11th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 60 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120066157 | IMAGE REPRESENTATION VIEWER AND METHOD OF VIEWING - Methods of previewing a representation of a costume are provided. The method includes removably affixing two or more cling elements to a smooth surface in a non-overlapping manner, the two or more cling elements being disposed concurrently on and directly contacting the smooth surface, and the two or more cling elements comprising a portion of the representation of the costume to allow one of the following: a first person to view a semblance of a costumed image comprising a reflection of the first person with the affixed two or more cling elements each positioned over the reflection of the first person, and a second person to view through the smooth surface a portion of the first person with the affixed two or more cling elements each positioned adjacent the portion of the first person viewed through the smooth surface. The method also includes displaying the smooth surface. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066158 | THEFT PROTECTION DURING THE SECURITY CHECK OF CARRY-ON LUGGAGE - A method relates to theft protection during a security check of carry-on luggage and/or other personal objects in passenger terminals of airports or the like. Objects are placed by the passenger in a provided container before the personal inspection of the passenger and are transported in the container for x-raying by a screening device, on the output side of which the container is provided after the personal inspection of the passenger for removal of the objects of the passenger that have been recognized as unsuspicious. In order to create theft protection during the security check of carry-on luggage if the personal objects of the passenger are still unattended in the containers after passing through the screening device, the container can be locked with a lock before the screening. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066159 | Decision Making and Implementation System - Systems for assisting a user in a process of decision-making or analysis involving a topic comprising a computer and one or more computer applications comprising: a module for displaying a screen set soliciting a set of input data, and inputting said set of input data, wherein at least some of the data is characterized with a value representing a degree of certainty regarding the data; and a module for displaying a screen or screen set showing a current recommendation or analysis where the degree of certainty regarding the input data is reflected in the recommendation, calculations, or output; wherein said module optionally provides information or links to modify those inputs which are determined to have one or more of: the highest importance, the greatest effect on the calculated certainty of the current recommendation or analysis, and the greatest effect on the calculated certainty of a particular calculated result. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066160 | PROBABILISTIC TREE-STRUCTURED LEARNING SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING CONTACT DATA FROM QUOTES - Systems and methods for updating data stored in a database, such as contact information. An input string is obtained through a search for timely material associated with the stored contact. The input string is parsed using probabilistic tendencies to extract entities corresponding to those stored with the contact. Secondary entities are used to assist in the identification of the primary entities. The contact is then updated (or added if new) using the extracted primary entities. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066161 | SIMPLIFIED ALGORITHM FOR ABNORMAL SITUATION PREVENTION IN LOAD FOLLOWING APPLICATIONS INCLUDING PLUGGED LINE DIAGNOSTICS IN A DYNAMIC PROCESS - Systems and methods are provided for detecting abnormal conditions and preventing abnormal situations from occurring in controlled processes. Statistical signatures of a monitored variable are modeled as a function of the statistical signatures of a load variable. The statistical signatures of the monitored variable may be modeled according to an extensible regression model or a simplified load following algorithm. The systems and methods may be advantageously applied to detect plugged impulse lines in a differential pressure flow measuring device. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066162 | System and Method for Training an Adaptive Filter in an Alternate Domain with Constraints - The adaptive filtering techniques described herein allow a filter that is operating in a target domain to be trained in another domain, possibly with constraints, using the same adaptation framework used in a standard adaptive filter. As a result, the adaptation engine may be configured to run in a transform domain that is more desirable than the target domain. For example, the transform domain may be less susceptible to noise or may have more impact on the trained filter's desired results. The filter is trained in the transform domain and then the filter hardware is updated in the target domain. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066163 | TIME TO EVENT DATA ANALYSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM - A time to event data analysis method and system. The present invention relates to the analysis of data to identify relationships between the input data and one or more conditions. One method of analysing such data is by the use of neural networks which are non-linear statistical data modelling tools, the structure of which may be changed based on information that is passed through the network during a training phase. A known problem that affects neural networks is the issue of overtraining which arises in overcomplex or overspecified systems when the capacity of the network significantly exceeds the needed parameters. The present invention provides a method of analysing data, such as bioinformatics or pathology data, using a neural network with a constrained architecture and providing a continuous output that can be used in various contexts and systems including prediction of time to an event, such as a specified clinical event. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066164 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING CONCIOUSNESS - A simulated consciousness method ( | 2012-03-15 |
20120066165 | TRACEROUTE DIAGNOSIS - A set of data obtained from a plurality of traceroutes is received in a computer. A set of variables indicating characteristics of the traceroutes is generated. The variables are used as input to a decision tree, the decision tree being configured to recursively partition the variables into groups according to respective round-trip times associated with the groups. Output is obtained from the decision tree reflecting an association of one or more network elements with a round-trip time. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066166 | Predictive Analytics for Semi-Structured Case Oriented Processes - A method for predictive analytics for a process includes receiving at least one trace of the process, building a probabilistic graph modeling the at least one trace, determining content at each node of the probabilistic graph, wherein a node represents an activity of the process and at least one node is a decision node, modeling each decision node as a respective decision tree, and predicting, for an execution of the process, a path in the probabilistic graph from any decision node to a prediction target node of a plurality of prediction target nodes given the content. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066167 | Assessing Trust in Information Sources - Techniques for assessing trust in information are provided. The techniques include collecting information from one or more information sources, detecting one or more inconsistencies in one or more statements from the information collected from the one or more sources, assigning a penalty to each information source involved in an inconsistency and a reward for each statement not involved in any inconsistencies, and using each assigned penalty and reward to perform an aggregation to assess trust in the collected information. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066168 | OCCUPANCY PATTERN DETECTION, ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION - Systems and methods are described for predicting and/or detecting occupancy of an enclosure, such as a dwelling or other building, which can be used for a number of applications. An a priori stochastic model of occupancy patterns based on information of the enclosure and/or the expected occupants of the enclosure is used to pre-seed an occupancy prediction engine. Along with data from an occupancy sensor, the occupancy prediction engine predicts future occupancy of the enclosure. Various systems and methods for detecting occupancy of an enclosure, such as a dwelling, are also described. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066169 | TRUST MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR DECISION FUSION IN NETWORKS AND METHOD FOR DECISION FUSION - Disclosed is a trust management system for decision fusion in a network. The trust management system includes a detection subsystem having a plurality of sensors, and a plurality of channels. Each sensor of the plurality of sensors detects one of an occurrence and a non-occurrence of an event in the network. The trust management system further includes a fusion subsystem communicably coupled to the detection subsystem through the plurality of channels for receiving a decision of the each sensor and iteratively assigning a pre-determined weightage. The fusion subsystem ascertains a summation of respective decisions of the plurality of sensors and compares the weighted summation with a corresponding decision of the each sensor. The fusion subsystem further updates the assigned pre-determined weightage and determines the presence of the each sensor being one of a compromised sensor and a non-compromised sensor. Further disclosed is a method for decision fusion in a network. