Patents by Inventor Geetika T. Lakshmanan

Geetika T. Lakshmanan 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: 20160170592
    Abstract: Transitioning browser tabs from one contextual environment to another contextual environment may be provided. A user interface having a set of tabs may be presented. A context may be defined for the set of tabs and stored. One or more of the tabs in the set may be changed and a new context defined for the changed tabs and stored. A plurality of such additional contexts may be defined and stored. The set of tabs may be adjusted based on a selected browser tab context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Dana L. Price, Shelbee D. Smith-Eigenbrode
  • Publication number: 20160162304
    Abstract: Methods and systems may provide a way for a system to anticipate usage patterns and automatically open a chain of application and browser windows based on typical usage. Additionally, a user may manually identify and create the chain of application and browser windows. In one example, application and browser chaining may be correlated with location, time of day, and profile of the user logged into the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Dana L. Price, Shelbee D. Smith-Eigenbrode
  • Publication number: 20160162594
    Abstract: Methods and computer program products relate to identifying content changes for a link since a previous access including storing information about accessed content by a user for a link, retrieving a current version of information about current content for the link, and determining content change by comparing the current version of the information about current content to information about last accessed content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Dana L. Price, Shelbee D. Smith-Eigenbrode
  • Publication number: 20160154886
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for authorship accountability in a blog search engine. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for authorship accountability in a blog search engine is provided. The method includes receiving a search engine query specifying both query terms to query blog content and also authorship criteria for authors of blog content in respective entries of a results set returned by the search engine query. The method additionally includes evaluating the authorship criteria for each author of corresponding blog content returned by the search engine query and computing a relevance for each entry in the results set based upon the evaluated authorship criteria. Finally, the method includes presenting in order of relevance a listing of blog content corresponding to the results set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Geetika T. LAKSHMANAN, Martin OBERHOFER
  • Publication number: 20160147847
    Abstract: A method for presenting search query results is provided. The method may include detecting an occurrence of the trigger event. The method may include determining a category of information based on data associated with the trigger event. The method may include identifying at least one constraint based on the determined category of information. The method may include appending to the identified at least one constraint to the determined category of information. The method may include generating at least one search query. The method may include selecting at least one candidate website based on the category of information. The method may include performing the at least one search query on the at least one candidate website. The method may include filtering each search query result within the search query results. The method may include sending each filtered search query result within the search query results to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Martin A. Oberhofer
  • Publication number: 20160147889
    Abstract: A method for presenting search query results is provided. The method may include detecting an occurrence of the trigger event. The method may include determining a category of information based on data associated with the trigger event. The method may include identifying at least one constraint based on the determined category of information. The method may include appending to the identified at least one constraint to the determined category of information. The method may include generating at least one search query. The method may include selecting at least one candidate website based on the category of information. The method may include performing the at least one search query on the at least one candidate website. The method may include filtering each search query result within the search query results. The method may include sending each filtered search query result within the search query results to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Martin A. Oberhofer
  • Publication number: 20160092775
    Abstract: A method of inferring intent in a hybrid network includes monitoring communications in the hybrid network between a plurality of members, triggering an estimation of an intent of one or more members of the hybrid network, estimating the intent, determining a confidence level of the intent, and triggering an action based on the confidence level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Geetika T Lakshmanan, Clifford A Pickover, Maja Vukovic
  • Patent number: 9299035
    Abstract: A method for refining a process model includes mining a process model from a set of execution traces; determining whether the process model is too dense or too sparse; learning a predictive model from the execution traces to predict an outcome; modifying the predictive model; and mining a refined process model from updated traces based on attributes present in the modified predictive model. Modifying the predictive model includes making the predictive model more specific if it is determined that the process model is too dense; and making the predictive model more general if it is determined that the process model is too sparse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Szabolcs Rozsnyai, Fei Wang
  • Publication number: 20160063145
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a method of developing a workflow. The method includes receiving a proposed workflow component at a local computing device of a workflow development system. The workflow development system generates a simulation stub derived from historical workflow execution logs that are relevant to the proposed workflow component. The workflow development system executes the simulation stub, which is an approximation of the proposed workflow component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Rong N. Chang, Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Vinod Muthusamy, Wei Tan
  • Patent number: 9251269
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for authorship accountability in a blog search engine. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for authorship accountability in a blog search engine is provided. The method includes receiving a search engine query specifying both query terms to query blog content and also authorship criteria for authors of blog content in respective entries of a results set returned by the search engine query. The method additionally includes evaluating the authorship criteria for each author of corresponding blog content returned by the search engine query and computing a relevance for each entry in the results set based upon the evaluated authorship criteria. Finally, the method includes presenting in order of relevance a listing of blog content corresponding to the results set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Martin Oberhofer
