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  • Patent number: 11977830
    Abstract: Demand-based deployment of a font server to an edge device is facilitated by identifying a need for font-related data that is currently unavailable at a user device. The process also includes deploying a font server to an edge device of the computing environment to facilitate distribution of the font-related data to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Su Liu, Luis Osvaldo Pizana, Boyi Tzen, Fan Yang
  • Patent number: 11977982
    Abstract: The network comprises at least one network layer in which a plurality of electronic oscillators, interconnected via programmable coupling elements storing respective network weights, generate oscillatory signals at time delays dependent on the input signal to propagate the input signal from an input to an output of that layer. The network is adapted to provide a network output signal dependent substantially linearly on phase of oscillatory signals in the last layer of the network. The method includes calculating a network error dependent on the output signal and a desired output for the training sample, and calculating updates for respective network weights by backpropagation of the error such that weight-updates for a network layer are dependent on a vector of time delays at the input to that layer and the calculated error at the output of that layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Siegfried Friedrich Karg, Elisabetta Corti
  • Patent number: 11978250
    Abstract: In an approach for determining the date of planting of a crop growing in an agricultural field, a processor receives an aerial image of one or more agricultural fields in a pre-determined geographical region. A processor selects a plurality of points from the aerial image. A processor calculates a Vegetation Index of one or more crops growing at the plurality of points selected. A processor compares the Vegetation Index calculated for the one or more crops growing at the plurality of points selected to the Vegetation Index known for a plurality of historical reference signatures. A processor generates an actual signature. A processor cross-correlates the actual signature against the plurality of historical reference signatures to measure a degree of similarity. A processor identifies the one or more crops growing in the one or more agricultural fields in the pre-determined geographical region from the cross-correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Daniel Wolfson, Kevin Brown, David Alec Selby, Hamish C. Hunt
  • Patent number: 11979334
    Abstract: A system for initiating web containers and isolating network traffic to web containers is described. The system initiates and uses web containers for associated web-based resources, such as domain addresses owned by a single entity. When a web container for a domain address has not been initiated, the system determines an owner of the domain address and any domain addresses associated with the owner and initiates a web container for the domain address and the associated domains. When a user navigates to the domain addresses associated with the determined owner, the system isolates the network activity to the initiated web container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Renato Luiz De Freitas Cunha, Ana Paula Appel, Lucas Correia Villa Real, Henrique Von Atzingen Do Amaral
  • Patent number: 11979309
    Abstract: A method includes computing a diffusion vector starting with a seed, querying nodes for connections, reweighting diffusion vector based on the degrees, sorting nodes based upon magnitude in the reweighted diffusion vector which is obtained through wave relaxation solution of a time-dependent initial value problem, detecting a community through a sweep over the nodes according to their rank, and selecting a prefix that minimizes or maximizes an objective function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Haim Avron, Lior Horesh, Raya Horesh, Omer Tripp
  • Patent number: 11980039
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a second magnetic tunnel junction stack aligned above a spin conductor layer above a first magnetic junction stack, a sidewall dielectric surrounding the second magnetic tunnel junction stack, a vertical side surface of the sidewall dielectric is aligned with vertical side surfaces of the spin conductor layer and the first magnetic junction stack. A method including forming a first magnetic tunnel junction stack, a spin conductor layer and a second magnetic tunnel junction stack, patterning the second magnetic tunnel junction stack, while not patterning the spin conductor layer and the first magnetic tunnel junction stack, forming a sidewall dielectric and a polymer layer on the sidewall dielectric. A method including patterning a second magnetic tunnel junction stack, while not patterning a spin conductor layer below the second magnetic tunnel junction stack nor a first magnetic tunnel junction stack below the spin conductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nathan P. Marchack, Chandrasekharan Kothandaraman, Pouya Hashemi
  • Patent number: 11979421
    Abstract: In some examples, a system for decorating network traffic flows with outlier scores includes a processor and a memory device to store traffic flows received from a network. The processor is configured to receive a set of traffic flows from the memory device and generate a tree model to split the traffic flows into clusters of traffic flows. Each cluster corresponds with a leaf of the tree model. The processor is further configured to generate machine learning models for each of the clusters of traffic flows separately. For a new traffic flow, the processor is configured to identify a specific one of the machine learning models that corresponds with the new traffic flow, compute an outlier score for the new traffic flow using the identified specific one of the machine learning models, and decorate the new traffic flow with the outlier score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yair Allouche, Aviad Cohen, Ravid Sagy, Ofer Haim Biller, Eitan Daniel Farchi
