International Business Machines Corporation

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

Jason Benjamin Ellis

Robert G Farrell

Peter Kenneth Malkin

Thomas David Erickson

Maryam Ashoori

James Edward Christensen

Wendy Anne Kellogg

Mark J Bailey

Clifford A Pickover

Jonathan Lenchner

Jonathan Hudson Connell, Ii

Philip Shilung Yu

Danny Soroker

John Thomas Richards

Oktie Hassanzadeh

Michael James Ward

Laurent David Hasson

Mark Richard Laff

Bin Xu

Eser Kandogan

Rachel K E Bellamy

Mary Ann Roth

Tracee L Wolf

Catalina M Danis

Tawanna R Dillahunt

Steven D Daniels

Karin Niemantsverdriet

Rachel Ke Bellamy

Jeffrey O Kaphart

A method and system are provided. The method includes acquiring a first image by a first user. The method further includes performing, using a processor, a comparative analysis of the first image and at least one other image acquired within a threshold time by at least one other user. The method also includes establishing a real-time communication interface between the first user and the at least one other user in response to the comparative analysis.

Social connection via real-time image comparison

Embodiments are directed to a system for implementing a restricted-operation region. The system includes an instruction development module configured to be utilized in the development of a set of instructions that implement an operation policy of the restricted-operation region. The set of instructions is configured to, when interpreted, implement the operation policy by controlling at least one function of a vehicle that attempts to operate within the restricted-operation region. The system further includes a first transmitter configured to transmit the set of instructions to the vehicle, wherein a processor of the vehicle is configured to interpret the set of instructions based at least in part on a determination that the vehicle is attempting to operate within the restricted-operation region.

Implementing a restricted-operation region for unmanned vehicles

A system and method for displaying visual focus points of meeting participants uses an image capture device to generate a real-time graphical representation of a physical meeting space containing collocated meeting participants. Remote display devices display the real-time graphical representation of the physical meeting space. Each remote display device is associated with a remote meeting participant located at a remote location. A viewpoint monitoring mechanism determines a remote participant visual point of focus within the real-time graphical representation. A remote participant simulator located in the physical meeting space has a unique remote participant representation for each remote meeting participant and a remote participant visual point of focus indicator associated with each remote participant representation to simulate the remote participant visual point of focus.

Displaying the simulated gazes of multiple remote participants to participants collocated in a meeting space

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for operating a cognitive computing system comprises starting a capture agent on a processor, subscribing the capture agent to a second agent, receiving a first message from the second agent, storing the received first message in a memory, receiving a notification of a new subscription from a third agent, and registering the capture agent to subscribe to the new subscription from the third agent.

Autonomous agent system

A unified interface that abstracts the underlying differences among heterogeneous data sources and data formats to produce uniform search results. While the result of an initial search may be exactly what the user was seeking, it is likely that the result is in the neighborhood of what was sought. It may aid the end user to provide guided data navigation suggestions to locate related data during data exploration, by providing analysis to identify data similarities among disparate data sources, and by providing guided combination options. The guided data navigation suggestions may include suggestions based on schematic, semantic, and social information. Guided data navigation may aid the user in moving from the initial search landing point in the data to the precise result sought.

Uniform search, navigation and combination of heterogeneous data

A method and system for interfacing with an end user to search, navigate, and combine large numbers of heterogeneous data sources with varying data characteristics. End user entered search terms are received and the end user is then presented a guided exploration including search results and search result details. The end user is also presented with a guided combination including search result combination options and combination details. Both the guided exploration and guided combination render all data from the heterogeneous data sources in a uniform data format and both can culminate in saving selected results.

A method includes receiving a message from a user device, determining whether the message includes a tag, identifying at least one interaction the user device performed with an application responsive to determining that the message includes the tag, calculating a difference between a time the message was received and a time associated associated with the at least one interaction responsive to determining that the difference between the time the message was received and the time associated with the at least one identified interaction is within the threshold value.

Asynchronous messaging tags

A voice tagging system includes a client computing device that includes a media object capture device and a voice capture device and runs a client application that associates media objects to voice samples. The system also includes a communications network coupled to the client computing device, a voice tagging system coupled to the communications network and receiving at least one association between a first media object and a first voice sample, and a database coupled to the voice tagging system, the database including one or more voice tags, each voice tag being coupled to one or more voice samples.

Digital media voice tags in social networks

A method includes receiving a request from a user device for a service, initializing the service, initializing a user preference based on a parameter associated with the service and a preference probability value, the preference probability value including a probability that a user would prefer a particular value as a preference based on values selected by other users, and sending data to the user device according to the user preference.

Data session preferences

A method for administering a communication session includes initiating a session between a server and a user device, the user device associated with a user phone number, associating the user phone number and a first session state phone number with a state of the session, and sending a first message associated with the state of the session from the server to the user device, the first message sent from the first session state phone number to the user phone number.

Data session synchronization with phone numbers

A method within a system wherein a first user of the system provides information on social patterns to a second user includes: receiving a request for social pattern information from the second user, the request comprising a query; assigning authorization level to the second user for restricting the type and amount of data provided to the second user; providing information on social patterns to the second user according to the second user's authorization level; and storing information about the second user to be used in future transactions with the second user, the information including transactional fee data and subscription data for notifying the second user of additional social patterns as they develop.

Visualization for aggregation of change tracking information

A system for identifying one or more social patterns in a status history of one or more change requests includes: a processor for executing instructions and memory comprising logic for: receiving as input change request data history; detecting social patterns in the change request data history; storing information about the social patterns, including status history data; and providing information on social patterns within the status history of the given change request. The logic includes the following elements: a hypertext transfer protocol server handler; a social pattern server database; a change log handler; a social pattern alert handler; a social pattern query handler; and a social pattern detection handler for: receiving new patterns wherein the patterns are user-defined operational descriptors, detecting social patterns in raw change request data from the change log handler, and storing the patterns in the database, and analyzing the patterns. The system further includes a graphical user interface.

System and method of visualization for aggregation of change tracking information

The present invention relates to a method for representing users within an online environment. The method allows users to define environmental parameters for controlling user interaction, define user representation parameters of user data within the environment, capture user data from the users, build an abstract graphical display of the environment, and build a user representation within the abstract graphical display for each user's data.

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Jason Benjamin Ellis