Ranking, Scoring, And Weighting Records Patents (Class 707/748)
  • Patent number: 10951560
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a method for ranking messages of conversation graphs in a messaging platform using predictive outcomes includes receiving, over a network, a conversation view request to retrieve messages of a conversation graph stored on a messaging platform, and determining, by the messaging platform, a plurality of predictive outcomes for each of a plurality of messages of the conversation graph using predictive models. The plurality of predictive outcomes includes a reciprocal engagement probability. The method includes ranking, by the messaging platform, the plurality of messages based on the predictive outcomes, and transmitting, by the messaging platform, over the network, at least a subset of the plurality of messages to be rendered on a client application according to the rank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Jain, Arvind Thiagarajan
  • Patent number: 10940065
    Abstract: An automated system and methods are provided for calibrating an accelerometer of a patient support apparatus using a load cell. The patient support apparatus includes a litter frame and a deck supported by the litter frame, movable between various angled positions. A patient support surface is arranged on the deck and configured to support a patient thereon. The patient support surface has at least one region configured to be disposed at an angular position. A load cell is provided, configured to generate load data including first and second load outputs detected at first and second trend angles with respect to a horizontal plane. An accelerometer is provided, configured to generate angle data including first and second angle outputs representative of the trend angles. A controller in communication with the load cell and the accelerometer determines an error in the angle data and calibrates the accelerometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: William Childs, Gary Bartley, Connor St. John
  • Patent number: 10942928
    Abstract: A selection of content from a content presentation is received. At least one topic from the selected content is extracted using natural language processing (NLP). The at least one topic is representative of a subject conveyed within the selected content. At least one perspective associated with the at least one topic is extracted using NLP. The at least one perspective is representative of a point of view conveyed within the selected content regarding the at least one topic. A topic rating of the extracted topics and associated perspectives is determined based upon the extracted topics and associated perspectives. The topic rating is representative of a topic diversity among the extracted topics and associated perspectives. The topic rating is presented within a graphical user interface (GUI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael S. Gordon, James R. Kozloski, Jonathan Lenchner, Clifford A. Pickover
  • Patent number: 10942955
    Abstract: According to a specific implementation manner that a questioning and answering system including a transaction node interacts with a user in the embodiments of the present invention, a quick call to an existing function or service can be realized, and by acquiring modification information for a set system component in the questioning and answering system, and correspondingly updating the questioning and answering system according to the modification information, the existing questioning and answering method based on a questioning and answering system, the existing method for generating the questioning and answering system, and the existing method for modifying the questioning and answering system are optimized, thereby improving efficiency and accuracy of questioning and answering, and improving generation efficiency and modification efficiency of the questioning and answering system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI XIAOI ROBOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Li, Zhongqiu Jiang, Yongmei Zeng, Pinpin Zhu
  • Patent number: 10929501
    Abstract: A query of spatial data is received by a database comprising a columnar data store storing data in a column-oriented structure. Thereafter, a spatial data set is mapped to physical storage in the database using a space-filling curve. The spatial data set is then compacted and such compacted data can be used to retrieve data from the database that is responsive to the query. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Gerrit Simon Kazmaier, Tobias Mindnich, Christoph Weyerhaeuser, Daniel Baeumges
  • Patent number: 10922492
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to assist an author in creating content variations of a given input text to better suit the mood or the affect preferences of the target audience. Affect distribution in the content is utilized to capture these psycholinguistic preferences. According to one embodiment, in a first phase the optimal/idea psycholinguistic preference for text content aimed at a particular audience segment is determined. In a second phase, a given text content is modified to align to a target language distribution, which was determined in the first phase. In one example case, word level replacement, insertions and deletions are executed to generate a modified and coherent version of the input text. The output text thus reflects the psycholinguistic requirements of the audience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Niyati Himanshu Chhaya, Tanya Goyal, Projjal Chanda, Kushal Chawla, Jaya Singh, Cedric Huesler
  • Patent number: 10915538
    Abstract: Methods of operating a search engine may include calculating multi-modal document vector models for each of a plurality of electronic documents, training category-specific, search query-specific ranking models with respective machine learning algorithms based on those document vector models, and applying each of those models to further instances of the same search query to rank the documents responsive to that search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Home Depot Product Authority, LLC
    Inventors: Rongkai Zhao, Rajdeep Mondal, Ravi Sambhu, Naveen Krishna
  • Patent number: 10915597
    Abstract: Methods and systems for ranking a plurality of articles for rendering on a website for a user account include receiving a request for accessing the website. Features are identified for the plurality of articles selected for rendering on the website. Each feature is associated with a value parameter having a value in a multi-dimensional vector space. A pair of solutions is identified for an article of the plurality of articles, wherein the pair of solutions identifies a portion of the multi-dimensional vector space that satisfies multiple objectives. A vector point defining the optimal solution is selected for the article from within the portion of the multi-dimensional vector space. The selected vector point is used in computing an article score for the article. The article score for the plurality of articles is used to identify and present a subset of the articles on the website for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.
