49th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 68 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090299879 | Catalog Builder with an Expert System - A Catalog Builder that has a built-in Expert System which assists Catalog Builder operators in catalog building. The Expert System contains a knowledge database that stores keywords that can be used to describe a product or help a product get discovered during a search, and, optionally, the definitions of those keywords. The Expert System has one main function: it makes keyword suggestions to Catalog Builder operators during a product information submission process. The Expert System can also have a second function, which is to acquire product knowledge from Catalog Builder operators by adding new keywords that have been entered by Catalog Builder operators during a product information submission process to the knowledge database, or by allowing Catalog Builder operators add new keywords and optionally, their definitions, to the knowledge database during a catalog building process. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299880 | PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON COLLABORATIVE FILTERING OF USER DATA - A system gathers user behavior data from a group of web retailers and/or non-web retailers, analyzes the user behavior data to identify product recommendations for products offered by the web retailers, and provides one of the identified product recommendations in connection with a product page associated with one of the web retailers. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299881 | TIME PHASE WORK POOL MANAGEMENT FOR RETURNED INVENTORY ASSET ROUTING - Embodiments of the present routing returned inventory assets and provide a method, system and computer program product for routing items in a manufacturing environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for routing items in a manufacturing environment can be provided. The method can include defining attributes of work pools in the manufacturing environment, defining a set of reuse strategies for use in the manufacturing environment, receiving a returned inventory asset in the manufacturing environment and obtaining at least one attribute of the returned inventory asset, comparing the obtained at least one attribute of the returned inventory asset to the set of reuse strategies to select the reuse strategy to apply to the returned inventory asset and applying the selected reuse strategy to the returned inventory asset to assign the returned inventory asset to one of the work pools in the manufacturing environment. The method can further include the transportation of the returned inventory asset to a temporary location other than the assigned work pool, and can include updating a returned inventory asset tracking record to indicate the assigned work pool. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299882 | CONVERTING ASSETS FOR REUSE DURING MANUFACTURING - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to manufacturing production and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for reuse of cancelled products that are partially manufactured. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for reusing a partially manufactured product during a manufacturing process can be provided. The method can include reading a configuration of the partially manufactured product and reading a set of rules that match a given configuration with one of a set of defined target configurations. The method can further include executing the set of rules upon the configuration of the partially manufactured product so as to match the configuration of the partially manufactured product with a target configuration. The method can further include initiating re-configuration of the partially manufactured product to the target configuration with which it was matched and stocking in inventory the partially manufactured product that has been re-configured to the target configuration. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299883 | Graduation function for stored value card - A stored value card and system provides a stored value card issued in the name of a cardholder and with an account associated with an issuer and a legal account holder. The legal account holder is initially a person or entity other than the cardholder. The legal account holder manages the account and is authorized to add funds to the account and the cardholder is authorized to use the funds in the account. As the account is being used, and account data is changing, the account data is compared to a plurality of triggering criteria. When a predetermined number of the triggering criteria are satisfied, the nature of the account is changed and the cardholder becomes the legal account holder who then manages and owns the funds in the account. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299884 | REMOTE SYSTEM UPGRADES IN SPECIFIC REGULATORY ENVIRONMENTS - Disclosed are apparatus and methodology for providing remote system upgrades to utility meters in certain regulatory environments. A utility meter having a metrology section and a registry portion is provided with additional memory in the metrology section, and configured as the primary storage location for billing information. The metrology section is configured for remote upgrade of firmware associated with automatic meter reading (AMR) functions in a manner that maintains the integrity of stored billing material despite any failed upgrade of the associated AMR device or functionality | 2009-12-03 |
20090299885 | BILLING DEVICE AND PROCESSING METHOD - A billing device and processing method is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes i) collecting a billing log according to performing a biz template at the business logic processing unit, ii) verifying validity of the collected billing log, iii) performing a standardizing process on the verified billing log, iv) generating billing data by applying a predetermined billing policy according to the standardized billing log, v) generating a billing file (MDR) to transmit to a billing legacy system of a mobile communication system using the generated billing data and vi) transmitting the generated billing file (MDR) to the billing legacy system. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299886 | ACTIVITY BASED CREDIT CARD LIMIT ASSIGNMENT - Systems and methods for reducing the exposure of a financial institution to lending risk. The systems and methods may involve determining a basic credit limit for a customer's new credit card account based at least in part on attributes associated with the customer; assigning an adjusted credit limit to the account; and promising to decide whether to replace the adjusted credit limit with a higher credit limit. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299887 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SAVINGS OPPORTUNITIES BASED ON THE PRICE PROTECTION AND RETURN POLICIES OF RETAILERS - A system and method is disclosed for detecting savings opportunities for consumers based on the price protection and/or return policies of retailers, following a process of purchasing items from online or physical retailers. The system receives an order statement which comprises information about an order, such as an identifier of the retailer, a date and the details of one or more purchases, where each purchase includes at least an identifier of an item and the amount paid for that item. The system then extracts that information from the order statement, without requiring the user to specify the details of each purchase separately. The system continuously monitors the prices of the items and the conditions specified in the retailer's price protection and/or return policies. If the system determines that the customer is eligible to receive a refund or can profit from returning an item to the retailer and re-purchasing it (perhaps from a different retailer), it either requests the refund from the retailer on behalf of the customer, or notifies the user. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299888 | Testing a quality of a report - There is provided a method that includes receiving a request to provide a report; determining whether content of the report meets a threshold level of quality; and issuing a warning if the content does not meet the threshold level of quality. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299889 | System and Method for Estimating Transaction Costs Related to Trading a Security - A method for creating a peer group database includes a step of collecting security transaction data for a preselected period of time, for a plurality of investment institutions. The transaction data includes identity of securities being traded, transaction order sizes, execution prices and execution times. The transaction data is grouped into a plurality of orders. A plurality of cost benchmarks are calculated for each of the orders. Transaction costs are estimated for each investment institution relative to the cost benchmarks. The data is stored. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299890 | System and Method for Aggressively Trading a Strategy in an Electronic Trading Environment - System and method for aggressively trading a spread trading strategy in an electronic environment are provided herein. According to the example embodiments, a trader may configure the automated trading tool to trade as aggressively as possible by leaning on a price without an associated quantity. This allows a trader to possibly obtain a more profitable price as well as get filled faster. Traders submit an order for a spread and the automated trading tool calculates the quote order price based on a defined level of aggressiveness, the leaned on price, and the desired spread price. Based on the level of defined aggressiveness and the gap in the market, the automated trading tool may lean on a mildly, moderately, or extremely aggressive price. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299891 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ELECTRONIC TRADING CARDS - A device, system, and method for acquiring, displaying, managing through an electronic binder and trading of random electronic trading cards assigned through entry of a unique code. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299892 | TRADE SUPPORT PROCESS SYSTEM, TRADE SUPPORT PROCESS METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Receipt of an order for a support for transportation in a trade or for documentation in a trade is managed. A control unit of a service management server sends an order receipt information registration screen. In a case where a service pattern is selected on the order receipt information registration screen, the control unit retrieves service plans that constitute the service pattern, and outputs the service plans. Then, the control unit acquires order receipt particulars information about the service plans. Then, the control unit registers order receipt management data. On the other hand, in a case where order receipt information is input in the order receipt information registration screen, the control unit retrieves a service plan that matches the order receipt information, and outputs the service plan. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299893 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OPTION SPREAD INDICATIVE QUOTES - A computer network and method for electronically trading combinations of derivatives. One preferred method of trading includes providing quotes information to a central server, and determining indicative quotes for combination trades, and providing the non-binding, indicative quotes to market participants (which typically includes subscribers, but may also include market makers). A participant may then submit an e-RFQ, which is a request for a binding quote for the combination of derivatives. Market Makers may then elect to submit a binding quote for the corresponding derivative combination. Market participants may then elect to enter a binding order. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299894 | Systems and Methods for Implementing the Structuring, Pricing, Quotation, and Trading of SPOT Synthetics (SPOTS), SPREAD Instruments (SPRINTS), SPRINTS based on SPOTS, Ratio Derivatives (RADS), RADS based on SPOTS, and Options based on these Instruments - An exchange-traded financial instrument having a price that tracks an underlying benchmark, the underlying benchmark being a security or commodity that is itself traded. A contract for the financial instrument between a buyer and seller is not contingent upon the delivery of the underlying benchmark. A net carrying charge (credit or debit), defined as the difference between the investment yield of the underlying benchmark and a cost of financing ownership of the underlying benchmark using the generally accepted industry standard financing rate for that benchmark, is credited or debited, accrued, or built into the price of the derivative for both buyer and seller of the financial instrument, typically nightly. In one embodiment, the underlying benchmark is a U.S. Treasury security, and preferably a specific U.S. Treasury security such as the on the run (OTR) 10 Year Treasury note. Other single contract spread and ratio instruments are also disclosed. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299895 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING RULE-BASED COLLATERAL ALLOCATION AND SUBSTITUTION - A system and method are disclosed for managing collateral allocation and substitution in general collateral repurchase agreements. In a preferred embodiment, an intermediary computer system facilitates the execution of anonymous general collateral repurchase agreements between buyers and sellers. The intermediary system manages initial collateral allocations and substitutions in accordance with systematic and impartial rules. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299896 | Computer-Implemented Systems And Methods For Integrated Model Validation For Compliance And Credit Risk - Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for model validation of a model for compliance and credit risk. Model input, output, and processing validation areas are contained on a computer system. A handle data structure connects the model validation areas with handles that comprise a unified metric. A handle represents combinations of covariate patterns and describes the joint distribution of risk characteristics. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299897 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN AUTOMATED CONTENT TIME-SHARING SERVICE - A method and apparatus for providing an automated content time-sharing service to a plurality of participants are disclosed. A user accesses a service platform, (e.g., via a Web site), that provides the service, and selects content, (e.g., a written, audible and/or visual work), offered by the service platform. The user interacts with the service platform for scheduling access to portions of the selected content, and identifying and grouping participants, (which may include the user), whom are to be granted access to the content portions. The user may also further interact with the service platform to generate content portion-forming information, (e.g., number and/or order of content portions). A dedicated Web space is provided for each group of participants to access and post communications about the selected content portions. The communications are then are archived according to the time interval during which the communications were posted. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299898 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING TRANSFER REQUESTS - Methods and system for processing transfer requests are described. In one embodiment, a value transfer request may be received from a value provider through a network. The value transfer request may include a value amount to be provided from a source user to a target user. A settlement account of the value provider may be reduced by the value amount. A target account of the target user may be increased by the value amount. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299899 | Impulse donation/buy without risk system and method - A method and system are disclosed for enabling a subscriber to a service provider to purchase goods or make donations to a third-party unaffiliated with the service provider. The system generates an electronic bill for a service provided to the user, where the electronic bill includes at least one selection for a purchase from or a donation to the third-party. The selection for purchase or donation from the user is received accompanied by an immediate or subsequent receipt of an indication of payment from the user. The payment indication includes payment for the service and the purchase or donation. The user has up until payment is actually made to revoke the purchase or donation selection. The transaction is completed by the service provider with the third-party to effectuate the purchase or donation. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299900 | AUTOMOTIVE MOBILE DIAGNOSTICS - The invention generally relates to vehicle diagnostic systems and their methods of use, and more particularly, to a hand-held automotive diagnostic code-reader/scan tool with data link connector (DTC) which straps to the user's arm and is comprised of a touch screen, a VIN bar code/number scanner, a credit card reader, a printer, and internet and cell phone connections to a variety of servers for credit card approval, billing and vehicle diagnostics. The credit card is scanned and billed followed by scanning the vehicle VIN number or bar code and sending the information to the vehicle OBD2 server who identifies the vehicle, orders the handheld tool to perform certain tests upon the vehicle and in turn performs a diagnosis. A live wireless cell phone connection may be made, if necessary, with a technician at the OBD2 server for tech support. Test results are returned to the hand tool which prints out the results, prints a credit card receipt and sends a record of the transaction to the operators server Corp. for record keeping. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299901 | AUTOMATED REMITTANCE MACHINE AND METHOD - A method for use in remitting funds, including establishing a self-service apparatus in a location accessible by members of the public, allowing unrestricted access to input/output devices of the self-service apparatus, receiving from the self-service apparatus funds remittance information that is entered into the self-service apparatus by a user interacting with the input/output devices and remitting funds in accordance with the funds remittance information. A method includes establishing a first server that is configured to receive funds remittance information from a plurality of self-service apparatuses and determine which of a plurality of second servers is associated with a first one the plurality of self-service apparatuses. A remittance system includes a first server that is configured to perform a similar determination. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299902 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING LIABILITY DATA IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method of and system for managing financial liability in a telecommunications network wherein a service requester ( | 2009-12-03 |
