IBM Patents Granted

Patents granted to IBM by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11948985
    Abstract: Devices, systems, methods, computer-implemented methods, apparatus, and/or computer program products that can facilitate a suspended Majorana fermion device comprising an ion implant defined nanorod in a semiconducting device are provided. According to an embodiment, a quantum computing device can comprise a Majorana fermion device coupled to an ion implanted region. The quantum computing device can further comprise an encapsulation film coupled to the ion implanted region and a substrate layer. The encapsulation film suspends the Majorana fermion device in the quantum computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven J. Holmes, Devendra K. Sadana, Sean Hart, Patryk Gumann, Stephen W. Bedell, Ning Li
  • Patent number: 11949011
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure including a bottom source drain region arranged on a substrate, a semiconductor channel region extending vertically upwards from a top surface of the bottom source drain region, a metal gate disposed around the semiconductor channel region, a top source drain region above the semiconductor channel region, an amorphous silicon layer directly on top of the metal gate, and an oxidation layer directly on top of the amorphous silicon layer, where the amorphous silicon layer and the oxidation layer together completely separate the metal gate from a surrounding interlevel dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chen Zhang, ChoongHyun Lee
  • Patent number: 11947926
    Abstract: In an approach for discourse-level text optimization, a processor receives an initial text in a first language. A processor applies one or more operators to modify the initial text. A processor evaluates the modified text using a scoring function. A processor determines whether a score generated from the scoring function on the modified text is above a predefined threshold. In response to determining the score is above the predefined threshold, a processor outputs the modified text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Kishimoto, Beat Buesser, Bei Chen, Yufang Hou
  • Patent number: 11948944
    Abstract: Stacked FET devices having wrap-around contacts to optimize contact resistance and techniques for formation thereof are provided. In one aspect, a stacked FET device includes: a bottom-level FET(s) on a substrate; lower contact vias present in an ILD disposed over the bottom-level FET(s); a top-level FET(s) present over the lower contact vias; and top-level FET source/drain contacts that wrap-around source/drain regions of the top-level FET(s), wherein the lower contact vias connect the top-level FET source/drain contacts to source/drain regions of the bottom-level FET(s). When not vertically aligned, a local interconnect can be used to connect a given one of the lower contact vias to a given one of the top-level FET source/drain contacts. A method of forming a stacked FET device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruilong Xie, Heng Wu, Jingyun Zhang, Julien Frougier
  • Patent number: 11949794
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of anonymizing, via an anonymization service hosted within a trusted execution environment (TEE), raw data provided by a computing node to generate anonymized data, generating, via the anonymization service, an authenticator object that binds together a hash of the raw data and a hash of the anonymized data, transmitting the generated anonymized data to the computing node, and submitting the authenticator object to a blockchain ledger via a blockchain transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marcus Brandenburger, Elli Androulaki, Yacov Manevich
  • Patent number: 11949967
    Abstract: In an approach for enhancing an experience of a user listening to and/or watching an audio-visual content by modifying future audio and/or video frames of the audio-visual content, a processor captures a set of sensor data from an IoT device worn by the first user. A processor analyzes the set of sensor data to generate one or more connotations by converting the emotion using an emotional vector analytics technique and a supervised machine learning technique. A processor scores the one or more connotations on a basis of similarity between the emotion exhibited by the first user and an emotion expected to be provoked by a second user. A processor determines whether a score of the one or more connotations exceeds a pre-configured threshold level. Responsive to determining the score does not exceed the pre-configured threshold level, a processor generates a suggestion for the producer of the audio-visual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dhruv Khurana, Kristin E. McNeil, Itai Gordon, Radha Mohan De
  • Patent number: 11949691
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by each of one or more peripheral peers of a blockchain network, a new block from an orderer peer, calculating a hash of the new block, determining the calculated hash is different than hashes from a majority of peripheral peers, determining that one or more blocks that correspond to the different hashes from the majority of peripheral peers are different from the new block, and in response ceasing committing blocks to the blockchain network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yacov Manevich, Artem Barger, Marko Vukolić, Alessandro Sorniotti, Angelo De Caro, Elli Androulaki
  • Patent number: 11947436
    Abstract: A set of virtual machines is deployed on a hypervisor. At each virtual machine, one or more local scans is performed to generate a set of computing resource consumption data. In response to receiving a set of hypervisor resource consumption data, a stability factor is generated. Based on the set of resource consumption data, the set of hypervisor resource consumption data, and the stability factor, a determination is made that a default consumption metric exceeds a threshold. In response to the determination, a custom consumption metric is generated, based on at least the set of computing resource consumption data. A user is notified of the custom consumption metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Grzegorz Piotr Szczepanik, Piotr Kalandyk, Pawel Tadeusz Januszek, Lukasz Jakub Palus, Hubert Kompanowski
