Patents by Inventor Maria Rene Ebling
Maria Rene Ebling 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: 9323805Abstract: A system and method for managing provenance data are disclosed. In accordance with one method, input data elements assessed by a processing element are evaluated. The method further includes determining whether an input window comprising the input data elements includes a sufficient amount of relevant input data. If the input window does not include a sufficient amount of relevant input data, then the input data elements are designated for reference in response to a provenance query.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: John Sidney Davis, II, Maria Rene Ebling, Chitra Venkatramani, Min Wang
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Patent number: 9109928Abstract: Methods and apparatus of adaptively transmitting data are provided. Data for transmission from one or more incoming data streams is determined in accordance with at least one characteristic of a respective one of the one or more data streams and at least one context external of the data stream. A compression technique for the data and a transmission strategy for the data are modified in accordance with the data determined for transmission.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2007Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Maria Rene Ebling, William Francis Jerome, Archan Misra, Iqbal I. Mohomed
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Patent number: 8949420Abstract: A method of pre-fetching and preparing content in an information processing system is provided. The method includes the steps of generating at least one content pre-fetching policy and at least one content preparation policy, wherein each of the policies are at least in part a function of context information associated with a user. The content is pre-fetched based on information contained within the at least one content pre-fetching policy. Once the content has been pre-fetched, it is prepared based on information contained within the at least one content preparation policy. The context information associated with the user includes at least one of the user's usage patterns, current location, future plans and preferences.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Guruduth Somesekhara Banavar, Maria Rene Ebling, Guerney Douglas S. Holloway Hunt, Hui Lei, Daby Mousse Sow
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Patent number: 8917857Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for routing incoming customer service requests directly to the most appropriate destination within a call center without requiring customer knowledge of a specific telephone number or extension to call and without requiring the customer to select from a series of menus. The receiving location or inbound call center accepts a voice call from a customer. The incoming voice call includes an associated data stream. This data stream is processed by the inbound call center and is used to route the call to the appropriate destination or customer service representative, for example a specific person, a department, a subsidiary, an individual either working within a facility or working outside the facility, a subcontractor and combinations thereof. Additional functionality is provided by including additional data, e.g. data in addition to routing data, along with voice data.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2012Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Maria Rene Ebling, William Francis Jerome, Barry Leiba, Edith Helen Stern
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Patent number: 8904044Abstract: Techniques for selecting a new compression technique or altering the currently instantiated compression technique employed over a data stream in data collection system are provided. At least one change to at least one external contextual condition is detected. One or more modifications to a defined compression technique is generated, either independently or in conjunction with one or more modifications to the event processing operators that operate on the data stream and whose output provides the values that are compressed by the defined compression technique, in response to the at least one change to the at least one external contextual condition. The defined compression technique of the at least one client device is altered in accordance with the one or more modifications to form a modified compression technique through which the unmodified or processed data stream will be compressed before being sent to the server.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Maria Rene Ebling, William Francis Jerome, Archan Misra, Iqbal Mohomed
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Patent number: 8775573Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for localized adaptation of client devices based on correlation or learning at a remote server. For example, a method for modifying a behavior of a client device in a data collection system, wherein the client device collects data and transmits data to a server, includes the following steps. The client device transmits data to the server. The server uses at least a portion of the data received from the client device to generate information that represents a modification to a behavior of the client device. The server device transmits the generated information to the client device. The client device subsequently alters the behavior of the client device based on the information received from the server.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2008Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporarionInventors: Maria Rene Ebling, William Francis Jerome, Archan Misra, Iqbal I. Mohomed
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Patent number: 8775344Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for determining and validating provenance data in such data stream processing systems. For example, a method for processing data associated with a data stream received by a data stream processing system, wherein the system comprises a plurality of processing elements, comprises the following steps. Input data elements and output data elements associated with at least one processing element of the plurality of processing elements are obtained. One or more intervals are computed for the processing element using data representing observations of associations between inputs elements and output elements of the processing element, wherein, for a given one of the intervals, one or more particular input elements contained within the given interval are determined to have contributed to a particular output element. In another method, intervals are specified, and then validated by comparing the specified intervals against intervals computed based on observations.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2008Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marion Lee Blount, John Sidney Davis, II, Maria Rene Ebling, Archan Misra, Daby Mousse Sow, Min Wang