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066170 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, SOUND-VOLUME PREDICTION APPARATUS, AND SOUND-VOLUME PREDICTION METHOD - A sound-volume prediction apparatus acquires model information on an electronic device and positional information on an air intake section and/or an air-exhaust section of the electronic device. Furthermore, by using the model information and the positional information, the sound-volume prediction apparatus extends a sound ray that indicates a transmission route of sound generated by a sound source inside the electronic device toward the air-intake section and/or the air-exhaust section from the position of the sound source until the sound ray reaches the outside of the electronic device. The sound-volume prediction apparatus predicts sound transmission characteristics inside the electronic device by using geometric information on the flow path of the extended sound ray. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066171 | METHODS OF EVALUATING A SUBJECT'S LIKELIHOOD TO RESPOND TO THERAPY BASED ON ANALYZING RELEVANT PARAMETERS OF THERAPY TARGETS - The disclosure relates to methods of predicting the effects of therapy, designing/conducting a clinical trial, selecting a subject for a clinical trial, selecting a subject for therapy, monitoring a subject's responsiveness to therapy, treating a subject, and predicting effects of anti-CD25 therapy. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066172 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATION - A system, method and computer-readable medium for maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation of a graphical model are disclosed. The MAP estimation process can include obtaining an encoded data message sent over a 4G cellular wireless network and generating a graphical model representation of the message. The graphical model can be converted into a nand Markov random field (NMRF). The MAP estimation process can also include determining whether the NMRF has a perfect graph structure, and solving for a MAP estimate configuration of the NMRF. The MAP estimation process can further include outputting the MAP estimate configuration, an indication of the MAP estimate configuration, and/or a result based on a combination of the MAP estimate configuration and the encoded data message (e.g., a decoded message). | 2012-03-15 |
20120066173 | WATERCRAFT AUTOMATION AND AQUATIC EFFORT DATA UTILIZATION - Watercraft automation and aquatic data utilization for aquatic efforts are disclosed. In one aspect, an anchor point is obtained and a watercraft position maintenance routine is actuated to control the watercraft to maintain association with the anchor point. In another aspect, prior aquatic effort data is obtained in association with an anchor point. In yet another aspect, current aquatic effort data is generated in association with an anchor point. In still another aspect, current aquatic effort data and prior aquatic effort data are utilized for prediction generation. In yet another aspect, current aquatic effort data and prior aquatic effort data are utilized to obtain another anchor point for a watercraft. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066174 | MULTIMEDIA INSPECTION DATABASE SYSTEM (MIDAS) FOR DYNAMIC RUN-TIME DATA EVALUATION - An object-oriented system provides a comprehensive and integrated tool to manage, operate, analyze and inspect structures by providing 3-D visualization of the structures, a database interface, connectivity with one or more databases, a data display and analysis capabilities. The structural model is stored as an object-oriented, serialized file as a series of objects, including primitives, coordinates, object names, group names and other object identifiers. The system integrates various types of data, including tabulated textual data, annotated engineering drawings, photographic records, graphical plots, audio and videotaped records, from different tables and databases. Data are displayed to the user based on queries that the user submits to the system, which queries are evaluated at run-time. As a result, the user achieves unparalleled flexibility in data analysis and evaluation. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066175 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING A CONTACT CENTER SYSTEM - One embodiment of the invention provides a method of operating a multimedia contact center. The method comprises providing multimedia communications session management support for a plurality of customers. Each customer maintains customer relationship management (CRM) data. The CRM data is uploaded from the plurality of customers into a multimedia database. The uploading includes transforming the CRM data from an original format maintained by the respective customer into a standardized format for the multimedia database. Communications sessions can then be handled using the transformed CRM data in the multimedia database. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066176 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Anonymous Loan Documents - Methods, systems, and products create anonymous loan documents. Electronic loan documents are prepared for a borrower of a loan. An anonymous shadow copy of the electronic loan documents is generated that removes personally identifying information, such as names, addresses, and social security numbers. The anonymous shadow copy of the electronic loan documents may then be electronically published. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066177 | Systems and Methods for Remote Deletion of Contact Information - An exemplary system for providing remote deletion of contact information includes a first device associated with a first user. The first device is configured to generate and send a delete request message to a second device. In some embodiments, the delete request message includes a request to delete contact information for the first user from the second device. The second device can be configured to receive the delete request message and delete the first user's contact information. A method for providing remote deletion of contact information includes a delete request message being generated at a first device, associated with a first user. The delete request message can include a request to delete contact information for the first user. The first device can send the delete request message to a second device. The delete request message can instruct the second device to delete the first user's contact information. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066178 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTION FIELD MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS WITH BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING - The invention generally relates to systems and methods for construction field management and operations with building information modeling. In certain embodiments, the invention provides systems for construction field management and operations, that include a central processing unit (CPU), and storage coupled to the CPU for storing instructions that when executed by the CPU cause the CPU to: encode and map data structures and data sets received from Building Information Modeling software; select particular data structures and data sets relevant to at least one person associated with a construction project; transmit the selected data structures and data sets to a user terminal operated by the person; receive inputs made by the person to the selected data structures and data sets; and synchronize and update the data structures and data sets received from Building Information Modeling software based on the inputs received from the person. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066179 | SERVER APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - File migration is allowed to be properly performed while suppressing an adverse effect caused by the migration on other users. A first server apparatus | 2012-03-15 |
