Patents Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation
  • Patent number: 11972255
    Abstract: A content generation method includes receiving a control document comprising one or more control clauses, identifying actionable content for the one or more control clauses, generating a programming language template for the one or more control clauses, identifying a closest existing control clause from a database for each of the one or more control clause, identifying a programming language implementation of the closest existing control clause, identifying similarities and differences between the programming language implementation and the generated programming language template, and annotating the programming language implementation for the closest existing control clause based on the identified similarities and differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Muhammed Fatih Bulut, Abdulhamid Adebowale Adebayo, Sai Zeng, Rinku Kanwar
  • Patent number: 11972290
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods and/or computer program products are provided for facilitating time management of a quantum program at one or more nodes of a system, such as a hybrid classical/quantum system. A system, such as a classic portion of the hybrid system, can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a time management component that can communicate with a node to trigger the node to execute one or more quantum program instructions relative to a counter of the node that is advanced by the communicating. The time management component can advance the counter at the node based upon a combination of time of another node and of a determined actual propagation time for the communicating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jeffrey Joseph Ruedinger
  • Patent number: 11971886
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for active learning for natural language question answering are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes generating a semantic signature of a natural language query; generating a SQL signature for a SQL query corresponding to the natural language query; determining whether a set of mappings includes a semantic signature matching the generated semantic signature, wherein each mapping in the set is between (i) a given semantic signature and (ii) a SQL signature representing a class of SQL queries corresponding to the given semantic signature; and in response to determining that the set of mappings does not include the generated semantic signature, adding a mapping between the generated semantic signature and the generated SQL signature to the set of mappings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jaydeep Sen, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Ashish Mittal
  • Patent number: 11972260
    Abstract: A machine instruction to find a condition location within registers, such as vector registers. The machine instruction has associated therewith a register to be examined and a result location. The register includes a plurality of elements. In execution, the machine instruction counts a number of contiguous elements of the plurality of elements of the register having a particular value in a selected location within the contiguous elements. Other locations within the contiguous elements are ignored for the counting. The counting provides a count placed in the result location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael K. Gschwind, Markus Kaltenbach, Jentje Leenstra, Brett Olsson
  • Patent number: 11973671
    Abstract: A generated signal is injected into a first network node in a set of network nodes. The generated signal comprises a predetermined pattern, the predetermined pattern comprises a plurality of time periods, wherein during each time period in the plurality of time periods a first data traffic is prevented from exiting the first network node. By monitoring data flow within the set of network nodes while the generated signal is being injected, a correlation with the generated signal is detected, the correlation correlating a second network node with the first network node. The second network node is associated with the first network node. Responsive to the association, traffic from the second network node to the set of network nodes is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng-Ta Lee, Iosif Viorel Onut, Russell Couturier, Mattias Johansson
  • Patent number: 11971910
    Abstract: Methods and systems for gathering information from a user include identifying an origin topic and a target topic. A path from the origin topic to the target topic is determined. The path includes a set of bridging topics, where each bridging topic in the path is within a threshold distance in a semantic space from a previous topic and a subsequent topic. An interactive conversation is conducted with the user, introducing each topic in the path until the target topic has been reached. At least one predetermined piece of information relating to a user response to the target topic is recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshinari Itoko, Toshiro Takase
  • Patent number: 11971916
    Abstract: A system and method for table conversion including converting a table containing text in tabular form to an image, labeling each text area of the image with a bounding box, determining for each bounding box, a position information, a semantic information, and an image information, reconstructing the image into a graph form having a plurality of nodes, wherein each node represents the bounding box of the text areas of the image, inputting at least two nodes into a trained neural network to determine a relative relationship between the at least two nodes, building a knowledge graph using the relative relationship of the at least two nodes, and translating the knowledge graph into machine readable natural language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zhong Fang Yuan, Tong Liu, Li Juan Gao, Si Heng Sun, Na Liu
