Patents by Inventor Thorsten Brants

Thorsten Brants 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).

  • Patent number: 10885285
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for accessing distributed models in automated machine processing, including using large language models in machine translation, speech recognition and other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Franz Josef Och, Jeffrey Dean, Thorsten Brants, Alexander Mark Franz, Jay Ponte, Peng Xu, Sha-Mayn Teh, Jeffrey Chin, Ignacio E. Thayer, Anton Carver, Daniel Rosart, John S. Hawkins, Karel Driesen
  • Publication number: 20200410396
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for performing machine learning tasks. One method includes receiving (i) a model input, and (ii) data identifying a first machine learning task to be performed on the model input to generate a first type of model output for the model input; augmenting the model input with an identifier for the first machine learning task to generate an augmented model input; and processing the augmented model input using a machine learning model, wherein the machine learning model has been trained on training data to perform a plurality of machine learning tasks including the first machine learning task, and wherein the machine learning model has been configured through training to process the augmented model input to generate a machine learning model output of the first type for the model input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Zhifeng Chen, Michael Schuster, Melvin Jose Johnson Premkumar, Yonghui Wu, Quoc V. Le, Maxim Krikun, Thorsten Brants
  • Patent number: 10713593
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for performing machine learning tasks. One method includes receiving (i) a model input, and (ii) data identifying a first machine learning task to be performed on the model input to generate a first type of model output for the model input; augmenting the model input with an identifier for the first machine learning task to generate an augmented model input; and processing the augmented model input using a machine learning model, wherein the machine learning model has been trained on training data to perform a plurality of machine learning tasks including the first machine learning task, and wherein the machine learning model has been configured through training to process the augmented model input to generate a machine learning model output of the first type for the model input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Zhifeng Chen, Michael Schuster, Melvin Jose Johnson Premkumar, Yonghui Wu, Quoc V. Le, Maxim Krikun, Thorsten Brants
  • Patent number: 10679148
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for performing machine learning tasks. One method includes receiving (i) a model input, and (ii) data identifying a first machine learning task to be performed on the model input to generate a first type of model output for the model input; augmenting the model input with an identifier for the first machine learning task to generate an augmented model input; and processing the augmented model input using a machine learning model. An exemplary system applying implicit bridging for machine learning tasks, as described in this specification, trains a machine learning model to perform certain types of machine learning tasks without requiring explicit training data for the certain types of machine learning tasks to be used during training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Zhifeng Chen, Michael Schuster, Melvin Jose Johnson Premkumar, Yonghui Wu, Quoc V. Le, Maxim Krikun, Thorsten Brants
  • Publication number: 20190258961
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for performing machine learning tasks. One method includes receiving (i) a model input, and (ii) data identifying a first machine learning task to be performed on the model input to generate a first type of model output for the model input; augmenting the model input with an identifier for the first machine learning task to generate an augmented model input; and processing the augmented model input using a machine learning model. An exemplary system applying implicit bridging for machine learning tasks, as described in this specification, trains a machine learning model to perform certain types of machine learning tasks without requiring explicit training data for the certain types of machine learning tasks to be used during training.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Zhifeng Chen, Michael Schuster, Melvin Jose Johnson Premkumar, Yonghui Wu, Quoc V. Le, Maxim Krikun, Thorsten Brants
  • Publication number: 20190018843
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for accessing distributed models in automated machine processing, including using large language models in machine translation, speech recognition and other applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Franz Josef Och, Jeffrey Dean, Thorsten Brants, Alexander Mark Franz, Jay Ponte, Peng Xu, Sha-Mayn Teh, Jeffrey Chin, Ignacio E. Thayer, Anton Carver, Daniel Rosart, John S. Hawkins, Karel Driesen
  • Patent number: 10089304
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for accessing distributed models in automated machine processing, including using large language models in machine translation, speech recognition and other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Franz Josef Och, Jeffrey Dean, Thorsten Brants, Alexander Mark Franz, Jay Ponte, Peng Xu, Sha-Mayn Teh, Jeffrey Chin, Ignacio E. Thayer, Anton Carver, Daniel Rosart, John S. Hawkins, Karel Driesen
  • Publication number: 20180129972
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for performing machine learning tasks. One method includes receiving (i) a model input, and (ii) data identifying a first machine learning task to be performed on the model input to generate a first type of model output for the model input; augmenting the model input with an identifier for the first machine learning task to generate an augmented model input; and processing the augmented model input using a machine learning model, wherein the machine learning model has been trained on training data to perform a plurality of machine learning tasks including the first machine learning task, and wherein the machine learning model has been configured through training to process the augmented model input to generate a machine learning model output of the first type for the model input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Zhifeng Chen, Michael Schuster, Melvin Jose Johnson Premkumar, Yonghui Wu, Quoc V. Le, Maxim Krikun, Thorsten Brants
  • Patent number: 9779139
    Abstract: A server is configured to receive, from a client, a query and context information associated with a document; obtain search results, based on the query, that identify documents relevant to the query; analyze the context information to identify content; generate first scores for a hierarchy of topics, that correspond to measures of relevance of the topics to the content; select a topic that is most relevant to the context information when the topic is associated with a greatest first score; generate second scores for the search results that correspond to measures of relevance, of the search results, to the topic; select one or more of the search results as being most relevant to the topic when the search results are associated with one or more greatest second scores; generate a search result document that includes the selected search results; and send, to a client, the search result document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Sarveshwar Duddu, Kuntal Loya, Minh Tue Vo Thanh, Thorsten Brants
  • Publication number: 20170212887