  • Patent number: 11980110
    Abstract: Insulated phase change memory devices are provided that include a first electrode; a second electrode; a phase change material disposed in an electrical path between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a porous dielectric configured to concentrate heat produced by a reset current carried through the phase change material between the first electrode and the second electrode to mitigate an amount of heat that escapes from the phase change material. The porous dielectric may be an inherently porous dielectric material or a dielectric material in which porous structures are induced during fabrication. Methods of fabrication of such devices are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Mathew Philip, Anirban Chandra, Kevin W. Brew, Lawrence A. Clevenger
  • Patent number: 11980111
    Abstract: A phase change memory bridge cell comprising a dielectric layer located on top of a at least one electrode, wherein a trench is located in the dielectric layer. A first liner located at the bottom of the trench in the dielectric layer and the first liner is located on the sidewalls of the dielectric layer that forms the sidewalls of the trench. A phase change memory material located on top of the first liner, wherein a top surface of the phase change memory material is aligned with a top surface of the dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer is located adjacent to and surrounding the vertical sidewalls of the phase change memory material, wherein a top surface of the phase change memory material is flush with a top surface of the dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Injo Ok, Andrew Herbert Simon, Kevin W. Brew, Muthumanickam Sankarapandian, Steven Michael McDermott, Nicole Saulnier
  • Patent number: 11978796
    Abstract: Monolithically stacked VTFET devices having source/drain contacts with increased contact area and dielectric isolation are provided. In one aspect, a stacked VTFET device includes: at least a bottom VTFET below a top VTFET, wherein the bottom VTFET and the top VTFET each includes source/drain regions interconnected by a vertical fin channel, and a gate stack alongside the vertical fin channel; and source/drain contacts to the source/drain regions, wherein at least one of the source/drain contacts is in direct contact with more than one surface of a given one of the source/drain regions. A stacked VTFET device having at least a bottom VTFET1 below a top VTFET1, and a bottom VTFET2 below a top VTFET2, and a method of forming a stacked VTFET device are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chen Zhang, Ruilong Xie, Lan Yu, Kangguo Cheng
  • Patent number: 11975290
    Abstract: A process, composition, and apparatus for carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration are disclosed. The process includes passing air containing the CO2 through a cyclopropeneimine (CPI)-functionalized material. The composition includes a CPI-functionalized material that reacts with CO2 when mixed with air containing the CO2. The apparatus includes a component for providing a CPI-functionalized material and mixing the material with CO2 gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: James L. Hedrick, Nathaniel H. Park, Luis M. Campos, Dino Wu, Daniel Malinowski
  • Patent number: 11978783
    Abstract: A method of forming a fin field effect device is provided. The method includes forming one or more vertical fins on a substrate and a fin template on each of the vertical fins. The method further includes forming a gate structure on at least one of the vertical fins, and a top spacer layer on the at least one gate structure, wherein at least an upper portion of the at least one of the one or more vertical fins is exposed above the top spacer layer. The method further includes forming a top source/drain layer on the top spacer layer and the exposed upper portion of the at least one vertical fin. The method further includes forming a sacrificial spacer on opposite sides of the fin templates and the top spacer layer, and removing a portion of the top source/drain layer not covered by the sacrificial spacer to form a top source/drain electrically connected to the vertical fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kangguo Cheng, Shogo Mochizuki, Choonghyun Lee, Juntao Li
  • Patent number: 11977856
    Abstract: Methods are provided for generating a random bit-string from an array of SRAM cells. Such a method includes reading the start-up value of each cell over multiple power-ups of the array, and calculating, from the multiple start-up values of each cell, a bias value indicative of entropy of that cell. The method also includes generating, based on the bias values, an address list in which addresses of cells in the array are listed in order of entropy of the cells. This address list is stored in non-volatile memory. The method further comprises, on a subsequent power-up of the array, generating a random bit-string by reading the start-up values of a set of cells selected in decreasing entropy order of the address list. Hardware random number generators exploiting such methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Miguel Angel Prada Delgado, Gero Dittmann
  • Patent number: 11977813
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for sound management is provided. The present invention may include generating a multidimensional risk vector relating to a current contextual activity of a user. The present invention may include dynamically monitoring at least one sound generating device within a predefined threshold distance of a chatbot of the user. The present invention may include determining that an audio adjustment of the at least one sound generating device is warranted. The present invention may include performing the audio adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shikhar Kwatra, Jeremy R. Fox, Paul N. Krystek
