IBM Patent Grants

Risk adaptive asset management

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12248989
A computer-implemented method is provided for determining an action with respect to a given portfolio of items for supply chain management. The method includes acquiring, by a hardware processor, a feature vector for supply chain delivery trends, the given portfolio, and a current investment amount. The method further includes determining, by the hardware processor, whether a current supply chain delivery situation is normal or abnormal based on the feature vector. The method also…

Speed-aware adaptation of vehicle communications networks

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12250620
A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product adapt a vehicle communication network range based on an awareness of vehicle speed. The method includes identifying a plurality of devices within a recommended range of a vehicle. The method also includes obtaining a current driving environment from the plurality of devices. In addition, the method includes calculating a required range for a communications network based on the current driving environment and…

Attribute based encryption key based third party data access authorization

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12250314
Mechanisms are provided for computing resource access security in which a credential of a user agent is authenticated to determine if the user agent is associated with an entity for which an attribute based encryption (ABE) key is to be generated. If so, an ABE key is generated and provided which corresponds to a set of attributes of the entity. Token issuance logic receives a token request and the ABE key from a relying party computing device and executes a decryption operation on…

Trusted ledger stamping

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12250312
An example operation includes one or more of detecting, by a validation service node, an access of a block on a blockchain ledger; accessing, by the validation service node, a block validation stamp comprising meta-data signed by a trusted stamping authority (TSA) on the blockchain ledger; and validating the block based on the meta-data.

Perform edge processing by selecting edge devices based on security levels

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12250246
Provided are techniques for performing edge processing by selecting edge devices based on security levels. A security policy is identified for a job to determine a security level for the data. A number of the edge devices that are to be included in a participating group to execute the job is identified. A subset of edge devices that meet the security level are identified by comparing security data of each of the edge devices with the security level. In response to determining that the…

Text detection algorithm for separating words detected as one text bounding box

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12249168
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for text detection is provided. The present invention may include training a text detection model. The present invention may include performing text detection on an inputted image using the trained text detection model. The present invention may include determining whether at least one of a plurality of bounding boxes generated using the inputted image has an aspect ratio above a threshold. The present invention may include based…

Object-centric and relation-centric graph neural networks for physical property discovery

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12249148
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for identifying one or more intrinsic physical properties of one or more objects is provided. The present invention may include identifying one or more objects in a video set, extracting observable physical properties of the identified one or more objects from the video set, including one or more trajectories, and inferring, by a property-based graph neural network, intrinsic properties of the one or…

Adaptive selection of data modalities for efficient video recognition

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12249147
One embodiment of the invention provides a method for video recognition. The method comprises receiving an input video comprising a sequence of video segments over a plurality of data modalities. The method further comprises, for a video segment of the sequence, selecting one or more data modalities based on data representing the video segment. Each data modality selected is optimal for video recognition of the video segment. The method further comprises, for each data modality selected,…

Pattern recognition for identifying indistinct entities

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12249121
Identifying an indistinct entity within an image can include generating by an image filter multiple gradients, each of which corresponds to one of a plurality of pixels of an image captured by an imager. The image can be searched for a likely repeating pattern. Responsive to detecting, based on the multiple gradients, a likely repeating pattern within the image, data structures can be generated, the data structures comprising a set of probabilistically weighted feature vectors…

Resolving obfuscated sections of an image with selectively captured new imagery

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12249045
In an embodiment of the present invention, imagery of a geographic area is received from an image capture system. The imagery includes an obscurity impeding visibility. A geographic region within the geographic area is determined corresponding to a location of the obscurity. The image capture system is requested to capture new imagery of the geographic region at a time determined based on information including weather patterns. The new imagery of the geographic region is combined with…

Handle

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: D1066847

Identifying a finding in a dataset using a machine learning model ensemble

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12248863
There is provided a computer-implemented method of identifying a finding in an input sub-dataset of an input dataset using an ensemble of machine learning (ML) models, comprising: obtaining outcomes of an ensemble of ML models generated in response to feeding each input sub-dataset of the input dataset into each ML model of the ensemble trained to generate an outcome indicative of likelihood of a finding depicted in a respective input sub-dataset, creating a two dimensional (2D) outcome…

Communication coordination and node synchronization for enhanced quantum circuit operation employing a hybrid classical/quantum system

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12248847
Systems, computer-implemented methods and/or computer program products are provided for operating a quantum circuit on a set of qubits. According to an embodiment, a system can facilitate control of data transfer between two or more nodes. The 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 compilation component that compiles one…

License scan triggering system

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12248538
A method, system and computer program product for light-weight software license compliance management. One embodiment of the method comprises accessing a set of software logs from a target device, analyzing the set of software logs to generate a license violation probability score, determining the license violation probability score satisfies a predetermined threshold, and notifying a user of a need to scan the target device for software license compliance.

Requesting an IP address using a non-textual graphical resource identifier

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12248527
A computer-implemented method comprises displaying a grid comprising a plurality of cells; receiving user input modifying a state of one or more of the plurality of cells to create a graphical shape in the grid, wherein each of the plurality of cells is limited to one of a plurality of predefined states; requesting an internet protocol (IP) address corresponding to the graphical shape; and in response to receiving the IP address corresponding to the graphical shape, retrieving a web…

Search using an overlay graph mapping to source knowledge graphs

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12248521
Provided are techniques for a search using an overlay graph mapping to source knowledge graphs. A plurality of overlay graphs are generated, where each overlay graph comprises entities represented by nodes and relations represented by edges, and where the entities and the relations map to a subset of entities and relations in a plurality of source knowledge graphs. A search request comprising an entity and a relation is received. An overlay graph is selected from the plurality of overlay…

Detecting temporal anomalous data using dependency modeling

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12248457
An embodiment for detecting anomalous data using dependency modeling. The embodiment may, within a target data environment, identify references between data contained in one or more data files. The embodiment may determine dependency relationships between data fields in the data contained in the one or more data files. The embodiment may construct computational graphs depicting the determined dependency relationships as series of related data fields. The embodiment may identify a series…

Utilizing a structured audit log for improving accuracy and efficiency of database auditing

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12248456
A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for improving accuracy and efficiency of auditing databases. A table, list or index of a database is analyzed to identify metadata, which includes time series data, user data, an Internet Protocol address and operation data. The identified metadata is associated with the corresponding record or row of the table, list or index from which the metadata was extracted. A determination is then made as to whether to record a raw…

Monitoring and querying autobiographical events

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12245865
In an approach to monitoring and querying autobiographical events, one or more computer processors receive data from one or more sensors associated with a user. Based on the received data from the one or more sensors, one or more computer processors detect an autobiographical event associated with the user. One or more computer processors convert the received data from the one or more sensors into one or more observations associated with the autobiographical event. One or more computer…

Grip handle assembly for a mop

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12245732
A grip handle assembly for a mop includes a grip handle and a lever that is pivotally connected to the grip handle. The grip handle may include a grip handle body that includes a passage the extends through the grip handle body, a lever mount, and a lever stop, where the lever stop includes a central protrusion extending from the grip handle body, a first stop surface, and a second stop surface. The lever may comprise a grip portion, a first forward stop member, a second forward stop…