Patents by Inventor Sier Han
Sier Han 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: 11164089Abstract: Embodiments include predicting transactions by an entity and identifying promotions to offer the entity. Aspects include parsing a plurality of event records corresponding to a plurality of entities respectively. Aspects also include identifying a sequence of events corresponding to the entity and discretizing time durations and event values of the sequence of events into discrete symbolic values. Aspects further include generating a temporal pattern of events in the sequence of events, the temporal pattern including a sequence of transaction-symbols representative of the time duration and the event value of the events in the sequence of events of the entity and predicting a next transaction based on the temporal pattern.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2015Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Yea-Jane Chu, Sier Han, Ning Sun, Chun Hua Tian, Feng Juan Wang, Ming Xie, Chao Zhang, Xiu Fang Zhu
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Patent number: 11157820Abstract: Embodiments include predicting transactions by an entity and identifying promotions to offer the entity. Aspects include parsing a plurality of event records corresponding to a plurality of entities respectively. Aspects also include identifying a sequence of events corresponding to the entity and discretizing time intervals and event values of the sequence of events into discrete symbolic values. Aspects further include generating a temporal pattern of events in the sequence of events, the temporal pattern including a sequence of transaction-symbols representative of the time interval and the event value of the events in the sequence of events of the entity and predicting a next transaction based on the temporal pattern.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Yea-Jane Chu, Sier Han, Ning Sun, Chun Hua Tian, Feng Juan Wang, Ming Xie, Chao Zhang, Xiu Fang Zhu
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Patent number: 11150630Abstract: Statistically significant event patterns predict the timing for performing entity maintenance. Event patterns are determined based on a target variable having an undesired value for a given entity when the event pattern occurs. Event patterns are filtered based on distributions of the event patterns across multiple entities and distributions of event patterns during desired operation of the entities and undesired operation of the entities. A predictive maintenance process is established having significant event patterns as the basis for maintenance tasks.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lei Fan, Sier Han, Xiao Ming Ma, A Peng Zhang
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Patent number: 11150631Abstract: Statistically significant event patterns predict the timing for performing entity maintenance. Event patterns are determined based on a target variable having an undesired value for a given entity when the event pattern occurs. Event patterns are filtered based on distributions of the event patterns across multiple entities and distributions of event patterns during desired operation of the entities and undesired operation of the entities. A predictive maintenance process is established having significant event patterns as the basis for maintenance tasks.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lei Fan, Sier Han, Xiao Ming Ma, A Peng Zhang
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Patent number: 10565516Abstract: Updating a prediction model, where the prediction model is used for time series data, a computer selects a first prediction time window in an order from a plurality of prediction time windows associated with the prediction model, and predicts predicted values of the time series data at time points within the first prediction time window. The computer calculates a prediction error associated with the first prediction time window based on the one or more predicted values and one or more actual measured values of the time series data at the plurality of time points. The computer determines whether the prediction error is larger than a predefined error threshold associated with the first prediction time window, and in response to determining the prediction error is larger than the predefined error threshold, provides a notification of updating the prediction model.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Dong Chen, Sier Han, Long Jiao, Jing Zhang, Weicai Zhong
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Patent number: 10453008Abstract: Techniques are described for generating characterizations of time series data. In one example, a method includes extracting a trend-cycle component, a seasonal component, and an irregular component from a time series of data. The method further includes performing one or more pattern analyses on the trend-cycle component, the seasonal component, and the irregular component. The method further includes, for each pattern analysis of the one or more pattern analyses, performing a comparison of an analytic result of the respective pattern analysis to a selected significance threshold for the respective pattern analysis to determine if the analytic result passes the significance threshold for the respective pattern analysis. The method further includes generating an output for each of the analytic results that pass the significance threshold for the respective pattern analysis.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yea Jane Chu, Sier Han, Jing-Yun Shyr
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Patent number: 10453007Abstract: Techniques are described for generating characterizations of time series data. In one example, a method includes extracting a trend-cycle component, a seasonal component, and an irregular component from a time series of data. The method further includes performing one or more pattern analyzes on the trend-cycle component, the seasonal component, and the irregular component. The method further includes, for each pattern analysis of the one or more pattern analyzes, performing a comparison of an analytic result of the respective pattern analysis to a selected significance threshold for the respective pattern analysis to determine if the analytic result passes the significance threshold for the respective pattern analysis. The method further includes generating an output for each of the analytic results that pass the significance threshold for the respective pattern analysis.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yea Jane Chu, Sier Han, Jing-Yun Shyr
