Patents by Inventor Matthew E. Broomhall

Matthew E. Broomhall 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: 12299152
    Abstract: A method including: storing, by a computing device, obfuscated metadata from a plurality of interconnected computing environments into respective data puddles; identifying, by the computing device, a behavior of a first computing environment of the plurality of interconnected computing environments; determining, by the computing device, an expected future performance issue associated with a second computing environment of the plurality of interconnected computing environments based on the identified behavior of the first computing environment; identifying, by the computing device, a locus of the expected future performance issue associated with the second computing environment based on the identified behavior of the first computing environment; and outputting, by the computing device and to an operator of the second computing environment, an impact notification and remedial steps being taken to prevent the expected future performance issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dore Isadore Teichman, Matthew E. Broomhall, Philip Richard Evangelista, Kelly Grant Lee
  • Patent number: 12266053
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a computer system that includes a processor electronically coupled to a memory. The processor is operable to perform processor operations that include determining that a user is in a virtual reality (VR) environment and accessing a multisensory state associated with the VR environment and the user. A multisensory declutter analysis is applied to the multisensory state to generate decluttered multisensory streams. The decluttered multisensory streams are used to generate a decluttered multisensory view associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo
  • Patent number: 12229725
    Abstract: A system for generating of posts, the system including: a server; and a network connection for the server; the server to: maintain a database of users and corresponding user behavior when generating a post on a specific topic; match a first user generating a current post and a topic of the current post to user behavior in the database; based on the matching user behavior from the database, identify different versions during development of the current post; and dictate distribution of different versions of the post based on the matching user behavior from the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Lin Sun, Liam S. Harpur, Matthew E. Broomhall
  • Publication number: 20240331851
    Abstract: Tracking unregulated device usage in a clinical setting is provided. A patient caseload for a medical device is determined via electronic health record (EHR) data for the clinical setting. A capacity for the medical device in the clinical setting is determined by accessing an electronic inventory. Overcapacity of the medical device is determined based on the capacity and the patient caseload. An alert on unregulated device usage is generated in response to determining the overcapacity of the medical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo
  • Publication number: 20240311876
    Abstract: In an approach to improve enhancing advertising effectiveness in a virtual environment, embodiments identify placement context for an identified advertisement in a predetermined area in a virtual world based on received advertisements, visual data from a user, identified contextual data, and the identified objects in the predetermined area. Further, embodiments associate the advertisement and the placement context with a priming event or an object, wherein the object is an object associated with the advertisement, and select, for the user in the virtual world, a timing and position of the priming event or the object in a presentation window. Additionally, embodiments present, by a client computer through a user interface, the priming event or the object when the user is within the presentation window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Robert E. Loredo, Matthew E. Broomhall
  • Patent number: 12080396
    Abstract: A system and method of visually displaying healthcare protocols to a user receives from the user, via an electronic communications network, search term(s) associated with a health-related condition. A corpus of document(s) stored in an electronic format is identified with a computer and, based on the search term(s), at least one of the document(s) is analyzed with the computer for a treatment protocol associated with the health-related condition. First content for presentation to the user is determined with the computer, the first content including at least a portion of the treatment protocol associated with the health-related condition. A risk value indicative of risk(s) associated with the first content is determined. In response to a determination that the risk value exceeds the risk threshold, second content for presentation is determined by reformatting the first content. A message is sent causing the second content to be visually displayed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo
  • Publication number: 20240273817
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a computer system that includes a processor electronically coupled to a memory. The processor is operable to perform processor operations that include determining that a user is in a virtual reality (VR) environment and accessing a multisensory state associated with the VR environment and the user. A multisensory declutter analysis is applied to the multisensory state to generate decluttered multisensory streams. The decluttered multisensory streams are used to generate a decluttered multisensory view associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo
  • Patent number: 12014836
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product to prevent misinterpretation of communications via artificial intelligence assistants. The method includes monitoring an artificial intelligence enabled communication. The method also includes analyzing messages, participants, and actions within the communication. The method also includes identifying critical data within the communication. The method also includes determining critical sequence data, where the critical sequence data is a sequence of conversation elements that contains the critical data. The method also includes predicting an uncertainty level for the critical sequence data, where the uncertainty level indicates an amount of uncertainty that the artificial intelligence correctly interprets the critical sequence data. The method also includes determining that the uncertainty level for the critical sequence data is above a threshold uncertainty value, resulting in critical sequence data that is subject to misinterpretation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo
  • Patent number: 12002459
    Abstract: A baseline of behavior is determined for a population of users that interact with an autonomous agent that is configured to respond to natural language prompts of users of the population using respective user profiles for each user. An element associated with a first user that deviates more than a threshold amount from the baseline is identified. In response to the element deviating more than the threshold amount, the autonomous agent is caused to engage the first user unprompted regarding the element via an engagement that is configured to verify an association between the first user and the element. A response from the first user regarding the engagement is determined to verify the association between the first user and the element. A first user profile that corresponds to the first user is updated in response to determining that the first user response verifies the association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Robert E. Loredo, Matthew E. Broomhall
  • Patent number: 11973595
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for recasting repetitive messages is provided. Embodiments may include receiving, by a processor, a message. Embodiments may include determining, by the processor, whether the received message is repetitive. Embodiments may include rating, by the processor, an importance level of the received message. Embodiments may include determining a preference for recasting the received message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo
  • Patent number: 11928611
    Abstract: In an approach for conversational interchange optimization, a processor monitors conversations in a communication system. A processor generates a list of topics in the conversations. A processor determines a flow for each topic based on length of time, number of participants, and sentiment associated to each topic. The flow is the progress of interactions and shifts for each topic. A processor builds a statistical model for each topic based on the flow to predict success or failure of a topic progression for an incoming conversation. A processor updates the topic progression for the incoming conversation based on the predicted success or failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Liam S. Harpur, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo
  • Patent number: 11853372
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for improving the discoverability of messages on a social network. The creation of a proposed message that requests a response from a target audience is detected. The social network is then searched to identify search terms and posts related to the proposed message. Upon identifying the search terms, the search terms are ranked in order of usage among the identified posts. A list of identified search terms in order of rank is then presented to the user to modify the proposed message. The proposed message is modified using a search term selected by the user from the list of search terms. The modified message is then posted on the social network. In this manner, the message created by the user has been modified to improve the discoverability of the message on the social network and to increase responses from an appropriate target audience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Thomas J. Evans, IV, Robert E. Loredo
  • Patent number: 11805089
    Abstract: Conversation slipstream propagation can include using machine learning to construct a conversations graph representing conversations conducted over an electronic communications network by a plurality of participants and collected from one or more messaging platforms. A conversation slipstream comprising one or more communications extracted from the conversations can be generated in response to receiving a secondary communication over the electronic communications network. Each of the one or more communications extracted is represented by a sub-graph of the conversations graph, each sub-graph corresponding to a graph of the secondary communication. The conversation slipstream can be presented to at least one participant to the secondary communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Robert E. Loredo, Fang Lu, Matthew E. Broomhall
  • Patent number: 11757812
    Abstract: Interleaved conversation concept flow enhancement can include detecting a topic of an on-going conversation over an electronic communication system. In response to detecting a topic newly introduced into the on-going conversation, a topic-divergence metric (TDM) with respect to the original topic and the newly introduced topic can be determined. A topic-divergence response action can be initiated in response to the newly introduced topic diverging from the original topic by more than a predetermined threshold based on the TDM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Fang Lu, Robert E. Loredo, Matthew E. Broomhall
  • Patent number: 11734327
    Abstract: The method, computer program product and computer system may include computing device which may collect application data from an application and archive the application data into a datastore. The computing device may generate a network graph based on the archived application data. The computing device may detect a new message, containing content on one or more topics, posted in the application by an author. The computing device may determine familiarity of an anticipated user with the content of the new message and associate the new message with a message history in the application based on the anticipated user. The computing device may generate a message content summary of the new message based on the message history and present message content summary to the anticipated user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Robert E. Loredo, Liam S. Harpur, Matthew E. Broomhall
  • Patent number: 11734371
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for recommending additional content to an author generating authored content is provided. The present invention may include monitoring a travel location associated with the author. The present invention may include calculating a multi-sensory region based on the travel location and a maximum sense distance value. The present invention may include selecting at least one piece of additional content from a corpus of additional content based on the multi-sensory region. The present invention may include generating a model based on the at least one piece of additional content. The present invention may include selecting a relevant piece of additional content from the data model based on determining a topic associated with the relevant piece of additional content matches an authored topic associated with the authored content. The present invention may include presenting the selected relevant piece of additional content to the author.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Robert E. Loredo, Matthew E. Broomhall
  • Patent number: 11716531
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product improve the quality of multimedia. The method includes displaying a current frame of a video. The method also includes generating dataframes for the current frame and for a reference frame of the video. The method further includes comparing the dataframes for the reference and current frames. In addition, the method includes determining a quality metric of the current frame based on the comparison of the dataframes for the reference and current frames. Finally, the method includes altering an orientation of the display of the current frame in response to determining that the quality metric of the current frame is below a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Robert E. Loredo, Matthew E. Broomhall
  • Patent number: 11640821
    Abstract: A method for controlling a plurality of environmental factors that trigger a negative emotional state is provided. The method may include analyzing a plurality of user data when a user experiences a plurality of various environmental factors. The method may also include determining an emotional state experienced by the user when each of the plurality of various environmental factors is present based on the plurality of user data. The method may include receiving a plurality of calendar information associated with a user account. The method may also include identifying an upcoming event based on the plurality of calendar information. The method may include identifying an environmental factor within the plurality of various environmental factors is present at the upcoming event. The method may also include, in response to determining the environmental factor causes the user to experience a negative emotional state, executing an accommodation method based on the environmental factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo, Fang Lu
  • Patent number: 11599525
    Abstract: A computer system provides access to data during an outage. A plurality of data records are analyzed to identify entities whose data records indicate that a service is within an upcoming time period. A data resource is generated for each identified entity and the data resources for the identified entities are stored within a repository, wherein each data resource includes data obtained from a data record of a corresponding identified entity that is relevant to the service. The data resource of an identified entity is accessed with a corresponding recovery key during the outage and transform the data resource into one or more printable forms. The one or more printable forms are transmitted to one or more providers of the service. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for providing access to data during an outage in substantially the same manner described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo
  • Publication number: 20230056422
    Abstract: A method including: storing, by a computing device, obfuscated metadata from a plurality of interconnected computing environments into respective data puddles; identifying, by the computing device, a behavior of a first computing environment of the plurality of interconnected computing environments; determining, by the computing device, an expected future performance issue associated with a second computing environment of the plurality of interconnected computing environments based on the identified behavior of the first computing environment; identifying, by the computing device, a locus of the expected future performance issue associated with the second computing environment based on the identified behavior of the first computing environment; and outputting, by the computing device and to an operator of the second computing environment, an impact notification and remedial steps being taken to prevent the expected future performance issue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Dore Isadore Teichman, Matthew E. Broomhall, Philip Richard Evangelista, Kelly Grant Lee