Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080201300 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING AND ACCESSING LARGE SCALE ONTOLOGIES USING A RELATIONAL DATABASE - A method for providing ontology management that leaves existing instance data stored in a relational database, while virtualizing the existing instance data for accesses originating from an ontology application, wherein the method includes: submitting an ontology application query to an ontology management system; rewriting the ontology application query with a mapping module into a vertical format mapped query; submitting the vertical format mapped query and view definitions to a database query processor; retrieving relevant existing instance data from the relational database in response to request from the database query processor; and virtualizing the retrieved relevant existing instance data for use by the ontology application. | 08-21-2008 |
20080235254 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING AND RETRIEVING DATA THROUGH AN INFERENCING-ENABLED METADATA SYSTEM - A system and method, which registers and stores data and is responsive to queries through management of an inferencing-enabled metadata includes an intelligent database, which receives data or queries and manages data models. An ontology management system is associated with the intelligent database and receives and stores classes of information related to a data model therein to be employed in satisfying queries. A relational database is associated with the intelligent database and receives and stores attribute schema for instances of the class having at least one attribute value linked with the class in the ontology management system. | 09-25-2008 |
20080247321 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORKING EDUCATIONAL EQUIPMENT - A system, method and computer program product for monitoring availability of end user devices needed for performing tasks. The system comprises a first network including one or more devices associated with an end user, at least one device adapted for communicating with a service provider over a second network, the service provider providing network-based services in the system. The system includes a memory storage device for maintaining information of tasks associated with an end user, the information including recommended end-user devices adapted to perform the tasks, the information being accessible to at least one end-user device. At least one end-user device detects non-availability or performance deficiencies of any end-user device required in performing end-user tasks, and communicates with the service provider for invoking network-based services to facilitate correcting non-availability of any end-user device. Such a system, method and computer program product enables students to receive these reminders and alerts, to order the necessary upgrades from suppliers via web services, and to monitor delivery from a single user interface provided on one of their devices. | 10-09-2008 |
20080262889 | BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION MANAGEMENT - A solution for managing a business transformation is provided. The invention obtains an impact of a business solution for the business transformation on a business concern for an enterprise and relationship information for the business concern with one or more other business concerns and/or value (business) metrics. The impact of the business solution is propagated to a set of business concerns and/or value metrics based on the relationship information. The impact can include a time delay factor, which can be used during evaluation to perform numerous financial related metrics (e.g., return on investment). The relationship information and/or impact can be derived from empirical data using regression analysis or the like. In order to facilitate evaluation of the business transformation, various improved graphical interfaces can be generated that highlight the changes caused by the business transformation for use by a user. | 10-23-2008 |
20080312979 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING FINANCIAL BENEFITS OF PACKAGED APPLICATION SERVICE PROJECTS - A system for calculating financial benefit estimations and generating reports for multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on a series of estimation and implementation models, and to perform calculations to determine financial benefits of implementing multi-dimensional project plans; an estimation knowledge base layer configured to hold and derive the series of estimation and implementation models; and wherein the system for generating financial benefit estimations and reports for the implementation of packaged software applications is carried out over networks comprising: the Internet, intranets, local area networks (LAN), and wireless local area networks (WLAN). | 12-18-2008 |
20080312980 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STAFFING AND COST ESTIMATION MODELS ALIGNED WITH MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PROJECT PLANS FOR PACKAGED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - A system for generating staffing and cost estimations and reports for multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on a series of estimation and implementation models, and to perform calculations to determine costs and staffing requirements for multi-dimensional project plans; an estimation knowledge base layer configured to hold and derive the series of estimation and implementation models; and wherein the system for scoring and ranking multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications is carried out over networks comprising: the Internet, intranets, local area networks (LAN), and wireless local area networks (WLAN). | 12-18-2008 |
