Intuit Patent Grants

Automatic identification of clear text secrets

Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number: 11853453
A processor may receive clear text data. The processor may represent at least a portion of the clear text data as at least one array encoding a description of at least one feature of the clear text data. The processor may process the at least one array using a clustering algorithm to determine whether the at least one array is grouped with a benign cluster or a sensitive cluster of a model. In response to determining that the at least one array is grouped with the sensitive cluster, the…

Applying transactional locks in distributed transactions

Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number: 11853448
The present disclosure provides techniques for recommending vendors using machine learning models. One example method includes generating a dependency graph based on one or more microservices, computing, for each microservice of the one or more microservices, a complexity score using the dependency graph, identifying a subset of the one or more microservices, wherein each microservice in the subset of the one or more microservices has a complexity score meeting a threshold value, and…

Ensemble model for entity resolution in matching problems using classification, subarea, NLP and subarea NLP machine learning models

Granted: December 12, 2023
Patent Number: 11842155
Systems and methods for matching entities to target objects using an ensemble model are disclosed. The ensemble model includes a general trained machine learning (ML) model (which is trained using the entirety of a training dataset) and a subarea trained ML model (which is trained using a subset of the training dataset corresponding to a specific, defined subarea) that provides potential matches to a meta-model of the ensemble model to generate a final match. The ensemble model may also…

System and method for spatial encoding and feature generators for enhancing information extraction

Granted: December 5, 2023
Patent Number: 11837002
A system and method for extracting data from a piece of content using spatial information about the piece of content. The system and method may use a conditional random fields process or a bidirectional long short term memory and conditional random fields process to extract structured data using the spatial information.

Machine learning pipeline for document image quality detection and correction

Granted: December 5, 2023
Patent Number: 11836972
A computing system receives, from a client device, an image of a content item uploaded by a user of the client devices. The computing system divides the image into one or more overlapping patches. The computing system identifies, via a first machine learning model, one or more distortions present in the image based on the image and the one or more overlapping patches. The computing system determines that the image meets a threshold level of quality. Responsive to the determining, the…

Preprocessor training for optical character recognition

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11830263
A method includes executing a Optical Character Recognition (OCR) preprocessor on training images to obtain OCR preprocessor output, executing an OCR engine on the OCR preprocessor output to obtain OCR engine output, and executing an approximator on the OCR preprocessor output to obtain approximator output. The method further includes iteratively adjusting the approximator to simulate the OCR engine using the OCR engine output and the approximator output, and generating OCR preprocessor…

Dynamically restricting social media access

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11831645
This disclosure relates to restricting access in a social network. The social network stores profile information for each of a plurality of users of the social network in a database. The social network receives, from a first user of the social network, a request to invite a second user to establish a connection with the first user. The social network transmits, to the first user, one or more questions pertaining to the profile information of the second user. The social network receives,…

Bi-directional federation link for seamless cross-identity SSO

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11831633
A federation link is used to facilitate bi-directional identity federation between software applications. The federation link is created to include user and account identity information for software applications having respective authentication providers. The federation link is created by one of the software applications and shared, for example, with the authentication provider of the other software application. The federation link can be utilized by both software applications to…

Time aware self-attentive models for personalized conversational messages

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11831588
Systems and methods for personalizing messages in a conversational chatbot are disclosed. An example method may include receiving clickstream event data corresponding to click events by users of an application, generating featurized clickstream data based at least in part on the received clickstream event data, determining one or more predicted intentions for a first user based at least in part on the featurized clickstream data, and generating one or more personalized messages for the…

End to end trainable document extraction

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11830264
A processor may receive an image and identify a plurality of characters in the image using a machine learning (ML) model. The processor may generate at least one word-level bounding box indicating one or more words including at least a subset of the plurality of characters and/or may generate at least one field-level bounding box indicating at least one field including at least a subset of the one or more words. The processor may overlay the at least one word-level bounding box and the…

User categorization of transactions at moment-of-sale using mobile payments

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11829975
The invention relates to a method for allowing users to categorize transactions at moment-of-sale using mobile payments. The method includes detecting a transaction performed on a mobile device. The method further includes prompting, a user of the mobile device to provide a categorization of the transaction as a business transaction or a personal transaction, where the transaction is categorized by the user contemporaneously with the transaction being detected by the FMA interface. The…

Classifying organizations based on transactional data associated with the organizations

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11829894
A method for classifying organizations involves obtaining, for an unknown organization, transactional data representing a multitude of transactions. The transactional data comprises a descriptive text for each of the multitude of transactions. The method further involves processing the descriptive text for each of the multitude of transactions to obtain one vector representing the unknown organization, categorizing the unknown organization using a classifier applied to the vector, and…

System and method for hierarchical deep semi-supervised embeddings for dynamic targeted anomaly detection

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11829866
A method and system distinguish between anomalous members of a majority group and members of a target group. The system and method utilize a neural network architecture that attends to each level of a classification hierarchy. The system and method chain a semi-supervised autoencoder with a supervised classifier neural network. The autoencoder is trained in a semi-supervised manner with a machine learning process to identify user profile data that are typical of a majority class. The…

Image-based document search using machine learning

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11829406
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for image-based document search. Embodiments include receiving an image of a document and providing the image of the document as input to a machine learning model, where the machine learning model generates separate embeddings of a plurality of patches of the image of the document and the machine learning model generates an embedding of the image of the document based on the separate embeddings of the plurality of patches. Embodiments…

System and method for identifying questions of users of a data management system

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11829388
Systems and methods are disclosed. An example method may be performed by one or more processors of a system and include retrieving case data indicating, for each respective case of a number of cases, one or more documents retrieved to assist a system user associated with the respective case, generating, from the case data, a case matrix including a plurality of rows each corresponding to a respective case of the number of cases and a plurality of columns each corresponding to the…

Methods and systems for generating problem description

Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11822891
A computing system identifies an incoming voice call from a user device to an agent device associated with the computing system. The computing system generates a transcription of the incoming voice call using one or more natural language processing techniques. The computing system extracts a problem description from the transcription. The problem description indicates a topic for the incoming voice call. A first machine learning model estimates a situation vector from the problem…

Scoring potential actions for machine learning based recommendations

Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11822563
Systems and methods for scoring potential actions are disclosed. An example method may be performed by one or more processors of a system and include training a machine learning model based at least in part on a sequential database and retention data, identifying an action subsequence executed by a user, generating, for each of a plurality of potential actions, using the machine learning model, a first value indicating a probability that the user will execute the potential action…

Retrieval of frequency asked questions using attentive matching

Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11822544
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for FAQ retrieval. Embodiments include receiving, via a user interface of a computing application, a query related to a subject. Embodiments include generating a first multi-dimensional representation of the query. Embodiments include obtaining a plurality of question and answer pairs related to the subject and, for a given question and answer pair comprising a given question and a given answer, generating a second multi-dimensional…

Display screen or portion thereof with transitional icon

Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number: D1005316

Third party integration of plugins and widgets

Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11816492
This disclosure relates to widget integration. Embodiments include receiving a workflow definition specifying one or more widgets to be loaded into a shell executing within a given application, the shell comprising a runtime environment, the one or more widgets comprising at least a first cross-platform widget. Embodiments include instantiating the runtime environment for the first cross-platform widget, the runtime environment including a bridge interface for facilitating communications…