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20100049768 | AUTOMATIC MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL ARCHIVES, IN PARTICULAR OF AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO FILES - Methods are described for selecting and/or deleting files in a set of files, preferably relating to audio and/or video sequences. The present invention is based on the idea of finding substantially duplicate files, selecting the best one and deleting the others, this process being carried out in an automatic or quasi-automatic manner, i.e. with the user having to answer one or more confirmation requests. A certain number of duplicate files can be subjected to P logic blocks Ck (k being an integer, 1≦k≦P); each logic block makes a selection according to a choice criterion having higher priority than the next block. | 02-25-2010 |
20100049769 | System And Method For Monitoring And Managing Patent Events - Disclosed relates to a system and a method for monitoring and managing patent events. The system comprises a patent event selection unit and a monitoring and managing patent unit. The patent event selection unit verifies any combination of the time, prosecution status, qualification and contents of a patent event according to the inputted information related to the patent event. The unit also monitors and analyzes the patent event. The monitoring and managing patent unit sets up alert and/or warning activated, generates corresponding responses or provides related comments or actions. | 02-25-2010 |
20100070511 | REDUCING USE OF RANDOMNESS IN CONSISTENT UNIFORM HASHING - Documents that are near-duplicates may be determined using techniques involving consistent uniform hashing. A biased bit may be placed in the leading position of a sequence of bits that may be generated and subsequently used in comparison techniques to determine near-duplicate documents. Unbiased bits may be used in subsequent positions of the sequence of bits, after the biased bit, for use in comparison techniques. Samples may be used collectively, as opposed to individually, in the generation of biased bits. Sequences of bits may thus be produced not on a single sample basis, but for multiple samples, thereby amortizing the cost of generating randomness for the samples. Less than one bit of randomness per sample may be used. | 03-18-2010 |
20100076982 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLAYLIST GENERATION BASED ON SIMILARITY DATA - Methods and arrangements for facilitating media playlist generation for a program participant based at least in part on media library inventory information provided by a number of program participants. The system or program in which the individuals are participating is an on-line media store. Those individuals that decide to be program participants are interested in organizing, maintaining and playing their music, based at least in part, on data derived from a population of other participants in the program that have similar or the same music in their libraries. To be a program participant, the individual music holder must send, and the on-line music store receive, data representative of that program participant's media inventory. This data typically contains identification data of the individual media items presently contained in that participant's media library regardless of the individual media item's source. The system or program determines an incidence of co-occurrence of pairs of individual media items in different program participants' media libraries. Based on this determination, a similarity rating is assigned between the pairs of individual media items based on the determined incidence of co-occurrence in the different program participants' media libraries. | 03-25-2010 |
20100076983 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLAYLIST GENERATION BASED ON SIMILARITY DATA - System, method and computer program that encompasses one or more client devices cooperating with a program host's on-line data processing center to generate media playlists. Data is transmitted from a program participant's client device to the processing center and is representative of media inventory in a media library on the client device and includes identification data of contained individual media items. Data is further received from a plurality of program participants representative of each respective program participant's media inventory, regardless of the source of the members of the inventory. Co-occurrence of pairs of individual media items in different program participants' media libraries is determined and a similarity rating is assigned between the pairs of individual media items based on the determined incidence of co-occurrence in the different program participants' media libraries. From this, a media playlist is generated. | 03-25-2010 |
20100076984 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUERY EXPANSION USING TOOLTIPS - A system and method for query expansion allows the refinement and expansion of a keyword query search by combining a key concept with semantically related concepts proposed by the system and associated with that key concept. The semantically related concepts may be grouped together in a cluster, which is then presented to the user in the form of a tooltip. Once a semantically related concept is selected from the cluster, a new search is launched. This new search may use as query terms the combination of at least part of the key concept and the selected semantically related concept to thereby expand the original search. | 03-25-2010 |
20100076985 | CLASSIFICATION OF AMBIGUOUS GEOGRAPHIC REFERENCES - A location classifier generates location information based on textual strings in input text. The location information defines potential geographical relevance of the input text. In determining the location information, the location classifier may receive at least one geo-relevance profile associated with at least one string in the input text, obtain a combined geo-relevance profile for the document from the at least one geo-relevance profile, and determine geographical relevance of the input text based on the combined geo-relevance profile. | 03-25-2010 |
20100082642 | Classifier Indexing - Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for document-based processing. In one implementation, a document is input; features are extracted from it; an index is queried using at least a subset of the extracted features and, in response, identifications for selected document classifiers are received from a larger pool of document classifiers; the document is processed using individual ones of the selected document classifiers, thereby generating corresponding classifier outputs; and then, based on such classifier outputs, (1) the document is categorized within a computer database and/or (2) feedback information is provided to a user. | 04-01-2010 |
20100088321 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR ADVERTISING - A method for selecting an advertisement to be presented to a network user. The method comprises identifying a reference to a specific product in a document, reviewing an advertisement database to select an advertisement related to the specific product, and delivering an indication to the advertisement, thereby allowing the advertisement to be presented to a network user accessing the document. | 04-08-2010 |
20100094879 | Method of detecting and responding to changes in the online community's interests in real time - A method of locating relevant documents wherein documents are given a fingerprint comprising weights associated with particular topic categories of a classification system, each weight representing a degree to which the document relates to the particular topic category. Documents whose fingerprints have a predetermined degree of mathematical overlap with the fingerprint may be considered relevant. A user is alerted to new relevant documents. Advertisers can offer advertisements near search results that achieve a predefined amount of relevance to text submitted by the advertiser rather than bidding on keywords. Unwanted content may be blocked from the search and filters to further refine the search may be used. E-mail spam may be blocked using textual relevance rather than keywords. Visual cues linked to a hierarchy of relevance help display the relevant documents. The methods may be used in combination with keyword searching. | 04-15-2010 |
20100100555 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHANGING SYMBOL SEQUENCES IN DOCUMENTS - A computer-readable medium includes instructions for causing at least one processor to perform a method. The method may include receiving a symbol sequence into a document, identifying another symbol sequence in the document whose probability of matching the received symbol sequence is above a threshold, and replacing the received symbol sequence with the other symbol sequence. | 04-22-2010 |
20100106732 | Identifying Visually Similar Objects - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for finding similarities between visual objects using keywords and computerized visual image analysis are provided. A visual object may be provided as an input. A group of visual objects sharing keywords with the visual object may be generated for further analysis. The visual similarity of this group of visual objects may then be determined using computerized visual analysis. A group of visual objects that have the highest similarity rank, as determined by the computerized visual analysis, may then be displayed. | 04-29-2010 |
20100114912 | PREVENTING MISUSE OF DATABASE SEARCHES - Systems, methods, and apparatus for preventing misuse of searches of a database system are provided. This prevention of misuse of database searches can enable reliable operation of the database system, as an improper query using a regular expression will not shut down or severely affect an application process that provides access to the database system. A thread of the application process determines whether an input character characters string matches the regular expression. To prevent misuse, a computational effort of the search is tracked, and compared to a threshold value. When the threshold is exceeded, an operation of the thread is exited or stopped. | 05-06-2010 |
20100114913 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICE, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING PROGRAM - A document processing apparatus according to the present embodiment handles a structured document file described in XML, XHTML, and HTML, etc., as a document to be processed. The document processing apparatus selects a base tag and a comparison tag from a structured document file, and computes a positional proximity between the two tags in a hierarchical structure as a tag-proximity degree. The apparatus specifies a comparison tag with a tag-proximity degree of a predetermined threshold value or more with respect to the base tag, as a proximity-tag. The apparatus outputs the data specified by one or more of the proximity-tags, as the proximity-data with respect to the base tag. | 05-06-2010 |
20100131516 | ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT WITH SEMANTIC VALIDATION - The present invention relates to computer implemented methods and system for determining correspondences between terms in two or more ontologies. The methods and systems are designed to accept as inputs ontologies in Web Ontology Language (OWL) syntax or any other ontology syntax, to calculate a similarity measure between terms in the ontologies, extract an alignment based on this similarity measure, and verify this alignment according to the semantics contained in the ontologies. This process is designed to be executed iteratively until the similarity measures converge, or until another suitable finalization condition is met. The result of these methods and of the systems implementing these methods is an alignment between two or more ontologies establishing semantic correspondences between the terms in the ontologies. | 05-27-2010 |
20100153405 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO SEARCH A DATA SOURCE BASED ON A COMPATABILITY VIA A SPECIFICATION - Methods and systems to search a data source based on compatibility via a specification are disclosed. The system receives a query from a buyer that includes keywords and identifies at least one keyword in the query as application information. The application information describes a first application. Next, the system infers the other keywords in the query as item information that describes a first part that is sought on a network-based marketplace. The first part is a component of the first application. Next, the system associates the application information with specification identifiers respectively for parts that fit the first application. Next, the system searches the data storage device to identify listings that respectively describe an item for sale on the network-based marketplace, the listings to include listing specification information that matches at least one of the specification identifiers. The listings further include listing item information that matches the item information. | 06-17-2010 |
20100161619 | Method and Apparatus for Generating Recommendations From Descriptive Information - Meaningful words or phrases may be extracted from the information and used as tags. Weights may be determined for the tags, and tag clouds may be generated for the items. The tag clouds may be stored to a data store. Information specifying a tag cloud may be received. Recommended items for which the tag clouds most closely match the specified tag cloud may be identified. Standard vector space distance calculations, for example the cosine distance between the tag clouds, may be used to determine cloud similarity. The results may be filtered to optimize relevance, novelty and familiarity in accordance with preferences of the user. The recommended items may be displayed to a user interface. Users may interact with the user interface to steer the recommendations towards more relevant content. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161620 | Method and Apparatus for User-Steerable Recommendations - Method and apparatus for transparent, steerable recommendations. A steerable recommender uses tag clouds including descriptive tags and associated weights to generate recommendations. Users may dynamically interact with the recommender via a user interface to steer the recommendations. A tag cloud for an item is displayed, items for which associated tag clouds are most similar to the displayed tag cloud are identified, and the items are displayed as recommendations. The strength of similarity of the items to the displayed tag cloud may be displayed. The user may modify a tag cloud, for example by changing the weight of a tag or by adding or removing a tag, and the recommendations may be automatically updated to reflect the modification. A recommended item may be selected to display the tag cloud corresponding to the item. A user may select a user interface element to request information on why a particular item was recommended. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161621 | INFERRING RULES TO CLASSIFY OBJECTS IN A FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Described are methods and systems related to inferring rules to classify an object to one of one or more target folders. One or more properties of the object to be classified are determined. A first degree of affinity between the object to be classified and the objects of the target folders, having a property identical to the object to be classified, is computed. A second degree of affinity between the object to be classified and the objects within each target folder, having a property identical to the object to be classified, is computed. A total degree of affinity between the object to be classified and each target folder is calculated. A normalized total degree of affinity is calculated by averaging the total degree of affinity across all target folders. The object is moved to a target folder having a highest value of the normalized total degree of affinity. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161622 | INFORMATION FILTERING APPARATUS - A search unit | 06-24-2010 |
20100169326 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION OF CONTENT ITEMS ASSOCIATION - An apparatus for providing analysis and visualization of content items associations may include a processor that may be configured to perform an analysis of a link relation between a source content item and at least one of a plurality of content items. The processor may further be configured to identify at least one content item relevant to the source content item by identifying a similarity between at least one attribute associated with the source content item and at least one attribute associated with the at least one relevant content item. The processor may also be configured to determine a weight of the link relation based at least in part on the identified similarity, and provide for display of a link relation between the source content item and the identified at least one relevant content item. A corresponding method and computer program product may also be provided. | 07-01-2010 |
20100174723 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - The information processing device includes an access history acquiring unit which acquires and stores access history information showing access history for the contents accessed by a user terminal, and a relevancy setting unit which relates the accessed contents. As the access history information, the access history acquiring unit acquires content identification information, access date and time information, and application identification information for identifying a content access application making access to the content, which is different for each of the content access applications operated on the user terminal. The relevancy setting unit generates and stores the relevance information by mutually relating the content identification information based on the access date and time information and the application identification information contained in each of the different contents. | 07-08-2010 |
20100174724 | INTEREST-GROUP DISCOVERY SYSTEM - A method of social networking is disclosed in which users may indicate areas of interest to them and/or search for other users with the same or similar interests. Users may specify one or more areas of interest to them and enter those interests in a database, by means of a list of “tags” or keywords, called a taglist. The values of the tags may be weighted. A user wishing to find other users with similar interests may input a search taglist which is compared with the other taglists stored in the database, and a list of the users with the closest matching taglists is returned. The method may also be used to characterize documents, projects, media files or other data objects, so that such items may be searched in similar fashion. | 07-08-2010 |
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 |
20100191744 | RANKING FUNCTIONS USING DOCUMENT USAGE STATISTICS - Methods of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are disclosed. Computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for performing a method of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are also disclosed. Further, computing systems containing at least one application module, wherein the at least one application module comprises application code for performing methods of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are disclosed. | 07-29-2010 |
20100198839 | TERM EXTRACTION FROM SERVICE DESCRIPTION DOCUMENTS - Terms are extracted from service description documents describing desired services, and the terms are used to search for candidate service providers operable to provide the desired services. A matrix of terms and documents are determined from the service description documents. Singular value decomposition (SVD) is used to decompose the matrix. Eigen vectors from the SVD decomposition are weighted by top k singular values in a diagonal matrix S of singular values also generated from the decomposition. The weighted eigen vectors are used to rank terms from the matrix X based on relevance of the terms to the requirements for desired services described in the service description documents. | 08-05-2010 |
20100198840 | RANK-ORDER SERVICE PROVIDERS BASED ON DESIRED SERVICE PROPERTIES - Candidate service providers for a desired service are ranked. Terms describing service requirements for a desired service are determined. Service capability documents describing the services of the candidate service providers are determined using the terms describing the service requirements. Using singular value decomposition (SVD) and a metric, similarities between the terms describing the service requirements and the service capability documents are determined. The candidate service providers are ranked based on the similarities. | 08-05-2010 |
20100211575 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY PRESENTING A MEDIA FILE ON A MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON RELEVANCE TO A USER - A system and method for automatically presenting a media file on a mobile device based on an analysis of metadata associated with the media file. The system evaluates a media file's metadata to determine whether the media file is relevant to a mobile device user based on time, date, location, subject matter, or other criteria. If the media file is relevant to the user, the system automatically displays the media file on the mobile device. By presenting the media file to a mobile device user, the system reminds the user of fond memories associated with past dates, people, events, or places. In some embodiments, the system may also prompt a user of the mobile device to take an action related to the media file presented on the mobile device, such as prompting the user to place a telephone call to a person pictured in the image. | 08-19-2010 |
20100211576 | Method And System For Similarity Matching - A method and system for similarity matching are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises calculating a data point value by a server related to one or more of a client creating a data point, editing facts about the data point, providing an opinion about the data point, rating the data point, and rating the opinion about the data point. An opinion value is received from the client. A weighted value is calculated by the server from the data point value. A similarity score is computed between the client and a second client based upon the weighted value. A similarity network of clients for the client is determined based upon the similarity score. The similarity network of clients is filtered based upon tags provided to the client by the server. | 08-19-2010 |
20100223267 | Matching tools for use in attribute-based performance systems - Systems and methods consistent with the invention relate to matching user attributes. In one exemplary implementation, the system and methods may store predetermined general attribute descriptors reflecting attributes of users generally, receive personal attribute descriptors selected from the predetermined general attribute descriptors as corresponding to attributes of a first user and a second user, receive a rating associated with each received personal attribute descriptor, compare at least one personal attribute descriptor associated with the first user with at least one personal attribute descriptor associated with the second user to determine a descriptor match, and calculate a match score based on the determined descriptor match and the received ratings. In addition, first and second display points may be displayed and may be separated by a one-dimensional display distance that is a function of the calculated match score. | 09-02-2010 |
20100223268 | Searching Digital Information and Databases - This application describes methods for searching digital information such as digital documents (e.g., web pages) and computer databases, and specific search techniques such as authority ranking and information retrieval (IR) relevance ranking in keyword searches. In some implementations, the technique includes analyzing digital information viewed as a labeled graph, including nodes and edges, based on a flow of authority among the nodes along the edges, the flow of authority being derived at least in part from different authority transfer rates assigned to the edges based on edge type schema information. In some implementations, the system includes an object rank module configured to generate multiple initial rankings corresponding to multiple query keywords, each of the multiple initial rankings indicating authority of nodes in a graph with respect to each respective query keyword individually; and a query module configured to combine the multiple initial rankings in response to a query. | 09-02-2010 |
20100228741 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SEARCHING AND ASSOCIATING INFORMATION RESOURCES SUCH AS WEB PAGES - A method manages information resources in a computer system. The method includes receiving user information from an input device. The user information is representative of a declaration that a second resource accessible by the system should be associated with a first resource. The method further includes storing in association with the second resource an identifier of the first resource. The method identifies other resources that are relevant with respect to the second resource using a relevance scoring process. The method further determines whether the second resource with respect to other relevant resources has a first identifier associated herewith when one of the other resources is to be accessed by the system for display, and if it does, displays signaling information distinct from the display of the other resource itself signaling of the existence of the first resource. | 09-09-2010 |
20100235364 | DATA DISPLAY SERVER, DATA DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - The present invention relates to recommendation of items to a user for providing items more satisfying a user's request on the basis of new association. The present invention provides a data display server connected to a user terminal, which includes a posting database for storing posting data posted through the user terminal, a reference data base for storing reference data, relational metadata generating means which generates relational metadata making association between two pieces of reference data, and a relational database for storing the relational metadata. According to the arrangement, tight linking between reference data is made possible so that items more suitable for a user's preference can be recommended. | 09-16-2010 |
20100241635 | System and Method for Quantifying and Calculating the Difference Between Occupations - Described is a system and method for quantifying and calculating a similarity between two occupations utilizing information provided by the Occupational Information Network (“the O*NET). More specifically, the system is in communication with the O*NET, which rates a plurality of occupations in terms of a plurality of quantifying values. The system accesses the quantifying values assigned to each of the two occupations and calculates the similarity therebetween. | 09-23-2010 |
20100241636 | E-MAIL RESPONSE SYSTEM - A method includes receiving, at a message processing system that includes a processor and a memory, a message from an originator. The message includes content related to a particular service of a plurality of services. The method includes selecting a set of potential responses to the message at the message processing system based on the particular service. The method also includes retrieving account information related to the originator of the message at the message processing system. The method further includes filtering the set of potential responses at the message processing system to provide a filtered set of responses. The set of potential responses is filtered based on the account information. When a first response has a confidence level that exceeds a threshold confidence level, the method includes sending the first response from the message processing system to the originator of the message without sending the filtered set of responses to an agent. | 09-23-2010 |
20100250555 | Calculating Web Page Importance - The page ranking technique described herein employs a Markov Skeleton Mirror Process (MSMP), which is a particular case of Markov Skeleton Processes, to model and calculate page importance scores. Given a web graph and its metadata, the technique builds an MSMP model on the web graph. It first estimates the stationary distribution of a EMC and views it as transition probability. It next computes the mean staying time using the metadata. Finally, it calculates the product of transition probability and mean staying time, which is actually the stationary distribution of MSMP. This is regarded as page importance. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250556 | Determining User Preference of Items Based on User Ratings and User Features - A set of item-item affinities for a plurality of items is determined based on collaborative-filtering techniques. A set of an item's nearest neighbor items based on the set of item-item affinities is determined. A set of user feature-item affinities for the plurality of items and a set of user features is determined based on least squared regression. A set of a user feature's nearest neighbor items is determined based in part on the set of user feature-item affinities. Compatible affinity weights for nearest neighbor items of each item and each user feature are determined and stored. Based on user features of a particular user and items a particular user has consumed, a set of nearest neighbor items comprising nearest neighbor items for user features of the user and items the user has consumed are identified as a set of candidate items, and affinity scores of candidate items are determined. Based at least in part on the affinity scores, a candidate item from the set of candidate items is recommended to the user. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250557 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING USERS OF SIMILAR INTERESTS BETWEEN VARIOUS TYPES OF WEB SERVERS - Disclosed herein is a system and method for extracting users of similar interests between various types of web servers. The system includes a user profile vector creation unit, a user similarity calculation unit, and a similar user extraction unit. The user profile vector creation unit collects tag data, performs standardization calculation on the degree of importance of each of one or more tags, and creates user profile vectors for respective users. The user similarity calculation unit calculates user similarity using the user profile vectors of the respective users created through the user profile vector creation unit. The similar user extraction unit extracts users of similar interests using the value of the user similarity calculated through the user similarity calculation unit. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250558 | System and Method for Targeted Ad Delivery - Systems and associated methods for targeted ad delivery are described. In one aspect, a user profile includes at least one user content category identifier and a user interest score. The user interest score is increased by an amount if the content category identifier of a requested webpage matches the at least one user content category identifier. In a further aspect, the user interest score is indicative of a level of interest of the user in a content category identified by the at least one user content category identifier. In another aspect, the user interest score can be reduced according to a long-term decay rate that slowly reduces the user interest score. In another aspect, the user interest score can also be reduced according to a short-term decay rate that rapidly reduces the user interest score. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250559 | Automatic Match Tuning - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying matches between disparate schemas calculates a degree of similarity between elements of two schemas using each of multiple matching processes. The calculated degrees of similarity are combined using a first weighting vector to produce first combined degrees of similarity. The first weighting vector includes multiple weighting coefficients and each weighting coefficient corresponds to one of the matching processes. The weighting coefficients are tuned using information relating to a predicted degree of matching accuracy associated with the first weighting vector. | 09-30-2010 |
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 |
20100281036 | INFORMATION SEARCH SUPPORT METHOD AND INFORMATION SEARCH SUPPORT DEVICE - An information search support device includes: a cluster selection history information accumulation unit which accumulates content information of each cluster and cluster selection history information indicating a cluster selected by a user; a degree of certainty calculation unit which calculates a degree of certainty indicating a degree to which a vague search target of the user has been identified, based the cluster selection history information accumulated; a search target estimation unit which obtains a condition for estimating the search target; a search-omitted information extraction unit which extracts search-omitted information that is included in the cluster that is not selected and is estimated from the obtained condition; and a search-omitted information addition unit which adds, to the cluster selected by the user, the extracted search-omitted information, in the case where the degree of certainty is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold. | 11-04-2010 |
20100281037 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CASE-BASED DECISION SUPPORT - This invention relates to a method and device for case-based decision support. It proposes that a case-based decision support system is trained on inputs from several radiologists in order to have a “baseline” system, and then the system provides an option to a radiologist to refine the baseline system based on his/her inputs which either refine weights of features for similarity distance computation directly or provide new similarity ground truth clusters. By enabling modifying the similarity distance computation based on user inputs, this invention adapts similarity ground truth to different users with different experience and/or different opinions. | 11-04-2010 |
20100293169 | CONTENT SEARCHING DEVICE AND CONTENT SEARCHING METHOD - To provide a content searching device which can efficiently present to the user a topical related keyword. | 11-18-2010 |
20100318526 | INFORMATION ANALYSIS DEVICE, SEARCH SYSTEM, INFORMATION ANALYSIS METHOD, AND INFORMATION ANALYSIS PROGRAM - Time-series data corresponding to an input linguistic expression to be analyzed is acquired, a relevant linguistic expression candidate which is highly relevant to the input linguistic expression is generated, time-series data corresponding to the relevant linguistic expression candidate generated is acquired, temporal correlation between the time-series data corresponding to the input linguistic expression and the time-series data corresponding to the relevant linguistic expression candidate is analyzed and a relevance level between the input linguistic expression and the relevant linguistic expression candidate generated is calculated using an analysis result of the time-series data. | 12-16-2010 |
20100325115 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING AND PROCESSING ELECTRONIC FILE LIST - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method and system for displaying and processing an electronic file list. The method includes: determining a keyword used for sorting in the electronic file list, retrieving keyword information of each electronic file in the electronic file list; and displaying the electronic file list in which electronic files are sorted. | 12-23-2010 |
20110010371 | ENTROPY-BASED MIXING AND PERSONALIZATION - Techniques are provided for selecting a diverse mix of content items that may be displayed to a user. Content items such as user-generated events are received from a variety of sources. One or more content items are added to a set of content items based on a diversity of characteristics. The diversity of characteristics for the one or more content items may be calculated by measuring a diversity of characteristics of the set as if the one or more content items were added to the set. Content items that produce a greater diversity are selected for addition to the set. The set is displayed to the user, who is provided with a more meaningful mix of content due to the greater diversity in content. | 01-13-2011 |
20110010372 | CONTENT QUALITY APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - Embodiments herein receive a set of content quality threshold values, a search string, and a content data stream at a content quality metric (CQM) apparatus. Content segments associated with the content data stream are scored and/or graded according to a set of content relevance scales. The content data stream is then filtered to include only passing content segments and intermediate calculation values used to determine whether a content segment is passing. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 01-13-2011 |
20110010373 | TEXT MINING DEVICE, TEXT MINING METHOD, TEXT MINING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is a text mining device that performs an analysis properly with respect to a difference between plural related document data. Equipped are an element extracting section | 01-13-2011 |
20110016135 | DIGITAL SPECTRUM OF FILE BASED ON CONTENTS - A digital spectrum defines and communicates a file's informational characteristics. A file's informational position may be represented as a vector in an N-dimensional space, where each dimension is defined by a symbol. A position along the axis of any given dimension is described by the frequency of occurrence of that symbol. Relative to the origin of the space, the file's position can be computed. Comparing positions reveals similarity, or not, of the files. Another method uses the digital spectrum to define a line graph. Each symbol and its frequency define points on the line. A distance function between two spectra line graphs is computed. Comparing values from the distance functions reveals similarity, or not, of the files. Also, total numbers of bits in the files are extracted by knowing the lengths of the original bits corresponding to every symbol. A symbol bit length spectrum is also defined. | 01-20-2011 |
20110029543 | COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING REPRESENTATIONS OF DATA - Embodiments relate to methods and systems for building representations of related subjects. User instructions may be received via a computer system that relate identifying information relating to a subject (e.g., an individual, group and/or event) to a node being associated therewith. Nodes in different accounts may be compared and matched based on identifying information associated with the nodes. Characteristics of one of the matched nodes may be added or modified based on characteristics of another of the matched nodes. A user may be notified of a potential match, a match, and/or node characteristics additions and/or modifications. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029544 | MEDIA LIST SERVER AND METHOD FOR GENERATING FAVORITE MEDIA LIST - A media list server communicating with a plurality of media database servers and a client device comprises a receiving module, a storing module, a recording module, a determining module, a calculating module and a list generating module. The receiving module receives a user identification information and vote information. The storing module stores properties of the media and weights of the properties. The recording module records the vote information. The determining module determines whether a user has logged in for the first time according to the user identification information, and determines a popularity of each media according to the vote information. The calculating module calculates similarities of the media according to the properties and weights of the properties. The list generating module generates the favorite media list according to the popularity and the similarities of the media. | 02-03-2011 |
20110040766 | Methods for searching with semantic similarity scores in one or more ontologies - A method assigns importance ranks to documents within repositories or databases, such as any database of documents such as books or other printed material, electronic documentation, and pages within the world-wide web. The method uses a corpus of indexed documents that has been annotated to the terms of one or more ontologies in order to assign a semantic similarity score to queries based on terms taken from the ontologies. A statistical model is used to test the significance of matches between query terms and documents or categories. The method results in an acceleration of over 10,000-fold for realistic queries and ontologies, and makes it practicable to calculate P-values dynamically or to keep database annotations and the related P-value distributions up to date by frequent recalculation. | 02-17-2011 |
20110040767 | METHOD FOR BUILDING TAXONOMY OF TOPICS AND CATEGORIZING VIDEOS - A computer-implemented method for managing video contents includes collecting a plurality of keywords related to a topic, the keywords being collected using at least one dynamic data source. One or more sub-topics of the topic are identified using the keywords collected. A topic node in a taxonomy of topics is built, the topic node including a topic identifier for the topic, a child topic identifier for the sub-topics identified, and a keyword section for one or more of the keywords collected. A plurality of videos is organized using the topic node built to assist a user in locating a video of interest. | 02-17-2011 |
20110040768 | CONTEXT BASED RESOURCE RELEVANCE - A resource context system (“context system”) computes a contextual profile for a resource based on selection data for the resource and contextual profiles of other resources that are identified as relevant to the resource. The contextual profile includes values that specify measures of relevance of the resource to each of a plurality of corresponding topics. The contextual profile is provided to a processing system, such as an advertisement management system or a search system that can identify topics for which the resource is relevant based on the contextual profile. | 02-17-2011 |
20110047166 | SYSTEM AND METHODS OF RELATING TRADEMARKS AND PATENT DOCUMENTS - In an embodiment, a computer-readable medium embodies instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a computing system to perform operations including automatically defining one or more associations between a trademark record and a patent document and storing the one or more associations as mappings between trademarks and patent documents. | 02-24-2011 |
20110047167 | DETERMINING ENTITY RELEVANCE BY RELATIONSHIPS TO OTHER RELEVANT ENTITIES - An entity resolution system configured to process an inbound identity record and to generate a relevance score for the inbound identity record is disclosed. One process of resolving identity records and detecting relationships between entities may be performed using a pre-determined or configurable entity resolution rules. Further, the entity resolution system may assign base relevance scores, association relevance scores, and derived relevance scores to each resolved entity. The relevance score for the inbound identity record may be computed based on base relevance scores, association relevance scores, derived relevance scores, and/or relationship strengths of entities related to the inbound identity record. | 02-24-2011 |
20110047168 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING DOCUMENTS - The invention provides a method and system for classifying insurance files for identification, sorting and efficient collection of subrogation claims. The invention determines whether an insurance claim has merit to warrant claim recovery efforts utilizing software code for partially describing a set of documents having unstructured and structured file data containing terms and phrases having contextual bases, code for transforming the terms and phrases, code for iterating a classification process to determine rules that best classify the set of documents based upon context, code for incorporating the rules into an induction and knowledge representation, thesauri taxonomies and text summarization to classify subrogation claims; code for calculating a base score and a concept vector to identify the selected claims that demonstrate a given probability of subrogation recovery. | 02-24-2011 |
20110055224 | Method of Collecting Information for a Geographic Database for use with a Navigation System - A method of collecting data for a geographic database for use with a navigation system is disclosed. A feature visible from a road segment is identified. A guidance feature point object is defined at a location at the road segment where the identified feature is most visibly prominent. Additionally, an importance rating and a preferred name for the identified feature are determined. Data representing the guidance feature point object, importance rating and the preferred name are stored in the geographic database on a computer readable medium. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055225 | Development of personalized plans based on acquisition of relevant reported aspects - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring one or more relevant reported aspects associated with one or more source users that are relevant to achieving one or more target outcomes, the acquisition of the one or more relevant reported aspects being based, at least in part, on relevancy of the one or more relevant reported aspects with respect to the achievement of the one or more target outcomes; and developing one or more personalized plans designed to facilitate an end user to achieve the one or more target outcomes when one or more emulatable aspects indicated by the one or more personalized plans are emulated, the development of the one or more personalized plans being based, at least in part, on the acquiring In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055226 | System and Method for the Dynamic Generation of Correlation Scores Between Arbitrary Objects - Systems and methods are described for performing the dynamic generation of correlation scores between arbitrary objects. When a behavioral event is recorded, that is to say when an end user interacts with multiple objects, relationships between objects are created. These relationships are maintained as a list. When a request for correlated items is requested based upon a seed object, a list of correlated items is dynamically created through the generation of a pivot set and a scoring algorithm to compute the list of correlated items. | 03-03-2011 |
20110072024 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROBABILISTICALLY QUANTIFYING AND VISUALIZING RELEVANCE BETWEEN TWO OR MORE CITATIONALLY OR CONTEXTUALLY RELATED DATA OBJECTS - In one embodiment the present invention provides a novel method for probabilistically quantifying a degree of relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects, such as patent documents, non-patent documents, web pages, personal and corporate contacts information, product information, consumer to behavior, technical or scientific information, address information, and the like. In another embodiment the present invention provides a novel method for visualizing and displaying relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects. In another embodiment the present invention provides a novel search input/output interface that utilizes an iterative self-organizing mapping (“SOM”) technique to automatically generate a visual map of relevant patents and/or other related documents desired to be explored, searched or analyzed. In another embodiment the present invention provides a novel search input/output interface that displays and/or communicates search input criteria and corresponding search results in a way that facilitates intuitive understanding and visualization of the logical relationships between two or more related concepts being searched. | 03-24-2011 |
