Query Augmenting And Refining (e.g., Inexact Access) (707/5) Patents (Class 707/999.005)
  • Patent number: 11875382
    Abstract: A system and method are presented for customizing a software application for a target market. A request to access an application is received, by one or more computer servers, from a user. At least one of a preferred language of the user and a location of the user are determined by the one or more computer servers, and a target market is determined using the at least one of the preferred language of the user and the location of the user. The target market defines a language and a region. The application is rendered by the one or more computer servers by modifying at least one of a user interface of the application and a content of the application using the target market.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: James Carroll, Philip Davidson, Thyagarajan Lakshmanan
  • Patent number: 11874863
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for query expansion. The method comprises: a) receiving a current query having at least one search term; b) inputting the at least one search term of the current query to a set of one or more query expansion modules, wherein the query expansion modules are configured to predict expansion terms of input terms; c) receiving from the set of expansion modules candidate expansion terms of the search term; d) modifying the current query using at least part of the candidate expansion terms, resulting in a modified query having at least one modified search term, The method further comprises repeating steps b) to d) using the modified query as the current query, the repeating being performed until a predefined stopping criterion is fulfilled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ivan Girardi, Harold Douglas Dykeman, Andrea Giovannini, Adam Ivankay, Chiara Marchiori, Kevin Thandiackal, Mario Zusag
  • Patent number: 11875127
    Abstract: A method for estimating response relevance with respect to a received query includes receiving a set of user feedback items, a set of historical feedback data, and a set of context data, creating a user profile model according to the set of historical feedback data, wherein the user profile model indicates a weighting attribute based on the set of historical feedback data, weighting the set of user feedback items according to the created user profile model, creating a response relevance estimation model based on the weighted set of user feedback items, the received set of context data, and the received set of historical feedback data, and ranking one or more responses according to the created response relevance estimation model. The method may further include adjusting the user profile model and the response relevance estimation model responsive to receiving additional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruchi Mahindru, Xin Zhou, Martin Franz, Sinem Guven Kaya
  • Patent number: 11868343
    Abstract: A method utilizes data discovery to support visual analysis of datasets. A user selects a data source, and the method presents a natural language interface for analysis of the data source. A user specifies an incomplete natural language command directed to the data source, and the method correlates words in the incomplete natural language command with a data field in the data source. The method determines the data type of the data field and a range of data values for the data field. According to the data type and the range of data values, the method presents one or more autocompletion options for the incomplete natural language command. Each option includes respective text and a respective corresponding visual graphic. The user selects one of the autocompletion options, and the method forms a complete natural language command. The method then displays a data visualization according to the complete natural language command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Tableau Software, LLC
    Inventors: Vidya Raghavan Setlur, Md Enamul Hoque Prince, Dae Hyun Kim, Angel Xuan Chang
  • Patent number: 11869021
    Abstract: Segment valuation techniques usable in a digital medium environment are described. To do so, a segment valuation system first identifies the attributes that are significant in achievement of a desired metric (e.g., conversion) and then values segments based on those significant attributes. Attributes are selected from the trained model based on significance of those attributes towards achieving the desired metric. A valuation of a segment may then be calculated based on the valuations of these attributes. For example, inclusion of the selected attributes within a segment, and the valuations of those selected attributes, is then used by the segment valuation system to generate data describing a value of the segment towards achieving the metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Kourosh Modarresi, Jamie Mark Diner, Elizabeth T. Chin, Aran Nayebi
  • Patent number: 11868354
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium containing instructions for responding to a user-initiated query. One method includes logging data received through an input interface of a communication device, receiving the user-initiated query, and determining a context-based response to the user-initiated query based on the logged data stored in the at least one data base and a probability of a user of the communication device receiving the logged data stored in the at least one data base. The method also includes providing the context-based response in reply to the user-initiated query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Alejandro G. Blanco
  • Patent number: 11868414