  • Patent number: 11978489
    Abstract: A computer program product, system, and method are provided for direct resistance measurement of a magnetoresistive (MR) head of a storage drive in a storage system. In one embodiment, a voltage difference across the MR reader head is measured directly by applying an AC current to the MR head to generate an AC voltage across the MR head that can propagate through filter capacitors and be measured. In one embodiment, the voltage difference is amplified and the peak-to-peak voltage at the output of the amplifier is captured. Similarly, a reference voltage difference across a reference resistance is measured directly by applying a reference AC current to a reference resistance. The resistance of an MR reader head may be calculated directly as a function of the respective voltage differences without including the resistance of any bias resistors biasing the MR head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jake Asmus, Larry LeeRoy Tretter
  • Patent number: 11977922
    Abstract: Reusing containers is provided. It is communicated to a pipeline workload manager that a particular container has finished running a step of a pipeline workload using an agent daemon of the particular container. Pipeline workload information corresponding to the pipeline workload is checked using the pipeline workload manager to determine whether the particular container can be reused to run a particular step in a different pipeline workload. The particular container is provided to be reused to run the particular step in the different pipeline workload without having to perform a prepare container environment sub-step of that particular step based on determining that the particular container can be reused to run that particular step in the different pipeline workload according to the pipeline workload information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guang Han Sui, Jin Chi JC He, Peng Hui Jiang, Jun Su
  • Patent number: 11978359
    Abstract: A learning model is created using a computer which includes receiving input from a user. The learning model includes comparing the input to the knowledge area in a knowledge database to assess a level of proficiency on topics within the knowledge area. The learning model includes determining topics of knowledge within the knowledge area where a user currently meets a proficiency threshold for one or more topics. A work topic is identified within the knowledge area where the user does not meet the proficiency threshold. Study material is presented to the user for the work topic of the knowledge area using an interactive mechanism. Feedback is received regarding the study material for the work topic from the interactive mechanism from the user. The learning model includes evaluating the feedback from the user to determine a score which indicates when the user meets a proficiency threshold for the work topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mukundan Sundararajan, Jignesh K Karia, Shilpa Shetty
  • Patent number: 11977837
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for consent and content template mapping are provided. The method identifies a content type within a content template. A set of content categories is identified that is associated with the content type. One or more consent templates are identified as associated with one or more of the content type and the set of content categories. The content template is mapped to the one or more consent templates to generate a consent template graph. The method provides a multimedia message to a user based on a consent template associated with the user and the content template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jignesh K Karia, Jitan S Chandanani, Vishal Awal, Dayama Pankaj Satyanarayan, Mukundan Sundararajan, Rahul Hundet, Neha Shah, Sudip Dutta
  • Patent number: 11977853
    Abstract: A system for receiving a corpus of sign language data in which a plurality of known signs each correspond to known meanings, generate a model for identifying new sign language signs using the corpus, and identifying, using the model, a new sign language sign that does not match any of the plurality of known signs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Clement Decrop, Charles E. Beller, Zachary A. Silverstein, Jeremy R. Fox
  • Patent number: 11979411
    Abstract: A solution is proposed for controlling access to computing resources. A corresponding method comprises receiving and verifying an access request for accessing the computing resources by a secondary computing environment (isolated from the computing resources). A main computing environment (isolated from the secondary computing environment) detects an indication of a positive result of the verification of the access request; in response thereto, the main computing environment verifies an integrity condition of the secondary computing environment and then authorizes the secondary computing environment to access the computing resources accordingly. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also proposed. Moreover, a system for implementing the method is proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Roberto Ragusa, Remo Freddi, Chiara Conti, Alessandra Asaro
  • Patent number: 11979459
    Abstract: The embodiments herein describe configuring a data device that enables communication between a host and a shared network adapter. The data device can include data connections between the host and the shared network adapter. The data device can have both control queues in a control plane and data queues in a data plane. The control queues can be activated first in order to issue control commands to configure the data plane in the shared network adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce Ratcliff, Dan Vangor, Stephen R. Valley, Margaret Dubowsky, Francis Gassert, Jerry Stevens, Richard P. Tarcza, Patricia G. Driever
