Patents Assigned to International Business Machine Corporations
  • Computing polychoric and polyserial correlations between random variables using norta
    Patent number: 9460055
    Abstract: Polychoric correlations between two discrete random variables and polyserial correlations between a discrete random variable and a continuous random variable may be determined by using a normal-to-anything (NORTA) method and a stochastic root finding algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Vladimir E. Shklover
  • Adaptive guidance for managing a communications repository
    Patent number: 9461956
    Abstract: A tool for analyzing accessible data to provide recommendations to a user for how to manage communications. The tool receives a request to provide a recommendation for how to manage a specific communication. The tool requests accessible data for the specific communication. The tool determines a recommendation for how to manage the specific communication. The tool presents the recommendation for how to manage the specific communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Feng-wei Chen, Joseph D. Johnson, Yongcheng Li, Samuel R. McHan, Jr.
  • Personalizing error messages based on user behavior
    Patent number: 9459946
    Abstract: An approach is provided for personalizing an error message for a user. Corrective actions performed by the user are monitored. The corrective actions cause a resolution of an instance of a problem within a computer system. Based on the monitored corrective actions, sources of information accessed by the user to resolve the instance of the problem are determined. After resolution of the instance of the problem, another instance of the same problem is detected. In response to detecting the other instance of the problem, the error message is augmented with a summary of the sources of information and/or hyperlinks that access the sources of information. The augmented error message is presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hagop Amendjian, Leon H. Cash, Jr., Manvendra Gupta, Stewart J. Hyman
  • Diagnostics for transactional execution errors in reliable transactions
    Patent number: 9460020
    Abstract: Gathering diagnostics during a transactional execution in a transactional memory environment, a transactional memory environment for performing transactional executions is provided. Included is identifying a first indicator, by a computer system, signaling a beginning instruction of a transaction comprising a plurality of instructions; generating, by the computer system, a computed digest based on the execution of at least one of the plurality of instructions; accumulating, by the computer system, a diagnostic data of the transaction based on the execution of the plurality of instructions; identifying, by the computer system, a second indicator associated with the plurality of instructions signaling an ending instruction of the transaction comprising the plurality of instructions; and based on an abort of the transaction, not saving the memory store data of the transaction to memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Karl Gschwind, Valentina Salapura
  • Managing an index of a table of a database
    Patent number: 9460138
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a computer program product for managing a database are disclosed. Managing the database includes managing an index of a table of the database. Managing the index includes determining the table includes a first field having a first input value configured to identify a first dynamic data function utilized to determine a first output value for the first field. In embodiments, managing the index includes determining the first dynamic data function is deterministic, determining the first output value for the first field using the first dynamic data function, and storing the first output value for the first field. In embodiments, managing the index includes determining the first dynamic data function is nondeterministic, determining a first special value to represent the first output value for the first field, and storing the first special value for the first field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rafal P. Konik, Roger A. Mittelstadt, Brian R. Muras, Mark W. Theuer
  • Generating hydrocarbon reservoir scenarios from limited target hydrocarbon reservoir information
    Patent number: 9458713
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for generating scenarios of hydrocarbon reservoirs based on limited amount of information on a target hydrocarbon reservoir, and more particularly to automatically supplying missing parameters and uncertainty associated with each supplied parameter allowing to valuating the target hydrocarbon reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: REPSOL, S. A., International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sonia Mariette Embid Droz, Ruben Rodriguez Torrado, Giorgio De Paola, Mohamed Ahmed Hegazy, Bruno Da Costa Flach, Ulisses T. Mello
  • Memory frame architecture for instruction fetches in simulation
    Patent number: 9460247
    Abstract: A simulation technique that handles accesses to a frame of instruction memory by inserting a command object between a frame proxy and a memory frame provides improved throughput in simulation environments. The instruction frame, if present, processes the access to the frame. If an instruction frame is not present for the accessed frame, the memory frame handles the request directly. The instruction frame caches fetched and decoded instructions and may be inserted at the first access to a corresponding instruction memory frame. The instruction frame can track write accesses to instruction memory so that changes to the instruction memory can be reflected in the state of the instruction frame. Additional check frames may be chained between the interface and the memory frame to handle breakpoints, instruction memory watches or other access checks on the instruction memory frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tracy Bashore, Ahmed Gheith, Aditya Kumar, Ronald L. Rockhold
