Patents by Inventor Mari Fukuda

Mari Fukuda 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: 11279344
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for preemptive collision mitigation is provided. The present invention may include calculating a future position of a first vehicle based on carprobe data from a first vehicle, wherein the carprobe data contains neural data of an operator of the first vehicle. The present invention may also include calculating a distance between the future position of the first vehicle and a future position of a second vehicle. The present invention may then include determining the calculated distance between the future position of the first vehicle and the future position of the second vehicle is below a threshold distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Takasaki, Mari A. Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11257110
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for augmenting missing values in historical or market data for deals. The method comprises receiving information relating to a set of deals. For any service included in one or more deals of the set of deals but not included in one or more other deals of the set of deals, the method further comprises augmenting, for any or all of the one or more other deals that does not include the service, one or more missing values for the service with one or more recommended values based on a recommendation algorithm. The service may be at any service level of a hierarchy of services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mari A. Fukuda, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Shun Jiang, Aly Megahed, Taiga Nakamura, Mark A. Smith
  • Patent number: 11188882
    Abstract: A system and method for scheduling a business process including tasks, comprises a calculation unit, a determination unit, and a decision unit. The calculation unit is configured to calculate an estimated processing time required to execute the tasks. The determination unit is configured to calculate an estimated end time of a route including the tasks on the basis of the estimated processing time and schedule of a user to execute the tasks, and determine whether to apply speculative execution to the business process on the basis of the estimated end time. The decision unit is configured to decide to speculatively execute a task out of the tasks in the business process. The decision is made with reference to a remaining period for executing the task. The remaining period is calculated on the basis of a predicted execution timing of each task and a deadline of the business process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mari A. Fukuda, Ai Yoshino, Takuya Nakaike
  • Patent number: 11120460
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving historic peer deals relating to at least one service, and a baseline and cost percentage estimation for each service. Historic peer cost data for each service is clustered to form at least one cluster. Each cluster includes similar unit costs, and has an assigned label. A classification model is trained based on each baseline received, each cost percentage estimation received, and each assigned label. For each assigned label, a corresponding probability distribution is computed based on the classification model. For each service of a new client solution, an assigned label for the service is predicted based on the classification model, and, based on a probability distribution corresponding to the assigned label predicted, transforming an initial range of historic peer cost data relating to the service into a narrower range for use in estimating a cost of the service with improved accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mari A. Fukuda, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Shun Jiang, Aly S. Megahed, Taiga Nakamura, Mark A. Smith
  • Publication number: 20210271534
    Abstract: A computational device maintains indications of a plurality of events associated with navigation of a plurality of vehicles in a geographical area. A determination is made as to whether to delete an event from the plurality of events, by performing: transmitting, by an event deletion manager, a query to a plurality of deletion determination agents on whether to delete the event; receiving, by the event deletion manager, an indication from the plurality of deletion determination agents whether to delete the event; and aggregating, by the event deletion manager, indications received from the plurality of deletion determination agents to determine whether to delete the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Mari A. Fukuda, Yuhko K. Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11062063
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for generation of vehicle travel data. Past-travel data including previously taken trips, along with metadata including, but not limited to, vehicle type, vehicle model, navigation device model, are obtained and classified. A travel route for simulation data is selected. Data from various previous trips are combined to create a simulation data set for the travel route. This data is based on actual vehicle data. This can enable a new level of accuracy for data analysis and simulations based on this data as compared with purely simulated data. Actual vehicle data accounts for driver behavior, road obstacles, signage, vegetation, vehicle characteristics, and other factors that may not be able to be captured with purely simulated traffic data. Using the data generated by disclosed embodiments enables these factors to be considered in traffic analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shoichiro Watanabe, Mari A. Fukuda, Yasutaka Nishimura, Asuka Unno, Satoshi Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20210182900