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Patent number: 8688549Abstract: Data validation techniques are provided. For example, such techniques complement user entries associated with events of interest through context. In one aspect of the invention, a technique for processing one or more user entries associated with one or more events of interest includes the following steps/operations. Context associated with the one or more events of interest is obtained. At least a portion of the obtained context is associated with one or more user entries representing events of interest. At least a portion of the one or more user entries is evaluated, responsive to at least a portion of the context. An indication of the one or more events of interest is provided, responsive to the evaluation.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2013Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Maria Rene Ebling, Edith Helen Stern, Pnina Vortman
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Patent number: 8576835Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for propagating contextual data in an audio communication by storing the contextual data obtained from a calling party in an extensible mark-up language formatted text document. A telephone call between a first party and a second party is converted to a session initiation protocol based voice over internet protocol communication, and the stored text document is attached to session initiation protocol messages that control the voice over internet protocol communication. The document is attached to the signaling messages by embedding the text document in a session description payload associated with the session initiation protocol message. The attached document is propagated with the audio communication, including when the signaling messages are used to transfer the audio communication from the second party to a third party or to add one or more addition parties to the audio communication.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2008Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Arup Acharya, Maria Rene Ebling, Zon-Yin Shae, Edith Helen Stern, Dinesh Verma
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Patent number: 8516114Abstract: A method of pre-fetching and preparing content in an information processing system is provided. The method includes the steps of generating at least one content pre-fetching policy and at least one content preparation policy, wherein each of the policies are at least in part a function of context information associated with a user. The content is pre-fetched based on information contained within the at least one content pre-fetching policy. Once the content has been pre-fetched, it is prepared based on information contained within the at least one content preparation policy. The context information associated with the user includes at least one of the user's usage patterns, current location, future plans and preferences.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2002Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Guruduth Somasekhara Banavar, Maria Rene Ebling, Guerney Douglass Holloway Hunt, Hui Lei, Daby Mousse Sow
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Patent number: 8494928Abstract: Data validation techniques are provided. For example, such techniques complement user entries associated with events of interest through context. In one aspect of the invention, a technique for processing one or more user entries associated with one or more events of interest includes the following steps/operations. Context associated with the one or more events of interest is obtained. At least a portion of the obtained context is associated with one or more user entries representing events of interest. At least a portion of the one or more user entries is evaluated, responsive to at least a portion of the context. An indication of the one or more events of interest is provided, responsive to the evaluation.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2008Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Maria Rene Ebling, Edith Helen Stern, Pnina Vortman
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Patent number: 8392397Abstract: A system and method for selection of a provenance dependency function in a stream-based data processing infrastructure to optimize backtracing performance in response to a provenance query includes determining performance of a set of dependency functions associated with an analysis component for determining relevancy of each input event received by the analysis component. The relevancy of each input event is determined according to each dependency function and storing a record of relevant events according to a recording method. Relevancy results of the dependency functions are aggregated, and the dependency functions are ordered according to a criterion. Data provenance is provided for a given output event using the input event recording method associated with a best dependency function according to the criterion.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2008Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: John Sidney Davis, II, Maria Rene Ebling, Chitra Venkatramani, Min Wang
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Patent number: 8351596Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for routing incoming customer service requests directly to the most appropriate destination within a call center without requiring customer knowledge of a specific telephone number or extension to call and without requiring the customer to select from a series of menus. The receiving location or inbound call center accepts a voice call from a customer. The incoming voice call includes an associated data stream. This data stream is processed by the inbound call center and is used to route the call to the appropriate destination or customer service representative, for example a specific person, a department, a subsidiary, an individual either working within a facility or working outside the facility, a subcontractor and combinations thereof. Additional functionality is provided by including additional data, e.g. data in addition to routing data, along with voice data.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Maria Rene Ebling, William Francis Jerome, Barry Leiba, Edith Helen Stern
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Publication number: 20120307996Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for routing incoming customer service requests directly to the most appropriate destination within a call center without requiring customer knowledge of a specific telephone number or extension to call and without requiring the customer to select from a series of menus. The receiving location or inbound call center accepts a voice call from a customer. The incoming voice call includes an associated data stream. This data stream is processed by the inbound call center and is used to route the call to the appropriate destination or customer service representative, for example a specific person, a department, a subsidiary, an individual either working within a facility or working outside the facility, a subcontractor and combinations thereof. Additional functionality is provided by including additional data, e.g. data in addition to routing data, along with voice data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Maria Rene Ebling, William Francis Jerome, Barry Leiba, Edith Helen Stern