  • Patent number: 11977580
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for partitioning and parallel loading of property graphs with constraints are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining graph-related input data and corresponding constraint data, wherein the graph-related input data and corresponding constraint data are at least one of user-defined and input data model-based; generating at least one in-memory graph based at least in part on processing at least a portion of the obtained graph-related input data; partitioning the at least one in-memory graph into two or more sub-graphs by processing the at least one in-memory graph using one or more polynomial time partition algorithms; and generating at least one property graph by allocating, at least a portion of the two or more partitioned sub-graphs which satisfy the obtained constraint data, to two or more threads that run in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sumit Neelam, Hima Prasad Karanam, Udit Sharma, Shajith Ikbal Mohamed, Santosh Srivastava, L. Venkata Subramaniam
  • Patent number: 11979946
    Abstract: A system and a method for a transient gateway, including a storage device storing a set of data, and a gateway engine coupled to the storage device accessing and updating the set of data, the gateway engine configured to share bandwidth and resources, across a plurality of organizations. The transient gateway organizes the set of data to act as a broker amongst the plurality of organizations. The transient gateway is configured to provide resources as a monetized commodity. The transient gateway provides protocols handling capabilities of its connected devices of one organization to another organization from among the plurality of organizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Mohan Mangalvedkar, Shalini Kapoor
  • Patent number: 11977520
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for recovering from a pending uncompleted reorganization of a data set managing data sets in a storage. In response an initiation of an operation to access a data set, an operation is initiated to complete a pending uncompleted reorganization of the data set in response to the data set being in a pending uncompleted reorganization state and no other process currently accessing the data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Philip R. Chauvet, Charles J. House, David C. Reed, Max D. Smith
  • Patent number: 11976391
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for a heuristic determination of in-process damage class control to manage expected output product category. The heuristic technique determines the predicted damages and their ranges while keeping the initial expected defects, the respective classes and range of defect and mitigation. The method dynamically computes a damage mitigation range of operation while being within the overall constraints and completes the computation in smaller number of loops being run at the edge computers so that the manufacturing equipment can operate at a higher velocity for higher quality of the output. The method includes a step of reducing error of the co-efficient and damage counts. An Internet of Things (IoT) based robot is used to mitigate the damages in the manufacturing steps to ensure that the output class of the product remains what was expected at the start despite damages and mitigation measures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mukundan Sundararajan, Jignesh K Karia, Ravindranath Nemani
  • Patent number: 11978444
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus to generate an augmented voice command, including identifying a plurality of sounds from a respective plurality of transducers to a smart speaker device, generating a visualization of the sounds using an augmented reality device, wherein one or more of the sounds can be selected using the visualization, and generating the augmented voice command for the smart speaker device, wherein the augmented voice command comprises the one or more sounds selected using the visualization of the augmented reality device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Clement Decrop, Tushar Agrawal, Jeremy R. Fox, Sarbajit K Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11977655
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer system, and computer program product for associating security events. The method includes obtaining a result of implementation of one or more Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) functions to feature data of a first event detected by a first device. The method also includes mapping the result to one or more positions in a data structure. In response to data elements of the one or more positions indicating first information associating with the one or more positions exists in a storage, the method includes obtaining the first information from the storage. The method further includes sending the first information to the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jia-Sian Jhang, Chen-Yu Kuo, Hsiao-Yung Chen, Lu Cheng Lin, Chien Wen Jung
  • Patent number: 11977614
    Abstract: Methods and systems for watermarking a circuit design include defining a watermarked cell library that includes cells, each of which defines a design structure that corresponds to a manufacturable physical structure, at least one of which being a watermarked call that includes a watermark. The watermark is encoded using a design structure that extends beyond a respective cell boundary. A first circuit design file is generated for a device to be manufactured. The first circuit design file including at least one watermarked cell. The first circuit design file is sent to a manufacturer for fabrication of a corresponding device that includes a watermark structure that encodes an identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Carl Radens, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Daniel James Dechene, Hsueh-Chung Chen