  • Patent number: 11947439
    Abstract: Techniques facilitating anomaly detection and root cause analysis using distributed trace data. In one example, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components comprise: a preprocessing component; and a monitor component. The preprocessing component can generate a trace frame comprising a vectorized representation of textual trace data produced by microservices of a microservice application. The monitor component can identify a state of the microservice application using the trace frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hui Kang, Yu Deng, Xinyu Que, Sinem Guven Kaya, Bruce D'Amora
  • Patent number: 11947444
    Abstract: Embodiments may provide techniques that may provide more accurate and actionable alerts by cloud workload security systems so as to improve overall cloud workload security. For example, in an embodiment, a method may be implemented in a computer system comprising a processor, memory accessible by the processor, and computer program instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor, and the method may comprise generating performance and security information relating to a software system during development of the software system, generating performance and security information relating to the software system during deployed operation of the software system, matching the performance and security information generated during development of the software system with the performance and security information generated during deployed operation of the software system to determine performance and security alerts to escalate, and reporting the escalated performance and security alerts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Fady Copty, Omri Soceanu, Gilad Ezov, Ronen Levy
  • Patent number: 11947449
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system and computer program product for semantic search based on a graph database. In some embodiments, a method is disclosed. According to the method, the user jobs of a user are obtained from a first software product. Based on the user jobs, target test cases are selected from a plurality of test cases associated with the first software product and a second software product. The target test cases are applied to the first software product and the second software product, and in accordance with a determination that a result of applying the target test cases satisfies a predetermined criterion, an instruction is provided to indicate migrating from the first software product to the second software product. In other embodiments, a system and a computer program product are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lei Gao, Jin Wang, A Peng Zhang, Kai Li, Jun Wang, Jing James Xu, Rui Wang, Xin Feng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11947461
    Abstract: A method, programming product, processor, and/or system for prefetching data is disclosed that includes: receiving a request for data at a cache; identifying whether the request for data received at the cache is a demand request or a prefetch request; and determining, in response to identifying that the request for data received at the cache is a prefetch request, whether to terminate the prefetch request, wherein determining whether to terminate the prefetch request comprises: determining how many hits have occurred for a prefetch stream corresponding to the prefetch request received at the cache; and determining, based upon the number of hits that have occurred for the prefetch stream corresponding to the prefetch request received by the cache, whether to terminate the prefetch request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mohit Karve, Naga P. Gorti, Guy L. Guthrie, Sanjeev Ghai
  • Patent number: 11947465
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include receiving, at an operating system executing on a processor, a write request from a program to write data to a memory. The write request includes a virtual memory address and the data. It is determined that the virtual memory address is not assigned to a physical memory address. Based on the determining, the unassigned virtual memory address is assigned to a physical memory address in an overflow memory. The data is written to the physical memory address in the overflow memory and an indication that the write data was successfully written is returned to the program. Future requests by the program to access the virtual memory address are directed to the physical memory address in the overflow memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Peter Lyons, Andrew C. M. Hicks, Tynan J. Garrett, Miles C. Pedrone
  • Patent number: 11946964
    Abstract: One or more systems, devices and/or methods of use provided herein relate to a device that can facilitate a process to measure a pair of spectral sidebands and suppress one of common mode phase or amplitude noise. A device can comprise an interferometer device that can detect an interference of two spectral sidebands. The interferometer device can comprise a signal circuit that can detect at least one of a phase or an amplitude of a signal resulting from the interference of the two spectral sidebands, an IQ modulator that can generate the two spectral sidebands using a portion of a local oscillator (LO) microwave signal and a pair of signals at a same intermediate frequency, and/or a mixer that can interfere the two spectral sidebands having been output or reflected from a device under test, including mixing the two spectral sidebands with another portion of the LO microwave signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicolò Crescini, Andreas Fuhrer Janett, Gian R. von Salis, Eoin Gerard Kelly
  • Patent number: 11946980
