Patents by Inventor Chung-sheng Li

Chung-sheng Li 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).

  • METHOD TO REDUCE REACTIVATION TIME OF CLOUD BASED SERVICES
    Publication number: 20170134518
    Abstract: A method for reducing reactivation time of services that includes examining page faults that occur during processing of a service after the service has been inactive to provide a plurality of prefetch groups, and formulating a prefetch decision tree from page fault data in the prefetch groups. Pages from an initial page table for the service following a reactivated service request are then compared with the prefetched pages in the resident memory in accordance with the prefetch decision tree. Pages in the page table that are not included in said prefetched pages are paged in. A process to provide to provide the service is executed using the page table. Executing the process substantially avoids page faults.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Bulent Abali, Hubertus Franke, Chung-Sheng Li, Seetharami R. Seelam
  • Methods and apparatus for enhancing business services resiliency using continuous fragmentation cell technology
    Patent number: 9621586
    Abstract: A method for enhancing resiliency of a service includes: decomposing at least one component associated with the service into a plurality of corresponding smaller elements; encrypting the elements to generate a corresponding plurality of encrypted elements; decomposing each of the encrypted elements into a corresponding plurality of smaller fragments; replicating each of the fragments; encapsulating the fragments into respective intelligent components, each of the intelligent components corresponding to a given one of the encapsulated fragments, each of the intelligent components being configured to independently determine a location of a first storage element in which to store itself; storing each of the intelligent components; and moving the intelligent components from the first storage element location to a second storage element location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory J. Boss, Youssef Drissi, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Chung-Sheng Li
  • SECURITY WITHIN A SOFTWARE-DEFINED INFRASTRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20160283713
    Abstract: There is a method and system that includes establishing a security container that describes a workload and a set of resources that corresponds to the workload in a software-defined environment, determining a set of security criteria for the security container, monitoring the workload and the set of resources for security events based, at least in part, upon the set of security criteria, and responsive to identifying a security event, adjusting one or more security mechanisms. The steps of monitoring and adjusting are operated within the software-defined environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Brad L. Brech, Scott W. Crowder, Hubertus Franke, Nagui Halim, Matt R. Hogstrom, Chung-Sheng Li, Pratap C. Pattnaik, Dimitrios Pendarakis, Josyula R. Rao, Radha P. Ratnaparkhi, Michael D. Williams
  • OUTCOME-BASED SOFTWARE-DEFINED INFRASTRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20160285732
    Abstract: A method and system for outcome-based adjustment of a software-defined environment (SDE) that includes establishing a link between a business outcome and a first resource configuration from software defined environment, establishing a monitoring mechanism for continuously measuring a current state of the SDE, using a behavior model of the SDE to anticipate, or forecast, a triggering event, and responsive to the forecast of a triggering event, using the behavior model to determine a second resource configuration to achieve the business outcome. The link includes at least one of a utility of services for the business outcome, a cost of a set of resources consumed by the first resource configuration, and a risk of the set of resources becoming unavailable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Brad L. Brech, Scott W. Crowder, Hubertus Franke, Jeffrey A. Frey, Nagui Halim, Matt R. Hogstrom, Chung-Sheng Li, David B. Lindquist, Stefan Pappe, Pratap C. Pattnaik, Balachandar Rajaraman, Radha P. Ratnaparkhi, Rodney A. Smith, Michael D. Williams
  • CAPABILITY-BASED ABSTRACTION OF SOFTWARE-DEFINED INFRASTRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20160285966
    Abstract: There is a method and system for capability-based resource allocation in a software-defined environment that performs the following steps (not necessarily in the following order): (i) determining a set of capability characteristics for a plurality of workload resources within a software-defined environment; (ii) determining a set of workload components for a specified workload; and (iii) identifying a set of workload resources from the plurality of workload resources to allocate to the specified workload based, at least in part, on the set of capability characteristics corresponding to each workload within the set of workload resources. A workload component of the set of workload components has a unique set of workload characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Brad L. Brech, Scott W. Crowder, Hubertus Franke, Jeffrey A. Frey, Nagui Halim, Matt R. Hogstrom, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Dilip D. Kandlur, Chung-Sheng Li, David B. Lindquist, Stefan Pappe, Pratap C. Pattnaik, Balachandar Rajaraman, Radha P. Ratnaparkhi, Renato J. Recio, Rodney A. Smith, Michael D. Williams