  • Patent number: 11979480
    Abstract: An integrated circuit communication architecture is provided and includes a clock lane, a clock divider, and a first de-skew circuit. The clock lane is configured to send a clock signal at a first rate from a first chip to a second chip. The clock divider is on the second chip and is configured to receive the clock signal sent via the clock lane and to create and send a first divided clock signal and a second divided clock signal from the received clock signal. The divided clock signals are sent at reduced rates compared to the first rate. The clock divider maintains current mode logic properties for the divided clock signals. The first de-skew circuit is configured to receive and process the divided clock signals to allow for sampling of data transmitted from the first chip to the second chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Sperling, Daniel Mark Dreps, Erik English, Jieming Qi
  • Patent number: 11977909
    Abstract: A method of organizing computer resources includes receiving a specification defining a plurality of quiescence groups of independent component instances for each of at least two services, and performing a first load balancing of the quiescence groups across a plurality of physical servers to define a plurality of supergroups while assigning each of the physical servers across the supergroups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard E. Harper, Harigovind V. Ramasamy, Valentina Salapura, Sandhya Kapoor, Long Wang
  • Publication number: 20240146746
    Abstract: A technique for threat response associated with an endpoint detection and response (EDR) system. The system uses a combination of automated observable detection, threat intelligence enrichment, graph analysis, and supervised machine learning to machine-predict analyst behavior in classifying (as ‘true’ or ‘false’ positives) the EDR alerts, and to support either (i) automated suppression of those alerts that the system classifies with sufficient confidence as either true or false, or (ii) for those alerts than cannot be so classified, the providing of recommendations to analysts to facilitate their activities. Auto-detection of observables for graph-based feature detection, together with the automated disposition of alerts where possible greatly reduces overall analyst workload for the EDR system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aankur Bhatia, Abhishek Basu, Luiz Marcel Arbos, Terry Liggett, Kyle Proctor
  • Publication number: 20240143297
    Abstract: An embodiment searches source for callable units, and scans the contents of the callable units, and generates a set of unit groups that each include one or more of the callable units. The embodiment preprocesses the callable units and then generates hashes of each of the callable units. The embodiment generates a data structure comprising unit identifiers associated with the hashes and their corresponding callable units. The embodiment generates statistical data using a callable-unit metric and updates the data structure by prioritizing the callable units based on the statistical data. The embodiment compares hashes of the callable units and identifies first and second callable units as redundant callable units. The embodiment updates the data structure by identifying the second callable unit as being redundant to the first callable unit. The embodiment generates a report of redundant callable units based on the data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: FUMIHIKO KITAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11972783
    Abstract: In one general embodiment, a data storage product includes a magnetic recording tape having written thereon at least two servo tracks extending along a longitudinal axis of the tape. Each servo track has a timing-based servo (TBS) pattern comprising a series of servo frames arranged to enable lateral positioning of a magnetic head relative to the servo tracks as well as tape dimensional stability (TDS) compensation via head skew. Each frame comprises a sequence of pairs of leading and trailing servo stripes. Midpoints between the servo stripes in each pair, at all points having a same relative lateral height on the tape, are located along a virtual median line oriented at an angle ? from perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the tape, the angle ? being greater than 1 degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nhan Xuan Bui, Kevin Bruce Judd, Simeon Furrer, Mark Alfred Lantz
  • Patent number: 11971796
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which the approach builds a combination model that includes a normal status model and an abnormal status model. The normal status model is built from a set of time-sequenced normal status records and the abnormal status model is built from a set of time-sequenced abnormal status records. The approach computes a set of time-sequenced coefficient combination values of the normal status model and the abnormal status model based on applying a set of fitting coefficient characteristics to the normal status model and the abnormal status model. The approach performs goal seek analysis on a system using the combination model and the set of time-sequenced coefficient combination values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xiao Ming Ma, Si Er Han, Lei Gao, A Peng Zhang, Chun Lei Xu, Rui Wang, Jing James Xu
  • Patent number: 11973630
