Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080294465 | LARGE-SCALE INFORMATION COLLECTION AND MINING - The methods/systems described herein facilitate large-scale data collection and aggregation. One exemplary system that facilitates large-scale reporting of health-related data comprises a data collection component, a database and an aggregation component. The data collection component can collect health-related data on a large-scale from a non-selected population. The database can store at least some of the health-related data. The aggregation component can facilitate automatically ascertaining at least one pattern from the health-related data at least in part by applying one or more statistical, data-mining or machine-learning techniques to the database. One exemplary method of extracting health observations from information obtained on a macro-scale comprises receiving information about a plurality of self-selected subjects, pooling the information, mining the pooled information at least in part by employing a data-mining algorithm to infer one or more health observations from the pooled information, and monetizing the one or more health observations. | 11-27-2008 |
20080312095 | VACCINE DESIGN METHODOLOGY - Systems and methodologies for efficient vaccine design are disclosed herein. A methodology for efficient vaccine design in accordance with one or more embodiments disclosed herein may be operable to receive a graph having vertices corresponding to epitope sequences present in the pathogen population, weights for respective vertices corresponding to respective frequencies with which corresponding epitope sequences appear in the pathogen population, and directed edges that connect vertices that correspond to overlapping epitope sequences. Such a methodology may also be operable to determine a candidate vaccine sequence of overlapping epitope sequences by identifying a path though the graph corresponding to a series of connected vertices and directed edges that maximizes the total weight of the vertices in the path for a desired vaccine sequence length. | 12-18-2008 |
20090088726 | SYMBIOTIC BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AS PLATFORMS FOR SENSING, PRODUCTION, AND INTERVENTION - Provided are systems and/or methods that facilitate sensing, detecting, or treatment of a condition or need of a living body using a genetically engineered symbiotic agent. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089082 | GET PREP QUESTIONS TO ASK DOCTOR - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates dynamically providing a question to ask a medical professional during an appointment. An interface can receive a portion of medical data. A counselor component can generate a question based on the portion of medical data, wherein the question is generated to elicit an answer from a medical professional during an appointment. Moreover, the counselor component can dynamically generate a second question directed toward the medical professional based upon at least one of the answer or a value of information (VOI) computation. | 04-02-2009 |
20090106172 | FALSE DISCOVERY RATE FOR GRAPHICAL MODLES - The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that determines a number of non-spurious arcs associated with a learned graphical model. The system can include devices and mechanisms that utilize learning algorithms and datasets to generate learned graphical models and graphical models associated with null permutations of the datasets, ascertaining the average number of arcs associated with the graphical models associated with null permutations of the datasets, enumerating the total number of arcs affiliated with the learned graphical model, and presenting a ratio of the average number of arcs to the total number of arcs, the ratio indicative of the number of non-spurious arcs associated the learned graphical model. | 04-23-2009 |
20090240113 | DIARY-FREE CALORIMETER - An indirect calorimeter estimates nutritional caloric intake by periodically monitoring weight and sensing physical exercise (i.e., physiological data and/or motion data related to physical exertion), which can then be used in a calorimetry model derived from regression analysis of a population (e.g., linear regression, feed-forward neural network, Gaussian process, boosted regression tree, etc.). A strap-on user device for tracking exercise can detect one or more of heart rate, body temperature, skin resistance, motion/acceleration sensing (e.g., pedometer, accelerometer), velocity sensing (e.g., global positioning system (GPS)), and an intelligent, integrated exercise machine (e.g., treadmill, exercise bike, etc.). To gain further fidelity, the user can fine-tune the estimate by undergoing a journal-based routine for a relatively short period of time or clinical calorimetry measurement (e.g., respiratory calorimeter), thereby providing a baseline for resting or exercising metabolic rate. | 09-24-2009 |
20090326832 | GRAPHICAL MODELS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATIONS - Systems and methods are provided for the identification of genotype-phenotype associations in genome-wide association (GWA) studies. In an illustrative implementation, a data correlation environment comprises a population structure engine and at least one instruction set to instruct the population structure engine to process pedigree or population genetic data to generate a population structure sub-model according to a selected graphical model-based data correlation paradigm. Illustratively, the parameter of the resulting generalized linear mixed model can be learned using a variational approximation. | 12-31-2009 |
20100088380 | MESSAGE RENDERING FOR IDENTIFICATION OF CONTENT FEATURES - Architecture for detecting and removing obfuscating clutter from the subject and/or body of a message, e.g., e-mail, prior to filtering of the message, to identify junk messages commonly referred to as spam. The technique utilizes the powerful features built into an HTML rendering engine to strip the HTML instructions for all non-substantive aspects of the message. Pre-processing includes pre-rendering of the message into a final format, which final format is that which is displayed by the rendering engine to the user. The final format message is then converted to a text-only format to remove graphics, color, non-text decoration, and spacing that cannot be rendered as ASCII-style or Unicode-style characters. The result is essentially to reduce each message to its common denominator essentials so that the junk mail filter can view each message on an equal basis. | 04-08-2010 |
20100113983 | UTILIZING ULTRASOUND TO DISRUPT PATHOGENS - Provided are systems and/or methods that treat illnesses and conditions using ultrasound tuned to a resonant frequency of a target material with the assistance of computer processing. The ultrasound tuned to the resonance frequency of a target material destroys the target material without harming healthy material that surrounds the target material. A resonance frequency database can be employed to ensure that local healthy material surrounding a target has a natural resonance frequency dissimilar enough from the tuned resonance frequency. | 05-06-2010 |
20100198787 | VISUALIZATION AS INPUT MECHANISM - A visualization input system is provided. The system includes a visualization component that receives input gestures from a user (or users) and translates the gestures into one or more data manipulation commands. A distribution component receives the data manipulation commands and propagates data modifications across one or more databases in view of the commands. This includes a rights component that enables the data modifications to be implemented across the one or more databases. | 08-05-2010 |
20110010782 | ADAPTING PARASITES TO COMBAT DISEASE - Provided are systems and/or methods that facilitate sensing, detecting, logging, or treatment of a condition or need of a living body using a controlled parasite. | 01-13-2011 |
20130318116 | Advanced Spam Detection Techniques - The subject invention provides for an advanced and robust system and method that facilitates detecting spam. The system and method include components as well as other operations which enhance or promote finding characteristics that are difficult for the spammer to avoid and finding characteristics in non-spam that are difficult for spammers to duplicate. Exemplary characteristics include examining origination features in pairs, analyzing character and/or number sequences, strings, and sub-strings, detecting various entropy levels of one or more character sequences, strings and/or sub-strings as well as analyzing message and/or feature sizes. | 11-28-2013 |