Patents by Inventor Jennifer Lynn La Rocca

Jennifer Lynn La Rocca 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: 11481561
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include determining, by a processor, an ontology, the ontology comprising a plurality of ontological relationships, receiving, by the processor, a plurality of passages, determining, by the processor, a target set of co-occurring entities comprising a first entity and a second entity, determining a first passage in the plurality of passages that includes the first entity and the second entity, determining, from the ontology, a first ontological relationship between the first entity and the second entity, analyzing the first passage to determine a congruency score for the first ontological relationship, and generating a relationship annotation between the first entity and the second entity in the first passages based on the congruency score being within a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott Carrier, Jennifer Lynn La Rocca, Rebecca Lynn Dahlman, Mario J. Lorenzo
  • Patent number: 11416686
    Abstract: Techniques for natural language processing based on user context include identifying a context of a user and responsive to receiving a request from the user intended for processing by a natural language processing (NLP) model, accounting for the context of the user in relation to the request. A result from the NLP model having accounted for the context of the user is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kristin E. McNeil, Mario J. Lorenzo, Jennifer Lynn La Rocca, Debra L. Angst, Rebecca Lynn Dahlman
  • Patent number: 11270065
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, system and computer program products for extracting attributes from embedded table structures in a document. Aspects include identifying a table in the document and identifying one or more headers of the table by locating co-occurring attributes in the table. Aspects also include identifying a plurality of values in the table and creating an annotation for each of the plurality of values value in the table, wherein each annotation includes text extracted from the one or more headers that correspond to the location of the value in the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Debra L. Angst, Jennifer Lynn La Rocca, Kristin E. Mcneil, Mario J. Lorenzo, Rebecca Lynn Dahlman
  • Publication number: 20220043980
    Abstract: Techniques for natural language processing based on user context include identifying a context of a user and responsive to receiving a request from the user intended for processing by a natural language processing (NLP) model, accounting for the context of the user in relation to the request. A result from the NLP model having accounted for the context of the user is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Kristin E. McNeil, Mario J. Lorenzo, Jennifer Lynn La Rocca, Debra L. Angst, Rebecca Lynn Dahlman
  • Publication number: 20220036009
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include determining, by a processor, an ontology, the ontology comprising a plurality of ontological relationships, receiving, by the processor, a plurality of passages, determining, by the processor, a target set of co-occurring entities comprising a first entity and a second entity, determining a first passage in the plurality of passages that includes the first entity and the second entity, determining, from the ontology, a first ontological relationship between the first entity and the second entity, analyzing the first passage to determine a congruency score for the first ontological relationship, and generating a relationship annotation between the first entity and the second entity in the first passages based on the congruency score being within a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Scott Carrier, Jennifer Lynn La Rocca, Rebecca Lynn Dahlman, Mario J. Lorenzo
  • Publication number: 20220036000
    Abstract: Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes performing a text analysis on unstructured text to identify a restriction associated with a subject. The method further includes identifying an environmental requirement associated with the subject based at least in part on the restriction. The method further includes identifying one or more devices associated with the subject based at least in part on the environmental requirement. The method further includes receiving data from the one or more devices. The method further includes determining device usage information based at least in part on the data. The method further includes determining a compliance of the subject to the restriction based at least in part on the device usage information. The method further includes, responsive to determining non-compliance of the subject, changing a function of the one or more devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jennifer Lynn La Rocca, Rebecca Lynn Dahlman, Kristin E. McNeil, Debra L. Angst, Mario J. Lorenzo
  • Publication number: 20210192133
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for auto-suggestion of expanded terms for concepts are provided. Aspects include analyzing, by a cognitive model, a seed dictionary to determine one or more concepts associated with the seed dictionary, determining a target ontology, analyzing, by the cognitive model, the target ontology to determine one or more expanded terms for each concept of the one or more concepts, determining, by the cognitive model, a confidence score for each of the one or more expanded terms, and updating the seed dictionary by associating the one or more expanded terms with a corresponding concept from the one or more concepts based at least in part on the confidence score exceeding a first threshold confidence score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Jennifer Lynn La Rocca, Mario J. Lorenzo, Rebecca Lynn Dahlman, Kristin E. McNeil
  • Patent number: 11036939
    Abstract: An artifact identification engine identifies artifacts from structured and unstructured data in one or more documents based on pre-defined artifacts, by using cognitive annotations. The identified artifacts are analyzed based at least on received inputs. A cartridge that includes artifacts that are relevant to the structured and unstructured data is generated, based on the analyzing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mario J. Lorenzo, Jennifer Lynn La Rocca, Rebecca Lynn Dahlman, Kristin E. McNeil
