Michael C Whitley

US Patent:

20160217209, Jul 28, 2016

Filed:

Jan 22, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/602426

Inventors:

- Armonk NY, US
Nikolaus K. Brauer - Austin TX, US
Nirav P. Desai - Austin TX, US
Kevin B. Haverlock - Cary NC, US
Michael D. Whitley - Durham NC, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

Abstract:

A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for determining source authority for an answer to a question. The mechanism receives an input question from a user interface and determines a set of answers to the input question from a corpus of information. The corpus of information comprises a plurality of sources of information. For a given answer in the set of answers, the mechanism identifies a given source of a supporting passage. The mechanism determines an authority score of the given source for the input question. The mechanism presents the set of answers to the user interface based on the authority score for the given source.

US Patent:

20160048851, Feb 18, 2016

Filed:

Oct 29, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/927122

Inventors:

- Armonk NY, US
Jimmy Ming-Der HSU - Austin TX, US
Michael David WHITLEY - Durham NC, US

International Classification:

G06Q 30/02

Abstract:

Systems, methods and articles of manufacture allow adjusting the relative weighting associated with evaluation criteria associated with a unified view of dissimilar data. The operation generally includes collecting data regarding attributes of a user interacting with an application, where the collected data has associated evaluation criteria. The data is collectively represented according to the evaluation criteria. The systems, methods and articles of manufacture then allow dynamically modifying the evaluation criteria before evaluating and collectively representing the data according to the adjusted criteria.