    Abstract: Information indicating a source of electric current can be transmitted alongside or within the electric current itself, enabling downstream recipients to identify a source of their electricity. The information may be embedded directly into the electric current, such as by adding a modulated carrier signal to an alternating current before transmitting the current to a downstream recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Branson, Ryan K. Cradick
  • Patent number: 11948018
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and/or system is disclosed for changing the events monitored by a processor including: determining whether a change in the monitoring of the first event to the second different event has been requested; copying, in response to a request to change the monitoring of the first event to the second different event, op-codes from memory into microcode executable by a general processing engine; and executing the op-codes from memory by the general processing engine to change the first event monitored by the counter to the second different event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Srinivas Bangalore Purushotham, Madhavan Srinivasan, Deepak K. Gangadhar
  • Patent number: 11940841
    Abstract: A flexible display of a flexible display device can be divided and have removable sections for use as one or more wearable devices. The flexible display can be divided into a plurality of portions. The plurality of portions are divided along a plurality of dividing lines each having a locking mechanism, respectively. A power supply is electrically connected to the locking mechanisms to activate and deactivate the locking mechanisms. A portion of the plurality of portions border corresponding locking mechanisms along corresponding dividing lines of the plurality of dividing lines. The portion is selectable for decoupling and removal, in response to deactivation of the corresponding locking mechanisms for the portion of the flexible display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11938554
    Abstract: A structure, such as a cable assembly, is provided that has a Nb/Ti substrate and a metal layer electroplated on a portion of the Nb/Ti substrate, wherein the metal layer has a metal capable of being soldered to, such as copper, and a metal coaxial connector soldered to the metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Danielle DeGraw, Yat-Kiu-Kent Fung, James Robert Rozen
  • Patent number: 11938969
    Abstract: Embodiments for intelligent dynamic parking for autonomous vehicles by a processor. A dynamic parking plan may be determined for an autonomous vehicle to travel from a selected location and returning to the selected location within a selected time window according to a transportation network and one or more a variable parking functions in lieu of waiting at the selected location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adi Botea, Beat Buesser, Bei Chen, Akihiro Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 11940920
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for determining tracks to prestage into cache from a storage. Information is provided related to determining tracks to prestage from the storage to the cache in a stage group of sequential tracks including a trigger track comprising a track number in the stage group at which to start prestaging tracks and Input/Output (I/O) activity information to a machine learning module. A new trigger track in the stage group at which to start prestaging tracks is received from the machine learning module having processed the provided information. The trigger track is set to the new trigger track. Tracks are prestaged in response to processing an access request to the trigger track in the stage group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lokesh M. Gupta, Kyler A. Anderson, Matthew G. Borlick, Kevin J. Ash
  • Patent number: 11940900
    Abstract: Determination and provision of improved representations of program flow control are provided by a method that monitors execution of binary code of a program on a computer system. The monitoring includes monitoring manipulation(s) of call stack(s) maintained by the computer system for the execution of the binary code. The method, based on the monitoring, determines function call pattern(s) and branch pattern(s) exhibited by the execution of the binary code. The method identifies, from the binary code and using the determined function call pattern(s) and branch pattern(s), function calls and branches, relations between the function calls and branches, and function and variable names. The method also provides a representation of program flow control of the program using the identified function calls and branches, relations, and function and variable names.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bao Zhang, Jin Hong Fu, Peng Hui Jiang, Shi Chong Ma, He Huang, Jia Yu
  • Patent number: 11940904
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate generation of microservices from a monolithic application based on runtime traces are provided. According to an embodiment, a 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 model component that learns cluster assignments of classes in a monolithic application based on runtime traces of executed test cases. The computer executable components can further comprise a cluster component that employs the model component to generate clusters of the classes based on the cluster assignments to identify one or more microservices of the monolithic application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Xiao, Anup Kalia, Chen Lin, Raghav Batta, Saurabh Sinha, John Rofrano, Maja Vukovic
  • Patent number: 11941364
