Patents by Inventor Zachary A. Silverstein

Zachary A. Silverstein 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: 11769300
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide computer-implemented methods, computer program products and computer systems. Embodiments of the present invention can, in response to receiving a request, identify a core component from source material based on topic analysis. Embodiments of the present invention can then generate three-dimensional representations of physical core components associated with the request. Finally, embodiments of the present invention then render the generated three-dimensional representations of the physical core components over the physical core components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Kyndryl, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Seth Silverstein, Zachary A. Silverstein, Jacob Ryan Jepperson
  • Publication number: 20230297705
    Abstract: The present invention may include a computing device that receives root data, where the root data comprises a plurality of datasets. The computing device determines a context of each dataset within the plurality of datasets. The computing device identifies one or more users based on monitoring behavior of the one or more users related to each dataset. The computing device appends metadata associated with each dataset within the plurality of datasets with the determined context and the one or more identified users and setts access restrictions to each dataset in the metadata based on the context and the one or more identified users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Fang Lu, Clement Decrop, Zachary A. Silverstein, Jeremy R. Fox, Pratyush Kumar
  • Publication number: 20230297615
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, including: receiving, by a computing device, a post referring to a multimedia content; identifying, by the computing device, a time in the post; generating, by the computing device, a validity score based on analyzing contextual data of the time in the post; determining, by the computing device, a correlation between the time in the post to the multimedia content based on the validity score; and publishing, by the computing device, the post with an interactive link to a corresponding time of the multimedia content based on the determined correlation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Caleb MILES, Clement DECROP, Zachary A. SILVERSTEIN, Shikhar KWATRA
  • Publication number: 20230291691
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product manage network throughput based on weather conditions. The method includes identifying a weather condition from a weather forecast. The weather condition includes a geographic area and a time period. The method also includes collecting historical data associated with the network. The historical data includes the network throughput during a past event. The method further includes determining that the weather condition will lower the network throughput below a threshold based on the network throughput during the past event. Lastly, the method includes dynamically creating software application containers on a server at a time prior to the time period of the weather condition. The software application containers are accessed by a user computing device within the geographic area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Hayden Edelson, Ardelia Ayanna Killings, Mairead O'Neill, Thai Hong Quach, Zachary A. Silverstein
  • Publication number: 20230281924
    Abstract: In an approach for improving operational efficiencies in IoT agricultural ecosystems, a processor receives a request from a user for a production plan to modify one or more values of a set of values of an area of interest. A processor maps the area of interest using a set of data originating from a LIDAR instrument to create a digital elevation model of the area of interest. A processor creates a knowledge set to train a decision engine. A processor calculates one or more modifications to be made to the one or more values of the set of values of the area of interest. A processor generates a map of applicable land options that the user may interact with to select the one or more modifications to be made to the one or more values of the set of values. A processor plots a finalized rendering of the production plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Craig M. Trim, Adam Lee Griffin, Shikhar Kwatra, Zachary A. Silverstein
  • Publication number: 20230281008
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to personalized software release note generation. Software usage of a user with respect to a software application can be tracked. Software release notes of the software application can be analyzed with respect to the software usage. Personalized software release notes can be generated for the user based on the analyzing. The personalized software release notes can be presented to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Zachary A. Silverstein, Jacob Ryan Jepperson, Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Jeremy R. Fox
  • Publication number: 20230283688
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method including: displaying, by a mobile device, a push notification from an application of the mobile device; determining, by the mobile device, an associated notification parameter for the push notification; receiving, by the mobile device, a user input by a user of the mobile device; determining, by the mobile device, the user input indicates interest in the push notification; and maintaining, by the mobile device, presence of the push notification on a display of the mobile device based on determining the user input indicates interest in the push notification and the associated notification parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Seth SILVERSTEIN, Zachary A. SILVERSTEIN, Jayanth KRISHNAN, Krishnan SUGAVANAM
  • Patent number: 11748225
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprises obtaining a physical location of a sensor on a device; determining that quality of data captured by the sensor physically located on the device is degraded based on a comparison of the captured data to a quality threshold; and, in response to determining that the quality of the data captured by the sensor is degraded, displaying a visual indicator on a display of the device. The visual indicator includes at least one non-textual component that directs a user to the physical location of the sensor on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Clement Decrop, Zachary A. Silverstein, Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Jacob Ryan Jepperson, Jeremy R. Fox
  • Publication number: 20230273720
    Abstract: A method includes: hosting, by a computing device, a videoconference among plural users; receiving, by the computing device, input from a sharing user of the plural users, wherein the input initiates a screenshare in the videoconference; creating, by the computing device, document twins of a document shown in the screenshare; and providing, by the computing device and to other users of the plural users, access to respective ones of the document twins in an interface of the videoconference; wherein each of the other users may scroll within a respective one of the document twins independently of other ones of the other users and independently of the screenshare.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Seth Silverstein, Caleb Miles, Zachary A. Silverstein, Jeremy R. Fox
  • Patent number: 11727318
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for reserving one or more meeting rooms, and, more specifically, for reserving one or more meeting rooms based on a determination of meeting confidentiality levels and determined Internet of things (IoT) privacy levels associated with the one or more meeting rooms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jacob Thomas Covell, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Robert Huntington Grant, Zachary A. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11721338