20080313008 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODEL-DRIVEN APPROACHES TO GENERIC PROJECT ESTIMATION MODELS FOR PACKAGED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - A project estimation system with a model-driven approach to the generation of generic project estimation models for packaged software applications, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on a series of estimation and implementation models; an estimation knowledge base layer configured to hold, obtain and derive the series of estimation and implementation models; and wherein the system for a model-driven approach to the generation of generic project estimation models for packaged software applications is carried out over networks comprising: the Internet, intranets, local area networks (LAN), and wireless local area networks (WLAN). | 12-18-2008 |
20080313110 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELF-CALIBRATING PROJECT ESTIMATION MODELS FOR PACKAGED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - An estimation system for deriving multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications with self-calibration and refinement of project estimation models, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on a series of estimation and implementation models, and to perform self-calibration and refinement of project estimation models for multi-dimensional project plans; an estimation knowledge base layer configured to hold and derive the series of estimation and implementation models; and wherein the system for self-calibration and refinement of project estimation models for multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications is carried out over networks comprising: the Internet, intranets, local area networks (LAN), and wireless local area networks (WLAN). | 12-18-2008 |
20080313595 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING PROJECT PLANS FOR PACKAGED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - A system for estimating and generating project plans for implementing packaged software applications, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on a series of estimation and implementation models, and to perform calculations of project plan details and project plan schedules; an estimation knowledge base layer configured to hold and derive the series of estimation and implementation models; and wherein the system for estimating and generating multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications is carried out over networks comprising: the Internet, intranets, local area networks (LAN), and wireless local area networks (WLAN). | 12-18-2008 |
20080313596 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PROJECT PLANS FOR IMPLEMENTING PACKAGED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - A method for scoring and ranking multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications, the method includes: determining one or more dimensions for a project plan; assigning one or more attributes to each of the one or more dimensions; assigning one or more utility functions to each of the one or more attributes; assigning one or more weights to each of the one or more attributes; assigning one or more ordering factors to one or more combinations and permutations of the dimensions; calculating a series of scores for the one or more combinations and permutations of the dimensions; ranking the one or more combinations and permutations of the dimensions based on the calculated series of scores; and wherein each of the one or more combinations and permutations of the dimensions represents a different individual multi-dimensional project plan. | 12-18-2008 |
20090018879 | METHOD AND SYSTEM SUPPORTING BUSINESS SOLUTION VALIDATION IN A COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL - A method and system for validating business solutions by evaluating the business services from which the solution is composed, aggregating these evaluations in accordance with a service composition structure, and comparing the aggregated evaluation to target objectives for the business solution, where the service evaluations and the target objectives use the same metrics, which are surrogates for the business solution objectives. A business solution has a Business Level Agreement (BLA) which states business objectives. A business service has a Business Service Level Agreement (BSLA) which states operational objectives. A business solution is seen as a composition of business services. Therefore, the BLA is validated by evaluating and then aggregating the BSLA's for all business services from which the business solution is composed, and then comparing the aggregation against target values of the surrogates. Validation occurs: (1) during solution template composition, (2) at service binding times, and (3) during solution execution via business monitoring. | 01-15-2009 |
20090222297 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPOSITE PRICING OF SERVICES TO PROVIDE OPTIMAL BILL SCHEDULE - System and method for service pricing optimization enables analysis of multi-phased, multi-business unit, multi-process, multi-geo/country deal structure with its parts and phases having different pricing implications, and provides a flexible composite pricing schedule optimized for both service provider and receiver by gain and risk sharing. In one aspect, elementary pricing models and pricing parameters are established and a composite pricing model is constructed based on the elementary pricing models and pricing parameters. An optimizer optimizes the composite pricing model to minimize risk and maximize one or more selected criteria. Price is generated using the optimized composite pricing model. | 09-03-2009 |