20120066180 | FILE-BACKED IN-MEMORY STRUCTURED STORAGE FOR SERVICE SYNCHRONIZATION - Providing synchronization to a local system. Embodiments may include downloading a batch of changes in a heterogeneous batch. The batch of changes is correlated to an anchor affiliated with a synchronization service. The anchor is a reference point indicating time or relative order. The batch of changes and the anchor are serialized to a non-volatile storage medium as a heterogeneous set. After serializing the batch of changes to a non-volatile storage medium as a heterogeneous set, entities in the batch of changes are parsed out into entities in in-memory representations. Similarly, embodiments may receive user input modifying a plurality of data entities, store on a non-volatile storage medium a serialized heterogeneous representation of the modified data entities, and upload the serialized heterogeneous representation to a synchronization service. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066181 | FILE REMOVAL WITH NO AVAILABLE DISK BLOCKS IN REDIRECT-ON-WRITE FILE SYSTEMS - Embodiments include a method for removing a file within a redirect-on-write file system. In some embodiments, a file removal operation is detected in a file management unit, which resides in a memory unit. It is then determined that the number of free data blocks in the persistent storage is below a minimum threshold. The file removal operation is written to a log used for storing system operations. A file management unit is notified of the successful write of the file removal operation to the log used for storing system operations. The data blocks are moved from the file selected for removal to a list of free data blocks. The indirect blocks from the file selected for removal are moved to a data block removal list. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066182 | INODE MANAGEMENT IN REDIRECT-ON-WRITE FILE SYSTEM - Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter allow a redirect-on-write file system to continue processing file transactions while writing a snapshot to persistent storage. Thus, embodiments do not block file transactions while flushing snapshots to persistent storage. To avoid blocking, some embodiments the file system can maintain two snapshot generations. The first snapshot generation is the snapshot being written to persistent storage. The second snapshot generation may reside in main memory, and store data for file transactions occurring after the file system began writing the first snapshot generation. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066183 | FILE CLONING ACROSS DIFFERENT FILESETS - After a clone file is created from a file, a write request targeting the clone file can be handled. It is determined that the write request indicates the clone file that was cloned from a file in a first fileset. The clone file is of a second fileset and a clustered file system comprises the first fileset and the second fileset. A data block of the clone file affected by the write request is determined. It is then determined that the data block at a current location cannot be modified. The write request is implemented with respect to the data block at a different location. It is indicated that the data block at the different location can be modified for subsequent write requests that indicate the clone file | 2012-03-15 |
20120066184 | SPECULATIVE EXECUTION IN A REAL-TIME DATA ENVIRONMENT - Techniques are described for speculatively executing operations on data in a data stream in parallel in a manner that increases the efficiency of the stream-based application. In addition to executing operations in parallel, embodiments of the invention may determine whether certain results produced by the parallel operations are valid results and discard any results determined to be invalid. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066185 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATABASE INTEGRITY CHECKING - A method is disclosed for checking the integrity of a database through a test of database integrity information provided in the database and integrity information provided external to the database. The integrity information may be provided in a configuration file. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066186 | Systems and Methods to Select Media Content - A method includes accessing, at a device, data identifying a plurality of categories of media content. The data includes a first value associated with a first category of the plurality of categories of media content and a second value associated with a second category of the plurality of categories of media content. The method also includes modifying the data to remove the first category in response to determining that the first value does not satisfy a threshold. The method further includes adjusting the second value after modifying the data to remove the first category. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066187 | PARCEL DATA ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING - In some embodiments, scripts may be used to perform parcel data acquisition, conversion, and clean-up/repair in an automated manner and/or through graphical user interfaces. The scripts may be used, for example, to repair geometries of new parcel data, convert multi-part parcel geometries to single part parcel geometries (explode), eliminate duplicate parcel geometries, append columns, create feature classes, and append feature classes. These scripts may be executed in a predetermined manner to increase efficiency. In some embodiments, different combinations of attributes may be appended to stored parcel data. In some embodiments, a tracking application may be used to track information about sources of data. In some embodiments, a tracking application may be used to track which system users are assigned to specific tasks (e.g., in a data acquisition project). | 2012-03-15 |
20120066188 | RECORDING / REPRODUCING METHOD AND RECORDING / REPRODUCING DEVICE - A recording/reproducing method includes: reading a first uncompressed data from a first recording medium; reading the first uncompressed data from a buffer memory at a speed higher than a normal reproduction speed and compressing the read first uncompressed data to generate a compressed data; and recording the generated compressed data in a second recording medium; determining whether a predefined unit volume of compressed data is recorded in the second recording medium; and when it is determined that the predefined unit volume of compressed data is not yet recorded in the second recording medium, generating a second uncompressed data by reading the compressed data from the second recording medium at a speed higher than the normal reproduction speed and decompressing the read compressed data when it is determined that the predefined unit volume of compressed data is already recorded in the second recording medium. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066189 | CONTROLLING AND RECOVERING LONG-LIVED TRANSACTIONS - Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter are directed to performing sub-transactions of a long-lived transaction (LLT) in a sequence (e.g., according to an LLT flow) and writing a log entry at the performance of each of the sub-transactions that specifies results of the sub-transaction. Some embodiments do not require generating any compensating transactions during performance of the sub-transactions. Some embodiments are further directed to detecting that an interruption occurs to the LLT and repeating, or initiating re-performance of the LLT from the beginning of the sequence following the flow of the LLT from its beginning. During the re-performance of the LLT, some embodiments are further directed to checking the log entry at each sub-transaction to determine whether the sub-transaction was performed successfully before the interruption. If the log indicates that the long-lived transaction completed successfully, some embodiments are further directed to skipping performance of the sub-transaction until reaching a sub-transaction that does not have a valid log entry, then returning an error and recovering the LLT using instructions for compensating transactions that are already written into the LLT flow. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066190 | HANDLING FILE OPERATIONS WITH LOW PERSISTENT STORAGE SPACE - In some embodiments, a file management unit located in the operating system detects a write operation that writes the data blocks within the consistency snapshot (in main memory) to the persistent storage. The file management unit can then determine that all transactions have been completed before the write operation begins. In some instances, the file management unit then attempts to write the data blocks within the consistency snapshot to the persistent storage. The file management unit can then receive a notification that the write operation did not successfully write the data blocks from the consistency snapshot to the persistent storage. In some embodiments, the write operation is not successful because there are fewer free data blocks in the persistent storage than needed for writing the data blocks within the consistency snapshot to persistent storage. The file management can then wait a period of time. After the file management unit has waited for a period of time, it can make another attempt to write the data blocks within the consistency snapshot to the persistent storage. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066191 | OPTIMIZED CONCURRENT FILE INPUT/OUTPUT IN A CLUSTERED FILE SYSTEM - Embodiments include a method comprising transmitting from a node of a plurality of nodes within a clustered file system provides concurrent file I/O access for files, to write access a region of a file. The method includes receiving an authorization to write access the region without a lock to preclude access of the region by other nodes, if at least one physical section in a machine-readable medium has been allocated for storage of the region by the server. The method includes receiving the authorization to write access the region with the lock to preclude access of the region by the other nodes, if the at least one physical section in the machine-readable medium has not been allocated for storage of the region by the server. Responsive to receiving the authorization to write access, metadata is transmitted for storage into the at least one physical section in the machine-readable medium. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066192 | MAINTENANCE AND ACCESS OF A LINKED LIST - A method includes atomically reading a next field of a current element of the linked list to determine a first value that encodes a first pointer to the first element and a first indication of an owner of the first element. The first indication of the owner is stored in a first of a plurality of multi-field reservation data structures. The operation includes determining whether the next field of the current element still indicates the first value. The operation includes reading the first element of the linked list via the first pointer if the next field of the current element still indicates the first value. If the next field of the current element indicates a current value different than the first value, the first indication of the owner is removed from the first multi-field reservation data structure, and storing and determining with the second value is repeated. