Patents by Inventor Vaibhava Goel
Vaibhava Goel 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).
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Publication number: 20240070150Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, design structures, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving a source document, applying one or more pre-processes to the source document to produce contextual information representative of the structure and content of the source document, and transforming the source document, based on the contextual information, to generate a question-and-answer searchable document.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: David Nahamoo, Igor Roditis Jablokov, Vaibhava Goel, Etienne Marcheret, Ellen Eide Kislal, Steven John Rennie, Marie Wenzel Meteer, Neil Rohit Mallinar, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Joseph Allen Pruitt, John Michael Pruitt, Bryan Dempsey, Chul Sung
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Publication number: 20240012842Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, and other implementations, including a method that includes obtaining a query set (e.g., a universal set of questions), performing a question-and-answer (Q-A) search on one or more documents using the query set to produce answer data responsive to one or more questions included in the query set, with the answer data characterizing concepts associated with the one or more documents, and deriving structured output information for the one or more documents based on the answer data produced in response to performing the Q-A search.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Ellen Eide Kislal, David Nahamoo, Vaibhava Goel, Igor Roditis Jablokov, Etienne Marcheret, Steven John Rennie
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Patent number: 11734268Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, design structures, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving a source document, applying one or more pre-processes to the source document to produce contextual information representative of the structure and content of the source document, and transforming the source document, based on the contextual information, to generate a question-and-answer searchable document.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Pryon IncorporatedInventors: David Nahamoo, Igor Roditis Jablokov, Vaibhava Goel, Etienne Marcheret, Ellen Eide Kislal, Steven John Rennie, Marie Wenzel Meteer, Neil Rohit Mallinar, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Joseph Allen Pruitt, John Pruitt, Bryan Dempsey, Chui Sung
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Publication number: 20230205824Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving query data representative of a question relating to source content of one or more source documents, and causing a search of a data repository maintaining data portions relating to the one or more source documents to determine a set of multiple matches between the query data and the data portions. The method additionally includes identifying one or more concepts associated with the set of multiple matches, with at least one of the identified concepts being associated with at least some of the multiple matches and including different respective values associated those some of the multiple matches, obtaining disambiguation information relevant to the at least one of the identified concepts, and selecting at least one of the multiple matches based on the obtained disambiguation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Igor Roditis Jablokov, Vaibhava Goel, David Nahamoo, Marie Wenzel Meteer
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Patent number: 11593364Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, design structures, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving, at a local device from a remote device, query data representative of a question relating to source content of a source document, and determining whether one or more pre-determined questions stored in a question-answer cache maintained at the local device matches the query data according to one or more matching criteria. The method further includes obtaining from the question-answer cache, in response to a determination that at least one of the pre-determined questions matches the query data received from the remote device, at least one answer data item, associated with at least one pre-determined question, corresponding to an answer to the question relating to the source content.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Pryon IncorporatedInventors: David Nahamoo, Igor Roditis Jablokov, Vaibhava Goel, Etienne Marcheret, Ellen Eide Kislal, Steven John Rennie, Marie Wenzel Meteer, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Joseph Allen Pruitt, John Pruitt, Bryan Dempsey, Gregory Pelton, Lucas Siler
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Publication number: 20210406293Abstract: Disclosed are implementations that include a method including obtaining at a local device, a question-and-answer data item representative of a question-and-answer pair relating to source content of a source document, with the question-and-answer data item being associated with question-and-answer history information representative of historical information and access information for the question-and-answer data item, and determining based on the question-and-answer history information whether to perform data refinement operations on the question-and-answer data item.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: David Nahamoo, Igor Roditis Jablokov, Vaibhava Goel, Etienne Marcheret, Ellen Eide Kislal, Steven John Rennie, Marie Wenzel Meteer, Joseph Allen Pruitt, John Pruitt, Bryan Dempsey, Gregory Pelton, Lucas Siler
