Patents Assigned to International Business Machines Incorporated
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Patent number: 11720819Abstract: A system includes a memory having instructions therein and at least one processor in communication with the memory. The at least one processor is configured to execute the instructions to determine a global-level importance magnitude value for a global-level importance of an explainable feature of a machine learning base model based on a first prediction of the machine learning base model. The at least one processor is also configured to execute the instructions to determine a global-level importance direction label for the global-level importance of the explainable feature based on the first prediction. The at least one processor is also configured to execute the instructions to generate a communication for presentation to a user based on a second prediction of the machine learning base model, based on the global-level importance magnitude value, and based on the global-level importance direction label.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines, IncorporatedInventors: Zhe Liu, Yufan Guo, Jalal Mahmud, Rama Kalyani T. Akkiraju
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Patent number: 10104772Abstract: An electrical connection is established between a first electrical component and a second electrical component of an assembly and a compression tool is used to apply a compression force to the assembly. The assembly also includes a metallized particle interconnect (MPI) between the first electrical component and the second electrical component and solder components outside a boundary of the MPI and extending from the first electrical component to the second electrical component. The solder components are melted by applying heat to the assembly. The solder components are solidified by cooling the assembly and the compression tool is removed.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines IncorporatedInventors: Layne A. Berge, John R. Dangler, Matthew S. Doyle, Jesse Hefner
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Patent number: 10025446Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for automatically creating screen captures of a user interface. In an implementation, a method may include identifying a portion of a user interface display associated with a page object. The method may also include creating a screen capture image including the portion of the user interface display associated with the page object. The method may further include associating the screen capture image with a documentation record for the page object.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines IncorporatedInventors: Laurence A. Hey, William J. Izard, Matthew J. Ponsford
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Patent number: 9923565Abstract: A phase-frequency detector (PFD) is electrically coupled to a charge pump of a phase-locked-loop (PLL). The PFD includes a first differential latch electrically coupled to the charge pump. The first differential latch drives a differential pair of increment signals to the charge pump in response to differential pairs of both reference clock signals and reset signals. The PFD also includes a second differential latch electrically coupled to the charge pump. The second differential latch drives a differential pair of decrement signals to the charge pump in response to differential pairs of both feedback clock signals and reset signals. The PFD also includes a differential AND gate electrically coupled to both the first differential latch and the second differential latch. The differential AND gate drives the differential pair of reset signals to both of the differential latches in response to the differential pairs of both increment signals and decrement signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines IncorporatedInventors: David M. Friend, Grant P. Kesselring, James D. Strom, Alan P. Wagstaff
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Patent number: 9870766Abstract: Embodiments include methods and systems for improving an acoustic model. Aspects include acquiring a first standard deviation value by calculating standard deviation of a feature from first training data and acquiring a second standard deviation value by calculating standard deviation of a feature from second training data acquired in a different environment from an environment of the first training data. Aspects also include creating a feature adapted to an environment where the first training data is recorded, by multiplying the feature acquired from the second training data by a ratio obtained by dividing the first standard deviation value by the second standard deviation value. Aspects further include reconstructing an acoustic model constructed using training data acquired in the same environment as the environment of the first training data using the feature adapted to the environment where the first training data is recorded.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines IncorporatedInventors: Gakuto Kurata, Toru Nagano, Masayuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 9727335Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for clearing specified blocks of main storage. In one embodiment, an EADM start subchannel is executed. The instructions of the execution of the EADM start subchannel may include a SAP receiving an ADM request block, which specifies a main-storage-clearing operation command. The address and size of a block of main memory to be cleared by the SAP is specified in an MSB designated by the ADM request block.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines IncorporatedInventors: Anthony F. Coneski, Beth A. Glendening, Dan F. Greiner, Peter G. Sutton, Scott B. Tuttle, Elpida Tzortzatos
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Publication number: 20160011729Abstract: A presenter and an audience associated with a presentation event can be detected. The presentation event can be a real world occurrence and/or a computing session occurrence. The presenter can convey a presentation content to the audience. Presentation data associated with the presentation event can be identified. The presentation data can include the presentation content. The presentation content can include a text and/or a media. A real-time metrics associated with the presenter and the audience can be captured from one or more computing devices associated with the presenter and the audience during the presentation event. The real-time metrics can be analyzed to determine a presenter and an audience recommendation. The presenter recommendation can be presented to the presenter and the audience recommendation to an audience member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2014Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INCORPORATEDInventors: ROMELIA H. FLORES, ERIK H. KATZEN, PAULO HENRIQUE LEAL, SUMIT PATEL
