Patents by Inventor Hongfei Li
Hongfei Li 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: 20150081483Abstract: Embodiments relate to intraday cash flow optimization. Transactions are accessed on a business-to-business integration network from a plurality of sources linked with payment delivery system data from a financial service system. The transactions are associated with two or more compartmentalized entities. The transactions are characterizes based on the payment delivery system data and an analysis of customer profile data. The transactions associated with two or more compartmentalized entities are linked as integrated information based on the characterizing of the transactions. An intraday receivables prediction engine and an intraday payables prediction engine are applied to the integrated information to produce an estimation of intraday cash flow. The estimation of intraday cash flow is monitored relative to intraday operations optimization conditions. An alert is generated based on determining that at least one of the intraday operations optimization conditions is met.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: JoAnn P. Brereton, Arun Hampapur, Hongfei Li, Robin Lougee, Buyue Qian
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Publication number: 20150081564Abstract: Embodiments relate to privacy preserving content analysis. A recoverable hash operation is performed on text information to produce hashed text information in a business-to-business system. The business-to-business system includes a business-to-business transaction gateway coupled to a plurality of enterprise computer systems. A non-recoverable hash operation is performed on numerical information to produce hashed numerical information in the business-to-business system. The hashed text information and the hashed numerical information are provided from the business-to-business transaction gateway to an analytics engine to perform encrypted content analysis. The text information and the numerical information are provided from one of the enterprise computer systems as a producer system to another of the enterprise computer systems as a consumer system through the business-to-business transaction gateway.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: JoAnn P. Brereton, Arun Hampapur, Hongfei Li, Robin Lougee, Buyue Qian
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Publication number: 20150081481Abstract: Embodiments relate to analytics-driven automated reconciliation of financial transactions. External information is correlated with a plurality of financial transaction reconciliation exceptions associated with a sequence of financial transactions over a period of time. A plurality of causal factors is identified from the external information associated with a pattern of the financial transaction reconciliation exceptions. A plurality of more recent financial transactions is monitored for the causal factors. An exception prediction alert is issued based on identifying the causal factors in the more recent financial transactions prior to detecting a new financial transaction reconciliation exception associated with the more recent financial transactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: JoAnn P. Brereton, Arun Hampapur, Hongfei Li, Robin Lougee, Buyue Qian
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Publication number: 20150081523Abstract: Embodiments relate to analytics driven assessment of transactional risk daily limits (TRDLs). Customer data that includes historical transaction data and customer profile data associated with a customer is accessed by a processor. Economic data from an external data source is accessed via a network. A TRDL assessment model is applied, by a processor, to the customer data and the economic data to generate a TRDL for the customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: JoAnn P. Brereton, Arun Hampapur, Hongfei Li, Robin Lougee, Buyue Qian
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Publication number: 20150081543Abstract: Embodiments relate to analytics driven assessment of transactional risk daily limit (TRDL) exceptions. A transaction that includes a request to make a payment from an account associated with a customer is received and it is determined that processing the payment will result in exceeding a TRDL. Customer data including historical transaction data and customer profile data associated with the customer is accessed by a processor. Economic data from an external data source is accessed via a network from an external data source. A TRDL exception assessment model is applied, by the processor, to the transaction, the customer data, and the economic data to generate an approval recommendation for the request and a confidence level associated with the approval recommendation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: JoAnn P. Brereton, Arun Hampapur, Hongfei Li, Robin Lougee, Buyue Qian
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Publication number: 20150081391Abstract: An aspect of product recommendation processes includes classifying customers into groups based on commonly shared, predefined characteristics and common financial transaction activities conducted. For each service offered, the product recommendation processes include estimating a cost of recommendation of the service; and estimating, for each of the customers in a group, a transaction risk of providing the service.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: JoAnn P. Brereton, Arun Hampapur, Hongfei Li, Robin Lougee, Buyue Qian
