Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080222103 | System, and method for interactive browsing - The present invention provides a system and method for achieving interactive browsing. Said system is coupled to a knowledge base and a document database, said knowledge base stores a plurality of terms and information relating to each term, and said document database stores a plurality of documents. Said system comprises term acquiring means, for acquiring terms in which a user has much interest; first extracting means, for extracting information relating to the terms in which the user has much interest, from the knowledge base; second extracting means, for extracting documents containing the terms in which the user has much interest, from the document database; a first display part in a user interface, for displaying information extracted by the first extracting means; and a second display part in the user interface, for displaying a list of the documents extracted by the second extracting means. With the present invention, one can browse both documents and information on terms in the documents in a single interface. | 09-11-2008 |
20080301083 | System and method for generating new concepts based on existing ontologies - A system and a method for automatically generating new concepts based on existing ontologies are provided. The system creates new concepts in existing ontologies based on new concept descriptions expressed in a natural language format, and comprises: a normalizer for receiving and parsing the new concept descriptions so as to transform them into normalized one and output them, wherein said normalized concept description includes one or more description part(s) having kernel concepts, said description parts can only contain the terms which can be identified in said existing ontologies, and each of said kernel concept contains a headword and zero or more property(s); and a new concept factory for, based on the normalized description of the new concept, identifying the kernel concepts in each normalized concept description part, and extracting the identified kernel concepts, related properties, and the relations among the kernel concepts for a user to create new concepts according to existing ontologies. Therefore, ontologies will be easier to be managed, reused and expanded, while keeping smaller size and less complexity of the ontologies. | 12-04-2008 |
20080306928 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE SEARCHING OF INFORMATION RESOURCES - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for the searching of information resources. A method includes steps of: according to a current query for a first type of information resource, obtaining a result of query on said first type of information resource, one or more facets of said first type of information resource and metadata under each facet, and relationships between said first type of information resource and other types of information resource that at least include a second type of information resource; and returning to a user the obtained result of query on said first type of information resource, the one or more facets of said first type of information resource and the metadata under each facet, and the relationships between said first type of information resource and other types of information resource that at least include a second type of information resource. | 12-11-2008 |
20080313106 | System and Method for Interactive Browsing - The present invention provides a system and method for achieving interactive browsing. Said system is coupled to a knowledge base and a document database, said knowledge base stores a plurality of terms and information relating to each term, and said document database stores a plurality of documents. Said system comprises term acquiring means, for acquiring terms in which a user has much interest; first extracting means, for extracting information relating to the terms in which the user has much interest, from the knowledge base; second extracting means, for extracting documents containing the terms in which the user has much interest, from the document database; a first display part in a user interface, for displaying information extracted by the first extracting means; and a second display part in the user interface, for displaying a list of the documents extracted by the second extracting means. With the present invention, one can browse both documents and information on terms in the documents in a single interface. | 12-18-2008 |
20080313176 | PATH-BASED RANKING OF UNVISITED WEB PAGES - Path-based ranking of unvisited Web pages for WWW crawling is provided, via identifying all the paths beginning with a “seed” URL and leading to visited relevant web pages as “good-path set”, and for each unvisited web page, identifying the paths beginning from the “seed” URL leading to it as “partial-path set”; classifying all the visited web pages and labeling each web Page with the labels of a class or classes it belongs to; training a statistic model for generalizing the common patterns among all ones of “good-path set”; and evaluating the “partial-path set” with the statistic model and ranking the unvisited web pages with the evaluation results. | 12-18-2008 |
20080313251 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRAPH COARSENING - A method for coarsening a graph, the graph including a plurality of vertices, the method incorporating:
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20090132474 | Method and Apparatus for Optimizing Queries over Vertically Stored Database - A method and device for optimizing queries over a vertically stored database. Items in the database are partitioned into several partitions each having a partition signature. The method includes decomposing a first query received from a user into multiple first subqueries; generating a signature for each first subquery in a way corresponding to the way of generating the partition signature; comparing the signature of each first subquery with partition signatures of all partitions respectively to obtain all partitions matching the first subquery; rewriting a second subquery translated from the first subquery based on the matching partitions to obtain a rewritten second subquery; and composing rewritten second subqueries for all first subqueries to form a second query so that queries are executed over the database using the second query. | 05-21-2009 |