    Abstract: In an approach for routing a user analytic request to a registry of analytics models and data sources and operationalizing the user analytic request, a processor receives a user analytic request. A processor applies natural language processing to the user analytic request. A processor associates a first set of vectors and a second set of vectors from the user analytic request to one or more analytics models and data sources by utilizing a plurality of domain-specific ontologies and a plurality of knowledge bases. A processor performs a semantic search for one or more concepts in the one or more analytics models and data sources. A processor receives the one or more concepts found in the one or more analytics models and data sources. A processor selects an analytics model to process the user analytic request. A processor executes the analytics model. A processor outputs a result to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sushain Pandit, Andrew T. Penrose, Rory O Donnell, Charles Daniel Wolfson
  • Patent number: 11940962
    Abstract: A method for creating a database for a domain specific application includes providing a centralized data repository comprising data from different sources, identifying a set of data units of the repository that represent a specific domain, determining a pivotal entity type for an application, determining a mapping between different identifiers of the pivotal entity type, creating a reference set by selecting a first subset of the set of data units using the mapping, wherein the first subset represents the pivotal entity type, selecting, based at least in part on the mapping, a second subset of the set of data units, wherein the second subset represents non-pivotal entity types which are related to instances of the pivotal entity type in the reference set; and creating a database from data units and associated attributes selected from the reference set of data units and the second subset of data units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nikolaos Livathinos, Maksym Lysak, Viktor Kuropiatnyk, Cesar Berrospi Ramis, Peter Willem Jan Staar, Abderrahim Labbi
  • Patent number: 11940969
    Abstract: Described are techniques for managing data locations of derived storage objects. The techniques include accessing a primary metadata tree providing a lookup path using a virtual address to locate data for a primary object in physical storage pointed to by a leaf node of the primary metadata tree and providing a sub-tree from a leaf node of the primary metadata tree associated with the primary object, the sub-tree providing lookup paths using virtual addresses for derived objects. Wherein a derived object is a view of the primary object at a specific point in time, with copy leaf nodes of the sub-tree pointing to stored data of the derived objects. The techniques further include maintaining an ancestry graph associated with the sub-tree with the ancestry graph linking derived object identifiers to provide an ancestral chain lookup to identify derived object identifiers of the closest stored physical data of a derived object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ben Sasson, Lee Jason Sanders, Gordon Douglas Hutchison, William J. Scales
  • Patent number: 11940971
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request for trust information of an off-chain data source from a client, detecting that the trust information of the off-chain data source is not stored in a distributed ledger shared among a plurality of peer nodes, retrieving reliability data recursively identified and retrieved from a plurality of external sources having different reliability information of the off-chain data source, determining a reliability value based on a combination of the retrieved reliability data from the plurality of external sources, and transmitting the determined reliability value to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Kohichi Kamijoh
  • Patent number: 11940991
    Abstract: An indication to remove one or more data in a time series database is received. A metadata index associated with the time series database is updated to indicate a soft removal of each data of the one or more data. A data hole index associated with the time series database is updated to indicate a data hole at a location of each data of the one or more data in the time series database. Responsive to an input/output rate for the time series database being below a threshold, the data hole of each data of the one or more data is optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Huai Long Zhang, Peng Hui Jiang, Jin Shan Li, Rui Liu, Ming Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11941135
    Abstract: Automated classification of sensitive data in a database, which includes: Retrieving a catalog of a database. Sampling record values from at least some of the columns. Generating a map of probable associations between different columns of tables of the database. Applying a machine learning classifier to the sampled record values, to classify the columns of the sampled records into multiple data classes, some being sensitive data classes. Classifying columns of non-sampled record values according to the classification of the sampled record values, based on the map. Searching all objects of the database for existence of record values of the classified columns, to output value and field name pairs. Scoring the pairs according to a measure of their repetitiveness in the output. Increasing the score of the pairs whose field names are similar. Based on the scores, indicating which fields of the database are likely to include sensitive data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oded Sofer, Guy Gonen, Benazeer Daruwalla
  • Patent number: 11941151
    Abstract: Selectively masking data in messages is provided. A masking expression is retrieved from a schema. The masking expression corresponds to a particular attribute within related messages generated by a producer application and sent to an immutable datastore for consumption by a consumer application of the computer that is registered to receive the messages related to a particular topic from the immutable datastore. A particular attribute value is masked only in those messages received from the immutable datastore that contain the particular attribute value during a time period when the particular attribute value is associated with the masking expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alfredo V. Mendoza, John Edward Martin, Pradeep P. Mansey, Ana Maria Giordano