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Method and apparatus for maintaining and processing provenance data in data stream processing system
Patent number: 8301626Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for maintaining and processing provenance data in such data stream processing systems. For example, a method for processing data associated with a data stream received by a data stream processing system, wherein the system comprises a plurality of processing elements, comprising the following steps. A portion of data associated with the data stream is maintained. The maintained data comprises inputs to each processing element that contributed to an output of each processing element. In response to an alert generated by one of the processing elements, a scheduler is triggered to determine when a pre-calculation of a prospective query related to the alert should be executed. In response to the scheduler, at least a portion of the maintained data is used to determine a set of data that contributed to the alert such that the alert-contributing set of data can be used to respond to the prospective query upon arrival thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2008Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Marion Lee Blount, John Sidney Davis, II, Maria Rene Ebling, Archan Misra, Daby Mousse Sow, Min Wang -
Method and Apparatus for Determining and Validating Provenance Data in Data Stream Processing System
Publication number: 20090292818Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for determining and validating provenance data in such data stream processing systems. For example, a method for processing data associated with a data stream received by a data stream processing system, wherein the system comprises a plurality of processing elements, comprises the following steps. Input data elements and output data elements associated with at least one processing element of the plurality of processing elements are obtained. One or more intervals are computed for the processing element using data representing observations of associations between inputs elements and output elements of the processing element, wherein, for a given one of the intervals, one or more particular input elements contained within the given interval are determined to have contributed to a particular output element. In another method, intervals are specified, and then validated by comparing the specified intervals against intervals computed based on observations.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2008Publication date: November 26, 2009Inventors: Marion Lee Blount, John Sidney Davis, II, Maria Rene Ebling, Archan Misra, Daby Mousse Sow, Min Wang -
Method and Apparatus for Maintaining and Processing Provenance Data in Data Stream Processing System
Publication number: 20090292729Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for maintaining and processing provenance data in such data stream processing systems. For example, a method for processing data associated with a data stream received by a data stream processing system, wherein the system comprises a plurality of processing elements, comprising the following steps. A portion of data associated with the data stream is maintained. The maintained data comprises inputs to each processing element that contributed to an output of each processing element. In response to an alert generated by one of the processing elements, a scheduler is triggered to determine when a pre-calculation of a prospective query related to the alert should be executed. In response to the scheduler, at least a portion of the maintained data is used to determine a set of data that contributed to the alert such that the alert-contributing set of data can be used to respond to the prospective query upon arrival thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2008Publication date: November 26, 2009Inventors: Marion Lee Blount, John Sidney Davis, II, Maria Rene Ebling, Archan Misra, Daby Mousse Sow, Min Wang -
Publication number: 20090287750Abstract: A method of pre-fetching and preparing content in an information processing system is provided. The method includes the steps of generating at least one content pre-fetching policy and at least one content preparation policy, wherein each of the policies are at least in part a function of context information associated with a user. The content is pre-fetched based on information contained within the at least one content pre-fetching policy. Once the content has been pre-fetched, it is prepared based on information contained within the at least one content preparation policy. The context information associated with the user includes at least one of the user's usage patterns, current location, future plans and preferences.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Guruduth Somasekhara Banavar, Maria Rene Ebling, Guerney Douglas Halloway Hunt, Hui Lei, Daby Mousse Sow
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Patent number: 7603115Abstract: A system and method for restoring communications through breaks in wireless coverage includes identifying a coverage gap in a wireless coverage area and notifying system users of the existence of the coverage gap. Connection information is distributed to other base stations to automatically reconnect parties upon exiting the coverage gap.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2005Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Guruduth Somasekhara Banavar, Maria Rene Ebling
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Publication number: 20090234833Abstract: A system and method for selection of a provenance dependency function in a stream-based data processing infrastructure to optimize backtracing performance in response to a provenance query includes determining performance of a set of dependency functions associated with an analysis component for determining relevancy of each input event received by the analysis component. The relevancy of each input event is determined according to each dependency function and storing a record of relevant events according to a recording method. Relevancy results of the dependency functions are aggregated, and the dependency functions are ordered according to a criterion. Data provenance is provided for a given output event using the input event recording method associated with a best dependency function according to the criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2008Publication date: September 17, 2009Inventors: JOHN SIDNEY DAVIS, II, Maria Rene Ebling, Chitra Venkatramani, Min Wang