43rd week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110264564 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCT DISPLAY - Systems and methods are provided for receiving a request to display at least one product. A substitute product for the at least one product is selected from a plurality of substitute products. The selection may be based on, for example, expected revenue from display of the selected substitute product, expected revenue for purchase of the selected substitute product, or a substitution success rate. The selected substitute product is then displayed. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264565 | FINANCIAL COMPUTER SYSTEM THAT DETERMINES AND REPORTS TRANSACTIONS IMPACTED BY ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES - A financial computer system in response to receiving a business object to be changed, a change type, and a effective date of the change, identifies all first transactions directly associated with the business object and identifies all second transactions not directly associated with the business object but that may be posted to the business object in the future. The system then displays the first transactions and the second transactions in a user interface. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264566 | Automated Accounting Method - An automated accounting system for an entity, such as an individual or business is provided in which at least one file is established for the entity and a plurality of data inputs are provided to the file. The data inputs include electronically recorded transactions made between the entity and other entities. Access is provided to the file for agents of the entity so that one of the agents can perform one or more activities related to the data inputs such as entering, deleting, reviewing, adjusting and processing. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264567 | Systems and Methods to Provide Data Services - In one aspect, a computing apparatus includes: a transaction handler configured to process transactions; a data warehouse configured to store meta data and first data including transaction data recording the transactions and information generated based on the transaction data; an intranet coupled between the data warehouse and the transaction handler; an input engine coupled between the intranet and a plurality of data sources outside the intranet, where the input engine is controlled by the meta data to access the data sources to provide second data; and a broker engine coupled between the intranet and a plurality of data consuming devices outside the intranet, where the broker engine is controlled by the meta data to control access of the data consuming devices to the first data and the second data. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IN-ROOM DRINKING WATER SERVICE IN A HOTEL - Disclosed is a system and method for providing an in-room drinking water service at a hotel. The system includes a plurality of drinking water dispensers provided in guest rooms of the hotel. The system further includes a computer program running on one or more computers of the hotel and configured to manage the in-room drinking water service. In the system and method, when providing of the service in a particular guest room is confirmed, the computer program coordinates charging a fee to an account of the particular guest room for the service. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264569 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PREDICTING TAX LIABILITES AND BENEFITS - A method, a system, and a computer program for predicting an impact of a tax event on a user's tax liabilities at any intermediate time during a current tax year based on a comparison of known and predicted user information related to the user and the user's taxes, tax event information, and a tax deduction database of tax deductions, credits, and eligibility rules. The computer program and method for predicting the impact of the tax event comprise acquiring information about the user from a user profile, acquiring information about the tax event, comparing the user information and the tax event information with requirements for tax deductions and credits offered by a taxing authority, and identifying deductions or credits having requirements related to the user information and the tax event information. Furthermore, embodiments may also comprise determining a probability that the user will qualify for the deduction or credit based on both the known and predicted user information, the tax event information, and the requirements for tax deductions and credits for the current year. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264570 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PREDICTING TAX LIABILITIES AND BENEFITS - A method, a system, and a computer program for suggesting to the user a tax event to reduce the user's tax liability. Embodiments comprise accessing known user information related to the user and the user's taxes, wherein the known user information includes at least some information for a current tax year to date; comparing the known user information with requirements for at least one of tax deductions and tax credits offered by a taxing authority for the current tax year; identifying deductions or credits having requirements related to the known user information; and suggesting to the user a tax event for reducing the user's tax liability, wherein the suggested tax event is based at least partially on the known user information and the identified deductions or credits having requirements related to the known user information. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264571 | BROKERING AND PAYMENT OPTIMIZATION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING - A system includes a receiving module to receive a purchase inquiry for a cloud computing service from a consumer in a first currency. A pricing module is used to price-out the cloud computing service from a provider where the cloud computing service is provided in a second currency. A reconciliation module reconciles the purchase of the cloud computing service in the consumer's geographical location and currency with the provider's location and currency. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264572 | ENABLING REMOTE FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS - A financial services and transaction network including multiple networked validation stations and remote terminals allows users to access a number of financial services and transactions. In some embodiments, a user indicates a desired service or transaction. The user provides any currency or information needed for the selected service, after which the user receives an identifier or transaction voucher. The user can take this identifier or voucher to any of the validation stations in order to authenticate the user's identity, if not already authenticated. Once the voucher or identifier is activated, the user or a recipient can present the voucher or identifier at any remote terminal to receive funding or otherwise complete the transaction or service. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264573 | Real estate price indexing - Among other things, transactions involving assets that share a common characteristic are represented as respective data points associated with values of the assets, the data points including transaction value information. Parameters that fit probability distribution functions to at least two respective components of a value spectrum of the data points are determined. The probability distribution function for at least one of the components comprises a power law. An index is formed of values associated with the assets using at least one of the determined parameters. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264574 | Financial Transaction Modeling System - Systems and methods are provided to model financial transactions. According to some embodiments, simple events, branch events, composite events, and/or contingent events associated with a financial transaction are defined. The events may then be used to automatically manage the transaction during the transaction's lifecycle. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264575 | FARMLAND INDEX SYSTEM - A system for developing farmland indexes. The system is a computerized system that includes software code for receiving information on farmland properties from deeds, receiving capability class ratings and farmland classifications for the properties, discarding ineligible properties from analysis, and assigning a price on farmland properties. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264576 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING COMPOSITE TRADING ORDERS - A system for processing a composite trading order comprises a memory operable to store market data received from one or more market centers. The system further comprises a processor operable to generate a composite value based at least in part on the market data. The processor is further operable to receive a composite trading order associated with at least a portion of the composite value. The processor is further operable to generate a plurality of constituent trading orders that, when filled, combine to satisfy the composite trading order. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264577 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPIDLY CALCULATING RISK IN AN ELECTRONIC TRADING EXCHANGE - Latency in electronic trading is dramatically reduced by delaying trade order validation until a match or trade can potentially occur. If a new order does not meet the matching criteria for an existing order in an order book, then the new order is stored in the order book without performing validation processing in a first example embodiment. In a second example embodiment, the order is stored in the order book before validation has completed. But if a new order meets matching criteria for an existing order stored in an order book, then order validation processing is performed for both of the matching orders. Once the order validation processing is successfully completed for both of the matching orders, then the trade is executed. Order validation processing includes both risk calculations and account validations, (e.g., checking to ensure the party has the necessary money or collateral if a buyer or is the owner if a seller). If the order validation processing is not successfully completed for both of the matching orders, then the trade is rejected. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264578 | AUTOMATED TRADING SYSTEM - A communication interface ( | 2011-10-27 |
