FEATURE VECTOR CLUSTERING

Patent №

US 8,484,140

Granted

2013-07-09

Filed 2009

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

4

ml · vision · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12480831

One goal of computer services (e.g., email, web pages, blogs, advertisements, etc.) is to provide a user with Kinds (digital representations of everyday things) that may be relevant and interesting to the user. Users and Kinds may be plotted within a multidimensional matrix as feature vectors based upon their respective characteristics. An unsupervised clustering technique may be executed upon the matrix to create a mathematical cluster of feature vectors having similar characteristics. For example, a clothing cluster may comprise a dress Kind, a shoe Kind, a wool Kind, a watch Kind, etc. because the unsupervised clustering technique may determine these Kinds are plotted within the matrix in such a way that they have similar characteristics relating to clothing. The unsupervised clustering technique may also be utilized in determining which Kinds may be relevant to a user given a particular context with which a user is engaged with a computer resource.

AI classification

Machine learning1.00
AI hardware1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Vision0.99
Natural language0.28
Planning0.25
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 230400270

Assignors

THOMPSON, DONALD, STOJANOVIC, ALEXANDER S.

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

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