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for accessing distributed models in automated machine processing, including using large language models in machine translation, speech recognition and other applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Josef Och, Jeffrey Dean, Thorsten Brants, Alexander Mark Franz, Jay Ponte, Peng Xu, Sha-Mayn Teh, Jeffrey Chin, Ignacio E. Thayer, Anton Carver, Daniel Rosart, John S. Hawkins, Karel Driesen
  • Patent number: 9619465
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for accessing distributed models in automated machine processing, including using large language models in machine translation, speech recognition and other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Franz Josef Och, Jeffrey Dean, Thorsten Brants, Alexander Mark Franz, Jay Ponte, Peng Xu, Sha-Mayn Teh, Jeffrey Chin, Ignacio E. Thayer, Anton Carver, Daniel Rosart, John S. Hawkins, Karel Driesen
  • Patent number: 8972432
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer program products, are provided for machine translation using information retrieval techniques. In general, in one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes providing a received input segment as a query to a search engine, the search engine searching an index of one or more collections of documents, receiving one or more candidate segments in response to the query, determining a similarity of each candidate segment to the received input segment, and for one or more candidate segments having a determined similarity that exceeds a threshold similarity, providing a translated target segment corresponding to the respective candidate segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Hayden Shaw, Thorsten Brants
  • Publication number: 20140257787
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for accessing distributed models in automated machine processing, including using large language models in machine translation, speech recognition and other applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Franz Josef Och, Jeffrey Dean, Thorsten Brants, Alexander Mark Franz, Jay Ponte, Peng Xu, Sha-Mayn Teh, Jeffrey Chin, Ignacio E. Thayer, Anton Carver, Daniel Rosart, John S. Hawkins, Karel Driesen
  • Patent number: 8812291
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for machine translation are provided. In some implementations a system is provided. The system includes a language model including a collection of n-grams from a corpus, each n-gram having a corresponding relative frequency in the corpus and an order n corresponding to a number of tokens in the n-gram, each n-gram corresponding to a backoff n-gram having an order of n?1 and a collection of backoff scores, each backoff score associated with an n-gram, the backoff score determined as a function of a backoff factor and a relative frequency of a corresponding backoff n-gram in the corpus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Thorsten Brants, Ashok C. Popat, Peng Xu, Franz J. Och, Jeffrey Dean
  • Patent number: 8762128
    Abstract: A translation system receives a test pair that includes a source test phrase in a first language and a target test phrase in a second language. The test pair can be evaluated by comparing its components with phrases in primary pairs. The test source phrase can be compared to a primary source phrase that is the phrase most commonly translated by the machine translation system into the test target phrase. The test target phrase can be compared to a primary target phrase that is the phrase into which the target source phrase is most often translated. If one and/or both comparisons are sufficiently dissimilar, the machine translation system can be modified by deleting the test pair, by flagging it for human review, or in other ways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Thorsten Brants, Jan Pfeifer
  • Patent number: 8762368
    Abstract: A server is configured to receive, from a client, a query and context information associated with a document; obtain search results, based on the query, that identify documents relevant to the query; analyze the context information to identify content; generate first scores for a hierarchy of topics, that correspond to measures of relevance of the topics to the content; select a topic that is most relevant to the context information when the topic is associated with a greatest first score; generate second scores for the search results that correspond to measures of relevance, of the search results, to the topic; select one or more of the search results as being most relevant to the topic when the search results are associated with one or more greatest second scores; generate a search result document that includes the selected search results; and send, to a client, the search result document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Sarveshwar Duddu, Kuntal Loya, Minh Tue Vo Thanh, Thorsten Brants
  • Patent number: 8738357
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for accessing distributed models in automated machine processing, including using large language models in machine translation, speech recognition and other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Josef Och, Jeffrey Dean, Thorsten Brants, Alexander Mark Franz, Jay Ponte, Peng Xu, Sha-Mayn Teh, Jeffrey Chin, Ignacio E. Thayer, Anton Carver, Daniel Rosart, John S. Hawkins, Karel Driesen
  • Publication number: 20140059033
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer program products, are provided for machine translation using information retrieval techniques. In general, in one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes providing a received input segment as a query to a search engine, the search engine searching an index of one or more collections of documents, receiving one or more candidate segments in response to the query, determining a similarity of each candidate segment to the received input segment, and for one or more candidate segments having a determined similarity that exceeds a threshold similarity, providing a translated target segment corresponding to the respective candidate segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Hayden Shaw, Thorsten Brants
  • Patent number: 8626492
    Abstract: A semantic locator determines whether input sequences form semantically meaningful units. The semantic locator includes a coherence component that calculates a coherence of the terms in the sequence and a variation component that calculates the variation in terms that surround the sequence. A heuristics component may additionally refine results of the coherence component and the variation component. A decision component may make the determination of whether the sequence is a semantic unit based on the results of the coherence component, variation component, and heuristics component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Thorsten Brants, Jay Ponte
  • Patent number: 8554769
    Abstract: This specification describes technologies relating to providing search results. One aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving a network resource, the network resource including text content; generating a language model score for the resource including applying a language model to the text content of the resource; generating a query stuffing score for the reference, the query stuffing score being a function of term frequency in the resource content and a query index; calculating a gibberish score for the resource using the language model score and the query stuffing score; and using the calculated gibberish score to determine whether to modify a ranking score of the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Shashidhar A. Thakur, Sushrut Karanjkar, Pavel Levin, Thorsten Brants