Patents by Inventor John A. Riendeau
John A. Riendeau 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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Patent number: 11762667Abstract: A method for adjusting device system settings in response to analysis of displayed content. In some embodiments, a processor may extract content from contents displayed on a screen of a device. The processor may analyze features of the content. The processor may classify the content as belonging to a content class, based on analysis of the content features, utilizing a machine learning model. The processor may update the device system settings based on the content class.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: John A Riendeau, Charles E. Beller, Edward Graham Katz, Sean Thomas Thatcher
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Patent number: 11720554Abstract: An embodiment for expanding a search query is provided. The embodiment may include receiving a stopping criterion for stopping a search. The embodiment may also include receiving an initial search query. The embodiment may further include submitting the initial search query to an information retrieval system. The embodiment may also include identifying enrichment terms from the retrieved initial set of documents. The embodiment may further include generating a subsequent search query that includes one or more enrichment terms from the retrieved initial set of documents. The embodiment may also include submitting the subsequent search query to the information retrieval system. The embodiment may further include determining whether the stopping criterion is met, and in response to determining the stopping criterion is not met, iterating identifying, generating, submitting steps until the stopping criterion is met.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sean Thomas Thatcher, Edward Graham Katz, Charles E. Beller, John A. Riendeau, Kristen Maria Summers
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Patent number: 11625630Abstract: A system, computer program product, and method are provided for use with an intelligent computer platform to identify intent and convert the intent to one or more physical actions. The aspect of converting intent includes receiving content, identifying potential variants, and statistically analyzing the variants with a confidence assessment. The variants are sorted based on a protocol associated with the confidence assessment. A variant from the sort is selected and applied to a physical device, which performs a physical action and an associated hardware transformation based on the variant.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Edward G. Katz, John Riendeau, Sean T. Thatcher, Alexander C. Tonetti
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Patent number: 11531708Abstract: A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for answering general background questions on a topic from documents with glossary sections, A set of documents with glossaries is received from which a set of terms and associated glossary entries are extracted, where each term has a corresponding glossary entry. Association is performed of related glossary entries. The associations is based on a similarity algorithm to form glossary clusters where each glossary cluster refers to one or more glossary entries. A query with query terms tailored to general information is received. The glossary clusters are ranked relevance to the query terms to form a ranked set. A set of glossary clusters meeting a high ranked threshold is selected and provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Charles E. Beller, Edward Graham Katz, John A Riendeau, Sean Thomas Thatcher
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Patent number: 11443208Abstract: Embodiments are provided that relate to a computer system, a computer program product, and a machine-implemented method for assessing a statement by an entity to a recipient group, particularly in a social media environment, for an inconsistency with a previous (historical) statement to the same recipient group, and notifying the entity of the inconsistency. In certain embodiments, an alternative statement is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sean Thomas Thatcher, Edward Graham Katz, Charles E. Beller, John A. Riendeau
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Publication number: 20220215018Abstract: An embodiment for expanding a search query is provided. The embodiment may include receiving a stopping criterion for stopping a search. The embodiment may also include receiving an initial search query. The embodiment may further include submitting the initial search query to an information retrieval system. The embodiment may also include identifying enrichment terms from the retrieved initial set of documents. The embodiment may further include generating a subsequent search query that includes one or more enrichment terms from the retrieved initial set of documents. The embodiment may also include submitting the subsequent search query to the information retrieval system. The embodiment may further include determining whether the stopping criterion is met, and in response to determining the stopping criterion is not met, iterating identifying, generating, submitting steps until the stopping criterion is met.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2021Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Sean Thomas Thatcher, Edward Graham Katz, Charles E. Beller, John A. Riendeau, Kristen Maria Summers
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Publication number: 20220197672Abstract: A method for adjusting device system settings in response to analysis of displayed content. In some embodiments, a processor may extract content from contents displayed on a screen of a device. The processor may analyze features of the content. The processor may classify the content as belonging to a content class, based on analysis of the content features, utilizing a machine learning model. The processor may update the device system settings based on the content class.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: JOHN A RIENDEAU, Charles E. Beller, Edward Graham KATZ, Sean Thomas Thatcher
