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20100049765 | Geocoding Method Using Multidimensional Vector Spaces - A process for evaluating and geocoding of GIS data elements utilizes a plurality of “locate” tests and a weighting scheme to express the match results as a multidimensional vector. Multiple inputs and data sources, as well as ambiguous and partial input data, are used to generate an output with improved precision by applying a weighting function to each input element and generating a set of test vectors (i.e., in the input data element weighted by the known accuracy of the element/source). A sum of a plurality of tests is then generated as the “characteristic vector” of the test set. By using two (or more) different sets of tests, two (or more) characteristic vectors are formed. Various well-known algebraic techniques can then be used to evaluate the results of each set of tests and select the “best match” result. | 02-25-2010 |
20100063965 | CONTENT PROCESSOR, CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND CONTENT PROCESSING PROGRAM - To provide a content processing technique which enables to prevent a reading person from easily guessing the fact of hiding and hidden information, and to obtain a content having natural information close to information of its original content before hiding. A content processor includes a search means which searches contents having information similar to a part excluding a part to be hidden in the original content, an arithmetic means which calculates non-similarity which shows the degree of non-similarity of each content obtained by the search means to the part to be hidden of the contend, and a selection means which selects the content which is the least similar to the part to be hidden out of the contents searched by the search means. | 03-11-2010 |
20100082606 | DIRECTLY OPTIMIZING EVALUATION MEASURES IN LEARNING TO RANK - The present invention provides methods for improving a ranking model. In one embodiment, a method includes the step of obtaining queries, documents, and document labels. The process then initializes active sets using the document labels, wherein two active sets are established for each query, a perfect active set and an imperfect active set. Then, the process optimizes an empirical loss function by the use of the first and second active set, whereby parameters of the ranking model are modified in accordance to the empirical loss function. The method then updates the active sets with additional ranking data, wherein the updates are configured to work in conjunction with the optimized loss function and modified ranking model. The recalculated active sets provide an indication for ranking the documents in a way that is more consistent with the document metadata. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082607 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING A LIST OF TOP RANKED OBJECTS FROM RANKED COMBINATION ATTRIBUTE LISTS USING AN EARLY TERMINATION ALGORITHM - An improved system and method for aggregating a list of top ranked objects from ranked combination lists using an early termination algorithm is provided. Ranked lists of individual object attributes may be aggregated into ranked lists of combination object attributes. The ranked lists of object attributes, including ranked lists of individual object attributes as well as ranked lists of combination object attributes, may be scanned in parallel. A fixed number of top scoring objects may be stored in a results list of top ranked objects. An upper bound of best possible aggregation scores of unseen object in the ranked lists of object attributes may be computed to incorporate the extra information given by the combination lists of attributes. If the upper bound computed is less than the score of top scoring objects in the results list, then the top scoring objects in the results list may be output. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082608 | SYSTEM, METHOD, OR APPARATUS RELATING TO DETERMINING SEARCH RESULTS BASED AT LEAST IN PART ON ONE OR MORE CONTEXT FEATURES - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with determining search results are disclosed. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082609 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLENDING USER RANKINGS FOR AN OUTPUT DISPLAY - A method and system for blending ranking for an output display includes receiving a first list of content items having a first ranking determined by first ranking parameters, the first ranking providing for a sequential ordering of the content items of the first list. A second list of content items having a second ranking determined by second ranking parameters are received, the first ranking is incompatible with the second ranking because ranking parameters are different. The first list of content items is transformed to a modified first list that maintains the order of the content items and makes the first ranking of the modified first list compatible with the second ranking of the second list. The second list and the modified first list are merged to generate a blended list for an output display utilizing the blended list. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082610 | QUERY REFINEMENT BASED ON USER SELECTIONS - To adapt search results to a user's needs, the search results display is modified based on the user's selections within the search results. Based on the user selections within the search results, the original search results may be ranked and/or ordered based on relevance to the selected search results. Based on the user selections within the search results, a new search criteria may be generated and presented to the user as a suggested search criteria. Based on the user selections within the search results, a new search may be performed to obtain new search results. | 04-01-2010 |
20100094865 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING AND MAINTAINING PRODUCT OR SERVICE INFORMATION - Computer-executed methods, systems, and media provide a first webpage, responsive to a user request, prompting for a query. A search for products or services that match the query yields a search results schema, comprising a hit description for the results of the search. A plurality of result details layout schemas, each corresponding to a search result, is also obtained. The search results schema specifies a location of each result details layout schema. A second web page encoding a first and second representation is created. The first representation is for a first search result and is centered in the second web page. The second representation is of a second search result and is positioned in an off-center position in a manner that is rotated about a first axis of rotation. The first and second representations are respectively specified by first and second result details layout schemas. | 04-15-2010 |
20100094866 | Method and system for providing 'what's next' data - A system and method for generating a list of content is disclosed. A processor may store in memory at least one content preference of a user, may store at least one non-user content preference of at least one entity other than the user, may associate the at least one non-user content preference with the user, and may generate the content list based on a combination of the at least one content preference of the user and the at least one non-user content preference for output to the user. | 04-15-2010 |
20100106716 | Determining method of indication order of search results, system, program, recording medium - When user requests internet search with some keywords, score is calculated for each site to which keyword is hit according to a predetermined algorithm and each site is indicated according to the calculated score. At a predetermined timing the indicated order is shuffled irrespective of the score. The timing is at request of search or a certain period. The range of indication order to be shuffled is fixed number, ratio, variable, and so on. | 04-29-2010 |
20100106717 | 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. | 04-29-2010 |
20100114878 | SELECTIVE TERM WEIGHTING FOR WEB SEARCH BASED ON AUTOMATIC SEMANTIC PARSING - A method is provided for selecting relevant documents returned from a search query. When a search engine finds search terms in documents, the document score is based on the frequency of the occurrence of those terms, the category of the term, and the section of the document in which the term is found. Each (category type, document section) pair is assigned a weight that is used to modify the contribution of term frequency. The weights are determined in an offline process using historical data and human validation. Through this empirical process, the weight assignments are made to correlate high relevance scores with documents that humans would find relevant to a search query. | 05-06-2010 |
20100114879 | IDENTIFYING RELATED CONCEPTS OF URLS AND DOMAIN NAMES - A solution for identifying related concepts of URLs and domain names includes using structural parsing to extract information from user input comprising a URL or domain name. The information includes one or more of a protocol, a location, and a subdirectory. Semantic parsing of the information is used to identify a first one or more concepts represented by one or more tokens within the extracted information. A content association map is queried to retrieve a second one or more concepts related to the first one or more concepts. Each of the concepts represents a unit of thought, expressed by a term, letter, or symbol. The concept association map includes a representation of concepts, concept metadata, and relationships between the concepts. The first one or more concepts and the second one or more concepts are ranked, and the ranked concepts are stored for displaying to one or more users of the computer platform. | 05-06-2010 |
20100114880 | 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. | 05-06-2010 |
20100114881 | INFERRED RELATIONSHIPS FROM USER TAGGED CONTENT - A tagged content inference system and method is provided. The system facilitates browsing of content with a pseudo-hierarchical feel using algorithmically-deduced relationships between items based on user applied tags. Based, at least in part, upon tagged content, an inference component can infer relationships between items (e.g., creating a pseudo-hierarchy) in order to facilitate browsing of the items. | 05-06-2010 |
20100121844 | IMAGE RELEVANCE BY IDENTIFYING EXPERTS - A method of generating a list of ranked media-content search results is presented. The method begins with a plurality of links to media-content being collected and the media content is grouped by originating site. A query for media-content is initiated when a keyword is received. The media-content from each originating site or subsite receives a tag-specific ranking. Each grouping of media-content is ranked based on external-based metrics and quality-based metrics. Quality-based metrics are defined by calculating a percentage of the media-content of each grouping that is associated with the keyword, the quality of the media content, relevance of the text associated with each media-content to the keyword, and other measurements. A relative weighting between external-based metrics and quality-based metrics is established for each grouping of media-content. A list of ranked media-content search results based on the relative weighting between external-based metrics and quality-based metrics are stored on the system. | 05-13-2010 |
20100121845 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING AND PRESENTING CONTENT BASED ON ACTIVITY LEVEL SPIKES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONTENT - A method of selecting and presenting content based on detecting an increased level of activity associated with the content is presented. The method includes providing a set of content items with associated descriptive terms. The method includes receiving user search input for identifying desired content items and, in response to the incremental input entered by the user, presenting a subset of content items to the user. The method further includes receiving actions from the user selecting content items from the subset and analyzing the descriptive terms associated with the selected content items to detect an increased level of activity for descriptive terms associated with the content items selected by the users. The method includes, in response to receiving subsequent user search input, selecting and ordering a collection of content items based on promoting the ranking of content items associated with descriptive terms that have an increased level of recent activity. | 05-13-2010 |
20100131499 | Clustering Image Search Results Through Folding - A search results page contains images that are organized based on the visual features of those images; images that have common visual features are grouped together using either a folding or a reciprocal election technique. Images that pertain to a particular meaning of a query term are less likely to be scattered across the page. A group of images that have common visual features is represented on the page by a single representative image from that group. Consequently, space for more representative images becomes available on the image search results page. Thus, search results page contains visually diverse representative images; space on the results page is not wasted by repeatedly showing the same image. The initial image search results page also therefore is more likely to contain representative images that otherwise would have occurred too far down a relevance-ranked list to be included within the initial search results page. | 05-27-2010 |
20100131500 | Clustering Image Search Results Through Voting: Reciprocal Election - A search results page contains images that are organized based on the visual features of those images; images that have common visual features are grouped together using either a folding or a reciprocal election technique. Images that pertain to a particular meaning of a query term are less likely to be scattered across the page. A group of images that have common visual features is represented on the page by a single representative image from that group. Consequently, space for more representative images becomes available on the image search results page. Thus, search results page contains visually diverse representative images; space on the results page is not wasted by repeatedly showing the same image. The initial image search results page also therefore is more likely to contain representative images that otherwise would have occurred too far down a relevance-ranked list to be included within the initial search results page. | 05-27-2010 |
20100138410 | CLICK CHAIN MODEL - Techniques are described for generating a statistical model from observed click chains. The model can be used to compute a probability that a document is relevant to a given search query. With the model, a probability of a user examining a given document in a given search result conditionally depends on: a probability that a preceding document in the given search result is examined by a user viewing the given search result; a probability that the preceding document is clicked on by a user viewing the given search result, which conditionally depends directly on the probability that the preceding document is examined and on a probability of relevance of the preceding document. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138411 | Segmented Query Word Spotting - An approach to words spotting processes a query including a sequence of terms (e.g., words) to identify one or more subsequences that constitute segments (e.g., phrases) that are likely to occur spoken together in the audio begin searched. The segments are searched for as units. An advantage can include improved accuracy as compared to searching for the terms individually. | 06-03-2010 |
20100145935 | DATA NETWORK SERVICE BASED ON PROFILING IP-ADDRESSES - At a network access point, the requests are monitored that clients submit to a plurality of server addresses. A database is formed for mapping of the client population onto the server addresses. This enables determining which of the server addresses are more popular than others with a specific segment of the client population. Segmenting the client population is based on commonalities in attributes extracted from the requests. This mapping enables other data network services such as web portals and search engines to target specific segments of the client population. | 06-10-2010 |
20100153375 | System and method for classifying and storing related forms of data - A method for managing data and corresponding computer program are provided. The method includes providing a plurality of buckets, each associated with a corresponding scope of similarity metric, processing a first data container of a plurality of data containers to determine a corresponding similarity metric, comparing the similarity metric of the first data container with the scope of similarity metric of the plurality of buckets, assigning, if the similarity metric of the first data container matches the scope of similarity metric of any of the plurality of buckets and the corresponding bucket has sufficient available space, the first data container with the corresponding one of the plurality of buckets, creating, if either the similarity metric of the first data container does not match the scope of similarity metric of any of the plurality of buckets or a match is present but any of the corresponding buckets do not have sufficient available space, a new bucket for the plurality of buckets, and subsequently associating the first data container with the bucket; and compressing as a unit, when at least one condition is met, any of the plurality of data containers assigned by the assigning to a particular one of the plurality of buckets. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153376 | INTERACTIVE MESSAGE EDITING SYSTEM AND METHOD - In an interactive message editing system ( | 06-17-2010 |
20100153377 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED AUTOMATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT - A system and method of managing enterprise information technology systems using autonomic social computing is described herein. The system comprises a configuration management database containing not only configuration parameters relating to individual components within the system, but also data regarding relationships between these components. This data is compiled and monitored using a correlation engine, a confidence engine, and a social discovery engine working in conjunction with each other to maintain threshold performance parameters set by management personnel. Configuration management reports for IT management personnel are also generated by the system. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153378 | Online Pair Wise Comparison and Recommendation System - The present invention relates to an online voting system and more particularly, the invention relates to a system having at least two key databases one being the item database in which list of movies, songs, or such/or other items of entertainment value to online users can be used and the other being the pairing database which includes a list of all paired comparisons between any two items in the said item database. Importantly the present invention is directed to a method and/or system to enable comparison of items in a database using the principals of paired comparison by applying the laws of comparative judgment. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153379 | System and Method for Generating Statistical Descriptors for a Data Stream - Described is a system and method for receiving a data stream of multi-dimensional items, collecting a sample of the data stream having a predetermined number of items and dividing the sample into a plurality of subsamples, each subsample corresponding to a single dimension of each of the predetermined number of items. A query is then executed on a particular item in at least two of the subsamples to generate data for the corresponding subsample. This data is combined into a single value. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153380 | System And Method For Finding Desired Results By Incremental Search Using An Ambiguous Keypad With The Input Containing Orthographic And/Or Typographic Errors - A system for finding and presenting content items in response to keystrokes entered by a user on an input device having a known layout of overloaded keys selected from a set of key layouts. The system includes a database containing content items and terms characterizing the content items; input logic for receiving keystrokes from the user and building a string corresponding to incremental entries by the user, each item in the string having the set of alphanumeric symbols associated with a corresponding keystroke; mapping logic to map the string to the database to find the most likely content items corresponding to the incremental entries, the mapping logic operating in accordance with a defined error model corresponding to the known layout of overloaded keys; and presentation logic for ordering the most likely content items identified by the mapping logic and for presenting the most likely content items. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153381 | Automatic Mail Rejection Feature - A spam defining system defines rules about emails depending on user's reactions to emails. A user can delete an email as spam, or not spam, or without committing to whether the email is spam or not. If the user indicates whether the email is spam or not spam; characteristics of the email are used to update a database. Incoming emails are compared against the database, to determine a likelihood of whether they are spam. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153382 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE MATCHING OF MATERIALS DATA TO PARTS DATA - Systems and methods for correlating materials records to part records. At least one materials record is provided with a corresponding digital materials images and a plurality of parts records are provided with at least one corresponding digital parts image. The materials records are automatically compared to the part records, and potential matches are identified. Any digital materials images and parts images for the potential matches are displayed to the user for confirmation of a match. | 06-17-2010 |
20100161596 | Learning Latent Semantic Space for Ranking - A tool facilitating learning latent semantics for ranking (LLSR) tailored to the ranking task via leveraging relevance information of query-document pairs to learn a tailored latent semantic space such that other documents are better ranked for the queries in the subspace. The tool applying a learning latent semantics for ranking algorithm integrating LLSR, thereby enabling learning an optimal latent semantic space (LSS) for ranking by utilizing relevance information in the training process of subspace learning. The tool enabling an optimization of the LSS as a closed form solution and facilitating reporting the learned LSS. | 06-24-2010 |
20100169303 | PLAYLISTS FOR REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING - Methods and apparatuses for real-time or near real-time streaming of content using transfer protocols such as an HTTP compliant protocol. In one embodiment, a method includes dividing a stream of data, representing the contiguous time based content of a program (e.g. a live video broadcast), into a plurality of distinct media files, and generating a playlist file having a plurality of tags and Universal Resource Indicators (URIs) indicating an order of presentation of the plurality of distinct media files. The plurality of media files and the playlist file can be made available for transmission to a client device which can retrieve the media files using the playlist file. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169304 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO RETRIEVE RELEVANT INFORMATION - A method and system of retrieving information are disclosed. In accordance with the method, a plurality of information identifier (infoID) sets is generated based on at least one search term and at least one filtering criteria. The at least the plurality of infoID sets is joined according to a mathematical expression to form a resultant infoID set that includes at least one resultant infoID. At least a portion of a content document associated with the at least one resultant infoID is retrieved. At least one resultant infoID is summarized into at least one summary. The retrieved portion of the content document is summarized into the at least one summary of a combined result based on the associated at least one resultant infoID. | 07-01-2010 |
20100174705 | STAY LOCATION CONNECTION INFORMATION REGISTER DEVICE, STAY LOCATION CONNECTION INFORMATION REGISTER METHOD, STAY LOCATION CONNECTION INFORMATION REGISTER PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A stay location connection information register device retains history information including user information and stay location information. A history information searching unit searches history information coincident with a predetermined condition. A stay location connection information generating unit generates link information of the stay location by the unit of the user information with using the history information searched by the history information searching unit. Then, the stay location connection information register unit registers the stay location connection information. In this manner, since the stay location connection information register device generates the link information of the stay location with using the history information, the stay location connection information register device can define a correspondent relation between the stay locations. Therefore, the stay location connection information register device can supply the search result based on the association between the stay locations with using the above link information. | 07-08-2010 |
20100174706 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT CONTROL AND CAPTURE OF DYNAMIC DATABASE CONTENT - A system and method for efficient control and capture of dynamic database content for rapidly providing a user with a highly relevant collection of documents related to a query. The system and method for efficient control and capture of dynamic database content includes a computer system with a storage means for facilitating the retention and recall of dynamic database content and a communications means for facilitating bi-directional communication of the computer system with local or distributed networks; an executory module operationally coupled to the computer system for controlling the storage means and the communications means as well as directing the system for the efficient control and capture of dynamic database content to a plurality of pre-selected Internet sites; and a capture module which is in communication with the executory module and facilitates selection of the plurality of Internet sites associated with a query submitted by a user of the system. | 07-08-2010 |
20100174707 | IMAGE SEARCHING APPARATUS, IMAGE SORTING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM - An apparatus has a feature value extracting section | 07-08-2010 |
20100179950 | System and Method of Segmenting and Tagging Entities based on Profile Matching Using a Multi-Media Survey - A system and method of profile matching using a multi-media survey is described. The method is capable to capturing the emotional reflex of a user. The method is generalized to categorizing an entity (a user or an object) to specific segment with similar emotional profiles. Each entity can be assigned to an emotional code. Such code can be used as a universal vocabulary in the emotional space for both commerce and consumers to adopt in facilitating communication among different parties. | 07-15-2010 |
20100185606 | DEVELOPMENT DOCUMENT DATA MANAGEMENT DEVICE, DEVELOPMENT DOCUMENT DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DEVELOPMENT DOCUMENT DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD, PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A development document data management device includes a storage section and a control section. The storage section stores product document data, and document data attribute information including a commercialization stage indicating any one of two or more stages to develop the product and a type indicating which type the aim of the document data generated in the commercialization stage is related to, for each of the document data. The control section operates to calculate a total point from a stage-specific point given to the commercialization stage and a type point given to the type based on the document data attribute information, to generate document data management information associating the total point with the document data; and to display search results of the document data management information based on the search condition when the search condition for searching the document data is inputted in a predetermined order. | 07-22-2010 |
20100185607 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SORTING INTERNET MUSIC FILES, SEARCHING METHOD AND SEARCHING ENGINE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for sorting Internet music files, a searching method and a searching engine. The method for sorting Internet music file includes: calculating text correlation and value correlation of each of music files; calculating comprehensive correlation of each of the music files according to the text correlation and the value correlation; and sorting the music files according to the comprehensive correlation. Embodiments of the present invention are to show the user music files possessing relatively good correlation with the searching request of the user. | 07-22-2010 |
20100185608 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL DEVICE, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL PROGRAM AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL METHOD - Provided is an information retrieval device connected to a content server which stores contents to be retrieved through a network, the information retrieval device including: a content storing unit storing contents including some of the contents stored in the content server; a retrieval request reception unit receiving contents retrieval request for the content server and the content storing unit; a first retrieval unit acquiring a first retrieval result of the contents stored in the content storing unit based on the retrieval request received by the retrieval request reception unit; a second retrieval unit acquiring a second retrieval result of the contents stored in the content server based on the retrieval request received by the retrieval request reception unit; and an integrated retrieval result display unit displaying an integrated retrieval result obtained by integrating the first retrieval result and the second retrieval result. | 07-22-2010 |
20100191721 | Mechanisms For Efficient Autocompletion In XML Search Applications - Mechanisms are described for providing auto-completion capability in a user interface that allows users to search for XML tags and data in a collection of XML documents. A user searching for data in XML documents might not be aware of the entire structure of the data. A path context may be specified for narrowing the search to a particular set of nodes within the documents in the collection. When the user is in the process of typing in an XML tag name, but prior to submitting the tag name to the search engine, the user interface presents an ordered list of completed XML tags that match the prefix typed by the user. The order of the tags in the list reflects the frequency of the completed tags found within the specified path context of the collection of documents. Likewise, when the user is in the process of typing a string of text to be searched for within the value of XML nodes in the set of documents, but prior to submitting the test string to the search engine, the user interface presents an ordered list of completed text strings that match the partially specified text, where the order of the completed text strings reflects their frequency within the specified path context in the collection of documents. | 07-29-2010 |
20100191722 | DATA SIMILARITY AND IMPORTANCE USING LOCAL AND GLOBAL EVIDENCE SCORES - A method includes finding regions of a reference signal which provide at least one of: local evidence scores and a global evidence score. The local evidence scores indicate local similarity of the regions of the reference signal to regions of a query signal and the global evidence score defines the extent of a global similarity of the query signal to the reference signal. A media exploring device is also included which includes an importance encoder and a media explorer. The importance encoder generates importance scores of at least portions of digital media as a function of at least one of local evidence scores and global evidence scores. The media explorer enables exploring through the digital media according to (i) the importance scores, (ii) data associations/links induced by the evidence scores between different portions of the digital media. The device may also include a media player to play the digital media with adaptive speeds as a function of the importance scores. The device may also include a labeling/annotation module which inherits labels/annotations/markings according to the abovementioned data associations. | 07-29-2010 |
20100191723 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MEASURE MARKET STATISTICS - Example methods and apparatus to measure market statistics are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes retrieving a service penetration value from a managed data source, retrieving an Internet protocol (IP) address from a convenience data source, and identifying a household identification number associated with the retrieved IP address. The example method also includes retrieving household data associated with the household identification number, verifying a service provider name provided by the convenience data source, and adjusting a weight value of the retrieved household data when the service provider name provided by the convenience data source is different than a current service provider name. Additionally, the example method includes calculating service provider flow share based on the adjusted weight value and the service penetration value, and generating a report including the calculated service provider flow share. | 07-29-2010 |
20100198816 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING CONTENT REPRESENTATIVE OF DOCUMENT SEARCH - A system and method for selecting content that is representative of one or more documents is provided. Aspects provide for a fully automated machine-learned system that does not require costly manual selection and supervision of content. The system enables search engines to leverage existing news feeds and content bases to generate a more compelling presentation of search engine results. | 08-05-2010 |
20100198817 | Method for Checking and/or Determining User Data, A Computer Program Product, and an Apparatus - The present invention relates in summary to a method for checking and/or determining user data of a spectacle lens user comprising the steps of:—providing (S | 08-05-2010 |
20100198818 | DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION OF A NEW SET OF MEDIA ITEMS RESPONSIVE TO AN INPUT MEDIASET - Systems and methods are disclosed for creating a list of media items that are similar to an input mediaset comprising at least one input media item, optionally together with at least one input parameter that constrains the output in scope or number of items. Media items include music, videos, pictures and other such items that can be associated or grouped together by a human into a list or mediaset. The mediaset is formed by a human applying virtually any objective and/or subjective criteria. Those criteria need not be made explicit; a relation among the selected items is implicit in the list per se. Alternatively, objective criteria such as metadata can be used. | 08-05-2010 |
20100198819 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING AND MANAGING MESSAGE ADDRESSES - A system and method is disclosed for extracting and maintaining in a virtual address book one or more electronic mail addresses from one or more of the various address fields (e.g., “From,” “To,” “Cc,” “Bcc”) of one or more e-mail messages either transmitted from or received at a predetermined network node (e.g., a client or server). Electronic mail addresses stored in the virtual address book may be made available to “auto-complete” capabilities utilized during the addressing of electronic mail messages. | 08-05-2010 |
20100198820 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERNET-BASED HUMAN NETWORK BROKERING - Matches between search queries and potential targets of such search queries are automatically brokered by (i) comparing search criteria specified in the search queries with profile criteria describing the potential targets, and (ii) reporting instances of acceptable correspondence between the search criteria and the profile criteria, provided that access controls associated with the profile criteria of the targets permit such reporting in light of access levels assigned to the search inquiries. Initiators, using client applications at various remote locations, may formulate the search queries and the brokering may be performed at one or more server locations communicatively coupled (e.g., via the Internet) thereto. The profile criteria may include portions of rich descriptive profiles of the potential targets. | 08-05-2010 |
20100211565 | METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ITEMS ON THE INTERNET - A method is provided for searching for multimedia content items on the internet. According to the method, a search page of a search provider is loaded, search text is transmitted from the client to the search provider, an application is executed at the search provider to detect multimedia content items stored in servers and associated with the search text, a results page is transmitted from the search provider to the client. Additionally, each detected multimedia content item is associated with a predetermined type of content items, the results page is divided into multiple areas that are each associated with a corresponding type, and internet addresses of the detected multimedia contents are placed into each of the areas. | 08-19-2010 |
20100217762 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Information is supplied to a user, the information regarding operations performed by other users. | 08-26-2010 |
20100223258 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD USING A BAYESIAN ALGORITHM BASED ON PROBABILISTIC SIMILARITY SCORES - An algorithm is provided which uses a model-based concept of a cluster and scores items using a score representative of the probability that a given item has been generated from the same distribution as one or more query items. The items are represented by a feature vector x | 09-02-2010 |
20100223259 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING SEARCH OF CONTENT - A system and method for searching content. The method comprises receiving from a first user metadata relating to generating a guide for content. A guide is generated relating to the content. The guide facilitates navigation of the content on a device. The metadata is forwarded to a metadata analyzer where the metadata is processed to produce processed metadata. The processed metadata is forwarded to an index server. An index is generated for the content based on the metadata at the index server. A query is received from a second user, the index is searched and a result is forwarded to the second user in response to the query. The result includes at least a uniform resource identifier relating to at least some of content. The second user may add additional metadata relating to the content. | 09-02-2010 |
20100223260 | Web Server for Multi-Version Web Documents - A repository server that provides stored copies of Web-accessible documents A client of the repository server may register a document in the repository server. The repository server makes a copy of the registered document and returns a repository URL for the copy to the client. The repository URL may be used to fetch the copy from the repository URL. Registration further relates the stored copy to its document URL, to an identifier for the stored copy, to a fingerprint that is a condensed representation of the stored copy's content and can be used to determine degrees of similarity other than match-no match, and to a set of stored copies having similar content. The fingerprints are used to compute similarity. The similarity computation further employs comparisons of links in the documents and of document URLS to determine whether it is necessary to use the fingerprints to compute similarity. | 09-02-2010 |
20100228726 | DETERMINING ASSOCIATIVE INTENT IN A DATABASE CONTAINING LINKED ENTITIES - A system comprising a database to store information concerning uniquely identified individuals, and a server to identify associations between the individuals and to assign rankings of the individuals based on the associations. | 09-09-2010 |
20100228727 | CASE IMAGE REGISTRATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM, AND CASE IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS, METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM AND SYSTEM - Case images are registered so as not to cause bias (or partiality or imbalance) in amounts of feature of the case images included in a database of a similar image search system for image diagnosis. Since registration of the case images to the database is controlled according to degrees of similarity of the amounts of feature, it is possible to prevent a lot of similar case images from being included in the search result. Thus, it is possible to reduce possibility of representing a similar search result which may interfere with an accurate diagnosis by a diagnostician. | 09-09-2010 |
20100228728 | HARVESTING OF MEDIA OBJECTS FROM SEARCHED SITES WITHOUT A USER HAVING TO ENTER THE SITES - A method and apparatus for enabling a user to access media objects, such as images, from a website without requiring the user to enter the website. In one embodiment, a search engine searches for websites that match a submitted search term. A selected URL to one of the resulting websites is submitted to a harvester that accesses a web page of the selected website and identifies a media object of the web page. The harvester determines the characteristic(s) of the media object, such as a dimension, an aspect ratio, a proximity to other media objects, etc. The harvester determines a second media object with substantially the same characteristic(s). The determined media objects, or subportions, are rendered in a client user interface. Relationships are mapped between a selected media object and projects that use the object. Manipulating a rendered portion causes a related operation on the whole media object. | 09-09-2010 |
20100235351 | Ranking Search Results - Content items and other entities may be ranked or organized according to a relevance to a user. Relevance may take into consideration recency, proximity, popularity, air time (e.g., of television shows) and the like. In one example, the popularity and age of a movie may be used to determine a relevance ranking. Popularity (i.e., entity rank) may be determined based on a variety of factors. In the movie example, popularity may be based on gross earnings, awards, nominations, votes and the like. According to one or more embodiments, entities may initially be categorized into relevance groupings based on popularity and/or other factors. Once categorized, the entities may be sorted within each grouping and later combined into a single ranked list. | 09-16-2010 |
20100235352 | COMPARISON WORKFLOW AUTOMATION BY REGISTRATION - A method for a rapid automated presentation of at least two radiological data sets of a patient, comprising, (a) automatically registering the data sets in 3D space; and (b) concurrently presenting substantially matching anatomical regions in each data set. | 09-16-2010 |
20100235353 | Method and Apparatus for Real Time Text Analysis and Text Navigation - An end user, by way of a submission interface, instructs an engine to select particular collections of documents to process. The engine processes all the text from within all the documents from within the selected collections. The result of the processing of such text is a distilled data set. Such distillate data set is accessed through APIs by a browser. Different views of the accessed distillate data set may be presented to the end user via the browser allowing them to more effectively assess the utility of the presented data and thereby responsively tune the presented data set with regard to their particular research task. One or more of such views may be used to create a new document from sentences, paragraphs, chapters or documents from the distillate data set that correspond to the one or more views for presentation to the end user. | 09-16-2010 |
20100250522 | USING ONTOLOGY TO ORDER RECORDS BY RELEVANCE - A method for retrieving records in an order of relevance based on a pre-defined domain ontology. The relevance of each result of the search conducted is decided on the basis of the pre-defined domain ontology. The method includes obtaining a search query as an input from the user containing one or more than one phrases. Then, the set of results from the given set of records is retrieved based on the input search query. The method further includes calculating and assigning a closeness parameter corresponding to each result of the set of results based on the domain ontology. Finally, the set of results is displayed in an order of relevance by sorting in an ascending order the closeness parameter of each of the record present in the set of results. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250523 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEARNING A RANKING MODEL THAT OPTIMIZES A RANKING EVALUATION METRIC FOR RANKING SEARCH RESULTS OF A SEARCH QUERY - An improved system and method for learning a ranking model that optimizes a ranking evaluation metric for ranking search results of a search query is provided. An optimized nDCG ranking model that optimizes an approximation of an average nDCG ranking evaluation metric may be generated from training data through an iterative boosting method for learning to more accurately rank a list of search results for a query. A combination of weak ranking classifiers may be iteratively learned that optimize an approximation of an average nDCG ranking evaluation metric for the training data by training a weak ranking classifier at each iteration for each document in the training data with a computed weight and assigned class label, and then updating the optimized nDCG ranking model by adding the weak ranking classifier with a combination weight to the optimized nDCG ranking model. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250524 | RANKING ALGORITHM FOR SEARCH BOX AUTO-COMPLETE - In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method for prioritizing search results in an electronic environment is disclosed. The system comprises a communications module to receive a search query from an end-user. The search query includes one or more characters contained within a single TCP packet. A query engine coupled to the communications module matched the one or more characters from the search query against a plurality of selected keywords contained within a database against the search query. Each keyword is then ranked within the plurality of selected keywords thus forming a subset of selected keywords. A response including the subset of selected keywords is returned to the end-user. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250525 | APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING LIBRARY - Arrangements to evaluate maintenance easiness of a library on the basis of the number of modeling processes required to create a library shape and the number of modeling processes required to model a product by using the created library shape. Such arrangements include, in part, a library score calculating unit that calculates sum of the number of modeling processes and the number of library creating processes from the number of library creating processes calculated by the unit of calculating the number of library creating processes and the number of product modeling processes calculated by the unit of calculating the number of product modeling processes. The plurality of combination plans of library shapes to be evaluated are evaluated on the basis of the sum of the number of modeling processes and the number of library creating processes. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250526 | Search System that Uses Semantic Constructs Defined by Your Social Network - A search mechanism that involves receiving input that specifies a search term, e.g., a word or sequence of words. The input is received via a computer network from a user. The search term has an associated meaning that has been defined by the user, one or more members of the user's social network, and/or, a provider of an Internet-based service. The search mechanism may also involve searching a database based on the search term to obtain search results, and sending at least a portion of the search results to the user via the Internet. The search mechanism may also perform searches based on a user-specified phrase that is composed of a number of search terms. | 09-30-2010 |
20100262596 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DERIVING DEMAND METRICS USED IN ORDERING ITEM LISTINGS PRESENTED IN A SEARCH RESULTS PAGE - Methods and systems for using a half-life formula for deriving demand metrics used in ordering item listings, when presenting those item listings in a search results page, are described. In some embodiments, a demand metric for an item listing is derived by monitoring events associated with item listings, such as, keeping a count of the number of search impressions an item listing receives. A half-life formula is used to ensure that events occurring earlier in time contribute less to the demand metric than more recently occurring events. The demand metric are used to order the item listings, when the item listings are being presented in a search results page. | 10-14-2010 |
20100262597 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING INFORMATION OF COLLECTIVE EMOTION BASED ON COMMENTS ABOUT CONTENTS ON INTERNET - The present invention relates to information search method and system aggressively using comments written by users who have appreciated content. An object of the invention is to display a search result, which is sorted by a proper ranking, in response to a query including an emotional word. For that purpose, while a search database is constructed, firstly emotional words are extracted from the comments and categorized. Next, impressions, or metadata about content are organized from them. Finally the metadata and information about the content are stored. Afterwards, when a user enters a search query including an emotional word, firstly emotional words and non-emotional ones are extracted from the query. Next, content relevant to the non-emotional word is found. Lastly, a ranking result is adjusted according to ‘checked/unchecked’ values (or scores) of an impression item, which matches the emotional word, of the found content. | 10-14-2010 |
20100262598 | USER INTERFACE RECOGNITION DEVICE AND USER INTERFACE RECOGNITION METHOD - A search rule generation unit ( | 10-14-2010 |
20100262599 | CONTENT PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A content processing system may include any of a number of content processing techniques such as condensed content management, multi-content compilation management, associated content compilation management, recommended content management, and content cluster management. | 10-14-2010 |
20100268704 | METHOD OF SEARCHING INFORMATION AND RANKING SEARCH RESULTS, USER TERMINAL AND INTERNET SEARCH SERVER WITH THE METHOD APPLIED THERETO - A search method is provided to search available information and rank search results. The method retrieves a search query and bookmark-oriented information through an internet browser or a user search engine installed on a user terminal. According to the search query, the method obtains search results from the available information. Afterwards, the search results are ranked according to the bookmark-oriented information. More specifically, the bookmark-oriented information may be used as part of the search query during searching, or used to rank the search results. Those search results that match at least part of the bookmark-oriented information are provided and ranked on the internet browser or user search engine only, or provided and ranked prior to those search results not matching any of the bookmark-oriented information, thereby providing a preferable search result closest to the user's search query. | 10-21-2010 |
20100268705 | DATABASE AND DATA ACCESS LAYER - The system of the present invention facilitates the collection, processing, optimization and communication of data. Project data is accessed through an architecture, comprising an access layer, with programs for retrieving, processing and communicating data from a database, and a Customer User Interface (CUI) presentation layer. The CUI provides individual users with interaction throughout the project life-cycle, for example, for recording and processing information, completing project tasks, producing and managing documents, managing changes, issues and risks and producing reports and business intelligence, including individual project and projects portfolio status indicators. | 10-21-2010 |
20100268706 | Method, system, and computer readable medium for managing resource links - Resource links also known as Unified Resource Links (URL's), bookmarks, hyperlinks etc. located in a category hierarchy. The resource links are used to navigate on the world wide web, on a local machine, on the interact, or on an intranet. A method of assessing a users competence in a category in the category structure comprising the steps of analysing the users interaction with the resource links placed in the hierarchy table for that category and extracting a competence level for the user in that category. | 10-21-2010 |
20100274782 | GENERATING METADATA FOR ASSOCIATION WITH A COLLECTION OF CONTENT ITEMS - A method of automatically generating metadata for association with a collection of content items accessible to a system ( | 10-28-2010 |
20100274783 | TUNING OF RELEVANCY RANKING FOR FEDERATED SEARCH - Determining a relevancy ranking score is disclosed. An indication is received that a relevancy ranking score algorithm is to be tuned to a selected preference. The relevancy ranking score algorithm is updated based at least in part on the selected preference, wherein the relevancy ranking score of a search result resulting from a search query is based at least in part on one or more constraints of the search query. | 10-28-2010 |
20100281022 | ESTIMATING RANK ON GRAPH STREAMS - The rank of nodes in a graph may be inferred from a calculated probability that each node in the graph appears in a single random walk of the graph. Short random walks may be generated for each node in the graph. The generated random walks may be combined to form a longer single random walk. Multiple single random walks may be generated in this fashion. The probability of each node appearing in a single random may be calculated from the generated single random walks. The rank of each node may then be inferred from the calculated probabilities. | 11-04-2010 |
20100281023 | RELEVANCY SCORING USING QUERY STRUCTURE AND DATA STRUCTURE FOR FEDERATED SEARCH - Determining a relevancy ranking score is disclosed. A query is received that includes one or more constraints. One of the one or more constraints includes an operator. A search result based on the query is received. The relevancy ranking score for the received search result is determined based at least in part on the operator associated with the one or more constraints of the query. | 11-04-2010 |
20100281024 | LINEAR COMBINATION OF RANKERS - Described herein is a system that includes a receiver component that receives first scores for training points and second scores for the training points, wherein the first scores are individually assigned to the training points by a first ranker component and the second scores are individually assigned to the training points by a second ranker component. The apparatus further includes a determiner component in communication with the receiver component that automatically outputs a value for a parameter α based at least in part upon the first scores and the second scores, wherein α is used to linearly combine the first ranker component and the second ranker component. | 11-04-2010 |
20100287159 | Methods and systems for enhancing metadata - A method and system for utilizing metadata to search for media, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes searching for the media, receiving results, extracting metadata associated with the media, enhancing the extracted metadata, and grouping the search results in accordance with attributes of the enhanced metadata. Enhancing and grouping include adding related metadata to the database of metadata, iteratively using metadata to search for more media related data, removing duplicate URLs, collapsing URLs that are variants of each other, and masking out superfluous terms from URLs. The resultant metadata and media files are available to users and search engines. | 11-11-2010 |
20100293157 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR GENERATING RANKING INFORMATION REPRESENTING DEGREE OF POPULARITY OF DATA AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR - An information processing apparatus includes a changing unit configured to change content data arranged in a predetermined region to other content data in response to a user request, a counting unit configured to count a remaining number of metadata added to content data remaining unchanged by the changing unit among a plurality of pieces of content data arranged in the predetermined region, and a ranking information generation unit configured to generate ranking information representing a degree of popularity of metadata based on the remaining number of metadata counted by the counting unit. | 11-18-2010 |
20100293158 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a search processing section for causing a transmission/reception section to execute processing of transmitting a search request including a search condition to each of one or more information management devices, causing the transmission/reception section to execute processing of receiving, as a response to the search request and from each of the one or more information management devices via a network, content information corresponding to the search condition from among pieces of content information and management subject identification information for identifying the information management device which manages the content information, and correlating the management subject identification information with content identification information and content-related information that are included in the content information received by the transmission/reception section and causing a storage section to store the correlated management subject identification information, content identification information, and content-related information as a search result. | 11-18-2010 |
20100299323 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RATING RISK - The present invention relates to a method, system and apparatus for rating risk and in particular to a system for rating public health and safety risks, including monitoring and reviewing compliance with such risks, among Suppliers in goods and services industries. The invention has been developed primarily for use as a means for food providers and consumers to review standardised results of compliance testing and risk rating in goods and services industries such as the food supply industry and to assist consumers to make informed choices about Suppliers such as food Suppliers. | 11-25-2010 |
20100306190 | Retrieval-Time Ranking for Community Content - A computer-implemented method and system of establishing, accessing, ranking and retrieving community-oriented content, the community content selected from a plurality of content items available at a content database for presentation at a client device. The method involves establishing a physical proximity of the client device to each of the content items available at the content database; establishing a freshness of the respective ones of the content items relative to the time of a request for the community content at the client device, computing an aggregated score, and ranking the content items to be presented at the client device, the aggregated score at least partially based on the physical proximity and the freshness. | 12-02-2010 |
20100306191 | Computer Application Data In Search Results - A computer-implemented search method includes receiving a registration request from each of one or more computer applications installed on a computing device and registering the applications in response to the request, wherein the registration request indicates an intent by the application to receive search query information from a search application associated with the device. The method also includes receiving user input on the device in the form of a query, providing the query to the one or more registered applications, receiving responses from the one or more registered applications that include data that is managed by the one or more registered applications; integrating the responses into a result set; and presenting the result set with the computing device. | 12-02-2010 |
20100306192 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A SEARCH ENGINE FOR USER GENERATED CONTENT (UGC) - A method and system for a search engine for user generated content have been disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises receiving a search request from a client, the search request directed to user generated content. Relevant user generated content is retrieved, wherein retrieving comprises searching processed user generated content, and wherein processing user generated content comprises receiving first input data including text, creating a substring of text from the first input data and categorizing the substring to produce a concept associated with the substring, wherein the substring is categorized according to one of dictionaries or pattern analysis. An indication of sentiment is assigned to the concept associated with the substring and an indication of influence is assigned to the concept associated with the substring. The relevant user generated content is displayed. | 12-02-2010 |
20100318515 | Media Fingerprinting and Identification System - The overall architecture and details of a scalable video fingerprinting and identification system that is robust with respect to many classes of video distortions is described. In this system, a fingerprint for a piece of multimedia content is composed of a number of compact signatures, along with traversal hash signatures and associated metadata. Numerical descriptors are generated for features found in a multimedia clip, signatures are generated from these descriptors, and a reference signature database is constructed from these signatures. Query signatures are also generated for a query multimedia clip. These query signatures are searched against the reference database using a fast similarity search procedure, to produce a candidate list of matching signatures. This candidate list is further analyzed to find the most likely reference matches. Signature correlation is performed between the likely reference matches and the query clip to improve detection accuracy. | 12-16-2010 |
20100325104 | LOCATION SEARCH DEVICE, LOCATION SEARCH METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING LOCATION SEARCH PROGRAM - A location search device, in which when one of buttons in a character input portion is repeatedly pressed, a plurality of characters assigned in advance to the one button is displayed in an input character display portion in a predetermined cyclic sequence. When one of the buttons is pressed, and then, another of the buttons is pressed, the character displayed in the display portion immediately prior to pressing of the other button is set as an input set character. When the character is input through the character input portion following the input set character, a character string is input. A plurality of compound character strings are created by combining the input set character string with the plurality of characters that is pressed next, and search object character strings that partially match the respective compound character strings are acquired from a character string storage portion, as input candidate character strings. | 12-23-2010 |
20100325105 | Generating ranked search results using linear and nonlinear ranking models - Generating ranked search results includes receiving a plurality of matching information items that match a search request, ranking at least some of the plurality of matching information items using a linear ranking model that linearly combines a first plurality of feature values to obtain a first set of ranked results, ranking at least some of the first set of ranked results using a nonlinear ranking model that nonlinearly combines a second plurality of feature values to obtain a second set of ranked results, and provide a search response based on the second set of ranked results. | 12-23-2010 |
20100325106 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING AMBIGUOUS, MULTITERM SEARCH QUERIES - In accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention, a method and system are provided of processing a search query entered by a user of a device having a text input interface with overloaded keys. The search query is directed at identifying an item from a set of items. Each of the items has one or more associated descriptors. The system receives from the user an ambiguous search query directed at identifying a desired item. The search query is a prefix substring of each of at least two words relating to the desired item. The system dynamically identifies a group of one or more items from the set of items having one or more descriptors matching the search query as the user enters each character of the search query. The system outputs identification of the one or more items of the identified group to be displayed on the device operated by the user. | 12-23-2010 |
20100325107 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING AND MANAGING DISTRIBUTED ONLINE CONVERSATIONS | 12-23-2010 |
20100332467 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, an display processing apparatus includes an operation receiver, a view information acquiring module, a correlation calculator, a display information generator, and a display controller. The operation receiver receives operation to select key content. The view information acquiring module acquires view correlation information. The correlation calculator calculates the correlation of each of second contents with the key content based on the similarity to the key content and the view correlation information. The display information generator generates first display information of the key content and second display information of the second contents. The display controller displays list information including the first display information and pieces of the second display information. The pieces of the second display information are arranged around the first display information such that second display information of second content with higher correlation with the key content is closer to the first display information. | 12-30-2010 |
20110004590 | ENABLING MANAGEMENT OF WORKFLOW - Systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums provide for dynamically generating a user interface based on components or user interfaces utilized in past and/or current matters. Alternatively, systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums provide for generating recommendations regarding a new matter based on information stored regarding past and/or current matters. Alternatively, systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums provide for generating a recommendation regarding how to proceed in a new matter based on cost in a past and/or current matter. | 01-06-2011 |
20110004591 | Portable Electronic Apparatus and Operating Method Thereof - A portable electronic apparatus includes a database, a calculating module, a retrieving module, a ranking module and a display module. The database is used to store a plurality of contact information. The calculating module calculates a plurality of relative distances between the plurality of contact information and a target position, and generates a plurality of marked information by comparing the relative distances with a predetermined distance. The retrieving module retrieves a map image according to the target position and the predetermined distance. The ranking module ranks the marked information according to the relative distances to generate a ranking result. The display module displays the map image and the marked information according to the ranking result simultaneously. | 01-06-2011 |
20110010363 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a storage section for storing a plurality of images and a plurality of related terms related to each of the plurality of images, the plurality of images being associated with the plurality of related terms, an input section for inputting a concept term indicating a predetermined concept, an extraction section for extracting, when the input concept term corresponds to the related term, the plurality of images each associated with the related term, a selection section for selecting an image which matches the concept of the concept term from the extracted plurality of images, a collection section for collecting a related term associated with the selected image which matches the concept of the concept term, and a calculation section for calculating a term feature amount of a term group of the collected related term. | 01-13-2011 |
20110016109 | System and Method for Automatic Matching of Highest Scoring Contracts to Impression Opportunities Using Complex Predicates and an Inverted Index - A method for indexing advertising contracts for rapid retrieval and matching in order to match only the top N satisfying contracts to advertising slots. Descriptions of advertising contracts include logical predicates indicating weighted applicability to a particular demographic. Descriptions of advertising slots also contain logical predicates indicating weighted applicability to particular demographics, thus matches are performed on the basis of a weighed score of intersecting demographics. Disclosed are structure and techniques for receiving a set of contracts with weighted predicates, preparing a data structure index of the set of contracts, receiving an advertising slot with weighted predicates, and retrieving from the data structure only the top N weighted score contracts that satisfy a match to the advertising slot predicates. Various disclosed cases include predicates presented in conjoint forms and in disjoint forms, and techniques are provided to consider indexing and matching in cases of both IN predicates and NOT-IN predicates. | 01-20-2011 |
20110016110 | TRAIL MANAGEMENT METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A trail management system acquires and manages operation contents in a PC that is provided with an operation function including a document transcription function. When a user performs a transcription operation, a server acquires operation information and stores it as chronological data. The operation information contains time of the transcription operation, a user name, a value transcribed by the transcription operation, document specification information for specifying a transcription origin document during the transcription operation, location specification information for specifying a transcription origin location in the transcription origin document, document specification information for specifying a transcription destination document during the transcription operation, and location specification information for specifying a transcription destination location in the transcription origin document. Using a PC, an administrator searches for chronological data in accordance with a search condition supplied to search for the chronological data and displays a search result on the PC. | 01-20-2011 |
20110016111 | Ranking search results based on word weight - Ranking search results, comprises receiving a query string; retrieving a plurality of search results that include a corresponding plurality of target strings that relate to the query string; segmenting the query string and each of the plurality of target strings; pairing segments in the query string with respective segments in the target strings to form a plurality of combinations; retrieving a plurality of weights that correspond to the plurality of combinations based on a mapping of word combinations and their respective weights, wherein a weight measures semantic correlation between words in a word combination; and determining a weighted word length based on the weights corresponding to each of the plurality of target strings; and ranking the plurality of target strings based on their respective weighted word lengths. Alternatively, ranking search results includes determining a minimum weight of each inserted word with respect to segmented words in the query string; determining a minimum weight of each deleted word with respect to segmented words in the target strings; determining a total edit distance based at least in part on the minimum weight of each inserted word and the minimum weight of each deleted word; and ranking the target strings based on the total edit distances. | 01-20-2011 |
20110016112 | Search Engine for Scientific Literature Providing Interface with Automatic Image Ranking - An information retrieval system for scientific literature provides a summary document for reviewing the results of a query that provides both a text-based summary and an image-based summary, the latter represented by a figure from the document that has a highest ranking indicating its centrality to the concept of the document. A ranking of figures may be done by an analysis of figure-associated text either by supervised machine learning or comparison of text similarities. | 01-20-2011 |
20110016113 | METHOD FOR RE-RANKING DOCUMENTS RETRIEVED FROM A DOCUMENT DATABASE - A computer-implemented method for processing documents in a document database includes generating an initial ranking of retrieved documents using an information retrieval system and based upon a user search query, and processing vocabulary words based upon occurrences thereof in at least some of the retrieved documents. Respective relevancies of the vocabulary words based on the occurrences thereof and the user search query are generated. A re-ranking of the retrieved documents is generated based on the relevancies of the vocabulary words. | 01-20-2011 |
20110022587 | Methods and Systems for Selecting and Presenting Content Based on Dynamically Identifying Microgenres Associated with the Content - A method of selecting and presenting content based on learned user preferences is provided. The method includes providing a content system including a set of content items organized by genre characterizing the content items, and wherein the set of content items contains microgenre metadata further characterizing the content items. The method also includes receiving search input from the user for identifying desired content items and, in response, presenting a subset of content items to the user. The method further includes receiving content item selection actions from the user and analyzing the microgenre metadata within the selected content items to learn the preferred microgenres of the user. The method includes, in response to receiving subsequent user search input, selecting and presenting content items in an order that portrays as relatively more relevant those content items containing microgenre metadata that more closely match the learned microgenre preferences of the user. | 01-27-2011 |
20110022588 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPECIFYING AND IMPLEMENTING IT SYSTEMS - Present invention relates to system and method for specifying and implementing IT systems, in particular for searching functionalities. Proposed is a method of specifying and system for implementing interactive systems used for data storing and analysis as well as supporting collaboration and human-computer interaction, which is based on a control flow network structure. The method and system include support for whole lifecycle of implemented systems along with their evolution in time. In particular system comprising directed control net comprising data containers and functionality codes search module for searching functionalities within directed control net by identifying input, and matching identified input with functionality code according to the directed control net structure for generating a group of identified functionalities. | 01-27-2011 |
20110022589 | ASSOCIATING INFORMATION WITH MEDIA CONTENT USING OBJECTS RECOGNIZED THEREIN - At least one object within a portion of media content is recognized. The object is essentially a feature of the media content portion. Information is associated with the recognized object based on recognizing the object. | 01-27-2011 |
20110029509 | Best-Bet Recommendations - Best-bet recommendation may be provided. User behavior associated with a search result may be logged and applied to a relevance classifier. The relevance classifier may determine whether the user behavior indicates that the search result may comprise a best-bet result. A best-bet result may comprise a result associated with a high confidence that the result may be satisfactory to a user. The relevance classifier may be trained according to past searches and user behavior to improve the confidence on best-bet recommendations. Once confidence in a search result is high enough, future searches on the same query may provide the best-bet result to the searching user. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029510 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING A PLURALITY OF STORED DIGITAL IMAGES - A plurality of stored digital images are searched. Images are retrieved in accordance with a search query (step | 02-03-2011 |
20110035373 | ROBUST VIDEO RETRIEVAL UTILIZING AUDIO AND VIDEO DATA - Techniques for determining if two video signals match by extracting features from a first and second video signal, and cross-correlating the features thereby providing a cross-correlation score at each of a number of time lags, then determining a mean magnitude of a difference of average values at each of the lags, and finally determining the similarity score based on both the cross-correlation scores and the mean magnitude difference scores, and optionally then outputting an indication of a degree of match between the first and second video signals. | 02-10-2011 |
20110040749 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING, MERGING AND RANKING SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS - A method and a computer program product for identifying the domains, selecting for each domain one domain-specific search engine and data source to be involved, generating the domain-specific subqueries for each selected search engine, defining a strategy for sending requests to each search engine and data source, and receiving, merging and ranking results. The result of the multi-domain query is a list of combinations, where every combination consists of a tuple of data, each relative to one of the domains of the query; such data is present in the results returned either by search engines or by data sources. The method provides the combinations having the highest combination score, as computed by a monotone aggregation function over the combinations. | 02-17-2011 |
20110040750 | Routing Methods For Multiple Geographical Entities - Routing method for computing routes over uncertain geo-spatial data whereby only upon visiting the geographic entities it can be determined whether the needed service or product is actually provided and is adequate. When dealing with uncertain data, the returned route may need to go via several entities of the same type. Another routing method consists of finding an efficient and effective route from a starting point to an ending point going trough a predetermined number of objects, wherein each object represents a geographical entity of a unique type, and each object is selected from a distinct set of similar objects. | 02-17-2011 |
20110047148 | INFORMATION NERVOUS SYSTEM - A semantically integrated knowledge retrieval, management, delivery and presentation system. | 02-24-2011 |
20110047149 | METHOD AND MEANS FOR DATA SEARCHING AND LANGUAGE TRANSLATION - The invention relates to data searching and translation. In particular, the invention relates to searching documents from the Internet or databases. Even further, the invention also relates to translating words in documents, WebPages, images or speech from one language to the next. A computer implemented method including at least one computer in accordance with the invention is characterised by the following steps: | 02-24-2011 |
20110047150 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE SHARING TO PROVIDE CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE - Described herein are methods and systems for providing corrective maintenance using global knowledge sharing. A method to provide corrective maintenance with a CM system includes performing a query to generate a ranking of fixable causes based on factors (e.g., symptoms, configuration, test). The ranking may be determined based on a fixable cause percent match with the factors. The ranking of fixable causes may be associated with one or more solutions for each fixable cause. The ranking can be updated based on performing tests or solutions. | 02-24-2011 |
20110047151 | LOCAL ITEM EXTRACTION - A system identifies a document that includes an address and locates business information in the document. The system assigns a confidence score to the business information, where the confidence score relates to a probability that the business information is associated with the address. The system determines whether to associate the business information with the address based on the assigned confidence score. | 02-24-2011 |
20110047152 | Method and apparatus for facilitating use of hypertext links on the World Wide Web - A database server contains pointers to useful information, such as on the World Wide Web. Users of the server may have hypertext links added automatically into documents they submit. Users may additionally contribute to the link database, thereby extending it, and may add additional qualifying information pertaining to the links. | 02-24-2011 |
20110047153 | Identifying the Unifying Subject of a Set of Facts - A method and system for identifying a subject of a document and facts included within are described. A source document that includes facts and linking documents that include hyperlinks to the source document are identified. The anchor texts of the hyperlinks are identified and candidate labels are generated based on the anchor texts. One of the candidate labels is selected based on first predefined criteria and associated with the source document and/or the facts included within the source document. | 02-24-2011 |
20110055206 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND SOFTWARE FOR PROCESSING PHRASES AND CLAUSES IN LEGAL DOCUMENTS - Exemplary systems for processing a corpus of documents, such as legal contracts or agreements, are disclosed. The systems include a phrase discovery engine which derives statistics and phrase equivalence classes, groups of phrase equivalence classes, and uberphrases (clauses) bounded by phrases. These can be used to determine origins of phrases or clauses within given legal contract or to suggest alternative phrases and clauses. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055207 | Expert Search - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, comprising the steps of, or structure for, storing a plurality of expert profiles in a database, each of the plurality of expert profiles comprising information associated with a person having knowledge in a particular category, subject or topic; | 03-03-2011 |
20110060733 | Information retrieval based on semantic patterns of queries - An information retrieval method includes pre-processing a set of historical query information and processing a user query. Pre-processing a set of historical query information includes determining a plurality of semantic patterns based on a plurality of queries in the set of historical query information; establishing correspondence relationships between the plurality of semantic patterns and a plurality of filtering and ranking operations. Processing a user query comprises receiving the user query; retrieve a plurality of results in response to the user query; determining a semantic pattern that corresponds to the user query; determining a set of filtering and ranking operations that corresponds to the semantic pattern based on the correspondence relationships; and performing the set of filtering and ranking operations on the plurality of results to generate a set of filtered and ranked results. | 03-10-2011 |
20110060734 | Method and Apparatus of Knowledge Base Building - The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus of knowledge base building to automatically construct a knowledge base. Furthermore, the disclosed techniques can be used to improve the accuracy of that knowledge base. In one aspect, a method acquires a sentence from a webpage using a basic data processing layer of a computing apparatus. The acquired sentence is parsed into words using a data mining layer of the computing apparatus. One or more representative words in a first category of a knowledge base are matched with the words parsed from the acquired sentence. When there is a match between one of the representative words and one of the words parsed from the acquired sentence, a string of words adjacent the matched word in the acquired sentence is added to the first category as a first entry. When matching the words parsed from the acquired sentence with a second entry of a second category of the knowledge base, it is determined whether or not an established correlation exists between the first category and the second category. When it is determined that an established correlation exists between the first category and the second category, a correlation between the first entry of the first category and the second entry of the second category is established. The present disclosure also discloses methods for searching information and computing apparatuses that implement the methods. | 03-10-2011 |
20110066611 | GENERATING SEARCH RESULT SUMMARIES - Embodiments are configured to provide a summary of information associated with one or more search results. In an embodiment, a system includes a summary generator that can be configured to provide a summary of information including one or more snippets associated with a search term or search terms. The system includes a ranking component that can be used to rank snippets and the ranked snippets can be used when generating a summary that includes one or more ranked snippets. In one embodiment, the system can be configured to include one or more filters that can be used to filter snippets and the filtered snippets can be used when generating a summary. Other embodiments are available. | 03-17-2011 |
20110072011 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCORING TEXTS - A computer-implemented method, computer-readable medium and system for scoring a text are disclosed. Themes within one or more texts may be determined and used to score each text, where an overall score for each text may indicate a respective importance and/or value of each text. The score for each text may be determined based upon a number of themes, type of themes, frequency of theme elements associated with the themes, distribution of theme elements associated with the themes, location of themes in the text, some combination thereof, etc. In this manner, the importance or value of one or more texts may be determined more accurately using information within each text with reduced reliance upon external information. Additionally, more relevant search results can be returned to a user by using internal information to perform ranking operations and/or filtering operations associated with a search. | 03-24-2011 |
20110078138 | System for Matching Property Characteristics or Desired Property Characteristics to Real Estate Agent Experience - A method and system dynamically matches real estate agent experience with property characteristics submitted by a customer through evaluating an agent's history of home closings in light of the requested home characteristics. The agent results may be displayed directly or integrated with search engine results. | 03-31-2011 |
20110082857 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING A SELECTED NUMBER AND DISPLAYING THE NUMBER AS IT APPEARS IN A DOCUMENT CONTAINING THE NUMBER - The disclosure describes a system and method for locating a number in a source document by presenting and manipulating data on private and public companies. A central database of financial information is established. A target entity is entered within the central database by a user, and financial information of the target entity from the central database is displayed. Once a number within the display of financial information is selected, the system and method determines which document is the source document containing the numbers, searches through the source document for the number, identifies the location of the number in the source document and highlights and displays the number as it appears in the source document to the user. | 04-07-2011 |
