Patents by Inventor William Blum

William Blum 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: 20250068667
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of generating verification data for a query result provided by a large language model, LLM, includes generating a prompt for the large language model. The prompt contains a verification request for a query, the query including query text and input data from which the query result can be derived. The verification request includes instructions that cause the LLM to generate verification data that indicates a derivation of the query result from the input data. Another computer-implemented method includes receiving the verification data and processing the verification data to determine whether the query result was validly derived from the input data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: William Blum, Amir Hossein ABDI, Martin FONTAINE
  • Patent number: 12197486
    Abstract: The technology described herein determines whether a candidate text is in a requested class by using a generative model that may not be trained on the requested class. The present technology may use of a model trained primarily in an unsupervised mode, without requiring a large number of manual user-input examples of a label class. The may produce a semantically rich positive example of label text from a candidate text and label. Likewise, the technology may produce from the candidate text and the label a semantically rich negative example of label text. The labeling service makes use of a generative model to produce a generative result, which estimates the likelihood that the label properly applies to the candidate text. In another aspect, the technology is directed toward a method for obtaining a semantically rich example that is similar to a candidate text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mohit Sewak, Ravi Kiran Reddy Poluri, William Blum, Pak On Chan, Weisheng Li, Sharada Shirish Acharya, Christian Rudnick, Michael Abraham Betser, Milenko Drinic, Sihong Liu
  • Publication number: 20240428007
    Abstract: Machine learning models are used to generate a plan that responds to a user request. The plan includes one or more skills selected from a list of available skills. The prompt may be written in natural language, enabling the user to express their intent without having to know which skills are available or their intricacies. In some configurations, a skill is included in the plan if an embedding representation of an example prompt associated with the skill is within a defined distance of an embedding representation of the user request. Additionally, or alternatively, the embedding distance computations are used to narrow the list of available skills, which is then used to construct a meta-prompt that selects a skill. Skills listed in the meta-prompt may include data types of parameters and return values. This allows the model that processes the meta-prompt to order skills based on data type compatibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Amir H. ABDI, Nitin Kumar GOEL, Daniel Lee MACE, William BLUM
  • Publication number: 20240419803
    Abstract: A computing system assists in large language model system assisted investigations. The computing system includes network connection hardware configured to connect to a large language model and configured provide to investigation context and investigation goals to the large language model system. The network connection receives from the large language model system, an indication of suggested steps to perform in an investigation, including specific computer executable code to perform a skill in the first step, the skill comprising a supplemental access, analytic or enrichment function. The computing system includes a user interface with a tree interface that causes display of the indication of the suggested steps in a tree format. The computing system is configured to execute the computer executable code to cause the computer system to perform the supplemental access, analytic or enrichment function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: William BLUM, Martin Jean FONTAINE, Sébastien Martin DIOTTE
  • Publication number: 20240411797
    Abstract: A large language model consumes example query expressions, including a data access function, a data analytics function, or a data enrichment function. The large language model receives a centrally managed ontology. The large language model uses the centrally managed ontology, and identifies skill ontological types from the example query expressions. The skill ontological types are normalized (to the centrally managed ontology) input arguments types or structured output. The large language model receives context for an investigation and identifies a context ontological type. The large language model receives received skills, based on correlation between a skill ontological type, having connections in a graph to the received skills, and the context ontological type. The large language model produces and provides an indication of a suggested skill for the investigation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: William BLUM, Sébastien Martin DIOTTE, Martin Jean FONTAINE, Edward Richard SOBEY, Tal Joseph MAOR, Shruti RANJIT, Richard DONAGHY, Michal EZRETS GIL, Cory James CLOWES, Emily Maria MAKEDON, Ross Kingsley WILYMAN
  • Publication number: 20240370484
