Patents Assigned to International Business Machines Incorporated
  • Patent number: 11720819
    Abstract: A system includes a memory having instructions therein and at least one processor in communication with the memory. The at least one processor is configured to execute the instructions to determine a global-level importance magnitude value for a global-level importance of an explainable feature of a machine learning base model based on a first prediction of the machine learning base model. The at least one processor is also configured to execute the instructions to determine a global-level importance direction label for the global-level importance of the explainable feature based on the first prediction. The at least one processor is also configured to execute the instructions to generate a communication for presentation to a user based on a second prediction of the machine learning base model, based on the global-level importance magnitude value, and based on the global-level importance direction label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines, Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhe Liu, Yufan Guo, Jalal Mahmud, Rama Kalyani T. Akkiraju
  • Patent number: 10104772
    Abstract: An electrical connection is established between a first electrical component and a second electrical component of an assembly and a compression tool is used to apply a compression force to the assembly. The assembly also includes a metallized particle interconnect (MPI) between the first electrical component and the second electrical component and solder components outside a boundary of the MPI and extending from the first electrical component to the second electrical component. The solder components are melted by applying heat to the assembly. The solder components are solidified by cooling the assembly and the compression tool is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Incorporated
    Inventors: Layne A. Berge, John R. Dangler, Matthew S. Doyle, Jesse Hefner
  • Patent number: 10025446
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for automatically creating screen captures of a user interface. In an implementation, a method may include identifying a portion of a user interface display associated with a page object. The method may also include creating a screen capture image including the portion of the user interface display associated with the page object. The method may further include associating the screen capture image with a documentation record for the page object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Incorporated
    Inventors: Laurence A. Hey, William J. Izard, Matthew J. Ponsford
  • Patent number: 9923565
    Abstract: A phase-frequency detector (PFD) is electrically coupled to a charge pump of a phase-locked-loop (PLL). The PFD includes a first differential latch electrically coupled to the charge pump. The first differential latch drives a differential pair of increment signals to the charge pump in response to differential pairs of both reference clock signals and reset signals. The PFD also includes a second differential latch electrically coupled to the charge pump. The second differential latch drives a differential pair of decrement signals to the charge pump in response to differential pairs of both feedback clock signals and reset signals. The PFD also includes a differential AND gate electrically coupled to both the first differential latch and the second differential latch. The differential AND gate drives the differential pair of reset signals to both of the differential latches in response to the differential pairs of both increment signals and decrement signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Incorporated
    Inventors: David M. Friend, Grant P. Kesselring, James D. Strom, Alan P. Wagstaff
  • Patent number: 9870766
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods and systems for improving an acoustic model. Aspects include acquiring a first standard deviation value by calculating standard deviation of a feature from first training data and acquiring a second standard deviation value by calculating standard deviation of a feature from second training data acquired in a different environment from an environment of the first training data. Aspects also include creating a feature adapted to an environment where the first training data is recorded, by multiplying the feature acquired from the second training data by a ratio obtained by dividing the first standard deviation value by the second standard deviation value. Aspects further include reconstructing an acoustic model constructed using training data acquired in the same environment as the environment of the first training data using the feature adapted to the environment where the first training data is recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Incorporated
    Inventors: Gakuto Kurata, Toru Nagano, Masayuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9727335
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for clearing specified blocks of main storage. In one embodiment, an EADM start subchannel is executed. The instructions of the execution of the EADM start subchannel may include a SAP receiving an ADM request block, which specifies a main-storage-clearing operation command. The address and size of a block of main memory to be cleared by the SAP is specified in an MSB designated by the ADM request block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Incorporated
    Inventors: Anthony F. Coneski, Beth A. Glendening, Dan F. Greiner, Peter G. Sutton, Scott B. Tuttle, Elpida Tzortzatos
  • Publication number: 20160011729
