Road icing condition prediction for shaded road segments
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11995565
Road condition prediction for potentially hazardous road segments is described. For roadways that may contain accumulated frozen precipitation, a road segment for road condition prediction is selected based on weather conditions. Various models including a solar radiation budget model, a permanent structures model, a dynamic structures model, and a road condition model are generated for the selected road segment and account for shading effects on the road segment caused by objects near…
Incorporating feedback in network graph hotspot identification
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11997493
A computer-implemented method to generate a hotspot confidence score for a hotspot in a network graph includes, receiving input data, wherein the input data includes a plurality of messages, each message containing a set of message data. The method further includes generating, based on the plurality of messages, a network graph. The method also includes identifying, in the network graph, a first hotspot. The method includes compiling a set of hotspot characteristics for the first…
Decentralized, dynamic media key block for broadcast encryption
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11997218
A processor may segment a media key block into two or more subsets. Each of the two or more subsets may be respectively associated with a particular group of receivers, and each receiver of the particular group of receivers may be in a blockchain network. The processor may receive, from a first receiver, a request for permission to process the media key block. The processor may identify which of the two or more subsets that the first receiver is associated. The processor may provide a…
Encrypted communication using counter mode encryption and secret keys
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11997189
A secret key is communicated to a receiver system. A one-time pad is generated using the secret key and a counter. An encrypted message is generated by performing an XOR operation on a first message using the one-time pad. The encrypted message and the counter are sent to the receiver system.
Comprehensive privacy control for monitoring requests sent to artificial intelligence chatbots
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11997059
A computer-implemented method, according to one implementation, includes: monitoring requests received for an AI interface prompt in real-time, and determining whether one or more of the requests violate compliance metrics. Risk scores are calculated for requests determined as violating the compliance metrics. The requests determined as violating the compliance metrics are updated by implementing protective measures correlated with the calculated risk scores. Moreover, the updated…
Service-to-service scheduling in container orchestrators
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11997022
Methods, systems, and computer program products for service-to-service scheduling in container orchestrators are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes reserving, by a network orchestrator, network resources requested between a plurality of services, wherein each of the services is implemented as one or more replicas running on a set of nodes of a cluster, managed by the network orchestrator, that use the network resources to serve incoming requests to the plurality…
Vertical transistor with late source/drain epitaxy
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11996480
VFET devices having symmetric, sharp channel-to-source/drain junctions and techniques for fabrication thereof using a late source/drain epitaxy process are provided. In one aspect, a VFET device includes: at least one vertical fin channel disposed on a substrate; a gate stack alongside the at least one vertical fin channel; a bottom source/drain region directly below the at least one vertical fin channel having, for example, an inverted T-shape with a flat bottom; and a top source/drain…
Acoustic analysis of crowd sounds
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11996121
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for detecting face mask usage based on a crowd sound is provided. The present invention may include capturing an audio stream including a crowd voice data. The present invention may also include analyzing the crowd voice data using a machine learning model to determine an amount of people wearing masks. The present invention may further include in response to determining that the amount of people wearing masks does not meet a…
Global prosody style transfer without text transcriptions
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11996083
A computer-implemented method is provided of using a machine learning model for disentanglement of prosody in spoken natural language. The method includes encoding, by a computing device, the spoken natural language to produce content code. The method further includes resampling, by the computing device without text transcriptions, the content code to obscure the prosody by applying an unsupervised technique to the machine learning model to generate prosody-obscured content code. The…
Cognitive generation of HTML pages based on video content
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11995889
Methods, computer program products, and/or systems are provided that perform the following operations: obtaining video data; dividing the video data into a plurality of video fragments based, at least in part, on page detection; extracting one or more elements from each of the plurality of video fragments; determining element type data for each of the one or more extracted elements; generating element style data for the one or more extracted elements; determining page flow for the…
Verification of authenticity of documents based on search of segment signatures thereof
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11995215
A solution is proposed for verifying authenticity of documents. A corresponding method comprises calculating signatures representative of segments splitting a current document. The signatures are searched in an authoritative memory structure containing corresponding signatures of segments splitting authoritative documents whose content is certified by authoritative sources. Authenticity information of the current document is determined according to a result of this search. A computer…
Integrating documentation knowledge with log mining for system diagnosis
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11995562
Aspects of the invention include computer systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products configured to integrate documentation knowledge with log mining data. A non-limiting example computer-implemented method includes determining a message-message relationship based on log message documentation and building a first subgraph based on the message-message relationship. The method further includes receiving a first message log entry having a message identifier and…
Online learning for dynamic Boltzmann machines with hidden units
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11995540
A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer processing system are provided for online learning for a Dynamic Boltzmann Machine (DyBM) with hidden units. The method includes imposing, by a processor device, limited connections in the DyBM where (i) a current observation x[t] depends only on latest hidden units h[t-1/2] and all previous observations x[<t] and (ii) the latest hidden units h[t-1/2] depend on all the previous observations x[<t] while being…
Identifying similarity matrix for derived perceptions
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11995522
An embodiment includes generating a query prompting a user to select from among a plurality of response options related to a first query set of objects. The embodiment also receives, responsive to the query, user input representative of a selected response option selected by the user from among the plurality of response options. The embodiment also calculates a plurality of weight values for respective ones of a plurality of similarity matrices based on the selected response option,…
Implementing workloads in a multi-cloud environment with data migration between cloud vendors
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11995479
A computer-implemented method according to one aspect includes determining and storing characteristics of a plurality of cloud vendors; dividing a workload into a plurality of logical stages; determining characteristics of each of the plurality of logical stages; and for each of the plurality of logical stages, assigning the logical stage to one of the plurality of cloud vendors, based on a comparison of the characteristics of the plurality of cloud vendors to the characteristics of the…
System and apparatus for FaaS business goals optimization
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11995473
Embodiments may include novel techniques to communicate user preferences to the FaaS provider so as to provide full applicability of FaaS for business critical applications and to provide full realization of the FaaS model flexibility. For example, in an embodiment, a method may be implemented in a computer system comprising a processor, memory accessible by the processor, and computer program instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor, and the method may comprise…
Assignment of microprocessor register tags at issue time
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11995445
Provided is a method for assigning register tags to instructions at issue time. The method comprises receiving an instruction for execution by a microprocessor. The method further comprises dispatching the instruction to an issue queue without assigning a register tag to the instruction. The method further comprises determining that the instruction is ready to issue. In response to determining that the instruction is ready to issue, the method comprises assigning an available register…
Systems and methods for management of unmanned aerial vehicles
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11995430
A system, platform, computer program product, and/or method for managing UAV resources is disclosed that includes: receiving UAV specifications to provision one or more UAVs; converting the UAV specifications to UAV specification metadata; transforming the UAV specification metadata to UAV configuration metadata to configure UAV software for the one or more UAVs; and configuring, using the UAV configuration metadata, the UAV software for the one or more UAVs. The system, platform,…
Microservice deployment in integration and API layers using Augmented Reality
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11995422
An augmented reality (AR) development system includes computer hardware including an AR system and a development server. The development server is configured to perform identifying a plurality of microservices to be deployed into an architecture, at least one integration layer in the architecture, and at least one application programming interface (API) layer in the architecture. The AR system is configured to perform generating a first visualization of the architecture that includes: a…
Rapid language detection for characters in images of documents
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11995400
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving an image having characters that correspond to a language, and using a text recognition algorithm to determine a first language believed to correspond to the characters. A first confidence level associated with the first language is also computed, and a determination is made as to whether the first confidence level associated with the first language is outside a predetermined range. In response to determining…