20090299903 | Non-Cash Cash-on-Delivery Method and System - The present invention provides a method and system for non-cash cash-on-delivery. In the conventional process of the cash-on-delivery in logistics, a wireless communication apparatus is provided to read the information of the identification docket number and a non-cash payment tool, and the information is transported to the logistics server so as to accomplish the mechanism of the collecting-and-paying for another with a financial institution. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299904 | ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SYSTEM AND METHOD ENABLING AUTOMATIC DATA TRANSFER AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD THEREOF - In an electronic commerce system and method, a storage device is utilized to enable automatic and effective web data transfer, so as to solve the problem of low efficiency in recommending and advertising products through using conventional compact disks or browsing web pages, and the web data transferred to a user may be updated through an authentication and comparison mechanism to overcome the problem of unable to update the data on the compact disk sent to the user for sales promotion. And, a web authentication method based on the authentication and comparison mechanism is established to simplify the conventionally complicated login and authentication procedures and effectively solve the problem of data-jacking occurred in web digital data. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299905 | Web enabled color management service system and method - The present application discloses a system and method of critical web-based service architecture at a high level for color management systems in which services can be rendered remotely at very low cost to the end user using a cloud computing based computer network architecture. Service supported include Remote RIPPing, remote profiling, remote IQ analysis for diagnosing color problems, Remote System Problem Action Requests (SPAR) evaluation and patch distribution, remote copy match solutions; multi-machine matching; remote Half-tone downloads; other remote file processing; and image or photo indexing and retrieval. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299906 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING SUPPLY AND DEMAND AND FOR OPTIMIZING VOLUME IN AUCTIONS AND REVERSE AUCTIONS - The technology disclosed relates to a practical design for measuring demand or supply in an auction or reverse auction, respectively for one or more divisible goods. It also relates to optimizing a volume selected by the auctioneer when closing an auction. In particular, it relates to a network based protocol and interface for conducting an auction with limited feedback to participants during the auction. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299907 | Universal Platform for Automated Creation and Operation of Referral Networks - Utilizing an extensible referral management system platform, an organization may recognize a business opportunity in which the organization may benefit by receiving customer referrals from another organization and build a program under which the organization is a supplier of products and/or services to the referred customers. Thus, the referral management system platform may be used to create intersecting workflows with a core infrastructure in the form of a multi-directional referral network. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299908 | Exchange traded fund trading system - Computerized trading system adapted to handle trading of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), where each ETF comprises portfolio securities represented by portfolio security data entities stored in a portfolio trading database, the system further comprises a control device connected to, and controlling, said portfolio trading database, at least one market participant input device, and a fund manager input device both being connectable to the control device. Each input device being connected to a display device provided with a graphical user interface, wherein the market participant input device(s) is/are adapted to receive transaction orders from market participants and to transfer said orders in the form of transaction signals to said control device that initiates and performs said transactions. The portfolio security data entities are divided into disclosed portfolio data entities being accessible via the at least one market participant graphical user interface, and non-disclosed data entities only being accessible via the fund manager graphical user interface, wherein the relationship, denoted as the portfolio disclosure ratio (PDR), between the disclosed portfolio data entities and the portfolio security data entities, is in the range of 60-90%. The control device comprises a disclosure filtering means controlled via input signals from the fund manager input device to determine which portfolio data entities to be disclosed portfolio data entities, and which portfolio data entities to be non-disclosed data entities. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299909 | System and method for comprehensive management of company equity structuresand related company documents with financial and human resource systemintegration - A system comprises business logic operable for managing and administering company entities, records, documents, equity instruments, and stakeholders, a database storing data associated with the business logic, integration logic operable to integrate the business logic and its associated data with existing enterprise systems and data associated therewith, and a graphical user interface presenting a hierarchical tree view of the company entities, records, documents, equity instruments, and stakeholders. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299910 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC DEFEASANCE OF A BASE PORTFOLIO OF CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS - A computer-implemented method for automatic defeasance of a base portfolio of credit default swaps, the base portfolio being held between a first counterpart and a second counterpart, including the steps of: receiving at a portfolio database trade data related to the base portfolio; identifying from the trade data at a matching engine trades that have at least one of matching core attributes and matching trade characteristics so as to compile the base portfolio; grouping at a sub-portfolio generator the identified trades into sub-portfolios; determining at a spread value engine a set of allowable spread values for each sub-portfolio; and for each sub-portfolio, generating at a defeasance portfolio engine a defeasance portfolio of credit default swaps comprising at the most two trades, each of the two trades having a spread value selected from the determined set of allowable spread values so that the defeasance portfolio replicates the base portfolio and minimizes gross notional of the defeasance portfolio. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299911 | Computer-Implemented Systems And Methods For Loan Evaluation Using A Credit Assessment Framework - Systems and methods are provided for evaluating loan applications. A computer environment can include a loan evaluation system which operates on a processor-based system and which evaluates loan applications. A credit assessment framework is also provided for operating on the processor-based system and has a data connection to the loan evaluation system. The credit assessment framework generates a categorization of credit risk for each of the loan applications to be evaluated. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299912 | COMMERCIAL INVESTMENT ANALYSIS - A technique for performing commercial venture analysis involves establishing an empirically-derived structure and evaluating companies using analytical techniques within that structure. The technique may involve defining jobs, or goals a customer is attempting to reach, with dozens or even hundreds of outcomes. Ideally, the structure and tools facilitate analysis that would not be possible otherwise. Moreover, the nature of the system enables real-time input for changing conditions and the ability to calculate returns for new markets in which products or services do not exist. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299913 | FINANCIAL SYSTEM THAT PROVIDES INVESTMENT FUNDS AND A DEATH BENEFIT - A method and system is disclosed for managing funds within separate accounts. The invention permits a distributor to market and an investor to purchase a single product that combines the benefits of a family of funds with the protection element of a death benefit or living benefit. To create the product, a legal entity issues an instrument typically stock comprised of a common stock and a preference stock having beneficial rights. The holder of a beneficial right controls the investment allocations over funds within separate accounts. The value of the preferred shares will be based on the value of underlying shares invested in separate account funds. The separate accounts are not available to satisfy the company's general or common stock obligations. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299914 | Publish and Subscribe System Including Buffer - Systems and methods for delivering a plurality of trading data messages to a server in connection with the monitoring the trading of financial instruments are provided. A listener subscribes to a subset of the plurality of trading data messages generated by market participants or components within the trading platform. A buffer receives the subset of the plurality of trading data messages and stores the subset of the plurality of trading data messages. A server, such as a live alerts server, receives the subset of the plurality of trading data messages stored from the buffer and analyzes the subset of the plurality of trading data. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299915 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECONCILING EQUITY HEDGE FUNDS - A method and system for tracking the compliance of a portfolio account used to finance benefit obligations containing a plurality of assets distributed among at least one fund category, containing at least one investment vehicle such as cash, stocks, bonds, insurance policies, is disclosed. The method monitors the balance of assets included in selected investment vehicles, e.g., stocks, equities and relates them to new or modified liability allocations. The method identifies a liability balance associated with selected ones of the investment vehicles within each of the fund categories, identifies an asset balance associated with the value of equities in the account and divests a portion of selected investment vehicles when the asset balance is in violation of a known regulation with regard to the liability balance. The method further provides an indication for reporting when the asset balance is within the known relation to the liability balance as required by appropriate regulations. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299916 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING DIVERSIFICATION SPREADING FOR RISK OFFSET - A computer-implemented method for analyzing a risk offset associated with a portfolio including a plurality of products traded on an exchange is disclosed. The method includes analyzing, by a processor, a first product in a portfolio, wherein the first product has a first market response in response to market data, analyzing, by a processor, a second product in a portfolio, wherein the second product has a second market response in response to the market data, determining, by a processor, a diversification spread, the diversification spread representative of an offsetting effect between the first product and the second product, wherein the offsetting effect results from the first market response being substantially different than the second market response in response to similar market data, determining, by the processor, a diversification spread credit based on the diversification spread of the plurality of products, and adjusting, by the processor, a margin requirement for the portfolio based on the diversification spread credit. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299917 | METHOD OF FRANKING AS A FUNCTION OF MAIL CATEGORY - A method of franking mailpieces in a franking machine, wherein: an operator loads a mailpiece on a feed deck of said machine; the width of the mailpiece is determined automatically by a plurality of presence detectors mounted on said feed deck; the length of the mailpiece is estimated by processor means of the machine, on the basis of said width of the mailpiece; an initial franking amount to be applied to the mailpiece is computed by said processor means; the mailpiece is extracted automatically from said feed deck, and a postal imprint is printed by print means of the machine; the real length of the mailpiece is determined by length measurement means of the machine; the real length is compared with the previously estimated length; if these two lengths do not match, an audible or visible alarm is generated by a warning device of said franking machine; said processor means compute a corrected franking amount; and a new postal imprint making it possible to correct the initial franking amount is printed. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299918 | Wireless delivery of power to a mobile powered device - A system that automatically detects the presence of an automobile that can operate wirelessly to recharge the battery therein, and detects account information associated with that automobile. When the account information is properly detected, the amount of power delivered is metered, and thereafter the power used by a user is Bill to the user at a markup based on that distributed by the distribution company. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299919 | CALCULATING UTILITY CONSUMPTION OF AT LEAST ONE UNIT OF A BUILDING - A method, apparatus and program product provide for calculating the utility consumption of at least one unit of a building having a plurality of units. The method includes determining a square footage of the at least one unit, sensing a temperature of the at least one unit over a predetermined period of time, and calculating utility consumption for the at least one unit based at least in part on the determined square footage of the at least one unit and the sensed temperature of the at least one unit. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299920 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR BUILDING CUSTOM APPLIANCES IN A CLOUD-BASED NETWORK - A cloud management system can track the usage of the virtual machines in order to determine the fees associated with the user's subscription to the cloud computing environment. The usage can include the resources consumed to support the virtual machines and can include the utilization of the virtual machines by the user or third parties. The cloud management system can determine the fees charged to the user for utilizing the cloud computing environment based on the tracked usage. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299921 | Method of distributing product utilizing preloaded mini-pallets - A method of utilizing a mini-pallet to create, organize, and move product stacks is provided where orders are preloaded on mini-pallets, placed in a trailer and then offloaded by account location with a hand truck. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299922 | Inorganic compounds - The present invention relates to compounds having a hexagonal layered structure that is substantially free from cubic-spinel like phases, a process for preparing the same and the use thereof. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299923 | CHANGE MANAGEMENT USING COLLECTIVE DATA - A method for providing information associated with configuration changes to a computer system is provided. The method includes receiving a description of a starting configuration and a description of a configuration change. The method further includes linking the description of the starting configuration and the description of the configuration change and reading a record linked to the description of a configuration change, wherein the record includes advice about the configuration change and a total result value indicating a rate of success of the configuration change when the advice is followed. The method further includes receiving a first result value from the user indicating a result of the configuration change in light of the advice and calculating a new total result value that indicates a rate of success of the configuration change based on the total result value and the first result value. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299924 | INTELLIGENT HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE - Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to methods and apparatus for an intelligent human-machine interface. By way of example, but not limited thereto, embodiments of methods and apparatus are presented of an intelligent human-machine interface for the operating room, and more particularly, to systems and processes for real-time management and feedback of process control, situational awareness, logistics, communication, and documentation, herein referred to as system. One element of the system, among others, provides a knowledge base that organizes information and rules that enables an accurate, relevant and timely decision support system. The knowledge base is represented in a hierarchical structure of functions and systems. The system serves as platform for the avoidance, detection and timely correction of errors, and as such, acts as a countermeasure to error. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299925 | Automatic Detection of Undesirable Users of an Online Communication Resource Based on Content Analytics - An exemplary processor-implemented method of determining whether a user of an online communication resource is an undesirable user includes the steps of building at least one model based on at least one feature of a feature set using at least one machine learning technique; and classifying the user by comparing at least one feature of the feature set that is associated with the user to the at least one model, a determination as to whether the user is an undesirable user being based at least in part on the classification of the user. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299926 | Methods For Data Classification - The present invention provides methods for classifying data and uncovering and correcting annotation errors. In particular, the present invention provides a self-organizing, self-correcting algorithm for use in classifying data. Additionally, the present invention provides a method for classifying biological taxa. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299927 | INTEGRATED METHOD OF ENSURING INSTANT MESSAGING SECURITY ON CONFIDENTIAL SUBJECT MATTER - An instant messaging system for securing chat sessions containing confidential subject matter during instant messaging from external entities, the system comprising: a rules engine module configured to continuously build and update a set of rules used to determine when a chat session between a first chat party and a second chat party during an instant messaging session contains confidential or uniquely classified subject matter by loading at least one default rules or previous session rules and enabling a user to provide user-defined rules until the instant message session is ended; and an instant messaging module configured to secure the contents in the chat session based on pre-defined user settings, the contents in the chat session being secured when the contents in the chat session is determined to contain confidential subject matter derived from the set of rules, the chat session is further secured by limiting the exposure of the contents in the chat session to third parties when the chat session is determined to contain confidential subject matter while enabling the first chat party and the second chat party to view the contents in the chat session. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299928 | Method for optimizing inequality and equality constrained resources allocation problems in industrial applications - In industrial applications, the invention relates to various algorithms for determining optimal resources or assets allocations under various equality and inequality constraints. In particular, constrained quadratic or conic optimization problems of unique importance for portfolio asset allocation are seamlessly solved in analytic and efficient ways. In addition, by providing exact or analytic optimum expressions, robustness can be readily ascertained. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299929 | Methods of improved learning in simultaneous recurrent neural networks - Methods, computer-readable media, and systems are provided for machine learning in a simultaneous recurrent neural network. One embodiment of the invention provides a method including initializing one or more weight in the network, initializing parameters of an extended Kalman filter, setting a Jacobian matrix to an empty matrix, augmenting the Jacobian matrix for each of a plurality of training patterns, adjusting the one or more weights using the extended Kalman filter formulas, and calculating a network output for one or more testing patterns. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299930 | Method of Measuring the Thickness Profile of a Film Tube - A method of measuring the thickness profile of a film produced in a blow film line having a rotatable pull-off rig in which a flattened film tube is scanned by performing individual measurements at measurement positions distributed over the width over the film tube and, in each individual measurement, the total thickness of two segments of the film tube is measured that are superposed at the measurement position, the thickness profile is calculated from the measured values obtained for a number individual measurements that is larger than the number of measurement positions, the improvement including the steps of training a neural network with measured values for the total thicknesses, which measured values have been obtained in simulated or real measurement processes with known thickness profiles and supplying the measured results obtained by scanning the film tube to the neural network for calculating the thickness profile. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299931 | PROBLEM SHOOTING PROCESS INTELLIGENTLY ADAPTED TO FIT USER'S SKILLS - The present disclosure is directed to a method for automatically adapting the problem shooting steps to the user's skill level. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299932 | System and method for providing a virtual persona - A method, system, and machine readable medium for providing a virtual persona are disclosed. User input directed to a life archive data of a particular virtual persona is received. One or more artificial intelligence files are determined in response to the user input. An output may be generated based on the one or more artificial intelligence files and provided to the user. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299933 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A data processing apparatus includes: predicting means for calculating a prediction value of time series data with respect to input of the time series data using a prediction model for predicting the time series data; determining means for determining a target value of the time series data on the basis of the prediction value of the time series data; error calculating means for calculating an error of the prediction value relative to the target value; and retrieving means for retrieving error reduction data as input of the time series data to the prediction model for reducing the error of the prediction value. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299934 | HARNESSING INFORMATION ABOUT THE TIMING OF A USER'S CLIENT-SERVER INTERACTIONS TO ENHANCE MESSAGING AND COLLABORATION SERVICES - A system and method is provided to facilitate communication and collaboration by considering the timing of a user's activities on one or more clients via accessing, from a centralized server, information about the user's client-server interactions. The systems and methods can harness existing protocols and data exchange used in legacy client-server applications for email, making available to one or more client-side message routing applications, information about a user's interactions with email across multiple clients. Applications include considering the time since the last client-server interaction to guide decisions about if, when, and how to route messages so as to limit the mobile relay of information a user has already seen, providing information to colleagues about a user's current or past “inbox presence,” and forecasting the time until a user will have access to a device or communication channel. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299935 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL FORENSICS - A method and apparatus for digital forensics are provided. The apparatus for digital forensics includes a page file extractor for extracting a page file stored in a target storage medium, a stored-page feature extractor for extracting features of pages stored in the extracted page file, a page classifier for comparing the extracted features of the pages with at least one predetermined classification criterion and classifying the pages according to the comparison results, and a digital forensics unit for performing digital forensics according to the classified pages. According to the method and apparatus, it is possible to perform digital forensics using only information of a page file. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299936 | POLICY CREATING APPARATUS, POLICY CREATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A policy integrity validating unit validates whether a system model can achieve an objective set up in a policy without violating a constraint set up in the policy when a system model is operated according to a procedure set up in the policy. When the policy integrity validating unit determines that there is no integrity between a policy created by a system administrator and the system model, an alternate policy creating unit creates an alternate policy that replaces the policy created by the system administrator. Upon receipt of the alternate policy, the policy integrity validating unit validates integrity between the alternate policy and the system model. When the policy integrity validating unit determines that there is integrity between the alternate policy and the system model, a policy creating apparatus presents the alternate policy to the system administrator. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299937 | Method and system for detecting and managing peer-to-peer traffic over a data network - The present invention relates to a method and system for detecting and managing Peer-To-Peer traffic over a data network. The system comprises: (a) a file identifier unit for searching the P2P network according to search criteria, and retrieving identifiers of files that are shared over said P2P network; (b) an enabler for receiving from said file identifier unit said found identifiers, and: (b.1.) for each identifier found, searching said P2P network and finding network addresses related to computers that contain in their shared storage at least a portion of the file corresponding to said identifier; and (b.2.) analyzing the list of said found identifiers and corresponding network addresses, and assigning to each found network address one or more actions according to predefined rules; and (c) a network management device connected to said data network for receiving from said enabler each network address, associated with said one or more actions, and applying to said each address corresponding one or more actions. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299938 | RULES ENGINE FOR ASPECT SERVICES - A service request is received from a client, the service request being directed to a web application, wherein a core concern of the web application is configured to perform a core operation upon receiving the service request. The service request is compared to a plurality of rules by a rules engine. If the service request satisfies a criterion specified in a first rule, an aspect service identified in the rule is initiated, wherein the aspect service performs an additional operation before or after the core operation is performed, and wherein the additional operation adds functionality to the core concern. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299939 | Distributed Rule Processing for Ubiquitous Computing Environments - Methods and apparatus are provided for distributed rule processing in a sense and respond system. A method for identifying a candidate set of rules is disclosed, comprising the steps of: identifying one or more rules that receive information from one or more sensors to create a first candidate set of rules; evaluating each of the identified rules to identify an initial candidate set of rules, wherein a rule is added to the initial candidate set if a selected device is associated with sensors that are enabled to produce information for the rule being evaluated, if the selected device is enabled to locally provide input information required by the rule being evaluated, and if the rule being evaluated is associated with a group of devices and there are no correlation operators that consume events generated from other devices in the group of devices; and evaluating each rule in the initial candidate set to identify a final candidate set of rules, wherein any rule that receives information from the rule being evaluated is added to the initial candidate set to create the final candidate set if the selected device is enabled to locally satisfy input information required by the rule that receives information and if the rule that receives information is associated with a group of devices and there are no correlation operators that consume events generated from other devices in the group of devices. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299940 | RULE-BASED SYSTEM FOR CLIENT-SIDE QUALITY-OF-SERVICE TRACKING AND REPORTING - Server-side control of client-side quality-of-service tracking is provided. When an event occurs at a client, a measurement client collects event parameters and generates aggregated measurement data in accordance with aggregation rules that are provided to the measurement client from a server-side measurement service. The measurement client periodically reports the aggregated measurement data to the measurement service for storage and analysis. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299941 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADDING AN ASPECT TRIGGER TO AN ASPECT - A method within a computing execution environment for adding an aspect trigger for an aspect, an aspect being an application level abstraction relevant to a source or service, along with the execution environment, where the method includes defining service aspects; inserting or encapsulating the service aspects as named aspects into an abstraction layer in the computing execution environment; and associating the named aspects with the aspect trigger, wherein the abstraction layer is configured to associate aspect triggers for a plurality of client applications. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299942 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A RULES-BASED ENGINE - Embodiments of the invention provide an RBE that uses a logical abstraction for a set of application rules that allows the rules to be implemented, presented and modified efficiently. For one embodiment, rules logic for implementing a set of application rules is stored. The rules logic is specified by a processing sequence using one or more application factors, each of which has one or more application factor values. A plurality of entries corresponding to each application factor is separately stored. Each entry contains a data point set having one or more data points and a result corresponding to the data point set. Each of the one or more data points of a data point set corresponds to a distinct factor value. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299943 | CONCERNED INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD CONSIDERING USER'S WATCHING OR LISTENING TIME AND MAXIMUM PLAYING TIME OF CONTENTS - A user-concerned information recommendation system and method considering user's watching or listening time and the maximum playing time of contents are disclosed. The user-concerned information provision system includes a plurality of user terminals to provide contents transmitted from an external server to a user, a user-concerned information inference server to infer an association relationship between the contents based on information of maximum playing time and actual playing time of the contents provided to the user terminals, and a content provision server to provide a content requested by an arbitrary one of the user terminals and other contents associated with the requested content according to the inferred association relationship to the arbitrary one of the user terminals when receiving a request of the content from the arbitrary one of the user terminals, thereby providing more accurate user-concerned information to the user. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299944 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPLICATION SUPPORT KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER BETWEEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATIONS - A computer network system for implementing a knowledge transfer process includes one or more local computers. The processors of the computers may access a knowledge database stored in local computer memory. The system also includes remote computers. The processors of the remote computers may access the knowledge database stored in local computer memory. The processors in at least one local and/or remote computer may automatically score individual and/or team performance, and may detect triggering events establishing that a predetermined milestone has been met. The processors in at least one local and/or remote computer may also determine that a knowledge transfer process should continue to a next phase, based at least on scoring of performances and completion of one or more predetermined milestones. The processors in at least one local and/or remote computer may automatically notify one or more process participants that the process should continue to the next phase. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299945 | PROFILE MODELING FOR SHARING INDIVIDUAL USER PREFERENCES - A computer-implemented method (FIG. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299946 | DATA VALIDATION AND CLASSIFICATION IN OPTICAL ANALYSIS SYSTEMS - A method of classifying information in an optical analysis system includes obtaining calibration data defining a plurality of data points, each data point representing values for two or more detectors when sampling a material used to construct a multivariate optical element. Based on the calibration data, one or more validation models can be developed to indicate one or more ranges of expected results. Validation data comprising the models can be used to compare data points representing values for two or more detectors when performing a measurement of a material to determine if the data points fall within an expected range. Classification data can be generated based on the comparison and, in some embodiments, one or more indicators, such as a confidence level in a measurement, can be provided. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299947 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ADIABATIC QUANTUM COMPUTATION AND QUANTUM ANNEALING - Various adaptations to adiabatic quantum computation and quantum annealing are described. These adaptations generally involve tailoring an initial Hamiltonian so that a local minimum is avoided when a quantum processor is evolved from the initial Hamiltonian to a problem Hamiltonian. The initial Hamiltonian may represent a mixed Hamiltonian that includes both diagonal and off-diagonal terms, where the diagonal terms at least partially define a center point of a first computation space that is at least partially contained within a second computation space. A problem Hamiltonian may be evolved into a low energy state by inhomogeneously inducing disorder in the qubits of the quantum processor. A higher degree of disorder may be induced in a subset of qubits predicted to contribute to a local minimum of the problem Hamiltonian. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299948 | IDENTIFICATION AND MONITORING OF SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS - A method for identifying or monitoring SLE in an individual is provided. The method includes quantitating complement component C4d on the surfaces of platelets and comparing the amounts of C4d to reference levels of C4d on platelets of individuals without SLE and/or on platelets of the individual obtained at a different time. Kits for use in the above-described methods are provided along with computer readable media tangibly embodying executable instructions to perform the methods. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299949 | LIMITING RULE BASE MODIFICATION - Various embodiments herein include one or more of systems, methods, data structures, and software operable to limit how rules, or components thereof, may be modified. Some embodiments include receiving a rule definition in a system, the rule definition including one or more rule components, each component including a reference to one or more values from which an inference is made when the rule is applied. Such embodiments further include associating one or more rule components with one or more tag definitions that limit how the one or more associated rule components are modifiable by one or more rule administrators. The rule definition and the associations of tag definitions to the rule components may then be stored in a data store. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299950 | DYNAMIC CATEGORIZATION OF RULES IN EXPERT SYSTEMS - Various embodiments include one or more of systems, methods, software, and data structures for dynamic categorization of rules and collections of rules within a rule base, such as a rule base of an expert system. One embodiment provides a computerized method that includes receiving a selection of one or more identifiers of rules in an expert system rule base and receiving a profile definition, the profile definition including metadata, which when processed, yields classification data that classifies the rules in the expert system rule base of the one or more selected rule identifiers. This computerized method further includes storing the profile definition with an association to the one or more selected rule identifiers of rules in the expert system rule base. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299951 | FAILURE-HANDLING PROCEDURE KNOWLEDGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A computer-readable storage medium contains instructions. The instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform generating a new trouble-handling knowledge by using information regarding a work history read from a work-history storage unit that stores the information regarding the work history; and adding the new trouble-handling knowledge to an existing trouble-handling knowledge. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299952 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC QUALITY ASSURANCE OF WORKFLOW REPORTS - Systems and methods for automatic quality assurance of reports generated by workflow software may include: instructing a first reporting utility to generate a first report according to a set of parameters, the first report based on data stored in a database; instructing a second reporting utility to generate a second report according to the set of parameters, the second report based on data stored in the database; comparing the first report to the second report; and identifying at least one difference between the first and second report. The method may also include producing appropriate output identifying the differences. The method may also include determining some differences are solely formatting differences between the reports, and ignoring or outputting those differences in a different manner. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299953 | MERCHANDISER WITH AUTOMATED REPORT GENERATION SYSTEM - A method of operating a report generation system for a merchandiser including a case defining a product display area, and a refrigeration system operable to condition the product display area. The method comprises sensing at least one condition of the merchandiser using a sensing device, generating a signal indicative of the merchandiser condition, retrieving the signal indicative of the merchandiser condition using a controller, and automatically generating a data report including the signal indicative of the merchandiser condition using a report generation device | 2009-12-03 |