20110087653 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURE AND OBLIVIOUS DOCUMENT MATCHING - A method and apparatus for secure and oblivious document matching are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises transmitting initial secure dot product data generated from a document thumbprint for a document to a remote system. The method may also comprise receiving a response from the remote system. In one embodiment, the response is generated by the remote system utilizing the initial secure dot product data and without knowledge of the document. In one embodiment, the method may further comprise determining whether the response indicates a match for the document. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087654 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTERMINGLING HETERGENEOUS LISTING TYPES WHEN PRESENTING SEARCH RESULTS - The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for managing how merchandise listings satisfying a search query are processed and presented to a user of a computer-based trading or e-commerce application when the listings are of heterogeneous types. Consistent with some embodiments, in response to a user-initiated search query, item listings and product listings are displayed intermingled in a set of search results pages. The item listings and product listings are positioned relative to one another, in part, based on a level of demand associated with the product listings and the item listings, where demand is measured by monitoring user-initiated activities in connection with the item and product listings. | 04-14-2011 |
20110093452 | AUTOMATIC COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS - Web search engines are often presented with user queries that involve comparisons of real-world entities. Thus far, this interaction has typically been captured by users submitting appropriately designed keyword queries for which they are presented a list of relevant documents. Embodiments explicitly allow for a comparative analysis of entities to improve the search experience. | 04-21-2011 |
20110093453 | Methods and Systems for Identifying, Assessing and Clearing Conflicts of Interest - Methods and systems for identifying, assessing and clearing conflicts of interest are described herein. Consistent with some embodiments, a conflicts management system receives a conflict search request, and processes the request utilizing a risk matrix that encompass and represents the risk tolerance or risk profile of a law firm. The risk matrix maps certain request types to different search queries and rules that are to be evaluated for a given request type. Based on the execution of the queries and the rules for the request, a score is assigned to a party, such that the score represents the level of risk that would be undertaken if the party was engaged as a client. | 04-21-2011 |
20110093454 | SEARCH SYSTEM - A client device has a search request processing portion, an individual acquaintance table, and a personal relationship score reflection portion. The search request processing portion transmits a search request including a search condition to a search server device, and receives from the search server device a search result of searching for a person who meets the search condition. The individual acquaintance table stores an acquainted degree between persons calculated on the basis of a history of sending and receiving emails sent and received between the persons. The personal relationship score reflection portion assigns a score indicating an intensity of a personal relationship with a person who has inputted the search request to the person who has been searched out on the basis of the acquainted degree stored in the individual acquaintance table, and sorts the search result in descending order of the score. | 04-21-2011 |
20110093455 | SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF SHORT MESSAGES UTILIZING MESSAGING CONTEXT AND KEYWORD FREQUENCY - Systems and methods of identifying and retrieving messages that satisfy a search query using the context of the message and term frequencies are provided. One embodiment includes identifying at least one category relevant to the search query, wherein a plurality of scored keywords are associated with each category, selecting at least one of the scored keywords that is relevant to an identified category, performing a plurality of searches of messages from a social networking messaging service to retrieve messages, where at least one search includes retrieving messages based on the original search query and one of the selected scored keywords, scoring the retrieved messages with respect to each of the at least one identified categories using at least the scored keywords relevant to each category, and returning at least the message with the highest score as the search result. | 04-21-2011 |
20110093456 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION - A method of providing an Internet search results list in response to an Internet keywords search request includes: receiving a list of keywords, a list of web pages associated with the keywords in said list of keywords, and quality factors associated with keyword-web page combinations, the quality factors being determined from user activities in response to a site specific search request. The method further includes receiving the Internet keywords search request; retrieving a listing of web pages associated with keywords in the Internet keywords search request; ranking said web pages in said listing based upon associated quality factors to produce a ranked listing; and providing the ranked listing in response to the Internet keywords search request. | 04-21-2011 |
20110093457 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING RESOURCE POINTS OF RESOURCE INFORMATION AND DISTRIBUTING POINTS - An object of the present invention is to provide a system and method that provides an objective value evaluation with respect to various resources to be posted to a community by users over a network and accumulated in a database; and which allows this value to be distributed within the community. The system generates an association (link) with respect to the various resources to be accumulated in the database according to a content of an automatically retrieved tag as well as user behavior over the resource. Using these resources and their associations, the system automatically provides an objective valuation with respect to the entire community by a predetermined valuation method and further associates the points based on this valuation with the resource thereby to present the user a relative value within the community, wherein further based on the points, given points will be taken as a reward dividend to be allotted and distributed to the user who has posted the resource, thus allowing the points to be distributed in the community. | 04-21-2011 |
20110099162 | Semantic Space Configuration - Representing in a database, a collection of items characterized by features. In a data processing system, determining a semantic space representations of the features across the collection. Each representation characterized by parameters and settings, and differing from each other by only one of: the value of one parameter, and the configuration of one setting. Determining, for each feature pair of a set of feature pairs, the relatedness of the first feature to the second feature in each semantic space representation. And representing the collection by the semantic space that provides the best aggregate relatedness across the set of feature pairs. | 04-28-2011 |
20110099163 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDEXING, ORGANIZING, STORING AND RETRIEVING ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide indexing, organizing, storing and/or retrieving of environmental information regarding a proposed environment-modifying project, including information about an environment-modifying natural event or construction project (“project”); a natural, constructed or socioeconomic feature in the area of the project (“setting”); a change to the setting brought about by the project (“impact”); or a feature designed to ameliorate a potential environmental impact of the project (“mitigation”). The environmental information is indexed with metadata that may be hierarchically organized and made available to a reviewer in a controlled vocabulary or a user-defined vocabulary. | 04-28-2011 |
20110099164 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL OF DOCUMENTS AND ADVERTISING TARGETING - 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. The knowledge-database is used for improvement of advertising targeting. | 04-28-2011 |
20110099165 | Searching Of Databases - An intelligent search functionality is described, in which the search query is optimised through the use of semantic information provided by the elements of an index, or in which context-appropriate metadata tags are presented with search results in order of their potential utility in refining those search results. The step of pre-processing the search input by presenting the user with additional search options is based on metadata associated with various file types. Thus, potential additional selections are offered which are context-aware. The selection of the additional search terms allows the search data entered by the user to be optimised, providing much more focussed and accurate results when compared with a simple keyword search. | 04-28-2011 |
20110106792 | System and method for word matching and indexing - The invention provides a method for retrieving similar sounding words from an electronic database. An input or query word is first converted to a string of corresponding phonemes. The string of phonemes is then used to generate a key, with the key made up of elements corresponding to the phonemes. In a preferred embodiment the key elements correspond to classes of phonemes. The electronic database comprises a plurality of words, each of which have a corresponding, phoneme-based key. Words in the database having a key identical to the key of the input word are retrieved and output. The use of phonemes in generating the search key results in the retrieval of similar sounding words. In another aspect, the invention provides a method of providing a similarity score for an output word or a list of output words compared to an input word. All of the output words are converted into phonemes and the score is based on a comparison of the phonemes in the input word with the phonemes in each output word. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106793 | System for User Driven Ranking of Web Pages - Linked documents are ranked by observing link selections for referred documents from referring documents and counting such selections. The counts for each of the link selections are stored at various computer systems of a distributed network, a centralized collection of computers connected through a local network, or a hybrid system (collectively, the “system”) consisting of combinations of distributed and centralized systems, and processed (e.g., using a discrete probability distribution defined by the counts of the link selections) to obtain page ranks for the referred documents. The link selections may be observed by a browser extension running on individual ones of the computer systems of the distributed network and the counts of the link selections may be stored at locations within the system determined by a distributed hash table. Search request results may be displayed in a ranked order as determined by the page ranks. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106794 | Synthesis path evaluation system and method and program thereof - A synthetic route evaluation system extracts an optimal synthetic route from a plurality of synthetic routes for a target compound to be synthetically produced. The synthetic route evaluation system includes an arithmetic processing device, which is composed of a quantum chemistry calculation unit, a reaction mechanism analysis unit, and a synthetic route ranking unit, and a storage device for storing data relative to the synthetic routes. | 05-05-2011 |
20110113027 | DETECTING COMPETITIVE PRODUCT REVIEWS - One embodiment provides a system for recommending products. The system may include a search engine to retrieve, from a collection of product reviews, product review results using at least two input product names. The system may also include a template builder to build comparative sentence templates to define relationships between at least two product names, in which each comparative sentence template has a weight as a function of the defined relationship, and the search engine extracts one or more snippets matching at least one of the comparative sentence templates within each product review result. The system may further include a review ranking device to rank the product review search results based on the one or more extracted snippets, in which each snippet has a same weight as its matched comparative sentence template. | 05-12-2011 |
20110113028 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING CONTEXT-BASED ENTITY ASSOCIATION - A targeted advertising system performs context-based association mining using a publicly available corpus to identify a product or brand name that, under a given context, is associated with a product or brand being marketed. The system analyzes documents within the publicly available corpus that are associated with the given context, and identifies products or brand names that have a high association to the product or brand being marketed. The system can also analyze the publicly available corpus to determine contextual information which is correlated to two or more products or brand names. This contextual information includes a set of terms that facilitates filtering the publicly available corpus into an optimal set of documents that has a high association to a desired market category or demographic. | 05-12-2011 |
20110113029 | Matching Information Items - In one embodiment, a method of identifying the presence of matching information items in a network includes using a hashing scheme to generate a set of first hash values from a respective set of first information items stored at a first node and transmitting the set of first hash values over the network to a second node. The set of first hash values is compared at the second node with a set of second hash values generated, using the hashing scheme, from a respective set of second information items stored in the network, to thereby determine at least one matching hash value between the set of first hash values and the set of second hash values. The determined matching hash value is used to identify the presence of at least one matching information item between the set of first information items and the set of second information items. The hashing scheme is chosen so that a unique hash value in the hashing scheme indicates a sufficient number of information items to prevent the unique hash value being used as an identifier of a unique information item, such that the transmission of the set of first hash values to the second node does not disclose the set of first information items to the second node. | 05-12-2011 |
20110119257 | Method and System for Enterprise Search Navigation - A method can include receiving a search request from a user interface (UI), selecting one or more repositories in response to the search request, and displaying, on a display device, search results corresponding to the selected repositories. The selected repositories are a subset of a plurality of available repositories, as specified by an administrator. By selecting or de-selecting the available repositories, a user can define or refine a search of the available repositories. In various implementations, the method includes interface elements that assist a user in previewing revised search results based on revised selections of repositories, and/or selections of subcategories of information available in one or more of the repositories. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119258 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Methods and systems provide tools that enable users to manage electronic messages by obtaining additional information about senders, receivers or entities mentioned in messages. A computing device may identify a sender or recipient of an electronic message and search a database to obtain additional data about the sender or recipient. The additional data may be displayed with the electronic message. The additional data may also be used to calculate importance values that the computing device can use to highlight, preferentially display, or sort the electronic messages. The importance values may be calculated by applying sorting algorithms to the retrieved additional data based on user defined criteria. Importance values may also be based upon information obtained from messages. A graphical user interface may be implemented to enable users to specify criteria and weighting factors to apply in sorting electronic messages. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119259 | NETWORK BIOLOGY APPROACH FOR IDENTIFYING TARGETS FOR COMBINATION THERAPIES - Described herein is a network biology approach useful for the identification of multiple therapeutic targets, which can be targeted simultaneously using an agent (or a plurality of agents) to modulate cellular phenotypes, or in combination with pharmaceutical compounds to improve drug sensitivity and/or reduce drug doses to maintain efficacy while minimizing side effects. The preferred approach disclosed herein relies on first identifying the mediators of a condition of interest, and second, selecting gene combinations that are in competing/parallel pathways as targets for combination therapy. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119260 | BLENDING MOBILE SEARCH RESULTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for blending mobile search results. A method includes receiving a search query and multiple search results. The search results each satisfy the search query and have a respective search result quality score. The search results include generic and mobile search results. The generic and mobile search results each identify a generic and mobile resource, respectively. The search result quality scores include mobile and generic search result quality scores for the mobile and generic search results, respectively. The mobile search result quality scores and the generic search result quality scores were generated according to different scoring formulas. Based on one or more terms in the search query, the search query is classified as a mobile query. As a consequence, one or more search result quality scores are modified to improve the sorting of search results that include both mobile and generic search results. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119261 | SEARCHING USING SEMANTIC KEYS - A method, computer-readable medium, and a computer system for performing a search are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention provide a convenient and efficient mechanism for performing a search based on search data, where the search data may include a search query and at least one semantic key. The semantic key may be used to determine at least one document. Results from the search may be filtered using the at least one document. In this manner, more relevant search results may be returned. | 05-19-2011 |
20110125732 | INTERNAL RANKING MODEL REPRESENTATION SCHEMA - A markup language schema utilized to represent internal ranking models. In one implementation, the schema developed utilizes XML (extensible markup language) for internal ranking model representation. Other markups languages can be employed. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125733 | QUICK ACCESS UTILITY - Users are enabled to perform tasks such as creating new content, searching for items, communicating with other users through a simplified access interface, at the same time defining a location for the access interface. A user may begin typing at any location on a canvas. The system ranks possible outcomes, suggesting one as the best match, where the user can override that choice upon which the resulting action is displayed at the point the input was initially placed. The user may be provided options to select among available tasks and the tasks may be performed without selecting an application. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125734 | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GENERATION - A system, method and/or computer program product for automatically generating questions and answers based on any corpus of data. The computer system, given a collection of textual documents, automatically generates collections of questions about the documents together with answers to those questions. In particular, such a process can be applied to the so called ‘open’ domain, where the type of the corpus is not given in advance, and neither is the ontology of the corpus. The system improves the exploring of large bodies of textual information. Applications implementing the system and method include new types of tutoring systems, educational question-answering games, national security and business analysis systems, etc. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125735 | Architecture for responding to a visual query - A visual query such as a photograph, a screen shot, a scanned image, a video frame, or an image created by a content authoring application is submitted to a visual query search system. The search system processes the visual query by sending it to a plurality of parallel search systems, each implementing a distinct visual query search process. These parallel search systems may include but are not limited to optical character recognition (OCR), facial recognition, product recognition, bar code recognition, object-or-object-category recognition, named entity recognition, and color recognition. Then at least one search result is sent to the client system. In some embodiments, when the visual query is an image containing a text element and a non-text element, at least one search result includes an optical character recognition result for the text element and at least one image-match result for the non-text element. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125736 | Selecting High Quality Reviews for Display - A method and system of selecting reviews for display are described. Reviews for a subject are identified. A subset of the identified reviews is selected based on predefined quality criteria. The selection may also be based on zero or more other predefined criteria. A response that includes content from the selected reviews is generated. The content may include the full content or snippets of at least some of the selected reviews. | 05-26-2011 |
20110131202 | EXPLORATION OF ITEM CONSUMPTION BY CUSTOMERS - A method, system and computer program product for exploration of item consumption by customers are provided. The method includes profiling each customer with self attributes and related attributes in the form of consumed items; profiling each item with self attributes, first order related attributes in the form of customers of the profiled item, and second order related attributes in the form of items consumed by the customers of the profiled item; and indexing the customer profiles and item profiles in a faceted search engine for exploration by a user. Searching the customer profiles and item profiles is carried out by user selection of one or more attributes of the customers and/or items. The method includes refining the indexed profiles to a segment of the data in the form of a compound logic condition of the attributes of the customer and/or items. | 06-02-2011 |
20110137893 | CUSTOM RANKING MODEL SCHEMA - A customizable ranking model of a search engine using custom ranking model configuration and parameters of a pre-defined human-readable format. The architecture can employ a markup language schema to represent the custom ranking model. In one implementation, the schema developed utilizes XML (extensible markup language) for representing the custom ranking model. Weights for dynamic and static relevance ingredients can be altered per ranking model and new relevance ingredients can be added. Additionally, features are provided for improving relevance such as adding terms to a thesaurus for synonym expansion, for example, the ability to deal with single terms either as compounds, and/or using custom word breaking rules. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137894 | CONCURRENTLY PRESENTED DATA SUBFEEDS - When presenting a news feed (e.g., statuses of contacts in a social media network), it may be inefficient to display the data items in a single column according to a single filter, such as a designated group of contacts. Rather, from the data feed, a set of at least two data subfeeds may be generated based on different filters, and the at least two data subfeeds may be currently presented to the user (e.g., as two or more vertically aligned columns, each presenting a different set of data items based on a different filter.) The user may prefer the concurrent presentation due to the contextual separation of the data items according to different filters, and may more easily administrate the filters and groupings; e.g., dragging data items from one column to another column may alter the filters to achieve a more preferred sorting of data items in future presentations. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137895 | Hybrid Use of Location Sensor Data and Visual Query to Return Local Listings for Visual Query - A visual query is received from a client system, along with location information for the client system, and processed by a server system. The server system sends the visual query and the location information to a visual query search system, and receives from the visual query search system enhanced location information based on the visual query and the location information. The server system then sends a search query, including the enhanced location information, to a location-based search system. The search system receives and provides to the client one or more search results to the client system. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137896 | Information processing apparatus, predictive conversion method, and program - Provided is an information processing apparatus including an input portion, a metadata acquiring portion, a data forming portion, and a predictive converting portion. The input portion receives selection of content from a user. The metadata acquiring portion acquires metadata including a word indicative of information concerning the content whose selection was received by the input portion. The data forming portion extracts the word from the acquired metadata and forms predictive conversion data for each of the words. The predictive converting portion carries out predictive conversion of a word with respect to input data from the user using the formed predictive conversion data. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137897 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA ANALYSIS - A method for data analysis according to various aspects of the present invention generally includes selecting a conclusion from a plurality of conclusions for one or more test data sets by generating discriminators from one or more threshold indicators associated with the conclusion, selecting a portion of the discriminators, ranking the discriminators in a sequence, and applying the sequence of discriminators to one or more test data sets to select the conclusion. | 06-09-2011 |
20110145226 | PRODUCT SIMILARITY MEASURE - Queries submitted by users looking for products and/or services are monitored and collected over a time period. Webpages corresponding to products and/or services bought by the users in response to submitting the queries are also monitored and collected over the time period. Attributes are extracted from the webpages and the queries, and the attributes are correlated to identify attributes that are similar to one another. The attributes are correlated to identify attributes that are not substitutable in a query. The identified attributes may be used to rank products and/or services that are responsive to a query based on attributes associated with the products and/or services, or to recommend alternative queries based on a submitted query by substituting one or more attributes of the query with similar attributes. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145227 | DETERMINING PREFERENCES FROM USER QUERIES - A query may be received at a computing device through a network. One or more attribute values that are preferences for a subset of the one or more terms of the query may be identified by the computing device. One or more products or services having associated attributes that have values that match a subset of the identified attribute values may be identified by the computing device, and a subset of the identified products or services may be presented by the computing device through the network. Implementations may also identify latent preferences, that is, preferences that are found for a query even where such a preference is not explicitly part of a term or token of the query. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145228 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MULTI-LEVEL GEOGRAPHIC QUERY - According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method is provided for processing a query for points of interest (POIs) using a hierarchical grid structure representing a geographic area. The method includes receiving a query for POIs; defining a query footprint for the query based on a location corresponding to the query, wherein the query footprint comprises query spatial identifiers for a plurality of levels of the hierarchical grid structure; matching the query spatial identifiers with one or more POI spatial identifiers organized into a plurality of indexes, wherein each one of the plurality of indexes comprises an index of the POI spatial identifiers for one of the plurality of levels; and providing an output specifying one or more POIs corresponding to the matched POI spatial identifiers. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145229 | INDEXING AND SEARCHING PRODUCT IDENTIFIERS - A system, method and computer program product for processing a search query is presented. The method according to one embodiment includes receiving a search query containing one or more terms; processing the query to add one or more bi-words as terms to the query; searching a search index having product identifiers and individual logical parts of the product identifiers in association with particular documents or portions thereof indexed into different fields in context and content parts of the index; generating a context score based on at least some of the terms matching the product identifiers and the individual logical parts in the context part of the index; generating a content score based on at least some of the terms matching content terms in the content part of the index; and generating a document score by combining the context score and content score. | 06-16-2011 |
20110153596 | Scenario, Call, and Protocol Data Unit Hierarchical Comparator - A system, method and computer program product monitors the operation of a telecommunications network and receives source metadata at a metadata comparator. The source metadata is associated with data captured from a source in a telecommunications network. Target metadata associated with target data is also received at the metadata comparator. The source and target metadata are compared to identify metadata parameters that match or do not match. Bias data is also received at the metadata comparator. The bias data comprises weighting parameters and/or tolerance parameters. The weighting and tolerance parameters correspond to selected metadata parameters. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONTOLOGY-BASED LOCATION OF EXPERTISE - An expertise locator enables user defined correspondences between experts and respective certain objects. Each object inherits from classes in a hierarchy. Using the correspondences, a locator processor routine finds a candidate expert about a particular subject area. The candidate expert may be in a correspondence with a certain object whose class is a subclass of the particular subject area. Output may display an indication of the candidate expert, relevant expertise per candidate and/or a list of experts per certain object. In the case of the certain objects being topics, the hierarchy is an ontology of the topics. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153598 | Information Processing Apparatus and Method - An information processing apparatus includes a correction unit configured to correct item feature quantities representing, as an item, features of a recommendation target item for which a recommendation process for recommending an item having features resembling those of the recommendation target item is performed by using user preferences representing preferences of a recommendation target user who is a party to whom the item is recommended with respect to the item; a matching unit configured to compare the item feature quantities corrected by the correction unit with the item feature quantities of another item and search for another item having item feature quantities that resemble those of the recommendation target item; and a recommendation unit configured to recommend related items having features resembling those of the recommendation target item on the basis of the result of the matching by the matching unit. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153599 | Meta-Web - In one aspect, a system includes an information server, operable to perform operations comprising: receiving a search query from a user device; receiving search results responsive to the search query from a search engine; determining from a registry that user annotations or other metadata are associated with the received search results; ordering the search results according to their relevance, where the relevance is determined based at least in part on the user annotations or other metadata in the registry; generating a search results page including the ordered search results and an annotation tool, wherein the annotation tool provides functions that allow a user of the user device to provide annotations for a particular search result, and wherein the annotation tool receives annotations provided by the user for later use in generating search results pages; and transmitting the search results page to the user device for presentation. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153600 | METHOD AND WEB PLATFORM FOR BROKERING KNOW-HOW - A method for brokering of know-how in various formats between users on an electronic Web service platform includes the following steps: allowing users access to the electronic Web service platform, requesting registration data from a user on the platform, managing interest area categories, receiving user offers for know-how in at least one interest area category, enabling searches of users for know-how in at least one interest area category, calculating and displaying a rating in respect of offers in at least one interest area category, approving to a selected offer an agreed exchange of know-how and a corresponding transfer of credit points, conveying selected know-how from the provider to the consumer and booking a corresponding transfer of credit points, and accepting and storing a rating given to the provider by the consumer in respect of the transferred know-how, wherein the rating is assigned to the interest area category of the transferred know-how. There is not a general rating for a provider but a rating for skills or know-how in specific interest area categories. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153601 | INFORMATION ANALYSIS APPARATUS, INFORMATION ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information analysis apparatus | 06-23-2011 |
20110161313 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED END TO END CONTENT TRACKING IN PEER TO PEER ENVIRONMENTS - A method, computer readable medium and system for automatically tracking content in a peer-to-peer environment are disclosed. For example, the method monitors a number of times each content title of a plurality of content titles are downloaded in the peer-to-peer environment, adds one or more content titles of the plurality of content titles that are downloaded above a predetermined threshold to a list, downloads each one of the one or more content titles in the list via the peer-to-peer environment and verifies that each one of the one or more content titles that are downloaded matches at least one content title in the list. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161314 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING RESOURCES FOR PROVIDERS - A system for transmission, reception and accumulation of the knowledge packets to plurality of channel nodes in the network operating distributedly in a peer to peer environment via installable one or more role active Human Operating System (HOS) applications in a digital devise of each of channel node, a network controller registering and providing desired HOS applications and multiple developers developing advance communication and knowledge management applications and each of subscribers exploiting the said network resources by leveraging and augmenting taxonomically and ontologically classified knowledge classes expressed via plurality search macros and UKID structures facilitating said expert human agents for knowledge invocation and support services and service providers providing information services in the preidentified taxonomical classes, wherein each of channel nodes communicating with the unknown via domain specific supernodes each facilitating social networking and relationships development leading to human grid which is searchable via Universal Desktop Search by black box search module. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161315 | Pattern Searching Methods and Apparatuses - A computer-based method for identifying patterns in computer text using structures defining types of patterns which are to be identified, wherein a structure comprises one or more definition items, the method comprising assigning a weighting to each structure and each definition item; searching the computer text for a pattern to be identified on the basis of a particular structure, a pattern being provisionally identified if it matches the definition given by said particular structure; in a provisionally identified pattern, determining those of the definition items making up said particular structure that have been identified in the provisionally identified pattern; combining the weightings of the determined definition items and optionally, the weighting of the particular structure, to a single quantity; assessing whether the single quantity fulfils a given condition; depending on the result of said assessment, rejecting or confirming the provisionally identified pattern. | 06-30-2011 |
20110167059 | COMPUTER BASED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTABLISHING TRUST BETWEEN TWO OR MORE PARTIES - Methods, devices and systems for moderating and policing voluntarily established transparency regarding past and present, and personal and professional relationships via online networking services. Identity of a person or commercial entity is verified before registration as a user. Each user is permitted a single profile. A profile includes a record of all relationships entered in the profile, some of which may be hidden by user. Each user is capable of linking his profile to profiles of other consenting users. Owner of a profile may flag inaccurate information on other linked profiles. The reliability or value of information in a profile is measured as a function of duration of existence of profile, transparency of the information in the profile, periods of inactivation, and number of times the profile is correctly flagged. A code is generated and used to allow gradual exposing of the profile of a user to his prospective contacts. | 07-07-2011 |
20110173190 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND/OR APPARATUSES FOR IDENTIFYING AND/OR RANKING GRAPHICAL IMAGES - Embodiments of data processing and more specifically of methods, apparatuses and/or systems for use in identifying one or more graphical images and/or ranking or serving graphical images via one or more computing devices are disclosed. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173191 | ASSESSING QUALITY OF USER REVIEWS - User generated reviews and scores associated with the reviews may be used to train a review scoring model with textual features of the reviews. The review scoring model may be used to predict scores for newly received reviews. One or more constraints based on social networking application data associated with an author of a review may be used to adjust the predicted score of the review. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173192 | SEARCH METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE - A search method is provided, which includes: receiving a search request; extracting a user interest model from user personalized data according to the search request; obtaining a meta index of each member engine; selecting a member engine according to the meta index of each member engine, the search request, and the user interest model; and sending the search request to the selected member engine, so as to enable the selected member engine to complete searching. Correspondingly, a search system and related device, such as a search server and a scheduling server, are also provided, thereby improving the system efficiency and search precision. | 07-14-2011 |
20110179018 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STORING AND ACCESSING RETAIL CONTACTS - A method and device for storing and accessing retail contacts. The retail contact data includes retail contact information detailing a plurality of retail contacts, keywords, and a plurality of associations linking each retail contacts to at least one of the keywords. User input of a keyword results in display of the associated retail contacts. Selection of a retail contact from the display may result in initiation of a session such as a voice call or website access. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179019 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING UNEXPECTED, BUT RELEVANT CONTENT IN AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - An improved method for information retrieval in web query and recommendation systems, where items that are likely unfamiliar to the users of the system, but potentially relevant, are recommended. In a recommendation system having ratings by a plurality of users for a plurality of items, items are assigned to one or more data regions based on item attributes or user activity. Source regions are identified for each of the data regions. For a given user, data regions with which both the user and the user's social network are unfamiliar are identified. Within a given data region, the relevance of items to the user within such regions is evaluated using ratings provided by other users who have entered ratings similar to the user in source regions for the data region. Items receiving the highest relevance score are recommended to the user. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179020 | SCALABLE TOPICAL AGGREGATION OF DATA FEEDS - Data items of various data feeds (such as articles posted to a website or entries in an RSS feed) may be associated with various topics, but a user may be unable to monitor a large number of data feeds, and to avoid previously reviewed data items while searching for new data items. An aggregation service may monitor many data feeds, perform an automated topical evaluation of the data items, and generate a set of topical data feeds. Additional services may also be applied, such as filtering the topical data feeds by various criteria, translating data items from a native language into another language, and removing equivalent data items, such as articles redundantly covering the same news story. A centralized or cooperatively distributed service may scale for improved efficiency and value, since each data feed may be monitored and each data item received and evaluated on behalf of many users. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179021 | DYNAMIC KEYWORD SUGGESTION AND IMAGE-SEARCH RE-RANKING - A content-based re-ranking (CBR) process may be performed on query results based on a selected keyword that is extracted from previous query results, and thereby increase a relevancy of search results. A search engine may perform the CBR process using a target image that is selected from a plurality of image search results, the CBR to identify re-ranked image search results. Keywords may be extracted from the re-ranked image search results. A portion of the keywords may be outputted as suggested keywords and made selectable by a user. Finally, a refined CBR process may be performed based on the target image and a received selection a suggested keyword, the refined CBR to output the refined image search results. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179022 | METHOD OF ANALYZING CLAIMS OF A PATENT DOCUMENT AND PATENT ANALYSIS SYSTEM THEREOF - A method of analyzing claims of a patent includes retrieving a patent document. The patent document includes at least one claim. The method further includes analyzing the claim and a vocabulary database so as to generate at least one conjunction term of the claim with an analysis device, and evaluating quality of the claim according to the at least one conjunction term with the analysis device. | 07-21-2011 |
20110184940 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CHANGES IN THE RELEVANCE OF PAST SEARCH RESULTS - A query is received for a web search from a user, via a network. A search is performed for a first plurality of objects which match the query, whereby a first search result is produced. The first search result is ranked producing a first ranked search result. The occurrence of a trigger event is detected. A search is performed for a second plurality of objects accessible over the network which match the query, whereby a second search result is produced. The second search result is ranked producing a second ranked search result. The first ranked search result is compared with the second ranked search result wherein a delta score is determined for each reference in the second ranked search result. At least one of the references in the second ranked result set having a positive delta score is selected using and transmitted, over the network, to the user. | 07-28-2011 |
20110184941 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING AN OPTIMIZED SCORING FUNCTION FOR USE IN RANKING ITEM LISTINGS PRESENTED IN SEARCH RESULTS - Methods and systems for simulating a search, for the purpose of evaluating one or more scoring functions used in ordering item listings for presentation in a search results page are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a simulation platform includes a real-time simulation module that receives search result sets for search queries that result in the conclusion of a transaction. The result set is then processed by the simulation platform with one or more test scoring functions, such that the resulting position of the item listing that has resulted in the transaction can be compared with the actual position at which the item listing was displayed in the actual search results. For each test scoring function, an average rank shift metric is determined, and displayed, thereby providing a metric with which to base decisions about which scoring functions to use in the production system. | 07-28-2011 |
20110184942 | NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE FOR FACETED SEARCH/ANALYSIS OF SEMISTRUCTURED DATA - Embodiments of the invention broadly contemplate systems, methods, apparatuses and program products providing a faceted search tool enabling a user to enter a natural language query that contains representative terms the user wants to search for, and a convenient interface display in which the facets which contain the searched values are automatically resolved and presented. | 07-28-2011 |
20110184943 | AUTOMATICALLY SCHEDULE AND RE-SCHEDULE MEETINGS USING RESCHEDULE FACTORS FOR CONFLICTING CALENDAR EVENTS - A method for scheduling calendar events includes receiving a search request with a plurality of constraints, searching the calendaring system databases to obtain a set of candidate calendar events that meet at least some of the constraints, calculating event reschedule factors for each candidate calendar event for which at least one participant has a conflicting calendar event, ranking the set of candidate calendar events based in part of the event reschedule factors, and preparing them for presentation. In various embodiments and circumstances, event reschedule factors correspond to one or more of: the ease of rescheduling a conflicting calendar event, an ease of overwriting a conflicting calendar event, the response status of the participants, the number of participants in the conflicting calendar event. | 07-28-2011 |
20110184944 | Longevity analysis and modifiable attribute identification - A method, software, database and system for determining modifiable lifestyle attributes which when altered, can increase the longevity of an individual is presented. Based on an individual's pangenetic (genetic and epigenetic) attributes and by comparison with databases of attributes and longevity data, specific modifiable attributes which increase longevity, based on the individual's specific pangenetic makeup, can be identified. | 07-28-2011 |
20110191326 | COLLAPSIBLE SEARCH RESULTS - A first search result and a second search result and a second search result are received. The first search result represents data in a first data source, and the second search result represents data in a second data source. A source display structure is presented in a first window. The source display structure includes, at least, a representation of the first data source, and a representation of the second data source. The representation of the first data source includes, at least, a first identifier associated with the first data source, and a preview of the first search result. The representation of the second data source includes, at least, a second identifier associated with the second data source. Responsive to a first indication, the first search result is displayed. The first indication is received via a first control associated with the preview of the first search result. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191327 | Method for Human Ranking of Search Results - A search engine may perform a search for a user search query. A rankings of result items may be returned as a result of the search. The user may enter new suggested rankings for some of the items. The new suggested rankings may change the rankings of result items when other users search for the same search query at a later time. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191328 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING REPRESENTATIVE MEDIA CONTENT FROM AN ONLINE DOCUMENT - A system and method for extracting representative media content from an online document is described. One illustrative embodiment identifies a content section in the electronic document; identifies one or more media items referenced or contained in the content section; identifies, among the one or more media items, at least one image that satisfies one or more predetermined criteria applied during an analysis pertaining to the one or more media items; selects, from among the at least one image that satisfies the one or more predetermined criteria, a particular image as the representative image; and stores information about the representative image. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191329 | OPERATOR-ASSISTED ITERATIVE BIOMETRIC SEARCH - Biometric search methods, apparatus, and systems using operator input for an operator-assisted iterative biometric search are provided. In certain embodiments, a set of candidate records is received at a computing device. At least a first portion of the set of candidate records is displayed. An indication that a first candidate record in the set of candidate records is not a match to the probe record is received. A first search of the set of candidate records using the first candidate record is performed. A score assigned to a second candidate record in the set of candidate records is modified when the second candidate record is more likely to be a match to the first candidate record than a match to the probe record. At least a second portion of the set of candidate records is displayed. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191330 | Method of and System for Enhanced Content Discovery Based on Network and Device Access Behavior - A method of and system for enhanced content discovery based on network and device access behavior is disclosed. A method includes providing a remote catalog of global attributes values associated with content items that are based on interactions of a plurality of users with the content items. User interactions with a local device are monitored to determine user preferences and determine local attribute values associated with the content items that are based on interactions of the user with the content items. A subset of content items on the local device is selected based on matching user input with metacontent associate with the content items. The content items of the subset are presented in a ranked order based the user preferences, local attribute values, and the global attribute values. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191331 | Method of and System for Enhanced Local-Device Content Discovery - A method of and system for enhanced local-device content discovery is disclosed. A method includes providing a local collection of content items and associated metacontent on a device. The metacontent describes the informational content of the corresponding content items. A remote catalog of metacontent items and information describing relationships between the metacontent items is provided. Input is received from the user for finding at least one desired content item and a search query is formed including at least one metacontent item of the remote catalog based on matching the input from the user with metacontent items of the catalog and further based on the information describing relationships between the metacontent items. A subset of content items of the local collection associated with metacontent that at least partially matches the search query is selected and presented on a display device based on at least one ranking criterion. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191332 | Method of and System for Updating Locally Cached Content Descriptor Information - A method of and system for updating locally cached content descriptor information is disclosed. A method includes providing a remote catalog of metacontent associated with content items that describes their informational content. The method also includes providing a local collection of content items and associated metacontent. The method further includes, updating the metacontent associated with the content items of the local collection with metacontent of the remote catalog based on matching the content items of the local collection and remote catalog. The method includes receiving query input from the user for finding desired content items and determining a subset of content items of the local collection associated with metacontent that at least partially matches the query input in which at least one of the matching metacontents is from the remote catalog. The method also includes presenting the subset of content items based on at least one ranking criterion. | 08-04-2011 |
20110196859 | Visual Search Reranking - An initial ranked list of a first plurality of visual documents is obtained from a first source in response to a query, and a second plurality of visual documents relevant to the query is gathered from a plurality of second sources. Visual patterns identified from the second plurality of visual documents are compared with the first visual documents for reranking the first visual documents. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196860 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RATING USER GENERATED CONTENT IN SEARCH RESULTS - Generally, a method and apparatus provides for rating user generated content (UGC) with respect to search engine results. The method and apparatus includes recognizing a UGC data field collected from a web document located at a web location. The method and apparatus calculates: a document goodness factor for the web document; an author rank for an author of the UGC data field; and a location rank for web location. The method and apparatus thereby generates a rating factor for the UGC field based on the document goodness factor, the author rank and the location rank. The method and apparatus also outputs a search result that includes the UGC data field positioned in the search results based on the rating factor. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196861 | Propagating Information Among Web Pages - Web pages of a Website may be processed to improve search results. For example, information likely to pertain to more than just the Web page it is directly associated with may be identified. One or more other, related, Web pages that such information is likely to pertain to is also identified. The identified information is associated with the identified other Web page(s) and this association is saved in a way to affect a search result score of the Web page(s). | 08-11-2011 |
20110202525 | KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY SYSTEM WITH USER INTERACTIVE ANALYSIS VIEW FOR ANALYZING AND GENERATING RELATIONSHIPS - A knowledge model discovery system is configured to provide an interactive view having simultaneously displayed sub-views that include a relational data element view and a contextual view. Using the interactive view, a user may perform search and analysis of information organized with a knowledge management tool in conjunction with contextual information. The relational data element view may provide a relational visualization that displays data elements provided with the knowledge management tool as narrowed by the context of a user analysis. The contextual view may provide a depiction of the same data elements using a similar context. The relational data element view and the contextual view may be operated in coordination to maintain cohesiveness and similar context of the information displayed in the views. | 08-18-2011 |
20110208720 | APPRAISING DOMAIN NAMES USING COMPARATIVE DATA - Systems and methods of the present invention provide for the spinning and appraisal of a domain name. A list of keywords may be extracted from a domain name entered into a user interface on a client. These keywords may be compared to potential matches in a database and a result set may be compiled and displayed to the user. The client may also display a certified domain name appraisal using a plurality of logical groupings within a domain name appraisal process. This appraisal process may also include a multiplier derived from comparisons of registration statistics for various top level domains. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208721 | METHOD FOR CATEGORIZING PATENTED TECHNOLOGICAL INTERRELATIONSHIPS - A method for identifying patents which are relevant to a field of endeavor by first establishes a set of criteria for defining the field of endeavor and storing the set of criteria in a searchable medium. Using this set of criteria, boundaries are defined within which external data would be considered relevant to the set of criteria. Then a patent database is accessed and compared to the boundaries which have been set in order to identify patents which are relevant to the set of criteria. The patents in the patent database may be subdivided into subsections including at least the following subsections: claims, specification and prior art and optionally including the step of weighting the patents identified as relevant to the set of criteria dependent upon which subsection of each patent is relevant. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208722 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEGMENTING AND SUMMARIZING MEDIA CONTENT - An approach is provided for increasing content relevancy to user search queries by segmenting and summarizing media content. A probabilistic tag application segments a first media content item into at least a first segment and a second segment, associates a first keyword with the first segment, and assigns to the first keyword a first probability value indicating relevance of the first keyword to the first segment. Thereafter, the probabilistic tag application includes the first segment in a search result, in response to a search query including the first keyword. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208723 | CALCULATING RELIABILITY SCORES FROM WORD SPLITTING - Systems and methods of the present invention provide for the word splitting and reliability score for an entered character string. A list of keywords may be extracted from the character string entered into a user interface on a client. These keywords may be compared to potential matches in a dictionary database and a reliability score for word splits and keywords strings may be compiled and displayed to the user. The client may also display the reliability score using a plurality of logical groupings within a reliability score process. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208724 | Entity Display Priority In A Distributed Geographic Information System - A system for ranking geospatial entities is described. In one embodiment, the system comprises an interface for receiving ranking data about a plurality of geospatial entities and an entity ranking module. The module uses a ranking mechanism to generate place ranks for the geospatial entities based on the ranking data. Ranked entity data generated by the entity ranking module is stored in a database. The entity ranking module may be configured to evaluate a plurality of diverse attributes to determine a total score for a geospatial entity. The entity ranking module may be configured to organize ranked entity data into placemark layers. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208725 | REGISTRATION AND MAINTENANCE OF ADDRESS DATA FOR EACH SERVICE POINT IN A TERRITORY - A computer system and method is disclosed for mining current and archived address data in order to identify a preferred address for each service point in a territory. The data mining system may start in response to the presentation of a candidate address for matching The set of mined data may be prioritized by clustering like characteristics, building similarity matrices, and by constructing dendrograms with nodes joined according to common characteristics. A computer system and method for maintaining a central database of preferred addresses is also disclosed. Selected address data gathered in a queue may be scored by characteristic, grouped by consignee location, and staged for processing. The scored queue of data may be prioritized by clustering like characteristics, building similarity matrices, and by constructing dendrograms. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208726 | SERVER FOR AGGREGATING SEARCH ACTIVITY SYNCHRONIZED TO TIME-BASED MEDIA - 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. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208727 | ELECTRONIC PREVIOUS SEARCH RESULTS LOG - A method for providing a viewable search results log to allow determination of the effectiveness of search strategies and sharing results of searches with others. The search results log reveals search strategies utilized by a human searcher with which the search results log is associated. The search results produced by at least one human searcher are stored in the search results log and presented according to a view format selected by a viewer. The search results log can be interrelated to other systems such as a blog or a search engine. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208728 | Computer System, Method, and Computer Program For Extracting Terms From Document Data Including Text Segment - A computer system, method, and article of manufacture for extracting a term from electronic document data that includes a text segment. The system includes: a first extraction unit that uses a first text processing information to extract a noun word from the document data; a second extraction unit that uses a second text processing information to extract a term candidate in relation to the noun word or a corpus that includes text data described in the same language used in the document data; a weight assignment unit that uses a third text processing information to select which type to assign a weight from the plurality of types and assigns the weight to the selected type for each noun word and term candidate; a determination unit that determines the type to which the noun word and term candidate belong; and an output unit to output the noun word and term candidate. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208729 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - The invention provides an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing program that can improve convenience of a user and facilitate participation of a user, with respect to an existing group having members (users). | 08-25-2011 |
20110213770 | AGENT RANK - The present invention provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for searching and ranking linked information sources. The techniques include receiving multiple content items from a corpus of content items; receiving digital signatures each made by one of multiple agents, each digital signature associating one of the agents with one or more of the content items; and assigning a score to a first agent of the multiple agents, wherein the score is based upon the content items associated with the first agent by the digital signatures. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213771 | HYBRID SEARCH SYSTEM, HYBRID SEARCH METHOD, AND HYBRID SEARCH PROGRAM - When a plurality of information search means are combined to search for information, a hybrid search system dynamically switches between combinations of information search means and ways of collecting search results from the plurality of information search means. In other words, the hybrid search system includes: a configuration management unit | 09-01-2011 |
20110218988 | DETERMINATION OF APPLICABLE TIME ZONE OF A WEB BROWSER - Exemplary method, system, and computer program embodiments for establishing an applicable local time zone of a web browser in a computing environment are provided. In one such embodiment, a plurality of time zone offsets is queried over a predetermined period of time to obtain a listing of possible time zones. Ones of the listing of possible time zones matching a polled absolute coordinated universal time (UTC) offset are selected. A plurality of weights are assigned to the selected ones of the listing of possible time zones based on at least one of the matching polled absolute UTC offset, a matching daylight savings observance type, a matching Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) accept-language header and a human population size. The listing of possible time zones is sorted based on the plurality of assigned weights. | 09-08-2011 |
20110218989 | Information Search Method and System - The present disclosure provides an information search method and system applicable in an information search system wherein each document has corresponding forward index data to address the issue of low search efficiency suffered by existing information search techniques. In one aspect, the method may include: receiving an inquiry word and obtaining one or more keywords contained in the inquiry word by segmentation; searching one or more documents matching the one or more keywords and forward index data corresponding to the one or more documents through the information search system's inverted index data; and determining an abstract of each of the one or more documents according to a corresponding document's forward index data, and outputting the abstract and information of the one or more documents as a search result. The proposed techniques can increase efficiency of information search and, at the meantime, guarantee accuracy of the search to a certain extent. | 09-08-2011 |
20110218990 | DATA STORAGE, RETRIEVAL, MANIPULATION AND DISPLAY TOOLS ENABLING MULTIPLE HIERARCHICAL POINTS OF VIEW - Systems and methods for data storage, retrieval, manipulation and display provide search engines and computer-based research tools for enabling multiple hierarchical points of view. Category definitions in the hierarchical data structures can include lists of set members, like word arrays of set members, generative descriptions for determining set members, and fitness functions for determining fitness of a presented item for being a member of a set. Significance and interest values can be assigned to search categories to set threshold confidence levels for returning search results and for weighting the results, respectively. A user interface can present results in the form of browsing multiple hierarchical representations, wherein matching categories are differentiated from non-matching categories. Peer ratings can represent the ranking of search term results with relation to results using other search terms, providing an indication of the fitness of the search terms for returning satisfactory results. | 09-08-2011 |
20110218991 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF NEEDY QUERIES - The present invention relates to methods, systems, and computer readable media comprising instructions for identifying needy queries for which additional responsive content is needed. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a query comprising one or more terms and retrieving one or more content items identified as responsive to the query, the one or more content items ranked according to one or more ranking techniques. A score is generated for the one or more ranked content items identified as responsive to the query. A determination is thereafter made as to whether the query is needy based upon a comparison of the one or more scores associated with the one or more content items identified as responsive to the query and a needy query score threshold. | 09-08-2011 |
20110225149 | INPUT ASSISTANCE DEVICE, METHOD THEREOF, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INPUT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - An input assistance device includes: an operation unit configured to accept information selected by a user from a plurality of input candidates; a storage unit configured to store a priority for displaying the plurality of input candidates according to a display order, the priority determined based on an input history of information accepted by the operation unit in association with each of the plurality of input candidates; and a control unit configured to refer to the storage unit, to change the display order of the input candidates determined based on the priority into other display order by replacing a first input candidate among the plurality of input candidates in a first range from a top percentile priority with a second input candidate in a second range that is outside of the first range, and to output the plurality of input candidates according to the other display order. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225150 | Automatically Acquiring Acoustic Information About Music - Methods, apparatus, and storage media to build a music metadata library from music collections stored on a plurality of client computing devices. A music server may receive, from a first client computing device of the plurality of client computing device, a unique identifier for a track stored in the first client computing device. The music server may determine if the track is a known track corresponding to acoustic metadata that is already contained in the music metadata library. When the track is not a known track, the music server may send a message indicating the track is a new track to the first client computing device. The music server may then receive acoustic metadata for the track from the first client computing device and store the received acoustic metadata in the music metadata library. | 09-15-2011 |
20110231393 | Determining Presence Of A User In An Online Environment - Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for determining presence of a first user by a second user in an online environment. The first user provides the first user's profile information and characteristic information. The first user marks keywords in the characteristic information. The first user marks the keywords based on inference of second user's knowledge about the first user. The marked keywords are categorized into predefined categories. The second user provides search words. The search words are compared with the characteristic information and the keywords to find matches. The matches are weighted. Search indexes are generated for the weighted matches based on a predetermined criterion. The weighted matches with the generated search indexes are provided to the second user. The selected profile information corresponding to the predefined categories comprising the categorized keywords for which the weighted matches have high search indexes, is displayed to the second user. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231394 | BOOTSTRAP AND ADAPT A DOCUMENT SEARCH ENGINE - Architecture that employs a modeling technique based on language modeling to estimate a probability of a document matching the user need as expressed in the query. The modeling technique is based on the data mining results that various portions of a document (e.g., body, title, URL, anchor text, user queries) use different styles of human languages. Thus, the results based on a language can be adapted individually to match the language of query. Since the approach is based on adaptation, the framework also provides a natural means to progressively revise the model as user data are collected. Different styles of languages in a document can be recognized and adapted individually. Background language models are also employed that offer a fallback approach in case the document has incomplete fields of data, and can utilize topical or semantic hierarchy of the knowledge domain. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231395 | PRESENTING ANSWERS - Systems, methods, and computer-storage media for presenting answers are provided. The system includes a search engine to receive user queries and contexts, a query understanding component to provide results, and an answer generator to present answers to the user queries. The answers may include a link to a browser that provides a graph, table, or cluster for the results, where nodes of the graph are associated with a confidence level. | 09-22-2011 |
20110238657 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING RELEVANT PROPERTIES OF WORK CONTEXTS FOR USE BY INFORMATION SERVICES - An information retrieval system for automatically retrieving information related to the context of an active task being manipulated by a user. The system observes the operation of the active task and user interactions, and utilizes predetermined criteria to generate context representation of the active task that are relevant to the context of the active task. The information retrieval system then processes the context representation to generate queries or search terms for conducting an information search. The information retrieval system determines the relevance of a word to the context by utilizing an adaptive weighting system. The information retrieval system assigns varying weights to different attributes of a word and calculates an accumulated weight of the word by accumulating all weights assigned to the word. The attributes may include word size, style, location of the word, etc. The system then ranks the importance of words based on their respective accumulated weight, and chooses words that rank within a predetermined number from the top to form search terms to conduct an information search using various data sources. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238658 | RETRIEVING CONFIGURATION RECORDS FROM A CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT DATABASE - A method is provided of retrieving a configuration record from a configuration management database pertaining to an IT-infrastructure including host devices, a configuration record having attributes and assigned attribute values, the IT-infrastructure being managed by an operation management system providing messages indicating events in the IT-infrastructure. The method includes providing a message including a set of unidentified attribute values and an identified host value, retrieving from the configuration management database one or more configuration records containing the identified host value, and selecting from the one or more retrieved configuration records a configuration record depending on the number of matches between the unidentified attribute values and the attribute values of the retrieved configuration records. | 09-29-2011 |
20110246455 | DATA SEARCH DEVICE, DATA SEARCH METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A data search device to extract relevant data matching a specified requirement from multiple pieces of data to be searched stored in a database. The data search device includes a specified requirement data acquisition unit to acquire specified requirement data including the specified requirement, a data extraction unit to extract the relevant data based on the specified requirement data, an extracted data counter to count a number of pieces of the relevant data for each piece of classification data provided for the data to be searched, a display data generation unit to generate data to display the number of pieces of the relevant data counted for each piece of classification data on a coordinate space based on the classification data, and a positional data storage unit to store positional data including coordinates for specifying a position in the coordinate space and the classification data associated with the coordinates. | 10-06-2011 |
20110252022 | DYNAMIC GENERATION OF RELEVANT ITEMS - Various embodiments dynamically generate relevant items for a user based on a user's location and an item's popularity. In at least some embodiments, a probability component generates a ranked list of items that are relevant to users at a particular location using probability data associated with the list of items and the particular location. The probability data is based on user selections of items in the list of items. | 10-13-2011 |
20110252023 | Method and Apparatus For Searching For Text Messages - A method is performed on a handheld device that involves receiving a search term and searching through stored text message information of multiple text messages for the search term. A listing of text message conversations are listed on the display where each listed conversation has at least one text message whose text message information was found to include the search term. And, in response to a user selection of one of the conversations, a sequence of text messages within the one selected conversation is displayed. | 10-13-2011 |
20110252024 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IDENTIFYING OBJECTS AS AT LEAST POTENTIALLY UNWANTED BASED ON STRINGS OF SYMBOLS - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for identifying objects as being at least potentially unwanted based on strings of symbols identified therein. In use, strings of symbols are identified in a plurality of sequential lines of an object. Further, the object is conditionally identified as being at least potentially unwanted, based on the strings of symbols. | 10-13-2011 |
20110258181 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING SEMANTIC SIMILARITIES BETWEEN MESSAGES AND CONVERSATIONS BASED ON ENHANCED ENTITY EXTRACTION - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for estimating a similarity level between documents. During operation, the system receives a number of documents, extracts a number of semantic entities from the documents, calculates the similarity level between the documents based on the extracted semantic entities, and produces a result indicating similar documents based on the calculated similarity level. | 10-20-2011 |
20110258182 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACTING DATA FROM ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT PAGE INCLUDING MULTIPLE COPIES OF A FORM - In a document analysis system that receives and processes jobs from a plurality of users, in which each job may contain multiple electronic documents, to extract data from the electronic documents, a method of extracting data from a received electronic document page that includes multiple copies of a form is provided. The method comprising: automatically processing a received electronic document page that includes multiple copies of a form to group the multiple copies into corresponding number of records; automatically extracting data from each of the multiple copies of the form and saving the extracted data into the corresponding record; automatically comparing the extracted data in the records to determine which copy of the extracted data to select; if all extracted data instances are identical, assigning a high confidence score to the extracted data; and, if all extracted data instances are not identical, flagging the extracted data for a further processing. | 10-20-2011 |
20110258183 | Autocompletion of Partial Search Query with Return of Predicted Search Results - A set of ordered predicted completion strings are presented to a user as the user enters text in a text entry box (e.g., a browser or a toolbar). The predicted completion strings can be in the form of URLs or query strings. The ordering may be based on any number of factors (e.g., a query's frequency of submission from a community of users). URLs can be ranked based on an importance value of the URL. Privacy is taken into account in a number of ways, such as using a previously submitted query only when more than a certain number of unique requestors have made the query. The sets of ordered predicted completion strings is obtained by matching a fingerprint value of the user's entry string to a fingerprint to table map which contains the set of ordered predicted completion strings. | 10-20-2011 |
20110258184 | CHANGING RANKING ALGORITHMS BASED ON CUSTOMER SETTINGS - Search term ranking algorithms can be generated and updated based on customer settings, such as where a ranking algorithm is modeled as a combination function of different ranking factors. An end user of a search system provides personalized preferences for weighted attributes, generally or for a single instance of the query. The user also can indicate the relative importance of one or more ranking factors by specifying different weights to the factors. Ranking factors can specify document attributes, such as document title, document body, document page rank, etc. Based on the attribute weights and the received user query, a ranking algorithm function will produce the relevant value for each document corresponding to the user preferences and personalization configurations. | 10-20-2011 |
20110264651 | LARGE SCALE ENTITY-SPECIFIC RESOURCE CLASSIFICATION - A system and method is described for large scale entity-specific classification of each entity-specific set of candidates in a collection of candidates for each specific entity in a collection of entities. The collection of entities may comprise a specific category or domain of entities (e.g. schools, restaurants, manufacturers, products, events, people). Candidates may comprise webpages or other resources with resource identifiers. Entity specific sets of candidates may be found by leveraging search engine query results and user interaction therewith for queries based on entity-specific attributes. The relationship(s) or class(es) for which candidate resources are being classified relative to a specific entity may comprise an authoritative, official home page (OHP), or other class (e.g. fan page, review, aggregator) relative to a specific entity. A feature generator generates entity-specific features for candidates. In accordance with its features, one or more classifiers rank each candidate for a specific class for a specific entity. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264652 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MATCHING AN UTTERANCE TO A TEMPLATE HIERARCHY - A system and methods for matching at least one word of an utterance against a set of template hierarchies to select the best matching template or set of templates corresponding to the utterance. The system and methods determines at least one exact, inexact, and partial match between the at least one word of the utterance and at least one term within the template hierarchy to select and populate a template or set of templates corresponding to the utterance. The populated template or set of templates may then be used to generate a narrative template or a report template. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264653 | SPREADING COMMENTS TO OTHER DOCUMENTS - A server device is configured to receive a comment associated with a first document, the comment corresponding to a first portion of the first document; identify a second document that includes a second portion that matches the first portion of the first document; and store the comment in association with the first document and the second document. The server device is further configured to receive, from a client device, information that the client device is accessing the second document, and transmit the comment for presentation in connection with the second document on a display associated with the client device. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270825 | Method and System for general matching and assignment between seekers and providers - The invention is a framework and a matching and assignment engine for connecting seekers with providers. It is meant for complex searches like job search, relationship search (dating), real estate search, car search etc. The system works by collecting attributes and weighted preferences from seekers and providers. The matching engine determines a match score based on match between the attributes and preferences of both the seeker and provider. The assignment engine then looks at the match scores and the supply and demand and assigns seekers to providers in a way that minimizes mismatch. The assignments change dynamically when supply and demand changes because of some event (a seeker or provider finds a match, a new seeker or provider becomes available, etc.). It is a web based software application. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270826 | DOCUMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A document analysis system includes a database that stores documents, a document evaluation module that evaluates the documents by using features of the documents, and a user interface (UI) output unit that provides an evaluation result of the documents, which is produced by the document evaluation module, upon call of the documents. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270827 | KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVAL AND RECOLLECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A method of extracting knowledge comprising: initiating a search application; displaying a user search interface; receiving input parameters via the search interface; identifying a query type based on received input parameters; formulating a database query based on the received input parameters; transmitting the database query to a database, the database being in communication with a file archive indexer for indexing a file archive for storing files and data regarding the files; obtaining database query results from the database, the database storing the user activity data and actual content accessed by the user; providing database query results to a result analyzer module; and displaying search result analyzer module results to a user. | 11-03-2011 |
20110276563 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR SECURITY IN PROFILE UTILIZING SYSTEMS - Security and distributed storage is described for systems using electronic profile information. Embodiments may be utilized for ID, data, and access analysis. Dynamic distributed redundant encryption may be used that may be based on user, device, location, context information, physical, or environmental characteristics. | 11-10-2011 |
20110276564 | INDEXING AND SEARCHING PRODUCT IDENTIFIERS - A system, method and computer program product for indexing a product identifier and logical parts thereof includes receiving a product identifier; splitting the product identifier into logical parts; indexing the product identifier and the individual logical parts in an index; and storing the index, wherein the index is created by encoding the product identifier and the individual logical parts of the product identifier into separate fields of a document, wherein different weights are assigned to separate fields based on the field types such as product identifier or logical parts of the product identifier field, wherein different weights are assigned to words based on the word types including bi-words, wherein the fields and weights are encoded to word positions in the document, wherein the weights affect a score generated upon performing a query using the index. A system, method and computer program product for processing a search query is also presented. | 11-10-2011 |