  • Patent number: 11941296
    Abstract: Intelligent storage of messages is provided. A spill-over page set is selected to store received messages corresponding to a predefined target page set associated with an application workload in response to the predefined target page set reaching a predefined minimum unused page threshold level. The spill-over page set is utilized as a message storage destination for the received messages corresponding to the predefined target page set associated with the application workload to extend message storage for the predefined target page set after the predefined target page set reached the predefined minimum unused page threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Juan Zhang, Anthony John Sharkey
  • Patent number: 11940978
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of generating a plurality of successive data points of an iterative simulation based on predefined checkpoints, each data point identifying an evolving state of the iterative simulation with respect to a previous data point among the successive data points, transmitting a blockchain request for validating state data within a first data point among the plurality of successive data points to a first subset of endorsing nodes of a blockchain network, and transmitting a blockchain request for validating state data within a second data point among the plurality of successive data points to a second subset of endorsing nodes which are mutually exclusive from the first subset of endorsing nodes of the blockchain network for parallel endorsement of the first and second data points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ravi Kiran Raman, Kush R. Varshney, Roman Vaculin, Michael Hind, Sekou L. Remy, Eleftheria K Pissadaki, Nelson K. Bore
  • Patent number: 11941442
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of invoking, via an operating system, execution of a plurality of software programs having a first mode of operation that causes the plurality of software programs to operate in a first resource consuming mode, monitoring physical resources of a computing device that are consumed by the plurality of software programs, determining to reduce or allow expanded consumption of the physical resources of the computing device by the plurality of software programs based on the monitored physical resources, and in response to the determination, switching from a first mode of operation of a software program from among the plurality of software programs and to a second mode of operation of the software program that causes the software program to operate in a second resource consuming mode that consumes either less or more physical resources than the first resource consuming mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Lenchner, Lior Horesh, Francesca Rossi
  • Patent number: 11941398
    Abstract: A method for restoring a mapper of a processor core includes saving first information in a staging latch. The first information represents a newly dispatched first instruction of the processor core and is saved in an entry latch of a save-and-restore buffer. In response to reception of a flush command of the processor core, the restoration of the mapper is begun with the first information from the staging latch without waiting for a comparison of a flush tag of the flush command with the entry latch of the save-and-restore buffer. A processor core configured to perform the method described above is also provided. A processor core is also provided that includes a dispatch, a mapper, a save-and-restore buffer that includes entry latches and is connected to the mapper via at least one pipeline, and a register disposed in the at least one pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian D. Barrick, Steven J. Battle, Dung Q. Nguyen, Susan E. Eisen, Cliff Kucharski, Salma Ayub
  • Patent number: 11941841
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes running an initial network on a plurality of images to detect actors pictured therein and body joints of the detected actors. The method further includes running fully-connected networks in parallel, one fully-connected network for each of the detected actors, to reconstruct complete three-dimensional poses of the actors. Sequential model fitting is performed on the plurality of images. The sequential model fitting is based on results of running the initial network and the fully-connected networks. The method further includes determining, based on the sequential model fitting, a locational position for a camera in which the camera has a view of a possible point of collision of two or more of the actors. The camera is instructed to be positioned in the locational position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Siang Chen, Ching-Chun Liu, Ryan Young, Ting-Chieh Yu
  • Patent number: 11941493
    Abstract: A method optimizes a training of a machine learning system. A conflict detection system discovers a conflict between a first training data and a second training data for a machine learning system, where the first training data and the second training data are ground truths that describe a same type of entity, and where the first training data and the second training data have different labels. In response to discovering the conflict between the first training data and the second training data for the machine learning system, an oracle adjusts the different labels of the first training data and the second training data. The machine learning system is then trained using the first training data and the second training data with the adjusted labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Desmond, Matthew R. Arnold, Jeffrey S. Boston
  • Patent number: 11941798
