30th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140207691 | SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR REMOTELY TRACKING AND MANAGING CINEMA ASSETS AND CONTENT - The invention is directed to a system and computer program for tracking and managing cinema assets and content remotely by a user. The computer program on a non-transitory computer readable medium, for execution by a computer or application server, comprises a consumables code segment, an assets code segment, and a features code segment. The consumables code segment is configured to track and display of at least one consumable asset. The assets code is configured to track and display hardware information of at least one hardware asset. The features code segment is configured to track and display content information of the media being played on at least one hardware asset. Embodiments of the present invention may further include integrated point of sale, calendar, support, administrative, notification, analytics and messaging code segments. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207692 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT FOR PET RECYCLING SYSTEMS - A method for operating a plastics recycling system, including: detecting the energy consumption of individual or several or all energy consumers of the plastics recycling system, detecting an operating state of the plastics recycling system, identifying the energy consumers required for the operating state, using a hierarchy of the energy consumers depending on their energy consumption and/or their operating mode and/or the operating state of the plastics recycling system, and supplying the required energy consumers with energy taking into account said hierarchy, where the maximum peak power supplied to the entirety of the required energy consumers is smaller than the sum of the rated peak powers of the individual required energy consumers. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207693 | Systems, Devices, Components and Methods for Monitoring, Certifying and/or Recertifying the Performance of a Building or Structure - Described and disclosed herein are various embodiments of method and systems for monitoring, certifying or recertifying performance of a building or structure. Such systems and methods may include or employ at least one building or structure data acquisition device, building or structure performance data corresponding to the building or structure, at least one dashboard device operably connected to the data acquisition device, and computer and/or internet means for transferring at least portions of the building or structure performance data to a server. The server or another computer is configured and programmed to certify or not certify the building or structure as meeting building or structure performance certification standards. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207694 | ELECTORAL INTEGRITY ASSESSMENT METHOD, AND SYSTEM - A method of electoral integrity assessment, and system. The method and system includes a qualitative assessment and quantitative assessment. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207695 | Social Network-Based Fundraising System and Method Thereof - A processor implemented method comprising receiving, from a first coordinator, contact information for each of a first set of potential contributors and creating a first fundraising group. The method further comprises facilitating a payment of a contribution from at least one member of the first fundraising group to a fundraising entity and receiving contact information for each of a second set of potential contributors. The second set of potential contributors is provided by a second coordinator, wherein the second coordinator is included in the first fundraising group, and/or at least one of the second set of potential contributors in response to an invitation from the second coordinator, and creating a second fundraising group. The method further comprises facilitating a payment of a contribution from at least one member of the second fundraising group to the fundraising entity. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207696 | SHARING PURCHASING INFORMATION - The disclosure is related to sharing purchasing information among consumer using near field communication feature of user equipment. First user equipment may transfer purchasing information to second user equipment and the second user equipment may conveniently and instantly repurchase the same good or service, which the first user equipment purchases, based on the purchasing information. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207697 | Enterprise Family Tree - An enterprise-based tree structure system is provided that includes a plurality of servers for receiving and processing a request for retrieval of enterprise-based information of an employee. The enterprise-based information includes information detailing the employee's contacts and affiliation within an enterprise. The enterprise-based information is stored in one or more of the servers. A framework aids the servers to process and retrieve the enterprise-based information stored in the one or more servers needed to service the request. The framework processes the enterprise-based information allowing a user the ability to understand and identify the employee's contact and affiliation with the enterprise. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207698 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AUTOMATICALLY EVALUATING PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEES - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for automatically evaluating prospective employees. These mechanisms and methods for automatically evaluating prospective employees can reduce the amount of time to evaluate prospective employees, as opposed to evaluation techniques the include manual processes, as well as to provide consistent evaluation standards. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207699 | RECRUITING SERVICE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - A recruiting service is disclosed that generates profiles of software developers having specific skills. Public code repositories are examined to identify projects of software developers. The projects are analyzed to estimate the number of years of experience a software developer has with an individual language and determine a score with respect to other developers. Social media information and a messaging link may also be provided with each profile. A graphical user interface for displaying the information is disclosed. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207700 | ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIVE SHIPPING SELECTION - The selection of a shipping option responsive to an environmental preference is enabled. A user may indicate a shipping criteria preference including an environmental impact weighting. A cost value of each of a plurality of shipping options is determined including an environmental impact cost. A shipping option is selected and implemented for a shipping of an item as a function of the indicated environmental impact weighting. Each of the plurality of shipping option cost values may be dynamically recalculated and the status of at least one of the shipping options updated, the updating determining a change in value a shipping option cost value, an implemented selected shipping option changed to another of the plurality of shipping options as a function of the status updating. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207701 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR ROUTING PACKAGE DELIVERIES - A shipping system for shipping packages involving the coordinated use of at least a first carrier and a second carrier. The shipping system includes physical delivery facilities for the physical delivery of packages, the physical delivery facilities including at least one transfer location at which the second carrier may take over delivery responsibilities for a package. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207702 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR ROUTNG PACKAGE DELIVERIES - A shipping system for shipping packages involving the coordinated use of at least a first carrier and a second carrier. The shipping system includes physical delivery facilities for the physical delivery of packages, the physical delivery facilities including at least one transfer location at which the second carrier may take over delivery responsibilities for a package. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207703 | System and Method for Providing Transit Reviews - A social transit review platform allows a user to create and share a transit review from a first subject to a second subject; the first and second subject being any product, service, venue, etc. The user first creates a personal user account, through which the transit review can be created. Upon creating the transit review, the user can also provide a first subject review or a second subject review for the first subject and second subject, respectively. Comparative review data is then provided by the user to describe the transition from the first subject to the second subject. The first subject review, second subject review, and comparative review data are then organized into the transit review and displayed to other users. A quick transit review can also be generated, to display a number of positive transit reviews and a number of negative transit reviews for a collection of transit reviews. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207704 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CRIME DETERENT FACTOR - A method for determining a crime deterrent factor of a security system or security equipment includes determining a value for a traceability factor, a robustness factor, an analytics factor, a prosecutions factor and a publicity factor based on attributes of a particular security system or security equipment, wherein the value for each of the factors is determined by comparing the attributes of the particular security system or security equipment against a scale of predetermined attributes each of which have been assigned a value; (i) factoring the traceability value by the robustness value; (ii) factoring the analytics value by the prosecution value; (iii) combining the values obtained by steps (i) and (ii) by either addition or multiplication; and (iv) multiplying the value of step (iii) by the publicity value. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207705 | RESIDUAL RISK ANALYSIS SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFOR - Systems, methods and products for determining residual values of asset portfolios are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a server computer coupled to a network and to a data storage device. The server generates residual value curves for each of a set of item types and stores them. The server computer also receives and/or maintains information defining a set of items in a portfolio. When an assessment of the portfolio is initiated, the server determines a residual value for each item in the portfolio by identifying a corresponding one of the item types, retrieving the residual value curve corresponding to the identified item type, and determining a future value of the item based on the retrieved residual value curve for the corresponding item type. The server then aggregates the individual residual values into a residual value for the portfolio and enables access to this value. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207706 | Computer Implemented System and Method for Aggregating, Analyzing and Distributing Information Corresponding to Retirement Plans - A computer implemented system and method for aggregating, analyzing, and distributing information corresponding to retirement plans offered to users have been disclosed. The system includes a database adapted to store at least authentication credentials and payroll information corresponding to users. The system includes a configuration sub-system adapted to configure the retirement plans based on pre-defined rules. The retirement plans are offered to users subsequent to determining, based on the payroll information corresponding to users, whether the users are eligible for a retirement plan. The users who have been identified as eligible are automatically enrolled onto the retirement plan via an enrollment module. The system also enables the users to initiate investment transfers between various plans, reallocation of investments within the same plan and rebalancing of investments within the same plan. The system also allows the plan sponsor/administrator to timely rectify exceptions if any using a user interface. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207707 | SMART HOME SYSTEM USING PORTABLE DEVICE - A smart home system using a portable device in which a gateway function is installed in the portable device to provide a smart home service using a multiplex gateway, and a control method thereof is provided. The smart home system includes one or more portable devices and one or more home appliances located in a home, each of the one or more portable devices and one or more home appliances having a gateway, a home network to interconnect the one or more portable devices and the one or more home appliances, and a master device selected from among the one or more portable devices or the one or more home appliances, the master device activating the gateway thereof to connect the home network with an external communication network, wherein the master device transfers a home appliance control command to a corresponding one of the one or more home appliances. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207708 | UTILITY CONSUMPTION DISAGGREGATION - A computer-implemented method for itemizing energy consumption to generate and present a utility consumption profile based on disaggregated historical utility consumption data is presented. The computer-implemented method comprises obtaining data indicating historical utility consumption of a dwelling over a time period. A non-seasonal portion of the historical utility consumption data is then determined by first computing an average utility consumption based on one or more predetermined intervals within the time period, and then computing the non-seasonal portion by applying the average to the time period. The non-seasonal portion is then subtracted from the historical utility consumption data to obtain a seasonal portion of the historical utility consumption data. The seasonal and/or non-seasonal portion may be further disaggregated by end-use methods, and presented to the user in the utility consumption profile. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207709 | PREDICTIVE INFORMATION TRANSMISSION - Embodiments of a system and methods for predictive transmission of information are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a system includes a ground moving target indicator (GMTI) tracker module receives a current position estimate from a user equipment and to generate position and/or velocity estimates. A database system, including a mission/role database and user information database, receives the position and/or velocity estimates and transmits user information to the user equipment based on a predicted position of the user and the mission/role of a user. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207710 | TRANSDUCTIVE LASSO FOR HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA REGRESSION PROBLEMS - Various embodiments select features from a feature space. In one embodiment, a set of training samples and a set of test samples are received. A first centered Gram matrix of a given dimension is determined for each of a set of feature vectors that include at least one of the set of training samples and at least one of the set of test samples. A second centered Gram matrix of the given dimension is determined for a target value vector that includes target values from the set of training samples. A set of columns and rows associated with the at least one of the test samples in the second centered Gram matrix is set to 0. A subset of features is selected from a set of features based on the first and second centered Gram matrices. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207711 | TRANSDUCTIVE FEATURE SELECTION WITH MAXIMUM-RELEVANCY AND MINIMUM-REDUNDANCY CRITERIA - Various embodiments select features from a feature space. In one embodiment, a set of training samples and a set of test samples are received. The set of training samples includes a set of features and a class value. The set of test samples includes the set of features absent the class value. A relevancy with respect to the class value is determined for each of a plurality of unselected features based on the set of training samples. A redundancy with respect to one or more of the set of features is determined for each of the plurality of unselected features in the first set of features based on the set of training samples and the set of test samples. A set of features is selected from the plurality of unselected features based on the relevancy and the redundancy determined for each of the plurality of unselected features. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207712 | Classifying Based on Extracted Information - Information may be extracted from a document. A new pattern may be identified in the document. Classification may be performed based on the extracted information. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207713 | TRANSDUCTIVE FEATURE SELECTION WITH MAXIMUM-RELEVANCY AND MINIMUM-REDUNDANCY CRITERIA - Various embodiments select features from a feature space. In one embodiment, a set of training samples and a set of test samples are received. The set of training samples includes a set of features and a class value. The set of test samples includes the set of features absent the class value. A relevancy with respect to the class value is determined for each of a plurality of unselected features based on the set of training samples. A redundancy with respect to one or more of the set of features is determined for each of the plurality of unselected features in the first set of features based on the set of training samples and the set of test samples. A set of features is selected from the plurality of unselected features based on the relevancy and the redundancy determined for each of the plurality of unselected features. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207714 | TRANSDUCTIVE LASSO FOR HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA REGRESSION PROBLEMS - Various embodiments select features from a feature space. In one embodiment, a set of training samples and a set of test samples are received. A first centered Gram matrix of a given dimension is determined for each of a set of feature vectors that include at least one of the set of training samples and at least one of the set of test samples. A second centered Gram matrix of the given dimension is determined for a target value vector that includes target values from the set of training samples. A set of columns and rows associated with the at least one of the test samples in the second centered Gram matrix is set to 0. A subset of features is selected from a set of features based on the first and second centered Gram matrices. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207715 | DATA DRIVEN REDUCTION OF MULTI-SCALE MODELS - A method of computing physiological measurements resulting from a multi-scale physiological system using a data-driven model includes generating a database of physiological measurements associated with a multi-scale physiological system. A computer uses dimensionality reduction techniques on the database to identify a reduced set of components explaining the multi-scale physiological system. The computer learns a data-driven model of the multi-scale physiological system from the database. Then, new input parameters are received by the computer and used to compute new physiological measurements using the data-driven model. New derived physiological indicators are computed by the computer based on the reduced set of components. Once computed, the new derived physiological indicators may be displayed along with the new physiological measurements. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207716 | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method, system and non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided for improving a statistical classification system, such as a statistical classification system that accepts natural language voice queries as inputs. A clustering engine may create one or more clusters of queries where the queries in each cluster are related in some way. A reviewing module may be employed to determine whether each cluster relates to an existing category supported by the classification system, a new category that can be supported by the classification system by training statistical models with the data from the cluster, is ambiguous, or is not useful to improve the classification system. For clusters determined to be useful for improving the system, the data in the clusters may be added to an existing training set or used as a training set to train new statistical models. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207717 | DATA CLASSIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES - Systems, methods and computer program products for classifying documents are presented. Systems, methods and computer program products for analyzing documents, e.g. for verifying an association of an invoice with an entity are also presented. Systems, methods and computer program products for managing medical records are presented. One exemplary system includes a memory; and a processor in communication with the memory, the processor being configured to process at least some instructions stored in the memory. The memory stores computer executable program code comprising instructions for: training a classifier based on an invoice format associated with a first entity; accessing a plurality of invoices labeled as being associated with at least one of the first entity and other entities; and outputting an identifier of at least one of the invoices having a high probability of not being associated with the first entity. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207718 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING USERS FROM RATING PATTERNS - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for identifying users of content. The methods include identifying contextual information of a group of users, gathering user access data of the users on the basis of the contextual information of the group of users, analyzing temporal information of the user access data, and identifying particular users in the group of users on the basis of the analyzed temporal information and the contextual information. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207719 | STRUCTURAL PLASTICITY IN SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS WITH SYMMETRIC DUAL OF AN ELECTRONIC NEURON - A neural system comprises multiple neurons interconnected via synapse devices. Each neuron integrates input signals arriving on its dendrite, generates a spike in response to the integrated input signals exceeding a threshold, and sends the spike to the interconnected neurons via its axon. The system further includes multiple noruens, each noruen is interconnected via the interconnect network with those neurons that the noruen's corresponding neuron sends its axon to. Each noruen integrates input spikes from connected spiking neurons and generates a spike in response to the integrated input spikes exceeding a threshold. There can be one noruen for every corresponding neuron. For a first neuron connected via its axon via a synapse to dendrite of a second neuron, a noruen corresponding to the second neuron is connected via its axon through the same synapse to dendrite of the noruen corresponding to the first neuron. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207720 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASYNCHRONOUS EXPLANATION AND PROPAGATION-BASED CONSTRAINT SOLVING - Embodiments of a system and method for asynchronous explanation and explanation-based constraint problem solving are generally described herein. In one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes an asynchronous constraint satisfaction problem solving module (ACSPSM), the ACSPSM can be executable by one or more processors. The ACSPSM can be configured to propagate at least one constraint to a plurality of variables by reducing a speculative propagation range of a first variable when a first value in the speculative propagation range of the first variable is in conflict with the constraint. The ACSPSM can be configured to update an explanation for the reduction in the speculative propagation range of the first variable, or backtrack when a choice of a second value for a second variable would result in the speculative propagation range of the first variable becoming empty. The ACSPSM can be multi-threaded. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207721 | DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTED-SENSOR THERMOSTAT NETWORK FOR FORECASTING EXTERNAL EVENTS - Systems and methods for forecasting events can be provided. A measurement database can store sensor measurements, each having been provided by a non-portable electronic device with a primary purpose unrelated to collecting measurements from a type of sensor that collected the measurement. A measurement set identifier can select a set of measurements. The electronic devices associated with the set of measurements can be in close geographical proximity relative to their geographical proximity to other devices. An inter-device correlator can access the set and collectively analyze the measurements. An event detector can determine whether an event occurred. An event forecaster can forecast a future event property. An alert engine can identify one or more entities to be alerted of the future event property, generate at least one alert identifying the future event property, and transmit the at least one alert to the identified one or more entities. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207722 | COMPUTING REGRESSION MODELS - Provided are techniques for computing a task result. A processing data set of records is created, wherein each of the records contains data specific to a sub-task from a set of actual sub-tasks and contains a reference to data shared by the set of actual sub-tasks, and wherein a number of the records is equivalent to a number of the actual sub-tasks in the set of actual sub-tasks. With each mapper in a set of mappers, one of the records of the processing data set is received and an assigned sub-task is executed using the received one of the records to generate output. With a single reducer, the output from each mapper in the set of mappers is reduced to determine a task result. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207723 | Method and Apparatus for Predicting Joint Quantum States of Subjects modulo an Underlying Proposition based on a Quantum Representation - The present invention presents methods and apparatus for predicting a joint quantum state of subjects, such as human beings, modulo an underlying proposition that revolves about an object, a subject or an experience while deploying a quantum representation of the situation. The joint quantum state is built from a transmit subject qubit |Tx | 2014-07-24 |
20140207724 | System and Method for Adaptive Control of User Actions Based on User's Behavior - Disclosed are system, method and computer program product for adaptive control of actions of a user on a computer system. The system monitors one or more actions of the user, applies restriction rules to detect prohibited user actions, and blocks prohibited actions that violate at least one restriction rule. The system also collects information on allowed actions of the user and corresponding system events, analyzes in real-time the collected information about system events corresponding to the allowed actions to detect anomalous actions that did not violate any of the restriction rules, but caused abnormal increase in the usage of certain system resources. When an anomalous action is detected, the system identifies restriction rules that are associated with the detected anomalous action and edits these rules or creates new restriction rules to include the anomalous action prohibited to the user. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207725 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DESTINATION PREDICTION - A device for constructing a hierarchical destination prediction mode includes an extracting unit configured to receive a user's historical location data and extract input data and output data from the user's historical location data. The input data includes a leaving location and associated time for the user and the output data includes an arriving location for the user. A determining unit is configured to determine the user's possible activities of each location and their original probabilities based on the input data and the output data, and to adjust the original activity probabilities based on the user's arriving patterns and leaving patterns. A prediction model obtaining unit is configured to obtain the hierarchical destination prediction model based on the input data and the adjusted probabilities. A high layer of the hierarchical destination prediction model represents activities and their transitions, and a low layer of the model represents locations of the activities. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207726 | SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING HELICOPTER ENGINE MAINTENANCE - The invention relates to a system for recommending maintenance of helicopter engines depending on the technical condition of the engine, the standard replacement of parts between engines, and the replacement of parts with different parts. The system comprises: a centralized database storing data relating to (i) working condition and working condition indicators, (ii) modifications of the engines, (iii) maintenance plans for the engines, (iv) causes of unscheduled events, (v) maintenance applied to the engines, and (vi) instantiated configurations; means for acquiring the working condition indicators and for updating the working condition data; means for identifying maintenance to be applied to the engines depending on the data; means for generating an alarm for identified maintenance to be performed; means for the digitally-signed updating of the applied maintenance and configuration data according to maintenance operations; and means for deactivating an alarm once the maintenance associated with the alarm is completed. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207727 | DETERMINING A DYNAMIC USER PROFILE INDICATIVE OF A USER BEHAVIOR CONTEXT WITH A MOBILE DEVICE - Methods, apparatuses and articles of manufacture for use in a mobile device to determine whether a dynamic user profile is to transition from a first state to a second state based, at least in part, on one or more sensed indicators. The dynamic user profile may be indicative of one or more current inferable user behavior contexts for a user co-located with the mobile device. The mobile device may transition a dynamic user profile from a first state to a second state, in response to a determination that the dynamic user profile is to transition from the first state to the second state, and operatively affect one or more functions performed, at least in part, by the mobile device based, at least in part, on the transition of the dynamic user profile to the second state. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207728 | Systems for Storing Data Streams in a Distributed Environment - Systems and methods for storing and retrieving data elements transmitted via data streams received from distributed devices connected via a network. The received data elements may be stored in block stores on the distributed devices. The stored data-elements may be allocated to data-blocks of a block-store that have assigned block-identifiers and further allocated to events of the data-blocks that have assigned token-names. Stream-schema of the received data-streams may comprise a list of token-names and an index-definition for each corresponding data-stream. Indices may be generated for the event-allocated data-elements. A query may be executed in order to retrieve data-elements of the received data-streams based on the indices. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207729 | Rapid Provisioning of Information for Business Analytics - An approach is provided in which a system creates schema terms based upon matching input data query requirements to industry terms. In turn, the system generates a query and an associative map, which includes data organized according to the schema terms. The system executes the query, which retrieves the data from the associative map and loads the data into one or more storage areas. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207730 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A COLLABORATION PLACE INTERFACE INCLUDING DATA THAT IS PERSISTENT AFTER A CLIENT IS LONGER IN THE COLLABORATION PLACE AMONG A PLURALITY OF CLIENTS - In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods provide a client-server infrastructure capable of supporting a variety of asynchronous and synchronous collaboration activities in a so-called collaboration place. Some of these activities include chatting, viewing and/or editing one or more data files, and sharing one or more applications, data files, and/or displays. The client-server infrastructure supports seamless navigation between the supported asynchronous and synchronous activities in the collaboration place. Additionally, the client-server architecture supports data persistence, so that data files associated with the collaboration place can be stored for subsequent access. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207731 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEFINING COMMON ENTITY RELATIONSHIPS - A method, an apparatus, and a system for configuring, designing, and/or implementing common metadata and common data is detailed as a new type of data relationship, within and between databases. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207732 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a display controller that displays, on a display, an image showing a designated area designated by a user in an image being processed and an image showing an area registered in a database; an updating unit that, in response to an updating operation performed by the user for updating the designated area, specifies a candidate area for the designated area and updates the specified candidate area as the designated area; and a registering unit that registers the designated area in the database in response to a registering operation performed by the user for registering the designated area. In response to the updating operation, when at least part of the candidate area covers a predetermined area or an area larger than that of an area registered in the database, the updating unit does not update the candidate area as the designated area. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207733 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING AND PROCESSING DATA - A system and method for collecting and processing data over a communications network. A data mining marshaller module associates each plugin to a particular data source and manages the plugin to periodically retrieve unstructured data from the data source based on a plurality of data items to be monitored on behalf of a plurality of users. The plugins convert unstructured data received from the data sources to structured data and the data marshaller module stores the structured data in a database. This enables the system and method to aggregate and display the structured data in multiple graphical representations according to the user's preference. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207734 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION MANAGEMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Data synchronization management methods and systems for use in an electronic device are provided. First, activity log containing information regarding activities of friends of a user in an application within a specific period of time is acquired from a network application server via a network. Next, the activity log is analyzed to determine a frequency of activities of the application in each of time segments of a day. A sync frequency of a data sync procedure for each of the time segments is determined or adjusted according to the frequency of activities of the application in each of the time segments. The data sync procedure is performed with the network application server to update data from the server based on the sync frequency in each of the time segments. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207735 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC ALIGNMENT OF SOURCE SYNCHRONOUS BUS SIGNALS - An apparatus that compensates for misalignment on a synchronous data bus. The apparatus includes a replica distribution network, a bit lag control element, and a synchronous lag receiver. The replica distribution network receives a first signal, and generates a second signal, where the replica distribution network comprises replicated propagation characteristics of a radial distribution network for a strobe. The bit lag control element is configured to measure a propagation time beginning with assertion of the first signal and ending with assertion of the second signal, and is configured to generate a value on a lag bus that indicates the propagation time. The synchronous lag receiver is coupled to the bit lag control element, and is configured to receive a first one of a plurality of radially distributed strobes and a data bit, and is configured to delay registering of the data bit by the propagation time. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207736 | REPLICATION OF ASSETS ACROSS DATA CENTERS - The replication of an asset from a source cluster in a source data center to multiple target clusters in multiple destination data centers. The replication occurs by first estimating or determining a cost parameter associated with copying of the asset from the source cluster to each of at least some of the target clusters. As an example, the cost parameter might be a geographical parameter, but might also be any cost parameter such as a channel bandwidth, channel cost, utilization ratio or the like. Based on the cost parameters, an order of replication priority is determined. Then, the replication is initiated in accordance with the prioritization. The replication may occur in multiple phases, and replication prioritization may occur on a per phase basis. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207737 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZING KNOWLEDGE SERVICE - A knowledge service synchronization apparatus transmits a knowledge request message from a knowledge consumer to a knowledge server, receives a knowledge response message to the knowledge request message from the knowledge server, and outputs knowledge contents that the knowledge consumer requests. In this case, when the knowledge response message is an update message including updated knowledge contents, the knowledge service synchronization apparatus determines an output of knowledge contents of the update message according to whether the knowledge consumer wants to receive updated knowledge. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207738 | RECOVERY FOR LONG RUNNING MULTITHREADED PROCESSES - In response to receiving a checkpoint request from a first task for a process executing in parallel with at least a second task for the process, checkpoint data from the first task is stored to establish a restart point for the first task, wherein the checkpoint data records a current state of the first task, and the checkpoint data from the first task is merged with previously received checkpoint data for the at least second task to create a checkpoint file. In response to restarting the process, the first task and the at least second task are restarted using the checkpoint data in the checkpoint file. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207739 | RECONSTRUCTION OF SYSTEM DEFINITIONAL AND STATE INFORMATION - A determination is made as to whether one of a system definition file data set and a catalog data set is unavailable for orderly restart of an information system. The system definition file data set provides resource definition information for the information system and the catalog data set provides resource state information for the information system. A determination is made that the other of the system definition file data set and the catalog data set is available. The unavailable one of the system definition file data set and the catalog data set is reconstructed by rebuilding the system resource definition and state information used by the unavailable one of the system definition file data set and the catalog data set using system resource information within the other available one of the system definition file data set and the catalog data set. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207740 | Isolating Resources and Performance in a Database Management System - Techniques for tenant performance isolation in a multiple-tenant database management system are described. These techniques may include providing a reservation of server resources. The server resources reservation may include a reservation of a central processing unit (CPU), a reservation of Input/Output throughput, and/or a reservation of buffer pool memory or working memory. The techniques may also include a metering mechanism that determines whether the resource reservation is satisfied. The metering mechanism may be independent of an actual resource allocation mechanism associated with the server resource reservation. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207741 | DATA RETENTION COMPONENT AND FRAMEWORK - Systems and methods for dynamically managed data retention are described. The system comprises a tiered framework having a plurality of namespaces. The namespaces are configured by a user to have selected data retention attributes. Data including a manifest may be received by the system, processed, and directed to a namespace based upon the manifest. Data storage partitions may be created automatically in association with a namespace, and the data partitions may be assigned partition attributes. Data in a storage partition may be migrated automatically to another namespace based on the partition attributes. Code necessary for creating storage partitions and migrating data is generated by the data management system. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207742 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING SPECIAL TOPIC PAGES - Embodiments of the present application relate to a method for generating special topic pages, a device for generating special topic pages, and a computer program product for generating special topic pages. A method for generating special topic pages is provided. The method includes determining a configuration file bound to a special topic category corresponding to a received keyword, determining sub-categories that are under a category associated with the keyword in a quantity equal to the special topic content page module quantity in the configuration file, regarding the sub-categories as sub-category keywords in special topic content page modules, looking up product information that meets the query condition for the special topic content page modules in a database, regarding the looked up product information as content in the special topic content page modules, and generating the special topic content page modules within the special topic page. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207743 | Method for Storage Driven De-Duplication of Server Memory - A method for storage driven de-duplication of server memory comprises configuring a storage controller, as part of each IO operation, to generate a unique signature for each data page passing through the controller. The method associates the signature with the data page and stores the associated page and signature. The signature is added to a signature queue for signature match analysis with signatures stored in server memory. Signature analysis is limited to read-only pages to speed up analysis of pages more likely to be duplicates. Once a duplicate page is found, a page table is updated to point to the match page and the duplicate page is added to a free list. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207744 | MERGING COMPRESSED DATA ARRAYS - Compressed data sets can be merged without unraveling the compressed data sets. Concatenations of vectors of a first compressed data set that extend beyond a second compressed data set with no data vectors are represented in a third compressed data set. The no data vectors represent lack of data to be contributed from the second compressed data set. The third compressed data set represents a merger of the first and the second compressed data sets. Counterpart vectors of the first and second compressed data sets are determined using compression information for the vectors. Concatenations of the counterpart vectors are represented in the third compressed data set, as well as compression information that accounts for the determined counterpart vectors. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207745 | DATA COMPRESSION ALGORITHM SELECTION AND TIERING - A data storage subsystem having a plurality of data compression engines configured to compress data, each having a different compression algorithm. A data handling system is configured to determine a present rate of access to data; select at least one sample of data; determine the greatest degree of compression of said data compression engines; determine the compression ratios of the operated data compression engines with respect to the selected sample(s); compressing said selected at least one sample with a plurality of said data compression engines at said selected tier; operate a selected data compression engines with respect to the selected sample and determine the greatest degree of compression of the data compression engines; compress the data from which the sample was selected with one of the operated data compression engines determined to have the greatest degree of compression; and store the compressed data in data storage repositories. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207746 | Adaptive Query Suggestion - When a user-submitted query is received, a set of candidate queries is identified. For each of the candidate queries, features are extracted that, for each candidate query, reflect a measure of effectiveness of the candidate query. The candidate queries are rank ordered based on the measure of effectiveness, and one or more of the top-ranked candidate queries are presented as suggested alternatives to the user-submitted query. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207747 | NUMERIC VALUE DECAY FOR EFFICIENT RELEVANCE COMPUTATION - Search engines today are capable of incorporating numeric scoring modifiers from controlling applications into their relevance computations. Challenges arise in keeping these modifiers current, given that they may change over time. Embodiments provide a new way to compute numeric value decay for efficient relevance computation without having to rely on a controlling application. The controlling application can set a value for a modifier of an object managed by the controlling application and the controlling application can perform operations on the modifier. However, the controlling application does not need to keep track of the modifier and compute the modifier value independently. Rather, a search engine is configured to perform decay computation(s) and adjust the modifier value on a regular basis or on demand. The search engine ensures that modifier values for all the objects indexed by the search engine are always valid—within acceptable ranges and with acceptable adjustments. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207748 | GEO-AWARE SPELLCHECKING AND AUTO-SUGGEST SEARCH ENGINES - Systems and methods for generating geo-aware auto-suggestions for searching are provided. Characters corresponding to user input for a search query to a searching service may be processed prior to completion of the search query. Information about a geographical location may be processed. A geographical area of interest and potential correction(s) may be identified. Geo-specific suggestions may be determined based on the search query and/or a selected correction. The geo-specific suggestions may correspond to one or more identified businesses located in the geographical area of interest. The determining the geo-specific suggestions may include identifying business listing information corresponding to the geographical area of interest and the search query and/or a selected correction. The geo-specific suggestions may be indicated as a user-selectable option to complete the search query in a search query field for a search engine and/or to submit to the search engine as a selected search query. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207749 | Method and System for Incrementally Selecting and Providing Relevant Search Engines in Response to a User Query - Methods and systems for incrementally selecting and providing relevant search engines in response to a user query. A method of incrementally selecting and providing relevant search engines is based in part on identifying a set of search engines associated with corresponding metadata, receiving a partial search query entered by the user of a device, inferring after each user keypress a set of potential full queries intended by the user, using the potential full queries and the search engine metadata to identify a set of relevant search engines, and for each of these search engines, providing a direct link to launch a relevant query in the search engine. The user input may be either ambiguous, or erroneous, and may be entered using an input-constrained device. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207750 | QUERY GENERATION FOR SEARCHABLE CONTENT - Query generation for searchable content is provided. In some embodiments, query generation for searchable content includes receiving searchable content (e.g., the searchable content can include a unique identifier for the searchable content, such as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for a web site, and the web site can include one or more web pages); and generating a set of queries, the set of queries including one or more queries (e.g., the set of queries can include ranked queries) that are relevant to the searchable content. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207751 | SEARCH SYSTEM WITH QUERY REFINEMENT AND SEARCH METHOD - A search system and method for searching for electronic documents, and providing a search result in response to a search query. In one embodiment, the search system includes a processor, a user interface module adapted to receive a search query from a user that includes a search query term, a search engine that electronically searches for electronic documents that satisfy the search query term, and a query processing module that identifies at least one alternative term for the search query term, and provides the alternative term to the user interface module for display to the user, and also provides the alternative term to the search engine to search for electronic documents that satisfy the alternative term. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207752 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES AND VIDEOS FOUND ON THE INTERNET AS A RESULT OF A SEARCH ENGINE - A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, prior to entering a screensaver mode of operation, a search criteria identifying a requested subject matter, wherein the search criteria is based on a last user-initiated search query to a web-based search engine. In response to entering the screensaver mode, the search criteria identifying the requested subject matter is automatically transmitted to a web browser. Image content referenced by a set of uniform resource locators based upon the search criteria is sequentially presented. In response to receiving user input, a user-selectable region is presented comprising a selectable element superimposed on the first image. Selection of the element causes a defined action generating an e-mail message having an attachment with content referenced by a link associated with the first image. Receiving user input from a second input device ceases presenting of the image. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207753 | METHOD AND SYSTEM THAT ROUTES REQUESTS FOR ELECTRONIC FILES - A system, method, or computer-readable medium provide a look-up table having information on roots in repositories managed by a repository manager, the roots information in the look-up table being only n-levels deep. A file request is received, including filename and filepath with root. Before checking repositories managed by the repository manager for the requested file, the look-up table is referenced to determine whether the root of the requested file exists on one of the repositories managed by the repository manager. A check of the repository is bypassed when the look-up table does not indicate that the root exists on the repository. The repository is checked for the requested file, when the root is indicated as existing on the repository. The requested file is returned, if actually found on one repository. A “fail” response is returned, if the root is not indicated as existing in the look-up table. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207754 | Gathering Index Statistics Using Sampling - An approach is provided in which a sample point system allocates sample point identifiers to a root node included an index tree that includes multiple leaf nodes. The sample point system distributes the sample point identifiers to the root node's child nodes, and recursively traverses through the index tree's hierarchical index levels and distributes the sample point identifiers from the child nodes to a subset of the index tree's leaf nodes. In turn, the sample point system collects sample data from the subset of the plurality of leaf nodes corresponding to the distributed sample point identifiers. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207755 | System for Multi-store Analytics Execution Environments with Storage Constraints - Systems and methods are disclosed for managing a multi-store execution environment by applying opportunistic materialized views to improve workload performance and executing a plan on multiple database engines to increase query processing speed by leveraging unique capabilities of each engine by enabling stages of a query to execute on multiple engines, and by moving materialized views across engines. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207756 | USING TEMPORARY PERFORMANCE OBJECTS FOR ENHANCED QUERY PERFORMANCE - Methods for optimizing query performance in a relational database management system. A query is received at the relational database management system. It is determined whether the query is expected to be a long-running query. In response to determining that the query is expected to be a long-running query, a full table scan is started in order to fetch records needed to satisfy the query from the relational database management system. In parallel with conducting the full table scan, a performance object is built, which is capable of satisfying the query in the relational database management system. In response to completing the construction of the performance object prior to completing the full table scan, the full table scan is stopped and the newly built performance object is used instead to satisfy the query. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207757 | Using Metaphors to Present Concepts Across Different Intellectual Domains - A method, system, and computer program product for generating content of a topic for an intended audience are described. Topic information regarding a topic to be presented to an intended audience is obtained, as well as knowledge information regarding the intended audience. One or more metaphors relating to the topic and understood by the intended audience can be determined based at least in part on the topic information and the knowledge information. Content can be generated for the topic information based on a comparative analysis of the topic information to at least one of the one or more metaphors. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207758 | Thread Object-Based Search Method and Apparatus - Embodiments of the present invention provide a thread object-based search method and apparatus and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: receiving at least one thread object dragged by a user to a search area, where the search area is located on a current page of a web page; parsing the at least one thread object to obtain at least one attribute of the at least one thread object; searching by using the at least one attribute as a keyword; and displaying results obtained by performing the searching. The present invention is applicable to an intelligent terminal. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207759 | QUERY ENGINE FOR BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A computer-implemented system for facilitating cross-subsystem queries of a plurality of building automation subsystems includes a first database storing a logical model for a building automation system. The system further includes a second database storing information for the plurality of building automation subsystems. The second database relates information for the plurality of building automation subsystems based on the logical model of the first database. The system also includes a query engine configured to decompose a cross-subsystem query received from an application into a plurality of subsystem queries using the information of the second database. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207760 | CLUSTER VIEW FOR STORAGE DEVICES - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for generating a macroscopic cluster view of storage devices, as opposed to merely an isolated view from an individual node. For example, nodes within a node cluster may be queried for storage device reports comprising storage device information regarding storage devices with which the nodes are respectively connected (e.g., I/O performance statistics, path connections, storage device attributes, status, error history, etc.). The storage device reports may be aggregated together to define one or more storage device data structures (e.g., a storage device data structure comprising one or more tables that may be populated with storage device information). In this way, the cluster view may be generated based upon querying one or more storage device data structures (e.g., an error cluster view, a storage device cluster view, a node summary cluster view, etc.). | 2014-07-24 |
20140207761 | INDEXING AND SEARCHING CONTENT BEHIND LINKS PRESENTED IN A COMMUNICATION - Among other disclosures, a method may include identifying content in an electronic communication, the content including a link. The method may include characterizing content associated with the link and storing the characterization. Upon detecting a match of a characterization, presenting one or more of the communication or portion thereof, the link or content associated with the link. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207762 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR MULTILEVEL CREATION OF CONSOLIDATED DYNAMIC PLAYLIST AND UTILIZATION THEREOF - A method and system that includes an aggregation of clients' playlists, separate item names, and a systems own playlists that are converted to request lists. A consolidated dynamic playlist is created by a computer algorithm, which provides an order of priority depending on input variables. Depending on a system mode, consolidated dynamic playlist of a lower level can participate in higher level session of the system. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207763 | RANKING RELEVANT ATTRIBUTES OF ENTITY IN STRUCTURED KNOWLEDGE BASE - Architecture that addresses at least the problem of ranking the relevant attributes for a given entity within the context of a structured knowledge base (SKB). The architecture utilizes the attribute, entity type statistics, and the taxonomy of the attributes to consistently and efficiently rank attributes for each and every type of entity in the SKB. Using the SKB, intermediate features are computed, including the importance or popularity each entity type for every entity, inverse document frequency (IDF) computation for each attribute on a global basis, IDF computation for entity types, and the popularity of attributes for each entity type. The intermediate features are aggregated to obtain a final feature set, which can be used in combination with human judgments to train a machine learned classifier model to produce and predict a relevance score for a given entity and each of its attributes. The attributes are ranked for each entity using this score. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207764 | DYNAMIC FEATURE SELECTION WITH MAX-RELEVANCY AND MINIMUM REDUNDANCY CRITERIA - Various embodiments select features from a feature space. In one embodiment a set of features and a class value are received. A redundancy score is obtained for a feature that was previously selected from the set of features. A redundancy score is determined, for each of a plurality of unselected features in the set of features, based on the redundancy score that has been obtained, and a redundancy between the unselected feature and the feature that was previously selected. A relevance to the class value is determined for each of the unselected features. A feature from the plurality of unselected features with a highest relevance to the class value and a lowest redundancy score is selected. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207765 | DYNAMIC FEATURE SELECTION WITH MAX-RELEVANCY AND MINIMUM REDUNDANCY CRITERIA - Various embodiments select features from a feature space. In one embodiment a set of features and a class value are received. A redundancy score is obtained for a feature that was previously selected from the set of features. A redundancy score is determined, for each of a plurality of unselected features in the set of features, based on the redundancy score that has been obtained, and a redundancy between the unselected feature and the feature that was previously selected. A relevance to the class value is determined for each of the unselected features. A feature from the plurality of unselected features with a highest relevance to the class value and a lowest redundancy score is selected. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207766 | Assertion Quality Assessment and Management System - An assertion assessment system is presented. An assertion object that represents a relationship between an assertion and an information source can be bound to a quality measure as an indication of the quality of the assertion object. The assertion assessment system enables different recipients of assertion objects that are linked to information sources to assess assertion quality of the assertion objects. The assertion assessment system manages and tracks these assessments of the assertion objects and provides useful indications to the recipients. Thus, workers who come upon an assertion can make a judgment on the quality of the assertion based on assessment made by other workers, without going through the information source that supports the assertion. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207767 | INFORMATION REPOSITORY SEARCH SYSTEM - Systems and methods for an information repository search system are disclosed. The system receives search criteria from users and associates the search criteria with source information. The source information identifies sources via which the search criteria are being received. The system further maintains counts of instances for the plurality of search criteria in association with the respective source information. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207768 | SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION USING A FIND OPERATION - Provided are a computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for ranking search results. It is determined that a find operation with a find keyword has been issued for a page. In response to determining that the find keyword has been located on the page, the find keyword is stored in an index as relevant text for the page. In response to receiving a subsequent search request for which the page is retrieved, the page is ranked based on the find keyword. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207769 | System and Method for Identifying Groups of Entities - A computer implemented system and method is used to identify groups of entities based on bipartite directed graphs. Each group consists of two sets of entities, which have some association between each other. Two parameters, typicality and coverage, are taken into account in the computation for identifying the groups. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207770 | System and Method for Identifying Documents - A system for determining a similarity between a first document and a potential matching document is provided, wherein the system comprises a processor that is configured to perform steps of: determining a first identifier associated with the first document; identifying at least one potential matching document; for each document of the at least one potential matching documents: determining a second identifier; and determining a document similarity score, the document similarity score being indicative of a similarity between the first identifier and the second identifier. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207771 | Methods and Systems for Mapping Repair Orders within a Database - Methods and systems for mapping repairs orders within a database are described. Mapping a repair order can include generating a searchable data record with multiple data record fields. Each data record field can include a term located on the repair order or a standard term associated with the term on the repair order. In order to retrieve repair orders from the database, the data records can be searched using search criteria that match standard terms storable in the data record fields. Although the repair orders can be searched to find repair orders with terms that match the search criteria, the search may be carried our more efficiently (e.g., quicker) by searching the data records instead of the repair orders. One or more repairs orders can be associated with real-fix tips. Phrases of the real-fix tips can be selected automatically based, for example, or RO terms recited on the repair orders. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207772 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED INFORMATION REUSE - Embodiments of the present invention relate to an approach for reusing information/knowledge. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for retrieving previously stored data to satisfy queries (e.g., jobs/tickets) for solutions to problems while maintaining privacy/security of the data as well as ensuring the quality of the results. In a typical embodiment, a query for a solution to a problem is received and details are extracted therefrom. Using the details, a search is performed on a set of data stored in at least one computer storage device. Based on the search, a set of results will be generated and classified into a set of categories. In any event, the quality of each of the set of results will be assessed based on the usefulness of the set of results. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207773 | ASSOCIATION APPARATUS, ASSOCIATION METHOD, ASSOCIATION PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - To associate a keyword with a category having a high degree of relevance with the keyword. An association apparatus comprises an acquisition means that acquires the number of times when each of a plurality of categories of a search target is designated as a search condition together with a keyword, and a registration means that registers category information indicating the category for which the number of times acquired by the acquisition means is a threshold or more, and the keyword in an associated manner. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207774 | Virtual Building Browser Systems and Methods - Systems and methods are provided for a virtual building browser with a viewing module displaying images of visible elements and hidden elements, a searchable, relational database configured in a (COBie) compliant format, a query module, and an interface tool for accessing building information management (BIM) data in real-time, monitoring systems to manage facility assets, integration applications linking the searchable database with associated databases, peripheral devices, and user devices. In one embodiment, user devices are iPad® tablet devices with GPS. A computer implemented apparatus for a virtual tour system is also included. Steps for providing a virtual building browser, a virtual tour, and for linking LEED data to a virtual location are included plus computer-implemented methods with computer-usable readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therein for causing a computer system to perform steps for a virtual tour, displaying building information management images of locations are included. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207775 | ON THE FLY DATA BINNING - A computer-implemented method, a computer-implemented system, and a computer program product for data binning are disclosed. In a first aspect, the computer-implemented method comprises in response to a determination that a data value is greater than an estimated maximum data value, calculating a new bin position for the data value by adding multiples of a bin width to the estimated maximum data value until a bin where the data value belongs is found. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207776 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINKING DATA SOURCES FOR PROCESSING COMPOSITE CONCEPTS - A computer-implemented method and system and computer-readable medium are disclosed for linking an ontology provided by a content service (i.e. category ontology) with a word expansion ontology (i.e. lexical ontology). A user may provide an input such as a voice command to an application. The voice command is processed by a natural language processing (NLP) engine to derive the user's intent and to extract relevant entities embodied in the command. The NLP engine may create a composite concept set containing multiple permutations of the concepts (entities extracted) and provide the composite concept set to a concept mapper. The concept mapper searches a mapping file and applies one or more scoring operations to determine a best match between the composite concept set and at least one category provided by the category ontology. The content service is searched using the category and the results are displayed to the user. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207777 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING SIMILAR LABELS USING COLLABORATIVE FILTERING - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable storage media for identifying similar labels. In some implementations, one or more servers maintain a plurality of data entries in one or more database tables storing textual data, each data entry of a first portion of the data entries including: a text sequence, a label, and a text-to-label association score, and each data entry of a second portion of the data entries including: a first label, a second label, and a similarity score. The one or more servers analyze the data of the first portion of data entries to generate one or more pairs, each pair including information identifying a first label and a second label. The one or more servers calculate a similarity score for each of the one or more pairs and store the respective similarity scores in the second portion of the data entries. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207778 | SYSTEM AND METHODS THEREOF FOR GENERATION OF TAXONOMIES BASED ON AN ANALYSIS OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ELEMENTS - A method and system for generating concept structures and taxonomies based on received multimedia data elements (MMDEs) are provided. The method comprises receiving at least one MMDE; generating at least one signature for the at least one received MMDE; matching the at least one generated signature to a plurality of clusters to find at least one matching cluster; associating the at least one generated signature with each of the at least one matching cluster; and analyzing the at least one generated signature with respect to a signature reduced cluster (SRC) of each of the at least one matching cluster to generate a taxonomy, wherein the taxonomy relates to the at least one received MMDE and an MMDE respective of each of the at least one matching cluster. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207779 | MANAGING TAG CLOUDS - A method, data processing system, and computer program product for managing tags. A computer system identifies one or more groups of similar tags from a multiplicity of tags proposed for inclusion in a tag cloud. The computer system identifies one or more representative tags to represent the respective one or more groups of similar tags. The computer system displays the one or more representative tags in the tag cloud instead of all the similar tags in the one or more groups of similar tags, and concurrently displays other tags in the multiplicity of tags that are not included in the one or more groups of similar tags. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207780 | GROUPING SYSTEM USING GENOTYPE-BASED SNS - Disclosed is a grouping system using a genotype-based SNS in that, when the peoples having a genotype want to form their community, it provides a means of access to the genotype of an individual's particular position within the limit of a technical security maintenance, so that the social networks is constituted online according to the genetic identity, whereby satisfying personal tastes of the members. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207781 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A PICTORIAL REFERENCE DATABASE USING GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION - For generating a pictorial reference database from a plurality of digital images, distributed geographical sub-areas are defined (S | 2014-07-24 |
20140207782 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTERIZED SEMANTIC PROCESSING OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS INCLUDING THEMES - System and method for computerized identification of themes in a large data set, the system comprising reducing the number of data set members in a large data set, using at least one computerized data set member pruning technique other than random selection; and using a computerized theme identification technique for identifying a plurality of themes in the reduced data set. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207783 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTERIZED IDENTIFICATION AND EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION OF SEMANTIC THEMES OCCURRING IN A SET OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - System and method for computerized identification and presentation of semantic themes occurring in a set of electronic documents, comprising performing topic modeling on the set of documents thereby to yield a set of topics and for each topic, a topic-modeling output list of words; and using a processor performing a matching algorithm to match only a subset of each topic-modeling output list of words, to the output list's corresponding topic, such that each word appears in no more than a predetermined number of subsets from among said subsets. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207784 | SAMPLING OF EVENTS TO USE FOR DEVELOPING A FIELD-EXTRACTION RULE FOR A FIELD TO USE IN EVENT SEARCHING - Embodiments are directed towards generating a representative sampling as a subset from a larger dataset that includes unstructured data. A graphical user interface enables a user to provide various data selection parameters, including specifying a data source and one or more subset types desired, including one or more of latest records, earliest records, diverse records, outlier records, and/or random records. Diverse and/or outlier subset types may be obtained by generating clusters from an initial selection of records obtained from the larger dataset. An iteration analysis is performed to determine whether a sufficient number of clusters and/or cluster types have been generated that exceed at least one threshold and when not exceeded, additional clustering is performed on additional records. From the resultant clusters, and/or other subtype results, a subset of records is obtained as the representative sampling subset. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207785 | Associating VIsuals with Articles - A method and system for associating a visual graphic with an article in a list of articles, to assist the user in identifying and distinguishing different articles in the list. Associated visuals may be selected from visuals embedded within the article, or may be retrieved from a visual pool via text-matching of article titles and text to text stored with the visuals in the visual pool. Embodiments of the invention provide methods for selecting a unique visual for each title in the list, even when the articles do not contain any illustrating visuals and even when illustrating visuals are duplicated among several different articles. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207786 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION GOVERNANCE OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - An information governance system comprising a plurality of classifiers which employ cutoffs for classifying at least a portion of a population of incoming documents as documents to be retained and documents to be discarded in accordance with a corresponding plurality of pre-defined retention schedules; training apparatus for training said classifiers based on relevance inputs provided by a human information governance expert regarding a training set of documents within a universe of documents to be governed; and apparatus operative to automatically cause any classified document to be retained and subsequently discarded in accordance with its pre-defined retention schedule including discarding only documents that (a) have been classified as documents to be discarded and (b) have not been classified as documents to be retained, and to automatically cause any document which could not be classified, to be retained as gray area data until further notice. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207787 | Multi-tenant system for consolidating, searching and sharing distributed user-specific digital content - This invention is a system for consolidating distributed user-specific digital content, making the content available for search through a user-specific search index, and enabling sharing of selected user-specific digital content with other users through dynamically created ad hoc shared search indexes. The preferred embodiment of this invention is a multi-tenant user subscription based service hosted on the internet. Another embodiment of this invention is a multi-tenant system hosted within an organization. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207788 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING DATA - A system and method for organizing raw data from one or more sources uses an improved mechanism for identifying duplicate data between fields (e.g., columns) in the databases. The fields may be similar fields within a single database or similar or identical fields within a pair of databases and as organized as arrays or field vectors. The present invention sorts each of the field vectors and if necessary, partitions them by common value. A number of comparisons required to identify the duplicate data between the field vectors is reduced by feeding back a difference between the compared values. This difference is used to adjust indices into the field vectors for subsequent comparison. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207789 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION-SENSITIVE AUTO-COMPLETE QUERY - A system for providing an auto-complete query to a user terminal includes a query indexing unit configured to index search queries. Each of the search queries is associated with location information. The indexing includes incorporating the location information into an associated one of the search queries. At least one of the search queries being a previously provided auto-complete query. The system includes a keyword generating unit configured to generate a keyword by incorporating location information associated with the user terminal into a query inputted by the user terminal. The system includes a query providing unit configured to determine that at least one of the indexed search queries corresponds to the generated keyword, and provide, to the user terminal, the determined at least one of the indexed search queries as the auto-complete query. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207790 | MAPPING AND BOOSTING OF TERMS IN A FORMAT INDEPENDENT DATA RETRIEVAL QUERY - Aspects of the present invention provide a tool for retrieving data in response to a query in any format. In an embodiment, each query term of the query is analyzed to determine whether it corresponds to either a domain keyword or a formula designator. If a formula designator is retrieved, each formula term associated with the formula designator is mapped to a domain keyword. Each of the domain keywords, the formula designators, and the mapped formula terms are boosted. A dataset is searched using a structured search query that includes all boosted terms, as well as any remaining query terms that do not correspond to one of the boosted terms. | 2014-07-24 |