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Patent number: 9142471Abstract: A doped, passivated graphene nanomesh includes a graphene nanomesh, a plurality of nanoholes formed in a graphene sheet, and a plurality of carbon atoms which are formed adjacent to the plurality of nanoholes; a passivating element bonded to the plurality of carbon atoms; and a dopant bonded to the passivating element, the dopant comprising one of an electron-donating element for making the graphene nanomesh an n-doped graphene nanomesh, and an electron-accepting element for making the graphene nanomesh a p-doped graphene nanomesh.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2014Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignees: International Business Machines Incorporated, Egypt Nanotechnology CenterInventors: Ahmed Abou-Kandil, Ahmed Maarouf, Glenn John Martyna, Hisham Mohamed, Dennis M. Newns
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Publication number: 20140208316Abstract: A solution is proposed for deploying a virtual appliance onto a data processing system. A corresponding method comprises instantiating the virtual appliance with a basic configuration onto the data processing system, determining a value of each one of to set of environmental features of a virtual data processing environment associated with the virtual appliance, and downloading a set of local software programs corresponding to the values of at least part of the environmental features onto the virtual appliance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2013Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines IncorporatedInventors: Giuseppe Ciano, Marco De Santis, Maurizio Simeoni
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Publication number: 20130332670Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to process identifier (PID) based cache information transfer. An aspect of the invention includes sending, by a first core of a processor, a PID associated with a cache miss in a first local cache of the first core to a second cache of the processor. Another aspect of the invention includes determining that the PID associated with the cache miss is listed in a PID table of the second cache. Yet another aspect of the invention includes based on the PID being listed in the PID table of the second cache, determining a plurality of entries in a cache directory of the second cache that are associated with the PID. Yet another aspect of the invention includes pushing cache information associated with each of the determined plurality of entries in the cache directory from the second cache to the first local cache.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2012Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INCORPORATEDInventors: Fadi Y. Busaba, Steven R. Carlough, Christopher A. Krygowski, Brian R. Prasky, Chung-Lung K. Shum
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Publication number: 20130110745Abstract: A computer receives a plurality of input events, each input event comprising one or more factors. The computer processes each input event based on event processing rules that cause the computer to evaluate the one or more factors and assign each input event a Boolean output value. The computer generates an output event containing the one or more factors and the Boolean output value. The computer generates additional event processing rules based on output events for which the event processing rules caused the output events to have a false-negative or false-positive Boolean output value. The additional rules are then included in the event processing rules.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2011Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INCORPORATEDInventor: Xiaoming Zhang
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Publication number: 20130097150Abstract: An enterprise business intelligence system includes a data access service. In one example, a method comprises receiving, with a data access service, a query and a report specification from an application, wherein the data access service is positioned between the application and a data source; creating a run tree that comprises a sequence of executable decoration nodes; executing the query on the data source, thereby providing a query result set comprising query results drawn from the data source that are responsive to the query; and executing the sequence of decoration nodes on the query result set. The decoration nodes modify the query result set, thereby producing a decorated result set based on the query result set and the decoration nodes. Producing the decorated result set comprises associating members or values in the query results with corresponding positions or calculated members in the report specification.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INCORPORATEDInventors: David B. Cushing, Robin N. Grosset, Charles Ng, Martin Petitclerc
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Publication number: 20120205781Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a first region of a first polarity and a second region of a second polarity adjacent to the first region; and a first terminal including: a first deep trench located in the first region, a first node dielectric abutting all but an upper portion of sidewalls and a bottom of the first deep trench; a first conductive inner electrode inside the first node dielectric and electrically insulated from the first region by the first node dielectric; and a first electrical contact electrically coupling the first conductive inner electrode to the first region.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INCORPORATEDInventors: David M. Fried, Edward J. Nowak