20110264579 | System and Method for Creating a Market Map in an Electronic Trading Environment - A market map interface displays market information and trader-related information associated with at least two tradable objects. In one embodiment, the at least two graphical interfaces may be linked, and a user may define one or more adjustment parameters to be used to adjust the view of information being displayed via the linked graphical interfaces. For instance, a user may initiate repositioning of one of the linked graphical interfaces, thus, effectively, causing other linked graphical interfaces to be repositioned according to the defined adjustment parameters. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264580 | Method and System Using a Bitmap for Passing Contactless Payment Card Transaction Variables in Standardized Data Formats - An electronic payment system is configured to process both proximity payment card type and magnetic stripe card type transactions. The magnetic stripe card transaction data is communicated between cards, readers, and transactions authorizing or approving parties in common industry ISO 7811 standard data structures or tracks. The proximity payment card transaction data such a dynamic authentication codes are placed in unused space in the same standard formatted data structures. The availability of unused space varies with card issuer or vendor. An issuer-specific bitmap provides an index to the available space in discretionary data fields in magnetic stripe tracks. The bitmap also is stored in the card's discretionary data field. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264581 | Systems and Methods to Provide Market Analyses and Alerts - In one aspect, a computing apparatus includes: a transaction handler configured to process payment transactions between issuer processors on behalf of account holders and acquirer processors on behalf of merchants; a data warehouse configured to store transaction data recording the payment transactions and environmental data identifying market activities and events occurring shortly before, concurrently with, or shortly after the respective payment transactions; an analytic tool coupled with the data warehouse and configured to correlate the transaction data and the environmental data to establish at least one predictive model and configured to predict a market activity based on the predictive model; and a gateway to provide information about a prediction of the market activity to a user via a report or a mobile alert. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264582 | DIRECT BILL PAYMENT APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The DIRECT BILL PAYMENT APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“DBP”) transform location-specific providers search queries via DBP components into automated recurring bill notifications and payments. In one embodiment, the DBP obtains an indication to execute a pre-recorded web navigation automation script for user bill payment. The DBP parses the obtained indication to identify a user and a bill associated with the user, and accesses a pre-recorded web navigation automation script for payment of the bill associated with the identified user. The DBP executes an automated web navigation action based on the pre-recorded web navigation automation script. In some implementations, the DBP parses the pre-recorded web navigation script and identifies a command included in the pre-recorded web navigation automation script. The DBP executes the automated web navigation action according to the identified command included in the pre-recorded web navigation automation script. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264583 | INTER-NETWORK INVOICING PAYMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - An inter-bank email and mobile invoicing network is disclosed. Embodiments disclosed herein include an inter-bank email and mobile invoicing network that enables customers of banks or independent portals to send invoices to an email address or mobile phone number. The invoice can be received by the recipient within their bank's online or mobile banking site, in the case of banks that belong to a network that is managed by the proprietors of a financial management system and payment hub as disclosed herein. These banks will be referred to as “network banks” herein. The inter-bank invoicing network also refers to a common provider or connected providers of an invoicing and payment service that is linked to banks and to independent service providers. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264584 | Portable Consumer Device for Use in Currency Conversion Process - A server computer including a processor and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor. The computer readable medium includes code executable by the processor. The code includes code for determining a load value loaded on a portable consumer device in a first currency and code for converting at least a portion of the load value to a second currency using an exchange rate associated with the first currency and the second currency, where the exchange rate is associated with a set date. The set date may be a current or future date. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264585 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING EMAIL - A system is provided for managing email and eliminating spam wherein an email client ( | 2011-10-27 |
20110264586 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIPATH CONTACTLESS TRANSACTIONS - A system for multipath contactless transaction processing, comprising a point-of-sale system comprising a processing unit and a video screen, the video screen at least sometimes viewable by a purchaser interacting with the point-of-sale processing system, wherein, during a transaction, a graphical indicia is displayed on the video screen in a form suitable for photographing or scanning by a device held by the purchaser, and wherein, upon receipt by the point-of-sale processing unit of at least one non-graphical indicia the content of which is determined at least in part by the contents of the graphical indicia that was displayed to the purchaser, the point-of-sale completes the transaction. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264587 | SECURING PAYMENT DATA - The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture or arrangement that can limit access to sensitive information by means of encryption. In particular, data obtained from a payment instrument at, e.g., a Point-Of-Sale (POS) location can be encrypted at an early stage such that a POS (or another) application does not have access to the data in an unencrypted form and/or does not have access to a means for decrypting the data. For example, a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) arrangement can be employed such that a back-end payment processor can define encryption algorithms, associate itself with a public key, and maintain a private key for decryption. The public key can be delivered to the POS location and employed for data encryption, and, moreover, the PKI can be regulated by the more trusted parties. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264588 | TRANSPORT RATING SYSTEM - Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of generating a service contract for a shipping product. The method comprises: receiving information indicative of a requested shipping product; verifying an availability of the requested shipping product by means of an electronic product catalogue; receiving a tariff corresponding to the requested shipping product from a tariff system; receiving cost information about a cost of the requested shipping product from the electronic catalogue system; providing a user interface for allowing an operator to determine a price proposal based on the received tariff and the received cost information; generating a service contract based on the determined price proposal. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264589 | COMMISSION CALCULATOR AND DISPLAY - Commission allocations in transaction management of auction-based trading for specialized items such as fixed income instruments. A plurality of workstations that are connected to a server, and a structured commission allocation protocol may be provided. Through the workstations, the server and the commission allocation protocol, the systems and methods may allocate commissions or fees when trading securities at accelerated levels with minimal errors and costs, control commission elements during real-time trading, reward customers and brokers who participate in transactions, and distribute commission and transaction data in real time. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264590 | METHOD FOR INCREASING THE RATE OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION - Methods are disclosed for managing innovation. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for managing innovation includes receiving over a network, information regarding an uncommercialized product from a first party. The method further includes receiving resource information from a second party in response to the information, and facilitating communication between the first party and the second party regarding the development of the information toward a commercial product. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264591 | METHOD AND PLATFORM FOR INTEGRATING A HETEROGENEOUS WORKGROUP COLLABORATIVE DESIGN SYSTEM AND A PLM SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method and a platform of integrating a heterogeneous workgroup collaborative design system and a PLM system, which is suitable for collaborative design of a large complex product, realizes integration of heterogeneous 3D CAD collaborative design system and PDM system, guarantees consistency of parameter and state between 3D CAD data and PDM data, and facilitates automatic circulation of design data from a product R&D platform to a manufacture executing platform. It implements integration of Pro/E-Intralink and SAP-PLM, transmits the product R&D data in the Pro/E-Intralink to the SAP-PLM, creating or changing corresponding material, voucher, and EBOM, realizes review and re-sign of document, associates the data object with the design project PS or change object, and meanwhile automatically transmits back its property and state to the Pro/E-Intralink, thereby realizing automatic circulation of the R&D data from the Pro/E-Intralink to PDM-ERP. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264592 | TEMPLATE-BASED TECHNIQUE FOR MAKING A BEST PRACTICES FRAMEWORK ACTIONABLE - A template-based technique for making a best practices framework actionable includes creating a formal representation of a best practices framework, where the representation includes a machine-readable template. A portion of the template is interpreted to link the portion of the template with logic that corresponds to an action. Execution of the logic is triggered to perform the action in response to occurrence of a trigger condition. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264593 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TASK MANAGEMENT WITH SUB-PORTIONS - A method and system for providing for the management of resources such as time wherein the method and system provide an ordered collection of projects, tasks, and checklists. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264594 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PRODUCT INFORMATION - A system and method for managing product information is disclosed. The system comprising: a portal comprising an information processing system, the information processing system comprising a data base for storing one or more product information of a brand including identification information of one or more products of the brand, the product and identification information are entered by a first user having a first authentication information obtained by registering into the portal, wherein the stored product information is accessible by one or more other users having respective authentication information obtained after registering with the portal for a product of the same brand, wherein database for storing the one or more product information is accessible remotely by the one or more other users under an authorization control of the portal. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264595 | VEHICLE VALUE ANALYSIS - A method of analyzing a value of a vehicle, the method comprising: (a) receiving a request for information concerning a particular vehicle for sale; (b) receiving vehicle data concerning the particular vehicle and a plurality similar vehicles for sale from at least one source; (c) comparing the vehicle data to identify a subset comprising a plurality of comparable vehicles that are comparable to the particular vehicle and that are for sale; (d) comparing the vehicle data of the particular vehicle to the vehicle data of at least one of the plurality of comparable vehicles to asses a relative value of the particular vehicle; and, (e) generating a report that conveys the relative value of the particular vehicle. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264596 | SOCIAL REFERRAL NETWORKS - Techniques are disclosed for maintaining a personalized referral network for each of multiple users. A user may browse businesses and/or professional services recommended by other users of the personalized referral network for the user. The user may also manage the personalized referral network to control what recommendations appear in a personalized recommendations feed for the user. Advantageously, the user may more conveniently receive recommendations that are responsive to the needs of the user. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264597 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROTECTION OF IDENTITY - The present invention relates to a method to the creation and management of a secondary identification to avoid identify theft. Identity theft may occur over the internet, the purchase of goods and services by credit, and many other forms not yet known. The present invention creates'a secondary identification for a person by creating one or more of the following secondary identifications which include a secondary email address, a secondary postal address, a secondary phone number, and any other identifying secondary information. The present invention describes methods and systems to create a secondary identification. Further, the present invention may be used to create a credit card containing the requestor's secondary identification. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264598 | PRODUCT SYNTHESIS FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES - Methods and systems for automatically synthesizing product information from multiple data sources into an on-line catalog are disclosed, and in particular, for automatically synthesizing the product information based on attribute-value pairs. Information for a product may be obtained, via entity extraction, feed ingestion, and other mechanisms, from a plurality of structured and unstructured data sources having different taxonomies and schemas. Product information may additionally or alternatively be obtained or derived based on popularity data. The product information may be cleansed, segmented and normalized. The product information may be clustered so closest products, attribute names and attribute values are associated. A representative value for an attribute name may be determined, and the on-line catalog may be updated so that entries are comprehensive, meaningful and useful to a catalog user. Updates from at least 500 million different data sources may be scheduled to occur as frequently as several times daily. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264599 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MEDIA CONSUMPTION AND RATINGS THROUGH MOBILE DEVICES - An interactive published website (social network) designed for the general television viewing/media consuming public to have access and an opportunity to interactively submit their viewing opinion/habits on what television/media show they are or have just finished watching. Utilizing Designated Local Segment (DLS), a method of television ratings by market and other demographics, individuals can log into a website and register as members using a demographic application. Once a membership is established, members can mark the correct icons referenced to the television/media show they are or have just finished watching, pressing the send button will send us their input plus demographics of that member. The individual polling is electronically sent to a database where it is broken down and mathematically analyzed to provide a more accurate sampling of media ratings/consumption. The system is designed to correlate, aggregate, and display television ratings, media consumption habits, and consumer buying habits based on data collected from various sources. The application uses the aggregated data to identify and track developing trends. Market segment types include location, race, age, gender, or any other demographic that can be recorded. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264600 | Fund of Funds Analysis Tool - Systems and techniques are disclosed to analyze fund of funds investments. The system is configured to provide at least one objective analytic that indicates the level of risk associated with a fund of funds investment strategy. The system provides both a quantitative and qualitative risk measurement value using actual portfolio holdings data of underlying funds that can be used to compare multi-faceted investment portfolios. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264601 | System and Method for Longevity/Mortality Derivatives Pricing and Risk Management - A computer-implemented method and system which can be used for assessing and quantifying the longevity (mortality) risk and pricing the longevity (mortality) derivatives by using Asymmetric Jump Diffusion (AJD) Model is disclosed. Longevity risk (Mortality risk), which is defined as the uncertainty associated with the overestimation (underestimation) of the mortality rate, is faced by annuity providers, pension funds and life insurers. The AJD method and system, composed of means, introduce an appropriate probability density function at higher accuracy to capturing the leptokurtosis feature and the asymmetric jump feature of the mortality rate risk. The method and system include means for decomposing the mortality rate, means for capturing the time-specific indicator trend feature; means for calibrating the AJD model by Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) procedure, means for projecting future mortality rate by Monte-Carlo simulation and means for pricing the derivatives with implied market price of risk. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264602 | Computer-Implemented Systems And Methods For Implementing Dynamic Trading Strategies In Risk Computations - Systems and methods are provided for simulating a portfolio risk of a portfolio managed according to one or more portfolio management rules. An initial holding amount of an investment instrument is received, and a portfolio management rule is received. One or more risk factors are simulated a first time period into the future. An adjustment amount is determined based on the portfolio management rule and the one or more risk factors simulated a first time period into the future and the holding amount of the investment instrument is adjusted based on adjustment amount. The one or more risk factors are simulated a second time period into the future, and a portfolio risk value is calculated based on the adjusted holding amount and the one or more risk factors simulated a second time period into the future. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264603 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING SECURITIES FOR AN INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO - Methods and systems for selecting and weighting securities for an actively managed exchange-traded fund. An initial selection of stocks includes domestic or international stocks, which are selected based at least in part on market capitalization. Each stock is scored using a plurality of growth and value factors to generate one or more growth scores and one or more value scores. A selection score is determined for each stock, and the stocks are ranked according to selection scores. A predetermined amount of stocks are eliminated from the stock portfolio based on selection score ranking, and the remaining stocks are split into a plurality of sub-groups. A stock portfolio is generated by weighting the remaining stocks according to the sub-groups they are in, with each stock being equally weighted within its sub-group. An exchange-traded fund is offered to consumers based on the stock portfolio. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264604 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA RELATED TO CONVERTIBLE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS - The present invention provides a system and method for administering an investment option known as a lifetime income share. Lifetime income shares mitigate survival risk, the risk that an individual will outlive his or her assets. More specifically, the purchase of a plurality of lifetime income shares certifies that an individual is entitled to receive a predetermined, periodic income payment for the life of the purchaser. Additionally, the lifetime income shares of the present invention may be purchased and distributed to participants by a third party (e.g. commingled fund). The third party wishing to provide the lifetime income shares of the present invention to participants may purchase a predetermined amount of shares of an annuity from the underwriting organization and distribute it to the participants. This plan has an investment phase, a distribution phase, and a payout phase. Once the payout phase begins, the stream of monthly income commences at a specified age or date. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264605 | SMART SERVER AND SMART DEVICE - A smart server and smart device are disclosed, by which a new power unit price (hereinafter named a combined power unit price) can be calculated in consideration of an internally generated electricity quantity instead of using an external power unit price as it is. The present invention includes a power demand obtaining unit obtaining a home power demand for at least one electronic appliance including a smart device, a generated quantity detecting unit detecting an internally generated power quantity for at least one home generator, a price information receiving unit receiving power information including external power price information on an external power via a network, and a combined unit price output unit outputting a combined power unit price using an external power demand and the internally generated power quantity and the external power price information, wherein the external power demand is calculated based on the power demand. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264606 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPLYING PORTABLE GAS CYLINDERS - A method of supplying a portable medical gas system is provided. The disclosed method includes preparing a portable medical gas system, the portable medical gas system including a cylinder adapted to be filled with medical gas and a gas dispensing valve. The portable medical gas system is place in a specialized container having a configuration adapted to hold the portable medical gas system only when the cylinder of portable medical gas system is unused state or empty state. The portable medical gas system is delivered to the customer, and returned as an empty cylinder via commercial carrier. Upon receipt of the empty or spent portable medical gas system, another portable medical gas system filled with medical gas is sent to the customer. In one embodiment, the portable medical gas system includes a single-use flow control valve which ensures the cylinder is empty after its initial use. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264607 | Display For Food Bags - A method for selling individual storage bags used for the storage of fresh foods comprising the steps of providing individual storage bags on a display in store and adjacent a fresh food product to be purchased, permitting the shopper to place the fresh food product in the individual storage bag before checkout, and charging the shopper for the bag on a per bag basis separately from the food purchased. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264608 | Security System For and Method of Detecting and Responding to Cyber Attacks on Large Network Systems - An improved security system for and method of detecting and responding to cyber attacks on a network or network element. The system comprises: (a) an intelligent agent-based information retrieval subsystem configured so as to automatically search for and retrieve relevant data from distributed sources; (b) a rule-based inferencing mechanism configured so as to interpret retrieved data within the situational context to support event and alert generation for cyber threat assessment and prediction; and (c) a threat assessment and prediction mechanism configured so as to capture relating to the interrelationship between cyber sensor outputs and cyber attacks. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264609 | PROBABILISTIC GRADIENT BOOSTED MACHINES - Probabilistic gradient boosted machines are described herein. A probabilistic gradient boosted machine can be utilized to learn a function based at least in part upon sets of observations of a target attribute that is common across a plurality of entities and feature vectors that are representative of such entities. The sets of observations are assumed to accord to a distribution function in the exponential family. The learned function is utilized to generate values that are employed parameterize the distribution function, such that sets of observations can be predicted for different entities. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264610 | Address Data Learning and Registration Within a Distributed Virtual Bridge - Systems and methods to forward data frames are provided. A particular apparatus may include a plurality of server computers and a distributed virtual bridge. The distributed virtual bridge may include a plurality of bridge elements coupled to the plurality of server computers and configured to forward a data frame between the plurality of server computers. The plurality of bridge elements may further be configured to automatically learn address data associated with the data frame. A controlling bridge may be coupled to the plurality of bridge elements. The controlling bridge may include a global forwarding table that is automatically updated to include the address data and is accessible to the plurality of bridge elements. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264611 | PRESENTING AN INTERACTIVE GUIDANCE STRUCTURE IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - A collaborative work environment is provided that supports collaboration among users for performance of a people service that is associated with ad-hoc activities. An information base is provided that includes information relating to responsibilities of the users and work items for the ad-hoc activities. An interactive guidance structure is presented in the collaborative environment to guide actions of the users with respect to the work items. Materials produced as a result of the actions to update the information base are collected. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264612 | Automatic Rule Discovery From Large-Scale Datasets to Detect Payment Card Fraud Using Classifiers - A set of payment card transactions including a sparse set of fraudulent transactions is normalized, such that continuously valued literals in each of the set of transactions are transformed to discrete literals. The normalized transactions are used to train a classifier, such as a neural network, such that the classifier is trained to classify transactions as fraudulent or genuine. The fraudulent transactions in the set of payment card transactions are clustered to form a set of prototype transactions. Each of the discrete literals in each of the prototype transactions is expanded using sensitivity analysis using the trained classifier as an oracle, and a rule for identifying fraudulent transactions is generated for each prototype transaction based on the transaction's respective expanded literals. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264613 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS USING PROBABILISTIC TECHNIQUES IN TRENDING AND PROFILING - An embodiment of the present invention provides a mobile device, comprising a processor adapted to use probabilistic techniques in trending and profiling of a user of the mobile device's behavior in order to offer recommendations by detecting patterns in the user behavior over time and thereby enabling said mobile device to predict what the user is likely to do on a given day or what the user intends to accomplish in an action that has begun. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264614 | Human Expert Assisted Evolutionary Computational Model - This invention outlines a method to extend computer-based evolutionary learning algorithms by supplementing with human reasoning rather than pure computational logic. Evolutionary algorithms such as genetic algorithms and neural networks are global search heuristics. These algorithms use techniques inspired by evolutionary biology such as inheritance, mutation, selection, crossover, neuronal pruning and adaption for identifying exact or approximate solutions to optimization and search problems. This invention discloses a method of allowing humans, who are experts in the domains of certain problems, to interact with and propose theories that are used as constraints to evolutionary algorithms and to provide feedback that may allow evolutionary algorithms to escape local minima during the evolutionary computing process. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264615 | LOCATION SOURCE DETERMINATION - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to systems, methods, etc. for location source determination. For example implementations, a method is described in which a request for a location of a user that is associated with a logical identifier is obtained. A determination may be made as to which type(s) of information (e.g., geographical information, calendar information, online information, etc.) is (are) to be used to obtain a location of the user based at least in part on one or more rules that are associated with the user. Other example implementations are described herein. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264616 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY RESOLVING INTERACTION BETWEEN PROGRAMMABLE PARAMETERS - This document discusses, among other things, a system capable of resolving interactions between programmable parameters for operation of a medical device. Programming these devices is a difficult task when many parameters are involved. The disclosed systems and methods attempt to reduce and minimize constraint violations between interdependent parameters using an initial set of parameter values supplied by user (typically a physician) input or calculated automatically, and constraint violations describing invalid parameter values. If possible, a set of parameter values with less egregious constraint violations is generated and may be displayed to the user. A user is prompted to accept the set of parameter values and program the medical device. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264617 | REDUCING THE DISSIMILARITY BETWEEN A FIRST MULTIVARIATE DATA SET AND A SECOND MULTIVARIATE DATA SET - A categorization data structure is described that relates to two groups of individuals. For each of two or more categories, the data structure contains (1) information identifying individuals of the first group assigned to the category, and (2) information identifying individuals of the second group assigned to the category. For each category, the information can be used to adjust the individuals of the first group assigned to the category based upon comparing the proportion of all of the individuals of the second group that are assigned to the category to the proportion of all of the individuals of the first group that are assigned to the category | 2011-10-27 |
