Patents by Inventor Martin Prager
Martin Prager 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: 11436713Abstract: A method for determining an application error from a screenshot includes receiving, by a computing device, a computer application screenshot image indicating a computer error has occurred. The computing device analyzes the computer application screenshot image using a machine learning image analysis to determine one or more error regions in the computer application screenshot image. The computing device further processes the analyzed computer application screenshot to extract text from the one or more error regions in the computer application screenshot image. The computing device determines the application error based upon the extracted text. The computing device further automatically applies an automated error fix based upon the determined application error.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Benjamin P. Segal, James William Murdock, IV, Radha Mohan De, Sujoy Roy, John Martin Prager
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Patent number: 11188613Abstract: A method modifies a social media post in response to determining that a hashtag for the social media post diverges from how the hashtag is used by other social media posts. A computing device receives a social media post, which contains a hashtag, and analyzes the social media post using natural language processing and a sentiment analysis to determine a sense and sentiment of the social media post. The computing device receives a plurality of reference social media posts, where each of the reference social media posts contains the hashtag, and utilizes the natural language processing and the sentiment analysis to determine a sense and sentiment of the reference social media posts. In response to determining that the sense and sentiment of the social media post do not match the sense and sentiment of the reference social media posts, the computing device causes the social media post to be altered.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Benjamin P. Segal, James William Murdock, IV, John Martin Prager, Radha Mohan De, Sujoy Roy
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Publication number: 20210256681Abstract: A method for determining an application error from a screenshot includes receiving, by a computing device, a computer application screenshot image indicating a computer error has occurred. The computing device analyzes the computer application screenshot image using a machine learning image analysis to determine one or more error regions in the computer application screenshot image. The computing device further processes the analyzed computer application screenshot to extract text from the one or more error regions in the computer application screenshot image. The computing device determines the application error based upon the extracted text. The computing device further automatically applies an automated error fix based upon the determined application error.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Benjamin P. Segal, James William Murdock, IV, Radha Mohan De, Sujoy Roy, John Martin Prager
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Publication number: 20210165842Abstract: A method modifies a social media post in response to determining that a hashtag for the social media post diverges from how the hashtag is used by other social media posts. A computing device receives a social media post, which contains a hashtag, and analyzes the social media post using natural language processing and a sentiment analysis to determine a sense and sentiment of the social media post. The computing device receives a plurality of reference social media posts, where each of the reference social media posts contains the hashtag, and utilizes the natural language processing and the sentiment analysis to determine a sense and sentiment of the reference social media posts. In response to determining that the sense and sentiment of the social media post do not match the sense and sentiment of the reference social media posts, the computing device causes the social media post to be altered.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2019Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: BENJAMIN P. SEGAL, JAMES WILLIAM MURDOCK, IV, JOHN MARTIN PRAGER, RADHA MOHAN DE, SUJOY ROY
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Patent number: 9940355Abstract: Providing answers to questions. A LAT, a rankable criterion, and a probabilistic criterion are identified in a received query. A set of candidate answers to the question that are instances of the LAT identified in a first data source is generated. Based on the rankable criterion, the candidate answers are ranked. Each candidate answer is assigned a likelihood that the candidate answer satisfies the probabilistic criterion, based on a statistic of occurrences of terms related to the candidate answer and the probabilistic criterion in text passages from a second data source. One or more candidate answers are selected based on the rank and the likelihood of the candidate answers. In another aspect of the invention, a Boolean criterion is also identified in the query and the set of candidate answers is reduced by applying the Boolean criterion.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: John Martin Prager
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Patent number: 9940354Abstract: Providing answers to questions. A LAT, a rankable criterion, and a probabilistic criterion are identified in a received query. A set of candidate answers to the question that are instances of the LAT identified in a first data source is generated. Based on the rankable criterion, the candidate answers are ranked. Each candidate answer is assigned a likelihood that the candidate answer satisfies the probabilistic criterion, based on a statistic of occurrences of terms related to the candidate answer and the probabilistic criterion in text passages from a second data source. One or more candidate answers are selected based on the rank and the likelihood of the candidate answers. In another aspect of the invention, a Boolean criterion is also identified in the query and the set of candidate answers is reduced by applying the Boolean criterion.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: John Martin Prager