    Abstract: A presenter and an audience associated with a presentation event can be detected. The presentation event can be a real world occurrence and/or a computing session occurrence. The presenter can convey a presentation content to the audience. Presentation data associated with the presentation event can be identified. The presentation data can include the presentation content. The presentation content can include a text and/or a media. A real-time metrics associated with the presenter and the audience can be captured from one or more computing devices associated with the presenter and the audience during the presentation event. The real-time metrics can be analyzed to determine a presenter and an audience recommendation. The presenter recommendation can be presented to the presenter and the audience recommendation to an audience member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: ROMELIA H. FLORES, ERIK H. KATZEN, PAULO HENRIQUE LEAL, SUMIT PATEL
  • Patent number: 9142471
    Abstract: A doped, passivated graphene nanomesh includes a graphene nanomesh, a plurality of nanoholes formed in a graphene sheet, and a plurality of carbon atoms which are formed adjacent to the plurality of nanoholes; a passivating element bonded to the plurality of carbon atoms; and a dopant bonded to the passivating element, the dopant comprising one of an electron-donating element for making the graphene nanomesh an n-doped graphene nanomesh, and an electron-accepting element for making the graphene nanomesh a p-doped graphene nanomesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignees: International Business Machines Incorporated, Egypt Nanotechnology Center
    Inventors: Ahmed Abou-Kandil, Ahmed Maarouf, Glenn John Martyna, Hisham Mohamed, Dennis M. Newns
  • Publication number: 20140208316
    Abstract: A solution is proposed for deploying a virtual appliance onto a data processing system. A corresponding method comprises instantiating the virtual appliance with a basic configuration onto the data processing system, determining a value of each one of to set of environmental features of a virtual data processing environment associated with the virtual appliance, and downloading a set of local software programs corresponding to the values of at least part of the environmental features onto the virtual appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Incorporated
    Inventors: Giuseppe Ciano, Marco De Santis, Maurizio Simeoni
  • Publication number: 20130332670
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to process identifier (PID) based cache information transfer. An aspect of the invention includes sending, by a first core of a processor, a PID associated with a cache miss in a first local cache of the first core to a second cache of the processor. Another aspect of the invention includes determining that the PID associated with the cache miss is listed in a PID table of the second cache. Yet another aspect of the invention includes based on the PID being listed in the PID table of the second cache, determining a plurality of entries in a cache directory of the second cache that are associated with the PID. Yet another aspect of the invention includes pushing cache information associated with each of the determined plurality of entries in the cache directory from the second cache to the first local cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Fadi Y. Busaba, Steven R. Carlough, Christopher A. Krygowski, Brian R. Prasky, Chung-Lung K. Shum
  • Publication number: 20130110745
    Abstract: A computer receives a plurality of input events, each input event comprising one or more factors. The computer processes each input event based on event processing rules that cause the computer to evaluate the one or more factors and assign each input event a Boolean output value. The computer generates an output event containing the one or more factors and the Boolean output value. The computer generates additional event processing rules based on output events for which the event processing rules caused the output events to have a false-negative or false-positive Boolean output value. The additional rules are then included in the event processing rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Xiaoming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130097150
    Abstract: An enterprise business intelligence system includes a data access service. In one example, a method comprises receiving, with a data access service, a query and a report specification from an application, wherein the data access service is positioned between the application and a data source; creating a run tree that comprises a sequence of executable decoration nodes; executing the query on the data source, thereby providing a query result set comprising query results drawn from the data source that are responsive to the query; and executing the sequence of decoration nodes on the query result set. The decoration nodes modify the query result set, thereby producing a decorated result set based on the query result set and the decoration nodes. Producing the decorated result set comprises associating members or values in the query results with corresponding positions or calculated members in the report specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: David B. Cushing, Robin N. Grosset, Charles Ng, Martin Petitclerc
  • Publication number: 20120205781
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a first region of a first polarity and a second region of a second polarity adjacent to the first region; and a first terminal including: a first deep trench located in the first region, a first node dielectric abutting all but an upper portion of sidewalls and a bottom of the first deep trench; a first conductive inner electrode inside the first node dielectric and electrically insulated from the first region by the first node dielectric; and a first electrical contact electrically coupling the first conductive inner electrode to the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: David M. Fried, Edward J. Nowak
  • Publication number: 20120096084
