Patents by Inventor Edward E. Seabolt
Edward E. Seabolt 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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Publication number: 20230245785Abstract: A method for classifying microbial function within any microbiome can be carried out with any coding system. The method, which does not entail measuring the distance between sequences, includes: (1) selecting a reference database that links a coding system to a set of biological sequences; (2) constructing an N×M matrix with each row (N) representing a code from the coding system, each column (M) representing a single biological sequence from the set, and cells representing the presence, absence, or frequency of the single biological sequence for one or more codes; (3) computing the pair-wise distance between the rows of the matrix to form an N×N matrix, wherein N is the number of codes in the matrix; (4) clustering the results to form a data tree; (5) generating a taxonomic tree from the cluster results; and (6) applying a classification tool to the taxonomic tree to classify the microbiome.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Edward E. Seabolt, James H. Kaufman
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Patent number: 11475485Abstract: A method of configuring a widget defining a user interface includes parsing content from a corpus comprising documents describing a plurality of products, selecting a plurality of pillars from the content, wherein the pillars are descriptors describing a product space of the products, determining an affinity of each of the products to each of the pillars, receiving, via the widget, a selection of a first pillar, and displaying a given product in the widget, the given product selected from the products given the selection of the first pillar.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Donna K. Byron, Edward E. Seabolt, Mary D. Swift, Brian Hull
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Publication number: 20220292389Abstract: Computer software that performs the following operations: (i) identifying a bioinformatics dataset and instructions for processing the bioinformatics dataset, the instructions identifying a sequence of bioinformatics processing tools including at least a first bioinformatics processing tool followed by a second bioinformatics processing tool; (ii) instructing the first bioinformatics processing tool to process the bioinformatics dataset in accordance with the instructions; (iii) analyzing an output of the first bioinformatics processing tool, utilizing a machine learning based decision model, to determine a modification to the sequence of bioinformatics processing tools; and (iv) instructing a third bioinformatics processing tool to process at least a first portion of the bioinformatics dataset in accordance with the determined modification.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Edward E. Seabolt, Kristen Beck, Vadim Elisseev, Ritesh Vijay Krishna
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Patent number: 11270353Abstract: A method includes determining, by a controller, characteristics of a hosting digital composition, wherein the digital composition hosts a digital advertisement. The method also includes dynamically modifying at least one characteristic of the digital advertisement based at least on the determined characteristics of the hosting digital composition to create a modified digital advertisement. The modifying the at least one characteristic of the digital advertisement configures the digital advertisement to be visually and/or semantically integrated within the hosting digital composition. The method also includes displaying the modified digital advertisement within the hosting digital composition.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Florian Pinel, Robert N. Redmond, Edward E. Seabolt, William S. Spann, III
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Patent number: 10984442Abstract: Aspects of the invention include receiving, at a processing system, weather data that is associated with a target consumer. Content of a digital advertisement for a vendor is selected based at least in part on the weather data that is associated with the target consumer, and information about an item or a service provided by the vendor. The digital advertisement, including the content, is transmitted for presentation to the target consumer via a user interface. A response to the digital advertisement is received from the target consumer. The content of the digital advertisement is modified based at least in part on the response to the digital advertisement from the target consumer. The digital advertisement, including the modified content, is transmitted for presentation to the target consumer via the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Donna K. Byron, Carmine M. DiMascio, Brian Hull, Florian Pinel, Robert N. Redmond, Jr., Edward E. Seabolt, William S. Spann, III, Domenic A. Venuto
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Patent number: 10977683Abstract: Aspects of the invention include receiving, at a processing system, weather data that is associated with a target consumer. Content of a digital advertisement for a vendor is selected based at least in part on the weather data that is associated with the target consumer, and information about an item or a service provided by the vendor. The digital advertisement, including the content, is transmitted for presentation to the target consumer via a user interface. A response to the digital advertisement is received from the target consumer. The content of the digital advertisement is modified based at least in part on the response to the digital advertisement from the target consumer. The digital advertisement, including the modified content, is transmitted for presentation to the target consumer via the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Donna K. Byron, Carmine M. DiMascio, Brian Hull, Florian Pinel, Robert N. Redmond, Jr., Edward E. Seabolt, William S. Spann, III, Domenic A. Venuto
