Patents by Inventor Vickey Chang

Vickey Chang 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: 11934290
    Abstract: Certain aspects involve providing automated performance monitoring of statistical models. For example, a processing device is used for performing a statistical analysis on information in an archive to extract historical data, scores, and attributes. The processing device calculates performance metrics based at least in part on the historical data, scores, and attributes. The processing device pre-calculates summary performance data based at least in part on the performance metrics. The summary performance data is stored in files with predefined layouts, which are stored in a non-transitory, computer-readable medium. Segmented data is presented from a file to a user through a graphical user interface (GUI). In some aspects, various reports of the segmented data are presented interactively by detecting a selection by the user of a segmentation and displaying the corresponding segmented data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Equifax Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Wang, Vickey Chang, Jeffrey Feng
  • Publication number: 20230325724
    Abstract: Certain aspects involve updating data structures to indicate relationships between attribute trends and response variables used for training automated modeling systems. For example, a data structure stores data for training an automated modeling algorithm. The training data includes attribute values for multiple entities over a time period. A computing system generates, for each entity, at least one trend attribute that is a function of a respective time series of attribute values. The computing system modifies the data structure to include the generated trend attributes and updates the training data to include trend attribute values for the trend attributes. The computing system trains the automated modeling algorithm with the trend attribute values from the data structure. In some aspects, trend attributes are generated by applying a frequency transform to a time series of attribute values and selecting, as trend attributes, some of the coefficients generated by the frequency transform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Jeffrey Q. OUYANG, Vickey CHANG, Rupesh PATEL, Trevis J. LITHERLAND
  • Patent number: 11715029
    Abstract: Certain aspects involve updating data structures to indicate relationships between attribute trends and response variables used for training automated modeling systems. For example, a data structure stores data for training an automated modeling algorithm. The training data includes attribute values for multiple entities over a time period. A computing system generates, for each entity, at least one trend attribute that is a function of a respective time series of attribute values. The computing system modifies the data structure to include the generated trend attributes and updates the training data to include trend attribute values for the trend attributes. The computing system trains the automated modeling algorithm with the trend attribute values from the data structure. In some aspects, trend attributes are generated by applying a frequency transform to a time series of attribute values and selecting, as trend attributes, some of the coefficients generated by the frequency transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: EQUIFAX INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Q. Ouyang, Vickey Chang, Rupesh Patel, Trevis J. Litherland
  • Publication number: 20230148083
    Abstract: Certain aspects involve providing automated performance monitoring of statistical models. For example, a processing device is used for performing a statistical analysis on information in an archive to extract historical data, scores, and attributes. The processing device calculates performance metrics based at least in part on the historical data, scores, and attributes. The processing device pre-calculates summary performance data based at least in part on the performance metrics. The summary performance data is stored in files with predefined layouts, which are stored in a non-transitory, computer-readable medium. Segmented data is presented from a file to a user through a graphical user interface (GUI). In some aspects, various reports of the segmented data are presented interactively by detecting a selection by the user of a segmentation and displaying the corresponding segmented data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Zhenyu WANG, Vickey CHANG, Jeffrey FENG
  • Publication number: 20230100730
    Abstract: Certain aspects involve evaluating modeling algorithms whose outputs can impact machine-implemented operating environments. For instance, a computing system generates, from a comparison of a set of estimated attribute values of an attribute to a set of validation attribute values of the attribute, a discretized evaluation dataset with data values in multiple categories. The computing system computes, for a modeling algorithm used to generate the estimated attribute values, an evaluation metric. The computing system provides a host computing system with access to the evaluation metric, one or more modeling outputs generated with the modeling algorithm, or both. Providing one or more of these outputs to the host computing system can facilitate modifying one or more machine-implemented operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Lefei LIU, Peter LIU, Jiawei LIU, Peter GAO, Vickey CHANG
  • Patent number: 11521020
    Abstract: Certain aspects involve evaluating modeling algorithms whose outputs can impact machine-implemented operating environments. For instance, a computing system generates, from a comparison of a set of estimated attribute values of an attribute to a set of validation attribute values of the attribute, a discretized evaluation dataset with data values in multiple categories. The computing system computes, for a modeling algorithm used to generate the estimated attribute values, an evaluation metric. The computing system provides a host computing system with access to the evaluation metric, one or more modeling outputs generated with the modeling algorithm, or both. Providing one or more of these outputs to the host computing system can facilitate modifying one or more machine-implemented operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: EQUIFAX INC.