20110282869 | Access to information by quantitative analysis of enterprise web access traffic - A method for improving search quality by quantitative analysis of enterprise web access traffic is disclosed. This invention relates to the field of data processing systems and more particularly to the field of knowledge management in corporate or enterprise. Performing search on heterogeneous data in an enterprise is complex and challenging. Present day technologies deploy costly and time consuming methods involving manual operation of data integration, pre-processing, mining and interpretation tools. Further, these methods are inefficient in retrieving relevant data. The proposed method discloses a method for exhaustive monitoring and analysis of intranet traffic to identify and retrieve relevant data in enterprise search. Resource relevance is revealed by traffic analyzer based on empirical, content-independent metric. Further, analysis of intranet traffic provides effective, timely and personalized information resource to user for selective information discovery, cross-linking of disjoint data repositories, one-click navigation to popular applications, index trimming and the like. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282870 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING A MULTIPARAMETER REAGENT COMBINATION AND FOR AUTOMATED FLUORESCENCE COMPENSATION - The invention provides a system and method for selecting an optimal multimarker reagent combination for the identification and/or quantification of molecules in or on cells with or without reference to fluorescence or other properties of at least one fluorescent dye or other instrument-measurable atom or molecule associated directly or indirectly with the reagent combination. The method includes specifying, using a computer, a plurality of markers to be detected by a plurality of reagents, generating, using a computer, a plurality of reagent combinations comprising the plurality of reagents to detect the plurality of markers, wherein the reagent combinations are ranked according to at least one user-defined or system-defined criterion, and selecting the optimal reagent combination or providing a rank-ordered list of combinations. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282871 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON DENSITY - A system and method is provided of generating a map. In one aspect, the map is selected based on a location provided by a user and listings are selected based on their proximity to the location, whether they match a query provided by the user, and the number of matching listings within regions of the map. | 11-17-2011 |
20110289075 | Music Recommender - A playlist is generated and modified using a music recommender (MR). The MR may track users' actions to skip a song or listen to the songs in succession. In some embodiments, a mood may be generated by the MR by aggregating arrays of songs that users listen to consecutively based on one or more common traits. The MR may select a mood and generate a playlist automatically in some examples. The MR may be adaptive and modify the users' moods according to users' further actions. | 11-24-2011 |
20110289076 | INTEGRATED AUTOMATIC USER SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE - A method of integrated automatic support and assistance includes identifying a user and retrieving models representing the user's device, apparatus, service, or system, receiving a query from the user, as necessary refining the query, determining if the received query is a machine translatable query, restructuring machine translatable terms of the received query into semantic components based upon the retrieved models, determining a set of candidate knowledge bases both related to the semantic components, submitting the machine translatable query to each knowledge base of the set of candidate knowledge bases, receiving a set of responses from each knowledge base of the set of knowledge bases in response to the submitting, formatting the set of responses, submitting the formatted set of responses to the user, determining if a response of the submitted formatted set of responses is accepted by the user, applying updated weights within the formatted set of responses, and storing the updated weights for future queries. | 11-24-2011 |
20110289077 | PREFERENCE STACK - Systems and methods for customizing the display of a set of data using a preference stack interface. The preference stack interface allows a user to interact with an ordered list of criterion objects. Each criterion object corresponds to an attribute of the data set to be presented to the user. In response to a change in the order of the criterion objects in the preference stack, a rendering of the dataset can be updated to differently and visually emphasize items according to which criterion objects each item meets. | 11-24-2011 |
20110289078 | GLOBAL REVERSE LOOKUP PUBLIC OPINION DIRECTORY - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to Internet resource metadata creation and utility and provide a method, system and computer program product for the transformation of articles creating subjective metadata utilized for discovery into articles creating mathematical data that is inherently dynamic, global, composed of auditable elements, conducive to relational cross-reference, and utilized to produce statistical opinion data. | 11-24-2011 |
20110295843 | DYNAMIC GENERATION OF CONTEXTUALLY AWARE PLAYLISTS - The embodiments described herein utilize various user-centric metrics to define and/or refine the generation of a contextually aware media playlist. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295844 | ENHANCING FRESHNESS OF SEARCH RESULTS - Methods, systems, and computer-storage media for improving the freshness, or the apparent freshness, of search results are described. In an embodiment, the first portion of search results presented on a search results page are based on responsiveness to the search query and a second portion of results describe only recently published documents that are responsive to the search query. In an embodiment, a more recent version of the document, which is not directly used to determine responsiveness, is used to build the caption for a search result. Another way to make search results appear fresh is to include a publication time within the search result caption. In one embodiment, the publication time is generated by calculating a point in time between when a document is first added to a search index and the previous time the search engine visited the site where the document was found. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295845 | Semi-Supervised Page Importance Ranking - Importance ranking of web pages is performed by defining a graph-based regularization term based on document features, edge features, and a web graph of a plurality of web pages, and deriving a loss term based on human feedback data. The graph-based regularization term and the loss term are combined to obtain a global objective function. The global objective function is optimized to obtain parameters for the document features and edge features and to produce static rank scores for the plurality of web pages. Further, the plurality of web pages is ordered based on the static rank scores. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295846 | PREDICTING CONTENT AND CONTEXT PERFORMANCE BASED ON PERFORMANCE HISTORY OF USERS - Systems and methods are provided for selecting contexts for new invitational content and invitational content for new contexts. In particular, a performance history of delivered invitational content in known contexts is combined with similarity measures for the delivered invitational content, with respect to a new invitational content, to generate a list of potential contexts for the new invitational content. Similarly, a performance history of in known contexts with delivered invitational content can combined with similarity measures for known contexts, with respect to a new context, to generate a list of potential content for the new context. Further, a combination of these methods can be used to pair new invitational content with new contexts. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295847 | CONCEPT INTERFACE FOR SEARCH ENGINES - Concepts are presented related to a search engine query. Users can subsequently navigate search results and/or reformulate a query at a conceptual level. In one instance, users can specify weight with respect to one or more concepts to capture interest or lack of interest with respect to search intent. Based on one or more weights, a search query can be modified and results presented to a user along with associated concepts to enable continued interaction. Additionally or alternatively, organization and/or presentation of search results as well as advertisements can be influenced by user-specified weights or other interactions with concepts. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295848 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A RESPONSE TO A STIMULUS - The present invention provides a computer based, online and mobile app system that collects, filters and aggregates market data by flashing products, music clips, words, photos and other images at users and measuring the speed of their responses to 1/100 | 12-01-2011 |
20110302155 | RELATED LINKS RECOMMENDATION - The related links recommendation technique described herein employs combined collaborative filtering to recommend related web pages to users. The technique creates multiple collaborative filters which are combined in order to create a combined collaborative filter to recommend web pages similar to a given web page to a user. One query-based collaborative filter is created by using query search clicks (e.g., user input device selection actions on search results returned in response to a search query). Another user-behavior-based collaborative filter is created by using query search clicks and user clicks while browsing websites (e.g., user input device selection actions while a user is browsing websites). Lastly, another content-based collaborative filter based on similar content of web pages is created by finding web pages with similar content. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302156 | RE-RANKING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON LEXICAL AND ONTOLOGICAL CONCEPTS - Search result re-ranking is provided by employing a concept graph from a metabase. When a search query is received, a query context of the search query is analyzed to identify dominant concepts for the search query. The dominant concepts are expanded by identifying the dominant concepts within a concept graph and identifying additional concepts having a strong relationship with the dominant concepts within the concept graph. A set of search results for the search query is analyzed to determine strength of relationship of each search result to the expanded concepts. The search results are re-ranked based on the strength of relationship of each search result to the expanded concepts and the strength of relationship of each expanded concept to the dominant concepts. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302157 | COMPARATIVE ENTITY MINING - One or more techniques and systems are disclosed for generating comparative patterns for use in identifying comparators. A set of comparator pairs is extracted from a first comparative pattern in a pattern database that comprises one or more comparative patterns. Questions are retrieved from a question collection using respective comparator pairs to generate comparative questions. Potential comparative patterns are generated from a combination of the comparator pairs and comparative questions, and the potential comparative patterns are evaluated by determining their reliability, in order to generate second comparative patterns for the pattern database. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302158 | INTEREST BASED ROW SELECTION - One embodiment of the invention sets forth a mechanism for recommending genres and associated digital items to a user. Genres that are of interest to the user are determined based on user preferences gathered implicitly or explicitly. The genres are then scored and sorted based on different scoring and sorting techniques. A subset of the scored and sorted genres is then selected for recommending to the user. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302159 | COLLEGE SEARCH SYSTEM - A method and programmed computing system ( | 12-08-2011 |
20110302160 | Predicting User Responses to Invitations in a Social Networking System Based on Keywords in User Profiles - A social networking system selects a subset of keywords from a set of master keywords found in user profiles. The method includes selecting a first and second group of user profiles including one or more keywords and computing the number of occurrences of each of the master keywords in the first and second group of profiles. A value may be computed for each of the master keywords based on a comparison of the number of occurrences in the first group of profiles and the number of occurrences in the second group of profiles. The computed value may be used for selecting the subset of keywords from the master keywords and/or ranking the master keywords. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302161 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A LINK IN AN ELECTRONIC FILE BEING PRESENTED TO A USER - A method for providing a link in an electronic file being presented to a user which includes defining a customized viewpoint for the user. The viewpoint includes a preference for the user that provides an association between a data pattern and a computer network resource. The method also includes generating a request for content, receiving an electronic file in response to the request, and evaluating the electronic file to recognize a match between at least one portion of the electronic file and the data pattern. Upon recognizing a match, the electronic file is modified to include a link to the computer network resource associated with the matching data pattern, and the modified electronic file is presented to the user. Thus, the link included in the electronic file presented to the user is customized for the user, and different users who retrieve the same content can be provided with links to different computer network resources depending on their respective viewpoints. | 12-08-2011 |
20110307474 | PARTY REPUTATION AGGREGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A party reputation aggregation unit determines and collects the reputation of a party from various sources. Further, the party reputation aggregation unit provides for the weighing and aggregation of such data, including reputation data of the party, reputation data of the party's relationships, reputation data of the party's social networks and reputation data of the members of the party's social network so that a complete picture of an individual or organization may be provided to a qualified requestor for his/her use/assessment. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307475 | TECHNIQUES TO FIND PERCENTILES IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Techniques to search for data elements in a distributed computing environment are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor and a memory unit communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory unit may store a correlation module that when executed by the processor is operative to determine a target rank position at a target percentile rank within a total data set. The correlation module may determine a target data item at the target rank position for the total data set using candidate data items at candidate rank positions for each of multiple sorted data subsets of the total data set, and correlation values associated with each of the candidate data items. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307476 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING QUALITY OF ADDRESS INFORMATION FOR PHYSICAL LOCATIONS - An approach is provided for providing a user with a ranked list of possible physical addresses in response to an address submitted by the user. An address submitted by a user is parsed and a number of possible candidate addresses are generated from the user provided address. The quality of the candidate addresses is ranked according to the quality of their individual address elements and factors applied to these elements. An overall quality score for each candidate address is thereby derived. The list of candidate address is displayed to the user according to overall quality score ranking | 12-15-2011 |
20110307477 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC GROUPING OF UNSTRUCTURED CONTENT - A computer automated method and apparatus for aggregating unstructured content. The method includes the steps of defining a structured data set based upon unstructured content, storing the structured data set into the computer database system, inputting a set of user-defined instructions into a computer database system, inputting a user query including data attributes into the computer database system, mining the structured data set for data relevant to the user query, creating a results data set comprising the data relevant to the user query, and aggregating data in the results data set using domain metrics selected based on any of predefined and configurable rules and past user usage. | 12-15-2011 |
20110314003 | TEMPLATE CONCATENATION FOR CAPTURING MULTIPLE CONCEPTS IN A VOICE QUERY - Architecture that provides the capability to identify which parts (terms and phrases) of a voice query have been covered by predefined phrase templates, and then to concatenate matching phrase templates into a new paraphrased query. A match-drop-continue algorithm is disclosed that progressively masks out the portions (phrases, terms) of the query matched to the phrase templates. Ultimately, the matched phrase templates are accumulated and organized together dynamically into a rephrased version of the original voice query. A user interface is provided that allows the user to confirm/summarize the multiple concepts in a progressive manner. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314004 | CROSS APPLICATION EXECUTION SERVICE - A user device receives, from a user, a query regarding services to be performed by an app and conducts a search of metadata associated with a group of apps. The user device selects, based on the search of the metadata, potential apps, from the group of apps, that are responsive to the user query. The user device generates, based on the user query, commands to be executed by each of the potential apps. The user device generates, based on the commands, results from each of the potential apps, and formats, for presentation on a display, the results from each of the potential apps. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314005 | Determining and using search term weightings - Determining search term weightings is disclosed, including: storing, in a search information log, a search query and corresponding information; generating a category distribution word list based at least in part on one or more stored search information logs; processing the category distribution word list based at least in part on a retrieved attribute word list; and determining a weighting corresponding to a search term associated with the processed category distribution word list. Using search term weighting is disclosed, including: receiving a subsequent search query; retrieving search term weightings corresponding to one or more search terms associated with the subsequent search query; searching indexed information using the one or more search terms associated with the subsequent search query; and ranking and presenting the indexed information corresponding to the one or more search terms based at least in part on the retrieved search term weightings. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314006 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING OF CONTENT USING SEMANTIC SYNTHESIS - A method of semantic searching. The method may include receiving a first search query, obtaining a disambiguation term for semantically disambiguating the first search query, and creating, with a processor, a second search query based at least in part on the first search query and the disambiguation term. The method may also include at least one of outputting search results obtained from a search conducted based at least in part on the second search query and sending the second search query to a search service for outputting search results. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314007 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR CONTENT RANKING USING REAL-TIME DATA - Methods, systems, and media for content ranking using real-time data are provided. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a method, implemented on a processor, for ranking content is provided. The method can include, among other things: receiving real-time information from a plurality of sources; supplementing the received real-time information with historical information and user influence information; analyzing the supplemented real-time information from the plurality of sources to determine real-time trend information; receiving a plurality of content snippets from a content provider; detecting similarities between each of the plurality of content snippets and the determined real-time trend information; ranking the plurality of content snippets based on the detected similarities; and displaying the ranked plurality of content snippets. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314008 | PERSONALIZED NETWORK SEARCHING - Personalized network searching, in which a search query is received from a user, and a request is received to personalize a search result. Responsive to the search query and the request to personalize the search result, a personalized search result is generated by searching a personalized search object. Responsive to the search query, a general search result is generated by searching the general search object. The personalized search result and the general search result are provided to a client device, an advertisement is selected based at least in part upon the personalized search object, and the advertisement, the personalized search result, and the general search result are displayed. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314009 | Method and Device for Extracting Characteristic Relation Circle From Network - Embodiments of the invention provide a method and device for extracting a characteristic relation circle from a network, which relate to compute technologies. The method includes: obtaining user information; specifying characteristics of a characteristic relation circle to be extracted; determining a user set, in which user information of users in the user set matches with specified characteristics, and extracting the determined user set as the characteristic relation circle. The device includes an obtaining module and an extracting module. In the technical solution provided by embodiments of the invention, after extracting a characteristic relation circle from a socialized network, relation chain information of the socialized network may be effectively utilized, and the objectives of effective propagation and accurate searching of information may be achieved. | 12-22-2011 |
20110320440 | PLACEMENT OF SEARCH RESULTS USING USER INTENT - Technologies are described herein for placing search results on a search engine results page (SERP). A query may be received. The query may be transmitted to a plurality of search result providers. A first set of search results and a second set of search results may be received from the search result providers. Intent features may be extracted from the first set of search results. User intent of the second set of search results may be inferred based on the extracted intent features. The first set of search results and the second set of search results may be ranked based on the inferred user intent. The SERP may be rendered according to the ranked first set and second set of search results. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320441 | ADJUSTING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON USER SOCIAL PROFILES - Many contemporary computing scenarios involve the submission by a user of a search query to be applied to a data set (such as a set of web pages indexed by a web search engine.) Additionally, many users participate in social networking and have generated a social profile, including demographic information, interests, and associations with other users who also have social profiles. It may be advantageous to improve the presentation of search results from search queries by adjusting the search queries according to a prediction of user interest of the user in the topics associated with respective search results, based on the information in the social profile of the user. For example, search results relating to topics in which the user or the user's friends have expressed an interest within the social network may be presented before other search results, thereby improving the relevance of the search results to the user. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320442 | Systems and Methods for Semantics Based Domain Independent Faceted Navigation Over Documents - Systems and associated methods providing a document corpus navigation interface including domain independent facets are described. Embodiments provide a list of domain independent facets, extract facet values from the document corpus, learn the facet values from the corpus, map each document to one of the values of each of the facets, and automatically determine a weight of the relationship. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320443 | Navigation to Popular Search Results - Systems, methods, and computer media for enhancing search results, as well as user interfaces for performing search queries and navigating search results, are provided. A search query is received from a user. A plurality of web pages relevant to the search query are identified. At least one of the relevant web pages is identified as popular. A search result page is generated including a search result listing and a search result page header. The search result page header includes a link to the popular web page to provide the user with a quick and easy way to select a popular web page relevant to the user's search query. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320444 | System and Method for Evaluating Search Queries to Identify Titles for Content Production - Systems and methods are provided to select potential titles for online content using search query logs from web search service providers. A plurality of search queries are collected from one or more web search service providers. A lifetime value is determined for each of the search queries. Potential titles are then selected from the plurality of search queries using selection criteria including the lifetime value of the search queries. The potential titles can then be provided to content developers who develop online content based on the potential titles. | 12-29-2011 |
20120005198 | DYNAMIC VISUALIZATION OF SEARCH RESULTS ON A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - Various embodiments of systems and methods for dynamic visualization of search results on a GUI are described herein. A search query received by a user is divided into a plurality of search parts. One or more search results for each of the plurality of search parts are retrieved. Further, a search result array is generated from the retrieved search results. Furthermore, Venn diagram graphical representation of the search results in the search result array is determined and the same is displayed on the GUI. The Venn diagram graphical representation defines display of search results in the Venn diagram and the relevancy ranking of the search results. In addition, the user can specify a weighting for each of the plurality of search parts, which dynamically determines display opacity of at least one of the associated search results and search part circles of the Venn diagram on the GUI. | 01-05-2012 |
20120005199 | DOCUMENT SCORING BASED ON DOCUMENT CONTENT UPDATE - A system may determine a measure of how a content of a document changes over time, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the measure of how the content of the document changes over time, and rank the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. | 01-05-2012 |
20120005200 | Systems and Methods for Analyzing Boilerplate - Systems and methods for analyzing boilerplate are described. In one described system, an indexer identifies a common element in a plurality of related articles. The indexer then classifies the common element as boilerplate. For example, the indexer may identify a copyright notice appearing in a plurality of related articles. The copyright notice in these articles is considered boilerplate. | 01-05-2012 |
20120011112 | RANKING SPECIALIZATION FOR A SEARCH - Example methods, apparatuses, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be used to provide or otherwise support one or more ranking specialization techniques for use with search engine information management systems. | 01-12-2012 |
20120011113 | Determining Reliability of Electronic Documents Associated with Events - A method of determining reliability of electronic documents associated with an event occurring in connection with a computing device may comprise, with a processor, composing a number of search queries based on text included in an event message, searching for a number of electronic documents via a network, said searching performed based on the composed search queries, and ranking the electronic documents identified by said searching based upon an indication of reliability in addressing the event associated with the event message, in which, ranking the electronic documents comprises applying a content source ranking criteria. | 01-12-2012 |
20120011114 | IMAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a designator which designates each of one or more characteristic images included in a scene image as a reference characteristic image. A searcher searches for a specific folder in which a dictionary image adapted to the reference characteristic image is associated with, from among one or more folders in which one or more dictionary images are respectively associated with. A first storage stores the scene image noticed by the designator into the specific folder discovered by the searcher. A first creator creates a folder in which a dictionary image equivalent to the reference characteristic image is associated with, corresponding to non-discovering the specific folder by the searcher. A second storage executes a process of storing the scene image noticed by the designator into the folder created by the first creator, in association with a creating process of the first creator. | 01-12-2012 |
20120011115 | TABLE SEARCH USING RECOVERED SEMANTIC INFORMATION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for searching tables using recovered semantic information. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving a collection of tables, each table including a plurality of rows, each row including a plurality of cells; recovering semantic information associated with each table of the collection of tables, the recovering including determining a class associated with each respective table according to a class-instance hierarchy including identifying a subject column of each table of the collection of tables; and labeling each table in the collection of tables with the respective class. | 01-12-2012 |
20120011116 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING A SEARCH ENGINE - A method and a system for maintaining the freshness of a search engine server's database. A popularity parameter is defined, and a popularity value is assigned to each link in the search engine's database. The most popular links are selected for updating the contents stored, or associated with, the site to which the links refer. In one embodiment, popularity is' based at least in part on the search results generated by the search engine in response to user queries. | 01-12-2012 |
20120011117 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING A SEARCH RANKING USING RELATED QUERIES - Systems and methods that improve search rankings for a search query by using data associated with queries related to the search query are described. In one aspect, a search query is received, a related query related to the search query is determined, an article (such as a web page) associated with the search query is determined, and a ranking score for the article based at least in part on data associated with the related query is determined. Several algorithms and types of data associated with related queries useful in carrying out such systems and methods are described. | 01-12-2012 |
20120016870 | DOCUMENT SCORING BASED ON QUERY ANALYSIS - A system may determine an extent to which a document is selected when the document is included in a set of search results, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the extent to which the document is selected when the document is included in a set of search results; and rank the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016871 | DOCUMENT SCORING BASED ON QUERY ANALYSIS - A system may determine an extent to which a document is selected when the document is included in a set of search results, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the extent to which the document is selected when the document is included in a set of search results; and rank the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. | 01-19-2012 |
20120023095 | Customized Search or Acquisition of Digital Media Assets - Improved techniques for using usage data are disclosed. The usage data can pertain to a user of an electronic device. The usage data can be monitored and recorded on the electronic device. The improved techniques are particularly useful when the electronic device is a mobile electronic device. In one embodiment, the usage data can be used to enhance searching of digital assets, such as digital media assets, resident at a local or remote repository. In another embodiment, the usage data can be used to determine content to be resident locally on the electronic device. In still another embodiment, the usage data can be used to present (e.g., display) information on the electronic device. | 01-26-2012 |
20120023096 | SYSTEM TO DETERMINE VALUE OF REFERRAL - A system comprising a database containing information concerning uniquely identified entities is described. The database further contains a list of attributes describing the entities and describing products, skills, or services provided by that entity. A server compares the desired referral of a first entity to one or more second entities having the desired product, skill, or service, and by evaluating the relationship between the first entity and second entities presents those second entities in the order of their value as a referral. | 01-26-2012 |
20120023097 | Computer Application Data In Search Results - A computer-implemented search method includes receiving a registration request from each of one or more computer applications installed on a computing device and registering the applications in response to the request, wherein the registration request indicates an intent by the application to receive search query information from a search application associated with the device. The method also includes receiving user input on the device in the form of a query, providing the query to the one or more registered applications, receiving responses from the one or more registered applications that include data that is managed by the one or more registered applications; integrating the responses into a result set; and presenting the result set with the computing device. | 01-26-2012 |
20120023098 | DOCUMENT SCORING BASED ON QUERY ANALYSIS - A system may determine an extent to which a document is selected when the document is included in a set of search results, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the extent to which the document is selected when the document is included in a set of search results; and rank the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. | 01-26-2012 |
20120030197 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME ONLINE COMMENTATOR DEBATE - A method and a system for an online commentary debate. Two or more commentators are selected to participate in the debate. Transmissions from each participant are received at a server and relayed to the other participant. The transmissions also are broadcast to an online forum that is viewable by an audience that can provide feedback on the debate and rate the commentators. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030198 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING REQUIREMENTS - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for improving the management of requirements in systems and systems of systems. Multiple requirements databases may be interfaced, and language processing tools may be used to identify requirements having related content. The relevancy of requirements may be based on the semantic distance between terms in the network, their semantic relations, the number of related terms in the requirements, etc. A user may be presented with a navigable cross-section of requirements data relevant to search terms. Thus, added visibility and ease of access is provided for systems and systems of systems. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030199 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING DATABASES BY SOUND INPUT - Systems and methods for searching databases by sound data input are provided herein. A service provider may have a need to make their database(s) searchable through search technology. However, the service provider may not have the resources to implement such search technology. The search technology may allow for search queries using sound data input. The technology described herein provides a solution addressing the service provider's need, by giving a search technology that furnishes search results in a fast, accurate manner. In further embodiments, systems and methods to monetize those search results are also described herein. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030200 | TOPICS IN RELEVANCE RANKING MODEL FOR WEB SEARCH - Described is a technology by which topics corresponding to web pages are used in relevance ranking of those pages. Topics are extracted from each web page of a set of web pages that are found via a query. For example, text such as nouns may be extracted from the title, anchor texts and URL of a page, and used as the topics. The extracted topics from a page are used to compute a relevance score for that page based on an evaluation of that page's topics against the query. The pages are then ranked relative to one another based at least in part on the relevance score computed for each page, such as by determining a matching level for each page, ranking pages by each level, and ranking pages within each level. Also described is training a model to perform the relevance scoring and/or ranking. | 02-02-2012 |
20120036122 | CONTEXTUAL INDEXING OF SEARCH RESULTS - Briefly, embodiments of a method or a system of contextual indexing of search results is disclosed. | 02-09-2012 |
20120036123 | QUERY SUGGESTION FOR E-COMMERCE SITES - Methods, articles of manufacture and a system for providing query suggestions using a query log that includes a number of user sessions. The sessions comprise training data including a sequence of a plurality of sets of queries, some of the sets of queries including query transitions followed by a purchase related event. The query log is cleaned and normalized. From the cleaned and normalized query log stationary scores and transition scores of at least some of the plurality of sets is generated. A set of query suggestions is built and similarity scores are computed for at least some of the set of query suggestions to determine whether individual ones of the at least some of the set of query suggestions meet a predetermined assurance level. Those that meet the level are included as elements of the set of query suggestions that meet the predetermined assurance level. The set of query suggestions are mixed and ranked in accordance with a user behavior sought to be optimized. | 02-09-2012 |
20120041949 | REPORT GENERATION SUPPORT SYSTEM - The report generation support system according to the embodiment comprises an input history recording part, operation history recording part, selection part, extraction part, and a display controller. The input history recording part records findings input at the time of generating a medical report and, by linking with an input start time and/or finish time of the findings. The operation history recording part records, as an operation history, the type of operation conducted on an image at the time of generating a report and the time when the operation was conducted by linking with the operated image. The selection part selects at least a part of findings in a report. The extraction part extracts a focus image in the selected findings, based on an input start time and/or finish time of the findings corresponding to the selected location, and the contents of the operation history of the corresponding time. | 02-16-2012 |
20120047128 | OPEN CLASS NOUN CLASSIFICATION - A method of semantically classifying a data set of open class nouns and a system for executing the method. The method includes loading, by a processing device, a data set comprising one or more open class nouns from a computer readable medium operably connected to the processing device; extracting, by the processing device, the one or more open class nouns from the data set; for each open class noun, querying, by the processing device, one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) to produce one or more results; deriving, by the processing device, a confidence score for the data set based upon the one or more results; and determining, by the processing device, a classification for the data set based upon the derived confidence score. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047129 | LOCATION RANKING USING SOCIAL GRAPH INFORMATION - In one embodiment, a user of a social networking system requests to check in a place near the user's current location. The social networking system generates a list of places near the user's current location, ranks the places in the list of places near the user's current location by a distance between each place and the user's current location, as well as activity of the user and the user's social contacts for each place, and returns the ranked list to the user. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047130 | UI Driven Service Composition Tool with UI Designer Feedback - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for automatically selecting at least one service for use with a modeled user interface (UI). One process includes operations for identifying a modeled UI at design time in an integrated development environment (IDE) and collecting a set of information associated with the modeled UI. At least one service repository storing a set of services is searched based at least in part on the collected set of information associated with the modeled UI. At least a portion of the set of services is presented via a graphical user interface associated with the IDE. A selection of at least one of the presented set of services is received, and an augmented version of the modeled UI is generated based on the received selection. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047131 | Constructing Titles for Search Result Summaries Through Title Synthesis - An information retrieval system and computer-based method provide constructing a title for a search result summary of a document through title synthesis, wherein the title is suitable for use in assessing the relevance of the summarized document to a query. In one embodiment, the system obtains meaningful keywords or key phrases (title components) about the document; and classifies each title components into one or more of a plurality of pre-established title component classes. The title components may be automatically obtained for the document from available sources either before or at the time the document is made available for indexing by the system. When a query is input to the system to which the document is relevant, the system constructs a title for the document by arranging title components selected from title component classes, to maximize a title utility function. The title utility function may be a query-dependent grade. In addition to the query, the title utility function may also account for constraints under which the title is to be presented to a user of the system. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047132 | Method, Apparatus and Data Processor Program Product Capable of Enabling Administration of a Levels-Based Athleticism Development Program Data - Various aspects of one or more methods, apparatuses and data processor program products capable of enabling management of data associated with an athleticism development program are disclosed herein. These various aspects include maintaining a database including subscriber performance data for a plurality of athleticism development program subscribers and facilitating preparation of a subscriber performance report for a specified one of the plurality of athleticism development program subscribers. The subscriber performance data is capable of enabling an attained standardized athleticism level to be determined for each one of the athleticism development program subscribers. The implementation of standardized athleticism levels is advantageous as it supports a measurable plan of progress for motivating a subscriber and trainer to meet their individual and mutual goals. | 02-23-2012 |
20120059819 | GENERATING A SEARCH RESULT RANKING FUNCTION - A method and a system to provide generate a search result ranking function, processing a search, and presenting search results are described to provide generate a search result ranking function, processing a search, and presenting search results are described. In one embodiment, a genetic algorithm module receives a plurality of factors, a test set of items, and an ordering solution representing the preferred ordering of the test set of items, generates a potential ranking function based on the plurality of factors, and apply the potential ranking function to each item in the test set of items to generate an ordering of items associated with the potential ranking function. The genetic algorithm module also compares the ordering of items with the ordering solution, and identifies, based on the comparison, the potential ranking function as a solution ranking function. A ranking function may assign a ranking score to items in a set of active items, the ranking score based on the solution ranking function. | 03-08-2012 |
20120059820 | Aggregation, Organization and Provision of Professional and Social Information - A method for performing a search for information pertaining to a search subject includes receiving a name of a person. A social/professional value is received. A search is performed based on the received name. A plurality of personal candidates is identified from results of the search and profiles of the same person in different search domains are automatically linked. A search subject is selected from among the identified plurality of candidates based on user input. The search results are characterized along a scale from social information to professional information. The search results are filtered based on the received value indicative of the desired level and the characterization of each item of results found. The filtered search results are displayed. | 03-08-2012 |
20120066208 | SIZING CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - In various example embodiments, systems and methods to provide sizing content recommendations are provided. Search parameters are received from a user. In response, sizing data for the user is accessed. Using the sizing data, content from a marketplace matching the sizing data and the search parameters are determined. The matching content comprises a list of one or more items available from the marketplace. The matching content is prioritized for presentation to the user. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066209 | ELECTRONIC MAIL DUPLICATE DETECTION - Embodiments of the invention are related to a method and system for identifying linked electronic mails by receiving a query from a user, wherein the query comprises at least a segment of an electronic mail; and based on the segment received, rendering to the user at least one of related subsets or a related supersets of electronic mails related to the received segment, wherein the related subsets and related supersets are threads of the segment received and arranged in a hierarchical manner. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066210 | INTERFACE TO NAVIGATE AND SEARCH A CONCEPT HIERARCHY - A method includes receiving a concept hierarchy at a computing device. The concept hierarchy identifies concepts associated with a document corpus. An interface based on the concept hierarchy is generated. The interface is operable to navigate, search, and modify the concept hierarchy. The method includes transmitting the interface for display to a display device. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066211 | System And Method For Analyzing Search Engine Optimization Procedures - A system and method for search engine optimization includes monitoring a website for changes in content; logging traffic to the website; analyzing data regarding the traffic to determine a relationship between the content and traffic changes; monitoring ranking of the website in search results where a specific search keyword is used; aggregating data regarding using a selected keyword and ranking of the website in results of searches including that keyword; analyzing the data to determine a relationship between the keyword and the ranking; and displaying those relationships. The website may also be monitored for changes in a number of links to the website; data regarding the links is analyzed to determine a relationship between changes in the number of links and changes in traffic. A benchmark may also be calculated; the effect of changing website content and/or changing the number of links is evaluated according to the benchmark. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066212 | MONITORING HASHTAGS IN MICRO-BLOG POSTS TO PROVIDE ONE OR MORE CROWD-BASED FEATURES - Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring hashtags in micro-blog posts, or status updates, from users to provide one or more crowd-based features. In one embodiment, a micro-blog post of a user in a crowd of users is obtained. The crowd of users is a group of users within a predefined spatial proximity to one another. A hashtag in the micro-blog post is then obtained, and a crowd-based feature is provided based on the hashtag. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066213 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product - Provided is an information processing apparatus using composite data of image data and text information as search subjects that includes: a word dictionary; a character information extracting unit that extracts and recognizes character information out of the image data; a search subject word extracting unit that converts the character information into text, inserts the text into search subject data, and stores the search subject data in a database; a search text input unit that receives an input of the text information; a search word extracting unit that extracts word in the word dictionary, as search word based on the text information; and a searching unit that checks the search words against the database. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066214 | Handling Data Sets - A method, system and computer program product provides a first characteristic associated with a first data set and a single data value, and a second characteristic associated with a second data set; and calculates at least one of: 1) the similarity of the first data set with the second data set based on the first and second characteristics, 2) the similarity of the first data set with the single data value based on the first characteristic and the single data value, 3) confidence indicating how well the first characteristic reflects properties of the first data set based on the first characteristic, and 4) confidence indicating how well the similarity of the first data set with the single data value reflects properties of the single data value based on the first characteristic and the single data value. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066215 | SEARCHING A DATABASE THAT STORES INFORMATION ABOUT INDIVIDUAL HABITABLE UNITS - Techniques for creating and searching a database that stores information about a plurality of individual habitable units (IHUs) are provided. An example of an IHU is a hotel room. Image data that depicts where a plurality of IHUs reside relative to each other is placed on a base image, such as a satellite/map image. The base image is associated with a mapping that maps points on the base image to spatial (e.g., geographical) coordinates. The coordinates of the IHU may be used to generate a computer-rendered view from a window of an IHU. Also, label input is received that labels each IHU reflected in the image data with certain information. Each label indicates a value of an attribute of an IHU, such as its size, price, distance from elevators, etc. A query that targets information about each IHU may be processed and results returned that are ranked based on criteria associated with the query. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066216 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING VISIBILITY WITHIN SEARCH ENGINES - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for quantifying visibility into a search engine and into search results for a specific query into a search engine. A system configured to practice the method obtains a first set of search results from a search engine, using a name of an entity and at least one additional search term relating to attributes of the entity, and obtains a second set of search results, from the search engine, using the name without the at least one additional search term. The system determines what search results in the first set of search results are in the second set of search results. Then the system can generate an indicator that relates information about how many results from the first set of search results were in the second set of search results to a total number of results in the first set of search results. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066217 | Complete context.TM. search system - A system, method and computer program product for developing an entity context frame or situation summary before using said context frame/situation summary to develop an index, perform a context search and return prioritized results. The search results may comprise a plurality of health related data where said health related data comprises a plurality of microbiome data. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066218 | SOLUTION SEARCH FOR SOFTWARE SUPPORT - A search middleware may be used to receive search requests regarding a software incident associated with a software application. The search requests may be populated with attribute values determined based on context data associated with the software application and collected in association with the software incident. The search requests may be dispatched to a subset of a plurality of solution repositories, even if the solution repositories have different interfaces and/or search technologies. The resulting solution documents retrieved from the solution repositories may be compiled for presentation on a solution search interface. | 03-15-2012 |
20120072416 | SOFTWARE TRAINING SYSTEM INTERACTING WITH ONLINE ENTITIES - A non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions configured to cause a processor to send a first signal to cause a client device to display an instruction directing a user to perform a task associated with a user profile of an online entity. The code is configured to cause the processor to produce a query formatted according to an API associated with the online entity. The code is configured to cause the processor to send a second signal including the query to at least one of the client device or the online entity, and receive a third signal including a datum associated with the task. The code is configured to cause the processor to update a status of the indicated task based on the datum, and send a fourth signal to cause the client device to produce an indication associated with the status of the task. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072417 | STATISTICAL MEASURE AND CALIBRATION OF SEARCH CRITERIA WHERE ONE OR BOTH OF THE SEARCH CRITERIA AND DATABASE IS INCOMPLETE - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, identifying an entity representation. In some embodiments, search criteria are used to identify an entity representation in a universal database, and this identification is then used to identify a corresponding entity representation in a foreign database. Certain embodiments provide assurance, with a know probability of error, that the entity representation identified in the universal database is correct. | 03-22-2012 |
20120078886 | BIOMETRIC INDEXING AND SEARCHING SYSTEM - A prototype biometric identification system is disclosed that indexes a biometric corpus into indexed-corpuses using a set of P prototypes before searching for a probe in a search corpus constructed based on the indexed-corpus. The system may index the biometric corpus based on the prototypes directly or based on prototype-typicality scores. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078887 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LIMITING SHARE OF VOICE OF INDIVIDUAL USERS - In various example embodiments, a system and method for limiting shares of voice of individual users in a result set are provided. In example embodiments, a listing user providing each listing in a result set of a search is identified. Sorting criteria indicating a number of listings a same listing user is allowed within a number of consecutive listings of the result set are reviewed. Using the sorting criteria, a sorted result set is generated by sorting the plurality of listings in accordance with the sorting criteria. The sorted result set is provided to a searching user. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078888 | PROVIDING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS USING LOGICAL SYNTHESIS OF CANDIDATE ANSWERS - A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query, decomposing the input query into a plurality of different subqueries, and conducting a search in one or more data sources to identify at least one candidate answer to each of the subqueries. A ranking function is applied to each of the candidate answers to determine a ranking for each of these candidate answers; and for each of the subqueries, one of the candidate answers to the subquery is selected based on this ranking. A logical synthesis component is applied to synthesize a candidate answer for the input query from the selected the candidate answers to the subqueries. In one embodiment, the procedure applied by the logical synthesis component to synthesize the candidate answer for the input query is determined from the input query. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078889 | PROVIDING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS USING HYPOTHESIS PRUNING - A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a query, conducting a search through one or more data sources to identify candidate answers to the query, and providing each of the candidate answers with a preliminary score. The method further comprises filtering out any of the candidate answers with a preliminary score that does not satisfy a defined condition. The candidate answers having preliminary scores that satisfy this condition form a subset of the candidate answers. Each of the candidate answers in this subset is processed to produce further scores. A ranking function is applied to these further scores to determine a ranking for each of the candidate answers in the subset; and after this ranking function is applied, one or more of the candidate answers are selected as one or more final answers to the query. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078890 | LEXICAL ANSWER TYPE CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION AND APPLICATION - A system, method and computer program product for automatically estimating the confidence of a detected LAT to provide a more accurate overall score for an obtained candidate answer. A confidence “score” or value of each detected LAT is obtained, and the system and method performs combining the confidence score with a degree of match between a LAT and an AnswerType of the candidate answer to provide improved overall score for the candidate answer. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078891 | PROVIDING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS USING MULTIPLE MODELS TO SCORE CANDIDATE ANSWERS - A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query; conducting a search to identify candidate answers to the input query, and producing a plurality of scores for each of the candidate answers. For each of the candidate answers, one, of a plurality of candidate ranking functions, is selected. This selected ranking function is applied to the each of the candidate answers to determine a ranking for the candidate answer based on the scores for that candidate answer. One or more of the candidate answers is selected, based on the rankings for the candidate answers, as one or more answers to the input query. In an embodiment, the ranking function selection is performed using information about the question. In an embodiment, the ranking function selection is performed using information about each answer. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078892 | Searching for Virtual World Objects - Systems and methods for searching for objects located in a virtual world include having a virtual construct such as a bot crawl the virtual world by moving from place to place. Object information is collected about the objects associated with the place and the object information is stored in a searchable database. Users can search the database for objects in the virtual world. The information can be further filtered or classified to aid in searching. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078893 | Determining Sort Order By Distance - Included are embodiments for determining sort order. At least one embodiment of a method includes determining a plurality of search results associated with at least one search criteria. Some embodiments of a method include determining a first distance between at least one of the search results and a home page associated with the at least one search result and determining a display order for the plurality of search results. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078894 | Trend Analysis in Content Identification Based on Fingerprinting - Fingerprint-based content identification is described. Bin-counting detects linear trends based on data points that are generated from a set of query fingerprints, which are extracted from a query content item and a matching set of corresponding reference content items that are extracted from a reference content item. RANSAC may detect trends based on confidence scores that are computed for multiple candidate content items. The trends detected for the candidate content items are compared against a threshold in order of decreasing confidence score until a trend that satisfies the threshold is found. A ranking-based mechanism for fingerprint-based content identification may use a bin-counting or RANSAC-based trend detection mechanism to identify duplicate or multiple reference content items that all match the same query content item. | 03-29-2012 |
20120084280 | SOCIAL NETWORK RESOURCE INTEGRATION - A method can include creating an instance of a modeling application for a project and rendering an associated user interface to a display; accessing user identity data associated with the project; accessing social network data for one or more social network member profiles, optionally based on the user identity data; rendering accessed social network data to the display; receiving an instruction via the user interface; and accessing additional social network data responsive to receipt of the instruction. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084281 | DOMAIN NAME TOKENIZATION AND ALTERNATIVE DOMAIN NAME GENERATION - A system for determining alternative domain names is disclosed. The system includes a receiver that receives input from a user and a synonym module that determines synonyms of at least one word in the user input. The system also includes a correlation module that receives the synonyms from the synonym module and terms from a topical news source database and generates a correlation score for at least one of the terms from the topical news source database based on a correlation between the term from the topical news source database and the user input. The system also includes a variants module that generates an alternative domain name based on the term from the topical news source database and its correlation score. | 04-05-2012 |
20120089598 | Generating Website Profiles Based on Queries from Websites and User Activities on the Search Results - In a method of profiling a website, an information server receives multiple search queries from a website submitted by different users. Different search results responsive to the search queries are provided to the requesting users. The information server monitors activities of the users on the search results and generates a profile for the website using the search queries and the user activities. When the information server receives a same search query from two different websites, it identifies a plurality of information items associated with the search query. The information server uses profiles of the two websites to customize the information items into two different orders and serves the information items to the two websites in the two different orders. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089599 | Interleaving Search Results - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for interleaving search results. A method includes presenting multiple first search results received from a first search engine. The first search results satisfy a search query directed to the first search engine and are presented in an order. A second search result from a second search engine is inserted at a position between two otherwise adjacent first search results. The second search result is received from a second search engine in response to the search query. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089600 | Methods and Systems for Improving a Search Ranking Using Population Information - Systems and methods that improve search rankings for a search query by using data associated with queries related to the search query are described. In one aspect, a search query is received, a population associated with the search query is determined, an article (such as a webpage) associated with the search query is determined, and a ranking score for the article based at least in part on data associated with the population is determined. Algorithms and types of data associated with a population useful in carrying out such systems and methods are described. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089601 | Interleaving Search Results - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for interleaving search results. A method includes presenting multiple first search results received from a first search engine. The first search results satisfy a search query directed to the first search engine and are presented in an order. A second search result from a second search engine is inserted at a position between two otherwise adjacent first search results. The second search result is received from a second search engine in response to the search query. | 04-12-2012 |
20120095993 | RANKING BY SIMILARITY LEVEL IN MEANING FOR WRITTEN DOCUMENTS - The present invention provides tools to help readers select among large number of written documents by ranking using similarity level in meaning. The ranking tools also can be combined with other ranking methods such as ranking in popularity or ranking by expert opinions. Potential applications include ranking of web pages, electrical mails, academic articles, patent publications, The Bible, or other written documents. | 04-19-2012 |
20120095994 | Intelligent Search Appliance with Memory and Feedback - A system and method to search accurately and relevantly using the ranking algorithm and the intelligent index, learning context relationships using feedback and memory with social awareness. | 04-19-2012 |
20120102027 | Compatibility Scoring of Users in a Social Network - The compatibility score of individuals in a social network is computed based on the compatibility of interests expressed by these individuals. The compatibility score between any two interests is calculated as the log of the estimated probability that a member of the social network will express both interests as his/her interests divided by the product of: (i) the estimated probability that a member of the social network will express the first of the two interests as his/her interest and (ii) the estimated probability that a member of the social network will express the second of the two interests as his/her interest. The compatibility score between two individuals is calculated as the sum of the compatibility scores between each interest appearing in a set of interests expressed by the first of the two individuals and each interest appearing in a set of interests expressed by the second of the two individuals. | 04-26-2012 |
20120109942 | IDENTIFYING PHYSICAL LOCATIONS OF ENTITIES - Businesses and other entities may be assigned geographic locations based on various types of data. In one example, entities are associated with segments in a street grid. Additionally, data points (e.g., geotagged blog entries or other online information) are associated with segments in the street grid. For a given segment, data points are compared with entities to identify possible matches between the data points and the entities. Each match is assigned a score, and each match represents a possible physical location for a given entity. The locations of entities on the street are assigned, from among the matches, based on which assignment of entities optimizes the aggregate score for the segment, while satisfying one or more physical constraints. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109943 | Adaptive Image Retrieval Database - Adaptive image retrieval image allows retrieval of images that are more likely to reflect a current trend of user preferences and/or interests, and therefore can provide relevant results to an image search. Adaptive image retrieval includes receiving image query log data from one or more clients, and updating a codebook of features based on the received query log data. The image query log data includes images that have been queried by the one or more clients within a predetermined period of time. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109944 | LOCATION-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - A method includes receiving a request to perform a search; identifying a data structure, of a group of data structures, from which to perform the search, based on a location associated with a user device and a search area within which the user device is located, where the data structure stores information associated with at least one geographic area that is intersected by the search area; retrieving, from the data structure, search results associated with subject matter identified in the request, where the search results are associated with locations within the geographic area; identifying, from the data structure, other user devices that performed searches based on the subject matter; retrieving, from the data structure, other search results based on prior searches, associated with other subject matter, that were performed by the other user devices; and sending, to the user device, the search results or the other search results. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109945 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF IMPROVING NAVIGATION WITHIN A SET OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - A method and system of improving navigation within a set of electronic documents includes an optional first step ( | 05-03-2012 |
20120109946 | Determination of category information using multiple - Providing category information includes: receiving a plurality of search key word sets that were previously input by a plurality of users; obtaining category information corresponding to the plurality of search key word sets; segmenting each of the plurality of search key word sets into search key word units; combining the search key word units into a plurality of search key word unit groups that correspond to a plurality of stages; based at least in part on the category information, determining category information that specifically corresponds to the plurality of search key word unit groups; and based at least in part on category information, establishing a plurality of search key word tables corresponding to the plurality of stages. | 05-03-2012 |
20120117057 | SEARCHING RECORDED OR VIEWED CONTENT - A method may include receiving a request from a user to play or record a program, wherein the program is associated with dialog text and determining a user profile associated with the user. The method may include associating, in response to receiving the request, the dialog text of the requested program with the user profile. The method may include receiving a search query from the user associated with the user profile and searching the dialog text associated with the user for dialog text that matches the search query. The method may include transmitting, for display, an identification of the program associated with the matching dialog text. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117058 | PRESENTING ACTIONS AND PROVIDERS ASSOCIATED WITH ENTITIES - Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing devices method of facilitating presentation of actions and providers associated with entities. The method includes determining a query intent of a received query. Entity sets having an entity that matches the determined query intent are recognized. Each entity set includes an entity, an action, and a provider. Actions and/or providers associated with the entity that matches the determined query intent are identified. The actions and/or the corresponding providers associated with the entity are provided for integration with a representation of the associated entity on a search results page. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117059 | Ranking Authors in Social Media Systems - The author ranking technique described herein is a technique to rank authors in social media systems along various dimensions, using a variety of statistical methods for utilizing those dimensions. More particularly, the technique ranks authors in social media systems through a combination of statistical techniques that leverage usage metrics, and social and topical graph characteristics. In various exemplary embodiments, the technique can rank author authority by the following: 1) temporal analysis of link sharing in which authority is computed based on a user's propensity to provide early links to web pages that subsequently become popular; 2) topical authority based on the author's links and content updates in specific topic areas; and 3) popularity and influence based on nodal properties of authors. | 05-10-2012 |
20120124035 | REGISTRATION FOR SYSTEM LEVEL SEARCH USER INTERFACE - A system level search module receives system level search user interface registration information for an application of the computing device. The registration information includes an indication of how the system level search module can launch the application. The registration information is added to a registration store, and the application is included as one of one or more applications that can be searched using the system level search user interface. | 05-17-2012 |
20120124036 | 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. | 05-17-2012 |
20120124037 | MULTIMEDIA DATA SEARCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD - The present invention relates to multimedia search method and apparatus, and a pattern recognition method. The multimedia search method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: searching for data corresponding to search condition data input by a user in search target data; selecting training data for machine learning on the basis of the search result; performing machine learning by using the selected training data; and modifying the search result by using the result of the machine learning. | 05-17-2012 |
20120124038 | Variable Length Snippet Generation - A computer system includes one or more processors and memory. The system receives a search query from a client, and obtains a search result for the search query comprising a list of matching email documents. The system, for each email document in the list of matching email documents, determines a scatter score indicating how scattered search terms of the search query are within a respective email document, selects a text portion of the respective email document in accordance with query terms of the search query and the scatter score for the respective email document, and generates a respective snippet including the selected text portion. The system transmits the search result to the client, the transmitted search result including the snippet for each email document in the list of matching email documents. | 05-17-2012 |
20120130994 | MATCHING FUNNEL FOR LARGE DOCUMENT INDEX - Search results are identified and returned in response to search queries by evaluating and pruning candidate documents in multiple stages. The process employs a search index that indexes atoms found in documents and pre-computed scores for document/atom pairs. When a search query is received, atoms are identified from the search query and a reformulated query is generated based on the identified atoms. The reformulated query is used to identify matching documents, and a preliminary score is generated for matching documents using a simplified scoring function and pre-computed scores in the search index. Documents are pruned based on preliminary scores, and the remaining documents are evaluated using a final ranking algorithm that provides a final set of ranked documents, which is used to generate search results to return in response to the search query. | 05-24-2012 |
20120130995 | EFFICIENT FORWARD RANKING IN A SEARCH ENGINE - Methods and computer storage media are provided for generating entries for documents in a forward index. A document and its document identification are received, in addition to static features that are query-independent. The document is parsed into tokens to form a token stream corresponding to the document. Relevant data used to calculate rankings of document is identified and a position of the data is determined. The entry is then generated from the document identification, the token stream of the document, the static features, and the positional information of the relevant data. The entry is stored in the forward index. | 05-24-2012 |
20120130996 | TIERING OF POSTING LISTS IN SEARCH ENGINE INDEX - A search index includes tiered posting lists. Each posting list in the search index corresponds with a different atom and includes a list of documents containing the particular document. Additionally, a rank is stored with each document listed in a posting list for a given atom representing the relevance of the atom to the context of each document. At least some of the posting lists in the search index are tiered. A tiered posting list is divided into a number of tiers with the tiers being ordered by document while each tier is internally ordered by document. Employing tiered posting lists within the search index allows a search engine to evaluate search queries in a manner that allows for a number of efficiencies and precise stopping. | 05-24-2012 |
20120130997 | HYBRID-DISTRIBUTION MODEL FOR SEARCH ENGINE INDEXES - Methods and systems are provided for using a hybrid-distribution system to identify relevant documents based on a search query. A group of documents is assigned to a particular segment. The group of documents is indexed both by atom and by document to form a reverse index and a forward index. Both indexes are divided amongst each node in that segment so that each node is responsible for storing and accessing a different portion of both the reverse and forward indexes. The reverse index portion is accessed on each of a first set of nodes to identify a first set of documents that is relevant to a particular search query. Document identifications associated with the first set of documents are used to identify a second set of nodes that access their forward index portions to limit the number of relevant documents to a second set of documents. | 05-24-2012 |
20120130998 | System and Method for Comparing Universities Based on Their University Model Graphs - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is structurally modeled using a university model graph. Such a model helps compare educational institutions at various levels—university level, department level, faculty member level, or student level. One of the requirements of comparison is to normalize the similarities and identify and elaborate the differences across multiple educational institutions. A way to achieve this is to model the educational institutions using comparable elements; specifically, the university model graph allows for such comparison as multiple educational institutions are modeled based on the same set of concepts and notions. A system and method for comparing educational institutions based on their respective university model graphs is discussed. | 05-24-2012 |
20120130999 | Method and Apparatus for Searching Electronic Documents - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for searching electronic documents. The | 05-24-2012 |
20120131000 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING TALENT BY MATCHING WITH THE GIVEN TECHNICAL NEEDS AND BUILDING TALENT PROFILE FROM MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES - A system includes a server processor coupled to the Internet. The server processor is configured to receive a problem statement from a user and automatically generate a search query based on the problem statement. The server processor is configured to use the search query to perform a database search of a plurality of databases that are stored in a machine readable storage media accessible via the Internet and/or in house data sources available within the internal computer network. The server processor is configured to generate and output an identification of a ranked set of documents and/or information to the user in response to the search query. The server processor is configured to receive from the user an identification of a subset of the ranked set, and automatically extract a set of names of experts from the subset. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131001 | METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GENERATING SEARCH RESULTS USING FILE IDENTICALITY - A method and computer program product for generating prioritized search results using file identicality are provided. Content signatures may facilitate searches for files based on search requests or specific signatures. A user enters a search request, which is received at an indexed archive system. All of the files in the indexed archive system are searched for any files that include the search request or its equivalent, and a list is then generated of the files that are identified in the search. The indexed archive system determines the content signatures for each file identified, as well as statistics for the files identified. These statistics are used to prioritize the list of identified files. The prioritized list is then returned to the user. | 05-24-2012 |
20120136853 | IDENTIFYING RELIABLE AND AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - Embodiments are directed towards identifying authoritative sources of multimedia content useable in rank ordering class-dependent search-query results of multimedia content. In one embodiment, a citation model is employed for measuring or otherwise determining a strength of an authority to a content source. In one embodiment, a directed graph is constructed over a network of sources based on a propensity of one source to “cite” content provided by another source. In one embodiment, a random walk may be conducted across the network of sources to arrive at authority scores for each source in the network. In another embodiment, a machine-learning algorithm may be used to arrive at authority scores. The authority scores may then be applied for ranking, for example, search-query results, and/or retrieval purposes. | 05-31-2012 |
20120136854 | METHOD OF OBTAINING A CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN A PROTEIN AND A SET OF INSTANCES OF MUTATIONS OF THE PROTEIN - A method of obtaining a correspondence between a protein and a set of instances i=1 . . . , k of mutations of the protein is disclosed. The method includes: a) matching a plurality of protein sequences in a sequence bank to at least one expression formed using the set of instances of mutations wherein each protein sequence comprises a plurality of amino acid residues of the protein's constituent peptides and wherein the at least one expression includes wild type residues of a subset of the instances of mutations in the order of their positions within the protein, and differences in said positions of the successive wild type residues in the expression; b) ranking the protein sequences according to the similarity of the protein sequences to the set of instances of mutations, the similarity of the protein sequences to the set of instances of mutations being determined by the matching in step (a); and c) retaining the protein sequence with the highest similarity ranking, said correspondence being a relationship between the retained protein sequence and a subset of the instances of mutations corresponding to the retained protein sequence. | 05-31-2012 |
20120143853 | LARGE-SCALE ASYMMETRIC COMPARISON COMPUTATION FOR BINARY EMBEDDINGS - A system and method for comparing a query object and one or more of a set of database objects are provided. The method includes providing quantized representations of database objects. The database objects have each been transformed with a quantized embedding function which is the composition of a real-valued embedding function and a quantization function. The query object is transformed to a representation of the query object in a real-valued embedding space using the real-valued embedding function. Query-dependent estimated distance values are computed for the query object, based on the transformed query object and stored. A comparison (e.g., distance or similarity) measure between the query object and each of the quantized database object representations is computed based on the stored query-dependent estimated distance values. Data is output based on the comparison computation. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143854 | GRAPH CACHING - In a method and apparatus for analyzing nodes of a Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA), an accessibility ranking, based on a DFA graph geometrical configuration, may be determined in order to determine cacheable portions of the DFA graph in order to reduce the number of external memory accesses. A walker process may be configured to walk the graph in a graph cache as well as main memory. The graph may be generated in a manner allowing each arc to include information if the node it is pointing to is stored in the graph cache or in main memory. The walker may use this information to determine whether or not to access the next arc in the graph cache or in main memory. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143855 | OPERATIONALIZING SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION - A method for managing reference to an entity on a network includes determining shares of voice for an entity and other entities across a plurality of channels with respect to a plurality of search terms. The method also includes correlating shares of voice for the entity and the other entities with respect the search terms to determine a relative change in share of voice for the entity with respect to the other entities. Thereafter, shares of voice for the entity across the plurality of channels may be correlated to determine relative changes in share of voice for the entity within each of the channels. The relative change in share of voice for the entity with respect to the other entities and the relative changes in share of voice for the entity within each of the channels may then be displayed. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143856 | METHOD FOR DETECTING OBJECT - An object detection method that is provided with a step for extracting a plurality of reference feature vectors related to a local area from an image representing an object, and extracting a plurality of query feature vectors related to the local area from a search query image; a step for matching each query feature vector against each reference feature vector, and calculating a similarity score having a value that is higher the closer the distance between both vectors, the larger the local area for which the query feature vector has been extracted, and the larger the local area for which a matching reference feature vector has been extracted; a step for determining a reference feature vector for which a similarity score is highest as the similar vector for each query feature vector; and a step for acquiring a final score by object associated with the similar vectors, and setting the object returning the highest score as the detection result; and wherein the score is calculated by dividing a sum of the similarity score for each similar vector by the number of feature vectors that have matched the object. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143857 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND CONTROLLER FOR SEARCHING A DATABASE - A database searching system, method and controller is provided for interactively searching a database of data items in a descriptor space with a user, comprising a display for viewing by the user; a position selector for manipulation and activation by the user; a reference set selector for selecting a reference set ( | 06-07-2012 |
