IBM brags about its ranking in patents granted, IBM First in Patents for 23rd Consecutive Year, and is particularly proud of patent 9087304, saying:
We’ve all been served up search results we weren’t sure about, whether they were for “the best tacos in town” or “how to tell if your dog has eaten chocolate.” With IBM Patent no. 9087304, you no longer have to second-guess the answers you’re given. This new tech helps cognitive machines find the best potential answers to your questions by thinking critically about the trustworthiness and accuracy of each source. Simply put, these machines can use their own judgment to separate the right information from wrong. (From: http://ibmblr.tumblr.com/post/139624929596/weve-all-been-served-up-search-results-we-werent
Did you notice that the 1st for 23 years post did not have a single link for any of the patents mentioned?
You would think IBM would be proud enough to link to its new patents and especially 9087304, that “…separate[s] right information from wrong.”
But if you follow the link for 9087304, you get an impression of one reason IBM didn’t include the link.
The abstract for 9087304 reads:
Method, computer program product, and system to perform an operation for a deep question answering system. The operation begins by computing a concept score for a first concept in a first case received by the deep question answering system, the concept score being based on a machine learning concept model for the first concept. The operation then excludes the first concept from consideration when analyzing a candidate answer and an item of supporting evidence to generate a response to the first case upon determining that the concept score does not exceed a predefined concept minimum weight threshold. The operation then increases a weight applied to the first concept when analyzing the candidate answer and the item of supporting evidence to generate the response to the first case when the concept score exceeds a predefined maximum weight threshold.
I will spare you further recitations from the patent.
Show of hands, do U.S. Patents always require:
- novel/non-obvious ideas
- patent fee
- #2 but not #1
?
Judge rankings by # of patents granted accordingly.