Patents by Inventor Diane HOFFMANNER

Diane HOFFMANNER 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).

  • Patent number: 10915850
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: parameterizing with training data one or more model that expresses, for a set of historical activities, a known outcome as a function of a plurality of factors, the plurality of factors including one or more activity factor and a worker factor; solving the one or more model to learn by machine learning values of the worker random effect vector associated to the set of historical activities, wherein the values of the worker random effect vector provide an indication of learned worker skill level for respective workers identified by the worker identifiers; and providing, by the one or more processor, one or more output based on the solving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stamatina Thomaidou, Stefanos Manganaris, Evan D. Braun, Diane Hoffmanner, Thomas Dekle
  • Publication number: 20190258983
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: parameterizing with training data one or more model that expresses, for a set of historical activities, a known outcome as a function of a plurality of factors, the plurality of factors including one or more activity factor and a worker factor; solving the one or more model to learn by machine learning values of the worker random effect vector associated to the set of historical activities, wherein the values of the worker random effect vector provide an indication of learned worker skill level for respective workers identified by the worker identifiers; and providing, by the one or more processor, one or more output based on the solving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Stamatina THOMAIDOU, Stefanos MANGANARIS, Evan D. BRAUN, Diane HOFFMANNER, Thomas DEKLE