    Abstract: An enhanced quadrature receive serial interface circuit and methods are provided for calibrating the quadrature receive serial interface circuit. A quadrature receive serial interface circuit comprises a first phase rotator and a second phase rotator generating quadrature clocks of identical frequency. Calibration of the quadrature receive serial interface circuit uses a pseudo random bit sequence (PRBS) received by the quadrature receive serial interface circuit. For calibration, one-half of the received PRBS bits are sampled and the phase rotator generating in-phase 0° and 180° clock signals is adjusted to center the data eye for the sampled half of the PRBS bits. Then all data bits (even and odd data bits) of the received PRBS bits are sampled and the phase rotator generating quadrature phase 90° and 270° clock signals is adjusted to center the data eye of all data bits of the PRBS bits to complete calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael B. Spear, Daniel Mark Dreps, Erik English, Jieming Qi, Michael Sperling
  • Patent number: 11971814
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for digital twin functional and non-functional simulation testing. An indication is received that digital twin functional and non-functional simulation testing is to start for an application being developed, where a first portion of code for the application has been developed and a second portion of the code for the application has not been developed. Application data and an application landscape are retrieved. The digital twin functional and non-functional simulation testing is performed to identify which functional and non-functional requirements are not being met by the first portion of the code. For the functional and non-functional requirements that are not being met, suggestions are provided for at least one of the first portion and the second portion to meet one or more of the functional and non-functional requirements. One or more of the suggestions are implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shailendra Moyal, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Akash U. Dhoot
  • Patent number: 11973256
    Abstract: Systems and techniques that facilitate high-density embedded broadside-coupled attenuators are provided. In various embodiments, an attenuator can comprise an output line. In various aspects, the attenuator can further comprise a reflectively-terminated input line that is broadside coupled to the output line. In various instances, a downstream end of the reflectively-terminated input line can be shorted to ground. In other instances, a downstream end of the reflectively-terminated input line can be open from ground. In various cases, the output line can exhibit a non-looped-back-layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nicholas A Masluk
  • Patent number: 11972525
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object via execution of a machine learning model on one or more images of the object, capturing a plurality of snapshots of the 3D model of the object at different angles to generate a plurality of snapshot images of the object, fusing a feature into each of the plurality of snapshots to generate a plurality of fused snapshots of the 3D model of the object, and storing the plurality of fused snapshots of the 3D model of the object in memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kun Yan Yin, Zhong Fang Yuan, Yi Chen Zhong, Lu Yu, Tong Liu
  • Patent number: 11972260
    Abstract: A machine instruction to find a condition location within registers, such as vector registers. The machine instruction has associated therewith a register to be examined and a result location. The register includes a plurality of elements. In execution, the machine instruction counts a number of contiguous elements of the plurality of elements of the register having a particular value in a selected location within the contiguous elements. Other locations within the contiguous elements are ignored for the counting. The counting provides a count placed in the result location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael K. Gschwind, Markus Kaltenbach, Jentje Leenstra, Brett Olsson
  • Patent number: 11972267
    Abstract: Tasks are selected for hibernation by recording user preferences for tasks having no penalty for hibernation and sleep; and assigning thresholds for battery power at which tasks are selected for a least one of hibernation and sleep. The assigning of the thresholds for battery power include considering current usage of hardware resources by a user and battery health per battery segment. A penalty score is determined for tasks based upon the user preferences for tasks having no penalty, and task performance including at least one of frequency of utilization, memory utilization, task dependency characteristics and task memory hierarchy. The penalty performance is a value including both the user preference and the task performance. Tasks can then be put into at least one of hibernation mode and sleep mode dictated by their penalty performance during the thresholds for battery power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Madhu Pavan Kothapally, Rajesh Kumar Pirati, Bharath Sakthivel, Sarika Sinha
  • Patent number: 11972256
    Abstract: A system for determining code ancestry. The system includes: a memory; and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to perform a method comprising: receiving a source code file; parsing a plurality of functions out of the source code file; generating fuzzy fingerprints from the plurality of functions; and storing the fuzzy fingerprints in a graph database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yash Kedia, Siddharth Mehta, Matthias Seul, Michael Wang
  • Patent number: 11972259
    Abstract: A machine instruction to find a condition location within registers, such as vector registers. The machine instruction has associated therewith a register to be examined and a result location. The register includes a plurality of elements. In execution, the machine instruction counts a number of contiguous elements of the plurality of elements of the register having a particular value in a selected location within the contiguous elements. Other locations within the contiguous elements are ignored for the counting. The counting provides a count placed in the result location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael K. Gschwind, Markus Kaltenbach, Jentje Leenstra, Brett Olsson