    Abstract: The technology described herein determines whether a candidate text is in a requested class by using a generative model that may not be trained on the requested class. The present technology may use of a model trained primarily in an unsupervised mode, without requiring a large number of manual user-input examples of a label class. The may produce a semantically rich positive example of label text from a candidate text and label. Likewise, the technology may produce from the candidate text and the label a semantically rich negative example of label text. The labeling service makes use of a generative model to produce a generative result, which estimates the likelihood that the label properly applies to the candidate text. In another aspect, the technology is directed toward a method for obtaining a semantically rich example that is similar to a candidate text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Mohit SEWAK, Ravi Kiran Reddy Poluri, William Blum, Pak On Chan, Weisheng Li, Sharada Shirish Acharya, Christian Rudnick, Michael Abraham Betser, Milenko Drinic, Sihong Liu
  • Publication number: 20240256948
    Abstract: In some examples, a method for orchestrating an execution plan is provided. The method includes receiving an input embedding that is generated by a machine-learning model and receiving a plurality of stored semantic embeddings, from an embedding object memory, based on the input embedding. The plurality of stored semantic embeddings each correspond to a respective historic plan. Each historic plan includes one or more executable skills. The method further includes determining a subset of semantic embeddings from the plurality of stored semantic embeddings based on a similarity to the input embedding, and generating a new plan based on the subset of semantic embeddings and the input embedding. The new plan may be different than the historic plans that correspond to the subset of semantic embeddings. The method further includes providing the new plan as an output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Leo Moreno BETTHAUSER, William BLUM, Andrew W. WICKER, Eric Paul DOUGLAS, Lloyd Geoffrey GREENWALD, Nicholas BECKER
  • Publication number: 20240070270
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of generating a security language query from a user input query includes receiving, at a computer system, an input security hunting user query indicating a user intention; selecting, using a trained machine learning model and based on the input security hunting query, an example user security hunting query and corresponding example security language query; generating, using the trained machine learning model, query metadata from the input security hunting query; generating a prompt, the prompt comprising: the input security hunting user query; the selected example user security hunting query and the corresponding example security language query; and the generated query metadata; inputting the prompt to a large language model; receiving a security language query from the large language model corresponding to the input security hunting query reflective of the user intention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Lee MACE, William BLUM, Jeremias EICHELBAUM, Amir RUBIN, Edir V. GARCIA LAZO, Nihal Irmak PAKIS, Yogesh K. ROY, Jugal PARIKH, Peter A. BRYAN, Benjamin Elliott NICK, Ram Shankar Siva KUMAR
  • Publication number: 20220414137
    Abstract: The technology described herein determines whether a candidate text is in a requested class by using a generative model that may not be trained on the requested class. The present technology may use of a model trained primarily in an unsupervised mode, without requiring a large number of manual user-input examples of a label class. The may produce a semantically rich positive example of label text from a candidate text and label. Likewise, the technology may produce from the candidate text and the label a semantically rich negative example of label text. The labeling service makes use of a generative model to produce a generative result, which estimates the likelihood that the label properly applies to the candidate text. In another aspect, the technology is directed toward a method for obtaining a semantically rich example that is similar to a candidate text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Mohit SEWAK, Ravi Kiran Reddy POLURI, William BLUM, Pak On CHAN, Weisheng LI, Sharada Shirish ACHARYA, Christian RUDNICK, Michael Abraham BETSER, Milenko DRINIC, Sihong LIU
  • Patent number: 10659326
    Abstract: A user interface (UI) may be used to introduce a message into the cloud computing network. The message may be received by a service associated with the cloud computing network. The message may trigger the service to generate data in response to receiving the message. The generated data may include temporal data that includes the date and time data specifying when the message was received by the service. The generated temporal data may be forwarded to a telemetry store associated with the cloud computing network. A user or report generating operator portal may generate a report that includes the generated temporal data. The generated report may be used to determine if the service associated with the cloud computing network is functioning properly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Marc Victor Greisen, Cheick Omar Keita, Stanislav Tishkin, Marina Polishchuk, Senthil Kumaran Chandran, William Blum
  • Patent number: 10635476
