Patents by Inventor Milind R. Naphade
Milind R. Naphade 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).
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Publication number: 20110208687Abstract: A method for implementing inter-domain information quality assessment includes calculating relationships among domains in a knowledge base by identifying features that respectively define each of the domains and identifying domains having correlating features. The method also includes assigning values to pairs of the domains that reflect a closeness of the relationships based upon the correlating features. The method further includes evaluating a reputation of an entity in one domain based on past performance of the entity with respect to another domain where the other domain is determined, via the assigned values, to be related to the domain. The past performance of the entity indicates capabilities of the entity to render accurate predictions about events in a particular domain. The method also includes calculating a value representing the reputation of the entity with respect to the domain based upon the evaluation and assigning the value representing the reputation to the entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2010Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Parijat Dube, Rahul Jain, Milind R. Naphade
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Publication number: 20110208684Abstract: A method for implementing information quality assessment includes receiving a value relating to a predicted outcome of an event from each of an entity and at least one other entity and a reputation score for the entity and the other entity. The method also includes generating a collective prediction value for the event that reflects a collective prediction for the event. The collective prediction value is generated from predicted outcome values from the entity and the other entity. The collective prediction value is calculated as a function of reputation scores corresponding to the entity and the other entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2010Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Parijat Dube, Rahul Jain, Milind R. Naphade
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Publication number: 20110078071Abstract: Data representative of a plurality of mortgage applications is obtained. The applications participate in a mortgage origination process, and each of the applications has associated therewith customer-specific attributes and product-specific attributes. The mortgage origination process has a plurality of statuses. Data representative of at least one environmental attribute is also obtained. Each given one of the mortgage applications in a given one of the plurality of statuses at a given time is ranked by likelihood of not closing, based at least on the customer-specific attributes, the product-specific attributes, and the at least one environmental attribute. Those of the mortgage applications likely not to close which are likely not to close due to non-exogenous attributes are identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Chitra Dorai, Jane D. Hoffmann, Daniel N. Johnson, Milind R. Naphade, Qihong Shao, Anshul Sheopuri
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Publication number: 20110066442Abstract: A method for performing utility consumption disaggregation includes measuring a total utility consumption of a consumer during a specified time period, generating a first disaggregated utility consumption segment and a second disaggregated utility consumption segment, based on the total utility consumption of the consumer, and providing the consumer with disaggregated utility consumption statistics based on at least one of the first and second disaggregated utility consumption segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2010Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: International Business Machines CorporarionInventors: Naga A. Ayachitula, Tian-Jy Chao, Jing D. Dai, Milind R. Naphade, Sambit Sahu
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Patent number: 7818329Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed that receives an input narrative in a particular media format, and produces therefrom a multimedia enriched version of the input narrative. In one embodiment, a method is provided for enriching an input narrative with multimedia content, wherein the method includes the step of selectively segmenting the input narrative to form queries pertaining to different portions or elements of the input narrative. The method further comprises retrieving multimedia artifacts from one or more multimedia repositories, wherein each retrieved multimedia artifact is associated with one of the queries, and selecting a subset of the retrieved multimedia artifacts, wherein the subset includes artifacts comprising different types of multimedia content. The input narrative is then combined with respective multimedia artifacts of the subset, in order to provide an enriched and enhanced narrative.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2007Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Murray S. Campbell, Shahram Ebadollahi, Matthew L. Hill, Brian Michael Landry, Chung-Sheng Li, Apostol Ivanov Natsev, Milind R. Naphade, John R. Smith, Jelena Tesic, Lexing Xie
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Patent number: 7792768Abstract: An autonomous classification device which enables the creation of autonomous classifiers that are easy to deploy, adapt and optimize in the environment in which they are used. The classifier is autonomous in that it can perform three functions that define autonomic systems: automatically configure itself in an environment, optimize its performance using the environment and mechanisms for performance, and continually adapting to improve performance and heal itself in a changing environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2008Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Milind R. Naphade, John R. Smith
