41st week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 52 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130268456 | FREIGHT MANAGEMENT APPLICATION FOR MOBILE PHONE - A mobile device for managing freight shipment is disclosed. The device has a data entry interface configured to receive bar code data for the logistic management specialist and store the bar code data in a logistic management specialist log residing on the device. The device has a selection module that operates to selectively analyze the packages measure in the logistic management specialist log and select a given structural collection procedure from a plurality of standardized collection procedures. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268457 | System and Method for Extracting Aspect-Based Ratings from Product and Service Reviews - A system method that may include generating a text feature vector including a plurality of elements for an aggregate review text associated with one or more multi-aspect reviews of a product or service, each element of the text feature vector associated with a term in the aggregate review text, calculating an average aspect rating for each of a plurality of aspects having a rating in the one or more multi-aspect reviews of the product or service, generating a rating vector, the rating vector including a plurality of values and elements, each element of the rating vector corresponding to an average aspect rating, and generating an inference model based on the text feature vectors and a frequency of occurrence of each rating vector, such that the inference model may be applied to text reviews to infer aspect ratings associated with the text reviews. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268458 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING RELEVANT ENTITIES - A system, method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for storing data for a plurality of entities, the data including values for a plurality of characteristics of each of the entities, receiving an identification of one of the entities as a target entity, calculating a distance from the target entity to each other entity not identified as the target entity, wherein the distance is calculated based on the values of the characteristics for the target entity and each of the other entities and identifying a predetermined number of the other entities as relevant entities, wherein the identifying is based on the distance calculated for each of the other entities. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268459 | PRICE TARGET BUILDER - Systems and techniques for determining price targets are disclosed. The systems and techniques are designed to be a key workflow tool for investment managers and analysts, saving time and improving investment discipline. Using the disclosed systems and techniques, price targets may be generated based on historic, forward looking, and/or relative valuation metrics which are applied to actual or estimated financial data. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268460 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA PROCESSING FOR A DESTINATION FUND HAVING AN ASSOCIATED GUARANTEE - A system is provided for administering a destination fund having a guarantee wrapper. The guarantee provides an income stream for life to one or more investors. The destination fund has a selected mix of equities and fixed income investments to provide for enhanced returns throughout retirement for the investor. The destination fund additionally provides income stream flexibility throughout the lifetime of the investor. Administration of a destination fund having a guarantee wrapper may include initiating a guarantee payment process if a value of the destination fund falls below a threshold. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268461 | COMPUTER CONTROL OF NON-DEBT FUNDING SYSTEM FOR HOME FINANCE - Machine for controlling a system changing electrical signals to separately value components temporally decomposed from residential property, the computer apparatus including: a computer system, arranged for receiving information into a memory, the data representing the residential property, the computer system further comprising: logic means controlling the computer system to change the data to produce modified signals representing a separate valuation of each of a plurality of components temporally decomposed from the residential property, the components including a residential estate for years interest and a residential remainder interest; and an output device connected to convert the modified signals into documentation including the respective valuation of each of the components. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268462 | METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ONLINE AND PRINTING ON-DEMAND COMPILATION OF WORKS WITH PER OBJECT PRICING FOR COPYRIGHT METADATA - A method and related apparatus for producing a compilation of works, including the steps of generating an excerpt from a work that has an associated original copyright metadata, creating an additional copyright metadata with per object pricing for objects of the excerpt, and associating the original copyright metadata and the additional copyright metadata with the excerpt. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268463 | Smoothing Power Output From a Wind Farm - A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for determining consistent wind power output. The method includes obtaining forecasted wind power production, actual wind power production from a wind power producer, a variable price of power measurement, a power storage battery state and capacity measurement, and a penalty measurement for wind power change of rate, and analyzing the forecasted wind power production, the variable price of power measurement, the power storage battery state and capacity measurement, and the penalty measurement for wind power change of rate to determine a consistent rate at which wind power is to be exported from the wind power producer to a grid. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268464 | INTERNET-BASED MULTILEVEL MARKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A MLM recruitment method is provided with helping an originator to enlist participants as first-tier distributors; and requiring each first-tier distributor to buy an item of goods, finish one of the sub-steps of recruiting the participants as second-tier distributors in a first predetermined period of time so that the first-tier distributor become permanent members, and each second-tier distributor being required to recruit participants in the first predetermined period of time so that the second-tier distributor become permanent members; and requesting the originator to extend a second predetermined period of time to continue the recruitment if failing first sub-step and recruiting participants as the second-tier distributors in the second predetermined period of time so that the first-tier distributor become permanent members, and each second-tier distributor required to recruit sales people in a third predetermined period of time so that the second-tier distributors become permanent members; and create a distribution sub-organization. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268465 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPUTER-BASED SELECTION OF IDENTIFYING INPUT FOR CLASS DIFFERENTIATION - In systems and methods for computer-based selection of identifying input for differentiating classes, training regions (each of which is associated with a defined class) are specified in a training space that is organized by data bands according to selected definitions. Windows are defined in training elements associated with data locations in the training regions. Multiple training windows are defined in the training elements in a known band in the training data. Relevance measures for training windows represent an extent of likelihood of correctly identifying class for a test location based on data band, window position within the training element, and the frequency of occurrence of data symbols in training windows at the window position. The window having the highest value relevance measure is selected as the most relevant window. Multiple most relevant windows, together with their parameters, are selected as identifying input to facilitate class differentiation in test spaces. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268466 | SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING LIFETIME OF BATTERY - A system for predicting a lifetime of a battery cell, including a learning data input unit, the learning data input unit being configured to receive at least one learning measurement factor and at least one learning factor, a target data input unit, the target data input unit being configured to receive at least one target factor, a machine learning unit, the machine learning unit being coupled to the learning data input unit, the machine learning unit assigning weights to respective ones of the learning factors input to the learning data input unit, and a lifetime prediction unit, the lifetime prediction unit being coupled to the target data input unit and the machine learning unit, the lifetime prediction unit using the weights assigned by the machine learning unit to predict one or more characteristics indicative of the lifetime of the target battery cell. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268467 | TRAINING FUNCTION GENERATING DEVICE, TRAINING FUNCTION GENERATING METHOD, AND FEATURE VECTOR CLASSIFYING METHOD USING THE SAME - Provided is a training function generating method. The method includes: receiving training vectors; calculating a training function from the training vectors; comparing a classification performance of the calculated training function with a predetermined classification performance and recalculating a training function on the basis of a comparison result, wherein the recalculating of the training function includes: changing a priority between a false alarm probability and a miss detection probability of the calculated training function; and recalculating a training function according to the changed priority. