Patents Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation
  • Method and system for automatic detection and correction of sound caused by facial coverings
    Patent number: 11967332
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for correcting muffled speech caused by facial coverings is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes monitoring a user's speech for speech distortion. The computer-implemented method further includes determining that the user's speech is distorted. The computer-implemented method further includes determining that a cause of the user's speech distortion is based, at least in part, on a presence of a particular type of facial covering. The computer-implemented method further includes automatically correcting the speech distortion of the user based, at least in part, on the particular type of facial covering causing the speech distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Michael S. Gordon, Komminist Weldemariam
  • Learning agent based application scheduling
    Patent number: 11966776
    Abstract: Tasks of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) may be dynamically scheduled based on a plurality of constraints and conditions, task prioritization policies, task execution estimates, and configurations of a heterogenous system. A machine learning component may be initialized to dynamically schedule the tasks of the DAGs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aporva Amarnath, Augusto Vega, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Hubertus Franke, John-David Wellman, Pradip Bose
  • Generating natural languages interface from graphic user interfaces
    Patent number: 11966562
    Abstract: An approach for automatically generate the Natural Language Interface (NLI) directly from the Graphical User Interface (GUI) code is disclosed. The approach leverages the use of mapping between GUI components to pre-defined NLI components in order to generate the necessary NLI components (e.g., intent example, entities, etc.) from the GUI code representation. The approach can leverage pre-defined patterns in order to generate these intent examples for each kind of NLI components. The created NLI dialog can be used simultaneously with the GUI or as a standalone feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Offer Akrabi, Erez Lev Meir Bilgory, Sami Sobhe Marreed, Alessandro Donatelli, Asaf Adi, Nir Mashkif
  • Proxy-based instruction throttling control
    Patent number: 11966786
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system and method for managing energy consumption of one or more processor cores in a multicore processing device. The method includes establishing a temporal interval that includes a plurality of temporal periods and an interval energy target for one or more processor cores. The method also includes determining for each temporal period a period energy target for the processor cores and determining a processor core throttling state for the processor cores. The method further includes adjusting the respective period energy target and the respective processor core throttling state at the beginning of each successive temporal period. The method also includes converging, subject to the adjusting, as each respective temporal period of the plurality of temporal periods is concluded, a total period energy consumption of the processor cores with the interval energy target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Thomas Vanderpool, Gregory Scott Still, Juan Medina, Michael Stephen Floyd, Matthew A. Cooke
  • Thermally activated retractable EMC protection
    Patent number: 11968809
    Abstract: A system and a method of providing electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) protection. A removable component is inserted into an end product. The removable component includes a retractable EMC protection apparatus. In response to the insertion of the removable component a shape memory alloy on the EMC protection apparatus is heated to a temperature above the activation temperature of the shape memory alloy. The shape memory alloy then changes from a first shape to a second shape in response to the heating. In response to the change in the shape of the shape memory alloy an EMC protection component of the EMC protection apparatus is inserted into an enclosure opening of the removable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John S. Werner, Noah Singer, Samuel R. Connor
  • Ordering annotation sets for machine learning
    Patent number: 11966453
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a method. The method includes receiving an annotation set for a machine learning model. The annotation set includes multiple data points relevant to a task for the machine learning model. The method also includes determining total weights corresponding to the data points. The total weights are determined based on multiple ordering constraints indicating multiple data classes and corresponding weights. The corresponding weights represent a relative priority of the data classes with respect to each other. The method further includes generating an ordered annotation set from the annotation set. The ordered annotation set includes the data points in a sequence based on the determined total weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Naveen Panwar, Anush Sankaran, Kuntal Dey, Hima Patel, Sameep Mehta
  • Access to data broadcast in encrypted form based on blockchain
    Patent number: 11968291
    Abstract: A solution is proposed for controlling access to data that are broadcast over a telecommunication medium. A corresponding method comprises validating by a plurality of validator devices an access request that is submitted by an access device for accessing the data. The validator devices update a blockchain by adding a new block comprising an indication of the access request in response to a positive result of its validation. A provider system transmits cryptographic information for decrypting the data to the access device in response to the new block. A corresponding method for broadcasting data by a provider system and a corresponding method for accessing broadcast data by an access device are proposed. Corresponding computer programs and computer program products for performing the methods are also proposed. Moreover, corresponding structure, provider system and access device are proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Davide Fazzone, Luigi Lombardi, Vinicio Bombacino, Andrea Tortosa
  • Dedicated bound information register file for protecting against out-of-bounds memory references
    Patent number: 11966331
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for protecting against out-of-bounds references, including storing an address of a buffer in a general register and storing bounds information (BI) for the buffer in a bounds information register, and when a content of the general register is used as an address in a load or store operation, using a content of the bounds information register to determine if the load or store is out of bounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tong Chen, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Richard H. Boivie
  • Domain name based deployment
    Patent number: 11968169
    Abstract: One or more computer processors receive a domain name system (DNS) request in response to a client connecting to a compute resource. The one or more computer processors decoding the DNS request into one or more provision parameters. The one or more computer processors determining that the compute resource is unavailable for a connection with the client utilizing the identified IP address. The one or more computer processors, responsive to determining that the compute resource is not available or not ready, provisioning and deploying a new compute resource according to the one or more decoded provision parameters, wherein the new compute resource is available to the client under the identified IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Utz Bacher, Michael Behrendt, Ismael Faro Sertage
  • Assembly including plural through wafer vias, method of cooling the assembly and method of fabricating the assembly
    Patent number: 11967548