20090222311 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING POTENTIAL MAXIMAL PRICE AND SHARE RATE - System and method for determining maximal price for projects are provided. A project scope of a project based on a plurality of selected criteria is defined, and total cost of the project is estimated. A value model of the project is generated and estimated value of the project is determined using the value model. A composite object function that includes cumulative distributive functions of the total cost and of the estimated value is computed to determine potential maximal price or share rate or combinations thereof. | 09-03-2009 |
20090222319 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING PIECEWISE PRICE AND INCENTIVE - System and method for determining piecewise pricing, in one aspect, generate a distribution function of transactions based on a plurality of data records associated with said transactions. One or more correlations between total cost and one or more performance measures are analyzed. Demand model is generated based on the distribution function. Piecewise pricing or level-price pairs are determined for a plurality of levels of performance measure, based on said one or more correlations between total cost and one or more performance measures, said demand model, and desired profit margin. | 09-03-2009 |
20090222366 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING OPTIMAL BILL/PAYMENT SCHEDULE - A method and system for generating bill payment schedule utilizes a composite pricing module to generate payment schedule over a predetermined period of time. In one aspect, a fraction of each pricing model attributing to the composite pricing model is determined. A charge fee associated with said each pricing model based on said fraction and said total price to charge is determined. Price to charge during each time unit of the time period is allocated, based on budget over the time period, discount rate, target profit margin and risk affordance. Bill schedule is generated using the allocated price. | 09-03-2009 |
20090248705 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO VALIDATE CONSISTENCY OF COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL MAPS - A system and method is described for using descriptive logic (DL) representations to validate consistency in component business model (CBM) maps. Semantic constraints are generated from a semantic model of a component business model meta-model and inconsistency conditions of CBM maps. The semantic model of the CBM meta-model is applied to transform CBM maps into corresponding semantic representations. An inference engine applies the semantic constraints to the semantic representations to determine inconsistencies between one CBM map and another and between a CBM map and the component business model meta-model. | 10-01-2009 |
20090328010 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLATFORM-INDEPENDENT, SCRIPT-BASED APPLICATION GENERATION FOR SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE - A script-based application generation for spreadsheet software reads from one or more spreadsheets rendered by a spreadsheet program, description written in said text-based language, the text-based language for describing user interfaces, data models and/or workflow models or combinations thereof The text-based language is independent of the spreadsheet program. The description is parsed and from the description one or more user interfaces, data model or workflow model or combinations thereof are generated in the spreadsheet program. | 12-31-2009 |
20100049625 | USER CONTEXT BASED DISTRIBUTED SELF SERVICE SYSTEM FOR SERVICE ENHANCED RESOURCE DELIVERY - Disclosed is a method and system of providing user context-based services over computer networks, using mechanisms for collecting and specifying one or more user context elements, each element representing a context associated with the current buyer state and having context attributes and attribute values associated therewith, mechanisms for collecting affective (emotive) data to inform the user context, and also an interactive graphical view to gain insight into available services for assisting in understanding available service information and making decisions on purchasing. | 02-25-2010 |
20100082385 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING TEMPERATURE OF BUSINESS COMPONENTS FOR FINDING BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION OPPORTUNITIES - Temperature of one or more business components are determined by determining temperatures for metrics associated with a business component using benchmark data. The determined temperatures for metrics are aggregated into a representative temperature for a business component using a selected algorithm. A spectrum of colors is provided to represent the range of temperatures and the representative temperature is represented as a color from the spectrum of colors. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082386 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION OPPORTUNITIES BY ANALYZING SERIES OF HEAT MAPS BY DIMENSION - A method and system for analyzing business performance and opportunities by generating one or more series of heat map views of business components by a plurality of dimensions associate information related to a plurality of dimensions with one or more business components; define one or more dimensions from the plurality of dimensions; generate one or more series of heat map views of the said business components by said defined one of more dimensions; and present said series of heat map views of the business components. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082387 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION OPPORTUNITIES BY USING A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SHORTFALL ANALYSIS OF AN ENTERPRISE - A method and system for determining one or more shortfalls of one or more business components by multiple dimensions for business transformation, in one aspect define a plurality of shortfall types associated with a plurality of business components, define a plurality of dimensions of the plurality of business components, construct a shortfall assessment model for the plurality of dimensions, load a business model associated with the plurality of business components, compute shortfall assessment by performing a daisy chain analysis using the shortfall assessment model and the business model for said plurality of shortfalls and associated shortfall types, and presenting the shortfall assessment using visualization. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082407 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINANCIAL TRANSFORMATION - Financial transformation in one aspect establishes a hub and spoke network of models including at least a process model as the hub and at least components model, value driver model, applications model, solutions models as the spoke connected to the process model. A plurality of correlations is inferred among said models using daisy-chain analyses that navigate the hub and spoke network of models, and heat map is generated. Heat map analysis, application shortfall analysis, organization shortfall analysis, solution analysis, and business case analysis are performed. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082696 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFERRING AND VISUALIZING CORRELATIONS OF DIFFERENT BUSINESS ASPECTS FOR BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION - A system and method for inferring and visualizing correlations of different business aspects for business transformation are provided. Business models, for instance, that may include business component model, business process model, value drivers and metrics model, application model, organization model, and solutions model are organized into a model topology data schema, and qualitative relationships and quantitative relationships may be configured among the entities or components of the business models. Correlations are inferred and visualized based on those relationships. | 04-01-2010 |
20100318957 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR EXTENSIBLE BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION USING A COMPONENT-BASED BUSINESS MODEL - A computer-implemented method for operating a business including operations to receive an enterprise model, define at least one new association between a first and a second business element in the enterprise model, federate a business analysis tool, and determine a business-related impact of the new association on other business elements in the enterprise model. The enterprise model is received at a model server and includes two or more business elements and a map of business components. The collection of business elements indicates associations between one or more business elements. The business analysis tools can filter the enterprise model and are federated by incorporating a business element generated from the business analysis tool into the enterprise model. The business-related impact is determined by using the business analysis tool. | 12-16-2010 |
20110158107 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FINDING - A method and system for finding a source failure node in a traceable network. The method includes: determining a possible source failure node according to a leaf node that has an exception, wherein the possible source failure node is a node that is most likely to cause the exception; selecting a target node to receive an investigation result corresponding to the target node, wherein the investigation result indicates whether the target node has the same exception; receiving the investigation result corresponding to the target node and updating the traceable network according to the investigation result; and returning to the step of determining a possible source failure node, if it can not be verified according to the updated traceable network that the possible source failure node is the source failure node causing the exception. | 06-30-2011 |
20110213689 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING OPTIMAL BILL/PAYMENT SCHEDULE - A method and system for generating bill payment schedule utilizes a composite pricing module to generate payment schedule over a predetermined period of time. In one aspect, a fraction of each pricing model attributing to the composite pricing model is determined. A charge fee associated with said each pricing model based on said fraction and said total price to charge is determined. Price to charge during each time unit of the time period is allocated, based on budget over the time period, discount rate, target profit margin and risk affordance. Bill schedule is generated using the allocated price. | 09-01-2011 |
20110283194 | DEPLOYING ARTIFACTS FOR PACKAGED SOFTWARE APPLICATION IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Deploying artifacts and tools in cloud computing environment for provisioning packaged software applications generates a user interface code automatically and dynamically using information from at least structural data representations of cloud computing environment and base configuration requirements for running one or more packaged software applications in the cloud computing environment. In one aspect, the automatically generated code may be augmented using one or more library codes and auxiliary files. Specific configuration requirements are further obtained by running the automatically generated user interface code. One or more components to deploy in the cloud computing environment are determined that meet the base configuration requirements and the specific configuration requirements, by analyzing the structural data representations. | 11-17-2011 |
