Patents by Inventor Debbie Anglin

Debbie Anglin 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: 11841885
    Abstract: An audio file format of an audio portion of a natural language content is determined. Using a trained audio language identification model, a human language included in the audio portion is identified. Using a trained audio to text model trained on the human language, the audio portion is converted to a corresponding set of text data. The set of text data is indexed. Using the indexed set of text data responsive to a search query, a search result is generated, the search query specifying a search including a non-textual portion of the natural language content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Su Liu, Debbie Anglin, Boyi Tzen, Fan Yang
  • Patent number: 11790293
    Abstract: An embodiment includes generating first and second preliminary schedules for respective first and second workers assigned respective first and second tasks, detects a block of time that is part of both the first and second preliminary schedules, and generates respective first and second location predictions for the first and second workers during the block of time. The embodiment calculates a distance between the first and second workers based on the first and second location predictions, and revises, responsive to determining that the distance is less than a threshold value, the second preliminary schedule to replace the first block of time with a second block of time that is not part of the first preliminary schedule. The embodiment generates an access control list that includes the first preliminary schedule as a first access schedule for the first worker for use in responding to access queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Su Liu, Debbie Anglin, Rui Yang, Paul Bernell Finley, Jr., Amir Sanjar
  • Patent number: 11656913
    Abstract: An embodiment includes establishing a demand threshold for adding a locale to an installation list based at least in part on selection data indicative of an input from a user. The embodiment also includes monitoring user inputs to a cloud computing environment so as to detect user inputs that include requests to install the locale. The embodiment also includes dynamically updating a demand score associated with the locale based on ongoing detection of locale installation requests during the monitoring of user inputs. The embodiment also includes automatically adding the locale to the installation list upon detecting that the demand score satisfied the demand threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Su Liu, Debbie Anglin, Fan Yang, Boyi Tzen
  • Patent number: 11620367
    Abstract: Using a biometric sensor coupled to a touchscreen, fingerprint data is collected from within a plurality of virtual key areas of the touchscreen. A virtual key area in the plurality of virtual key areas comprises an area of the touchscreen configured to display an input prompt and collect touch data responsive to the input prompt. Responsive to determining that the fingerprint data has above a threshold level of similarity with stored fingerprint data associated with each of the virtual key areas and that a sequence of the virtual key areas matches a stored key sequence, access to a protected resource is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Su Liu, Demetrice Browder, Cheng Xu, Debbie Anglin
  • Patent number: 11594226
    Abstract: An embodiment includes converting an original audio signal to an original text string, the original audio signal being from a recording of the original text string spoken by a specific person in a source language. The embodiment generates a translated text string by translating the original text string from the source language to a target language, including translation of a word from the source language to a target language. The embodiment assembles a standard phoneme sequence from a set of standard phonemes, where the standard phoneme sequence includes a standard pronunciation of the translated word. The embodiment also associates a custom phoneme with a standard phoneme of the standard phoneme sequence, where the custom phoneme includes the specific person's pronunciation of a sound in the translated word. The embodiment synthesizes the translated text string to a translated audio signal including the translated word pronounced using the custom phoneme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Su Liu, Yang Liang, Debbie Anglin, Fan Yang
  • Patent number: 11586822
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for adapting regular expressions for different contexts. Embodiments include identifying a regular expression in an initial form provided by a user. Embodiments include retrieving, from a repository, an adapted form of the regular expression based on the initial form. Embodiments include transforming the regular expression based on the adapted form to generate an adapted regular expression. Embodiments include evaluating the adapted regular expression to produce an output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Su Liu, Fan Yang, Boyi Tzen, Debbie A. Anglin
  • Publication number: 20220342918
    Abstract: An audio file format of an audio portion of a natural language content is determined. Using a trained audio language identification model, a human language included in the audio portion is identified. Using a trained audio to text model trained on the human language, the audio portion is converted to a corresponding set of text data. The set of text data is indexed. Using the indexed set of text data responsive to a search query, a search result is generated, the search query specifying a search including a non-textual portion of the natural language content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Su Liu, Debbie Anglin, Boyi Tzen, Fan Yang
  • Publication number: 20220199086
