Patents by Inventor Jim DEWAN

Jim DEWAN 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: 11436505
    Abstract: Techniques for data curation are provided. A data set is received for ingestion into a question answering system, where the data set includes a first question and a first answer. Relevance of the first question is validated by comparing the first question to a first question cluster in the question answering system, and it is determined that the first answer satisfies predefined security criteria. The first data set is evaluated to identify a set of references, and a generalized data set is generated by replacing each respective reference of the set of references with a corresponding entity identifier. The first generalized data set is then ingested into the question answering system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tracy Canada, Jim Dewan
  • Publication number: 20210117820
    Abstract: Techniques for data curation are provided. A data set is received for ingestion into a question answering system, where the data set includes a first question and a first answer. Relevance of the first question is validated by comparing the first question to a first question cluster in the question answering system, and it is determined that the first answer satisfies predefined security criteria. The first data set is evaluated to identify a set of references, and a generalized data set is generated by replacing each respective reference of the set of references with a corresponding entity identifier. The first generalized data set is then ingested into the question answering system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Tracy CANADA, Jim DEWAN
  • Patent number: 10902844
    Abstract: Techniques for automated training content generation are provided. A plurality of questions are retrieved, where each of the plurality of questions is associated with an answer in a plurality of answers. Further, it is determined that a first and a second answer in the plurality of answers are equivalent. A first question corresponding to the first answer and a second question corresponding to the second answer are identified, and a first question cluster including the first question and the second question is generated. The first question cluster is associated with at least one of the first answer and the second answer. Finally, upon determining that a number of questions in the plurality of questions that are included in the first question cluster exceeds a first predefined threshold, the first question cluster is ingested into a question answering system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tracy Canada, Eduardo Kaufmann-Malaga, Jim Dewan
  • Publication number: 20200020318
    Abstract: Techniques for automated training content generation are provided. A plurality of questions are retrieved, where each of the plurality of questions is associated with an answer in a plurality of answers. Further, it is determined that a first and a second answer in the plurality of answers are equivalent. A first question corresponding to the first answer and a second question corresponding to the second answer are identified, and a first question cluster including the first question and the second question is generated. The first question cluster is associated with at least one of the first answer and the second answer. Finally, upon determining that a number of questions in the plurality of questions that are included in the first question cluster exceeds a first predefined threshold, the first question cluster is ingested into a question answering system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Tracy CANADA, Eduardo KAUFMANN-MALAGA, Jim DEWAN