Patents by Inventor Joel C. Dubbels

Joel C. Dubbels 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: 11074262
    Abstract: Computer based methods, systems, and computer readable media for classifying documents within a content repository or documents within the document subsets are provided. Documents may be pre-processed to render document sections visible to machine readers. Document subsets may be generated based on user-defined terms. The machine readable documents may be classified within the content repository into one of a group of categories, based-upon the number of times classification terms appear in a specific document section of the document. Documents may be ranked based upon the frequency of classification terms in the specific section. Documents may be associated with specific diseases such as cancer, genes, gene variants, and drugs or synonyms thereof by comparing relevant search terms to specific sections of the documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Cheryl Eifert, Joel C. Dubbels, Jeffrey Bernard Nowicki, Claudia S. Huettner, Jia Xu, Fang Wang, Kirk A. Beaty, Vanessa Michelini, Marta Sanchez-Martin
  • Publication number: 20200175020
    Abstract: Computer based methods, systems, and computer readable media for classifying documents within a content repository or documents within the document subsets are provided. Documents may be pre-processed to render document sections visible to machine readers. Document subsets may be generated based on user-defined terms. The machine readable documents may be classified within the content repository into one of a group of categories, based-upon the number of times classification terms appear in a specific document section of the document. Documents may be ranked based upon the frequency of classification terms in the specific section. Documents may be associated with specific diseases such as cancer, genes, gene variants, and drugs or synonyms thereof by comparing relevant search terms to specific sections of the documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Cheryl Lynne Eifert, Joel C. Dubbels, Jeffrey Bernard Nowicki, Claudia S. Huettner, Jia Xu, Fang Wang, Kirk Alan Beaty, Vanessa Michelini
  • Patent number: 10558684
    Abstract: Auditing database access in a distributed medical computing environment may include receiving from a user a query of one or more databases within the distributed medical administration computing environment; determining by an audit manager in dependence upon audit policies for the medical computing environment whether any of the results of the query require auditing access; and if any of the results of the query require auditing access, creating an audit record and storing the audit record in an audit database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joel C. Dubbels, Janice R. Glowacki, Richard J. Stevens
  • Patent number: 10394863
    Abstract: In some NLP systems, queries are compared to different data sources stored in a corpus to provide an answer to the query. However, the best data sources for answering the query may not currently be contained within the corpus or the data sources in the corpus may contain stale data that provides an inaccurate answer. When receiving a query, the NLP system may evaluate the query to identify a data source that is likely to contain an answer to the query. If the data source is not currently contained within the corpus, the NLP system may ingest the data source. If the data source is already within the corpus, however, the NLP may determine a time-sensitivity value associated with at least some portion of the query. This value may then be used to determine whether the data source should be re-ingested—e.g., the information contained in the corpus is stale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Joel C. Dubbels, Jeffrey K. Huebert, John E. Petri
  • Patent number: 10387468
    Abstract: In some NLP systems, queries are compared to different data sources stored in a corpus to provide an answer to the query. However, the best data sources for answering the query may not currently be contained within the corpus or the data sources in the corpus may contain stale data that provides an inaccurate answer. When receiving a query, the NLP system may evaluate the query to identify a data source that is likely to contain an answer to the query. If the data source is not currently contained within the corpus, the NLP system may ingest the data source. If the data source is already within the corpus, however, the NLP may determine a time-sensitivity value associated with at least some portion of the query. This value may then be used to determine whether the data source should be re-ingested—e.g., the information contained in the corpus is stale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Joel C. Dubbels, Jeffrey K. Huebert, John E. Petri
  • Publication number: 20190197062
    Abstract: Corpus-scoped annotation and analysis. Enrichment analysis data is generated including annotations and metadata for a plurality of documents that are part of a corpus. Whether to generate a second set of annotations is determined, based on a correlation of the annotations and metadata. A relational database is populated with the enrichment analysis data. A corpus-scoped query is resolved, initiated by an application, using the enrichment analysis data and content of the corpus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: JOEL C. DUBBELS, MARK G. MEGERIAN, WILLIAM C. RAPP
