Patents by Inventor Lorrie A. Tomek
Lorrie A. Tomek 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: 9092989Abstract: Methods/systems receive a question and automatically search sources of data containing passages to produce candidate answers to the question. The searching identifies passages that support each of the candidate answers based on scoring features that indicate whether the candidate answers are correct answers to the question. These methods/systems automatically create a scoring feature-specific matrix for each scoring feature. Each scoring feature-specific matrix has a score field for each different combination of text passage and question term (vector), and each score field holds a score value (vector value) indicating how each different combination of text passage and question term supports the candidate answers as being a correct answer to the question. Next, such methods/systems automatically combine multiple such vectors to produce a combined vector score for each of the candidate answers, and then rank the candidate answers based on the combined scores.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Apoorv Agarwal, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Aditya A. Kalyanpur, Adam P. Lally, James W. Murdock, IV, Lorrie A. Tomek
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Patent number: 9092988Abstract: Methods/systems receive a question and automatically search sources of data containing passages to produce candidate answers to the question. The searching identifies passages that support each of the candidate answers based on scoring features that indicate whether the candidate answers are correct answers to the question. These methods/systems automatically create a scoring feature-specific matrix for each scoring feature. Each scoring feature-specific matrix has a score field for each different combination of text passage and question term (vector), and each score field holds a score value (vector value) indicating how each different combination of text passage and question term supports the candidate answers as being a correct answer to the question. Next, such methods/systems automatically combine multiple such vectors to produce a combined vector score for each of the candidate answers, and then rank the candidate answers based on the combined scores.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2012Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Apoorv Agarwal, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Aditya A. Kalyanpur, Adam P. Lally, James W. Murdock, IV, Lorrie A. Tomek
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Publication number: 20140141399Abstract: Methods/systems receive a question and automatically search sources of data containing passages to produce candidate answers to the question. The searching identifies passages that support each of the candidate answers based on scoring features that indicate whether the candidate answers are correct answers to the question. These methods/systems automatically create a scoring feature-specific matrix for each scoring feature. Each scoring feature-specific matrix has a score field for each different combination of text passage and question term (vector), and each score field holds a score value (vector value) indicating how each different combination of text passage and question term supports the candidate answers as being a correct answer to the question. Next, such methods/systems automatically combine multiple such vectors to produce a combined vector score for each of the candidate answers, and then rank the candidate answers based on the combined scores.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Apoorv Agarwal, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Aditya A. Kalyanpur, Adam P. Lally, James W. Murdock, IV, Lorrie A. Tomek
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Publication number: 20140141401Abstract: Methods/systems receive a question and automatically search sources of data containing passages to produce candidate answers to the question. The searching identifies passages that support each of the candidate answers based on scoring features that indicate whether the candidate answers are correct answers to the question. These methods/systems automatically create a scoring feature-specific matrix for each scoring feature. Each scoring feature-specific matrix has a score field for each different combination of text passage and question term (vector), and each score field holds a score value (vector value) indicating how each different combination of text passage and question term supports the candidate answers as being a correct answer to the question. Next, such methods/systems automatically combine multiple such vectors to produce a combined vector score for each of the candidate answers, and then rank the candidate answers based on the combined scores.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Apoorv Agarwal, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Aditya A. Kalyanpur, Adam P. Lally, James W. Murdock, IV, Lorrie A. Tomek
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Patent number: 8516495Abstract: Systems and methods for domain management in a virtualized computing environment are provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises collating advice received from one or more domain advisors connected in the virtualized computing environment; resolving any conflicts among the advice received from said one or more domain advisors; utilizing the collated advice to generate a placement plan comprising a plurality of operations for virtual machines in said virtualized computing environment; and executing the one or more operations in the placement plan, wherein one or more domain handlers may be called to update the virtualized computing environment before, during or after execution of one or more operations from among said plurality of operations in the plan.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ofer Biran, Erez Hadad, Richard Edwin Harper, Elliot K. Kolodner, Yosef Moatti, Lorrie A. Tomek
