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20090326758 | WEBSERVICE ARCHITECTURE FOR VEHICLE HEALTH MAINTENANCE - A webservice architecture for vehicle health maintenance is provided. A core module is in communication with a webservice provider, a webservice consumer, and a webservice registry over an internet protocol (IP) backbone. The core module is adapted for registering and discovering the webservice provider using a universal description, discovery, and integration (UDDI) communications open standard, receiving a request from the webservice provider using a simple object access protocol (SOAP), the webservice provider accepting the request from the webservice consumer, and extracting a data structure based on the webservice request in a format according to the webservice registry using a web services description language (WDSL). | 12-31-2009 |
20090327325 | META MODELING IN DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM - A method, system, and computer program product for providing troubleshooting data for reported fault conditions on equipment is provided. An engineering model is configured for the equipment. The engineering model includes at least one failure scenario and an associated symptom. The engineering model is stored in an equipment model database. A meta model representative of at least one relationship between the engineering model and a reported fault condition for the equipment is instantiated. A user input for the reported fault condition is stored in a decision support system (DSS) database. The DSS database forms a wrapper over the equipment model database based on the user input. The meta model is further instantiated using user input data from the DSS database. An optimal troubleshooting procedure for the equipment is determined based on the meta model as instantiated. | 12-31-2009 |
20090327796 | SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM - A service oriented architecture (SOA) based decision support system for a vehicle is provided. A database is provided for storing a workplan of the vehicle. A webservice provider is in communication with the database for integrating applications using a variety of open standards of an internet protocol backbone. A core is connected between the database and webservice provider. The core is adapted for analyzing fault conditions, creating the workplan to overcome the fault conditions, and generating a response for a webservice request. An enterprise service bus is connected to the webservice provider for providing loose connectivity between webservice enabled functions, a service customer, and the core. | 12-31-2009 |
20100082702 | DYNAMIC VEHICLE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - A method for dynamically managing data changes to a vehicle health monitoring system (VHM) by a datacenter using an external agent is provided. The external agent is operational on, or in communication with, a vehicle. One of updating or modifying a vehicle configuration file is performed to add or delete vehicle information on the vehicle configuration file by the external agent. A dummy file is created on a disk by the external agent. The dummy file provides a signal to the datacenter that the vehicle information on the vehicle configuration file has changed. The disk is polled periodically by the datacenter to identify a presence of the dummy file. Responsive to identifying the presence of the dummy file, the configuration file is read into VHM memory by the datacenter. | 04-01-2010 |
20100161169 | VEHICLE HEALTH MONITORING ARCHITECTURE FOR DIAGNOSTICS AND PROGNOSTICS AS A SERVICE IN AN E-ENTERPRISE - A health monitoring system for a vehicle system includes a plurality of diagnostics systems and a bus. Each of the plurality of diagnostics and prognostics systems corresponding to a different sub-system of the vehicle system and configured to at least facilitate generating diagnostic and prognostic system output pertaining to the sub-system based at least in part on data, each of the plurality of diagnostics and prognostics systems comprises a diagnostics component comprising an analytics framework and a core. The analytics framework is configured to receive formatted data and to generate diagnostic determinations based at least in part thereon. The core is coupled to the analytics framework, and is configured to transform data into formatted data and provide the formatted data to the analytics framework. The bus is coupled to the plurality of diagnostics and prognostics systems, and is configured to at least facilitate providing the data thereto. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161678 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UTILIZING MATLAB FUNCTIONALITY IN JAVA-ENABLED ENVIRONMENT - A Java-MATLAB bridge is provided for enabling utilization of MATLAB® functionality in an enterprise environment. The Java-MATLAB bridge includes a Java® wrapper and a MATLAB wrapper. The MATLAB wrapper is coupled to the Java wrapper and the Java wrapper provides an entry point for invoking the MATLAB functionality in the enterprise environment. | 06-24-2010 |