20110078157 | OPINION SEARCH ENGINE - A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to implement an opinion search engine. The instructions to implement an opinion search engine cause the computer to collect opinion data about one or more objects from the Internet, extract metadata about the opinion data from the opinion data, remove duplicate metadata from the metadata to generate a resulting metadata, categorize the resulting metadata for similar objects according to one or more taxonomies from one or more websites on the Internet and rank the similar objects based on the categorized metadata. | 03-31-2011 |
20110078158 | Automatic Taxonomy Enrichment - Techniques for enriching a taxonomy using one or more additional taxonomies are provided. The techniques include receiving two or more taxonomies, wherein the two or more taxonomies comprise a destination taxonomy and one or more additional taxonomies, determining one or more relevant portions of the two or more taxonomies by identifying one or more common terms between the two or more taxonomies, importing one or more relevant portions from the one or more additional taxonomies into the destination taxonomy, and using the one or more imported taxonomy portions to enrich the destination taxonomy. | 03-31-2011 |
20110078159 | Long-Query Retrieval - Described herein is a technology that facilitates efficient large-scale similarity-based retrieval. In several embodiments documents, images, and/or other multimedia files are compactly represented and efficiently indexed to enable robust search using a long-query in a large-scale corpus. As described herein, these techniques include performing decomposition of a file, e.g., a document or document-like representation. The techniques use dimension reduction to obtain three parts, topic-related words (major semantics), document specific words (minor semantics), and background words, representing the major semantics in a feature vector and the minor semantics as keywords. Using the techniques described, file vectors are matched in a topic model and the results ranked based on the keywords. | 03-31-2011 |
20110082868 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLOCK SEGMENTING, IDENTIFYING AND INDEXING VISUAL ELEMENTS, AND SEARCHING DOCUMENTS - A method for segmenting, identifying and indexing visual elements, and searching documents comprises for each document generating metadata, segmenting the document into blocks using the metadata, performing block operations on the identified blocks, identifying and indexing inline visual elements using data and metadata rules, identifying and indexing block visual elements using profiles, and searching for documents containing visual elements. | 04-07-2011 |
20110087675 | METHOD FOR VISUAL ASSET REPLACEMENT ACCOUNTING FOR COST, COPYRIGHT, AND CONFIDENTIALITY REQUIREMENTS - Systems and methods of replacing digital assets within a multimedia document are provided. The systems and methods include a user workstation that can receive a selection from a user for an original asset in the document to be replaced. Alternative assets can be retrieved that have a level of appropriateness with the selected original asset. Constraints on use of the alternative assets can be determined and a fitness value of each of the alternative assets can be calculated based on the appropriateness and the constraints on use. The alternative assets with the highest fitness values can be presented to the user for the user to select to replace the original asset. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087676 | Communication system, server and method - A communication server comprises a database for storing a plurality of sets of information provider terminal data, each set representing a respective information provider terminal and comprising score data indicative of scores alloted to information previously received from the respective information provider terminal. The communication server presents to an information receiver terminal at least one set of information provider terminal data, selects, in accordance with a selection process of the information receiver terminal, one of the sets of information provider terminal data presented, receives from the information receiver terminal a specific query for information from the information provider terminal represented by the selected set of information provider terminal data, transmits, to the information receiver terminal, a specific information relating to the specific query, and updates the score data in the selected set of information provider terminal data using a score alloted by the information receiver terminal to the specific information. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087677 | APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING RESULT OF ANALOGOUS IMAGE RETRIEVAL AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING RESULT OF ANALOGOUS IMAGE RETRIEVAL - A challenge to be met by the present invention is to provide an analogous image retrieval result display apparatus and a method for displaying a result of retrieval of an analogous image that make it possible to simply, accurately ascertain a behavior history of a person to be retrieved in various camera environments. Person characteristic data (a face, a color, a figure, and the like) extracted from a plurality of cameras ( | 04-14-2011 |
20110087678 | COLLABORATIVE FILTERING ENGINE - Various systems and methods for collaborative filtering of enterprise objects are described. A first object and a second object, which may be enterprise objects, may be compared. Vectors associated with each object may be created. These vectors may contain elements that indicate one or more actions performed involving other objects. Using these vectors, a similarity comparison may be performed to determine the amount of similarity between the objects. Based on a similarity value determined from the similarity comparison between the vectors, the second object may be recommended to a user. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087679 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COHORT BASED CONTENT FILTERING AND DISPLAY - A Cohort based content filtering and display system and method that enable users to obtain near-real-time information about how specific groups of users react to news, products, people, or other items. The system will aggregate and display commercially valuable, near-real-time information about user preferences and attitudes, sorted according to standard demographic and other user categories employed by marketers, research organizations and others, without compromising individual privacy. In some embodiments, a user can select a Cohort of interest to him or her, and then see what is most relevant to that Cohort, even if this user is not a member of the selected Cohort. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087680 | Method for Selecting Electronic Advertisements Using Machine Translation Techniques - A system for selecting electronic advertisements from an advertisement pool to match the surrounding content is disclosed. To select advertisements, the system takes an approach to content match that takes advantage of machine translation technologies. The system of the present invention implements this goal by means of simple and efficient machine translation features that are extracted from the surrounding context to match with the pool of potential advertisements. Machine translation features used as features for training a machine learning model. In one embodiment, a ranking SVM (Support Vector Machines) trained to identify advertisements relevant to a particular context. The trained machine learning model can then be used to rank advertisements for a particular context by supplying the machine learning model with the machine translation features measures for the advertisements and the surrounding context. | 04-14-2011 |
20110093476 | RECOMMENDATION INFORMATION GENERATION APPARATUS AND RECOMMENDATION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD - A recommendation information generation apparatus and a recommendation information generation method that can select a similar user appropriately even if the amount of history information is small. In an information distribution server, a user characteristic vector calculation unit calculates a user characteristic vector of each of users, and a similar user calculation unit calculates the degree of similarity between the users based on the calculated user characteristic vector of each of the users. The similar user calculation unit then selects a similar user who is similar to a first user based on the calculated degree of similarity. A relevance evaluation unit generates recommendation information for the first user based on the characteristic vector of the selected similar user. | 04-21-2011 |
20110099176 | Distributed Call Center System and Method for Volunteer Mobilization - A system and method to facilitate effective telephone calling campaigns that may be conducted by geographically dispersed individuals using inexpensive communications systems, such as the Internet and a basic telephone service. The system manages lists of pre-qualified prospects divided up among a group of volunteers, including providing the volunteers with prepared scripts via web-browsers, customized to both the volunteer and the prospect and designed to solicit further information and support from the prospects. The system also processes prospect responses and oversees appropriate follow-up actions such as sending pre-prepared e-mail or direct mail packages. The system also manages and serves information and links backgrounding campaign issues, strategies and tactics and providing volunteers with technical and motivational assistance. The system of this invention is also capable of monitoring volunteer productivity and effectiveness. | 04-28-2011 |
20110099177 | DATA RETRIEVAL DEVICE - The data retrieval device includes a first skip correspondence table which corresponds to each piece of data in a retrieval target data series, and, for each possible similarity range which is taken by a similarity between corresponding data and retrieval data, records skip destination data information for specifying the data which appears first after the corresponding data among pieces of data in which similarities with the retrieval data have the possibility to have a predetermined relationship in comparison with a predetermined threshold. The data retrieval device also includes a control unit which, when retrieving data in which a similarity with the retrieval data is smaller than or equal to the threshold from among the retrieval target data series, selects data in the retrieval target data series for which calculation of a similarity with the retrieval data is necessary, using the first skip correspondence table. | 04-28-2011 |
20110106818 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOLVING TASKS - A system for determining a solution is presented. The system includes a plurality of nodes operationally associated with one another via a network. The plurality of nodes include a data repository configured to store information and experiences of a corresponding node, a processing subsystem operationally coupled to the data repository, and configured to generate a target query, receive a target query from one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes, or both, select one or more target query relevant nodes from the plurality of nodes based on the target query, extract target query relevant information and target query relevant experiences from a corresponding data repository, exchange the target query relevant information and the target query relevant experiences with the one or more target query relevant nodes; and collectively determine a solution to the target query based upon the exchanged target query relevant information and the target query relevant experiences. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106819 | IDENTIFYING A GROUP OF RELATED INSTANCES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying a group of related instance identifiers. In one aspect, a computer storage medium is encoded with a computer program. The program comprises instructions that when executed by data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations. The operations include receiving a search query at a data processing apparatus, the search query specifying attributes shared by a group of related instances, searching an electronic document collection to identify instance identifiers that are responsive to the search query, representing features of the instance identifiers in a vertex-edge graph, and scoring relevance of the instance identifiers to the search query according to the features represented in the vertex-edge graph. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106820 | VOLUNTEER SEARCH SYSTEM. VOLUNTEER SEARCH SERVER AND SEARCH METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a volunteer search server, comprising a receiver, a database, an analyzer and a transmitter. The receiver is for receiving a request message from a requester, wherein the request message contains the location information of the requester. The database is for storing a matching mechanism and the location information of a plurality of volunteers. The analyzer is for exercising the matching mechanism to search at least one suitable volunteer according to the request message, wherein the matching mechanism considers both the location information of the requester and the volunteer. The transmitter is for transmitting a designate message to one designated volunteer. Additionally, the present invention discloses a search method of the volunteer search server and a volunteer search system thereof. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106821 | Semantic-Aware Record Matching - A method of semantic-aware record matching includes receiving source and target string record specifications associated with a source string record and a target string record, receiving semantic knowledge referring to tokens of the source string record and target string record, creating a first set of tokens for the source string record and a second set of tokens for the target string record based on the semantic knowledge, assigning a similarity score to the source string record and the target string record based on a semantic relationship between the first set of tokens and the second set of tokens, and matching the source string record and the target string record based on the similarity score. | 05-05-2011 |
20110113040 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARATION OF INDEXING STRUCTURES FOR DETERMINING SIMILAR POINTS-OF-INTERESTS - An approach is provided for determining the similarity between two points-of-interest. Data about a plurality of features of each of a plurality of points-of-interest are received. A feature vector is created based on the respective features for each of the points-of-interest. A geospatial index comprising the feature vectors and associated location data for each of the points-of-interest is generated. | 05-12-2011 |
20110113041 | System and method for content identification and customization based on weighted recommendation scores - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to present a script of content (also known as a user experience) comprising one or more content items to a user online, wherein such content is not only relevant to addressing a problem raised by the user, but is also customized and tailored to the specific needs and preferences of the user based on the user's profile. Here, the content generated and presented to the user can be predicted, identified, and selected by taking into account similarities between the user and users or experts in a community who share the same interest as the user as well as feedback on relevant content by the users in the community. With such an approach, a user can efficiently and accurately find what he/she is looking for and have a unique experience that distinguishes it from the experiences by any other person in the general public. | 05-12-2011 |
20110113042 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING A FILE SYSTEM - A method for accessing a file system including computing a first numerical similarity score for a first stored document and a second numerical similarity score for a second stored document by comparing a plurality of weighted active terms with a plurality of weighted indexed terms, determining a document order of the first stored document followed by the second stored document based on the first numerical similarity score exceeding the second numerical similarity score, generating a list of similar documents including the first stored document followed by the second stored document based on the document order, and displaying, in a file system interface and on the computer display, the list of similar documents while an active document is open in an active document interface. | 05-12-2011 |
20110119277 | Method and System for Identifying Expertise - A system and method of identifying entities having expertise in one or more subjects. Among other features, the method includes querying a database for documents (e.g., articles, papers, periodicals) relevant to a subject; and calculating a first score for each relevant document. The method also identifies entities affiliated with one or more relevant documents; and calculates a second score for each entity based on the one or more first scores of the one or more relevant documents affiliated with the entity. A step of ranking expertise of the entities based on the respective second scores of the entities is included. | 05-19-2011 |
20110125762 | Method for generating processing specifications for a stream of data items - The present invention concerns a method for generating at least one processing specification ( | 05-26-2011 |
20110125763 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SIMILARITY OF MEDIA INTEREST - An approach is provided for finding users with similar media interest. A media service platform retrieves a first media profile of a first user and a second media profile of a second user, wherein each of the profiles includes information of a plurality of media parameters and playback data relating to at least one of the plurality of media parameters. Next, the media service computes similarity values between the first user and the second user based on the weighted playback data of the media profiles. The media service platform then determines a similarity score between the first user and the second user using the similarity values. | 05-26-2011 |
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 |
20110137921 | METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SEARCHING DOCUMENT DATA USING SEARCH KEYWORD - Techniques provide for searching pieces of document data using a search keyword. The technique includes: calculating, as a first vector, respective first scores at which or respective probabilities that each of the pieces of document data belongs to clusters or classes; calculating, as a second vector, respective second scores at which or respective probabilities that the search keyword or a relevant keyword associated with the search keyword belongs to the clusters or the classes; calculating an inner product of each of the first vectors and the second vector, the calculated inner product being a third score of the corresponding piece of document data regarding the search keyword; and acquiring a correlation value from document data containing each keyword in a classification keyword set and document data with the third score that is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold or is included in a predetermined high-ranking proportion. | 06-09-2011 |
20110153621 | Program and Syndicated Content Detection - Content from multiple different stations can be divided into segments based on time. Matched segments associated with each station can be identified by comparing content included in a first segment associated with a first station, to content included in a second segment associated with a second station. Syndicated content can be identified and tagged based, at least in part, on a relationship between sequences of matched segments on different stations. Various embodiments also include identifying main sequences associated with each station under consideration, removing some of the main sequences, and consolidating remaining main sequences based on various threshold criteria. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153622 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SOFTWARE FOR DIFFERENTIATING TWO OR MORE DATA SETS HAVING COMMON DATA SET IDENTIFIERS - A method, apparatus and software are disclosed which enables the differentiation of two or more data sets having common data set identifiers. | 06-23-2011 |
20110161330 | CALCULATING GLOBAL IMPORTANCE OF DOCUMENTS BASED ON GLOBAL HITTING TIMES - A calculate importance system calculates the global importance of a web page based on a “mean hitting time.” Hitting time of a target web page is a measure of the minimum number of transitions needed to land on the target web page. Mean hitting time of a target web page is an average number of such transitions for all possible starting web pages. The calculate importance system calculates a global importance score for a web page based on the reciprocal of a mean hitting time. A search engine may rank web pages of a search result based on a combination of relevance of the web pages to the search request and global importance of the web pages based on a global hitting time. | 06-30-2011 |
20110179044 | MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS - A method for deriving a biomarker from a structural analysis of medical images is described, including the calculation of pairwise, between-subject, measures of similarity and transformation of the pairwise measures of similarity into a subject specific biomarker. In one example, the biomarker is based on volume or shape comparisons of labelled and segmented anatomical structures in brain images from the subject and two or more clinical groups. | 07-21-2011 |
20110184958 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING RELATIVE SCORE AND ENHANCING ONE OR MORE SCORES ASSOCIATED WITH DATA OBJECTS - Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for computing relative score and enhancing one or more scores associated with data objects. In one method, the method receives, at a computing system, one or more data objects from a user. The method further extracts one or more internal and external parameters based on the one or more data objects. Subsequently, the method compares data objects of the user with corresponding data objects of one or more competing users, based at least in part on the one or more extracted parameters and the requirement included in the data object of the user. Further, in some embodiments, the data objects and requirements of the user are also compared with the corresponding data objects and requirements of one or more complementary users, based at least in part on the one or more extracted parameters. The method further computes one or more scores associated with the data objects based at least in part on the at least one of the comparison of the one or more data objects of the user with the corresponding data objects of one or more competing users and/or the one or more extracted parameters. The method may also provide feedback to the user, where the feedback is directed to enhance the one or more computed scores associated with the data objects. | 07-28-2011 |
20110191352 | Socially- And Context-Aware People-Matching Systems and Methods Relating Thereto - Systems and methods for recommending matches of individuals is provided. A matching server is in communication with a plurality of computer systems operated by a plurality of users of the matching server, via a network (e.g., the Internet). Attribute information is received about a plurality of individuals, as well as a search query for an individual matching at least one desired characteristic specified by a user of the matching server. An affinity score is calculated based upon the attribute information and the search query, and local user context information and social relevance information corresponding to the plurality of individuals is received. An overall match score is calculated by adjusting the affinity score based upon the local user context information and the social relevance information. If the overall match score exceeds a pre-determined threshold, an alert is transmitted to the user of the matching server which identifies potential matches in the plurality of individuals. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191353 | STATISTICAL RECORD LINKAGE CALIBRATION FOR GEOGRAPHIC PROXIMITY MATCHING - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, calculating parameters used to determine whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method use a symmetric and reflexive function to allow for linking records and entity representations whose field values differ. The system and method apply iterative techniques such that parameters from each linking iteration are used in the next linking iteration. The system and method need no human interaction in order to calibrate and utilize record matching formulas used for the linking decisions. These techniques may be used for geographic location proximity matching. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191354 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NEAR AND EXACT DE-DUPLICATION OF DOCUMENTS - A system, method and computer program product for identifying near and exact-duplicate documents in a document collection, including for each document in the collection, reading textual content from the document; filtering the textual content based on user settings; determining N most frequent words from the filtered textual content of the document; performing a quorum search of the N most frequent words in the document with a threshold M; and sorting results from the quorum search based on relevancy. Based on the values of N and M near and exact-duplicate documents are identified in the document collection. | 08-04-2011 |
20110196878 | Friend System Based on Interest Ranking - A friend system based on interest ranking runs in a server. When the user use the personal computer and internet to register as a member of the system, the user can use personal interface, ranking list interface, and the ranking list calculation interface to add or join each ranking item unit, such as “favorite movie ranking list” or “ball team ranking list”. The server stores all related data files in a corresponding database. An operation processor is configured to calculate and generate a personal interest ingredient, and the friend system provides an interaction unit being configured to promote interactions among the users. The personal interface comprises the personal interfaces of the user and the user's friend. A connecting unit is configured to transversely connect and vertically integrate the aforementioned personal interface, the ranking list interface, and the ranking item unit. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196879 | System And Method For Propagating Classification Decisions - A system and method for propagating classification decisions is provided. Text marked within one or more unclassified documents that is determined to be responsive to a predetermined issue is received from a user. The unclassified documents are selected from a corpus. A search query is generated from the responsive text. Same result documents are identified by applying inclusive search parameters to the query, applying the search query to the corpus, and identifying the documents that satisfy the query. Similar result documents are identified by adjusting a breadth of the query by applying less inclusive search parameters and identifying documents from the corpus that satisfy the query. A responsive classification code is automatically assigned to each same result document for classification as responsive documents. The similar documents are provided to the user. A responsive classification decision is received form the user for classification as the responsive documents. | 08-11-2011 |
20110202542 | INTEGRATION OF VOTER AND CONTRIBUTOR DATA INTO POLITICAL SOFTWARE AND COMPLIANCE SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES OF SOLICITATION, COMPLIANCE, VETTING, AND CALLS TO ACTION - A system for gathering and analyzing data on individuals, comprising a processor connected to a network; a database server connected to the processor; a user database connected to the processor; and a user interface operable to interact with the processor and the user database; wherein the processor is operable to obtain information associated with a reference individual from sources connected to the network and store the information in the database server, wherein one source includes a social network database and the information includes related individual information; receive a search request from the user interface, search the information stored in the database server in response to the search request and generate a search result based thereon; determine a relevance value for the related individual information; cause the user interface to display the search result and relevance value; and store the search result in the user database as permitted by law. | 08-18-2011 |
20110202543 | OPTIMISING CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL - A method, processing system and computer program product for optimising a search of a collection of images. In one aspect, the method includes iteratively performing, in a processing system, steps of comparing a test search result set for a search query to a user defined expected search result set for the search query, wherein the search query includes a query feature set of a search image, each feature being associated with a weight; and adjusting one or more weights of the query feature set according to the results of the comparison to improve the similarity between the test and expected search result sets, thereby optimising a future image search of the collection of images. | 08-18-2011 |
20110208753 | Method and Apparatus for Computing Relevancy - Various methods for computing relevancy are provided. One example method includes determining a behavior relevance factor for a user interface item, determining a semantic relevance factor for the user interface item, and determining an internal state of a user relevance factor for the user interface item. The example method further includes generating an overall relevance value for the user interface item. The overall relevance value may be a function of the behavior relevance factor, the semantic relevance factor, and the internal state of the user relevance factor. Similar and related example methods and example apparatuses are also provided. | 08-25-2011 |
20110213786 | GENERATING RECOMMENDED ITEMS IN UNFAMILIAR DOMAIN - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for generating recommended items for a current user in an unfamiliar domain. The method includes selecting a reference user of the current user, in a reference domain different from the unfamiliar domain, wherein the behavior of the current user and the behavior of the reference user have a user similarity index in the reference domain which satisfies a condition. The method further includes generating the recommended items in the unfamiliar domain for the current user according to history behavior data of the reference user in the unfamiliar domain. Even if there is little or no history behavior data of the current user in the unfamiliar domain, an effective recommendation can be made to the current user. To carryout the steps of the method, the apparatus includes a reference user determining module, a current user recommending module and a demarcating module. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213787 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PLANNING AND/OR MANAGING A TRAVEL PLAN - A method of planning a trip which comprises receiving a plurality of profile characteristics from a user, automatically selecting a group from a plurality of travel objects according to a match with the profile characteristics where each travel object having a plurality of scheduling characteristics. The method further includes computing an arrangement of members of the group in a schedule according to the plurality of profile characteristics and receiving an update to one or more of members, the schedule, the arrangement and/or the profile characteristics. Now, the arrangement is automatically updated so that one or more of the travel objects are rescheduled according to a relationship between its scheduling characteristics and respective scheduling characteristics of other travel objects in light of the profile characteristics. | 09-01-2011 |
20110219011 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING SOCIAL BOOKMARKS - A method and system for using social bookmarks wherein a social bookmark is a triplet of the entities of user, document, and tag. The method including: collecting multiple bookmarks; representing the bookmarks as a three-dimensional space or matrix of the number of times a user u, used tag t to bookmark document d; measuring the similarity of two entities of the same type; and using the similarity to weight bookmarks or entities. The weightings may be used to provide a measure of a usefulness of a bookmark for describing a document for retrieval purposes. Two-dimensions of the bookmark space may also be used to predict the third-dimension. | 09-08-2011 |
20110219012 | Learning Element Weighting for Similarity Measures - Described is a technology for measuring the similarity between two objects (e.g., documents), via a framework that learns the term-weighting function from training data, e.g., labeled pairs of objects, to develop a learned model. A learning procedure tunes the model parameters by minimizing a defined loss function of the similarity score. Also described is using the learning procedure and learned model to detect near duplicate documents. | 09-08-2011 |
20110225173 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING SIMILARITY SCORE - A method includes generating, electronically, one or more matching patterns for one or more pairs of attribute values. Each pair includes two attribute values. The two attribute values include a first attribute value from a first record and a second attribute value from a second record. The first attribute value and the second attribute value satisfy a first criterion. Further, the method includes identifying, electronically, matching segment between the first attribute value and the second attribute value of a first pair. The method also includes repeating identifying for each pair. Moreover, the method includes computing a similarity score for the first pair using one of the first pair and the matching segment based on the one or more matching patterns and matching segments of the one or more pairs satisfying a second criterion. The method also includes repeating computing for each pair. | 09-15-2011 |
20110231411 | Topic Word Generation Method and System - A method of, and system for, extracting topic words from a collection of documents across multiple and potentially very large number of domains. Documents are selected and ranked based on similarity with at least one seed word, which defines a topic. Seed words may be entered directly by a user or provided by another application. Keywords are extracted from documents determined to be a sufficiently good match to the topic and may be displayed to the user or used as input into word prediction or word analysis and display software. Documents are determined to be a sufficiently good match to the topic using an iterative algorithm starting with the best match and selecting documents containing keywords sufficiently similar to the previously selected documents. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231412 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ANALYZING AND DECOMPOSING A PLURALITY OF RULES INTO A PLURALITY OF CONTEXTS - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for analyzing a plurality of rules in a textual rules structure. Further, the plurality of rules are decomposed into a plurality of contexts, based on the analysis. In addition, the plurality of contexts are stored in a table. Furthermore, a database associated with a device and/or any robot equipped with an operating system may be utilized. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231413 | TAG RELEVANCE FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method of feeding back tag relevance which judges the relevance of an input tag, and displays the result of the judgment using an image or a numerical value, when the input tag is input by a user. The system and method exhibit the effect of displaying, in real-time, the result of judgment of the relevance of the input tag to the user by judging the relevance of the tag with respect to specific content as soon as the tag is input so that the user can associate a relevant tag with the content. The frequency of exposure of the content with which the tag is associated is increased, since the tag is associated by obtaining the result of the judgment of the relevance in advance. A more IS appropriate search result for specific content is provided to the user by judging the relevance of the tag. | 09-22-2011 |
20110238675 | TECHNIQUES FOR INCLUDING COLLECTION ITEMS IN SEARCH RESULTS - Techniques are provided for including collection items in the ranked set of search results that are returned to a user in response to a search query. Collection scoring techniques are also provided for generating relevance scores for collection items in a different manner than relevance scores are generated for base items that are not collections. The collection scoring techniques may be applied to non-base collection items, base collection items, or both. Items that match the search query, including base items and collection items, are ranked in a unified ranking based on their respective relevance scores, thereby allowing searches to readily determine the relevance ranking of matching collection items relative to matching base items. | 09-29-2011 |
20110246484 | AUTHORITY RANKING - Concepts and technologies are described herein for authority ranking for real time and social search. An authority index configured to store data relating to sources is generated. Data relating to the sources, including an authority value, are generated and stored at the authority index. The authority value may be defined as a function of source, topic, and point of view (“POV”), as well as other data, if desired, and may be determined based upon one or more ranking functions. The ranking functions are determined, and data corresponding to the ranking functions is obtained. Each of the ranking functions may be weighted according to a weighting function, a confidence value or interval, one or more time functions, and/or other methods. The obtained authority value may be used for affecting ranking of search results or for other purposes. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246485 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GROUPING USERS BASED ON METADATA TAG RELEVANCE RATINGS - A content item may be associated with metadata comprising one or more tags. A user may indicate a relevance rating associated with a tag. The relevance rating may indicate whether the user feels the tag is relevant to the associated content item. Using a plurality of user-provided relevance ratings, a tag relevance model may be established. A tag relevance model may comprise a weighted or un-weighted average and/or median relevance rating of the tag and/or a cohesiveness of the of the relevance ratings. Rating cohesiveness may be used to identify controversial tags. Tag relevance information may be used to order search results. Tag ratings may also be used to aggregate users into groups comprising users having a similar point of view relative to one or more tag ratings. In addition, users may be grouped according to content access and/or tags rated regardless of the relevance rating applied. | 10-06-2011 |
20110252044 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING CONTENTS SIMILARITY BASED ON FEEDBACK INFORMATION OF RANKED USER AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - An apparatus for measuring contents similarity based on feedback information from ranked users includes: a user ranking unit for receiving from a database information on users as contents creators and feedback information on contents and ranking the users based on the received information; and a user grouping unit for classifying the users into a plurality of groups based on the ranking result. The apparatus further includes: a sequence modeling unit for receiving from the database the contents and the feedback information and modeling the number of feedbacks as sequences based on the ranked user groups; and a post similarity calculation unit for measuring similarity between the modeled sequences. | 10-13-2011 |
20110258202 | CONCEPT EXTRACTION USING TITLE AND EMPHASIZED TEXT - A concept extraction machine accesses textual data of a document. The document comprises text and a title, and the textual data comprises the title and the text of the document. The concept extraction machine identifies a portion of the text as a text token. The concept extraction machine identifies the text token based on the portion of the text appearing in the emphasized text and in the title. The concept extraction machine further calculates a relevance value of the text token based on the textual data. The relevance value represents a probability that the text token is relevant to a concept expressed in the document. Based on the relevance value, the concept extraction machine stores the text token as concept metadata of the document. The concept extraction machine indexes the concept metadata and searches the concept metadata to identify the document in response to a search request. | 10-20-2011 |
20110258203 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RELATIONSHIP CHARACTERIZATION AND UTILIZATION FROM A USER'S SOCIAL NETWORKS - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of relationship characterization and utilization from a user's social network, comprising, using monitoring agents for the user's social network to create a unique profile of each contact in the social network by feeding data into a context aware framework, clustering raw data by extracting common interests and relevant keywords, thereby creating rich context-aware lists of keywords that characterize relationships among users of the social networks, and providing an interface to query the lists. | 10-20-2011 |
20110258204 | SYSTEM FOR USING KEYWORD PHRASES ON A PAGE TO PROVIDE CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT CONTENT TO USERS - A process is described for assessing the suitability of particular keyword phrases for use in serving contextually relevant content for display on pages of network-accessible sites. In one embodiment, the process involves scoring the key phrases based in part on collected user behavioral data, such as view counts of associated social media content items. A process is also disclosed in which selected keyword phrases on a page are transformed into links that can be selected by a user to view bundled content that is related to such keyword phrases. | 10-20-2011 |
20110264670 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING UNSTRUCTURED TEXTUAL DATA FOR QUANTITATIVE ANSWERS TO QUERIES - Disclosed is a method of querying a collection of electronic documents, comprising defining a query for retrieving a numerical answer, said query comprising one or more search terms and a tolerance for said numerical answer; defining a set of document portions from said collection, each document portion in said set being extracted from an electronic document and comprising at least one term relevant to at least one of the one or more search terms and a numerical value associated with the at least one term; ordering the associated numerical values contained in said set; defining a plurality of results groups, each results group comprising an interval of ordered numerical values, each interval having a range not exceeding the tolerance; ranking the results groups; and returning at least the interval of the highest ranked results group as a response to said query A computer program product for executing this method on a computer processor and a server are also disclosed. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264671 | DOCUMENT SCORING BASED ON DOCUMENT CONTENT UPDATE - A system may determine a measure of how a content of a document changes over time, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the measure of how the content of the document changes over time, and rank the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264672 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING A SIMILARITY OF DOCUMENTS - The invention relates to a method and a system for detecting a similarity of documents. The similarity of documents is detected with the help of an analysis of citations in one or more citation document(s), wherein the distance between the individual citations is used as criterion of the analysis. On the basis of the determined distance between two citations, respectively, a similarity value is determined, which is characteristic of the cited documents. A small distance between two citations leads to a high similarity of the cited documents. In case of several citations with regard to documents from several citation documents, the similarity values for the citation pairs from the individual citation documents are used for determining a final similarity value. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270849 | PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS IN RESPONSE TO A SEARCH QUERY - A method for providing search results in response to a search query is provided. The method includes receiving the search query from a user and generating a plurality of results in response to the search query. The plurality of results may be ranked according to an original relevancy score. The method further includes generating a click relevancy score for each of the plurality of results and re-ranking the plurality of results according to the click relevancy score. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270850 | Prioritization of Resources based on User Activities - A computing system generates resource data that represents a resource. The content of the resource data is dependent on a ranking of resources in a set of resources. The ranking of the resources in the set of resources is dependent on interactions between users in a set of users and the resources in the set of resources. The ranking of the resources in the set of resources also is dependent on a degree to which each user in the set of users is related to a user. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270851 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING SIMILARITY BETWEEN DOCUMENTS - A method, system and program for detecting similarity between two pieces of document data in which text information and non-text information are mixed. Each data object can include text, non-text, or a combination of text and non-text. The method includes converting each of the pieces of document data to a directed graph, storing the directed graph, and calculating a similarity between the converted directed graphs. In an embodiment, similarity is determined by importance of each object. Importance can be measured by a ratio of the area of the object to the total area of all objects. Moreover, when converting documents to a directed graph, objects can be converted to nodes which are connect to other nodes by edges. | 11-03-2011 |