  • Patent number: 11971805
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by one or more processors of a computer system, source code, annotating, by the one or more processors of the computer system, features of the received source code using an automated annotation system to provide annotations for the features, relating, by the one or more processors of a computer system, a code execution path of the source code to the features during the annotating, identifying, by the one or more processors of the computer system, a runtime issue associated with the source code, identifying, by the one or more processors of the computer system using a code analytic engine, one or more of the features based on the annotations that are associated with the runtime issue, and automatically disabling, by the one or more processors of the computer system, the identified one or more features associated with the runtime issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Geet Manghnani, Josephine E. Justin, Ajay Chebbi, Srikanth K. Murali
  • Patent number: 11971853
    Abstract: An approach for deleting a file from a primary file system. The approach deletes a directory entry, associated with a file, from an in-memory index associated with a secondary file system. The approach updates an index cache associated with a secondary file system, based on the in-memory index. The approach updates a dirty flag, associated with the secondary file system, to a value of TRUE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Hasegawa, Hiroshi Itagaki, Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Atsushi Abe, Noriko Yamamoto, Shinsuke Mitsuma
  • Patent number: 11972759
    Abstract: Mitigating mistranscriptions resolves errors in a transcription of the audio portion of a video based on a semantic matching with contextualized data electronically garnered from one or more sources other than the audio portion of the video. A mistranscription is identified using a pretrained word embedding model that maps words to an embedding space derived from the contextualizing data. A similarity value for each vocabulary word of a multi-word vocabulary of the pretrained word embedding model is determined in relation to the mistranscription. Candidate words are selected based on the similarity values, each indicating a closeness of a corresponding vocabulary word to the mistranscription. The textual rendering is modified by replacing the mistranscription with a candidate word that, based on average semantic similarity values, is more similar to the mistranscription than is each other candidate word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shikhar Kwatra, Vijay Ekambaram, Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy, Rodrigo Goulart Silva
  • Patent number: 11972785
    Abstract: A memory structure, i.e., magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) structure, is provided that includes a seeding area including at least a tunnel barrier seed layer located beneath a chemical templating layer that is wider than the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure that is located on the chemical templating layer. Redeposited metallic material is located on at least a sidewall of the tunnel barrier seed layer of the seeding area so as to shunt that area of the structure. The memory structure has reduced resistance with minimal tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) loss penalty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pouya Hashemi, Jonathan Zanhong Sun, Guohan Hu, Saba Zare
  • Patent number: 11973125
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same include forming a bottom source/drain structure around a fin. A multi-layer bottom spacer is formed on the bottom source/drain structure, around the fin. Each layer of the multi-layer bottom spacer has a respective vertical height above the bottom source/drain structure, with a layer of the multi-layer bottom spacer that is farthest from the fin having a greater vertical height than a layer that is closest to the fin, to address parasitic capacitance from the bottom source/drain structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ruilong Xie, Hemanth Jagannathan, Jay William Strane, Eric Miller
  • Patent number: 11973141
    Abstract: A nanosheet semiconductor device includes a first ferroelectric region between a channel nanosheet stack and a gate contact. The channel nanosheet stack includes a plurality of channel nanosheets each connected to a source and connected to a drain and a gate surrounding the plurality of channel nanosheets and connected to the source and connected to the drain. The nanosheet semiconductor device may further include a second ferroelectric region upon a sidewall of the channel nanosheet stack. Sidewalls of the first ferroelectric region may be substantially coplanar with or inset from underlying sidewalls of the channel nanosheet stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jingyun Zhang, Reinaldo Vega, Miaomiao Wang, Takashi Ando
  • Patent number: 11972977
