Patents by Inventor Wayne B. Shoumaker

Wayne B. Shoumaker 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: 20250315621
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums which provide summaries of topics determined within a corpus of documents. These summaries may be used by customer service associates, analysts, or other users to quickly determine both topics discussed and contexts of those topics over a large corpus of text. For example, a corpus of documents may be related to customer complaints and the topics may be summarized to produce summaries such as “credit report update due to stolen identity.” These summarizations may be used to efficiently spot trends and issues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2025
    Publication date: October 9, 2025
    Inventors: Rahul Singh, Karan Jindal, Yufei Yu, Hanyu Yang, Tarun Joshi, Matthew A. Campbell, Wayne B. Shoumaker
  • Patent number: 12361216
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums which provide summaries of topics determined within a corpus of documents. These summaries may be used by customer service associates, analysts, or other users to quickly determine both topics discussed and contexts of those topics over a large corpus of text. For example, a corpus of documents may be related to customer complaints and the topics may be summarized to produce summaries such as “credit report update due to stolen identity.” These summarizations may be used to efficiently spot trends and issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Rahul Singh, Karan Jindal, Yufei Yu, Hanyu Yang, Tarun Joshi, Matthew A. Campbell, Wayne B. Shoumaker
  • Patent number: 12288029
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for distillation of a natural language processing model. An example method includes receiving, by communications circuitry, a set of text data comprising a set of observations and predicting, by processing circuitry and using the NLP model, classifications for each observation in the text data. The example method further includes generating, by model training engine, a balanced sampled data structure based on the predicted classifications for each observation in the text data and training, by the model training engine, a surrogate model using the balanced sampled data structure. The example method further includes identifying, by an interpreter and from the surrogate model, a set of most-influential tokens in the text data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ye Yu, Harsh Singhal, Wayne B. Shoumaker
  • Patent number: 12229782
    Abstract: Disclosed is an example approach in which network and non-network features are used to train a predictive machine learning model that is implemented to predict financial crime and fraud. Graphical network features may be generated by applying financial entity risk vectors to a network model with representations of various types of networks. The network model may comprise transactional, non-social, and/or social networks, with edges corresponding to linkages that may be weighted according to various characteristics (such as frequency, amount, type, recency, etc.). The graphical network features may be fed to the predictive model to generate a likelihood and/or prediction with respect to a financial crime. A perceptible alert is generated on one or more computing devices if a financial crime is predicted or deemed sufficiently likely. The alert may identify a subset of the set of financial entities involved in the financial crime and present graphical representations of networks and linkages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Wayne B. Shoumaker, Harsh Singhal, Suhas Sreehari, Agus Sudjianto, Ye Yu
  • Publication number: 20240303435
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for distillation of a natural language processing model. An example method includes receiving, by communications circuitry, a set of text data comprising a set of observations and predicting, by processing circuitry and using the NLP model, classifications for each observation in the text data. The example method further includes generating, by model training engine, a balanced sampled data structure based on the predicted classifications for each observation in the text data and training, by the model training engine, a surrogate model using the balanced sampled data structure. The example method further includes identifying, by an interpreter and from the surrogate model, a set of most-influential tokens in the text data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Ye Yu, Harsh Singhal, Wayne B. Shoumaker
  • Publication number: 20240273293
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums which provide summaries of topics determined within a corpus of documents. These summaries may be used by customer service associates, analysts, or other users to quickly determine both topics discussed and contexts of those topics over a large corpus of text. For example, a corpus of documents may be related to customer complaints and the topics may be summarized to produce summaries such as “credit report update due to stolen identity.” These summarizations may be used to efficiently spot trends and issues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Rahul Singh, Karan Jindal, Yufei Yu, Hanyu Yang, Tarun Joshi, Matthew A. Campbell, Wayne B. Shoumaker
  • Patent number: 12019987
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for distillation of a natural language processing model. An example method includes receiving, by communications circuitry, a set of text data comprising a set of observations and predicting, by processing circuitry and using the NLP model, classifications for each observation in the text data. The example method further includes generating, by model training engine, a balanced sampled data structure based on the predicted classifications for each observation in the text data and training, by the model training engine, a surrogate model using the balanced sampled data structure. The example method further includes identifying, by an interpreter and from the surrogate model, a set of most-influential tokens in the text data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ye Yu, Harsh Singhal, Wayne B. Shoumaker
  • Patent number: 11972211
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums which provide summaries of topics determined within a corpus of documents. These summaries may be used by customer service associates, analysts, or other users to quickly determine both topics discussed and contexts of those topics over a large corpus of text. For example, a corpus of documents may be related to customer complaints and the topics may be summarized to produce summaries such as “credit report update due to stolen identity.” These summarizations may be used to efficiently spot trends and issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Rahul Singh, Karan Jindal, Yufei Yu, Hanyu Yang, Tarun Joshi, Matthew A. Campbell, Wayne B. Shoumaker
  • Publication number: 20230252480
    Abstract: Disclosed is an example approach in which network and non-network features are used to train a predictive machine learning model that is implemented to predict financial crime and fraud. Graphical network features may be generated by applying financial entity risk vectors to a network model with representations of various types of networks. The network model may comprise transactional, non-social, and/or social networks, with edges corresponding to linkages that may be weighted according to various characteristics (such as frequency, amount, type, recency, etc.). The graphical network features may be fed to the predictive model to generate a likelihood and/or prediction with respect to a financial crime. A perceptible alert is generated on one or more computing devices if a financial crime is predicted or deemed sufficiently likely. The alert may identify a subset of the set of financial entities involved in the financial crime and present graphical representations of networks and linkages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Wayne B. Shoumaker, Harsh Singhal, Suhas Sreehari, Agus Sudjianto, Ye Yu
  • Patent number: 11640609
    Abstract: Disclosed is an example approach in which network and non-network features are used to train a predictive machine learning model that is implemented to predict financial crime and fraud. Graphical network features may be generated by applying financial entity risk vectors to a network model with representations of various types of networks. The network model may comprise transactional, non-social, and/or social networks, with edges corresponding to linkages that may be weighted according to various characteristics (such as frequency, amount, type, recency, etc.). The graphical network features may be fed to the predictive model to generate a likelihood and/or prediction with respect to a financial crime. A perceptible alert is generated on one or more computing devices if a financial crime is predicted or deemed sufficiently likely. The alert may identify a subset of the set of financial entities involved in the financial crime and present graphical representations of networks and linkages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Wayne B. Shoumaker, Harsh Singhal, Suhas Sreehari, Agus Sudjianto, Ye Yu