20110276577 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODELLING AND PROFILING IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES - A system and method for generating feature vectors of documents in different languages are provided. The feature vectors provide scores associated with keywords defined in a base language for use by a profiler for generating or updating a user profile. The system and method use a plurality of keyword sets comprising: a base language keyword set comprising a plurality of base language keywords each associated with a respective identifier (ID); and a second language keyword set comprising a plurality of second language keywords each corresponding in meaning to a respective one of the base language keywords and associated with the ID of the corresponding base language keyword. One of a plurality of tokenizers is selected to parse a document based on the language of the document and to generate the feature vector using the keyword set of the corresponding language. | 11-10-2011 |
20110289096 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RATING PATENTS AND OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS - A statistical patent rating method and system is provided for independently assessing the relative breadth (“B”), defensibility (“D”) and commercial relevance (“R”) of individual patent assets and other intangible intellectual property assets. The invention provides new and valuable information that can be used by patent valuation experts, investment advisors, economists and others to help guide future patent investment decisions, licensing programs, patent appraisals, tax valuations, transfer pricing, economic forecasting and planning, and even mediation and/or settlement of patent litigation lawsuits. In one embodiment the invention provides a statistically-based patent rating method and system whereby relative ratings or rankings are generated using a database of patent information by identifying and comparing various characteristics of each individual patent to a statistically determined distribution of the same characteristics within a given patent population. For example, a first population of patents having a known relatively high intrinsic value or quality (e.g. successfully litigated patents) is compared to a second population of patents having a known relatively low intrinsic value or quality (e.g. unsuccessfully litigated patents). Based on a statistical comparison of the two populations, certain characteristics are identified as being more prevalent or more pronounced in one population group or the other to a statistically significant degree. Multiple such statistical comparisons are used to construct and optimize a computer model or computer algorithm that can then be used to predict and/or provide statistically-accurate probabilities of a desired value or quality being present or a future event occurring, given the identified characteristics of an individual patent or group of patents. | 11-24-2011 |
20110295861 | SEARCHING USING TAXONOMY - A technique is provided for processing search results. The technique includes executing a search based on a user input entered via a graphical user interface using a processor, identifying relevant documents based on the search, and obtaining a standard classification for each relevant document. The standard classification is a classification within a standard classification system. The technique also includes reclassifying each relevant document, based on the relevant document's standard classification, into an interpretive classification within an interpretive classification system. The interpretive classification comprises at least a primary class and a secondary class. The technique further includes grouping the relevant documents into each relevant document's primary class and secondary class, and displaying the primary classes of the relevant documents and a number of relevant documents grouped in each displayed primary class via the graphical user interface on a display device. | 12-01-2011 |
20110307497 | Synthewiser (TM): Document-synthesizing search method - “Synthewiser”™ is a search method and system that synthesizes a single non-template, text-based document that is organized by topic and integrates and consolidates information from multiple sources. This is accomplished by: having a user provide a search phrase; creating seed phrases; identifying seed locations in multiple sources; creating expanded text segments; grouping expanded text segments; consolidating content; and synthesizing a single document. Synthewiser has advantages over today's dominant search engine. Its results are organized by topic and are integrated across multiple sources. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307498 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY SUGGESTING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS SUBMITTED TO A PORTAL OF AN ONLINE SERVICE - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for dynamically suggesting answers to questions submitted to a portal of an online service. These mechanisms and methods for dynamically suggesting answers to questions submitted to a portal of an online service can enable embodiments to provide help document suggestions with limited user input. The ability of embodiments to provide help document search term suggestions with limited user input can enable users to quickly and efficiently find useful help documents. | 12-15-2011 |
20110314030 | PERSONALIZED MEDIA CHARTS - Personalized media charts are described. In embodiments, a request can be received for a personalized media chart that lists media assets as recommendations in a relevant order for a user. The media assets are initially ordered in the personalized media chart according to a chart rank for each media asset. A relevance factor is then determined for each of the media assets, where the relevance factor for a media asset indicates a relevance of the media asset to the user. A chart rank adjustment is calculated for each of the media assets based on the relevance factors for each of the media assets, and the media assets are then reordered in the personalized media chart according to the chart rank adjustments for each of the media assets. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314031 | PRODUCT CATEGORY OPTIMIZATION FOR IMAGE SIMILARITY SEARCHING OF IMAGE-BASED LISTINGS IN A NETWORK-BASED PUBLICATION SYSTEM - A weighted combination of attributes including but not limited to color, shape, pattern, brand, style, size, and material may be used to rank items when searching for similar items of a given category on an ecommerce system website. The weights on each attribute may be optimized by using feedback from users, the feedback indicating the importance of each attribute to a purchaser when searching for similar items of various categories. Alternatively, click-through patterns from the ecommerce system website can be mined and used to optimize the importance of each attribute to users by item category. The optimum attribute weights for that items category are used to rank the results in a search for similar items in that category. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314032 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SEMANTIC BASED SEARCHING - A computer-implemented method is provided for searching documents containing complex bodies of knowledge, such as patents and research papers. The computer-implemented method and related hardware and software provides methodology to interpret the intent of the searcher (the meaning of the searcher's query) into a MetaLanguage, including but not limited to the use of Fundamental Nature Attributes, Fundamental Action Attributes and Weighting of these attributes as it pertains to the intent of the searcher. The invention relates to semantic based searches. The same methodology that is used on the searcher's query is also used to mine and store the existing databases of patents and research papers into databases of MetaLanguage for the purpose of producing search results that better match search inquiries. | 12-22-2011 |
20110320462 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING INFORMATION TO USERS WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and an apparatus for recommending information to users within a social network. The method builds a recommendation list with at least one two-tuple, where each two-tuple comprises a target user name and an information item and ranks the recommendation list by using two-tuples in the recommendation list as a basic unit. By selecting a two-tuple in the recommendation list, the user can recommend a corresponding information item to a user represented by a target user name. An apparatus is also provided by using a builder for building for a user a recommendation list comprising at least one two-tuple and a sorter for ranking the recommendation list by using two-tuples in the recommendation list as a basic unit, such that, by selecting a two-tuple in the recommendation list. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320463 | IMAGE SEARCH DEVICE AND IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide an image search device and an image search method by which search efficiency is improved. The image search device includes a personal characteristic database ( | 12-29-2011 |
20120005217 | Selecting Microblog Entries Based on Web Pages, Via Path Similarity Within Hierarchy of Categories - For each web page visited, a path is determined through a hierarchy of categories. The hierarchy of categories has levels from a most abstract level to a most concrete level. For each microblog entry of a microblog, a path is determined through the hierarchy of categories. Each microblog entry for which the path is similar to the path for at least one web page is determined as a selected microblog entry. | 01-05-2012 |
20120005218 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCORING ARTICLES IN AN ON-DEMAND SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - A method for scoring and ranking knowledge articles in an on-demand service environment in a database network system. The scoring allows users to have input into the scoring to determine relevancy and authenticity to solve particular problems. | 01-05-2012 |
20120011131 | ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY - A computer-implemented method of realizing an associative memory capable of storing a set of documents and retrieving one or more stored documents similar to an inputted query document, said method comprising: coding each document or a part of it through a corresponding feature vector consisting of a series of bits which respectively code for the presence or absence of certain features in said document; arranging the feature vectors in a matrix; generating a query feature vector based on the query document and, according to the rules used for generating the feature vectors corresponding to the stored documents such that the query vector corresponds in its length to the width of the matrix; storing the matrix column-wise; for those columns of the matrix where the query vector indicates the presence of a feature, bitwise performing one or more of preferably hardware supported logical operations between the columns of the matrix to obtain one or more, additional result columns coding for a similarity measure between the query and parts or the whole of the stored documents; and said method further comprising one or a combination of the following: retrieval of one or more stores documents based on the obtained similarity measure; and or storing a representation of a document through its feature vector into the above matrix. | 01-12-2012 |
20120016887 | IDENTIFYING INADEQUATE SEARCH CONTENT - Systems and methods for identifying inadequate search content are provided. Inadequate search content, for example, can be identified based on statistics associated with the search queries related to the content. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016888 | DOCUMENT SCORING BASED ON QUERY ANALYSIS - A system may determine an extent to which a document is selected when the document is included in a set of search results, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the extent to which the document is selected when the document is included in a set of search results; and rank the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016889 | DOCUMENT SCORING BASED ON QUERY ANALYSIS - A system may determine an extent to which a document is selected when the document is included in a set of search results, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the extent to which the document is selected when the document is included in a set of search results; and rank the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. | 01-19-2012 |
20120023112 | Method for measuring similarity of diverse binary objects comprising bit patterns - An apparatus, system, and method for measuring the similarity of diverse binary objects, such as files, is disclosed. The method comprises determining a plurality of digital signatures in each of a plurality of dissimilar objects, for each digital signature, accessing a location in a store which has object identifiers for each object which also exhibits at least one instance of the digital signature, writing into the store the object identifiers of all the objects which have the corresponding pattern and the number of times the pattern is found, and making a list of all the objects which share a pattern found in each object. Analyzing the list determines the degree of similarity of a particular object with each of a plurality of diverse binary objects. | 01-26-2012 |
20120030217 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND VISUALIZING ENUMERATED INFORMATION - A system and method for analyzing clinical data includes a reference database comprising a stored set of reference data comprising enumerated results of a reference population for a clinical test. The system also includes a patient database comprising a stored set of clinical data corresponding to a patient result for the clinical test that is selected from the enumerated results. A processor is included in the system and is programmed to access the patient and reference databases, identify a distribution of reference data over the enumerated test results, and calculate a relevance index based on the distribution of reference data. The processor is further programmed to compare the patient result to the distribution of reference data, calculate a disagreement index based on the comparison, and calculate a deviation index from the relevance and disagreement indices. A graphical user interface is also included to output a visualization of the deviation index. | 02-02-2012 |
20120036139 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION DEVICE, METHOD OF RECOMMENDING CONTENT, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, a content recommendation device includes a storage to store metadata; a display unit to display a plurality of pieces of content information corresponding to the contents; a selection unit to select first content information displayed on the display unit and second content information to be displayed after the first content information; an extraction unit to extract a keyword based on a co-occurrence relation between the metadata of the first and second content information; a generation unit to generate a search query based on the keyword; an acquisition unit to acquire third content information from an external database using the search query; a calculation unit configured to calculate similarity between the second and third content information by using the metadata of the second and third content information; and an arrangement control unit to arrange the third content information on the display unit based on the similarity. | 02-09-2012 |
20120041960 | RANKING FUNCTIONS USING DOCUMENT USAGE STATISTICS - Methods of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are disclosed. Computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for performing a method of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are also disclosed. Further, computing systems containing at least one application module, wherein the at least one application module comprises application code for performing methods of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are disclosed. | 02-16-2012 |
20120047151 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS BASED ON PAST QUERIES - An example of a method includes identifying a formulated query and at least one past query associated with an input query. The method also includes determining a first similarity score between the input query and the formulated query. Further, the method includes updating the first similarity score based on a second similarity score between the input query and the at least one past query, and based on a third similarity score between the formulated query and the at least one past query. Moreover, the method includes extracting one or more contents based on the formulated query if updated first similarity score is greater than a first threshold. The method also includes providing the one or more contents. | 02-23-2012 |
20120059830 | Identifying Computer Users Having Files With Common Attributes - A method includes generating a first table having a set of attributes for each file in a first set of files associated with a first computer user. The set of attributes for each file in the first set of files have a plurality of attribute types. The method further includes generating a second table having a set of attributes for each file in a second set of files associated with a second computer user. The set of attributes for each file in the second set of files have the plurality of attribute types. The method further includes generating a similarity table by comparing each set of attributes in the first table with each set of attributes in the second table, utilizing a predetermined similarity metric, and determining whether the first and second computer users have at least one file with common attributes, based on data in the similarity table. | 03-08-2012 |
20120066233 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MAPPING USER REVIEWED AND RATED WEBSITES TO SPECIFIC USER ACTIVITIES - A computer-implemented method for helping users to find the most relevant website for a given activity includes storing, in an activity database, a plurality of activities each comprising a verb that represents a task associated with the activity, storing in the activity database addresses of a plurality of websites in association with activities respectively identified in each of the plurality of websites, receiving a query from a first user, identifying a first activity pertaining to the query by a computer server system in communication with the activity database, and returning by the computer server system, to the first user, addresses of one or more websites associated with the first activity. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066234 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INTERNET SERVICE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A method and apparatus provide an Internet service in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes determining a user interest subject from user data existing within the mobile communication terminal, collecting service items through network access, determining a subject for each of the collected service items, determining relevance between the user interest subject and each of the service items, and recommending a service item according to the relevance. | 03-15-2012 |
20120078920 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC UPDATE OF DOCUMENT RANK SCORE - Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and apparatus for calculating a document rank score of documents in the dynamic World Wide Web (web) environment where documents are continuously added and deleted. The method and apparatus use partial updates to recalculate a document rank score of documents in view of a change, and dynamic updates that reflect a change occurring during calculation of the document rank score. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078921 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF FAILURE OR STATE MESSAGES - This method for automatic analysis of failure or state messages generated by at least one complex system is characterized in that it comprises the steps for integrating said messages to a database of failure or state messages, and for determining with a computer, for each of said messages, an index of overall interest characterizing a degree of relevance of said message, on the basis of at least one parameter representative of a frequency of occurrence of similar messages in said database, and a correlation between said or each representative parameter and a predefined number of indexes of overall interest. A corresponding analysis system is also provided. | 03-29-2012 |
20120084300 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING TEXT SEARCHES OVER STRUCTURED DATA IN A MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENT - Search systems and methods for searching structured data and enhancing the relevancy of search results provided to a requesting user or application. Enhanced search results are provided by searching a cache of a user's most recently used items to eliminate or reduce search indexing latency. Also, more relevant search results are provided by re-ranking results based on use history, data security models and/or hierarchical user role models. Further, enhanced search results are provided by including user information in the search index | 04-05-2012 |
20120089620 | EXTRACTING DATA - Information can be extracted from unstructured documents using embodiments described herein. An entity recognition may be performed on an unstructured document and found entities may be annotated. Annotating includes inserting tags around the found entities to generate marked entities. A rule is applied to each of the marked entities in the unstructured document to generate a confidence value for every marked entity, wherein the rule comprises a plurality of prefixes for a target entity and a plurality of suffixes for the target entity. A marked entity with the highest confidence value is selected as an extraction target. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089621 | TOPIC-ORIENTED DIVERSIFIED ITEM RECOMMENDATION - A content recommendation system and method are provided in which content semantic topic analysis, user interest identification and per interest recommendations are used to deliver relevant and diversified content recommendations to the user. Semantic topic analysis is used to infer underlying topics in content items; for each content item, a topic distribution vector is derived with components that represent relevance of the content item to specific underlying topics. A user's long term and short term user interests are identified using the user's browsing history. Long term user interest(s) can be obtained by a weighted aggregation of topic distribution vectors of content items the user accessed. Short term interest can be represented by the topic distribution vector corresponding to a current content item. Using identified user's interests, relevant content items are selected for recommendations for the user. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089622 | SCORING CANDIDATES USING STRUCTURAL INFORMATION IN SEMI-STRUCTURED DOCUMENTS FOR QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS - A system, program product, and methodology automatically scores candidate answers to questions in a question and answer system. In the candidate answer scoring method, a processor device performs one or more of receiving one or more candidate answers associated with a query string, the candidates obtained from a data source having semi-structured content; identifying one or more documents with semi-structured content from the data source having a candidate answer; and for each identified document: extracting one or more entity structures embedded in the identified document; determining a number of the entity structures in the identified document that appear in the received input query; and, computing a score for a candidate answer in the document as a function of the number Overall system efficiency is improved by giving the correct candidate answers higher scores through leveraging context-dependent structural information such as links to other documents and embedded tags. | 04-12-2012 |
20120096013 | Recommending Groups of Items Based on Item Ranks - One embodiment of the invention sets forth a mechanism for recommending digital items to a user. Each digital item in a set of digital items is scored based on user preferences and other metrics. The digital items are ordered based on scores. The digital items are then evaluated in order of respective rank to determine a subset of digital items that re recommended to the user. The evaluation process is based on different evaluation criteria as well as the presentation style of the recommended digital items. | 04-19-2012 |
20120096014 | METHOD OF VISUALIZING THE COLLECTIVE OPINION OF A GROUP - A computerized method of visualizing the collective opinion of a group regarding one or more qualitative issues. The group initially selects N issues from the universe of potential issues and often assigns the issues images and titles. The system presents each user with graphical user interface screens wherein individual users vote on the relative importance and degree of relationship between the N aspects (Data Points) and issues, often using drag and drop methods. The software computes N×N similarity matrices based on users voting input and clusters various aspects into groups of greater and lesser similarity and importance, and presents results of users qualitative ranking in easy to read relationship tree diagrams where the relative importance and qualitative relationship of the issues may be designated by size and other graphical markers. The software may reside on a network server and present display screens to web browsers running on users computerized devices. | 04-19-2012 |
20120096015 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING A USER TO SELECT THE CONTEXT OF A SEARCH QUERY - The present invention provides a method and a system of providing assistance to a user to identify at least one context while forming a search query. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by receiving one or more inputs related to the search query, and providing a plurality of contexts related to the received input, wherein the contexts include one or more topics, and wherein the topics are part of one or more ontologies. | 04-19-2012 |
20120102048 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method of recommending and rating content and/or for generating a determined affinity between content consumers and reviewers. The method includes determining a rating for one or more user-surveyed content items and determining a rating for one or more reviewer-surveyed content items for each of a plurality of content reviewers. Comparisons are then performed between user ratings and reviewer ratings for commonly surveyed content items. As a result, affinities between user(s) and content reviewers are established and the user is provided with reviews and ratings produced by high-affinity content reviewers. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102049 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING RELEVANCE OF OBJECTS IN AN ENTERPRISE SYSTEM - A system, method, and computer program for establishing relevance of objects in an enterprise system is provided. One or more objects are assigned to content associated with an enterprise system. One or more query terms are received from a user. A preliminary relevance of the one or more objects is determined based on the query terms. Ratings are assigned to the one or more objects based on the preliminary relevance. An overall relevance of the one or more objects is established based on the ratings. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102050 | Systems And Methods For Determining Information And Knowledge Relevancy, Relevent Knowledge Discovery And Interactions, And Knowledge Creation - Systems and methods for determining user specific information and knowledge relevancy, relevant knowledge and information discovery, user intent and relevant interactions via intelligent messaging, collaboration, sharing and information categorisation, further delivering created knowledge accessible through a personalised user experience. | 04-26-2012 |
20120109975 | CLUSTERING SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A method for clustering a plurality of data items stored in a computer includes calculating, with the computer, a plurality of components comprising kernels based on a distribution that gives similarity between the data items, wherein a non-negative mixture weight is assigned to each of the kernels; preparing a set of active components that are composed of subscripts of the mixture weights; applying operations to the set of active components; and determining whether the mixture weight has converged, and if not converged yet, reapplying the operations to the set of components, and if the mixture weight has converged, clustering the data items based on the mixture weight. | 05-03-2012 |
20120117085 | METHOD OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC FIELD NORMALIZATION - A method of normalizing a bibliographic field of a structured field relational database is disclosed. The method comprises weighting potential candidate records according to the value in the corresponding field in the records, together with other related fields in the candidate record and other related records in the database. Each of the candidate records is successively evaluated and compared against an acceptable threshold. If the weight exceeds the threshold, the candidate record is returned from the query. Otherwise, a new entry in the database is created. Optionally, before creating such a new entry, the highest weighted candidate record may be compared against a minimally acceptable threshold and if the weight exceeds such lower threshold, the candidate is returned from the query. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117086 | METHOD OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC FIELD NORMALIZATION - A method of normalizing a bibliographic field of a structured field relational database is disclosed. The method comprises weighting potential candidate records according to the value in the corresponding field in the records, together with other related fields in the candidate record and other related records in the database. Each of the candidate records is successively evaluated and compared against an acceptable threshold. If the weight exceeds the threshold, the candidate record is returned from the query. Otherwise, a new entry in the database is created. Optionally, before creating such a new entry, the highest weighted candidate record may be compared against a minimally acceptable threshold and if the weight exceeds such lower threshold, the candidate is returned from the query. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117087 | VIDEO EDITING APPARATUS - A video editing apparatus | 05-10-2012 |
20120117088 | MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR SAME - In a medical information system, with respect to a plurality of kinds of medical databases, a plurality of search items included in a search query inputted by a user are sorted in accordance with search divisions, and thereby divided into a finding report search query and a specimen test query. By using these queries, the corresponding databases are searched independently, and individual search results obtained therefrom are combined to generate a combined search result. The individual search result is assigned with an individual score in accordance with the matching degree with the search item. In combining the individual search results, a relevancy score is assigned. The search results are ranked and combined in descending order of the scores. This requires only one issuance of a search execution order without the need to perform a search operation a plurality of times, in order to obtain a desired search result. | 05-10-2012 |
20120124061 | Rich Search Over and Deep Integration with Applications - An application search system may maintain an index of applications available from multiple different application stores, and includes parameters, such as features and/or content of the applications. When a user submits a query, the system may derive contextual information pertaining to a user device used to submit the query, applications installed on a particular user device and/or usage information for installed applications. The system then may, in one example, determine one or more applications relevant to the search query and, depending on the contextual information derived, may provide an entry point to access a particular application at a task level, may prompt the user to install the application, or may provide a web result related to the particular application. | 05-17-2012 |
20120124062 | Application Transfer Protocol - An application transfer protocol allows users to find applications relevant to a search query in an application search system. The application transfer protocol is used with an index that maintains a database of applications that includes parameters, such as features and/or content of the application. When a user submits a query, the system determines one or more applications relevant to the search query and implements the application transfer protocol to identify and present results to a user. | 05-17-2012 |
20120131020 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLING A SET OF DOCUMENTS RELATED TO A TRIGGERING ITEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for assembling a set of documents related to a triggering item. One embodiment of a method for assembling a set of electronic documents related to an electronic triggering item detected by a computing device being operated by a user includes automatically extracting by the computing device a set of features from the triggering item, without receiving a request by the user to assemble the set of electronic documents, and assembling as the set of electronic documents a plurality of documents that is relevant to the set of features, wherein the plurality of documents is retrieved from a plurality of different types of electronic sources. | 05-24-2012 |
20120136876 | MATCHING TOOLS FOR USE IN ATTRIBUTE-BASED PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS - Systems and methods consistent with the invention relate to matching user attributes. In one exemplary implementation, the system and methods may store predetermined general attribute descriptors reflecting attributes of users generally, receive personal attribute descriptors selected from the predetermined general attribute descriptors as corresponding to attributes of a first user and a second user, receive a rating associated with each received personal attribute descriptor, compare at least one personal attribute descriptor associated with the first user with at least one personal attribute descriptor associated with the second user to determine a descriptor match, and calculate a match score based on the determined descriptor match and the received ratings. In addition, first and second display points may be displayed and may be separated by a one-dimensional display distance that is a function of the calculated match score. | 05-31-2012 |
20120136877 | System and method for selecting compatible users for activities based on experiences, interests or preferences as identified from one or more web services - A system and method retrieves object experience, interest and preference information from one or more independent web sites or receives it from other independent web services and uses such information to match users of a matching web site for activities. | 05-31-2012 |
20120143879 | System and Method of Presenting Relevant Application Components to a User - In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer implemented method of presenting relevant application components to a user of a computer system. The method includes capturing text displayed in open applications, determining key terms in the captured text based on a key terms catalog, and determining potentially relevant components by using the key terms to search a user interface dictionary. The user interface dictionary corresponds to a map between user interface strings and user interface components. The method further includes computing relevance scores for potentially relevant components, and presenting to the user the relevant components that correspond to relevant ones of the potentially relevant components, according to the relevance scores. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143880 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION OF INTEREST TO ONE OR MORE USERS - Methods and system of searching for content in a target set of content based on a reference set of content, a reference semantic network representing knowledge associated with the reference set of content, and a target semantic network representing knowledge associated with the target set of content. One such method comprises receiving a user-specified search query; obtaining, by using at least one processor executing stored program instructions, at least one concept semantically relevant to the user-specified search query by using the target semantic network and the reference semantic network; constructing a second search query by augmenting the first search query with one or more terms associated with the at least one obtained concept; providing, to the at least one user, content associated with search results obtained based at least in part on searching the target set of content by using the second search query, wherein any concept in the semantic network is represented by a data structure storing data associated with a node in the semantic network. | 06-07-2012 |
20120150873 | SEARCH APPARATUS, SEARCH METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A search apparatus searches graph data representing a graph including nodes and links. The search apparatus includes the following elements. An input receiving unit receives an input of a reference node indicating a search reference position on the graph and an input of a search condition indicating a condition satisfied by a node, a link, or a combination of a node and a link. A searching unit searches the graph data for a node, a link, or a combination of a node and a link that satisfies the search condition. A search result data generating unit generates search result data indicating at least one search result obtained by the searching unit, together with path data showing a path on the graph from the reference node to each of the at least one search result. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150874 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION OF INTEREST TO ONE OR MORE USERS - Methods and system for providing information selected from a large set of digital content to at least one user. One such method comprises receiving user context information associated with the at least one user and identifying or generating, using at least one processor executing stored program instructions, a first concept in a semantic network, the first concept representing at least a portion of the user context information. The method further comprises obtaining at least one concept, including a second concept, semantically relevant to the first concept at least in part, by synthesizing the second concept based on the first concept and at least one other concept in the semantic network; and providing information to the at least one user, wherein the information is selected by using the first concept and the at least one obtained concept semantically relevant to the first concept, wherein the first concept in a semantic network is represented by a data structure storing any data associated with a node in the semantic network. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150875 | RELEVANCY SORTING OF USER'S BROWSER HISTORY - Various embodiments provide a Web browser that employs a relevancy algorithm to make an educated guess as to the likelihood of a user's intended destination when the user begins to enter text into a browser's address bar. In one or more embodiments, the relevancy algorithm employs various parameters and assigns weights to the parameters to arrive at a collection of suggestions to provide to the user. By using various rules, associated weightings, and the relevancy algorithm, relevant suggestions can be provided to a user to facilitate their navigation activities. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150876 | IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS AND IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - An image search apparatus has: a dimension reducing unit for reducing dimensions of multidimensional feature data to be produced as approximate data; an approximate-data storing unit for storing the produced approximate data with corresponding to the multidimensional feature data before the dimension reduction; a search request receiving unit for receiving an identifier which identifies multidimensional feature data of a person to be searched, at least as a search key; an approximate-space searching unit for calculating distances between approximate data corresponding to the received search key, and plural approximate data stored in the approximate-data storing unit, and for arranging the distances in order of similarity; and a real-space final ranking unit for again performing a distance calculation with using the multidimensional feature data before the dimension reduction, on a group of results in which the similarity is high, and for determining final rankings. | 06-14-2012 |
20120166452 | PROVIDING RELEVANT NOTIFICATIONS BASED ON COMMON INTERESTS BETWEEN FRIENDS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system provides relevant third-party content objects to users by matching user location, interests, and other social information with the content, location, and timing associated with the content objects. Content objects are provided based on relevance scores specific to a user. Relevance scores may be calculated based on the user's previous interactions with content object notifications, or based on interests that are common between the user and his or her connections in the social network. Context search is also provided for a user, wherein a list of search of results is ranked according to the relevance score of content object associated with the search results. Notifications may also be priced and distributed to users based on their relevance. In this way, the system can provide notifications that are relevant to user's interests and current circumstances, increasing the likelihood that they will find content objects of interest. | 06-28-2012 |
20120173547 | Method Of Detecting A Reference Sequence Of Events In A Sample Sequence Of Events - A method of detecting a reference sequence of events in a sample sequence of events, wherein each event is of a certain event type and holds a set of data attributes, includes the steps of: picking candidate combinations of events from said sample sequence so that the event types within each candidate combination match the event types in the reference sequence, calculating an overall similarity score for each candidate combination from at least (i) an event occurrence score based on occurrence deviations representing a count of non-matching events between the events of a candidate combination matching events of the reference sequence and (ii) an attribute match score based on similarity deviations between the data attributes of the events of a candidate combination and the data attributes of the matching events of the reference sequence, and identifying the candidate combination with the best overall similarity score as reference sequence detected. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173548 | STATISTICAL RECORD LINKAGE CALIBRATION FOR REFLEXIVE, SYMMETRIC AND TRANSITIVE DISTANCE MEASURES AT THE FIELD AND FIELD VALUE LEVELS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR HUMAN INTERACTION - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, calculating parameters used to determine whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method use a symmetric, transitive and reflexive function to allow for linking records and entity representations whose field values differ. The system and method apply iterative techniques such that parameters from each linking iteration are used in the next linking iteration. The system and method need no human interaction in order to calibrate and utilize record matching formulas used for the linking decisions. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173549 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RETRIEVING IMAGES FROM A LARGE COLLECTION OF IMAGES - A processing system may receive an example image for use in querying a collection of digital images. The processing system may use local and global feature descriptors to perform a content-based image comparison of the digital images with the example image, to automatically rank the digital images with respect to similarity to the example image. A local feature descriptor may represent a portion of the contents of a digital image. A global feature descriptor may represent substantially all of the contents of that digital image. The global feature descriptor may be content based, not keyword based. Intermediate and final classifiers may be used to perform the automatic ranking. Different intermediate classifiers may generate intermediate relevance metrics with respect to different modalities. The final classifier may use results from the intermediate classifiers to produce a final relevance metric for the digital images. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-05-2012 |
20120185489 | Sub-tree similarity for component substitution - Systems and methods of determining sub-tree similarity for component substitution. An example of a method may be carried out by program code stored on non-transient computer-readable medium and executed by a processor. The method includes assigning a similarity metric to a plurality of trees stored in computer-readable media. The method also includes constructing a distance matrix in computer-readable media, the distance being between sub-trees. The method also includes correlating sub-trees in the computer-readable media based on the distance matrix. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185490 | RELEVANCE ANALYSIS DEVICE, RELEVANCE ANALYSIS METHOD, AND RELEVANCE ANALYSIS PROGRAM - Relevance analysis devices, methods, and programs analyze a mutual relevance between a plurality of users utilizing a server that allows users to view information provided by target viewed users. The devices, methods, and programs specify an analysis reference user and an analysis target user. The devices, methods, and programs specify a route that spans between the analysis reference user and the target viewed user, and specify a mutual relevance between the analysis reference user and the analysis target user based on a number of component routes that make up the specified route and based on a number of the component routes in which an origin-side user is registered as a target viewed user by an end-side user. | 07-19-2012 |
20120197907 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT DATA MAPPING, INCLUDING DISCOVERY, IDENTIFICATION, CORRELATION AND EXHIBIT OF CRM RELATED COMMUNICATION DATA - A system and method for performing automatic detection, storage, correlation and retrieval of specific electronic communications data from heterogeneous computer systems and storage with non-normalized representation of this data on a computer system running specialized software are provided. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197908 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING A TABLE OF CONTENTS AND HEADINGS - Apparatus to associate a table of contents (TOC) and headings. An input section inputs TOC data C and body data D. A search section seeks the maximum value of a score function S which indicates the likelihood of associations M between a TOC and headings. An output section outputs associations M which maximize the score function S. The score function S is the total of a first sum obtained by summing unigram scores u for all the TOC items, where the unigram score u evaluates the likelihood of association of TOC item with a heading candidate line independently, and a second sum obtained by summing bigram scores b for all pairs of TOC items, where the bigram score b evaluates the likelihood of associations of paired TOC items with heading candidate lines on the basis of a degree of commonality. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197909 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A SIMILARITY OF OBJECTS - A method and a system for determining a similarity of at least two objects referenced by a data tree structure, wherein the method comprising determining the nodes of the at least one data tree structure that reference the at least two objects, determining the distance between two objects referenced by the determined nodes of one data tree structure each, and determining a similarity value for each pair of objects, using the distances determined for the objects of a pair, wherein the system is implemented for performing the method. | 08-02-2012 |