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066193 | Distributed Garbage Collection - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for garbage collection. A garbage collection data structure is provided for deleting unused data objects. One or more object identifiers are stored in a first data structure in the garbage collection data structure. Each object identifier represents a data object about to be created but not yet assigned any references from other data objects. The first data structure prevents the data object from being deleted during creation of the data object but before one or more references are created to the data object. Data indicative of one or more objects is stored in a second data structure in the garbage collection data structure. The data includes one or more object identifiers, each object identifier representing a created data object. The data also includes one or more references to created data objects. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066194 | APPROXIMATE REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING OF ARBITRARY CORRELATION STRUCTURES FOR CORRELATION HANDLING IN DATABASES - Implementations of the present disclosure include receiving user input, the user input indicating a distribution type and a correlation factor, providing the distribution type and correlation factor for identifying an approximate correlation representation (ACR) histogram from a plurality of ACR histograms based on the distribution type and the correlation factor, receiving the ACR histogram, retrieving a first distribution associated with a first uncertain value and a second distribution associated with a second uncertain value from computer-readable memory, processing the ACR histogram, the first distribution and the second distribution to generate a correlation histogram that represents a correlation between the first uncertain value and the second uncertain value, and displaying the correlation histogram on a display. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066195 | SEARCH ASSIST POWERED BY SESSION ANALYSIS - One embodiment selects from a set of query-suggestion pairs a first query and a subset of query-suggestion pairs that each has the first query as its query; computes a Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) value for each query-suggestion pair from the subset of query-suggestion pairs; ranks the subset of query-suggestion pairs according to their respective LLR values; removes from the subset of query-suggestion pairs all query-suggestion pairs whose LLR values are below a predetermined LLR threshold; computes a Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) value for each remaining query suggestion pair from the subset of query-suggestion pairs; removes from the subset of query-suggestion pairs all query-suggestion pairs whose PMI values are below a predetermine PMI threshold; and constructs a ranked set of suggestions for the first query, wherein the ranked set of suggestions comprises one or more suggestions of the remaining query-suggestion pairs from the subset of query-suggestion pairs. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066196 | DEVICE FOR DETERMINING INTERNET ACTIVITY - The invention concerns a method of determining, by an electronic processing device coupled to the internet, a score (S | 2012-03-15 |
20120066197 | Hybrid Query System for Electronic Medical Records - An electronic medical record employs a hybrid search engine which can perform structured queries for comprehensive search results and text searches for rapid identification of relevant information. A standard structured database of medical data is rendered accessible to text searches by generating pseudo-documents from the database that can then be subjected to standard information retrieval pre-processing. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066198 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066199 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066200 | Metasearch Engine for Ordering Items Returned In Travel Related Search Results Using Multiple Queries on Multiple Unique Hosts - Process and system for metasearching on the Internet performed by a metasearch engine, comprising: receiving an HTTP request from a client device for the metasearch engine to send a plurality of search queries to a plurality of unique hosts that provide access to information to be searched, the HTTP request associated with a plurality of travel related items that may be ordered comprising at least one airline ticket and at least one other type of travel related item; sending the plurality of search queries to the plurality of unique hosts in response to the HTTP request; receiving search results from the plurality of unique hosts; incorporating the received search results into a response; communicating the response from the metasearch engine to the client device; receiving another HTTP request from the client device for placing an order for at least one of the plurality of travel related items; processing the order. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066201 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A SEARCH - The described embodiments relate generally to methods and systems for generating a search on an electronic device. The method includes receiving a multimedia object, determining metadata corresponding to the multimedia object and generating a search query corresponding to the metadata. The system includes an input interface configured to select a multimedia object, a metadata determining module configured to determine metadata associated with the multimedia object and a query generating module configured to generate a search query corresponding to the metadata. The electronic device may include a portable device where the search query is generated upon detection of the movement of the portable device. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066202 | Method and apparatus for enhancing search results by extending search to contacts of social networks - A information search method extends to a social networking site to search information by a contact name and other elements as location-based information, relationship, product, etc. The method includes the steps of receiving a search term specified by a searcher, detecting whether WHO is specified in the search term to determine whether search should extend to human contacts in social networking services, identifying WHAT from the search term and determining a nature of WHAT from the search term; sending the search term to a social networking service to retrieve relevant information; and presenting the retrieved information arranged in a predetermined order on a display or by audible sound and optionally a geographic information to retrieve information. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066203 | ONLINE CONTENT RANKING SYSTEM BASED ON AUTHENTICITY METRIC VALUES FOR WEB ELEMENTS - Methods and systems for identifying and ranking search results and online advertisements based on authenticity are described. A search server includes an authenticity index, which includes authenticity metric values associated with one or more web elements. The authenticity metric values may indicate the relative authority of the web element with respect to a specific category, keyword, search term, phrase, context, filter, etc. Search results may be generated and ranked based on the authenticity metric values. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066204 | PROVIDING LIGHTWEIGHT MULTIDIMENSIONAL ONLINE DATA STORAGE FOR WEB SERVICE USAGE REPORTING - Distributed and local processes analyze usage data and transform it into objects including timestamps and dimensions. Objects include a position vector to represent dimension analysis and additional attributes associated with measurements of different types. The objects are stored in a multidimensional database indexed on the vector and timestamp attributes. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066205 | Query Compilation Optimization System and Method - A system and method of compiling a query involving clumping contiguous constraints of a query into one or more subqueries based on partition organization parameters and evaluating each subquery against a partition of a graph having data records for the corresponding partition organization parameter value. In one example, clumping of contiguous query constraints based on an RDF data component, such as a subject, may be used to evaluating subqueries of a query against one or more partitions of a graph having RDF data records with that subject. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066206 | Distributed Query Compilation and Evaluation System and Method - A system and method for distributed query compilation and evaluation involving a first table having a first number of partitions and a second table having a second number of partitions. A query operation, such as a join, is performed for each combination of partitions from the first and second tables. The result of each query operation on each combination of partitions is organized into a third number of partitions. A number of tables equal to the third number are generated with each table including one of the partition results from each of the query operation combinations. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066207 | DATA COMBINATION SYSTEM AND DATA COMBINATION METHOD - A data join system of the present invention includes a table determination unit | 2012-03-15 |