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for generating contact suggestions for a user of a social network. A first score is computed for each one of the plurality of users, the first score being computed using an edge-weighted ranking algorithm based on the user graph. A second score is computed, using a machine learning model, for each user of the plurality of users, the second score of each user being, at least partially, based on the first score of said user, with the second score of each user being representative of a probability of a first user sending a connection request to said user. A ranked contact suggestion list of one or more users of the plurality of users is generated, the one or more users being ranked based on their respective second score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Leveau, Antoine Sinton
  • Patent number: 11870598
    Abstract: One example method includes hosting, by a video conference provider, a virtual expo; receiving, from a first client device associated with a first participant in the virtual expo, a request to enter a meeting with a second participant in the virtual expo; providing, to a second client device associated with the second participant, a notification of the request to enter the meeting; receiving, from the second client device, an approval of the request; and in response to receiving the approval, joining the first client device to a second virtual meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Pankaj Kumar Prasad
  • Patent number: 11868380
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for hierarchical categorical and sub-categorical topic modeling allowing, in response to a query in natural language, a set of results to be determined which are both semantically relevant to the user and diverse, by containing information complementary or adjacent to that of the query. Such a paradigm permits exploration and discovery of new topics and ideas in large collections of documents. In some embodiments, one or more non-negative matrix factorization (“NMF”) algorithms are applied in determining a hierarchical topic model including the semantically-related categories and sub-categories. The dataset may include authorized social media data collection, and machine learning techniques can optimize the generation of the topic model and/or the search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christina Pavlopoulou, Manish Gupta, Russ Thompson
  • Patent number: 11869044
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for interfacing a decision engine and a marketing engine in order to provide vendor-related data in response to decision-related data is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the system and method may include providing a decision engine on a user-accessible network, interfacing a marketing engine with the decision engine on the network; receiving a plurality of user inputs with the decision engine; processing decision-related data with the decision engine in accordance with the plurality of user inputs; sharing the decision-related data with the marketing engine; processing the decision-related data with the marketing engine; and transmitting vendor-related data via the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Four Charm Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Rawdon W. Kellogg
  • Patent number: 11868411
    Abstract: Improved crawling and curation of data and metadata from diverse data sources is described. In some embodiments, improvements are achieved by interpreting the context, vocabulary and relationships of data element, to enable relational data search capability for users. The user querying process is improved by systematic identification of the data objects, context, and relationships across data objects and elements, aggregation methods and operators on the data objects and data elements as identified in the curation process. User query suggestions and recommendations can be adjusted based on the context, relationships between the data elements, user profile, and the data sources. When the user query is executed, the query text is translated into an equivalent of one or more query statements, such as SQL or PostGre statements, and the query is performed on the identified data sources. Results are assembled to present the answer in a meaningful visualization for the user query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventor: Ramesh Panuganty
  • Patent number: 11860928
    Abstract: A method includes receiving input from a client at least partially specifying one or more characteristics, wherein the initial input includes a seed image and a natural language statement describing a desired change to the seed image; predicting one or more attributes of the seed image by operation of a neural network on the seed image; and parsing the natural language statement to identify desired changes to the one or more attributes of the seed image. The method also includes generating an interim target image by changing the one or more attributes of the seed image, according to the parsed natural language statement; selecting a set of images from an image database for output to the client, each of said set of images being determined to at least partially satisfy the one or more changed attributes of the seed image; and displaying the set of images to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaoxiao Guo, Hui Wu, Rogerio Feris
  • Patent number: 11860876
    Abstract: In order to improve the integrating of datasets, improved systems and methods for matching records from a first dataset and a second dataset are provided. Records from the first dataset and the second dataset that are associated with the same individuals are identified. The records are identified using a combination of Euclidean distance, Leviathan distance, and the application of one or more rules. Once the records that are associated with the same individuals are identified, the records can be combined in an integrated dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Monger
  • Patent number: 11861148
