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20090276457 | Method and System for Maintaining Profiles of Information Channels - A method and system are provided for maintaining profiles of information channels available on the Web, wherein the information channels are accessed via pull-only protocols. The method includes monitoring one or more channels by a channel pull action at a monitoring rate, wherein the monitoring rate is determined for the one or more channels based on the number of update events in a previous time period. The method may optimally include filtering the update events in the time period by a novelty measure, wherein the filtering disregards events that do not include significant novel information. The monitoring rate is adapted based on reinforcement learning applying iterative learning rules over time. | 11-05-2009 |
20100161547 | Personalized Web Feed Views - A system for generation of personalized Web feed views in accordance with pre-defined profile parameters, is presented. The system including a user definition interface for receiving at least one user parameter and sending the parameter to a content provider and a feed view personalization unit operable to receive the user parameter and customize feed content in accordance with the at least one user parameter for displaying to the user. | 06-24-2010 |
20100281035 | Method and System of Prioritising Operations On Network Objects - A method and system for prioritising operations on network objects are provided. The method includes gathering Web 2.0 available relationship data on the relationships between network entities, wherein network entities are network users and network objects. The relationship data for a network entity is analysed and a first relative score is determined based on the relationship data. For a network object, a second relative score is determined which is a dynamic score based on user interactions with the network object and formed using the first relative scores of network entities interacting with the object. The method then prioritizes an operation on a network object using the second relative score. | 11-04-2010 |
20110106799 | MEASURING WEB SITE SATISFACTION OF INFORMATION NEEDS - A method, system, and computer program product for measuring web site satisfaction of information needs are provided. The method includes: selecting a page for analysis; generating a page profile in the form of a list of keywords representing the page; generating a page traffic profile in the form of lists of keywords representing information needs of users, wherein the page traffic profile is generated from keywords used by users to visit the page; determining the success of users' visits to the page; and analyzing whether a page satisfies users' information needs by applying a distance measure between the keywords of the page profile and the keywords of the page traffic profile and combining the distance measure result with a success rate of the keywords. | 05-05-2011 |
20110125764 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED QUERY EXPANSION IN FACETED SEARCH - A method and system for improved query expansion in faceted search are provided. The method includes: receiving a search query; expanding the search query to obtain query expansion terms; and receiving a facet selection for the search query. A facet profile is retrieved in the form of collected important terms for the facet; and the query expansion terms are weighted by comparing them to the facet profile. The query expansion terms are re-ranked and the method includes executing the re-weighted query expansion terms whilst filtering for the facet. | 05-26-2011 |
20110219056 | Method and System for Maintaining Profiles of Information Channels - A method and system are provided for maintaining profiles of information channels available on the Web, wherein the information channels are accessed via pull-only protocols. The method includes monitoring one or more channels by a channel pull action at a monitoring rate, wherein the monitoring rate is determined for the one or more channels based on the number of update events in a previous time period. The method may optimally include filtering the update events in the time period by a novelty measure, wherein the filtering disregards events that do not include significant novel information. The monitoring rate is adapted based on reinforcement learning applying iterative learning rules over time. | 09-08-2011 |
20110302103 | POPULARITY PREDICTION OF USER-GENERATED CONTENT - A method, system, and computer program product for popularity prediction of user-generated content are provided. The method includes measuring the novelty of a user-generated content and predicting the popularity of the user-generated content based on the measured novelty. Predicting the popularity of the user-generated content includes: extracting basic features of the user-generated content; measuring novelty features of the user-generated content; and predicting the popularity based on the basic features and novelty features. Measuring the novelty of a user-generated content includes one or more of: measuring a relative novelty of the user-generated content with respect to the contribution history of the same user in a given time period; measuring a relative novelty of the user-generated content with respect to user-generated content of other users in a given time period; and measuring a relative novelty of the user-generated content with respect to the references by other users to the user-generated content. | 12-08-2011 |
20110307294 | DYNAMIC GENERATION OF PRODUCTS FOR ONLINE RECOMMENDATION - A method, system, and computer program product for dynamic generation of products for online recommendation. The method includes receiving a signal and processing the signal to extract one to many features and locating baseline products and embeddable items relating to the features a baseline product is dynamically matched with one or more embeddable items to generate a combined product and a representation of the combined product is provided as an online recommendation for a product; | 12-15-2011 |