20120143858 | Method And Means For Data Searching And Language Translation - The invention relates to data searching and translation. In particular, the invention relates to searching documents from the Internet or databases. Even further, the invention also relates to translating words in documents, WebPages, images or speech from one language to the next. A computer implemented method including at least one computer in accordance with the invention is characterised by the following steps:
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20120150846 | Web-Relevance Based Query Classification - Methods, systems, algorithms, and media are provided for query classification based upon web relevance. In embodiments, a knowledge domain is selected. A knowledge domain includes a set of seed-web domains which are classified to belong to the knowledge domain. For each seed-web domain, a filtered web search of a given query is implemented utilizing a filter associated with a particular seed-web domain to obtain a total number of filtered results for the seed-web domain. For each seed-web domain, a total number of non-filtered results are referenced. A percentage of coverage for each seed-web domain is calculated using the total number of filtered results for the seed-web domain and the total number of non-filtered results for the seed-web domain. An average percentage of coverage for the knowledge domain is calculated using the percentage of coverage for each seed-web domain. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150847 | EFFICIENT USE OF COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES FOR INTERLEAVING - Methods and computer-readable media are provided for improving the efficiency of the interleaving process. Once it is determined that a search query is to be used in an interleaving experiment, a primary ranking system and a secondary ranking system are analyzed to determine whether their respective search results for that search query would be identical. If the search results would be identical, the search query is routed only to the primary ranking system and not the secondary ranking system. If, however, it is determined that the search results would not be identical, both the primary ranking system and the secondary ranking system receive the search query for processing. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150848 | PROVIDING DEFINITIONS THAT ARE SENSITIVE TO THE CONTEXT OF A TEXT - Systems and techniques for providing definitions to a user. The provision embodies the context of a text in which the defined term appears. In one aspect, a system includes an electronic device that includes one or more data processing devices programmed to respond to receipt of the user selection of the first term by performing operations. The operations include accessing, from the one or more persistent data storage devices, the characterizations of the contexts of the texts, comparing the accessed characterizations of the contexts of the texts with one or more characteristics of the context of the textual content of a media file, and ranking the definitions of the first term according to respective likelihoods that the definitions appropriately characterize the usage of the first term within the textual content of the media file. | 06-14-2012 |
20120158702 | Classifying Results of Search Queries - Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing methods are provided for classifying search results as either of good quality or of poor quality. Initially, a portion of the search results, such as the highest ranked documents, are selected for evaluation. A level of quality for each of the selected search results is determined using a classification process that includes the following steps: targeting features demonstrated by the selected search results to be evaluated; evaluating the selected features to generate a level-of-quality score for each of the selected search results; comparing the score against a predefined threshold value; and, based on the comparison, assigning each of the selected search results an absolute measurement. The absolute measurement indicates poor quality when the score is less than the threshold value. Upon recognizing that the selected search results are of poor quality, automatically executing a corrective action that reformulates the issued search query. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158703 | SEARCH LEXICON EXPANSION - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for creating an expanded or improved lexicon for use in search-based semantic tagging. A set of first documents can be identified using a set of first lexicon elements as queries, and one or more first document patterns can be extracted from the set of first documents. The document patterns can be used to find one or more second documents in a query log that comprise the document patterns, which are associated with query terms used to return the second documents. The query terms for the second documents can be extracted and used to expand the lexicon. Elements within the lexicon may be weighted based upon relevance to different query domains, for example. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158704 | GEOSPATIAL INCONSISTENCIES IDENTIFICATION DATA SYSTEM BASED ON CONTRACTUAL RIGHTS AND GEOGRAPHICAL NETWORK ANALYSIS - An application document for a contractual right can be identified. The application document can be a new application seeking a contractural right or an existing one for which a contractual right has already been granted yet which is being verified herein. The contractual right can define a compensatory relationship between two entities for specified conditions. At least one address can be determined from the application document, where activities related to the contractual right are to be performed. The address can be converted into geospatial coordinates. A database of geospatially recorded items can be queried for activities proximate to the geospatial coordinates. A geospatial inconsistency score can be generated based on the results from the database and their level of incompatibility with conducting the activity for which the contractual right is related. Related methods, apparatus, systems and articles are also described. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158705 | LOCAL SEARCH USING FEATURE BACKOFF - A local search system is described herein that provides a framework for the integration of various external sources to improve local search ranking. The framework provided by the local search system described herein uses a notion of backoff. The system uses a generalization of the concept of backoff to improve local search results that incorporate a variety of data features. The system can apply backoff in multiple dimensions at the same time to generate features for local search ranking. The system integrates various additional data sources, such as web access logs, driving direction request logs, reviews, and so forth, to quantify popularity and distance (or distance sensitivity) into a framework for local search ranking. Thus, the system provides search results that are more relevant by incorporating a number of data sources into the ranking in a manner that handles abnormalities in the data well. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158706 | GRAPHICALLY REPRESENTING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN REFERENTS AND STORIES - Systems and methods are provided for graphically representing associations between one or more stories and one or more referents of interest. In some embodiments, a score may be determined for each of a set of stories based at least in part on a number of associations between the given story and one or more referents of interest. A graphical representation of the stories may then be presented for display. The graphical representation may include indicia, where each indicium graphically indicates the strength of association between a given story and the one or more referents of interest. The strength of association for a given story may be determined, for example, based at least in part on the determined score for the story. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158707 | GRAPHICALLY REPRESENTING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN REFERENTS AND POINTS IN A STORY - Systems and methods are provided for graphically representing associations between one or more points in a story and one or more referents of interest. In some embodiments, a score may be determined for each of a set of points in a story based at least in part on a number of associations between the given point in the story and one or more referents of interest. A graphical representation of the points in the story may then be presented for display. The graphical representation may include indicia, where each indicium graphically indicates the strength of association between a given point in the story and the one or more referents of interest. The strength of association for a given point in the story may be determined, for example, based at least in part on the determined score for the point. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158708 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAY AND FORECASTING CONTENT AVAILABILITY - In a method and system for forecasting an availability of content, a selection of a media content item is received. Metadata related to the selected media content item is retrieved from a database record corresponding to the media content item. The metadata includes release data for at least one release window associated with the media content item. Based on the release data indicating the media content item has been released in a release window of the at least one release window, an actual release date for the release window is presented to the client device. Based on the release data indicating the media content item has not been released in the release window of the at least one release window, an estimated release date and a confidence indicator for the estimated release date for the release window are generated using the retrieved metadata. The estimated release date and the confidence indicator are presented to the client device. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158709 | Methods and Apparatus for Incrementally Computing Similarity of Data Sources - Methods and systems for efficiently determining a similarity between two or more datasets. In one embodiment, the similarity is determined based on comparing a subset of sorted frequency-weighted blocks from one dataset to a subset of sorted frequency-weighed blocks from another dataset. Data blocks of a dataset are converted into hash values that are frequency-weighted. These frequency-weighted hash values can be compared to frequency-weighted hash values of another dataset to determine a similarity of the two datasets. In another embodiment, upon a change of a block in a subset of the dataset, the similarity value is re-determined without resorting or hashing the blocks of a dataset other than the blocks of the subset, resulting in an increased performance of a similarity comparison. In another embodiment, blocks of a dataset are excluded based on a block-filtering rule to increase the accuracy of the similarity comparison. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158710 | MULTI-TIERED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL TRAINING - Methods and systems for multi-tiered information retrieval training are disclosed. A method includes identifying results in a ranked ordering of results that can be swapped without changing a score determined using a first ranking quality measure, determining a first vector and at least one other vector for each identified swappable result in the ranked ordering of results based on the first ranking quality measure and at least one other ranking quality measure respectively, and adding the first vector and the at least one other vector for each identified swappable result in the ranked ordering of results to obtain a function of the first vector and the at least one other vector. Access is provided to the function of the first vector and the at least one other vector for use in the multi-tiered information retrieval training. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158711 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING THE RANKING OF NEWS ARTICLES - A system ranks results. The system may receive a list of links. The system may identify a source with which each of the links is associated and rank the list of links based at least in part on a quality of the identified sources. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166428 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING QUALITY OF WEB CONTENT - A method of improving quality of web content. The method includes analyzing search logs associated with a plurality of web pages by a processor. The search logs are stored in an electronic storage device. A plurality of queries from the search logs are assembled into one or more query profiles. Concepts for the one or more query profiles are generated and classified into one or more concept profiles. Further, the one or more concept profiles are ranked based on one or more parameters. The one or more concept profiles are then transmitted to one or more mediums. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166429 | USING STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELS FOR CONTEXTUAL LOOKUP - Using a statistical language model to make information related to a word or other content of interest available is disclosed. An indication that a word or phrase is of interest is received. A contextual meta-information associated with the word or phrase of interest as used in context is used to make information related to the word or phrase of interest available, for example, by forming a more precise query and/or filtering search results based on the contextual meta-information. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166430 | Scalable Performance Management System - A performance management system leverages an iterative process to provide performance reports, with reduced computing resources. In response to a request for a performance report, a respective subset of performance data records may be received from each of a plurality of sources. It may then be determined whether additional performance data records are to be requested from the plurality of sources for the report. The received data may be processed and the resultant report may be outputted. For example, the iterative process may be applied to generate a top-n report based on network flow performance data in a computer information system. | 06-28-2012 |
20120173520 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL ACTIONS ON A SEARCH RESULTS PAGE - The present invention provides a method and system for providing targeted applications within a search engine results page. The method and system includes receiving a search query from a user and interpreting the search query. The method and system then first maps the interpreted query to one or more action templates, wherein mapping the interpreted query to one or more action templates comprises selecting one or more actions associated with the interpreted query. The method and system then maps the selected one or more actions associated with the interpreted query to a plurality of applications and selecting one or more applications associated with the one or more actions. Finally, the method and system displays the one or more applications within a search results page. | 07-05-2012 |
20120179671 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING COMPOUND SUGGESTIONS USING ENTITY ELIGIBILITY MODELS - A computer-implemented method and system for generating a compound suggestion to a user of a suggestion platform application, based on a range of locality and contextual factors. The method comprises selecting an applicable set of suggestion templates based at least partly on a determined location of the client device at which a suggestion application platform is accessed via the user interface; applying a plurality of eligibility models to generate a set of suggestions for each suggestion template of the set of suggestion templates selected; scoring the plurality of entities to determine a subset of best fit entities; compiling at least one compound suggestion by filling each suggestion template of the set of suggestion templates with the subset of best fit entities; ranking the respective compound suggestions associated with the plurality of suggestion templates; and presenting, at the user interface of the client device, at least a subset of the ranked compound suggestions. | 07-12-2012 |
20120179672 | SHARED VIRTUAL AREA COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT BASED APPARATUS AND METHODS - Improved systems and methods for navigating and interacting in virtual communication environments. At least some of these systems and methods provide a framework that includes one or more virtual areas and supports realtime communications between the communicants. At least some of these systems and methods provide an interface that includes navigation controls that enable a user to navigate virtual areas and interaction controls that enable the user to interact with other communicants in the one or more virtual areas. | 07-12-2012 |
20120185468 | MULTI-FUNCTION MATCHING ENGINES IMPLEMENTING IMPROVED SEARCHING AND SEARCH-RELATED TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES - A machine-controlled method may include receiving from a user an importance condition and a preference condition, target condition, or both. A data store may store textual information, numerical information, belief information, estimation data, or any combination thereof. A machine may execute a query against the stored information. A processor may apply an importance by asserting the importance condition against the stored information. The processor may apply a preference probability by asserting the preference condition against the stored information. Alternatively or in addition thereto, the processor may apply the target condition against the stored information. The machine may perform a matching operation that incorporates at least one result of the querying and provide at least one matching result based on the matching operation. Responsive to multiple results of the querying, the machine may provide an indication of a ranking corresponding to at least one of the results. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185469 | ADVANCED FILTERING MECHANISM TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES - A machine-controlled method may include receiving from a user an importance condition and a preference condition, target condition, or both. A data store may store textual information, numerical information, belief information, estimation data, or any combination thereof. A machine may execute a query against the stored information. A processor may apply an importance by asserting the importance condition against the stored information. The processor may apply a preference probability by asserting the preference condition against the stored information. The processor may apply the target condition against the stored information. The machine may perform a filtering operation that incorporates at least one result of the querying and provide at least one filtering result based on the filtering operation. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185470 | ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE SEARCHING AND SEARCH-RELATED TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES - A machine-controlled method may include receiving from a user an importance condition and a preference condition, target condition, or both. A data store may store textual information, numerical information, belief information, estimation data, or any combination thereof. A machine may execute a query against the stored information. A processor may apply an importance by asserting the importance condition against the stored information. The processor may apply a preference probability by asserting the preference condition against the stored information. Alternatively or in addition thereto, the processor may apply the target condition against the stored information. The machine may perform a collaborative decision making (CDM) operation that incorporates at least one result of the querying and provide at least one CDM result based on the CDM operation. Responsive to multiple results of the querying, the machine may provide an indication of a ranking corresponding to at least one of the results. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185471 | BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES - 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. A processor may apply an importance by asserting a user-defined importance condition against the information. The processor may apply a preference probability by asserting a user-specified preference condition against the information. The processor may assert a user-established target condition against the information. Responsive to a situation awareness activity, the machine may perform an actionable intelligence operation. Responsive to multiple results of the querying, the machine may provide an indication of a ranking corresponding to at least one of the results. | 07-19-2012 |
20120197875 | Efficient Information Exchange Between Encountering Vehicles Using Approximate Knowledge Via Hash Functions - A method is provided for efficiently transferring records related to places of interest between two communicating vehicles in a V2V system without initially having to transfer full text records. A determination is made as to whether information stored in a memory of the vehicle is redundant with the respect to the other vehicle. A query request is transmitted from a first vehicle to a second vehicle containing specifics as to what records the first vehicle is seeking. Data satisfying the query request represented by global unique index numbers is hashed to determine the similarity between the data of the two communicating vehicles. The similarity is used to determine whether a full filtered set of global unique index numbers should be transferred to the second vehicle for determining which records are not duplicate records. Thereafter, the second vehicle wirelessly transmits to the first vehicle the non-overlapping data that satisfies the query request. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197876 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR A MEDICAL EVENT IN AN ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD - Described herein are technologies pertaining to automatic generation of an executive summary (explanation) of a medical event in an electronic medical record (EMR) of a patient. A medical event in the EMR is automatically identified, and a search is conducted over a document corpus based upon the identified medical event. A document retrieved as a result of the search is analyzed for a portion of text to act as an executive summary for the medical event. Each portion of text in the document is assigned a score, and the portion of text assigned the highest score is utilized as the executive summary for the medical event. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197877 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE QUALITY OF DOCUMENT SETS - 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. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197878 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING RELATED TERMS - A method for searching related terms first calculates a direct relationship between every two of a plurality of query terms to obtain a direct related matrix, and calculates a related score between every two of the query terms to obtain a related score matrix. The method further calculates an indirect relationship between every two of the query terms according to the direct relationship and the related score, and determines indirect terms of each query term according to the indirect relationship between every two of the query terms. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197879 | FUZZY PROXIMITY BOOSTING AND INFLUENCE KERNELS - A method and apparatus are provided for ranking documents according to relevancy scoring. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided for receiving, from a database over a network, a document resulting from a search on a database, the document containing terms that match the search criteria. The method may calculate a standard deviation of a probability distribution function representing a distribution of the terms in the document that match the search criteria. The method may further determine relative distances between the terms in the document that match the search criteria according to the standard deviation. The method may further calculate a proximity boost value using the relative distances, and apply the proximity boost value to a base relevancy score of the document to determine a relevancy ranking. The document may then be ranked according to the relevancy ranking. | 08-02-2012 |
20120203771 | Ranking and displaying appraiser-chosen comparables against model-chosen comparables - Ranking and displaying comparable properties entails receiving appraisal information comprising a subject property and appraiser-chosen comparable properties corresponding to the subject property. Property data corresponding to a geographical area is accessed, in support of determining model-chosen comparable properties based upon the appropriateness of each of the comparable properties as comparables for the subject property. A map image is displayed for the geographical area, along with indicators on the map image indicative of the subject property, at least one of the appraiser-chosen comparable properties, and at least one of the model-chosen comparable properties. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203772 | Relevant Online Search For Long Queries - Online information is retrieved for a user. An original query submitted by the user is received which includes a plurality of query terms the user associates with particular online information the user is interested in. The original query is then analyzed using data from an online knowledge repository and a historical query log of a search engine to determine central concepts of the original query. A revised query results from this analysis which includes one or more of the central concepts. The revised query is then submitted to the search engine. Search results for the revised query are then provided to the user. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203773 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ELECTRONIC ASSETS OF A SOFTWARE SERVICE DELIVERY ORGANIZATION - An asset management system (AMS) facilitates management of electronic assets of a software service delivery organization. The AMS may facilitate classification of the electronic assets according to delivery phases in which each electronic asset is usable and accordingly enables users to identify and download the suitable assets usable in a desired delivery phase. The AMS also may receive from the users, usage data for (representing an extent of use of) the downloaded electronic assets and generate a set of utilization characteristics of the electronic asset based on the usage data. In addition, the AMS may facilitate classification of the assets according to a set of technology areas in which each electronic asset is applicable. On identifying that a new user is expected to operate in a specific technology area, the AMS may determine and provide suitable assets applicable to the specific technology area. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203774 | TECHNIQUE FOR CONFIRMATION OF DOMINANCY RELATIONSHIP - A method includes: classifying sampling points (SPs) into ranks so as to satisfy a condition such as a condition that no SP belonging to a certain rank is dominated by another SP belonging to a rank higher than the certain rank; determining, in ascending order from a lowest rank, whether a first SP belonging to a first rank dominates a second SP belonging to a second rank higher than the first rank. When the first SP dominates, while changing the rank from a rank immediately lower than the first rank to the lowest rank, the first SP and SPs dominating the first SP and included in a first set of the first SP are added to a dominating source set of the second SP, and the first SP and SPs in the first set are excluded from SPs for which the determining is executed with respect to the second SP. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203775 | LOGIC DIAGRAM SEARCH DEVICE - A logic diagram search device of the present invention includes a movement amount estimation section, a computation element/signal line correspondence calculation section, and a similarity degree calculation section. The movement amount estimation section estimates a diagram movement amount between a criterion diagram and a comparative diagram based on a coordinates variation amount. The computation element/signal line correspondence calculation section generates correspondence between a signal line in the criterion diagram connecting the computation elements that have been objects of a correspondence generation operation and a signal line in the comparative diagram connecting the computation elements that have been objects of the correspondence generation operation. The similarity degree calculation section calculates the degree of similarity between the criterion diagram and the comparative diagram based on the computation elements and the signal lines for which the correspondence is generated. | 08-09-2012 |
20120209831 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RANKING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON CATEGORY DEMAND NORMALIZED USING IMPRESSIONS - Described herein are methods and systems for promoting item listings that satisfy a query based on the item listings being assigned to certain categories that have, based on historical click data, exhibited high demand characteristics for the query. Consistent with some embodiments, a certain number of leaf-level categories are identified based on demand data for those categories, and the item listings assigned to those categories are promoted through a normalized weighting factor derived in part based on the click probability score associated with the category, clicks per impression rate, and weighted clicks per impression by ranking rate. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209832 | SOCIAL NETWORK BASED CONTEXTUAL RANKING - A ranked set of users may be calculated from an expertise categorization for each user and a person's trust in the users for specific categories. The ranked set of users may be used for presenting search results, recommendations, social marketing, or other uses. A person's reputation may be determined through various online activities. A person's trust in another person may be related to their proximity and activity in one or more social networks. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209833 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DATA RETRIEVAL - Methods and device are disclosed for data retrieval. At first images and reports are analyzed by respective parser units to detect both structures and text passages that are related to respective structures and text passages of a knowledge data-base. The detected structures and text passages are stored together with a unique resource located that identifies the respective structure and/or text passage at the knowledge database in a semantic annotation database. In addition a feature extraction can be performed to provide specific features of the images and/or regions of the images, whereby the features are stored in an image feature database. Finally an input query can ask questions that are used to provide a result to the query based on the semantic annotation database and the image feature database. The methods and devices may be used for data preparation and data retrieval of medical images and associated medical reports. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209834 | INDEXING AND SEARCHING PRODUCT IDENTIFIERS - A system, method and computer program product for processing a search query includes receiving a search query containing one or more terms; processing the query to add one or more bi-words as terms to the query; searching a search index embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having product identifiers and logical parts of the product identifiers indexed into different fields in the index; generating a score based on at least some of the terms matching the product identifiers and the individual logical parts of the product identifiers in the different fields in the index, wherein bi-words are weighted higher than the terms having only one word and individual terms are weighted higher when matching in the product identifier fields of the index; and selecting and outputting an indicator of product identifiers ranked by their scores. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209835 | Identifying Task Groups for Organizing Search Results - Computer-readable media and computerized methods for automatically organizing search results according to task groups are provided. The methods involve aggregating a gallery of entities (e.g., search queries that share a common categorization) into a query class and assigning a dictionary (e.g., list of terms that are drawn from various sources) to the query class. The task groups are identified from the list of terms within the dictionary. The process of identification includes analyzing patterns of user search behavior to select terms from the list of terms, which reflect popular user search intents, and ranking the selected terms based on predetermined parameters to produce an ordering. Based on the ordering, a set of the selected terms that are highest ranked are declared the task groups. The task groups are employed to arrange the search results on a UI display and to provide a consistent and intuitive format for refining a search. | 08-16-2012 |
20120215771 | Affinity Based Ranked For Search And Display - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for affinity based ranking and display of digital photographs. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an identifier that identifies a first user; accessing data defining relationships of the first user to second users; accessing digital photographs; determining digital photographs that are each associated with one or more of the first user and the second users; for each digital photograph, generating a photograph score based on the association with one or more of the first user and the second users and corresponding affinity scores representing the relationships of the first user to the second users; ordering the digital photographs according photograph scores; and providing one or more of the digital photographs to a user device of the first user according to the order. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215772 | GROUPING IDENTITY RECORDS TO GENERATE CANDIDATE LISTS TO USE IN AN ENTITY AND RELATIONSHIP RESOLUTION PROCESS - Provided is a method for grouping identity records to generate candidate lists to use in an entity and relationship resolution process. A plurality of identity records provide attributes of entities. The received identity records are grouped into a group of identity records. A composite query on values for selected attributes of the identity records in the group is generated and applied to an entity database to obtain composite results of entity records in the entity database matching the attribute values of the composite query. For the identity records in the group, an individual query on attributes of one of the identity records is performed against the composite results of the entity records to determine a candidate list of entity records from the entity database for the identity record. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215773 | RANKING USER GENERATED WEB CONTENT - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for analyzing quality of user-generated content involve identifying interactions between users through an electronic network and assigning a weighting factor to each interaction representing a quality of the interaction. A user credential score is generated for each user based on the weighting factors for each interaction. The user credential scores are stored in association with a user identifier on a computer-readable storage device. | 08-23-2012 |
20120221555 | GENERATING A SEMANTIC GRAPH RELATING INFORMATION ASSETS USING FEEDBACK RE-ENFORCED SEARCH AND NAVIGATION - Embodiments of the invention provide an approach for creating, evolving and using a weighted semantic graph to manage and potentially identify certain information assets within an enterprise. The semantic graph may be generated by monitoring users navigating through search results which provide a set of information assets responsive to a search query. By recording the navigation path taken by many users, relationships between information assets may be identified. Further, once generated, the semantic graph may be used to present users with in indication of related information assets as part of the search results. Further still, the semantic graph may also be used to identify information assert “hubs” as well as information assets that may provide low utility to individuals within the enterprise. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221556 | MANAGING INFORMATION ASSETS USING FEEDBACK RE-ENFORCED SEARCH AND NAVIGATION - Embodiments of the invention provide an approach for creating, evolving and using a weighted semantic graph to manage and potentially identify certain information assets within an enterprise. The semantic graph may be generated by monitoring users navigating through search results which provide a set of information assets responsive to a search query. By recording the navigation path taken by many users, relationships between information assets may be identified. Further, once generated, the semantic graph may be used to present users with in indication of related information assets as part of the search results. Further still, the semantic graph may also be used to identify information assert “hubs” as well as information assets that may provide low utility to individuals within the enterprise. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221557 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING QUERIES TO IMPROVE RELEVANCE OF SEARCH RESULTS - Described herein are methods and systems for promoting item listings that satisfy a query based on the item listings being assigned to certain categories. A query to identify a set of item listings is processed where each item listing associated with an item or service being offered for sale and assigned to a leaf-level category. The scope of the query is determined based on a dictionary of queries or a length of the query when the query is not found in the dictionary. One or more categories are identified based on the scope of the query. A search results page is presented with the item listings from the identified one or more categories. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221558 | IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ASSETS WITHIN AN ENTERPRISE USING A SEMANTIC GRAPH CREATED USING FEEDBACK RE-ENFORCED SEARCH AND NAVIGATION - Embodiments of the invention provide an approach for creating, evolving and using a weighted semantic graph to manage and potentially identify certain information assets within an enterprise. The semantic graph may be generated by monitoring users navigating through search results which provide a set of information assets responsive to a search query. By recording the navigation path taken by many users, relationships between information assets may be identified. Further, once generated, the semantic graph may be used to present users with in indication of related information assets as part of the search results. Further still, the semantic graph may also be used to identify information assert “hubs” as well as information assets that may provide low utility to individuals within the enterprise. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221559 | SOCIAL DISCOVERY PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The SOCIAL DISCOVERY PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“SDP”) transform content seed selections and recommendations via SDP components such as discovery and social influence into events and discovery of other contents for users and revenue for right-holders. In one embodiment, the SDP may receive user selection of a universally resolvable content seed and determine socially influenced content attributes associated with the universally resolvable content seed. The SDP may query a universally resolvable content database using the socially influenced content attributes and obtain a ranked list of universally resolvable content items from the querying. The SDP may then provide the ranked list of universally resolvable content items to the user. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221560 | USER READABILITY IMPROVEMENT FOR DYNAMIC UPDATING OF SEARCH RESULTS - A system for moving search results visibly comprises an interface, a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to a) determine an ordering of one or more results in a subsequent set of search results as merged into a displayed set of search results; b) determine one or more interleaving positions for the subsequent set of search results in the displayed set of search results; c) cause the creation of one or more blank spaces in the one or more interleaving positions; and d) cause a display of one or more results in the subsequent set of search results in the one or more blank spaces. The memory causes a display of one or more results in the subsequent set of search results in the one or more blank spaces | 08-30-2012 |
20120226681 | FACET DETERMINATION USING QUERY LOGS - Previously received queries from a search log are analyzed to determine a category of structured data associated with each query. For example, the categories may correspond to consumer product categories such as televisions, digital cameras, etc. For each category, the terms of the queries associated with the category are correlated with the attributes and attribute values of the structured data tuples associated with the category. The attributes may be ranked based on the correlation. When a subsequent query is received, the category of the query is determined and the ranked attributes associated with the category are used to select facets that are displayed to the user along with the search results. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226682 | PROVIDING SEARCH INFORMATION - Providing search information is disclosed, including: receiving one or more user input search keywords; automatically determining a plurality of search channels based at least in part on the one or more user input search keywords; searching the determined plurality of search channels for information that is relevant to the one or more user input search keywords; and returning relevant information associated with the determined plurality of search channels. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226683 | COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR CREATING PATENT DATA SUMMARIES AND METHOD THEREFOR - A system and method for generating patent data summary reports for target entity identified by user. The information system contains database with patent document records. After user selects target entity, system issues query to database to identify all entities having association with patent documents associated with specified target entity. For example, user may wish to receive report on all clients of specific attorney. The system would search database to locate all assignees of all patents prosecuted by that attorney and return ranked list of such assignees to user. Optionally, system may generate graphical representation of information in report and provide it to user. Report provided to user may be interactive in a sense that various items of information within report may be connected by links to additional reports with more specific information. Additionally, system may automatically update patent document database with new records as they become available. | 09-06-2012 |
20120233156 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING AN UNCLEAR DESCRIPTION - According to an instruction manual generated by an instruction manual generator, a process log of a practical process performed by a plurality of instruction executers is acquired. A command described in the instruction manual is extracted, and extracted commands are extracted from each process log. The sections of the process logs sectioned by the extracted commands are numbered, and the number of executions of the commands different from the extracted command is counted. When the variance of the number of the executions of a command in a section common in the plurality of process logs is larger than a specified value, the possibility of an unclear description in the corresponding section in the instruction manual is displayed for notification of a different process performed for each instruction executer. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233157 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING CLOUD-BASED DATABASES - Systems and methods for searching cloud-based databases are provided herein. A service provider may have a need to make their database(s) searchable through search technology. However, the service provider may not have the resources to implement such search technology. The search technology may allow for search queries against these cloud-based databases. The technology described herein provides a solution addressing the service provider's need, by giving a search technology that furnishes search results in a fast, accurate manner. In further embodiments, systems and methods to monetize those search results are also described herein. | 09-13-2012 |
20120239643 | CONTEXT-AWARE SEARCH - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for supplementing user-specified text for a search with context information to generate search results that is more closely matched to the user's needs. A context search component maintains a snapshot of the user context and additional context-based queries are generated and corresponding searches are performed. The search results of the context-based queries are merged with the results of the user-specified text query and displayed for the user. When the user accesses a resource listed in the merged search results, the context-based terms mentioned in the resource are identified to the user. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239644 | METHOD AND MEANS FOR BROWSING BY WALKING - A mobile station is arranged to determine its location, which is searched against street addresses from a database, and at least one matching street address is retrieved. The street address is searched on the mobile station and/or over the network. The search engine conducts a search in the mobile station file system and/or the Internet and/or a file system over the network with the at least one query term, —at least one search result is arranged to be displayed to user on the screen of the mobile station. This facilitates on-demand effortless Mobile Internet Search that allows the users to access opportunities that they did not know about, or would not have had time to find out about with minimum effort as the software of the mobile phone is scanning the Internet and information pages for these opportunities and displaying the results dynamically on the mobile phone screen. | 09-20-2012 |
20120246153 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THREE-TERM SEMANTIC SEARCH - Methods and systems for searching over a large corpus of data to discover relevant information artifacts based on similar content and/or relationships are disclosed. Improvements over simple keyword and phrase based searching over Internet scale data are shown. A search query may be modified or relaxed based on the search terms and a contextual relationship therebetween. The search results may be ranked based on both a data ranking corresponding to the data entries in the corpus and a query ranking corresponding to the search query and/or the modified or relaxed search query. In this manner, the accuracy and relevance of the search results is improved. | 09-27-2012 |
20120254161 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARAGRAPH-BASED DOCUMENT SEARCHING - A computerized method of searching a collection of electronic documents may include comparing search terms to sets of paragraph terms associated with paragraphs in the documents. Search terms and paragraph terms may be standardized, prior to the comparison. The method may also include generating paragraph scores for the paragraphs using term weight values associated with paragraph terms that match search terms, generating paragraph scores for the paragraphs, and using the paragraph scores to generate overall document scores. The method may also include using the overall document scores to determine a set of search results and providing the search results to a display. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254162 | FACET SUPPORT, CLUSTERING FOR CODE QUERY RESULTS - Techniques and tools are described for refining source-code query results. For example, source-code query results for a query can be generated, semantic clusters of the source-code query results can be generated, and based on a selection of a semantic cluster option, refined source-code query results can be sent. Also, for example, source-code query results can be received, selections of facet values associated with groups of the source-code query results can be sent, and based on selected facet values, a subset of the source-code query results can be received. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254163 | DETERMINING A RELATIVE IMPORTANCE AMONG ORDERED LISTS - Implementations and techniques for determining a relative importance among ordered lists are generally discussed. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254164 | SEARCH METHOD, SEARCH DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A search device has the following configuration. An extractor extracts extracted document which includes a plurality of search strings among a plurality of document. An acquirer acquires one or more strings from each of said extracted documents, wherein each of acquired strings includes all of said search strings in each of the extracted documents. A priority determinater determines an output priority for each of said extracted document based on length of said acquired strings acquired from the extracted document. An outputter outputs said extracted document in association with said determined output priority. | 10-04-2012 |
20120259844 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING EXCESSIVE ACCESSORY LISTINGS IN SEARCH RESULTS - A system and method for assessing excessive accessory listings in search results includes a processor-implemented textual mining module that parses a data field of a document and generates at least one token from the data field. A processor-implemented scoring module calculates a score for the at least one token, with the at least one token score representing a likelihood that the at least one token belongs to one of two binary classifications. The processor-implemented scoring module also calculates a score for the document based on the at least one token score, with the document score representing a probability of the document being in one of the two binary classifications. A processor-implemented decision tree module inputs the document score and document attribute values into a decision tree and generates an output representing a refined score based on the document score and at least one of the document attribute values. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259845 | Method of Providing Instructional Material While A Software Application is in Use - An ambient help application selects and displays learning resources to an end-user of a software application that are relevant to the current activities of the end-user in the software application. The ambient help application selects the learning resources based on computed relevance scores of each learning resource and displays the learning resources in a dedicated help space. The learning resources may include video- and text-based instructional information, and may be sized and positioned in the help space according to relevance score. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259846 | METHOD FOR SELECTING A SUBSET OF CONTENT SOURCES FROM A COLLECTION OF CONTENT SOURCES - A method for selecting a subset of content sources from a collection of content sources is disclosed. A server retrieves, in response to a plurality of queries on a topic from a client, using a programmed computer, a plurality of sets of documents from the collection of content sources. The server enumerates all subsets of the plurality of sets of documents. The server calculates, for each subset, a count of effectiveness of a subset and a price of the subset. The server selects a subset having the highest calculated ratio of count of effectiveness of the subset to price of the subset. The server delivers the selected subset of the plurality of sets of documents to the client. | 10-11-2012 |
20120265755 | Authentication of a Contributor of Online Content - Methods, computer program products and systems are described for online-content management. Online content from multiple contributors is received at one or more first computers for public online display. An authentication score is determined for a contributor of the multiple contributors. The contributor's name and a representation of the contributor's authentication score is published online for display on one or more second computers in association with the online content received from the contributor. | 10-18-2012 |
20120271819 | DETERMINATION OF RECOMMENDATION DATA - Determining recommendation data is disclosed, including: extracting a first set of keywords from a set of user action logs that occurred prior to a predetermined time point; extracting a second set of keywords from a set of user action logs that occurred subsequent to the predetermined time point; merging at least a portion of the first set of keywords and at least a portion of the second set of keywords to obtain a third set of keywords; matching the third set of keywords to a database of data that can potentially be recommended to a user; and in the event that a piece of data is determined to match at least one keyword from the third set of keywords, determine that the piece of data is to be recommended to the user. | 10-25-2012 |
20120271820 | Mobile Friendly Internet Searches - Mobile friendly interne searches are enabled by determining if individual interne sites are mobile friendly. In a described implementation, a mobile-friendliness indication is determined for an interne site. The determined mobile-friendliness indication is stored in association with the interne site in an index that may be used for interne searching. In another described implementation, a data structure comprises an interne index with multiple interne site entries having one or more associated mobile-friendliness indications. The mobile-friendliness indications may be general affirmative indications of mobile friendliness or specific indications of mobile-friendliness that identify a specific user agent type. In yet another described implementation, a search request having search terms is received, and a search is performed based thereon to produce a search results set. If the search requestor is a mobile device, the search results are ordered responsive to mobile-friendliness indications associated with the internet sites of the search results set. | 10-25-2012 |
20120278314 | PRESENTATION OF ITEMS BASED ON A THEME - Queries submitted by users when interacting with a network-based system may be analyzed by a query mining machine that determines a theme common to the submitted queries. The machine accesses the submitted queries and identifies a portion of the submitted queries as corresponding to the theme. Identification of the portion may include determining a strength score of a submitted query, where the strength score indicates a degree of influence that the submitted query is to have on the identifying of the portion. The machine generates a thematic query based on the identified portion and obtains search results by executing the thematic query. The search results correspond to a group of items. The machine presents at least some of the group of items as a collection that corresponds to the theme (e.g., within a temporary electronic storefront). | 11-01-2012 |
20120278315 | Integrated phonetic matching methods and systems - Methods and systems for searching a database for a query using an integrated approach of associating transduced query string comparisons with literal query string comparisons reduces computation time and results in more relevant and accurate results. The methods and systems include a processor receiving a query, searching a database for the query, and providing results of the search. The query may be compared to data entries from the database, and a transduced version of the query may be compared to transduced data entries. Results from the comparisons between the query and the data entries may be used to guide the comparisons between the transduced query and the transduced data entries. Search results are determined based on the guided comparisons. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278316 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING ENHANCEMENTS TO SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS - In accordance with some embodiments, processes and interfaces for enhancing or modifying the output of search results are provided. For example, an interface may allow a user to indicate a particular search result returned for a search as being undesirable. In one embodiment, such an indication may cause a removal (e.g., by a search engine or by a third party software application with access to a listing of search results returned by the search engine) of the search result from the listing of the search results as well as review of the remainder of the search results to determine which additional search results should also be removed (e.g., additional search results may be determined, on behalf of the user, to be undesirable for the same reason as the search result(s) indicated by the user). | 11-01-2012 |
20120284260 | STATISTICAL MEASURE AND CALIBRATION OF INTERNALLY INCONSISTENT SEARCH CRITERIA WHERE ONE OR BOTH OF THE SEARCH CRITERIA AND DATABASE IS INCOMPLETE - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, searching for and identifying an entity representation. Some embodiments permit search criteria that are internally inconsistent. Such internally inconsistent criteria may include, for example, a maiden last name and a married last name. Certain embodiments account for such criteria in an intelligent manner and identify matching entity representations with a known confidence level of accuracy. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284261 | GENERATING A SEMANTIC GRAPH RELATING INFORMATION ASSETS USING FEEDBACK RE-ENFORCED SEARCH AND NAVIGATION - Embodiments of the invention provide an approach for creating, evolving and using a weighted semantic graph to manage and potentially identify certain information assets within an enterprise. The semantic graph may be generated by monitoring users navigating through search results which provide a set of information assets responsive to a search query. By recording the navigation path taken by many users, relationships between information assets may be identified. Further, once generated, the semantic graph may be used to present users with in indication of related information assets as part of the search results. Further still, the semantic graph may also be used to identify information assert “hubs” as well as information assets that may provide low utility to individuals within the enterprise. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284262 | MANAGING INFORMATION ASSETS USING FEEDBACK RE-ENFORCED SEARCH AND NAVIGATION - Embodiments of the invention provide an approach for creating, evolving and using a weighted semantic graph to manage and potentially identify certain information assets within an enterprise. The semantic graph may be generated by monitoring users navigating through search results which provide a set of information assets responsive to a search query. By recording the navigation path taken by many users, relationships between information assets may be identified. Further, once generated, the semantic graph may be used to present users with in indication of related information assets as part of the search results. Further still, the semantic graph may also be used to identify information assert “hubs” as well as information assets that may provide low utility to individuals within the enterprise. | 11-08-2012 |
20120290565 | AUTOMATIC SOCIAL GRAPH CALCULATION - Systems, methods and computer program products are disclosed for facilitating the collection of activity data, organizational hierarchy data and distribution list data within a private computer network (especially an intranet) while complying with applicable privacy laws and regulations, as well as individual organizations' business rules addressing intranet users' privacy to display a social graph of organization members related to a requesting organization member. Such systems, methods and computer program products allow for the collecting of such data passively without a need for active participation from the requester. A computer-implemented process for displaying a social graph further comprises calculating sub-scores for each of activity data, organizational data and distribution list data and calculating a total score for each related organization member and displaying the social graph comprising those organization members whose score exceeds a predetermined value as related to the requester. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290566 | 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. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290567 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING NON-PUBLIC DATA USING A SINGLE SEARCH QUERY - Method and apparatus for facilitating real-time searching of non-public data on multiple remote source units using single search query are provided. Method includes automatically discovering, by client device, multiple remote source units via auto discovery module. Method includes facilitating provision, to auto discovery module, of single search query directed to multiple remote source units to enable searching of non-public data simultaneously on all of multiple remote source units based on single search query. Method also includes in response to facilitating provision of single search query: receiving non-public search results in sequence or simultaneously, where each of non-public search results is associated with corresponding one of multiple remote source units, where each of non-public search results comprises one or more file names or folder names, automatically aggregating non-public search results from plurality of multiple remote source units, automatically ranking aggregated non-public search results; and facilitating displaying ranked non-public search results. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS - Disclosed are a system and method for providing search results. The system for providing search results comprises: a keyword-receiving unit which receives a keyword from a user; an exposure-order-applying unit which applies, to a collection search bar, the order of exposure of a collection containing a listing of keyword search results; and a search-result-providing unit which provides the user with a webpage of the keyword search results, said webpage containing the collection search bar. | 11-15-2012 |
20120296895 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING PROCESSOR-ASSISTED INDEXING AND SEARCHING - Systems and methods are provided for processor-assisted indexing and searching, in which categories or individual documents within a database are annotated to the terms of an ontology, searched and then prioritized by rank. Items of the domain of interest, as well as the ontologies that describe attributes of those items, are embedded into a Bayesian network. Search queries correspond to user activations of items. An error model mimics incomplete or falsely specific items. Search results correspond to a subset of the items to which the query items are semantically-related. A probabilistic inference is performed to obtain marginal probabilities of each search result to explain the presence of the queries. These probabilities can then be used for ranking the search results. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296896 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC BOOK REGISTRY OF BOOKS AND FOR MODELING REAL-TIME DEMAND FOR BOOKS WITHIN ACADEMIC SECTORS - A system provides a connection between education administration, particularly as such administration assigns or selects books, and the marketing and use of those books. Such marketing and use of those books and information related to those books can include, without limitation, consumer product information, the publishing industry and specifically book publishing, and market analysis, analysis of data, markets, demand and supply chain and inventory management. | 11-22-2012 |
20120303614 | AUTOMATING RESPONSES TO INFORMATION QUERIES - An automated response system is described herein that allows users to submit information queries in a format they are comfortable with while unburdening other users from answering redundant or automatically answerable queries in forums such as email distribution lists. The system provides an email-based smart question and answer system that can be added to existing email or collaboration software to provide automatic replies to common questions. The system can be integrated at a level that prevents such queries from ever reaching other members of the list or can be setup like any other member of the list, receiving and processing queries as they are distributed to list members. Members can vote on responses and the system can automatically use past votes on answers to a question to provide the highest rated answers in response to similar future queries. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303615 | IMAGE-BASED POPULARITY PREDICTION - A machine may be configured to access an image of an item described by a description of the item. The machine may determine an image quality score of the image based on an analysis of the image. A request for search results that pertain to the description may be received by the machine, and the machine may present a search result that references the item's image, based on its image quality score. Also, the machine may access images of items and descriptions of items and generate a set of most frequent text tokens included in the item descriptions. The machine may identify an image feature exhibited by an item's image and determine that a text token from the corresponding item description matches one of the most frequent text tokens. A data structure may be generated by the machine to correlate the identified image feature with the text token. | 11-29-2012 |
20120310925 | System and method for determining art preferences of people - A system and method of the present invention present a web based music station. The system includes a website having at least two engine components such as a table of a playlist and a table of a content references. A system includes a controller with an algorithm incorporated therein. The algorithm is configured to retrieve various images and music pre-stored in the controller and presents these images and the music to the users. The system tries to reconstruct the “logical priority chains” of user perception as it relates to both the music and the images. The system then clusterizes picks of the music and the images and the users. The system then binds both music and images together using non-linear mapping to determine preference of each user. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310926 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING RESULTS OF A SEARCH QUERY IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example and includes receiving results for a search query initiated by a user; evaluating the results in relation to a personal profile of the user. The personal profile includes a plurality of characteristics associated with the user. The method also includes ranking the results based on the evaluation in order to generate a resultant that reflects a ranking of the results, and communicating the resultant to the user. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310927 | Context-Based Selection of Calls-To-Action Associated With Search Results - In one embodiment, access a search query provided by a user of a social-networking system; identify a set of search results in response to the search query; associate one or more call-to-action elements with one or more search results in the set of search results based on one or more factors associated with the social-networking system; and present the set of search results, including the one or more call-to-action elements, to the user. | 12-06-2012 |
20120317101 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUALIFYING KEYWORDS IN QUERY STRINGS - A method and system for qualifying keyword(s) or phrase(s) to formulate a query string for submitting a search request when the query string contains one or more keywords that may have multiple meanings associated therewith. Database information containing keywords and associated meanings or forms of the keywords is maintained and a requester is prompted to identify one or more of the meanings of a keyword when building the query string. One or more advertisements pertaining to the associated meanings or forms of the keywords in the query string is presented to the requester submitting a search request. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317102 | RANKING EXPERT RESPONSES AND FINDING EXPERTS BASED ON RANK - In a computerized social network, expert and user chat sessions are stored and rated probabilistically. Later user requests for information are met with an expert ranking, based on a balance of similarities between expert profile and questions; similarity between expert profile and prior chat sessions, and dynamically updated chat session ratings. New sessions can be rated automatically with reference to keywords distilled from past sessions responsive to user ratings—and based on session length. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317103 | RANKING DATA UTILIZING MULTIPLE SEMANTIC KEYS IN A SEARCH QUERY - A method, computer-readable medium, and system for ranking data are disclosed. It may be automatically determined that a search query includes multiple semantic keys. Respective sets of semantic sub-keys may be determined for each of the multiple semantic keys. Documents including at least one instance of a semantic sub-key associated with the multiple semantic keys may be ranked above documents which do not include at least one instance of a semantic sub-key associated with the multiple semantic keys. In this manner, ranking of documents associated with search results may be improved by utilizing semantic sub-keys associated with multiple semantic keys included in the search query. | 12-13-2012 |
20120323897 | QUERY-DEPENDENT AUDIO/VIDEO CLIP SEARCH RESULT PREVIEWS - Systems, methods, and computer media for providing query-dependent audio and video clip previews are provided. Using the systems and methods described herein, an identification of an audio or video clip relevant to a user search query is received. The user search query has one or more keywords. Occurrences of the keywords and the locations of the occurrences are identified in a transcription of the identified audio or video clip. Clip segments are extracted from the audio or video clip. Each extracted clip segment includes an identified keyword occurrence. A query-dependent clip preview is created that includes at least one extracted clip segment. The query-dependent clip preview can be provided in search results for the user search query to provide an informative preview that is specific to the query to which the clip is relevant. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323898 | SURFACING APPLICATIONS BASED ON BROWSING ACTIVITY - Applications are surfaced to a user during browsing without requiring a specific search by the user. The applications can be selected for surfacing to the user based on the network address entered into the address bar of a browser, the content of the page corresponding to the network address, or a combination thereof. Applications may be selected for surfacing based on a partial address entered into the address bar and/or based on the web page content that is currently visible in the browser display. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323899 | PREFERENCE-GUIDED SEMANTIC PROCESSING - Techniques for specifying user preferences in a semantic network. The techniques include receiving, using at least one processor, a plurality of first-order user preferences for at least one concept in a semantic network, wherein the plurality of first-order user preferences are indicative of a user's preferences among children of attributes of the at least one concept in the semantic network; receiving, using the at least one processor, at least one second-order user preference for the at least one concept in the semantic network, wherein the at least one second-order user preference is indicative of the user's preferences among attributes of the at least one concept; and performing at least one semantic processing act by using the semantic network, the plurality of first-order user preferences, and the at least one second-order user preference. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323900 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING AUXILARY INFORMATION FOR TOPIC GENERATION - Analyzing auxiliary information associated with a video asset is performed. A topic is then determined from the extracted keywords where the topic is used as a basis of a query to return results such as news articles and other related information that is relevant to the topic of a video asset current being viewed or accessed. These steps are repeated when a topic changes | 12-20-2012 |
20120323901 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THAT HAS RECORDED INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - When a search keyword is characteristically used in an image, it is detected more easily. An image search device | 12-20-2012 |
20120323902 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND FILE BROWSING METHOD IMPLEMENTED BY MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal and a file browsing method implemented by the mobile terminal are disclosed, including: a scanning module scans the files in the mobile terminal and acquires related information of each file in the mobile terminal; an indexing module creates a global index list according to the related information of the files; and a browsing module classifies and displays the files according to the file types in the global index list while searching a target file. According to the technical solution, the target file can be quickly and conveniently found from the mobile terminal. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323903 | Multimedia Aggregation in an Online Social Network - In particular embodiments, a search request is received at a social network. A search may be performed to find any matching users whose associated content matches one or more terms in the search request. The search may be performed in a data store of social networking content associated with users of the social network. Matching users having matching associated content may be determined from the search results. Associated content information for at least one matching user may be retrieved. Information to display a web page may be sent in response to the search request. The information to display the web page may comprise profile information and the associated content information for the matching users. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323904 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF A SEARCH QUERY - A method, computer-readable medium, and system for automatic generation of a search query are disclosed. A semantic key may be automatically recognized in a first search query, thereby allowing a second search query to be automatically generated based on the first search query. A first search may be performed using the second search query. Search results generated responsive to the first search may include one or more instances of at least one semantic sub-key associated with the semantic key. In this manner, more relevant search results may be returned while relieving the user of manually entering the semantic key separately from the search query keywords and/or demarcating the semantic key and the search query keywords. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323905 | RANKING DATA UTILIZING ATTRIBUTES ASSOCIATED WITH SEMANTIC SUB-KEYS - A method, computer-readable medium, and system for ranking data are disclosed. Where a semantic key is associated with a search query, a plurality of semantic sub-keys associated with the semantic key may be determined. Each semantic sub-key of the plurality of semantic sub-keys may be associated with at least one respective attribute. At least one semantic sub-key of the plurality of semantic sub-keys may be determined, where the at least one semantic sub-key is associated with an attribute matching a portion of the search query. At least one document associated with the at least one semantic sub-key may be ranked above at least one other document associated with at least one other semantic sub-key of the plurality of semantic sub-keys. As such, ranking of documents associated with search results may be improved by utilizing attributes of semantic sub-keys. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323906 | LEXICAL ANSWER TYPE CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION AND APPLICATION - A system, method and computer program product for automatically estimating the confidence of a detected LAT to provide a more accurate overall score for an obtained candidate answer. A confidence “score” or value of each detected LAT is obtained, and the system and method performs combining the confidence score with a degree of match between a LAT and an AnswerType of the candidate answer to provide improved overall score for the candidate answer. | 12-20-2012 |
20120330935 | USER-SPECIFIC PRESENTATION OF TRAVEL DATA - Systems and methods for mediation of content-related services are provided. Information about a user may be stored in memory. Such information may be used to identify availability of the user to travel on certain days. A search is formulated based on the identified availability of the user. Each search result is evaluated to derive a user-specific value. The search results are thereafter ranked based on the user-specific value calculated. A user-specific display of travel data is then generated for presentation to the user. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330936 | USING A DYNAMICALLY-GENERATED CONTENT-LEVEL NEWSWORTHINESS RATING TO PROVIDE CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS - A method for providing content-level data artifact recommendations can begin with the creation of a semantic library from the textual content of data artifacts by a newsworthy content recommendation engine. A base newsworthiness rating can be calculated using global newsworthiness parameters and behavioral functions that model newsworthy influences for each relationship contained in the semantic library. A user-specific search network can be generated that represents user-entered criteria and/or user task-related criteria. Within the semantic library, potential newsworthy semantic networks can be identified. Newsworthy content from each identified potential newsworthy semantic network can be dynamically determined based upon the base newsworthiness rating and a predefined newsworthiness threshold. The newsworthy content from the identified potential newsworthy semantic network can be related to the user-specific search network at the common node, creating a newsworthy content recommendation graph. The newsworthy content recommendation graph can be presented within a user interface. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330937 | Search Results Comparison Methods and Systems - An exemplary method includes a search results comparison system receiving data representative of a first search term and a second search term, identifying a group of search results that are each related to the first and second search terms, determining a degree of relatedness of each of the search results to the first search term and a degree of relatedness of each of the search results to the second search term, and presenting a set of one or more search result icons representative of one or more of the search results in between a first search term icon representative of the first search term and a second search term icon representative of the second search term. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330938 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILTERING DOCUMENTS - A method and document separation system for separating a set of related documents is described. In one aspect, the method comprises: determining, on a document selection system, quality scores for a plurality of the documents in the set of related documents; obtaining a similarity score for a plurality of pairs of documents in the set of related document; and on a document selection system, obtaining a first subset of related documents which solves an optimization problem, the first subset of related documents including a portion of the document in the set of related documents, the optimization problem being a function of one or more quality scores of the documents assigned to the first subset of related documents and one or more similarity scores of pairs of documents assigned to the first subset of related documents. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330939 | USING A DYNAMICALLY-GENERATED CONTENT-LEVEL NEWSWORTHINESS RATING TO PROVIDE CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS - A method for providing content-level data artifact recommendations can begin with the creation of a semantic library from the textual content of data artifacts by a newsworthy content recommendation engine. A base newsworthiness rating can be calculated using global newsworthiness parameters and behavioral functions that model newsworthy influences for each relationship contained in the semantic library. A user-specific search network can be generated that represents user-entered criteria and/or user task-related criteria. Within the semantic library, potential newsworthy semantic networks can be identified. Newsworthy content from each identified potential newsworthy semantic network can be dynamically determined based upon the base newsworthiness rating and a predefined newsworthiness threshold. The newsworthy content from the identified potential newsworthy semantic network can be related to the user-specific search network at the common node, creating a newsworthy content recommendation graph. The newsworthy content recommendation graph can be presented within a user interface. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330940 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RANKING AFFINITY DEGREE AMONG FUNCTIONAL BLOCKS - A methodology for assisting a user in a combination of functional blocks by defining a value representative of an affinity degree among the functional blocks. Such affinity degree is influenced by available historic data derived by previous uses of the functional blocks which had been recorded into a repository. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330941 | Search Method and Apparatus - A computing device may identify multiple search results that have relatively high correlation with the keyword. The device may determine multiple additional search results based on the corresponding relationships among the keyword, the multiple additional search results, and transaction parameters. The device may list the search results related to the degree of transaction success on the top and the search results related to the correlation on the bottom. The transactional parameters may be determined based on a click index and a purchase index that are associated with the keyword and each search result of the multiple additional search results. The click index and the purchase index may be generated in a predetermined time period. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330942 | INFORMATION REPOSITORY SEARCH SYSTEM - A system for receiving search criteria from users is disclosed. The search criteria are for application to a common information repository. The search criteria are received from at least two of the users. The system further associates the search criteria with source information that identifies multiple sources via which the search criteria are received. The system further generates a ranked set of search criteria based on the search criteria and presents a user interface including the ranked set of search criteria. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330943 | SIMPLIFIED SEARCHING FOR MEDIA SERVICES USING A CONTROL DEVICE - A method and apparatus are disclosed for searching for a media content related to a selected media service. A selected media service, as selected by a user operable indicator, has related metadata that is used as the basis of a search query. Once the search query is formulated, the query is submitted to a search engine that returns search results of media content related to the selected media service. Media content then may be selected from the returned search results for rendering in a rendering environment. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330944 | INDEXING AND SEARCH QUERY PROCESSING - A method for processing a search query according to one embodiment includes receiving a search query containing terms; combining at least some consecutive terms in the search query to create biwords; looking up at least some of the terms and biwords in a search index for identifying sections of documents containing the at least some of the terms and/or biwords; generating a content score for each of the identified sections based at least in part on a number of the terms and biwords found in the sections of each document, wherein the biwords are given a higher priority than matched terms, wherein the priority affects the content score; and selecting and outputting an indicator of at least one of the sections, or portion thereof, based at least in part on the content score. | 12-27-2012 |
20130006973 | Summarization of Conversation Threads - Automatically summarizing electronic communication conversation threads is provided. Electronic mails, text messages, tasks, questions and answers, meeting requests, calendar items, and the like are processed via a combination of natural language processing and heuristics. For a given conversation thread, for example, an electronic mail thread associated with a given task, a text summary of the thread is generated to highlight the most important text in the thread. The text summary is presented to a user in a visual user interface to allow the user to quickly understand the significance or relevance of the thread. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006974 | FILE SEARCHING ON MOBILE DEVICES - Systems and methods are provided for file searching on mobile devices. A system includes a user interface and a file query system. The user interface is for receiving a user-provided spatio-temporal query for use in searching for a particular file. The user-provided spatio-temporal query is provided by a user of a mobile device. The file query system is for determining information about the particular file responsive to the user-provided spatio-temporal query, and identifying from the information one or more files as a search result for the particular file. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006975 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING ENTITIES AND SYNONYM GROUP ORGANIZER USED THEREIN - There is provided a method for managing at least one synonym group, wherein the method comprises the step of: when a synonym group comprises more than one synonym, calculating a similarity value between each two synonyms of all synonyms of the synonym group indicating how similar these two synonyms are to each other. The invention further provided a synonym group organizer, a matching system using the synonym group organizer and the methods thereof. | 01-03-2013 |
20130013591 | IMAGE RE-RANK BASED ON IMAGE ANNOTATIONS - Search queries for images are received from users. An original order of responsive images to the query is determined. Duplicate images and words associated with the duplicate images are identified for each of the responsive images. Common words associated with the duplicate images are identified. The responsive images are annotated with the common words and an annotated order is determined. A re-ranked order is determined based on the original order and the annotated order. Responsive images are presented to the user in the re-ranked order. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013592 | System for Engaging Experts and Organizing Recorded Media - A system for selecting an expert and receiving expert evaluation data comprising: a computer having access to a database comprising subject matter expert data; where said computer is programmed to perform computer-implemented operations comprising:
