Patents by Inventor Luis A. Lastras

Luis A. Lastras 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).

  • Publication number: 20160012058
    Abstract: According to an aspect, automatically adding new concepts to a concept graph includes receiving a string of text, searching a corpus of data to locate additional text related to the string of text, and extracting concepts from the additional text. The extracted concepts include a subset of concepts in the concept graph. The adding new concepts also includes determining whether the string of text should be linked to an existing concept in the concept graph, performing the linking based on determining that the string of text should be linked to the existing concept in the concept graph and, based on determining that the string of text should not be linked to an existing concept in the concept graph, adding a new concept to the concept graph. The new concept is associated with the string of text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michele M. Franceschini, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Livio B. Soares, Mark N. Wegman
  • Publication number: 20160012125
    Abstract: According to an aspect, storing and querying conceptual indices (CIs) includes creating a conceptual inverted index (CII) from the CIs. The CII includes CII entries, each of which corresponds to a concept in a concept graph. Creating the CII includes populating each entry with pointers to documents selected from the CIs having likelihoods of being related to the concept that are greater than a threshold value, and the corresponding likelihoods. An aspect also includes receiving a query that includes a concept in the concept graph, and generating query results from a search that include at least a subset of the pointers to documents. Each of the CIs is associated with a corresponding document and includes a CI entry for each concept in the concept graph, and each of the CI entries specifies a value indicating a likelihood that the document is related to the concept in the concept graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michele M. Franceschini, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Livio B. Soares, Mark N. Wegman
  • Publication number: 20160012054
    Abstract: According to an aspect, conceptual analysis of a document includes accessing a concept graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges. Each node represents a concept and each edge represents a known relation between two concepts. Conceptual analysis of the document further includes computing a relevance of the document to concepts in the concept graph. The computing includes receiving a priori information about the document including concepts extracted from the document. The concepts extracted from the document include a subset of the concepts in the concept graph. The computing also includes combining the a priori information and the concept graph to generate a posteriori information that indicates a likelihood that the document is related to each of the concepts in the concept graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michele M. Franceschini, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Livio B. Soares, Mark N. Wegman
  • Publication number: 20160012336
    Abstract: According to an aspect, automatically linking text to concepts in a knowledge base using differential analysis includes receiving a text string and selecting, based on contents of the text string, a plurality of data sources that correspond to concepts in the knowledge base. In a further aspect, automatically linking the text to the concepts includes calculating, for each of the selected data sources, a probability that the text string is output by a language model built using the selected data source, calculating a probability that the text string is output by a generic language model, calculating link confidence scores for each concept based on a differential analysis of the probabilities, and creating a link from the text string to one of the concepts in the knowledge base. The creating is based on a link confidence score of the concept being more than a threshold value away from a prescribed threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michele M. Franceschini, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Livio B. Soares, Mark N. Wegman
  • Publication number: 20160012122
    Abstract: According to an aspect, automatically linking text to concepts in a knowledge base using differential analysis includes receiving a text string and selecting, based on contents of the text string, a plurality of data sources that correspond to concepts in the knowledge base. In a further aspect, automatically linking the text to the concepts includes calculating, for each of the selected data sources, a probability that the text string is output by a language model built using the selected data source, calculating a probability that the text string is output by a generic language model, calculating link confidence scores for each concept based on a differential analysis of the probabilities, and creating a link from the text string to one of the concepts in the knowledge base. The creating is based on a link confidence score of the concept being more than a threshold value away from a prescribed threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michele M. Franceschini, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Livio B. Soares, Mark N. Wegman
  • Publication number: 20160012045
    Abstract: According to an aspect, summarizing relevance of a document to a conceptual query includes receiving the conceptual query, accessing concepts extracted from the document, and computing a degree to which the conceptual query is related to each of the extracted concepts. The computing is responsive to a metric that measures a relevance between the concepts in the conceptual query and the extracted concepts. An aspect also includes creating a summary by selecting a threshold number of the concepts having a greatest degree of relation to the conceptual query, and outputting the summary including the selected threshold number of concepts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michele M. Franceschini, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Livio B. Soares, Mark N. Wegman
