Patents by Inventor Ana Paula Appel

Ana Paula Appel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11979334
    Abstract: A system for initiating web containers and isolating network traffic to web containers is described. The system initiates and uses web containers for associated web-based resources, such as domain addresses owned by a single entity. When a web container for a domain address has not been initiated, the system determines an owner of the domain address and any domain addresses associated with the owner and initiates a web container for the domain address and the associated domains. When a user navigates to the domain addresses associated with the determined owner, the system isolates the network activity to the initiated web container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Renato Luiz De Freitas Cunha, Ana Paula Appel, Lucas Correia Villa Real, Henrique Von Atzingen Do Amaral
  • Patent number: 11935242
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for crop yield estimation by identifying, via image processing, a field in which a crop is grown; identifying a plurality of regions within the field; identifying, by processing growth metrics via a model, a plurality of data collection points in the plurality of regions, wherein a given data collection point of the plurality of data collection points within a given region of the plurality of regions is identified by multivariate analysis as representative of growing conditions in the given region; receiving in-field data linked to the data collection points of the plurality; and predicting a yield for the crop in the field based on the in-field data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bruno Silva, Renato Luiz De Freitas Cunha, Ana Paula Appel, Eduardo Rocha Rodrigues
  • Publication number: 20240078597
    Abstract: In a first aspect of the invention, there is a computer-implemented method including: training, by a computing device, a machine learning (ML) model on a financial data set comprising data on financial behavior applicable to repaying debts; entering, by a computing device, an interaction with a user regarding renegotiating a debt; and generating, by the computing device, a proposed payment plan for the debt, based on user data of the user, and using the ML model trained on the financial data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Ana Paula Appel, Aline Bossi, Anderson Luis de Paula Silva, Andrea Aparecida Crespo, Bruno Vieira Rosa, Carlos Eduardo Buzeto, Carlos Lessandro Lopes Rischioto, Jorge Damiao Barbosa das Chagas, Paula Fernanda Pereira, Rogerio Cesar Barbosa dos Santos da Silva
  • Publication number: 20230419162
    Abstract: In an approach to composing a machine learning model for complex data sources, a computer receives data and associated metadata corresponding to a machine learning task from a user. A computer determines a task context and a problem domain. A computer identifies the machine learning task. A computer evaluates a match between the problem domain and one or more pre-compiled models. A computer selects at least two of the one or more pre-compiled models. A computer generates one or more multimodal model combinations with the selected at least two of the one or more pre-compiled models. A computer executes the multimodal model combinations with the data and associated metadata. A computer displays the results of the executed one or more multimodal model combinations to the user. A computer determines whether a level of error associated with the results is acceptable to the user based on a response from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Ana Paula Appel, Renato Luiz de Freitas Cunha, PAULO RODRIGO CAVALIN, Bruno Silva
  • Patent number: 11681822
    Abstract: In response to identifying one or more applications on a computing device, terms and conditions associated with the one or more applications are identified. A knowledge base based on the identified terms and conditions is generated. The knowledge base includes a determination of sensitive information of a user required by each of the identified one or more applications. Secondary associations of the identified one or more applications are identified from a plurality of external data sources with information related to the identified one or more applications. In response to identifying the secondary associations, it is determined whether sensitive information about the user is found in one or more of the identified secondary associations. In response to determining that sensitive information about the user is found, an advisory is transmitted to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Renato Luiz De Freitas Cunha, Ana Paula Appel, Henrique von Atzingen do Amaral
  • Patent number: 11677692
    Abstract: Chatbot logs can be received. The chatbot logs can be clustered or classified into clusters of potential intents. Trending topics can be detected by analyzing at least social media content. Semantic similarities between the potential intents and the trending topics can be computed. Based on the computed semantic similarities, at least one of the potential intents to at least one of the trending topics can be correlated. Training of the chatbot using the chatbot logs associated with the correlated potential intent can be triggered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paulo Rodrigo Cavalin, Ana Paula Appel, Renato Luiz de Freitas Cunha, Bruno Silva
  • Publication number: 20230136972