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20130013593 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND SERVER FOR DETERMINING TYPE OF ELECTRIC APPLIANCE - A device, a method and a server for performing device identification of electric appliances connected to a network are provided. An information processing device, to which electric appliances are communicably connected via a network, receives a packet at least containing a packet for checking the status of a communication port of the electric appliance. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013594 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND SERVER FOR DETERMINING TYPE OF ELECTRIC APPLIANCE - A device, a method and a server for performing device identification of electric appliances connected to a network are provided. An information processing device, to which electric appliances are communicably connected via a network, receives a packet (a response packet and/or a passive packet) for determining a type of an electric appliance, from the electric appliances. The information processing device stores definition files defined for each electric appliance in advance, compares the received packet with the definition files for the each electric appliance, scores the packet, extracts a definition file with a high score, and determines electric appliance information of the extracted definition file as electric appliance information of the electric appliance. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013595 | PROVIDING CONTEXT RELEVANT SEARCH FOR A USER BASED ON LOCATION AND SOCIAL INFORMATION - A social networking system provides relevant third-party content objects to users by matching user location, interests, and other social information with the content, location, and timing associated with the content objects. Content objects are provided based on relevance scores specific to a user. Relevance scores may be calculated based on the user's previous interactions with content object notifications, or based on interests that are common between the user and his or her connections in the social network. Context search is also provided for a user, wherein a list of search of results is ranked according to the relevance score of content object associated with the search results. Notifications may also be priced and distributed to users based on their relevance. In this way, the system can provide notifications that are relevant to user's interests and current circumstances, increasing the likelihood that they will find content objects of interest. | 01-10-2013 |
20130018871 | Identifying and ranking networked biographies and referral paths corresponding to selected qualificationsAANM Mehta; SunilAACI FremontAAST CAAACO USAAGP Mehta; Sunil Fremont CA USAANM Meyer; DavidAACO USAAGP Meyer; David USAANM Murgai; PoonamAACI FremontAAST CAAACO USAAGP Murgai; Poonam Fremont CA US - The most common automated search methods produce less-than-ideal results when searching online resumes, profiles, and the like (“biographies”) for the identities of people with a searcher-selected qualification (“candidates”). Keywords, their proximities, and their repetitions are less informative in biographies than in other informational documents. Similarly, chains of social connection (“referral paths”) do not always reveal the likelihood or ease of a searcher's introduction to a candidate. In both cases, the display order of results may be unrelated to any estimate of merit. To answer the question “Whom do I need and how do I reach them?” a classifier system uses heuristics or algorithms adapted to match the reactions of human experts on the selected qualifications. Terms in biographies, regardless of structure, are standardized and disambiguated for accurate comparisons, meaningful context is preserved, and biographies and referral paths are scored based on expected usefulness to the searcher. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018872 | Dynamically Altered Search AssistanceAANM Velipasaoglu; Omer EmreAACI San FranciscoAAST CAAACO USAAGP Velipasaoglu; Omer Emre San Francisco CA US - Search-engine software displays a group of search results in a graphical user interface (GUI) for a search engine. The search-engine software captures positive feedback and negative feedback as to the search results from a user. Then the search-engine software determines a collective aboutness signature for the search results associated with the positive feedback and a collective aboutness signature for search results associated with the negative feedback. The search-engine software obtains a score of similarity to each of the collective aboutness signatures for a representation of each query suggestion in a group of query suggestions. Then the search-engine software separates the scored query suggestions into two or more groups, based on the similarity scores, and displays query suggestions from the groups in the GUI. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018873 | VERSIONING OF METADATA, INCLUDING PRESENTATION OF PROVENANCE AND LINEAGE FOR VERSIONED METADATAAANM Velasco; MarcAACI OrangeAAST CAAACO USAAGP Velasco; Marc Orange CA US - Metadata associated with content is versioned by receiving updated values for the metadata and storing the updated values and also previous values for metadata separately from the content, comparing the updated values to the previous values of the metadata, and determining a modification indicator for the metadata based upon the comparison of the updated values to the previous values of the metadata, where the modification indicator provides an indication of extent of differences between the updated and previous values. The modification indicator for the metadata can further be displayed to provide version information for the metadata to a user. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018874 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SENTIMENT DATA USE - A method, computer-readable medium, and a computer system for processing data are disclosed. First data associated with a search may be accessed. Second data may be accessed from a database using the first data, where the second data may be associated with at least one sentiment of the first data. The second data may include at least one score, at least one classification, and at least one degree, some combination thereof, etc. Third data may be generated, based on the second data, for performing at least one operation associated with the search results. The at least one operation may include filtering the search results, ranking the search results, displaying an image associated with the at least one sentiment, some combination thereof, etc. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018875 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORDERING SEMANTIC SUB-KEYS UTILIZING SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES - A method, computer-readable medium, and a computer system for determining an ordering is disclosed. A search query including a semantic key and a superlative adjective may be accessed, where the semantic key may be associated with a plurality of semantic sub-keys. At least one respective instance of at least one respective superlative adjective in at least one respective document may be determined for each semantic sub-key of the plurality of semantic sub-keys. Each instance of the at least one respective instance may include a respective superlative adjective that is associated with a respective sentiment of a respective semantic sub-key of the plurality of semantic sub-keys. An ordering of the plurality of semantic sub-keys may be determined based on the at least one respective instance of at least one respective superlative adjective in at least one respective document. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018876 | PROVIDING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS USING HYPOTHESIS PRUNING - A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a query, conducting a search through one or more data sources to identify candidate answers to the query, and providing each of the candidate answers with a preliminary score. The method further comprises filtering out any of the candidate answers with a preliminary score that does not satisfy a defined condition. The candidate answers having preliminary scores that satisfy this condition form a subset of the candidate answers. Each of the candidate answers in this subset is processed to produce further scores. A ranking function is applied to these further scores to determine a ranking for each of the candidate answers in the subset; and after this ranking function is applied, one or more of the candidate answers are selected as one or more final answers to the query. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018877 | 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. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024445 | INTERFACE FOR A UNIVERSAL SEARCH - A search engine may perform a search for a user search query over a number of possible search categories. For example, the search query may be performed for general web documents, images, and news documents. The search engine ranks categories based on the search query and/or the documents returned for each category and presents the search results to the user by category. Higher ranking categories may be presented more prominently than lower ranking categories. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024446 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING UTILIZATION OF HUMAN SEARCHERS - A method and system of improving utilization of human searcher(s) in a search system provides an ambassador guide who may categorize and structure a request, interact with a user, provide a search result, and review a search result. The ambassador guide improves response time, automation, and efficiency of use of searchers and resources of the search system. A toolset may be provided to an ambassador to assist in rapidly executing relevant tasks. | 01-24-2013 |
20130031089 | SMARTER SEARCH - Provided are techniques to search for an entity in an entity resolution system. Search input comprising one or more attribute values of one or more attribute types is received. A resolution search is performed to generate a search result set comprising one or more entities and zero or more generic attribute values for generating additional entities. In response to determining that the resolution search generated at least two generic attribute values, one or more query searches are performed for a unique generic group by generic attribute type to identify the additional entities, wherein the unique generic group comprises a subset of the search input and includes at least two generic attribute types; the identified additional entities are combined with the entities in the search result set; and the search result set is returned. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031090 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING SIMILAR PEOPLE VIA A BUSINESS NETWORKING SERVICE - Techniques for identifying and presenting member profiles similar to a source member profile are described. With some embodiments, a general recommendation engine is used to extract features from member profiles, and then store the extracted features, including any computed, derived or retrieved profile features, in an enhanced member profile. In real-time, the general recommendation engine processes client requests to identify member profiles similar to a source member profile by comparing select profile features stored in the enhanced member profile with corresponding profile features of the source member profile, where the comparison results in several similarity sub-scores that are then combined in accordance with directives set forth in a configuration file. Finally, the member profiles with the highest similarity scores corresponding with the user-selected member profile are selected, and in some instances, presented to a user. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031091 | ACTION-BASED SEARCH RESULTS AND ACTION VIEW PIVOTING - Action-based search results are provided that include deeplinks to a particular action to allow an end user to view various locations for performing that action and to quickly access those locations to perform the action. In some instances, when a search query is received, the search query may be identified as corresponding with a particular action. Action-based search-results with deeplinks to locations for performing that action are identified and returned. In other instances, traditional search results may be provided in response to a search query. One of the search results may include an action-based deeplink for a particular action. An action-pivot link may be provided for that action that, when selected, causes action-based search results for that action to be identified and returned for presentation to the end user. | 01-31-2013 |
20130036111 | METHODS AND DEVICESFOR DATA RETRIEVAL - Methods and device are disclosed for data retrieval. At first images and reports are analyzed by respective parser units to detect both structures and text passages that are related to respective structures and text passages of a knowledge database. The detected structures and text passages are stored together with a unique resource located that identifies the respective structure and/or text passage at the knowledge database in a semantic annotation database. In addition a feature extraction can be performed to provide specific features of the images and/or regions of the images, whereby the features are stored in an image feature database. Finally an input query can ask questions that are used to provide a result to the query based on the semantic annotation database and the image feature database. The methods and devices may be used for data preparation and data retrieval of medical images and associated medical reports. | 02-07-2013 |
20130036112 | METHOD FOR SOCIAL SEARCH - System and methods for performing social searches using a social graph including nodes associated with voting values associated with items of interest. At least one rating (such as importance rating, compatibility rating, proximity rating, and/or social rank value) is obtained for each node. A web search obtains search results. A sort value (for sorting the search results) is determined for each search result in which an item is identified. The sort value may be determined for a search result by (a) identifying nodes associated with a voting value that is associated with an item identified in the search result, (b) determining a node value for each node identified based on the rating obtained for the node and the voting value associated with both the node and the item(s) identified in the search result, and (c) determining the sort value based on the node values of the nodes identified. | 02-07-2013 |
20130041893 | SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A NEWS FEED WEBSITE AND APPLICATION - A method for providing a news feed website and application. The method comprises the steps of receiving and storing a list of data sources, subject matter channels, and keywords in a database. The application assigns at least one subject matter channel to each keyword, at least one subject matter channel to each data source, and provides a keyword searcher. The keyword searcher searches the listed data sources for news articles containing at least one of the keywords. A graphical news feed containing the news articles found in the searching step is transmitted to a user. The website and application receives input from the user to modify the list of data sources, and the list of subject matter channels, and updates the list of data sources the list of subject matter channels in a database based on the input received from the user. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041894 | Mitigating Environment, Health, and Safety Complications - A method of identifying a substitute chemical includes receiving, at a computer, a trial set of properties that describes a function in a desired chemical process of a chemical for substitution, performing a distributed search using objective similarity criteria based on the trial set of properties to identify a first set of candidate chemicals, prioritizing the first set of candidate chemicals into a second set of candidate chemicals, determining Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) data parameter values for each chemical of the second set of candidate chemicals, normalizing disparate EHS data parameter values into associated EHS properties, prioritizing the second set of candidate chemicals into a third set of candidate chemicals, and prioritizing the third set of candidate chemicals into a fourth set of candidate chemicals according to the risk posed by the desired chemical process. | 02-14-2013 |
20130046756 | Visualizing Sentiment Results with Visual Indicators Representing User Sentiment and Level of Uncertainty - Sentiment analysis of user feedback is performed, using uncertainty rules. Different levels of uncertainty associated with sentiment results of the sentiment analysis are determined, where the sentiment results identify user sentiments contained in the user feedback. At least one visualization of the sentiment result is provided, where the visualization has first visual indicators to represent respective user sentiments, and second visual indicators associated with the first visual indicators to represent respective levels of uncertainty associated with the respective user sentiments. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046757 | INDICATING RELATIONSHIP CLOSENESS BETWEEN SUBSNIPPETS OF A SEARCH RESULT - Architecture that generates and presents a separator interface element in association with subsnippets (of search results) to indicate to the user the closeness relationship between subsnippets. The closeness can be presented in terms of bytes, words, paragraphs, semantic distance, rhetorical relationship, and so on, which assist the user in determining how closely related the parts of the document are in which the search terms appear. The element can be a box, for example, that is sized in length proportional to an inter-subsnippet closeness relationship. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046758 | TERMINOLOGY-BASED SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING DATA OBJECT DEFINITION - The present invention relates to a terminology-system-based system for supporting data object definition, which delimits a concept by means of a qualifier. The terminology-system-based system for supporting data object definition stores a terminology system in which a concept is structured to a terminology object and a terminology relation, and stores a data object for the concept in order to define a data object for a selected concept (hereinafter, referred to as a corresponding concept). The terminology-system-based system for supporting data object definition comprises a qualifier recommendation unit, which receives a qualifier of the selected corresponding concept to define the corresponding concept, searches for a data object which is stored and defined as a concept which is the same as the corresponding concept (hereinafter, referred to as the same concept), and recommends a qualifier of the object. According to the above-described system, qualifiers of data objects to be newly defined are recommended by utilizing a constructed terminology system and construction information on predefined data objects. Therefore, new data objects can be more systematically and conveniently defined. | 02-21-2013 |
20130054579 | Frequency Content Sort - A receiver accumulates characteristic information by tracking content being presented. When the receiver determines to present a menu of recorded content, the receiver analyzes the accumulated information to rank the recorded content based on a frequency of the characteristics and sorts the menu based at least one the analysis. The receiver may present an instance of content when it is selected. In some implementations, the instances of content are recorded as part of recording multiple instances of content received via at least one broadcast wherein the multiple instances of content are all included in a same frequency band of the broadcast and are all encoded utilizing a same code word. In one or more implementations, the menu may include content information for one or more of the instances of content in the menu, such as the number of related instances of content also stored by the content receiver. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054580 | Data Point Dictionary - Disclosed are various embodiments for generating a data hierarchy for ordering a collection of data values and tracking a consumption pattern for each of the data values. In one embodiment, a data service generates a data hierarchy according to a plurality of attributes associated with each of the data values, where the data service determines a classification system for generating the hierarchy based on the attributes. The data service may receive a request for accessing a subset of the complete collection of data values. In response, the data service may generate a data profile that includes the subset of requested data values and provides the data profile to the requesting service. The data service may then determine a consumption profile that describes how the requesting service consumes the subset of data values in the data profile and associate the consumption profile with the consumed data values. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054581 | PART NUMBER SEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM - A computer implemented method and system for identifying one or more part numbers stored in a digital memory comprises parsing of each part number into its primary and secondary components and assigning a relevance score to each; parsing a query part number into one or more primary and secondary components and assigning a relevance score to each query component; identifying each stored part number that has at least one component that matches a query component; calculating for each identified part number a first sum equal to the sum of the relevance scores of the query components that match a component of the identified stored part number; and a second sum equal to the sum of the relevance scores of the components of the identified stored part number that match a query component; and sorting the identified stored part numbers as a function of said first and second sums. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054582 | APPLYING QUERY INDEPENDENT RANKING TO SEARCH - Query independent scores are prepared and applied to search results. Search results applying query term relevance criteria are combined with query independent scores to form a combined score. The combined score may alter the original ranking using only the query scores. The query independent scores can be used to increase the combined scores of important objects, where importance measurements include frequently accessed objects, objects with more connections and/or objects that are the subject of discussion. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054583 | PERSONALIZING SCOPING AND ORDERING OF OBJECT TYPES FOR SEARCH - A method of establishing personalized limits on a search responsive to a key word query in an enterprise search system is described that includes receiving an object types access history for a particular user. Applying this method, the object types access history includes records of object types selected from search results returning multiple object types and records of object types selected via interfaces other than search results. The method continues with determining and storing in computer readable memory a personalized scope of object types. The personalized scope of object types sets a limit on object types initially returned by an enterprise search system for the particular user in response to key word queries by the particular user that do not specify object types to search. | 02-28-2013 |
20130060759 | Computational systems and methods for disambiguating search terms corresponding to network members - Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting at least one search term corresponding to at least one member of a network; disambiguating the at least one search term including associating the at least one search term with at least one of network-participation identifier data or device-identifier data; and presenting a disambiguated search term at least partly based on at least one of the network-participation identifier data or the device-identifier data. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060760 | DETERMINING COMPREHENSIVE SUBSETS OF REVIEWS - Techniques are provided for selecting a limited but comprehensive set of high-quality users reviews covering several different aspects or attributes of a reviewed item. For several implementations, selection methodologies approach the challenge as a maximum coverage problem and provide a generic formalism to model the different variants of the review-set selection. Variations to such implementation may also employ different algorithms in consideration of different variants and weightings of those variants. Select implementations employ methodologies that collectively consider attributes of the item discussed in the reviews, the quality of the reviews themselves, and the viewpoint of the reviews (e.g., positive or negative) as input values in order to provide outputs that cover as many attributes of the item as possible, comprising high quality reviews representing different viewpoints. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060761 | USING DOMAIN INTENT TO PROVIDE MORE SEARCH RESULTS THAT CORRESPOND TO A DOMAIN - Techniques are described herein for using intent to access a domain (i.e., domain intent) to provide more search results that correspond to the domain. For example, a rule may specify a maximum number of search results that are allowed to be provided from a domain (or a host that corresponds to the domain) in response to a search query. Each search query may include any number of ngrams. An ngram is a subsequence of elements in a sequence (e.g., a search query). An intent to access a domain may be determined based on one or more of the ngrams in a search query. A number of search results that correspond to a domain may be increased to be greater than the maximum number based on one or more of the ngrams that are included in the search query being associated with the intent to access the domain. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060762 | RANKING ANALYSIS RESULTS BASED ON USER PERCEIVED PROBLEMS IN A DATABASE SYSTEM - Methods and systems for ranking analysis results based on user perceived problems of a database system are described. During operation, an embodiment may receive a designation of a perceived database system performance problem from a user, wherein the problem is associated with one or more database system metrics. Next, the embodiment may determine a set of recommendations for alleviating the perceived database system performance problem. The embodiment may then analyze the set of recommendations to determine, for each recommendation in the set of recommendations, an impact the recommendation is expected to have on the one or more database system metrics. Finally, the embodiment may rank the set of recommendations according to the impact each recommendation is expected to have on the perceived database performance problem. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060763 | USING READING LEVELS IN RESPONDING TO REQUESTS - A request can be received and a request reading level representation for the request can be inferred. In response to the request, the request reading level representation can be compared with one or more reading difficulty level representations for one or more response items. Also in response to the request, one or more indications of results of comparing the request reading level representation with one or more reading difficulty level representations for the one or more response items can be returned. The indication(s) may include a ranking of the response items. The ranking can be based at least in part on a request reading level representation for the query and reading difficulty level representations for the response items. The response item(s) may also be returned. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060764 | GEO-ONTOLOGY EXTRACTION FROM ENTITIES WITH SPATIAL AND NON-SPATIAL ATTRIBUTES - Architecture that provides fully automatic generation of a geo-ontology and does not use pre-existing geo-ontologies or other location entity repositories (e.g., a licensed location). The architecture extracts the formal administrative structure of a geographical region of interest (e.g., country) (a geo-ontology of locations with attributes and relations) from a collection of entities with spatial attributes, extracts the informal administrative structure of a geographical region of interest (e.g., country) (informal administrative regions and names and informal neighborhoods and their attributes), and extracts location static rank features for all these entities (attributes used for ranking locations from the geo-ontology that appear in user queries). | 03-07-2013 |
20130060765 | OBJECT RETRIEVAL AND LOCALIZATION USING A SPATIALLY-CONSTRAINED SIMILARITY MODEL - Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable storage media for object retrieval and localization that employ a spatially-constrained similarity model. A spatially-constrained similarity measure may be evaluated by a voting-based scoring technique. Object retrieval and localization may thus be achieved without post-processing. The spatially-constrained similarity measure may handle object rotation, scaling and view point change. The similarity measure can be efficiently calculated by the voting-based method and integrated with inverted files. The voting-based scoring technique may simultaneously retrieve and localize a query object in a collection of images such as an image database. The object retrieval and localization technique may, for example, be implemented with a k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) re-ranking method in or as a retrieval method, system or module. The k-NN re-ranking method may be applied to improve query results of the object retrieval and localization technique. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060766 | K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR RE-RANKING - Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable storage media for k-NN re-ranking. Based on retrieved images and localized objects, a k-NN re-ranking method may use the k-nearest neighbors of a query to refine query results. Given the top k retrieved images and their localized objects, each k-NN object may be used as a query to perform a search. A database image may have different ranks when using those k-nearest neighbors as queries. Accordingly, a new score for each database image may be collaboratively determined by those ranks, and re-ranking may be performed using the new scores to improve the search results. The k-NN re-ranking technique may be performed two or more times, each time on a new set of k-nearest neighbors, to further refine the search results. | 03-07-2013 |
20130066858 | 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. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066859 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING FITNESS CHARACTERISTICS - The present invention generally relates to fitness analysis. Specifically, this invention relates to a system and method for analyzing the readiness of an individual to perform one or more physical activities by testing and measuring performance of the individual, generating results and comparing the results to a degree of difficulty associated with said one or more physical activities. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066860 | METHOD, AN ARRANGEMENT AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ANALYSING A BIOLOGICAL OR MEDICAL SAMPLE - An aspect of the present invention is a computer executable method for characterizing, e.g. for diagnostic purposes, utilizing a reference database, a query sample tissue based on the gene expression data of the tissue. The method is characterized in that it comprises the steps of calculating an expression match score (EM-score) indicating the likelihood of having the gene expression level observed in the query sample in each of the tissue categories of the reference database, calculating for the genes of the sample tissue, using e.g. the EM-score, tissue specificity score (TS-score), that expresses how uniquely a gene identifies the query sample as belonging to a certain tissue category, calculating, utilizing e.g. the TS-score, overall similarity of the sample tissue in relation to a tissue category of the reference database, and storing at least some resulting characterization data to a memory device or outputting the data to an output device of a computer. An arrangement and a computer program product are also disclosed. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066861 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MANAGEMENT OF SEARCH RESULTS - A system and method for management of sponsored and organic search results is described. Sponsored results may be provided based on a ranking and a matching of a sponsored result and/or an organic result to a query. A sponsored or organic result may be provided algorithmically and/or using a human assistant. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073541 | Query Completion Based on Location - Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that return query completions are provided. A user of a computing device like a mobile phone may enter a prefix. In turn, the prefix and location information associated with the device are transmitted to a server device. The server device receives the prefix and location information. The prefix and the location information are matched with names and locations of entities stored in a database connected to the server device. The server device transmits query completion data to the mobile device. The query completion data includes one or more names that complete the received prefix. The names provided by the server device may be associated with entities that are within a threshold radius of the location information. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073542 | SCALABLE INTERACTIVE DISPLAY OF DISTRIBUTED DATA - 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. | 03-21-2013 |
20130080424 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SORTING SEARCH RESULTS - A computer-implemented method is provided for ranking files from an Internet search. In one embodiment, the method comprises assigning a score to each file based on at least one of the following factors: recency, editorial popularity, clickthru popularity, favorites metadata, or favorites collaborative filtering. The file may be organized based on the assigned scores to provide users with more accurate search results. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080425 | Personalized Medical Treatment Provision Software - A method for providing information exchange and analysis to a medical knowledge database that collects, organizes, and retrieves clinical experience information sets submitted by a plurality of treatment providers and researchers. The plurality of treatment providers and researchers submit clinical information containing biological sequences, signs and symptoms, and medical assessments to the database. the method searches the database for similar cases and if none are found, creates a new searchable case for the database and utilizes statistical calculations to determine an optimal treatment protocol, a treatment progression probability, and a patients personalized predicted medical future. The system accomplishes this through the use of a plurality of organizational and analysis methods that continually learns from its users, groups non-identical cases based on statistical similarities, performs sequence alignments on submitted biological sequences, utilizes pattern recognition software to determine similarities between medical images, and provides case follow ups to track treatment outcomes. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080426 | SYSTEM AND METHODS OF INTEGRATING VISUAL FEATURES AND TEXTUAL FEATURES FOR IMAGE SEARCHING - The present invention includes a system and methods for image searching. Embodiments of the system integrate textual features and visual features for improved search performance. The system represents text terms in the visual feature space and develops a text-guided weighting scheme for visual features. The weighting scheme infers intention from query terms and enhances the visual features that are significant in light of such intention. | 03-28-2013 |
20130086050 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIOR ART ANALYSIS - The present inventive subject matter relates to prior art analysis. Various embodiments of the present inventive subject matter include systems and methods for analyzing prior art in a patent portfolio and annuity management system. In an example embodiment, a method comprises maintaining a patent matter database and a database of prior art documents including data about the prior art documents such as the priority or publication dates of the documents. A keyword analysis is performed on a given patent matter and associated prior art documents to identify keywords occurring uniquely in the first patent matter as potential claim elements differentiating the patent matter over the disclosures contained in the one or more prior art documents. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086051 | LOGGING EVENTS IN MEDIA FILES INCLUDING FRAME MATCHING - Comparing images, including: selecting a target image; selecting one or more search images; comparing the target image to a negative image corresponding to each search image to generate an image comparison score for each search image; and identifying the search image with the best image comparison score. Keywords include logging events and frame matching. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086052 | Method and System of Information Matching in Electronic Commerce Website - Techniques for sorting search results using user characteristic data are described. These techniques may include receiving a query from a user device. A search may be performed based on the query to obtain multiple results. User responses corresponding to the multiple results may be obtained and then grouped to determine multiple users based on similarities among the multiple users. Based on user responses associated with the multiple users, the multiple results may then be ranked. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086053 | Personalized Meta-Search Method and Application Terminal Thereof - The disclosure discloses a personalized meta-search method, which comprises: preestablishing an interest database; searching a keyword; extracting a use log of the keyword from the interest database; preprocessing search results returned from a search engine; calculating, by using the use log, interests of the preprocessed search results and of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) in the interest database corresponding to the searched keyword; ranking, based on calculated results, and displaying the preprocessed search results and the URLs; updating the interest database. An application terminal for personalized meta-search is also disclosed. The method and the application terminal enable users to obtain more targeted and more satisfactory search results, thereof improving user experience. | 04-04-2013 |
20130091128 | Time-Aware Ranking Adapted to a Search Engine Application - Techniques provide time-aware ranking, such as ranking of information, files or URL (uniform resource locator) links. For example, time-aware modeling assists in determining user intent of a query to a search engine. In response to the query, results are ranked in a time-aware manner to better match the user intent. The ranking may model query, URL and query-URL pair behavior over time to create time-aware query, URL and query-URL pair models, respectively. Such models may predict behavior of a query-URL pair, such as frequency and timing of clicks to the URL of the pair when the query of the pair is posed to the search engine. Results of a query may be ranked by predicted query-URL behavior. Once ranked, the results may be sent to the user in response to the query. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091129 | SEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM USING KEYWORD - A search method in a portable terminal using a keyword is disclosed. A portable terminal transmits, to a server, setting information for a smart push in which a keyword and a search term are set. The server determines whether the keyword falls within top popular search rankings during a term period corresponding to the search term based on the received smart push setting information. If the keyword falls within the top popular search rankings, the server transmits search results obtained using the keyword to the portable terminal. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091130 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS THAT UTILIZE PREFERENCE SHIELDS AS DATA FILTERS - Systems and methods that utilize preference shields as data filters are provided herein. Exemplary methods may include receiving a query from a first user, selecting a preference shield for the first user from a database that includes preference shields, applying the preference shield to query responses obtained for the query, and returning a response to the first user that includes filtered query responses that have been obtained by application of the preference shield to the query responses. | 04-11-2013 |
20130097156 | PRESENTING SEARCH RESULTS BASED UPON SUBJECT-VERSIONS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for identifying queries having a version-intent and presenting search results in accordance with the version-intent are provided. Subject-versions associated with retrievable documents are identified and associated therewith as subject-version tags. When a search query is received, it is determined whether the query has a version-intent indicative of a particular version associated with a subject of the query. Documents are retrieved that satisfy the input query and ranked for presentation based upon the particular subject-version indicated by the version-intent. The ranked documents are then presented. Also presented is a user-manipulatable tool, manipulation of which permits a user to indicate that information concerning a different subject-version is desired. Upon receiving such indication, the search results are changed such that documents having subject-version tags indicative of the newly-indicated version-intent are ranked higher and receive more prominent placement than documents lacking such subject-version tags. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097157 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING OF DATABASE RECORDS BASED ON SIMILARITIES TO SEARCH QUERIES - A system and method for the matching of database records based on the similarity between fields in the database records and fields in the search queries is provided. A set of database records may be received from a search engine for further refinement of the search results. The database records may be assigned matching strength points, based on comparisons of fields in the search query and fields in the database records. The records that do not meet predetermined qualifying criteria, based on the matching strength points, may be rejected. The remaining records may be merged together, based on the similarity between fields of the remaining records. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097158 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING A WEB SITE - Method, apparatus, and programs for customizing a web site are provided. In one example, a method for customizing a web site is provided. One or more representations corresponding to one or more customizable components of a web site are provided. The one or more representations are to be displayed on a display screen to a user. An input entered by the user and directed to a specific customizable component of the web site is received. How to customize the specific customizable component of the web site is determined based on the input. An instruction is generated with respect to the customizable component. The instruction is used to implement customization of the specific customizable component of the web site in accordance with the input from the user. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097159 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION REGARDING CONTENT - A system and method is provided that collects and analyzes social media data and provides information regarding content that are popular to users or attract attention. The method includes creating a keyword related to the content; | 04-18-2013 |
20130097160 | ENTERPRISE DATA MATCHING - A system and method for managing media advertising enterprise data including a process for learning enterprise data matching. An EDM (Enterprise Data Management) application module can be configured to include a set of rules at an enterprise level to manage disparate and disconnected records associated with an entity. A number of unmatched and enterprise entities that matches with respect to an active entity can be returned based on a fuzzy logic associated with various matching options stored in an EDM database. A matching process can then be performed to accurately match similar records regardless of manual input, location, and format of the records in a distributed system. Each unmatched record can then be assigned with a parent enterprise entity. Such an optimization mechanism can interactively manage and report records at the enterprise level in a simple and efficient manner. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097161 | GENERATION OF DEGENERATE SEQUENCES AND IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUAL SEQUENCES FROM A DEGENERATE SEQUENCE - The invention relates to identification of individual nucleic acid sequences from a mixed nucleic acid population. A typical application is to determine the bacteria present in sample containing a mix of several different bacteria. Present techniques require initial cultivation of the mixed bacteria sample and manual separation of the bacteria prior to sequencing. The invention allows for identification of the different bacteria by direct sequencing of the mixed bacteria sample without prior cultivation and separation. One aspect of the invention relates to generating a degenerate sequence from a chromatogram obtained by sequencing a mixed bacteria sample. Another aspect relates to base-calling, i.e. identification of individual sequences making up the degenerate sequence from the mixed bacteria sample. In this aspect, the degenerate sequence is divided into degenerate subsequences from which query subsequence combinations are generated. Then each query subsequence combination is aligned against target sequences present in a database. From these alignments, the target sequences present in the database are assigned an overall score which is used to determine which individual sequences were present in the mixed bacteria sample. | 04-18-2013 |
20130103676 | SEMANTIC ANALYSIS DRIVEN SERVICE CREATION WITHIN A MULTI-LEVEL BUSINESS PROCESS - A multi-level business process interface associated with an incomplete Web service can be identified. The interface can be created within a user interface (UI) modeling tooling. The Web service can be associated with a business process. An interface specific metadata associated with the process interface can be determined. Service definitions for one or more existing Web service matching a portion of the interface specific metadata can be searched for semantically based on search depth parameters set by a user. A search result responsive to the searching can be returned. The search result can identify one or more existing Web services from a service registry. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103677 | CONTEXTUAL DATA VISUALIZATION - A method for contextual data visualization includes receiving data selected by a user and meta-data associated with the data. The data is analyzed, using a processor of a computing device, to determine content and structure attributes of the data that are relevant to visualization of the data. The meta-data is analyzed, using a processor of the computing device, to determine a context in which the visualization of the data will be used. A database comprising an aggregation of visualization records from a plurality of users is accessed and at least one template from the data visualization records that matches the data attributes and context is selected. A data visualization is created by applying at least one template to the data. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103678 | Processing Search Queries Using A Data Structure - According to an embodiment, there is provided a method of generating a data structure stored in computer memory for processing a search query in a network of interconnected nodes, wherein the method comprises selecting landmark nodes by the following steps and storing the selected landmark nodes in the data structure: sampling from the network nodes a first sample of vertex pairs, computing the shortest path for each vertex pair, each shortest path comprising a set of vertices between each vertex in the vertex pair; identifying a first landmark node which occurs in more of the shortest paths more often than any other vertex; removing from the network vertices shortest paths including the first landmark node and identifying a second landmark node which occurs in more of the remaining shortest paths than any other remaining vertex. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103679 | Method and System for Storing, Retrieving, and Managing Data for Tags - This invention relates generally to a method and system for storing, retrieving, and managing data for tags that are associated in some manner to any type of object. More particularly, the present invention writes data to these tags, reads data from these tags, and manages data that is written to and/or read from these tags. In addition, the invention accesses and/or stores data associated with tags from or into repositories, constructs and maintains data structures from these repositories and responds to queries using the data structures. | 04-25-2013 |
20130110823 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING CONTENT BASED ON SEARCH HISTORY AND TRENDING TOPICS | 05-02-2013 |
20130110824 | CONFIGURING A CUSTOM SEARCH RANKING MODEL | 05-02-2013 |
20130110825 | Providing Knowledge Panels With Search Results | 05-02-2013 |
20130124507 | VISUAL INFORMATION SEARCH TOOL - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to generating a search result comprising one or more candidate documents selected based at least in part on one or more criteria associated with an input value of a visual information metric. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124508 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME IMAGE COLLECTION AND SHARING - Various embodiments of a system and methods for real-time image collection and sharing are described. A group of geographically co-located mobile device users may capture images on the mobile devices during a session. The devices may send the images, during the same session, to a database where the images may be stored as a real-time image collection. The image collection may be shared, during the same session, among the mobile device users. The users may receive notification of new images in the image collection based on user preferences. The users may request, from the image collection, images containing particular content by identifying the content on an image and sending a search request which includes the identified content. A computation server may maintain a data set which associates similar images in the image collection. The data set may be updated for each new image that is added to the image collection. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124509 | PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE BASED METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ASSOCIATING DATA FILES - Various methods and apparatuses are provided which may be implemented using one or more computing devices within a networked computing environment to employ publish-subscribe techniques to associate subscriber encoded data files with a set of publisher encoded data files. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124510 | PROGRAMMABLE SEARCH ENGINE - A programmable search engine system is programmable by a variety of different entities, such as client devices and vertical content sites to customize search results for users. Context files store instructions for controlling the operations of the programmable search engine. The context files are processed by various context processors, which use the instructions therein to provide various pre-processing, post-processing, and search engine control operations. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124511 | VISUAL SEARCH HISTORY - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting a visual search history. Presentation data is received indicating that a resource has been presented by a user device, the resource having been presented in response to user interaction with a search result that referenced the resource. In response to receipt of the presentation data, an image of the resource is acquired. The acquired image is associated with a search query for which the search result was provided. In response to receipt of a request for a search history for the user device, the acquired image and the associated search query are displayed. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124512 | NEGATIVE ASSOCIATIONS FOR GENERATION OF REFINEMENT OPTIONS - A computer-implemented method is provided, including receiving a search query from a user during a search session, and presenting information to the user responsively to the search query. After an indication that the user takes an action related to the search session is received, a portion of the presented information is identified that the user did not select prior to taking the action, and respective scores are assigned to search results generated responsively to the search query, including lowering one or more of the scores of the respective search results that are characterized by the non-selected portion of the presented information. The search results are ranked according to the scores, and presented to the user. Other embodiments are also described. | 05-16-2013 |
20130132377 | Systems and Methods for Localized Bag-of-Features Retrieval - Methods and systems for performing fast, large-scale, localized Bag-of-Features (Local BoF) retrieval are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving a query image and ranking each image of a large set of database images as a function of its similarity to the query image with a Local BoF operation. A Local BoF operation may be configured to localize, for each ranked image, a region that has a highest similarity to the query image. As such, the systems and methods described herein may be suitable for use in large-scale image search and retrieval or categorization operations that may identify objects of interest with arbitrary rotations, significantly different viewpoints, in the presence of clutter. In some embodiments, systems and methods described herein may be used as building blocks of various computer vision and image processing applications including, for example, object recognition and categorization, 3D modeling, mapping, navigation, gesture interfaces, etc. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132378 | SEARCH MODEL UPDATES - Search model updates are described. In one or more implementations, a search service uses a model to rank items in a search result, the model formed using an initial set of data. An update is generated using a subsequent set of data, which is formed after the initial set of data, that provides feedback describing user interaction with one or more items in the search result formed using the model, the generating of the update performed without use of at least a portion of the initial set of data. The model and the update are employed to rank items in a search result for a subsequent search. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132379 | IDENTIFICATION AND SELECTION OF AT LEAST ONE CORD BLOOD UNIT FOR TRANSPLANTATION - The invention describes a method for the identification and selection for at least one cord blood unit for a transplantation. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132380 | APPLYING EFFECTS TO ELECTRONIC MEDIA FILES - A method of searching for an effect to apply to an electronic media file, fee method comprising: storing a plurality of effects, each effect having one or more identifiers associated with it; receiving a search query which defines one or more search terms having one or more corresponding identifiers; retrieving a set of effects which are associated with the one or more identifiers; and outputting a set of search results comprising the set of retrieved effects, each applied to the electronic media file. | 05-23-2013 |
20130138635 | SEARCH METHOD USING A PLURALITY OF SPACE OF INTEREST OBJECTS - One aspect of the invention provides a method of searching using two or more space of interest (SOI) objects. The method includes: selecting two or more SOI objects; and performing a search using a search method within the two or more selected SOI objects. Another aspect of the invention provides a method of searching using two or more space of interest (SOI) objects. The method includes: selecting two or more SOI objects, wherein selecting two or more SOI objects comprises selecting an individual SOI object or a sub SOI object of another SOI object; performing a search using a search method for the two or more selected SOI objects, wherein the search method comprises a method of multiple searching for all of the two or more SOI objects; and determining a prioritization of results from the search by applying a weight to the results from the search. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138636 | Image Searching - The present disclosure introduces a method and an apparatus for searching images. With respect to each image in an image searching database, respective labels of respective images are generated based on description information corresponding to the respective images. A corresponding relationship between the generated respective labels and the respective images is stored. Based on a received image searching request, description information corresponding to an image for search in the image searching request is obtained. Based on the description information of the image for search, the label of the image for search is generated. Based on the stored corresponding relationship between the respective labels and the respective images, one or more images corresponding to the label of the image for search are determined. The determined one or more images are sent to the client terminal that sends the image searching request. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138637 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING MEDIA FILES - A system for searching and ranking media files is disclosed, which includes a server that is configured to: (a) receive, index, and store a variety of media files, which are received by the server from a plurality of sources, within at least one database in communication with the server; and (b) receive at least one key word that is submitted by a user of the system through the website. The server will then query the database to identify all media files, which include at least one key word, and then ranks the media files in accordance with an algorithm. The algorithm produces a weighted ranking value, which reflects various attributes of each media file that is listed in a set of search results. The media files are then ranked in accordance with the calculated weighted ranking value. | 05-30-2013 |
20130151508 | CONTENT-BASED AUTOMATIC INPUT PROTOCOL SELECTION - Technologies for selecting an input protocol based on an input content are generally disclosed. In one example, a method for selecting an input protocol based on an input content can include: acquiring the input content; analyzing the input content; extracting one or more indivisible individual units from the input content; calculating a similarity between a first frequency of occurrence of the one or more indivisible individual units and a second frequency of occurrence of the one or more indivisible individual units, wherein the second frequency of occurrence of the one or more indivisible individual units is predetermined with a second value of frequency of occurrence; ranking the similarity; identifying the input protocol based on the similarity; and selecting a first ranked input protocol having a highest similarity. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151509 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRAPHICAL DISPLAY OF SEARCH RESULTS - A graphical display of objects by a computer system comprises receiving a plurality of objects for display to a user; presenting for display on a display screen of an electronic device a plurality of sets of frames in increasingly smaller radial patterns, wherein after a first set of frames, each successive set of frames is nested within an immediately preceding set of frames; and presenting for display in the sets of frames at least a portion of the objects to form nested radial arrays of objects. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151510 | CONCEPT-STRUCTURED IMAGE SEARCH - The concept-structured image search technique described herein pertains to a technique for enabling a user to indicate their semantic intention and then retrieve and rank images from a database or other image set according to this intention. The concept-structured image search technique described herein includes a new interface for image search. With this interface, a user can freely type several key textual words in arbitrary positions on a blank image, and also describe a region for each keyword that indicates its influence scope, which is called concept structure herein. The concept-structured image search technique will return and rank images that are in accordance with the concept structure indicated by the user. One embodiment of the technique can be used to create a synthesized image without actually using the synthesized image to perform a search of an image set. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151511 | INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM, INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, INFORMATION DISPLAY PROGRAM, INFORMATION SEARCH SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information providing device includes a search result information transmission means that transmits search result information, which indicates one or more pieces of information of information that has been searched for by an information search device, to a terminal device, a graph display information transmission means that transmits graph display information for displaying a graph showing a relationship between display order in which the information that has been searched for by the information search device as the search result and a value of a predetermined presentation item related to the information is displayed, and a range indication display information transmission means that transmits range indication display information for displaying predetermined range indication information at a position in the graph, the position indicating a display range being a range of the information indicated by the search result information. | 06-13-2013 |
20130159291 | RANKING SEARCH RESULTS USING WEIGHTED TOPOLOGIES - Identifiers of items generated in response to a query are each ranked in a way that considers the other identified items. Topologies are generated that correspond to features of the identified items. Each topology may be a Markov chain that includes a node for each identified item and directed edges between the nodes. Each directed edge between a node pair has an associated transition probability that represents the likelihood that a hypothetical user would change their preference from a first node in the pair to the second node in the pair when considering the feature associated with the topology. The topologies are weighted according to the relative importance of the features that correspond to the topologies. The weighted topologies are used to generate a stationary distribution of the identified items, and the identified items are ranked using the stationary distribution. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159292 | EFFICIENT DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A document processing system and method are disclosed. In the method local scores are incrementally computed for document samples, based on local features extracted from the respective sample. A global score is estimated for the document based on the local scores currently computed, i.e., on fewer than all document samples. A confidence in a decision for the estimated global score is computed. The computed confidence is based on the local scores currently computed and, optionally, the number of samples used in computing the estimated global score. A classification decision, such as a categorization or retrieval decision for the document is output, based on the estimated score when the computed confidence in the decision reaches a threshold value. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159293 | GENERATING A SUPPLEMENTAL DESCRIPTION OF AN ENTITY - A statistically overrepresented token in the descriptions of users associated with a target entity may be descriptive of the target entity. This may be true regardless of whether a primary description of the entity includes the overrepresented token. Accordingly, the entity description machine may access multiple descriptions of multiple users associated with the target entity. A portion of the multiple descriptions may each include a token descriptive of the target entity and of a subset of the multiple users. The entity description machine may determine that the token is overrepresented among the tokens within the multiple descriptions and generate a supplemental description of the target entity, where the supplemental description includes the overrepresented token. Once the supplemental description is generated, the entity description machine may use the supplemental description in referencing the target entity. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159294 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING THE RANKING OF NEWS ARTICLES - A system ranks results. The system may receive a list of links. The system may identify a source with which each of the links is associated and rank the list of links based at least in part on a quality of the identified sources. | 06-20-2013 |
20130166543 | CLIENT-BASED SEARCH OVER LOCAL AND REMOTE DATA SOURCES FOR INTENT ANALYSIS, RANKING, AND RELEVANCE - A search engine that resides on a local computer to enable query intent analysis, results ranking, and relevance processing over data of both local and remote data sources. The architecture also employs a global access component, which is a unified interface to disparate data discovery paradigms. The global access component provides access to corresponding disparate datasets of the paradigms for creating aggregation of information. A local search engine creates the aggregations of information from the disparate datasets via the global access component and processes a query against the aggregations of information to return search results. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166544 | GENERATING RANKED SEARCH RESULTS USING LINEAR AND NONLINEAR RANKING MODELS - Generating ranked search results includes receiving a plurality of matching information items that match a search request, ranking at least some of the plurality of matching information items using a linear ranking model that linearly combines a first plurality of feature values to obtain a first set of ranked results, ranking at least some of the first set of ranked results using a nonlinear ranking model that nonlinearly combines a second plurality of feature values to obtain a second set of ranked results, and provide a search response based on the second set of ranked results. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166545 | GENERATING SIMULATED CONTAINMENT REPORTS OF DYNAMICALLY ASSEMBLED COMPONENTS IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) uses a simulated containment report generation mechanism to generate a simulated containment report for elements in the repository based on logged properties that represent potential use of the element during dynamic content delivery that are not represented in formal relationships in the content management system. Properties such as probability, popularity, and recent usage that are not explicit relationships between parent documents and child elements are logged and used to determine which document maps may potentially reuse a selected element. In this manner a simulated containment report can be created for an element that allows the user to see the document maps that are most likely to include the element. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166546 | Single Access Method for Multiple Media Sources - Method and systems for searching for media instances of interest to a user are described. User input specifying criteria for content is received and parameters are defined based on the user input. A plurality of databases are searched for media instances meeting the defined parameters, wherein the plurality of databases includes at least one database containing broadcast television content information and at least one database containing non-broadcast television content information. Information about the media instances meeting the defined parameters is retrieved from the plurality of databases. The retrieved information is provided to the user. | 06-27-2013 |
20130173603 | DYNAMIC DEFINITIVE IMAGE SERVICE - A representative image system is described herein that provides a representative image for any given search query. Upon receiving a search for a term (or terms), the system accesses an inverted index to identify images associated with that term. The system then receives a ranked list of images. The ranked list includes image identifiers, and once an item in the list is selected the system can use the associated image identifier to retrieve the image from a thumbnail or other server. If an editor has overridden the default image for the present search query, then the system returns the image identifier for the overridden image, which can be used to access the image from the thumbnail or other server. Thus, the representative image system provides a reliable and universal mechanism for retrieving representative images for any given topic dynamically in real time. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173604 | KNOWLEDGE-BASED ENTITY DETECTION AND DISAMBIGUATION - An entity-based search system is described herein that detects and recognizes entities in Internet-based content and uses this recognition to organize search results. The system associates one or more entity identifiers with a web page and stores this information as metadata of the page in a search engine index. This metadata will enable entity-based queries as well as rich data presentations in a search engine result page (SERP), including grouping results by entities, filtering results by one or more particular entities, or re-ranking search results based on user preference of entities. Thus, the entity-based search system allows users to identify a particular entity the user is interested in finding, and to receive search results directly related to that entity. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173605 | Extracting Query Dimensions from Search Results - Techniques are described for automatically mining query dimensions from web pages resulting from execution of a search query. Lists of items such as words, terms, or phrases are extracted from the web pages based on the recognition of free text, metadata tag, or repeated region patterns within the web page text. Extracted item lists are weighted according to document matching and/or inverse document frequency, and item lists are clustered based on shared or similar items within the lists to generate query dimensions. The generated query dimensions, and the items within each query dimension, are ranked according to quality, and high-quality query dimensions are provided for display alongside top search results. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173606 | NORMALIZED SEARCH - Systems and methods of searching by a processor are described herein. In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a master index having a plurality of index documents corresponding to artifacts stored in a repository is generated. An index document maps contents from a source artifact to index categories having different default boost values indicating relative importance of the index categories. A search query is fired by a user to search the master index. A result list of artifacts having contents matching (hit) the search query is generated. Artifacts are ranked in the list based on hit scores according to number of hits, which categories the hits occurred and the default boost values of the index categories. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173607 | 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. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179438 | GOAL-ORIENTED USER MATCHING AMONG SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENTS - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for goal-based user matching among social networking environments. In a typical embodiment, a querying user is asked to respond to a series of questions related to goals, criteria, and criteria priorities (and, optionally, a desired “degree” of separation among other users). The querying user will submit his/her responses, which are then parsed and prioritized accordingly. Based on the responses, social networking sites are then searched to identify a set (e.g., at least one) of candidate users that are potential collaboration partners with the querying user. This set of candidate users may be arranged in a list and sorted according to a best match to the querying user's responses. The list can then be provided to the querying user. In addition, invites can be sent to the set of candidate users to invite such users to connect/collaborate with the querying user. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179439 | 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. | 07-11-2013 |
20130185291 | ONLINE RATING AND FEEDBACK SYSTEM - The present invention provides, in at least one embodiment, a system and method to improve the rating process by asking for feedback through a simple tag interface, which allows a user to rate content. The tag interface has an overall rating and at least one tag to be rated by the user. The user's rating of the tag helps classify the content for other users and the system forming a link between the user's overall rating and tag rating indicates the user's tastes. By systematically asking the users to evaluate a small subset of qualities in the form of tags, as opposed to asking each user to evaluate a large amount of tags, the system pieces together a large understanding of the content in a way that is very simple for the users. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185292 | APPLICATION RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - Systems and method for receiving mobile device usage data from mobile electronic devices using security applications with enhanced access privileges. The mobile device usage data includes user-specific and application usage data. Application classification databases are searched for application characteristics of applications available for download from multiple marketplaces. Using the application characteristics, a weighted application relationship graph that includes relationship scores for application pairs that describe the degree to which applications in each of the application pairs are related to, is generated. Based on the mobile device usage and the relationship scores, a list of recommended applications can be generated for a particular user. The list of recommended applications includes the applications determined to be associated with at least one of the applications installed on the user's mobile device with a relationship score greater than a threshold. The method then sends the list of recommended applications to the user's mobile device. | 07-18-2013 |
20130191376 | IDENTIFYING RELATED ENTITIES - Methods, systems, and computer-storage media having computer-usable instructions embodied thereon for identifying related entities are provided. One or more entities may be identified from a search query. The one or more entities may include any identifiable term having related information associated therewith. An entity store may be referenced to identify one or more related entities related to the entity. The one or more related entities, along with their relationship(s) to the entity (and one another, perhaps) may then be ranked and displayed to a user. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191377 | SET BASED ITEM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A system for generating one or more recommended items for a user receives a target items set for the user which includes two or more target items. The system then queries a database of a plurality of related items sets using the target items set, where each related items set comprises a plurality of related items. In response to the querying, the system retrieves one or more similar items sets from the plurality of related item sets, each similar items set being similar to the target items set. The system then performs a union of the similar items sets to generate the recommended items. | 07-25-2013 |
20130198174 | RE-RANKING SEARCH RESULTS - Search results obtained from a ranking model are re-ranked based on user-configured ranking rules. For example, a user may desire to: place certain search results at a top/bottom of a ranking of search results; remove some search results; and/or adjust a ranking of some of the search results. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) allows a user to configure the ranking rules (e.g. enter key/value restrictions and to set a boost value) and to preview an application of one or more of the ranking rules. Query language operators that follow a standard operator syntax are created based on the inputs (e.g. a ranking query operator is created that may include multiple user supplied parameters). The user may also specify a portion of the results from which statistics (e.g. standard deviation, average score) are calculated. For example, a user may specify to calculate statistics for the top N number results. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198175 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED ANIMAL SHELTER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The system allows users seeking to adopt to search based on the desired attributes of an animal and the availability of such animals. It allows a user to determine the breed they most prefer adopt. Once an animal is selected, a live feed of the animal can be viewed. If the user wants to adopt, the system electronically provides an application which the system forwards to the shelter where the animal is located for review. Revenues collected from advertising and donations are automatically shared with the shelters through the system. The system acts as to facilitate intra-shelter transfers and as a lost and found. It allows shelter administrators to manage volunteers, fosters and staff. It provides a single user-accessible location to store medical history and other records relating to the adopted pet. It can notify the user when an animal of the desired breed becomes available. | 08-01-2013 |
20130204866 | OBJECT TAG METADATA AND IMAGE SEARCH - Techniques are disclosed for ordering images. The technique includes receiving a request, the request including keywords and parameters specifying desired image characteristics. Further, the technique includes identifying a set of images responsive to the request based on a match of the keywords to tags associated with objects depicted in the set of images. Finally, the technique includes determining an ordering of the identified set of images by comparing the received parameters with metadata fields associated with respective tags of the objects and returning an indication of the set of images and the determined ordering of the images. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204867 | Selection of Main Content in Web Pages - A system and method for selecting main content ( | 08-08-2013 |
20130212089 | Search Result Categorization - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a search query; generating search results based on the search query; determining that a number of the search results is greater than a threshold; determining a category for each of the search results from among a plurality of categories; and transmitting the search results with instructions to display each of the search results based on its determined category. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212090 | SIMILAR DOCUMENT DETECTION AND ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY - Systems and methods are disclosed for performing duplicate document analyses to identify texturally identical or similar documents, which may be electronic documents stored within an electronic discovery platform. A process is described which includes representing each of the documents, including a target document, as a relatively large n-tuple vector and also as a relatively small m-tuple vector, performing a series of one-dimensional searches on the set of m-tuple vectors to identify a set of documents which are near-duplicates to the target document, and then filtering the near set of near duplicate documents based upon the distance of their n-tuple vectors from that of the target document. | 08-15-2013 |
20130218876 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING CONTEXT INTELLIGENCE IN RANDOM INDEX BASED SYSTEM - A method for providing enhancement of context intelligence may include receiving a first word representing a context at a processor, providing for a search of a database using the first word; receiving a second word in response to the search of the database, applying a weight to the second word, and causing the second word and the respective weight to be stored as relevant to the context. The database may include a remote database, accessed, for example, via the internet. The method may also include generating a third word in response to a sensor receiving an input, where providing for a search of a database includes using the first word and the third word. The method may optionally include generating a third word in response to a detected property of an environment, where providing for a search of a database includes using the first word and the third word. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218877 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXT-AWARE MESSAGE TAGGING - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for context-aware messaging. In various implementations, a conversation between two or more users may be hosted by a communications tool, where the conversation generates text included in a conversation thread. Context attributes may be extracted from the generated text. The context attributes may describe interactions and data objects associated with one or more entities. One or more scores may be assigned to the extracted context attributes based on the contents of the conversation thread. The scores may provide a rank for each of the extracted context attributes. A presentation of a user interface of a communication tool may be modified based on the one or more scored context attributes. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218878 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DOCUMENTS TO IDENTIFY STRUCTURES - In various embodiments, multiple heterogeneous documents are processed to identify structures, such as chemical structures, contained therein, including non-embedded structures. Also described is a graphical user interface that permits a user to search for a structure or substructure within a set of electronic documents, then displays the matching structures as well as the actual pages of the documents on which the matching structures are found. Display of the actual pages allows the user to verify the matches and provides helpful context for the user. | 08-22-2013 |
20130226911 | USE OF STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELING FOR GENERATING EXPLORATORY SEARCH RESULTS - Methods and arrangements for generating exploratory search results. A first search query is accepted in a browsing session, and first search result set is derived, comprising at least one search result from the first search query. A second search query is predicted, and a second search result set is derived, comprising at least one search result from the second search query. A final search result set is yielded via combining the first search result set and the second search result set. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226912 | Eigenvalue Ranking of Social Offerings Using Social Network Information - Systems and methods in which a ranking engine, for example such an engine as is communicatively coupled to a search engine or social networking system, or is part of such a system, ranks social offerings for eventual display to a user, said social offerings being ranked according to eigenvalues of matrices associated with a social graph G of the user and the user's friends and other connections. In some instances, the social offerings may be divided into categories and ranks for the social offerings computed for each of the categories based on activities and communications of the user with friends and other connections for each category. The eigenvalues are used for ranking the social offerings based on actions of the user's friends and other connections with respect to the social offerings. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226913 | USE OF STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELING FOR GENERATING EXPLORATORY SEARCH RESULTS - Methods and arrangements for generating exploratory search results. A first search query is accepted in a browsing session, and first search result set is derived, comprising at least one search result from the first search query. A second search query is predicted, and a second search result set is derived, comprising at least one search result from the second search query. A final search result set is yielded via combining the first search result set and the second search result set. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226914 | CONTEXT-BASED CONTENT LIST GENERATION - Technologies are generally described for providing a context-based content list for an electronic device. In some examples, a method performed under control of an electronic device may include gathering first information on or from one or more devices nearby the electronic device in response to a content file creation event on the electronic device; gathering second information on or from one or more devices nearby the electronic device in response to a content list creation event on the electronic device; calculating a similarity between the first information and the second information; and generating a content list based at least in part on the similarity between the first information and the second information. | 08-29-2013 |
20130232139 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING RECOMMENDATION CONTENT - An electronic device includes a database, a display, and several program modules executable by a processor. The program modules include a query receiving module to receive a search query from a user, a query analyzing module to analyze the received search query and determine a content of interest associated with the search query and associated content associated with the content of interest. Also include are a search module to search for the content of interest and associated content associated with the content of interest in the database, a sorting module to sort the search results retrieved by the search module according to the number of times that the search has been conducted before, and a result presenting module to present the sorted search results according to a screen size of the display. | 09-05-2013 |
20130232140 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed is an information processing apparatus that selects appropriate features in polynomial time from the viewpoint of both the relevance and the redundancy of features to be selected. This information processing apparatus includes a relevance evaluator that evaluates relevance of each feature included in a set of features, a redundancy evaluator that evaluates redundancy between the features included in the set of features, and a selected feature determiner that determines selected features that optimize a submodular objective function defined using the relevance calculated by the relevance evaluator and the redundancy calculated by the redundancy evaluator. | 09-05-2013 |