  • Patent number: 11971887
    Abstract: An embodiment for identifying and replacing logically neutral phrases in natural language queries may include receiving a natural language query. The embodiment may also identify one or more logically neutral or non-logically neutral anchors in the natural language query. The embodiment may also identify boundaries containing one or more logically neutral phrases. The embodiment may further include detecting semantic and logical relations between verbal phrases and functional language between and adjacent to the one or more logically neutral and non-logically neutral anchors to reintroduce non-logically neutral language back into a non-logically neutral portion of the natural language query. The embodiment may also include generating a modified natural language query by automatically removing the boundaries and optionally replacing the one or more logically neutral phrases in the natural language query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Octavian Popescu, Vadim Sheinin, Ngoc Phuoc An Vo, Elahe Khorasani, Hangu Yeo
  • Patent number: 11972133
    Abstract: A processor may receive storage area information of a smart storage area. A processor may analyze the one or more objects associated with the smart storage area. A processor may determine a layout of the one or more objects. The layout may be based, at least in part, on one or more object parameters of the one or more objects and the storage area information. A processor may arrange the one or more objects in the layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11972290
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods and/or computer program products are provided for facilitating time management of a quantum program at one or more nodes of a system, such as a hybrid classical/quantum system. A system, such as a classic portion of the hybrid system, can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a time management component that can communicate with a node to trigger the node to execute one or more quantum program instructions relative to a counter of the node that is advanced by the communicating. The time management component can advance the counter at the node based upon a combination of time of another node and of a determined actual propagation time for the communicating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jeffrey Joseph Ruedinger
  • Patent number: 11969950
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product. The embodiments include a method for three-dimensional printing of an object. The method provides for one or more processors to receive image data of an object to print. The one or more processors receive a position of a light-emitting robot inserted within photosensitive material. The one or more processors initiate movement of the light-emitting robot within the photosensitive material. The one or more processors control navigation of the light-emitting robot through the photosensitive material, based on continual feedback of the position of the light-emitting robot within photosensitive material and the received image data of the object to print, and the one or more processors control activation and deactivation of emitted light of the light-emitting robot, based on the image data of the object to print, wherein the emitted light of the light-emitting robot solidifies the photosensitive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11969828
    Abstract: An injection apparatus for injection material is disclosed. The injection apparatus includes a tank for storing material. The injection apparatus further includes a head body that has a surface for contacting a substrate and an opening part opened at the surface for discharging the material in fluid-communication with the tank. The injection apparatus further includes a member connected to the opening part, in which the member allows gas to flow into and flow out from the opening part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toyohiro Aoki, Eiji Nakamura, Takashi Hisada
  • Patent number: 11973842
    Abstract: An overloaded period of a first service is forecast. A first transaction is predicted to arrive at the first service during the overloaded period. At a second service, a transaction sequence including the first transaction is delayed, the delaying resulting in a delayed transaction sequence, the delayed transaction sequence delaying arrival of the first transaction at the first service until after the overloaded period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sudheesh S. Kairali, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11972319
    Abstract: Techniques regarding qubit coupling structures that enable RIP gates are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise an apparatus that can include a coupling structure coupled to a first qubit and a second qubit. The coupling structure can have a plurality of coupling pathways. A coupling pathway from the plurality of coupling pathways can be a resonator. Also, the first qubit can be coupled to a first end of the resonator, and the second qubit can be coupled to a point along a length of the resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Muir Kumph, David C. Mckay, Oliver Dial
  • Patent number: 11972321
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate quantum computing job scheduling are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a scheduler component that can determine a run order of quantum computing jobs based on one or more quantum based run constraints. The computer executable components can further comprise a run queue component that can store the quantum computing jobs based on the run order. In an embodiment, the scheduler component can determine the run order based on availability of one or more qubits comprising a defined level of fidelity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John A. Gunnels, Mark Wegman, David Kaminsky