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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 19, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Gary F. Diamanti, Wake Forest, NC (US);

Mauro Marzorati, Lutz, FL (US);

Aaron K. Baughman, Silver Spring, MD (US);

Iwao Hatanaka, Acton, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2453 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06F 40/284 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24534 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 40/284 (2020.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01);
Abstract

A method includes: receiving, by a computing device, an initial question from a first user device; receiving, by the computing device, a plurality of additional questions from a plurality of additional user devices; decomposing, by the computing device, the initial question and each of the plurality of additional questions using natural language processing; determining, by the computing device, an overall ranking for each of a plurality of words in the plurality of decomposed questions; and generating, by the computing device, a new question by combining words based on the overall ranking.


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