Patents by Inventor Eugene I. Kelton

Eugene I. Kelton 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: 11842357
    Abstract: Embodiments can provide a computer implemented method for simulating customer data using a reinforcement learning model, including: generating an artificial customer profile by combining randomly selected information from a set of real customer profile data; providing standard customer transaction data representing a group of real customers having similar transaction characteristics as a goal; performing a plurality of iterations to simulate the standard customer transaction data; and combining the artificial customer profile with the simulated customer transaction data to form simulated customer data. In each iteration, the method includes conducting an action including a plurality of simulated transactions; comparing the action with the goal; providing a feedback associated with the action based on a degree of similarity relative to the goal; adjusting a policy based on the feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Harris, Eugene I. Kelton, Chaz Vollmer
  • Patent number: 11823216
    Abstract: Computer vision and deep learning techniques are leveraged to detect behavior patterns in transaction histories. A transaction timeline is built for a series of transactions, e.g., financial, and a graphic image is constructed representing the transaction timeline. The graphic image is then matched to a known behavior pattern using a cognitive system. The cognitive system is trained with historical timeline images having associated labels. In one example the graphic image is a bar chart and each financial transaction is represented as a bar in the bar chart having a height proportional to a transaction amount, the bar being located along a time axis of the bar chart according to the transaction date and being color coded according to the transaction type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eugene I. Kelton, Brandon Harris, Willie R. Patten, Jr., Eliza Salkeld, Russell Gregory Lambert, Yi-Hui Ma, Shuyan Lu, Shanna Hayes
  • Patent number: 11676218
    Abstract: Embodiments can provide a computer implemented method for simulating transaction data using a reinforcement learning model, the method including: generating an artificial customer profile by combining randomly selected information from a set of real customer profile data; providing standard customer transaction data representing a group of real customers having similar transaction characteristics as a goal; conducting, by the intelligent agent, an action including a plurality of simulated transactions; comparing, by the environment, the action with the goal; providing, by the environment, a feedback associated with the action based on a degree of similarity relative to the goal; adjusting, by the policy engine, a policy based on the feedback; the step of conducting an action to the step of adjusting a policy are repeated until the degree of similarity is higher than a first predefined threshold; and combing the artificial customer profile with the action to form simulated customer data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Harris, Eugene I. Kelton, Chaz Vollmer
  • Patent number: 11599884
    Abstract: Embodiments can provide a method for identifying a behavioral pattern from simulated transaction data, including: simulating transaction data using a reinforcement learning model; identifying a behavioral pattern from the simulated transaction data; comparing the behavioral pattern with standard customer transaction data to determine whether the behavioral pattern is present in the standard customer transaction data. If the behavioral pattern is present in the standard customer transaction data, the behavioral pattern is applied in a model implemented on the cognitive system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Harris, Eugene I. Kelton, Chaz Vollmer
  • Patent number: 11556734
    Abstract: An abstraction system for generating a standard customer profile in a data processing system has a processing device and a memory. The abstraction system may receive customer data from a computing device over a network, perform unsupervised learning on the customer data to produce a plurality of clusters of customers with a plurality of features in common, and determine that a cluster represents a standard customer, and store a plurality of standard customer profiles based on the determined standard customers, wherein the standard customer profiles comprise a plurality of data distributions for the plurality of features in common. The abstraction system also derives additional standard customer profiles by applying a boundary limiter to the customer data. The abstraction system additionally provides the standard customer profiles and the additional standard customer profiles to a cognitive system for generating synthetic transaction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Harris, Eugene I. Kelton, Chaz Vollmer
  • Patent number: 11494835
    Abstract: Embodiments can provide a computer implemented method for simulating transaction data using a reinforcement learning model including an intelligent agent, a policy engine, and an environment, the method including: providing, by a processor, standard customer transaction data representing a group of customers having similar transaction characteristics as a goal; conducting, by the intelligent agent, an action including a plurality of simulated transactions; comparing, by the environment, the action with the goal; providing a feedback, by the environment, the action based on a degree of similarity relative to the goal; and adjusting, by the policy engine, a policy based on the feedback; the step of conducting an action to the step of adjusting a policy are repeated until the degree of similarity is higher than a first predefined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Harris, Eugene I. Kelton, Chaz Vollmer
  • Patent number: 11488172
    Abstract: Embodiments can provide a computer implemented method for simulating transaction data using a reinforcement learning model including an intelligent agent, a policy engine, and an environment, the method including: providing standard customer transaction data representing a group of customers having similar transaction characteristics as a goal; and performing a plurality of iterations to simulate the standard customer transaction data, wherein the plurality of iterations is performed until a degree of similarity of simulated customer transaction data relative to the standard customer transaction data is higher than a first predefined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Harris, Eugene I. Kelton, Chaz Vollmer