  • Publication number: 20160012057
    Abstract: According to an aspect, conceptual analysis of a document includes accessing a concept graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges. Each node represents a concept and each edge represents a known relation between two concepts. Conceptual analysis of the document further includes computing a relevance of the document to concepts in the concept graph. The computing includes receiving a priori information about the document including concepts extracted from the document. The concepts extracted from the document include a subset of the concepts in the concept graph. The computing also includes combining the a priori information and the concept graph to generate a posteriori information that indicates a likelihood that the document is related to each of the concepts in the concept graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michele M. Franceschini, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Livio B. Soares, Mark N. Wegman
  • Publication number: 20160012106
    Abstract: According to an aspect, summarizing relevance of a document to a conceptual query includes receiving the conceptual query, accessing concepts extracted from the document, and computing a degree to which the conceptual query is related to each of the extracted concepts. The computing is responsive to a metric that measures a relevance between the concepts in the conceptual query and the extracted concepts. The method also includes creating a summary by selecting a threshold number of the concepts having a greatest degree of relation to the conceptual query, and outputting the summary including the selected threshold number of concepts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michele M. Franceschini, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Livio B. Soares, Mark N. Wegman
  • Publication number: 20160012092
    Abstract: According to an aspect, storing and querying conceptual indices (CIs) includes creating a conceptual inverted index (CII) from the CIs. The CII includes CII entries, each of which corresponds to a concept in a concept graph. Creating the CII includes populating each entry with pointers to documents selected from the CIs having likelihoods of being related to the concept that are greater than a threshold value, and the corresponding likelihoods. An aspect also includes receiving a query that includes a concept in the concept graph, and generating query results from a search that include at least a subset of the pointers to documents. Each of the CIs is associated with a corresponding document and includes a CI entry for each concept in the concept graph, and each of the CI entries specifies a value indicating a likelihood that the document is related to the concept in the concept graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michele M. Franceschini, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Livio B. Soares, Mark N. Wegman
  • Patent number: 9218296
    Abstract: A hybrid encryption scheme for storing data lines in a memory includes identifying data lines determined to be frequently accessed, and encrypting the data lines using a first encryption scheme. The hybrid encryption scheme also includes encrypting data lines determined not to be frequently accessed using a second encryption scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michele M. Franceschini, Ashish Jagmohan, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Moinuddin K. A. Qureshi
  • Publication number: 20150347024
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relates to avoiding out-of-space conditions in storage controllers operating with efficiency capabilities between virtual space in a data container and real space in a storage container. Both the real space and the virtual space are monitored and their respective usage is compared to provide information about occupancy of the real space to the virtual space. Usage of the containers is balanced by employing a virtual file associated with a reserved portion of free capacity in the virtual space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bulent Abali, David D. Chambliss, Joseph S. Glider, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Cameron J. McAllister
  • Patent number: 9189330
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to stale data detection in a marked channel for a scrub. An aspect includes bringing the marked channel online, wherein the computer comprises a plurality of memory channels comprising the marked channel and a remaining plurality of unmarked channels. Another aspect includes performing a scrub read of an address in the plurality of memory channels. Another aspect includes determining whether data returned by the scrub read from the marked channel is valid or stale based on data returned from the unmarked channels by the scrub read. Another aspect includes based on determining that the data returned by the scrub read from the marked channel is valid, not performing a scrub writeback to the marked channel. Another aspect includes based on determining that the data returned by the scrub read from the marked channel is stale, performing a scrub writeback of corrected data to the marked channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Luis A. Lastras, Patrick J. Meaney, Eldee Stephens, George C. Wellwood
  • Publication number: 20150309941
    Abstract: An aspect of this invention is a method for providing a PreSET region in a memory device wherein the PreSET region includes one or more lines of the memory device which have been PreSET; performing a write operation on one or more out of place lines of the memory device by writing to the PreSET region instead of writing to an in place line of the memory device; and storing in an indirection table a mapping of each of a respective plurality of logical pages of the memory device to a corresponding physical page of a plurality of physical pages of the memory device, wherein the indirection table keeps track of the one or more out of place lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michele M. Franceschini, Ashish Jagmohan, Moinuddin K. Qureshi, Luis A. Lastras
