Patents by Inventor Sheng Hua Bao

Sheng Hua Bao 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: 20190324976
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for processing a request regarding relationships among instances of entities. A graphical representation of instances of entities is generated and includes one or more source nodes, each representing an instance of an input entity of a request, and one or more related nodes, each representing an instance of a second entity related to one or more corresponding instances of the input entity and associated with a corresponding confidence score for the relationship. Each of the one or more related nodes associated with a confidence score satisfying a threshold is identified. One or more supplemental nodes are added to the graphical representation, each of which represents a corresponding instance of a third entity with a relationship to a corresponding instance of the second entity. The graphical representation is traversed to identify relationships between instances of entities and produce results for the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Yanyan Han, Xiaoyang Gao, William S. Spangler, Sheng Hua Bao, Brian S. Dreher
  • Publication number: 20190324957
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable media are provided for accessing data utilizing a multi-level table comprising generating a plurality of levels of the multi-level table, wherein a first level of the multi-level table includes a hyper-table with a plurality of hyper-cells each hyper-cell including information for a group of cells from an initial base table, wherein intermediate levels of the multi-level table each include a plurality of hyper-tables comprising hyper-cells with each hyper-table linked to and providing information for a corresponding hyper-cell of a hyper-table of a prior level, and wherein a plurality of tables of a terminal level includes information from cells of the initial base table with each table linked to and providing information for a corresponding hyper-cell. Data from the multi-level table is accessed by traversing links between the hyper-tables of the plurality of levels to access data within the tables of the terminal level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Xiaoyang Gao, William Scott Spangler, Sheng Hua Bao, Yanyan Han, Brian S. Dreher
  • Publication number: 20190325999
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided that implement a drug-adverse event causality evaluation engine to identify human resource selections based on a readability of unstructured text within an individual case safety report (ICSR) and a confidence value of the ICSR. The drug-adverse event causality evaluation engine receives the ICSR from a cognitive system. The drug-adverse event causality evaluation engine analyzes the ICSR to determine a readability value of the ICSR. The drug-adverse event causality evaluation engine determines whether or not an assessment, by a human reviewer, of the ICSR is required based on a combination of the readability value of the ICSR and the confidence value. The drug-adverse event causality evaluation engine outputs an indication of whether human reviewer assessment is required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Pathirage Perera, Cartic Ramakrishnan
  • Publication number: 20190317957
    Abstract: Relationship extraction between descriptors in one or more lists of weather condition descriptors, and adverse event descriptors within unstructured data sources using natural language processing. Medical condition descriptor may be a descriptor that may be used to further extract relationships between weather condition descriptors and adverse event descriptors. A data object is generated, according to a data model, based on the extracted relationships between the descriptors. A set of candidate unstructured documents containing the extracted relationship between the descriptors is retrieved and filtered by selecting unstructured documents that include a precautionary measure descriptor. The filtered precautionary measure descriptors are presented to a user in a summarized message to a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Shilpi Ahuja, Sheng Hua Bao, Rashmi Gangadharaiah
  • Publication number: 20190304573
    Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, similarity metrics or measures of similarity may be combined using an adaptive weighting scheme. A subset of entities from a first set of entities that have a known relationship is randomly selected. The subset is combined with a second set of entities that have an unknown relationship to each other and/or to the first set of entities. At least two different measures of similarity (similarity metrics) between the first set and the combined second set (including the subset) is determined for each entity in the second set. For each entity in the second set, the at least two different measures of similarity are compared, and a weight is assigned adaptively to each measure of similarity based on the magnitude of the measure of similarity. The weighted measures of similarity are combined to determine an aggregate adaptively weighted similarity score for each entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Yanyan Han, Sheng Hua Bao, Xiaoyang Gao, Brian S. Dreher, William S. Spangler, Feng Wang
  • Publication number: 20190303780
    Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, an entity may be represented by an unstructured feature vector comprising a plurality of features extracted from unstructured data using semantic analysis and a structural feature vector comprising a plurality of features from chemical structure data. A similarity matrix may be used to compare entities and generate a similarity score, based on both the unstructured feature vector and the structural feature vector for each entity. In some aspects, a user may enter a query (from which a chemical structural feature vector is dynamically generated) to compare against entities having unstructured and/or structural feature vectors, stored in a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: William S. Spangler, Richard L. Martin, Feng Wang, Xiaoyang Gao, Sheng Hua Bao