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Patent number: 7966614Abstract: Management of a virtual machine is enhanced by establishing an initial availability policy for the machine. Once the virtual machine is invoked, the real environment for the virtual machine is monitored for the occurrence of predetermined events. If a real environment event is detected that could affect the availability of the virtual machine, the availability policy of the virtual machine is automatically adjusted to reflect the new or predicted state of the real environment.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2007Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Benjamin Evans Chodroff, Adam S Edelstein, Richard Edwin Harper, Mangesh Kanaskar, Wayne Frederick Schildhauer, Megan Susanne Schneider, Lorrie A Tomek
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Publication number: 20090031307Abstract: Management of a virtual machine is enhanced by establishing an initial availability policy for the machine. Once the virtual machine is invoked, the real environment for the virtual machine is monitored for the occurrence of predetermined events. If a real environment event is detected that could affect the availability of the virtual machine, the availability policy of the virtual machine is automatically adjusted to reflect the new or predicted state of the real environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2007Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: BENJAMIN EVANS CHODROFF, Adam S. Edelstein, Richard Edwin Harper, Mangesh Kanaskar, Wayne Frederick Schildhauer, Megan Susanne Schneider, Lorrie A. Tomek
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Patent number: 6928086Abstract: A method and apparatus for multi-protocol LAN support, which is applicable to Ethernet, Token-Ring, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) protocols. The LAN support is located at a workstation and provides for automatic determination of the LAN protocol type and speed. A common adapter card is provided for use in the workstation to interface the workstation to any of the LANs of interest. A four-step sequential process is taught for determining the protocol type and speed.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2002Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joseph Michael Abler, Francis Edward Noel, Jr., Lorrie A. Tomek
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Publication number: 20030067884Abstract: A method and apparatus for multi-protocol LAN support, which is applicable to Ethernet, Token-Ring, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) protocols. The LAN support is located at a workstation and provides for automatic determination of the LAN protocol type and speed. A common adapter card is provided for use in the workstation to interface the workstation to any of the LANs of interest. A four-step sequential process is taught for determining the protocol type and speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2002Publication date: April 10, 2003Inventors: Joseph Michael Abler, Francis Edward Noel, Lorrie A. Tomek
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Patent number: 6504851Abstract: A method and apparatus for multi-protocol LAN support, which is applicable to Ethernet, Token-Ring, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) protocols. The LAN support is located at a workstation and provides for automatic determination of the LAN protocol type and speed. A common adapter card is provided for use in the workstation to interface the workstation to any of the LANs of interest. A four-step sequential process is taught for determining the protocol type and speed.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1997Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joseph Michael Abler, Francis Edward Noel, Jr., Lorrie A. Tomek
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Patent number: 6175569Abstract: Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees are extended to Token Ring LAN stations. A LAN station originating a request for a connection through an ATM network to either a remote ATM station or a remote LAN station sends a frame having an encoded priority value to a LAN/ATM interface device. The device maps the priority value to one of the standard ATM traffic classes; namely, CBR, VBR, ABR and UBR. The LAN/ATM interface device attempts to set up a connection through the ATM network conforming to the mapped class or QoS. If the connection destination is another LAN station, a destination LAN/ATM interface device attempts to set up the final ATM-LAN phase of the connection.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1997Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William W. Ellington, Jr., Francis E. Noel, Jr., Lorrie A. Tomek
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Patent number: 6047378Abstract: Multiple stations, such as Personal Computers, are awakened (restored to full power) by a specially formatted Local Area Network (LAN) frame termed "Wake Multiple Over LAN". The frame includes a header field containing Destination Addresses, DA, of stations to be awakened and a data field containing a Group Address (GA) or Universal Wake-Up Address (UWUA). The receiving station parses the frame and if the station is a member of the group, it is returned to full power.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1997Date of Patent: April 4, 2000Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Henry Michael Garrett, Francis Edward Noel, Jr., Lorrie A. Tomek
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Patent number: 5956348Abstract: Variable length LAN frames can be segmented into fixed length cells to allow the data in the frames to be transported through an intermediate cell-based system, such as an ATM network. Where transport through the intermediate system results in time gaps between data units extracted from the cells, special symbol combinations can be inserted into the time gaps to permit frame-representing data to be forwarded toward its destination as a "stretched frame" without waiting for all the cells representing the frame to arrive. When a stretched LAN frame is received at a "stretch-aware" LAN station, the special symbol combinations are detected and removed to recover at least the data payload of the original LAN frame.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1997Date of Patent: September 21, 1999Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: John Lock Creigh, Francis E. Noel, Jr., Lorrie A. Tomek