International Business Machines Corporation

Kyndryl, Inc.

Other

Globalfoundries Inc.

Randy Allan Rendahl

Gregory J Boss

Tamer E Abuelsaad

John Elbert Moore, Jr

Alexei A Karve

Ashley Kristin Silva

Tian Ming Pan

Yu Deng

Anca Sailer

Andrzej P Kochut

Hidayatullah Habeebullah Shaikh

Ajay Mohindra

Michael D Hale

Stephen Paul Ridgill, Ii

Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit

Jeremy R Fox

Hari Haranath Madduri

Brian James Snitzer

Alla Segal

Jocelyn Sese

Clifford A Pickover

Mauro Marzorati

Li Long Chen

Shaw-Ben Shi

David G Robinson

Xiao Yang Zhu

Alexey Roytman

Amber Roy-Chowdhury

Gennady Laventman

Lin Zhi Zou

Jonathan Michael Cook

Frank Isaacs

Jana Helton Jenkins

Soobaek Jang

Kelly Abuelsaad

Seng Chai Gan

William Pettit Horn

Angel E Tomala-Reyes

Shailabh Nagar

Zach Taylor

U Gopalakrishnan

Vineet P Mahadik

Allison G Martinez-Arocho

Aditya Mandhare

Rick A Hamilton, Ii

Lisa Seacat DeLuca

Martin G Keen

Ching-Yun Chao

Robert Thomas Uthe

Chang-Shing Perng

Thao Ngoc Nguyen

Grzegorz Michal Swirszcz

Guo Ning Liu

Bradford Austin Fisher

Sarah D Redpath

Xin Ni

Gregg Talewsky

Colleen Lhota

Lorraine Phyllis Vassberg

Ashish Patel

Chun Feng Wu

Byron Eugene Todd, Iii

Karen Lynn Buros

Yi Shuai Wang

John H Teoh

Frankie Kong

Steve Ridgill

Jake Edward Bukuts

Karsten Joachim Rabe

Alexander P Amies

Glenn Fuller

Alexei Arun Karve

Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer-implemented method that includes receiving, using a processor, data representing a 3D physical object by a processing device, and controlling, using the processor, a 3D printing device to apply successive layers of a material by a printing head including a nozzle. The controlling includes depositing at least one layer by instructing a snake robot of a configurable track system to form a shape and define a movement track that corresponds to a movement profile aligned with the 3D model, moving the printing head along the movement track defined by the snake robot, and depositing the at least one layer via the nozzle as the printing head is moved along the movement track.

Three-dimensional printing using configurable movement tracks

A three-dimensional (3D) printer nozzle. The 3D printer nozzle includes a nozzle body that is adapted to be deformed to allow for cross-sectional profile control during printing of a 3D printed object.

Three-dimensional printer nozzle for programmatic nozzle opening cross-sectional profile control

A system and methods for enhanced printing to manufacture 3D objects implement optimized utilization of additive printing and subtractive laser beam machining, enabling enhanced, efficient and effective manufacturing of 3D objects. Dynamically allocating the operations and the sequence of operations between additive printing and laser beam machining for each layer of a 3D object being manufactured enables optimizing manufacturing time, power consumption, and material consumption to manufacture 3D objects.

3D printing with combination of additive printing and laser beam machining

An embodiment for ameliorating reusable packaging for cognitive commerce shipments is provided. The embodiment may include receiving information relating to a product to be shipped in a reusable package and historical sensor data obtained from a knowledge corpus. The embodiment may also include predicting a size of the reusable package in which to ship the product. The embodiment may further include identifying a required level of inflation of an array of balloons in the reusable package. The embodiment may also include inflating a plurality of balloons in the array of balloons consistent with the required level of inflation. The embodiment may further include in response to determining the product does not require additional protection, deflating each inflated balloon in the array of balloons upon delivery of the product to the final destination.

Intelligent reusable packaging amelioration for cognitive shipments

Provided is a method, system, and computer program product for assessing user engagement during playback of multimedia content. A processor may analyze user audio engagement during playback of audio content of the multimedia content. The analyzing may be based on comparing a distance of a user from a speaker transmitting the audio content and comparing the distance of the user from the speaker transmitting the audio content to a volume setting of the speaker. The processor may analyze user video engagement during playback of video content of the multimedia content. The analyzing may be based on using eye-tracking software to compare a particular video content the user is actively viewing to the audio content being presented. The processor may generate a user engagement score during the playback of the multimedia content based on a time averaged value for each metric analyzed during playback of the audio content and video content.

User engagement assessment during multimedia playback

A container specification is received. The container specification includes a definition of an image. The image definition specifies the running of one or more prestart runtime commands. The image definition is inspected to identify whether the image definition includes specifying the running of one or more prestart runtime commands. The image is started on a host system, wherein in response to identifying that the image definition includes running one or more prestart runtime commands, the starting of the image includes running the one or more prestart runtime commands prior to the container entering a running state.