20130238608 | SEARCH RESULTS BY MAPPING ASSOCIATED WITH DISPARATE TAXONOMIES - Architecture that generates signals/features that capture the match between intent of a query and category of documents. For example, for a query intent related to “autos”, documents that belong to categories related to “Autos” receive a higher score than documents of a “computers” category. The architecture can be applied to a search ecosystem where query intent classification and document category classifier are available, learns the mapping between query intent and document category, and introduces category-match features to a ranking algorithm, thereby improving search result relevance. The architecture learns the mapping between two existing and different taxonomies to create a category match signal from which the ranking algorithm can learn. Moreover, architecture adapts to a complex ecosystem where different taxonomies on the query side and document side exist through learning a mapping score between at least two taxonomies. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238609 | QUERY RESULT RENDERING - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for rendering query results. After a user submits a query, a plurality of query results may be received, comprising at least a first query result and a second query result. The first query result can be rendered in a first collapsed view, which may be smaller and may comprise less information than a full view of the first query result. Upon receiving a first indication of scrolling, hinting that the user may wish to view more results, the first query result can be rendered in a first expanded view, which may comprise a full view of the first query result. Further, upon receiving the first indication of scrolling, the second query result can be rendered in a second collapsed view. Rendering query results as provided herein allows a (limited) viewable area to be used in an efficient manner. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238610 | Automatically Mining Patterns For Rule Based Data Standardization Systems - Computer program products and systems are provided for mining for sub-patterns within a text data set. The embodiments facilitate finding a set of N frequently occurring sub-patterns within the data set, extracting the N sub-patterns from the data set, and clustering the extracted sub-patterns into K groups, where each extracted sub-pattern is placed within the same group with other extracted sub-patterns based upon a distance value D that determines a degree of similarity between the sub-pattern and every other sub-pattern within the same group. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238611 | Automatically Mining Patterns for Rule Based Data Standardization Systems - Methods, computer program products and systems are provided for mining for sub-patterns within a text data set. The embodiments facilitate finding a set of N frequently occurring sub-patterns within the data set, extracting the N sub-patterns from the data set, and clustering the extracted sub-patterns into K groups, where each extracted sub-pattern is placed within the same group with other extracted sub-patterns based upon a distance value D that determines a degree of similarity between the sub-pattern and every other sub-pattern within the same group. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238612 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING REFINED SEARCH RESULTS FOR A QUERY BASED ON ONE OR MORE USER INTERACTIONS - An approach is provided for determining refined search results for a query. The approach involves processing one or more interactions of a user with one or more content items to cause, at least in part, an accumulation of the one or more interactions of the user. The approach also involves processing the accumulation of the one or more interactions to determine one or more interaction patterns. The approach additionally involves determining one or more user preferences based, at least in part, on the one or more interaction patterns. The approach further involves causing, at least in part, a scope of one or more search results for a query to be based, at least in part, on the one or more user preferences. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238613 | Blending Mobile Search Results - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for blending mobile search results. A method includes receiving a search query and multiple search results. The search results each satisfy the search query and have a respective search result quality score. The search results include generic and mobile search results. The generic and mobile search results each identify a generic and mobile resource, respectively. The search result quality scores include mobile and generic search result quality scores for the mobile and generic search results, respectively. The mobile search result quality scores and the generic search result quality scores were generated according to different scoring formulas. Based on one or more terms in the search query, the search query is classified as a mobile query. As a consequence, one or more search result quality scores are modified to improve the sorting of search results that include both mobile and generic search results. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238614 | SIZING CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - In various example embodiments, systems and methods to provide sizing content recommendations are provided. Search parameters are received from a user. In response, sizing data for the user is accessed. Using the sizing data, content from a marketplace matching the sizing data and the search parameters are determined. The matching content comprises a list of one or more items available from the marketplace. The matching content is prioritized for presentation to the user. | 09-12-2013 |
20130246402 | SCREEN DATA GENERATING APPARATUS FOR PROGRAMMABLE DISPLAY DEVICE - A screen data generating apparatus for a programmable display device includes a graphic-information recording unit in which keywords are stored, a first data recording unit that records therein setting information of screen data in association with the keywords, a second data recording unit that records therein determination reference data indicating a level of difficulty set in each operation regarding graphic software and user data, an information searching unit that searches for the setting information associated with the keyword matching a word input, a characteristic determination unit that determines a learning level and preferences of a user based on the determination reference data and the user data, a control unit that assigns a rank to the setting information based on a determination result of the characteristic determination unit, and an information presenting unit that displays the setting information to which a rank is assigned on a display unit. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246403 | RETRIEVAL APPARATUS, RETRIEVAL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A similar document is retrieved by performing a search using diagram information within documents, without being influenced by the description language within documents or the wording of complex sentences. First, feature data (feature amounts) of images is extracted from diagrams that are dotted throughout a document, with respect to a designated document that is designated by a person doing the search. Thereafter, the similarity between documents is evaluated, by comparing the feature amounts of diagrams in the designated document with the feature amounts of diagrams in a document group serving as a search target that are extracted in advance. Ranking of similar documents to the designated document is realized, based on the evaluation result. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246404 | Display of Dynamic Interference Graph Results - A search engine system, including a slashtag server configured to detect at least a search operator in a search query, the search operator being associated with a category of content from a social network site. Also, a web server configured to, in response to detecting the search query, generate a first search result based on at least the category of content associated with the search operator, and display the first search result in a web browser. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246405 | Display of Boosted Slashtag Results - At least one key word is detect in a search query. Alternative search query is automatically generated based on the at least one key word. The alternative search query includes a search operator associated with the at least one key word. A first search result is generated based on the alternative search query and displayed in a web browser. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246406 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY SUGGESTING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS SUBMITTED TO A PORTAL OF AN ONLINE SERVICE - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for dynamically suggesting answers to questions submitted to a portal of an online service. These mechanisms and methods for dynamically suggesting answers to questions submitted to a portal of an online service can enable embodiments to provide help document suggestions with limited user input. The ability of embodiments to provide help document search term suggestions with limited user input can enable users to quickly and efficiently find useful help documents. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246407 | DETERMINING RELEVANCY AND DESIRABILITY OF TERMS - A system and method to sort search results based upon a desirability value is illustrated. This desirability value may be based upon the difference between a demand value and a supply value. Demand may be based upon user activity such as click-throughs, purchases, price, or location. Supply may be based upon a supply of keywords that may be the number of times a word is used in search or item title. The system and method may include receiving a search query, associating a first numerical value with a keyword that is a part of the search query, tracking user activity associated with the keyword, associating a second numerical value with the keyword based upon the user activity, finding a difference value between the first and second numerical values, associating this difference value with the keyword, sorting keywords based upon the difference values, and returning the search results of the sorting. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246408 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING AND PRESENTING CONTENT BASED ON DYNAMICALLY IDENTIFYING MICROGENRES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONTENT - A method of selecting and presenting content based on learned user preferences is provided. The method includes providing a content system including a set of content items organized by genre characterizing the content items, and wherein the set of content items contains microgenre metadata further characterizing the content items. The method also includes receiving search input from the user for identifying desired content items and, in response, presenting a subset of content items to the user. The method further includes receiving content item selection actions from the user and analyzing the microgenre metadata within the selected content items to learn the preferred microgenres of the user. The method includes, in response to receiving subsequent user search input, selecting and presenting content items in an order that portrays as relatively more relevant those content items containing microgenre metadata that more closely match the learned microgenre preferences of the user. | 09-19-2013 |
20130254187 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR SEARCHING DATABASE - A database search device, including: a database adapted to have information registered therein; a search reception section adapted to receive an input of a search condition; a search section adapted to search the database based on the search condition received in the search reception section; a search result output section adapted to output search result by the search section together with the search condition; a search result accumulation section adapted to accumulate the search result by the search section together with the search condition; a search result editing section adapted to edit the search result accumulated in the search result accumulation section according to a preset editing condition; and an edited search result output section adapted to output the search result edited in the search result editing section as an edited search result. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254188 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING AMBIGUOUS, MULTI-TERM SEARCH QUERIES - In accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention, a method and system are provided of processing a search query entered by a user of a device having a text input interface with overloaded keys. The search query is directed at identifying an item from a set of items. Each of the items has one or more associated descriptors. The system receives from the user an ambiguous search query directed at identifying a desired item. The search query is a prefix substring of each of at least two words relating to the desired item. The system dynamically identifies a group of one or more items from the set of items having one or more descriptors matching the search query as the user enters each character of the search query. The system outputs identification of the one or more items of the identified group to be displayed on the device operated by the user. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262453 | Estimating Thread Participant Expertise Using A Competition-Based Model - The subject disclosure is directed towards ranking participants in an online platform according to expertise. A competition-based metric is applied to question and answer threads in order to model each thread as a set of comparisons between various groups of the participants. After aggregating comparison results for the question and answer treads, one or more relative expertise scores may be estimated for each participant. Each relative expertise score may correspond to a specific category of questions. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262454 | IDENTIFYING WEB PAGES OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB HAVING RELEVANCE TO A FIRST FILE - Methods and systems for providing related web pages are disclosed. One method includes identifying a plurality of web pages, wherein the plurality of web pages each have a relationship with the first file, wherein the world wide web provides a platform for sharing web pages, and wherein each web page includes a document or information resource that is suitable for the world wide web and is accessible through a web browser. The method further includes generating a list of inquiries based on the plurality of web pages, providing, the list of inquiries to at least one author of the first file, receiving from the at least one author at least one response to the list of inquiries, selecting a subset of the plurality of web pages based on the at least one response, and storing information related to the selected subset of the plurality of web pages. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262455 | REAL TIME IMPLICIT USER MODELING FOR PERSONALIZED SEARCH - A method and apparatus for utilizing user behavior to immediately modify sets of search results so that the most relevant documents are moved to the top. In one embodiment of the invention, behavior data, which can come from virtually any activity, is used to infer the user's intent. The updated inferred implicit user model is then exploited immediately by re-ranking the set of matched documents to best reflect the information need of the user. The system updates the user model and immediately re-ranks documents at every opportunity in order to constantly provide the most optimal results. In another embodiment, the system determines, based on the similarity of results sets, if the current query belongs in the same information session as one or more previous queries. If so, the current query is expanded with additional keywords in order to improve the targeting of the results. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262456 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING RELATED TERMS - A method for searching related terms first calculates a direct relationship between every two of a plurality of query terms to obtain a direct related matrix, and calculates a related score between every two of the query terms to obtain a related score matrix. The method further calculates an indirect relationship between every two of the query terms according to the direct relationship and the related score, and determines indirect terms of each query term according to the indirect relationship between every two of the query terms. | 10-03-2013 |
20130268519 | FACT VERIFICATION ENGINE - The described implementations relate to processing of electronic data. One implementation is manifested as a technique that can include receiving an input statement that includes a plurality of terms. The technique can also include providing, in response to the input statement, ranked supporting documents that support the input statement or ranked contradicting results that contradict the input statement. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268520 | Incremental Visualization for Structured Data in an Enterprise-level Data Store - The subject disclosure is directed towards simulating query execution to provide incremental visualization for a global data set. A data store may be configured for searching at least a portion of a global data set being stored at an enterprise-level data store. In response to a user-issued query, partial query results are provided to a front-end interface for display to the user. The front-end interface also provides statistical information corresponding to the partial query results in relation to the global data set, which may be used to determine when a current set of query results becomes acceptable as a true/accurate estimate. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268521 | RELATED PIVOTED SEARCH QUERIES - Systems and methods for responding to search queries with search results and related pivoted search queries is presented. Responsive to a search query, one or more entities related to the search query are identified as pivot entities. For each pivot entity a set of pivoted search queries is identified and included among the search results responsive to the search query. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268522 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT EXCLUSION FROM A MULTI-DOMAIN SEARCH - A system and method for content exclusion from a multi-domain search, where search results are prioritized or potentially excluded based on content provided by a service provider. The system and method provide for providing access to a network by a primary service provider, the network including multiple sources of content; receiving at least one search parameter; performing a search for content based on the received at least one search parameter; prioritizing results of the search based on content provided by the primary service provider; and displaying the prioritized results. In one embodiment, the system and method further includes excluding at least one search result if the at least one search result matches content provided by the primary service provider. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268523 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING USER OR RESOURCE INFLUENCE WITHIN A PRE-DEFINED CONTEXT - A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product provides the ability to determine the influence of a user or resource within a pre-defined context. A pre-defined context of activities is provided/defined. Point values are assigned to all activities that may occur within the pre-defined context. All activities for a single user or resource within the pre-defined context are tracked over a period of time. A score value for each activity for the single user or resource within the pre-defined context over a period of time is determined. A raw score is calculated for the single user or resource according to the total of all determined score values. The raw score value is normalized against scores of a population of other users or resources within the pre-determined context to provide a comparative scoring for users or resources. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268524 | Method and system for appraising the extent to which a publication has been reviewed by means of a peer-review process - A method and system appraises the extent to which an article has been reviewed by means of a peer-review process such that a user conducting a search with a search engine via an internet connected electronic device can infer the quality of the publication in relation to other publications returned in the search results displayed on the electronic device. A peer review score is calculated from the metadata of the article. The peer review score is displayed next to a link to the article returned in the search results from the search engine. The peer review score indicates the relative thoroughness of the peer review process that the article underwent. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268525 | RETRIEVAL DEVICE, RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, RETRIEVAL METHOD, RETRIEVAL PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING RETRIEVAL PROGRAM - An EC server (30) includes an extraction unit (33) that extracts comment data indicating a second comment (comment on a second item) containing a link to a first comment (comment on a first item) from a comment database (10), an association unit (34) that generates associated item data indicating association between the first and second items based on the comment data and stores the associated item data into an associated item database (35), a receiving unit (36) that receives a request for item information from a user terminal T, a retrieval unit (37) that refers to an item database (31) and the associated item database (35) and extracts item information (designated item information) indicated by the signal and item information (associated item information) related to that item information, and a transmitting unit (38) that transmits those item information to the user terminal T. | 10-10-2013 |
20130275416 | SCORING OF RESOURCE GROUPS - Methods and systems for automatically providing a relevancy score with respect to reports or groups of resources are provided. In particular, a proposed report or group of resources is input or otherwise defined by a user. The proposed report is then compared to predefined reports. A relevancy score for each of a plurality of predefined reports with respect to the proposed report is calculated and output to the user. The relevancy score can be reported as a percentage. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275417 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ACTIVITY RECOMMENDATIONS - System and method for generating one or more activity recommendations for a user are provided. The method comprises steps of receiving selection for a first set of user inputs, retrieving one or more activities from an activity database module based on the selection of the user inputs, scoring the activities based on at least one predetermined parameter and presenting one or more activity recommendations to the user based on the scoring. The method further comprises enabling the user to perform at least one activity from the one or more activity recommendations. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275418 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING A BACKGROUND PICTURE OF A WEB SEARCH RESULTS PAGE FOR DIFFERENT SEARCH QUERIES - A method and system for updating a background picture of a web search results page for different search queries. The method includes receiving a search query from a user and determining one or more text search results for the search query. The method also includes determining one or more images for the search query by at least one of extracting the one or more images from webpages associated with the one or more text search results, and extracting the one or more images from an image web search. Further, the method includes assembling the one or more images to create the background picture. Moreover, the method includes rendering the one or more text search results, for the search query, in the web search results page along with the background picture. The system includes one or more electronic devices, a communication interface, a memory, and a processor. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275419 | System and Method for Quality of Experience Aware Media Search and Recommendation with Unified Portal - A network element comprising a processor configured to receive a plurality of search responses from a plurality of media content service providers associated with a search request triggered by the search request, and rank the search responses based on maximizing an end user's quality of experience (QoE). Included is a network element comprising a processor configured to receive a plurality of media content from a plurality of media content service providers, store the plurality of media content for a plurality of end users, receive a media content search request from a user terminal, rank the media content based upon maximizing the user terminal's QoE. Also included is a method comprising requesting media content from a plurality of media content service providers on behalf of a user terminal, receiving data associated with the media content from the plurality of media content service providers and aggregating the media content data. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275420 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Conducting A Document Search Via Metaprints - A computer-implemented system and method for conducting a document search based on metaprints is provided. A plurality of metaprints comprising metadata keywords and associated frequencies of occurrence of the metadata keywords within a plurality of documents are maintained. A search query is received and executed against the metaprints. The metadata keywords that match the query are identified and the metaprints associated with the matched metadata keywords are obtained. A further search query is generated based on the obtained metaprints and is applied to a set of documents. Those documents that match the frequencies of occurrence associated with the obtained metaprints are identified. | 10-17-2013 |
20130282702 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCH ASSISTANCE - Method, system, and programs for intent-based search assistance are disclosed. Intent information associated with a query entered by a user is first collected. The intent information includes one or more intents. The collected intent information is then associated with annotation information to generate annotated intent information for the query. In response to the user entering the query, a query suggestion is determined from a plurality of query suggestions. Content is then provided to the user at real-time based on the determined query suggestion and the annotated intent information for the query. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282703 | Semantically Enriched Search of Services - A computer-implemented method for performing a semantically enriched search of services includes: receiving a search string that a user inputs for searching services in a repository; generating queries from the search string; searching a multi-document index using the generated queries, the multi-document index including, for each of the services, an index entry comprising documents interlinked with each other, each of the documents reflecting at least one aspect regarding the service; and presenting an outcome of the search to the user in response to receiving the search string. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282704 | SEARCH SYSTEM WITH QUERY REFINEMENT - A search system that automatically generates questions to refine an underspecified query. The system may generate questions even for queries against a database that contains unstructured textual descriptions of items, allowing the system to operate on a database of items that can be constructed inexpensively. The system extracts from the unstructured text combinations of words that may serve as a set of attribute values. The system uses a classifier to filter out attribute values from the set that would generate unanswerable questions. The remaining attribute values are ranked on their ability to narrow the search results and the highest ranking attribute value is used to generate a question to the user who submitted the query. The response to the question narrows the search results, and the process can be repeated iteratively until the search results are sufficiently narrow. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282705 | OPTIMIZED RESOURCE ANALYTICS - A method which on determination of an entity replacement request is configured to identify an optimized entity as a replacement based on a predefined set of metadata, wherein the metadata comprises a profile associated with the entity, wherein the profile of the entity is further based on a graph, such as a graphical representation of social links, associated with the entity; and provide the optimized entity as a replacement for the entity to be replaced. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282706 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE SEARCHES BASED ON SOCIAL GRAPHS AND AFFINITY GROUPS - Business, recommendation, and social relationship graph information for businesses may be received from a data source social networking website, where each business is recommended by users. The recommendation information may indicate users that recommend certain businesses. The social relationship graph information may indicate user-specific networks of social relationships on the social networking website. For a user query including business and affinity group selection criteria, business, recommendation, and social relationship graph information may be searched to select businesses that: match the business selection criteria; and are recommended by users having social relationships within a maximum degree of closeness with the querying user and being in an affinity group matching the affinity group selection criteria. The selected businesses may be ranked based on numbers of recommending users and social relationship graph information. A search result, with businesses indicated in a rank order and with business and recommendation information, may be provided. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282707 | TWO-STEP COMBINER FOR SEARCH RESULT SCORES - A method for a two-step combiner for scoring search results is disclosed. The method comprises: calculating a fast score for a document based on a quality score of the document and a plurality of topicality scores; comparing the fast score for the document to a plurality of previously scored documents in a priority queue; calculating a final score for the document only when the fast score exceeds a lowest scored document in the priority queue; and adding the document to the priority queue when the final score exceeds a lowest final score on the priority queue. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282708 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LIMITING SHARE OF VOICE OF INDIVIDUAL USERS - In various example embodiments, a system and method for limiting shares of voice of individual users in a result set are provided. In example embodiments, a listing user providing each listing in a result set of a search is identified. Sorting criteria indicating a number of listings a same listing user is allowed within a number of consecutive listings of the result set are reviewed. Using the sorting criteria, a sorted result set is generated by sorting the plurality of listings in accordance with the sorting criteria. The sorted result set is provided to a searching user. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290312 | PROJECT RESOURCE QUALIFICATION AND KEYWORD SCORING - A system and method for facilitating determining and displaying search results and accompanying scores in an enterprise computing environment. The example method includes receiving a resource request that includes one or more search criteria. The one or more search criteria includes a specification of one or more keywords and one or more resource qualifications. The method further includes determining, based on the search criteria, a qualification score for each resource indicated in a database of resources; using the qualification score to determine search results responsive to the resource request; and displaying each search result proximate to a qualification score. In a specific embodiment, the method further includes calculating the qualification score by combining components of the qualification score according to an algorithm. The components of the qualification score include a competency component and a keyword component. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290313 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF USING DOMAIN RANKING FOR CALCULATING A CALL NUMBER FOR REPRESENTATIONS - The invention provides a method of distributing representations in a network environment having a host computer system connected over at least one network to a plurality of user computer systems and to a data provider computer system. Domains of representations are ranked in a first historical data set. A query is received from a user computer system within a website. A call number that depends on the rank of the domains of the representations in the first historical data set for the query is calculated, recorded and transmitted from the host computer system over the network to the data provider computer system together with the query. A plurality of representations for the query are received from the data provider computer system over the network at the host computer system and transmitted from the host computer system over the network to the user computer system. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290314 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF USING BLOCK REJECTION FOR CALCULATING A CALL NUMBER FOR REPRESENTATIONS - A query is received from a user computer system within a website of a host computer system. A call is transmitted from the host computer system to the data provider computer system corresponding to the query, wherein the call includes the call number for the query, a plurality of representations for the query are received from the data provider computer system at the host computer system and transmitted from the host computer system to the user computer system. The representations received from the data provider computer system are evaluated and a block of the representations is determined to be rejected. The call number is calculated by subtracting a number of the representations that are included in the block of the representations to be rejected from a total number of representations received from the data provider computer system. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290315 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF USING AN ACCESS CONTROL FOR TEMPORARILY OVERRIDING CALL NUMBER FOR REPRESENTATIONS - A query is received from a user computer system within a website, a call is transmitted from the host computer system to the data provider computer system corresponding to the query, including the call number for the query, a plurality of representations for the query are received from the data provider computer system at the host computer system and transmitted from the host computer system over the network to the user computer system. The call number is calculated based on a rank of the representations in a first historical data set. An access control module periodically resets the call number to higher number, whereafter a determination is made to maintain the call number at the higher or to reduce the call number. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290316 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF USING AN APPLICATION SHELL FOR LISTENING TO MATCHES AND PICKS - A website receives a query from a user computer system, transmitting a call from the host computer system to a data provider computer system corresponding to the query representations from the data provider computer system, transmitting the representations to the user computer system and receives responses from the user computer system. An application shell receives the representations for the query and the response from the website and builds an application logic in real time. A first representation system inserted into the application shell includes a first ranking module ranking the representations in a first historical data set, calculates the call number, the call number depending on the rank of the representations in the first historical data set for the query, records the call number for the query and recording the response within the first historical data set. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290317 | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING OPTIMIZED FOR MICRO CONTENT - A system and a method for microcontent natural language processing are presented. The method comprising steps of receiving a microcontent message from a social networking server, tokenizing the microcontent message into one or more text tokens, detecting the language of the microcontent message and selecting the property dictionary for part-of-speech tag, part-of-speech tagging the microcontent message to identify related pronouns and nouns based on the selected dictionary, and extracting topics form the microcontent messages and assigning confidence values to the topics. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290318 | APPLICATION REPRESENTATION FOR APPLICATION EDITIONS - A disclosed system, method, and computer-readable storage medium automatically identify, cluster, and cross-reference various editions of an application. The editions are clustered and associated with a canonical application structure describing the general functionality of each edition in the cluster. When an application search query is received from a client device, one or more canonical applications corresponding to the query are identified and provided to the client device. Enhancing the relevancy of search results by merging several editions of an application into one canonical application structure reduces unwanted and redundant results on a search result page. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290319 | PERFORMING APPLICATION SEARCHES - According to some implementations, a technique for processing an application search query is disclosed. The techniques include receiving a search query from a partner, determining a set of subqueries based on the search query, and extracting query features of the search query from the search query. The techniques further include determining an initial result set of applications based on the set of subqueries and the query features. The initial result set includes a plurality of application representations each defining features of a different application. The techniques also include determining a score for each application in the initial result set of applications based on the set of query features and one or more scoring models, determining a result set based on the scores of the applications in the initial result set, and providing the result set to the partner. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290320 | RECOMMENDING KEYWORDS - Recommending keywords is disclosed, including: receiving a set of product information including a product title; extracting and parsing the product title into a set of parsed elements; finding a plurality of candidate keywords corresponding to at least a subset of the set of parsed elements based at least in part on stored mappings between parsed data and keywords; determining a plurality of composite correlation scores for corresponding ones of the plurality of candidate keywords; sorting at least a subset of the plurality of candidate keywords into a ranked list based on at least a subset of the plurality of composite correlation scores; and selecting a set of one or more keywords to recommend from the plurality of candidate keywords based at least in part on the ranked list. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290321 | PROVIDING A CUSTOMIZABLE APPLICATION SEARCH - One embodiment of a disclosed method and computer-readable storage medium provides customizable application search. Partner systems leverage search functionality of an application search system configured to perform searches for applications. In one embodiment, partner systems select filters to be applied to queries submitted to the application search system via the partners' websites, and specify particular attributes to be displayed with each search result returned by the application search system. When users submit queries to the application search system via a partner system, the users' queries are associated with the partner system's custom filters and attribute display preferences. In response to receiving the queries, the application search system returns search results filtered and formatted according to the partner system's custom preferences. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290322 | SEARCHING FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS BASED ON APPLICATION ATTRIBUTES - An application search system provides search results for applications based on one or more attributes of the applications. A search query is received by the application search system from a partner. The application search system retrieves a set of applications in response to the search query. In addition, the application search system receives, from one or more sources, restrictive information regarding one or more security attributes for one or more applications in the set of applications. A security value is generated for each of the one or more applications in the set of applications. The security value includes a security attribute value for each of the one or more security attributes. The application search system provides the retrieved set of applications for display at a user interface to the partner. Furthermore, each generated security value is also displayed in conjunction with the corresponding application. | 10-31-2013 |
20130297594 | BATCH ENTITY REPRESENTATION IDENTIFICATION USING FIELD MATCH TEMPLATES - Techniques may be used to match records of a batch file to an entity representation in a universal database. Inputs may include, but are not limited to, a batch file and a universal (or other) database. The technique may compare the records of the batch file to the records of the universal database, and may attempt to create matches between the records in the batch file and the entity representations or records in the universal database. One possible output may include one or more tables that include foreign record IDs of the batch file records, each in association with an entity representation of the universal database. The techniques may include a batch style processing of records. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297595 | DETERMINING SORT ORDER BY DISTANCE - Included are embodiments for determining sort order. At least one embodiment of a method includes determining a plurality of search results associated with at least one search criteria. Some embodiments of a method include determining a first distance between at least one of the search results and a home page associated with the at least one search result and determining a display order for the plurality of search results. | 11-07-2013 |
20130304729 | BIDIRECTIONAL MAPPING BETWEEN APPLICATIONS AND NETWORK CONTENT - A bidirectional mapping is established between network content and application programs, based on declarations at both the network content and at the application. Additionally, bidirectional mapping can provide for deep links, which can associate specific network content with a specific presentation of data in an application program. The identification format for such deep links can conform to a predetermined standard or it can be custom implemented according to a format declared either as part of the network content or the application program. The bidirectional mapping is then utilized by a lookup service to provide functionality to a third-party entity. The lookup service can identify, to the entity, application programs associated with network content specified by that entity and network content associated with application programs specified by that entity. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304730 | AUTOMATED ANSWERS TO ONLINE QUESTIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing automated answers to a question. In an aspect, a method include receiving a question from a client and querying a first repository for answers corresponding to the question. If no result is returned from the first repository, the method will parse the question into a set of keywords and query a second repository for answers corresponding to the set of keywords, and order the answers returned from the first repository or the second repository according to a ranking criteria, and finally present at least a subset of the ordered answers to the client. | 11-14-2013 |
20130311455 | RE-RANKING A SEARCH RESULT IN VIEW OF SOCIAL REPUTATION - A search result is re-ranked/re-ordered in view of a social reputation of a user who will view the search result, where the search result comprises an ordered sequence of identifications of a plurality of network-accessible documents that match a search query. The re-ranking comprises changing an order of at least one of the identified plurality of network-accessible documents within the ordered sequence. The search result is then rendered, as re-ranked, for the user. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311456 | Systems and Methods for Performing Data Analysis for Model Proposals - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a query. A data store stores data as a plurality of data sets. Each data set comprises a plurality of fields and a plurality of data elements. Each field is associated with a portion of data elements. The query identifies selected data sets and selected properties of the selected data sets. For each selected property, the data elements of the selected data sets associated with each selected property are determined. A first rating of the determined data elements of the selected data sets is determined based on a type of combination of a pair of selected data sets. For the selected data set pairs, a second rating of the pair is determined based on the first ratings for the selected properties. A model of a combination of the selected data sets is generated based on the second rating. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311457 | PRUNING A MEDIA COLLECTION - Systems and methods are provided for aggregating a local media collection of a user with one or more shared media collections shared with the user to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. In general, one or more shared media collections shared with the user are first discovered. Optionally, the user may select one or more of the shared media collections for aggregation with the local media collection of the user. The shared media collections selected by the user, or alternatively all of the shared media collections, are then aggregated with the local media collection of the user to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. The aggregate media collection of the user may then be pruned or filtered based on user preferences of the user. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311458 | KNOWLEDGE PANEL - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing knowledge panels. In one aspect, a method includes determining an entity that is referenced by a received search query. Content items relevant to the entity are identified. A set of knowledge modules is selected for presentation in a knowledge panel for the entity. The knowledge panel can be a portion of a search results page in which knowledge modules are presented. Data that causes the knowledge modules to be presented in the knowledge panel is provided to a user device. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311459 | LINK ANALYSIS FOR ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENT - A flexible and extensible architecture allows for secure searching across an enterprise. Such an architecture can provide a simple Internet-like search experience to users searching secure content inside (and outside) the enterprise. The architecture allows for the crawling and searching of a variety of sources across an enterprise, regardless of whether any of these sources conform to a conventional user role model. The architecture further allows for security attributes to be submitted at query time, for example, in order to provide real-time secure access to enterprise resources. The user query also can be transformed to provide for dynamic querying that provides for a more current result list than can be obtained for static queries. | 11-21-2013 |
20130318075 | DICTIONARY REFINEMENT FOR INFORMATION EXTRACTION - A method for refining a dictionary for information extraction, the operations including: inputting a set of extracted results from execution of an extractor comprising the dictionary on a collection of text, wherein the extracted results are labeled as correct results or incorrect results; processing the extracted results using an algorithm configured to set a score of the extractor above a score threshold, wherein the score threshold balances a precision and a recall of the extractor; and outputting a set of candidate dictionary entries corresponding to a full set of dictionary entries, wherein the candidate dictionary entries are candidates to be removed from the dictionary based on the extracted results. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318076 | REFINING A DICTIONARY FOR INFORMATION EXTRACTION - A method for refining a dictionary for information extraction, the operations including: inputting a set of extracted results from execution of an extractor comprising the dictionary on a collection of text, wherein the extracted results are labeled as correct results or incorrect results; processing the extracted results using an algorithm configured to set a score of the extractor above a score threshold, wherein the score threshold balances a precision and a recall of the extractor; and outputting a set of candidate dictionary entries corresponding to a full set of dictionary entries, wherein the candidate dictionary entries are candidates to be removed from the dictionary based on the extracted results. | 11-28-2013 |
20130325852 | SEARCHING BASED ON AN IDENTIFIER OF A SEARCHER - A query is received to search data, where the query includes a search term. A search of the data is performed in response to the query, wherein the search produces result data based on the search term and an identifier of a searcher submitting the query. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325853 | DIGITAL MEDIA PLAYERS COMPRISING A MUSIC-SPEECH DISCRIMINATION FUNCTION - Embodiments are described for the discrimination of media files to be played by a digital media player, so that non-music or speech files can be filtered, ignored, tagged, or removed, leaving only desired files such as music files that will get played. Other non-desired files (e.g., video files) can be filtered, ignored, tagged, or removed, as well. In various embodiments, duplicate files can be filtered, ignored, tagged, or removed from the media files to be played by the digital media player. The resulting music files can be played as desired by a user, for example, in continuous or random play mode. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325854 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus allows a user to easily find information about search targets which the user is likely to desire. Pieces of information about a plurality of searched search targets displayed as a search result include attribute values of search targets. The information processing apparatus specifies information selected by the user from displayed information, and compares an attribute value of a selected search target, with attribute values of search targets associated with display rankings which are higher than a display ranking of the selected search target associated with the specified information. When the attribute value of the selected search target is more advantageous for the user, the information processing apparatus performs control such that information about search targets whose attribute values are more advantageous for the user than that of the selected search target changes to a display mode which is more easily visually checked than the information about search targets whose attribute values are more disadvantageous for the user than that of the selected search target. | 12-05-2013 |
20130339348 | Wine Classification Systems and Methods of Recommending Wines - Disclosed are systems for and methods of categorizing wines, recommending sipping wines, pairing wines with foods, and arranging wines in a systematic display. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods evaluate and incorporate individual taste profiles. Defining a set of wine flavor characteristics facilitates comparisons and categorization. Recommendations are facilitated by substantially correlating the individual taste profiles to the wine flavor characteristics. Likewise, wine-food pairings are facilitated by substantially correlating the known food flavors to the wine flavor characteristics. Computer-implemented embodiments allow authorized user input and consumer access via wireless devices. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339349 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MUSIC SEARCHING - In an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, a method may include generating a tempo scale set based on a received query, where the query includes a plurality of query values defining a tempo of music to be searched. A tempo word set may be constructed based on the generated tempo scale set. The tempo word set may include one or more tempo words, where each tempo word includes at least one tempo scale in the tempo scale set. The music may be identified using the constructed tempo word set. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339350 | Ranking Search Results Based on Click Through Rates - The present disclosure provides a search ranking method and apparatus based on a click through rate (CTR) to improve reusability and simplify a ranking process. Before a search ranking, click data of a user within a preset period of time is obtained and a respective weight of each characteristic is determined based on the click data. The search ranking may include the following operations. A query and one or more query targets matching the query are obtained. A respective characteristic of each of the query and the query targets are extracted. With respect to each query target, based on the characteristics of the query and the query targets as well as the respective weight corresponding to each characteristic, a respective CTR is obtained based on one or more models such as a regression model. The query targets are ranked based on their respective CTR and displayed to the user. | 12-19-2013 |
20130346400 | SELF-TUNING ALTERATIONS FRAMEWORK - Embodiment described herein are directed to an enhanced search engine with multiple feedback loops for providing optimal search results that are responsive a user's search query. The user's search query is parsed, and based on the underlying terms, different linguistic models and refinement techniques generate alternative candidate search queries that may yield better results. Searches are performed for the original search query and the candidate search queries, and different scores are used to select the best search results to present to the user. Results making it onto the list, as well as the underlying candidate search query, linguistic model, or refinement technique for generating that search query, will have their corresponding scores updated to reflect their success of generating a search result. Scores are stored and used by future searches to come up with better results. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346401 | TOPICAL AFFINITY BADGES IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - Topical affinity badges in information retrieval is described, for example, where graphical elements are presented together with ranked search results from a search engine, to indicate a degree of association between an author of a document and a topic. In various embodiments, a measure of an author's affinity to a topic is predicted using a machine learning system that takes as input author features derived from documents of the author. In various examples topical affinity scores or labels are used to generate badges and/or to index documents at an index of a search engine. For example, badges may be presented with ranked search results, in pop up displays or in other ways. In examples author features relating to any of recency, frequency and presentation of an author's documents are generated, where presentation features may relate to biographical information such as experience, qualifications, and previous documents. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346402 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING UNEXPLORED RESEARCH AVENUES FROM PUBLICATIONS - A method, system and a computer program for identifying unexplored research avenues in a plurality of publications is provided. Citation maps for the plurality of publications are generated. The initial set of publications is filtered on the basis of the citation maps and resulting set of publications are ranked according to their prestige value. Natural language processing means are used to perform context matching in order to identify set of sentences in the publications. Paragraphs containing the set of sentences are displayed to a user along with pointers to the respective publication. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346403 | SIGNAL BASED RECOMMENDER - A system is configured to receive a request from a user device; and select, based on the request, a content segment from a collection of content segments based on one or more parameters associated with each content segment. The one or more parameters may include a popularity metric indicating a frequency of the content segment. A respective popularity metric may be assigned to each content segment of the collection of content segments by a classifier. The collection of content segments may be obtained from a group of sources. The system is further configured to obtain local search results using the selected content segment as a query; select a search result from the obtained search results; and provide information about the search result to the user device. | 12-26-2013 |
20140006388 | EVENT SEARCHING AND SUGGESTION | 01-02-2014 |
20140006389 | RECOMMENDATION FILTERING BASED ON COMMON INTERESTS | 01-02-2014 |
20140006390 | CONTEXT-BASED ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT SEARCH USING A SYNTHETIC EVENT | 01-02-2014 |
20140006391 | ACTIVITY RECOMMENDATION BASED ON A CONTEXT-BASED ELECTRONIC FILES SEARCH | 01-02-2014 |
20140006392 | FACILITATING MEDIA CONTENT SEARCH | 01-02-2014 |
20140012840 | GENERATING SEARCH RESULTS - Generating search results is disclosed, including: sorting a plurality of sets of web page information into one or more groups based on vendors associated with respective ones of the plurality of sets of web page information; for a group of sets of web page information associated with a vendor, determining a value included in the group of sets of web page information as an attribute value of a first attribute associated with the vendor; and determining whether a set of web page information of the group of sets of web page information associated with the vendor is to be included in search results based at least in part on whether a search query corresponds to the attribute value of the first attribute associated with the vendor. | 01-09-2014 |
20140019443 | Systems and methods for discovering content of predicted interest to a user - A system comprising a communication interface configured to receive personal information of a user; a user characterization engine configured to determine a user interest of the user based on at least some of the personal information; an infuser configured to generate a search string based on the user interest; an infused crawler configured to retrieve one or more content elements from a network based on the search string; a content characterization engine configured to identify a context for each of the one or more content elements, and to assess for each of the one or more content elements a credibility score as to the respective context identified; a content selection engine configured to determine a probability score of each of the one or more content elements, the probability score being based on the user interest and the respective credibility score of each of the one or more content elements, the probability score defining a predicted interest of the user for each of the one or more content elements; and a content delivery engine configured to provide at least one of the one or more content elements to the user based on the one or more probability scores. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019444 | SCALABLE SEARCH SYSTEM USING HUMAN SEARCHERS - A system allowing a query to be submitted to a server that locates a human searcher to perform a search. The searcher performs a search including using conventional tools, browser, and provides results to the user. A searcher who produces result(s) accepted by the user is rewarded and the results can be used when a similar query is submitted by another user. The searcher is located by comparing keywords of the query to keywords for which the searcher has registered and a high ranking searcher may be chosen by the system based on various factor(s). While the search is performed, information including videos, games, advertisements, etc., may be provided to the user based on keywords of the query and selection by the searcher. The reward for the searchers can be based on revenue from advertisements. | 01-16-2014 |
20140025666 | IDENTIFYING RELEVANT DATA FOR PAGES IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention improve the ability of a social networking system to determine which types of data—hereinafter referred to as “fields”—are relevant to which types of user pages. Specifically, a social networking system assigns page types to different user pages, and likewise stores information on different types of fields. By analyzing the relationships of different pages and fields, the social networking system determines which types of fields are particularly well-suited for inclusion on different types of pages. Using the learned information about page types and field types, the social networking system can better aid page administrators in specifying data to add to their pages. For example, the social networking system can recommend to administrators the addition of certain types of fields or automatically add the fields. Further, the social networking system can specialize a search for social networking system data to field types. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025667 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTING COMPATIBILITY RATINGS FOR AN ONLINE COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - Computing compatibility ratings for an online collaborative environment is described, including receiving request for a compatibility rating, the request comprises a user identifier of a first user and an I3 identifier of an I3 submitted by a second user, the I3 is associated with submission information; determining if there are other I3s submitted by the first user, each of the other I3s is associated with respective submission information; for each of the other I3s, analyzing the respective submission information and the submission information associated with the I3 submitted by the second user, and computing a score; and computing the compatibility rating based at least on the score associated with each of the other I3s. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025668 | Method and System of Ranking Search Results, and Method and System of Optimizing Search Result Ranking - The present disclosure provides techniques to rank search results. The techniques may include acquiring a set of primitive characteristics and extracting effective characteristics from the set of primitive characteristics based on historical transaction data. The effective characteristics include characteristics that can have an influence on ranking of search results. The techniques may also include determining an initial weight of each of the effective characteristics based on the historical transaction data, and training the initial weight using the historical transaction data and a predetermined training model to obtain a final weight. Based on the final weight, the search results may be ranked. In some aspects, the techniques may also optimize the ranking to ensure the objectivity and accuracy of ranking results. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025669 | IDENTIFYING WEB PAGES OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB RELATED TO A FIRST FILE WITH A MORE RECENT PUBLICATION DATE - Methods and systems for providing related web pages are disclosed. One method includes identifying a plurality of web pages, wherein the plurality of web pages each have a relationship with the first file, wherein the world wide web provides a platform for sharing web pages, and wherein each web page includes a document or information resource that is suitable for the world wide web and is accessible through a web browser. The method further includes generating a list of inquiries based on the plurality of web pages, providing, the list of inquiries to at least one author of the first file, receiving from the at least one author at least one response to the list of inquiries, selecting a subset of the plurality of web pages based on the at least one response, and storing information related to the selected subset of the plurality of web pages. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032536 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR INTEGRATED WORLD WIDE WEB QUERY CLASSIFICATION - Implementing query classification includes receiving a core term from a search query responsive to execution of a first module. The first module searches a table for the core term and yields a first result. The query classification also includes receiving a second result from the search query responsive to execution of a second module. The second module searches an index of terms that are mapped to documents and corresponding categories in the index. The second result is indicative of one of the corresponding categories in the index based on a probability score. Upon determining the first result is a category associated with the core term in the table, the query classification also includes calculating a weighted average for the first result and the second result. The calculation yields a third result. The query classification further includes transmitting the third result to a computer device that generated the query. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032537 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MUSIC IDENTIFICATION - Embodiments disclosed herein may relate to identifying music from a text source utilizing a computing platform in a communication system. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032538 | Apparatus, Methods, and Computer Program Products For Adaptive Multimedia Content Indexing - This disclosure provides, among other things, a method for adaptive indexing of multimedia content. In some embodiments, the method includes: identifying a keyword associated with a feature found in a data portion of a multimedia item, the keyword being associated with a media type, and the media type being associated with a weight; determining a relevance for the keyword using the weight associated with the media type associated with the keyword; updating the weight associated with the media type based on a particular set of content items, wherein each content item included in the particular set was added to the particular set of content items because the content item was selected by a user from a set of content items that were identified to the user in response to a query from the user, thereby producing an updated weight; and updating the relevance of the keyword using the updated weight. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032539 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DISCOVER AND RECOMMEND INTERESTING DOCUMENTS - Disclosed are several examples of systems that can read millions of news feeds per day about topics (e.g., your customers, competitors, markets, and partners), and provide a small set of the most relevant items to read to keep current with the overwhelming amount of information currently available. Topics of interest can be chosen by the user of the system for use as seeds. The seeds can be vectorized and compared with the target documents to determine their similarity. The similarities can be sorted from highest to lowest so that the most similar seed and target documents are at the top of the list. This output can be produced in XML format so that an RSS Reader can format the XML. This allows for easy Internet access to these recommendations. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032540 | INTERNET BASED SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR PAYING USERS TO VIEW CONTENT AND RECEIVING MICROPAYMENTS - An Internet service is configured to provide information to a user of the service in ranked order according to demographic profile information about the user provided by the user. Such information might include advertising information and/or search results (e.g., rendered as hyperlinks) to search queries posed by the user. The information may be returned in a ranked order according to reward credits offered by advertisers and/or content providers associated with the advertising information and/or web sites represented by the search results. A process for verifying whether or not an Internet operation (e.g., sending an e-mail message or accessing a web site) is being attempted by a human being or an automated process may be incorporated with the service by using a quiz process that requires user interaction. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032541 | IDENTIFYING WEB PAGES HAVING RELEVANCE TO A FILE BASED ON MUTUAL AGREEMENT BY THE AUTHORS - Methods and systems for providing related web pages are disclosed. One method includes identifying a plurality of web pages, wherein the plurality of web pages each have a relationship with the first file, wherein the world wide web provides a platform for sharing web pages, and wherein each web page includes a document or information resource that is suitable for the world wide web and is accessible through a web browser. The method further includes generating a list of inquiries based on the plurality of web pages, providing, the list of inquiries to at least one author of the first file, receiving from the at least one author at least one response to the list of inquiries, selecting a subset of the plurality of web pages based on the at least one response, and storing information related to the selected subset of the plurality of web pages. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032542 | IDENTIFYING WEB PAGES OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB RELEVANT TO A FIRST FILE BASED ON A RELATIONSHIP TAG - Methods and systems for providing related web pages are disclosed. One method includes identifying a plurality of web pages, wherein the plurality of web pages each have a relationship with the first file, wherein the world wide web provides a platform for sharing web pages, and wherein each web page includes a document or information resource that is suitable for the world wide web and is accessible through a web browser. The method further includes generating a list of inquiries based on the plurality of web pages, providing, the list of inquiries to at least one author of the first file, receiving from the at least one author at least one response to the list of inquiries, selecting a subset of the plurality of web pages based on the at least one response, and storing information related to the selected subset of the plurality of web pages. | 01-30-2014 |
20140040247 | VISUALIZING TIME-DENSE EPISODES - Attributes in data records are identified. Episodes corresponding to the respective attributes include respective data records. The episodes are scored, where scoring of a particular one of the episodes is based on relative time densities between successive data records of the particular episode. A visualization of at least some of the episodes to provide an alert of time-dense episodes. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040248 | PROVIDING A RESPONSE TO A QUERY - Providing a response to a query comprising receiving a query request, to which a response containing a numerical value is expected, from a querying device, identifying at least one input series as relating to the query request, the or each input series having at least one numerical input measurement, assigning a weighted score to the or each input series identified as relating to the query request, selecting at least one input series from among the input series identified as relating to the query request, the selection being dependent on the weighted score assigned to the or each input series identified as relating to the query request, generating a response to the query request, the response containing a numerical value based on the or on one of the numerical input measurements of the selected at least one input series, thereby providing said response to the querying device. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040249 | Fact Checker Engine - Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for automatically checking and acting on one or more claims. Implementations include actions of receiving claim information associated with one or more claims, wherein each of the one or more claims includes a factual claim, processing the claim information based on a domain vocabulary to identify at least one of one or more keywords and one or more categories, for each claim of the one or more claims: identifying one or more facts relevant to the claim, and determining an accuracy of the claim based on the one or more facts generating a confidence score reflecting an overall confidence in the one or more claims based on respective accuracies, and transmitting at least one of the one or more claims and the confidence score for display in a graphical user interface (GUI). | 02-06-2014 |
20140040250 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO RANK WEB SITE INFLUENCE - Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to rank a web site are disclosed herein. An example method to rank the influence of a web site includes accessing a query based on a topic term, determining topic specific posts by applying the query to a first plurality of posts to a web site, comparing the topic specific posts to a list of web sites to determine a topic volume per site, determining a plurality of inbound links to the first plurality of posts, determining a number of inbound links to the posts that are relevant to the topic term by comparing the topic volume per site and the inbound links, and generating a rank of the web site based on the number of inbound links to the posts that are relevant to the topic term and times between the inbound links. | 02-06-2014 |
20140046934 | Search Result Ranking and Presentation - Methods and systems are provided for ranking search results and generating a presentation. In some implementations, a search system generates a presentation based on a search query. In some implementations, a search system ranks search results based on data stored in a knowledge graph. In some implementations, a search system identifies a modifying concept such as a superlative in a received search query, and determines ranking properties based on the modifying concept. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046935 | Identifying Textual Terms in Response to a Visual Query - A method, system, and computer readable storage medium is provided for identifying textual terms in response to a visual query is provided. A server system receives a visual query from a client system. The visual query is responded to as follows. A set of image feature values for the visual query is generated. The set of image feature values is mapped to a plurality of textual terms, including a weight for each of the textual terms in the plurality of textual terms. The textual terms are ranked in accordance with the weights of the textual terms. Then, in accordance with the ranking the textual terms, one or more of the ranked textual terms are sent to the client system. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046936 | System and Method for Data Modeling - A data modeling platform allows a user to enter a search request using natural language (e.g., typed or spoken). The search request may be semantically parsed to provide mapping to various database search elements. Pre-existing data models may be identified from the database search elements. One or more new data models may be created from the database search elements. The results represent candidate data models in response to the user's search request. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046937 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR RANKING CONTENT CHANNELS - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for ranking channel pages of a host system. Content channels may comprise content relating to a particular category or having a commonality. Explicit data provided by user input, and/or implicit data derived or received from a user device or third party may be used to generate explicit and/or implicit parameters. Based on the parameters, content channels may be ranked and displayed in an order based on the ranking, and/or a home content channel may be identified. The host system may therefore target a user with relevant content. | 02-13-2014 |
20140052716 | Automatic Determination of Question in Text and Determination of Candidate Responses Using Data Mining - A method, a system and a computer program product provide responses to inquiries residing within text processed by an application. An inquiry is identified within text being processed by the application, and a context of the identified inquiry is determined One or more available data sources is searched to produce a series of responses to the identified inquiry, and the series of responses is evaluated to rank and determine an accuracy level value for each response. The ranked responses along with associated accuracy levels can be displayed. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052717 | MATCHING AND RECOMMENDING RELEVANT VIDEOS AND MEDIA TO INDIVIDUAL SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS - A computer-implemented system and process for generating video search engine results page is disclosed. The system provides a query term and retrieves a collection of search results. Tags are generated for each search result and used to match media objects to each search result. The search results and video objects related to each search result are returned as a video search engine results page. | 02-20-2014 |
20140059042 | Online Learning of Click-through Rates on Federated Search Results - Online learning of click-through rates on search result blocks from one or more federated sources may be provided. Click-through feedback for the search result blocks may be received from the one or more federated sources in response to a query. Weights may be assigned to each of the search result blocks based on the received click-through feedback. The search result blocks may then be ranked based on the assigned weights. Finally, a search results page may be generated for displaying the ranked search results blocks to a user. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059043 | NORMALIZED RANKING OF SEMANTIC QUERY SEARCH RESULTS - A method, system, and computer program product for normalized ranking of semantic query search results. The method commences by forming a SPARQL query, the SPARQL query specifying a collection of named RDF graphs, then executing the SPARQL query to retrieve matched documents selected from the collection of named RDF graphs. Having retrieved the matches, the method calculates an absolute normalized score for the matched document. The calculation of an absolute normalized score for a second matched document allows for relevance ranking. To enhance the relationship of the computer-calculated score to the relevance (and not solely to occurrence counts) embodiments consider the number of distinct variables selected in the SPARQL query, and also consider the total number of bindings to the aforementioned variables. For comparing from among possibly different sized documents, a further normalization component is implemented by considering the total number of triples found in the document's underlying subgraph. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059044 | NODE VALIDATION IN A NETWORK - A method of operating a network of connected nodes comprises the steps of maintaining a trust value for each node in the network, maintaining one or more attributes for each node in the network, each attribute comprising a value and a respective confidence level, and performing a validation of a specific attribute of a specific node. The validation comprises the steps of querying nodes connected to the specific node for specific attribute values for the specific node, creating a results set from the returned attribute values from the connected nodes and the trust values of the connected nodes, and processing the results set according to a predefined algorithm to determine a new value and/or a new confidence level for the specific attribute of the specific node. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059045 | Indexing and Searching Dynamically Changing Search Corpora - Tools and techniques for indexing and searching dynamically changing search corpora are provided. These tools may receive requests to upload documents over a network to an online document repository, and present a user interface to facilitate the upload. The user interface may include devices that are responsive to user activation to grant permission to at least one other user to search for content contained within the documents. Through the user interface, these tools may receive selections from the user related to granting the permission, with the documents being associated with share parameters that incorporate the user selections. Finally, the tools may receive identifications of the documents to be uploaded | 02-27-2014 |
20140067797 | DETERMINING RELEVANT CONTACTS BASED ON EXPERTISE AND AVAILABILITY - A method for identifying knowledgeable and available contacts in a given instant messaging system for possible communication purposes. The method includes a computer receiving a keyword and searching for the keyword in correspondence files of users of the instant messaging system. Based on the results of the search, the computer identifies users that have used the keyword in their correspondence. The computer determines the availability of each of the identified users and ranks the identified users based on predefined criteria, which includes at least the determined availability. | 03-06-2014 |
20140074827 | AUTOMATED PREDICTIVE SCORING IN EVENT COLLECTION - Disclosed, in one general aspect, is a computer-based method and apparatus for extracting predictive information from a collection of stored, machine-readable electronic documents. The method includes accessing at least a subset of the electronic documents each including different machine-readable predictive information about one or more future facts occurring after a publication time for that document. The method also includes extracting the predictive information about the one or more future facts from the accessed documents, acquiring verified information about one or more of the facts, and evaluating a measure of quality of the predictive information extracted from the documents based on the verified information about the facts. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074828 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CATALOGING CONSUMER PREFERENCES IN CREATIVE CONTENT - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for consumers to better understand their preferences for attributes in entertainment content and enable smarter search and discovery of content. Embodiments support a mapping system showing a consumer's preference mix for specific attributes of entertainment content (e.g. plot, characters, theme, voice, conflict, resolution, and the like). Embodiments of the invention also provide for systems and methods that use identification schema to create a library of entertainment content online and subsequently record and match consumer preferences for attributes in entertainment content online. Various ways are also provided to automatically synchronize, obtain, and update entertainment content online on the source(s) and/or the client device. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074829 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR DATA SET SUBMISSION, SEARCHING, AND RETRIEVAL - Systems and methods of searching for related data sets are provided. Multivariate data sets can be input as queries into a data set search engine. According to one embodiment, the input data set is automatically reduced to a set of best fit data models of minimum complexity that represent the data set. The data model is then compared to other data models to not only identify similarity between the models, but also to identify the particulars of why the data models are related. The search engine can be configured to return sets of data models as results from the search on the input data set. Results can be organized on data model type and/or information scores. Results can also be displayed graphically as a topographical map of nodes and edge. Each node can represent a data model and each edge can reflect the similarity between the nodes. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074830 | DEVICE FOR PRESENTING RECIPE AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING RECIPE - A recipe presentation device includes: a recipe storage unit storing recipes each including preparation elements of ingredients, intermediate ingredients, and a dish to be served; a receiving unit which receives a dish specified by a user; a search unit which searches the recipe storage unit for a first recipe which is a recipe for the dish; a similarity calculation unit which calculates similarities between the individual recipes for the dishes stored in the recipe storage unit and the first recipe; a selection unit which selects, according to the similarities, a second recipe which is a recipe similar to the first recipe among the recipes for the dishes; and a presentation unit which presents a dish corresponding to the selected second recipe. | 03-13-2014 |
20140081957 | PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A patient monitoring system is disclosed herein. The patient monitoring system includes a processor configured to receive CDS search data, and to identify relevant CDS options based on the search data. The patient monitoring system also includes a display operatively connected to the processor. The display is configured to convey the relevant CDS options. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081958 | RANKING ANSWERS TO A CONCEPTUAL QUERY - A method, process, and associated systems for ranking elements of an answer set retrieved by a conceptual search engine in response to a set of queried concepts submitted as a conceptual query. A processor of a computer system orders by relevance the semantic schemas that make up the retrieved answer set by first identifying a weight of each concept in a retrieved schema as a function of relationships among the concepts in that schema, then by identifying a semantic value of each queried concept in the retrieved schema as a function of the weights, and finally by identifying a semantic value of the query in the schema as a function of the semantic values of all queried concepts. The relative relevance of each schema may then be identified as a function of the semantic value of the query in that schema. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081959 | ENTERPRISE ACTIVITY PATTERN ANALYSIS SYSTEM - An enterprise activity pattern analysis system retrieves log data from a social networking system. The log data includes information characterizing user interactions with a team group space hosted by, or document uploaded to, the social networking system. The system analyzes the log data to detect patterns in the user interactions. The system embeds widgets into the group space and into the documents uploaded to the social networking system that provide visual representations of the pattern analysis. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081960 | Friend & Group Recommendations for Social Networks - A recommendation system generates customized recommendations for social network members, including suggestions for new friends, groups, etc. The outputs for recommended content are personalized based on members' explicit and implicit interests derived from user actions, content selections, etc. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081961 | 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. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089302 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTION - A system and method for extracting information from at least one document in at least one set of documents, the method comprising: generating, using at least one ranking and/or matching processor, at least one ranked possible match list comprising at least one possible match for at least one target entry on the at least one document, the at least one ranked possible match list based on at least one attribute score and at least one localization score. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089303 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING JOB CANDIDATES - A method for ranking profile records. The method includes receiving a search request from a user, obtaining a user profile associated with the user, generating a query based on the search request, issuing the query to a profile database, receiving search results in response to the query, wherein the search results comprise a plurality of profile records, and wherein each of the plurality of profile records comprises a plurality of action records and is associated with a potential job candidate, ranking the plurality of profile records using the user profile and a plurality of network scores to obtain ranked profile records, and transmitting the ranked profile records to the user. | 03-27-2014 |