20120215791 | ENTITY FINGERPRINTS - Systems and techniques for exploring relationships among entities are disclosed. The systems and techniques provide an entity-based information analysis and content aggregation platform that uses heterogeneous data sources to construct and maintain an ecosystem around tangible and logical entities. Entities are represented as vertices in a directed graph, and edges are generated using entity co-occurrences in unstructured documents and supervised information from structured data sources. Significance scores for the edges are computed using a method that combines supervised, unsupervised and temporal factors into a single score. Important entity attributes from the structured content and the entity neighborhood in the graph are automatically summarized as the entity fingerprint. Entities may be compared to one another based on similarity of their entity fingerprints. An interactive user interface is also disclosed that provides exploratory access to the graph and supports decision support processes. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215792 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING RELATED TERMS - A method searches related terms using an electronic device. The method adds time stamps to one or more electronic documents, and obtains related terms according to the electronic documents. The method further calculates a time gap between each related term and a preset query term, obtains updated related terms by removing specified related terms whose time gap is greater than a preset value, and obtains search results from a data source by performing a search operation according to the updated related terms. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215793 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MATCHING SEGMENT PROFILES TO A DEVICE IDENTIFIED BY A PRIVACY-COMPLIANT IDENTIFIER - The present relates to a method and system for matching segment profiles to a device identified by a privacy-compliant identifier. For doing so, the present method and system records at least one segment profile consisting of at least one criterion. The method and system allocates a unique segment identifier to the at least one segment profile. The method and system generates in real time a correlation between each specific segment profile and devices matching the at least one criterion of the specific segment profile. The method and system receives a query with a privacy-compliant identifier corresponding to a specific device; and sends a response with at least one matching segment identifier corresponding to at least one matching segment profile. For each of the at least one matching segment profile, the specific device identified by the privacy-compliant identifier matches the at least one criterion of the matching segment profile. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215794 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided are providing an ECG unit which is formed of content information and related information related thereto, and is linked to another ECG unit through the related information, calculating an association-degree score between the pieces of content information based on a degree of association of an attribute between the pieces of content information, collecting a history of operation performed for making a transition from a link-source-ECG unit to a link-destination-ECG unit, as a usage log of the ECG unit, calculating a transition score between the ECG units in a manner that a weight of a larger correction coefficient is assigned to a number of usage logs, as there are more attributes of content information having low degree of association with each other between the link-source-ECG unit and the link-destination-ECG unit, and generating an ECG unit linked to another ECG unit, based on the association-degree score and the transition score. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215795 | System and Method For Intelligent Job Hunt - A system, computer readable storage medium, and computer-implemented method performs an intelligent job hunt to determine a sorted set of job openings relevant to a user's career goals. An intelligent job hunt engine uses user profile information to query a job openings index for job's relevant to the user. Results of the query are filtered and sorted according to their relevance to different career goals. A job readiness evaluator determines readiness scores indicative of the user's preparedness for reaching a career goal. Specific action items are generated based on the user's interaction with the sorted job openings and the user's job readiness scores. | 08-23-2012 |
20120226704 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING ELECTRONIC CONTACT LISTS - Described are a conference management system and method for displaying a contact list of an application on a computing system. A contact list of an application is provided. Context information related to a user of the contact list is detected. At least one rule is applied to the context information. User contacts in the contact list arranged in a display order in response to the at least one rule. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226705 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EMPLOYING USAGE STATISTICS IN DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL - Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide improved organization of documents responsive to a search query. In one embodiment, a search query is received and a list of responsive documents is identified. The responsive documents are organized based in whole or in part on usage statistics. | 09-06-2012 |
20120233183 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PRESENTATION SYSTEM, CALCULATION METHOD OF EVALUATION SCORES, AND PROGRAM - Techniques are disclosed for selecting an item to recommend to a user from a plurality of items. A first set of scores indicating degrees of association between items of the plurality of items may be calculated using a first scoring algorithm having a first scale, and a second set of scores indicating degrees of association between items of the plurality of items may be calculated using a second scoring algorithm having a second scale. The second set of scores may be adjusted to match the second scale to the first scale, and a third set of scores may be calculated for the plurality of items by combining the first set of scores and the adjusted second set of scores. An item may be selected from the plurality of items to recommend to the user based on the third set of scores. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233184 | User Interface Methods and Systems for Selecting and Presenting Content Based on User Relationships - A user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items based on user navigation and selection actions associated with the content is provided. The method includes associating a relevance weight on a per user basis with content items to indicate a relative measure of likelihood that the user desires the content item. The method includes receiving a user's navigation and selections actions for identifying desired content items, and in response, adjusting the associated relevance weight of the selected content item and group of content items containing the selected item. The method includes, in response to subsequent user input, selecting and presenting a subset of content items and content groups to the user ordered by the adjusted associated relevance weights assigned to the content items and content groups. | 09-13-2012 |
20120239667 | KEYWORD EXTRACTION FROM UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORS (URLS) - The keyword extraction technique described herein extracts keywords from Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) in web logs. The technique leverages the content and the structure of URLs to extract relevant keywords. First, a URL is divided into multiple components based on its structure. A set of keywords are extracted from each component of the URL independently with the help of a controlled vocabulary. Then a second set of keywords are generated by forming combinations of terms from different segments of the URL. Only those combinations which are present in the controlled vocabulary are retained as keywords. Finally, the keywords are scored with a function which took into account of a wide set of features. | 09-20-2012 |
20120246173 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING SEARCHES OF A DOCUMENT CORPUS AND GENERATION OF SEARCH QUERIES - Systems and methods for searching a document corpus and generating search queries are disclosed. A method includes providing for display a graphical user interface having two or more sections, and providing for generation of an initial search query based on locations of query terms entered into the graphical user interface. Sections of the graphical user interface indicate a query status. A revised search query based on a location of the query terms within the graphical user interface is generated following the manipulation of one or more of the query terms. Movement of a selected query term from a first section to a second section of the graphical user interface changes the query status of the selected query term from a first query status to a second query status. A search of the database is performed using the revised search query to return an updated set of electronic documents for display. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246174 | Method and System for Predicting Association Item Affinities Using Second Order User Item Associations - Systems and methods are provided for determining an affinity score of a source entity and a target entity without consideration of data that directly links the source entity and the target entity. An intermediate entity that is relatable to a source entity is identified. A target entity is identified that is relatable to an intermediate entity. A similarity score is calculated identifying a degree of similarity between the source entity and the intermediate entity, or the target entity and the intermediate entity. An affinity score is calculated of the source entity and the intermediate entity, or the target entity and the intermediate entity. An affinity score of the source entity and the target entity is determined based on the similarity score and the affinity score. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246175 | ANNOTATING SCHEMA ELEMENTS BASED ON ASSOCIATING DATA INSTANCES WITH KNOWLEDGE BASE ENTITIES - Methods and systems for determining schema element types are shown that include pooling potential annotations for an element of an unlabeled schema from a plurality of heterogeneous sources, scoring the pool of potential annotations according to relevancy using information using instance information from the plurality of heterogeneous sources to produce a relevancy score, and annotating the element of the unlabeled schema using the most relevant potential annotations. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246176 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a document analyzing unit that extracts phrases including a pair of entities, to which a relevance label is granted, from document data; and a label granting unit that grants the relevance label. The label granting unit acquires vocabulary syntax patterns included in the phrases including the pair of entities, acquires the appearing number of times the vocabulary syntax pattern appears in the document data from the document data, counts the number of pairs of entities, sets a probability model created from a probability density distribution, a parameter Z indicating validity of the granting of the relevance label, and a parameter a indicating a probability of rightly granting the relevance label, calculates the parameters Z and a for which a likelihood is maximum in the probability model, evaluates the validity of the granting of the relevance label, and grants the relevance label on the evaluation result. | 09-27-2012 |
20120265771 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING USERS RELEVANT TO A TOPIC OF INTEREST - A system and method for identifying users relevant to a topic of interest is provided. A query comprising one or more topics is executed against a corpus of messages. Voting users associated with the messages matching the query are identified. A set of candidate users comprising users connected to the voting users is generated. A relevancy score is computed for each candidate user. The candidate users are ranked by their respective relevancy score. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265772 | MEDIA TAG RECOMMENDATION TECHNOLOGIES - Technologies for recommending relevant tags for the tagging of media based on one or more initial tags provided for the media and based on a large quantity of other tagged media. Sample media as candidates for recommendation are provided by a set of weak rankers based on corresponding relevance measures in semantic and visual domains. The various samples provided by the weak rankers are then ranked based on relative order to provide a list of recommended tags for the media. The weak rankers provide sample tags based on relevance measures including tag co-occurrence, tag content correlation, and image-conditioned tag correlation. | 10-18-2012 |
20120271836 | Retrieving Ratable Content Based on a Geographic Location - A computer-implemented method includes receiving (i) a request for ratable content, and (ii) information specifying a geographic location of a computing device; accessing a data repository configured to store items of ratable content, with an item of ratable content associated with a geographic location; obtaining a plurality of items of ratable content related to the geographic location of the computing device; sending, from the obtained items of ratable content, an item of ratable content to the computing device; receiving a request for ratable content associated with a level of granularity relative that is higher than the level of granularity of the sent item of ratable content; sending, to the computing device, another item of ratable content, from the obtained items of ratable content, that is associated with a level of granularity that is higher than the level of granularity of the previously sent item of ratable content. | 10-25-2012 |
20120278341 | DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND ASSOCIATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods and systems for indexing a plurality of documents, each document comprising a text portion, the method parses the text portion of each of the plurality of documents to form a plurality of respective local document indexes each associated with a respective document, and stores the local document index in a database, Each local document index has a plurality of local text terms and a local weighting associated with each text term From the plurality of local document indexes, forming a global document index associated with each global text term. The global weighting is determined with respect to a parameter associated with a reference global text term. Also, methods and systems for analyzing a text portion, retrieving documents from a database relevant to the text portion and for refining the results of a search are disclosed. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278342 | INTELLIGENT DEFAULT WEIGHTING PROCESS FOR CRITERIA UTILIZED TO SCORE MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS - A system and method are provided for intelligently, or programmatically, assigning weights for one or more criterion utilized to score media content items based on an analysis of a group of media content items. In general, scoring criteria to be used to score media content items for a user are defined. A group of media content items associated with the user is then analyzed with respect to the criteria to provide results such as a number or percentage of media content items from the group of media content items that satisfy each of the scoring criteria. Based on the results of the analysis, a weight is assigned to each of the scoring criteria. Thereafter, media content items are scored for the user as a function of the weights assigned to the scoring criteria. | 11-01-2012 |
20120290586 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TELEVISION SEARCH ASSISTANT - A television guide search query is received from a user. A plurality of suggested search terms are selected. Each of the plurality of suggested search terms is assigned to, and is ranked within, one of a plurality of categories A number of suggested search terms to be returned to the user, n | 11-15-2012 |
20120290587 | AUTOMATIC RELEVANCE FILTERING - A computer-implemented method and an apparatus for use in a computing apparatus are disclosed. The method includes determining a context and a data requirement for a candidate action to be selected, the selection specifying an action in a workflow; and filtering the candidate actions for relevance in light of the context and the data requirement. The apparatus, in a first aspect, includes a program storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computing device, performs the method. In a second aspect, the apparatus includes a computing apparatus programmed to perform the method. | 11-15-2012 |
20120296919 | Contextual Relevance Engine for Activity Feeds - A method for determining relevance for activity feeds is disclosed. Activity feeds are received from one or more business entities. Information is received regarding activities being performed by a user. Context information is received regarding the user. A user context is determined from the information the regarding activities being performed by the user and the context information. The user context indicates the current status of the user. A relevance of the activity feeds is determined based on the user context. At least some of the activity feeds are displayed on a computing device. The at least some of the activity feeds are displayed according to a priority determined by the relevance. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296920 | METHOD TO INCREASE CONTENT RELEVANCE USING INSIGHTS OBTAINED FROM USER ACTIVITY UPDATES - Embodiments are directed towards ranking candidate pieces of content for publication based on a weighted combination of an “activity score” and a “trending score”. In one embodiment, the activity score measures social activity related to the content, such as how much the content has been shared, viewed, or commented on. In one embodiment, the trending score indicates a measure of trending topics contained in the content. In one embodiment, trending topics are keywords derived from an analysis of social activities across the internet, such as blog posts, wall posts, tweets, comments, ratings, tags, videos, pictures, and the like. In one embodiment, a topic is trending if it surpasses a minimum absolute threshold of social activity as well as a percentage increase in social activity. | 11-22-2012 |
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 |
20120310951 | Custodian Suggestion for Efficient Legal E-Discovery - Given a set of documents relevant to a litigation hold and a seed set of custodians, a second set of custodians can be generated and suggested to a user. After receiving a seed set of keywords and/or custodians, documents are identified based on their relevance. Relevant documents are searched for custodian names, and appropriate custodian names are presented to a user. Additionally, based on a first set of custodians, a suggested set of custodians can be provided to a user based on relationships between the sets of custodians. | 12-06-2012 |
20120317125 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFIER RETRIEVAL - A method for identifier retrieval. The method can include the steps of: extracting candidate identifiers from a data source according to a source identifier; obtaining a profile of the source identifier and profiles of the candidate identifiers from the data source; and selecting a target identifier associated with the source identifier from the candidate identifiers according to the profile of the source identifier and the profiles of the candidate identifiers. The method may efficiently, accurately and rapidly find a target identifier associated with a source identifier. | 12-13-2012 |
20120323931 | SPATIAL ATTRIBUTE RANKING VALUE INDEX - A request may be received that includes an indicator associated with a geographic location and scope. A database search may be initiated, based on the geographic location and scope. A list of one or more tags may be received, the tags associated with the geographic location, ordered based on relevance within the geographic scope, based on tag locale rankings associated with each of the tags included in the list of tags, the tag locale rankings based on comparisons of relative frequencies of occurrence of the tags, based on first bounded geographic areas, compared with second relative frequencies of occurrence of the tags based on second bounded geographic areas that are respectively larger than the first bounded geographic areas, the request geographic scope indicating one of a plurality of hierarchical geographic analysis levels associated with a plurality of geographic locations. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323932 | ITERATIVE SET EXPANSION USING SAMPLES - A set expansion system is described herein that uses general-purpose web data to expand a set of seed entities. The system includes a simple yet effective quality metric to measure the expanded set, and includes two iterative thresholding processes to rank candidate entities. The system models web data sources and integrates relevance and coherence measurements to evaluate potential set candidates using an iterative process. The system uses general-purpose web data that is not specific to the given seeds. The system defines quality of the result set as the sum of two component scores: the relevance of a set of entities that measures their similarity with the given seeds, and the coherence of the set of entities produced which is how closely the entities in the set are related to each other. Based on this quality measure, the system develops a class of iterative set expansion processes. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323933 | DISPLAYING NOTIFICATIONS BASED ON IMPORTANCE TO THE USER - Embodiments prioritize notifications relating to received communication items for display to a user of a computing device. For each received communication item, the computing device searches for related user data items such as calendar data, contacts, emails, and the like. Each of the user data items has a priority value. The computing device calculates a priority score for the notification based on the priority values associated with the related user data items. The notification is displayed among other notifications based on the calculated priority score relative to the priority scores of the other notifications. In some embodiments, the notifications include an ordered set of notifications displayed as tiles on a user interface of a mobile computing device. | 12-20-2012 |
20120330974 | METHOD OF COMPOSING AN ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT - A modular method of composing an ontology alignment provides a set of correspondences between at least two ontologies thereby allowing a composition of an optimal alignment by balancing a recall value and a precision of the alignment. A two-fold strategy is followed. By means of mapping functions a set of alignment correspondences is determined. Depending on a particular mapping function a recall value of the alignment can be improved by an extension of the set of correspondences. By filtering functions particularities of the domain are reflected and incorrect mappings are avoided. Depending on a particular filtering function a precision value of the alignment can be improved by restricting the set of correspondences. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330975 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AN INTEREST PROFILE FOR A USER - Profiling systems and methods of creating and using user interest profiles are described. In some example embodiments, the method includes: creating a topic set which includes topics which are organized in a hierarchical structure which includes a plurality of topic levels including an upper topic level and a lower topic level, each topic in the lower topic level being a subtopic of at least one of the topics in the upper topic level; monitoring interest in a plurality of documents for a user to identify one or more documents-of-interest to the user; and based on the monitored interest for the user, creating an interest profile for the user by determining a measure of topical interest for the user for at least one of the topics at the upper topic level and for a subtopic of that topic, the subtopic being at the lower topic level. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330976 | RELATIONSHIP INFORMATION EXPANSION APPARATUS, RELATIONSHIP INFORMATION EXPANSION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A relationship information expansion apparatus capable of acquiring a new relationship based on a relationship information piece including two or more language expressions having a semantic relationship is provided. The relationship information expansion apparatus generates a candidate expanded relationship information piece in which at least one language expression included in the relationship information piece was replaced with a similar language expression, and acquires a score that indicates a probability that the candidate expanded relationship information piece has a semantic relationship. The relationship information expansion apparatus selects an expanded relationship information piece, which is a candidate expanded relationship information piece having a high score among candidate expanded relationship information pieces. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330977 | METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SEARCHING DOCUMENT DATA USING SEARCH KEYWORD - Techniques provide for searching pieces of document data using a search keyword. The technique includes: calculating, as a first vector, respective first scores at which or respective probabilities that each of the pieces of document data belongs to clusters or classes; calculating, as a second vector, respective second scores at which or respective probabilities that the search keyword or a relevant keyword associated with the search keyword belongs to the clusters or the classes; calculating an inner product of each of the first vectors and the second vector, the calculated inner product being a third score of the corresponding piece of document data regarding the search keyword; and acquiring a correlation value from document data containing each keyword in a classification keyword set and document data with the third score that is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold or is included in a predetermined high-ranking proportion. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330978 | CONSISTENT PHRASE RELEVANCE MEASURES - Two methods for measuring keyword-document relevance are described. The methods receive a keyword and a document as input and output a probability value for the keyword. The first method is a similarity-based approach which uses techniques for measuring similarity between two short-text segments to measure relevance between the keyword and the document. The second method is a regression-based approach based on an assumption that if an out-of-document phrase (the keyword) is semantically similar to an in-document phrase, then relevance scores of the in and out-of document phrases should be close to each other. | 12-27-2012 |
20130007019 | LOGIC OPERATION SYSTEM - A storage unit stores at least one attribute each assigned an attribute identifier uniquely identifying the attribute. Each attribute identifier is associated with at least one piece of equivalent reference data each representing the attribute. Each attribute identifier is not a word representing the attribute, and is made of a symbol having no meaning per se. A weight of association between an attribute identifier and each of at least one piece of equivalent reference data represents a degree of relatedness between the attribute and the piece of equivalent reference data. An operation unit determines whether or not given data is the same as a piece of equivalent reference data, obtains a weight of association between the piece of equivalent reference data determined to be the same and an attribute identifier, and selects the attribute when a sum of at least one weight obtained for the attribute satisfies a predetermined condition. | 01-03-2013 |
20130024464 | RECOMMENDATION ENGINE THAT PROCESSES DATA INCLUDING USER DATA TO PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS FOR THE RECOMMENDATIONS TO A USER - Embodiments of the invention relate to a computer-implemented method for generating explanatory data from a personalized recommendations process for a primary user based at least on stored data about the primary user. The method comprises a server computer obtaining data related to one or more users who are relevant to the primary user, then determining at least one group of users relevant to the primary user. The server computer also obtains data related to one or more entities, determines one or more entities relevant to the primary user, and associates the at least one relevant group of users with the one or more relevant entities. One or more potential candidate factors are generated. A set of factors are selected from the one or more potential candidate factors, wherein the potential candidate factors are used as explanatory data to determine recommendations to the primary user. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024465 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUICKLY EVALUATING ENTITIES - Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for evaluating entities for a target user, the method comprising obtaining, at a server computer, entity data from a plurality of data sources. The entity data is then stored in an entity database. The method further comprises merging the entity data from the plurality of data sources, mapping the entity data to a corresponding entity, and differentiating the entity. Then a relevance is determined associated with the entity data and data source. The method further comprises generating a set of entity evaluations to the target user using the relevance, determining a set of one or more entities relevant to the primary user based on the entity data, user data, and the relevance, with an initial order of relevance, and displaying, on a user device, the set of relevant entities to the target user in the order of relevance. | 01-24-2013 |
20130031106 | SOCIAL NETWORK POWERED QUERY SUGGESTIONS - Automatic suggestion for search query formulation is facilitated by considering social network information. A plurality of search queries can be identified as a function of a partial search query specified by a user and search history of one or more social network contacts of the user. Subsequently, these identified queries can be ranked to aid determination of a subset of the identified queries to suggest for query completion. Further, query suggestions resulting from a social network contact can be annotated to set them apart from other query suggestions. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031107 | PERSONALIZED RANKING METHOD OF VIDEO AND AUDIO DATA ON INTERNET - A personalized ranking method of audio and/or video data on Internet includes the steps of locating a plurality of audio and/or video data corresponding to at least one keyword; deciding a user index by the user or picking a history behavior index if the user does not decide the user index; capturing characteristics from the aforesaid downloaded audio and/or video data according to the user index or the history behavior; comparing the captured characteristics with a user profile or a history behavior for similarity to get a similarity score; ranking the audio and/or video data according to the corresponding similarity scores to get a ranking outcome of the audio and/or video data. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031108 | LONG TAIL MONETIZATION PROCEDURE - A system and method for constructively providing a monetization procedure for a long tail demand curve of market goods, services or contents through a channel such as the Internet or mobile devices, for which there exists a source providing economic scoring (sales, downloads, streaming hours, etc.). Using only the scorings for a few reference items and a quantitative concept of similarity between the items, embodiments provide a procedure that constructively distributes the score from the reference items to the non-ranked ones, yielding the full scoring curve adjusted to a long tail law (power law). In order to build scores for non-ranked items, the method recursively defines relative preferences between items based on their similarity, thus constructing a utility-like function. The preferences are then used within an iterative tournament strategy between the items. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031109 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR LINKING CUSTOMER INFORMATION - In a business where a database tracks customers and manages customer accounts, a method and system correctly link accounts with customers. The method entails reading customer information for a first customer and for a second customer, and then utilizing personal identification information obtained from other sources to determine if the first customer is the same as the second customer. If the first customer and the second customer are the same person, the first customer and the second customer are identified as being the same unique person. Accounts associated with the two customers are identified as belonging to the same unique person. Viewed another way, the method and system of the present invention takes an existing database of personal identification information, and cross-references that database against other sources of personal identification information to identify persons who appear to be separate persons, but who are actually one and the same individual. | 01-31-2013 |
20130036124 | Segmentation of Video According to Narrative Theme - Content items may be segmented and labeled by a theme to provide information, such as audio or video, with greater functionality, accuracy and speed. The segments and other related information may be stored and made accessible to users through, for example, a search service and/or an on-demand service. Also provided is automatic segmentation that may include any one of receiving a textual description of a content item, determining themes within the textual description, determining relevance intervals corresponding to terms of the theme, filtering and/or merging the relevance intervals, and determining a total interval for each theme that represents one or more contextually-coherent segments of the content item. | 02-07-2013 |
20130046771 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING THE GATHERING OF OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE - Systems and methods (e.g., utilities) for use in providing automated, lightweight collection of online, open source data which may be content-based to reduce website source bias. In one aspect, a utility is disclosed for use in extracting content of interest from at least one website or other online data source (e.g., where the extracted content can be used in a subsequent search query). In other aspects, utilities are disclosed that are operable to perform various types of analyses on such extracted content and present graphical representations of such analyses on a display of a client device. | 02-21-2013 |
20130054620 | System and Method for Candidate Sorting and Clustering - A system for organizing a plurality of candidates based on the relative similarity of a first candidate with respect to the remaining plurality of candidates is disclosed. The system includes a controller in communication with a storage device configured to receive and accessibly store a generated plurality of candidate images. The controller operable to analyze each of the plurality of candidate images to determined a numeric thumbnail based on a number of identified features in each of a plurality of grid elements of an array and a sum total number of all identified features in the array, calculate a similarity score between one of the plurality of determined numeric thumbnails and each of the remaining plurality of determined numeric thumbnails; and generate a logical group image order as a function of the highest similarity score between the one of the plurality of determined numeric thumbnails and each of the remaining plurality of determined numeric thumbnails. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054621 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ONTOLOGY CANDIDATE SELECTION, COMPARISON, AND ALIGNMENT - A system for ontology candidate selection and comparison including a microprocessor and an ontology candidate selection component executing on the microprocessor and configured to compare at least a portion of a plurality of ontology candidates based on a candidate selection rule, and based on said comparison, select from the plurality of ontology candidates a pair of ontologies. The system further includes an ontology similarity component coupled to the ontology candidate selection component and configured to generate a similarity outcome related to the pair of ontologies based on a similarity rule and evaluate at least one of: the candidate selection rule or the similarity rule based on the similarity outcome. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054622 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SCORING DOCUMENTS BASED ON ATTRIBUTES OBTAINED FROM A DIGITAL DOCUMENT BY EYE-TRACKING DATA ANALYSIS - In one exemplary embodiment, a set of attributes derived from an element of a first digital document is obtained. The element is identified from eye-tracking data of a user viewing the digital document. A search query of a database comprising at least one query term is received. A set of documents in the database is identified according to the search query. An attribute score is determined for each document. The set of documents are sorted according to the attribute score. Optionally, a commonality between the query term and at least one member of the set of attributes may be determined. The search query may be generated by the user. The database may be a hypermedia database. | 02-28-2013 |
20130060786 | TEXT-BASED SEARCHING OF IMAGE DATA - A method and system are disclosed for conducting text-based searches of images using a visual signature associated with each image. A measure of string similarity between a query and an annotation associated with each entry in a first database is computed, and based upon the computed string similarity measures, a set of entries from the first database is selected. Each entry of the first database also includes an associated visual signature. At least one entry is then retrieved from a second database based upon a measure of visual similarity between a visual signature of each of the entries in the second database and the visual signatures of the entries in the selected set. Information corresponding to the retrieved entries from the second database is then generated. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060787 | CASE ANALYSIS SYSTEM - Systems and methods for cases based analysis are described. In one implementation, a new case-based document having static attributes and dynamic attributes is received. Once the static and the dynamic attributes are received, the static attributes of the received new case-based document is compared with the static attributes of one or more previously processed case-based documents. Based on the comparison, a sub-set of case-based documents is generated. For the generated sub-set, the dynamic attributes of the new case-based document are compared with the dynamic attributes of the sub-set of case-based documents. Based on the comparison, previously processed case-based documents, if any, which are found to be similar to the new case-based document are identified. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060788 | Methods for recognition of multidimensiional patterns cross-reference to related applications - A method implemented by a computer for recognition of multidimensional patterns, represented by multidimensional arrays of multidimensional vectors which are derived from data collected from speech, images, video, signals, static physical entities or moving physical entities. The recognition is based on classification into pattern classes. For the classification the invention provides efficient methods for the computation of similarity measures between input patterns and stored patterns. Usually, input patterns are acquired by sensors and their class is unknown. They are classified by finding the stored pattern class with the highest similarity measure to the input pattern. For speech and image recognition, the methods provide additional innovations which improve the reliability. Speech is represented by one dimensional arrays of multidimensional vectors. These arrays represent continuous speech our methods have novel means for separating the signal into words and phonemes. New penalty functions improve false positives and correct recognition rates. Similar approach is used for images and video. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060789 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATION AND AUGMENTATION OF SEARCH TERMS FROM EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL SOURCES - A method and apparatus to identify names, personalities, titles, and topics that are present in a repository and to identify names, personalities, titles, and topics that are not present in the repository, uses information from external data sources, notably the text used in non-speech, text-based searches, to expand the search terms. The expansion takes place in two forms: (1) finding plausible linguistic variants of existing search terms that are already comprehended in the repository, but that are present under slightly different names; and (2) expanding the existing search term list with items that should be there by virtue of their currency in popular culture, but which for whatever reason have not yet been reflected with content items in the repository. | 03-07-2013 |
20130066886 | METHOD FOR A NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTION-ANSWERING SYSTEM TO COMPLEMENT DECISION-SUPPORT IN A REAL-TIME COMMAND CENTER - System and methods provide decision support by receiving suggested actions from a decision support system and automatically determining parameters of the suggested actions to serve as input to a question-answering system. System and methods also automatically generate questions based on the parameters, automatically search a corpus of unstructured data to retrieve answers to the questions, and automatically provide impact confidence values for each answer indicating the degree of impact the answers have on the suggested actions. The systems and methods can then output the questions, answers, and impact confidence values. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066887 | DETERMINING RELEVANT INFORMATION FOR DOMAINS OF INTEREST - Techniques are described for determining and using relevant information related to domains of interest. In at least some situations, the techniques include automatically analyzing documents, terms and other information related to a domain of interest in order to automatically determine information about relevant themes within the domain and/or about which documents have contents that are relevant to such themes. Such automatically determined information related to a domain may then be used in various ways, including to assist users in specifying themes of interest and/or in obtaining documents and/or document fragments with contents that are relevant to specified themes. In addition, information about how the automatically determined information is used by users may be tracked and used as feedback for learning improved determinations of relevant themes and relevant documents within the domain, such as by using automated machine learning techniques. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073568 | RANKING STRUCTURED OBJECTS AND ACTIONS ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system includes a mechanism for integrating user actions on objects outside of the social networking system in the social graph. External system operators include widgets that, when executed by user devices, record user interactions that correspond to a defined structure of actions and objects. Information about the actions and the objects is gathered from external systems as users of the social networking system interact with the external systems. Content items are ranked according to the information about the actions and the objects as well as preferences of the viewing users. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073569 | PORTABLE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR EXTRACTING SUBJECTS OF INTEREST TO THE USER, AND A METHOD THEREFOR - A portable communication device for extracting a user interest comprises a term vector generation unit for generating, based on types of text data stored in the portable communication device, a term vector representing each text data, a subject classification tree storage unit for storing a subject classification tree, which is a tree structure in which multiple nodes, each including at least one training data and representing a subject, are connected to one another, and a similarity calculation unit for calculating a similarity between the term vector and the training data for each node in the subject classification tree. The similarity calculation unit extracts a node name representing the user interest from the subject classification tree based on the similarity. | 03-21-2013 |
