Patents by Inventor James S. Luke

James S. Luke 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: 11894023
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating revised videos. The method includes, for example, receiving, by one or more processor, first video data of an environment having at least one projection on a screen from a first point of view, and generating, by the one or more processor, revised video data of the environment having the at least one projection on the screen from the first point of view based on the first video data, the revised video data comprising a plurality of frames with the at least one projection on the screen disposed in the first area relative to the environment in a plurality of frames being revised based on data for projecting the at least one projection on the screen in the first video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony L. Cole, Thomas J. Davison, Daniel Del Piccolo, Daniel Lane, James S. Luke, Martine M. Pulvenis
  • Patent number: 11068485
    Abstract: Identifying data within a data store satisfying a request. A quantity of the identified data is greater than a threshold. The identified data is analyzed to produce an initial result set with a reduced data quantity including information summarizing the identified data. The analyzing includes visualizing the information summarizing the identified data as one or more graphical displays rendered within a user interface and selectively filtering the identified data based upon a selection of filter factors associated with the identified data to generate an initial result set having a smaller size in relation to the identified data set. Each of one or more succeeding result sets are generated from a corresponding prior result set until a succeeding result set includes a quantity of data satisfying the threshold. The generating of each succeeding result set includes filtering the corresponding prior result set and information summarizing the filtered result set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oliver J. Beacom, John W. Bell, Paul C. Jones, James S. Luke, Luke Morgan, Royston W. Shufflebotham, Mark L. Todd
  • Patent number: 10929602
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, apparatus and computer program product of question generation in a cognitive system, comprising: receiving a training question; applying rules of grammar and common usage to generate variants of the training question; identifying any generalized versions of specific words, such as verbs or nouns in the training question; identifying any questions related to the training question; filtering out, utilizing a classifier, generated variants which do not make sense; and providing one or more output questions, synonymous to the training question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rick A. Hamilton, II, James S. Luke, Philip D. Tetlow, Ralph P. Williams
  • Patent number: 10832010
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to training a conversational agent. A conversational agent is initiated with a set of atomic operators, each atomic operator having one or more atomic operator rules for executing operations. A natural language input is received from a user on a conversational interface. A determination is made whether the natural language input maps to an existing script by referencing a rules engine. In response to a determination that the natural language does not map to an existing script, training is requested from the user. Training is then received from the user which maps the natural language input to a script. A mapping rule which maps the natural language input to the script is stored, and the script is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James S. Luke, James R. Magowan
  • Patent number: 10715416
    Abstract: A system determines groups of nodes within a communication network, each group forming a bi-connected component. A simple path is computed between a source node and a target node. Each group of nodes without a node in the simple path is removed producing a resulting set of nodes. Valid connections between the source node and the target node are determined that include only nodes in the resulting set of nodes. Information is provided from the source node to the target node via one or more of the valid connections. A running time for performing the step of determining the groups of nodes through the step of removing each of the groups of nodes without a node in the simple path is linear with respect to a size of a graph of the communication network. A method and computer program product also are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James S. Luke, Jean-Francois Puget
  • Publication number: 20200042827
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, apparatus and computer program product of question generation in a cognitive system, comprising: receiving a training question; applying rules of grammar and common usage to generate variants of the training question; identifying any generalized versions of specific words, such as verbs or nouns in the training question; identifying any questions related to the training question; filtering out, utilizing a classifier, generated variants which do not make sense; and providing one or more output questions, synonymous to the training question.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Rick A. Hamilton, II, James S. Luke, Philip D. Tetlow, Ralph P. Williams
  • Patent number: 10503830
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for processing natural language input are provided. Natural language input is processed by one or more processing rules. The processing rules may specify one or more actions to be performed. The processing rules may alternatively or additionally split up the natural language input into a plurality of simpler sub-inputs, each of which may then be processed by one or more processing rules. The processing rules themselves may be generalized, which generalization may be based on user input. In the event that a suitable processing rule cannot be found, a request may be made to a user to provide instructions for processing the natural language input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Edward J. Biddle, James S. Luke, James R. Magowan, Graham White
