Patents by Inventor Elie Feirouz

Elie Feirouz 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: 11308143
    Abstract: Curation of a corpus of a cognitive computing system is performed by reporting to a user a cluster model of a parse tree structure of discrepancies and corresponding assigned confidence factors detected between at least a portion of a first electronic document and a second or more electronic documents in the information corpus. Responsive to a selection by the user of a discrepancy cluster model, drill-down details regarding the discrepancy are returned to the user, for subsequent user selection of an administrative action option for handling the detected discrepancy to curate the information corpus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Ashok Kumar, William G. O'Keeffe
  • Patent number: 11074286
    Abstract: A selected document from corpus of a cognitive computing system is processed according to its association with a category of documents already contained within the corpus, such as a topical category. Then, the cognitive computing system is engaged automatically to query one or more questions previously-associated with the category to discover discrepancies between the selected document and the other corpus documents. If a discrepancy is found, a confidence factor based upon extracted natural language entities and relationships is assigned to the discrepancy, and it is flagged and reported to a user for reconciliation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Ashok Kumar, William G. O'Keeffe
  • Patent number: 11030227
    Abstract: A new document is processed for ingestion into a corpus of a cognitive computing system by associating with a category of documents already contained within the corpus, such as a topical category. Then, the cognitive computing system is engaged automatically to query one or more questions previously-associated with the category to discover discrepancies between the new document and those already in the corpus. If a discrepancy is found, a confidence factor based upon extracted natural language entities and relationships is assigned to the discrepancy, and it is flagged and reported to a user for reconciliation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Ashok Kumar, William G. O'Keeffe
  • Patent number: 10754969
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a question and answer (QA) pipeline system that adjusts answers to input questions based on a user criteria, thus implementing a content-based determination of access permissions. The QA system allows for information to be retrieved based on permission granted to a user. Documents are ingested and assigned an access level based on a defined information access policy. The QA system is implemented with the defined information access policy, the ingested documents, and the inferred access levels. For the QA system implementation, a user enters a question; primary search and answer extraction stages are performed; candidate answer extraction is performed using only content the user is allowed to access; the candidate answers are scored, ranked, and merged; ranked answers based on user permissions are filtered; and answers are provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Daniel M. Jamrog, Kristin A. Witherspoon
  • Patent number: 10382440
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a question and answer (QA) pipeline system that adjusts answers to input questions based on a user criteria, thus implementing a content-based determination of access permissions. The QA system allows for information to be retrieved based on permission granted to a user. Documents are ingested and assigned an access level based on a defined information access policy. The QA system is implemented with the defined information access policy, the ingested documents, and the inferred access levels. For the QA system implementation, a user enters a question; primary search and answer extraction stages are performed; candidate answer extraction is performed using only content the user is allowed to access; the candidate answers are scored, ranked, and merged; ranked answers based on user permissions are filtered; and answers are provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Daniel M. Jamrog, Kristin A. Witherspoon
  • Publication number: 20190236088
    Abstract: Curation of a corpus of a cognitive computing system is performed by reporting to a user a cluster model of a parse tree structure of discrepancies and corresponding assigned confidence factors detected between at least a portion of a first electronic document and a second or more electronic documents in the information corpus. Responsive to a selection by the user of a discrepancy cluster model, drill-down details regarding the discrepancy are returned to the user, for subsequent user selection of an administrative action option for handling the detected discrepancy to curate the information corpus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Ashok Kumar, William G. O'Keeffe
  • Patent number: 10366116
    Abstract: Curation of a corpus of a cognitive computing system is performed interactively by reporting on user interface device to a user a parse tree illustration of discrepancies and corresponding assigned confidence factors detected between at least a portion of a first document and a second or more documents in the corpus. Responsive to a user selection of an illustrated discrepancy in the parse tree, a drill-down dialog is prepared and displayed which shows at least a text string for the portion of the first document and at least one conflicting text string from the second or more documents, and which provides at least one user-selectable administrative action option for handling the detected discrepancy. Responsive to receipt of user selection of an administrative action option, the computing system performs the action to handle the detected discrepancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Ashok Kumar, William G. O'Keeffe
  • Publication number: 20190129903
    Abstract: A selected document from corpus of a cognitive computing system is processed according to its association with a category of documents already contained within the corpus, such as a topical category. Then, the cognitive computing system is engaged automatically to query one or more questions previously-associated with the category to discover discrepancies between the selected document and the other corpus documents. If a discrepancy is found, a confidence factor based upon extracted natural language entities and relationships is assigned to the discrepancy, and it is flagged and reported to a user for reconciliation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Ashok Kumar, William G. O'Keeffe
  • Publication number: 20190050478
    Abstract: A new document is processed for ingestion into a corpus of a cognitive computing system by associating with a category of documents already contained within the corpus, such as a topical category. Then, the cognitive computing system is engaged automatically to query one or more questions previously-associated with the category to discover discrepancies between the new document and those already in the corpus. If a discrepancy is found, a confidence factor based upon extracted natural language entities and relationships is assigned to the discrepancy, and it is flagged and reported to a user for reconciliation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Ashok Kumar, William G. O'Keeffe