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Publication number: 20210406320Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, design structures, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving, at a local device from a remote device, query data representative of a question relating to source content of a source document of a repository of a plurality of source documents, with the source content being associated with transformed content accessible from the local device. The method further includes generating, in response to determination, at the local device, of a match between the query data and at least one portion of the transformed content, output data comprising one or more of a pointer to access, in the source document accessible from the remote device, at least one portion of the source document corresponding to the at least one portion of the transformed content, or a copy of the at least one portion of the source document.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: David Nahamoo, Igor Roditis Jablokov, Vaibhava Goel, Etienne Marcheret, Ellen Eide Kislal, Steven John Rennie, Marie Wenzel Meteer, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Joseph Allen Pruitt, John Pruitt, Bryan Dempsey, Rangachari Anand, Meghan Hickey, Ajinkya Zadbuke, Neil Rohit Mallinar, Lucas Siler, Gregory Pelton, Chul Sung, Matthew Brian Cobb, Carmi Joseph Rothberg
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Publication number: 20210406735Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, design structures, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving, at a local device from a remote device, query data representative of a question relating to source content of a source document, and determining whether one or more pre-determined questions stored in a question-answer cache maintained at the local device matches the query data according to one or more matching criteria. The method further includes obtaining from the question-answer cache, in response to a determination that at least one of the pre-determined questions matches the query data received from the remote device, at least one answer data item, associated with at least one pre-determined question, corresponding to an answer to the question relating to the source content.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: David Nahamoo, Igor Roditis Jablokov, Vaibhava Goel, Etienne Marcheret, Ellen Eide Kislal, Steven John Rennie, Marie Wenzel Meteer, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Joseph Allen Pruitt, John Pruitt, Bryan Dempsey, Gregory Pelton, Lucas Siler
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Publication number: 20210406264Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, media, design structures, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving a source document, applying one or more pre-processes to the source document to produce contextual information representative of the structure and content of the source document, and transforming the source document, based on the contextual information, to generate a question-and-answer searchable document.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: David Nahamoo, Igor Roditis Jablokov, Vaibhava Goel, Etienne Marcheret, Ellen Eide Kislal, Steven John Rennie, Marie Wenzel Meteer, Neil Rohit Mallinar, Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Joseph Allen Pruitt, John Pruitt, Bryan Dempsey, Chul Sung
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Patent number: 11019306Abstract: A method of combining data streams from fixed audio-visual sensors with data streams from personal mobile devices including, forming a communication link with at least one of one or more personal mobile devices; receiving at least one of an audio data stream and/or a video data stream from the at least one of the one or more personal mobile devices; determining the quality of the at least one of the audio data stream and/or the video data stream, wherein the audio data stream and/or the video data stream having a quality above a threshold quality is retained; and combining the retained audio data stream and/or the video data stream with the data streams from the fixed audio-visual sensors.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Stanley Chen, Kenneth W. Church, Vaibhava Goel, Lidia L. Mangu, Etienne Marcheret, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Laurence P. Sansone, Abhinav Sethy, Samuel Thomas
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Patent number: 10380484Abstract: Systems and methods for training a neural network to optimize network performance, including sampling an applied dropout rate for one or more nodes of the network to evaluate a current generalization performance of one or more training models. An optimized annealing schedule may be generated based on the sampling, wherein the optimized annealing schedule includes an altered dropout rate configured to improve a generalization performance of the network. A number of nodes of the network may be adjusted in accordance with a dropout rate specified in the optimized annealing schedule. The steps may then be iterated until the generalization performance of the network is maximized.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Vaibhava Goel, Steven John Rennie, Samuel Thomas, Ewout van den Berg
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Patent number: 10373054Abstract: Systems and methods for training a neural network to optimize network performance, including sampling an applied dropout rate for one or more nodes of the network to evaluate a current generalization performance of one or more training models. An optimized annealing schedule may be generated based on the sampling, wherein the optimized annealing schedule includes an altered dropout rate configured to improve a generalization performance of the network. A number of nodes of the network may be adjusted in accordance with a dropout rate specified in the optimized annealing schedule. The steps may then be iterated until the generalization performance of the network is maximized.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Vaibhava Goel, Steven John Rennie, Samuel Thomas, Ewout van den Berg