  • Publication number: 20190251455
    Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, an entity may be represented by an unstructured feature vector comprising a plurality of features extracted from unstructured data using semantic analysis and a structural feature vector comprising a plurality of features from chemical structure data. A similarity matrix may be used to compare entities and generate a similarity score, based on both the unstructured feature vector and the structural feature vector for each entity. In some aspects, a user may enter a query (from which a chemical structural feature vector is dynamically generated) to compare against entities having unstructured and/or structural feature vectors, stored in a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: William S. Spangler, Richard L. Martin, Feng Wang, Xiaoyang Gao, Sheng Hua Bao
  • Patent number: 10380615
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, device and computer program product for product design based on user reviews. Reviews on a product are obtained from a plurality of users. These reviews are analyzed to determine sentiments of the users with respect to a property of the product. A plurality of candidate product designs are generated by changing a first value of the property based on the sentiments of the users. Then one or more new product designs are obtained based on the candidate product designs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Keke Cai, Dong Xu Duan, HongLei Guo, Changhua Sun, Li Zhang, Shiwan Zhao
  • Publication number: 20190213303
    Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, similarity metrics or measures of similarity may be combined using an adaptive weighting scheme. A subset of entities from a first set of entities that have a known relationship is randomly selected. The subset is combined with a second set of entities that have an unknown relationship to each other and/or to the first set of entities. At least two different measures of similarity (similarity metrics) between the first set and the combined second set (including the subset) is determined for each entity in the second set. For each entity in the second set, the at least two different measures of similarity are compared, and a weight is assigned adaptively to each measure of similarity based on the magnitude of the measure of similarity. The weighted measures of similarity are combined to determine an aggregate adaptively weighted similarity score for each entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Yanyan Han, Sheng Hua Bao, Xiaoyang Gao, Brian S. Dreher, William S. Spangler, Feng Wang
  • Publication number: 20190197128
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising identifying a first available dataset having a degree of similarity to a received input dataset that exceeds a similarity threshold, determining, based on a plurality of features of the first available dataset and a plurality of features of the input dataset, a set of recommendations for transforming the input dataset, and transforming a text of the input dataset based on the set of recommendations and to optimize the input dataset for processing by a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: David MARTINEZ IRAOLA, Sheng Hua BAO, Donna K. BYRON, Priscilla MORAES
  • Publication number: 20190197097
    Abstract: Performing an operation comprising extracting, from an input comprising unstructured electronic text, a plurality of feature values for a plurality of features defined in a feature vector, identifying, based on a machine learning (ML) model applied to the plurality of feature values, a portion of the electronic text corresponding to an adverse event, and annotating the portion of the electronic text with an indication of the identified adverse event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Meenakshi NAGARAJAN, Cartic RAMAKRISHNAN, Sheng Hua BAO, Nakul CHAKRAPANI
  • Patent number: 10331659
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for automatically detecting and cleansing erroneous concepts in an aggregated knowledge base. A graph data structure representing the concept present in a portion of the natural language content is generated. The graph data structure is analyzed to determine whether or not the graph data structure comprises one or more concept conflicts in association with a set of nodes in the graph data structure, the one or more concept conflicts are associated with the set of nodes if two or more nodes represent separate and distinct concepts. Responsive to determining that there are one or more concept conflicts due to there being two or more nodes representing separate and distinct concepts, the two or more nodes are split into separate distinct concepts within the knowledge base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shilpi Ahuja, Sheng Hua Bao, Rashmi Gangadharaiah
  • Publication number: 20190179883
    Abstract: Evaluation of textual annotation models is provided. In various embodiments, an annotation model is applied to textual training data to derive a plurality of automatic annotations. The plurality of automatic annotations is compared to ground truth annotations of the textual data to determine overlapping tokens between the plurality of automatic annotations and the ground truth annotations. Weights are assigned to the overlapping tokens. Based on the weights of the overlapping tokens, scores are determined for the automatic annotations. The scores indicate the correctness of the automatic annotations relative to the ground truth annotations. Based on the scores of for the automatic annotations, an accuracy of the annotation model is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Robert Ip, Pathirage Perera, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Ramani Routray, Sundari Voruganti
  • Patent number: 10235632