  • Publication number: 20190197061
    Abstract: Corpus-scoped annotation and analysis. Enrichment analysis data is generated including annotations and metadata for a plurality of documents that are part of a corpus. Whether to generate a second set of annotations is determined, based on a correlation of the annotations and metadata. A relational database is populated with the enrichment analysis data. A corpus-scoped query is resolved, initiated by an application, using the enrichment analysis data and content of the corpus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: JOEL C. DUBBELS, MARK G. MEGERIAN, WILLIAM C. RAPP
  • Patent number: 10268688
    Abstract: Corpus-scoped annotation and analysis. Enrichment analysis data is generated including annotations and metadata for a plurality of documents that are part of a corpus. Whether to generate a second set of annotations is determined, based on a correlation of the annotations and metadata. A relational database is populated with the enrichment analysis data. A corpus-scoped query is resolved, initiated by an application, using the enrichment analysis data and content of the corpus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joel C. Dubbels, Mark G. Megerian, William C. Rapp
  • Patent number: 10127201
    Abstract: Embodiments presented herein disclose techniques for transforming input documents having disparate formats into a normalized format (e.g., Atom, RSS, HTML, customized XML, etc.). According to one embodiment, a plurality of fields is identified in an input document that has a given format. Each field includes a descriptor and text content associated with the descriptor. For each field, semantic properties are evaluated for the descriptor and text content against a plurality of mapping rules to determine whether the field is consistent with one of a plurality of fields of a target format. Each mapping rule specifies characteristics associated with one of the fields in the target format. Once so determined, a mapping from the first field to the second field is defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Elizabeth T. Dettman, Joel C. Dubbels, Andrew R. Freed, Michael T. Payne, Michael W. Schroeder
  • Publication number: 20180322119
    Abstract: Corpus-scoped annotation and analysis. Enrichment analysis data is generated including annotations and metadata for a plurality of documents that are part of a corpus. Whether to generate a second set of annotations is determined, based on a correlation of the annotations and metadata. A relational database is populated with the enrichment analysis data. A corpus-scoped query is resolved, initiated by an application, using the enrichment analysis data and content of the corpus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: JOEL C. DUBBELS, MARK G. MEGERIAN, WILLIAM C. RAPP
  • Patent number: 10120844
    Abstract: Embodiments presented herein disclose techniques for transforming input documents having disparate formats into a normalized format (e.g., Atom, RSS, HTML, customized XML, etc.). According to one embodiment, a plurality of fields is identified in an input document that has a given format. Each field includes a descriptor and text content associated with the descriptor. For each field, semantic properties are evaluated for the descriptor and text content against a plurality of mapping rules to determine whether the field is consistent with one of a plurality of fields of a target format. Each mapping rule specifies characteristics associated with one of the fields in the target format. Once so determined, a mapping from the first field to the second field is defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Elizabeth T. Dettman, Joel C. Dubbels, Andrew R. Freed, Michael T. Payne, Michael W. Schroeder
  • Patent number: 10055410
    Abstract: Corpus-scoped annotation and analysis. Enrichment analysis data is generated including annotations and metadata for a plurality of documents that are part of a corpus. Whether to generate a second set of annotations is determined, based on a correlation of the annotations and metadata. A relational database is populated with the enrichment analysis data. A corpus-scoped query is resolved, initiated by an application, using the enrichment analysis data and content of the corpus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joel C. Dubbels, Mark G. Megerian, William C. Rapp
  • Publication number: 20180046651
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for auditing database access in a distributed medical computing environment including receiving from a user a query of one or more databases within the distributed medical administration computing environment; determining by an audit manager in dependence upon audit policies for the medical computing environment whether any of the results of the query require auditing access; and if any of the results of the query require auditing access, creating an audit record and storing the audit record in an audit database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: JOEL C. DUBBELS, JANICE R. GLOWACKI, RICHARD J. STEVENS
  • Patent number: 9836485