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for context-based wake word threshold modification is provided. The present invention may include receiving an audio data generated by a computing device operating in a sleep mode. The present invention may include processing the received audio data to determine a context associated with a user of the computing device. The present invention may include in response to detecting a potential wake word in the received audio data, calculating a wake word confidence score associated with an accuracy of the detected potential wake word. The present invention may include retrieving a wake word threshold, wherein the wake word threshold is determined based on the context associated with the user of the computing device. The present invention may include, in response to the calculated wake word confidence score exceeding the retrieved wake word threshold, activating a wake mode of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shikhar Kwatra, Zachary A. Silverstein, Robert Huntington Grant, Ashraf Mahmoud Mohamed Ahmed Awwad
  • Publication number: 20230229365
    Abstract: Ink saturation for a print job varies according to prioritized elements identified within a given document or print job. Elements are prioritized according to pre-defined values according to document type and identified elements within the document type. High priority elements of a document are assigned greater ink saturation than lower priority elements of the same document. Automated prioritization is made possible by a crowd-sourced knowledge corpus including pre-defined document types and corresponding elements of the documents. Historic configurations accepted by a user drive a learning process using a feedback loop for refined decision-making as print jobs are submitted for printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Zachary A. Silverstein, Tushar Agrawal, Trudy L. Hewitt, Alan Chung, Jeremy R. Fox
  • Publication number: 20230222164
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, text extracted from a webpage in a browser and a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of a linked webpage associated with the text; generating, by the computing device, questions based on the text; retrieving, by the computing device, content of the linked webpage using the URL; generating, by the computing device, answers to the questions using the retrieved content; and returning, by the computing device, the questions and the answers to the browser such that the browser displays the questions and the answers in the webpage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Seth Silverstein, Zachary A. Silverstein, Jayanth Krishnan, Krishnan Sugavanam
  • Publication number: 20230215067
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for avatar rendering of virtual presentations is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes extracting visual content from a presentation. The computer-implemented method further includes extracting audio content from the presentation. The computer-implemented method includes correlating the visual content with the audio content of the presentation. The computer-implemented method includes generating a virtual avatar to dynamically render a virtual presentation to a viewer, based at least in part, on the correlated visual content and audio content of the presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Zachary A. Silverstein, Nadiya Kochura, Tiberiu Suto, Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy
  • Publication number: 20230214530
    Abstract: In an approach to persistence of obfuscated content in livestream data, one or more computer processors receive a video stream. One or more computer processors identify a physical writing space within the video stream. One or more computer processors capture text written on the physical writing space by a presenter. One or more computer processors store the captured text in a tracking corpus. One or more computer processors monitor a position of the presenter with respect to the physical writing space. One or more computer processors determine at least a subset of the captured text is obfuscated from a viewer of the video stream on a device of the viewer. One or more computer processors identify the at least subset of the captured text. One or more computer processors render the at least subset of the captured text in the device of the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Jacob Ryan Jepperson, Zachary A. Silverstein, Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Jeremy R. Fox
  • Patent number: 11687056
    Abstract: In an approach for identifying machinery conversion pivot opportunities utilizing a crowdsourced database, a processor receives machinery information for machinery of a user. A processor identifies a plurality of alternative uses for the machinery from a public cloud database based on the machinery information. A processor ranks the plurality of alternative uses for the machinery based on a set of factors. A processor sends the ranked plurality of alternative uses for the machinery to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Trudy L. Hewitt, Zachary A. Silverstein, Alan Chung, Jeremy R. Fox
  • Patent number: 11681949
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: learning, by a computer device, a delivery for response content in view of types of queries; awakening, by the computer device, in response to receiving an activation command; receiving, by the computer device, a query; determining, by the computer device, a context of the query; determining, by the computer device, a digestibility of a response to the query; and determining, by the computing device, to output a response to the query as one of an audio response, a displayed response, and an audio response and a displayed response to the user, wherein the determining is based on the learning, the determined context of the query, the determined digestibility of the response, and the preferences of the user for receiving the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zachary A. Silverstein, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Shawn Doolen, Robert Huntington Grant
  • Publication number: 20230184585
    Abstract: A mobile device can be used for detecting and communicating to a user at a location, sunlight exposure in relation to the user at the location. Sunlight intensity data at a location of a mobile device is determined, in response to receiving at the computer, GPS (Global Positioning System) data for the mobile device. The sunlight intensity data and the GPS data is analyzed to generate an estimate of sunlight exposure for a user using the mobile device at the location. A level of sunlight exposure for the user is determined, based on the estimate of sunlight exposure for the user, and using the mobile device, the level of sunlight exposure to the user is communicated to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Nimra Tariq, Jacob Greenleaf, Caroline Li, Zachary A. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11676574
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for task monitoring is provided. The present invention may include training an AI voice response system based on task performance data, wherein the task performance data originates from at least one monitoring device. The present invention may include receiving a request for instructions to complete a task from a user. The present invention may include monitoring a performance of the task by the user, wherein the performance of the task by the user is monitored utilizing at least one monitoring device. The present invention may include determining differences between the performance of the task by the user and a task sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Shikhar Kwatra, Zachary A. Silverstein, Martin G. Keen
  • Publication number: 20230177430
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for RFI streamlining is provided. The embodiment may include identifying one or more similarities between a current RFI and historical RFIs within a knowledge corpus. The embodiment may also include predicting one or more remedies to the current RFI based on the one or more identified similarities. The embodiment may further include prioritizing the current RFI among one or more open RFIs based on the one or more predicted remedies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Clement Decrop, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Zachary A. Silverstein, Jeremy R. Fox