Intuit Patent Grants

Trustworthy data exchange using distributed databases

Granted: March 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11606200
The present disclosure relates to a trustworthy data exchange. Embodiments include receiving, from a device, a query, wherein the query comprises a question. Embodiments include identifying particular information related to the query. Embodiments include receiving credentials from a user for retrieving the particular information related to the query. Embodiments include retrieving, using the credentials, the particular information related to the query from one or more data repositories…

Framework for processing machine learning model metrics

Granted: March 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11605012
A method including extracting, from an input, supported data. The input includes outputs from machine learning models in different formats. The supported data includes a subset of the input after data normalization. The method also includes inferring, from the supported data, data types to be used with respect to generating metrics for the machine learning models. The method also includes generating, from the supported data and using the data types, a relational event including the…

Database integration for machine learning input

Granted: March 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11604833
A method including retrieving first data from first and second databases. The databases include different, incompatible formats and described different aspect of subjects. The data in the respective databases is referenceable using a common key type. The method also includes converting, into combined data, the first data and the second data into a canonical form configured for use as input to a machine learning model. The method also includes generating, using the common key type,…

Modifying scrolling behavior with competing constraint priorities in landscape and portrait modes

Granted: March 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11604577
A method including receiving a command to display a modal dialog. The modal dialog is displayed using both first and second scrolling frames. The first scrolling frame permits scrolling when a modal dialog height exceeds a first scrolling frame constraint. The second scrolling frame permits scrolling of a content section when a content section height exceeds a second scrolling frame constraint. The first scrolling frame constraint has a first and second priorities. The second scrolling…

Instant conferencing system

Granted: March 7, 2023
Patent Number: 11601485
A method including receiving, at a platform and from a first user using a first user device, selection of a uniform resource indicator (URI) unique to a second user using a second user device. The method also includes generating, automatically by the platform in response to receiving the URI, a conference session unique to the first user and the second user. The method also includes transmitting, automatically by the platform, a message to the second user, the message indicating that the…

Enriched high fidelity metrics

Granted: March 7, 2023
Patent Number: 11599405
A system including a data repository storing metrics describing operational behavior of software programs executing in an enterprise system. The system also includes an application programming interface (API) gateway configured to receive the metrics. The system also includes an ingestion layer configured to ingest the metrics to form the ingested metrics. The system also includes a tumbling window processor configured to process the ingested metrics and the events into heat maps, sort…

Method and system for adaptively reducing feature bit-size for homomorphically encrypted data sets used to train machine learning models

Granted: February 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11593711
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for adaptively reducing the bit size of features in a training data set used to train a machine learning model. An example method generally includes receiving a data set to be used in training a machine learning model and a definition of the machine learning model to be trained. A reduced number of bits to represent features in the data set is determined based on values of each feature in the data set and the definition of the…

Method and system for electing a master in a cloud based distributed system using a serverless framework

Granted: February 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11595471
A method and system elects a master node from a plurality of nodes in a distributed system. A serverless elector function periodically outputs an election API call to a load balancer. The load balancer elects a master node from a plurality of candidate nodes each time the load balancer receives the election API call.

Method and system for monitoring for and blocking fraudulent attempts to log into remote services using list validation attacks

Granted: February 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11595377
Techniques for monitoring for fraudulent login attempts to remote services through an application. The method generally includes receiving a request to connect an application to a remote service. A login attempt counter tracking a number of attempts by a user to connect the application to one or more remote services is incremented. Based on determining that the login attempt counter is less than a maximum number of login attempts predicted to correspond to legitimate login activity in…

Training and using machine learning models to place targeted messages in software applications

Granted: February 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11595334
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for placing targeted messages in communications within a software application using machine learning models. An example method generally includes retrieving, from a repository, a data set of targeted messages. For each respective targeted message in the data set of targeted messages, an effectiveness score for a party associated with the respective targeted message, a distance score between the party associated with the…

Systems and methods for determining consensus values

Granted: February 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11593555
Systems and methods are provided to determine consensus values for duplicate fields in a document or form.

Display screen or portion thereof with transitional icon

Granted: February 28, 2023
Patent Number: D979576

Explainable complex model

Granted: February 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11587161
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generating a human readable summary explanation to a user for an outcome generated by a complex machine learning model. In one embodiment, a risk assessment service can receive a request from a user in which a risk model of the risk assessment service performs a specific task (e.g., determining the level of risk associated with the user). Once the risk model determines the risk associated with the user, in order to comply…

Workflow management via block chains

Granted: February 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11587008
Techniques are disclosed for managing workflows using block chains. An entire workflow may be stored as a finite state machine on a block chain. Each data block of the block chain may correspond to a state and related operation of a workflow. Each data block of the block chain may be used as an input to a subsequent state of the workflow. Thus, any input may be used to compute the workflow even if the input is not designed to be used by a workflow. Nested block chains, each corresponding…

Method and system for dynamically and reliably scaling data processing pipelines in a computing environment

Granted: February 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11586467
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for dynamically and reliably scaling a data processing pipeline in a computing environment. The method generally includes receiving a definition of a data pipeline to be instantiated on a set of resources in a computing environment. The data pipeline is converted into a plurality of steps, each step being defined as one or more workers. The one or more workers are instantiated. Each worker generally includes a user process…

Identification of grouping criteria for bulk trip review in getting tax deductions

Granted: February 21, 2023
Patent Number: 11585671
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for intelligent grouping of travel data for review through a user interface. In one example, a method for providing grouped travel data to a user interface of an application includes receiving travel data from an application running on a remote device; generating one or more travel data-based features from the travel data thereby creating featurized travel data; applying a pattern mining technique to the featurized travel data…

User access and identity life-cycle management

Granted: February 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11582239
A method and processing system for managing user access to one or more resources is disclosed. A central service may receive an access change request message regarding a user. The access change request message may include a user identifier, a user role, and an access action for the user. Example access actions may include adding or removing user access with respect to a resource. The central service may determine which resources are associated with the user role and transmit one or more…

Systems and methods for analyzing and generating explanations for changes in tax return results

Granted: February 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11580607
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for performing a comparison of tax results based on different sets of tax data, and generating an explanation as to why the tax results differ or do not differ due to the differences in the tax data. The system includes a computing device, a data store in communication with the computing device and a tax preparation software application executable by the computing device. The tax preparation software application has a tax calculation engine, a…

Identity resolution for fraud ring detection

Granted: February 14, 2023
Patent Number: 11580560
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for identifying fraudulent accounts associated with an electronic payment service. In some implementations, a computing device may retrieve a data set including a number of attributes for each of a multitude of accounts, and may construct a plurality of different graphs each based on a unique set of the attributes. Each graph may include a plurality of nodes linked together by a multitude of edges, where each node identifies a…

Generating and modifying content using data structures

Granted: February 7, 2023
Patent Number: 11573690
A content editor for generating content including root blocks and nested blocks is disclosed. The content editor can generate a deployment that includes the content. The content editor can generate user interface code configured to edit the content. The content editor can receive updates to the content and update the root blocks and nested blocks. The updated root blocks and nested blocks can be used to generate updated content for editing and/or can be deployed to end-users.