    Inventors: Nikolay Laptev, Akshay Soni, Yashar Mehdad, Jeya Balaji Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 10915752
    Abstract: A processing platform may receive a plurality of images. The processing platform may determine respective asset types of the plurality of assets based on a computer vision technique. The processing platform may determine respective estimated values of the plurality of assets based on the respective asset types. The processing platform may provide information identifying the respective estimated values of the plurality of assets to two or more recipients. The processing platform may receive allocation information. The processing platform may determine a selected allocation of the plurality of assets for the two or more recipients based on the allocation information and using a second model. The processing platform may perform one or more actions based on the selected allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Sophie Bermudez, Alexandra Colevas, Michael Saia, Kaylyn Gibilterra, Sarah J. Cunningham, Salik Shah
  • Patent number: 10909442
    Abstract: At a network-accessible artificial intelligence service for generating content-based recommendations based on multi-perspective learned descriptors, text sections associated with a plurality of description perspectives, including a single-character perspective and a multi-character perspective, are extracted from various text sources. Using the text sections as input, a machine learning model which includes respective portions corresponding to the different perspectives is trained to reconstruct the input using intermediary descriptors learned from the input. An indication that a second text source is recommended with respect to a first text source is generated using a set of the learned descriptors and transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gyuri Szarvas, Alex Klementiev, Lea Frermann
  • Patent number: 10909187
    Abstract: A document processing method and device are provided. The method includes: acquiring a template of a standard format document, the template including folders having a hierarchical structure, generating folder labels corresponding to the folders on the basis of the folders, acquiring a document to be processed, generating a document label of the document to be processed on the basis of the document to be processed, determining whether there is a folder label matched with the document label of the document to be processed, and associating the document to be processed with the folder corresponding to the matched folder label in a case that there is the folder label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING DEEP INTELLIGENT PHARMA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Zhang, Zheng Guan
  • Patent number: 10909535
    Abstract: A method is described as implemented in a mobile device having a lock screen wallpaper, where, when the mobile device is at a business location, a user of the mobile device is authenticated non-invasively (e.g., utilizing the camera of the mobile device, using facial recognition, utilizing the camera of the mobile device and authenticating via facial recognition, etc.). Upon successful authentication, a scanning code is displayed over a lock screen wallpaper of the mobile device, where power is conserved in the mobile device by providing the scanning code without having to unlock the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: AVANT-GARDE IP LLC
    Inventor: Ramraj Soundararajan
  • Patent number: 10911539
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for managing shared content directory structure metadata stored on client devices. A method embodiment includes identifying a collaboration system that stores one or more content objects that are organized in accordance with a directory structure. Requests pertaining to the content objects are raised by processing entities running on the client device. The requests include instructions to retrieve one or more of multiple types of metadata associated with the directory elements that constitute the directory structure. Based on timing and patterns of requests pertaining to the content objects, a monitoring function detects unwanted runaway retrieval by a runaway process. To prevent further unwanted runaway retrieval of the metadata, the runaway process is blocked from continuing its pattern of unwanted (runaway) retrieval. The collaboration system is notified of characteristics of the runaway process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Advait D. Karande, Alok Ojha, Deepak Khajuria
  • Patent number: 10904347
    Abstract: Communication session data pertaining to a first user can be received during an electronic communication session in which the first user and at least a second user participate. The communication session data can be analyzed. Based on the analysis, a concentration level score of the first user can be determined. A contextual indicator indicating the concentration level score of the first user can be generated. The contextual indicator can be communicated to a second client device used by the second user. Communicating the first contextual indicator to the second client device can initiate the second client device to present, in a user interface used by the second user for the communication session, a first user interface element indicating the concentration level score of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Vishrawas Gopalakrishnan, Piyush Madan, Fang Lu
  • Patent number: 10904110
