Patents by Inventor Gayle C. Thiel

Gayle C. Thiel 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).

  • In-context cognitive information assistant
    Patent number: 11586818
    Abstract: An in-context cognitive information assistant is provided by: obtaining a context for a user, wherein the context comprises a calendar activity with one or more other users; supplementing the context by obtaining one or more conversations with the user related to the context; extracting cognitive data for the context and the conversations; and finding relevant materials in a corpus using the cognitive data. The relevant materials are used to prepare the user for interactions with other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan F. Brunn, Patrick M. Commarford, Stephen J. Foley, John Girata, Jr., Kelley M. Gordon, Sarah B. Lips, Gayle C. Thiel
  • IN-CONTEXT COGNITIVE INFORMATION ASSISTANT
    Publication number: 20200073934
    Abstract: An in-context cognitive information assistant is provided by: obtaining a context for a user, wherein the context comprises a calendar activity with one or more other users; supplementing the context by obtaining one or more conversations with the user related to the context; extracting cognitive data for the context and the conversations; and finding relevant materials in a corpus using the cognitive data. The relevant materials are used to prepare the user for interactions with other users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Jonathan F. Brunn, Patrick M. Commarford, Stephen J. Foley, John Girata, JR., Kelley M. Gordon, Sarah B. Lips, Gayle C. Thiel