Veveo, Inc.

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Gruntworx, LLC

Girish S Welling

Murali Aravamudan

Sashikumar Venkataraman

Rakesh Barve

Manish Chugtu

Yuhang Zhao

Anmol Wadhwa

Sankar Ardhanari

Daren Gill

Depankar Neogi

Nirupam Sarkar

Steven Kif Ladd

Tushar Mahata

Vartika Singh

Lawrence Richard Rau

A method of inferring user intent in search input in a conversational interaction system is disclosed. A method of inferring user intent in a search input includes providing a user preference signature that describes preferences of the user, receiving search input from the user intended by the user to identify at least one desired item, and determining that a portion of the search input contains an ambiguous identifier. The ambiguous identifier is intended by the user to identify, at least in part, a desired item. The method further includes inferring a meaning for the ambiguous identifier based on matching portions of the search input to the preferences of the user described by the user preference signature and selecting items from a set of content items based on comparing the search input and the inferred meaning of the ambiguous identifier with metadata associated with the content items.

Method of and system for inferring user intent in search input in a conversational interaction system

A device can determine that a container is deployed in a front-end of a private network. The container can include a self-contained execution environment. The container can include an interface that is configured for directing network traffic between the front-end of the private network and one or more applications operating in a back-end of the private network. The device can configure an interface of the container for directing network traffic between an external network and the container. The device can configure a firewall of the front-end of the private network to permit routing of network traffic between the external network and the container. The device can advertise a route for directing network traffic between the external network and the container. The device can perform routing of network traffic between the one or more applications operating in the back-end of the private network and the external network using the container.

Container deployment for a network

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for selecting and presenting content items based on user input. The method includes receiving first input intended to identify a desired content item among content items associated with metadata, determining that an input portion has an importance measure exceeding a threshold, and providing feedback identifying the input portion. The method further includes receiving second input, and inferring user intent to alter or supplement the first input with the second input. The method further includes, upon inferring intent to alter the first input, determining an alternative query by modifying the first input based on the second input, and, upon inferring intent to supplement the first input, determining an alternative query by combining the first input and the second input. The method further includes selecting and presenting a subset of content items based on comparing the alternative query and metadata associated with the subset.

Method of and system for real time feedback in an incremental speech input interface

A device can receive a request to deploy a container to provide a service. The request can include information identifying a set of parameters associated with the container. The device can validate the request using the information identifying the set of parameters. The device can deploy the container on a back-end host. The back-end host can lack connectivity to an external network. The device can receive a first indication that the container was successfully deployed on the back-end host. The device can deploy a proxy container on a front-end host. The front-end host can have connectivity to the external network. The device can receive a second indication that the proxy container was successfully deployed on the front-end host. The device can provide a third indication. The third indication can indicate that the container was successfully deployed.

Configuring a back-end container and a corresponding front-end proxy container on a network device

A method of using conversation state information in a conversational interaction system is disclosed. A method of inferring a change of a conversation session during continuous user interaction with an interactive content providing system includes receiving input from the user including linguistic elements intended by the user to identify an item, associating a linguistic element of the input with a first conversation session, and providing a response based on the input. The method also includes receiving additional input from the user and inferring whether or not the additional input from the user is related to the linguistic element associated with the conversation session. If related, the method provides a response based on the additional input and the linguistic element associated with the first conversation session. Otherwise, the method provides a response based on the second input without regard for the linguistic element associated with the first conversation session.

Method of and system for using conversation state information in a conversational interaction system

In a document analysis system that receives and processes jobs from a plurality of users, in which each job may contain multiple electronic documents, to extract data from the electronic documents, a method of automatically pre-processing each received electronic document using a plurality of image transformation algorithms to improve subsequent data extraction from said document is provided. The method includes: electronically partitioning each received electronic document page into pieces; automatically processing each piece of the received electronic document page using each of a plurality of image pre-processing algorithms to produce a plurality of image variations of each piece; and analyzing the outputs of subsequent processing and data extraction, on each of the image variations of the pieces to determine which output is best, from the plurality of outputs for each piece.

Systems and methods for automatically processing electronic documents

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Girish S Welling