Patents Assigned to International Business Machines of Corporation
  • Patent number: 11972108
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for generating and using a basic state layer. N task models are provided (N?2). Each task model was trained on a same pre-trained backbone model. Each task model includes M feature layers and a task layer (M?1). Each feature layer of each task model includes a parameter matrix that is different for the different models. An encoder-decoder model is trained. The encoder-decoder model includes sequentially: an input layer, an encoder, M hidden layers, a decoder, and an output layer. The encoder is a neural network that maps and compresses the parameter matrices in the input layer into the M hidden layers, which generates a basic state model. The decoder is a neural network that receives the basic state model as input and generates the output layer to be identical to the input layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zhong Fang Yuan, Tong Liu, Li Juan Gao, Na Liu, Xiang Yu Yang
  • Patent number: 11972319
    Abstract: Techniques regarding qubit coupling structures that enable RIP gates are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise an apparatus that can include a coupling structure coupled to a first qubit and a second qubit. The coupling structure can have a plurality of coupling pathways. A coupling pathway from the plurality of coupling pathways can be a resonator. Also, the first qubit can be coupled to a first end of the resonator, and the second qubit can be coupled to a point along a length of the resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Muir Kumph, David C. Mckay, Oliver Dial
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11971691
    Abstract: A processor may receive instructional information. The instructional information may be associated with an instructional media. A processor may analyze the instructional information for one or more instructions. A processor may identify a target device from the one or more smart devices in the smart environment that are associated with the one or more instructions. A processor may perform the one or more instructions with the target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Sekhar Reddy Dandu Reddy
  • Patent number: 11972004
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of splitting, by a document server, a document provided by a document owner node into a plurality of segments to be stored on a ledger of a blockchain, detecting, by the document server, a change to the document made by an authorized participant node, updating, by the document server, a segment of the plurality of segments stored on the ledger based on the change to the document, collecting, by the document server, votes on the change to the document from a plurality of participant nodes, and committing the updated segment to the blockchain based on the votes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Igor S. Ramos, Marc Dickenson, Sumabala Nair
  • 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: 11970904
    Abstract: A flexible curtain defines a major surface and is configured to repeatedly actuate to move between a deployed configuration and a stowed configuration. Two sensors are configured to detect different condition and are removably attached to two sensor attachment locations. The major surface extends across an operational surface of a target system such that the sensors detect the conditions of the target system when the flexible curtain defines the deployed configuration. The flexible curtain and the sensors converge at a predetermined edge of the flexible curtain to expose the operational surface of the target system when the flexible curtain defines the stowed configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christian Eggenberger, Jens Rathgeber, Toby Zenerino, Michael Egger
  • 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: 11971141
    Abstract: Techniques facilitating low thermal conductivity support systems within cryogenic environments are provided. In one example, a cryostat can comprise a support rod and a washer. The support rod can couple first and second thermal stages of the cryostat. The washer can intervene between the support rod and the first thermal stage. The washer can thermally isolate the support rod and the first thermal stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Patryk Gumann, Valerio A. Grendanin, Jerry M. Chow
  • Patent number: 11972330
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for quantifying physical qualities of a ball returned by a player using a loop drive technique, such as in table tennis, and generating a corresponding quantitative summary of the overall quality of the loop drive technique based on the quantified physical qualities. Image processing techniques are applied to historical video recordings of balls returned using loop drive techniques to quantify physical properties of said balls. A machine learning model is generated using the quantified physical properties to determine relative significance of specific qualities and their corresponding quantified values to the overall quality or success of loop drive techniques, such as in table tennis matches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chuan Ran, Junhui Wang, Guandong Zhu, Yongchang Cui, Shuyan Lu, Yang Yang
  • Patent number: 11971887
    Abstract: An embodiment for identifying and replacing logically neutral phrases in natural language queries may include receiving a natural language query. The embodiment may also identify one or more logically neutral or non-logically neutral anchors in the natural language query. The embodiment may also identify boundaries containing one or more logically neutral phrases. The embodiment may further include detecting semantic and logical relations between verbal phrases and functional language between and adjacent to the one or more logically neutral and non-logically neutral anchors to reintroduce non-logically neutral language back into a non-logically neutral portion of the natural language query. The embodiment may also include generating a modified natural language query by automatically removing the boundaries and optionally replacing the one or more logically neutral phrases in the natural language query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Octavian Popescu, Vadim Sheinin, Ngoc Phuoc An Vo, Elahe Khorasani, Hangu Yeo
