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20120130931 | BOOTSTRAPPING RECOMMENDER SYSTEM AND METHOD - Bootstrapping a recommender system that makes item recommendations. The bootstrapping identifying questions for use in interviewing a user, e.g., a new user to the recommender system, to obtain user information, e.g., user profile information, for use in predicting item ratings for the user, the predicted item ratings for use in identifying item recommendations for the user. The bootstrapping using a cost function to minimize error in selection of the questions for the interview. The bootstrapping comprising a static bootstrapping and an adaptive bootstrapping. | 05-24-2012 |
20120173520 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL ACTIONS ON A SEARCH RESULTS PAGE - The present invention provides a method and system for providing targeted applications within a search engine results page. The method and system includes receiving a search query from a user and interpreting the search query. The method and system then first maps the interpreted query to one or more action templates, wherein mapping the interpreted query to one or more action templates comprises selecting one or more actions associated with the interpreted query. The method and system then maps the selected one or more actions associated with the interpreted query to a plurality of applications and selecting one or more applications associated with the one or more actions. Finally, the method and system displays the one or more applications within a search results page. | 07-05-2012 |
20130218858 | AUTOMATIC FACE ANNOTATION OF IMAGES CONTAINED IN MEDIA CONTENT - Face-containing images within web pages are automatically annotated to identify the people having those faces. The annotation is based on faces detected in the images and named entities detected in text associated with the images. Each candidate named entity may be scored by the prominence of the named entity in the text relative to the other extracted named entities. Queries are sent to a search engine based on the extracted candidate named entities. Sample images are returned. Face similarity calculations may be computed based on the featured faces and sample faces detected in the search engine-returned sample images to associate a probability score between each featured face and each candidate named entity. A bipartite matching instance may be solved to arrive at a maximum likelihood assignment of named entities to featured faces. | 08-22-2013 |
20130275611 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DYNAMIC ROUTING OF AGGREGATED ONLINE MEDIA STREAMS - Disclosure includes a system, method and architecture to monitor media content streams, e.g., streams of digital encoded media data such as without limitation audio and/or video data, from a number of media content streaming providers and identify media content items from those media content items being streamed by the media content streaming providers for inclusion in a personalized media content stream for a user. In a direct streaming approach, the media content items contained in a stream are available while each item is being streamed by the content provider. In a centralized streaming approach, media content items contained in each media content stream that is currently being streamed by content provider are available for a limited window of time, which can be dependent on buffer length. | 10-17-2013 |
20130325462 | AUTOMATIC TAG EXTRACTION FROM AUDIO ANNOTATED PHOTOS - A system and method for assigning one or more tags to an image file. In one aspect, a server computer receives an image file captured by a client device. In one embodiment, the image file includes an audio component embedded therein by the client device, where the audio component was spoken by a user of the client device as a tag of the image file. The server computer determines metadata associated with the image file and identifies a dictionary of potential textual tags from the metadata. The server computer determines a textual tag from the audio component and from the dictionary of potential textual tags. The server computer then associates the textual tag with the image file as additional metadata. | 12-05-2013 |
20130345840 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING USERS' EMOTIONS WHEN EXPERIENCING A MEDIA PROGRAM - A system and method for aggregating emotions of users for a media program. A server stores reference audio signal fingerprints, each associated with a reference audio signal of the program. For each user, the server computer: receives a first audio signal fingerprint from a client device operated by a user, the first audio signal fingerprint associated with a first audio signal comprising ambient sound associated with the user and an audio signal of the program; searches the stored reference audio signal fingerprints to determine one that is related to the first audio signal fingerprint; determines an ambient sound signal by obtaining a difference between the stored reference audio signal fingerprint and the first audio signal fingerprint; and determines, using the ambient sound signal, an emotion of the user for a program segment. The server computer aggregates the emotions to determine a representative emotion of the users for the segment. | 12-26-2013 |
20140280251 | ALMOST ONLINE LARGE SCALE COLLABORATIVE FILTERING BASED RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A method for adjusting one or more parameters associated with a model. The method comprises obtaining, from a first source, first information related to activity of a user. The method further comprises adjusting one or more parameters associated with a model based on the first information collected within a first length of time, and obtaining, from a second source, second information related to activity of the user. The method further comprises adjusting the one or more parameters associated with the model based on the second information collected within a second length of time and a measure indicative of performance of the model, wherein the second length of time is larger than the first length of time. | 09-18-2014 |
20140310281 | EFFICIENT AND FAULT-TOLERANT DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM FOR LEARNING LATENT FACTOR MODELS THROUGH MATRIX FACTORIZATION - A method for estimating model parameters. The method comprises receiving a data set related to a plurality of users and associated content, partitioning the data set into a plurality of sub data sets in accordance with the users so that data associated with each user are not partitioned into more than one sub data set, storing each of the sub data sets in a separate one of a plurality of user data storages, each of said data storages being coupled with a separate one of a plurality of estimators, storing content associated with the plurality of users in a content storage, where the content storage is coupled to the plurality of estimators so that the content in the content storage is shared by the estimators, and estimating, asynchronously by each estimator, one or more parameters associated with a model based on data from one of the sub data sets. | 10-16-2014 |
