International Business Machines Corporation

Globalfoundries Inc.

Amit Fisher

Segev Eliezer Wasserkrug

Aya Soffer

Gabi Zodik

Lisa Seacat DeLuca

Gal A Shachor

Steven R Abrams

Sergey Zeltyn

Murray Robert Cantor

Pnina A Vortman

Michael Masin

Sima Nadler

Nir Mashkif

Aviad Sela

Dagan Gilat

Fabiana Fournier

Dolev Dotan

Bret A Greenstein

Sateesh S Kannegala

Odellia Alfassi

A personal assistant operation is provided for teaching a personal assistant device names preferred by the user for sensor activated devices. For this purpose, a method includes the personal assistant device receiving a request from a user to activate a requested device which the user has identified with a requested name which is unrecognized by the personal assistant device, determining a most likely candidate device from a list of candidate devices to activate in response to the request, activating the determined most likely candidate device, and identifying and saving the requested name as the name of the most likely candidate device in response to receiving confirmation from the user that the determined most likely candidate device is the requested device.

Trial and error based learning for IoT personal assistant device

A computerized method to provide an enriched unified model data index by generating a unified model data index by indexing shared syntax elements of data artifacts that describe engineering and non-engineering domains, creating instances of an engineering reference model describing model properties that define blocks and relationships between each of the data artifacts for each of the engineering and non-engineering domains, and enriching the unified model data index by adding the relationships having shared syntax elements of at least one instance of the engineering reference model to the shared syntax elements of the unified model data index.

Cross-domain data artifacts consolidation in model context

A system for analyzing one or more process of software defect handling using one or more percentile-based statistical metric is provided herein. The system may include: a monitoring unit that is configured to monitor one or more processes of software defect handling, to yield monitored samples. The system further includes a percentile-based generator configured to generate one or more statistical metric that are at least partially based on percentile, further based on the monitored samples and further responsive to user selection; and a statistical calculation unit configured to apply the generated one or more statistical metric to real-time handling time samples obtained from the one or more processes of software defect handling, to yield a percentile-based analysis of the processes of software defect handling. The system may further include and a visual representation unit configured to visually present the percentile-based analysis responsive to preferences specified by the user.

Analyzing a process of software defects handling using percentile-based metrics

A method of interactively achieving a Pareto-optimal design of systems is provided herein. The method includes the following stages: generating a system model containing elements that are associated with design parameters and design alternatives, as well as directives for calculating the system's measures of effectiveness (being the optimization objectives); exploring a plurality of design configurations all satisfying specified system constraints, meeting a Pareto optimal condition over the objective space, and representing different areas of the design and objective spaces; presenting a user with the determined set of design configurations; allowing the user to choose a range of interest, and repeating the exploring and presenting stages, wherein in each repetition, the exploring is carried out within a smaller sub-range, until the user makes a final selection of a design configuration.

Automated interactive multi-objective optimization-based system design tool

Device, system, and method of electronic communication to facilitate collaboration and meeting. For example, a method of inducing social interaction among users of an electronic communication network includes: receiving a first behavioral profile representing one or more schedule items of a first user; receiving a second behavioral profile representing one or more schedule items of a second user; identifying a time-slot in which the first and second users are available according to the first and second behavioral profiles, respectively, and identifying a common activity-of-interest reflected in the first and second behavioral profiles; and sending to the first and second users invitations to engage in said activity-of-interest in said time-slot.

Device, system, and method of electronic communication to facilitate collaboration and meeting

Device, system, and method of collaborative distribution of digital merchandise. For example, an apparatus for collaborative distribution of Digital Merchandise Items (DMIs) includes: a first computing device having an agent module to receive a command of a first user to purchase a DMI from a second user, to provide information to process a first electronic payment from the first user to the second user, to receive the DMI from a second computing device of the second user, to receive a confirmation that a second electronic payment was made from a third user to the first user, to transfer a copy of the DMI from the first computing device to a third computing device of the third user, to calculate a first portion of the second electronic payment to be maintained by the first user, to calculate a second portion of the second electronic payment to be transferred to the second user, and to provide information to process an electronic payment of the second portion from the first user to the second user.

Device, system, and method of collaborative distribution of digital merchandise

Device, system, and method of project planning and management. For example, a method of project planning and management includes: publishing a representation of a project specification comprising one or more discrete objects; publishing a collaborative comment to one or more of the discrete objects; and receiving a supplier proposal to fulfill one or more of the discrete objects.

Device, system, and method of project planning and management

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Amit Fisher