Patents by Inventor Brian P. Byrne

Brian P. Byrne 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: 20180225449
    Abstract: Disclosed aspects relate to counter-fraud operation management. A counter-fraud operation may be executed using an initial set of parameter values for a set of parameters of the counter-fraud operation. A set of user counter-fraud activities of a user may be monitored corresponding to a user interface. A set of user feedback data may be captured to determine a feedback-driven set of parameter values for a set of parameters of the counter-fraud operation. The feedback-driven set of parameter values may be determined for the set of parameters of the counter-fraud operation. The counter-fraud operation using the feedback-driven set of parameter values may be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Sushain Pandit, Kalaivanan Saravanan, Yogendra K. Srivastava
  • Publication number: 20180225450
    Abstract: Disclosed aspects relate to counter-fraud operation management. A counter-fraud operation may be executed using an initial set of parameter values for a set of parameters of the counter-fraud operation. A set of user counter-fraud activities of a user may be monitored corresponding to a user interface. A set of user feedback data may be captured to determine a feedback-driven set of parameter values for a set of parameters of the counter-fraud operation. The feedback-driven set of parameter values may be determined for the set of parameters of the counter-fraud operation. The counter-fraud operation using the feedback-driven set of parameter values may be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Sushain Pandit, Kalaivanan Saravanan, Yogendra K. Srivastava
  • Publication number: 20180144035
    Abstract: Managing and validating a project using an information landscape. Embodiments include providing an information landscape including a topology of landscape elements for the project, linking the topology of landscape elements to a plurality of solution artifacts, and validating at least one of the plurality of solution artifacts and semantics of the information landscape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Brian P. BYRNE, Hayden MARCHANT, Guenter A. SAUTER
  • Publication number: 20180089292
    Abstract: Managing and validating a project using an information landscape. Embodiments include providing an information landscape including a topology of landscape elements for the project, linking the topology of landscape elements to a plurality of solution artifacts, and validating at least one of the plurality of solution artifacts and semantics of the information landscape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Brian P. BYRNE, Hayden MARCHANT, Guenter A. SAUTER
  • Patent number: 9881069
    Abstract: Managing and validating a project using an information landscape. Embodiments include providing an information landscape including a topology of landscape elements for the project, linking the topology of landscape elements to a plurality of solution artifacts, and validating at least one of the plurality of solution artifacts and semantics of the information landscape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Hayden Marchant, Guenter A. Sauter
  • Patent number: 9824129
    Abstract: Managing and validating a project using an information landscape. Embodiments include providing an information landscape including a topology of landscape elements for the project, linking the topology of landscape elements to a plurality of solution artifacts, and validating at least one of the plurality of solution artifacts and semantics of the information landscape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Hayden Marchant, Guenter A. Sauter
  • Publication number: 20170300836
    Abstract: A system for facilitating sale of venue event tickets involves: a venue interface; a venue offering database containing records of: currently available tickets, past event ticket acceptances, and acceptance history data; a subscriber database containing, for individual subscribers, at least an identification, interests, and contact information; a pricing module which will identify at least one subscriber to whom ticket(s) should be offered, on an urgent basis, at a reduced price determined using an algorithm taking into account at least: subscriber location, time until start for the event, estimated travel time between subscriber location and venue, and content of the acceptance history data; a communications module which will proactively communicate urgent offers to specific subscribers identified by the pricing module; and an evaluation and learning module which employs unsupervised machine learning to analyze acceptance history data and modify the algorithm used by the pricing module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Adam R. Holley, Brian T. Lillie, Sushain Pandit
  • Patent number: 9665613
    Abstract: Provided are to a computer program product, system, and method for determining linkage metadata of content of a target document to source documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Ivan M. Milman, Martin A. Oberhofer, Sushain Pandit
  • Patent number: 9652559
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an approach for creating, evolving and using a weighted semantic graph to manage and potentially identify certain information assets within an enterprise. The semantic graph may be generated by monitoring users navigating through search results which provide a set of information assets responsive to a search query. By recording the navigation path taken by many users, relationships between information assets may be identified. Further, once generated, the semantic graph may be used to present users with in indication of related information assets as part of the search results. Further still, the semantic graph may also be used to identify information assert “hubs” as well as information assets that may provide low utility to individuals within the enterprise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Martin A. Oberhofer, Sushain Pandit, Charles D. Wolfson
  • Patent number: 9646110
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an approach for creating, evolving and using a weighted semantic graph to manage and potentially identify certain information assets within an enterprise. The semantic graph may be generated by monitoring users navigating through search results which provide a set of information assets responsive to a search query. By recording the navigation path taken by many users, relationships between information assets may be identified. Further, once generated, the semantic graph may be used to present users with in indication of related information assets as part of the search results. Further still, the semantic graph may also be used to identify information assert “hubs” as well as information assets that may provide low utility to individuals within the enterprise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Martin A. Oberhofer, Sushain Pandit, Charles D. Wolfson
  • Patent number: 9633115
    Abstract: A user interface is generated that displays a set of selectable terms from a glossary of business terms and is configured to generate a business metadata query that identifies a forum with member profiles. A data movement executable is generated that identifies the forum and an analytical processing environment. The data movement executable is deployed and data is moved from the forum into the analytical processing environment. Analytics are performed on the data from the forum. Metadata is identified from the analytics. The glossary of business terms is updated using the metadata from the analytics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Ivan M. Milman, Martin Oberhofer, Sushain Pandit