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for augmenting missing values in historical or market data for deals. The method comprises receiving information relating to a set of deals. For any service included in one or more deals of the set of deals but not included in one or more other deals of the set of deals, the method further comprises augmenting, for any or all of the one or more other deals that does not include the service, one or more missing values for the service with one or more recommended values based on a recommendation algorithm. The service may be at any service level of a hierarchy of services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Mari A. Fukuda, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Shun Jiang, Aly Megahed, Taiga Nakamura, Mark A. Smith
  • Patent number: 11030019
    Abstract: A computational device maintains indications of a plurality of events associated with navigation of a plurality of vehicles in a geographical area. A determination is made as to whether to delete an event from the plurality of events, by performing: transmitting, by an event deletion manager, a query to a plurality of deletion determination agents on whether to delete the event; receiving, by the event deletion manager, an indication from the plurality of deletion determination agents whether to delete the event; and aggregating, by the event deletion manager, indications received from the plurality of deletion determination agents to determine whether to delete the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mari A. Fukuda, Yuhko K. Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10929872
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for augmenting missing values in historical or market data for deals. The method comprises receiving information relating to a set of deals. For any service included in one or more deals of the set of deals but not included in one or more other deals of the set of deals, the method further comprises augmenting, for any or all of the one or more other deals that does not include the service, one or more missing values for the service with one or more recommended values based on a recommendation algorithm. The service may be at any service level of a hierarchy of services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mari A. Fukuda, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Shun Jiang, Aly Megahed, Taiga Nakamura, Mark A. Smith
  • Patent number: 10902446
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for top-down pricing of an in-flight deal. The method comprises receiving a first set of information relating to the in-flight deal. The in-flight deal comprises multiple services. The method comprises, for each service of the in-flight deal, selecting a corresponding set of peer deals from historical and market data based on the first set of information, and mining costs for the service from the corresponding set of peer deals. The method further comprises determining a set of price points for the in-flight deal based on each cost mined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mari A. Fukuda, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Shun Jiang, Aly Megahed, Taiga Nakamura, Mark A. Smith
  • Publication number: 20200326995
    Abstract: A computational device maintains indications of a plurality of events associated with navigation of a plurality of vehicles in a geographical area. A determination is made as to whether to delete an event from the plurality of events, by performing: transmitting, by an event deletion manager, a query to a plurality of deletion determination agents on whether to delete the event; receiving, by the event deletion manager, an indication from the plurality of deletion determination agents whether to delete the event; and aggregating, by the event deletion manager, indications received from the plurality of deletion determination agents to determine whether to delete the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Mari A. Fukuda, Yuhko K. Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10788330
    Abstract: Generating routes based on aggregated path data includes accumulating trajectory data from a plurality of users, wherein data entries in the trajectory data each include an origin and a destination. When a request for a route from a designated location to a particular destination is received from a particular user, one or more of the data entries are identified as relevant to the request for the route when the origin of a particular data entry is similar to the designated location and the destination of the particular data entry is similar to the particular destination. Route recommendations are generated for the particular user based on one or more data entries identified as relevant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mari Fukuda, Satoshi Hosokawa, Yasutaka Nishimura, Shoichiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200172091
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for preemptive collision mitigation is provided. The present invention may include calculating a future position of a first vehicle based on carprobe data from a first vehicle, wherein the carprobe data contains neural data of an operator of the first vehicle. The present invention may also include calculating a distance between the future position of the first vehicle and a future position of a second vehicle. The present invention may then include determining the calculated distance between the future position of the first vehicle and the future position of the second vehicle is below a threshold distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Kenichi TAKASAKI, Mari A. FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20190311077
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for generation of vehicle travel data. Past-travel data including previously taken trips, along with metadata including, but not limited to, vehicle type, vehicle model, navigation device model, are obtained and classified. A travel route for simulation data is selected. Data from various previous trips are combined to create a simulation data set for the travel route. This data is based on actual vehicle data. This can enable a new level of accuracy for data analysis and simulations based on this data as compared with purely simulated data. Actual vehicle data accounts for driver behavior, road obstacles, signage, vegetation, vehicle characteristics, and other factors that may not be able to be captured with purely simulated traffic data. Using the data generated by disclosed embodiments enables these factors to be considered in traffic analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Shoichiro Watanabe, Mari A. Fukuda, Yasutaka Nishimura, Asuka Unno, Satoshi Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20190197495
