International Business Machines Corporation

Daedalus Blue LLC

Globalfoundries Inc.

Shang Qing Guo

Jonathan Lenchner

Maharaj Mukherjee

Sai Zeng

Canturk Isci

Frederick Y Wu

Daniela Rosu

Constantin Mircea Adam

Andrew Aaron

Christopher P Jones

Daniel A Mazzella

John Joseph Rofrano

Joel W Branch

Emmanuel Tong-Viet

Rodrigo Alberto Rey

Nathan Masters

James Adam Oravec

Yaoping Ruan

Nikolaos Anerousis

Rajeev Puri

John C Nelson

Larisa Shwartz

Irina Rish

Zon-Yin Shae

Anuradha Bhamidipaty

Brian L Peterson

Edward Charles Snible

Mithkal M Smadi

Shu Tao

Keeranoor G Kumar

Abhijit Bose

Dennis Anthony Perpetua, Jr

Laura Zaihua Luan

Sinem Guven Kaya

Shu-Chun Jeane Chen

Alina Beygelzimer

Mitesh H Vasa

Matthew Robert Sowders

Anubha Verma

Ramesh S Palakodeti

Cashchakanithara Venugopal

Suman K Pathapati

Hua Chen

Sang Kyum Kim

Pierre Darmon

Kshitij M Vichare

Jonathan Hudson Connell, Ii

Jeffrey Owen Kephart

Nianjun Zhou

Joseph L Hellerstein

Michael John Spisak

Sheng Ma

Gopal Sarma Pingali

Jennifer Ceil Lai

Frederick Yung-Fung Wu

Irwin Boutboul

Winnie W Cheng

Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai

Jung-Mu Tang

John Hudson Bailey

Kenneth David Christiance

Patrick B Heywood

Frederick Y-f Wu

John S Murdock, Jr

William Joseph Rippon

Natalia V Odintsova

Herbert M Lee

Winnie Wing-Yee Cheng

Walter Canis

Paul J Landsberg

Mishal Dholakia

Adarsh Saxena

Rajan Ravirajan

Bernard A Grunwald

George A DeSimone

Cashchakanith Venugopal

An apparatus, method and system including a processor, a memory device accessible by the processor, and circuitry to selectively communicate with an on-the-go user device located at a location different from a location of the apparatus. The memory device stores instructions to permit the apparatus to selectively serve as an at-home user device that receives data from a wireless ad hoc network formed by sensors located within a link range of the circuitry of the on-the-go user device, data from the sensors of the wireless ad hoc network providing data for consumption by the at-home user device to permit an at-home user to be immersed in an experience of the location of the on-the-go user device.

Immersive cognitive reality system with real time surrounding media

A system, a computer program product, and method for controlling synthesized speech output on a voice-controlled device. A sensor is used to capture an image of a face of a person. A database of previously stored images of facial features is accessed. In response to i) not recognizing the at least one person the voice-controlled device selects a first set of conversational starters; ii) recognizing the person and recognizing previous communications with the person, the voice-controlled device selects a second set of conversational starters; iii) recognizing the person and not recognizing previous communications with the person, the voice-controlled device selects a third set of conversational starters; or iv) recognizing the at least one person and recognizing previous communications with the person selecting but do not know the person's name selecting a fourth set of conversational starters. The voice controlled device outputs the selected set of conversational starters.

Initiating synthesized speech output from a voice-controlled device

A mistranscription generated by a speech recognition system is identified. A received utterance is matched to a first utterance member within a set of known utterance members. The matching operation matches fewer than the first plural number of words in the received utterance and the received utterance varies in a first particular manner as compared to a first word in a first slot in the first utterance member. The received utterance is sent to a mistranscription analyzer component which increments evidence that the received utterance is evidence of a mistranscription. Once the incremented evidence for the mistranscription exceeds a threshold, future received utterances containing the mistranscription are treated as though the first word was recognized.

Learning transcription errors in speech recognition tasks

Methods, systems, and computer program products for alerting users to media events of interest using social media analysis are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes collecting user media preferences indicating events of interest to a given user; buffering at least a portion of media content associated with the collected user media preferences of the given user; monitoring social media for one or more events of interest to the given user based on the collected user media preferences of the given user; identifying at least one event that satisfies one or more predefined interest criteria for the given user based on the monitored social media contributions of other parties and the collected user media preferences of the given user; and notifying the given user of the at least one event of interest.

Methods and apparatus for alerting users to media events of interest using social media analysis

Techniques facilitating cognitive route planning for unit replenishment in a distributed network are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can include determining, by a system operatively coupled to one or more processors, a time limit for unit replenishment at a unit dispensing device based on a unit depletion rate for the unit dispensing device. The computer-implemented method can also include generating, by the system, a route plan for the unit replenishment based on the unit depletion rate, the time limit, and respective unit depletion rates and respective time limits for other unit dispensing devices of a set of unit dispensing devices. The unit depletion rate can be based on historical and projected withdrawal data. Further, the unit dispensing device can be included in the set of unit dispensing devices located within a defined area. The time limit can indicate time remaining until the unit dispensing device is depleted of units.

Cognitive route planning for unit replenishment in a distributed network

A query including a question from a user is received by a device. It is determined that the question and an associated answer is not found in a local cache of the device. At least one category for the question is determined. At least one cloud service for answering the question is determined. The at least one cloud service is in communication with the device via a network. A request including the question is sent to the at least one cloud service. Selecting a behavior is selected based upon the at least one category. The behavior includes a feedback to the user to reduce a perceived waiting time by the user. The behavior is executed.