    Abstract: A method for rendering context based information on a user interface includes receiving a user request to extract the context based information from a database. The database includes a plurality of documents and the request includes at least one search criteria required to determine a context of the user request. The method includes generating a list of documents corresponding to the context of the user request and rendering on a viewing portion of the user interface the list of documents corresponding to the context of the user request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: AlphaSense Oy
    Inventors: Rajmohan Neervannan, Jaakko Kokko, Mathias Creutz
  • Patent number: 11860943
    Abstract: One example method includes receiving a query that recites a particular question for which a user who originated the query needs an answer, parsing the query to identify the question, identifying information that is responsive to the question, presenting the information to the user in a user-selectable form, and receiving, from the user, a selection of the information. In some cases, the information presented to the user may include one or more datasets, or one or more pipelines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Nicole Reineke, Hanna Yehuda, Stephen J. Todd, Aurelian Dumitru, Donagh A. Buckley
  • Patent number: 11860945
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus outputs answer information corresponding to inquiry information that is input. The information processing apparatus includes a memory and circuitry. The memory is configured to store a plurality of databases each having at least a first field and a second field. The circuitry is configured to: perform morphological analysis on the inquiry information, to divide the inquiry information into morphemes; perform a first matching process based on the morphemes and the first field of each of the plurality of databases, to determine whether to adopt the database as an extraction source from which the answer information is to be extracted; and perform a second matching process based on the morphemes and the first field of the database, which is determined to be adopted as the extraction source, to output, as the answer information, data in the second field corresponding to data in the first field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Takanori Mohri
  • Patent number: 11855905
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for a high availability solution (e.g., a network attached storage (NAS) solution) with address preservation during switchover. A first virtual machine is deployed into a first domain and a second virtual machine is deployed into a second domain of a computing environment. The first and second virtual machines are configured as a node pair for providing clients with access to data stored within an aggregate comprising one or more storage structures within shared storage of the computing environment. A load balancer is utilized to manage logical interfaces used by clients to access the virtual machines. During switchover, the load balancer preserves an IP address used to mount and access a data share of the aggregate used by a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Busick, Rajesh Rajaraman, James Silva
  • Patent number: 11856045
    Abstract: Computing and communication systems and methods include one or more servers communicatively coupled with a computing device through a telecommunications network. In implementations one or more data stores are communicatively coupled with the server(s). One or more user interfaces displayed on the computing device display a website provided by the server(s) and accessed using a browser. A file selector is displayed on the website. The file selector corresponds with a file that may already reside on the computing device and/or on a file share accessible by the computing device. The file selector is configured to initiate opening of the file locally on the computing device without necessarily downloading a copy of the file through the browser. The systems and methods may automatically initiate calls and/or texts on non-cell phones (e.g., desk phones, turret type phones and/or VOIP phones) in response to selection of a phone number displayed on a website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Breezeway Logic LLC
    Inventor: Brian Robert Lara
  • Patent number: 11853359
    Abstract: Systems and methods for multi-object reporting in a content management system. A report type definition may define which objects are involved and how they are related. A report execution engine may generate a multi-object query language statement to translate the report type definition into query language. A query language execution engine may break the query language statement down into separate single pieces. A cost optimization engine may determine if it is cost efficient to join the objects. An indexed access execution engine may extract unique IDs of the objects and join the unique IDs to generate an index. A Lucene based search engine may be accessed according to the index, and the response is post processed to generate a multi-object report. A case management controller may receive a case narrative for an adverse event in the storage device, and store the case narrative to the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Veeva Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Marius K. Mortensen, Andrew James Mitchell, Scott Immel, Sheeba Padmanabhan, John Peberdy, Piotr Kuchnio
  • Patent number: 11854570
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, method, and computer readable medium are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communicator, and a controller. The controller, based on a first voice input being received, controls the communicator to receive data including first response information corresponding to the first voice input from a server, and outputs the first response information on a display, and based on a second voice input being received, controls the communicator to receive data including second response information corresponding to the second voice input from the server, and outputs the second response information on the display. Based on whether the second voice input is received within a predetermined time from a time corresponding to the output of the first response information, whether a use of utterance history information is identified, and the second response information is displayed differently based on whether the second voice input is received within the predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-hye Chung, Cheong-jae Lee, Hye-jeong Lee, Yong-wook Shin