    Inventors: Lefei Liu, Peter Liu, Jiawei Liu, Peter Gao, Vickey Chang
  • Patent number: 11507489
    Abstract: Certain aspects involve providing automated performance monitoring of statistical models. For example, a processing device is used for performing a statistical analysis on information in an archive to extract historical data, scores, and attributes. The processing device calculates performance metrics based at least in part on the historical data, scores, and attributes. The processing device pre-calculates summary performance data based at least in part on the performance metrics. The summary performance data is stored in files with predefined layouts, which are stored in a non-transitory, computer-readable medium. Segmented data is presented from a file to a user through a graphical user interface (GUI). In some aspects, various reports of the segmented data are presented interactively by detecting a selection by the user of a segmentation and displaying the corresponding segmented data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: EQUIFAX INC.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Wang, Vickey Chang, Jeffrey Feng
  • Patent number: 10970431
    Abstract: An automated model development tool can be used for automatically developing a model (e.g., an analytical model). The automated model development tool can perform various automated operations for automatically developing the model including, for example, performing automated operations on variables in a data set that can be used to develop the model. The automated operations can include automatically analyzing the predictor variables. The automated operations can also include automatically binning (e.g., combining) data associated with the predictor variables to provide monotonicity between the predictor variables and one or more output variables. The automated operations can further include automatically reducing the number of predictor variables in the data set and using the reduced number of predictor variables to develop the analytical model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: EQUIFAX INC.
    Inventors: Vickey Chang, Jeffrey Ouyang, Wei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200218629
    Abstract: Certain aspects involve providing automated performance monitoring of statistical models. For example, a processing device is used for performing a statistical analysis on information in an archive to extract historical data, scores, and attributes. The processing device calculates performance metrics based at least in part on the historical data, scores, and attributes. The processing device pre-calculates summary performance data based at least in part on the performance metrics. The summary performance data is stored in files with predefined layouts, which are stored in a non-transitory, computer-readable medium. Segmented data is presented from a file to a user through a graphical user interface (GUI). In some aspects, various reports of the segmented data are presented interactively by detecting a selection by the user of a segmentation and displaying the corresponding segmented data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Yujun CHEN, Zhenyu WANG, Vickey CHANG, Jeffrey FENG
  • Publication number: 20200134387
    Abstract: Certain aspects involve evaluating modeling algorithms whose outputs can impact machine-implemented operating environments. For instance, a computing system generates, from a comparison of a set of estimated attribute values of an attribute to a set of validation attribute values of the attribute, a discretized evaluation dataset with data values in multiple categories. The computing system computes, for a modeling algorithm used to generate the estimated attribute values, an evaluation metric. The computing system provides a host computing system with access to the evaluation metric, one or more modeling outputs generated with the modeling algorithm, or both. Providing one or more of these outputs to the host computing system can facilitate modifying one or more machine-implemented operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Lefei LIU, Peter LIU, Jiawei LIU, Peter GAO, Vickey CHANG
  • Publication number: 20180285780
    Abstract: Certain aspects involve updating data structures to indicate relationships between attribute trends and response variables used for training automated modeling systems. For example, a data structure stores data for training an automated modeling algorithm. The training data includes attribute values for multiple entities over a time period. A computing system generates, for each entity, at least one trend attribute that is a function of a respective time series of attribute values. The computing system modifies the data structure to include the generated trend attributes and updates the training data to include trend attribute values for the trend attributes. The computing system trains the automated modeling algorithm with the trend attribute values from the data structure. In some aspects, trend attributes are generated by applying a frequency transform to a time series of attribute values and selecting, as trend attributes, some of the coefficients generated by the frequency transform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffrey Q. Ouyang, Vickey Chang, Rupesh Patel, Trevis J. Litherland
  • Publication number: 20180075175
    Abstract: An automated model development tool can be used for automatically developing a model (e.g., an analytical model). The automated model development tool can perform various automated operations for automatically developing the model including, for example, performing automated operations on variables in a data set that can be used to develop the model. The automated operations can include automatically analyzing the predictor variables. The automated operations can also include automatically binning (e.g., combining) data associated with the predictor variables to provide monotonicity between the predictor variables and one or more output variables. The automated operations can further include automatically reducing the number of predictor variables in the data set and using the reduced number of predictor variables to develop the analytical model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Vickey Chang, Jeffrey Ouyang, Wei Zhang