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to accumulate, for each user, satisfaction information that represents whether users who make requests are satisfied with responses received from service providing functions to the requests, to the memory. The processor is configured to identify, for each user, a service providing function from which each user receives a response that has a degree of satisfaction that meets a predetermined condition among the service providing functions based on the satisfaction information accumulated in the memory. The processor is configured to determine, for each user, the identified service providing function as a preferential service providing function that is preferentially used at a time of generating a response to a request from each user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Koichi Onoue
  • Patent number: 10904185
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for validating if an email address is a valid email address. The validation includes a combination of rules-based heuristics (e.g., non-existing domain name) and a validity score calculated by a machine-learning model. The machine-learning model makes predictions based on the training data set that includes historical information about email addresses. The information obtained from the rules and the validity score is combined to determine the probability that the email address is a valid email address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Kawai, Victor Andres Amin
  • Patent number: 10902005
    Abstract: Method and systems for parallel scoring an ensemble model are provided. Aspects include loading data into a first distributed data structure having a plurality of partitions, each partition having loaded data in the form of a set of pairs of data formed of a record to be scored and a partial score for that record. A component model in the ensemble model is selected and processing of the records carried out in parallel across the partitions including updating the partial score for each record. In response to a partial score for a record not meeting an accuracy threshold, the method retains the record in the first distributed data structure to be scored by a subsequent component model. In response to the partial score for a record meeting the accuracy threshold, the method moves the record and updated partial score to an output result data structure to provide a final score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Julian J. Clinton, Niall F. McCarroll, Lei Tian
  • Patent number: 10896229
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for computing features of structured data. Aspects of the invention include computing features of table components (e.g., of rows, columns, cells, etc.). Computed features can be used for ranking the table components. When aggregated, features for different components of a table can be used for ranking the table (e.g., a web table).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kanstantsyn Zoryn, Zhimin Chen, Kaushik Chakrabarti, James P. Finnigan, Vivek R. Narasayya, Surajit Chaudhuri, Kris Ganjam
  • Patent number: 10896224
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for determining and displaying a list of suggested search items for a search field based on prior user interaction. A suggestion curator provided at a client device can display a plurality of suggested search items to a user who is performing a search. The system can display the plurality of suggested search items in an order that is based on a rating associated with each item. The rating can be assigned to each search item upon its selection by the user, and adjusted in response to subsequent search item selections by the user. The system can be configured to adjust each rating by different amounts based on metadata describing how recently the search item was last selected by the user. The system can then re-order the plurality of suggested search items in accordance with the adjusted ratings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arjun Vade, Ashwin Prabhu
  • Patent number: 10891103
    Abstract: A music-based social networking application for computers and mobile devices displayed on a user interface that provides users with a variety of social networking tools and functions. The user interface displays media content shared by associated users on the user interface. The application allows users to pair their own video/photos to musical works available on any streaming source to share within the app or on external media outlets. The application connects data through the use of a server and media is either streamed from server-held content or an external streaming source. A user's social activity is stored in the server and music listening history in app or on external streaming source is made available to said user for later use. The application utilizes a proprietary algorithm that suggests music and users based on actual in app activity and music/media play history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: LOOK SHARP LABS, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Venti, Brian Karscig
  • Patent number: 10891019
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to methods and systems for providing a representative image for a search result in a search result listing of a searching system. At least one search result based on a search query is received. Each search result has a plurality of images. For each search result, a similarity score for at least some of the images is computed, based on a similarity with the search query. Then, at least one of the images is selected, on the basis of the similarity score, and the selected image is assigned as the representative image of the search result. A number of modification steps may be performed on the search result prior to computing the similarity score. The search result and assigned representative image may also be presented in a search result listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shane Anthony Bergsma