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Patent number: 7788099Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for multimodal cross-vocabulary mapping. A corpus of multimodal content is annotated simultaneously using annotations from a plurality of vocabularies to form a set of common annotations. Relationships between a first vocabulary associated with a first modality and a second vocabulary associated with a second modality are identified using the set of common annotations to form a multimodal vocabulary mapping. Items in the first vocabulary associated with the first modality are mapped to items in the second vocabulary associated with the second modality using the multimodal vocabulary mapping.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2007Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Alexander Haubold, Milind R. Naphade, Apostol Ivanov Natsev
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Patent number: 7707162Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for automatically classifying a multimedia artifact based on scoring, and selecting the appropriate set of ontologies from among all possible sets of ontologies, preferably using a recursive routing selection technique. The semantic tagging of the multimedia artifact is enhanced by applying only classifiers from the selected ontology, for use in classifying the multimedia artifact, wherein the classifiers are selected based on the context of the multimedia artifact. One embodiment of the invention, directed to a method for classifying a multimedia artifact, uses a specified criteria to select one or more ontologies, wherein the specified criteria indicates the comparative similarity between specified characteristics of the multimedia artifact and each ontology.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2007Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Milind R. Naphade, John Richard Smith, Jelena Tesic
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Patent number: 7610306Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of search fusion methods for querying multimedia databases and more specifically to a method and system for constructing a multi-modal query of a multimedia repository by forming multiple uni-modal searches and explicitly selecting fusion methods for combining their results. The present invention also relates to the integration of search methods for content-based retrieval, model-based retrieval, text-based retrieval, and metadata search, and the use of graphical user interfaces allowing the user to form queries fusing these search methods.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2003Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ching-Yung Lin, Apostol Natsev, Milind R. Naphade, John R. Smith, Belle L. Tseng
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Computer-implemented method, system, and program product for developing a content annotation lexicon
Patent number: 7539934Abstract: A method, system and program product developing an annotation lexicon are described. Under aspects of the present invention, annotation(s) to piece(s) of content are received and analyzed using one or more computational analyses. Based on the analyses, feedback will be generated to improve the annotation lexicon and/or the ontology thereof. Such improvement can lead to, among other things: the re-arrangement of interrelationships of terms in the annotation lexicon; the addition, modification or deletion of terms from the annotation lexicon; the re-arrangement or clustering of terms within the annotation lexicon; etc.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2005Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: John R. Kender, Milind R. Naphade -
Publication number: 20090037358Abstract: An autonomous classification device which enables the creation of autonomous classifiers that are easy to deploy, adapt and optimize in the environment in which they are used. The classifier is autonomous in that it can perform three functions that define autonomic systems: automatically configure itself in an environment, optimize its performance using the environment and mechanisms for performance, and continually adapting to improve performance and heal itself in a changing environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Milind R. Naphade, John R. Smith
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Publication number: 20080306925Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed that receives an input narrative in a particular media format, and produces therefrom a multimedia enriched version of the input narrative. In one embodiment, a method is provided for enriching an input narrative with multimedia content, wherein the method includes the step of selectively segmenting the input narrative to form queries pertaining to different portions or elements of the input narrative. The method further comprises retrieving multimedia artifacts from one or more multimedia repositories, wherein each retrieved multimedia artifact is associated with one of the queries, and selecting a subset of the retrieved multimedia artifacts, wherein the subset includes artifacts comprising different types of multimedia content. The input narrative is then combined with respective multimedia artifacts of the subset, in order to provide an enriched and enhanced narrative.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2007Publication date: December 11, 2008Inventors: Murray S. Campbell, Shahram Ebadollahi, Matthew L. Hill, Brian Michael Landry, Chung-Sheng Li, Apostol Ivanov Natsev, Milind R. Naphade, John R. Smith, Jelena Tesic, Lexing Xie
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Publication number: 20080294633Abstract: A system, method, and program product for tracking content are described. Aspects of invention allow bodies of content, whether from a common channel or from different channels, to be compared for relatedness. Comparison of different bodies of content involves analyzing both the actual content, characteristics of the source(s) of the content, and optionally, elapsed time between their respective broadcasts/communications. To this extent, a content similarity value, a source characteristic value and an optional temporal value for the portions of content are determined, and then used to compute a relatedness value of the (bodies of) content.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: John R. Kender, Milind R. Naphade