  • Patent number: 9607038
    Abstract: Provided are to a computer program product, system, and method for determining linkage metadata of content of a target document to source documents. In response to a determination that a target fragment in a target document matches a source fragment in a source document, linkage metadata is generated for the target fragment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Ivan M. Milman, Martin A. Oberhofer, Sushain Pandit
  • Publication number: 20160371370
    Abstract: Ontologies are used to comprehend regular expressions, by selecting, based on a context relating to a domain of a regular expression, an ontology and an assertion base, parsing the regular expression to identify at least one fragment of the regular expression, identifying one or more assertions in the assertion base corresponding to one of the identified fragments, identifying, for each identified assertion, an associated node in the ontology, and returning, based on the associated nodes, a concept in the ontology as representing the associated fragment of the regular expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Brian P. BYRNE, Ivan M. MILMAN, Martin A. OBERHOFER, Sushain PANDIT
  • Patent number: 9471875
    Abstract: Ontologies are used to comprehend regular expressions, by selecting, based on a context relating to a domain of a regular expression, an ontology and an assertion base, parsing the regular expression to identify at least one fragment of the regular expression, identifying one or more assertions in the assertion base corresponding to one of the identified fragments, identifying, for each identified assertion, an associated node in the ontology, and returning, based on the associated nodes, a concept in the ontology as representing the associated fragment of the regular expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Ivan M. Milman, Martin A. Oberhofer, Sushain Pandit
  • Patent number: 9466027
    Abstract: Ontologies are used to comprehend regular expressions, by selecting, based on a context relating to a domain of a regular expression, an ontology and an assertion base, parsing the regular expression to identify at least one fragment of the regular expression, identifying one or more assertions in the assertion base corresponding to one of the identified fragments, identifying, for each identified assertion, an associated node in the ontology, and returning, based on the associated nodes, a concept in the ontology as representing the associated fragment of the regular expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Ivan M. Milman, Martin A. Oberhofer, Sushain Pandit
  • Publication number: 20160283872
    Abstract: For distributed analysis of time-series data in a smart entity environment, the data is received from a data source in the environment. An overall analysis of the data is distributed to a first node in the environment. In a network operating the environment the first node is at a smaller distance from the data source as compared to a second node. A first portion of the overall analysis is performed on the data at the first node to produce a first conclusion. The first conclusion is routed to the second node. The second node performs a second portion of the overall analysis. Using the first conclusion, from the first node, a first action is caused to occur on a component of the environment. The data source is associated with the component, the data is indicative of a condition in the environment, and the component participates in the condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Adam R. Holley, Brian T. Lillie
  • Publication number: 20160285962
    Abstract: For distributed analysis of time-series data in a smart entity environment, the data is received from a data source in the environment. An overall analysis of the data is distributed to a first node in the environment. In a network operating the environment the first node is at a smaller distance from the data source as compared to a second node. A first portion of the overall analysis is performed on the data at the first node to produce a first conclusion. The first conclusion is routed to the second node. The second node performs a second portion of the overall analysis. Using the first conclusion, from the first node, a first action is caused to occur on a component of the environment. The data source is associated with the component, the data is indicative of a condition in the environment, and the component participates in the condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: BRIAN P. BYRNE, Adam R. Holley, Brian T. Lillie
  • Patent number: 9245224
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system optimizes an information processing environment, and comprises at least one processor. The system collects information pertaining to operational behavior of the information processing environment and including a plurality of parameters. A neural network structure is established to associate the parameters to a desired operational performance characteristic for the information processing environment. The neural network structure is trained with the collected information from the information processing environment to produce a model for the information processing environment. The model is optimized to determine values for the parameters and the information processing environment is adjusted based on the determined parameter values to attain the desired operational performance of the information processing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Sushain Pandit
  • Publication number: 20150379452
    Abstract: An approach is provided for providing spatio-temporal key performance indicators (ST-KPIs). The approach tracks metrics, such as crowd density, pertaining to a number of locations. The tracking is performed over time to develop a history of past values that correspond to the metrics. The history is used to predict a trend of future metrics at the locations with the trend resulting in predicted future values that correspond to the metrics at the locations. In this manner, the ST-KPIs reflect the predicted future values at the various locations that are being monitored. A city view is displayed to a user showing the current and predicted values at defined ST-KPI locations throughout the city.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Adam R. Holley, Brian T. Lillie
  • Patent number: 9183279
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products and systems are directed to receiving a query regarding an information architecture, selecting a set of nodes based on the query, from a plurality of nodes in a weighted linked graph, the weighted linked graph comprising the plurality of nodes and a plurality of pathways, each of the plurality of nodes comprising a source of information regarding the information architecture, each of the plurality of pathways connecting one of the plurality of nodes to another of the plurality of nodes, each of the plurality of pathways comprising a weight, determining a path from the plurality of pathways that passes through all of selected nodes, and presenting the path in response to the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian P. Byrne, Sushain Pandit