Patents by Inventor Steven LaFalce

Steven LaFalce 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: 11176179
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include receiving a new problem record. A corpus of existing problem records that were previously assigned to problem record owners and grouped into documents based on their assigned problem record owners is accessed. Each document in the corpus has an assigned problem record owner. A document in the corpus that is most similar to the new problem record is identified. The identifying includes comparing text in the new problem record to text in the documents. The new problem record is assigned to the problem record owner that is assigned to the identified document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Terrence Cohoon, James A. O'Connor, Steven Lafalce, Steven Burchfield, Morey Materise
  • Publication number: 20210089561
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include receiving a new problem record. A corpus of existing problem records that were previously assigned to problem record owners and grouped into documents based on their assigned problem record owners is accessed. Each document in the corpus has an assigned problem record owner. A document in the corpus that is most similar to the new problem record is identified. The identifying includes comparing text in the new problem record to text in the documents. The new problem record is assigned to the problem record owner that is assigned to the identified document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Terrence Cohoon, James A. O'Connor, Steven Lafalce, Steven Burchfield, Morey Materise
  • Publication number: 20210037030
    Abstract: An example computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a processing device, the data records. The data records can be of a plurality of data record types. The method further includes analyzing, by the processing device, the data records by comparing the data records of different record types. The method further includes identifying, by the processing device and based at least in part on the analysis, a unit of work that is flooding the data records as the anomaly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Nicholas Marion, Steven LaFalce, Neil Shah, Anthony Thomas Sofia