Patents by Inventor Larisa Shwartz

Larisa Shwartz 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: 9613324
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and computer program products decompose a service process into service process operations; filter the service operations based on at least one pre-determined criterion; identify at least one different service process operation to be used to replace an existing service process operation; and replace the existing service process operation with the at least one different service process operation. The service process can be decomposed using specific service features derived from reference service processes. The pre-determined criterion used to filter the service operations can constitute a service level; a service category; or a service process feature. A service process feature describes core functionality of the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Bartsch, Genady Y. Grabarnik, Larisa Shwartz, Christopher Ward
  • Patent number: 9575947
    Abstract: A document corpus is annotated by given annotators and aggregates of the given annotators to generate a corpus of pre-annotated documents with given annotations. The same document corpus is annotated by a subject annotator to have subject annotations. The subject annotations are decomposed into superpositions of the given annotations. The decomposed subject annotations are mapped to a most representative superposition of the given annotations. The subject annotator may be mapped to the aggregate of given annotators corresponding to the most representative superposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yurdaer N. Doganata, Genady Grabarnik, Lev Kozakov, Larisa Shwartz
  • Patent number: 9577951
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to server provisioning in a heterogeneous computing environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for secure and verified distributed orchestration and provisioning. In one embodiment of the invention, a server provisioning method can be provided. The server provisioning method can include establishing grouping criteria, grouping different target computing nodes into different groups of target computing nodes according to the established grouping criteria, server provisioning a root node in each of the different groups of target computing nodes, and relying upon the root node in each of the different groups to peer-to-peer server provision remaining nodes in each of the different groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Naga A. Ayachitula, Genady Grabarnik, James S. Lipscomb, Larisa Shwartz, Maheswaran Surendra
  • Publication number: 20170032389
    Abstract: A polling method, online polling system and program product therefor. A system avatar unit creates, maintains and controls system avatars distributed throughout a virtual world. System avatars receive questions received from polling system clients. A dialogue module manages dialogs between system avatars presenting the questions to user avatars in the virtual world. A report generator generates reports responsive to responses given by user avatars to system avatars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Genady Grabarnik, Dimitri Kanevsky, Mark E. Podlaseck, Larisa Shwartz
  • Patent number: 9524281
    Abstract: Evaluating the performance of a text analysis engine is provided. A plurality of pre-annotated reference documents and a set of annotation types associated with the pre-annotated reference documents are received. Annotation contexts of reference annotations in the plurality of pre-annotated reference documents are analyzed using the set of annotation types. Similar annotation contexts are identified between the reference annotations and the set of annotation types. Responsive to identifying the similar annotation contexts, the similar annotation contexts are clustered thereby forming a plurality of reference annotation clusters. A set of reference content heterogeneity scores are computed based on the number of reference annotation clusters for each annotation type in the set of annotation types. An integral reference content rate for the set of annotation types is then computed and output to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Genady Grabarnik, Lev Kozakov, Larisa Shwartz
  • Patent number: 9466039
    Abstract: A method of ranking workers for an incoming task includes recording a list of completed tasks in a computer data structure, extracting first attributes from the list for the tasks that were completed during a pre-determined period, generating a first feature vector for each task and worker from the first extracted attributes, training a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based on the feature vector to output a weight vector, extracting second attributes from an incoming task, generating a second feature vector for each worker based on the second extracted attributes, and ranking the workers using the second feature vectors and the weight vector. The first attributes may be updated during a subsequent period to re-train the SVM on updated first feature vectors to generate an updated weight vector. The workers may be re-ranked based on the second feature vectors and the updated weight vector. Accordingly, the feature vectors are dynamic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Maira Athanazio de Cerqueira Gatti, Ricardo Guimaraes Herrmann, David Loewenstern, Florian Pinel, Larisa Shwartz
  • Patent number: 9426237