    Abstract: An assembly includes a chip including an integrated circuit, a casing including an integrated circuit and having an upper portion formed on a side of the chip and lower portion formed on another side of the chip, plural through-wafer vias (TWVs) for electrically connecting the integrated circuit of the chip and the integrated circuit of the casing, a system board configured to be electrically connected to the casing, and upper and lower cards connected to the casing for electrically connecting the casing to the system board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kerry Bernstein, Thomas Brunschwiler, Bruno Michel
  • Knowledge graph for determining a resource vendor from which to lease resources
    Patent number: 11966854
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes building a knowledge graph of resource vendors. The method further includes identifying resources that are in relatively short supply in a host system, and determining, using a matching algorithm, a first of the resource vendors in the knowledge graph from which to temporarily lease the identified resources to the host system. The first resource vendor includes the identified resources and satisfies policy prerequisites of the host system. A lease is caused to be issued, from the first resource vendor to the host system, for the identified resources. A computer program product according to another embodiment includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are readable and/or executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform the foregoing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nadiya Kochura, Indervir Singh Banipal, Shikhar Kwatra, Sourav Mazumder
  • Content-based distribution and execution of analytics applications on distributed datasets
    Patent number: 11968248
    Abstract: Methods are provided. A method includes announcing to a network meta information describing each of a plurality of distributed data sources. The method further includes propagating the meta information amongst routing elements in the network. The method also includes inserting into the network a description of distributed datasets that match a set of requirements of the analytics task. The method additionally includes delivering, by the routing elements, a copy of the analytics task to locations of respective ones of the plurality of distributed data sources that include the distributed datasets that match the set of requirements of the analytics task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bong Jun Ko, Theodoros Salonidis, Rahul Urgaonkar, Dinesh C. Verma
  • Integration of selector on confined phase change memory
    Patent number: 11968913
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming air gaps within respective dielectric layer portions to reduce thermal cross-talk between adjacent bits. Each of the dielectric portions is formed on a substrate each adjacent to sidewall liners formed on sidewalls of a phase change memory (PCM) layer. The method further includes forming a pillar including the sidewall liners and the PCM layer, and forming a selector layer on the pillar and the dielectric portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wanki Kim, Fabio Carta, Chung H. Lam, Robert L. Bruce
  • Protecting against invalid memory references
    Patent number: 11966382
    Abstract: Techniques facilitating hardware-based memory-error mitigation for heap-objects. In one example, a system can comprise a process that executes computer executable components stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium. The computer executable components comprise: an entry component; and a re-purpose component. The entry component can allocate an entry in a table to store bounds-information when an object is allocated in memory. The re-purpose component can re-purpose unused bits of an object address to store an index to the table entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard H. Boivie, Tong Chen, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Gururaj Saileshwar
  • Training classifiers in machine learning
    Patent number: 11966819
    Abstract: An approach is provided for training classifiers used in machine learning. A corpus of training data is received. One or more clusters of the training data is generated according to features of the training data. The one or more clusters are refined using user-specified rules. One or more classifiers are trained for use in machine learning based upon the refined one or more clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Qingzi Liao, Yunfeng Zhang, Michael Desmond, Rachel Katherine Emma Bellamy
  • Feature processing for machine learning
    Patent number: 11966822
    Abstract: Disclosed are a computer-implemented method, a system and a computer program product for feature processing. In the computer-implemented method for feature processing, two input features selected from multiple features of each sample in a sample set are projected to one resulting feature by one or more processing units based on a specified curve. The sample set is updated by replacing the two input features with the one resulting feature for each sample in the sample set by one or more processing units. The projecting and the updating for the sample set are repeated by one or more processing units until the number of features of each sample in the sample set reaches a predetermined criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chun Lei Xu, Si Er Han, Shi Bin Liu, Yi Shao, Lei Tian, Hao Zheng, Jia Rui Wang
  • Preloading debug information based on the increment of application
    Patent number: 11966322
    Abstract: A method, computer program product and system are provided for preloading debug information based on the presence of incremental source code files. Based on parsed input parameters to a source code debugger, a source code repository and a local storage area are searched for an incremental file. In response to the incremental file being located, a preload indicator in the incremental file, which is a source code file, is set. Based on the preload indicator being set, debug symbol data from the incremental file is merged to a preload symbol list. In response to receiving a command to examine the debug symbol data from the incremental file, the preload symbol list is searched for the requested debug symbol data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xiao Ling Chen, Xiao Xuan Fu, Jiang Yi Liu, Zhan Peng Huo, Wen Ji Huang, Qing Yu Pei, Min Cheng, Yan Huang
  • Compression of deep neural networks
    Patent number: 11966837
    Abstract: In an approach for compressing a neural network, a processor receives a neural network, wherein the neural network has been trained on a set of training data. A processor receives a compression ratio. A processor compresses the neural network based on the compression ratio using an optimization model to solve for sparse weights. A processor re-trains the compressed neural network with the sparse weights. A processor outputs the re-trained neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dzung Phan, Lam Nguyen, Nam H. Nguyen, Jayant R. Kalagnanam
  • Construction of a machine learning model
    Patent number: 11966851
    Abstract: Implement one or both of processing of computer queries using machine learning models and/or generation of machine learning models in a computer system. A computer processor generates a plurality of stored machine learning models. A computer processor extracts a plurality of updated parameters sets from the plurality of stored machine learning models. A computer processor creates a new machine learning model based on the respective distribution of each parameter included in the plurality of updated parameters sets. A computer processor processes at least one new query using the new machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Aoun Lutfi
  • Increasing capabilities of wearable devices using big data and video feed analysis
    Patent number: 11967149
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for wearable device activity analysis is provided. A computer receives a video of an activity. The computer identifies the activity based on analyzing the video. The computer identifies body movements from the video. The computer correlates the activity and the body movements to a wearable device. The computer identifies additional inputs for the activity and updates the wearable device based on the identified additional inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Clement Decrop, Tushar Agrawal, Jeremy R. Fox, Sarbajit K. Rakshit