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Patent number: 10574605Abstract: A mechanism is provided for validating the tone of an electronic communication being composed based on the recipients of the electronic communication. At least one tone of the electronic communication being composed by a sender and an identity of each of one or more recipients to whom the electronic communication is to be sent and the sender are identified. One or more previous electronic communications sent to or received from one or more of the one or more recipients and at least one tone of each of the one or more previous electronic communications are identified in order to generate one or more preferred tones. The tone of the electronic communication being composed is compared to the one or more preferred tones. Responsive to identifying a tone discrepancy between the electronic communication being composed and the one or more preferred tones, a notification is presented to the sender.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Florian Pinel, Edward E. Seabolt
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Patent number: 10574607Abstract: A mechanism is provided for validating an attachment to an electronic communication being composed based on the recipients of the electronic communication. An associated tone or theme of the at least one attachment to the electronic communication being composed by a sender and an identity of each of one or more recipients to whom the electronic communication is to be sent and the sender are identified. One or more previous electronic communications sent to or received from one or more of the one or more recipients and at least one tone of each of the one or more previous electronic communications are identified in order to generate one or more preferred tones. Responsive to identifying a tone discrepancy between the tone or theme of the at least one attachment and the one or more preferred tones, a notification is presented to the sender.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Florian Pinel, Edward E. Seabolt
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Publication number: 20200013091Abstract: A method of configuring a widget defining a user interface includes parsing content from a corpus comprising documents describing a plurality of products, selecting a plurality of pillars from the content, wherein the pillars are descriptors describing a product space of the products, determining an affinity of each of the products to each of the pillars, receiving, via the widget, a selection of a first pillar, and displaying a given product in the widget, the given product selected from the products given the selection of the first pillar.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: DONNA K. BYRON, EDWARD E. SEABOLT, MARY D. SWIFT, BRIAN HULL
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Publication number: 20190287032Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product, and system for unified data governance. The embodiment may include populating a context graph with to-be-governed data, by a machine learning framework in communication with a suite of enterprise application servers via one or more connector components. The to-be-governed data is retrieved from the suite of enterprise application servers. The embodiment may include training a plurality of machine learning models using the context graph and the to-be-governed-data based on user-defined parameters. The embodiment may include persisting properties of the plurality of machine learning models back to the context graph.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2018Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Edward E. Seabolt, Eser Kandogan, Mary A. Roth, Harsha V. Krishnareddy
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Publication number: 20190156375Abstract: A method includes determining, by a controller, characteristics of a hosting digital composition, wherein the digital composition hosts a digital advertisement. The method also includes dynamically modifying at least one characteristic of the digital advertisement based at least on the determined characteristics of the hosting digital composition to create a modified digital advertisement. The modifying the at least one characteristic of the digital advertisement configures the digital advertisement to be visually and/or semantically integrated within the hosting digital composition. The method also includes displaying the modified digital advertisement within the hosting digital composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Florian Pinel, Robert N. Redmond, Edward E. Seabolt, William S. Spann, III
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Patent number: 10216868Abstract: Analysis of descriptions accompanying designs to determine matching available artifacts. A description of a design (e.g., interior design, fashion) is analyzed to determine characteristics of the design (e.g., colors, patterns), and artifacts matching those characteristics (e.g., fabrics, furniture) are identified.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Florian Pinel, Edward E. Seabolt
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Publication number: 20180341979Abstract: Aspects of the invention include receiving, at a processing system, weather data that is associated with a target consumer. Content of a digital advertisement for a vendor is selected based at least in part on the weather data that is associated with the target consumer, and information about an item or a service provided by the vendor. The digital advertisement, including the content, is transmitted for presentation to the target consumer via a user interface. A response to the digital advertisement is received from the target consumer. The content of the digital advertisement is modified based at least in part on the response to the digital advertisement from the target consumer. The digital advertisement, including the modified content, is transmitted for presentation to the target consumer via the user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2017Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Carmine M. DiMascio, Brian Hull, Florian Pinel, Robert N. Redmond, JR., Edward E. Seabolt, William S. Spann, III, Domenic A. Venuto
