International Business Machines Corporation

Globalfoundries Inc.

Daniel Mark Coffman

Jan Kleindienst

Ganesh Nachiappa Ramaswamy

Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami

Ponani S Gopalakrishnan

Stephane Herman Maes

David Nahamoo

Liam David Comerford

Danny Soroker

Marcel Catalin Rosu

Edward Adam Epstein

Barry Leiba

Steven V DeGennaro

Popani Gopalakrishnan

Jonathan Paul Munson

Jingtao Wang

Frank Andre Schaffa

Rafah A Hosn

Chalapathy Venkata Neti

Herbert Scott McFaddin

Bhavna Agrawal

Thiruvilwamalai Venkatraman Raman

Robert M Delmonico

Rafah A c/o Ibm United Kingdom Limitied Hosn

Stephane H c/o Ibm Uk Ltd IntelPropLaw Maes

For each of a plurality of endpoints of an information technology system having a plurality of security policies, a probability of being safe of each of said endpoints is determined according to each of said security policies. Said determining takes into account probability of security compromise for a single violation of each given one of said security policies. A risk-aware compliance metric is determined for said information technology system based on each of said probabilities of being safe for each of said endpoints and each of said policies. At least one of an operation and a remediation is carried out on said information technology system based on said risk-aware compliance metric. Techniques for optimizing risk-aware compliance are also provided.

Optimizing risk-based compliance of an information technology (IT) system

An advertising system and methods, including an ad service that one of generates, presents and receives information pertaining to an ad presentation, an ad presentation output device that outputs the ad presentation at a presentation location, a user response receiver at the ad service that receives a user response transmitted from a mobile device based on the ad presentation at the presentation location, an ad service transmitter that transmits an executable object to a target device specified in the user response, wherein the target device includes a memory and a processor for executing the executable object to provide a service to the user on the target device, wherein the service is modified based on information one of accessed and determined by the executable object on the target device.

Pervasive symbiotic advertising system and methods therefor

A tool for mapping an event includes a map generator for generating an event map, a view generator for generating a zoomable and pannable view of the event map, and a display device for displaying the zoomable and pannable view of the event map, and in another aspect, a tool for annotating an event map includes a map generator for generating an event map, an annotating unit for annotating the event map based on a user input, a view generator for generating a zoomable and pannable view of the annotated event map, and a display device for displaying the zoomable and pannable view of the annotated event map.

Tool and method for annotating an event map, and collaborating using the annotated event map

Tool and method for mapping and viewing an event

A method for conversational computing includes executing code embodying a conversational virtual machine, registering a plurality of input/output resources with a conversational kernel, providing an interface between a plurality of active applications and the conversational kernel processing input/output data, receiving input queries and input events of a multi-modal dialog across a plurality of user interface modalities of the plurality of active applications, generating output messages and output events of the multi-modal dialog in connection with the plurality of active applications, managing, by the conversational kernel, a context stack associated with the plurality of active applications and the multi-modal dialog to transform the input queries into application calls for the plurality of active applications and convert the output messages into speech, wherein the context stack accumulates a context of each of the plurality of active applications.

Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine

The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method for searching a metadata repository and visualizing the results of the search, wherein the metadata in the metadata repository is associated with a plurality of media content, and wherein each media content including at least one audio track. The method comprises retrieving the media contents used to generate the metadata terms satisfying a search criteria, and generating a ranked list of search results. The method further includes visualizing the ranked list of media contents, and displaying relevant metadata and corresponding associations for the media contents to enable navigation of the at least one audio track included in the media contents.

Systems, methods and computer program products for indexing, searching and visualizing media content

The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method for generating metadata for media content that includes a digital media file and includes retrieving a media content subset from a media content source, saving the received media content subset at a computing system, and generating metadata by processing the media content using the computing system. The method further includes associating generated metadata with media content to facilitate the visualization and navigation of the media content, and adding the metadata to at least one metadata repository designed for efficient retrieval of metadata elements.

