Patents by Inventor Tian-Jy Chao

Tian-Jy Chao 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: 11023906
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim, Stephen E. Levy, Ming Li, Milind R. Naphade, Sambit Sahu
  • Publication number: 20190220876
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim, Stephen E. Levy, Ming Li, Milind R. Naphade, Sambit Sahu
  • Patent number: 10318967
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim, Stephen E. Levy, Ming Li, Milind R. Naphade, Sambit Sahu
  • Patent number: 10176488
    Abstract: Sensitivity to incentive changes of survey participant may be computed and analyzed. Participants and one or more attributes associated with the participants may be identified. The participants may be clustered into one or more clusters according to the one or more attributes. An incentive amount to be given to a participant in a cluster of said one or more clusters may be perturbed by performing random perturbation computation. The incentive may be distributed to the participant. One or more responses of the participant may be monitored. Individual incentive sensitivity representing incentive sensitivity of responsiveness of the participant per incentive change may be computed based on the monitoring. Incentive amount computation may be dynamically adjusted responsive to determining that the individual incentive sensitivity changed by a predefined criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim
  • Patent number: 9524505
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim, Stephen E. Levy, Ming Li, Milind R. Naphade, Sambit Sahu
  • Publication number: 20160162911
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim, Stephen E. Levy, Ming Li, Milind R. Naphade, Sambit Sahu
  • Patent number: 9251491
    Abstract: Techniques for generating and executing a performance-aware enterprise component (PAEC) are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian Jy Chao, Pankaj Dhoolia, Fenno F. Heath, III, Santhosh Kumaran, Shao Chun Li, Florian Pinel, Sreeram Ramakrishnan
  • Publication number: 20150254690
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for analyzing a specified trust metric of survey responses obtained in a campaign. In one embodiment, the method comprises parsing requirements and goals of the campaign to identify campaign specifics; mapping one or more of the identified campaign specifics to a trust metric calculation rule, the trust metric calculation rule including an algorithm for computing a value for the specified trust metric. The method further comprises using the trust metric calculation rule and one or more of the identified campaign specifics to filter a set of potential input attributes to select therefrom a subset of input attributes; obtaining data values for the subset of input attributes; and using the algorithm of the trust metric calculation rule and the obtained data values for the subset of input attributes to compute the value for the specified trust metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim, Sambit Sahu
  • Publication number: 20150235252
    Abstract: Sensitivity to incentive changes of survey participant may be computed and analyzed. Participants and one or more attributes associated with the participants may be identified. The participants may be clustered into one or more clusters according to the one or more attributes. An incentive amount to be given to a participant in a cluster of said one or more clusters may be perturbed by performing random perturbation computation. The incentive may be distributed to the participant. One or more responses of the participant may be monitored. Individual incentive sensitivity representing incentive sensitivity of responsiveness of the participant per incentive change may be computed based on the monitoring. Incentive amount computation may be dynamically adjusted responsive to determining that the individual incentive sensitivity changed by a predefined criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim
  • Publication number: 20150178756
    Abstract: An incentive mechanism may comprise computing an incentive score for a participant based on one or more attributes of the participant clustered by the attributes and an individual incentive sensitivity, subject to the campaign specifics of campaign goal and the incentive resource constraints. An optimal incentive amount to distribute to the participant and frequency of distribution to the participant may be determined based on at least the incentive score, the incentive amount optimized to maximize the incentive resource (total budget) given to said participants in a cluster of participants. One or more responses from the participant may be monitored and observed as a result of distributing the incentive amount. Based on the responses, individual incentive sensitivity may be determined, which may be used to further determine an optimized incentive amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim
  • Patent number: 8954480
    Abstract: An end-to-end interoperability and workflows from building architecture design to one or more simulations, in one aspect, may comprise establishing a BIM enablement platform architecture. A data model defines data entities and entity relationships for enabling the interoperability and workflows. A data definition language may be implemented that defines and creates a table schema of a database associated with the data model. Data management services and/or application programming interfaces may be implemented for interacting with the data model. Web services may also be provided for interacting with the data model via the Web. A user interface may be implemented that communicates with users and uses the BIM enablement platform architecture, the data model, the data definition language, data management services and application programming interfaces to provide functions to the users to perform work related to building information management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim
  • Patent number: 8954479
    Abstract: An end-to-end interoperability and workflows from building architecture design to one or more simulations, in one aspect, may comprise establishing a BIM enablement platform architecture. A data model defines data entities and entity relationships for enabling the interoperability and workflows. A data definition language may be implemented that defines and creates a table schema of a database associated with the data model. Data management services and/or application programming interfaces may be implemented for interacting with the data model. Web services may also be provided for interacting with the data model via the Web. A user interface may be implemented that communicates with users and uses the BIM enablement platform architecture, the data model, the data definition language, data management services and application programming interfaces to provide functions to the users to perform work related to building information management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim
  • Patent number: 8949292
