Patents by Inventor Chris Kau

Chris Kau 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: 20240420680
    Abstract: Implementations relate to a multimodal translation application that can provide an abridged version of a translation through an audio interface of a computing device, while simultaneously providing a verbatim textual translation at a display interface of the computing device. The application can provide these different versions of the translation in certain circumstances when, for example, the rate of speech of a person speaking to a user is relatively high compared to a preferred rate of speech of the user. For example, a comparison between phonemes of an original language speech and a translated language speech can be performed to determine whether the ratio satisfies a threshold for providing an audible abridged translation. A determination to provide the abridged translation can additionally or alternatively be based on a determined language of the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Te I, Chris Kau, Jeffrey Robert Pitman, Robert Eric Genter, Qi Ge, Wolfgang Macherey, Dirk Ryan Padfield, Naveen Arivazhagan, Colin Cherry
  • Publication number: 20240339109
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant and/or other application that can adapt settings of a foldable display interface of a computing device according to user interactions occurring during a multilingual conversation. During the multilingual conversation between at least two users, translated content of the conversation can be rendered at a portion of the display interface according to which user is actively speaking. When a user is actively speaking, a brightness level of a portion of the display interface that is facing another user in the conversation can be modified to emphasize that the user is speaking and that the translated content is being rendered. When the user who is speaking is also the owner of the computing device, a portion of the display interface that is facing the other user can exhibit a limited responsiveness to touch inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas Clark, Gustav Sennton, Xinxing Gu, Vincent Lacey, David Wilson, Shaun Post, Chris Kau, Petr Cermák, Michael Anthony Schuler, Nicole McWilliams, Will Osborn, Daniel Lee, Sanatt Abrol, Pragya Bajoria, Alan Wong
  • Patent number: 11593419
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method that includes determining candidate ontologies for alignment from multiple available knowledge bases. An initial target ontology is selected from the candidate ontologies and correcting the initial selected ontology with received refinement input. Concepts in the selected initial ontology are aligned with concepts of the target ontology using a deep learning hierarchical classification with received review input. A user is assisted to build, change and grow the selected initial ontology exploiting both the target ontology and new facts extracted from unstructured data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Petar Ristoski, Anna Lisa Gentile, Daniel Gruhl, Alfredo Alba, Chris Kau, Chad DeLuca, Linda Kato, Ismini Lourentzou, Steven R. Welch
  • Patent number: 11588625
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for use with a physical computing device to process a data access request. The requested data is encrypted with two keys, including a physical device authentication key and a transient key. Access to the data requires authentication on both the device level and situational level. Device situational data is monitored, which includes selectively enabling access to the requested data and de-activation of the transient key in response to a change in the monitored situational data. The transient key de-activation removes access to the requested data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chad DeLuca, Daniel Gruhl, Linda Kato, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Chris Kau, Alfredo Alba
  • Patent number: 11562747
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method that includes obtaining a default language corpus. A second language corpus is obtained based on a second language preference. A first transcription of an utterance is received using the default language corpus and natural language processing (NLP). At least one problem word in the first transcription is determined based on an associated grammatical relevance to neighboring words in the first transcription. Upon determining that a first probability score is below a first threshold, an acoustic lookup is performed for an audible match for the problem word in the first transcription based on an associated acoustical relevance. Upon determining that a second probability score is below a second threshold, it is determined whether a match for the problem word exists in the secondary language corpus. Upon determining that the match exists in the secondary language corpus, a second transcription for the utterance is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Raphael Arar, Chris Kau, Robert J. Moore, Chung-hao Tan
  • Patent number: 11551437
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for information extraction and annotation of a data set. Neural models are utilized to automatically attach machine annotations to data elements within an unlabeled data set. The attached machine annotations are evaluated and a score is attached to the annotations. The score reflects a confidence of correctness of the annotations. A labeled data set is iteratively expanded with selectively evaluated annotations based on the attached score. The labeled data set is applied to an unexplored corpus to identify matching corpus data to populated instances of the labeled data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ismini Lourentzou, Anna Lisa Gentile, Daniel Gruhl, Alfredo Alba, Petar Ristoski, Chad Eric DeLuca, Linda Ha Kato, Chris Kau, Steven R. Welch
  • Patent number: 11432746
