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).
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Patent number: 10789204Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lawrence D. Bergman, Kumar Bhaskaran, Winnie W. Cheng, Robert A. Flavin, Milton H. Hernandez, Hai Huang, Ravi B. Konuru, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu
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Publication number: 20180246884Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Lawrence D. Bergman, Kumar Bhaskaran, Winnie W. Cheng, Robert A. Flavin, Milton H. Hernandez, Hai Huang, Ravi B. Konuru, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu
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Patent number: 9959273Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lawrence D. Bergman, Kumar Bhaskaran, Winnie W. Cheng, Robert A. Flavin, Milton H. Hernandez, Hai Huang, Ravi B. Konuru, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu
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Patent number: 8996341Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Winnie W. Cheng, Gengxin Miao, James R. Moulic, Shu Tao
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Patent number: 8990058Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Winnie W. Cheng, Gengxin Miao, James R. Moulic, Shu Tao
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Patent number: 8751623Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Abhijit Bose, Winnie W. Cheng, Shang Q. Guo, Sang K. Kim, Laura Z. Luan, Dennis A. Perpetua, Daniela Rosu, Mithkal M. Smadi
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Publication number: 20140074443Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Winnie W. Cheng, Gengxin Miao, James R. Moulic, Shu Tao
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Publication number: 20140075318Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2012Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Winnie W. Cheng, Gengxin Miao, James R. Moulic, Shu Tao
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Publication number: 20130325678Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Winnie W. Cheng, Henry Hu, James Moulic, Arjun Natarajan, Shu Tao
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Publication number: 20130291127Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2012Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lawrence D. Bergman, Kumar Bhaskaran, Winnie W. Cheng, Robert A. Flavin, Milton H. Hernandez, Hai Huang, Ravi B. Konuru, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu
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Publication number: 20130110568Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2011Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Winnie W. Cheng, Jia Liu, David Loewenstern, Larisa Shwartz, Vugranam C. Sreedhar
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Patent number: 8099358Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 13, 2010Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Patrick James Condon, Vinay D. Deshmukh, Christopher Lee Parrish, Winnie W. Cheng, Erica L. Turner, Randall T. Royther
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Publication number: 20100191670Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Patrick James Condon, Vinay D. Deshmukh, Christopher Lee Parrish, Winnie W. Cheng, Erica L. Turner, Randall T. Royther
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Patent number: 7720753Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 4, 2007Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Patrick James Condon, Vinay D. Deshmukh, Christopher Lee Parrish, Winnie W. Cheng, Erica L. Turner, Randall T. Royther