  • Patent number: 10885385
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing an image search training system. An embodiment operates by determining a query image on which to train an image search system, and a positive image visually similar to the query image. A set of negative images from a plurality of negative images visually dissimilar to the query image are selected, where the selected set of negative images includes both a first negative image and a second negative image. A first similarity measure between the first negative image and the positive image, and a second similarity measure between the second negative image and the positive image are calculated. The first negative image is selected based on the first similarity measure being less than the second similarity measure. The query image, the positive image, and the first negative image are provided to the image search system for training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Sohyeong Kim, Eduardo Vellasques, Urko Sanchez Sanz
  • Patent number: 10885070
    Abstract: A data search method for computer forensic investigation comprising: inputting at least one pre-determined search term; searching a computer or digital device that is powered on in a forensically sound state for data matching one or more of the pre-determined search terms to identify target data from any of file names; strings; hash values or hash functions; installed programs; MAC and IP addresses; and/or metadata; and categorising the target data according to a pre-determined list of categories, wherein the categories are different to the search term/s and; wherein the data search method simultaneously searches for target data and categories the target data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: MOBILE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS LIMITED
    Inventor: David O. W. Kirk
  • Patent number: 10885039
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for improving search results returned to a user from one or more search domains, utilizing query features learned locally on the user's device. A search engine can receive, analyze and forward query results from multiple search domains and pass the query results to a client device. A search engine can determine a feature by analyzing query results, generate a predictor for the feature, instruct a client device to use the predictor to train on the feature, and report back to the search engine on training progress. A search engine can instruct a first and second set of client devices to train on set A and B of predictors, respectively, and report back training progress to the search engine. A client device can store search session context and share the context with a search engine between sessions with one or more search engines. A synchronization system can synchronize local predictors between multiple client devices of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Hornkvist, Gaurav Kapoor
  • Patent number: 10885078
    Abstract: An apparatus and computer implemented method that include obtaining, into a computer, text of a patent, automatically finding and extracting, using the computer, a set of claim text from the patent text, identifying, using the computer, text of independent claims from the set of claim text, displaying in a first row on a computer monitor the text of the independent claims, automatically determining a plurality of preliminary scope-concept phrases from the text of the independent claims, displaying in a second row on the computer monitor the text of the plurality of preliminary scope-concept phrases, eliciting and receiving user input to specify a first one of the plurality of preliminary scope-concepts phrases, and highlighting each occurrence of the specified first one of the plurality of preliminary scope-concept phrases in a plurality of the independent claims displayed in the first row. A scope concept builder tool is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Black Hills IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Steven W. Lundberg
  • Patent number: 10877784
    Abstract: A virtual assistant receives a message including message content from a client device. The virtual assistant determines an intent to organize an event and initial parameters for the event based on the message content. The virtual assistant retrieves a set of messages related to the received message from a data store and refines the initial parameters based on the related messages. A set of potential recommendations is generated based on the refined event parameters and the virtual assistant selects one or more of the potential recommendations to surface to users. The selected recommendations are sent to the client device for presentation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Davide Testuggine, Wenhai Yang, Vivek Natarajan, Brett Charles Groel, Julia Framel, Laurent Nicolas Landowski, Brian Nelson
  • Patent number: 10877943
    Abstract: A system and method for data recovery of large datasets is provided. The method may include generating a first version of a dataset having a plurality of segments. The first version may be generated by collecting a plurality of data inputs from a plurality of computing devices and storing these in a map. The method may further include generating a first delta map corresponding to changes in the plurality of segments for a second version of the dataset, wherein the second version is one of a plurality of versions of the dataset generated after the first version. In addition, the method may include generating a second delta map corresponding to changes in the plurality of segments for all versions prior to the second version. Further, the method may include generating a recovered version of the dataset by summing the first version, the first delta map, and the second delta map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: VERITAS TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Mandar Upadhye