20140095490 | RANKING SUPERVISED HASHING - Aspects of the present invention provide a tool for hash-based indexing. In an embodiment, a ranked dataset having a plurality of data items is obtained. Every data item in the ranked dataset has a ranking with respect to every other data item in the ranked dataset. A ranking triplet matrix is created based on the ranked dataset. The ranking triplet matrix has a set of ranking triplets, each of which indicates the relative ranking for a pair of the data items in the ranked dataset. This ranking triplet can be merged with a hash table obtained using a standard hash function and the data items can be indexed based on the results. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095491 | 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. | 04-03-2014 |
20140101142 | RELATIONSHIP-BASED SEARCH AND RECOMMENDATIONS - Techniques are described for determining relationships between user activities and determining search results and content recommendations based on the relationships. A plays-related-to-searches application may determine a relationship score between plays of a media title and searches of a query by determining a distance between a projection of the search onto the space of the users and a projection of plays of the media title onto the space of the users. A plays-after-searches application may determine a score for plays of the streaming media title given the search by multiplying a number of times plays of the media title occur after the query is entered by the number of times any play occurs, and dividing by a product of the number of times plays of the media title occur after any query is entered and the number of times plays of any media title occur after the query is entered. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101143 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OBTAINING AND PRESENTING ALUMNI DATA - Obtaining alumni data from a database includes storing standardized alumni data in alumni data profiles, receiving a selected data entity representing an institution, searching the alumni data profiles to locate the profiles of alumni of the institution, determining a plurality of ranked sets of data by searching the profiles of alumni of the institution, and displaying each of the elements of the plurality of ranked sets of data respectively as elements in a plurality of facets. The elements in the plurality of facets may be displayed visually as a graphics display. A further operation may include receiving a selected data entity representing an element of a first facet and, responsive to receiving the selected data entity, displaying, at each of the facets of the plurality of facets other than the first facet, the elements of the facet ranked in order of the number of alumni in each element of the facet. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101144 | Methods and Systems for Displaying Microblog Topics - Methods and mobile terminals are provided for displaying microblog topics. An example method includes, sending by a mobile terminal a post that includes at least a first geographic location of the mobile terminal to a server so that the server can search for microblog topics associated with the first geographic location of the mobile terminal based on at least information associated with the post, receiving the microblog topics sent by the server, and sorting the received microblog topics. The method further includes, displaying one or more first microblog topics of the sorted microblog topics on a center area of an interface of the mobile terminal, and displaying the rest of the sorted microblog topics around the center area toward one or more sides of the interface. | 04-10-2014 |
20140108385 | USE OF ONTOLOGY TO FIND A CATEGORY OF A SELECTED KEYWORD IN A WEBPAGE - Embodiments are provided for displaying ontology data. An ontology is displayed for a selected item. The ontology presents representational elements associated with the selected item, a combination of the representational elements defining and/or establishing a context for the selected item. The representational elements are categorized on a hierarchical path, the elements ordered by scope size. The ontology can be navigated in multiple directions with the directions including items broader in scope, and items narrower in scope. Navigating in one of these directions includes a displayed representational element from the ontology having a scope size reflecting the navigated direction. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108386 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN AFFINITY BETWEEN ENTITIES ON A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product provide an affinity between a first entity and a second entity on a social network. First affinity data for a first entity is determined. The first affinity data is first behavioral data and first categorical data. Second affinity data for the second entity is determined. The second affinity data is second behavioral data and second categorical data. The first affinity data is compared to the second affinity data resulting in an affinity score. The affinity score identifies a probability of similar interests between the first entity and the second entity based on behavioral similarities between the first behavioral data and the second behavioral data, and categorical similarities between the first categorical data and the second categorical data. The affinity score is then provided to the first entity. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108387 | INVERSE SEARCH SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Inverse search systems and methods operate on identifiers of content items in a corpus such as the World Wide Web In an inverse search, the user submits a query that includes an identifier of a target content item in the corpus and receives information (metadata) about the target content item being returned to the user. Many types of metadata can be returned, including ratings or other metadata related to the target content item obtained from users, popularity data specific to the target content item, information about previously submitted forward search queries that led to the target content item being identified as a hit, and metadata extracted from the target content item. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108388 | Method and system for sorting, searching and presenting micro-blogs - Disclosed is a micro-blog sorting method, in which micro-blog information requested by a micro-blog requesting user is acquired, micro-blog posting user information and content information are extracted from the micro-blog information to score the micro-blog information, the micro-blog information is sorted according to the score and the micro-blog information is presented according to a sorted result. With the above micro-blog sorting method, the micro-blog posting user information as well as the content information in the micro-blog information are extracted to score the micro-blog information, the micro-blog information is sorted according to the score, and the micro-blog information related to the user is sorted close to the top, and thus it is convenient for the user to view the micro-blog information. In addition, a micro-blog sorting system and a micro-blog searching and presenting method and system are also provided. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108389 | METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION USING THE WEB AND METHOD FOR VOICE CONVERSATION USING SAME - According to the present invention, a method for searching for information using the Web and a method for voice conversation using same involve generating a basic word vector for at least one of a provided user query and a language analysis result; using the basic word vector, searching a vector space database for a vector space corresponding to the basic word vector; searching, if a similarity between the basic word vector and the found vector space is lower than a preset reference, a vector space database for a vector space corresponding to an expanded word vector using the expanded word vector generated from the result of the Web search performed using at least one of the user query and the language analysis result; and searching for knowledge information on the basis of the vector space found in the basic searching step or the expanded searching step. Thus, improved research results may be provided in response to the user query. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108390 | HYBRID AND ITERATIVE KEYWORD AND CATEGORY SEARCH TECHNIQUE - Provided are techniques for providing recommendations to improve a query. A query with query keywords and selected categories is received. In response to determining that the selected categories are ranked high with reference to query relevance indicator values for each of the selected categories, a query relevance indicator of the query is calculated with each subcategory using keyword relevance indicators, each subcategory is ranked based on the query relevance indicators, and the ranked subcategories are provided for use in selecting new categories to be submitted with the query. | 04-17-2014 |
20140114962 | System and Methods to Facilitate Analytics with a Tagged Corpus - The disclosed embodiments provide a set of methods, systems, data structures, and computer-executable instructions for executing on a compute machine to automatically analyze data associated with an indexed corpora and to generate for graphical display a set of results associated with those analytic operations. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114963 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR CONNECTING SIMILAR USERS - Methods, systems and devices for automatically connecting similar users wherein similarity is based on live audio listening information. The method comprises receiving and storing audio listening information at a server for a plurality of users and identifying the audio the user is currently listening to. The server uses the stored information to automatically generate a list of users similar to a particular user. The similarity between users can be based on audio users are currently listening to, so that the list of similar users comprises a list of users currently listening to the same audio as the particular user. The server filters the list of similar users to a specific geographic area, such as a town. The server then provides the particular user with information on the similar users which may enable the particular user to communicate with the similar users publicly or privately. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114964 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING A SEARCHING PROCESS IN A SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENT - A system and method support a search process in a supply chain management environment, in order to make finding supply chain information simple. The search process can make instantaneous search suggestion based on different supply chain information categories in the environment. Furthermore, special search keywords can be used as shortcut for finding supply chain information. Also, the system can organize and display the search results in a clear and intuitive fashion, such as displaying the search results in multiple sections with mixing of graphs and texts. Additionally, the search process can be used together with other supply chain management processes. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114965 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOCIAL MATCHING - Methods and systems are provided for triggering a social match analysis. A user device such as a network connected device scans for one or more entity identifiers via camera, microphone, or wireless signal receiver and initiates a request to a social matching system. The social matching system retrieves attribute information for each of the identified entities and performs a match analysis, scoring the potential matches and noting common attributes. A match analysis report is generated and returned to the originating requesting user device. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114966 | SHARED METADATA FOR MEDIA FILES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for organizing music tracks based on shared metadata. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a set of common music tracks associated with a first user and a second user, wherein the set of common music tracks includes at least one music track present in both a first set of music tracks associated with the first user and a second set of music tracks associated with the second user. Metadata associated with at least one music track in the set of common music tracks is retrieved, the metadata being specific to the second user. A set of user music tracks associated with the first user is organized based on the retrieved metadata. | 04-24-2014 |
20140122464 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE IN KEYWORD SEARCH - A method and computer program product for conducting a weighted keyword search and a method for displaying search results. A computer determines respective weights of respective keywords, based on proximity of a user interaction position to the respective keywords on a graphical presentation. The computer conducts a weighted keyword search of documents based on the keywords and the respective weights of the keywords. In a method of displaying search results, based on the respective weights, a computer displays the search results associated with the respective keywords. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122465 | Ranking Music Search Results - A system, method and computer-readable medium for ranking music items (songs, artists, albums, etc.) listed in a search result. The system may include a user database storing user-managed music items and a public database storing a universe of music items. A music ranking application configured to receive a search query, identify music items in response to the query, and provide a ranked result list to the user. Different characteristics of the music items are weighted to provide a score for the music item, the score indicating the relevance of the music item when compared to user data and universal data associated with the item. The weighted scores are used to determine the ranking of the music item and can be adjusted based on user feedback, resulting in an adjusted ranking of the music items listed in the search result. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122466 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DATA SEARCH - An data search apparatus includes: a storage unit, storing a plurality of data; an input unit, inputting a data name, selecting a plurality of preference sets, and inputting a grading set by a user; a process unit, receiving the data name for searching for a plurality of candidate data from the data stored in a storage unit and generating a ranking result. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122467 | 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. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122468 | 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. | 05-01-2014 |
20140129549 | Attribute-Based Rating of Authors and Content - System, methods, and apparatus for attribute-based rating of authors and content. In some methods, first content authored by a first author having an attribute that is common to other authors is received. A second author having the attribute is identified as well as content authored by the second author. A user feedback base rating that is assigned to the second author is identified. An initial rating for the first content is generated based on the user feedback based rating that is assigned to the second author, and the initial rating is assigned to the first content. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129550 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT - Content management includes populating a library with modular objects and metadata associated with the modular objects. In response to a query, the library can be searched based in part on the metadata. The query can relate to implementation of an industrial process. One or more modular objects in the library can be identified as satisfying the query. A result of the query can be output and the output can include the identified modular objects and the respective metadata associated with the identified modular objects. The metadata can be anything known about the object that might not be accessible at runtime control. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129551 | COLLECTIONS OF LINKED DATABASES - Methods and or systems relating to inferential networks. This invention is further directed to methods and systems for making and using inferential networks. Still further, this invention is generally directed to making one or more inferential networks by using data generated from directed searches of collections of linked databases. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136525 | UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION OF USERS ACROSS MULTIPLE SOCIAL AND COMPUTER NETWORKS - A method and a device are disclosed including a Username Software Component (USC) configured to provide a connection between a communication software application, social networking sites, and a database to allow search, retrieval, and verification of various usernames associated with a single user and uniquely identifying the single user. The database stores the various usernames for future use. When a local user receives a message from a remote user, various usernames potentially associated with the remote user are retrieved by USC. The local user validates some of the usernames to indicate that they represent the same remote user. Usernames may also be validated by weighted functions applied to user votes. Such validated usernames may be stored in the database for future use by all users to uniquely identify the same remote user. The USC may be implemented as a plug-in component or as a built-in software application functionality. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136526 | DISCOVERY OF LIVE AND ON-DEMAND CONTENT USING METADATA - Mechanisms are provided to allow for content discovery using closed caption content search and ranking. Search mechanisms analyze titles, descriptions, social media content, metadata, etc., and intelligently organize content for presentation to a viewer. Image recognition and audio recognition algorithms can also be performed to further identify entities or validate results from the analysis of metadata. Other closed captioning content may be analyzed to determine the relevance of a piece of media content to a particular search term found in the piece of media content. Results are ranked based on the prominence of search and related terms in titles, descriptions, and closed caption contents along with the popularity of the media content itself. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136527 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR POWER USER IN SOCIAL MEDIA - Disclosed are an apparatus, a system, and a method for searching for a power user in social media. The apparatus according to the present invention includes an input unit configured to receive a keyword corresponding to an interested object from a user; a communication unit configured to transmit a search request message including the received keyword and receive a search response message corresponding to the transmitted search request message; a controller configured to, when receiving the search response message, extract a search list in which power users related to the keyword are arranged according to a preset power ranking from the received search response message; a display unit configured to sequentially display the power users related to the keyword received from the user according to the preset power ranking based on the extracted search list; and a storage unit configured to store the extracted search list. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136528 | Providing Content Recommendation to Users on a Site - The disclosure includes a system and method for providing content recommendation to users on a site. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: receive data describing a page on a site visited by a first user; query one or more sources to retrieve one or more candidate items for the first user; determine one or more source types related to the one or more candidate items; determine one or more scores for the one or more candidate items based on an interest profile and the one or more source types; rank the one or more candidate items; determine that an invitation trigger event causing a presentation of an invitation state occurs; determine that a recommendation trigger event causing a presentation of a recommendation state occurs during the invitation state; and provide a recommendation state to the first user. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136529 | SCALABLE INTERACTIVE DISPLAY OF DISTRIBUTED DATA - 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. | 05-15-2014 |
20140143238 | USING HIERARCHICAL SCORING FOR DISAMBIGUATION IN AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - A method for retrieving information may include receiving, in a non-World Wide Web (WWW) corpus, a search query for a media author. Search results for the search query may be identified within the non-WWW corpus. A score for each of a plurality of media authors identified in the search results may be generated. The score for a corresponding one of the plurality of media authors may be based on a combined media popularity score for a plurality of media items authored by the corresponding one of the plurality of media authors. The search results may be ranked based on the generated score for each of the plurality of media authors. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143239 | DATABASE ANONYMIZATION FOR USE IN TESTING DATABASE-CENTRIC APPLICATIONS - At least one quasi-identifier attribute of a plurality of ranked attributes is selected for use in anonymizing a database. Each of the ranked attributes is ranked according to that attribute's effect on a database-centric application (DCA) being tested. In an embodiment, the selected quasi-identifier attribute(s) has the least effect on the DCA. The database is anonymized based on the selected quasi-identifier attribute(s) to provide a partially-anonymized database, which may then be provided to a testing entity for use in testing the DCA. In an embodiment, during execution of the DCA, instances of database queries are captured and analyzed to identify a plurality of attributes from the database and, for each such attribute identified, the effect of the attribute on the DCA is quantified. In this manner, databases can be selectively anonymized in order to balance the requirements of data privacy against the utility of the data for testing purposes. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149399 | DETERMINING USER INTENT FROM QUERY PATTERNS - Methods, systems and program products for identifying user intent from query patterns including, in one implementation, a method including identifying a current query including a query term, and obtaining search results responsive to the current query. Each search result identifying a document associated with a score indicating relevance. The method includes associating an intent with the session based on submission of a query containing a refining term, where each refining term was previously submitted with different unique queries. The method includes identifying prior sessions, where each prior session includes a query that matches the current query, and each prior session includes a query that contains the refining term. The method includes identifying a document selected more frequently in the prior sessions than by a general population and modifying the scores of the document in the search results. The method also includes ranking the search results based on the scores. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149400 | DATA CONSISTENCY MANAGEMENT - A data consistency management system may include a memory storing machine readable instructions to receive a query, and determine a suitability of the query for processing by a NoSQL data store, or a RDBMS. The memory may further include machine readable instructions to rank data tables based on a combination of read queries and query patterns suitable for the NoSQL data store. Based on the ranking, the memory may further include machine readable instructions to determine data tables that are to be managed by the NoSQL data store, or by the RDBMS, determine whether the query is for a data table managed by the NoSQL data store, and based on a determination that the query is for a data table managed by the NoSQL data store, translate the query to NoSQL API calls for using the NoSQL data store to respond to the query. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149401 | PER-DOCUMENT INDEX FOR SEMANTIC SEARCHING - Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage medium for generating a per-document index used for semantic searching is provided. A document is received and parsed into a plurality of section. Each term in each section is translated in order to at least one of a cache index or a term identifier. Subsequent to translating the terms, each section is separately group encoded to generate the per-document index. The per-document index is stored in association with a data store. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149402 | PROVIDING DEFINITIONS THAT ARE SENSITIVE TO THE CONTEXT OF A TEXT - Systems and techniques for providing definitions to a user. The provision embodies the context of a text in which the defined term appears. In one aspect, a system includes an electronic device that includes one or more data processing devices programmed to respond to receipt of the user selection of the first term by performing operations. The operations include accessing, from the one or more persistent data storage devices, the characterizations of the contexts of the texts, comparing the accessed characterizations of the contexts of the texts with one or more characteristics of the context of the textual content of a media file, and ranking the definitions of the first term according to respective likelihoods that the definitions appropriately characterize the usage of the first term within the textual content of the media file. | 05-29-2014 |
20140156649 | Automatic Detection of Patterns and Inference in a Dataset - Techniques allow automatic identification of statistically significant attribute combinations in a dataset, and provide users with an understanding thereof including starting points for further analysis. Statistically significant combinations may be obtained from large data sets by limiting combinations to four or fewer attributes. The combinations obtained may be ranked to differentiate patterns, e.g. according to factors such as error ratio, decision tree depth, occurrences, and number of attributes. Still further insights may be achieved by ranking attributes according to the number of statistically significant combinations in which they appear. For useful visualization of statistically significant information within the patterns, only those having at least one measure/numeric may analyzed for further insight (e.g. by an outlier algorithm) and presented as output in a chart (e.g. pie, bar) form. The decision tree approach of various embodiments may facilitate ‘What if’ analysis of the data, as well as obtaining the reverse inference. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156650 | CLASSIFYING A PORTION OF USER CONTACT DATA INTO LOCAL CONTACTS - Contact data for contacts of a user is stored. Each of the contacts is ranked (e.g., based on stored profile information for each contact). In one embodiment, each of the contacts is classified as either a local contact or a directory contact based on the ranking to provide local contacts and directory contacts. The local contacts are provided for local storage on a user device of the user. A directory contact is provided to the user device from the directory contacts by the server (e.g., in response to a query from the user device). | 06-05-2014 |
20140156651 | AUTOMATIC SUMMARIZING OF MEDIA CONTENT - The subject matter discloses an automatic summarizing method the method comprising: receiving from a computerized device a request for summarizing a media content; segmenting the media content into a plurality of segments; wherein an at least one of the plurality of segments is associated with a metadata; wherein said metadata comprising characteristics; ranking a relevancy of each of the plurality of segments; wherein the ranking comprising associating scores to the segments according to the metadata; and selecting an at least one selected segment from said plurality of segments; wherein the at least one selected segment is associated with a highest score from the scores. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156652 | DATA MATCHING - A computer-implemented method of matching data sets against a desired data set characteristic. First and second data sets comprising first and second sets of attributes respectively are received. A predetermined data set characterisation scheme is selected from a plurality of such schemes. The selected scheme corresponds to a set of desired attributes indicative of the strength of a match against the desired characteristic. The desired attributes corresponding to the selected scheme are identified. Weighting indicators indicating a relative weighting of each of the desired attributes is retrieved from a database. The desired attributes are matched with attributes in the first and second sets. The first and second sets are ranked in relation to the scheme on the basis of the matching and the retrieved set of weighting indicators. A report identifying the first and second sets and the relative rank of the sets in relation to the scheme is generated. | 06-05-2014 |
20140164364 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVENT-DRIVEN PRIORITIZATION - Methods include receiving at a receiving device a plurality of reports, each corresponding to at least one item and comprising data associated with one or more performance metrics. The methods further include identifying events for each report corresponding to at least one item using the data in the report. In addition, the methods include determining a report score for each report based on a number and type of the identified events. The methods also include outputting the report scores. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164365 | SELECTION AND PRESENTATION OF NEWS STORIES IDENTIFYING EXTERNAL CONTENT TO SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS - Social networking system users generate news stories including a link to news content external to the social networking system. The news stories may be filtered based on filter criteria allowing a viewing user to more easily identify news stories of interest. For example, the news stories may be filtered to identify news stories associated with a user connected to the viewing user, to identify news stories associated with a news source, to identify news stories associated with a key word, or based on previous interactions by the viewing user. The identified news stories may be ranked based on popularity of the identified news stories among other users, chronological data, and the viewing user's own interest and activity associated with a news source or news story. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164366 | FLAT BOOK TO RICH BOOK CONVERSION IN E-READERS - Flat content (or flat book) is converted to rich content (or a rich book) in an e-reader environment through key term identification, context-based search using identified key terms, ranking of search results, and comparison of the ranked search results against a predefined threshold, customizable by a user or an administrator. Textual, graphic, audio, video, and comparable objects from search results above the predefined threshold may be augmented in suitable locations within the flat content such as interactive text, audio/video object, images, additional text, or other interactive elements. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164367 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEMANTIC SEARCH KEYWORD RECOMMENDATION - Provided is a keyword recommendation system. The keyword recommendation system may include a recognition unit to recognize an entity corresponding to an input keyword input from a user, a search unit to search for a plurality of triple data associated with the entity, an extraction unit to extract at least one recommended keyword by processing the plurality of triple data, a providing unit to provide the at least one recommended keyword, and a calculation unit to calculate a weight value for the at least one recommended keyword. | 06-12-2014 |
20140172839 | Method and System of Identifying Replacements for Unavailable Web Pages - A method of suggesting replacements for unavailable web pages is performed at a server system separate from a client system. A web page is identified. For documents in a collection of web pages, respective overlaps of content in the web page and the documents are determined based on stored information about content in the web page and the documents. One or more of the documents that have overlaps that satisfy a first criterion are selected. A request for a replacement for the web page is received from the client system and replacement web page information is provided to the client system. The replacement web page information is selected from the set consisting of A) one or more links to the one or more selected documents, B) a redirect to one of the one or more selected documents, and C) one of the one or more selected documents. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172840 | AUGMENTING SEARCH RESULTS WITH RELEVANT THIRD-PARTY APPLICATION CONTENT - Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage media are provided for augmenting Web-based search results with relevant content received from third-party applications. Each of a plurality of third-party applications is registered to obtain an indication of entity types associated with the each registered third-party application. An annotated search query is received that includes the original inputted search query and at least an entity type associated with the search query. The annotated search query is communicated to those third-party applications having an indicated entity type that matches the entity type associated with the inputted search query. Search results that are relevant to the annotated search query are received from the applications and presented on a results page. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172841 | SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION USING A FIND OPERATION - Provided are a computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for ranking search results. It is determined that a find operation with a find keyword has been issued for a page. In response to determining that the find keyword has been located on the page, the find keyword is stored in an index as relevant text for the page. In response to receiving a subsequent search request for which the page is retrieved, the page is ranked based on the find keyword. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172842 | Prioritizing Network Faults - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method and system for prioritizing network failures. The method includes assigning a category to a network fault. The method also includes determining an incident score for the network fault within the category. The method also includes generating a normalized score by normalizing the incident score with a plurality of other incident scores in the category. The method further includes using the normalized score to rank the network fault among a plurality of other network faults of other different categories. | 06-19-2014 |
20140181090 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING FILE DISPLAY FOR USERS - A system for optimizing the manner in which a listing of files is displayed to a user. In various embodiments, the system is configured to display the files based at least in part on a number of times the user has shared the files with other users of the system. In other embodiments, the system is configured to display the files based at least in part on the number of times the user has accessed the files or the number of times users with whom the files have been shared have accessed the files. In particular embodiments, the system displays files based at least in part on an amount of time that the user has accessed the files, that any user of the system has accessed the files, or that other users with whom that user has shared the files have accessed the files. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181091 | Extract Operator - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query requesting first search results of a first object type. The search query includes an inner query requesting second search results of a second object type. The method includes accessing an inverted index of a data store corresponding to the second object type; retrieving the second search results requested by the inner query using the inverted index of the data store corresponding to the second object type; accessing a forward index of the data store corresponding to the second object type; retrieving the first search results requested by the search query using the second search results and the forward index of the data store corresponding to the second object type. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181092 | MANAGEMENT OF INTENDED FUTURE CONVERSATIONS - Arrangements relate to the management of data items representing intended future conversations. A plurality of first inputs related to a respective intended future conversation can be received. At least one data item representing the respective intended future conversation can be created for each first input. At least one attribute can be received for each of the plurality of intended future conversations associated with-each first input. In response to receiving at least one attribute for each of the plurality of the intended future conversations associated with each first input, the plurality of intended future conversations associated with each first input can be ranked in a particular order based on at least one of the received attributes. A listing of the intended future conversations that is based on the ranking can be generated. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181093 | Search Results Through Interest Circles - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for responding to a search query with search results ranked according to interest circles of a plurality of computer users are presented. Interest circles are formed from a computer user's navigation data, including the computer user's navigation history. A search query is received from a requesting computer user. The search query is directed to a query topic or set of query topics. A set of search results responsive to the search query are obtained. A plurality of computer users, each of the plurality of computer users having an established interest circle corresponding to the query topic, is identified. The set of search results are then ordered according to the interest circles of the identified plurality of computer users. Thereafter, the higher ordered search results are returned to the requesting computer user in response to the search query. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181094 | MANAGEMENT OF INTENDED FUTURE CONVERSATIONS - Arrangements relate to the management of data items representing intended future conversations. A plurality of first inputs related to a respective intended future conversation can be received. At least one data item representing the respective intended future conversation can be created for each first input. At least one attribute can be received for each of the plurality of intended future conversations associated with-each first input. In response to receiving at least one attribute for each of the plurality of the intended future conversations associated with each first input, the plurality of intended future conversations associated with each first input can be ranked in a particular order based on at least one of the received attributes. A listing of the intended future conversations that is based on the ranking can be generated. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181095 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS INCLUDING RELEVANT LOCATION BASED CONTENT - A search engine considers events and stories described in electronic documents, a location of a searcher/reviewer, and a situs associated with a query and content of the document to determine how/if they should be presented to users as part of relevant search results. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188853 | Ranking Search Results Based On Color - Example systems and methods that rank search results based on color are described. In one implementation, a method receives a product search query from a user and identifies a reference to a color in the product search query. The product search query is executed to identify multiple products. The method further identifies references to the color in a title or a description of each of the multiple products. A ranking of the multiple products is created by increasing the ranking of products that include a reference to the color in the title or the description. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188854 | RANKING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON COLOR - Example systems and methods that rank search results based on color are described. In one implementation, a method receives a product search query from a user and identifies a reference to a color in the product search query. The product search query is executed to identify multiple products. The method further identifies references to the color in a title or a description of each of the multiple products. A ranking of the multiple products is created by increasing the ranking of products that include a reference to the color in the title or the description. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188855 | RANKING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON COLOR SIMILARITY - Example systems and methods that rank search results based on color are described. In one implementation, a method receives a product search query from a user and identifies a reference to a color in the product search query. The product search query is executed to identify multiple products. The method further identifies references to the color in a title or a description of each of the multiple products. A ranking of the multiple products is created by increasing the ranking of products that include a reference to the color in the title or the description. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188856 | DATABASE QUERY TRANSLATION SYSTEM - In a method for translation of a medical database query from a first language into a second language, a query to be translated is received from a use of the medical database. A respective translation for the query from each of several translation engines is obtained, and a respective ranking score for each of the obtained translations is determined. The determined ranking scores are then utilized to select a translations from the several obtained translations. The selected translation is then provided to the user and/or is used to search the medical database to obtain search results for the query and the obtained search results are then provided to the user. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188857 | AFFINITY BASED RANKED FOR SEARCH AND DISPLAY - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for affinity based ranking and display of digital photographs. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an identifier that identifies a first user; accessing data defining relationships of the first user to second users; accessing digital photographs; determining digital photographs that are each associated with one or more of the first user and the second users; for each digital photograph, generating a photograph score based on the association with one or more of the first user and the second users and corresponding affinity scores representing the relationships of the first user to the second users; ordering the digital photographs according photograph scores; and providing one or more of the digital photographs to a user device of the first user according to the order. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188858 | SERVER AND METHOD FOR DOWNLOADING FILES - A method for downloading files from a server. A first server receives search conditions from a user for downloading files, and determines a file list listing matching files in a second server. The first server sorts the files listed in the file list according to sorting standards input by the user, and obtains a downloading sequence of the files by arranging the sorted files according to a dynamic priority input by the user. Files are then downloaded from the second server according to the downloading sequence. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188859 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING THE RANKING OF NEWS ARTICLES - A system ranks results. The system may receive a list of links. The system may identify a source with which each of the links is associated and rank the list of links based at least in part on a quality of the identified sources. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195526 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REFLECTIVE SEARCHING OF PREVIOUS SEARCH RESULTS - An approach for searching within previous search results for new search results is provided. In one aspect, a first computer receives first search contexts from a second computer. The first search contexts include parameters including characteristics of elements of second search contexts and parameters including weight of importance to the user that elements of the second search contexts includes the characteristics of the first search contexts. In addition, the first computer searches for the characteristics of the elements of the second search contexts in a repository. In another aspect, the first computer determines a match between the characteristics of the elements of the second search contexts and characteristics elements of the first search contexts, and wherein the first computer ranks a list of the new search results based on the determination. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195527 | METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT SEARCH SERVICE USING SITUATION RECOGNITION AND TERMINAL THEREOF - A terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a display configured to display a search window for inputting a keyword; and a controller to determine an internal situation corresponding to an internal application on the mobile terminal or an external situation corresponding to an external environment of the mobile terminal, search for the input keyword, determine an output priority for displaying results of the search for the input keyword based on the determined internal situation or external situation of the mobile terminal, and display the results of the search according to the determined output priority. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195528 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REFLECTIVE SEARCHING OF PREVIOUS SEARCH RESULTS - An approach for searching within previous search results for new search results is provided. In one aspect, a first computer receives first search contexts from a second computer. The first search contexts include parameters including characteristics of elements of second search contexts and parameters including weight of importance to the user that elements of the second search contexts includes the characteristics of the first search contexts. In addition, the first computer searches for the characteristics of the elements of the second search contexts in a repository. In another aspect, the first computer determines a match between the characteristics of the elements of the second search contexts and characteristics elements of the first search contexts, and wherein the first computer ranks a list of the new search results based on the determination. | 07-10-2014 |
20140201199 | Identification of New Sources for Topics - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for collecting user interaction data of a plurality of users for each of a first plurality of document-text pairs, wherein the user interaction data is collected for the document-text pair from a respective service for which the respective text of the document-text pair was selected. A respective weight is calculated for each of the first plurality of document-text pairs based on, at least, the collected user interaction data for the document-text pair. One or more topics are associated with one or more of the sources based on, at least, the respective weights associated with a plurality of first document-text pairs that are associated with the source. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201200 | VISUAL SEARCH ACCURACY WITH HAMMING DISTANCE ORDER STATISTICS LEARNING - Global descriptors for images within an image repository accessible to a visual search server are compared based on order statistics processing including sorting (which is a non-linear transform) and heat kernel matching. Affinity scores are computed for Hamming distances between Fisher vector components corresponding to different clusters of global descriptors from a pair of images and normalized to [0, 1], with zero affinity scores assigned to non-active cluster pairs. Linear Discriminant Analysis is employed to determine a sorted vector of affinity scores to obtain a new global descriptor. The resulting global descriptors produce significantly more accurate matching. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201201 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING AND DISPLAYING USER-GENERATED CONTENT - Systems and methods are provided for processing and displaying user-generated content. User-generated content is received from a user over a network. A conversation related to the received user-generated content is identified. A score associated with the identified conversation is calculated based on one or more parameters related to the user or the conversation. The user-generated content is provided for display in relation to the conversation, based on the calculated score associated with the conversation. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201202 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVEMENT OF REQUEST PROCESSING - A system and method of processing a request including improving usage and/or performance of resources is disclosed. Information relating to a user request may be provided to one or more resources which process the information and provide a result. A result and/or other information may be provided to a human assistant or guide who may process information to produce a result and/or review a result(s). Information provided by a guide may be processed and provided to a resource, which may improve the performance of a resource. A resource(s) and/or a guide(s) may be selected and/or provided with activities based on ratings and/or rankings associated with a request, which may optimize usage of system resources. Information obtained may be provided for various purposes. | 07-17-2014 |
20140207763 | RANKING RELEVANT ATTRIBUTES OF ENTITY IN STRUCTURED KNOWLEDGE BASE - Architecture that addresses at least the problem of ranking the relevant attributes for a given entity within the context of a structured knowledge base (SKB). The architecture utilizes the attribute, entity type statistics, and the taxonomy of the attributes to consistently and efficiently rank attributes for each and every type of entity in the SKB. Using the SKB, intermediate features are computed, including the importance or popularity each entity type for every entity, inverse document frequency (IDF) computation for each attribute on a global basis, IDF computation for entity types, and the popularity of attributes for each entity type. The intermediate features are aggregated to obtain a final feature set, which can be used in combination with human judgments to train a machine learned classifier model to produce and predict a relevance score for a given entity and each of its attributes. The attributes are ranked for each entity using this score. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207764 | DYNAMIC FEATURE SELECTION WITH MAX-RELEVANCY AND MINIMUM REDUNDANCY CRITERIA - Various embodiments select features from a feature space. In one embodiment a set of features and a class value are received. A redundancy score is obtained for a feature that was previously selected from the set of features. A redundancy score is determined, for each of a plurality of unselected features in the set of features, based on the redundancy score that has been obtained, and a redundancy between the unselected feature and the feature that was previously selected. A relevance to the class value is determined for each of the unselected features. A feature from the plurality of unselected features with a highest relevance to the class value and a lowest redundancy score is selected. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207765 | DYNAMIC FEATURE SELECTION WITH MAX-RELEVANCY AND MINIMUM REDUNDANCY CRITERIA - Various embodiments select features from a feature space. In one embodiment a set of features and a class value are received. A redundancy score is obtained for a feature that was previously selected from the set of features. A redundancy score is determined, for each of a plurality of unselected features in the set of features, based on the redundancy score that has been obtained, and a redundancy between the unselected feature and the feature that was previously selected. A relevance to the class value is determined for each of the unselected features. A feature from the plurality of unselected features with a highest relevance to the class value and a lowest redundancy score is selected. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207766 | Assertion Quality Assessment and Management System - An assertion assessment system is presented. An assertion object that represents a relationship between an assertion and an information source can be bound to a quality measure as an indication of the quality of the assertion object. The assertion assessment system enables different recipients of assertion objects that are linked to information sources to assess assertion quality of the assertion objects. The assertion assessment system manages and tracks these assessments of the assertion objects and provides useful indications to the recipients. Thus, workers who come upon an assertion can make a judgment on the quality of the assertion based on assessment made by other workers, without going through the information source that supports the assertion. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207767 | INFORMATION REPOSITORY SEARCH SYSTEM - Systems and methods for an information repository search system are disclosed. The system receives search criteria from users and associates the search criteria with source information. The source information identifies sources via which the search criteria are being received. The system further maintains counts of instances for the plurality of search criteria in association with the respective source information. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207768 | SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION USING A FIND OPERATION - Provided are a computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for ranking search results. It is determined that a find operation with a find keyword has been issued for a page. In response to determining that the find keyword has been located on the page, the find keyword is stored in an index as relevant text for the page. In response to receiving a subsequent search request for which the page is retrieved, the page is ranked based on the find keyword. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207769 | System and Method for Identifying Groups of Entities - A computer implemented system and method is used to identify groups of entities based on bipartite directed graphs. Each group consists of two sets of entities, which have some association between each other. Two parameters, typicality and coverage, are taken into account in the computation for identifying the groups. | 07-24-2014 |
20140214812 | SOURCE CODE PRIORITY RANKING FOR FASTER SEARCHING - A system is disclosed for using features of source code to provide more relevant search results in a timelier manner. The system includes at least one processor and a memory storing instructions configured to cause the system to calculate a priority score for each file in associated with a code repository. The priority score is based on at least one of a version score, a build status score, a momentum score, and a social score. The instructions may cause the system to store the priority score in a memory. The instructions may also cause the system to receive a search query, use the stored priority scores to identify files in the code repository responsive to the query, and generate data used to display the identified files. The display may include depictions of the scores used to calculate a priority score for the identified files. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214813 | ADJUSTING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON USER SKILL AND CATEGORY INFORMATION - An approach for adjusting ranked search results based on user data is provided. An approach includes: receiving a search query from a search user; generating a ranked result set based on the search query; generating an adjusted ranked result set by adjusting the ranked result set based on a skill rating of the search user; and providing the adjusted ranked result set to the search user. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214814 | RANKING SEARCH RESULTS USING DIVERSITY GROUPS - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a plurality of search results based on a search query from a user. A computing system determines a plurality of scores for each search result, each score generated by applying a distinct scoring function of a plurality of scoring functions to the search result. The computing system generates a plurality of diversity groups, each diversity group corresponding to a scoring function of the plurality of scoring functions, each diversity group including at least a subset of the plurality of search results ordered according to the scores generated by applying the scoring function to the at least the subset of the plurality of search results. The method further includes selecting at least one of the plurality of search results from each diversity group and sending the selected search results to the user. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214815 | DISPLAYING RESULTS OF QUERIES FOR INFORMATION WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Systems and methods for searching for information within social networks are described. In some examples embodiments, a search assist system receives a query, such as a partial query, identifies two or more categories of data that include information satisfying the query, ranks the identified categories of data based on various selection criteria, and presents suggested search terms based on the rankings. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214816 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RELATIONSHIP DATASTORE MANAGEMENT - A system and method of discovering provider contact data is provided. Provider connectivity data can be built and maintained in a data-store. Once a query is received for identifying a provider contact's data, connectivity data for the querying data is also built. Then the provider connectivity data is searched on the basis of the seeker connectivity data. One or more provider contacts are identified based on query criteria. The provider connectivity data includes a first level provider association data and a first level provider relations data. The seeker connectivity data includes a first level seeker association data and a first level seeker relations data. The connectivity data can be obtained from a variety of sources including contacts databases and third party service providers. Third party service providers include social networks and information aggregators. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214817 | RANKING ALGORITHM FOR SEARCH OUERIES - In various embodiments, a method of prioritizing search results in an electronic environment is disclosed. The method includes selecting a plurality of equivalent keywords responsive to a search query from an end-user, determining a rank of each of the plurality of equivalent keywords, selecting a plurality of most highly ranked keywords from the plurality of equivalent keywords, and preparing a response including the plurality of most highly ranked keywords. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214818 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HYBRID SOCIAL SEARCH MODEL - An approach is provided for determining the intent of a question and determining an appropriate audience to answer the question based on the intent of the question. The approach comprises processing and/or facilitating a processing of a query to cause, at least in part, a determination of one or more topics of the query based, at least in part, on one or more user preferences. The approach also comprises processing and/or facilitating a processing of the query to cause, at least in part, a determination of a classification of the query, The approach further comprises determining an audience comprising one or more candidate audience members for the query based, at least in part, on the classification of the query and the one or more topics of the query. | 07-31-2014 |
20140222790 | Combined Code Searching and Automatic Code Navigation - Software code changes are facilitated by receiving as input a user query specifying a search term and automatically generating a ranked list of connected call trees based on the search term. Each connected call tree identifies subroutines that contain an identifier matching at least part of the search term or that are linked to a subroutine that contains an identifier matching at least part of the search term. The ranked list of connected call trees is displayed as a diagram. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222791 | AUTHORITY BASED CONTENT FILTERING - A method and associated system for filtering content received from a search of information. Documents are received from the search. The search is based on a search request received from a requester. A subject of each received document is determined. A contributor associated with each document received as a result of the search is determined. Credentials of each contributor are received. For each received document, a determination is made of (i) a credential score for each credential of the contributor with respect to the subject of the document and (ii) a ranking score of the contributor on the subject of the document. The ranking score is determined based on the credential scores. The received documents are filtered, by using the ranking scores, to remove at least one document from the received documents, resulting in a set of remaining documents. The set of remaining documents are returned to the requester. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222792 | NAME SEARCH USING A RANKING FUNCTION - An approach is described for performing a name search using a name search operation and a ranking operation. The name search operation may take text as input and apply a fuzzy matching operation and a lookup operation to generate a collection of candidate names with respective probability scores. In other cases, speech or handwriting recognition may generate the collection of candidate names and probability scores. The ranking operation may then rank these candidate names using a ranking function. The ranking function may rank the candidate names based on the probability scores associated with the names and at least one other factor. One such factor may reflect whether information provided by a user matches profile information associated with a candidate name under consideration. Another factor may reflect an extent of a nexus between the user and a person associated with the candidate name. Other types of factors can be used. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222793 | System and Method for Automatically Importing, Refreshing, Maintaining, and Merging Contact Sets - Systems and methods for automatically importing, refreshing and maintaining corrections to a list of contacts through addition, deletion, and change detection, and for merging disparate sources of data into a single unified list of contacts, according to configurable rule sets for resolving conflicts between the merged sources' values for any given field. Record sets are compared and automatically matched without requiring a unique contact identifier or key field; new records and deleted records are detected; conflicting information for any given field in a record is resolved; and updates to a local database are applied such that any override or augmentation of the data in the local database can persist for a given record. Multiple overlapping contact data sources are merged so as to identify common records, and the data combined so as to preserve as much information as possible, while concurrently handling conflicting data as it is encountered. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222794 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING RELEVANT PROPERTIES OF WORK CONTEXTS FOR USE BY INFORMATION SERVICES - An information retrieval system for automatically retrieving information related to the context of an active task being manipulated by a user. The system observes the operation of the active task and user interactions, and utilizes predetermined criteria to generate context representation of the active task that are relevant to the context of the active task. The information retrieval system then processes the context representation to generate queries or search terms for conducting an information search. The information retrieval system determines the relevance of a word to the context by utilizing an adaptive weighting system. The information retrieval system assigns varying weights to different attributes of a word and calculates an accumulated weight of the word by accumulating all weights assigned to the word. The attributes may include word size, style, location of the word, etc. The system then ranks the importance of words based on their respective accumulated weight, and chooses words that rank within a predetermined number from the top to form search terms to conduct an information search using various data sources. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222795 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING DELIVERY OF A SERVICE ASSOCIATED WITH A PRODUCT - An information retrieval system for automatically retrieving information related to the context of an active task being manipulated by a user. The system observes the operation of the active task and user interactions, and utilizes predetermined criteria to generate context representation of the active task that are relevant to the context of the active task. The information retrieval system then processes the context representation to generate queries or search terms for conducting an information search. The information retrieval system determines the relevance of a word to the context by utilizing an adaptive weighting system. The information retrieval system assigns varying weights to different attributes of a word and calculates an accumulated weight of the word by accumulating all weights assigned to the word. The attributes may include word size, style, location of the word, etc. The system then ranks the importance of words based on their respective accumulated weight, and chooses words that rank within a predetermined number from the top to form search terms to conduct an information search using various data sources. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222796 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING DELIVERY OF A SERVICE ASSOCIATED WITH A PRODUCT - An information retrieval system for automatically retrieving information related to the context of an active task being manipulated by a user. The system observes the operation of the active task and user interactions, and utilizes predetermined criteria to generate context representation of the active task that are relevant to the context of the active task. The information retrieval system then processes the context representation to generate queries or search terms for conducting an information search. The information retrieval system determines the relevance of a word to the context by utilizing an adaptive weighting system. The information retrieval system assigns varying weights to different attributes of a word and calculates an accumulated weight of the word by accumulating all weights assigned to the word. The attributes may include word size, style, location of the word, etc. The system then ranks the importance of words based on their respective accumulated weight, and chooses words that rank within a predetermined number from the top to form search terms to conduct an information search using various data sources. | 08-07-2014 |
20140236933 | Method and System to Generate and Deliver Auto-Assembled Presentations Based on Queries of Multimedia Collections - A media query system interprets one or more requests for at least one of media or templates in a framework template based on a user query input, executes one or more search queries based on the one or more requests for media or templates to locate and download candidates comprised of at least one of candidate media elements or candidate template elements, and evaluates the candidates for each of the one or more search queries to select winning media candidates comprised of selected candidate media elements and candidate template elements. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236934 | INTEGRATED AUTOMATIC USER SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE - A method of integrated automatic support and assistance includes identifying a user and retrieving models representing the user's device, apparatus, service, or system, receiving a query from the user, as necessary refining the query, determining if the received query is a machine translatable query, restructuring machine translatable terms of the received query into semantic components based upon the retrieved models, determining a set of candidate knowledge bases both related to the semantic components, submitting the machine translatable query to each knowledge base of the set of candidate knowledge bases, receiving a set of responses from each knowledge base of the set of knowledge bases in response to the submitting, formatting the set of responses, submitting the formatted set of responses to the user, determining if a response of the submitted formatted set of responses is accepted by the user, applying updated weights within the formatted set of responses, and storing the updated weights for future queries. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236935 | Service Provider Matching - Embodiments that relate to matching a requester with a service provider are disclosed. In one example, a method for matching a requester with a service provider that provides services in a category may include receiving from the requester a search request including the category. At least one social network connection between the requester and an endorser of the service provider is identified. The method includes determining that the endorser has at least one endorsement connection with the service provider. Based on the social network connection and the endorsement connection, the requester is matched with the service provider. Based on matching the requester with the service provider, service provider information corresponding to the service provider is provided to a requester computing device. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236936 | MATCHING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUDIO CONTENT - A matching method and system for audio content, includes: obtaining a first audio frame and a second audio frame from an audio clip to be matched, wherein the first audio frame and the second audio frame are audio frames in successive; converting the first audio frame into a first group of sub-bands and converting the second audio frame into a second group of sub-bands; converting the first group of sub-bands into a first group of sub-hash tables and converting the second group of sub-bands into a second group of sub-hash tables; separately comparing the first group of sub-hash tables and the second group of sub-hash tables with the audio clips stored in a database and obtaining a first group of candidate audio and a second group of candidate audio; determining a matching result by selecting from the first group of candidate audio and the second group of candidate audio. | 08-21-2014 |
20140244629 | Communication-Powered Search - A communication-powered searching system provides real-time personalized search assistance to a user by integrating search functionality with real-time communication. Upon submitting a query and receiving search results from the communication-powered searching system, the user may select a communication link included in the search results to activate communication with an entity associated with the communication link. The communication-powered searching system may then refine search results displayed to the user based on information exchanged between the user and the entity. The refinements may be made in real time or substantially in real time. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244630 | 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 |
20140244631 | Identifying Multimedia Asset Similarity Using Blended Semantic and Latent Feature Analysis - Methods and system for determining a similarity relationship between a plurality of digital assets and a target digital asset comprises creating a normalized semantic feature vector associated with a search query, discovering the target asset based on the normalized semantic feature vector, generating a normalized latent feature vector associated with the target asset, comparing the normalized semantic feature vector with semantic feature vectors for each of the digital assets to generate a semantic comparison value, comparing the normalized target latent feature vector with latent feature vectors for each of the digital assets to generate a latent comparison value, blending the semantic comparison vector value with the latent feature comparison vector value to create a target comparison value for each of the digital assets, and reporting the digital assets having the highest target comparison values to the user or group of users. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244632 | Techniques For Ranking Character Searches - Techniques for asynchronous rendering are described. An apparatus may comprise a character set converter application, an index server, and a ranking application. The character set converter application may receive a search string comprised of one or more first character set characters, and convert the search string to one or more second character set characters that are different than the first character set. The index server may execute a search on the converted search string to obtain ranked individual search results. The ranking application may compare any first character set characters in the ranked individual search results to the first character set characters in the search string and sub-rank the ranked individual search results based on the strength of any matches. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244633 | RELEVANCE-WEIGHTED ATTRIBUTE SORTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A computer-implemented method is disclosed for sorting listings or search results. In the method, a computer system may receive a query from a client computer. The computer system may respond to the query with listings ranked according to corresponding relevance scores. Thereafter, the computer system may receive a request to sort the listings according to some numeric attribute (e.g., price) corresponding thereto. Accordingly, the computer system may calculate a modified sorting criterion for each of the listings. Each modified sorting criterion may be weighted by both the original relevance score and the numeric attribute of the corresponding listing. The computer system may then serve, to the client computer, the listings ranked according to the modified sorting criteria. | 08-28-2014 |
20140250108 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZING HIERARCHICAL REPOSITORIES - Systems and methods which implement synchronization across hierarchical targets by ordering elements in a hierarchical target in order of hierarchical depth and propagating a first set of element changes based upon the hierarchical order of elements and a second set of element changes based upon a non-hierarchical order of elements priority are shown. A child attribute data model is utilized with respect to hierarchical data structures for which synchronization is provided in which hierarchy relationships are represented as an attribute of the child according to embodiments. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250109 | RERANKING USING CONFIDENT IMAGE SAMPLES - The techniques described herein determine an initial set of ranked images associated with an image-based search query. Based on visual content similarities between images in the initial set of ranked images, the techniques select confident image samples from the initial set of ranked images. The techniques then use the confident image samples to rerank the initial set of ranked images. Accordingly, a search engine uses the confident image samples to promote images that are likely to be relevant to the search query, while demoting images that are not likely to be relevant to the search query. Therefore, the search engine can provide improved relevance-based search results to an image-based search query. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250110 | IMAGE ATTRACTIVENESS BASED INDEXING AND SEARCHING - Attractiveness of an image may be estimated by integrating extracted visual features with contextual cues pertaining to the image. Image attractiveness may be defined by the visual features (e.g., perceptual quality, aesthetic sensitivity, and/or affective tone) of elements contained within the image. Images may be indexed based on the estimated attractiveness, search results may be presented based on image attractiveness, and/or a user may elect, after receiving image search results, to re-rank the image search results by attractiveness. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250111 | External Linking Based On Hierarchical Level Weightings - Certain implementations of the disclosed technology include systems and methods for external linking based on hierarchal level weightings. The method may include associating external query data having one or more query field values with a record in a linked hierarchical database. The linked hierarchical database may include a plurality of records, each record having a record identifier and representing an entity in a hierarchy, each record associated with a hierarchy level, each record including one or more fields, each field configured to contain a field value. The associating may include receiving the external query data, wherein the external query data includes one or more search values; and identifying, from the plurality of records in the linked hierarchical database, one or more matched fields having field values that at least partially match the one or more search values. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250112 | Systems and methods using reputation or influence scores in search queries - One or more processors determine reputation scores for one or more subjects based on connections. One or more processors use a plurality of citations, with each citation representing an expression of opinion or description by a subject on an object. One or more processors select a subset of citations for each object from the citations citing each object. The content of the citations matches one or more search terms for a search query. One or more processors assign citation scores to a subset of a plurality of objects. The citation scores indicate relevance of the objects cited by citations and are determined based at least in part on matching one or more search terms with the content of the citations of the objects by the one or more subjects. The selection scores for an object are determined for each search query based on a subset of subjects citing the object. | 09-04-2014 |
20140258275 | CONTENT ITEM AUDIENCE SELECTION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting an audience for content are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a content item provider, a request to distribute content items to users that have been deemed interested in a particular entity. First users that have expressed an interest in the particular entity are identified. Expansion entities for the particular entity are identified in a knowledge graph. At least one of the expansion entities can be connected to the particular entity by a relationship path. Second users are identified. The second users are deemed interested in the particular entity based on the second users having expressed an interest in an expansion entity. The content items are provided to at least a portion of the first users and at least a portion of the second users. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258276 | SOCIAL ANNOTATIONS FOR ENHANCED SEARCH RESULTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining search results that are responsive to a received query received from a user, identifying one or more topics associated with the query, determining that social annotations are to be displayed in a search results page based on at least one topic of the one or more topics and data associated with the user, and in response: providing an electronic document including instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to display an enhanced search results page comprising the search results and one or more social annotations, and transmitting the electronic document to a computing device associated with the user. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258277 | FACET GROUP RANKING FOR SEARCH RESULTS - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing search results, particularly product records from a product database. Products records have facet groups associated therewith and facet groups have probabilities associated therewith indicating the usefulness of the facet group as a way of organizing or filtering search results. For a query, relevant product records are identified. For facet groups present among the relevant product records entropy values are calculated based on a distribution of values for the attribute defining the facet group. The entropy value increases as the distribution of values becomes more uniform. The facet group probability and entropy value are combined to assign a score to the facet groups. The facet groups are ranked and selected according to the score and search results are presented with indicators of the facet groups to enable a user to manage the search results. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258278 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AN INFORMATION DIRECTORY PROVIDING AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT - Systems and methods provide an online directory service over a network. After receiving a request to view an online directory listing from a network-enabled user terminal, an online directory server may present to the user terminal a directory listing associated with an identifier of audiovisual content. In response to a selection by a user of the listing, the user terminal may provide the identifier associated with the selected directory listing to the directory server. Based on the identifier, the directory server may access the audiovisual content and provide it to the user terminal and may present it to the user in conjunction with the other information of the directory listing. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258279 | OPTIMAL SOLUTION SEARCH METHOD AND OPTIMAL SOLUTION SEARCH DEVICE - The information about the living state and the dead state is included as one of the genetic information items regarding a plurality of individuals. That is, the information is stored in a lifespan storage region of an individual data storage region. Thus, even if an individual has a relatively good fitness value (adaptability), or an fitness value (adaptability) that is not good, each individual is finally culled out (selected) by meeting death, and therefore, for example, the creation of an oligopoly situation by individuals having an fitness value that is relatively good but not to the extent of a pertinent solution is not seen, and the issue of being led to a local minimum while searching for a pertinent solution to a set problem is avoided, and furthermore, diversity of individuals is secured, and even problems that time series change can be handled. | 09-11-2014 |
