Patents by Inventor Peter Gerstl

Peter Gerstl 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: 20240152494
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of metadata enrichment using an enrichment comprising multiple steps. The method comprises: determining for an input data asset a metadata value descriptive of the input data asset. Characteristics of the metadata value of the input data asset may be determined. At least one informativeness score of the metadata value of the input data asset may be computed using the determined characteristics. An execution of the enrichment step may be skipped in case an input characteristic of the enrichment step is not part of the determined characteristics. In case the input characteristic of the enrichment step is part of the determined characteristics, the enrichment step may be adapted and executed or the enrichment step may be executed without adaptation. Labels resulting from the executed enrichment steps may be combined for providing one or more labels of the data asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Hampp-Bahnmueller, Peter Gerstl, Yannick Saillet, Michael Baessler, Albert Maier, Oliver Suhre
  • Publication number: 20240103923
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for executing a serverless workload on a transient infrastructure is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a request for executing a workload and at least one policy, selecting an infrastructure component of the transient infrastructure for an execution of the workload, wherein the transient infrastructure is implemented utilizing a plurality of geographically distributed computing nodes, and executing the workload on the transient infrastructure. Furthermore, the method comprises upon receiving an interfering event during the execution of the workload causing a stop of the workload execution, freezing the execution of the workload, storing intermediate results and statuses of the workload execution in a cross-domain storage system, terminating the execution of the workload, and continuing the workload execution using the intermediate results and under a constraint defined by the at least one policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Enrico Regge, Michael Beck, Werner Schuetz, Peter Gerstl, Simon Daniel Moser, Sugandha Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11886921
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing automated serverless runtime container allocation is provided. The method includes defining a number of runtime containers and associated characteristics required for each worker node of a plurality of worker nodes for execution of a specified workload. The specified workload is dispatched to the plurality of worker nodes and a specified portion of the specified workload is assigned to each worker node. An application executing a universal runtime container that includes potential application runtimes and associated supported software versions within a layered modifiable format is generated and unused layers are removed from the universal runtime container. The specified workload is executed via the universal runtime container and a set of available universal runtime containers is refilled on an associated work node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Enrico Regge, Michael Beck, Werner Schuetz, Peter Gerstl, Simon Daniel Moser, Joerg Erdmenger
  • Patent number: 11860904
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for governing a set of information assets using an information governance system. The method includes one or more processors applying one or more high-level classification assignment rules to one or more information assets of the set of information assets. Furthermore, the method includes one or more processors applying one or more high-level classification propagation rules to the one or more information assets provided with the high-level classification assignments for propagating the respective high-level classification assignments upwards within a containment hierarchy formed by the set of information assets to one or more superordinate information assets of the set of information assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Oliver Suhre, Albert Maier, Peter Gerstl, Thomas Schwarz, Michael Baessler
  • Publication number: 20230408036
    Abstract: A method for operating a cryogenic refueling arrangement comprising a coupling device and a receiver socket, wherein the method comprises the following steps: a) coupling the coupling device to the receiver socket such that the coupling device and the receiver socket are locked to one another in a first position, b) applying a negative pressure to the coupling device and/or the receiver socket, c) unlocking the coupling device and the receiver socket so that the negative pressure causes the coupling device to move, in a direction toward the receiver socket, from the first position into a second position, which is different from the first position, d) locking the coupling device and the receiver socket in the second position, and e) starting a refueling process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Florian EHEGARTNER, Peter GERSTL, Bernhard REITER
  • Patent number: 11593417
    Abstract: In an approach, a processor groups documents into a plurality of groups based on similarity, where: documents of each group have a same document structure; and the document structure is defined by coordinates of text blocks. A processor, for each group of the plurality of groups and for each document of the respective group: retrieves a value of each text block of the respective document in accordance with a document structure of the group; and assigns to each text block of the respective document an attribute that represents the retrieved value of the text block. A processor assigns a first document of the documents to an entity of a database that matches the first document based on the group of text block values and the assigned attributes of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Schwarz, Albert Maier, Michael Baessler, Oliver Suhre, Peter Gerstl, Werner Schuetz, Jonathan Roesner, Mariya Chkalova
  • Patent number: 11494469