  • Publication number: 20210117812
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for cognitive model modification are provided. Aspects include receiving a plurality of documents, receiving a cognitive model, identifying a set of cognitive model modification based on an alteration to the cognitive model, and for each cognitive model modification in the set of cognitive model modifications determining an updated concept or surface form based on each cognitive model modification, identifying one or more documents from the plurality of documents based on the updated concept or surface form, adding the one or more documents to a subset of documents, and generating an updated cognitive model based on one or more text analytics performed, by the cognitive model, on the subset of documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Mario J. Lorenzo, Rebecca Lynn Dahlman, Jennifer Lynn La Rocca, Debra L. Angst, Kristin E. McNeil
  • Publication number: 20210073325
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, system and computer program products for extracting attributes from embedded table structures in a document. Aspects include identifying a table in the document and identifying one or more headers of the table by locating co-occurring attributes in the table. Aspects also include identifying a plurality of values in the table and creating an annotation for each of the plurality of values value in the table, wherein each annotation includes text extracted from the one or more headers that correspond to the location of the value in the table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: DEBRA L. ANGST, JENNIFER LYNN LA ROCCA, KRISTIN E. MCNEIL, MARIO J. LORENZO, REBECCA LYNN DAHLMAN
  • Publication number: 20200327195
    Abstract: An artifact identification engine identifies artifacts from structured and unstructured data in one or more documents based on pre-defined artifacts, by using cognitive annotations. The identified artifacts are analyzed based at least on received inputs. A cartridge that includes artifacts that are relevant to the structured and unstructured data is generated, based on the analyzing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Mario J. Lorenzo, Jennifer Lynn La Rocca, Rebecca Lynn Dahlman, Kristin E. McNeil
  • Patent number: 7890758
    Abstract: A global key control mechanism provides a single point of overall control for key generation, but portions of the key generation and/or allocation tasks may be delegated to client computer systems, thereby reducing network traffic. The global key control mechanism may download a client key generation mechanism on one or more client computer systems, and may allocate a block of keys to the client key generation mechanism. Requests for keys may then be routed to the client key generation mechanism, which can generate and/or allocate keys within the block of keys that the global key control mechanism allocated to it. When the block of keys is used up, the client key generation mechanism may request another block from the global key control mechanism. The preferred embodiments also include the capability of downloading a client key generation mechanism with an associated block of keys once the requests from one or more client applications exceed a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Dean Dettinger, Jennifer Lynn La Rocca, Richard Joseph Stevens
  • Patent number: 7213014
    Abstract: A database operation mechanism includes the capability of specifying a predefined database operation as a source of data for a different database operation. When the different database operation needs to be performed, the database operation mechanism determines whether the different database operation can use a predefined database operation as a data source. If so, the predefined database operation is specified as the source of data for the different database operation. If the different database operation cannot use a predefined database operation as a data source, the database operation mechanism determines whether the different database operation can use a modified form of a predefined database operation as a data source. If so, the different database operation may use the modified predefined database operation as a source of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Dean Dettinger, Jennifer Lynn La Rocca, Rick Joseph Stevens
  • Publication number: 20040190724
    Abstract: A global key control mechanism provides a single point of overall control for key generation, but portions of the key generation and/or allocation tasks may be delegated to client computer systems, thereby reducing network traffic. The global key control mechanism may download a client key generation mechanism on one or more client computer systems, and may allocate a block of keys to the client key generation mechanism. Requests for keys may then be routed to the client key generation mechanism, which can generate and/or allocate keys within the block of keys that the global key control mechanism allocated to it. When the block of keys is used up, the client key generation mechanism may request another block from the global key control mechanism. The preferred embodiments also include the capability of downloading a client key generation mechanism with an associated block of keys once the requests from one or more client applications exceed a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Dean Dettinger, Jennifer Lynn La Rocca, Richard Joseph Stevens
  • Publication number: 20040193567
    Abstract: A database operation mechanism includes the capability of specifying a predefined database operation as a source of data for a different database operation. When the different database operation needs to be performed, the database operation mechanism determines whether the different database operation can use a predefined database operation as a data source. If so, the predefined database operation is specified as the source of data for the different database operation. If the different database operation cannot use a predefined database operation as a data source, the database operation mechanism determines whether the different database operation can use a modified form of a predefined database operation as a data source. If so, the different database operation may use the modified predefined database operation as a source of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Dean Dettinger, Jennifer Lynn La Rocca, Rick Joseph Stevens