  • Patent number: 10878008
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing assistance to users by integrating social computing system with conversational user interface. In some cases, a user interacting with a virtual assistant of a conversational user interface provides input that the virtual assistant is not able identify a matching intent. As a result, the virtual assistant can leverage the social computing system to generate a new question based on the user input and post the question to the social computing system. Users of the social computing system can provide an answer, which the virtual assistant provides to the user in the conversational user interface. The social computing system can also generate a new intent for the virtual assistant to increase efficiency of the virtual assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Cannon, Igor A. Podgorny, Yason Khaburzaniya, Jeff W. Geisler
  • Patent number: 10878029
    Abstract: Techniques for incorporating social-network connections information into estimated user-ratings of videos for video recommendations are described. A user-rating that a user is likely to assign to a video is predicted based on first and second predictions. The first prediction is based on ratings assigned to the video by a first set of users who have rated other videos with ratings substantially similar to the user's ratings of the other videos. The second prediction is based on ratings assigned to the video by a second set of users who have established social-network connections with the user and who have rated at least one same video that the user has previously rated. Additionally, the estimated user-rating is added to additional estimated user-ratings of other videos for comparison, and top-rated videos are identified. Then, a notification is communicated via a client device of the user to recommend the top-rated videos to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Saayan Mitra, Viswanathan Swaminathan, Teng Xu
  • Patent number: 10880435
    Abstract: A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method for providing customer sentiment depiction. The system may receive customer information and session information and generate a customer sentiment estimate. The system may then receive an indication of a detected customer voice characteristic and generate an updated customer sentiment estimate that may be transmitted to a customer service terminal for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Xu Benjamin Fang, Lewis Wong
  • Patent number: 10873606
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a Cross-Border Visualization Generation System is configured to: (1) identify one or more data assets associated with a particular entity; (2) analyze the one or more data assets to identify one or more data elements stored in the identified one or more data assets; (3) define a plurality of physical locations and identify, for each of the identified one or more data assets, a respective particular physical location of the plurality of physical locations; (4) analyze the identified one or more data elements to determine one or more data transfers between the one or more data systems in different particular physical locations; (5) determine one or more regulations that relate to the one or more data transfers; and (6) generate a visual representation of the one or more data transfers based at least in part on the one or more regulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: OneTrust, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Blake Brannon, Bryan Patrick Kveen, Dylan D. Patton-Kuhl
  • Patent number: 10860627
    Abstract: A server, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for ranking a plurality of data sources are provided. The server includes a network interface, a memory storage unit and a processor. The method involves receiving an input query, identifying entities of the input query using conditional random fields, generating a normalized query and applying a support vector machine to the normalized query. The non-transitory computer readable medium is encoded with programming instructions to direct a processor to carry out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Kaheer Suleman
  • Patent number: 10860613
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an interface between repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities that seek access to the datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform that facilitates consolidation of one or more datasets, whereby a collaborative data layer and associated logic facilitate, for example, efficient access to, and implementation of, collaborative datasets. In some examples, a method may include receiving a dataset and dataset attributes and identifying a first version of the dataset. The method may include identifying data that varies from a first version of the dataset, and generating a second version of the dataset to include a first subset and a second subset of atomized data. The method may include storing subsets of atomized data points as an atomized dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: data.world, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryon Kristen Jacob, David Lee Griffith, Triet Minh Le, Jon Loyens, Brett A. Hurt, Arthur Albert Keen
  • Patent number: 10853429
