36th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 46 |
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20140250022 | FOLLOWING-UP CONTROLLING METHOD OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS USING PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - The present invention relates to a follow-up control method of a product online, and more particularly, to a method of registering a product to a management server after capturing the barcode of the product by using a portable device and performing a follow-up control of the product online by using the registered barcode. A follow-up control method of a product by using a portable device includes: identifying a product by capturing the barcode of the product with a portable device through a program built in the portable device or identifying a product by directly inputting product information into the portable device; registering the product by transmitting data regarding the identified product information to a management server; and performing a follow-up control on the product online by a user after the product registration is completed. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250023 | BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BASED SOCIAL NETWORK WITH VIRTUAL DATA-VISUALIZATION CARDS - A method for sharing business intelligence information includes creating a plurality of data visualization cards from business intelligence data in response to create requests from a plurality of user accounts. Each data visualization card is associated with the user account that requested its creation. Data visualization cards are also associated with user accounts that did not request their creation in response to collect requests from those user accounts. A social network is created amongst the user accounts using the data visualization cards such that user accounts associated with data visualization cards created from common business intelligence data are linked. A first data visualization card that was created in response to a create request from a first user account may then be provided to a second user account in response to determining that the first user account and the second user account are linked in the social network. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250024 | FORMATTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A STANDARDIZED RESUME - The present invention is a system for taking a resume up loading it to the internet to produce a new resume which is reformatted to desired format. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250025 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING JOB CANDIDATES - Human resource system for collecting and analyzing survey data from reference providers identified by a job candidate for use by an employer. The system sends an electronic communication to the reference providers to request completion of survey questions and electronically receives the survey data from the reference providers, preferably through webpages. An analysis module combines the received survey data from the reference providers and generates a confidential candidate report for an employer which excludes identification of any ratings or comments by any reference providers. The system also generates customized interview probe questions for use during job interviews and coaching tactics for use after the hiring, based on the weak areas that have been identified from the completed surveys in order to assist the hiring manager to bring the new hires up to speed quickly and effectively. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250026 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTABLISHING IDENTITY CONFIDENCE DATABASE - The invention provides various systems and methods for establishing an identity confidence scoring system. The method includes gathering identity information about the customers from physical locations and from remote locations. The method updates the identity profiles with the gathered identity information, and based on the gathered identity information, generates an identity confidence score associated with each identity profile. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250027 | Tracking information display systems and related methods - A tracking information display system is described. The tracking information system detects a tracking number on a webpage and displays tracking information associated with the tracking number, regardless of which common carrier may be associated with the tracking number. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250028 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A USER WITH REAL TIME INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING RATES FROM A PLURALITY OF FREIGHT FORWARDERS - A system for providing a user with international shipping rates in real time. The system includes a client, a shipping rates database comprising current shipping rate information for a plurality of freight forwarders, and a server comprising a processor. The processor is programmed to receive, from the client, a request for shipping rates for shipping a freight from an origin location in an origin country to a destination location in a destination country, access, from the shipping rates database, current shipping rate information for each of the plurality of freight forwarders, and send the client a shipping rate for each of the plurality of freight forwarders based on shipping the freight from the origin location to the destination location. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250029 | SUPPORT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - A support system includes a display device that includes a display screen, a storage device, and a processing device that is connected to the display device and the storage device and that causes the display device to carry out processing to display an indicator display section on the display screen, the indicator display section displaying an indicator that indicates a price reversal timing within a predetermined period with time on the horizontal axis based on information stored in the storage device indicating the price reversal timing, and being configured, when being displayed to be superimposed on another image displayed on the display screen, to allow the other image to be visible through the indicator display section. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250030 | METHOD AND APPARATUS USING DEBT OR EQUITY FOR MAKING FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS ECONOMIC - A business method and system work to create an observable, verifiable and tangible result that can prevent the default of financial transactions by creating a separate income generating Private Equity Portfolio Asset Base that can be financially relied upon prior to a financial default. The self-insured, income generating Private Equity Portfolio is created contemporaneously by the select equity creator plus (SECP) at the time of the underlying transaction's closing, providing contemporaneous liquidity upon the execution of the underlying transaction. Once the underlying transaction is secured, the additional value created by the SECP, vis-Ã -vis the Private Equity Portfolio, may be used for other financial purposes unrelated to the original underlying transaction. The user of the SECP has a direct and additional financial benefit from the Private Equity Portfolio Asset Base in tandem with the counterparty to the financial transaction. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250031 | METHOD OF AND INFORMATION PROCESSING MACHINERY FOR RECOGNIZING, COMPUTING AND CAPTURING SUBSIDIZING PAYMENT CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY PAYING CONSUMERS WHEN PAYING FOR SERVICES PROVIDED BY ORGANIZATIONS THAT ALSO PROVIDE SIMIMLAR SERVICES TO OTHERS IN FINANCIAL NEED IN A SUBSIDIZED MANNER - Method of capturing, by registered, paying consumers, consumer subsidizing payment contribution based tax benefits across a plurality of tax-qualified organizations and institutions participating within an internet-based tax benefit calculation and capture (TBRCC) network, and calculating and capturing tax benefits generated by consumers paying in excess of the cost of economic benefit(s) provided, with the excess of consumers' payments used to subsidize the receipt of identical or similar economic benefit(s) (e.g. services and/or goods) provided to other consumers in financial need. Further, providing registered, paying consumers with the ability to sell or trade their subsidizing payment contribution-generated tax benefit(s), or converted tax benefits, to other consumers and entities also registered and participating in the TBRCC network. Finally, providing full tax reconciliation between all registered, paying consumers, tax-qualified organizations and institutions, other consumers and entities, and all relevant taxing authorities. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250032 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND PROCESSOR-READABLE MEDIA FOR SIMULTANEOUS SENTIMENT ANALYSIS AND TOPIC CLASSIFICATION WITH MULTIPLE LABELS - Methods, systems and processor-readable media for simultaneous sentiment analysis and topic classification with multiple labels. A sentiment and topic associated with a post can be classified at similar time and a result can be incorporated to predict a feature so that a label of two (or more) tasks can promote and reinforce each other iteratively. A feature extraction and selection can be performed on the tasks and a multi-task multi-label classification model can be trained for each task with maximum entropy utilizing multiple labels to ascertain information derived from an extra label and to manage class ambiguities. Each task has a separate classification model with different predicting features and they can be trained collectively which allows flexibility in model construction. The multi-task multi-label classification model produces a probabilistic result and the classes can be ranked by the probabilistic result and the post can be classified with the multi-label. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250033 | SOCIAL BEHAVIOR HYPOTHESIS TESTING - A relational event history is determined based on a data set, the relational event history including a set of relational events that occurred in time among a set of actors. Data is populated in a probability model based on the relational event history, where the probability model is formulated as a series of conditional probabilities that correspond to a set of sequential decisions by an actor for each relational event, and where the probability model includes one or more statistical parameters and corresponding statistics. A baseline communications behavior for the relational event history is determined based on the populated probability model, and departures from the baseline communications behavior within the relational event history are determined. Determining departures includes determining and testing a hypothesis regarding communications behavior within the relational event history. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250034 | 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. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250035 | MODEL GENERATION DEVICE, PATTERN RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHODS THEREOF - One aspect of the embodiments discloses a model generation device for pattern recognition, a pattern recognition apparatus and methods thereof. A mixture-level variance sharing step generates a mixture-level variance sharing structure of a first model by using a second model. A first model generation step generates the first model with the variance sharing structure by using training data of the first model, wherein in the variance sharing structure, mixture components in respective states have the same shared variances in the same order. The embodiment can at least provide better model parameter estimation so as to provide better recognition performance in the case of limited training data. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250036 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR EVENT-TRIGGERED UPDATES IN PARALLEL NETWORKS - A simple format is disclosed and referred to as Elementary Network Description (END). The format can fully describe a large-scale neuronal model and embodiments of software or hardware engines to simulate such a model efficiently. The architecture of such neuromorphic engines is optimal for high-performance parallel processing of spiking networks with spike-timing dependent plasticity. The software and hardware engines are optimized to take into account short-term and long-term synaptic plasticity in the form of LTD, LTP, and STDP. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250037 | METHODS FOR MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN PARALLEL NETWORKS - A simple format is disclosed and referred to as Elementary Network Description (END). The format can fully describe a large-scale neuronal model and embodiments of software or hardware engines to simulate such a model efficiently. The architecture of such neuromorphic engines is optimal for high-performance parallel processing of spiking networks with spike-timing dependent plasticity. Methods for managing memory in a processing system are described whereby memory can be allocated among a plurality of elements and rules configured for each element such that the parallel execution of the spiking networks is most optimal. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250038 | STRUCTURAL PLASTICITY IN SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS WITH SYMMETRIC DUAL OF AN ELECTRONIC NEURON - A neural system comprises multiple neurons interconnected via synapse devices. Each neuron integrates input signals arriving on its dendrite, generates a spike in response to the integrated input signals exceeding a threshold, and sends the spike to the interconnected neurons via its axon. The system further includes multiple noruens, each noruen is interconnected via the interconnect network with those neurons that the noruen's corresponding neuron sends its axon to. Each noruen integrates input spikes from connected spiking neurons and generates a spike in response to the integrated input spikes exceeding a threshold. There can be one noruen for every corresponding neuron. For a first neuron connected via its axon via a synapse to dendrite of a second neuron, a noruen corresponding to the second neuron is connected via its axon through the same synapse to dendrite of the noruen corresponding to the first neuron. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250039 | UNSUPERVISED, SUPERVISED AND REINFORCED LEARNING VIA SPIKING COMPUTATION - The present invention relates to unsupervised, supervised and reinforced learning via spiking computation. The neural network comprises a plurality of neural modules. Each neural module comprises multiple digital neurons such that each neuron in a neural module has a corresponding neuron in another neural module. An interconnection network comprising a plurality of edges interconnects the plurality of neural modules. Each edge interconnects a first neural module to a second neural module, and each edge comprises a weighted synaptic connection between every neuron in the first neural module and a corresponding neuron in the second neural module. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250040 | CORRELATING DATA FROM MULTIPLE BUSINESS PROCESSES TO A BUSINESS PROCESS SCENARIO - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for providing process intelligence by correlating events from multiple business process systems to a single business scenario using configurable correlation strategies. An example method includes identifying a raw event associated with a sending business process and a receiving business process, identifying a sending business process attribute associated with the sending business process and a receiving business process attribute associated with the receiving business process, determining a correlation strategy for associating the raw event with a business scenario instance, the determination based at least in part on the sending business process attribute and the receiving business process attribute, and generating a visibility scenario event from the raw event according to the correlation strategy, the visibility scenario event associated with the business scenario instance. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250041 | DISTRIBUTED FACTOR GRAPH SYSTEM - In a data processing system, a method for implementing a factor graph having variable nodes and function nodes connected to each other by edges includes implementing a first function node and a on a first computer system, the first computer system being in network communication with a second computer system; establishing a network connection to each of a plurality of processing systems; receiving, at the first function node, soft data from a variable node implemented on one of the processing systems, the soft data including an estimate of a value and information representative of an extent to which the estimate is believed to correspond to a correct value; and transmitting, from the first function node to the one of the processing systems, soft data representing an updated estimate of the value. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250042 | System and Method for Improving the Flight Safety - The present invention relates to a system for improving the flight safety, comprising: a prediction component which predicts behaviors of an aircraft; and an indication component which indicates adjustment of an operation of the aircraft to reduce the possibility of occurrence of abnormal flying behaviors. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250043 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING COGNITIVE ABILITIES - A method and system for maintaining and improving cognitive abilities and functioning includes one or more modules that provide exercises and activities for exercising cognitive skill and provide an environment that promotes treatment adherence and emotional well being. The exercises and activities can be customized using content that is selected as a function of information obtained from a user profile. The system can prompt the user for information about the user and the user's preferences and this information can be stored in a user profile. The user profile can include information about the user and preferences of the user, such as their home town and what their favorite sports teams are and the system can select content which is related the to the user's hometown or favorite sports teams, including pictures of people, places and team logos. The system can also assist the user with selecting and achieving personal health and wellness goals by assisting the user in participating in a health and wellness program designed to achieve those goals and track the user's participating in and completion of the program. The system can provide the user with rewards for participating in and completing the program. The system can select the reward based on user preferences. The system can chart and display the user's progress toward receiving a reward. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250044 | METHOD AND SYSTEM USING ASSOCIATION RULES TO FORM CUSTOM LISTS OF COOKIES - A targeting rule set of association rules may be created. A plurality of association rules may be selected. A plurality of candidate rule sets may be constructed based on the plurality of association rules. The plurality of candidate rule sets may be evaluated to produce metrics. One of the plurality of candidate rule sets may be assigned as the targeting rule set based on the metrics. A custom list of user may be formed using association rules. A user may be determined to belong to a segment by applying one or more rules of a targeting rule set to user attribute data. A custom list of cookies to show advertising may be formed using combinations of association rules. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250045 | AUTHORING SYSTEM FOR BAYESIAN NETWORKS AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACTED FROM TEXT - A system and method that facilitates authoring of a Bayesian Belief Networks by: accessing text content stored in a content storage device; identifying statements within said accessed text content indicating a dependence relation; extracting said statements indicating said dependence relation from said text content; and aggregating said extracted statements into a form suitable for representation as a BBN network structure. To identify statements indicating a dependence relation, the method includes identifying one or more lexical and semantic attributes of variables within a text unit indicating a conditional dependence relation between two or more variables. The method further processes the text content to extract probabilistic information and probability statements and aggregate the probability statements into a quantitative layer of the BBN structure. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250046 | PROBABILISTIC PARSING - Probabilistic parsing is described for calculating information about the structure of text and other ordered sequences of items to enable downstream systems such as machine translation systems, information retrieval systems, document classification systems and others to use the structure information. In various embodiments, a parsing inference component comprises inference algorithm(s) compiled from a probabilistic program which defines a stochastic process for generating text or other ordered sequences of items. In examples, the parsing inference component receives one or more observations or examples of text that are compatible with the stochastic process defined by the probabilistic program. The parsing inference component may apply the inference algorithms to the text to update one or more probability distributions over strings or other values relevant to the parse. In some examples, the parsing inference component uses the inference results to complete partial examples to assist a user with information retrieval tasks. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250047 | AUTHORING SYSTEM FOR BAYESIAN NETWORKS AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACTED FROM TEXT - A system and computer program product that facilitates authoring of a Bayesian Belief Networks by: accessing text content stored in a content storage device; identifying statements within said accessed text content indicating a dependence relation; extracting said statements indicating said dependence relation from said text content; and aggregating said extracted statements into a form suitable for representation as a BBN network structure. To identify statements indicating a dependence relation, the system identifies one or more lexical and semantic attributes of variables within a text unit indicating a conditional dependence relation between two or more variables. The system further processes the text content to extract probabilistic information and probability statements and aggregate the probability statements into a quantitative layer of the BBN structure. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250048 | ANALYZING BEHAVIOR IN LIGHT OF SOCIAL CONTEXT - A relational event history is determined based on a data set, the relational event history. Data is populated in a probability model based on the relational event history, where the probability model is formulated as a series of conditional probabilities that correspond to a set of sequential decisions by an actor for each relational event, where the set of sequential decisions includes at least two decisions as to recipients of a relational event, where the probability model includes one or more statistical parameters and corresponding statistics that relate to one or more of senders, modes, topics, or recipients of relational events. A baseline communications behavior for the relational event history is determined based on the populated probability model, the baseline including a first set of values for the one or more statistical parameters, and departures within the relational event history from the baseline communications behavior are determined. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250049 | VISUALIZING SOCIAL BEHAVIOR - One or more user inputs are received. A relational event history is determined based on a data set, where the relational event history includes a set of relational events that occurred in time among a set of actors. Data is populated in a probability model based on the relational event history, where the probability model includes one or more statistical parameters and corresponding statistics that relate to one or more of senders of relational events, modes of relational events, topics of relational events, or recipients of relational events. Graphical analyses of the relational event history are output based on the one or more user inputs. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250050 | ANALYZING BEHAVIOR IN LIGHT OF SOCIAL TIME - A relational event history is determined based on a data set, the relational event history including a set of relational events that occurred in time among a set of actors. Data is populated in a probability model based on the relational event history, where the probability model is formulated as a series of conditional probabilities that correspond to a set of sequential decisions by an actor for each relational event, where the probability model includes one or more statistical parameters and corresponding statistics, and where at least one of the one or more statistics is determined using a decay function. A baseline communications behavior for the relational event history is determined based on the populated probability model, and, based on a second set of values for the statistical parameters, departures within the relational event history from the baseline communications behavior are determined. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250051 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR TARGETING WEB-PAGE TO A SURFER - Systems and methods for determining predictive model types are provided. A method may include generating a predictive model for a web page of a website, wherein the web page includes a configuration defining one or more objects presented with the web page, and wherein each object is associated with a predictive model. The method may include determining one or more predictive model types that are associated with the predictive model, determining one or more performance indicators that correspond to each determined predictive model type, wherein performance indicators represent one or more benefits to a website, selecting a predictive model type of the predictive model out of the one or more predictive model types, wherein the predictive model type is selected based on a performance indicator corresponding to the selected predictive model type, and determining a configuration of the web page using the selected predictive model type of the predictive model. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250052 | ANALYZING SOCIAL BEHAVIOR - A relational event history is determined based on a data set, the relational event history including a set of relational events that occurred in time among a set of actors. Data is populated in a probability model based on the relational event history, where the probability model is formulated as a series of conditional probabilities that correspond to a set of sequential decisions by an actor for each relational event. The set of sequential decisions includes a decision to send a communication, and one or more decisions as to recipients. For a relational event in the relational event history, one or more possible sequences in which the actor decided to include the recipients of the communication are determined. A baseline communications behavior for the relational event history is determined, and departures from the baseline communications behavior within the relational event history are determined. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250053 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATASET QUERY PROCESSING - A method of processing a query. The method comprises providing at least one multidimensional dataset having at least three dimensions formed according to a plurality of data tables associating between a plurality of persons and a plurality of roles and comprising a plurality of cells, receiving a query defining at least one factual value coordinated by at least one of the plurality of cells, the at least one factual value representing a measure defined in at least one of the plurality of data tables, deriving at least one person from the plurality of persons, the at least one person being associated with the with multidimensional dataset with the at least one cell, and outputting an indication of the at least one person in response to the query. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250054 | Methods and Systems for Calculating and Retrieving Analytic Data - A data management system for calculating and retrieving analytic data involves a computing device coupled to a database. The system includes a measure data structure within the database including a measure-data element, a collection data structure within the database including a collection-data element, and a fact data structure within the database, and configured to store a fact-data element which includes an aggregated value, a link to the measure-data element, and a link to the collection-data element. The system also includes a fact-analyzer module configured to generate the aggregated value from the transaction data utilizing at least the measure-data element and the collection-data element, wherein the measure-data element defines how the aggregated value is calculated and the collection-data element defines a categorization of the aggregated value. The fact-analyzer module is also configured to store the aggregated value and links to the measure-data element and the collection-data element in the fact-data element. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250055 | Systems and Methods for Associating Metadata With Media Using Metadata Placeholders - Certain embodiments described herein provide methods and systems that use metadata placeholders to facilitate the association of metadata with recorded media content. Metadata placeholders, for example, may be created prior to recording content and then used at the time of the recording and editing of the actual content. Metadata placeholders can be used to make useful information, including a director's shot plan and other shot attribute information, available on-location to be used and edited by those present at recording and to facilitate the association of the information with the actual recorded content. One exemplary method involves creating a metadata placeholder for a shot, including information about the shot in the metadata fields of the metadata placeholder, and then storing the placeholder's metadata with the content that is recorded for the shot. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250056 | Systems and Methods for Prioritizing Textual Metadata - A priority for one or more source components can be determined for use in providing metadata for a composite media presentation. For example, an audio component containing or associated with a text transcript may be prioritized based on a gain value, gain differential, and/or frequency range associated with the audio component, with data indicating the priority stored in a computer-readable medium. When transcript or other metadata is provided for the composite media presentation, the priority information can be used to select how (or whether) data or metadata associated with each component will be used in providing transcript metadata for the presentation as a whole. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250057 | System of Centrally Managing Core Reference Data Associated with an Enterprise - A system is provided for centrally managing core enterprise reference data associated with an enterprise. A centralized master repository contains the core enterprise reference data. The internal services framework also provides internal services for managing the core enterprise reference data within the centralized master repository, one or more of the internal services having direct access to the core enterprise reference data stored in the centralized master repository for management purposes. An infrastructure services layer coupled to the centralized master repository provides for bulk data transfers of core enterprise reference data between the centralized master repository and one or more external operational systems according to one or more enterprise-level business workflows, the external operational systems permitted indirect access to the core enterprise reference data stored in the centralized master repository for operational purposes. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250058 | SMART CONTENT FEEDS FOR DOCUMENT COLLABORATION - Example embodiments relate to smart content feeds for document collaboration. In example embodiments, a user may use a system to perform a search of a document repository in order to identify related content for adding to a target document. In response to a user approving the related content identified in the search, the system may create a reference data entry that includes a timestamp and a storage location of a source document that contains the related content. The system may then use the timestamp to detect that a modification of the source document has occurred and generate a notification for the user that describes the modification. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250059 | Method and Apparatus for Performing Bi-State Editing - A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing bi-state editing of an image file is presented. An image file is selected for editing, the image file having a plurality of layers. A layer of the plurality of layers is selected, the layer in a first state. The layer is automatically converted to a second state while the first state of the layer is maintained. At least one of the first state of the layer and the second state of the layer is edited. One of the first state of the layer and the second state of the layer is then committed. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250060 | IMPLEMENTING A MULTI-COLUMN/MULTI-ROW CONSTRAINT IN A RELATIONAL DATABASE TABLE - A method, system, and computer program product for implementing a multi-column/multi-row constraint. Lock techniques prevent access collisions even when two or more concurrently running software applications are attempting to insert rows into the same relational database table (subject to the same multi-column/multi-row constraints). The method commences by receiving (e.g., from a first process) a first row to be inserted into a relational database table where the row comprises at least two constrained columns corresponding to the multi-column/multi-row constraint, then receiving (e.g., from a second process) a second row to be inserted into the same table. Using column locks, the method recognizes the potential for conflicting row insertions, and manages locks to prevent conflicting access grants to the two constrained columns of the existing database table. The evaluation of the multi-column/multi-row constraint is performed over the first row to be inserted and a row or rows of the relational database table. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250061 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING INFORMATION IN A REPLICATED DATABASE - A method for accessing information in a replicated database may include receiving a request for information in a database. The request may be associated with a table in the database. The table may include a plurality of identifiers each identifying a portion of the information in the table. The method may also include executing a logical structure associated with the table to produce a logical view of the table. The logical view may contain at least a portion of the information from the table, without containing the identifiers. The method may further include identifying the requested information in the logical view, and communicating the identified requested information in the logical view. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250062 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating the Development of an Application that Accesses Data - Certain embodiments facilitate developing an application using a client-side object model to data source mapping. This may involve defining data use on the client side of the application in various ways that simplify the development necessary to implement data access features. In certain embodiments, data access and synchronization between a client and a data source is accomplished by configuring the client to map to a set of remote procedure call operations for a given data source. For example, the user may implement or confirm update, create, delete, and retrieve function calls for a given data source such that the application can implement data access and updating using those functions. Embodiments use persistent object identifiers, change logs, and/or data bindings in a client to provide various features and benefits. Certain embodiments also facilitate conflict resolution, demand paging, and lazy loading. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250063 | SYNCHRONIZED DATA CHANGES - A system and/or computer program product synchronizes data between a first computer and a second computer. An original first data in a first computer is changed into revised first data in the first computer by inserting a data change into the original first data. The data change in the revised first data is identified and transmitted to a second computer in a message. The message instructs the second computer to convert an original second data stored in the second computer into a revised second data by inserting the data change into the original second data, where the original second data and the revised second data are used and managed by a resident application software on the second computer. The message is executable without use of the resident application software on the second computer, thus allowing changes to be made across disparate platforms. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250064 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING OFF-LINE MODE OF OPERATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION - Systems and methods for synchronizing multiple copies of data in a network environment that includes servers and clients so that incremental changes made to one copy of the data can be identified, transferred, and incorporated into all other copies of the data. The synchronization can be accomplished regardless of whether modifications to the data have been made by a client while the client is in an on-line or off-line mode of operation. The clients cache data locally as data are modified and downloaded. The caching enables the clients to access the data and allows the synchronization to be performed without transmitting a particular version more than once between a client and a server. Such elimination of redundant data transmission results in an efficient use of time and network bandwidth. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250065 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONIZING A SERVER AND AN ON-DEMAND DATABASE SERVICE - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for synchronizing a server and an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for synchronizing a server and an on-demand database service can enable embodiments to synchronize a larger amount of data. The ability of embodiments to provide such feature can enable more effective synchronization of a user-level sharing entity database with a multi-user on-demand database service. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250066 | CROSS-FILE DIFFERENTIAL CONTENT SYNCHRONIZATION - Methods, systems and techniques for synchronizing content, such as a file, between one or more clients and one or more servers are provided. Example embodiments provide a Cross-File Differential Content Synchronization System (CDCSS) to synchronize files between remote systems in a nearly instantaneous manner without necessitating the transfer of the entire contents of a file. These components cooperate to transfer only the differences in data content wherever possible to a recipient system by providing a patch mechanism that instructs the recipient to build the modified or new data content based upon content it already has access to. In addition, in one embodiment the CDCSS synchronization solution provides a client-based index, rather than a server-based index, for tracking patches and files, which reduces the amount of computational and I/O overhead on the server and which does not require a negotiation between a client and a server to provide an update. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250067 | CROSS-FILE DIFFERENTIAL CONTENT SYNCHRONIZATION USING CACHED PATCHES - Methods, systems and techniques for synchronizing content, such as a file, between one or more clients and one or more servers are provided. Example embodiments provide a Cross-File Differential Content Synchronization System (CDCSS) to synchronize files between remote systems in a nearly instantaneous manner without necessitating the transfer of the entire contents of a file. These components cooperate to transfer only the differences in data content wherever possible to a recipient system by providing a patch mechanism that instructs the recipient to build the modified or new data content based upon content it already has access to. In addition, in one embodiment the CDCSS synchronization solution provides a client-based index, rather than a server-based index, for tracking patches and files, which reduces the amount of computational and I/O overhead on the server and which does not require a negotiation between a client and a server to provide an update. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250068 | SYSTEM FOR AN OPEN ARCHITECTURE DEPLOYMENT WITH CENTRALIZED SYNCHRONIZATION - One aspect of the preferred embodiment relates to an application framework for managing mobile clients and application programs. By utilizing the preferred embodiment, a system administrator may be provided the capability to manage and control multiple devices, directly and indirectly, using push (server-initiated) and/or pull (client-initiated) techniques from a single location. Additionally, the preferred embodiment may be utilized to back up and securely store information on the mobile clients, identify device usage and to deliver files and databases to the mobile clients. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250069 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY SYNCHRONIZING FILES - Systems and methods are provided for selectively synchronizing files. Data is received from a remote storage device indicative of a set of files stored on the remote storage device. A first file from the set of files is downloaded, but not a second file from the set of files. Both (a) the first file and (b) data indicative of the second file are stored in a database. A list of files stored in the database is displayed, the list including the first file and the second file. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250070 | Data Replication for Cloud Based In-Memory Databases - Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for data replication for cloud based in-memory databases. An embodiment operates by requesting, by a first computing device, configuration of an on-demand cloud-based in-memory database, assessing, at the first computing device, database system components, and transmitting database system component information from the first computing device to a second computing device over a network. The first computing device receives from the second computing device an evaluation of the database system components and a recommended replication strategy responsive to a replication rule set. The database system components at the first computing device are then configured to use the recommended replication strategy. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250071 | ACTIVE REPLICATION WITH GENERIC CONFLICT DETECTION AND RESOLUTION (CDR) - In various embodiments, an active-active replication solution is provided with one generic PL/SQL stored procedure (e.g., a PL/SQL stored procedure) configured to handle all application tables' conflict detection and resolution. In various aspects, the generic stored procedure simplifies initial setup, maintenance and management of complex mission critical active-active replication projects. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250072 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IN-MEMORY INDEXING OF DATA - A data management system is provided for facilitating in-memory indexing of data based on certain data access modes. The data management system includes an indexing module for indexing data stored in a data memory as a first data index. The first data index is further provided with a first data access mode, wherein the first data access mode enables the first data index to update itself by providing data write privileges to the first data index. The data management system further includes a synchronizing module for synchronizing a second data index with the first data index, wherein the second data access mode is provided with second data access mode to enable external systems to query data. The data management system further includes an index handling module for interchanging data access modes of the first and the second data indexes based on pre-defined rules. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250073 | ASYNCHRONOUS NAMESPACE MAINTENANCE - Asynchronous namespace maintenance in a distributed replicated data storage system is disclosed. An access device/program serving as a front end to the distributed replicated data storage system updates a batch of updated meta data about stored data items when data items are stored in the distributed replicated data storage system. When the elapsed time since the last batch of data item meta data was stored exceeds a first threshold value or the current batch size exceeds a second threshold value, the access device/program stores the current batch of updated meta data as an object in the distributed replicated data storage system, receiving a batch object identifier for the stored batch of updated meta data, and distributes the batch object identifier to other access devices and/or access programs which retrieve the batch of updated meta data and update their namespaces. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250074 | FORGETTING ITEMS WITH KNOWLEDGE BASED SYNCHRONIZATION - Systems and methods that enable removal of data from an endpoint, while not propagating such removal to other endpoints when synchronizing data sources associated therewith. A designation component can indicate items as forgotten items, wherein such items are being known to an endpoint and deleted therefrom—yet, reintroduced therein and reappearing (e.g., as a create) upon re-synchronizing with the replica over again. Moreover, the forgotten items can employ additional metadata such as in from of an additional bit that indicates whether an item is a forgotten item. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250075 | USING A FILE SYSTEM INTERFACE TO ACCESS A REMOTE STORAGE SYSTEM - A non-transitory computer readable medium that may store instructions for receiving, by a local storage system, a file system command that is sent from a host computer, the file system command is related to a remote snapshot of a local file system entity; wherein the remote snapshot of the local file system entity is generated by a process that may include sending a snapshot of the local file system entity from the local storage system to a remote storage system; wherein the local file system entity belongs to a local file system stored at the local storage system; and responding to the file system command, wherein the responding may include utilizing or generating remote snapshot file system information that is representative of the remote snapshot of the local file system entity. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250076 | IMAGE LEVEL COPY OR RESTORE, SUCH AS IMAGE LEVEL RESTORE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF DATA OBJECT METADATA - A system and method for performing an image level restore of data is described. In some examples, the system receives a request to restore a file and transmits the request to an intermediate component. The intermediate component may then retrieve a directory file from an image of a secondary copy of a data set, identify a location of the file from the directory file, and provide the location to the requestor. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250077 | DEDUPLICATION VAULT STORAGE SEEDING - Deduplication vault storage seeding. In one example embodiment, a method of seeding a deduplication vault storage includes seeding a vault storage with common blocks and storing, in the vault storage, each unique block from a source storage at a point in time that is not already duplicated in the vault storage. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250078 | MULTIPHASE DEDUPLICATION - Multiphase deduplication. In one example embodiment, a method of multiphase deduplication includes an analysis phase and a backup phase. The analysis phase includes analyzing each allocated block stored in a source storage at a point in time to determine if the block is duplicated in a vault storage. The backup phase is performed after completion of the analysis phase and includes storing, in the vault storage, each unique nonduplicate block from the source storage. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250079 | LOCAL SEEDING OF A RESTORE STORAGE FOR RESTORING A BACKUP FROM A REMOTE DEDUPLICATION VAULT STORAGE - Local seeding of a restore storage for restoring a backup from a remote deduplication vault storage. In one example embodiment, a method of local seeding of a restore storage for restoring a backup from a remote deduplication vault storage includes determining which blocks included in a backup of a source storage at a point in time, which is stored in the remote vault storage, are available in a local seeded storage containing common blocks, reading the locally available blocks from the local seeded storage, reading the non-locally available blocks from the remote vault storage, and storing the read blocks in the restore storage in the same position as stored in the source storage at the point in time. The remote vault storage is remote from the restore storage and the local seeded storage is local to the restore storage. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250080 | CHANGE TRACKING FOR MULTIPHASE DEDUPLICATION - Change tracking for multiphase deduplication. In one example embodiment, a method of tracking changes to a source storage of a source system for multiphase deduplication includes a change tracking phase that includes performing various steps for only allocated blocks in the source storage that are changed between a prior point in time and a subsequent point in time. These steps include temporarily storing a copy of the changed block in a volatile memory of the source system prior to writing the changed block to the source storage, performing a hash function only once on the copy of the changed block, while the copy is temporarily stored in a volatile memory of the source system, to calculate a hash value, writing the changed block to the source storage, and tracking, in a change log, a location in the source storage of the changed block and the corresponding hash value. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250081 | CREATING VALIDATED DATABASE SNAPSHOTS FOR PROVISIONING VIRTUAL DATABASES - Virtual databases are provisioned using point-in-time copies of a source database. Transaction logs received from the source database are applied to a point-in-time copy of the source database to create recovery milestones comprising database blocks that can be used to provision virtual databases. The recovery milestones are created in advance of receiving a request to provision a virtual database. Each recovery milestone is validated to determine that a consistent database snapshot can be created using the recovery milestone. If a problem is identified that prevents creation of a consistent database snapshot, the problem is fixed before creating the next recovery milestone. In response to receiving a request to provision a virtual database corresponding to a point in time, a recovery milestone is identified and transaction logs applied to the recovery milestone to create a database snapshot corresponding to the requested point in time. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250082 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR BACKING UP A SEARCH INDEX - An index to be backed up in a computing environment is identified. A staged copy of the index to be backed up is created. The staged copy of the index is segmented. The segments are uploaded to a pre-selected location. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250083 | CLOUD DATA BACKUP STORAGE MANAGER - Techniques for cloud data backup are disclosed. Example methods may store backup data from a client computer on portions of data storage media associated with peer computers. In some example embodiments, a file may be encoded into segments using an error-tolerant encoding scheme, and the segments may be stored on peer computers. In some example embodiments, individual segments may be stored on more than one peer machine and/or an individual peer machine may not receive all of the segments associated with the file. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250084 | Systems and Methods for Storing Object and Action Data During Media Content Development - Embodiments provide data storage of object and action data for use in media content development applications. For example, a data storage scheme may make information available to a user interface specifying, for a particular object type, which actions can be performed by objects of that type, as well as default values for objects of that type. Embodiments involve data storage techniques that are adaptable for use with new and changing object and media types. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250085 | ROLLBACK COUNTERS FOR STEP RECORDS OF A DATABASE - A rollback record may be created for each step identifier (ID). The rollback record indicates how many times the step record identified by the step ID has been rolled back during operation of the database. The rollback record may be stored in a periodic save record (PSR), separate from or stored in an audit trail containing the step records. By processing the rollback records in the periodic save record during a recovery, a database may identify a time on an audit trail for initiating a recovery prior to the last resume point for a step without going back in the audit trail to a time before the initial start of the step. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250086 | WAN Gateway Optimization by Indicia Matching to Pre-cached Data Stream Apparatus, System, and Method of Operation - A network gateway coupled to a backup server on a wide area network which receives and de-duplicates binary objects. The backup server provides selected data segments of binary objects to the gateway to store into a prescient cache (p-cache) store. The network gateway optimizes network traffic by fulfilling a local client request from its local p-cache store instead of requiring further network traffic when it matches indicia of stored data segments stored in its p-cache store with indicia of a first segment of a binary object requested from and received from a remote server. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250087 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Identifying Relevant Documents For Display - A computer-implemented system and method for identifying relevant documents for display are provided. Themes for a set of documents are generated. The documents are clustered based on the themes. A matrix including an inner product of document frequency occurrences and cluster concept weightings for each theme is generated for the documents. From the matrix, documents most relevant to a particular theme are identified, and the relevant documents are displayed. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BYTE-LEVEL OR QUASI BYTE-LEVEL SINGLE INSTANCING - Described in detail herein are systems and methods for deduplicating data using byte-level or quasi byte-level techniques. In some embodiments, a file is divided into multiple blocks. A block includes multiple bytes. Multiple rolling hashes of the file are generated. For each byte in the file, a searchable data structure is accessed to determine if the data structure already includes an entry matching a hash of a minimum sequence length. If so, this indicates that the corresponding bytes are already stored. If one or more bytes in the file are already stored, then the one or more bytes in the file are replaced with a reference to the already stored bytes. The systems and methods described herein may be used for file systems, databases, storing backup data, or any other use case where it may be useful to reduce the amount of data being stored. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250089 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING DATA REMANENCE OVER HYBRID DISK CLUSTERS USING VARIOUS STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES - A method is implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions. The programming instructions are operable to optimize data remanence over hybrid disk clusters using various storage technologies, determine one or more data storage technologies accessible by a file system, and determine secure delete rules for each of the one or more storage technologies accessible by the file system. The secure delete rules include a number of overwrites required for data to be securely deleted from each of the one or more storage technologies. The programming instructions are further operable to provide the secure delete rules to the file system upon a request for deletion of data for each of the one or more storage technologies a specific amount of times germane to secure delete data from the one or more storage technologies. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250090 | COMPRESSION OF TABLES BASED ON OCCURRENCE OF VALUES - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for compression of tables based on occurrence of values. In general, a number representing an amount of occurrences of a frequently occurring value in a group of adjacent rows of a column is generated, a vector representing whether the frequently occurring value exists in a row of the column is generated, and the number and the vector are stored to enable searches of the data represented by the number and the vector. The vector may omit a portion representing the group of adjacent rows. The values may be dictionary-based compression values representing business data such as business objects. The compression may be performed in-memory, in parallel, to improve memory utilization, network bandwidth consumption, and processing performance. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250091 | Systems and Methods for Managing Media Files - Various embodiments are disclosed for facilitating media management. A method for managing digital content comprises obtaining a media file and generating a primary identifier unique to the media file and obtaining at least one storage destination for the media file, wherein the at least one storage destination comprises one of: at least one user-specified storage destination and at least one storage destination automatically determined by an analyzing component. Based on the at least one storage destination, a secondary identifier unique to the at least one storage destination is generated. The method further comprises generating a media identifier based on primary identifier and the secondary identifier, storing the media identifier, and performing batch processing of media files based on corresponding media identifiers. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250092 | RULE DISCOVERY SYSTEM, METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - A system, an apparatus, a method and a program are provided which render it possible to obtain with high efficiency a set of rules useful in grasping or correcting contents of a database. The system includes a free itemset generation unit ( | 2014-09-04 |
20140250093 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUALIZATION DATA - Described in detail herein is a method of copying data of one or more virtual machines being hosted by one or more non-virtual machines. The method includes receiving an indication that specifies how to perform a copy of data of one or more virtual machines hosted by one or more virtual machine hosts. The method may include determining whether the one or more virtual machines are managed by a virtual machine manager that manages or facilitates management of the virtual machines. If so, the virtual machine manager is dynamically queried to automatically determine the virtual machines that it manages or that it facilitates management of. If not, a virtual machine host is dynamically queried to automatically determine the virtual machines that it hosts. The data of each virtual machine is then copied according to the specifications of the received indication. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250094 | STEP IDENTIFIER BASED ON A UNIVERSAL TIMESTAMP - One or more transactions, and their audited update actions, operating on a database may be identified by a step ID. The step ID may include a first set of bits identifying a time the step was created. The step ID may also include a second set of bits uniquely identifying a step created at a certain time from other step created at the same time. The first set of bits may be generated from a coordinated universal time (UTC) that does not change with local seasons, such as daylight saving time. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250095 | MANAGING DATA TRANSACTION REQUESTS - In various embodiments, a system, method, and related computer-readable storage medium to process data transactions are provided. In one example, a system is arranged to process data transactions in a data store including a plurality of databases. The system includes a computer interface module to receive a data transaction request from at least one requesting computer and a data access layer having one or more processors to identify at least one database in the plurality of databases. The data access layer is to define an abstraction layer between a computer interface module and the plurality of databases. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250096 | Embedded Business Metadata - A methodology is disclosed for improving searches of a distributed Internet network. A distributed Internet network is searched for a particular information type, searching for a field identified using a predetermined identifier indicating that the field comprises information of the particular information type. When the field identified using the predetermined identifier is found, an association of the contents of the field with the search results is made, and repeated using the same predetermined identifier. Information of a particular information type may then be served in a field identified using a predetermined identifier that identifies the field as containing information of the particular information type. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250097 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDEXING AND SEARCHING REPORTING DATA - A data management system for indexing reporting data of a contact center is disclosed. The data management system includes one or more reporting systems configured to store the reporting data. The data management system further includes a crawler configured to collect the reporting data from the one or more reporting systems. The data management system further includes one or more plug-in interfaces configured to enable the crawler to retrieve the reporting data from the one or more reporting systems. The data management system further includes an indexing server configured to index and store the collected contact center reporting data. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250098 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDEXING MOBILE APPLICATIONS - A system and method for indexing applications accessible through a user device are provided. The system includes crawling through a plurality of data sources to detect applications accessible through a user device; for each detected application, generating metadata characterizing the application; analyzing the generated metadata to classify the application to at least one category; and updating an application index to include at least the index application and the respective classified category. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250099 | OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE RANKING OF COMMENTS - A system may receive a request for comments associated with a particular document, identify a comment associated with the particular document, generate an objective score for the comment that is independent of a user associated with the request, identify the user associated with the request, generate a subjective score for the comment based on parameters associated with the identified user, generate a combined score for the comment by combining the objective score and the subjective score, and provide the comment, ranked based on the combined score, to the user for presentation with the particular document. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250100 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDEXING AND SEARCHING ADMINISTRATIVE DATA - A data management system for indexing administrative data of a contact center is disclosed. The data management system includes one or more unified communication devices configured to store the administrative data. The data management system further includes a crawler configured to collect the administrative data from the one or more unified communication devices. The data management system further includes a probing device configured to enable the crawler to communicate and retrieve the administrative data from the one or more unified communication devices. The data management system further includes a temporary database configured to store the collected administrative data; wherein the temporary database stores the collected administrative data in a plurality of flat file tables. The data management system further includes an indexing server configured to index the stored administrative data; wherein the indexed administrative data is searchable through one or more user search queries. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250101 | REAL TIME CONTENT SEARCHING IN SOCIAL NETWORK - Indexing and retrieving real time content in a social networking system is disclosed. A user-term index includes user-term partitions, each user-term partition comprising temporal databases. As a post is received from a user, a user identifier, a post identifier, and a post is extracted. An object store communicatively coupled to a temporal database for recently received content is queried to determine whether terms in the post has already been stored. A term identifier is stored in the user-term index with the user and post identifiers. A forward index stores the post by post identifier. Responsive to a search query, the user-term index is searched by the user's connections and the terms. A real time search engine compiles the results of the user-term index query and retrieves the stored posts from the forward index. The search results may then be ranked and cached before presentation to the searching user. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250102 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA PREHEATING - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for data preheating, which relate to database technologies, so as to increase a responding speed of a database system, reduce frequent IO on a magnetic disk, and improve overall performance of the database system. The method includes: when a database is started, reading hit ratio information from a flash memory device and reading user configuration information from a hard disk; obtaining a union set of a preset hot data table in the user configuration information and a hot data table in the hit ratio information; determining the total number of to-be-loaded hot data blocks from the union set; according to the storage proportions, determining the to-be-loaded hot data block to be stored into a shared buffer and the flash memory device; and separately storing the to-be-loaded hot data block into the shared buffer and the flash memory device. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250103 | OBTAINING PARTIAL RESULTS FROM A DATABASE QUERY - A database query governor determines when a query cannot be executed within a defined time threshold, but still executes the query or some variant of the query so partial results for the query may be returned to the user after executing for less than the defined time threshold, instead of an error message indicating the query was not executed at all. The partial results provide information to the user that may be sufficient for some applications, or may indicate to the user how the query could be modified to run in less time. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250104 | Media Orchestration Through Generic Transformations - Methods and apparatus provide for a Transformer that detects a selection to playback content and downloads a file in response to detecting the selection to playback content. The file is in a first format and includes a first reference to a location of secondary content that is in a first format that is incompatible with the first format of the file. The Transformer transforms the secondary content to a format compatible with the first format of the file and creates a second reference to the location of the transformed secondary content that is in the format compatible with the first format of the file. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250105 | RELIABLE CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS - A method and/or system for reliable content recommendations may include receiving, from an electronic device, a request for one or more content recommendations. An indicator associated with the electronic device may be determined. A history of interactions, wherein the interactions may be associated with the indicator, may also be determined. One or more entity root certificates may be determined based on the history of interactions. Based on the one or more entity root certificates, one or more entities may be determined. One or more recommended content items may be determined, where the one or more recommended content items may be associated with the one or more entities. Content recommendation data may be communicated, to the electronic device, where the content recommendation data may comprises data related to the one or more recommended content items. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250106 | Generating Search Results Containing State Links to Applications - A disclosure provides techniques for generating search results containing state links to applications. A method includes receiving a query containing one or more query parameters from a remote computing device and identifying a set of third party applications corresponding to the one or more query parameters. For each third party application, the method includes transmitting at least a subset of the one or more query parameters to a server associated with the third party application, receiving a response from the server associated with the third party application, and generating a state link to a native application version of the third party application based on the response. The method further includes providing the states links to the remote computing device. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250107 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPID COHORT ANALYSIS - An apparatus, system, and method for rapid cohort analysis. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an interface and a processor. The interface may receive an identifier of a first index attribute. The processor may search the database for a first group of records associated with the first index attribute, search the database for a second group of records, each record in the second group of records sharing a common second index attribute with a record in the first group of records, but not associated with the first index attribute, and calculate a statistic in response to information associated with the first group of records and the second group of records. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250108 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZING HIERARCHICAL REPOSITORIES - Systems and methods which implement synchronization across hierarchical targets by ordering elements in a hierarchical target in order of hierarchical depth and propagating a first set of element changes based upon the hierarchical order of elements and a second set of element changes based upon a non-hierarchical order of elements priority are shown. A child attribute data model is utilized with respect to hierarchical data structures for which synchronization is provided in which hierarchy relationships are represented as an attribute of the child according to embodiments. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250109 | RERANKING USING CONFIDENT IMAGE SAMPLES - The techniques described herein determine an initial set of ranked images associated with an image-based search query. Based on visual content similarities between images in the initial set of ranked images, the techniques select confident image samples from the initial set of ranked images. The techniques then use the confident image samples to rerank the initial set of ranked images. Accordingly, a search engine uses the confident image samples to promote images that are likely to be relevant to the search query, while demoting images that are not likely to be relevant to the search query. Therefore, the search engine can provide improved relevance-based search results to an image-based search query. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250110 | IMAGE ATTRACTIVENESS BASED INDEXING AND SEARCHING - Attractiveness of an image may be estimated by integrating extracted visual features with contextual cues pertaining to the image. Image attractiveness may be defined by the visual features (e.g., perceptual quality, aesthetic sensitivity, and/or affective tone) of elements contained within the image. Images may be indexed based on the estimated attractiveness, search results may be presented based on image attractiveness, and/or a user may elect, after receiving image search results, to re-rank the image search results by attractiveness. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250111 | External Linking Based On Hierarchical Level Weightings - Certain implementations of the disclosed technology include systems and methods for external linking based on hierarchal level weightings. The method may include associating external query data having one or more query field values with a record in a linked hierarchical database. The linked hierarchical database may include a plurality of records, each record having a record identifier and representing an entity in a hierarchy, each record associated with a hierarchy level, each record including one or more fields, each field configured to contain a field value. The associating may include receiving the external query data, wherein the external query data includes one or more search values; and identifying, from the plurality of records in the linked hierarchical database, one or more matched fields having field values that at least partially match the one or more search values. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250112 | Systems and methods using reputation or influence scores in search queries - One or more processors determine reputation scores for one or more subjects based on connections. One or more processors use a plurality of citations, with each citation representing an expression of opinion or description by a subject on an object. One or more processors select a subset of citations for each object from the citations citing each object. The content of the citations matches one or more search terms for a search query. One or more processors assign citation scores to a subset of a plurality of objects. The citation scores indicate relevance of the objects cited by citations and are determined based at least in part on matching one or more search terms with the content of the citations of the objects by the one or more subjects. The selection scores for an object are determined for each search query based on a subset of subjects citing the object. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250113 | GEOGRAPHIC RELEVANCE WITHIN A SOFT COPY DOCUMENT OR MEDIA OBJECT - A technique is provided for identifying geographic context in a media object to embed meta tags for the geographic context in the media object. Input is received of the media object including geographic relevant expressions. Each of the geographic relevant expressions in the media object is identified for display to a user. The geographic relevant expressions in the media object are displayed with an option for the user to enter values for each of the geographic relevant expressions. The values are respectively included in meta tags. The meta tags are assigned to the geographic relevant expressions in the media object, such that the meta tags include the values respectively corresponding to each of the geographic relevant expressions. The meta tags having the values for the geographic relevant expressions are embedded in the media object, such that the meta tags in the media object are available for searching and indexing. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250114 | AGGREGATING SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER INFORMATION FOR TIMELINE VIEW - The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and can then determine a quantity of timeline for display in the timeline view and select them based at least in part on the ranking. The units then are used to generate a timeline view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250115 | Prototype-Based Re-Ranking of Search Results - A prototype-based re-ranking method may re-rank search results to provide a re-ranked set of search results. In response to receiving one or more queries, a set of search results may be generated whereby each of the search results may be associated with a rank position. Based at least in part on the search results, one or more prototypes may be generated that visually represent the one or more queries or the search results. The one or more prototypes may be used to construct one or more meta re-rankers that may generate re-ranking scores for the search results. The re-ranking scores may be aggregated to produce a final relevance score for each search result included in the set of search results. Based at least in part on the relevance score of each search result and/or a learned re-ranking model, a set of re-ranked search results may be provided. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250116 | IDENTIFYING TIME SENSITIVE AMBIGUOUS QUERIES - A system and method for generating search results includes: receiving a search query with a search term; parsing the search term; determining that at least a portion of the parsed search term is an ambiguous, time-sensitive query; retrieving an intended search term according to a current time of day from a data store when it is determined that at least a portion of the parsed search term is an ambiguous, time-sensitive query; and preparing a search results page such that search results more closely matching the derived intended search term are placed in a most prominent position on the search results page. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250117 | QUERY-BASED USER GROUPS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Implementations of the present disclosure include obtaining one or more queries, processing data stored in a data store based on at least one query of the one or more queries to identify a plurality of users, the plurality of users sharing a commonality that is a subject of the at least one query, generating one or more query-based social circles, the plurality of users populating a query-based social circle of the one or more query-based social circles, the query-based social circle being directed to the commonality and defining a distribution list for distributing digital content provided by one or more users of the plurality of users, and transmitting social circle data corresponding to the query-based social circle to display a representation of the query-based social circle to at least one user of the plurality of users. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250118 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information retrieval method for retrieving documents relevant to a user's search inquiry from documents stored in the storage device using an arithmetic operation. The method includes receiving from a user a search query including a plurality of keywords, calculating relevance to a plurality of documents on the basis of the plurality of keywords and the influence set for each keyword, and displaying on the display device documents in the order of relevance. The method also includes displaying on the display device the influence set for each keyword, receiving changes to the displayed influence by the user, and recalculating the relevance on the basis of a change to the influence and displaying on the display device documents in the order of relevance. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250119 | DOMAIN BASED KEYWORD SEARCH - A database keyword search technique that relies on a domain based storage infrastructure is disclosed. In operation, a keyword search string is processed to generate a set of search string permutations. Each string permutation specifies a different ordering of one or more portions of the search string. A domain based search process is then executed asynchronously for each string permutation. Each execution generates a search result set that identifies rows in the database that include data relevant to the string permutation. The results in each result set are scored and ranked based in part on the similarity between the string permutation and the search string provided by the user. The rankings determine which of the results are to be presented to the user. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250120 | Interactive Multi-Modal Image Search - A facility for visual search on a mobile device takes advantage of multi-modal and multi-touch input on the mobile device. By extracting lexical entities from a spoken search query and matching the lexical entities to image tags, the facility provides candidate images for each entity. Selected ones of the candidate images are used to construct a composite visual query image on a query canvas. The relative size and position of the selected candidate images in the composite visual query image, which need not be an existing image, contribute to a definition of a context of the composite visual query image being submitted for context-aware visual search. | 2014-09-04 |
20140250121 | TRANSLATING BUSINESS SCENARIO DEFINITIONS INTO CORRESPONDING DATABASE ARTIFACTS - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for providing process intelligence by translating a business scenario definition into one or more corresponding data storage system artifacts. One example method includes identifying a process intelligence scenario associated with one or more business processes and including one or more definitions defining an observable behavior of the one or more business processes, processing the one or more definitions to produce an executable description including one or more artifacts associated with a data storage system, the one or more artifacts associated with the one or more definitions, storing the executable description in the data storage system, and processing one or more flow events associated with the one or more business processes using the executable description in the data storage system to expose the observable behavior of the business process defined in the process intelligence scenario. | 2014-09-04 |