  • Patent number: 11854035
    Abstract: A method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for providing a reward through a reward account connected to a player. A reward providing method includes connecting, by processing circuitry, a plurality of reward accounts registered by a user on a player, the player being installed on an electronic device, determining, by the processing circuitry, an analysis result based on content playback information, the content playback information corresponding to content output through the player, and providing, by the processing circuitry, a reward through a first reward account among the plurality of reward accounts based on the analysis result, the reward corresponding to the content output through the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LINE PLUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hyeong Jun Yu
  • Patent number: 11853323
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for join operations of a plurality of relations that are distributed over a plurality of storage locations over a network of computing components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Zukowski, Allison Waingold Lee, Philipp Thomas Unterbrunner
  • Patent number: 11853703
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for receiving a plurality of comments at a particular phase of a transaction with a member of a networked system, classifying one or more of the plurality of comments into one of a set of predetermined sentiment classifications, applying a trained machine learning system to select a category from a set of predefined categories for each of the one or more comments, applying a natural language processing module to generate a sub-category for each of the one or more comments, associating the generated sub-categories with their respective categories for the one or more comments, and generating a display of the determined categories for the particular transaction with the generated sub-categories, each generated sub-category being graphically connected to their respective categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Don Kumudu Janaka Ranatunga, Marie Michelle Rhea Foster, Brandon An Lai, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Jason Diran, Canran Xu
  • Patent number: 11847659
    Abstract: Methods and system for a unique coding framework used to create, manage and track instructions for documentation and dissemination of instructions, indicate a particular association or activate a given process. In one example, the present disclosure relates to the online publishing of documentation to demonstrate relationships of parties and compliance with regulatory and other requirements. The present disclosure uses URL hyperlinks, badges, watermarks, icons and visual displays that are representative of a given function and that may be identified by reference of unique coding structure. The present disclosure relates to the publishing and display of relevant visual codes or images for viewing by members of the public, (human readable) as well as machines. The present disclosure enables the tracking and measurement of uses of coded representations in public or private channels. Structured hyperlink codes allow brief messages to be sent in shortened form to instruct or deliver messages or processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: CMP.LY, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Ari Chernaik, Kristopher Wayne Smith, James Edward Graham
  • Patent number: 11847994
    Abstract: A smart window device includes: a window that is transparent and displays an effect image; a request receiver that receives, from a user, a stop request or a change request for the display of the effect image; a data acquirer that acquires effect image data indicating the effect image reflecting a preference of the user learned based on a length of time from a start of displaying the effect image until the request receiver receives the stop request or the change request and a type of an object; and a controller that: when a sensor detects the object, determines the type of the object based on a detection result of the sensor, selects an effect image to be displayed on the window from among the effect image data, based on the type of the object determined, and causes the effect image to be displayed on the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masaki Yamauchi, Nanami Fujiwara, Kaoru Murakami
  • Patent number: 11847151
    Abstract: A method of disambiguating user intent in conversational interactions for information retrieval is disclosed. The method includes providing access to a set of content items with metadata describing the content items and providing access to structural knowledge showing semantic relationships and links among the content items. The method further includes providing a user preference signature, receiving a first input from the user that is intended by the user to identify at least one desired content item, and determining an ambiguity index of the first input. If the ambiguity index is high, the method determines a query input based on the first input and at least one of the structural knowledge, the user preference signature, a location of the user, and the time of the first input and selects a content item based on comparing the query input and the metadata associated with the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Veveo, Inc.