  • Patent number: 10176250
    Abstract: A selected document from corpus of a cognitive computing system is processed according to its association with a category of documents already contained within the corpus, such as a topical category. Then, the cognitive computing system is engaged automatically to query one or more questions previously-associated with the category to discover discrepancies between the selected document and the other corpus documents. If a discrepancy is found, a confidence factor based upon extracted natural language entities and relationships is assigned to the discrepancy, and it is flagged and reported to a user for reconciliation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Ashok Kumar, William G. O'Keeffe
  • Patent number: 10146858
    Abstract: A new document is processed for ingestion into a corpus of a cognitive computing system by associating with a category of documents already contained within the corpus, such as a topical category. Then, the cognitive computing system is engaged automatically to query one or more questions previously-associated with the category to discover discrepancies between the new document and those already in the corpus. If a discrepancy is found, a confidence factor based upon extracted natural language entities and relationships is assigned to the discrepancy, and it is flagged and reported to a user for reconciliation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Ashok Kumar, William G. O'Keeffe
  • Publication number: 20180081934
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a question and answer (QA) pipeline system that adjusts answers to input questions based on a user criteria, thus implementing a content-based determination of access permissions. The QA system allows for information to be retrieved based on permission granted to a user. Documents are ingested and assigned an access level based on a defined information access policy. The QA system is implemented with the defined information access policy, the ingested documents, and the inferred access levels. For the QA system implementation, a user enters a question; primary search and answer extraction stages are performed; candidate answer extraction is performed using only content the user is allowed to access; the candidate answers are scored, ranked, and merged; ranked answers based on user permissions are filtered; and answers are provided to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Daniel M. Jamrog, Kristin A. Witherspoon
  • Publication number: 20180083975
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a question and answer (QA) pipeline system that adjusts answers to input questions based on a user criteria, thus implementing a content-based determination of access permissions. The QA system allows for information to be retrieved based on permission granted to a user. Documents are ingested and assigned an access level based on a defined information access policy. The QA system is implemented with the defined information access policy, the ingested documents, and the inferred access levels. For the QA system implementation, a user enters a question; primary search and answer extraction stages are performed; candidate answer extraction is performed using only content the user is allowed to access; the candidate answers are scored, ranked, and merged; ranked answers based on user permissions are filtered; and answers are provided to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Daniel M. Jamrog, Kristin A. Witherspoon
  • Publication number: 20180067950
    Abstract: Curation of a corpus of a cognitive computing system is performed interactively by reporting on user interface device to a user a parse tree illustration of discrepancies and corresponding assigned confidence factors detected between at least a portion of a first document and a second or more documents in the corpus. Responsive to a user selection of an illustrated discrepancy in the parse tree, a drill-down dialog is prepared and displayed which shows at least a text string for the portion of the first document and at least one conflicting text string from the second or more documents, and which provides at least one user-selectable administrative action option for handling the detected discrepancy. Responsive to receipt of user selection of an administrative action option, the computing system performs the action to handle the detected discrepancy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Ashok Kumar, William G. O'Keeffe
  • Patent number: 9842161
    Abstract: Curation of a corpus of a cognitive computing system is performed interactively by reporting on user interface device to a user a parse tree illustration of discrepancies and corresponding assigned confidence factors detected between at least a portion of a first document and a second or more documents in the corpus. Responsive to a user selection of an illustrated discrepancy in the parse tree, a drill-down dialog is prepared and displayed which shows at least a text string for the portion of the first document and at least one conflicting text string from the second or more documents, and which provides at least one user-selectable administrative action option for handling the detected discrepancy. Responsive to receipt of user selection of an administrative action option, the computing system performs the action to handle the detected discrepancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Ashok Kumar, William G. O'Keeffe
  • Publication number: 20170169017
    Abstract: A new document is processed for ingestion into a corpus of a cognitive computing system by associating with a category of documents already contained within the corpus, such as a topical category. Then, the cognitive computing system is engaged automatically to query one or more questions previously-associated with the category to discover discrepancies between the new document and those already in the corpus. If a discrepancy is found, a confidence factor based upon extracted natural language entities and relationships is assigned to the discrepancy, and it is flagged and reported to a user for reconciliation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Elie Feirouz, Ashok Kumar, William G. O'Keeffe
  • Publication number: 20060294196
    Abstract: A system for storing a session cookie from another client application program, in which a separate client application is allowed to launch an external browser, and to supply a browser with a session cookie containing user specific session information. The browser is extended to support a new URI scheme providing for indication of a session cookie to be embedded into the browser, as well as an embedded URI to be processed by the browser after the indicated session cookie has been loaded into the browser. After the browser has been extended to handle the new URI scheme, a URI using the new scheme is passed to the browser as a command line parameter by a separate application program. The extended browser processes the new scheme URI, extracting the session cookie data and an embedded URI to be subsequently loaded. A client application separate from the browser may authenticate the user prior to the user requesting access to a secure Web page through the browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Elie Feirouz, Doron Rosenberg, Richard Wilson, Darin Fisher