators for a meaning representation language and a value or value span for each attribute of the operators, in response to determining that the value or value span for a particular attribute matches the class label, converting a portion of the natural language text for the value or value span into a resolved format, and outputting syntax for the meaning representation language. The syntax comprises the operators with the portion of the natural language text for the value or value span in the resolved format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Aashna Devang Kanuga, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Mark Edward Johnson, Vasisht Raghavendra, Yuanxu Wu, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Nitika Mathur, Gioacchino Tangari, Shubham Pawankumar Shah, Vanshika Sridharan, Zikai Li, Diego Andres Cornejo Barra, Stephen Andrew McRitchie, Christopher Mark Broadbent, Vishal Vishnoi, Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde, Poorya Zaremoodi, Thanh Long Duong, Bhagya Gayathri Hettige, Tuyen Quang Pham, Arash Shamaei, Thanh Tien Vu, Yakupitiyage Don Thanuja Samodhve Dharmasiri
  • Publication number: 20230186026
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for synthesizing synthetic training data to facilitate training a natural language to logical form model. In one aspect, training data can be synthesized from original under a framework based on templates and a synchronous context-free grammar. In one aspect, training data can be synthesized under a framework based on a probabilistic context-free grammar and a translator. In one aspect, training data can be synthesized under a framework based on tree-to-string translation. In one aspect, the synthetic training data can be combined with original training data in order to train a machine learning model to translate an utterance to a logical form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Philip Arthur, Vishal Vishnoi, Mark Edward Johnson, Thanh Long Duong, Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde, Balakota Srinivas Vinnakota, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Nitika Mathur, Gioacchino Tangari, Aashna Devang Kanuga
  • Publication number: 20230185834
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for synthesizing synthetic training data to facilitate training a natural language to logical form model. In one aspect, training data can be synthesized from original under a framework based on templates and a synchronous context-free grammar. In one aspect, training data can be synthesized under a framework based on a probabilistic context-free grammar and a translator. In one aspect, training data can be synthesized under a framework based on tree-to-string translation. In one aspect, the synthetic training data can be combined with original training data in order to train a machine learning model to translate an utterance to a logical form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Philip Arthur, Vishal Vishnoi, Mark Edward Johnson, Thanh Long Duong, Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde, Balakota Srinivas Vinnakota, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Nitika Mathur, Gioacchino Tangari, Aashna Devang Kanuga
  • Publication number: 20230186161
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for synthesizing synthetic training data to facilitate training a natural language to logical form model. In one aspect, training data can be synthesized from original under a framework based on templates and a synchronous context-free grammar. In one aspect, training data can be synthesized under a framework based on a probabilistic context-free grammar and a translator. In one aspect, training data can be synthesized under a framework based on tree-to-string translation. In one aspect, the synthetic training data can be combined with original training data in order to train a machine learning model to translate an utterance to a logical form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Philip Arthur, Vishal Vishnoi, Mark Edward Johnson, Thanh Long Duong, Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde, Balakota Srinivas Vinnakota, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Nitika Mathur, Gioacchino Tangari, Aashna Devang Kanuga
  • Publication number: 20230186025
    Abstract: Techniques for preprocessing data assets to be used in a natural language to logical form model based on scalable search and content-based schema linking. In one particular aspect, a method includes accessing an utterance, classifying named entities within the utterance into predefined classes, searching value lists within the database schema using tokens from the utterance to identify and output value matches including: (i) any value within the value lists that matches a token from the utterance and (ii) any attribute associated with a matching value, generating a data structure by organizing and storing: (i) each of the named entities and an assigned class for each of the named entities, (ii) each of the value matches and the token matching each of the value matches, and (iii) the utterance, in a predefined format for the data structure, and outputting the data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jae Min John, Vishal Vishnoi, Mark Edward Johnson, Thanh Long Duong, Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde, Balakota Srinivas Vinnakota, Shivashankar Subramanian, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Yakupitiyage Don Thanuja Samodhye Dharmasiri, Nitika Mathur, Aashna Devang Kanuga, Philip Arthur, Gioacchino Tangari, Steve Wai-Chun Siu
  • Patent number: 11461841
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for determining whether to approve or deny a borrower's lending-product request by selectively using a heuristic and statistical model. More specifically, a borrower may submit a lending-product request to a Statistical Risk Management (SRM) system, and in doing so the SRM system may analyze relationship attributes of the borrower to determine a likelihood of borrower repaying a loan over a predetermined time period, and avoid being charged off. In some examples, the SRM system may execute a plurality of statistical models to determine a charge-off probability score. Each statistical model may be based on a set, or subset of historical lending-product data. A subset of historical lending-product data may be based on a selection bias of shared characteristics within a set of historical lending-product data. The selection bias may be based on characteristics of a lending-product request or relationship attributes of a borrower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: QCash Financial, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Way, Ben Morales, Heidi Tinsley, Mark Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 11205222
