Patents by Inventor Stanley John
Stanley John 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: 11875121Abstract: Generating automated conversation responses by receiving a conversation input message, determining an intent associated with the conversation input message, detecting content associated with the intent in a data stream in response to determining the intent, and generating a conversation output according to the content and the intent.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keith Gregory Frost, Stephen Arthur Boxwell, Kyle Matthew Brake, Stanley John Vernier
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Publication number: 20230409294Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: examining data of a first user interactive user interfacing application for interactive engagement; and examining data of a second user interactive user interfacing application for interactive engagement.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Elinna SHEK, Stanley John VERNIER, Renee F. DECKER, Chengmin DING
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Patent number: 11809843Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Elinna Shek, Stanley John Vernier, Renee F. Decker, Chengmin Ding
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Patent number: 11681732Abstract: A computer-implemented method for optimizing search query results is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes receiving a first natural language query, selecting a plurality of search query patterns based on the first natural language query, assigning a weight to each search query pattern in the plurality of search query patterns, generating one or more weighted keyword queries from each search query pattern based on the weight assigned to each search query pattern and one or more keywords from the first natural language query, evaluating a relevancy of one or more search results returned by each of the one or more weighted keyword queries for the first natural language query, and iteratively altering the weight assigned to a search query pattern until an optimal number of relevant search results are returned from the search query pattern for the first natural language query.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Stephen Arthur Boxwell, Kyle Matthew Brake, Keith Gregory Frost, Stanley John Vernier
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Patent number: 11682204Abstract: A method provides for assistance in recognition of an entity. A set of data and associated information corresponding to a plurality of entities known to an assisted user is received, such that an instance of the set of data and associated information includes identification of a respective entity of the plurality of entities known to an assisted user. Real-time data corresponding to a first entity is received from one or more devices capturing the real-time data. The real-time data is compared to the set of data and associated information corresponding to the plurality of entities known to the user to determine whether the first entity has a known relevance to the user, and in response to determining the first entity does have a known relevance to the user, the processor provides the identity and relevance of the first entity to the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kyle Matthew Brake, Keith Gregory Frost, Stephen Arthur Boxwell, Stanley John Vernier
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Patent number: 11574017Abstract: An input question enhancement mechanism is provided for merging sub-question results in Question and Answer (QA) systems in order to answer an input question submitted from a user. A plurality of sub-questions associated with the input question is identified. Responsive to submitting the set of questions to a QA pipeline of the QA system, a set of answers and a set of passages related to the set of answers corresponding to each of the plurality of sub-questions are received. A mapping is applied to the set of passages to form a consolidated set of passages. The set of answers is then merged into the mapping so as to generate a consolidated set of answers. A factoid question response report is generated with answers from the consolidated set of answers and passages from the consolidated set of passages. The factoid question response report is then provided to the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Stephen Arthur Boxwell, Keith Gregory Frost, Stanley John Vernier, Kyle Matthew Brake
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Patent number: 11558550Abstract: Generating a controllable panoramic image while eliminating unsuitable dynamic elements by receiving a plurality of images of a location from a user device, wherein the plurality of images includes images of a location at various times, identifying an object of one or more images of the plurality of images, wherein the object corresponds to an unsuitable condition for a database, determining a score of the one or more images of the plurality of images based at least in part on the identified object, determining a base image from the one or more images of the plurality of images, and generating a set of replacement images of the location based at least in part on respective determined scores of the one or more images of the plurality of images.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Stephen Arthur Boxwell, Kyle Matthew Brake, Keith Gregory Frost, Stanley John Vernier
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Publication number: 20220417429Abstract: Generating a controllable panoramic image while eliminating unsuitable dynamic elements by receiving a plurality of images of a location from a user device, wherein the plurality of images includes images of a location at various times, identifying an object of one or more images of the plurality of images, wherein the object corresponds to an unsuitable condition for a database, determining a score of the one or more images of the plurality of images based at least in part on the identified object, determining a base image from the one or more images of the plurality of images, and generating a set of replacement images of the location based at least in part on respective determined scores of the one or more images of the plurality of images.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Stephen Arthur Boxwell, Kyle Matthew Brake, Keith Gregory Frost, Stanley John Vernier
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Publication number: 20220382988Abstract: Generating automated conversation responses by receiving a conversation input message, determining an intent associated with the conversation input message, detecting content associated with the intent in a data stream in response to determining the intent, and generating a conversation output according to the content and the intent.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Keith Gregory Frost, Stephen Arthur Boxwell, Kyle Matthew Brake, Stanley John Vernier
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Publication number: 20220374209Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2021Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Elinna SHEK, Stanley John VERNIER, Renee F. DECKER, Chengmin DING
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Patent number: 11411571Abstract: A clock distribution circuit configured to output a clock signal includes a first circuit configured to use a reference clock signal to provide first and second reference signals, wherein the second reference signal indicates whether the first reference signal is locked with the reference clock signal; a second circuit configured to use the reference clock signal to provide an output signal and an indication signal indicative whether the output signal is locked with the reference clock signal; and a monitor circuit, coupled to the first and second circuits, and configured to use at least one of the first reference signal, the second reference signal, the output signal, and the indication signal to determine whether the second circuit is functioning correctly.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sandeep Kumar Goel, Ji-Jan Chen, Stanley John, Yun-Han Lee, Yen-Hao Huang