  • Patent number: 9195955
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to determining a process outcome based on a computed probability and altering the path of a process instance based on an expediting rule. An aspect includes executing, by a processing device, a process instance in a process diagram, which includes a plurality of process steps. A condition associated with a first process step is identified. An outcome for the first process step is then determined based on a computed probability. Accordingly, the first process step is bypassed and the process instance is branched to a second process step based on an expediting rule. The expediting rule includes the condition and a branching action according to a selected outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Philippe Bonnard, Steven J. Demuth, Rania Y. Khalaf, Geetika T. Lakshmanan
  • Patent number: 9189763
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to determining a process outcome based on a computed probability and altering the path of a process instance based on an expediting rule. An aspect includes executing, by a processing device, a process instance in a process diagram, which includes a plurality of process steps. A condition associated with a first process step is identified. An outcome for the first process step is then determined based on a computed probability. Accordingly, the first process step is bypassed and the process instance is branched to a second process step based on an expediting rule. The expediting rule includes the condition and a branching action according to a selected outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Philippe Bonnard, Steven J. Demuth, Rania Y. Khalaf, Geetika T. Lakshmanan
  • Publication number: 20150324241
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a representation of an execution trace include identifying at least one execution trace of a business process model, the business process model including parallel paths where a path influences an outcome of a decision. Path information of the business process model is determined using a processor, the path information including at least one of task execution order for each parallel path, task execution order across parallel paths, and dependency between parallel paths. A path representation for the at least one execution trace is selected based upon the path information to determine a representation of the at least one execution trace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Francisco Curbera, Yurdaer N. Doganata, Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Merve Unuvar
  • Publication number: 20150264054
    Abstract: Protecting sensitivity of information in a shared collaborative space on a computer network includes associating a set of sensitivity levels to sets of users and to sets of data elements. Access by each user to the shared collaborative space may be restricted to those data elements that have the same sensitivity level as of the user. Where multiple users join a single session, only data elements having a lowest common sensitivity level are made accessible by the users of the session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Michael Muller
  • Publication number: 20150254216
    Abstract: In a method for identifying and inserting hyperlinks within a software application, a processor receives a request for one or more recommended hyperlinks, wherein the request corresponds to a location for a hyperlink insertion in the software application. A processor receives contextual information about the request. A processor identifies one or more hyperlinks corresponding to the contextual information. A processor receives a selected hyperlink from the one or more hyperlinks. A processor inserts the selected hyperlink at the location in the software application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Michael Muller
  • Publication number: 20150207830
    Abstract: Access to a user profile of a user device at a location may be provided to a destination device upon detecting that the location is within a proximity of a destination location. An expiring token may be generated, associated with the user profile, and communicated to the second device. Access to the user profile provided to the destination device may be terminated upon an expiration of the expiring token.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Lydia M. Do, Geetika T. Lakshmanan
  • Publication number: 20150207781
    Abstract: A first communication element is received on a communicating device. A defined mapping is identified based on an identification of a recipient device. The first communication element is mapped to a second communication element based on the defined mapping. The mapped communication element is provided to the recipient device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Michael Muller
  • Publication number: 20150128034
    Abstract: A method of case management includes receiving a plurality of previously executed case instances, receiving a selection of current case attributes and at least one candidate case outcome during runtime of a currently executing case instance, and generating a visual representation of case distributions using the previously executed case instances. The visual representation depicts a correlation between the current case attributes and the at least one candidate case outcome, and is generated using analytics applied to the plurality of previously executed case instances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: FRANCISCO CURBERA, Matthew J. Duftler, Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Nirmal K. Mukhi, Szabolcs Rozsnyai, Aleksander A. Slominski
  • Publication number: 20150127589
    Abstract: A method for refining a process model includes mining a process model from a set of execution traces; determining whether the process model is too dense or too sparse; learning a predictive model from the execution traces to predict an outcome; modifying the predictive model; and mining a refined process model from updated traces based on attributes present in the modified predictive model. Modifying the predictive model includes making the predictive model more specific if it is determined that the process model is too dense; and making the predictive model more general if it is determined that the process model is too sparse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Szabolcs Rozsnyai, Fei Wang
  • Publication number: 20150127588
    Abstract: Methods and systems for pruning process execution logs include learning a predictive model from a set of execution traces that characterize a process, where the predictive model determines a likelihood of a given instance reaching a specified outcome; identifying attributes in the predictive model that fall below a threshold measure of relevance to the specified outcome using a processor; and removing the identified attributes from the set of execution traces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: GEETIKA T. LAKSHMANAN, SZABOLCS ROZSNYAI, FEI WANG