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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:
Oct. 27, 2020

Filed:

Feb. 24, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Swaminathan Chandrasekaran, Coppell, TX (US);

Bharath Dandala, Austin, TX (US);

Lakshminarayanan Krishnamurthy, Round Rock, TX (US);

Alvin C. Richardson, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06N 5/04 (2006.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06N 5/02 (2006.01); G06F 16/9032 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/243 (2019.01); G06F 16/9032 (2019.01); G06N 5/022 (2013.01); G06N 5/04 (2013.01); G06N 5/048 (2013.01);
Abstract

An approach is provided for automatically predicting an event occurrence based on a question from an end user presented using a near-real-time natural language processing (NLP) analysis to generate, score and rank a plurality of event occurrences based on a plurality of question context parameters extracted from the question, one or more user profile parameters for the end user, and the one or more historical questions, answers, and events having a specified spatial and/or temporal proximity to the question which are identified by an information handling system. In the approach, performed by an information handling system, a top ranked event occurrence from the ranked plurality of event occurrences is selected for inclusion in a notification message that is communicated or broadcast to the end user, as well as other users engaged with the information handling system and/or first responders in the affected area.


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