    Abstract: A method can include determining by photogrammetry, a first volume of a food-product unit and a second volume of a food-product subunit. The food-product subunit can be a separated portion of the food-product unit. The method can further include generating a code for the food-product subunit. The code can include a first identifier for the food-product unit and a second identifier for the food-product subunit. The first identifier can be based, at least in part, on the first volume. The second identifier can be based, at least in part, on the second volume. The method can further include assigning the code to the food-product subunit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto, Vagner Figueredo de Santana, Ricardo Luis Ohta
  • Patent number: 11943276
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for optimizing web conferencing is provided. The present invention may include receiving data for an organization, the organization being comprised of a plurality of participants. The present invention may include receiving a scheduled web conference. The present invention may include determining a network bandwidth threshold for each of the plurality of participants of the scheduled web conference based on at least the data received for the organization and data associated with the scheduled web conference. The present invention may include monitoring a network bandwidth of the scheduled web conference. The present invention may include determining whether to transmit a line art drawing for one or more participants based on the network bandwidth of the scheduled web conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ilse M. Breedvelt-Schouten, Jana H. Jenkins, John A. Lyons, Jeffrey A. Kusnitz
  • Patent number: 11942070
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for speech synthesis is provided. The present invention may include generating one or more final voiceprints. The present invention may include generating one or more voice clones based on the one or more final voiceprints. The present invention may include classifying the one or more voice clones into a grouping using a language model, wherein the language model is trained using manually classified uncloned voice samples. The present invention may include identifying a cluster within the grouping, wherein the cluster is identified by determining a difference between corresponding vectors of the one or more voice clones below a similarity threshold. The present invention may include generating a new archetypal voice by blending the one or more voice clones of the cluster where the difference between the corresponding vectors is below the similarity threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Gray Franklin Cannon, Sara Perelman, Gary William Reiss, Corey B. Shelton
  • Patent number: 11941966
    Abstract: A processor may receive irritant data associated with one or more environments and a user. A processor may analyze the irritant data. A processor may identify that one or more irritants associated with the user, are located in the one or more environments. A processor may generate an irritant alert to the user. The irritant alert may indicate at least one irritant of the one or more irritants is associated with the one or more environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Harini Jagannathan, Ryan Moniz, Alex Xingqi Casella
  • Patent number: 11942226
    Abstract: Embodiments for providing clinical practice guidelines by a processor. One or more clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) may be automatically generated according for one or more cohorts using evidence data and patient data from one or more data sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joao H Bettencourt-Silva, Marco Luca Sbodio, Natalia Mulligan, Theodora Brisimi
  • Patent number: 11943115
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for local arrangement of remote deployment is provided according to embodiments of the present disclosure. In this method, a starting request to connect with a remote virtualization entity proxy can be received. A network tunnel can be initiated between a local system and the remote virtualization entity proxy. Then, at least one component in the remote virtualization entity proxy can be arranged into a local virtualization entity in the local system via the network tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guanqin Zhang, Lei Ren, Gui Ying Jin, Xiao Guang Luo, Yue Chen
  • Patent number: 11942557
    Abstract: A semiconductor nanosheet device including semiconductor channel layers vertically aligned and stacked one on top of another, separated by a work function metal, and a second layer between two first layers, the second layer and two first layers between the semiconductor channel layers and a substrate. A semiconductor device including a lower first layer, a second layer, and a source drain region between a first set of semiconductor channel layers vertically aligned and stacked one on top of another, and a second set of semiconductor channel layers. A method including forming a stack sacrificial layer, a stack of nanosheet layers, forming a cavity by removing the stack sacrificial layer, and simultaneously forming a first layer on an upper surface of the stack sacrificial layer, on vertical side surfaces of the set of sacrificial gates, and an upper first layer and a lower first layer in a portion of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lan Yu, Andrew M. Greene, Wenyu Xu, Heng Wu
  • Patent number: 11941445
    Abstract: In an approach to RLC channel management for low memory 5G devices, responsive to detecting a memory overload in an RLC layer of a 5G user equipment, whether slices of a plurality of slices are merger candidates is determined. Responsive to determining that the slices are merger candidates, whether any merger candidates can share a transportation logical entity is determined, where merger candidates can share the transportation logical entity if performance and quality parameters are within predetermined limits. The merger candidates that can share the transportation logical entity are marked as allowed candidates. Responsive to determining that at least one allowed candidate has a workload that is below a predetermined threshold, the allowed candidates are merged into merged flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gandhi Sivakumar, Kushal S. Patel, Luke Peter Macura, Sarvesh S. Patel