20130080448 | Associative Memory Technology in Intelligence Analysis and Course of Action Development - A system for analyzing unstructured data. The system includes an associative memory including a plurality of data in associated units having a plurality of associations. The associative memory is configured to be queried based on at least one relationship selected from the group that includes direct relationships and indirect relationships among the plurality of data. The associative memory further includes a content-addressable structure. The system also includes an analyzer in communication with the associative memory, wherein the analyzer is configured to parse and arrange the plurality of data into comparable units in response to a query. The analyzer is configured to establish an ordered list ranking the comparable units in an order of precedence based on the query. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080449 | System and Method for Aggregating Contextual Content - Systems, devices and methods for aggregating contextual content are disclosed. In some embodiments, an evolving subject work is analyzed, potentially relevant works are retrieved, and the potentially relevant works are categorized and presented. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080450 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING RESEARCH RELATION SERVICE - A method and system for providing a research relation service are provided. The method includes the steps of (a) acquiring research technologies of a specific conduct agent; (b) acquiring comparison conduct agents for each of the acquired research technologies; (c) obtaining a research relation between a comparison conduct agent and the specific conduct agent; and (d) sorting and providing the comparison conduct agents based on the research relation. Therefore, according to the present invention, research relations such as research similarity, research cooperativeness and research competitiveness between conduct agents performing researches can be provided. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080451 | DETERMINING SIMILARITY SCORES OF ANOMALIES - A method and system comprise abstracting configuration items (CI) in at least a first anomaly and a second anomaly based on type of CI. Further, CIs are matched of a common type between the first and second anomalies based on a cost function. Additionally, a similarity score is computed for the first and second anomalies based, at least in part, on the cost function of the matched CI's and based on topology of the first and second anomalies. | 03-28-2013 |
20130086083 | TRANSFERRING RANKING SIGNALS FROM EQUIVALENT PAGES - Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage media for transferring ranking signals from equivalent pages to master pages are provided. In embodiments, ranking signals are received. Documents are determined to be equivalent pages. Master pages for the equivalent pages are identified. The ranking signals are transferred to the master pages. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086084 | PATENT MAPPING - A method of patent mapping comprises maintaining a database of patent portfolios and a database of patents, each patent stored in the database of patents associated with one or more of the patent portfolios; receiving a search query associated with a first patent portfolio; searching the first portfolio as a function of the search query; generating search results, the search results including one or more patent claims associated with the search query; generating a claim similarity index for at least one patent claim or portion thereof included in the search results, based on its similarity to at least one other patent claim or portion thereof in the search results; identifying, based on the similarity index, one or more patent claims included in the search results as primary targets to map a patent scope to; and mapping the one or more patent claims to the patent concept. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086085 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, ANALYSIS SUPPORT METHOD, ANALYSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - A computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute an analysis support process that includes storing to a storage device, a name of a second process that is a process included among a plurality of processes called in response to execution of a program, the computer storing the name of the second process when a first process having a name that matches a keyword stored in a storage device is included among the processes. | 04-04-2013 |
20130091149 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A DISTRIBUTION LIST OF USERS IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed are examples of methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media for providing a distribution list of users of an online social network to receive data regarding a record stored in a database. In some implementations, information is received that identifies one or more users of the online social network who are relevant to the record and who are not following the record. A distribution list is provided and includes the information identifying the one or more relevant users. The distribution list indicates the one or more relevant users as one or more candidates to receive the data regarding the record. The distribution list is stored on a storage medium. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091150 | DETERMIINING SIMILARITY BETWEEN ELEMENTS OF AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of determining smarty between first and second elements of an electronic document. The method uses a computer to calculate a plurality of measures of similarity between the first and second elements in at least two representations of the electronic document. A computer program product and system implementing this method are also disclosed. | 04-11-2013 |
20130097185 | SEARCH INDEX DICTIONARY - Various embodiments are described herein that generally relate to systems and methods for generating context specific terms and performing various actions based on the context specific terms. One example embodiment includes a computer-implemented method for generating context specific terms comprising obtaining a collection of terms from at least one electronic file associated with a given context; comparing the collection of terms with a collection of expected terms to generate candidate terms that are not in the collection of expected terms; determining a relevance for each of the candidate terms; and determining whether to add a given candidate term to a collection of context specific terms for the given context if the relevance for the given candidate term is above a threshold. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097186 | RELEVANCE-BASED AGGREGATED SOCIAL FEEDS - Relevant items are selected from personalized items included in a variety of social networking system feeds based on a relevance threshold. Content included in the received items is observed to facilitate grouping the items. Items satisfying a grouping criteria are grouped based on the content of the items. Items are then scored based on relevance factors, such as whether an item is included in the group or an indication of interest level associated with items in a group. Scored items meeting a relevance threshold are selected for display in an aggregated social feed in a content region of a page. | 04-18-2013 |
20130103698 | Displaying items in sorted order, and displaying each item in manner corresponding to or based on item's relevance score - Items are sorted in an order. Each item has a relevance score. The items are displayed in the order in which the items are sorted. Each item is displayed in a manner corresponding to or based on the relevance score of the item. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103699 | AUTOMATICALLY FINDING CONTEXTUALLY RELATED ITEMS OF A TASK - Architecture for enabling a user to automatically recover documents and other information associated with work contexts and recover documents and other information artifacts associated with a specific project. The architecture enables monitoring and recording of activity information related to user interactions with information artifacts pertaining to a particular work context. The user can select a document having a portion of work content (e.g., a term or other type of reference item in a document) related to the work context. A lexical analysis is performed on the activity information and the reference item to identify lexical similarities. A list of candidate items (e.g., related documents) is inferred from the information artifacts based on the lexical similarities. The candidate items related to the work context are presented to the user, who can select specific items to reestablish the work context. | 04-25-2013 |
20130110849 | QUERY GENERATION | 05-02-2013 |
20130124538 | Structured Search Queries Based on Social-Graph Information - In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving an unstructured text query, identifying nodes and edges from a social graph that correspond to n-grams in the text query, and then generating structured queries that include references to the identified nodes and edges. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124539 | PERSONAL RELEVANCY CONTENT RESIZING - Described is a technique for resizing content items in a social network based on a relevancy of the content items to a user in the social network. In the disclosed technique, content items that are relevant to the user are identified and a relevancy score for each of the content items is computed based on factors including, number of interactions with the content items by a user, type of interactions and a type of user. A display size of the content item is determined based on the relevancy score of the content item. The display size can be directly proportional to the relevancy score of content item. The content items are generated based on the determined size and displayed to the user. Accordingly, a content item which is more relevant to the user is displayed at a bigger size than a content item which is less relevant to the user. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124540 | People Engine Optimization - Some embodiments promote website credibility and the optimization of websites for people by automatedly quantifying various elements of a website into component credibility scores. In some embodiments, a set of encoded credibility scoring rules are used to compute each of the component credibility scores, wherein the credibility scoring rules are derived based on factors that have been identified by a grouping of people that preferably represent a primary demographic of users that consume the content of a particular classified type of website. In some such embodiments, the credibility scoring rules are derived from commonality that is identified from a sample set of known credible and/or non-credible websites of a particular classification. Once the credibility scoring rules are defined, the system applies the rules to other websites having the same classification as those from which the rules are derived to automatically generate credibility scores for the other websites. | 05-16-2013 |
20130132406 | Neuroimaging database systems and methods - Systems for and methods of utilizing a neuroimaging database are presented. The systems and methods include techniques for analyzing the pathophysiological basis of a chronic brain disease and/or the effectiveness of a treatment for a chronic brain disease, obtaining data for research of a chronic brain disease, searching for chronic brain disease symptoms identified in a clinical patient, searching a database by comparing the brain scan images of patients with suspected indications of chronic brain disease with other patients in the database to identify sets of patients with similar indications in their brain scan images, displaying brain scan information regarding a person, and using image pattern matching to analyze the pathophysiological basis of a chronic brain disease and/or the effectiveness of a proposed or previously administered treatment for a chronic brain disease. | 05-23-2013 |
20130138665 | METHODS OF EVALUATING SEMANTIC DIFFERENCES, METHODS OF IDENTIFYING RELATED SETS OF ITEMS IN SEMANTIC SPACES, AND SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - One aspect of the invention provides a method of evaluating semantic differences between a first item in a first semantic space and a second item in a second semantic space. Thee method includes: calculating a first ordered list of N nearest neighbors of the first item within the first semantic space; calculating a second ordered list of N nearest neighbors of the second item within the second semantic space; and computing a plurality of similarity measures between the first n nearest neighbors of the first item and the first n nearest neighbors of the second item, wherein n and N are positive integers and 1≦n≦N. | 05-30-2013 |
20130144889 | Semantic and Contextual Searching of Knowledge Repositories - A system and an article of manufacture for semantic and contextual searching over a knowledge repository including creating a search query for each concept related to the target concept to form a search context, wherein the search query for each related concept comprises at least one word derived from a record of that concept previously authored in the project, running the search query on a search index of a knowledge repository to identify a record of the related concept for which the search query is created, and fetching the record of the target concept from the repository as a search result such that the fetched record of the target concept is linked in the knowledge repository to a record of the related concept returned as a result of running the search query on at least one record of the at least one related concept. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144890 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING A FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)-BASED SYSTEM - Typical frequently-asked question (FAQ) systems perform keyword searches on queries to a database of answers to deliver an answer to a user. The present invention searches a user generated query in a classifier trained to search a database of questions in a set of FAQs. The questions in the database correspond to answers. Upon finding a relevant question, the system returns the corresponding answer to the user. Searching the query against the questions generates more accurate results for the user. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144891 | SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION TERMINAL, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a server apparatus, including: keyword storage capable of storing event-identification information and one or more keywords in relation to each other, the event-identification information identifying an event, the one or more keywords relating to the event; and a first keyword-registering section configured to obtain event-identification information and detailed information from an event-information registering server, the event-identification information identifying an event, the detailed information being on the event, to extract one or more first keywords from the obtained detailed information, and to register the one or more extracted first keywords and the event-identification information in relation to each other in the keyword storage. | 06-06-2013 |
20130159323 | RECOMMENDING TAGS BASED ON USER RATINGS - A method of recommending tags for user includes receiving a current rating of current user on current objects; determining a candidate tag set based on the current user and the current rating; ordering each candidate tag in the candidate tag set based on index value thereof; and recommending tags for the current user based on the ordering. | 06-20-2013 |
20130166573 | Managing Business Objects Data Sources - Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for managing business objects data sources. A search query that includes multiple query terms is received. Each query term at least partially represents metadata associated with one of multiple business objects data sources that each stores multiple data items. Multiple search index documents are searched to identify one or more business objects data sources that are each associated with metadata at least partially represented by each query term. Multiple metadata tables are searched to identify metadata associated with each identified business objects data source. The identified business objects data sources are searched for data items that satisfy the identified metadata. Representations of the data items and the metadata are provided in response to receiving the search query. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166574 | SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING FRIEND OF FRIEND BASED ON INTIMACY BETWEEN USERS - A social network service (SNS) system and method for recommending a friend of a friend based on an intimacy between users are provided. The SNS system includes an extracting unit to extract communication information from each of a friend relationship between a user and a first-group friend and a friend relationship between the user and a second-group friend. The system also includes a calculating unit to calculate an intimacy of each of the friend relationships based on the extracted communication information. The system includes a generating unit to generate a list of recommended second-group friends based on the calculated intimacy. | 06-27-2013 |
20130173638 | ENTITY IDENTIFICATION BASED ON LOCATION - A method and system for estimating a score that a first entity is related to a second entity. The method includes steps of extracting a first property from a first entity, extracting a second property from a second entity, estimating a geo location of the first entity based on the first property, estimating a geo location of the second entity based on the second property, comparing the estimated geo location of the first entity with the estimated geo location of the second entity, and associating a score for the first entity to be related to the second entity based on the result of the comparison. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179455 | COLLABORATION DATA ORGANIZER - A system and method for organizing information relevant to a collaboration. An example method includes automatically calculating by a computer processor a relevance value of user-encountered information respective to the collaboration. The method also includes distributing to at least one attendee of the collaboration the user-encountered information if the relevance value is beyond a relevance threshold. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179456 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, SYSTEM, COMPUTER- READABLE MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RECORDING OR RECOMMENDING CONTENT - A program vector can represent attributes of a program to be generated. EPG data can be received, and metadata necessary for generation of a program vector PP can be extracted from the EPG data. A morphological analysis can be carried out on contents and title included in the metadata to disassemble the contents and the title into words. Items included in the metadata can be subjected to a vector creation process to generate the program vector PP. An effect vector can be extracted on the basis of a genre of a program associated with the metadata. The extracted effect vector can be associated with the generated program vector PP and the processing can be ended. This can be applied to a distribution server for distributing contents. | 07-11-2013 |
20130185314 | GENERATING SCORING FUNCTIONS USING TRANSFER LEARNING - Data sources, such as web pages or databases, store or output entities that include data or other information. To compare entities generated by different data sources, and to identify duplicate entities, a scoring function is generated for each pair of data sources that can generate a similarity score that represents the similarity of two entities from the data sources in the pair. To generate the scoring functions, training data is generated for each pair of data sources and reviewed by a judge. The training data is used to generate the scoring functions using machine learning. In order to reduce the amount of training data that is used, transfer learning techniques are applied to use information learned from generating one scoring function for a pair of sources when generating a scoring function for a subsequent pair of sources. | 07-18-2013 |
20130191400 | HYBRID AND ITERATIVE KEYWORD AND CATEGORY SEARCH TECHNIQUE - Provided are techniques for providing recommendations to improve a query. A query with query keywords and selected categories is received. In response to determining that the selected categories are ranked high with reference to query relevance indicator values for each of the selected categories, a query relevance indicator of the query is calculated with each subcategory using keyword relevance indicators, each subcategory is ranked based on the query relevance indicators, and the ranked subcategories are provided for use in selecting new categories to be submitted with the query. | 07-25-2013 |
20130198206 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYZING WEIRDNESS OF VARIABLES - A computer-based method of determining a weirdness score for variables within a data set is provided. The method includes receiving a selection of a first variable, wherein the first variable is defined by a measure, a time period, and a plurality of entities, calculating a plurality of parameters for the first variable, wherein each of the plurality of parameters is calculated based at least in part on a deviation of a measured value from a predicted value, calculating a rank for each of the plurality of parameters for the first variable, wherein the rank of each parameter is calculated relative to corresponding parameters calculated for all other variables in the data set having the same measure and time period as the first variable, and calculating a weirdness score for the first variable based at least in part on the calculated rank of each of the plurality of parameters. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198207 | INTEGRATED MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION SUPPORT FRAMEWORK - Integrated multi-criteria decision frameworks disclosed herein can facilitate making good decisions when faced with a complex choice among several alternatives with different combinations of strengths and weaknesses. Some decision support systems using multi-criteria methods can combine multiple multi-criteria methods in a single adaptable decision support intervention. In some embodiments, the framework can include some or all of the following modules: a decision strategy module; a balance sheet module; an interactive decision dashboard module; an ordinal ranking module; a direct weighting module; and an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) module. | 08-01-2013 |
20130204881 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVE DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE - Embodiments of apparatus, systems and methods facilitate knowledge dissemination and promote knowledge acquisition, in part, by automatically presenting elements of an interlinked knowledge base to optimize learning efficiency. In some embodiments, content associated with a plurality of linked subject items in a knowledge base is disseminated to a user based on rankings determined using a priority value associated with candidate subject items. The candidacy is determined and the priority value is computed based on, at least in part, user-specific understanding values corresponding to the candidate subject items; user-specific understanding values of at least one of a plurality of basic subject items linked to the candidate subject items, and user-specific understanding values of at least one of plurality of advanced subject items linked to the candidate subject items. Content associated with the plurality of candidate subject items may be displayed to the user in order of rank based upon user interest. | 08-08-2013 |
20130212115 | TAG INHERITANCE - The present disclosure relates to a method for generating tags for content items of an online system. A method for generating tags for content items of an online system is provided, comprising the steps of providing, by a user of the online system, a content item in the online system, said content item being linked with one or more other content items of the online system; assigning a first group of tags to the content item; automatically generating a second group of tags based on tags associated with at least one of the one or more other content items; and assigning the second group of tags to the content item. Furthermore, an online system enabling generation of tags for content items and a server hosting the online system are defined. | 08-15-2013 |
20130218906 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRIORITIZING CONTENT BASED ON USER PROFILE RELEVANCE - In an exemplary method, at least one computing device 1) stores a plurality of content instances associated with a plurality of user profiles, 2) determines, based on a predefined relevance heuristic, a relevance between a user profile and each of the other user profiles included in the plurality of user profiles, 3) prioritizes, based on the determined relevance between the user profile and each of the other user profiles, the plurality of content instances relative to one another, and 4) provides, for display, data representative of the prioritized plurality of content instances. | 08-22-2013 |
20130226938 | DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF UNWANTED CONTENT ON CLOUD-HOSTED SERVICES - The problem of abuse of privileges at cloud-hosted service sites is addressed by associating each user, preferably across multiple cloud-hosted service sites, with an individual “suspiciousness” score that may vary over time as additional user actions are detected and evaluated. Knowledge of the user is employed to better analyze the appropriateness or acceptability of user actions on the site. | 08-29-2013 |
20130238636 | SUGGESTING ACCESS-CONTROLLED RELATED QUERIES - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method executable by a server system to establish suggested queries is provided. The method comprises: receiving an initial query; evaluating a user click log for at least one query that is similar to the initial query based on a document click count of results generated from the at least one query; and generating at least one suggested query based on the at least one query that is similar to the initial query. | 09-12-2013 |
20130246440 | PROCESSING A CONTENT ITEM WITH REGARD TO AN EVENT AND A LOCATION - Associating a content item with an event is disclosed. A location associated with a received content item is determined. The received content item is associated with an event, at least in part based on an indicia of relatedness, other than the determined location, between the received content item and the event. A criterion that the indicia of relatedness is required to satisfy for the content item to be determined to be associated with the event has a lower value if the determined location associated with the received content item has a first degree of correspondence to a location associated with the event than if the determined location associated with the received content item has a second, lower degree of correspondence to the location associated with the event. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246441 | Method for Evaluating Short to Medium Length Messages - A system and method for evaluating short messages is described. A list of messages, pre-filtered by keyword and geographic origin, are scored using a stack of filters having either general scoring parameters or flexible, user defined parameters. Each filter examines the messages for characteristics such as whether they have been re-sent, they contain particular abbreviations or repetitions, a minimum number of words, profanities or other characteristics indicative of their value to a user. A report consisting of the scored messages, i.e., the message and the score associated with the message after application of all relevant filters to the message, is then sent to a user. The report is either ordered or not, and is either an electronic or a human readable form. The elapsed time since the message was originally scored or sent is used to periodically readjust the scores and the report. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246442 | SYSTEM FOR REQUIREMENT IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS BASED ON CAPABILITY MODEL STRUCTURE - A textual analysis system is configured to compare textual content of textual statements. The textual analysis system is configured to score the textual content of a first textual statement and a second textual statement. Based on the score, the textual analysis system may determine a level of correspondence between the first textual statement and the second textual statement. The textual analysis system is configured to generate an interactive visual representation of the correspondence levels between the first statement and the second statement. The visual representation may be transmitted to a display. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246443 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MULTI-LEVEL GEOGRAPHIC QUERY - According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method is provided for processing a query for points of interest (POIs) using a hierarchical grid structure representing a geographic area. The method includes receiving a query for POIs; defining a query footprint for the query based on a location corresponding to the query, wherein the query footprint comprises query spatial identifiers for a plurality of levels of the hierarchical grid structure; matching the query spatial identifiers with one or more POI spatial identifiers organized into a plurality of indexes, wherein each one of the plurality of indexes comprises an index of the POI spatial identifiers for one of the plurality of levels; and providing an output specifying one or more POIs corresponding to the matched POI spatial identifiers. | 09-19-2013 |
20130254216 | Systems and Methods for Evaluating Multilingual Text Sequences - Systems and methods are provided for scoring a response to a character-by-character highlighting task. A similarity value for the response is calculated by comparing the response to one or more correct responses to the task to determine the similarity or dissimilarity of the response to the one or more correct responses to the task. A threshold similarity value is calculated for the task, where the threshold similarity value is indicative of an amount of similarity or dissimilarity to the one or more correct responses required for the response to be scored at a certain level. The similarity value for the response is compared to the threshold similarity value. A score is assigned at, above, or below the certain level based on the comparison. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262480 | CONTENT CATEGORY SCORING FOR NODES IN A LINKED DATABASE - Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for assigning content category scores to nodes of a linked database. The nodes of the linked database include linking nodes and linked nodes. Each linking node is assigned a linking node score for each content category. The linking node score for each content category represents a degree of relevancy of the linking node to the content category. Each of the linked nodes is linked to by at least one of the linking nodes. Each linked node is assigned a content category score for each content category. The content category score for each content category is based on the linking node score for said content category of each linking node that links to the linked node. | 10-03-2013 |
20130275440 | ARTICLE SELECTION - A computer-implemented method for selecting an article from an input set of articles stored on a database of a source device, comprises generating a subset of the articles relevant to a query article using a relevance metric representing a measure of dissimilarity between the query article and selected articles in the set, computing distance measures for respective ones of the articles in the subset using article attributes and article commentary objects, using the distance measures to determine measures of the diversity of respective ones of articles in the subset from one another, and using the diversity measures to select a diverse article in the subset. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275441 | COMPOSING TEXT AND STRUCTURED DATABASES - A framework is provided for composing texts about objects with structured information about these objects, and thus disclosed are methodologies for linking information from at least two data sources—one comprising a plurality of documents comprising text pertaining to at least one object, and one comprising a plurality of structured records comprising at least one characteristic of the at least one object, each characteristic comprising one property name and an associated property value corresponding to the property name for the at least one object—by determining one or more instance-based traits for each object in both data sources and associating at least one record with at least one document that refers to each object, each trait comprising one or more characteristics that identifiably distinguish each object from all other objects. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275442 | COMPUTER-BASED COMPARISON OF HUMAN INDIVIDUALS - A test person is compared to a reference person by comparing detailed information regarding the configuration, capabilities and usage of computers—such as installed hardware devices, makes and models and firmware versions of such hardware devices, installed software, versions of installed software, and usage logs—used by the respective individuals. In effect, each person's computer is considered a proxy for the person herself, representing countless purchasing, maintenance, pastime choices in the configuration and use of a thoroughly complex personal and professional tool. | 10-17-2013 |
20130282736 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVITY BASED CONNECTIONS - The systems and methods described herein relate to making activity based connections. In an example embodiment a web based system can connect people together based on one or more items on an activity list such as a “bucket list.” For example, by collecting an activity list from a first user including at least one activity, collecting an activity list from a second user including at least one activity, analyzing the activity list of the first and second users to determine if the activities are the same or similar, and matching the first user to the second user based on the activity list of each user. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282737 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTELLIGENTLY DEPLOYING AN APPLICATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING APPLICATION ACCESS, SYSTEM FOR INTELLIGENTLY DEPLOYING AND SCHEDULING AN APPLICATION - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for intelligently deploying an application, a method and apparatus for processing application access, a system for intelligently deploying and scheduling an application. The intelligent deployment method includes: receiving an application which is uploaded by a user through a deployment portal ( | 10-24-2013 |
20130290349 | ADAPTIVELY ASSESSING OBJECT RELEVANCE BASED ON DYNAMIC USER PROPERTIES - Provided are techniques for assessing object relevance. One or more user usage patterns are retrieved. Object properties of one or more objects are retrieved. The one or more user usage patterns are compared against the object properties of the one or more objects to compute one or more interaction scores that represent a value of how an object interacts with a user based on a current context of the user. Object importance is assigned to each of the one or more objects based on the one or more interaction scores. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290350 | Similarity Search Initialization - A similarity search initialization system includes a leaf selector to select a leaf of a suffix tree generated from a target string representing a target sequence. The selected leaf is associated with a prefix in the suffix tree having a longest match to a suffix of a query string representing a query. The system further includes a distance module to determine a distance between the query and a subsequence of the target sequence represented by a candidate substring of the target string. The candidate substring includes the prefix associated with the selected leaf. The determined distance is to provide an initial upper bound in a similarity search of the target sequence using the query. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290351 | SIMILAR DESIGN CASE EXAMPLE SEARCH APPARATUS - A similar design case example search apparatus includes a design case example storage unit that manages such information as specification values of design case examples of past products and costs and period for manufacturing the products; a recommended weight storage unit that stores recommended weight for every requirement specification categories; a requirement specification receiving unit that receives requirement specification values; a requirement specification satisfaction degree calculation unit that calculates a requirement specification satisfaction degree which is the degree that the specification values of each design case example stored in the design case example storage unit satisfy the requirement specification values; a recommended degree calculation unit that calculates a recommended value of a searched design case example based on the recommended weight stored in the recommended weight storage unit; and a search result display unit that displays searched products with similarity and recommended degrees and can sort the data by the similarity and the recommended degree. | 10-31-2013 |
20130304750 | RELEVANCY SORTING OF USER'S BROWSER HISTORY - Various embodiments provide a Web browser that employs a relevancy algorithm to make an educated guess as to the likelihood of a user's intended destination when the user begins to enter text into a browser's address bar. In one or more embodiments, the relevancy algorithm employs various parameters and assigns weights to the parameters to arrive at a collection of suggestions to provide to the user. By using various rules, associated weightings, and the relevancy algorithm, relevant suggestions can be provided to a user to facilitate their navigation activities. | 11-14-2013 |
20130311487 | SEMANTIC SEARCH USING A SINGLE-SOURCE SEMANTIC MODEL - Techniques for providing semantic search of a data store are disclosed. A similarity metric of a document comprising the data store to a concept represented in a semantic model derived at least in part from a reference source that includes content not included in the data store is determined. A relevance metric of a search query to the concept is computed. The similarity metric and the relevance metric are used to determine, at least in part, a ranking of the document with respect to the search query. | 11-21-2013 |
20130318103 | PRODUCTS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE APPARATUS - The disclosed invention provides a technique that assists in selecting a proper standard part independently of production achievements of parts and information which is arbitrarily input by a user regarding specification items to decide on a similarity between parts. Disclosed is a products information management assistance apparatus that decides on standard part information based on past products information records. The apparatus includes a products information storing unit that stores information on parts registered in records such as required specifications in the past, parts organization, parts specifications, and cost; a similarity-between-parts calculating unit that calculates a similarity between parts registered in records from parts specifications, a parts standardization effect calculating unit that calculates an effect if the above parts have been standardized in a scope in which they are grouped by similarity; and a standardization analysis result display unit that displays the parts standardization scope and standardization effect together. | 11-28-2013 |
20130325880 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Generating Data Quality Indicators for Relationships in a Database - The disclosed methods, systems, and computer-program products allow a business to generate data quality indicators for relationships in a database. In an embodiment, one or more relationships linked to a customer are retrieved from a database to form a set of relationships. A match confidence code is generated for each relationship based on a score generated by the comparison of customer data associated with the respective relationship and corresponding customer data obtained from an external industry database. A link confidence code is subsequently determined for the customer based on a score generated by the scores used to define the match confidence code for each relationship in the set of relationships and on internal data associated with each relationship in the set of relationships. | 12-05-2013 |
20130339373 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF FILTERING AND RECOMMENDING DOCUMENTS - Disclosed is a method and system for discovering documents using a computer and providing a small set of the most relevant documents to the attention of a human observer. Using the method, the computer obtains a seed document from the user and generates a seed document vector using term frequency-inverse corpus frequency weighting. A keyword index for a plurality of source documents can be compared with the weighted terms of the seed document vector. The comparison is then filtered to reduce the number of documents, which define an initial subset of the source documents. Initial subset vectors are generated and compared to the seed document vector to obtain a similarity value for each comparison. Based on the similarity value, the method then recommends one or more of the source documents. | 12-19-2013 |
20140006423 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING MEDIA CONTENT DATA | 01-02-2014 |
20140019460 | TARGETED SEARCH SUGGESTIONS - Methods and systems for providing search suggestions are disclosed. A webpage is analyzed. Terms from the webpage are extracted based on analyzing the webpage. At least one suggestions is generated based on the extracted terms, wherein each of the at least one suggestion is actionable. | 01-16-2014 |
20140025689 | DETERMINING A SIMILARITY BETWEEN GRAPHS - A method for determining a similarity between a plurality of graphs includes inferring a low-rank representation of a first graph, inferring a low-rank representation of a second graph, wherein the low-rank representations of the first and second graphs are stored in memory, estimating a left interaction between the first and second graphs, estimating a middle interaction between the first and second graphs, estimating a right interaction between the first and second graphs, wherein the estimations are based on the low-rank representations of the first and second graphs stored in memory, and aggregating the left interaction, the middle interaction and the right interaction into a kernel, wherein the kernel is indicative of the similarity between the first and second graphs. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025690 | CONTENT RANKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A relevance of a content item to an event is determined. A user rating of the content item is received. A ranking of the content item is determined with respect to the event, relative to one or more other content items associated with the event based at least in part on the relevance and the user rating. In some embodiments, the ranking is determined based at least in part on a sentiment score associated with the content item. A ranking algorithm provides a novel method for retrieving, scoring, ranking, and presenting content related to an event based on a combination of scoring contributions such as user rating, relevance, and sentiment. Embodiments provide users with the most relevant, engaging, and informative content concerning events of interest to them. | 01-23-2014 |
20140046964 | DISPLAY PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, AND DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a display processing apparatus includes an obtaining module, a relevance calculator, a display information generator, and a display controller. The obtaining module is configured to obtain particular information items allowed to be created by users, the particular information being obtained for each of a key content item and other content items. The relevance calculator is configured to calculate one or more relevances between the key content item and each of the other content items, based on the particular information items. The display information generator is configured to generate display information items expressing the key content item and the other content items, based on the particular information items or content-attribute information items peculiar to the key content item and the other content items. The display controller is configured to control to display a list information item in which the display information items are located at predetermined positions. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046965 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FLEXIBLE DIVERSIFICATION OF RECOMMENDATION RESULTS - An approach is provided for diversifying recommendation results. A diversification manager determines one or more recommendation scores associated with one or more items. The one or more recommendation scores are for determining a sort order of the one or more items. The diversification manager then determines similarity information associated with the one or more items, and processes and/or facilitates a processing of the similarity information to cause, at least in part, an adjustment of the one or more recommendation scores, the sort order, or a combination thereof. | 02-13-2014 |
20140052741 | DYNAMIC CONTENT PREVIEW - Technologies are generally described for generating a preview of a content file dynamically based at least in part on content features of the content file. In some examples, a content preview system may include a content feature analysis unit configured to analyze one or more content features of a content file, and a preview type determination unit configured to determine a preview type for the content file based at least in part on the content features analyzed by the content feature analysis unit. | 02-20-2014 |
20140059056 | ENTERPRISE DATA PROCESSING - An enterprise data processing module and method are described herein. The enterprise data processing module comprises at least one collector and at least one analyzer. The collectors may be operable to collect data pieces from a plurality of data sources. The analyzers may be operable to analyze the collected data pieces to determine cross-source relationships that exist between the data pieces collected from the plurality of sources. The analyzed data pieces may be stored in one or more big-data databases as blocks of data according to the cross-source relationships. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059057 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY SUGGESTING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS SUBMITTED TO A PORTAL OF AN ONLINE SERVICE - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for dynamically suggesting answers to questions submitted to a portal of an online service. These mechanisms and methods for dynamically suggesting answers to questions submitted to a portal of an online service can enable embodiments to provide help document suggestions with limited user input. The ability of embodiments to provide help document search term suggestions with limited user input can enable users to quickly and efficiently find useful help documents. | 02-27-2014 |
20140067830 | Method and Apparatus for Performing Similarity Searching - A system and method for performing similarity searching is disclosed wherein programmable logic devices such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can be used to implement Bloom filters for identifying possible matches between a query and data. The Bloom filters can be implemented in a parallel architecture where the different parallel Bloom filters share access to the same memory units. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067831 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RATING A CONTENT BASED ON TRENDS - A system for and method of rating a content is presented. The method may include receiving first user data associated with one or more contents for a first predetermined time period and second user data associated with the one or more contents for a second predetermined time period. The method may also include determining a first average of the first user data associated with the one or more contents for the first predetermined time period and a second average of the second user data associated with the one or more contents for the second predetermined time period. The method may further include determining a variance between the first average of the first user data associated with the one or more contents, for the first predetermined time period and the second average of the second user data associated with the one or more contents for the second predetermined time period. The method may additionally include determining trend value of the one or more contents based at least in part on the variance between the first average of the first user data associated with the one or more contents for the first predetermined time period and the second average of the second user data associated with the one or more contents for the second predetermined time period. | 03-06-2014 |
