Patents by Inventor Edward Graham Katz

Edward Graham Katz 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: 11783817
    Abstract: A processor may identify an anomaly in one or more communications. A processor may monitor the one or more communications for an utterance. A processor may perform natural language processing (NLP) on the utterance. A processor may generate an understanding of the utterance using natural language understanding (NLU). A processor may detect the anomaly from the understanding of the utterance. A processor may execute a response, responsive to detecting the anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory M. J. H. Tkaczyk, Edward Graham Katz, John S Quimby
  • Patent number: 11762667
    Abstract: A method for adjusting device system settings in response to analysis of displayed content. In some embodiments, a processor may extract content from contents displayed on a screen of a device. The processor may analyze features of the content. The processor may classify the content as belonging to a content class, based on analysis of the content features, utilizing a machine learning model. The processor may update the device system settings based on the content class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John A Riendeau, Charles E. Beller, Edward Graham Katz, Sean Thomas Thatcher
  • Patent number: 11762810
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and computer program product in which operations are performed to receive a question that includes a descriptor and an indication that indicates that a unique answer to the question is expected. A determination is made of instances of matching descriptors and descriptor targets from a set of documents. The determined descriptor targets are compared for consistency. In response to determining that the determined descriptor targets are inconsistent, more restrictive descriptors are iteratively generated via a selection model based on metadata associated with the question until the descriptor targets are consistent. An answer to the question is returned from consistent descriptor targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Donna K Byron, Charles E. Beller, Edward Graham Katz, Christopher F. Ackermann
  • Patent number: 11720554
    Abstract: An embodiment for expanding a search query is provided. The embodiment may include receiving a stopping criterion for stopping a search. The embodiment may also include receiving an initial search query. The embodiment may further include submitting the initial search query to an information retrieval system. The embodiment may also include identifying enrichment terms from the retrieved initial set of documents. The embodiment may further include generating a subsequent search query that includes one or more enrichment terms from the retrieved initial set of documents. The embodiment may also include submitting the subsequent search query to the information retrieval system. The embodiment may further include determining whether the stopping criterion is met, and in response to determining the stopping criterion is not met, iterating identifying, generating, submitting steps until the stopping criterion is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sean Thomas Thatcher, Edward Graham Katz, Charles E. Beller, John A. Riendeau, Kristen Maria Summers
  • Patent number: 11544312
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system to implement a cognitive natural language processing (NLP) system with descriptor uniqueness identification to support named entity mention clustering. The mechanism annotates a set of documents from a corpus of documents for entity types and mentions, collects descriptor usages from all documents in the corpus of documents, analyzes the descriptor usages to classify the descriptors as base terms or modifier terms, generates compatibility scores for the descriptors, and performs entity merging of entity clusters based on the compatibility scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Edward Graham Katz, Christopher F. Ackermann, Charles E. Beller
  • Patent number: 11531708
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for answering general background questions on a topic from documents with glossary sections, A set of documents with glossaries is received from which a set of terms and associated glossary entries are extracted, where each term has a corresponding glossary entry. Association is performed of related glossary entries. The associations is based on a similarity algorithm to form glossary clusters where each glossary cluster refers to one or more glossary entries. A query with query terms tailored to general information is received. The glossary clusters are ranked relevance to the query terms to form a ranked set. A set of glossary clusters meeting a high ranked threshold is selected and provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles E. Beller, Edward Graham Katz, John A Riendeau, Sean Thomas Thatcher
  • Publication number: 20220383866
    Abstract: A processor may identify an anomaly in one or more communications. A processor may monitor the one or more communications for an utterance. A processor may perform natural language processing (NLP) on the utterance. A processor may generate an understanding of the utterance using natural language understanding (NLU). A processor may detect the anomaly from the understanding of the utterance. A processor may execute a response, responsive to detecting the anomaly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Gregory M. J. H. Tkaczyk, Edward Graham KATZ, John S. Quimby
  • Patent number: 11443208
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided that relate to a computer system, a computer program product, and a machine-implemented method for assessing a statement by an entity to a recipient group, particularly in a social media environment, for an inconsistency with a previous (historical) statement to the same recipient group, and notifying the entity of the inconsistency. In certain embodiments, an alternative statement is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sean Thomas Thatcher, Edward Graham Katz, Charles E. Beller, John A. Riendeau
  • Publication number: 20220215018
    Abstract: An embodiment for expanding a search query is provided. The embodiment may include receiving a stopping criterion for stopping a search. The embodiment may also include receiving an initial search query. The embodiment may further include submitting the initial search query to an information retrieval system. The embodiment may also include identifying enrichment terms from the retrieved initial set of documents. The embodiment may further include generating a subsequent search query that includes one or more enrichment terms from the retrieved initial set of documents. The embodiment may also include submitting the subsequent search query to the information retrieval system. The embodiment may further include determining whether the stopping criterion is met, and in response to determining the stopping criterion is not met, iterating identifying, generating, submitting steps until the stopping criterion is met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Sean Thomas Thatcher, Edward Graham Katz, Charles E. Beller, John A. Riendeau, Kristen Maria Summers
  • Publication number: 20220197672
    Abstract: A method for adjusting device system settings in response to analysis of displayed content. In some embodiments, a processor may extract content from contents displayed on a screen of a device. The processor may analyze features of the content. The processor may classify the content as belonging to a content class, based on analysis of the content features, utilizing a machine learning model. The processor may update the device system settings based on the content class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: JOHN A RIENDEAU, Charles E. Beller, Edward Graham KATZ, Sean Thomas Thatcher
  • Publication number: 20210382946
