Meaning and sense preserving textual encoding and embedding
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12086565
Mechanisms for implementing a text encoder and text encoder operations are provided. A contrastive machine learning training operation trains an encoder of a machine learning computer model, to learn a sense and similarity preserving embedding that operates to encode input natural language text data to generate encoded natural language text data based on a sense attribute of one or more terms in the input natural language text data. The contrastive machine learning training operation…
Quantum coupler facilitating suppression of ZZ interactions between qubits
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12089511
Devices and/or computer-implemented methods to facilitate ZZ cancellation between qubits are provided. According to an embodiment, a device can comprise a coupler device that operates in a first oscillating mode and a second oscillating mode. The device can further comprise a first superconducting qubit coupled to the coupler device based on a first oscillating mode structure corresponding to the first oscillating mode and based on a second oscillating mode structure corresponding to the…
Isolated component mounting scheme
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12089359
An electronic component system includes a chassis that includes a body, an electrically isolated portion, and an insulator disposed between the electrically isolated portion and the body, wherein the insulator is comprised of a first electrically insulating material. The electronic component system further includes a first electronic component mounted to the electrically isolated portion, and a second electronic component mounted to the body and electrically connected to the first…
Masking sensitive information in a document
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12088718
The exemplary embodiments disclose a method, a computer program product, and a computer system for protecting sensitive information. The exemplary embodiments may include using an inverted text index for evaluating one or more statistical measures of an index token of the inverted text index, using the one or more statistical measures for selecting a set of candidate tokens, extracting metadata from the inverted text index, associating the set of candidate tokens with respective token…
Adaptive content masking during web conferencing meetings
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12088649
Adaptive content masking is provided. Content visibility customizations are applied to a view of shared information by respective participants during screen sharing in a web conferencing meeting using content visibility control settings. Content visibility is adjusted via adaptive learning based on frequency and type of screen sharing previously completed between a content presenter and respective participants of the web conferencing meeting. Content masking is applied adaptively based…
Security and task performance validation for a cooperative device network
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12088627
A core set of nodes of a graph representing a network of devices is identified, a node of the graph representing a device in the network of devices, an edge of the graph representing an ability to transmit data between two devices represented by corresponding nodes of the graph. A device represented by a node more than one hop from any node in the core set of nodes of the graph is removed from the network of devices, the removing resulting in a validated network of devices. Using a…
Distribution of private session key to network communication device for secured communications
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12088567
A secure communication tunnel between user space software and a client device can be established. A private session key can be communicated from the user space software to a network communication device in at least one User Datagram Protocol datagram. Outbound session backets can be communicated from the user space software to the network communication device. The network communication device can generate encrypted outbound session packets by encrypting the outbound session packets using…
Adaptive network control of traffic flows in a secure network
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12088502
A method is provided for rate limiting in a network. The method comprises receiving a traffic flow from the network. In a supervised learning phase, and determining if the traffic flow matches a pretrained network flow model. If so, the method comprises designating the traffic flow as a classified traffic flow according to the pretrained network flow model. The method further comprises advancing to a grouping phase, conditioned upon the traffic flow not matching pretrained network flow…
Successive-approximation analog-to-digital converters
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12088316
A successive-approximation analog-to-digital converter includes a sampling circuit for sampling an analog input signal to acquire a sampled voltage, and a regenerative comparator for comparing the sampled voltage with a succession of reference voltages to generate, for each reference voltage, a decision bit indicating the comparison result. The converter also includes a digital-to-analog converter which is adapted to generate the succession of reference voltages, in dependence on…
Complementary field effect transistor devices
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12087770
A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor device formed by fabricating CMOS nanosheet stacks, forming a dielectric pillar dividing the CMOS nanosheet stacks, forming CMOS FET pairs on either side of the dielectric pillar, and forming a gate contact for at least one of the FETs.
Mirroring matrices for batched cholesky decomposition on a graphic processing unit
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12086207
A batched Cholesky decomposition method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), include mirroring matrices to form paired matrices solving the paired matrices simultaneously.
Multi-agent conversational agent framework
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12086561
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, within a conversational agent creation framework used to create conversational agents that perform negotiations on behalf of users, (i) a selection of one of a plurality of conversational agent roles (ii) negotiation constraints for the selected role, and (iii) an object for the negotiation; creating a conversational agent (i) having the selected role and (ii) programmed with the negotiation constraints; identifying at least one…
Clause extraction using machine translation and natural language processing
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12086559
A computer system extracts clauses using machine translation. An input sentence in a source language is translated into a translated sentence in a target language using a trained machine translation model, wherein the trained machine translation model inserts a grammatical indicator into a position of the translated sentence that identifies a dependent clause. The input sentence and the translated sentence are aligned to determine a position in the input sentence that corresponds to the…
Anticipatory dialog design for question answering with a relational database
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12086553
An embodiment for creating a dialog based on anticipated questions for database driven conversations is provided. The embodiment may include receiving content from a database. The embodiment may also include identifying one or more schemas, one or more entities, and relational data in the content. The embodiment may further include identifying a semantic type and a number of distinct entries for each entity. The embodiment may also include presenting choices for one or more query targets…
Generating semantic vector representation of natural language data
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12086552
A computer-implemented method for automatically generating a semantic vector representation of a relation between a specific set of entities in natural language text is provided. The method may include, in response to receiving a text segment comprising a set of entities, automatically parsing the text segment into an abstract meaning representation (AMR) graph comprising nodes representing the set of entities. The method may further include extracting a number of minimum Steiner trees…
Secure fingerprinting of a trusted photomask
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12086528
The embodiments herein describe authenticating a photomask used to fabricate an IC or a wafer. Because the IC may have been fabricated at a third-party IC manufacturer, the customer may want to ensure the manufacturer did not mistakenly use an incorrect mask, or that the mask was not altered or replaced with a rogue mask by a nefarious actor. That is, the embodiments herein can be used to identify when an IC manufacture (whether trusted or not) mistakenly used the wrong photomask, or to…
Multi-color stylus for mutual capacitance touch screen devices
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12086366
A stylus, in accordance with one embodiment, includes an elongated body having an input mechanism for receiving user selection of a color to be output upon interaction of the stylus with a computing device. The stylus also includes a nib functional as a transmitting unit to publish the selected color to a receiver of the computing device when the nib is in contact and/or near contact with the receiver. A computer-implemented method for synchronizing a stylus having color selection to a…
Utilizing federation relationship settings among different systems
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12086263
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: determining, for each pair of HCI systems where each pair includes a first HCI system coupled to another HCI system, a federation relationship setting that corresponds to each pair. The federation relationship settings are used to control a flow of data, as well as to control a flow of workload scheduling, between the first HCI system and the other HCI systems in the respective pairs. Moreover, determining a federation…
Displaying cyber threat data in a narrative-like format
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12086261
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for displaying cyber threat data in a narrative format. The mechanism receives a cyber threat information file that comprises cyber threat data in a serialized format. The mechanism generates a user interface presenting the cyber threat data in a narrative format. The user interface presents objects in the cyber threat data in a hierarchical format indicative of relationships between parent objects and child objects and presents context…
Adjusting role-based access control of a user based on behavior data of the user
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12086254
A computer-implemented method according to one approach includes receiving behavior data associated with a user's behavior on at least one device. The behavior data is based on one or more of an email account, a browser history, password usage and online behavior history. Risk levels associated with the behavior data are generated and role-based risk events are predicted based on the behavior data. The method further includes simulating the role-based risk events based on the risk…