    Abstract: A method of forming interconnects is provided. The method includes forming a plurality of mandrels on an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer. The method further includes forming sidewall spacers on opposite sides of the each mandrel, wherein a portion of the ILD layer is exposed between adjacent sidewall spacers on adjacent mandrels, and removing the exposed portions of the ILD layer to form a first set of trenches between adjacent sidewall spacers. The method further includes forming a first set of interconnects in the first set of trenches, and removing the mandrels to expose portions of the ILD layer between the sidewall spacers. The method further includes removing the exposed portions of the ILD layer to form a second set of trenches between the sidewall spacers, and forming a second set of interconnects in the second set of trenches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chanro Park, Kenneth Chun Kuen Cheng, Koichi Motoyama, Kisik Choi
  • Patent number: 11973058
    Abstract: A semiconductor die package that has a substrate with one or more substrate layers with one or more substrate connections. A substrate layer can include one or more redistribution layers (RDLs). One or more dies (e.g., multiple dies) are disposed on a top substrate layer. The dies have one or more die external connections. Some of the die external connections are electrically connected to one or more substrate connections. One or more metallic dam stiffeners form into a dam enclosure that is disposed on and physically connected to the top substrate layer. The dam enclosure encloses one or more of the dies. The metallic dam enclosure has one or more electrically connected regions where the metallic dam enclosure is electrically connected to one or more of the substrate horizontal connections and one or more electrically insulated regions where the metallic dam enclosure is electrically insulated from one or more of the substrate horizontal connections and the substrate via connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Sakuma, Mukta Ghate Farooq, John Knickerbocker
  • Patent number: 11973661
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer system that includes a memory electronically coupled to a processor system. The processor system is operable to perform processor system operations that include accessing a graph model representation of a computer network. The graph model is used to implement a resiliency-problem identification analysis that identifies a set of resiliency problems in the graph model. The graph model is used to apply a resiliency-problem solution analysis to a resiliency problem in the set of resiliency problems to generate a set of resiliency-problem solutions. Each resiliency-problem solution in the set of resiliency-problem solutions is ranked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Downes Griffin, Stephen Buckley, Eric Kevin Butler, Divyesh Jadav, Rakesh Jain
  • Patent number: 11973595
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for recasting repetitive messages is provided. Embodiments may include receiving, by a processor, a message. Embodiments may include determining, by the processor, whether the received message is repetitive. Embodiments may include rating, by the processor, an importance level of the received message. Embodiments may include determining a preference for recasting the received message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo
  • Patent number: 11973991
    Abstract: A processor may initiate a recording. The processor may segment the recording into one or more segments. The processor may determine, based on the identification of a primary object in a first segment of the recording, a first bit rate for the first segment of the first recording. The processor may preload one or more subsequent segments that include the primary object at the first bit rate. The processor may preload each of the one or more subsequent segments with a secondary object at a second bit rate. The second bit rate may be lower than the first bit rate. The processor may display the recording to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Balamurugaramanathan Sivaramalingam, Sathya Santhar, Samuel Mathew Jawaharlal, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11973693
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for distributing packets for asymmetrical traffic by a network interface card (NIC). The computer-implemented method includes obtaining information of an incoming packet incoming from a source endpoint behind a stateful service and accessing a destination endpoint using a network address translation (NAT) service, hashing the information to calculate queue identification for the packet to direct the packet to the queue associated therewith, executing a NAT on an outgoing packet associated with the incoming packet to allow for retrieval of the queue identification from a header of the outgoing packet, sending the outgoing packet to the destination endpoint, which is responsive with a return packet, stamping the queue identification to the return packet upon the return packet being transmitted back from the destination endpoint and the queue identification being retrieved and instantiating an RSS override operation to redirect the return packet to the queue on the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eran Gampel, Liran Schour, Guy Laden, Marc Cochran
  • Publication number: 20240134601
    Abstract: Provided are a floating-point unit, a system, and method for fused multiply-add logic to process input operands including floating-point values and integer values. A first input operand comprising an integer value and second and third input operands comprising floating-point values are received. The first, second, and third input operands are processed to produce a floating-point result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ankur AGRAWAL, Kailash GOPALAKRISHNAN