US 11,700,518 B2
Methods and systems for relaying feature-driven communications
Wuxian Shi, Ottawa (CA); Yiqun Ge, Ottawa (CA); Wen Tong, Ottawa (CA); and Qifan Zhang, Kanata (CA)
Assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by Wuxian Shi, Ottawa (CA); Yiqun Ge, Ottawa (CA); Wen Tong, Ottawa (CA); and Qifan Zhang, Kanata (CA)
Filed on May 27, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/884,892.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/855,604, filed on May 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0382929 A1, Dec. 3, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 4/70 (2018.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 4/70 (2018.02) [G06N 3/045 (2023.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for feature-based communications, the apparatus comprising:
a receiver for receiving, from at least one transmitting electronic device (ED), a set of received features representing a subject, each received feature providing information about a respective probability distribution that each represents one or more aspects of the subject;
a translator, implemented using a deep neural network (DNN), for encoding the set of received features into a set of machine-learning based transmission features representing the subject, each transmission feature providing information about a respective probability distribution that each represents one or more aspects of the subject, at least one probability distribution represented by the set of transmission features being different from the set of received features;
a reducer configured to reduce the set of transmission features; and
a transmitter for transmitting the set of transmission features after reducing by the reducer to at least one receiving ED.