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Patent number: 9816278Abstract: A panel, in particular a floor panel, has a core of a wooden material, in particular MDF or HDF, or a wooden material/plastic mixture. A pattern is arranged on a visible side. The visible side is provided on at least one side edge (I, II) with a chamfer running at an angle ? hereto and a length (L). The angle ? of at least one of the chamfers varies over the length (L).Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2010Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: FLOORING TECHNOLOGIES LTD.Inventors: Carsten Groeke, Martin Prager
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Publication number: 20160267392Abstract: Providing answers to questions. A LAT, a rankable criterion, and a probabilistic criterion are identified in a received query. A set of candidate answers to the question that are instances of the LAT identified in a first data source is generated. Based on the rankable criterion, the candidate answers are ranked. Each candidate answer is assigned a likelihood that the candidate answer satisfies the probabilistic criterion, based on a statistic of occurrences of terms related to the candidate answer and the probabilistic criterion in text passages from a second data source. One or more candidate answers are selected based on the rank and the likelihood of the candidate answers. In another aspect of the invention, a Boolean criterion is also identified in the query and the set of candidate answers is reduced by applying the Boolean criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventor: John Martin Prager
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Publication number: 20160267085Abstract: Providing answers to questions. A LAT, a rankable criterion, and a probabilistic criterion are identified in a received query. A set of candidate answers to the question that are instances of the LAT identified in a first data source is generated. Based on the rankable criterion, the candidate answers are ranked. Each candidate answer is assigned a likelihood that the candidate answer satisfies the probabilistic criterion, based on a statistic of occurrences of terms related to the candidate answer and the probabilistic criterion in text passages from a second data source. One or more candidate answers are selected based on the rank and the likelihood of the candidate answers. In another aspect of the invention, a Boolean criterion is also identified in the query and the set of candidate answers is reduced by applying the Boolean criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventor: John Martin Prager
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Patent number: 8340955Abstract: Automated question answering is disclosed that relates to the selection of an answer to a question from a pool of potential answers which are manually or automatically extracted from a large collection of textual documents. The a feature extraction component, a feature combination component, an answer selection component, and an answer presentation component, among others, are included. The input to the system is a set of one or more natural language questions and a collection of textual document The output is a (possibly ranked) set of factual answers to the questions, these answers being extracted from the document collection.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Eric W. Brown, Anni R. Coden, John Martin Prager, Dragomir Radkov Radev, Valerie Samn
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Patent number: 8336272Abstract: A device for locking two building boards connected to one another in a direction (V) perpendicular to a visible side. The device includes a first building board with a lateral edge (I) and a first groove and running parallel to the visible side. The device further includes at least one second building board with a lateral edge (II) and with a second groove and running parallel to the visible side, and a locking element that is placed in the first groove of the first building board to engage in the second groove of the second building board, when both grooves have reached an overlapping position after the connection of the building boards by a vertical lowering movement.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Martin Prager, Ingo Lehnhoff
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Publication number: 20120189988Abstract: Automated question answering is disclosed that relates to the selection of an answer to a question from a pool of potential answers which are manually or automatically extracted from a large collection of textual documents. The a feature extraction component, a feature combination component, an answer selection component, and an answer presentation component, among others, are included. The input to the system is a set of one or more natural language questions and a collection of textual document. The output is a (possibly ranked) set of factual answers to the questions, these answers being extracted from the document collection.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Eric W. Brown, Anni R. Coden, John Martin Prager, Dragomir Radkov Radev, Valerie Samn
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Publication number: 20100314368Abstract: A panel, in particular a floor panel, has a core of a wooden material, in particular MDF or HDF, or a wooden material/plastic mixture. A pattern is arranged on a visible side. The visible side is provided on at least one side edge (I, II) with a chamfer running at an angle ? hereto and a length (L). The angle ? of at least one of the chamfers varies over the length (L).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Carsten GROEKE, Martin PRAGER
