Patents by Inventor William Robert Pentney

William Robert Pentney 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: 20220277205
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for automated generation and use of a machine learning (ML) model to provide recommendations. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a recommendation specification that includes a content type and an outcome identifier, and determining model parameters for a ML model based on the recommendation specification. The method further includes generating a historical user feature matrix (FM), generating a historical content feature matrix (FM), and transforming the historical user FM and the historical content FM into a suitable format for the ML model. The method further includes obtaining a target dataset that includes historical results for the outcome identifier for a plurality of pairs of user identifiers and content items of the content type. The method further includes training the ML model using supervised learning to generate a ranked list of content items for each user identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Amplitude Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Bilal Mahmood, William Robert Pentney, Eric M Pollmann, Cynthia E Rogers, Mustafa Paksoy, Zachery Abe Miranda
  • Patent number: 10417334
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for providing a microdocument framework. The method and system includes receiving a plurality microdocuments and detecting content data for each of the plurality of microdocuments. The method and system further includes indexing at least a portion of the plurality of microdocuments based on the detected content and performing a searching operation using the content data associated with the microdocument data to determine a microdocument set. Thereupon, the method and system performs at least processing one operation on the microdocument set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Oath, Inc.
    Inventors: Su-Lin Wu, Wei-Cheng Lai, Timothy P. Daly, Jr., William Robert Pentney
  • Publication number: 20110258177
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for providing a microdocument framework. The method and system includes receiving a plurality microdocuments and detecting content data for each of the plurality of microdocuments. The method and system further includes indexing at least a portion of the plurality of microdocuments based on the detected content and performing a searching operation using the content data associated with the microdocument data to determine a microdocument set. Thereupon, the method and system performs at least processing one operation on the microdocument set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Su-Lin Wu, Wei-Cheng Lai, Timothy P. Daly, JR., William Robert Pentney