20140074865 | IDENTIFYING VEHICLE SYSTEMS USING VEHICLE COMPONENTS - Embodiments of a repair correlation system are described, wherein the repair correlation system identifies related vehicle repairs based on key parts (or the most important parts) of an automotive sub-system. The repair correlation system can use a database or other data repository of matching parts to identify related automotive sub-systems (e.g., engine, transmission, etc.) by matching key parts for sub-systems across different brands and models. For example, the repair correlation system can determine that repairs for a first engine with key parts A, B, and C are applicable to a second engine with the same key parts. Thus, an engine in a Honda car and an engine in a Ford car could be identified by the system as having co-applicable repair data based at least partly on the key parts matching, even though the engines are used by different brands and models. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074866 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING METADATA IN A VIDEO PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes detecting user interaction associated with a video file; extracting interaction information that is based on the user interaction associated with the video file; and enhancing the metadata based on the interaction information. In more particular embodiments, the enhancing can include generating additional metadata associated with the video file. Additionally, the enhancing can include determining relevance values associated with the metadata. | 03-13-2014 |
20140081991 | Automatic Rating Optimization - Automatic rating optimization is described. In an embodiment, ratings of a program can be received from one or more rating sources. Based on these ratings, a representation of a content selection mechanism can be sent to potential consumers of the content. Access events for the content can be counted over a duration of time so a determination can be made regarding how the ratings provided by each of the rating sources affect popularity of the content. A weight accorded to ratings received from each of the rating sources can be adjusted based on the determination. Profiles can be established for consumers and/or rating sources. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081992 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED DESCRIPTIONS RELATED TO MEDIA ASSETS - Systems and methods are described herein for providing customized descriptive assets related to media assets. In one embodiment, processing circuitry may receive a plurality of descriptive data related to a media asset. Each descriptive data may be associated with one or more characteristics, such as a genre or parental rating. The processing circuitry may then access a user profile and compare the characteristics contained within the profile with the characteristics associated with the descriptive data. Based on this comparison, the processing circuitry may generate a customized descriptive asset using at least a subset of the descriptive data. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081993 | DISAMBIGUATION FRAMEWORK FOR INFORMATION SEARCHING - Methods, software and devices for responding to a user query are disclosed. A user query received from a user is matched to stored responses to obtain initial matched responses. A confidence metric indicating the likelihood of the initial matched responses satisfying the user query is calculated. Upon determining the confidence metric to be below a specified threshold, the user query is supplemented with contextual data. The user query, supplemented by contextual data, is further matched to stored responses by applying disparate matching techniques to obtain further matched responses, where at least one of the disparate matching techniques differs from techniques used to obtain the initial matched responses. Degree-of-match metrics are calculated taking into account the contextual data, where each degree-of-match metric indicates a quality of match between the user query and a matched response. At least one of the matched responses is presented to the user. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081994 | Identifying Content for Planned Events Across Social Media Sites - A method of retrieving content from one or more media content sites may include identifying one or more event features corresponding to an event, automatically generating, by a computing device, a first set of one or more queries based on the identified event features, running, by the computing device, at least a portion of the first set of queries against one or more media content sites to generate a first content dataset comprising one or more media documents that satisfy the queries, creating a query model for each query based on one or more results retrieved for the query in the first content dataset, evaluating each query model against one or more of the identified event features to identify a match, and performing one or more of the following: filtering the queries based on their associated match, and ranking the queries based on their associated match. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089326 | Image Search by Query Object Segmentation - Query object localization, segmentation, and retrieval are disclosed. A query image may be received that includes a query object. Based on respective spatially constrained similarity measures between the query image and a plurality of images from an image database, at least some of the plurality of images may be identified and/or retrieved and a location of the query object in the query image may be estimated. The query object may then be automatically segmented from the query image based on the estimated query object location. In some embodiments, the retrieval, localization and/or segmentation may be iterated. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089327 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING GIFT RECOMMENDATIONS USING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA - Disclose are methods for evaluating a user's interests and making gift recommendations using social media data. Interests and attributes of a user may be detected from social media content and products corresponding to the interests and attributes may be selected and presented as gift recommendations for the user. Methods are disclosed for resolving ambiguity as to interests reflected by textual data in social media content. Also disclosed are methods for inferring a user's interests from the interests of friends of the user. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089328 | ASSOCIATION OF DATA TO A BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE - A computer assembly includes a processor configured to access data on a network and to perform a method. The method includes identifying, in the network, one or more references having a relevance level greater than a predetermined threshold. The one or more references are associated to one or more probe sequences corresponding to one or more biological sequences. The one or more probe sequences are ranked based on one or more criteria corresponding to a target biological sequence. The one or more probe sequences are assigned with a level of affinity to one or more segments of the target biological sequence based at least on the ranking of each of the one or more probe sequences. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089329 | ASSOCIATION OF DATA TO A BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE - A method for associating data with a target biological sequence includes identifying, in a network, one or more references to data, where the data has a relevance level greater than a predetermined threshold. The method includes associating the one or more references to one or more probe sequences corresponding to a segment of a biological sequence to which the data pertains The one or more probe sequences are ranked based on one or more criteria and the probe sequences are assigned a level of affinity to a segment of the target biological sequence based at least on the ranking of each reference. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089330 | TAG REFINEMENT STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL TAGGING SYSTEMS - Techniques are generally described related to tag refinement strategy. One example method for refining homonyms and synonyms in a plurality of tags may include receiving, by a tag refinement system, a plurality of tagging actions each of which associates one or more of the plurality of tags with a digital object. The method may further include extracting, by the tag refinement system, a first subset of tags from the plurality of tags, wherein the first subset of tags have a higher collective relativity-similarity score comparing to a second subset of tags selected from the plurality of tags, and the first subset of tags, different from the second subset of tags, have a same predetermined tag count as the second subset of tags. | 03-27-2014 |
20140095516 | Profile Construction Using Location-Based Aggregate Profile Information - Systems and methods are disclosed for creating a user profile for a subject user based on historical aggregate profile data for locations at which the subject user was previously located. In one embodiment, one or more location and time period pairs are determined for the subject user, each defining a previous location of the subject user and a time period during which the subject user was at the location. For a plurality of location and time period pairs, a plurality of historical aggregate profiles for a corresponding plurality of sub-bands within the time period defined by each location and time period pair in the plurality of location and time period pairs is obtained. A user profile for the subject user is created based on the plurality of historical aggregate profiles for the corresponding plurality of sub-bands based on relevancy ratings for the plurality of sub-bands. | 04-03-2014 |
20140101170 | Methods and Systems for Prefetching Music for Devices - Methods and systems are presented for prefetching music for devices. The disclosed method includes detecting an access to a music library through a device. The music library is associated with a user music account and is managed in cloud music storage. The disclose method further includes monitoring use activities for the user music account and the use activities of selected songs in the music library are adjustable for relevance based on assigned weightings. One or more songs from the music library that satisfy a prefetching constraint based on the monitored use activities are identified. The songs that satisfy the prefetching constraint are tagged for transferring to the device. The tagged songs are transferred to the device without receiving a user initiated request for the tagged songs. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101171 | Similar Document Search - Described herein are methods for finding substantially similar/different sources (files and documents), and estimating similarity or difference between given sources. Similarity and difference may be found across a variety of formats. Sources may be in one or more languages such that similarity and difference may be found across any number and types of languages. A variety of characteristics may be used to arrive at an overall measure of similarity or difference including determining or identifying syntactic roles, semantic roles and semantic classes in reference to sources. | 04-10-2014 |
20140108432 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF RECOMMENDING POPULAR ACCOUNTS IN SNS SYSTEM - This document publishes a method and an apparatus of recommending popular accounts in a social network service (SNS) system. In one embodiment, the method includes the following steps: analyzing relating information of a specified user stored in a network system to get preference information of the specified user; querying popular accounts matched to the preference information from popular accounts stored in the SNS system; and outputting the popular accounts matched to the preference information as recommended popular accounts for the specified user. According to the method and apparatus, t is possible to recommend popular accounts for each registered user in the SNS system with a personalized manner, and the recommended popular accounts can be pushed to the user after the user logins the SNS system. As the recommended popular accounts are very close to the preference of the user, the activity of the SNS system is significantly improved. | 04-17-2014 |
20140114988 | SITUATION-AWARE PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION - Information may be presented to a user in a way that reflects an awareness of the user's current situation. The relationship between user's situation, and various people and things, may be analyzed to determine the user's proximity to those people and things. (Proximity may refer not only to geographic proximity, but also temporal proximity, relevance proximity, etc.) A user interface may show people and things at different levels of proximity to the user's current situation, with the level of proximity being represented visually. The user may reposition the center of focus to one of the people or things depicted. When the center is repositioned, the level of proximity of people and things may be shown relative to the new center of focus, filtered based on existing relationships of those people and things to the user. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114989 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING EXPERTISE - A system and method of identifying entities having expertise in one or more subjects. Among other features, the method includes querying a database for documents (e.g., articles, papers, periodicals) relevant to a subject; and calculating a first score for each relevant document. The method also identifies entities affiliated with one or more relevant documents; and calculates a second score for each entity based on the one or more first scores of the one or more relevant documents affiliated with the entity. A step of ranking expertise of the entities based on the respective second scores of the entities is included. | 04-24-2014 |
20140122507 | Method and Apparatus for Content-Aware Role Modeling and Recommendation - An approach is provided for providing recommendations to a user based on user's role derived from the context information and an advanced user profile. A recommendation platform processes context information to determine one or more roles associated with a user. Next, the recommendation platform calculates at least one level of similarity between the one or more roles and one or more other roles associated with one or more other users. Then, the recommendation platform determines recommendation information associated with the one or more other users based, at least in part, on the at least one level of similarity. Next, the recommendation platform processes the recommendation information to generate one or more recommendations for the user. | 05-01-2014 |
20140136549 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC PRODUCT MATCHING - A source product and a competitor product are automatically matched by computing similarity scores between the products. An attribute of a source product is extracted from information received from a user. The extracted attribute is then used to generate a search term. A search for competitor product information is performed using the search term and a similarity score between the source product and the competitor product is calculated. In one implementation, the similarity score is calculated by generating a first value pair for the source product and the competitor product, and for the first value pair, (1) assigning a value to a degree of similarity between the source product and the competitor product with respect to a common feature, and (2) finding the product of the assigned value and a weight value assigned to the common feature. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136550 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DECODING VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS - A vehicle identification number (VIN) decoder (VDC) implementing a unique VIN decoding method may, for a given VIN, shorten the VIN and form a stem and a leaf therefrom. Utilizing the stem, the VDC may operate to find matching leaf values, if any, from a set of look up tables. Depending upon a match outcome, one or more trim identification code (TIC) values can be assigned to the VIN and a candidate list can be constructed utilizing the assigned TIC value(s). The candidate list, which can be optimized, may contain one or more candidate trims for the VIN. For each candidate trim, a confidence score and a match probability can be generated. The VDC may provide decoded information containing trim data associated with at least one of the one or more candidate trims for the VIN to a client device over a network connection. | 05-15-2014 |
20140149427 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TAPESTRY INTERFACE SCORING - A system and methods are provided for scoring assets for display in a tapestry interface. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying assets for display in a tapestry interface presentation, wherein the tapestry interface provides a presentation for a plurality of assets having relevance based sizing, arrangement of the assets based at least in part on a grid pattern, receiving data for identified assets of the tapestry presentation, and scoring assets based on the received data to determine presentation characteristics for the assets in the tapestry interface. The method may also include updating the presentation of the tapestry interface on a device based on the presentation characteristics. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149428 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING A DOCUMENT - A computerized method for identifying a document. A signature may be determined for a first document and compared with a signature for each of one or more additional documents. A document similarity score may be determined and one or more similar documents may be identified based on the document similarity score. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149429 | WEB SEARCH RANKING - A computer-implemented method and system for Web search ranking are provided herein. The method includes generating a number of training samples from clickthrough data, wherein the training samples include positive query-document pairs and negative query-document pairs. The method also includes discriminatively training a translation model based on the training samples and ranking a number of documents for a Web search based on the translation model. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149430 | METHOD OF DETECTING OVERLAPPING COMMUNITY IN NETWORK - A method of detecting an overlapping community in a network including nodes and links between the nodes, includes calculating a similarity between the links, and generating a line graph of the network. The method further includes detecting one or more cores in the line graph, and growing a cluster for each of the one or more cores. The method further includes converting the cluster into a cluster of nodes of a node graph. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149431 | RELEVANCE-BASED INFORMATION PROCESSING - Embodiments relate to relevance-based information processing. An aspect includes storing a history of display operations performed by a user on a first electronic file. Another aspect includes inputting display operations into the stored history performed by a user on the first electronic file. Another aspect includes calculating, using a plurality of calculating methods, a plurality of degrees of relevance of a second electronic file to the first electronic file based on the stored history. Another aspect includes calculating a synthesized degree of relevance by synthesizing the plurality of degrees of relevance of the second electronic file to the first electronic file. Another aspect includes displaying an input region on a display for inputting display operations on the first electronic file, and automatically displaying the second electronic file based on the synthesized degree of relevance of the second electronic file to the first electronic file exceeding a predetermined threshold. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149432 | Systems and Methods for Selection-Based Contextual Help Retrieval - Described herein are systems and methods for selection-based contextual help retrieval. One example method involves (a) receiving first-query data including contextual data, the contextual data indicating a user-interface element type, a user-interface element location, and user-interface element text; (b) determining at least one first-query response based on at least the contextual data; and (c) causing an indication of the determined at least one first-query response to be provided via an output device. | 05-29-2014 |
20140156679 | SECURE MOLECULAR SIMILARITY CALCULATIONS - Methods of securing the calculation of pairwise molecular similarity coefficients between molecules, from similarity measures that are based on 3-dimensional or 2-dimensional molecular properties and/or physicochemical properties, condensed into a fingerprint or bit-string representation, in such a way that a third party cannot deduce information about the underlying molecular structures. The apparatus and process are particularly applicable to generating secured or anonymized databases of bit-strings, so that the anonymized databases can be stored remotely from a corporation's computer system, or shared securely and confidentially with another company. The mapping key that permits the anonymized bit strings to be converted back to their original form need not be disclosed outside of the corporation. The methods also permit two companies to exchange molecular structure data securely and in a manner that permits similarity calculations to be performed within as well as between the respective databases. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156680 | USER INTERFACE METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING AND PRESENTING CONTENT BASED ON USER RELATIONSHIPS - A user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items based on user navigation and selection actions associated with the content is provided. The method includes associating a relevance weight on a per user basis with content items to indicate a relative measure of likelihood that the user desires the content item. The method includes receiving a user's navigation and selections actions for identifying desired content items, and in response, adjusting the associated relevance weight of the selected content item and group of content items containing the selected item. The method includes, in response to subsequent user input, selecting and presenting a subset of content items and content groups to the user ordered by the adjusted associated relevance weights assigned to the content items and content groups. | 06-05-2014 |
20140164399 | INFERRING VALID VALUES FOR OBJECTS IN A GLOSSARY USING REFERENCE DATA - Method, system, and computer program product to improve a coverage of a plurality of classifications between a plurality of terms in a glossary and a set of values in a reference data management system, by identifying a first classification, of the plurality of classifications in the glossary, between a first term in the glossary and a first set of values in the reference data management system, detecting a relationship between the first set of values and a second set of values in the reference data management system, and upon determining that a relevance score for a relevant value from the second set of values exceeds a predefined threshold, identifying the relevant value to be classified with the term in the glossary, wherein the glossary is configured to create a second classification between the first term and the relevant value. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164400 | PERSONAL ASSISTANT CONTEXT BUILDING - Technologies related to personal assistant context building are generally described. In some examples, network service communications, such as network traffic resulting from the use of mobile applications or “apps” on a mobile device, may be captured, parsed, and included in personal assistant context databases for use in configuring automated personal assistant user interaction operations. In some examples, parsing services may be provided to parse forwarded network service communications and generate converted data for inclusion in personal assistant context databases. | 06-12-2014 |
20140172882 | PARTIAL AND PARALLEL PIPELINE PROCESSING IN A DEEP QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM - System, method, and computer program product to reduce an amount of processing required to generate a response to a first case by a deep question answering system, by, determining that a similarity score, of the first case relative to a second case, exceeds a similarity threshold, identifying a first feature of the second case having a first relevance score exceeding a relevance threshold, identifying a first candidate answer for the first case that does not have the first feature, and refraining from analyzing the first candidate answer in generating the response to the first case, thereby reducing the amount of processing of the deep question answering system. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172883 | PARTIAL AND PARALLEL PIPELINE PROCESSING IN A DEEP QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM - System, method, and computer program product to reduce an amount of processing required to generate a response to a first case by a deep question answering system, by, determining that a similarity score, of the first case relative to a second case, exceeds a similarity threshold, identifying a first feature of the second case having a first relevance score exceeding a relevance threshold, identifying a first candidate answer for the first case that does not have the first feature, and refraining from analyzing the first candidate answer in generating the response to the first case, thereby reducing the amount of processing of the deep question answering system. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172884 | CONTENT SELECTION BASED ON IMAGE CONTENT - Methods, systems, and apparatus, include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, for determining keywords for an image that supports an overlay content item. A method includes identifying, using one or more processors, an image that is to support an overlay content item, the image being presented on a web site and including a portion that is designated as being enabled to receive and display the overlay content item; evaluating pixel data associated with the image including determining one or more labels that are associated with content included within the image; and determining one or more keywords for the image based at least in part on the one or more labels. | 06-19-2014 |
20140181122 | GENERATING AND USING A CUSTOMIZED INDEX - In various embodiments, systems and methods are provided for generating and using a customized index. In embodiments, an index structure is constructed to efficiently utilize machines containing index portions. In this regard, the index structure for a particular application is customizable such that a number of virtual index units for a particular index type and/or a number of machines associated with the virtual index units for the particular index type can be optimized for machine and/or system performance and efficiency. Utilizing the constructed index structure, documents can be distributed to various index units, virtual index units, and/or machines in real-time or near real-time. Further, the customized index structure can be used to efficiently serve search results in response to search queries. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181123 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION METHOD - A content recommendation method for use in a portable electronic device is provided. The method includes the steps of fetching current context information from the portable electronic device; calculating a relevant ranking value of each item within each type of media files stored in the portable electronic device based on the context information; sorting the relevant ranking value of each item within each type of the media files; highlighting at least one of the items of a first user interface of the portable electronic device according to the sorted ranking values. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181124 | METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING COMPUTER EXECUTABLE INSTRUTIONS FOR DETERMINATION OF A MEASURE OF SIMILARITY AND PROCESSING OF DOCUMENTS - A method determines a measure of similarity between a first document and a second document, in which a vector space model which takes into account word frequencies and coordinates is determined for the first document and for the second document. A measure of the similarity between the first document and the second document is determined using the vector space model. An apparatus, a computer program product and a storage medium are configured to execute the method. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181125 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING THE GATHERING OF OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE - Systems and methods (e.g., utilities) for use in providing automated, lightweight collection of online, open source data which may be content-based to reduce website source bias. In one aspect, a utility is disclosed for use in extracting content of interest from at least one website or other online data source (e.g., where the extracted content can be used in a subsequent search query). In other aspects, utilities are disclosed that are operable to perform various types of analyses on such extracted content and present graphical representations of such analyses on a display of a client device. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188899 | Modifying Structured Search Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, receiving a structured query that includes references to selected nodes and edges, and generating one or more query modification for the structured query, where each query modification includes references to modified nodes or modified edges from the plurality of nodes and edges. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188900 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PATTERN-BASED COMPRESSION - An approach for generating a pattern-based database includes accessing a log specifying one or more strings representing data having a dynamic portion and a static portion, and generating a pattern-based database, including one or more records representing compression of the data, by determining the dynamic portions and the static portions of the strings, and assigning pattern values to the strings based on the determined dynamic portions and the static portions, wherein the pattern values are used to provide compression of the static portions within the records of the pattern-based database. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188901 | EFFICIENTLY IDENTIFYING IMAGES, VIDEOS, SONGS OR DOCUMENTS MOST RELEVANT TO THE USER USING BINARY SEARCH TREES ON ATTRIBUTES FOR GUIDING RELEVANCE FEEDBACK - A method, system and computer program product for efficiently identifying images, videos, audio files or documents relevant to a user using binary search trees in attribute space for guiding relevance feedback. A binary tree is constructed for each relative attribute of interest. A “pivot exemplar” (at a node of the binary tree) is set for each relative attribute's binary tree as corresponding to the database image, video, audio file or document with a median relative attribute value among that subtree's child examples. A pivot exemplar out of the available current pivot exemplars that has the highest expected information gain is selected to be provided to the user. Comparative attribute feedback is then received from the user regarding whether a degree of the attribute in the user's target image, video, audio file or document is more, less or equal with the attribute displayed in the selected pivot exemplar. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188902 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RANKING CONTENT OF OBJECTS FOR SEARCH RESULTS - A method and system for ranking an object that contains one or more keywords is disclosed. All linking objects are retrieved that contain a keyword of interest. Each linking object links to the object to be ranked. The locations of each link in each linking object are determined relative to the keywords in the linking objects. A drop off rate is computed for the keyword in each of the linking objects. A perceived importance of the keyword in the each of the linking objects is computed. A partial link rating for each of the linking objects is computed. A total link rating is computed for the at least one keyword across all linking objects. The link ratings each keyword is stored in the object to be ranked. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188903 | MATCHING TOOLS FOR USE IN ATTRIBUTE-BASED PERFORMANCE SYSTMS - Systems and methods consistent with the invention relate to matching user attributes. In one exemplary implementation, the system and methods may store predetermined general attribute descriptors reflecting attributes of users generally, receive personal attribute descriptors selected from the predetermined general attribute descriptors as corresponding to attributes of a first user and a second user, receive a rating associated with each received personal attribute descriptor, compare at least one personal attribute descriptor associated with the first user with at least one personal attribute descriptor associated with the second user to determine a descriptor match, and calculate a match score based on the determined descriptor match and the received ratings. In addition, first and second display points may be displayed and may be separated by a one-dimensional display distance that is a function of the calculated match score. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188904 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A PROCESS FOR THE SHOPPING AND SELECTION OF HUMAN ENTITIES - A matching system and method for providing a degree of matching between a plurality of entities. There are: first, second and additional attribute receiving modules each configured to receive attribute information from an entity; an electronic storage device including a cascading condition module configured to define: a cascading condition; and/or a plurality of cascading information requests associated with the cascading condition; a request module configured to provide the plurality of cascading information requests from the additional attribute receiving module as the cascading request condition is satisfied; and a degree module in communication with the first attribute information receiving module, the second attribute information receiving module, and the additional attribute information receiving module and configured to compare the first attribute information and second attribute information in light of additional attribute information and configured to return degree of matching information. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188905 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUALLY MAINTAINING ITEM AUTHORITY - An item authority system is provided. The item authority system uses rules to identify item definitions that match or potentially match an item description. When a unique match is found, then the item authority system may indicate that the item description describes the same item as the item definition. If multiple matches or only potential matches are identified, then the item authority system may allow a user to manually indicate which item definition matches. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195548 | IDENTIFYING VIDEO CONTENT VIA FINGERPRINT MATCHING - Methods and systems to identify video content based on video fingerprint matching are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems generate a query fingerprint of a frame of video content captured at a client device, query a database of reference fingerprints, determine the query fingerprint of the frame of captured video content matches a reference fingerprint, and identify the video content based on the match of fingerprints. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195549 | SUGGESTED OUT OF NETWORK COMMUNICATION RECIPIENTS - Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems and machine readable medium for recommending an out-of-network communication by determining a set of potential recommended members of a social networking service based upon one or more recommendation criteria. In some examples the recommendation criteria may include: a profile similarity to a previous target of an out-of-network communication, a degree of correspondence between an interest and intent of the sending member, and a likelihood of response. | 07-10-2014 |
20140201219 | Method and Apparatus for Searching an Image, and Computer-Readable Recording Medium for Executing the Method - The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for searching an image, and to a computer-readable recording medium for executing the method. The apparatus for searching an image of the present disclosure obtains features of an input image; and obtains words that correspond to the features respectively and an adjacent word that is adjacent to the words corresponding to the features. When a word is assigned to a first word cell of a plurality of word cells that are included in a visual feature space, an adjacent word is assigned to at least one second word cell that is adjacent to the first word cell, where the plurality of word cells is assigned to different words, and at least one word being within a predetermined distance from a word is designated as the adjacent word. The apparatus is further configured to search for an image that is identical or similar to the input image based on information associated with a first group of images corresponding to the word and information associated with a second group of images corresponding to the adjacent word, the information on the first and second groups of images being stored in a database. | 07-17-2014 |
20140207799 | HILL-CLIMBING FEATURE SELECTION WITH MAX-RELEVANCY AND MINIMUM REDUNDANCY CRITERIA - Various embodiments select features from a feature space. In one embodiment a candidate feature set of k′ features is selected from at least one set of features based on maximum relevancy and minimum redundancy (MRMR) criteria. A target feature set of k features is identified from the candidate feature set, where k′>k. Each a plurality of features in the target feature set is iteratively updated with each of a plurality of k′−k features from the candidate feature set. The feature from the plurality of k′−k features is maintained in the target feature set, for at least one iterative update, based on a current MRMR score of the target feature set satisfying a threshold. The target feature set is stored as a top-k feature set of the at least one set of features after a given number of iterative updates. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207800 | HILL-CLIMBING FEATURE SELECTION WITH MAX-RELEVANCY AND MINIMUM REDUNDANCY CRITERIA - Various embodiments select features from a feature space. In one embodiment a candidate feature set of k′ features is selected from at least one set of features based on maximum relevancy and minimum redundancy (MRMR) criteria. A target feature set of k features is identified from the candidate feature set, where k′>k. Each a plurality of features in the target feature set is iteratively updated with each of a plurality of k′−k features from the candidate feature set. The feature from the plurality of k′−k features is maintained in the target feature set, for at least one iterative update, based on a current MRMR score of the target feature set satisfying a threshold. The target feature set is stored as a top-k feature set of the at least one set of features after a given number of iterative updates. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207801 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING EVENTS - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable storage media for recommending an event to a user. In some implementations, one or more servers receive information identifying a plurality of events. The one or more servers store data of the plurality of events in a first one or more data tables having an action field, an item field, and a user field, and analyze the data of the first one or more data tables to generate one or more pairs, each pair including information identifying a set of events and a target event. The one or more servers may calculate a similarity score for each of the one or more pairs and store the respective similarity score in a second one or more data tables having a set field, a target event field, and a similarity score field. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207802 | MECHANISMS FOR SEARCHING ENTERPRISE DATA GRAPHS - Highly relevant search results for unstructured queries are efficiently identified from normalized data. A server graphs relationships between each of the data objects. For each search term, the server identifies a candidate set of data objects mapped to the term. The server calculates priority scores for the candidate data objects based at least in part on one or more of: a link analysis of the graph; or an analysis of metadata describing structural constraints upon the candidate data objects. Based on the graph, the server identifies one or more search result subgraphs, each comprising at least one data object from each of the candidate sets. The server looks for subgraphs in an order that is based on the priority scores for the candidate data objects. The server may terminate its search early, in part because prioritizing the candidate data objects increases the likelihood of receiving relevant search results first. | 07-24-2014 |
20140214861 | PROXY CACHE AGGREGATOR - A social data aggregator generates entries of action data describing actions taken by users of a social networking system. The entries are archived in a number of remote data hosts, with a portion of the entries stored in an action cache to expedite retrieval. The action cache is modified to include relevant entries of action data by selecting the most relevant entries from proxy data aggregators, which identify sets of entries from remote data hosts coupled to the proxy data aggregators based on the relevance of the entries in the remote data hosts. The relevance of an entry is based on an associated engagement score indicating a likelihood of a user requesting content interacting with a notification based on an entry. | 07-31-2014 |
20140236969 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING CONTENTS BASED ON METADATA GRAPH - An apparatus and method for recommending contents based on a metadata graph are provided. The apparatus includes a contents metadata acquirer configured to acquire metadata of contents, a contents-related data acquirer configured to acquire contents-related data from the Web, a metadata graph generator configured to analyze acquired contents metadata and contents-related data to generate a metadata graph, a metadata graph DB configured to store a metadata graph generated by the metadata graph generator, and a contents recommender configured to search for contents that are similar to specific contents viewed by a user through a contents output terminal using the metadata graph stored in the metadata graph DB, and recommend the searched contents to the user through the contents output terminal. | 08-21-2014 |
20140244664 | Method and Apparatus For Determining Similarity Information For Users of a Network - A method for determining similarity information for users of a network is disclosed. The method comprises constructing a graph from user interaction data, wherein the graph links users of the network according to their interaction, and weighting links between users according to the strength of interaction between the users. The method further comprises, for each of a plurality of users, identifying from among the other users with whom the user interacts: a maximum similarity user to whom the user is connected via a maximum weight link, and a minimum similarity user to whom the user is connected via a minimum weight link. Finally the method comprises assembling a plurality of relative similarity triplets, each triplet comprising a user and that user's identified maximum and minimum similarity users. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244665 | Specificity for Naming Based on Location - In one embodiment, location-based names are selected for a digital object based on a user's familiarity with the geographic location where the digital object was generated. For example, a memory stores multiple names indicative of the same geographic location. The multiple names may include a street address, a city, and a state, where each defines a different level of location specificity. The device that generates the digital object also collects familiarity data for the geographic location and calculates a familiarity score for the digital object based on the familiarity data for the user or the device. If the familiarity score is above a threshold, the user of the device is familiar with the geographic location, and a specific name is associated with the digital object. If the familiarity score is below the threshold, the user of the device is not familiar with the geographic location, and a broader name is associated with the digital object. | 08-28-2014 |
20140258310 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH CONTENT CURATION MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a navigation system includes: generating a point of interest record based on normalizing an entry record; calculating a similarity score based on comparing a plurality of the POI record to each other; and generating an affinity group with a control unit based on the similarity score meeting or exceeding an edge weight threshold for displaying on a device. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258311 | INSIGHT DETERMINATION AND EXPLANATION IN MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATA SETS - Techniques are disclosed for determining reasons underlying insights gleaned from multi-dimensional data. In one embodiment, a contingency table is accessed that represents multiple dimensions of the data, in order to identify one or more insights. One or more dimensions, other than the represented dimensions, are evaluated to identify one or more reasons underlying a first insight of the one or more insights, and the one or more reasons are output. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258312 | INSIGHT DETERMINATION AND EXPLANATION IN MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATA SETS - Techniques are disclosed for determining reasons underlying insights gleaned from multi-dimensional data. In one embodiment, a contingency table is accessed that represents multiple dimensions of the data, in order to identify one or more insights. One or more dimensions, other than the represented dimensions, are evaluated to identify one or more reasons underlying a first insight of the one or more insights, and the one or more reasons are output. | 09-11-2014 |
