Patents by Inventor Stephen E. Levy
Stephen E. Levy 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).
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Patent number: 11023906Abstract: Providing an end-to-end citizen engagement, in one aspect, may comprise obtaining data of multiple disintegrated sources from one or more of communication and social computing channels via one or more adapters. Data refactoring and management, integration and process orchestration of the data according to a data model as data attributes of the data model may be provided. One or more analytics may be performed based on the data attributes stored according to the data model and input specified to the one or more analytics. One or more results computed by performing the one or more analytics may be provided. One or more application logics supporting one or more front-end applications may be produced. One or more front-end applications for automated sensing of user activities and sensor-based individual assistant capability may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim, Stephen E. Levy, Ming Li, Milind R. Naphade, Sambit Sahu
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Publication number: 20190220876Abstract: Providing an end-to-end citizen engagement, in one aspect, may comprise obtaining data of multiple disintegrated sources from one or more of communication and social computing channels via one or more adapters. Data refactoring and management, integration and process orchestration of the data according to a data model as data attributes of the data model may be provided. One or more analytics may be performed based on the data attributes stored according to the data model and input specified to the one or more analytics. One or more results computed by performing the one or more analytics may be provided. One or more application logics supporting one or more front-end applications may be produced. One or more front-end applications for automated sensing of user activities and sensor-based personal assistant capability may be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim, Stephen E. Levy, Ming Li, Milind R. Naphade, Sambit Sahu
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Patent number: 10318967Abstract: Providing an end-to-end citizen engagement, in one aspect, may comprise obtaining data of multiple disintegrated sources from one or more of communication and social computing channels via one or more adapters. Data refactoring and management, integration and process orchestration of the data according to a data model as data attributes of the data model may be provided. One or more analytics may be performed based on the data attributes stored according to the data model and input specified to the one or more analytics. One or more results computed by performing the one or more analytics may be provided. One or more application logics supporting one or more front-end applications may be produced. One or more front-end applications for automated sensing of user activities and sensor-based personal assistant capability may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim, Stephen E. Levy, Ming Li, Milind R. Naphade, Sambit Sahu
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Patent number: 10169017Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying a location based applications providing crowdsourced structured points of input for data entry. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for deploying a location based application providing crowdsourced structured points of input for data entry includes the selection of a location based application component, such as a map, for inclusion in a deployable application and the definition of a point of input for the location based application component. In this regard, the point of input can include at least one user interface control accepting data input of structured data. Finally the deployable application can be uploaded to a deployable application repository over a computer communications network for deployment to requesting mobile devices over the computer communications network.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Daniel M Gruen, Susanne Hupfer, Stephen E Levy, Michael Muller, Kyle T Nichols-Schmolze, Larissa Pschetz, Fyodor Wolf
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Patent number: 9524505Abstract: Providing an end-to-end citizen engagement, in one aspect, may comprise obtaining data of multiple disintegrated sources from one or more of communication and social computing channels via one or more adapters. Data refactoring and management, integration and process orchestration of the data according to a data model as data attributes of the data model may be provided. One or more analytics may be performed based on the data attributes stored according to the data model and input specified to the one or more analytics. One or more results computed by performing the one or more analytics may be provided. One or more application logics supporting one or more front-end applications may be produced. One or more front-end applications for automated sensing of user activities and sensor-based personal assistant capability may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim, Stephen E. Levy, Ming Li, Milind R. Naphade, Sambit Sahu
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Publication number: 20160162911Abstract: Providing an end-to-end citizen engagement, in one aspect, may comprise obtaining data of multiple disintegrated sources from one or more of communication and social computing channels via one or more adapters. Data refactoring and management, integration and process orchestration of the data according to a data model as data attributes of the data model may be provided. One or more analytics may be performed based on the data attributes stored according to the data model and input specified to the one or more analytics. One or more results computed by performing the one or more analytics may be provided. One or more application logics supporting one or more front-end applications may be produced. One or more front-end applications for automated sensing of user activities and sensor-based personal assistant capability may be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2016Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim, Stephen E. Levy, Ming Li, Milind R. Naphade, Sambit Sahu