  • CREATING NEW CLOUD RESOURCE INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE
    Publication number: 20160269229
    Abstract: A method and system are provided. The system includes a network configurator for configuring a network as a backplane of the system to optimize throughput rate and minimize latency across a plurality of subsystems that are cloud-based and that form the system. The plurality of subsystems includes hardware and software subsystems. The system further includes a composable system building block configurator for refactoring, based on a disaggregated system principle, the plurality of subsystems to use the network to communicate as a single system. The system also includes a system resource multidimensional model generator for generating a multidimensional optimization model that models the composable system building blocks as resources having adjustable parameters in a multidimensional parameter space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Hubertus Franke, Chung-Sheng Li, Colin J. Parris
  • CREATING SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION PLATFORMS BASED ON SERVICE FIRST AND SERVICE NOW APPROACH
    Publication number: 20160267410
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for establishing a sustainable innovation platform. The system includes an innovation services platform including a set of independent, consumable services. The system further includes an innovation community platform including a set of frameworks for forming an innovation community and supporting interaction between community data and community services. The system also includes a monitoring, data assimilation, and simulation platform for service-related monitoring, monitoring-data model assimilation and model-based, machine-executed, what-if simulation. The system additionally includes a service enhancement and service optimization platform for determining service enhancements and service optimizations based on the model-based, machine-executed, what-if simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Chung-Sheng Li, Colin J. Parris
  • CREATING NEW CLOUD RESOURCE INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE
    Publication number: 20160269228
    Abstract: A method and system are provided. The system includes a network configurator for configuring a network as a backplane of the system to optimize throughput rate and minimize latency across a plurality of subsystems that are cloud-based and that form the system. The plurality of subsystems includes hardware and software subsystems. The system further includes a composable system building block configurator for refactoring, based on a disaggregated system principle, the plurality of subsystems to use the network to communicate as a single system. The system also includes a system resource multidimensional model generator for generating a multidimensional optimization model that models the composable system building blocks as resources having adjustable parameters in a multidimensional parameter space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Hubertus Franke, Chung-Sheng Li, Colin J. Parris
  • CREATING SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION PLATFORMS BASED ON SERVICE FIRST AND SERVICE NOW APPROACH
    Publication number: 20160267411
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for establishing a sustainable innovation platform. The system includes an innovation services platform including a set of independent, consumable services. The system further includes an innovation community platform including a set of frameworks for forming an innovation community and supporting interaction between community data and community services. The system also includes a monitoring, data assimilation, and simulation platform for service-related monitoring, monitoring-data model assimilation and model-based, machine-executed, what-if simulation. The system additionally includes a service enhancement and service optimization platform for determining service enhancements and service optimizations based on the model-based, machine-executed, what-if simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Chung-Sheng Li, Colin J. Parris
  • Systems, methods and computer programs providing impact mitigation of cyber-security failures
    Patent number: 9129108
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system to operate a governed data processing system in concert with a governing data processing system. The method includes operating a secure governing data processing system to monitor operation of at least one governed data processing system to detect a deviation from modeled user and governed data processing system behavior. The method further includes, upon detecting a deviation from the modeled behavior, taking proactive action to mitigate an occurrence of a potential adverse result of an occurrence of a cyber-security threat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Youssef Drissi, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Colin George Harrison, Jack Lawrence Kouloheris, Pratap Chandra Pattnaik, Josyula R. Rao, Chung-Sheng Li
  • METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING BUSINESS SERVICES RESILIENCY USING CONTINUOUS FRAGMENTATION CELL TECHNOLOGY
    Publication number: 20150229671
    Abstract: A method for enhancing resiliency of a service includes: decomposing at least one component associated with the service into a plurality of corresponding smaller elements; encrypting the elements to generate a corresponding plurality of encrypted elements; decomposing each of the encrypted elements into a corresponding plurality of smaller fragments; replicating each of the fragments; encapsulating the fragments into respective intelligent components, each of the intelligent components corresponding to a given one of the encapsulated fragments, each of the intelligent components being configured to independently determine a location of a first storage element in which to store itself; storing each of the intelligent components; and moving the intelligent components from the first storage element location to a second storage element location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory J. Boss, Youssef Drissi, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Chung-Sheng Li
  • Extracting enterprise information through analysis of provenance data
    Patent number: 9053437
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for extracting information through analysis of provenance data. For example, a computer-implemented method of extracting information regarding an execution of an enterprise process comprises the following steps. Provenance data is generated, wherein the provenance data is based on collected data associated with an actual end-to-end execution of the enterprise process and is indicative of a lineage of one or more data items. A provenance graph is generated that provides a visual representation of the generated provenance data, wherein nodes of the graph represent records associated with the collected data and edges of the graph represent relations between the records. At least a portion of the generated provenance data from the graph is analyzed so as to extract information about the execution of the enterprise process based on the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sharon C. Adler, Francisco Phelan Curbera, Yurdaer Nezihi Doganata, Chung-Sheng Li, Douglas C. Lovell, Axel Martens, Kevin Patrick McAuliffe, Huong Thu Morris, Nirmal K. Mukhi, Aleksander A. Slominski
  • Enabling interoperability between participants in a network
    Patent number: 9021007
    Abstract: Interoperability is enabled between participants in a network by determining values associated with a value metric defined for at least a portion of the network. Information flow is directed between two or more of the participants based at least in part on semantic models corresponding to the participants and on the values associated with the value metric. The semantic models may define interactions between the participants and define at least a portion of information produced or consumed by the participants. The determination of the values and the direction of the information flow may be performed multiple times in order to modify the one or more value metrics. The direction of information flow may allow participants to be deleted from the network, may allow participants to be added to the network, or may allow behavior of the participants to be modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charu C. Aggarwal, Murray Scott Campbell, Yuan-Chi Chang, Matthew Leon Hill, Chung-Sheng Li, Milind R. Naphade, Sriram K. Padmanabhan, John R. Smith, Min Wang, Kun-Lung Wu, Philip Shilung Yu
  • Decision support methods and apparatus
    Patent number: 8849745
    Abstract: Improved decision support techniques are disclosed. For example, a technique for processing transactional data for use in accordance with a decision support operation comprises the following steps/operations. The transactional data is transformed into an interim form according to a relative importance of the transactional data to the decision support operation. The transformed data is incrementally analyzed, wherein the incremental analysis comprises applying a successive approximation to the data in the interim form, such that the decision support operation can be incrementally performed based on a transactional load. The technique may further comprise allocating one or more computing resources to incrementally perform the decision support operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Murray S. Campbell, Chung-Sheng Li, Jeanette M. Rosenthal
  • Processing of provenance data for automatic discovery of enterprise process information
    Patent number: 8595042
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for capturing, storing, querying and analyzing provenance data for automatic discovery of enterprise process information. For example, a computer-implemented method for managing a process associated with an enterprise comprises the following steps. Data associated with an actual end-to-end execution of an enterprise process is collected. Provenance data is generated based on at least a portion of the collected data, wherein the provenance data is indicative of a lineage of one or more data items. A provenance graph that provides a visual representation of the generated provenance data is generated, wherein nodes of the graph represent records associated with the collected data and edges of the graph represent relations between the records. The generated provenance graph is stored in a repository for use in analyzing the enterprise process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sharon C. Adler, Francisco P. Curbera, Yurdaer N Doganata, Chung-Sheng Li, Axel Martens, Kevin P. McAuliffe, Huong Thu Morris, Nirmal K. Mukhi, Aleksander A. Slominski
