IBM Patents a System That Turns Software Into Ready-to-Ship Product Guides
Writing documentation is the chore every software team dreads and every manager complains about. IBM has filed a patent for a system…
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IBM Patents an AI System That Automatically Sorts and Stores Table Data for Faster Retrieval
Every time an AI has to answer a question about a spreadsheet, it has to re-read the whole thing. IBM's new patent…
Red Hat Patents a Way to Feed Data Into a Virtual Machine Without the Host Seeing Inside
When you run a virtual machine in the cloud, the company hosting it can technically peek at its memory. Red Hat is…
Adobe Patents a Way to Match Ad Audiences Across Companies Without Sharing Personal Data
Adobe wants to let companies find overlapping audiences without ever handing over a single name, email address, or customer record. The trick…
Adobe Patents Technology That Answers Data Searches Without Exposing Real User Information
Adobe is patenting a way to let databases answer statistical questions about users without those databases ever actually storing the real answers.…
Adobe Patents a System That Fills In Animation Frames Designers Don't Draw
Animating something used to mean drawing every frame, or at least every keyframe. Adobe is patenting a way to take a single…
Adobe Patents an AI That Builds Visual Scenes From Your Asset Library
Type a description of a scene, and Adobe's patented system pulls matching assets from your library and drops them into an AI-generated…
Adobe Patents a System That Invents Fake Users to Train Its AI Assistants
Training an AI assistant requires thousands of example conversations, but real user data is hard to collect and raises privacy concerns. Adobe's…
Qualcomm Patents an RFID Reader That Picks Its Best Antenna Automatically
RFID readers are only as good as their antennas, and in a busy warehouse or store, a single antenna rarely covers everything…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Keep Phones Synced When Switching Between Satellites and Cell Towers
When your phone is connected to a satellite network and tries to hand off to a cell tower, it has a timing…
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