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Publication number: 20220197933Abstract: A computer-implemented method for optimizing search query results is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes receiving a first natural language query, selecting a plurality of search query patterns based on the first natural language query, assigning a weight to each search query pattern in the plurality of search query patterns, generating one or more weighted keyword queries from each search query pattern based on the weight assigned to each search query pattern and one or more keywords from the first natural language query, evaluating a relevancy of one or more search results returned by each of the one or more weighted keyword queries for the first natural language query, and iteratively altering the weight assigned to a search query pattern until an optimal number of relevant search results are returned from the search query pattern for the first natural language query.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Stephen Arthur Boxwell, Kyle Matthew Brake, Keith Gregory Frost, Stanley John Vernier
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Patent number: 11361761Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for determining statement attributions. The system includes at least one processing component, at least one memory component, a feature extractor, a model generator, a model database, and an attribution selector. The method includes receiving a statement, generating at least one pattern that defines a grammatical feature of the statement, and generating a statement model from the at least one pattern. The method also includes determining a similarity value for the statement model and at least one reference model.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Stephen Arthur Boxwell, Keith Gregory Frost, Kyle Matthew Brake, Stanley John Vernier
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Patent number: 11288355Abstract: An approach is provided in which the approach provides a first question to a requestor requesting access to a resource. The first question corresponds to a first cognitive level and includes at least one image selected from a set of images. The approach computes a confidence value of a first answer received from the requestor responding to the first question. In response to determining that the confidence value is below a confidence threshold, the approach provides a second question to the requestor corresponding to a second cognitive level that is increased from the first cognitive level. The approach grants access to the requestor in response to determining that a second answer received from the requestor responding to the second question is a correct answer.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Chengmin Ding, Stanley John Vernier, Elinna Shek, Renee F. Decker
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Patent number: 11275901Abstract: A method for supplementing context in dialog flows for chatbot systems includes responsive to receiving identification information associated with a user and a topic for a chatbot conversation, initializing a chatbot conversation between a chatbot and the user. The method identifies a set of entities and a set of one or more relationships, wherein each relationship from the set one or more relationships is between two entities from the set of entities. The method determines an initial set of relevancy scores for each entity in the set of entities and the set of one or more relationships, wherein the initial set of relevancy scores are based at least on a domain for the topic of the chatbot conversation. The method generates a first response to the user based on the initial set of relevancy scores, wherein the first response includes at least one entity and at least one relationship.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Elinna Shek, Chengmin Ding, Octavian Florin Filoti, Stanley John Vernier, Renee F Decker
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Publication number: 20220027625Abstract: A method provides for assistance in recognition of an entity. A set of data and associated information corresponding to a plurality of entities known to an assisted user is received, such that an instance of the set of data and associated information includes identification of a respective entity of the plurality of entities known to an assisted user. Real-time data corresponding to a first entity is received from one or more devices capturing the real-time data. The real-time data is compared to the set of data and associated information corresponding to the plurality of entities known to the user to determine whether the first entity has a known relevance to the user, and in response to determining the first entity does have a known relevance to the user, the processor provides the identity and relevance of the first entity to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2020Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Kyle Matthew Brake, Keith Gregory Frost, Stephen Arthur Boxwell, Stanley John Vernier
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Patent number: 11231767Abstract: A method for dynamic frequency scaling (DFS) on the electronic systems level (ESL). The method can run in a virtual environment and dynamically scale the frequency of a virtual component based on a first transaction time and a second transaction time.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kai-Yuan Ting, Ashok Mehta, Stanley John, Sandeep Kumar Goel
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Publication number: 20220000074Abstract: Disclosed is a mounting base (300) for attaching a portable electronic device (402) to a collar apparatus (400). Mounting base (300) includes a frame (102) and a latch (200). Latch (200) is moveable between a latched position and an unlatched position. Latch (200) includes an actuator (206) with a button (208) that may be depressed by a user to manually move latch (200) between the latched and unlatched positions. A portable electronic device (402) includes an insertion portion (410) that is received in a receiving aperture (108) in the frame (102). Once the insertion portion (410) is inserted, the device (402) may be rotated manually to engage latch (200). During rotation, a lock stub (216) on latch (200) engages a corresponding feature on insertion portion (410), thereby preventing counter-rotation of device (402). Additionally, one or more tabs (120) on frame (102) interfere with corresponding structure on insertion portion (410) to secure device (402) onto mounting base (300).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: MARS, INCORPORATEDInventors: Robert W. Mott, JR., Kyu Sang Lee, Stanley John Withouski, IV
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Patent number: 11210590Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes generating from a corpus a knowledge graph comprising a plurality of nodes interconnected by a plurality of edges. Each node of the plurality of nodes represents an entity extracted from the corpus. Each edge of the plurality of edges represents a relationship between corresponding entities extracted from the corpus. The knowledge graph includes a plurality of source passages extracted from the corpus from which the plurality of edges was generated. A generative language model is trained, for each edge of the plurality of edges, to associate two or more related entities by utilizing the knowledge graph. Using the trained generative language model, one or more passages representing the edge of the knowledge graph are generated for each edge of the knowledge graph.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Stephen Arthur Boxwell, Kyle Matthew Brake, Stanley John Vernier, Keith Gregory Frost
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Patent number: D943521Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignees: Cambrionix Ltd, Cambrionix Holdings LimitedInventors: Steven Tyson, Bruce Stanley John Hutchison, Alasdair Max Paul Barnett, Richard Albert Norman