Patents by Inventor Yingjie ZHENG

Yingjie ZHENG 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).

  • DIGITAL ASSISTANT HANDLING OF PERSONAL REQUESTS
    Publication number: 20220343066
    Abstract: An example process includes at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory: receiving a natural language input including a user request; determining whether the user request corresponds to a personal request; in accordance with a determination that the user request does not correspond to a personal request: transmitting, by the electronic device, a representation of the user request to an external electronic device; and in accordance with a determination that the user request corresponds to a personal request: initiating, by the electronic device, a task based on the user request without transmitting the representation of the user request to the external electronic device; and providing a first result based on the initiated task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Karric KWONG, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Yingjie ZHENG
  • Named entity normalization in a spoken dialog system
    Patent number: 10839159
    Abstract: Systems and processes for processing natural language input are described. An example process for processing natural language input includes receiving a natural language input and determining a domain corresponding to the natural language input. The example process further includes, in accordance with determining the domain corresponding to the natural language input, determining, based on the natural language input, a first value for a first property of the domain and determining, based on a named entity model and the natural language input, a second value for the first property of the domain, where the second value defines a parameter for a task corresponding to the natural language input. The example process further includes performing the task based on the parameter and providing a result based on the performed task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao Yang, Deepak Muralidharan, Justine Kao, Lin Li, Mubarak Ali Seyed Ibrahim, John G. Keesling, AtishKumar Kothari, Yingjie Zheng
  • NAMED ENTITY NORMALIZATION IN A SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200104362
    Abstract: Systems and processes for processing natural language input are described. An example process for processing natural language input includes receiving a natural language input and determining a domain corresponding to the natural language input. The example process further includes, in accordance with determining the domain corresponding to the natural language input, determining, based on the natural language input, a first value for a first property of the domain and determining, based on a named entity model and the natural language input, a second value for the first property of the domain, where the second value defines a parameter for a task corresponding to the natural language input. The example process further includes performing the task based on the parameter and providing a result based on the performed task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Xiao YANG, Deepak MURALIDHARAN, Justine KAO, Lin LI, Mubarak Ali SEYED IBRAHIM, John G. KEESLING, AtishKumar KOTHARI, Yingjie ZHENG