  • Patent number: 11488185
    Abstract: An abstraction system for generating a standard customer profile in a data processing system has a processing device and a memory. The abstraction system may receive customer data from a computing device over a network and perform unsupervised learning on the customer data to produce a plurality of clusters of customers with a first feature in common. The abstraction system performs unsupervised learning on the plurality of clusters of customers to produce a plurality of sub-clusters of customers with a second feature in common, and repeats the unsupervised learning on the plurality of sub-clusters produced to produce further sub-clusters with a plurality of features in common. The abstraction system determines that a sub-cluster represents a standard customer and stores a plurality of standard customer profiles based on the determined standard customers. The abstraction system provides the standard customer profiles to a cognitive system for generating synthetic transaction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Harris, Eugene I. Kelton, Chaz Vollmer
  • Patent number: 11475468
    Abstract: An abstraction system for generating a standard customer profile in a data processing system has a processing device and a memory. The abstraction system may receive customer data from a computing device over a network, the customer data including information for a plurality of customers and perform unsupervised learning on the customer data to produce a plurality of clusters of customers with a plurality of features in common, determine that a cluster represents a standard customer and store a plurality of standard customer profiles based on the determined standard customers. The abstraction system may also provide the standard customer profiles to a cognitive system for generating synthetic transaction data based on the standard customer, generate a detection model for detecting activity based on the synthetic transaction data, and distribute the detection model to each of the computing devices over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Harris, Eugene I. Kelton, Chaz Vollmer
  • Patent number: 11475467
    Abstract: An abstraction system for generating a standard customer profile in a data processing system has a processing device and a memory. The abstraction system may receive customer data from a computing device over a network and perform unsupervised learning on the customer data to produce a plurality of clusters of customers with a first feature in common. The abstraction system performs unsupervised learning on the plurality of clusters of customers to produce a plurality of sub-clusters of customers with a second feature in common, and repeats the unsupervised learning on the plurality of sub-clusters produced to produce further sub-clusters with a plurality of features in common. The abstraction system determines that a sub-cluster represents a standard customer and stores a plurality of standard customer profiles based on the determined standard customers. The abstraction system provides the standard customer profiles to a cognitive system for generating synthetic transaction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Harris, Eugene I. Kelton, Chaz Vollmer
  • Patent number: 11461728
    Abstract: An abstraction system for generating a standard customer profile in a data processing system has a processing device and a memory. The abstraction system may receive customer data from a computing device over a network, perform unsupervised learning on the customer data to produce a plurality of clusters of customers with a plurality of features in common, and determine that a cluster represents a standard customer, and store a plurality of standard customer profiles based on the determined standard customers, wherein the standard customer profiles comprise a plurality of data distributions for the plurality of features in common. The abstraction system additionally provides the standard customer profiles and the additional standard customer profiles to a cognitive system for generating synthetic transaction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Harris, Eugene I. Kelton, Chaz Vollmer
  • Patent number: 11461793
    Abstract: Embodiments can provide a method for identifying a behavioral pattern from simulated transaction data, the method including: simulating transaction data using a reinforcement learning model; and identifying a behavioral pattern from the simulated transaction data. The step of simulating transaction data further includes: providing standard customer transaction data representing a group of customers having similar transaction characteristics as a goal; and performing a plurality of iterations to simulate the standard customer transaction data, wherein the plurality of iterations is performed until a degree of similarity of simulated customer transaction data relative to the standard customer transaction data is higher than a first predefined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Harris, Eugene I. Kelton, Chaz Vollmer
  • Patent number: 11216268
    Abstract: The present application relates to systems for updating detection models and methods for using the same. The systems and methods generally comprise at least one local node comprising a monitoring module, a diagnosis module, and an evaluation module The system receives at least one model update, and analyzes the model update and current models and data present in the local node, and determines if the update should be applied. In some embodiments, a local node can generate a model update for use in other local nodes, while not sharing private data present in the local node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Willie R. Patten, Jr., Eugene I. Kelton, Yi-Hui Ma
  • Publication number: 20210390637
    Abstract: Embodiments include systems and methods for tracking real estate transaction information to maintain a searchable and secure real estate immutable record. A records system receives first real estate property information, identifies a real estate immutable record based on the first real estate property information, updates the real estate immutable record with the first real estate property information, creates a first transaction tag associated with updating the real estate immutable record, and distributes the first transaction tag to a plurality of second computing devices. Embodiments may further include relevance tagging for recalling the real estate immutable record for a cognitive advisor system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Eugene I. Kelton, Willie R. Patten, JR.
