Patents by Inventor Kenneth J. Barker

Kenneth J. Barker 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: 11521724
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system to implement a personalized patient engagement engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Subhro Das, Gema Almoguera, Kenneth J. Barker, Ching-Hua Chen, Adam R. Faulkner, Pei-Yun Hsueh, Chandramouli Maduri, Sara Rosenthal
  • Patent number: 11068794
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for exploring knowledge. The mechanism receives a set of known facts. The mechanism traverses paths in an ontology for a domain of knowledge from known facts in the set of known facts to one or more hypotheses. The ontology includes a plurality of entity types and a plurality of relationships between the entity types. The mechanism presents one or more hypotheses to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sugato Bagchi, Michael A. Barborak, Kenneth J. Barker, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, James J. Fan, John M. Prager
  • Publication number: 20210104307
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system to implement a personalized patient engagement engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Subhro Das, Gema Almoguera, Kenneth J. Barker, Ching-Hua Chen, Adam R. Faulkner, Pei-Yun Hsueh, Chandramouli Maduri, Sara Rosenthal
  • Patent number: 10839947
    Abstract: The present invention embodiments are directed to methods, systems, and computer programs for identifying relations, within at least one taxonomy, between taxonomy categories and concepts extracted from electronic content. The relations represent semantic similarities for the concepts. The concepts are clustered based on the identified relations within the at least one taxonomy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Barker, Murthy V. Devarakonda, Ching-Huei Tsou
  • Patent number: 10832802
    Abstract: The present invention embodiments are directed to methods, systems, and computer programs for identifying relations, within at least one taxonomy, between taxonomy categories and concepts extracted from electronic content. The relations represent semantic similarities for the concepts. The concepts are clustered based on the identified relations within the at least one taxonomy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Barker, Murthy V. Devarakonda, Ching-Huei Tsou
  • Patent number: 10769138
    Abstract: Provided herein are techniques for processing a context-situated inquiry to provide results satisfying the inquiry. An inquiry and its supporting context are processed using natural language processing to determine an interpretation for the inquiry and context, and the interpretation is presented to receive corrective information for the interpretation. The corrective information is applied to the interpretation and content is retrieved based on the interpretation of inquiry and context to produce candidate results for the inquiry. Supplemental information is iteratively received to generate updated candidate results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sugato Bagchi, Kenneth J. Barker, Branimir K. Boguraev, Mihaela A. Bornea, Adam R. Faulkner, Yanpeng Li, Siddharth A. Patwardhan, Sara Rosenthal
  • Patent number: 10599993
    Abstract: Predefined relation items on paths traversing predefined entities of a knowledge base are collected and feature sets are assembled from the collected relation items. A classifier is computed for the feature sets and a relation score of a query pair of the entities is computed using the classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Barker, Mihaela A. Bornea
  • Patent number: 10586176
    Abstract: Predefined relation items on paths traversing predefined entities of a knowledge base are collected and feature sets are assembled from the collected relation items. A classifier is computed for the feature sets and a relation score of a query pair of the entities is computed using the classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Barker, Mihaela A. Bornea
  • Patent number: 10346751
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a heterogeneous graph in a data store is accessed. The heterogeneous graph includes a plurality of nodes having a plurality of node types. The nodes are connected by edges having a plurality of relation types. One or more intermediary graphs are created based on the heterogeneous graph. The intermediary graphs include intermediary nodes that are the relation types of the edges of the heterogeneous graph and include intermediary links between the intermediary nodes based on shared instances of the nodes between relation types in the heterogeneous graph. The intermediary graphs are traversed to find sets of relations based on intermediary links according to a template. An inference rule is extracted from the heterogeneous graph based on finding sets of relations in the intermediary graphs. The inference rule defines an inferred relation type between at least two of the nodes of the heterogeneous graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Apoorv Agarwal, Kenneth J. Barker, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Aditya A. Kalyanpur, Christopher A. Welty, Wlodek W. Zadrozny
  • Publication number: 20180357272
    Abstract: Provided herein are techniques for processing a context-situated inquiry to provide results satisfying the inquiry. An inquiry and its supporting context are processed using natural language processing to determine an interpretation for the inquiry and context, and the interpretation is presented to receive corrective information for the interpretation. The corrective information is applied to the interpretation and content is retrieved based on the interpretation of inquiry and context to produce candidate results for the inquiry. Supplemental information is iteratively received to generate updated candidate results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Sugato Bagchi, Kenneth J. Barker, Branimir K. Boguraev, Mihaela A. Bornea, Adam R. Faulkner, Yanpeng Li, Siddharth A. Patwardhan, Sara Rosenthal
  • Publication number: 20180189663
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for exploring knowledge. The mechanism receives a set of known facts. The mechanism traverses paths in an ontology for a domain of knowledge from known facts in the set of known facts to one or more hypotheses. The ontology includes a plurality of entity types and a plurality of relationships between the entity types. The mechanism presents one or more hypotheses to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Sugato Bagchi, Michael A. Barborak, Kenneth J. Barker, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, James J. Fan, John M. Prage
