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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2014
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Michael W. Britt, Rochester, MN (US);
Adam C. Lange-Pearson, Rochester, MN (US);
Thomas P. Pitzen, Rochester, MN (US);
Richard J. Stevens, Monkton, VT (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06N 5/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 5/048 (2013.01); G06F 17/3053 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving a case, generating a set of candidate answers for the case, excluding a first candidate answer from the set of candidate answers upon determining that a first attribute in the case precludes returning the first candidate answer as a valid response to the case, and processing supporting evidence for the remaining candidate answers in the set of candidate answers.