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 |
20090287670 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING XML QUERY TO SCHEMA VARIABLE XML DOCUMENTS - An XML querying method and system for constructing an XQuery/XPath query to a schema variable XML document. The method includes: receiving the query from a client computer; generating a tree structure; and generating, by query rewriting, an XQuery/XPath for the XML document based on the tree structure and configurable query constraints. The system includes: a tree structure generating unit for generating a tree structure; and a query writing unit for generating an XQuery/XPath query for the XML document based on the tree structure and configurable query constraints. | 11-19-2009 |
20100106729 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR METADATA SEARCH - A system, a method, and a computer readable article of manufacture for metadata searching. The system includes: a receiving module for receiving a search query with respect to a plurality of metadata resources; a query module for parsing the search query and searching related metadata resources and the structural information among the related metadata resources according to the parsing of the search query; and an output module for outputting the search results so as to realize a fuzzy structural search with respect to the plurality of metadata resources. The method includes the steps of: receiving a search query that does not designate complete structural information of the metadata resources; parsing the search query and searching related metadata resources to form search results that include the complete structural information; and outputting the search results. | 04-29-2010 |
20100250577 | TRANSLATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPARQL QUERIES - A computer-implemented system and method for translating a SPARQL query. The system includes: a parser/lexer for parsing the SPARQL query; a hidden negative pattern detector for detecting a hidden negative pattern in the parsed SPARQL query; a hidden negative pattern translator for translating the detected hidden negative pattern into an explicit negative pattern; a separator for separating the explicit negative pattern from a positive pattern in the parsed SPARQL query; a negative pattern translator for translating the explicit negative pattern into a negative portion of an SQL statement; a positive pattern translator for translating the positive pattern into a positive portion of the SQL statement; and an SQL statement combiner for combining the negative portion of the SQL statement with the positive portion of the SQL statement. | 09-30-2010 |
20100299139 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTIONS AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method and an apparatus for selecting an answer to a natural language question. The method includes: detecting a named entity in the natural language question; extracting information related to an answer from the natural language question; searching in linked data according to the detected named entity; generating a candidate answer according to a search result; parsing the candidate answer according to the information related to the answer; and obtaining a value of a feature of the candidate answer; and evaluating each candidate answer by synthesizing the value of the feature of the candidate answer. | 11-25-2010 |
20110106843 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING NODE TO BE MATERIALIZED - A dependency graph of rule predicates without strongly connected sub-graph is obtained. The dependency graph indicates the dependency among the rule predicates. An update frequency of node in the dependency graph is calculated, and a query frequency of node in the dependency graph is also calculated. Furthermore, a runtime query cost value and a materialization cost value of the node are calculated based on the query frequency and update frequency. Node to be materialized are determined based on the runtime query cost value and the materialization cost value. A rule predicate corresponding to the node to be materialized is the rule predicate to be materialized. In at least some instances, an exemplary technical effect is that the return time of result of runtime query is saved and the affect by the data update is reduced when a query is performed in relation data reasoning system constructed with rule predicates. | 05-05-2011 |
20110258231 | Method and Apparatus for Providing the Information of Adverse Drug Effects - A method and apparatus for providing the information of adverse drug effects. The method includes: extracting at least a first information and a second information in basic information of a drug from a drug information source; matching the drug with a particular drug-related concept in a structured and normalized terminology system according to the first and the second information; extracting, from the drug information source, the information of Adverse Drug Effects associated with the drug; and matching the information of Adverse Drug Effects with a particular disorder-related concept in the structured and normalized terminology system; wherein the matching is along different paths in at least two disorder-related classified hierarchies. The invention can extract, standardize, and normalize information relating to adverse drug effects to help the integration, search, calculation, and propagation thereof. | 10-20-2011 |
20120136875 | PREFETCHING RDF TRIPLE DATA - Query requests for RDF triples are obtained, wherein the query request(s) contain(s) at least one triple pattern; for each triple pattern, the corresponding elementary pattern is determined, and each triple pattern is converted to a weighted elementary pattern. The occurrence frequency of each elementary pattern is computed based on the weighted elementary patterns; at least one elementary pattern is chosen at least according to the occurrence frequency; and the RDF triples corresponding to the chosen at least elementary pattern are prefetched into the buffer. The corresponding apparatus is also provided. With the above method and apparatus, the frequently accessed RDF triples can be determined and prefetched into the buffer, which improves the query efficiency. | 05-31-2012 |