    Abstract: A method of identifying domain-specific accounts is provided. A method may include identifying a plurality of candidate accounts based on a plurality of seed accounts. The method may further include identifying a subset of candidate accounts of the plurality of candidate accounts based on one more account statistics. Further, the method may include clustering each candidate account of the subset of candidate accounts into either a non-domain-specific cluster or a domain-specific cluster based on a plurality of account statistics. The method may also include updating, at least one of the plurality of candidate accounts and the plurality of seed accounts based on at least one of the non-domain-specific cluster and the domain-specific cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Wang, Kanji Uchino
  • Patent number: 10855785
    Abstract: In implementations of a participant engagement detection and control system for online sessions, a computing device implements a participant engagement system to monitor user actions of participants during an online session, and track engagement levels of the participants by mapping the user actions and content of the online session to a timeline of the online session. Engagement scores for the participants are determined based on the mapping of the user actions and the content at each time interval of the timeline. Low-engagement participants having a probability of dropping out of the online session are determined based on the engagement scores. Engaging content is selected as determined to increase an engagement level of the low-engagement participants, and the engaging content is communicated to the low-engagement participants. Furthermore, the engaging content and identifiers of the low-engagement participants can be communicated to a presenter of the online session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Ajay Jain, Sanjeev Tagra, Sachin Soni
  • Patent number: 10846181
    Abstract: A system includes reception, at a target database system, of a request to recover a backup created by a source database system into the target database system, where the request comprises a system identifier of the source database system, determination of a backup tool configuration file associated with the source database system based on the system identifier of the source database system, request of a recovery of the backup into the target database system using the backup tool configuration file, copying of a backup catalog of the source database system into a storage location associated with the target database system, and appending of a system change marker to the copied backup catalog, wherein the system change marker comprises the system identifier of the source database system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Andre Schefe, Bernd Vorsprach, Henrik Hempelmann, Martin E. Brunzema, Robin Wissbrock, Torsten Strahl
  • Patent number: 10848927
    Abstract: Formation of connected interest groups in communication threads is described. According to the computer-implemented method, a number of communications within a communication thread that reflect a similar sentiment related to a topic are detected. A level of connectedness of authors of a set of the number of communications is determined and a connected interest group is formed. The connected interest group includes authors with a level of connectedness greater than a predetermined threshold. An indication of the connected interest group is then provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan F. Brunn, Laura J. Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 10846353
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to dynamically selecting a radius threshold for a device. The system identifies, based on sensor data detected by a sensor of the device, a location of the device. The system generates a feature representation for each of a plurality of features based on a query input into the device, the location of the device, and a plurality of entity locations corresponding to the query. The system accesses a data structure storing optimum radii correlated with a presence of the plurality of features and a corresponding performance metric based on network activity. The system determines the radius threshold based on the optimum radii and the plurality of features. The system identifies an eligible entity location having a distance from the device that is within the radius threshold. The system selects, for display on the device, a content item for the eligible entity location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Shravan Rayanchu
  • Patent number: 10841257
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described to determine engagement scores representative of a level of engagement in a digital domain for a particular sub-category within the common category of entities on a social media platform. In accordance with these techniques, a computing system is configured to receive, from one or more client devices, messages composed by one or more users of the one or more client devices. Each of the messages includes a respective identifier, and each respective identifier is associated with a common category of entities. The computing system is further configured to determine, based on the messages, an engagement score that represents a level of engagement for a particular sub-category within the common category of entities. The computing system is further configured to output, for display at a display device operatively connected to the computing system, a visual representation of the engagement score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Bragdon
  • Patent number: 10838932