    Abstract: An embodiment includes converting an original audio signal to an original text string, the original audio signal being from a recording of the original text string spoken by a specific person in a source language. The embodiment generates a translated text string by translating the original text string from the source language to a target language, including translation of a word from the source language to a target language. The embodiment assembles a standard phoneme sequence from a set of standard phonemes, where the standard phoneme sequence includes a standard pronunciation of the translated word. The embodiment also associates a custom phoneme with a standard phoneme of the standard phoneme sequence, where the custom phoneme includes the specific person's pronunciation of a sound in the translated word. The embodiment synthesizes the translated text string to a translated audio signal including the translated word pronounced using the custom phoneme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Su Liu, YANG LIANG, Debbie Anglin, Fan Yang
  • Publication number: 20220188739
    Abstract: An embodiment includes generating first and second preliminary schedules for respective first and second workers assigned respective first and second tasks, detects a block of time that is part of both the first and second preliminary schedules, and generates respective first and second location predictions for the first and second workers during the block of time. The embodiment calculates a distance between the first and second workers based on the first and second location predictions, and revises, responsive to determining that the distance is less than a threshold value, the second preliminary schedule to replace the first block of time with a second block of time that is not part of the first preliminary schedule. The embodiment generates an access control list that includes the first preliminary schedule as a first access schedule for the first worker for use in responding to access queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Su Liu, Debbie Anglin, Rui Yang, Paul Bernell Finley, JR., Amir Sanjar
  • Patent number: 11347381
    Abstract: A set of images and a corresponding set of textual information are received, such that a first textual information is to be presented with a first image. The first textual information is translated into a set of translated textual information, each textual information in the set of translated textual information corresponding to a language in a set of languages. A set of layout parameters is determined for at least one translated textual information. The translated textual information is transformed according to the set of layout parameters and overlaid on the first image. The overlaying causes a pixel of the transformed translated textual information to be superimposed on a pixel of the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Su Liu, Yang Liang, Debbie Anglin, Cheng Xu
  • Publication number: 20220156122
    Abstract: An embodiment includes establishing a demand threshold for adding a locale to an installation list based at least in part on selection data indicative of an input from a user. The embodiment also includes monitoring user inputs to a cloud computing environment so as to detect user inputs that include requests to install the locale. The embodiment also includes dynamically updating a demand score associated with the locale based on ongoing detection of locale installation requests during the monitoring of user inputs. The embodiment also includes automatically adding the locale to the installation list upon detecting that the demand score satisfied the demand threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Su Liu, Debbie Anglin, Fan Yang, Boyi Tzen
  • Publication number: 20220147603
    Abstract: Using a biometric sensor coupled to a touchscreen, fingerprint data is collected from within a plurality of virtual key areas of the touchscreen. A virtual key area in the plurality of virtual key areas comprises an area of the touchscreen configured to display an input prompt and collect touch data responsive to the input prompt. Responsive to determining that the fingerprint data has above a threshold level of similarity with stored fingerprint data associated with each of the virtual key areas and that a sequence of the virtual key areas matches a stored key sequence, access to a protected resource is allowed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Su Liu, Demetrice Browder, Cheng Xu, Debbie Anglin
  • Patent number: 11153366
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for generating a customized lightweight web font corresponding to web content and providing the lightweight font to a requesting client device to enable the client device to render the web content using the customized lightweight font. The customized lightweight font only includes glyphs corresponding to those characters that appear in the web content. The file size of the lightweight web font is substantially less than the file size of the complete web font, and thus, there is substantially less latency and overhead associated with downloading the lightweight web font as compared to downloading the entire web font. A glyph demanding assessment can be performed to identify a set of characters contained in the web content such that corresponding glyphs can be extracted from the web font and used to generate the customized lightweight web font.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Su Liu, Boyi Tzen, Fan Yang, Debbie Anglin
  • Publication number: 20210264117