20140280230 | HIERARCHICAL ORCHESTRATION OF DATA PROVIDERS FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF POINT OF INTEREST METADATA - Various embodiments relate to systems, methods, apparatus, and computer readable media for querying data providers in point of interest searches. In one particular embodiment, a method is provided that includes identifying a plurality of data sources each having a data source priority, the plurality of data sources comprising at least two of: a first reference source, a first structured knowledge base, and a first individual website. The plurality of data sources may then be queried for metadata associated with the POI search request, wherein an order of the querying is based on the data source priority for each of the plurality of data sources; and at least one source quality measured for at least one of the plurality of data sources. In further embodiments, a query order may be updated based on the measured source quality. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280231 | Dynamically Expiring Crowd-Sourced Content - Example apparatus and methods concern dynamically expiring crowd-sourced content (CSC) in a crowd-sourced database. An example apparatus may include logic for acquiring the CSC, where the CSC is data produced by a mobile device concerning a point of interest. The example apparatus also includes logic for producing an evaluation of the CSC and logic for determining an expiration criteria based on the CSC, the evaluation, and the user. The CSC may be data about a point of interest. The evaluation may be based on the completeness, timeliness, or contents of the CSC. The expiration criteria may be established based on the evaluation of the CSC and a user profile. The expiration criteria or user profile may be manipulated based on confirmation or repudiation of the CSC by a different user or by curation of the CSC. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280232 | Method and system for tagging objects comprising tag recommendation based on query-based ranking and annotation relationships between objects and tags - A method and system is disclosed for tagging a latent object with selected tag recommendations, including a set of content objects wherein each object is characterized by an associated set of content features. An annotation relationship is determined between the features and a pre-determined tag for the each object, the relationship being defined by a graph construction representative of an affinity relationship between each pre-selected tag and content object to a selected query. A plurality of the annotation relationships are ranked based upon a relevance of the preselected tags to the content features in response to a new query for assigning a new tag to the each object, so that a suggested tag is made from the ranking whereby the suggested tag is determined as a most likely tag for annotating the content object. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280233 | Methods and Systems for Arranging and Searching a Database of Media Content Recordings - Methods and systems for arranging and searching a database of media content recordings are provided. In one example, a method is provided that comprises receiving a sample of media content, and performing, by a computing device, a content recognition of the sample of media content using a data file including a concatenation of representations for each of a plurality of media content recordings. In other examples, another method is provided that comprises receiving media content recordings, determining a representation for each media content recording, concatenating by a computing device the representation for each media content recording as a data file, and storing by the computing device a mapping between an identifier for a respective media content recording and a global position in the data file that corresponds to the representation of the respective media content recording. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280234 | RANKING OF NATIVE APPLICATION CONTENT - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for | 09-18-2014 |
20140280235 | SCORING OF INTERRELATED MESSAGE ELEMENTS - A structured collection of message elements comprising message elements and oriented child-parent links each connecting a message element to a parent message element is provided. Each message element comprises a message content and metadata including an author identity and a timestamp. The message contents are parsed to generate appreciative phrase marks assigned to the message elements. An appreciative phrase mark is generated in response to detecting that the parsed message content of a later message element comprises a string of characters that matches an entry within a predefined dictionary of regard-expressing phrases. The appreciative phrase mark is assigned to an earlier message element that is connected to the later message element by a sequence of child-parent links. The metadata is parsed to detect the marks and further regard indicators assigned to the message elements. Relevance scores of the message elements are computed as a function of the regard indicators. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280236 | SELECTION AND RANKING OF COMMENTS FOR PRESENTATION TO SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS - When a social networking system receives a request from a requesting user for a content item associated with one or more comments, the social networking system determines an interest score for each comment. The interest score for a comment indicates a measure of the user's likelihood of being interested in the comment. Based on the calculated interest scores, the social networking system selects one or more comments for presentation to the viewing user along with the content item. The social networking system may specify an order in which the selected comments are presented based on the interest scores of the selected comments. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280237 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING SETS OF SOCIAL LOOK-ALIKE USERS - Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying a set of social look-alike users from a plurality of users. In an embodiment, a first set of users is selected from the plurality of users based, at least in part, on one or more characteristics associated with the plurality of users. A degree of similarity is determined between the first set of users and the plurality of users. The plurality of users is ranked based on the degree of similarity and thereafter the set of social look-alike users is determined based on the ranking. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280238 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFYING ELECTRONIC INFORMATION USING ADVANCED ACTIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUES - Systems and methods for classifying electronic information or documents into a number of classes and subclasses are provided through an active learning algorithm. In certain embodiments, seed sets may be eliminated by merging relevance feedback and machine learning phases. Such document classification systems are easily scalable for large document collections, require less manpower and can be employed on a single computer, thus requiring fewer resources. Furthermore, the classification systems and methods described can be used for any pattern recognition or classification effort in a wide variety of fields, including electronic discovery in legal proceedings. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280239 | SIMILARITY DETERMINATION BETWEEN ANONYMIZED DATA ITEMS - A method of determining a similarity between records in a data set is provided. Data organized into a plurality of records is received. First characters associated with a field and a first record of the plurality of records are selected. The selected first characters are subdivided into a first sliding series of a defined number of characters. Second characters associated with the field and a second record of the plurality of records are selected. The selected second characters are subdivided into a second sliding series of the defined number of characters. A similarity score between the first sliding series and the second sliding series is calculated. Whether or not the first sliding series and the second sliding series are similar is determined based on the calculated similarity score. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280240 | Similarity Engine for Facilitating Re-Creation of an Application Collection of a Source Computing Device on a Destination Computing Device - Techniques are disclosed for facilitating re-creation of an application collection of a source computing device at a destination computing device. The techniques include receiving a source application identifier indicative of a source application edition, the edition of the application being programmed for a source operating system. The techniques also include receiving an indicator of a destination operating system. The techniques further include determining a source canonical application corresponding to the source application edition based on the source application identifier, the source canonical application being a representative of one or more application editions including the source application edition. The techniques also include determining a set of destination application editions that are likely similar to the source application edition based on the source canonical application, the set of destination application editions indicating one or more destination application editions programmed for the destination operating system. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280241 | Methods and Systems to Organize Media Items According to Similarity - Users collect digital media items such as songs, images, and videos into media libraries. Over time, the user can collect a very large number of media items making organization and use of the media library difficult and time-consuming. The systems and methods described herein alleviate this task by collecting metadata about the media items from multiple sources, determining a similarity between the media items, and clustering the media items with like media items. The systems and methods described herein can position the media items relative to one another in a layout based on their respective similarity. Feedback from the user and from other users can be added to the metadata and used to update the layout of the media items. | 09-18-2014 |
20140304278 | DYNAMIC MAPS FOR EXPLORING AND BROWSING OF IMAGES - A method of mapping a collection of images, or other higher dimensional items including text documents, and three-and-higher dimensional objects, onto a navigable grid for browsing via a user interface comprises obtaining for each of the images a list of nearest neighbor images and similarity scores for each nearest neighbor; placing a first image on a cell within a grid; from a respective list of nearest neighbors of said first image, finding images that maximize a compatibility score with images already placed on the grid and placing resulting images on neighboring cells; and continuing to place further images on the grid until all cells visible to a user are filled with images. As the user pans or zooms the grid, more cells move into the visible area of the screen and are filled with images in the same way. | 10-09-2014 |
20140317127 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTING ONTOLOGY FOR DIALOGUE SYSTEM - Provided are a method and an apparatus for constructing an ontology for a dialogue system. The method for constructing an ontology for a dialogue system includes: generating a domain ontology plane based on intra-plane relation information of a domain defining a relationship between a plurality of domain nodes; generating a main act ontology plane based on intra-plane relation information of a main act defining a relationship between a plurality of main act nodes; and generating an entity name ontology plane based on intra-plane relation information of an entity name defining a relationship between a plurality of entity name nodes. Therefore, it is possible to construct multiple ontology planes and discriminate components of dialogue frames such as a domain, a main act and an entity name. Also, an effective system response can be performed by discriminating dialogue frames exactly using the multi ontology planes. | 10-23-2014 |
20140330845 | METHOD FOR RECORD LINKAGE FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES - Embodiments of methods for record linkage and comparing attributes are presented herein. Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present invention associate data records using distance measures and weights. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention generate a weight-based comparison of attributes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention involve deduplication of records in a single database and linkage of records in multiple databases. In some embodiments of the invention, records may be merged into a master database based on the linkage and comparison of attributes. In addition, embodiments of the present invention may calculate a quality measure to be used in comparing attributes and records. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330846 | Pharmaceutical/Life Science Technology Evalution and Scoring - A method for evaluating and/or scoring pharmaceutical/life science technology is provided. The method includes importing data of a publication; transforming the data into a structured schema; ingesting the structured schema to determine a context of the data and draw associations between the data and a plurality of profiles; and generating a score based on the associations between the raw data and the profiles. The method may also include generating meta-data based on the determined context of the data and/or one or more quantitative metrics having a temporal component based on the ingested data. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330847 | RELEVANCY-BASED DOMAIN CLASSIFICATION - A domain classifier develops and maintains relevance data about specific domains based on historical relevance data and source context data. Such data may be used to classify the user's interest in attempting to visit a specific domain and thereby redirect the user to a website expected to be aligned with the user's interest. In various implementations, the historical relevance data is derived from source context data and/or post-visit user behavior collected from previous attempts to visit a specific domain. The source context data collected from the current visit may also be used as source context-factors to influence domain classification. Based on such historical and current source context factors, as well as the domain address provided in the user's navigation request, a domain classifier consults the historical relevance data and provides the user with Web content that is identified as likely to be relevant to the user's interests. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330848 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A MOOD PROFILE ASSOCIATED WITH MEDIA DATA - In an embodiment, a method is provided for determining a mood profile of media data. In this method, mood is determined across multiple elements of mood for the media data to create a mood profile associated with the media data. In some embodiments, the mood profile is then used to determine congruencies between one or more pieces of media data. | 11-06-2014 |
20140344288 | Presenting Related Content in a Stream of Content - A system including a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: receive a stream of content including a plurality of content items; retrieve a plurality of related content items; identify a topic for at least one of the plurality of the related content items; rank the topics by relevance to the user and one of the plurality of items; associate the topic to the content item in the stream of content where the topic is ranked as being relevant to the content item; generate a marker for the topic; generate an interface including the marker associated with the content item in the stream of content; and provide the interface for display. | 11-20-2014 |
20140351271 | MEASURING PARTICIPATION IN CONTENT PROPAGATION ACROSS A DYNAMIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY - Systems and methods may measure and rank a user's role in propagation of content within a population of users. In one aspect, the systems and methods allow a user to register a piece of content and to refer the registered content to a second user. The second user may refer the registered content to other users. The systems and methods track the propagation of the registered content among the users, and rank a user's relevance in propagating the registered content among the other users. | 11-27-2014 |
20140358946 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING, SEARCHING AND DETERMINING THE STRENGTH OF CONTACTS FROM A MOBILE CONTACT LIST - The method allows users of mobile devices or desktop/laptops in an organization to perform a search on a collated list of contacts for a particular contact and determine who, within the system/organization, may have that contact in their list. Contact lists from individual mobile devices are collated and stored and are searchable. A rating for the strength of each contact in a user's mobile contact list is made by determining the type of contact that the user uses to communicate with the contact and by the frequency with which the user communicates with the contact. This can be done across the contacts for the entire organization. The organization can also determine the strength of the contact list of someone in the organization or the relative strength of each contact. | 12-04-2014 |
20140372453 | MANAGING DATA ENTITIES USING COLLABORATIVE FILTERING - In a method for managing a plurality of data entities, data pertaining to transactions by a plurality of users with respect to the data entities is collected and a collaborative filtering operation is applied on the data entities to determine similarity levels of the data entities with respect to each other. In addition, for at least one of the data entities, remaining ones of the data entities are ranked according to the determined similarities while discounting for popularities of the data entities. Moreover, identifications of at least another one of the data entities having the highest rankings to the at least one of the data entities are presented to a first user to recommend the at least another one of the data entities for use by the first user. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372454 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY DETERMINING PRIORITY OF DATA IN A DATABASE - A method and apparatus for determining priority of data in a database managed by a computing device are provided. The data comprises a list of events, the computing device comprising a processing unit interconnected with a memory device and a display device. Context data is processing at the processing unit to determine a priority ranking for each of the items, wherein processing the context data to determine a priority ranking comprises at least one of processing attendance data, location, event data, and telephone record data. Respective areas of the display device are controlled to provide visual representations of each of the events, each respective area controlled according to the priority ranking. | 12-18-2014 |
20150012547 | CO-SELECTED IMAGE CLASSIFICATION - Co-selected images are labeled based on a topic score that is a measure of relevance of the co-selected image to a first topic to which a reference image belongs. The first topic to which the reference image belongs is identified based on a reference label associated with the reference image. The co-selected images are images that are selected for presentation subsequent to selection of the reference image during a user session. The co-selected images are identified based on selection data for user sessions in which the reference image was selected for presentation. The topic score is generated based on a frequency of selection of the co-selected image. Image search results for a second topic can be filtered to remove images that are labeled as belonging to the first topic or the image search results can be reordered to adjust the presentation positions at which images are referenced based on the topic to which the images belong. | 01-08-2015 |
20150019571 | METHOD FOR POPULATION OF OBJECT PROPERTY ASSERTIONS - Relay of information from technical documentation by contact center workers to assist clients is limited by industry standard storage formats and query mechanisms. A method is disclosed for processing technical documents and tagging them against a Telecom Hardware domain ontology. The method comprises classical ontological Natural Language Processing (NLP) approaches to extract information from both text segments and tables, identifying text segments, named entities and relations between named entities described by an existing T-Box. A method for scoring candidate object property assertions derived from text before populating the Telecom Hardware ontology is also disclosed. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019572 | Intelligent Default Weighting Process For Criteria Utilized To Score Media Content Items - A system and device are provided for intelligently, or programmatically, assigning weights for one or more criterion utilized to score media content items based on an analysis of a group of media content items. In general, scoring criteria to be used to score media content items for a user are defined. A group of media content items associated with the user is then analyzed with respect to the criteria to provide results such as a number or percentage of media content items from the group of media content items that satisfy each of the scoring criteria. Based on the results of the analysis, a weight is assigned to each of the scoring criteria. Thereafter, media content items are scored as a function of the weights assigned to the scoring criteria. | 01-15-2015 |
20150052154 | SCORING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ENTITIES BASED ON PROXIMITY IN SPACE AND TIME - Methods for determining a relationship score between a first entity and a second entity. A first computer-readable representation of a first spatial region containing the first entity is generated. A second computer-readable representation of a second spatial region containing the second entity is generated. The first computer-readable representation and the second computer-readable representation are compared at decreasing resolutions until a matching condition is reached. A relationship score is assigned to one or more of the first entity and the second entity based on the resolution at which the matching condition is reached. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052155 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RANKING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ELEMENTS - A method and system for ranking and providing at least one multimedia content element respective of a query are disclosed. The method includes receiving at least one query from a user device; generating a matching score for each tagged multimedia content element stored in a data warehouse respective of a match level to the at least one query; ranking each multimedia content element based on its respective matching score; and returning at least one multimedia content element to the user device respective of the ranking. | 02-19-2015 |
20150058362 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING EVALUATION OF DOCUMENTS - Methods and systems for facilitating evaluation of one or more electronic documents. One or more templates are extracted from the one or more electronic documents. At least one area in the one or more templates is identified. The at least one area includes a response provided by a user associated with the electronic document. One or more groups are generated based on similarity between the responses in the at least one area in the one or more templates. The one or more groups are distributed to one or more remote workers or a crowdsourcing platform for the evaluation. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058363 | CLOUD-BASED ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - According to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a database system includes a memory storing a computer program; a processor configured to execute the program, and a database. The database comprises a tree graph, where the tree graph is a tree that comprises a plurality of nodes. Each node includes a literal identifier (ID) that refers to an instance of one of a plurality of types of data structures and a node ID that uniquely distinguishes the node from the remaining nodes in the tree. The program is configured to receive a query from a user comprising one of the instances, process the query by traversing the tree to each node having a same literal ID that corresponds to the instance in the query, and generate a query result based on children nodes of each node traversed to. | 02-26-2015 |
20150066955 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A METADATA MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK - An approach for adapting a metadata framework in accordance with metadata manipulations is provided. The approach includes determining a first metadata associated with a first content item representing sensor information and a second metadata associated with a second content item representing sensor information. The approach also includes determining a third metadata based on the first metadata and the second metadata and associated the third metadata with a third content item. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066956 | USER MATCHING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - A method includes: storing, via at least one processor, intrinsic service elements and environmental elements in at least one storage medium on a user-by-user basis; receiving, from a first plurality of users, requests for a service over at least one network; selecting, in response to receiving the requests, a second plurality of users from the first plurality of users based on the intrinsic service elements; and matching at least two users among the second plurality of users based on the environmental elements. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066957 | IMAGE SEARCH DEVICE, IMAGE SEARCH METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image search device is configured to: obtain a plurality of query feature vectors each indicating a local feature of an image serving as a query; select a plurality of image feature vectors respectively corresponding to the plurality of query feature vectors based on proximities between the plurality of image feature vectors respectively indicating a plurality of local features of each of a plurality of search target images to be searched, and the plurality of query feature vectors; generate an image score of the search target image based on a total sum of score elements each corresponding to the proximities between the selected plurality of image feature vectors and the query feature vectors corresponding to the selected image feature vectors; and select at least one of the plurality of search target images based on the image score. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066958 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS QUANTIFYING TRUST PERCEPTIONS OF ENTITIES WITHIN SOCIAL MEDIA DOCUMENTS - A computer system measures trust of an entity in electronic documents from electronic media sources is described. A communication network is linked to one or more of the sources. A computer server is in communication with the communication network and is configured to receive electronic documents via the communication network. The computer server having a memory and a processor accessing a database. The memory includes processor executable instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor. The computer executable instructions comprise preliminary term vector instructions, calculating instructions for determining the preliminary term vectors in the received electronic documents, and refined term vector instructions for defining a plurality of industry-specific term vectors. | 03-05-2015 |
20150074122 | SOCIAL RECOMMENDATION ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS - At least one computer processor obtains access to a relationship network and a network of a different kind than the relationship network. The at least one computer processor also obtains a user query and carries out a multiple heterogeneous networks search on the relationship network and the network of the different kind than the relationship network, by executing on the at least one computer processor a multiple heterogeneous network search module, to obtain a ranked output list responsive to the user query. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074123 | VIDEO REMIXING SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for selecting content for a media remix, comprising: obtaining information about a base media content to be used as a basis for the media remix in a media remix service; retrieving one or more supplementary media content from one or more network domains or multimedia content databases on the basis of said information, said supplementary media content being at least partly similar and/or relevant to the base media content; and generating a media remix on the basis of said base media content and said one or more supplementary media content. | 03-12-2015 |
20150081724 | REDIRECTING GRAPH QUERIES - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for redirecting relational data queries to previously generated graphs. In one example, a method of operating a graph redirect system includes identifying a relational data query and identifying whether at least one previously generated graph in a group of one or more previously generated graphs relates to the relational data query based on similarity data. The method further provides, in response to identifying that at least one previously generated graph relates to the relational data query, directing the relational data query to the at least one previously generated graph, and responding to the relational data query using the at least one previously generated graph. | 03-19-2015 |
20150088906 | QUESTION ROUTING FOR USER COMMUNITIES - A computer-implemented method routes a current question to one or more of a plurality of online communities. A computer system can determine, for the current question presented by an asking user a plurality of question-to-question similarity values, a plurality of question-to-user similarity values and a plurality of question-to-community similarity values. The system can select one or more of the plurality of online communities based on the similarity values. The system can route the current question presented by the asking user to the selected one or more of the plurality of online communities. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088907 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DATABASES HAVING RECORDS WITH MISSING VALUES - The method includes selecting a target record from a dataset, the target record including a missing value, partitioning records of the dataset into at least two groups including co-related data, the partitioned records including records having a value for a same field as the missing value in the target record, predicting the missing value based on a relationship between fields in each of the at least two groups associated with the partitioned records, and setting the missing value of the target record to the predicted value. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088908 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus may include a control unit to control providing a related content in relation to a content for a first user based on a relation degree, wherein the relation degree is determined based on relationship between the first user and another user. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088909 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A SCORED DEVICE ASSOCIATION GRAPH - A system and method for creating a scored association map that works in conjunction with advertisement serving technologies to enable multi-screen advertising. The method according to an embodiment of the disclosed subject matter comprises the steps of: (i) the creation of a scored association graph utilizing multiple data elements, (ii) allowing users to synchronize identifiers with the graph, and (iii) enabling users to retrieve elements and data from the graph and via an interface. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088910 | AUTOMATIC PRIORITIZATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT INFORMATION - A device may receive text to be processed to prioritize text sections included in the text. The device may perform one or more prioritization techniques to prioritize the text sections. The one or more prioritization techniques may include at least one of: a semantic centrality analysis that indicates a degree to which a text section is semantically related to at least one other text section, an information content analysis that indicates a degree to which the text section includes information not included in the at least one other text section, or a combined analysis based on the semantic centrality analysis and the information content analysis. The device may prioritize the text sections, to form a set of prioritized text sections, based on performing the one or more prioritization techniques. The device may provide information that identifies the set of prioritized text sections. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088911 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING USER BEHAVIOR FEATURES TO PERSONALIZE RECOMMENDATIONS - A method for extracting user features based on user behaviors. The method uses webpage clickstream data of a current user to compute a path correlation between the current user and other users, selects a number of other users whose path correlation with the current user ranks among the highest, and then configures weights in connection to preset tags of websites visited by the selected other users, and computes a user correlation between the current user and the selected other users based on the preset tags and the weights. The method constructs weighted-directed graphs of webpage click paths based on click stream data, and converts computing user correlation to computing a similarity of weighted-directed graphs. The method further combines computing correlation of webpage tags to discover the user's clicking habits and personal preferences, and improve the accuracy and efficiency of user clustering. | 03-26-2015 |
20150095350 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND DEVICES FOR GENERATING MAPS ON A MOBILE DEVICE - Methods, apparatuses, and devices for generating maps on a display of, for example, a mobile device, are presented. In one example, a server, such as a map server, may organize a data structure corresponding to a map based, at least in part, on a received query, estimated location, and/or a current route of a mobile device user. Points of interest (POIs) that may be more relevant to a mobile device user may be transmitted from a map server, for example, prior to POIs that may be less relevant. In one example, a plurality of POIs may be rendered on a display of a mobile device. One or more POIs may be emphasized on the display based on one or more criteria. | 04-02-2015 |
20150100590 | System And Method For Classifying Documents Via Propagation - A system and method for classifying documents via propagation are provided. Text highlighted by a user within at least one document is identified. The document is associated with a classification code based on the highlighted text. At least a portion of the highlighted text is compared with one or more unclassified documents. Those unclassified documents with text that is the same as the compared portion of the highlighted text in the document are identified. The classification code of the document is automatically assigned to the identified unclassified documents with text that is the same. Further, those unclassified documents with text that is similar to the compared portion of the highlighted text in the document are identified. The unclassified documents with similar text are provided to the user for review and classification. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100591 | Determining a Community Page for a Concept in a Social Networking System - Equivalent concepts expressed across multiple domains are matched and associated with a metapage generated by a social networking system. User preferences expressed on multiple domains, represented as pages in a social networking system, may be organized by concept and shared with advertisers, third-party developers, and other users of the social networking system using the metapages generated for the concepts. Aggregated social information may be presented to users of the social networking system viewing a page associated with a metapage. Information presented on external websites may be used to link pages across multiple domains with a metapage generated on the social networking system. In one embodiment, the information on other external websites associated with the metapage may be presented as links on the pages associated with the metapage. Feedback from users may be used to include or exclude pages from being associated with a generated metapage. In one embodiment, a best page may be determined for a concept embodied in multiple pages on the social networking system using a hierarchy of rules. In another embodiment, a best page may be determined for a user based on information about the user. In yet another embodiment, social context information may be provided on a page associated with a metapage for a viewing user that shows expressions of interest by other users on the page and other pages associated with the metapage. | 04-09-2015 |
20150106390 | PROCESSING USER-SUBMITTED UPDATES BASED ON USER RELIABILITY SCORES - Processing user-submitted updates based on user reliability scores is described. A system calculates an update score, for an update submitted by a user, based on a similarity of a field value provided by the update to corresponding field values in identified records. The system calculates a user score based on update scores, including the update score, calculated for corresponding updates submitted by the user. The system processes the update based on the user score. | 04-16-2015 |
20150113005 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A MEDIA OBJECT - In accordance with an example embodiment of the invention, an apparatus comprising a processor configured to receive information related to a media object, and automatically select at least one supplemental media object based at least in part on a competency of a user related to the media object is disclosed. | 04-23-2015 |
20150120760 | IMAGE TAGGING - A system is configured to annotate an image with tags. As configured, the system accesses an image and generates a set of vectors for the image. The set of vectors may be generated by mathematically transforming the image, such as by applying a mathematical transform to predetermined regions of the image. The system may then query a database of tagged images by submitting the set of vectors as search criteria to a search engine. The querying of the database may obtain a set of tagged images. Next, the system may rank the obtained set of tagged images according to similarity scores that quantify degrees of similarity between the image and each tagged image obtained. Tags from a top-ranked subset of the tagged images may be extracted by the system, which may then annotate the image with these extracted tags. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127663 | Ranking Objects by Social Relevance - In one embodiment, one or more computing systems may implement a social networking environment and may be operable to access, in a social graph associated with one or more computing systems of a social network environment, a user node representing a particular user, the user node connected to a plurality of attribute nodes. The social graph may comprise a plurality of object nodes in the social graph, each object node being connected to a plurality of attribute nodes. The systems may be further operable to calculate a match coefficient between the user node and an individual object node. The calculation may include operations to, for each attribute node in a set of all attribute nodes connected to both the user node and the object node, calculate a first coefficient between the user node and the attribute node. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127664 | PRE-FETCHING ITEMS IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE BASED ON AVATAR COMMUNICATIONS - The present invention pre-fetches objects, textures and scripts (collectively referred to herein as items) through analysis of the communications of an avatar. Furthermore, if an object, texture or script is not pre-fetched upon arrival to a region the virtual universe's object, texture and script download system is augmented to prioritize objects the user may be interested in based on the avatar's communications and previously stated priorities. The present invention may improve user experience of virtual world by prioritizing the download and caching of objects, textures, and scripts that are likely to interest the user. Such a prioritization enhances the user experience by reducing wait times for the rendering of objects of interest. | 05-07-2015 |
20150142828 | ONTOLOGY BASED CATEGORIZATION OF USERS - Systems and methods are disclosed for categorizing a user. An example method includes marking one or more graphical user interface (GUI) features of an application. The method also includes monitoring a user's usage of the one or more marked GUI features of the application. The method further includes generating one or more user-specific ontologies for the user in accordance with the user's monitored usage. The method also includes comparing the one or more user-specific ontologies with a plurality of defined ontologies. Each defined ontology corresponds to a category of a plurality of categories. The method further includes categorizing the user in accordance with the comparison of the one or more user-specific ontologies and the plurality of defined ontologies. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142829 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND METHOD FOR DATA AGGREGATIONE - Embodiments include a method, apparatus, program, and system for distributing data items among a plurality of data storage units, the data items being an aggregation of data from a plurality of data sources. The method comprises generating a semantic description of each of the plurality of data sources; calculating, for each pair of data sources from among the plurality of data sources, a degree of similarity between the semantic descriptions of the pair of data sources; and allocating data items to data storage units in dependence upon the calculated degree of similarity between the data source of a data item being allocated and the or each data source of data items already allocated to the data storage units. | 05-21-2015 |
20150149488 | USING ANCHOR POINTS IN DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION - Systems and methods are disclosed that allow for indexing, processing, or both of information from physical media or electronic media, which may be received from a plurality of sources. In embodiments, a document file may be matched using pattern matching methods and may include comparisons with a comparison reference database to improve or accelerate the indexing process. In embodiments, information may be presented to a user as potential matches thereby improving manual indexing processes. In embodiments, one or more additional actions may occur as part of the processing, including without limitation, association additional data with a document file, making observations from the document file, notifying individuals, creating composite messages, and billing events. In an embodiment, data from a document file may be associated with a key word, key phrase, or word frequency value that enables adaptive learning so that unindexed data may be automatically indexed based on user interaction history. | 05-28-2015 |
20150293921 | EVALUATING PORTIONS OF CONTENT IN AN ONLINE COMMUNITY - PATENT An approach is described for evaluating portions of content in an online community. An associated system may include a processor and a memory storing an application program, which, when executed on the processor, performs an operation that may include displaying a content post in an online community interface and, upon detecting a selection of an option in the online community interface to evaluate the content post, requesting a selection of one or more portions of the content post and an evaluation of the selected one or more portions. Requesting such evaluation may include requesting selection of a favorability score on a predefined scale for each of the selected one or more portions. The operation further may include, upon receiving a selection of one or more portions and an evaluation of the selected one or more portions, updating display of the content post to reflect the evaluation. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293922 | PERFORMING GRAPH OPERATIONS USING HISTORIC INVERSE PROBABILITY ESTIMATORS - Historic inverse probability estimators are created for a graph based on all-distance sketches associated with each node of the graph. The historic inverse probability estimators include adjusted weights for each node. Graph operations such as closeness centrality are estimated using the historic inverse probability estimators. The historic inverse probability estimators can also be applied to element streams and can be used to estimate a number of unique elements in received in the element stream. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293923 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANONYMIZED USER LIST COUNT - A computer system includes a database configured to receive a query and to produce a list of User IDs and an anonymization module. The anonymization module is configured to receive a list of user IDs in response to a query, the list of user IDs defining a true user count, generate a noisy user count of the list of user IDs, compare the true user count to a first threshold value stored in memory, compare the noisy user count to a second threshold value stored in memory, and output the noisy user count only if the true user count is greater than the first threshold value and the noisy user count is greater then the second threshold. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293993 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HUMAN ENHANCED SEARCH RESULTS - A method and system are disclosed to improve the relevance of results, apps, videos, photos, advertisements, or other information to be presented to a user responsive to a user request. A method and system are disclosed for relative ranking of items. Human judgment is used to rank items relative to other items to create relatively ranked pairs. The order in which items such as search results are presented to a user may be affected by relative ranking using relatively ranked pairs. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293997 | User Profile Stitching - Methods and techniques may be provided for matching user profiles on distinct social media platforms. A first profile is retrieved from a first social media platform. The first profile is identified by one or more search criteria. Responsive to identifying an instance of the one or more search criteria on a second social media platform, a first probability is determined. A second profile is identified by the one or more search criteria on the second social media platform. The first probability predicts whether the second profile is associated with an entity associated with the first profile. The determining the first probability further comprises comparing an attribute of the first profile to an attribute of the second profile. Responsive to determining that the first probability exceeds a threshold, a match indicating that the second profile is associated with an entity associated with the first profile is recorded. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294007 | Performing A Search Based On Entity-Related Criteria - A technique includes performing a search in response to a query that contains at least one entity term and at least one other term. The query targets a collection of structured data and unstructured data. The technique includes performing a search in the collection to find at least one document based at least in part on at least one entity mention indicated by the query. | 10-15-2015 |
