Patents Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation
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Publication number: 20240086378Abstract: A source schema is extracted from a source database and a target schema is extracted from a target database. By comparing the source schema with the target schema, a mismatch between the source schema and the target schema is identified. Data from the source database is stored in the target database according to the target schema and the mismatch.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jesus Manuel Olivera Olivera, David Patrick Cavanaugh
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Publication number: 20240086437Abstract: An embodiment includes generating an intent string representative of a user's intention based on an input string from the user. The embodiment generates a search string that includes text from the input string and text from the intent string, and then executes a text-based query and an ontology-based query against a graph database using the search string. The embodiment generates a combined set of search results from search results of the text-based query and search results of the ontology-based query. The embodiment generates final relevance scores for the combined set of search results by adjusting at least a portion of preliminary relevance scores of the combined set of search results. The embodiment generates a query response that includes the combined set of search results ranked according to the final relevance scores.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Karina Elayne Kervin, Manish Kesanwani, Satyajeet Raje, Nergal Issaie
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Publication number: 20240089316Abstract: A method for providing more reliable output when conducting a live product demonstration is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method initiates, on a client system, a live product demonstration by executing a function on a live demonstration server. In the event the function fails, the method saves a breakpoint associated with the live product demonstration. The method checks the availability of a standby demonstration server. In the event the standby demonstration server is available, the method automatically continues, from the breakpoint, the live product demonstration by executing the function on the standby demonstration server. If the standby demonstration server is not available, the method may return an error message to the client system. In the event the live demonstration server is recovered, the method may resume the live product demonstration by executing the function on the live demonstration server. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jie Yang, Zhun Huang, Xiang Juan Meng, Cheng Fang Wang
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Patent number: 11928107Abstract: Methods and systems for similarity-based value-to-column classification are disclosed. A method includes: receiving, by a computing device, a natural language search query; determining, by the computing device, a filtering phrase in the natural language search query using a natural language understanding model; encoding, by the computing device, the filtering phrase; retrieving, by the computing device, a plurality of encoded columns; for each of the plurality of encoded columns, the computing device determining a similarity score based on a similarity between the encoded filtering phrase and the encoded column; and outputting, by the computing device, a column corresponding to an encoded column of the plurality of encoded columns having a highest similarity score.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Mohammed Mostafa, Ali Khanafer, Mohamad F. Kalil, Mohamed El Gemaiey, Morvarid Sehatkar
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Patent number: 11926493Abstract: Methods are presented which include moving a self-stabilizing platform assembly with product disposed on a deck of the self-stabilizing platform assembly. The self-stabilizing platform assembly includes multiple torque-generating devices, a stability control system to control operation of the multiple torque-generating devices, and the deck to support the product being moved. The methods also include adjusting, by the stability control system, operation of one or more torque-generating devices of the multiple torque-generating devices to produce during the moving a stabilization torque within the self-stabilizing platform assembly to facilitate stabilizing the self-stabilizing platform assembly and product during moving of the self-stabilizing platform assembly and product.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Suraush Khambati, Budy D. Notohardjono, Shawn M. Canfield, Richard M. Ecker
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Patent number: 11928131Abstract: Datasets can be synchronized across cloud-based computer environments using computer systems. A data map can be generated for source datasets for a plurality of computing environments, respectively, and an activation function can be determined based on the data map, for simultaneously activating a new dataset of a source system from one of the plurality of computing environments. A generation ID (identification) can be shared from the source system with one or more computing environments of the plurality of the computing environments, in response to receiving the activation function. The new dataset of the source system can be replicated across the one or more computing environments. A data synchronization trigger can be activated, using a synchronization coordinator module of the computer, and the data synchronization can be completed across the plurality of computing environments.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sreekanth Ramakrishna Iyer, Rakesh Shinde, Ram Ravishankar, Harish Bharti, Grigorij Kaplan, Alberto Eduardo de Queiroz Dias
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Patent number: 11928082Abstract: File system performance enhancement is provided. Information related to a container of the computer accessing a file in a layer of a file system of an image corresponding to the container is recorded to form recorded file system layer access information. The recorded file system layer access information is shared with another file system of a container image corresponding to a different container on the computer. The container image is a same image as the image corresponding to the container that accessed the file to perform an operation associated with a cloud application.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Guang Han Sui, Jin Chi He, Peng Hui Jiang, Gang Tang
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Patent number: 11930724Abstract: A phase change memory (PCM) cell includes an electrode, a heater electrically connected to the electrode, a PCM material electrically connected to the heater, a second electrode electrically connected to the PCM material, an electrical insulator surrounding the PCM material, and a shield positioned between the PCM material and the electrical insulator, the shield comprising a reactive-ion-etching-resistant material.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Injo Ok, Nicole Saulnier, Muthumanickam Sankarapandian, Andrew Herbert Simon, Steven Michael McDermott, Iqbal Rashid Saraf
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Patent number: 11928051Abstract: A system, program product, and method for validating a system under test (SUT). The method includes generating one or more application programming interface (API) requests. The method also includes selecting one or more random biases for one or more properties of the one or more API requests. The method further includes generating a random sample of one or more values from an input domain space, wherein the one or more values are associated with one or more respective fields of the API being requested.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Vitali Sokhin, Gil Eliezer Shurek, Shiri Moran, Tom Kolan
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Patent number: 11928127Abstract: In response to receiving a request for an identity key from a first entity, an identity key for the first entity is generated. A first request from the first entity to replicate a set of data is received. The generated identity key for the first entity is added to the metadata of the set of data requested to be replicated. A determination is made whether a replication rule exists for the first entity. In response to determining that a replication rule exists for the first entity, the set of data is replicated according to the replication rule for the first entity.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Xin Wang, Yong Zheng, Xue Sheng Li, Li Xia Liu, Fang Yuan Cheng, Shuo Feng
