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| 20100049764 | Bulk selection electronic tool - A method is provided wherein at least one established group of details with associated policies is created. Profiles with profile macros are selected and a matrix of fields may be derived from the group(s) and populated. A bulk subset of the matrix may be selected according to search criteria and edits applied to a source dataset selected from the bulk subset to generate a destination dataset, wherein the edits are constrained by the set of associated policies. The invention may be performed over a global electronic network (especially the Internet) in a manner that complies with the effective policies at multiple destination sites. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100057797 | FIELD-BASED SIMILARITY SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD - A field-based similarity search system and method includes a database for storing at least one candidate molecule, an input device for inputting a query molecule, and a processor for identifying a candidate molecule which is similar to the query molecule based on a similarity of fragment pair features. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057798 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTING SEARCH RESULTS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION NEEDS - A method and system for adapting search results of a query to the information needs of the user submitting the query is provided. A search system analyzes click-through triplets indicating that a user submitted a query and that the user selected a document from the results of the query. To overcome the large size and sparseness of the click-through data, the search system when presented with an input triplet comprising a user, a query, and a document determines a probability that the user will find the input document important by smoothing the click-through triplets. The search system then orders documents of the result based on the probability of their importance to the input user. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100070486 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR ARRANGING CONTENT SEARCH RESULTS - Content search involves receiving a user-formulated search query via a user device. The search query is submitted to two or more search domains. The search domains represent separate data repositories accessible via the user device. Results objects are received from the two or more search domains in response to the search query. The results objects are ranked using different ranking criterion by the respective search domains from which the search results were received. A rank value for each of the results objects is determined based on a single ranking criterion. The results objects are ordered based at least in part on the rank values determined using the single ranking criterion and sent for display in a user interface of the user device. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070487 | Real Estate Locator with Real-Time Updated Result Indicator - A computerized method of selecting and displaying listing information relating to real estate property, which establishes a searchable database of information pertaining to real property listings, provides an interface for a user to select and enter search criteria, displays a total number of listings meeting the search criteria as the user makes and changes search criteria selections, executes a search according to the search criteria, and allows the user to display some of the listings meeting the search criteria. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070488 | RANKING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON AFFINITY CRITERIA - The present invention relates to searching content databases and ranking the search results of the searches based, at least in part, on affinity criteria for a particular user. Notably, a given user will communicate through various means with contacts. The identities of some, if not all, of the contacts with which the user communicates are used to create an affinity list. For each contact in the user's affinity list, a record of the items that have been accessed by that user is maintained as access history information. Each contact may have access history information, and the collection of the access history information for some or all of the contacts in the user's affinity list is generally referred to as affinity criteria. When the user initiates a search for items in contact databases, items returned from the search are ranked based, at least in part, on the affinity criteria. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070489 | FILTER CHAINS WITH ASSOCIATED VIEWS FOR EXPLORING LARGE DATA SETS - In an embodiment, a filter chain object comprising an association of a starting set of data items and two or more filter links is created and stored in computer memory. Each of the filter links comprises a component object that associates a set operation and a membership criterion. Each of the filter links is associated with a particular filter view among a plurality of filter views. Each particular filter view comprises a graphical representation of a state of applying the membership criterion of the associated filter link to a subset of data resulting from filtering the starting set of data items according to zero or more preceding filter links. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070490 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED SMART PLAYLISTS WITH AGGREGATED MEDIA COLLECTIONS - A method and system are disclosed for providing a smart playlist in a media sharing system. In one embodiment, a user of a user device participates in a media sharing system wherein a media collection of the user is aggregated with one or more shared media collections to provide an aggregate media collection of the user. The user device of the user obtains a playlist definition for a smart playlist. Based on the playlist definition, the smart playlist is populated from the aggregate media collection of the user. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070491 | Dynamic Contextual Table Headers - Techniques are disclosed for presenting users with dynamic contextual table headers when viewing database records. The dynamic contextual table header may provide a title (or other relevant information) for some columns of the table. For example, database records may be displayed along with a header generated according to a particular context—typically a row of the table selected by a user. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070492 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESUME VERIFICATION AND RECRUITMENT - A method and system for matching a candidate with prospective employers is provided. The system includes a web-based career management system having an input node for receiving candidate inputs from the candidate, and receiving employer inputs from an employer. The web-based career management further includes an expert processing system for receiving candidate inputs and employer inputs and for applying a plurality of analytics on the candidate inputs and the employer inputs to produce one or more analytics results. An output node is used for communicating the one or more analytics with the candidate and/or the employer. The candidate inputs include a resume, and one of the analytics results is a credibility score for a respective resume. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100076956 | VIRTUAL JAVASCRIPT OBJECT NOTATION - A client receives an object definition defining an object and an array of elements from a server. Each of the elements in the received array includes data representing objects associated with a data store of the server. The client instantiates a plurality of objects based on the received array and based on the received object definition. The objects are then accessed via a web application executing on the client. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100076957 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SENSITIVE CONTENT IN A DOCUMENT - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that detects sensitive content in a document. In doing so, the system receives a document, identifies a set of terms in the document that are candidate sensitive terms, and generates a combination of terms based on the identified terms that is associated with a semantic meaning. Next, the system performs searches through a corpus based on the combination of terms and determines hit counts returned for each term in the combination and for the combination. The system then determines whether the combination of terms is sensitive based on the hit count for the combination and the hit counts for the individual terms in the combination, and generates a result that indicates portions of the document which contain sensitive combinations. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100076958 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLAYLIST GENERATION BASED ON SIMILARITY DATA - System, method and computer program that encompasses one or more client devices cooperating with a program host's on-line data processing center for making purchase recommendations of media items to a program participant. Accordingly, there is a transmission from a program host to a program participant of identification of at least one recommended-for-purchase media item selected based on the recommended-for-purchase media item being rated as similar to a designated media item presently contained in an inventory of a media library of the program participant. The rating of the recommended-for-purchase media item as being similar to the designated media item presently contained in the inventory of the media library of the program participant is representative of a frequency at which the recommended-for-purchase media item co-occurs with the designated media item in media libraries of others. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100076959 | METHODS FOR RETRIEVING SHAPES AND DRAWINGS - There are disclosed methods to provide stable pose determinations of various three dimensional shapes. Methods are also disclosed for determining multiple, unique drawing descriptors for two dimensional drawings, and for obtaining intermediate three dimensional representations of two dimensional drawings as one way to determine the descriptor. Methods are also disclosed to provide for searching of two dimensional drawings and three dimensional shapes using user-defined input, which may be a drawing or sketch. User interactivity is provided to further refine search results. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100076960 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING AND FILTERING REAL-TIME DATA SEARCH RESULTS IN A MATRIX DISPLAY - A method and system for dynamically generating and filtering real-time data search results in a matrix display, filtered by client-side data manipulation. The method includes, responsive to a search request, retrieving a set of search results, wherein each search result is associated with an image. The method includes filtering the search results based on client-side manipulation of search results criteria. The method includes displaying a matrix of the associated search results and images, wherein each image is automatically resized, in part, based on the number of search results. The method includes, responsive to client-side manipulation of search result criteria, removing irrelevant search results and resizing remaining result images, in part, based on the number of remaining search results. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100076961 | ABSTRACT RECORDS - Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and articles of manufacture improving the process of query composition, query processing, and presenting query results to users of an abstract database. Embodiments of the present invention organize and view data using abstract records. Specifically, users compose a query according to the logical relationships present in the data. Rather than evaluate conditions against a set of rows from a relational table, conditions included in abstract query are evaluated against instances of an abstract record. Instances that satisfy the conditions specified by an abstract query are returned as query results. In a specific case abstract records are used to evaluate a “never exists conditions, that determine the absence of data in an abstract records that satisfy a particular condition. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100082605 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEDUCING USER INTERACTION PATTERNS BASED ON LIMITED ACTIVITIES - The present invention is directed to a method and system for determining user interaction patterns. The method and system comprises generating a plurality of atomic sessions by grouping search events related to a user and a query string using a search engine. The method and system includes using the atomic sessions, constructing a first query chain based on actions of the user to satisfy an information need. The method and system includes dividing the first query chain into at least one smaller chain by both a time factor and a query similarity factor. And the method and system includes determining user-interaction patterns relating to the search engine using the at least one smaller chain. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100088310 | Method And System For Automating Data Queries During Discontinuous Communications - In accordance with one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query request comprising geospatial filter criteria. The query request may be received from a mobile client computing system capable of displaying query results as overlays on a digital map. The digital map may be stored at the mobile client computing system and the query results may be stored at a server. First and second portions of the query results may be wirelessly transmitted from the server to the mobile client computing system. The first and second portions may be transmitted during first and second communication sessions between the mobile client computing system and the server. The first and second communication sessions may occur during respective time intervals temporally separated from each other by a gap interval. The client may be capable of concatenating the transmitted first and second portions of the query results. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100088311 | ENHANCED DATABASE SCHEME TO SUPPORT ADVANCED MEDIA PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION - An enhanced database system and method for media production and distribution enables the aggregation of assets using external unique IDs. The use of the external IDs allows the searching of Media Asset Management database to be performed without any prior knowledge of the actual database. The search configuration defines a set of search environment parameters that are imported into the search database during a configuration stage and which are used by the search services to provide client applications with an interface to create, validate, and execute queries. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100094863 | INTENTIONALITY MATCHING - A series of methods, systems and objects are disclosed permitting a person to judge their intentionality against a particular object or set of objects. This is achieved through the use of an object profile of a choice point including at least a set of discrete markers representing attributes of users; a set of discrete buckets associated with each discrete marker representing the attribute values of users; and a count associated with each bucket representing the value weighting of the choice point for that bucket, which object profile is stored on an electronic storage device. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100094864 | DATA STORAGE AND FUSION LAYER - A data storage apparatus, for allowing analysis of stored data, in which data values are stored which belong to a plurality of attributes, the apparatus comprising a computer system including a storage memory,
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| 20100106715 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OFFERING BANNER ADVERTISING WITH INDEX FUNCTION, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR RECORDING THE ADVERTISING METHOD PROGRAM - Disclosed is a method for offering banner advertisement with a search function. The method for offering banner advertisement with the search function includes loading a search input window with a search function, and exposing the loaded search input window to a banner advertising window including banner advertisement. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100114872 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLAPSING SEARCH RESULTS - A system and method for collapsing search results. User input is received to perform a search of a communications network. The search results and multiple selection elements are displayed for removing each of the search results. A user selection of a selection element associated with a search result is received. A determination is made of irrelevant results that are similar to the search result. The search results are collapsed to remove the search result and the irrelevant search results. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100114873 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING SEARCH RESULTS - A system and method for communicating search results. User input is received to perform a search of a communications network. The search is performed based on the user input to generate search results. The search results and multiple selection elements ate displayed for communicating each of the search results to one or more receiving parties. A user selection of one or more of the multiple selection elements associated with one or more receiving parties is received. The search results are communicated to the one or more receiving parties in response to the user selection. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100114874 | PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for responding to a search query received from a user. From a web page a search result display object and template are identified. The search result display object specifies content available for display in a search result, and the template renders at least some of the content in the search result. The search result is presented responsive to a search query received from a user, where the search result is associated with the web page containing the search result display object and template. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100114875 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERIC MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE CONCURRENT SEARCHING - A system and method for multiple attribute concurrent searching using a visual paradigm. The system allows the user to locate and display a first data item in the database, graphically select attributes, values or other criteria associated with that data item, and instruct the system to use these criteria as a constraint in successive ordering and access of other data items either in a previously retrieved set of data items, or as a new search in the database itself. When the user clicks on a “next” icon, “next” button, or a similar search-initiation feature, the system uses the constraints previously selected to locate, organize, or place into a logical order the next data item matching those constraints. In accordance with an embodiment for use with digital maps and digital map databases, the system provides a graphical window screen by which a user can select attributes associated with a particular map item, and use these attributes and constraints in subsequent ordering and searching. When the user clicks or selects a particular map item attribute, that attribute can be added as one of the search constraints. Clicking the “next” button allows the system to perform the ordering or search using the previously selected constraints. Successive clicks of the next feature allow a succession of map items matching the constraint to be quickly selected and viewed. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100114876 | System and Method for Search Result Sharing - A system and method for facilitating the sharing of the results of a search for information conducted by a user over a computer network. The results are presented to the user along with links to allow one or more of the search results to be shared over the network. The user elects to share a particular search result and chooses a sharing destination, such as an email address or a social networking website. The system formats the sharing message appropriately according to the chosen destination and according to a predetermined view template. The message is then submitted to the destination. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100114877 | Method and System for Filtering False Positives - Embodiments of systems and methods for reducing false positives during the linking of data records are disclosed herein. Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present invention may be used in the generation of an overall weight from the comparison of various attributes of data records, where the linking of the data records is dependent on the overall weight. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention may calculate a false positive penalty based on a set of results, each of the set of results based on a comparison of an attribute. The false positive penalty may be subtracted from the overall weight generated from the comparison of the attributes of data records to adjust the overall weight. By configuring which attributes of the data records are used as the set of attributes for generating the false positive penalty, and the penalties associated with a particular combination of results for the comparisons of these attributes, the incidence of false positives in the linking of data records may be significantly reduced. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100121840 | QUERY DIFFICULTY ESTIMATION - In one embodiment, a method for estimating search query precision is provided, the method comprising: receiving a search query, wherein the search query contains one or more terms; retrieving documents from a collection based on the search query, wherein the retrieving includes only retrieving documents that contain all the terms of the search query; creating a query language model based on the retrieved documents; calculating a divergence between the query language model and the collection; and estimating search query precision based on the divergence, wherein the higher the divergence the more precise the search query. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100121841 | AUTOMATIC DIAGNOSIS OF SEARCH RELEVANCE FAILURES - Search relevance failures are diagnosed automatically. Users presented with unsatisfactory search results can report their dissatisfaction through various mechanisms. Dissatisfaction reports can trigger automatic investigation into the root cause of such dissatisfaction. Based on the identified root cause, a search engine can be modified to resolve the issue creating dissatisfaction thereby improving search engine quality. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100121842 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PRESENTING CATEGORIZED SEARCH RESULTS - An apparatus for providing for presentation of categorized search results may include a processor configured to receive search results determined responsive to a search query in which each item of the search results having an assigned category linked with at least one other category and the search results are capable of representing different types of content, select a predefined number of categories for presentation to a user, determine a display name for each selected category, and provide for presentation of the display name of each selected category in a category result area along with at least a predefined number of best matching search results corresponding to each respective selected category. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100121843 | WEBSITE NETWORK AND ADVERTISEMENT ANALYSIS USING ANALYTIC MEASUREMENT OF ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT - Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for generating a website network graph to model one or more networks of websites relevant to subject matter of interest in a category, wherein generating the website network graph includes performing one or more searches relating to the subject matter of interest in a search engine API using one or more relevant keywords in combination with the subject matter of interest, extracting search results from the one or more searches, and identifying online social media websites with content most relevant to the subject matter of interest based on the website network graph. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100125566 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING A PATENT SEARCH - A system for creating a patent search report comprising a case management subsystem for receiving patent-related information from a patent document and creating the patent search report, a search subsystem for searching at least one database using the patent-related information as a search query, and a classification subsystem for classifying the patent-related information according to one or more international classification systems based on the searching of the at least one database. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125567 | Method and System for managing Metadata associated with a resource - Methods, systems and computer program products are described for processing a media stream. In one aspect, a method and a computer readable medium containing a computer program, executable by a machine, for managing metadata associated with a resource includes and comprises executable instructions for accessing a network resource, and identifying metadata associated with the resource in response to accessing the resource. In one embodiment, the metadata is specified according to an identified schema. In response to identifying the metadata, a message is generated identifying the resource, the metadata, and the identified schema. The message is sent to a metadata repository service configured to maintain a metadata association between the identified metadata and the resource. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125568 | DYNAMIC FEATURE WEIGHTING - This disclosure describes systems and methods for identifying and ranking relevant and diverse image search results in response to a query. An optimum set of features is identified for every query. The optimum set of features can be selected from a predefined set of features and can be selected based on a variance across features derived from an initial set of objects returned in response to the query. The optimum set of features can then be used to re-rank the initial set of objects or to search for a second set of objects and rank the second set of objects. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125569 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOHYPERLINKING AND NAVIGATION IN URL BASED CONTEXT QUERIES - A system and method for autohyperlinking and navagation in URL based context queries. A result set from a context query is received from a user over a network, wherein the result set comprises at least one reference to a data object and further comprises the context query. The reference to the data object is translated, via the network, to a URL configured to retrieve the data object. A plurality of related URLs are generated via the network, wherein the result set of the context query is used to seed generation. At least one advertisement associated with the context query is retrieved via the network. A webpage comprising the URL configured to retrieve the data object, the plurality of related URLs and the advertisement is assembled and transmitted over the network to the user. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125570 | CLICK MODEL FOR SEARCH RANKINGS - Approaches and techniques are discussed for ranking the documents indicated in search results for a query based on click-through information collected for the query in previous query sessions. According to an embodiment of the invention, when calculating a relevance score for a particular document, one may overcome positional bias by utilizing click-through information about other documents previously returned in the same search results as the particular document. According to an embodiment, one may utilize Dynamic Bayesian Network, based on said click-through information, to model relevance. According to an embodiment of the invention, one may utilize click-through information to generate targets for learning a ranking function. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125571 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CREATING WEB LOGS (BLOGS) CONTAINING MEDIA COMMENTARY - Disclosed are apparatus and methods for facilitating the formation of remix web logs (blogs) containing commentary about one or more media objects based on one or more selected media objects obtained from one or more selected other blogs. A media object may take any suitable form such as a photograph, a video or audio object, a text excerpt (e.g., from a book or news article), an embedded audio and/or video player, etc. In specific embodiments, the media objects (of both the remix blog and the original source blogs) each take the form of a link or reference (e.g., mp3 link). The commentary about each media object may be created by the creator of the remix blog and/or may be obtained from the original source blogs if available. That is, one or more of the media objects of the remix blog are associated with commentary that was written or created by the remix blogger and/or the original source blogger. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125572 | Method And System For Generating A Hyperlink-Click Graph - A method of ascribing scores to web documents and search queries generates a hyperlink-click graph by taking the union of the hyperlink and click graphs, takes a random walk on the hyperlink-click graph, and associates the transition probabilities resulting from the random walk with scores for each of the documents and search queries. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125573 | VISUALIZING HYPERLINKS IN A SEARCH RESULTS LIST - Generating and displaying an enhanced list of search results appropriate for web searching are described. A method for generating an enhanced list of search results includes identifying web pages that are relevant to a query, identifying other web pages hyperlinked to the relevant web pages, creating a graph of the web pages and connecting hyperlinks, and displaying a list of search results ordered in part by the connecting hyperlinks and showing the connecting hyperlinks as part of the list. The method also includes the ability to regenerate the list based on an indication of subjective relevance of a one of the list items. The method enhances the experience of a user in World Wide Web searching and browsing. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125574 | STREAM SHARING FOR EVENT DATA WITHIN AN ENTERPRISE NETWORK - Merging of query elements in an enterprise system is described. The enterprise system receives queries, which may each be broken down into query components. The enterprise system identifies query components that are related to identical event information from a data source of the enterprise. The enterprise system sends a single query to the data source for the event information, receives the response, and sends the response to the query sources. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100131491 | DETERMINATION OF GRAPHICAL FORMAT TO PRESENT SEARCH RESULTS - Some aspects include reception of a plurality of search results, selection of a graphical format in which to present the search results from a plurality of graphical formats based on metadata of the plurality of search results, and presentation of the plurality of search results in the selected graphical format. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131492 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ELECTRONIC CATALOG BOOKLET FOR ONLINE COMPUTER USERS - A system and method for generating an electronic catalog booklet for online computer users is disclosed. The system and method in an example embodiment includes providing access to a database of item listings; enabling selection of a plurality of item listings from at least some of the item listings provided in the database; enabling arrangement of the plurality of selected item listings on a plurality of pages in a computer-generated electronic catalog booklet; recording an identifier of the computer-generated electronic catalog booklet; and recording information associating each of the plurality of selected item listings with the identifier of the computer-generated electronic catalog booklet. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131493 | LIGHTNING SEARCH BOOKMARK - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for automatically storing and generating bookmarks. In one embodiment, a search query is received. Information identifying a bookmark representing the search query is automatically stored in association with a set of bookmarks. Search results corresponding to the search query are automatically obtained and provided, where the search results identify one or more documents. When one of the documents is selected, a link to the selected one of the documents is automatically stored in association with the bookmark. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131494 | Automatically Showing More Search Results - This disclosure describes various exemplary application user interfaces, methods, and computer program products for information retrieval or search technology by automatically showing additional relevant search results based on user feedback. The search describes receiving a submitted query from a user, identifying multiple query search results in a relationship to the submitted query, and presenting the multiple query search results in a single structured presentation with a thumbs-up icon, a thumbs-down icon, or an unmarked status to enhance the user experience. Furthermore, the search results illustrate the relationships between each of the multiple query search results and the submitted query in a textual description. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131495 | LIGHTNING SEARCH AGGREGATE - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for executing a search query. In accordance with one embodiment, a search query is obtained. The search query is classified into one or more of a plurality of categories. The search query is executed for each of the one or more of the plurality of categories. Search results corresponding to the search query are obtained for each of the one or more of the plurality of categories. The search results are then provided for each of the one or more of the plurality of categories. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131496 | PREDICTIVE INDEXING FOR FAST SEARCH - A system comprises a machine readable storage medium having an index that, given a set of inputs, a set of outputs, a set of input categories, and a scoring rule, provides an ordered subset of the outputs for each input category. The outputs within each subset are ordered by predicted score with respect to an input from one of the input categories. At least one processor is capable of receiving an input corresponding to at least one of the set of input categories. The processor is configured for scoring a reduced set of outputs against the received input using the scoring rule. The reduced set of outputs includes a union of the subsets of outputs associated with each input category to which the received inputs correspond. The processor is configured for outputting a list including a subset of the reduced set of outputs having the highest scores. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131497 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING WHICH OF A NUMBER OF TEST CASES SHOULD BE RUN DURING TESTING - A method that includes an example embodiment for evaluating one or more tests comprising the steps of (A) generating one or more queries relating to an aspect of the one or more tests, (B) comparing results received from the one or more queries to scoring data stored in one or more databases, (C) generating a score in response to the comparison, and (D) determining if a first of the tests should be run based on whether the score is above a predetermined value. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131498 | AUTOMATED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION COMPOSITION AND QUERY ENHANCEMENT - Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for information composition and query enhancement. Certain embodiments provide an information composition and query enhancement system. The system includes a query generation and enhancement engine generating and conducting a query of one or more data sources based on user input and a data context to produce query results. The system also includes an information composition engine assembling the query results to provide a bundle of documents meaningful to the particular user. The system further includes a document summarization engine clustering and summarizing the bundle of documents to provide a content summary in addition to the bundle of documents for output in a presentation to a user. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100138408 | Information Processing Apparatus and Information Processing Method - According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: an associated information acquiring module configured to acquire associated information of content selected from plural contents data; a first search module configured to search the contents data for first content having first associated information that is relevant to the associated information of the selected content; a second search module configured to search the contents data for second content having second associated information that satisfies a given condition; and a content display module configured to display the first content and the second content. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138409 | INFORMATION DEVICE, MEDIUM AND METHOD - In an information device in which moving images are stored, moving image data is provided to a plurality of applications or the moving image usage function between a plurality of devices is improved. The information device comprises a database section for storing the moving image data in association with identification information for identifying the moving image data, a receiving section for receiving a read out request for the moving image data specified by the identification information from any of the applications for reproducing the moving image data, an output section for reading out the moving image data specified by the read out request from the database section to pass it to the application of the source of the read out request, and an execution section for executing the applications for reproducing the moving image data outputted from the output section. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100145932 | Automatic Discovery of Alternate Mailboxes - As described herein, a client system is automatically configured to access message objects in a plurality of mailboxes stored at a server system. The client system sends an autodiscover request to the server system. In response, the server system sends to the client system an autodiscover response that contains an autodiscover response document that comprises a primary mailbox element and at least one alternate mailbox element. The client system uses a first set of mailbox identification data specified by the primary mailbox element to access message objects in a primary mailbox stored at the server system and uses sets of mailbox identification data specified by the alternate mailbox elements to access message objects in alternate mailboxes stored at the server system. Email messages are one example type of message objects. The alternate mailbox may be an archive mailbox used to store message objects for occasional reference. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100145933 | Dynamic Restoration of Message Object Search Indexes - As described herein, a high-availability server system includes at least a source server system and a target server system that dynamically restore message object search indexes. Both the source server system and the target server system store copies of a mailbox database and a search index for the mailbox database. As changes are requested to the mailbox database, events are added to event lists maintained at the source node and the target node. When the data storage system at the target server system enters an error state, the source server system sends to the target server system a set of data that the target server system can use to generate a copy of search index. The target server system may then resume applying events in the event list to the search index. In this way, it may not be necessary to completely re-index the mailbox database at the target node. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100145934 | ON-DEMAND SEARCH RESULT DETAILS - Search results and associated search-result details are provided in response to user queries. Embodiments include identifying a number of search-result details for different indexed search results, identifying one or more detail-attributes for each search-result detail, and identifying one or more user-attributes for a particular user. These search results, associated search-result details, and associated detail-attributes may be stored in a database. Upon receiving a search query from the user, search results may be generated. Search-result details specific to each search result and specific to the end-user may also be generated by identifying the detail-attributes associated with each search-result detail and the user-attributes associated with the end-user. These search results may then be presented to the end-user. Upon receiving an indication of interest in a particular search result, the search result details may then be presented to the end user. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100153364 | COLLABORATIVE BOOKMARKING - A method and system for filtering tags in a collaborative bookmarking system wherein the collaborative bookmarking system includes confidential and/or proprietary information, whereby tag filters prevent access to certain confidential and/or proprietary information by permitting a user access to the collaborative bookmarking system, authenticating the user, permitting the user to submit a search request to the collaborative bookmarking system, whereby the search request retrieves search result tags, and filtering the search result tags to provide only authorized tags to the user. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153365 | PHRASE IDENTIFICATION USING BREAK POINTS - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for identifying phrases using break points. Break points can be identified using stop words identified in content. Identified phrases can be used to generate a summary of the content. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153366 | ASSIGNING AN INDEXING WEIGHT TO A SEARCH TERM - Disclosed is an indexing weight assigned to a potential search term in a document, the indexing weight is based on both textual and acoustic aspects of the term. In one embodiment, a traditional text-based weight is assigned to a potential search term. This weight can be TF-IDF (“term frequency-inverse document frequency”), TF-DV (“term frequency discrimination value”), or any other text-based weight. Then, a pronunciation prominence weight is calculated for the same term. The text-based weight and the pronunciation prominence weight are mathematically combined into the final indexing weight for that term. When a speech-based search string is entered, the combined indexing weight is used to determine the importance of each search term in each document. Several possibilities for calculating the pronunciation prominence are contemplated. In some embodiments, for pairs of terms in a document, an inter-term pronunciation distance is calculated based on inter-phoneme distances. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153367 | Determining Base Attributes for Terms - In one embodiment, a method for determining concept attributes for a concept term includes receiving a concept term and determining one or more word senses for the concept term. A word sense is selected from the one or more word senses, and, based on the selected word sense, one or more conceptually similar terms for the concept term is determined. The method also includes determining that at least one of the one or more conceptually similar terms is a concept attribute for the concept term and generating a mapping to associate the concept attribute with the concept term. The mapping is stored in an onomasticon. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153368 | Determining Query Referents for Concept Types in Conceptual Graphs - In one embodiment, a method for determining referents for concept types in a conceptual graph includes generating a conceptual graph for a search query, the conceptual graph comprising a plurality of graph terms, identifying at least one graph term needing referents, identifying referents for each graph term needing referents by searching for instances where conceptually similar terms for graph terms needing referents are associated by conceptually similar terms for the linking concept term; and associating identified referents with the graph terms needing referents. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153369 | Determining Query Return Referents for Concept Types in Conceptual Graphs - In one embodiment, a method for determining query return referent data for concept types in a conceptual graph includes generating a conceptual graph for a document query, the conceptual graph comprising a plurality of graph terms, identifying one of more of the plurality of graph terms needing referent data, identifying conceptually similar terms for each of the graph terms, for the graph terms needing referents, identifying referent data by searching for instances where conceptually similar terms for graph terms needing referent data are associated by conceptually similar terms for the linking concept term, and associating identified referent data with the graph terms needing referent data. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153370 | SYSTEM OF RANKING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON QUERY SPECIFIC POSITION BIAS - A model based on a generalization of the Examination Hypothesis is disclosed that states that for a given query, the user click probability on a document in a given position is proportional to the relevance of the document and a query specific position bias. Based on this model the relevance and position bias parameters are learned for different queries and documents. This is done by translating the model into a system of linear equations that can be solved to obtain the best fit relevance and position bias values. A cumulative analysis of the position bias curves may be performed for different queries to understand the nature of these curves for navigational and informational queries. In particular, the position bias parameter values may be computed for a large number of queries. Such an exercise reveals whether the query is informational or navigational. A method is also proposed to solve the problem of dealing with sparse click data by inferring the goodness of unclicked documents for a given query from the clicks associated with similar queries. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153371 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLENDING SEARCH RESULTS - A system and method is provided that permits a conventional search function to use information from a social bookmarking system to provide search results, as the results from social bookmarking systems are generally very relevant. According to one example, a blended search result is determined using results from a conventional search engine and results found by a social bookmarking system. In one example, these results are blended and presented to a user within a single interface. In another example, search results and results from a social bookmarking system are normalized so that they can be combined within the same interface. Generally, a method is provided for blending search results from two or more different corpora having different search engines. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153372 | 3D VISUALIZATION SYSTEM FOR WEB SURVEY - The present disclosure relates to a three-dimensional visualization system for internet-based web surveys which can collect in real time web articles about specific companies, products or public figures from specific websites, blogs or knowledge-search web pages, process and analyze collected articles and display survey results with a planetary system having a three-dimensional fixed star and planets such that the user can understand easily and accurately the survey results. The system can include a user interface, a database server configured to store collection conditions, a web crawler module a text classification module, an analysis engine module, a statistical evaluation module, and store rate values of the web articles and a presentation tool configured to display three-dimensional graphics of the rate values of the web articles stored in the statistical evaluation module symbolizing a planetary system having a fixed star and planets. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153373 | WEATHER INFORMATION RECEPTION AND OUTPUT DEVICE - A weather information reception and output device includes a server access unit accessing a server in a meteorological office and retrieving a database to check if there is a new message to be downloaded; a message download unit downloading the new message after the server access unit retrieves the database; a message output controller receiving a signal from the message download unit and controlling the new message to be output; and a message output unit outputting the message in a recognizable manner under control of the message output controller, wherein the server access unit and the message download to unit retrieve and download the database based on an open architecture. The device can download, in real time, over the Internet, weather forecast and special-news information produced in a universal format, and output the weather forecast and special-news information in visible and audible form based on an open architecture and a SMART alarm. Accordingly, the device can directly access the weather information which is neither compressed nor encrypted and allows those skilled in a corresponding client program to upgrade the client program. Further, the device can store a client program in a built-in memory to prevent access from systems other than a server of a meteorological office. thereby improving system security against viruses, hackers or the like. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153374 | System for Monitoring and Recording Hand Hygiene Performance - A hand hygiene behavior management system capable of monitoring and recording information generated by the operation of dispensers as a method of assessing behavior of a group as an indication of overall hygiene performance. The system generally includes a plurality of wireless communication devices with a first number of the wireless communication devices being disposed within or adjacent dispensers and operatively configured for sensing, monitoring and reporting information about the status and operation of the dispensers. A hierarchal communication network for access to a central host database; a data processor and hygiene management application software operatively configured to create hygiene management reports based upon the monitored dispenser data and a method to provide user interface. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100161590 | QUERY PROCESSING IN A DYNAMIC CACHE - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to dynamically update an ad cache. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161591 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GEO-BASED PREDICTION IN SEARCH RESULT SELECTION - A system and method is disclosed for determining a prediction measurement, or measure, using geo-spatial information which can be used to determine whether or not to include type of information in search results. The prediction measurement comprises a measure of the likelihood that an item of the type of information for which the prediction measure is determined will be selected, or clicked on, by a user, if the item of the type of information is included in the search result. Without limitation, one such information type is news. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161592 | Query Intent Determination Using Social Tagging - A method and system for using social tagging to identify a search engine user's intent are described. A search engine selects a set of pages that are relevant to a query. The engine determines neighbors of these pages and groups the neighbors into topical clusters. For each cluster, the engine determines tags that a community of users has frequently associated with pages in that cluster. For each cluster, the engine matches that cluster's dominant tags with phrases in various intent lists. By matching a particular cluster's tags to various lists, an intent corresponding to that particular cluster is determined. For each cluster's intent, the search engine may present, with query results, types of content that correspond especially to that intent (e.g., a map for a location intent, possibly along with driving directions). Additionally or alternatively, for each such intent, the search engine may format the query results in a manner that suits the intent. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161593 | GRAPHICAL RESULT SET REPRESENTATION AND MANIPULATION - A graphical user interface in a database application includes a control for manipulating a result set of a query. The control is operable to display multiple graphical representations of a result ratio between a total number of rows in a database table returned in response to the query and a total number of rows of the database table. By interacting with the control, the user can switch (e.g., toggle) between graphical representations of the result ratio. The toggling can be achieved by automatically creating supplemental queries to the database. The graphical representations can be a pie chart, bar chart, eye chart or any other graphical representation that is suitable for displaying the result ratio. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161594 | HISTORY BASED SEARCH SERVICE OPERABLE WITH MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES - A method, a device and a computer readable storage medium for enhancing user experience associated with searching data associated with one or more applications/services accessible on a mobile computing device. The result of the search is selected organized based on previous history of user actions to present the most relevant data entries to the user. Options associated with the searched data entries are also selected and organized based on previous history of user actions to facilitate performing of the user's intended functions on the mobile computing device. Further, searched data entries may be presented to the user in an argument oriented presentation mode where the searched data entries represent arguments for functions or a function oriented presentation mode where the searched data entries represent functions to be performed on the mobile computing device. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161595 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING A NEW SET OF MEDIA ITEMS RESPONSIVE TO AN INPUT SET OF MEDIA ITEMS AND KNOWLEDGE BASE METRICS - Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying a new set of media items in response to an input set (or “query set”) of media items and knowledge base metrics. The system uses a knowledge base consisting of a collection of mediasets. Various metrics among media items are considered by analyzing how the media items are grouped to form the mediasets in the knowledge base. Such association or “similarity” metrics are preferably stored in a matrix form that allows the system to efficiently identify a new set of media items that complements the input set of media items. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100174703 | RELEVANCE IMPROVEMENTS FOR IMPLICIT LOCAL QUERIES - Computer systems, methods, and media improving the relevance of the search results presented to a user for queries having an implicit local intent are provided. Utilizing the systems and methods described herein locally-biased queries are identified, despite such queries being void of any location-specific terms. A location of a computing device associated with the user is determined and localized web search results associated with the data item pair comprising the input query and the user's determined location are generated and presented to the user. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174704 | SEARCHING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method of providing a search result, comprising combining a result of a keyword search on a plurality of documents with a result of a semantic search on the plurality of documents; and providing a result of the combining. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100185604 | Search Results Embedded in a Table-Of-Contents - A computer implemented method, a computer program product, and a data processing system for presenting search results in the context of a table-of-contents. A keyword search term and a stratum-level are identified. An occurrence of the keyword search term is then identified from a searched document. The occurrence of the keyword search term is then presented within a context of a table-of-contents of the searched document, wherein the occurrence of the keyword search term is presented according to the indicated stratum-level. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100185605 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS, DYNAMIC, ADAPTIVE SEARCHING BASED ON A CONTINUOUSLY EVOLVING PERSONAL REGION OF INTEREST - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to flexible, user-adapted, continuous searching, on behalf of a particular user, for points of interest relevant to the user's current location within a specifically computed personal region of interest. In a general case, the personal region of interest is computed as a function of the user's level of disposition towards the searched-for points of interest. The level of disposition towards the searched-for points of interest may, in turn, be based on two or more of the user's location, the current date and time, a history of the user's interaction with the POI-searching system, including user-initiated searches and user selections from displayed search results, a user profile developed for, and continuously updated on behalf of, the user, and a current context for the search, as specified by a search query or by other context-specifying means. The personal region of interest generally defines an abstract area, volume, or hypervolume within which method and system embodiments, of the present invention search for points of interest. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100198812 | AUTOMATED SEARCH - A system and method for automated search which may allow users to program their mobile devices to automatically bring up search results when a user or his mobile device meets a certain set of spatial, temporal, activity, or social context conditions. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198813 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS PAGE RESEARCH ASSISTANT - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for performing search engine research. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a search query from a user and determining if a user is performing research. The method then generates a research set associated with the research and stores at least one query with the research. The method then provides a search engine results page in response to the query, monitors the search engine results page for user interactions and stores at least one user interact with said search engine results page. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198814 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILTERING AND CREATING POINTS-OF-INTEREST - Systems and methods are provided for filtering and/or creating Points-of-Interest (POIs). In one embodiment, a list of POIs is obtained and then filtered based on crowd data related to the list of POIs to provide a filtered list of POIs. In another embodiment, one or more crowd-sourced POIs are created based on one or more crowds relevant to a corresponding bounding region for POI creation. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198815 | SEARCH AND PRESENTATION ENGINE - A contents display and search system for navigating and searching and exploring a collection of objects includes a database of Attributes; each of the Attributes being associated with one or more objects, and a database of Kinds, each Kind being associated with one or more Attributes. When a user enters a search query including at least one Attribute, an object is tested to determine whether it has Attributes of the Kind corresponding to the Kind of the at least one specified Attribute before function testing is performed. Search and contents investigation results are presented in a hierarchical format in which Kinds and Attributes rather than objects, are displayed until the search or content type is further specified by selecting additional Kinds and/or Attributes such that the number of objects satisfying the specified search is below a threshold. User interaction modifies the hierarchical order of Kinds and Attributes in the display. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100211561 | PROVIDING REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES WITHIN SEARCH RESULT SETS - Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that provide representative samples among search result sets are provided. Upon receiving a query, it is recognized whether to present a representative sample, or an indication thereof, along with a search result that relates to the query. Search results related to the query are presented to the user. A portion of the search results might include a representative sample, or an indication thereof. Such a representative sample might summarize a media object(s) associated with the search result presented. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211562 | MULTI-PART RECORD SEARCHES - A method and apparatus are provided for enhancing search results generated by a search engine. A graphical user interface may display search results, which may include at least one multi-part record comprising a plurality of independent documents. Upon receiving a selection of the multi-part record from the search results a detailed view of the record may be displayed. The detailed view of the record may include a listing of the multiple documents that form the record along with an indication of whether keywords from the search criteria are present in the documents. By providing an indication of exactly which documents of a multi-part record include keywords associated with a search, embodiments of the invention allow users to easily identify desired materials from a list of search results comprising the multipart record. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211563 | Cross Community Invitation and Multiple Provider Product Information Processing System - A telecommunications system implements a cross platform invitation mechanism. The system receives a search query from a subscriber, retrieves location information of the subscriber, and retrieves a search result from multiple information sources based on the search query. The system returns the search result to the subscriber, receives a search result selection from the search result from the subscriber, and builds a contact information list from community data associated to the subscriber and obtained from multiple contact sources. The contact information list may include, for example, friends or other contacts for the subscriber. The system returns the contact information list to the subscriber, receives a contact selection from the contact information list from the subscriber; and transmits an invitation message based on the contact selection to recipients corresponding to the contact selection. The recipients may return an ‘accept’ or ‘deny’ response to the system, which notifies the subscriber accordingly. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211564 | Generating a file with integral dynamic reports from queries to an external database - Records in databases or unstructured files are enriched with metadata and are indexed for retrieval by a search engine. In response to a search request, a graphical user interface (GUI) control based on the metadata associated with the search hits is constructed and displayed with the search results in a standard view. Selection of a metadata value via the GUI control filters the previously matched records down to those matching the value selected via the GUI control. The metadata in the search results is arranged in a tabular view which is embedded in the display of search results and rendered invisible until selected by the user. Reports can be constructed from an identifier each returned record set for presenting, analyzing and modifying the data, and for generating further reports. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100217760 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MULTI-DIRECTIONAL VISUAL BROWSING - Systems and methods for multi-directional visual browsing on an electronic device are described. In example embodiments, a primary result and a peripheral result associated with a user of a client device are determined. A display layout based on attributes associated with the primary result and the peripheral result is generated. The display layout is then formatted into rendering and display instructions, which will cause a client device to render the display layout. The rendering and display instructions are transmitted to the client device. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217761 | System and Method of Enhancing Decoding Performance of Text Indexes - The present invention provides a system for enhancing the decoding performance of text indexes of an indexed collection of text documents. The posting list includes a plurality of list entries being of variable size depending on the value stored in each posting list entry. The inventive system is based on a statistical analysis of the posting list entries of the plurality of list entries. Prior to decoding, the system can select a decoding procedure being appropriate to decode the most frequent type of posting list entries or of a plurality of various posting list entries. After selecting a particular decoding procedure and executing the decoding procedure for decoding of the entire posting list, a failure check is performed. In the exceptional case that a failure has occurred, a second alternative decoding procedure is selected and executed. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100223257 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING SEARCH QUERY RESULTS - Embodiments of the present invention leverage search query result page thumbnails and search query result link content evaluations to provide user-dependent enhanced search query results. This provides a simplified means to inform a user of the relevancy of search query results based on the user's preferences, environment, and profile, etc. The present invention allows a user to more adequately determine the value of the search query result via search query result indicators within the thumbnail and in the proximity of a displayed result link. In one embodiment of the present invention, a thumbnail of a query result link is automatically displayed when the link is selected. This provides a tool to view an entire search result page, eliminating the necessity of scrolling through each page to find relevant search terms. In another embodiment of the present invention, indicators are utilized to inform a user of the content of a search result link. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100228723 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UNSTRUCTURED DATA MINING AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING - A sort server including a central processing unit, a memory and a network interface configured to interconnect the sort server with a search server, at least one storage system and multiple processing servers using at least one network. The sort server is configured to receive a search result from the search server and to assign multiple tasks to the processing servers. The assignment of the multiple tasks is based on a condition including the search result. Assignment of the tasks to servers may be based on CPU load of at least some of the multiple servers, network architecture, network distance between the servers and the storage system storing the required object, failure information, urgency of the task, Level Agreement associated with the servers and other tasks performed by the servers. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100228724 | SEARCH CAPABILITY IMPLEMENTATION FOR A DEVICE - In a method of searching for data objects in a computer system, a content-based search of a first database generates a first domain-specific search result stream and a metadata-based search of a second database generates a second domain-specific search result stream. The first and second domain-specific search result streams are aggregated into a primary search result stream, and search results from the primary search result stream are displayed. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100228725 | PLANT INFORMATION MANAGING DEVICE AND PLANT INFORMATION MANAGING METHOD - Terminal device | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100235350 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHOTOGRAPH MAPPING - Systems and methods for photograph mapping are disclosed herein. In one embodiment a first digital image and at least one user-generated datum is received from at least one user. The first image is geographically organized according to the at least one datum. The first image is associated with at least one location and at least one direction. The first image is provided from a first person perspective to a user in response to a request. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100250521 | SEARCH RESULTS OUTPUT TOOL - Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media are disclosed for providing a search results output tool. According to an illustrative embodiment, a method receives one or more search results generated by a search engine in response to a user query of a network information source. Each of the search results is associated with one or more properties. The properties associated with each of the search results are stored. The user is prompted to select one or more selected search results. The user is also prompted to select one or more selected properties. A record is generated for each of the selected search results that include the one or more selected properties. The record for each of the selected search results is then output. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100262595 | FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORD MEDIUM FOR THE SAME - Disclosed herein are a file management system for collectively managing a plurality of files stored and managed in at least one file storage device and a computer-readable recording medium storing a program for performing file management. The file management system includes a file search module for designating one or more fields as search conditions and then searching for one or more files, listing found files together with registration information and then displaying this list on a screen, and listing a plurality of files together with registration information and then displaying this list on the screen; a registration information management module for performing entry, deletion and modification of file registration information and addition and deletion of one or more file registration information fields; and a rearrangement module for, using one or more selected file registration information fields as criteria for arrangement, changing a relevant folder structure with reference to registration information of files at selected locations and rearranging files and folders. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100274781 | ORDERED INDEX - Systems and methods for processing an index are described. A postings list of items containing a particular term are ordered in a desired retrieval order, e.g., most recent first. The ordered items are inserted into an inverted index in the desired retrieval order, resulting in an ordered inverted index from which items may be efficiently retrieved in the desired retrieval order. During retrieval, items may first be retrieved from a live index, and the retrieved items from the live and ordered indexes may be merged. The retrieved items may also be filtered in accordance with the items' file grouping parameters. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100281019 | CREATING INFORMATION MAP APPARATUS AND CREATING INFORMATION MAP METHOD - An information map creating apparatus and method including summing strengths of associations of information elements and creating a duplicate of an information element selected on the basis of the sum of the strengths, calculating strengths, including direct paths, of the associations among the information elements in a state in which some association whose strength is relatively low is excluded from the associations of one of the information elements of a duplicate origin and the information element of a duplicate target, summing the strengths of the associations of each of the information elements, and excluding, from the object to be displayed, an association whose strength is relatively low among the associations of one information element among the information elements, whose strength summed by the summing unit is higher than the others. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281020 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNIQUELY IDENTIFYING A PERSON TO THE EXCLUSION OF ALL OTHERS - Methods, program products, computer program products and systems for uniquely identifying an individual within a population to the exclusion of all others within the population by comparing data from unique data sources based on the name of the individual for providing a collection of preliminary suspects. An individual search service provider is then searched for additional data relating to the collection of preliminary suspects to locate any potential matches, which are reconciled with data from the unique data sources to locate at least a portion of a unique identifier that may be associated with the individual. The potential matches and portion of the unique identifier are compared with other data records within the individual search data source for locating a complete unique identifier that may be associated with the individual, followed by determining whether or not this complete unique identifier uniquely identifies the individual. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281021 | CUSTOMIZED MULTIFOCAL OPHTHALMIC LENS - System and method for customizing multifocal ophthalmic lenses, such as an intraocular lens (IOL) or the like, that may be tailored for an individual patient or group of patients beyond the selection of a particular IOL power. One or more eye factors of the patient are determined, a set of different multifocal intraocular lenses having a similar base power are determined based on the eye factors, and a multifocal intraocular lens is selected for the patient from the set based on the eye factors. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100299320 | Method and System to Facilitate Decision Point Information Flow and to Improve Compliance with a Given Standardized Vocabulary - An information search system incorporating computer algorithms that provide for (1) enforcement of compliance with a standardized vocabulary by a user or users, in a manner that is much more acceptable to users than known existing methods; 2) instant or essentially instant provision of information that is context sensitive, that is, sensitive to the sequence of characters that are entered by a user, in a manner that is highly acceptable to users. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299321 | REPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD USING PROMPT OBJECT ABSTRACTION - An reporting system that incorporates prompt objects in a report definition to enable a user to specify answers to questions to customize a report at execution time. A prompt object contains a single question to be answered, validation values for the answer, and attributes indicating how the prompt object is to be processed. A collection of answers is built up in a resolution object. A report is thus defined by selecting prompt objects in place of templates, filters, or any of the aspects of a template or filter. As a separate object, a single prompt may be issued once and the answer supplied to each reference to the prompt object in a report. A resolution object may be created and saved before the execution of a report. The saved resolution object can then be used to answer prompts at the time of the report execution. The resolution object may be created by third parties and transmitted as an XML resolution object, whereupon receipt by the reporting system, the XML resolution object is translated into a reporting system format. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299322 | System and method for web page identifications - The present invention relates to a system and method for information process of web pages using artificially constructed apparatus. More specially, in one preferred embodiment of the present invention, web pages are processed to obtain types of web pages according to information related to the web pages or contents of the web pages, wherein the information related the web pages includes url addresses (links) of the web pages, icons (or texts) for links for the web pages, metadata of the web pages, etc. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100318510 | METHOD FOR ATTACHING TAG TO IMAGE OF PERSON - A method for attaching tag information to an image of a person, includes the steps of: acquiring an image of a certain person; retrieving from a database a plurality of candidates having top N probabilities of being determined as the certain person and displaying the retrieved candidates on a screen of a terminal; providing a user with a pointing service capable of selecting a specific candidate among the displayed candidates; and attaching one or more tags to the image of the certain person by using tag information having been attached about the specific candidate who is selected by the user by the pointing service. As a result, the GUI may be provided to a mobile phone, capable of assisting the user to tag the image of the certain person easily. Therefore, the image of the certain person can be easily classified and searched by using the tag attached thereto. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318511 | Techniques for connectors in a system for collaborative work - Improved techniques for using connectors in a system for collaborative work for users unskilled in data processing techniques, including UI techniques. Data may be augmented by associating a connector query to obtain additional data and the data viewed in a “drill down” fashion, or by associating an additional resource for entering additional data by clicking on a link: the additional resource is created as needed and is a full-fledged resource of the system. A number of other connector queries may be combined into a single query that composes them, and information from different information sources may be combined easily, such as to make the form consistent; the information may also be transformed in a complex fashion. An alternative source for an information result may be used by a connector query to optimize performance, such as a cached result. A connector may be used to obtain information from resources created by other users within the system, and a connector may be used to obtain information from the resource in which it is used. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318512 | ADVANCED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) PROVIDING MODELING, DECISION SUPPORT, VISUALIZATION, SONIFICATION, WEB INTERFACE, RISK MANAGEMENT, SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS, SENSOR TELEMETRY, FIELD VIDEO, AND FIELD AUDIO - An advanced Geographic Information System (GIS) providing modeling, analysis, Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), data visualization, data sonification, web interface, risk management, sensitivity analysis, and telemetry capabilities is described. Telemetry can be provided by field sensors, field video, and/or field audio, and can be recorded or provided live in either direct or analyzed form. Data visualizations can be displayed along with GIS graphics, and can be superimposed or otherwise integrated with GIS graphics. GIS graphics can be used as the basis for an interactive user interface for other parts of the system. Web interfaces can support remote use, server based implementations, and/or collaboration. Advanced multi-channel data sonification can be used to prevent visual overloading of GIS graphics and interactions with it. The system can include rich data processing capabilities and interconnections of these so as to facilitate powerful data visualization and sonification results and can support multidimensional user interface devices. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318513 | USER INTERFACE FOR NAVIGATING A KEYWORD SPACE - The present invention relates to systems, methods, and user interfaces for browsing a collection of content items saved by a user or by one or more buddies associated with a given user. The method of the present invention comprises saving one or more content items and one or more associated keywords as specified by a user. An interface is generated that displays the one or more saved content items and the one or more associated keywords, as well as the one or more buddies associated with a given user. A user indication of the selection of a given keyword or the selection of a given buddy by the user is received. The one or more displayed content items are filtered according to the selected keyword, buddy, or combination of selected keyword and buddy. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318514 | CONTENT PLAYBACK DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A content playback device selects a region of pieces of additional information of contents to be played back in a random order in an order list | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100325102 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS IN A LITIGATION CONTEXT - A system and method for production of analyzing electronic documents includes document acquisition software; a database, comprising a document table; a document parser; a categorization schema; and a document processor operatively in communication with the database and the categorization schema. Document acquisition software operatively resident in a first computer acquires an electronic document which is then parsed by a document parser operatively resident in a second computer to create a set of parsed data related to the acquired document. A predetermined set of data describing the parsed document, comprising the created parsed data, are stored into a document table of a database accessible to the second computer. A non-neural network process is used to process the created parsed data in a document processor operatively resident in a third computer according to a categorization schema to create an association between the acquired document and the categorization schema. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325103 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING AND CREATING PRESENTATIONS - A slide customization system, comprising an administrator, wherein at least one information presentation is received at the administrator, at least one database, wherein the at least one information presentation is stored, a validator, wherein validation of the at least one information presentation is performed by the validator by validating the at least one information presentation with at least one validation attribute selected by the administrator from a plurality of validation attributes, and wherein the validation of the selected ones of the validation attributes against the at least one information presentation is stored to said at least one database, and a compiler. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100332465 | Method and system for monitoring online media and dynamically charting the results to facilitate human pattern detection - A time frame is specified. A search engine is queried for concepts within the time frame. The similarity and distances between concepts is calculated, and the graph coordinates of the concepts are computed. The search engine is queried for more time frames, and similarity, distances, and coordinates calculated for the concepts for each time frame. Consecutive time frames are mapped onto each other. A dynamic chart of the relationships between the concepts and how they evolve over the time frames is generated. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100332466 | Multi-Dimensional Search Results Adjustment System - A search based on one or more search terms is performed, and a subset of the returned search results is displayed. It is determined that a user has altered the position of an object located in multidimensional space. A first dimension of the multi-dimensional space corresponds to a variation in degree of a first filter criterion, and a second dimension corresponds to a variation in degree of a second filter criterion. The first and second filter criterion are different from the search terms and are not determined based on the search results. A value corresponding to each of the filter criteria is identified based on the position of the object in the first and second dimension, respectively. The search results are filtered based on each value to generate a second subset of the search results. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110010362 | METHOD FOR SEARCHING RELATION SUDDEN RISING WORD AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A method and system for searching for a relater term having rapidly increasing popularity is provided. The method includes: analyzing a search log and extracting a daily search frequency for each search term; comparing peaks of the daily search frequency, extracted for each search term in a predetermined period; and analyzing relevance between candidate search terms in which the peaks have occurred together in the predetermined period as a result of the comparison and filtering out a candidate search term having no relevance. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110016108 | SEARCH RESULT PLUSBOX INCLUDING RESTRICTED RESULTS - Systems, methods and computer program products for generating initial search results based on a search query and additional search results using a control element are described. The control element, when activated by a user of a client device, may execute a call to a server which fetches the additional results to the client device. Alternatively, the additional results may be pre-populated and displayed only when the control element is activated. In some implementations, the additional results may include results that are from the same source as the initial search results. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110035371 | DATA COMPARISON SYSTEM - A data comparison system is described. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a compare data structure containing multiple data item pairs, each pair including a legacy data item of a legacy dataset and a corresponding new data item of a new dataset, and a tolerance associated with each data item pair. The processor may receive the compare data structure and the associated tolerances. The processor may call a compare data subroutine to compare each data item pair in accordance with the associated tolerance if the data items are fields. Otherwise, the processor may recursively call the compare data subroutine for each record the data items until the data item are fields. The processor may then compare data items in accordance with the associated tolerance. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035372 | Search Engine Cache Control - A search query containing one or more terms is received from a client system. In response to receiving the search query, one or more snippets obtained in response to a prior execution of said search query are requested from a cache. For a respective snippet received from the cache, it is determined whether the respective snippet is a current version. In response to a determination that the respective snippet is not the current version, the current version of the respective snippet is obtained from a corresponding document in which one or more terms from said search query are located and the snippet stored in the cache is updated using the obtained current version. Search query results including the respective snippet are transmitted to the client. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110040747 | REFERENCE FILE FOR FORMATTED VIEWS - Methods, program products, and systems for displaying data in formatted views using reference files are described. In some implementations, a database application program can generate a result set using one or more queries. The result set can contain actual data from a database and metadata. The metadata can contain references to data records in the database, the references can include identifiers that can identify the data records. When a user saves a database report file, the user can save at least a part of the result set using the identifiers instead of the queries and layouts. Thus, the result set can be saved as a reference file. When the database application program opens the saved reference file, the database application program can reproduce the result set using the stored references without running all of the queries. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110040748 | Technical Electronic Discovery Action Model - Embodiments of the present invention provide for an end-to-end system and method for identifying custodians, preserving, collecting, processing, reviewing, analyzing, producing, presenting, and dispositioning data responsive to a legal discovery request. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110047145 | SEARCH ENGINE GRAPHICAL INTERFACE USING MAPS OF SEARCH TERMS AND IMAGES - A system, method and computer program product for visualization of search results includes a map displayed to a user on a screen. The map shows search query terms and optionally other terms related to the search query terms. The display of the terms corresponds to relationship between the terms. A graphical image is displayed next to at least one of the search query terms. The graphical image is associated with a URL that corresponds to a search result. The graphical image is a favorite icon that is derived from the HTML script associated with a webpage at the URL, or an animated image, or a video, or a cycling GIF. A plurality of graphical images can be displayed in proximity to the search query term. The graphical image can be a logo or a paid advertisement. A plurality of graphical images are offered for sale in association with the query search term, and a size and/or placement of each graphical image corresponds to a price paid by each purchaser, or multiple images can be displayed at the same location on the screen, and a duration of display of each graphical image corresponds to a price paid by each purchaser. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047146 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Product for Mobile Service Data Browser - Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are described for accessing information related to a request in addition to the requested information. A query is submitted from a user device that requests specific information from a database. The query is executed to access a database snippet which includes the specific information and additional information related to the query. A hierarchical data object is formed from the accessed database snippet. Metadata tags are added to create a tagged hierarchical data object and the tagged hierarchical data object is sent to the user device, wherein the hierarchical data object may be accessed and displayed independent of the display size of the user device, and without a requirement to develop display forms needed with conventional solutions. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047147 | PROVIDER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT FACILITATES INTERACTION BETWEEN AN INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONS - A provider relationship management system (“PRM system”) is disclosed that enables an individual to manage information about and electronically interact with organizations. The PRM system presents an individual with a list of organizations that the individual may have a relationship with. The individual selects one or more organizations from the list to add the selected organizations to a personal provider directory. The individual uses the personal provider directory to manage information associated with each organization. The individual may seek to establish an interactive connection with one or more organizations in the personal provider directory. If a selected organization agrees to establish an interactive connection with the individual, the organization is permitted to communicate with and send electronic documents to the individual. Each document is associated with a document type, and the document type is associated with certain actions that may be taken with respect to the corresponding document. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110055203 | VISUAL SEARCH AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL RESULTS - Methods, systems, graphical user interfaces, and computer-readable media for visually searching and exploring a set of objects are provided. A computer system executes a method that generates three-dimensional representations or two-dimensional representations for a set of objects in response to a user interaction with an interface that displays the three-dimensional representations or the two-dimensional representations. The interface includes filter controls, sorting controls, and classification controls, which are dynamically altered based on the content of a user query or the attributes of the objects in the three-dimensional representations or two-dimensional representations. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055204 | Method and apparatus for content tagging in portable terminal - Content tagging method and apparatus automatically tag points of interest in a portable terminal. The content tagging method in the portable terminal includes determining a search region using current location information when creating content; and searching a Point of Interest (POI) corresponding to the search region from a pre-stored POI list. The searched POI is tagged to the content. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055205 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING QUALITY INSPECTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Disclosed is a computer readable medium containing a program product provided for the development, receipt, storage, and presentation of the data necessary for delivery of quality assurance test activities. In particular, the program product allows users to create quality assurance testing criteria and procedures; define, document, and approve specific actions and allocate unique categorization codes. The program product includes a module for the creation and storage of predefined text and image elements for the provision of enterprise wide knowledge sharing. The program product applies calculations to consolidate and convert data into statistical reports utilizing a variety of user-defined criteria, including but not limited to component descriptor, quality criteria, time period and manufacturer. The program product also accepts, consolidates and calculates post-production quality resource utilization/costs, segregated periodically and/or consolidated, enabling stakeholders to determine appropriate corrective actions based on ongoing quality assurance testing outcomes. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110060732 | Browse Hierarchies Customized for Rules Based Custom Catalogs - An arbitrary number of custom catalogs for an arbitrary number of customers can be published from a single database of seller catalog data. Custom browse hierarchies can be generated for each of the custom catalogs. The custom catalogs are subsets of the catalog database, and are generated in accordance with a set of rules that defines the scope of the content of the custom catalog. The rule sets define a series of sequential searches by which a subset of the product SKUs contained in the database are returned. A primary hierarchy is maintained that can have a scope coextensive with the primary database. Custom browse hierarchies can be pruned to render their scope approximately coextensive with each subset. The custom catalog subsets and the custom browse hierarchies are generated periodically through a virtual publication process. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110066610 | SEARCH METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PREVIEW INFORMATION - A search method, an apparatus, and a system for providing preview information are provided. The search method includes receiving a list of search result items and preview information from a server in real time and outputting the list and the preview information. Therefore, a search time can be efficiently reduced, which enables a user to obtain a desired search result more rapidly. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110072009 | SPACE EFFICIENT VISUALIZATION OF PEDIGREE DATA - A method of visually representing pedigree data is provided. A root individual in a genealogical dataset is identified. A first parent and a second parent of the identified root individual are identified from the genealogical dataset. A third parent and a fourth parent of the identified first parent are identified from the genealogical dataset. A pedigree visualization relative to the identified root individual is presented which includes a root indicator, a first parent indicator, a second parent indicator, a third parent indicator, and a fourth parent indicator. The first parent indicator is presented in a first direction relative to the root indicator, the second parent indicator is presented in a second direction relative to the root indicator, wherein the second direction is opposite the first direction, the third parent indicator is presented in a third direction relative to the first parent indicator, wherein the third direction is perpendicular to the first direction, and the fourth parent indicator is presented in a fourth direction relative to the first parent indicator, wherein the fourth direction is opposite the third direction. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110072010 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZED SEARCH SOURCING - The present invention provides a method and system for customized search results in an advanced search results page including vertical searching pivot points for personalizing and refining searching operations. The method includes tracking user network activities and receiving a search query from the user, the search query including a plurality of search terms. The method and system includes identifying a plurality of preferred content sources based on the tracked network activities and retrieving content items in response to the search query. The method and system filters the content items based on the preferred content sources and therein generates a search result page displaying at least a portion of the filtered content items and at least one of the preferred content sources, wherein the display of the at least one preferred content source allows the user to pivot the search results portion based solely on the preferred content source. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110078136 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING RELATIONSHIPS IN SEARCH RESULTS - A method and system for providing relationships in search results are provided. The method includes indexing an entity in a search index as an entity index entry, the entity index entry including facets providing information on the entity type and related entities. Search results are obtained by a search engine in the form of ranked result entities, wherein the result entities include multiple types of entities. The method then includes retrieving index entries to determine relationships between search result entities and providing the relationships in search results. The method further includes, for each result entity, retrieving its entity index entry and cross-checking the facets of the retrieved entity index entry for other result entities. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078137 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING USE STATISTICS FOR LOCATION-BASED APPLICATIONS - A system for analyzing the use of location-based service applications including: a mobile device. A carrier-positioning infrastructure interacts with the mobile device for enabling the use of location-based applications by the mobile device. A mobile location-based application provider communicates with the carrier-positioning infrastructure to provide a location-based application to the mobile device. A location transaction platform monitors the use of the location-based application by the mobile device. An analytics server communicates with the location transaction platform and location stamps an occurrence of use of the location-based application by the mobile device and performs a task in accordance with predetermined rules as a function of the location-based stamp. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110087650 | CREATION AND USE OF CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP MODELS IN BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS - A computing system for organizing and using information in a building management system (BMS) is shown and described. The computing system includes a memory device storing software defined building objects. The computing system further includes a processing circuit configured to relate the software defined building objects by causal relationships between the devices and to store the causal relationships and a description of the causal relationships in the memory device. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087651 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING AND DELIVERING MEDICAL IMAGES TO MOBILE DEVICES AND REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - According to one aspect, a system for automated conversion and delivery of medical images, comprising a server coupled with a data storage system and a communication interface, the server configured to: receive a plurality of medical image files via the communications interface, the medical image files comprising medical data and meta data, the medical data having a medical data format, store the medical image files, receive a request via the user interface to find a medical image file, return a notification that the requested medical image file has been found via the user interface, receive an output destination type associated with the medical data file via the user interface, wherein the output destination type is an output device, service, or both, retrieve the requested medical image file, determine whether the medical data associated with the requested medical image file includes medical image data, correlate the output destination type with one or more of the plurality of standardized format specifications and with one or more of the plurality of message templates, convert the medical data format associated with the medical data based on the standardized format specifications that correlate with the output destination type, assemble at least one output message that includes the converted medical data based on the message templates that correlate with the output destination type, and transmit the output message to at least one destination via the communication interface. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087652 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING AND DELIVERING MEDICAL IMAGES TO MOBILE DEVICES AND REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - A system for automated conversion and delivery of medical images, comprises a server coupled with a data storage system and a communication interface, the server configured to: receive a medical image file via the communications interface, the medical image file comprising medical data and meta data, the medical data having a medical data format that complies with the digital imaging and communication in medicine standard, determine whether the medical data includes a medical image data, determine an output destination type, wherein the output destination type is an output device, service, or both, based on the meta data, correlate the output destination type with one or more of the plurality of standardized format specifications and with one or more of the plurality of message templates, convert the medical data format associated with the medical data based on the standardized format specifications that correlate with the output destination type, assemble at least one output message that includes the converted medical data based on the message templates that correlate with the output destination type, and transmit the output message to at least one destination via the communication interface. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110099161 | DIGITAL CONTENT REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - Provided is a digital content reproduction apparatus, which has an Internet connection function, including a search condition input section, a search execution section, and a display signal generation section. The search condition input section receives an input of a search condition. The search execution section executes a search according to the search condition input through the search condition input section by setting digital content provided by a plurality of Internet video providing services as a search target. The display signal generation section generates a display signal for collectively displaying results of the search executed by the search execution section in a list. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110106791 | METHOD FOR ENRICHING DATA SOURCES - In a first aspect, the invention relates to a method implemented in a computer environment for identifying enrichment information relative to starting information, characterised in that the method comprises the following steps: (a) accessing via a network a first information source in order to collect first information in response to a first request; (b) converting said first information into a first set of data structured according to a plurality of first attributes; (c) applying context information to a mapping source in order to identify at least one second source of information capable of providing information that can be used for enriching the first information; (d) accessing via the network the second source of information in order to collect therefrom second information in response to a second request containing one or more criteria contained in the first request and/or one or more attribute values of the first set of structured data; (e) converting said second information into a second set of data structured according to a plurality of second attributes, at least some of which are linked to first attributes by inter-attribute mapping information provided by the mapping source; and (f) presenting the data including data of the first data set and data of the second data set combined according to said mapping information. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110113026 | Scalable Computation of Data - Techniques for producing a cross tabulation are described. The techniques involve issuing a plurality of queries to a database. The queries are for each of at least one sublevel of data for each of at least one dimension of data associated with records in the database. The queries provide sublists of sorted identifiers for each one of the queries. The technique determines occurrences of intersections of levels of one dimension with levels of another dimension of the data associated with records in the database by traversing the sublists to detect intersections of the dimensions. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110119253 | SECURING SEARCH QUERIES - In general, the present invention protects actual search queries submitted to web search engines using a set (i.e., at least one) of supplemental queries (hereinafter referred to as securing search queries). As a result, collections of search queries will not form statistically stable categories, and will not disclose the search subject. Any hits resulting from securing search queries will be filtered from results that are returned to the requestor. In addition, the securing search queries can be associated with protective Internet Protocol addresses to reduce the possibility of the requestor of the actual search query to be identified. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110119254 | INFERENCE-DRIVEN MULTI-SOURCE SEMANTIC SEARCH - A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for searching for information using a knowledge base. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a query; formulizing the query, including dividing the query into a plurality of parts; for each of the parts, identifying a source, using the knowledge, that addresses that part; and combining the sources to answer the query. In one embodiment, the query includes text; the text is separated into a plurality of segments; and, for each of the segments, at least one source is identified addressing the segment. In an embodiment, a logical proof is formulated having a conclusion that is an answer to the query, and a sequence of statements that establish said conclusion; and a proof of this conclusion is generated by identifying two or more documents that assert the sequence of statements. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110119255 | FACILITATING ADVERTISEMENT SELECTION USING ADVERTISABLE UNITS - Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that facilitate advertisement selection using advertising units. An entity that is a sequence of two or more words is referenced. The entity includes substrings comprising a portion of the entity. Search data in association with the entity is compared to corresponding search data in association with the substrings of the entity. Based on the comparison, it is determined that the entity comprises an advertisable unit that functions as a unit for purposes of selecting an advertisement for display. The advertisable unit is used to select an advertisement to be presented to the user. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110119256 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention provides an information processing apparatus, in which an orientation is specified in response to a user's input operation, and average values of the latitude and the longitude in position information of a plurality of image files are obtained. A straight line in a specified orientation passing through a coordinate point showing the average coordinate values is used as a reference line. The image files, in which a distance between a coordinate point represented by position information of each image file and the reference line is smaller than a predetermined value, are sorted by latitude or longitude in the position information. As a result of the sorting, property information and reduced-size images of the image files are arranged and displayed on a display unit. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110125731 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a structure analysis section that analyzes display control data in which information related to display control is written and which includes a plurality of structural units, and that extracts the structural unit included in the display control data, a layout setting section that sets layout information which is used when displaying the display control data on a display screen based on the structural unit extracted by the structure analysis section, a keyword extraction section that extracts a keyword from a display content corresponding to the structural unit, and a content search section that searches image content corresponding to the keyword extracted by the keyword extraction section. The layout setting section places the image content searched by the content search section in a display region, in which the structural unit including the keyword corresponding to the image content is displayed. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110131201 | Supply Chain Digital Map Management System and Integrating Method Therefor - The present invention discloses a supply chain digital map management system, which comprises a site database comprising basic records of vendors and an environment database comprising geographical features and atmosphere conditions that correspond to locations of the vendors. The supply chain digital map management system further comprises a processor which communicates with the site database and the environment database. As BOM tables, the vendor lists of a production are inputted into the processor, the supply chain structure is transferred and shown on the digital map. The supply chain digital map management shows the potential risks on the digital map with different colors/types of marking lines. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110137891 | CLIENT AND DATABASE PROBLEM DETERMINATION AND MONITORING - Provided are techniques for collecting client information for client applications running on a client computer, wherein the client information includes a client application identifier for each client application that issues queries to a database along with text of each of the queries that the client application issues; collecting database monitoring information that includes text of each query issued against the database and performance information for each query; combining the client information and the database monitoring information based on the text of the queries to obtain combined information that provides the client application identifier and the performance information for each of the queries; and identifying a problem query and at least one client application that has issued the problem query using the combined information. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110137892 | Process, Program and Apparatus for Displaying an Assembly of Objects of a PLM Database - This invention is directed to a process, computer program and apparatus for displaying an assembly of objects of a product lifecycle management database. The method according to the invention aims at providing an access to the database, selecting the assembly of objects in the database, identifying a plurality of viewpoints on said assembly, retrieving from the database a set of objects of said assembly according to the plurality of identified viewpoints, computing a model of said assembly for all the retrieved objects of the set of objects, and displaying a view of the model, any displayed views being computed locally starting from the objects retrieved at the retrieving step. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110145222 | ABSTRACTING INFORMATION FROM A DEVICE - Requesting from a device to a source. In a device comprising a datastore, the datastore comprising a plurality of records, each record comprising a plurality of fields, retrieving a common set of fields from each of the plurality of records. The technology abstracts at least one of the retrieved fields across the plurality of records, resulting in abstracted information. The technology sends, to the source, the abstracted information from the device in place of the retrieved fields. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145223 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING PROBABILISTIC DATA USING A PROBABILISTIC HISTOGRAM - Methods and apparatus for representing probabilistic data using a probabilistic histogram are disclosed. An example method comprises partitioning a plurality of ordered data items into a plurality of buckets, each of the data items capable of having a data value from a plurality of possible data values with a probability characterized by a respective individual probability distribution function (PDF), each bucket associated with a respective subset of the ordered data items bounded by a respective beginning data item and a respective ending data item, and determining a first representative PDF for a first bucket associated with a first subset of the ordered data items by partitioning the plurality of possible data values into a first plurality of representative data ranges and respective representative probabilities based on an error between the first representative PDF and a first plurality of individual PDFs characterizing the first subset of the ordered data items. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145224 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPEECH-BASED INCREMENTAL SEARCH - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for receiving a user's spoken search query that the system will incrementally recognize and identify search terms. After the query has been incrementally recognized, the system will use the search terms to retrieve a portion of the search results that are based on usable identified search terms. As the results are found, the system will then output at least part at least part of the retrieved portion of search results on the display prior to the user concluding his or her search query. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145225 | CUSTOMIZABLE ORDERING OF SEARCH RESULTS AND PREDICTIVE QUERY GENERATION - In a computerized search system, a document corpus is searched according to a query and results of the search are presentable as an ordered search result set comprising one or more search hits, a search hit being a document of the document corpus or reference thereto. Based on content of the search result set, a number of suggested queries and/or parameter options are presented to a querier, thereby allowing the querier to select a suggested query and/or provide values for the parameters and those selections can be used to reorder the hits of the search result set. The particular suggested queries and/or parameters presented depend on the page elements of the search result set's documents and their categorization. The categorization might be done using concept networks. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110153595 | System And Method For Identifying Topics For Short Text Communications - A system and method for identifying topics for short text communications is provided. Tokens are extracted from a short text communication. A query is generated using the extracted tokens. The query is applied to a set of documents. Those documents in the set that match the query are identified as search results. Salient terms associated with each of the search results are identified. A threshold is applied to the identified salient terms. The salient terms that satisfy the threshold are selected as topics for the short text communication. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110161312 | Integration of Web Information Architecture Taxonomy and Web Metrics Taxonomy - Mechanisms are provided for integration of Web information architecture taxonomy and Web metrics taxonomy. When the author creates source content, the mechanism classifies the content using a rich taxonomy. The mechanism also adds unique identifiers into the source content pages as tags. The mechanism may then transform the source content into Web content that contains the identifiers in the tags. When users view the Web content, the tags generate usage data, which contain the identifiers. A Web metrics mechanism generates a Web metrics report from the usage data. The page tags are the identifiers from the source content. The Web metrics report associates each page of Web content with the rich taxonomy available in the source content. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110167057 | MODULARIZED SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT REPORTING - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for playing local device information over a telephone connection. In one aspect, a method includes selecting one or more data modules from among a collection of reusable data modules, the selected data modules collectively mapping to one or more requirements of a service level agreement report, and the selected data modules including tags that reference data stored in two or more data sources and further including instructions for processing the data; invoking the data modules; processing the data referenced by the tags using the instructions, responsive to invoking the data modules; and generating the SLA report in accordance with the requirements, using the processed data. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110167058 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Mapping Directions Between Search Results - A method includes: displaying a map, a first field configured to receive a first query input, and a second field configured to receive a second query input; receiving the first query input in the first field; receiving the second query input in the second field; initiating a search that uses the first query input and a search that uses the second query input; concurrently displaying on the map a first plurality of search results for the first query input and a second plurality of search results for the second query input; detecting selection of a first search result in the first plurality of search results; detecting selection of a second search result in the second plurality of search results; and displaying a route on the map from the first search result to the second search result. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110173184 | Extensible Tree Views for Managing Datacenter Resources - An example embodiment provides a method for a GUI for client software that is a part of an application program for managing datacenter resources. The method includes receiving as input one or more specifications, where each specification includes a hierarchy of queries. The method determines one or more target data sources for each query in each hierarchy. Then the method issues the query to each target data source determined for the query, after adapting the query to a format that is acceptable to the target data source. The method then receives the results of each query from the target data source, integrates the results into a hierarchy, and submits the hierarchy to the client software for display in a tree view in the GUI. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173185 | MULTI-STAGE LOOKUP FOR ROLLING AUDIO RECOGNITION - A multi-stage lookup is performed by receiving a query fingerprint of an unknown recording, generating a hash value corresponding to the query fingerprint; generating a list of candidate matches of known recordings by comparing the hash value of the query fingerprint to a hash table containing multiple hash values corresponding to audio fingerprints of the known recordings, comparing maxima of the query fingerprint to the maxima of full-recording fingerprints of the known recordings contained in a full-recording fingerprint table to obtain an identifier corresponding to the unknown recording, and returning metadata based on the identifier. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173186 | Taxonomy-Based Object Classification - Objects, such as documents, are classified according to a taxonomy. The taxonomy includes nodes, corresponding to object classes, arranged in a hierarchy. Class keywords are associated with the nodes. Search strings are formed for the classes by traversing the taxonomic branches and concatenating the keywords associated with the classes. For each object to be classified, a search engine is used to perform searches on the object using the search strings. The searches produce search scores for each search string. Each object is classified by identifying the class(es) corresponding to the highest search score(s) for the object, and classifying the object into the identified class(es). | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173187 | CONFLICT OF INTEREST DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING SOCIAL INTERACTION MODELS - A conflict of interest detection system is provided. A data extractor retrieves a document and extracts author, title, and date information. A co-authorship finder finds out co-author relation among documents. A relevant group cluster identifies a key researcher in a particular field, and groups researchers connected to the key researcher as a group. A potential link finder identifies researchers who may have co-author relation. A relation filter filters out couples having weaker relation from the group having co-author relation. The filtered co-author relation data is then stored as a conflict of interest list. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173188 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE DOCUMENT PREVIEW - An apparatus is disclosed which includes a communication interface and a controller associated with the communication interface and configured to receive from a device a request for a preview markup of a document including at least one page, determine a level of detail for the preview markup, and analyze at least one layout element and at least one content element of the at least one page to generate the preview markup having the level of detail. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173189 | GRAPH QUERYING, GRAPH MOTIF MINING AND THE DISCOVERY OF CLUSTERS - A method for analyzing, querying, and mining graph databases using subgraph and similarity querying. An index structure, known as a closure tree, is defined for topological summarization of a set of graphs. In addition, a significance model is created in which the graphs are transformed into histograms of primitive components. Finally, connected substructures or clusters, comprising paths or trees, are detected in networks found in the graph databases using a random walk technique and a repeated random walk technique. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110179017 | DETECTING SPIKING QUERIES - Methods, systems, and media are provided for identifying and clustering queries that are rising in popularity. Resultant clustered queries can be compared to other stored queries using textual and temporal correlations. Fresh indices containing information and results from recently crawled content sources are searched to obtain the most recent query activity. Historical indices are also searched to obtain temporally correlated information and results that match the clustered query stream. A weighted average acceleration of a spike can be calculated to distinguish between a legitimate spike and a non-legitimate spike. Legitimate clusters are combined with other stored clusters and presented as grouped content results to a user output device. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110184937 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVE INFORMATION AND RESOURCE SHARING - A method and system of automatically identifying a set of relevant and qualified recipients to share electronic data is disclosed. The system includes an electronic network configured to store and transmit the electronic data files. The electronic data files include one or more data tags defining a sharing condition that targets potential recipients of the data files or permits access to the data files. A people-tagging system provides an electronic platform including keyword lists (tags) defined by recipient users collaboratively. A matching tool includes software matching recipient users to the data files when the recipient users are associated with keyword lists that satisfy the sharing condition. The method includes tagging a data file by one or more keywords and using a people-tagging system where the recipient users define a list of tags on topics of interest. Recipient users are matched to data files when user lists of tags satisfying the sharing condition. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110184938 | DETERMINING SIMILARITY BETWEEN SOURCE CODE FILES - According to one aspect of embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a computer system for determining similarity between a plurality of source code files. The computer system comprises a processor adapted to execute stored instructions, and a memory device that stores instructions for execution by the processor. The memory device comprises computer-implemented code adapted identify, in each of the plurality of source code files, data storage elements defined therein, determine which of the identified data storage elements are shared data storage elements, determine, for pairs of the source code files, the coincidence of the identified shared data storage elements, and identify pairs of the source code files as being similar based on the determined coincidence. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110184939 | METHOD OF TRANSFORMING RESUME AND JOB ORDER DATA INTO EVALUATION OF QUALIFIED, AVAILABLE CANDIDATES - The present invention combines data in fields within tables of a dynamic database with the static XML metadata of a search collection in a combined hybrid static/dynamic database and search collection for use in evaluating qualified, available job candidates, The search results of the database search and the search collection search are filtered to narrow the candidates to the most qualified, available ones, according to the criteria set by the recruiter. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110191325 | Systems and Methods of Displaying and Re-Using Document Chunks in a Document Development Application - A method for searching and displaying documents at a computer includes: receiving one or more search keywords from a user of the computer, identifying a set of documents stored at a plurality of data sources, each document including one or more chunks that match at least one search keyword; and displaying in a search results window a set of search results in a text-based display format, each search result including at least one chunk retrieved from a respective document and the chunk includes at least one instance of a highlighted search keyword. In response to a user selection of a first search result in the search results window, the computer launches a first document preview window adjacent to the first search result and displays within the first document preview window a portion of a first document in a display format consistent with a document type of the first document. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110196858 | METHOD OF GENERATING MOLECULE-FUNCTION NETWORK - A method of generating a molecule-function network including bio-events by carrying out a connect search using a biomolecule-linkage database including information on the bio-events, and a method of predicting a pathway between an arbitrary biomolecule and an arbitrary bio-event in said network or a method of predicting the bio-events to which an arbitrary biomolecule in said network is related. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110202523 | IMAGE SEARCHING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SEARCHING METHOD - An image searching apparatus has a search target decision unit which decides a search target image out of images stored in an image storing unit; a search content selection unit which obtains a search condition to indicate search content specified by a user operation; a search execution unit which executes content search processing for the search target image using the search condition; and a search result display control unit which displays the search result. If a bracketed image group is included in the image storing unit, the search target decision unit sets a representative image selected from the image group to a search target image, and excludes images other than the representative image in the image group from search targets. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202524 | TRACKING TIME-BASED SELECTION OF SEARCH RESULTS - Where multiple client devices are synchronized to multiple, asynchronous instances of a time-based media presentation such as live and time-shifted views of a television broadcast, interactive content can be delivered to each one of the various devices at a particular time (or “time offset”) within the presentation independent of when each instance of the time-based media presentation is viewed. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110213767 | System and Method for Automatic Matching of Contracts Using a Fixed-Length Predicate Representation - A method for automatic matching of contracts to inventory using a fixed-length complex predicate representation. An item of inventory is described as a Boolean expression, which is converted into a multi-level, alternating AND/OR impression tree representation with leaf nodes representing conjuncts. Processing the conjuncts of the tree through a contract index results in retrieving a set of candidate contracts that match the at least some but not necessarily all impression tree leaf node predicates. Next, an AND/OR contract tree representation is constructed with each contract tree leaf node having a label representing a projection onto a discrete set of ordered symbols. Contracts with projections that cover the entire range of discrete set of ordered symbols are deemed to satisfy the item of inventory. Implementation of the contract index includes retrieval techniques to support multi-valued predicates as well as confidence threshold functions using a multi-level tree representation of multi-valued predicates. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213768 | REPORTING ON FACTS RELATIVE TO A SPECIFIED DIMENSIONAL COORDINATE CONSTRAINT - A received report query specifies a dimension coordinate constraint and an associated grain for the dimension coordinate constraint. At least one query is generated to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection. A result of providing the at least one query to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection is processed. The processed result includes an indication of every dimension coordinate satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint and having a particular value at the associated grain, and the processed result further includes facts of the dimensionally-modeled fact collection that are specified by at least one other dimension coordinate indicated by the processed result having the particular value at the associated grain and not satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213769 | Methods and Systems for Utilizing Contextual Feedback to Generate and Modify Playlists - Systems and methods of generating and modifying a playlist using contextual information are disclosed. For example, a user may provide an input seed such as a song name or artist name. The input seed is compared to database items and a playlist is generated as a result. In some examples, the contextual information is used to enhance the comparison and to select better content objects for a user's playlist. Meanwhile, in some examples the content objects in the playlist may be arranged in an enhanced order using ranking and/or contextual information. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110225145 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND/OR APPARATUSES FOR USE IN SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION USING COMPUTER PLATFORMS - Embodiments of methods, systems or apparatuses relating to data processing and more particularly to methods, systems, and/or apparatuses for use in searching for information are disclosed. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110225146 | UNIFIED SEARCH INTERFACE - Methods, systems, and computer program products feature determining a plurality of search result items responsive to a search query. A plurality of search modes are identified based on the query or the plurality of search result items or both. Each search mode is associated with a respective collection of records. The plurality of search result items are provided to a user with an indication of each search mode in the plurality of search modes. User input selecting a first search mode is received, where the first search mode is one of the plurality of search modes. One or more mode-specific search result items are determined based on the search query, where each mode-specific search result item is from the collection of records that is associated with the first search mode. The one or more mode-specific search result items are provided to the user. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110225147 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TAG INFORMATION OF MULTIMEDIA DATA IN MOBILE TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method for reproducing a multimedia in a mobile terminal are provided. More particularly, an apparatus and a method for converting meta information of multimedia data reproduced by a mobile terminal into audio data information to reproduce the multimedia data and simultaneously reproducing the meta information are provided. The apparatus includes a meta information analyzer, an audio data generator, and a meta information provider. The meta information analyzer obtains meta information of multimedia data to be reproduced. The audio data generator converts meta information obtained by the meta information analyzer into an audio data format. The meta information provider reproduces the meta information converted into the audio format by the audio data generator and multimedia data. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110225148 | FIELD-BASED SIMILARITY SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD - A similarity search method includes generating a feature database which stores data pertaining to a candidate molecule, as executed by a processor of a computer, the database including a hash table having entries which are generated based on, a set of descriptors generated from conformations of fragment graphs of the candidate molecule, the fragment graphs including plural fragment nodes connected by rotatable bond edges, a specific conformation of the fragment node including a fragment of the candidate molecule, and two neighboring fragments connected by a rotatable bond at a specific dihedral angle including a fragment pair, and a context-adapted descriptor-to-key mapping which maps the set of descriptors to a set of feature keys including indices that label grid cells in discriminant space. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110231391 | PROJECT MANAGEMENT DATABASE AND METHOD OF MANAGING PROJECT RELATED INFORMATION - A database, and method of using the same, are provided for managing professional services projects. Professional services practices typically employ distributed proprietary applications which complicate the ready transfer of data between and among applications. The database of the present invention is preferably built on an ODBC-compliant platform, such as Lotus Notes and operates in conjunction with an SQL database server and supplied to an ODBC-compliant database in Lotus Notes. The data is stored in portable format in the Lotus Notes database, providing an easily accessible data warehouse for the professional services practice. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231392 | Unified Search Interface - Methods, systems, and computer program products feature determining a plurality of search result items responsive to a search query. A plurality of search modes are identified based on the query or the plurality of search result items or both. Each search mode is associated with a respective collection of records. The plurality of search result items are provided to a user with an indication of each search mode in the plurality of search modes. User input selecting a first search mode is received, where the first search mode is one of the plurality of search modes. One or more mode-specific search result items are determined based on the search query, where each mode-specific search result item is from the collection of records that is associated with the first search mode. The one or more mode-specific search result items are provided to the user. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110238656 | SPECULATIVE SEARCH RESULT ON A NOT-YET-SUBMITTED SEARCH QUERY - Providing a speculative search result for a search query prior to completion of the search query. In response to receiving a search query from a client node, a speculative search result is provided to the client node for the search query prior to receiving an indication from the client node that said search query is completely formed. The speculative search result may be displayed on the same web page on the client node as the search query, while the search query is being entered by the user. As the user further enters the search query, a new speculative search result may be provided to the user. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110246452 | TRADEMARK REPORT WITH STORE LAYOUT DIAGRAM - The results of a trademark availability search can be graphically depicted using a store layout diagram. A store layout diagram shows the layout of a store including the various sections of the store. Graphical elements representing trademarks are arranged on the store layout diagram and positioned so that they are visually associated with the relevant sections of the store. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246453 | Apparatus and Method for Visual Presentation of Search Results to Assist Cognitive Pattern Recognition - An apparatus and method for searching using cognitive pattern recognition comprising searching at least one document associated with a search text; presenting a quantity of the at least one document in a scaled common image format (CIF); selecting a document in the quantity for display; adding a visual distinction to all pages of the selected document where the search text exists from the rest of the pages of the selected document; and displaying all pages of the selected document wherein the search text exists in the scaled common image format (CIF). | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246454 | System and Method for Displaying Results of Search - The present invention relates to the system and the method for graphically displaying the results of search engine on a terminal of client, so that client can see a search process at first glance and move between a higher category and a lower category easily and learn the results of search engine quickly. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110252021 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVELY HARVESTING PERTINENT DATA - Methods and apparatus are provided for developing user profiles via search query analysis and linking the user profiles and data sources, to adaptively facilitate the discovery, transfer, and distribution of pertinent knowledge. A user profile builder, linker, and manager analyze users' search queries to learn their interests and habits, build user profiles to reflect the users' interests and habits, and link together profiles of the users with common interests. A data harvester utilizes the user profiles to provide pertinent data to the users based on their interests and habits or those of other users with common interests. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110258180 | HOLE SELECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system and method for hole selection in a defined area. Embodiments further disclose a system and method for selecting a golf hole location on a green. The system may include a storage component, a processing component, an analyzing component, a selecting component, and a user interface. The storage component may store a database of potential hole locations and attributes. The analyzing component may apply limitations to selecting golf hole locations based upon attributes of each golf hole location to determine an available set. The selecting component may select a golf hole location from the available set. The user interface may be used to input data and output a presentation of a selected golf hole location. | 10-20-2011 |
| 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. | 10-27-2011 |
| 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. | 10-27-2011 |
| 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. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110270823 | ACCELERATED RENDERING OF VIRTUAL VIEWS - Systems and methods of generating virtual views may provide for identifying a first position in a first list based on a view selection such as a drag of a scroll bar. A plurality of remaining positions may be identified in a corresponding plurality of remaining lists based on the first position. In one example, the first position is used as a key to search each of the plurality of remaining lists. Solutions may also provide for generating a merged list view based on the first position and the plurality of remaining positions. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110270824 | COLLABORATIVE SEARCH AND SHARE - Collaborative search and share is provided by a method of facilitating collaborative content-finding, which includes displaying a toolbar user interface object for each user that not only allows each user to perform content-finding but also increases awareness of each user to the activities of other users. The method further includes displaying content results as various disparate image clips that can easily be shared, moved, etc. amongst users. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110276562 | VISUALIZING SITE STRUCTURE AND ENABLING SITE NAVIGATION FOR A SEARCH RESULT OR LINKED PAGE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for attaching a visual representation of hierarchical data associated with a resource identified by a search system to the resource. The resource and hierarchical data can be presented to a user as a search result. In some implementations, breadcrumbs that describe a traversal path toward a starting or entry page associated with the resource can represent the hierarchical data. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110282865 | GEOMETRIC MECHANISM FOR PRIVACY-PRESERVING ANSWERS - A system for answering sets of queries on a set of private data while providing differential privacy protection is provided. The set of queries is received and applied to the set of private data to generate a set of results or answers. A geometric representation of the set of queries is generated. Example geometric representations include polytopes. Error values are generated for the set of queries using a K-norm mechanism based on values sampled from the geometric representation. The sampled values are added to the set of results to provide the differential privacy protection. By generating the error values based on the set of queries rather than the set of results or the set of private data, the amount of error added to the generated results to achieve a level of differential privacy protection is reduced. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282866 | System And Method For Retrieving And Processing Information From A Supervisory Control Manufacturing/Production Database - A database server for handling steams of time stamped data points for tagged variables is disclosed herein that supports a set of advanced data retrieval operations/queries invoked by clients of the database server. The advanced data retrieval operations are invoked by client queries to provide, on demand, secondary information by processing previously tabled data corresponding to received data streams rendered by a variety of data sources in a supervisory control/monitoring, process control and/or automated equipment environment. Calculations, on previously stored data, for rendering the secondary information are performed within the database server at the time the secondary information is requested by a client of the historian that maintains a database containing the previously stored data. Moreover, a filtering stage and enhanced time-in-state processing operations are supported. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282867 | IMAGE SEARCHING WITH RECOGNITION SUGGESTION - Image management applications allow users to upload, modify, organize, search, and/or share images. Unfortunately, current image management applications may have separate search modes and tagging modes. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for providing a user with a seamlessly integrated search, view, and/or tag experience are disclosed herein. Search results comprising tagged images and untagged images may be provided in response to a user search query. The untagged images may be contextually relevant to features of the tagged images and/or the user search query. Tagging suggestions for untagged images may be presented that allow a user to confirm or deny a tagging suggestion for an untagged image. Additionally, confirmable thumbnails corresponding to the untagged images may be presented. A confirmable thumbnail may allow a user to confirm or deny tagging a corresponding untagged image. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282868 | SEARCH METHOD, INTEGRATED SEARCH SERVER, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - In a system in which multiple independent search servers are loosely coupled, a duplicate entry is detected and eliminated from search results sent from the respective search servers with respect to the same search condition. An integrated search control part of the search server, upon receiving an integrated search request, determines a hash algorithm to be used in common by the respective search servers. Each search control part responds to the integrated search control part by adding a hash value, based on this hash algorithm, to the search result. The integrated search control part detects and eliminates a duplicate entry on the basis of the hash value. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110289071 | DYNAMIC SELF CONFIGURING OVERLAYS - A node in a computer network is enabled to form a hypercube comprising stored metadata. The node is enabled to exchange the hypercube metadata with neighboring nodes and any hypercube metadata therein. Upon receipt of a query at a node, metadata discovery is initiated using the hypercube metadata, and an overlay is built using results from the metadata discovery. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289072 | SEARCH-BASED SYSTEM MANAGEMENT - Search-based system management may be provided. A management interface comprising a search input element and a result list element may be displayed. A keyword may be received via the search input element and a plurality of matching configuration properties associated with the received keyword may be identified. At least one of the plurality of configuration properties associated with the received keyword may be displayed in the result list element, and each of the displayed plurality of configuration properties may comprise a selectable user interface element. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289073 | GENERATING BROWSING HIERARCHIES - Generation of browsing hierarchies. A hierarchical tree structure is generated. The hierarchical tree structure has nodes that correspond to at least one query. Content stored in the content source is browsed by sequentially executing queries corresponding to nodes of the hierarchical tree structure, in accordance with a hierarchy of the hierarchical tree structure. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289074 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND USER INTERFACE FOR ORGANIZATION AND SEARCHING INFORMATION - A computer-implemented system, method, and user interface for searching and organizing information, particularly large information sets such as those found on the Internet and World Wide Web. Information is organized and searched according to content, and this organization is reflected directly in the user interface provided to users for searching as well as the search results they are shown. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110295841 | VIRTUAL TOPOLOGICAL QUERIES - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with virtual topological queries are described. One example method includes executing a first topological query on a stored graph to generate a first result graph. The example method may also include manipulating the first result graph to generate a virtual query result graph as a function of a second topological query. The example method may also include providing the virtual query result graph. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295842 | Applying Scanned Information to Identify Content - Information corresponding to a sentence or less of text is scanned from a rendered document and converted to text. The text is communication to a search engine. Electronic content corresponding to the rendered document from which the text was scanned is identified from the search engine results. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110302152 | PRESENTING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT IN CONTEXT - Techniques that may be used for detecting a primary content (e.g., a web page) that the user is viewing and presenting one or more pieces of supplemental content (e.g., social media data) together with the primary content. The supplemental content presented to the user together with the primary content may be content that is matched to the primary content and therefore detected to be relevant to the user. Detection of primary content and matching to supplemental content may be carried out based on a comparison of entities related to the primary and supplemental content. In some embodiments, an analysis of the primary content for entities may include ordering entities according to significance in the primary content and selecting top entities for comparison. Also, in some embodiments, multiple pieces of supplemental content may be displayed to a user categorized based on entity. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302153 | Service for Aggregating Event Information - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for aggregating event information. In one aspect, a method includes selecting an event from plurality of events based on a query, in which the event is associated with a time frame and one or more event attributes. A document is generated for the event by including a plurality of web resources based on the time frame and one or more of the event attributes, and including a plurality of social network resources that have a semantic similarity to the event. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302154 | MANAGING SEARCHES ON MOBILE DEVICES - This disclosure pertains to solutions, including without limitation, systems, methods, and software programs, that provide the ability to quickly and efficiently search mobile devices for relevant information. An exemplary search server has the ability to communicate (either directly and/or via a host PC) with one or more mobile devices to transmit a search request. The mobile devices, in turn, have a search facility that is configured to perform a search of the contents of the device and return a set of results to the search server. These results then may be presented to a user, who can select one or more of the results. The selected search result(s) then may be downloaded from the device and presented to the user. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110307473 | Graphical Objects Bonding Society System and Method of Operation - The present inventions relates to an Internet service based on two fundamental beliefs, first that identity on the Internet and in real life is substantially based on a individual's or organization's relationship to other people, objects, places, spaces, and organizations and second that individuals or organizations themselves should create, manage and control that identity. Based on these beliefs the present invention offers the Internet's leading tools, services and ecosystem that enables individuals and organizations to intuitively create and manage their identity based on relationships, effortlessly customize their internet experience to fit that identity and empower themselves to use that identity for benefit in their real life. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110314001 | PERFORMING QUERY EXPANSION BASED UPON STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURED DATA - A method described herein includes an act of receiving a query from a user, wherein the query is configured to search over a plurality of documents belonging to a particular domain. The method also includes an act of providing data to the user for display on a display screen of a computing apparatus, wherein the data is provided based at least in part upon a statistical analysis undertaken with respect to structured data pertaining to the particular domain, wherein the structured data is based at least in part upon data included in the plurality of documents. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314002 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING DISTRIBUTED DEDUCTIVE CLOSURES USING MULTIDIMENSIONAL RESULT CURSORS - A method comprises selecting at least a first data set and a second data set on which to apply a query. The method also comprises causing generating of a first cursor based and a second cursor based on a first application of the query on the first data set and a second cursor based on a second application of the query on the second data set. A third cursor based on a combination of a result set returned by the first cursor and second cursor is then generated in response to the query. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110320437 | Infinite Browse - An online article is enhanced by displaying, in association with the article, supplemental content that includes entities that are extracted from the article and/or entities that are related to entities that are extracted from the article. The supplemental content further includes information about each of the entities. The information about an entity may be obtained by searching for the entity in one or more searchable repositories of data. For example, the supplemental content may include, for each entity, video, image, web, and/or news search results. The supplemental content may further include information such as stock quotes, abstracts, maps, scores, and so on. The entities are selected using a variety of analyses and ranking techniques based on contextual factors such as user-specific information, time-sensitive popularity trends, grammatical features, search result quality, and so on. The entities may further be selected for purposes such as generating ad-based revenue. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320438 | RULE SUMMARY - A rule summarizing engine and method is disclosed for traversing functional relations in a telecom database and rendering the functional relations in human readable form. The rule summarizing engine and method obtains a database of rules established by operators using a Graphical User Interface to establish functional relations between conditions and actions in a telecom network device. The rule summarizing engine end method traverses either an indicated portion or the entire database and renders the functional relations hitherto established into a readily readable structured form. The rule summarizing engine and method is particularly useful for assisting error finding in functional relations established in a telecom database over other methods known in the art. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320439 | Cooperative Model Between An Application Server And A Database - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for implementing a cooperative model between an application and a database. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include receiving from an application a command to perform an operation at a database; accessing metadata representative of the application; configuring, based on at least the metadata, a result of the operation; and sending the configured result to shared memory accessible by the application. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120005193 | FILE-SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING FILES, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a technique capable of efficiently operating files and directories that are stored in storage located in a physically far place from a file server, without causing a network latency. An index creation program is also loaded in a cloud computing environment, and a flag, which indicates whether or not to execute batch processing to a directory that has been migrated to the cloud side, is provided, whereby it becomes possible to collectively execute index creation processing for the migrated directory on the cloud side. More specifically, upon completion of migration of all files under a given directory to the cloud side, a flag, which indicates whether or not to perform batch processing on the cloud side, is validated for the metadata of the directory. Such a batch processing flag can be held for each application such as applications of the index creation processing and the virus check processing. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005194 | Method, a computer system and a computer readable medium for querying objects by means of metadata - This invention concerns a method for a computer system, a computer system and a computer readable medium. The computer system stores electronic objects being defined by metadata. The method comprises at least retrieving objects based on metadata of the metadata of the object. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005195 | CREATING AN ONTOLOGY USING AN ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA AND TAG CLOUD - A method for generating an ontology may include selecting, by a processing device, a tag in a tag cloud. The method may also include searching, by the processing device, an online encyclopedia for content corresponding to the selected tag and determining, by the processing device, at least one category to which the content belongs in the online encyclopedia in response to finding the content corresponding to the selected tag in the online encyclopedia. The method may additionally include adding, by the processing device, a class to the ontology corresponding to the at least one category of the content in the online encyclopedia. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005196 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM FOR COMBINING AND PROCESSING TRANSACTIONS - A method, system, and program for combining and processing transactions. The method includes the steps of: receiving a plurality of transactions from a plurality of clients, where each of the plurality of transactions includes a select query; combining the select queries in the transactions; and sending combined select queries to the database as a combined transaction. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005197 | Search Query Hash - Apparatus, systems and methods for search filtering hash map are disclosed. Terms are designated as filtering terms, wherein at least one of the filtering terms includes only one component term, and at least one of the filtering terms includes a plurality of component terms in ordinal positions. A keyword hash map is generated for keywords, each keyword being one of the component terms and being mapped to one or more corresponding hashes in the hash map, and each corresponding hash having a corresponding level and a corresponding status, wherein each level corresponds to an ordinal position of its corresponding component term in a filtering term, and wherein each status designates its corresponding component term in the hash map as one of a filtering term or unfiltered term. The keyword hash map is stored in a memory storage system accessible by a data processing apparatus. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120011109 | Automatic Segmentation of Video - Content items may be segmented and labeled by topic to provide for the capture, analysis, indexing, retrieval and/or distribution of information within information rich media, such as audio or video, with greater functionality, accuracy and speed. The segments and other related information may be stored in a database and made accessible to users through, for example, a search service and/or an on-demand service. Automatic segmentation may include receiving a text representation, calculating relevance intervals based on the text representation, determining a nodal representation based on the relevance intervals, and determining segments of the content item based on the nodal representation. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011110 | HOST-BASED INTELLIGENT RESULTS RELATED TO A CHARACTER STREAM - Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011111 | Search Filtering - Apparatus, systems and methods for search filtering are disclosed. A search instance associated with a user device is identified, and a determination is made as to whether the search instance includes a filtering term. If the search instance is determined to include a filtering term, then filtered content items in the search instance are identified, and the filtered content items and access to a verification service that provides access approval or access denial for unfiltered content items in the search instance are provided to the user device. Conversely, if the search instance is determine not to include a filtering term, then the unfiltered content items are provided to the user device. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120016867 | Displaying changes to versioned files - Presenting changes to versioned files. The method can include presenting a first view comprising a plurality of indicators, each of the indicators corresponding to a respective version of a file. A selection of a particular version of a file can be detected. A selection of another version of the file can be detected. In response to the selection of the other version of the file, the versions of the file can be compared to identify differences between the versions. Comparison information based on the differences can be generated. The comparison information can be filtered so that the comparison information fits within a second view having a desired size. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016868 | DATA ENTRY MANAGEMENT - A data entry management system includes computer executable instructions tangibly embodied on non-transitory media. The data entry management system includes a processing logic which may control a display area. The processing logic may determine a display area content. The display area content may include one of a working context search screen, a search screen, a data entry help screen, and a single-dimensional selector screen. The processing logic may determine which of the working context search screen, the search screen, the data entry help screen, and the single-dimensional selector screen to display in display area based on a profile. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016869 | Collecting and Presenting Temporal-Based Action Information - Functionality is described for collecting and presenting action information. The action information describes actions that take place on items at specified times. Among other applications, the functionality assists a user in identifying and accessing relevant items. In one illustrative case, the functionality can display action information in a timeline presentation. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120023093 | EXTRACTION OF RICH SEARCH INFORMATION FROM INDEX SERVERS VIA AN ALTERNATIVE ASYNCHRONOUS DATA PATH - A search engine system is described herein that provides an alternative data path for collecting results provided by index servers. The alternative data path collects the results in a direct and asynchronous manner; this is in contrast to a synchronous path used to deliver search results to end users via one or more aggregator modules. An analysis system can use the alternative data path to collect a large amount of richly descriptive information regarding the performance of the search engine system, circumventing bottlenecks and other constraints that would otherwise be imposed by the synchronous data path. The analysis system can analyze the information collected from the index servers to improve the performance of the search engine system. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023094 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND SOFTWARE FOR AUTOMATED GROWTH OF INTELLIGENT ON-LINE COMMUNITIES - To address problems related to interface differences and disunity among on-line services, such as newsgroups message boards and forums, the present inventors devised systems, methods, and software for automating the posting and retrieval of content across different on-line services as well as encouraging growth of active on-line communities. One exemplary system includes a posting module, a retrieval module, and a web server. The posting module allows users to create and initiate data postings that are sent automatically to several newsgroups, message boards, and/or other on-line information sources. The retrieval module automatically retrieves replies to the postings at each of the on-line sources and presents them through the webserver for user review and further reply, eliminating the need for users to repeatedly visit posting sites in search of reply messages. In addition to the retrieved replies, the retrieval module automatically finds and retrieves content based on stored search or fitness criteria, ultimately enabling its integration into the content of one or more websites or databases for convenient user access. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120030194 | IDENTIFICATION AND SCHEDULING OF EVENTS ON A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method, communication device and system are provided for identifying and scheduling events, such as meetings and appointments identified in data items such as messages and electronic documents. Content relating to an event is identified within the data item, and date information for the identified event is determined based on the content of the data item or other contextual information. An availability status in respect of the event is determined by querying a data store, such as a calendar store, to determine whether the date and time associated with the identified event is free or in conflict. Once the availability status is determined, the data item may be displayed at the communication device together with a visual indicator of the availability status. The identified event in the data item may be actuatable to create an event item for storage in the data store. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030195 | INFORMATION SEARCH, RETRIEVAL AND DISTILLATION INTO KNOWLEDGE OBJECTS - Embodiments of the invention provide for various methods and apparatuses for searching bodies of knowledge, such as previously indexed source documents reachable over a network, search results from previous searches, and results from performing meta-searches. Search criteria is received from a client, and the bodies of knowledge are searched based on the search criteria, and search results provided responsive to said searching. Search results may be configured to have associated distillation triggers, where selecting a trigger causes its associated search result to be distilled in real-time. Distilled search results can be indexed into portions of the source document for focused entry, and can also be grouped and analytically presented on mid-menus to allow the user to review distilled data in summary form. Results may also have associated status symbols indicating by symbol a particular topic area to which a result is related, and by opacity or other indicator the apparent relevance of a result to the particular topic area. Search and viewing preferences may be determined according to psychometrics, user selection of a default user category, through a question/answer session, or based on monitoring user activity which incrementally defines a profile. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030196 | MEDIA SEARCH ENGINE FOR A PERSONAL MEDIA NETWORK - A system providing search functionality supporting the exchange and consumption of media is disclosed. The searching of media on storage belonging to any of a pre-defined group of users of a personal media network is provided. In addition, media stored on designated servers may also be included in a search. The media stored may include audio, still images, video, and data. A user may search the stored media using a number of criteria including the time period of the media, the type of device, and the type of media. The system also provides support for the search of one or more media peripherals, which may be searched when the media peripherals are communicatively coupled to the system. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120036121 | State-dependent Query Response - In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for receiving user input that defines a search query, and providing the search query to a server system. Information that a search engine system determined was responsive to the search query is received at a computing device. The computing device is identified as in a first state, and a first output mode for audibly outputting at least a portion of the information is selected. The first output mode is selected from a collection of the first output mode and a second output mode. The second output mode is selected in response to the computing device being in a second state and is for visually outputting at least the portion of the information and not audibly outputting the at least portion of the information. At least the portion of information is audibly output. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120041944 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC CHARACTERIZATION OF TELEPHONY USERS TROUGH LABELS - The invention consists of a method for automatic characterization of telephony users through labels, that comprises the steps of, for a particular user, collecting the origin and destination communication identifiers corresponding to the user, searching for the service providers in a data base in a yellow pages-like service, querying a search engine for the service provider and extracting the labels that correspond to the service provider comparing the labels to elaborate a list of the most used and linking the user to the list. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120041945 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING EFFICIENT COLLECTION AND PRESENTATION OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY MONITORING DATA - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided methods and systems for facilitating efficient collection and presentation of business activity monitoring data. A method of embodiments includes receiving business activity monitoring (BAM) data from a business process management (BPM) engine residing at a first entity. The BAM data is received in a first format that is compatible with the first entity. The method further includes customizing the first format of the BAM data into a second format of the BAM data. The second format is compatible with the second entity. The second entity includes an organization whose business activities are monitored to generate the BAM data that relates to monitoring of the business activities. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120041946 | DATA SEARCH APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A data search apparatus for searching image data, comprising units for, storing image data in association with search information of the image data, accepting an input of a search condition of the image data, searching for image data related to the search condition using the search information, controlling a display unit to display a list of images for selecting a desired image so as to edit the search information based on the searched image data, detecting whether or not search information corresponding to each of the image data displayed on the display unit has been changed, and, determining, based on relevance between the accepted search condition and the changed search information, whether or not to notify that the change has been made for the displayed image data corresponding to the search information, wherein the change of which has been detected. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120041947 | SEARCH APPARATUS, SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A search apparatus includes: a speech recognition unit that recognizes an input voice; a matching unit that matches a plurality of strings of search result target words; a generation unit that generates a string of search result words; a selecting unit that selects emphasis target words that are the targets to be emphasized in the words of the string of search result words, on the basis of the matching result with the string of search result target words, and a pronunciation symbol-to-word table in which the pronunciation symbols and the words are made to correspond to each other; and a conversion unit that converts the string of search result words into the string of emphasis words in which the emphasis target words are emphasized in the words of the string of search result words. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120041948 | PROCESS PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FOR RULES-DRIVEN PROCESSING - A method using integrated software and algorithms for measuring, modeling, benchmarking and validating any Enterprise Content management system, forms processing data capture system or data entry system, including, at the user's option, ingest of special engineered test materials such as a Digital Test Deck®, applying data quality scoring algorithms, use of cost models, validation of downstream business processes, and implementing statistical process control. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120047127 | METHODS AND SOFTWARE FOR ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS - In one aspect, the invention comprises a computer system for searching databases and displaying search results, comprising databases storing information regarding publications and authors comprising author, title, date of publication, cited references, and citing references data; and Internet servers in communication with those databases; wherein at least one of those Internet servers is in communication with and operable to transmit data to a Web browser resident on a user's computer, and wherein the data is sufficient to enable the browser to display a citation overview page comprising: (a) a list of one or more titles of publications or names of authors, and (b) one or more displayed numerals representing how many publications in one or more specified categories cite to each of the publications, or, for author names, how many publications in one or more specified categories cite to publications on which those names are listed as authors. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120059818 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAYING METHOD OF CONTENTS - A display apparatus and a displaying method of contents, the display apparatus including a content output unit which outputs contents, a display unit which displays predetermined space information, a user interface (UI) generating unit which generates UI information, a user input unit, and a control unit which classifies the contents into a group which corresponds to a position on the displayed predetermined space information based on predetermined position information of the contents in response to a request to search for contents, being input through the user input unit, controls the UI generating unit to generate a first UI indicating the group, and controls the display unit to display the generated first UI at the corresponding position of the group on the displayed predetermined space information. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120072415 | BUSINESS PROCESS VISUALIZATION - A business process visualization is described. In one embodiment, process may include searching for documents stored in memory. The search identifies first documents, wherein the first documents comprise data of respective transactions of a first business process sequence implemented by an enterprise application. A user interface (UI) is then generated that includes components corresponding to the first documents, respectively, and components that visually identify relationships between the first documents. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120078881 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING QUERY RESULTS IN A FAULT-TOLERANT DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A redundant array of independent nodes are networked together. Each node executes an instance of an application that provides object-based storage. Metadata objects are stored in a set of regions distributed among the nodes across the array. A given region is identified by hashing a metadata object attribute and extracting a given set of bits of a resulting hash value. A method of managing query results comprises: receiving, by a first node of the plurality of independent nodes from a client application, a request for a list of objects with a criterion; issuing by the first node a query to all the nodes based on the received request; processing the query by each node over the regions in the node using the metadata objects stored in the regions; aggregating and filtering by the first node results of the query from all the nodes; and returning by the first node the aggregated and filtered results to the client application. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078882 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON FILTERED INFORMATION - An approach is provided for determining results based on filtered information. A context request is detected from one or more programs. Another program determines to filter the content request, the one or more programs, or a combination thereof. One or more results of the content request are determined based, at least in part, on the filtered content request, the filtered one or more programs, or a combination thereof | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078883 | ACCESSING DOCUMENTS USING PREDICTIVE WORD SEQUENCES - Methods and systems for accessing documents in document collections using predictive word sequences are disclosed. A method for accessing documents using predictive word sequences include creating a candidate list of word sequences where respective ones of the word sequences comprise one or more elements derived from the document corpus; expanding the candidate list by adding one or more new word sequences, where each new pattern is created by combining one or more elements derived from the document corpus with one of the word sequences currently in the candidate list; determining a predictive power with respect to the subject for respective ones of entries of the candidate list, where the entries include the word sequences and the new word sequences; pruning from the candidate list ones of said entries with the determined predictive power less than a predetermined threshold; and accessing documents from the document corpus based on the pruned candidate list. The expanding of the candidate list can include creating each new pattern as a gapped sequence, where the gapped sequence comprises one of the word sequences and one of said elements separated by zero or more words. Corresponding system and computer readable media embodiments are also disclosed. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078884 | PRESENTING SOCIAL SEARCH RESULTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting malicious system calls. In one aspect, a method includes identifying members of a social affinity group of the user, the social affinity group having members having a relationship to the user. The method includes receiving search results including search results that reference resources associated with members of the social affinity group. The method includes identifying a first search result that references the social network site. The method includes identifying a second search result that references a resource found on the social network site and associated with a member of the social affinity group. The method includes generating a response to the query comprising instructions that the first search result be presented in proximity to the second search result. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078885 | BROWSING HIERARCHIES WITH EDITORIAL RECOMMENDATIONS - Browsing content stored in a content source. A hierarchical tree structure is accessed. The hierarchical tree structure has nodes that correspond to at least one query for recommended content that is recommended based on editorial recommendations. Recommended content stored in the content source is browsed by executing the at least one query for recommended content, the at least one query corresponding to at least one node of the hierarchical tree structure. The browsing is performed in accordance with a hierarchy of the hierarchical tree structure. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120084279 | SEARCH DETAIL DISPLAY USING SEARCH RESULT CONTEXT - The use of search context to determine a manner in which related items are to be display to a user upon selecting a search result of a number of search results generated by a search engine. Upon the user selecting one of the search result items, details regarding the selected search result item are then displayed. The details include a listing of related items that includes at least a set of strongly related items. The context of the plurality of search result items is used to determine a manner of display of the related items. Thus, the display manner for the related items may be different according to the context. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120089597 | System and Method for Searching Real Estate Listings Using Imagery - A system and method for searching real estate uses non-traditional techniques. A selection of suggestive imagery may be rated by a user in order to indicate that user's subjective tastes. The suggestive images may relate to particular keywords which also may be related to real estate listings. This way, properties which appeal to a user's tastes may be identified and sorted accordingly. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120095991 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FROM OBJECT COLLECTIONS WITH COMPLEX INTERRELATIONSHIPS - A data-driven information navigation system and method enable search and analysis of a set of objects or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials, as well as by relationships among the materials. The invention includes several aspects of a data-driven information navigation system that employs this navigation mode. The navigation system of the present invention includes features of a knowledge base, a navigation model that defines and enables computation of a collection of navigation states, a process for computing navigation states that represent incremental refinements relative to a given navigation state, and methods of implementing the preceding features. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120095992 | UNIFIED MEDIA SEARCH - A user input of a search term is received. One or more local resources are searched using the search term. One or more Internet services are searched using the search term. Search results of media located on the local resources that match the search terms and search results of media provided by the Internet services are graphically displayed together in a unified results display. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120102023 | CENTRALIZED DATABASE FOR 3-D AND OTHER INFORMATION IN VIDEOS - Methods and systems for a centralized database for 3-D and other information in videos are presented. A centralized database contains video metadata such as camera, lighting, sound, object, depth, and annotation data that may be queried for and used in the editing of videos, including the addition and removal of objects and sounds. The metadata stored in the centralized database may be open to the public and admit contributor metadata. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102024 | Result Types For Conditional Data Display - A set of user interfaces is provided to an administrator of a website. The user interfaces enable the administrator to configure search functionality of the website to present different types of search results differently. For instance, the administrator can use the user interfaces to configure the search functionality to present different properties for search results belonging to different result types. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102025 | SEARCHING APPARATUS, SEARCHING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In a searching apparatus: a first receiving unit receives a search request from a client; based on the search request, a first generating unit generates a distributed search request to request a server to conduct a search and an integration request to integrate search results of the distributed search request; a first transmitting unit transmits the distributed search request to the server; a second transmitting unit transmits identification information of an execution result of the integration request to the client; a second receiving unit receives, from the client, an obtainment request to obtain the execution result identified by the identification information; a receiving unit receives the search results of the distributed search request from the server; an executing unit executes the integration request on the received search results; and a third transmitting unit transmits the execution result of the integration request to the client that transmitted the obtainment request. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102026 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WORKERS COMPENSATION CLAIM MANAGEMENT - A system for providing a workers' compensation claim (WCC) management service include a data storage that stores a WCC database, wherein the WCC database comprises WCC data of a plurality of WCC transactions organized in digital form; and a user terminal configured to access the data storage to search and edit the WCC database and generate a dynamic report of the WCC transactions based on the WCC database. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120109937 | WEB SERVICES RUNTIME FOR DATASET TRANSFORMATION - Various aspects for providing a runtime for dataset transformation are disclosed. In one aspect, data consumption requests are received. The requested data is retrieved from a web service in an arbitrary form, and subsequently transformed into a standardized result from the arbitrary form. In another aspect, a user interface is displayed to a content provider, and an input identifying a transform function selected by the content provider is received via the user interface. A transform assembly is then generated based on the input, which facilitates retrieving data from a web service in an arbitrary form, and transforming the data into a standardized result by calling the selected transform function. In yet another aspect, third party code is associated with a transform assembly. An execution of the third party code is then managed such that at least one aspect of the transform assembly is operated according to the execution. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120109938 | PROVIDING CONSOLIDATED PROJECT INFORMATION SERVICE - Structured and unstructured project information is collected, analyzed, and consolidated by a project service. On-demand or periodically, the project service consolidates the unstructured project information and the structured project information to present to an end user as aggregate information. The aggregate information may be formatted based on user criteria. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120109939 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENRICHING SEARCH RESULTS - A method and apparatus for providing search data by a processor at a computer, comprising: receiving a query issued by the user and passing the query to one or more computing entities; receiving at a first result and a second result from one of the computing entities; identifying one or more common characteristics of the first result and the second result; and returning a result set comprising the first result and the second result, the result set being searchable in accordance with any of the common characteristics. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120109940 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND SEARCH CONTROLLER - An integrated search process on files can be executed by multiple search devices even if setting granularities of access control to the files are different among the search devices. Upon execution of file migration or access control information batch update, information needed for a search server to execute security trimming is extracted from ACL information in a specific format on a document management server. Then the extracted information is transferred to the search server, converted to ACL information in a general format, and registered in a search index in the search server. With this process, a storage system using different access control methods is configured to perform the security trimming based on the ACL information with which access control having the finest setting granularity can be set. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120109941 | ENRICHING SEARCH RESULTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing search results. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a plurality of registered publishers for enriched search results and, for each registered publisher, obtaining enrichment information from the registered publisher and associating the enrichment information with a resource provided by the publisher. A query is received. A plurality of responsive resources that are responsive to the query are identified. A first responsive resource is determined to be associated with enrichment information. An enriched search result is provided, the enriched search result identifying the first responsive resource and including the first responsive resource's associated enrichment information. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120124032 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONCEPT VISUALIZATION - Systems and methods are described that calculate the interestingness of a set of one or more records in a database, either absolutely (i.e., compared to an overall collection of records) or relative to some other set of records. In one embodiment, the measure is a relative entropy value that has been normalized. Various applications of the measure are described in the context of an information retrieval system. These applications include, for example, guiding query interpretation, guiding view selection and summarization, intelligent ranges, event detection, concept triggers and interpreting user actions, hierarchy discovery, and adaptive data mining. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124033 | Identifying and Changing Personal Information - Systems, apparatuses, and methods for analyzing information about a user are presented which include obtaining at least one search result based on at least one search terms describing the user; presenting the at least one search result to the user; receiving an indication from the user of the desirability of a search result; and performing an action based on the desirability of the search result. Systems, apparatuses, and methods are also presented for determining a reputation score representing the reputation of a user which include collecting search results from data source, determining an effect on the reputation of the user of the search results from the data source, and calculating a reputation score for the user based on the determined effect on the reputation of the user from the search results from the data source. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124034 | CO-SELECTED IMAGE CLASSIFICATION - Co-selected images are labeled based on a topic score that is a measure of relevance of the co-selected image to a first topic to which a reference image belongs. The first topic to which the reference image belongs is identified based on a reference label associated with the reference image. The co-selected images are images that are selected for presentation subsequent to selection of the reference image during a user session. The co-selected images are identified based on selection data for user sessions in which the reference image was selected for presentation. The topic score is generated based on a frequency of selection of the co-selected image. Image search results for a second topic can be filtered to remove images that are labeled as belonging to the first topic or the image search results can be reordered to adjust the presentation positions at which images are referenced based on the topic to which the images belong. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120130990 | Fragrance sampling, and exhibition system - A Fragrance Sampling, and Exhibition System includes at least one fragrance card, fragrance, and a laminated envelope. The fragrance is disposed upon the fragrance card. The fragrance card is disposed within the laminated envelope. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120130991 | HYBRID APPROACH TO FEDERATED SEARCH - Techniques to provide a hybrid federated search are described. A web server may receive a search query from a client and select an immediate search source to perform the search. A script may be generated that causes the client to re-send the search query for a delayed search source. The script may execute on the client when the client displays the results from the immediate search source. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120130992 | System and Method for Managing Information Flow Between Members of an Online Social Network - An online social network is provided in which members of the online social network control who may view their personal information and who may communicate with them. The members control who may view their personal information by setting a visibility preference. A member may not view another member's full personal profile if the measure of relatedness between the two is greater than the visibility preference of the other member. The members also control who may communicate with them by setting a contactability preference. A member may not communicate with another member if the measure of relatedness between the two is greater than the contactability preference of the other member. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120130993 | PATENT MAPPING - The present subject matter provides systems, methods, software, and data structures for patent mapping, storage, and searching. Some such embodiments include mapping patent documents, claims, and claim limitations. Some further embodiments provide for searching a universe of patent documents by patent document, claim, limitation, class, element, or concept. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120136851 | Method of Sorting Applications for Server and Related Communication Device - A method of sorting applications for a server is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request message, performing a search procedure and generating a search result, and sorting the applications in the search result according to a criterion. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136852 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DATA REPRESENTATIVE OF A BUSINESS IN A DATABASE - A computer implemented method is provided for finding, in a database using a social network, a business entity providing a desired product or service. The method comprises: receiving, from a user terminal of a social network user, search criteria data representative of search criteria for a desired product or service, the social network user being associated with a social graph defining one or more relationships between the social network user and further social network users of the social network; transmitting search criteria data to a database storing a directory of businesses entities; receiving from the database a plurality of identifier data; determining if there is a link between the identified business entity and any of the further social network users linked to the social network user by the social graph; and displaying identifying relationships between the business entity and any of the further social network users. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120143848 | View Life Cycle Management - In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may include generating a view of a data structure comprising a plurality of nodes and at least one association; determining, at run time, whether the generated view is invalid based on an indicator, the indicator representing at least whether a change has occurred to a system including the view; and deleting, at run time, the view based on the results of determining. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143849 | Data Graphing Methods, Articles Of Manufacture, And Computing Devices - Data graphing methods, articles of manufacture, and computing devices are described. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a data set, displaying a graphical representation including data of the data set which is arranged according to a first of different hierarchical levels, wherein the first hierarchical level represents the data at a first of a plurality of different resolutions which respectively correspond to respective ones of the hierarchical levels, selecting a portion of the graphical representation wherein the data of the portion is arranged according to the first hierarchical level at the first resolution, modifying the graphical representation by arranging the data of the portion according to a second of the hierarchal levels at a second of the resolutions, and after the modifying, displaying the graphical representation wherein the data of the portion is arranged according to the second hierarchal level at the second resolution. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143850 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING SCHEDULE INFORMATION IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An information managing method and apparatus in a portable terminal are provided. The method for managing schedule information in a portable terminal, includes displaying schedules corresponding to a predefined time interval in a schedule searching mode, extracting at least one schedule, set as being important, from the displayed schedules when a request for searching for important schedules is generated, and displaying a list of important schedule information corresponding to the extracted at least one important schedule. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143851 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND SOFTWARE FOR RESEARCHING, ANALYZING AND COMPARING EXPERT WITNESSES - The present inventors devised, among other things, system, methods, and interfaces for researching, evaluating, and comparing expert witnesses. One exemplary system includes interfaces that facilitate users entering queries regarding experts based on name or subject matter and filtering search results based on damage awards, case types, attorneys, clients and date range. The system also enables side-by-side comparisons of the cumulative litigation history for multiple experts, and provides an expert challenge report that indicates whether an expert has been challenged in past litigation, the result of any challenges, the presiding judges in the any challenges, and the text of the challenged testimony. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143852 | ADMINISTRATION OF SEARCH RESULTS - A web browser displays a set of search results from a web search, each search result indicating a link to a web page. Responsive to selection of a first of the set of search results for exclusion from display, a subset of one or more of the set of search results that indicate related links is identified. The related links comprise links have a same domain name as the link of the first search result. The first search result and the subset of the set of search results are excluded. The search results are displayed without the excluded ones of the set of search results. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120150843 | System and method for coordinating asset entitlements - There is presented a system and method for coordinating asset entitlements, the system comprising a server including a processor and a memory and accessible by multiple domains over a network, and an asset entitlement database searchable by the server, wherein an entry of the asset entitlement database links a domain transcendent user identification (ID) of a user and at least one asset entitlement acquired by the user from any of the domains. In one embodiment, the server is configured to receive an asset entitlement inquiry from one of the domains, search the asset entitlement database for asset entitlements acquired by the user from any of the domains, generate a search result identifying the asset entitlements acquired by the user from the domains, and send data corresponding to the search result to the domain from which the asset entitlement inquiry was received. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150844 | Slashtags - A method of requesting a search query to be displayed in a web browser. The method includes receiving search terms and slash operators and generating results based on the search terms and slash operators. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150845 | System and Method for Collapsing Search Results - A system and method for collapsing search results. User input is received to perform a search of a communications network. The search results and multiple selection elements are displayed for removing each of the search results. A user selection of a selection element associated with a search result is received. A determination is made of irrelevant results that are similar to the search result. The search results are collapsed to remove the search result and the irrelevant search results. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120158699 | REPACKAGEABLE VIRTUALIZED TRANSPARENT ACCESS TO HETEROGENEOUS DATA SOURCES - A transparent data access interface/layer for repackageable virtualized transparent access to heterogeneous business process data sources, internally maintained or outsourced, is disclosed. This data access interface provides substantially real time customer/client specific, i.e. transparent, access to a customer/client generic enterprise storage and data processing architecture, such as an architecture operated by a business process outsourcing organization (“BPO”), which includes multiple disparate/heterogeneous data sources, having disparate formats and access methodologies, storing and processing customer/client specific data for multiple customers, while also permitting similarly transparent access across the enterprise storage architecture, e.g. across multiple customers/clients, such as for BPO-internal processing and reporting requirements. The data stored in the data sources may include data collected/received from the customer of the BPO, such as data identifying the BPO's customer's customers/clients and/or business processing rules or algorithms, data received/collected from the customers/clients of the BPO's customer, such as transactional data, e.g. insurance claims, etc., data calculated or computed by the BPO based on stored or collected data, data representative of business processing rules developed by the BPO, such as rules for maintaining customer specific service level agreements, or combinations thereof. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158700 | FACE RECOGNITION USING SOCIAL DATA - Faces may be indexed and identified using visual and social criteria. In one example, the visual features of a face are quantified, and the quantification of the features is represented in a vector. Aspects of the vector are then represented in the form of text strings. Social context surrounding the face is also represented in the form of text strings. The text strings—both the visual-based strings and/or the social-based strings—are associated with the face, and are stored in an index. The association of these strings with the face then may make the face text-searchable on both its visual and social features. Searches on these visual and/or social features may be used to help to assist in identifying new images of faces, or to propose tags for users to apply to photos. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158701 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, DATA CONVERSION APPARATUS, AND CONVERSION METHOD - A computer-readable medium storing therein a data conversion program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes receiving after a schema of a database has been changed from a former schema to a new schema, a processing request concerning the database; judging based on difference information concerning the former schema and the new schema, whether in the processing request, a condition that specifies process data subject to processing, has been changed by the new schema; searching the database for conversion data whose format is to be converted from the former schema to the new schema, the searching based on judgment results obtained at the judging and on the processing request; and converting the format of the retrieved conversion data, from the former schema to the new schema. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120166425 | Systems and Methods for Creating and Using a Research Map - Systems and methods create a graphical representation of a research map that allows performance of search functions using the nodes of the graphical representation. In one implementation, a system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions that cause the processor to receive a query for searching a document repository and run the query in the document repository. The processor stores the results of the query and the query as a root node in a research tree. The processor receives a filter for the results of the query. The processor stores the filter and the result list for the filter as a filter node connected to the root node of in the research tree. The processor receives a request to view a document from the result list for the filter and stores the request as a document node connected to the filter node. The processor then creates a display of a research map that includes the research tree. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166426 | EXTRACTING AND DISPLAYING COMPACT AND SORTED RESULTS FROM QUERIES OVER UNSTRUCTURED OR SEMI-STRUCTURED TEXT - A system for indexing unstructured or semi-structured data is disclosed. The system may identify regions within the data, such as “Abstract” or “References”. The system may identify linguistic units such as sentences, noun groups, verb groups. The system may also identify concepts such as companies, people, diseases, amounts, and so forth. The query results may be formatted so that similar results from different documents, or from the same document, are clustered together. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166427 | Query Authoring by Modifying a View of the Results of the Query - Technologies and concepts are described herein for authoring a database query through the modification of a view of the data to be returned by the query. A user interface is provided for authoring a database query through the modification of a view of the data to be returned by the query that includes a view showing the results of a database query. A user interface is also provided for modifying the view to define the results of the query. As the view is modified, a query definition is generated which, when executed against the database, will return the results of the database query shown in the view. When the desired results are shown in the view, the query definition can be saved and run against the database to perform the database query. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120173517 | QUERY-AWARE COMPRESSION OF JOIN RESULTS - A method is provided for compressing results of a join query. A join order of a result set comprising multiple tuples is determined from the join query, and a nested hierarchy of dictionaries is maintained based on the join order. The nested hierarchy of dictionaries is used to encode each of the tuples of the result set so as to produce an encode tuple, and each of the encoded tuples is transmitted to a client system. Also provided is a method for decompressing results of a join query. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173518 | ADVANCED DATA INTEGRITY - A payment integrity system that processes data, including data associated with a biometric technology. The system includes a discovery module to receive insurance records from a source of data, which includes the data associated with the biometric technology, the records providing information that pertain to at least one transaction. The discovery module includes a query component and an artificial intelligence engine to process the records to identify a second subset of the records having anomalous information, and provide a second analysis output indicative of the second subset. The system also includes an audit module to determine whether to instruct the artificial intelligence engine to analyze the records according to the outputs. The system facilitates resolution of a claim payment based on the first analysis output and the second analysis output. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173519 | PERFORMING PRE-AGGREGATION AND RE-AGGREGATION USING THE SAME QUERY LANGUAGE - A method includes: obtaining, at time intervals, subsets of data from a database using code of a query language; performing a pre-aggregation on the subsets of data to produce pre-aggregated data; storing the pre-aggregated data in the database; obtaining, in response to a query, at least some of the pre-aggregated data from the database, where the at least some of the pre-aggregated data is obtained using code from the query language used to obtain the subsets of data; and performing a re-aggregation on the pre-aggregated data to produce re-aggregated data | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120179670 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING NON-STANDARD-COMPLIANT IMAGES - Provided is a method of converting a medical image used in a network at a patient care facility, the network including an enterprise network storage solution optionally dedicated for storing medical images in a standardized medical imaging format that are to be retrieved over the network. The method includes us a computer system to search a portable computer-readable medium for an indication that the medical image is stored in a proprietary format on the portable computer-readable medium. The proprietary format of the medical image is identified, using the computer system, based on the indication. The medical image is converted into a format that is compliant with a standardized medical-imaging format, transmitted in the standardized medical-imaging format to be: (i) subsequently displayed by a display device without requiring prior storage of the medical image in an enterprise storage solution for medical images, and/or (ii) stored in the enterprise storage solution. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120185463 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTENT DISPLAY INFORMATION - A system for managing content display information by the disclosed present invention includes an interface module, a web-content search module, and a content display information tracking module. The interface module receives input information from a user, and the input information includes website information, content information and search parameter information which are tracking targets. The interface module transmits the user the tracking results of the content depending on the input information. The web-content search module searches content on a website based on the input information inputted from the interface module. The content display information tracking module tracks the display information on a screen that displays the results from the web content search module, wherein the display information includes: a page that displays content, and display priorities on a displayed page. Through the system, a user (contents provider) who registers products or goods for sale on an Internet shopping mall or an online marketplace is able to confirm the current display location of his/her registered content. That is to say, the user can easily judge the page number and the display priority of the content (displaying the ranking, the line number of the page) on the webpage that appears when a keyword corresponding to the content is inputted. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185464 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR INTEGRATING INFORMATION - An information integration method performed by a computer that transforms data extracted from an information source and loads the transformed data onto a storage destination, the information integration method includes detecting a schema modification of the information source by comparing first schema information with second schema information; searching a correspondence table storage unit for an attribute value of an item related to the schema modification; generating a post-modified data model by correcting a pre-modified data model using the item information corresponding to the attribute value of the item related to the schema modification when the attribute value of the item related to the schema modification is hit in the correspondence table storage unit, and storing the post-modified data model on a storage device; and generating a post-modified integration logic and storing the post-modified integration logic on the metadata information storage unit. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185465 | SHARING USER DISTRIBUTED SEARCH RESULTS - A universal distributed search system allows users to find and distribute search results (possibly including advertisements) to those with whom they communicate. The search results can be easily distributed by the user via a simple interface that allows the search results to be easily added to the user's content. In one implementation, the search results may be automatically generated by the system based on user input to a content creation application. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185466 | RELEVANCY PRESENTATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a relevancy presentation apparatus includes a storage, an extraction unit, a first expansion unit, a second expansion unit, a determination unit and a generation unit. The storage stores topic networks. The extraction unit extracts subject keywords. The first expansion unit acquires first relevant words from the topic networks. The second expansion unit searches an ontologies for the subject keywords. The determination unit extracts common relevant words, and determines whether frequencies of appearances of relevant words are stationary. The generation unit generates search queries based on whether the frequencies of appearances are stationary, and generates search results. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185467 | DESKTOP, STREAM-BASED, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A steam-based document storage and retrieval system accepts documents that are in diverse formats and come from diverse application, automatically creates document model objects describing these documents in a consistent format and associating time stamps with the documents to automatically create a main stream in chronological order. The stream, or sub-streams meeting selected search criteria, are displayed in a variety of forms, including a receding, partly overlapping stack with aids that facilitate user interaction. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120191703 | EFFICIENT GENEALOGY REGISTRY SYSTEM - A genealogy registry system includes a central server database and a central server. The central server database includes surname workspaces for storing genealogical data in lineage-linked form, a submission link space for making and storing links between data in the data spaces, and a third-party link space for making and storing links between the data spaces. The central server includes a surname cooperation manager to manage cooperation between researchers researching genealogy for the same surname, a unique ID generator to generate a unique ID for any individual being researched, a visible data selector to allow access to a subgroup of data on the central server database, and a workstation manager to manage transmission of data to the central server database from workstations where data are assembled relating to a particular surname. The workstations may assemble data by extracting, indexing, sorting and linking information from source documents for the surname. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191704 | Data Visualization Interface - Provided is a method of preparing a data-visualization interface. The method may include receiving a request to view data; retrieving a display configuration responsive to the request to view data, the display configuration identifying two or more context dimensions and three or more sub-display dimensions; retrieving data responsive to the request to view data; designating, in visualization data, a portion of the data as visible data and a portion of the data as cache data based on the display configuration; assigning, in the visualization data, positioning data to a plurality of sub-displays based on the two or more context dimensions, the sub-displays displaying data markers; assigning, in the visualization data, a portion of the cache data to groups of the sub-displays that are co-linear based on the context dimensions; and transmitting the visualization data. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120197870 | TRANSFORMING ENTITY AND RELATION DATA USING A PROXY ENGINE - A method is provided for transforming entity and relation data using a proxy engine. A proxy data engine can intercept a virtual query directed to a data provider application on a data repository device. The proxy data engine can transform the virtual query into a native query capable of being processed by the data provider application. The virtual query can include a virtual entity-relation object not included in the native query. The proxy data engine can transform a native result into a virtual result including the virtual entity-relation object. The native result can be a response to the native query and the native result can be received by the data provider application. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120197871 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTION, DISPLAY AND ANALYSIS OF DISPARATE DATA - The system provides a method and apparatus for sorting and displaying collections of communications. These communications can be a single type or multiple types of data and may come from email systems, bulletin boards, text messages, Facebook and Twitter postings and comments, financial transactions, travel itineraries or any other type of communications. The communications represented by the system can be electronic or physical as desired. The system can also present forwarded, copied, replied, or other types of communications. In one embodiment, the system provides a Universe View of a set of communications. The Universe View, in one embodiment, is a three dimensional representation of a plurality of cubes. Each cube represents a subset of a collection of communications. Each cube can be color coded or shaded to represent a dominant theme of the contents of the communications represented by the cube. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120197872 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLANNING THE MAINTENANCE OF AN AUTOMATION INSTALLATION - A method and system are disclosed for planning maintenance of an automation installation by monitoring a maintenance state of individual components of the installation, which are connected to one another via a communication network, using life cycle data. The method and system can read device-identifying data from the individual components via the communication network, locate identified components in a current component database containing an item of replacement part availability information, and evaluate replacement part availability information relating to the located components with regard to determining specified procurement actions within the current maintenance interval. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120197873 | CONTROLLING DISCLOSURE OF TRACE DATA RELATED TO MOVING OBJECT - A method and system for controlling disclosure of trace data related to moving object. The method includes the steps of: receiving, for at least one moving object in a first region, a first record aggregate; receiving, for at least one moving object in a second region, a second record aggregate; calculating trace data from at least one attribute value of a first identifier that is in received first and second record aggregates in response to data search request; calculating to satisfy a condition of the moving object passing through at least one region and to satisfy another condition of at least two of the moving objects being present in each of the region; and returning calculated trace data as a search result if the moving object moves in calculated ranges and if the moving object has the first identifier that is in both the received first and second record aggregates. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120197874 | GAME RECOMMENDATION ENGINE FOR MAPPING GAMES TO DISABILITIES - A game recommendation engine is presented. Contemplated game recommendation engines are configured to establish correlations among game attributes and attributes of known disabilities. The recommendation engine can further identify or quantify relationships among games and disabilities having the correlated attributes. The relationships can be used to generate and present recommendations to users. For example, a game design can receive recommendations on game features to incorporate into game to be compatible with or accessible to a disabled person, or a disable person can receive recommendations on games that are accessible to or compatible with o them based on their disabilities. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120203764 | IDENTIFYING PARTICULAR IMAGES FROM A COLLECTION - A method of identifying one or more particular images from an image collection, includes indexing the image collection to provide image descriptors for each image in the image collection such that each image is described by one or more of the image descriptors; receiving a query from a user specifying at least one keyword for an image search; and using the keyword(s) to search a second collection of tagged images to identify co-occurrence keywords. The method further includes using the identified co-occurrence keywords to provide an expanded list of keywords; using the expanded list of keywords to search the image descriptors to identify a set of candidate images satisfying the keywords; grouping the set of candidate images according to at least one of the image descriptors, and selecting one or more representative images from each grouping; and displaying the representative images to the user. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203765 | ONLINE CATALOG WITH INTEGRATED CONTENT - Systems and methods for integrating third-party content and first-party content in a marketplace environment for presentation to a user of a computing device are provided. The method may include receiving content and publisher-specific metadata from a plurality of third-party publishers; storing the content and publisher-specific metadata in a catalog database. The database may include third-party publisher content and first-party content. The method may further include receiving a catalog query from a client device, identifying a set of catalogs to which a user of the client device belongs; generating query results, the query results including third-party publisher content and first-party content; filtering query results based on the metadata and set of catalogs; and sending the filtered query results to the client device for display on the client device. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203766 | FACETED SEARCH RESULTS - A data processing system receives a first user input comprising a search query. The data processing system displays in a search interface accessible across a plurality of computer application programs, a plurality of results matching the search query. The results are categorized into a plurality of categories and only a first subset of all results are displayed for each of the plurality of categories. The data processing system receives a second user input comprising a selection of one of the plurality of categories. In response to the second user input, the data processing system displays, in the search interface, a second subset of results, wherein the second subset is categorized into one or more subcategories of the selected category. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203767 | SEARCH CONTROL COMBINING CLASSIFICATION AND TEXT-BASED SEARCHING TECHNIQUES - A search control in a user interlace enables a user to search documents on text or a tag, | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203768 | DISPLAYING CHANGES TO VERSIONED FILES - Presenting changes to versioned files. The method can include presenting a first view comprising a plurality of indicators, each of the indicators corresponding to a respective version of a file. A selection of a particular version of a file can be detected. A selection of another version of the file can be detected. In response to the selection of the other version of the file, the versions of the file can be compared to identify differences between the versions. Comparison information based on the differences can be generated. The comparison information can be filtered so that the comparison information fits within a second view having a desired size. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203769 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT RETRIEVES DATA FROM AN EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE AND CREATES ONE OR MORE OBJECTS IN THE REPOSITORY - A content management system (CMS) provides a way to include data from an external source as an object in the repository managed by the CMS. The CMS includes an external data mechanism that processes a document with a query to a data source external to the repository. The external data mechanism executes the query, and creates one or more objects in the repository according to the type of data returned. Each object containing data returned from the query is linked to that query via a formal relationship in the CMS. When an object that has a formal relationship with a query is checked out of the repository, the query corresponding to the object may be executed, and the data returned from the query may be stored in the object. Alternatively, the data may be used directly if a corresponding lifecycle policy indicates the corresponding query should not be executed. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203770 | ITERATIVE REFINEMENT OF SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON USER FEEDBACK - Provided are techniques for displaying search results in a first page, receiving feedback from the user that indicate which of the search results in the first page are at least one of relevant and irrelevant, re-ordering the search results in a second page based on the indications of the search results in the first page, and displaying the re-ordered search results in the second page. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120209829 | Systems and methods for searching for and translating real estate descriptions from diverse sources utilizing an operator-based product definition - Disclosed herein are: systems capable of searching, receiving and conglomerating the data from real estate databases of varying formats, and translating that received into a common format; execution of pre-defined translation rules referencing data tags used within the system or the originating databases; rules constructed in a simple, hierarchical or a class-based structure whereby one rule depends upon the output of another rule for its input; data sources prioritized or merged where the same property-related information is presented in more than one source; map definitions containing rule sets crafted for a particular use, such as for a particular consumer or user; such systems used in the course of real estate appraisals, in property search reports, extending across databases of differing formats. Detailed information on various example embodiments of the inventions are provided in the Detailed Description below, and the inventions are defined by the appended claims. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120209830 | COMPACT VISUALISATION OF SEARCH STRINGS FOR THE SELECTION OF RELATED INFORMATION SOURCES - The application relates to a method for facilitating the selection of an information source, comprising: providing two search strings to an electronic device; obtaining strings and relationship values, wherein each relationship value defines a degree of semantic relationship between two strings or a string and a search string and wherein at least some of the strings match with elements in the information sources; and displaying at least some of the matching strings on a two-dimensional map. The map comprises a first, a second and a third region, the first region comprising matching strings that have a non-zero relationship value only with regard to the first search string, the second region comprising matching strings that have a non-zero relationship value only with regard to the second search string and the third region comprising matching strings that have non-zero relationship values with regard to the first and the second search string. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120215766 | Searching and Displaying Data Objects Residing in Data Management Systems - A data source is accessed to provide information. The data source is accessed by defining a plurality of data objects each associated with data within the data source, where the data objects include search information that facilitates searching of the data objects, and the data objects further include display information that pertains to a format in which data obtained from a search of the data objects is displayed, defining one or more relationships linking at least one data object with at least one other data object so as to establish associated data objects with linking relationships, receiving a query to search for data within the data source, retrieving data within the data source satisfying the query in accordance with the search information, where the retrieved data comprises data from at least two associated data objects, organizing and displaying the retrieved data in accordance with the display information, and displaying one or more links associated with the retrieved data so as to enable navigation between associated data objects. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215767 | AUGMENTING SALES AND SUPPORT INTERACTIONS USING DIRECTED IMAGE OR VIDEO CAPTURE - Systems and methods provide product information based on image data received from a communications device such as a cell phone. The image data may be used to identify particular configuration for a product, and may be used to determine if queries regarding the product are to be handled in-person by a support agent or if an automated response can be provided. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215768 | Method and Apparatus for Creating Binary Attribute Data Relations - The present invention advances the prior art of the content menu, an end-user database interface which organizes relational data according to the data and data relations from in the database. It does this by disclosing how to deploy the Binary Attribute Relation or BAR as meta-query data, and by disclosing how Binary Attribute Data Relations or BADR are derived from the BAR query, a primitive retrieval operation. All three new concepts: the BAR, the BADR, and the BAR query, are compact in a mathematical sense, as they represent each of their respective subject material in the most fundamental or primitive way, not matter whether it is a unit of meta-query data, data relations, or the query statement on which they are derived. These developments advance the art of the content menu, most notably with the art of its authoring system, by adding new flexibility to its functionality, as in the case of its runtime list menus, by making the authoring system more well integrated and easier to maintain, and by laying the foundation for extending its capabilities to handle other types of data models and data structures. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215769 | STRUCTURED RELEVANCE - A MECHANISM TO REVEAL HOW DATA IS RELATED - A machine receives a description of the relationships among members of a data set. The machine constructs a graph that represents the relationships among the members of the data set, organizing the members of the data set into groups. The groups are analyzed to determine their relative strengths. Unbalanced groups can be balanced by splitting off heavy sub-trees that include too large a percentage of the nodes in the group. The machine can then use the graph to answer queries about members of the data set. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215770 | STRUCTURED RELEVANCE - A MECHANISM TO REVEAL WHY DATA IS RELATED - A machine receives a group of members of a data set. The machine identifies key symbols from the members of the group or the data set. The machine then calculates, for each key symbol, a weighted magnitude for the key symbol in the group. The machine can then sort the key symbols according to their weighted magnitudes, and filter out common key symbols. The uncommon key symbols, as sorted according to their weighted magnitudes, can form a name for the group. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120221550 | ENTERPRISE LEVEL DATA MANAGEMENT - A system for identifying data of interest from among a multiplicity of data elements residing on multiple platforms in an enterprise, the system including background data characterization functionality characterizing the data of interest at least by at least one content characteristic thereof and at least one access metric thereof, the at least one access metric being selected from data access permissions and actual data access history and near real time data matching functionality selecting the data of interest by considering only data elements which have the at least one content characteristic thereof and the at least one access metric thereof from among the multiplicity of data elements. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221551 | AUGMENTING SEARCH RESULTS - Results of a search on one body of data may be enhanced by performing the same search, or a related search, on another body of data. In one example, the first body of data is pages (or other content) on a web site, and the second body of data is pages (or other content) on another web site. When a user enters a query to perform a site-specific search on the first web site, that web site may then perform a related search on the second web site. When results are obtained from the second web site, it may be determined whether the first web site has any pages that correspond to the received results. The first web site may then use its corresponding pages in the results that it provides to the user. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221552 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN ACTIVE SEARCH USER INTERFACE ELEMENT - An approach is provided for presenting a global view of desired information at specific locations that correspond to the desired information with respect to a start position. An element of a user interface receiving a search parameter enables processing of the search parameter to yield location information of the desired information. The location or locations of the desired information are then presented to a user on the user interface. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221553 | METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT SEARCHING AND GRAPHICALLY REPRESENTING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT SEARCHES - Methods for electronic document searching and graphically representing an electronic document search are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of graphically representing electronic document searches includes generating a Venn diagram for display on a graphic display device including a first circle that represents a first document set and a second circle that represents a second document set. The first circle overlaps the second circle in an overlap region depicting common electronic documents that are within the first document set and the second document set. The method further includes generating a first visualization chart from the first circle and a second visualization chart from the second circle. The first visualization chart and the second visualization chart depict proportions of the first document set and the second document set according to a user-defined parameter. Additional search queries may be suggested based on similar topics within electronic documents within the Venn diagram. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221554 | Method for Queued Overlap Transfer of Files - It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a system and method for prequeuing of files predicted to be desired by a user, through a telecommunications link, into a local cache, based on a list, wherein the prequeuing system is responsive to any change in the sequence of user review, such that predicted latencies for sequential file review from any given starting point are minimized. A system and method for reducing latency in a sequential record browser are provided, for defining a sequential list of records; selecting a record from the list for review; downloading the selected record, and records sequentially thereafter until interrupted; interrupting the downloading by selecting a non-sequential record; and downloading the a non-sequential record and records sequentially thereafter until interrupted. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120226680 | IMAGE SEARCH ENGINE EMPLOYING IMAGE CORRELATION - Searching of images by correlating a search image with a plurality of images hosted in Internet based servers by an image search server. The image search server supports delivery of search result pages to a client device based upon a search string or search image, and contains images from a plurality of Internet based web hosting servers. The image search server delivers a search result page containing images upon receiving a search string and/or search image from the web browser. The selection of images in the search result page is based upon: (i) word match, that is, by selecting images, titles of which correspond to the search string; and (ii) image correlation, that is, by selecting images, image characteristics of which correlates to that of search image. The selection of images in the search result page also occurs on the basis of popularity. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120233150 | AGGREGATING DOCUMENT ANNOTATIONS - Technologies pertaining to annotation aggregation are described herein. A user of a computing device assigns an annotation to a portion of a document, wherein the annotation comprises a tuple. The tuple comprises semantic relationships amongst words or phrases in the document. Relationship data is also generated, wherein the relationship data identifies the document, the author of the document, the author of the annotation, and other data. The annotations and relationship data are transmitted to a data store, where such information is aggregated with other annotations made by other annotators to various documents, thereby creating a network of knowledge | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233151 | GENERATING VISUAL SUMMARIES OF RESEARCH DOCUMENTS - Generation of a graphical visualization that summarizes a research document is described herein. A data store includes first data that identifies a first research document, second data that identifies a second research document that includes a citation to the first research document, and at least a portion of a sentence in the second research document that includes the citation to the first research document. A graphical visualization is generated that includes a first node that is representative of the first research document, a graphical object that indicates that the second research document includes the citation to the first research document, and the at least the portion of the sentence that includes the citation. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233152 | GENERATION OF CONTEXT-INFORMATIVE CO-CITATION GRAPHS - Described herein are technologies pertaining to generating co-citation graphs. A context-informative co-citation graph includes a first node that represents a first research document, a second node that represents a second research document, and a third node that represents a third research document that includes a citation to both the first research document and the second research document. The context-informative co-citation graph also includes a first edge that couples the first node and the third node, and a second edge that couples the second node and the third node. The two edges visually indicate that the first research document and the second research document are co-cited by the third research document. The context-informative co-citation graph further includes at least a portion of a sentence in the third research document that includes a citation to at least one of the first research document or the second research document. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233153 | HIERARCHICAL BROWSING OPERATIONS ON A DIRECTORY ATTRIBUTE - Techniques are disclosed for generating a hierarchical view from a directory attribute stored in a directory. In one embodiment, a user request is received to query a directory attribute of a directory service. One or more search requests are issued against a directory service according to a protocol, where each search request specifies: (i) the directory attribute, (ii) a search key, and (iii) a maximum count of result entries to be returned by the directory service for the respective search request. The hierarchical view may be generated from result entries retrieved responsive to the one or more search requests. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233154 | SEARCH SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH INTEGRATION OF AGGREGATE USER ANNOTATIONS - Computer systems and methods allow users to annotate content items found in a corpus such as the World Wide Web Annotations, which can include any descriptive and/or evaluative metadata related to a document, are collected from a user and stored in association with that user. Users are able to annotate and view their annotations for any document they encounter while interacting with the corpus, including hits returned in a search of the corpus. Users are also able to search their annotations or to limit searches to documents they have annotated. Metadata from annotations can also be aggregated across users and aggregated metadata applied in generating search results. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233155 | Method and System For Context Sensitive Content and Information in Unified Communication and Collaboration (UCC) Sessions - Systems and methods are disclosed to identify and generate keyword searches in real-time or near real-time for active participants in an on-going Audio, Video and Data Collaboration meeting (also referred to as “Unified Communications and Collaboration” or UCC). In one embodiment, multiple input sources are screened to detect text data and generate search strings from the deciphered keywords. Keywords are deciphered from presentation materials and other forms of data input to a UCC (e.g., documents, video, and audio). Keywords and generated search strings can then be presented to one or more participants for selection (e.g., hyperlink) to retrieve and present supporting material relative to a topic of discussion or point of interest in the UCC. Alternatively, recorded content can be search during or prior to playback to allow incorporation of disclosed embodiments and concepts. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120239642 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GESTURE BASED SEARCHING - Some embodiments include a method for gesture based search. Other embodiments of related methods and systems are also disclosed. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120246148 | Contextual Display and Scrolling of Search Results in Graphical Environment - A system and method are presented for aggregating and displaying information that relates to items in an engineering design. A system for designing engineering projects filters components of interest to a user, then collects data pertaining to the components from a set of databases that may be associated with mutually incompatible applications. The system presents, in a simple manner, an integrated display of the component properties and visual representations of the filtered components, both in isolation and in context. Multiple filtered components may be scrolled using a scrolling device such as a mouse wheel. The visual representations may be cropped with a resizable crop box, and non-selected components outside the crop box may have varying levels of opacity. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246149 | AUTOMATED METHOD OF GENERATING RECONCILIATION REPORTS REGARDING MISMATCHES OF CLINICAL DATA RECEIVED FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES DURING A CLINICAL TRIAL - An automated method is provided of generating a report of data collected from multiple sources during a clinical trial. The data includes a plurality of different data fields. A plurality of patients participate in the clinical trial. A first set of data obtained from case report forms associated with the patients is received at a processor. The case report forms are one source of data. A second set of data obtained from at least one source other than the case report forms is also received at the processor. At least some of the data in the first and second set of data include data associated with the same data fields. The processor identifies any mismatches in data associated with the same data fields in the first and second set of data. Mismatches associated with data fields obtained from the same case report forms are electronically grouped. A report is then generated of the data. The report shows the status of mismatches for each case report form or type of case report form. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246150 | System and Method for Storing Data and Providing Multi-Level Access Thereto - A system for storing data in a data store and providing multi-level access thereto based on a query from a client. The system includes a database, a data module and a query module. The data module operable to receive the data, determine whether the data has a security tag, assign to each of the data not having a said security tag at least one security tag based on a rule set to thereby form tagged data, and store the tagged data in the data store based on the security tags. The query module operable to receive the query, retrieve credentials from the database based on an identity token, create filters based on the credentials, search the data store based on the query to obtain search results, apply the search results against the filters to obtain filtered results, and provide the filtered results to the client thereby providing multi-level access. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246151 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INDEXING INFORMATION AND PROVIDING RESULTS FOR A SEARCH INCLUDING OBJECTS HAVING PREDETERMINED ATTRIBUTES - A system and method for providing at least one search result responsive to receiving a search query includes receiving the search query, locating at least one record containing at least one search query term, and displaying a text representation of each of the records containing at least one search query term. The invention further includes displaying a representation of an object in relation with the text representation for each record that includes an object comprising at least one predetermined attribute. In another embodiment, the invention provides a method for indexing records in an index of an information network, including searching the record for an indication that an object comprising a specified attribute is to be displayed with the record, creating a representation of the object; storing the representation in association with the record to which it corresponds, and making an entry for the record in the index. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246152 | JURY RESEARCH SYSTEM - A system and method for obtaining information on individuals including jurors and providing a variety of reports via the Internet in a rapid manner. The reports can be compiled and reviewed simultaneously by multiple users and notes can be included on the report format. The user may customize the information searched and presented. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120254156 | Mobile system for collecting and distributing real-estate evaluation reports - The present invention provides an elegant means of interaction between real-estate agents who employ mobile devices, wherein the property evaluation information created by any agent is shared with other agents, and wherein such property evaluations created from and collected from a plurality of mobile devices. In particular, property evaluations created by an agent are forwarded to a service provided in accordance with the present invention to communicate with other agents who may also employ mobile devices to review them. The present invention facilitates an evaluation report that is created by a real-estate agent before a property sale is contracted or agreed to, typically when a property comes to the market for sale, when an agent is able to review the property and create an evaluation report that is sharable with other agents or with other users, such as potential buyers. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254157 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR RETRIEVING DATA FROM A DATA SOURCE - An apparatus is provided that includes a processor and memory storing executable instructions that in response to execution by the processor cause the apparatus to at least perform a number of operations. The apparatus is caused to receive a rowset of data from a data source, where the rowset includes one or more rows of values from the data source. The apparatus is caused to convert the rowset to markup data, and organize the markup data in preparation for its transformation to an output according to a markup transformation language. The markup data includes, for each row of the rowset, a row markup element; and the organized markup data includes an organization of the row elements into a plurality of logical groups. Even further, the organized markup data may be split into a plurality of smaller markup data sets, which may facilitate transformation of the markup data. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254158 | AGGREGATING PRODUCT REVIEW INFORMATION FOR ELECTRONIC PRODUCT CATALOGS - A product catalog includes information regarding products for sale online by various merchants, including product review information. An analysis module collects product reviews and determines whether each product review includes a product identifier, such as a Global Trade Item Number (“GTIN”). For product reviews having a product identifier, the module adds the product review to the product catalog and associates the product review with the product identifier. For product reviews lacking a product identifier, the module initiates an Internet search using information from the product review and analyzes search results to identify a product identifier for the product review. If the analysis module identifies a product identifier for the product review, the analysis module adds the product review to the product catalog and associates the product review with the identified product identifier. The analysis module may discard product reviews that are not associated with a product identifier. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254159 | System and Method for Displaying and Searching Multimedia Events Scheduling Information - A system for displaying information may include memory, one or more processors, and one or more modules stored in memory. The one or more modules are configured for execution by the one or more processors and may include instructions for: presenting a subset of a collection of data on a first grid having a first axis corresponding to units of time and a second axis, the collection of data comprising data representing time-bounded events; presenting a second grid having, first and second axes corresponding to the first and second axes of the first grid, the second grid corresponding to a larger portion of the collection of data than the subset presented on the first grid; and presenting a user moveable window for selecting a portion of the second grid, and selecting the subset presented on the first grid in accordance with a current position of the window. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254160 | System and Method for Indexing, Searching and Presenting Technical Concepts - A data processing system and method are provided to index, search and present information about defined, “fuzzy” concepts across language, chemical and product identity, composition, biological classification and legal reference. The database system and method permits the use of combinations of concepts, such as labeling, health claims and/or nutritional claims, across linguistic, scientific and legal usages. The user is able to search for concepts in a defined way across any language or means of reference. The definition of the concepts used in the database is accepted as a standard by the database system (user(s). Such standardization then permits one user to pass the results of a search to another user with common meaning, and permits value-added services, such as the capability to provide news services about changes in worldwide regulation of goods and services, i.e., changes in information applicable to the concepts of interest to specific users. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120259841 | PRIORITY DIMENSIONAL DATA CONVERSION PATH REPORTING - Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing data related to conversion paths. In one aspect, a plurality of conversion paths are received. Each conversion path includes one or more user interactions that include a plurality of dimensional data. A priority sorted list of dimensions is received and dimensional data is selected from each user interaction based on the sort list of dimensions. Each conversion path is converted into a dimensional path, and each dimensional path includes dimensional elements that corresponds to user interactions of the conversion path. Each dimensional element comprises the selected dimensional data from the corresponding user interaction. The plurality of dimensional paths are aggregated together based upon the number of dimensional elements within each dimensional path and the dimensional data of the dimensional elements. Reports can be generated using the aggregated dimensional data. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259842 | System and Methods for Targeted Event Detection and Notification - A system and method for targeted event detection and notification based on combinations of time, location and context. A database stores information about users of the system including profile information, and information about real world events such as date, time, and event information. Events are tagged with information that allows searching. A suggestion engine matches particular events to particular users. Events are private (individually), private to groups, and public. A third party such as merchant or advertiser can generate and publish events to users who possess specified profiles. User information is de-identified to address privacy concerns. Users are provided with notifications of events or offers that meet their interest profiles and may accept such events or offers to their calendars, reminder list, timeline or otherwise. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259843 | DATABASE ACCELERATION USING GPU AND MULTICORE CPU SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A computer-implemented method for GPU acceleration of a database system, the method includes a) executing a parallelized query against a database using a database server, the parallelized query including an operation using a particular stored procedure available to the database server that includes a GPU/Many-Core Kernel executable; and b) executing the particular stored procedure on one or more GPU/Many-Core devices. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120265752 | GENERATING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON DETERMINED RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DATA OBJECTS AND USER CONNECTIONS TO IDENTIFIED DESTINATIONS - A search system generates an ordered list of destination targets including identified individuals and data objects, based on applying a user context to an information context and to a connection context. The user context identifies a search context (i.e., the information the user is seeking) relative to an identity of the user, and the information context identifies destinations accessible by the user, including data objects and communications-based actions (e.g., voice over IP telephony calls, instant messaging session transcripts, etc.). The connection context identifies relationships between chosen destinations throughout the system, and the strength of those relationships determined from artifacts of the chosen destinations: the connection context is updated based on artifact detection. The portion of the connection context that is relevant to the user context is used to order the portion of the information context that is relevant to the user context, resulting in the ordered list of destination targets. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120265753 | METHOD OF SEARCHING FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (PIM) INFORMATION AND HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE EMPLOYING THE SAME - A method of searching for Personal Information Management information of a handheld electronic device includes accepting input of one or more search criteria, such as text search criteria and/or name search criteria; accepting input of a representation of a plurality of different databases or applications of the handheld electronic device including Personal Information Management information to be searched; and conducting a search of the different databases or applications based upon the one or more search criteria and the representation of different databases or applications. The method determines one or more search results from the search and displays those search results. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120265754 | MANAGING COPIES OF DATA - A method in a computer system for retrieving data from one of multiple copies of the data is provided, referred to as the data management system. The data management system receives a request identifying a data object to be accessed. Then, the data management system queries a metabase to locate data copies that contain the identified data object, wherein the data copies are created from similar source data, and wherein for each data copy the metabase contains an indication of the availability of the copy relative to other copies. Next, the data management system determines one of the located data copies to use to access the identified data object, wherein the determination is made based on the indicated availability contained in the metabase for each of the located data copies. Then, the data management system accesses the identified data object using the determined one of the located data copies. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120271816 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING VEHICLE MAINTENANCE COSTS AND FREQUENCY BASED ON STATISTICAL REPAIR DATA - The present invention generally relates to quantifying vehicle maintenance data. Specifically, this invention relates to a system and method for quantifying vehicle maintenance cost and frequency based on statistical repair data. In part, the systems and methods herein described are configured to provide actionable information based on the quantified vehicle maintenance data. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120271817 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a related information acquisition unit for acquiring related information related to registered information registered in a schedule, and a display control unit for causing the related information, which has been acquired, to be displayed on a predetermined display unit according to an importance. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120271818 | SEARCHING APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF SEARCHING - A search engine at a service provider is configured to identify commercial suppliers in response to a keyword specified by a user. Keywords are received and searches are performed on an index database to identify displayable text items. Images are stored in the form of commercially relevant graphical images such as logos. A logo is linked to each item of displayable text and an output list is produced in which each text item includes a displayable graphical image. The system may store different image formats to allow the graphical images to be displayed on a variety of platforms. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120278309 | ALTERNATIVE MARKET SEARCH RESULT TOGGLE - Systems, methods, and computer media for providing alternative market search results are provided. A user search query in a first market is received. Search results relevant to the user search query are identified for the first market in a first language. A user intent to receive search results for the user search query for a second market and in a second language is determined. A search results page is presented that includes headings and search results for the first market in the first language as well as a search result toggle that includes a user-selectable option to present alternative search results for a second market in a second language. Selection of the option to present alternative search results causes search results for the second market and in the second language to be presented in the search results page along with the search results page headings in the first language. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278310 | Collaborative Filtering Using a Spatial-Aware Social Graph - This specification describes technologies relating to collaborative filtering, such as collaborative filtering using a spatial-aware social graph. In at least one aspect, a method includes: receiving data including objects related to a social graph; identifying a proper subset of the objects based on their relationships with respect to the social graph; applying one or more spatial queries against the proper subset of the objects; and using a result of the one or more spatial queries, applied against the proper subset of the objects, as a feature in a recommendation process. In another aspect, a system includes: a user interface device; and one or more computers configured and arranged to provide a user a recommendation, with respect to objects, based on social and spatial information for the user associated with a spatial-aware social graph. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278311 | Web Service Discovery Via Data Abstraction Model Augmented By Field Relationship Identification - A computer-implemented method includes receiving a selection of a particular logical field via a database query interface. The method includes querying a discovery registry associated with a data abstraction model of a database to discover one or more web services. A web service input and a web service output of a particular discovered web service are associated with logical fields of the data abstraction model via the discovery registry. The method further includes initiating execution of a discovered web service that returns a list of values. The list of values obtained by the discovered web service may be augmented with information determined based on field relationship metadata of the data abstraction model. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278312 | VIDEO AND DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA AGGREGATOR - The present invention utilizes an aggregator for searching, packaging and delivering content. The aggregator processes requests, searches, provides search results and acquires content. The aggregator, operating in a communications network, includes a request and results processing server, a search engine server coupled to the request and results processing server and a content acquisition server coupled to the request and results processing server. A request and results processing server receives a request for content, the search engine server searches for the content and the content acquisition program acquires content for delivery to the user. The request and results processing server includes a search request processor that receives information related to a user's search request and provides the information to a search results form builder that creates an electronic search request. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278313 | SCALABLE RENDERING OF LARGE SPATIAL DATABASES - Aspects of the invention provide a service for data management and integration across a wide range of applications. Clustered computers may be arranged in a cloud-type configuration for storing and handling large amounts of user data under the control of a front-end management server. Communities of distributed users may collaborate on the data across multiple enterprises. Very large tabular data files are uploaded to the storage facilities. The data files are maintained as tables, and a composite table of related information is created and maintained in response to user queries. Different ways of visualizing the data are provided. Depending on the amount of information that can be displayed, features in a spatial index may the thinned for presentation. Spatial and structured queries are processing and results are intersected to obtain information for display. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120284256 | LOCATION-AWARE APPLICATION SEARCHING - Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing methods are provided for implicitly discovering applications that have a corresponding location. Initially, an application manifest is constructed that maintains a mapping between apps and their respective geographic boundaries. In operation, upon detecting a location signal being transmitted from a mobile device, the location signal is employed to identify a set of valid applications. Generally, the location signal represents location-based information entered to or received from the mobile device. Identifying the set of valid applications involves comparing the location signal against the application manifest and, based on the comparison, designating those apps that are mapped to geographic boundaries that meet the location signal as the set of valid applications. Upon identifying the set of valid applications, a selection of apps included within the set of valid applications is sent to the mobile device for display to the user within a operational context. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120284257 | BIOLOGICAL DATA STRUCTURE HAVING MULTI-LATERAL, MULTI-SCALAR, AND MULTI-DIMENSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MOLECULAR FEATURES AND OTHER DATA - A computer system maintains a biological data structure having molecular feature data. The system receives data elements indicating biological molecular features and knowledge elements that represent biological concepts. The system individually associates unique identifiers with the elements. For individual elements, the system maintains an internal element set of the other unique identifiers for the other elements that are directly associated with that one individual element. For the individual elements, the system maintains an external element set of the other unique identifiers for the other elements that have that one individual element in their own internal element sets. Although not required, the computer system may process a query indicating a search scope and a molecular feature for an individual biological entity, and responsively process the molecular feature and the elements based on the search scope to induce a knowledge sub-graph for the individual biological entity. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120284258 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GENERATING RELEVANT SEARCH RESULTS USING SNOMED CT AND SEMANTIC ONTOLOGICAL TERMINOLOGY - Methods, systems, and computer program products for searching clinical terminology databases, and more specifically systems and methods for searching structured terminology databases that possess structures for terminology synonyms and semantic parent concept relationships—such as the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine—Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) data standard—are provided. This involves interfacing with the database using an application program interface to enable communication between the database and a search module, and searching the database using the search module to generate an ordered list of database records by defining a search string, retrieving database records from the database by matching terms associated with concepts in the database to the search string, and retrieving the database records for the concepts associated with the matched terms. The retrieved results can be ordering based upon a relevancy criterion. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120284259 | Automated Generation of Ontologies - A method for data access includes defining an ontology ( | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120290560 | MECHANISM FOR EFFICIENTLY QUERYING APPLICATION BINARY INTERFACE/APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE-RELATED INFORMATION - A method for efficiently querying application binary interface/application programming interface-related information may include obtaining a binary file relating to a software package of an operating system, and extracting, from the binary file, interface details relating to interfaces associated with the software program. The method may further include receiving a user query requesting query-specific interface details that are particular to an interface of the interfaces noted in the user query, extracting the query-specific interface details from the interface details, and generating a response to the user query. The response includes the query-specific interface details. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290561 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a search condition information acquiring unit that acquires search condition information that is text information indicating search conditions for searching for search object text structured according to a case structure, a language processing unit that executes language analysis processing with respect to the search condition information, a structure extracting unit that extracts a sentence structure of the search condition information using the language analysis result of the search condition information, a search expression generating unit that generates a search expression reflecting the sentence structure of the search condition information used to search for the search object text according to the sentence structure of the search condition information, and a searching unit that searches for text matching the search conditions from the search object text according to the sentence structure of the search condition information using the generated search expression. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290562 | SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL OF OBJECTS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system receives a query associated with a user and, in response, provides a combined result set comprising objects stored by a social networking system that match the query. The combined result set comprises multiple result sets obtained from different search algorithms. The various objects stored by the social networking system may be of different types representing different concepts, such as user objects, application objects, event objects, location objects, group objects, and hub/page objects, any of which may be included in the result set. The objects of the result set may be further filtered, ordered, and/or grouped based at least in part on known relationships of the user with the objects, such as geographic distances between locations associated with the user and the objects. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290563 | Subsequent Tailoring Of A Sign-Up Page Based On A Search Engine Query - The invention provides a method of processing data including, receiving a URL at a server computer system, utilizing the URL at the server computer system to extract a plurality of server search results from a data store, and transmitting the server search results from the server computer system to the user computer system. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290564 | COMBINING MEDICAL INFORMATION CAPTURED IN STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED DATA FORMATS FOR USE OR DISPLAY IN A USER APPLICATION, INTERFACE, OR VIEW - In one embodiment, a method receives a plurality of documents. The documents may be received from different medical providers. Also, the documents may be medical record documents generated or captured in a first format and a second format. The first format may be an unstructured data format and the second format may be a structured data format. The first and second documents are then converted to a common format. For example, a common format may emerge as the most restrictive or constrained denominator of the first format and the second format. A schema is determined that provides an organizational structure with categories that can be used to index the content of the first and second documents while they are being converted to the common format. The schema and indexing enable the different formats of documents to be combined and organized simultaneously into a single view for a comprehensive review. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120296891 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC EVALUATION OF ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY REVIEW AND PRODUCTIONS - Techniques are provided for automatic sampling evaluation. An automatic sampling evaluation system enables users to evaluate convergence of one or more search processes. For example, given a set of searches that were validated by human review, a system can implement a retrieval process that samples one or more non-retrieved collections. Each individual document's similarity in the one or more non-retrieved collections is automatically evaluated to other documents in any retrieved sets. Given a goal of achieving a high recall, documents with high similarity can then be analyzed for additional noun phrases that may be used for a next iteration of a search. Convergence can be expected if the information gain in the new feedback loop is less than previous iterations, and if the additional documents identified are below a certain threshold document count. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296892 | GRAPHICALLY DISPLAYING LIFECYCLE INFORMATION OF A GOVERNED OBJECT IN A SERVICE REGISTRY IN COMBINATION WITH THE POLICIES ASSERTED FOR THE LIFECYCLE STATES - A method, system and computer program product for graphically displaying lifecycle information of a governed object in a service registry in combination with the policies associated with the lifecycle states. Properties (e.g., object type, current lifecycle state) are retrieved for a governed object. Additionally, lifecycle definitions for the current lifecycle state and one or more potential future lifecycle states associated with the governed object are retrieved. Furthermore, policy definitions that apply to the object type, the current lifecycle state and one or more potential future lifecycle states are retrieved. A table is then built that correlates the retrieved lifecycle definitions with the retrieved policy definitions. A graphical representation is generated detailing the current lifecycle state, transitions to the one or more potential future lifecycle states and the policy definitions that apply to each transition for the governed object based on the built table. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296893 | GRAPHICALLY DISPLAYING LIFECYCLE INFORMATION OF A GOVERNED OBJECT IN A SERVICE REGISTRY IN COMBINATION WITH THE POLICIES ASSERTED FOR THE LIFECYCLE STATES - A method for graphically displaying lifecycle information of a governed object in a service registry in combination with the policies associated with the lifecycle states. Properties (e.g., object type, current lifecycle state) are retrieved for a governed object. Additionally, lifecycle definitions for the current lifecycle state and one or more potential future lifecycle states associated with the governed object are retrieved. Furthermore, policy definitions that apply to the object type, the current lifecycle state and one or more potential future lifecycle states are retrieved. A table is then built that correlates the retrieved lifecycle definitions with the retrieved policy definitions. A graphical representation is generated detailing the current lifecycle state, transitions to the one or more potential future lifecycle states and the policy definitions that apply to each transition for the governed object based on the built table. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296894 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A SPECIALIZED MEDICAL DATABASE - A method for creating a specialized medical database uses software installed on a computer having a microprocessor and a database. The software allows a user to input search terms into the computer, whereby the software then searches the internet, including social media sites and chat rooms for posts that include the search terms. The posts are then analyzed by software that can obtain identification of the individuals. The software then contacts each of the individuals to verify the information in the post, to obtain additional information and to obtain contact information regarding each of the individuals' physicians. The software then contacts the physician to verify the information supplied by the individual. All of the information obtained in this process is then placed in a sortable format in the memory of the computer. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120303610 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING DYNAMIC RELATIONS FROM IMAGES - A system and method are provided for determining a dynamic relation tree based on images in an image collection. An example system includes a memory for storing computer executable instructions, and a processing unit for accessing the memory and executing the computer executable instructions. The computer executable instructions include an event classifier to classify main characters of images in an image collection as to an event identification based on events in which the main characters appear, wherein each main character is characterized as to at least one attribute; a relation determination engine to determine relation circles of the main characters; and a construction engine to construct a dynamic relation tree representative of relations among the main characters, where the dynamic relation tree provides representations of the positions of the main characters in the relation circles, and where views of the dynamic relation tree change when different time periods are specified. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303611 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - The information processing device | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTATION OF LOCAL AND REMOTE MESSAGE SEARCH RESULTS - There is disclosed a system and method for presenting message search results at a wireless handheld device. In an embodiment, the method comprises conducting a search of local messages stored in the wireless handheld device using at least one search term to obtain a local search result; retrieving a search of remote messages stored in a message server using the at least one search term to obtain a remote search result; comparing the local and remote search results to identify any duplicate messages; and if the size of the local message is greater than or equal to the size of the remote message, then selecting the local message for presentation; else selecting the remote message for presentation. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303613 | AUTOMATIC UPDATE OF SEARCHES - A method and system for automatically updating searches are described. In one embodiment, a first search result may be compared with a second search result to automatically identify at least one data item within the first search result that is changed relative to the second search result. The at least one data item may comprise a transaction term. A notification of the at least one data item may be transmitted to a user device. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120310922 | Suggesting Search Results to Users Before Receiving Any Search Query From the Users - In one embodiment, in response to a user accessing a search tool and before the user submitting any search query or portion thereof to the search tool, compiling a first set of search results based on information known about the user and presenting the first set of search results to the user. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120310923 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING A HUMAN-READABLE DATA SYNOPSIS - A method of generating a human-readable data synopsis involves a computer receiving data comprising demographic and/or consumer behavioural data attributes; and forming data aggregations by querying the received data with at least a first query and a second query. At least one of the data sources comprises geographic data associated with the data attributes. The queries each include a common data attribute criterion that queries the data attributes, and a respective geographic criterion that queries the geographic data. The geographic criterion of the first query defines a different geographic region than that of the second query. The computer performs an analysis of the data aggregations by applying the results of the queries as inputs to a pre-defined logic function, and evaluating the logic function. On a display device, the computer generates the human-readable synopsis by applying a result of the data aggregation analysis as input to a pre-defined report template. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120310924 | MULTI-PREFIX INTERACTIVE MOBILE SEARCH - A system and a method are disclosed for multi-prefix, interactive search capability on a mobile communications device. A keystroke is input into a search query field of a landing page and a multi-prefix search is performed. The landing page is refreshed to display the results. The landing page displays a first tier of search results, which can include channels or links to web pages associated with the user input. If the search result that is selected is a channel, the channel is displayed. If the search result that is selected is a web page, the web page is displayed. The landing page corresponding to the selected channel, or to the web page, may then be searched or explored. If the desired channel is not displayed within the first tier of search results, another keystroke may be input. The landing page refreshes accordingly and additional keystrokes may be entered. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120317097 | Presenting Images as Search Results - In one embodiment, accessing a set of characters of a search query currently entered into a text entry box; compiling a first set of search results based on the set of characters currently entered into the text entry box, wherein the compiling is re-executed responsive to changes to the set of characters entered into the text entry box; associating an image with each search result from the first set of search results; and presenting the first set of search results as a first set of images adjacent to the text entry box. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317098 | SEARCH DEVICE AND SEARCH PROGRAM - An index generating unit divides each name data of search target data both into words and into characters, calculates start and end scores showing a start and an end of each of the words and start and end scores showing a start and an end of each of the characters, links them to each entry word which constructs the name data as a list (a name ID, a position, and start and end scores), and stores this list in an index storage unit. A searching unit decomposes an input character string into partial character strings, acquires corresponding candidate entries from the index storage unit, and judges the continuity between candidate entries on the basis of lists to add a comparison score according to the continuity to a candidate entry. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317099 | CONTROLLING DISCLOSURE OF TRACE DATA RELATED TO MOVING OBJECT - A system for controlling disclosure of trace data related to moving object, including a first receiving module for receiving, for at least one moving object in a first region, a first record aggregate; a second receiving module for receiving, for at least one moving object in a second region, a second record aggregate; a calculating module for calculating trace data from at least one attribute value of a first identifier that is in received first and second record aggregates in response to data search request; an anonymizing module for calculating to satisfy a condition of the moving object passing through at least one region; and a transmitting module for returning calculated trace data as a search result if the moving object moves in calculated ranges and if the moving object has the first identifier that is in both the received first and second record aggregates. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317100 | STRING PATTERN CONCEPTUALIZATION FROM DETECTION OF RELATED CONCEPTS BY ANALYZING SUBSTRINGS WITH COMMON PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES - A reference string set including a group of strings is set. At least two specific tuples of substring triples is found inside the reference string set of strings. Each tuple is considered as a candidate for representing a related concept. Each concatenation of the substrings triples is an explicit member of the reference string set. Each middle substring of the substring triples is unequal to another middle substring within the substring triples found inside the reference string set. Each prefix substring is equal to all other prefix substrings within the substring triples found inside the reference string set. Each suffix substring is equal to all other suffix substrings within the substring triples found inside the reference string set. Either the prefix substring or the suffix substring is not empty. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120323887 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS TO MANAGE QUERY RESULTS - Described are systems and methods for changing query result data graphically displayed on an electronic device. A query of a data repository is performed. A graphical representation of a set of query results identified from the query is displayed. The set of query results includes a plurality of query result records. The graphical representation includes a first node corresponding to a first record field value and a second node corresponding to a second record field value. A region proximal to the first node displays at least one query result record having the first record field value. A query result record of the at least one query result record having the first record field value is selected. A field value of a selected query result record is changed from the first record field value to the second record field value by transitioning the selected query result record to a region proximal to the second node of the graphical representation. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120323888 | Automatic Webpage Characterization and Search Results Annotation - A system and method for automatically analyzing and characterizing Internet search results and annotating a search results page according to specific characteristics of each webpage located at a URL corresponding to a search result. Such characteristics include the composition of each search results webpage as well as which search term elements are present in a webpage located at a URL corresponding to a search result out of those search term elements that were submitted to a search engine to produce the search results webpage. Further, search results are annotated to indicate which search term elements are present in a descendent webpage of a webpage located at a URL corresponding to a search result. Search results may also be optionally filtered according to specific characteristics of a webpage located at a search results URL such that certain categories of webpage are excluded from being referenced in the displayed search results. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120323889 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS TO MANAGE QUERY RESULTS - Described are systems and methods for changing query result data graphically displayed on an electronic device. A query of a data repository is performed. A graphical representation of a set of query results identified from the query is displayed. The query results include a plurality of query result records. The graphical representation includes a first node corresponding to a first record field value and a second node corresponding to a second record field value. A region proximal to the first node displays a query result record having the first record field value. A query result record having the first record field value is selected. A field value of a selected query result record is changed from the first record field value to the second record field value by transitioning the selected query result record to a region proximal to the second node. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120323890 | System and Method of Event Networking - A system and method for organizing things (including persons, creatures, objects, thoughts, affairs, circumstances, actions, events, objectives, tasks, statements, attitudes, emotions, symbols, ideas, and information) using various relationships. Such a system and method may be used for documenting, searching, networking, and connecting, either individually or collaboratively. Such an Event Networking system, which encompasses events, persons, objects, activities, emotions, interests, etc., can be organized in relation to time, location, etc. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120323891 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARRANGING PARTICIPANT INTERVIEW CLIPS FOR ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH - Systems and methods for arranging participant interview clips for conducting ethnographic research. Video clips and photographs of interviews of participants in a market research study are stored in a database. Each item stored in the database is tagged with an interpretive tag indicative of an observed behavioral, attitudinal, or emotive characteristic of the participant. A user searches the database for tags or search terms of interest, and selects clips from the search results for inclusion in a perspective, which is a collection of selected clips and their associated tags and comments from multiple users who collaborate to determine which clips to include in the perspective. The process of creating a perspective is iterative and collaborative, in which the database can be mined and re-mined using different search strategies by multiple users, who provide their comments on selected clips to form a perspective that can be used for product innovation. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120323892 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING EXCLUSION EFFICIENCIES OF A PLURALITY OF KEYWORDS APPEARING IN A SEARCH RESULT - Determining exclusion efficiencies of a plurality of keywords appearing in a search result of an exclusion keyword for indicating efficient exclusion of an unwanted piece of data when the user narrows searching objects. The determining of exclusion efficiencies may involve a processor to calculate an exclusion efficiency for each of a plurality of keywords, if a search condition is applied to the search result and the keyword is applied as an exclusion keyword to the search result. The exclusion efficiency of each of the plurality of keywords provides an indication regarding the effectiveness of exclusion of the keyword. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120323893 | METHODS OF EFFICIENTLY RECORDING AND REPRODUCING ACTIVITY IN VIRTUAL WORLD - An apparatus and method for recording activities of an avatar in a virtual world by means of a computer including: means for dividing the virtual world into a plurality of blocks each provided with a unique ID; means for recording a movement history in a storage area of the computer, the movement history including the ID of each block which an avatar acting in the virtual world enters and a time point at which the avatar enters the block; means for deleting the movement history between the first and the last blocks of a plurality of blocks which the avatar enters if the plurality of blocks are continuous in a straight line in one direction; and activity record DB recording means for recording, as an activity dataset in an activity record DB, an event content, the movement history and a repetition count of an event. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120323894 | METHODS OF EFFICIENTLY RECORDING AND REPRODUCING ACTIVITY IN VIRTUAL WORLD - An apparatus and method for recording activities of an avatar in a virtual world by means of a computer including: means for dividing the virtual world into a plurality of blocks each provided with a unique ID; means for recording a movement history in a storage area of the computer, the movement history including the ID of each block which an avatar acting in the virtual world enters and a time point at which the avatar enters the block; means for deleting the movement history between the first and the last blocks of a plurality of blocks which the avatar enters if the plurality of blocks are continuous in a straight line in one direction; and activity record DB recording means for recording, as an activity dataset in an activity record DB, an event content, the movement history and a repetition count of an event. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120323895 | EXPANDED TEXT EXCERPTS - A system provides a list of search results, where one of the search results in the list of search results includes a snippet from a corresponding search result document. The system receives selection of the snippet and provides an expanded snippet based on the selection of the snippet. The expanded snippet includes the snippet and other text from a subset of the search result document. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120323896 | REPRESENTATIVE DOCUMENT SELECTION FOR A SET OF DUPLICATE DOCUMENTS - Systems and methods for indexing a representative document from a set of duplicate documents are disclosed. Disclosed systems and methods comprise selecting a first document in a plurality of documents on the basis that the first document is associated with a query independent score. Each respective document in the plurality of documents has a fingerprint that indicates that the respective document has substantially identical content to every other document in the plurality of documents. Disclosed systems and methods further comprise indexing, in accordance with the query independent score, the first document thereby producing an indexed first document. With respect to the plurality of documents, only the indexed first document is included in a document index. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120330928 | Method and Apparatus for Generating a Fused View of One or More People - In accordance with particular embodiments, a method includes receiving data from disparate data sources comprising data associated with different people. At least one of the data sources comprises data associated with at least one common person. The method also includes extracting at least one record from each of the disparate data sources. Each extracted record is associated with a corresponding person and comprises at least one feature associated with the corresponding person. The method additionally includes distributing the records to computers configured to identify matches between the records based on at least one matching feature associated with two or more records. The method further includes merging the at least one feature from each of the records of each corresponding match into merged records, each merged record corresponding to a different match. The method also includes generating at least one fused view associated with the at least one common person and comprising a merged record. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120330929 | SERVICE CONTEXT - According to one general aspect, a method of using an application may include receiving a request, from a user, to display at least a portion of a business service context regarding a business service. The method may also include receiving, from a database, an aggregated database result regarding the business service. The aggregated database result may include the requested business service context. The business service context may include information from a plurality of other applications. The method may further include displaying a graphical user interface element that displays at least a portion of the information included by the business service context. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120330930 | System for multiple database correlation of location based information - A method includes loading an application on a user device wherein the application is configured to receive information requests and to launch search requests utilizing a web mapping service with a local search feature. After launching a search request via the application, the user device receives search results from the web mapping service. At the application, the results are analyzed to ascertain if a search result corresponds to an information request. Such data is added, when not already present, to the database. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120330931 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT METHOD, COMPUTER, SENSOR NETWORK SYSTEM AND DATABASE SEARCH PROGRAM - In a system manages a plurality of pieces of sensor information in a plant, or the like, it can be reducing an amount of data stored in a database and easily a processing for searching a place of an anomaly and an anomaly cause. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120330932 | PRESENTING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT IN CONTEXT - Techniques that may be used for detecting a primary content (e.g., a web page) that the user is viewing and presenting one or more pieces of supplemental content (e.g., social media data) together with the primary content. The supplemental content presented to the user together with the primary content may be content that is matched to the primary content and therefore detected to be relevant to the user. Detection of primary content and matching to supplemental content may be carried out based on a comparison of entities related to the primary and supplemental content. In some embodiments, an analysis of the primary content for entities may include ordering entities according to significance in the primary content and selecting top entities for comparison. Also, in some embodiments, multiple pieces of supplemental content may be displayed to a user categorized based on entity. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120330933 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH ASSISTED TEXT ENTRY USING EXISTING MESSAGE THREAD, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A method of facilitating the entry of text into a new message generated by a messaging application of a handheld electronic device is provided that includes receiving a command to reply to or forward a received message that is included within a message thread, scanning the message thread, identifying a plurality of words in the message thread, generating one or more word lists that include the identified words, and displaying the one or more word lists. The method further includes receiving a selection of a selected one of the words from the one or more word lists, and entering the selected one of the words into the new message. Also provided is an improved handheld electronic device that implements the described method. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120330934 | PROVIDING QUESTION AND ANSWERS WITH DEFERRED TYPE EVALUATION USING TEXT WITH LIMITED STRUCTURE - A system, method and computer program product for conducting questions and answers with deferred type evaluation based on any corpus of data. The method includes processing a query including waiting until a “Type” (i.e. a descriptor) is determined AND a candidate answer is provided. Then, a search is conducted to look (search) for evidence that the candidate answer has the required Lexical Answer Type (e.g., as determined by a matching function that can leverage a parser, a semantic interpreter and/or a simple pattern matcher). Prior to or during candidate answer evaluation, a process is provided for extracting and storing collections of entity-type pairs from semi-structured text documents. During QA processing and candidate answer scoring, a process is implemented to match the query LAT against the lexical type of each provided candidate answer and generate a score judging a degree of match. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130006967 | SEMANTIC ACTIVITY AWARENESS - A domain-specific task may be defined from a library of domain-independent task patterns. A task pattern may be selected based on inferences made from a user's initial input, or just based on receiving sensor information through events or contextual information, or a combination of user input and sensor information. One or more elements of a selected task pattern may be defined in the context of a given domain to define the domain-specific task. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130006968 | DATA INTEGRATION SYSTEM - A data integration system ( | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130006969 | SUPPORTING SET-LEVEL SLICE AND DICE IN DATA WAREHOUSES - A method and system for coping with slice and dice operations in data warehouses is disclosed. An external approach may be utilized, creating queries using structured query language on a computer. An algorithm may be used to rewrite the queries. The resulting predicates may be joined to dimension tables corresponding to fact tables. An internal approach may be utilized, using aggregation functions with early aggregation for creating the queries. The results of the slice and dice operations may be outputted to a user on a computer monitor. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130006970 | CONTACT QUERY DATA SYSTEM AND METHOD - A processor-implemented method of operating a mobile communication device operable to execute one or more communication applications includes issuing a query for contact data over a communication network, creating a contact resolution object, receiving contact data responsive to the query over the communication network, the contact data comprising communication contact data for the one or more communication applications, associating the contact data received with the contact resolution object, and resolving the contact resolution object to select communication contact data. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130006971 | Dynamic Image Display Area And Image Display Within Web Search Results - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing image search results with web corpus search results. In one aspect, a method includes determining dimensions of an image display environment in which image search results are to be displayed, determining an insertion score that defines an ordinal insertion position at which the image display environment is to be inserted into a ranking of general search results that defines ordinal positions for each of the general search results, the dimensions and the insertion score determined, in part, from the quality scores of the images, generating a search results resource for displaying the general search results according to their respective ordinal positions and the image display environment at the ordinal insertion position on a client device, and providing the search results resource in response to the search query. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130006972 | BROWSING RELATED IMAGE SEARCH RESULT SETS - Methods are provided for displaying image results responsive to a search query. In addition to displaying responsive results for a query, responsive results are also provided for related queries. The results are ordered along a plurality of display axes, including at least one axis corresponding to the ordering of the various search queries. The results can be displayed in an aligned or non-aligned manner. The results can then be translated along one or more of the display axes to allow a user to browse the various results. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130013589 | Customer Relationship Management System - A computer-implemented method for customer relationship management is provided. The method may include receiving an indication from a user at one or more customer relationship management graphical user interfaces. The method may further include identifying one or more accounts associated with the user. The method may also include providing an itinerary or portion of an itinerary to the user for a particular time period via at least one of the one or more customer relationship management graphical user interfaces. The method may additionally include filtering the one or more accounts based upon, at least in part, an input from the user to generate a filtered result set. The method may also include storing at least one of the filtered result set and the itinerary. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013590 | Searching and Displaying Data Objects Residing in Data Management Systems - A data source is accessed to provide information. The data source is accessed by defining a plurality of data objects each associated with data within the data source, where the data objects include search information that facilitates searching of the data objects, and the data objects further include display information that pertains to a format in which data obtained from a search of the data objects is displayed, defining one or more relationships linking at least one data object with at least one other data object so as to establish associated data objects with linking relationships, receiving a query to search for data within the data source, retrieving data within the data source satisfying the query in accordance with the search information, where the retrieved data comprises data from at least two associated data objects, organizing and displaying the retrieved data in accordance with the display information, and displaying one or more links associated with the retrieved data so as to enable navigation between associated data objects. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130018868 | SEARCHING DOCUMENTATION ACROSS INTERCONNECTED NODES IN A DISTRIBUTED NETWORKAANM Chi; Lucas YiAACI Cortlandt ManorAAST NYAACO USAAGP Chi; Lucas Yi Cortlandt Manor NY USAANM Parker; BryanAACI ChicagoAAST ILAACO USAAGP Parker; Bryan Chicago IL USAANM Xu; Xi SeanAACI Lake HiawathaAAST NYAACO USAAGP Xu; Xi Sean Lake Hiawatha NY US - Documentation from a network including a plurality of computing nodes is achieved by processing a query for documentation at one or more of the computing nodes within the network in accordance with a priority of each of the computing nodes to obtain search results pertaining to the documentation, where the priority for each computing node is based on a quantity of incoming connections for each computing node. The search results are prioritized in accordance with the priority of the corresponding one or more computing nodes providing the search results. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130018869 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INTERNAL CUSTOM FEED ITEMS - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for presenting feed items in an information feed. In various implementations, a first result object is received, where the first result object is a data structure including a result of a feed query, where the result of the feed query includes at least one feed item to be included in the information feed, and where the at least one feed item has a first presentation. In various implementations, at least one custom object associated with the at least one feed item is received, where the at least one custom object provides a second presentation of the at least one feed item. In some implementations, the at least one custom object is included with the first result object to define an intermediary data structure. In some implementations, the intermediary data structure is stored on one or more storage mediums. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130018870 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING FOR HANDWRITTEN MEMO DATAAANM CHO; Sung JaeAACI SeoulAACO KRAAGP CHO; Sung Jae Seoul KR - A method and apparatus for storing and searching for handwritten memo data in a database in which the handwritten memo data are stored in the form of bit streams representing continuous and discontinuous elements constituting the handwritten memo data are provided. The memo data search method includes receiving an input of memo data, storing the memo data in the form of a bit stream, searching, when a search for the memo data is requested, a memo index database for the memo data, and displaying a search result. The handwritten memo data management method and apparatus stores and searches for the memo data regardless of orientation and size. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130024443 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING AND CLUSTERING SEARCH QUERIES - Computerized systems and methods are disclosed for analyzing search query relationships and managing electronic content. In accordance with one implementation, log data pertaining to a plurality of queries may be received over an electronic network. A click graph may be generated representing one or more relationships between the queries. Further, temporal similarities may be identified between the queries, for example, by looking at peaks in frequency of queries over time. A pair of search queries may be evaluated based on the generated click graph and the identified temporal similarities to determine whether the queries in the pair are related. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024444 | Topic Map for Navigation Control - Included are embodiments for providing a topic map. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving a plurality of web pages, the web pages including metadata, extracting at least a portion of the metadata from the web pages, and creating at least one topic associated with the web pages, the at least one topic corresponding to at least a portion of the metadata. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130031086 | PROCESS AUTOMATION SYSTEM PROBLEM ANALYSIS TOOL - An automated data processing method includes providing a plurality of incident data from a physical installation of a process automation system in a processing facility that collectively spans a period of time and building a stored relational database including database data from the incident data. The method includes automatically generating at least one processed data result from the database data, wherein the automatically generating generates at least one processed data result from the database data. The processed data result is in a displayable form that facilitates identification of a problem in the process automation system by an analyst in a remote support center. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031087 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXTUAL PERSONALIZED SEARCHING - A method for providing highly relevant answers in response to a user's request uses contextual information pertaining to a user's request. A semantic entity is selected from content on the device and contextual information pertaining to the selected entity is transmitted to a server. The server constructs a query corresponding to the selected entity and translates the query into a set of simple queries; submits the simple queries to a relevant subset of a plurality of search, content and monetization sources; receives a plurality of results returned from the relevant subset of search, content and monetization sources in response to the simple queries; prioritizes the received results based on elements of the selected entity, the user, context about the selected entity, time and date, original location of the user, and aspects of the application on which the entity was selected; and presents a prioritized list of the results to the user on the client device. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031088 | FINDING RELEVANT DOCUMENTS - An embodiment includes a computer-implemented method. For one embodiment, the computer-implemented method includes displaying a plurality of first groups of words in a browser for display to a user, constructing a new combination of search terms using more than one user-selected word groups, wherein the user-selected word groups are selected by the user from the plurality of first groups of words displayed to the user; invoking a search service with the new combination of search terms, displaying results of the search service using the new combination of search terms in the browser, and storing the results in memory coupled to a processor. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130036108 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING USERS WITH OPERATING NETWORK DEVICES - A method includes steps of: receiving data from a network by a web browser executed by a computer connected to the network, analyzing the data received for determining if the data received is transmitted by a network device, extracting keywords from the data transmitted by a network device, generating a query from the keywords extracted from the data received, sending the query through the network to a web interface of a support database providing support information about operating the network device, receiving from the network query results transmitted by the support database, and displaying the query results with the page transmitted by the network device. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036109 | Filtering Social Search Results - This specification describes technologies relating to searching. In general, aspects of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving a search query from a user of a search service, identifying search results including general search results responsive to the search query and social search results associated with content generated by one or more members of a user social graph associated with the user that are responsive to the search query, the search results corresponding to digital content stored in one or more computer-readable storage media, determining that a first social search result is associated with a first muted member that is a member of the user social graph, generating filtered search results in response to determining that the social search result is associated with the first muted member, and providing the filtered search results for display to the user. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036110 | Privacy Compliance in Data Retrieval - Data may be retrieved from databases using various types of code, functions and programs. To insure that the code, functions and programs comply with privacy requirements and regulations, the code and programs may be audited. In one example, an activity log may be queried to identify code that was executed to retrieve and display database information. A system may then determine whether an unauthorized entity was able to retrieve and/or view the database information. If so, the code or program may be labeled as non-compliant. Alternatively or additionally, a system may parse data retrieval code to determine whether privacy protection code is included therein. If not, the code may be deemed non-compliant. Reports may be generated identifying the non-compliant data retrieval code or function and, in some arrangements, specifying compliance statistics. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130041888 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING INFORMATION AMONG EXCHANGE APPLICATIONS - In a system and method for accessing messages in a data store in a gateway, a data frame request, which is a structured SQL query, is received at the gateway. The received data frame request is applied to the gateway data store, which stores messages. A data frame is generated that comprises messages from the data store that are responsive to the received data frame request, the data frame having a format that is readable by a character editor. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041889 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a content search unit that searches for related content from compared content; the related content is content related to reference content possessed by a user, and the compared content is content other than the reference content. The information processing apparatus also includes a meta tag assignment unit that sets meta tag information, which is a name of the reference content, according to the related content. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041890 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CANDIDATE IN CHARACTER INPUT, CHARACTER INPUTTING PROGRAM, AND CHARACTER INPUT APPARATUS - A character input apparatus has a storage section in which a conversion dictionary and a learning dictionary are stored, wherein a plurality of pieces of dictionary data each of which includes a pre-conversion character string and a post-conversion character string are registered in the conversion dictionary, and the learning dictionary is used to register a phrase fixed as an input character string while the phrase is correlated with collocation relationship between phrases, a first candidate extracting section that searches the conversion dictionary using the pre-conversion character string in response to an input of the pre-conversion character string to extract and display a candidate of the post-conversion character string, and a second candidate extracting section that extracts and displays a phrase that collocates with the phrase indicated by the fixed character string from the learning dictionary as the input character string is fixed. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041891 | VIDEO CONTENT SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH AUTOMATIC MULTI-TERM GROUPING AND SEARCH - A search based video interface system and method is disclosed. Search results are dynamically filtered based on automatic combinations of search terms. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041892 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONVERTING AUDIO TEXT FILES ORIGINATING FROM AUDIO FILES TO SEARCHABLE TEXT AND FOR PROCESSING THE SEARCHABLE TEXT - A system and method for processing audio text files includes a content repository storing audio text files. A text transformer linguistically analyzes the audio text files within a content of multiple lexicons to form edited text results and creates a reflection repository having reflection files therein corresponding to the audio text files from the edited text results. A search engine searches the reflection files and a user device displays a first reflection file from the reflection files or a first audio text file from the audio files in response to searching. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130046753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING THE IDENTIFICATION OF GEOGRAPHICALLY CLOSEST ARTICLE DISPENSING MACHINES - A system and method of searching for physical media articles available from article dispensing machines within a geographic proximity is provided. Searching may include matching keywords in search criteria or using predefined search criteria for browsing of static or dynamic listings of media content. The method includes receiving a search request including search criteria, and searching the metadata database for a physical media article matching the search criteria. The method also includes determining the availability of the matching media article at an article dispensing machine. The geographic location of article dispensing machines with available matching media articles is determined, based on personally identifying information such as an IP or MAC address. The geographic location may be limited by a proximity from an audio/visual display interface. A search result set with the matching media articles is provided, based on their availabilities. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046754 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO FORMULATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SEARCH AND TO ORGANIZE RESULTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SEARCH - An apparatus and method of searching and organizing intellectual property (IP) formulates and facilitates searches for intellectual property and organizes results of such searches. In an exemplary embodiment, a search and organization server is provided with one or more modules to create and process search queries to be run on local or remote database systems. A class search can provide on-line access to classification information and facilitate searching of intellectual property using classifications. An IP thesaurus can provide for developing a list of elements found in IP information. The list of elements may be used as an aid in learning a new technology, as a search tool to refine search queries or criteria. A field-of-search can be based on search information identified from select IP information. Optional modules can formulate, store, organize, and output search results. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046755 | TUNERSPHERE - Systems and methods for providing representative information for a geographic area of interest are disclosed. In one embodiment, a media service tracks media interaction histories (e.g., play histories) for a number of users registered with the media service, where each media interaction history identifies media items interacted with by the corresponding user as well as the locations at which at least a subset of the media items were interacted with by the corresponding user. The media service receives a request from a requesting user for representative information for a geographic area of interest. In response to receiving the request, the media service determines representative information for the geographic area of interest based on at least a subset of the media interaction histories of the users and effects presentation of the representative information to the requesting user. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130054569 | Vertical Search-Based Query Method, System and Apparatus - Various embodiments of a method, system, and apparatus related to query based on vertical search are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of query based on vertical search receives a user query. The method obtains a first category model from a category model warehouse based on the user query to generate a first query result. The first category model includes one or more commodity categories that correspond to one or more keywords in the user query. The method also obtains one or more commodity categories corresponding to the user query from a commodity warehouse to generate a second query result. The method further generates a final query result by combining the first query result and the second query result. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054570 | DATA SHARING METHODS AND DATA SHARING SYSTEMS - Data sharing methods and data sharing system are disclosed. An example method includes providing, using a logic circuit, access to a first file associated with a first user to a second user different from the first user; identifying a second file in response to a query submitted by the first user; and prohibiting, using the logic circuit, a third user from accessing the second file. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054571 | VIRTUAL DIRECTORY SERVER CHANGELOG - Techniques for providing a consolidated view of directory changes across different directory servers. In one set of embodiments, a changelog record can be received from a directory server, where the directory server is associated with a proprietary changelog format, and where the changelog record is formatted according to the proprietary changelog format. The received changelog record can then be translated into a virtualized changelog record that is formatted according to a standard changelog format, and the virtualized changelog record can be sent to a consuming client. With this virtualization capability, the client does not need to be concerned with, or even aware of, the proprietary changelog mechanisms/formats that may be used by different directory servers in a multi-server deployment. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054572 | ACCURATE SEARCH RESULTS WHILE HONORING CONTENT LIMITATIONS - Accurate search results are provided while still honoring content limitations. Content responsive to search, whose presentation is prevented by content limitations is presented in an obscured manner, notifying the user of the existence of the content, while not enabling discerning of details, thereby honoring the content limitations. Attempted user interaction with obscured content acts as an entry point to changing the content limitations, including presenting user notifications of the content limitations and presenting an option to change the content limitations to allow for the unobscured presentation of the obscured content. Graphical content can be obscured by applying graphical modifications to generate new, obscured content that provides only a vague resemblance to the original, including jittering pixels, or other subcomponents, the applying of Gaussian blurs, and pixelization. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054573 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DISPLAYING ITEMS ON MULTIPLE FLOORS IN MULTI-LEVEL MAPS - Methods, apparatuses and computer program products are provided for displaying search results and other points of interest located on multiple floors or levels in a multi-level map. A method may include receiving an input indicating a search criteria. Further, the method may include determining at least one search result position related to the search criteria, and determining a relationship between the at least one search result position and a multi-level map. In addition, the method may further comprise causing, based at least in part on the relationship, a level of the map and the at least one search result position to be displayed as a search result position indicator, wherein the displayed search result position indicator may be presented in a different manners based at least in part on what level the search result position is located. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054574 | SUBSNIPPET HANDLING IN SEARCH RESULTS - Architecture that enables an optional display of a longer version of each subsnippet in response to user interactions such as clicking, hovering, or other suitable form of interaction. More specifically, options are provided to display additional text from a search result at the point where a subsnippet (a subsegment in a snippet that is delimited by ellipses) ends. Selecting suitable boundaries for both initial subsnippets and expanded subsnippets enables relevant information to be presented and increased readability. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054575 | Gathering Device Attributes from Multiple Devices to Exploit the Common or Complimentary Features on Those Devices - An embodiment of the invention provides a system including an interface for receiving a device identifier, a user identifier, and a request for a resource from a mobile device. A database connected to the interface includes attributes of mobile devices and user profiles. The user profiles include user identifiers and lists, wherein each of the lists include at least one mobile device used by each user to access resources. The database is queried with the device identifier to identify attributes of the mobile device. A profile of a user is generated or updated based on the user identifier and the identified attributes of the mobile device. A processor connected to the database sends a recommendation to the mobile device based on the profile of the user, the attributes of the mobile device, and the resource requested. The recommendation includes a recommended mobile device or a recommended combination of mobile devices. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054576 | IDENTIFYING DIGITAL CONTENT USING BIORESPONSE DATA - In one exemplary embodiment, eye-tracking data may be collected from a user while the user is viewing a visual sensory stimulus. If the eye-tracking data includes an eye motion pattern exceeding a predetermined threshold, then the eye-tracking data may be used to identify a visual element within the user's field of view. In addition to the visual element, attributes and context information related to the sensory experience may be determined. Information related to the sensory experience may be stored in a repository for purposes of aiding the user's recollection of the visual element at a future time. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054577 | KNOWLEDGE MATRIX UTILIZING SYSTEMATIC CONTEXTUAL LINKS - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a search input, select a first cell related to the search input, and display data of the first cell and selectable objects in response to the search input. Each cell defines a way to display a portion of searchable data within a first contextual relationship and a way to display a portion of the searchable data within a second, different contextual relationship. Selection of a first selectable object results in displaying a first portion of the data of the first cell with a first set of other data related to the first portion based upon the first contextual relationship. Selection of a second selectable object results in the computer displaying a second portion of the data of the first cell with a second set of other data related to the second portion based upon the second contextual relationship | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054578 | TEXT SEARCH APPARATUS AND TEXT SEARCH METHOD - A text search apparatus includes: a memory storing a plurality of sets of text data, text data of each set including a plurality of categories; an obtainer obtaining a search keyword; a retriever retrieving text data including the obtained search keyword for each category from the text data stored in the memory; and an output unit determining an order of the text data retrieved by the retriever by an order determining method which is preliminarily determined according to a category, and outputting the data by categories. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130060754 | Feature Search Request Management - The different illustrative embodiments provide a method, a computer program, and an apparatus for managing a search request. Responsive to receiving the search request comprising a task to be performed, a number of applications that is configured to perform the task is identified. A determination is made whether an application in the number of applications is configured to receive a parameter to perform the task that is absent from the search request. Responsive to a determination that the application in the number of applications is configured to receive the parameter to perform the task that is absent from the search request, a request for the parameter is presented. The number of applications that is configured to perform the task is presented | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060755 | APPLYING SCREENING INFORMATION TO SEARCH RESULTS - Applying screening information to search results is disclosed, including: receiving a search request for products, wherein the search request comprises one or more search conditions and a set of user information; retrieving screening information associated with the set of user information, wherein the screening information indicates one or both of seller information and product information to exclude from search results; determining a plurality of search results based at least in part on the one or more search conditions and determining a search result from the plurality of search results to be excluded based at least in part on the screening information; and returning one or more search results from the plurality of search results other than the search result determined to be excluded. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060756 | DOMAIN EXPERTISE DETERMINATION - A user's domain expertise may be estimated through several factors by monitoring different aspects of a user's interaction with a web browser. Based on the user's domain expertise, search results may be presented to the user that is commensurate with their expertise, resulting in a more efficient and productive on line session. A user's expertise in a knowledge domain may be determined from the user's behavior, including analyzing search queries, monitoring how the user navigates between and through websites, and analyzing the specific cites visited. As a user interacts with a browser, the user's estimated domain expertise may be updated and used to provide appropriate and useful search results. In many embodiments, a user may have different expertise levels for different technical domains. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060757 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING FACT CHECKING RESULTS TO GENERATE SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS - A search engine fact checking system is able to verify the correctness of information and/or characterize information related to a search engine by comparing the information with one or more sources. The search engine fact checking system includes performing a search, fact checks the search results and providing a result. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060758 | GRAPH AUTHORIZATION - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with graph authorization are described. One example method includes detecting that a user query shares a hook node with an authorization query. The example method may also include generating a base result graph by executing the user query on a base graph and generating an authorized graph by executing the authorization query on the base result graph. The method may also include providing the authorized graph. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130066852 | Event visualization - Displaying a preference by a first user of a content contribution submitted by a second user is disclosed. A preference event by the first user is detected. A plurality of detected events is stored. In response to a query from a client, at least a portion of the stored detected events is stored. At least a portion of the received events is caused to be rendered graphically. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066853 | Presenting Search Results in Hierarchical Form - In one embodiment, identify a set of search results in response to a search query; display the set of search results; receive a user interaction in connection with a first search result from the set of search results; and in response to the user interaction, if the first search result is associated with one or more first information items, then expand the first search result, comprising display the one or more first information items associated with the first search result. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066854 | UPPER LAYER STATEFUL NETWORK JOURNALING - A system includes a computer processor that is configured to implement an upper layer stateful application network journaling process. The process includes recording and managing individual client actions on each server in a network. The recording and managing of the individual client actions executes at an application layer of a network protocol stack of the network. The process also includes recording and managing a server status snapshot on a per client basis. The recording and managing of the server status snapshot executes at the application layer of the network protocol stack of the network. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066855 | NESTED COMPLEX SEQUENCE PATTERN QUERIES OVER EVENT STREAMS - A method of evaluating nested complex sequence pattern queries includes obtaining events from an event stream and evaluating the events within a first window using an outer query to produce outer partial results. The method also includes determining a more stringent window constraint, the more stringent window constraint comprising a subset of the window constraint corresponding to events that produces the outer partial results and passing the more stringent window constraint to an inner query nested within the outer query. A complex event processing system is also provided. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066856 | CLUSTERING MULTIMEDIA SEARCH - A method for clustering a set of web search results is disclosed. A first signature is compared based at least in part on an analysis of multimedia content associated with a first web search result with a second signature based at least in part on an analysis of multimedia content associated with a second web search result. The first web search result is clustered with the second web search result based at least in part on the comparison of the first signature with the second signature. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066857 | INFORMATION MANAGING METHOD, INFORMATION SEARCHING METHOD AND DATA DISPLAYING METHOD - An information managing method for managing information based upon an electronic message containing apparatus information or event information transmitted from a substrate processing apparatus, the information managing method comprising: storing the apparatus information of the substrate processing apparatus at a transmission time of the electronic message in a first apparatus information storage unit; comparing the event information with a condition for accumulating the apparatus information when the electronic message is transmitted; and accumulating the apparatus information in a second apparatus information storage unit by associating the apparatus information with a time stamp of a generation of the event information when the condition is satisfied. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130073539 | System and Method for Collectively Describing Events and Connecting Individuals Based Upon Commonly Shared Experiences to Control Social Network - A commercial and social system is controlled by collecting information related to historical events from veterans and active duty personnel. The historical events are stored in a database as keypoints based on time and location. Personal profile information for the veterans and active duty personnel is also collected and stored in the database. The information stored in the database is accessed based on search selections. A timeline of the historical events is presented based upon matches between the search selections and information stored in the database. A veteran or active duty personnel associated with the historical events is identified. A connection to the identified veteran or active duty personnel is controlled to enable a commercial or social activity with the identified veteran or active duty personnel. The historical events can also relate to sport teams, corporations, professional organizations, government, schools, and other organizations with numerous members. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073540 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENTING A PERSONAL CHANNEL FOR INTERACTIVE TELEVISION - A system and method for effectively implementing a personal channel for interactive television comprises a personal channel manager that may include a configuration module, a search module, and a content packaging module. A system user may utilize the configuration module to perform a personal channel configuration procedure to specify personal channel configuration data for performing a content record search procedure. The search module may manage the content record search procedure according to one or more search parameters that may be defined during the personal channel configuration procedure. The search module finds content records from content databases during the foregoing content record search procedure. The content packaging module coordinates a content record sorting procedure according to user-specified sorting criteria. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130080419 | AUTOMATIC INFORMATION PRESENTATION OF DATA AND ACTIONS IN SEARCH RESULTS - Architecture that inserts one or more label items in search result entries. In addition to the typical search result caption (title, snippet, and link), the architecture includes the label component of one or more of the label items in the result entry. The number and type of label annotations are based on the query. When a particular label item is selected (e.g., hover, mouse click), a presentation component (e.g., expansion object, pop-up window) launches proximate to a label item in response to interaction with the label item and presents additional information from the target webpage. The additional information can include an action and data related to the search result entry and the target webpage. The data can be obtained from a data source other than the target webpage. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080420 | HISTORICAL BROWSING SESSION MANAGEMENT - A remote browsing process is directed to the generation and management of a remote browse session at a network computing provider. A client computing device requests a remote browse session instance at a network computing provider. The network computing and storage provider processes the requested content for display, and provides a processed representation of the requested content to the client computing device for display. The network computing provider further provides a historical content representation corresponding to the requested content to a historical browse storage component for storage. The network computing provider may further provide historical content representations to the historical browse storage component for content directly or indirectly referenced by the requested content. The client computing device may subsequently search for content not previously displayed by the client computing device. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080421 | HISTORICAL BROWSING SESSION MANAGEMENT - A remote browsing process is directed to the generation and management of a remote browse session at a network computing and storage provider. A client computing device provides a search request to a network computing and storage provider. Responsive to the search request, the network computing and storage provider provides search results corresponding to historical content representations associated with content previously requested by the client computing device or a user associated with the client computing device. The network computing and storage provider may determine the search results based on a navigation path associated with a previous request for content, or based on any number of other factors. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080422 | Method, Apparatus and System of Intelligent Navigation - The present disclosure describes a method, an apparatus and a system of intelligent navigation. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a user inquiry from a client terminal; searching a navigation dictionary based on the user inquiry to obtain a recommendation result corresponding to the user inquiry, the navigation dictionary including an editor recommendation based on user behavior information; and sending the recommendation result to the client terminal. The present disclosure can enhance the accuracy, relevancy, richness and intelligence of the intelligent navigation, and reduce user search time as well as the search loading on the server. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080423 | RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SEARCH QUERIES - A system and method of providing recommendations for search queries are disclosed. A search query is received. Historical data in a historical database is accessed using the search query. The historical data is related to inactive e-commerce items. Recommendations are generated for the search query based on the accessed historical data. The recommendations can comprise item recommendations, category recommendations, and query recommendations. The query recommendations can comprise suggested queries and a preview of search results for each of the suggested queries. The steps of accessing the historical data and generating the one or more recommendations can be performed in response to a determination that the number of results for the search query is below a predetermined threshold. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130086040 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC ON-GOING DECISION SUPPORT AND TRENDING BASED ON A FLEXIBLE DATA MODEL - Certain examples provide systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for clinical data analysis. Certain examples provide a clinical data analysis system including a user interface, a task manager, and a process manager. The example user interface is to facilitate user input and provide output to the user regarding a data query and analysis. The example task manager is to create and manage one or more analyzers to identify at least one of a trend and a correlation in query results. The example process manager is to facilitate querying of one or more data sources according to the data query and a flexible data model, the process manager to allocate tasks to the one or more analyzers for the data query and analysis. The example process manager and task manager are to facilitate user queries and automated system queries performed automatically during periods of non-peak usage. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086041 | USE OF OFF-PAGE CONTENT TO ENHANCE CAPTIONS WITH ADDITIONAL RELEVANT INFORMATION - Architecture that uses content from off-page data sources such as feeds (e.g., yellow pages, coupons, social networks, commerce, etc.) to present additional, relevant information in association with search results. The additional and relevant information is directly relevant to the implicit task the user is trying to accomplish. The architecture includes online and offline mechanisms that identify an entity represented on a web page and look-up information related to that entity in disparate data sources. Relevance heuristics are employed to determine which of the available entity data to show in the caption given the user query, the web page, and the underlying user task (other known information about the user such as geographic location). | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086042 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION DISCLOSURE STATEMENT MANAGEMENT AND PRIOR ART CROSS-CITATION CONTROL - The present inventive subject matter relates to document management, more particularly to a system and method for information disclosure statement management and prior art cross-citation control. Various embodiments of the present inventive subject matter include systems and methods for controlling the cross-citation and propagation of prior art reference documents from one patent case to another. Some embodiments may include propagation control user interfaces which display to a user sets of patent cases as potential target cases for prior art. In some embodiments, characteristics of the prior art may be identified and used as the basis for selecting and controlling the cross-citation of prior art. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086043 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING PATENT OWNERSHIP CHANGE - A computer-implemented method and system are provided for automatically tracking change in ownership status of patents listed in a database at a patent registry. The method comprises receiving input from a user identifying one or more patents of interest to be tracked and, based on the input received, automatically performing a search of the registry database to identify changes in ownership status for any one or more of the patents of interest. The search results are formatted and transmitted to a user. The automatic search may be conducted on a regular basis thereby notifying as user of any intervening changes in ownership. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086044 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PATENT ACTIVITY PROFILING - A computer-implemented method and system are provided for profiling patent activity for a user. The patent activity may be competitive patent activity. The method comprises retrieving a first set of data from a database or patent registry relating to one or more patent matters in the name of a user-specified applicant, owner, or owner type and generating a first patent activity profile for the applicant, owner or owner type based on the retrieved data. The first patent activity profile is stored in a database as a reference profile. The method includes retrieving a second set of data from a database or patent registry relating to the one or more patent matters in the name of the specified applicant, owner, or owner type and comparing the first and second sets of data to identify deviations from the reference profile. The identified deviations are transmitted to the user. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086045 | PATENT MAPPING - System and method permit patent mapping. A method may comprise maintaining a database of patent portfolios and a database of patents with each patent stored in the database of patents associated with one or more patent portfolios stored in the database of patent portfolios. A target subject matter to be mapped is identified and a search query associated with the target subject matter is received. Search results are generated to define a first patent portfolio in the database with the search results including one or more patent claims associated with the search query. The one or more patent claims are mapped to a patent concept. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086046 | PATENT MAPPING - A system and computer implemented method are provided. The method comprises maintaining a database of patent portfolios and a database of patents, with each patent stored in the database of patents being associated with one or more patent portfolios stored in the database of patent portfolios. The method includes receiving a search query associated with a first patent portfolio; searching the first portfolio as a function of the search query; generating a seed set of search results including one or more patent claims associated with the search query, the patent claims including terms from the search query; automatically generating an expanded set of search results including one or more patent claims further associated with the search query or associated with the patent claims in the seed set of search results; and mapping the one or more patent claims to a patent concept. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086047 | PATENT MAPPING - A system and computer implemented method of patent mapping are provided. The method comprises maintaining a database of patent portfolios and a database of patents, each patent stored in the database of patents associated with one or more patent portfolios stored in the database of patent portfolios; maintaining a database of ontologies, the ontologies including one or more patent concepts in defined groups; receiving a search query associated with a first patent portfolio; searching the first portfolio as a function of the search query; generating search results, the search results including one or more patent claims associated with the search query; and mapping the one or more patent claims to a patent concept in a defined group. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086048 | PATENT MAPPING - A system and computer implemented method of patent mapping is provided. The method comprises maintaining a database of patent portfolios and a database of patents, each patent stored in the database of patents associated with one or more patent portfolios stored in the database of patent portfolios; receiving a search query associated with a first patent portfolio; searching the first portfolio as a function of the search query; generating search results, the search results including one or more independent patent claims associated with the search query; mapping the one or more independent patent claims to at least one patent concept; and associating the at least one mapped patent concept to one or more patent claims which are dependent on the one or more independent patent claims. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086049 | PATENT MAPPING - A system and method for patent mapping are provided. The system comprises a database of patent sets and a database of patents, each patent stored in the database of patents associated with one or more patent sets stored in the database of patent sets; and one or more modules to perform a portion of one or more of the following: receive input identifying a set of keyword source claims associated with a first patent set; automatically extract at least one keyword from the source claims; receive or formulate a search query associated with the first patent set, the search query including the at least one keyword; search the entire first patent set as a function of the search query; generate search results, the search results including one or more patent claims associated with the search query; and map the one or more patent claims to a patent concept. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130091123 | QUERY TO STREAMING DATA - A client computer buffers a continuous flow of streaming data during a sliding window that is defined by a time boundary. The client computer processes a query on a portion of the streaming data buffered during the time boundary of the sliding window and a portion of the streaming data stored in a data warehouse. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091124 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING DATA AT HIGH SPEED TO PERFORM POST-PROCESSING ON SATELLITE TELEMETRY DATA - A telemetry data retrieval apparatus and method for post-processing are provided. The telemetry data retrieval apparatus may include a retrieval initiating unit to receive an input of a retrieval time, and to calculate a percentage of the retrieval time during an entire retrieval period, a start position calculating unit to calculate a retrieval start position in which data retrieval is started within a stored file, based on the calculated percentage, and a telemetry data retrieval unit to verify a start pattern and a time tag from the calculated retrieval start position, and to retrieve a position of telemetry data in the stored file. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091125 | CONSTRUCTION DRAWING EVALUATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The invention provides the ability to count symbols within drawings in an automated fashion using a computer processor. This may be accomplished by identifying a particular symbol (representing a drawing part) and then permitting the computer to search for the identified symbol in the drawing. Following the initial search, a secondary search may be performed to increase the accuracy of an initial automated count, and obtaining refined searches results representing similar parts (represented by the same symbol) but being a part type as indicated by an identifier associated with the initial symbol. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091126 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE DATA - Systems and method for annotating variants within a genome can call variants from reads or receive called variants directly and associate the called variants with functional annotations and interpretive annotations. A summary report of the called variants, the associated functional annotations, and the associated interpretive annotations can be generated. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091127 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Search keywords are acquired (S | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130097151 | TRANSFORMATION OF COMPLEX DATA SOURCE RESULT SETS TO NORMALIZED SETS FOR MANIPULATION AND PRESENTATION - An enterprise business intelligence system includes a data access service. In one example, a method comprises receiving, with a data access service, a query and a report specification from an application, wherein the data access service is positioned between the application and a data source; creating a run tree that comprises a sequence of executable decoration nodes; executing the query on the data source, thereby providing a query result set comprising query results drawn from the data source that are responsive to the query; and executing the sequence of decoration nodes on the query result set. The decoration nodes modify the query result set, thereby producing a decorated result set based on the query result set and the decoration nodes. Producing the decorated result set comprises associating members or values in the query results with corresponding positions or calculated members in the report specification. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097152 | TOPICAL ACTIVITY MONITOR SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method monitors topical activity among networked devices of social communications networks. Related messages, such as posts, shares, likes, and others, are communicated between devices of the social networks. Each social network maintains a share count of related messages. A data network, such as the Internet, includes sources of articles. The method includes receiving a search item from the data network, collecting articles related to the search item from article sources, storing a unique identifier for each collected article, comparing the search item to the unique identifiers to determine similarity, compiling a result set of any similar unique identifiers, communicatively detecting, for the result set, respective share counts of related messages for each social network, and deriving a collective score based on all share counts. The score represents topical activity for the search item. The score is reported, and relevant articles may also be reported. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097153 | Profile Based Content Retrieval for Recommender Systems - The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method and a computer program product for controlling a recommender system, wherein a user profile normally used by a recommender to predict user ratings is employed to generate a targeted query for the remote database yielding a set of results that can be scored by the recommender and provided as suggestions to the user. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097154 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO RETRIEVE SEARCH RESULTS FROM A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of retrieval of information from a distributed database, e.g. using distributed computation as a search engine. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097155 | PROGRAM INVOCATION FROM A QUERY INTERFACE TO PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEM - Techniques are disclosed for invoking an analysis routine running on a parallel computer system to analyze query results. A query generated using a query builder application for execution against a database to produce query results. Embodiments receive a selection of one of a plurality of analysis routines to apply to the query results. A command and the query results are transmitted to a compute node of a parallel computer system using an established network connection. Embodiments invoke the selected analysis routine on the parallel computing system using the translated command and the query results to produce analysis routine results. The analysis routine results are merged with the query results to produce merged results, and the merged results are output for display. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130103673 | Apparatus and Method for Displaying Multiple Display Panels With a Progressive Relationship Using Cognitive Pattern Recognition - An apparatus and method for searching and displaying using cognitive pattern recognition including searching for document(s) with at least one search text, wherein each search text is associated with a highlight option; selecting to enable or disable the highlight option for each of the search text; displaying a progressive relationship of the document(s) in scaled common image format (CIF) by displaying: a first display presenting the document(s), wherein each of the document(s) includes all of the search text; a second display presenting only pages from the document(s) where the only pages presented include one or more of the search text with its associated highlight option enabled; and a third display presenting one page from the only pages wherein all occurrences of the search text where the highlight option for the search text is enabled are displayed simultaneously on the page. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103674 | METHOD FOR MANAGING INFORMATION - A method for managing the exchange of information is provided, wherein the method includes receiving at least one information location identifier, wherein the at least one information location identifier may be associated with at least one information portal and associating with at least one network browser. The method further includes generating an information location identifier template responsive to the at least one information portal and communicating with the at least one information portal to identify resultant information. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103675 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A document management apparatus comprises: a base folder setting unit configured to set a base folder used as a base point of search processing from folders which are allocated above a folder of interest; a search unit configured to detect, from folders allocated below the base folder, a folder having a path from the base folder, which path is similar to a path from the base folder to the folder of interest, as a similar folder similar to the folder of interest; and a search result display unit configured to display a link to the similar folder detected by the search unit on a display window. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130110821 | System And Method For Propagating Classification Decisions | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110822 | Indicating Location Status | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130117258 | Previewing Search Results - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for previewing search results. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query from a client device. One or more image search results are provided to the client device, each of the one or more image search results identifying a corresponding image resource and each of the one or more image search results including an image representation of the corresponding image resource. One or more related queries are provided to the client device, the one or more related queries having been determined to be related to the query, wherein each of the one or more related queries includes a preview image to be displayed at the client device, the preview image representing an image search result responsive to the related query. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117259 | Search Query Context - Search techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a search service receives a search query from a user. A query context is formed for the user based on a history of content consumption that is verified for the user. A plurality of search results are generated that reference different types of content that correspond to the search query, respectively. The plurality of search results are ordered for output in a user interface according to the different types of content based at least in part on the query context. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117260 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND USER INTERFACE FOR CONTENT SEARCH - A system and method for searching content and user interface for presenting results of the search are provided, wherein visual elements representing the content are distributed in three dimensions on a display, with the various axes representing criteria that relate to a central starting point of the search and the proximity to the central point indicating the degree of relevance. The outer bounds of the display contain a large amount of varied material of various types to allow a user to select content of a different type, with the content at the periphery of the display being essentially random and representing little or no link to the starting point of the search. Any displayed element may be selected, as a source for a next level search, in which case content relationships will be re-drawn, with the selected content used as the center point for a next level search. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130124503 | DELTA INDEXING METHOD FOR HIERARCHY FILE STORAGE - A device relative to a delta indexing method for a hierarchy file storage including a from-end side file server and a back-end side file server is provided. The front-end side file server creates a file update list for accumulating a file update history in a file system therein, a search server requests the file update list to the front-end side file server, and the front-end side file server supplies path name information of a targeted file in the back-end side file server in addition to the file update list, thereby, the search accesses tot the back-end side file server to be able to acquire necessary information for a search index update. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124504 | Sharing Digital Content to Discovered Content Streams in Social Networking Services - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a query for content within a user interface of a social networking service, obtaining search results based on the query, the search results including a set of items distributed by users of the social networking service, transmitting instructions to display the search results in a search stream provided in the user interface, the set of items being included in the search stream, receiving first user input, the first user input defining an item data set associated with an item to be provided in the search results, and transmitting instructions to display revised search results including the item in one or more search streams, the one or more search streams including the search stream. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124505 | METHODS FOR INTEGRATING SEMANTIC SEARCH, QUERY, AND ANALYSIS ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS DATA TYPES AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and data management computing apparatus comprising searching across a plurality of different heterogeneous data indexes based on portions of one or more search keywords in response to a received request. A result set for each of the plurality of different heterogeneous data indexes is obtained based on the searching. Further, one or more facets to each of the obtained results sets are added. Furthermore, a plurality of visualization techniques are automatically identified for each of the obtained results sets based on the facets in each of the obtained result sets and a model entity type associated with each of the plurality of different heterogeneous data indexes. Finally, each of the obtained results sets with the added facets and the identified one of the plurality of visualization techniques is provided. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124506 | HOST-BASED INTELLIGENT RESULTS RELATED TO A CHARACTER STREAM - Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130132372 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC SERVICE INTEGRATION - The client may access a wide variety of data sources without extensive customization. A service integration module comprises a plurality of service records, each of which is associated with a respective data source. The service integration module may be configured to manage data source integration including data source drivers, credentials, and connection information. In response to a service request from a client, the service integration module identifies a service record, generates a data source query, accesses a result of the query, and transmits the result to the client. The service integration module may map raw data returned from a data source into a standard format. The service integration module may also reformat the results into a format or data encoding specified by the client. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132373 | MASSIVE MODEL VISUALIZATION WITH SPATIAL RETRIEVAL - Systems and methods for massive model visualization in product data management (PDM) systems. A method includes storing a hierarchical product data structure by a product data management (PDM) system, including a plurality of occurrence nodes and component nodes. The method includes receiving a query that references an occurrence node and at least one cell index value and determining a query result corresponding to the query. The query result identifies at least one occurrence node that corresponds to the cell index value. The method includes forming a query result chain corresponding to the query result, the query result chain filtered by a structural criterion, and applying a configuration rule to the filtered query result chain to identify child nodes of the filtered query result chain that conform to the configuration rule, and thereby producing a configured spatial retrieval result. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132374 | INTELLIGENT VIDEO SUMMARIES IN INFORMATION ACCESS - In a method for displaying video data within result presentations in information access or search systems, compressed thumbnails are computed for videos in a result page and applied to the result page. An end user is enabled to select a video in the result page and activate streaming of a video summary within the context of the associated result page. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132375 | Dynamic View-Based Data Layer in a Geographic Information System - Interactive geographic information systems (GIS) and techniques are disclosed that provide users with a greater degree of flexibility, utility, and information. A markup language is provided that facilitates communication between servers and clients of the interactive GIS, which enables a number of GIS features, such as network links (time-based and/or view-dependent dynamic data layers), ground overlays, screen overlays, placemarks, 3D models, and stylized GIS elements, such as geometry, icons, description balloons, polygons, and labels in the viewer by which the user sees the target area. Also, “virtual tours” of user-defined paths in the context of distributed geospatial visualization is enabled. Streaming and interactive visualization of filled polygon data are also enabled thereby allowing buildings and other such features to be provided in 3D. Also, techniques for enabling ambiguous search requests in a GIS are provided. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132376 | INTELLIGENT CLIENT CAPABILITY-BASED RESULTS RELATED TO A CHARACTER STREAM - Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130138631 | SEARCH SCRATCH PAD - A plurality of queries associated with a plurality of user query object submissions to a scratch pad application executing asynchronously as a background application to a first user application may be obtained. One or more search requests may be initiated to one or more search engines based on each one of the plurality of obtained queries. Cumulative search results of the one or more search requests may be obtained, the cumulative search results accumulated over the plurality of obtained queries. A set of accumulated results metadata may be obtained based on an analysis of the accumulated cumulative search results. A display of a summary of the cumulative search results based on a relevance analysis of the accumulated results metadata may be initiated. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138632 | AIRCRAFT TRENDING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods of aircraft trending are described. In one example, a method of aircraft trend analysis includes receiving, at a computing device, data from a plurality of aircraft in a fleet of aircraft. The data includes system level data for each of the plurality of aircraft. The received data is stored in a database. The computing device analyzes the stored data to identify fleet trends and generates one or more trend analysis reports for the fleet based at least in part on the fleet trends. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138633 | DECOMPOSED QUERY CONDITIONS - A method, article of manufacture and apparatus for decomposing an initial query into smaller conditional groups for execution on a database is disclosed. A separate database query may be generated for each of the conditional groups, and the results of executing these separate database queries may be combined and returned as the result of the initial query. Typically, the initial query may be decomposed because it is otherwise too large and/or too complex to be executed directly. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138634 | INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY BASED RESULTS RELATED TO A CHARACTER STREAM - Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130144868 | Post Building and Search Creation - Various embodiments provide a social search engine that enables a user to create posts that are shared with various other users and which can be dynamically updated and modified by the user and/or others. In at least some embodiments, posts that are created by a user can be curated and tailored by the user to personalize their posts, as well as posts of others. Customization of posts can allow for creation of posts that serve as an “answer” for other search queries. Previously created posts can be revisited to add content such as links, media, and social interactions such as comments and the like. In at least some embodiments, a relevant post community can author a particular post which, in at least some instances, serve as an “answer.” | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130144869 | Trending - Embodiments include methods and systems for generating trending search magazines. Trending topics may be identified from news servers. A search magazine edition may be generated for a trending topic. The edition has a search magazine format, including a news section, a user-generated media section and an about section. News and article servers are searched for articles on the trending topic. Media is searched for on the trending topic. Descriptive information is searched for on the trending topic. The search results of these automatic searches are transformed into the search magazine format of the edition and provided for display in a current display view of a mobile device. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130159288 | INFORMATION GRAPH - Disclosed are electronic systems and techniques that generate an information graph with associated validation measures related to information obtained from data sources for providing recommendations about a potential candidate for a financial product. Search results are used to gather data associated with a potential client for loan offers. Levels of certainty are initiated from the associations and used to modify the search criteria or identifying data for searching further. A credit worthiness score related to the potential client is configured based on the information graph. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159289 | System, Method and Computer Program Product for a Behavioral Database Providing Quantitative Analysis of Cross-Border Policy Process and Related Search Capabilities - A system, method, or computer program product for translating non-quantitative, text-based data into a quantitative risk management tool(s) including: receiving, by a computer processor(s), non-quantitative data relating to cross-border public policy; receiving, by the processor(s), at least one tag relating to said non-quantitative data; storing, by the processor(s), said non-quantitative data and said at least one tag in a database; and providing, by the processor(s), quantitative risk management tools designed to provide customized, automatic daily graphical illustrations of policy activity levels on a cross-border basis using concepts and other meta-tagging tools to generate graphs. Tools may mining data to extract quantitative and graphical information from stored, tagged non-quantitative data and may semantically search those documents as well as assess correlations and covariances of cross-border policy processes, and deliver quantitative and/or graphical output results. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159290 | INTELLIGENT RESULTS BASED ON DATABASE QUERIES - Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130166537 | DISTRIBUTED MULTI-STEP ABSTRACT QUERIES - Techniques for incorportating query results into an abstract database are described. Embodiments receive a first set of query results produced by executing a first abstract query using a first data abstraction model against a first database. One or more mappings between the first set of query results and one or more logical fields in a second data abstraction model are then determined, where the second data abstraction model models underlying physical data in a manner making a schema of the physical data transparent to a user of the second data abstraction model. Embodiments modify one or more logical field definitions to reference the first set of query results using the determined one or more mappings, such that abstract queries can be executed against both the second database and the first set of query results using the modified second data abstraction model. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166538 | Panoptic Visualization Document Database Management - A system includes a database management system engine, data manipulation subsystem and layout engine. The management system engine is configured to manage a database having stored therein a panoptic visualization document collection of document components each of which has associated metadata providing information about the respective document component, with the document components and metadata being stored in respective records of the database. The data manipulation subsystem includes a query language engine configured to receive a request for the respective records of document components and associated metadata, and the management system engine is configured to retrieve the requested, respective records from the database. The layout engine is configured to generate a layout of panoptically-arranged visual representations of the document components. And the query language engine is configured to communicate the layout and retrieved, respective records of the associated metadata. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166539 | DISTRIBUTED MULTI-STEP ABSTRACT QUERIES - Techniques for incorportating query results into an abstract database are described. Embodiments receive a first set of query results produced by executing a first abstract query using a first data abstraction model against a first database. One or more mappings between the first set of query results and one or more logical fields in a second data abstraction model are then determined, where the second data abstraction model models underlying physical data in a manner making a schema of the physical data transparent to a user of the second data abstraction model. Embodiments modify one or more logical field definitions to reference the first set of query results using the determined one or more mappings, such that abstract queries can be executed against both the second database and the first set of query results using the modified second data abstraction model. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166540 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND ANALYZING SOCIAL NETWORK DATABASES - A system and method for monitoring and analyzing social network databases to determine actual key influencers is disclosed. Inputs are received from the user, which includes search keyword(s), time, date, language, area and country. Content corresponding to the user inputs is fetched from the social network databases. The fetched content is analyzed to identify a list of probable key influencers. Among the probable key influencers, actual key influencers are determined based on parameters associated with the probable key influencer. Reports may be generated based on the actual key influencers and the content they posted on the social network. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166541 | FAST INDEX WITH SUPPLEMENTAL STORE - A hardware and/or software search facility for searching and retrieving data stored on a mobile device. An index to the data is stored in fast memory (e.g., RAM) on the mobile device. The index contains a minimal amount of information necessary to present search results to a user. A supplemental data file is stored in storage that is local to or remote from the mobile device. The supplemental data files contain additional organized data that may be used to enhance the search results. In response to a search query, the facility uses the index to identify results that are responsive to the search query. The results are presented by the facility in accordance with predetermined rules. The facility may use the supplemental data file to perform further processing and present additional information. In some embodiments, the facility may mount or unmount indices and supplemental files from a device. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166542 | UNIFYING HETROGENOUS DATA - Systems of computer hardware for unifying data are presented including: a complex enterprise query client; a web sphere federation server (WSFS) electronically coupled with the complex enterprise query client, the WSFS configured for receiving a complex query from the complex enterprise query client; a first and second data service wrapper of a number of wrappers configured for transforming a first and second sub-query of the complex query corresponding with a first and second data type into a first and second data query; and a network traversal framework configured for receiving the first data query and the second data query, for sending consolidated first and second data results corresponding with the first and second data query to the first and second data service wrapper. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130173593 | BREADCRUMB FILTERING - A first search result page is displayed and includes a plurality of items and a hierarchical list of categories. The hierarchical list of categories is such that each of the plurality of items falls within all of the categories in the hierarchical list of categories. The plurality of items includes only items that match a search criteria entered in a search box. An indication that a category in the hierarchical list of categories has been selected is received. In response, a second search result page is displayed and includes a second plurality of items that fall within the selected category. The second plurality of items includes only items that match the search criteria. At least one item of the second plurality of items was not displayed in the first search result page. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173594 | TECHNIQUES FOR ACCESSING A PARALLEL DATABASE SYSTEM VIA EXTERNAL PROGRAMS USING VERTICAL AND/OR HORIZONTAL PARTITIONING - Techniques for accessing a parallel database system via an external program using vertical and/or horizontal partitioning are provided. An external program to a database management system (DBMS) configures external mappers to process a specific portion of query results on specific access module processors of the DBMS that are to house query results. The query is submitted by the external program to the DBMS and the DBMS is directed to organize the query results in a vertical or horizontal manner. Each external mapper accesses its portion of the query results for processing in parallel on its designated AMP or set of AMPS to process the query results. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173595 | TECHNIQUES FOR EXTERNAL APPLICATION-DIRECTED DATA PARTITIONING IN DATA EXPORTING FROM A DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Techniques for external application-directed data partitioning in data exported from a parallel database management system (DBMS) are provided. An external application sends a query, a total number of requested access module processors (AMPs), and an application-defined data partitioning expression to the DBMS. The DBMS executes the query with the results vertical partitioned on the identified number of AMPs. Individual external mappers access their assigned AMPs asking for specific partitions that they are assigned to process the query results. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173596 | Batch Management Systems and Methods - Example systems and methods of managing product genealogy data across distributed systems are described. In one implementation, a method identifies a material associated with a product that is part of a product batch. Usage information associated with the material is accessed, and a handling unit associated with the product batch is identified. Delivery information associated with the product batch is also accessed. A genealogy is generated for the product batch based on the material, the usage information, the handling unit, and the delivery information. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173597 | COMPUTING RESOURCE ALLOCATION BASED ON QUERY RESPONSE ANALYSIS IN A NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - An approach for allocating computing resources based on a confidence level associated with responses to queries is provided. In a typical embodiment, a query is received from a querying user, and a search for a response to the query is conducted. A confidence level associated with the response is then determined. If the confidence level of the response does not meet a predetermined threshold, additional computing resources are allocated, and the search and corresponding response are updated (e.g., iteratively). An updated confidence level based on the updated response is then determined. Once the predetermined threshold has been met by the confidence level of the response, the response can be returned to the querying user. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173598 | Method and Apparatus for Automated Pattern Analysis to Identify Location Information in Cellular Telephone Records - A method and apparatus for analyzing cellular telephone records is provided. The analysis applies a statistics-based approach to determine patterns in cellular activity and identify pertinent location information in the cellular telephone records. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173599 | QUERY DISAMBIGUTION - A search query is resolved prior to being submitted to one or more search engines. The query is resolved such that the query unambiguously corresponds to a category included in a query ontology that relates search queries to query categories. The query may be resolved by supplementing the query with additional information corresponding to the category. For example, the query may be formatted into a canonical form of the query for the category. Alternatively or additionally, the query may be supplemented with one or more keywords that are associated with the category and that represent words or phrases that appear in a high percentage of search results for queries from the category. Resolving the query yields search results that more closely reflect search results desired by a user submitting the query. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173600 | FORMLETS AS AN ENABLER OF THE CLINICAL USER EXPERIENCE - Certain examples provide systems, methods, apparatus, etc., to generate formlets for user review of and interaction with clinical data and associated functionality for one or more patients. An example method includes receiving one or more query criterion to retrieve data and generating a query result of data from one or more data stores based on the one or more query criterion. The example method includes applying a transform to the query result data. The example method includes applying a data template and binding instructions to the transformed query result data to generate a formlet including data and at least one of associated relationship and functionality information for display of and interaction with the data. The example method includes facilitating runtime configurability of the formlet by a user. The example method includes displaying the formlet for user review and interaction. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173601 | Management of Multimedia Content - Disclosed are method and apparatus for managing multimedia content. The uniform resource locators of multimedia content accessed via the Internet are saved in collections stored in the database of a multimedia access system, which is shared by multiple users via individual user accounts. Collections may be copied from one user account to another user account, e-mailed, and posted on a website. Collections in the database may be searched by keywords associated with the collections. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173602 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMLET GENERATION AND PRESENTATION - Certain examples provide systems and methods for formlet generation and presentation. Certain examples provide one or more formlets to be used to construct a clinical application. Certain examples leverage a content-based system, clinical element queries and clinical element transforms to generate a formlet to be used in a clinical application. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130179435 | Layout-Driven Data Selection and Reporting - A system includes a database with a plurality of records, each record including a plurality of data fields. The system receives input from an end user. The end user input is received via an end user interface, and the end user input includes a subset of the plurality of data fields. The system queries the database using the subset of data fields, and data is retrieved from the database using the subset of data fields. The data retrieved from the database substantially include only data fields that are the data fields supplied by the end user. In an embodiment, the retrieved data do not include data fields that are not part of the data fields supplied by the end user. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179436 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, REMOTE CONTROL APPARATUS, AND SEARCHING METHODS THEREOF - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display unit configured to display an image frame of a content, an interface unit configured to receive a user command for selecting an object, a selection unit configured to select the object corresponding to the user command as a search target, in a plurality of image frames of the content, a communication unit configured to communicate with an external search server, and a control unit configured to transmit the selected object as the search target to the external search server, receive a searching result for the selected object from the external search server, and display the searching result. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179437 | RESOURCE SEARCH OPERATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying query-relevant content in a resource identified by a search result in response to the query. In one aspect, a method includes identifying resource search tidbits for a resource, each resource search tidbit being eligible for a resource search operation for the resource. The resource search tidbits are provided with search results to a client device. In response to a user selecting a resource identified by a search result, the client device identifies text in the resource matching the query-relevant text of the resource search tidbit and performs a resource search operation on the resource if the identified text meets a search operation threshold condition. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130185284 | GROUPING SEARCH RESULTS INTO A PROFILE PAGE - Methods are disclosed for grouping search results into a profile page. A search engine accepts a user search string and generates a first set of results. In response to the first set of results, a query generator generates queries corresponding to a number of entities sharing a common name. The search engine executes the queries, returning responsive data sets. An entity resolver merges the data sets to ensure that each unique entity is represented by a single data set. A threshold may be defined such that results meeting a certain level of similarity are merged. A profile generator creates a profile page for each unique entity using biographical data contained in the respective data sets, and generates a results page containing links to each unique profile. The results page is then sent to the user for display on a graphical user interface. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185285 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLE PERSONALITY SUPPORT AND DYNAMIC PERSONALITY SELECTION - Apparatus and methods establish and maintain a plurality of profiles defining different personalities in association with a single user account. Further, apparatus and methods described herein enable a group communication session including receiving a request from an originator to initiate a group communication session, where the request identifies a plurality of participants. Further, these aspects include selecting an originator profile from a plurality of different established originator profiles to be displayed to each of the plurality of participants, where each of the plurality of different established originator profiles is associated with a single user account. Further, in these aspects, a first selected originator profile to be displayed to a first one of the plurality of participants differs from a second selected originator profile to be displayed to a second one of the plurality of participants. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185286 | SEARCHING FOR ASSOCIATED EVENTS IN LOG DATA - To retrieve a sequence of associated events in log data, a request expression is parsed to retrieve types of dependencies between events which are searched, and the constraints (e.g., keywords) which characterize each event. Based on the parsing results, query components can be formed, expressing the constraints for individual events and interrelations (e.g., time spans) between events. A resultant span query comprising the query components can then be run against an index of events, which encodes a mutual location of associated events in storage. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185287 | USER INTERFACES FOR A DOCUMENT SEARCH ENGINE - A method includes receiving a search query, identifying a document based on the search query, and providing a search result based on the document. The search result includes, for example, an image associated with the document, an excerpt from the document that is associated with the search query, and links to other excerpts in the document that are associated with the search query. The method may also include providing other information associated with the document. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185288 | PRODUCT SEARCH DEVICE, PRODUCT SEARCH METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a product search device includes an obtaining unit, a determiner, a first controller, a reception unit, a retrieval unit, and a second controller. The obtaining unit obtains a first image including plural items. The determiner determines to which group each of the items in the obtained first image belongs among plural groups into which products related to the items are categorized in accordance with a predetermined categorization condition. The first controller displays the group to which each of the items belongs on a display unit. The reception unit receives a user input specifying at least one of the groups displayed on the display unit. The retrieval unit searches a storage unit storing the groups and second images of the products in an association manner, and extracts the second image corresponding to the specified group. The second controller displays the extracted second image on the display unit. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185289 | POPULARITY OF CONTENT ITEMS - Search results may be yielded based on a search query. A search query inspired by a user may be received. Based on the search query, multiple search results each including links may be determined. The multiple search results may include a first search result that includes a link to a first digital instance that describes or embodies a first content item, and a second search result that includes a link to a second digital instance that describes or embodies a second content item. A perceived popularity may be assessed for each of the first and second content items. The perceived popularity may be a measure of the popularity of the first and second content items, and may be distinct from a popularity of the first and second digital instances. A presentation of the multiple search results may be determined based on the accessed perceived popularity. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185290 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING MESSAGE DATA IN A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and apparatus for searching message data in a portable electronic device are provided. A threaded message inbox is provided at a display of the device, the message data grouped as threads. Search criteria are received and a search of an index of the threaded message inbox is initiated using the search criteria, the index comprising key words extracted from the message data. Additional message data is received while the search is being performed, the additional message data belonging to a given thread. Additional message data is searched in addition to the index. Search results are generated based on whether at least one of data from additional message data and data from the index meets the search criteria. Search results are provided in threads at the display. Search results are automatically updated in response to receiving additional message data when the additional message data meets the search criteria. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130191371 | USING POPULAR QUERIES TO DECIDE WHEN TO FEDERATE QUERIES - A query received from a user is directed to a particular search application (e.g. an Enterprise search portal) that is associated with a result source from which to retrieve results. The received query may be federated to additional result sources when the received query is determined to be a popular query in a result source. Query logs associated with the additional result sources are analyzed to determine when a query is popular as compared to the original result source. The query may be altered before being executed that uses one or more of the additional result sources. When the query (altered/unaltered) is determined to be popular for any of the additional result sources as compared to the original result source, the query is executed using that additional result source. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191372 | Personalized Structured Search Queries for Online Social Networks - In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving an text query, identifying nodes and edges from a social graph that correspond to character strings from the text query, and then generating recommended queries that include references to the identified nodes and edges. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191373 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM INCLUDING SEARCH SERVER FOR SEARCHING A MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A communications system includes a search server, and a mobile wireless communications device. The mobile wireless communications device has a memory configured to store at least one application and application data associated therewith, and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to search the application data for at least one search term and generate preliminary search results based thereupon, and send the at least one search term and the preliminary search results to the search server. The search server is configured to generate final search results based upon the at least one search term preliminary search results, and to send the final search results to the mobile wireless communications device. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191374 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING AND PRESENTING CONTENT BASED ON CONTEXT SENSITIVE USER PREFERENCES - A method of selecting and presenting content based on context-sensitive learned user preferences is provided. The method includes providing a set of content items having descriptive terms. The method includes receiving user input for identifying items and, in response thereto, presenting a subset of items. The method includes receiving user selections of said items and analyzing the descriptive terms of those items to learn the user's content preferences. The method includes determining the context in which the user performed the selections and associating those contexts with the user content preferences learned from the corresponding user selections. The method includes, in response to subsequent user input, determining a context of said subsequent input and selecting and ordering a collection of items based on comparing those items' descriptive terms with the user's learned content preferences associated with the determined context in which the user entered the subsequent input. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191375 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO RESEARCH DOCUMENTS IN ONLINE LIBRARIES - A method and system for storing and searching digital documents, such as digital catalogs, are described. The method in one embodiment comprises inputting digital documents, extracting content from the digital documents, and storing the extracted content in a database so that the content is searchable. The method can include generating a hierarchy of unique database and CMS objects from document covers and pages plus meta data. The method can further include receiving a search query from a user and, in response, identifying content extracted from one of the digital documents and stored in the database, which satisfies the query. The method can further include causing a result set to be output to the user, where the result set includes the identified content which satisfies the search query and an image of a particular page of the digital document from which the identified content was extracted. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130198167 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DECODING VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS - A vehicle identification number (VIN) decoder (VDC) implementing a unique VIN decoding method may, for a given VIN, shorten the VIN and form a stem and a leaf therefrom. Utilizing the stem, the VDC may operate to find matching leaf values, if any, from a set of look up tables. Depending upon a match outcome, one or more trim identification code (TIC) values can be assigned to the VIN and a candidate list can be constructed utilizing the assigned TIC value(s). The candidate list, which can be optimized, may contain one or more candidate trims for the VIN. For each candidate trim, a confidence score and match probability can be generated. The VDC may provide decoded information containing trim data associated with at least one of the one or more candidate trims for the VIN to a client device over a network connection. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198168 | DATA STORAGE COMBINING ROW-ORIENTED AND COLUMN-ORIENTED TABLES - A data storage system includes a query manager to identify storage engines to execute a query. A first storage engine may execute a portion of the query on a row-oriented table and a second storage engine may execute a second portion of the query on a column-oriented table. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198169 | Authorization and Authentication Based on an Individual's Social Network - In particular embodiments, a method includes accessing a graph structure comprising a plurality of nodes and edges where each node represents a user, receiving a search query from a first user, identifying content of one or more second users corresponding to the search query, and generating search results comprising all the identified content of second users that are connected to the first user in the graph structure through a series of edges and nodes that does not comprise an unauthorized node. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198170 | MOBILE TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND MOBILE TERMINAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A mobile terminal management server in which ERP runs provides a search condition designation screen (for example, a slip search screen) used to designate a search condition, including a search condition representing code information taken in the mobile terminal, in response to the request from mobile terminals; receives a search condition designated through the search condition designation screen on which selection item arrangement circle display regions to display selection item arrangement circles, in each of which a plurality of selection items selectable to designate the search condition are arranged substantially on a circumference, are provided from the mobile terminals; searches for report data satisfying the received search condition by referring to a process flow table; and provides search result data (a search result list display screen) representing the searched report data to the mobile terminals as a search result. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198171 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DATABASE OBJECT INFORMATION - A method for processing a database object information request includes receiving a database object information request. The database object information request includes a session initiation request and a database object schema retrieval request. The method further includes opening a database object information retrieval session, including assigning a session identifier to the database object information retrieval session, retrieving a result set corresponding to the database object information request, further including assigning a moniker to the result set for use in subsequent database object information retrieval, retrieving the requested database object information using the session identifier and the moniker, and providing a database object information response, the database object information response including the requested database object information. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198172 | User to User Recommender - Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for recommending relevant users to other users in a user community. In one implementation of such a method, two different sets of data are considered: a) music (or other items) that users have been listening to (or otherwise engaging), and b) music (or other items) recommendations that users have been given. In some embodiments, pre-computation methods allow the system to efficiently compare item sets and recommended item sets among the users in the community. Such comparisons may also comprise metrics that the system can use to figure out which users should be recommended for a given target user. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198173 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a search unit configured to search for an object, a selection unit configured to select a plurality of objects from among objects searched for by the search unit based on an instruction by a user, a creation unit configured to create a new document using the plurality of objects selected by the selection unit, and a storage unit configured to store the plurality of objects used in creating the new document by the creation unit as a group, associated with information about the group. The search unit searches for an object related to an object searched for based on a keyword, using information about the group. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130204862 | INTERNET SEARCHING AND SOCIAL INTERACTION TECHNIQUES - According to techniques of this application, a method for presenting data representative of a website includes associating a plurality of webpage icons with a corresponding plurality of webpages in a website. Each of the webpage icons correspond to differing degrees of significance of the webpages. Each of the webpage icons are communicative of the differing degrees of significance of the webpages (for example the first webpage icon may be larger than the second webpage icon). There may be two, three, or more webpage icons that are communicative of differing degrees of significance of the webpages. The webpage icons are positioned in different areas of map view data. The map view data may be transmitted for presentation on a display. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204863 | System and Method for Displaying Search Results - In a computer implemented method, a credibility rating is requested and received, or web activity is tracked, from a web user on a web page. A search request is received from a searcher, and a plurality of links is selected, including a link to the web page to display as search results to the searcher. The link to the web page is then displayed within the search results in an order based, at least in part, on the credibility rating or web activity. Multiple credibility ratings or user web activities on that web page from other users can also be received and stored, and the order of display can be based on these as well. The order of display may be based more on credibility ratings or web activity tracked from web users affiliated with the searcher in a social network. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204864 | INFORMATION PROVISION DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An information provision device ( | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204865 | DURABLE MEMENTO SYSTEM - Durable memento system that enables the storage of data associated with mementos, which are objects that serve to provide a reminder of a person, place, thing, or an event. Embodiments are configured to store and recall data including but not limited to pictures, movies, sounds, text, or other information such as performance data indirectly associated with a memento such as but not limited to a keepsake, souvenir, gift, gift card, medal or award, tool or any combination thereof. One or more embodiments may include a visual and/or machine-readable and/or human-readable code to associate the data with the memento. The durable data may be stored remote from the memento, which prevents obsolescence by securing data robustly. This enables the data to be accessed years later even if the file formats or display technology for the data has changed by that time and even if the original memento has been lost. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130212087 | GENERATING VISUALIZATIONS OF A DISPLAY GROUP OF TAGS REPRESENTING CONTENT INSTANCES IN OBJECTS SATISFYING A SEARCH CRITERIA - Provided is a method for rendering search results. A search request is received having a search criteria to perform with respect to objects having content instances. A determination is made of the objects having qualifying content instances that satisfy the search criteria, an attribute value of the qualifying content instances for a specified attribute, and appearance settings for the qualifying content instances based on the determined attribute values. The appearance settings vary based on the attribute values. Tags are generated indicating the content instances and appearance settings for the content instances. A visualization of the tags in a display group are generated to provide visualization of the qualifying content instances in the objects according to the appearance settings, wherein visualizations of the tags is varied based on the determined appearance settings. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212088 | MOBILE DEVICE HAVING A MEMO FUNCTION AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING A MEMO FUNCTION - A method and mobile device having a memo function are provided. The mobile device includes a memo processor; a memory; and a controller. The controller recognizes an occurrence of an event, determines whether an event key value corresponding to the occurring event already exists, and when the event key value corresponding to the occurring event does not already exist, controls the memo processor to generate an event key value corresponding to the occurring event receives an input of memo data according to a memo generation request and to map the generated event value and the input memo data to each other, and stores the mapped event value and memo data in the memory. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130218867 | INTEGRATED EXCHANGE OF SEARCH RESULTS IN AN INTEGRATED SOFTWARE DEVELOPEMENT ENVIRONMENT - In a method for sharing computer-generated search results, in an integrated development environment (IDE), a first computer inserts, into a message, a portion of search results of a search of one or more files accessible via the IDE. The portion of the search results includes a user-selectable file name. The first computer inserts metadata into the message. The metadata includes an identifier of a version of the file. The first computer displays the message in a graphical window such that the search results are visible in the graphical window and the metadata is invisible in the graphical window. The first computer sends the message to a second computer. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218868 | SMART LINKING A FILE TO A PRODUCT - Linking a file with a product. A command to open a file with a file type is detected at a product browser associated with a user device. Available compatible products compatible with the file type and capable of opening the file are searched for, wherein the searching searches, at least in part, for a product that is a self-contained file resolvable by the product browser. A list of the available compatible products is presented at the user device via a user interface associated with the product browser. A selected product is executed via the product browser in response to a selection of the selected product from the list of the available compatible products. The file is opened via the selected product at the user device. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218869 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION FROM A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method for providing information relevant to an enterprise from a customer relationship management (CRM) system is disclosed. The method embodiment includes receiving by a server a message including a request for information relevant to an enterprise from a requesting user system associated with a user, where the message also includes enterprise-specific information. The method also includes identifying by the server records related to the enterprise and managed by a CRM system based on the enterprise-specific information. A relevance score is determined for each of the identified records based on relevance factors, and recommended records are selected based on the relevance scores of the recommended records. Information identifying the recommended records is included in a response message that is transmitted by the server to the requesting user system. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218870 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR A COMPREHENSIVE SEARCHING ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A mobile wireless communications device includes a display, and a memory configured to store a plurality of applications and corresponding application data for each application. The mobile wireless communications device also includes at least one input device, and a processor. The processor is configured to search the application data for a search term to thereby determine whether each application of the plurality thereof has search results associated therewith, and present applications having search results associated therewith on an application selection screen, without displaying the search results, on the display. The processor is further configured to receive selection of an application of the plurality thereof via the at least one input device, and execute the selected application to thereby present the search results on the display. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218871 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PRIVATE NETWORK USERS - Systems and methods are provided for content-based recommendations for private network users. A system identifies a topic of interest based on analyzing content with which a user interface associated with a private network has interactions. Interactions include the user interface creating content and/or the user interface indicating interest in content. The system identifies a source associated with the topic of interest based on analyzing content with which multiple user interfaces associated with the private network have multiple interactions. The source includes content associated with the topic of interest and/or a content creator associated with the topic of interest. The system outputs a recommendation for the user interface to access the source. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218872 | DYNAMIC FILTERS FOR DATA EXTRACTION PLAN - Methods for creating deep web mining plans from dynamic content filters are described. Dynamic content filters allow for the creation of deep web mining plans that are able to be used even when the structure of documents including web pages and PDF files changes or to apply the same filters to different variants of the pages generated in deep web mining. By basing the dynamic filters on ontological and semantic information many common changes in web page structure, terminology and format can be made without preventing the extraction of data from these pages in deep web mining. Dynamic content filters may be created by persons without expertise in the creation of deep web mining data extraction plans. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218873 | WATER RIGHTS ANALYSIS SYSTEM - Exemplary water rights analysis systems and methods are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes obtaining water rights data from a water rights agency database, maintaining a database of water rights data, receiving from a user a search query for water rights data, and presenting the search results on the user device. The exemplary method may additionally or alternatively include displaying on the user device one or more graphical elements on a geo-reference base layer representing one or more water rights data elements, such as a point of diversion change. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218874 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR APPLYING A PUBLIC TAG TO INFORMATION - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for applying a public tag to information. These mechanisms and methods for applying a public tag to information may enable embodiments to allow a user to apply a public tag to the information once. Further, applying a public tag to information may enable users with access to the information an ability to view the public tag applied to the information by the user. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218875 | TABLE-DRIVEN ENTERPRISE-WIDE DATA INTEGRATION - A master database is consulted for records containing a set of instructions and business rules pertaining to the data integration tasks to be performed when the system is run. Detail records are retrieved with the detailed steps to be performed. The actual data integration is accomplished by calls to various software modules which perform one or more basic function necessary for the data integration. Such an approach makes it easier to set up, maintain and change the data integration, and does not require custom coding which tends to be error prone and costly to implement and to maintain. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130226905 | INTEGRATED TRAVEL SERVICES - Integrated travel services are provided via a computer processing device and logic executable by the computer processing device. The integrated travel services map activities to information databases, define conditions for generating alerts, and monitor user behaviors. Upon determining one of the user behaviors matches one of the activities, the integrated travel services access a corresponding database and, using the conditions in conjunction with data from the user behavior, search the corresponding database. The integrated travel services also generate an alert, in response to the search, upon determining that the search results indicate one of the conditions has been met. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130226906 | System And Method For A Self-Configuring Question Answering System - Question Answering systems can be costly and time-consuming to configure for a particular knowledge base. The proposed Question Answering receives an initial knowledge base, receives user queries without any further configuration, and self-configures based on user feedback. In one embodiment, a method of customizing a question answering system can include searching a plurality of articles based on a user query from a user received via a computer network. The method can further include delivering a set of articles, based on the searching, to the user via the computer network. The method can additionally include receiving user feedback on the set of articles from the user via the computer network. The method can also include associating a given article from among the set of articles with the user query based on the user feedback. In this manner, the proposed question answering system saves the customer resources otherwise spent on configuration. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130226907 | PROVIDING DYNAMIC CONTENT IN CONTEXT OF PARTICULAR EQUIPMENT - A computer system receives input of a search term for a query. The search term is related to equipment. The computer system identifies a key that corresponds to the search term and dynamically obtains content that is associated with the key from data sources. The data sources include structured data that is associated with the equipment and unstructured data that is associated with the equipment. The computer system automatically populates a results page template that is associated with the key with the content from the data sources to create a results page that includes the equipment related results for the query. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130226908 | DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF UNWANTED CONTENT ON CLOUD-HOSTED SERVICES - The problem of abuse of privileges at cloud-hosted service sites is addressed by connecting a single individual or “actor” with multiple user accounts and/or other online identities, thereby creating a “consolidated profile.” In this way a confidence level can be established that a particular user account, IP address or other identifying attribute is associated with a particular actor. Different confidence levels may suffice depending on the remediary action to be taken; for example, holding a message for human review is obviously less draconian than rejecting the actor's registration at sign-up, and would therefore require a lower degree of confidence. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130226909 | Stream Data Processing Method and Device - Provided is a stream data processing device for processing stream data composed of input data that includes time, the device having: a data input module for receiving the input data; a first key for designating, as data sets, the items of the input data for processing the input data in chronological order; a query recorder for receiving a stream data definition and a query definition, and generating an operator to process the input data; and a data executing module for determining the operator for processing the input data and outputting results; the input module sorting the received input data for each of the data sets according to the item designated by the first key, sorting the input data in chronological order for each of the data sets, and generating an input stream; and the data executing module processing the input stream with the operator for each of the data sets. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130226910 | REPRESENTING CONNECTION PATHS BETWEEN USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and system for evaluating the reputation of a member of a social networking system is disclosed. Consistent with an embodiment of the invention, one or more attributes associated with a social networking profile of a member of a social network are analyzed. Based on the analysis, a ranking, rating or score is assigned to a particular category of reputation. When requested, the ranking, rating or score is displayed to a user of the social network. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130232134 | Presenting Structured Book Search Results - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting book search results. A query is received requesting a search of text of a book resource. A presentation of search results that satisfy the query is generated, wherein each of the search results identifies a portion of the book resource, the presentation comprising one or more section headings each corresponding to a respective section of the book resource in which a portion identified by at least one search result occurs, and, search results associated with the corresponding section, each search result associated with a location within the corresponding section, each search result including a snippet of text from the book resource that includes one or more terms of the query, and wherein each search result includes a link to an image of a scanned page of the book in which the snippet of text occurs. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232135 | PRESENTING CONTENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PLACEMENT DESIGNATION - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for presenting content in accordance with a placement designation. One example method includes identifying terms associated with a campaign, the campaign having an associated content item that is presented to users responsive to requests for content, receiving an indication of a placement designation including targeting criteria for presenting the content item in a search suggestion control along with search suggestions, storing information associated with the campaign, and processing content requests. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232136 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING AT LEAST ONE SERVICE WITH AT LEAST ONE ITEM OF FORMATTED ASSESSMENT INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A DATA RECORD - At least one service is provided with at least one item of formatted assessment information associated with a data record, the formatted assessment information having a format which is predefined by the service and is predefined with regard to a multilevel assessment scheme having a number of assessment levels. A first item of assessment information associated with the data record is generated on the basis of a detected user specification. A plurality of items of formatted assessment information which are associated with the data record and correspond to format specifications of different services are derived from the first assessment information. The assessment information generated in this manner is made available to the services. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232137 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYSING DATA PACKETS - A method is disclosed for extracting a data packet including metadata and useful data from a datastream. The metadata and useful data are stored in a first and second memory area, with an association being maintained. A transaction number is formed based upon a signature of the data packet. The useful data or partially reconstructed network sessions may be searched for at least one search term, and at least one successful search may be recorded in the metadata. If the data packet is currently not being processed, the associated useful data may be read from the buffer store and a flag may be set in the metadata which indicates that this data packet is now being processed. If all the metadata and the useful data from a network session have been read and the search for the search term was successful, the network session is then reconstructed. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232138 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AGGREGATING SERVER BASED AND LAN BASED MEDIA CONTENT AND INFORMATION FOR ENABLING AN EFFICIENT SEARCH - A method and apparatus for aggregating server based and LAN based media content and information for enabling an efficient search include discovering local and external content directory service instances, storing at least one of content of the discovered content directory service instances and metadata identifying content available via the discovered content directory service instances in a common database and providing a user interface such that a user is able to search for content across the discovered content directory service instances. In one embodiment a common database comprises a de-serialized database which provides use of indexes for enabling searches. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130238597 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ONTOLOGY NAVIGATION AND VISUALIZATION | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238598 | MAINTENANCE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - In accordance with an embodiment, a maintenance method for an information processing apparatus comprises: acquiring a machine identification information for identifying the machine of the information processing apparatus and a machine information includes a setting value information of a plurality of setting items of a machine and an error information of the machine through an external storage apparatus, associating the acquired machine information with the machine identification information and storing the associated information in a database, acquiring a statistical image which is generated based on the setting value information of a plurality of information processing apparatuses, generating a setting value image determined by the setting value information of the machine based on the machine information stored in the database and combining the setting value image with the statistical image and displaying the combined image on a display unit. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238599 | Methods and Systems of Aggregating Information of Social Networks Based on Geographical Locations Via a Network - One or more systems, devices, methods, and/or processes described can apply searches and/or filters to data of social networks with respect to one or more geographical locations, geospatial references, location-based contexts, and/or map-based references. One or more social networks can be queried with search and/or filter parameters and one or more geographic locations, and results received from the social network(s) can be based on the search and/or filter parameter(s) and the geographic location(s) and presented to a user on a map or other user interface. A size of a search region can be changed to a second size, and/or a position of the search region can be changed to a second position. One or more queries can be saved with their geospatial references and their search and/or filter parameter(s) (e.g. saved queries) can continue to run and/or execute over one or more periods of time transpiring to provide continual and/or periodic reporting. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238600 | System, Method and Computer Program Product for Normalizing Data Obtained from a Plurality of Social Networks - Various embodiments of a system, method and computer program product for normalizing data obtained from a plurality of social networks coupled to a network such as the Internet are disclosed. The system may include an interface adapted to access information from a plurality of social networks. The information that is obtained from each social network may include personal information about with the user as well as social graphs of the user that map the user to his or her friends. A data analyzer may be provided to compare the personal information obtained from the plurality of social networks to determine a normalized set of personal information for the user. The data analyzer may also compare the social graphs to determine a normalized set of friends associated with the user. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238601 | CLIENT SYSTEM AND SERVER - Embodiments of the present invention provide a client system and a server for searching, through the Internet, useful information that matches more closely a user's intention. The system is used for searching questions or answers posted by members in a Q&A (question and answers) site which is used by users who are registered as members. The members are then classified into multiple types based on a database, in which posted questions and answers were separated, and attribute information of members. For each question and answer, the tendency of the type who often supports the contents is stored. In this way, a question or answer is searched based on not only a search keyword but also on a type of searcher. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238602 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNIFIED SEARCHING AND INCREMENTAL SEARCHING ACROSS AND WITHIN MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS - A user-interface system and method for searching among multiple documents and searching for subsections within individual documents using a single search interface on an input-constrained user device having a screen and a keypad. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238603 | SEARCH RESULT PRESENTATION - A data presentation system for a search engine may use classified or tagged elements in a resulting document to create a search result document that has portions redacted, modified, or changed based on the tags or classifications of elements within the document. The document may be rebuilt from the search engine database at presentation time with one or more elements changed or modified. The permission settings for a user or other factors may be used to determine which elements within the document are permitted to be accessed. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238604 | Database-Independent Mechanism for Retrieving Relational Data as XML - Techniques are disclosed for retrieving both data stored in relational form and data stored in XML form responsive to a single XQuery query. The techniques allow applications to retrieve relational data residing in various relational database management systems by using XQuery and XQuery for Java. In one such embodiment, an embeddable serverless computer component implements the techniques, and includes a combination of one more relational adaptors and a mediator to access relational data and transform it into appropriate XML. The techniques are embeddable, and can be standards-based, database-independent, and operating-system independent. Optimized performance and scalability from desktop to enterprise applications are enabled as the number of users and/or database size increases. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238605 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CREATING A VISUAL COMPONENT FOR TENANTS OF AN ON-DEMAND DATABASE SERVICE - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating visual components for tenants of an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for creating visual components for tenants of an on-demand database service can enable embodiments to allow tenants to create reusable components for use in user defined interfaces, etc. The ability of embodiments to provide such feature may allow tenants to efficiently and effectively create interfaces. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238606 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING AND STORING INDUSTRIAL DATA - The invention provides a system and method for retrieving and storing industrial data, the system comprising a data retriever that includes a data retrieval manager and one or more watchers for monitoring data associated with one or more industrial devices, wherein if the data associated with the one or more industrial devices is new or modified, the one or more watchers notifies the data retrieval manager thereof and the data retrieval manager uploads the new or modified data. The system further includes a database manager for receiving the new or modified data in a first form from the data retrieval manager and for storing the new or modified data in a structural data form in one or more databases. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238607 | SEED SET EXPANSION - Systems and methods for seed set expansion are provided. A context-based extractor ( | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130246394 | STRUCTURED LARGE OBJECT (LOB) DATA - Provided are techniques for processing structured content within Large Object (LOB) data that is stored in a column of a database table. Structural metadata describing structures that each define a different format of the structured content is stored. A request for data in the database table is received. The structural metadata is used to create an empty result set with columns defined by at least two of the structures. For each row of data in the database table that includes LOB data, control data is used to identify one of the structures to be applied to the structured content within the LOB data stored in that row of data, and the structured content within the LOB data in that row of data is mapped to the columns in the result set based on the identified one of the structures. The result set is returned. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246395 | STRUCTURED LARGE OBJECT (LOB) DATA - Provided are techniques for processing structured content within Large Object (LOB) data that is stored in a column of a database table. Structural metadata describing structures that each define a different format of the structured content is stored. A request for data in the database table is received. The structural metadata is used to create an empty result set with columns defined by at least two of the structures. For each row of data in the database table that includes LOB data, control data is used to identify one of the structures to be applied to the structured content within the LOB data stored in that row of data, and the structured content within the LOB data in that row of data is mapped to the columns in the result set based on the identified one of the structures. The result set is returned. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246396 | Multi-Source Decision Support System - A multi-source decision support system (MSDSS) is described that includes methods and analytical tools for dynamically ingesting and discovering information from multiple sources, such as social media sources, correlating and organizing the information, and providing a multi-user integrated work environment to generate a common operating picture. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246397 | System and Method for Mode-Based Social Networking - A mode-based method of social networking comprising storing in a database profile information for a plurality of users, event information for a plurality of events and a mode associated with each event, receiving by a plurality of computerized user devices a selection of a mode and one or more geographic proximity parameter selections from a each of plurality of users, displaying, event information for an event having a same mode as the first user, profile information for one or more other users among the plurality of users having selected the same mode as the first user and located within a geographic proximity parameter selected by the first user, and a density of a plurality of users located within the geographic proximity parameter selected by the first user wherein the density is represented by a color corresponding to the mode. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246398 | COLLECTIONS OF LINKED DATABASES - Methods and systems relating to inferential networks are provided herein. This technology is further directed to methods and systems for making and using inferential networks. Still further, this technology is generally directed to making one or more inferential networks by using data generated from directed searches of collections of linked databases. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246399 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DISPLAYING ONE OR MORE DATA SETS TO A USER - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for displaying one or more data sets to a user. These mechanisms and methods for displaying one or more data sets to a user can enable enhanced data security, more relevant data display, reduced processing, etc. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246400 | Technical Information Management Apparatus and Method for Vehicle Diagnostic Tools - A technical information management device includes an information manager, a data manager, a user interface builder, and a vehicle technical information database. The information manager accesses the database in order to provide a segment of the vehicle technical information to the user interface builder. The data manager receives conditioned input data from a vehicle diagnostic tool and sends it to the user interface builder. The user interface builder includes a graphics generator and a display screen formatter. The graphics generator converts the vehicle diagnostic data into graphical coordinate data and the display screen formatter formats the graphical coordinate data for real time display in a digital multimeter mode or in a scope mode. The user interface builder further can display a dual-display screen wherein half of the screen is a vehicle diagnostic data display and the other half of the screen displays vehicle technical information. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246401 | Method, System, Apparatus, Program Code And Means For Determining A Redundancy Of Information - Some embodiments include a system, method, apparatus and means for determining that first information in an input data packet is not redundant with second information previously stored in a database system, includes receiving the input data packet, generating a database query based on one or more tagged portions in the input data packet, comparing second information retrieved by the database query with the first information to identify at least a first portion of the first information that is different than the second information, and causing storage of the at least a first portion of the first information in the database system. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130254184 | Proximity-Based Method For Determining Concept Relevance Within A Domain Ontology - Embodiments are directed towards providing a device and method of identifying media items from a media library maintained by a media server that are similar to a designated media item. The media server stores a controlled vocabulary which is represented as a hierarchically linked set of nodes wherein a plurality of nodes correspond to concepts and a library of media items. Each media item corresponds to a record in the media library and the record includes at least one metadata field with assigned keywords. The media server receives a designation of a media item from a user computer, retrieves the keywords assigned to the media item, obtains all related concepts from the controlled vocabulary, computes a search weight for each related concept, and queries the media library to identify media items that match the designated media item and provides the results to the user computer. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254185 | CONTENTS SEARCH SERVICE SYSTEM AND CONTENTS SEARCH SERVICE METHOD - Provided is a contents search service system and a contents search service method. In the contents search service system and the contents search service method, popularity based on the number of hits that each of the contents has not in a limited range of a specific portal service but in the entire Web environment is provided to a user and, in particular, the popularity of the content with respect to each of the reproducing periods and detailed information on the content are provided to the user so that a reliable and detailed contents search service may be provided to the user. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254186 | MOBILE DEVICE PROVIDING INFORMATION BASED ON PREDEFINED SERACH CRITERIA - A mobile device comprises of following steps of recognizing a current location, searching a database either on cue or automatically based on at lease one predetermined search criteria set, and displaying search result or automatically ask for further action or trigger into action. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130262438 | Index Entries Configured to Support Both Conversation and Message Based Searching - A conversation server system having one or more processors and memory stores a plurality of index components in an index, a respective index entry corresponding to a respective term and having a plurality of index components, a respective index component of the respective index entry identifying a message that is associated with the respective term. The server receives a first message, associates the first message with a conversation having at least one other message and stores, in the index, a plurality of first-message index components that each include an identifier of the first message. The first-message index components include one or more index components indicative of a plurality of message terms in the first message and one or more index components indicative of one or more conversation terms in the conversation, the one or more conversation terms comprising one or more terms that are not in the first message. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262439 | ACTIVITY BASED SEARCH - A method includes identifying at least one document associated with content from at least one digital content source. The at least one document includes information identifying at least one aspect of the content. The method also includes determining a document index for the at least one document based on keywords included in the at least one document. An activity field is inserted into the document index. The method includes accessing activity information. The activity information identifies at least one activity keyword associated with at least one activity. The method further includes identifying at least one present activity keyword in the document based on the activity information. An indicator of at least one present activity is determined based on the at least one present activity keyword. The method includes indexing the indicator of the at least one present activity in the activity field of the document index. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262440 | ADDITIONAL QUERY DATE TERM GRANULARITY - Additional date term granularity may be added to query results and query interfaces used to append query results. Initially, a partial execution of a query may be triggered to identify fields and field types. Fields may be classified as date fields based on their field type. The query may be appended to compute one or more time periods for each classified date field. Each time period may identify a broader time period than the data included in a corresponding classified date field. A query result, which may include the computed time period(s) and time period field(s), may be generated from the execution of the appended query. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262441 | CONCEPTS FOR VIEWING AND ACCESSING CLAIM VERSIONS - Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for accessing, navigating, and displaying multiple versions of claims in an efficient and customer-friendly manner. In various embodiments, claims can be processed and stored such that they can be displayed via an interface in a graphical format (e.g., textual, circular, hierarchical, etc.). | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262442 | Method for Displaying Search Results - Methods and systems for presenting document search results to a user. A user enters search terms to be matched with indicators mentioned in documents from a specific corpus of documents. The search results, which are the documents with indicators or content that match the search terms, are provided to the user using a user interface. Each document in the search results are represented by a marker on a map in the user interface. Other indicators which appear with the searched for indicators in the documents are also mapped to the user interface. Documents with similar indicators in their content are clustered together in the map and the markers which represent them are color coded to differentiate them from markers belonging to other clusters. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262443 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING DATA QUERIES - The invention relates to a method and system that provide a high performance and extremely scalable triple store within the Resource Description Framework (or alternative data models), with optimized query execution. An embodiment of the invention provides a data storage and analysis system to support scalable monitoring and analysis of business processes along multiple configurable perspectives and levels of granularity. This embodiment analyses data from processes that have been already executed and from ongoing processes, as a continuous flow of information. This embodiment provides defining and monitoring processes based on no initial domain knowledge about the process and such that the process will be built only from the incoming flow of information. Another embodiment of the invention provides a grid infrastructure that allows storage of data across many grid nodes and distribution of the workload, avoiding the bottleneck represented by constantly querying a database. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262444 | CARD VIEW FOR PROJECT RESOURCE SEARCH RESULTS - A system and method for facilitating displaying search results in an enterprise computing environment. An example method includes determining results of a computer based search in response to a resource request; displaying the results via one or more cards, wherein each of the one or more cards includes information pertaining to a particular search result; and illustrating, in a card, at least a portion of the information via one or more graphics. In a specific embodiment, the one or more graphics include one or more visually coded graphics, including an indicator illustrating a qualification score associated with a human resource, and an indicator illustrating an availability score associated with the human resource. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262445 | BROWSING REAL-TIME SEARCH RESULTS RELIABLY ON A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - A system for browsing real-time search results reliably on mobile computer device. In one embodiment, the system comprises a search application that runs on a mobile computing device equipped with a touch screen display, and obtains search results from a search back-end connected to the device through the Internet. A user submits a query and the search application renders results pertaining to a snapshot of a result set of the query in a scrollable visual container shown on the display. The user requests an increase in the number of results listed in the container by attempting to scroll the container beyond a maximally scrolled position, using a swipe gesture. The search application replaces the list of results shown in the container with a longer list of results pertaining to a more recent snapshot of the result set, highlighting those results that have not been previously shown to the user. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262446 | SEARCH APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A terminal configured to be communicable with a server capable of separating a total set of a search index into a plurality of subsets and providing the plurality of subsets includes: a specifying unit configured to specify a specific subset from the plurality of subsets; an acquisition unit configured to acquire the subset specified by the specifying unit from the server; a holding unit configured to hold the subset acquired by the acquisition unit; and a search processing unit configured to perform search processing by using a search index of the subset held by the holding unit. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262447 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PROVIDE INLINE REFINEMENT OF ON-LINE SEARCHES - Method and system to provide in-line refinement of online searches is described. The system may include a listing access module, an attribute selector, a filter control generator, and a presentation module. The listing access module may be configured to access a listing submitted to an on-line trading platform. The attribute selector may be configured to select an attribute in the listing. The filter control generator module may be configured to link the attribute to a search filter. The presentation module may be configured to present the attribute in the listing as a filler control in a presentation of the listing. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262448 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER-READABLE INSTRUCTIONS - A management device transmits to a target device a first GETNEXT request comprising a first group of Ma-combined IDs. Each combined ID is a combination of a target ID and one of Ma-index values. Each index value has a first value in its highest digit(s) and one of consecutive values in its lowest digit. The management device obtains Ma-partial information and a second group of an Ma-combined IDs corresponding to the Ma-partial information, identifies a greatest combined ID having a greatest index value from the second group, and transmits a second GETNEXT request comprising Mb-combined IDs comprising the identified greatest combined ID. Each combined ID is a combination of the target ID and one of Mb-index values. Each index value has a second value different from the second value in its highest digit(s) and one of consecutive values in its lowest digit. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262449 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCH REFINEMENT USING KNOWLEDGE MODEL - A system and method for information retrieval are presented. A first query is executed against a knowledge base using a natural language query to generate a result set. The knowledge base identifies a plurality of items, each associated with at least one annotation identifying at one of a plurality of entities in a knowledge model that defines a plurality of entities and interrelationships between one or more of the plurality of entities for a knowledge domain. The result set identifies a first set of items in the knowledge base. A graph of one or more of the entities in the knowledge model database is generated using a plurality of terms from the result set and the natural language query. A selection of one of the entities in the graph can be received from the client computer and used to restrict the number of items in the result set. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262450 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MULTI-DIRECTIONAL VISUAL BROWSING - Systems and methods for multi-directional visual browsing on an electronic device are described. In example embodiments, a primary result and a peripheral result are determined. A display layout based on attributes associated with the primary result and the peripheral result is generated. The display layout is then formatted into instructions, which will cause a device to render the display layout. The instructions are transmitted to the client device. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262451 | ANALYSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS, ANALYSIS SUPPORT METHOD AND ANALYSIS SUPPORT PROGRAM - An analysis support apparatus is disclosed. A storage part stores component information of components forming an information system, the component information including a component type and a relationship to other components, for each component. An extraction part extracts information of first traced components specified by tracing the relationship from a first component. An integration part integrates information of the first traced components to inter-type relationships between groups of the components having same component type, based on a correspondence of a component type of a related source and a component type of a related destination. A first layer applying part applies a first layer to a specific component type of second traced components traced by a first component type which the first component belongs to, by tracing the inter-type relationship from the first type and by acquiring the first layer of the inter-type relationship traced from the first component type. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262452 | Server for Conveying a Set of Contact Identification Data to a User Equipment, Methods Therefor, User Equipment, Computer Programs and Computer Program Products - The invention relates to a server ( | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130268510 | Special form of presentation of search results - The invention is a method for presenting search results in special form. This form consists of several components. In aggregate, all the components encompass such characteristics of a search query as a source position, quantity of full and partial matches and coefficient of relevance (COR). Also the form allows the users manipulate the values of characteristics of the search query. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268511 | URL Annotations - A search engine configured to respond to a search query with a search results page is presented. The search engine includes at least one annotated search result in the search results page. The at least one annotated search results is annotated according to user data independent of the basis by which the search results are identified. The search results page is generated to include user-actionable controls by which a user can update the search results according to update criteria. The update criteria is used in a feedback loop to improve the user data upon which search results are personalized and/or annotated. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268512 | SYSTEM FOR RATING AND RECRUITING SPORTS PLAYERS - A system for recruiting and rating sports players can include a processor in communication with a data storage, network, and plurality of client devices. A library of league information can be stored in the data storage. The system can form a user interface on the client devices. The system can transmit messages to coaches at schools to request ratings, ability levels, and comments for sports players, which can be averaged. The system can present a recruiter profile in the user interface to college recruiters via the client devices. The recruiter profile can include a search portion to allow for searching of sports players by criteria, a league coaches rating portion for listing coaches associated with a selected sports player, and coach contact information and sports player contact information to allow the college recruiters to contact the coaches, sports players, or combinations thereof to request information or initiate recruitment. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268513 | ANNOTATIONS BASED ON HIERARCHICAL CATEGORIES AND GROUPS - Systems and methods for recommending entities to a user are presented. In at least one embodiment, a user is identified as belonging to one or more groups of users, or to a hierarchy of groups. A category of entities, preferred by at least of the hierarchy of identified groups, is identified. The category of entities preferred by the at least one identified group corresponds to the category of a user-preferred entity preferred by the user. An entity from the category of entities is selected; the selected entity is not the user-preferred entity. The selected entity is provided to the user as a recommended entity to the user. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268514 | BRAND ANALYSIS USING INTERACTIONS WITH SEARCH RESULT ITEMS - Embodiments of the invention relate to performing brand analysis based on user's interactions with search results. In one embodiment, at least one search result list is analyzed. The search result includes a set of items corresponding to at least one search request submitted by at least one user. The set of items in the at least one search result list is determined to include at least one item corresponding to a brand analysis target item, and at least one other item. A selection by the at least one user of one of the brand analysis target item and the other item from the at least one search result list is recorded for the at least one search result list. A brand analysis metric is generated based on the recording. The brand analysis metric indicates a ratio of selections between the brand analysis target item and the other item. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268515 | SEARCH RESULTS WITH UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED CATEGORIES - A service provider presents results from a search query with dynamic category ranges, with each category range having approximately the same number of items within the category range. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268516 | Systems And Methods For Analyzing And Visualizing Social Events - Systems and methods for analyzing and visualizing social events include historical, real-time, and predictive analytics and visualization of physical or virtual social events based on social network communications. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268517 | Identifying Query Aspects - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating aspects associated with entities. In some implementations, a method includes receiving data identifying an entity; generating a group of candidate aspects for the entity; modifying the group of candidate aspects to generate a group of modified candidate aspects comprising combining similar candidate aspects and grouping candidate aspects using one or more aspect classes each associated with one or more candidate aspects; ranking one or more modified candidate aspects in the group of modified candidate aspects based on a diversity score and a popularity score; and storing an association between one or more highest ranked modified candidate aspects and the entity. The aspects can be used to organize and present search results in response to queries for the entity. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268518 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING RELATED TERMS - The present disclosure provides a method for searching related terms using an electronic device. The method adds time stamps to one or more electronic documents, and obtains related terms by calculating a relevance score between every two terms of the electronic documents within a specified time range. The method further calculates a time gap between each related term and a preset query term, obtains updated related terms that have a time relationship with the preset query term by removing specified related terms whose time gap is greater than a preset value, and obtains search results from a data source by performing a search operation according to the updated related terms. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130275408 | Presenting Unique Search Result Contexts - Presenting unique search result contexts, including: receiving, by a search result presentation module, a plurality of search results generated in response to a search query, wherein each search result includes context information associated with the search result; identifying, by the search result presentation module for each search result, a displayable portion of the context information associated with the search result; determining, by the search result presentation module for each search result, whether the displayable portion of the context information is a duplicate of the displayable portion of the context information for another search result; and responsive to determining that the displayable portion of the context information is a duplicate of the displayable portion of the context information for another search result, updating, by the search result presentation module, the displayable portion of the context information for the search result. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275409 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UNIVERSAL PERSONAL DATA PORTABILITY - A universal personal data portability capability is disclosed. The universal personal data portability supports automated porting of personal data of a user from a plurality of environments to a personal data store of the user. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275410 | LIVE TOPOLOGICAL QUERY - A method for performing a live topological query includes, with a querying application, using a query graph to create a live topological query result from a database storing a full structure graph while not storing an entirety of the query result in a cache memory. The method further includes, in response to detecting a change within full structure graph, performing a calculation to determine whether the change is relevant to the query result, and notifying the querying application of a relevant change to the query result without relying on a fully cached copy of the query result. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275411 | IMAGE SEARCH METHOD AND DIGITAL DEVICE FOR THE SAME - An Intelligent Agent (IA) application, which extracts an image object from content displayed by the other application and provides a search result of the image object, and an image search method using the same are disclosed. The image search method includes executing a first application that displays content including at least one image object, driving a second application that provides an image search result of the image object included in the content displayed by the first application, extracting the at least one image object from the content via the second application, providing, on top of the first application, at least one object interface corresponding to the at least one extracted image object via the second application, receiving a user input of selecting a particular object interface among the at least one object interface, and displaying a search result of the image object corresponding to the particular object interface. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275412 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PROVIDE VIDEO-BASED SEARCH RESULTS - Method and system to provide video-based search results are described. A search results video may be present to a user details from listings that match certain search criteria. When a select request associated with the search results video is detected, a listing rendering module presents the selected listing on the display device. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275413 | KNOWLEDGE VISUALIZATION AND INFORMATION BASED SOCIAL NETWORK - The present invention, in some of its embodiments, relates to managing and interactively displaying content, associating content to virtual networks, and associating social networks to content and to virtual networks. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275414 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING TAG TOPOLOGY - A method and apparatus for using tag topology for enhancing search capabilities, e.g., searching over the web, are disclosed. For example, the present method receives a user query contain a search term from a user. The method then generates a search result containing at least one entity, wherein the at least one entity is found based on a plurality of user provided tags that is associated with the at least one entity. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275415 | RELEVANCY SORTING OF USER'S BROWSER HISTORY - Various embodiments provide a Web browser that employs a relevancy algorithm to make an educated guess as to the likelihood of a user's intended destination when the user begins to enter text into a browser's address bar. In one or more embodiments, the relevancy algorithm employs various parameters and assigns weights to the parameters to arrive at a collection of suggestions to provide to the user. By using various rules, associated weightings, and the relevancy algorithm, relevant suggestions can be provided to a user to facilitate their navigation activities. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130282695 | ANALYZING DATA FROM A SENSOR-ENABLED DEVICE - An approach for analyzing data collected by a sensor-enabled device over a network is provided. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, a set of usage data will be received from a device over a network. The set of usage data may be collected via at least one sensor integrated with the device, and the set of usage data may pertain to use of the device by a user. Regardless, the set of usage data will be compared to a set of diagnostic information stored in at least one computer storage device. The set of diagnostic information typically pertains to a condition (e.g., medical) treated by use of the device (e.g., dental, cardiac, renal, etc.). Based on the comparison, at least one determination (e.g., diagnosis, treatment plan, level of compliance with applicable standards, etc.) will be made and a set of reports will be generated based thereon. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282696 | INTERACTIVE DATA EXPLORATION AND VISUALIZATION TOOL - A computer-implemented method for data visualization includes determining a query context for a user's search query, and retrieving relevant data for the query context. The method combines the relevant data with data that is filtered according to search parameters in the user's search query. The method further includes generating an interactive presentation to display the combined data from the perspective of the user's search query or from the perspectives of other entities. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282697 | DATA MASKING - Aspects include data masking in database operations including intercepting a database query and identifying masked data in the query. The masked data in the query is unmasked by substituting the masked data with equivalent real values. The unmasked query is sent to the database engine, and a result provided by the database engine in response to the unmasked query is intercepted. The values in the result that correspond to sensitive information are identified. The result is masked by substituting the values in the result corresponding to sensitive information with masked equivalents. The masked result is returned to a user. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282698 | System and Method for Directing Questions to Consultants Through Profile Matching - A server system receives a question from an inquirer at a client. In response, the server system identifies a plurality of information items corresponding to the question. At least one of the information items has associated classification data profiling the information therein. The server system generates a profile for the question based on the classification data of the information items and identifies one or more consultants for the question among a plurality of candidates in accordance with a comparison of the question profile and the candidates' respective user profiles. The server system submits the question to at least one of the consultants for answer. After receiving an answer to the question from the consultant, the server system forwards the answer to a client for display to the inquirer. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282699 | Using Authority Website to Measure Accuracy of Business Information - Business information about business entities are received from a plurality of aggregate information sources such as business directories. An authority page of a business entity is retrieved and information is extracted from the authority page. The extracted information is compared with business information about the business entity from the aggregate information sources. Accuracy scores are generated for the combination of the business entity and the aggregate information sources based on the comparison results. A collection of accurate business information for the business entity is generated by including business information from aggregate information sources with high accuracy scores. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282700 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR ADDRESS BOOK INFORMATION - Provided is an apparatus and method for searching for address book information. To this end, the present invention, upon receiving a search request message for searching address book information from a client, checks a search preference, searches for the address book information based on the checked search preference, applies a priority to the found address book information to create a final search result, creates a response message including the created final search result, forwards the response message to the client, and updates the preset search preference based on the final search result, thereby providing a search result optimized for a user. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282701 | Network Searching Method of Mobile Terminal and Mobile Terminal - A mobile terminal and a network searching method of the mobile terminal are disclosed. The network searching method of a mobile terminal may include the following steps: when a character string to be searched appears on a text browsing interface, switching the text browsing interface to a status in which the character string is selectable and acquiring the character string to be searched that a user selects; converting the character string to be searched to a URL; sending the URL comprising the character string to be searched to a network server and receiving a search result returned according to the URL by the network server; and displaying the search result in the form of a web page. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130290299 | CONTENT-BASED NAVIGATION FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Content-based navigation of an electronic device includes receiving supplemental content to an electronic book. The supplemental content is created separately from the electronic book. The content-based navigation also includes associating an identifier of the electronic book with the supplemental content, storing the supplemental content with the identifier in a storage device, and creating an index to the supplemental content that is searchable by the identifier of the electronic book. The content-based navigation further includes providing end user devices with access to the supplemental content in the storage device via the index. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290300 | IN-DATABASE PARALLEL ANALYTICS - In-database parallel analytics is disclosed. An example method includes receiving a function in a functional programming environment. The example method includes pushing operations for the function to a database layer for executing the operations. The example method also includes returning results of the operations to the functional programming environment. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290301 | EFFICIENT FILE PATH INDEXING FOR A CONTENT REPOSITORY - Techniques for indexing file paths of items in a content repository may include querying, by at least one processor, a content repository stored on at least one computer readable storage medium for one or more items that qualify for file path indexes, do not have the file path indexes, and have a parent folder that has a file path index, wherein the querying does not depend on results from previous queries, and wherein the file path index indicates an associated item's location in a folder tree, creating, by the at least one processor, the file path indexes for resulting items from the querying, and, if the querying results in at least one resulting item, repeating the querying of the content repository and the creating of the file path indexes until the querying results in zero resulting items. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290302 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONTOLOGICAL AND META-ONTOLOGICAL DATA MODELING - According to one aspect of the disclosed subject matter, a method is provided for the association of conceptual and relational information. First, the structure information necessary to define types, relationships, attributes, and handlers is established. Then, the context in which the correlation of conceptual and relational information is to occur is established. Existing and/or new ontologies to be considered during the act of correlation are selected. Relational and conceptual information is recorded and source and/or content data is displayed. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290303 | Categorizing Documents - Categorizing documents is disclosed. A hierarchy of topics is received. A seed for each topic is determined. One or more documents is received. The seed is used to evaluate the relevance of each document to one or more of the received topics. One or more topics is associated with each document. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290304 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING DOCUMENTS - A system for separating documents is disclosed. The system includes a multidimensional index creating module and a document separation criterion calculating module. The multidimensional index creating module calculates a multidimensional index for each documental material by calculating a plurality of document characteristic indexes from content information about individual documental materials contained in a primary document search result obtained in response to a search query received from a user device. The document separation criterion calculating module calculates a document separation criterion on the basis of both user preference information regarding at least one specific documental material selected from the documental materials contained in the primary document search result and the multidimensional index for the selected specific documental material. A secondary document search result is selected and provided according to the calculated document separation criterion among the documental materials contained in the primary document search result. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290305 | DATA FILTERING IN THE INTERNET OF THINGS - This invention relates to the Internet of Things (IOT), and discloses a method and apparatus of data filtering in the IOT, where the IOT includes a plurality of sensor devices. The method includes: inputting an application deployed rule; converting the rule into at least one sub-predicate expression having static predicates and dynamic predicates; inputting data collected by the sensor devices; matching the collected data with the static predicates and the dynamic predicates of the sub-predicate expression in sequence; and distributing matched data to the application. In this invention, a rule is divided into static and dynamic predicates, and a match is performed on static predicates before dynamic predicates, so that the speed of predicate match can be improved and fast and efficient data filtering in the IOT can be achieved. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290306 | RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - Determining an item to present to a first user is disclosed. Preference information is received that comprises the preferences of a plurality of users associated with one or more items. User correlations are determined from the received preference information. For the first user, a set of other users most correlated with the first user is determined. One or more items are presented to the first user based at least in part on the preferences of the other users. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290307 | PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON KEYWORD DETECTION IN MEDIA CONTENT - A method can include accessing a cookie file to obtain a keyword where the cookie file is associated with a media device and scanning a stream of media content to locate the keyword within a portion of the stream of media content. The method can include generating a filtered search set by applying filtering to additional words to exclude a black listed word, where the additional words are located within a pre-determined proximity to a location corresponding to an occurrence of the keyword within the portion of the stream of media content. The method can include providing a search result based on a network search conducted using the keyword and the filtered search set. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290308 | INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR DATABASE RETRIEVAL - An intelligent system for database retrieval includes a computing device, an input device, a display device, and a storage device. A user initiates a free-form or structured inquiry of the storage device and the system executes a search for the free-form or structured inquiry and additionally for related knowledge if a free-form inquiry was initiated. The related knowledge search is system initiated and based upon the sensory information of the user and the user's behaviors. The free-form or structured inquiry and related knowledge results are returned to the computing device for formatting in a manner compatible with the user, the user's behavior, and the operating environment. The free-form or structured inquiry and related knowledge results are then displayed on the display device. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290309 | Displaying Search Results - Website search results obtained from searching multiple electronic information stores may be displayed transparently without distinguishing the electronic information store. The search may be performed by a web host and may include receiving at least one search term that then is compared with first electronic information within a first electronic information store to determine whether matches exist, where the first electronic information includes content provided by an internal source. The search term also is compared with second electronic information within a second electronic information store to determine whether matches exist, where the second electronic information includes content provided by an external source. Results are displayed based on matches that are determined to exist with the first electronic information and the second electronic information. The results are combined in a single list of results. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290310 | Displaying Search Results - Website search results obtained from searching multiple electronic information stores may be displayed transparently without distinguishing the electronic information store. The search may be performed by a web host and may include receiving at least one search term that then is compared with first electronic information within a first electronic information store to determine whether matches exist, where the first electronic information includes content provided by an internal source. The search term also is compared with second electronic information within a second electronic information store to determine whether matches exist, where the second electronic information includes content provided by an external source. Results are displayed based on matches that are determined to exist with the first electronic information and the second electronic information. The results are combined in a single list of results. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290311 | METHOD OF PROVIDING A NUMBER OF SEARCH RESULTS FOR A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND SYSTEM AND HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE EMPLOYING THE SAME - A method provides search results for a handheld electronic device including an input apparatus having a plurality of input members, each of at least a portion of which have a plurality of characters assigned thereto. A type of the input apparatus is sent from the device to a server. The device receives a number of activations of a number of the input members, and sends the received number of activations to the server. The server determines a number of possible combinations of the characters based upon the received input apparatus type and the received number of activations, searches for a number of search results as a function of the number of possible combinations of the characters, and sends the number of search results to the device. The device receives the number of search results, and displays at least a portion of the number of search results. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130297588 | Flexible Dashboard Enhancing Visualization of Database Information - Embodiments provide systems and methods allowing optimization of dashboard analytics. In certain embodiments, results obtained from querying a database may be manipulated to arrange, replace, or supplement existing views. The end user is afforded control to drag and drop view(s) for positioning within a dashboard, as well as to provide additional and/or replacement views. The dashboard can serve as one point of contact allowing end users to render reports created in business warehouse systems, or business intelligence on-demand systems. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297589 | IDENTIFYING PEOPLE A PERSON MAY KNOW - A method and system for evaluating the reputation of a member of a social networking system is disclosed. Consistent with an embodiment of the invention, one or more attributes associated with a social networking profile of a member of a social network are analyzed. Based on the analysis, a ranking, rating or score is assigned to a particular category of reputation. When requested, the ranking, rating or score is displayed to a user of the social network. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297590 | DETECTING AND PRESENTING INFORMATION TO A USER BASED ON RELEVANCY TO THE USER'S PERSONAL INTEREST - The invention performs predictive analytics on web content for users researching or tracking detailed topics on the web who are limited by the sparse input capability of current search tools. Using a machine learning technology core and other predictive analytics tools, the invention allows users to create predictive models based on exemplars of their interest such as articles and documents. Predictive models are mathematically patterned and pointed at the web. Results are presented to the user, with the ability to re-train the system as desired as well as create new models. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297591 | Processing the Results of Multiple Search Queries in a Mapping Application - In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products. Information that is responsive to each of multiple distinct search queries is received from a server system. The information for each of the search queries identifies a geographical context or includes search results. One or more visual indications of the information for each of the search queries are displayed on a geographical map. A user interface element for each of the search queries is displayed. The user interface element for each of the search queries, when selected by a user, causes removal from the display of the one or more visual indications of the information for the search query that corresponds to the selected user interface element. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297592 | Associating Application-Specific Methods with Tables Used for Data Storage - A method of accessing data includes storing a table that includes a plurality of tablets corresponding to distinct non-overlapping table portions. Respective pluralities of tablet access objects and application objects are stored in a plurality of servers. A distinct application object and distinct tablet are associated with each tablet access object. Each application object corresponds to a distinct instantiation of an application associated with the table. The tablet access objects and associated application objects are redistributed among the servers in accordance with a first load-balancing criterion. A first request directed to a respective tablet is received from a client. In response, the tablet access object associated with the respective tablet is used to perform a data access operation on the respective tablet, and the application object associated with the respective tablet is used to perform an additional computational operation to produce a result to be returned to the client. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297593 | CAUSAL PROFILE - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method of graphically representing a history of a user includes receiving information indicating a history of a user with respect to multiple categories. The method also includes mapping received information within a corresponding category and pertaining to a corresponding age range to a corresponding indicator such that the received information is mapped to multiple indicators, each indicator being associated with a corresponding category and a corresponding age range. The method also includes generating a profile object based on the indicators. The profile object graphically represents the history of the user with respect to the categories. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130304724 | Data Relations and Queries Across Distributed Data Sources - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media include actions of receiving a query, identifying, based on the query, one or more relevant elements from an overall data model, identifying, using an adapter mapping, one or more adapters based on the one or more relevant elements, the adapter mapping associating each relevant element with a particular adapter, querying, using the one or more adapters, one or more data elements in data sources of a plurality of disparate data sources, each adapter being specific to a data source of the plurality of data sources, receiving, at the one or more adapters, one or more data results, transforming each data result of the one or more data results into a unified data format to provide respective one or more transformed data results, storing the one or more transformed data results in a temporary data store and querying the temporary data store to generate a result. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304725 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY SELECTING GRAPHICAL QUERY RESULT DISPLAY MODES - Systems and methods for displaying graphical database query results on a map by dynamically selecting graphical query result display modes are described. In one example, the system includes a distributed database query system having a remote server and a local client computer. The remote server receives a query request from the client and obtains a threshold number of results for display. If a particular query provides less than the threshold number of results, the system uses a first interactive graphical query result mode utilizing client rendering. If the query provides the threshold number of results or more, the system uses a second non-interactive graphical query result mode utilizing server rendering. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304726 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS USEFUL FOR IDENTIFYING THE MOST INFLUENT SOCIAL MEDIA USERS IN QUERY-BASED SOCIAL DATA STREAMS - The present invention relates to novel methods and implementing systems that afford a user the ability to analyze a certain stream of data, e.g., independent of size, and identify the people that influence the conversation. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304727 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SOCIAL NETWORK DATA - The present disclosure includes a method for social network management that includes receiving first network connectivity data associated with one or more posting user profiles, receiving posting content associated with one or more of the posting user profiles, receiving posing criteria associated with the posting content and at least one of the posting user profiles, generating a selective posting for at least one of the one or more posting user profiles, the selective posting having access or distribution properties different than a default posting and generated based on the posting criteria and the first network connectivity data and implementing the selective posting on at least one of the posting user profiles. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304728 | COMPUTER-BASED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING A FILE REQUEST IN RESPONSE TO A MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM A USER MOBILE DEVICE - The invention provides a computer-based method of transmitting a file, including receiving a message from a user mobile device at a service computer system, determining at the server computer system whether the message includes a search identifier, extracting at least one search result from a data store at the server computer system based on a search term in the message if the server computer system determined that the message included a search identifier, and transmitting a file corresponding to the search result from the server computer system to the user mobile device. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130311447 | SCENARIO BASED INSIGHTS INTO STRUCTURE DATA - Querying a finite set of data sources. A method includes receiving a query from a user. The method further includes determining a set of two or more data sources from the finite set of data sources that together can be used to satisfy the query. The method further includes translating at least a portion of the query from the user to semantically appropriate queries for the two or more data sources. The method further includes receiving results from the two or more data sources to the semantically appropriate queries. The method further includes aggregating the results, and presenting the aggregation to the user. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311448 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXTUAL AND FREE FORMAT MATCHING OF ADDRESSES - A system and method for the matching addresses is provided. Addresses may be received from a search engine or other source for purposes of matching. Address parts in the addresses may be contextually identified. Identified address parts, including their associated data, that have address part types that are alike may be compared to one another and a contextual matching score may be calculated and assigned. A free format token analysis of the addresses may also be performed in parallel with, before, or after, the contextual identification, and a free format matching score may be calculated. An address likeness score may be calculated and assigned based on the contextual matching score and the free format matching score. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311449 | Identifying Referred Documents Based on a Search Result - Referred documents are identified, based on search results. When search results are obtained responsive to a search query, information corresponding to one or more documents that match the search query is displayed. A user may then perform a user gesture, such as a hover operation, in association with the displayed information corresponding to any particular one of the matching documents. Responsive to the user gesture, one or more other documents are determined, each of these other documents referring to the particular one of the matching documents, and information corresponding to each of the other documents is displayed for the user. Preferably, the referring comprises an embedded reference, within each other document, to the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) at which the particular one of the matching documents is stored. The user can then select one of the other documents from the display. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311450 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DATA STRUCTURES FOR PERFORMING SEARCHES ON THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS - Techniques are provided for searching on three dimensional (3D) objects across large, distributed repositories of 3D models. 3D shapes are created for input to a search system; optionally user-defined similarity criterion is used, and search results are interactively navigated and feedback received for modifying the accuracy of the search results. Search input can also be given by picking 3D models from a cluster map or by providing the orthographic views for the 3D model. Feedback can be given by a searcher as to which models are similar and which are not. Various techniques adjust the search results according to the feedback given by the searcher and present the new search results to the searcher. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311451 | INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD AND SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present application relate to an information providing method, system and a computer program product. An information providing method is provided. The method includes receiving an information search request including a search condition, forwarding the information search request to a plurality of processing servers to search for information relating to the search condition, determining a merge attribute based on the found information relating to the search condition, the merge attribute having related attribute values, merging the found information based on the determined merge attribute of the found information to obtain search results, and providing the received search results to a user. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311452 | MEDIA AND LOCATION BASED SOCIAL NETWORK - The present invention is directed to recording and providing media files based on a location. Such systems and methods maybe transacted by a client application or a processor in communication with one or more electronic devices. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, methods may include receiving from a first device: a media file; data comprising information identifying a location associated with the media file; storing the media file and data in a database; receiving from a second device information identifying a location of the second device; determining a geographic radius of the second device based upon user selection; determining if one or more media files stored in the database are associated with a location in the geographic radius of the second device; and sending the one or more media files to the second device. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311453 | SEARCH CAPABILITY IMPLEMENTATION FOR A DEVICE - In a method of searching for data objects in a computer system, a content-based search of a first database generates a first domain-specific search result stream and a metadata-based search of a second database generates a second domain-specific search result stream. The first and second domain-specific search result streams are aggregated into a primary search result stream, and search results from the primary search result stream are displayed. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311454 | DATA SOURCE ANALYTICS - Systems and methods for providing data source analytics are provided. Results of a query of an unstructured data source and a query of a structured data source are merged. The merged results are stored at an in-memory database that is local to an analytics component. The analytics component is executed to access the merged results from the in-memory database and provide an output corresponding to contents of the structured data source and the unstructured data source. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130318070 | INTEGRATING APPLICATIONS WITH AN RDF REPOSITORY THROUGH A SPARQL GATEWAY - A method, system, and computer program product for of processing database queries using the resource description framework (RDF) language through a gateway service. The method commences by receiving a database query (e.g., an SQL query) from an application, the query being in a first query language format, then converting the query into a SPARQL query format and submitting the converted query to a SPARQL endpoint. The SPARQL endpoint processes the SPARQL query (e.g., by accessing an RDF repository), and sends back the query results. A gateway service (e.g., a SPARQL gateway) then receives the SPARQL query results from the SPARQL endpoint and transforms the SPARQL query results into a format corresponding to the first query language format so the initiating application can process it natively. Several performance features are disclosed, including a method for achieving a quality of service level by concurrently submitting multiple SPARQL queries with different LIMIT clauses. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318071 | Apparatus and Method for Recognizing Content Using Audio Signal - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for recognizing content using an audio signal. The content recognition apparatus includes a query fingerprint extraction unit for forming frames having a preset frame length for an audio signal, and generating frame-based feature vectors for respective frames, thus extracting a query fingerprint. A reference fingerprint DB stores reference fingerprints to be compared with the query fingerprint and pieces of content information corresponding to the reference fingerprints. A fingerprint matching unit determines a reference fingerprint matching the query fingerprint. In this case, the query fingerprint extraction unit forms the frames while varying a frame shift size that is an interval between start points of neighboring frames in a partial section. According to the present invention, there can be provided a content recognition apparatus and method which can maintain the accuracy and reliability of matching while promptly providing results. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318072 | SEARCHING APPARATUS, AND SEARCHING METHOD - A searching apparatus includes a processor configured to receive searching character information, in a case that document data includes a designation that first character information and second character information are provided in adscript description, to copy state information indicating a state of a collating process of the searching character information on third character information in front of the designation in the document data, to update the state information based on a result of collating the first character information with the searching character information, and to update the copied state information based on a result of collating the second character information with the searching character information. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318073 | Method and System for Collecting and Organizing Data Corresponding to an Event - A system and method for analyzing data from a plurality of computer environments. The computer environments are authenticated and data is imported to a memory location. The data is converted into a uniform format to enable expedited searching by one or more authenticated users. The data may be marked so that a user may determine which computer environment provided the data. The system may also create one or more indexes of the data to assist one or more users in searching the data. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318074 | METHOD, SYSTEM, CLIENT AND SERVER FOR ACQUIRING AND PUSHING CONTENT IN INTERNET COMMUNITY - The present invention relates to the field of Internet technologies, and provides a method, system, client and server for acquiring and pushing content in an Internet community. The method for acquiring content in an Internet community includes: when the cursor of a client stays in a relationship chain content display area or a hotspot content display area, triggering the client to send information of a display area currently activated by a user to a server; and displaying latest community content in a corresponding display area after the client receives the latest community content. According to the present invention, users, after simply setting a user range for view or customizing a concerned keyword or subject, view community created by users within the corresponding range by using the real-time pushing function in real time. This greatly simplifies the operation manner of users, and enhances user's real-time viewing experience. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130325844 | CAUSING DISPLAY OF SEARCH RESULTS - Apparatus has at least one processor and at least one memory having computer-readable code stored thereon which when executed controls the at least one processor:
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| 20130325845 | PRESENTATION OF SEARCH RESULTS WITH DIAGRAMS - Systems and computer program products provide presentation of a plurality of search results and a diagram for each of the plurality of search results. With computer readable program code, when read by a processor, the systems and products are configured for receiving a plurality of search results in response to a search request and accessing a database including signifier data for each of the plurality of search results. The signifier data may include information regarding at least a first signifier and a second signifier of each of the plurality of the search results. The code further includes generating a first diagram of the first and second signifiers for each of the plurality of search results, the first diagram based at least in part on the signifier data, and presenting the plurality of search results and the first diagram for each of the plurality of search results via a browser application. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325846 | LATENT COLLABORATIVE RETRIEVAL - A method, computer program product, and computer system for latent collaborative retrieval are described. A first mathematical representation of a query received from a user is generated. A second mathematical representation of a user profile is generated. A plurality of mathematical representations associated with a plurality of items is accessed. The first mathematical representation, the second mathematical representation, and the plurality of mathematical representations are transformed to have a uniform length. A first results subset of items is generated, based upon, at least in part, a first similarity measurement of the first mathematical representation and the plurality of mathematical representations. A second result subset of items is generated based upon, at least in part, a second similarity measurement of the second mathematical representation and the plurality of mathematical representations. A result set of items is generated based upon, at least in part, the first and second result subsets. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325847 | GRAPH-BASED SEARCHING - Improved, personalized searching through the use of personal connection graphs is presented. Responsive to receiving a search query, the search engine obtains a user sketch (representing a user's connection graph) and obtains search results responsive to the search query and also based, in part, as a function of a relationship distance between the user and the referenced content as determined by the user sketch. One or more search results pages are generated from the obtained search results and returned to the user. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325848 | HIERARCHAL CLUSTERING METHOD FOR LARGE XML DATA - The hierarchal clustering method for large XML data is a scalable technique that takes large XML data sets and measures distances between those sets of data and then arranges those data into groups according to the distance measurements. The method can cluster XML data by both content and structure, and can cluster homogeneous XML data. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325849 | Annotating Entities Using Cross-Document Signals - Techniques for annotating an entity in a document corpus using cross-document signals. A method includes determining which documents in a document corpus mention an entity of interest, clustering the documents that mention an entity of interest according to a temporal signal, a structural signal and/or a content signal, thereby forming at least one cluster of documents, and annotating at least one document in the at least one cluster of documents by marking each occurrence of the entity in the at least one document. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325850 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISCOVERING SOCIAL ACCOUNTS - Methods and systems allow organizations to discover accounts, subscriptions, properties, sites and other online portals within each distinct social network platform and across disparate social network platforms, publishing platforms and networks that represent, claim to represent or are relevant to their organization and/or brands based on search terms and facilitate the statistical reporting and analysis of activities on the discovered properties. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325851 | Free-Text Search for Integrating Management of Applications - An integration mechanism for managing computing components may be provided. It may comprise collecting management information about the computing components using a data collection component, storing objects of the collected management information in a full-text search-index data-structure, generating for each collected object a displayable result snippet, searching the full-text search-index data-structure for matching objects based on a received parameter, retrieving all matching objects of the full-text search-index data-structure related to the search, and displaying the matching objects in form of the related result snippets, wherein the integration mechanism is independent from the computing components it is collecting management information from. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130332450 | System and Method for Automatically Detecting and Interactively Displaying Information About Entities, Activities, and Events from Multiple-Modality Natural Language Sources - A method for automatically extracting and organizing information by a processing device from a plurality of data sources is provided. A natural language processing information extraction pipeline that includes an automatic detection of entities is applied to the data sources. Information about detected entities is identified by analyzing products of the natural language processing pipeline. Identified information is grouped into equivalence classes containing equivalent information. At least one displayable representation of the equivalence classes is created. An order in which the at least one displayable representation is displayed is computed. A combined representation of the equivalence classes that respects the order in which the displayable representation is displayed is produced. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332451 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATING PERSONAL IDENTIFIERS WITH CORRESPONDING ONLINE PRESENCE - A system and method for correlating personal identifiers with corresponding online presence are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes providing, by use of a data processor, a user interface to enable a user to specify a person or personal identifier of interest; producing search terms associated with the person or personal identifier of interest; using the search terms in a search query to obtain related search results collected from a plurality of content sources; filtering the search results to obtain information indicative of a plurality of profile sources; using the information indicative of a plurality of profile sources to obtain related profiles collected from a plurality of profile sources; filtering the related profiles to obtain a set of matching profiles; and reporting information on the person or personal identifier of interest and links to the corresponding matching profiles to the user. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130339341 | TRAVEL ADVISORY NOTIFICATIONS - A travel advisory generation system is provided that enables generation of travel advisories based upon one or more selected parameters (e.g., location, origin, destination, date, date range, travel provider, class of service, etc.). These travel advisories may be further incorporated into travel search results, providing relevant advisory information in conjunction, e.g., concurrently or in-line, with travel options. The advisories may be further customized in order to display desired notifications and not display undesired notifications to selected users of the travel advisory generation system (e.g., system operators, travel service providers (including, but not limited to, travel agents and travel managers of an organization), and travelers). | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339342 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING COMMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH A QUERY - A method and system for displaying comments associated with a query. The method includes receiving the query provided by a user, retrieving a set of comment clusters from a comment cluster database, selecting engaging comments from each comment cluster included in the set of comment clusters, aggregating the engaging comments that are obtained from each comment cluster, identifying a plurality of independent comments included in a list of aggregated comments and displaying a list of engaging comments to the user. The system includes an electronic device, a communication interface and a memory. The system also includes a processor to receive the query, retrieve a set of comment clusters, select engaging comments from each comment cluster, aggregate the engaging comments, identify a plurality of independent comments and display a list of engaging comments to the user. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339343 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE MEDIA SEARCH - Graphical user interfaces for searching music. A computer provides a window of a first webpage providing a user interface to search music, comprising search tools including filter tools and a keyword search tool. In response to a user search request for music via the filter tools and/or the keyword search tool, the computer provides, within the window, music search results. When a search result is selected by the user, the selected search result expands within the window. The expanded search result includes one or more of: a grab button, a download button, a share button, a license button, an audio player showing an audio waveform of the selected music search result, a description of the selected music search result, artwork associated with the search result, and an explore-more button, that when selected provides additional music related to the selected music based on acoustic similarity. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339344 | WEB-SCALE ENTITY RELATIONSHIP EXTRACTION - Techniques for displaying a relationship graph are described herein. In one example, a search term may be used to obtain a plurality of documents from a network, such as the Internet. A plurality of entities, and relationships between at least some of those entities, may be extracted from the documents. In an example user interface, representations of a plurality of entities may be displayed, such as by shapes (e.g., circles) labeled to identify people or organizations. Edges (e.g., lines) may be used to connect different representations of entities and to thereby indicate a relationship between the connected entities. In a particular example, input from movement of a cursor over an edge may result in display of a description of a relationship between the connected entities. In a further particular example, size of each entity may be related to a number of connections each has with others. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339345 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH LOCALIZED APP RECOMMENDATIONS - Mobile devices can provide app recommendations that are relevant to a location of interest. A localized app recommendation can be triggered (e.g., by a mobile device coming within a threshold distance of an application hotspot or some other user action). A location of interest can be determined. The location of interest can be the current location of the mobile device or another location (e.g., the destination in a mapping app). Using the location of interest, a localized application ranking database with app hotspot data can be queried with location data representing the location of interest. App recommendations can be received and displayed on the mobile device. Icons for apps that are relevant to the location of interest can be visually distinguished from other apps. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339346 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND MEMO SEARCH METHOD FOR THE SAME - A mobile terminal and memo search method for the same enable the mobile terminal to perform a memo search on the basis of input information on a memo. The memo search method includes: collecting, when a memo is input, input information on the memo; creating a search database on the basis of the input information; and storing the memo and the search database in an associated form. In addition, the memo search method includes: inputting a search word for memo search; collecting input information on the search word; searching a search database containing input information on stored memos for a memo matching the input information on the search word; and displaying the memo search results. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339347 | Enhanced Search Results - A search tool graphical user interface comprises search criteria selected by an operator of the search tool. One or more search results that correspond to the search criteria are displayed on the search tool graphical user interface, and an indication of characteristics is displayed for one or more of the search results. The characteristics displayed may include the availability or maturity of content associated with the search results; The search results may be sorted or filtered based on the characteristics of content associated with the search results. The characteristics maybe determined before or after the search results are identified and displayed on the search tool graphical user interface. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130346392 | Columnwise Range K-Nearest Neighbors Search Queries - A range k-nearest neighbor search query of a database is processed by first defining an inner rectangle bounded within a circle around a center point specified by the range k-nearest neighbor search query. Thereafter, a distance to the center point is calculated for each point within the inner rectangle. Query results are returned if k or more points are within the inner rectangle. Otherwise, at least one additional query is executed. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346393 | RELATIONAL MODELING ENGINE - This invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for processing instruction code to solve a problem. A method according to an embodiment includes: identifying a first relational data table operating on a second relational data table in the instruction code; selecting one or more sets of decision variables from identified tables and operation; constructing one or more equivalent sets of serialized instructions comprising the equivalent serial logical operations operating on one or more of the identified sets of decision variables; and performing the equivalent sets of serialized instructions to determine a solution to the problem. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346394 | VIRTUAL TREE - A method can include receiving search results for a search of data based on search criteria; structuring the search results in a hierarchical tree structure defined by at least one structuring criterion; rendering a graphical control to a display that comprises a graphic of at least a portion of the hierarchical tree structure; and navigating the search results by interacting with the graphical control. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346395 | Method for Internet users to mark resources to be displayed or executed from a result list - This invention provides a method for users to mark resources on the Internet so that when the marked resources on the Internet are included in a result list from an Internet service, such as a search engine or bookmark service to the user, they will be displayed or executed. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346396 | AUTOMATICALLY UPDATING A QUERY - A computing system is described that can update a query on behalf of a user. In some embodiments, the user's internet search history can be stored and processed by a server to identify one or more user interest queries. For example, queries that are specific enough to trigger the display of an inline result can be identified as a user interest query. The server can maintain a profile for the user that includes the user interest queries. Later on, the user's context can be received by the server. This can include the user's current location and/or the local time at that location. User interest queries determined to be relevant to the user's context can be updated, and the results can be automatically provided to the user. The user can thus be provided with relevant, updated information without having to manually repeat a past query. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346397 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED INFORMATION VISUALIZATION - In accordance with the present invention, an information management application that provides users with the ability to create and customize matrix displays of information relating to a particular product or service for navigation by other users is provided. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346398 | Method and System for Refining a Semantic Search on a Mobile Device - System and method are disclosed for refining a semantic search query through large quantities of dynamically created concept categories and their associated extracted values on a mobile device using only two filtering controls or buttons. The first filtering control is a Semantic Categorization Filter control and the second filtering control is a Semantic Categorization Selection control. The user queries a semantic search engine using text or voice controls. The results returned to the user imply the full scope of search results along with a dynamically created semantic categorization. The most relevant semantic categorization will be considered as the pre-selected category in the Semantic Categorization Filter control along with a list of possible dynamically created sub-categorizations and the Semantic Categorization Selection control will be pre-populated with other possible semantic categorizations of the result set. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346399 | DESTINATION PREDICTION USING TEXT ANALYSIS - A method and device relating to destination prediction of communication messages is presented. The device may include an analyzer configured to analyze a message entered in a universal input field. The analyzer may also provide a search variable based on the entered message. The device may also include a or which may be configured to receive the search variable and determine at least one suggested destination based on the search variable. The prediction of communication destinations eliminates the need for various menus and sub-menus. Thus, a user may send a communication message without the need of lengthy navigations. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140006385 | Image search refinement using facets | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006386 | SYSTEM FOR CREATING A UNIFIED CLOTHING FILE | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006387 | SEARCH APPARATUS, SEARCH METHOD, AND SEARCH SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140012836 | IDENTIFICATION OF PEOPLE AS SEARCH RESULTS FROM KEY-WORD BASED SEARCHES OF CONTENT IN A CLOUD-BASED ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying users of a collaboration system as search results. In one embodiment, the system performs a text-based content search of content items to identify relevant content. The disclosed system stores metadata associated with the content that includes various user information. The user information can be used to facilitate identification of relevant individuals (users or collaborators) as search results, in addition to or in lieu of, relevant content. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012837 | Apparatus and Method for Single Action Approval of Legally Categorized Documents - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to display a document with legal categorizations. The legal categorizations are accepted and invoke a subsequent document for viewing with a single input action. The subsequent document is displayed. Revised legal categorizations are received. The revised legal categorizations are accepted and invoke an additional document for viewing with a single input action. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012838 | DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a data management apparatus (i-Win (trademark)) which carries out centralized management of data containing data on each product during the management of product data having different data items to be handled and which has increased maintenance-ability in system and program(s). | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012839 | SUGGESTING ALTERNATIVE QUERIES IN QUERY RESULTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for suggesting alternative queries based on original query search results. In one aspect, a method includes receiving search results for a first query, where each search result refers to a respective resource and includes a snippet of content from the respective resource, receiving one or more suggested second queries, for each of the suggested second queries: selecting a set of words in one of the snippets to represent the suggested second query, associating the suggested second query with the set so that a user can interact with a word in the set to invoke the suggested second query, and marking the set so as to indicate that the user can interact with a word in the set to invoke the suggested second query, and transmitting the search results including each marked set to a client device for presentation to the user. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140019437 | Data Scope Origination Within Aggregation Operations - A computer-implemented method for generating a report from a report definition specifying a plurality of data scopes for a dataset includes interpreting, with a processor, a report definition for the report, the report definition comprising a calculation expression for populating a unit of the report, the calculation expression comprising a data aggregation operation, the data aggregation operation comprising an originating reference to a further data scope, accessing a memory coupled to the processor to obtain data from the dataset for respective subsets of the dataset corresponding with the further data scope, determining, with the processor, an output value for the calculation expression in accordance with the obtained data and the data aggregation operation, and rendering the report based on the output value. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019438 | Indexing Electronic Notes - A digital publishing platform enables users to create and organize notes associated with electronic, published documents. Sets of notes, each associated with a document, are uploaded to the publishing platform by notepad applications executing on user devices. Each set of notes has one or more notes, and each note includes a link to a location in the associated document. The publishing platform is configured to index sets of notes based on keywords of the notes, which may be identified based on content of the publication at the location with which notes are associated. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019439 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING SMART SEARCHES - A multi-tenant server system for executing search queries includes a database that stores multi-tenant data including data objects having associated data records for a plurality of users associated with a plurality of tenants, and a server system including a processor. The processor is configured to execute a method including the steps of applying search queries to the multi-tenant database and providing a search result set including a plurality of data objects each having at least one data record. The method further includes reordering the search result set according to predetermined scoping criteria based on individual user histories, including recency and frequency metrics, to produce a reordered search result set. The reordered set is filtered based on predetermined permission criteria associated with each user, and displayed. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019440 | RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A radiation treatment planning apparatus and method thereof are disclosed. The radiation treatment planning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a processor configured to acquire first radiation therapy plan (RTP) data based on a medical image of a region of interest of a patient; acquire radiation therapy results data for the region of interest based on the first RTP data; and generate third RTP data from second RTP data preset for the region of interest using the radiation therapy results data. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019441 | CUSTOM WEB PAGE THEMES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for applying custom web page themes. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request for search results, where the request includes a search query submitted in an input field by a user; obtaining a search results page in response to the search query; identifying one or more features of the search query; selecting a first visual theme from among a plurality of visual themes, where each visual theme has respective trigger data, based on the one or more features of the search query matching the trigger data of the first visual theme, the first visual theme having theme data, the theme data specifying visual features; and applying the visual features to the search results page for display in a user interface. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019442 | Using Application Market Log Data To Identify Applications Of Interest - Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a query log, the query log including data relating to information input to an application marketplace and one or more applications available through the application marketplace, generating a map based on the data of the query log, for at least one of the one or more applications, identifying one or more applications of interest based on the map, generating an index, the index associating the at least one of the one or more applications to the one or more applications of interest, storing the index in computer-readable memory, receiving a user selection of a particular application of the one or more applications, retrieving the one or more applications of interest based on the particular application using the generated index, and providing the one or more applications of interest for display. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140025659 | SELECTING METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF - A selecting method for a multi-media device includes acquiring a target keyword; and outputting at least one selecting result according to a selecting relative net, a searching relative net and the target keyword; wherein the selecting relative net is built according to a text information and includes a plurality of selecting keywords and a plurality of selecting results, each selecting keyword of the plurality of selecting keywords corresponds to at least one of the plurality of selecting results, and the searching relative net is built according to a cloud database. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025660 | Information Targeting Systems and Methods - The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for the secure management of electronic information relating to a user. In certain embodiments, systems and methods disclosed herein may allow for personal information related to a user to be used in connection with information targeting systems and methods configured to match and/or target information for delivery to a user based on the user's interests. In some embodiments, personal information relating to a user may be stored and/or managed in a personal ontology graph or other data structure including, among other things, various inferred interests of the user derived from available personal information. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025661 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING SEARCH RESULT DATA, SEARCH SERVER AND MOBILE DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a method of displaying search result data, a search server and a mobile device. The method includes: receiving, at a server, a search request sent by a mobile device, the search request includes a search keyword; performing, by the server, a search based on the search keyword and obtaining search result data, where the search result data includes the search keyword; converting, by the server, the search keyword in the search result data into an abbreviated indicator; and returning, by the server, the search result data that includes the abbreviated indicator, the search result data that includes the abbreviated indicator being used for display on an interface of the mobile device in an abbreviated manner. The present disclosure can improve a utilization rate of an interface space of a mobile device and saves the amount of online traffic for a user. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025662 | CONTENT SEARCH METHOD BASED ON CLOUD SERVICE, AND SYSTEM AND TERMINAL DEVICE SUPPORTING THE SAME - The present invention relates to content search based on a cloud service, wherein a content search screen is displayed for providing a content search in a predefined format and the search request can be made, via the received content search screen, by manipulating the displayed contents in a more intuitive manner so that a user can access the desired item more efficiently. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025663 | MESSAGE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Multi-media content for inclusion into an SMS (Short Message Service), MMS (Multi-media Message Service), IM (Instant Message) or other message type can be searched, pre-searches, fetched and pre-fetched based upon predictive- and rules-based searching techniques. A system can predict or infer an in-process message, for example, based upon a portion of the inputted text message. Thereafter, in real- or near real-time, content related to the topic of conversation can be retrieved from a local store, remote stores (e.g., servers) or cloud-based sources. The retrieved content can be incorporated into the SMS, MMS, or IM message as appropriate or desired thereby enhancing the messaging experience. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025664 | IDENTIFYING TERMS ASSOCIATED WITH QUERIES - Computer-readable media and computerized methods are provided for identifying terms associated with one or more queries, including aspects directed to manipulating a list of terms associated with a query class by extracting terms, identifying equivalences or relevant terms, and condensing or expanding the list of terms. In embodiments, synonymous terms can be identified. An updated list of terms can be written to a storage location in association with a query or query class. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025665 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYZING A NETWORK FEED IN A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT - The present invention discusses a dashboard application that compiles values across a set of records, each of the records having fields which include data pertaining to user-defined criteria. The user enters a query into the system and the set of records is returns and analyzed according the criteria. The results are numerical and are displayed in components of the dashboard. The component is a graph, bar graph, pie chart, etc. that appears in a user interface of the dashboard. A user can customize the application and define its component. Multiple users can view and subscribe to the dashboard and can select specific components to follow. Some components can have user-defined threshold values and can provide graphics displaying breakpoints of those values. When the system refreshes, or the user manually refreshes the dashboard, an alert is generated if the threshold value is traversed. The alert, including the component graphic, is posted in the subscriber's feed and a feed of the dashboard. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140032529 | Information resource identification system - A method includes identifying a content entity in content data, categorizing the content entity into at least one content entity category of a plurality of content entity categories, and identifying a plurality of searchable information resources associated with the at least one content entity category. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032530 | PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH GEOGRAPHIC DATA - A system for retrieving project management data based upon geographic criteria defines a plurality of locations. The system assigns the plurality of locations to project management data stored within a memory, wherein the project management data comprises a plurality of projects, a plurality of activities, and a plurality of resources, and the locations are assigned to the plurality of projects, activities, and resources. The system receives a request to retrieve project management data with assigned locations that meet a geographic criteria. The system retrieves project management data that meets the geographic criteria. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032531 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SERVICE METERING FRAMEWORK IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes causing generation of a metered record associated with a metering event of an application executed within a cloud-based computing system, the metered record including a metering attribute and a corresponding value, the corresponding value being determined substantially simultaneous to a runtime execution of the application, and facilitating searching for the metered record based on the metering attribute and the corresponding value of the metering attribute. In specific embodiments, the metered record is communicated using a REpresentational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API). In an example embodiment, the notification of the metering event can be received by any one of a REST API, a Java Messaging Service listener, an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) listener, or a metering plugin. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032532 | SPELL CHECK USING COLUMN CURSOR - An input query can be spell checked by first parsing the input query into one or more tokens. The one or more tokens are then compared against spell storage tables to derive alternative tokens. A spell cursor is launched, with the spell cursor calculating scores for permutations of the tokens and alternative tokens, and the scores representing a likelihood that a user intended to use the permutation as the input query. A memory table may then be formed including the permutations and scores. The memory table can then be passed to a column cursor, the column cursor designed to form an output table of results based on queries to a database using the permutations. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032533 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEO-LOCATION DATA TYPE SEARCHING IN AN ON DEMAND ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems are provided for retrieving, from a database containing a list of records, a subset of the list of records located within a user defined distance from a target point, each record in the list of records having a compound geo-location data type including a first data field and a second data field. The method involves generating a circle around the target point; identifying records having a geo-location within the circle; including the identified records in a result set; and presenting the result set to a user on a display screen. The method further includes treating the first data field and the second data field as a single data element. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032534 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEXT DISAMBIGUATION AND CONTEXT DESIGNATION IN INCREMENTAL SEARCH - Methods and systems for text disambiguation and context designation in incremental search are provided. A method for selecting items in response to ambiguous keystrokes entered by a user and unambiguous metadata associated with a previously selected search result includes receiving ambiguous keystrokes, selecting and presenting a first subset of items and metadata associated with the items presented based on the ambiguous keystrokes. The method also includes receiving a selection of one of the items from the user, and, in response to a locking operation received from the user, locking in fixed relation at least one of the ambiguous keystrokes to at least one metadata term associated with the selected item. The method further includes, subsequent to receiving the locking operation, selecting and presenting a second subset of items based at least in part on the locked metadata term, and presenting the second subset of items. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032535 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IN-MEMORY PROCESSING OF EVENTS - Systems and methods for in-memory processing of events are provided. A set of unique elements of a plurality of queries is determined. Each query is executed on a defined schedule and time duration. A plurality of events in an event stream are received. The events are filtered using the set of unique elements. For each query, a query result for each filtered event is determined. For each query, in-memory aggregation of the query result of each filtered event is provided. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140040236 | VISUALIZATION OF TOP LOCAL GEOGRAPHICAL ENTITIES THROUGH WEB SEARCH DATA - Architecture that automatically employs web search user query data to identify the places (e.g., locations, businesses) to which people are likely traveling, and then produces a heatmap visualization of the most popular places in the local area on a local map in a mapping application, which is then viewable in the vertical listing of the search results. This data can be utilized to rank local businesses in terms of popularity by knowing how many people are actually visiting the business as a function of date (and perhaps time). The web search data, which is used to understand the popular locations of a geographical area, includes signals such as searching for directions in the map application, and analyzing directions-related terms such as “From” and “To” in the search results. Another signal can be a location or business search which triggers an appropriate instant answer. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040237 | DATABASE RETRIEVAL IN ELASTIC STREAMING ANALYTICS PLATFORM - Managing retrieval of data from a data streaming process, such that a query required by multiple operator instances is not executed more than once. A Data Access Station (DAS) facilitates data retrieval for an operator(s) O and its multiple operator instances, and mitigates (or avoids) repetition of queries by the multiple operator instances. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040238 | Business Intelligent In-Document Suggestions - Implementing business intelligent in-document suggestion may include detecting a content that a user is inputting into a document or selecting from the document. Based on the content, a key word may be extracted to generate a query. The query may be transmitted to an enterprise search engine for enterprise intelligence. Based on returned search results, a suggestion may be generated and presented to a user device by integrating the suggestion into the document. In some embodiments, the suggestion may include a people suggestion, a document suggestion, a phrase suggestion and a document template suggestion. In some embodiments, adding an additional content or selecting a subset of the content may refine the suggestion. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040239 | LIVE EVENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An organization data management system is described. A method may comprise receiving organization information, by a processor accessible by a server computing device, associated with a sports organization; relating statistics, received by the processor, associated with one or more events involving the sports organization to the organization information, the statistics being related to provide statistics levels comprising at least game, season, and career statistics levels; generating one or more customized reports comprising the statistics and the organization information; and presenting the statistics and the organization information on a user interface accessible from a display of a client computing device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040240 | Searching Media Program Databases - A method, apparatus, article of manufacture for providing list of a plurality of media programs responsive to a user search query is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of accepting an general search query from a user computer, identifying a synonym for the general search query, identifying a category for the general search query according to the identified synonym, performing a categorical search of a media program database using the identified synonym and the identified category to obtain a search result, and transmitting the search result to the user computer for presentation on a display communicatively coupled to the user computer. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040241 | Data Rendering With Specified Constraints - System and method for rendering data with specified constraints. A request for data from a data set may be received. The data set may include time-stamped historical data, including multiple reduced data sets, each having a respective resolution. The request may specify a time frame. A first reduced data set of the reduced data sets may be determined based on the specified time frame. First data from the first reduced data set corresponding to the specified time frame may be retrieved, and are usable for display on a display device. The data set may be generated from received raw data, where the raw data includes time-stamped historical data at a first resolution. The raw data may be reduced via multiple stages, thereby generating the reduced data sets at their respective resolutions. The reduced data are generated and represented in a way that is visually pleasing and technically accurate. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040242 | METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON ANDROID SYSTEM FOR TRACKING IMPORTED FILE - An electronic device is configured to exchange data with a mobile storage device. The device monitors for a first event corresponding to the storage device being unmounted. In response to detecting the first event, the device records a first time. After the first event, the device monitors for a second event corresponding to the storage device being mounted. In response to detecting the second event, the device records a second time. After the second event, the device performs a scan of the storage device, stores the scanned data in a database, and records a storage path corresponding to the scanned data in the database. The device monitors for a third event corresponding to completion of the scan, and records a third time. The device retrieves a dataset with a timestamp between the first time and the third time and displays the dataset and the timestamp. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040243 | Sharing Search Queries on Online Social Network - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, receiving from a user a selection of a structured query the user wants to share, where the structured query comprises references to nodes and edges of the social graph, and sending the structured query for display on a page associated with one or more other users. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040244 | Search Queries with Previews of Search Results on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, generating a plurality of structured queries, where each structured query comprises references to nodes and edges of the social graph, generating search results corresponding to at least one of the structured queries, and sending one or more of the structured queries to a user for display, where at least one of the structured queries is displayed with a preview of one or more of the search results corresponding to the structured query. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040245 | Dynamic Suggested Search Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, generating a plurality of structured queries, where each structured query comprises references to nodes and edges of the social graph, and where at least one of the structured queries is a dynamic query comprising a reference to one or more to the social graph, and sending one or more of the structured queries to a user for display, where at least one of the sent structured queries is a dynamic query. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040246 | Sponsored Search Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, identifying a node corresponding to an advertiser, generating a plurality of structured queries, where each structured query comprises reference to nodes and edges of the social graph, and where at least one structured query is a sponsored query comprising a reference to the identified node and one or more edges that are connected to the identified node, and sending one or more of the structured queries to a user for display, where at least one of the sent structured queries is a sponsored query. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140046929 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE and IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - A processor specifies an application to be recorded based on timing with which the application is activated, and detects a specified operation for the application to be recorded. The processor generates image data on a display screen each time the specified operation for the application to be recorded is detected, associates the generated image data with the application to be recorded, and stores the data as record information in a storage unit. The processor extracts from one or more pieces of record information stored in the storage unit the record information associated with the detected application upon detection of activation of the application, and lists the record information; and a display processing unit which displays image data included in any record information in the listed record information. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140046930 | Method and Apparatus for a Trusted Localized Peer-to-Peer Services Marketplace - A trusted localized peer-to-peer services marketplace including an available search module to search an available services database for available services responsive to receiving a search query from a potential service buyer, a wanted services search module to search a wanted services database for wanted services responsive to a receiving a search query from a service seller, and a display module coupled with the available services search module and the wanted services search module, the display module to display the results of the search queries, the display module further to display an option for the potential service buyer to automatically populate the wanted services database based on the received available services search query, and to display an option for the service seller to automatically populate the available services database based on the received wanted services search query. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140046931 | CLASSIFYING INFORMATION CAPTURED IN DIFFERENT FORMATS FOR SEARCH AND DISPLAY IN A COMMON FORMAT - In one embodiment, a method receives a plurality of documents. The documents may be received from different medical providers. Also, the documents may be medical record documents generated or captured in a first format and a second format. The first format may be an unstructured data format and the second format may be a structured data format. The first and second documents are then converted to a common format. For example, a common format may emerge as the most restrictive or constrained denominator of the first format and the second format. A schema is determined that provides an organizational structure with categories that can be used to index the content of the first and second documents while they are being converted to the common format. The schema and indexing enable the different formats of documents to be combined and organized simultaneously into a single view for a comprehensive review. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140046932 | PRESENTING UNIQUE SEARCH RESULT CONTEXTS - Presenting unique search result contexts, including: receiving, by a search result presentation module, a plurality of search results generated in response to a search query, wherein each search result includes context information associated with the search result; identifying, by the search result presentation module for each search result, a displayable portion of the context information associated with the search result; determining, by the search result presentation module for each search result, whether the displayable portion of the context information is a duplicate of the displayable portion of the context information for another search result; and responsive to determining that the displayable portion of the context information is a duplicate of the displayable portion of the context information for another search result, updating, by the search result presentation module, the displayable portion of the context information for the search result. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140046933 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING USER ACTIVITIES BASED ON GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION INFORMATION AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention relates to method and system for displaying user activities based on geographical location information, and a computer storage medium, the method comprising: an SNS server obtaining personal activities information submitted by a first SNS user and the geographical location information of the first SNS user submitting the personal activities information; establishing a personal activities information database of the first SNS user according to the personal activities information, the geographical location information and the identification number of the first SNS user, and storing the database in the SNS server; the SNS server searching for the friend list of the first SNS user in the database, notifying a second SNS user on the friend list of the first SNS user of the personal activities information, the geographical location information and the identification number of the first SNS user and displaying in the friend status of the second SNS user. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140052712 | TRAVERSING DATA UTILIZING DATA RELATIONSHIPS - Systems and methods may provide traversing data using metadata. In one example, a method may include gathering a textual description of a first object, wherein the textual description includes a word, generating a vector represent the textual description, assigning a first weight value to the word, associating an object space with the word including assigning a second weight value to the word, and associating an object space with the first object. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052713 | HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AGGREGATION/GROUP BY OPERATION: FILTER METHOD - Techniques are described for performing grouping and aggregation operations. In an embodiment, a request is received to aggregate data grouped by a first column. In response to receiving the request, values are loaded from the first column into an input cache. The values include values, from the first column, from a set of rows. A filter unit is programmed with logic to perform a comparison between a particular value, from the first column of a first row, and values in the first column of a plurality of rows, of the set of rows. Based on the comparison, a predicate result is generated that identifies rows, within the plurality of rows, that have a valued in the first column that matches the particular value. An aggregate value for a second column is generated by aggregating values, from the second column, of each of the rows identified by the predicate result. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052714 | FLIGHTS SEARCH - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for information retrieval. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search query in a search interface; determining that the received search query is a flights-related query; and in response to determining that the search query is a flights-related query and without further user input, providing a flight search interface including a plurality of search dimensions and a plurality of flight search results, each dimension associated with an attribute of flight search and each dimension having an associated value, wherein one or more dimension values correspond to values extracted from the search query, and wherein the plurality of flight search results are filtered according to the dimension values. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052715 | CONTEXT DIARY APPLICATION FOR A MOBILE TERMINAL - The invention provides a presentation of contextual information to a digital device in relation to a period of time. As such the invention provides for efficient user access to historical, as well as, current and future or forecasted contextual information. In addition, the present invention provides for current contextual information to be presented in an idle mode view, a scrolling bar mode view or another inconspicuous view. Additionally the present invention provides a novel means of using context information to create multimedia file presentations; image or video file presentations that can be associated with previous periods of time, locations or other context data. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140059038 | FILTERING STRUCTURED DATA USING INEXACT, CULTURE-DEPENDENT TERMS - Technologies are described herein for filtering data in a result set using inexact and/or culture dependent terms. A user provides one or more filter terms for filtering a result set being viewed. One or more data type interpretations are determined for each filter term based on the value of the term. The data type interpretations may further be based on a locale associated with the user. For each filter term, the columns of the result set to which the filter term is to be applied is selected based on the data type interpretations determined for the filter term and the data types of the columns. The filter terms are then applied to the selected columns of the result set, thus causing the rows of the result set as displayed to the user to be limited to rows wherein at least one column value satisfies a filter term. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059039 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SEARCHING AND DISPLAYING A PLURALITY OF ENTITIES WITHIN AN INTERACTIVE USER INTERFACE - Inventive systems and methods for retrieving and displaying a plurality of entities associated with a plurality of content sources in response to a search query is disclosed. In preferred embodiments of the systems and methods, the present invention addresses the need to search and relate a plurality of entities across a plurality of content sources, and then displaying the search results in an interactive user interface that simultaneously updates and modifies the display of associated entities and related content. Such searching and relationship generation for a plurality of entities across a plurality of content sources is designed to address and handle the continuing increases and growth in searchable content. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059040 | METHOD OF RECOMMENDING FRIENDS, AND SERVER AND TERMINAL THEREFOR - A method of recommending a friend in a first terminal is provided. The method includes generating first interest keyword information by analyzing event information of the first terminal, receiving second interest keyword information of a second terminal, comparing the first interest keyword information and the second interest keyword information, and displaying information recommending a user of the second terminal as a friend based on a result of the comparing. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059041 | Graphical User Interface for Interacting with Automatically Generated User Profiles - A robust knowledge-based management and sharing system organized by context for context-based searching and retrieval of relevant information is disclosed. The described embodiments and techniques are used to automatically generate user profile data and organize it around one or more contexts associated with users such as their projects, products, or customers; or around users' expertise such as their competencies, knowledge, and experience. At least certain embodiments include a graphical user interface that is configured to display the automatically generated user profiles categorized based on a given expertise or context associated with the end-user. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140067794 | DATABASE GROUPING SET QUERY - Embodiments relate to a method, system, and computer program product for processing database grouping set query. The method includes receiving a grouping set query request; the grouping set query request including a plurality of groups and determining via said grouping set query request a plurality of to be assigned child tasks for parallel processing. Subsequently, one or more of the groups are assigned as child tasks to be parallel processed based on logical relationship among the groups and the number of available parallel child tasks determined and the parallel child tasks are executed to generate grouping set query result. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067795 | MULTI-FUNCTION SEARCHING AND SEARCH-RELATED TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED SEARCH RESULTS AND ENHANCED ANALYSIS AND DECISION-MAKING - A machine-controlled method may include a data store storing textual information, numerical information, belief information, estimates, or any combination thereof, and a machine executing a user-initiated or group-initiated query against the stored information. The processor may apply preferences, targets and thresholds by asserting a user-specified query conditions against the information. Responsive to multiple results of the querying, the processor may apply an importance by asserting a user-defined importance condition against the results of the query and may provide an indication of a ranking corresponding to at least one of the results. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067796 | Optimizing Result Presentation of a Database Operation - Techniques for optimizing result presentation for a database query. A database query is received. The database query is performed with a clause indicating one or more offset values to be used in displaying results from the database query. The one or more offset values indicate a subset within the results from the database query to be presented. An order is imposed on the results from the database query. The subset is presented as determined by the one or more offset values. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140074820 | Defining Relevant Content Area Based on Category Density - A method for defining a relevant area for displaying advertisements based on a category of a user search is disclosed. The method includes receiving a search request from a user; determining a business category based on the search request; determining a location associated with the search request; determining business category density information based at least on the determined business category and the location associated with the search request; determining an extent based on business category density information for the location; determining local content to provide to the user based at least in part on the determined extent, the business category, and the location; and providing for display to the user the local content, wherein the local content is provided to the user in addition to the search results. The location may be explicitly included in the search request, associated with responsive search results, or associated with the search request. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074821 | System, Method and Device Having Data Display Regulation and Tabular Output - A system has a data storage device accessible by a processor. The system is operable to store items and regulate how much of the item data is displayable on an electronic device. In addition, the system is operable to generate tabular output related to the item data. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074822 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFECTIVE SEARCH RETARGETING IN SEARCH ADVERTISING - Provided is a method and system for effective search retargeting in search advertising. An advertising method may include determining a search history of a user and changing a display text associated with the search result if the determining determines that the search result has been previously provided to the user. The determining may be based on a search result provided to the user in response to a received input keyword. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074823 | FINGERPRINTS AND MACHINE-READABLE CODES COMBINED WITH USER CHARACTERISTICS TO OBTAIN CONTENT OR INFORMATION - The present invention relates generally to processing audio and video data. One claim recites a method of accessing content stored in a remote database. The method includes: receiving video or audio data; decoding an auxiliary machine-readable code from the video or audio data; deriving a fingerprint, which fingerprint is separate from the machine-readable code, from the video or audio data itself; providing user characteristics or an index to user characteristics; and by using the machine-readable code, fingerprint and user characteristics or information obtained with the index to user characteristics, accessing the content stored in the remote database. Of course, additional combinations and claims are provided as well. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074824 | Matching Process System And Method - A method for profile matching includes receiving a plurality of user profiles, each user profile comprising traits of a respective user. The method includes receiving a preference indication for a first user profile of the plurality of user profiles. The method also includes determining a potential match user profile of the plurality of user profiles based on the preference indication for the first user profile. The method also includes presenting the potential match user profile to a second user. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074825 | IDENTIFYING PARTICULAR IMAGES FROM A COLLECTION - A method of identifying one or more particular images from an image collection, includes indexing the image collection to provide image descriptors for each image in the image collection such that each image is described by one or more of the image descriptors; receiving a query from a user specifying at least one keyword for an image search; and using the keyword(s) to search a second collection of tagged images to identify co-occurrence keywords. The method further includes using the identified co-occurrence keywords to provide an expanded list of keywords; using the expanded list of keywords to search the image descriptors to identify a set of candidate images satisfying the keywords; grouping the set of candidate images according to at least one of the image descriptors, and selecting one or more representative images from each grouping; and displaying the representative images to the user. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074826 | ONTOLOGY FOR USE WITH A SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR RETRIEVING INFORMATION AND RESPONSE TO A QUERY - A system, method, and computer readable medium for applying one or more information retrieval technologies is disclosed for resolving a query. In one embodiment, an exemplary system generates a response using a language analysis module configured to parse a query into elements. This system can also include a rules engine configured to compare a condition of a rule against the elements, where the rule is configured to perform an action to retrieve information. Further, a response generator coupled to said rules engine receives the rule and retrieves the information for presentation to a querier in a portion of a display that adjusts proportionately to the degree of importance of said information. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140081951 | MANAGEMENT OF PACKAGE DELIVERY - Apparatuses, Methods and programs are provided. A method may comprise receiving a first request to verify an identifier associated with a destination from a first requester, responding to the request with a response, the response indicating an existence of a physical address associated with the identifier, the response further comprising a list of authorized entities authorized to access information specifying the physical address, receiving a second request from a second requester to access information specifying the physical address associated with the identifier, determining if the second requester is authorized to have access to information specifying the physical address by analyzing the list of authorized entities corresponding to the identifier; and providing the physical address to the second requester if the second requester is authorized. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140081952 | METHOD AND APPARATUS USING ITEM SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE TABLE AS IDENTIFIER - A method and an apparatus using an item sequence of a sequence table as an identifier are provided. A data processing method includes the steps of: (a) causing the user apparatus to receive operation information to be transmitted from the information provider apparatus, wherein the operation information includes a plurality of data elements arranged in accordance with an item sequence of a sequence table in which the sequence of a plurality of items is specified and each data element includes one or more detailed operation data pieces; (b) extracting the data element of the item sequence corresponding to a reference position of the user apparatus out of the operation information; and (c) performing a predetermined operation using the one or more detailed operation data pieces included in the extracted data element. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140081953 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ANSWERS IN AN ON-LINE CUSTOMER SUPPORT ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems are provided for providing answers in an on-line customer support site. The method includes receiving a first question from a user, determining first results from a knowledge base, determining second results from a community, determining third results from an agent, and displaying the first results, the second results, and the third results responsive to the first question in a single, integrated feed. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140081954 | MEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for generating thematic topics in assisting the compilation and dissemination of user generated content for citizen journalism in context from two or more media sources is provided. A first media source is queried for first topics. The first media source is one of the two or more media sources. The first topics are cross-referenced with a second media source of the one or more media sources. A most popular topic of the first topics is determined among the one or more media sources. The most popular topic has a greatest number of query and cross-reference results among the first topics. The determined most popular topic is associated with a related User Generated Content, UGC and transmitted. The resulting compendium of topics and UGC promotes development of a citizen journalism community and such online favorable reporting remains compatible with professional standards. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140081955 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - It is possible to present a recipe according to a request reflecting how strongly the user feels for cooking. An information processing apparatus acquires a first feeling degree specified by a user as a degree of strength of feelings for cooking. The information processing apparatus acquires a second feeling degree of each recipe on the basis of a plurality of attributes of the recipe. The second feeling degree is calculated as the degree of strength of feelings for cooking. The plurality of attributes are identified from the recipe stored in a storage means. The information processing apparatus searches for one or more recipes whose second feeling degrees within a range according to the first feeling degree is calculated, and causes the found recipe to be presented. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140081956 | CONTENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A content processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a content input unit that acquires target content that is content to be processed; a content analysis unit that extracts at least one object included in the target content and feature information indicating a feature of the object, and specifies context information based on analytical information and the extracted feature information, the context information indicating contexts of the objects and including attribute information for supplementing the features of the objects, and the analytical information being information for specifying the contexts of the objects; an output control unit that calculates processing priority of each of the objects based on the context information; and a candidate process extracting unit that extracts a candidate process that is executable on the target content based on the context information and the processing priority. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140089295 | SINGLE USER INTERFACE FOR SELECTING, MODIFYING, AND QUERYING IMAGES - Methods and apparatus are presented for a morphing search tool that provides a single user interface through which a user may both modify a displayed image and perform an image similarity query based on the modified image. The morphing search tool may allow a user to repeat this process until a desired image is found and displayed. Further, the image repository to be searched may be specified by a user and the images to be modified and searched for may be any type of image. The morphing search tool may be integrated within a merchant website, an image management system, or as a stand alone application. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089296 | Methods and Systems of Aggregating Information of Social Networks Based on Changing Geographical Locations of a Computing Device Via a Network - One or more systems, devices, methods, and/or processes described can apply searches and/or filters to data of social networks with respect to one or more geographical locations, geospatial references, location-based contexts, and/or map-based references. A geographical search region can be associated with a computing device of a user and with locations of the computing device, including the ability to track the computing device with the geographical search region along a path of movement of the computing device. Other geographical search regions can be associated with other computing devices that were included within the geographical search region and can be associated with locations of the other computing devices. One or more social networks can be queried with search and/or filter parameters based on the geographical search regions of respective computing devices, and user-provided social network communications and information within the geographical search regions of the respective computing devices can be received based on the queries. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089297 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYSING DATA FROM MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES - In a data visualisation system, a method of generating multiple perspective views of a graphical representation of data based on a single database query, the method including the steps of: receiving a database query, determining the query data associated with the database query retrieving the query data from a data storage module that is in communication with the data visualisation system, generating multiple perspective query results from the database query, and generating a graphical representation based on one or more of the multiple perspective query results. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089298 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING USER PREFERENCES - A method and system is provided for measuring a user preference by obtaining information representing a length of time that a user hovers a user-controlled pointer over a display region corresponding to a first search result without selecting the first search result. A second search result is provided in accordance with the user preference. In some instances additional information is provided concerning the first search result over which the user-controlled pointer is hovering. In some embodiments the first search result comprises a portion that is a snippet and the obtaining information representing the length of time that a user hovers a user-controlled pointer over a display region comprises determining an amount of time that a user hovers a user-controlled pointer over the snippet. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089299 | RECIPE PRESENTATION SYSTEM AND RECIPE PRESENTATION METHOD - A recipe presentation system which presents an integrated recipe for a plurality of dishes includes: a recipe storage unit storing recipes for dishes including preparation elements arranged in a hierarchy according to closeness to completion of preparation of the respective dishes; a recipe selection unit which allows a user to select a first recipe and a second recipe from among the recipes; an overlapping preparation element identification unit which identifies common preparation elements between the first recipe and the second recipe; a recipe integration unit which generates the integrated recipe by arranging, in order of preparation, the preparation elements included in the first recipe and the preparation elements included in the second recipe, in a manner such that the user recognizes, as a single preparation element, the common preparation elements; and a recipe output unit which outputs the integrated recipe. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089300 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INPUTTING INFORMATION IN MOBILE TERMINAL AS WELL AS MOBILE TERMINAL - The present disclosure discloses a method and system for inputting information in mobile terminal as well as terminal. The method includes: the mobile terminal sending a request ( | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089301 | AND RELATING TO THE MATCHING OF FORENSIC RESULTS - A method for comparing DNA containing test results and stored results is provided, including a) a stored result selection and plurality of stored result database creation stage; b) a test result against stored result comparison stage, including: 1) A test result selection and plurality of test result database creation sub-stage; 2) A single test result database against single stored result database search sub-stage, performed for the various pairs of test result databases and stored result databases, to establish matches; 3) An established match review sub-stage, to filter out established matches which do not feature as matches across the other test result against stored result databases; 4) A process outcome sub-stage which provides details of the matches which extend across all the database pairs. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140095477 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING SEARCH EXPERIENCE OF A USER OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention may enable a communication device to search for multiple results from a database by using a single search query. The communication device may include a display screen, a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory may include a database and an instruction set. The database may store contact information of one or more entities. Further, the instruction set may include instructions executable by the processor to scan a query received from a user to recognize special characters and wild cards in the query. Further, the instructions may divide the query into multiple sub-queries based on the use of the special characters in the query. Furthermore, the instructions may execute and display results of the sub-queries in a user friendly manner. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095478 | ESTABLISHING "IS A" RELATIONSHIPS FOR A TAXONOMY - Disclosed are methods for returning to a user an answer to the question “what is .” Concepts and classes to which the concepts belong are determined from a corpus, such as taxonomy. The concepts are mapped to categories according to the structure of the taxonomy. Homonyms for words are collected and scored according to likeliness of use. Concept vectors are assembled for the identified concepts based on articles in the corpus and social media usage. Words are evaluated for generic-ness and a generic score is associated therewith. In responding to a query, the generic-ness of the terms of the query is evaluated and additional context solicited if the terms are generic. Candidate homonym concepts for a string in the query are selected according to context vectors for the homonym concepts. One or more homonym concepts are selected and the one or more categories corresponding to these concepts are returned. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095479 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR RECIPE RECOMMENDATION AND RECIPE INGREDIENT MANAGEMENT - A method, device, and system for generating a list of recipe recommendations includes determining the type and quantity of ingredients available to a user of a mobile computing device or smart storage. The available ingredients may be determined using text input or voice input from the user. A camera may also be used to capture images of the available ingredients for analysis. The list of recipes may be generated as a function of the type and quantity of available ingredient(s), meal preferences of the user, and the context of the meal. Recipe complements and/or supplements may be suggested in response to the user selecting a recipe from the list of recipe recommendations. Further, a meal planner may be used to track the shelf life of the ingredient(s), plan a meal schedule, and generate a shopping list | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095480 | SEMANTIC ZOOM FOR RELATED CONTENT - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for displaying a related content view within a search interface. That is, a search interface, such as a search application, may provide search results that are relevant to a query submitted through the search interface. For example, a main search engine results view comprising one or more search results of the query may be presented within the search interface. Responsive to a semantic zoom operation (e.g., a touch gesture), the search interface may be transitioned from the main search engine results view to a related content view comprising related content that corresponds to the query and/or a (e.g., supplemental) search result for the query. In this way, the user may explore supplemental content, such as query suggestions, images, entity descriptions/profiles, videos, and/or other content, that may be related to a query submitted by the user. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095481 | SEARCHING DIGITAL RECEIPTS AT A MOBILE DEVICE - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for searching digital receipts at a mobile device. A customer mobile device receives and stores one or more digital receipts. The one or more digital receipts correspond to transactions conducted with a merchant. A user can select search criteria for searching stored digital receipts. The search criteria can be applied to stored digital receipts. Any stored digital receipts that satisfy the search criteria can be returned for display. In some embodiments, search criteria are selected to search for digital receipts associated with a specified payment method, such as, for example, cash, check, credit card, debit card, gift card, etc. In other embodiments, search criteria are selected to search for digital receipts having a purchase date within a specified purchase date range. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095482 | SEARCHING DIGITAL RECEIPTS AT A MOBILE DEVICE - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for searching digital receipts at a mobile device. A customer mobile device receives and stores one or more digital receipts. The one or more digital receipts correspond to transactions conducted with a merchant. A user can select search criteria for searching stored digital receipts. The search criteria can be applied to stored digital receipts. Any stored digital receipts that satisfy the search criteria can be returned for display. In some embodiments, search criteria are selected to search for digital receipts associated with a specified payment method, such as, for example, cash, check, credit card, debit card, gift card, etc. In other embodiments, search criteria are selected to search for digital receipts having a purchase date within a specified purchase date range. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095483 | PROCESSING EVENTS FOR CONTINUOUS QUERIES ON ARCHIVED RELATIONS - Techniques for counting event changes with archived relations are provided. In some examples, a query that identifies at least a data object may be identified. Additionally, the query may be evaluated against historical data associated with the data object. Additionally, in some instances, a listening service may be registered with the data object. Further, the query may be evaluated based at least in part on the data object and the historical data. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095484 | TAGGING SOCIAL MEDIA POSTINGS THAT REFERENCE A SUBJECT BASED ON THEIR CONTENT - A system may identify and tag social media postings that contain information of interest about a subject. The system may determine whether any of the social media postings that do not contain information indicative of the subject were posted in a context that is indicative of the subject; determine whether any of the social media postings contain information that is of interest about the subject; to add metadata tagging the information of interest about the subject to each of the postings that contains information that is of interest about the subject and that contains information that is indicative of the subject; and to add metadata tagging the information of interest about the subject to each of the postings that contains information that is of interest about the subject and that does not contain information that is indicative of the subject, but was posted in a context that is indicative of the subject. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095485 | PROCESSING PROGRAM DATA FOR MEDICAL PUMPS - An apparatus for maintaining a library of program data for medical pumps, the apparatus comprising: memory loaded with a database, the database including a plurality of program data records and a plurality of data key records, each program data record containing a set of program data items, at least some of the program data items included in the database for controlling operation of a medical pump, each data key record containing a data key and each data key identifying one of the data program records; a database management system programmed to link a data key to a set of program data; and a scanner in data communication with the database management system, the database management system being further programmed to receive a code scanned by the scanner, save the code in a data key record, and link the code to a set of program data, the code being a data key. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095486 | AGGREGATION SOURCE ROUTING - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for optimizing aggregation services. The methods and systems for optimizing aggregation routing over a network of computers may comprise computing hardware and software, wherein the software comprises computer readable instructions that cause the computing hardware to receive a request from a user for aggregated account data through a PFM, retrieve a predetermined form for the account data corresponding to the requesting PFM, determine the optimal aggregation source corresponding to the request, reformat the request to be compatible with the optimal aggregation source, send the reformatted request to the optimal aggregation source over the network of computers, receive requested data from the optimal aggregation source over the network of computers, populate the predetermined form corresponding to the PFM, output the populated form to the requesting PFM, and present the aggregated account data by way of the PFM to the user. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095487 | SYSTEM AND METHOD USING SPECIALIZED COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE FOR CREATING WINE AND MUSIC PAIRINGS - A system, method, specialized computers, and software for improving wine consumption experience is disclosed. In some configurations, descriptors for wine and or music may be determined. Wine and music profiles may be generated. Wine-music pairs may be created in certain configurations. In some configurations, a user may use certain configurations to select a particular wine, have his or her mobile device play a song matched to that wine. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095488 | DISTRIBUTED GLOBALLY ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION NETWORK IMPLEMENTED FOR RETRIEVING IN REAL TIME LIVE DATA FROM A COMMUNITY INFORMATION NETWORK - A distributed information network is constructed for gathering information from sites distributed across a globally accessible computer network, i.e., the Internet. The distributed information network preferably includes a root server that stores a list of multiple distributed sites each represented by metadata. A network browser delivers an information search request to the root server, which in response develops a profiled information search request. The information provider of each of the distributed sites stores metadata corresponding to information content that is retrievable in response to the profiled information search request for search results derivable from the information content to which the metadata correspond. A profiled information communication link between the root server and each of the multiple distribution sites enables formation of a path for delivery of the search results to a destination site, from a site or sites represented by the metadata of the profiled information search request. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095489 | DYNAMIC SUBMISSION AND PREFERENCE INDICATOR - Indicating preference for a content contribution is disclosed. A request for information associated with the content contribution is received from a first entity. The status of the content contribution is determined. A response is provided to the first entity. Determining the status of the content contribution includes determining whether a submission of the content contribution was previously received. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140101134 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ITERATIVE ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION CONTENT - The present invention is directed to a system and method enabling the tracking of users, content and actions in respect to online content; assigning topics to online content; providing such information for analysis at a central systems; and providing an overview of users, content and actions in the aggregate. The processing of online interactions permits tracking users, identifying influential content and users, identifying the type of interactions that users prefer with respect to specific content, and so forth. As such, the system permits targeted and informed interactions with users and content sites, which recommendations are of value to, among others, online publishers, advertisers, search engines and users. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101135 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY OPTIMIZING CLIENT QUERIES TO READ-MOSTLY SERVERS - A system and method of query optimization are disclosed. A complexity measure of a client query received from a client application is compared to a predetermined threshold, which is determined using at least one of system data and query execution data. An optimized query is generated by modifying the client query to reduce the complexity measure of the client query if the complexity measure of the client query exceeds the predetermined threshold. The optimized query is submitted to a server application on a server and a post-processing routine to be applied to the result set is selected. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101136 | TRANSCODING AND SERVING RESOURCES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transcoding and providing resources. A query is received. A resource is generated, and the resource, when processed by a client device, causes the client device to perform various operations. The operations include displaying a search result having an associated landing page and detecting user interaction with the search result. The operations include, in response to detecting user interaction with the search result, displaying a first portion of the landing page that is embedded within the resource and requesting, over a network, a second portion of the landing page. The operations include receiving the second portion of the landing page, and loading the second portion of the landing page. The generated resource is provided in response to the query. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101137 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A CONTACT PERSONA-BASED GROUP IN A SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK - A system and method for automatically adding users to a dynamically created virtual group for a social network. The virtual group is created on the basis of a user's current interest in topics or entities as indicated in the user's personal profile. The user's current interests can also be inferred from the user's interaction with the social network. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101138 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF DISPLAYING LIST OF MULTIPLE CONTENTS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus which makes it possible to easily find a page on which a desired content is allocated when many contents are displayed separately on a plurality of pages. Contents are classified into a plurality of groups based on attribute information on the contents. One tab is selected from among a displayed plurality of tabs corresponding to the groups. Contents in a group corresponding to the selected tab are displayed in a predetermined display area. The attribute information on the contents is displayed near the plurality of tabs. First attribute information on a first content in a first group corresponding to a first tab and second attribute information on a second content in a second group corresponding to a second tab displayed next to the first tab are compared, and based on a comparison result, the second attribute information is displayed near the second tab. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101139 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR QUERYING DATABASES USING ALIASING TABLES ON MOBILE DEVICES - A method for responding to natural language financial performance queries received from a user device is provided herein. The method may include: receiving a first spoken natural language request from the user device; parsing the request into words, using a processor; searching a table of natural language words and keywords to determine whether the request includes any of the words stored in the table; generating instructions for querying a database based on one or more keywords; receiving financial information responding to the query from the database; and transmitting the financial information to the user device for display in a graphic format and/or for playback of an audio. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101140 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND PROCESSING - A computer-implemented system for the retrieval and manipulation of information available via, an information network includes an information retrieval and processing component. The information retrieval and processing component includes: (a) search query means for conducting a search of the information network to obtain references to the information relevant to a search query; (b) information retrieval means for retrieving information available from sources on the information network, and an information store, for storage of retrieved information; and (c) processing means for processing of information retrieved from sources on the information network, and of information stored in the information store, to produce corresponding processed information. The system includes a cell-based user interface, and an intermediate storage layer, which permits a user, who may be unfamiliar with sophisticated computer programming languages, to develop automated processes for information transfer and manipulation based on present and historical information available via the information network. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101141 | INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION PROVISION DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - To provide an information provision system capable of improving a users operability in obtaining a list of desired information. A designated position obtaining unit ( | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140108379 | Iterative Refinement of Cohorts Using Visual Exploration and Data Analytics - Methods and apparatus are provided for iterative refinement of cohorts using visual exploration and data analytics. A cohort comprised of multiple data objects is defined by obtaining an initial cohort seeding; visualizing the initial cohort using a selected view to present a current cohort; reducing the current cohort using one or more visual filters; visualizing the current cohort using a selected view; expanding the current cohort using one or more selected analytics; and determining whether the current cohort should be further modified using one or more of additional reductions and additional expansions. Cohorts can be passed between views and analytics via drag-and-drop interactions as an analysis unfolds. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108380 | Iterative Refinement of Cohorts Using Visual Exploration and Data Analytics - Methods and apparatus are provided for iterative refinement of cohorts using visual exploration and data analytics. A cohort comprised of multiple data objects is defined by obtaining an initial cohort seeding; visualizing the initial cohort using a selected view to present a current cohort; reducing the current cohort using one or more visual filters; visualizing the current cohort using a selected view; expanding the current cohort using one or more selected analytics; and determining whether the current cohort should be further modified using one or more of additional reductions and additional expansions. Cohorts can be passed between views and analytics via drag-and-drop interactions as an analysis unfolds. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108381 | System and Method for Machine-to-Machine Privacy and Security Brokered Transactions - A machine-to-machine secure messaging system permits a first machine to send a message to a second machine, despite not knowing the addressing information (e.g., telephone number, IP address or other identifier) associated with the second machine. The system comprises an intermediary server with access to a database with information linking addressing information with other information related to the device, e.g., owner name, operator name and job title, etc., and facilitates a secure communication without the need for either party to the communication to know the other party's addressing information. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108382 | ASSISTED MEMORIZING OF EVENT-BASED STREAMS OF MOBILE CONTENT - Handling event data received by a mobile device includes filtering out at least a subset of event data based on pre-determined filtering rules, forming groups of event data by grouping at least some of the event data that has not been filtered out based on pre-determined grouping rules, and storing, based on pre-determined auto-filing rules, at least one of: groups of event data and non-filtered event data that is not included with any groups of event data. The event data may include photos, videos, recorded voice notes, phone calls, voice mails, user location data, messaging data, calendar entries, email messages, wireless data transmissions, and/or events scheduled from software applications and online services. The filtering rules may be based on a filtering criteria such as time, location, keyword match, semantic similarity, and/or relations to known events. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108383 | Method and System for Filtering Search Results for Maps Using Social Graph - A method is provided for selectively displaying locations on a map based on a user's social graph. Place references are aggregated from a plurality of applications on the device. The user's social graph is obtained from a social network. Socially relevant place references are determined by parsing the place references to identify participant references and matching at least one participant reference in a place reference to a relevant participant on the user's social graph. When a search request for a location is received on the device, the location results are filtered to only those results matching a socially relevant place reference. These filtered location results are displayable on a map. A programmed mobile device is also provided for carrying out the method. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108384 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING CONFIGURATION SETTINGS - A configuration settings datastore is partitioned into data groups. Each data group includes a set of configuration settings, a set of membership criteria, and a weight. A request is received for configuration settings for a networked device, the request including a set of parameters associated with the networked device. A set of desired configuration settings are selected from the datastore based on the sets of membership criteria, the set of parameters, and the weights of the plurality of data groups. The desired configuration settings are then transmitted to the networked device. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140114953 | Visualization Engine for a Knowledge Management System - A system includes a memory operable to store visualization rules. The system also includes a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor is operable to receive a visualization request relating to information stored in an ontology. The processor is further operable to parse the visualization request to generate a search query. The processor is further operable to submit the search query to the ontology. The processor is further operable to receive, in response to the query, a result. The result includes a plurality of instances and a plurality of relationships between the instances. The processor is further operable to generate a visual representation of the result using the visualization rules. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140114954 | INCORPORATING RELATED SEARCHES BY OTHER USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK IN A SEARCH REQUEST - Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for incorporating related searches by other users in a social network in a search request. A search request is received including keywords from a searching user including a keyword to search. A determination is made of at least one other user in a trust relationship with the searching user. A determination is made of related searches submitted by the determined at least one other user having related keywords related to the keywords included in the received search request. Information is returned to the searching user on the related keywords in the related searches in response to determining that the determined at least one other submitted related searches. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140114955 | SEARCH-AS-YOU-TYPE ON A RELATIONAL DATABASE - A search system, separate from a relational database, generates an index of information in the relational database that can be used to look up business records (or entities). A search system, that is also separate from the relational database, receives typing or other character inputs in a search user input mechanism and generates queries against the index based on the typing inputs, or other character inputs, received. The search system returns results and modifies those results as additional typing inputs, or characters, are received. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140114956 | INCORPORATING RELATED SEARCHES BY OTHER USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK IN A SEARCH REQUEST - Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for incorporating related searches by other users in a social network in a search request. A search request is received including keywords from a searching user including a keyword to search. A determination is made of at least one other user in a trust relationship with the searching user. A determination is made of related searches submitted by the determined at least one other user having related keywords related to the keywords included in the received search request. Information is returned to the searching user on the related keywords in the related searches in response to determining that the determined at least one other submitted related searches. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140114957 | RE-USE OF BINARIES FOR MULTIPLE USER ACCOUNTS - A computing device has multiple user profiles. While a particular user profile is the currently-active user profile of a computing device, the computing device determines whether a binary that is not associated with the particular user profile is already stored at the computing device. In response to determining that the binary is not already stored at the computing device, the computing device downloads the binary from a computing system other than the computing device and associates the binary with the particular user profile. If the binary is already stored at the computing device, the computing device associates the binary with the particular user profile without downloading the binary again. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140114958 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING NUMBER OF USERS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and a system for calculating the number of users, relate to the field of communication technologies, and solve a problem that the calculation amount is large and a lot of calculation resources are consumed because a location model needs to be established for each user for acquiring the number of users. In the embodiments of the present invention, a computer only needs to establish an attribute-number of location record mapping table according to locally stored location records of users and then may obtain a required result about the number of users according to time and location attributes in a query request. This overcomes a defect that a lot of calculation resources in the computer are consumed. Therefore, when a query condition frequently changes, the query can be sped up, and the query efficiency of the computer can be improved. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140114959 | DISCERNING HUMAN INTENT BASED ON USER-GENERATED METADATA - Methods and systems for discerning human intent based on user-generated metadata are provided. Communications from a plurality of social networks are evaluated to determine whether they are associated with contexts indicative of user intent. When a social network communication is determined to be associated with such a context, a tag may be generated associating the social network communication with the indicated human intent. In addition, information regarding the social network communication may be exported to an application responsible for responsive action. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140114960 | VARIABLY CONTROLLING ACCESS TO CONTENT - A software module is presented that enables a person to determine the relevance of a document while preventing the person from making a copy of the entire document. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by programmatically controlling which portions of a document will be presented to a user and which portions will not be presented to the user. In one embodiment, the software module is used in conjunction with a search engine to present a document search result. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140114961 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROWDSOURCED TEMPLATE BASED SEARCH - A system and method for searching information based on crowd-sourced templates comprising a user input subsystem for entering one or more search terms, a database for storing a plurality of crowd-sourced templates, wherein each template is a representation of a data collection process from a plurality of sources. Subsequent search entries with tags results in display of stored templates in descending order of rank. Templates may be ranked using crowd voting or their social relevancy. Templates may be viewed, edited, and stored on the database by other users through social network sites. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140122459 | TAGGING DIGITAL IMAGES - A system, computer program, and method for storing and sharing images such as photographs via a communications network ( | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122460 | ASSISTANCE FOR VIDEO CONTENT SEARCHES OVER A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method for assisting video content searches over a communication network by a user, comprising: A step of determining a first content item (CZ) by said user; A step of automatically extracting semantic data from this first content item; A step of automatically generating queries for at least one service, as a function of semantic data, making it possible to retrieve a set of videos on this service or these services; A step of presenting that set of video content to the user. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122461 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MERGING PARTIALLY AGGREGATED QUERY RESULTS - Systems and methods for merging partially aggregated query results are provided. A partially aggregated query result is determined. Each query of a plurality of queries is executed on a plurality of events at a defined schedule and a time duration. A key and a value of the partially aggregated query result are identified. It is determined whether a function for the partially aggregated query result is identified. If so, a related partially aggregated query result is determined using the key. The partially aggregated query result is merged with the related partially aggregated query result. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122462 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DISPLAYING ITEMS ON MULTIPLE FLOORS IN MULTI-LEVEL MAPS - Methods, apparatuses and computer program products are provided for displaying search results and other points of interest located on multiple floors or levels in a multi-level map. A method may include receiving an input indicating a search criteria. Further, the method may include determining at least one search result position related to the search criteria, and determining a relationship between the at least one search result position and a multi-level map. In addition, the method may further comprise causing, based at least in part on the relationship, a level of the map and the at least one search result position to be displayed as a search result position indicator, wherein the displayed search result position indicator may be presented in a different manners based at least in part on what level the search result position is located. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122463 | CUSTOM WEB SERVICES DATA LINK LAYER - A data interface efficiently transports, manages, and provides data transfer. The data transfer may happen between a data storage layer and a presentation layer, as examples. The presentation layers may be graphical user interfaces that display or report complex data sets, with the data storage layer providing the source data for the presentation layers. The data interface implements a data link layer that efficiently caches, stores, and locates query results, while simultaneously handling security. The data link layer may include load balancing, efficient cache refresh, and other features. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140129544 | Using Metadata to Summarize Social Media Content - A method performed by one or more processing devices includes receiving a request for social media content that is relevant to one or more search terms; identifying, based on a social graph of a user, social media content with connections in the social graph to the user, wherein the social media content is associated with metadata; identifying metadata that is associated with the identified social media content and that has at least a threshold amount of relevance to the one or more search terms; generating a summarization of contents of the metadata identified and contents of the social media content identified; and transmitting, to the device used by the user who sent the request, the summarization for presentation to the user, in response to the request for social media content. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129545 | SORTING SEARCH RESULTS - A system and method is disclosed for organizing search results in response to a search query. A search query and sorting criteria are received from a web browser, the sorting criteria including a coarse level of granularity and a fine level of granularity. Results are received from a search engine based on the search query and the search results are organized based on the multiple sorting criteria. In this regard, the search results are ordered top-down from the coarse level of granularity to the fine level of a granularity. The organized search results are then provided for display to the web browser. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129546 | INCREMENTAL CALCULATION BY AUTO DETECTION OF CHANGES TO DATA - A computing apparatus and method of recalculating upon changes to data by saving changes to the data; receiving a request to recalculate a result according to the data; retrieving only active data from the data according to the saved changes to the data; and recalculating the result based upon the active data. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129547 | Dynamic Taxonomy for Browsing and Retrieving Information in Large Heterogeneous data bases - A process is disclosed for retrieving information in large heterogeneous data bases, wherein information retrieval through visual querying/browsing is supported by dynamic taxonomies; the process comprises the steps of: initially showing (F1) a complete taxonomy for the retrieval; refining (F2) the retrieval through a selection of subsets of interest, where the refining is performed by selecting concepts in the taxonomy and combining them through boolean operations; showing (F3) a reduced taxonomy for the selected set; and further refining (F4) the retrieval through an iterative execution of the refining and showing steps. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129548 | System and Method for Managing Information Flow Between Members of an Online Social Network - An online social network is provided in which members of the online social network control who may view their personal information and who may communicate with them. The members control who may view their personal information by setting a visibility preference. A member may not view another member's full personal profile if the measure of relatedness between the two is greater than the visibility preference of the other member. The members also control who may communicate with them by setting a contactability preference. A member may not communicate with another member if the measure of relatedness between the two is greater than the contactability preference of the other member. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140136517 | Apparatus And Methods for Providing Search Results - In one embodiment, online posts are processed by automatic analysis to generate a concise summary which has limited quantity of words and/or symbols for quick and easy viewing. In embodiments involving multiple searches based on one query, a concise summary on posts is complemented by general search results, or a general internet search is complemented by concise summaries on relevant posts. In other embodiments, comparable search results are generated and shown together based on multiple query subjects in the same or similar categories. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136518 | MULTI-PANE PRESENTATION OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL SEARCH RESULTS - A user is provided with multidimensional search results in multiple panes. Search results include, not only content, typically documents, responsive to a user's search query, but also include information regarding entities that are responsive to the search query, including tasks relevant to those entities, and include identifications of individuals from whom additional information can be obtained, or who are otherwise relevant to the user's search. Responsive documents are presented in one pane, while responsive entities and associated information and tasks are presented in a separate pane and responsive individuals are presented in yet another separate pane. Two or more panes can be presented to the user, and user action in one pane can impact other panes, such as user selections in the entity pane being utilized to disambiguate the search query and thereby causing the listing of documents presented in another pane to be updated in accordance with the disambiguation. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136519 | TASK-ORIENTED SEARCH ENGINE OUTPUT - A task-oriented search tool searches for one or more tasks related to a search term submitted via a computer-user interface. The task-oriented search tool displays search results that include a task related to the search term and a task-solving tool for performing the task related to the search term. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136520 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING GRAPH QUERIES - In certain example embodiments, a graph query retrieves data items from a data source by indicating a source node, a target node, and a plurality of edges between the source and target nodes. Each edge includes one or more relation conditions. Each relation condition defines a mapping between items of one of the source item types and items of one of the target item types. The edges are selected and traversed from the source node to the target node in accordance with the relation condition(s), producing an intermediate set of result items including items of the data source that belong to the at least one target item type and fulfill the corresponding relation condition(s). Items from the intermediate set of result items that do not fulfill the corresponding relation condition(s) are deleted as further traversals are made. The intermediate set ultimately is returned as the graph query result. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136521 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING TOPICAL INFLUENCE IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable storage media for identifying topical influence in an online social network. In some implementations, an entity associated with a feed item is identified. A topic associated with the entity or with the feed item is also identified. The entity can be determined to be a topical influencer regarding the topic in the online social network based on one or more factors, such as a factor indicating dissemination of information associated with the identified topic to other entities. A display device can be configured to display information indicating the determination that the entity is a topical influencer of the identified topic. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136522 | COLLECTIONS OF LINKED DATABASES - A method and system generate an inferential network. Records of searches of a network of linked nodes are stored. Each of the nodes is connected to another one of the nodes by a link. Further, each of the records includes: 1) search terms used in a corresponding search; and 2) results of the corresponding search. The results correspond to nodes of the network. The stored records are analyzed to infer relationships between pairs of nodes of the network. Each of the relationships is inferred from the behavior of one of the nodes of a pair of nodes relative to the other node of the pair of nodes. Inferential nodes corresponding to the nodes of the pairs of nodes are generated, and inferential links between the inferential nodes are generated. The inferential links correspond to the inferred relationships. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136523 | Method, Apparatus And System For Providing Search Prompt Information Based On Session - A method, apparatus and system for providing search prompt information based on a session. The method is implemented as follows. A hot word list and a session message are obtained, and a word is selected from the session message according to a preset word selecting policy. The selected word is matched with the hot word list, and a word matching the hot word list is taken as a search prompt word, and search link information is set for the search prompt word. The search prompt word is marked. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136524 | Method And System For Displaying Commodity Search Results - A method and system for displaying commodity search results are provided. A commodity keyword input by a user may be received. A search may be executed based on the commodity keyword input by the user. A commodity list searched out may be obtained. Key attributes of all of the commodities in the commodity list may be extracted. Commodities with the same key attributes may be identified. The commodities with the same key attributes may be aggregated into one Standard Product Unit (SPU) product. The SPU product, which has aggregated the commodities with the same key attributes, may be displayed. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140143230 | CONTEXTUAL SEARCH HISTORY IN COLLABORATIVE ARCHIVES - A computing system executes an instant message session between one or more users of the one or more collaborative tools. The computer system further examines information from instant messages in a message window of the instant message session. In addition, the computer system identifies keyword data of the examined information of the instant messages. The computer system queries a first repository for related content data that matches the keyword data. The computer system also generates one or more contextual search results based on the match. The computer system further transmits the generated one or more contextual search results for display on the one or more collaboration tools. The computer system further stores the keyword data and the contextual search results of the keyword data in a collaboration archive of a database, and automatically updates the contextual search results during instant message sessions. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143231 | CONTEXTUAL HELP ARTICLE PROVIDER - Techniques are described for displaying help articles, for a web page, that are related to the context of the web page. A help article provider has access to a database of help articles, each of which are associated with target-context data that may include content identifiers for the help article and/or user profile attributes for users that the help article targets. The help article provider identifies content identifiers for a viewed web page based on one or more of: metadata and a URL for the web page. The help article provider searches the help article database using the identified content identifiers. The help article provider may filter the help articles based on an authenticated user's attributes. An ordered list of the identified help articles is displayed, with the most relevant or important help articles displayed at or near the top of the list. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143232 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, MEDICAL RECORD SEARCH APPARATUS, AND MEDICAL RECORD SEARCH METHOD - A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes searching a document memory, the document memory storing electronic documents of medical records of patients in association with document types of the electronic documents, for electronic documents associated with a patient specified by a user from among the patients; referring to group definition information that defines document groups and grouping the electronic documents obtained in the searching so as to create the document groups; and generating data of a search result display screen in which an icon associated with a corresponding one of the document groups created as a result of the grouping is arranged at a position of a schema, the position corresponding to a site of a human body associated with the document group. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143233 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING TARGET OBJECT INFORMATION - Embodiments of the present application relate to a method for recommending target object information, a system for recommending target object information, a client for recommending target object information, a server for recommending target object information, and a computer program product for recommending target object information. A method for recommending target object information is provided. The method includes receiving a target object informational recommendation request including information pertaining to a plurality of short-listed objects selected, determining historical selection information on the plurality of short-listed objects, the historical selection information including a historical count, a selection count, or both, and sending the part or all of the short-listed object historical selection information to a client. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143234 | CONTEXTUAL SEARCH HISTORY IN COLLABRATIVE ARCHIVES - A computing system executes an instant message session between one or more users of the one or more collaborative tools. The computer system further examines information from instant messages in a message window of the instant message session. In addition, the computer system identifies at least one keyword data of the examined information of the instant messages. The computer system queries a first repository for related content data that matches the at least one keyword data. The computer system also generates one or more contextual search results based on the match. Furthermore, the computer system transmits the generated one or more contextual search results for display on the one or more collaboration tools. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143235 | INFORMATION OUTPUTTING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An information outputting method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: acquiring a request event and a request identifier contained in the request event; searching for prestored historical record information of a request object corresponding to the request identifier; and outputting the historical record information on a display interface of a first electronic device when the request event has not been responded successfully. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143236 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXTUAL AND FREE FORMAT MATCHING OF ADDRESSES - A system and method for the matching addresses is provided. Addresses may be received from a search engine or other source for purposes of matching. Address parts in the addresses may be contextually identified. Identified address parts, including their associated data, that have address part types that are alike may be compared to one another and a contextual matching score may be calculated and assigned. A free format token analysis of the addresses may also be performed in parallel with, before, or after, the contextual identification, and a free format matching score may be calculated. An address likeness score may be calculated and assigned based on the contextual matching score and the free format matching score. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143237 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A first word is acquired (S | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140149389 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REFINING SEARCH RESULTS - A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for refining search results is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of accepting a search query comprising one or more keywords, generating a first search result comprising one or more first search result members according to the search query, accepting a refinement command identifying one or more undesired first search result members, automatically refining the first search result to exclude the undesired first search result members and first search result members related to the undesired first search result members from the first search result, and providing the automatically refined search result. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149390 | Automatically Providing Relevant Search Results Based on User Behavior - According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system displays initial search results based on a query and enables selection by a user of an item within the search results. The system determines refined search results based on behavior of the user with respect to the initial search results. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for presenting revised search results based on user behavior while examining the results in substantially the same manners described above. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149391 | PARALLEL DISPLAY OF MULTIPLE QUERY RESULTS - A computer program product tangibly embodied on a computer-readable medium includes executable code that, when executed, causes at least one computer system hosting a computer application to provide a memory to store results of multiple queries processed by the computer application and a feeder component in a front end display logic layer of the computer application. The feeder component is configured to read the results of the multiple queries stored in the memory asynchronously and to supply the results of the multiple queries in parallel to respective query result display entities in a user interface of the computer application. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149392 | UNIFIED SEARCH RESULT SERVICE AND CACHE UPDATE - A unified fresh search result serving approach that employs instant cache update. The instant result cache update efficiently updates the cache server instantly with the latest version of results in time. A unified cache service stores all related documents; thus, all information of a web document is saved on the same server to easily merge all the related information of web documents when generating captions for that document. Any update to web document content is immediately available in the result. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149393 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REFINING SEARCH RESULTS - A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for refining search results is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of accepting a search query comprising one or more keywords, generating a first search result comprising one or more first search result members according to the search query, accepting a refinement command identifying one or more undesired first search result members, automatically refining the first search result to exclude the undesired first search result members and first search result members related to the undesired first search result members from the first search result, and providing the automatically refined search result. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149394 | SERVER - A server provides converted data to an external apparatus in response to plural request commands. The converted data is generated by converting target data and is divided to plural partial data to be stored in an external storage device. The server acquires one or more untransmitted partial data as a portion of the plural partial data from the external storage device each time when one request command is received, and writes the acquired one or more untransmitted partial data in an internal storage device of the server. The server transmits at least a portion of the one or more untransmitted partial data written in the internal storage device, to the external apparatus, each time when one request command of the plurality of request commands is received. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149395 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a content management block managing first content which may be viewed on a content reproduction apparatus for reproducing content; a database block generating reference data by relating, with first signature data indicative of a feature of the first content extracted therefrom, rights management information about the first signature data and a content identifier indicative of the first content from which the first signature data was extracted and put the generated reference data into a database; and an identification block identifying, in response to a query which is transmitted from the content reproduction apparatus and is including second signature data indicative of a feature of second content extracted from the second content being viewed by a user of the content reproduction apparatus, the content by referencing the reference data stored in the database block, thereby returning a response indicative of a result of the identification. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149396 | APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION WITHIN SPACE OF INTEREST - An apparatus for searching for a space object SOI. The apparatus includes a Space Of Interest (SOI) data base (DB) including a plurality of space object SOIs and relationship objects, a search input unit configured to receive at least one of the plurality of space object SOIs and a search word from a user, a relationship display unit configured to output at least one relationship object with respect to the received at least one space object SOI, a relationship selection unit configured to receive a selection for a portion of the output relationship objects from the user, a search processing unit configured to perform searching on the SOI DB based on the selected relationship object, the received space object SOI, and a search word, and a search output unit configured to output a searching result for the searching. The relationship object indicates a relationship, which has been previously defined on the SOI DB, between the received space object SOI and a space object SOI related to the received space object SOI among the plurality of space object SOIs. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149397 | Customized Data Retrieval Applications for Mobile Devices Providing Interpretation of Markup Language Data - Systems and techniques, including computer software, for retrieving information to a mobile device involve installing a data retrieval application on the mobile device. The data retrieval application includes instructions for presenting a structured data display on the mobile device, defining a structure of the structured data display, requesting selected hyperlinks included in the structured data display, and rendering markup language information received in response to the selected hyperlinks. A user request to retrieve data through the data retrieval application is received, and data is retrieved in response to the received user request. The retrieved data is displayed according to the structure of the structured data display, and a user can select a hyperlink in the displayed data to retrieve and render markup language information using the data retrieval application. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149398 | Previewing Search Results - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for previewing search results. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query from a client device. One or more image search results are provided to the client device, each of the one or more image search results identifying a corresponding image resource and each of the one or more image search results including an image representation of the corresponding image resource. One or more related queries are provided to the client device, the one or more related queries having been determined to be related to the query, wherein each of the one or more related queries includes a preview image to be displayed at the client device, the preview image representing an image search result responsive to the related query. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140156637 | QUERYING FEATURES BASED ON USER ACTIONS IN ONLINE SYSTEMS - Online systems, for example, social networking systems store features describing relations between entities represented in the online system. The information describing the features is represented as a graph. The online system maintains a cumulative feature graph and an incremental feature graph. Feature values based on recent user actions are stored in the incremental graph and feature values based on previous actions are stored in the cumulative graph. Periodically, the information stored in the incremental feature graph is merged with the information stored in the cumulative feature graph. The incremental graph is marked as inactive during the merge and information based on new user actions is stored in an active incremental feature graph. If a request for feature information is received, the feature information obtained from the cumulative feature graph, inactive incremental feature graph and the active incremental feature graph are combined to determine the feature information. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156638 | ONTOLOGY HARMONIZATION AND MEDIATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A method and system for harmonizing and mediating ontologies to search across large data sources is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a query targeting a first ontology. The method further comprises translating the query into one or more translated queries, each translated query targeting a respective ontology different from the first ontology. For each of the queries, issuing the query to a respective database organized according to the respective ontology of the query, and receiving a respective result set for the query, wherein the respective result set corresponds to the respective ontology of the query. The method further comprises translating the respective result set into a translated result set corresponding to the first ontology, aggregating the result sets into an aggregated result set corresponding to the first ontology, and returning the aggregated results set corresponding to the first ontology. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156639 | Insight Generation From Statistical Measure/Dimension Combinations - Insights gleaned from statistical analysis of a dataset of an in-memory database, may be obtained with high throughput. In response to a user query, a Data Inference Engine (DIE) provides statistically valid measure/dimension combinations of the dataset to an analysis tool. A master procedure may be executed at search query runtime, allowing timely filtering of output of the analysis tool based on columns provided in the user request. Inputs/outputs of the master procedure may avoid storing physical tables, reducing maintenance. The master procedure may comprise individual sub-procedures (e.g. determining outliers, percentage contribution) executed in parallel. Output of sub-procedure(s) may be formatted per a final output format, facilitating union therebetween. Embodiments may filter certain measure/dimension combinations received from the DIE. For example, embodiments may consider only unique measure/dimension combinations (irrespective of dimension order), a limited number of combinations (e.g. ≦20), and/or combinations having a limited number of dimensions (e.g. ≦3). | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156640 | EMBEDDED SEARCH RESULTS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF A PROCESS - In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may include receiving, from a user interface, an indication and a search term to be identified in one or more steps of a business process, the indication being representative of a search result format for an embedded context search; initiating a search for the search term in one or more steps of a business process; receiving one or more search results including metadata describing where the one or more search results are located in the business process; and generating a first page including the one or more steps of the business process, the first page further including the one or more search results embedded within the one or more steps to provide a context, when the indication representative of the search result format comprises the embedded context search. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156641 | Media Content Search Based on Metadata - Embodiments are provided for querying a media server for media content based on user-selected metadata associated with first media while the first media is being experienced by a user. In one embodiment, at least one metadata associated with the first media may be displayed for the user to review while the first media is being experienced by the user. The user may then select a displayed metadata to initiate a search for media content based on the selected metadata. The search for media content may be performed by querying a media server associated with a selection of media content services. The user may then review the results of the media query, select media content from the results, and initiate further action, such as adding the media content to a digital repository, or purchasing the media content. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156642 | Generating And Using Temporal Metadata Partitions - Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for generating and using temporal metadata partitions. Metadata can be stored in temporal metadata partitions based upon a time range included in the metadata. Furthermore, metadata can be stored in multiple temporal metadata partitions to which the metadata is relevant. As such, metadata can be stored in manner that allows event data to be understood in the context of temporally accurate and/or relevant metadata. Functionality for executing queries of event data and providing results in view of metadata, as well as the merging of multiple temporal metadata partitions also are disclosed. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156643 | ENABLING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS TO QUERY SEMANTIC MODELS - Provided are a computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for generating a combined report. One or more queries are constructed using a Business Intelligence (BI) metadata model and one or more query declarations. The one or more queries are executed on a semantic model to obtain one or more semantic result sets. One or more data source result sets are received from one or more data sources. The one or more semantic result sets and the one or more data source result sets are combined to construct one or more combined result sets. The one or more combined result sets are rendered to form a combined report. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156644 | FACILITATING PERSONAS IN COMMUNICATION EXCHANGE ENVIRONMENTS - Methods, systems, and software are disclosed herein for facilitating personas in communication exchange environments. Aspects of the disclosure include search requests to search for relevant personas. In response to each of the search requests, different contact sources are searched for any relevant contacts. Any relevant personas can then be returned having contact information assembled from the relevant contacts. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156645 | EXPERT-BASED CONTENT AND COACHING PLATFORM - Systems and methods for implementing and performing coaching-assisted content delivery and workflows are described. In one example, a goal-based workflow integrates with operations for suggesting and delivering content on behalf of professional users. The operations may be conducted in connection with a subscription or membership to an information service, and various interactions between a client user and a professional user through the information service. In further examples, the information service may track data for the human user, generate suggestions and playlists, manage the accomplishment of goals and logic triggers, and exchange communications, to facilitate the relationship between the professional user and the client user. In other further examples, the information system manages various data values used to provide prompts, reminders, motivators, and other forms of suggested content to the client user. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156646 | METHODOLOGY FOR BUILDING AND TAGGING RELEVANT CONTENT - Systems and methods for content tagging and creation within in an information system are described herein. Content tagging may include the processing of unstructured data as input and the transformation of the unstructured data into structured data that has context relative to a user or a group of users. The content may include an action statement suggesting at least one action for the user to perform. The tagging process may associate the action statement with a tag provided from a hierarchy of tag classifications, the tag being relevant to motivating the user to perform at least one action contained in the action statement (for example, the performance actions facilitating the user's achievement of a health goal). The content and associated tagging data may then be stored in the information system for consumption by the content suggestion engine. Further techniques for tagging and accessing tagged data are also described. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156647 | PHRASE-BASED DETECTION OF DUPLICATE DOCUMENTS IN AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases. Related phrases and phrase extensions are also identified. Phrases in a query are identified and used to retrieve and rank documents. Phrases are also used to cluster documents in the search results, create document descriptions, and eliminate duplicate documents from the search results, and from the index. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156648 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INTEGRATED SEARCH AND WEB BROWSING HISTORY - An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided for creating and displaying an integrated search and web browser history to a user. In particular, the apparatus includes a processor and a memory including computer program code, and the memory and computer program code are configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to receive search data provided to a website and navigational data relating to a webpage. The apparatus may determine a relationship between the search data and the navigational data and may further provide for a graphical representation of the search data, the navigational data, and the relationship between the search and navigational data to be displayed to the user. Thus, the user can have not only a record of the webpages accessed or search terms used in the previous search, but also a meaningful organization and contextual representation of the search. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140164358 | LOCATION SERVICES IN EMAIL AND CALENDARING WEB SERVICES - An application programming interface (API) method for providing location related search capability to clients of an email and calendaring service is disclosed. In response to a request message from a client, a find place method defined in an API provided by an API service is invoked. The find place method parses the request message for parameters such as a query string or source-related identifier indicating a place name or address of a location to be searched, the culture/format for the search and results, a maximum number of results to be provided, the source of the location to search, and geo-coordinates of the place and/or the user. The parameters are used to query specified source(s). The results of the search are filtered and formatted to provide location information to the client. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164359 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Generating Mashups - Methods, systems, and products simplify widgets for graphical mashups, such as digital dashboards and other user interfaces. When a software widget is a component of a graphical mashup, the widget is completely defined using a single file. The single file specifies both source data and presentation of the source data. Because the widget is completely defined by the single file, the single file allows faster processing of the widget. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164360 | CONTEXT BASED LOOK-UP IN E-READERS - Context based enhanced search capabilities are provided in conjunction with e-reader experience. A search query may be augmented based on a context of the displayed content, user information, and similar background data such that relevancy and context of search results may be focused in presentation to the user. Context of content may include terms or objects near a selected portion of the content for search, a type of the displayed content, etc. Search results may be presented from a variety of sources categorized and/or prioritized based on system default parameters and/or user preferences. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164361 | SEARCHABLE PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEM THROUGH INSTANT MESSAGING BASED TOPIC INDEXES - An embodiment of the present invention, a computer receives, on a first computer, a request to locate a topic. The computer determines a second computer to query for the topic. The computer queries the second computer for the topic. The computer receives identification information of participants of an instant messaging conversation corresponding to the topic. The computer stores, on the first computer, the identification information of the participants and indexing the stored identification information by the topic. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164362 | Systems and Methods for Data Relationship Visualization - Systems and methods for data relationship visualization are disclosed. An exemplary system comprises a processor, database, display, query module, relationship module, and user interface module. The query module may be configured to receive a first query and a second query. The first and second queries may assist in retrieving a first and second query result sets, respectively, from the database. The relationship module may be configured to identify a first subset associated with the first query result set and the second query result set based on at least some of the first query result set and at least some of the second query result set. The user interface may be configured to generate a first node to represent the first query result set, a second node to represent the second query result set, and a first edge between the first node and the second node to represent the first subset. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164363 | Multi-Prefix Interactive Mobile Search - A system and a method are disclosed for multi-prefix, interactive search capability on a mobile communications device. A keystroke is input into a search query field of a landing page and a multi-prefix search is performed. The landing page is refreshed to display the results. The landing page displays a first tier of search results, which can include channels or links to web pages associated with the user input. If the search result that is selected is a channel, the channel is displayed. If the search result that is selected is a web page, the web page is displayed. The landing page corresponding to the selected channel, or to the web page, may then be searched or explored. If the desired channel is not displayed within the first tier of search results, another keystroke may be input. The landing page refreshes accordingly and additional keystrokes may be entered. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140172825 | CONTENT AND OBJECT METADATA BASED SEARCH IN E-READER ENVIRONMENT - Metadata based enhanced search capabilities are provided in conjunction with e-reader experience. Metadata associated with content and objects within displayed content is created based on default and/or custom rules. The metadata such as attributes, tags, etc. is indexed and used to augment search queries based on selected portions of the displayed content. Additional search augmentation is performed based on user-defined metadata or processing of objects such as image recognition of image objects and similar processes. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172826 | SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYZER - A system and method are described herein that provide for visualizing business objects stored in a backend system in database model views for display as nodes in a user interface. Business objects are retrieved from the backend system, with metadata from the business objects being customized and sorted into a plurality of node types. Each business object may be displayed in a user interface as a node along with other nodes generated from the database model views. The nodes represented by the business objects may be connected by edges that provide for an interconnection between each of the nodes. The edges may be customized by providing directional components to the edges to demonstrate the relationship between the displayed nodes. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172827 | IN-MEMORY, COLUMNAR DATABASE MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYTICAL VIEW INTEGRATION - A multidimensional analytical view (MDAV) type can be supported for an in-memory, columnar database, and MDAV calculations can be integrated into the database. Such an MDAV can be combined with other MDAV types as desired. Calculations typically performed at the application layer can be pushed down to the database. A model-based approach allows generation of a calculation plan, and calculations can be performed directly on the database. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172828 | PERSONALIZED SEARCH LIBRARY BASED ON CONTINUAL CONCEPT CORRELATION - A system, devices, and methods for providing a personalized search library based on continual concept correlation include a client computing device and a personalized content server. Content events representing content accessed or manipulated by a user of the client computing device are continually generated. Content associated with the content events is continually parsed and analyzed to extract main concepts. The extracted concepts are correlated and weighted into a concept model, based on the order of the content events. The concept model parallels the structure of the user's memory. Data sources are continually searched for content relevant to a current context of the concept model. Relevant content is indexed according to the concept model. The relevant content may be made available to the user upon request or proactively. Relevant content may be cached for future use by the user. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172829 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA OBJECT CHANGE HISTORY - Systems and methods are provided for data object change history. A first data object and a second data object are retrieved, wherein the first data object includes an identifier, a field name, a first value, and a first date, and wherein the second data object includes the identifier, the field name, a second value, and a second date. A history object is stored, wherein the history object comprises the identifier, the field name, the first value, the first date, and the second date. The history object is output in response to a query which specifies the identifier, the field name, and a query date within a range of the first date and the second date. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172830 | SECURE SEARCH PROCESSING SYSTEM AND SECURE SEARCH PROCESSING METHOD - A secure search processing system includes an information processing apparatus that calculates an exclusive OR of second information obtained by applying a keyword for search to a one-way function and a second random number obtained with a random number generator, calculates an exclusive OR of a search value that is the calculation result and registration values in a database, and calculates an exclusive OR of a value obtained by applying to the homomorphic function a calculation result of an exclusive OR of a value of a search value and registration values and a value obtained by applying a second random number to a homomorphic function, searches for an output value of the one-way function with which registration values in the database are associated using as a key a value obtained by applying a calculation result to the one-way function, and outputs a search result to an output interface. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172831 | INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD AND DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - An intuitive information search method and device based on a displayed image and a computer readable recording medium thereof. The information search method based on an image displayed on a device includes recognizing a first input indicating a selection related to a plurality of objects included in the image, recognizing a second input indicating a search relationship between the selected plurality of objects, and searching for information based on the first input and the second input; and outputting found information through the device. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172832 | Mobile-Enabled Systems and Processes For Intelligent Research Platform - Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to implementing image-based retrieval of a cited reference in a written work. A unique alphanumeric identifier extracted from an image taken of a portion of a written work can be programmatically compared to stored identifiers in an authority database in response to a request received from a portable computing device. Cited reference data can be retrieved from the authority database in response to a favorably comparison of the unique alphanumeric identifier to at least one of the stored identifiers associated with a reference stored in the authority database and the cited reference data can be provided to the portable computing device for output on the display of the portable computing device. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172833 | QUERYING A NOT ONLY STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE (NOSQL) DATABASE USING STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE (SQL) COMMANDS - Techniques for querying a Not-Only/Non Structured Query Language (NoSQL) database using Structure Query Language (SQL) commands. A SQL query is received. The SQL query is transformed into one or more non-relational database scans having associated row key ranges. The one or more non-relational database scans are executed in parallel for each row key range. The results from the parallel scans of the non-relational database are combined. The combined results are presented as results of the SQL query. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172834 | PROVIDING PREMIUM ACCESS TO AGGREGATED DATA SETS - A method and system for providing access to aggregated data sets. The method includes organizing a plurality of data sets into an aggregated data set, providing access to at least a portion of the aggregated data set based upon a subscription level associated with a user, receiving a search query from the user to search the aggregated data, determining which portions of the aggregated data set the user can access based upon the subscription level of the user, filtering a set of search results based upon the determination of which portions of the aggregated data set the user can access, and returning the filtered search results to the user. The system includes various components for performing the method. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172835 | DATA RELIABILITY THROUGH CROWD SOURCING - A method and system for improving aggregated data sets through crowd sourcing. The method includes organizing a plurality of data sets into an aggregated data set, providing search access to at least a portion of the aggregated data set based upon a subscription level associated with a user, and returning results to the user. Organizing the plurality of data sets into an aggregated data set includes receiving data from a plurality of sources, parsing the data, translating the parsed data into its native format and content, tagging the parsed data with attributes detailing how the data is entered, wherein the attributes comprise geographic location information, and mapping the translated data into a plurality of database tables within the aggregated data set. The system includes various components for performing the method. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172836 | Audio and/or Video Scene Detection and Retrieval - Video trailers for a video quote may be created and provided to a user. The Internet may be searched to identify documents that likely include references to a video. A reference to the video within an identified document may be detected and determined to be a video quote. The video quote and related information may be extracted from the identified document. A location of the video quote within the video may be determined. A video trailer that includes the video quote may be created based on the location of the video quote. A request for a video trailer that includes a video quote or a partial video quote, specified by the user, may be received from the user. A video trailer that includes the video quote or the partial video quote may be identified and provided to the user. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172837 | TOPICAL ACTIVITY MONITOR AND IDENTITY COLLECTOR SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for identifying respective networked devices in a social communications network, which networked devices communicate messages relevant to an article. The messages may include posts, shares, likes, votes, ranks, and other comments. A server of the social communications network maintains a respective identity (e.g., user name or handle) for each connected networked device, respectively, of the social communications network. The server includes an API for requests. The method includes receiving a search item from a data communications network, collecting articles related to the search item from each of the at least one source of articles of the data communications network, storing in a database, for each respective one of the article from the step of collecting, a respective unique identifier representing the article, comparing the search item to each respective unique identifier, respectively, of the database, to determine similarity of the respective unique identifier to the search item, compiling a result set of each respective unique identifier determined similar to the search item in the step of comparing, communicatively detecting the share count of the messages of the social communications network related to the result set, deriving a score based collectively on all of the share counts from the step of communicatively detecting, the score represents topical activity of networked devices of the social communications network for the search item, calling the API of the server intermediating communications among the networked devices of the social communications network, receiving the identities of the networked devices of the social communications network; and storing the identities in a database in a storage. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172838 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY RETRIEVING DATA SPECIFIC TO A REGION OF A LAYER - A system may provide for retrieving data within a selected region of a map is provided. The system may include mobile devices configured to display a map and to receive a user selection of a region of the map. An application server may receive data from the mobile device, representing the user selected region of the map and a search criterion. A database may be in operative communication with the application server and executes a query using the data representing the selected region of the map and the search criterion and to return data results corresponding to a plurality of locations within the selected region and related to the search criterion. The mobile device may further be configured to display the data results corresponding to the plurality of locations on the selected region of the map and the displayed data results are automatically updated when the user moves the selected region of the map. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140181081 | MAINTENANCE OF ACTIVE DATABASE QUERIES - An aspect includes a method for maintaining active queries. The method includes executing a query based on data items in at least two relations in a database. The executing includes outputting a query result and control information associated with the query. The query result and the control information are recorded. A notification that at least one of the data items has been updated subsequent to the executing is received. The query result is modified, responsive to the control information, to reflect the data items that were updated subsequent to the executing. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181082 | ENHANCING SEARCH RESULTS WITH SOCIAL NETWORKING DATA - A method of enhancing search results pertaining to an item with information about the item from a social network is disclosed. It is detected that a user is searching for information about the item in a context outside of a social networking context. Data relating to the item is collected from a social network of the user. A notification of the data relating to the item is generated to supplement a search result that is to be presented to the user in response to the searching. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181083 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF SEARCH QUERIES AND RESULTS - A method and user terminal are provided that graphically formulate a search query. The method and user terminal display, via a display screen, a multi-dimensional graphical representation of a search query space, receive a plurality of parameters from a user, wherein the parameters define the search query space, position a multi-dimensional icon in the multi-dimensional representation of the search query space, associate one or more of a keyword and multimedia content with the icon, and generate a search query based on the keyword and the position of the icon in the multi-dimensional representation of the search query space. The method and user terminal further may graphically display the results of the corresponding database search, wherein the retrieved content is displayed as one or more icons positioned in a multi-dimensional graph having a plurality of axes associated with the plurality of parameters defining a context of the search query. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181084 | TYPE-AHEAD SEARCH OPTIMIZATION - Techniques are provided for efficiently performing a series of searches. After an initial set of search results is determined from a data set based on a search query, one or more additional characters are added to the search query. In response, another search is performed, using the updated search query, but the new search is limited to searching the initial set of search results. Thus, the original data set is not accessed or searched again. This is possible due to the nature of the data. Each subsequent search is based on one or more characters that were added to a previous search query. Thus, each subsequent search is constrained to the search results that were identified in a previous search. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181085 | DATA STORAGE SYSTEM FOR ANALYSIS OF DATA ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for generating customized reports from data storage databases and other information management system databases. The methods include normalizing queried information from different types of information management system databases to enable system-wide report generation. Other implementations are disclosed. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181086 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PERFORMING A FACETED SEARCH - A content management system that enables a member of a service to search for other members whose group profiles satisfy one or more search criteria is disclosed. The system further enables the member to select one or more of the members whose profile satisfies the search criteria, and facilitates communication between the member and the selected members. Thus, the member may send a communication to all members whose profiles satisfy the search criteria, or to a subset of those members whose profiles satisfy the search criteria. The communication may be an e-mail, an invitation, a chat message, a private positing on a public message board, a text message, or any other suitable type of communication. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181087 | Device, Method and User Interface for Determining a Correlation between a Received Sequence of Numbers and Data that Corresponds to Metrics - A device with one or more processors and memory receives, from a first party, an input including a sequence of numbers corresponding to a plurality of key performance indicator values associated with an entity and time range information for the sequence of numbers. In response to receiving the input, the device obtains, from a data set associated with the entity, data that corresponds to a plurality of metrics in accordance with the time range information, wherein the data set is accessible to a second party that does not have direct knowledge of the key performance indicators and determines correlations between the plurality of metrics and the sequence of numbers. The device provides, to the first party, a result indicative of a respective correlation between one or more of the metrics and the sequence of numbers. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181088 | ACTIVITY CONTEXTUALIZATION - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems request and receive network service activity data for a user. The received activity data is parsed to identify one or more subjects of the user activity. A plurality of cells is searched for a cell corresponding to the identified subject. Each of the plurality of cells includes displayable data about a subject and links assigned, respectively, to a causal context relationship, inclusion contextual relationship, temporal contextual relationship, and spatial contextual relationship. Each of the links provides a navigation link from the cell to the corresponding context cell. In response to the search, it is determined that a first cell within the plurality of cells includes displayable data about the identified subject and one of the links is identified as being defined as a highlighted contextual relationship and transmitted with a representation of the identified subject to a user device for display. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181089 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DIGITAL FILES - A computer-implemented method of associating digital tags with digital files comprises storing a plurality of digital files having embedded therein content data and metadata including tags; receiving, via a user interface device of a client device, a first tag label containing alphanumeric text created and inputted by a user of the client device; modifying, using a controller device, a selected first one of the tags of the metadata in a first of the digital files to include the first tag label; receiving, via the user interface device or another user interface device, an instruction to search for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; responsive to receiving the instruction, automatically searching for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; and displaying, on a video display device associated with the client device, a first indication of the first tag label. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140188842 | Selecting Search Result Images Based On Color - Example systems and methods that select search result images are described. In one implementation, a method accesses a ranking of multiple products associated with a search query and identifies a reference to a color in the search query. The method identifies a first product from the ranking of multiple products and identifies multiple product images associated with the first product. A color determination is made regarding each of the multiple product images. A product image having an associated color that is most similar to the color in the search query is selected for presentation in the search results. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188843 | MOSAIC DISPLAY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT MEDIA SEARCH - A computer image search system for rapid retrieval of media files images configured to determine a grid width attribute, and a height attribute, a width attribute and an aspect ratio attribute for each media file. The system configured to iteratively process each media file by determining a next media file, an average height and average width of the media files, reconfiguring the media files such that each of the reconfigured media files has the average height and the average width attribute, determining a total image width attribute of the media files by adding the average width attribute for each of the media files, and configured to assign a designated position to a next media file on the grid while the total image width attribute is less than the grid width attribute, and to dynamically display each processed media file at a corresponding designated position on the grid. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188844 | ADJACENT SEARCH RESULTS EXPLORATION - The specification relates to the creation of an image space by receiving an initial image query. A plurality of search queries related to the initial search query are determined. Image results for the initial search query and the plurality of related search queries are obtained. A panel of images representing a number of images from the initial search query and panels of images representing a number of images from the plurality of related search queries are generated. These panels are used to provide an image space. The image space can be centered on the panel representing the resultant images related to the initial search query and can be surrounded by panels representing the resultant images related to the plurality of related search queries. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188845 | INTEROPERABLE SHARED QUERY BASED ON HETEROGENEOUS DATA SOURCES - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for creating and using shared queries based on heterogeneous data sources. One example method includes receiving a request to execute a shared query, identifying at least one data source and a query specification associated with the shared query, generating a native query for each identified data source based on the identified query specification, executing the generated native queries at the respective data sources to collect a set of query results from the respective data sources, and formatting the set of query results from the respective data sources into a unified set of query results. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188846 | DATA LIST CUSTOMIZATION BASED ON SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP - Technologies are generally described for a data list customization scheme. In some examples, a data management system may include a communication history analysis unit configured to analyze a communication history of a user, a relationship determination unit configured to calculate relationship indicators for respective acquaintances of the user based at least in part on the communication history of the user analyzed by the communication history analysis unit, and a data list customization unit configured to sort a list of data files based at least in part on the relationship indicators for the respective acquaintances of the user calculated by the relationship determination unit. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188847 | INTERACTIVE OBJECT RETRIEVAL METHOD AND SYSTEM - An interactive object retrieval method is provided. The present method includes receiving a time-space searching condition and a query, and selecting a plurality of searching results from an object database in accordance with the time-space searching condition, a similarity between the query and each of a plurality of data records of a first category in the object database, and a time information and a location information corresponding to each of a plurality of data records of a second category in the object database. The method further includes receiving at least one user input corresponding to at least one of the searching results, and determining a display manner of the searching results on a user interface in accordance with the at least one user input and the similarity between the query and each searching result. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188848 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPLAYING TEXT USING RSVP - Various embodiments are disclosed that relate to serially displaying text on an electronic display. In some embodiments, a user device displays a notification marker/icon representing a notification event associated with an application by displaying the notification marker/icon with an icon representing the application. The notification marker/icon further represents a presence of content that is displayable using RSVP. The communications device receives a user interface action to select the notification event, and in response to the user interface action, displays textual content associated with the notification event in a designated display area using RSVP. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188849 | ITEM BANKING SYSTEM FOR STANDARDS-BASED ASSESSMENT - An computer item banking system for standards-based assessments has test items used in standards-based assessments wherein a plurality of item specifications are developed using a specification building feature to create new, edit, move, and delete specifications and to assign specifications to one or more standards; a plurality of test items are constructed and edited using a test building feature to specify the type of item being constructed, points available for the item, and the type of bank to which the item is assigned; bank types include agency-wide assessments including benchmark tests and end-of-course examinations, and formative assessments such as classroom quizzes. The system includes means for certification of test items and preventing use of uncertified test items to be used in agency-wide assessments under construction. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188850 | RECORDING MEDIUM, SEARCH METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A file management server displays, according to selection order of first information and second information, either a relationship that the first information is subordinate to the second information or a relationship that the second information is subordinate to the first information as a subordinate relationship to be set. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188851 | Social Media Platform for Sharing Entity Type and or Product Type and or Prospective Event Type Internet Related Data - Disclosed is a method and user interface for receiving and delivering Internet-related data. The method includes receiving identifying information that is correlated to one or more user profiles, receiving Internet-related data into a database, the data received via the input associated with one or more user profiles, wherein at least one data attribute is geographical location data and another attribute is entity type and/or product type and/or event type data and receiving a user notification that a device is capable of receiving geographic location data and entity type and/or product type and/or event type data. The method further includes determining that the Internet-related data is prospective to generate matching data that is prospective, delivering matching data output and making available, if available, a representation of the input associated with one or more user profiles from which the Internet-related data is derived so that it is reconcilable on a user interface. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188852 | DISPLAYING CHANGES TO VERSIONED FILES - Presenting changes to versioned files. The method can include presenting a first view comprising a plurality of indicators, each of the indicators corresponding to a respective version of a file. A selection of a particular version of a file can be detected. A selection of another version of the file can be detected. In response to the selection of the other version of the file, the versions of the file can be compared to identify differences between the versions. Comparison information based on the differences can be generated. The comparison information can be filtered so that the comparison information fits within a second view having a desired size. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140195514 | UNIFIED INTERFACE FOR QUERYING DATA IN LEGACY DATABASES AND CURRENT DATABASES - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for a unified interface for querying data that may reside in one of a legacy database or a current database. Rather than performing a risky or potentially time-consuming database migration, new data is stored in the current database and the existing data remains in the legacy database. Users submit database queries through a query interface that hides or abstracts the complexity of the current and legacy databases from the users. Thus, while two separate databases exist on the back end, users do not know and do not need to know of that complexity when submitting a database query. The query interface can determine which database contains the requested data, convert the database query to the appropriate format, if necessary, for that database, and execute the converted query. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195515 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR QUERYING AND DISPLAYING DATA USING INTERACTIVE THREE-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATIONS - Methods and systems for querying data, and displaying the query results using an interactive representation in three spatial dimensions are disclosed. Query or search results are analyzed and displayed in an interactive three-dimensional representation using a plurality of nodes, representing aspects of the search results, and links connecting the nodes, representing strength of relation between the connected nodes. The inventive methods and systems allow users to manipulate the three-dimensional representation to view the search results from different angles. The inventive methods and systems also allow users to activate sub-applications from any node, to filter or browse data results, and/or to update all nodes linked to any activated node. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195516 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING CONTENT ITEMS IN A COLLECTIONS VIEW - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for managing, creating, and presenting a virtual collection. In some embodiments, a content management system can receive a request to display a virtual collection of content items from a first user account, whereupon at least one content identifier stored for the virtual collection can be retrieved. The at least one content identifier can identify at least one content item in data storage. Subsequently, updated information can retrieved for the at least one content item, including at least one of an updated location within a file system hierarchy or a modification to the at least one content item by a second user account, for example. An updated content item can then be selectively provided for display with the virtual collection in accordance with accessibility to the content item permitted by the second user account. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195517 | Providing Snippets Relevant to a Search Query in a Conversation-Based Email System - A system and method for searching messages is disclosed. The system and method includes receiving a search query and, in response to receiving the search query: (1) obtaining, from a message repository, conversations relevant to the search query, (2) creating a list of conversations representing at least a subset of the obtained conversations, where each conversation in the list of conversations is represented as a single item, and at least one of the conversations in the list of conversations comprises two or more electronic messages from distinct senders, (3) identifying, for each conversation in the list of conversations, a portion of conversation content relevant to the search query, and (4) producing, for concurrent display at a client, a search result including at least the list of conversations, and the identified portion of conversation content for each conversation in the list of conversations. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195518 | System and Method for Data Mining Using Domain-Level Context - A system and method for data mining using domain-level context is provided. The system includes a computer system and a contextual data mining engine executed by the computer system. The system mines and analyzes large volumes of open-source documents/data for analysts to quickly find documents of interest. Documents/data are encoded into an ontological database and represented as a graph in the database linking contextual entities to find patterns and anomalies in context. Documents are separately analyzed by the system and scored on several different scales. The resulting information could be presented to the user via a visualization interface which allows the user to explore the data and quickly navigate to documents of interest. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195519 | Search Query Generation Using Query Segments and Semantic Suggestions - Methods and computer program products for generating a search query are provided. A method includes receiving a first string of characters inputted into a text input field of a graphical user interface, wherein the first string of characters represents a first portion of the search query. One or more query suggestions based on the first string of characters are displayed within the graphical user interface. The method further includes receiving a selected first query suggestion and displaying it in a first query segment within the text input field. A second string of characters inputted into the text input field of the graphical user interface may also be received. One or more second query suggestions based on the second string of characters may be displayed. A selected second query suggestion may be received from the one or more second query suggestions and then displayed in a second query segment. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195520 | AUTOMATIC OBJECT REFERENCE IDENTIFICATION AND LINKING IN A BROWSEABLE FACT REPOSITORY - Systems and methods for automatic object reference identification and linking in a browseable fact repository database are provided. In some implementations, a method includes, identifying a set of values from a plurality of facts associated with an entity. The plurality of facts are stored in a fact repository, and a respective fact includes: an attribute and a corresponding value. The method further includes, responsive to a search for a first value included in a first fact in the plurality of facts: identifying a second fact associated with the entity; and causing to be displayed to a user: a link associated with the second fact, and information representing a confidence value associated with the second fact. The link, when selected, invokes a search of the fact repository in accordance with one or more search parameters, which include a value corresponding to an attribute included in the second fact. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195521 | TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR SEARCH QUERY REFINEMENT - Computer-implemented methods and a computing system are provided for presenting a new user interface paradigm which allows users to explore facets related to a search query term while maintaining the original state of the search query term or staying within the confines of the user defined topic. The methods and system present facets or categories of relevant topics of a user generated search query term. The user may then explore these facets in a number of embodiments while maintaining the state of the search. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195522 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, CONTENT TRANSFER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing device is provided that performs content transfer with a content recording device on which is stored content that has content identification information identifying the content. The information processing device includes: an identification information acquisition portion that acquires, from the content recording device, the content identification information for the content recorded in the content recording device; a display control portion that groups a list of the content identification information acquired by the identification information acquisition portion for each of a content type acquired from the content identification information and displays the list; and a sort control portion that sorts, for each of the content types, the list of the content identification information displayed by the display control portion, based on the content attribute information acquired from the content identification information. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195523 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INDEXING INFORMATION AND PROVIDING RESULTS FOR A SEARCH INCLUDING OBJECTS HAVING PREDETERMINED ATTRIBUTES - A system and method for providing at least one search result responsive to receiving a search query comprising at least one search query term, includes receiving the search query; locating at least one record containing at least one search query term; displaying a text representation of each of the records containing at least one search query term; and displaying a representation of an object in relation with the text representation for each record that includes an object comprising at least one predetermined attribute. According to another embodiment of the invention, a method for indexing records in an index of an information network, includes the acts of: receiving a record; searching the record for an indication that an object comprising at least one specified attribute is to be displayed with the record; finding the indication; creating a representation of the object; storing the representation in association with the record to which it corresponds; and making an entry for the record in the index, said entry indicating the object to be displayed with the record. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195524 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING APPLICATIONS USING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ELEMENTS - A method and system for searching for mobile applications using a multimedia content element are provided. The system comprises receiving an input search query including the multimedia content element; generating at least one signature for the at least one multimedia content element; generating a textual query using at least the one generated signature; querying at least one application distribution platform using the generated textual search query; analyzing search results returned responsive to the textual query to determine relevancy of mobile applications designated in the search results to the multimedia content element; and causing the display of mobile applications on a user device submitting the input search query. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195525 | SHARING AND COLLABORATION OF SEARCH RESULTS IN A TRAVEL SEARCH ENGINE - A travel search engine enables a user to share his or her search results with one or more other users in real time. Each of the users has a common set of search results and any user can select share a specific result within the common set. The remaining results in the common set can be independently filtered and sorted. By selectively sharing various ones of the search results, while being able to separately manipulate the remaining search results, users have access to a common set of potentially mutually acceptable results, but can still individually explore the search results by filtering along different criteria. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140201190 | Method and system to provide composite view of components - Systems and methods for defining a composite view and using the definition of the composite view to obtain, aggregate, analyze, and present data from a variety of data sources to a user. These systems and methods may allow for the definition of a visual framework to aggregate and display related data. This visual framework, or composite view, may in turn be composed of a master view and a set of subviews, each of which may display data collected from a particular data source according to a particular format. By interacting with the master view data from a variety of data sources can be displayed. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201191 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATIONS, CONFIGURATION AND CONTROL OF DATA - In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining a data set from a data source. The data set is prepared for an analysis operation according to a problem type. A result is generated from an interactive geometric node based a geometric property of the data set. A specified condition is determined with the result from the interactive geometric node based on a query to the interactive geometric node. A system's geometric configuration is determined. A geometric control criterion is determined. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201192 | AUTOMATIC DATA INDEX ESTABLISHMENT METHOD - An automatic data index establishment method includes the steps of comparing a data index existed in at least one table when a database inquires at least one query to obtain the data index correspondingly and directly uses the data index to search related data. If the query has no corresponding data index, a Where Condition field, a Sorting field and a Group By field of the query are recorded and integrated to automatically generate the newly established data index and fill the data index into the table correspondingly. Therefore, the database has intelligent functions with automatic analysis to automatically generate, update, and delete the data index, so as to achieve the effects of enhancing the accuracy and execution efficiency of the data management and reducing the manpower of data managers effectively. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201193 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSET INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - An approach for automatically retrieving information corresponding to intellectual property (IP) assets in a networked computing environment is provided. In general, a user will submit search input (e.g., keywords, patent numbers, etc.), that is used to search an intellectual property databases (e.g., USPTO) to generate a set of matching results. IP identifier information will then be extracted from the set of results and matched against a set of tables containing deterministic (e.g., legal/litigation) information corresponding to a set of IP assets (e.g., patents, trademarks, copyrights, etc.). Any deterministic information corresponding to IP assets that match the IP identifier information extracted from the set of results may then be outputted for the user. Thus, the user may see any deterministic information that corresponds to an IP asset in which the user may be interested. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201194 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING DATA STRUCTURES OF A DATABASE - Method and systems may be used to provide search results in response to plain language queries from a database. A search query may be received and a database may be queried. A metadata search of the database data structures may be performed to determine a search set based on the search query. Using the search set, a data search may be performed to determine the database data structures for a result set. Result data structures may be generated based on the result set. The result data structures may be iteratively provided to a client to display the search results responsive to the search query quickly. The relevant data may be retrieved from the database in response to a selection. In some instances, the results retrieved from the database in response to a selection of a result data structure may be limited based on a count parameter. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201195 | UNIFIED SEARCHABLE STORAGE FOR RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED AND OTHER DEVICES - The present disclosure describes a data indexing and search service that resides locally on a computing device (e.g., a mobile phone) and that can host data for multiple applications on the device. By centralizing the storage of data as well as the search and query functions, unified search queries can be performed by the service. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201196 | ENABLING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS TO QUERY SEMANTIC MODELS - Provided are a computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for generating a combined report. One or more queries are constructed using a Business Intelligence (BI) metadata model and one or more query declarations. The one or more queries are executed on a semantic model to obtain one or more semantic result sets. One or more data source result sets are received from one or more data sources. The one or more semantic result sets and the one or more data source result sets are combined to construct one or more combined result sets. The one or more combined result sets are rendered to form a combined report. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201197 | Dynamic Display of Filter Criteria - Embodiments are described herein that provide a dynamic display of filter criteria on a control device of a media playback system. In one aspect, a method is provided that involves (a) causing a graphical display of a computing device to display (i) a first set of filter criteria and (ii) search results that include at least a plurality of media-source identifiers that identify a plurality of respective media sources, (b) receiving by the computing device selection data that indicates a selection of one of the plurality of media-source identifiers, (c) determining by the computing device a second set of filter criteria based on the selected media-source identifier, where the second set of filter criteria is different from the first set of filter criteria, and (d) causing the graphical display to display the determined second set of filter criteria. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201198 | AUTOMATICALLY PROVIDING RELEVANT SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR - According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system displays initial search results based on a query and enables selection by a user of an item within the search results. The system determines refined search results based on behavior of the user with respect to the initial search results. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for presenting revised search results based on user behavior while examining the results in substantially the same manners described above. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140207757 | Using Metaphors to Present Concepts Across Different Intellectual Domains - A method, system, and computer program product for generating content of a topic for an intended audience are described. Topic information regarding a topic to be presented to an intended audience is obtained, as well as knowledge information regarding the intended audience. One or more metaphors relating to the topic and understood by the intended audience can be determined based at least in part on the topic information and the knowledge information. Content can be generated for the topic information based on a comparative analysis of the topic information to at least one of the one or more metaphors. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207758 | Thread Object-Based Search Method and Apparatus - Embodiments of the present invention provide a thread object-based search method and apparatus and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: receiving at least one thread object dragged by a user to a search area, where the search area is located on a current page of a web page; parsing the at least one thread object to obtain at least one attribute of the at least one thread object; searching by using the at least one attribute as a keyword; and displaying results obtained by performing the searching. The present invention is applicable to an intelligent terminal. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207759 | QUERY ENGINE FOR BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A computer-implemented system for facilitating cross-subsystem queries of a plurality of building automation subsystems includes a first database storing a logical model for a building automation system. The system further includes a second database storing information for the plurality of building automation subsystems. The second database relates information for the plurality of building automation subsystems based on the logical model of the first database. The system also includes a query engine configured to decompose a cross-subsystem query received from an application into a plurality of subsystem queries using the information of the second database. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207760 | CLUSTER VIEW FOR STORAGE DEVICES - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for generating a macroscopic cluster view of storage devices, as opposed to merely an isolated view from an individual node. For example, nodes within a node cluster may be queried for storage device reports comprising storage device information regarding storage devices with which the nodes are respectively connected (e.g., I/O performance statistics, path connections, storage device attributes, status, error history, etc.). The storage device reports may be aggregated together to define one or more storage device data structures (e.g., a storage device data structure comprising one or more tables that may be populated with storage device information). In this way, the cluster view may be generated based upon querying one or more storage device data structures (e.g., an error cluster view, a storage device cluster view, a node summary cluster view, etc.). | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207761 | INDEXING AND SEARCHING CONTENT BEHIND LINKS PRESENTED IN A COMMUNICATION - Among other disclosures, a method may include identifying content in an electronic communication, the content including a link. The method may include characterizing content associated with the link and storing the characterization. Upon detecting a match of a characterization, presenting one or more of the communication or portion thereof, the link or content associated with the link. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207762 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR MULTILEVEL CREATION OF CONSOLIDATED DYNAMIC PLAYLIST AND UTILIZATION THEREOF - A method and system that includes an aggregation of clients' playlists, separate item names, and a systems own playlists that are converted to request lists. A consolidated dynamic playlist is created by a computer algorithm, which provides an order of priority depending on input variables. Depending on a system mode, consolidated dynamic playlist of a lower level can participate in higher level session of the system. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140214801 | System and Method for Enterprise Asset Management and Failure Reporting - An information (ERP/EAM) system and equipment taxonomy for representing and managing of equipment, equipment subunits and component parts thereof across an enterprise that maps materialized physical objects to functional physical objects within a hierarchy of functional locations within the enterprise for all enterprise assets in accordance with applicable industry standards. The ERP/EAM system and the equipment taxonomy also provide multi-leveled failure reporting. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214802 | Corrected optical property value-based search query - A corrected optical property value of an optical property of interest captured within a digital image is determined. A search query based on the corrected optical property value is determined. A database is searched using the search query to determine search results for the search query that have appearance attributes with optical properties at least similar to the corrected optical property value. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214803 | DISPLAYING RECOMMENDED ENTITIES IN A RELEVANCE MAP - According to an example, data pertaining to a plurality of entities recommended for a user may be accessed, in which the data identifies relationships between the plurality of entities with respect to each other. In addition, a relevance map for the user that displays graphical representations of the plurality of entities over a substantially optimized use of space available for display of the graphical representations in the relevance map may be generated, in which the graphical representations of the plurality of entities are arranged in the relevance map according to a predetermined arrangement scheme. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214804 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR A MULTI-RESOLUTION VISUAL CROSSTAB - Methods, systems, and computer program products for visually representing and displaying data are described. One or more cells may be selected from a plurality of displayed cells in a crosstab, wherein the subset of cells has a context defined at least by one or more rows and one or more columns. An effect may be selected to apply on the subset of cells, wherein the effect includes an embedded query including parameters drawn from context of the subset of cells. A selected effect on a subset of the plurality of displayed cells may be applied. Effects may include lens effects, brush effects, and box-in/box-out effects. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214805 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SELECTING A MACHINE TO PROCESS A CLIENT REQUEST - A method includes consulting a database that includes a first entry indicating amounts of time that a first service provider machine takes to perform individual actions of the plurality of actions and a second entry indicating amounts of time that a second service provider machine takes to perform individual actions of the plurality of actions; generating a first estimate for the amount of time the first service provider machine is expected to take in processing the requested service, wherein generating the first estimate includes summing times associated with the plurality of actions from the first entry; and generating a second estimate for the amount of time the second service provider machine is expected to take in processing the requested service, wherein generating the second estimate includes summing times associated with the plurality of actions from the second entry. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214806 | INFREQUENCY CALCULATING DEVICE, INFREQUENCY CALCULATING METHOD, INTEREST DEGREE CALCULATING DEVICE, INTEREST DEGREE CALCULATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An infrequency calculating device includes: an keyword obtaining unit configured to obtain a target keyword from a content item; a target content counting unit configured to count the number of target content items which satisfy a condition corresponding to the target keyword, among a plurality of content items including the content item; a specific content counting unit configured to count the number of specific content items including the target keyword, among the target content items; and an infrequency calculating unit configured to calculate an infrequency of appearance of the target keyword based on the number of target content items and the number of specific content items. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214807 | METADATA TRACKING FOR A PIPELINED SEARCH LANGUAGE (DATA MODELING FOR FIELDS) - Embodiments are directed towards determining and tracking metadata for the generation of visualizations of requested data. A user may request data by providing a query that may be employed to search for the requested data. The query may include a plurality of commands, which may be employed in a pipeline to perform the search and to generate a table of the requested data. In some embodiments, each command may be executed to perform an action on a set of data. The execution of a command may generate one or more columns to append and/or insert into the table of requested data. Metadata for each generated column may be determined based on the actions performed by executing the commands. The table of requested data and the column metadata may be employed to generate and display a visualization of at least a portion of the requested data to a user. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214808 | SEARCH DEVICE, SEARCH METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A search device comprises a memory device for storing document data containing search target character strings to which delimiting characters are appended at both ends; an acquirer for acquiring keywords; a generator for generating a search character string by appending delimiting characters to both ends of the keywords; a designator for designating appearance positions where those extracted partial strings from the search character string appear in the search target character string of the document data; a determiner for determining the frequency with which partial strings common to the partial strings of the search character string appear with a positional relationship similar to the search character string in the search target character string; an evaluator for evaluating the degree of similarity between the search target character string and the search character string; and an output device for outputting the search target character string. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214809 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUERY TRANSFORMATION FOR MANAGING INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE DATASETS - A method and system for users to connect, extract, query and transform data from multiple databases, independent of their format, type, and location. The system comprises a setup portion, a meta database, and a user portion. The setup portion establishes datasets for use by the system with the user portion. The meta database stores the datasets. The user portion allows a user to input a query and processes the query to gather information from at least one data source and generate a response. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214810 | SEARCH SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - To provide a search system for requesting a user to select any of a plurality of options and searching based on a result of selection by the user, capable of assisting the user so as to readily select an option. A selection screen display control unit ( | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214811 | SEARCH SYSTEM, DISPLAY UNIT, RECORDING MEDIUM, APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHOD OF THE SEARCH SYSTEM - Provided is a method comprising: maintaining forward network structure information that, with stages arranged in a multilayer structure and each stage including one or more nodes associated with one or more words and associated in whole or in part with a point, connects nodes included in different layers with each other, in order from a higher layer toward a lower layer in a network state; acquiring one or more search word to use for a search; acquiring a node including all or part of the acquired search words and converting the acquired search words into a point; and using the forward network structure information to calculate points by sequentially adding together in a manner to inherit points, in node units of each layer, the points associated with the acquired node along all paths connected by these points from a topmost layer to the node of a predetermined layer. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140222780 | Investigative Identity Data Search Algorithm - An identity search algorithm for identifying a plurality of all identity data such as personal names and entity names that might exist in a table or file containing a large number of identity data in the investigative environment. The algorithm is intended to identify person and entities in the shortest time possible with an overly inclusive results. The core algorithm is used in an environment with a growing number of names in the name table, and implemented with a web-based user interface, it can dramatically improve the identity-searching efficiency and increase the chance to generate useful leads in typical discovery and investigation. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222781 | GENERATING AND DISPLAYING AN IMAGE TOUR IN RESPONSE TO A USER SEARCH QUERY - A method, system and a computer program product for generating an image tour in response to a search query in one or more multimedia databases includes determining information corresponding to a first and last image of the image tour by conducting an analysis of the search query. Based on this information, the first and last images satisfying a first pre-defined criteria are identified from the multimedia database. At least one intermediate image satisfying a second pre-defined criteria is identified from one or more videos of the multimedia database based on the identified first and last images. The image tour is generated by placing the identified intermediate images between the first and last images. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222782 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING INTERACTIVE QUERY RESULTS PREVIEWS - A query results preview generation method and system that receives a preliminary query while a query for a search is being constructed, determines a distribution of result items that would be retrieved if the search were executed using the preliminary query, among a new result category including new result items and a previous result category including result items previously retrieved in a session, generates the query results preview using the distribution of result items that would be retrieved if the search were executed using the preliminary query, and provides the query results preview while the query for the search is being constructed and prior to execution of the search using the query. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222783 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING AN IMPROVED VIEW FOR A VISUAL QUERY IN A MOBILE SEARCH - Systems and methods for automatically determining an improved view for a visual query in a mobile location or object search are provided. In some embodiments, methods for automatically determining an improved view for a visual query in a mobile location or object search system include obtaining at least one data set based on a prior visual query, wherein the at least one data set includes at least a top location or object and one or more other locations or objects; retrieving at least one distinctiveness measurement for one or more locations or objects in the at least one data set; and determining the improved view based on the retrieved at least one distinctiveness measurement. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222784 | User Interface for Predictive Model Generation - A dataset is searched using inclusion set criteria to produce an inclusion set and exclusion set criteria to produce an exclusion set. A set of unique content elements is identified from the inclusion set and the exclusion set. Metrics are derived from the inclusion set, exclusion set, and set of unique content elements, such as a measure, for each unique content element, of the absolute value of the difference between the percentage of records in the inclusion set containing the unique content element and the percentage of records in the exclusion set containing the unique content element. The unique content element set may be sorted and displayed in decreasing order of the above-referenced absolute value. The content element set may be filtered. Individual content elements may be excluded from the content set. A predictive model may be generated based on the resulting version of the content element set. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222785 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DATA - Various methods, machine readable media, and data processing systems for performing searches and presenting the results of the searches. In one exemplary method, a user input causes a search in a mode based upon at least one field attribute designating a person and causes results of the search to be presented. This method may include filtering files which do not include matching people identifiers in certain selected fields. Other methods include allowing searching with a predetermined syntax; prepopulating a search result window with results of a default search before receiving a user input containing search input terms; displaying selectable terms from a file found in a search, the selection of those terms causing another search; displaying previews or other representations of files found in a search where the previews are resizable or zoomable or pageable. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222786 | Web Navigation System with Persistent Search Results - A method of providing search results to a user on a website includes providing search results that include a plurality of members. The method further includes selecting a first member of the plurality of members in which the selecting causes a web page of the first member to open. The plurality of members remains in view and available for selection on the web page of the first member. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222787 | TECHNIQUES FOR ACCESSING A PARALLEL DATABASE SYSTEM VIA EXTERNAL PROGRAMS USING VERTICAL AND/OR HORIZONTAL PARTITIONING - Techniques for accessing a parallel database system via an external program using vertical and/or horizontal partitioning are provided. An external program to a database management system (DBMS) configures external mappers to process a specific portion of query results on specific access module processors of the DBMS that are to house query results. The query is submitted by the external program to the DBMS and the DBMS is directed to organize the query results in a vertical or horizontal manner. Each external mapper accesses its portion of the query results for processing in parallel on its designated AMP or set of AMPS to process the query results. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222788 | RESEARCH RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are computer-implemented methods for identifying, in a database, a search result comprising information that is relevant to a search query comprising a course identifier, wherein the database comprises relations between the course identifier and information relevant to the course. Computer program products and systems for carrying out the methods are also provided. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222789 | HIERARCHICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FROM A CODED COLLECTION OF RELATIONAL DATA - A system for information retrieval from a collection of hypermedia data over a distributed network is presented. The system includes a data storage system that is a collection of hypermedia data. The collection of hypermedia data also has a number of hyperlinks to items of hypermedia content, and the hyperlinks are each respectively associated with at least one code value generated based on the content of the respective hypermedia content. The system also includes an application that receives progressive user input and iteratively build a user search code value according to the user input. It matches the user search code value to at least a portion of the hypermedia content code value for the hyperlinks in the data storage to identify each such associated hyperlink to a particular information retrieval data set. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140236922 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND SOFTWARE FOR POSITIVE PATIENT IDENTIFICATION - A system including a database storing a plurality of patient data corresponding to a plurality of patients, where the patient data corresponds to a particular patient and includes at least one image of the particular patient; and a component configured to receive patient identification information previously assigned to one of the particular patients, extract the patient data corresponding to the particular patient identification information received, and display the patient data on a display including at least one image of the particular patient. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236923 | INTERNET PRESENCE SCORING - For scoring Internet presence, a search module retrieves a plurality of search results for a search phrase from a specified data source. A scoring module calculates an Internet score as a function of a sentiment value for each of the plurality of search results. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236924 | Method For Improving Address Book of Mobile Means - The invention pertains to the functioning of a mobile communications means and it broadens the method of information search in remote databases connected to telecommunications networks, to broaden the functional capabilities of the address book. According to the proposed method, a mobile communications means is used with built-in subscriber directory, having the capability of connecting to and exchanging data via Internet with a remote server providing a search for subscriber contact data contained in a remote database. According to criteria specified by the user, a search request is performed with search for the contact data of the other subscriber both in the local address book of the mobile communications means and in the external subscriber directory base on the remote server. Based on the results of the search, the user can select the needed subscriber most fitting the criteria of the search request. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236925 | PROVISION OF APPLICATIONS TO MOBILE DEVICES - Embodiments related to the provision of applications to mobile devices are disclosed. One embodiment provides a mobile device application server system, comprising a database, a processor, and memory comprising instructions stored thereon that are executable by the processor to perform a method of providing applications to mobile devices. The method comprises receiving a first application configured to be run on a first mobile device type, storing the first application, receiving a second application configured to be run on a second device mobile device type, and storing the second application. The method further comprises receiving a request for the first application from a first mobile device of the first mobile device type, providing the first application to the first mobile device, receiving a request for the second application from a second mobile device of the second mobile device type, and providing the second application to the second mobile device. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236926 | System, Methods and Applications for Embedded Internet Searching and Result Display - Systems and methods allow a user of a text or graphics editor to quickly create multiple robust internet search queries by selecting and ranking groups or individual key words from a document. A user who is composing or reading a document can identify and link multiple sets of key words into separate search queries by highlighting and assigning either unique search numbers, colors or other readily ascertained indicators of their logical relation. Each individual search query is routed to selected internet search engines, and the results are returned to the user in the same viewed document. The user may select the form in which the results are displayed. For example, results may be listed within the document by way footnotes, endnotes, or separate hover or pull-down windows accessible from the search terms. In addition, the user can browse, sort, rank, edit or eliminate portions of the results. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236927 | INTERNET PRESENCE SCORING - For scoring Internet presence, a scoring module calculates one or more metrics as a function of sentiment values for results for a search target of a search type that is one of a person search type and a brand search type. The scoring module further calculates an Internet score from the one or more metrics and displays the Internet score. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236928 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes: storing means for storing audio data and related information corresponding to the audio data; receiving means for acquiring electronic program guide information indicating programs scheduled to be broadcasted; and program selecting means for executing comparison processing for comparing predetermined related information corresponding to predetermined audio data among the audio data and the electronic program guide information and selecting, on the basis of a result of the comparison processing, a predetermined program from the broadcast-scheduled programs indicated by the electronic program guide information. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236929 | Search method and search system in microblog and computer storage medium - It is described a search method and a search system in a microblog, and a computer storage medium. The search method in a microblog includes: an inputted keyword is received, and it is searched for a microblog account relative to the keyword; it is determined whether there exists a microblog account of a product in a search result, if yes, microblog accounts of products are sorted and preferentially displayed in the search result; otherwise, it is displayed the microblog account relative to the keyword and microblog information corresponding to the microblog account. With the technical solution described herein, microblog accounts of products are displayed preferentially, the utilization rate of the microblog is thus enhanced. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236930 | OPERATING SYSTEM PROGRAM LAUNCH MENU SEARCH - An operating system program launch menu, such as a Start menu, provides various mechanisms for a user to quickly and efficiently locate and launch desired data items such as programs, data files, storage locations, and the like. A search box within the program launch menu may be used to quickly locate programs, documents, communications, and other data items. An auto-complete feature may be used, e.g., when the user restricts the locations searched for the user-entered search text. A most commonly used program list may include programs based on various criteria including both frequency of use and recent use, thereby always including a most recently used item. An all programs view may display programs and documents in a hosted-tree view within the original confines of the program launch menu, thereby negating the need to open sub-menus on top of a large portion of the desktop displayed on the display device. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236931 | Systems and Methods for Simultaneous Display of Related Social Media Analysis Within a Time Frame - Described herein are systems and methods for analyzing social media data for assets and related sub-assets, and simultaneously displaying the analysis for assets, sub-assets, and contributing social media content items to give the user insight into the analysis. The analysis may be based on user selection of a time frame, and may also include a historical timeline that plots different lines for different assets. The user may select one of the assets and cause related sub-assets and social media content items to be simultaneously displayed. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236932 | INFORMATION SEARCH DEVICE - This utility model relates to systems for implementing a search for information relating to items of interest to a user. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140244616 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTACT-RELATED INFORMATION ITEMS - Mechanisms are provided for determining contact-related information items for presentation to a user, such that the user can refer to the information items to enhance the user's communication with the contact. Contact-related information items that have a high relevance level may be accessed and presented to the user. In a case in which no or limited high relevance level information items exist, contact-related information items associated with incrementally lower levels of relevance may be accessed and presented. Moreover, according to some example embodiments, relevance may be derived based on the relationship of the user with the particular contact and/or the frequency of communications with the contact. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244617 | SUGGESTING MEDIA CONTENT BASED ON AN IMAGE CAPTURE - A method and/or system for suggesting media content based on an image capture may include receiving, from an electronic device, a request for recommendations based on an image capture, wherein the request comprises data associated with the image capture. One or more search objects may be determined based on an analysis of the request. A particular user associated with the electronic device and one or more search interest associated with the particular user may be determined. One or more custom recommendations for the particular user may be determined based on the one or more search objects and/or based on the one or more search interests. Recommendation data comprising the one or more custom recommendations may be sent to the electronic device. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244618 | SEARCH INTERFACE FOR AN ONLINE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates searching an online content management system for content items associated with a user. During operation, the system receives a call from a client application at a search interface in the online content management system, wherein the client application is operating on behalf of the user. In response to the call, the system performs a lookup in a per-user index within the online content management system, wherein the per-user index facilitates looking up information about content items associated with the user in the online content management system. The system then returns the information obtained during the lookup to the client application. The client application can then use the retrieved information to facilitate an interaction between the client application and the user. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244619 | INTELLIGENT DATA CACHING FOR TYPEAHEAD SEARCH - Techniques for providing low latency incremental search results are disclosed herein. According to one embodiment, a method for incremental search includes receiving a first search query from a user, obtaining a plurality of first search results in response to the first search query from an index server, determining whether the plurality of first search results are a substantially exhausted list of results for the first search query, and caching the plurality of first search results in a cache storage if the plurality of first search results are the substantially exhausted list of results for the first search query. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244620 | INLINE GRAPHIC SCOPER INTEGRATED WITH A SEARCH NAVIGATOR - A method for searching data on a computer system is provided. The method includes the displaying of a plurality of navigation nodes in a graphical navigation string on a display. The navigation nodes comprise a navigation hierarchy, having a first level and a second level. The method further includes the displaying of a finder field on the display adjacent to the plurality of navigation nodes in the graphical navigation string for searching the first level of the navigation hierarchy. It also includes the displaying of a navigation scope bar for searching the second level of the navigation hierarchy. Additionally, it includes a processor that determines a refined search criteria based on a movement of the navigation scope bar with respect to a navigation node within the plurality of navigation nodes in the graphical navigation string. The method further includes the sending of the refined search criteria to a search engine. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244621 | RANKING DATA ITEMS BASED ON RECEIVED INPUT AND USER CONTEXT INFORMATION - A composer interface allows a user to provide input, such as text data, to the social networking system. Based on context information associated with the user and received input, the social networking system presents candidate data items to the user. Selecting a candidate data item allows the user to include the candidate data item in the input. Examples of context information include: users connected to the user, profile information associated with the user, and geographic information associated with the user. The candidate data items may be presented based on the probability of the user selecting a candidate data item. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244622 | DETERMINING PHRASE OBJECTS BASED ON RECEIVED USER INPUT CONTEXT INFORMATION - A composer interface allows a user to provide input, such as text data, to the social networking system. To reduce the number of inputs for a user to provide to the social networking system, one or more phrase objects are presented to the user when providing input. A phrase object includes a group of objects that users have previously provided to the social networking system. The social networking system presents phrase objects to the user that match at least a portion of the received input. Context information associated with the input and associated with various phrase objects may be used to select the presented phrase objects. By selecting a presented phrase object, the user includes the selected phrase object in the input. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244623 | Schema-Independent Data Modeling Apparatus and Method - A computer-implemented schema-independent method of modeling data from a plurality of diverse sources. A server transmits to a client a blueprint for visualizing and interacting with data, wherein the blueprint defines an application, for visualizing and interacting with data that runs on the client. The application may operate on the client within a web browser and may include program code or scripts that operate within the web browser and transmit data and commands to and from the server. In response to receiving a data fetch message from the application running on a client computer, the server receives data from a selected one of a plurality of domains. The server then transforms the received data into a semantic data format. The transformed data is then stored by the server as a first data set. The first data set can then be transmitted to the client computer for further processing and visualization by the application on the client using the blueprint. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244624 | STRUCTURED RELEVANCE-A MECHANISM TO REVEAL HOW DATA IS RELATED - A machine receives a description of the relationships among members of a data set. The machine constructs a graph that represents the relationships among the members of the data set, organizing the members of the data set into groups. The groups are analyzed to determine their relative strengths. Unbalanced groups can be balanced by splitting off heavy sub-trees that include too large a percentage of the nodes in the group. The machine can then use the graph to answer queries about members of the data set. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244625 | SEQUENCE READ ARCHIVE INTERFACE - A repository of DNA sequence data is available online. A user can query the repository using a search term. Search results that are provided by the repository include information about studies, experiments, samples, and/or runs that are related to the search term. A user can select one or more of the displayed search results. Based on the user selection, the repository provides relationship(s) between the selected results and run(s). Runs may be associated with DNA sequence data. The determined relationship between the search term and any available DNA sequence data is displayed. The DNA sequence data may be obtained by the user using, for example, the FASTQ format and/or the SRA format. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244626 | System and/or Method for Distributing Media Content - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to distribution of media content. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244627 | SELF-SERVICE DATABASE REPORTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Users interactively create, customize, and execute reports on data stored in databases using only a web browser. The user can create, customize, and execute reports by selecting various report elements including, for example, data sources, fields, filters, labels, charts, dashboards, and the like. Advantageously, the present disclosure enables users to create the reports through an Internet connection, without any special software, such as web browser plug-ins, database applications, and the like, without knowledge of data access languages, such as SQL, and without direct access to a database server. The present disclosure can directly connect to a plurality of different database types through a virtual or physical network connection. It fully functions without requiring the creation of additional configuration items like catalogs, models or secondary schemas by a programmer or database administrator (DBA). | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244628 | Hybrid Database Table Stored as Both Row and Column Store - A hybrid database table is stored as both a row and a column store. One or more techniques may be employed alone or in combination to enhance performance of the hybrid table by regulating access to, and/or the size of, the processing-intensive column store data. For example during an insert operation, the column store data may be searched for a uniqueness violation only after certain filtering and/or boundary conditions have been considered. In another technique, a hybrid table manager may control movement of data to the column store based upon considerations such as frequency of access, or underlying business logic. In still another technique, querying of the hybrid table may result in a search of the column store data only after an initial search of row store data fails to return a result. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140250104 | Media Orchestration Through Generic Transformations - Methods and apparatus provide for a Transformer that detects a selection to playback content and downloads a file in response to detecting the selection to playback content. The file is in a first format and includes a first reference to a location of secondary content that is in a first format that is incompatible with the first format of the file. The Transformer transforms the secondary content to a format compatible with the first format of the file and creates a second reference to the location of the transformed secondary content that is in the format compatible with the first format of the file. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140250105 | RELIABLE CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS - A method and/or system for reliable content recommendations may include receiving, from an electronic device, a request for one or more content recommendations. An indicator associated with the electronic device may be determined. A history of interactions, wherein the interactions may be associated with the indicator, may also be determined. One or more entity root certificates may be determined based on the history of interactions. Based on the one or more entity root certificates, one or more entities may be determined. One or more recommended content items may be determined, where the one or more recommended content items may be associated with the one or more entities. Content recommendation data may be communicated, to the electronic device, where the content recommendation data may comprises data related to the one or more recommended content items. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140250106 | Generating Search Results Containing State Links to Applications - A disclosure provides techniques for generating search results containing state links to applications. A method includes receiving a query containing one or more query parameters from a remote computing device and identifying a set of third party applications corresponding to the one or more query parameters. For each third party application, the method includes transmitting at least a subset of the one or more query parameters to a server associated with the third party application, receiving a response from the server associated with the third party application, and generating a state link to a native application version of the third party application based on the response. The method further includes providing the states links to the remote computing device. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140250107 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPID COHORT ANALYSIS - An apparatus, system, and method for rapid cohort analysis. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an interface and a processor. The interface may receive an identifier of a first index attribute. The processor may search the database for a first group of records associated with the first index attribute, search the database for a second group of records, each record in the second group of records sharing a common second index attribute with a record in the first group of records, but not associated with the first index attribute, and calculate a statistic in response to information associated with the first group of records and the second group of records. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140258267 | Aggregating and Searching Social Network Images - Methods and systems directed to aggregating social content from social networking sites, and making the social content available for searching is disclosed. Social content, corresponding to multiple computer users, is obtained from a plurality of social networking sites. The social content is stored in a content store, making it available for searching. In response to receiving a search query (directed to social content), a set of search results is identified, the search results including at least one item of social content obtained from a social networking site. The social content in the search results is filtered according to privacy constraints. A presentation of the filtered search results is generated and provided to the requesting computer user. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258268 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BROWSING CONTENT STORED IN THE VIEWER'S VIDEO LIBRARY - Systems and methods are described for presenting recorded media assets on user equipment. In some aspects, the systems and methods described determine that a reference event has occurred. In response to the determination, the systems and methods search a plurality of media assets stored on a storage device for a media asset that matches a user profile. Control circuitry measures an amount of time that has elapsed from a time at which the reference event occurred until an input requesting display of the media asset is received. The control circuitry receives the input. In response to receiving the input, the control circuitry retrieves the media asset from the storage device and causes the media asset to be presented on the user equipment starting from a play position that is offset from a beginning of the media asset by the measured amount of time. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258269 | GEOSPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DATA SYSTEM - A system is described that a geospatial coordinate component arranged to identify a set of geospatial coordinates from a geospatial dataset. A temporal coordinate component is arranged to identify a set of temporal coordinates from a temporal dataset. The system includes an article query component that is arranged to determine a set of articles based on the set of geospatial coordinates and the set of temporal coordinates. A presentation component is arranged to present a representation of a member of the set of articles. The geospatial coordinate component can receive a user selected geographical area and intersect the geospatial dataset with the geographical area. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258270 | CONTEXT-BASED QUERYLESS PRESENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS - Techniques for context-based queryless presentation of recommendations are described. Without receiving an explicit query, an inferred query is determined based on a first set of context signals associated with a recommendation triggering event. Items matching the inferred query are selected based on a second set of one or more context signals associated with the recommendation triggering event. One or more results items identifying the one or more matching items are caused to display. A result items may be displayed in association with an explanation that identifies context values used to select an item for recommendation or one or more attributes of the item that are relevant to a user or the inferred query. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258271 | METHOD OF E-COMMERCE - a system and method for providing search results is disclosed. One embodiment includes first presenting an image containing a product to a user and providing the user with a user interface for selecting the image, or a portion of the image associated with the product, from among several images. Search results are generated by searching for at least one characteristic based on one tag applied to the image or portion of the image in a database associated with a brand or designer identified in a second tag. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258272 | PRIVATE INFORMATION REQUESTS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - Information management techniques for performing private information request are provided. Original information request entered on a personal computing device are obscured by a camouflaging engine. The obscured information request is then submitted to a search engine accessible over the Internet by the device. Subsequently, the search engine will generate search results based on the obscured information request. Upon completion of the search, a filtering engine on the device will filter the obscured search result based on the original entered information request, preferences or personal profile. The output of the filtering engine, reflecting the personalized result for the original information request, can be displayed on the device. The device could also include ways to receive advertisements from the search engine, or a third or an outside advertisement party. An advertisement filtering engine on the device filters the received advertisements and displays the filtered advertisements on the device. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258273 | Dynamic Menus for Multi-Prefix Interactive Mobile Searches Using Predictive Text to Yield Targeted Advertisements - The present invention includes systems and methods for retrieving information via a flexible and consistent targeted search model that employs interactive multi-prefix, multi-tier and dynamic menu information retrieval techniques (including predictive text techniques to facilitate the generation of targeted ads) that provide context-specific functionality tailored to particular information channels, as well as to records within or across such channels, and other known state information. Users are presented with a consistent search interface among multiple tiers across and within a large domain of information sources, and need not learn different or special search syntax. A thin-client server-controlled architecture enables users of resource-constrained mobile communications devices to locate targeted information more quickly by entering fewer keystrokes and performing fewer query iterations and web page refreshes, which in turn reduces required network bandwidth. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258274 | DYNAMIC CONTROL SYSTEM FOR MANAGING REDIRECTION OF REQUESTS FOR CONTENT - Requests for content are received, for example, an HTTP request for a web page is received. Each request has a landing context, which may include information about the user sending the request, the request itself, the referrer, or another subject. This information can be found in the requests or external to the requests. The information of the landing context is compared to appropriate triggering criteria. For requests that satisfy the appropriate triggering criteria, a destination is provided based on one or more weighted treatments. The request is directed to the provided destination. The results of the requests are subsequently analyzed and used to adjust the treatments in an automated fashion. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140280038 | DELIVERING A FILTERED SEARCH RESULT - Delivering a filtered search result includes identifying a filtered search result in response to a search query from a user that is associated with at least one member of an augmented social group where the augmented social group including social network connections of the user and individuals other than the social network connections who share a common interest with the user and delivering the filtered search result to the user through a user interface. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280039 | Visual Search Results - In one embodiment, a mobile device or a server updates search results on a three dimensional map. The three dimensional map may include outlines of buildings. A first partial search query is received and a map database is queried based on the first partial search query. A set of map results are output or displayed based on the first partial search query. A second partial search query is received that includes the first partial search query. The set of map results is narrowed or filtered and a subset of the set of map results is output or displayed. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280040 | SEARCH RESULTS FOR DESCRIPTIVE SEARCH QUERIES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying resources responsive to a search query. One of the methods includes maintaining an index for a collection of resources, where each resource is associated with zero or more respective entity tags, and each entity tag includes a respective entity name, receiving a search query from a user device, identifying resources that satisfy the search query, determining that the search query satisfies one or more descriptive query criteria, processing each entity tag that is associated with a respective identified resource, generating a results page that includes user interface elements, each selectable by a user operating the user device to initiate an entity-specific search, and sending the results page to the user device. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280041 | Short-Term Hashes - In one embodiment, a server receives a search query; the server determines search terms based on the received search query, each search term including a prefix and a suffix; for each of the search term, the server generates a first binary number based on the each search term's prefix and suffix, and accesses and retrieves search results of the each search term from data stores by hashing the first binary number; the server also aggregates search results of the respective search terms. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280042 | QUERY PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING DATA CLASSIFICATION - The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for allowing a client to control characteristics of a response to a data query using data classification. One computer-implemented method includes receiving a request for a data set from a client, the request including one or more request parameters indicating one or more characteristics for a result set, identifying a set of disjointed classes associated with the data set, the identification based at least in part on the one or more request parameters, the set of classes comprises the entire data set, associating the set of classes with a set of class representatives, each class in the set of classes associated with a class representative from the set of class representatives, and presenting the set of class representatives to the client. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280043 | IDENTIFICATION OF CONCEPTS AND ASSOCIATED PROCESSING - Relevant content from target content may be identified. The relevant content may be matched against a concept graph. The concept graph may include one or more concepts and associations between the concepts. Concepts may be determined based on the matching. The relevant content may be augmented with indicators to indicate the determined concepts. The determined concepts may be searched in one or more search spaces to obtain search results. Access may be granted to information indicated by the search results. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280044 | GENERATING INSIGHTFUL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN GRAPH ENTITIES - Implementations provide an enhanced search result to improve the user search experience. For example, the result may include insightful information relevant to the search query that was not specifically requested but that the user may find interesting, such as relationships shared between the two entities related to the query, a relationship between the two entities that does not commonly occur with another relationship shared by the entities, or strong secondary connections for an entity related to the query. In some implementations, insightful connections may also be unique facts for a particular entity. Unique facts may represent a superlative attribute of an entity such as, for example, the tallest actor, the oldest president, the most expensive stock, etc. Such shared relationships, rare relationships, and/or unique facts may be provided as part of the search results presented to the query requestor and may provide insight to the requestor about the entity. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280045 | VISUALLY REPRESENTING QUERIES OF MULTI-SOURCE DATA - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for visually representing queries of multi-source data. Embodiments of the invention can be used to visually represent queries of multi-source data. Visual cues can be used to help surface insights into data sets. For example, keywords can be assigned colors. Within a data set, the keywords can be presented as colored highlights (i.e., individual keywords can be displayed using different colors). Presentation of multiple colored highlighted keywords can be optimized for quick visual consumption. As such, a user can more easily determine the volume of keywords within a data set and can identify trends in keyword volume over time. A “mountaintop view” of an entire data set can be presented to show highlighted words within the data set as color blocks without having to scroll. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280046 | SEARCHING USING SOCIAL FILTERS AS OPERATORS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for responding to a search query with search results where the search query includes a social source operation are presented. Upon receiving a search query directed to a query topic, and including a social source operation, the search engine identifies search results corresponding to the query topic, and further obtains social data necessary to satisfy the social source operation of the search query. The search results are modified in light of the social source operation according to the obtained social data. One or more search results pages are generated according to the modified search results and at least one of the search results pages is returned to the requesting computer user. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280047 | SCALABLE, SCHEMALESS DOCUMENT QUERY MODEL - Query models for document sets (such as XML documents or records in a relational database) typically involve a schema defining the structure of the documents. However, rigidly defined schemas often raise difficulties with document validation with even inconsequential structural variations. Additionally, queries developed against schema-constrained documents are often sensitive to structural details and variations that are not inconsequential to the query, resulting in inaccurate results and development complications, and that may break upon schema changes. Instead, query models for hierarchically structured documents that enable “twig” queries specifying only the structural details of document nodes that are relevant to the query (e.g., students in a student database having a sibling named “Lee” and a teacher named “Smith,” irrespective of unrelated structural details of the document). Such “twig” query models may enable a more natural query development, and continued accuracy of queries in the event of unrelated schema variations and changes. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280048 | NAVIGATING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES - Incremental search and other human interactions with a graphical user interface of a media presentation system (e.g., a television system) are simplified using a keyboard (wireless or wired) and framework that allows a user to incrementally search for items in the GUI (e.g., icons) according to the location of the items in the GUI and a current selected item in the GUI. In some implementations, a delay is introduced after the first character is entered at the keyboard to prevent a selection indicator from bouncing around the GUI. In some implementations, weighted token matching and filtering are used in the incremental searching. In some implementations, the incremental search session is automatically reset if the user does not type for a period of time. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280049 | REQUESTING SEARCH RESULTS BY USER INTERFACE GESTURE COMBINING DISPLAY OBJECTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving, from a user device, data indicating a user performed a user input gesture combining a first display object in a plurality of display objects with a second display object in the plurality of display objects; identifying attributes that are associated with both the first display object and the second display object; and performing a search based on the attributes. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280050 | TERM SEARCHING BASED ON CONTEXT - A method of performing a context based search associated with a digital document may include determining a contextual keyword associated with the digital document. The contextual keyword may be determined based on one or more of content included in the digital document and information associated with the digital document. Additionally, the contextual keyword may provide context to use of a term in the digital document such that the contextual keyword may indicate a meaning of the term as the term is used in the digital document. The method may further include initiating a context based search of a general information database using the term and the contextual keyword such that a result of the context based search may indicate the meaning of the term as the term is used in the digital document. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280051 | COMPUTER-BASED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ACTIVE AND AUTOMATIC PERSONAL ASSISTANCE USING AN AUTOMOBILE OR A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and a system for providing personal assistance in daily activities. A method and a system for automatically and actively providing personal assistance, using a vehicle or a portable electronic device, based on detected data regarding a user and the user's environment. The method and system may include a processor, at least one sensor, an output device, a communications unit, and a database. The database may further include a memory and cloud-based database and computing. The method and system may actively and automatically provide personal assistance regarding health, exercise, diet, or nutrition. The method and system may assist the user or a health professional in health diagnosis and treatment. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280052 | KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY USING COLLECTIONS OF SOCIAL INFORMATION - Architecture that enables access to high quality summaries of trending topics of social media data, and presents to a consumer an aggregated view of the social activity of a unit of information of interest across different networks (and then defined by increments of time, if desired). The social network data is mined to extract associated attributes as well as popular hashtags, links, etc. This provides a consumer with a single interface for all relevant social activity associated with a user query and enable the capability to browse through the unit(s) of information via the interface. The user can also follow (track) the unit(s) of information of interest as well as receive personalized notifications (e.g., emails) thereby keeping the consumer current with trends on a time basis (e.g., daily, weekly, etc.). | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280053 | CONTEXTUAL SOCIALLY AWARE LOCAL SEARCH - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for determining a meeting location. A group of persons to meet is determined. A conjoined interest set is generated that is representative of the group of persons. Locations of persons in the group are determined to determine a plurality of locations. Local search results for the group of persons are received that are generated based on the conjoined interest set and the determined plurality of locations. The local search results include at least one potential meeting location. The local search results are enabled to be presented to at least one person of the group of persons. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280054 | Visual Post Builder - The description relates to visual post builders. One example can receive a user search topic relating to a collage. This example can concurrently present a collage template and search results for the search topic. The collage template can be manifest as a grid of equal sized rectangles. The example can automatically populate a user selection from the search results into one or more rectangles of the collage template. The example can also automatically populate additional user selections into remaining rectangles of the collage template until all of the rectangles of the collage template are populated or the user indicates that the collage is complete. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280055 | PERSONALIZED SEARCH RESULT SUMMARY - Provided are techniques for displaying a personalized search result summary for a search result. A search result from executing a search query is received. A category of search for the search query is determined. A summary template is selected from a collection of summary templates based on the category of search. A personalized summary is generated using the selected summary template and the received search result. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280056 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS IN A HIERARCHICAL GRAPHICAL FORMAT - Exemplary embodiments of a system and method for providing search results using an interactive graphical user interface may be described. A system may be configured to receive a search query, transmit the query to a search interface, receive a data set of search results and related search categories, and cause a visual representation of the search results and related search categories to be displayed on a connected device. A search system may further be configured to perform multiple, related searches and determine and recommend related, narrower searches to a user. Search results and recommended, related searches may be delivered to a user's device such that a user can, using an input device, interact with the search results and recommended searches. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280057 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING DATA - A system and method are described for analyzing and visualizing one or more sets of disparate data. Plural sets of data may be visualized simultaneously. The data set(s) may be visualized in animated form. Plural data sets may be visualized simultaneously in animated form, with such animations running independently or in synchronization. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280058 | Social Filtering of User Interface - In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a content object for display based at least in part on one or more filtering criteria. The filtering criteria is a measure of suitability of each content object for presentation based at least in part on social-graph information between a first user and one or more second users or a current geo-location of the first user. The method also includes applying the filtering criteria to the content object; and providing for display on a user interface (UI) the content object based on whether the content object is suitable for presentation based at least in part on the filtering criteria. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280059 | PERTURBING SEARCH RESULTS - Disclosed here are methods, systems, paradigms and structures for spreading the interest of a user evenly over a predefined set of search results. A search engine retrieves search results from a database and perturbs at least a portion of the search results, that is, randomizes the order of the portion before presenting it to the user. In this way, even when a search is repeated between database update cycles, the user would see different top search results every time the search is executed. The perturbation technique can be applied to a search in a social networking system which searches for users. The perturbation can be done by randomizing the display order of the sear results based on a most recent activity time of the user. The perturbed search results will have different users every time the user performs a search. The perturbed search results are customized per user. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280060 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SUGGESTIONS DRIVEN BY NEARBY FAVORITES - A computer-implemented method and system may promote points of interest (POIs) for display on a digital map at a client computing device based on context information associated with a user. Location data from a client computing device may indicate a geographic location of the computing device. Using the location data, the system may determine a user classification indicating a degree of familiarity with the location indicated by the location data. Promotion data may be determined based on the location data and the user classification. The promotion data may indicate one or more sets of POIs to be promoted. The system may then send the determined promotion data to the client computing device, enabling display on the client computing device of the one or more indicated sets of POIs. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280061 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - There is provided a method for processing electronic documents. The method includes: receiving a plurality of electronic documents stored in a file container created based on a file system; retrieving metadata from the file container, the metadata indicating forensic information about the plurality of electronic documents; applying an interactive filtering to the metadata according to user inputs; and selectively extracting one or more electronic documents from the file container according to results of the interactive filtering. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280062 | ADAPTIVE SEARCH AND NAVIGATION THROUGH SEMANTICALLY AWARE SEARCHING - Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for semantically aware adaptive searching and navigation of application data. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for semantically aware adaptive searching and navigation of application data is provided. The method includes associating different tags with different data of a database of unstructured data, each of the different tags corresponding to selected semantics of different objects encapsulating data for a data driven application executing in memory of a host computing system. The method also includes applying in the memory of the host computing system a filter operation to both the tags of the unstructured data and also the different objects, using filter criteria corresponding to one or more semantics of the different objects. Finally, the method includes displaying in a user interface to the data driven application a result set from the filter operation. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280063 | CUSTOMIZED QUERY APPLICATION AND DATA RESULT UPDATING PROCEDURE - Disclosed are an apparatus and method of processing search query results and providing a user interface application to access the query results. According to one example, the application may be configured to perform retrieving user preferences from memory associated with a user profile of a query agent and applying the user preferences to a number of different search queries used to obtain information of one or more topics associated with the user profile. The method may also include automatically executing the search queries to various different remote data sources and receiving a number of search query results to populate user information sources associated with the user profile and included in a user interface. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280064 | GENERATING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE GEOSPATIAL ELEMENTS - Techniques are described for creating geospatial elements based on geographical data. In one example, a method for creating geospatial elements based on geographical data includes collecting one or more geographical indicators comprised in a set of operational data, the geographical indicators indicating one or more geographical areas. The method further includes collecting, from a set of geographical data, geospatial data associated with the one or more geographical areas indicated by the one or more geographical indicators. The method further includes generating one or more aggregated geospatial elements based on the one or more geographical indicators and the geospatial data. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280065 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTIVE QUERY IMPLEMENTATION AND USAGE IN A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE SYSTEM - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for predictive query implementation and usage in a multi-tenant database system including means for implementing predictive population of null values with confidence scoring, means for predictive scoring and reporting of business opportunities with probability to close scoring, and other related embodiments. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280066 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR POPULATING A TABLE HAVING NULL VALUES USING A PREDICTIVE QUERY INTERFACE - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for populating a table having null values using a predictive query interface including means for receiving a tabular dataset from a user as input, the tabular dataset having data values organized as columns and rows; identifying a plurality of null values within the tabular dataset, the null values being dispersed across multiple rows and multiple columns of the tabular dataset; generating indices from the tabular dataset of columns and rows, the indices representing probabilistic relationships between the rows and the columns of the tabular dataset; displaying the tabular dataset as output to the user, the displayed output including the data values depicted as known values and the null values depicted as unknown values; receiving input from the user to populate at least a portion of the unknown values within the displayed tabular dataset with predicted values; querying the indices for the predicted values; and displaying the predicted values as updated output to the user. Other related embodiments are further disclosed | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280067 | CURATED ANSWERS COMMUNITY AUTOMATICALLY POPULATED THROUGH USER QUERY MONITORING - In one embodiment, a method of a curated answers system includes automatically populating a profile markup page of a user with information describing an initial query of a database that the user has generated using a processor and a memory, determining that another user of the database has submitted a similar query that is semantically proximate to the initial query of the database that the user has generated, and presenting the profile markup page of the user to the other user. The method of the curated answers system may include enabling the other user to communicate with the user through a communication channel on the profile markup page. A question of the other user may be published to the user on the profile markup page of the user, and/or other profile markup page of the other user. The question may be associated as being posted by the other user. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280068 | ADAPTIVE LEARNING OF EFFECTIVE TROUBLESHOOTING PATTERNS - The system may include a troubleshooting activity recorder configured to record troubleshooting sessions. Each troubleshooting session may include a sequence of queries and query results. The troubleshooting activity recorder may include a query transformer configured to transform the queries and the query results into transformed queries and transformed query results before recording the troubleshooting sessions. The troubleshooting activity recorder may be configured to record the transformed queries and the transformed query results as troubleshooting session information in a troubleshooting activity database. The system may include a troubleshooting pattern learning unit including a graph builder configured to generate a troubleshooting pattern graph having query nodes and links between the query nodes based on the troubleshooting session information. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280069 | Internet-Based Lot and Home Plan Suitability Matching System - A method of matching building lots and home plans is provided. The method includes maintaining a first database having data for a plurality of building lots, and maintaining a second database having data for a plurality of home plans. The method further includes receiving a request, electronically submitted over a networked connection, for either a set of suitable building lots for a particular home plan, or a set of suitable home plans for a particular lot. The method also includes transmitting, over the networked connection, information showing either suitable building lots for a particular home plan, or suitable home plans for a particular lot. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280070 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TECHNOLOGY ASSISTED DATA REVIEW WITH OPTIMIZING FEATURES - The invention provided is a system configured to use a topic-related generative model to build a document map from a plurality of documents in a storage medium and generate a control set from the plurality of documents including at least two stratified document sets. The system then receives a set of control set metrics regarding the control set from a user. The system selects a machine call responsive document from a document map based on a determined predictive responsiveness for that document. The system receives a responsiveness call from a user through the task/queue framework regarding a machine call document. Finally, the system compares the responsiveness of the machine call document to the control set metrics and rebuilds the document map based on the results of the comparison between the machine call document responsiveness and the control set metrics. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280071 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO ONLINE SEARCH RESULTS - A full-duplex communication channel is established between the server and a user device. A plurality of search results is obtained based on a request received from the user device. The plurality of search results is provided to the user device via the full-duplex communication channel. The user device is caused to display the plurality of search results in a first webview. A selection of a particular search result among the plurality of search results is received from the user device, via the full-duplex communication channel. Content associated with the particular search result is provided to the user device, via the full-duplex communication channel. The user device is caused to display simultaneously the plurality of search results in the first webview and the content in a second webview. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280072 | Method and Apparatus for Human-Machine Interaction - Systems and methods are provided for enabling the creation and generation of complex forms for machine-human interaction with minimal cognitive load on the user by providing a mechanism of inference and application of the intent or state of a given value into an input object that is otherwise stateless or without intent. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280073 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVENT BASED ANALYSIS - System, method and computer readable media embodiments are disclosed for performing event based analysis where a first query is performed on a first data source to obtain a first set of records based on a first event and a second query (independent from the first query) is performed on a second data source to obtain a second set of records based on a second event. Each set of records includes analysis dimension variable and a time dimension. A result set is generated by combining the first and second sets of records to find an intersection of the two sets based at least partly on the time dimension variables. A binary mapping is generated from the result set to establish a distinct set of values of the analysis dimension variable that match the intersection of the two sets. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280074 | HIGHLIGHTING ITEMS FOR SEARCH RESULTS - The present invention provides a search capability to allow a user to easily locate a preference control, file, folder, control, or other system resource or data item associated with a search result. In one embodiment, a user enters a search term (or a portion thereof) in a search field associated with one or more resource types that may be searched. The user may be presented with a pop-up menu containing a list of likely matches. The user selects the desired preference control from the pop-up menu, and the corresponding preference pane, or other container, containing the selected data item, control, or other resource is displayed. In one aspect, as the user enters the search term (or portion thereof), certain icons are highlighted. Specifically, those icons that represent containers containing matching data items (such as preference panes having controls that match the search term) are highlighted. Different types of highlighting can be used depending on the degree of certainty as to which container is likely to contain the correct match. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280075 | MULTIDIMENSION CLUSTERS FOR DATA PARTITIONING - A data storage system includes a partitioning module to partition data across multiple dimensions simultaneously. The partitioning may be based on a sizing parameter for each dimension. The partitioning module stores a cluster including the partitioned event data and metadata including attributes identifying the cluster. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280076 | Information Terminal and Program - It is an object of the present invention to provide a technology capable of allowing a user to search and retrieve facilities in an appropriate manner. An information terminal according to the present invention includes: facility storage means for storing information on facilities; a first facility search means for searching and retrieving the facilities stored in the facility storage means based on a designated search condition; a second facility search means for requesting, via a network, a facility information providing device for providing the information on the facilities to provide facility information based on the designated search condition; search method determination means for determining which of the first facility search means and the second facility search means is to be used to search and retrieve the facilities; and result displaying means for displaying results retrieved by the first facility search means or the second facility search means. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140289222 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ARCHIVING AND RETRIEVING ITEMS BASED ON EPISODIC MEMORY OF GROUPS OF PEOPLE - A method and system are provided for archiving and retrieving digital media items based on episodic memory for predefined associated groups of one or more people. The method and system may comprise identifying one or more groups to which an archiving user belongs; receiving a user input identifying select groups to which a digital media item to be archived; receiving archiving input data identifying the digital media item to be archived for the group; generating index information using the received user archiving input; storing the index information in association with the identified digital media item; repeating the reception of archiving input data, the generation of the index information and the storing of the index information for the digital media item; receiving retrieval input data representing a selection of candidate values; and using the selections and the identified group to retrieve and output digital media items that match the selection. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289223 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FEDERATION OF RESULTS FROM SEARCH INDEXING - Systems and methods enable federation of search results. An identification of a first data source associated with a first schema is received by the system, the first data source comprising data of a first type. An identification of a second data source associated with a second schema is received, the second data source comprising data of a second type, the second type different than the first type. An identification of a plurality of fields for a results set user interface, a mapping of the data of the first type to a first field of the results set user interface, and a mapping of the data of the second type to the first field of the results set user interface, are accessed. Data of the first type and data of the second type are merged and provided for display in the first field on a user terminal. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289224 | FAST SEARCH IN A MUSIC SHARING ENVIRONMENT - A method, apparatus and system of method and system of directory sharing and management in a group communication environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a fast-search server includes processing a character of a query of music data, referencing the character with a reverse index of a music database, determining that the character matches a data record of the music database using the reverse index and returning the data record of the music database prior to receiving all characters of the query of music data from a user. The reverse index may be created from a combination of letters appearing as a string in a data field of the music database. The method may include preforking the character of the query of music data along with other processes in the fast-search server to minimize concurrency issues and to minimize threading locks. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289225 | PRIORITIZING DOWNLOADING OF IMAGE FILES - Technology is disclosed for downloading image files associated with a user to a computing device of the user from a distributed backup system. Each of the image files is associated with a popularity score that is determined as a function of a user-related access pattern and a group-related access pattern of the image files. While the user-related access pattern is determined based on an access of the image files by the user, the group-related access pattern is determined based on an access by a group of users. The image files are categorized into priority files and non-priority files based on the popularity score of the image files. The priority files are downloaded in an original format and the non-priority files are downloaded in one or more image qualities that minimize the consumption of computing resources in downloading the image files. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289226 | System and Method For Search and Display of Content in the Form of Audio, Video or Audio-Video - The invention relates to the field of computer search on a network and is particularly directed to searching for and displaying content in the form of audio, video and/or audio-video (“A-V”) results wherein the content that results from the search includes a textual transcript associated with the content. A system and method provide seamless delivery of audio, video and A-V results that are auto-populated into a media player on a computer system. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289227 | FIXED PHRASE DETECTION FOR SEARCH - A set of search requests may be analyzed to detect fixed phrases suitable for inclusion in a search index. Sets of candidate phrases may be identified among the search requests. Fixed phrases may be detected among the candidate phrases using statistical techniques, for example, by identifying phrases having a relatively high pointwise mutual information (PMI) with respect to component keywords. Fixed phrase detection may include keyword and/or phrase clustering. Clusters may correspond to topics defined using a latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) procedure. Fixed phrase detection may include identifying phrases having relatively high PMI within particular clusters. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289228 | USER BEHAVIOR MODEL FOR CONTEXTUAL PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION - A user behavior model provides personalized recommendations based in part on time and location, particularly to users of mobile devices. Entity types are ranked according to relevance to the user. Example entity types are restaurant, hotel, etc. The relevance may be based on reference to a large-scale database containing queries from other users. Additionally, entities within each entity type may be ranked based on relevance to the user and the time and location context. A user interface may display a ranked list of entity types, such as restaurant, hotel, etc., wherein each entity type is represented by a highest-ranked entity with the entity type. Thus, the user interface may display a highest-ranked restaurant, a highest-ranked hotel, etc. Upon user selection of one such entity type the user interface is replaced with a second user interface, for example showing a ranked hierarchy of restaurants, headed by the highest-ranked restaurant. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140297620 | ANALYTICS BASED ON PIPES PROGRAMMING MODEL - A hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request that includes embedded scripted code that specifies requested data search, search result data manipulation, and manipulated search result data visualization processing is received at a server. The received embedded scripted code that specifies the requested data search, search result data manipulation, and manipulated search result data visualization processing is executed. Visualized manipulated search results are generated as output of the execution of the received embedded scripted code. The visualized manipulated search results are returned in response to receiving the HTTP request that includes the embedded scripted code. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297621 | GRAPH DATABASE QUERY HANDLING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A querying method for a database of graph data encoded as triples being stored on storage servers. The method including dividing a query into a plurality of result criteria triple patterns which query results match, each triple pattern element being either: a single value triple pattern element; or a variable value triple pattern element specifying an ID of a variable. The method includes forming one or more sub-queries each having triple patterns having the same single value triple pattern element or specifying the same ID of a variable as a variable value triple pattern element, issuing each formed sub-query to each of the servers, and receiving triples satisfying a sub-query as results from the servers and using the sub-query results in as a response to the query. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297622 | System to present status information within user interface - A method and system for automatically updating searches are described. In one embodiment, a first search result may be compared with a second search result to automatically identify at least one data item within the first search result that is changed relative to the second search result. The at least one data item may comprise a transaction term. A notification of the at least one data item may be transmitted to a user device. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297623 | System to conduct search updates at determined frequency - A method and system for automatically updating searches are described. In one embodiment, a first search result may be compared with a second search result to automatically identify at least one data item within the first search result that is changed relative to the second search result. The at least one data item may comprise a transaction term. A notification of the at least one data item may be transmitted to a user device. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297624 | Systems and Methods for Context Based Search of Simulation Objects - Systems and methods are provided for providing a context-based search of simulation objects. A computer-readable medium configured for storage of objects and records associated with the objects is accessed, where the objects include a plurality of simulation objects and one or more container objects, where a container object is associated with a context of the engineering simulation, where a record associated its associated container record identifies one or more simulation objects that are associated with the container object. A graphical user interface is provided for display. The graphical user interface includes a first control for identifying a context of the simulation for search and a second control for identifying an object parameter for search. A container object is identified based on the identified context. Object parameters of the simulation objects associated with the identified container object are searched using the identified object parameter to identify matching simulation objects. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297625 | HISTORY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, HISTORY MANAGEMENT METHOD AND HISTORY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A history management apparatus that includes: a history storage part that stores a historical data set indicating a history of response states including transfer among a plurality of agents to one call; an image generation part that generates data of a display image that integrates the history of response states of the plurality of agents to the one call, based on the historical data set; and a display control part that causes the display image to be displayed on a display unit. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297626 | Providing Social-Network Information to Third-Party Systems - Particular embodiments receive, at a first computing device associated with a social-networking system and from a second computing device associated with a third-party system, a query comprising a first identifier corresponding to a user of the third-party system, wherein the first identifier is computed by applying a hash algorithm to a user credential associated with the user of the third-party system; determine, by the first computing device, whether the user of the third-party system matches any member of the social-networking system; and if the second identifier corresponding to a member of the social-networking system matches the first identifier, then send, by the first computing device to the second computing device, social-network information of the member of the social-networking system in response to the query. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297627 | JAVA APPLICATION SERVER AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING WEB BUSINESS - A Java application server and method for processing Web business are presented, which relate to the technical field of the Internet. The server comprises: a network framework layer ( | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140304253 | SCREEN-DATA EDITING DEVICE FOR PROGRAMMABLE DISPLAY DEVICE - A screen-data editing device for a programmable display device includes: a display-device information management unit that reads from a programmable display device, display-device main-unit information indicating a history of information externally output from the programmable display device and display-device operation-history information indicating a history of operations performed for the programmable display device, extracts a reserved word contained in those two types of information, and creates two types of data base having a plurality of records each containing a field for a search key corresponding to the reserved word. The device also includes a display-device-information search unit that extracts from the display-device operation-history information database, and a search-result display unit ( | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304254 | Identifying One or More Relevant Social Networks for One or More Collaboration Artifacts - Methods, products, apparatus, and systems may provide for identifying a set of users associated with one or more collaboration artifacts. Additionally, a set of networks including a plurality of candidate social networks may be identified. Moreover, a relationship strength may be determined between the set of users associated with the one or more collaborations artifacts and each of the candidate social networks to identify one or more relevant social networks from the candidate social networks. Determining the relationship strength may include calculating a similarity metric. In addition, at least one member affiliated with the one or more relevant social networks may become aware of the collaboration artifact. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140310262 | MULTIPLE SCHEMA REPOSITORY AND MODULAR DATABASE PROCEDURES - A method for managing repository items is provided for a system having a multiple schema repository that uses a database for storing data for the repository items and management data. The database is configured to manage multiple schemas. The management data for the repository includes information for defining and locating the repository items. The multiple schemas include classification schemas for supporting different types of repository items and a management schema for the management data. The method includes receiving a file including a repository item and data associated with the repository item, wherein the associated data includes categorizing information for the repository item. The method also includes determining whether the database already includes the repository item. The method further includes, if the repository item is not already in the database, creating a management record for the repository item, and storing the file in a storage area associated with the database. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140310263 | Method and Apparatus of Recommending an Internet Transaction - A method and an apparatus of recommending an Internet transaction are provided herein. A feedback result of an Internet transaction request may be optimized using a technical scheme of the present disclosure. Specifically, after receiving an Internet transaction request from a client of a user, response web server determines a feedback result of the Internet transaction request on the one hand, and queries information of a user group of the user on the other hand. Based on respective Internet transaction activities corresponding to information of at least two users in the information of the user group, the web server performs optimization for the feedback result of the Internet transaction request. Using this technical scheme, the occupancy of network resources due to blind selection of information objects by users may be reduced, thus improving the service efficiency of the web server. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140310264 | IMAGE REGISTRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method of managing an image registry may include receiving an image and metadata associated with the image to be associated with the user, where the user may be an author of the image stored in the image registry. A registration timestamp in response to receiving the image may be generated. The image, metadata, and registration timestamp may be stored in relation to the user. An identity of the author of the image may be caused to be displayed for the user in response to receiving a query to identify the author of the image, where the query may be inclusive of at least a portion of the metadata or image. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140310265 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING AN INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments provide an automated knowledge management service. A method includes receiving, at a computer processor that implements the knowledge management service, a request for information from a requesting entity. The method also includes generating, by the computer processor, a search query to search for the information across multiple compartmentalized data sources that are non-local to the automated knowledge management service, searching the multiple compartmentalized data sources for the information, and retrieving the information from one of the multiple compartmentalized data sources. The method further includes determining an access channel for transmitting the information, formatting the information to correspond to a format recognized by the access channel, and transmitting formatted information to the requesting entity. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140317089 | CONTEXT AWARE DYNAMIC SENTIMENT ANALYSIS - A system and method to perform context aware sentiment analysis on a project that includes two or more aspects are described. The method includes identifying one or more inputs related to the project. The method also includes decomposing each of the one or more inputs, based on a content of the one or more comments, into at least one of the two or more aspects to generate one or more comment-aspect sets, each of the two or more aspects representing a context within the project, extracting opinions from each of the comment-aspect sets, and generating a disruptive argument based on the opinions. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317090 | TECHNIQUES FOR PREVIEWING GRAPHICAL SEARCH RESULTS - Techniques to preview graphical search results may include determining that information is inside a search field. Search results may be determined based on the information. A set of the search results may be presented as a set of graphical images. The set of graphical images may include a foremost graphical image that is fully visible and one or more rearward graphical images that are shifted so that a portion of a rearward graphical image is visible on a display. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317091 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus that searches for a file based on a search condition, the apparatus comprising: a display unit configured to display a search screen and a search result screen; an item designating unit configured to designate an item as the search condition; an acquiring unit configured to acquire items displayed on the search screen; and an item determination unit configured to determine whether or not the item designated by the item designating unit is included in the items acquired by the acquiring unit, wherein, when the item determination unit determines that the item designated by the item designating unit is not included in the items acquired by the acquiring unit, the display unit adds the item designated by the designating unit to the items acquired by the acquiring unit, and displays the search result screen. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317092 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMBINED SEARCH AND CONTENT CREATION - Methods and apparatuses for search and content creation. A partial input is received via a user interface of an electronic computing device. The partial input to be used for content creation. A search query is generated in response to receiving the partial input. A structured data repository is searched for objects matching the partial input. Results from the searching of the data repository are provided. Suggested content to be created from the displayed results is generated. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317093 | FACILITATING DYNAMIC CREATION OF MULTI-COLUMN INDEX TABLES AND MANAGEMENT OF CUSTOMER QUERIES IN AN ON-DEMAND SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating dynamic creation of multi-column index tables and management of customer queries in an on-demand services environment in a multi-tenant environment according to one embodiment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes receiving, at a computing device, a query having one or more filters relating to one or more data type columns of database at a primary table. The primary table may include an object table. The method may further include calculating a hash number based on an index identifier corresponding to the one or more filters, and determining a first key at a secondary table based on the calculated hash number. The secondary table may include an index table, and the first key may be mapped with a second key corresponding to one or more rows at the primary table. The method may further include obtaining data from the one or more rows of the primary table, where the data includes filtered data corresponding to the one or more data type columns. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317094 | METHOD OF PROVIDING SERVICE FOR USER SEARCH, AND APPARATUS, SERVER, AND SYSTEM FOR THE SAME - A service provision method is provided for user search, and an apparatus, a server, and a system for the same. A service provision method includes transmitting a terminal search request message including a contents information element to a service provision server, receiving positional information of a terminal, which is playing first contents related to the contents information element, from the service provision server, and displaying the received positional information. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317095 | MEDIA BALANCER - One or more target schedules is generated based on a single master schedule. Replacement media items are inserted into a target schedule instead of the corresponding media items from the master schedule. The replacement media items are selected from a list of potential media replacement items scored using a scoring method used by a music scheduling system, as corresponding media items in the master schedule. The length of the media items in the list is checked to see if the length falls within a duration delta of the length of the media item being replaced in the master schedule, and to identify items that meet a minimum score threshold. The highest ranking item from the list that satisfies both the score threshold and the duration delta is selected for insertion in the target schedule. Music scheduling systems, such as GSelector®, can be leveraged to generate and score the list. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317096 | METHODS AND COMPUTER-PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SEARCHING PATENT-RELATED DOCUMENTS USING SEARCH TERM VARIANTS - In one embodiment, a method of searching for patent-related documents stored in a document corpus include receiving, by a computing device, a search query comprising a first term and a second term, wherein the search query indicates that the first term is an equivalent of the second term, searching the document corpus for patent-related documents wherein the first term is used interchangeably with the second term, and preparing for display a list of one or more patent-related documents. In yet another embodiment, a method of searching a parts thesaurus, includes receiving, by a computing device, a search query including a search term, and searching the parts thesaurus for term variants of the search term. The method further includes preparing for display term variants of the search term found in the parts thesaurus. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317097 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE SEARCHING OF PATENT-RELATED DOCUMENTS - In one embodiment, a method for searching for drawings found in a set of patent-related documents includes receiving a search query, and searching a parts index for part names matching one or more terms in the search query. The method further includes displaying one or more drawings, wherein the one or more drawings include at least one part name within the search query and the part name is stored within the parts index. In another embodiment, a method for searching for drawings includes receiving a request to search for drawings relating to a select drawing of a patent-related document, extracting parts information from the select drawing, and comparing the extracted parts information with parts information stored in a parts index. The method further includes determining that one or more drawings are similar to the select drawing, and displaying the one or more drawings. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140324823 | IMAGE SELECTION USING AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED SEMANTIC METADATA - A computer-implemented method for method for selecting visual subject matter stored in a database includes receiving user input that indicates a first region of a first image that is stored in the database and, based on metadata associated with the first image stored in the database, determining at least one visual feature in the first region of the first image stored in the database. The method further includes, based on metadata associated with other images stored in the database, selecting a second image from the database that includes a visual feature that correlates with the visual feature in the first region of the first image, wherein the metadata associated with the first image stored in the database and the metadata associated with the other images stored in the database include image correlation information received from a remote server device. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324824 | Search in Social Networks - A computer-implemented method in a social network for retrieving social media is provided, wherein the method comprises presenting, to a first user, a list of available perspectives of different owners; receiving, from the first user, a selection of a perspective from the list of available perspectives; carrying out a search based on the selected perspective to obtain search results associated with social media; and presenting, to the first user, the search results. Furthermore, an apparatus allowing a user of a social network to retrieve social media is defined. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324825 | GENERATION OF MULTI-FACETED SEARCH RESULTS IN RESPONSE TO QUERY - Aspects retrieve, organize and display different classifications of sets of search results in different, respective tabbed sheets that are nested on top of one another in a web-based interface dashboard. A text string search query is classified into constituent primary search terms that are likely to return satisfactory search results as indicated by retrieved search history data as a function of search resources and language classification rules associated with the user identity indicia. Secondary search terms related to the primary search terms and including synonyms and antonyms are determined as substitutes for the primary search terms in response to search history indicating follow-up searches immediately subsequent to searches of the primary search terms at less than a specified threshold of frequency. The set of peripheral knowledge article results is generated by searching knowledge article resources for background information on the primary search terms or the secondary search terms. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324826 | TARGETED CONTENT PROVISIONING BASED UPON TAGGED SEARCH RESULTS - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for tagging search results, organizing tagged search results for later access from various devices, public sharing of tagged search results, and/or providing targeted content based upon search results tagged by a user. That is, a user may tag a search result (e.g., a website, an image, a social network profile, etc.), such as through a one-click user input, with a tag to create a tagged search result. The tagged search result may be organized into a public tag collection for sharing and/or exploration of tagged search results by other users. The tagged search result may be organized into a personal tag collection for later access by the user from any device. Because the tagged search result may be indicative of an interest of the user, targeted content associated with the tagged search result may be provided to the user. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324827 | SEARCH RESULT ORGANIZING BASED UPON TAGGING - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for tagging search results, organizing tagged search results for later access from various devices, public sharing of tagged search results, and/or providing targeted content based upon search results tagged by a user. That is, a user may tag a search result (e.g., a website, an image, a social network profile, etc.), such as through a one-click user input, with a tag to create a tagged search result. The tagged search result may be organized into a public tag collection for sharing and/or exploration of tagged search results by other users. The tagged search result may be organized into a personal tag collection for later access by the user from any device. Because the tagged search result may be indicative of an interest of the user, targeted content associated with the tagged search result may be provided to the user. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324828 | SEARCH RESULT TAGGING - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for tagging search results, organizing tagged search results for later access from various devices, public sharing of tagged search results, and/or providing targeted content based upon search results tagged by a user. That is, a user may tag a search result (e.g., a website, an image, a social network profile, etc.), such as through a one-click user input, with a tag to create a tagged search result. The tagged search result may be organized into a public tag collection for sharing and/or exploration of tagged search results by other users. The tagged search result may be organized into a personal tag collection for later access by the user from any device. Because the tagged search result may be indicative of an interest of the user, targeted content associated with the tagged search result may be provided to the user. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324829 | TAGGED SEARCH RESULT MAINTAINANCE - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for tagging search results, organizing tagged search results for later access from various devices, public sharing of tagged search results, and/or providing targeted content based upon search results tagged by a user. That is, a user may tag a search result (e.g., a website, an image, a social network profile, etc.), such as through a one-click user input, with a tag to create a tagged search result. The tagged search result may be organized into a public tag collection for sharing and/or exploration of tagged search results by other users. The tagged search result may be organized into a personal tag collection for later access by the user from any device. Because the tagged search result may be indicative of an interest of the user, targeted content associated with the tagged search result may be provided to the user. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324830 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING RELATED INFORMATION OF MULTIMEDIA PROGRAMS - A method for a first electronic device and a second electronic device to manage related information of a multimedia program. The method obtains decoded data of ultrasound signals when the first electronic device receives the ultrasound signals from the second electronic device. The method further receives a query keyword input from the first electronic device. When the received query keyword matches the decoded data, the related information of the multimedia program is displayed on the first electronic device. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324831 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STORING AND DISPLAYING CONTENT IN MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal apparatus performs method for storing and displaying content in the mobile terminal. According to an aspect, if a request for displaying content among at least one piece of pre-stored content is received, related information corresponding to the content is searched for in at least one piece of pre-stored related information, and the content and the found related information are displayed. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324832 | READING MATERIAL SUGGESTIONS BASED ON READING BEHAVIOR - A user device displays portions of an electronic publication for a user to read. The user device tracks the user's reading behavior of the portions of the electronic publication. The user device then suggests additional reading material for the user based on the user's reading behavior. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324833 | SMARTPHONE ARRANGEMENTS RESPONSIVE TO MUSICAL ARTISTS AND OTHER CONTENT PROPRIETORS - Methods and arrangements involving portable devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers, are disclosed. One particular arrangement concerns a software program that is launched following detection of audio content performed by a first musical artist. A phone can be provided with plural such software programs, tailored to respond to different types of detected content. Another aspect of the disclosed technology enables a creator of content to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324834 | Providing Path-Level Access Control for Structured Documents Stored in a Database - An improved method and system for providing path-level access control to a structured document in a collection stored in a database, where the structured document includes a plurality of nodes is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing an access control policy for the collection, where the access control policy comprises a plurality of access control rules, generating a path for each node of the plurality of nodes in the document, and generating for each path associated with a node a corresponding value expression based on at least one access control rule of the plurality of access control rules. According to the method and system of the present invention, the corresponding value expression is utilized during access control evaluation to determine whether a user is allowed to access a node in the structured document. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324835 | Methods And Systems For Information Search - Methods and systems for information search are disclosed. An example method can comprise loading a plurality of content items in a plurality of windows on a display screen, wherein the plurality of the windows can comprise a master window and one or more slave windows, and wherein the each of the one or more slave windows can be associated with a respective search resource. A search request for information associated with a specific word displayed the master window can be received. A search can be conducted via at least one search resource displayed on the one or more slave windows. Search results from the at least one search resource can be provided. The search results can be displayed on a predefined area on the display screen. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324836 | FINDING SIMILAR ITEMS USING WINDOWS OF COMPUTATION - A first database search is performed for images similar to a first query image, and a first plurality of images that result from the first database search are provided. The first plurality of images are selectable to provide a second query image. A second database search is performed for images similar to the second query image, and a second plurality of images that result from the second search are provided. The second plurality of images are selectable to provide a third query image. A third database search is performed for images similar to the third query image; and a third plurality of images that result from the third database search are provided. The third plurality of images are selectable for providing a fourth query image. The search can continue to additional depths. Similarity may be determined by pixel color gradients using windows of computation. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324837 | Systems, Methods and Computer Program Products for Searching Within Movies (SWIM) - Systems, methods and computer-readable media process a series of media files into a searchable format. The method includes generating a media database by processing each of a plurality of programs. The steps of the method include extracting a subtitle track from each of the programs, retrieving at least one frame associated with the subtitle track, adding metadata to the extracted subtitle track and at least one frame, processing the subtitle track, program statistics and at least one frame in a media database. Another aspect includes receiving a user query associated with dialog in a program, searching the media database and presenting a listing of results, receiving a user selection or program from their listing and transmitting at least one frame, a portion of associated subtitle track and prompts for ordering the program. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324838 | SERVER, CLIENT TERMINAL, SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided a server including a reception unit configured to receive information relating to a circumstance specified by a user with respect to a target from a client terminal, a search unit configured to search for an image of the target suitable for the circumstance specified by the user with respect to the target received by the reception unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image searched for by the search unit to the client terminal. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140330808 | RETRIEVING INFORMATION USING A GRAPHICAL QUERY - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system. In an embodiment, a computing device receives a connection between a first object and a second object, wherein the connection represents a query. The computing device, responsive to receiving the connection, executes the query of the connection and obtains a result, and displays the result between the first object and the second object on the computing device. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330809 | Using Inverse Operators for Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, receiving from a user a structured query comprising references to selected nodes and selected edges, parsing the structure query to identify a first query constraint and one or more second query constraints, identifying a inverse constraint associated with the first query constraint, and generating a query command based on the structured query, where the query command includes the inverse constraint and the one or more second query constraints. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330810 | IDENTIFYING SEARCH MATCHES AND ALTERED SEARCH RESULTS - In embodiments of identifying search matches and altered search results, a query is received from a device application, and a data search is initiated based on the query that specifies search terms. A search result set of search result items is then received, and properties of a search result item are correlated with the search result item, where the properties indicate why the search result item was returned as part of the search result set. Search terms of the query are also associated with respective properties of the search result item to indicate a correspondence of a search term with a property of the search result item. The search result set of the search result items can then be returned to the device application along with the properties of each search result item and the associated search terms of the query. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330811 | RETRIEVING INFORMATION USING A GRAPHICAL QUERY - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system. In an embodiment, a computing device receives a connection between a first object and a second object, wherein the connection represents a query. The computing device, responsive to receiving the connection, executes the query of the connection and obtains a result, and displays the result between the first object and the second object on the computing device. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330812 | FORENSIC SYSTEM, FORENSIC METHOD, AND FORENSIC PROGRAM - Embodiments of the inventive concept can extract digital document information related with a specific individual to achieve a work load reduction associated with evidentiary material preparation for litigation. Recorded digital information can be displayed and user-specifying information can be set for each of a plurality of document files. The user-specifying information shows which user contained in user information one or more document files is related with. A recording unit can record the set user-specifying information. At least one user is selected, and a document file where user-specifying information which corresponds to the selected user was set is searched. Additional information showing whether or not the searched document file is related with the litigation is set via a display unit. A document file which is related with litigation is outputted based on the additional information. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330813 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND SEARCHING METHOD - A display apparatus and a searching method are provided. The display apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive a broadcasting signal; a display configured to display content of the received broadcasting signal; a communicator configured to transmit a first keyword and a content title and receive a first search result performed based on the first keyword and the content title; and a controller configured to extract a plurality of keyword candidates from the search result, display the plurality of keyword candidates on the display, if a second keyword is selected as one of the plurality of keyword candidates either manually or in response to a detected event, to transmit the second keyword through the communicator in order to perform a search for the second keyword. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330814 | METHOD, CLIENT OF RETRIEVING INFORMATION AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - This document publishes a method and an apparatus of retrieving information. In one embodiment, the method includes the following steps: receiving position information of interest points selected by a user in a panoramic image; extracting boundaries of a searching object in the panoramic image according to the position information; extracting an image of the searching object from the panoramic image; sending the image of the searching object to a backend server for searching; receiving a searching result about the searching object from the backend server; extracting relevant information about the searching object from the searching result; and displaying the relevant information. The method mines the potential information hidden underneath the panoramic images. Accordingly, latent requirements of the user could be satisfied when browsing panoramic images and the utility of panoramic images are enhanced. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330815 | PROCESSING A SYSTEM SEARCH REQUEST ACROSS DISPARATE DATA COLLECTION SYSTEMS - A search request received at a computer of a search support system is processed by analyzing the received search request to identify request parameters and connecting to a system index of the search support system that is referenced in the request parameters. An external result provider (ERP) process is initiated that establishes communication between the search support system and a data source external to the search support system, for a virtual index referenced in the request parameters. Thus, the ERP process provides an interface between the search support system and external data sources, such as by third parties. The ERP process can operate in a streaming mode (providing real-time search results with minimal processing) and/or a reporting mode (providing results with a greater delay and processing extent) and can switch between modes. The search request results are received from the connected system indexes and the referenced virtual indexes. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330816 | QUERY SUMMARY GENERATION USING ROW-COLUMN DATA STORAGE - A data storage system ( | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330817 | TAPE DRIVE SYSTEM SERVER - A tape drive system server includes a non-volatile memory used as a cache memory for storing data files, at least part of the cache memory comprising a first region managed using a First In First Out policy management and a second region managed using a Least Recently Used policy management; a file system interface for interacting with data files stored on a tape drive system; an interface for allowing one or more remote systems reading and writing data stored on the cache memory; the server configured to: receive from the one or more remote systems one or more write requests for writing one or more data files; interpret attributes associated to data files instructed to be written by the one or more remote systems; and store data files instructed to be written by the remote systems according to the interpreted attributes. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140337316 | INFORMATIVE COMMUNICATION HISTORY - An approach for retrieving and storing telephone numbers along with related contextual information associated with inbound/outbound communications to/from a device. The approach includes a method that includes combining, by at least one processing device, identification information of an entity and a related communication mechanism used to initiate a communication to a device. The method further includes providing, by the at least one processing device, a soft record that includes the identification information and the related communication mechanism. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337317 | Approximate Privacy Indexing for Search Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a first user of an online social network a search query, searching data stores to identify objects that match the search query, where identifying the objects is also based in part on the privacy setting for each object, determining for each identified object a visibility of the object with respect to the first user, and generating one or more search results corresponding to the search query. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337318 | Systems and Methods For Generating Issue Networks - Systems and methods for generating issue networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of generating an issue network from a document corpus includes searching, using a computer, the document corpus for a set of documents discussing a starting issue, wherein the starting issue is one of a plurality of normalized issues defined by the document corpus. The method further includes determining a set of normalized issues discussed by the set of documents discussing the starting issue, wherein the set of normalized issues also includes the starting issue, and determining instances of co-occurrences of individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues within individual cases of the set of documents. The method also includes linking individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues based on their co-occurrences within the set of documents, wherein the linked individual normalized issues at least in part define the issue network. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337319 | SMART PHONE APPLICATION FOR RETRIEVING AND DISPLAYING VEHICLE HISTORY REPORT INFORMATION - A system and method for utilizing a hand held electronic device, such as a smart phone to retrieve and display information related to the vehicle history of a vehicle. In particular, the smart phone may be used to take a picture of the vehicle's vehicle identification number (VIN) and upload the VIN to a remote vehicle history database which matches the VIN with stored vehicle history information. The matched vehicle history information is then analyzed to determine a vehicle history status and a corresponding status indicator is illuminated on the smart phone. The indicator may be red, yellow, green to indicate undesirable, cautionary, and clean vehicle history, respectively. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337320 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DATA ANALYTICS - Systems and methods of data analytics, which in various embodiments enable business analysts to apply certain machine learning and analytics algorithms in a self-service manner by binding them to generic business questions that they can be used to answer in particular domains. The general approach may be to define the application of an algorithm to solve specific problems (questions) for particular combinations of a business domain and a data category. At design time, the algorithm may be linked to canonical data within a data category and programmed to run with this canonical data set. At runtime, given a dataset and its category, and a business domain, a user may choose from the corresponding questions and the system may run the algorithm bound to that question. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337321 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AGGREGATING AND PRESENTING LARGE DATA SETS - The current document is directed to methods and systems that aggregate data from multiple sources and that organize and efficiently present data obtained from the data sources to a user on a user, or client, device. In certain implementations, a client-side application communicates with one or more servers of a cloud-based data-aggregation system. A multi-rotor-data-carousel-based graphical user interface accommodates data items continuously received from the data-aggregation system and efficiently displays portions of the data items to the user. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337322 | REPRODUCTION OF FILE SERIES - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for managing a series of files. A series of files may be grouped and a reproduction progress of a most recently reproduced file may be tracked. The next serial file in the series is reproduced, when the reproduction progress of the most recently reproduced file satisfies a threshold. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337323 | METHODS AND COMPUTING SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AND OPERATING A SEARCHABLE CONSUMER MARKET RESEARCH KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY - Methods and computing systems for generating and operating a searchable consumer market research (CMR) knowledge repository are provided. In one example, a method for generating a searchable CMR knowledge repository includes: (i) obtaining CMR data associated with one or more CMR studies; (ii) classifying the CMR data as at least one of: one or more CMR quantitative data files, one or more CMR summary files, and one or more CMR associated files; and (iii) storing a first portion of the CMR data in a first data storage repository and a second portion of the CMR data in a second data storage repository based on the classification in order to generate the searchable CMR knowledge repository. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337324 | VISUALIZING DIGITAL IMAGES ON A MAP - A computer based, digital image management system that visually presents an entire archive in a manner that facilitates easy, non-textual, searching for specific images. In one embodiment, the system includes two elements: a file management methodology and a graphical user interface. The file management method utilizes reference files that contain multiple properties (metadata) relating to each image file. Image files are grouped into a multiplicity of collections based on user-defined associations of the properties. The graphical user interface visually represents the groups of image files on 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional graphic metaphors. In addition, the graphical interface uses multiple display variables such as icons, mnemonics, size, movement, color, and luminance to signify relationships between groups, and/or communicate key properties of individual or groups of images. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337325 | DIGITAL CATALOGUE RAISONNE PLATFORM - A content management system for creating a digital catalogue raisonné includes at least one computer, a public user interface, a private catalogue raisonné manager, and a private user interface. The private catalogue raisonné manager is configured to instruct at least one object-oriented database to store first digital data for at least one artist, the first digital data including at least one of an image of an artwork of the at least one artist and a description of the artwork. The private user interface is configured to receive the first digital data, transmit information permitting a user to provide a command to the content management system to make available, at the public user interface, a public catalogue raisonné including the first digital data, and receive the command to make available the public catalogue raisonné. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337326 | Topical Mapping - A topic map is generated and retrieved in response to website searches. Metadata in a webpage is extracted and associated with a topic of the webpage. The topic map reflects different subject topics in one or more webpages. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140344247 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING APPLICABLE THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS TO ASSOCIATE WITH A FILE - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for identifying an application for opening a file. A first user input indicative of a file selected by a user is received over a user interface. The selected file has an input file type and is an attachment to an email. Data indicative of the input file type is transmitted over a communications network. A reference list of applications is obtained by combining association requests from application developers to associate respective applications with one or more file types, and a matched list is obtained by removing applications from the reference list, each of the removed applications being associated with a set of one or more file types that each mismatch the input file type. The matched list is displayed over the user interface, which receives a second user input indicative of a selected application from the matched list. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344248 | Aggregating Tags in Images - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a first user associated with an online social network, a request to view an image associated with the online social network, accessing the image, wherein the image includes multiple tags corresponding to multiple objects, generating an aggregated tag for two or more of the tags based on the proximity of the tags to each other, determining a social-graph affinity for each object in the aggregated tag, and rendering the image with a tag-label for the aggregated tag, where the description in the tag-label is based on the social-graph affinity for the objects associated with the aggregated tag. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344249 | SIMPLE ACTION RECORD SEARCH - A method, apparatus and software related product (e.g., a computer readable memory) are presented for providing a single-action approach for initiating a record search, for example, in a list displayed in an electronic device (apparatus) such as a computer. The presented solution may provide a user with a single-action (single-click) capability to directly perform context-based (e.g., sender-based, recipient-based, subject-based, etc.) searches. From the user point of view, the presented solution may be intuitive enough having a low bar for discoverability, so that search results may be reached with relative ease, thus increasing pageview capabilities. Then manual creation of filters or typing terms in a search box is no longer necessary. The embodiments described herein may provide the user a quick and efficient way to search for messages and triage those messages for read, reply, deletion, or other actions. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344250 | ENHANCED SEARCH REFINEMENT FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION SERVICES - Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for implementing enhanced search refinement. In at least one implementation, a search is initiated of information items in a personal information database based. The search may be performed based on, for example, a search query received through a user interface to a personal information service. Search results are presented via the user interface, as well as various suggested refiners with which to refine the search. Prior to refining the search results, at least more than one of the suggested refiners may be selected or otherwise indicated as of interest. The search results are then refined using the selected refiners and the refined results presented through the user interface. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344251 | MAP SEARCHING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A map searching method using a computing device in communication with a client device is provided. A query area of an electronic map is confirmed according to determining a area selected on an image layer displayed on a display screen of the client device. When a predetermined search command is received, the method parses the query area and a query category to be query information according to a preset format. The method further compares the query information with query data stored in a storage device of the computing device, and obtains query results of the query information. The method outputs the query results in a preset display format to the display screen of the client device. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344252 | ROLE BASED HISTORY IN A MODULAR LEARNING SYSTEM - A modular learning system provides user histories to a viewing user. The modular learning system maintains a database of activity items associated with a set of user roles allowed to view and interact with the activity items. The activity items are generated as users perform actions on the modular learning system. The modular learning system receives a request for a user history from a viewing user. The modular learning system verifies a viewing user's role and identifies activity items that are accessible to the viewing user based on the viewing user role. The identified activity items are then used to generate histories that are provided to the viewing user. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344253 | TERMINAL DEVICE, EXTERNAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing system that includes a sensor unit that collects information used for analyzing a life rhythm of a user; a life rhythm analyzing unit that analyzes the user's life rhythm based on the collected information; and a content transmitting unit that acquires an analysis result of the life rhythm of the user from the life rhythm analyzing unit and provides content based on the analysis result. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344254 | SOFTWARE RECOMMENDING METHOD AND RECOMMENDING SYSTEM - Disclosed are a software recommending method and a software recommending system. The method comprises: detecting software already installed and/or web application already run on a client ( | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344255 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DATA - Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344256 | PROCESSING A SYSTEM SEARCH REQUEST INCLUDING EXTERNAL DATA SOURCES - A search request received at a computer of a search support system is processed by analyzing the received search request to identify request parameters and connecting to a system index of the search support system that is referenced in the request parameters. An external result provider (ERP) process is initiated that establishes communication between the search support system and a data source external to the search support system, for a virtual index referenced in the request parameters. Thus, the ERP process provides an interface between the search support system and external data sources, such as by third parties. The ERP process can operate in a streaming mode (providing real-time search results with minimal processing) and/or a reporting mode (providing results with a greater delay and processing extent) and can switch between modes. The search request results are received from the connected system indexes and the referenced virtual indexes. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140351241 | IDENTIFYING AND INVOKING APPLICATIONS BASED ON DATA IN A KNOWLEDGE GRAPH - A knowledge base provides a mechanism for storing an organization's data in a way that represents the semantics of the data being stored. The knowledge base may include a knowledge graph that represents relationships between the different classes of data comprising the organization's data. Data that is loaded into the knowledge graph may be stored in data tables associated with the knowledge graph, and cross referenced with node identifiers that contain the data. Searching the knowledge base includes parsing a search input to identify terms in the search input, and mapping the terms to nodes in the knowledge base using the cross referenced information. The relationships among the identified nodes are used to identify a suitable application for processing the search. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351242 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING ELEMENTS IN A USER INTERFACE - The disclosed methods and systems are related to searching elements of user interfaces. Without leaving the displayed user interface, such as an on-screen guide, searches can be performed on elements of the user interface, and the results of the searches may displayed in the same user interface. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351243 | CAPTURING AND PRESENTING SITE VISITATION PATH DATA - Node sequence data, such as website visitation records, are filtered, analyzed, and summarized in reports. An administrator can designate particular target paths of interest in terms of a checkpoint node sequence. Node sequences are filtered based on the checkpoint node sequence, without regard to any additional or tangential nodes appearing in the sequences. In addition, node sequences can be specified in terms of specific nodes of interest along with wild cards. Reports depict the relative frequency of occurrence of node sequences using visual indicators such as line thickness and/or color. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351244 | ORDERED INDEX - Systems and methods for processing an index are described. A postings list of items containing a particular term are ordered in a desired retrieval order, e.g., most recent first. The ordered items are inserted into an inverted index in the desired retrieval order, resulting in an ordered inverted index from which items may be efficiently retrieved in the desired retrieval order. During retrieval, items may first be retrieved from a live index, and the retrieved items from the live and ordered indexes may be merged. The retrieved items may also be filtered in accordance with the items' file grouping parameters. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140358896 | Centrally Managed Driver and Vehicle Ratings System Updated Via Over-the-Air Communications With Telematics Units - A system and method are described herein for acquiring and maintaining, in a centralized repository, driver and vehicle information for the purpose of rendering a rating for individual drivers and vehicles in accordance with established criteria and standards. A driver rating indicates the relative desirability of the particular driver given the expected wear and tear upon a vehicle arising from driver's use of the vehicle. A vehicle rating indicates the relative desirability of the particular vehicle given the use and maintenance history. Additional information is also maintained in the centralized repository that could be used to indicate an event for which a surcharge or discount is applicable. Thereafter, specified filtering criteria are applied bi-laterally to determine a set of rated vehicles that can be used by a particular rated driver. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140358897 | LOCATION AWARENESS USING LOCAL SEMANTIC SCORING - Systems and methods are provided for determining continuous scoring models that describe one or more features regarding a geographic area. The scoring models can be fit to incorporate information from both point sources as well as area information. Based on the scoring models, a user can obtain feature values for the one or more features at any desired location or for a desired geographic area. Because the features are represented by a continuous function, comparisons of feature values for arbitrary geographic areas and/or combinations of features to form secondary values can also be performed. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140358898 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING MEDIA TO USERS - An approach is provided for determining at least two associated users who are presented media items based on respective playlists of media items. The approach further involves analysing media items in the respective playlists to determine similarity information for the media items in the respective playlists. The approach further involves causing insertion of at least one further media item in the respective playlists of the at least two users at least in part based on the determined similarity information. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140358899 | On-The-Fly Calculation Scenario Provision During Query Runtime - A query is received by a database server from a remote application server. The query encapsulates an on-the-fly calculation scenario that defines a data flow model that includes one or more calculation nodes. Thereafter, the database server instantiates the on-the-fly calculation scenario. The database server then executes the operations defined by the calculation nodes of the instantiated calculation scenario to result in a responsive data set so that the database server can provide the data set to the application server. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140358900 | Search Systems and Computer-Implemented Search Methods - Search systems and computer-implemented search methods are described. In one aspect, a search system includes a communications interface configured to access a plurality of data items of a collection, wherein the data items include a plurality of image objects individually comprising image data utilized to generate an image of the respective data item. The search system may include processing circuitry coupled with the communications interface and configured to process the image data of the data items of the collection to identify a plurality of image content facets which are indicative of image content contained within the images and to associate the image objects with the image content facets and a display coupled with the processing circuitry and configured to depict the image objects associated with the image content facets. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140358901 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND SEARCH RESULT DISPLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus including an input unit configured to receive a keyword, a display configured to display a screen based on search result received from a plurality of sources, and a controller configured to control the plurality of sources to perform search based on the keyword, receive a plurality of search result screens corresponding to the search result searched from the plurality of sources, and display the screen on the display. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140358902 | FACETED SEARCH RESULTS - A data processing system receives a first user input comprising a search query. The data processing system displays in a search interface accessible across a plurality of computer application programs, a plurality of results matching the search query. The results are categorized into a plurality of categories and only a first subset of all results are displayed for each of the plurality of categories. The data processing system receives a second user input comprising a selection of one of the plurality of categories. In response to the second user input, the data processing system displays, in the search interface, a second subset of results, wherein the second subset is categorized into one or more subcategories of the selected category. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140358903 | Search-Based Dynamic Voice Activation - A method, apparatus, and electronic device for voice navigation are disclosed. A voice input mechanism | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140365466 | SEARCH RESULT CLAIMING - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting instructions to display a user profile page associated with a user, receiving user input associated with a resource of a plurality of resources, the user input being provided through the user profile page, storing the user input as a factor associating the resource with a user, receiving a search query, the search query identifying the user, processing data stored in a database based on the search query and the factor to generate one or more search results, the one or more search results including an indicator associated with the resource, the indicator indicating that the one or more search results are associated with the user, and transmitting the one or more search results for display. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365467 | QUERIES OF A TOPIC-BASED-SOURCE-SPECIFIC SEARCH SYSTEM - Approaches for facilitating queries of a topic-based-source-specific search system are disclosed. In certain implementations, an input relating to a query may be received. Suggested ones of predefined sources and suggested ones of information items of the predefined sources may be determined based on the input. A set of suggestions including a group of suggestions relating to the suggested sources and a group of suggestions relating to the suggested information items may be provided for presentation on a user interface. In some implementations, metadata that indicates first, second, or other attributes relating to the predefined sources or the information items may be stored in association with the predefined sources or the information items. A second input relating to the query may be received responsive to providing the set of suggestions. A presentation of a comparison between the first attribute and the second attribute may be provided based on the second input. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365468 | News Results through Query Expansion - Systems and methods for providing improved news results to a news query according to entity expansion are presented. In response to receiving a news query from a computer user, a news engine identifies one or more interest entities of the computer user. Expanded entity data corresponding to the one or more interest entities is obtained, the expanded entity data identifying related entities to the one or more interest entities. The expanded entity data also includes category data corresponding to the categories of the one or more interest entities. Expanded news queries are generated according to the interest entities, the related entities, and category entities corresponding to the categories. News results are obtained according to the expanded news queries and a news presentation is generated and returned to the computer user. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365469 | USER ADDRESS BOOK DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - One or more techniques or systems are disclosed for allowing a first user to control what information is available to other users in the first user's address book on an address book system. A first user can import user contacts from one or more devices into the first user's address book in an address book system. The first user can enter additional contact information data into the first user's address book and edit preferences for other users to view selected portions of the entered contact information. The first user may subsequently identify a second user of the address book system and make a connection with the second user. The first user can edit access preferences for the second user, with regards to the second user accessing the first user's contact information. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365470 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GENERATING QUALITY, VERIFIED, SYNTHESIZED, AND CODED INFORMATION - The present invention relates generally to gathering, verifying, and providing information in an easy-to-understand format. Representations are obtained and evaluated to extract selected content or content information from which certain synthesized information can be gathered, collected, estimated, calculated, or determined. In addition, supplemental synthesized information may be be gathered, collected, estimated, calculated, or determined. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365471 | KNOWLEDGE BASE SEARCH UTILITY - A method is disclosed. The method includes performing a first search in response to initiating a communication session between an agent and a customer. The first search is performed using first data, attributes of a service interaction, and second data. The first data represents a second search requested by the customer, and the second data represents items viewed by the customer from among first results of the second search. Second results of the first search are displayed. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365472 | SCALABLE VISUAL SEARCH SYSTEM SIMPLIFYING ACCESS TO NETWORK AND DEVICE FUNCTIONALITY - In one embodiment, an indication of information desired by a user is received, and a list of candidates for the desired information is provided for presentation on a mobile device of the user. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365473 | Electronic Device, Information Distribution System, Information Distribution Method, and Information Distribution Program - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes, a search condition storage configured to store search conditions presented by a first device equipped with a recording function, a search module configured to search a content on the basis of the search conditions stored in the search condition storage, a reception module configured to receive schedule information on schedule recording set from the second device, and list storage configured to store a content list based on the search result by the search module and the schedule information and the restrictive conditions from the second device such that the content list can be acquired as a schedule list to be used by the second device for the automatic recording. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365474 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING CONTENT OVER THE WEB - A system and method for sharing content over the web. The method comprises: receiving a request from a user via a first user device to share at least one content item with at least a second user device, the request includes at least a search term related to the at least one content item; determining an intent of the user respective of the at least a search term in the received request; searching for at least one web source capable of providing the at least one content item, wherein the search is performed using the determined user intent and the at least a search term; generating a dynamic folder; and storing, in the dynamic folder, the at least one content item provided by the search. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140372410 | UPPER BOUNDS FOR MATCHING - Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage media are provided for refining results. In order to display accurate counts for refinements, an upper bound may be assigned to the refinements such that one the upper bound is reached, counts no longer need to be generated for that refinement. This allows for more accurate counting of all of the refinements if dominating refinements are limited at an upper bound. Once the upper bound is reached, the refinement is no longer counted and the remaining time allowed to count refinements is utilized to count the remaining refinements. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372411 | ON-THE-FLY ENCODING METHOD FOR EFFICIENT GROUPING AND AGGREGATION - Embodiments include a method and computer program product for encoding data while it is being processed as part of a query is provided. The method includes receiving a query request and determining a set of values associated with data to be encoded for completing the query request. The method also includes encoding those values such that any subsequent processing operations can be performed on the encoded values to complete the requested query. After performing the subsequent processing operations to complete the requested query, each value is decoded back to its original value. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372412 | DYNAMIC FILTERING SEARCH RESULTS USING AUGMENTED INDEXES - Methods and systems for using dynamic filtering for searching content items in augmented indexes are provided. A search query is received. The search query is associated with a sort attribute whose order is different from the implicit ordering of content items within the augmented indexes. A plurality of search query elements for the search query is identified. The plurality of search query elements includes the sort attribute having one or more attribute-range-elements each associated with an attribute-range of the sort attribute. An augmented index for searching the query elements is referenced. The augmented index comprises the one or more attribute-range-elements that map to one or more content items having an attribute-value in the attribute-range of the one or more attribute-range elements. Matching content items that satisfy the search query are identified based on selecting matching content items in the augmented index and dynamically filtering the matching content items into a matched-group using the one or more attribute-range-elements. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372413 | READING OBJECT QUERIES - Disclosed herein are a system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and method for responding to a query having a plurality of input objects. A subgraph based on a main graph of objects is used to generate a list of objects associating the input objects. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372414 | Multiple Parameter Graphical Display System and Method - A network based system for comparing options resulting from a query, the system comprising a computer accessible from at least one remote location, the computer being configured to provide a user interface, the user interface being capable of receiving query related information from the remote location. The computer is further capable of performing a query related to the query related information, and determine query results representing a plurality of options relating to the query, and form a representation graph representing the plurality of options, the representation graph having a plurality of data points, each data point representing at least one of the plurality of options, wherein the relative location of a data point within the presentation graph is determined in relation to the location of at least one other data point, the relation representing at least one parameter of the option, and to display the presentation graph. Optionally the systems displays additional information related to an option in response to mouse-hover, and activates a hyperlink when a data point is asserted. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372415 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING AND DELIVERING ENRICHED CONTENT - Methods, systems and programming for providing content. In one example, a request for content is received from a user. One or more parameters associated with a platform on which the requested content is to be presented are obtained. A plurality pieces of addition content are obtained based on the requested content or information associated with the user. Each piece of the addition content is associated with a user engagement metric. A layout of an enriched content page is determined based on the one or more parameters. The layout of the enriched content page includes one or more slots for presenting content. One or more pieces of the additional content are assigned to the one or more slots based on the user engagement metric. The enriched content page including the requested content and the one or more pieces of the additional content is transmitted to the platform. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372416 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RAPID DELIVERY OF TIERED METADATA - In one embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a set of alphanumeric information on a single storage device. First, second and third sets of metadata that are different from each other and that are associated with different subsets of the alphanumeric information are generated by processing the alphanumeric information using first, second, and third criteria, respectively. The first set of metadata is transmitted to a user computer at a first time, the second set of metadata is transmitted to the user computer at a second time subsequent to the first time, and the third set of metadata is transmitted to the user computer at a third time subsequent to the second time. The first, second, and/or third sets of metadata can cause the automated transmission of an alert. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372417 | Method and System for Auditing Processes and Projects for Process Improvement - The present invention provides for tracking time spent on various activities in a software development project by one or more users working on the project. The present invention also stores this data to derive metrics and best practices. The metrics and best practices are compared with project data to analyze the current status of the project and to estimate the completion timeframe for the current project. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372418 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING NON-STANDARD-COMPLIANT IMAGES - Provided is a method of converting a medical image used in a network at a patient care facility, the network including an enterprise network storage solution optionally dedicated for storing medical images in a standardized medical imaging format that are to be retrieved over the network. The method includes us a computer system to search a portable computer-readable medium for an indication that the medical image is stored in a proprietary format on the portable computer-readable medium. The proprietary format of the medical image is identified, using the computer system, based on the indication. The medical image is converted into a format that is compliant with a standardized medical-imaging format, transmitted in the standardized medical-imaging format to be: (i) subsequently displayed by a display device without requiring prior storage of the medical image in an enterprise storage solution for medical images, and/or (ii) stored in the enterprise storage solution. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140379694 | Electronic Search Interface Technology - Techniques are described for displaying a representation of a list of electronic search results while a user is reviewing content linked to by electronic search results included in the list. While the user is reviewing the search results, the user may jump between content linked to by different search results using the representation of the list of electronic search results displayed. The displayed representation of the list of search results may be updated based on the user's browsing activities in reviewing the search results, user input manipulating the list of search results, and supplemental information added to the list of search results by the user. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379695 | SEARCHING DATA USING PRE-PREPARED SEARCH DATA - Methods and devices for searching are described. In one aspect, the method includes: receiving a search query; identifying a search data file associated with a third party application, the search data file being prepared according to predetermined format rules by the third party application, and stored, prior to receiving the search query; searching, at least a portion of the search data file using the search query to identify information that matches the search query; using the predetermined format rules to identify associated information in the search data file, the associated information being related to the information that matches the search query; obtaining search results from at least one other source; and generating a display of search results based on both the information matching the search query and the associated information, the display including the search results from the at least one other source. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379696 | Personal Search Result Identifying A Physical Location Previously Interacted With By A User - Methods and apparatus for generating, in response to a search query of a user, a personal search result that identifies a physical location previously interacted with by the user, such as a physical location previously visited by the user. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for determining whether a search query is a personal locational query indicating a desire for information related to one or more physical locations previously interacted with by the user. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for determining search parameters for such a personal locational query. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for searching private content of the user to determine physical locations previously interacted with by the user that are responsive to such a personal locational query. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for generating personal search results that identify determined physical locations previously interacted with by the user. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379697 | Performing Cross-Tabulation Using a Columnar Database Management System - Cross tabulation operation is performed within a columnar database management system. The columnar database management system receives a request to perform a cross-tabulation operation on a set of database tables. The columnar database management system determines values of cross tabulation operation for each row of the result. The columnar database management system determines a domain for each value of the row dimension corresponding to a row combination. The columnar database management system determines an intersection set of the domains corresponding to values of the row dimensions for the row combination. The columnar database management system determines a value for the result column for the row combination as an aggregate value based on the records of the intersection set. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379698 | Method for Document Assembly with Margin, Page Size, and Font Controls By County and Document - A system and method, using a computer or computer program, to calculate and determine certain document features, such as paper/page size, document margins, font styles, font weight, and font sizes, that are applied to a document or form generated or managed by a system. The calculation and/or determination of the document features is made pursuant to a system and method, using a computer or computer program, of associating the document feature elements with certain characteristics of the document or form being created or managed by the system, of which the characteristics may include, but are not limited to, associations with certain counties, destination recording offices or filing locations, and document types. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379699 | USER INTERFACE FOR RELATING ENTERPRISE INFORMATION WITH PUBLIC INFORMATION USING A PRIVATE USER PROFILE AND SCHEMA - Methods, systems, and computer program product for forming relationships between enterprise data and publically-accessible information are disclosed. Embodiments commence upon accessing a private user profile from a private data area and determining a role and/or access privilege from the user profile. The user profile is used to form queries, and to retrieve enterprise data from an enterprise data repository. Aspects of retrieved enterprise data are then used to determine at least one public information source, from which is retrieved at least some publically-accessible information to be combined with information from the enterprise data repository and displayed to a user. Portions of the retrieved enterprise data are presented in a first display area and portions of the publically-accessible information are displayed in a proximal second display area. Relationships between information from the enterprise data repository and the publically-accessible information are formed. Structured data and unstructured data are combined in the display. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379700 | SMART DEFAULTS FOR DATA VISUALIZATIONS - Smart defaults are provided for data visualization by creating a default layout of rows, columns, filters, and comparable elements that improve a user's experience in finding relevant answers within the data. Usage history of the ways that users look at data in various data sources, user specific information, and inferred relationships between a current user and similar users are used to determine elements relevant to visualization of data for a particular user such that the visualization process may be automatically started, and a relevance model is formed/adjusted based on these factors. Queries may also be executed in a preemptive fashion based on the relevance model and results provided to a requesting user more rapidly enhancing user experience with networked data visualization. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379701 | CHRONOLOGY PROVIDING METHOD, CHRONOLOGY PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING CHRONOLOGY PROVIDING PROGRAM - A method for providing chronologic information that is generated by placing one or more pieces of related information according to information about elapsed time is provided. The method includes the steps of obtaining, by an obtaining unit, (i) basic information associating pieces of the related information with the information about time indicating positions on the chronologic information and (ii) information indicating a display form of the chronologic information; and providing, by a control unit, the chronologic information to a user by displaying the chronologic information in a display unit based on the information indicating a display form of the chronologic information by using the basic information. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150012524 | USING MODELS FOR TRIGGERING PERSONAL SEARCH - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a search query from a user, accessing a user model that is specific to the user and that includes one or more n-grams, one or more terms of the n-grams being associated with one or more annotations, the annotations indicating at least one context in which each of the one or more terms have been used, determining a user intent for the search query based on comparing one or more terms in the search query with the terms of n-grams in the user model, and receiving search results that are responsive to the search query, the search results being specific to the user intent. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150012525 | SELECTING IMAGES ASSOCIATED WITH CONTENT RECEIVED FROM A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER - A composer interface allows a user to provide input, such as text data, to the social networking system. One or more images may be presented to the user via the composer interface, allowing the user to select one or more images to associate with the input. The images presented to the user may be selected based on associations of images with similar input by social networking system users. For example, images that a threshold number of users have associated with similar input are presented via the composer interface. If the user selects an image to associate with the input, the social networking system presents the selected image along with the received input in a content item presented to other social networking system users. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150012526 | Method and System for Limiting Database Access Results - A method includes generating a request for data sets in a database via a user interface, modifying the request as a function of a number, n, of data sets visible in the user interface, sending the modified request to the database for execution, and receiving n data sets from the database responsive to the modified request to display on the user interface. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150012527 | USER INTERFACE FOR RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVE SEARCH QUERIES - Alternative search queries are provided by: determining alternative search paths for terms in a current search query; receiving a user selection of one or more terms in the current search query; providing a graphical display of one or more alternative search paths for the selected terms; receiving a user selection of at least a portion of one of the alternative search paths to be a new search query; and displaying search results for the new search query. The new search query may then become the current search query, and the determining of the alternative search paths, the receiving of the user selection of the one or more terms in the current search query, and the providing of the graphical display of alternative search paths for the selected terms are performed for the new search query as the current search query. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150012528 | SEARCHING, REVIEWING, COMPARING, MODIFYING, AND/OR MERGING DOCUMENTS - Review, comparison, modification, and/or merging of multiple sources of data associated with media content are facilitated. Multiple documents can be simultaneously reviewed with a base document, and the changes or differences associated therewith can be flexibly reviewed, compared, accepted, and/or rejected to efficiently generate a new document having the changes or differences merged. Documents can be reviewed compared, modified, and/or merged based on sections of the base document. Efficient and selective search-and-replace of data associated with media content in files of various data sources or locations is thus enabled for a wide array of document tasks. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150012529 | PIVOT FACETS FOR TEXT MINING AND SEARCH - Provided are techniques for providing and using pivot facets for text mining and search. A metadata field is mapped to a pivot facet. In response to executing a first query, at least a first document and the pivot facet are displayed. In response to selection of the pivot facet, a second query that includes a value of the metadata field is generated, and the second query is executed to locate at least a second document that includes the value of the metadata field. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150019531 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SITUATIONAL CONTEXT FOR BIG DATA - Described is a method and apparatus for constructing a boundary comprising a set of contextual square quadrangles. Also described is a method and apparatus for searching a set of contextual square quadrangles. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019532 | IMAGE SEARCHING SCHEME - In one example embodiment, a server includes a database configured to store a plurality of images along with keywords and object characteristics of respective ones of a plurality of objects displayed in the plurality of images; a receiver configured to receive a query from an end device; an image detector configured to find, from the database, one or more images that correspond to the received query, based on the keywords; and an image provider configured to provide, to the end device, the found one or more images in descending order of the object characteristics stored along with the one or more images. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019533 | SYSTEM, METHODS, & APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING AN ACCIDENT SCENE RESCUE, EXTRACTION AND INCIDENT SAFETY SOLUTION - Described herein are methods and systems for implementing an accident scene rescue, extrication, and incident safety solution. In one embodiment, such means include receiving vehicle identification information; querying a database based at least in part on the received vehicle identification information to determine a vehicle type; retrieving associated data based on the determined vehicle type; and presenting the associated data to a user interface and causing the user interface to display at least the determined vehicle type, a navigation menu, and at least a sub-set of the associated data retrieved based on the determined vehicle type. Other related embodiments are further described. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019534 | RELATIONSHIP SERIALIZATION AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR ENTITIES - Systems and methods that enable relationship information to be carried along with the entity when serializing/deserializing entities among application tiers. A tracking component tracks information on relationships associated with an entity, and further enables users to perform subsequent change processing on the entity's relationship information. Accordingly, relationship information can be carried along with the entity such that database operation can be performed without requirement of additional information from the database (e.g., foreign key information that is part of associated graphs). | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019535 | System, Method, and Data Structure for Automatically Generating Database Queries Which Are Data Model Independent and Cardinality Independent - Systems and methods are provided for performing a query in a distributed system. In one example, a query generation system receives an identification of data item components and associations between the data item components, wherein the data item components include a measure and a category, and wherein the identified association indicates that the measure is independent of another data item component, indicates that the measure is dependent on another data item component, or indicates that two or more data item components are correlated. The query generation system creates and executes a database query for retrieving data item components, wherein the database query includes a first Uquery, wherein the first Uquery includes a Mx segment subquery and a U0 segment subquery, wherein the Mx segment subquery is associated with a table that contains the measure, a table that contains columns for a calculated measure, or a correlated table, and wherein the U0 segment subquery is associated with a table that contains the category, a table that contains columns for a calculated category, a dependent measure table, or a dependent filter table. In another example, the query generation system generates a virtual results table by aggregating the Uquery results from one Uquery with Uquery results from another Uquery and reports the virtual results table. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019536 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING DEMOGRAPHIC DATA - A computer implemented method of generating an ordered list of geographical locations having similarities in preselected categories relative to a first geographical location. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019537 | Generating Reports from Unstructured Data - The disclosure relates to certain system and method embodiments for generating reports from unstructured data. In one embodiment, a method can include identifying events matching criteria of an initial search query (each of the events including a portion of raw machine data that is associated with a time), identifying a set of fields, each field defined for one or more of the identified events, causing display of an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) that includes one or more interactive elements enabling a user to define a report for providing information relating to the matching events (each interactive element enabling processing or presentation of information in the matching events using one or more fields in the identified set of fields), receiving, via the GUI, a report definition indicating how to report information relating to the matching events, and generating, based on the report definition, a report including information relating to the matching events. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019538 | Local Client Database for Remote Support - A computerized method and system to communicate information between a supported client computer and a remote support organization have been described. At the supported client computer, status information, generated by one or more client applications when executing on the supported client computer, may be retrieved. The status information may be stored in a client database on the supported client computer. A first client database definition for a client data item may be mapped to a first tag, the first client database definition may be associated with the client database and the client data item may include the status information. A client message document including the first tag may be communicated to a support server of the remote support organization. The status information may be stored in, and retrieved from, the client database via a functional abstraction layer comprising one or more customized application program interfaces (API). | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150026155 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SEARCH RESULTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus to constrain a search are described. A selection of one or more items of a search result set by a user may be obtained. One or more attributes of the one or more selected items may be evaluated. One or more filters are identified based on the evaluated attributes. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026156 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING THE RETAIL SHOPPING EXPERIENCE ONLINE - Systems and methods of the present disclosure can facilitate selecting a search result. In some embodiments, the system includes a server. The server can be configured to access a data structure, storing product descriptions describing products in a retail store. The server can be configured to store an image including visual representations of the products. The server can be configured to associate image segments with the product descriptions, the segments including the visual representations. The server can be configured to associate classifications with the product descriptions. The server can be configured to display, responsive to input from a user, the image. The server can be configured to select, responsive to input from the user, the search result from the product descriptions. The server can be configured to order the search result, based on the classifications and the image segments associated with the product descriptions selected by the search result. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026157 | CONTEXTUAL SEARCH BY A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - Contextual search by a mobile communications device is described. In an implementation, a search query is a received and a context is detected of a user interface currently being displayed on a display device of a mobile communication device. One or more search results are displayed on a display device of a search performed in the detected context using the search query. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026158 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND SOFTWARE FOR UNIFIED ANALYTICS ENVIRONMENTS - Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for a unified analytics environment. In a particular embodiment, a method provides, handling a plurality of relational functions within a relational analytics environment. The method further provides, while handling the plurality of relational functions, encountering at least one graph function that comprises a query intended for a graph analytics environment. The method further provides, in response to encountering the at least one graph function, communicating with the graph analytics environment to handle the at least one graph function. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026159 | Digital Resource Set Integration Methods, Interfaces and Outputs - Retrieving information from an informational resource is described. A system can include: a computer processor(s); display device(s) operatively coupled with the processor(s); searchable database(s) including at least a portion of an informational resource broken into a plurality of discrete finite elements and a respective plurality of categorical tags respectively describing content for each of the plurality of discrete finite elements, where the informational resource includes at least three levels of granularity for the information, from a shallow level of granularity to a deep level of granularity. A search querry can be executed and the corresponding results displayed based on a requested level of granularity. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026160 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING QUERIES AND ACTIONS - A virtual database system including multiple independent database servers is disclosed. The virtual database system uses a unified interface to query multiple independent databases, and the multiple independent database servers include appliances, general servers, etc. The system preferably includes a packet-based network, and a number of physically separated, independent database servers coupled to the network, | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026161 | Enhanced E-Book and Enhanced E-book Reader - An enhanced e-book. The enhanced e-book can include a source file of a base work stored in memory of an electronic device for storing and displaying an electronic document. The source file can include at least one searchable term and the electronic device can also having stored in the memory supplemental information created to supplement the at least one searchable term. The supplemental information can be in an electronically remote file and can be displayed upon displaying search results for the searchable term. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026162 | PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR VISUAL CAPTURE DATA FROM A RENDERED DOCUMENT - A facility for navigating an electronic document is described. The facility receives user input selecting a portion of the content of a rendered document that constitutes a sentence fragment. In response to receiving the user input, the facility identifies an electronic document contained in a corpus of electronic documents, the identified electronic document containing the selected document portion. In response to receiving the user input, the facility further identifies a position within the identified electronic document at which the selected document portion occurs. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150032724 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTO-SUGGESTING RESPONSES BASED ON SOCIAL CONVERSATIONAL CONTENTS IN CUSTOMER CARE SERVICES - A first embodiment of the disclosure relates to a method for responding to a message posted in a social media stream. The method includes monitoring a social media site for at least one message including select subject matter. In response to identifying a message, the method includes collecting a series of exchanges that form a conversational thread including the message. The method includes determining at least one content attribute of the message. The method includes classifying the message using at least one key attribute. The method includes searching a database for a reference message using a combination of the at least one content and key attributes. The method includes determining a previous outcome of a reference thread including the reference message. The method includes using the previous outcome for determining a course of action. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032725 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT DATA INGESTION AND QUERY PROCESSING - A query may be provided to aggregators at hierarchical levels in an in-memory data storage module. The query may be provided to leaf nodes of the in-memory data storage module. The leaf nodes may execute the query, returning results of the query to the aggregators. One or more aggregations may be performed based on the results. In an embodiment, log entries associated with a logged event may be serialized and divided into distributed chunks for storage in the leaf nodes. A leaf node, from the leaf nodes, having storage capacity for a distributed chunk may be identified. The distributed chunk may be stored in the leaf node. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032726 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING MISSING DATA IN QUERY RESULTS - Techniques provided herein allow for estimating data missing in query results provided in response to queries performed on data managed by a data management system. In the event that one or more leaf nodes are unable or unavailable to process a query, a final query result provided in response to the original query may be missing data that exists on those leaf nodes. A data accounting service monitors what managed data is being stored on the leaf nodes and on what leaf node. The data accounting service can estimate how much data is missing from a final query result when one or more of the leaf nodes are unable or unavailable to process a query. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032727 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - Related ingredient names are extracted from ingredient names included in recipes while reducing the time and effort of a person. An information processing apparatus acquires one or more ingredient names included in each of one or more recipes included in one division of a plurality of divisions of recipes. Next, on the basis of an ordinal number of presentation of each of the acquired ingredient names in an ingredient list in the recipe, the information processing apparatus calculates a value indicating a probability that the ingredient name is a name of a main ingredient of the recipe belonging to the one division for each of the ingredient names. Then, the information processing apparatus associates a plurality of the ingredient names, among the acquired ingredient names, whose calculated values satisfy a predetermined condition with each other as related terms and stores the plurality of the ingredient names in a storage means. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032728 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING A SET OF SEARCH RESULTS - In a particular embodiment, a system includes an interface responsive to a network to receive data related to a first document and includes processing logic and memory accessible to the processing logic. The memory stores a plurality of modules executable by the processing logic to recursively retrieve documents, extract directed links and attributes, and traverse the directed links to identify a first set of search results. The plurality of modules includes a search module to retrieve one or more documents and includes an attribute extraction module to extract directed links and other attributes from the one or more documents. The plurality of modules further includes a backward/forward link traversal module to bi-directionally traverse directed links to identify documents and includes a graphical user interface (GUI) module to generate a GUI including data related to the first set of search results and to provide the GUI to a destination device via the network. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032729 | MATCHING SNIPPETS OF SEARCH RESULTS TO CLUSTERS OF OBJECTS - Systems and methods are provided for matching snippets of search results to clusters of objects. A system searches information based on objects in a cluster of objects. The system extracts a data snippet from the search results. The system determines whether the data snippet includes data that matches at least one of the objects in the cluster of objects. The system adds the data snippet to the cluster of objects if the data snippet includes data that matches at least one of the objects in the cluster of objects. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032730 | Data Analysis Engine - A system and method of analyzing data receives a user-specified selection of a data source, a user-specified selection of a type of data representation, and a user-specified description of a view to be constructed in accordance with the user-specified selection of the type of data representation. An application program interface (API) function generates a multidimensional query based on the user-specified type of data representation and the user-specified description of the view to be constructed, and submits the multidimensional query to the an On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP) server. The application program interface (API) function receives a multidimensional response from the OLAP server containing results acquired by the multidimensional query of the data source, and generates the view based on the results contained in the multidimensional response and in accordance with the user-specified selection of the type of data representation and the user-specified description of the view. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032731 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus in which information pieces indicating a plurality of service providers that can provide specific services are registered in advance includes: a selection unit for selecting some of the plurality of information pieces displayed by a display unit in accordance with an instruction of a user, and an access unit. The information pieces selected by the selection unit include a plurality of information pieces which each indicate a service provider that can provide an individual specific service. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032732 | CLASSIFICATION ENGINE FOR DATA PACKET CLASSIFICATION - Static packet classification engine ( | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032733 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING QUERY RESULTS IN A FAULT-TOLERANT DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A redundant array of independent nodes are networked together. Each node executes an instance of an application that provides object-based storage. Metadata objects are stored in a set of regions distributed among the nodes across the array. A given region is identified by hashing a metadata object attribute and extracting a given set of bits of a resulting hash value. A method of managing query results comprises: receiving, by a first node of the plurality of independent nodes from a client application, a request for a list of objects with a criterion; issuing by the first node a query to all the nodes based on the received request; processing the query by each node over the regions in the node using the metadata objects stored in the regions; aggregating and filtering by the first node results of the query from all the nodes; and returning by the first node the aggregated and filtered results to the client application. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032734 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR 3D DISPLAY AND ANALYSIS OF DISPARATE DATA - The system provides a method and apparatus for sorting and displaying collections of communications. These communications can be a single type or multiple types of data and may come from email systems, bulletin boards, text messages, Facebook and Twitter postings and comments, financial transactions, travel itineraries or any other type of communications. The communications represented by the system can be electronic or physical as desired. The system can also present forwarded, copied, replied, or other types of communications. In one embodiment, the system provides a Universe View of a set of communications. The Universe View, in one embodiment, is a three dimensional representation of a plurality of cubes. Each cube represents a subset of a collection of communications. Each cube can be color coded or shaded to represent a dominant theme of the contents of the communications represented by the cube. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032735 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR MAPPING DIRECTIONS BETWEEN SEARCH RESULTS - A method includes: displaying a map, a first field configured to receive a first query input, and a second field configured to receive a second query input; receiving the first query input in the first field; receiving the second query input in the second field; initiating a search that uses the first query input and a search that uses the second query input; concurrently displaying on the map a first plurality of search results for the first query input and a second plurality of search results for the second query input; detecting selection of a first search result in the first plurality of search results; detecting selection of a second search result in the second plurality of search results; and displaying a route on the map from the first search result to the second search result. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032736 | DIRECT SERVICE LAUNCH ON A SECOND DISPLAY - Apparatus and methods to implement a technique for using a second display with a network-enabled television. In one implementation, this feature allows the native application on the second display to directly launch the second display application with a requested search term so that the user is immediately brought to a search page with relevant search results. The search term may be derived from the native application which in turn derives from the context of the IP TV. Such a context could be metadata from a currently playing BD from a BD player or TV channel. The second display application may be a web application or a native remote controller application. The second display could be a smart phone that can often be found beside the user, or a laptop or tablet PC, a desktop PC, or the like. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150039589 | SELECTING CONTENT BASED ON ENTITIES PRESENT IN SEARCH RESULTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium for providing content to a user. A method includes: receiving a query; receiving query results based on the query; determining for each of a predetermined number of top results entities associated therewith; using the determined entities to either augment or filter the query producing an enhanced query; and using the enhanced query to identify one or more sponsored content items for presentation to a user along with the query results. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039590 | TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A terminal including a display unit configured to display a search screen for entering a search keyword; and a controller configured to retrieve information associated with the entered search keyword, display a preset number of graphic images representing search result information extracted from the retrieved information on the display unit, display the search result information-of a corresponding graphic image on the display unit in response to a first input, and change the corresponding graphic image to another graphic image representing other search result information extracted from the retrieved information in response to a second inp | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039591 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROLIFERATING TESTING DATA - Embodiments of the present invention provide information processing systems and methods for proliferating testing data based on sample testing data. In one embodiment, a difference is determined by comparing a desired query result to a query result acquired by executing a query statement on sample testing data. Sample testing data can then be proliferated based, at least in part, on the difference and data generation constraint conditions. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039592 | Apparatus and Method for Automatically Creating a Multimedia Presentation from Evaluated Content - A method executed by a processor under the control of instructions includes ingesting content including textual content and numeric content. Concepts associated with the textual content are mapped to images. Visualizations corresponding to the numeric content are created. A presentation of the content that includes the images and visualizations is supplied. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039593 | PRE-DELIVERY OF CONTENT TO A USER DEVICE - Systems and methods for delivering content to user devices before the content is selected or requested (e.g., a pre-delivery of content) are described. In some embodiments, the system and methods receive, from a content server, information associated with content items available for retrieval from the content server and associated with one or more applications resident on a user device, select a subset of content items from the content items available for retrieval to deliver to the user device based on content usage information associated with the user device, and cause the user device to retrieve at least a portion of the selected subset of content items from the content server. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039594 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PHOTOGRAPH FINDING - Digital image data including discrete photographic images of a variety of different subjects, times, and so forth, are collected and analyzed to identify specific features in the photographs. In an embodiment of the invention, distinctive markers are distributed to aid in the identification of particular subject matter. Facial recognition may also be employed. The digital image data is maintained in a database and quarried in response to search requests. The search requests include criteria specifying any feature category or other identifying information, such as date, time, and location that each photograph was taken, associated with each photograph. Candidate images are provided for review by requesters, who may select desired images for purchase or downloading. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039595 | INFORMATION ARCHIVAL AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR INTERNETWORKED COMPUTERS - A computing system can archive information from internetworked computers, such as Internet content, for later retrieval. A server system processes content providers, such as DNS registries and web sites, to extract and store content, including text, image, audio, and video content. For web sites, HTML source code is stored along with a browser-rendered display file. The content is perpetually archived to create a historical record of information for each content provider. An interface is used to retrieve the archived content in response to queries. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150046431 | SEARCHING MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES - A computer implemented method for searching data in a plurality of data sources is described. At a host system, a request to search a local data source is received. The request is associated with a user account of the local data source. The request is processed to determine one or more third party data sources associated with the user account. Local search parameters associated with the local data source and third party search parameters associated with the one or more third party data sources are dynamically assembled. The local search parameters and the third party search parameters are transmitted to a client device for display. A host system comprising a processor and memory storing instructions for implementing the method is also described. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046432 | PERFORMING A DYNAMIC SEARCH OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED RECORDS BASED ON A SEARCH TERM FORMAT - Arrangements described herein related to performing a dynamic search. A search term can be received and a format of the search term can be identified. Based on the identified format of the search term, a field of a plurality of records can be selected to search, the field having a format matching the identified format of the search term. The field can be searched to identify at least a first of the plurality of records that at least partially matches the search term. At least a portion of at least the first of the plurality of records that at least partially matches the search term can be presented to a user. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046433 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND THE METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display, an input unit configured to receive a handwriting trace, in response to a user handwriting being performed at a remote control apparatus; a detector configured to determine text corresponding to the handwriting trace; and a controller configured to search for an item corresponding to the text, classify the item into a plurality of categories, and control the display to display the item on the display. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046434 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OFFERING QUERY RECOMMENDATIONS - A mobile device and a method for offering query recommendations on the basis of a background application are provided. In the method, the mobile device analyzes the background application when a search window is activated. Then the mobile device receives a search query entered in the search window, compares the received search query with information about the analyzed background application, and derives the query recommendations for the received search query, based on a result of the comparing. When a user's input for selecting one of the query recommendations is received, the mobile device displays the selected query recommendation in the search window. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046435 | Method and System Utilizing a Personalized User Model to Develop a Search Request - A method and system for developing a computer-executable query relating to a search request issued by a user includes determining whether a search term of the search request has a user-specific meaning, connotation, context, or association based on an analysis of electronic content associated with the user and/or an analysis of interactions of the user with electronic content that is accessible to the user through one or more computing devices. If the search term has a user-specific meaning, connotation, context, or association, the method and system can incorporate the user-specific meaning, connotation, context, or association into the search request and/or the computer-executable query. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150052114 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTONOMOUS MEMORY SEARCHING - Methods and systems operate to receive a plurality of search requests for searching a database in a memory system. The search requests can be stored in a FIFO queue and searches can be subsequently generated for each search request. The resulting plurality of searches can be executed substantially in parallel on the database. A respective indication is transmitted to a requesting host when either each respective search is complete or each respective search has generated search results. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052115 | QUERY RESPONSE USING MEDIA CONSUMPTION HISTORY - Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a natural language query of a user, and environmental data, identifying a media item based on the environmental data, determining an entity type based on the natural language query, selecting an entity associated with the media item that matches the entity type, selecting, from a media consumption database that identifies media items that have been indicated as consumed by the user, one or more media items that have been indicated as consumed by the user and that are associated with the selected entity, and providing a response to the query based on selecting the one or more media items that have been indicated as consumed by the user and that are associated with the selected entity. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052116 | SEARCHING AND CLASSIFYING INFORMATION ABOUT GEOGRAPHIC OBJECTS WITHIN A DEFINED AREA OF AN ELECTRONIC MAP - Provided are a method, computer program product and system for classifying and displaying information. A boundary within an electronic map is determined, based on a drawn closed shape. At least one geographic object, at least partially within the boundary, is identified. Each geographic object is representable by one or more geographic coordinates. A search is performed, on an external data source, for unstructured information associated with the at least one geographic object and a plurality of search results are received. The plurality of search results are classified and displayed according to a user topic of interest. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052117 | SEARCH RESULTS WITH COMMON INTEREST INFORMATION - Disclosed herein are an electronic device and method of providing relevant search results to queries. Identification information of at least one remote electronic device having activity history stored therein that is relevant to the search query is obtained. Common interest member information comprising the activity history and the identification information is displayed. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052118 | PERSONALIZED SEARCH RESULT SUMMARY - Provided are techniques for displaying a personalized search result summary for a search result. A search result from executing a search query is received. A category of search for the search query is determined. A summary template is selected from a collection of summary templates based on the category of search. A personalized summary is generated using the selected summary template and the received search result. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052119 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION QUERYING - Methods and systems for information querying are described. At least one recent image of a video signal may be accessed. Recent text associated with the at least one recent image may be accessed. A presentation image may be provided from the at least one recent image for presentation on a display. An original portion of the recent text may be identified within the presentation image. A selection of a user portion of the recent text may be received. An information source may be queried with the selection of the user portion of the recent text. The information source may be capable of using the selection to provide a result. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150058317 | System and Method for Implementing a 64 Bit Data Searching and Delivery Portal - A system and method for searching and presenting data may include receiving a search request, storing data in an in memory database, accessing that data by one or more 64 bit processors, determining exact or approximate matches among the data to the search request, building a machine-readable data file including the search results, and serving the data file to a user's machine, where it is visible through a portal interface, which may be local or remotely served to the user's machine. The system may employ 64 bit technology in order to access and serve significant amounts of information, including mappings between code set and other data that may include mappings to one or more code sets. The system also may employ raw TCP/IP sockets to reduce latency and increase search speed. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058318 | Control for Persistent Search Results and Iterative Searching - An embodiment of the invention provides a method for control for persistent search results and iterative searching where a query from a user is received via a web browser and a web search for the query is performed with a processor. Search results of the web search are displayed in a toolbar of the web browser, wherein at least one of the search results in the toolbar includes a refinement option. The refinement option can include a show me more like this refinement option and/or a show me less like this refinement option. A selected refinement option is received from the user with a user interface; and, refined search results are displayed in the toolbar based on the selected refinement option. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058319 | ACTION SUPPORT APPARATUS, ACTION SUPPORT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an action support apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a user, a support content deciding unit configured to decide support content for supporting a preference of the user determined on the basis of the information on the user acquired by the acquisition unit, and an execution unit configured to execute the support content in a process according to a level of the preference. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058320 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HYBRID INFORMATION QUERY - Method, system, and programs for hybrid information query. A request is first received from a user associated with a hybrid query. The hybrid query is expressed in accordance with an input in terms of one of a user, a feature, and a document, and a desired hybrid query result in terms of one of a user, a feature, and a document. A mapping is then determined between the input and the desired hybrid query result. A hybrid model is established based on hybrid information collected and associated with one or more users. The mapping is performed based on the hybrid model to obtain the desired hybrid query result based on the input. Eventually, the desired hybrid query result is provided as a response to the hybrid query. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058321 | SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING RESEARCH-TARGETED DOCUMENTS, METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING RESEARCH-TARGETED DOCUMENTS, AND PROGRAM - Information regarding a specific field, such as use information of a substance subject to regulation, is collected from the Web and the like, and an investigation object document enabling efficient investigation while exhausting the information is provided. For this purpose, a use description range is extracted from document information acquired from the Web based on a search word, in which range the use of the substance subject to regulation is described. Then, based on use word dictionary information for managing a keyword regarding the use of the substance subject to regulation, use information regarding the substance subject to regulation is extracted from the use description range. Thereafter, from the document information acquired from the Web based on the search word, a set of documents providing a combination of a minimum number of documents exhausting all of the use information included in all of the documents is extracted as recommended documents. Finally, the extracted use information and the recommended documents are displayed. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058322 | PATHWAY VISUALIZATION FOR CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT - When generating visual representations of gene activity pathways for clinical decision support, a validated pathway database that stores a plurality of validated pathways is accessed, wherein each pathway describes at least one interaction between a plurality of genes. A processor ( | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058323 | Fishing Suggestions - Various implementations described herein are directed to a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, may cause the computer to receive a location, a date, a wind direction, a water temperature, a species, or combinations thereof. The computer may use the location, date, wind direction, water temperature, species, or combinations thereof to retrieve fishing data. The computer may analyze the retrieved fishing data to determine one or more suggested fishing locations. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058324 | Systems and methods of enabling integrated activity scheduling, sharing and real-time social connectivity through an event-sharing platform - Embodiments herein provide for an interactive event-scheduling platform (ESP), wherein locating activities via location data, notifying and alerting of them via real-time feeds and encouraging interaction through a full-service social media suite (SMS), enhanced with live streaming and “always-on” connectivity, could provide a fresh experience for users and hosts. A real-time data procuring system and method may solve problems with stale or incomplete activity data within a geographic area, bridge gaps between users and hosts by shortening time periods—from activity announcement, to discovery, to launch, to response—create buzz, maximize venue attendance, boost sales and ensure promotional success. Software crawlers may mine public Web sites for thorough activity data coverage. Stored activities, profiles and collected user interaction data may produce behavioral reports to increase ROMI. Security packages, installations and access controls may incite users to safely register themselves in the SMS to engage, interact and transact. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058325 | Interactive Display of Search Result Information - A method, system, and processor-readable storage medium are directed towards generating a report derived from data, such as event data, stored on a plurality of distributed nodes. In one embodiment the analysis is generated using a “divide and conquer” algorithm, such that each distributed node analyzes locally stored event data while an aggregating node combines these analysis results to generate the report. In one embodiment, each distributed node also transmits a list of event data references associated with the analysis result to the aggregating node. The aggregating node may then generate a global ordered list of data references based on the list of event data references received from each distributed node. Subsequently, in response to a user selection of a range of global event data, the report may dynamically retrieve event data from one or more distributed nodes for display according to the global order. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058326 | Interactive Display of Aggregated Search Result Information - A method, system, and processor-readable storage medium are directed towards generating a report derived from data, such as event data, stored on a plurality of distributed nodes. In one embodiment the analysis is generated using a “divide and conquer” algorithm, such that each distributed node analyzes locally stored event data while an aggregating node combines these analysis results to generate the report. In one embodiment, each distributed node also transmits a list of event data references associated with the analysis result to the aggregating node. The aggregating node may then generate a global ordered list of data references based on the list of event data references received from each distributed node. Subsequently, in response to a user selection of a range of global event data, the report may dynamically retrieve event data from one or more distributed nodes for display according to the global order. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058327 | Responding to apprehension towards an experience with an explanation indicative of similarity to a prior experience - Described herein are systems, methods, and computer programs for responding to apprehension of a user towards an experience. In some examples, an experience involves content for the user or an activity for the user to participate in. In some embodiments, a first token instance is extracted from an expression of the user that indicates apprehension towards the experience. A prior experience, represented by a second token instance similar to the first token instance, is selected from among prior experiences the user had. Additionally, an affective response the user had to the prior experience reaches a threshold, which implies that the user may remember the prior experience. An explanation of the relevance of the experience to the user, which is indicative of similarity between the first token instance and the second token instance is generated and optionally presented to the user to ameliorate the apprehension. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150066901 | Methods and Systems of Aggregating Information of Geographic Context Regions of Social Networks Based on Geographical Locations Via a Network - In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, devices, methods, and/or processes described can apply searches and/or filters to data of social networks with respect to one or more geographical search regions that intersect respective one or more geographical context regions. One or more social networks can be queried with search and/or filter parameters and one or more geographical context regions, and results received from the social network(s) can be based on the search and/or filter parameter(s) and the geographical context region(s) and presented to a user on a map or other user interface. One or more queries can be saved with their identification(s) of geographical context region(s) and their search and/or filter parameter(s) (e.g. saved queries) can continue to run and/or execute over one or more periods of time transpiring to provide continual and/or periodic reporting. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150066902 | Modifying Search Results Based on Selection of One of the Search Results - Methods and apparatus for modifying search results based selection of one of the search results by a user to whom the search results are presented. Initially provided search results may include at least a first set of search results that are associated with a first entity and a second set of search results that are associated with a second entity. In response to a user selection of one of the search results of the first set, the initial search results may be modified to demote and/or omit those search results of the second set that are not also of the first set. The user may be provided with the modified search results. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150066903 | SECURITY SYSTEM OPERATOR EFFICIENCY - Systems and methods for increasing an efficiency of an operator of a security system are discussed generally herein. A system can include a memory including ontology data saved thereon, the ontology data can define interrelationships between a scanner associated with access to a room of an area under surveillance, a camera with a field of view at least partially overlapping a footprint of the room, an identifier configured to be scanned by the scanner and associated with a person, and a security policy including one or more predefined conditions, which when satisfied, indicate when a security threat exists, the security policy includes a response an operator can perform if the conditions are satisfied, and the system can include a query module configured to receive a query and search the ontology data and temporal and spatial data associated with the area under surveillance in response to receiving the query. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150066904 | INTEGRATING AND EXTRACTING TOPICS FROM CONTENT OF HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES - Examples relate to integrating and extracting topics from content of heterogeneous sources. Observed words are identified in documents, which are received from the heterogeneous sources. Next, document metadata and source metadata are obtained from the heterogeneous sources. The document metadata is used to calculate word topic probabilities for the observed words, and the source metadata is used to calculate source topic probabilities for the observed words. A latent topic is then determined for one of the documents based on the observed words, the word topic probabilities, and the source topic probabilities. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150066905 | PRESENTING A COMBINED SEARCH RESULTS SUMMARY IN A GRAPHICAL VIEW - Provided are a computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for presenting a combined search results summary in a graphical view. Selection of two or more search results are received, wherein each of the two or more search results has an associated search result summary, and wherein each associated search result summary includes one or more entries. Relationships between the one or more entries of each associated search result summary and strengths of the relationships are identified. A graphical view is displayed that shows the one or more entries of each associated search result summary, the relationships, and the strengths of those relationships. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150066906 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED SERVICE USING A SERVER DATABASE - A method for providing location-based service includes the steps of: during browsing of a multimedia file stored in a client device, issuing, using the client device, a database query to a data server to inquire whether the data server stores a place name corresponding to geographic location information of the multimedia file; transmitting, using the data server, the place name to the client device for subsequent display thereon; transmitting, using the data server, a prompt to the client device for prompting input of a new place name; and transmitting, using the client device, the new place name and the geographic location information to the data server for addition into the server database. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150066907 | SEAMLESS PAGINATION - A search engine determines a number of pages to present to a user based on one or more of a variety of factors. The search engine may send the search results to a client machine, which may present a subset of the results along with a pagination control in a scrollable interface. The pagination control may present the number of pages determined by the search engine. The search engine may also determine a number of search results to present prior to the presentation of non-scrollable user interface (UI) elements based on the same or different factors. After the amount of scrolling exceeds a threshold, a non-scrollable UI element may be displayed. Additional thresholds may exist, such that additional non-scrollable UI elements are added as the user continues to scroll. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150066908 | PRESENTING A COMBINED SEARCH RESULTS SUMMARY IN A GRAPHICAL VIEW - Provided are a computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for presenting a combined search results summary in a graphical view. Selection of two or more search results are received, wherein each of the two or more search results has an associated search result summary, and wherein each associated search result summary includes one or more entries. Relationships between the one or more entries of each associated search result summary and strengths of the relationships are identified. A graphical view is displayed that shows the one or more entries of each associated search result summary, the relationships, and the strengths of those relationships. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150066909 | COOKING RECIPE INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, COOKING RECIPE INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - A cooking recipe information providing device includes: a recipe extracting unit ( | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150066910 | Methods of Querying a Relational Database - A computer implemented method of obtaining a dataset which answers a main query from a relational database comprises providing a first real result table and one or more further real result tables. The first real result table contains a first dataset obtained from the database which answers a first subquery that forms part of the main query, and the or each further real result table contains a respective further dataset obtained from the database which answers a respective further subquery that forms part of the main query. A dataset is obtained from the first and one or more further real result tables which answers the main query. The computer implemented method obtains a dataset which answers a main query in a reliable and consistent manner. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150066911 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING UNREGISTERED PHONE NUMBER AND INFORMATION ACQUIRED BY SEARCHING CALL LIST - A method for extracting information associated with connection data in a mobile user terminal includes performing a search for connection data and obtaining connection data and associated information from a search result. Connection data includes any information in the search result that a user can employ to reach an intended target of the search such as a phone number, URI, e-mail address, etc. Associated information corresponding to the connection data is extracted from the search result to form extracted information. The extracted information is transmitted to a controller. The extracted information is reconfigured to a specified format to create formatted extracted information. The formatted extracted information is stored in a database. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150066912 | Building a Social Graph Using Sharing Activity of Users of the Open Web - A social graph is built which includes interactions, sharing activity, and connections between the users of the open Web and can be used to improve ad targeting and content personalization. Sharing activity between two users will affect ads or content that both users will be presented while surfing the Web. This sharing activity includes sending of links, sending of videos, sending of files, cutting and pasting of content, sending text messages, and sending of e-mails. Building of the social graph can include creating an edge in the social graph that is representative of a particular category type. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150066913 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING MULTIMEDIA - A system and method for intelligent content searching is disclosed herein. The system saves all searches executed by the user and periodically re-executes one or more of the previously saved searches and display the subsequent search results to the user at an appropriate time without any user intervention. In one aspect, the system periodically re-executes one or more of the previously saved searches upon the occurrence of a trigger event, which may be trending events, news events, type of menus and/or screens accessed, new content being added on one or more service providers, a boot event, passage of time since last search, etc. In this way, users do not need to set alert or follow any search topic. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150066914 | Search Results Using Density-Based Map Tiles - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a map comprising a plurality of tiles representing a plurality of geographic areas, respectively, where each tile comprises a plurality of objects having locations within the tile, and each tile has below a threshold number of objects located within the tile; receiving a first query from a first user that includes a first location within a first tile; identifying one or more objects corresponding to the first query, where each identified object has a location within the first tile; and generating search results comprising references to one or more of the identified objects. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150074085 | ASSOCIATIVE SEARCH SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A computer system including a memory, at least one processor coupled to the memory, and a search component executable by the at least one processor is provided. The search component is configured to receive information descriptive of at least one search term; execute a first query against a plurality of documents that identifies at least one first document of the plurality of documents responsive to the at least one search term; identify one or more secondary terms associated with the at least one first document based on occurrence of the one or more secondary terms within the at least one first document; and provide a search result including at least one of the one or more secondary terms and one or more identifiers of one or more documents including the one or more secondary terms. The search result may also include one or more identifiers of bookmarked documents. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074086 | HEAT MAP OF SUGGESTED SEARCH QUERIES - A search query portion is received. A plurality of suggested search queries is identified based on the search query portion. Feature values are determined for each of the plurality of suggested search queries based on a feature display preference. A heat map of the suggested search queries is transmitted to a client computer system. The heat map contains a plurality of blocks visually representing the plurality of suggested search queries and the determined feature values. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074087 | System and Method for Retrieving Internet Pages Using Page Partitions - A system for and method for providing pages, more specifically a system includes a server configured to receive a query and an engine that is able to retrieve a set of pages by first retrieving a partition that contains them. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074088 | SHAPE-BASED SEARCH OF A COLLECTION OF CONTENT - Shape-based search of a collection of content associated with one or more images of inventory items (“inventory images”) is enabled at least in part by associating the collection of content and/or its associated inventory images with representative refinement shapes. Inventory items may be grouped into categories and at least one refinement shape may be created for each of the categories. A refinement-shape hierarchy may be created by arranging the refinement shapes into parent and child refinement shapes. Inventory images may be associated to at least one of the refinement shapes of the refinement-shape hierarchy based at least in part on similarities between the refinement shapes and shapes of the inventory items reflected in the inventory images. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074089 | User Interface Features to Manage a Large Number of Files and Their Application to Management of a Large Number of Test Scripts - Improved user interface features to manage a large number of files and their application to management of a large number of test scripts. Various features related to selection of files of interest, locating files matching (or not containing) search strings potentially of several lines, highlighting the occurrences of desired strings in the content of a file, finding and replacing strings of interest potentially of several lines, are disclosed. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074090 | Historical Media Recommendation Service - A media recommendation system for recommending media content that is historically related to seed media content is provided. The recommended media content may be songs, television programs, movies, or a combination thereof, and the seed media content may be a song, television program, or movie. In an embodiment, the system receives information identifying a seed media content, obtains historical information for the seed media content, determines a time window for the seed media content based on the historical information, queries a media content database based on the time window to identify historically related songs associated with media content historically related to the seed media content, and receive a list comprising information identifying the historically related songs. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074091 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR MAP SEARCH - Particular embodiments include a method comprising accessing location data representing a first location of a first user wherein the first location corresponds to geographic coordinates, retrieving image data defining a graphical map from a remote server based on the first location accessing a search query inputted by the first user, retrieving one or more second locations in response to the search query, where the one or more second locations correspond to geographic coordinates, and displaying a first view comprising a list of the one or more second locations overlaying at least a portion of the graphical map, wherein the graphical map includes indicators for the first location and at least one of the one or more second locations in accordance with their respective geographic coordinates. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150081670 | PREFERENCE BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLE FEED AGGREGATION AND PRESENTATION - A computer system for improving the presentation of social media data from multiple social network feeds is provided. The computer system may include aggregating social media content received from the multiple social network feeds. The computer system may also include generating filtered data by eliminating repetitive data from among the received aggregated social media content. The computer system may further include analyzing the filtered data for determining at least one data category and presenting a digest of social media content based on the determined at least one data category. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081671 | Method and Apparatus for Receiving and Processing Media Recommendations - A system includes a processor configured to receive a request to assemble a recommended playlist. The processor is also configured to access one or more user-specified social media sites and obtain posted song recommendations from the one or more social media sites. Also, the processor is configured to assemble the song recommendations into a playlist. The processor is further configured to access a song-providing service and request music on the playlist from the song providing service. The processor is additionally configured to play the requested music. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081672 | AUTOMATIC CONVERSION OF UNITS OF MEASURE DURING DATA STREAM PROCESSING - Data streams are received for processing by a query. The query is associated with expected input data stream types and expected output data stream types. The received data streams are evaluated to determine if they correspond to the expected data stream types. If the received data stream types define data for a physical quantity that is defined in a unit of measure that is not the expected unit of measure, then unit conversion is required. Predefined mappings are utilized for performing required unit conversions and an optimal solution for conversion is determined The unit conversions are performed automatically by unit conversion operators that are integrated within the process of generating of a runnable query. The runnable query is deployed and executed to generate result output streams that match the expected output stream type. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081673 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, PROGRAM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, PROGRAM RECOMMENDATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM RECOMMENDATION PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus including group specifying module configured to specify a cluster group including clusters in content being played back, an access module configured to access a collection of arbitrary cluster groups relevant to the cluster group specified by the group specification module, a search module configured to searching for content specified by a cluster group included in the collection accessed by the access module, and a content presentation module configured to present a result of search by the search module. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081674 | PREFERENCE BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLE FEED AGGREGATION AND PRESENTATION - A method for improving the presentation of social media data from multiple social network feeds is provided. The method may include aggregating social media content received from the multiple social network feeds. The method may also include generating filtered data by eliminating repetitive data from among the received aggregated social media content. The method may further include analyzing the filtered data for determining at least one data category and presenting a digest of social media content based on the determined at least one data category. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081675 | MOBILE AUGMENTED REALITY SEARCH METHOD, CLIENT, SERVER AND SEARCH SYSTEM - A mobile augmented reality search method, client, server and search system are provided. The method includes: a mobile augmented reality server receiving an augmented reality target search request sent from a mobile augmented reality client; according to parameters related to search carried in the augmented reality target search request, the mobile augmented reality server identifying which augmented reality targets need to be recognized and returned; the mobile augmented reality server searching for an augmented reality target which has relationships with the augmented reality targets already searched back; and the mobile augmented reality server sending searched augmented reality target information to the mobile augmented reality client. The disclosure solves the problem in the related art that the search result of a search merely for an object requested is incomplete and achieves a technical effect that more complete information is searched in an AR application, thus, the user is provided with more complete augmented reality information, and the experience of the user in the AR application is enhanced. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081676 | BIOLOGICAL DATA STRUCTURE HAVING MULTI-LATERAL, MULTI-SCALAR, AND MULTI-DIMENSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MOLECULAR FEATURES AND OTHER DATA - A computer system maintains a biological data structure having molecular feature data. The system receives data elements indicating biological molecular features and knowledge elements that represent biological concepts. The system individually associates unique identifiers with the elements. For individual elements, the system maintains an internal element set of the other unique identifiers for the other elements that are directly associated with that one individual element. For the individual elements, the system maintains an external element set of the other unique identifiers for the other elements that have that one individual element in their own internal element sets. Although not required, the computer system may process a query indicating a search scope and a molecular feature for an individual biological entity, and responsively process the molecular feature and the elements based on the search scope to induce a knowledge sub-graph for the individual biological entity. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081677 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL OF DOCUMENTS - A system for the support and management of search for documents is presents. The system includes knowledge-database, query interface and communication to a database of documents to be searched. Information generated during a search session is collected by the system and is added to the knowledge-database. The information is ranked automatically according to the usage of that information by the user. During successive search session, or during search made by other users, the system uses the knowledge-database to support the users with keywords, queries and reference to documents. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081678 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPEECH-BASED INCREMENTAL SEARCH - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for receiving a user's spoken search query that the system will incrementally recognize and identify search terms. After the query has been incrementally recognized, the system will use the search terms to retrieve a portion of the search results that are based on usable identified search terms. As the results are found, the system will then output at least part at least part of the retrieved portion of search results on the display prior to the user concluding his or her search query. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150088859 | CLICK MAGNET IMAGES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying click magnet images. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining selections vector for images. A selection vector for an image can include vector elements that correspond to a unique search query. The value of each vector element can be proportional to a number of selections of image search results that included a representation of the image when the search results were presented in response to the unique search query. The image can be deemed be a click magnet image based at least in part on a first number of selections of image search results that included a representation of the image for search queries categorized as belonging to a set of categories and a total number of selections of image search results that included a representation of the image. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088860 | Location Searching with Category Indices - A map searching system determines locations responsive to a search query. The map searching system parses the search query to generate a set of search tokens and searches a plurality of location category indices using the search tokens. The location category indicies specify indexes of locations according to various location categories, such as points of interest and cross streets. The resulting records selected from the search tokens are scored based on scoring weights specific to the location category index that a record was selected from. After scoring, a number of high-scoring records are selected as the responsive records to the location search. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088861 | Comparison And Merging Of IC Design Data - The proposed approach includes a method and system for managing integrated circuit (IC) design information for multiple data stores. Each data store is split into sections, allowing larger data sets to be compared. Keys are assigned to objects in each data set, in order to determine if objects are added, deleted, or modified between multiple data stores, and also to determine object differences. The user may compare and merge differences between the data stores, using either a graphical or text-based approach. The proposed approach is highly efficient and accurate for large databases. The proposed approach allows the user to easily visualize differences in complex databases and to merge in desired changes easily. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088862 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, SIMILAR CATEGORY IDENTIFICATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - To reduce time and labor in identifying a similar category among a plurality of categories into which objects are classified. Based on a predetermined operation performed by a user with respect to two objects among a plurality of objects classified into some of a plurality of predetermined categories, the information processing system deduces the two objects as comparison targets. Then, based on the number of times at which the two objects are deduced as comparison targets, the information processing system determines two categories into which the two objects are respectively classified as similar categories. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088863 | MATCHING RESULT DISPLAY DEVICE, MATCHING RESULT DISPLAY METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention provides a matching result display device, a matching result display method, a program, and a recording medium, which allow, at the time of displaying feature points of objects determined as matching on the basis of matching result information provided by a matching system, visual check of the displayed feature points to be performed easily. The matching result display device according to the present invention includes: a feature point acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of feature points common to at least two pieces of image data to be matched against each other; a display position setting unit that sets display positions of corresponding symbols to be assigned to the feature points common to the at least two pieces of image data in such a manner that, when the same corresponding symbols are assigned to corresponding feature points, respectively, a display line connecting each feature point and the corresponding symbol assigned thereto on each of the at least two piece of image data does not overlap with display lines connecting other feature points and corresponding symbols assigned thereto, respectively; and a display unit that provides the corresponding symbols at the display positions and displays the feature points and the corresponding symbols assigned thereto in a state where they are connected with display lines, respectively. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088864 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a storage section, a candidate acquiring section configured to acquire candidates of a related term corresponding to an input term, and a related term determining section configured to determine the related term from the candidates of the related term on basis of information stored in the storage section. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088865 | QUERY PROCESSING - A method for query processing includes receiving a query, and determining a query type by determining if the query is a structured query language (SQL) query including multiple distinct aggregates (MDAs), or a SQL query including cube, rollup or grouping sets operations. Based on the determination, the method includes processing the query to generate an output, and performing a predetermined number of maximum group by operations on the output based on the query type to generate a response to the query. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088866 | ACCESSING APPLICATION SERVICES FROM FORMS - A method, system, and computer program product for computer-aided deployment of mobile system apps for accessing enterprise applications. A form field service request originates from a non-native system. The service request comprises at least one form field identifier. The native computer system processes the service request using the form field identifier to identify corresponding forms stored at locations accessible to the native system (e.g., in a database engine). The native computer system processes the service request to map the form field to business logic operations and/or to other actions before delivering the service request to a native application that is configured to process the form field using native business logic. The business logic within the native application produces results from the native application which in turn are sent from the native application to the non-native system. The non-native system comprises any number of mobile devices, smart phones, and/or tablet devices. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088867 | System and Method for Enabling Communication Between Users - A system and method are provided for enabling communication between users. The system comprises a communication system made up of a plurality of users, each user provided with a communication device, and a network server configured with a searchable personal information database, a database searching algorithm, and a communication link with each user's communication device. Users transmit location and personal information from said communication devices to the network server, where it is stored in a personal information database. A user may initiate a search by transmitting search parameters to the network server; the server performs the search and transmits the results back to the first user. The results are displayed on the first user's communication device such that each search result is graphically arranged according to the location of the user corresponding to the search result. A method of graphically displaying a person's personal information is also disclosed. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088868 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING NETWORK AND SECURITY EVENTS VIA SUPERIMPOSING DATA - An integrated network flow and security information management system and method is provided, more particularly, an integrated network flow and security information management system and method which leverages a process of superimposing and cross referencing common events and attributes in order to increase the speed of searches, completeness of searches and size of dataset (flow data). In particular, the process of superimposing may increase the amount of information that can be processed, while accelerating the search, thereby providing the user with more responsive acts of pivoting and scoping leading to a more complete response to network errors and threats. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088869 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING MULTIMEDIA - A system and method for intelligent content searching is disclosed herein. The system saves all searches executed by the user and periodically re-executes one or more of the previously saved searches and display the subsequent search results to the user at an appropriate time without any user intervention. In one aspect, the system periodically re-executes one or more of the previously saved searches upon the occurrence of a trigger event, which may be trending events, news events, type of menus and/or screens accessed, new content being added on one or more service providers, a boot event, passage of time since last search, etc. In this way, users do not need to set alert or follow any search topic. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150095310 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING STATUS UPDATES ASSOCIATED WITH ELEMENTS IN A MEDIA ITEM - An approach is provided for a more efficient and user friendly mechanism for determining and presenting status updates associated with elements in a media item. The approach includes a method for processing and/or facilitating a processing of one or more media items to determine one or more elements present in the one or more media items. The method further includes determining a current status information associated with the one or more elements. The method also includes causing, at least in part, a presentation of one or more representations of the current status information. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095311 | CROWD-POWERED SELF-IMPROVING INTERACTIVE VISUALANALYTICS FOR USER-GENERATED OPINION DATA - Embodiments relate to interacting with a collection of user opinion documents associated with a topic. One aspect includes obtaining opinion data for the collection of opinion documents associated with the topic. The opinion data includes one or more features discussed in the opinion documents, one or more key phrases included in each feature, one or more text snippets included in each feature, and at least one sentiment expressed in each text snippet. A visual interface is provided in which a feature summary view of the opinion documents acts a top level of a navigational hierarchy. The visual interface allows user navigation from the top level to a lower level of the navigational hierarchy in order to display more details about a text snippet, as compared to the feature summary view, while continuing to provide the feature summary view. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095312 | EXTRACTING RELATIONAL DATA FROM SEMI-STRUCTURED SPREADSHEETS - Relational data is extracted from spreadsheets. A relational data extraction program is synthesized, where this synthesized program is consistent with examples of relational data associated with a spreadsheet. The synthesized program is executed on the spreadsheet, which extracts a set of tuples therefrom that is consistent with these examples, and generates a table that includes the extracted set of tuples. A program is received that specifies a set of constraints defining relational data to be extracted from a spreadsheet, where this set of constraints includes cell constraints and spatial constraints. The received program is executed on the spreadsheet, which extracts a set of tuples therefrom that is consistent with the set of constraints, and generates a table that includes the extracted set of tuples. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095313 | COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, APPARATUS AND METHOD - A non-transitory computer-readable medium including a program, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute a process including: referring to data-size information indicating size of data corresponding to a query for acquiring the data stored in a storage, the data-size information and the data being stored in the storage and the data-size information being associated with the data in the storage; specifying an amount of the data corresponding to the query in accordance with the data-size information; and determining whether allows an output of the data corresponding to the query in accordance with the specified amount of the data and a data amount acceptable for the storage. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095314 | DOCUMENT SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a related document search apparatus includes a first acquisition unit, a storage, a search unit, a second acquisition unit, a determination unit and a display. The first acquisition unit acquires a document and first annotation added to the document. The search unit searches for document(s) related to content of a search document from the storage, to acquire searched document(s) as related document(s). The determination unit determines whether the second annotation includes a character. The display displays the search document and the second annotation if the second annotation information includes a character, and to display the search document, the second annotation, and an area of the related document to which the second annotation is added if the second annotation includes no character. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095315 | INTELLIGENT DATA REPRESENTATION PROGRAM - Organizing, visualizing, and manipulating data stored in a database using computer interaction techniques is provided. Motion-aware sensors, multi-touch monitors, and/or user input devices may be used with the various embodiments to allow users to interact with a collection of data comprised of a plurality of datasets in a three-dimensional environment. Using gestures or other selection inputs, a user may select groups of datasets. The selected datasets become a subset of data and inhabit a section of a three-dimensional representation of the collection of data, each dataset represented by an icon in the 3D representation. Subsets may be manipulated and/or annotated separately from the overall collection of data. Toolsets are provided that allow commands made in subsets to apply to the overall collection of data or to the subsets. A billboard toolbox is activated when an icon is selected, providing a text box populated with information about the selected icon. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095316 | Web-Scale Entity Relationship Extraction - Methods and systems for Web-scale entity relationship extraction are usable to build large-scale entity relationship graphs from any data corpora stored on a computer-readable medium or accessible through a network. Such entity relationship graphs may be used to navigate previously undiscoverable relationships among entities within data corpora. Additionally, the entity relationship extraction may be configured to utilize discriminative models to jointly model correlated data found within the selected corpora. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095317 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING A CONDITION STATUS OF A COMPONENT OF A LINEAR ASSET SYSTEM - The invention provides a graphical user interface implemented on a computer including an information area for displaying to a user at the computer inspection status information in connection with one or more components of a linear asset infrastructure. The graphical user interface also includes a control component operable by the user at the computer to cause the graphical user interface to display additional information on the one or more components of the linear asset infrastructure. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150100567 | System for Providing Proactive Zone Information - The disclosure includes a system and method for providing zone information to a user. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the system to: receive data describing a current location and a travel speed associated with a user; determine a travel status associated with the user based on the current location and the travel speed; create a zone of relevance for the user based on the travel status, the zone of relevance including one or more regions with each region being mapped to one or more regional circles; generate one or more queries for the zone of relevance; retrieve one or more query results that match the zone of relevance using the one or more queries; process the one or more query results to generate zone information relevant to the user; and provide the zone information to the user. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100568 | AUTOMATIC DEFINITION OF ENTITY COLLECTIONS - A system for automatically generating entity collections comprises a data graph including entities connected by edges and instructions that cause the computer system to determine a set of entities from the data graph and to determine a set of constraints that has a quantity of constraints. A constraint in the set represents a path in the data graph shared by at least two of the entities in the set of entities. The instructions also cause the computer system to generate candidate collection definitions from combinations of the constraints, where each candidate collection definition identifies at least one constraint and no more than the quantity of constraints. The instructions also cause the computer system to determine an information gain for at least some of the candidate collection definitions, and store at least one candidate collection definition that has an information gain that meets a threshold as a candidate collection. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150106358 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVEYING SEARCH RESULTS WITHIN AN EMAIL APPLICATION - Systems and methods for conveying search results at a computing device are provided. The systems and methods provide a user interface for an email application. The user interface comprises a search field. User entry of a portion of a search term, comprising at least one character, is detected in the search field. In response, a recommended search completion term is also displayed in the search field. The recommended search completion term comprises the portion of a search term. A plurality of search results is then displayed in a graphical overlay panel that is overlaid on a portion of the user interface. These search results are from a plurality of sources independently selected from the group consisting of: contact information, email messages, documents, calendar entries, email labels, recent searches and web searches. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106359 | Distributed Cache for Graph Data - In one embodiment, a system includes a database operative to maintain a social graph; and a cache layer comprising a plurality of data shards, the data shards being divided among a plurality of cache nodes of a cache layer, wherein each data shard is operative to: maintain at least a portion of the social graph; receive a request to store associations between a first graph node and a second graph node of the social graph, wherein the first and second graph nodes are identified by a first and second unique identifier, respectively, the first and second graph nodes each corresponding to a particular data shard of the plurality of data shards; and update, responsive to the request, the data shard corresponding to the first graph node and the data shard corresponding to the second graph node. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150112969 | Systems and Methods for Interest-Driven Data Visualization Systems Utilizing Visualization Image Data and Trellised Visualizations - Systems and methods for interest-driven data visualization systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. In one embodiment, an interest-driven data visualization system includes a processor and a memory configured to store an interest-driven data visualization application, wherein the interest-driven data visualization application configures the processor to define reporting data requirements, generate data retrieval job data based on the at least one piece of reporting data metadata and the data description metadata, transmit the data retrieval job data to an interest-driven business intelligence server system, receive aggregate data from the interest-driven business intelligence server system, create at least one piece of reporting data using the received aggregate data, the data description metadata, and the reporting data metadata, generate a report using the at least one piece of reporting data, the reporting data requirements, and the visualization metadata, and generate visualization image data based on the generated report. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150112970 | SIMILAR IMAGE SEARCH SYSTEM - Disclosed is a similar facial image search system which is less susceptible to bias in search results even when there is a difference in the angle from w |
