International Business Machines Corporation

Sidharth Ullal

Raghuveer Prasad Nagar

Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit

Reji Jose

Jeremy R Fox

Shikhar Kwatra

Roberto Ragusa

Manjit Singh Sodhi

Jagadesh Ramaswamy Hulugundi

Giulia Carnevale

Marco Gianfico

Neelesh Gupta

Radha Srinivasan

A method includes identifying a cluster of users with a plurality of devices, where each user from the cluster of users is associated with at least one device from the plurality of devices. The method also includes identifying an authorized user from the cluster of users to delegate role assignments to a remaining portion of the cluster of users and receiving, from the authorized user, a first role assignment for a first user from the remaining portion of the cluster of users. In response to receiving, from the first user, an audio command, the method also includes determining whether the first user is authorized to provide the audio command to the intelligent virtual assistant based on the first role assignment. In response to determining the first user is authorized to provide the audio command, the method also includes performing the audio command from the first user.

Role assignment for intelligent virtual assistants

A processor may receive user data associated with a voice conversation having one or more participating users. The processor may analyze the user data for voice content associated with the voice conversation and the one or more participating users. The processor may determine a security policy associated with the voice conversation. The processor may identify one or more permission rules from the security policy associated with the voice conversation. The processor may dynamically execute the one or more permission rules to a portion of the voice content associated with at least one participating user. Dynamically executing the one or more permission rules may include modifying the portion of the voice content.

Authorization management of multiparty communications

The present specification describes a computer-implemented method. According to the method, an electronic file to be stored is received and a first context determined for the electronic file. The electronic file is split into multiple segments such that the first context of the electronic file is not discernible from any segment. The multiple segments are then distributed amongst multiple remote storage devices.

Contextually irrelevant file segmentation

In an approach to automated protection of delivered packages, a computer receives information associated with a package delivery. A computer determines a recipient is not present for the package delivery. A computer predicts a time of arrival of the recipient. A computer determines a duration of time prior to the arrival of the recipient exceeds a pre-defined threshold. A computer determines one or more environmental conditions of an area surrounding a delivery location. A computer determines at least one of the one or more environmental conditions indicates a need for an ameliorative action associated with the package delivery. A computer determines one or more ameliorative actions. A computer instructs a delivery resource to perform the one or more ameliorative actions. A computer instructs the delivery resource to deliver the package.

Management of unattended package delivery

A contact lens for application to a human eyeball capable of emitting ultrasonic pressure waves from a plurality of piezoelectric transducers to mitigate the effects of airborne eye irritants and infectious microorganisms. The piezoelectric transducers converts mechanical energy applied upon the contact lens from the eyelid as the eyelid blinks and/or winks into electrical energy to be used for emitting ultrasonic pressure waves from the piezoelectric transducers. The ultrasonic pressure waves destroy airborne microorganisms near the contact lens. A photodiode onboard the contact lens indicates when the eyelid is not closed in order to limit or prevent emission of ultrasonic pressure waves from the piezoelectric transducers while the eyelid is closed. An antenna onboard the contact lens receives information from augmented reality glasses or other computing devices.

Ultrasound emitting contact lens

A method for entity validation of a content originator includes identifying a content post in a public forum viewable by a user, where an entity claims to be an originator of the content post. The method also includes, responsive to gathering metadata for the content post, determining, utilizing natural language processing and a classification algorithm, a topic for the content post based on a plurality of extracted words from the content post. The method also includes identifying a plurality of similar content posts relative to the content post based on the topic and the entity and determining a score for the entity claiming to be the originator of the content post, where the score represents a likelihood that the claimed entity is the originator of the content post. The method also includes, responsive to the score being below a verification threshold value, performing ameliorative actions on the content post.

Entity validation of a content originator

In an approach to controlling voice command execution via boundary creation, one or more computer processors determine one or more devices included in an Internet of Things platform. One or more computer processors receive, from a user, an indication of a boundary around two or more devices of the one or more devices. One or more computer processors create a boundary around the two or more devices of the one or more devices. One or more computer processors receive a voice command from the user associated with the two or more devices of the one or more devices. One or more computer processors transmit the voice command to the two or more devices of the one or more devices within the boundary.

Controlling voice command execution via boundary creation

A computer-implemented method for detecting oligopoly in a data processing system, the method comprising: pretending to be a first competing AI pricing engine for a business provider; querying, by a second competing AI pricing engine, the first competing AI pricing engine for a first price; providing, by the first competing AI pricing engine, a plurality of first prices to the second competing AI pricing engine; querying, by the first competing AI pricing engine, the second competing AI pricing engine for a second price; providing, by the second competing AI pricing engine, a plurality of second prices to the second competing AI pricing engine; identifying, by the processor, a correlation between the plurality of first prices and the plurality of second prices using a machine learning technique; and flagging, by the processor, the second competing AI pricing engine, as a possible oligopoly participant.

Oligopoly detection

An approach is provided for rearranging assignments of workers to teams in an agile environment. Project requirements are collected and skills of workers are determined. Based on the project requirements and the skills, an initial arrangement of assignments of the workers to the teams is generated. During project execution, data from sensors worker locations and content of communications among the workers are obtained. The data from the sensors identifies workers who are sitting on chairs. Based on the data from the sensors, worker locations, and the content of the communications, a weighted graph is generated that represents the workers, strengths of relationships among the workers, and strengths of relationships between the workers and the teams. Based on the weighted graph, an optimal rearrangement of the assignments of the workers to the teams is automatically and dynamically generated. The optimal rearrangement specifies a match between the skills and the project requirements.

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