    Inventors: Murali Aravamudan, Rakesh Barve, Sashikumar Venkataraman, Vineet Agarwal, Abhijit Savarkar, Ganesh Ramamoorthy, Ahmed Nizam Mohaideen Pathurudeen, K China Srinivasulu Reddy
  • Patent number: 11847116
    Abstract: Disclosed are a distributed database preprocessing method, a database proxy layer, a system and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The distributed database preprocessing method, applied to a database proxy layer, may include: receiving a request corresponding to a prepared statement; and performing processing according to the request corresponding to the prepared statement and a session identifier cached in a prepared statement cache library, a session corresponding to the session identifier cached in the prepared statement cache library is a prepared statement session where a connection is successfully established between a client and a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11847949
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining time information of a target area, determining a first color of a digital clock based on the time information, where the digital clock displays a time in a screen-off state, and displaying the digital clock on a display screen of a terminal device when the terminal device is in the screen-off state, where the first color is a second color when the time displayed by the digital clock is a first moment, where the first moment is in a first time interval, where the first color is a third color when the time displayed by the digital clock is a second moment, where the second moment is in a second time interval, where the first time interval is different from the second time interval, and where the second color and the third color are different colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liwei Huang, Misu Jung, Yan Wang, Zhiyan Yang
  • Patent number: 11847123
    Abstract: The disclosure relates generally to knowledge retrieval using ontology-based context matching. Conventional knowledge retrieval methods and systems are based on generative context that is modeled loosely as some meta data annotations. The meta data annotations do not provide sufficient semantic basis for meaningful context matching, compromising safety aspect. Other typical systems are designed such that the context is encoded into knowledge elements themselves, thus matching is too strict and the knowledge can only be used in contexts that match exactly, compromising the reuse aspect. The disclosed method and system explicitly models the context in which knowledge is generated, and matches the problem context with the generative context of knowledge, with respect to the underlying domain ontology, to assess the degree of similarity between the two, which then provides the basis for ranking the suitability of different knowledge elements for the problem context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Sushant Shrinivas Vale, Raghavendra Reddy Yeddula, Sreedhar Sannareddy Reddy
  • Patent number: 11848101
    Abstract: A method includes defining model attributes of a machine model that organizes feedback data into topic groups based on similarities in concepts in the feedback data. The model attributes include a topic model number that defines how many topic groups are to be created, a hyperparameter optimization alpha value, and/or a hyperparameter optimization beta value. The method also includes generating the machine model using the model attributes that are defined and the feedback data, and applying the machine model to the feedback data to divide different portions of the feedback data into the different topic groups based on contents of the feedback data, the topic model number, the hyperparameter optimization alpha value, and/or the hyperparameter optimization beta value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Pritesh J. Shah, Christopher R. Markson, Logan R. Meltabarger
  • Patent number: 11842143
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product is provided for generating a detailed thumbnail and/or preview of a content. In one embodiment the technique comprises analyzing data obtained from a content and classifying it according to a plurality of specific types. A plurality of key information may be then extracted from the data according to the classification. A plurality of key-values are correlated to the plurality of key information so as to provide a plurality of key-value pairs. These pairs are consolidated accordingly to generate a thumbnail and/or a preview that at least renders the key information provided by the consolidated key-value pairs as a rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Rui Li, Zai Ming Lao, Ye Chen, Xue Lan Zhang, Xue Xu
  • Patent number: 11841849
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a database platform receives a query that is directed at least in part to external data in an external table stored on a data storage platform that is external to the database platform. The external table includes a plurality of partitions. The database platform identifies, from external-table metadata, a subset of the plurality of partitions of the external table as including data that potentially satisfies the query. The external-table metadata is stored by the database platform. The database platform identifies data that satisfies the query by scanning the identified subset of the partitions, and responds to the query at least in part with the identified data that satisfies the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Subramanian Muralidhar, Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Nileema Shingte, Saurin Shah, Torsten Grabs, Istvan Cseri
  • Patent number: 11842377