Software container prestart configuration with kubectl prestart runtime commands

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining an audio input, the audio input representing sound emanating from a key press based user interface; generating a context pattern based on the audio input; performing classification of the context pattern to classify the context pattern as belonging to a signature pattern classification, wherein the signature pattern classification specifies a user activity; and providing an output based on the performing classification.

User interface sound emanation activity classification

Mechanisms are provided to implement a recurring payment collection system for extending current quick response (QR) code payment methods to collect recurring payments from a customer. The recurring payment collection system sends a notification to the customer that a recurring payment is due in response to a recurring payment event occurring. The recurring payment collection system obtains a QR code for the recurring payment in response to the customer acknowledging the notification. The recurring payment collection system utilizes the QR code to request the recurring payment from a payment system. The recurring payment collection system acknowledges that the recurring payment has been made in responsive to the recurring payment being processed by the payment system.

Using quick response (QR) codes to collect recurring payments

A method, computer system, and a computer program product for masking identifying traits contained in response text is provided. Embodiments may include receiving a request to anonymize response text in response to a predefined respondent interaction, wherein the response text is generated by the respondent and then obtaining the response text, wherein the obtained response text has semantic characteristics. Next, the obtained response text may be input into a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm and thereafter receiving an alternative masking text as output from the NLP algorithm, wherein the received alternative masking text maintains the semantic characteristics of the obtained response text. Finally, the response text may be replaced with the received alternative masking text.

Masking personal traits in anonymous feedback

A method for route generation based on a stated purpose of an activity, implemented by a computer system, includes: receiving, by the computer system, a route request from a user device, the route request including an activity to be performed during a route traversal, a purpose of the activity, and a user identifier associated with a user of the user device; in response to receiving the route request, obtaining, by the computer system, a set of user preferences associated with the user identifier from a user profiles database; identifying, by the computer system, a set of route candidates with route attributes matching the activity, the purpose of the activity, and at least one of the user preferences; and outputting, by the computer system to the user device, one or more recommended route candidates from the set of route candidates based on the matching.

Route generation based on stated purpose of route traversal

Utilizing a computing device to automatically locate a link to a target web page whose link from a referring web page is broken. A computing device receives a request to access a link to a target web page from a referring web page. The computing device receives a notification indicating that the link to the target web page is broken. The computing device locates a new link to the target web page utilizing one or more keywords. The computing device provides access to the target web page.

Missing web page relocation

A method and system for obscured contact sharing is provided. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving at a first user device a request from a second user device to provide an obscured contact, wherein the obscured contact includes a plurality of information elements. The first user device receives from the second user device the obscured contact and data about obscuring at least one of the information elements of the obscured contact. Based on the data, an operating system of the first user device obscures the at least one information element from presentation by the first user device to a user while at the same time being able to use the obscured information element for a predetermined time. The operating system of the first user device removes the at least one information element from contact information storage of the first user device in response to detection of a predetermined time indicated by the second user device or a delete command from the second user device.

Private contact sharing

Generating image training data for training an autonomous photography agent to learn the preferences and photo-taking styles of a given set of human users. The preferences and/or photo-taking styles include, but are not necessarily limited, to: (i) human users of a certain age group (such as toddlers or adults); (ii) profession of the photo-taker (professional photographer rather than a hobbyist); (iii) health status of the photo-taker; and/or (iv) travel status of the photo-taker (such as a tourist in a new city rather than a resident of a given city).

Generating simulated image training data

A content artifact is received. Based on the content artifact, a content topic is identified. Based on the content artifact, a content sentiment score associated with the content topic is generated. Based on the content topic, a set of media is identified. For each medium within the set of media, a medium sentiment score associated with the content topic is identified. The content sentiment score is compared to the set of media sentiment scores to obtain a set of similarity scores. Based on the similarity scores, one or more media from the set of media are displayed to a user.

Media selection based on content topic and sentiment

Systems and methods for capturing fluid change history in a vehicle are provided. A method includes: detecting, by a computer device, a fill cap is removed from an inlet port of a fluid reservoir or a drain plug is removed from an outlet port of the fluid reservoir; activating, by the computer device and based on the detecting, one of a fill sensor and a drain sensor; obtaining, by the computer device, fluid characteristics data from one of the fill sensor and the drain sensor; determining, by the computer device, at least one fluid parameter based on the fluid characteristics data; and transmitting, by the computer device, the determined at least one fluid parameter to a remote system via a communication network that is external to the vehicle.

Capturing vehicle fluid change history

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Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Randy Allan Rendahl