  • Patent number: 9940584
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for exploring knowledge. The mechanism receives a set of known facts. The mechanism traverses paths in an ontology for a domain of knowledge from known facts in the set of known facts to one or more hypotheses. The ontology includes a plurality of entity types and a plurality of relationships between the entity types. The mechanism presents one or more hypotheses to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sugato Bagchi, Michael A. Barborak, Kenneth J. Barker, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, James J. Fan, John M. Prager
  • Publication number: 20170300833
    Abstract: Predefined relation items on paths traversing predefined entities of a knowledge base are collected and feature sets are assembled from the collected relation items. A classifier is computed for the feature sets and a relation score of a query pair of the entities is computed using the classifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Barker, Mihaela A. Bornea
  • Publication number: 20170300636
    Abstract: The present invention embodiments are directed to methods, systems, and computer programs for identifying relations, within at least one taxonomy, between taxonomy categories and concepts extracted from electronic content. The relations represent semantic similarities for the concepts. The concepts are clustered based on the identified relations within the at least one taxonomy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Barker, Murthy V. Devarakonda, Ching-Huei Tsou
  • Publication number: 20170213136
    Abstract: Predefined relation items on paths traversing predefined entities of a knowledge base are collected and feature sets are assembled from the collected relation items. A classifier is computed for the feature sets and a relation score of a query pair of the entities is computed using the classifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Barker, Mihaela A. Bornea
  • Publication number: 20170193185
    Abstract: The present invention embodiments are directed to methods, systems, and computer programs for identifying relations, within at least one taxonomy, between taxonomy categories and concepts extracted from electronic content. The relations represent semantic similarities for the concepts. The concepts are clustered based on the identified relations within the at least one taxonomy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Barker, Murthy V. Devarakonda, Ching-Huei Tsou
  • Publication number: 20160239745
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for exploring knowledge. The mechanism receives a set of known facts. The mechanism traverses paths in an ontology for a domain of knowledge from known facts in the set of known facts to one or more hypotheses. The ontology includes a plurality of entity types and a plurality of relationships between the entity types. The mechanism presents one or more hypotheses to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Sugato Bagchi, Michael A. Barborak, Kenneth J. Barker, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, James J. Fan, John M. Prager
  • Publication number: 20160078344
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a heterogeneous graph in a data store is accessed. The heterogeneous graph includes a plurality of nodes having a plurality of node types. The nodes are connected by edges having a plurality of relation types. One or more intermediary graphs are created based on the heterogeneous graph. The intermediary graphs include intermediary nodes that are the relation types of the edges of the heterogeneous graph and include intermediary links between the intermediary nodes based on shared instances of the nodes between relation types in the heterogeneous graph. The intermediary graphs are traversed to find sets of relations based on intermediary links according to a template. An inference rule is extracted from the heterogeneous graph based on finding sets of relations in the intermediary graphs. The inference rule defines an inferred relation type between at least two of the nodes of the heterogeneous graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Apoorv Agarwal, Kenneth J. Barker, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Aditya A. Kalyanpur, Christopher A. Welty, Wlodek W. Zadrozny
  • Publication number: 20160078343
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a heterogeneous graph in a data store is accessed. The heterogeneous graph includes a plurality of nodes having a plurality of node types. The nodes are connected by edges having a plurality of relation types. One or more intermediary graphs are created based on the heterogeneous graph. The intermediary graphs include intermediary nodes that are the relation types of the edges of the heterogeneous graph and include intermediary links between the intermediary nodes based on shared instances of the nodes between relation types in the heterogeneous graph. The intermediary graphs are traversed to find sets of relations based on intermediary links according to a template. An inference rule is extracted from the heterogeneous graph based on finding sets of relations in the intermediary graphs. The inference rule defines an inferred relation type between at least two of the nodes of the heterogeneous graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Apoorv Agarwal, Kenneth J. Barker, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Aditya A. Kalyanpur, Christopher A. Welty, Wlodek W. Zadrozny
  • Publication number: 20080162998
    Abstract: A test pattern is loaded into a driver data shift register and sent from a driver chip to a receive chip over an M bit bus (0 to M?1). The test pattern is also generated at the receiver chip and used to compare to the actual received data. Failed compares are stored as logic ones in a bit error register (BER). A counter determines the number of failures by counting logic ones from the BER. The contents of a error position counter are latched in a error position latch and used to load a logic one (at the error bit position) into daisy chained self-heal control registers (SCR) in the receiver chip and the driver chip. The SCR sets a logic one into all bit positions after the error bit isolating the failed bit path and adding a spare bit path which is in bit position M.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert B. Likovich, Robert J. Reese, Joseph D. Mendenhall, Kenneth J. Barker