IBM Patent Grants

Identifying and replacing logically neutral phrases in natural language queries for query processing

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971887
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…

Partial loading of media based on context

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11973991
A processor may initiate a recording. The processor may segment the recording into one or more segments. The processor may determine, based on the identification of a primary object in a first segment of the recording, a first bit rate for the first segment of the first recording. The processor may preload one or more subsequent segments that include the primary object at the first bit rate. The processor may preload each of the one or more subsequent segments with a secondary object at…

Software code analysis using fuzzy fingerprinting

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11972256
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.

Compliance content generation

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11972255
A content generation method includes receiving a control document comprising one or more control clauses, identifying actionable content for the one or more control clauses, generating a programming language template for the one or more control clauses, identifying a closest existing control clause from a database for each of the one or more control clause, identifying a programming language implementation of the closest existing control clause, identifying similarities and differences…

Management of smart storage areas

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11972133
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.

Parameter redundancy reduction method

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11972108
A method, computer program product, and computer system for generating and using a basic state layer. N task models are provided (N?2). Each task model was trained on a same pre-trained backbone model. Each task model includes M feature layers and a task layer (M?1). Each feature layer of each task model includes a parameter matrix that is different for the different models. An encoder-decoder model is trained. The encoder-decoder model includes sequentially: an input layer, an encoder,…

Document redaction and reconciliation

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11972004
An example operation may include one or more of splitting, by a document server, a document provided by a document owner node into a plurality of segments to be stored on a ledger of a blockchain, detecting, by the document server, a change to the document made by an authorized participant node, updating, by the document server, a segment of the plurality of segments stored on the ledger based on the change to the document, collecting, by the document server, votes on the change to the…

Conversion of tabular format data to machine readable text for QA operations

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971916
A system and method for table conversion including converting a table containing text in tabular form to an image, labeling each text area of the image with a bounding box, determining for each bounding box, a position information, a semantic information, and an image information, reconstructing the image into a graph form having a plurality of nodes, wherein each node represents the bounding box of the text areas of the image, inputting at least two nodes into a trained neural network…

Topic navigation in interactive dialog systems

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971910
Methods and systems for gathering information from a user include identifying an origin topic and a target topic. A path from the origin topic to the target topic is determined. The path includes a set of bridging topics, where each bridging topic in the path is within a threshold distance in a semantic space from a previous topic and a subsequent topic. An interactive conversation is conducted with the user, introducing each topic in the path until the target topic has been reached. At…

Automated data conversion and route tracking in distributed databases

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971895
A determination is made as to whether a data type associated with a received logical table definition associated with a database query within a distributed database system differs from a data type associated with a local logical table definition. A data conversion is performed on data retrieved from a locally-stored physical table referenced by the local logical table definition in response to determining that the data types differ. Local data conversion information is created…

Training card

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: D1025205

Active learning for natural language question answering

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971886
Methods, systems, and computer program products for active learning for natural language question answering are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes generating a semantic signature of a natural language query; generating a SQL signature for a SQL query corresponding to the natural language query; determining whether a set of mappings includes a semantic signature matching the generated semantic signature, wherein each mapping in the set is between (i) a given semantic…

Optimizing removable media library file removal

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971853
An approach for deleting a file from a primary file system. The approach deletes a directory entry, associated with a file, from an in-memory index associated with a secondary file system. The approach updates an index cache associated with a secondary file system, based on the in-memory index. The approach updates a dirty flag, associated with the secondary file system, to a value of TRUE.

Digital twin functional and non-functional simulation testing

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971814
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…

Intelligent automated feature toggle system using annotations

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971805
A method includes receiving, by one or more processors of a computer system, source code, annotating, by the one or more processors of the computer system, features of the received source code using an automated annotation system to provide annotations for the features, relating, by the one or more processors of a computer system, a code execution path of the source code to the features during the annotating, identifying, by the one or more processors of the computer system, a runtime…

Goal seek analysis based on status models

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971796
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…

Management of devices in a smart environment

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971691
A processor may receive instructional information. The instructional information may be associated with an instructional media. A processor may analyze the instructional information for one or more instructions. A processor may identify a target device from the one or more smart devices in the smart environment that are associated with the one or more instructions. A processor may perform the one or more instructions with the target device.

Low thermal conductivity support system for cryogenic environments

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971141
Techniques facilitating low thermal conductivity support systems within cryogenic environments are provided. In one example, a cryostat can comprise a support rod and a washer. The support rod can couple first and second thermal stages of the cryostat. The washer can intervene between the support rod and the first thermal stage. The washer can thermally isolate the support rod and the first thermal stage.

Flexible sensor curtain

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11970904
A flexible curtain defines a major surface and is configured to repeatedly actuate to move between a deployed configuration and a stowed configuration. Two sensors are configured to detect different condition and are removably attached to two sensor attachment locations. The major surface extends across an operational surface of a target system such that the sensors detect the conditions of the target system when the flexible curtain defines the deployed configuration. The flexible…

Prevention of dripping of material for material injection

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11969828
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.