METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN INFERENCE ABOUT A DESTINATION OF A TRIP USING A COMBINATION OF OPEN-WORLD MODELING AND CLOSED WORLD MODELING

Patent №

US 7,991,718

Granted

2011-08-02

Filed 2007

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

6

ml · nlp · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11770541

The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate generating an inference about events that may not have yet been observed. Open-world modeling can be used to take a history of observation so as to understand trends over time in the revelation of previously unseen events, and to make inferences with subsets of data that new unseen events will be seen. Thus, inaccuracies associated with predictions generated from incomplete data sets can be mitigated. To yield such predictions, open-world submodels and closed-world submodels that do not allow for previously unseen events can be combined via a model mixture methodology, which fuses inferences from the open- and close-world models.

AI classification

Machine learning1.00
Natural language1.00
AI hardware1.00
Planning1.00
Knowledge representation0.98
Evolutionary computation0.84
Vision0.25
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 198650248

Assignors

HORVITZ, ERIC J., KRUMM, JOHN C., SUBRAMANI, MURUGESAN S.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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