20120116804 | VISUALIZATION OF SOCIAL MEDICAL DATA - A method, system, and computer program product for visualization of social medical data for a patient. The method including: providing a display representing part or all of a human body of a current patient; determining similar patients related by a bond of one or more entities to the current patient; determining an area of the body a binding entity relates to; and displaying an object representing a similar patient at the area of the body the binding entity relates to on the display representing the human body. Displaying an object representing a similar patient may reflect the level of similarity of the similar patient to the current patient according to the contribution to the similarity of the binding entity. | 05-10-2012 |
20120185259 | TOPIC-BASED CALENDAR AVAILABILITY - A method, system, and computer program product for topic-based calendar availability. The method includes having a rule for a time slot in a calendar, wherein the rule includes a rule topic and an availability status for the topic and having a proposed event with an event topic and a time slot. The method compares a proposed event topic and a rule topic for the rule for the time slot of the proposed event and applies a proximity measure to the event topic and rule topic to determine a match. The availability status for the topic is provided if the event topic matches the rule topic, otherwise an alternative availability status is provided. | 07-19-2012 |
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20120072408 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PRIORITISING OPERATIONS - A method and system for prioritising operations on network objects are provided. The method includes gathering Web 2.0 available relationship data on the relationships between network entities, wherein network entities are network users and network objects. The relationship data for a network entity is analysed and a first relative score is determined based on the relationship data. For a network object, a second relative score is determined which is a dynamic score based on user interactions with the network object and formed using the first relative scores of network entities interacting with the object. The method then prioritizes an operation on a network object using the second relative score. | 03-22-2012 |
20120253139 | PERSONALIZED MEDICAL CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - Method, system, and computer program product for personalized medical content recommendation are provided. The method may include: having a patient medical profile; having a concept or relationship relating to the patient medical profile; obtaining medical content relevant to the concept or relationship; determining a score of the concept or relationship to the patient medical profile; enhancing the score with a context score based on the values of attributes of the concept or relationship in the patient medical profile; enhancing the score with an additional knowledge score based on knowledge of the concept or relationship additional to the medical content; recommending medical content with respect to a patient medical profile based on the enhanced scores. The method may also include providing an explanation of a medical content recommendation based on a matching concept or relationship, including generating one or more explanation sentences based on the context score, and generating one or more explanation sentences based on the additional knowledge score. | 10-04-2012 |
20120303637 | AUTOMATIC WOD-CLOUD GENERATION - Method, system, and computer program product for automatic generation of a word-cloud for a content item are provided. The method includes: extracting terms from a content item using statistical selection criteria; weighting a term by a probability that the term is used as a tag; and generating a visual representation of terms with enhanced representation of terms according to the weighting. Weighting a term by a probability that the term is used as a tag may include determining the relative frequency of the term in a folksonomy of tag terms for a domain. | 11-29-2012 |
20130006888 | Autotagging Business Processes - A method of autotagging business processes for monitoring analysis of an IT system within an organization is provided herein. The method includes the following stages: modeling an IT system associated with one or more business processes, into a model representing the business processes as process instances; tracking a flow of information entities throughout nodes located along the process instances; extracting, at each one of the nodes, metadata associated with each one of the information entities flowing through the process instance; aggregating over time, the extracted metadata being associated with its respective node and process instance; and visually representing the aggregated metadata in association with its respective business processes, based on the model. | 01-03-2013 |
20130238631 | INDEXING AND SEARCHING ENTITY-RELATIONSHIP DATA - Method, system, and computer program product for indexing and searching entity-relationship data are provided. The method includes: defining a logical document model for entity-relationship data including: representing an entity as a document containing the entity's searchable content and metadata; dually representing the entity as a document and as a category; and representing each relationship instance for the entity as a category set that contains categories of all participating entities in the relationship. The method also includes: translating entity-relationship data into the logical document model; and indexing the entity-relationship data of the populated logical document model as an inverted index. The method may include searching indexed entity-relationship data using a faceted search, wherein the categories are all categories required for supporting faceted navigation. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238659 | ACCESS CONTROL FOR ENTITY SEARCH - Method, system, and computer program product for access control for entity search are provided. The method includes: representing entity-relationship data in a conceptual model; representing entities in a search system as documents containing the entity's searchable content and metadata; defining authorization rules for searchers over entities and their relationships; and extending an entity document to include searchable tokens defining the authorization rules. Defining authorization rules may include: identifying query predicate constraints for entity search; and defining searchable tokens as paths for query predicates and permissible searchers; wherein the permissible searchers are permitted access to data based on a query that contains the predicate. Defining authorization rules may further include: defining searchable document files for a free-text predicate with a field name as a token of permissible searchers and the field value as the searchable content. | 09-12-2013 |
20130311193 | MEDICAL MONITORING RULE RECOMMENDATION - Method, system, and computer program product are provided for medical monitoring rule recommendation for a medical records system. The method includes: indexing previously generated medical monitoring rules to provide a rules index; and determining rule features by evaluating previously generated medical monitoring rules based on existing patient data. The method further includes: receiving a given patient's data; querying the given patient's data in the rules index to provide candidate rules; and scoring the candidate rules based on the rule features including the frequency a rule was satisfied for existing patients. Scoring the candidate rules may also includes scoring based on the given patient's data by executing a candidate rule on the given patient's data. | 11-21-2013 |
20130332187 | PERSONALIZED MEDICAL CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - Method, system, and computer program product for personalized medical content recommendation are provided. The method may include: having a patient medical profile; having a concept or relationship relating to the patient medical profile; obtaining medical content relevant to the concept or relationship; determining a score of the concept or relationship to the patient medical profile; enhancing the score with a context score based on the values of attributes of the concept or relationship in the patient medical profile; enhancing the score with an additional knowledge score based on knowledge of the concept or relationship additional to the medical content; recommending medical content with respect to a patient medical profile based on the enhanced scores. The method may also include providing an explanation of a medical content recommendation based on a matching concept or relationship, including generating one or more explanation sentences based on the context score, and generating one or more explanation sentences based on the additional knowledge score. | 12-12-2013 |
20140071134 | VISUALIZATION OF USER SENTIMENT FOR PRODUCT FEATURES - Method, system, and computer program product are provided for visualization of user sentiment for one or more product features. The method may include: providing one or more product image templates, a product image template having a location representing a product feature; obtaining an aggregated sentiment score for a product feature from user generated content; mapping the aggregated sentiment score to a score visualization on a visualization scale; and representing the location in the product image template relating to the product feature with the score visualization for the aggregated sentiment score to provide a visualization of the product. The method may also include: collecting one or more text expressions from user generated content relating to a product feature; representing one or more text expressions in relation to the product feature in the product image template. | 03-13-2014 |
20140324518 | AUTOTAGGING BUSINESS PROCESSES - A method of autotagging business processes for monitoring analysis of an IT system within an organization is provided herein. The method includes the following stages: modeling an IT system associated with one or more business processes, into a model representing the business processes as process instances; tracking a flow of information entities throughout nodes located along the process instances; extracting, at each one of the nodes, tags associated with each one of the information entities flowing through the process instance; aggregating over time, the extracted tags being associated with its respective node and process instance; and visually representing the aggregated tags in association with its respective business processes, based on the model. | 10-30-2014 |
20140337129 | Content Recommendation Based on Uniqueness of Individuals in Target Audience - Machines, systems and methods for promoting content, the method comprising monitoring activities of one or more individuals to determine whether at least a first individual from among said one or more individuals has a unique preference for one or more features of an item; and recommending promoting, to the first individual, one or more items relevant to the one or more features, based on the first individual's estimated uniqueness. | 11-13-2014 |
20150062598 | PRINTING QUALITY DETERMINATION BASED ON TEXT ANALYSIS - A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for: analyzing text in a digital document, to identify a text segment referring to a figure of the digital document; mapping said text segment to said figure; identifying, in said text segment, reference to one or more non-grayscale colors of said figure, to determine a level of importance of said one or more colors to legibility of said figure; and printing said digital document in accordance with the level of importance. | 03-05-2015 |