Patents by Inventor Winnie W. Cheng

Winnie W. Cheng 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: 10789204
    Abstract: Access is obtained to a plurality of intermediately transformed electronic documents (with a plurality of sections and subsections) which have been transformed, by topical analysis and text summarization techniques, from a plurality of original electronic documents comprising at least some unstructured electronic documents. Audit and retrieval agent code is appended to the sections and subsections to create a plurality of finally transformed electronic documents. Users are allowed to access the finally transformed electronic documents. The users are provided with accountability reminders contemporaneous with the access. The access of the users to the sections and subsections of the finally transformed electronic documents is logged. An audit report is provided based on the logging. Also provided is a cloud service for enterprise-level sensitive data protection with variable data granularity, using one or more one guest virtual machine images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence D. Bergman, Kumar Bhaskaran, Winnie W. Cheng, Robert A. Flavin, Milton H. Hernandez, Hai Huang, Ravi B. Konuru, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu
  • Publication number: 20180246884
    Abstract: Access is obtained to a plurality of intermediately transformed electronic documents (with a plurality of sections and subsections) which have been transformed, by topical analysis and text summarization techniques, from a plurality of original electronic documents comprising at least some unstructured electronic documents. Audit and retrieval agent code is appended to the sections and subsections to create a plurality of finally transformed electronic documents. Users are allowed to access the finally transformed electronic documents. The users are provided with accountability reminders contemporaneous with the access. The access of the users to the sections and subsections of the finally transformed electronic documents is logged. An audit report is provided based on the logging. Also provided is a cloud service for enterprise-level sensitive data protection with variable data granularity, using one or more one guest virtual machine images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Lawrence D. Bergman, Kumar Bhaskaran, Winnie W. Cheng, Robert A. Flavin, Milton H. Hernandez, Hai Huang, Ravi B. Konuru, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu
  • Patent number: 9959273
    Abstract: Access is obtained to a plurality of intermediately transformed electronic documents (with a plurality of sections and subsections) which have been transformed, by topical analysis and text summarization techniques, from a plurality of original electronic documents comprising at least some unstructured electronic documents. Audit and retrieval agent code is appended to the sections and subsections to create a plurality of finally transformed electronic documents. Users are allowed to access the finally transformed electronic documents. The users are provided with accountability reminders contemporaneous with the access. The access of the users to the sections and subsections of the finally transformed electronic documents is logged. An audit report is provided based on the logging. Also provided is a cloud service for enterprise-level sensitive data protection with variable data granularity, using one or more one guest virtual machine images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lawrence D. Bergman, Kumar Bhaskaran, Winnie W. Cheng, Robert A. Flavin, Milton H. Hernandez, Hai Huang, Ravi B. Konuru, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu
  • Patent number: 8996341
    Abstract: A system comprises a modeling component, a routing component, a simulator component and a configuration component. The modeling component is operative to obtain at least one model of at least one collaborative network. The routing component is operative to model at least one routing pattern for one or more nodes of a given collaborative network. The simulator component is operative to simulate one or more virtual network topologies of the given collaborative network using the at least one model and the at least one routing pattern. The configuration component is operative to configure one or more given virtual network topologies on the given collaborative network. The collaborative network comprises a plurality of nodes and one or more edges between pairs of the plurality of nodes. The modeling component, routing component, simulator component and configuration component are executed by at least one processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Winnie W. Cheng, Gengxin Miao, James R. Moulic, Shu Tao
  • Patent number: 8990058
    Abstract: A method comprises obtaining a model of at least one collaborative network, modeling at least one routing pattern for one or more nodes of a given collaborative network, simulating one or more virtual network topologies of the given collaborative network using the at least one model and the at least one routing pattern, and configuring a given one of the one or more virtual network topologies on the given collaborative network. The given collaborative network comprises a plurality of nodes and one or more edges between pairs of the plurality of nodes. At least one of the obtaining, modeling, simulating and configuring steps are performed by a processor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Winnie W. Cheng, Gengxin Miao, James R. Moulic, Shu Tao
  • Patent number: 8751623
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention dynamically reduce a frequency at which IT infrastructure automatically generates alerts. Historical data across a plurality of data sources in the IT infrastructure is analyzed. An opportunity to reduce the frequency at which the IT infrastructure automatically generates the alerts is identified. A new alert policy addressing the opportunity to reduce alert frequency is generated. An impact of the new alert policy on a set of predefined service level objectives (SLOs) and service level agreements (SLAs) is evaluated. The new alert policy is deployed in the IT infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Abhijit Bose, Winnie W. Cheng, Shang Q. Guo, Sang K. Kim, Laura Z. Luan, Dennis A. Perpetua, Daniela Rosu, Mithkal M. Smadi
  • Publication number: 20140074443
    Abstract: A method comprises obtaining a model of at least one collaborative network, modeling at least one routing pattern for one or more nodes of a given collaborative network, simulating one or more virtual network topologies of the given collaborative network using the at least one model and the at least one routing pattern, and configuring a given one of the one or more virtual network topologies on the given collaborative network. The given collaborative network comprises a plurality of nodes and one or more edges between pairs of the plurality of nodes. At least one of the obtaining, modeling, simulating and configuring steps are performed by a processor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Winnie W. Cheng, Gengxin Miao, James R. Moulic, Shu Tao
  • Publication number: 20140075318