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Publication number: 20190286101Abstract: Statistically significant event patterns predict the timing for performing entity maintenance. Event patterns are determined based on a target variable having an undesired value for a given entity when the event pattern occurs. Event patterns are filtered based on distributions of the event patterns across multiple entities and distributions of event patterns during desired operation of the entities and undesired operation of the entities. A predictive maintenance process is established having significant event patterns as the basis for maintenance tasks.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: LEI FAN, SIER HAN, XIAO MING MA, A PENG ZHANG
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Publication number: 20190121318Abstract: Statistically significant event patterns predict the timing for performing entity maintenance. Event patterns are determined based on a target variable having an undesired value for a given entity when the event pattern occurs. Event patterns are filtered based on distributions of the event patterns across multiple entities and distributions of event patterns during desired operation of the entities and undesired operation of the entities. A predictive maintenance process is established having significant event patterns as the basis for maintenance tasks.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2017Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: LEI FAN, SIER HAN, XIAO MING MA, A PENG ZHANG
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Publication number: 20170147675Abstract: Refining cluster definition: (i) receiving data items, each characterized by values respectively corresponding to a set of dimension(s); (ii) receiving initial cluster identification that divides the set of data items into multiple initial clusters; (iii) determining a distribution curve, with respect to a first dimension, of data items of a first initial cluster; (iv) determining a distribution curve, with respect to the first dimension, of data items of a second initial cluster; and (v) determining a first-dimension-first-cluster-second-cluster cut-off value such that the following two proportions are substantially equal: (a) a proportion of the area under the first distribution curve and below the first-dimension-first-cluster-second-cluster cut-off value to the total area under the first distribution curve, and (b) a proportion of the area under the second distribution curve and above the first-dimension-first-cluster-second-cluster cut-off value to the total area under the second distribution curve.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2015Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Sier Han, Zhiyuan Wang, Ji Hui Yang, A Peng Zhang, Xueying Zhang, Xiu Fang Zhu
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Publication number: 20170103403Abstract: Embodiments include predicting transactions by an entity and identifying promotions to offer the entity. Aspects include parsing a plurality of event records corresponding to a plurality of entities respectively. Aspects also include identifying a sequence of events corresponding to the entity and discretizing time durations and event values of the sequence of events into discrete symbolic values. Aspects further include generating a temporal pattern of events in the sequence of events, the temporal pattern including a sequence of transaction-symbols representative of the time duration and the event value of the events in the sequence of events of the entity and predicting a next transaction based on the temporal pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2015Publication date: April 13, 2017Inventors: YEA-JANE CHU, SIER HAN, NING SUN, CHUN HUA TIAN, FENG JUAN WANG, MING XIE, CHAO ZHANG, XIU FANG ZHU
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Publication number: 20170104662Abstract: Embodiments include predicting transactions by an entity and identifying promotions to offer the entity. Aspects include parsing a plurality of event records corresponding to a plurality of entities respectively. Aspects also include identifying a sequence of events corresponding to the entity and discretizing time intervals and event values of the sequence of events into discrete symbolic values. Aspects further include generating a temporal pattern of events in the sequence of events, the temporal pattern including a sequence of transaction-symbols representative of the time interval and the event value of the events in the sequence of events of the entity and predicting a next transaction based on the temporal pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2015Publication date: April 13, 2017Inventors: YEA-JANE CHU, SIER HAN, NING SUN, CHUN HUA TIAN, FENG JUAN WANG, MING XIE, CHAO ZHANG, XIU FANG ZHU
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Patent number: 9558245Abstract: An approach for discovery of relevant data in massive datasets. Compare datasets including compare key fields, compare data fields and a core dataset including target data field(s) and core field(s) are received. The compare datasets are categorized into direct and indirect related dataset pools based on the target data field(s) correlation strength with matching compare and core fields. The direct related dataset pool and the core dataset are transformed into reduction datasets based on statistical measure of values of target data fields, shared key fields and compare data fields. Target correlations of the reduction datasets are creating based on a reduction compare and target data fields. Statistical relationship strength of core dataset and the direct related dataset pool are created based on a statistical mean of target correlations and a relevancy data store is created.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lei Gao, Sier Han, Jing Xu, Ji Hui Yang, Zongyao Zhang
