23rd week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
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20140156562 | ADVERTISING MAT - Implementations of the advertising mat of the present disclosure include a plurality of advertisements from businesses. In some implementations, an advertising mat of the present disclosure may include advertisements from local businesses (e.g., within a certain mile radius of the advertising mat). In some implementations, an advertising mat of the present disclosure may include advertisements from any business including local, non-local, wholesale, retail, or any other business. In some implementations, an advertising mat of the present disclosure may include one or more advertisements having respective matrix barcodes (or two-dimensional codes) such as QR (Quick Response) codes. In some implementations, the one or more advertisements may include respective coupons. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156563 | LOGIC CIRCUITS WITH AND-NOT GATE FOR FAST FUZZY DECODERS - A logic decoder circuit capable of performing Boolean or fuzzy logic has one or more logic components configured to perform a logic function of an AND-NOT gate, each AND-NOT gate comprising a circuit that performs a conjunction of an excitatory input X and an inhibitory input Y to obtain an output X-AND-NOT-Y substantially linearly for given ranges for X and Y. Certain preferred designs are provided for an X-AND-NOT-Y logic gate and a family of fast fuzzy decoders composed of such gates. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156564 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Providing Concept Classification Suggestions Based On Concept Similarity - A computer-implemented system and method for providing concept classification suggestions based on concept similarity are provided. One or more uncoded concepts and a plurality of reference concepts, each reference concept associated with a classification code, are obtained. At least one of the uncoded concepts is compared to the reference concepts and reference concepts similar to the at least one uncoded concept are identified based on the comparison. One of the classification codes is suggested for the at least one uncoded concept, which includes providing a number of the classification codes associated with the similar reference concepts and a number of the similar reference concepts for each of the classification codes. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156565 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING LEARNING CURVE FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM - The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for predicting the learning curve of an SMT system. A set of anchor points are selected. The set of anchor points correspond to a size of a corpus. Thereafter, a gold curve or a benchmark curve is fitted based on the set of anchor points to determine the BLEU score. Based on the BLEU score and a set of parameters associated with the first set of anchor points, a confidence score is computed. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156566 | CUSTOMIZED PREDICTORS FOR USER ACTIONS IN AN ONLINE SYSTEM - Online systems generate predictors for predicting actions of users of the online system. The online system receives requests to generate predictor models for predicting whether a user is likely to take an action of a particular action type. The request specifies the type of action and criteria for identifying a successful instance of the action type and a failure instance of the action type. The online system collects data including successful and failure instances of the action type. The online system generates one or more predictors of different types using the generated data. The online system evaluates and compares the performance of the different predictors generated and selects a predictor based on the performance. The online system returns a handle to access the generated predictor to the requester of the predictor. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156567 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION IN EDISCOVERY, COMPLIANCE AND LEGACY INFORMATION CLEAN-UP - A system, method and computer program product for automatic document classification, including an extraction module configured to extract structural, syntactical and/or semantic information from a document and normalize the extracted information; a machine learning module configured to generate a model representation for automatic document classification based on feature vectors built from the normalized and extracted semantic information for supervised and/or unsupervised clustering or machine learning; and a classification module configured to select a non-classified document from a document collection, and via the extraction module extract normalized structural, syntactical and/or semantic information from the selected document, and generate via the machine learning module a model representation of the selected document based on feature vectors, and match the model representation of the selected document against the machine learning model representation to generate a document category, and/or classification for display to a user. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156568 | SELF LEARNING ADAPTIVE MODELING SYSTEM - Self-learning and adaptive modeling is employed with respect to predictive analytics. A hierarchical model structure can be employed comprising a set of predictive models automatically built from accumulated data and distributed across multiple levels. For a given input type, a set of candidate models can be identified across varying levels of granularity, and a best model selected based on a comparison of performance metrics of the models. The best model can then be activated for use in making predictions. Of course, the best model can change based on most recent training performance results, since as more data becomes available more specific models can be developed. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156569 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING RESILIENCE IN CUSTOMIZED PROGRAM LEARNING NETWORK COMPUTATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS - An apparatus and a method are provided for learning a program with a large number of parameters. In one embodiment, a method not only distorts the input values, but also distorts some of the parameters in the program model. Such an approach not only forces the learned program to acquire parameter values to predict missing or desired data, but also to correct errors in the input data and the program parameters themselves, thereby rendering the learned program more resilient to overfitting and falling into local optima. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156570 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREDICTING THE CONDITION OF A COMPONENT OR SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A device method and computer program product are disclosed for trend prediction of the course of a time-dependent series of data points of a component or system, particularly for an aircraft or spacecraft, including: providing an optimised decision tree, the input node of which is provided for inputting an input vector, the nodes of which contain the data points of a respective input vector and the leaves of which each contain an extrapolation function; iteratively calculating future data points by a respective time-dependent series of data points being inputted into the decision tree as an input vector and the decision tree calculating therefrom a data point subsequent to the last data point of the input vector in an automated manner, the calculated subsequent data point being added to the time-dependent series of data points in order to be used as a new input vector for the next iteration step. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156571 | TOPIC MODELS - Machine learning techniques may be used to train computing devices to understand a variety of documents (e.g., text files, web pages, articles, spreadsheets, etc.). Machine learning techniques may be used to address the issue that computing devices may lack the human intellect used to understand such documents, such as their semantic meaning. Accordingly, a topic model may be trained by sequentially processing documents and/or their features (e.g., document author, geographical location of author, creation date, social network information of author, and/or document metadata). Additionally, as provided herein, the topic model may be used to predict probabilities that words, features, documents, and/or document corpora, for example, are indicative of particular topics. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156572 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF INFORMATION USEFUL FOR GENERATION-BASED FUNCTIONAL VERIFICATION - A computer-implemented method, an apparatus and a computer program for automatically extracting useful information for functional verification. The method comprising performing repeatedly both operating an instruction generator associated with a Design Under Test (DUT), whereby a generated instruction is determined, the generated instruction having one or more instruction attributes; and collecting information relating to the generated instruction. Based on the generated instruction and the collected information, a classification technique is utilized to classify the information based on the instruction attributes. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156573 | METHODS FOR GENERATING PREDICTIVE MODELS FOR EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CANCER AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING EOC - A method for generating a model for epithelial ovarian cancer is presented, comprising the steps of obtaining a mass spectrum for each of a plurality of samples, segmenting each of the mass spectra into “bins,” and determining a plurality of relationships between two or more bins. One are more statistically significant factors are identified according to the determined plurality of relationships, and a predictive model is generated as a function of the one or more identified factors. A method of the present invention may further comprise the step of obtaining one or more nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of each of the samples, which are segmented into a plurality of bins. Combinations of mass spectra and NMR spectra may be used to determine the plurality of relationships. In other embodiments, methods for identifying the presence of EOC indicated by a biological sample of an individual are presented. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156574 | RATE STABILIZATION THROUGH PLASTICITY IN SPIKING NEURON NETWORK - Apparatus and methods for activity based plasticity in a spiking neuron network adapted to process sensory input. In one embodiment, the plasticity mechanism may be configured for example based on activity of one or more neurons providing feed-forward stimulus and activity of one or more neurons providing inhibitory feedback. When an inhibitory neuron generates an output, inhibitory connections may be potentiated. When an inhibitory neuron receives inhibitory input, the inhibitory connection may be depressed. When the inhibitory input arrives subsequent to the neuron response, the inhibitory connection may be depressed. When input features are unevenly distributed in occurrence, the plasticity mechanism is capable of reducing response rate of neurons that develop receptive fields to more prevalent features. Such functionality may provide network output such that rarely occurring features are not drowned out by more widespread stimulus. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156575 | Method and Apparatus of Processing Data Using Deep Belief Networks Employing Low-Rank Matrix Factorization - Deep belief networks are usually associated with a large number of parameters and high computational complexity. The large number of parameters results in a long and computationally consuming training phase. According to at least one example embodiment, low-rank matrix factorization is used to approximate at least a first set of parameters, associated with an output layer, with a second and a third set of parameters. The total number of parameters in the second and third sets of parameters is smaller than the number of sets of parameters in the first set. An architecture of a resulting artificial neural network, when employing low-rank matrix factorization, may be characterized with a low-rank layer, not employing activation function(s), and defined by a relatively small number of nodes and the second set of parameters. By using low rank matrix factorization, training is faster, leading to rapid deployment of the respective system. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156576 | MEMRISTIVE NEURAL PROCESSOR UTILIZING ANTI-HEBBIAN AND HEBBIAN TECHNOLOGY - An AHaH (Anti-Hebbian and Hebbian) apparatus for use in electronic circuits. Such an AHaH apparatus can include one or more meta-stable switches, and one or more differential pairs of output electrodes, wherein each electrode among each differential pair of output electrodes can include one or more input lines coupled thereto via one or more of the meta-stable switch. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156577 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ARTIFICIAL COGNITION - Methods, systems and apparatus that provide for perceptual, cognitive, and motor behaviors in an integrated system implemented using neural architectures. Components of the system communicate using artificial neurons that implement neural networks. The connections between these networks form representations—referred to as semantic pointers—which model the various firing patterns of biological neural network connections. Semantic pointers can be thought of as elements of a neural vector space, and can implement a form of abstraction level filtering or compression, in which high-dimensional structures can be abstracted one or more times thereby reducing the number of dimensions needed to represent a particular structure. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156578 | FIRING RATE INDEPENDENT SPIKE MESSAGE PASSING IN LARGE SCALE NEURAL NETWORK MODELING - A neural network portion comprising N pre-synaptic neurons capable each of firing an action potential, wherein the number N can be encoded in a word of n bits;
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20140156579 | CONVEX COLLECTIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION - A method operates on observed relationship data between pairs of entities of a set of entities including entities of at least two (and optionally at least three) different entity types. An observed collective symmetric matrix is constructed in which element (n,m)=element (m,n) stores the observed relationship between entities indexed n and m when the observed relationship data includes this observed relationship. A prediction collective symmetric matrix is optimized in order to minimize a loss function comparing the observed collective symmetric matrix and the prediction collective symmetric matrix. A relationship between two entities of the set of entities is predicted using the optimized prediction collective symmetric matrix. Entities of the same entity type may be indexed using a contiguous set of indices such that the entity type maps to a contiguous set of rows and corresponding contiguous set of columns in the observed collective symmetric matrix. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156580 | INFERENCE OF ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR OF MEMBERS OF COHORTS AND ASSOCIATE ACTORS RELATED TO THE ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR BASED ON DIVERGENT MOVEMENT FROM THE COHORT CONTEXT CENTROID - A method, a system and a computer program product for determining whether a change in value of a data item relating to an entity being tracked within a cohort is statistically and contextually significant. A computer captures a plurality data items relating to the entity being tracked at a time N+1. The value of the data item at time N+1 is compared to a value of a historical data item at time N. If the value of the data item at time N+1 is different from the value of the historical data item at time N, determining that a change has occurred. If a change in a data item has occurred, determining whether the change in the data item is related to the entity being tracked is statistically and contextually significant in n space on multiple dimensions. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156581 | A COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATING THE GENERATION OF A BUSINESS DECISION ANALYTIC MODEL - The present invention envisages a system and method for automating the generation of business decision analytic models. The system uses a plurality of predictor variables stored in a plurality of data sets, to automatically create a business decision analytic model. The system includes a processor configured to process the data sets and determine the total number of records present in each of the data sets and the number of columns containing only numerical values. The processor selects a column containing only numerical values, from a dataset under consideration, and counts the number of unique numerical values in the selected column, and the total number of records present in the selected column. The two counts are compared and the selected column is transformed using a non-linear transformation to obtain a column of transformed values. The transformed values and corresponding time stamps are utilized for the purpose of model generation. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156582 | Item Response Methods as Applied to a Dynamic Content Distribution System and Methods - The present invention relates generally to a dynamic content distribution system, and more particularly, relates to usage of Item Response Methods as applied to a dynamic content distribution system and method that uses the Item Response Methods of various Item Response Functions (IRF) to provide digital content to end-users based on psychometric reasoning. More specifically, the instant invention gathers psychometric attributes of Registered Users and combines those psychometric attributes with Item Response Function methods to determine how and when digital content is presents to Registered Users. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156583 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A DESIRED MISSION - A control system for determining a desired mission is provided. The control system includes an interface for receiving a mission input and a control module. The control module is in communication with the interface, and determines the desired mission. The desired mission represents a specific conclusion based on analyzing data located in at least one database. The control module includes a transform avatar for determining a proposed transform based on the mission input. The proposed transform is a defined set of rules to determine the desired mission based on the data located in at the least one database. The control module includes a calculation avatar receiving the proposed transform. The calculation avatar analyzes the data located in the at least one database based on the proposed transform to determine the desired mission. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156584 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF RISK IN INDUSTRIAL PLANTS - A system includes a risk assessment system. The risk assessment system includes a risk calculation system configured to calculate a risk based on one or more static inputs and one or more dynamic inputs. The one or more dynamic inputs includes a location of a human resource, a mobile resource, or a combination thereof. The risk assessment system further includes a decision support system (DSS) configured to use the risk to derive one or more decisions based on the risk, the one or more static inputs, and the one or more dynamic inputs. The one or more decisions are configured to aid in operating an industrial facility. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156585 | Optimisation of Resource Management Using Perfect Knowledge Bias - Methods and computer implemented systems for evaluation and optimisation of methods used for forecasting, modeling, valuation, and decision-making, in staged resource planning are provided. Fundamentally, a universal comparator that accounts for perfect decision differencing (PERNOB) is determined and used for evaluating benefits associated with the use of prediction method-sets and decision-making method-sets in staged resource planning. According to one application, PERNOB is used to evaluate different prediction method-sets and decision-making method-sets and enable the selection of optimal method-sets corresponding to a given situation. According to another application, PERNOB is used to create an unbiased operational decision making environment through realistic re-valuation of system resource(s). | 2014-06-05 |
