IBM Patent Grants

Enhancing applications based on effectiveness scores

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141567
Provided are techniques for enhancing applications based on effectiveness scores. Application functionalities of applications in an application landscape are identified. Application logs for the applications are analyzed to identify how the application functionalities are executing. Groups of application functionalities are formed, where each of the groups includes different application functionalities that perform a similar function. For a group of the groups, an effectiveness score is…

Hybrid edge computing

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12143453
Hybrid edge computing that includes a nimble framework that identifies services for available in a marketplace. The nimble framework defines a location for computing the services selected from the group consisting of a center server, an edge provision server and an edge node. The hybrid edge computing further includes a third party provider making are request for a service to the nimble framework. The hybrid edge computing further includes a virtualized service being provided by the…

Dynamic context orchestration based user experience

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12143429
A method, computer system, and a computer program product are provided for restoring an interrupted communication session. In one embodiment, the methodology comprises obtaining communication interface and network information from a user required to communicate from a user device with another device. The user communication is then captured between a current session using the user device and another device. The context of the captured communication is then determined, and a token is…

Neural flow attestation

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141704
Mechanisms are provided to implement a neural flow attestation engine and perform computer model execution integrity verification based on neural flows. Input data is input to a trained computer model that includes a plurality of layers of neurons. The neural flow attestation engine records, for a set of input data instances in the input data, an output class generated by the trained computer model and a neural flow through the plurality of layers of neurons to thereby generate recorded…

Channel scaling: a scale-and-select approach for selective transfer learning

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141701
A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for introducing channel-scaling layers in a deep neural network. A computer receives a pre-trained deep neural network including convolutional layers followed by respective ones of activation layers, adds channel-scaling layers after the respective ones of the activation layers, where each of the channel-scaling layers includes scaling weights. The computer trains the scaling weights in the channel-scale…

Annotating customer data

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141697
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to annotating or tagging customer data. In some embodiments, the annotating can include summarizing touchpoints into k-hot encoding feature vectors, mapping the feature vectors onto an embedding layer, predicting a hierarchical data sequence using the embedding layer and the feature vectors, extracting the feature vectors that are most influential in predicting the embedding layer, and outputting the touchpoints associated with the most…

Memory-augmented neural network system

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141692
The present disclosure relates to a method for classifying a query information element using the similarity between the query information element and a set of support information elements. A resulting set of similarity scores is transformed using a sharpening function such that the transformed scores are decreasing as negative similarity scores increase and the transformed scores are increasing as positive similarity scores increase. A class of the query information element is determined…

Merge operations for darts

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141681
A one-shot neural architecture search method referred to as MergeNAS by merging different types of convolutions into a single operation. This mergence approach reduces the search cost to roughly half a GPU-day as well as alleviates the over-fitting problem caused by a traditional differentiable architecture search (DARTS) approach by reducing the number of redundant parameters.

Predictive dead store elimination

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141581
Predictive dead store elimination is provided. The method comprises identifying, in a program, a first store operation and a second store operation in a program loop that comprise a store pair with a same loop-invariant base address and determining whether the store pair is a predictive dead store elimination candidate. Responsive to a determination that the store pair is a predictive dead store elimination candidate, the method eliminates the first store operation in each iteration of…

Inference processing of decision tree models using vector instructions

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141579
Methods are provided for inference processing of a decision tree model in processing apparatus which executes vector instructions to perform inference computations on vectors of operands stored in vector registers of the apparatus. Such a method includes, for each decision tree of the model, indexing nodes of the tree by consecutive node indexes which are assigned to nodes in a breadth-first order and increase with node-depth in the tree. During the inference processing, a vector of N…

Security semantics for database queries

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141313
A computer-implemented method to inject security semantics into database queries. The method includes receiving, by a database system, a query, wherein the query is received from a host and the query is generated by a first user account. The method also includes, generating an access plan for the query. The method further includes, determining a first portion of the access plan matches a first security syntax. The method includes, injecting, in response to determining the first portion…

Message mapping and combination for intent classification

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141540
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for automated agent intent detection enhancement are provided. A first message from a first user is received. The first message is generated during a first conversation between the first user and a first automated agent. A computer produces a second message that includes a same request as the first message but a different language modality than the first message. The second message and the first message are combined to form a…

Personalizing automated conversational system based on predicted level of knowledge

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141534
Techniques for personalizing an AI automated conversational system are provided. In one aspect, a method for personalizing an automated conversational system includes: making predictions of a familiarity of a user with concepts needed to understand a standard output utterance based on the familiarity of an aggregate of users and a background knowledge model of the concepts and related concepts, wherein the standard output utterance assumes that the concepts are known; and giving, by the…

Leveraging knowledge records for chatbot local search

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141533
At least one knowledge source for use in updating a first problem-solution data set can be selected. From data provided by the at least one knowledge source, a plurality of dialogs can be automatically generated. Existing dialogs in the first problem-solution data can be updated set using the plurality of dialogs that are generated.

Determining unknown concepts from surrounding context

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141530
A computer-implemented method for learning unknown concepts during natural language processing is disclosed, including identifying a sentence associated with an unknown concept, selecting a first sequential set of sentences from a first document, including the sentence associated with the unknown concept, one sentence prior, and subsequent to the sentence associated with the unknown concept, selecting a second sequential set of sentences from a second document, including a sentence…

Method to map convolutional layers of deep neural network on a plurality of processing elements with SIMD execution units, private memories, and connected as a 2D systolic processor array

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141513
A method for improving performance of a predefined Deep Neural Network (DNN) convolution processing on a computing device includes inputting parameters, as input data into a processor on a computer that formalizes a design space exploration of a convolution mapping, on a predefined computer architecture that will execute the predefined convolution processing. The parameters are predefined as guided by a specification for the predefined convolution processing to be implemented by the…

Maintaining data in memory for transformation and quality checking when reading from a source and loading to a target

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141482
Data transformation and data quality checking is provided by reading data from a source datastore and storing the data into memory, performing in-memory processing of the data stored in memory, where the data is maintained in-memory for performance of the in-memory processing thereof, and where the in-memory processing includes performing one or more transformations on the data stored in memory, in which the data stored in memory is transformed and stored back into the memory and…

Integrating mirrored storage to remote replication site

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141461
A method, computer system, and computer program product area provided. A computer transmits a query command to a storage descriptor area of a first disk. The first disk belongs to a dual-site data replication system. The dual-site data replication system provides active-active access to a volume of data stored in an active disk and replicated in a backup disk. The computer receives a response to the query command. The response indicates the active disk and the backup disk for the…

Mirrored disaggregated memory in a clustered environment

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141444
An example computer-implemented method for mirroring memory in a disaggregated memory clustered environment is provided. The method includes assigning, by a hypervisor, a disaggregated memory to a virtual machine comprising a remote disaggregated memory, the virtual machine being one node of a cluster of the disaggregated memory clustered environment. The method further includes allocating, by a disaggregated memory manager, a mirrored memory for the remote disaggregated memory to mirror…

Obfuscation of sensitive information through non-visual feedback

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141316
In an approach to obfuscation of sensitive information through non-visual feedback, responsive to receiving a signal from a user to start a session requiring input of sensitive data, one or more dummy character positions are determined, where the one or more dummy character positions represent characters that are not part of the sensitive data. Responsive to a current character position is any dummy character position of the one or more dummy character positions, the user is signaled…