  • Patent number: 11188991
    Abstract: Embodiments can provide a computer implemented method for identifying a match between a commercial buyer and a seller for a real estate transaction. The method includes receiving, from the buyer, a service request and receiving, from the buyer, historical information stored in a buyer immutable record. The method also includes receiving one or more real estate requirements and one or more commercial external factors and determining a buyer need profile based on the historical information, the real estate requirements, and the commercial external factors. The method also includes receiving one or more answers in response to one or more first questions raised by the processor, refining the buyer need profile based on the one or more answers, identifying a match between the buyer need profile and a real estate profile from the seller, and providing a ranked list of real estate properties and supporting evidence for each real estate property to the buyer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eugene I. Kelton, Willie R. Patten, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11188320
    Abstract: The present application relates to systems for updating detection models and methods for using the same. The systems and methods generally comprise at least one local node comprising a monitoring module, a diagnosis module, and an evaluation module The system receives at least one model update, and analyzes the model update and current models and data present in the local node, and determines if the update should be applied. In some embodiments, a local node can generate a model update for use in other local nodes, while not sharing private data present in the local node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Willie R. Patten, Jr., Eugene I. Kelton, Yi-Hui Ma
  • Publication number: 20210350487
    Abstract: Computer vision and deep learning techniques are leveraged to detect behavior patterns in transaction histories. A transaction timeline is built for a series of transactions, e.g., financial, and a graphic image is constructed representing the transaction timeline. The graphic image is then matched to a known behavior pattern using a cognitive system. The cognitive system is trained with historical timeline images having associated labels. In one example the graphic image is a bar chart and each financial transaction is represented as a bar in the bar chart having a height proportional to a transaction amount, the bar being located along a time axis of the bar chart according to the transaction date and being color coded according to the transaction type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Eugene I. Kelton, Brandon Harris, Willie R. Patten, JR., Eliza Salkeld, Russell Gregory Lambert, Yi-Hui Ma, Shuyan Lu, Shanna Hayes
  • Patent number: 11157776
    Abstract: A local node for updating detection models while maintaining data privacy has a sharing module configured to receive instructions for calculating at least one general feature from data stored at the first local node, a retraining module configured to retrain the detection model to include a detection component that uses the instructions, a data collection module configured to collect data comprising customer data and transaction data stored at the first local node, and a performance module. The performance module is configured to determine a value for the at least one general feature from the collected data using the instructions, and trigger a suspicious activity alert based on the determined value and the instructions. The customer data and transaction data are indeterminable from the at least one general feature and the determined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Hui Ma, Willie R. Patten, Jr., Eugene I. Kelton
  • Publication number: 20210248700
    Abstract: Embodiments can provide a computer implemented method for identifying a match between a buyer and a seller for a real estate transaction, comprising: receiving, from the seller, a service request; receiving, from the seller, historical information stored in a real estate immutable record; receiving, from the seller, one or more real estate property facts; determining a real estate profile based on the historical information and the one or more real estate property facts; receiving, from the seller, one or more answers in response to one or more first questions raised by the processor; refining the real estate profile based on the one or more answers; identifying a match between an available buyer need profile and the real estate profile from the seller; and providing a ranked list of buyer candidates and supporting evidence for each buyer candidate to the seller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Eugene I. Kelton, Willie R. Patten, JR.
  • Publication number: 20210248699
    Abstract: Embodiments can provide a computer implemented method for identifying a match between a buyer and a seller for a real estate transaction, comprising: receiving, from the buyer, a service request; receiving, from the buyer, historical information stored in a buyer immutable record; receiving, from the buyer, one or more real estate requirements; determining a buyer need profile based on the historical information and the real estate requirements; receiving, from the buyer, one or more answers in response to one or more first questions raised by the processor; refining the buyer need profile based on the one or more answers; identifying a match between the buyer need profile and an available real estate profile from the seller; and providing a ranked list of real estate properties and supporting evidence for each real estate property to the buyer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Eugene I. Kelton, Willie R. Patten, JR.