Hardware placement and maintenance scheduling in high availability systems
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977909
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.
AR (augmented reality) based selective sound inclusion from the surrounding while executing any voice command
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11978444
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…
Computer enabled modeling for facilitating a user learning trajectory to a learning goal
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11978359
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…
Agricultural crop estimated date of planting
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11978250
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…
Decision tree interface for neural networks
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977990
A first set of features associated with a neural network are parameterized. A decision tree is generated from the first set of features. One or more adjustments for the neural network are received at the decision tree. A second set of features associated with the adjustments at the decision tree are parameterized. The parameterized first and second set of features are combined into a plurality of parameters. From the plurality, an adjusted neural network is generated.
Dynamic computation rates for distributed deep learning
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977986
Embodiments of a method are disclosed. The method includes performing distributed deep learning training on multiple batches of training data using corresponding learners. Additionally, the method includes determining training times wherein the learners perform the distributed deep learning training on the batches of training data. The method also includes modifying a processing aspect of the straggler to reduce a future training time of the straggler for performing the distributed deep…
Training of oscillatory neural networks
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977982
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…
Compression of fully connected / recurrent layers of deep network(s) through enforcing spatial locality to weight matrices and effecting frequency compression
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977974
A system, having a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components, reduces data size in connection with training a neural network by exploiting spatial locality to weight matrices and effecting frequency transformation and compression. A receiving component receives neural network data in the form of a compressed frequency-domain weight matrix. A segmentation component segments the initial weight matrix into original…
Deploying dynamic applications and infrastructure according to metadata assigned by content
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977927
Methods, computer program products, and/or systems are provided that perform the following operations: obtaining metadata associated with a content item, wherein the metadata includes at least one runtime metadata definition; identifying an environment for providing access to the content item based on a runtime metadata definition; implementing the environment based, at least in part, on the runtime metadata definition; and providing access to the content item in the environment.
Resource reuse for pipeline workloads
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977922
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…
Data virtualization in natural language
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977540
A method includes: creating, by a computing device, a virtual consolidation layer; replicating, by the computing device, snippets that are results of a query; copying, by the computing device, the replicated snippets to the virtual consolidation layer; performing, by the computing device and by a machine learning model, matching of particular ones of the snippets in the virtual consolidation layer; and producing, by the computing device, a search result comprising the matched snippets.
Random number generation from SRAM cells
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977856
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…
Aggregating and identifying new sign language signs
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977853
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.
Consent to content template mapping
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977837
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…
Demand-based deployment of font server to an edge device
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977830
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.
Dynamically managing sounds in a chatbot environment
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977813
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…
Security event association technology
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977655
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…
Using multimodal model consistency to detect adversarial attacks
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977625
A method, apparatus and computer program product to defend learning models that are vulnerable to adversarial example attack. It is assumed that data (a “dataset”) is available in multiple modalities (e.g., text and images, audio and images in video, etc.). The defense approach herein is premised on the recognition that the correlations between the different modalities for the same entity can be exploited to defend against such attacks, as it is not realistic for an adversary to…
Circuit design watermarking
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977614
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…
Partitioning and parallel loading of property graphs with constraints
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977580
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…