  • Patent number: 9146883
    Abstract: A memory device may be equipped with quick erase capability to secure the contents of the memory device. The quick erase capability may effectively permanently disable access to data stored in the memory device instantaneously upon a command being issued, making all previous data written to the memory device unreadable. The quick erase capability may allow use of the memory device for new write operations and for reading the newly written data immediately once the erase command is received and executed. The quick erase capability may begin a physical erase process of data not newly written without altering other aspects of the quick erase. Aspects may be accomplished with one or more bits per row in a memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michele M. Franceschini, Hillery C. Hunter, Ashish Jagmohan, Charles A. Kilmer, Kyu-hyoun Kim, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Warren E. Maule
  • Patent number: 9146882
    Abstract: A memory device may be equipped with quick erase capability to secure the contents of the memory device. The quick erase capability may effectively permanently disable access to data stored in the memory device instantaneously upon a command being issued, making all previous data written to the memory device unreadable. The quick erase capability may allow use of the memory device for new write operations and for reading the newly written data immediately once the erase command is received and executed. The quick erase capability may begin a physical erase process of data not newly written without altering other aspects of the quick erase. Aspects may be accomplished with one or more bits per row in a memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michele M. Franceschini, Hillery C. Hunter, Ashish Jagmohan, Charles A. Kilmer, Kyu-hyoun Kim, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Warren E. Maule
  • Patent number: 9128834
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing ECC (Error Correction Codes) memory module communications with a host processor in multi-ported memory configurations in a computer system. Each of multiple memory modules operating in unison is enabled to identify which memory module is the one required to communicate module specific information back to the host processor. All of the multiple memory modules operating in unison are enabled to generate back to the host processor a valid ECC word, while other multiple memory modules individually being unaware of data contents of the one memory module required to communicate back to the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John S. Dodson, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Warren E. Maule, Adam J. McPadden, Kenneth L. Wright
  • Patent number: 9128868
    Abstract: A system to improve error code decoding with retries may include a processing unit that requests data packets, and a queue to hold the data packets for the processing unit. The system may also include a decoder to determine a processing time for each data packet in the queue based upon any errors in each data packet, and if the processing time for a particular data packet is greater than a threshold, then to renew any requests for the data packets that are in the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Piyush C. Patel, Eric E. Retter, Barry M. Trager, Michael R. Trombley, Shmuel Winograd
  • Patent number: 9104568
    Abstract: A method for detecting memory cells that are stuck in a physical state. The method includes performing a diagnostic read of a memory cell in a memory system. The memory system is configured to utilize at least one read threshold value to determine a read data value stored in the memory cell when performing a data read operation on the memory cell. Performing the diagnostic read includes: comparing a measurement property of the memory cell to at least one diagnostic threshold value, where at least one of the diagnostic threshold values is different from all of the read threshold values; and identifying the memory cell as being stuck in a physical state based on the comparing. Based on identifying the memory cell as being stuck in a physical state, an indication that memory cell is stuck is output along with a diagnostic data value associated with the physical state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John P. Karidis, Luis A. Lastras
  • Patent number: 9098425
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing attachment of a user mode foreign device to a memory channel in a computer system. A user mode foreign device is attached to the memory channel using memory mapping of device registers and device buffers to the processor address space. The storage capacity on the device is doubly mapped in the address space creating separate control and data address spaces to allow user mode processes to control the device therefore eliminating the need for software system calls. A processor Memory Management Unit (MMU) coordinates multiple user processes accessing the device registers and buffers providing address space protection of each of interfaces, shifting device protection to the processor MMU from system software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bulent Abali, Michele M. Franceschini, Luis A. Lastras-Montano
  • Publication number: 20150212885
    Abstract: Error checking and correcting (ECC) may be performed in an on-chip memory where an error is corrected by a controller and not the on-chip memory. The controller may be flagged to show that an error has occurred and where it has occurred in the memory. The controller may access ECC bits associated with the error and may fix incorrect data. The error checking may be done in parallel with read operations of the memory so as to lower latency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul W. Coteus, Hillery C. Hunter, Charles A. Kilmer, Kyu-hyoun Kim, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Warren E. Maule, Vipinchandra Patel