20110313932 | MODEL-BASED PROJECT NETWORK - One or more project profiles, one or more people profiles, one or more work product profiles are created and connections are made among the one or more project profiles, one or more people profiles, and one or more work product profiles that form a network of projects, people, work products and others. A profile database stores the network of the one or more project profiles, the one or more people profiles, the one or more work product profiles. Data stored in the profile database is analyzed and one or more people, work products and projects that are related to current project are recommended for use in the current project. | 12-22-2011 |
20120016653 | INTERACTIVE BLUEPRINTING FOR PACKAGED APPLICATIONS - An interactive design of process model for packaged application software installation and configuration generates a process model from a natural language description of software installation or configuration related operation. A data structure representing one or more work products related to the process model is identified, and one or more elements of the data structure are identified that are related to one or more sub-processes of the process model. Input information associated with said one or more sub-processes is captured and stored. The input information is linked with the one or more elements of the data structure related to said one or more sub-processes. The one or more sub-processes in the process model may be also demonstrated through a simulation. | 01-19-2012 |
20120062574 | AUTOMATED RECOGNITION OF PROCESS MODELING SEMANTICS IN FLOW DIAGRAMS - An example embodiment disclosed is a system for automated model extraction of documents containing flow diagrams. An extractor is configured to extract from the flow diagrams flow graphs. The extractor further extracts nodes and edges, and relational, geometric and textual features for the extracted nodes and edges. A classifier is configured to recognize process semantics based on the extracted nodes and edges, and the relational, geometric and textual features of the extracted nodes and edges. A process modeling language code is generated based on the recognized process semantics. Rules to recognize patterns in process diagrams may be determined using supervised learning and/or unsupervised learning. During supervised learning, an expert labels example flow diagrams so that a classifier can derive the classification rules. During unsupervised learning flow diagrams are clustered based on relational, geometric and textual features of nodes and edges. | 03-15-2012 |
20120084224 | AUTOMATICALLY CREATED REPORT GENERATOR FOR MANAGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICE PROJECTS - Reports to manage service projects may be generated by an automatically generated project report generator software tool. The project report generator software tool is automatically created from an object-based model of work products in a project, wherein the object-based model is executable by a machine and comprises a plurality of work product object and a recording of at least some relationships between the object, wherein each work product object represents a document that contains information about the service project. One or more reports can be generated by the project report generator software tool during the lifetime of the service project, wherein the report is generated using the object-based model and at least some of the information in documents represented in the object-based model. | 04-05-2012 |
20120101972 | DETECTION OF IRREGULARITY IN FOOD MANUFACTURING BY USING CONVERSION PATTERN - Irregular food manufacturing detection by using conversion pattern in one aspect generates one or more rules associated with amount of resources used to manufacture a food product, collects data associated with a selected manufacturing process of the food product at a selected manufacturer and determines whether the collected data complies with the generated one or more rules. Irregularity may be identified if the collected data does not comply with the generated one or more rules. | 04-26-2012 |
20120109789 | IDENTIFYING SOURCE MATERIAL ASSOCIATED WITH FOOD PRODUCTS USING BILL OF MATERIAL - Identifying one or more source units for one or more food items may include assigning a sequence of numbers to a plurality of source units received at a processing entity and assigning a sequence of numbers to a plurality of end product units processed from the plurality of source units at the processing entity. A production rate associated with the end product units may be determined from a bill of materials associated with the end product units. A probability distribution function may be generated using at least the production rate. The probability distribution function maps a range of the sequence numbers associated with the plurality of source units to a range of sequence numbers associated with the end product units. A conversion algorithm may be generated that uses the probability distribution function to determine a source unit associated with a selected end product unit. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109842 | CONVERSION TRACEABILITY FOR PRODUCT SUPPLY NETWORK - Traceability for an end product is enabled by a transition event type in an event-driven information traceability software that records unique product code associated with a product in a domain. One or more trigger rules are defined for generating a transition event associated with the product in response to the product crossing the domain into another domain. One or more actions are defined for generating a transition event associated with the product in response to the product crossing the domain into a different domain. The one or more actions include at least determining a new unique product code associated with the product in said another domain and storing the unique product code and the new unique product code in a data structure associated with the transition event. | 05-03-2012 |