    Abstract: A system may include a memory and a processor in communication therewith. The processor may be configured to perform operations including obtaining an egocentric network with a center node for an entity and receiving data about the entity. The operations may include predicting, with the data, a node array of the egocentric network including a first node to remain, a second node to disappear, and a third node to join the network. The operations may include prognosticating, with the data, a connection array of the egocentric network including a first link connecting the first node to the center node, a second link disappearing from the egocentric network, and a third link connecting the third node to the center node. The operations may include updating the egocentric network to reflect the node and connection arrays, generating an output based on the egocentric network, and displaying the output to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Ana Paula Appel, Renato Luiz de Freitas Cunha, Gabriel Louzada Malfatti, Emilio Ashton Vital Brazil, Aliza Rivka Heching
  • Patent number: 11636094
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of storing existing chaincode relationships of a group of blockchain peers within a blockchain network, identifying a new chaincode to implement for one or more blockchain peers among the group of blockchain peers of the blockchain network based on the existing chaincode relationships among the group of blockchain peers, and transmitting a message to the one or more blockchain peers with a suggestion to implement the new chaincode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vagner Figueredo de Santana, Ana Paula Appel, Alecio Pedro Delazari Binotto, Percival Silva de Lucena
  • Publication number: 20230092274
    Abstract: A topic for building a new intent on which to train a chatbot can be received. A database of chatbot training data can be searched for a candidate intent having meta-knowledge similar to the received topic. Utterances associated with the candidate intent can be extracted. The received topic and the extracted utterances can be input to a trained machine learning model. The trained machine learning model generates example utterances for the new intent. The new intent with the generated example utterances can be used as training data for training the chatbot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Paulo Rodrigo Cavalin, Ana Paula Appel, Bruno Silva, Renato Luiz de Freitas Cunha
  • Publication number: 20230084688
    Abstract: Chatbot logs can be received. The chatbot logs can be clustered or classified into clusters of potential intents. Trending topics can be detected by analyzing at least social media content. Semantic similarities between the potential intents and the trending topics can be computed. Based on the computed semantic similarities, at least one of the potential intents to at least one of the trending topics can be correlated. Training of the chatbot using the chatbot logs associated with the correlated potential intent can be triggered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Paulo Rodrigo Cavalin, Ana Paula Appel, Renato Luiz de Freitas Cunha, Bruno Silva
  • Patent number: 11562028
    Abstract: A method of automatically creating new intents and assigning examples to those new intents in a dialog system includes generating at least one predicted intent from an intent concept graph by combining two or more nodes of the intent concept graph. A graph embedding is generated of the at least one predicted intent. A sentence embedding is generated from examples from a call log. The graph embedding of the at least one predicted intent is then matched with the examples from the sentence embedding and the at least one predicted intent, with the examples, is connected into a dialog system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ana Paula Appel, Paulo Rodrigo Cavalin, Victor Henrique Alves Ribeiro, Claudio Santos Pinhanez, Gabriel Louzada Malfatti
  • Publication number: 20220405065
    Abstract: A method and system of generating a documentation includes monitoring user actions regarding a model development, wherein the user actions are captured in a source code development environment. Semantic meaning is provided for each user action captured in the source code development environment. A degree of impact of each user action is determined in connection with the model. Actions having a degree of impact in the development of the model that is above a predetermined threshold are identified as impactful actions. An interactive knowledge graph is identified based on the user actions, semantic meaning of each action, and the determined degree of impact of each user action. The interactive knowledge graph is provided to be displayed in a navigable way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Ana Paula Appel, Renato Luiz de Freitas Cunha, Carlos Raoni de Alencar Mendes, Emilio Ashton Vital Brazil, Marcelo Nery dos Santos, Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto, Priscilla Barreira Avegliano, Renan Francisco Santos Souza, Vinicius Costa Villas Boas Segura
  • Patent number: 11514334
    Abstract: Techniques for maintaining a knowledge database system based on user interactions with the database system are described herein. An aspect includes generating a user interface based on a knowledge database comprising a plurality of entities, wherein the user interface comprises a plurality of user interface elements, each user interface element of the plurality of user interface elements corresponding to one or more of the plurality of entities of the knowledge database. Another aspect includes receiving a user interaction corresponding to the user interface. Another aspect includes updating the knowledge database based on the received user interaction, wherein updating the knowledge database based on the received user interaction includes determining a user interface element associated with the received user interaction, mapping the determined user interface element to a first entity of the plurality of entities of the knowledge database, and performing a weight update corresponding to the first entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vagner Figueredo de Santana, Bernardo Goncalves, Alecio Pedro Delazari Binotto, Ana Paula Appel, Renato Luiz de Freitas Cunha