  • Trust event notification and actions based on thresholds and associated trust metadata scores
    Patent number: 8443189
    Abstract: An approach is provided for selecting one or more trust factors from trust factors included in a trust index repository. Thresholds are identified corresponding to one or more of the selected trust factors. Actions are identified to perform when the selected trust factors reach the corresponding threshold values. The identified thresholds, identified actions, and selected trust factors are stored in a data store. The selected trust factors are monitored by comparing one or more trust metadata scores with the stored identified thresholds. The stored identified actions that correspond to the selected trust factors are performed when one or more of the trust metadata scores reach the identified thresholds. At least one of the actions includes an event notification that is provided to a trust data consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Sheng Li, Ivan Matthew Milman, Guenter Anton Sauter, Harald Clyde Smith, Charles Daniel Wolfson
  • Analytics integration server within a comprehensive framework for composing and executing analytics applications in business level languages
    Patent number: 8401993
    Abstract: Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for building and executing analytics solutions. Such a solution may provide a comprehensive analytics solution (e.g., a risk assessment, fraud detection solution, dynamic operational risk evaluations, regulatory compliance assessments, etc.). The analytics solution may perform an analytics task using operational data distributed across a variety of independently created and governed data repositories in different departments of an organization. A framework is disclosed which allows a user (e.g., a risk analyst) to compose analytical tools that can access data from a variety of sources (both internal and external to an enterprise) and perform a variety of analytic functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar, Yuan Chi Chang, Chung-Sheng Li
  • Video description system and method
    Patent number: 8370869
    Abstract: Systems and methods for describing video content establish video description records which include an object set (24), an object hierarchy (26) and entity relation graphs (28). Video objects can include global objects, segment objects and local objects. The video objects are further defined by a number of features organized in classes, which in turn are further defined by a number of feature descriptors (36, 38, and 40). The relationships (44) between and among the objects in the object set (24) are defined by the object hierarchy (26) and entity relation graphs (28). The video description records provide a standard vehicle for describing the content and context of video information for subsequent access and processing by computer applications such as search engines, filters and archive systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Seungyup Paek, Ana Benitez, Shih-Fu Chang, Atul Puri, Qian Huang, Chung-Sheng Li, John R. Smith, Lawrence Bergman
  • Using text search engine for parametric search
    Patent number: 8332422
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program for enabling parametric searches on source data using text search engine. The invention is generally divided into a build-time process and a run-time process. During the build-time process, a crawler extracts data units from source data. A data translator then translates data units into keyword parametric entries that are submitted to the text search engine. During the run-time process, a query translator translates parametric search queries into keyword search entries. A metatag refiner then filters intermediate search results from the search engine based on the parametric search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan-Chi Chang, Howard C. Chin, Chung-Sheng Li, Carsten E. Mytroen
  • Configurable trust context assignable to facts and associated trust metadata
    Patent number: 8290960
    Abstract: An approach is provided for selecting a trust factor from trust factors that are included in a trust index repository. A trust metaphor is associated with the selected trust factor. The trust metaphor includes various context values. Range values are received and the trust metaphor, context values, and range values are associated with the selected trust factor. A request is received from a data consumer, the request corresponding to a trust factor metadata score that is associated with the selected trust factor. The trust factor metadata score is retrieved and matched with the range values. The matching results in one of the context values being selected based on the retrieved trust factor metadata score. The selected context value is then provided to the data consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Sheng Li, Ivan Matthew Milman, Guenter Anton Sauter, Harald Clyde Smith, Charles Daniel Wolfson