20120173243 | Expert Conversation Builder - An expert conversation builder contains a knowledge database that includes a plurality of dialogues having nodes and edges arranged as directed acyclic graphs. Users and authors of the system interface with the knowledge database through a graphical interface to author dialogues and to create expert conversations as threads traversing the node in the dialogues. | 07-05-2012 |
20120179511 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING FINANCIAL BENEFITS OF PACKAGED APPLICATION SERVICE PROJECTS - A system for calculating financial benefit estimations and generating reports for multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on a series of estimation and implementation models, and to perform calculations to determine financial benefits of implementing multi-dimensional project plans; an estimation knowledge base layer configured to hold and derive the series of estimation and implementation models; and wherein the system for generating financial benefit estimations and reports for the implementation of packaged software applications is carried out over networks comprising: the Internet, intranets, local area networks (LAN), and wireless local area networks (WLAN). | 07-12-2012 |
20120239699 | SHARED DATA MANAGEMENT IN SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE PLATFORM - Shared data management in software-as-a-service platform may provide a common object data schema for one or more data objects and one or more data attributes associated with said one or more data objects stored in a master database. A plurality of applications may be enabled to be deployed dynamically on a platform and interoperate by sharing said data values stored in the master database. Data trading is enabled in which applications request permissions to read from or write to, or both, the master database, and in which the requests are mediated by granting or denying permissions. | 09-20-2012 |
20120303672 | FEDERATION OF MULTI-LEVEL MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - Federating multiple-level master data management systems may include a first set of master data management nodes having one or more common characteristics. A first group master data management node may be assigned to centrally manage the first set of master data management nodes, the first group master data management node maintaining master data management functionalities at a group level and providing a single logical view of master data to the first set of master data management nodes. Each master data management node in the first set has data access link with the first group master data management node based on implementation style of said each master data management node. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303673 | DATA STEWARDSHIP IN FEDERATED MULTI-LEVEL MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - Managing data stewardship in multi-level MDM systems may include a steward data composer that creates data steward repository for a master data management system to define relationships between data stewards and data objects for which data stewards are responsible and steward data consolidator that creates an integrated data steward repository by combining multiple data steward repositories. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303692 | FEDERATION OF MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - Federating master data management systems may include a network-aware adapter configured with a host master data management node. The network-aware adapter may establish one or more links with other master data management systems to allow the system to work together and leverage each other's data. | 11-29-2012 |
20120323741 | OPEN DATA MARKETPLACE FOR MUNICIPAL SERVICES - Providing an open data marketplace may include identifying one or more data attributes from a plurality of applications registered with a shared data management system; mapping said one or more data attributes to a data model to create a first set of mapped data; augmenting said first set of mapped data with additional data imported into the shared data management system from other data locations to create an augmented set of mapped data; receiving one or more of second set of mapped data from one or more shared data management system associated respectively with one or more shared data management networks; enabling of composing a data set by combining and cleansing one or more of said first set of mapped data, said second set of mapped data, and said augmented set of mapped data; and offering said composed data set in a digital marketplace with associated pricing characteristics. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324529 | ENFORCING DATA SHARING POLICY THROUGH SHARED DATA MANAGEMENT - Enforcing data sharing policy through shared data management, in one aspect, may include extracting data access rights from the one or more data policies based on a user role, data purpose, an object set and a constraint identification; extracting a data domain from the one or more data policies based on the data purpose and the object set; associating the data access rights and the data domain with data attributes of the shared data; automatically responding to application-based offers and requests for the shared data within a Software-as-a-Service platform based on the data access rights. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324539 | DYNAMIC APPLICATION ADAPTATION IN SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE PLATFORM - Dynamic application adaptation in software-as-a-service platform, in one aspect, may receive an access permission associated with a published shared data management data object in the software-as-a-service platform having shared data management and a plurality of applications deployed, look up one or more rules associated with one or more features of an application deployed on the software-as-a-service platform, based on the received access permission, and activate or deactivate said one or more features associated with said plurality of applications based on said one or more rules. | 12-20-2012 |