20130066924 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UTILIZING MATLAB FUNCTIONALITY IN JAVA-ENABLED ENVIRONMENT - A Java-MATLAB bridge is provided for enabling utilization of MATLAB® functionality in an enterprise environment. The Java-MATLAB bridge includes a Java® wrapper and a MATLAB wrapper. The MATLAB wrapper is coupled to the Java wrapper and the Java wrapper provides an entry point for invoking the MATLAB functionality in the enterprise environment. | 03-14-2013 |
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20090283059 | ENHANCED OXYGEN PRESSURE ENGINE - Systems and methods of operation for internal combustion engines which employ molecular sieve technology to provide enhanced oxygen content in the air-fuel mixture during operation. | 11-19-2009 |
20100043402 | PASSIVE AMMONIA-SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION FOR NOx CONTROL IN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES - A method for operating an internal combustion engine includes controlling the engine to a preferred air/fuel ratio to generate an engine-out exhaust gas feedstream including preferred concentrations of nitric oxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen, converting the nitric oxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen to ammonia across a first catalytic device; and storing the ammonia on an ammonia-selective catalytic reduction device fluidly serially connected downstream of the first catalytic device. | 02-25-2010 |
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20110252766 | METHOD OF PRODUCING AMMONIA EFFECTIVE TO CONTROL AFTERTREATMENT CONDITIONS OF NOx EMISSIONS - A method for reducing NOx molecules in an exhaust flow within an exhaust aftertreatment system of an internal combustion engine includes storing NOx from the exhaust flow on a NOx storage component within an aftertreatment device exposed to the exhaust flow. When the exhaust flow includes molecular hydrogen, he stored NOx is released to create ammonia in the exhaust flow. In a selective catalytic reduction device that is downstream of the aftertreatment device, the created ammonia is utilized to reduce NOx in the exhaust flow. | 10-20-2011 |
20120096834 | OPTIMIZED ELECTRICALLY HEATED EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT SYSTEM - A method of sizing a light-off core supporting a fixed quantity of a light-off catalyst for an exhaust gas treatment system having an electric heater upstream of the light-off catalyst for heating the exhaust gas includes measuring the cumulative hydrocarbon or carbon monoxide emissions leaving the exhaust gas treatment system for multiple volumetric sizes of the light-off core in accordance with a heating strategy. Alternatively, a model of the treatment system may be used to predict the cumulative hydrocarbon or carbon monoxide emissions. The method further includes selecting the volumetric size of the light-off core that is associated with the lowest cumulative hydrocarbon or carbon monoxide emissions level from the measured or predicted hydrocarbon or carbon monoxide emissions when the exhaust gas is heated in accordance with the heating strategy. The heating strategy may include pre-crank heating, post-crank heating, or a combination of pre-crank heating and post crank heating. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102922 | METHOD OF SIZING A HEATING CORE OF AN EXHAUST HEATER FOR AN EXHAUST TREATMENT SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE - A method of sizing a heating core of an exhaust heater for an exhaust gas treatment system includes measuring the cumulative hydrocarbon or carbon monoxide emissions from the exhaust gas for multiple volumetric sizes of the heating core when heated in accordance with a heating strategy. Alternatively, a model of the treatment system may be used to predict the cumulative hydrocarbon or carbon monoxide emissions. The method further includes selecting the volumetric size of the heating core that is associated with the lowest cumulative hydrocarbon or carbon monoxide emissions level from the measured or predicted hydrocarbon or carbon monoxide emissions when the exhaust gas is heated in accordance with the heating strategy. The heating strategy may include pre-crank heating, or a combination of pre-crank heating and post-crank heating. | 05-03-2012 |
20120107187 | HEATING MODULE FOR AN EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT SYSTEM - An exhaust gas treatment system includes a heating module for heating exhaust gas upstream of a main catalytic converter. The heating module includes a first heating core having a first core volumetric size and a second heating core having a second core volumetric size that is less than the first core volumetric size. The first heating core with the larger first core volumetric size is configured to optimize pre-crank heating, while the second heating core with the smaller second core volumetric size is configured to optimize post-crank heating. The first heating core and the second heating core may be arranged in series with each other or in parallel with each other. | 05-03-2012 |