  • Patent number: 11477133
    Abstract: A system for initiating web containers and isolating network traffic to web containers is described. The system initiates and uses web containers for associated web-based resources, such as domain addresses owned by a single entity. When a web container for a domain address has not been initiated, the system determines an owner of the domain address and any domain addresses associated with the owner and initiates a web container for the domain address and the associated domains. When a user navigates to the domain addresses associated with the determined owner, the system isolates the network activity to the initiated web container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Renato Luiz De Freitas Cunha, Ana Paula Appel, Lucas Correia Villa Real, Henrique Von Atzingen Do Amaral
  • Publication number: 20220188663
    Abstract: An approach to identifying architectures of machine learning models meeting a user defined constraint. The approach can receive input associated with evaluating machine learning models from a user. The approach can determine acceptable architectural templates to evaluate the machine learning models based on the input and determine a list of architectures and metrics based on a calculation of maximum neural network sizes of the acceptable architectural templates not exceeding the constraint. The approach can send the list of architectures and metrics to the user for selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Ana Paula Appel, Renato Luiz de Freitas Cunha, Bruno Silva, PAULO RODRIGO CAVALIN
  • Patent number: 11269596
    Abstract: A microservice and the recipe for that microservice are automatically created by modifying a local environment in an integrated development environment executing on a computing system to construct a desired microservice, recording commands entered while modifying the local environment, computing a list of changes from the recorded commands that change the local environment and compiling the list of changes into a recipe comprising commands and dependencies sufficient to assemble an operating system and software files that are sufficient to instantiate the desired microservice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ana Paula Appel, Renato Luiz De Freitas Cunha, Eduardo Rocha Rodrigues, Bruno Silva
  • Publication number: 20220067101
    Abstract: A method of automatically creating new intents and assigning examples to those new intents in a dialog system includes generating at least one predicted intent from an intent concept graph by combining two or more nodes of the intent concept graph. A graph embedding is generated of the at least one predicted intent. A sentence embedding is generated from examples from a call log. The graph embedding of the at least one predicted intent is then matched with the examples from the sentence embedding and the at least one predicted intent, with the examples, is connected into a dialog system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Ana Paula Appel, Paulo Rodrigo Cavalin, Victor Henrique Alves Ribeiro, Claudio Santos Pinhanez, Gabriel Louzada Malfatti
  • Patent number: 11244161
    Abstract: A method, a computer program product, and a computer system manage tree risk. The method includes receiving images corresponding to a geographic area. The method includes determining whether a first tree captured in at least one of the images has a condition exhibiting a tree risk that poses a hazard above an acceptable threshold. As a result of the first tree having the condition above the acceptable threshold, the method includes generating a notification identifying the first tree and a location of the first tree. The method includes transmitting the notification to a team equipped to remediate the condition of the first tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ana Paula Appel, Renato Luiz De Freitas Cunha, Ariane Hernandes Amadeu, Guilherme Custodio de Souza
  • Patent number: 11216768
    Abstract: A product quality analysis and control system is provided. The product quality analysis and control system includes a processing system that is configured to receive data of objective qualities of a product from multiple data gathering modules. Each of the multiple data gathering modules is respectively positioned at corresponding nodes of a supply chain and is configured to receive from sensors data of objective qualities of a product when the product is at each of the corresponding nodes. The processing system includes a model repository and a data evaluation module. The data evaluation module is configured to select, from the model repository, a model associated with a type of the product and to use the model to analyze the data to identify changes in the objective qualities along the supply chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paulo Rodrigo Cavalin, Carmen Nilda Mena Paz, Jaione Tirapu Azpiroz, Ana Paula Appel, Alexandre Alves
  • Publication number: 20210406469
    Abstract: A method of providing examples to a computerized conversation agent includes associating one or more triplets of two concepts and a relationship therebetween with an intent related to a query. The triplet is embedded in a knowledge graph and the concepts in the knowledge graph are mapped to the intent. A call log is scanned for examples of the intent based on the concepts in the knowledge graph and the examples are mapped to the intent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ana Paula Appel, Claudio Santos Pinhanez, Heloisa Caroline De Souza Pereira Candello, Julio Nogima, Maira Gatti de Bayser, Mauro Pichiliani, Melina de Vasconcelos Alberio Guerra, Paulo Rodrigo Cavalin