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for determining the reliability of a claim is provided. The present invention may include receiving an input data from a user. The present invention may also include analyzing the claim associated with the received input data to determine a reliability score associated with the input data, wherein the claim is semantically similar to the received input data. The present invention may further include generating, from a prediction model, the reliability score for the claim associated with the received input data. The present invention may also include presenting the reliability score for the claim associated with the received input data to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Richard L. Martin, David Martinez Iraola, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Dan G. Tecuci
  • Patent number: 10203871
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a technical field of touch input and discloses method and device for controlling a mobile apparatus having a touch screen including: generating a virtual keyboard which is larger than a virtual keyboard displaying area in the touch screen; and moving the virtual keyboard in response to a sliding of a touch point, where at least one direction component of a moving direction of the virtual keyboard is opposite to a direction component of a sliding direction of the touch point. With the technical solution of present application, the input experience for the user can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Jian Chen, Zhong Su, Xin Ying Yang, Xiang Zhou
  • Patent number: 10203971
    Abstract: A method for cognitive screen sharing protection is provided. The method may include, in determining a screen sharing session of a client computing device associated with a user has been initiated, receiving, by a processor, a plurality of pertinent state data associated with the client computing device. The method may also include assigning an initial binary status to at least one display window of at least one open application on the client computing device. The method may further include, in determining a change has occurred to the screen sharing session, updating each assigned binary status. The method may also include detecting an undesirable sharing situation on the client computing device based on the updated binary status of the at least one display window. The method may further include performing a precautionary action based on the detected undesirable sharing situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Richard L. Martin
  • Publication number: 20180349326
    Abstract: Relationship extraction between descriptors in one or more lists of weather condition descriptors, and adverse event descriptors within unstructured data sources using natural language processing. Medical condition descriptor may be a descriptor that may be used to further extract relationships between weather condition descriptors and adverse event descriptors. A data object is generated, according to a data model, based on the extracted relationships between the descriptors. A set of candidate unstructured documents containing the extracted relationship between the descriptors is retrieved and filtered by selecting unstructured documents that include a precautionary measure descriptor. The filtered precautionary measure descriptors are presented to a user in a summarized message to a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Shilpi Ahuja, Sheng Hua Bao, Rashmi Gangadharaiah
  • Publication number: 20180330260
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for determining the reliability of a claim is provided. The present invention may include receiving an input data from a user. The present invention may also include analyzing the claim associated with the received input data to determine a reliability score associated with the input data, wherein the claim is semantically similar to the received input data. The present invention may further include generating, from a prediction model, the reliability score for the claim associated with the received input data. The present invention may also include presenting the reliability score for the claim associated with the received input data to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Richard L. Martin, David Martinez Iraola, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Dan G. Tecuci
  • Publication number: 20180330263
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for determining the reliability of a claim is provided. The present invention may include receiving an input data from a user. The present invention may also include analyzing the claim associated with the received input data to determine a reliability score associated with the input data, wherein the claim is semantically similar to the received input data. The present invention may further include generating, from a prediction model, the reliability score for the claim associated with the received input data. The present invention may also include presenting the reliability score for the claim associated with the received input data to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Richard L. Martin, David Martinez Iraola, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Dan G. Tecuci
  • Publication number: 20180253325
    Abstract: A method for cognitive screen sharing protection is provided. The method may include, in determining a screen sharing session of a client computing device associated with a user has been initiated, receiving, by a processor, a plurality of pertinent state data associated with the client computing device. The method may also include assigning an initial binary status to at least one display window of at least one open application on the client computing device. The method may further include, in determining a change has occurred to the screen sharing session, updating each assigned binary status. The method may also include detecting an undesirable sharing situation on the client computing device based on the updated binary status of the at least one display window. The method may further include performing a precautionary action based on the detected undesirable sharing situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Richard L. Martin