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Publication number: 20210382946Abstract: A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for answering general background questions on a topic from documents with glossary sections, A set of documents with glossaries is received from which a set of terms and associated glossary entries are extracted, where each term has a corresponding glossary entry. Association is performed of related glossary entries. The associations is based on a similarity algorithm to form glossary clusters where each glossary cluster refers to one or more glossary entries. A query with query terms tailored to general information is received. The glossary clusters are ranked relevance to the query terms to form a ranked set. A set of glossary clusters meeting a high ranked threshold is selected and provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2020Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Charles E. Beller, Edward Graham Katz, John A. Riendeau, Sean Thomas Thatcher
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Patent number: 11151202Abstract: A system and a computer program product are provided for evaluating question-answer pairs in an answer key by generating a predicted answer to a test question based on the answer key modification history for comparison matching against a generated answer that is generated in response to the test question, and then comparing the predicted answer and generated answer to determine an accuracy score match indication therebetween so as to present an indication that the answer key may have a problem if there is a match between the predicted answer and generated answer.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Edward G. Katz, John A. Riendeau, Sean T. Thatcher, Alexander C. Tonetti
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Patent number: 11144602Abstract: A system and a computer program product are provided for evaluating question-answer pairs in an answer key by generating a predicted answer to a test question based on the answer key modification history for comparison matching against a generated answer that is generated in response to the test question, and then comparing the predicted answer and generated answer to determine an accuracy score match indication therebetween so as to present an indication that the answer key may have a problem if there is a match between the predicted answer and generated answer.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Edward G. Katz, John A. Riendeau, Sean T. Thatcher, Alexander C. Tonetti
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Publication number: 20210295178Abstract: Embodiments are provided that relate to a computer system, a computer program product, and a machine-implemented method for assessing a statement by an entity to a recipient group, particularly in a social media environment, for an inconsistency with a previous (historical) statement to the same recipient group, and notifying the entity of the inconsistency. In certain embodiments, an alternative statement is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sean Thomas Thatcher, Edward Graham Katz, Charles E. Beller, John A. Riendeau
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Patent number: 11093774Abstract: Embodiments relate to an intelligent computer platform to create a document specific error correction model for amending OCR values. An image of a document is received and OCR is applied to the received image. Text is extracted from at least one static content field and the extracted text is compared to stored text from known static content. Responsive to a deviation identified in the comparison, a document specific error correction model is created and leveraged to correct OCR output. The model generates one or more variants for the dynamic content field associated with the static content field having the identified deviation. The generated variant(s) is subject to processing and one of the variants is selected as amended document content. A new document version is created from the amendment, the new document version including corrected OCR output.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Charles E. Beller, Edward Graham Katz, John A. Riendeau, Christopher Phipps, Sean Thomas Thatcher
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Patent number: 11068654Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system analyzes a message tone vector corresponding to a message against a target tone vector corresponding to a recipient of the message. The message tone vector includes a set of message tone attributes and the target tone vector includes a set of target tone thresholds. The information handling system, in response to determining a difference between the message tone vector and the target tone vector, creates a variant message by substituting words in the message with one or more similar words based on the target tone vector. In turn, the information handling system sends the variant message to the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Charles E. Beller, Alexander Charles Tonetti, Edward G. Katz, John Riendeau, Sean Thomas Thatcher
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Patent number: 11062697Abstract: A device includes a processor configured to, in response to determining that an input phrase includes a first term that is included in a term hierarchy, generate a second phrase by replacing the first term in the input phrase with a second term included in the term hierarchy. The processor is configured to determine that interactive response (IR) training data indicates that the input phrase is associated with a user intent indicator. The processor is configured to determine that user interaction data indicates that a first proportion of user phrases received by an IR system correspond to the user intent indicator. The processor is configured to update speech-to-text training data based on the input phrase and the second phrase so that a second proportion of training phrases of the speech-to-text training data correspond to the user intent indicator. The second proportion is based on the first proportion. A speech-to-text model is trained based on the speech-to-text training data.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Edward G. Katz, Alexander C. Tonetti, John A. Riendeau, Sean T. Thatcher
