Patents by Inventor Bei Chen

Bei Chen 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).

  • Publication number: 20210097097
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to chat management to address queries. A query can be received. A determination can be made whether the query has already been answered by comparing the query to text within a chat database. In response to determining that the query has not been answered, a set of prospective experts can be identified. Each of the prospective experts of the set of prospective experts can be ranked based on at least one factor. The query can be transmitted to a first ranked expert. An answer to the query can then be received from the first ranked expert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: OZNUR ALKAN, ADI I. BOTEA, Bei Chen, Elizabeth Daly, Massimiliano MATTETTI, Inge Lise Vejsbjerg
  • Publication number: 20210056407
    Abstract: A neural network has an input layer, one or more hidden layers, and an output layer. The input layer is divided into a situation context input sublayer, a background context input sublayer (in some embodiments), and an environmental input sublayer. The output layer has a selection/sequencing output sublayer and an environmental output sublayer. Each of the layers (including the sublayers) have a plurality of neurons and each of the neurons has an activation. Situation context, environmental information, and background context can be inputted into the neural network which create an output used to dynamically select and sequence selected storylines that are used to modify a story based on the sentiment, environment, and/or background of the audience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Beat Buesser, Adi I. Botea, Bei Chen, Akihiro Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20210044146
    Abstract: An energy Internet system, an energy routing conversion device, and an energy control method, relating to a field of energy information. An alternating-current (AC) side energy routing conversion device of the energy Internet system includes a plurality of first route ports, and a direct-current (DC) side energy routing conversion device includes a plurality of second route ports, where each second route port is connected to a corresponding first route port by means of a corresponding DC busbar. A plurality of energy devices are connected to a DC busbar by means of corresponding first AC/DC converters or first DC converters. The AC side energy routing conversion device and the DC side energy routing conversion device collect energy information of the energy devices and adjust energy of the energy devices on a basis of energy balance constraint conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Mingzhu DONG, Zhigang ZHAO, Meng HUANG, Xuefen ZHANG, Shugong NAN, Shiyong JIANG, Meng LI, Wenqiang TANG, Peng REN, Wu WEN, Lingjun WANG, Xiao LUO, Wenhao WU, Jianjun HUANG, Weijin LI, Yunhong ZENG, Bei CHEN
  • Patent number: 10891277
    Abstract: Techniques facilitating iterative widening search for designing chemical compounds are provided. A computer-implemented method can comprise receiving, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, an indication of a constrained structure portion of a chemical compound and a first unconstrained structure portion of the chemical compound. The method can also comprise determining, by the system, a second unconstrained structure portion for the chemical compound based on a determination that the second unconstrained structure portion satisfies a defined condition related to a difference between the first unconstrained structure portion and the second unconstrained structure portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adi Ionel Botea, Beat Buesser, Bei Chen, Akihiro Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 10817568
    Abstract: Embodiments for recommending predictive modeling methods and features by a processor. One or more extracted methods and features of one or more predictive models are received according to selected criteria from both a structured database and from one or more data sources from a remote database. One or more extracted predictive model methods and features may be recommended according to the selected criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Carlos Alzate Perez, Bei Chen, Ulrike Fischer, Yassine Lassoued
  • Publication number: 20200320164
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for facilitating artificial intelligence for interactive preparation of electronic documents are provided. In one example, a system includes a mapping component and a document editing component. The mapping component maps data provided by a recording device into an editing action for an electronic document. The document editing component applies the editing action associated with the recording device to the electronic document to generate a modified version of the electronic document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Adi I. Botea, Akihiro Kishimoto, Beat Buesser, Bei Chen
  • Publication number: 20200315031