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods can be implemented to perform software testing or to perform emulated hardware testing using a cloud architecture that can utilize centralized testing technology and can enable scaling up to test for multiple tenants and scaling up to arbitrary numbers of programs tested for each tenant. A user can configure an initial test virtual machine on a cloud platform for a cloud service over a physical network such as the Internet. Components of the cloud architecture can create a set of clones of the initial test virtual machine and inject tools into each clone for testing. Testing of one or more clones of the set can be conducted in an environment isolated from the physical network and isolated from a backend of the cloud service. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: William Blum, Patrice Godefroid, David Molnar
  • Patent number: 10452526
    Abstract: Techniques for constrained mutation-based fuzzing are described. Machine accesses an input file of code for testing. Machine performs multiple runs of a fuzzing algorithm using the input file and the code. Each run includes: performing a mutation of one or more bytes of the input file and determining which parts of the code were executed when the code was run with the mutated input file. Machine stores, for each run, an indication of whether the mutation caused execution of a portion of the code which was not executed prior to the mutation, Machine generates heatmap of the input file based on the stored indications. The heatmap maps each of the bytes in the input file to a value indicating whether the mutation of the byte caused execution of the portion of the code for testing which was not executed prior to the mutation. Machine tailors fuzzing algorithm based on heatmap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mohit Rajpal, William Blum, Rishabh Singh
  • Publication number: 20190132223
    Abstract: A user interface (UI) may be used to introduce a message into the cloud computing network. The message may be received by a service associated with the cloud computing network. The message may trigger the service to generate data in response to receiving the message. The generated data may include temporal data that includes the date and time data specifying when the message was received by the service. The generated temporal data may be forwarded to a telemetry store associated with the cloud computing network. A user or report generating operator portal may generate a report that includes the generated temporal data. The generated report may be used to determine if the service associated with the cloud computing network is functioning properly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Marc Victor GREISEN, Cheick Omar KEITA, Stanislav TISHKIN, Marina POLISHCHUK, Senthil Kumaran CHANDRAN, William BLUM
  • Publication number: 20180365139
    Abstract: Techniques for constrained mutation-based fuzzing are described. Machine accesses an input file of code for testing. Machine performs multiple runs of a fuzzing algorithm using the input file and the code. Each run includes: performing a mutation of one or more bytes of the input file and determining which parts of the code were executed when the code was run with the mutated input file. Machine stores, for each run, an indication of whether the mutation caused execution of a portion of the code which was not executed prior to the mutation, Machine generates heatmap of the input file based on the stored indications. The heatmap maps each of the bytes in the input file to a value indicating whether the mutation of the byte caused execution of the portion of the code for testing which was not executed prior to the mutation. Machine tailors fuzzing algorithm based on heatmap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Mohit Rajpal, William Blum, Rishabh Singh
  • Publication number: 20180329788
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods can be implemented to perform software testing or to perform emulated hardware testing using a cloud architecture that can utilize centralized testing technology and can enable scaling up to test for multiple tenants and scaling up to arbitrary numbers of programs tested for each tenant. A user can configure an initial test virtual machine on a cloud platform for a cloud service over a physical network such as the Internet. Components of the cloud architecture can create a set of clones of the initial test virtual machine and inject tools into each clone for testing. Testing of one or more clones of the set can be conducted in an environment isolated from the physical network and isolated from a backend of the cloud service. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: William Blum, Patrice Godefroid, David MoInar
  • Patent number: D825570
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer, Houtan Farahani, Stephen Jayanathan, Christine Laliberte, Matthew William Blum, Ari Parsons Miller, David P. Tarkington, Edward T. Sweet, Derryk Davis
  • Patent number: D874464
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer, Houtan Farahani, Stephen Jayanathan, Christine Laliberte, Matthew William Blum, Ari Parsons Miller, David P. Tarkington, Edward T. Sweet, Derryk Davis
  • Patent number: D893496
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer, Houtan Farahani, Stephen Jayanathan, Christine Laliberte, Matthew William Blum, Ari Parsons Miller, David P. Tarkington, Edward T. Sweet, Derryk Davis
  • Patent number: D926764
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer, Houtan Farahani, Stephen Jayanathan, Christine Laliberte, Matthew William Blum, Ari Parsons Miller, David P. Tarkington, Edward T. Sweet, Derryk Davis
  • Patent number: D1049116
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bartley K. Andre, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Matthew William Blum, Houtan R. Farahani, Stephen Jayanathan