03rd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100017296 | Automated Dispensing System for Pharmaceuticals and Other Medical Items - A system for dispensing a plurality of customized doses of pharmaceuticals includes: a housing; a customer interaction station; a customized packaging station configured to selectively package individual doses of medication into customized packaging, the medications being selected responsive to input from the customer input station; and a controller connected to the customer interaction station and the customized packaging station, the controller configured to control the customized packaging based on customer input from the customer interaction station. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017297 | AUTOMATED FEE-BASED DATA PROCESSING FROM REMOTELY-BASED IMAGE MERGING - An e-commerce method involves on-line viewing of a first article through a linking node for virtual merging on another structure. A particular application of the invention is directed to on-line apparel shopping involving a matching scheme using data provided with images to be merged. In a particular example, on-line viewing of one article, such as clothing, on another structure, includes creating an item from image-data corresponding to an article selected by an on-line viewer from an on-line viewer site with an image of a structure selected by the on-line viewer, and indicating whether the article and the structure satisfy a criterion such as color or style. The computers are coordinated to provide the merged image data for viewing by the buyer, with a revenue generating feature that generates fees for at least one of the buyer and a seller associated with one of the seller websites, and charges the at least one of the buyer and the seller for the generated fees. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017298 | ADVERTISING INVENTORY ALLOCATION - A simultaneous ascending price auction (“SAA”) can be used to allocate advertising inventory to bidders. The advertising inventory can be, for example, radio or television advertisement spots (“spots”). The bidders can be advertisers that can provide advertisements for presentation in the spots. Two or more contiguous spots can define an advertising block. Spots or advertising blocks can be allocated to advertisers by the SM mechanism based on bid criteria. The SAA can perform simultaneous advertisement scheduling and pricing. The auction allocation can be optimized to facilitate efficient allocation of advertisements to spots or blocks. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017299 | METHODS, DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR LOCATING ITEMS OFFERED BY VENDORS AT CUSTOMER PREFERRED PRICES - Methods, devices, systems, and computer program products for locating items offered by vendors at customer preferred prices are provided. The methods comprise receiving customer preferences including a customer identifier associated with a preferred item identifier and a preferred maximum price identifier. Vendor information is received which includes a vendor identifier associated with an offered item identifier and an offered item price identifier. The customer preferences and vendor information are stored, wherein the stored customer preferences include one or more stored preferred item identifiers and the stored vendor information includes one or more stored offered item identifiers. The stored preferred item identifiers are compared with the stored offered item identifiers. If a preferred item identifier matches an offered item identifier, the offered item price identifier associated with the matching offered item identifier is retrieved, and the preferred maximum price identifier associated with the matching preferred item identifier is retrieved. If the offered item price identifier is less than or equal to the preferred maximum price identifier, a matching price record is generated. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017300 | Reverse Customized Consumer Loan Search - Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for implementing a product or property search for a consumer, based upon a consumer's desired down payment or/and desired monthly payment. Embodiments disclosed comprise a first subsystem adapted to receive a consumer profile input from a user interface wherein the said subsystem is capable of qualifying the input consumer profile against a single or plurality of lenders' guidelines, and a second subsystem adapted to match lenders' with whom the consumer qualifies, with product sets or properties, and to present the consumer with a set of available products or properties to select. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017301 | DIGITAL FRAME HAVING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CAPABILITY - A digital frame that may be removed from its packaging, powered on, and automatically begin receiving content from remote sources via a wireless telecommunications network. The digital frame includes a communications card to enable the digital frame to receive content over a wireless telecommunications network operated by one or more telecommunications service providers. The digital frame has an associated frame address so that users may send content, such as text, images or video, directly to the frame via the telecommunications network. The address may be an SMS/MMS address, an ftp site, an email address, a website address or another type of frame address to which the purchaser or others can send content for eventual delivery to the digital frame. The purchaser is typically charged for telecommunication services provided to the digital frame. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017302 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING PAYMENTS FROM SELECTED FUNDING SOURCES - Systems and methods for operating a payment service provider include storing information associating the identity of a buyer with a plurality of the buyer's payment source accounts and a plurality of personal identity numbers (PINs) respectively associated therewith in a database of the payment service provider. Upon receipt of an authorization from the buyer that includes a specified payment amount and the associated PIN of the selected buyer's account from which the payment is to be made, a transaction device of the service provider is operable to effect a transfer of the specified payment amount from the selected buyer's account to the designated seller's account. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017303 | DescripWriter, A process for providing sellers at online auctions, classifieds, and other e-commerce sites a pre-written item title and description with some interactive adjustable variables resulting in an effective and thorough identification of the specific product or service they are selling - DescripWriter, A process for providing sellers at online auctions, classifieds, and other e-commerce sites a pre-written item title and description with the steps of: A database composed of pre-written titles and descriptions, A specific different title and description for each kind of product or service within that database, A method for the user to access this database of pre-written titles and descriptions by use of their computer, An interactive working environment on either a website or within a software program that allows the user to select, adjust, and/or modify the data with optional variables within the title and description, A method for the user to place the finished title and description within the so designated areas of an online e-commerce site. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017304 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO PRODUCT RELATED ELECTRONIC CATALOG FUNCTIONALITY - An aggregation of functionality related to a product within an electronic catalog hosted by a wholesaler web system is provided by presenting on a client computing device a webpage in which a single product is directly associated with a single access point. The single access point provides a means by which plural wholesaler web system functions related to the single product are made available to a consumer. A listing of the plural wholesaler web system functions related to the single product is displayed within the webpage in response to an activation of the single access point by the consumer. In response to a selection by the consumer from the displayed listing the wholesaler web system initiates a performance of the one of the plural wholesaler web system functions so selected. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017305 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WINE TASTING AND THE MARKETING OF WINE, AND WINE PACKAGING USEFUL THEREWITH - New and unique systems and methods for distributing, marketing, and for customer identification, as shown in FIG. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017306 | MERCHANDISE DEALING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER - A merchandise dealing system includes computers which are provided for a purchaser, a distributor, an agency store, and a printing manager and are connected to each other via a communication line, wherein the computer of the agency store includes a sample printing unit that prints a merchandise sample by a printing apparatus, an information printing unit that prints identification information on the sample to identify the merchandise, and a consumable goods data transmitting unit that transmits consumable goods data to the computer of the printing manager to specify the consumable goods exhausted by printing the sample, wherein the computer of the purchaser includes a purchasing unit that transmits the identification information printed on the sample to the computer of the distributor, and wherein the computer of the distributor includes a specifying unit that specifies the designated merchandise and the agency store which prints the sample on the basis of the transmitted identification information, and a charging unit that charges the cost of the specified merchandise to the purchaser, and wherein the computer of the printing manager includes a consumable goods supplementing unit that receives the consumable goods data and supplements the consumable goods exhausted by printing the sample, and an accounting unit that charges the cost of the supplemented consumable goods to the distributor. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017307 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ON-LINE, REAL-TIME, INTERACTIVE COLLABORATIVE VISUALIZATION - An inventive system and method for collaborative commerce is presented. The invention comprises activating an art board, placing items onto the art board, inviting users to interact with the art board, and collaborating with the invited users. Additional features and functions include purchasing items shown on the art board, including by placing the items in a shopping cart, using e-mail, text messaging, and instant messaging to invite users, who may be chosen from a buddy list. Collaborating can be performed using voice chatting, video chatting, instant messaging, and text messaging, and includes examining reviews, ratings, reputations, and recommendations, and also includes displaying details regarding the items. In addition, reports comprising information regarding the items can be generated. A toolbar can be located on the art board and used to initiate inviting of users and placing of items onto the art board. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017308 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BALANCING STOCK - A method for facilitating and enabling a retailer having original manufacture surplus inventory of a product to sell the inventory to another retailer or to the general consuming public. The method comprises use of a Web site having a first level or portion exclusively for sales between subscribers to the site, such as retailers, and a second level or portion for sales between a retailer and the general consumer. The method includes receiving information regarding the surplus inventory product and an invoice from the vendor or original manufacturer of the product. An entity associated with the Web site verifies the authenticity of the product and facilitates the sale of the products with another retailer at a first price, or with the general consumer at a second price. In certain instances, a vendor can be a subscriber for selling to other subscribers. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017309 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND DEVICES RELATING TO MERGED IMAGES AND STORAGE THEREOF - An e-commerce method involves on-line viewing of a first article through a linking node for virtual merging on another structure. A particular application of the invention is directed to on-line apparel shopping involving a color matching scheme using color codes provided with images to be merged. For example, on-line viewing of one article, such as clothing, on another structure, includes creating an item from image-data corresponding to a colored article selected by an on-line viewer from an on-line viewer site with an image of a colored structure selected by the on-line viewer, and indicating whether the colored article and the colored structure satisfy a color-matching criterion. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017310 | CURRENCY ORDERING BY DENOMINATION - Apparatus and methods for calculating a currency shipment amount for a banking center. The currency shipment amount may correspond to currency having a uniform denomination. The apparatus and methods may involve formulating a historical mix fraction for the uniform denomination; calculating a future order period desired starting balance based on the historical mix fraction; and calculating the currency shipment amount based on the future order period desired starting balance and a banking center ending balance. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017311 | ASSET RECOVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD - An asset recovery system and method is provided for recovering value from shipped products that are returned and/or rejected by the purchaser or recipient. The system and method include inspecting the rejected or returned product at a returns center, assessing the cost to repair or refurbish the product. If the assessment is within a predetermined cost structure the product is repaired or refurbished and placed in a saleable item inventory for resale to a customer. If the assessment is outside the predetermined cost structure, the product is liquidated. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017312 | MATERIAL DELIVERY SYSTEM TO ONE OR MORE UNITS AND METHODS OF SUCH DELIVERY - Material delivery systems and methods are disclosed. A material delivery system includes a delivery vessel and at least one dispense mechanism outlet. The delivery vessel is configured to deliver material to at least one unit, with the proviso that when the unit is an FCC unit, the unit includes a plurality of units. The at least one dispense mechanism outlet is configured to couple the delivery vessel to the at least one unit. A method includes providing a material to at least one unit. The method includes dispensing material from a delivery vessel, wherein a metering device provides a metric indicative of the dispensed material with respect to at least a unit, and delivering the metered material to at least one unit via at least one dispense mechanism outlet of the delivery vessel coupled to the at least one unit. Another method includes providing a material to a plurality of units. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017313 | Foldable, One-Piece Mailer and Methods of Use Thereof - Disclosed herein is a foldable, one-piece mailer having at least one portion thereof that may be easily detached and retained by a recipient. The mailer comprises a sheet having a front side for placing postage and indicating the recipient's address, and a back side that includes space for printing text to the recipient. On the back side of the mailer appears a means for visibly indicating sections of the mailer that are intended to be folded for mailing. Such means may include dotted lines, pre-formed creases, or any other indicator that delineates the sections that should be folded by a user to form the mailer into a shape resembling an envelope. The detachable portion of the mailer is removably secured to the mailer so that it can be removed by the recipient and retained. Methods for collecting information pertaining to the manufacture and sale of said mailers are also disclosed. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017314 | TRAVEL EXPENSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method for generating an expense report, comprising: receiving an itinerary for travel, generating a description and a cost for one or more travel elements of the itinerary; and generating projected expenses that are expected to be incurred based on historical data associated with the itinerary | 2010-01-21 |
20100017315 | RESOURCE-ALLOCATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND APPROACH WITH ADAPTIVE-ASSESSMENT PROCESSING - Adaptive transaction data processing and analysis is carried out using inputs that are dynamically responsive. Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a computer-based system and related linking database that are configured to adaptively generate and output audit and electronic resource allocation data (e.g., payment data) based upon tracking fields that dynamically change across a multitude of disparate transactions. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017316 | AUTOMATED EXPENSE REPORT - Creating an expense report automatically by using transactions, business rules and profile information stored by a payment processor is disclosed. The payment processor streamlines and automates the end-to-end expense reporting and reimbursement processes for a company. The review, submission, approval, payment, tracking and reporting associated with employee expense reporting are accomplished by the payment processor through automated, no-touch (or minimal touch) processes. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017317 | HANDLING OF OPEN RESERVATIONS IN REAL-TIME ENVIRONMENT - A method of operating a communications system comprises, during a communications session involving a user of the communications system, making one or more reservations toward a postpaid account for a user, the postpaid account for the user being maintained in a real time account record. The method further comprises, upon receipt of a trigger signal, in conjunction with the reservation(s) assessing the account for the user only for the reservation(s) which have been evaluated by an interrogation. The method also comprises, upon close of billing period for the session, in conjunction with any yet-evaluated reservation(s): (1) assessing the account for the user only for a part of the yet-evaluated reservation(s) that is actually utilized; and (2) deleting from the account for the user any unused part of the yet-evaluated reservation(s). | 2010-01-21 |
20100017318 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR A DOWNLOADABLE FINANCIAL TRANSACTION PRINTER - Method and apparatus for a downloadable financial transaction printer supporting multiple interfaces and single encoding for worldwide languages configuration. The financial transaction printer interfaces with multiple host systems and multiple gaming machine protocols, downloads application code or code patches, receives printer maintenance instructions, arbitrates print jobs received from various communication interfaces, supports worldwide languages, and utilizes firmware version consolidation whereby fewer firmware versions are required to support worldwide requirements, such as regional and jurisdictional requirements. The financial transaction printer further includes security features for gaming regulatory requirements, memory protection, and preventing the execution of downloaded code on unauthorized hardware. The financial transaction printer further includes segmented memory for content related to each communication interface, gaming machine, or host system, among others. Additionally, the financial transaction printer supports Unicode, configuration to worldwide languages, configuration to multiple protocols, and configuration to prior firmware versions for backward compatibility, among others. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017319 | Financing Information Processing System and Method - A method and system which uses a communication network to facilitate financing-related activities is provided. A list of financing functions is provided to a user terminal across the communication network. The list of financing functions corresponds to those functions available to a user of the user terminal. The financing functions include at least one of a status function, a report generation function and a financing program function. A financing function request is received from the user terminal. The financing function request corresponds to a selected one of the financing functions provided to the user terminal. A database is accessed to retrieve data corresponding to the received financing function request. The retrieved data is arranged into a predetermined format and transmitted across the | 2010-01-21 |