    Abstract: A system comprises a modeling component, a routing component, a simulator component and a configuration component. The modeling component is operative to obtain at least one model of at least one collaborative network. The routing component is operative to model at least one routing pattern for one or more nodes of a given collaborative network. The simulator component is operative to simulate one or more virtual network topologies of the given collaborative network using the at least one model and the at least one routing pattern. The configuration component is operative to configure one or more given virtual network topologies on the given collaborative network. The collaborative network comprises a plurality of nodes and one or more edges between pairs of the plurality of nodes. The modeling component, routing component, simulator component and configuration component are executed by at least one processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Winnie W. Cheng, Gengxin Miao, James R. Moulic, Shu Tao
  • Publication number: 20130325678
    Abstract: A method for profiling information technology (IT) service contract risks and generating contract prices includes analyzing historical IT service contract risk data to create a set of IT service contract risk profiles, where the historical IT service contract risk data includes contract risks and percent gross profit associated with a historical set of contracts, where each IT service contract risk profile is a probability distribution function of achieving a percent gross profit associated with a subset of contracts corresponding to particular set of contract risk values, and creating a mapping between a particular IT service contract risk profile and a new IT service contract associated with the set of contract risk values for the IT service contract risk profile to determine an optimum price for the new IT service contract.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Winnie W. Cheng, Henry Hu, James Moulic, Arjun Natarajan, Shu Tao
  • Publication number: 20130291127
    Abstract: Access is obtained to a plurality of intermediately transformed electronic documents (with a plurality of sections and subsections) which have been transformed, by topical analysis and text summarization techniques, from a plurality of original electronic documents comprising at least some unstructured electronic documents. Audit and retrieval agent code is appended to the sections and subsections to create a plurality of finally transformed electronic documents. Users are allowed to access the finally transformed electronic documents. The users are provided with accountability reminders contemporaneous with the access. The access of the users to the sections and subsections of the finally transformed electronic documents is logged. An audit report is provided based on the logging. Also provided is a cloud service for enterprise-level sensitive data protection with variable data granularity, using one or more one guest virtual machine images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lawrence D. Bergman, Kumar Bhaskaran, Winnie W. Cheng, Robert A. Flavin, Milton H. Hernandez, Hai Huang, Ravi B. Konuru, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu
  • Publication number: 20130110568
    Abstract: A method of recommending an assignment for a work order includes receiving the work order, retrieving information from the work order, identifying a skill set needed to complete the work order using the information retrieved from the work order, extracting, automatically, a first set of evidences from a first data source based on the identified skill set, and a second set of evidences from a second data source based on the identified skill set, combining a first inference and a second inference, by a processor, wherein the first inference is determined using the first set of evidences, the second inference is determined using the second set of evidences, and the first and second set of evidences comprise dissimilar data, and generating a work order assignment recommendation based on the combined inferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Winnie W. Cheng, Jia Liu, David Loewenstern, Larisa Shwartz, Vugranam C. Sreedhar
  • Patent number: 8099358
    Abstract: A method of quantifying the value added by an internal company credit rating system is described. The method includes determining an internal company credit rating for a plurality of securities. The internal company credit rating for the plurality of securities and an external credit research agency original credit rating for each of the securities are inputted in a ratings history database. Data representative of a change of the external credit research agency original credit rating for at least one security of the plurality of securities to a new credit rating is received. Responsive to the change, data representative of a current price of the at least one security and a benchmark price of the at least one security is received. At least one metric is calculated to determine a correlation between the internal company credit ratings and the new external credit research agency for each of the plurality of securities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick James Condon, Vinay D. Deshmukh, Christopher Lee Parrish, Winnie W. Cheng, Erica L. Turner, Randall T. Royther
  • Publication number: 20100191670
    Abstract: A method of quantifying the value added by an internal company credit rating system is described. The method includes determining an internal company credit rating for a plurality of securities. The internal company credit rating for the plurality of securities and an external credit research agency original credit rating for each of the securities are inputted in a ratings history database. Data representative of a change of the external credit research agency original credit rating for at least one security of the plurality of securities to a new credit rating is received. Responsive to the change, data representative of a current price of the at least one security and a benchmark price of the at least one security is received. At least one metric is calculated to determine a correlation between the internal company credit ratings and the new external credit research agency for each of the plurality of securities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick James Condon, Vinay D. Deshmukh, Christopher Lee Parrish, Winnie W. Cheng, Erica L. Turner, Randall T. Royther
  • Patent number: 7720753
    Abstract: A method of quantifying the value added by an internal company credit rating system is described. The method includes determining an internal company credit rating for each of a plurality of securities. The internal company credit rating for each of the plurality of securities and an external credit research agency original credit rating for each of the securities are inputted in a ratings history database. Data representative of a change of the external credit research agency original credit rating for at least one security of the plurality of securities to a new credit rating is received. Responsive to the change, data representative of a current price of the at least one security and a benchmark price of the at least one security is received. At least one metric is calculated to determine the number of times the internal company credit ratings for each of the plurality of securities was correct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick James Condon, Vinay D. Deshmukh, Christopher Lee Parrish, Winnie W. Cheng, Erica L. Turner, Randall T. Royther