20120304622 | METHOD OF USING A REGENERATIVE BRAKE SYSTEM FOR HEATING A MOTOR VEHICLE CATALYTIC CONVERTER AND POWERING OTHER ELECTRICAL ACCESSORIES - A method for a motor vehicle includes using a regenerative brake system that produces electric current as a result of application of said regenerative brakes and sending at least a fraction of the electric current directly to an electrical accessory of the vehicle and bypassing the battery. One electrical accessory may be an electrically heated catalytic converter. | 12-06-2012 |
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20090307029 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCOUNTED PRINTING - A system and method for method for implementing a discounted printing is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for implementing discounted printing includes creating a sponsored document including a digital signature using a cryptographic protocol provided in an application by an enterprise, sending the sponsored document including the digital signature to a client computing system including a sponsored printer for printing by the enterprise, dynamically verifying the digital signature by a trusted service provider upon the enterprise sending the sponsored document to the sponsored printer, and printing the sponsored document by the sponsored printer upon a successful verification of the digital signature. The method may also include crediting an end user associated with the sponsored printer by an amount that substantially subsidizes cost associated with the printing of the sponsored document. | 12-10-2009 |
20100225960 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRINTING AN ADVERTISEMENT WITH A DOCUMENT - Presented is a method and system for printing an advertisement with a document. The method includes receiving a print request for a document from a user, converting the requested document into a vector graphics format document, selecting at least one advertisement for inclusion into the vector graphics format document, recording the vector graphics format document into a print driver queue enabled to print advertisements, inserting at least one advertisement into the vector graphics format document and printing the advertisement with the vector graphics format document. | 09-09-2010 |
20100281044 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A PROFILED SOCIAL NETWORK - Presented is a computer implemented method and system for creating a profiled social network. The method includes mapping at least one identity to each node in the plurality of nodes, defining a profile for each node in the plurality of nodes, identifying a relationship between the at least two nodes in the plurality of nodes, defining a profile for the relationship between the at least two nodes in the plurality of nodes, and forming a collection of profiles defined for all relationships between the plurality of nodes. | 11-04-2010 |
20110061026 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATING WEB SITES - Presented is a method and system for navigating web sites. The method includes organizing web sites accessed by a user into a plurality of groups and generating a radio-like interface for selecting at least one web site from the web sites organized into the plurality of groups. | 03-10-2011 |
20110087659 | DOCUMENT RELEVANCE DETERMINING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Disclosed is a method and computer program product of determining the relevance of at least a part of an electronic document comprising a plurality of terms distributed over a plurality of regions of said document, comprising displaying the electronic document to a user; determining the gaze characteristics of the person on a region of the electronic document; assigning a relevance score to an individual term in said region based on said characteristics; and generating a term relevance label for said electronic document, said term relevance label comprising relevance scores for the respective individual terms in said document The relevance scores may also be used to define a user profile for the user that can aid in retrieving future documents of relevance to the user. | 04-14-2011 |
20110191339 | PERSONALIZED VIDEO RETRIEVAL - Presented is a method and system for personalized video retrieval. The method includes specifying a user's video interests as channels, wherein each channel corresponds to a distinct video interest, querying at least one video source upon selection of a channel by the user, retrieving videos corresponding to the channel selected by the user, obtaining a personalized ranking of the retrieved videos from the user, and presenting videos for viewing based on the user ranking. | 08-04-2011 |
20120056901 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE CONTENT SUMMARIZATION - System and method for adaptive content summarization is disclosed. In one embodiment, a summary size of content is computed based on a usability cost function and an information loss function. Further, a summary of the content is extracted based on the summary size. Furthermore, the extracted summary is displayed on a display device. | 03-08-2012 |