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Publication number: 20140297395Abstract: Providing an end-to-end citizen engagement, in one aspect, may comprise obtaining data of multiple disintegrated sources from one or more of communication and social computing channels via one or more adapters. Data refactoring and management, integration and process orchestration of the data according to a data model as data attributes of the data model may be provided. One or more analytics may be performed based on the data attributes stored according to the data model and input specified to the one or more analytics. One or more results computed by performing the one or more analytics may be provided. One or more application logics supporting one or more front-end applications may be produced. One or more front-end applications for automated sensing of user activities and sensor-based personal assistant capability may be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim, Stephen E. Levy, Ming Li, Milind R. Naphade, Sambit Sahu
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Patent number: 8526588Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for initiating a conference call are disclosed. The method includes running a conference call managing application. The method also includes receiving at least one participant-defined condition. The participant-defined condition is associated with at least one conference call defining a status of a participant's communication device to connect the participant to the conference call. At least one alert is sent out to at least all required participants of the conference call, in response to the participant-defined condition being satisfied to start the conference call.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2012Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William E. Bennett, James E. Christensen, Stephen E. Levy, Jeremy Sussman, Tracee L. Wolf
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Patent number: 8255380Abstract: An expertise locator enables user defined correspondences between experts and respective certain objects. Each object inherits from classes in a hierarchy. Using the correspondences, a locator processor routine finds a candidate expert about a particular subject area. The candidate expert may be in a correspondence with a certain object whose class is a subclass of the particular subject area. Output may display an indication of the candidate expert, relevant expertise per candidate and/or a list of experts per certain object. In the case of the certain objects being topics, the hierarchy is an ontology of the topics.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James E. Christensen, Daniel M. Gruen, Susanne Hupfer, Stephen E. Levy, John F. Patterson, Jamie C. Rasmussen, Steven I. Ross
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Patent number: 8244706Abstract: A computer-based method and system for just-in-time semantic information retrieval is disclosed. A user interface detects user interaction with a displayed semantic entity. In response, a search member uses semantic information about the displayed entity and automatically searches for information about the subject entity. The search employs system and/or external knowledge bases and returns highly relevant results and information with increased specificity due to the semantic basis. A sidebar unobtrusively displays to the user the search results initially obtained without user request or demand, i.e., on the user's behalf. The sidebar enables the user to dismiss the search results and to effectively copy or export the search results as desired.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James E. Christensen, Daniel M. Gruen, Susanne Hupfer, Stephen E. Levy, John F. Patterson, Jamie C. Rasmussen, Steven I. Ross
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Publication number: 20120134485Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for initiating a conference call are disclosed. The method includes running a conference call managing application. The method also includes receiving at least one participant-defined condition. The participant-defined condition is associated with at least one conference call defining a status of a participant's communication device to connect the participant to the conference call. At least one alert is sent out to at least all required participants of the conference call, in response to the participant-defined condition being satisfied to start the conference call.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2012Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: William E. BENNETT, James E. CHRISTENSEN, Stephen E. LEVY, Jeremy SUSSMAN, Tracee L. WOLF
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Publication number: 20120102164Abstract: A method for managing location based applications providing crowdsourced structured points of input for data entry includes deploying deployable applications to a mobile computing device. Each deployable application includes a location based application component and a corresponding point of input defining structured data to be provided through a user interface control for a portion of a display for the application component. The method also includes selecting a subset of the deployable applications for display in the mobile computing device and activating one of the deployable applications in the subset for display in the mobile computing device to receive data input. Further, the method includes receiving data input for a point of input corresponding to a location based application component of the activated one of the deployable applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Daniel M. Gruen, Susanne Hupfer, Stephen E. Levy, Michael Muller, Kyle T. Nichols-Schmolze, Larissa Pschetz, Fyodor Wolf
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Publication number: 20120102165Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying a location based applications providing crowdsourced structured points of input for data entry. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for deploying a location based application providing crowdsourced structured points of input for data entry includes the selection of a location based application component, such as a map, for inclusion in a deployable application and the definition of a point of input for the location based application component. In this regard, the point of input can include at least one user interface control accepting data input of structured data. Finally the deployable application can be uploaded to a deployable application repository over a computer communications network for deployment to requesting mobile devices over the computer communications network.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Daniel M. Gruen, Susanne Hupfer, Stephen E. Levy, Michael Muller, Kyle T. Nichols-Schmolze, Larissa Pschetz, Fyodor Wolf