    Abstract: Web navigation pattern histories are used to navigate to a plurality of visited web sites. A navigation map is generated comprised of a node for each visited web site. Each node in the navigation map is connected by an edge to at least one other node in the navigation map, and the edge is associated with the link from the given visited web site to the next web site. For each visited web site, the corresponding node stores an address for the given web site, a relevance rating for the given visited web site, a link from the given visited web site to a next web site and optionally a title of the web site. A presentation of a node in the navigation map is based on the relevance rating. A plurality of navigation maps for a plurality of users can be merged by identifying navigation maps having similar search goals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shang Q. Guo, Sinem Guven Kaya, Larisa Shwartz
  • Patent number: 9420052
    Abstract: Web navigation pattern histories are used to navigate to a plurality of visited web sites. A navigation map is generated comprised of a node for each visited web site. Each node in the navigation map is connected by an edge to at least one other node in the navigation map, and the edge is associated with the link from the given visited web site to the next web site. For each visited web site, the corresponding node stores an address for the given web site, a relevance rating for the given visited web site, a link from the given visited web site to a next web site and optionally a title of the web site. A presentation of a node in the navigation map is based on the relevance rating. A plurality of navigation maps for a plurality of users can be merged by identifying navigation maps having similar search goals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shang Q. Guo, Sinem Guven Kaya, Larisa Shwartz
  • Publication number: 20160119249
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to server provisioning in a heterogeneous computing environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for secure and verified distributed orchestration and provisioning. In one embodiment of the invention, a server provisioning method can be provided. The server provisioning method can include establishing grouping criteria, grouping different target computing nodes into different groups of target computing nodes according to the established grouping criteria, server provisioning a root node in each of the different groups of target computing nodes, and relying upon the root node in each of the different groups to peer-to-peer server provision remaining nodes in each of the different groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Naga A. Ayachitula, Genady Grabarnik, James S. Lipscomb, Larisa Shwartz, Maheswaran Surendra
  • Patent number: 9313329
    Abstract: A method for voice browsing an integrated voice response server is described. The method includes visually displaying a representation of a choice tree for a service, where the service includes an audio menu of available actions. A selection of an action displayed in the representation is received. The method also includes automatically navigating the audio menu in order to initiate the selected action. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter J. Andrews, Alexander Faisman, Genady Grabarnik, Larisa Shwartz
  • Publication number: 20160078379
    Abstract: A data collection method including collecting, by a configuration collector manager, configuration data, including configuration properties, from a plurality of data sources, creating, by a model discovery component, a business application model using the configuration data collected by the configuration collector manager, a collecting, from a business application model analysis user interface, edits and confirmations associated with the business application model, and a analyzing, by a feedback analyzer component, the edits and confirmations associated with the business application model and prioritizing the configuration properties based on the data sources and the edits and confirmations associated with the business application model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Joel W. Branch, Karin Murthy, Larisa Shwartz, Maja Vukovic
  • Patent number: 9250972
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to server provisioning in a heterogeneous computing environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for secure and verified distributed orchestration and provisioning. In one embodiment of the invention, a server provisioning method can be provided. The server provisioning method can include establishing grouping criteria, grouping different target computing nodes into different groups of target computing nodes according to the established grouping criteria, server provisioning a root node in each of the different groups of target computing nodes, and relying upon the root node in each of the different groups to peer-to-peer server provision remaining nodes in each of the different groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Larisa Shwartz, Maheswaran Surendra, Naga A. Ayachitula, Genady Grabarnik, James S. Lipscomb
  • Patent number: 9195558
    Abstract: A method for comparing systems includes running, simultaneously, a first system and a second system, wherein the first system and the second system process events, collecting first data from the first system based on the processing of the events, collecting second data from the second system based on the processing of the events, wherein the second system includes at least one feature different than the first system, and performing a sequential probability ratio test based on the first data and the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignees: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, TECHNION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Robyn L. Focazio, Yefim H. Michlin, Larisa Shwartz, Maheswaran Surendra
  • Publication number: 20150304241