20120173585 | OBTAINING HIERARCHICAL INFORMATION OF PLANAR DATA - The invention provides a method and apparatus for obtaining hierarchical information of planar data. The method comprises mapping at least one data item from a same data set in the planar data to at least one node in a tree structure formed by a structured terminology system. The method also comprises obtaining at least one sub tree structure in the tree structure, each of the at least one sub tree structure taking the at least one node as all of its leaf node. The method also comprises selecting a target tree structure from the at least one sub tree structure and obtaining hierarchical information in the target tree structure. An apparatus corresponding to the above method is also provided. With the above method and apparatus, hierarchical information of data items may be obtained from planar organized data to facilitate subsequent and further analysis and management. | 07-05-2012 |
20120188821 | METHOD FOR ACHIEVING FOUR-BIT STORAGE USING FLASH MEMORY HAVING SPLITTING TRENCH GATE - The present invention discloses a method for achieving four-bit storage by using a flash memory having a splitting trench gate. The flash memory with the splitting trench gate is disclosed in a Chinese patent No. 200710105964.2. At one side that each of two trenches is contacted with a channel, a programming for electrons is achieved by using a channel hot electron injection method; and at the other side that each of the two trenches is contacted with a source or a drain, a programming for electrons is achieved by using an FN injection method, so that a function of a four-bit storage of the device is achieved by changing a programming mode. Thus, a performance of the device is improved while a storage density is greatly increased. | 07-26-2012 |
20130069031 | MULTILEVEL RESISTIVE MEMORY HAVING LARGE STORAGE CAPACITY - The present invention discloses a multilevel resistive memory having large storage capacity, which belongs to a field of a fabrication technology of a resistive memory. The resistive memory includes an top electrode and a bottom electrode, and a combination of a plurality of switching layers and defective layers interposed between the top electrode and the bottom electrode, wherein, the top electrode and the bottom electrode are respectively contacted with a switching layer (a film such as Ta | 03-21-2013 |
20130138592 | DATA PROCESSING - A method and apparatus for data processing. The method calculates correlations between a plurality of attributes in a dataset. The attributes are factors involved in transaction processing. The method generates a relationship graph by using the plurality of attributes and the correlations between the plurality of attributes; and extracts a sub-graph from the relationship graph to represent a hypothesis. The hypothesis describes the impacts of the factors on the transaction processing. Also provided is an apparatus for implementing the above data processing method. | 05-30-2013 |
20130217199 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING RESISTIVE MEMORY DEVICE - The present invention discloses a method for fabricating a resistive memory, including: fabricating a bottom electrode over a substrate; partially oxidizing a metal of the bottom electrode through dry-oxygen oxidation or wet-oxygen oxidation to form a metal oxide with a thickness of 3 nm to 50 nm as a resistive material layer; finally fabricating a top electrode over the resistive material layer. The present invention omits a step of depositing a resistive material layer in a conventional method, so as to greatly reduce the process complexity. Meanwhile, a self alignment between the resistive material layer and the bottom electrode can be realized. A full isolation between devices may be ensured so as to obviate the parasite effects occurred in the conventional process methods. Meanwhile, the actual area and designed area of the device are ensured to be consistent. | 08-22-2013 |
20140040283 | PREFETCHING RDF TRIPLE DATA - Query requests for RDF triples are obtained, wherein the query request(s) contain(s) at least one triple pattern; for each triple pattern, the corresponding elementary pattern is determined, and each triple pattern is converted to a weighted elementary pattern. The occurrence frequency of each elementary pattern is computed based on the weighted elementary patterns; at least one elementary pattern is chosen at least according to the occurrence frequency; and the RDF triples corresponding to the chosen at least elementary pattern are prefetched into the buffer. The corresponding apparatus is also provided. With the above method and apparatus, the frequently accessed RDF triples can be determined and prefetched into the buffer, which improves the query efficiency. | 02-06-2014 |
20140145139 | TRANSPARENT FLEXIBLE RESISTIVE MEMORY AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a transparent flexible resistive memory and a fabrication method thereof. The transparent flexible resistive memory includes a transparent flexible substrate, a memory unit with a MIM capacitor structure over the substrate, wherein a bottom electrode and a top electrode of the memory unit are transparent and flexible, and an intermediate resistive layer is a transparent flexible film of poly(p-xylylene). Poly(p-xylylene) has excellent resistive characteristics. In the device, the substrate, the electrodes and the intermediate resistive layer are all formed of transparent flexible material so that a completely transparent flexible resistive memory which can be used in a transparent flexible electronic system is obtained. | 05-29-2014 |
20150021539 | RESISTIVE MEMORY WITH SMALL ELECTRODE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - Systems and methods are disclosed involving a resistive memory with a small electrode, relating to the field of semiconductor resistive memory in ULSI. An illustrative resistive memory may include an Al electrode layer, a SiO | 01-22-2015 |