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Publication number: 20160342909Abstract: Techniques are described for generating characterizations of time series data. In one example, a method includes extracting a trend-cycle component, a seasonal component, and an irregular component from a time series of data. The method further includes performing one or more pattern analyses on the trend-cycle component, the seasonal component, and the irregular component. The method further includes, for each pattern analysis of the one or more pattern analyses, performing a comparison of an analytic result of the respective pattern analysis to a selected significance threshold for the respective pattern analysis to determine if the analytic result passes the significance threshold for the respective pattern analysis. The method further includes generating an output for each of the analytic results that pass the significance threshold for the respective pattern analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2015Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Yea Jane Chu, Sier Han, Jing-Yun Shyr
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Publication number: 20160342910Abstract: Techniques are described for generating characterizations of time series data. In one example, a method includes extracting a trend-cycle component, a seasonal component, and an irregular component from a time series of data. The method further includes performing one or more pattern analyses on the trend-cycle component, the seasonal component, and the irregular component. The method further includes, for each pattern analysis of the one or more pattern analyses, performing a comparison of an analytic result of the respective pattern analysis to a selected significance threshold for the respective pattern analysis to determine if the analytic result passes the significance threshold for the respective pattern analysis. The method further includes generating an output for each of the analytic results that pass the significance threshold for the respective pattern analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Yea Jane Chu, Sier Han, Jing-Yun Shyr
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Patent number: 9443194Abstract: Provided are techniques for imputing a missing value for each of one or more predictor variables. Data is received from one or more data sources. For each of the one or more predictor variables, an imputation model is built based on information of a target variable; a type of imputation model to construct is determined based on the one or more data sources, a measurement level of the predictor variable, and a measurement level of the target variable; and the determined type of imputation model is constructed using basic statistics of the predictor variable and the target variable. The missing value is imputed for each of the one or more predictor variables using the data from the one or more data sources and one or more built imputation models to generate a completed data set.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2012Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yea J. Chu, Sier Han, Jing-Yun Shyr, Jing Xu
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Patent number: 9361274Abstract: Provided are techniques for interaction detection for generalized linear models. Basic statistics are calculated for a pair of categorical predictor variables and a target variable from a dataset during a single pass over the dataset. It is determined whether there is a significant interaction effect for the pair of categorical predictor variables on the target variable by: calculating a log-likelihood value for a full generalized linear model without estimating model parameters; calculating the model parameters for a reduced generalized linear model with a recursive marginal mean accumulation technique using the basic statistics; calculating a log-likelihood value for the reduced generalized linear model; calculating a likelihood ratio test statistic using the log-likelihood value for the full generalized linear model and the log-likelihood value for the reduced generalized linear model; calculating a p-value of the likelihood ratio test statistic; and comparing the p-value to a significance level.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yea J. Chu, Sier Han, Jing-Yun Shyr
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Publication number: 20150302318Abstract: In an approach to updating a prediction model, where the prediction model is used for time series data, a computer selects a first prediction time window in an order from a plurality of prediction time windows associated with the prediction model, and predicts one or more predicted values of the time series data at a plurality of time points within the first prediction time window. The computer calculates a prediction error associated with the first prediction time window based on the one or more predicted values and one or more actual measured values of the time series data at the plurality of time points. The computer determines whether the prediction error is larger than a predefined error threshold associated with the first prediction time window, and in response to determining the prediction error is larger than the predefined error threshold, provides a notification of updating the prediction model.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2015Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: Dong Chen, Sier Han, Long Jiao, Jing Zhang, Weicai Zhong
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Patent number: 9053170Abstract: A subset of (k?1)-dimensional tables are received, wherein k is greater than 1. A set of k-dimensional tables is created by combining each of the (k?1)-dimensional tables with a non-included dimension corresponding to a 1-dimensional table. Significance of interaction and interaction effect size is computed for the created set of k-dimensional tables to determine dimension and measure interactions.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yea J. Chu, Sier Han, Jing-Yun Shyr, Damir Spisic, Xueying Zhang
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Patent number: 8965895Abstract: A subset of (k?1)-dimensional tables are received, wherein k is greater than 1. A set of k-dimensional tables is created by combining each of the (k?1)-dimensional tables with a non-included dimension corresponding to a 1-dimensional table. Significance of interaction and interaction effect size is computed for the created set of k-dimensional tables to determine dimension and measure interactions.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yea J. Chu, Sier Han, Jing-Yun Shyr, Damir Spisic, Xueying Zhang