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20150033006 | HIDING LOGICAL PROCESSORS FROM AN OPERATING SYSTEM ON A COMPUTER - Hiding logical processors from an operating system (OS) of a computer is described. In an example, a method of hiding at least one logical processor in a computer having a plurality of logical processors includes: initializing the plurality of logical processors by executing a pre-boot routine in system firmware; identifying at least one logical processor of the plurality of logical processors to be hidden from an operating system (OS) of the computer to provide at least one hidden logical processor and at least one visible logical processor; placing each of the at least one hidden logical processor into a system management mode (SMM) by executing a park routine in the system firmware; and booting the OS of the computer to use the at least one visible logical processor. | 01-29-2015 |
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20150363208 | UPDATING A COMMIT LIST TO INDICATE DATA TO BE WRITTEN TO A FIRMWARE INTERFACE VARIABLE REPOSITORY - Examples disclosed herein relate to updating a commit list to indicate data to be written to a firmware interface (FI) variable repository. Examples include storing target data in a variable repository cache of system management memory of a computing device during a given SMM event, updating a commit list, during the given SMM event, to indicate that the target data is to be written to the FI variable repository, and ending the given SMM event without at least some portion of the target data being written to the FI variable repository during the given SMM event. | 12-17-2015 |
20160043912 | MAKING MEMORY OF COMPUTE AND EXPANSION BLADE DEVICES AVAILABLE FOR USE BY AN OPERATING SYSTEM - Examples disclosed herein relate to making memory of compute and expansion blade devices available for use by an operating system (OS). Examples include making available, for use by an OS, a compute logical processor of the compute blade device, identified memory of the compute blade device, and identified memory of an expansion blade device. Examples further include making the expansion logical processor unavailable to the OS. | 02-11-2016 |
20160055012 | IDENTIFYING MEMORY OF A BLADE DEVICE FOR USE BY AN OPERATING SYSTEM OF A PARTITION INCLUDING THE BLADE DEVICE - Examples disclosed herein relate to identifying memory of a blade device for use by an operating system (OS) of a partition including the blade device. Examples include identifying memory of a first blade device associated with a first logical processor of the first blade device for use by an OS of a partition including the first blade device and a second blade device, wherein the OS is executed by at least a second logical processor of the second blade device. | 02-25-2016 |
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20080215270 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING MOVING DEVICES - This present specification provides, amongst other things, an electro-optical monitoring system for obtaining a once-per-revolution signal based on the surface reflection of a rotating device that mandates non-contacting sensor input in potentially hostile environments. The system can use optical and electronic sections to illuminate and detect surface reflections from the rotating surface using existing mounting locations on the periphery of the machine to be measured. The electronic portion is configured to determine a unique mark as the once-per-revolution marker or allow an attending operator to assign a specific marker based on the observed reflected pattern. The optical portion consists of a light source, receiver, and optics will allow for focused and directed light paths to properly position relevant to key reflective surfaces. | 09-04-2008 |
20100211343 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING MOVING DEVICES - This present specification provides, amongst other things, an electro-optical monitoring system for obtaining a once-per-revolution signal based on the surface reflection of a rotating device that mandates non-contacting sensor input in potentially hostile environments. The system can use optical and electronic sections to illuminate and detect surface reflections from the rotating surface using existing mounting locations on the periphery of the machine to be measured. The electronic portion is configured to determine a unique mark as the once-per-revolution marker or allow an attending operator to assign a specific marker based on the observed reflected pattern. The optical portion consists of a light source, receiver, and optics will allow for focused and directed light paths to properly position relevant to key reflective surfaces. | 08-19-2010 |
20120072152 | Systems and Methods for Monitoring Moving Surfaces - This present specification provides, amongst other things, an electro-optical monitoring system for obtaining a once-per-revolution signal based on the surface reflection of a rotating device that mandates non-contacting sensor input in potentially hostile environments. The system can use optical and electronic sections to illuminate and detect surface reflections from the rotating surface using existing mounting locations on the periphery of the machine to be measured. The electronic portion is configured to determine a unique mark as the once-per-revolution marker or allow an attending operator to assign a specific marker based on the observed reflected pattern. The optical portion consists of a light source, receiver, and optics that allow for focused and directed light paths. | 03-22-2012 |
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20130013641 | INTELLIGENT DECISION SUPPORT FOR CONSENT MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the invention relate to a method for intelligently providing consent to access a record in a shared pool of resources. Tools are provided to support policies to address and maintain restrictive access of a designated record, both with respect to local and non-local rules and regulations, as well as personal restrictions pertaining to personal and discretionary sharing decisions. | 01-10-2013 |