    Abstract: Automatically translating a building architecture file format (Industry Foundation Class) to a simulation file, in one aspect, may extract data and metadata used by a target simulation tool from a building architecture file. Interoperability data objects may be created and the extracted data is stored in the interoperability data objects. A model translation procedure may be prepared to identify a mapping from a Model View Definition to a translation and transformation function. The extracted data may be transformed using the data stored in the interoperability data objects, an input Model View Definition template, and the translation and transformation function to convert the extracted data to correct geometric values needed for a target simulation file format used by the target simulation tool. The simulation file in the target simulation file format may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim
  • Patent number: 8930418
    Abstract: Automatically translating a building architecture file format (Industry Foundation Class) to a simulation file, in one aspect, may extract data and metadata used by a target simulation tool from a building architecture file. Interoperability data objects may be created and the extracted data is stored in the interoperability data objects. A model translation procedure may be prepared to identify a mapping from a Model View Definition to a translation and transformation function. The extracted data may be transformed using the data stored in the interoperability data objects, an input Model View Definition template, and the translation and transformation function to convert the extracted data to correct geometric values needed for a target simulation file format used by the target simulation tool. The simulation file in the target simulation file format may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim
  • Publication number: 20140297395
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim, Stephen E. Levy, Ming Li, Milind R. Naphade, Sambit Sahu
  • Publication number: 20130339403
    Abstract: Automatically translating a building architecture file format (Industry Foundation Class) to a simulation file, e.g., for EnergyPlus and/or Radiance, in one aspect, may comprise extracting from a building architecture file, data and metadata used by a target simulation tool; creating interoperability data objects and storing the extracted data in the interoperability data objects; preparing a model translation procedure to identify a mapping from a Model View Definition to a translation and transformation function; transforming the extracted data using the data stored in the interoperability data objects, an input Model View Definition template, and the translation and transformation function to convert the extracted data to correct geometric values needed for a target simulation file format used by the target simulation tool; and generating the simulation file in the target simulation file format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim
  • Publication number: 20130338971
    Abstract: An end-to-end interoperability and workflows from building architecture design to one or more simulations, in one aspect, may comprise establishing a BIM enablement platform architecture. A data model defines data entities and entity relationships for enabling the interoperability and workflows. A data definition language may be implemented that defines and creates a table schema of a database associated with the data model. Data management services and/or application programming interfaces may be implemented for interacting with the data model. Web services may also be provided for interacting with the data model via the Web. A user interface may be implemented that communicates with users and uses the BIM enablement platform architecture, the data model, the data definition language, data management services and application programming interfaces to provide functions to the users to perform work related to building information management.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim
  • Publication number: 20130338972
    Abstract: An end-to-end interoperability and workflows from building architecture design to one or more simulations, in one aspect, may comprise establishing a BIM enablement platform architecture. A data model defines data entities and entity relationships for enabling the interoperability and workflows. A data definition language may be implemented that defines and creates a table schema of a database associated with the data model. Data management services and/or application programming interfaces may be implemented for interacting with the data model. Web services may also be provided for interacting with the data model via the Web. A user interface may be implemented that communicates with users and uses the BIM enablement platform architecture, the data model, the data definition language, data management services and application programming interfaces to provide functions to the users to perform work related to building information management.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim
  • Publication number: 20130339404
    Abstract: Automatically translating a building architecture file format (Industry Foundation Class) to a simulation file, e.g., for EnergyPlus and/or Radiance, in one aspect, may comprise extracting from a building architecture file, data and metadata used by a target simulation tool; creating interoperability data objects and storing the extracted data in the interoperability data objects; preparing a model translation procedure to identify a mapping from a Model View Definition to a translation and transformation function; transforming the extracted data using the data stored in the interoperability data objects, an input Model View Definition template, and the translation and transformation function to convert the extracted data to correct geometric values needed for a target simulation file format used by the target simulation tool; and generating the simulation file in the target simulation file format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Younghun Kim
  • Patent number: 8578346
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for validating and repairing flow diagrams using a process modeling validation method in conjunction with a process modeling repair method. The process modeling validation method points out structural ambiguities in a flow diagram that can make its automatic interpretation difficult. It also proposes fix to resolve such ambiguities. The method discloses a process semantic annotation scheme that can interpret process semantics in a flow graph implicit in a flow diagram. Further, the validation process compares one or more components of one or more drawings to a set of rules determined by a business process modeling standards and provides a set of semantic errors describing faulty parts of the drawing that do not comply with the business process modeling standards. The process modeling repair method corrects the drawing to ease and enable its automatic interpretation of the flow diagram and make the faulty parts of the drawing comply with the business process modeling standards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian-Jy Chao, Pankaj Dhoolia, David Marston, Debdoot Mukherjee