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, text is received at an ecommerce service from a first user, the text in a first language and pertaining to a first listing on the ecommerce service. Contextual information about the first listing may be retrieved. The text may be translated to a second language. Then, a plurality of text objects, in the second language, similar to the translated text may be located in a database, each of the text objects corresponding to a listing. Then, the plurality of text objects similar to the translated text may be ranked based on a comparison of the contextual information about the first listing and contextual information stored in the database for the listings corresponding to the plurality of text objects similar to the translated text. At least one of the ranked plurality of text objects may then be translated to the first language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventor: Yan Chelly
  • Patent number: 11841864
    Abstract: An active layer of the index includes a first shard group, and shards in the first shard group are configured to store indexes of a part of data objects in a streaming storage system. In response to determining that the state of the first shard group meets a predetermined expansion condition, a second shard group is created in the index, and shards in the second shard group are configured to store indexes of data objects that will enter the storage system. The storage system is managed based on the shards in an active layer (where the second shard group is located) and frozen layers (where the second shard group) in the index. The number of shards in the storage system can be dynamically set to process streaming data at a relatively high speed, and it is suitable for processing streaming data that continuously enters the storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Pengfei Su, Lingling Yao
  • Patent number: 11842533
    Abstract: The disclosed techniques in artificial intelligence include at least a system and a computer-implemented method for performing a predictive search that compensates for a misclassification. For example, the system can set a user-defined classification of a physical characteristic of the user and retrieve an image captured by a camera device. The system can aggregate binary feedback data submitted by authorized users about the image, predict a classification for the physical characteristic by processing the image with a machine learning (ML) process, and search a database based on a query, which has criteria that includes an indication of the aggregate binary feedback data, the user-defined classification, the predicted classification, and/or data indicative of the user's feedback. The system can then identify a search result that satisfies the query and cause a user device to display a recommendation that includes the search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventor: Cha-Lin Simmons
  • Patent number: 11842279
    Abstract: Certain aspects provide a method for determining a solution to a combinatorial optimization problem, including: determining a plurality of subgraphs, wherein each subgraph of the plurality of subgraphs corresponds to a combinatorial variable of the plurality of combinatorial variables; determining a combinatorial graph based on the plurality of subgraphs; determining evaluation data comprising a set of vertices in the combinatorial graph and evaluations on the set of vertices; fitting a Gaussian process to the evaluation data; determining an acquisition function for vertices in the combinatorial graph using a predictive mean and a predictive variance from the fitted Gaussian process; optimizing the acquisition function on the combinatorial graph to determine a next vertex to evaluate; evaluating the next vertex; updating the evaluation data with a tuple of the next vertex and its evaluation; and determining a solution to the problem, wherein the solution comprises a vertex of the combinatorial graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Changyong Oh, Efstratios Gavves, Jakub Mikolaj Tomczak, Max Welling
  • Patent number: 11844000
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a number of field devices provided in a plant and a mobile device that acquires data from the field devices. The mobile device includes a data management unit that manages the field devices that are grouped for each plant area and a processing unit that acquires data using wireless communication from, out of the field devices managed by the data management unit, the field devices provided in the plant area selected by user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jason Kurniawan
  • Patent number: 11836141
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the disclosure include: submitting, by a processing device, a plurality of queries to a database associated with an application, wherein each query of the plurality of queries comprises a request for one or more records from the database; determining a period of time for executing each query of the plurality of queries; and executing each query of the plurality of queries, wherein executing each query comprises returning a set of portions of the one or more records within the period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Arie Bregman, David Sariel
  • Patent number: 11830486
