48th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 64 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100306106 | Apparatus system and method of Payment identification means using pulse and fingerprints - The present invention is in the filed of identification of the human being which charging payment means such as credit card, by his physical appearance, or by e-payment such as telephone call or internet or computerized system or device. More particular, the present invention adding to the debit system an additional system that is to insure that the identity of the user making the payment means is the alleged person whom is the credit card owner for example, this achieved by the invention system that require the finger print data and at the same immediate time the pulse of the finger that attached to the device. That is to be achieved and detect by the system at the same time, when the person put his finger for the purpose of examine his fingerprint matching to the system fingerprint database to the owner personal data from the credit card company for example. The present invention innovates in a system and method that has a device suitable for the user finger, connected to a computerized base or center dedicated with software that enable the optional detecting of a human body unordinary physical measurement to a second opinion or detection regarding the existing purchasing act. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306107 | TRUSTED REMOTE ATTESTATION AGENT (TRAA) - Systems and methods for use with a service provider and a consumer electronic device include a trusted remote attestation agent (TRAA) configured to perform a set of checking procedures or mechanisms to help ensure the security status of a consumer electronic device (e.g., a mobile terminal or phone) that holds financial instruments. The checking procedures may include: self-verifying integrity by the TRAA; checking for presence of a provisioning SIM card (one that was present when the financial instruments were enabled on the device); checking that a communication connection between the consumer electronic device and the service provider is available and active; and checking that communication connectivity to a home mobile network is available and active. The frequency of the checking mechanisms may be adjusted, for example, according to a risk-profile of a user associated with the device or the location (e.g., GPS location) of the device. The checks may be used, for example, to temporarily disable or limit the use of the financial instruments from the device. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306108 | EMERGENCY FINANCIAL RESERVE ACCESSIBLE DURING A COVERED EVENT - A system and method for providing emergency reserve conditional credit to a customer of a financial institution. The emergency conditional credit may be provided to the customer in the form of a line-of-credit or a loan based on the occurrence of a predetermined condition, such as involuntary unemployment, disability or the like. The emergency reserve product of the present invention is a product that can be offered through a financial institution or other ER-providing entity and, as such, does not require the level of regulation required of an insurance product. The invention also provides for the emergency reserve product to be offered in conjunction with a debt cancellation feature, referred to as emergency reserve protection, which serves to cancel the outstanding debt associated with the loan or line-of-credit. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306109 | Method, system, server and computer program for services - The invention is related to a system, comprising: an authentication server configured to carry out authentication based on a user identity module for defining a user identification; an authorization server configured to check information on user's entitlement to services based on the user identification; a gateway server configured to establish a secured connection, receive a payment message from a service server, forward the payment message to the user, receive a message comprising user's acceptance of a payment transaction, convey the user's acceptance of the payment to the service server, and add the user identification to the secured connection or the message comprising the user's acceptance of a payment transaction; and a service server configured to secure a payment transaction by using the user identification. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306110 | M-COMMERCE VIRTUAL CASH SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS - A virtual cash system, method, and apparatus has an account record containing a record of money amounts associated with a wireless device and a transmitter for wirelessly transmitting to the wireless device predetermined information from the account record. Cash amounts can be spent from the account record directly from the wireless device via information derived from the wireless device via a bar code on the display, a short range radio signal, a light beam, or the like. A different security code is generated for each account transaction for verification. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306111 | System and Method For Image Depositing, Image Presentment and Deposit Taking in a Commercial Environment - A method and system provides for scanning a check and/or cash to create an electronic image of the front and the back of the check and/or cash. The image is then processed and transmitted electronically to a central location. The image may be recreated into a paper form at the central location, resembling the original paper check or cash, including a machine-readable regeneration of the MICR code line data captured from the original instrument. Paperless processing of checks and cash is thus provided, including local voiding and storage of the check without requiring immediate pickup, while still allowing the transaction to be process. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306112 | ONLINE TRADING METHOD AND SYSTEM WITH MECHANISM FOR VERIFYING AUTHENTICITY OF A PRODUCT - An online trading method includes: configuring a marketplace server to receive a product verification request from a first user terminal and to send an authentication request to a second user terminal; configuring the second user terminal to receive the authentication request and to send a code request to a transponder that is associated with a product; configuring the transponder to receive the code request and to send a response signal that includes a unique identification (UID) code of the transponder, the second user terminal sending out the UID code of the transponder; and configuring an authentication center to receive the UID code of the transponder, to generate a verification result based on the UID code of the transponder, and to send out the verification result for notifying the first party accordingly. An online trading system for implementing the online trading method is also disclosed. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306113 | SMARTCARD INTERNET AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM - A system and method are disclosed for conducting electronic commerce such as a virtual purchase transaction with an on-line merchant. A user is provided with an intelligent token, such as a smart card containing a digital certificate. The intelligent token suitably authenticates with a wallet server on a network that conducts all or portions of the transaction on behalf of the user with out requiring changes to the merchant's server. The wallet server interacts with a security server of a selected financial service to provide authentication of the transaction. Upon authentication, the digital wallet pre-fills forms which are transmitted to the merchant who contacts the security server for validation of the forms and upon validation, completes the transaction with the user. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306114 | HOUSEHOLD DIGITAL DESCRIPTION DEFINITION (H3D) ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD - A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program code for conducting a transaction between a merchant and a user. Using a composite key generated by a user, a user profile associated with the user and generated by the user is accessed. Accessing is performed by a merchant. The user profile comprises data specifying a set of household items owned by the user. The user profile is one of a set of user profiles that make up a H3D definition. The H3D definition comprises data describing a plurality of household items belonging to the user. The plurality of household items includes the set of household items. Responsive to accessing the user profile, a merchant profile is generated. The merchant profile comprises data specifying a portion of inventory associated with the merchant. The portion of inventory is selected based on the user profile. An offer to sell the portion of inventory is transmitted. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306115 | MACHINE READABLE ELECTRONIC CONTRACT - Disclosed are a method and system for reviewing and approving a digital agreement comprising at least one clause. A pre-approval database containing previously approved clauses or standard clauses is established. A clause-by-clause comparison of the clauses in the agreement to the standard clauses is performed to reduce the number of the clauses that the user must review. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306116 | System feasible duration evaluation method for project management under budget and time constraints - A system feasible duration evaluation method for project management under budget and time constraint is disclosed. The project includes plural arcs between a start node and a terminal node in a virtual network. The method includes the steps of providing a virtual network in a computer for simulating the project; inputting a plurality of activity, a budget constraint and a time constraint; distributing orderly the activity in the virtual network; defining a duration vector; checking if the activity duration satisfy the time constraint for dealing the activity in the duration vector of the minimal path; checking if the activity cost satisfy the budget constraint for dealing the activity in the duration vector; defining a upper duration vector; defining a lower duration vector; and listing the system feasible durations that satisfies the upper duration vector and the lower duration vector. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306117 | CONSTRUCTION INSPECTION SYSTEM, PORTABLE TERMINAL, CONSTRUCTION INSPECTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In an embodiment of the present invention, to easily input an association between an evidence photograph and an inspection result on site while obtaining an excellent evidence photograph, a server, a PC, and a portable terminal are used to perform a series of inspection operations including creation of an inspection check sheet, input of an inspection result, imaging of an evidence photograph, and output of a slip. Particularly, the portable terminal can be used to input an inspection point, input an inspection result, image an evidence photograph, determine pass/fail of the evidence photograph, and retake an image. Therefore, the portability and the operability at the inspection site are high, and excellent evidence photographs can be surely obtained at the inspection site. The evidence photographs do not have to be retaken later, and some photographs with unknown quality do not have to be taken for later selection. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306118 | System for process for remote determination of compliance status - A system for integrating and administering multi-organizational compliance monitoring of entities passing between the organizations. The system is configured to allow each organization to be individually responsible for and administer information related to the compliance status of an entity. The system increases an entity's mobility by allowing an organization other than the entity's home organization to determine the compliance status of the entity without additional compliance testing. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306119 | Forming Dynamic Real-Time Activity Groups - Techniques for forming a real-time activity group are provided. The techniques include creating a set of one or more users, annotating each user in the set with one or more corresponding real-time attributes, and using the one or more real-time attributes to identify one or more connections between the one or more users in the set to form a real-time activity group within the set of one or more users, wherein the one or more connections are based on an activity request. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306120 | ONLINE MERCHANDISING AND ECOMMERCE WITH VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATION OF AN ACTUAL RETAIL LOCATION - An online merchandising and promotion system is disclosed that closely simulates an interior space of an actual place of business in a virtual reality world. As consumers use avatars to explore the simulated space, they become simultaneously familiar with both the simulated and actual places of business, and thereafter can shop at both locations with equal ease. Previous familiarity with the actual place of business can motivate a consumer to visit the corresponding simulated location. In preferred embodiments, users can purchase virtual and/or real goods at the simulated place of business. Some simulated spaces enable avatars to socialize with each other, thereby prolonging their shopping and/or their exposure to advertising. In various embodiments, avatars can work to earn money, and/or avatars can earn virtual money by making real money purchases. Avatars can also gain status, and can compete with each other based on wealth, virtual possessions, and/or status. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306121 | SELLING AND DELIVERING REAL GOODS AND SERVICES WITHIN A VIRTUAL REALITY WORLD - An ecommerce system is claimed that enables users to purchase real-world consumables within a virtual reality world, and then to immediately receive and consume the real-world consumables without leaving the virtual reality world. Users purchase and consume consumables such as movies, TV shows, lectures, books, magazines, consultations with advisors, psychic readings, and horoscopes, by controlling actions of avatars within the virtual world. In some embodiments, an avatar can earn virtual money by purchasing real-world consumables, and can use the virtual money to purchase additional real and/or virtual consumables. In other embodiments, avatars can earn virtual and/or real money by working in the virtual reality world. In various embodiments avatars can gain status, and can receive rewards based on status, such as access to special locations in the virtual world. And in some embodiments, avatars can compete with each other based on relative wealth, virtual possessions, and/or status. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306122 | System and Method for Providing an Electronic Literature Club in a Network Environment - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving progress data associated with an end user reading an electronic piece of literature and receiving a request from the end user to interact with an additional end user about the electronic piece of literature. The method can further include identifying the additional end user who is also reading the electronic piece of literature in order to form a reading group associated with the electronic piece of literature. In more specific embodiments, the identifying further includes identifying progress data for the additional end user such that the reading group is formed of the end users who are at a similar location in the electronic piece of literature. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306123 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL METHOD, USER COMMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND SYSTEMS THEREOF - A user comment processing method and system and an information retrieval method and system. The user comment processing method includes the steps of: receiving objective data of a feature of a product or service and user comments on the product or service; identifying user comments associated with the feature of the product or service from the user comments on the product or service; identifying the opinion facet in the user comments associated with the feature of the product or service; establishing association-relationship between the opinion facet and the objective data of the corresponding feature of the product or service, and calculating an occurrence frequency of the opinion facet associated with the objective data; and creating an association rule of the opinion facet and the objective data according to the association-relationship and the occurrence frequency of the opinion facet associated with the objective data. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306124 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING HIGH QUALITY MUSICAL RECORDINGS - A system for determining high quality musical recordings comprises a server computer which communicates with a plurality of client devices configured to execute internet radio client software which plays musical recordings. The server computer includes a registration unit for registering users; an input unit for registering, for each user, and for each musical recording of a selected group of musical recordings, a user's opinion of the musical recording. It also includes a combining unit configured to combine a user's registered opinion of each of the musical recordings with the registered opinions of other users, an input valuation unit configured to assign a valuation to the registered opinions on the basis of data from the combining unit, and a reward unit for providing a reward to one or more users on the basis of a valuation provided by the input valuation unit. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306125 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE MOST FAVORABLE LOCATIONS FOR ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM APPLICATIONS - A system and method for determining the most favorable locations for enhanced geothermal system applications are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises receiving input data comprising characteristics of a subsurface geothermal resource and spatial parameters associated with extracting the subsurface geothermal resource, generating formulas and look-up tables based upon the input data, wherein the formulas and look-up tables relate a cost per rate to spatial attributes associated with the subsurface geothermal resource. Geographic information is combined with the formulas and look-up tables to create a map of the cost of each component of a plurality of components. A map is output of a total cost of electricity generation capability associated with the subsurface geothermal resource, wherein the total cost is calculated by summing the cost of each component of the plurality of components. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306126 | MANAGEMENT OF GOALS AND RECOMMENDATIONS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for managing goals and recommendations. A particular method includes identifying one or more financial planning objectives for a financial planning client, receiving information relating to the one or more financial planning objectives, and creating a financial planning goal for the financial planning client based at least in part on an analysis of the information. One or more financial planning recommendations are associated with the financial planning goal, and data identifying the financial planning goal and the one or more financial planning recommendations is stored in a data store. The method also includes monitoring progress of the financial planning client with respect to the financial planning goal over at least a portion of a financial planning lifecycle. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306127 | RETIREMENT INCOME SELECTOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The disclosed technology provides systems and methods that provide investors with a product category allocation based on the investor's preferences regarding asset flexibility and guaranteed income. Whereas existing technologies focus on risk and evaluate how an investor's tolerance for risk impacts particular investment choices, the disclosed technology makes no investment choices when it presents a product category allocation to an investor. The product category allocation is presented to the investor on the basis of the investor's preferences regarding asset flexibility and guaranteed income. The product category allocation includes one or more product categories that guarantee income and one or more flexible asset categories. The disclosed technology also provides a computer executing software, where the executed software causes the computer to provide investors with a product category allocation based on the investor's preferences regarding asset flexibility and guaranteed income. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306128 | SECURITIES' VALUE MONITOR PROGRAM - An illustrative embodiment of the present disclosure includes a computer-based method to enable users to comparatively monitor a fair value for a security. The method comprises the steps of: providing a computer configured to receive a data file of securities information wherein computer performs the steps of: uploading a data file of securities information; merging the data with corresponding data provided by other contributors relevant to the security; analyzing the merged data to create key performance indicators; creating a data table of securities from the data files uploaded to the computer; filtering out identities of names of contributors to keep source of securities pricing information anonymous; calculating percentage of contributors who have selected SFAS 157 Levels other than the SFAS 157 Level disclosed in the upload; selectively creating a report; and comparing user price paid to other valuations to gauge whether the particular valuation is a fair value. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306129 | SECURITY PRICING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention includes a method and system implemented using a general-purpose computer known as Security Pricing System that generates target price and price indicators for traded securities such as stocks, bonds, and related indices, composites and derivative instruments. The method includes receiving historical data and optional forward-looking projected data related to securities, developing a security pricing model, and creating a security pricing tool that utilizes received historical data and the developed security pricing model to generate target price and price indicators. The target price can be used to evaluate expected gain/loss from holding a position in a security through comparison with current bid/ask prices. Price indicators such as price channel, divergence, support level, velocity, and momentum provide additional insight regarding the price spread and appreciation potential, direction and intensity of price movement, and investor sentiment. Price indicators can be used to identify, evaluate, analyze, and derive other conclusions or recommendations regarding security price and its investment potential. The system optionally includes a decision support tool for creating and managing an investment portfolio that uses the method and system of the present invention for defined investment objectives and styles. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306130 | Financial Protocol For Calculating True Interest Rates When Borrowing or Calculating True Returns On Investments (True Interest-True Return) - Embodiments of the present invention relate to using electronic spread sheet technology in a new way to calculate true interest costs and to calculate true returns on investments. It is shown that a single financial protocol may be utilized to solve any number of interest and return problems. The new protocol is specifically effective in solving problems which entail real life irregular time intervals between financial transactions which do not conform to intervals utilized by conventional formulas or calculators. The invention calculates a unique “time-currency” basis for each borrowing or investment event and annualizes that basis to create an exact equal comparison between borrowing or investment options. The protocol results in allowing users to proceed with increased confidence when weighing financial alternatives thereby allowing users to improve the opportunity to increase their wealth. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306131 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing apparatus includes: a rating threshold calculating unit obtaining a probability p | 2010-12-02 |
20100306132 | Managing an investment vehicle - A method for managing an investment vehicle. The investment vehicle issues multiple debt instruments to a plurality of investors. The debt instruments have different liability characteristics. The proceeds of the debt instruments are invested in assets. From time to time, liabilities on the debt instruments and the credit quality of the assets is reevaluated, to ensure that the cash flows generated by the portfolio, disregarding fair market value of the assets, will be sufficient to pay timely principal and interest on the liabilities based on the evaluation criteria of two different rating agencies. In response to the reevaluating, the capital structure of the investment vehicle is adjusted to maintain a desired agency rating for the debt instruments. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306133 | Order Risk Management for Financial Product Processing - Systems and methods are provided for processing derivative product orders at an exchange. Traders provide derivative product order risk data to the exchange. The order risk data may include maximum delta, gamma and/or vega utilization values for derivative product contracts based on the same underlying product. Before executing a trade, a match system analyzes the trader's current utilization state and the utilization that would result after the trade. The match system may then execute all or a portion of the trade. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306134 | System and method to establish and track fitness and diet for well-being - A system to establish and track fitness and diet for well-being is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a workbook includes at least one plan to improve well-being, instructions for following the at least one plan, forms to implement the at least one plan, and motivational aids. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306135 | METHOD OF IMPROVING MEDICAL DIAGNOSES REPORTING AS DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS - The present invention relates generally to healthcare, and more specifically to a process for more completely and more accurately reporting a patient diagnosis under the Diagnosis-Related Group (“DRG”) system promulgated by the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”). In particular, the invention relates to a method for reviewing hospital discharge charts; identifying diagnosis codes which may be inaccurate or inadequately documented; gathering a set of clinical guidelines related to the medical conditions represented by such inaccurately or inadequately documented diagnosis codes; and presenting the identified codes with the gathered clinical guidelines to a treating healthcare provider for the provider's review and possible alteration. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306136 | Pizza Business Model - A new, additional or enhanced business model for the business of selling pizzas, which provides customers of the business the ability to communicate via a message on one or more modified pizzas. The business model includes the definition of a message by the customer, and the creation of this message on one or more pizzas. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306137 | ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY METHOD FOR DESIGNING AND UTILIZING MIXED USE DEVELOPMENTS - A mixed-use development that includes one or more buildings in an approximate L-shape along a parcel of land wherein one elongate axis of the one or more buildings in an approximate L-shape is positioned substantially parallel to a first edge of the parcel of land. The first edge of the parcel of land may be positioned near a road or sidewalk. A separate building that has an axis that is substantially parallel to one of the axis of the one or more buildings in an approximate L-shape may be positioned near the one or more buildings in an approximate L-shape to form an approximate U-shape of buildings with a green space in the interior of the U-shape of buildings. The green space may be elevated above ground level. A method of designing a mixed-use development is also provided. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306138 | BEHAVIOR MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer-implemented behavior monitoring method is provided. The method includes receiving from a plurality of contributors a plurality of personal value preference indications. Either or both of location information corresponding to a determined location of a user device and communication information corresponding to a determined communication activity of the user device are received. Either or both of the location information and the communication information of the user device are compared with the plurality of personal value preference indications from the plurality of contributors. A behavior rating is determined based on the comparison of the location information and the communication information of the user device with the plurality of personal value preference indications, and the behavior rating is transmitted to a user. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306139 | CJK NAME DETECTION - Aspects directed to name detection are provided. A method includes generating a raw name detection model using a collection of family names and an annotated corpus including a collection of n-grams, each n-gram having a corresponding probability of occurring. The method includes applying the raw name detection model to a collection of semi-structured data to form annotated semi?structured data identifying n-grams identifying names and n?grams not identifying names and applying the raw name detection model to a large unannotated corpus to form a large annotated corpus data identifying n-grams of the large unannotated corpus identifying names and n-grams not identifying names. The method includes generating a name detection model, including deriving a name model using the annotated semi-structured data identifying names and the large annotated corpus data identifying names, deriving a not-name model using the semi?structured data not identifying names, and deriving a language model using the large annotated corpus. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306140 | COMBINATION CONTAMINANT SIZE AND NATURE SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING CONTAMINATION ISSUES IN FLUIDS - Systems and methods used to monitor a fluid where it is important to know the size, concentration and nature of particulates in the fluid. For example, the systems and method can be used to diagnose contamination issues in fluids such as fuel, lubrication, power transfer, heat exchange or other fluids in fluid systems, for example diesel engines or hydraulic systems, where contaminant particles in the fluids are of concern. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306141 | Method for transforming data elements within a classification system based in part on input from a human annotator/expert - A method and system are provided for classifying data items such as a document based upon identification of element instances within the data item. A training set of classes is provided where each class is associated with one or more features indicative of accurate identification of an element instance within the data item. Upon the identification of the data item with the training set, a confidence factor is computed that the selected element instance is accurately identified. When a selected element instance has a low confidence factor, the associated features for the predicted class are changed by an annotator/expert so that the changed class definition of the new associated feature provides a higher confidence factor of accurate identification of element instances within the data item. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306142 | METHODS OF ADIABATIC QUANTUM COMPUTATION - A method for quantum computing using a quantum system comprising a plurality of qubits is provided. The system can be in any one of at least two configurations at any given time including one characterized by an initialization Hamiltonian H | 2010-12-02 |
