Patents by Inventor JOHN RIENDEAU

JOHN 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).

  • Patent number: 11625630
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Edward G. Katz, John Riendeau, Sean T. Thatcher, Alexander C. Tonetti
  • Patent number: 11068654
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles E. Beller, Alexander Charles Tonetti, Edward G. Katz, John Riendeau, Sean Thomas Thatcher
  • Publication number: 20200159825
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Charles E. Beller, Alexander Charles Tonetti, Edward G. Katz, John Riendeau, Sean Thomas Thatcher
  • Publication number: 20200019641
    Abstract: A dialog system receives a multi-intent input from a user, wherein the multi-intent input comprises a selection of multiple intents in a single conversational input. The dialog system splits the multi-intent input into multiple segments, wherein each of the segments comprises a subsequence of the multi-intent input. The dialog system applies a classifier to classify each segment of the multiple segments by at least one pair of a plurality of pairs in a matrix, each pair of a separate class of multiple classes and a separate confidence level of classification, each of the multiple classes associated with a separate intent from among the multiple intents. The dialog system selects one or more outputs for each separate class in each separate pair, in view of the separate confidence level. The dialog system outputs a response comprising a concatenation of the one or more outputs to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Alexander C. Tonetti, Edward G. Katz, Sean T. Thatcher, JOHN RIENDEAU
  • Publication number: 20190236471
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Edward G. Katz, John Riendeau, Sean T. Thatcher, Alexander C. Tonetti