Intuit Patent Grants

Adversarial detection using discriminator model of generative adversarial network architecture

Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number: 11645836
A method includes training, using first real data objects, a generative adversarial network having a generator model and a discriminator model to create a trained generator model that generates realistic data, and training, using adversarial data objects and second real data objects, the discriminator model to output an authenticity binary class for the adversarial data objects and the second real data objects. The method further includes deploying the discriminator model to a production…

Method and system for generating dynamic user experience

Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number: 11645723
A method for providing user content that may receive, from a user device, a request for content. The method may obtain, in response to the request, a field identifier from a multiple of field identifiers according to a priority for a multiple of fields corresponding to the field identifiers. The field identifier may correspond to a field. The method may obtain application content based on the field identifier. The method may generate declarative content from the application content. The…

Computing personalized recommendations by modeling interactions as a bipartite graph

Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number: 11645695
A method may include obtaining interactions between users and items, and calculating, for each edge in a bipartite graph, an edge weight using an inverse of the degree of a user node connected to the edge and an inverse of the degree of an item node connected to the edge. The bipartite graph includes user nodes corresponding to the users and item nodes corresponding to the items. The method may further include identifying paths each including an edge connecting the target user node and a…

Using machine learning to identify hidden software issues

Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number: 11645683
A method including receiving natural language text. A negative review is extracted from the natural language text using a first machine learning model (MLM). A first input to the first MLM is the natural language text and a first output of the first MLM is a first probability that the negative review has a negative sentiment. The negative review includes an instance of the natural language text having a corresponding negative sentiment probability above a threshold value. The negative…

Machine learning-based determination of limits on merchant use of a third party payments system

Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number: 11645656
In general, in one aspect, one or more embodiments relate to a method including receiving, in a business rules engine, input data from disparate data sources. The input data describes a merchant and an application by the merchant to use an electronic payments system for processing transactions between the merchant and customers. Featurization is performed on the input data to form a machine readable vector. By applying the machine readable vector as input to a machine learning model in a…

Method and apparatus for monitoring inventory items

Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number: 11645618
Systems and methods for monitoring items in publicly available inventories, such as websites, are disclosed. Items to be monitored in the publicly available inventories are identified based on embeddings obtained for the inventory items. For example, matching inventory items may be identified based on proximity of the embeddings, such as the cosine distance between embeddings, or a classification machine learning model may be trained to infer matches, e.g., based the embeddings as well…

Method and system for providing personalized presearch for users of a data management system

Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number: 11645584
Systems and methods for identifying recommended topics are disclosed. An example method may be performed by one or more processors of a system and include identifying one or more attributes of a system user, identifying a subset of topics relevant to the system user based on analyzing the one or more attributes of the system user using an analysis model trained with a machine learning process to identify relevant topics for system users based on historical user attributes, generating,…

Machine-learning models to facilitate user retention for software applications

Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number: 11645567
Systems described herein apply an ordered combination machine-learning models to identify users who are likely to abandon use of an application, predict the reasons why those users are likely to abandon, and identify intervening actions that the application can perform to reduce the probability that the users will abandon the application. A first machine-learning model determines a retention-prediction value indicating a probability that the user will complete a target action in the…

Method and system for smart detection of business hot spots

Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number: 11645564
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for classifying a trip. Embodiments include receiving, from a plurality of users, a plurality of historical trip records. Each of the plurality of historical trip records may comprise one or more historical trip attributes and historical classification information. Embodiments include training a predictive model, using the plurality of historical trip records, to classify trips based on trip records. Training the predictive model may…

Automated field-mapping of account names for form population

Granted: May 2, 2023
Patent Number: 11640641
A system for account mapping includes functionality for obtaining more than one labeled accounts labeled by more than one accountant; pre-processing more than one labeled accounts using natural language processing, using the more than one pre-processed labeled accounts to train an account mapping model that performs multinomial classification; receiving an account name from an accounting application where the account name includes a text label for an account included in a chart of…