    Abstract: A system and method for reducing service latency includes dividing an information technology service for a customer into an infrastructure management service and a data management service. Data associated with the information technology service is stored in a backup memory. A set of infrastructure images related to the information technology service is stored at a cloud service provider. The infrastructure images are updated with software updates and hardware updates, as needed, and the data associated with the information technology service is updated through backup and restore mechanisms. The set of infrastructure images that have been updated with data with latest updates are started for recovery, continuity, testing, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: GENADY GRABARNIK, MARKUS KLEMS, LARISA SHWARTZ, STEFAN TAI, CHRISTOPHER WARD
  • Publication number: 20150262106
    Abstract: A method for predicting an impact of a service level agreement including collecting workload data and effort data and constructing a cost model for the service level agreement, defining a baseline service parameter corresponding to the code model of the service level agreement, and calibrating the cost model of the service level agreement, by calibrating a workload volume from the workload data and an effort time from the effort data to match the baseline service parameter, to output a service level agreement impact model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yixin Diao, Linh H. Lam, David M. Northcutt, Larisa Shwartz
  • Patent number: 9098456
    Abstract: A system and method for reducing service latency includes dividing an information technology service for a customer into an infrastructure management service and a data management service. Data associated with the information technology service is stored in a backup memory. A set of infrastructure images related to the information technology service is stored at a cloud service provider. The infrastructure images are updated with software updates and hardware updates, as needed, and the data associated with the information technology service is updated through backup and restore mechanisms. The set of infrastructure images that have been updated with data with latest updates are started for recovery, continuity, testing, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Genady Grabarnik, Markus Klems, Larisa Shwartz, Stefan Tai, Christopher Ward
  • Patent number: 9088562
    Abstract: In an environment wherein a front end system receives a service request, and a back end system responds to the request, a user of a target endpoint must be authenticated. A ticket ID is assigned to the service request, and responsive to an initiating action of the user, a virtual token is generated that has a specified relationship with the ticket ID. The virtual token is delivered to the user, and the user is prompted to present the token to a validating component associated with one of the front end or back end systems, wherein the validating component is configured to verify the token validity. If the token is found to be valid, the user is authenticated to access the specified target endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Driscoll, Milton H. Hernandez, Paul Jennings, Chee Meng Low, Yaoping Ruan, Larisa Shwartz
  • Patent number: 9088563
    Abstract: In an environment wherein a front end system receives a service request, and a back end system responds to the request, a user of a target endpoint must be authenticated. A ticket ID is assigned to the service request, and responsive to an initiating action of the user, a virtual token is generated that has a specified relationship with the ticket ID. The virtual token is delivered to the user, and the user is prompted to present the token to a validating component associated with one of the front end or back end systems, wherein the validating component is configured to verify the token validity. If the token is found to be valid, the user is authenticated to access the specified target endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Driscoll, Milton H. Hernandez, Paul Jennings, Chee Meng Low, Yaoping Ruan, Larisa Shwartz
  • Patent number: 9021484
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for comparing the performance of applications. An application log record associated with a first application is identified. Mappings between the application logs and underlying log record of environments are made for both the source and the target environments. Performance measurements are made based on both the application logs in the source and target environments are made and compared to each other by way of the mappings. A result of the comparison is output to thereby compare performance of the first application in the source environment with performance of a second application in the target environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joel W. Branch, Amitkumar M. Paradkar, Larisa Shwartz
  • Publication number: 20150095080
    Abstract: A method of ranking workers for an incoming task includes recording a list of completed tasks in a computer data structure, extracting first attributes from the list for the tasks that were completed during a pre-determined period, generating a first feature vector for each task and worker from the first extracted attributes, training a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based on the feature vector to output a weight vector, extracting second attributes from an incoming task, generating a second feature vector for each worker based on the second extracted attributes, and ranking the workers using the second feature vectors and the weight vector. The first attributes may be updated during a subsequent period to re-train the SVM on updated first feature vectors to generate an updated weight vector. The workers may be re-ranked based on the second feature vectors and the updated weight vector. Accordingly, the feature vectors are dynamic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: MAIRA ATHANAZIO DE CERQUEIRA GATTI, Ricardo Guimaraes Herrmann, David Loewenstern, Florian Pinel, Larisa Shwartz