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Patent number: 8160223Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for initiating a conference call are disclosed. The method includes running a conference call managing application. The method also includes receiving at least one participant-defined condition. The participant-defined condition is associated with at least one conference call defining a status of a participant's communication device to connect the participant to the conference call. At least one alert is sent out to at least all required participants of the conference call, in response to the participant-defined condition being satisfied to start the conference call.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2005Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William E. Bennett, James E. Christensen, Stephen E. Levy, Jeremy Sussman, Tracee L. Wolf
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Publication number: 20110173176Abstract: Computer system and method automatically generate a social interest network. The social interest network indicates or represents (1) respective relevance between system users and taggers, and (2) respective affinity between users and taggers. A tag-based search engine searches and retrieves tagged contents. The search engine also retrieves semantic information associated with the tagged contents and tagger. Semantic information about the searcher-user is compared to the search retrieved semantic information. A comparator determines respective relevance of taggers to the searcher-user and respective affinity of the searcher-user to the taggers. The social interest network results and enables collaboration between users/taggers and filtering of various search results.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2009Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: James E. Christensen, Stephen E. Levy, Daniel M. Gruen, Susanne C. Hupfer, Jamie C. Rasmussen, Steven I. Ross
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Publication number: 20110153639Abstract: A computer-based method and system for just-in-time semantic information retrieval is disclosed. A user interface detects user interaction with a displayed semantic entity. In response, a search member uses semantic information about the displayed entity and automatically searches for information about the subject entity. The search employs system and/or external knowledge bases and returns highly relevant results and information with increased specificity due to the semantic basis. A sidebar unobtrusively displays to the user the search results initially obtained without user request or demand, i.e., on the user's behalf. The sidebar enables the user to dismiss the search results and to effectively copy or export the search results as desired.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: James E. Christensen, Daniel M. Gruen, Susanne Hupfer, Stephen E. Levy, John F. Patterson, Jamie C. Rasmussen, Steven I. Ross
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Publication number: 20110153597Abstract: An expertise locator enables user defined correspondences between experts and respective certain objects. Each object inherits from classes in a hierarchy. Using the correspondences, a locator processor routine finds a candidate expert about a particular subject area. The candidate expert may be in a correspondence with a certain object whose class is a subclass of the particular subject area. Output may display an indication of the candidate expert, relevant expertise per candidate and/or a list of experts per certain object. In the case of the certain objects being topics, the hierarchy is an ontology of the topics.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James E. Christensen, Daniel M. Gruen, Susanne Hupfer, Stephen E. Levy, John F. Patterson, Jamie C. Rasmussen, Steven I. Ross
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Patent number: 7877367Abstract: A computer method and system provides for graphical specification of inquiries and includes a corresponding progressive summary. The inquiries operate on stream data. Users graphically specify an inquiry in a graphical user interface according to an ontology. The invention system generates a plain-text translation of the graphical description of the inquiry and displays the generated plain-text description in a progressive summary in the graphical user interface. The system continually updates and generates the display of the plain-text description during user construction of the inquiry. This provides feedback to the user for improved construction of the inquiry.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2008Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven I. Ross, Nishanth R. Sastry, Daniel M. Gruen, Susanne C. Hupfer, John F. Patterson, James E. Christensen, Stephen E. Levy
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Publication number: 20090187524Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to group cognition and provide a method, system and computer program product for collaborative reasoning. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for collaborative reasoning in a cognitive tool can be provided. The method can include arranging shared entities in a collaborative reasoning shared knowledge base into different models for different end users in different investigations, creating claims for the shared entities in the different models across the different investigations, subscribing the different end users for notification of changes to the claims and shared entities, and providing notice to the subscribed different end users responsive to detecting a change in a claim in one of the different models.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Daniel M. Gruen, Susanne C. Hupfer, Stephen E. Levy, John F. Patterson, Steven I. Ross, Nishanth R. Sastry
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Publication number: 20090187556Abstract: A computer method and system provides for graphical specification of inquiries and includes a corresponding progressive summary. The inquiries operate on stream data. Users graphically specify an inquiry in a graphical user interface according to an ontology. The invention system generates a plain-text translation of the graphical description of the inquiry and displays the generated plain-text description in a progressive summary in the graphical user interface. The system continually updates and generates the display of the plain-text description during user construction of the inquiry. This provides feedback to the user for improved construction of the inquiry.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven I. Ross, Nishanth R. Sastry, Daniel M. Gruen, Susanne C. Hupfer, John F. Patterson, James E. Christensen, Stephen E. Levy