Patents Examined by Walter Hanchak
  • Patent number: 9858531
    Abstract: A modular quantum computer architecture is developed with a hierarchy of interactions that can scale to very large numbers of qubits. Local entangling quantum gates between qubit memories within a single modular register are accomplished using natural interactions between the qubits, and entanglement between separate modular registers is completed via a probabilistic photonic interface between qubits in different registers, even over large distances. This architecture is suitable for the implementation of complex quantum circuits utilizing the flexible connectivity provided by a reconfigurable photonic interconnect network. The subject architecture is made fault-tolerant which is a prerequisite for scalability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignees: University of Maryland, Duke University, University of British Columbia
    Inventors: Christopher Monroe, Jungsang Kim, Robert Raussendorf
  • Patent number: 9791638
    Abstract: A method for creating on chip analog mathematical engines is provided utilizing a neural network with a switched capacitor structure to implement coefficients for weighted connections and error functions for the neural network. The neural networks are capable of any transfer function, learning, doing pattern recognition, clustering, control or many other functions. The switched capacitor charge controls allow for nodal control of charge transfer based switched capacitor circuits. The method reduces reliance on passive component programmable arrays to produce programmable switched capacitor circuit coefficients. The switched capacitor circuits are dynamically scaled without having to rely on switched in unit passives, such as unit capacitors, and the complexities of switching these capacitors into and out of circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Inventor: David Schie
  • Patent number: 9633312
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for predicting user interests. In one aspect, a method includes training a prediction model to generate a category prediction of a next query from a set of queries, the category prediction specifying categories to which a next query belongs, the prediction model comprising a plurality of prediction functions that each generate a category prediction of a next query, wherein the prediction functions include two or more of a time-based prediction functions that generate a category prediction based on the category data and a difference of submission times of the queries, a rank-based prediction functions that generate a category prediction based on the category data and a rank order by which the queries were received, and a category-based prediction function that generates a category prediction based on the category data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell
  • Patent number: 9626600
    Abstract: An event analyzer includes an event log collection module configured to collect an event log, an event log storage module configured to convert the event log into an event matrix and to store the event matrix, an event occurrence-order determination module configured to determine occurrence-order of device events based on the event matrix, a Bayesian network generation module configured to specify device events serving as parent node candidates, to calculate evaluation values corresponding to each specified parent node candidate at a virtual device event obtained by shifting the device event serving as a processing object each unit time, and to select an device event serving as a parent node together with a shift amount, and an analysis module configured to output an device event estimated as a cause of an device event to be analyzed, or an device event estimated to occur later based on the shift amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhuo Liu, Yuichi Sakuraba
  • Patent number: 9565737
    Abstract: An illumination system and method is disclosed. In one example, the illumination system comprises a lamp assembly for generating color-variable light, a controller for generating control signals for the lamp assembly, source color input means, preferably a color sensor, for inputting to the controller information defining a source color; a memory associated with the controller, containing information defining at least one color harmony rule. On the basis of the input source color, and using the harmony rule from the memory, the controller calculates a target color and generates its output control signals accordingly. Thus, the light output from the lamp assembly harmoniously matches the measured color of surroundings or objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Johannes Petrus Wilhelmus Baaijens
  • Patent number: 9542647
    Abstract: Embodiments of an informatics platform where collected data can be normalized, integrated and mapped to a knowledge source, such as medical vocabulary systems are disclosed. One example of such a knowledge source is Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) which is a knowledge source for biomedical applications. Embodiments as depicted herein may provided a method to convert the desired information from UMLS into an ontology representation to allow for its use in conjunction with an informatics system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventor: Parsa Mirhaji
  • Patent number: 9477457
    Abstract: A device may receive an instruction to automatically install a program using a click area prediction model. The click area prediction model may be associated with predicting a click area of a user interface that, when selected, causes a program installation procedure to proceed. The device may identify an installation user interface associated with installing the program. The device may determine a group of regions included in the installation user interface. The device may identify sets of features associated with the group of regions. The device may determine, based on the sets of features and the click area prediction model, a group of scores associated with the group of regions. The device may identify a particular region as a predicted click area based on the group of scores. The device may select the predicted click area to attempt to cause the program installation procedure to proceed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Asher Langton, Daniel J. Quinlan, Kyle Adams