  • Patent number: 11943221
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include systems and methods configured to prevent masquerading service attacks. A non-limiting example computer-implemented method includes sending, from a first server in a cloud environment, a communication request comprising an application programming interface (API) key and a first server identifier to an identity and access management (IAM) server of the cloud environment. The API key can be uniquely assigned by the IAM server to a first component of the first server. The first server receives a credential that includes a token for the first component and sends the credential to a second server. The second server sends the credential, a second server identifier, and an identifier for a second component of the second server to the IAM server. The second server receives an acknowledgment from the IAM server and sends the acknowledgment to the first server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sen Wang, Mei Liu, Si Bo Niu, Wen Yi Gao, Zong Xiong Z X Wang, Guoxiang Zhang, Xiao Yi Tian, Xian Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11943237
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by each of one or more peripheral peers of a blockchain network, a sequence of new blocks from an orderer peer, calculating hashes for the sequence of new blocks, adding the hashes to a merkle tree, determining the merkle tree is different than merkle trees from a majority of peripheral peers, determining that one or more blocks that correspond to the different merkle trees from the majority of peripheral peers are different from the sequence of new blocks, and in response ceasing committing blocks to the blockchain network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yacov Manevich, Artem Barger, Marko Vukolić, Alessandro Sorniotti, Angelo De Caro, Elli Androulaki
  • Patent number: 11940998
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product for database compression oriented to combinations of fields of a database record. One or more combinations of fields of a record of a database are determined that satisfy a frequency criterion indicating that access frequencies of the one or more combinations of fields are higher than an access frequency threshold. The record is reorganized based on the one or more combinations of fields to store fields of each combination of the one or more combinations of fields in a respective contiguous storage space. The reorganized record is compressed by applying a compression scheme to the one or more combinations of fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ying Zhang, Xiaobo Wang, Shuo Li, Sheng Yan Sun
  • Patent number: 11943244
    Abstract: One or more computer processors create a binary cluster of events by bootstrapping a set of ground truths contained with a rule engine applied to a set of high-dimensional datapoints, wherein the binary cluster contains two clusters each containing a plurality of high-dimensional datapoints; determine one or more peer groups for a set of unknown high-dimensional datapoints utilizing a trained multiclass classifier, wherein the high-dimensional datapoints are assigned to one or more peer groups by the trained multiclass classifier using an incremental learning algorithm in order to reduce system resources; create an activity distribution for each unknown high-dimensional datapoint associated with a user in the set of unknown high-dimensional datapoints and each peer group; calculate a deviation percentage between the activity distribution of the user and each peer group associated with the user; and responsive to exceeding a deviation threshold, classify the user or associated high-dimensional datapoints as ri
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bradley Evan Harris, Moazzam Khan, James Heinlein
  • Patent number: 11940713
    Abstract: A quantum transducer device that comprises a microwave resonator component and optical resonator component that receives and transduce a set of optical photons and at least one of: a voltage pulse or modulated laser pulse, and generate a single microwave photon output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Abram L Falk, Jason S. Orcutt, Chi Xiong
  • Patent number: 11943292
    Abstract: A system may include a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor may be configured to perform operations. The operations may include registering a custom resource definition for a tenant with a host and scaling a controller for the customer resource definition. The operations may include generating a replication using the customer resource definition, injecting information into the replication, and syncing a status of the custom resource definition between the host and the tenant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peng Li, Guangya Liu, Xun Pan, Hai Hui Wang, Xiang Zhen Gan, Xin Peng Liu
  • Patent number: 11941157
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for managing the scope of permissions granted by users to application that includes collecting a set of permissions for an application from an application provider publication; and collecting a process flow for functional steps of the application from a review of the application that is published on a product review type publication. The computer implemented method further includes dividing the functional steps of the application into a plurality of journeys, each of said plurality of journeys having a function associated with a stage of a functional step from a perspective of a user; and matching permissions from the set of permissions for each journey of said plurality of journeys to provide matched permissible permissions to journeys stored in a customer journey store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hao Chun Hung, Po-Cheng Chiu, Tsai-Hsuan Hsieh, Cheng-Lun Yang, Chiwen Chang, Shin Yu Wey