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Publication number: 20180341978Abstract: Aspects of the invention include receiving, at a processing system, weather data that is associated with a target consumer. Content of a digital advertisement for a vendor is selected based at least in part on the weather data that is associated with the target consumer, and information about an item or a service provided by the vendor. The digital advertisement, including the content, is transmitted for presentation to the target consumer via a user interface. A response to the digital advertisement is received from the target consumer. The content of the digital advertisement is modified based at least in part on the response to the digital advertisement from the target consumer. The digital advertisement, including the modified content, is transmitted for presentation to the target consumer via the user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2017Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Carmine M. DiMascio, Brian Hull, Florian Pinel, Robert N. Redmond, JR., Edward E. Seabolt, William S. Spann, III, Domenic A. Venuto
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Patent number: 9971737Abstract: A first food ingredient may be received. The first food ingredient may comprise a first plurality of chemical constituents. A plurality of candidate food ingredient substitutes may be received. Each candidate food ingredient substitute may comprise a second plurality of chemical constituents. For each of the plurality of candidate food ingredient substitutes, a quantity of the second plurality of chemical constituents that match the first plurality of chemical constituents may be determined. One or more food ingredient substitutes may be identified based on at least the quantity of the second plurality of chemical constituents that match the first plurality of chemical constituents.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Florian Pinel, Edward E. Seabolt
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Publication number: 20170339082Abstract: A mechanism is provided for validating the tone of an electronic communication being composed based on the recipients of the electronic communication. At least one tone of the electronic communication being composed by a sender and an identity of each of one or more recipients to whom the electronic communication is to be sent and the sender are identified. One or more previous electronic communications sent to or received from one or more of the one or more recipients and at least one tone of each of the one or more previous electronic communications are identified in order to generate one or more preferred tones. The tone of the electronic communication being composed is compared to the one or more preferred tones. Responsive to identifying a tone discrepancy between the electronic communication being composed and the one or more preferred tones, a notification is presented to the sender.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2016Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Florian Pinel, Edward E. Seabolt
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Publication number: 20170339083Abstract: A mechanism is provided for validating an attachment to an electronic communication being composed based on the recipients of the electronic communication. An associated tone or theme of the at least one attachment to the electronic communication being composed by a sender and an identity of each of one or more recipients to whom the electronic communication is to be sent and the sender are identified. One or more previous electronic communications sent to or received from one or more of the one or more recipients and at least one tone of each of the one or more previous electronic communications are identified in order to generate one or more preferred tones. Responsive to identifying a tone discrepancy between the tone or theme of the at least one attachment and the one or more preferred tones, a notification is presented to the sender.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2016Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Florian Pinel, Edward E. Seabolt
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Publication number: 20170220953Abstract: A method, computer program product and computer system are provided. A processor identifies a plurality of numeric expressions in a text corpus associated with a type of item. A processor generates a plurality of feature vectors corresponding to the identified plurality of numeric expressions. A processor identifies one or more common features of the plurality of feature vectors. A processor generates one or more rules for representing numeric quantities of the type of item based, at least in part, on the one or more common features of the plurality of feature vectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2016Publication date: August 3, 2017Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Edward E. Seabolt, Timothy P. Winkler
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Publication number: 20170220558Abstract: A first food ingredient may be received. The first food ingredient may comprise a first plurality of chemical constituents. A plurality of candidate food ingredient substitutes may be received. Each candidate food ingredient substitute may comprise a second plurality of chemical constituents. For each of the plurality of candidate food ingredient substitutes, a quantity of the second plurality of chemical constituents that match the first plurality of chemical constituents may be determined. One or more food ingredient substitutes may be identified based on at least the quantity of the second plurality of chemical constituents that match the first plurality of chemical constituents.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2016Publication date: August 3, 2017Inventors: Florian Pinel, Edward E. Seabolt
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Publication number: 20170220950Abstract: A method, computer program product and computer system are provided. A processor identifies a plurality of numeric expressions in a text corpus associated with a type of item. A processor generates a plurality of feature vectors corresponding to the identified plurality of numeric expressions. A processor identifies one or more common features of the plurality of feature vectors. A processor generates one or more rules for representing numeric quantities of the type of item based, at least in part, on the one or more common features of the plurality of feature vectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2016Publication date: August 3, 2017Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Edward E. Seabolt, Timothy P. Winkler