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to assigning an ownership of a first component of a communication system. A processor may identify a second component of the communication system having a relationship to the first component. The processor may identify an owning entity of the second component, the owning entity may have ownership of the second component, and the communication system may include the owning entity. The processor may generate an owner information, the owner information may relate the owning entity of the second component to the first component. The processor may provide the owner information to the communication system. In response to the providing of the owner information, the processor may receive a command for assigning the ownership of the first component to the owning entity. In response to receiving the command, the processor may assign the ownership of the first component to the owning entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Albert Maier, Thomas Schwarz, Peter Gerstl, Oliver Suhre
  • Publication number: 20220283858
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing automated serverless runtime container allocation is provided. The method includes defining a number of runtime containers and associated characteristics required for each worker node of a plurality of worker nodes for execution of a specified workload. The specified workload is dispatched to the plurality of worker nodes and a specified portion of the specified workload is assigned to each worker node. An application executing a universal runtime container that includes potential application runtimes and associated supported software versions within a layered modifiable format is generated and unused layers are removed from the universal runtime container. The specified workload is executed via the universal runtime container and a set of available universal runtime containers is refilled on an associated work node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Enrico Regge, Michael Beck, Werner Schuetz, Peter Gerstl, Simon Daniel Moser, Joerg Erdmenger
  • Publication number: 20220229863
    Abstract: In an approach, a processor groups documents into a plurality of groups based on similarity, where: documents of each group have a same document structure; and the document structure is defined by coordinates of text blocks. A processor, for each group of the plurality of groups and for each document of the respective group: retrieves a value of each text block of the respective document in accordance with a document structure of the group; and assigns to each text block of the respective document an attribute that represents the retrieved value of the text block. A processor assigns a first document of the documents to an entity of a database that matches the first document based on the group of text block values and the assigned attributes of the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Schwarz, Albert Maier, Michael Baessler, Oliver Suhre, Peter Gerstl, Werner Schuetz, Jonathan Roesner, Mariya Chkalova
  • Publication number: 20220188512
    Abstract: A system may receive a data glossary comprising a list of terms. The system may then measure a usage dimension for a set of the terms from the list of terms. The system may select a candidate term from the set based on the usage dimension and perform a maintenance action on the candidate terms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Albert Maier, Michael Baessler, Peter Gerstl, Oliver Suhre, Thomas Schwarz
  • Publication number: 20220171793
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for governing a set of information assets using an information governance system. The method includes one or more processors applying one or more high-level classification assignment rules to one or more information assets of the set of information assets. Furthermore, the method includes one or more processors applying one or more high-level classification propagation rules to the one or more information assets provided with the high-level classification assignments for propagating the respective high-level classification assignments upwards within a containment hierarchy formed by the set of information assets to one or more superordinate information assets of the set of information assets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Oliver Suhre, Albert Maier, Peter Gerstl, Thomas Schwarz, Michael Baessler
  • Patent number: 11308128
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for classifying a data collection of data of a predefined domain. A hierarchical representation scheme describing terms of the domain and one or more relationships between the terms is provided. At least one classifier may be applied on the data collection, resulting in a set of term assignments. Each term assignment of the term assignments associates a term candidate with a respective confidence value to the collection or to one or more data items of the collection. At least one of the term assignments may be refined based on the representation scheme and the set of term assignments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Gerstl, Robert Kern, Albert Maier, Thomas Schwarz, Oliver Suhre
  • Publication number: 20220108126
    Abstract: A computer device identifies a set of documents for classification. The computing device classifies documents of a first subset of the set of documents based, at least in part, on a text analysis of the documents of the first subset. The computing device trains a document classifier using, as training data: (i) results of the classifying of the documents of the first subset, and (ii) metadata associated with the documents of the first subset. The computing device classifies documents of a second subset of the set of documents by providing metadata of the documents of the second subset to the trained document classifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Dieter Hans Schieber, Holger Koenig, Hemanth Kumar Babu, Peter Gerstl, Werner Schuetz, Robert Kern, Lars Bremer, Michael Baessler
  • Publication number: 20210342421