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Patent number: 11928460Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system, and computer program product for dynamic update of a computer program in memory. According to the method, one or more processors obtain incremental information, the incremental information specifying an incremental update to at least one section of at least one target function in a computer program. One or more processors identify, based on the incremental information, the at least one target function to be updated from the computer program. One or more processors generate at least one updated copy of the at least one target function by updating the at least one section of the at least one target function based on the incremental information. One or more processors update the computer program based on the at least one updated copy of the at least one target function while the computer program is running.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jin Hong Fu, Bao Zhang, Shi Chong Ma, He Huang, Naijie Li, Jia Yu
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Patent number: 11928186Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to improve an output of a trained machine learning (ML) computer model based on label co-occurrence statistics. For a corpus, label vector representations of the knowledge data structures are generated. Co-occurrence scores for each pairing of labels, across the label vector representations, are generated. A vector output of the ML computer model is received and a knowledge driven reasoning (KDR) computer model is configured with threshold(s) and delta value(s) specifying condition(s) of a co-occurrence of a first label in the output with a second label in the plurality of labels which, if present, causes the delta value(s) to be applied to modify a probability value associated with the second label in the output of the ML computer model. The KDR computer model is executed on the output of the ML computer model to modify probability value(s) in the output.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ashutosh Jadhav, Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, Mehdi Moradi
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Patent number: 11928117Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for managing a plurality of live comments. A plurality of live comments is obtained for a video, the plurality of live comments being associated with a plurality of fragments in the video, respectively. A plurality of features are extracted from the plurality of live comments, respectively. A knowledge base is generated for the plurality of live comments based on the plurality of features. With these embodiments, the live comments may be managed in an effective way. Further, the knowledge base may provide answers to a user query.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Wen Wang, Yi Chen Zhong, Kun Yan Yin, De Shuo Kong, Lu Yu, Yi Ming Wang
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Patent number: 11928145Abstract: Methods for creating a knowledge graph for a video are disclosed. Aspects include obtaining the video, processing the video to extract audio information and video information, and storing the extracted audio information and video information with a timestamp corresponding its occurrence in the video. Aspects also include creating a plurality of groups of the extracted audio information and video information based at least in part on the timestamps and extracting two or more keywords from each of the plurality of groups. Aspects further include identifying a relationship between the two or more keywords based on the extracted audio information and video information and creating a graph having a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links that connect a pair of nodes of the plurality of nodes. Each node corresponds to an extracted keyword and each link corresponds to the identified relationship between the pair of nodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yanfeng Shi, Hui Gao, Yue Chen, Yuan Yuan Ding, Hai Jun Xu, Huai Nan Zhou
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Patent number: 11926693Abstract: Techniques regarding chemical compounds comprising perfluoroaryl groups that can facilitate post-synthesis functionalization are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a chemical compound. The chemical compound can comprise a molecular backbone. The chemical compound can also comprise a pendent functional group bonded to the molecular backbone. The pendent functional group can comprise a perfluoroaryl group and a methylene group.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Nathaniel H. Park, James L. Hedrick, Gavin Jones
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Patent number: 11928009Abstract: Aspects of the invention include detecting an error alert from a target computer system. In response to detecting the error alert, performance data is then retrieved from the target computer system. A gated recurrent unit (GRU) neural network is used to generate a prediction of a root cause of the error alert based on the performance data. The weights of a reset gate of the GRU neural network are adjusted based on received feedback of the prediction.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Chun Qi Ji, Qiang Li, Jing Sun, Zong Nan Jin, He Jun
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Patent number: 11928409Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a processor, a physical design block and a physical hierarchy of a chip design of a chip. Further, the method includes extracting, by the processor, one or more features of a macro to be added to the chip design based on a logic synthesis of the chip design. Further, the method includes predicting, by the processor, specifications of the macro to be added to the chip design based on the physical design block, the predicting performed using a pre-trained machine learning model. Further, the method includes using, by the processor, the specifications of the macro to perform a physical synthesis of the chip design to determine a physical layout of the chip.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Daniel Lewis, Rahul M Rao
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Patent number: 11928010Abstract: An example system includes a processor that can receive conversation logs of a dialogue system to be analyzed. The processor can train a predictive machine learning model using a training set of the conversation logs on a selected feature to obtain feature values with associated importance values. The processor can select a number of feature values using a significance score calculated based on the associated importance values. The processor can generate an interactive user interface including the selected number of feature values.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sergey Zeltyn, Avi Yaeli
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Patent number: 11928471Abstract: Embodiments for a metadata predictor. An index pipeline generates indices in an index buffer in which the indices are used for reading out a memory device. A prediction cache is populated with metadata of instructions read from the memory device. A prediction pipeline generates a prediction using the metadata of the instructions from the prediction cache, the populating of the prediction cache with the metadata of the instructions being performed asynchronously to the operating of the prediction pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Edward Thomas Malley, Adam Benjamin Collura, Brian Robert Prasky, James Bonanno, Dominic Ditomaso
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Patent number: 11928038Abstract: An approach for managing data set access based on data set relevance. The approach monitors data set access activities associated with a user. The approach detects access of a first data set by the user. The approach determines a group of data sets associated with the first data set based on a data set mapping associated with the user. The approach recalls one or more data sets of the group of data sets from a slower storage device to a faster storage device.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jing Wen Chen, Zhao Yu Wang, Peng Hui Jiang, Jing BJ Ren, Yi Jie Ma, Wen Zhong Liu