20130066661 | USER CONTEXT BASED DISTRIBUTED SELF SERVICE SYSTEM FOR SERVICE ENHANCED RESOURCE DELIVERY - Disclosed is a method and system of providing user context-based services over computer networks, using mechanisms for collecting and specifying one or more user context elements, each element representing a context associated with the current buyer state and having context attributes and attribute values associated therewith, mechanisms for collecting affective (emotive) data to inform the user context, and also an interactive graphical view to gain insight into available services for assisting in understanding available service information and making decisions on purchasing. | 03-14-2013 |
20140006319 | EXTENSION TO THE EXPERT CONVERSATION BUILDER | 01-02-2014 |
20140018048 | COORDINATING DATA SHARING AMONG APPLICATIONS IN MOBILE DEVICES - Coordinating data sharing among applications in mobile devices, in one aspect, may include a shared data manager application on a mobile device that manages data trade requirements of a plurality of mobile applications, and permission grants or denials to reads and writes of data managed by the shared data manager and used by the plurality of mobile applications. | 01-16-2014 |
20140020043 | AUTOMATING AND/OR RECOMMENDING DATA SHARING COORDINATION AMONG APPLICATIONS IN MOBILE DEVICES - Coordinating data sharing among applications in mobile devices, in one aspect, may include a shared data manager application on a mobile device that manages data trade requirements automatically of a plurality of mobile applications, and permission grants or denials to reads and writes of data managed by the shared data manager and used by the plurality of mobile applications. | 01-16-2014 |
20140067378 | Expert Conversation Builder - An expert conversation builder contains a knowledge database that includes a plurality of dialogues having nodes and edges arranged as directed acyclic graphs. Users and authors of the system interface with the knowledge database through a graphical interface to author dialogues and to create expert conversations as threads traversing the node in the dialogues. | 03-06-2014 |
20140129536 | DIAGNOSING INCIDENTS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICE MANAGEMENT - Diagnosing and detecting causes of an incident may comprise classifying the incident by keywords, searching for co-occurring and reoccurring group of incidents, summarizing commonalities in the group of incidents, correlating the group of incidents with causes, defining association rules between the commonalities, and predicting potential problems based on the correlated group of incidents with causes. | 05-08-2014 |
20140142870 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ESTIMATING WAVE VELOCITY OF NEGATIVE PRESSURE WAVE IN A FLUID TRANSPORTATION PIPELINE - A method and apparatus for estimating a wave velocity of negative pressure wave in a fluid transportation pipeline. The method including: receiving a plurality of pressure signals from a plurality of sensors; determining time differences produced by the negative pressure wave reaching the adjacent sensors based on the received pressure signals; determining a wave source sensor segment where a wave source of the negative pressure wave is located; and estimating the wave velocities of the negative pressure wave in a non-wave source sensor segment and the wave source sensor segment. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149411 | BUILDING, REUSING AND MANAGING AUTHORED CONTENT FOR INCIDENT MANAGEMENT - Building, reusing and calibrating network of authored content, in one aspect, may comprise clustering a plurality of problem tickets into one or more clusters. The clusters may be associated to one or more FAQ nodes in a FAQ network. The associated one or more FAQ nodes may be checked to determine whether the nodes are part of a broken branch. If the one or more FAQ nodes leads to a broken branch, a user may be notified to update the branch, e.g., with an answer or resolution to the one or more FAQ nodes. | 05-29-2014 |
20140214884 | MANAGING AND IMPROVING QUESTION AND ANSWER RESOURCES AND CHANNELS - Methods and arrangements for handling user queries. Submitted queries are accessed, and there are identified queries as being insufficiently addressed. A priority is estimated for the identified queries, and the identified queries are ordered based on the estimated priority. A priority-ordered list of queries is provided as output. | 07-31-2014 |
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20140278690 | ACCOMMODATING SCHEDULE VARIANCES IN WORK ALLOCATION FOR SHARED SERVICE DELIVERY - Accommodating schedule variance in work, in one aspect, may comprise tracking information associated with work packets; identifying one or more work packets deviating from a planned schedule based on the tracking; identifying one or more features associated with the identified one or more work packets; computing metrics associated with the one or more features; prioritizing the identified one or more work packets based on the computed metrics using a predictive model, the predictive model calibrated at least based on historical data; and recommending one or more actions to take associated with the one or more prioritized work packets. | 09-18-2014 |
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