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Publication number: 20150081492Abstract: Embodiments relate to a transactional risk daily limit (TRDL) update alarm. Customer data including historical transaction data and customer profile data is accessed, along with economic data from an external data source. A TRDL alarm analytics model is applied to the customer data and the economic data to predict a number of transactions in a specified time period that are expected to exceed a TRDL. The TRDL alarm analytics model takes into account a payment transaction pattern associated with the customer. A threshold value is compared to the number of transactions in the specified time period that are expected to exceed the TRDL. An increase in the TRDL is requested to be applied at least during the specified time period based on the number of transactions in the specified time period that are expected to exceed the TRDL being greater than the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: JoAnn P. Brereton, Arun Hampapur, Hongfei Li, Robin Lougee, Buyue Qian
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Publication number: 20150081491Abstract: Embodiments relate to intraday cash flow optimization. Transactions are accessed on a business-to-business integration network from a plurality of sources linked with payment delivery system data from a financial service system. The transactions are associated with two or more compartmentalized entities. The transactions are characterizes based on the payment delivery system data and an analysis of customer profile data. The transactions associated with two or more compartmentalized entities are linked as integrated information based on the characterizing of the transactions. An intraday receivables prediction engine and an intraday payables prediction engine are applied to the integrated information to produce an estimation of intraday cash flow. The estimation of intraday cash flow is monitored relative to intraday operations optimization conditions. An alert is generated based on determining that at least one of the intraday operations optimization conditions is met.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: JoAnn P. Brereton, Arun Hampapur, Hongfei Li, Robin Lougee, Buyue Qian
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Publication number: 20150015717Abstract: A method of providing video feeds from a plurality of cameras to a plurality of screens including determining a plurality of constraints on a centralized processor processing the video feeds, determining a camera semantic classification for each of the plurality of cameras, determining historical events captured by each of the plurality of cameras, and providing at least one video feed to at least one of the screens according to the plurality of constraints on the centralized processor, the camera semantic classifications and the historical events.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: WEI SHAN DONG, NING DUAN, ARUN HAMPAPUR, KE HU, HONGFEI LI, LI LI, WEI SUN
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Publication number: 20140365422Abstract: A method for maintaining an asset. The method receives data associated with an one asset and other assets to which the one asset is directly or indirectly physically connected. The method determines, based on the received data, a dependency between the one asset and one or more of the other assets. The method predicts, based on the determined dependency, a failure of the one asset within a future time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2013Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Arun Hampapur, Hongfei Li, Yada Zhu
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Publication number: 20140365269Abstract: There are provided a method, a system and a computer program product for maintaining an asset. The system receives data associated with an one asset and other assets to which the one asset is directly or indirectly physically connected. The system determines, based on the received data, a dependency between the one asset and one or more of the other assets. The system predicts, based on the determined dependency, a failure of the one asset within a future time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2013Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Arun Hampapur, Hongfei Li, Yada Zhu
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Publication number: 20140281713Abstract: A hierarchical multi-stage model of asset failure risk for complex heterogeneously distributed physical assets is built. The hierarchical multi-stage model considers heterogeneity of failure patterns for the assets. At least one data stream is analyzed to determine whether the hierarchical multi-stage model needs to be updated due to a change in the failure patterns. If the analysis indicates that the hierarchical multi-stage model needs to be updated, the hierarchical multi-stage model is dynamically updated to obtain an updated hierarchical multi-stage model.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Arun Hampapur, Hongfei Li, Zhiguo Li, Yada Zhu
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Publication number: 20140257740Abstract: Techniques for real-time modeling temperature distributions based on streaming sensor data are provided. In one aspect, a method for creating a three-dimensional temperature distribution model for a room having a floor and a ceiling is provided. The method includes the following steps. A ceiling temperature distribution in the room is determined. A floor temperature distribution in the room is determined. An interpolation between the ceiling temperature distribution and the floor temperature distribution is used to obtain the three-dimensional temperature distribution model for the room.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2013Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hendrik F. Hamann, Hongfei Li, Srinivas Yarlanki