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Publication number: 20190149769Abstract: A method of combining data streams from fixed audio-visual sensors with data streams from personal mobile devices including, forming a communication link with at least one of one or more personal mobile devices; receiving at least one of an audio data stream and/or a video data stream from the at least one of the one or more personal mobile devices; determining the quality of the at least one of the audio data stream and/or the video data stream, wherein the audio data stream and/or the video data stream having a quality above a threshold quality is retained; and combining the retained audio data stream and/or the video data stream with the data streams from the fixed audio-visual sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2019Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: STANLEY CHEN, KENNETH W. CHURCH, VAIBHAVA GOEL, LIDIA L. MANGU, ETIENNE MARCHERET, BHUVANA RAMABHADRAN, LAURENCE P. SANSONE, ABHINAV SETHY, SAMUEL THOMAS
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Publication number: 20190147355Abstract: Machine logic for: (i) selecting a sampled word for use as a next word in a text stream; (ii) determining, by an algorithm, an expected future reward value for the sampled word using a test policy including a training policy and a test-time inference procedure; and (iii) normalizing a set of expected future reward estimate(s) using the expected future reward value for the sampled word.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Steven J. Rennie, Etienne Marcheret, Youssef Mroueh, Vaibhava Goel, Jarret Ross, Pierre L. Dognin
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Patent number: 10230922Abstract: A method of combining data streams from fixed audio-visual sensors with data streams from personal mobile devices including, forming a communication link with at least one of one or more personal mobile devices; receiving at least one of an audio data stream and/or a video data stream from the at least one of the one or more personal mobile devices; determining the quality of the at least one of the audio data stream and/or the video data stream, wherein the audio data stream and/or the video data stream having a quality above a threshold quality is retained; and combining the retained audio data stream and/or the video data stream with the data streams from the fixed audio-visual sensors.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Stanley Chen, Kenneth W. Church, Vaibhava Goel, Lidia L. Mangu, Etienne Marcheret, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Laurence P. Sansone, Abhinav Sethy, Samuel Thomas
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Patent number: 10204621Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes estimating a speaker dependent acoustic model utilizing test speech data and a hybrid estimation technique, transforming labeled speech data to create transformed speech data, utilizing the speaker dependent acoustic model and a nonlinear transformation, and adjusting a deep neural network (DNN) acoustic model, utilizing the transformed speech data.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Xiaodong Cui, Vaibhava Goel
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Patent number: 10204620Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes estimating a speaker dependent acoustic model utilizing test speech data and maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR), transforming labeled speech data to create transformed speech data, utilizing the speaker dependent acoustic model and a linear transformation, and adjusting a deep neural network (DNN) acoustic model, utilizing the transformed speech data.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Xiaodong Cui, Vaibhava Goel
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Patent number: 10181325Abstract: Aspects described herein are directed towards methods, computing devices, systems, and computer-readable media that apply scattering operations to extracted visual features of audiovisual input to generate predictions regarding the speech status of a subject. Visual scattering coefficients generated according to one or more aspects described herein may be used as input to a neural network operative to generate the predictions regarding the speech status of the subject. Predictions generated based on the visual features may be combined with predictions based on audio input associated with the visual features. In some embodiments, the extracted visual features may be combined with the audio input to generate a combined feature vector for use in generating predictions.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Etienne Marcheret, Josef Vopicka, Vaibhava Goel
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Patent number: 10109277Abstract: Methods and apparatus for using visual information to facilitate a speech recognition process. The method comprises dividing received audio information into a plurality of audio frames, determining for each of the plurality of audio frames, whether the audio information in the audio frame comprises speech from the foreground speaker, wherein the determining is based, at least in part, on received visual information, and transmitting the audio frame to an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine for speech recognition when it is determined that the audio frame comprises speech from the foreground speaker.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Etienne Marcheret, Josef Vopicka, Vaibhava Goel
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Publication number: 20180068655Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes estimating a speaker dependent acoustic model utilizing test speech data and a hybrid estimation technique, transforming labeled speech data to create transformed speech data, utilizing the speaker dependent acoustic model and a nonlinear transformation, and adjusting a deep neural network (DNN) acoustic model, utilizing the transformed speech data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2016Publication date: March 8, 2018Inventors: Xiaodong Cui, Vaibhava Goel