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method of cleansing data is provided that comprises determining a criticality score and a complexity score for identified attributes of an enterprise, wherein the criticality score represents a relevance of an attribute to one or more enterprise dimensions and the complexity score represents complexity of cleansing data for an attribute. The identified attributes for data cleansing based on the criticality and complexity scores are prioritized, and data of the identified attributes is cleansed in accordance with priority of the identified attributes. Embodiments further include a system, apparatus and computer readable media to cleanse data in substantially the same manner as described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Carl M. Marrelli, Ram S. Narayanan, Martin Oberhofer, Solmaz Rashidi
  • Patent number: 10831928
    Abstract: Methods and systems privatize a dataset while controlling discoverability of patterns of the dataset. In an embodiment, values are assigned to discoverable patterns of a dataset. Privacy constraints are determined to privatize the dataset. Pattern constraints are determined to preserve a first set of patterns of the dataset and to conceal a second set of patterns of the dataset. A model is generated to satisfy all of the privacy constraints and a subset of the pattern constraints that do not conflict with the privacy constraints, with minimal loss of data. The dataset is modified based on the model. Discoverable patterns of the modified database are determined from the subset of privacy constraints. And a monetary value of the modified dataset is determined based on the patterns that remain discoverable in the modified dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, Corville O. Allen
  • Patent number: 10831832
    Abstract: A digital content distribution system associated with disseminating discrete epochs of digital content based at least on creation of a zip span polygon region is disclosed. The system receives zip code information associated with a bounded geographical region of interest and a zip spanning distance related to the bounded geographical region of interest. The system determines longitude information values and latitude information values associated with coordinate boundary values of a portion of the zip code information based on the zip spanning distance. The system further determines at least one neighboring geographical region contiguous with the geographical region of interest using the longitude and latitude information values. A zip span polygon region is created that includes at least a portion of an initial zip span region associated with the geographical region of interest in order to disseminate the discrete epochs of the digital content in the digital content distribution system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Neighborcom, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Evseroff, Adam Feinberg
  • Patent number: 10831981
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer system provides a document for display in a non-browser application of a client device of a user associated with a social-networking system, wherein the application is associated with the social-networking system, a layout of the document corresponds to a first document template, and the document includes content items corresponding to elements, wherein each element is a container for a content item, and information corresponding to characteristics of users of the social-networking system. The computer system determines a characteristic associated with a user, wherein the characteristic is associated with a preferred layout based on a type of content item associated with each element. The computer system selects an alternate document template based on the characteristic, including a set of elements. The computer system provides the document with content items corresponding to the set of elements and configured in accordance with the alternate document template for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Paresh Jayant Rajwat, Asad K. Awan
  • Patent number: 10817521
    Abstract: An approach is provided for automatically predicting an event occurrence based on a question from an end user presented using a near-real-time natural language processing (NLP) analysis to generate, score and rank a plurality of event occurrences based on a plurality of question context parameters extracted from the question, one or more user profile parameters for the end user, and the one or more historical questions, answers, and events having a specified spatial and/or temporal proximity to the question which are identified by an information handling system. In the approach, performed by an information handling system, a top ranked event occurrence from the ranked plurality of event occurrences is selected for inclusion in a notification message that is communicated or broadcast to the end user, as well as other users engaged with the information handling system and/or first responders in the affected area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Swaminathan Chandrasekaran, Bharath Dandala, Lakshminarayanan Krishnamurthy, Alvin C. Richardson
  • Patent number: 10817813