20120066208 | SIZING CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - In various example embodiments, systems and methods to provide sizing content recommendations are provided. Search parameters are received from a user. In response, sizing data for the user is accessed. Using the sizing data, content from a marketplace matching the sizing data and the search parameters are determined. The matching content comprises a list of one or more items available from the marketplace. The matching content is prioritized for presentation to the user. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066209 | ELECTRONIC MAIL DUPLICATE DETECTION - Embodiments of the invention are related to a method and system for identifying linked electronic mails by receiving a query from a user, wherein the query comprises at least a segment of an electronic mail; and based on the segment received, rendering to the user at least one of related subsets or a related supersets of electronic mails related to the received segment, wherein the related subsets and related supersets are threads of the segment received and arranged in a hierarchical manner. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066210 | INTERFACE TO NAVIGATE AND SEARCH A CONCEPT HIERARCHY - A method includes receiving a concept hierarchy at a computing device. The concept hierarchy identifies concepts associated with a document corpus. An interface based on the concept hierarchy is generated. The interface is operable to navigate, search, and modify the concept hierarchy. The method includes transmitting the interface for display to a display device. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066211 | System And Method For Analyzing Search Engine Optimization Procedures - A system and method for search engine optimization includes monitoring a website for changes in content; logging traffic to the website; analyzing data regarding the traffic to determine a relationship between the content and traffic changes; monitoring ranking of the website in search results where a specific search keyword is used; aggregating data regarding using a selected keyword and ranking of the website in results of searches including that keyword; analyzing the data to determine a relationship between the keyword and the ranking; and displaying those relationships. The website may also be monitored for changes in a number of links to the website; data regarding the links is analyzed to determine a relationship between changes in the number of links and changes in traffic. A benchmark may also be calculated; the effect of changing website content and/or changing the number of links is evaluated according to the benchmark. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066212 | MONITORING HASHTAGS IN MICRO-BLOG POSTS TO PROVIDE ONE OR MORE CROWD-BASED FEATURES - Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring hashtags in micro-blog posts, or status updates, from users to provide one or more crowd-based features. In one embodiment, a micro-blog post of a user in a crowd of users is obtained. The crowd of users is a group of users within a predefined spatial proximity to one another. A hashtag in the micro-blog post is then obtained, and a crowd-based feature is provided based on the hashtag. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066213 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product - Provided is an information processing apparatus using composite data of image data and text information as search subjects that includes: a word dictionary; a character information extracting unit that extracts and recognizes character information out of the image data; a search subject word extracting unit that converts the character information into text, inserts the text into search subject data, and stores the search subject data in a database; a search text input unit that receives an input of the text information; a search word extracting unit that extracts word in the word dictionary, as search word based on the text information; and a searching unit that checks the search words against the database. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066214 | Handling Data Sets - A method, system and computer program product provides a first characteristic associated with a first data set and a single data value, and a second characteristic associated with a second data set; and calculates at least one of: 1) the similarity of the first data set with the second data set based on the first and second characteristics, 2) the similarity of the first data set with the single data value based on the first characteristic and the single data value, 3) confidence indicating how well the first characteristic reflects properties of the first data set based on the first characteristic, and 4) confidence indicating how well the similarity of the first data set with the single data value reflects properties of the single data value based on the first characteristic and the single data value. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066215 | SEARCHING A DATABASE THAT STORES INFORMATION ABOUT INDIVIDUAL HABITABLE UNITS - Techniques for creating and searching a database that stores information about a plurality of individual habitable units (IHUs) are provided. An example of an IHU is a hotel room. Image data that depicts where a plurality of IHUs reside relative to each other is placed on a base image, such as a satellite/map image. The base image is associated with a mapping that maps points on the base image to spatial (e.g., geographical) coordinates. The coordinates of the IHU may be used to generate a computer-rendered view from a window of an IHU. Also, label input is received that labels each IHU reflected in the image data with certain information. Each label indicates a value of an attribute of an IHU, such as its size, price, distance from elevators, etc. A query that targets information about each IHU may be processed and results returned that are ranked based on criteria associated with the query. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066216 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING VISIBILITY WITHIN SEARCH ENGINES - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for quantifying visibility into a search engine and into search results for a specific query into a search engine. A system configured to practice the method obtains a first set of search results from a search engine, using a name of an entity and at least one additional search term relating to attributes of the entity, and obtains a second set of search results, from the search engine, using the name without the at least one additional search term. The system determines what search results in the first set of search results are in the second set of search results. Then the system can generate an indicator that relates information about how many results from the first set of search results were in the second set of search results to a total number of results in the first set of search results. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066217 | Complete context.TM. search system - A system, method and computer program product for developing an entity context frame or situation summary before using said context frame/situation summary to develop an index, perform a context search and return prioritized results. The search results may comprise a plurality of health related data where said health related data comprises a plurality of microbiome data. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066218 | SOLUTION SEARCH FOR SOFTWARE SUPPORT - A search middleware may be used to receive search requests regarding a software incident associated with a software application. The search requests may be populated with attribute values determined based on context data associated with the software application and collected in association with the software incident. The search requests may be dispatched to a subset of a plurality of solution repositories, even if the solution repositories have different interfaces and/or search technologies. The resulting solution documents retrieved from the solution repositories may be compiled for presentation on a solution search interface. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066219 | SYSTEM TO COMPILE LANDMARK IMAGE SEARCH RESULTS - This patent discloses a system to compile a landmark image search result. The system may determine a rank of each image within a visual cluster according to at least one of a low-level self-similarity score, a low-level discriminative modeling score, and a point wise linking score. The landmark image search result may be compiled as a function of the rank of each image. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066220 | FILTERING SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED INFORMATION IN THE ABSENCE OF NEGATIVE DATA - Systems and methods are provided for ranking documents. In accordance with certain implementations, a user selects one or more documents for viewing from a set of documents. Documents selected by the user for viewing within a predetermined time period are maintained in a profile associated with the user. At least one positive word vector is generated using words contained in at least a segment of at least one of the documents stored in the profile. At least one negative word vector is generated using words contained in at least a segment of at least one of the documents that was not selected by the user for viewing. Document word vectors are generated for documents to be ranked. A vector space relationship analysis of the positive word vector, the negative word vector, and the document word vectors is performed. The documents are ranked based on the performed vector space relationship analysis. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066221 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A PERSONALIZED JOURNAL BASED ON COLLECTING LINKS TO INFORMATION AND ANNOTATING THOSE LINKS FOR LATER RETRIEVAL - A system and method is provided for handling data in wireless communication devices where data may be captured and linked to a personal journal via indexing and mapping of context data tags abstracted from captured data. The captured data may be retrieved by matching a query to one or more context data tags indexed and mapped to the personal journal. A user preference utilizing one or more of the context data tags linked to the personal journal may facilitate captured data retrieval. The captured data may include multimedia data of an event pre-tagged with indexed information such as user ID, time, date, location and environmental condition or optionally one or more user's biometric data in response to the event. The pre-tagged captured data may be stored in the local host device or transferred to a remote host or storage for later retrieval or post processing. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066222 | Web architecture for green design and construction - A method and computer programming | 2012-03-15 |
20120066223 | METHOD AND COMPUTING DEVICE FOR CREATING DISTINCT USER SPACES - A method and computing device for creating distinct user spaces are described. Concerning the method, in a platform originally designed as a single user platform, user data associated with a plurality of users can be stored and segmented. In addition, links to point to user data that is associated with a current user can be generated in which the link creation can exploit a predefined path associated with storing data in the single user platform. The method can also include the step of preventing the current user from accessing user data associated with non-active users. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066224 | CLUSTERING OF ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS - A method, system, and computer program product for improved clustering of analytic functions in a data processing environment are described. A set of instances of an analytic function receiving data input from a set of data sources is identified. A first subset of instances is configured to receive input from a first subset of data sources, and a second subset of instances is configured to receive input from a second subset of data sources. The set of instances is assigned to a cluster. The cluster begins executing in a computer in the data processing environment, when the first subset of data sources begins transmitting time series data input to the first subset of instances in the cluster. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066225 | PROFILING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method and system for profiling recipients into recipient categories on the basis of responses to content items provided to users. The profiling is based on rankings that are assigned to the content items, recipient categories, links between the content items and links between the content items and recipient categories. In one embodiment the ranking of a given content item is calculated on the basis of rankings of other content items having a link to the given content item, together with the ranking of the link between the content items, while the ranking of a given respondent in respect of a given recipient category is calculated on the basis of rankings of content items and/or categories that have a link to that recipient category. The links between content items and to the recipient categories indicate a particular response, by the respondent, in respect of content items. The recipients are profiled with respect to the recipient categories on the basis of the rankings assigned to the recipient categories. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066226 | SOCIAL MEDIA ORGANIZER FOR INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA - A social media organizer for instructional or educational content may maintain one or more media clips relating to used-defined educational or instructional topics. In one implementation, a device may maintain user-created sets of media clips, where the media clips in a set of media clips include instructional media clips that relate to a particular subject. The device may further receive rankings from users relating to a quality of the sets of media clips and determine one or more of the sets of media clips that match a user search request. Additionally, the device may provide an interface that provides commands for the user to control playback of the media clips. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066227 | E-MAIL THREAD HIERARCHY DETECTION - A plurality of segments in an e-mail collection by parsing content of e-mails is generated. Corresponding segment signature for each segment is created and a signature index is populated using the generated segment signatures. After receiving a query e-mail, a plurality of query segments in the query e-mail is generated using content of the query e-mail and corresponding query segment signature for each query segment is generated. A query root segment is identified and corresponding query root segment signature is generated. A set of root segment signatures of the signature index is identified and the query root segment signature is compared with each root segment signature from the signature index. A subset of the signature index is identified, using a match between the root segment signature and the query root segment signature. An e-mail thread hierarchy is built using the identified subset of the signature index. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066228 | BASELINES OVER INDEXED, VERSIONED DATA - Provided are techniques for receiving a request to create a current baseline with a baseline identifier and selecting data elements that are to be included in the current baseline. For each of the data elements, for a version of the data element to be included in the current baseline, a reference to the version of the data element is added to the current baseline and a baseline index element for the version of the data element is maintained by one of creating a new baseline index element or updating an existing baseline index element. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066229 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING A SATURATED HASH TABLE - Systems and methods for operating a saturated hash table are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a hash table located in memory of a computer and a hash program in communication with the hash table. The hash table may include a plurality of index positions, and the hash program may be operable to populate the hash table with a first new digest value, where the first new digest value is associated with a first data item. The first new digest value may be stored at least at a first index position and a second index position of the hash table. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066230 | Object sharing and search system - This invention is related to an object sharing and search system (OS3) that allows users to create and share computational content of any sort in a multi-user computing environment. It considers user, domain and document as three basic and interacting classes of objects, and allows users to create domain hierarchies, to create objects within a domain, to specify the accessibility of an object in a domain, etc., and it controls the access of an object by another object in a domain. It also allows users to search objects in a domain and recommend the ranking for a search. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066231 | DYNAMIC PROFILE SLICE - Systems and methods are provided for maintaining a dynamic profile slice of a user profile of a user. In one embodiment, a real-time user-generated context of the user is monitored over time to accumulate keywords in the dynamic profile slice of the user that are representative of dynamic interests of the user. Weights are assigned to the keywords in the dynamic profile slice using a time and/or location weighting function. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066232 | VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A vehicle navigation system having a database configured to store map data. The database includes links corresponding to road segments and attributes associated with the links. The map data includes at least some links associated with a curvature attribute. A mean absolute curvature ( | 2012-03-15 |