  • Authenticating a request for an electronic transaction
    Patent number: 9460438
    Abstract: In an approach for authenticating a request for an electronic transaction, a computer receives a request for an electronic transaction on a user account. The computer determines whether the request for the electronic transaction is suspicious, and responsive to determining the request is suspicious, the computer retrieves profile information for the user. The computer determines based on at least the profile information, one or more contacts of the user, wherein the one or more contacts are identified by the user. The computer then determines, based on at least a response from the one or more contacts, whether the request for the electronic transaction is suspicious, wherein determining the request is not suspicious validates authentication of the electronic transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Bender, David E. Nachman, Michael P. Shute
  • Key code for a conference operation
    Patent number: 9462133
    Abstract: Methods, products, apparatuses, and systems may facilitate a conference operation. The conference operation may include conference chaining, conference switching, conference modification, conference announcement, and so on. A collection of authentication data for a plurality of distinct conferences may be performed to chain the conferences. Switching among the distinct conference may be performed in response to a switch key code. The switch key code may include a general key code applicable to each of the conferences and/or a specific key code application to a specific conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Darryl M. Adderly, Prasad Kashyap, Brian J. Murray, Wenjian Qiao
  • Processing element placement tool
    Patent number: 9459757
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for selectively associating one or more processing elements, or portions thereof, to one or more compute nodes. The method, system, and computer program product can include presenting a stream computing application, presenting metrics associated with at least one compute node and at least one processing element (or portion thereof), receiving input from a graphical display, associating one or more processing elements (or portions thereof) to one or more compute nodes, and updating the graphical display and the metrics to reflect the selective associations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric L. Barsness, Michael J. Branson, John M. Santosuosso
  • Method for the formation of silicon and silicon-germanium fin structures for FinFET devices
    Patent number: 9461174
    Abstract: A substrate layer formed of a first semiconductor material includes adjacent first and second regions. Fin structures are formed from the substrate layer in both the first and second regions. At least the side walls of the fin structures in the second region are covered with an epitaxially grown layer of second semiconductor material. A drive in process is performed to convert the fin structures in the second region from the first semiconductor material to the second semiconductor material. The first semiconductor material is, for example, silicon, and the second semiconductor material is, for example, silicon germanium or silicon carbide. The fin structures in the first region are provided for a FinFET of a first (for example, n-channel) conductivity type while the fin structures in the second region are provided for a FinFET of a second (for example, p-channel) conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics, Inc., International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nicolas Loubet, Hong He, James Kuss
  • Channel strain and controlling lateral epitaxial growth of the source and drain in FinFET devices
    Patent number: 9461168
    Abstract: A multi-gate finFET structure and formation thereof. The multi-gate finFET structure has a first gate structure that includes an inner side and an outer side. Adjacent to the first gate structure is a second gate structure. The inner side of the first gate structure faces, at least in part, the second gate structure. A stress-inducing material fills a fin cut trench that is adjacent to the outer side of the first gate structure. An epitaxial semiconductor layer fills, at least in part, an area between the first gate structure and the second gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Injo Ok, Balasubramanian Pranatharthiharan, Soon-cheon Seo, Charan Veera Venkata Satya Surisetty
  • Management of a database system
    Patent number: 9460192
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product to manage a database is disclosed. The method, system, and computer program product may include structuring the database to have a first table having an index and a second table. A first key of the first table may be related to a second key of the second table. The method, system, and computer program product may include creating an entry locator in the index. The method, system, and computer program product may include maintaining an association between the second key of the second table and the entry locator of the index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rafal P. Konik, Roger A. Mittelstadt, Brian R. Muras, Mark W. Theuer