    Abstract: A method of operating a resource configuration and project management system involves identifying, for a project, sandboxed task data and task parameters including project skill sets and project tools. The method configures a first selector with project skill sets to select at least one developer from a developer pool. The method configures a second selector with project tools to select at least one container including at least one set of programming functions from a container library. The method assigns at least one developer to a working task queue generated from the task parameters. The method configures the at least one container to operate as a sandboxed environment. The method authorizes the at least one developer to access the at least one container and the sandboxed task data within the sandboxed environment. The method monitors developer resources and computing resources during execution of the project by the selected at least one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Qlytics LLC
    Inventors: Brendan Reilly, Marco Buchbinder
  • Patent number: 10817565
    Abstract: A media content tagging system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor, and a system memory storing a tag selector software code configured to receive media content having segments, each segment including multiple content elements each associated with metadata tags having respective pre-computed confidence scores. For each content element, the tag selector software code assigns each of the metadata tags to at least one tag group, determines a confidence score for each tag group based on the pre-computed confidence scores of its assigned metadata tags, discards tag groups having less than a minimum number of assigned metadata tags, and filters the reduced number of tag groups based on the second confidence score to identify a further reduced number of tag groups. The tag selector software code then selects at least one representative tag group for a segment from among the further reduced number of tag groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Matthew Petrillo, Monica Alfaro, Pablo Beltran Sanchidrian, Marc Junyent Martin, Evan A. Binder, Anthony M. Accardo, Katharine S. Ettinger, Avner Swerdlow
  • Patent number: 10817340
    Abstract: An approach to improving system availability. Availability data for individual resources may be obtained from configuration templates and stored in an Availability Graph. The graph is traversed to calculate availability statistics at a grouped component and at an overall architecture level and grouping components level. Revisions may be made to enhance overall availability levels, and the revised Availability Graph can also be exported as an implementable configuration file. As a result, this solution provides a structured way to detect and resolve availability bottlenecks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Sungard Availability Services, LP
    Inventors: Alex Ough, Abayanathan Radhakrishnan, Gregory Cox, Robert Don Peterson, Jr., Navakiran Chitturi, Susan Clark, Jerrel T. Loeppke, Joshua Crowe
  • Patent number: 10810509
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence apparatus includes an input processor configured to convert input information to patterns, an analyzer configured to analyze the input information, a recorder configured to record the information, a controller configured to perform at least one of a development of a process according to a type of a sentences and an intention, a search for information and a logic development to solve a problem, an execution of a process and activating a program, a generalization of information and a procedure, an update to a better knowledge and a logic, a search and an arrangement of information about an interesting field and an item, recording and updating of information, connective relations and relationship, and a transition control between information to a goal and an output processor configured to convert the patterns to information or control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroaki Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10803106
    Abstract: A system with methodology for dynamic modular ontology. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises: receiving a command from an analyst to create a new ontology module; receiving, from the analyst, a selection of a first ontology module to import into the new ontology module; receiving, from the analyst, a selection of a second ontology module to import into the new ontology module; detecting an ambiguous data type definition conflict between a first definition of a data type in the first ontology module and a second definition of the data type in the second ontology module; generating a third definition of the data type reflecting a resolution of the ambiguous data type definition conflict; and storing, in a data container, the new ontology module comprising the third definition of the data type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Mitch Beard, Mike Glazer, Robin Lim, Joel Ossher, Youssef Moussaoui, Dathan Bennett, Javier Campanini, Agatha Yu, Mark Elliot, Steve Matuszek
  • Patent number: 10803256
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a translation management system include performing a source text collection and translation process. The source text collection and translation process includes collecting, from one or more applications, one or more source texts for translation. Source segments for translation are determined using the one or more source texts. Source text properties associated with the one or more source texts are provided to a machine learning engine. Translation performance requirement predictions associated with the plurality of source segments respectively are generated by the machine learning engine based on the source text properties. A plurality of translation requests associated with the plurality of source segments is provided by the machine learning engine based on the translation performance requirement predictions. One or more translated texts generated in response to executing the plurality of translation requests are received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Diego Lagunas