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for providing a shared user experience during media playback. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for providing a shared user experience during media playback is provided. The method includes selecting for a particular user a media file for playback in a media player executing in memory by a processor of a computer. The method also includes retrieving a shared user experience audio file recorded for a different user during a previous playback of the selected media file. Finally, the method includes playing back for the particular user both the selected media file and the retrieved shared user experience audio file concurrently in the media player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Incorporated
    Inventors: Travis M. Grigsby, James A. Kahle, Michael A. Paolini
  • Patent number: 7927105
    Abstract: Method for prescriptive learning. The method includes providing a user independent hierarchy of competencies, competency characteristics and assessments with associated rules that identify learning activities and identifying a user specific path through the hierarchy for a selected competency and competency characteristic based on the hierarchy, scoring of at least one question associated with at least one assessment associated with the selected competency characteristic. The rules and user specific information provide a user specific identification of learning activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Incorporated
    Inventors: Charles W. Griffin, Marla A. Haddon, Biao Luo, John R. Malpass, Benjamin J. Montello
  • Publication number: 20110062555
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a first region of a first polarity and a second region of a second polarity adjacent to the first region; and a first terminal including: a first deep trench located in the first region, a first node dielectric abutting all but an upper portion of sidewalls and a bottom of the first deep trench; a first conductive inner electrode inside the first node dielectric and electrically insulated from the first region by the first node dielectric; and a first electrical contact electrically coupling the first conductive inner electrode to the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: David M. Fried, Edward J. Nowak
  • Patent number: 7885846
    Abstract: A method and system for workforce planning in one aspect provide an optimization model that produce, based on the availability profile and the demand profile of skill types, a workforce plan recommending a combination of actions. The combination of actions may include hiring, contracting and cross-training. The optimization model considers constraints such as minimum residence time that a resource unit needs to spend in a skill-type that it gets cross-trained into or hired into, minimum acceptable contracting duration for a contracted skill type, first order and higher orders of cross-training for a skill type, with lead-time for training, one or more system rules associated with transfer sequences, or targets on service levels and resource utilization, or combinations thereof, in determining the workforce plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Incorporated
    Inventors: Lianjun An, Dharmashankar Subramanian
  • Publication number: 20080258755
    Abstract: Noise reduction among conductors, the conductors disposed adjacent to one another, the conductors characterized as two or more aggressor conductors and one or more victim conductors, a least two of the aggressor conductors driven with at least two signals that induce unwanted crosstalk upon at least one of the victim conductors, a programmable delay device disposed in a signal path of each of the at least two signals that induce unwanted crosstalk, including programming a delay period into each programmable delay device; receiving, simultaneously at the programmable delay devices, the at least two signals that induce unwanted crosstalk; and transmitting, on two aggressor conductors, the at least two signals that induce unwanted crosstalk, with the at least two signals separated in time by the delay period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Incorporated
    Inventors: Moises Cases, Daniel N. de Araujo, Bhyrav M. Mutnury, Nam H. Pham
  • Patent number: 7317326
    Abstract: An inspection method includes an array process of forming a TFT array on a substrate to fabricate an active matrix panel, an inspection process of carrying out a performance test on the fabricated active matrix panel, and a cell process of mounting an OLED on the active matrix panel after the inspection process. In the inspection process, variation in parasitic capacitance through a pixel electrode is measured when driving TFTs constituting the active matrix fabricated in the array process are turned on and when the driving TFTs are turned off, and open/short defects in the driving TFTs are thereby inspected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Incorporated
    Inventors: Daiju Nakano, Yoshitami Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 7303972
    Abstract: A BEOL thin-film resistor adapted for flexible integration rests on a first layer of ILD. The thickness of the first layer of ILD and the resistor thickness combine to match the nominal design thickness of vias in the layer of concern. A second layer of ILD matches the resistor thickness and is planarized to the top surface of the resistor. A third layer of ILD has a thickness equal to the nominal value of the interconnections on this layer. Dual damascene interconnection apertures and apertures for making contact with the resistor are formed simultaneously, with the etch stop upper cap layer in the resistor protecting the resistive layer while the vias in the dual damascene apertures are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Incorporated
    Inventors: Eric M. Coker, Douglas D. Coolbaugh, Ebenezer E. Eshun, Zhong-Xiang He, Matthew D. Moon, Anthony K. Stamper