IBM Patent Grants

Robotic process automation

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12153904
A method, system, and computer program product for automated identification and generation of user interface interactions for robotic process automation development are provided. The method identifies an interface environment including a set of user interface elements. The method identifies a set of element attributes associated with the set of user interface elements based on a user interface model. A set of automated interactions are generated based on the interface environment, the…

Metal gate patterning for logic and SRAM in nanosheet devices

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12156395
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first device including a first nanosheet stack formed on a substrate, the first nanosheet stack including alternating layers of a first work function metal (WFM) gate layer and an active semiconductor layer, a second nanosheet stack formed on the substrate, the second nanosheet stack including alternating layers of a second WFM gate layer and the active semiconductor layer, a shallow trench isolation (STI) region…

Contextual positioning in virtual space

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12155967
Methods, systems, and a computer program product are disclosed. The first method includes obtaining virtual session data in real time, identifying a positional utterance in the virtual session data, and generating a positional insight for the positional utterance. The first method also includes rendering a user avatar in a position recommended based on the positional insight. The second method includes obtaining virtual session data in real time, identifying a positional utterance in the…

Digital feature monitoring and recommendation

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12155737
An embodiment establishes an interaction database based at least in part on interaction data representative of user engagement with a set of features of an application. The embodiment measures user engagement with each feature of the set of features. The embodiment calculates a familiarity score for each feature of the set of features based at least in part on measured user engagement. The embodiment constructs a subset of features of the set of features, wherein the subset of features…

Managing a network element operating on a network

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12155523
Disclosed are an apparatus and method of managing network elements operating on a network. One example method may include transmitting a request to receive at least one activity parameter of a network element operating on the network and monitoring the at least one activity parameter of the network element. The method may include determining whether a usage value of the at least one activity parameter exceeds a predetermined threshold usage value and transmitting a corrective function…

Optimizing mounting points for coaxial RF connectors

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12155157
Systems for optimizing mounting points for coaxial RF connectors, including a printed circuit board (PCB) comprising a coaxial radio frequency (RF) connector; a faceplate comprising an opening adapted to receive the coaxial RF connector; and a bushing positioned within the opening, wherein the coaxial RF connector is positioned within the bushing.

Phase-robust matched kernel acquisition for qubit state determination

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12154003
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products that can facilitate determining a state of a qubit are described. 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 an output receiving component that can receive, in response to a request, output representative of a quantum state of a…

Parameter extrapolation in quantum variational circuits

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12154001
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 an extrapolation component that extrapolates a system parameter of a parameter set to determine a starting parameter value of a variational circuit. The computer executable components can further comprise a variational component that determines a system…

Intelligent identification of an execution environment

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12153953
Mechanisms are provided for intelligently identifying an execution environment to execute a computing job. An execution time of the computing job in each execution environment of a plurality of execution environments is predicted by applying a set of existing machine learning models matching execution context information and key parameters of the computing job and execution environment information of the execution environment. The predicted execution time of the machine learning models…

Upgrading operating software (“OS”) for devices in a multi-device ecosystem

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12153912
Embodiments are provided for upgrading operating application in a multi-device ecosystem in a computing environment. Various types of computing devices are determined to be connected to a multi-device computing network. A collaboration plan is generated between the computing devices to execute an operating application operation event on each of the computing devices without interrupting user activities executing on each of the computing devices. Operating applications on each of the…

Micro-weather report capture by unmanned aerial system (UAS) deployment

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12153188
Embodiments for capturing a micro-weather report by a UAS deployment by one or more processors are described. Micro-weather conditions at a selected location and altitude may be determined utilizing one or more sensor devices associated with the UAS. The collected micro-weather conditions data may be stored in a repository. A micro-weather report may be generated for the selected location and altitude according to the collected micro-weather conditions data stored in the repository.

Syntactic and semantic autocorrect learning

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12153879
Learning and correcting errors in text input fields to an artificial intelligence (AI) system includes receiving, by the AI system from a target system, an input text. The AI system executes a text processing operation on the input text by applying at least one transformer from a library of transformers to the input text to generate transformed text. At least one proposed correction to the input text is output by the AI system based on an analysis of the transformed text. Feedback data,…

Multi-dimensional data recovery

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12153819
Provided are a computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for multidimensional data recover. A snapshot restore request is received with at least one parameter defining at least one dimension for data recovery. At least one snapshot is reconstructed from a single continuous snapshot stream taken for a certain period of time based on the at least one parameter. A selected snapshot is received for data recovery selected from the at least one reconstructed snapshot.…

NLP workspace collaborations

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12153701
A method, computer system, and computer program product for generating a collaborative platform for collective database retrieval using natural language processing are provided. The embodiment may include receiving a query in natural language format from a user. The embodiment may also include converting the natural language query to a search query language statement using a natural language processing technique. The embodiment may further include validating the user access rights to…

Virtual keyboard CAPTCHA

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12153660
In an approach, a processor receives a request to access an electronic resource from a device. A processor causes the device to generate a Completely Automated Public Turing test (CAPTCHA), where the CAPTCHA comprises: a virtual keyboard; an ordered string of characters required to be input; and presentation of a highlighted key of the virtual keyboard on the device, wherein (i) the highlighted key is a first key visually distinct from other keys of the virtual keyboard and (ii) the…

Conversation based data analysis recommendations

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12153631
An insight comprising a fact about a portion of data in a dataset is detected in the dataset. A context is determined by analyzing a natural language input, the context identifying an intent and an entity referenced by the natural language input. A relevance score is computed for the insight, the relevance score comprising a measure of similarity between a vector representation of the insight and a vector representation of the context, the vector representation of the insight comprising…

Type ahead search amelioration based on image processing

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12153620
System and methods for type ahead search amelioration based on image processing are provided. In embodiments, a method includes: capturing, by a computing device, image data based on images viewed by a user during a computing session; converting, by the computing device, the image data to text using image processing; and storing, by the computing device, the text in a temporary buffer of a type ahead search function, wherein the text constitutes image context data for use by the type…

Capturing relative importance of relational entities for embedding

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12153591
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate capturing relative importance of relational entities for building database embedding models are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer-executable components stored in a computer-readable storage medium. The computer executable components can comprise a user input component that can receive user-specified schema information for weight-based model…

Automatic dispatch of multiple tables into consistency groups within an active-active solution

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12153565
In computer methods and systems for operating a database management system using a catalog table collection module each table in the database management system is cataloged. Multiple tables are automatically dispatched into multiple consistency groups by collecting real-time statistics using a real time statistics module. Workload profile data of the database management system is generated using a workload profile collection module, and an optimized multiple consistency group definition…

Indicating extents of tracks in mirroring queues based on information gathered on tracks in extents in cache

Granted: November 26, 2024
Patent Number: 12153519
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for indicating extents of tracks in mirroring queues based on information gathered on tracks in extents in cache. Extent information on an extent of tracks in a cache indicated in an active cache list is processed in response to destaging a track from the active cache list to add to a demote list used to determine tracks to remove from the cache. The extent information is related to a number of modified tracks in an extent…