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a method comprising running a monitoring agent on a connected electronic device, and determining, via the monitoring agent, a level of hearing impairment of an individual user associated with the connected electronic device. The method further comprises, in response to determining the individual user has some level of hearing impairment, selecting a notification mechanism suitable for notifying the individual user based on the level of hearing impairment, and invoking the monitoring agent to notify the individual user of an event in accordance with the notification mechanism selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Raphael I. Arar, Chris Kau, Jonathan D. Dunne
  • Patent number: 11379669
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for dictionary membership management directed at identifying ambiguity in semantic resources. A dictionary of seed terms is applied to a text corpus and matching items in the corpus are identified. The linguistic properties for each matching item are characterized and a context pattern of each matching item is constructed. Each context pattern is applied to the dictionary and matching content between the seed terms and the context pattern is identified and quantified. Lexicon items from the dictionary that have anomalous behavior reflected in the quantification are identified. One or more seed words identified as having anomalous behavior are selectively removed from the dictionary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anna Lisa Gentile, Anni R. Coden, Ismini Lourentzou, Daniel Gruhl, Chad Eric DeLuca, Petar Ristoski, Linda Ha Kato, Chris Kau, Steven R. Welch, Alfredo Alba
  • Patent number: 11194788
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a transaction request for a first transaction into a blockchain network, determining one or more potentially linked transactions subsequent to the first transaction, determining one or more nodes required for the first transaction and the one or more potentially linked transactions, determining an availability for the one or more nodes, for example, by analyzing social network usage at the respective nodes, and determining, from the availability of the one or more nodes, a preferred time to initiate the first transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy R. Fox, Liam R. Harpur, Chris Kau, John Rice
  • Patent number: 11184251
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method including identifying all computing nodes and connections associated with the computing nodes in a data center based on running processes in the data center that communicate with one another. For each computing node, running processes are identified using natural language processing (NLP) by: iteratively refining a rule set that enables processing of surveillance information from the data center into an initial map of systems and applications in the data center, and extracting known process entities according to predetermined rules from the rule set. A visual dependency representation of the computing nodes and the processes running on the computing nodes is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chad E. DeLuca, Alfredo Alba, Chris Kau, Daniel Gruhl, Linda H. Kato
  • Patent number: 11184310
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method including monitoring social media application usage for particular users over a time period for media feeds and postings of content. Based on the monitoring, the method determines specific times to render content position, dimension sizes and flow rate. Connection speeds are distinguished for the particular users within the social media application. New social media feeds and new postings of content are dynamically reorganized and prioritized based on the connection speeds for the particular users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy R. Fox, Liam S. Harpur, Chris Kau, John Rice
  • Patent number: 11163952
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for relevant language-independent terminology extraction from content, the method including extracting lexicon items from the content based on context extraction patterns using statistical processing. Feedback on the extracted lexicon items is received to automatically tune scores and thresholds for the context extraction patterns. Available Linked Data is leveraged for a bootstrap source. The relevant language-independent terminology extraction is bootstrapped using the bootstrap source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anna Lisa Gentile, Daniel Gruhl, Petar Ristoski, Steven R. Welch, Alfredo Alba, Chris Kau, Chad DeLuca, Linda Kato
  • Patent number: 11151175
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for on-demand relation extraction from unstructured text that includes obtaining a text corpus of domain related unstructured text. Representations of the unstructured text that capture entity-specific syntactic knowledge are created. Initial user seeds of informative examples containing relations are received. Extraction models in a neural network are trained using the initial user seeds. Performance information and a confidence score are provided for each prediction for each extraction model. A next batch of informative examples are identified for annotation from the text corpus based on training a neural network classifier on a pool of labeled informative examples. Stopping criteria is determined based on differences of the performance information and the confidence score in relation to parameters for each extraction model. Based on the stopping criteria, it is determined whether to retrain a particular extraction model after the informative examples have been labeled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ismini Lourentzou, Anna Lisa Gentile, Daniel Gruhl, Alfredo Alba, Chris Kau, Chad DeLuca, Linda Kato, Petar Ristoski, Steven R. Welch
  • Publication number: 20210210098