    Abstract: Disclosed are a hole connecting layer manufacturing method, a circuit board manufacturing method and a circuit board. The hole connecting layer manufacturing method comprises: adhering a first insulating dielectric layer, used for laminating and filling, to a daughter board; laminating and solidifying the first insulating dielectric layer on the daughter board; adhering a second insulating dielectric layer, used for laminating and filling, to the first insulating dielectric layer which has been laminated and solidified; manufacturing a first receiving hole on the first insulating dielectric layer and a second receiving hole on the second insulating dielectric layer, wherein the first receiving hole and the second receiving hole are provided vertically opposite to each other; filling both the first receiving hole and the second receiving hole with a conductive medium to complete manufacturing of the hole connecting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Zeyang LIAN, Sen WU, Yanguo LI, Bei CHEN
  • Patent number: 10769193
    Abstract: Performing data clustering in a model property vector space. Input data is received comprising a plurality of data instances in a data vector space. A model property vector specification is defined for a model vector. Information is identified from the input data, and a model property vector is created in the model property vector space for each of the plurality of data instances. A target number of clusters is identified and used to perform a data clustering procedure. An output is generated comprising a plurality of data segments and one or more clustering rules. For each data cluster, a predictive model is constructed for each data segment of the plurality of data segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Bouillet, Bei Chen, Randall L. Cogill, Thanh L. Hoang, Marco Laumanns, Karol W. Lynch, Rahul Nair, Pascal Pompey, John Sheehan
  • Publication number: 20200242493
    Abstract: Embodiments for detection of energy consumption anomalies in one or more energy consumption systems in a cloud computing environment by a processor. Energy consumption anomalies associated with a selected facility, a selected object, or a combination thereof may be detected and diagnosed according to feedback and simulation data generated from a scenario-based simulation operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adi BOTEA, Beat BUESSER, Akihiro KISHIMOTO, Bei CHEN
  • Patent number: 10699214
    Abstract: Embodiments for using virtual sensor models in an internet of things (IoT) environment by a processor. One or more virtual sensor models are automatically identified according to a semantic graph, having a knowledge domain that links and describes a relationship between observed variables associated with one or more sensors with unobserved variables associated with the IoT environment. The one or more virtual sensor models may be selected for deployment in the IoT environment according to one or more combinations of virtual sensor inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bei Chen, Joern Ploennigs, Anika Schumann
  • Patent number: 10679733
    Abstract: Techniques for efficient retrosynthesis analysis are provided. A computer-implemented method for determining whether a target compound can be synthesized using known pathways for similar compounds includes receiving, by a processor, target compound data including a target compound. The method further includes obtaining, by the processor, a similar compound to the target compound, along with a reaction rule for synthesizing the similar compound. The method further includes applying, by the processor, the reaction rule to the target compound to generate a set of precursors. The method further includes generating, by the processor, a notification based on the set of precursors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adi I. Botea, Beat Buesser, Bei Chen, Akihiro Kishimoto, John Savage
  • Publication number: 20200167839
    Abstract: Embodiments for intelligent dynamic parking for autonomous vehicles by a processor. A dynamic parking plan may be determined for an autonomous vehicle to travel from a selected location and returning to the selected location within a selected time window according to a transportation network and one or more a variable parking functions in lieu of waiting at the selected location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adi BOTEA, Beat BUESSER, Bei CHEN, Akihiro KISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200151651
    Abstract: Embodiments for implementing intelligent opportunity recommendation and management by a processor. A channel selection model mat be applied to a selected opportunity in view of a plurality of opportunity attributes to identify one or more team candidates of an entity or one or more entity partners ranked by alignment with the selected opportunity and determine a recommended opportunity owner from the one or more team candidates of the entity, the one or more entity partners, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alice J. CHANG, Benjamin DUBIEL, Xiaoxi TIAN, Elizabeth DALY, Inge L. VEJSBJERG, Massimiliano MATTETTI, Bei CHEN, Oznur ALKAN, Adi I. BOTEA, Sanjmeet ABROL, Weiwei LI, Alan ZWIREN
  • Publication number: 20200076197
    Abstract: Various embodiments manage energy generation in a power generation and distribution system. In one embodiment, a set of residual load data is obtained for a given period of time measured at one or more nodes within a power generation and distribution system. The set of residual load data encodes a set of power flow signals. The set of residual load data is analyzed. An amount of power contributed to the set of residual load data by at least one energy generator class is determined based on the analysis of the set of residual load data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: Utopus Insights, Inc.
