Patents by Inventor Robert Leslie Yates
Robert Leslie Yates 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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Patent number: 11314931Abstract: A domain-specific document is retrieved. The domain-specific document is related to the performance of a process in the domain and includes a plurality of document spans and a plurality of annotations that annotate the spans. A goal-based framework is generated from the domain-specific document. The generation is based on the plurality of annotations and based on the plurality of document spans. The goal-based framework includes entities and entity relationships related to performance of the process. The goal-based framework is transformed into a platform agnostic dialog model based on the entities and the entity relationships. At least one platform specific dialog model is provided to at least one automated response system based on the platform agnostic dialog model.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Pankaj Dhoolia, Sachindra Joshi, Dinesh Raghu, Robert Leslie Yates, Luis A. Lastras-Montano
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Publication number: 20220012410Abstract: A domain-specific document is retrieved. The domain-specific document is related to the performance of a process in the domain and includes a plurality of document spans and a plurality of annotations that annotate the spans. A goal-based framework is generated from the domain-specific document. The generation is based on the plurality of annotations and based on the plurality of document spans. The goal-based framework includes entities and entity relationships related to performance of the process. The goal-based framework is transformed into a platform agnostic dialog model based on the entities and the entity relationships. At least one platform specific dialog model is provided to at least one automated response system based on the platform agnostic dialog model.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2020Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Pankaj Dhoolia, Sachindra Joshi, Dinesh Raghu, Robert Leslie Yates, Luis A. Lastras-Montano
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Patent number: 11216619Abstract: A mechanism is provided to implement a text classifier training augmentation mechanism for incorporating unlabeled data into the generation of a text classifier. For each term of a plurality of terms in each document of a plurality of documents in a set of unlabeled data, a term frequency value is determined. The term is normalized by dividing the term frequency value by a total number of terms in the document. An inverse document frequency (idf) value is determined for each term based on the term frequency value. A subset of terms is filtered from the plurality of terms based the determined idf values. The idf values for the remaining terms are transformed into feature weights. Terms from a set of labeled data are re-weighted based on the feature weights determined from the set of unlabeled data. The text classifier is then generated using the re-weighted labeled data.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yang Yu, Haode Qi, Haoyu Wang, Ming Tan, Navneet N. Rao, Saloni Potdar, Robert Leslie Yates
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Publication number: 20210334468Abstract: A mechanism is provided to implement a text classifier training augmentation mechanism for incorporating unlabeled data into the generation of a text classifier. For each term of a plurality of terms in each document of a plurality of documents in a set of unlabeled data, a term frequency value is determined. The term is normalized by dividing the term frequency value by a total number of terms in the document. An inverse document frequency (idf) value is determined for each term based on the term frequency value. A subset of terms is filtered from the plurality of terms based the determined idf values. The idf values for the remaining terms are transformed into feature weights. Terms from a set of labeled data are re-weighted based on the feature weights determined from the set of unlabeled data. The text classifier is then generated using the re-weighted labeled data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2020Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Yang Yu, Haode Qi, Haoyu Wang, Ming Tan, Navneet N. Rao, Saloni Potdar, Robert Leslie Yates
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Patent number: 9325632Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for enabling collaboration across tenants in a multi-tenant environment using single sign-on (SSO) authentication/authorization. Various examples provide for creating a user account and provisioning a subscription to a user (e.g., to enable single sign-on authentication/authorization). The user is allowed to access services (e.g., collaborative services) in a multi-tenant environment by utilizing a subscription authorization of the user without prompting the user to authenticate by logging-in again (that is, without prompting the user to log-in again after the user has already logged-in and been authenticated for a given session). Other examples provide for mapping webspaces through URL hosts where each organization (that is, tenant) has its own set of namespace(s).Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Mustansir Banatwala, David Andrew Brooks, Patrick Y. Lin, Thomas Schaeck, Robert Leslie Yates
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Publication number: 20140280583Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for enabling collaboration across tenants in a multi-tenant environment using single sign-on (SSO) authentication/authorization. Various examples provide for creating a user account and provisioning a subscription to a user (e.g., to enable single sign-on authentication/authorization). The user is allowed to access services (e.g., collaborative services) in a multi-tenant environment by utilizing a subscription authorization of the user without prompting the user to authenticate by logging-in again (that is, without prompting the user to log-in again after the user has already logged-in and been authenticated for a given session). Other examples provide for mapping webspaces through URL hosts where each organization (that is, tenant) has its own set of namespace(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Mustansir Banatwala, David Andrew Brooks, Patrick Y. Lin, Thomas Schaeck, Robert Leslie Yates
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Patent number: 8544068Abstract: A method to manage access to end user-protected resources hosted in a shared pool of configurable computing resources, such as a cloud computing environment, begins by registering a particular application or service into the environment. The application or service is one that is being permitted to access resources on behalf of end users via a delegated authorization protocol, such as OAuth. For at least one end user associated with the organization, a permission is set, preferably by an organization entity, such as an organization administrator. The permission determines whether the application or service is permitted to access one or more resources associated with the end user. Then, in response to a request by the third party application to access a resource, where the request is received via the delegated authorization protocol, the permission is then used to determine whether the third party application is permitted to access the resource.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2010Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert Leslie Yates, Prashant S. Kulkarni, Mary Ellen Zurko
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Publication number: 20120117626Abstract: A method to manage access to end user-protected resources hosted in a shared pool of configurable computing resources, such as a cloud computing environment, begins by registering a particular application or service into the environment. The application or service is one that is being permitted to access resources on behalf of end users via a delegated authorization protocol, such as OAuth. For at least one end user associated with the organization, a permission is set, preferably by an organization entity, such as an organization administrator. The permission determines whether the application or service is permitted to access one or more resources associated with the end user. Then, in response to a request by the third party application to access a resource, where the request is received via the delegated authorization protocol, the permission is then used to determine whether the third party application is permitted to access the resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Robert Leslie Yates, Prashant S. Kulkarni, Mary Ellen Zurko