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to assigning an ownership of a first component of a communication system. A processor may identify a second component of the communication system having a relationship to the first component. The processor may identify an owning entity of the second component, the owning entity may have ownership of the second component, and the communication system may include the owning entity. The processor may generate an owner information, the owner information may relate the owning entity of the second component to the first component. The processor may provide the owner information to the communication system. In response to the providing of the owner information, the processor may receive a command for assigning the ownership of the first component to the owning entity. In response to receiving the command, the processor may assign the ownership of the first component to the owning entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Albert Maier, Thomas Schwarz, Peter Gerstl, Oliver Suhre
  • Patent number: 11165875
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for accessing data of one or more data sources using a discovery engine. The method comprises: determining a discovery space content from initial metadata of a data source indicated in a data exploration request. The discovery space content may be rendered. The rendered content may be used for determining a set of one or more tasks for generating further metadata from at least part of the data of the data source, wherein the set of tasks comprises a combination of API calls. The API calls may be issued to the discovery engine. Discovery results of the issued API calls may be received. A data discovery status may be devalued using the discovery results. The discovery space content may be augmented using the further metadata and the data discovery status. The augmented discovery space content may be rendered for receiving further API calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Albert Maier, Bernhard Mitschang, Peter Gerstl, Kunjavihari Madhav Kashalikar
  • Publication number: 20210144218
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for accessing data of one or more data sources using a discovery engine. The method comprises: determining a discovery space content from initial metadata of a data source indicated in a data exploration request. The discovery space content may be rendered. The rendered content may be used for determining a set of one or more tasks for generating further metadata from at least part of the data of the data source, wherein the set of tasks comprises a combination of API calls. The API calls may be issued to the discovery engine. Discovery results of the issued API calls may be received. A data discovery status may be devalued using the discovery results. The discovery space content may be augmented using the further metadata and the data discovery status. The augmented discovery space content may be rendered for receiving further API calls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Albert Maier, Bernhard Mitschang, Peter Gerstl, Kunjavihari Madhav Kashalikar
  • Patent number: 10387236
    Abstract: Processing data errors in a data processing system, includes a computer receiving one or more patterns and a data set. The one or more patterns describe characteristics of an erroneous data record and are associated with a root cause. The root cause includes a description of a technical deficiency causing the data error in the erroneous data record. Responsive to the computer determining that a first set of data records in the received data set have characteristics that match a first pattern of the one or more patterns, the computer assigns the first set of data records of the received data set having characteristics that match the first pattern to a first error group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Gerstl, Mike Grasselt, Albert Maier, Thomas Schwarz, Oliver Suhre
  • Publication number: 20190179949
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for classifying a data collection of data of a predefined domain. A hierarchical representation scheme describing terms of the domain and one or more relationships between the terms is provided. At least one classifier may be applied on the data collection, resulting in a set of term assignments. Each term assignment of the term assignments associates a term candidate with a respective confidence value to the collection or to one or more data items of the collection. At least one of the term assignments may be refined based on the representation scheme and the set of term assignments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Peter Gerstl, Robert Kern, Albert Maier, Thomas Schwarz, Oliver Suhre
  • Patent number: 9607021
    Abstract: Data to be loaded into a target system includes entities having corresponding unique primary data value and secondary data values. The secondary data values have associated foreign key relationships, which links the secondary data value to the primary data value of another entity. In loading the data, the entities are split into insertion leaf groups by execution of an iteration process, each iteration involving generation of a respective set of insertion leaf groups containing entities whose secondary data values have no foreign key relationships or only foreign key relationships with the primary data values of entities of the insertion leaf groups generated during any prior iteration. The iteration process is executed until there are no such entities are left. A sequence of generation of the sets of insertion leaf groups is recorded, and the sets of insertion leaf groups are consecutively loaded into the target system according to the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Gerstl, Mike Grasselt, Albert Maier, Thomas Schwarz, Oliver Suhre
  • Patent number: 9602452
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electronic mail. In particular, it relates to a method and system for processing electronic mail, wherein mails are stored in a space efficient way by removing redundancy from the content. Prior art is known for doing a limited version of this on a mail client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Gerstl, Magnus Karlsson, Dirk Seider, Oliver Suhre