20090299954 | Method and system for data file processing - A library of jobs is created, with the jobs performing predetermined functions. The jobs include a termination indication, which is success or failure. Input file formats of known file types are determined and a job stream to process the input files is constructed of the jobs linked according to the termination success or failure of the preceding job. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299955 | Model Based Data Warehousing and Analytics - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to data warehouses. In aspects, mapping information is received that maps elements of a data warehouse to types of a type system. A type system defines a hierarchy of data types of data in a data source from which the data warehouse obtains data. The mapping information also indicates whether subtypes of the data are mapped to the elements. Using this mapping information, the elements of the data warehouse may be automatically created, maintained, and populated. When the type system is changed, mapped elements in the data warehouse may be updated or created and code to extract and load the data from a data source associated with the type system may be created based on the mapping information. In addition, reports based on the mapped elements may continue to work without change. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299956 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR DYNAMIC DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF DATA SKEW IN PARALLEL JOIN OPERATIONS - A system, method, and computer-readable medium for dynamic detection and management of data skew in parallel join operations are provided. Receipt of an excessive number of redistributed rows by a processing module is detected thereby identifying the processing module as a hot processing module. Other processing modules then terminate redistribution of rows to the hot processing module and maintain rows of a skewed table of the join operation that would be redistributed to the hot processing module in a local spool. Rows of a smaller table that would be redistributed to the hot processing module are duplicated to each processing module involved in the join operation. Rows of tables that are to be redistributed by a processing module to any processing module excluding the hot processing module are redistributed accordingly and maintained locally by the processing module. The join operation is completed by merging results of local join data sets of each processing module. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299957 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING AN AUDIBLE INTERFACE TO PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE SERVICES - An apparatus may include a processor configured to receive content. The received content may at least partially comprise audio content. The processor may be further configured to generate an audible content posting from the received content. The processor may be additionally configured to store the generated audible content posting in a database comprising a publish/subscribe service. In some embodiments, the processor may be further configured to provide the audible content posting to remote device users via an audible interface to the publish/subscribe service. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299958 | REORDERING OF DATA ELEMENTS IN A DATA PARALLEL SYSTEM - A query that identifies an input data source is received. The input data source is partitioned into a plurality of partitions. Each of the partitions includes a set of data elements with an associated set of indices for indicating an ordering of the data elements. A query type for a query operator in the received query is identified. It is determined whether a reordering of data elements will be performed based on the identified query type. The data elements in at least one of the partitions are reordered when it is determined based on the identified query type that reordering will be performed. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299959 | QUERY RESULT GENERATION BASED ON QUERY CATEGORY AND DATA SOURCE CATEGORY - A method includes receiving a query that identifies an input data source. A query category for a query operator in the received query is identified. A data source category for the input data source is also identified. A results object is generated based on the identified query category and the identified data source category. The results object supports at least one of random access and sequential access to results produced by the query operator. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299960 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR AUTOMATICALLY MODIFYING A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT BASED ON USER PROFILE INFORMATION - The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically modifying a virtual environment based on user profile information. According to one aspect, the method includes determining user profile information associated with a user and automatically modifying a virtual environment based on the determined user profile information, wherein automatically modifying the virtual environment includes automatically modifying at least one non-advertising element of the virtual environment. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299961 | FACE SEARCH IN PERSONALS - A device, system and method to enable searching of personal profiles in the context of on-line dating that includes the ability to determine the personal profiles that have images that most closely resemble a target image. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299962 | DYNAMIC UPDATE OF A WEB INDEX - Systems and methods are provided for regularly updating a web index with new or updated content, such as meta words or meta streams, for a particular web page address, such as a URL. Web page addresses and associated updated information, such as meta words, meta streams, values, and locations in the web index for those meta words are received. In order to update a web index, which is used by search engines to search web documents, a document identification is retrieved and associated with the updated information. As information in the web index is stored by document identification and not by web page addresses, the document identification may replace the web page address. Each meta word received is matched with corresponding document identifications and associated updated information, which creates an inverted format of the information. The web index may now be updated and stored by the system. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299963 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTENT USE ASSIGNMENT BY EXPLOITING SOCIAL GRAPH INFORMATION - An apparatus for automatically assigning content information may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive content information, and identify the usage type and the sub-usage type of the content information. The content information may comprise an indicator for a usage type and a sub-usage type. The processor may be further configured to automatically assign the received content information to the at least one user contact based on the sub-usage type, and to perform a specified function, based on a usage type. Associated methods and computer program products may also be provided. Another method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing content information may also be provided. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299964 | PRESENTING SEARCH QUERIES RELATED TO NAVIGATIONAL SEARCH QUERIES - A method and medium are provided for determining whether search queries issued to a search engine are navigational search queries and displaying related search queries and corresponding URLs in association with a URL corresponding to a target of the navigational search query. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a query log and determining whether search queries are navigational search queries based on a comparison of URLs selected in response to the search queries. A set of related navigational queries and corresponding URLs is then compiled by analyzing the query log. The set can comprise search queries issued within a predetermined period of time from the receipt of a navigational search query. Search queries are filtered from the set if they are not navigational search queries. The set of related search queries and corresponding URLs is presented in association with the URL corresponding to the navigational search query. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299965 | NAVIGATING PRODUCT RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN A SEARCH SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention relate to aggregating product information from a variety of sources to generate user interfaces that allow users to navigate and discover products. Product information is aggregated from both feed and crawl sources, and product entities are identified within the aggregate product information. In some embodiments, product entities are associated with product classes, and product class detail pages are generated that include product entities within each product class and allow users to view correlations between those produce entities. In some embodiments, relationships are identified between product entities. When a user selects to view information for a given product entity, information is provided indicating similar product entities that have a relationship with the given product entity. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299966 | MANAGEMENT OF LARGE DYNAMIC TABLES - Managing a table as multiple ordered blocks of entries. Each block has a local index value for each entry, and each entry has an associated element value. The entries in the table are monotonically ordered, and the table is searchable by element value and entry index value. Each block has an offset based on the number of entries in the blocks preceding it in order. The global index of an entry in a block is the offset combined with the local offset value, such as by adding the two values together. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299967 | USER ADVERTISEMENT CLICK BEHAVIOR MODELING - Described herein is technology for, among other things, mining similar user clusters based on user advertisement click behaviors. The technology involves methods and systems for mining similar user clusters based on log data available on an online advertising platform. By building a user linkage representation based on one or more attributes from the log data, the similar user clusters can be harvested in more efficient manner. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299968 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO SAVE SEARCH DATA - Methods and apparatus to save search data are described. An example method for use in media presentation system includes receiving one or more characters to form a search string to be used in a first type of search; converting the search string to one or more keywords to be used in a second type of search; and storing the one or more keywords in a collection of keyword search data to enable a selection of stored keyword search data to perform a search of the second type. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299969 | DATA WAREHOUSE SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for analyzing historical data in a data warehouse. A data warehouse is provided. The data warehouse includes several database tables. Every database table has a start time column and an end time column. A query is issued to the data warehouse. The query includes customized query predicates against the start time column values and end time column values of a database table. A response is received from the data warehouse. The response includes table records satisfying the query and having valid (START_TIME, END_TIME) ranges that cover a fixed time point specified by the customized query predicates of the query. Methods for updating a database table in a data warehouse, and a data warehouse system are also described. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299970 | Social Network for Mail - A method for analyzing email data including: parsing a first email into one or more email attributes; searching a social network datastore that stores email attributes of other emails; retrieving history data related to one or more or the email attributes from the social network datastore; and processing the one or more email attributes and the history data based on one or more configurable rules. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299971 | BINARY SEARCH CIRCUIT AND METHOD - The present invention provides a technique for enabling high-speed binary search. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299972 | Device and Method for Updating a Certificate - A method updates certificates for potential recipients. The method comprises determining whether the certificates require updating. The method comprises determining a number of the certificates that require updating. The method comprises requesting updates for each of the certificates that require updating when the number is at most a preset number and sets a timer to a first time duration. The method comprises requesting updates for up to the preset number of the certificates that require updating when the number is greater than the preset number and sets the timer to a second time duration. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299973 | INFORMATION SEARCHING APPARATUS, INFORMATION MANAGING APPARATUS, INFORMATION SEARCHING METHOD, INFORMATION MANAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A computer-readable recording medium stores therein an information searching program that causes a computer having access to archives including a compressed file group of compressed files that are to be searched and that have described therein character strings, to execute: sorting the compressed files in descending order of access frequency of the compressed files; combining the compressed files in descending order of access frequency after the sorting at the sorting such that a storage capacity of a cache area for a storage area that stores therein the compressed file group is not exceeded by a combined size of the compressed files combined; and writing, from the storage area into the cache area, the compressed files combined at the combining, the compressed files combined being written prior to a search of the compressed files combined. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299974 | CHARACTER SEQUENCE MAP GENERATING APPARATUS, INFORMATION SEARCHING APPARATUS, CHARACTER SEQUENCE MAP GENERATING METHOD, INFORMATION SEARCHING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A computer-readable recording medium stores therein a sequence-map generating program that causes a computer to execute extracting from files that include character strings written therein, a word having q (q≧2) characters; extracting from the word extracted at the extracting the word, consecutive characters from a character position s-th (1≦s≦q−r+1) from a head of the word to a character position determined by a number of characters r (r≦q); and generating, for each character position s-th from the head, a consecutive-character sequence map including a flag row that indicates, for each file, whether a file includes the consecutive characters extracted at the extracting the consecutive characters. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299975 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENT ANALYSIS, PROCESSING AND INFORMATION EXTRACTION - The present invention is directed to a method and computer system for representing a dataset comprising N documents by computing a diffusion geometry of the dataset comprising at least a plurality of diffusion coordinates. The present method and system stores a number of diffusion coordinates, wherein the number is linear in proportion to N. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299976 | Systems and methods of identifying chunks from multiple syndicated content providers - A computer receives a first set of information items from a first content provider and a second set of information items from a second content provider. For each of the first and second sets of information items, the computer retrieves the document identified by the corresponding document link from a respective remote location. The computer applies a first (or second) set of search criteria to each of the first and second sets of information items and its associated documents to generate a first (or second) set of search result wherein the first and second sets of search criteria are different. The computer associates a first channel with the first set of search results and a second channel with the second set of search results. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299977 | Method for Automatic Labeling of Unstructured Data Fragments From Electronic Medical Records - A method for automatically labeling unstructured data from electronic medical records using a computer-based medical data processing system includes selecting a data pattern based on a desired medical finding. The selected data pattern is searched for within source data including patient records to find one or more matches. A context of a predetermined range around each data pattern match found is identified within the source data and the found contexts are associated with a particular medical finding. The medical finding can be at the patient level or document level, not necessarily at the context level. Associations between contexts and medical findings are identified. A classifier based on an association between the identified contexts and the desired medical finding is trained. The trained classifier is used to automatically identify likely instances of passages, documents or patients related to the desired medical finding from within subsequent data including patient records. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299978 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR KEYWORD AND DYNAMIC URL SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION - A method implemented on one or more computer processors for search engine optimization may comprise automatically determining a relevancy of the keywords, automatically assigning an inverse document frequency (IDF) value to each keyword designated highly relevant, automatically defining relationships between keywords that are determined both highly user-relevant and highly database-relevant, and automatically ranking each keyword in the selected set based upon factors comprising frequency of appearance of each keyword within items in the database. Also, a method for automatically generating a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) from a previous URL may comprise automatically defining a position of a possible URL parameter in the URL and existence of the possible URL parameter in the URL using a number within the URL representing a position of said possible URL parameter and existence of said possible URL based on the previous URL, and automatically generating the URL containing the number. Web pages with the generated URL may then be automatically generated and optimized for search engines by displaying relevant items from the database and creating a link structure within the web pages according to keyword relationships and keyword relevancy to database items. | 2009-12-03 |