Patents by Inventor Christina Runkel

Christina Runkel 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).

  • Conversation space artifact generation using natural language processing, machine learning, and ontology-based techniques
    Patent number: 11321534
    Abstract: A method is provided to implement a conversational system with artifact generation. A middleware component receives a user input and determines whether there is sufficient information in the user input and a conversation space in a context storage of the conversational system to identify user intent associated with the user input. Responsive to the middleware component determining there is not sufficient information to identify user intent, a communications handler component sends a natural language query to an external data source via a natural language query (NLQ) interface and receives a natural language response from the external data source. The middleware component updates the conversation space based on the natural language response and returns a user response based on the natural language response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Abdul Quamar, Fatma Ozcan, Dorian Boris Miller, Jeffrey Thomas Kreulen, Christina Runkel
  • Conversation Space Artifact Generation Using Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Ontology-Based Techniques
    Publication number: 20210286950
    Abstract: A method is provided to implement a conversational system with artifact generation. A middleware component receives a user input and determines whether there is sufficient information in the user input and a conversation space in a context storage of the conversational system to identify user intent associated with the user input. Responsive to the middleware component determining there is not sufficient information to identify user intent, a communications handler component sends a natural language query to an external data source via a natural language query (NLQ) interface and receives a natural language response from the external data source. The middleware component updates the conversation space based on the natural language response and returns a user response based on the natural language response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Abdul Quamar, Fatma Ozcan, Dorian Boris Miller, Jeffrey Thomas Kreulen, Christina Runkel