20100017320 | DATA FLOWS IN A COMPUTER OPERATED CURRENCY TRADING SYSTEM - In a computer implemented currency trading support system trades are provided to a third party ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100017321 | Adaptive Implied Spread Matching - Systems and methods for determining implied spreads are provided. An example includes receiving a new order for a financial instrument and determining if the new order in combination with pending orders creates an implied spread. The implied spread may be submitted with information to facilitate matching the legs of the implied spread using the new order. The detection of the implied spread may be performed outside of a match engine; thus, permitting the detection to occur in parallel and apart from the operation of the match engine. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017322 | Confidential Order Entry for an Equity Offering - Confidential entry of orders to purchase company shares in an equity offering can include an order entry module, order book module, and security module. The order entry module receives orders directly from investors to purchase shares of the company. Each order includes order information such as an identity of the investor that submitted the order, share price, and quantity of company shares to be purchased at the share price. The order book module communicates the order information to members of a management/equity capital markets company team for the equity offering transaction. The security module allows the order entry module to receive the orders directly from the investors, allows the order book module to communicate the order information to the members of the management/company team, and prevents communication of the order information to sales persons associated with the equity offering transaction. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017323 | Method and System for Trading Combinations of Financial Instruments - A method and system are provided for obtaining and matching single leg and multi-leg orders to trade combinations of financial instruments included in a set of two or more selected financial instruments. In preferred embodiments, orders are received during a selected time period and eligible orders are processed with a combinatorial matching algorithm that is not constrained by limit prices. All embodiments have the advantages that matched multi-leg orders can be executed with no bid/offer spread on any of their legs, there is no risk that some legs of a multi-leg order execute while others do not execute, and said embodiments can be implemented by selecting two or more existing financial instruments without requiring the creation of any special financial instrument representing a multi-leg strategy. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017324 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRADING FINANCIAL ASSETS - A system and method are disclosed that enables commoditization and trading of accounts receivable. The system preferably enables companies to reduce time for outstanding invoices to be paid by providing a marketplace for cash advanced in payment of invoices. The system and method preferably establishes an account accessible to the system to receive payment from obligors. The system provides at least one of a primary market for auctioning, and a secondary market for trading of accounts receivable. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017325 | MULTIPLE FINANCIAL ACCOUNT TRANSACTION PROCESSING - A computer-implemented method of point of sale transaction processing can include determining an identity of a user at a transaction site, identifying a plurality of financial accounts associated with the user, and for each financial account, accessing account information associated with the account. The method can include identifying a vendor type for the transaction site, selecting a financial account with which to process a transaction according to the vendor type and the account information for each of the plurality of accounts, and outputting the selected financial account. A list of financial accounts and incentives may be presented from which a user may select a particular financial account for processing the transaction. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017326 | Credit Handler For Entertainment Device - Pay to play entertainment machines or devices for gaming, gambling and other entertainment functions used in public spaces such as bars, clubs etc are networked and centrally controlled. Each entertainment device has at least one payment mechanism such as a coin acceptor or a card reader. Content executables (e.g. games) are configured to use a set of generic payment instruction messages to communicate with the payment mechanisms. A credit handler module translates generic payment instruction messages to and from specific payment functionality messages as used by the different payment mechanisms and also applies any transaction processing logic that is required consequent on the particular domain of operation of the entertainment device, e.g. legal requirements. Thus, locally applicable requirements relating to credit handling operations in the real and virtual environment of the entertainment device can be implemented without modifying content executables. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017327 | AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE TRANSACTION QUEUE - Methods and a system for performing an automated teller machine (ATM) transaction using a queue are disclosed. A user may first initiate an ATM transaction from a networked device to create a pending ATM transaction. The pending ATM transaction is then stored into a queue until it is accessed by the ATM. When a user is ready to complete the pending ATM transaction, the pending ATM transaction is retrieved from the queue and is completed by, for example, the ATM. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017328 | Transaction processing - A transaction processing system for the real time authorization of payment transactions, The system comprises a verification system ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100017329 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SELLING TRANSACTION INSTRUMENTS - The present invention generally relates to a system and method for distributing an open transaction instrument. The system includes the steps of: accessibly offering for sale, in a retail environment, the open transaction instrument; selling a selected open transaction instrument; and enabling the use of the open transaction instrument. The transaction instrument may be, for example, an open pre-paid card. Furthermore, accessibly offering the open pre-paid card for sale, in one exemplary embodiment, is performed by hanging the pre-paid card on a rack. The distribution of the open transaction instrument may also comprise the step of sending a message, in substantially real time, causing the pre-paid open transaction instrument to be funded but not activated. Also, in accordance with further exemplary embodiments of the present invention, an issuer system is suitably configured to leverage existing infrastructure for inventory and related processes. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017330 | PROTECTING A MANUFACTURED ITEM FROM COUNTERFEITING - A method and system are described for protecting a manufactured item from counterfeiting. The manufactured item, which is marked with an identifier, such as a serial number, is associated with a code generator that has secret functions and data for generating verification codes. The manufactured item is then supplied along with the corresponding code generator. Thereafter, the identifier from the manufactured item and the verification code generated by the code generator are used to verify authenticity of the manufactured item. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017331 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORDERING GOODS, SERVICES AND CONTENT OVER AN INTERNETWORK - A billing system that allows a consumer to order products from computers connected to the Internet, wherein the consumer is automatically billed for the ordered product by its telephone service provider. When a product is ordered over the Internet, a plug-in component of the consumer's computer establishes an Internet connection to a billing server. A billing server component transfers an encrypted version of the product to the plug-in component. The plug-in component then disconnects from the Internet and establishes a point-to-point (PPP) connection with the billing server. During the PPP connection, the billing server component transfers an access key assigned to the order to the plug-in component so that the plug-in component may decrypt the product. The consumer is charged a unit rate or “drop-charge” for the product by the telephone service provider using a premium telephone number assigned and administered by the telephone service provider. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017332 | INTER-NETWORK FINANCIAL SERVICE - Systems and methods for making a payment on behalf of a payer to a payee are provided. A request to make a payment on behalf of a payer to a payee is received at a first payment service provider. The first payment service provider supports a first payment network within a plurality of payment networks that each include a respective plurality of payers and payees. The payer is one of the plurality of payers and payees associated with the first payment network, and the payor is not one of the plurality of payers and payees associated with the first payment network. A second payment network within the plurality of payment networks with which the payee is associated is identified by the first payment service provider. A payment instruction to make the payment to the payee is transmitted by the first payment service provider to a second payment service provider associated with the second payment network. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017333 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONDUCTING ELECTRONIC COMMERCE - Methods are disclosed of processing financial transactions. A connection is established over a public network between a customer client and a merchant server. A file is received over the connection from the merchant server at the customer client. An application is launched at the merchant server in response to receiving the file. Financial transaction data are received with the launched application. The received financial transaction data are transmitted with the launched application over the connection from the customer client to the merchant server to initiate processing of the financial transaction with the received financial transaction data. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017334 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - In order appropriately to prevent leakage of an authentication symbol string such as a credit card number, and for it to be possible for a user to be authenticated as a legitimate user: an ID issuance server | 2010-01-21 |