    Abstract: A system and method for scheduling a business process including tasks, comprises a calculation unit, a determination unit, and a decision unit. The calculation unit is configured to calculate an estimated processing time required to execute the tasks. The determination unit is configured to calculate an estimated end time of a route including the tasks on the basis of the estimated processing time and schedule of a user to execute the tasks, and determine whether to apply speculative execution to the business process on the basis of the estimated end time. The decision unit is configured to decide to speculatively execute a task out of the tasks in the business process. The decision is made with reference to a remaining period for executing the task. The remaining period is calculated on the basis of a predicted execution timing of each task and a deadline of the business process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Mari A. Fukuda, Ai Yoshino, Takuya Nakaike
  • Patent number: 10282707
    Abstract: A system and method for scheduling a business process including tasks, comprises a calculation unit, a determination unit, and a decision unit. The calculation unit is configured to calculate an estimated processing time required to execute the tasks. The determination unit is configured to calculate an estimated end time of a route including the tasks on the basis of the estimated processing time and schedule of a user to execute the tasks, and determine whether to apply speculative execution to the business process on the basis of the estimated end time. The decision unit is configured to decide to speculatively execute a task out of the tasks in the business process. The decision is made with reference to a remaining period for executing the task. The remaining period is calculated on the basis of a predicted execution timing of each task and a deadline of the business process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mari A. Fukuda, Ai Yoshino, Takuya Nakaike
  • Patent number: 10255611
    Abstract: A hardware computer-implemented method is provided for pricing a current contract for bid that includes generating a tree of the current contract, and generating trees of historical contracts. The contracts each specify respective services. The method includes grouping the trees of historical contracts to form a plurality of groups of trees, based on respective tree distances between the trees in each group. The method includes identifying a group of trees, from the plurality of groups, that is closest to the tree of the current contract by calculating respective distances there between. The method includes calculating a price for the current contract based on gross profits and costs for each service in the identified group. The grouping, identifying, and calculating steps each use different methods, responsive to a service (a) having a baseline; and (b) lacking the baseline, wherein the baseline is a value that indicates a scale of the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mari A. Fukuda, Takayuki Kushida
  • Publication number: 20180188053
    Abstract: Generating routes based on aggregated path data includes accumulating trajectory data from a plurality of users, wherein data entries in the trajectory data each include an origin and a destination. When a request for a route from a designated location to a particular destination is received from a particular user, one or more of the data entries are identified as relevant to the request for the route when the origin of a particular data entry is similar to the designated location and the destination of the particular data entry is similar to the particular destination. Route recommendations are generated for the particular user based on one or more data entries identified as relevant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Mari Fukuda, Satoshi Hosokawa, Yasutaka Nishimura, Shoichiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20170372349
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for augmenting missing values in historical or market data for deals. The method comprises receiving information relating to a set of deals. For any service included in one or more deals of the set of deals but not included in one or more other deals of the set of deals, the method further comprises augmenting, for any or all of the one or more other deals that does not include the service, one or more missing values for the service with one or more recommended values based on a recommendation algorithm. The service may be at any service level of a hierarchy of services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Mari A. Fukuda, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Shun Jiang, Aly Megahed, Taiga Nakamura, Mark A. Smith
  • Publication number: 20170372341
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for top-down pricing of an in-flight deal. The method comprises receiving a first set of information relating to the in-flight deal. The in-flight deal comprises multiple services. The method comprises, for each service of the in-flight deal, selecting a corresponding set of peer deals from historical and market data based on the first set of information, and mining costs for the service from the corresponding set of peer deals. The method further comprises determining a set of price points for the in-flight deal based on each cost mined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Mari A. Fukuda, Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Shun Jiang, Aly Megahed, Taiga Nakamura, Mark A. Smith