    Abstract: Auditing database access in a distributed medical computing environment includes receiving from a user a query of one or more databases within the distributed medical administration computing environment; determining by an audit manager in dependence upon audit policies for the medical computing environment whether any of the results of the query require auditing access; and if any of the results of the query require auditing access, creating an audit record and storing the audit record in an audit database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joel C. Dubbels, Janice R. Glowacki, Richard J. Stevens
  • Patent number: 9817850
    Abstract: Auditing database access in a distributed medical computing environment includes receiving from a user a query of one or more databases within the distributed medical administration computing environment; determining by an audit manager in dependence upon audit policies for the medical computing environment whether any of the results of the query require auditing access; and if any of the results of the query require auditing access, creating an audit record and storing the audit record in an audit database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joel C. Dubbels, Janice R. Glowacki, Richard J. Stevens
  • Patent number: 9779376
    Abstract: Dynamically allocating business workflows, each workflow comprising a reusable component of a business transaction, including: receiving, by a workflow orchestrator, a request for a business transaction; determining, by the workflow orchestrator, a desired result for the business transaction in dependence upon the request; selecting, by the workflow orchestrator, one or more workflows from a set of available workflows in dependence upon the request and the desired result; determining an execution order for the one or more workflows; and executing, by the workflow orchestrator, the one or more selected workflows in the execution order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joel C. Dubbels, Richard J. Stevens
  • Patent number: 9773044
    Abstract: Method, system, and computer program product to analyze a plurality of candidate answers identified as responsive to a question presented to a deep question answering system, by computing a first feature score for a first feature of an item of evidence, of a plurality of items of evidence, the first feature score being based on at least one attribute of the first feature, the item of evidence relating to a first candidate answer, of the plurality of candidate answers, and computing a merged feature score for the first candidate answer by applying the first feature score to a second feature score for a second feature of the item of evidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joel C. Dubbels, Thomas J. Eggebraaten, Mark G. Megerian, William C. Rapp, Richard J. Stevens, Patrick M. Wildt, Eric W. Will
  • Patent number: 9753986
    Abstract: Method, system, and computer program product to analyze a plurality of candidate answers identified as responsive to a question presented to a deep question answering system, by computing a first feature score for a first feature of an item of evidence, of a plurality of items of evidence, the first feature score being based on at least one attribute of the first feature, the item of evidence relating to a first candidate answer, of the plurality of candidate answers, and computing a merged feature score for the first candidate answer by applying the first feature score to a second feature score for a second feature of the item of evidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joel C. Dubbels, Thomas J. Eggebraaten, Mark G. Megerian, William C. Rapp, Richard J. Stevens, Patrick M. Wildt, Eric W. Will
  • Patent number: 9734476
    Abstract: Dynamically allocating business workflows, each workflow comprising a reusable component of a business transaction, including: receiving, by a workflow orchestrator, a request for a business transaction; determining, by the workflow orchestrator, a desired result for the business transaction in dependence upon the request; selecting, by the workflow orchestrator, one or more workflows from a set of available workflows in dependence upon the request and the desired result; determining an execution order for the one or more workflows; and executing, by the workflow orchestrator, the one or more selected workflows in the execution order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joel C. Dubbels, Richard J. Stevens
  • Patent number: 9703536
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided, in a Question and Answer (QA) system comprising a processor and a memory, for debugging code. An input question identifying an error during execution of code is processed by the QA system using a corpus corresponding to a software product associated with the code, thereby generating a first candidate answer set. The QA system processes the input question using a code change record repository identifying changes to the code performed over time to generate a second candidate answer set. The QA system generates a final answer to the input question based on the first and second candidate answer sets and outputs the final answer to the input question. The final answer to the input question identifies at least one of a source, in the code, of the error or a solution to resolving the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Elizabeth T. Dettman, Joel C. Dubbels, Andrew R. Freed, Michael W. Schroeder