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method that includes obtaining a default language corpus. A second language corpus is obtained based on a second language preference. A first transcription of an utterance is received using the default language corpus and natural language processing (NLP). At least one problem word in the first transcription is determined based on an associated grammatical relevance to neighboring words in the first transcription. Upon determining that a first probability score is below a first threshold, an acoustic lookup is performed for an audible match for the problem word in the first transcription based on an associated acoustical relevance. Upon determining that a second probability score is below a second threshold, it is determined whether a match for the problem word exists in the secondary language corpus. Upon determining that the match exists in the secondary language corpus, a second transcription for the utterance is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Raphael Arar, Chris Kau, Robert J. Moore, Chung-hao Tan
  • Publication number: 20210211277
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for use with a physical computing device to process a data access request. The requested data is encrypted with two keys, including a physical device authentication key and a transient key. Access to the data requires authentication on both the device level and situational level. Device situational data is monitored, which includes selectively enabling access to the requested data and de-activation of the transient key in response to a change in the monitored situational data. The transient key de-activation removes access to the requested data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chad DeLuca, Daniel Gruhl, Linda Kato, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Chris Kau, Alfredo Alba
  • Patent number: 11049501
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method that includes obtaining a default language corpus. A second language corpus is obtained based on a second language preference. A first transcription of an utterance is received using the default language corpus and natural language processing (NLP). At least one problem word in the first transcription is determined based on an associated grammatical relevance to neighboring words in the first transcription. Upon determining that a first probability score is below a first threshold, an acoustic lookup is performed for an audible match for the problem word in the first transcription based on an associated acoustical relevance. Upon determining that a second probability score is below a second threshold, it is determined whether a match for the problem word exists in the secondary language corpus. Upon determining that the match exists in the secondary language corpus, a second transcription for the utterance is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Raphael Arar, Chris Kau, Robert J. Moore, Chung-hao Tan
  • Patent number: 11044078
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for use with a physical computing device to process a data access request. The associated data is encrypted with a key pair that includes both a persistent key and a transient key. Both keys require authentication to access the requested data. The transient key is subject to real-time monitoring, with changes in situational data selectively affecting the validity of the transient key, and selectively changing the physical state of the physical computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chad DeLuca, Daniel Gruhl, Linda Kato, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Chris Kau, Alfredo Alba
  • Patent number: 11044588
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method comprising determining a recurring event involving a first vehicle based on location information for the first vehicle over a pre-determined period of time, and determining one or more recurring vehicles for the recurring event. Each recurring vehicle is a different vehicle, and a number of times the recurring vehicle is within proximity of the first vehicle over the pre-determined period of time satisfies a pre-determined threshold. The method further comprises establishing a vehicle social network including the first vehicle and the one or more recurring vehicles. The method further comprises generating a shared pool of resources and caching power by pooling together resources and caching power of each vehicle included in the vehicle social network, and utilizing the shared pool of resources and caching power to facilitate collaborative caching between vehicles in the vehicle social network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy R. Fox, John Rice, Liam S. Harpur, Chris Kau
  • Publication number: 20210176138
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method including identifying all computing nodes and connections associated with the computing nodes in a data center based on running processes in the data center that communicate with one another. For each computing node, running processes are identified using natural language processing (NLP) by: iteratively refining a rule set that enables processing of surveillance information from the data center into an initial map of systems and applications in the data center, and extracting known process entities according to predetermined rules from the rule set. A visual dependency representation of the computing nodes and the processes running on the computing nodes is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Chad E. DeLuca, Alfredo Alba, Chris Kau, Daniel Gruhl, Linda H. Kato
  • Patent number: 11030402
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for iterative expansion and application of a domain-specific dictionary. One or more dictionary instances are applied against a text corpus. The dictionary is iteratively expanded and selectively populated with one or more additional dictionary instances, including semantically similar instances to the applied dictionary instances and extension instances contextually related to the applied dictionary instances. The iteratively expanded dictionary is applied to an unexplored corpus to identify matching corpus data to populated instances of the dictionary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Petar Ristoski, Daniel Gruhl, Alfredo Alba, Anna Lisa Gentile, Ismini Lourentzou, Chad Eric DeLuca, Linda Ha Kato, Steven R. Welch, Chris Kau