33rd week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 52 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110202442 | ENTERPRISE RENDERING PLATFORM WITH TRANSACTIONAL BILLING AND CHARTING FEATURES - An enterprise rendering platform for providing enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) functionality for a computing device having a web browser includes at least one ERP system storing enterprise data on at least one server. A rendering workbench providing a GUI-based editor in which metadata for at least one selected ERP function is presented to a setup user, and in which a view for executing the ERP function may be created with no coding. The view may be designed to include dynamically created charts of received ERP data. If a user's ERP request from executing the view is determined to be chargeable, a transactional billing charge may be recorded by creating a billing database record for the chargeable ERP request. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202443 | System For Wireless Cybermedia Services - A wireless cybermedia system of commerce in communications, comprising a business process and open network management system for syndication, performance and distribution of multimedia content to wireless residential, institutional and educational users; original articles of manufacture specifically including a transceiver device and navigation interfaces for processing network metadata; and a wireless broadband supernetwork apparatus for scalable delivery of internet protocol multimedia services. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202444 | Simple Tranche Leverage, See Through Leverage And Enhanced See Through Leverage - STL(0), STL(X) and ESTL(X) are processes for determining unique measures of risk for fixed income derivatives and securities. The processes are based on determining this unique concept of risk for a given outer capital structure layer and then combining that risk measure with the average of a similar risk measure of securities referenced by that capital structure repetitively until a base reference level is reached. In particular, a storage device comprises computer-executable instructions for determining risk of a financial instrument which is affected by or offered as a plurality of tranches. The computer-executable instructions, when executed on a programmable computer: identify a width, W, of a given tranche of the instrument; identify an attachment ratio, A, of the given tranche; and determine a liability ratio of the tranche by subtracting the attachment ratio from unity; and determine a simple tranche leverage value, STL(0), of the tranche by dividing the liability ratio by the width. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202445 | Method and System to raise capital for single product entertainment media companies - A method and system for single product entertainment media corporations to develop initial public offerings (IPO) that are listed on an alternative trading system (ATS) and are bought sold and traded through the use of electronic communication networks (ECN) and other digital devices such as computers and smart phones. As well as having an option to create initial public offerings that take into account multiple iterations of the same intellectual property such as film sequels, television series or video game upgrades. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202446 | Method and system for grouping and marketing consumer premises equipment loans - The present invention teaches a variety of systems and methods enabling renewable energy consumer premises equipment (CPE) such as dual metering techniques. The present invention contemplates, among other things, supporting, by increasing a likelihood of meeting financing obligations, a consumer purchasing, leasing, installing and/or maintaining renewable energy CPE for power generation at a consumer premises. The renewable energy CPE may be attached to a structure on the consumer premises, disposed free standing on the consumer premises, or utilized through any other suitable means on the consumer premises. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202447 | Financial data processing system - To process financial articles of trade, real time data is collected from a plurality of liquidity destinations in trading at least one of securities, commodities, options, futures and derivatives, the real time data including information on submitted transactions of financial articles of trade. The real time data collected from the plurality of liquidity destinations is aggregated. The real time data is streamed in a standardized form. User criteria are established to identify relevant portions of the streamed real time data. The streamed real time data is analyzed according to the user criteria. The analyzed real time data is consolidated into a computer data base. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202448 | Agency payment system - An agency payment system for transactions covered by a virtual market control entity between participants. The system determines all payments required to be made by each virtual market control entity participant on a given day. It nets all of each of the participant's required payments to be made with the payments received by the virtual market control entity on the previous day due to each participant to obtain a net cash movement, either from the virtual market control entity to the participant's account or from the participant's account to the virtual market control entity. It transfers between the participant's account and the virtual market control entity's account and each participant's account the net cash movements to the virtual market control entity's account. It then transfers between the virtual market control entity's account and each participant's account the net cash movements to the participant's account. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202449 | System and Method for Event Driven Virtual Workspace - A system and method for an event driven virtual workspace are described. According to one example method, a trader can define a plurality of windows to be associated with a virtual workspace. Also, the trader could define one or more triggering events, the combination of which may be used to activate the virtual workspace. In such an embodiment, when the system detects the one or more triggers, the system can attempt to activate the virtual workspace. According to the example method, the trader may place a number of limiting conditions before any states of the currently displayed windows are modified such that the triggered virtual workspace could be displayed. If no limiting conditions are detected, the system can display the triggered virtual workspace. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202450 | Exchange Traded Note Indexed to a Single Product - Systems and methods are provided for creating and managing Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) which are indexed to a single product such as a stock or another financial instrument. The ETN may be created by selecting a stock, and conducting a broker poll to determine the level of the index related to the ETN. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202451 | System and Method for Graphically Displaying Market Related Data Using Fixed Size Bars - A system and method are provided for displaying market related data, such as traded volume at each price level, or any other trader-selected values, using one or more fixed size bars. In one preferred embodiment, a graphical display interface is provided and includes a plurality of fixed size bars that display traded volume at different price levels. In such an embodiment, the length of each bar may correspond to a predefined maximum value, and each bar may be progressively color-coded using a first graphical format to represent traded volume that is lower than the maximum value. If the traded volume exceeds the maximum value, the overflow value may be represented by progressively color-coding the bar using a second graphical format that may be used in relation to the first graphical format color-coding. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202452 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BORROW COVERAGE SERVICES TO SHORT SELL SECURITIES - The present invention is directed to providing borrow coverage services to clients by a conduit lender, while the conduit lender maintains a flat position. The source of supply for the loans is a liquidity pool from existing agent lenders that have enrolled the conduit lender as a borrower. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202453 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE SECURE TRANSACTION CONFIDENCE SCORE - A computerized system and method for determining a mobile secure transaction confidence (MSTC) score and reporting the MSTC score to a financial transactor, such as a merchant or payment processor, is disclosed. The system includes a mobile device, such as a smart phone having a touch screen display, and sensors, such as an accelerometer. The method includes steps of collecting operational data for a mobile device, recording the operational data to establish short term and long term patterns pertaining to mobile device interaction characteristics, user traits, mobile device use characteristics or combinations thereof. Other steps include determining the MSTC score by comparison of the short term and long term patterns for the device interaction characteristics, user traits, and device use characteristics, then reporting the secure transaction confidence score to a financial transactor. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202454 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING RESOURCES - A method of managing resources through optimising performance-based compensation is presented. The method is particularly applicable to fund management, and can provide a number of advantages in fund management including: asymmetric recourse against a fund manager's compensation, dynamically managed exposure and performance fees varied according to an agreement between an investor and the manager. The method comprises monitoring the value of the fund, calculating a performance fee that is due to the fund manager for managing the fund, adding, when the value of the fund increases, a first portion of the performance fee to a fund manager's account, and a second portion of the performance fee to a cushion account, and subtracting, when the value of the managed fund decreases over said time period, a compensation fee from the cushion account to compensate for at least some of the decreased value of the managed fund. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202455 | PREPAID ACCOUNT FUNDS TRANSFER APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The PREPAID ACCOUNT FUNDS TRANSFER APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“PAFT”) transform prepaid account invitation requests via PAFT components into scheduled prepaid account transactions. In one embodiment, the PAFT obtains, from a transferor user holding a transferor prepaid account, a prepaid account invitation request specifying a transferee user and a prepaid funds transfer amount. The PAFT generates a customized prepaid account invitation for the transferee user based on the prepaid account invitation request, and provides the customized prepaid account invitation for the transferee user. Upon obtaining an invitation acceptance from the transferee user in response to the provided customized prepaid account invitation, the PAFT creates a transferee prepaid account for the transferee user, and transfers, upon creating the transferee prepaid account, the prepaid funds transfer amount of funds specified in the prepaid account invitation request from the transferor prepaid account to the created transferee prepaid account. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202456 | NOTIFICATION AND RESPONSE SYSTEM WITH FINANCIAL TRACKING FEATURES - A notification and response system utilizing a processor with dynamic information database and an administrator interface to transmit a financial messages from an administrator to a contact devices for guardians, and others associated with persons in an institution. The database has guardian, employee, and other person contact data, priority information, and response data. The administrator initiates distribution of the financial message based upon priority information and the priority order. The message is transmitted through at least two industry standard protocols simultaneously to guardians, employee, and other persons listed contact devices based upon priority information. Once the financial message is received a response is transmitted back through the two industry standard protocols back to the dynamic information database to insure the financial account is fully funded. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202457 | Systems and Methods for Managing Risk Associated with a Geo-Political Area - Methods and systems are presented for managing Risks, including regulatory and reputational risk. The methods can be implemented in a computer and include receiving data descriptive of informational artifacts with content related to at least one of reputational and regulatory risk into the computer system. The computer system can have one or more geo-political areas defined within it. The computer system can also receive data descriptive of details of a financial transaction, wherein the details include an indication of at least one geopolitical area associated with the financial transaction. At least one informational artifact related to at least one of reputational and regulatory risk can be associated with the at least one geopolitical area associated with the financial transaction and the computer system can generate a report comprising data descriptive of the informational artifacts associated with the at least one geopolitical area associated with the financial transaction. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202458 | BILL AVAILABILITY NOTIFICATION AND BILLING INFORMATION REQUEST - Systems and methods for presenting billing information are provided. A notice may be transmitted via a network by a bill presentment service provider system comprising one or more computers. The notice may be transmitted in accordance with an e-mail protocol, and the notice may indicate availability of billing information via a bill present service provider system. Subsequent to transmitting the notice, a request for the billing information may be received by the bill presentment service provider system via the second protocol. The request may be received responsive to a selection of the hyper-link. Responsive to receiving the request, at least a portion of the billing information may be transmitted by the bill presentment service provider system via the network. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202459 | PROCESSING TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING EXTERNAL FUNDS - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for processing transactions involving external funds are presented. A funding source associated with a financial institution different from a financial institution at which a transaction is being conducted may be identified. The funding source may be validated and registered with the financial institution at which the transaction is being conducted. In some examples, a trust level may be determined for a user associated with the funding source, and the amount of funds available for transacting may be limited based on the trust level. In some examples, an amount of funds from the funding source available for transacting may be limited by an amount of funds associated with the user at the financial institution where the transaction is being conducted. Responsive to risk factors being met, the requested transaction may be rejected automatically. Otherwise, a transaction may be processed with the financial institution with funds drawn from the registered funding source. The transaction may be processed automatically in accordance with a predefined transfer schedule. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202460 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHORIZING TRANSACTIONS BASED ON RELATIVE LOCATION OF DEVICES - Aspects of a method and system for authorizing transactions based on relative location of devices are provided. In this regard, data relating to a location of a first communication device and data relating to a location of a second communication device may be received, a distance between the first communication device and the second communication device may be determined based on the received data, and whether to approve a transaction may be determined based on the determined distance. The transaction may have been initiated from one of the first communication device and the second communication device, and may comprise a need to access an account. The transaction may be approved in instances that the first communication device and the second communication device are within a predetermined distance of each other. The received data may comprise distance information determined via communications between the first communication device and the second communication device. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202461 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHORIZING NETWORK TRANSACTIONS BASED ON RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) CHARACTERIZATION OF A DEVICE'S LOCATION - Aspects of a method and system for authorizing network transactions based on radio frequency (RF) characterization of a device's location are provided. In this regard, whether to approve a communication device to perform a network transaction may be determined based on results of a comparison between a radio frequency (RE) characterization of a location of the communication device and one or more approved RF characterizations. The RF characterization may be based on information from a plurality of receivers within the communication device. The one or more approved characterizations may be stored in the network device. The RF characterization may indicate a quantity of RF sources detected and identified by the communication device at the location. The RF characterization may indicate signal strength of signals received from RF sources detected and indentified by the communication device at the location. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202462 | METHOD FOR A PAYMENT CARDHOLDER TO CONTROL AND MANAGE THE USE OF A PAYMENT CARD - A method for providing a payment cardholder with control over a payment card is provided herein, hi one respect, the method of the present invention uses a managing platform to configure a set of usage parameters for usage of the payment card. After that, the payment card is associated with the managing platform, and allows the payment cardholder to select one or more of the usage parameters. Based on the selected usage parameters, a set of cardholder parameters are associated with the payment card, and include defining rules for determining an acceptable transaction and an unacceptable transaction for the payment card. Then, the managing platform intercepts an authorization for each transaction of the payment card and identifies, based on the cardholder parameters, each of the transactions as being one of the acceptable transactions or the unacceptable transactions. Finally, a message notifies the payment cardholder of at least one of the unacceptable transactions. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202463 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CARDHOLDER INITIATED TRANSACTIONS - A cardholder-initiated financial transaction using a cardholder controlled input device in communication with a payment card network and a database is disclosed. The cardholder uses a payment card issued to the cardholder by an issuer bank. An exemplary method includes the steps of storing merchant data within the database including data identifying the merchants registered to utilize the card network and receiving from the input device transaction data relating to the financial transaction. The transaction data includes an authorization request and merchant identifying data that identifies the merchant involved in the transaction. The method further includes determining that the identified merchant is registered to utilize the card network by comparing the transaction data with the merchant data stored in the database, forwarding the authorization request to the issuer bank, receiving a response to the request from the issuer bank, and automatically forwarding the response to the input device. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202464 | System and Method for Controlling Actions Taken on Voting Devices - The present invention is directed to a system and method that allows a central election office to maintain control over actions taken on voting devices located at various polling locations. In an exemplary embodiment, a poll worker or other user contacts the central election office with a request to perform an action on a voting device. An election management system located at the central election office executes a hashing algorithm to generate a first hash code associated with the action. The central election office communicates the first hash code to the polling location, and the poll worker or other user inputs the first hash code into the voting device. The voting device executes the same hashing algorithm to generate a second hash code associated with the action, and compares the second hash code to the first hash code to verify the validity of the first hash code. If the validity of the first hash code is verified, the voting device permits the poll worker or other user to perform the action on the voting device. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202465 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING POINT OF SALE TRANSACTIONS WITH MINIMAL TRANSFER OF SENSITIVE DATA - Disclosed herein are a system and method for facilitating point of sale transactions with minimal transfer of sensitive data corresponding to a consumer or merchant. The system and method comprise connecting to a central banking system using a communications apparatus for connecting to a landline or mobile communications network. The communications apparatus is coupled to one or more slots for receiving a merchant digital token and a consumer digital token storing merchant public and private keys and consumer public and private keys, respectively. The merchant and consumer public keys are used to identify the merchant and consumer, respectively, to the central banking system. The merchant and consumer private keys are used to sign, and thereby authenticate, a merchant sign-on agreement and a payment authorization form, respectively. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202466 | Multifactor Authentication - An electronic device with radio and GNSS receiving capabilities is used to provide a second or further authentication factor to current and future transaction systems. The device's embedded characteristics are combined with GNSS data into a unique identifiable device code. The device can be used initially to put a bank or credit card into a “transaction enabled” mode. The location of the electronic device can be compared to the location from which a request to use the enabled card originates. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202467 | AUTOMATED LOAD CONTROL AND DISPATCH SYSTEM AND METHOD - A group of electronic circuit logic blocks work together to receive a load control event message and respond thereto. A display is generated for a customer that includes (1) a set of plural load control scenarios that can be selected to respond to the load control event message and (2) an amount of reduction associated with selected load control scenarios of the plural load control scenarios that were selected in response to the load control event message. The display may also include a monetary value of the amount of reduction associated with the selected load control scenarios of the plural load control scenarios that were selected in response to the load control event message. An electronic commitment message is sent in response identifying an amount the customer will reduce a load at a time specified in the load control event message. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202468 | Customizing an Extensible Markup Language Standard for Technical Documentation - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for customizing an extensible markup language standard for technical documentation. Preliminary analysis is conducted for a project associated with the extensible markup language specification for technical data. A user interface inputs multiple preliminary decisions based on the preliminary analysis, wherein each of the multiple preliminary decisions corresponds to one of multiple prompts associated with the extensible markup language specification for technical data. The user interface provides access for multiple project representatives to the multiple preliminary decisions. A preliminary decision of the multiple preliminary decisions is converted to a decision based on a user input via the user interface. The user interface may output a report based at least on the decision. A data module may be generated based at least on the decision, wherein the data module may be executed to process technical data associated with the project. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202469 | FCS SMART TOUCH FOR C LEVEL EXECUTIVES - Graphical business intelligence tool. An example of a method for providing graphical business intelligence (BI) tool with a touch screen user interface includes receiving user authentication information and displaying one or more briefing books. The method includes displaying one or more chapters associated with the one or more briefing books. The method includes displaying maps, images and layouts associated to the one or more chapters. The method includes presenting Business Intelligence reports that take input from the maps, the images and, the layouts. The method includes allowing the one or more briefing books, chapters, measures, features, BI Reports to be configured. The method also includes creating graphical representations of dimensions used by a vertical, enabling graphical navigation capabilities in the graphical BI tool, calibrating the touch screen user interface with the graphical BI tool, and deploying the graphical BI tool with the touch screen user interface. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202470 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBLIGATION MANAGEMENT - A system and methods for managing obligations. The system includes a database storage system including at least one contract, wherein a contract including a plurality of obligations. A data processing system, operatively coupled to the database storage system, manages the contracts and the obligations. The data processing system is configured to extract the plurality of obligations associated with the contract, and define relationships between these obligations. Upon computation of the defined relationships, the data processing system triggers corresponding actions, resulting in obligation compliance. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202471 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELLING MOTOR VEHICLES - A method of providing an estimated value of a vehicle comprises providing access for a user to a server, wherein the user provides a data for a vehicle to the website. The data is stored in a user database and assigned an identification code. The server calculates an estimated vehicle value based on data provided by the user, wherein the estimated vehicle value is calculated at a first point in time. The estimated value of the vehicle is provided to the user. A vehicle advertisement is generated, wherein the identification code is embedded in the advertisement, wherein the advertisement provides the value of the vehicle calculated at the first point in time. The server receives the identification code at a second point in time, wherein the second point in time is after the first point in time, wherein the identification code is obtained from the embedded identification code. The data is retrieved from the user database using the identification code and the updated estimated vehicle value is calculated at substantially the second point in time. The updated estimated vehicle value is sent to a user system, wherein the server provides the updated estimated vehicle value sent to the user system. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202472 | REAL-TIME SALES SUPPORT AND LEARNING TOOL - A real time sales support method includes automatically monitoring an interaction between a sales agent and a customer. One or more contexts of the interaction are determined and, based on the contexts, stored information relevant to the interaction is automatically retrieved. The retrieved information is provided in an electronically presentable format to the sales agent to be shared with the customer. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202473 | Progressive Refinement Model for Business Processes - In one embodiment, a method for refining a business process model includes receiving business process data pertaining to a first phase of a business process definition from a first class of users, creating a model of a business process using the business process data received from the first class of users, receiving business process data pertaining to a second phase of the business process definition from a second class of users, and augmenting the model of the business process based on the business process data received from the second class of users. The method further includes iteratively refining the model of the business process in response to input provided by the first class of users and/or the second class of users. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202474 | Life Calendar - A method for providing a life calendar for a user includes gathering and tracking user data. The user data includes data associated with user-specific events and financial data. Recommendations are determined for the life calendar user based on the user data and may be refined based on bank data. Upon request, the life calendar is presented to the user populated with at least one of user data, user events, and recommendations. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202475 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING AN ANTI-BENCHMARK PORTFOLIO - Methods and systems are described regarding creating a portfolio of securities involving a step of maximizing a diversification ratio represented by a quotient having as a numerator a measure of a weighted average risk characteristic of a group of securities and as a denominator a measure of an overall risk characteristic of the portfolio. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202476 | METHOD FOR RECHARGING ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED RECHARGING STATIONS - A method for recharging an electric vehicle in a recharging station of a network of geographically distributed recharging stations. The method includes: communicating availability of a recharging station to a control centre of the network; transmitting a recharge request from an onboard unit of the electric vehicle via communication devices of a road toll system to the control centre; assigning the onboard unit to an available recharging station in the control centre; notifying the onboard unit of the assigned recharging station via the communication devices of the road toll system and notifying the recharging station of the onboard unit; and activating the recharging station to recharge the electric vehicle, when the assigned onboard unit is detected therein. The recharging in the recharging station is monitored and an image of the vehicle is recorded in the recharging station in an event of an interruption, interference or deviation in the recharging process from a given course. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202477 | Method for Outsourcing Healthcare Billing and Collections - A method is disclosed for outsourcing healthcare patient billing, thereby significantly reducing the billing and collections burden for healthcare providers, and simplifying the payment process for patients. Patients subscribe to a healthcare funding club, and establish one or more funding sources, such as an unsecured loan, a credit card, a pre-funded escrow account, a tax preferred funding account, and/or direct checking account withdrawal. Healthcare providers are paid at least a patient-responsible portion by the club, and the club obtains reimbursement from the funding source(s). The insurance portion of an insurance-covered service can be obtained by the healthcare provider, the healthcare club, or the patient. Branding can be included that is uniform across healthcare providers, and/or specific to each healthcare provider. A healthcare club card can be provided to the patient and used to pay for healthcare services, and consolidated, periodic healthcare expense statements can be provided to patients. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202478 | Group-Based Art Project System and Methods - A method for conducting a group-based activity includes providing a master visual art work suitable for reproduction. A copy of the master visual art work is made and divided into a plurality of divided pieces. Each of the divided pieces is paired with a corresponding blank piece having substantially the same shape as the corresponding divided piece. Each of the pairs is distributed to at least one participant of the group-based activity, and the participants are instructed to reproduce the divided piece on the blank piece using supplies distributed with each of the pairs. The reproduced pieces are collected and assembled to form a reproduction of the master visual art work. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202479 | RECOGNITION SEQUENCES FOR I-CREI-DERIVED MEGANUCLEASES AND USES THEREOF - Methods of cleaving double-stranded DNA that can be recognized and cleaved by a rationally-designed, I-CreI-derived meganuclease are provided. Also provided are recombinant nucleic acids, cells, and organisms containing such recombinant nucleic acids, as well as cells and organisms produced using such meganucleases. Also provided are methods of conducting a custom-designed, I-CreI-derived meganuclease business. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202480 | Objective Model Of Apparent Age, Methods And Use - Methods of developing equations for objectively assigning or predicting an apparent age are disclosed. Advantageously, the equations of objective apparent age may be based on a relatively small number of critical parameters combined in a way that accounts for all or most of the apparent skin aging in a defined population or sub-population. Despite the relatively small data collection requirements, the present invention includes an objective model of apparent age that is useful for evaluation of products, useful for predicting treatment outcomes and useful for predicting the effects of deteriorative factors. The formalization of an Objective Apparent Age Score allows one to identify the biophysical and biochemical parameters that mostly influence an individual's apparent age, and can be used to select specific anti-aging treatments with increased chances of visible success. The Objective Apparent Age Score may also be used to support marketing claims. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202481 | CONSUMER PRODUCT RECOGNITION SYSTEM - A method for building consumer loyalty and aiding specific identification of consumer products is disclosed. A first consumer product having a first product label thereon and marketed under a brand includes a removable first identifier to be used during subsequent shopping for readily and uniquely re-identifying the particular product for which it is intended. The first identifier includes shrunk versions of selected indicia from the product label in a not-to-scale manner, selected indicia being shrunk to different degrees such that critical identifying indicia on the first identifier is easily readable and comparable to the first product label. The product container can include a second identifier for a second consumer product distinct from the first consumer product. If the first product label is revised to a second product label, the second product label can include an image of the first identifier for comparison by the consumer. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202482 | FLORAL EASEL - The presently disclosed and claimed inventive concept(s) relates to an erectable and/or collapsible floral easel for holding a floral object, and more particularly but not by way of limitation, to an erectable or collapsible floral easel for holding a floral object. In one aspect, the presently disclosed and claimed inventive concept(s) relates to a floral easel for holding and/or supporting a floral object. In yet another aspect, the presently disclosed and claimed inventive concept(s) relates to methods of shipping a floral easel, methods of using a floral easel, methods of storing a floral easel, and methods of placing a floral object on a floral easel. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202483 | Analyzing Events - Event analysis methods and apparatus in which sequences ( | 2011-08-18 |
20110202484 | ANALYZING PARALLEL TOPICS FROM CORRELATED DOCUMENTS - Access is obtained to a parallel corpus including a problem corpus and a solution corpus. A first plurality of topics are mined from the problem corpus and a second plurality of topics are mined from the solution corpus. A transition probability from the first plurality of topics to the second plurality of topics is determined, to identify a most appropriate one of the topics from the solution corpus for a given one of the topics from the problem corpus. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202485 | PCC/QOS RULE CREATION - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node and machine-readable storage medium including one or more of the following: receiving, at the PCRN, the application request message; determining at least one requested service flow from the application request message; for each requested service flow of the at least one requested service flow, generating a new PCC rule based on the application request message; and providing each new PCC rule to a Policy and Charging Enforcement Node (PCEN). Various exemplary embodiments further include an application request message including at least one media component and at least one media subcomponent and the step of for each media subcomponent, determining a requested service flow from the media subcomponent. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202486 | Healthcare Information Technology System for Predicting Development of Cardiovascular Conditions - Described herein is a framework for predicting development of a cardiovascular condition of interest in a patient. The framework involves determining, based on prior domain knowledge relating to the cardiovascular condition of interest, a risk score as a function of patient data. The patient data may include both genetic data and non-genetic data. In one implementation, the risk score is used to categorize the patient into at least one of multiple risk categories, the multiple risk categories being associated with different strategies to prevent the onset of the cardiovascular condition. The results generated by the framework may be presented to a physician to facilitate interpretation, risk assessment and/or clinical decision support. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202487 | STATISTICAL MODEL LEARNING DEVICE, STATISTICAL MODEL LEARNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A statistical model learning device is provided to efficiently select data effective in improving the quality of statistical models. A data classification means | 2011-08-18 |
20110202488 | Method And Apparatus For Creating State Estimation Models In Machine Condition Monitoring - In a machine condition monitoring technique, related sensors are grouped together in clusters to improve the performance of state estimation models. To form the clusters, the entire set of sensors is first analyzed using a Gaussian process regression (GPR) to make a prediction of each sensor from the others in the set. A dependency analysis of the GPR then uses thresholds to determine which sensors are related. Related sensors are then placed together in clusters. State estimation models utilizing the clusters of sensors may then be trained. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202489 | LEARNING AND AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS IN GRADIENT FREQUENCY NONLINEAR OSCILLATOR NETWORKS - A method for learning connections between nonlinear oscillators in a neural network comprising the steps of providing a plurality of nonlinear oscillators, with each respective oscillator producing an oscillation distinct from the others in response to an input and detecting an input at an at least first oscillator of the plurality of nonlinear oscillators. Detecting an input at an at least a second oscillator of the plurality of nonlinear oscillators, comparing the oscillation of the at least first oscillator to the oscillation of the at least second oscillator at a point in time, and determining whether there is coherency between the oscillation of the at least first oscillator and the oscillation of the at least second oscillator. Changing at least one of the amplitude and phase of a connection between the at least first oscillator and the at least second least oscillator as a function coherency between the at least first oscillator and the oscillation of the at least second oscillator. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202490 | COMPLEX ALERT RULES FOR A MEDICAL PERSONNEL ALERT SYSTEM - A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are provided for generating a complex alert. Values of a plurality of physiological characteristics of a patient are received. The received values are compared to a complex alert rule associated with a medical condition. The complex alert rule includes a plurality of alert rules, wherein each alert rule includes an indicator of a physiological characteristic of a patient associated with the alert rule and a condition priority associated with an urgency of the alert rule. The complex alert rule also includes a trigger rule. The trigger rule includes a plurality of rules wherein each rule includes a number of satisfied alert rules for each value of the condition priority. A number of alert rules of the plurality of alert rules that are satisfied is determined for each condition priority of the complex alert rule based on the comparison. A complex alert is generated if the determined number of alert rules for a condition priority satisfies the trigger rule of the complex alert rule. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202491 | POLICY AND CHARGING RULES NODE EXPIRED MESSAGE HANDLING - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node and machine-readable storage medium including a policy and charging rules node (PCRN) receiving a plurality of related service requests from different devices. The PCRN may proceed to generate a policy and charging control (PCC) rule based on at least one service request and other information stored in the PCRN if a mate service request does not arrive during the duration of a waiting timer. If the mate service request arrives subsequent to the expiry of the waiting timer, the PCRN may then generate a subsequent PCC rule to replace the previously generated rule, with the new PCC rule incorporating information from both of the mate service requests. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202492 | PROBABILISTIC VOXEL-BASED DATABASE - A probabilistic database can including a set of geospatially referenced records and a probability engine. The geospatially referenced records corresponding to a real-world volumetric space indexed against voxels. Each voxel can have a unique identifier in the probabilistic database. Each voxel can corresponds to a volumetric unit of the real-world volumetric space. Geospatial information referenced against voxels can be internally inconsistent, which results in a naturally probabilistic storage format. The probability engine can be operable to dynamically determine a certainty value for an object of the probabilistic database. The certainty value can be a value from zero to one hundred percent, which is based upon a statistical analysis of the internally inconsistent geospatial information referenced against the voxels. The internally inconsistent geospatial information can correspond to a volumetric unit of the real-world volumetric space in which the object has a probability of residing within. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202493 | Translating User Interaction With A Touch Screen Into Text - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for translating user interaction with a touchscreen into text. In one aspect, a device includes a touchscreen, a data store comprising one or more data storage devices storing a collection of local data, the local data including personal contacts or media files, a data processor programmed to perform data processing activities. The activities include a drawn user input translator to translate first user interaction with the touchscreen into two or more characters, and a search engine to identify the personal contacts or the media files that are identifiable by the two or more characters into which the first user interaction is translated by the drawn user input translator, and a display manager to present identifiers of at least some of the personal contacts or the media files that are identified by the search engine on the touchscreen. A first of the identifiers presented on the touchscreen identifies a first contact or a first media file that is identifiable by a first of the characters into which the first user interaction is translated. A second of the identifiers presented on the touchscreen identifies a second contact or a second media file that is identifiable by a second of the characters into which the first user interaction is translated. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202494 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE COMPONENT HEALTH PROGNOSIS BY INTEGRATING AGING MODEL, USAGE INFORMATION AND HEALTH SIGNATURES - A system and method for determining the health of a component includes retrieving measured health signatures from the component, retrieving component usage variables, estimating component health signatures using an aging model, determining an aging derivative using the aging model and calculating an aging error based on the estimated component health signatures, the aging derivative and the measured health signatures. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202495 | ADJUSTABLE ALERT RULES FOR MEDICAL PERSONNEL - A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are provided for adjusting an alert rule used to indicate a status of a patient. A first user interface window is presented. The first user interface window includes a plurality of values of physiological characteristics of a patient. An indicator of a selection of a physiological characteristic presented in the first user interface window is received. A second user interface window is presented. The second user interface window includes a first user interface control configured to allow a user to adjust a first alert value for a first condition priority associated with the selected physiological characteristic. The adjusted first alert value is received and stored as part of an adjusted alert rule. A future alert is generated based on the adjusted alert rule. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202496 | METHOD, APPARATUS OR SOFTWARE FOR CONSTRUCTION OF RULES FOR USE IN A COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING SYSTEM - A method, system and computer program product for specifying complex event processing (CEP) system rules. A rule construction interface is provided for constructing rules for a rule set of the complex event processing system, where the rules include definitions of one or more detected events and corresponding actions. In response to an identification of a new event or action during the rule construction process via the rule construction interface, a corresponding event or action logical construct is generated for representing the event or action in the complex event processing system. An intermediate logical construct is generated to provide a data connection for the event or action logical construct. The event or action logical construct is linked to a corresponding action or event logical construct via the intermediate logical construct so as to enable data flow between the objects. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202497 | Systems and Methods for Performing Direct Reporting Access to Transaction Databases - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a computer-implemented method comprising receiving a query and generating first and second requests. The first request is sent to an analytic data store and includes a data transfer indicator representing a time period when the data record was received in the analytic data store. The second request is sent to a transactional model proxy and includes a monotonically changing value, such as a timestamp. The transactional model proxy reads data from a transactional data store based on the value in the request. Data from the analytic and transactional data stores may be aggregated and returned in response to the query. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202498 | Interface between online salary statement and tax declaration program - A method of electronically reporting information in response to an agency's request for information is disclosed. The electronic reporting process allows a user to report data and to file a declaration with the requesting agency. In particular, a tax agency can electronically request income tax information from a taxpayer. The taxpayer's employer can provide its employee's tax information electronically. The taxpayer can file a tax declaration with the tax agency electronically. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202499 | Universal Traceability Strategy - This disclosure provides a system for designing a system in support of one or more business processes including a database, an interface, and a requirements platform. The database may include data associated with a plurality of operational systems for information handling systems that have been deployed. The interface may be configured to receive a request for a system design. The requirements platform may be configured to query the database for information about historical use of information handling systems in support of various business processes, to determine a set of metrics for analyzing a plurality of historical system designs, to apply the set of metrics to the data in the database to identify one or more potential related reports, to analyze the request to determine an appropriate format for the report, and to generate the report. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202500 | ANOMALOUS ACTIVITY DETECTION - The disclosure addresses the detection of anomalous activity. Some embodiments are directed towards consolidating information from multiple data feeds. Exemplary information may relate to: extrusion violations, failed logins, sensitive fields access, sensitive objects access, escalation of privileges, or activity during a specific time frame within a time period, and combinations of one or more of these. In one embodiment, duplicate data may be removed or consolidated. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202501 | Methods and Systems for Network Based Address Book Based on Personal Cards - Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for reducing the amount of data stored in a network. This can occur by reducing the quantity of personal contact cards associated with an individual that are stored within a network by replacing the quantity of stored copies with links to the single copy on the network. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202502 | WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT METHOD AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - A disclosed workflow management method includes a workflow starting step of determining a workflow based on one or more tags attached to a workflow document, attaching a status tag and a participant tag to the workflow document, and starting the workflow; and a review/approval step of requesting review and/or approval of the workflow document based on the status tag and the participant tag and updating the status tag and the participant tag after the review and/or approval. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202503 | BLOCK-BASED DIFFERENCING ALGORITHM - A system and method for a block based differencing algorithm which includes the ability to limit memory requirements regardless of source file sizes by splitting the source file into optimally sized blocks. The invention allows the blocks to be processed in any order allowing in-place operation. Further, the present invention allows a second stage compressor to match the compressor blocks to those used by the differencing algorithm to optimize compressor and decompressor performance. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202504 | BACKING UP OBJECTS TO A STORAGE DEVICE - One embodiment is a method that backups up objects to a storage device. A number of objects that are concurrently backed up to the storage device is limited. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202505 | COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND DATA BACKUP METHOD - Provided is a computer program product for backing up data, which are stored in a first storage device connected with a computer, into a second storage device connected with the computer. The computer program product includes: a computer-readable medium; and a computer program code stored on the computer-readable medium, wherein the computer program code includes: a program code for generating backup data based on at least part of the data stored in the first storage device; a program code for obtaining, as identification data, at least one of image data and sound data provided by a separate program code that is different from the computer program and is executed during the generation of the backup data; and a program code for correlating the generated backup data to the obtained identification data and storing the backup data correlated to the identification data into the second storage device. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202506 | FOLDERING BY STABLE QUERY - Instead of adding resources into a folder by specifying a list of identifiers, client applications add resources to a folder by specifying a search query that matches the resources to be added. The virtual folder is, therefore, a collection of search queries rather than a collection of resource identifiers. This allows the data archive systems to easily store folder information in a database. A client application can then search by specifying the folder as its search criteria to list all content associated with the folder. Additionally, to ensure that the list of results associated with a particular query does not change after the query is added into a folder, the data archive system also captures generation information associated with the particular query (i.e., the iteration of the search indexes at the time the query is received) and stores the generation information with the query as part of the folder. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202507 | Apparatus, System, and Method for Volume-Level Restoration of Cluster Server Data - A setup module saves disk signatures identifying cluster disks for at least one source volume to a device distinct from the cluster disks. A copy module copies data with a volume-level restore from at least one snapshot volume to the at least one source volume, overwriting the disk signatures identifying the cluster disks so that the cluster disks cannot be accessed. A reset module rewrites the saved disk signatures to the cluster disks. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202508 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VALIDATING ONE OR MORE METADATA OBJECTS - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating, exporting, viewing and testing, and importing custom applications in a multi-tenant database environment. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to provide a vehicle for sharing applications across organizational boundaries. The ability to share applications across organizational boundaries can enable tenants in a multi-tenant database system, for example, to easily and efficiently import and export, and thus share, applications with other tenants in the multi-tenant environment. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202509 | EFFICIENT EXTRACTION AND COMPRESSION OF DATA - A device for dynamically extracting and compressing information for a streaming media asset is provided. One embodiment of the device provides a computing device comprising a processor and memory comprising instructions stored therein that are executable by the processor. The instructions stored in the memory are executable to provide to a requesting computing device dynamically compressed information for a streaming media asset, the dynamically compressed information derived from an information file comprising variable data elements arranged in one or more data fields according to a well-known structure. For example, the instructions are executable to receive from the requesting computing device a request for the compressed information, extract the variable data elements from the information file, compress the variable data elements to form compressed data elements, and send to the requesting computing device a compressed file comprising the compressed data elements. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202510 | SUPPORTING MULTIPLE DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS HAVING DIFFERENT DATA NEEDS USING A VOXEL DATABASE - A system can include a voxel database and the set of applications. The voxel database can include a set of voxel indexed records, wherein the voxel database manages a volumetric storage space corresponding to a real-world volumetric space, where units of real-world volumetric space and data specific to these units map to voxels and attributes of voxel indexed records. Each of the applications can include a user interface that renders a volumetric simulation space that corresponds to the volumetric storage space. Geospatial data for the simulation space can include visual attributes used to render a graphical user interface representation of the simulation space, where these visual attributes are acquired from the voxel database. The applications can have different geospatial formatting and content needs from each other, yet the content needs of each of the applications can be supported by the voxel database. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202511 | GRAPH SEARCHING - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with graph searching are described. One example method includes selecting a first engine for searching a graph for instances of a pre-specified sub-graph. The example method may also include controlling execution of a search for the pre-specified sub-graph using the first engine. The example method may also include storing performance data describing a performance indicator of the search. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202512 | METHOD TO OBTAIN A BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND/OR TRANSLATION OF TEXTS BY USING SEMANTIC ANALYSIS AND/OR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND/OR CONNOTATIONS AND/OR RATING - A machine based analysis engine method to obtain a better understanding of written texts by using Contextual and Semantic Analysis with Artificial Intelligence is described.
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20110202513 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN AUTHORITY RANK FOR REAL TIME SEARCHING - The present invention is directed towards a method and system for processing a real time increase in search requests for a common event. The method and system includes detecting an activity spike in user search request activity based on monitoring of user search requests over a defined period of time and determining source locations associated with the activity spike based on user search result activities. The method and system further includes associating the source locations with the user search request and thereupon applying a machine-learning model to determine a plurality of common features operative to cause the activity spike, including determining associations between the source locations and the activity spike. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202514 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING GEOLOCATED RELEVANCE-BASED CONTENT - The present invention provides for a computerized method and system for presenting geolocated relevance-based content including determining a geographic location of a mobile processing device and identifying a plurality of search queries associated with the geographic location of the mobile processing device. The computerized method and system further includes generating at least one search result responsive to at least one of the plurality of queries associated with the geographic location of the mobile processing device. Therefore, in the method and system, the mobile processing device is presented with one or more search results based on the geographic location of the mobile processing device. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202515 | RETRIEVAL AND DISPLAY OF RELATED CONTENT USING TEXT STREAM DATA FEEDS - Mechanisms are provided for retrieving and presenting related content using text stream data feeds. Text stream data feeds such as caption information associated with media content or conversations associated with social networking applications are aggregated and used to retrieve related media content, text documents, and advertisements. Text stream data feeds that a user is exposed to may indicate that the user is interested or at least primed for particular types of related content. In particular examples, an inverse vector space search engine is used to determine particular pieces of related content and categories of interest. Post filtering may also be applied to the results. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202516 | Method of and Apparatus for Analysing Data Files - A system including a server, a search engine, and one or more user devices is used to analyse data files. The user devices may be used to effect a search, such as a search for documents, websites or other material. A search request is effected on the user device and forwarded to the server. A subject data file is obtained which represents a document. The subject data file is searched for instances of data representing user selected target features. The detected instances which include one or more of features indicative of a list and features indicative of content relating to a casual convention, are changed to be perceptibly different from features which are not target features when the modified data files is provided to the user. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202517 | SEARCH OVER STRUCTURED DATA - A user can refine a search over structured data by specifying that a label or an attribute value be used to further filter the results of a query. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202518 | Apparatus and Methods for Providing Assistance in Detecting Mistranslation - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing assistance in detecting mistranslation in a translated document obtained by performing machine translation of an original document. A word included in the translated document is obtained. Search results are obtained of searching both a first document data group and a second document data group including the first document data group for pieces of document data related to the obtained word. Based on the obtained search results, an index is generated. The index indicates the adequacy of the obtained word as a translated word in a field corresponding to the first document data group. The generated index is output. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202519 | CUSTOMISATION OF THE APPEARANCE OF A USER INTERFACE - A querying system in a computer apparatus may be customized by connection of a removable storage medium device to a storage medium interface of the computer apparatus. It is detected whether, in the storage medium thereof, there is stored customisation data that that indicates a change to the query engine data identifying locations where query messages are sent. If so, the query engine data in the computer apparatus is changed accordingly. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202520 | NAVIGATION ASSISTANCE FOR SEARCH ENGINES - Search assistance is provided to users that submit search queries to search engines. In one implementation, a partial search query input by a user to a search engine is received. The partial search query is predicted to be a navigational query. A web address is selected based on the predicted navigational query. A search assistance list that includes the selected web address is generated. The search assistance list is displayed to the user in response to the received partial search query. In another implementation, a plurality of suggested search queries is determined for the received partial search query. A suggested search query of the plurality of suggested search queries having a highest relevance to the user is determined. A search assistance list is generated and displayed to the user. The suggested search query having the highest relevance to the user is prominently displayed in the search assistance list. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202521 | Enhanced database search features and methods - The invention teaches systems, methods and devices for searching data storage systems and devices. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202522 | AUTOMATED USER BEHAVIOR FEEDBACK SYSTEM FOR WHOLE PAGE SEARCH SUCCESS OPTIMIZATION - Various users' navigational behaviors relative to search results presented by a search engine are monitored. URLs that are visited and revised queries that are submitted after the submission of an original query are placed within a trail that begins with the original query. These trails are grouped based on the original queries with which they begin. For each trail group, a set of URLs that frequently occur in that group's trails, and a set of revised queries that frequently occur in that group's trails, are determined. These frequently occurring elements are mapped to the original queries with which all the trails in the corresponding trail group begin. In response to subsequent submissions of the same original query, the search engine ensures that URLs and revised queries that are mapped to the original query are prominently displayed on the search results pages that are initially returned in response to those submissions. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202523 | IMAGE SEARCHING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SEARCHING METHOD - An image searching apparatus has a search target decision unit which decides a search target image out of images stored in an image storing unit; a search content selection unit which obtains a search condition to indicate search content specified by a user operation; a search execution unit which executes content search processing for the search target image using the search condition; and a search result display control unit which displays the search result. If a bracketed image group is included in the image storing unit, the search target decision unit sets a representative image selected from the image group to a search target image, and excludes images other than the representative image in the image group from search targets. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202524 | TRACKING TIME-BASED SELECTION OF SEARCH RESULTS - Where multiple client devices are synchronized to multiple, asynchronous instances of a time-based media presentation such as live and time-shifted views of a television broadcast, interactive content can be delivered to each one of the various devices at a particular time (or “time offset”) within the presentation independent of when each instance of the time-based media presentation is viewed. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202525 | KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY SYSTEM WITH USER INTERACTIVE ANALYSIS VIEW FOR ANALYZING AND GENERATING RELATIONSHIPS - A knowledge model discovery system is configured to provide an interactive view having simultaneously displayed sub-views that include a relational data element view and a contextual view. Using the interactive view, a user may perform search and analysis of information organized with a knowledge management tool in conjunction with contextual information. The relational data element view may provide a relational visualization that displays data elements provided with the knowledge management tool as narrowed by the context of a user analysis. The contextual view may provide a depiction of the same data elements using a similar context. The relational data element view and the contextual view may be operated in coordination to maintain cohesiveness and similar context of the information displayed in the views. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202526 | SEMANTIC SEARCH SYSTEM USING SEMANTIC RANKING SCHEME - A semantic search system using a semantic ranking scheme including: an ontology analyzer analyzing ontology data related to a search target to determine a weight value of each property according to a weighing method for property; a semantic path extractor extracting all the semantic paths between resources and query keywords and determining a weight value of each extracted semantic path according to the semantic path weight value determination scheme by using the weight value of each property; a relevant resource searcher traversing an instance graph of ontology based on a semantic path having a pre-set length and weight value of more than an expectation level to search resources that have a semantic relationship with the query keywords and are declared as a type presented in the query; and a semantic relevance ranker selecting a top-k results having the highest rank from among the candidate results extracted by the relevant resource researcher by using a relevance scoring function. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202527 | DISTANCE-SPACE EMBEDDING FOR MULTI-DESCRIPTOR MATCHING AND RETRIEVAL - A process includes receiving an archive of video data comprising a plurality of archive descriptor types, and applying a query to the archive. The query includes a number of N query descriptor types for a query object. The process further includes determining a difference between each query descriptor type and corresponding descriptor types of the archive, and storing each difference as a point in an N dimensional space. The process further includes identifying an archive object that is similar to the query object as a function of proximities of the differences to an origin of the N dimensional space. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202528 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING FRESH INFORMATION IN A DOCUMENT SET - A method of identifying a fresh document in a document set is provided. The method may include obtaining a query document that is included in a document set comprising a plurality of documents. The method may also include grouping the plurality of documents into a plurality of fine clusters based on a textual similarity between the plurality of documents. The method may also include identifying a target fine cluster within the plurality of fine clusters, the target fine cluster including the query document. The method may also include ordering the documents included in the target fine cluster by time to identify the fresh document. The method may also include generating a query response that includes the fresh document. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202529 | CONFIGURATION ITEM RECONCILIATION - This document discusses, among other things, a method for reconciliation of a configuration item with a configuration management database. Properties of the configuration item are divided into a plurality of classes. Different classes correspond to properties having a different relationship with a corresponding configuration item. At least one property of the configuration item is compared to properties of configuration items in a configuration management database. Different actions are taken with respect to the configuration item based on the class of the property being compared. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202530 | Information processing device, method and program - An information processing device includes an obtaining unit that obtains a plurality of contents to which labels indicating users' subjective evaluation of the contents are assigned as metadata, a selection unit that selects labels having a high reliability in regards to evaluation of the contents among the labels assigned to the plurality of contents obtained by the obtaining unit, a calculation unit that calculates a degree of similarity between the labels selected by the selection unit, a clustering unit that clusters the labels based on the degree of similarity calculated by the calculation unit, and a storage unit that stores a cluster obtained as a result of the clustering in the clustering unit, as one label. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202531 | Tagging Digital Media - A method for tagging digital media is described. The method includes selecting a digital media and selecting region within the digital media. The method may further include associating a person or entity with the selected region and sending a notification of the association the person or entity or a different person or entity. The method may further include sending advertising with the notification. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202532 | INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM, INFORMATION SHARING METHOD, AND INFORMATION SHARING PROGRAM - There has been a problem in a related art that as information of a certain topic is scattered, the information cannot be shared efficiently,. An information sharing system includes a specified section linguistic analysis element that performs a linguistic analysis to a specified section text and outputs linguistic analysis information, a specified section topic generation element that generates topic information from the linguistic analysis information, where the topic information is a topic of the specified section text, and a bulletin board management element that refers to a bulletin board information storage unit and if address information of a bulletin board corresponding to the topic information is obtained, outputs the address information or a set of the topic information and the address information as corresponding bulletin board information. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202533 | Dynamic Search Interaction - This patent application pertains to dynamic search interaction. One example includes an organizational component configured to obtain a search query from a user. The organizational component can also be configured to obtain related search queries. The organizational component can further be configured to organize the related search queries by topic and to estimate a relative likelihood that an intent of the user matches an individual topic. This example also includes an image generation component configured to cause the organized related search queries to be presented on a graphical user interface (GUI) in a manner that reflects the relative likelihood. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202534 | Storage Model for Information Related to Decision Making Process - In an embodiment, a method is provided for storing information related to a decision making process. In this method, data items that are associated with a choice, a fact, and/or a decision are accessed. These data items are used in an application that provides a functionality associated with the decision making process. A relationship between the data items is then created based on a context in which the data items are used in the application. The data items and the relationship are stored in a common data structure that is accessible by a different application that provides a different functionality associated with the decision making process. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202535 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE PROVENANCE OF A DOCUMENT - A method of identifying a provenance of a document is provided. The method may include obtaining a query document that is included in a document set comprising a plurality of documents. The method may also include grouping the plurality of documents into a plurality of fine clusters based on a textual similarity between the plurality of documents. The method may also include identifying a target fine cluster within the plurality of fine clusters, the target fine cluster including the query document. The method may also include ordering the documents included in the target fine cluster based, at least in part, on metadata associated with each of the documents to identify a source document. The method may also include generating a query response that includes the source document. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202536 | KNOWLEDGE PORTAL FOR ACCESSING, ANALYZING AND STANDARDIZING DATA - A method and system is provided to access one or more historical incident databases, for example, CDC, CPSC, DTI, AAPCC and the like, for standardizing the potentially differing categories and coding among the databases. The standardizing includes recoding of the categories by providing a unified set of categories reflective of similar categories found among the one or more databases, if any. Submission of search queries allows users to obtain unified data across the databases so that incident history statistics for one or more products tracked by commonly available databases may be easily acquired. The resulting reports and statistics may be used by various entities to understand historical incidents from multiple perspectives including, for example, injury and fatality statistics as a function of age group, type of injury, time periods, diagnosis, injury outcome, severity, and the like. Data may be presented in standardized formats or in any of the native database formats. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202537 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING TOPIC MESSAGES TO UNDERSTAND MEDIA RELATING TO AN EVENT - A system and method for using topic messages to understand media relating to an event. An event (such as a live event or broadcast event), is selected where at least a portion of the content of the event is stored as at least one media object, such as, for example a video or audio recording in digital format. A plurality of topic messages relating to the broadcast event is retrieved over a network and are analyzed to identify a plurality of content segments within the event. The topic messages are further analyzed to identify at least one key actor related to the event. Segment and key actor data relating to the event is stored to a computer readable medium in association with the media objects, whereby the segment data identifies the plurality of content segments within the media objects and the key actor data identifies key actors in the event. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202538 | VOXEL APPROACH TO TERRAIN REPOSITORIES FOR MODELING AND SIMULATION - A set of sensors can capture raw data that geospatially corresponds to a real world volumetric space. The raw data can include point cloud data encoded in a light detecting and ranging (LiDAR) information format, imagery and video data, and elevation data encoded in a digital elevation model (DEM) or digital surface model (DSM) format. The real-world volumetric space can be segmented into a set of volumetric units, wherein datum of the raw data is indexed against the volumetric units. Each of the volumetric units of the real-world volumetric space can be mapped to a voxel in a storage volumetric space of a voxel database. The raw data can then be stored and fused in the voxel database such that each voxel in the voxel database represents a combination of volumetrically stored data for all source products that includes providing point cloud data, imagery data, and elevation data. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202539 | QUERY SYSTEM FOR A HYBRID VOXEL AND FEATURE DATABASE - A hybrid database can receive a hybrid query for an object having a real world analog. A feature of a set of feature records can be determined that corresponds to the object. Feature-level attribute values of the feature can be extracted from the feature records. A volumetric envelope forming an outer boundary of the feature in a volumetric storage space of the hybrid database can be determined. A set of uniquely indexed voxels can be determined. Each voxel can be a volumetric unit of the volumetric storage space that represent the volume contained by the volumetric envelope. Voxel-level semantic values can be extracted from the set of uniquely indexed voxels from voxel records. Extracted voxel-level semantic values and extracted feature-level attribute values can be combined to generate a hybrid result. The hybrid result can be conveyed to a requestor from which the hybrid query was received. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202540 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT INDEXED STORAGE FOR UNSTRUCTURED CONTENT - A method and apparatus for efficient indexed storage for unstructured content have been disclosed. | 2011-08-18 |
20110202541 | RAPID UPDATE OF INDEX METADATA - Systems and methods for performing an updating process to an in-memory index are provided. Upon receiving notice of document modifications covered by an inverted index associated with a search engine, in the form of an update file, a representation of the modification is published onto various index serving machines. Each index serving machine receiving the update file determines if the modifications are applicable to the index serving machine. If an index serving machine determines that it contains mapping information corresponding to the modified documents, the index serving machine utilizes the update file and associated mapping information to update an in-memory index. In embodiments, the in-memory index is used to provide results to user queries in tandem with the inverted index. In some embodiments, an extra in-memory index is maintained that is revised with constantly incoming metadata updates and the existing in-memory index is periodically swapped with the revised in-memory index. | 2011-08-18 |