20100017335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORDERING GOODS, SERVICES AND CONTENT OVER AN INTERNETWORK - A billing system that allows a consumer to order products from computers connected to the Internet, wherein the consumer is automatically billed for the ordered product by its telephone service provider. When a product is ordered over the Internet, a plug-in component of the consumer's computer establishes an Internet connection to a billing server. A billing server component transfers an encrypted version of the product to the plug-in component. The plug-in component then disconnects from the Internet and establishes a point-to-point (PPP) connection with the billing server. During the PPP connection, the billing server component transfers an access key assigned to the order to the plug-in component so that the plug-in component may decrypt the product. The consumer is charged a unit rate or “drop-charge” for the product by the telephone service provider using a premium telephone number assigned and administered by the telephone service provider. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017336 | ACCOUNT DETERMINATION USING GOVERNMENT-ISSUED IDENTIFICATION DEVICE - A system may include reading of information from a government-issued identification device and determination of a commercial account number based on the information. A payment may be processed using the commercial account number. In some aspects, the information identifies a holder of the government-issued identification device and the commercial account number is a temporary account number associated with the holder. Determination of the commercial account number may include determination of a plurality of commercial account numbers based on the information, and determination of the commercial account number from the plurality of commercial account numbers. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017337 | ESTABLISHING A BUYER/SERVICE PROVIDER RELATIONSHIP ELECTRONICALLY - Described herein is technology for, among other things, an electronic services marketplace. The technology involves receiving a request for services from a buyer, creating a service order based on the requested services, determining which of a plurality of service providers are qualified to provide the requested services, and selecting from the qualified service providers one or more particular service providers to perform the services. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017338 | Portfolio Optimization - A method for comparing, creating and optimizing investment portfolios is provided. The utility function for an investment is characterized, and the optimization problem for the utility function is stated based on investor preferences and risk tolerance. According to one embodiment, the measure of relative performance of investment portfolios is calculated based on the investor utility function. According to another embodiment, guidelines for generating an optimized portfolio for the investor from the plurality of asset classes available, are mapped out. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017339 | System and methods for ETF 401(k) trading - Systems and methods for providing an ETF 401(k) retirement plan administration are described. The typical requirement of purchasing full shares is addressed by establishing a breakage account. This account absorbs any extra money that would have bought a fraction of a share, purchases shares for the pool, and allows for an allotment of fractional shares that would not be possible otherwise. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017340 | System, method, and apparatus for the investment of a debenture credit - A method and system that produces a single financial product including a security arrangement, legal agreement(s) and technical management facility that aggregates the values of present or future financial cash flows from financial arrangements or securities offered by multiple entities such that the assets and liabilities are combined through agreements and other such arrangements to produce an enhanced portfolio value of the financial products. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017341 | Method and systems for predicting solar energy production - A method of anticipating a short-term future electrical energy demand of an energy trader's customers includes calculating a short-term future net electrical energy demand required to meet the demand of customer facilities which have a solar energy generating system or systems in a geographic region. The method further includes determining a resulting difference, expressed as a shortfall or surplus, between the short-term future net electrical energy demand and an amount of electrical energy purchased in long-term contracts for the supply of the customer facilities, and bargaining a buying price or a selling price for energy in a short-term future or day-ahead market based on the shortfall or surplus. A method for hedging energy sales or purchases in a short-term future or day-ahead market includes determining an historical performance of a regional net energy forecasting methodology for a facility or facilities which have solar energy generating systems in a geographical region. The method further includes estimating a difference between the maximum cost of energy in a spot market and an energy trader's minimum price of energy for each hour bid in the short-term future or day-ahead market, determining a risk factor associated with energy sales or purchases from the historical performance and the estimated difference, and purchasing or selling options to buy energy at the previous day's day-ahead market price based on the determined risk factor. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017342 | ASSET ALLOCATION BASED ON EXPECTED UTILITY OF TIME AND WEALTH - A method and system for providing financial advice to individuals that includes outputting a target asset allocation for an individual and a critical wealth, a retirement wealth, a utility function, or a combination thereof. The target asset allocation includes a target securities allocation and is computed using a function analyzing a trade-off between retirement time and retirement consumption of the individual. The method includes computing a critical wealth of the individual, a retirement wealth of the individual, and a wealth utility function of the individual. A determination of whether the individual is in a wealth maximizing phase or a critical wealth phase is made. The determination is based on whether the individual has a current wealth equal to or greater than the calculated critical wealth threshold. Having determined the relevant wealth phase, a target asset allocation for the current assets of the individual is computed. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017343 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING THE COST BASIS OF A SECURITY - A computer-implemented method and apparatus for determining a cost basis associated with a plurality of shares of a security. In response to information identifying an issuer, the purchase date and the sale date, a list of capital events that occurred in connection with the security between the purchase date and the sale date is retrieved from a database. One or more shares held adjustment ratios are then retrieved from a database. Each of the shares held adjustment ratios corresponds to one of the capital events that occurred in connection with the security between the purchase date and the sale date. A current cost basis associated with the security may then be determined in accordance with the one or more cost adjustment ratios and the purchase price per share of the security. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017344 | Auction System and Method for Pricing and Allocation During Capital Formation - A computer implemented system and method determines price and allocation of equity shares. Information about an offering to accept bids for equity shares is provided to qualified potential purchasers and non-qualified potential purchasers. Bids from potential purchasers for equity shares are received through a communication network. Bids are accepted and offered to be accepted only from qualified potential purchasers. A non-qualified potential purchaser submits a bid through a qualified potential purchaser. A clearing price for the offered shares is determined based on the received bids. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017345 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-FACTOR MODELING, ANALYSIS AND MARGINING OF CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS FOR RISK OFFSET - A system and method for determining a margin requirement associated with a plurality of financial instruments within a portfolio is disclosed. The system and method include receiving a plurality of data associated with the plurality of financial instruments within the portfolio, determining a systematic risk margin based on at least a portion of the received plurality of data, determining a curve risk margin based on at least a second portion of the received plurality of data, determining a convergence and divergence risk margin based on at least a third portion of the received plurality of data, determining a sector risk margin based on at least a fourth portion of the received plurality of data, determining an idiosyncratic risk margin based on at least a fifth portion of the received plurality of data, determining a liquidity risk margin based on at least a sixth portion of the received plurality of data, determining a basis risk margin based on at least a seventh portion of the received plurality of data, and calculating a multi-factor risk margin based on one more of the determined risk factors. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017346 | DIAMOND LIKE CARBON COATING OF SUBSTRATE HOUSINGS - Embodiments of the invention include articles comprising a diamond like carbon coating or doped diamond like carbon coating on one or more surfaces of a plastic substrate or a plastic enclosure. Embodiments of the DLC or doped DLC coatings reduce the gas permeation of the coated plastic or thermoplastic to hydrogen or helium compared to the permeability of the plastic alone. The DLC or doped DLC coatings coating provides a surface resistivity of from about 10 | 2010-01-21 |
