Fine grained access control in a data lake using least privilege access
Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number:
12069063
An access graph is constructed based on access policy data from user accounts, data lake buckets, and/or access policy statements from any other location. Access logs are analyzed to determine actual access to the data tables. For a given user role, an initial set of data tables that are actually accessed is generated forming the baseline of data tables for which access privileges are to be maintained. User roles that are similar to the given user role are identified and additional data…
Methods, systems, and computer program product for dynamically modifying a dynamic flow of a software application
Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number:
12061954
Disclosed are techniques for implementing an intelligent system with dynamic configurability. These techniques identifying a plurality of flow nodes for a software application and determine a dynamic flow for executions of the intelligent system with the plurality of flow nodes, one or more dynamic conditions, and one or more dynamic actions, without hard coded inter-dependency between two or more flow nodes of the plurality of flow nodes. The intelligent system is transformed into a…
Offset-based watermarks for data stream processing
Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number:
12061651
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to watermarks and watermarking techniques for data streaming pipelines. Time stamp and offset timeline data is shared by computing instances along the pipeline to enable improved watermarking of the data stream through the pipeline. The improved watermarks enable better determination of completeness for the data stream and improve materialization of the results. The watermarking techniques can include periodically publishing watermark data by…
System and method for increasing efficiency of gradient descent while training machine-learning models
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050995
Systems and methods of the present disclosure provide processes for determining how much to adjust machine-learning parameter values in a direction of a gradient for gradient-descent steps in training processes for machine-learning models. Current parameter values of a machine-learning model are vector components that define an initial estimate for a local extremum of a cost function used to measure how well the machine-learning model performs. The initial estimate and the gradient of…
Adversarial detection using discriminator model of generative adversarial network architecture
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12046027
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…
Model based document image enhancement
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12045967
Systems and methods are disclosed for model based document image enhancement. Instead of requiring paired dirty and clean images for training a model to clean document images (which may cause privacy concerns), two models are trained on the unpaired images such that only the dirty images are accessed or only the clean images are accessed at one time. One model is a first implicit model to translate the dirty images from a source space to a latent space, and the other model is a second…
Modifying scrolling behavior with competing constraint priorities in landscape and portrait modes
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12045455
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…
Efficient counterfactual search
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12038928
A method implements efficient counterfactual search. The method includes receiving a request corresponding to an input vector, processing the input vector with a model to generate an output vector that does not correspond to a selected class, and processing the input vector using a component, of a plurality of components, to generate a counterfactual vector to the selected class. The plurality of components includes a number of dimensions that is less than a number of features of the…
System and method for quantifying uncertainty in machine learning models
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039414
A method and system assists train a classifier model with a machine learning process. The method and system trains the classifier with a labeled training set and with an unlabeled training set. The method and system trains the classifier model to correctly classify data items that fall within a distribution of the labeled training set. The method and system trains the classifier to indicate a lack of confidence in classification for data items that do not fall within the distribution of…
Automated categorization of data by generating unity and reliability metrics
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039267
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generating a metric, include receiving a rule defining one or more text strings; determining a set of transactions based on a user attribute; determining a first subset of transactions; determining a second subset of transactions; generating a first categorical distribution based on each transaction of the first subset of transactions being associated with a transaction description containing at least one text string of the…
Disambiguity in large language models
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12038918
Disambiguity in large language models (LLMs) includes receiving an original query in a user interface, generating an ambiguity query from the original query, and sending, via an application programming interface (API) of an LLM, the ambiguity query to the LLM. The ambiguity query includes the original query and training the LLM to recognize ambiguities. The method further includes receiving, via the API and responsive to the ambiguity query, a binary response and detecting, based at…
Hierarchical attention time-series (HAT) model for behavior prediction
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12038823
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for behavior prediction. Embodiments include receiving activity data of a user, identifying user sessions comprising sets of time-stamped actions in the activity data, and segmenting the activity data into subsets corresponding to the user sessions. Embodiments include providing the subsets as inputs to a hierarchical attention time-series (HAT) model comprising: a first layer that determines attention scores for respective…
Instant conferencing system
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12034783
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…
Image background removal
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026893
A method implements image background removal. The method includes receiving an image and processing the image using a first color distance threshold to generate a first alpha mask. The method further includes processing the first alpha mask using a cartesian edge threshold and a second color distance threshold to generate a second alpha mask. The method further includes presenting the image combined with the second alpha mask in a combined image.
Predicting application conversion using eye tracking
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026738
Techniques are disclosed for determining application experience of a user. One embodiment presented herein includes a computer-implemented method, which includes receiving, at a computing device, eye tracking data of a user interacting with at least a first page of an application. The computer-implemented method further includes determining, based at least on the eye tracking data, at least a current user experience regarding the first page. The computer-implemented method further…
System and method for risk assessment of a third party application for controlling competitive migration
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026683
In general, the invention relates to a method involving allowing access to a financial application by a third-party extension based on a single license to use the financial application, where the third-party extension was developed by a third-party developer using one or more tools in a software development kit (SDK) for the financial application and where the financial application stores first transaction data obtained for a first user of the financial application, monitoring operations…
Interactive technique for using a user-provided image of a document to collect information
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026639
In a collection technique, a user (such as a taxpayer) provides information (such as income-tax information) by submitting an image of a document, such as an income-tax summary or form. In particular, the user may provide a description of the document. In response, the user is prompted for the information associated with the field in the document. Then, the user provides the image of a region in the document that includes the field. Based on the image, the information is extracted, and…
Computer assisted programming using automated next node recommender for complex directed acyclic graphs
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026637
A method including setting an initial lookback path length for a current path in a directed acyclic graph. The current path includes a subset of the nodes connected by a sequence of the edges. The method also includes querying, for a current lookback path length, whether a matching key is present in a transition probability dictionary (TPD). The method also includes querying, responsive to the matching key being present in the TPD for the current lookback path length, whether a matching…
Seed generation for electronic data perturbation
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026270
Described herein are example implementations for generating a perturbation seed for the perturbation of electronic data. A system obtains a plurality of datapoints (with one or more statistics calculated from the plurality of datapoints to be perturbed based on a perturbation seed). The system calculates one or more metrics from the plurality of datapoints. The system also generates, for each of the one or more metrics, a rounded metric by rounding the metric. The system further…
Input validation using mathematical expressions
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12019758
A method implements input validation using mathematical expressions. The method includes receiving an input string, scanning the input string to locate a hit string matching a hit expression from a validation package, and converting the hit string to a list of values corresponding to characters from the hit string. The method further includes validating the hit string by evaluating a validation expression from the validation package using the list of values to generate a validation…