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for multilingual simultaneous interpretation using a distributed ledger are disclosed. A multilingual interpretation server determines that a new word has been added to a first language node, the first language node corresponding to a first language, and broadcasts, to a plurality of other language nodes, a request to interpret the new word, wherein each of the plurality of other language nodes corresponds to a different language. Each of the plurality of language nodes interprets the new word into a particular language and adds the new word and one or more interpretations of the new word to an entry in a dictionary ledger. A multilingual interpretation service provides simultaneous multilingual translations of from a source language to a plurality of target languages using the shared distributed dictionary ledger. A multilingual interpretation client is provided for accessing services provided by the multilingual interpretation service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: HOWARD N. ANGLIN, SU LIU, FEHMINA MERCHANT, DEBBIE ANGLIN
  • Patent number: 10909023
    Abstract: One or more embodiments are described for function-message identifier oriented test case generation for seamlessly supporting continuous globalization verification testing in agile computer program product development. An example computer-implemented method includes identifying a newly added globalization function in a modified source code, the globalization function including a message to be output via a user-interface, the message being in a first language. The method also includes generating function-message data that associates a function identifier of the globalization function with a message identifier of the message. The method also includes generating, automatically, a test case for verifying the globalization function outputs the message via the user-interface in a second language using the function-message data. The method also includes creating and broadcasting a test report to a development team, the test report indicating a result of executing the test case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Su Liu, Debbie Anglin, Fan Yang, Boyi Tzen
  • Publication number: 20200393941
    Abstract: A set of images and a corresponding set of textual information are received, such that a first textual information is to be presented with a first image. The first textual information is translated into a set of translated textual information, each textual information in the set of translated textual information corresponding to a language in a set of languages. A set of layout parameters is determined for at least one translated textual information. The translated textual information is transformed according to the set of layout parameters and overlaid on the first image. The overlaying causes a pixel of the transformed translated textual information to be superimposed on a pixel of the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Su Liu, Yang Liang, Debbie Anglin, Cheng Xu
  • Patent number: 10820154
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising identifying at least one rule for a home screen of a mobile device, wherein the at least one rule is determined based on a current location of a mobile device, identifying a modification for a first object displayed on the home screen of the mobile device, wherein the modification is associated with the at least one rule and the current location of the mobile device, applying the modification to the first object, and outputting the home screen on the mobile device, wherein the outputted home screen includes the modified first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Debbie A. Anglin, Jeffrey A. Calcaterra, Su Liu, John D. Wilson, Cheng Xu
  • Patent number: 10776248
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: obtaining and storing, by a computer device, a service profile defining writing style rules, scoring information, and threshold information; receiving, by the computer device, an extracted program integrated information (PII) message from a client device; determining, by the computer device, an overall validation score of the extracted PII message is less than a threshold defined by the threshold information; generating, by the computer device, a modified PII message by changing content of the extracted PII message; and returning, by the computer device, the modified PII message to the client device for replacing the extracted PII message in a source code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Su Liu, Debbie Anglin, Cheng Xu, WuMi Zhong
  • Patent number: 10769226
    Abstract: A graphical user interface allows a user to dynamically select a scope of friends to share media content based on a sharing criteria and interest degree analysis. The sharing criteria may be selected by the user to filter friends for sharing content. The interest degree analysis may be provided from a social media platform that identifies the topic and content of the media which is being shared and determines a degree of interest for each friend on the identified topic. The degree of interest is used to assign each friend to a sharing scope on the graphical user interface to allow the user to select a scope of friends to share the media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Su Liu, Cheng Xu, Jun Su, Debbie Anglin
  • Publication number: 20200280602
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for generating a customized lightweight web font corresponding to web content and providing the lightweight font to a requesting client device to enable the client device to render the web content using the customized lightweight font. The customized lightweight font only includes glyphs corresponding to those characters that appear in the web content. The file size of the lightweight web font is substantially less than the file size of the complete web font, and thus, there is substantially less latency and overhead associated with downloading the lightweight web font as compared to downloading the entire web font. A glyph demanding assessment can be performed to identify a set of characters contained in the web content such that corresponding glyphs can be extracted from the web font and used to generate the customized lightweight web font.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Su Liu, Boyi Tzen, Fan Yang, Debbie Anglin