Intuit Patent Grants

Metadata-driven binding of platform-agnostic content to platform-specific user-interface elements

Granted: April 16, 2024
Patent Number: 11960695
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates use of an application on an electronic device. During operation, the system obtains a first metadata definition containing a mapping of view components in a user interface of the application to a set of attribute-specific types associated with an attribute of the electronic device, and a second metadata definition containing a set of rules for binding the attribute-specific types to a set of platform-specific user-interface…

Deep neural network based user segmentation

Granted: April 9, 2024
Patent Number: 11954577
A computer-implemented method and system having computer-executable instructions stored in a memory for processing user behavior features by neural networks to identify user segments. The method includes receiving user datasets from a database along with respective user identifiers, retention labels, static user features and interactive user features associated with an online product during a time period. A first neural network processes the interactive user features to generate a time…

Structured query language query execution using natural language and related techniques

Granted: April 9, 2024
Patent Number: 11954102
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for executing structured query language queries having a schema associated therewith against an application programming interface using natural language. The schema can be chunked such that embeddings of the resulting chunks are stored in a vector store. Schemas (or subschemas) generated using on or more chunks of the vector store may be provided to a large language model along with a NL query to generate a structured query…

Machine learning based approach for recommending different categories of tax deductible expenses and related examples of tax deductible expenses for each category

Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number: 11948207
A method for automatically recommending to a user of a software application one or more categories of a plurality of different categories of tax deductible expenses includes providing input data to a trained machine learning model and receiving output from the trained machine learning model based on the input data. The output includes a recommendation for the user that includes (i) one or more categories of the plurality of different categories of tax deductible expenses; and (ii) a…

Efficient automatic web scraping systems and methods

Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number: 11947521
A processor may identify a plurality of data sets subject to upcoming update processing in a next update cycle. For each of the plurality of data sets, the processor may determine a probability that data included in the data set has changed since a most recent update processing. The processor may exclude a first subset of the plurality of data sets having respective probabilities below a threshold value from the upcoming update processing until the respective probabilities are determined…

Computer software program modularization and personalization

Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number: 11941412
A method of customizing a personal software program for a user, comprising collecting attributes of each of a plurality of users registered to access the personal software program, generating a plurality of user profiles based on the collected attributes of the users, monitoring the interactions or non-interactions of the users with a module of the personal software program, deriving a reference user profile from the plurality of user profiles, linking the module with the reference user…

Private categorization using shared keys

Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number: 11943342
A method implements private categorization using shared keys. The method includes selecting an encryption key, encrypting a transaction vector, generated from a transaction record, with the encryption key to generate an encrypted transaction vector, and receiving an encrypted category vector generated by a classifier model, corresponding to the encryption key, from the encrypted transaction vector. The method further includes decrypting a category from the encrypted category vector with…

Transactions over live media

Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number: 11943269
After a host client establishes a multimedia stream with a guest client, host data is received from a host application. A state machine is updated using the host data. The host application executes on the host client. Guest data is received from a guest application. The state machine is updated using the guest data. The guest application executes on the guest client. Transaction data is propagated between the host application and the guest application. The transaction data is presented…

Shareable and nested transactions on hash chains

Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number: 11941611
A method for using shareable and nested transaction on hash chains includes storing transaction data of a transaction of a hash chain. A lock block is appended to the hash chain. Appending the lock block includes setting a tail block identifier of the hash chain from a preceding tail block of a preceding transaction to the lock block. A data block is appended to the hash chain. Appending the data block includes setting the tail block identifier of the hash chain to the data block. The…

Generating a proactive alert for outdated scraping script

Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number: 11941072
A method and system that proactively generate alerts for updating a scraping script to avoid scraping script errors. A predetermined number of webpages targeted by the scraping script are randomly sampled. The scraping script is appended to each webpage in the sample. A structured list of text fragments across the webpages with the appended script is generated. At predetermined time intervals, a fresh set of webpages is sampled, the scraping script is appended to the webpages, and a new…

Automated database ownership attribution

Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number: 11941013
Systems and methods for automated techniques that generate queryable database table ownership attribution information in real-time. In addition to generating ownership attribution information, system and methods provide a novel framework for creating bi-partite graphs and generating insightful graph data.

Systems and methods for structuring data

Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number: 11940968
Systems and methods are provided to structure event description data.

Learning user actions to improve transaction categorization

Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number: 11935135
A method may include executing a baseline classifier on unreviewed transaction features of an unreviewed transaction record to obtain a baseline account identifier, and executing a comparison model on (i) an unreviewed transaction vector of the unreviewed transaction record and (ii) reviewed transaction vectors to obtain comparison scores. The reviewed transaction vectors may correspond to reviewed transaction records each having a user-approved account identifier. The method may further…

System and method for scheduling tasks

Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number: 11934984
A method comprising generating, during multiple user sessions of a first user with a software application, first clickstream data from the multiple user sessions, and extracting, from the first clickstream data, a first plurality of task instances of the first user performing a first plurality of tasks. The method also includes decomposing, from the first clickstream data, each task instance of the first plurality of task instances into a first plurality of steps to obtain a first…

Generating sentiment analysis of content

Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number: 11934778
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing sentiment analysis of content. In order to determine the overall sentiment of content, a request is received by a sentiment analyzer, which then identifies a content identification number and retrieves comments associated with the content identification number. The sentiment analyzer pre-processes the comments, which includes removing all personal identifying information from the comments. The sentiment analyzer…

Unified knowledge graphs

Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number: 11934456
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generating a unified knowledge graph. In one example, a method includes receiving entity data from a data source comprising a plurality of entities; forming a plurality of type-specific groups of entity data based on the received entity data; for each respective type-specific group of entity data of the plurality of type-specific groups of entity data; disambiguating the entity data within the respective type-specific group…

Similar cases retrieval in real time for call center agents

Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number: 11934439
Methods, computer systems and computer program product are provided for retrieving contextually relevant documents in near real time. When text data it's received from an application, the text data is processed through a text segmentation model to generate a set of documents. Each document corresponds to a segment of the text data. A first vector representation is generated for a first document of the set of documents. A machine learning process compares the first vector representation…

System and method for associating logs to repositories using source code

Granted: March 12, 2024
Patent Number: 11928462
A method includes receiving event strings from source code repositories, creating, for the source code repositories, digests of keywords, receiving log strings, and aggregating the log strings into a log group. The method further includes comparing the digests to the log group to generate scores, whereby the scores correlate the digests to the log group. The method further includes selecting a source code repository from the source code repositories according to the scores, and…

Automated user experience orchestration using natural language based machine learning techniques

Granted: March 12, 2024
Patent Number: 11928569
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for orchestrating a user experience using natural language input. A user experience is orchestrated within an ecosystem of features for which a plurality of corresponding tokens is defined. Natural language describing a desired user experience result is received by a user experience orchestrator. A sequence of tokens corresponding to operations belonging to an ecosystem of features which produce a correct result for the natural…