International Business Machines Corporation

Rakuten, Inc.

Daniel M Gruen

Paul Brian Moody

Steven L Rohall

Bernard J Kerr

Michael Muller

John Patterson

Susanne Hupfer

Steven I Ross

Stephen Eric Levy

Li-Te Cheng

Jonathan D Feinberg

Nishanth R Sastry

Richard M Wilson

Seymour Kellerman

Devon J Rueckner

Yu Chen Zhou

David Frederick Bantz

Lorraine M Herger

Ponani S Gopalakrishnan

Carl Kraenzel

James Edward Christensen

Jodi L Coppinger

Nathan J Lee

Dennis Gerard Shea

Christopher M Schmandt

Mary Elizabeth Raven

Chuang Li

Derek S Lam

Marisa S Viveros

Daniel Q Chen

Mia Stern

Xu Guang Gu

Christof Lucking

Olivia Choudhury

Jamie C Rasmussen

Issa Sylla

Panagiotis Karampourniotis

Morgan Anna Foreman

Nicola Palmarini

Andrew Lewis Schirmer

Thomas P Moran

John C Tang

Martin Miles Wattenberg

Jesse Holton Kriss

Mark A Sheldon

Dawei Shen

Adam Bogue

Kyle T Nichols-Schmolze

Steve L Rohall

Larissa Pschetz

Shivakumar Vaithaynathan

Fyodor Wolf

Systems and computer-implemented methods facilitating automatic report generation, population and information prompting employing artificial intelligence technology are provided. For example, a computer-implemented method can include: identifying relevant sections or options of an automatically generated report, wherein the identifying is based on a defined factor and employs artificial intelligence; generating narrative information comprising at least one of a reference to a decision-making process, one or more alternatives evaluated, a reasoning process or information indicating a basis upon which at least one of one or more sections or options were included in or excluded from the report; outputting decision information indicating the basis for decisions selected to populate one or more relevant sections of the report; prompting for information including decision bases where not known or predicted by the decision making process, and using such information for the generated report and to improve the decision making and narrative generation processes.

Artificial intelligence facilitation of report generation, population and information prompting

By intercepting a natural language communication of a protected party, the communication is monitored, wherein the protected party is a human being. Within the monitored communication using a natural language processing engine, a natural language interaction between the protected party and a second party is detected. To determine an interaction pattern, the natural language interaction is analyzed. The interaction pattern includes data derived from the monitored communication, metadata of the protected party, and metadata of the second party. Using the interaction pattern and an interaction behavior model, an adverse result of the natural language interaction is predicted, wherein the adverse result comprises an economic loss to the protected party. By notifying the protected party, the predicted adverse result is intercepted.

Intercepting inadvertent conversational disclosure of personal information

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to managing interrupting requests to engage in a collaborative session and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for host state sensing for message interruptions. In one embodiment of the invention, a data processing system configured for host sensing for message interruption can include a messenger disposed is a host computing platform, prioritization logic including program code enabled to assign priorities to incoming messages, and host state sensing logic coupled to the host computing platform. The host state sensing logic can include program code enabled to adjust a threshold value for permitting message interruptions for messages having assigned priorities beyond the threshold value.

Host state-sensing for message interruption

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for constraining individual meeting times of a task to a specified total duration of aggregated meeting times. In an embodiment of the invention, a method of constraining individual meeting times of a task to a specified total duration of aggregated meeting times is provided. The method includes selecting an event amongst a plurality of events associated with a single task in a C&S system executing in memory of a host server. The method further includes adjusting a duration of time for the selected event. The method yet further includes determining whether or not a sum total of all durations of time for the events associated with the single task exceeds a time constraint for the single task. Thereafter, in response to determining the sum total of all durations of time for the events associated with the single task to have exceeded the time constraint for the single task, a compensatory adjustment of time can be apportioned to remaining ones of the events associated with the single task.

Meeting time constraint for a sequence of meetings of a task in a calendaring and scheduling system

A method and system are provided. The method includes monitoring, by a processor-based monitoring device, work metrics, indicative of work performance, of users. The method further includes soliciting input, by a user input solicitation device, from any of the users who have success regarding at least one work task, regarding activities which led to the success and suggestions on how other users can benefit from the input. The method also includes providing, by an input dissemination device, the input to a particular user identified from among the users as needing improvement in performing the at least one work task. The success is determined by evaluating the work metrics with respect to at least one threshold.

Just in time learning driven by point of sale or other data and metrics

A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product generate an intelligent persona agent for use in designing a product. One or more processors input a persona specification into an intelligent persona agent generator. The persona specification describes attributes of a set of model users of a particular type of product, and the intelligent personal agent generator creates an intelligent persona agent that is a software-based version of the set of model users. The intelligent persona agent monitors intermediate design choices taken during a design of a product of the particular type of product by a design team. In response to the intelligent persona agent identifying an intermediate design choice that will lead to a feature that is in conflict with the persona specification of the intelligent persona agent, designers modify the intermediate design choice, which modifies the design of the product in order to create an improved product design.

Intelligent persona agents for design

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying a location based applications providing crowdsourced structured points of input for data entry. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for deploying a location based application providing crowdsourced structured points of input for data entry includes the selection of a location based application component, such as a map, for inclusion in a deployable application and the definition of a point of input for the location based application component. In this regard, the point of input can include at least one user interface control accepting data input of structured data. Finally the deployable application can be uploaded to a deployable application repository over a computer communications network for deployment to requesting mobile devices over the computer communications network.

Crowdsourcing location based applications and structured data for location based applications

A method and system are provided. The method includes monitoring, by a processor-based monitoring device, work metrics, indicative of work performance, of a plurality of users. The method further includes soliciting input, by a user input solicitation device, from any of the plurality of users who have success regarding at least one work task, regarding activities which led to the success and suggestions on how other users can benefit from the input. The method also includes providing, by an input dissemination device, the input to a particular user identified from among the plurality of users as needing improvement in performing the at least one work task. The success is determined by evaluating the work metrics with respect to at least one threshold.

A method, system and apparatus for placeholder management in a unified activity manager in a collaborative computing environment. A method for managing placeholders in a unified activity manager in a collaborative environment can include the step of inserting a placeholder in an activity in lieu of a specified collaborator, resource, or event. The inserting step can include describing a type of resource without specifying an identity of an actual resource; and, inserting the described type in the placeholder. The inserting step also can include describing a type of event without specifying an identity of an actual event; and, inserting the described type in the placeholder. The inserting step also can include describing a type of collaborator without specifying an identity of an actual collaborator; and, inserting the described type in the placeholder.

Placeholder management in an activity manager in a collaborative computing environment

A system for providing a local computer user with detailed activity information regarding remote users, in order to assist the local user in determining whether to initiate a communication session with a remote user. The system provides activity information that may describe the number of instant messaging sessions one or more remote users are currently involved in, the identities of participants in those sessions, activity levels, time period information, and other information. The system further provides detailed activity information describing recent instant messaging sessions of one or more remote users.

Receiving and presenting detailed activity information regarding current and recent instant messaging sessions of remote users

The present invention facilitates collaboration on electronic messages. Methods are provided in which an electronic message is stored and presented to users. A user is allowed to perform an action on the electronic message and the action is recorded. Additionally, the record is associated with the electronic message. The users are notified of the action.

System and method for facilitating collaboration in a shared email repository

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Daniel M Gruen