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Publication number: 20080281626Abstract: Interoperability is enabled between participants in a network by determining values associated with a value metric defined for at least a portion of the network. Information flow is directed between two or more of the participants based at least in part on semantic models corresponding to the participants and on the values associated with the value metric. The semantic models may define interactions between the participants and define at least a portion of information produced or consumed by the participants. The determination of the values and the direction of the information flow may be performed multiple times in order to modify the one or more value metrics. The direction of information flow may allow participants to be deleted from the network, may allow participants to be added to the network, or may allow behavior of the participants to be modified.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2008Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Charu C. Aggarwal, Murray Scott Campbell, Yuan-Chi Chang, Matthew Leon Hill, Chung-Sheng Li, Milind R. Naphade, Sriram K. Padmanabhan, John R. Smith, Min Wang, Kun-Lung Wu, Philip Shilung Yu
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Patent number: 7437349Abstract: A method, system and computer program for adaptively processing a query search. An expanding operation is utilized to expand the query into sub-queries, wherein at least one of the sub-queries is expanded probabilistically. A retrieving operation retrieves the results of the sub-queries, and a merging operation is used to merge the sub-query results into a search result. An adapting operation is configured to modify the search such that the relevance of the search result is increased when the search is repeated.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2002Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sankar Basu, Milind R. Naphade, John R. Smith
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Publication number: 20080250011Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for multimodal cross-vocabulary mapping. A corpus of multimodal content is annotated simultaneously using annotations from a plurality of vocabularies to form a set of common annotations. Relationships between a first vocabulary associated with a first modality and a second vocabulary associated with a second modality are identified using the set of common annotations to form a multimodal vocabulary mapping. Items in the first vocabulary associated with the first modality are mapped to items in the second vocabulary associated with the second modality using the multimodal vocabulary mapping.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2007Publication date: October 9, 2008Inventors: Alexander Haubold, Milind R. Naphade, Apostol Ivanov Natsev
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Patent number: 7426498Abstract: An autonomous classification device which enables the creation of autonomous classifiers that are easy to deploy, adapt and optimize in the environment in which they are used. The classifier is autonomous in that it can perform three functions that define autonomic systems: automatically configure itself in an environment, optimize its performance using the environment and mechanisms for performance, and continually adapting to improve performance and heal itself in a changing environment.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2004Date of Patent: September 16, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Milind R. Naphade, John R. Smith
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Patent number: 7401062Abstract: Methods and apparatus for optimizing resource allocation among data analysis functions in a classification system are provided. Each of the data analysis functions is characterized as a set of operating points in accordance with at least one of resource requirements and analysis quality. An operating point for each of the data analysis functions is selected in accordance with one or more constraints. The analysis functions are applied at selected operating points to optimize resource allocation among the data analysis functions in the classification system.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2006Date of Patent: July 15, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Chung-Sheng Li, Ching-Yung Lin, Milind R. Naphade, John R. Smith
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Publication number: 20080168462Abstract: Methods and apparatus for optimizing resource allocation among data analysis functions in a classification system are provided. Each of the data analysis functions is characterized as a set of operating points in accordance with at least one of resource requirements and analysis quality. An operating point for each of the data analysis functions is selected in accordance with one or more constraints. The analysis functions are applied at selected operating points to optimize resource allocation among the data analysis functions in the classification system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2008Publication date: July 10, 2008Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Chung-Sheng Li, Ching-Yung Lin, Milind R. Naphade, John R. Smith
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Publication number: 20080168070Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for automatically classifying a multimedia artifact based on scoring, and selecting the appropriate set of ontologies from among all possible sets of ontologies, preferably using a recursive routing selection technique. The semantic tagging of the multimedia artifact is enhanced by applying only classifiers from the selected ontology, for use in classifying the multimedia artifact, wherein the classifiers are selected based on the context of the multimedia artifact. One embodiment of the invention, directed to a method for classifying a multimedia artifact, uses a specified criteria to select one or more ontologies, wherein the specified criteria indicates the comparative similarity between specified characteristics of the multimedia artifact and each ontology.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2007Publication date: July 10, 2008Inventors: Milind R. Naphade, John Richard Smith, Jelena Tasic