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for identifying a failed hotword attempt. A method includes: receiving first audio data; processing the first audio data to generate a first predicted output; determining that the first predicted output satisfies a secondary threshold but does not satisfy a primary threshold; receiving second audio data; processing the second audio data to generate a second predicted output; determining that the second predicted output satisfies the secondary threshold but does not satisfy the primary threshold; in response to the first predicted output and the second predicted output satisfying the secondary threshold but not satisfying the primary threshold, and in response to the first spoken utterance and the second spoken utterance satisfying one or more temporal criteria relative to one another, identifying a failed hotword attempt; and in response to identifying the failed hotword attempt, providing a hint that is responsive to the failed hotword attempt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Victor Carbune
  • Patent number: 11829396
    Abstract: The disclosed search engine and search engine system apply a variety of criteria to find specific information within a full-text dataset, even when its user cannot recall the exact text or exact spelling of the desired information. The criteria cause retrieval of text not only when the sequence of words in the query matches the sequence of words in the text identically but also when the difference between sequences is that one of the words in a sequence is missing, added, replaced, or replaced with a synonymous word or a word having phonetic similarity. Another criterion is that the two words in the query sequence differ in order from the two words in the text sequence to be retrieved. The above criteria are applied after stop list words are disregarded. The search engine accordingly enables a user to find text more easily in large full-text datasets by inexact text searching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: WIZSOFT LTD.
    Inventors: Abraham Meidan, Oren Zbeda, Assaf Avrahami, Shira Cohen
  • Patent number: 11830593
    Abstract: Computerized systems and methods facilitate searches by identifying instances in which search input is an ambiguous query and resolving the ambiguous query. The search system identifies ambiguous queries by querying a common data store prior to querying a patient database. More particularly, when the search system receives search input entered into a search tool, the search system queries the common name data store before querying the patient database to determine if the search input matches a common name and is an ambiguous query. If so, the search system may provide a notification to the user to indicate the search input is an ambiguous query with a common name and prompt the user to enter additional search criteria. In some instances, the search system may prevent a search from being performed on the patient database if the search input matches a common name until additional search criteria is entered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Cannon, Charles Donnici, Tanner Marvin, Joshua Brasel
  • Patent number: 11830606
    Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting risk for a medical event associated with evaluating or treating a patient for a disease are provided. Input medical imaging data and patient data of a patient are received. The input medical imaging data includes abnormality patterns associated with a disease. Imaging features are extracted from the input medical imaging data using a trained machine learning based feature extraction network. One or more of the extracted imaging features are normalized. The one or more normalized extracted imaging features and the patient data are encoded into features using a trained machine learning based encoder network. Risk for a medical event associated with evaluating or treating the patient for the disease is predicted based on the encoded features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Puneet Sharma, Ingo Schmuecking, Sasa Grbic, Dorin Comaniciu
  • Patent number: 11829875
    Abstract: An information processing device, an information processing method, a computer readable storage medium are provided. The information processing device comprises processing circuitry configured to: construct, for each of a plurality of indexes, a sample unit set for the index based on a plurality of minimum labeled sample units related to the index which are obtained and labeled from an original sample set; and extract, for at least a part of the constructed plurality of sample unit sets, a minimum labeled sample unit from each sample unit set, and generate a labeled training sample based on the extracted minimum labeled sample unit. A sample unit set is constructed based on minimum labeled sample units that are labeled manually, and a labeled training sample is generated automatically based on such sample unit sets, thereby generating the labeled training sample automatically to a certain degree, and reducing manual participation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuangfei Zhou, Fei Cao
  • Patent number: 11829424
    Abstract: Discovering second-order documents and latent custodians in an e-discovery system is provided. A list of first-order documents and document custodians within a base state of the e-discovery system are identified based on a plurality of terms corresponding to a meet and confer practice for a legal matter instance. The plurality of terms is masked within the first-order documents. The first-order documents having the plurality of terms masked are divided into groups. A list of second-order documents is generated from a group of documents. A list of second-order document custodians is generated based on corresponding custodian relationships to second-order documents. Finally, each second-order document custodian in the list of second-order document custodians that has a corresponding rank exceeding a defined rank threshold level is identified as an official document custodian in the e-discovery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Roger C. Raphael, Rajesh M. Desai, Nazrul Islam, Magesh Jayapandian, Jojo Joseph