20100306143 | EFFORT ESTIMATION USING TEXT ANALYSIS - A system, method and program product for estimating effort of implementing a system based on a use case specification document. A system is provided that includes: a volumetrics processor that quantifies a structure of the document and evaluates a format of the document; a domain processor that identifies a domain of the system associated with the document; a complexity processor that defines a set of complexity variables associated with the document based on the structure of the document, a format of the document and a domain of the document; and a neural network that estimates an effort based on the set of complexity variables. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306144 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING INFORMATION - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a computer implemented method for classifying information. The method may include accessing a plurality of information sources to identify example information items for each of a plurality of classification categories. Each of the example information items may be analyzed to generate a training corpus for each information source for each of the classification categories. The training corpus for each of the information sources may be combined to generate a training set for each of the classification categories, wherein the training set may be configured to allow the generation of a classification function. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306145 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REALIZING AN ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY BASED ON INHIBITORY NEURAL NETWORKS - A method for forming an associative computer memory comprises the step of forming an inhibitory memory matrix A′=−(Ap−A). According to the Wilshaw model constructed from a given set of address patterns and content patterns' and random matrix structure. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306146 | NON-SUBSCRIPTION BASED SERVICE FOR PROVIDING CONTEXTUALLY-PREFERRED NEW CONTENT TO INFORMATION SYSTEM USERS - A non-subscription based system that can provide contextually-preferred content to information system users, include an online information system, and a preferred content service provider. The online information system can be configured to provide users with access to content items. Each content item can be associated with a specific content creator registered with the online information system and/or a specific organizational location of the online information system. The preferred content service provider can be configured to provide a content preference service to users of the online information system. The content preference service can be configured to provide a user with a recommendation listing of content items from the online information system that satisfies a predetermined level of user preference without the use of a subscription mechanism. The recommendation listing can be dynamically updated when new content items meeting the predetermined level of user preference become available in the online information system. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306147 | Boosting to Determine Indicative Features from a Training Set - Determining indicative features may be provided. First, a first set of features may be determined using a document frequency process. Then a second set of features may be determined using a boosting process. Using the boosting process may comprise using an approximation for a one-dimensional optimization. The approximation may include an upper bound. Next, the first set of features and the second set of features may be combined into a combined set of features. The combined set of features may comprise a union of the first set of features and the second set of features. At least one document may then be classified based on the combined set of features. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306148 | PREDICTING WHETHER STRINGS IDENTIFY A SAME SUBJECT - The present invention is directed to predicting whether two character strings refer to a same subject. An exemplary embodiment includes using a set of character-string pairs, which have been identified as either matches or nonmatches, to learn a function. The function can then be applied to the two character strings to quantify a likelihood that they refer to the same subject matter. For example, a kernel-based classifier analyzes the set of character-string pairs using a kernel function. Based on the analysis the classifier can generate parameters. The parameters are usable to define a prediction algorithm that when applied to the two character strings generates a prediction value, which suggests whether the two characters are matches, i.e., refer to the same subject matter. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306149 | Planning method and system for use in cognitive programs - A system for achieving a desired goal in a domain. The system may comprise a device operable to receive information and simulate the domain therefrom; a device operable to simulate one or more effects due to one or more operators; a device operable to specify a number of items and/or classes of items and whether each item and/or each class of items is an affectable obstacle or a non-affectable obstacle; a device operable to automatically generate a candidate plan to achieve the desired goal by utilizing the simulated domain and the simulated effect(s), wherein the candidate plan could involve one or more affectable obstacles but does not involve any non-affectable obstacles; and a device operable to automatically refine the candidate plan to change at least one of the affectable obstacles involved in the candidate plan. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306150 | CIRCUITS FOR SOFT LOGICAL FUNCTIONS - A circuit implementing a soft logical processing network includes an interconnection of analog processing elements, which can include soft logic gates, for instance soft Equals gates and soft XOR gates. In some examples, each of the soft logic gates include multiple circuit parts, with each part including an input configured to accept a voltage signal representation of a soft logical quantity, and a conversion section configured to use the accepted voltage representation to form a corresponding current signal. The current signals are combined to form a signal representation of the output of the gate. In an application of soft logic gates, a memory includes a group of electrical storage elements, each electrical storage elements carrying a respective storage values; a group of conversion elements, each conversion element being coupled to a respective electrical storage element for selectively converting the corresponding storage value to a current signal; and a current combination element for combining the current signals to form an output signal. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306151 | IN HIERARCHY DETERMINATION FOR POWER MONITORING SYSTEMS - A method of automatically learning how multiple devices are directly or indirectly linked in a monitoring system, comprises determining configuration parameters for the multiple devices in said system, receiving data measured by the devices, and grouping the devices into multiple segments according to at least one type of information selected from the group consisting of configuration parameters and data measured by said devices. Potential relationships of the devices in each segment are determined according to at least one type of information selected from the group consisting of configuration parameters and data measured by the devices, the hierarchies of the devices within individual segments are determined, and the hierarchies of the top-most device or devices in the segments are determined. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306152 | Method and Host Device for Enforcing a Rule Associated with a Media File - The embodiments described herein generally relate to a method and host device for enforcing a rule associated with a media file. In one embodiment, an observer module determines that a media player is attempting to play a media file. Before allowing the media player to play the media file, the observer module determines if the media file is associated with a rule that specifies an action to be taken if a playback event is detected. If it is determined that the media file is associated with a rule, the observer module observes playback of the media file to detect if the playback event specified in the rule occurred and takes the action specified in the rule if the playback event is detected. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306153 | RULE BASED MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ON WEB PAGES - A computer implemented process to provide on-line customer service includes rendering a web site page to be browsed by a visitor; collecting information on visitor activities on the web site page; collecting browser parameters for the visitor; applying a rule set to the collected information and browser parameters to select a customer service agent to the visitor; and initiating multi-media communication request to link the visitor to the selected customer service agent based on the rule set while the visitor is browsing the web site page. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306154 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING, ACCESSING, AND COMMUNICATING CONTENT - Methods and systems for creating, accessing, and communicating content are described. The systems comprise a single platform that allows multiple coordinated communication channels with a single user device (or user system) or multiple user devices (or user systems) at the same time. The platforms contains a browser for communicating with a communications network, multiple types of servers for handling different communications between the platform and a user device external to the platform, a database for storing content, a speech engine for converting text to speech, for converting speech to text, or both, and a configuration engine for configuring the applications that users will use during interaction with the platform. The platform can accordingly communicate with a user (or a user system) using any desired number (or combination) of communication channels. Other embodiments are described. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306155 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VALIDATING SIGNATORY INFORMATION AND ASSIGNING CONFIDENCE RATING - A data analysis system includes a database including a plurality of official records, a user interface for receiving a signatory information, a processor in communication with the database and the user interface, wherein the processor compares the signatory information and a number of the official records based upon an instruction set and assigns a confidence factor to the signatory information in response to the comparison of the signatory information and the number of the official records. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306156 | MINIMUM CARDINALITY CANDIDATE GENERATION - This NGDE algorithm incorporates a minimum cardinality candidate diagnosis generator which exploits conflict set reduction rules to dramatically reduce the search space and thus reduce the computational resources required to find minimum cardinality diagnoses. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306157 | Method and computer implemented system for social decision making - The method and computer implemented system for social decision making is disclosed. The method commences with a decision maker working interactively with a computer system via the Internet. Decision maker identifies a topic for discussion and the initial pros and cons factors pertinent to a topic; each pro and con factor is attributed by a set of values and criteria. Decision maker then uses a set of social collaboration tools to gather opinions of the others. The others agree or disagree with a set of values and criteria attributed to initial cons and pros. The others can also submit their opinions in a form of the pros and cons pertinent to a topic each attributed by a set of values and criteria. The data is being stored in a machine readable format on a facilitator's server. A computing algorithm then calculates the sets of values, prioritizes criteria, and analyzes the data. Upon completion, a computer system transmits a visualization of data from a facilitator's server to a user computer displaying information in a format that allows a user to use emotional intelligence to make a conclusive decision. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306158 | SPEEDING UP ANALYSIS OF COMPRESSED WEB GRAPHS - Classes of web graph algorithms are extended to run directly on virtual node-type compressed web graphs where a reduction in runtime of the extended algorithms is realized which is approximately proportional to the compression ratio applied to the original (i.e., uncompressed) graph. In the virtual node compression technique, a succinct representation of a web graph is constructed by replacing dense subgraphs by sparse ones so that the resulting compressed graph has significantly fewer edges and a relatively small number of additional nodes. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306159 | CONTACT STATE ESTIMATION FOR MULTI-FINGER ROBOT HANDS USING PARTICLE FILTERS - A method for identifying the location, orientation and shape of an object that a robot hand touches that includes using a particle filter. The method includes defining an appropriate motion model and a measurement model. The motion model characterizes the motion of the robot hand as it moves relative to the object. The measurement model estimates the likelihood of an observation of contact position, velocity and tactile sensor information given hand-object states. The measurement model is approximated analytically based on a geometric model or based on a corpus of training data. In either case, the measurement model distribution is encoded as a Gaussian or using radial basis functions. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306160 | Generating and determining bicycle configurations conforming to constraints - Systems and methods are described for determining a subset of conforming descriptions of a set of descriptions of bicycle configurations, which are combinations of candidate components, such as frames, forks, stems, handlebars, seat posts, and saddles. For determining whether a candidate description conforms, (1) a set of candidate components with a physical specification of each candidate component is accessed, (2) at least one biomechanical constraint is input, and (3) optionally a non-biomechanical constraint is input, such as weight, material, or price. An embodiment may generate a biomechanical constraint from a physical measurement taken from a particular bicycle and/or from a physical measurement taken from a particular cyclist. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306161 | CLICK THROUGH RATE PREDICTION USING A PROBABILISTIC LATENT VARIABLE MODEL - Methods and systems are provided for predicting click through rate in connection with a particular user, keyword-based query, and advertisement using a probabilistic latent variable model. Click through rate may be predicted based on historical sponsored search activity information. Predicted click through rate may be used as a factor in determining advertisement rank. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306162 | PROXIMITY DATA IMPORT - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with importing proximity data are provided. Device identification information and device location information associated with a device are received from a data source. An estimated proximity of the device to one or more network zones is determined based at least in part on the device location information. A device identifier and the estimated proximity of the device are stored in a proximity database that stores proximity data for devices relative to one or more network zones. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306163 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES IN VIRTUALIZED DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS - A system and method for managing responsiveness of virtual desktops using passive monitoring includes monitoring interactive desktop events for a computer device and measuring a time between the interactive desktop event and a result of the interactive desktop event. Based on the time, desktop responsiveness is evaluated. System resources are reallocated to improve the responsiveness. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306164 | CIRCUITS FOR SOFT LOGICAL FUNCTIONS - A circuit implementing a soft logical processing network includes an interconnection of analog processing elements, which can include soft logic gates, for instance soft Equals gates and soft XOR gates. In some examples, each of the soft logic gates include multiple circuit parts, with each part including an input configured to accept a voltage signal representation of a soft logical quantity, and a conversion section configured to use the accepted voltage representation to form a corresponding current signal. The current signals are combined to form a signal representation of the output of the gate. In an application of soft logic gates, a memory includes a group of electrical storage elements, each electrical storage elements carrying a respective storage values; a group of conversion elements, each conversion element being coupled to a respective electrical storage element for selectively converting the corresponding storage value to a current signal; and a current combination element for combining the current signals to form an output signal. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306165 | RADIO FREQUENCY MICROSCOPE FOR AMPLIFYING AND ANALYZING ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS - One embodiment provides a technique for analyzing a target electromagnetic signal radiating from a monitored system. During the technique, the monitored system is positioned at a first locus of an ellipsoidal surface to amplify the target electromagnetic signal received at a second locus of the ellipsoidal surface. Next, the amplified target electromagnetic signal is monitored using an antenna positioned at the second locus of the ellipsoidal surface. Finally, the integrity of the monitored system is assessed by analyzing the amplified target electromagnetic signal monitored by the antenna. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306166 | AUTOMATIC FACT VALIDATION - The disclosed embodiments fulfill searches and determine the validity of a large set of noisy facts and rank the set of facts according to a validity score. Embodiments construct a fact graph by linking together facts that share a common relation structure and entity or instance of an argument. Facts are re-ranked and validated using link analysis processes which propagate weight (validity/authority) through the fact graph. The resulting weights for each fact are potentially combined with other scores (such as from fact extraction algorithms) in order to come up with a final ranking of the facts. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306167 | ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR FINDING A COMPACT REPRESENTATION TO VISUALIZE COMPLEX DECISION TREES - The invention comprises an article and method for transforming a complex or large decision tree having multiple variables; multiple values for each variable; and, multiple outcomes for each combination of variables and their associated values, into a compact, efficient graphical representation to provided enhanced ease of use and interaction by a human user. More particularly, the invention comprises a computationally efficient method for transforming an input decision tree into an optimal compact representation by computing a particular ordering of variables in the decision tree that first leads to a Directed Acyclic Graph, or “DAG,” with a minimum number of nodes. The method then converts the DAG into an exception-based DAG, or “EDAG,” with exactly one exception, having an optimal, minimum number of nodes with increased comprehensibility for a user. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306168 | TRANSACTION DATA CAPTURE DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS - A data capture system captures transaction data and a unique identifier of a recipient and combines the information to form a total transaction data set. The total transaction data set is associated with demographic information about the recipient and the total information is reserved for review by providers or recipients respectively to analyze the transactions. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306169 | Apparatus, Method and System For Improving Application Performance Across a Communication Network - An apparatus, method and system to enable dynamic replication of Web servers across a wide area in response to access patterns by Web clients as well as in response to customer requests. The method for dynamically replicating one or more parent nodes on a network in response to a user request by a policy manager. The policy manager transmits the user request to an event module. The event module transmits the user request to a data consistency module, wherein the data consistency module maintains integrity of the data on the parent node. The event system communicates with a resource management module to ensure proper utilization of network resources, and transmits the routing request to a request routing module for appropriately balancing the network load. The request routing module is capable of providing optimal routing based on the network resources. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306170 | SYNCHRONIZATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Connection architectures, methods, systems and computer readable media are described. In one exemplary embodiment, a computer readable medium comprises a first software component which is configured to interface, through first software based messages, with synchronization software components during a structured data synchronization process between a host and a device and which is configured to interface, through second software based messages, with a plurality of different stream handlers for a corresponding plurality of physical interfaces. Systems, methods, architectures and other computer readable media are also described. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306171 | Timeline Experience for Restore User Interface - A backup restoration system may present two or more versions of a file in a graphical user interface. A user may examine the versions to identify a desired version, and the desired version may be restored. The system may identify changed versions of the file from many stored instances of the file in the backup system, and may present the changed versions within the user interface. In some embodiments, a timeline may be presented that displays when the file was changed. Some embodiments may also highlight the changes in the display. Some embodiments may present the versions of a file in a horizontal format, where two or more versions may be viewed side by side. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306172 | UNIFIED MODEL DESIGN FOR PENDING AND PRODUCTION INFORMATION AND VERSIONED INFORMATION - A change management model-based approach can be used for managing information, such as rows of data, presenting merged information from a pending and/or production datastore with rule-based redirection to an appropriate pending and/or production datastore. Such a model can support versioning, leveraging the pending data storage; can provide for direct or merged views of the appropriate datastore; and can provide a model logic for production data updates, version updates, and/or for change context updates. A unified presentation and update model for change management can merge pending data over the production information based on the context, and allow updates on top of production/date effective versioned information. Based on various rules, the data can be pushed to production or to a change order in the context of either datastore or to a fresh change order itself. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306173 | HANDLING TEMPORARY FILES OF A VIRTUAL MACHINE - A method and system for handling temporary data of a virtual machine are described. In one embodiment, virtual machines are hosted by a server and accessed by remote clients over a network. The server assigns first storage and second storage to each virtual machine, where the first storage is designated for temporary data of a respective virtual machine and the second storage is designated for persistent data of a respective virtual machine. The server monitors events pertaining to the virtual machine. Upon detecting a predefined event pertaining to one of the virtual machines, the server causes at least a subset of the temporary data to be removed from the first storage of this virtual machine. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306174 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLOCK BASED VOLUME BACKUP - Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatuses for block based storage subsystem to have backup ability to a file based storage service such as HTTP or cloud storage service. In one embodiment, a storage system is coupled via a network to a storage service which has one or more file servers. The storage system comprises a processor; a memory; a volume-based snapshot control module configured to create a snapshot volume of data at a certain time, the snapshot volume being a block-based volume which is divided into a plurality of portions; and a copy control module configured to read each portion of the snapshot volume and send said each portion as file data to the storage service via the network, and to generate mapping information between an address of said each portion in the storage system and a file identifier of the file data of said each portion in the storage service. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306175 | FILE POLICY ENFORCEMENT - Policies are associated with files according to a number of criteria, for example, a file type and a user who created the file. Policies may control when a file can be deleted. In one example, a device includes a computer-readable medium configured to store a file, and a processing unit configured to determine a time of retention for the file specified by a policy associated with the file, receive a request to delete the file, and delete the file in response to the request only after the time of retention for the file specified by the policy has passed. In addition, a file may be subject to a legal hold that prevents the file from being deleted even after the time of retention has passed. Similarly, while a user stores a link to the file, the device may prevent the file from being deleted. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306176 | DEDUPLICATION OF FILES - Files may be stored by a plurality of director devices. At times, a central director archive may deduplicate a file by removing the file from each of the plurality of director devices that is storing the file. The archive generally stores all files stored by each of the director devices. In one example, a director archive includes a processing unit that generates a list of identifiers of files stored by the director archive device that should be removed from a director device in accordance with policies of the files, wherein the director archive device is configured to store copies of files stored by the director device, and wherein the director device is communicatively coupled to the director archive device, and a network interface that sends the list of identifiers to the director device to cause the director device to delete the files from local storage of the director device. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306177 | HOST OPERATING SYSTEM INDEPENDENT STORAGE-RELATED REMOTE ACCESS AND OPERATIONS - An embodiment may include circuitry that may be comprised in a host that may execute an operating system and/or in a server. The circuitry may generate, at least in part, and/or receive, at least in part, at least one request to initiate, at least in part, at least one operation at the host. The least one operation may facilitate, at least in part, examination remotely from the host of information stored at the host. The at least one operation may be performed independently from the operating system and also may be performed at least in part by the circuitry. The examination may facilitate, at least in part, remotely from the host, backup, recovery, and/or determination of corruption of mass storage data stored at the host. Of course, many variations, modifications, and alternatives are possible without departing from this embodiment. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306178 | SEPARATING FILE DATA STREAMS TO ENHANCE PROGRESSIVE INCREMENTAL PROCESSING - Systems, methods, and computer products for separating file data streams for improved progressive incremental processing are provided. The method comprises identifying data in a file, prior to transmission of the data in a data stream to a second system, such that the second system can distinguish first data from second data in the file. The method further comprises processing the first and second data to determine whether the first or second data has changed, and transmitting the first data to the second system in response to determining the first data has changed, so that the first data is stored in a data storage medium in association with third and fourth data previously stored without replacing the third data and fourth data, wherein the third and fourth data comprise older versions of the first and second data, respectively. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306179 | Using Information Usage Data to Detect Behavioral Patterns and Anomalies - Activity data is analyzed or evaluated to detect behavioral patterns and anomalies. When a particular pattern or anomaly is detected, a system may send a notification or perform a particular task. This activity data may be collected in an information management system, which may be policy based. Notification may be by way e-mail, report, pop-up message, or system message. Some tasks to perform upon detection may include implementing a policy in the information management system, disallowing a user from connecting to the system, and restricting a user from being allowed to perform certain actions. To detect a pattern, activity data may be compared to a previously defined or generated activity profile. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306180 | FILE REVISION MANAGEMENT - A plurality of users store respective links to a file stored by a director device. When a user edits the file, the director device stores a revised version of the file for the user, without overwriting the original version of the file for the other users. In one example, a device includes a processing unit that stores a file received from the first endpoint and stores an updated version of the file received from the second endpoint, without overwriting an original version of the file as received from the first endpoint device. In response to receiving a request for the file from the first endpoint, the processing unit sends the original version of the file to the first endpoint. In response to receiving a request for the file from the second endpoint, the processing unit sends the updated version of the file to the second endpoint. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306181 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROLLING BACK STATE CHANGES IN DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTIONS - During a distributed transaction, a computing device that hosts a participant of the distributed transaction intercepts an operation to change a resource from an initial state to a resultant state. The computing device determines an inverse operation that will change the resource from the resultant state back to the initial state. The computing device records the inverse operation and performs the operation. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306182 | Rendering a Database Record in a Fixed Display Space - Rendering a database record having a plurality of fields in a fixed display space includes: with a physical processor configured to access and display the database record, allocating to each field in the database record a maximum display length having an initial value equal to a string length of the fixed display space divided by the number of fields in the database record; and displaying in the fixed display space a portion of each field in the database record such that the displayed portion of any field is no longer than the maximum display length allocated to that particular field. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306183 | ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR A SOCIAL -NETWORK WEB PORTAL APPLIED TO THE SECTOR OF HEALTH AND HEALTH INFORMATION - A system for retrieving health-related information includes at least one processor coupled to memory; a back-end subsystem for storing in the memory, illness and health-related information imported from external data-base sources. An information retrieval program stored in the memory is executable by the processor to search the external data-base sources for illness and health-related terms and definitions; organize the illness and health-related information in an internal data-base stored in the memory by categories according to illness names, and include an aggregation of synonyms of scientific and unofficial terms identifying the illness names in different languages; search in each category for health-related articles in at least one predetermined international scientific data-base; and populate the internal data-base with information related to the articles. A front-end subsystem includes a search engine for searching the internal data-base for illness names; and an illness-page module for displaying the results including illness and health-related information and articles. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306184 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING WEBPAGE DATA - A method and device for processing webpage data has the following steps: checking whether or not the webpage data included in the response message to be sent by a website to a search engine includes a particular character; and shielding the particular character included in the webpage data when the result of the checking is affirmative. By using the method and device, it is possible to prevent hackers from carrying out unauthorized operations on websites by way of Google hacking. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306185 | Self Populating Address Book - System, methods and computer program products for creating and maintaining an address book are described. The address book may collect or update its existing contact information from sent or received communications. Contact information associated with the existing contacts also may be collected (or updated based on information received) from outside sources (e.g., external to an application hosting or accessing the address book). The address book may intelligently combine profile data from various sources to enrich the existing records associated with the contacts. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306186 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING THE INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A problem to be solved is to enable the user to read out data stored in a logical unit in a power saving state in a short time in a storage system having a power saving function such as stopping the spindle of the HDD. To solve the problem, candidate document file information is read out according to the keywords inputted by the user from a search system, a predetermined number of document file names are extracted from the highest candidates in the candidate document file information, and the power saving function of the logical units actually storing the extracted document files is controlled (switch the state from the power saving state to the normal operation state). | 2010-12-02 |
20100306187 | Methods And Systems For Managing Data - Methods and systems for processing data, including metadata and an index database. In one exemplary method, a first folder, representing a first search query, is stored, and a second folder, representing a second search query wherein the second folder has a predetermined hierarchical relationship to the first folder, is stored, and the search queries are used to search one or both of an index database and a metadata database. In the metadata database, the type of metadata for one file type differs from the type of metadata for another file type. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306188 | PERSISTENT QUERY PLANS - A system and method for processing database queries. An optimizer produces query plans based on queries. Query plans are stored in a persistent storage. In response to receiving a query, the system selectively retrieves a stored query plan corresponding to the query for execution. Optimization of the query may be selectively performed. A stored query plan or a new query plan may be executed. Based on metrics collected during execution, the system may automatically revert to a stored plan other than the one being executed. Based on metrics of a reverted to plan, the system may roll back to the first plan. The persistent storage enables the use of query plans after a system restart, transfer to another device, or other changes. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306189 | SENSOR NETWORK MANAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a sensor network managing apparatus and a method thereof. The sensor network managing apparatus according to the present invention receives a query that includes a spatial join predicate for searching for target sensor nodes and a comparison predicate that is different for each sensor network, and generates query execution order information for searching for the target sensor nodes based on the spatial join predicate and the comparison predicate, wherein the spatial join predicate is related to a spatial location between sensor nodes respectively included in different sensor networks, and the comparison predicate are related to sensing values of sensor nodes of the sensor networks. In addition, the sensor node managing apparatus executes queries for the spatial join predicate and the comparison predicate on the plurality of sensor nodes on the basis of determined query execution order, and then extracts target sensor nodes as the query results. According to the present invention, an efficient method for searching for user-desired sensor nodes in more than two different sensor networks can be provided. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306190 | Retrieval-Time Ranking for Community Content - A computer-implemented method and system of establishing, accessing, ranking and retrieving community-oriented content, the community content selected from a plurality of content items available at a content database for presentation at a client device. The method involves establishing a physical proximity of the client device to each of the content items available at the content database; establishing a freshness of the respective ones of the content items relative to the time of a request for the community content at the client device, computing an aggregated score, and ranking the content items to be presented at the client device, the aggregated score at least partially based on the physical proximity and the freshness. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306191 | Computer Application Data In Search Results - A computer-implemented search method includes receiving a registration request from each of one or more computer applications installed on a computing device and registering the applications in response to the request, wherein the registration request indicates an intent by the application to receive search query information from a search application associated with the device. The method also includes receiving user input on the device in the form of a query, providing the query to the one or more registered applications, receiving responses from the one or more registered applications that include data that is managed by the one or more registered applications; integrating the responses into a result set; and presenting the result set with the computing device. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306192 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A SEARCH ENGINE FOR USER GENERATED CONTENT (UGC) - A method and system for a search engine for user generated content have been disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises receiving a search request from a client, the search request directed to user generated content. Relevant user generated content is retrieved, wherein retrieving comprises searching processed user generated content, and wherein processing user generated content comprises receiving first input data including text, creating a substring of text from the first input data and categorizing the substring to produce a concept associated with the substring, wherein the substring is categorized according to one of dictionaries or pattern analysis. An indication of sentiment is assigned to the concept associated with the substring and an indication of influence is assigned to the concept associated with the substring. The relevant user generated content is displayed. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306193 | Multi-media content identification using multi-level content signature correlation and fast similarity search - A method is presented for large media data base query and media entry identification based on multi-level similarity search and reference-query entry correlation. Media content fingerprinting detects unique features and generates discriminative descriptors and signatures used to form preliminary reference data base. The preliminary reference data base is processed and a subset-set of it is selected to form a final reference data base. To identify a media query a fast similarity search is performed first on the reference database resulting in a preliminary set of likely matching videos. For each preliminary likely matching video a further multi-level correlation is performed which includes iterative refinement, sub-sequence merging, and final result classification. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306194 | Recommendation network - A recommendation network is described. In some embodiments, the recommendation network includes recommenders that explicitly or implicitly recommend, rate or refer items and recommendation receivers that receive the recommendations. In some embodiments, the recommenders can be recommendation receivers, and vice versa. In some embodiments, recommendation receivers assign rust ratings to recommenders. The recommendation receiver can assign separate trust ratings to individual topics for which the recommendation receiver trusts the recommender. The separate trust ratings represent the recommendation receiver's amount of trust in the recommender to makes valuable recommendations for the specific topic. The recommendation network can use the separate trust ratings, along with ratings provided by the recommender, to rank recommendations per the separate topics. The recommendation receiver can assign the recommender to different bundles, topics, channels, etc. to which other recommendation receivers can subscribe. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306195 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING QUERIES FOR COMPLEX DATA STRUCTURES - A system for creating queries for complex data structures includes a database populated with data relating to a manufacturing process and a graphical user interface accessed via a computer. The graphical user interface includes a tree domain and a query area, the tree domain including a tree representation of the data populating the database, wherein the tree representation includes graphical representations of attributes and/or structural-elements relating to the manufacturing process and populating the database. A mechanism is provided for dragging and dropping the graphical representations from the tree domain to the query area where the graphical representations are converted to a query based upon operators linking the graphical representations dragged and dropped from the tree domain. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306196 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL STORAGE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION - The invention relates to a method for the individual storage of public information, characterized by the following steps: providing information in a digital information storage unit of an information provider; marking the information thus provided with an individual, explicit marker; publishing the information with the associated marker; receiving information requests sent by users in the form of selected markers; and providing the public information associated with the selected markers to the user for further use. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306197 | NON-LINEAR REPRESENTATION OF VIDEO DATA - The present invention is a method of representing video data in a non-linear paradigm. Video data are categorized into semantic content comprising multi-layer structure each denotes semantic reference, such as different cinematic entities. The semantic content is organized in a hierarchical structure where the top layer denotes global information while the lowest layer represents primitive information. The cinematic entities in the top layer are hyper-linked to the entities in the second layer. The entities in the second layer are hyper-linked to the third layer and so forth. Each cinematic entity in the lowest layer is designated to a part of the video content and hyper-linked to the corresponding video data. The semantic content comprises hyper-linked video data in an N-to-N relationship. N-to-N relationship means the data are hyper-video and the video data supports multiple access and multiple presentation. An apparatus for presenting categorized semantic content is also disclosed. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306198 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CATEGORIES ASSOCIATED WITH SEARCHES OF ELECTRONIC CATALOGS AND DISPLAYING CATEGORY INFORMATION WITH SEARCH RESULTS - Various embodiments are presented which comprise an electronic catalog of products, wherein the user searches the catalog and the embodiments identify what categories of products in the catalog are referred to by the user's search query. These categories are then displayed onscreen with the results of the user's search, and may present controls that control the user's search results. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306199 | USER-DEFINED HIERARCHICAL CATEGORIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING OPERATIONAL METRICS - The present invention provides a method, system and apparatus for categorizing information in a user-defined hierarchical category structure. Association of the information with a category additionally results in categorization of the information in all superior parental categories that are linked to the category. The present invention is also capable of generating metrics reports using the categorized information. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306200 | Mobile Image Search and Indexing System and Method - A computer-implemented system and method are described for image searching and image indexing that may be incorporated in a mobile device that is part of an object identification system. A computer-implemented system and method relating to a MISIS client and MISIS server that may be associated with mobile pointing and identification system for the searching and indexing of objects in in situ images in geographic space taken from the perspective of a system user located near the surface of the Earth including horizontal, oblique, and airborne perspectives. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306201 | NEIGHBOR SEARCHING APPARATUS - To provide a neighbor searching apparatus that can select an index suitable for each search target. A neighbor searching apparatus has: a storage part that stores a meta table containing index-dependent meta data associated with a data structure of each index; a database managing part that searches for an index associated with an instruction when receiving the instruction from a user and makes an indexing part perform a processing associated with the instruction using the index-dependent meta data associated with the index; and the indexing part that performs the processing associated with the instruction using the index-dependent meta data based on the instruction from the managing database part. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306202 | File Format Converting Method - A file format converting method for converting a first format file in a first file system of a storage apparatus to a second format file in a second file system is provided. The method includes creating a temporary file and defining a data amount of the temporary file as a first predetermined value; defining a start position of the temporary file to be the same as that of the first format file; and defining the data amount of the temporary file to be the same as that of the first format file to generate the second format file. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306203 | SYSTEMATIC PRESENTATION OF THE CONTENTS OF ONE OR MORE DOCUMENTS - Disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, is a method of systematically presenting the contents of at least one document, comprising: (a) a user providing an electronic version of at least one document to a computer; (b) a user accepting or modifying noise words generated by a computer module; (c) generating a list of every non-noise word by means of a computer module wherein the list indicates every page on which a non-noise word appears; and (d) displaying the entire list of non-noise words. In some embodiments, the list of non-noise words further indicates the number of times a word occurs on a page. In some embodiments, the list of non-noise words further indicates each line on which a non-noise word appears. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306204 | DETECTING DUPLICATE DOCUMENTS USING CLASSIFICATION - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for detecting a duplicate document. A plurality of documents may be assigned to categories, each category corresponding to a collection of duplicates, or near duplicate documents. A new document may be received. The new document may be evaluated against each category to determine a similarity score between the new document and each category. The new document may be identified as a duplicate based on the similarity scores and thresholds for each category. An action may then be performed on the duplicate based on duplication rules. The thresholds and duplication rules may be customized by a user. | 2010-12-02 |
20100306205 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AN ORDER OF PRESENTATION OF SEARCH RESULTS - A method and system for determining an order of presentation of the search results is provided. An example system comprises a search request detector, a search engine, and an intermingler. The search request detector may be configured to receive a search request, and the search engine may be configured to determine search results based on the search request. The search results may comprise a first set of items in a first format and a second set of items in a second format. The number of items in the first set and the number of items in the second may reflect a predetermined target ratio and respective exposure percentages for items in the first format and items in the second format. The intermingler may be configured to determine an order of presentation of the search results in a list of search results based on the target ratio. | 2010-12-02 |