20100017347 | INTELLIGENT PALLET - A intelligent pallet having and active RFID tag embedded therein is provided. The pallet is used within a leasing system and/or an inventory management system. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017348 | INTERACTIVE COMPUTING ADVICE FACILITY THROUGH THIRD-PARTY DATA - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for helping a user make a decision through the use of a computing facility, where the computing facility may be a machine learning facility. The process may begin with an initial question being received by the computing facility from the user. The user may then be provided with a dialog consisting of questions from the computing facility and answers provided by the user. The computing facility may then provide a decision to the user based on the dialog and pertaining to the initial question, such as a recommendation, a diagnosis, a conclusion, advice, and the like. In embodiments, future questions and decisions provided by the computing facility may be improved through feedback provided by the user. In embodiments, the present invention may be utilized in conjunction with a third-party application. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017349 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DERIVING PROBABILISTIC MODELS FROM DETERMINISTIC ONES - A Dynamic Bayesian Network provides models that provides emulation of patient data. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017350 | Method and Apparatus for Automatically Structuring Free Form Heterogeneous Data - Techniques are provided for automatically structuring free form heterogeneous data. In one aspect of the invention, the techniques include obtaining free form heterogeneous data, segmenting the free form heterogeneous data into one or more units, automatically labeling the one or more units based on one or more machine learning techniques, wherein each unit is associated with a label indicating an information type, and structuring the one or more labeled units in a format to facilitate one or more operations that use at least a portion of the labeled units, e.g., information technology (IT) operations. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017351 | NEURAL NETWORK BASED HERMITE INTERPOLATOR FOR SCATTEROMETRY PARAMETER ESTIMATION - Generation of a meta-model for scatterometry analysis of a sample diffracting structure having unknown parameters. A training set comprising both a spectral signal evaluation and a derivative of the signal with respect to at least one parameter across a parameter space is rigorously computed. A neural network is trained with the training set to provide reference spectral information for a comparison to sample spectral information recorded from the sample diffracting structure. A neural network may be trained with derivative information using an algebraic method wherein a network bias vector is centered over both a primary sampling matrix and an auxiliary sampling matrix. The result of the algebraic method may be used for initializing neural network coefficients for training by optimization of the neural network weights, minimizing a difference between the actual signal and the modeled signal based on a objective function containing both function evaluations and derivatives. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017352 | ENHANCING PERFORMANCE OF A CONSTRAINT SOLVER ACROSS INDIVIDUAL PROCESSES - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that reuses information associated with a constraint solving operation for a problem domain. This system begins by receiving a constraint problem from the problem domain. Then, the system searches through a problem cache for an entry which corresponds to the canonical representation. If a corresponding entry does not exist in the problem cache, the system produces an entry in the problem cache for the canonical representation. Otherwise, if a corresponding entry already exists in the problem cache, the system generates a solution to the canonical representation by reusing the solver heuristic associated with the corresponding entry in the problem cache. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017353 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA ANALYSIS AND FEATURE RECOGNITION - Systems and methods for automated pattern recognition and object detection. The method can be rapidly developed and improved using a minimal number of algorithms for the data content to fully discriminate details in the data, while reducing the need for human analysis. The system includes a data analysis system that recognizes patterns and detects objects in data without requiring adaptation of the system to a particular application, environment, or data content. The system evaluates the data in its native form independent of the form of presentation or the form of the post-processed data. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017354 | INTERPRETING A PLURALITY OF M-DIMENSIONAL ATTRIBUTE VECTORS ASSIGNED TO A PLURALITY OF LOCATIONS IN AN N-DIMENSIONAL INTERPRETATION SPACE - A method for interpreting a plurality of m-dimensional attribute vectors (m | 2010-01-21 |
20100017355 | BATCHING METHOD - A method for decision aiding in batching of items of varying weight, size, or shape into packs of fixed weight and item count, said method characterized by controlling the average weight of items used, by rejecting selected portion of the available pool of items, according to calculated ‘Optimal Usage Curve’, wherein the ‘Optimal Usage Curve’ represents the ‘overweight of batches’ as a function of the ‘ratio of items used’, the ‘overweight of batches’ represents the average batch weight while the ‘ratio of items used’ is the number of items used in the batching process over the total number of items in the pool of items. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017356 | Method for Identifying Protein Patterns in Mass Spectrometry - The present invention refers to a medical diagnostic method based on proteomic and/or genomic patterns, using data obtained by mass spectrometry. The method also allows classifying the patients as to their disease stage Additionally, present invention also refers to two new biomarkers for the Hodgkin Disease medical diagnosis. Based on the SVM analysis, one localizes the windows of interest and later on uses the mass spectrum so to allow the biomarkers localization, so that the identification of said biomarkers occur by means of a 2D gel ou by mass spectrometry. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017357 | Anti-Intrusion method and system for a communication network - There is disclosed an anti-intrusion method for a communication network comprising a plurality of network elements. The method comprising the following steps: a) providing a passive monitoring component, a decision making component, and an action making component cooperating with the communication network; b) at the passive monitoring component, detecting management information indicative of an attack against at least one network element, processing the management information thus generating infection data and transmitting the infection data to the decision making component; c) at the decision making component, receiving the infection data, making a decision about an action to be carried out to block the attack, and transmitting the decision to the action making component; and d) at the action making component, based on the decision, instructing the at least one network element to perform the action. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017358 | Methods, Storage Mediums, and Systems for Configuring Classification Regions Within a Classification Matrix of an Analysis System and for Classifying Particles of an Assay - Methods and systems are provided which include configurations for the reassigning unit locations of a classification matrix at which two or more classification regions overlap as non-classification regions. In addition, methods and systems are provided which include configurations for mathematically creating classification regions which may be characterized by values which more accurately correspond to measured values of particles. Other embodiments of methods and systems include configurations for acquiring data corresponding to measurable parameters of a particle and identifying a location within a classification matrix to which at least some of the data corresponds. Such methods and systems further include configurations for translating either the data corresponding to the identified unit location or a target space located at known locations within the classification matrix a preset number of predetermined coordinate paths until a conclusion that the particle may be classified to particular particle category or a reject class is attained. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017359 | CONSTRUCTING A COMPREHENSIVE SUMMARY OF AN EVENT SEQUENCE - The present invention provides a method and system for constructing one or more a comprehensive summaries of event sequence(s). The present invention approaches the problem of finding the shortest yet most comprehensive summary of an event sequence by transforming this summarization problem into a concrete optimization problem and provides a computer-implementing technique for solving this optimization problem to construct and/or form the basis for constructing the summaries. The summaries describe an entire event sequence while at the same time reveal local associations between events of that sequence. In certain embodiments, the segmentation of the event sequence produced in accordance with the present invention is itself a summary of the event sequence. In other embodiments, the segmentation produced forms a basis for one or more summaries. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017360 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CONTROL EMAIL WHITELISTS - A system and method to control email whitelists by collecting one or more website email addresses parsed from a web page, detecting whether one or more of the user's email addresses are included in a webform of the web page, confirming whether the collected one or more website email addresses are to be added to one or more email whitelists, and updating the configuration of the one or more whitelists in response to a confirmation to add the one or more site email addresses to the one or more email whitelists. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017361 | Hierarchical Categorization of Media Assets and User Interface for Media Player - An improved hierarchical user interface for a handheld media player is disclosed, which classifies media assets that an on-line merchandiser intends to sell to the user as hidden files. The files are invisible to a user without a user's intended and persistent interaction with a user input device of the player. The media assets that an on-line merchandiser intends to sell to the user are stored in the unused storage capacity of the player and are organized in a single structure as those media assets owned by the user. A method includes a means that a user actuates a user input device until the hidden files are displayed. Furthermore, a method is disclosed to utilize a file storage system of a portable media player more effectively and efficiently. The unused storage capacity is then used by the on-line merchandiser to store media assets, which have not been purchased by the user at the moment when they are received by the media player. The capacity occupied by the media assets from the merchandiser is adjusted dynamically based upon the required capacity by the user at a specific time. The media assets stored are managed based on their assigned priorities. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017362 | SIMPLIFYING ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS ACCESSED RECENTLY IN A REMOTE SYSTEM - Simplifying access to documents accessed recently on a remote system. In one embodiment, the list of documents accessed by a user using a first instance of an application in a first/remote system is maintained. The list of documents is provided/displayed to the same user when using a second instance of the same application on a second/local system, thereby facilitating the user to access the documents accessed recently on the remote system. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017363 | EFFICIENT EVALUATION OF SQL PIVOT OPERATIONS - Techniques are described herein for supporting efficient evaluation of pivot operations. In an embodiment, a pivoting query on a data table is received. The query identifies pivot columns, measure columns, and grouping columns. In response to receiving the query, a staging table that comprises new pivot columns, aggregated columns, and new grouping columns may be created. For each particular unique combination of values of the grouping columns and the pivot columns in the data table, stored values in the measure columns in the data table are aggregated for certain rows in the plurality of rows in the data table. Each row of the certain rows comprises the each particular unique combination of values of the grouping columns and the pivot columns in the data table. Results of aggregating are stored in the staging table. Data that has been populated in the staging table is transposed into a result set. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017364 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND SOFTWARE FOR DISTRIBUTED LOADING OF DATABASES - The present inventors have devised one or more systems, methods, and software for distributed loading of information retrieval systems. One exemplary system includes two or more (at least two) load monitor servers that not only monitor and ensure completion of load tasks by individual load servers in a set of two or more load servers, but also provide for one load monitor to monitor performance of the another. Moreover, the exemplary system provides a service-level-agreement (SLA) data structure for each load server. The SLA data structure governs what types and priority levels of loading tasks will be performed for predetermined time periods. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017365 | Leveraging Multilevel Hierarchical Associations to Find Cross-Boundary Issues - A mechanism for locating information about a target entity in disparate multilevel hierarchical knowledge repositories. Upon occurrence of an event associated with a target entity comprising an information technology solution, disparate multilevel hierarchical knowledge repositories are searched for metadata about the target entity. A determination is made from the metadata about the target entity whether the repositories comprise entities related to the target entity. If so, links in the metadata are used to search the repositories to locate the related entities. Upon locating a resolution to the event in the repositories, a link to the resolution is stored in the metadata. The repositories are also searched to determine owners of the target entity and related entities, and these owners are then notified of the event and the resolution to the event. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017366 | System and Method for Performing Contextual Searches Across Content Sources - A request is received from a user to perform a contextual search based on a media file or metadata for the media file. A type of the media file is determined. A contextual search menu is presented to the user. A selected contextual search query type selected from the contextual search menu is received from the user. One or more search modules each associated with one or more content sources are queried to determine which one or more search modules can perform the selected contextual search query type. A request is generated for one or more search modules that can perform the selected contextual search query type to perform the selected contextual search query type against one or more selected content sources associated with the one or more search modules. Search results are received from the one or more search modules, wherein the search results include links to one or more files associated with the one or more content sources. The search results are displayed to the user. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017367 | Accessing Data Associated with One Application from Another Application - A method involving: automatically identifying a string in a portion of text; extracting, from a calendar application database, data for a portion of the calendar corresponding to the identified string; and enabling display of the extracted calendar data. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017368 | Service Registry and Relevant System and Method - The present invention discloses improvements in a service registry in the SOA and relevant improvements in service propagation, query, and service selection and routing methods during service invocation. Said service registry is connected with a local service domain and a remote service registry and comprises: a local service information manager for registering local services in the local service domain, a local service information repository connected with the local service information manager, for storing service metadata of the local services; wherein said service registry further comprises: a remote service information manager connected with the local service information manager and the remote service registry, for receiving a remote service index from the remote service registry; and a remote service information repository connected to said remote service information manager, for storing the remote service index received from the remote service registry. By using said service registry, it is easy for realizing service control and sharing among different service registries. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017369 | DATABASE SYSTEM AND ITS HANDLING METHOD FOR IDEOGRAM - The present invention relates to a database system for ideograms and a processing method thereof. The database system includes an ideogram database having fields in which shapes of characters constituting the ideograms are separated into Chinese radicals comprised of dots and strokes, each Chinese radical comprising one stroke count, a sequence is assigned to each of the Chinese radicals, and the respective ideograms are arranged according to the sequences of the Chinese radicals and a stroke order of each ideogram; and a list window for searching the ideogram database for the ideograms based on the arranged sequences of the ideograms. The database processing method includes the steps of providing an ideogram database having fields in which shapes of characters constituting the ideograms are separated into Chinese radicals comprised of dots and strokes, each Chinese radical being consisting of one stroke count, a sequence is assigned to each of the Chinese radicals, and the respective ideograms are arranged according to the sequences of the Chinese radicals and a stroke order of each ideogram, and providing a list window for searching the ideogram database for the ideograms based on the arranged sequences of the ideograms. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017370 | T CELL EPITOPE DATABASES - The invention relates to databases of T cell epitopes, especially helper T cell epitopes, for rapid interrogation of protein sequences for the presence of T cell epitopes. The invention includes full or partial databases and data structures of T cell epitopes including epitopes identified especially by ex vivo T cell assays with test peptides and includes T cell epitopes identified by extrapolation of data from test peptides. The present invention also includes high throughput methods for determining the T cell epitope activity of peptides for subsequent inclusion in databases and data structures including methods where subsets of T cell especially regulatory T cells are removed or inhibited from T cell assays in order to maximize the sensitivity of detection of T cell epitope activity. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017371 | Web Based Interactive Meeting Facility - A computer program product helps organize an in-person gathering of users of topic-related interest to help maintain ongoing local interest groups by providing meeting management resources through a web-based meeting facility, where the meeting management resources may enable a meeting group organizer to manage a meeting group. The meeting facility may receive meeting group criteria from a user, and may provide to the user an indication of at least one meeting group of a plurality of meeting groups based on the user's received meeting group criteria, wherein the meeting groups may have respective members. The meeting facility may receive from the user a selection of a meeting group to join, and the organizer may be enabled to accept the user as a new member to the meeting group and to manage meeting group user resources available to the user through a web-based graphical interface provided by the meeting facility. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017372 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE SERVICE IN A MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM - An apparatus and method are provided for providing a User Interface (UI) service in a multimedia system. The method includes receiving UI data from a UI server; abstracting UI data that is structuralized on an object-by-object basis, and corresponds to an input from a UI client; creating adaptive UI data by reflecting a UI environment of a device for displaying, in the abstracted UI data; and displaying the created adaptive UI data. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017373 | ENCODER, DECODER, THEIR METHODS, PROGRAMS THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIA HAVING PROGRAMS RECORDED THEREON - In encoding for putting one or more files and/or one or more files in a folder into a single archive file, original hierarchy information and standard hierarchy information generated by converting characters in a special character coding in each file name to characters in a standard character coding are recorded in the archive file. If the character coding used in the original hierarchy information in the archive file cannot be used in the system environment used in decoding, a file name in the standard character coding is generated from the standard hierarchy information and is converted to a character coding that can be used in the system environment. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017374 | APPROCHING CONTROL SYSTEM TO THE FILE SERVER - A system for controlling access to a file server is disclosed. The system for controlling access to a file server includes a management server, a plurality of client terminals for communicating with the management server, and a file server for storing one or more documents shared by the plurality of client terminals. Each of the client terminals includes a file server access module for verifying a user, and a security explorer tool driving module for outputting one or more documents stored in the file server. The management server includes an authorized user information database for storing authentication information, a user verification module for checking user information and searching for authentication information, and a document classification module for searching the file server for documents within the authorization limits based on the user, and transmitting the found documents to the security explorer tool driving module, thereby restricting documents depending on the users. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017375 | System and Method for Providing a Search Feature in a Network Environment - An apparatus for providing a feature in a network environment is provided that includes a central web site operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. The central web site is operable to populate a queue of a first end user with a profile of a second end user. The central web site includes a search component that, once the first end user has reviewed the profile, allows the first end user to search for one or more other end users using specified criteria. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017376 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ACCESSING HOST CONTAINED IN NETWORK, AND STATISTIC AND ANALYZING SERVER - A detecting method is provided, which includes extracting an Internet Protocol Identifier value from an obtained data packet. The detecting method may further include searching in a record table containing a correspondence relationship between an Internet Protocol Identifier value and a terminal serial number to determine whether the record table contains an adjacent Internet Protocol Identifier value smaller than the extracted Internet Protocol Identifier value and modifying the adjacent Internet Protocol Identifier value that is smaller than the extracted Internet Protocol Identifier value to be the extracted Internet Protocol Identifier value if the record table contains the adjacent Internet Protocol Identifier value smaller than the extracted Internet Protocol Identifier value. Otherwise, the detecting method may also include, adding a new record of the extracted Internet Protocol Identifier value and the corresponding terminal serial number into the record table. When a notification is received, the detecting method may calculate the number of terminal serial numbers in the record table and output the number of terminal serial numbers as the number of hosts. The provided detecting method may further provide a corresponding statistic and analyzing server and a detecting system. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017377 | FINITE-STATE MACHINE AUGMENTED FOR MULTIPLE EVALUATIONS OF TEXT - A process performs multiple evaluations of text simultaneously. There are multiple counters, each with pattern-amount pairs. The pattern-amount pairs are accumulated into a single finite-state machine, with each state having a list of (counter, value) pairs instead of a single value. While the finite-state machine is applied to text, a score for each counter is accumulated by summing values for the counter from value lists of visited states. With one state transition per character, evaluating text using one finite-state machine for multiple counters is more efficient than using separate finite-state machines for counters or patterns. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017378 | ENHANCED USE OF TAGS WHEN STORING RELATIONSHIP INFORMATION OF ENTERPRISE OBJECTS - A computing system provided according to an aspect of the present invention stores tags associated with relationships specified among objects. The tags can then potentially be used to search for objects of interest. In an embodiment, a search request is received indicating a first object, a second object and a search tag. A response is provided containing a sequence of objects and a sequence of relationships connecting the first object with the second object, with each relationship having an associated tag matching the search tag. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017379 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CREATE CONTINUOUS QUERIES VIA A SEMANTIC LAYER - A system, method, means, and/or computer program code may be provided to facilitate a presentation of information to a user. According to some embodiments, continuous query definition parameters are created by a user via a graphical user interface. Moreover, semantic layer information associated with an event processing engine may be provided. The event processing engine may, for example, receive an event stream from a data source. According to some embodiments, the semantic layer information is defined by a semantic layer designer via a graphical user interface. At least one event processing language statement may be created based on (i) the continuous query definition parameters and (ii) the semantic layer information. The statement may then be provided to the event processing engine so as to establish a continuous query at the event processing engine, the continuous query providing output data based on events in the event stream. According to some embodiments, a continuous meta-query for a complex event processing engine is initially created. When a connection with a business user is subsequently established, a continuous user-query is initiated based on the continuous meta-query. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017380 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CREATE CONTINUOUS QUERIES ASSOCIATED WITH PUSH-TYPE AND PULL-TYPE DATA - A system, method, means, and/or computer program code may be provided to facilitate query creation and a presentation of information to a user. According to some embodiments, continuous query definition parameters are received from a user via a graphical user interface. Moreover, semantic layer information associated with an event processing engine may be retrieved, the event processing engine being adapted to receive an event stream. Based on the continuous query definition parameters, a pre-fetch query may be automatically created to pre-fetch historical data from a database. An event processing language statement may also be created based on (i) the continuous query definition parameters and (ii) the semantic layer information. The event processing language statement may be provided to the complex event processing engine so as to establish a continuous query. A response to the query may be output based on both the pre-fetched historical data and events in the event stream. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017381 | TRIGGERING OF DATABASE SEARCH IN DIRECT AND RELATIONAL MODES - Modern portable electronic devices are commercially available with ever increasing memory capable of storing tens of thousands of song, hundreds of thousands of images, and hundreds of hours of video. The traditional means of selecting and accessing an item within such devices is with a limited number of keys and requires the user to progressively work through a series of lists, some of which may be very large. Provided is a method for speech recognition that allows users to efficiently select their preferred tune, video, or other information using speech rather than cumbersome scrolling through large lists of available material. Users are able to enter search and command terms verbally to these electronic devices and users who cannot remember the correct name of the audio-visual content are supported by searches based on lyrics, tempo, riff, chorus, and so forth. Further, pseudonyms may be associated with audio-visual content by the user to ease recollection. The method also supports local remote retrieval of the correct data associated with a pseudonym for use locally or remotely to establish playback of the audio-visual content. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017382 | TRANSLITERATION FOR QUERY EXPANSION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying candidate synonyms of transliterated terms for query expansion. In one aspect, a method includes identifying multiple transliterated terms in a target language. For each transliterated term of the multiple transliterated terms in the target language, the transliterated term is mapped to one or more terms in a source language. For a first transliterated term of the multiple transliterated terms in the target language, one or more second transliterated terms of the multiple transliterated terms in the target language are identified as candidate synonyms of the first transliterated term, where each of the one or more second transliterated terms is mapped to at least one term in the source language that is also mapped from the first transliterated term. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017383 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PUBLICATION WEBSITE SUBSCRIPTION RECOMMENDATION BASED ON USER-CONTROLLED BROWSER HISTORY ANALYSIS - A method receives user restrictions and establishes a list of recognized publication websites. The publication websites comprise websites that provide, for example, research papers and research articles. The method periodically scans Internet browser history files located on different user's computers (as limited by the user restrictions) to identify publication websites within the Internet browser history files. The method analyzes the website addresses and metadata associated with the publication websites to identify the publication service providers utilized, and to identify the journals, titles, authors, keywords, and abstracts of research papers and research articles accessed. Then, the methods herein can generate statistics regarding the publication service providers, and statistics regarding research topics based on the journals, titles, authors, keywords, and abstracts. Thus, the methods herein output recommendations regarding preferred publication service providers and preferred research topics based on the statistics. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017384 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE BUSINESS INFORMATION VIA A PUSH MODEL - A system, method, means, and/or computer program code may be provided to facilitate a presentation of business information to a user. According to some embodiments, a request from a client is received at a server, and the request is associated with a query. The server also receives notifications associated with business information and may block a connection with the client and/or a response to the request based on a determination that the business information does not currently satisfy a condition associated with the query (e.g., no such notification has been received). The server may subsequently determine the business information has changed and now satisfies the condition (e.g., when a notification is received). In this case, the server may unblock the connection and transmit a response, including new resulting data associated with the query, to the client. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017385 | CREATING AND MANAGING REFERENCE ELEMENTS OF DEPLOYABLE WEB ARCHIVE FILES - In some embodiments a method includes creating a bookmark of a deployable web archives In some embodiments, the bookmark includes deployment and runtime information of current and prior invocations of the deployable web archive, at least one user- and/or author-defined external specified tag describing the deployable web archive, and/or reference/link/access information to the deployable web archives | 2010-01-21 |