20140156586 | BIG-FAST DATA CONNECTOR BETWEEN IN-MEMORY DATABASE SYSTEM AND DATA WAREHOUSE SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for insuring better query consistency between at least two different databases, where one faster database has more up-to-date information than another slower database, and wherein updates are typically applied to the faster database first and then to the slower database. In embodiments, the systems and methods also insure that a query to the slower database is not performed until a set of one or more updates from the faster database have been applied to that slower database. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156587 | RDF DATA WAREHOUSE VIA PARTITIONING AND REPLICATION - Hardware and/or software suitable for RDF data warehousing, a type of data integration wherein integrated information is represented as RDF and loaded into a centralized RDF database, is presented. Pieces of hardware/software suitably support desired performance and flexibility by transforming one or more RDF documents to a binary format where RDF resources are replaced by identifiers, indexing each integrated data source into a separate RDF database and finally merging data to a warehouse through merging steps. The RDF data warehousing is a special type of data integration approach that allows query optimization. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156588 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING CUSTOMIZED LARGE-SCALE DATA ANALYTICS - A computer-implemented method for performing customized large-scale data analytics may include (1) providing a logical-data-model user interface to enable modifying a logical data model of a relational multi-dimensional analytic database, (2) receiving, via the logical-data-model user interface, user input to modify the logical data model of the relational multi-dimensional analytic database, (3) modifying the logical data model of the relational multi-dimensional analytic database based on the user input, (4) providing a visualization user interface, based on the logical data model, to enable performing online analytical processing operations, and (5) receiving, via the visualization user interface, a request to perform an online analytical processing operation that provides a view of data stored within the relational multi-dimensional analytic database in accordance with the logical data model. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156589 | DIVIDING AND COMBINING OPERATIONS - Disclosed herein are techniques for arranging a series of operations. It is determined whether an operation executes more efficiently when divided. It is further determined whether a plurality of operations execute more efficiently when combined. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156590 | PRODUCING AUTOMATED TERMS LISTINGS IN HTML DOCUMENT PUBLISHING WITH ENHANCED TERMS DEFINITIONS - A terms listing production system generates a terms listing associated with an electronic document. Primary terms and primary definitions may be extracted from a glossary associated with the electronic document. Secondary terms may be identified based on user searches in relation to the electronic document. Secondary definitions associated with primary terms or secondary terms may be retrieved from external content and stored in connection with the associated terms. A markup language document configured for presentation to users is generated based on the stored terms and definitions. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156591 | KNOWLEDGE CATALYSTS - A computer implemented method integrates data from remote disparate data sources by processing a non-transitory media. The non-transitory media stores instructions for detecting data sets in different formats hosted in a plurality of heterogeneous databases that are accessible through a distributed network. The method extracts schema data from the plurality of heterogeneous databases and identifies related fields in two or more of the heterogeneous databases. The method links the related fields in the two or more of the plurality of heterogeneous databases and makes the data accessible through a virtual warehouse. As schemas change, as new data sources and analysis artifacts are created, the computer implemented method and system can act as a meta-data store, a provenance tracking device, and/or a knowledge management service. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156592 | UPDATING A CONFERENCE INVITATION RESPONSIVE TO USER LOCATION - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a computer method, computer program product, and computer system for automatically updating a conference invitation with contact information corresponding to a user's geographical location. A user on a client device accepts an invitation to a conference. The geographical location of the client device is determined and stored in a database. Using the location of the client device, a conference information database is accessed, and location specific conference contact information is determined. The location specific conference contact information is then input into the conference invitation so that the user has location specific conference contact information. In another embodiment, when the user accesses the conference invitation, the location of the client device is determined, and if the location has changed from when the invitation was accepted, a new location is determined. The conference contact information for the new location is determined and input into the invitation. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156593 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program allowing a user to access a reference document or the like written inside an electronic document by only clicking on a description of the reference document. A storing unit that stores information of an electronic document, an extraction unit that extracts a sentence including the information stored in the storing unit from a predetermined electronic document, and a generation unit that generates a link to the information stored in the storing unit from the sentence extracted by the extraction unit are provided. Even in a case where the electronic document is a document that is formed as the electronic document through scanning, when the degree of matching between the sentence included in the electronic document and the information stored in the storing unit is high, the sentence and the information are associated with each other, and a link is established. The present technology can be applied to a terminal handling electronic books. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156594 | OBJECT-SHARING SYSTEM, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING THE METHOD FOR MAINTAINING HIERARCHICAL NAMING CONTEXTS IN OBJECT SHARING SYSTEM - An object-sharing method used in a object sharing system is provided. The object-sharing method comprises the steps outlined below. An object-sharing request that intends to share an object in a first object storage to a second object storage is received. First and second object paths are compared. Whether a naming conflict condition occurs is determined. The second object storage receives the object and keeps the first object path when the naming conflict condition does not occur. The second object storage receives the object and merges the first and the second object paths when the naming conflict condition occurs and the first and the second object storages are from the same user. An alternative sharing destination is generated to receive the object when the naming conflict condition occurs and the first and the second object storages are not from the same user. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156595 | SYNCHRONISATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A synchronisation system and corresponding method for synchronising a set of records in a first database with a second database which comprises a copy of the set of records. The first database has a transaction log with entries indicating changes made to records in the first database. The second database stores a global version. The synchronisation system comprises at least one processor which is configured to process entries in the transaction log relating to the set of records to record changes from the first database in the second database; and associate the global version with any records written to the second database. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156596 | REPLICATION CONTROL USING EVENTUALLY CONSISTENT META-DATA - The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for replication control using eventually consistent meta-data. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for replication control using eventually consistent meta-data is provided. The method includes replicating data in a replication data processing system of nodes coupled to one another over a computer communications network. The method also includes replicating meta-data representing the state of the replication data processing system into a data structure of eventually consistent meta-data. Finally, the method includes managing the replication of the data according to the replicated meta-data. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156597 | RECURRING CALENDAR ITEM MASTER AND INSTANCE SYNCHRONIZATION - A synchronization window for synchronizing data for a calendar in a client calendar data store on a calendar data client computer system with data for the calendar in a server calendar data store on a calendar data server computer system can be calculated using a current time. A request for synchronization data for calendar items for the calendar with calendar times that are within the synchronization window can be sent to the calendar data server. One or more responses to the request can be received from the calendar data server. The response(s) can include received records for calendar items that are at least partially within the synchronization window. The received records can include a master record of a recurring calendar item and an instance record of an occurrence of the recurring calendar item. The received records for the calendar items can be incorporated in the client calendar data store. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156598 | REPLICATION CONTROL USING EVENTUALLY CONSISTENT META-DATA - The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for replication control using eventually consistent meta-data. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for replication control using eventually consistent meta-data is provided. The method includes replicating data in a replication data processing system of nodes coupled to one another over a computer communications network. The method also includes replicating meta-data representing the state of the replication data processing system into a data structure of eventually consistent meta-data. Finally, the method includes managing the replication of the data according to the replicated meta-data. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156599 | GAME STATE SYNCHRONIZATION AND RESTORATION ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES - Technology for a method for backing up and restoring mobile game application state across multiple devices is disclosed herein. The method includes running an instance of a game application at a first electronic device, determining a backup event that occurs in the first electronic device, wherein the backup event suggests a backup of application state data and the application state data represent an application state of the game application at the backup event, and transmitting the application state data of the game application to a remote storage service, in response to the backup event. A second electronic device can retrieve the application state data from the remote storage service and restore the game application state. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156600 | ASSIMILATION OF FOREIGN LOGICAL UNITS IN A NETWORK STORAGE CONTROLLER - A method of making a foreign law in usable in a network storage controller includes transparently converting the foreign logical unit to the native format of the file system in place, by progressively increasing the binding between the file system of the storage controller and the foreign logical unit, while the foreign logical unit remains online, without requiring copying of the foreign logical unit. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156601 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIERARCHICAL REFERENCE COUNTING VIA SIBLING TREES - Systems and methods for hierarchical reference counting via sibling trees are provided. The hierarchical data structure, together with its associated operations, can efficiently maintain reference counts and significantly reduce input/output (IO) operations compared to traditional techniques. The data structure presented here is applicable to any directed acyclic graph (DAG-type) structure where reference counts are used. Various embodiments of the present invention use a data structure to maintain a “sibling pointer” (pointing to the sibling node as a way to avoid reference count updates) and a “sibling count.” When nodes in the tree diverge, the sibling pointer and sibling count are updated as opposed to directly manipulating the reference counts of the children of the diverging nodes. Various other embodiments can use additional entries or fields that allow for improved efficiency and advantages. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156602 | FILE CLONING ACROSS DIFFERENT FILESETS - A method includes determining, by a processor, that a write request indicates a clone file that was cloned from a file in a first fileset. The clone file is of a second fileset and a clustered file system comprises the first fileset and the second fileset. A data block of the clone file affected by the write request is determined. The method includes determining that the data block at a current location cannot be modified. In response to a determination that the data block at the current location cannot be modified, the method includes implementing the write request with respect to the data block at a different location and indicating that the data block at the different location can be modified for subsequent write requests that indicate the clone file. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156603 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR SPLITTING AND RECOVERING DATA IN A POWER SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for splitting and recovering data in a power system are provided in the invention. The method includes the steps of setting a first database and a data recovery unit in a platform layer of the power system. The first database runs in a memory of the power system and is composed of the real-time image in the memory of a grid model and static parameters of a second database. The first database is used to provide the inquiry service of the grid model and static parameters for the power system. The data recovery unit is responsible for all of the associated read-write operations with the second database. After data are written into, the data recovery unit stores the data as historical data according to the time scale characters, and writes the historical data to the second database when the second database is normal. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156604 | Method and System for Maintaining Derived Data Sets - A first data set is derived from a second data set. The first data set is stored in a database of derived data sets. The second data set is updated without updating the first data set, such that the first data set and the second data are inconsistent. The first data set is deleted or updated during batch processing of the database of the derived data sets. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156605 | PROCESSING DATA FROM GENOTYPING CHIPS - Processing genetic data includes receiving two or more genetic data sets for an individual from one or more genetic data sources, wherein the genetic data sets comprises data pertaining to the individual's deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA); merging the genetic data sets from the one or more genetic data sources to obtain a set of merged genetic data for the individual, including: identifying data in the genetic data sets that is conflicting, the identified data corresponding to a genetic marker associated with a variation that occurs at a region in the individual's genome; analyzing the identified data to resolve a discrepancy attributed to the identified conflicting data and automatically determine an appropriate value that corresponds to the genetic marker, the analysis and the determination being based at least in part on contextual information; and storing the appropriate value in the set of merged genetic data. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156606 | Method and System for Integrating Data Into a Database - A method for integrating data into a database comprises storing data comprising a plurality of records which each comprise a plurality of attributes; analysing a sample of records from the plurality of records by: identifying duplicate pairs of records in the sample records; analysing each attribute of each record of the duplicate pairs of records to identify a respective attribute condition which is indicative that the pairs of records are duplicates; wherein the method further comprises: comparing each attribute of a record with the respective attribute condition and, if the attribute satisfies the attribute condition, allocating the record to a disjoint group which comprises records with an attribute that satisfies the same respective attribute condition; identifying duplicate pairs of records in the records in each disjoint group; identifying duplicate pairs of records in records that are not allocated to a disjoint group; and consolidating each duplicate pair of records into one consolidated record and storing the consolidated record in an integrated database. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156607 | INDEX FOR DEDUPLICATION - Techniques for deduplication include an index, a receiver module, and an indexer module. The index can store information about data blocks. The receiver module can receive a data block. The indexer module can check whether information about the data block is in the index, and if information about the data block is not found in the index, then it can make a random decision about whether to store information about the data block in the index, and if the random decision is to store information about the data block in the index, then it can store information about the data block in the index. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156608 | EFFICIENCY OF COMPRESSION OF DATA PAGES - A system includes a processor executing code to compress a first page of data stored in memory and calculate an effectiveness of the compression on the first page. The processor further, in response to the calculated compression effectiveness being at least equal to a pre-determined/pre-established compression effectiveness threshold: identifies a plurality of second pages of data from memory that have similarities in content with the first page; and sequentially performs subsequent compressions of second pages from among the plurality of second pages in an order that is based on a relative ranking of the plurality of second pages. The ranking of the second pages is according to a calculated differential parameter associated with each of the second pages, which indicates a level of similarity that exists between the first page and a corresponding second page. Higher ranked second pages are compressed ahead of lower rank second pages, yielding greater compression efficiency. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156609 | DATABASE TABLE COMPRESSION - Embodiments relate to table compression in a database. The database is organized in tables including rows and columns An aspect includes defining a range partition of a table of the database according to a first attribute of the table. Internal ranges of the table of the database are defined according to a second attribute of the table. A target internal range of the internal ranges is determined to insert a row as a new entry into the table. A determination is made as to whether an internal range compression directory exists for the target internal range. Based on determining that no internal range compression directory exists for the target internal range and a predefined threshold value of a number of rows is exceeded in the target internal range, the internal range compression directory for the target internal range is created. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156610 | SELF-GOVERNED CONTENTION-AWARE APPROACH TO SCHEDULING FILE DEFRAGMENTATION - A method, system, and computer program product for file storage defragmentation on a cluster of nodes. The method for self-governed, contention-aware scheduling of file defragmentation operations commences by calculating a score for candidate files of a storage volume, where the score is based on a fragmentation severity value. The process proceeds to determine an amount of contention for access to a candidate file (e.g., by accessing the candidate file to record the amount of time it takes to obtain access). If the fragmentation severity value and the amount of contention suggestion a benefit from defragmentation, then the method initiating defragmentation operations on the candidate file. The method delays for a calculated wait time before performing a second defragmentation operation. Real-time monitors are used to determine when the contention is too high or when system utilization is too high. Only files that have ever been opened are considered candidates for defragmentation. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156611 | EFFICIENCY OF COMPRESSION OF DATA PAGES - A method includes compressing a first page of data stored in memory and calculating an effectiveness of the compression on the first page. The method further includes, in response to the calculated compression effectiveness being at least equal to a pre-determined/pre-established compression effectiveness threshold: identifying a plurality of second pages of data from memory that have similarities in content with the first page; and sequentially performing subsequent compressions of second pages from among the plurality of second pages in an order that is based on a relative ranking of the plurality of second pages. The ranking of the second pages is according to a calculated differential parameter associated with each of the second pages, which indicates a level of similarity that exists between the first page and a corresponding second page. Higher ranked second pages are compressed ahead of lower rank second pages, yielding greater compression efficiency. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156612 | PREPARING LC/MS DATA FOR CLOUD AND/OR PARALLEL IMAGE COMPUTING - Functionality is described for data management and querying LC/MS spectrometry data, therefore making it easier to store, retrieve, transfer, and process the mass spectrometry data. The functionality transforms a plurality of raw LC/MS files obtained from a biological experiment into a set of LC/MS images on a common M/Z and RT grid compatible for image processing (e.g., time alignment, peak detection and quantification, differential analysis, etc.). The functionality then spits large LC/MS images into smaller chunks, therefore making easier parallel querying and processing using cloud or high performance computing systems. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156613 | Methods and Apparatus for Increasing the Efficiency of Electronic Data Storage and Transmission - An electronic data storage and transmission system. A plurality of electronic data objects may be associated to a plurality of electronic data indicators, and the associations may be combined. Contextual awareness of a second location may allow generation of streamlined electronic data objects. Electronic spatial data objects may be automatically contiguously combined and compression may be leveraged with combination efficiencies. Combinations of electronic data objects may be threshold limited. Transmission of electronic data may achieve effective compression and effective transmission rates exceeding a benchmark network transmission rate of an electronic data communications network. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156614 | MANAGING STRUCTURED DATA FIELDS WITHIN A SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNEL - Managing structured data fields within a social media channel. Modifications are detected to a structured data field inside the social media channel from content passed from a document creation application that runs on a platform of a structured database management system and is supported by a business management application which supports rules for the content. The structured data field is modified by a user. The modifications are shared to the structured data field with collaboration group within the social media channel integrated within the document creation application, the modifications to the structured data field represented as structured data. Further, the collaboration group is enabled to modify the structured data. The structured data field is then updated with the structured data that is modified by the collaboration group The document creation application is further controlled if the structured data field that is updated violates a rule in the business management application. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156615 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A DATA REPOSITORY - A computer system for generating a data repository comprising engineering, service, and lifecycle rules related to domain specific objects used by engineering, service and lifecycle software tools, may include for each engineering, service, and lifecycle software tool a software plugin adapted to generate rules arising while interacting with the respective engineering, service, and lifecycle tool, and to store the generated rules in said data repository of said computer system. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156616 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF STORING DATA FILES - A method and system for storing data files are provided. The method includes receiving a first data file and a first data file virtualization policy; associating the first data file with the first data file virtualization policy; and storing the first data file and the first data file virtualization policy on a storage device in communication with the computer system. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156617 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONCLUSIVELY VERIFYING THE CORRECTNESS OF AN INFORMATION SYSTEM WITHOUT NEEDING TO TEST EVERY COMBINATION OF BEHAVIOR AT RUN-TIME - An architecture for the initial development and later adaptation of systems comprising a database, one or more client or user-interface programs whose system data, application data and rule data are stored in the database alongside the content. A framework in the database stores system, application and rule data and frameworks in the user-interface and client programs load the system, application and rule data to generate objects and, in doing so, define an application-specific system. Data integrity checks of the system data, application data and rule data using triggers and/or stored procedures ensure the correctness of the system without having to test every combination of behavior at run-time. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156618 | Distributed, Transactional Key-Value Store - In one embodiment, a system for implementing a distributed, transactional key-value store is provided. The system includes a set of nodes, where each node is communicatively coupled with one or more storage devices storing a set of data log files, and where each data log file including key-value pairs for a key namespace. Each node is configured to execute, using a transaction log file specific to the node, transactions for modifying or retrieving key-value pairs in the set of data log files, where the transaction log file includes state information for the transactions. The transactions are executed in a manner that ensures the atomicity and durability of each transaction. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156619 | Locking Protocol for Partitioned and Distributed Tables - Systems, methods and computer program product embodiments for providing a locking protocol for partitioned and distributed database tables are disclosed herein. A locking method includes executing, by at least one processor, a first database transaction on a second node, attempting to acquire and acquiring a lock on the second node in intentional exclusive mode, executing, by the at least one processor, a second database transaction on a first node, acquiring a lock on the first node in exclusive mode and waiting to acquire a lock on the second node in exclusive mode, routing, by the at least one processor, the first database transaction to the first node and unsuccessfully trying to acquire a lock on the first node and committing, by the at least one processor, the first database transaction. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156620 | ENHANCED ONLINE SEARCH - A method of providing users of a search engine with enhanced search results is disclosed. An entering of a search term by a user at the search engine is identified. It is determined that the search term is relevant to a data item stored in a database of a networked system that is external from the search engine. It is identified that the search engine has generated a search results page for the user in response to the entering of the search term by the user. A user interface is embedded in the search results page that provides the user with an option to access the data item without navigating away from the search results page. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156621 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING PERSONALIZED FEDERATED SEARCH AND PRESENTATION OF RESULTS THEREFROM - The present disclosure provides user-interface methods and systems for submitting search requests to search engines and presenting search results therefrom customized using content preferences learned about a user, comprising sending query information to at least two search engines, including a query identifying desired content, and user information, including context information describing the environment in which the query information is being sent, and a user signature representing content preferences learned about the user; receiving at least one set of a search result and auxiliary information from the at least one search engine in response to sending the query information, including information describing attributes of the search result that led to the search result being chosen by the at least one search engine; ordering the at least one search result based at least in part on the auxiliary information; and presenting the ordered search results to the user. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156622 | System and method for associating a geographic location with an Internet protocol address - The present application is directed to systems and methods for associating a geographic location with an IP address. Generally, an IP address from which each of a plurality of users accesses a network is recorded. A geo tag is associated with each of the plurality of users and a subset of the plurality of users is identified, the subset including users associated with a first IP address. The subset of the plurality of users is clustered into a spatial cluster including users associated with geo tags located with a defined distance of a geo tag of at least one other user of the cluster. A geographic location associated with a geographic center of the cluster is then associated with the first IP address. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156623 | GENERATING AND DISPLAYING TASKS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating tasks from user observations. One of the methods includes segmenting a plurality of observations associated with a user of a user device into a plurality of tasks previously engaged in by the user; and generating a respective task presentation for each of the plurality of tasks for presentation to the user. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156624 | Producing, Archiving and Searching Social Content - A search engine configured to process social communications such that the social communications can be searched according to a specific time period is presented. The search engine (or related process) accesses a store or feed of social communications and segments the social communications according to time periods. The segments are processed such that a representative set of social communications related to topics of the time period are determined. The representative set of social communications is stored in a content store such that the search engine can retrieve them in response to a search query regarding social communications relating to a topic/time period. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156625 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR WIRELESS NETWORK DEPLOYMENT - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for wireless network deployment are disclosed. The systems, methods, and computer-readable media receive data from one or more client devices regarding one or more data sessions, wherein the received data comprises one or more identifiers and one or more data session characteristics. The systems, methods, and computer-readable media determine one or more locations associated with the one or more data sessions based on the one or more identifiers, and determine one or more deployment values for each of the one or more locations associated with the one or more data sessions based on the one or more data session characteristics. In addition, systems, methods, and computer-readable media output data associated with one or more wireless network deployment candidate locations based on the one or more locations associated with the one or more data sessions and the one or more deployment values. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156626 | EMBEDDED EXTERNALLY HOSTED CONTENT IN SEARCH RESULT PAGE - Architecture that enables user interaction in a search engine results page (SERP) with externally hosted content. A control hosted by an external data source is seamlessly embedded within the SERP, and then functions transparently as if the control were an internally hosted control. The architecture includes the capability to trigger the addition of the control to the SERP, embed the control within the SERP, and enable the control to interact with the SERP. To seamlessly embed the external control, a key is created that uniquely identifies the external control. The key is encoded and injected into the web document index. At query time, the key is detected and causes a link to be rendered within the SERP. When the querying user selects on the link, other elements in the SERP are moved aside to make room for the external control. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156627 | MAPPING OF TOPIC SUMMARIES TO SEARCH RESULTS - Architecture that facilitates the mapping of multimedia topic summaries from one data source, to web search results from another data source. An algorithmic technique is provided that discriminates (selects) between topic summaries that are wanted and not wanted for presentation to the search engine user based on a predetermine set of characteristics or features. Topic summaries are each pre-associated with a topic identifier. A page identifier is extracted from or created for the webpage that is used to match the topic identifiers to the correct webpage. The page identifier is aligned with the topic identifier of the topic summaries to find matches between topic summaries and webpages. Once alignment is completed, the correct topic identifier is inserted into the internal extended representation (e.g., associated with the content header) of every webpage, which enables the subsequent fetch of the topic summaries for display to users. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156628 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF CAUSALITY BASED ON BIG DATA ANALYSIS - A method and system for determining causality based on big data analysis are provided. The method comprises extracting a plurality of unstructured data elements from a plurality of unstructured big data sources; generating at least one signature for each of the plurality of unstructured data elements; identifying at least one common pattern within the signatures of the plurality of unstructured data elements; matching the at least one common pattern to at least one hypothesis by comparing at least one signature of the common pattern to at least one hypothesis; and determining the causality of the at least one common pattern based on the at least one hypothesis matching the at least one common pattern. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156629 | METHOD FOR MANAGING INFORMATION - A method for managing the exchange of information is provided, wherein the method includes receiving at least one information location identifier, wherein the at least one information location identifier may be associated with at least one information portal and associating with at least one network browser. The method further includes generating an information location identifier template responsive to the at least one information portal and communicating with the at least one information portal to identify resultant information. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156630 | Content Generation Service for Software Testing - A method includes receiving a request to generate data which describes the data. A database of seed content and an algorithms database are searched. If both seed content and an algorithm are found, the algorithm is applied to the seed content, thereby generating data. Some embodiments may include advertising a content generation service. Users may register for the service. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156631 | DECORATION OF SEARCH RESULTS BY THIRD-PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS - An ecosystem that enables content providers to decorate search results with interactive content. The searching user can then interact with the content and view the content without leaving the search results page. The content provider sends content and metadata to a content enrichment enabler that transforms the content into an enriched content, and receives back from the enrichment enabler a location identifier which includes information that identifies the provider and the location of the enriched content. The content provider then embeds the identifier in each of the content provider webpages for which such content has been produced. The identifier is indexed by a search engine to identify the interactive content and source thereof for surfacing on a search results page. The search result is decorated with an indicator that the user recognizes as the availability of the enriched content, and uses to access the content via the web page. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156632 | SYSTEM-WIDE QUERY OPTIMIZATION - A locally optimized plan for executing a command using a sequence of steps can be determined for a single computing node. However, the locally optimized sequence of steps may not be optimized for a combined system comprising multiple computing nodes, any one of which may be tasked with executing the command. A plan that is optimized for the combined system may be determined by comparing the predicted cost of locally optimized plans for computing nodes in the combined system. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156633 | Scalable Multi-Query Optimization for SPARQL - Multiquery optimization is performed in the context of RDF/SPARQL. Heuristic algorithms partition an input batch of queries into groups such that each group of queries can be optimized together. The optimization incorporates an efficient algorithm to discover the common sub-structures of multiple SPARQL queries and an effective cost model to compare candidate execution plans. No assumptions are made about the underlying SPARQL query engine. This provides portability across different RDF stores. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156634 | UNIFICATION OF SEARCH AND ANALYTICS - A system includes reception of a request conforming to a modeled query and join filter criteria, the request comprising a first subrequest associated with a search attribute view and a second subrequest associated with an analytical view, definition of a join between the search attribute view and the analytical view based on one or more view attributes of the search attribute view, and filtering of a result set associated with the first subrequest based on the join and on the join filter criteria. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156635 | OPTIMIZING AN ORDER OF EXECUTION OF MULTIPLE JOIN OPERATIONS - A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product optimizes an order of execution of column join operations. A first partitioning of the first data column splits the first data column into first subsets of rows. A second partitioning of the second data column splits the second data column into a second subsets of rows. A first value frequency information indicates a frequency of attribute values within a subset of rows of the first data column processed. A second value frequency information indicates a frequency of attribute values within a subset of rows of the second data column. Cardinalities of sub-tables derived by a respective joining of the subsets of rows of the first and second data columns are estimated, based on the first and second value frequency information. An order of execution of multiple join operations is then optimized based on the estimated cardinalities of the sub-tables. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156636 | DYNAMIC PARALLEL AGGREGATION WITH HYBRID BATCH FLUSHING - A method, apparatus, and system for dynamic parallel aggregation with hybrid batch flushing are provided. Record sources of an aggregation operator in a query execution plan may dynamically aggregate using the same aggregation operator. The dynamic aggregation creates a batch of aggregation records from an input source, which are then used to aggregate further records from the input source. If a record from the input source is not matched to an aggregation record in the batch, then the record is passed to the next operator. In this manner, records are aggregated ahead of time at a record source to reduce the number of records passed between operators, reducing the impact of network I/O between nodes of a parallel processing system. By adjusting the contents of the batch according to aggregation performance monitored during run-time, hybrid batch flushing can be implemented to adapt to changing data patterns and skewed values. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156637 | QUERYING FEATURES BASED ON USER ACTIONS IN ONLINE SYSTEMS - Online systems, for example, social networking systems store features describing relations between entities represented in the online system. The information describing the features is represented as a graph. The online system maintains a cumulative feature graph and an incremental feature graph. Feature values based on recent user actions are stored in the incremental graph and feature values based on previous actions are stored in the cumulative graph. Periodically, the information stored in the incremental feature graph is merged with the information stored in the cumulative feature graph. The incremental graph is marked as inactive during the merge and information based on new user actions is stored in an active incremental feature graph. If a request for feature information is received, the feature information obtained from the cumulative feature graph, inactive incremental feature graph and the active incremental feature graph are combined to determine the feature information. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156638 | ONTOLOGY HARMONIZATION AND MEDIATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A method and system for harmonizing and mediating ontologies to search across large data sources is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a query targeting a first ontology. The method further comprises translating the query into one or more translated queries, each translated query targeting a respective ontology different from the first ontology. For each of the queries, issuing the query to a respective database organized according to the respective ontology of the query, and receiving a respective result set for the query, wherein the respective result set corresponds to the respective ontology of the query. The method further comprises translating the respective result set into a translated result set corresponding to the first ontology, aggregating the result sets into an aggregated result set corresponding to the first ontology, and returning the aggregated results set corresponding to the first ontology. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156639 | Insight Generation From Statistical Measure/Dimension Combinations - Insights gleaned from statistical analysis of a dataset of an in-memory database, may be obtained with high throughput. In response to a user query, a Data Inference Engine (DIE) provides statistically valid measure/dimension combinations of the dataset to an analysis tool. A master procedure may be executed at search query runtime, allowing timely filtering of output of the analysis tool based on columns provided in the user request. Inputs/outputs of the master procedure may avoid storing physical tables, reducing maintenance. The master procedure may comprise individual sub-procedures (e.g. determining outliers, percentage contribution) executed in parallel. Output of sub-procedure(s) may be formatted per a final output format, facilitating union therebetween. Embodiments may filter certain measure/dimension combinations received from the DIE. For example, embodiments may consider only unique measure/dimension combinations (irrespective of dimension order), a limited number of combinations (e.g. ≦20), and/or combinations having a limited number of dimensions (e.g. ≦3). | 2014-06-05 |
20140156640 | EMBEDDED SEARCH RESULTS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF A PROCESS - In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may include receiving, from a user interface, an indication and a search term to be identified in one or more steps of a business process, the indication being representative of a search result format for an embedded context search; initiating a search for the search term in one or more steps of a business process; receiving one or more search results including metadata describing where the one or more search results are located in the business process; and generating a first page including the one or more steps of the business process, the first page further including the one or more search results embedded within the one or more steps to provide a context, when the indication representative of the search result format comprises the embedded context search. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156641 | Media Content Search Based on Metadata - Embodiments are provided for querying a media server for media content based on user-selected metadata associated with first media while the first media is being experienced by a user. In one embodiment, at least one metadata associated with the first media may be displayed for the user to review while the first media is being experienced by the user. The user may then select a displayed metadata to initiate a search for media content based on the selected metadata. The search for media content may be performed by querying a media server associated with a selection of media content services. The user may then review the results of the media query, select media content from the results, and initiate further action, such as adding the media content to a digital repository, or purchasing the media content. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156642 | Generating And Using Temporal Metadata Partitions - Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for generating and using temporal metadata partitions. Metadata can be stored in temporal metadata partitions based upon a time range included in the metadata. Furthermore, metadata can be stored in multiple temporal metadata partitions to which the metadata is relevant. As such, metadata can be stored in manner that allows event data to be understood in the context of temporally accurate and/or relevant metadata. Functionality for executing queries of event data and providing results in view of metadata, as well as the merging of multiple temporal metadata partitions also are disclosed. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156643 | ENABLING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS TO QUERY SEMANTIC MODELS - Provided are a computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for generating a combined report. One or more queries are constructed using a Business Intelligence (BI) metadata model and one or more query declarations. The one or more queries are executed on a semantic model to obtain one or more semantic result sets. One or more data source result sets are received from one or more data sources. The one or more semantic result sets and the one or more data source result sets are combined to construct one or more combined result sets. The one or more combined result sets are rendered to form a combined report. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156644 | FACILITATING PERSONAS IN COMMUNICATION EXCHANGE ENVIRONMENTS - Methods, systems, and software are disclosed herein for facilitating personas in communication exchange environments. Aspects of the disclosure include search requests to search for relevant personas. In response to each of the search requests, different contact sources are searched for any relevant contacts. Any relevant personas can then be returned having contact information assembled from the relevant contacts. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156645 | EXPERT-BASED CONTENT AND COACHING PLATFORM - Systems and methods for implementing and performing coaching-assisted content delivery and workflows are described. In one example, a goal-based workflow integrates with operations for suggesting and delivering content on behalf of professional users. The operations may be conducted in connection with a subscription or membership to an information service, and various interactions between a client user and a professional user through the information service. In further examples, the information service may track data for the human user, generate suggestions and playlists, manage the accomplishment of goals and logic triggers, and exchange communications, to facilitate the relationship between the professional user and the client user. In other further examples, the information system manages various data values used to provide prompts, reminders, motivators, and other forms of suggested content to the client user. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156646 | METHODOLOGY FOR BUILDING AND TAGGING RELEVANT CONTENT - Systems and methods for content tagging and creation within in an information system are described herein. Content tagging may include the processing of unstructured data as input and the transformation of the unstructured data into structured data that has context relative to a user or a group of users. The content may include an action statement suggesting at least one action for the user to perform. The tagging process may associate the action statement with a tag provided from a hierarchy of tag classifications, the tag being relevant to motivating the user to perform at least one action contained in the action statement (for example, the performance actions facilitating the user's achievement of a health goal). The content and associated tagging data may then be stored in the information system for consumption by the content suggestion engine. Further techniques for tagging and accessing tagged data are also described. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156647 | PHRASE-BASED DETECTION OF DUPLICATE DOCUMENTS IN AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases. Related phrases and phrase extensions are also identified. Phrases in a query are identified and used to retrieve and rank documents. Phrases are also used to cluster documents in the search results, create document descriptions, and eliminate duplicate documents from the search results, and from the index. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156648 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INTEGRATED SEARCH AND WEB BROWSING HISTORY - An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided for creating and displaying an integrated search and web browser history to a user. In particular, the apparatus includes a processor and a memory including computer program code, and the memory and computer program code are configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to receive search data provided to a website and navigational data relating to a webpage. The apparatus may determine a relationship between the search data and the navigational data and may further provide for a graphical representation of the search data, the navigational data, and the relationship between the search and navigational data to be displayed to the user. Thus, the user can have not only a record of the webpages accessed or search terms used in the previous search, but also a meaningful organization and contextual representation of the search. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156649 | Automatic Detection of Patterns and Inference in a Dataset - Techniques allow automatic identification of statistically significant attribute combinations in a dataset, and provide users with an understanding thereof including starting points for further analysis. Statistically significant combinations may be obtained from large data sets by limiting combinations to four or fewer attributes. The combinations obtained may be ranked to differentiate patterns, e.g. according to factors such as error ratio, decision tree depth, occurrences, and number of attributes. Still further insights may be achieved by ranking attributes according to the number of statistically significant combinations in which they appear. For useful visualization of statistically significant information within the patterns, only those having at least one measure/numeric may analyzed for further insight (e.g. by an outlier algorithm) and presented as output in a chart (e.g. pie, bar) form. The decision tree approach of various embodiments may facilitate ‘What if’ analysis of the data, as well as obtaining the reverse inference. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156650 | CLASSIFYING A PORTION OF USER CONTACT DATA INTO LOCAL CONTACTS - Contact data for contacts of a user is stored. Each of the contacts is ranked (e.g., based on stored profile information for each contact). In one embodiment, each of the contacts is classified as either a local contact or a directory contact based on the ranking to provide local contacts and directory contacts. The local contacts are provided for local storage on a user device of the user. A directory contact is provided to the user device from the directory contacts by the server (e.g., in response to a query from the user device). | 2014-06-05 |
20140156651 | AUTOMATIC SUMMARIZING OF MEDIA CONTENT - The subject matter discloses an automatic summarizing method the method comprising: receiving from a computerized device a request for summarizing a media content; segmenting the media content into a plurality of segments; wherein an at least one of the plurality of segments is associated with a metadata; wherein said metadata comprising characteristics; ranking a relevancy of each of the plurality of segments; wherein the ranking comprising associating scores to the segments according to the metadata; and selecting an at least one selected segment from said plurality of segments; wherein the at least one selected segment is associated with a highest score from the scores. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156652 | DATA MATCHING - A computer-implemented method of matching data sets against a desired data set characteristic. First and second data sets comprising first and second sets of attributes respectively are received. A predetermined data set characterisation scheme is selected from a plurality of such schemes. The selected scheme corresponds to a set of desired attributes indicative of the strength of a match against the desired characteristic. The desired attributes corresponding to the selected scheme are identified. Weighting indicators indicating a relative weighting of each of the desired attributes is retrieved from a database. The desired attributes are matched with attributes in the first and second sets. The first and second sets are ranked in relation to the scheme on the basis of the matching and the retrieved set of weighting indicators. A report identifying the first and second sets and the relative rank of the sets in relation to the scheme is generated. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156653 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING STANDARD REAL WORLD TO VIRTUAL WORLD LINKS - An apparatus for providing standard real world to virtual world links may include a processing element configured to receive indications of an image including an object, determine whether the object corresponds to a particular object having a predefined association based on a recognition of the object, and execute a function corresponding to the predefined association in response to the object corresponding to the particular object. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156654 | Gaze controlled contextual web search - The embodiments herein relate to web searches and, more particularly, to a gaze controlled approach to automate web search. The system identifies coordinates of the display unit the user is gazing at, at each instance of time and forms corresponding gaze vectors. Further, data displayed on the display unit is grouped into different semantic zones; with each semantic zone having different coordinates. By comparing coordinate information in the gaze vector and each of the semantic zones, the system identifies semantic zone the user is gazing at. Further, from the identified semantic zones, the system identifies a subject of interest for that user. A search is performed in the associated databases with the subject of interest as the key and the results are displayed to the user. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156655 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes the following elements. A selector selects, as a first item, an item disposed within a QFD chart. A first calculator calculates a correlation score between the first item and an item associated with an adjacent axis. A first extracting unit compares the correlation score with a predetermined value and extracts a second item related to the first item. A second calculator calculates a correlation score between the second item and an item associated with an adjacent axis and determines the calculated correlation score between the item associated with the adjacent axis and the first item. A second extracting unit compares the correlation score with a predetermined value and extracts a third item related to the first item. A display unit displays the first item, the second item, and the third item in a mode different from a mode of the other items. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156656 | Managed Assessment of Submitted Digital Content - Methods and systems for managing assessment of media content electronically submitted to a network-based media distribution system. A submitter can prepare a media package that is associated with a particular media asset (e.g. media title), and then electronically submit the media package to the media distribution system. The media distribution system can then process the media package to produce various components that are used by the media distribution system to electronically distribute media content of the media asset. According to one aspect, the media distribution system can manage a review process on the various components so that the components can be individually approved or rejected. According to another aspect, embodiments pertain to a reviewer's workspace that can assist a user in reviewing the submitted media content. According to still another aspect, embodiments can utilize a plurality of reviewers to review various media assets that have been submitted. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156657 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENTING EVIDENCE - A system and method for documenting evidence. Investigators are provided a mobile client device enabling them to document evidence directly at a crime scene. Documentation is provided to an evidence gathering module which collects the documentation and stores it to an evidence database. Once the investigation is complete, a chain of custody document is generated. Documentation is time and date stamped and each documented item of evidence is linked to the particular investigator that documented it. The mobile client device provides automated location and environmental data, reducing error and overhead for the investigator. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156658 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING EXAMINATION PROCESS - In a method for displaying an examination process of a patent application, one or more examination files of the patent application are obtained. The method obtains contents of each examination file, determines one or more rejected claims in each examination file by analyzing the contents of each examination file, and creates rejection information corresponding to each rejected claim. The method further creates a node for each examination file according to a preset mode, displays the rejection information of the rejected claims in a specific examination file on a display device when a node of the specific examination file is selected. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156659 | FUSING CONTEXTUAL INFERENCES SEMANTICALLY - System and methods for performing context inference in a computing device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of performing context inference includes: determining, at a computing device, a first context class using context-related data from at least one data source associated with a mobile device; and determining, at the mobile device, a fusion class based on the first context class, the fusion class being associated with at least one characteristic that is common to the first context class and a second context class that is different from the first context class. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156660 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR QUANTIFYING AND TRACKING SOFTWARE APPLICATION QUALITY - A computer-implemented method and system for quantifying and tracking software application quality based on aggregated user reviews. | 2014-06-05 |
20140156661 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING VEHICLE - A vehicle detecting apparatus obtains a magnetic signal from strength of a geomagnetic field generated due to a movement of a vehicle, and detects and classifies the moving vehicle on the basis of information regarding the latest magnetic signal change pattern indicating a change in the magnetic signal and information regarding a magnetic signal change pattern with respect to each vehicle stored in a database. The vehicle detecting apparatus receives detection and classification information regarding a vehicle which has actually moved, from an external information providing server, and gradually updates it through learning of a magnetic signal change pattern of the corresponding vehicle. | 2014-06-05 |