  • Access and presentation of files based on semantic proximity to current interests
    Patent number: 9460191
    Abstract: A method for managing and rendering one or more information nodes relative to a current focus. The method receives one or more principal topics from an analysis of the information nodes. The method determines a topic vector from a similarity of a first information node to each of the principal topics and a map from the topic vector to a storage location of the first information node. The method determines one or more current topics from a second information node that has been recently accessed by a user and a current focus vector from a similarity of the one or more current topics to the one or more principal topics. The method renders the current focus vector and the first information node according to a rendering algorithm that is applied to the current focus vector and the first information node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian P. Gaucher, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Jonathan Lenchner, David O. S. Melville
  • Network resources management by a cloud consumer
    Patent number: 9461934
    Abstract: A cloud service provider hypervisor server, which supports a cloud service provider hypervisor, receives a cloud consumer's management information base (MIB) from a cloud consumer. The cloud consumer's MIB is a portable MIB that is capable of being loaded into multiple cloud service provider hypervisors. A trap receiver in the cloud service provider hypervisor server receives a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) trap from a resource described by the cloud consumer's MIB. The SNMP trap is an SNMP message, from the resource, that describes an event in the resource. The SNMP trap bypasses the cloud service provider hypervisor, such that the cloud service provider hypervisor server transfers the SNMP trap to the cloud consumer without any interpretation of the SNMP trap by the cloud service provider hypervisor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Srinivas Cheemalapati, Clinton Douglas, Rebecca E. Lutz, Todd D. Robinson
  • Lactide-functionalized polymer
    Patent number: 9458268
    Abstract: A lactide-functionalized polymer is represented by the following formula: wherein R is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and wherein R? is a phenyl group or C(O)OR?, wherein R? is an alkyl group having one or more carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dylan J. Boday, Timothy C. Mauldin
  • Data stream quality management for analytic environments
    Patent number: 9460131
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a system and technique for data quality management is disclosed. The system includes a processor and an ingress quality specification (IQS) module executable by the processor in a runtime environment with a data stream analytic module. The IQS module is configured to: receive the data stream; analyze a subset of data of the data stream to determine if the subset of data meets a quality expectation of the analytic module; annotate the subset of data to indicate a quality status based on whether the subset of data meets the quality expectation of the analytic module; and output the data stream to the analytic module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Randy George, Robert J. McKeown
  • Alternative port error recovery with limited system impact
    Patent number: 9459972
    Abstract: Various embodiments for troubleshooting a network device in a computing storage environment by a processor. In response to an error in a specific port, an alternative error recovery operation is initiated on the port by performing at least one of initiating a silent recovery operation by reloading a failed instruction, taking the port offline, cleaning up any active transactions associated with the port, performing a hardware reset operation port, and bringing the port online.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew G. Borlick, Steven E. Klein, Ashwani Kumar, Micah Robison
  • Instruction to load data up to a dynamically determined memory boundary
    Patent number: 9459868
    Abstract: A Load to Block Boundary instruction is provided that loads a variable number of bytes of data into a register while ensuring that a specified memory boundary is not crossed. The boundary is dynamically determined based on a specified type of boundary and one or more characteristics of the processor executing the instruction, such as cache line size or page size used by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Bradbury, Michael K. Gschwind, Christian Jacobi, Eric M. Schwarz, Timothy J. Slegel
  • Static security analysis using a hybrid representation of string values
    Patent number: 9460282
    Abstract: Systems for constructing hybrid string representations include a string parser configured to parse received string information to produce one or more string components, a database configured to store a set of known concretizations, and a processor configured to compare the one or more string components to the set of known concretizations to determine string components that may be represented concretely, to abstract all string components that could not be represented concretely, and to create a hybrid string representation that includes at least one concrete string component and at least one abstracted string component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Salvatore A. Guarnieri, Marco Pistoia, Omer Tripp