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Patent number: 8819065Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for mining a rule including spatial information and non-spatial information by using a SAR (Spatial Association Rule) mining tool. The computing system is configured to construct an expanded spatial predicate transaction table for reference spatial objects and a generalized taxonomy for task-relevant spatial objects. The computing system is configured to run the SAR mining tool with the constructed expanded spatial predicate transaction and the generalized taxonomy. The computing system outputs, from the SAR mining tool, a set of generalized spatial association rules for the reference spatial objects. The generalized spatial association rule includes the spatial information and non-spatial information, associated with both the reference spatial objects and the task-relevant spatial objects.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Wei Shan Dong, Arun Hampapur, Zhong Bo Jiang, Hongfei Li, Xuan Liu, Wei Sun
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Publication number: 20140236650Abstract: An approach for infrastructure asset management is provided. This approach comprises an end-to-end analytics driven maintenance approach that can take data about physical assets and additional external data, and apply advanced analytics to the data to generate business insight, foresight and planning information. Specifically, this approach uses a maintenance analysis tool, which is configured to: receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure, and analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. The maintenance analysis tool further comprises an output component configured to generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Davenport, Wei Shan Dong, Frank D. Fenhagen, IV, Arun Hampapur, Zhong Bo Jiang, Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Hongfei Li, Shilpa N. Mahatma, Wei Sun, Lexing Xie
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Publication number: 20140200951Abstract: An aspect of scalable rule logicalization for asset health management includes aggregating data, via a computer processing device, from data sources, extracting a set of features from the data, projecting the features to a lower dimensional space, generating a prediction based on the projecting, logicalizing a decision boundary for the prediction, and estimating a confidence level of the prediction based on the decision boundary.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Arun Hampapur, Hongfei Li, Dhaivat P. Parikh, Buyue Qian
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Publication number: 20140200872Abstract: An aspect of an online learning system includes collecting data, via a computer processing device, from a plurality of data sources including multiple disparate detectors, the data including at least one of historical alarm data, failures, maintenance records, and environment observations. The data is stored in tables each corresponding to a subject of measurement. The online learning system also includes identifying common fields shared across the tables, merging at least a portion of the data across the tables having the common fields, and creating an integrated data model based on results of the merging.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Dongping Fang, Arun Hampapur, Qing He, Hongfei Li, Zhiguo Li, Dhaivat P. Parikh, Buyue Qian
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Publication number: 20140200870Abstract: Predicting operational changes in a multi-detector environment includes generating, via a computer processing device, a factor matrix for each univariate time series data in a set of sparse time series data collected from data sources, identifying a subset of the time series data as a feature selection based on application of a loss function, and generating a predictive model from the subset of the time series data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Arun Hampapur, Qing He, Hongfei Li, Zhiguo Li, Dhaivat P. Parikh
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Publication number: 20140200828Abstract: Geo-defect repair modeling with location uncertainty is provided. A method includes logically dividing a railroad network into segments each of a specified length. The method also includes identifying, via a computer processor, geo-defects and approximated locations of the geo-defects occurring at each inspection run for each of the segments. The method also includes calculating, via the computer processor, a rate of increase in amplitude of each of the geo-defects for each of the segments between inspection runs, determining a correlation of the geo-defects between the inspection runs as a function of the approximated locations, and predicting a deterioration rate for each of the geo-defects based on the calculating.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Inventors: Arun Hampapur, Hongfei Li, Dhaivat P. Parikh
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Publication number: 20140200829Abstract: Geo-defect repair modeling with location uncertainty is provided. A method includes logically dividing a railroad network into segments each of a specified length. The method also includes identifying, via a computer processor, geo-defects and approximated locations of the geo-defects occurring at each inspection run for each of the segments. The method also includes calculating, via the computer processor, a rate of increase in amplitude of each of the geo-defects for each of the segments between inspection runs, determining a correlation of the geo-defects between the inspection runs as a function of the approximated locations, and predicting a deterioration rate for each of the geo-defects based on the calculating.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Arun Hampapur, Hongfei Li, Dhaivat P. Parikh