International Business Machines Corporation

Activision Publishing, Inc.

Kyndryl, Inc.

Optum, Inc.

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Unitedhealth Group Incorporated

Other

Globalfoundries Inc.

Hulu, LLC

King.com Limited

D-link Corporation

Optum Services (ireland) Limited

Rick A Hamilton, Ii

Gregory J Boss

Brian M O'Connell

Clifford A Pickover

Keith R Walker

James W Seaman

Christopher J Dawson

Kulvir Singh Bhogal

Timothy Moffett Waters

Anne R Sand

Peter George Finn

Carl Phillip Gusler

Jenny S Li

Craig William Fellenstein

James R Kozloski

Michael D Kendzierski

Joshy Joseph

Alexandre Polozoff

Paul Andrew Moskowitz

Andrew R Jones

Swaminathan Balasubramanian

Julianne Frances Haugh

Neil A Katz

Vincenzo Valentino DiLuoffo

Edgar Adolfo Zamora Duran

Jeffrey David Amsterdam

Kevin Charles Mcconnell

Vittorio R Castelli

Yen-Fu Chen

Jeffrey Robert Hoy

Barry Michael Graham

Neal Martin Keller

Vincenzo V Di Luoffo

Katalin Klara Bartfai-Walcott

Jeremy R Fox

Brian James Snitzer

Aaron K Baughman

Ruthie D Lyle

Dimitri Kanevsky

Michael Bender

Mauro Marzorati

Heather Maria Hinton

Ravi Prakash Bansal

Shawn Patrick Mullen

John Peter Karidis

Lydia Mai Do

Brian Daniel Goodman

Robert William Wisniewski

Jose Roberto Mosqueda Mejia

Garfield Winston Vaughn

Tara N Sainath

Yu Deng

Liangzhao Zeng

Al Chakra

Itzhack Goldberg

Sasha P Caskey

Lisa Seacat DeLuca

Robert Beverley Basham

Robert Ross Peterson

John W Dunsmoir

Kevin Glynn Paterson

Jacquelyn Annette Martino

Yin Xia

Chetan Mehta

William Kress Bodin

Maharaj Mukherjee

Kelley Anders

Pamela Ann Nesbitt

Cesar Augusto Rodriguez Bravo

Chung-Sheng Li

Irina Rish

Paul Brian Moody

Galina Grunin

Youssef Drissi

Maja Vukovic

Eli M Dow

Dana Lea Price

Komminist S Weldemariam

Charles Evan Beller

Bhuvana Ramabhadran

David Nahamoo

Jinho Hwang

Randy Allan Rendahl

Sara H Basson

John Maxwell Cohn

Fabian F Morgan

Pratap Chandra Pattnaik

Mahesh Viswanathan

Thomas E Chefalas

David Frederick Bantz

Michael Alan Picheny

Alexander Zlatsin

Sathya Santhar

Donna N Dillenberger

John Paul Kaemmerer

Mark Gregory Megerian

Gregory Peter Fitzpatrick

Steven James Mastrianni

Jianying Hu

Alongkorn Kitamorn

A method for establishing an index of usability associated with a replacement payment card is provided. The method may include receiving a payment card replacement request in a vending facility. The method may further include identifying at least one possible risk factor associated with a user utilizing the replacement payment card. The method may also include creating a risk assessment based on the at least one identified possible risk factor. The method may further include establishing an index of usability for the replacement payment card based on the created assessment, whereby a value of the index of usability correlates to a plurality of restrictions placed on using the replacement payment card. The method may also include storing the established index of usability in a database.

Index of usability for a replacement payment card

Methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for a hybrid question-answering (QA) application are provided. The hybrid QA application includes both a retrieval QA application and a deep QA application, and uses feedback from the retrieval QA application to improve the deep QA application.

Method, apparatus and computer program product for improving deep question-answering (QA) applications using feedback from retrieval QA applications

There is a need to automatically provide one or more electronic documents to the user. In one example, embodiments comprise, generating a facility visit data object for a user describing one or more facility attributes for one or more facilities associated with a potential visit from the user. One or more electronic documents may be determined to be retrieved based at least in part on the facility visit data object. One or more user interaction electronic document data objects may be generated to enable interaction between the user and the one or more electronic document data objects. One or more modified user interaction electronic document data objects may be received and may be provided to one or more facility computing entities in response to one or more trigger events.