Reducing negative effects of service waiting time in humanmachine interaction to improve the user experience

A self-service experience for a change requester is provided. Authorized endpoint changes are identified along with corresponding change types. Resource attributes are identified and corresponding parameters of the resources are changed according to change window requirements. Where the changes comply with business policies, the changes are executed.

Self-service server change management

A system, a computer program product, and method for controlling synthesized speech output on a voice-controlled device. The voice-controlled device recognized that speech input is being received. The voice-controlled device outputs synthesized speech based on the speech input. While outputting synthesized speech based on the audio is captured. The voice-controlled device recognized the audio input as speech and pausing the outputting of synthesized speech. Otherwise, in response to the captured audio not being recognized as speech and above a settable background noise threshold, pausing the outputting of synthesized speech. The paused output of speech based on the synthesized speech input is resumed after the pausing of the output of synthesized speech being within a settable pause timeframe.

Pausing synthesized speech output from a voice-controlled device

Methods and apparatus are provided for the dynamic placement, management and monitoring of Internet advertising. A provider of Internet content distributes the Internet content by embedding an advertisement placeholder in the Internet content; and provides the Internet content to an aggregator web site. The aggregator web site presents the Internet content to at least one end user with at least one advertisement in the advertisement placeholder. The advertisement placeholder is processed by a third party agent to automatically share revenue from the at least one advertisement with the provider of the Internet content and a provider of the aggregator web site. The advertisement placeholder can optionally be embedded in the Internet content using one or more templates. The third party agent also evaluates the content and at least one policy of multiple parties to identify at least one advertisement to present in the advertisement placeholder. The advertisement placeholder embodies a three party agreement between the provider of the Internet content, the provider of the aggregator web site and at least one advertiser.

Dynamic internet advertising system

A system management tool, with a risk assessment mode enabled, is executed within an execution infrastructure on a management computer system, to manage a target computer system in a production situation. When the execution of the tool reaches a risk segment which raises risk for the target system, a user is informed of at least one action to be executed in the risk segment. If the user agrees, the tool is allowed to execute in an automatic mode until an end of the risk segment is reached. Feedback is obtained from the user regarding safety of the risk segment; and the steps are repeated for a plurality of additional risk segments until the tool is deemed safe for all of the risk segments, after which the tool is transitioned from the risk assessment mode to an automatic mode of operation.

Building confidence of system administrator in productivity tools and incremental expansion of adoption

A method for detecting fraudulent payment activity comprises designating one or more objects as typically being in a proximity of a payment mechanism when the payment mechanism is used in a payment transaction, verifying, when attempting to use the payment mechanism for a given payment transaction, whether the designated one or more objects are in the proximity of the payment mechanism, wherein the verifying is based on an electronic communication from at least one of the payment mechanism and the designated one or more objects, establishing whether a threshold number of the designated one or more objects are in the proximity of the payment mechanism, permitting processing of the given payment transaction if the threshold number of the designated one or more objects are in the proximity of the payment mechanism, and preventing processing of the given payment transaction if less than the threshold number of the designated one or more objects are in the proximity of the payment mechanism.

Detection of fraudulent use of cards and mobile device-based payments

Techniques are provided for discovery and monitoring of an environment using a plurality of robots. A plurality of robots navigate an environment by determining a navigation buffer for each of the robots; and allowing each of the robots to navigate within the environment while maintaining a substantially minimum distance from other robots, wherein the substantially minimum distance corresponds to the navigation buffer, and wherein a size of each of the navigation buffers is reduced over time based on a percentage of the environment that remains to be navigated. The robots can also navigate an environment by obtaining a discretization of the environment to a plurality of discrete regions; and determining a next unvisited discrete region for one of the plurality of robots to explore in the exemplary environment using a breadth-first search. The plurality of discrete regions can be, for example, a plurality of real or virtual tiles.

Discovery and monitoring of an environment using a plurality of robots

One or more embodiments identify server management actions for resolving problems associated with one or more nodes in information technology infrastructure. In one embodiment, a node-ticket record for an information processing node associated with at least one problem ticket is generated. A set of node-ticket clusters is queried based on the node-ticket record. Each of the set of node-ticket clusters maps a set of server management actions to set of historical node-ticket records associated with the node-ticket cluster. The set of server management actions was previously performed to resolve at least one operational problem associated with at least one information processing node. At least one set of server management actions associated with at least one of the set of node-ticket clusters corresponding to the node-ticket record within a given threshold is identified based on the querying.

Recommending server management actions for information processing systems

A system, a computer program product, and method for controlling synthesized speech output on a voice-controlled device. One or more sensors are used to detect whether one person or more than one person is within a first settable distance from the voice-controlled device. Next a determination is made whether the audio input received is recognized as speech. In response to only one person being detected within the settable distance, begin outputting synthesized speech based on the audio input without waiting for an attention word to be recognized and otherwise wait for additional criteria before outputting synthesized speech based on the speech input. The additional criteria includes determining that more than one person is detected and recognizing that the attention word is received before outputting synthesized speech based on the audio input. Another criteria includes more than one person being detected and determining that the person is looking at the voice-controlled device before outputting synthesized speech based on the audio input.

Controlling synthesized speech output from a voice-controlled device

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