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| 20090299761 | COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS BY EMPLOYING BI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION - A computer program product and a system are provided. The product and system provide associations between individuals having health care needs and available social services. The providing is efficient and cost effective. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100223226 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING GLOBAL ONLINE OPINIONS VIA SEMANTIC EXTRACTION - A system for transforming domain specific unstructured data into structured data including an intake platform controlled by feed back from a control platform. The intake platform includes an intake acquisition module for acquiring data building baseline data related to a domain and problem of interest, an intake pre-processing module, an intake language module, an intake application descriptors module, and an intake adjudication module. The control platform includes a control data acquisition module, a control data consistency collator, a control auditor, a control event definition and policy repository, an error resolver, and an output that outputs results of the workflow into structured data enabled to be used in data analytics. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223292 | HOLISTIC DISAMBIGUATION FOR ENTITY NAME SPOTTING - A method resolves ambiguous spotted entity names in a data corpus by determining an activation level value for each of a plurality of nodes corresponding to a single ambiguous entity name. The activation levels for each of the nodes may be modified by inputting outside domain knowledge corresponding to the nodes to increase the activation value of the nodes, spotting entity names corresponding to the nodes to increase the activation value of the nodes, searching the data corpus to spot newly posted entity names to increase the activation value of the nodes, and searching the data corpus to reduce or deactivate the activation value of the nodes by eliminating false positives. The ambiguous entity name is assigned to the node determined to have the highest activation level and is then outputted to a user. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100306834 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SECURITY AND/OR PRIVACY SETTINGS - Systems and methods for managing security and/or privacy settings are described. In one embodiment, the method may include communicably coupling a first client to a second client. The method may further include propagating a portion of a plurality of security and/or privacy settings for the first client from the first client to the second client. The method may also include, upon receiving at the second client the portion of the plurality of security and/or privacy settings for the first client, incorporating the received portion of the plurality of security and/or privacy settings for the first client into a plurality of security and/or privacy settings for the second client. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110029566 | PROVIDING AND MANAGING PRIVACY SCORES - Methods for providing a privacy setting for a target user in a social network utilizing an electronic computing device are presented, the method including: causing the electronic computing device to retrieve a current privacy setting for a common profile item, where the common profile item corresponds with the target user and each of a number of users, and where the common profile item is one of a number of common profile items; causing the electronic computing device to calculate a common profile item sensitivity value for the common profile item based on the current privacy setting; causing the electronic computing device to calculate a common profile item visibility value for the common profile item based on the a current privacy setting and the sensitivity value for the common profile item; and causing the electronic computing device to calculate the privacy score of the target user. | 02-03-2011 |
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| 20090248614 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING TARGETED RANKING FROM MULTIPLE INFORMATION SOURCES - Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for determining preferences from information mashups and, in particular, a system and method for constructing a ranked list from multiple sources. In an exemplary embodiment, the system and method tunably combines multiple ranked lists by computing a score for each item within the list, wherein the score is a function of the associated rank of the item within the list. In one exemplary embodiment, the function is equal to 1/(n̂(1/p)), where p is a tuning parameter that enables selection between responsiveness in the combined ranking to one candidate ranked highly in one source versus responsiveness in the combined ranking to a candidate with lower but broader support among the various sources ranking the candidates. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248690 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING PREFERENCES FROM INFORMATION MASHUPS - A system and method for determining preferences from information mashups and, in particular, for determining preferences from cross-modality information based on a social welfare function is disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of the invention uses a social welfare function (SWF) to identify a vote computing method from among a group of vote computing methods. The SWF embodies subjective values, e.g. business objectives. The embodiment uses the SWF to identify the vote computing method that combines cross-modality information into a single information mashup in a manner that is most congruent with the subjective values relative to the other vote computing methods. The information mashup may be in the form of a single, merged ranked list. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090327878 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIGHLIGHTING DIVERSE ASPECTS IN A DOCUMENT - The disclosure generally relates to document summarization. Given a document, summarization can be defined as picking k sentences from the original document D such that the constructed summary exhibits two key properties: coverage and orthogonality. In one embodiment of the disclosure, the two requirements are captured in a combinatorial formulation of the problem and presented as an algorithms. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20110173231 | System and Method For Querying Data Streams - A method includes parsing input from a requestor, where the input includes at least one of a query and a command that is parsed into a structured query having an indication of at least one data stream or set of data streams and at least one action to be performed on the at least one data stream or set of data streams. The method further includes mapping the structured query into a graph of processing elements that are selected and interconnected so as to execute the structured query; instantiating the graph of processing elements and connecting and initializing the instantiated graph of processing elements with an identified at least one data stream or set of data streams to receive data there from; and outputting a result of the structured query to the requestor. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110219455 | RANDOM INJECTION-BASED DEACTIVATION OF WEB-SCRAPERS - A computer-implemented method and system for disabling scraping of electronic data. The method includes receiving an encoding of electronic data to be protected from scraping and adding random redundant code around the encoding of the electronic data upon each request for the electronic data. The electronic data having the redundant code added around the encoding thereof being rendered the same on a display as the encoding without the redundant code added. | 09-08-2011 |
