Patents by Inventor Adam T. Clarke

Adam T. Clarke has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20170242845
    Abstract: Software that generates list items from user conversations by performing the following operations: (i) capturing natural language statement(s) spoken by a first user; (ii) converting the natural language statement(s) to text; (iii) performing a natural language processing (NLP) analysis of the text to identify a first list item, wherein the first list item includes one or more words in the text that are likely to be included in a list associated with the first user; and/or performing a first list action utilizing the first list item based, at least in part, on the performed NLP analysis, wherein the first list action includes modifying a first list associated with the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Jeffrey K. Huebert, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri
  • Patent number: 9721020
    Abstract: System, method, and computer program product to perform an operation to obfuscate search queries via broadened subqueries and recombining, by referencing an ontology to identify a set of generalized terms corresponding to at least one term of a received query, generating a plurality of subqueries based on the received query and the set of generalized terms, executing each of the plurality of subqueries to retrieve a result set for each respective subquery, and filtering the result sets using the received query to produce a result set responsive to the received query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Brian J. Cragun, John E. Petri
  • Patent number: 9721023
    Abstract: System, method, and computer program product to perform an operation to obfuscate search queries via broadened subqueries and recombining, by referencing an ontology to identify a set of generalized terms corresponding to at least one term of a received query, generating a plurality of subqueries based on the received query and the set of generalized terms, executing each of the plurality of subqueries to retrieve a result set for each respective subquery, and filtering the result sets using the received query to produce a result set responsive to the received query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Brian J. Cragun, John E. Petri
  • Patent number: 9697466
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to determine an expected or predicted opinion of a target individual. To do so, a deep question answer system may build a corpus which includes a first collection of documents attributable to a first person and a second collection of documents identified from content in the first collection of documents and evaluate the corpus to build a model representing opinions of the first person relative to topics, concepts, or subjects discussed in the first and second collections of documents. The deep question answer system may also receive a request to predict an opinion of the first person regarding a topic and generate a predicted opinion of the first person regarding the topic from the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Jeffrey K. Huebert, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri
  • Publication number: 20170161364
    Abstract: Using keywords, a system can generate a message from a sender to a recipient. The system can first identify the set of keywords and a relationship type between the sender and recipient of the message. The system can then determine the message using natural language processing, the relationship type, and the keywords. The system can then generate that message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Jeffrey K. Huebert, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri
  • Publication number: 20170161242
    Abstract: A computer system may receive a textual work. The computer system may generate a knowledge graph based on the textual work. The knowledge graph may include nodes representing concepts and edges between the nodes that represent links between the concepts. The computer system may then generate a concept path for a target concept. The computer system may then identify a related background narrative block that contains a related non-target concept. The background narrative block may be a narrative block that is not in the concept path for the target concept. The computer system may then summarize the related background narrative block and output the summary to an output device coupled with the computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Jeffrey K. Huebert, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri
  • Publication number: 20170161398
    Abstract: A computer system may obtain a first knowledge graph that was generated based on a work of authorship having a plurality of narrative blocks. The computer system may identify target narrative blocks, which are narrative blocks that include a target concept. The computer system may also identify related background narrative blocks. The computer system may receive a narrative path for the target concept. The narrative path may include the target narrative blocks and the related background narrative blocks ordered in a sequence that is consistent with their order in the work of authorship. The computer system may output the narrative path to an output device coupled with the computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Jeffrey K. Huebert, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri
  • Publication number: 20170161796
    Abstract: A computer system may receive a textual work relating to a work of authorship using an input device that is coupled to the computer system. The computer system may have a processor and a memory storing one or more natural language processors. The computer system may ingest the textual work using the natural language processing modules. The computer system may identify content in the work of authorship that corresponds to one or more ratings components. The computer system may obtain a user profile that indicates a tolerance level of the user to at least one of the ratings components. The computer system may generate a rating for the work of authorship using the user profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Jeffrey K. Huebert, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri
  • Publication number: 20170161311
    Abstract: A processor obtains a target knowledge graph that includes target nodes that represent concepts used within a target work and target edges between target nodes that represent links used within the target work to associate the concepts used therein with each other. The processor also obtains a background knowledge graph that includes background nodes that represent concepts used within a background work and background edges between background nodes that represent links used within the background work to associate the concepts used therein with each other. The processor compares a portion of the target knowledge graph to a portion of the background knowledge graph. Based on the comparison, the processor identifies a potential inconsistency between the background work and the target work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Anthony W. Eichenlaub, John E. Petri
  • Patent number: 9672475
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to determine an expected or predicted opinion of a target individual. To do so, a deep question answer system may build a corpus which includes a first collection of documents attributable to a first person and a second collection of documents identified from content in the first collection of documents and evaluate the corpus to build a model representing opinions of the first person relative to topics, concepts, or subjects discussed in the first and second collections of documents. The deep question answer system may also receive a request to predict an opinion of the first person regarding a topic and generate a predicted opinion of the first person regarding the topic from the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Jeffrey K. Huebert, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri
  • Publication number: 20170124575
    Abstract: A processor uses natural language processing to ingest product reviews for a plurality of products. Each of the products embodies a specific form for each of the plurality of product features. The processor analyzes the ingested product reviews for sentiments associated with the specific forms. The processor generates a sentiment score for each product feature based on the analysis. The processor ranks the plurality of product features based on the sentiment scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Jeffrey K. Huebert, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri
  • Publication number: 20170099291
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving digital content associated with an account identifier, parsing the digital content and extracting a set of attributes from the digital content, receiving via a network connection, from each of a plurality of online identity services, a set of identities matching at least one attribute of the set of attributes, intersecting the sets of identities to create a set of candidate identities, computing a score for each identity in the set of candidate identities, wherein each score reflects a likelihood that the respective candidate identity is associated with the account identifier; and returning a ranked list of the scored candidate identities and an indication of at least one item of evidence linking the respective candidate identity to the account identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Adam T. CLARK, Jeffrey K. HUEBERT, Aspen L. PAYTON, John E. PETRI
  • Patent number: 9613093
    Abstract: First, a computer may receive an input query of a first medium type. The input query may then be analyzed. Based on the analysis, the input query may be categorized as being associated with at least a second medium type. A first-medium-type search of a set of corpora may then be performed. Based on the results of the first-medium-type search, a candidate answer of the first medium type may be generated. In response to the categorizing, a second-medium-type search of the set of corpora may also be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Jeffrey K. Huebert, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri
  • Patent number: 9606785
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for managing deployment conflicts between applications executing in one or more processing environments. A first application is executed in a first processing environment and responsive to a request to execute the first application. During execution of the first application, a determination is made to redeploy the first application for execution partially in time on a second processing environment providing a higher capability than the first processing environment in terms of at least a first resource type. A deployment conflict is detected between the first application and at least a second application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Michael T. Kalmbach, John E. Petri, Kevin Wendzel
  • Patent number: 9594829
    Abstract: Potential clues are identified from an unstructured data source. The potential clues are each associated with one or more contexts. A first set of potential contexts for the unstructured data source are determined based on the potential clues. A confidence value for each potential context in the set of the potential contexts is calculated based on the potential clues. A second set of potential contexts is returned from the first set of potential contexts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory P. Andrews, Adam T. Clark
  • Patent number: 9594830
    Abstract: Potential clues are identified from an unstructured data source. The potential clues are each associated with one or more contexts. A first set of potential contexts for the unstructured data source are determined based on the potential clues. A confidence value for each potential context in the set of the potential contexts is calculated based on the potential clues. A second set of potential contexts is returned from the first set of potential contexts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory P. Andrews, Adam T. Clark
  • Patent number: 9569538
    Abstract: Content of a work of authorship can be ingested using natural language processing (NLP). Content displayed on an Internet forum can be ingested using NLP. A relationship between the content of the work of authorship and the content displayed on the Internet forum can be identified based on the ingested content of the work of authorship and the ingested content displayed on the Internet forum. Information associated with the work of authorship can be caused, based on the identified relationship, to be displayed on the Internet forum such that the information is visually-associated with the displayed content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Jeffrey K. Huebert, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri
  • Patent number: 9558448
    Abstract: System, method, and computer program product for performing an operation, the operation comprising analyzing a question submitted to a deep question answering system to determine a level of sophistication of the question, and modifying one or more subsequent communications issued by the deep question answering system based on the determined level of sophistication, wherein the modifying attempts to more closely match the determined level of sophistication of the question with a level of sophistication of the one or more subsequent communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Adam T. Clark, Jeffrey K. Huebert, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri
  • Publication number: 20170026377
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward managing resources in a presentation environment. Aspects are directed toward collecting, using a set of monitoring devices, context information with respect to a presentation. Aspects are also directed toward determining, based on the context information for the presentation, a subject matter group and a set of access rules for the set of network devices. Aspects are also directed toward identifying, based on the subject matter group, a first set of resources. Aspects are also directed toward establishing, based on the set of access rules and the first set of resources, a first subset of the first set of resources for the set of network devices of the presentation environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, John S. Mysak, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri, Michael D. Pfeifer
  • Publication number: 20170026471
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward managing resources in a presentation environment. Aspects are directed toward collecting, using a set of monitoring devices, context information with respect to a presentation. Aspects are also directed toward determining, based on the context information for the presentation, a subject matter group and a set of access rules for the set of network devices. Aspects are also directed toward identifying, based on the subject matter group, a first set of resources. Aspects are also directed toward establishing, based on the set of access rules and the first set of resources, a first subset of the first set of resources for the set of network devices of the presentation environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, John S. Mysak, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri, Michael D. Pfeifer