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268468 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTENT MODELING AND PREDICTION - A method and apparatus enables identification of customer characteristics and behavior, and predicts the customer's intent. Such prediction can be used to adopt various business strategies to increase the chances of conversion of customer interaction to a sale, and thereby can increase revenue, and/or enhance the customer's experience. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268469 | INCREASING SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO FOR CREATION OF GENERALIZED AND ROBUST PREDICTION MODELS - A computer system iteratively executes a decision tree-based prediction model using a set of input variables. The iterations create corresponding rankings of the input variables. The computer system generates overall variables contribution data using the rankings of the input variables and identifies key input variables based on the overall variables contribution data. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268470 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILTERING SPAM MESSAGES BASED ON USER REPUTATION - System for updating filtering rules for messages received by a plurality of users including a filtering rules database storing filtering rules for the users; means for distributing the filtering rules to the users; a user reputation database comprising a reputation weight for each user; and means for receiving and processing of user reports that indicate that a message belongs to a particular category. The means for receiving (i) calculates a message weight in its category based on a number of reports received from multiple users and a reputation weights of those users, (ii) decides whether the message belongs to the particular category if the message weight exceeds a predefined threshold, (iii) updates the filtering rules in the filtering rules database based on the deciding, and (iv) distributes the updated filtering rules from the filtering rules database to the users using the means for distributing. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268471 | SIGNAL MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHODS OF OPERATING SAME - A system for estimating a strain of a component and method of estimating strain is provided. The system includes a signal generator configured to transmit a signal toward the component. A sensor is coupled to the component and configured to receive the signal and to generate a reflected signal. The system includes a fiber Bragg grating filter coupled to the sensor and configured to filter the reflected signal and to generate a filtered signal. A detector is coupled to the filter and configured to convert the filtered signal to a time domain signal. The system includes an artificial neural network coupled to the detector and configured to process the time domain signal to facilitate estimating the strain of the component. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268472 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND METHODS FOR RELATING HERBAL INGREDIENTS WITH ILLNESSES IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE - Described herein are systems and methods for identifying herbal ingredients effective in treating illnesses in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) using an artificial neural network. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268473 | NEURAL NETWORK DESIGNING METHOD AND DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG FITTING METHOD - A neural network designing method forms a RNN (Recurrent Neural Network) circuit to include a plurality of oscillating RNN circuits configured to output natural oscillations, and an adding circuit configured to obtain a sum of outputs of the plurality of oscillating RNN circuits, and inputs discrete data to the plurality of oscillating RNN circuits in order to compute a fitting curve with respect to the discrete data output from the adding circuit. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268474 | VARIANT DATABASE - The invention provides a system and method for describing polymorphisms or genetic variants based on information about mutations and relationships among them. The invention uses object-oriented concepts to describe variants as variant objects and relations among those variants as variant relation object, each object being an instance of an abstract class of genomic feature and able to contain any number of other objects. Information about genetic disorders is stored in association with the object that represents the pathogenic variant. Genetic test results are used to access corresponding objects to provide a report based on variants or polymorphisms in a patient's genetic material. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268475 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, A METHOD AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF, AND AN INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, A CONTROL METHOD AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a contents storage unit stores a plurality of contents. An additional information storage unit stores a plurality of additional information each differently corresponding to each of the contents. A selection history storage unit stores a history of selection from the contents and the additional information by a user in the past. A first estimation unit estimates a first preference information representing a tendency of the user's preference for the contents, based on the history. A second estimation unit estimates a second preference information representing a tendency of the user's preference for the additional information, based on the history. A selection unit selects a recommended content from the contents, and selects a recommended additional information from the additional information, based on the first preference information and the second preference information. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268476 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFICATION OF MOVING OBJECTS AND USER AUTHORING OF NEW OBJECT CLASSES - A system and method for classification of moving objects and user authoring of new object classes is disclosed. In one embodiment, in a method of classification of moving objects, a moving object is inputted. Then, an object descriptor and a motion descriptor are extracted from the inputted moving object. Multiple initial candidate library object descriptors are identified from an object library and a motion library using the extracted object descriptor and the extracted motion descriptor. An initial object class estimate is identified based on the identified multiple initial candidate library object descriptors. Then, an initial residue is computed based on the extracted object descriptor and the identified multiple initial candidate library object descriptors associated with the initial object class estimate. The object class estimates are iteratively identified and it is determined whether the object class estimates converge based on a stopping criterion. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268477 | EXPERT SYSTEM, SYSTEM ELEMENT AND A METHOD TO BE USED IN THE SYSTEM - A method is an incremental forward-chaining reasoning in a rule based system where data tuples and rules can be inserted and deleted in runtime. The method doesn't require storing or calculating a dependency tree in order to re-reason new implicit tuples. All tuples are associated with inference counter in order to provide an efficient delete operation for tuples without the need of re-calculating existing reasoning results. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268478 | System and method for correct and effective transaction execution in a data center system by implementing FIFO-grouping in a data store - A data center is a computing environment focusing on the execution of data transactions for corporations and organizations. The data center has the capability of running many execution threads in parallel. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268479 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING AND MANAGING SOCIAL MEDIA - A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product provide the ability to present media content on a social media network. Live streaming data is received from multiple data sources. The data is enriched with meta information using internal systems via application programming interfaces (APIs). The live streamed data is transformed and transmitted, based on the meta information, to one or more users on a social media network. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268480 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE SUBFOLDER SYNCHRONIZATION IN A CLOUD-BASED ENVIRONMENT - Techniques are disclosed for enabling selective subfolder synchronization in a cloud-based environment. In one embodiment, a method comprises, in response to a selection, from a user, of a first synchronization state of a first folder in a workspace, synchronizing content of the first folder associated with the user based on the first synchronization state regardless of a second synchronization state of a second folder in the workspace. The first folder is a subfolder of the second folder. The workspace is provided by a server of a cloud-based environment, and is shared among the user and one or more collaborators of the user. Among other advantages, embodiments disclosed herein provide fine-grained control to the users of a cloud collaboration environment over what folder(s) in their workspace is to be shared and/or synchronized. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268481 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING NAME CARDS TO TERMINAL DEVICES - In a method for displaying a name card using communication device to one or more terminal devices, a personal database of a user of the communication device and a contact person group are established, and a name card corresponding to the contact person group is established. The method adds a contact person to the contact person group, and adds personal data to the name card. The communication device sends the name card to a cloud server through a wireless network, and the cloud server synchronously updates the name card to a terminal device of the contact person of the contact person group through the wireless network. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268482 | DETERMINING ENTITY POPULARITY USING SEARCH QUERIES - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining the Internet search popularity of an entity are provided. Embodiments of the present invention include receiving a group of Internet search records and assigning a popularity ranking based on the number of times an entity descriptor associated with an entity occurs within the group of Internet search records created over a designated time period. An entity descriptor is one or more terms commonly used to identify an entity. The trend in an entity's popularity rank may also be calculated. An entity's popularity rank and trend in popularity rank may be presented in a graph or in a list. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268483 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an information gathering unit gathering information relating to a user, an information constructing unit constructing, from the information gathered by the information gathering unit, personal information on the user based on information disclosed by the user, and an information disclosure control unit dynamically changing a disclosed content of the personal information constructed by the information constructing unit, depending on another user. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268484 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND DATABASE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A database management device includes plural index blocks having a tree structure and each having an access counter and at least one index entry for identifying one piece of row data constituting a table data or another index block, and an access management device that updates the access counter of each of the plural index blocks accessed along the tree structure, the access being made in a manner such that the index entry is referred to in response to data manipulation to the table data. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268485 | Methods, Apparatus and Computer Program Products for Providing Automatic and Incremental Mobile Application Recognition - An apparatus for automatically recognizing the semantics of one or more mobile applications may include a processor and a memory storing executable computer program code that cause the apparatus to at least perform operations including receiving an indication of a selection of at least one mobile application. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to enable provision of a request, to a device, requesting the device to search indicia associated with the selected mobile application in an instance in which a determination indicates that the selected mobile application is not identified in an application mapping list. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to assign a semantic tag to the selected mobile application based in part on data associated with a description generated based in part by extracting content from one or more results of the search. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided, | 2013-10-10 |
20130268486 | ASYNCHRONOUS DISTRIBUTED OBJECT UPLOADING FOR REPLICATED CONTENT ADDRESSABLE STORAGE CLUSTERS - A method performed by two or more devices of a group of devices in a distributed data replication system may include receiving a group of chunks having a same unique temporary identifier, the group of chunks comprising an object to be uploaded; creating an entry for the object in a replicated index, the entry being keyed by the unique temporary identifier, and the replicated index being replicated at each of the two or more devices; and determining, by an initiating device of the two or more devices, that a union of the group of chunks contains all data of the object. The method may also include calculating a content-based identifier to the object; creating another entry for the object in the replicated index, the other entry being keyed by the content-based identifier; and updating the replicated index to point from the unique temporary identifier to the content-based identifier. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268487 | Run-Time Engine Implemented on a Computing Device Allowing Synchronization of Records During Application Execution - A first database implemented on a remote device such as a handheld computer may be reconciled with a corresponding second database implemented on a host computer during execution of an application program on the handheld device. In addition, the application program may be executed according to program instructions stored in an application program file located in the remote device. The databases may be reconciled by first commencing execution of the application program. Then, during the course of program execution, a synchronization instruction located in said application program file is retrieved. The synchronization instruction is executed by establishing a communications link between the handheld computer and the host computer. Subsequently, any difference between the first database and the second database are reconciled. Furthermore embodiments of the invention contemplate that in addition to reconciling all of the databases located on the handheld and host computers, less than all of the databases may be reconciled to reduce the amount of time required to execute the reconciliation process. In addition, after reconciliation control may be returned to the calling application program, or to another application, as determined by the application designer. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268488 | LARGE VOLUME DATA REPLICATION USING JOB REPLICATION - An approach for replicating data is provided. A job that modifies data objects in a first system to generate a first set of changed data objects is determined to be a candidate for a job replication. Based on the job being a candidate for job replication, attributes of the job are retrieved, the retrieved attributes are sent to a second system, and an execution of the job by the second system is initiated as part of the job replication. The execution of the job causes data objects included in the second system to be modified to generate a second set of changed data objects as a replication of the first set of changed data objects. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268489 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REAL-TIME CONTINUOUS UPDATES - Embodiments of the present invention provide fine grain concurrency control for transactions in the presence of database updates. During operations, each transaction is assigned a snapshot version number or SVN. A SVN refers to a historical snapshot of the database that can be created periodically or on demand. Transactions are thus tied to a particular SVN, such as, when the transaction was created. Queries belonging to the transactions can access data that is consistent as of a point in time, for example, corresponding to the latest SVN when the transaction was created. At various times, data from the database stored in a memory can be updated using the snapshot data corresponding to a SVN. When a transaction is committed, a snapshot of the database with a new SVN is created based on the data modified by the transaction and the snapshot is synchronized to the memory. When a transaction query requires data from a version of the database corresponding to a SVN, the data in the memory may be synchronized with the snapshot data corresponding to that SVN. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268490 | System and Method for Generating Digital Content - The described embodiments provide methods and systems for generating online dynamic content. The methods and systems enable content from online publications to be efficiently reused and repurposed in other data collections and publications. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268491 | TELEMETRY SYSTEM FOR A CLOUD SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM - In one embodiment, a telemetry system may track a cloud synchronization system to improve performance. A service proxy | 2013-10-10 |
20130268492 | Method and System for Efficient Write Journal Entry Management for a Distributed File System - The present invention is directed to a method and system for efficient write journal entry management maintaining minimum write journal information stored in a nonvolatile memory through utilizing an additional structure in a fast volatile memory. The method and system may manage write journaling of a file volume including multiple fixed sized regions and assign a persistent 1-bit synchronization status (the write journal information) to each data region. In addition, a non-persistent I/O counter (the additional structure) for each region to manage the persistent 1-bit synchronization status during run-time. The present invention may provide a mechanism to determine when write I/O operations have not successfully completed to a specific region of the file volume. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268493 | Hybrid Backup and Restore of Very Large File System Using Metadata Image Backup and Traditional Backup - A mechanism performs a metadata image backup of a hierarchical storage management (HSM) file system. Concurrent with performing the metadata image backup of the HSM file system, the mechanism identifies a set of resident files that are not yet stored off-line in the HSM file system. The mechanism identifies immutable files within the set of resident files to form an optimized set of resident files and passes the optimized set of resident files to a traditional backup system. The traditional backup system backs up file data for the set of resident files. Responsive to detecting an inability to restore a migrated managed state of a file, the mechanism unsets an immutable bit of the file attribute, restores file data for the file using the traditional backup system, and sets the immutable bit attribute of the file. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268494 | DATA GOVERNANCE MANAGER FOR MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT HUBS - Improved data governance solutions to enterprise-level master data storage hubs are provided by implementing data governance functionality with regard to a master data hub. Data governance functionality is provided by providing visibility into the data quality the data of an enterprise. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268495 | SPLIT BRAIN PROTECTION IN COMPUTER CLUSTERS - A computer cluster can be divided into a plurality of failure scopes and a voting constraint can be enforced. The voting constraint can allow a portion of the cluster to provide the service if a majority of health votes from cluster members is obtained by that portion. A loss of connectivity between a first failure scope, which has a majority of cluster members in the cluster, and one or more other failure scopes in the cluster can be detected. The loss of connectivity can be such that the first failure scope does not have connectivity to a member in any other failure scope in the cluster. In response to detecting the loss of connectivity, a split brain situation in the cluster can be automatically protected against by preventing the first failure scope from providing the service. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268496 | INCREASED IN-LINE DEDUPLICATION EFFICIENCY - Exemplary method, system, and computer program product embodiments for increased in-line deduplication efficiency in a computing environment are provided. In one embodiment, by way of example only hash values are calculated in nth iterations for accumulative data chunks extracted from an object requested for in-line deduplication. For each of the nth iterations, the calculated hash values for the accumulative data chunks are matched in a nth hash index table with a corresponding hash value of existing objects in storage. The nth hash index table is exited upon detecting a mismatch during the matching. The mismatch is determined to be a unique object and is stored. A hash value for the object is calculated. A master hash index table is updated with the calculated hash value for the object and the calculated hash values for the unique object. Additional system and computer program product embodiments are disclosed and provide related advantages. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268497 | INCREASED IN-LINE DEDUPLICATION EFFICIENCY - Exemplary embodiments for increased in-line deduplication efficiency in a computing environment are provided. In one embodiment, by way of example only, hash values are calculated in nth iterations on data samples from fixed size data chunks extracted from an object requested for in-line deduplication. For each of the nth iterations, the calculated hash values for the data samples from the fixed size data chunks are matched in an nth hash index table with a corresponding hash value of existing objects in storage. The nth hash index table is exited upon detecting a mismatch during the matching. The mismatch is determined to be a unique object and is stored. A hash value for the object is calculated. A master hash index table is updated with the calculated hash value for the object and the calculated hash values for the unique object. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268498 | PRIORITIZATION MECHANISM FOR DELETION OF CHUNKS OF DEDUPLICATED DATA OBJECTS - A reference counter corresponding to a base chunk of a plurality of chunks of a deduplicated data object is maintained, where the reference counter is incremented in response to an insertion of any chunk that references the base chunk, and where the reference counter is decremented, in response to a deletion of any chunk that references the base chunk. A queue is defined for processing dereferenced chunks of the plurality of chunks. The dereferenced chunks in the queue are processed in a predefined order, to free storage space. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268499 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION - When an online storage service is used to expand a storage capacity of a file server, an amount of communication in synchronization processing and an amount of data retained on the online storage service are reduced to save an amount of charge. In a kernel module provided with a storage area on the online storage service, files are divided into block files and managed, and blocks overlapping with an already registered and saved block file group are not uploaded, but only configuration information of the files is changed. A mechanism is adopted, in which DBs for managing meta information and elimination of duplication are divided and managed, and only updated sections are appropriately uploaded. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268500 | REPRESENTING DE-DUPLICATED FILE DATA - Providing a subset of de-duplicated as output is disclosed. In some embodiments, the output comprises a subset of data stored in de-duplicated form in a plurality of containers each comprising a plurality of data segments comprising the data. For each container that includes one or more data segments comprising the subset, a corresponding container data is included in the output. Each container may include one or more segments not included in the subset. For each container the corresponding container data of which is included in the output, a corresponding value in a data structure comprising for each container stored on the de-duplicated storage system a data value indicating whether or not the corresponding container data has been included in the output is updated. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268501 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING DISTRIBUTED ASSET DATA - A computer-based monitoring system and monitoring method implemented in computer software for detecting, estimating, and reporting the condition states, their changes, and anomalies for many assets. The assets are of same type, are operated over a period of time, and outfitted with data collection systems. The proposed monitoring method accounts for variability of working conditions for each asset by using regression model that characterizes asset performance. The assets are of the same type but not identical. The proposed monitoring method accounts for asset-to-asset variability; it also accounts for drifts and trends in the asset condition and data. The proposed monitoring system can perform distributed processing of massive amounts of historical data without discarding any useful information where moving all the asset data into one central computing system might be infeasible. The overall processing is includes distributed preprocessing data records from each asset to produce compressed data. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268502 | DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - A data management method is disclosed. The data management method includes receiving input image data including a plurality of frames, sorting a type of a frame included in the input image data, and erasing one or more I-frames among the plurality of frames included in the input image data or erasing at least a portion of data corresponding to the one or more I-frames among the plurality of frames included in the input image data. Thus, the data management method stores a low amount of image data in a limited storage space while minimizing loss of the image data, thereby effectively storing and managing data. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268503 | DATABASE NAVIGATION OF CHANGES AT COMMIT TIME - An exemplary database management device includes a database storage memory for storing database information. A user access memory at least temporarily stores information to be included in the database. At least a portion of the user access memory is configured to operate as a database manager that allows a user to indicate an intended change to the database information. The database manager places the intended change into the user access memory and determines whether the intended change complies with a criterion responsive to the user attempting to implement the intended change. The database manager makes the intended change to the database information in the database storage memory if the intended change complies with the criterion. The database manager provides an indication that the intended change will not be made to the database and the database storage memory if the intended change does not comply with the criterion. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268504 | RANKING SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS - A method of determining search engine rank for digital content. The method may include performing a search for digital content on a network using a search term to obtain search results. The method may also include obtaining search engine optimization data from the search results and analyzing the search engine optimization data to determine a position of digital content related to an entity with respect to non-category specific search results and sub-links of non-category specific search results. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268505 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING AN ADVANCED USER INTERACTIVE SEARCH ENGINE - This disclosure relates to a system and method for providing a user with an opportunity to personalize delivered search results of Internet searches in a user-interactive manner that provides a user with an opportunity to qualify or catalog search results according to advanced user preferences. Search engines return thousands of Web pages ordered in a manner that may not be particularly useful to a user in mining the information that the user thought that the user was after when commencing the query-based Internet search. The disclosed embodiments exploit the interactive capabilities of the computing and communicating devices that users typically employ to initiate query-based Internet searches in a manner that allows an individual user, or a group of users, to “rearrange” information that a search engine, according to a scheme implemented by the search engine provider and/or administrator, provides to a user in response to a user's query-based search. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268506 | DECENTRALISED WEB ANNOTATION - Annotations relating to web sites may be based on blog posts relating to the web sites. A user viewing a web site may concurrently view related blog posts about the web site. More particularly, in one implementation, a method includes detecting when a user visits a web page and receiving, in response to the detection, a group of blog posts that link to the web page. The method further includes displaying an indication of the group of blog posts to the user while the user is visiting the web site. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268507 | USER TASK COMPLETION VIA OPEN MARKET OF ACTIONS AND/OR PROVIDERS - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for facilitating the completion of a user task. That is, user intent (e.g., intentions of a user to perform a user task) may be identified. The user intent may comprise an entity (e.g., a movie entity) and/or an action (e.g., an order movie tickets action) that the user wants to perform on the entity. A provider list may be created based upon one or more providers capable of performing the action on the entity (e.g., a movie application may be capable of performing the order movie tickets action on the movie entity). Providers may be dynamically selected for inclusion within the provider list at run-time. For example, an open market of providers may be maintained (e.g., providers may be added, removed, and/or updated over time), such that providers may be selected from the open market to complete user tasks. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268508 | DYNAMIC TABLE FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGING DATA IN A HIGH PERFORMANCE WEB SERVICE - A system and method provides a dynamic table framework for managing data in a high performance web service. An example embodiment includes: receiving a request at a web service; creating a dynamic record from the request; obtaining a runtime corresponding to the dynamic record, the runtime including an associated plurality of symbol values corresponding to the request; choosing a model corresponding to the runtime, the model including a plurality of symbol managers, each of the plurality of symbol managers being associated with the plurality of symbol values, each of the plurality of symbol managers for processing a specific task of the model; executing the model, by use of a data processor, to process the request, the model using at least one of the plurality of symbol managers; and returning results generated by execution of the model. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268509 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING AND RETRIEVING DATA - Systems and methods for storing and retrieving data are disclosed where creation of new partitions in a database is driven by write requests. The requests can arrive at pseudo random moments of time. Each partition in the database is associated with a time interval. Different time intervals do not need to be consecutive. Whenever a write request is obtained, the system determines whether the write request is received within a latest partition time interval defined by start and end times. If yes, the data is written into a database partition corresponding to that interval. If not, a new partition is created having associated time interval with its own start and end times defining a new partition time interval. The process is repeated as new data is streaming in. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268510 | Special form of presentation of search results - The invention is a method for presenting search results in special form. This form consists of several components. In aggregate, all the components encompass such characteristics of a search query as a source position, quantity of full and partial matches and coefficient of relevance (COR). Also the form allows the users manipulate the values of characteristics of the search query. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268511 | URL Annotations - A search engine configured to respond to a search query with a search results page is presented. The search engine includes at least one annotated search result in the search results page. The at least one annotated search results is annotated according to user data independent of the basis by which the search results are identified. The search results page is generated to include user-actionable controls by which a user can update the search results according to update criteria. The update criteria is used in a feedback loop to improve the user data upon which search results are personalized and/or annotated. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268512 | SYSTEM FOR RATING AND RECRUITING SPORTS PLAYERS - A system for recruiting and rating sports players can include a processor in communication with a data storage, network, and plurality of client devices. A library of league information can be stored in the data storage. The system can form a user interface on the client devices. The system can transmit messages to coaches at schools to request ratings, ability levels, and comments for sports players, which can be averaged. The system can present a recruiter profile in the user interface to college recruiters via the client devices. The recruiter profile can include a search portion to allow for searching of sports players by criteria, a league coaches rating portion for listing coaches associated with a selected sports player, and coach contact information and sports player contact information to allow the college recruiters to contact the coaches, sports players, or combinations thereof to request information or initiate recruitment. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268513 | ANNOTATIONS BASED ON HIERARCHICAL CATEGORIES AND GROUPS - Systems and methods for recommending entities to a user are presented. In at least one embodiment, a user is identified as belonging to one or more groups of users, or to a hierarchy of groups. A category of entities, preferred by at least of the hierarchy of identified groups, is identified. The category of entities preferred by the at least one identified group corresponds to the category of a user-preferred entity preferred by the user. An entity from the category of entities is selected; the selected entity is not the user-preferred entity. The selected entity is provided to the user as a recommended entity to the user. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268514 | BRAND ANALYSIS USING INTERACTIONS WITH SEARCH RESULT ITEMS - Embodiments of the invention relate to performing brand analysis based on user's interactions with search results. In one embodiment, at least one search result list is analyzed. The search result includes a set of items corresponding to at least one search request submitted by at least one user. The set of items in the at least one search result list is determined to include at least one item corresponding to a brand analysis target item, and at least one other item. A selection by the at least one user of one of the brand analysis target item and the other item from the at least one search result list is recorded for the at least one search result list. A brand analysis metric is generated based on the recording. The brand analysis metric indicates a ratio of selections between the brand analysis target item and the other item. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268515 | SEARCH RESULTS WITH UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED CATEGORIES - A service provider presents results from a search query with dynamic category ranges, with each category range having approximately the same number of items within the category range. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268516 | Systems And Methods For Analyzing And Visualizing Social Events - Systems and methods for analyzing and visualizing social events include historical, real-time, and predictive analytics and visualization of physical or virtual social events based on social network communications. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268517 | Identifying Query Aspects - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating aspects associated with entities. In some implementations, a method includes receiving data identifying an entity; generating a group of candidate aspects for the entity; modifying the group of candidate aspects to generate a group of modified candidate aspects comprising combining similar candidate aspects and grouping candidate aspects using one or more aspect classes each associated with one or more candidate aspects; ranking one or more modified candidate aspects in the group of modified candidate aspects based on a diversity score and a popularity score; and storing an association between one or more highest ranked modified candidate aspects and the entity. The aspects can be used to organize and present search results in response to queries for the entity. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268518 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING RELATED TERMS - The present disclosure provides a method for searching related terms using an electronic device. The method adds time stamps to one or more electronic documents, and obtains related terms by calculating a relevance score between every two terms of the electronic documents within a specified time range. The method further calculates a time gap between each related term and a preset query term, obtains updated related terms that have a time relationship with the preset query term by removing specified related terms whose time gap is greater than a preset value, and obtains search results from a data source by performing a search operation according to the updated related terms. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268519 | FACT VERIFICATION ENGINE - The described implementations relate to processing of electronic data. One implementation is manifested as a technique that can include receiving an input statement that includes a plurality of terms. The technique can also include providing, in response to the input statement, ranked supporting documents that support the input statement or ranked contradicting results that contradict the input statement. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268520 | Incremental Visualization for Structured Data in an Enterprise-level Data Store - The subject disclosure is directed towards simulating query execution to provide incremental visualization for a global data set. A data store may be configured for searching at least a portion of a global data set being stored at an enterprise-level data store. In response to a user-issued query, partial query results are provided to a front-end interface for display to the user. The front-end interface also provides statistical information corresponding to the partial query results in relation to the global data set, which may be used to determine when a current set of query results becomes acceptable as a true/accurate estimate. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268521 | RELATED PIVOTED SEARCH QUERIES - Systems and methods for responding to search queries with search results and related pivoted search queries is presented. Responsive to a search query, one or more entities related to the search query are identified as pivot entities. For each pivot entity a set of pivoted search queries is identified and included among the search results responsive to the search query. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268522 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT EXCLUSION FROM A MULTI-DOMAIN SEARCH - A system and method for content exclusion from a multi-domain search, where search results are prioritized or potentially excluded based on content provided by a service provider. The system and method provide for providing access to a network by a primary service provider, the network including multiple sources of content; receiving at least one search parameter; performing a search for content based on the received at least one search parameter; prioritizing results of the search based on content provided by the primary service provider; and displaying the prioritized results. In one embodiment, the system and method further includes excluding at least one search result if the at least one search result matches content provided by the primary service provider. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268523 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING USER OR RESOURCE INFLUENCE WITHIN A PRE-DEFINED CONTEXT - A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product provides the ability to determine the influence of a user or resource within a pre-defined context. A pre-defined context of activities is provided/defined. Point values are assigned to all activities that may occur within the pre-defined context. All activities for a single user or resource within the pre-defined context are tracked over a period of time. A score value for each activity for the single user or resource within the pre-defined context over a period of time is determined. A raw score is calculated for the single user or resource according to the total of all determined score values. The raw score value is normalized against scores of a population of other users or resources within the pre-determined context to provide a comparative scoring for users or resources. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268524 | Method and system for appraising the extent to which a publication has been reviewed by means of a peer-review process - A method and system appraises the extent to which an article has been reviewed by means of a peer-review process such that a user conducting a search with a search engine via an internet connected electronic device can infer the quality of the publication in relation to other publications returned in the search results displayed on the electronic device. A peer review score is calculated from the metadata of the article. The peer review score is displayed next to a link to the article returned in the search results from the search engine. The peer review score indicates the relative thoroughness of the peer review process that the article underwent. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268525 | RETRIEVAL DEVICE, RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, RETRIEVAL METHOD, RETRIEVAL PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING RETRIEVAL PROGRAM - An EC server (30) includes an extraction unit (33) that extracts comment data indicating a second comment (comment on a second item) containing a link to a first comment (comment on a first item) from a comment database (10), an association unit (34) that generates associated item data indicating association between the first and second items based on the comment data and stores the associated item data into an associated item database (35), a receiving unit (36) that receives a request for item information from a user terminal T, a retrieval unit (37) that refers to an item database (31) and the associated item database (35) and extracts item information (designated item information) indicated by the signal and item information (associated item information) related to that item information, and a transmitting unit (38) that transmits those item information to the user terminal T. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268526 | DISCOVERY ENGINE - A searching/discovery engine is disclosed wherein the searching methodology may involve selecting at least one category of sources; selecting at least one source (i.e. a collection of documents) within at least one category of sources; utilizing search terms to search the at least one source; returning related documents from the at least one source based on the search terms; collecting any of the related documents into a collection; permitting at least one related document returned to be selected for a further search utilizing the entire text of the at least one related document as the search criteria in a selected source to return additional related documents; and exporting the collection of related documents by creating a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) with all of the collected related documents stored at a location referenced in the URL. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268527 | PROCESSING ACQUISITION DATA INTO DELIVERABLE FORMAT - A method of processing data includes: receiving by an application acquisition data from at least one data acquisition source, the acquisition data having a first data format, the first data format including the acquisition data and business data related to the first data format; instructing a software component to access the acquisition data; and processing the acquisition data by the software component, wherein processing includes separating the acquisition data from the business data and making the acquisition data available to one or more other components via a common interface that can be implemented by the software component and the other components. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268528 | FILE NAME PRODUCING APPARATUS THAT PRODUCES FILE NAME OF IMAGE - An MFP (Multifunction Peripheral) is a file name producing apparatus that produces a file name of an image. The MFP selects a candidate character string, which is a file name candidate and in which a head character is a space, from the character strings extracted from the image. The MFP deletes the space that is the head character of the candidate character string, or changes all the characters constituting the candidate character string to other characters. The MFP produces the character string, which is corrected by the deletion or the change, as the file name of the image. Therefore, the proper file name can be produced. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268529 | Systems and Methods for Contact Management and Referral Engine - The present system allows business people to organize, receive and transfer key information about themselves and their contacts through the use of videos, audio and text. Users can create their own profile video (either from a pre-set group of videos or videos they create and name themselves) that may then be disseminated to their entire contact list, prompting their network to join the system. The system in one embodiment provides an effective way to give referrals to others as a path to in turn receiving referrals. The system also provides a way for users to associate a plurality of multimedia clips with then profile, so that other users can easily learn what a user does, what they look like, and what referrals would be of most use to the user. The system provides templates and guidelines to creating the multimedia clip and creates an easy platform for sharing the information with others. This would include an easy, effective way for members of groups, clubs, organizations, etc, to become more familiar with their members thus providing a more effective business and personal engagement. All of this is accomplished in a controlled, secure environment. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268530 | GENERATING DEPORTMENT AND COMPORTMENT COHORTS - A computer implemented method, system, and/or computer program product generates deportment and comportment cohorts. Digital sensor data comprises event metadata describes a set of events associated with an individual. Descriptive data about the individual is retrieved by data mining a combination of online sources and off-line sources. A set of conduct analysis models is selected based on event metadata and available description data. The event metadata and the description data are analyzed in the set of conduct analysis models to form a deportment and comportment cohort, where the deportment and comportment cohort comprises attributes identifying a demeanor and manner of the individual. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268531 | Finding Data in Connected Corpuses Using Examples - In one embodiment, datasets are stored in a catalog. The datasets are enriched by establishing relationships among the domains in different datasets. A user searches for relevant datasets by providing examples of the domains of interest. The system identifies datasets corresponding to the user-provided examples. The system them identifies connected subsets of the datasets that are directly linked or indirectly linked through other domains. The user provides known relationship examples to filter the connected subsets and to identify the connected subsets that are most relevant to the user's query. The selected connected subsets may be further analyzed by business intelligence/analytics to create pivot tables or to process the data. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268532 | Clustered Information Processing and Searching with Structured-Unstructured Database Bridge - Systems and methods for indexing information and for performing searches are disclosed. In these systems and methods information is “ingested” into the system by clustering the information using a clustering algorithm such as k-means or k-medoids clustering. During the clustering process, a hybrid distance measurement is used that allows the systems and methods to determine similarity across a number of different types of information. Once the information is clustered, it is stored and “mirrored” both in a structured (e.g., relational) data repository and in an unstructured data repository. Methods according to the invention allow the retrieval of both direct search results and search results including related concepts. After clustered information is stored, future searches can be performed by searching the stored results in whichever data repository is most appropriate for the context. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268533 | GRAPH-BASED SEARCH QUERIES USING WEB CONTENT METADATA - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating search query metadata for a graph search query for use in selecting web pages relevant to the graph search query. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a graph search query specifying user-selected graph search elements; generating graph search query metadata representing the graph search elements of the graph search query and relationships of the graph search elements; comparing the graph search query metadata to content metadata sets, wherein each content metadata set represents content elements of a content item presented on a respective web resource and relationships of the content elements; determining similarity scores between the content metadata sets and the graph search query metadata based on the comparison; and selecting web resources on which the content items are presented based on the similarity scores of the respective content metadata sets. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268534 | APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC THEME DETECTION FROM UNSTRUCTURED DATA - This apparatus provides a system and method of determining significant repeating themes in a collection of documents. The apparatus operates unsupervised and leverages a natural language processing mechanism supported with lexicon, synonym and taxonomy dictionaries to determine themes and establish their relevance using a two-level hierarchical structure. The apparatus also assigns meaningful names to identified themes and determines a set of rules that describe the theme such that it can be applied to categorize other documents outside of the collection as well. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268535 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING DOCUMENT, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a document classification apparatus includes an extraction unit, a clustering unit, a classification unit, and a label assignment unit. The extraction unit is configured to extract feature words from documents. The clustering unit is configured to cluster the feature words into clusters so that a difference between the number of documents each including any one of the feature words belonging to one cluster and the number of documents each including any one of the feature words belonging to another cluster is equal to or less than a predetermined reference value. The classification unit is configured to classify the documents into the clusters so that each document belongs to the cluster to which the feature word included in the each document belongs. The label assignment unit is configured to assign a classification label to each cluster as a word representative of the corresponding feature words. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268536 | RANKING AND ORDERING OF USER GENERATED CONTENT - Ordering user generated content includes: calculating a rank of the user generated content associated with an on-line property, said the calculating based on a calculated freshness score and reputation metrics; storing the calculated rank as an indexed field; receiving a request to serve the on-line property; at run-time, sorting the user generated content by rank using the indexed field; and presented presenting the sorted user generated content along with the requested on-line property. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268537 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION RE-ORGANIZATION - An information re-organization system includes a plurality of counters coordinated to meaning attributes, and a re-organization incentive notification unit that updates, in case the information stored in preset storage unit has been updated, value of a counter out of the multiple counters that has the meaning attribute associated with contents updated. The information re-organization system also includes an information re-organization processor that executes, in case the value of the counter section updated has met one of a number of predetermined conditions for information re-organization, a processing for information re-organization corresponding to the condition for information re-organization on the information stored in the preset storage unit. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268538 | Database and Index Organization for Enhanced Document Retrieval - A customized, topical database and methods for constructing and using such a database are provided. Selection and indexing of articles is done by experts in the topic with which the database is concerned. As a result, articles are indexed in a manner that allows facile, rapid retrieval of highly relevant articles with few or no false positives. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268539 | INHERITED USER RATING - A method, a computer-readable medium, and an online system for determining ratings of users of the online system. The online system enables each user to directly assign rating scores to other users of the online system and to assign rating scores to content items created by other users. The method comprises retrieving a first score indicative of rating scores directly assigned to a user of the online system by other users of the online system; retrieving a second score indicative of rating scores assigned to content items by other users of the online system, wherein the content items are created by the user; and determining a rating of the user based on the first and second scores. Each content item created by the user represents one of an online content published by the user in the online system and an activity initiated by the user within the online system. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268540 | BIASING GEOCODING OF QUERIES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a search query originating from a user device, the search query including a geographic feature name; receiving data identifying one or more candidate point-of-interests, each candidate point-of-interest comprising data that identifies a corresponding candidate geographic entity, each candidate point-of-interest having an initial relevance score; generating one or more biasing boxes, wherein each biasing box defines a geographic region, and each biasing box is defined based on location information associated with the user device or a user using the user device; using the biasing boxes to generate respective adjusted relevance scores for the candidate point-of-interests; selecting a point-of-interest from the one or more candidate point-of-interests according to the respective adjusted relevance scores of the candidate point-of-interests; and using the selected point-of-interest to identify a location relevant to the search query. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268541 | Learning Measurement and Analyzer Method - A method for measuring the student learning by utilizing accuracy of a response, time taken to respond and utilization of help feature on a website. The website presents to the students a range of predefined set of questions that are associated with a concept being learned by the student and is the subject of learning measurement. The student has an option of utilizing one or more help features before answering. The method utilizes monitoring the accuracy, time taken to respond and the help features utilized to generate a score for student and provides a set of analytics to teacher/course administrator to measure the student learning as well as effectiveness of the content. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268542 | Searching and Storing Data in a Database - Nodes in a tree data structure are associated with respective node keys. At least some of the nodes are associated with at least one respective node rank. The structure is searched to attempt to identify a preferred prefix-matching node on the basis of attempting to find a prefix-matching node that has a prefix match with a search key and which has a preferred node rank relative to a node rank associated with a node which may have a longer prefix match. If the prefix-matching node is identified, a dependent node rank identifier associated with the prefix-matching node is used to determine that the prefix-matching node has the preferred node rank. The dependent node rank identifier indicates at least a node rank of a node which may have a longer prefix match than the prefix-matching node. The prefix-matching node is selected, if identified, as a preferred prefix-matching node. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268543 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING CONTENT - A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product provide the ability to recommend content to a particular user. Two content recommendation techniques are implemented and generated different content recommendation scores that are relative to a particular piece of content and the particular user. The two scores are reconciled to generate an overall content recommendation score for the particular piece of content and the particular user. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268544 | AUTOMATIC FORMATION OF ITEM DESCRIPTION TAGS FOR MARKUP LANGUAGES - System and methods are disclosed for employing a matrix that maps known terms to tag values based on pre-existing tag value assignments in order to automatically assign tags to item descriptions. In particular, the matrix maps terms to tags as a function of pre-existing associations between the terms and the tags in one or more external data sources. A term generation component receives a description comprising a plurality of terms and filters the description to identify a subset of the plurality of terms. A tag assignment component then identifies one or more tags associated with the subset of the plurality of terms in the data matrix and assigns the one or more tags to the description. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268545 | TRANSPARENT ADAPTIVE FILE TRANSFORM - Embodiments of methods, systems, and services for transparent adaptive file transform are described. In one embodiment a method for transparent adaptive file transform is performed by a data processing device. The method may include automatically detecting a data transfer addressed to an external data storage. The method may also include redirecting data associated with the data transfer to a data transformer. Additionally, the method may include applying one or more data transforms to the data associated with the data transfer to generate a transformed data set. In an embodiment, the method may also include transferring the transformed data set to the external data storage. In one embodiment, the external data storage is a cloud storage facility. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268546 | QUALIFIER SET CREATION FOR WORK ASSIGNMENT ENGINE - A contact center is described along with various methods and mechanisms for administering the same. The contact center proposed herein provides the ability to, among other things, define, in real-time, qualifier set combinations for work items. Thus, the contact center can create a dictionary of combinations of work item attributes that may be defined as work items are introduced to the system. The definition of the combinations allows for large qualifier sets without the large expenditure of resources to define all possible combinations of attributes for the contact center. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268547 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT FOR THERAPY PLANNING USING CASE-BASED REASONING - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions executable by a processor. The set of instructions is operable to receive a current patient set of data relating to a current patient; compare the current patient set of data to a plurality of previous patient sets of data, each of the previous patient sets of data corresponding to a previous patient; select one of the previous patient sets of data based on a level of similarity between the selected previous patient set of data and the current patient set of data; and provide the selected previous patient set of data to a user. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268548 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED WEB SEARCHING - Systems and methods are provided for improved web searching. In one implementation, suggested search queries are provided based on previous search queries and click data. A weighted bi-partite graph or index may be used to identify related search queries based on overlapping clicked URLs. According to a method, query-click log data of a search engine is processed to generate sets of suggested search queries, data corresponding to each suggested search query, and a set of clicked URLs related to each suggested search query. Additionally, or independently, methods may be provided for contextually correcting spelling errors within sets of suggested search queries using a contextual algorithm, and/or identifying and discarding sets of suggested search queries and URLs that lead to restricted material, such as restricted content and related URLs. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268549 | GRAPH BISECTION - Techniques are described for graph partitioning, and in particular, graph bisection. A lower bound is provided that is computed in near-linear time. These bounds may be used to determine optimum solutions to real-world graphs with many vertices (e.g., more than a million for road networks, or tens of thousands for VLSI and mesh instances). A packing lower bound technique determines lower bounds in a branch-and-bound tree, reducing the number of tree nodes. Techniques are employed to assign vertices without branching on them, again reducing the size of the tree. Decomposition is provided to translate an input graph into less complex subproblems. The decomposition boosts performance and determines the optimum solution to an input by solving subproblems independently. The subproblems can be solved independently using a branch-and-bound approach to determine the optimum bisection. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268550 | Management platform for displaying benefit plan data to permitted entities - An Internet-accessible employee portal provides a display interface that enables an employee to find and review employee-specific benefits (e.g., Summary Plan Description (SPD)) information. In addition, the employee portal exports an administrative page by which permitted users (e.g., HR managers) can receive a delivery status report that consolidates delivery status information for multiple employees within the enterprise. This display facilitates electronic compliance with legal and audit requirements by correlating employee notifications and portal access reports. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268551 | DYNAMIC FORMATION OF A MATRIX THAT MAPS KNOWN TERMS TO TAG VALUES - Systems and methods for generating a matrix that maps known terms to tag values based on pre-existing tag value assignments are disclosed herein. A tag finder component receives a term and queries one or more networked data sources to identify a usage of the term and one or more tags assigned to the term in association with the usage of the term. A tag extraction component extracts the one or more tags assigned to the term in association with the usage of the term, and a matrix formation component associates the one or more tags with the term in a data matrix. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268552 | Brokered Exchange of Private Data - A data broker observes datasets that are opened or created by a user. The data broker looks for related datasets in a data catalog. If a related dataset is found, the data broker asks the user if they want to access the related dataset. If the user is interested, then the data broker asks the data owner if they are willing to share access to the related dataset with the user. The data owner may deny access, allow access, or request the user's identity. If the user does not want to provide his or her identity, then access to the related dataset is denied. If the user does provide his or her identity, then the data owner determines whether or not to share the data with that user. Once the owner approves sharing the related dataset, then the dataset or a link to the dataset is sent to the user. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268553 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING QUERY RESULTS TO A USER IN AN INTUITIVE GRAPHICAL FORMAT - Systems and methods for providing database query results to a user in an intuitive graphical format are provided. The system utilizes an intuitive graphical user interface dashboard that displays top-level query statistics data and selected record cards to the user in the dashboard. The user may iteratively update the query and the displayed top-level query statistics and selected records cards are updated in real time. Each customer card include customizable fields and supports intelligent zoom to provide additional fields and data as the user zooms into each successive smaller group of cards and eventually down to opening a single customer card. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268554 | STRUCTURED DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND STRUCTURED DOCUMENT SEARCH METHOD - According to an embodiment, a structured document management apparatus includes a document storage unit, a section title extracting unit, a relevance calculator, a document search unit, a section title selector, and a section title display controller. The section title extracting unit extracts the section titles from the structured document to create a section title list. The relevance calculator calculates degrees of conceptual relevance between the section title and words included in the section text corresponding to the section title for each of the section texts. The document search unit searches for the section text that includes the word identical to a search keyword. The section title selector selects the section title having a higher degree of relevance with the word identical to the search keyword more preferentially than the section title having a lower degree of relevance with the word identical to the search keyword. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268555 | MEDICAL INFORMATION SEARCH APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a medical information search apparatus includes a registration unit, a search condition acquisition unit, and a search unit. The registration unit is configured to register, in a management server, at least medical information and information of a schema template included in the medical information associated with each other. The search condition acquisition unit is configured to acquire information of the schema template based on a search condition set by a user through an input unit. The search unit is configured to retrieve, from the management server, medical information associated with information of the schema template acquired by the search condition acquisition unit. | 2013-10-10 |