  • Publication number: 20190370342
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to training a conversational agent. A conversational agent is initiated with a set of atomic operators, each atomic operator having one or more atomic operator rules for executing operations. A natural language input is received from a user on a conversational interface. A determination is made whether the natural language input maps to an existing script by referencing a rules engine. In response to a determination that the natural language does not map to an existing script, training is requested from the user. Training is then received from the user which maps the natural language input to a script. A mapping rule which maps the natural language input to the script is stored, and the script is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: James S. Luke, James R. Magowan
  • Publication number: 20190230023
    Abstract: A system determines groups of nodes within a communication network, each group forming a bi-connected component. A simple path is computed between a source node and a target node. Each group of nodes without a node in the simple path is removed producing a resulting set of nodes. Valid connections between the source node and the target node are determined that include only nodes in the resulting set of nodes. Information is provided from the source node to the target node via one or more of the valid connections. A running time for performing the step of determining the groups of nodes through the step of removing each of the groups of nodes without a node in the simple path is linear with respect to a size of a graph of the communication network. A method and computer program product also are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: James S. Luke, Jean-Francois Puget
  • Publication number: 20190220465
    Abstract: Identifying data within a data store satisfying a request. A quantity of the identified data is greater than a threshold. The identified data is analyzed to produce an initial result set with a reduced data quantity including information summarizing the identified data. The analyzing includes visualizing the information summarizing the identified data as one or more graphical displays rendered within a user interface and selectively filtering the identified data based upon a selection of filter factors associated with the identified data to generate an initial result set having a smaller size in relation to the identified data set. Each of one or more succeeding result sets are generated from a corresponding prior result set until a succeeding result set includes a quantity of data satisfying the threshold. The generating of each succeeding result set includes filtering the corresponding prior result set and information summarizing the filtered result set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Oliver J. Beacom, John W. Bell, Paul C. Jones, James S. Luke, Luke Morgan, Royston W. Shufflebotham, Mark L. Todd
  • Patent number: 10341219
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system determines groups of nodes within a network, each group forming a bi-connected component. The system identifies articulation nodes within the network, where each articulation node resides within each connection between a pair of nodes in the network. The system removes from the determined group each node that includes an articulation node between that node and both the source and target nodes to produce a resulting set of nodes. The system determines connections between the source and target nodes based on the resulting set of nodes. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for determining connections between network nodes in substantially the same manners described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James S. Luke, Jean-Francois Puget
  • Publication number: 20190172497
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating revised videos. The method includes, for example, receiving, by one or more processor, first video data of an environment having at least one projection on a screen from a first point of view, and generating, by the one or more processor, revised video data of the environment having the at least one projection on the screen from the first point of view based on the first video data, the revised video data comprising a plurality of frames with the at least one projection on the screen disposed in the first area relative to the environment in a plurality of frames being revised based on data for projecting the at least one projection on the screen in the first video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Anthony L. COLE, Thomas J. DAVISON, Daniel DEL PICCOLO, Daniel LANE, James S. LUKE, Martine M. PULVENIS
  • Patent number: 10311059
    Abstract: A request for data is processed by identifying data within a data store satisfying the request, where an amount of the identified data exceeds a threshold, analyzing the identified data to produce an initial result set with a reduced amount of data including information summarizing the identified data, and generating one or more succeeding result sets each from a corresponding prior result set until a succeeding result set includes an amount of data satisfying the threshold. Each succeeding result set includes a reduced amount of data relative to the corresponding prior result set, and generating each succeeding result set includes filtering the corresponding prior result set and generating the succeeding result set including information summarizing the filtered result set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oliver J. Beacom, John W. Bell, Paul C. Jones, James S. Luke, Luke Morgan, Royston W. Shufflebotham, Mark L. Todd
  • Patent number: 10276210