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for answering general background questions on a topic from documents with glossary sections, A set of documents with glossaries is received from which a set of terms and associated glossary entries are extracted, where each term has a corresponding glossary entry. Association is performed of related glossary entries. The associations is based on a similarity algorithm to form glossary clusters where each glossary cluster refers to one or more glossary entries. A query with query terms tailored to general information is received. The glossary clusters are ranked relevance to the query terms to form a ranked set. A set of glossary clusters meeting a high ranked threshold is selected and provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Charles E. Beller, Edward Graham Katz, John A. Riendeau, Sean Thomas Thatcher
  • Publication number: 20210349852
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and computer program product in which operations are performed to receive a question that includes a descriptor and an indication that indicates that a unique answer to the question is expected. A determination is made of instances of matching descriptors and descriptor targets from a set of documents. The determined descriptor targets are compared for consistency. In response to determining that the determined descriptor targets are inconsistent, more restrictive descriptors are iteratively generated via a selection model based on metadata associated with the question until the descriptor targets are consistent. An answer to the question is returned from consistent descriptor targets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Donna K. BYRON, Charles E. BELLER, Edward Graham KATZ, Christopher F. ACKERMANN
  • Publication number: 20210295178
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided that relate to a computer system, a computer program product, and a machine-implemented method for assessing a statement by an entity to a recipient group, particularly in a social media environment, for an inconsistency with a previous (historical) statement to the same recipient group, and notifying the entity of the inconsistency. In certain embodiments, an alternative statement is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sean Thomas Thatcher, Edward Graham Katz, Charles E. Beller, John A. Riendeau
  • Publication number: 20210256049
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system to implement a cognitive natural language processing (NLP) system with descriptor uniqueness identification to support named entity mention clustering. The mechanism annotates a set of documents from a corpus of documents for entity types and mentions, collects descriptor usages from all documents in the corpus of documents, analyzes the descriptor usages to classify the descriptors as base terms or modifier terms, generates compatibility scores for the descriptors, and performs entity merging of entity clusters based on the compatibility scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Edward Graham Katz, Christopher F. Ackermann, Charles E. Beller
  • Patent number: 11093774
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an intelligent computer platform to create a document specific error correction model for amending OCR values. An image of a document is received and OCR is applied to the received image. Text is extracted from at least one static content field and the extracted text is compared to stored text from known static content. Responsive to a deviation identified in the comparison, a document specific error correction model is created and leveraged to correct OCR output. The model generates one or more variants for the dynamic content field associated with the static content field having the identified deviation. The generated variant(s) is subject to processing and one of the variants is selected as amended document content. A new document version is created from the amendment, the new document version including corrected OCR output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles E. Beller, Edward Graham Katz, John A. Riendeau, Christopher Phipps, Sean Thomas Thatcher
  • Publication number: 20210174109
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an intelligent computer platform to create a document specific error correction model for amending OCR values. An image of a document is received and OCR is applied to the received image. Text is extracted from at least one static content field and the extracted text is compared to stored text from known static content. Responsive to a deviation identified in the comparison, a document specific error correction model is created and leveraged to correct OCR output. The model generates one or more variants for the dynamic content field associated with the static content field having the identified deviation. The generated variant(s) is subject to processing and one of the variants is selected as amended document content. A new document version is created from the amendment, the new document version including corrected OCR output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles E. Beller, Edward Graham Katz, John A. Riendeau, Christopher Phipps, Sean Thomas Thatcher
  • Patent number: 10803100
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer processing system are provided. The method includes identifying, by a processor using a topic identification system, topic information for a source topic-domain in a corpus. The method further includes extracting, by the processor, an entity from the source topic-domain. The method also includes tagging, by the processor, the entity with the topic information to obtain a tagged entity that includes a tag specifying the topic information. The method additionally includes storing the tagged entity in a memory device. The method further includes performing, by the processor, downstream processing of the tagged entity in a natural language processing pipeline using the tag of the tagged entity as an additional data point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher F. Ackermann, William G. Dubyak, Edward Graham Katz, Nicole O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20200234181
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing enhanced training of a personality model for an embodied conversational agent. An adjustable personality model is provided for the conversational agent interacting with a user with the adjustable personality model configured to provide emotion and tone responses based on detected emotions of the user and a communication objective. Responsive to detecting a first emotion of the user in a conversation with the conversational agent, the adjustable personality model is utilized to embody the conversational agent with a first emotion and tone. Responsive to detecting a second emotion of the user different from the first emotion, the adjustable personality model is utilized to embody the conversational agent with a second emotion and tone possibly different from the first emotion and tone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Edward Graham Katz, Alexander Charles Tonetti, John A. Riendeau, Charles E. Beller
  • Publication number: 20190163811
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer processing system are provided. The method includes identifying, by a processor using a topic identification system, topic information for a source topic-domain in a corpus. The method further includes extracting, by the processor, an entity from the source topic-domain. The method also includes tagging, by the processor, the entity with the topic information to obtain a tagged entity that includes a tag specifying the topic information. The method additionally includes storing the tagged entity in a memory device. The method further includes performing, by the processor, downstream processing of the tagged entity in a natural language processing pipeline using the tag of the tagged entity as an additional data point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Christopher F. Ackermann, William G. Dubyak, Edward Graham Katz, Nicole O'Connor