Systems, methods and computer program products for generating metadata and visualizing media content

The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method for generating an annotation for media content, that includes retrieving a media content subset from a media content source, saving the received media content subset at a computing system, and generating an annotation for association with the media content subset using the computing system. The method further includes associating the annotation with media content to facilitate the visualization and navigation of the media content and adding the annotation to at least one annotation repository designed for efficient retrieval of annotation elements.

Systems, methods and computer program products for the creation of annotations for media content to enable the selective management and playback of media content

A conversational computing system that provides a universal coordinated multi-modal conversational user interface (CUI)across a plurality of conversationally aware applications () (i.e., applications that 'speak' conversational protocols) and conventional applications (). The conversationally aware applications () communicate with a conversational kernel () via conversational application APIs (). The conversational kernelcontrols the dialog across applications and devices (local and networked) on the basis of their registered conversational capabilities and requirements and provides a unified conversational user interface and conversational services and behaviors. The conversational computing system may be built on top of a conventional operating system and APIs () and conventional device hardware (). The conversational kernel () handles all I/O processing and controls conversational engines (). The conversational kernel () converts voice requests into queries and converts outputs and results into spoken messages using conversational engines () and conversational arguments (). The conversational application API () conveys all the information for the conversational kernel () to transform queries into application calls and conversely convert output into speech, appropriately sorted before being provided to the user.

A method and system for dynamically assigning weights to the subset of commands in a natural language dialog system based on prior context of the user's interaction with the system. The search space of the translation process may be reduced when some context information is available. A user presents input to the natural language understanding system. The system translates the user input into a formal command and calculates a weight value for a next set of formal commands based on the formal command. The command weights may then be dynamically boosted for the next set of formal commands before executing the formal command. The exemplary aspects of the present invention reduce the time needed to complete a task since the search space of the translation process may be reduced if context information is available and improve the accuracy of the process by using knowledge that users regularly use repeating patterns for repeating tasks.

Method and apparatus for dynamic modification of command weights in a natural language understanding system

A conversational computing system that provides a universal coordinated multi-modal conversational user interface (CUI) () across a plurality of conversationally aware applications () (i.e., applications that 'speak' conversational protocols) and conventional applications (). The conversationally aware maps, applications () communicate with a conversational kernel () via conversational application APIs (). The conversational kernel () controls the dialog across applications and devices (local and networked) on the basis of their registered conversational capabilities and requirements and provides a unified conversational user interface and conversational services and behaviors. The conversational computing system may be built on top of a conventional operating system and APIs () and conventional device hardware (). The conversational kernel () handles all I/O processing and controls conversational engines (). The conversational kernel () converts voice requests into queries and converts outputs and results into spoken messages using conversational engines () and conversational arguments (). The conversational application API () conveys all the information for the conversational kernel () to transform queries into application calls and conversely convert output into speech, appropriately sorted before being provided to the user.

A system and method of the present invention for determining and maintaining dialog focus in a conversational speech system includes presenting a command associated with an application to a dialog manager. The application associated with the command is unknown to the dialog manager at the time it is made. The dialog manager determines a current context of the command by reviewing a multi-modal history of events. At least one method is determined responsive to the command based on the current context. The at least one method is executed responsive to the command associated with the application.

Method for determining and maintaining dialog focus in a conversational speech system

A system and method for providing conversational computing via a protocol for automatic dialog management and arbitration between a plurality of conversational applications, and a framework for supporting such protocol, in a multi-modal and/or multi-channel environment. A DMAF (dialog manager and arbitrator facade) interfaces with one or more applications, and a hierarchical DMA architecture enables arbitration across the applications and within the same application between various sub-dialogs.

System and method for providing dialog management and arbitration in a multi-modal environment

A method and system for modeless operation of a multi-modal user interface through implementation of independent decision networks includes presenting a command to a dialog manager and comparing the command to a table of decision networks to determine if a corresponding decision network entry exists. The dialog manager creates a new instance of a decision network when a corresponding decision network entry is found. The new instance of the decision network is traversed in an isolated thread of execution such that a plurality of decision networks of a same instance or different instances may be active simultaneously. The new instance of the decision network is executed responsive to the command.

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Bethel, CT, United States of America

Daniel Mark Coffman