IBM Patent Grants

Services thread scheduling based upon thread tracing

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983569
One embodiment provides a method, including: producing, for each of a plurality of containers, a resource profile for each thread in each of the plurality of containers; identifying, for each of the plurality of containers and from, at least in part, the resource profiles, container dependencies between threads on a single of the plurality of containers; determining service dependencies between threads across different of the plurality of containers; scheduling, based upon the container…

Matching regional promotions to telecom user preferences using artificial intelligence

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983739
Promotional offers are presented to users by tagging users of the services with the user preferences. Promotional offers are received from vendors. The vendors are classified as being in a home area or roaming areas for the services. The users are tracked through movement of a device for the user that is receiving the services to determine whether the user is in the home area or the roaming areas. Promotional offers from the vendors are matched to the user preferences according to the…

Mixed quantum-classical method for fraud detection with quantum feature selection

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983720
A computer-implemented system, platform, method and computer program product for optimizing a data analytics fraud prediction/detection pipeline that includes a combination of a classical machine learned classifier model with a quantum machine learned model to optimize the performance of the fraud prevention model. The feature selection uses different feature maps: one determined by the classic classifier and the other determined by the quantum model implementation that exploits the…

Method, system, and media for machine learning annotation and image marketplace using blockchain ledgers

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983655
A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for marketplace creation and model training in a blockchain network is provided. Embodiments of the present invention may include uploading images to a marketplace. Embodiments of the present invention may include recording references to the images on a blockchain ledger. Embodiments of the present invention may include measuring local and global annotations. Embodiments of the present invention may include determining an image…

Insight allotment to edged locations

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983644
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. Embodiments of the present invention receive a request for a machine learning model and information associated with decisions made by the machine learning model. Embodiments of the present invention can determine one or more machine learning modules that satisfy the received request and create a dedicated traffic channel to send the determined one or more machine learning modules and information…

Generating question templates in a knowledge-graph based question and answer system

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983640
Techniques for generating a natural language question template for an artificial intelligence question and answer (QA) system are disclosed. A graph database query relating to a QA system is parsed using a predefined schema. The parsing includes extracting a first plurality of values from the graph database query relating to a where clause in the graph database query, extracting a second plurality of values from the graph database query relating to a return clause in the graph database…

Efficient verification of machine learning applications

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983608
An example operation may include one or more of generating, by a training participant client, a plurality of transaction proposals, each of the plurality of transaction proposals corresponding to a training iteration for machine learning model training related to stochastic gradient descent, the machine learning model training comprising a plurality of training iterations, the transaction proposals comprising a gradient calculation performed by the training participant client,…

Partitioned template matching and symbolic peephole optimization

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983605
Systems and techniques that facilitate partitioned template matching and/or symbolic peephole optimization are provided. In various embodiments, a system can comprise a template component, which can perform template matching on a Clifford circuit associated with a set of qubits. In various aspects, the system can comprise a partition component, which can partition, prior to the template matching, the Clifford circuit into a computation stage, a Pauli stage, and a SWAP stage. In various…

Compilation of a quantum program

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983600
Embodiments are provided for compilation of a quantum program. In some embodiments, a system can include a processor that executes computer-executable components stored in memory. The computer-executable components can include an identification component that selects a subgraph that is common among a first commutation directed acyclic graph (DAG) and a second commutation DAG. The subgraph has an upper-bound size that is greater than a threshold size. The first commutation DAG represents…

Conditionally deploying a reusable group of containers for a job based on available system resources

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983570
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying a job creation request within a system; determining a current amount of available resources within the system; and conditionally deploying a reusable group of containers for the job, based on the current amount of available resources for the system.

Generating task-specific training data

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983238
Techniques for generating machine learning training data which corresponds to one or more downstream tasks are disclosed. In one example, a computer implemented method comprises generating one or more synthetic data instances for training a machine learning model, and determining a value of respective ones of the one or more synthetic data instances with respect to at least one task. One or more additional synthetic data instances for training the machine learning model are generated…

Configuring hardware multithreading in containers

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983561
As part of a container initialization procedure, a maximum number of hardware threads per processor core in a set of cores of a computer system are enabled, the container initialization procedure configuring an operating system executing on the computer system for container execution and configuring a first container for execution on the operating system. From a set of available cores in the set of cores, an execution core is selected. In the selected execution core, a number of threads…

Optimize bound information accesses in buffer protection

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983532
A method, system and apparatus for providing bound information accesses in buffer protection, including providing one-to-one mapping between a general-purpose register and bound information in a BI (bound information) register, saving loaded bound information in the BI register for future use, providing integrity of the bound information in the BI register that is maintained along program execution, and providing a pro-active load of the bound information with one-bit extra control on…

Optimizing source code using callable unit matching

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983515
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…

Routing layer re-optimization in physical synthesis

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983477
To increase the efficiency of electronic design automation, at an end point of physical design synthesis optimization flow for a putative integrated circuit design having a plurality of nets, identify at least one congested region in the putative integrated circuit design. Identify those of the nets of the putative integrated circuit design traversing through the at least one congested region, to obtain a plurality of candidate nets for demotion. Demote a plurality of selected nets,…

Technology-independent line end routing

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983476
One or more line ends of a putative integrated circuit design are modelled using a constraint graph. A longest path algorithm is applied on subgraphs of the constraint graph. An extent minimization algorithm is carried out on the subgraphs of the constraint graph and routing on the putative integrated circuit design is carried out based on results of the longest path algorithm and the extent minimization algorithm.

Providing reusable quantum circuit components as a curated service

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983471
A repository is configured in a hybrid data processing environment comprising a classical computing system and a quantum computing system, to hold a plurality of quantum circuit components (QCC(s)). A degree of difficulty in simulating the received QCC in the classical computing system is transformed into a classical hardness score. A degree of difficulty in implementing the received QCC in the quantum computing system is transformed into a quantum hardness score. A first parameter in a…

Replicating data to a plurality of replication devices through a tape device

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983430
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for replicating data to a plurality of replication devices through a tape device. A replication request is transmitted to a primary tape device to replicate data to a replication number of at least one replication device to store the data to replicate. The primary tape device stores the data to replicate in tape storage media at the primary tape device and transmits the data to replicate over a network to the replication number…

Policy-driven views of datasets

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983291
Systems and techniques that facilitate policy-driven views of datasets are provided. In various embodiments, a system can comprise a data component that can access a dataset. In various instances, the system can further comprise a view policy component that can respectively correlate a set of security credentials to a set of view instructions associated with the dataset. In various embodiments, the system can further comprise an input component that can receive as input a first security…

Inline detection and prevention of adversarial attacks

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11983271
A processor may generate an enforcement point. The enforcement point may include one or more adversarial detection models. The processor may receive user input data. The processor may analyze, at the enforcement point, the user input data. The processor may determine, from the analyzing, whether there is an adversarial attack in the user input data. The processor may generate an alert based on the determining.