  • Patent number: 11971895
    Abstract: A determination is made as to whether a data type associated with a received logical table definition associated with a database query within a distributed database system differs from a data type associated with a local logical table definition. A data conversion is performed on data retrieved from a locally-stored physical table referenced by the local logical table definition in response to determining that the data types differ. Local data conversion information is created identifying the data conversion performed on the retrieved data in response to performing the data conversion. At least one of the retrieved data and the converted data with the created local data conversion information is forwarded to at least one of a distributed database node and an application-level module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Adrian Lee
  • Patent number: 11972259
    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
  • Publication number: 20240137205
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for privacy-preserving homomorphic inferencing. In response to receipt of encrypted data, a ciphertext of real numbers is generated. Each real number has an associated sign that is desired to be maintained. A mask is then identified, preferably via an iterative algorithm that works on a trial and error basis to locate an appropriate solution. The mask comprises set of values randomly distributed over a given positive range and that remain positive after encoding under a fixed-point arithmetic and with a low scale value. Under homomorphic encryption, the ciphertext is then multiplied by the mask to generate a result comprising values corresponding to the real numbers in the ciphertext and that maintain their associated signs. The result is provided as a response to the encrypted data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Allon Adir, Ramy Masalha, Ehud Aharoni
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20240135280
    Abstract: An embodiment includes receiving, by a transformer monitoring system associated with a transformer, sensor data from one or more sensors during operation of the transformer. The embodiment also includes generating, by the transformer monitoring system, energy loss data representative of a predicted energy loss of the transformer based at least in part on the sensor data. The embodiment also includes training, by the transformer monitoring system, a failure rate prediction model using failure data, resulting in a trained failure rate prediction model that calculates failure probability distribution data indicative of a time at which a failure of the transformer is most likely to occur. The embodiment also includes generating, by the transformer monitoring system, replacement data representative of an optimal time for replacing the transformer based at least in part on the energy loss data, the failure probability distribution data, and specification data for the transformer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Dzung Tien Phan
  • Patent number: 11966357
    Abstract: In an approach to optimizing dynamic system reconfiguration, a computer receives an active system configuration and a target system configuration from a system administrator, where the target system configuration includes two or more logical partitions. A computer determines one or more reconfiguration actions required to transform the active system configuration to the target system configuration. A computer generates a dependency graph based on the determined reconfiguration actions. A computer divides the dependency graph along the two or more logical partitions. A computer sorts the determined reconfiguration actions by associated dependencies. A computer orders the determined reconfiguration actions based on a priority of each of the two or more logical partitions. A computer runs a first simulation of the determined reconfiguration actions for each of the two or more logical partitions. A computer performs the determined reconfiguration actions for each of the two or more logical partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tobias Huschle, Qais Noorshams, Norman Christopher Böwing, Peter Klett, Pradeep Parameshwaran
  • Patent number: 11966389
    Abstract: A method (and structure and computer product) of machine translation for processing input questions includes receiving, in a processor on a computer, an input question presented in a natural language. The input question is preprocessed to find one or more condition values for possible Structured Query Language (SQL) queries. One or more possible SQL queries are enumerated based on the one or more found condition values and a paraphrasing model is used to rank the enumerated SQL queries. The highest ranked SQL query is executed against a relational database to search for a response to the input question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vadim Sheinin, Zhiguo Wang, Lingfei Wu, Kun Xu
  • Patent number: 11966338
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method, a computing system, and a computer program product for managing prefetching of pages in a database system. The method comprises obtaining shared information associated with page access, wherein the shared information associated with the page access includes information associated with the page access from a plurality of computing nodes. The method further comprises determining whether to prefetch a number of pages into a global buffer pool based at least on the shared information associated with the page access using a sequential prefetching method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng Yan Sun, Xiaobo Wang, Shuo Li, Chun Lei Xu
  • Patent number: 11966813
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for error mitigation in quantum programs. In some embodiments, a system can include a processor that executes computer-executable components stored in memory. The computer-executable components include a compilation component that causes encoding of one or more qubits according to a circular repetition code at a time after operations on the one or more qubits and before readout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Jakob Max Guenther, Francesco Tacchino, James Robin Wootton, Ivano Tavernelli