  • Patent number: 11831618
    Abstract: An indication that data packets of personal data that correspond to data packet types for data categories are approved for transfer between user accounts via the personal data sharing platform is provided. A first data packet identifying first personal data that is related to a first user of the first user account is received. The first data packet includes first personal data values that correspond to first attributes specified by a first data packet type and that have been individually encrypted at first user account. Whether the first data packet satisfies a condition that the first data packet include data values for each of the first attributes specified by the first data packet type for a first data category is determined. Responsive to determining that the first data packet satisfies the condition, the individually encrypted first personal data values and the corresponding first attributes are stored at a data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Tartle PBC
    Inventors: Alexander Ramsay McCaig, Jonathan Shelon
  • Patent number: 11822607
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes receiving forecast information from sales people in a computer. The method further includes receiving comments on specific entries of the forecast information from non-sales people in the computer. The method also includes receiving changes of the forecast information from the non-sales people in the computer. The method additionally includes providing a display of the comments and the changes to the sales people in an interface to the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Ignite Enterprise Software Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Kim Orumchian, Art Stabenow, Dean Skelton, David Petiot
  • Patent number: 11822574
    Abstract: A system for providing an artificially-intelligent graph database is disclosed. The graph database has significant graph computing capabilities, which are facilitated through the integration of artificial intelligence into the graph database. The capabilities are enabled through the use of unique artificially-intelligent agents that are each responsible for a subgraph of a graph of the graph database. Each artificially-intelligent agent performs computations on the graph-structured data in each subgraph that each agent is responsible for managing. The artificially-intelligent agents may work cohesively together to provide artificial intelligence capabilities to the entire graph database. The graph database may optimize itself through intelligent local management by using the agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Graphen, Inc.
    Inventors: Hal J. Cooper, Ching-Yung Lin, Danny Lo-Tien Yeh, Matthieu L. Gavaudan
  • Patent number: 11822532
    Abstract: A database system operates by: receiving a user-generated secondary indexing hint data for a dataset from a client device, wherein the client device generated the user-generated hint data based on user input in response to at least one prompt displayed by an interactive interface displayed via a display device of the client device; generating a plurality of segments that each include distinct subsets of a plurality of rows of a dataset; automatically selecting, for each of the plurality of segments, a secondary indexing scheme from a plurality of secondary indexing options based on the user-provided secondary indexing hint data; generating a plurality of secondary indexes for each of the plurality of segments in accordance with the corresponding secondary indexing scheme; and storing the plurality of segments and the plurality of secondary indexes in memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Ocient Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Greg R. Dhuse, Daniel Coombs
  • Patent number: 11825041
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an input device, an operation device, and a control device. The control device functions as a controller. The controller accepts an input of a plurality of topic words through the operation device, recognizes, upon acceptance of input of images of a plurality of pages of the original document through the operation device, a character string in the image of each of the plurality of pages of the original document, makes a determination of whether or not the character string contains at least one of the plurality of input topic words, and classifies the respective images of the plurality of pages of the original document on basis of the individual topic word based on results of the determination for the individual pages of the original document by collecting the images of the pages of the original document containing the same topic word into one group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Jovin Jimenez
  • Patent number: 11822512
    Abstract: A graphical user interface allows a customer to specify delimiters and/or patterns that occur in event data and indicate the presence of a particular field. The graphical user interface applies a customer's delimiter specifications directly to event data and displays the resulting event data in real time. Delimiter specifications may be saved as configuration settings and systems in a distributed setting may use the delimiter specifications to extract field values as the systems process raw data into event data. Extracted field values are used to accelerate search queries that a system receives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventor: Jesse Miller