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Patent number: 7827749Abstract: A panel, in particular a floor panel, has a core of a wooden material, in particular MDF or HDF, or a wooden material/plastic mixture. A pattern is arranged on a visible side. The visible side is provided on at least one side edge (I, II) with a chamfer running at an angle ? hereto and a length (L). The angle ? of at least one of the chamfers varies over the length (L).Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2006Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Carsten Groeke, Martin Prager
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Publication number: 20090173032Abstract: A device for locking two building boards connected to one another, in particular flooring panels with a core of wood material or wood material/plastic mixture, in a direction (V) perpendicular to a visible side. The device includes a first building board with a lateral edge (I) and a first groove provided in the core of the building board and running parallel to the visible side. The device further includes at least one second building board with a lateral edge (II) and with a second groove provided in the core of the building board and running parallel to the visible side, and a locking element that is placed in the first groove of the first building board in order to engage in the second groove of the second building board, when both grooves have reached an overlapping position after the connection of the building boards by a vertical lowering movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2009Publication date: July 9, 2009Applicant: FLOORING TECHNOLOGIES Ltd.Inventors: Martin PRAGER, Ingo Lehnhoff
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Publication number: 20080201132Abstract: Automated question answering is disclosed that relates to the selection of an answer to a question from a pool of potential answers which awe manually or automatically extracted from a large collection of textual documents. The a feature extraction component, a feature combination component, an answer selection component, and an answer presentation component, among others, are included. The input to the system is a set of one or more natural language questions and a collection of textual document The output is a (possibly ranked) set of factual answers to the questions, these answers being extracted from the document collection.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Eric W. Brown, Anni R. Coden, John Martin Prager, Dragomir Radkov Radev, Valerie Samn
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Publication number: 20080011167Abstract: A device for finishing the surface of a building board of a pressed wood material, in particular MDF or HDF, or a wood material/plastic mixture, by embossing a structure or printing a pattern, with a pressing plate engraved according to the structure or the pattern and a tool carrier supported in a press device. The tool carrier is embodied as a hollow body and the pressing plate is releasably attached to the tool carrier directly and over the entire surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Applicant: FLOORING TECHNOLOGIES LTD.Inventors: Martin PRAGER, Frank OLDORFF
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Publication number: 20070175160Abstract: A panel, in particular a floor panel, has a core of a wooden material, in particular MDF or HDF, or a wooden material/plastic mixture. A pattern is arranged on a visible side. The visible side is provided on at least one side edge (I, II) with a chamfer running at an angle a hereto and a length (L). The angle a of at least one of the chamfers varies over the length (L).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2006Publication date: August 2, 2007Applicant: FLOORING TECHNOLOGIES LTD.Inventors: Carsten Groeke, Martin Prager
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Patent number: 6665666Abstract: The present invention is a system, method, and program product that comprises a computer with a collection of documents to be searched. The documents contain free form (natural language) text. We define a set of labels called QA-Tokens, which function as abstractions of phrases or question-types. We define a pattern file, which consists of a number of pattern records, each of which has a question template, an associated question word pattern, and an associated set of QA-Tokens. We describe a query-analysis process which receives a query as input and matches it to one or more of the question templates, where a priority algorithm determines which match is used if there is more than one. The query-analysis process then replaces the associated question word pattern in the matching query with the associated set of QA-Tokens, and possibly some other words. This results in a processed query having some combination of original query tokens, new tokens from the pattern file, and QA-Tokens, possibly with weights.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2000Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Eric William Brown, Anni R. Coden, John Martin Prager, Dragomir Radkov Radev
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Patent number: 6003027Abstract: After a categorization process has been run, the scores of the top-two ranking categories along with the size or number of features in the object being categorized, are passed to a confidence assignment process. This determines a value for the confidence in the top category based on the evidence afforded by the input parameters. The magnitude of this confidence value will determine whether the system can accept the automatic categorization results, or whether human involvement is required. This invention also describes the process of determining the optimal value of an internal scaling parameter in the confidence assignment process. The construction of a threshold table based on this parameter is also described. The threshold table matches confidence values against error levels. For a given error rate the previously assigned confidence determines whether the categorization results can be accepted without need for human intervention.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1997Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: John Martin Prager