  • Patent number: 9466030
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to implementing a probabilistic graphical model (PGM) using magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). One embodiment comprises a memory array of magnetic tunnel junctions and a driver unit for programming the memory array to represent a probabilistic graphical model. The magnetic tunnel junctions are organized into multiple subsets of magnetic tunnel junctions. The driver unit selectively applies an electrical pulse to a subset of magnetic tunnel junctions to program information representing a probabilistic belief state in said subset of magnetic tunnel junctions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan L. Jackson, Dharmendra S. Modha
  • Patent number: 9445523
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic assembly comprising a plurality of electronic component groups and a cooling device for cooling the electronic component groups. The cooling device provides a cooling-power distributor. A cooling power of the cooling device can be individually controlled by the cooling-power distributor for every component group. Furthermore, the assembly provides temperature-registering means for every component group for registering a temperature of every component group, and a load-determining device for determining a parameter for every component group which describes the load experienced by a component group on the basis of the temperature registered for this component group. A control unit controls the cooling-power distributor on the basis of the parameters determined for the component groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gottfried Holzmann, Werner Mittermaier, Matthias Jelen, Martin Roth, Martin Oetjen, Albert Moser, Roland Mahr
  • Patent number: 9436907
    Abstract: Calculating a value of a website visitor includes initializing a calculation model for calculating the value of the website visitor, the calculation model being a neural network model with visitor information as an input and the visitor's value as an output; training the calculation model by using a data sample and determining the calculation model; and obtaining the visitor information, and calculating the value of the visitor by using the determined calculation model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Kaili Lv, Zheng Zhang, Jie Su
  • Patent number: 9413775
    Abstract: A governance apparatus and a communication method for communicating within the governance apparatus. The governance apparatus includes a Government. The Government includes Councils such that a macro grid including an artificial intelligence and the Government is configured to respond to an alert pertaining to an event through use of the artificial intelligence and the Government. The governance apparatus also includes an enhanced Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) communication stack of layers including a Governance Layer and an Intelligence Layer. The Intelligence Layer includes intelligence software configured to process data pertaining to the event, data pertaining to the alert, and data pertaining to the Government.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Ian E. Oakenfull
  • Patent number: 9373080
    Abstract: A plurality of user made decisions concerning unknown data objects are received from a plurality of users. Each specific user made decision concerns a specific unknown data object made by a specific user, wherein the specific decision could not be made automatically with a sufficient level of confidence without user input. Accuracy of the received user made decisions is automatically determined, as empirical data determinative of the accuracy of the decisions becomes available over time. User weights are automatically dynamically calculated, based on the determined accuracy of decisions made by associated users. Multiple user made decisions received from multiple users concerning a specific unknown data object are aggregated, taking into account the user weights. A definitive decision concerning the specific unknown data object is automatically made without prompting any user for confirmation, based on the aggregating of the user made decisions concerning the specific unknown data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventor: Sourabh Satish
  • Patent number: 9367814
    Abstract: A method and system for classifying documents is provided. A set of document classifiers is generated by applying a classification algorithm to a trusted corpus that includes a set of training documents representing a taxonomy. One or more of the generated document classifiers are executed against a plurality of input documents to create a plurality of classified documents. Each classified document is associated with a classification within the taxonomy and a classification confidence level. One or more classified documents that are associated with a classification confidence level below a predetermined threshold value are selected to create a set of low-confidence documents. The low-confidence documents are disassociated from each of the associated classifications. A user is prompted to enter a classification within the taxonomy for at least one low-confidence document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn M. Lewis, Kirill Buryak, Aner Ben-Artzi, Jun Peng, Nadav Benbarak
  • Patent number: 9361637
    Abstract: A request to diagnose a problem with an appliance is provided to a diagnostic system whereupon the diagnostic system functions to interpret the information indicative of the problem with the appliance to thereby normalize the information indicative of the problem with the appliance. The normalized information indicative of the problem with the appliance is then used to select from a knowledge base in which is maintained a plurality of solutions each having associated tags that function to identify concepts and values in a domain model a set of possible solutions for the problem with the appliance. As necessary, information within the set of possible solutions for the problem with the appliance is used to dynamically generate additional questions to thereby obtain further information indicative of the problem with the appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SEARS BRANDS, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Coon, Randy L. Menefee, David Newman Hutchinson, Timothy Ray Adkisson, Michael J. Kozlowski
