| 07th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 54 |
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| 20130041823 | Payment Card with Integrated Chip - A method is disclosed. It includes presenting a payment card to an access device, obtaining additional data, encrypting the additional data, and passing the encrypted additional data to the access device. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041824 | Systems and Methods of Aggregating Split Payments Using a Settlement Ecosystem - Systems, apparatuses and methods for enabling a group of people to share the cost of an event, such as a meal, the purchase of a gift, or the rental of a car. Embodiments of the invention provide the tools needed to enable a group to participate in a shared event or activity, where one of the participants pays for the event or activity using their payment device and the other members of the group pay their portion of the cost to the participant who made the payment. Embodiments of the invention provide an ecosystem where a person can pay for an event, goods, or services using a single payment device (such as a credit or debit card) and then settle the amounts owed to them by other members of a group using the tools provided by the invention. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041825 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND MONITORING THE DISPENSING OF FUELS - A fuel management system for use by operators of temporary and/or permanent inventories of vehicles such as vehicle dealerships. Fuel vouchers are issued by authorized issuing personnel to authorized recipients if a validation procedure is passed using a database incorporating employee and vehicle inventory information. At the time of delivery, the fueling station will verify the vehicle and individual presenting the voucher. If verification occurs, the authorized quantity of fuel is dispensed. The voucher and sales receipt are returned to the dealership for future auditing and report generation. The system stores information to enable reports to be generated concerning fuel voucher issuance, actual fuel usage and to detect fraud or misuse, allowing more effective fuel expense management. In the event a report generates a fraud alert, appropriate management personnel are immediately notified by email, text messaging or other means. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041826 | Content Purchaser Distribution Payment System - A system and method for authorizing access to digital content includes encoding, with a processor, a digital content with a unique identifier. The digital content is delivered to an authorized user. A query is received from a second user and it is determined if the second user is the authorized user. If the second user is not an authorized user one of a payment authorization for the digital content is received from either the authorized user or the second user and an instruction is received to disable the digital content. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041827 | Automated Inventory and Return Letter Process - In an exemplary embodiment, a system includes an intake module, the intake module operable to process a plurality of payment instruments. The system includes a memory operable to store an image file associated with one of the payment instruments, the payment instrument associated with a payment account, and store a plurality of flagged account records. The system also includes a processor operable to determine if at least one flagged account record exists that is associated with the payment account and create a payment exception record if a flagged account record exists that is associated with the payment account. The processor is also operable to determine a status of the payment exception record, associate the status of the payment exception record with the image file, and designate a physical destination of the payment instrument, wherein the physical destination is designated based on the status of the payment exception record. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041828 | Systems, Methods, and Apparatus for Managing Digital Content and Rights Tokens - Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems, methods, and apparatus for managing digital content and rights tokens. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provide for managing digital content from one or more sources for multimedia on demand (MOD). The method can include receiving a rights token associated with the digital content; retrieving the digital content based at least in part on the received rights token; translating the digital content for MOD delivery when the digital content is not available in a MOD format; and preparing a unified listing of available content comprising the digital content, from one or more of internal sources, content ecosystems, or third parties. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041829 | TRACKING DETAILS OF ACTIVATION OF LICENSABLE COMPONENT OF CONSUMER ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Instead of buying blanket licenses for all licensable components of its CE devices, a manufacturer enables users to activate licensable components on a device basis and then obtains the necessary licenses individually. Seldom used activation modes and seldom activated licensable components can be pruned from future devices, while widely activated licensable components can be automatically enabled by purchasing a blanket license for those components. Characteristics of license requests and the people making them can be used to focus marketing. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041830 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PROVISION PAYMENT SERVICES - Methods and apparatus to provision payment services are disclosed. An example method includes receiving an indication of a service to be provisioned to a mobile device, generating a token indicative of the service, wherein the token includes a cryptographically signed portion that was cryptographically signed by a secure element of the mobile device, sending the token to an entity for verification, and provisioning the service when the token is verified. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041831 | SECURE AND SHAREABLE PAYMENT SYSTEM USING TRUSTED PERSONAL DEVICE - The invention relates to a system and method of making a financial transaction using a Trusted Personal Device. More particularly, the invention relates to a highly secure and less cumbersome payment platform for making a financial transaction using a trusted personal device, that too without any requirement of any formal means of communication between the customer and the merchant. The system and method is devised to obviate the problems of frauds relating to electronic cards like credit card, debit card, recharge cards, loyalty cards, other chip based cards, traveller's cheques etc. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041832 | Calculating and Reducing Carbon Footprint in a Waste Management Plan - An on-line waste management reporting and tracking system allows contractors to create waste management plans. Cities and other governing bodies can manage and enforce their recycling policies. Property owners can track the recycling on construction debris within their property. Recycling facilities can create diversion reports and upload tickets directly to a project. Users communicate and interact via the system. Waste management plans can be submitted directly to the governmental bodies. Users track recycling on construction projects through detailed recycling reports. The system calculates a plan's emissions and gives suggestions on how to reduce a plan's carbon footprint. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041833 | PROCESSS OF ELECTRONIC MANAGEMENT OF ORGANIC PRODUCTION AND CERTIFICATION - The present invention relates to a process of electronic management of organic production including cluster formation of farmers, training of farmers according to organic farming standards, providing organic compliance manual, farm diary, organic bulletin to the farmers, on-farm input management, collection and analysis of soil, providing identity card, soil health card and in ‘in soil culture’, providing NADEP and Cow Pat Pit and demonstrations on on-farm management. Further disclosed is a process of implementation of e-traceability. The information about the day to day activities taken up by all the registered farmers in the fields is collected as per the prescribed format of e-traceability by the cluster in charge on monthly basis and further uploaded in the website. Furthermore provided is a process for setting up an Internal Control System (ICS) for internal inspection of assessment of risk and its management is followed by the approval of decision from an approval committee. This invention relates to a process of external inspection from certification body and finally, certificates are provided to the farmers at the end of each conversion year till the three years. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041834 | Integrated Gourmet Item Data Collection, Recommender and Vending System and Method - Items—including gourmet products—are evaluated and rated by participants in a controlled event, which can be coordinated by software locally or at a dedicated website. Event data, including item scores and participant scores can be shared with vendors, merchants and other commercial entities associated with the products. Promotional incentives from such entities for the products (and related products) can then be directly targeted and provided to participants and other members of the public. The participant's activities can also be collected and disseminated to affiliates/friends of the participants through social networking sites, personalized web pages, etc. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041835 | BENEFIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A benefit management system and method provides a portal-based information management and collaborative business process application. Preferably, the system and method is focused at the benefit broker/consultant and is configured to capture employee benefit management data, such as demographic data and plan data. Further, preferably, one or more users are provided with customized user access to the centralized application for use in performing one or more various benefit plan management functions, such as, for example, marketing, plan design; enrollment; administration; and communication between one or more application users. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041836 | VESSEL SCHEDULE OPTIMIZATION - One embodiment is a vessel schedule optimization system and method that determines and schedules the optimal land and ocean shipments for a group of orders. The method includes creating an order bundle, the order bundle including orders that have the same origin and destination location and have overlapping time windows for pickup and delivery. The method also includes dividing the order bundle into equipment sized bundles, such that each of the equipment sized bundles include orders that can fit in the same equipment. The method further includes, for each of the equipment sized bundles, identifying available origin ports, destination ports, and voyages for handling the equipment sized bundle. The method then includes building land and ocean shipments for each of the equipment sized bundles based on the identified origin ports and destination ports. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041837 | Online Data And In-Store Data Analytical System - An online data and in-store data analytical system and method provide a customer or store sales person sales with an output to improve the customer's in-store experience. The system identifies relevant customer information from both the customer's online data and in-store activity. The online data and in-store data analytical system uses the identified customer data to generate a customer profile, which includes several customer attributes, and also generate an output to the customer, a selected store sales person, or both. The generated output can suggest potential products for the customer to consider or potential discounts, enhancing the customer's in-store sales experience. The generated output may also include product feedback information originating from a social connection of the customer, a person similar to the customer, or others. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041838 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING CONTACT CENTER METRICS FOR A HETEROGENEOUS CONTACT CENTER - Provided herein is a system and method to produce a composite rating using context information. The method may include: measuring a first and a second metric in a first and a second context respectively, to provide a first and a second contextual measurement, respectively; transforming the first contextual measurement to a first plurality of semantic context values by use of a first plurality of pertaining functions; transforming the second contextual measurement to a second plurality of semantic context values by use of a second plurality of pertaining functions; combining one or more of the first plurality of semantic context values and one or more of the second plurality of semantic context values, by use of one or more fuzzy logic rules, to produce a plurality of semantic distributions; and calculating a centroid of a merger of the plurality of semantic distributions in order to produce the composite rating. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041839 | Integrated Gourmet Item Data Collection, Recommender and Vending System and Method - Items—including gourmet products—are evaluated and rated by participants in a controlled event, which can be coordinated by software locally or at a dedicated website. Event data, including item scores and participant scores can be shared with vendors, merchants and other commercial entities associated with the products. Promotional incentives from such entities for the products (and related products) can then be directly targeted and provided to participants and other members of the public. The participant's activities can also be collected and disseminated to affiliates/friends of the participants through social networking sites, personalized web pages, etc. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041840 | Integrated Gourmet Item Data Collection, Recommender and Vending System and Method - Items—including gourmet products—are evaluated and rated by participants in a controlled event, which can be coordinated by software locally or at a dedicated website. Event data, including item scores and participant scores can be shared with vendors, merchants and other commercial entities associated with the products. Promotional incentives from such entities for the products (and related products) can then be directly targeted and provided to participants and other members of the public. The participant's activities can also be collected and disseminated to affiliates/friends of the participants through social networking sites, personalized web pages, etc. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041841 | Real Estate Investment System and Method of Controlling a Commercial System by Generating Key Investment Indicators - A commerce system is controlled by collecting information related to property assets from members of the commerce system, storing the information in a database, determining a plurality of sale transaction values for the property asset based upon the information stored in the database, determining a plurality of key investment indicators from the sale transaction values, determining an investment rating based on the key investment indicators, and utilizing the key investment indicators and investment rating to control a decision to conduct a sale transaction for the property asset within the commerce system. The sale transaction values include offer price, fair market rent, taxes, Mello-Roos, insurance, homeowner association fees, property management fees, total expenses, downpayment, loan type, interest rate, and mortgage payment. The key investment indicators include net operating income, capitalization rate, debt service ratio, cash flow, cash-on-cash return, and return on investment. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041842 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED RISK MANAGED TREND INDICES - The present invention provides for computer based systems and program controlled methods for reducing investors' exposure to the variability of an asset class's short-term volatility using long-short investing in a broad array of individual asset classes, with risk-controlled market exposures. This is achieved by constructing an index that employs a momentum portfolio policy, i.e. assets with prices that appear to be trending upward are held long, and those with prices that appear to be trending downward are sold short. This long-short policy is applied to each asset within broad asset class indices (equities, interest rates, commodities, and currencies), as well as within a multi-asset class composite index. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041843 | Pricing a Swap Financial Product Using a Non-Par Value - Computer readable media, methods, and apparatuses may be configured for processing a plurality of yields, each of the yields corresponding to a different maturity date, determining a plurality of floating payments based on the yields, determining a plurality of fixed payments based on a fixed interest rate, determining a present value of the floating payments, determining a present value of the fixed payments, and generating a quote for a swap financial product as a function of the present value of the floating payments and the present value of the fixed payments. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041844 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES - Processes and supporting systems facilitate the periodic assessment of the value of illiquid assets held by a real estate investment trust (“REIT). These values are combined with valuations of the liquid assets (securities, cash) held by the fund and used to calculate an overall net asset value. The periodic assessments may be adjusted intra-period to account for extraordinary events. In order to manage redemptions, the liquidity of the fund is managed and monitored and as redemption requests are received a “market condition” is established. Based on the market condition, a redemption cap is applied, which may limit the amount that may redeemed during any one period. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041845 | METHOD AND MACHINE CONFIGURED TO DISPLAY MULTIPLE COMPUTER SCREENS - A machine and method including a computer configured to generate and display multiple computer screens. A first computer receives data representing a first component of property and a second component of the property from at least one other computer, the property being a fixed-income asset, and is programmed to manipulate the data to generate one yield/discount rate for the first component and another yield/discount rate for the second component and to display the one yield/discount rate on a monitor in a first computer screen generated by the first computer and the other yield/discount rate on a monitor in one of the first computer screen and another computer screen generated by the first computer, and to compute purchase prices for the components in consummating a sale and corresponding purchase of the first component to one buyer and a sale and corresponding purchase of the second component to another buyer. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041846 | PRE-PAID FINANCIAL SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT CARD SYSTEM - A savings and investment system and method including a plurality of pre-paid investment cards (PPICs) which can be purchased by individuals as investment products for themselves or as gifts for PPIC recipients. The PPICs are pre-paid stored value cards that are provided for use with the investment system by a PPIC company, which establishes relationships with partner financial services providers and partner retailers to provide investment vehicles and the PPICs. The value stored on the PPICs can be redeemed through a PPIC website maintained by the PPIC company or the partner financial services provider(s), whereby the value on the PPIC is deposited in an investment account established for the PPIC recipient, and then allocated among specified investment vehicles. The PPIC purchaser may optionally define usage rules governing how the PPIC value is allocated. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041847 | Apparatus For Displaying Orders For Financial Derivatives And Evaluating Financial Derivatives, And A System And A Method Thereof - A computer screen showing a computer generated bar chart representing orders for financial derivatives, wherein the bid and offer prices for the orders are represented by markers in the bar chart. The volatility of the derivatives is calculated and represented by a volatility line in the chart. The extent to which the bids and offers differ from the theoretical value is represented by the distance between the markers and the volatility line. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041848 | Identifying and Compensating for Model Mis-Specification in Factor Risk Models - Techniques for using factor risk models to more accurately estimate the risk or active risk of an investment portfolio are disclosed. Inherent “modeling error” in factor risk models is identified and compensated for. One or more factors are added to compensate for factors that are unspecified or unattributed in the original factor risk model and which lead to modeling error. The approach can be used with a variety of different factor risk models, and for a variety of securities. Knowledge of the risk associated with modeling error can be utilized when estimating risk or active risk using factor risk models or when constructing optimal portfolios by mean-variance optimization or other portfolio construction strategies using factor risk models. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041849 | Methods and Systems for Providing a Municipal Index Swap - In at least one aspect the invention comprises a computer-implemented method comprising: (a) electronically receiving data regarding characteristics of a plurality of tax exempt municipal bonds; (b) electronically receiving data describing a plurality of rules for inclusion of the tax exempt municipal bonds in a municipal bond index; (c) constructing a municipal bond index by applying the rules to characteristics of the plurality of tax exempt municipal bonds; and (d) quoting a municipal swap having a reference index, wherein the reference index is the municipal bond index. Other aspects comprise related computer systems and apparatuses, as well as various embodiments. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041850 | ELECTRICALLY POWERED VEHICLES AND METHODS FOR USE IN CHARGING AN ELECTRICALLY POWERED VEHICLE - Electrically powered vehicle and methods for use in charging an electrically powered vehicle are disclosed. One example electrically powered vehicle includes an in-vehicle user interface including at least one input device configured to receive at least one input from a user and a vehicle controller coupled in communication with the in-vehicle user interface. The vehicle controller is configured to receive at least one user input from the in-vehicle user interface and communicate at least one charging parameter to a vehicle charging station in response to the at least one user input. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041851 | IMPLEMENTING DIRECT ENERGY METERING, AUTHENTICATION AND USER BILLING - A method, computer program product, and an intelligent circuit breaker are provided for implementing authentication, direct energy metering, and user billing for an electric vehicle owner. The intelligent circuit breaker is configured to be received within a conventional circuit breaker power panel without requiring infrastructure modification of the power panel. The intelligent circuit breaker communicates with an electric vehicle and a billing service, establishing user authentication, enables charging, performs direct electrical energy metering, and sends billing information to the billing service. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041852 | CUSTOMIZABLE DYNAMIC RESOURCE REGULATING DEVICES AND METHODS - Devices and methods for regulating resource usage are described herein. In some aspects, devices and methods for customizable dynamic regulation of resource usage policies are provided. Techniques for identification and reconciliation of resource provider usage policies and custom usage policies for resource consuming devices are generally described. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041853 | VALUATING ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A method including receiving data from an energy-consuming device; determining an amount of energy consumed by the device during a time interval; calculating an actual energy cost based on the determined amount of energy consumed by the device during the time interval; predicting an amount of energy that would have been consumed by the at least one device during the time interval if the at least one device were not associated with the energy management system; calculating a predicted energy cost based on the predicted amount of energy that would have been consumed by the at least one device during the time interval if the at least one device were not associated with the energy management system; and calculating a valuation of the energy management system for the at least one energy consuming device over the time interval by comparing the actual energy cost and the predicted energy cost. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041854 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARGING AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE USING BROADBAND OVER POWERLINES - A method for delivering energy to an electric vehicle includes coupling the electric vehicle to an energy delivery point via a connector, receiving a unique identifier of the electric vehicle via the connector, determining an account associated with the identifier, delivering an amount of energy to the electric vehicle via the connector, and determining a transaction amount based on the amount of energy delivered to the electric vehicle by the energy delivery point. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041855 | Time saving method of boarding passengers onto vehicles - A time saving method of arranging passenger waiting area seating and transport vehicle boarding and instruction to greatly reduce passenger loading time, frustration and irritation and to save fuel and engine time. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041856 | METHOD FOR DETECTION OF MOVEMENT OF A SPECIFIC TYPE OF OBJECT OR ANIMAL BASED ON RADAR SIGNALS - A method of detecting movement includes using a radar sensor to monitor a space, and receiving an output signal from the radar sensor. A Fourier transform is performed on the output signal to produce a frequency domain signal spectrum. The frequency domain signal spectrum is transformed into an acoustic domain signal. It is decided whether the output signal is indicative of movement of a predetermined object or a non-human animal dependent upon at least one feature of the acoustic domain signal and at least one spectral feature of the signal spectrum. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041857 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INPUTTING TEXT INTO ELECTRONIC DEVICES - The present invention relates generally to a system and method for the reordering of text predictions. More particularly, the system and method reorders the text predictions based on modified probability values, wherein the probability values are modified according to the likelihood that a given text prediction will occur in the text inputted by a user. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041858 | COATING COLOR DATABASE CREATING METHOD, SEARCH METHOD USING THE DATABASE, THEIR SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A method for creating a database for paint colors having a desired texture includes storing spectral reflectance data and micro-brilliance data of paint colors after associating each spectral reflectance data and each micro-brilliance data with a paint color code; storing texture evaluation values of sample paint colors after associating the each texture evaluation value with the paint color code; calculating characteristic quantities of the paint colors expressing textures using the spectral reflectance data and the micro-brilliance data, and storing the characteristic quantities after associating the each characteristic quantity with the paint color code; training a neural network using the characteristic quantities and the texture evaluation values of the sample paint colors as training data; and inputting characteristic quantities of the paint colors other than the sample paint colors into the neural network after the training, and storing output data after associating each output data with the paint color code. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041859 | NEURAL NETWORK FREQUENCY CONTROL - Systems and methods for controlling frequency output of an electronic oscillator to compensate for effects of a parameter experienced by the oscillator incorporate artificial neural network processing functionality for generating correction signals. A neural network processing module includes one or more neurons which receive one or more inputs corresponding to a parameter of an electronic oscillator, such as temperature. Weights are calculated and applied to inputs to the neurons of the neural network as part of a training process, wherein the weights help shape the output of the neural network processing module. The neural network may include a linear summation module configured to provide an output signal that is at least partially based on outputs of the one or more neurons. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041860 | PREDICTING INFLUENCE IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for predicting influence in a social network. In one embodiment, the method comprises identifying a set of users of the social network, and identifying a subset of the users as influential users based on defined criteria. A multitude of measures are identified as predictors of which ones of the set of users are the influential users. These measures are aggregated, and a composite predictor model is formed based on this aggregation. This composite predictor model is used to predict which ones of the set of users will have a specified influence in the social network in the future. In one embodiment, the specified influence is based on messages sent from the users, and for example, may be based on the number of the messages sent from each user that are re-sent by other users. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041861 | SEMANTIC MEDICAL DEVICES - A semantic medical technology is disclosed. In various embodiments, the technology organizes an initial data collection to collect data from the one or more sensors; processes the data to obtain an initial diagnosis wherein the initial diagnosis can be a syntax diagnosis or a semantic diagnosis; identifies an organization for an additional data collection to collect additional data; analyzes the additional data to obtain a refined diagnosis; and repeats the identifying and analyzing until a stopping criterion is satisfied. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041862 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A Bayesian Inference based recommendation system in a social network is provided. The method and system utilizes content ratings from a querying initiator's friends and their friends depending on the time to live (TTL) and other factors. Receiving users send to the querying initiator recommendation ratings from their friends and a conditional probability of distribution of the recommendation ratings given by the recommender's rooted at the friend. Once this information has been obtained from the friend/hopped friend network, the querying initiator's recommendation query engine constructs the QI's own rating response using the Bayesian Inference Network. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041863 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORGANIZING DATA SETS - A method is provided for organizing data sets. In use, an automatic decision system is created or updated for determining whether data elements fit a predefined organization or not, where the decision system is based on a set of preorganized data elements. A plurality of data elements is organized using the decision system. At least one organized data element is selected for output to a user based on a score or confidence from the decision system for the at least one organized data element. Additionally, at least a portion of the at least one organized data element is output to the user. A response is received from the user comprising at least one of a confirmation, modification, and a negation of the organization of the at least: one organized data element. The automatic decision system is recreated or updated based on the user response. Other embodiments are also presented. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041864 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND JUDGMENT RULE CONTROL METHOD - Disclosed is an information processing apparatus, wherein, upon defining an judgment method of determining the timing for presenting information, an appropriate judgment rule can be defined without any need for specialized knowledge, and without putting in much effort in setup work thereof. The information processing apparatus is provided with: an judgment-rule candidate generating unit for generating judgment rule candidates, which are combinations of a plurality of conditions combined on the basis of a rule; a materialization-estimate calculation unit for calculating judgment-rule materialization estimate values that indicate estimates of materialization frequencies for each of the judgment rule candidates, on the basis of a sensor availability rate within a period of time; and an judgment rule selection unit for selecting an judgment rule from among the judgment rule candidates, on the basis of the judgment-rule materialization estimate value and a notification amount that indicates the desired notification frequency of information. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041865 | DEVICE FOR GENERATING SELECTION STRUCTURES, FOR MAKING SELECTIONS ACCORDING TO SELECTION STRUCTURES AND FOR CREATING SELECTION - A real-time system receives a selection structure formed by weighted rules joined by links, each of the weighted rules including a condition part, a conclusion part and a weight. The selection structure is an Algebraic Decision Diagram (ADD) that includes internal nodes, each representing a decision point and terminal nodes, each representing a subset of candidate results having an accumulated weight. In response to a query that specifies a set of conditions, the ADD is traversed by making a series of decisions at decision points of the ADD to reach at least one terminal node having a maximum accumulated weight among terminal nodes that satisfy the set of conditions. The subset of candidate results represented by the at least one terminal node is selected as the output for responding to the query. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041866 | Information Tracking System and Method - An information tracking system ( | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041867 | SYNCHRONIZATION ADAPTER FOR SYNCHRONIZING DATA TO APPLICATIONS THAT DO NOT DIRECTLY SUPPORT SYNCHRONIZATION - A synchronization adapter is coupled to the application that does not support synchronization and generates the necessary synchronization metadata for all data in the application that is to be synchronized. The synchronization adapter then combines the metadata to the actual data to be synchronized to form a synchronization feed. The synchronization feed is stored in an internal cache (or data store) which is internal to the application, or an external cache (or data store), which is external to the application, or it can be stored in both caches. The synchronization adapter also intermittently determines whether the application data has changed, thus warranting a change in its metadata, or whether a synchronization operation is warranted to synchronization operation is warranted to synchronize the data with data in another application. In either case, the synchronization adapter makes the changes to the data, or performs a synchronization operation. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041868 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION - A computer program product is provided. The computer program product includes a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and on which instructions are stored for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes, upon receipt of a command relating to a file stored at a remote location, synchronizing the file between the remote location and a local device, determining whether a list of files linked to the file is stored in the local device, and, in an event the list is stored in the local device, synchronizing the files included in the list between the remote location and the local device. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041869 | Real Time Data Replication - A combination of synchronous and asynchronous replication of data is used to replicate a local database to a replicated database. The typical tradeoff between synchronous and asynchronous replication is optimized by using hybrid replication, which is to use synchronous replication for inserting new data and asynchronous replication for updating existing data. The combined use of synchronous and asynchronous in this manner provides an efficient replicated database where the replicated database can tolerate some delay in data updates but requires no data loss of new data. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041870 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF DISSIMILAR DATABASES - To synchronize databases between disparate data processing environments, a buffer, which is part of a first data processing environment having a first database, is loaded with a database update. Loading the buffer does not commit the database update to the first database in the first data processing environment. A remote function is called in the first data processing environment to apply the database update to a second database in a disparate second data processing environment. In response to the remote function determining that the second database has been successfully updated with the database update, the database update is committed to the first database. In response to the remote function determining that the second database has not been successfully updated with the database update, the database update is rolled back in the buffer such that the first data processing environment is unaware of an attempted update to the first database. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041871 | DATA VOLUME MANAGEMENT - Embodiments are directed towards a system and method for a cloud-based front end that may abstract and enable access to the underlying cloud-hosted elements and objects that may be part of a multi-tenant application, such as a search application. Search objects may be employed to access indexed objects. An amount of indexed data accessible to a user may be based on an index storage limit selected by the user, such that data that exceeds the index storage limit may continue to be indexed. Also, one or more projects can be elastically scaled for a user to provide resources that may meet the specific needs of each project. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041872 | CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEM WITH DISTRIBUTED METADATA - A method and system is disclosed for providing a cloud storage system supporting existing APIs and protocols. The method of storing cloud storage system (CSS) object metadata separates object metadata that describes each CSS object as a collection of named chunks with chunk locations specified as a separate part of the metadata. Chunks are identified using globally unique permanent identifiers that are never re-used to identify different chunk payload. While avoiding the bottleneck of a single metadata server, the disclosed system provides ordering guarantees to clients such as guaranteeing access to the most recent version of an object. The disclosed system also provides end-to-end data integrity protection, inline data deduplication, configurable replication, hierarchical storage management and location-aware optimization of chunk storage. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041873 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORAGE SERVICE - A storage service stores data from a network device. A data collector retrieves the data for the storage service based on reference data passed to the storage service from the network device. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041874 | INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTATION SYSTEM FOR DATABASE PARAMETERS - Help documentation for the application may include a discussion of parameters in the application. Parameters for an application may be displayed through a web-based interface along with information for each of the parameters. Additional information may be obtained regarding the parameters by allowing interactive access with databases supporting the application. For example, when a user clicks a parameter name in the help documentation, a value for the parameter and additional data may be retrieved from the parameter database and displayed to the user in a pop-up window. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041875 | DATA ACCESS LOCATION SELECTING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Access destination determination means determines a read destination and/or a write destination of specified data from nodes corresponding to the data and stored in data store destination storage means. Access probability calculation means calculates an access probability based on a history of accesses to the data, and stores the calculated access probability in access probability storage means. When no node corresponding to the specified data is stored in the data store destination storage means, access probability estimation means estimates an access probability of the data based on access probabilities stored in the access probability storage means, and the access destination determination means determines a write destination of the data based on the estimated access probability. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041876 | LINK RECOMMENDATION AND DENSIFICATION - Links to web content can be identified as a function of one or more links shared by a user of an online social network service, among other things. The identified links can represent recommended links likely to be interesting to the user. Densification techniques can be employed to address data sparsity and thus enhance link recommendation. Furthermore, recommended links can be integrated with a search engine to personalize interaction with web content. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041877 | Clustering Web Pages on a Search Engine Results Page - Methods, systems, and media are provided for delivering clustered search results for recent and non-recent events by maintaining the identification (ID) numbers of the respective clustered documents beyond the “fresh” life span of the clustered documents. When clusters are formed according to similar content, an ID number and associated attributes are assigned to each of the clusters. This provides a mechanism to track and retrieve the respective clusters for subsequent delivery of search results. The respective ID numbers of the clusters are maintained, even after the documents are no longer considered “fresh.” These similar-content clusters are further subdivided according to publication date. This provides individual subdivided clusters for similar content events that occurred at different time spans, which are delivered along with individual non-clustered search results in a SERP. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041878 | AUTOSUGGESTING AN EQUIVALENT QUERY - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for suggesting search queries to a user while the user is typing in characters of a search query. The suggested search queries are based in part on the characters entered and are presented before the user submits the query to the search engine. The suggested queries may be displayed in a dropdown box that allows the user to select one of the suggested queries. Embodiments of the present invention present search queries that do not begin with the characters entered by the user. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041879 | INTEGRAL SEARCH ENGINE - An Internet search engine is provided, having integrated software tools enabling users to post-process search results for extraction of content. Processing and formatting required to utilize content in different applications is automated. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041880 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERIC ENTERPRISE SEARCH ADAPTER QUERIES - According to some embodiments, a method and system provides receiving a request to execute a query for a business object (BO) instance for an application, the request including selection criteria; determining whether to execute the query by the application or a separate search engine, the determining based on metadata associated with the BO instance; sending the selection criteria to the search engine to execute the query in response to the determination that the query is to be executed by the search engine; receiving a result of the query execution from the search engine; and providing an output of the query result. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041881 | OPTIMIZING WEB CRAWLING WITH USER HISTORY - A politeness manager estimates traffic to the sites based on historical log data generated and sent by plug-ins or toolbars on client web browsers. The historical log data details dates and times the web browsers visit different web sites that is used to understand what timeframes specific web sites are busy and what timeframes the web sites are not busy. Crawl rates for different timeframes for a web site are determined based on the historical log data, and web crawlers are scheduled to crawl the web site according to the crawl rates to minimize the chances that web crawler requests are responsible for the site crashing. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041882 | Technology for web site crawling, including action sequences for selecting non-hypertext-link parameters - A web site page has a reference for providing an address for a next page. The web site is crawled by the crawler program, which parses the reference from one of the web pages and sends the reference to an applet running in the browser. The address for the next page is determined by the browser responsive to the reference and is sent to the crawler. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041883 | SEARCH ENGINE WITH GEOGRAPHICAL VERIFICATION PROCESSING - A search operation provides geographically restricted and verified information to a user. A first step obtains high relevance search results by searching only in a specific region defined for a search operation. A second step improves the quality of the search results by performing contact address correlation. If the search server finds a reliable reference address in the search results, then these search results can be presented to the user, whereby search results that are not correlating well with legitimate and registered addresses for the site are removed from the search result lists. The region-restricted search does searching in a selected geographical region and only presents legitimate web pages or search results to a user. Thus, the region-restricted search operation improve quality and may minimize search time and reduce a huge volume of non-valued Internet traffic, which is likely to impair the overall performance and experience on the Internet. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041884 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOLVING SEARCH QUERIES THAT ARE INCLINED TOWARDS SOCIAL ACTIVITIES - A method and system for resolving search queries that are inclined towards social activities is provided. The method includes identifying phrases that are inclined towards social activities and storing such phrases. Further, search queries from users are received and search query suggestions are provided based on socially derived information corresponding to at least the user, if the search query comprises at least a part of one of more phrases that are inclined towards social activities. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041885 | MULTI-STEP IMAGE SEARCH SYSTEM WITH SELECTED SEARCH TEXT AUGMENTATION - An image search engine server having an image search engine that performs image searches based on a search term that is augmented by a built-in thesaurus and/or a dictionary. For a thesaurus-based algorithm, the approach is to send a query back to the user, who can select the image search domain, sub-domain, and other hierarchical search refinements from one or more dropdown menus. The items in the dropdown menus that the user selects during the “query back” are used to augment the search string entered by the user to better refine the image search. If the user entered search string is a single string of dictionary word or words or the dictionary mode is elected, then synonyms for that search string are used to generate the augmented search string for the final context-based search operation. The result is improved image search results. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041886 | METHODS FOR CALCULATING A COMBINED IMPACT ANALYSIS REPOSITORY - Methods for accessing impact analysis repositories and transaction-refinement index for each of the impact analysis repositories. According to the obtained transaction-refinement index, associating the combined repository with information from the most transaction refined impact analysis repository. Associating the combined repository with information from the less transaction refined impact analysis repository in the case of a request to insert or delete a table record for tables that do not contain any impacted transaction in the more transaction refined impact analysis repository. And associating the combined repository with information from the less transaction refined impact analysis repository in the case of a request to update a table record for table columns that do not contain any impacted transaction in the more transaction refined impact analysis repository. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041887 | ADDING ENTRIES TO AN INDEX BASED ON USE OF THE INDEX - In an embodiment, a threshold value is calculated for a current entry in a first column of an index. If the current entry has been read a number of times by execution of an execution plan that is more than the threshold value and the current entry points to at least one row in a table and not all of the at least one row have been selected by the execution plan for inclusion in a result set as satisfying a query that the execution plan implements, then a new entry is added to the index. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041888 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING INFORMATION AMONG EXCHANGE APPLICATIONS - In a system and method for accessing messages in a data store in a gateway, a data frame request, which is a structured SQL query, is received at the gateway. The received data frame request is applied to the gateway data store, which stores messages. A data frame is generated that comprises messages from the data store that are responsive to the received data frame request, the data frame having a format that is readable by a character editor. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041889 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a content search unit that searches for related content from compared content; the related content is content related to reference content possessed by a user, and the compared content is content other than the reference content. The information processing apparatus also includes a meta tag assignment unit that sets meta tag information, which is a name of the reference content, according to the related content. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041890 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CANDIDATE IN CHARACTER INPUT, CHARACTER INPUTTING PROGRAM, AND CHARACTER INPUT APPARATUS - A character input apparatus has a storage section in which a conversion dictionary and a learning dictionary are stored, wherein a plurality of pieces of dictionary data each of which includes a pre-conversion character string and a post-conversion character string are registered in the conversion dictionary, and the learning dictionary is used to register a phrase fixed as an input character string while the phrase is correlated with collocation relationship between phrases, a first candidate extracting section that searches the conversion dictionary using the pre-conversion character string in response to an input of the pre-conversion character string to extract and display a candidate of the post-conversion character string, and a second candidate extracting section that extracts and displays a phrase that collocates with the phrase indicated by the fixed character string from the learning dictionary as the input character string is fixed. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041891 | VIDEO CONTENT SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH AUTOMATIC MULTI-TERM GROUPING AND SEARCH - A search based video interface system and method is disclosed. Search results are dynamically filtered based on automatic combinations of search terms. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041892 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONVERTING AUDIO TEXT FILES ORIGINATING FROM AUDIO FILES TO SEARCHABLE TEXT AND FOR PROCESSING THE SEARCHABLE TEXT - A system and method for processing audio text files includes a content repository storing audio text files. A text transformer linguistically analyzes the audio text files within a content of multiple lexicons to form edited text results and creates a reflection repository having reflection files therein corresponding to the audio text files from the edited text results. A search engine searches the reflection files and a user device displays a first reflection file from the reflection files or a first audio text file from the audio files in response to searching. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041893 | SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A NEWS FEED WEBSITE AND APPLICATION - A method for providing a news feed website and application. The method comprises the steps of receiving and storing a list of data sources, subject matter channels, and keywords in a database. The application assigns at least one subject matter channel to each keyword, at least one subject matter channel to each data source, and provides a keyword searcher. The keyword searcher searches the listed data sources for news articles containing at least one of the keywords. A graphical news feed containing the news articles found in the searching step is transmitted to a user. The website and application receives input from the user to modify the list of data sources, and the list of subject matter channels, and updates the list of data sources the list of subject matter channels in a database based on the input received from the user. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041894 | Mitigating Environment, Health, and Safety Complications - A method of identifying a substitute chemical includes receiving, at a computer, a trial set of properties that describes a function in a desired chemical process of a chemical for substitution, performing a distributed search using objective similarity criteria based on the trial set of properties to identify a first set of candidate chemicals, prioritizing the first set of candidate chemicals into a second set of candidate chemicals, determining Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) data parameter values for each chemical of the second set of candidate chemicals, normalizing disparate EHS data parameter values into associated EHS properties, prioritizing the second set of candidate chemicals into a third set of candidate chemicals, and prioritizing the third set of candidate chemicals into a fourth set of candidate chemicals according to the risk posed by the desired chemical process. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041895 | IDENTIFYING NON-DISTINCT NAMES IN A SET OF NAMES - Non-distinct names are identified in a set of names. The set of names is obtained for a first entity. In response to comparing a first name and a second name in the set of names, it is determined that the first name is similar to the second name. Initials in the first name and the second name are searched for. In response to the search indicating that there is at least one initial in at least one of the first name and the second name, it is determined that the at least one initial matches a corresponding initial in another one of the first name and the second name and one of the first name and the second name are marked as a non-distinct name. A cross-entity scoring technique using distinct names in the set of names for the first entity and names in another set of names for a second entity is applied. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041896 | CONTEXT AND PROCESS BASED SEARCH RANKING - A search ranking system may include a context mining module to determine a set of contexts based on profile of information rankable by the system and an access history of users that have accessed at least some of the information. A context detection module may compare an association of a user conducting a search with one or more of the contexts to thereby rank search results based on the comparison. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041897 | CONTENT-BASED INFORMATION AGGREGATION - A system includes reception of first data content, generation of a first semantic representation of the first data content, determination of whether the first semantic representation is similar to a second semantic representation of second data content, generation of a third semantic representation based on the first semantic representation and on the second semantic representation, and association of the third semantic representation with the first data content and with the second data content if the first semantic representation is similar to the second semantic representation, and association of the first semantic representation with the first data content if the first semantic representation is not similar to the second semantic representation. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041898 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND NON-TRANSITORY INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - A web site determination unit determines web sites associated with any one of a plurality of users of interest. A web site association unit associates, among the determined web sites, a plurality of the web sites with each other, each of the plurality of the web sites satisfying at least one of a condition on a feature amount of the each of the plurality of the web sites and a condition on at least one of the users of interest associated with the each of the plurality of the web sites. Accordingly, web site groups possibly having a commonality may be determined among web site groups associated with users of interest. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041899 | Information Tracking System and Method - An information tracking system includes a plurality of sources (S | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041900 | Script Reuse and Duplicate Detection - A script repository (embodied, for instance, as a SQL server database) of re-usable scripts may be provided that houses scripts previously developed and/or executed as part of a prior testing effort. The script repository may be searched to view and/or download one or more test scripts based on one or more search criteria, and/or may be checked for duplicate scripts. A development team thus may be able to easily find appropriate scripts for re-use based on particular testing requirements. At the end of testing, the information on the portion (e.g., percentage) of scripts that were re-used by the developers may be collected and reported on a periodic basis. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041901 | NEWS FEED BY FILTER - Disclosed are electronic systems and techniques for filtering data comprising content requested from a variety of sources, and tracking which of the sources supplied the data and a category that classifies the content. The filtering may comprise implementing a variety of filtering techniques to acquire the content. In this regard, the content can be stored and grouped with other content related to the content in data storage, while discarding a subset of the data not containing the content. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041902 | TRAVEL SERVICES SEARCH - A system and method for searching travel services. A server computer receives a travel request from a client device operated by a user. The server computer identifies travel options according to the travel request. The server computer classifies the travel options into predefined groups, the classifying based on at least one of past transactions, input from domain experts, input from semantic analysts, analytics data, user preferences, and company policies. The server computer presents the options via presentation of the predefined groups. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041903 | Categorization of Digital Media Based on Media Characteristics - Digital media categorization can include receiving information including a plurality of media objects and a metadata tag descriptive of at least a first media object; comparing the first media object with a second media object; and selectively associating the first media object's metadata tag with the second media object based on a result of the comparison. Each media object can include a digital image. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041904 | COMPUTER INDEXES WITH MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIONS - The present application is directed to an indexing system. In one example, the indexing system includes one or more processors, one or more electronic memories that provide random access memory, one or more mass storage devices that provide persistent data storage, and one or more indexing routines, executed by the one or more processors, that create and manage an index data structure comprising nodes that include key-values/reference pairs, the index data structure additionally including a sibling reference for each index-data-structure node stored in the one or more electronic memories, the one or more indexing routines removing, from the index data structure, the sibling references for index-data-structure nodes when transferring the index-data-structure nodes from the one or more electronic memories to the one or more mass storage devices. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041905 | Sentimental Information Associated with an Object Within a Media - Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer readable media, for receiving user input data that includes a sentimental identifier and an indication of at least one of an amount of pressure and an amount of time used to select a sentimental input. The user input data is associated with a media, and the associated media includes a plurality of objects. For each user input data, the user input data is associated with a portion of the associated media. The user input data is aggregated based upon the portion of the associated media. An average sentiment value is determined based upon the sentimental identifier and the indication of at least one of the amount of pressure and the amount of time used to select a sentimental input for at least one of the displayed objects. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041906 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROFILING CLIENTS WITHIN A SYSTEM FOR HARVESTING COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE - A privacy-preserving system and method is disclosed for profiling clients within a system for knowledge management. The method of the present invention discloses steps for generating a client profile in support of receiving and processing messages using scoring techniques and/or filtering techniques. The method of the present invention further includes steps for generating a client profile in support of a method for generating and obtaining responses to messages using scoring techniques and/or filtering techniques. The system of the present invention, includes all means for implementing the method. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041907 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENT FILTERING - A method for filtering content makes use of local filtering agents for end users, and a portal to a network of human reviewing resources. Local filtering agents request content classification for unclassified content. The portal routes requests from local agents to available human reviewing resources. A content classification is provided by the reviewing resources, and may be saved in association with a content identifier for future use. The method permits human review of content within a short period after review is requested. In an embodiment of the invention, a centrally-located switch is provided for controlling filtering levels at one or more user terminals. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041908 | Frame-Slot Architecture for Data Conversion - A machine based tool and associated logic and methodology arc used in converting data from an input form to a target form using context dependent conversion rules. A frame-slot architecture is utilized where a frame represents an intersection between a contextual cue recognized by the machine tool, associated content and related constraint information to specific to that conversion environment. A slot represents an included chunk of information. An exemplary conversion system ( | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041909 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC IDENTITY VALIDATION - An approach is provided for dynamic identity validation. A user identifier of a user is correlated with one or more other user identifiers associated with collected information. Identity of the user is dynamically validated based on the correlation. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041910 | Attribute Entropy as a Signal in Object Normalization - A system and method determines whether two objects are duplicate objects. The system and method matches common facts of the two objects based on a match measure, combines the entropies of the matching common facts, and determines whether the two objects are duplicate objects based on the sum of entropies. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041911 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SEARCH SERVICES INTERACTIVELY DISPLAYING A TYPE OF SEARCH TARGET - An approach is provided for search services. User-defined search input is received by at least one processor. At least a portion of the user-defined search input is determined, via the at least one processor, as corresponding to at least one functional keyword associated with a type of object to be searched. Classification information is generated to facilitate identification of the at least one functional keyword among at least one other portion of the user-defined search input. Search information is generated about at least one object relating to at least some of the user-defined search input based on at least some of the classification information. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041912 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SHARING EMAIL IN A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE SYSTEM - An email object is provided in a multi-tenant database system that can be related to multiple people (e.g., contact, lead, user) or any object represented for storage in the multi-tenant database system via sharing relationships. The email object follows a sharing model such that an email inherits the sharing model or attributes of a parent record specified via sharing relationships. In various aspects, a sharing model provides users with a true value of a multi-tenant database system as users are more informed about communications concerning people or other objects represented for storage in the multi-tenant database system. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041913 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING REAL TIME EMAIL CONTENT - The present disclosure includes a system, method, and computer program product for serving real time email content to a client computer. The system may associate a consumer with a targeted market segment of consumers based upon a browsing history of the consumer and/or a purchasing history of the consumer. The system may further serve an email to the consumer based upon the association between the consumer and the targeted market segment of consumers—i.e., the system may serve an email to a consumer in the targeted market segment of consumers. The system may, in addition, serve the real time email content to the consumer in response to the consumer opening the email. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041914 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING CACHE HIT SUCCESS RATE USING A SPLIT CACHE - Certain examples provide a clinical cache system for retrieval of varying clinical content. The system includes an input to include a request for a content item and one or more parameters associated with the content item. The system includes a metadata cache to store one or more sets of metadata representing parameters associated with one or more content items. The one or more sets of metadata in the metadata cache are used to identify and distinguish one or more content items with respect to the request. The system includes a content cache to store one or more content items. The one or more content items are searchable based on associated metadata. The metadata cache and the content cache facilitate the request by first querying the metadata cache and then querying the content cache based on a result of the metadata cache query. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041915 | AUGMENTED SEARCH SUGGEST - A system includes reception of a partial query from a user, querying of a data source with the partial query to identify terms within the data source including the partial query, storage of the identified terms in a cache associated with the user, presentation of the identified terms to the user, reception of a new partial query including the partial query and a letter appended to the partial query, and determination of whether one or more of the stored identified terms includes the new partial query. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041916 | PRESENTATION OF SOCIAL GRAPH DATA - Presentation of social graph data is described, including techniques for displaying connection information comprising receiving a login identifying a member, retrieving from a database an item to which the member is connected, and displaying the item and a connection between the item and the member. Embodiments of the invention include obtaining social data from a social networking service, and using the social data to update social graphs. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041917 | Method of Locating and Retrieving a Motor Vehicle with a Portable Computing Device - A method of locating and retrieving a motor vehicle with a portable computing device is an electronic application which includes a guest account, a database, and a plurality of user accounts. Each of the plurality of user accounts includes a registered location code. A customer can send an electronic message to the database through a guest portable electronic computing device where the customer is treated as the guest account. The electronic message includes a specific location code and a vehicle identifier code. Then the specific location code is matched with the registered location code and a corresponding user account is identified. Then the electronic message is forwarded to a plurality of active communication mediums in the corresponding user account and is displayed through a user portable electronic computing device. An employee with the corresponding user account retrieves the electronic message and retrieves the customer's motor vehicle. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041918 | MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTER-FILE SHARING BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO DEVICES - A method for managing computer files in a first device storing the files according to a first file tree, comprising the following steps: for a current level of the first file tree, receiving data representing a level of the same rank of a second data structure representing a second file tree of a second device communicating with the first device; comparing the current level with the level of the same rank of the second file tree, in order to determine the presence in the second file tree, at the rank level of the current level, of an element that is not found in the first file tree at the current level; and, in the event that an element of the second file tree is not found in the first file tree, adding a descriptor of said element to the first file tree at the current level, wherein the descriptor enables access to said element from the first file tree. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041919 | MANAGING DATA TRANSACTION REQUESTS - In various embodiments, a system, method, and related computer-readable storage medium to process data transactions are provided. In one example, a system is arranged to process data transactions in a data store including a plurality of databases. The system includes a computer interface module to receive a data transaction request from at least one requesting computer and a data access layer having one or more processors to identify at least one database in the plurality of databases. The data access layer is to define an abstraction layer between a computer interface module and the plurality of databases. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041920 | FINDING RELATIONSHIPS AND HIERARCHIES USING TAXONOMIES - Provided are techniques for creating a hierarchy of results. An unstructured result set is received. Each result in the unstructured result set is hashed into a preliminary result set. For each hashed result, one or more related concepts are obtained using one or more taxonomies; one or more matches between the one or more related concepts and other hashed results in the preliminary result set are found; a candidate group for the hashed result is formed, wherein the candidate group includes the hashed result and one or more other hashed results based on the one or more matches; in response to determining that a frequency associated with the hashed result exceeds a threshold, the candidate group associated with that hashed result is compared with pre-existing groups that are in use; and, based on the comparing, one or more suggestions regarding the candidate group are provided. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041921 | Ontology for use with a system, method, and computer readable medium for retrieving information and response to a query - A system, method, and computer readable medium for applying one or more information retrieval technologies is disclosed for resolving a query. In one embodiment, an exemplary system generates a response using a language analysis module configured to parse a query into elements. This system can also include a rules engine configured to compare a condition of a rule against the elements, where the rule is configured to perform an action to retrieve information. Further, a response generator coupled to said rules engine receives the rule and retrieves the information for presentation to a querier in a portion of a display that adjusts proportionately to the degree of importance of said information. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041922 | ITEM COUNTING IN GUIDED INFORMATION ACCESS SYSTEMS - Methods of counting the number of matching items (more generally finding objects) indirectly associated with each detail selector (more generally another object) available for selection in a database search system or generally useful in other applications are disclosed. In some embodiment the method uses a set of matching items and traverses to each indirectly associated detail selector via a traversal through each associated entity, and a traversal through each detail selector associated with that entity. The method is easily extendable to the case of multiple entity levels. In some embodiments the method first creates an association matrix directly associating items to selectors and allowing item determination or counting more simply. | 2013-02-14 |
