Patents by Inventor Michael W. Britt

Michael W. Britt 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: 10147050
    Abstract: Methods to provide selective supporting evidence processing by applying a first machine learning (ML) model to a first candidate answer to generate a first confidence score that does not consider supporting evidence for the first candidate answer, determining, from a second ML model, an expected contribution of processing supporting evidence for the first candidate answer, and upon determining that the expected contribution does not exceed a specified threshold, skipping supporting evidence processing for the first candidate answer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael W. Britt, Adam C. Lange-Pearson, Thomas P. Pitzen, Richard J. Stevens
  • Patent number: 10108906
    Abstract: Systems and computer program products to provide selective supporting evidence processing by applying a first machine learning (ML) model to a first candidate answer to generate a first confidence score that does not consider supporting evidence for the first candidate answer, determining, from a second ML model, an expected contribution of processing supporting evidence for the first candidate answer, and upon determining that the expected contribution does not exceed a specified threshold, skipping supporting evidence processing for the first candidate answer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael W. Britt, Adam C. Lange-Pearson, Thomas P. Pitzen, Richard J. Stevens
  • Patent number: 9652717
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving a case, generating a set of candidate answers for the case, excluding a first candidate answer from the set of candidate answers upon determining that a first attribute in the case precludes returning the first candidate answer as a valid response to the case, and processing supporting evidence for the remaining candidate answers in the set of candidate answers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael W. Britt, Adam C. Lange-Pearson, Thomas P. Pitzen, Richard J. Stevens
  • Patent number: 9489629
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving a case from a user, determining a level of sophistication of the user, determining a level of sophistication associated with each of a plurality of items of supporting evidence in a corpus of information, selecting a subset of the plurality of items of supporting evidence based on the determined levels of sophistication, and returning the selected subset to the user as part of a response to the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael W. Britt, Adam C. Lange-Pearson, Thomas P. Pitzen, Richard J. Stevens
  • Publication number: 20160180233
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving a case, generating a set of candidate answers for the case, excluding a first candidate answer from the set of candidate answers upon determining that a first attribute in the case precludes returning the first candidate answer as a valid response to the case, and processing supporting evidence for the remaining candidate answers in the set of candidate answers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Michael W. BRITT, Adam C. LANGE-PEARSON, Thomas P. PITZEN, Richard J. STEVENS
  • Publication number: 20160180244
    Abstract: Systems and computer program products to provide selective supporting evidence processing by applying a first machine learning (ML) model to a first candidate answer to generate a first confidence score that does not consider supporting evidence for the first candidate answer, determining, from a second ML model, an expected contribution of processing supporting evidence for the first candidate answer, and upon determining that the expected contribution does not exceed a specified threshold, skipping supporting evidence processing for the first candidate answer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Michael W. BRITT, Adam C. LANGE-PEARSON, Thomas P. PITZEN, Richard J. STEVENS
  • Publication number: 20160180224
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving a case from a user, determining a level of sophistication of the user, determining a level of sophistication associated with each of a plurality of items of supporting evidence in a corpus of information, selecting a subset of the plurality of items of supporting evidence based on the determined levels of sophistication, and returning the selected subset to the user as part of a response to the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Michael W. BRITT, Adam C. LANGE-PEARSON, Thomas P. PITZEN, Richard J. STEVENS
  • Publication number: 20160180249
    Abstract: Methods to provide selective supporting evidence processing by applying a first machine learning (ML) model to a first candidate answer to generate a first confidence score that does not consider supporting evidence for the first candidate answer, determining, from a second ML model, an expected contribution of processing supporting evidence for the first candidate answer, and upon determining that the expected contribution does not exceed a specified threshold, skipping supporting evidence processing for the first candidate answer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Michael W. BRITT, Adam C. LANGE-PEARSON, Thomas P. PITZEN, Richard J. STEVENS
  • Patent number: 8615600
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a guest operating system receives first host network information that identifies a host virtual network adapter. The first host network information uniquely identifies the host virtual network adapter. The guest operating system sends a first frame that comprises the first host network information to a guest virtual network adapter. The guest virtual network adapter sends the first frame to the host virtual network adapter. The guest operating system receives second host network information that identifies the host virtual network adapter. The second host network information uniquely identifies the host virtual network adapter. The guest operating system sends a second frame that comprises the second host network information to the guest virtual network adapter. The guest virtual network adapter sends the second frame to the host virtual network adapter identified by the second host network information in the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael W. Britt, Christopher T. Gloe, Chris M. Mwarabu, Thomas P. Pitzen
  • Publication number: 20120084458
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a guest operating system receives first host network information that identifies a host virtual network adapter. The first host network information uniquely identifies the host virtual network adapter. The guest operating system sends a first frame that comprises the first host network information to a guest virtual network adapter. The guest virtual network adapter sends the first frame to the host virtual network adapter. The guest operating system receives second host network information that identifies the host virtual network adapter. The second host network information uniquely identifies the host virtual network adapter. The guest operating system sends a second frame that comprises the second host network information to the guest virtual network adapter. The guest virtual network adapter sends the second frame to the host virtual network adapter identified by the second host network information in the second frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael W. Britt, Christopher T. Gloe, Chris M. Mwarabu, Thomas P. Pitzen