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating revised videos. The method includes, for example, receiving, by one or more processor, first video data of an environment having at least one projection on a screen from a first point of view, and generating, by the one or more processor, revised video data of the environment having the at least one projection on the screen from the first point of view based on the first video data, the revised video data comprising a plurality of frames with the at least one projection on the screen disposed in the first area relative to the environment in a plurality of frames being revised based on data for projecting the at least one projection on the screen in the first video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anthony L. Cole, Thomas J. Davison, Daniel Del Piccolo, Daniel Lane, James S. Luke, Martine M. Pulvenis
  • Patent number: 10270679
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system determines groups of nodes within a network, each group forming a bi-connected component. The system identifies articulation nodes within the network, where each articulation node resides within each connection between a pair of nodes in the network. The system removes from the determined group each node that includes an articulation node between that node and both the source and target nodes to produce a resulting set of nodes. The system determines connections between the source and target nodes based on the resulting set of nodes. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for determining connections between network nodes in substantially the same manners described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James S. Luke, Jean-Francois Puget
  • Patent number: 10169606
    Abstract: A computing device may determine that a policy event to initiate data destruction for a first set of data has been triggered. The first set of data may be located on a first file. The computing device may delete, in response to the determining, a first security key used for decrypting the first set of data. The computing device may delete, in response to the determining, one or more transaction log entries associated with the first set of data. The one or more transaction log entries may include a copy of the first set of data. The one or more transaction log entries may be a part of a transaction log. The transaction log may be a second file that stores a history of each data change within the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John W. Bell, Robert Haas, James S. Luke, John A. Ricketts
  • Publication number: 20180322037
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the disclosed subject matter involves a system and method relating to automation test runs of a software build, where the test runs effect impersonating an audience and selecting optional features to test with the impersonated audience. The impersonated audience is associated with a software build having static features, and the test runs include optional features, where each optional feature may have more than one associated treatment. Each feature/treatment combination may be tested in a test scenario associated with the feature/treatment combination. New features may be dynamically exposed to a selected audience to assist in verification and test of the new features. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Krishnan Thazhathekalam, Khalid Mahmood, Sebastian Kohlmeier, Anjali Muralidhar, James S. Luke, Akshay Gandhi
  • Patent number: 10067863
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the disclosed subject matter involves a system and method relating to automation test runs of a software build, where the test runs effect impersonating an automation audience and selecting optional features to test with the automation audience. The automation audience is associated with a software build having static features, and the test runs include optional features, where each optional feature may have more than one associated treatment. Each feature/treatment combination may be tested in a test scenario associated with the feature/treatment combination. New features that are exposed in other audiences may be enabled for the automation audience to assist in verification and test of the new features. Dynamic selection of the optional features is effected using an application program interface (API) in the source code for the features, where the API accesses feature configuration information during runtime. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Akshay Gandhi, James S. Luke, Khalid Mahmood, Anjali Muralidhar, Sebastian Kohlmeier, Krishnan Thazhathekalam
  • Publication number: 20180232647
    Abstract: A method, and associated computer system and computer program product. Tracking data relating to movement of two or more entities associated with individuals over a past time period is received. A vector is determined for predicted movement of each entity of the two or more entities over a future time period based on at least part of the received tracking data. A determination is made as to whether a first vector for predicted movement of an entity associated with a first individual is converging in time and space with a second vector for predicted movement of an entity associated with a second individual. An event involving the first and second individuals is predicted in response to determining a convergence of the first and second vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Richard M. Appleby, Trinette A. Brownhill, James S. Luke, Jean-Francois Puget, John A. Ricketts
  • Patent number: 9961115
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system creates a first language profile corresponding to a first user account in response to determining that the first user account generated a first offensive message. The information handling system computes an accumulated risk score of the first user account based on correlating the first language profile to a second language profile corresponding to a second user account that generated a second offensive post. The accumulated risk score is based on a first risk score of the first user account and a second risk score of the second user account. In turn, the information handling system generates a notification in response to determining that the accumulated risk score reaches a risk threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: International Buisness Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew D. Dalton, James S. Luke