Dynamic delivery of modified user interaction electronic document data objects based at least in part on defined trigger events

A system and method for disabling a function of a feature of a vehicle based on a validation request to a centralized validation authority, prior to a use of the feature includes determining that a condition is met as part of a startup sequence of the vehicle, transmitting the validation request to the centralized validation authority, in response to determining the condition is met, wherein the validation request is part of the startup sequence of the vehicle, receiving a validation decision from the centralized validation authority, and disabling the feature of the vehicle as a function of the receiving the validation decision.

Remotely controlling use of features based on automatic validation requests

Cognitive assistants which use feedback to highlight relevant points of interest to a user so that recommendations can be provided to the user based upon learned knowledge of the users preferences, tastes and customs are provided. For this purpose a computer-implemented method includes capturing user data of a user from a plurality of sensors, determining a cognitive state of the user from the captured data, correlating the user data to the cognitive state of the user, and making recommendations to the user based on the correlation of the user data and the determined cognitive state of the user.

Cognitive assistant with recommendation capability

A method, computer system, and computer program product for cognitive elevator advertisements are provided. The embodiment may include identifying one or more passengers utilizing real-time sensor data. The embodiment may also include determining a preference value of each identified passenger for a plurality of product categories based on a plurality of data related to past purchase histories or purchasing patterns received from a plurality of databases simultaneously or almost simultaneously. The embodiment may further include computing corrected passenger preference values for the plurality of product categories based on unprejudiced preference values of the passengers multiplied by the preference values assigned to each product category. The embodiment may also include determining one or more targeted advertisements for one or more targeted passengers based on each computed passenger preference values. The embodiment may further include displaying one or more advertisements on one or more display screens within an elevator based on the one or more targeted advertisements.

Cognitive elevator advertisements

Data ownership of a single record data object comprising a plurality of individual data elements may be distributed across a plurality of users, such that each individual user is capable of separately controlling access to those data elements for which the data owner has ownership privileges. These data ownership privileges, and corresponding access rights which may be individually provided by distinct data owners, is managed by a data management computing entity such that a single composite user interface may be generated for a user viewing a particular record data object such that the viewer is provided with viewing access to only those data elements for which the viewer has access. Thus, separate user interfaces may be generated and provided for different viewers accessing the same record data object.

Programmatically managing partial data ownership and access to record data objects stored in network accessible databases

A method includes a digital subscription management system (DSMS) receiving from a source system a request to perform an edit of at least one data object, the DSMS sending a request for response (RFR) to subscribing systems having a copy of the at least one data object, the DSMS receiving a response from the subscribing systems, and the DSMS performing the edit.

Data subscription management system

Methods and systems for presenting a proactive audiovisual query using a virtual assistant software application. The methods correspond to retrieving user experience data associated with a user profile for the virtual assistant software application, wherein the user experience data define one or more user experience events for the user profile. The methods further include retrieving subject matter domain data associated with the one or more user experience events, wherein the subject matter domain data define one or more probabilistic event effects for the one or more user experience events and determining, based on the user experience data and the subject matter domain data, one or more optimal query items, wherein the one or more optimal query items are associated with at least one of the one or more probabilistic event effects. The methods further include generating the proactive audiovisual query in accordance with the one or more optimal query items.

Generating proactive audiovisual queries using virtual assistant software applications

A system and method for energy conservation in a virtual universe, the method comprising: determining, at a server, available energy conservation options associated with an avatar of the virtual universe; determining, at the server, selected energy conservation options of the available energy conservation options; and applying, at the server, the selected energy conservation options to portions of the virtual universe associated with the avatar.

Introducing selective energy efficiency in a virtual environment

A method of caching data at a processing node within a communication network can include predicting a future location of a user. A processing node within the communication network can be selected according to the future location. Data to be sent to the selected processing node can be selected. The selected data can be sent to the selected processing node.

Caching data at network processing nodes based on device location

Systems and methods to establish and execute market-driven variable price offerings among the lenders and borrowers in a bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage. The method comprises establishing and executing market-driven variable price offerings among lenders and borrowers. A bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage is formed based on the established and executed market-driven variable price offering.

Market-driven variable price offerings for bandwidth-sharing ad hoc networks

A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code, including generating one or more ad-avatars in a virtual universe (VU) and monitoring information from the VU. Additionally, the method includes directing the one or more ad-avatars to perform one or more viral advertisements in the VU based on the information.

Method and system for viral marketing within a virtual world

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Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

Rick A Hamilton, Ii