20110264618 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AND ANALYZING DIMENSION DATA - A processor is operated to combine a first row of a dimension table in a data warehouse with a second row in the dimension table. The result is a combined row that includes a row identification key for the first row and a row identification key for the second row. The row identification key for the first row joins the combined row to fact data from a prior time period. The second row corresponds to a current time period that is later than the prior time period. The processor is also operated to join at least a portion of the combined row to at least a portion of the corresponding row in a fact table associated with the dimension table. The fact data from the prior time period is included in the corresponding row in the fact table. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264619 | STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system including a plurality of logical units; file management application software for performing file management on a per-file basis for a plurality of files stored in the respective logical units; a load monitoring module for monitoring a load in a resource of the storage system; and a file management control module for controlling the file management application software based on the load monitored by the load monitoring module. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264620 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING INTEGRATED STORAGE OPERATIONS - The present invention relates to a method for performing integrated storage operations on an information store. The present invention comprises identifying a plurality disparate types of storage operations stored in a policy option table. A first storage operation is performed according to a first set of storage criteria stored in the policy option table and a second operation, disparate from the first storage operation, is performed according to a second set of storage criteria stored in the policy option table. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264621 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR SYNCHRONIZING DIRECTORY SERVICES - An apparatus, and an associated method, synchronizes directory services based on group membership. A synchronization scope is defined by the group membership to a specified nesting level of nestable groups. Groups within the synchronization scope are fetched and de-nested. And, once fetched, the members of the fetched and de-nested groups are fetched. The fetched object names are used to update the destination directory service. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264622 | USER-INPUT SCHEDULING OF SYNCHRONIZATION OPERATION ON A MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON USER ACTIVITY - Data is synchronized between a mobile device and a computing device over a wireless link. Synchronization operations are scheduled according to a synchronization schedule that is based on a current time of day. In one embodiment, the day can be divided into different time periods by the user. The user can also specify the frequency with which synchronization operations are to be performed during each specified period. Further, the user can specify an override schedule which overrides the ordinary synchronization schedule established by the user when override criteria are present. For instance, if the mobile device is roaming, the synchronization schedule will be dictated by the override schedule, which may sync much less often, or not until a specific user synchronization request has been received. The present invention can be embodied both as a method and as a apparatus. Also, the user interface associated with the present invention provides for user input to specify time periods during the day, synchronization frequency information, and an override schedule. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264623 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING GLOBAL EQUIVALENCY SETS TO IDENTIFY DATA DURING PEER-TO-PEER SYNCHRONIZATION - Systems and methods for synchronization including the use of a global equivalency identification datum or set of datum. A universally unique identification datum may be associated with each independently created associated data set. In some embodiments, a synchronization server software element may be responsible for maintaining synchronization for a plurality of clients, including software elements or devices. A record believed to be new by the software elements may verify that the record is actually new. In some embodiments, verification of the record's newness involves assuming that the local ID is a global identification datum and comparing that datum to the all the sets of datum that the Sync-Server knows about. The synchronization server software element may use a table to hold information for all of the records known to that element. In some embodiments these records may have been deleted in the past. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264624 | CENTRALIZED BACKUP SYSTEM AND BACKUP METHOD FOR AN HOMOGENEOUS REAL-TIME SYSTEM AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS - The present invention discloses a centralized backup system for a non-local homogeneous real-time system, comprising a switch ( | 2011-10-27 |
20110264625 | Enhanced Data Comparison Tool - Systems and methods are illustrated for transitioning data from one data store to another data store. The transition may occur according to comparison information received through a graphical user interface. For example, the comparison information may map data or columns in a source data store to data or columns in a target data store. A score may also be generated based on a comparison of the source and target. A report may indicate a successful or failed data transition based on the score. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264626 | GPU ENABLED DATABASE SYSTEMS - Methods for parallel query execution of a database operation on a database utilizing a graphics processing unit (GPU) are presented including: receiving query by a host, the query including database relations; starting a GPU kernel, where the GPU kernels include a GPU memory; hash partitioning the database relations by the GPU kernel; loading the partitioned database relations into the GPU memory; loading keyed partitions corresponding the hash partitioned database relations into the GPU memory; building a hash table for a smaller of the hash partitioned database relations; and executing the query. In some embodiments, methods further include returning a result of the query. In some embodiments, methods further include when the query is a long query including a number of operators, parsing the long query into a number of sub-queries; for each of the sub-queries, starting one of the GPU kernels such that the sub-queries are processed in parallel. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264627 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATIC UPDATE - A system for providing an automatic update includes: a server for real-time managing an original object to which an original identifier is allocated, writing a revision of the original object by a Data Definition Language (DDL), allocating an identifier different from the original identifier to the revision of the original object, transmitting the identifier of the revision of the original object to a client if a request for an identifier of a predetermined object corresponding to the original object is received from the client, and providing the revision of the original object to the client through synchronization with the predetermined object in the client; and the client for requesting the server for the identifier of the predetermined object, checking an increase in the transmitted identifier by comparing the transmitted identifier with the identifier of the predetermined object in the client, and updating the predetermined object corresponding to the transmitted identifier through synchronization with the server according to a result of the comparison based on the revision of the original object corresponding to the transmitted identifier. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264628 | DATA COLLECTOR - A data collector may monitor a data source and identify updated data, which may be processed and prepared for inclusion into a search database. The data collector may have various handlers that may interact with a data source, which may be a database, web service, file system, collaboration system, or other source, and may store a identifying signature and content signature for each document or item. The signatures may be used to identify new, changed, or deleted items, and a payload may be created containing the updates. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264629 | EFFICIENT POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT DATA RECONCILIATION - Efficient reconciliation of different versions of a target file or dataset can be facilitated using a hash hierarchy of a master version of the dataset. Each level of the hash hierarchy has hashes of blocks of the master version that may be sub-blocks of the hashes in the level above. The top level of the hash hierarchy, having the hashes of the largest blocks of the master, may be transmitted on a first communication channel, possibly a one-way or broadcast communication channel. Streams of encodings of each lower level of the hash hierarchy may be transmitted on respective communication channels. The encodings for a level of the hierarchy may be combinations, such as random linear combinations, of the hashes of that level. A receiver with a target dataset can receive the top level hashes from the first channel and use them to determine which lower hashes are needed to identify parts of the master missing from the target. The encodings can be used to help obtain needed lower level hashes that can be used to more finely identify missing parts. Different receivers may not have to wait for a particular piece of information about the master. Rather, any received information (e.g. encoding) about the master will most likely allow any receiver to advance its understanding of the master dataset. Receivers will usually not have to wait for delivery of a particular hash in the hierarchy. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264630 | Quota-Based Archiving - A determination of whether to archive email messages in a user mailbox is made each time an email message is received at a server computer. A storage quota, a first threshold and a second threshold are obtained for the user mailbox. The first threshold is a first percentage of the storage quota. The second threshold is a second percentage of the storage quota. When it is determined that the size of the received email message plus the current size of the user mailbox exceeds the first threshold for the user mailbox, one or more email messages in the user mailbox are archived. The archiving of the one or more email messages reduces the current size of the user mailbox such that the current size of the user mailbox becomes less than the number of bytes corresponding to the second threshold for the user mailbox. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264631 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DE-IDENTIFICATION OF DATA - A method and system for de-identification of data comprising a plurality of data elements. The method involves identifying one or more portions of the data based on a predefined identification condition. The predefined identification condition is expressed in terms of, but is not limited to, one or more characteristics of the data. Further, one or more de-identification data elements are generated corresponding to the one or more data elements of the one or more identified portions of the data. The one or more de-identification data elements are generated based on the one or more characteristics of the one or more portions of the data. Thereafter, the one or more portions of the data are replaced with the one or more de-identification data elements respectively. As a result, the format of the one or more de-identification data elements remains identical to the format of the one or more data elements. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264632 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFORMATION OF LOGICAL DATA OBJECTS FOR STORAGE - Methods and systems for transforming a logical data object for storage in a storage device configured to operate with at least one storage protocol. One method comprises creating in the storage device a transformed logical data object comprising a one or more allocated storage sections with a predefined size and receiving one or more data chunks corresponding to the transformed logical data object. The method further comprises determining if each received data chunk comprises a predefined criterion, transforming each data chunk that comprises the predefined criterion, maintaining each data chuck in raw form that does not comprise the predefined criterion, and sequentially storing each transformed data chuck and data chunk in raw form into said one or more allocated storage sections in accordance with an order said transformed data chunks and data chunks in raw form are received. One system comprises a processor configured to perform the above method. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264633 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFORMATION OF LOGICAL DATA OBJECTS FOR STORAGE - Methods and systems for transforming a logical data object for storage in a storage device configured to operate with at least one storage protocol. One method comprises creating in the storage device a transformed logical data object comprising a one or more allocated storage sections with a predefined size and receiving one or more data chunks corresponding to the transformed logical data object. The method further comprises determining if each received data chunk comprises a predefined criterion, transforming each data chunk that comprises the predefined criterion, maintaining each data chuck in raw form that does not comprise the predefined criterion, and sequentially storing each transformed data chuck and data chunk in raw form into said one or more allocated storage sections in accordance with an order said transformed data chunks and data chunks in raw form are received. One system comprises a processor configured to perform the above method. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264634 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFORMATION OF LOGICAL DATA OBJECTS FOR STORAGE - Systems and methods for compressing a raw logical data object ( | 2011-10-27 |
20110264635 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CONTINUOUS FILE PROTECTION AT BLOCK LEVEL - A system and method are disclosed for providing continuous file protection in a computer processing system. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes a configuration module, a filter driver, and a storage module. The configuration module permits a user to elect certain files or folders for protection. The configuration module runs at an application layer without involving the computer processing system's operating system. The filter driver intercepts and splits write input and outputs addressed at protected files or folders. The storage module is also run without involving the computer processing system's operating system. The storage module is for performing functions including data logging, version managements, and data recovery. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264636 | UPDATING A DATA WAREHOUSE SCHEMA BASED ON CHANGES IN AN OBSERVATION MODEL - A method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for modifying at least one data warehouse schema based on detected changes in an associated observation model are disclosed. The method includes determining if at least one new observation model has been created. The method also includes determining if at least one existing observation model is associated with the new observation model. In response to the existing observation model being associated with the new observation model, at least one changed attribute is identified by comparing the new observation model and the existing observation model. A set of files associated with the existing observation model is updated to reflect the changed attribute between the new observation model and the existing observation model. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264637 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION IDENTIFICATION - A method for detecting an information item within an information sequence obtained from a digital medium, said information item comprising any one of a specified set of prestored information items, comprising: transforming each of the set of prestored information items into a respective representation, in accordance with a predetermined transformation format; transforming the information sequence obtained from the digital medium, in accordance with the transformation format; and determining the presence of one or more of the prestored information items within the transformed information sequence, utilizing the respective representation, wherein the information items are divided into sets, and applying a security policy that depends on the number of detected information items that belong to the same set. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264638 | System and Method for Communicating Enterprise Information Between a Mobile Device and a Backend Platform - Various systems and methods for communicating enterprise information between an enterprise backend server and a mobile device are provided. For example, a middleware server may generate a formbuilder interface that allows a user to input form design information used to display a custom dynamic form. The form design information may include a plurality of form elements and an executable script that in part controls a behavior of the custom dynamic form. The custom dynamic form may be configured to prompt input of and receive the enterprise information. A value of a first one of the plurality of form elements may cause an action to be taken by the custom dynamic form, wherein the executable instruction when executed causes the action to be taken. The middleware server may communicate to the mobile device the plurality of form elements and the executable instruction. An operator of the mobile device may provide enterprise information using the custom dynamic form. The middleware server may receive, from the custom dynamic form, a plurality of values each entered used respective ones of the plurality of form elements. The plurality of values includes the enterprise information, and the plurality of form elements may include at least one value affected by the action to be taken by the form. The middleware server may communicate the plurality of values to the enterprise backend server. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264639 | LEARNING DIVERSE RANKINGS OVER DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS - A document selector selects and ranks documents that are relevant to a query. The document selector executes an instance of a multi-armed bandits algorithm to select a document for each slot of a results page according to one or more strategies. The documents are selected in an order defined by the results page and documents selected for previous slots are used to guide the selection of a document for a current slot. If a document in a slot is subsequently selected, the strategy used to select the document is rewarded with positive feedback. When the uncertainty in an estimate of the utility of a strategy is less than the variation between documents associated with the strategy, the strategy is subdivided into multiple strategies. The document selector is able to “zoom in” on effective strategies and provide more relevant search results. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264640 | Using External Sources for Sponsored Search AD Selection - A system and a system are provided for using external sources (e.g., landing pages) for sponsored search ad selection. In one example, the system identifies one or more regions of an external source. The one or more regions are relevant to a query. The external source includes a source that includes relevant data that is usable for augmenting an ad selection process. The system extracts one or more features from the one or more regions. The system determines which of the one or more features are relevant for item indexing. The system then augments an item selection process by using the one or more features that are relevant for item indexing. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264641 | IMAGE SEARCH RESULT SUMMARIZATION WITH INFORMATIVE PRIORS - An informative priors image search result summarization system and method that summarizes image search results based on the image relevance (as determined by a search engine's initial ranking) and the image quality. Embodiments of the system and method cluster the image search results, rank images within each cluster based on a computed image score, and then select a summary image for the cluster. Each cluster is analyzed and an image in the cluster having the maximum image score is included in a selected summary collection. The image score is computed using the image relevance and the image quality, as well as a cluster coherence, a density, and a diversity. The selection of images from a collection of candidate images generates an image search result summarization, which is presented to a user. The summaries are presented to the user in a ranked order based on their image scores. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264642 | DYNAMIC COMPUTATION ENGINE IN SEARCH STACK - A data search and retrieval system that, in response to a search query, dynamically selects and applies a model of information to be returned to a user. The model may be selected based on the search query directly, or indirectly based on data returned by a search engine applying the query. For this purpose, the system may include an index of models, similar to a search index. Models may include expressions that may be descriptions of computations, equations, constraints or rules to define information to be returned. These elements of a selected model may be executed within to the search stack based on data identified in a search of web pages by executing the query or other dynamically obtained data. Execution of a model may lead to collecting new information, such as through further searching or performing computations, or may result in ordering or other formatting of data. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264643 | Methods and Apparatus for Searching with Awareness of Geography and Languages - A system that automatically discerning the best combinations of a user query's geographical origin and language, retrieving and displaying search results accordingly. A record on the system are associated with a geographic location and a language. A record could be composed of two or more records, each of which associates with a location and a language. A record could be in rich media format. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264644 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SEARCHING, SELECTING, AND DISPLAYING CONTENT - Methods and systems for identifying and presenting information are described. Search results are received from a search engine. An entity associated with a networked site is selected using a selection criterion. A determination is made as to whether the listing includes a link to the networked site or includes the link to the networked site at a list position that fails to satisfy a first criterion. After determining that the link to the site associated with the entity is not included in the search result listing, or that the link to the site associated with the entity is not at a position in the search result listing that satisfies the first criterion, the search listing is modified by causing the link to the site associated with the entity to appear in a first position in the search listing. The modified search listing is displayed on a user terminal. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264645 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION SYSTEM - An information presentation system that identifies information of interest to a user based on identifying tasks that may be relevant to the user given the user's current context. The user may be presented with an option to select from among relevant tasks and/or goals of completing the task. For each selected task and goal, the system may generate one or more sets of items that are relevant to completing the task. The user may be presented with the option to select from among the sets of items or to navigate among the sets of items. Such a system may be used to provide an easy-to-use interface on a portable computing device to support shopping applications. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264646 | Search Engine Data Structure - A search engine database may a segmented structure that preserves individual document references and allows updating as well as scalability. A set of segment managers may receive new, updated, or deleted documents and update a set of term matrices from which a published search matrix may be generated. The database may have a very large term dictionary and may use a hash function to create term identifiers without having to look up terms in the dictionary. The database may be maintained by many systems operating in parallel for high scalability. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264647 | QUERY PROCESSING FOR WEB SEARCH - A computer-implemented method for processing user entered query data to improve results of a search of pages using a database, when searching the internet, is disclosed. The method includes receiving the user entered query data and parsing each word of the query data and segmenting words using probability to determine a likelihood that the word is for a particular name. And, associating the particular names with a name tag to create one or more tagged name terms. Then, normalizing each of the tagged name terms and the normalizing including boosting information if found in the database and determining proximity between selected ones of the tagged name terms. The method then generates an optimized search query that incorporates normalized terms and operators. The optimized search query being applied to the internet to enable search results to be produced and displayed to the user in response to the entered query data. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264648 | SELECTIVELY ADDING SOCIAL DIMENSION TO WEB SEARCHES - Embodiments are directed towards managing a display of search results by employing a query-classification for a search query to selectively display trust search results that are displayed distinct from non-trust search results. A search query is classified into a query-class. A search is then performed over non-trust sources, and selectively over trust data sources to obtain non-trust and trust search results, respectively. The trust search results are rank ordered based on various categories of search criteria, including, for example, explicit and implicit relationships. Based on the query-class, a different number of trust search results may be displayed. Further, a position for which the trust search results may be displayed may be based on the query-class. Moreover, the non-trust search results displayed distinct or separate from the trust search results to readily distinguish a type of source of the search results. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264649 | Adaptive Knowledge Platform - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for providing an adaptive knowledge platform. In one or more aspects, a system can include a knowledge management component to acquire, classify and disseminate information of a dataset; a human-computer interaction component to visualize multiple perspectives of the dataset and to model user interactions with the multiple perspectives; and an adaptivity component to modify one or more of the multiple perspectives of the dataset based on a user-interaction model. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264650 | Methods and Systems for Filtering Data for Interactive Display of Database Data - Interactive database viewing is provided. A server associated with a database accesses a stored result set from a database query. The server presents a portion of the result set in a list view to a client device remote from the server and the cache memory, where the portion presented is based on filter selection based on fields of the data. In response to changes to the filter selection, the server can dynamically alter the list view without having to again access the database. If a change to the filter selection requests data outside the cached result set, the server accesses the database and updates the cached result set, inline editing of the data in the list view can be applied back to the database by the server. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264651 | LARGE SCALE ENTITY-SPECIFIC RESOURCE CLASSIFICATION - A system and method is described for large scale entity-specific classification of each entity-specific set of candidates in a collection of candidates for each specific entity in a collection of entities. The collection of entities may comprise a specific category or domain of entities (e.g. schools, restaurants, manufacturers, products, events, people). Candidates may comprise webpages or other resources with resource identifiers. Entity specific sets of candidates may be found by leveraging search engine query results and user interaction therewith for queries based on entity-specific attributes. The relationship(s) or class(es) for which candidate resources are being classified relative to a specific entity may comprise an authoritative, official home page (OHP), or other class (e.g. fan page, review, aggregator) relative to a specific entity. A feature generator generates entity-specific features for candidates. In accordance with its features, one or more classifiers rank each candidate for a specific class for a specific entity. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264652 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MATCHING AN UTTERANCE TO A TEMPLATE HIERARCHY - A system and methods for matching at least one word of an utterance against a set of template hierarchies to select the best matching template or set of templates corresponding to the utterance. The system and methods determines at least one exact, inexact, and partial match between the at least one word of the utterance and at least one term within the template hierarchy to select and populate a template or set of templates corresponding to the utterance. The populated template or set of templates may then be used to generate a narrative template or a report template. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264653 | SPREADING COMMENTS TO OTHER DOCUMENTS - A server device is configured to receive a comment associated with a first document, the comment corresponding to a first portion of the first document; identify a second document that includes a second portion that matches the first portion of the first document; and store the comment in association with the first document and the second document. The server device is further configured to receive, from a client device, information that the client device is accessing the second document, and transmit the comment for presentation in connection with the second document on a display associated with the client device. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264654 | Presentation of Local Results - A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes receiving from a remote device a search query, generating a local result set and one or more non-local result sets for the search query, determining a display location for the local result set relative to the non-local result set based on a position of the search query in a local relevance indicium. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264655 | LOCATION CONTEXT MINING - Concepts and technologies are described herein for mining location contexts within document text. Through an implementation of the concepts and technologies presented herein, functionality can be provided for location context mining within articles, websites, travelogues, or other such documents. A location context is a concept associated with a specific location. For example, the contexts “beach” and “hula” are associated with Hawaii. Similarly, “glacier” and “polar bear” are contexts associated with Alaska. Location context mining can automatically discover locations and location contexts by mining information from a set of documents. User interfaces to support queries of the mined information are also presented herein. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264656 | CONTEXT-BASED SERVICES - Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing context-based services. In one embodiment, context-based output is provided. The context-based output can include context-based search results for a query. Contextual information can be used to improve access to real-time, social, and other content by enabling a search engine to better understand and/or to supplement queries based upon the context within which the query is received. The contextual information can include, but are not limited to, searches and content associated with the searcher, one or more locations associated with the searcher, the time of day at which a query is received, the device from which a query is received, an application running at the device from which the query is received, the capabilities of the device from which the query is received, and other variables. The contextual information can be used to manipulate the search query, the search results, the presentation of the search results, and/or the content surrounding the search results such as, for example, advertising, links, graphics, and other content. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264657 | System and Method of Controlling Interactive Communication Services by Responding to User Query with Relevant Information from Content Specific Database - An electronic communication system is controlled by a content service provider to return relevant information from a content specific database in response to a user query. The content service provider compiles a plurality of content specific databases, each dedicated to a category of information of interest to the user. The user registers a user profile with the content service provider. A query, including the selected content specific database, is transmitted from the user to the content service provider. The selected content specific database is searched for the first level query within context of the user profile. A menu of matches is generated from the content specific database for the first level query. The menu is organized by relevance scores assigned to the matches based on correspondence to the first level query. The menu is transmitted from the content service provider through the electronic communication network to the user. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264658 | WEB OBJECT RETRIEVAL BASED ON A LANGUAGE MODEL - A method and system is provided for determining relevance of an object to a term based on a language model. The relevance system provides records extracted from web pages that relate to the object. To determine the relevance of the object to a term, the relevance system first determines, for each record of the object, a probability of generating that term using a language model of the record of that object. The relevance system then calculates the relevance of the object to the term by combining the probabilities. The relevance system may also weight the probabilities based on the accuracy or reliability of the extracted information for each data source. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264659 | TRAINING A RANKING FUNCTION USING PROPAGATED DOCUMENT RELEVANCE - A method and system for propagating the relevance of labeled documents to a query to unlabeled documents is provided. The propagation system provides training data that includes queries, documents labeled with their relevance to the queries, and unlabeled documents. The propagation system then calculates the similarity between pairs of documents in the training data. The propagation system then propagates the relevance of the labeled documents to similar, but unlabeled, documents. The propagation system may iteratively propagate labels of the documents until the labels converge on a solution. The training data with the propagated relevances can then be used to train a ranking function. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264660 | TECHNIQUES TO PERFORM RELATIVE RANKING FOR SEARCH RESULTS - Techniques to perform relative ranking for search results are described. An apparatus may include an enhanced search component operative to receive a search query and provide ranked search results responsive to the search query. The enhanced search component may comprise a resource search module operative to search for resources using multiple search terms from the search query, and output a set of resources having some or all of the search terms. The enhanced search component may also comprise a proximity generation module communicatively coupled to the resource search module, the proximity generation module operative to receive the set of resources, retrieve search term position information for each resource, and generate a proximity feature value based on the search term position information. The enhanced search component may further comprise a resource ranking module communicatively coupled to the resource search module and the proximity generation module, the resource ranking module to receive the proximity feature values, and rank the resources based in part on the proximity feature values. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264661 | GRAPHICALLY DISPLAYING A FILE SYSTEM - The contents of a computer file system are displayed on a graphical user interface. File system metadata descriptive of the computer file system and file metadata descriptive of each of a plurality of files are gathered. A file selection is received indicating a file accessed by the user. A user context is determined by the file metadata. The files are clustered using the file system metadata, a set of file metadata, and the user context. The set of file clusters are mapped onto a visualization model and graphically displayed on the graphical user interface using the visualization model. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264662 | CONTEXT COLLECTION DEVICES, CONTEXT COLLECTION PROGRAMS, AND CONTEXT COLLECTION METHODS - A content storage means stores content information that correlates available pieces of content with tags that are assigned thereto and that represent contexts in advance. A usage log storage means stores information that represents a piece of content that a user used as a usage log. A user context determination means obtains a tag that is assigned to a piece of content and that is contained in the usage log from the content information and determines a context of the user based on the obtained tag. | 2011-10-27 |
20110264663 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BEHAVIOURAL AND CONTEXTUAL DATA ANALYTICS - A server arrangement for managing observation data of wireless devices, including data input logic for obtaining observation data from wireless devices, the obtained data including behavioral and contextual raw data relative to the wireless devices, data mining logic for establishing a number of derived data elements, on the basis of processing and analyzing the obtained observation and optional supplementary data, the processing and analyzing incorporating aggregation procedures. At least one derived data element includes usage metrics with contextual dimension relative to applications or other features of wireless devices and users, data storage for storing the obtained data and the number of derived information elements, and a data distribution logic providing derived data. The distribution logic may serve a data query constructed by an external entity through provision of derived information from derived data elements according to the query parameters. A corresponding method for execution by the server arrangement is presented. | 2011-10-27 |