  • Patent number: 9361579
    Abstract: Techniques for computing a solution to a query formulated against a knowledge base (KB) are provided. The techniques include receiving a query formulated against a knowledge base, wherein the knowledge base comprises a set of one or more axioms, wherein each axiom is annotated with a specific probability value indicating a degree of certainty assigned thereto, ignoring each probability value of the one or more axioms and computing a solution to the query, computing each of one or more justifications for the query solution, wherein computing each of one or more justifications for the query solution comprises determining a minimal set of one or more axioms in the knowledge base that entail the query solution, and using each probability value of the one or more axioms in each justification to compute a net probability of an inferred query solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Achille B. Fokoue-Nkoutche, Aditya Kalyanpur, Edith G. Schonberg, Kavitha Srinivas
  • Patent number: 9355363
    Abstract: A virtual parallel computing system and method represents bits with matrices and computes over all input states in parallel through a sequence of matrix operations. The matrix operations relate to logic gate operators to carry out a function implementation that represents a problem to be solved. Initial matrices are prepared to encode the weights of all input states, which can be binary states. Intermediate results can be simplified to decrease computational complexity while maintaining useful approximation results. The final matrices can encode the answer(s) to the problem represented by the function implementation. The system and method are particularly useful in speeding up database searches and in counting solutions of satisfiability problems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignees: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Trustees of Boston University
    Inventors: Claudio Chamon, Eduardo R. Mucciolo
  • Patent number: 9329969
    Abstract: A method and a system of associating a runtime event with a component. The method includes catching the runtime event; catching the context of the current running environment and determining the current component based on said context; and getting the associating policy of current component and determining the responsible component associated with said runtime event based on said associating policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bentley John Hargrave, Xin Hui Li, Ying Li, Tian Cheng Liu, Jie Qiu, Qi Ming Teng, William J. Tracey, David Alvra Wood, III
  • Patent number: 9262717
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an object retrieval apparatus includes a query acceptance unit and a collision decision unit. The query acceptance unit is configured to accept a retrieval query indicating (N?1)-dimensional surface in N-dimensional space (N is an integral number larger than or equal to three). The collision decision unit is configured to decide whether the (N?1)-dimensional surface intersects N-dimensional cuboid positioned in the N-dimensional space. The collision decision unit decides by using a plurality of decision functions. The plurality of decision functions includes zero-th˜(N?1)-th decision functions to decide whether at least a part of at least one of X-dimensional face (X is all integral numbers larger than or equal to zero, and smaller than or equal to (N?1)) of the N-dimensional cuboid is included in the (N?1)-dimensional surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yusuke Endoh, Hiromasa Shin, Yoshiaki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 9239983
    Abstract: Quantification of a condition of a selected item using a neural network is disclosed. A device defines a good hypertube in a neural state space based on good item state points obtained from one or more items that exhibit desired operating characteristics, and a bad hypertube in the neural state space based on bad item state points obtained from one or more items that exhibit undesirable operating characteristics. A current item state hyperpoint is determined in the neural state space based on a current item state point of the selected item. A condition of the selected item is quantified as a function of a location of the current item state hyperpoint with respect to at least a portion of the good hypertube and with respect to at least a portion of the bad hypertube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory A. Harrison, Sreerupa Das, Michael A. Bodkin, Richard M. Hall, Eric W. Worden, Stefan Herzog, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9235800
    Abstract: A method for the computer-aided learning of a recurrent neural network for modeling a dynamic system which is characterized at respective times by an observable vector with one or more observables as entries is provided. The neural network includes both a causal network with a flow of information that is directed forwards in time and a retro-causal network with a flow of information which is directed backwards in time. The states of the dynamic system are characterized by first state vectors in the causal network and by second state vectors in the retro-causal network, wherein the state vectors each contain observables for the dynamic system and also hidden states of the dynamic system. Both networks are linked to one another by a combination of the observables from the relevant first and second state vectors and are learned on the basis of training date including known observables vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Ralph Grothmann, Christoph Tietz, Hans-Georg Zimmermann