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for determining whether to approve or deny a borrower's lending-product request by selectively using a heuristic and statistical model. More specifically, a borrower may submit a lending-product request to a Heuristic-Statistical Risk Management (HS-RM) system, and in doing so the HS-RM system may analyze relationship attributes of the borrower to determine a likelihood of borrower repaying a loan over a predetermined time period, and avoid being charged off. In some examples, the HS-RM system may execute a plurality of statistical models to determine a charge-off probability score. Each statistical model may be based on a set, or subset of historical lending-product data. A subset of historical lending-product data may be based on a selection bias of shared characteristics within a set of historical lending-product data. The selection bias may be based on characteristics of a lending-product request or relationship attributes of a borrower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: QCASH FINANCIAL, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Way, Ben Morales, Heidi Tinsley, Mark Baumgartner
  • Publication number: 20190205978
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for determining whether to approve or deny a borrower's lending-product request by selectively using a heuristic and statistical model. More specifically, a borrower may submit a lending-product request to a Heuristic-Statistical Risk Management (HS-RM) system, and in doing so the HS-RM system may analyze relationship attributes of the borrower to determine a likelihood of borrower repaying a loan over a predetermined time period, and avoid being charged off. In some examples, the HS-RM system may execute a plurality of statistical models to determine a charge-off probability score. Each statistical model may be based on a set, or subset of historical lending-product data. A subset of historical lending-product data may be based on a selection bias of shared characteristics within a set of historical lending-product data. The selection bias may be based on characteristics of a lending-product request or relationship attributes of a borrower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Steve Way, Ben Morales, Heidi Tinsley, Mark Baumgartner
  • Publication number: 20190205977
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for determining whether to approve or deny a borrower's lending-product request by selectively using a heuristic and statistical model. More specifically, a borrower may submit a lending-product request to a Statistical Risk Management (SRM) system, and in doing so the SRM system may analyze relationship attributes of the borrower to determine a likelihood of borrower repaying a loan over a predetermined time period, and avoid being charged off. In some examples, the SRM system may execute a plurality of statistical models to determine a charge-off probability score. Each statistical model may be based on a set, or subset of historical lending-product data. A subset of historical lending-product data may be based on a selection bias of shared characteristics within a set of historical lending-product data. The selection bias may be based on characteristics of a lending-product request or relationship attributes of a borrower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Steve Way, Ben Morales, Heidi Tinsley, Mark Baumgartner
  • Publication number: 20190114704
    Abstract: A statistical model enables a lender financial institution to leverage multiple relationship attributes of a borrower to predict whether the borrower is capable of timely paying back a loan. The statistical model is generated to provide a multitude of relationship attribute coefficients based on historical borrower data of a multiple borrowers from an alternative loan approval process. The multitude of relationship attribute coefficients are applied to corresponding relationship attribute values of a borrower that is seeking a loan from a financial institution to generate an intermediate borrower score for the borrower. A probability of the borrower not being charged off on a loan after a predetermine time period is then calculated based on the intermediate borrower score. Accordingly, the loan may be determined to be approved or denied based on a comparison of the probability to an approval cutoff threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Steve Way, Ben Morales, Heidi Tinsley, Mark Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 8717117
    Abstract: Aspects describe a wideband active quasi-circulator that has the advantages of small size, lightweight, and compatibility with monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) technology. An active quasi-circulator is provided that comprises both a power amplifier and a low noise amplifier. The active quasi-circulator can operate over a wide frequency range with isolation or substantial isolation between a power amplifier and a low noise amplifier that is tunable with isolation or substantial isolation at any frequency within the wide frequency range. The provided quasi-circulator is suitable for use in mobile units in multi-band radio frequency communication systems, as well as in other configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Steve Wai Yin Mung, Wing Shing Chan
  • Publication number: 20120274425
    Abstract: Aspects describe a wideband active quasi-circulator that has the advantages of small size, lightweight, and compatibility with monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) technology. An active quasi-circulator is provided that comprises both a power amplifier and a low noise amplifier. The active quasi-circulator can operate over a wide frequency range with isolation or substantial isolation between a power amplifier and a low noise amplifier that is tunable with isolation or substantial isolation at any frequency within the wide frequency range. The provided quasi-circulator is suitable for use in mobile units in multi-band radio frequency communication systems, as well as in other configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
    Inventors: Steve Wai Yin Mung, Wing Shing Chan