20120326969 | IMAGE SLIDESHOW BASED ON GAZE OF A USER - Provided is a method to enable an image slideshow based on gaze of a user. The method displays an image to a user for viewing, wherein, invisible to the user, each image is divided into a grid of tiles. While the user is viewing the image, the method detects the gaze of the user to identify regions of the image that are of interest to the user. The identified regions of interest are mapped to the grid of tiles on the image, to recognize tiles of interest to the user. The tiles of interest for the image are calculated and another image is presented to the user for viewing when the number of tiles of interest exceeds a threshold value previously computed for the user. | 12-27-2012 |
20130138643 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY EXTENDING SEED SETS - Provided is a method of automatically extending a seed set. Based on an input seed set, initial seed set candidates are generated. Also generated are categories that will vote on the initial seed set candidates. A weight for each category is determined and each initial seed set candidate is scored. The final seed set candidates are selected from the initial seed set candidates based on their scores. | 05-30-2013 |
20130218905 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION FOR GROUPS - A method and apparatus for joint profiling for identifying one or more common interests of members of a group and recommending items accordingly. The method comprises receiving a user profile for each member, the user profile comprising a set of one or more topics of interest to that member; automatically mapping at least one topic from each of the profiles to a concept; deriving a group profile, in dependence upon the concepts and the topics; and generating a list of recommended items for the group based on the group profile. Also presented is a method and apparatus for joint profiling wherein a joint weight for each topic is calculated by: for each user, calculating the reciprocal of a weight associated with the topic for that user; calculating the sum of the resulting reciprocals; and calculating the joint weight as the reciprocal of the resulting sum. | 08-22-2013 |
20140379731 | VIDEO SEARCH - Provided is a computer-implemented method of performing a video search. A search query is analyzed to identify a first set of query terms. The first set of query terms are used to query a knowledge repository, wherein the knowledge repository is a collection of electronic documents. An electronic document corresponding to the first set of query terms is identified and parsed to obtain a second set of query terms. Query terms present in the second set are ranked and top N ranked query terms are provided to a video search engine. | 12-25-2014 |
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20100074137 | ZONE BASED QUALITY OF SERVICE IN A FIBRE CHANNEL FABRIC - Methods and apparatus are provided for improving the configuration, management, and distribution of quality of service information in a fibre channel fabric using zoning mechanisms. Configuration of Quality of Service (QoS) information is made easy by using zones as a classifier for flows. QoS information is included in zone objects, thereby using the existing zone distribution mechanism to distribute QoS information. Devices not part of any zones are placed automatically in the default zone with a default QoS priority level. QoS information for a particular packet is available as soon as the zoning information is obtained. | 03-25-2010 |
20120243412 | QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) CONFIGURATION FOR NETWORK DEVICES WITH MULTIPLE QUEUES - A network device implements automatic configuration of Quality of Service (QoS) parameters in response to operator specification of a relatively few and easily understandable “high level” parameters such as, for example, latency requirements or an acceptable rate of packet drops. In one implementation, a network device may receive user preference information that relates to a Quality of Service (QoS) for network traffic passing through the network device and may measure traffic patterns through the network device. The device further generates a configuration template based on the measured traffic patterns and on the user preference information transmit the data in an order of transmission that is prioritized according to a bandwidth allocation policy defined by the configuration template. | 09-27-2012 |
20140362736 | SCALABLE METHOD TO SUPPORT MULTI-DEVICE LINK AGGREGATION - A network device determines whether the network device has a local link for a link aggregation group (LAG), and identifies, when the network device has a local link for the LAG, the network device as a designated forwarder for the LAG. The network device also identifies, when the network device does not have a local link for the LAG, a closest network device to the network device, with a local link for the LAG, as the designated forwarder for the LAG. | 12-11-2014 |