20150310019 | PROVIDING AN ENERGY TARGET FOR HIGH ENERGY USERS - The subject technology provides for identifying a set of similar users. Energy usage data is retrieved for the set of similar users. Next, based at least on the retrieved energy usage data, a comparison of energy usage of each user in the set of similar users is performed. Based on the comparison of energy usage, at least one user is selected from the set of similar users to include in a campaign. A target for energy usage is then identified for the at least one user. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310102 | GENERATING UNWEIGHTED SAMPLES FROM WEIGHTED FEATURES - Weighted features associated with a document are scaled using scales to generate a set of unweighted elements for each scale. A sketch is generated for each scale by sampling the unweighted elements generated for the scale. The scales are chosen based on a selected cutoff factor so that documents that have a similarity that is less than the cutoff factor might have no scales in common, while documents that have a similarity that is greater than the cutoff factor will have at sufficiently many but at least one scale in common. The similarity of these documents can be estimated using the sketches associated with each of the documents for the common scales. | 10-29-2015 |
20150324364 | NOTIFYING A USER ABOUT RELEVANT DATA FOR OPPORTUNITIES - Notifying a user about relevant data for opportunities includes obtaining, from a database, opportunities, the opportunities representing a complex record structure in the database, in which each of the opportunities captures a number of fields of metadata, analyzing the metadata associated with the opportunities to identify patterns for the opportunities, identifying, based on the patterns, correlations for the opportunities, and notifying, based on the correlations, the user about relevant data for the opportunities. | 11-12-2015 |
20150347412 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING DEVELOPMENTAL TRAINING - An approach is provided for receiving an input for specifying a developmental training activity associated with a user. The approach involves identifying a classification of the developmental training activity as a team activity, an individual activity, or a combination thereof. The approach also involves determining a weighting for the development training activity based on classification. The approach further involves calculating a training score for the user based on the weighting and the developmental training activity. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347414 | NEW HEURISTIC FOR OPTIMIZING NON-CONVEX FUNCTION FOR LEARNING TO RANK - Techniques for optimizing non-convex function for learning to rank are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a search module may set an order for a group of search features. The group of search features can be used by a ranking model to determine the relevance of items in a search query. Additionally, the search module can assign a first weight factor to a first search feature in the group of search features. Moreover, the search module can calculate a mean reciprocal rank for the search query based on the assigned first weight factor. Furthermore, the search module can determine a second weight factor, using a preset incremental vector, for a second search feature in the group of search features to maximize the mean reciprocal rank for the search query. Subsequently, the search module can assign the second weight factor to the second search feature in the group of search features. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347433 | STREAM BASED NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION - Embodiments of the present invention relate to performing entity recognition on a stream while providing ongoing training or supplementation of an entity dictionary. In one embodiment, a method of and computer program product for stream based named entity recognition is provided. A first portion of a textual input is received. A plurality of patterns is applied to the first portion to determine that a predetermined type is present in the first portion. Approval is requested of the presence of the predetermined type. An indication of approval or disapproval of the predetermined type is received. A dictionary is supplemented according to the indication. A second portion of the textual input is received. The plurality of patterns is applied to the second portion. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347591 | INFORMATION MATCHING AND MATCH VALIDATION - Disclosed herein is a matching of multiple different social graphs to generate a combined social graph. Such a combined social graph may be searched and used in determining information to provide to a user, for example. An iterative metric learning approach may be used in matching multiple different social graphs. A mechanism is provided to validate a match from different social graphs. Match validation of data field matching is provided. | 12-03-2015 |
20150363490 | Systems and Methods for Interactively Disambiguating Entities - The disclosure relates to entity disambiguation in an interactive fashion based upon attributes. Once disambiguated, a manner in which to review a future article based upon an initial set of attributes and an additional set of attributes and, when needed, generate a warning flag based upon the review is also described. The warning flag may result in a change in the relationship between the entity and an organization such as a bank that is considering engaging in a business relationship with a candidate client, and that may subsequently abandon that plan, or a bank that had previously extended credit to the entity, and that subsequently may be less inclined as a result of the information retrieved by the present invention. A previously accepted entity may also be flagged for credit or anti-money laundering consideration if and when the applicant's situation (e.g., financial situation, involvement in anti-money laundering) changes. | 12-17-2015 |
20150370891 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING CONTENT - Various aspects of a method and a system for retrieving content are disclosed herein. The method includes receiving a search query comprising a string of characters from a user. A set of search results are determined from a plurality of pre-stored strings of characters, based on a phonetic similarity with the received search query. | 12-24-2015 |
20150379081 | SYNONYM EXPANSION - Techniques for synonym expansion are provided. An example method includes retrieving one or more multimedia items and one or more keywords associated with the multimedia items, wherein the retrieving is performed for the one or more multimedia items that are associated with both a query term and a synonym from a synonym pair, determining a first set of one or more keywords that are common to a group of multimedia items obtained based on the retrieving, determining, for each keyword from the first set of one or more keywords, a context score quantifying a value of the keyword for the synonym pair, based on the context score, determining from the first set of one or more keywords a second set of keywords that correlate higher to the synonym pair relative to other keywords from the second set of one or more keywords. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379098 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DATA - A method is provided for managing data in an electronic device, the method including: detecting a request for tagging a data record; selecting a portion of the data record in response to the request; identifying a content item based on the selected portion of the data record; and associating the content item with the data record. | 12-31-2015 |
20160004768 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROBABILISTICALLY QUANTIFYING AND VISUALIZING RELEVANCE BETWEEN TWO OR MORE CITATIONALLY OR CONTEXTUALLY RELATED DATA OBJECTS - In one embodiment a method for probabilistically quantifying a degree of relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects, such as patent documents, non-patent documents, web pages, personal and corporate contacts information, product information, consumer to behavior, technical or scientific information, address information, and the like is provided. In another embodiment a method for visualizing and displaying relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects is provided. In another embodiment a search input/output interface that utilizes an iterative self-organizing mapping technique to automatically generate a visual map of relevant patents and/or other related documents desired to be explored, searched or analyzed is provided. In another embodiment, a search input/output interface that displays and/or communicates search input criteria and corresponding search results in a way that facilitates intuitive understanding and visualization of the logical relationships between two or more related concepts being searched is provided. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004775 | Method for Selecting Valid Variants in Search and Recommendation Systems (Variants) - Selecting and ranking valid variants in search and recommendation systems selects and ranks variants with accuracy and speed. Criteria for evaluating the relevance of a variant to the search request are generated. A set of procedures for the selection and ranking of variants and a sequence for performing said procedures for the selection of variants evaluated as the most valid are established. An evaluation of each variant is based on relevance to search request criteria. The variants are then ranked by assigning a rank to each variant based on the condition of correspondence to the greatest number of criteria in decreasing order. Then the variants are selected and ranked in at least two stages using the superposition method, and the variants are selected, ranked and excluded until all of the established selection procedures have been used and the selected group of variants is evaluated as being the most valid. | 01-07-2016 |
20160012149 | USING VERTEX SELF-INFORMATION SCORES FOR VERTICES IN AN ENTITY GRAPH TO DETERMINE WHETHER TO PERFORM ENTITY RESOLUTION ON THE VERTICES IN THE ENTITY GRAPH | 01-14-2016 |
20160019302 | SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR SHARING ACADEMIC USER PROFILES AND RANKING ACADEMIC USERS - A system for sharing academic articles and credential information for a plurality of academic users is described herein. Embodiments of the system, computer program product and computer-implemented method perform a process for gathering data related to the academic user and a process for determining a reputation ranking for the academic user by executing the steps of: creating a user profile for the academic user from attribute information gathered from a user profile prompt, enabling the user profile from the academic user to be viewed by academic and non-academic users to provide a rank selection for the user profile for the academic user according to at least one of research quality, credentials, research articles, and user activity, and determining a reputation ranking for the user profile from the rank selection of the other academic users. | 01-21-2016 |
20160026637 | SEARCH METHOD, SEARCH DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A search method includes: extracting processes from a target operation manual from which automation software that is obtained by converting, into commands, the processes included in the target operation manual describing a procedure for configuring settings in an information processing device is generated; comparing the processes extracted from the target operation manual with a plurality of processes included in each of a plurality of existing operation manuals in a storage storing the existing operation manuals and automation software generated from the existing operation manuals and associated with the existing operation manuals while maintaining the orders of the processes; calculating first similarities that are similarities between the existing operation manuals and the target operation manual based on the comparing; and searching, based on the calculated first similarities, an existing operation manual similar to the target operation manual and automation software associated with the existing operation manual and stored in the storage. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026639 | CONTEXT-BASED TEXT AUTO COMPLETION - An aspect of auto-completion of text entered by a user includes configurable data collection components that collect from software applications text data and metadata representing an initial state of each of the applications and text data and metadata representing changes to the state of one or more of the applications. A central text matching component receives and stores the text data and metadata. A sending component sends text entered by the user in a text-entry field and any metadata associated with it to the central text matching component. A comparison component compares the entered text and associated metadata to the stored text data and metadata and locates matching text strings. A weighted ordering component ranks the matching text strings using the metadata and its configuration settings. A completion component completes the entered text at the text-entry field based on a selection of one of the located matching text strings. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026669 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed herein is an information processor including: a behavioral data acquisition section adapted to acquire behavioral data about behaviors performed by a user of interest including dates and times of the behaviors; a feature quantity calculation section adapted to calculate feature quantities indicating features of the behaviors performed by the user of interest at least during each of first and second periods which are different from each other by using the acquired behavioral data; and an evaluation section adapted to evaluate similarity between the user of interest and other users by using at least some of the calculated feature quantities. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034457 | Changed Answer Notification in a Question and Answer System - Mechanisms are provided, in a question and answer (QA) system, for monitoring changes in answers to previously submitted questions. A question is received for which an answer is to be generated. A first answer for the question is generated and the question, first answer, and a notification party are registered in a question registration data structure. A second answer to the question is generated, at a later time than when the first answer was generated. A degree of a change in the answer to the question is determined. An answer change notification is transmitted to the notification party based on the degree of the change in the answer to the question. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034565 | MANAGING CREDIBILITY FOR A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM - A method and system for managing credibility of a set of search results for a search query is disclosed. The method can include determining, by a natural language processing technique configured to analyze a portion of the set of search results and a portion of the search query, a credibility factor configured to indicate similarity to a subject matter of the search query. The method can also include establishing a relevance relationship between the credibility factor and source information of a first search result of the set of search results, wherein the source information is based on the credibility factor. The method may also include computing a credibility score for the first search result of the set of search results based on the relevance relationship between the credibility factor and the source information of the set of search results. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034568 | Computer-Based Method of Processing of Machine-Readable Information - The invention relates to processing of machine-readable data. The invention can be used for processing of data specially intended for a wide range of specific functions. The invention can be used in computers, for composing of computer programs, as well as for building systems of processing of information. Particular cases of using the invention include information search, processing of information in databases, data selection and its statistics. The invention can be used for receiving a visualized representation of data being processed, including data in the form of electronic documents. A computer-based method of processing of machine-readable data comprises: calling for a set of electronic documents; defining a search query; matching of search attributes to a search query; determining of matching of search attributes of electronic documents to specified search queries; attributing of electronic documents relevant to specified search queries to corresponding subject subsets of electronic documents. | 02-04-2016 |
20160041975 | DOCUMENT TAGGING AND RETRIEVAL USING PER-SUBJECT DICTIONARIES INCLUDING SUBJECT-DETERMINING-POWER SCORES FOR ENTRIES - Techniques for managing big data include tagging of documents and subsequent retrieval using per-subject dictionaries having entries with subject-determining-power scores. The subject-determining-power scores provide an indication of the descriptive power of the term with respect to the subject of the dictionary containing the term. The same term may have entries in multiple dictionaries with different subject-determining-power scores in each of the dictionaries. A retrieval request for one or more documents containing search terms descriptive of the one or more documents can be processed identifying a set of candidate documents tagged with subjects and optional terms, and then applying subject-determining-power scores from the multiple dictionaries for the search term to determine a subject for the search term. The method then selects the one or more documents from the candidate documents according to the subject. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041987 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTION - A system and method for extracting information from at least one document in at least one set of documents, the method comprising: generating, using at least one ranking and/or matching processor, at least one ranked possible match list comprising at least one possible match for at least one target entry on the at least one document, the at least one ranked possible match list based on at least one attribute score and at least one localization score. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042057 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY SUGGESTING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS SUBMITTED TO A PORTAL OF AN ONLINE SERVICE - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for dynamically suggesting answers to questions submitted to a portal of an online service. These mechanisms and methods for dynamically suggesting answers to questions submitted to a portal of an online service can enable embodiments to provide help document suggestions with limited user input. The ability of embodiments to provide help document search term suggestions with limited user input can enable users to quickly and efficiently find useful help documents. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048509 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTATION AND OPERATION OF STRATEGIC LINKAGES - The present invention relates to a system, method and medium for associating portions of advocational documents with portions of tribunal decisions in view of common or similar characteristics that are identified between the associated entities. In addition, the associated advocational document portions are imparted with certain characteristics resulting from such an association, such as inheriting the topic of the associated tribunal decision portion or inheriting general characteristics of the decision such as judge or jurisdiction. This allows for the subsequent retrieval of advocational documents in view of various criteria associated with a decision or portion thereof. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048517 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING RELATIONSHIPS IN A DATA GRAPH - A graph database system is used to determine relationships between persons. The graph database system manages relationship data records having a compact data structure stored at a relationship database and accessed to find links or common relationships. For determining relationships between two people, the relationship records in the relationship paths for those two people are alternatively accessed and compared it to each other. Relationship records may include an identifier for a person having a relationship to a given individual, a relationship type, and a weight reflecting the confidence level or quality of the relationship. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048518 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING FOR DISPLAY HIERARCHICAL VIEWS OF CONTENT ORGANIZATION NODES ASSOCIATED WITH CAPTURED CONTENT AND FOR DETERMINING ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFIERS FOR CAPTURED CONTENT - Systems and methods for providing for display hierarchical views of content organization nodes associated with captured content and for determining organizational identifiers for captured content are disclosed. A method includes providing a hierarchical taxonomy including a plurality of nodes. The method further includes receiving a plurality of captured content items. The method further includes associating a plurality of content organization nodes from the plurality of nodes with the plurality of captured content items. Each of the plurality of captured content items is associated with at least one of the plurality of content organization nodes. The method further includes providing for display a hierarchical view including the plurality of content organization nodes. The hierarchical view includes, for each of the plurality of content organization nodes, a graphical representation that the content organization node is associated with at least one of the plurality of captured content items. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048545 | AUTOMATIC QUESTION SORTING - In a large presentation or lecture, multiple questions submitted by the audience may be classified into one or more common questions based on the semantic relatedness of the submitted questions. Further, the common questions may be sorted and presented to a host or lecturer so that the host or lecturer may efficiently answer the common questions. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048547 | NATURAL LANGUAGE MANAGEMENT OF ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK CONNECTIONS - Natural language management of online social network connections may comprise receiving natural language data associated with a user's social network interactions. The natural language data associated with a user's social network interactions is analyzed and features used in the user's social network interactions are determined based on the analysis. The contexts in which the features are used in the user's social network interactions may be also determined. Point values to the features used in the user's social network interactions are assigned. A fingerprint of the user is created at least based on the features and the point values. The created fingerprint may be compared with information associated with online communities, and based on the comparison, one or more of the online communities may be recommended as user's potential social network connections. | 02-18-2016 |
20160055155 | Answering Superlative Questions with a Question and Answer System - Mechanisms are provided for generating an answer to a superlative question. The mechanisms analyze the superlative question to extract a superlative term in the superlative question and a focus. A metric by which to evaluate the superlative term is identified based on one of a clue term in the superlative question or one or more portions of content of a corpus of information including the superlative term and focus. A search of the corpus is executed to identify one or more candidate answers to the superlative question based on evidence passages in the corpus, the superlative term, the focus, and the metric. A final answer to the superlative question is output based on the one or more candidate answers. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055158 | CONTEXTUALIZATION OF ENTITY RELATIONSHIPS - Methods and arrangements for identifying related data in different data sets to assist in searching the data sets. A first data asset and a second data asset are accessed. Common entities are identified between the first and second data assets. A score is determined for the relationship between the first and second data assets, based on the identified common entities. One or more relationship contexts are determined for the relationship between the first and second data assets, and the relationship score and one or more relationship contexts are used to join at least a portion of each of the first and second data assets as a basis for subsequent searching. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055235 | DETERMINING SENTIMENTS OF SOCIAL POSTS BASED ON USER FEEDBACK - User feedback regarding sentiments of social posts is used to improve sentiment assignment for social analysis. The user feedback is used to generate sentiment tuning data, which may include assignments between reference sentiments and reference social posts. Sentiments of new social posts may be determined by applying the sentiment tuning data to an analysis of the new social posts. Sentiments of new social posts may also be determined by applying entries from one or more lexical dictionaries to the new social posts using natural language processing. At least some of the entries can be automatically generated from the user feedback or can be supplied by a user separate from the user feedback. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055253 | Identifying Influencers in Computer Networks - Identifying influencers in a computer network by adjusting influence weights of corresponding participants of a computer network, where the influence weights relate to a topic, where each of the influence weights is adjusted in accordance with a predefined adjustment function, and where the predefined adjustment function uses a) the influence weight of any of the participants that disseminated content via the computer network, where the content relates to the participant whose influence weight is being adjusted, b) a participant topic similarity value of any of the participants that disseminated the content, where the participant topic similarity value relates to the topic, and c) a relationship topic similarity value of any relationship between the participants that disseminated the content and the participant whose influence weight is being adjusted, where the relationship topic similarity value relates to the topic, and then ranking the participants by their influence weights. | 02-25-2016 |
20160063001 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR ANALYZING, QUALIFYING AND INGESTING SOURCES OF UNSTRUCTURED DATA VIA EMPIRICAL ATTRIBUTION - There is provided a method that includes (a) receiving data from a data source, (b) attributing the data source in accordance with rules, thus yielding an attribute, (c) analyzing the data to identify a confounding characteristic in the data, (d) calculating a qualitative measure of the attribute, thus yielding a weighted attribute, (e) calculating a qualitative measure of the confounding characteristic, thus yielding a weighted confounding characteristic, (f) analyzing the weighted attribute and the weighted confounding characteristic, to produce a disposition, (g) filtering the data in accordance with the disposition, thus yielding extracted data, and (h) transmitting the extracted data to a downstream process. There is also provided a system that executes the method, and a storage device that contains instructions for controlling a processor to perform the method. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063061 | RANKING DOCUMENTS WITH TOPICS WITHIN GRAPH - Documents are ranked with topics within a graph. A user, a tag, and a document are placed as nodes in a graph. One or more relationships are established between the user, the tag, and the document. The nodes are connected with edges acting as the one or more relationships. The tag is promoted into a topic based on the one or more relationships. | 03-03-2016 |
20160092587 | SYSTEM FOR EVENT-BASED INTELLIGENT-TARGETING - An event-based intelligent targeting engine is capable of delivering highly relevant content, including, but not limited to, advertisements, alerts, messages, notifications, warnings, signals, machine-to-machine (M2M) telemetry, entertainment/media, and any communications thereof, etc. based on real-time situations (i.e., observed events) of a user as well as, historical preferences both explicitly stated or observed in behavior including demographics, psychographics, and sociographics. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098403 | DOCUMENT RANKING APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A document ranking apparatus ranking electronic documents (D | 04-07-2016 |
20160098405 | Document Curation System - A document curation system facilitates finding previously-created objects, such as text and charts, in electronic business documents, such as word processing documents and slide presentations files stored in documents of a separate document storage system. The document curation system enables a user to search for objects, without a priori knowledge of which documents might contain the objects. The system presents found objects, as well as objects that are similar to the found objects, and allows the user to select one or more of the presented objects. The system harmonizes display aspects of the user-selected objects and generates a new document from them. A user can query the document curation system, and the system accesses an index, which stores normalized versions of objects from the document storage systems to fulfill the query. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098458 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MULTIMEDIA DATA RETRIEVAL - The invention concerns a device for multimedia data retrieval. The multimedia data is associated with an active component. The device for multimedia retrieval being characterized in that, depending on an external event, some of the active components trigger an action that make the user aware of the multimedia data associated with said active components. | 04-07-2016 |
20160103835 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RANKING SUGGESTIONS - A system for providing at least one suggestion for authoring content, the system having: an analysis engine module configured to: receive input associated with a subject matter from a user and discover documents related to said subject matter from at least one resource to; store said documents in a related documents database and store common phrases and words in a reference database; cross-reference text within said related documents with contents of said reference database in order to calculate common themes and storing said common themes in a theme database; a suggestion module configured to generate said at least one suggestion; and a ranking module for determining the usefulness of said least one suggestion to said user. | 04-14-2016 |
20160110453 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING CHOREOGRAPHY DATABASE BASED ON MOTION INQUIRY - The present invention provides a choreography searching system and method based on a motion inquiry which inputs a choreography video which is captured by a user at real time when the user dances in front of a camera and inputs the choreography video as an inquiry to compare the choreography with choreographic works such as K-POP stored in a choreography database to provide a list of choreographic works which are arranged in the order of similarity in order to provide intuitive choreography input based search rather than text based search such as a music title, a choreographer, or a name of a unit motion. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117325 | SYSTEM FOR MAPPING A SET OF RELATED STRINGS ON AN ONTOLOGY WITH A GLOBAL SUBMODULAR FUNCTION - A computer-implemented system and method provide for mapping a set of strings onto an ontology which may be represented as a graph. The method includes receiving a set of strings, each string denoting a respective object. For each of the strings, a pairwise similarity is computed between the string and each of a set of objects in the ontology. For each of a set of candidate subsets (subgraphs) of the set of objects, a global score is computed, which is a function of the pairwise similarities between the strings and the objects in the subset and a tightness score. The tightness score is computed on the objects in the subset with a submodular function. An optimal subset is identified from the set of candidate subsets based on the global scores. Strings in the set of strings are mapped to the objects in the optimal subset, based on the pairwise similarities. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117355 | Social Scores for Network Elements - In one embodiment, a method includes identifying users of a social-networking system whose client devices receive and transmit data by a first network element, and retrieving social graph information for each of the users. The social graph information for each user may comprise (1) a social affinity score for each relationship between the user and one of their social-graph connections and (2) an identification of a second network element to which a client system of the social-graph connection is connected. Particular embodiments may include calculating a collective social affinity score between the first network element and the second network element based at least in part on individual social affinity scores for relationships between the users and the social-graph connections, and taking action, based on the collective social affinity score, to handle data transmissions involving the first users and the second users (e.g., pre-fetching data and/or establishing additional TCP connections. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117385 | TITLE STANDARDIZATION - A title standardization system is may be configured to detect an edit operation associated with the job title field of a member profile stored by an on-line social network system and, in response, perform operations to derive a canonical title that represents a raw title string found in the job title field. The derived canonical title may be then associated with the member profile, in which the originally-obtained subject title string was found. This association may be stored in a database for future use, e.g., for targeting job recommendations, recruiting, making professional contacts, as well as for other purposes. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117406 | NAVIGATIONAL AID FOR ELECTRONIC BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS - Systems, methods, and computer storage media are provided for generating rich navigational study aids for electronic books. For a particular section of interest in a document, one or more related sections for providing additional context to the particular section are determined. The related sections are ranked based on a score indicating significance to the particular section. Based on a user's information processing preference, a set of ranked navigational links to each related section is presented to the user for additional context related to the particular section. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117413 | NODE RELEVANCE SCORING IN LINKED DATA GRAPHS - Technique to determine relative relevance of pairs of nodes in a linked data graph, such as an RDF graph, including calculation of raw relevance scores (which are based upon adjacency relations between nodes after edge filtering, the incoming and outgoing degrees of nodes in the graph after the edge filtering, and the distance (or weight) values of the edge(s)) and/or “refined relevance scores,” which take into account “complementary nodes.” | 04-28-2016 |
20160124961 | Using Priority Scores for Iterative Precision Reduction in Structured Lookups for Questions - An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager matches a question to multiple natural language contexts that each correspond to relations associated with entities in a structured resource. The knowledge manager identifies database queries corresponding to the multiple natural language contexts and assigns priority scores to the database queries based upon their relative specificity. In turn, the knowledge manager invokes one of the database queries based upon the assigned priority scores. | 05-05-2016 |
20160140124 | Event Driven Data Staging and Data Aging Algorithms for Personalization Data in Enterprise Search - The systems and methods described herein log each access event for a plurality of business objects, generate a user profile for each of a plurality of users, each user profile identifying one or more recently accessed business objects, calculate a relevance value for each business object identified in the user profile, apply an aging function to the calculated relevance values, and graphically render the relevance information. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140223 | "AT LEAST" OPERATOR FOR COMBINING AUDIO SEARCH HITS - System and method to search audio data, including: receiving audio data representing speech; receiving a search query related to the audio data; compiling, by use of a processor, the search query into a hierarchy of scored speech recognition sub-searches; searching, by use of a processor, the audio data for speech identified by one or more of the sub-searches to produce hits; and combining, by use of a processor, the hits by use of at least one combination function to provide a composite search score of the audio data. The combination function may include an at-least-M-of-N function that produces a high score when at least M of N function inputs exceed a predetermined threshold value. The composite search score employ a soft time window such as a spline function. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140231 | TERM SELECTION FROM A DOCUMENT TO FIND SIMILAR CONTENT - Methods, devices, and systems are described for creating and implementing search query vectors for knowledge base articles or other formal articles, the query vectors automatically created from informal correspondence such as a service request email to an information technology (IT) department. Term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) scores are calculated for rarewords in the correspondence with respect to a corpus of other service requests. High scoring terms with the same neighbors as those in the corpus of formal articles are added to the search query vector, while high scoring terms that do not share the same neighbors are thrown out. The query vector is then used to run a search of the knowledge base for relevant articles. | 05-19-2016 |
20160147810 | Recommending Users to a Social Networking System User Based on Relevance and Similarity Between Users - A social networking system allows users to establish connections with other users to receive content provided to the social networking system by the other user. The social networking system may recommend an additional user to the user in response to the user establishing a connection with a target user. To recommend an additional user, the social networking system determines a relevance of the additional user to the target user relative to the relevance of other candidate users to the target user. The relevance may be based on a measure of similarity between an additional user and the target user, such as a covariance in the overlap of users connected to both the additional user and to the target user. | 05-26-2016 |
20160154801 | NORMALIZING NON-NUMERIC FEATURES OF FILES | 06-02-2016 |
20160162495 | GOAL-ORIENTED USER MATCHING AMONG SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENTS - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for goal-based user matching among social networking environments. In a typical embodiment, a querying user is asked to respond to a series of questions related to goals, criteria, and criteria priorities (and, optionally, a desired “degree” of separation among other users). The querying user will submit his/her responses, which are then parsed and prioritized accordingly. Based on the responses, social networking sites are then searched to identify a set (e.g., at least one) of candidate users that are potential collaboration partners with the querying user. This set of candidate users may be arranged in a list and sorted according to a best match to the querying user's responses. The list can then be provided to the querying user. In addition, invites can be sent to the set of candidate users to invite such users to connect/collaborate with the querying user. | 06-09-2016 |
20160179816 | Near Real Time Auto-Suggest Search Results | 06-23-2016 |
20160179817 | CONTENT SELECTION BASED ON IMAGE CONTENT | 06-23-2016 |
20160179965 | INFORMATION PROPAGATION VIA WEIGHTED SEMANTIC AND SOCIAL GRAPHS | 06-23-2016 |
20160188597 | System and Method for Screening Social Media Content - A computing system and method are provided for impact assessment and treatment of social media content, the system operating on social media content received at a social media conveyance computing system. The system includes at least one computer memory storing filtering rules and scoring rules, the score indicating a degree of negative impact of the social media content. The system additionally includes an information capture system for receiving a social media stream, the social media stream including multiple messages and a pre-processing computing system for processing the messages in the social media stream and extracting metadata related to each message. The system further includes a filtering and scoring computing system for receiving each message and associated metadata from each. The filtering and scoring computing system filters and scores the content and determines a degree of negative impact. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188602 | Location-Based Application Search - A server computing system including a storage device and a processing device. The storage device storing application records including application attributes and location data indicating a geographic area associated with an application. The processing device configured to receive a search query comprising a search term, identify application records stored by comparing the search term with the application attributes, and determine a search location. The processing device also configured to: for each of the identified application records, compute a distance scoring feature based on a distance between the search location and the geographic area indicated in the application record and determine a relevance score for the application record based on the distance scoring feature; select download addresses from the application records based on the relevance scores; and transmit the download addresses to the client computing device. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188701 | FILE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD - In various embodiments, a system and method for recognizing and integrating datasets disclosed. The system comprises a processor and a memory unit. A training dataset is developed that forms the basis to measure similarities between and among the datasets. Incoming datasets are examined for features and a measurement is made to determine similarity with datasets in the training dataset. An estimate can be made of the probability that an incoming dataset contains specified attributes. The incoming dataset can be assigned an attribute based on the probability estimate. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188702 | Suggested Queries for Locating Posts on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a post of an online social network, extracting keywords from the content of the first post and the metadata associated with the first post, determining topics associated with each extracted keyword, calculating a topic-score based on a relevance of the topic to the post for each topic, generating a suggested keyword query corresponding to the post, the suggested keyword query comprising extracted keywords corresponding to each topic having a topic-score greater than a threshold topic-score, and sending the post and the suggested keyword query to a client device of a first user for display. | 06-30-2016 |
20160196267 | CONFIGURING A WEB FEED | 07-07-2016 |
20160196270 | STATION LIBRARY CREATON FOR A MEDIA SERVICE | 07-07-2016 |
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20220138235 | CONFIDENCE SCORING OF GEOCODER RESULTS IN COMPUTER-BASED NAVIGATION - In one aspect, a method comprises identifying a set of main components of an address that have a highest importance for a specified geography are identified. The method comprises providing a geocoding database comprising a dataset of geocoded addresses of a geocoder. The method comprises receiving a set of responses from the geocoding database, wherein each response comprises a geocoded addresses of the geocoding database. The method comprises breaking each response into a set of components. The method comprises, based on the set of components, matching the address and each response in the set of components; based on the match, calculating a string similarity score and a component match score of each response between the address and each response. The method comprises sorting the responses based on the string similarity score of each response and the component match score of each response. The method comprises selecting a first response of the set of responses after sorting as the best response. The method comprises calculating a confidence score of the first response, wherein the confidence score is calculated using a formula which depends on the string similarity score and the component match score of the first response. | 05-05-2022 |
20220138237 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR CONTENT SELECTION - Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to present content on an electronic display. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a first candidate content and a second candidate content for presentation on an electronic display, determining a first probability and a second probability that the first candidate content and the second candidate content respectively will elicit a particular type of input response, determining a first weight and a second weight based on the first probability and the second probability respectively, selecting either the first content or the second content based on the first weight and the second weight; and presenting the selected content on the electronic display. | 05-05-2022 |