20130014278 | INTELLIGENT DECISION SUPPORT FOR CONSENT MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the invention relate to a system and computer program product to intelligently provide consent to access a record in a shared pool of resources. Tools are provided to support policies to address and maintain restrictive access of a designated record, both with respect to local and non-local rules and regulations, as well as personal restrictions pertaining to personal and discretionary sharing decisions. | 01-10-2013 |
20130325881 | Supplementing Structured Information About Entities With Information From Unstructured Data Sources - According to a present invention embodiment, a system supplements structured information within a data system for entities based on unstructured data. The system analyzes a document with unstructured data and extracts attribute values from the unstructured data for one or more entities of the data system. Entity records with structured information are retrieved from the data system based on the extracted attribute values. Entity references for corresponding entities of the data system are constructed based on a comparison of the retrieved entity records and the extracted attribute values. The entity references are linked to the corresponding entities within the data system, wherein the entity references include extracted attributes from the unstructured data for corresponding linked entities. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for supplementing structured information within a data system for entities based on unstructured data in substantially the same manner described above. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325882 | SUPPLEMENTING STRUCTURED INFORMATION ABOUT ENTITIES WITH INFORMATION FROM UNSTRUCTURED DATA SOURCES - A method for supplementing structured information within a data system for entities based on unstructured data analyzes a document with unstructured data and extracts attribute values from the unstructured data for one or more entities of the data system. Entity records with structured information are retrieved from the data system based on the extracted attribute values. Entity references for corresponding entities of the data system are constructed based on a comparison of the retrieved entity records and the extracted attribute values. The entity references are linked to the corresponding entities within the data system, with the entity references including extracted attributes from the unstructured data for corresponding linked entities. | 12-05-2013 |
20140279947 | MASTER DATA GOVERNANCE PROCESS DRIVEN BY SOURCE DATA ACCURACY METRIC - A method, apparatus, and computer program product for processing data is disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, a computer implemented method comprises receiving, on one or more computers, a record having one or more attributes from a source system. The method also comprises measuring, on one or more computers, a data accuracy of the received record as compared to a golden record stored in a master data management system. One or more remediation actions are performed, on one or more computers, to enforce improvements to the measured data accuracy of the received record in the source system. In one or more embodiments, measurement of data accuracy comprises calculating, on one or more computers, an accuracy score defined by a closeness of the received record to the golden record. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281729 | ANALYSIS OF A SYSTEM FOR MATCHING DATA RECORDS - Embodiments disclosed herein provide a system and method for analyzing an identity hub. Particularly, a user can connect to the identity hub, load an initial set of data records, create and/or edit an identity hub configuration locally, analyze and/or validate the configuration via a set of analysis tools, including an entity analysis tool, a data analysis tool, a bucket analysis tool, and a linkage analysis tool, and remotely deploy the validated configuration to an identity hub instance. In some embodiments, through a graphical user interface, these analysis tools enable the user to analyze and modify the configuration of the identity hub in real time while the identity hub is operating to ensure data quality and enhance system performance. | 09-18-2014 |
20150039611 | DISCOVERY OF RELATED ENTITIES IN A MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Methods and arrangements for discovering entity types for a set of records. A set of records is input, with each record comprising attributes with associated attribute values. The records are grouped into candidate entity types in view of at least one of: the attribute values of the records, at least one domain ontology and at least one dimension hierarchy. An interestingness measure of each candidate entity type is calculated, via estimating interestingness based on at least one factor selected from the group consisting of: a correlation between attribute values of records, a number of attributes, a log of queries issued to a server, and an average group size for candidate entity types. At least one candidate entity type is validated based on the calculated interestingness measures. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein. | 02-05-2015 |
20160034703 | DATA PRIVACY EMPLOYING A K-ANONYMITY MODEL WITH PROBABALISTIC MATCH SELF-SCORING - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for protecting data determines a desired duplication rate based on a level of desired anonymity for the data and generates a threshold for data records within the data based on the desired duplication rate. The system produces a data record score for each data record based on comparisons of attributes for that data record, compares the data record scores to the threshold, and controls access to the data records based on the comparison. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for protecting data in substantially the same manners described above. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034715 | DATA PRIVACY EMPLOYING A K-ANONYMITY MODEL WITH PROBABALISTIC MATCH SELF-SCORING - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for protecting data determines a desired duplication rate based on a level of desired anonymity for the data and generates a threshold for data records within the data based on the desired duplication rate. The system produces a data record score for each data record based on comparisons of attributes for that data record, compares the data record scores to the threshold, and controls access to the data records based on the comparison. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for protecting data in substantially the same manners described above. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034749 | Facial Image Bucketing with Expectation Maximization and Facial Coordinates - Facial image bucketing is disclosed, whereby a query for facial image recognition compares the facial image against existing candidate images. Rather than comparing the facial image to each candidate image, the candidate images are organized or clustered into buckets according to their facial similarities, and the facial image is then compared to the image(s) in most-likely one(s) of the buckets. The organizing uses particular selected facial features, computes distance between the facial features, and selects ones of the computed distances to determine which facial images should be organized into the same bucket. | 02-04-2016 |
20160063336 | Generating Weights for Biometric Tokens in Probabilistic Matching Systems - Generating weights for biometric tokens in probabilistic matching systems is disclosed, where these weights are generated from computations performed on matched sets and unmatched sets of a reference data set. In an embodiment, scores from a similarity scoring function are distributed among bins, and a weight is computed for each bin as the log of (the matched set ratio/the unmatched set ratio), where the ratios are computed as the number of scores in a particular bin as compared to the total size of the set. The weights may then be used subsequently with scores computed by the scoring function to assess confidence of a computed similarity score, and are directed toward making the output of the probabilistic matching system more data-driven and more accurate. | 03-03-2016 |
20160085852 | SUPPLEMENTING STRUCTURED INFORMATION ABOUT ENTITIES WITH INFORMATION FROM UNSTRUCTURED DATA SOURCES - A method for supplementing structured information within a data system for entities based on unstructured data analyzes a document with unstructured data and extracts attribute values from the unstructured data for one or more entities of the data system. Entity records with structured information are retrieved from the data system based on the extracted attribute values. Entity references for corresponding entities of the data system are constructed based on a comparison of the retrieved entity records and the extracted attribute values. The entity references are linked to the corresponding entities within the data system, with the entity references including extracted attributes from the unstructured data for corresponding linked entities. | 03-24-2016 |
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20080243832 | Method and System for Parsing Languages - Embodiments of systems and methods for comparing attributes of a data record are presented herein. In some embodiments, a weight is based on a comparison of the name (or other) attributes of data records. In some embodiments, an information score may be calculated for each of two name attributes to be compared to get an average information score for the two name attributes. The two name attributes may then be compared against one another to generate a weight between the two attributes. This weight can then be normalized to generate a final weight between the two business name attributes. Comparing attributes according to embodiments disclosed herein can facilitate linking data records even if they comprise attributes in languages which do not use the Latin alphabet. | 10-02-2008 |
20080244008 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA EXCHANGE AMONG DATA SOURCES - Systems and methods for joining results in loosely collaborative data exchanges which include a plurality of nodes in communication with each other wherein a node is constrained from sharing payload data regarding a first subject, is allowed to share matching data regarding the first subject, and is further constrained to be separate from the other nodes. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a set of virtual results from the constrained node including the matching data and excluding the payload data. The method also includes receiving results from the other nodes and determining whether any of the results correspond to the same subject. The method also includes, when any of the results correspond to the same subject, joining the corresponding portions in a hub separate from the constrained node. The joined results can be output. | 10-02-2008 |
20090089317 | Method and system for indexing, relating and managing information about entities - Systems and methods for use in association with a master entity index system may allow data records to be grouped together into various entities, where each of the entities may represent a logical or physical item. These entities may also be associated with one another in a manner such that relationships between entities may likewise be represented. In one embodiment, an interface may be provided for use in conjunction with the master entity index system such that these various entities and relationships may be better managed, manipulated or visualized. This interface may allow a user to search for or otherwise obtain an entity, where a representation of this entity and one or more associated entities may be presented to the user along with representations of the relationships between these entities. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089332 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSOCIATING DATA RECORDS IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES - Embodiments disclosed herein provide a system and method for associating data records in multiple languages within a single hub. As a record comes in from an information source coupled to the hub, it is associated with a particular language at a core layer. The hub maps each language one-to-one to a member type. For each data record of a particular member type, unique derivation code is utilized to perform standardization and bucketing at a derived layer. A weight may be used to balance the richness of languages so that data records in different languages can have the same statistical meaning. Since attributes are standardized with respect to a language of a data record, appropriate languages or script can be passed along with the data record. The hub can then match the data record to the optimum algorithm(s) for entity processing at an entity layer. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089630 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYSIS OF A SYSTEM FOR MATCHING DATA RECORDS - Embodiments disclosed herein provide a system and method for analyzing an identity hub. Particularly, a user can connect to the identity hub, load an initial set of data records, create and/or edit an identity hub configuration locally, analyze and/or validate the configuration via a set of analysis tools, including an entity analysis tool, a data analysis tool, a bucket analysis tool, and a linkage analysis tool, and remotely deploy the validated configuration to an identity hub instance. In some embodiments, through a graphical user interface, these analysis tools enable the user to analyze and modify the configuration of the identity hub in real time while the identity hub is operating to ensure data quality and enhance system performance. | 04-02-2009 |
20100114877 | Method and System for Filtering False Positives - Embodiments of systems and methods for reducing false positives during the linking of data records are disclosed herein. Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present invention may be used in the generation of an overall weight from the comparison of various attributes of data records, where the linking of the data records is dependent on the overall weight. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention may calculate a false positive penalty based on a set of results, each of the set of results based on a comparison of an attribute. The false positive penalty may be subtracted from the overall weight generated from the comparison of the attributes of data records to adjust the overall weight. By configuring which attributes of the data records are used as the set of attributes for generating the false positive penalty, and the penalties associated with a particular combination of results for the comparisons of these attributes, the incidence of false positives in the linking of data records may be significantly reduced. | 05-06-2010 |
20100174725 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPARING ATTRIBUTES SUCH AS BUSINESS NAMES - Embodiments of systems and methods for comparing attributes of a data record are presented herein. Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present invention generate a weight based on a comparison of the name (or other) attributes of data records. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention generate a weight based on a comparison of name attributes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention may calculate an information score for each of two name attributes to be compared to get an average information score for the two name attributes. The two name attributes may then be compared against one another to generate a weight between the two attributes. This weight can then be normalized to generate a final weight between the two business name attributes. | 07-08-2010 |
20100175024 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC WEIGHT GENERATION FOR PROBABILISTIC MATCHING - Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method of automatically generating weights for matching data records. Each field of a record may be compared by an exact match and/or close matches and each comparison can result in a mathematical score which is the sum of the field comparisons. To sum up the field scores accurately, the automatic weight generation process comprises an iterative process. In one embodiment, initial weights are computed based upon unmatched-set probabilities and default discrepancy weights associated with attributes in the comparison algorithm. A bulk cross-match is performed across the records using the initial weights and a candidate matched set is computed for updating the discrepancy probabilities. New weights are computed based upon the unmatched probabilities and the updated discrepancy probabilities. Test for convergence between the new weights and the old weights. Repeat with the new weight table until the weights converge to their final value. | 07-08-2010 |
20110010401 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR THE CONFIGURATION OF AN ALGORITHM FOR THE MATCHING OF DATA RECORDS - Systems and methods for an interface for the configuration of a system for the association of data records are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention provide a graphical interface for manipulating a representation of an algorithm for the configuration of such a system, including the configuration of how a system transforms data records from their native format to a standard data format, selects set of candidates and associates data records. | 01-13-2011 |
20110191349 | Method and System For Indexing, Relating and Managing Information About Entities - Systems and methods for use in association with a master entity index system may allow data records to be grouped together into various entities, where each of the entities may represent a logical or physical item. These entities may also be associated with one another in a manner such that relationships between entities may likewise be represented. In one embodiment, an interface may be provided for use in conjunction with the master entity index system such that these various entities and relationships may be better managed, manipulated or visualized. This interface may allow a user to search for or otherwise obtain an entity, where a representation of this entity and one or more associated entities may be presented to the user along with representations of the relationships between these entities. | 08-04-2011 |