System and method for managing social-based questions and answers

Granted: April 25, 2023
Patent Number: 11636354
A computer-implemented method of managing questions and answers on a computer-hosted service. The method includes a computing device receiving text based tax question and answer pairings and inputting the tax question and answer pairings into a content model executed by the device and outputting a content score for each tax question and answer pairing based on the model. The content score comprises a number within a range. One end of the range corresponds to product content and another…

Learning form-based information classification

Granted: April 25, 2023
Patent Number: 11636287
A method may include extracting training tokens from a training corpus, generating training token features and training contextual features for each of the training tokens, training a probabilistic graphical model using classes, the training token features, and the training contextual features, extracting, from actual data, actual tokens including an actual token, generating actual token features and actual contextual features for each of the actual tokens, and classifying the actual…

Augmenting search results based on relevancy and utility

Granted: April 18, 2023
Patent Number: 11630829
Systems and methods for generating augmented search results are disclosed. An example method may be performed by one or more processors of a ranking system and include receiving a search query, generating, for each respective data asset of a plurality of data assets, a query relevancy score indicating a likelihood that the respective data asset is relevant to the search query, retrieving, for each of a number of potentially relevant data assets, a utility score indicating a likelihood…

Scalable throttling of requests to web services

Granted: April 11, 2023
Patent Number: 11627202
Systems and methods for throttling requests to web services are disclosed. A system is configured to receive, at a host, one or more requests during a first time period. Each request is for a web service hosted on a backend. The host is one of a plurality of hosts of an application programming interface (API) gateway to receive a plurality of requests for the web services. The system is further configured to: process at least a portion of the one or more requests for the one or more web…

Contextual marketing system based on predictive modeling of users of a system and/or service

Granted: April 11, 2023
Patent Number: 11625737
Predictive modeling within a special purpose hardware platform to determine scenarios that are most likely to increase conversion potential for each trial user and retention potential for each active subscriber of a service, collectively referred to as a propensity score. The predictive models are integrated with a contextual marketing system that uses a loss risk assessment to learn user behavior and optimize content messaging designed to improve actual conversion or retention behavior…

Machine learning for improving mined data quality using integrated data sources

Granted: April 11, 2023
Patent Number: 11625735
A processor may receive user interaction data of a user for a plurality of electronically-presented offers. The processor may generate a plurality of labels, the generating comprising generating a label for each respective offer according to a comparison of the quality of the user interactions of the respective offer to the frequency of the user interactions of the respective offer. Each label may be a positive label or a negative label. The processor may determine whether the generating…

Methods and systems for generating problem description

Granted: April 11, 2023
Patent Number: 11625541
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…

Systems and methods for workflow based application testing in cloud computing environments

Granted: April 11, 2023
Patent Number: 11625319
A testing system and method for testing application code against various failure scenarios. The testing system and method generate a test workflow including test source code implementing a series of actions that affect an application component and or an infrastructure component included in application code. The testing system and method execute the test workflow to determine the performance of the application code during one or more failure scenarios caused by the series of actions…

Metamodeling for confidence prediction in machine learning based document extraction

Granted: April 4, 2023
Patent Number: 11620843
A document extraction system executed by a processor, may process documents using manual and automated systems. The document extraction system may efficiently route tasks to the manual and automated systems based on a predicted probability that the results generated by the automated system meet some baseline level of accuracy. To increase document processing speed, documents having a high likelihood of accurate automated processing may be routed to an automated system. To ensure a…

Reducing mobile device power consumption through predictive speed-based geofence location tracking

Granted: April 4, 2023
Patent Number: 11622326
A method including receiving, at a mobile device, a request to provision a first geofence. The first geofence has a first predicted duration that expires before a second predicted geofence is provisioned by the mobile device. Provisioning the first geofence and the second predicted geofence together consume a first amount of power. The method also includes determining a predictive geofence radius based on a predicted speed of the mobile device. The method also includes provisioning a…