G06F 16/243
Natural language query formulation
Official title: {Natural language query formulation}
G06F16/243 (Natural language query formulation) appears on 1,630 US grants and 2,083 published applications in this corpus.
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Recent patents
- Adaptive follow-up query generation for applications leveraging language models6 Oct 2026US 12,754,902 B2Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
- Reducing the input prompt size for a large language model6 Oct 2026US 12,754,903 B1Red Hat, Inc.
- Systems and methods for identifying content corresponding to a language spoken in a household6 Oct 2026US 12,755,729 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Machine learning model prompt hydration via prompt registry and context store22 Sep 2026US 12,743,415 B2Intuit Inc.
- Query response generation by integrating adaptive retrieval-augmented generation with large language model22 Sep 2026US 12,743,416 B2Accenture Global Solutions Limited
- Agent traversal of multi-layer data structure8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310472 A1Google Inc.
- Systems and methods for on-device application-specific natural language processing8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310660 A1Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Methods and systems for enabling flexible query processing in network-based communication protocols8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310661 A1Apaluma LLC
- Conversational artificial intelligence for understanding source code repositories1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300273 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Database querying using natural language processing1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300274 A1International Business Machines Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for natural language processing of query answers680US 7,702,508 B2Phoenix Solutions, Inc. · 2010
- Query engine for processing voice based queries including semantic decoding558US 7,725,307 B2Phoenix Solutions, Inc. · 2010
- Interactive database query system and method for prohibiting the selection of semantically incorrect query parameters507US 5,584,024 ASoftware AG · 1996
- System and method for processing sentence based queries488US 7,657,424 B2Phoenix Solutions, Inc. · 2010
- System and method for natural language processing of sentence based queries442US 7,624,007 B2Phoenix Solutions, Inc. · 2009