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20080222117 | EFFICIENT MULTIFACETED SEARCH IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS - A method and system for querying multifaceted information. An inverted index is constructed to include unique indexed tokens associated with posting lists of one or more documents. An indexed token is either a facet token included in a document as an annotation or a path prefix of the facet token. The annotation indicates a path within a tree structure representing a facet that includes the document. The tree structure includes nodes representing categories of documents. A query is received that includes constraints on documents. The constraints are associated with indexed tokens and corresponding posting lists. An execution of the query includes identifying the corresponding posting lists by utilizing the constraints and the inverted index and intersecting the posting lists to obtain a query result. | 09-11-2008 |
20080231644 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATION OF TEXT - A method and system for navigation of text are provided. A linear text ( | 09-25-2008 |
20080270396 | INDEXING VERSIONED DOCUMENT SEQUENCES - A method includes indexing text is repeated in multiple edited versions of a document, a single time, thereby generating a compact index, and conducting text searches in the compact index. | 10-30-2008 |
20080294634 | SYSTEM AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR SEARCHING DOCUMENTS FOR RANGES OF NUMERIC VALUES - Provided are a system and article of manufacture for searching documents for ranges of numeric values. Document identifiers for documents include at least one value that is a member of a set of values. A number of posting lists is generated, wherein each posting list is associated with a range of consecutive values within the set of values and includes document identifiers for documents including at least one value within the range of consecutive values associated with the posting list, and wherein each document identifier is associated with one value in the set of values included in the document identified by the document identifier. The generated posting lists are stored, wherein the posting lists are used to process a query on a range of values within the set of values. A query on a query range of values within the set of values is received and a determination is made of a minimum number of posting lists associated with consecutive values that together include the query range of values. The determined posting lists are merged to form a merged posting list including document identifiers of documents including values within the query range. The document identifiers in the merged posting list are returned. | 11-27-2008 |
20080301130 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR SEARCHING DOCUMENTS FOR RANGES OF NUMERIC VALUES - Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for searching documents for ranges of numeric values. Document identifiers for documents are accessed, wherein the documents include at least one value that is a member of a set of values. A number of posting lists are generated. Each posting list is associated with a range of consecutive values within the set of values and includes document identifiers for documents including at least one value within the range of consecutive values associated with the posting list, and wherein each document identifier is associated with one value in the set of values included in the document identified by the document identifier. The generated posting lists are stored, wherein the posting lists are used to process a query on a range of values within the set of values. | 12-04-2008 |
20100318555 | INDEXING AND SEARCHING OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGE TRANSMISSION THREAD SETS - A method includes describing the thread configurations of a volume of well-ordered electronic message transmissions (EMT) and utilizing the thread configuration data to conduct selective searches of the EMT volume. An apparatus includes a thread processor and a query manager. The thread processor analyzes the EMT threads and records the thread configuration data. The query manager utilizes the thread configuration data to conduct selective searches of the EMT volume. | 12-16-2010 |
20110202267 | Constructing Travel Itineraries from Tagged Geo-Temporal Photographs - One embodiment accesses two or more photos taken by one or more travelers at one or more destinations and one or more points-of-interest located within the destinations; constructs one or more photo streams for each unique traveler-destination combination, wherein each one of the photo streams comprises two or more of the photos taken by the corresponding traveler at the corresponding destination; maps each one of the photos to one of the points-of-interest; constructs one or more timed paths for each unique traveler-destination combination based on the photo streams and the mapping between the photos and the points-of-interest, wherein each one of the timed paths comprises one or more of the points-of-interest located within the corresponding destination and visited by the corresponding travel; and constructs an itinerary based on a start point-of-interest, an end point-of-interest, a time constraint, and the timed paths. | 08-18-2011 |
20110252013 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING SEARCH RESULTS FACETS - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for providing a plurality of facets in response to a search query. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a search query from a user and retrieving a search result set. The method then identifies an optimum number of facets and selects a plurality of facets with a maximum incremental value. Finally, the method provides the search result set and the selected facets to a user. | 10-13-2011 |
20120096016 | SEARCHING DOCUMENTS FOR RANGES OF NUMERIC VALUES - Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for searching documents for ranges of numeric values. Document identifiers for documents are accessed, wherein the documents include at least one value that is a member of a set of values. A number of posting lists are generated. Each posting list is associated with a range of consecutive values within the set of values and includes document identifiers for documents including at least one value within the range of consecutive values associated with the posting list, and wherein each document identifier is associated with one value in the set of values included in the document identified by the document identifier. The generated posting lists are stored, wherein the posting lists are used to process a query on a range of values within the set of values. | 04-19-2012 |
20120259834 | INDEXING AND SEARCHING OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGE TRANSMISSION THREAD SETS - A method is carried out by storing information describing configurations of discussion threads formed of respective series of EMTs that are exchanged among at least two individuals. The discussion threads have a root EMT, zero or more reply EMTs, and a last offspring EMT. The method is further carried out by compacting the EMT discussion threads, and indexing the compacted EMT discussion threads. | 10-11-2012 |