    Inventors: Bei CHEN, Jean-Baptiste Remi FIOT, Vincent Petrus Anthonius LONIJ, Mathieu F. SINN
  • Publication number: 20200049125
    Abstract: Embodiments for managing a wave energy converter (WEC) device by one or more processors are described. At least one environmental characteristic associated with a WEC device in a body of water is received. A prediction of wave conditions on the body of water is calculated based on the at least one environmental characteristic. A signal representative of the prediction of wave conditions is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fearghal O'DONNCHA, Bei CHEN, Sean A. MCKENNA
  • Publication number: 20200050947
    Abstract: Embodiments for intelligent discovery of preferred chemical reaction pathways to a synthesized target compound by a processor. Target compound data of a target compound a user intends to synthesize may be received. A preference score for one or more chemical reaction pathways to the target compound may be calculated based on one or more chemical reactions. One or more preferred chemical reaction pathways to the targeted compound may be determined using a modified retrosynthetic analysis according to the preference score for one or more chemical reactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro KISHIMOTO, Adi I. BOTEA, Beat BUESSER, Bei CHEN, Takahiko KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200042544
    Abstract: Techniques facilitating automatic feature extraction from a relational database are provided. In an embodiment, a method can include generating an entity graph based on a relational database, wherein the entity graph comprises a first node associated with a first table in the relational database and a second node associated with a second table in the relational database. In another embodiment, the method can include joining the first table and the second table based on an edge between the first table and the second table defined by the entity graph, wherein a resulting joined table is connected by a column of data. In another embodiment, the method can include extracting a feature from the column of data using a data mining algorithm selected from a set of data mining algorithms based on a type of data in the column of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Bei Chen, Thanh Lam Hoang, Tiep Mai, Mathieu Sinn, Johann-Michael Thiebaut
  • Publication number: 20200002281
    Abstract: The invention relates to heterocyclic compounds of the formula (I) in which all of the variables are as defined in the specification; capable of modulating the activity of CFTR. The invention further provides a method for manufacturing compounds of the invention, and its therapeutic uses. The invention further provides methods to their preparation, to their medical use, in particular to their use in the treatment and management of diseases or disorders including Cystic fibrosis and related disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Mihai Azimioara, Bei Chen, Robert Epple, Ayako Honda, Philip Lam, Hasnain Ahmed Malik, Casey Jacob Nelson Mathison, Truc Ngoc Nguyen, Victor Ivanovich Nikulin, Sejal Patel, Dean Paul Phillips, Rodrigo A. Rodriguez, Baogen Wu, Xuefeng Zhu
  • Patent number: 10482112
    Abstract: Techniques facilitating automatic feature extraction from a relational database are provided. In an embodiment, a method can include generating an entity graph based on a relational database, wherein the entity graph comprises a first node associated with a first table in the relational database and a second node associated with a second table in the relational database. In another embodiment, the method can include joining the first table and the second table based on an edge between the first table and the second table defined by the entity graph, wherein a resulting joined table is connected by a column of data. In another embodiment, the method can include extracting a feature from the column of data using a data mining algorithm selected from a set of data mining algorithms based on a type of data in the column of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bei Chen, Thanh Lam Hoang, Tiep Mai, Mathieu Sinn, Johann-Michael Thiebaut
  • Publication number: 20190340160
    Abstract: Techniques facilitating iterative widening search for designing chemical compounds are provided. A computer-implemented method can comprise receiving, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, an indication of a constrained structure portion of a chemical compound and a first unconstrained structure portion of the chemical compound. The method can also comprise determining, by the system, a second unconstrained structure portion for the chemical compound based on a determination that the second unconstrained structure portion satisfies a defined condition related to a difference between the first unconstrained structure portion and the second unconstrained structure portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Adi Ionel Botea, Beat Buesser, Bei Chen, Akihiro Kishimoto