20100017386 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELF-ADAPTING CLASSIFICATION OF USER GENERATED CONTENT - A self-adapting classification system (“SACS”) generates an evolving classification for content. The classification may start with a seed review process, which generates a level of trust for initial reviews of the content. Once the seed review is completed and distributed, users may submit content reviews to the self adapting classification system. Using the SACS, users may identify themselves with one or more community groups, which indicate certain shared values and preferences with respect to other members of the same community group. Content reviews received by the SACS may comprise a user identifier pertaining to the submitting user, a content descriptor and an associated classification. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017387 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING ADVANCED SEARCH IN SERVICE REGISTRY SYSTEM - A system and associated method for searching a service registry system with a service name. The present invention receives a request to search a service description with the service name. If conventional search does not find a match for the service name in a registry, the present invention parses the service name and generates candidate service names for alternative searches from synonyms stored in a dictionary database. The registry is searched again with generated candidate service names and any service description found to be a match of any candidate service name is returned. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017388 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING A MULTI-STEP CONSTRAINED SEARCH - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for performing a user search query are provided. A search definition profile having one or more domain constraints and one or more vertical constraints, specified by a site owner, is obtained. A first search for documents is executed with the search query for a first search result. The first search result is constrained to documents in a search engine index that satisfy a collective domain constraint imposed by the one or more domain constraints. Without user intervention, a second search for documents is executed with the search query for a second search result when a relevance condition of the first search result, specified by the site owner, is not satisfied. The second search result is constrained to a collective vertical constraint imposed by the one or more vertical constraints. An output search result that is combination of the first and second search results is provided. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017389 | CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL - A content based image retrieval system that extracts images from a database of images by constructing a query set of features and displaying images that have a minimum dissimilarity metric from images in the database. The dissimilarity metric is a weighted summation of distances between features in the query set and features of the images in the database. The method is useful for image searching such as web-based image retrieval and facial recognition. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017390 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PRESENTING NEXT SEARCH KEYWORD - Described is a next search keyword presentation apparatus, method and program for the presentation of the next recommended search keyword for use in conjunction with the search results. There is provided an apparatus of presenting relevant next search keywords, including an input unit for inputting a search keyword. A search control unit sends search keywords to a search system and receives search results which are displayed as documents on a display unit. A text body extraction unit extracts the text body and an analysis unit carries out a semantic attribute analysis of words contained within the text body. The search keywords are stored as user history data which is used with semantic attributes of each word to create document representative information. A cluster representative keyword extraction unit clusters document characteristic information and extracts cluster representative keywords which are displayed as search keyword candidates, providing recommended keywords based on browsing history. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017391 | POLARITY ESTIMATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM, POLARITY ESTIMATION METHOD, POLARITY ESTIMATION PROGRAM AND EVALUATION POLARITY ESTIMATIOM PROGRAM - An evaluation polarity of reputation information with an unknown evaluation polarity is estimated by utilizing reputation information with a known evaluation polarity. The present polarity estimation system is a polarity estimation system for estimating an evaluation polarity indicating whether reputation information is positive or negative, and includes a reputation information storage part that precedently stores reputation information with a known evaluation polarity; and a polarity estimating means for estimating an evaluation polarity of reputation information with an unknown evaluation polarity on the basis of the reputation information with the known evaluation polarity precedently stored in the reputation information storage part. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017392 | Intent match search engine - Method and apparatus for a query based search engine that searches a database of linked documents. In some embodiments, the method and apparatus computes reliability degrees of the documents, abstracts each document to generate its abstracts, provides a search query interface so that a user can use to enter a search query, processes the search query to generate an intent match criterion, identifies matched documents according to the generated intent match criterion, computes relevance degrees of the matched documents, sets order of the matched documents, and presents the matched documents to the user according to the set order by displaying the following items for each matched document: a link to the matched document, an abstract of the matched document if there are abstracts of the matched document, and a match in the matched document if there are matches in the matched document. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017393 | Entry Selection from Long Entry Lists - A method, device, and computer program product for locating a desired entry in a list containing multiple list entries for use with a limited text display is described. A list of entries is partitioned into a number of sub-parts such that the desired entry is contained in one of the list sub-parts. At least one of the sub-parts is characterized within a limited text display to prompt a user for feedback regarding the location of the desired entry in the sub-parts. The user feedback is received from a view input element. In response to the user feedback, the sub-part containing the desired entry is selected. The partitioning, characterizing, receiving, and selecting steps are re-performed one or more times until a final sub-part is generated that contains a limited number of entries including the desired entry. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017394 | WEB PAGE PROVIDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTERLOCKING WEB PAGE WITH RANKING - A Web page providing apparatus provides a Web page on a Network. The Web page providing apparatus includes a search word collection part that accesses a Web site on a network and collects search words from the Web site, an acquisition part that acquires ranking information of the search words from the Web site, a search word ranking part that refers to the ranking information and ranks the search words, a ranking search word accumulation part that stores the search words ranked by the search word ranking part and a Web page modification part that describes the search words into a providing Web page according to ranking of the ranked search words to modify the Web page. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017395 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL QUERIES INTO MULTI-DIMENSIONAL QUERIES - A query processor operative to accept queries with respect to data and to formulate responses to the queries and a data system comprising a query analyzer operative to perform breakdown analysis of queries thereby to generate a hierarchical representation of queries and a hierarchical query storage unit operative to store the hierarchical representations. A hierarchical representation processor operative to receive hierarchically represented queries and to formulate all possible multi dimensional roles of its query elements; and a multi dimensional role storage unit operative to store the hierarchical representations with their respective multi dimensional roles. A stochastic query processor operative to accept the hierarchical representations with their respective multi dimensional roles and to eliminate all improbable combinations of query elements (clause components) and multi dimensional roles. Hierarchical representations with their respective multi dimensional roles query processor operative to accept hierarchical representations with their respective multi dimensional roles from a data storage unit and to formulate most probable multidimensional representation of initial relational query. | 2010-01-21 |