Patents by Inventor David C. Fallside
David C. Fallside 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).
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Patent number: 10936821Abstract: An approach is provided for an information handling system that includes a processor and a memory to improve the quality of question-answer sets used as inputs to a question-answering (QA) system. In the approach, a question-answer pair is analyzed using natural language processing (NLP) components. Some of the NLP components may be taken from the QA system whose input is being analyzed The question-answer pair includes a question and an answer to the question. Based on the analysis, one or more shortcomings of the question-answer pair are identified. The shortcomings relate to an ability of the target QA system to analyze the question. A human-readable feedback is provided to a user. The feedback recommends one or more possible actions to address the identified shortcomings.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jacqueline T. Barbetta, David C. Fallside, Drew A. Logsdon, Peter J. Parente
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Patent number: 10129330Abstract: Methods and systems may provide for identifying a data service having a data locality constraint, determine whether capability data associated with the data service satisfies one or more deployment criteria of a cloud service and bind, if the capability data satisfies the one or more deployment criteria, the cloud service to the data service in accordance with the data locality constraint. In one example, the data service is identified based at least in part on a capability of the cloud service to be provisioned with a deployment location that complies with the data locality constraint.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Guillermo Cabrera, Jacob D. Eisinger, David C. Fallside, Robert C. Senkbeil
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Publication number: 20170142189Abstract: Methods and systems may provide for identifying a data service having a data locality constraint, determine whether capability data associated with the data service satisfies one or more deployment criteria of a cloud service and bind, if the capability data satisfies the one or more deployment criteria, the cloud service to the data service in accordance with the data locality constraint. In one example, the data service is identified based at least in part on a capability of the cloud service to be provisioned with a deployment location that complies with the data locality constraint.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2015Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Guillermo Cabrera, Jacob D. Eisinger, David C. Fallside, Robert C. Senkbeil
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Publication number: 20160314114Abstract: An approach is provided for an information handling system that includes a processor and a memory to improve the quality of question-answer sets used as inputs to a question-answering (QA) system. In the approach, a question-answer pair is analyzed using natural language processing (NLP) components. Some of the NLP components may be taken from the QA system whose input is being analyzed The question-answer pair includes a question and an answer to the question. Based on the analysis, one or more shortcomings of the question-answer pair are identified. The shortcomings relate to an ability of the target QA system to analyze the question. A human-readable feedback is provided to a user. The feedback recommends one or more possible actions to address the identified shortcomings.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2016Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Jacqueline T. Barbetta, David C. Fallside, Drew A. Logsdon, Peter J. Parente
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Patent number: 9460085Abstract: An approach is provided for an information handling system that includes a processor and a memory to improve the quality of question-answer sets used as inputs to a question-answering (QA) system. In the approach, a question-answer pair is analyzed using natural language processing (NLP) components. Some of the NLP components may be taken from the QA system whose input is being analyzed The question-answer pair includes a question and an answer to the question. Based on the analysis, one or more shortcomings of the question-answer pair are identified. The shortcomings relate to an ability of the target QA system to analyze the question. A human-readable feedback is provided to a user. The feedback recommends one or more possible actions to address the identified shortcomings.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jacqueline T. Barbetta, David C. Fallside, Drew A. Logsdon, Peter J. Parente
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Publication number: 20150161106Abstract: An approach is provided for an information handling system that includes a processor and a memory to improve the quality of question-answer sets used as inputs to a question-answering (QA) system. In the approach, a question-answer pair is analyzed using natural language processing (NLP) components. Some of the NLP components may be taken from the QA system whose input is being analyzed The question-answer pair includes a question and an answer to the question. Based on the analysis, one or more shortcomings of the question-answer pair are identified. The shortcomings relate to an ability of the target QA system to analyze the question. A human-readable feedback is provided to a user. The feedback recommends one or more possible actions to address the identified shortcomings.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jacqueline T. Barbetta, David C. Fallside, Drew A. Logsdon, Peter J. Parente
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Patent number: 7080029Abstract: Disclosed are a method, system and computer program product for placing a group order, mediated by a system having one or more computers, the method comprising the steps of: publishing, by a publisher, information about a quantity of a material; subscribing, via a subscriber, to a topic comprising said information; receiving, via a subscriber, said information; aggregating, via a subscriber, said information from at least one of said publishers; and responsive to said step of aggregating, selecting based on at least one criterion a best time to place said group order.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.Inventors: David C. Fallside, John B. Ibbotson, Andrew J. Stanford-Clark
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Patent number: 6115723Abstract: Converting an electronic representation of a coordinate based document to an electronic representation of a tag based document is described. Objects, defined by records stored in the electronic representation of the coordinate based document, that are positioned in a current line are identified. The identified objects are sorted based on respective horizontal positions (specifically, from left to right) of the identified objects in an electronic canvas. A vertical distance between the current line and an adjacent line is calculated, and an inter-line tag is generated as a function of the distance. The inter-line tag is stored in the electronic representation of the tag based document.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1997Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: David C. Fallside
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Patent number: 6003048Abstract: Converting an electronic representation of a coordinate based document to an electronic representation of a tag based document is described. Objects, defined by records stored in the electronic representation of the coordinate based document, that are positioned in a current line are identified. The identified objects are sorted based on respective horizontal positions (specifically, from left to right) of the identified objects in an electronic canvas. A vertical distance between the current line and an adjacent line is calculated, and an inter-line tag is generated as a function of the distance. The inter-line tag is stored in the electronic representation of the tag based document.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1997Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: David C. Fallside
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Patent number: 5446891Abstract: A smart hypermedia system that acquires user characteristics either directly or inferentially. Simple associative networks serve to model user profiles, including relationships between user goals and the hypermedia information nodes. Hypermedia links to other nodes are recommended by ranking a link list in an order that depends on one or more user profiles containing information relating to users' goals and interests. Users can teach the system directly by rearranging the order of suggested links on the list. The system can also learn indirectly by observing how long and in what sequence the user views each hypermedia information node. User profiles can be combined to form group profiles and may be dynamically and continuously updated to form an adaptive system profile. The two system learning modes may be simultaneous or disjoint.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 1994Date of Patent: August 29, 1995Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Craig A. Kaplan, James R. Chen, David C. Fallside, Justine R. Fenwick, Mitchell D. Forcier, Gregory J. Wolff