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Publication number: 20120096084Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for providing a shared user experience during media playback. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for providing a shared user experience during media playback is provided. The method includes selecting for a particular user a media file for playback in a media player executing in memory by a processor of a computer. The method also includes retrieving a shared user experience audio file recorded for a different user during a previous playback of the selected media file. Finally, the method includes playing back for the particular user both the selected media file and the retrieved shared user experience audio file concurrently in the media player.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines IncorporatedInventors: Travis M. Grigsby, James A. Kahle, Michael A. Paolini
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Patent number: 7927105Abstract: Method for prescriptive learning. The method includes providing a user independent hierarchy of competencies, competency characteristics and assessments with associated rules that identify learning activities and identifying a user specific path through the hierarchy for a selected competency and competency characteristic based on the hierarchy, scoring of at least one question associated with at least one assessment associated with the selected competency characteristic. The rules and user specific information provide a user specific identification of learning activities.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2004Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines IncorporatedInventors: Charles W. Griffin, Marla A. Haddon, Biao Luo, John R. Malpass, Benjamin J. Montello
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Publication number: 20110062555Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a first region of a first polarity and a second region of a second polarity adjacent to the first region; and a first terminal including: a first deep trench located in the first region, a first node dielectric abutting all but an upper portion of sidewalls and a bottom of the first deep trench; a first conductive inner electrode inside the first node dielectric and electrically insulated from the first region by the first node dielectric; and a first electrical contact electrically coupling the first conductive inner electrode to the first region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2009Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INCORPORATEDInventors: David M. Fried, Edward J. Nowak
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Patent number: 7885846Abstract: A method and system for workforce planning in one aspect provide an optimization model that produce, based on the availability profile and the demand profile of skill types, a workforce plan recommending a combination of actions. The combination of actions may include hiring, contracting and cross-training. The optimization model considers constraints such as minimum residence time that a resource unit needs to spend in a skill-type that it gets cross-trained into or hired into, minimum acceptable contracting duration for a contracted skill type, first order and higher orders of cross-training for a skill type, with lead-time for training, one or more system rules associated with transfer sequences, or targets on service levels and resource utilization, or combinations thereof, in determining the workforce plan.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2008Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines IncorporatedInventors: Lianjun An, Dharmashankar Subramanian
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Publication number: 20080258755Abstract: Noise reduction among conductors, the conductors disposed adjacent to one another, the conductors characterized as two or more aggressor conductors and one or more victim conductors, a least two of the aggressor conductors driven with at least two signals that induce unwanted crosstalk upon at least one of the victim conductors, a programmable delay device disposed in a signal path of each of the at least two signals that induce unwanted crosstalk, including programming a delay period into each programmable delay device; receiving, simultaneously at the programmable delay devices, the at least two signals that induce unwanted crosstalk; and transmitting, on two aggressor conductors, the at least two signals that induce unwanted crosstalk, with the at least two signals separated in time by the delay period.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2007Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: International Business Machines IncorporatedInventors: Moises Cases, Daniel N. de Araujo, Bhyrav M. Mutnury, Nam H. Pham
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Patent number: 7317326Abstract: An inspection method includes an array process of forming a TFT array on a substrate to fabricate an active matrix panel, an inspection process of carrying out a performance test on the fabricated active matrix panel, and a cell process of mounting an OLED on the active matrix panel after the inspection process. In the inspection process, variation in parasitic capacitance through a pixel electrode is measured when driving TFTs constituting the active matrix fabricated in the array process are turned on and when the driving TFTs are turned off, and open/short defects in the driving TFTs are thereby inspected.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines IncorporatedInventors: Daiju Nakano, Yoshitami Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 7303972Abstract: A BEOL thin-film resistor adapted for flexible integration rests on a first layer of ILD. The thickness of the first layer of ILD and the resistor thickness combine to match the nominal design thickness of vias in the layer of concern. A second layer of ILD matches the resistor thickness and is planarized to the top surface of the resistor. A third layer of ILD has a thickness equal to the nominal value of the interconnections on this layer. Dual damascene interconnection apertures and apertures for making contact with the resistor are formed simultaneously, with the etch stop upper cap layer in the resistor protecting the resistive layer while the vias in the dual damascene apertures are formed.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2006Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines IncorporatedInventors: Eric M. Coker, Douglas D. Coolbaugh, Ebenezer E. Eshun, Zhong-Xiang He, Matthew D. Moon, Anthony K. Stamper