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Publication number: 20210174109Abstract: Embodiments relate to an intelligent computer platform to create a document specific error correction model for amending OCR values. An image of a document is received and OCR is applied to the received image. Text is extracted from at least one static content field and the extracted text is compared to stored text from known static content. Responsive to a deviation identified in the comparison, a document specific error correction model is created and leveraged to correct OCR output. The model generates one or more variants for the dynamic content field associated with the static content field having the identified deviation. The generated variant(s) is subject to processing and one of the variants is selected as amended document content. A new document version is created from the amendment, the new document version including corrected OCR output.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Charles E. Beller, Edward Graham Katz, John A. Riendeau, Christopher Phipps, Sean Thomas Thatcher
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Patent number: 10824659Abstract: The temporal stability of an answer from a deep question answering system is predicted using a natural language classifier. A training corpus is divided into time-ordered slices having uniform granularity. A series of candidate answers to a training question is generated based on the slices, and a temporal profile for the series is identified by associating candidate answers with respective temporal intervals. The temporal profile is translated to a temporal stability value (representing a time period) using a temporal stability model. The classifier is trained using such training questions correlated with respective temporal stability values. Thereafter, when a user submits a natural language query to the deep question answering system, the query is also applied to the classifier which determines its temporal stability. The temporal stability is presented to the user with the answer to give a sense of how long the answer can be deemed reliable.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Edward G. Katz, John A. Riendeau, Sean T. Thatcher, Alexander C. Tonetti
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Publication number: 20200234181Abstract: A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing enhanced training of a personality model for an embodied conversational agent. An adjustable personality model is provided for the conversational agent interacting with a user with the adjustable personality model configured to provide emotion and tone responses based on detected emotions of the user and a communication objective. Responsive to detecting a first emotion of the user in a conversation with the conversational agent, the adjustable personality model is utilized to embody the conversational agent with a first emotion and tone. Responsive to detecting a second emotion of the user different from the first emotion, the adjustable personality model is utilized to embody the conversational agent with a second emotion and tone possibly different from the first emotion and tone.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2019Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Edward Graham Katz, Alexander Charles Tonetti, John A. Riendeau, Charles E. Beller
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Publication number: 20200159825Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system analyzes a message tone vector corresponding to a message against a target tone vector corresponding to a recipient of the message. The message tone vector includes a set of message tone attributes and the target tone vector includes a set of target tone thresholds. The information handling system, in response to determining a difference between the message tone vector and the target tone vector, creates a variant message by substituting words in the message with one or more similar words based on the target tone vector. In turn, the information handling system sends the variant message to the recipient.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Charles E. Beller, Alexander Charles Tonetti, Edward G. Katz, John Riendeau, Sean Thomas Thatcher
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Publication number: 20200135175Abstract: A device includes a processor configured to, in response to determining that an input phrase includes a first term that is included in a term hierarchy, generate a second phrase by replacing the first term in the input phrase with a second term included in the term hierarchy. The processor is configured to determine that interactive response (IR) training data indicates that the input phrase is associated with a user intent indicator. The processor is configured to determine that user interaction data indicates that a first proportion of user phrases received by an IR system correspond to the user intent indicator. The processor is configured to update speech-to-text training data based on the input phrase and the second phrase so that a second proportion of training phrases of the speech-to-text training data correspond to the user intent indicator. The second proportion is based on the first proportion. A speech-to-text model is trained based on the speech-to-text training data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Edward G. Katz, Alexander C. Tonetti, John A. Riendeau, Sean T. Thatcher
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Patent number: 10599983Abstract: An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager identifies a first cohort type and a second cohort type corresponding to an entity included in a question. The knowledge manager determines inferred states to the question by comparing a first set of cohort attributes corresponding to a first cohort type against entity attributes corresponding to the question. In turn, the knowledge manager generates possible answers by comparing the inferred states against a second set of cohort attributes corresponding to a second cohort type.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Erinc Merdivan, John A. Riendeau, Michael D. Whitley, Le Zhang