20120066233 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MAPPING USER REVIEWED AND RATED WEBSITES TO SPECIFIC USER ACTIVITIES - A computer-implemented method for helping users to find the most relevant website for a given activity includes storing, in an activity database, a plurality of activities each comprising a verb that represents a task associated with the activity, storing in the activity database addresses of a plurality of websites in association with activities respectively identified in each of the plurality of websites, receiving a query from a first user, identifying a first activity pertaining to the query by a computer server system in communication with the activity database, and returning by the computer server system, to the first user, addresses of one or more websites associated with the first activity. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066234 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INTERNET SERVICE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A method and apparatus provide an Internet service in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes determining a user interest subject from user data existing within the mobile communication terminal, collecting service items through network access, determining a subject for each of the collected service items, determining relevance between the user interest subject and each of the service items, and recommending a service item according to the relevance. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066235 | CONTENT PROCESSING DEVICE - A content processing device includes a first acquisition unit acquiring a content data; a second acquisition unit acquiring a history including a time when a user plays the content data; a first extraction unit extracting a keyword from the content data; a management unit extracting a preference keyword representing a preference of the user from the keyword based on the history, said management unit managing the extracted preference keyword with an importance score; a presentation unit presenting a recommended content data according to a comparison of the keyword and the preference keyword; an update unit updating the importance score of the preference keyword corresponding to the recommended content data selected by the user; and a second extraction unit extracting another recommended content data using the updated importance score. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066236 | METHOD FOR SEMANTIC SERVICE REGISTRATION AND QUERY BASED ON WORDNET - A method for semantic service registration and query based on WordNet is disclosed. The method includes the following steps: (1) semantic service registration: a service provider registers a service and uploads the Web Service Description Language (WSDL) document corresponding to the service, and a system parses the WSDL document to form a service description tree, then constructs a WordNet ontology tree according to the input of the service, performs a semantic annotation on the input/output of the service to form a Web Service Semantic Description Document (WSDL-S), and finally stores it in a register library; (2) semantic service discovery: a service requester inputs the information of service type, semantic information of the service input/output and other user-defined information to the register library to retrieve the services meeting the requirements; and (3) similarity sorting: the services meeting a certain threshold are sorted in descending order. The method has the advantages of the combination of WordNet ontology library and the semantic description language of WSDL-S, and definite semantic meaning. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066237 | DELTA LANGUAGE TRANSLATION - Revised component selector extracts a translation file comprising a plurality of English keys and translation language values in a database, including untranslated keys as an XML file. The revised component selector extracts a plurality of English keys and translation language values and determines whether there are XML unsupported characters in the XML file. The revised component selector first filters out the XML unsupported characters to form a resultant file, responsive to a determination that XML unsupported characters are in the XML file. The revised component second selector filters out translated data from the resultant file to form an untranslated file. The revised component selector selects a subset of data. The revised component selector, responsive to selecting, third filters out any data not included in the subset to form a translatable file, responsive to selecting. The revised component selector sends the translatable file to a translation center to translate. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066238 | BIOMARKER FUSION SYSTEM AND METHOD - An apparatus comprises an ERP testing system that is configured to administer an ERP test. The apparatus further comprises a computer in communication with the ERP testing system. The computer is operable to access a database of biomarkers. The computer is further operable to define at least one class set relating to biomarkers and at least one feature set relating to biomarkers. The computer is further operable to classify a test subject into at least one of the defined class sets based on information in the feature set relating to biomarkers of the test subject. The biomarker processing may be carried out in association with or completely independent of ERP testing. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066239 | Link Analysis Mapping Program Risk Management - A method and system for managing risk by indicating links between one or more persons or entities which can include a process that gathers information about individuals and organizations into a computerized system where it can be analyzed to associate one or more individuals or organizations with links to other individuals or organizations. A user can designate a person or entity and the system will provide an indication of linkages associated with the designated person. Some embodiments can include a user specifying a particular type of link or limit links to a specified degree of separation between the designated person and any other person or entity. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066240 | FACILITY SEARCH DEVICE - A facility search device includes: a facility information storage unit that stores facility information; an additional information storage unit that stores additional facility information; a facility search unit that searches for facilities from the facility information and the additional facility information; a sameness determination unit that determines the sameness of facilities based on identifiers contained in the facility information on each of the facilities when the plurality of facilities are searched for by the facility search unit; a facility information synthesis unit that synthesizes the facility information on the facilities determined to be the same by the sameness determination unit among the searched facilities; a display image generation unit that generates images for displaying the searched facilities or the facilities synthesized by the facility information synthesis unit; and a display unit that displays the images generated by the display image generation unit. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066241 | RETRIEVING AND VIEWING MEDICAL IMAGES - As medical imaging becomes more affordable, and the diversity of diagnostic modalities and therapeutic treatments increase, the amount of data being stored increases, and the problem becomes even more critical. One approach to improve retrieval efficiency of images is to employ semantics to establish a defined set of search and classification terms. However, such semantic systems still require the user to make a selection of the most appropriate term or terms to classify a report or image, and the accuracy of the results are thus dependent on the skill and knowledge of the classifier. According to a first aspect of the invention, a retriever is provided for retrieving a medical image having a searchable attribute, the retriever being configured to interface with a semantic database and an image database, and wherein the searchable attribute is determined by segmenting the medical image, using the anatomical model. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066242 | System And Method Of Enabling Identification Of A Right Event Sound Corresponding To An Impact Related Event - A system and method of enabling identification of a right event sound (ES) corresponding to an impact related event is described. The instant invention facilitates the identification of the most appropriate sound for an impact related audio-video event thereby enabling the content producers to mix it with the video content and provide the viewers a near life like experience. The instant invention further provides a method to create an Audio-Video Database Library (AVD) to initialize the system. A method of determining the intensity of impact for an event in terms of pixels traversed by the impact object as evaluated across the video frames before, at and after the frame of impact is also discussed herein. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066243 | MINING PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION FROM QUERY REFORMULATIONS - In various example embodiments, systems and methods to mine product recommendations from query reformulation is provided. In example embodiments, a search query is mapped to a particular product. Transition data for the particular product is accessed. The transition data includes values reflecting a number of search transitions between the particular product and other products in session sets of previous queries. One or more recommendations based on the transition data is determined and provided to the user. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066244 | NAME RETRIEVAL METHOD AND NAME RETRIEVAL APPARATUS - Name retrieval methods and name retrieval apparatuses that detect retrieval-target names that are representable as character strings including a ligature taking arbitrary property of a ligature into consideration in both a case where the ligature is input, and a case where the series of characters corresponding to the ligature is input, are provided so that convenience and reliability of name retrieval are improved. When a specific ligature is input, the specific ligature is converted into the series of characters corresponding to the specific ligature in accordance with the corresponding relationship TB stored in a storage device M, and specific retrieval-target names that include the series of characters obtained by the conversion in an input position of the specific ligature and an arrangement position of the series of characters corresponding to the number of coupled characters are retrieved from a database DB by character-string matching. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066245 | WATERCRAFT AUTOMATION AND AQUATIC EFFORT DATA UTILIZATION - Watercraft automation and aquatic data utilization for aquatic efforts are disclosed. In one aspect, an anchor point is obtained and a watercraft position maintenance routine is actuated to control the watercraft to maintain association with the anchor point. In another aspect, prior aquatic effort data is obtained in association with an anchor point. In yet another aspect, current aquatic effort data is generated in association with an anchor point. In still another aspect, current aquatic effort data and prior aquatic effort data are utilized for prediction generation. In yet another aspect, current aquatic effort data and prior aquatic effort data are utilized to obtain another anchor point for a watercraft. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066246 | WATERCRAFT AUTOMATION AND AQUATIC EFFORT DATA UTILIZATION - Watercraft automation and aquatic data utilization for aquatic efforts are disclosed. In one aspect, an anchor point is obtained and a watercraft position maintenance routine is actuated to control the watercraft to maintain association with the anchor point. In another aspect, prior aquatic effort data is obtained in association with an anchor point. In yet another aspect, current aquatic effort data is generated in association with an anchor point. In still another aspect, current aquatic effort data and prior aquatic effort data are utilized for prediction generation. In yet another aspect, current aquatic effort data and prior aquatic effort data are utilized to obtain another anchor point for a watercraft. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066247 | QUERY GENERATION BASED ON HIERARCHICAL FILTERS - A system includes reception of a query filtered on an object of a hierarchical list of values and comprising a first filter value, generation of an SQL script based on the first filter value and at least one ancestor value of the first filter value in the hierarchical list of values, and retrieval of a data set associated with the query based on the SQL script. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066248 | Dynamic Creation of Materialized Database Views - A control file is created which ordinary views that are to be converted to materialized views. A conversion program controlled by the control file can then create all of the materialized views at one time, and only that single conversion program needs to be written. By running the conversion program periodically, it becomes possible to create automatic updates of the materialized views. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066249 | UTILIZING HIERARCHY METADATA TO IMPROVE PATH SELECTION - Embodiments are directed to implementing hierarchy metadata to improve relational model default path selection heuristics. A computer system receives a database query from a user. The query is configured to return a portion of requested data stored in the database. The database includes multiple different data entities related to each other via different relationship paths. The computer system accesses hierarchy metadata that describes various database hierarchies, each hierarchy including multiple data entities. The computer system determines an optimal path between the related data entities based on the database query and the hierarchy metadata, and accesses the data using the determined optimal data entity relationship path. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066250 | CUSTOM OPERATORS FOR A PARALLEL QUERY ENGINE - Embodiments are directed to implementing custom operators in a query for a parallel query engine and to generating a partitioned representation of a sequence of query operators in a parallel query engine. A computer system receives a portion of partitioned input data at a parallel query engine, where the parallel query engine is configured to process data queries in parallel, and where the queries include a sequence of built-in operators. The computer system incorporates a custom operator into the sequence of built-in operators for a query and accesses the sequence of operators to determine how the partitioned input data is to be processed. The custom operator is accessed in the same manner as the built-in operators. The computer system also processes the sequence of operators including both the built-in operators and at least one custom operator according to the determination indicating how the data is to be processed. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066251 | CORRELATING TRANSPORTATION DATA - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including executable instructions encoded on one or more machine-readable storage media, for correlating transportation data are described. A transportation schedule that includes planned records for first trips and associations between the first trips and corresponding first trip IDs may be accessed. A transportation status update that includes actual records for second trips and associations between the second trips and corresponding second trip IDs may be received. Information relating one or more of the first trip IDs to one or more of the second trip IDs may be obtained. The information may be used to identify a trip that is common to both the transportation schedule and the transportation status update. An update for the trip using the transportation status update may be provided. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066252 | MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTION OF INFORMATION, AND INFORMATION COLLECTION SUPPORT SYSTEM - A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for collection of information, includes receiving a division condition of a value range of an attribute from a user; dividing the value range of the attribute into a plurality of ranges under the received division condition; selecting writers who have an attribute value corresponding to the respective divided ranges of the attribute by referencing a writer information storage unit that stores values of the attribute of the writers; collecting information that is posted by the selected writers from a posted information storage device that stores information posted by the writers; and providing the collected information to the user. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066253 | Mapping Product Identification Information To A Product - Mapping product identification data to product information. Generating classifiers operative to classify products referred to in product identification data. Receiving client product identification data. Applying at least one generated classifier on the received product identification data. Using at least one classification determined by the applied classifier(s) and a subset of the client product identification data to query the product database. Qualifying the results of the query using at least one classification. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066254 | Point in phasetme system and method thereof - A Phasetime Method and Automated System for tracking Element Efforts that result in end products, at least including products of art, industry, and nature, and reporting Development Event Efforts by their virtual Points in Phasetime within designated Past, Present, and Future Project Development Phases. Dynamically generated Phasetime Reports display Element Project Efforts within a live Phasetime Matrix in relation to their Phase of Development and Points in Phasetime. Development Events occur within Project Development Phases, which Phases may vary in number and kind depending on the end product. Development Events include Project Production Elements, Element Efforts, the duration of said Efforts, and Efforts' Points in Phasetime. Element Efforts, tracked by Phasetime Project Development Event Instances, are reported in edited Storyboard Beats in Phasetime Macro, Micro, and Nano Views depicting the Efforts' effect on the end Product's Storyline. Effortology keys allow browsers to alter the Storyboard Storyline Report. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066255 | Attribute Combination Discovery for Predisposition Determination - A method and system are presented in which a query attribute is used as the basis for accessing stored attribute combinations and their frequencies of occurrence for query-attribute-positive individuals and query-attribute-negative individuals and tabulating, based on frequencies of occurrence, those attribute combinations that are most likely to co-occur with the query attribute. | 2012-03-15 |
20120066256 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING SEARCH URLS - Method and system for generating dynamic content. A request and associated information is received for generating a dynamic content page (DCP). The DCP is generated by a DCP generation engine by integrating a number of pieces of content accessible from respective sources. The content pieces to be included in the DCP are identified and arranged in a fashion consistent with the request and the associated information. A locator is then associated with the DCP, so that the DCP can be subsequently located through the locator. Such generated DCP and/or locator are provided as a response to the search query. | 2012-03-15 |