Patents by Inventor Nicholas Michael Wilkin

Nicholas Michael Wilkin 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).

  • Publication number: 20240054282
    Abstract: An embodiment includes identifying, from among the plurality of digital content datasets, a set of candidate textual items based on relevance to a specified subtopic using one or more natural language processing techniques. The embodiment groups candidate textual items into a predetermined number of groups using relevance scores and feature vectors. The embodiment trains a pre-trained encoder-decoder model using a designated group of selected textual items, where the pre-trained encoder-decoder model is pretrained to generate textual content according to a particular style of writing. The embodiment generates, using the pre-trained encoder-decoder model, machine-authored textual content in the particular style of writing resulting in an article about the specified subtopic based on the designated group of selected textual items. The embodiment also includes transmitting the article to a remote web server as an update for a website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Nicholas Michael Wilkin, Gray Franklin Cannon, Christian Eggenberger
  • Patent number: 11681876
    Abstract: An embodiment calculates a point of view (POV) value for a subportion of an item of media content, including evaluating user inputs related to an automatically detected POV of the subportion of the item. The embodiment also calculates a non-factual cost for the subportion of the item indicative of an amount of the subportion of the item that lacks support in a fact-based corpora. The embodiment also performs a cascaded summarization process comprising generating a summary of the item using the subportion of the item and a summarization technique, analyzing the summary using a fact-checking algorithm to determine whether the summary satisfies a factual score threshold, and performing a next iteration of the cascaded summarization process while the summary fails to satisfy the factual score threshold. The embodiment also communicates a summary satisfying the factual score threshold to a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aaron K Baughman, Sai Krishna Reddy Gudimetla, Nicholas Michael Wilkin, Guy Feigenblat
  • Patent number: 11675822
    Abstract: A relevant factoid(s) related to multimedia data is generated by splitting a multimedia item into a media component and a text component. Text information is retrieved relevant to text data from the text component using a query. The text information is summarized into a factoid. Source data is checked for an image based on the multimedia component. A current state image is generated from the image. The factoid and the current state image are combined into a combined factoid, and the combined factoid is stored for sending to a media outlet for presentation on a media format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Stephen C. Hammer, Corey B. Shelton, Nicholas Michael Wilkin, Sara Perelman
  • Patent number: 11645465
    Abstract: A computer receives a multimedia data, where the multimedia data comprises a plurality of frames. The computer converts the multimedia data into a signal wave having a plurality of frequencies and a plurality of amplitudes. The computer determines a frame from the plurality of frames having a pronoun. The computer identifies a topic of the frame. The computer searches for a frame in a media repository having a highest correlation coefficient with the topic of the frame, where the frame from the media repository comprises a bag of objects and resolves the anaphora disambiguation by substituting the pronoun with an object from the bag of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Mauro Marzorati, Gary Francis Diamanti, Nicholas Michael Wilkin
  • Patent number: 11475211
    Abstract: An embodiment includes identifying, from among the plurality of digital content datasets, a set of candidate textual items based on relevance to a specified subtopic using one or more natural language processing techniques. The embodiment groups candidate textual items into a predetermined number of groups using relevance scores and feature vectors. The embodiment trains a pre-trained encoder-decoder model using a designated group of selected textual items, where the pre-trained encoder-decoder model is pretrained to generate textual content according to a particular style of writing. The embodiment generates, using the pre-trained encoder-decoder model, machine-authored textual content in the particular style of writing resulting in an article about the specified subtopic based on the designated group of selected textual items. The embodiment also includes transmitting the article to a remote web server as an update for a website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Nicholas Michael Wilkin, Gray Franklin Cannon, Christian Eggenberger
  • Publication number: 20220309245
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing machine learning natural language digital package generation and selection is provided. The method includes receiving from hardware and software sources, factual data associated with an event. In response, natural language digital templates comprising natural language phrase variants for each portion of the factual data is generated. Factual data phrases are generated and packaged into digital packages including at least one natural language phrase variant with respect to each portion of factual data. An initial package is selected by minimizing a number of repetitions of the factual data phrases across the digital packages and digital summaries are extracted. Alignment attributes associated with the digital summaries are determined with respect to the initial package and a final package is selected. A hardware device is enabled for presenting a video stream including the final package with respect to the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Gray Franklin Cannon, Nicholas Michael Wilkin, Eris Opal Rashon Calhoun
  • Publication number: 20220188516
    Abstract: A computer receives a multimedia data, where the multimedia data comprises a plurality of frames. The computer converts the multimedia data into a signal wave having a plurality of frequencies and a plurality of amplitudes. The computer determines a frame from the plurality of frames having a pronoun. The computer identifies a topic of the frame. The computer searches for a frame in a media repository having a highest correlation coefficient with the topic of the frame, where the frame from the media repository comprises a bag of objects and resolves the anaphora disambiguation by substituting the pronoun with an object from the bag of objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Mauro Marzorati, Gary Francis Diamanti, Nicholas Michael Wilkin
  • Publication number: 20220129636
    Abstract: An embodiment calculates a point of view (POV) value for a subportion of an item of media content, including evaluating user inputs related to an automatically detected POV of the subportion of the item. The embodiment also calculates a non-factual cost for the subportion of the item indicative of an amount of the subportion of the item that lacks support in a fact-based corpora. The embodiment also performs a cascaded summarization process comprising generating a summary of the item using the subportion of the item and a summarization technique, analyzing the summary using a fact-checking algorithm to determine whether the summary satisfies a factual score threshold, and performing a next iteration of the cascaded summarization process while the summary fails to satisfy the factual score threshold. The embodiment also communicates a summary satisfying the factual score threshold to a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron K Baughman, Sai Krishna Reddy Gudimetla, Nicholas Michael Wilkin, Guy Feigenblat
  • Publication number: 20220027550
    Abstract: A relevant factoid(s) related to multimedia data is generated by splitting a multimedia item into a media component and a text component. Text information is retrieved relevant to text data from the text component using a query. The text information is summarized into a factoid. Source data is checked for an image based on the multimedia component. A current state image is generated from the image. The factoid and the current state image are combined into a combined factoid, and the combined factoid is stored for sending to a media outlet for presentation on a media format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Stephen C. Hammer, Corey B. Shelton, Nicholas Michael Wilkin, Sara Perelman