20140280077 | GESTURE-BASED IMAGE SHAPE FILTERING - Provided are techniques for gesture-based image shape filtering. At least one keyword in a search request for an image is received. A first set of images that are candidate matches to the requested image are identified based on the at least one keyword. A gesture-based image for a filter request is received. The first set of images are filtered using the gesture-based image to identify a second set of images that are candidate matches to the requested image. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280078 | EFFICIENT GLOBALLY OPTIMAL INTERPRETATION OF DOCUMENTS - A method is provided for parsing a document having a plurality of lines on which items are listed spanning one or more lines. It includes: obtaining a plurality of candidates, representing hypothetical items within the document, each candidate spanning one or more lines and having a local cost representing a confidence in a quality of the candidate compared to a model; determining labeling costs for intervals of the document defined between pairs of lines, each interval containing candidates therein, each labeling cost reflecting a configuration of the candidates within the interval; identifying a best labeling for each interval based on the labeling costs determined for that interval, the best labeling corresponding to one of the configurations of the candidates within the interval; defining a global objective function; and selecting a subset of the candidates such that the global objective function is optimized, based on the identified best labelings. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280079 | Creating Lists of Digital Content - A server system, which manages distribution or download of content, may be configured to distribute content lists generated by users. In this regard, the server system may allow users to follow other users and/or particular individual content lists that may be made available by the server system. Accordingly, users of the server system may be allowed to become list producers and/or list followers. Distribution of the content lists may be based on one or more of: an indication by a user of a selection to follow another user, a match between user search criteria specified by the user and at least some of the data associated with the other user, a match between list search criteria specified by the user and at least some of the data of distributed list(s), and a match between the particular user recommendation ranking and ranking criteria specified by the user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280080 | VISUALIZING RANKING FACTORS FOR ITEMS IN A SEARCH RESULT LIST - A method, system, and one or more computer-readable storage media for visualizing ranking factors for items in a search result list are provided herein. The method includes generating a search result list for a query and generating a visualization of one or more ranking factors for each of a number of items in the search result list. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280081 | PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR RANKING SEARCH RESULTS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for utilizing part-of-speech (POS) tagging of both the words included in a search query and the words included in potential search result documents to improve query alteration accuracy and search result ranking. Upon receiving a search query, POS tags are assigned to the words comprising the query to create query word-tag pairs. The query word-tag pairs are utilized to reformulate the query and are compared with document word-tag pairs included in a plurality of potential search result documents to determine a degree of similarity. The degree of similarity is utilized as an input in scoring and/or ranking the relevance of the potential search result documents with respect to one another. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280082 | ATTRIBUTE-BASED DOCUMENT SEARCHING - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing search results, particularly product records from a product database. Tokens of a query are identified. Product records including one or more tokens in values associated with the attributes thereof are identified. A score is generated for attributes of products including a token (an attribute-token score). The attribute-token score is based on a frequency of occurrence of the token in the attribute value and a length of the attribute value in which it occurs. The attribute-token scores for the token are summed to generated a score. The token score for a token may be scaled in a non-linear fashion such that the scaled value approaches a saturation value, which may be an inverse document frequency (IDF) score for the token. The scaled values may then be summed to generate a score for the document that is used to rank the search results. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280083 | EVENT BASED OBJECT RANKING IN A DYNAMIC SYSTEM - A method of event based object ranking is described. An object query is computed based upon a user action. The results of the query are ranked based on one or more events associated with objects in the results to create ranked results. The ranked results are provided to the user in response to the query. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280084 | USING STRUCTURED DATA FOR SEARCH RESULT DEDUPLICATION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing deduplicated search results. One of the methods includes receiving a plurality of search results obtained in response to a query, wherein the plurality of search results identify respective resources that include markup language structured data items, wherein each resource is associated with an entity set of entity identifiers corresponding to respective structured data items of the resource. If a particular entity set of the plurality of entity sets is duplicative, a ranking score of a particular search result that identifies a resource associated the particular entity set that is duplicative is modified. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280085 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POINT OF INTEREST DATA INGESTION - Systems and methods are disclosed for ingesting data, such as point of interest data. According to certain embodiments, a raw data load transmitted over a network is received from a first data source. The raw data load may comprise a plurality of raw data records, which may be stored in a first database. A first plurality of standard data records previously received from the first data source may be accessed and compared to each of the plurality of raw data records to identify at least one added record. The at least one added record may be compared to a second plurality of standard data records received from a second data source to identify a matching record received from the second data source. The at least one added record may be assigned a key from the matching record. Moreover, the updated information may be sent to an update queue, such that applications may be notified of and receive the updates. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280086 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DOCUMENT REPRESENTATION ENHANCEMENT VIA SOCIAL INFORMATION INTEGRATION IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS - A method and system for specific information retrieval on the Web that provides for a better handling of personalized queries are disclosed. An exemplary system includes a social enrichment function configured for enhancing the representation of documents from the Web with social information; a social modeling function configured for modeling the documents from the Web in a personalized way at query time; and/or a document textual content indexer configured for keeping up to date the representation of documents as users contribute one or more types of social context. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280087 | Results of Question and Answer Systems - Mechanisms are provided for answering questions about at least one previous execution of a question answering (QA) system on a previous input question. An input question is received that is directed to a previous execution of a QA system with regard to a previous input question. The input question is processed to generate at least one query for application to a corpus of information, which comprises information about the QA system and the previous execution of the QA system on the previous input question. The at least one query is applied to the corpus of information to generate candidate answers to the input question which are ranked according to confidence measure values associated with the candidate answers. A final answer for the input question is output based on the ranking of the candidate answers. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280088 | COMBINED TERM AND VECTOR PROXIMITY TEXT SEARCH - A system and related method are disclosed for searching a data set made up of a set of documents, a set of terms, and a vector associated with each term and each document. The method involves converting a search query to a vector in the vector space spanned by the term and document vectors, and combining vector-proximity searching and term searching to produce a set of results, which may be ranked according to various measures of relatedness to the query. Excerpts from each document in the result set may be displayed that contain the greatest term importance. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280089 | PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS USING AUGMENTED SEARCH QUERIES - Methods and systems are provided for updating a set of results. In some implementations, a search query associated with an entity reference is received. The entity reference corresponds to one or more distinct entities. A set of results for the search query is provided, and the set of results distinguishes between distinct entities. One or more attributes for at least one entity of the one or more distinct entities are identified based at least in part on the set of results. One or more additional search queries are identified based on the search query, the at least one entity, and the one or more attributes. An input selecting at least one of the additional search queries is received. An updated set of results is provided based on the selected additional search queries. The updated set of results comprises at least one result not in the set of results. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280090 | OBTAINING RATED SUBJECT CONTENT - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for rating subjects. One of the methods includes receiving, from a user device, a subject content query requesting subject content corresponding to ratings of one or more real-world subjects. A location and a user selection of a radius are received. One or more subject content search results are obtained that satisfy the subject content query, including identifying one or more items of subject content that are each associated with geographic locations within a threshold distance to the location of the user, wherein the threshold distance is based on the radius. The one or more subject content search results are provided in response to the subject content query. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280091 | LOCATION SPECIFIC TRANSLATION AND SEARCH SERVICE SYSTEM - A hand held device acquires GPS data and connects to an Internet based remote server that uses Internet resources to obtain the location of the user and places the user in a local map which may be in a foreign country. The user may enter a particular location of interest and the hand held device communicates this request to the remote server and performs an Internet search for service providers, and provides phrases most commonly associated with the type of service provider. When a text is typed in a text box, the remote server uses Internet based translators and the community of other users of the App to translate the text into local language according to GPS or other location positioning data. The remote server uses speech features of the translator software to create and send a sound file to the hand held device. Both translated text in the local language and speech patterns enable communication with a local person. Additionally the App allows the user to learn a language through repetition, association and testing. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280092 | SEARCH INTENT PREVIEW, DISAMBIGUATION, AND REFINEMENT - Systems, methods, computer storage media, and user interfaces are provided for non-committal intent preview, disambiguation, and refinement of a search. A search prefix comprising one or more characters associated with an unexecuted search query is received. One or more intent suggestions are suggested to a user. For each of the one or more intent suggestions, one or more entity identifications associated with each of the one or more intent suggestions are received. Metadata corresponding to at least one entity associated with the one or more entity identifications is retrieved from an entity data store. Without retrieving search results for the unexecuted search query, an aggregated intent preview based on the retrieved metadata corresponding to the at least one entity is provided. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280093 | SOCIAL ENTITY PREVIEWS IN QUERY FORMULATION - Systems, methods, computer storage media, and user interfaces are provided for providing social entity previews during query formulation. A search interaction is received from a user. The search interaction may comprise an interaction with a device or application or a learned intent based on a previous interaction. An entity intent of the search interaction is identified. The entity intent corresponds to a social entity. Social updates are retrieved from a plurality of social networks associated with the social entity. The social updates may be aggregated and ranked for the social entity. A social entity preview is provided for the social entity. The social entity preview may comprise metadata corresponding to the social entity and associated with the social updates or social networks. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280094 | Systems and Methods for Providing Expert Thread Search Results - Systems and methods are provided for providing search results. An expert search thread associated with a search term is received. A first query from a first user based on the search term is received, and a set of results to the first query is provided, where the set of results includes the expert search thread. A credibility score is determined for the expert search thread. A second query is received from a second user based on the search term. A placement of the expert search thread in a set of results for the second query is determined based on the credibility score for the expert search thread, and the set of results for the second query is provided to the second user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280095 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RATING AND FILTERING ONLINE CONTENT - A plurality of ratings associated with content accessible at a network address is received from a plurality of users, wherein each of the ratings corresponds to one of a plurality of content attributes. A combined set of ratings is generated fix the content based on the plurality of ratings, wherein the combined set of ratings comprises, for each of the plurality of content attributes, a combined rating value. A plurality of criteria is received from a user device, wherein each criterion corresponds to a respective one among a plurality of content attributes. A request to access the content is received from the user device. The combined set of ratings is compared to the plurality of criteria received from the user device. The user device is allowed to access the content if the combined set of ratings does not conflict with the plurality of criteria. The user device is prevented from accessing the content if the combined set of ratings conflicts with the plurality of criteria. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280096 | Multi-dimensional Matching System and Method - The functions and operations of a matching system and method are disclosed. The component features may include a multi-dimensional matching procedure utilizing both linear and non-linear weighting carried out by a positive feedback loop. Practical uses include social networking and social discovery, as well as automatic searching of people, places, deals, and other items which the system and method determine could be of interest to users, based upon user interests, preferences, and other attributes and characteristics. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280097 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A CONTACT ADDRESS - A method is provided comprising: detecting, by an electronic device, current context information of the electronic device; comparing the current context information with prestored context information; and outputting an indication of a recommended contact and a preferred communication channel for reaching the recommended contact, wherein the indication is output based on the prestored context information matching the current context information. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280098 | PERFORMING APPLICATION SEARCH BASED ON APPLICATION GAMINESS - An application search system compensates for game bias in search results using a gaminess value representing the likelihood that an application is a game. The application search system receives a gaminess value for an application from an external source, such as an operator, or automatically determines the gaminess value using a trained computer model. The computer model may be trained based on a supervised training set of data. The gaminess value of an application is used to determine relevance of applications responsive to a search query. In one configuration, the gaminess value is incorporated as a scoring feature by the application search system in a computer-learned relevance search. The gaminess value may be used as a relevance factor even when the search does not indicate a user's desire to search for a game. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280099 | Method, apparatus and computer storage medium for acquiring hot content - A method and apparatus for acquiring hot content are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring N search requests and N search responses corresponding to the N search requests; analyzing the N search requests and the N search responses to obtain N initial hot content datum; calculating a weight of each initial hot content data and selecting M middle hot content datum from the N initial hot content datum according to the weight of each initial hot content data, and M is a natural number and no greater than N; performing repetition elimination on the M middle hot content datum; and selecting hot content from the M middle hot content datum after the repetition elimination. The apparatus includes acquiring module, analyzing module, selecting module, repetition eliminating module and processing module. According to the disclosure, the hot content can be acquired automatically without extra editing, thereby improving the efficiency of acquiring hot content and saving the human cost. | 09-18-2014 |
20140289229 | USING CONTENT FOUND IN ONLINE DISCUSSION SOURCES TO DETECT PROBLEMS AND CORRESPONDING SOLUTIONS - A method for detecting solutions to a problem using content in online discussion sources. The method includes receiving a request, such request identifying a problem, and searching multiple online discussion sources for content related to the problem. Responsive to finding content related to the problem, the method searches the multiple online discussion sources for a plurality of solutions to the problem. Responsive to finding a plurality of solutions to the problem, the method forms groups containing the solutions from each of the multiple online discussion sources. The method then determines a likeliness to solve the problem for each of the groups and ranks the groups based on the determined likeliness to solve the problem. The method then determines that the rank of at least one group meets a threshold value, wherein the threshold value is based on a confidence in the likeliness to solve the problem. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289230 | MEDIA OBJECT QUERY SUBMISSION AND RESPONSE - Methods and systems for submitting media object queries and receiving suggested answers for the media object queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving from a first user a first media object and a first query relating to content in the first media object, presenting the first media object and the first query to multiple second users, receiving a suggested answer to the first query from each of two or more second users of the multiple second users, where at least two of the suggested answers are distinct, ranking the suggested answers, and presenting one or more of the ranked suggested answers to the first user. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289231 | COMBINING TOPIC SUGGESTIONS FROM DIFFERENT TOPIC SOURCES TO ASSIGN TO TEXTUAL DATA ITEMS - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable storage media for combining topic suggestions from different topic sources to assign to textual data items. In some implementations, a first automated topic source provides one or more first topic suggestions to associate with a textual data item. Each first topic suggestion has a respective first characteristic, which can be adjusted. A second automated topic source provides one or more second topic suggestions to associate with the textual data item. Each second topic suggestion has a respective second characteristic, which can be adjusted. The first and second topic suggestions are combined to define a combined list. A reference value is determined or retrieved to impact ordering of the topic suggestions in the combined list. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289232 | Search system and methods with integration of user annotations from a trust network - Computer systems and methods incorporate user annotations (metadata) regarding various pages or sites, including annotations by a querying user and by members of a trust network defined for the querying user into search and browsing of a corpus such as the World Wide Web. A trust network is defined for each user, and annotations by any member of a first user's trust network are made visible to the first user during search and/or browsing of the corpus. Users can also limit searches to content annotated by members of their trust networks or by members of a community selected by the user. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289233 | PART NUMBER SEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM - A computer implemented method and system for identifying one or more part numbers stored in a digital memory comprises parsing of each part number into its primary and secondary components and assigning a relevance score to each; parsing a query part number into one or more primary and secondary components and assigning a relevance score to each query component; identifying each stored part number that has at least one component that matches a query component; calculating for each identified part number a first sum equal to the sum of the relevance scores of the query components that match a component of the identified stored part number; and a second sum equal to the sum of the relevance scores of the components of the identified stored part number that match a query component; and sorting the identified stored part numbers as a function of said first and second sums. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289234 | System and Method for Location Based Exchanges of Data Facilitating Distributed Locational Applications - Provided is a distributed system and method for enabling new and useful location dependent features and functionality to mobile data processing systems. Mobile data processing systems interact with each other as peers in communications and interoperability. A mobile data processing system may dynamically take on roles, depending on the environment and capabilities available at a particular time. Reference whereabouts data is appropriately shared between mobile data processing systems to carry out automatic location techniques ensuring mobile data processing systems are kept up to date with their own whereabouts and whereabouts of others, regardless of the freely moving travels of any of the mobile data processing systems involved, and the location technologies that may or may not be available when needed. A confidence is associated to whereabouts data shared for facilitating selection of the best candidate data used in determining new whereabouts information. | 09-25-2014 |
20140297628 | Text Information Processing Apparatus, Text Information Processing Method, and Computer Usable Medium Having Text Information Processing Program Embodied Therein - A text information processing apparatus includes a retrieval part, a degree-of-similarity calculation part and a determination part. The retrieval part obtains a retrieval result set which includes one or plural pieces of item information and corresponds to a retrieval key extracted from text data, from item database. The degree-of-similarity calculation part calculates a score of the retrieval result set, based on one or more pieces of degree of similarity each between different pieces of item information in the plural pieces of item information. The determination part identifies item information corresponding to the text data from among the plural pieces of item information, based on the score. | 10-02-2014 |
20140304255 | SPIRAL LISTING OF ITEMS - Disclosed are various embodiments for rendering images of items in a ranked listing as a spiral on a network page. In one embodiment, a page builder ranks a listing of items according to a criterion provided by the user and generates a network page that depicts a spiral comprising a plurality of images, where each image is associated with one of the items in the ranked listing. The page builder arranges the images such that the image associated with the highest ranked item is located at the center of the spiral and the remaining images are arranged along a path of the spiral in decreasing order according to the ranking of the items associated with each of the respective remaining images. In addition, the page builder embeds a client side application that renders a shifting of the images when an image is selected by the user. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304256 | SIZING CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - In various example embodiments, systems and methods to provide sizing content recommendations are provided. An image of a user is received. The image includes a standard-sized marker. In response, sizing data for the user is accessed determined using the image of the user that includes the standard-sized marker. Using the sizing data, a search is performed to determine items matching the sizing data. The matching items are presented to the user. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304257 | METHOD FOR MATCHING QUERIES WITH ANSWER ITEMS IN A KNOWLEDGE BASE - The present invention includes an expert system in which a search index furnishes answers to incoming queries provided in natural language. A search index for a specific field contains components that facilitate selecting a best fitting stored answer to the incoming query. Furthermore, context of the incoming query (e.g. location of the user, a current web page or service being used/viewed by the user, the time, etc.) may be considered when selecting a best fitting answer. A language specific storehouse of weighted words and a private storehouse of weighted words associated with a field-specific search index provide the basis for evaluating the significance level of a natural language word of a query. Again, context of the incoming query may be considered when evaluating the significance level of a natural language word of a query. Irrelevant portions of an incoming query may first be deleted from the inquiry prior to processing. A procedure elects candidates from a store of indexed answers to match the incoming query to first form a list of candidates, based on the existence of identical or similar words. Then, from the list of available candidates, one that provides the best match is selected. | 10-09-2014 |
20140310266 | Systems and Methods for Suggesting Places for Persons to Meet - Embodiments include a computer-implemented method that includes receiving a first geographic location, a second geographic location, and a search topic, identifying an intermediate location between the first and second geographic locations, wherein at least one of the travel times or the travel distances from the intermediate location to each of the first and second locations are approximately equal, identifying a set of search results responsive to the search topic, wherein each search result is associated with a location that is within a predetermined distance of the intermediate location, ranking each of the search results based at least in part on the location associated with the search result, and providing the set of ranked search results for display. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310267 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING EVENTS AND MATCHING USERS VIA BLENDED PROFILES - Certain embodiments teach a method and system for pairing users, whom do not know each other for an event, on a social networking platform. The social dining system matches people with common interests and organizes an offline event, such as a meal at a restaurant, based on user profiles, availability, and other attributes. For example, the social dining system can schedule a group meal for a user, and five to seven other people that share an interest with the user. In cases where a user prefers to be attend events with at least one known user, a single profile for the user and the known user is created as a mutual or a blended profile. The system then creates an event by matching the mutual profile with other members using a blending algorithm. | 10-16-2014 |
20140317098 | DETERMINING MEDIA CONSUMPTION PREFERENCES - Systems and methods are disclosed for determining media consumption preferences. A method may include accessing media consumption history associated with a user. The media consumption history may include at least one of media purchase history of the user, media viewing history of the user, and media listening history of the user. A media category preference of the user may be determined, based on the media consumption history. The media category preference may include a popularity indication for each of a plurality of media categories of media items in the media consumption history. Search results provided in response to a search query by the user and/or media recommendations prepared for the user may be scored based on the media category preference. The media may include a video, a movie, a TV show, a book, an audio recording, a music album and/or another type of digital media. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317099 | PERSONALIZED DIGITAL CONTENT SEARCH - Systems and method are disclosed personalizing search results. An example method for personalizing search results may include receiving from a user, a search query for a media item, identifying search results for the search query, and generating a score for each of a plurality of media items identified in the search results. The score for a corresponding one of the plurality of media items may be based on the search query and one or both of a personalized query independent score and/or a personalized query dependent score. The at least one personalized query independent and query dependent scores may be based on at least one media preference signal associated with the user. The search results may be ranked based on the generated score for each of the plurality of media items. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317100 | REAL-TIME BIOMETRIC DATABASE AND TEMPLATE MANAGEMENT - The present disclosure may describe systems and methods for allowing real-time biometric matching. A real-time biometric system may include elements such as one or more biometric clients, a cloud network, a query router, an IP network, and one or more query engines associated with corresponding template data caches. During a biometric matching process, a template data manager (TDM) integrated in query engine may use memory maps for real-time retrieval and comparison of biometric templates. The comparison process may generate a biometric score that may be returned to biometric client indicating a successful or fail match. In addition, template data caches may include indexes with non-biometric metadata to filter associated biometric templates during a biometric matching process. TDM may operate with a plug-in architecture for allowing integration of different modalities of biometric algorithms. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317101 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE BOARD FACT CHECKING - A fact checking system is able to verify the correctness of information and/or characterize information by comparing the information with one or more sources. The fact checking system automatically monitors, processes, fact checks information and indicates a status of the information. Fact checking results are able to be validated by re-fact checking the fact check results. | 10-23-2014 |
20140324839 | DETERMINING CANDIDATE SCRIPTS FROM A CATALOG OF SCRIPTS - According to an example, candidate scripts may be determined from a catalog of scripts to perform a requested operation. In determining the candidate scripts, a request for an operation may be received, in which the request includes an input and an output. In addition, based upon the input and the output, a plurality of candidate scripts that are to perform the requested operation may be identified from the catalog of scripts, in which each of the plurality of candidate scripts comprises at least one of a script that is to perform the requested operation individually or a number of scripts that, in combination, are to perform the requested operation. Moreover, a score for each of plurality of candidate scripts may be calculated based upon a plurality of factors respectively corresponding to the plurality of candidate scripts and the plurality of candidate scripts and the calculated scores may be outputted. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324840 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LINKING MULTIMEDIA DATA ELEMENTS TO WEB PAGES - A method and system for linking a multimedia data element (MMDE) and a webpage are provided. The method includes receiving a MMDE from a source; generating a signature representative of the MMDE using a plurality of computational cores; matching the generated signature with a plurality of signatures stored in a database to find at least one matching signature, wherein at least one of the stored signatures has at least one corresponding universal resource locator (URL) of a web page stored therein as metadata of the at least one of the stored signatures; and providing to the source at least a URL that is a metadata of a matched signature upon determination of a match between the generated signature and at least one of the plurality of signatures stored in the database. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324841 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING COMMUNICATIONS - The invention provides a system and method for analyzing a collection of communication messages. The communication messages may be any one of a collection of electronic mail messages, voicemail messages, instant messaging dialogues and other forms of communications. The collections of communications, such as electronic mail messages, may be selected by a user and then subsequently processed to determine the identity of any of the user's contacts within the communications. The contacts may then be arranged in a relative priority arrangement whereby contacts which have been identified as engaging in prior reciprocal communications with the user are given higher priority. Higher priority may also be given to contacts which engage in more recent communications with the user. Specific contact relationships may be inferred from the communications depending on whether specific contacts are repeatedly mentioned within the communication messages. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324842 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM EVALUATION METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present disclosure discloses an information retrieval system evaluation method, device and storage medium. A ratio between the sum of all the related object parameters of a keyword in keyword in an evaluation retrieval result set and the sum of all the related object parameters of the keyword in keyword in a retrieval result set is used to compute a recall rate of an information retrieval system. And the recall rate is introduced to evaluate the information retrieval system, thereby enhancing accuracy of quantitative evaluation of the information retrieval system, and improving the automation degree of evaluation. | 10-30-2014 |
20140330818 | Search Intent 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, generating search results corresponding to the structured query, determine a search intent based on the selected nodes or selected edges referenced in the structured query, and scoring the search results based on the search intent. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330819 | Search Query Interactions 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, generating a query command based on the structured query based on the structured query comprising a first query constraint and a second query constraint, identifying a first set of nodes matching the first query constraint and at least in part matching the second query constraint, identifying a second set of nodes matching the second query constraint, and generating search results based on the first and second set of nodes. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330820 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF DIGITAL CONTENT RELATED TO A BLOCK OF TEXT, SUCH AS A BLOG ENTRY - A system for identifying digital content related to a portion of a block of text receives, automatically or via input by a user, an indication of one or more words included in the block of text. The system searches a database of digital content based on the one or more words and retrieves from the database one or more digital content items or identifiers of digital content items that are related to the one or more words. The system provides the retrieved digital content items or identifiers to the user, and receives a selection of one or more of the provided items or identifiers from the user. The system associates for display or replay the one or more selected digital content items with the one or more words in the block of text. Other embodiments of the system are also disclosed. | 11-06-2014 |
20140337327 | SUPPORTING ENHANCED CONTENT SEARCHES IN AN ONLINE CONTENT-MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The disclosed embodiments relate to techniques for supporting enhanced content-item searches in an online content-management system. These techniques generally operate by gathering information that is available in the online content-management system (such as how often each content item has been updated, how many users have accessed the content item, and how many identical copies of the content item are stored in the online content-management system) and using this information to identify relevant content items that are likely to be important to a user. This enables the online content-management system to perform searching operations that return relevant content items to the user. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337328 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING AND PRESENTING CONCEPT CENTRIC INFORMATION IN SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS - The embodiments herein provide a system and method for retrieving and presenting concept centric information in social media network that allows a user to search, read, express, and debate on opinions on a particular concept. The system comprises an input module for receiving an input query, a visualization module for visualizing the retrieved concept centric opinions, a topic mining module for mining a semantically related topics, a tweets tracking module for tracking influential tweets, an interesting comments searching module for searching comments posted by interested users from social media networks, public forums, blogs and other community portals, a posted comments counting module for calculating a total number of posts processed, a comments posting module for allowing users to post comments, a BUZZ words display module for displaying context words, and a new posts display module for displaying new post related to the user input query. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337329 | PROVIDING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS USING MULTIPLE MODELS TO SCORE CANDIDATE ANSWERS - A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query; conducting a search to identify candidate answers to the input query, and producing a plurality of scores for each of the candidate answers. For each of the candidate answers, one, of a plurality of candidate ranking functions, is selected. This selected ranking function is applied to the each of the candidate answers to determine a ranking for the candidate answer based on the scores for that candidate answer. One or more of the candidate answers is selected, based on the rankings for the candidate answers, as one or more answers to the input query. In an embodiment, the ranking function selection is performed using information about the question. In an embodiment, the ranking function selection is performed using information about each answer. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337330 | 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 arc 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. | 11-13-2014 |
20140344257 | Detecting a Preferred Implementation of an Operation - A mechanism is provided for detecting a preferred implementation for executing a specified operation associated with a specified application. Responsive to receiving a request to identify the preferred implementation for executing the specified operation associated with the specified application, execution of the specified application is monitored on a plurality of computing devices. For each of the plurality of computing devices, responsive to detecting that the specified operation has been executed within the specified application, a set of user actions utilized to implement the specified operation are recorded. The set of user actions for each instance of implementing the specified operation on the plurality of computing devices is analyzed and results of the analysis are ranked based on the preferred implementation of executing the specified operation. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344258 | RANKING CHANNELS IN SEARCH - A search result is modified to include a predetermined number of channels within a predetermined number of a plurality of entries in the search result. The search result is generated in response to a search query. The search result is modified to comprise a predetermined number of channels within a predetermined number of the plurality of entries. The modified search result is updated based on the plurality of entries and a subset of the updated modified search result is selected to be presented in response to the search query. The subset of the updated modified search result comprises the channel and at least one selection of data content. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344259 | ANSWERING PEOPLE-RELATED QUESTIONS - A computer device may receive a search query from a user of a user device, determine that the search query is a people-related question, and identify, using a data structure, a set of people related to the search query, where the data structure is associated with the user, and where the data structure stores people-related data for a group of people with which the user is associated. The computer device may also determine whether to provide information relating to the set of people, and selectively provide, to the user device, one of a first document or a second document. The first document identifies at least one person in the set of people and provides information relating to the at least one person, where the information, relating to the at least one person, provides an answer to the people-related question. The second document excludes information relating to the set of people. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344260 | Two-Directional Biometric Matching - A mechanism is provided for two-directional biometric matching. The mechanism receives a first biometric record and a second biometric record for matching. The mechanism performs a first matching process using a matching algorithm of the first record to the second record to obtain a first matching outcome. The mechanism performs a second matching process using the same matching algorithm of the first matching process, wherein the second record is matched to the first record to obtain a second matching outcome. The mechanism compares the first and second matching outcomes to determine if there is a difference in outcome. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344261 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING A REQUEST - A system and method for associating metadata such as a category, topic, tag, or named entity with an item is described. Metadata such as a named entity and a category associated with an item such as a search request may be used to select an item used to process a request. Metadata associated with an item may be used to index items such as responders, resources, etc. used to process an item and may be used to establish a prioritized selection of items. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344262 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING OBJECTS - A system and method for identifying objects is provided herein. The method includes the following steps: receiving an object indication featuring an object and storing the indication as an identification task in an identification task subdatabase; sending an identification task to a plurality of raters of a list of raters stored in a raters subdatabase; receiving replies submitted by raters including presumed identifications of the object and storing the replies in a submitted replies subdatabase; and determining an identity of an object based on the submitted replies and a recorded skill level of the submitting raters. The identification task may be in a form of a game that may or may not provide an award to the user. The correct answer to the game is pre-identified and the answer from the user is used to rate the raters, or to assist identifying an unidentified object by a pre-identified one. | 11-20-2014 |
20140351245 | SEARCH ENGINE SYSTEM AND METHOD EMPLOYING WAVE EQUATIONS FOR CLASSIFYING AND RANKING SEARCH RESULTS - An internet search system and method made according to this invention provides a rating/ranking for internet search results that emphasizes the discovery and curation of new content by publishers. Time-stamped internet search data is sorted and classified by detecting peaks and troughs in that data and describing them with one or more wave equations. The data is then classified into ripples according to the peak or trough in which it appears. Each search result may also be scored as a function of the detected peak in which it appears and the number of other search results within the same peak. The search system and method make these classifications and scores visible to the user by displaying them in textual, visual, or textual and visual form. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351246 | GENERATING RANKED SEARCH RESULTS USING LINEAR AND NONLINEAR RANKING MODELS - Generating ranked search results includes receiving a plurality of matching information items that match a search request, ranking at least some of the plurality of matching information items using a linear ranking model that linearly combines a first plurality of feature values to obtain a first set of ranked results, ranking at least some of the first set of ranked results using a nonlinear ranking model that nonlinearly combines a second plurality of feature values to obtain a second set of ranked results, and provide a search response based on the second set of ranked results. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351247 | METHOD AND SERVER FOR SEARCHING INFORMATION - The present application provides method of searching information. The method comprises: performing a searching request based on a searching request including one or more query words from a user terminal and initially ranking all the searched items; evaluating the position click ratio of each ranking position with respect to the query words; calculating a compensation factor of respective ranking position by dividing the evaluated position clicks ratio of each ranking position by the evaluated position clicks ratio of the first ranking positions; obtaining a ranking score of each initially ranked item by dividing the item clicks ratio of each initially ranked item by the compensation factor corresponding to the ranking positions of the initially ranked item; and re-ranking all the initially ranked items in descending order based on the ranking scores and then returning the re-ranked items to the user terminal. | 11-27-2014 |
20140358904 | SYNONYM IDENTIFICATION BASED ON SELECTED SEARCH RESULT - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for evaluating terms that are candidate substitute terms for query terms, and revising search queries to include substitute terms. When search results are returned in response to a search query, text associated with a search result is examined to identify a particular term that is not found in the search query. The association score for the particular term as a substitute for a query term is incremented. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358905 | System and Method for Answer Aggregation - A system and method of answer aggregation that receives a querying user supplied question, provides the user supplied question to multiple responding users, receives one or more answers to the question from responding users, performs an answer aggregation algorithm to generate a collective answer, and displays the collective answer. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358906 | QUERY SUGGESTIONS BASED ON SEARCH DATA - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating query suggestions based on search data. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by one or more computers, a first query, determining query refinements based on the first query, generating, from the query refinements, refinement clusters, each refinement cluster corresponding to a particular topic and each refinement cluster including query refinements that are determined to belong to the particular topic to which the refinement cluster corresponds, ranking the refinement clusters, and selecting the refinement cluster that is highest in the ranking relative to other refinement clusters in the ranking as a first search refinement cluster for the first query. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358907 | METHOD FOR CLUSTERING RESULTS FROM A SAME CHANNEL - An initial plurality of search results is obtained based on a search query pertaining to a topic of interest. A determination is made of whether to perform clustering on the initial plurality of search results. Upon determining not to perform clustering on the search result, a user interface with the initial plurality of search results is provided. Upon determining to perform clustering on the initial plurality of search results, a user interface with a modified plurality of search results is provided. The user interface is to position a first result in the modified plurality of search results adjacent to a position of a second search result in the modified plurality of search results. The first search result is associated with a channel and the second search result is associated with the channel. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358908 | MINIMIZATION OF SURPRISAL CONTEXT DATA THROUGH APPLICATION OF CUSTOMIZED SURPRISAL CONTEXT FILTERS - A method, system, and computer program product for minimizing surprisal context data. The method includes the steps of: identifying characteristics of a data event; receiving an input of rank of at least two identified characteristics of the data event; generating a hierarchy of ranked, identified characteristics based on the rank of the identified characteristics of the data event; and comparing the hierarchy of ranked, identified characteristics to a repository of characteristic context patterns. If at least one reference artifact of the characteristic context pattern matches the hierarchy of ranked, identified characteristics, the characteristic context pattern is broken into pieces, storing the pieces that matched the hierarchy. The stored pieces are then combined into a surprisal context filter pattern with context determined to be probabilistically present within a specified degree of certainty in a data input and compared to a data input of data events to detect anomalous events. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358909 | SEARCH RESULT CONTEXTS FOR APPLICATION LAUNCH - A search service executes on one or more computing systems and searches at least one index associated with content accessible through an application based on the at least one portion of the search query to provide search results associated with the application. A search results interface returns one or more search results from the search. At least one of the search results is associated with an application identifier identifying the application. The search service ranks the search results associated with the application with other search results from at least one other search of other content based on the search query. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358910 | INTEGRATED SEARCH RESULTS - A storage management system receives at a computing system one or more search results from a search operation based on a search query. The search operation had performed a first search on content in a database accessible through an application, a second search on local to the computing system content, and a third search on Web content. At least one of the search results from the first search is associated with an application identifier identifying the application. The storage management system further ranks the search results from the first search, the second search, and the third search in aggregation. A search results integrator presents the ranked search results from the first, second, and third searches in an integrated view. The search results integrator further groups a subset of the ranked search results from the first search, the second search, and the third search into a subgroup within the integrated view. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358911 | SEARCH AND DISCOVERY SYSTEM - A system for search and discovery of information in a real time network, comprising: means for gathering data indicative of a message posted in an real time network, the data comprising information identifying a uniform resource locator, URL and textual information associated with the URL; means for indexing the gathered data; means for querying the indexed data; and means for ranking the queried data. | 12-04-2014 |
20140365475 | RETRIEVING A SPECIFIC SENTENCE FROM A DOCUMENT - An apparatus retrieves and outputs a specific sentence from a document. An acceptance hardware component acquires a retrieval key. An importance calculation hardware component calculates the level of importance of each sentence included in a search target document. A document processing hardware component extracts a sentence including the retrieval key from the search target. A retrieval result processing hardware component corrects a value of importance of each sentence calculated by the importance calculation hardware component for the sentence based on the position of the sentence in the search target document to calculate a corrected level of importance. A display control hardware component outputs the sentence extracted by the document processing hardware component according to the display order based on the corrected level of importance. | 12-11-2014 |
20140372419 | TILE-CENTRIC USER INTERFACE FOR QUERY-BASED REPRESENTATIVE CONTENT OF SEARCH RESULT DOCUMENTS - Architecture that represents search results as tiles in a tile-based user interface. The tiles can be images or icons selected to represent a search result or multiple search results. In a broader implementation the tiles can be related to entities as derived from the search results. A web document is received, and on which feature processing is performed to obtain features for each (page, image) tuple. The features are also input to representative image classification, along with the other features to output image classification data. Representative image classification calculates representative scores for every (page, image) pair and (page, image set) pair, and the images are ranked for presentation and viewing in the tile-based user interface. User interaction can be via a touch-based user interface to return and view search results related to a selected tile. | 12-18-2014 |
20140379702 | SYSTEM FOR INFLUENCER SCORING AND METHODS THEREOF - Systems and methods for leveraging social media data by entities to identify key influencers are disclosed. Monitoring criteria is based on a selected subject-matter. The analysis permits quantification of influencers and takes into account the conversari platforms and the published platforms in the social media. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379703 | Generating a Venn Diagram Using a Columnar Database Management System - Venn diagrams are computed for a given plurality of input sets. The process of computing the Venn diagrams is executed on columnar database systems for efficient execution. The computation of various subsets of the Venn diagrams is performed by determining subsets of various combinations of the input sets and computing set differences of the intersection sets. The process orders the execution of various steps of computing the subsets for the Venn diagram in an order that reduces the number of times an input set is loaded. Information describing various subsets of a Venn diagram is used to render the Venn diagram for display, for example, on a client device. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379704 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Management of Media Files - Provided herein are a method, apparatus and computer program product for the management of media files, for summarizing groups of media files, and presenting summarized groups of media files to a user. Example methods may include accessing a plurality of media files, obtaining identification of objects within each media file, and determining the minimum set cover of media files from the plurality of media files, where the minimum set cover of media files includes at least one media file comprising each object identified. The method may include determining a weight of each media file, where determining the weight includes analyzing the metadata of each media file. Example methods may also include identifying a dominant set from the plurality of media files, where the dominant set includes at least one dominant media file, and identifying at least one non-dominant media file from the plurality of media files. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379705 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING, MANAGING, AND PUBLISHING AUDIO MICROPOSTS - A system and method for creating, managing, and publishing audio microposts is provided. An audio micropost comprises a short audio segment recorded and/or captured based on voice, speech, and/or other sound, which may be shared with and/or published to subscribers and/or other users. The system may enable creating a discussion and playlist based on the audio microposts. The discussion may be generated by identifying and/or selecting an audio micropost that may pose a question and/or topic for a discussion and/or debate. The system may further enable granting the ability to participate in the discussion to a selected group of participants. The playlist of audio microposts may be created by adding individual posts into the playlist and/or by using hashtags and/or keywords to search for audio microposts of interest. | 12-25-2014 |
20150019539 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PROVIDING A TEXT PREDICTION - A method for use in an electronic device including a display and a keyboard, the method including: receiving input reflecting selection of one or more characters through the keyboard; generating a predicted string of one or more characters based on the received input; determining a confidence value for the predicted string, based on a determination that the received input associated with a first one of the one or more selected characters reflects more than a single tap on a key of the keyboard; and displaying the predicted string on the display based on the determined confidence value. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019540 | RETRIEVAL OF ATTRIBUTE VALUES BASED UPON IDENTIFIED ENTITIES - Various technologies that facilitate performance of a data finding data (DFD) search are described herein. A user specifies entities, for example, by entering the entities into a query field, selecting the entities from a computer-executable application, or the like. The user further specifies an attribute of the entities that is of interest. A query is constructed based upon the entities and the attribute, and a search for tables is performed based upon the entities and the attribute. Values of the attribute for the selected entities are identified in a table, and the values of the attribute are returned. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019541 | Apparatus, System and Method for a Semantic Editor and Search Engine - We describe here a system and method for creating, maintaining and using a semantic search engine environment for precise retrieval of curated answers to questions where the answers may be drawn from an authoritative document collection. The invention combines processing by human developers and software: semantic editing tools for creating, storing, maintaining queries and variants of queries, and query and document passage categories; links from queries to text passages that provide answers to these queries; a document retrieval store; means for matching user queries against stored queries; means for creating, storing, maintaining, and retrieving semantic and management metadata and categories about queries and documents and using these data for navigating the document collection; and means for finding information related to the user's information need by text and semantic similarity retrieval. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019542 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TARGETING COMMUNICATIONS USING SOCIAL NETWORK METRICS - A method for a computer system includes receiving a first user communication, determining a first group of users, determining a target number of users, determining whether the first group of users includes the target number of users, and if not, providing the communication to the first group of users, determining a hierarchal mapping of groups of users in response to user memberships, determining a second group of users from the hierarchal mapping, determining a plurality of social network relationship factors for the second group of users with respect to the first user, and providing the communication to at least a subset of users in the second group of users in response to the first plurality of social network relationship factors. | 01-15-2015 |
20150026163 | Correlating Corpus/Corpora Value from Answered Questions - Mechanisms are provided for dynamically selecting a subset of candidate answer sources for use by a question and answer (QA) system. The QA system receives an input question for which an answer is sought and generates one or more queries based on the input question. The QA system selects a subset of candidate answer sources, from a group of candidate answer sources, based on a ranked listing of candidate answer sources. The ranked listing of candidate answer sources is generated based on characteristics of previous candidate answers generated by the QA system for previously input questions. The QA system applies the one or more queries to the subset of candidate answer sources and generates at least one candidate answer for the input question based on results of applying the one or more queries to the subset of candidate answer sources. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026164 | Utilizing Dependency Among Internet Search Results - Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for utilizing dependency among internet search results. A method includes associating a user search query with a search task, identifying multiple information documents that correspond to the search task, and generating a recommended sequence of the multiple information documents to present to the user in response to the user search query, wherein the recommended sequence is based on dependency information associated with the multiple information documents. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026165 | FACILITATING MANAGEMENT OF USER QUERIES AND DYNAMIC FILTRATION OF RESPONSES BASED ON GROUP FILTERS IN AN ON-DEMAND SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating management of user queries and dynamic filtration of responses based on group filters 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 first computing device, a query via an application programming interface (“API”) of a software application at a second computing device, where the query includes one or more filter parameters including a size filter parameter. The method may further include evaluating the query based on the one or more filter parameters including the size filter parameter, selecting a first response based on the size filter parameter, and communicating the first response to be viewed via the API at the second computing device. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026166 | APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING CONTENTS USING HIERARCHICAL CONTEXT MODEL AND METHOD THEREOF - According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for recommending contents using a hierarchical context model includes: an input unit configured to receive a keyword to be retrieved from a user according to an operation of a key or a menu; a sensing unit configured to acquire context information of the user when the keyword is received; a control unit configured to match tag information of contents and the context information of the user corresponding to the received keyword with preset hierarchical context models, respectively to extract contents relevant words and context relevant words based on the matched results and calculate contents similarity based on the extracted contents relevant words and context relevant words to rank at least one pre-collected contents based on the calculated contents similarity; and a display unit configured to display some or all of the at least one ranked contents on a screen. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026167 | DISCOVERING FIELDS TO FILTER DATA RETURNED IN RESPONSE TO A SEARCH - Fields may be discovered in events that are returned in response to an initial search. The events may comprise portions of raw data. Furthermore, the fields may be defined by extraction rules for extracting values from corresponding portions of raw data. The displaying of a graphical user interface (GUI) may be caused where the GUI enables a user to select or enter criteria for a subset of the discovered fields without entering a search query in a search bar. At least one criterion for at least one field from the subset of the discovered fields may be received through a portion of the GUI that does not include a search bar for entering a search query. The events returned in response to the initial search query may be caused to be filtered based on the received criterion. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026168 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LIMITING SHARE OF VOICE OF INDIVIDUAL USERS - In various example embodiments, a system and method for limiting shares of voice of individual users in a result set are provided. In example embodiments, a search request is received from a user interface of a searching user, and a result set is determined in response. The result set includes entries corresponding to businesses and entries corresponding to individual user. The result set is sorted based on a ratio of the entries corresponding to businesses to the entries corresponding to individual users in the result set. The sorted result set is caused to be displayed in the user interface to the searching user. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026169 | PROVIDING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS USING LOGICAL SYNTHESIS OF CANDIDATE ANSWERS - A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query, decomposing the input query into a plurality of different subqueries, and conducting a search in one or more data sources to identify at least one candidate answer to each of the subqueries. A ranking function is applied to each of the candidate answers to determine a ranking for each of these candidate answers; and for each of the subqueries, one of the candidate answers to the subquery is selected based on this ranking. A logical synthesis component is applied to synthesize a candidate answer for the input query from the selected the candidate answers to the subqueries. In one embodiment, the procedure applied by the logical synthesis component to synthesize the candidate answer for the input query is determined from the input query. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026170 | Representative Document Selection for a Set of Duplicate Documents - Systems and methods are provided for obtaining a plurality of documents. A respective document in the plurality of documents is associated with a score and each document in the plurality of documents is from a different data structure in a plurality of data structures. Each data structure in the plurality of data structures represents a different portion of a document address space. A first document in the plurality of documents is selected in accordance with the score associated with the first document. The first document has a fingerprint that indicates that the first document has substantially identical content to every other document in the plurality of documents. In accordance with the score, the first document is indexed thereby producing an indexed first document. With respect to the plurality of documents, the indexed first document is included in a document index as representative of each document in the plurality of documents. | 01-22-2015 |
20150032737 | RANKING AND RECOMMENDATION OF ONLINE CONTENT - Embodiments of the present invention relate to ranking and recommendation of online content including social media, blog and forum posts. In one embodiment, a method of and computer program product for content analysis are provided. A subset of content items is selected from a set of content items. Each content item in the set has at least one attribute. For each content item in the subset, a user is queried to obtain a subjective value. A formula is derived that relates the at least one attribute of each content item of the subset to the subjective value of each content item of the subset. The formula is applied to each content item of the set to determine a calculated value of each content item of the set. A ranking of the set of content items is determined based on the calculated value of each content item. Recommendations are provided to a user based on the ranking | 01-29-2015 |
20150032738 | CONFIDENTLY ADDING 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 adds a data snippet of a search result to a cluster of objects. The system calculates a confidence score for the add based on the recency, a job title, an email address, and/or a phone number associated with the data snippet. The system stores the add in the customer accessible database if the confidence score is sufficiently high for the add to be stored in the customer accessible database. The system generates a notice for review if the confidence score is not sufficiently high for the add to be stored in the customer accessible database. | 01-29-2015 |
20150039596 | Static Rankings for Search Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a set of queries of an online social network received from one or more users of the online social network, retrieving for each query a number of objects that match at least a portion of the query from one or more data stores associated with the online social network, where each object is associated with a pre-determined static-score based on a static-scoring algorithm, calculating a final-score for each retrieved object based on a final-scoring algorithm, and determining one or more revised static-scores for one or more of the retrieved objects based on a comparison of the final-scores and the static-scores of the retrieved objects. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039597 | Rewriting Search Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a set of queries of an online social network received from one or more users of the online social network, parsing each query using a parsing algorithm to generate a query command based on each query, each query command comprising one or more query constraints for a specified number of objects of a specified object-type as specified by parsing-configuration parameters of the parsing algorithm, retrieving the specified number of objects that match at least a portion of the query constraint from one or more data stores associated with the online social network, scoring each retrieved object based on a scoring algorithm, and generating one or more revised parsing-configuration parameters based on a comparison of the scores of the retrieved objects and the specified number of objects of the query constraints. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039598 | DATA ANALYSIS CONTROL - According to an example, data analysis control may include receiving a predetermined number of search results for a query, and organizing the predetermined number of search results by checksum values of content of the search results in an ascending or a descending order. A generally final or a generally initial checksum value may be respectively used from the ascending or the descending order of the organized search results to determine a total content number representing an approximate total content of a search related to the query, where the total content number is greater than the predetermined number of search results. Further, the determined total content number may be used to determine a number of sub-tasks needed to complete a full search of the approximate total content. | 02-05-2015 |
20150046436 | REAL-TIME TREND DETECTION IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Systems, methods, and apparatuses for tracking trends at an online presence are described. In some embodiments, an interactivity data structure and a tenured interactivity data structure are utilized in determining trends quickly. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046437 | Search Method - The present invention relates to a search method. The method includes the steps of receiving a search query and generating results based upon the received search query. The generated results are classified using classification criteria to form respective result groups. The result groups are displayed, preferably concurrently. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046438 | INTEGRATOR ACCOUNT SYSTEM FOR SELECTED INFORMATION AND THE VIRAL PROCESS - The disclosed subject matter is a process that can integrate specific information into a single account, in an open way, for the user. The matching process occurs based on the interest of the user, and not based on defined criteria somebody else created and forced onto the user, such as a specific company or another person's interest. The invention also has a viral process which allows the information to be available to different users very quickly and focused on the specific user's target of interest through the use of loyalty programs (or contests where permitted). | 02-12-2015 |
20150046439 | Determining Recommendations In Data Analysis - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for determining recommendations in data analysis. A computer identifies an analysis step currently being performed in a data analysis. The computer identifies data points corresponding to the identified analysis step currently being performed and one or more previous analyses. The computer determines a distance between the data points corresponding to the identified analysis step currently being performed and each of the one or more previous data analyses utilizing a distance computing algorithm. The computer determines a ranking of the one or more previous data analyses corresponding to the determined distances between the data points corresponding to the identified analysis step currently being performed and each of the one or more previous data analyses. | 02-12-2015 |
20150052120 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING PORTIONS OF TEXT FROM LONG SOCIAL MEDIA DOCUMENTS - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for extracting text from a social media document are disclosed. For example, the method indexes a plurality of social media documents into a plurality of snippets, receives a query including one or more keywords and a purpose, identifies one or more of the plurality of snippets that include the one or more keywords in an index, ranks the one or more of the plurality of snippets in accordance with the purpose and provides the one or more plurality of snippets that are ranked in accordance with the purpose. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052121 | MEDIA CONSUMPTION HISTORY - Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a request that includes a user identifier of a user that submitted a search query and an entity identifier of an entity that is referenced by the search query, identifying a plurality of knowledge elements that are related to the entity, identifying, in a consumption database, one or more items that have been indicated as consumed by the user and that are associated with the entity that is referenced by the search query, assigning rank scores to the plurality of knowledge elements, based at least on identifying the one or more items, selecting one or more of the knowledge elements from among the knowledge elements based at least on the rank scores assigned to the knowledge elements, and providing, in response to the request, information associated with the entity and the one or more selected knowledge elements. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052122 | IDENTIFYING AND RANKING SOLUTIONS FROM MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES - Information regarding a computing device can be gathered, such as device information and support information. A plurality of solutions can be identified from multiple data sources based on the gathered information. The identified solutions can be ranked based on the gathered information and based on other information. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052123 | AUTO SUGGESTION TOOL - A method includes populating an auto suggestion field with objects of the same type based upon the type of object selected in the main area of the application. The auto suggestion field is set to have N levels. The method further includes placing a recently used object in a first position of the N levels of the auto suggestion field. Succeeding objects are placed in other positions of the N levels in the auto suggestion field, wherein the succeeding objects are ordered based upon recency and frequency of use and the populating is executed by at least one processor. | 02-19-2015 |
20150058328 | IDENTIFYING LISTINGS OF MULTI-SITE ENTITIES BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR SIGNALS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying listings of multi-site entities based on user behavior signals. In one aspect, a method exploits user behavioral signals that are strong indicators of whether a search result previously presented for a multi-site-entity search query is, in fact, a relevant result, and affords sufficient weight to these behavioral signals to overcome other signals of relevance for the search result. Two such strong user behavior signals include (i) users invoking an information window from a search result and (ii) users submitting a direction request related to a search result. A black list of search results and/or a search result index can be generated based on how the two strong behavior signals associated with the search results compare to threshold values set for the two strong behavior signals. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058329 | Clarification of Submitted Questions in a Question and Answer System - Mechanisms for clarifying an input question are provided. A question is received for generation of an answer. A set of candidate answers is generated based on an analysis of a corpus of information. Each candidate answer has an evidence passage supporting the candidate answer. Based on the set of candidate answers, a determination is made as to whether clarification of the question is required. In response to a determination that clarification of the question is required, a request is sent for user input to clarify the question. User input is received from the computing device in response to the request and at least one candidate answer in the set of candidate answers is selected as an answer for the question based on the user input. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058330 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOMMENDING PACKAGES OF DOMAIN NAMES FOR REGISTRATION - A system and method are presented for recommending packages of domain names. One or more computer servers receive a query including at least one keyword from a user. A business category associated with the user is identified and a first ranking of top level domain names for the business category is identified. A package of candidate domain names is generated containing a candidate domain name for each top level domain in the first ranking of top level domain names. The package of candidate domain names relevant to the query is displayed for selection and registration by the user. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058331 | SEARCH RESULT RANKING USING MACHINE LEARNING - Various embodiments include systems and methods for search result ranking using machine learning. A goal model can be created using machine learning. Responsive to a search query, a plurality of data factors can be inputted into the goal model to create a model output. Search results can be presented to a user based on the model output. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058332 | Context-Based Ranking of Search Results - In one embodiment, a computing device may access a search query provided by a user; identify a set of search results in response to the search query, wherein one or more search results in the set are associated with a feature of a social-networking system; rank the set of search results based on one or more factors; boost one or more ranks of the one or more search results associated with the feature to bring the feature to the user's attention; and present the set of search results to the user in order of its ranking. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058333 | GENERATING SEQUENCES OF PROGRAM ITEMS - Systems and techniques, including computer program products, for generating sequences of program items. A specification of a sequence is received. A specification of multiple sets, where each set includes one or more program items, is also received. An output sequence of program items is generated by selecting program items from the sets based on the specified sequence. In some implementations, program items are selected by assigning each program item a score, and identifying the program item with the best score. An attribute can be associated with each program item. The attributes can be used to group the program items into sets, to determine the scores of the program items, and to select program items to be placed in the generated output sequence. The rules and the set sequence can be adjusted dynamically, and the generated output sequence can be modified by adding, removing, or replacing program items. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058334 | PRESENTATION OF ITEMS BASED ON A THEME - Methods, systems, and apparatus for generating a query are described. A query submitted by a user is accessed and the submitted query is identified as corresponding to a theme by determining a strength score of the submitted query. In one example embodiment, the strength score indicates a pertinence of the submitted query to the theme, the theme being a descriptor of a concept that is applicable to the submitted query. A thematic query is generated based on the submitted query and the determined strength score. | 02-26-2015 |
20150066915 | System and Method for Group Recommendation of Objects Using User Comparisons of Object Characteristics - Systems and methods for determining a group recommendation of an object, such as a restaurant, movie, or other object, from a plurality of candidate objects based on user comparisons of characteristic traits of the candidate objects are provided. In particular, keywords associated with characteristic traits are identified. The keywords are then presented to members of the group as a series of selection queries. The selection queries require a user to select or rank the keywords based on user preferences. The responses to the selection queries are used to generate a ranking score for each of the plurality of candidate objects and to select one or more of the candidate objects to recommend to the group. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066916 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF AGGREGATING INFORMATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL RELATION NETWORKS BASED ON GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS OF SOCIAL NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS VIA A NETWORK - One or more systems, devices, methods, and/or processes described can determine a relation network via analyzing communications of social network users. In one example, a first group of users can be determined via a geographical search region (GSR), and a relation network can be determined via analyzing communications of the first group of users. In another example, the relation network can be determined via analyzing communications of the first group of users with a second group of users that were not directly determined via the GSR. For instance, locations of the second group of users can be determined to be associated with the GSR. For example, associating the second group of users with the GSR can include rating the second group of users, according to one or more criterions and corresponding connection strengths, and determining that the second group of users are connected to the first group of users. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066917 | ITEM SELECTION IN CURATION LEARNING - A method of ranking candidate curation items includes receiving a query. The method also includes extracting items from multiple curations. The method also includes calculating, based on the query, a content similarity measurement for each of the extracted items. The method also includes extracting, from each of the extracted items, multiple curation-specific features. The method also includes calculating one or more curation-specific measurements for each of the extracted items based on the extracted curation-specific features, the one or more curation-specific measurements being different than the content similarity measurement. The method also includes ranking each of the extracted items based on both the content similarity measurement and the one or more curation-specific measurements to generate multiple curation item results. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066918 | CURATION SELECTION FOR LEARNING - A method of ranking curations includes receiving a query. The method also includes calculating, based on the query, a content similarity measurement for each of multiple curations. The method also includes extracting, from each of the curations, multiple curation-specific features. The method also includes calculating a curation credit measurement for each of the curations based on the extracted curation-specific features. The method also includes ranking each of the curations based on the corresponding content similarity measurement and the corresponding curation credit measurement. | 03-05-2015 |
20150074092 | Method of Ranking Place Names, System of Ranking Place Names, and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium Thereof - A method of ranking place names is disclosed. The method of ranking place names includes providing a plurality of place names, getting a plurality of searching result amounts of place names based on these place names, determining a relative degree between every two place names based on the searching result amounts of the place names, determining a starting place name of the place name ranking based on the relative degree between every two place names, calculating the intersection degree between these place names, and determining the ranking of these place names based on the searching result amounts of the place names, the relative degree between every two place names, the intersection degree between these place names, and the starting place name. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074093 | SYSTEM THAT PROVIDES CONTENT - There is provided a system that provides, in response to a search request including spectrum data obtained from a sensor, content associated with context information that is estimated from the spectrum data. The system includes a database including a plurality of context information and a plurality of stocked spectrum data that have been ranked for each of the plurality of context information, a comparison unit that calculates a score for the stocked spectrum data with respect to the obtained spectrum data, and an output unit that outputs content associated with the context information selected in descending order of the score and rank. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074094 | COMPARISON DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMPARING TEST PATTERN FILES OF A WAFER TESTER - A comparison device for comparing test pattern files of a wafer tester includes a storage unit and a processing unit. The comparison device stores a first to-be-compared file and a second to-be-compared file into the storage unit. The processing unit reads the first to-be-compared file and the second to-be-compared file from the storage unit to process and executes comparison operation, so as to generate a comparison result. The comparison operation compares the words in a first section of the first to-be-compared file with the words in a second section of the second to-be-compared file in a one-to-one manner, wherein, if the first section ending point is not the end of the first to-be-compared file or the second section ending point is not the end of the second to-be-compared file, the processing unit resets the first section and the second section, and executes comparison operation again. | 03-12-2015 |
20150081679 | FOCUSED SEARCH TOOL - A user may select text, an image, or other content being displayed on a device. The device may generate a search query based on the selection and transmit the search query to a server. Based on the search query, the server may generate multiple search options. The server may rank the generated search options and transmit some or all of the generated search options to the user device. The user device may receive the transmitted search options and present one or more of them in a user interface. The user may activate a search option. The user device may transmit the activated search option to the server, which may respond with search results for the activated search option. The user device may then display the search results to the user. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081680 | COMPUTER APPLICATION MATURITY ILLUSTRATION SYSTEM - An application maturity illustration system is provided. Such a system may determine a maturity of a computer application, and display same. The determination may include determining an inventory score, an operational status, a management score reflective of a ratio of an actual management value to a desired management value, a risk score and a future score for the computer application. The future score may be reflective of a projected relative importance of the computer application. The processor may operate to display a GUI that includes inventory score, operational status score, management score, risk score and the future score in a vertical column. The vertical column may be located either along the right-hand most portion of the GUI with respect to a user viewing the GUI or at the left-hand most portion of the GUI with respect to a user viewing the GUI. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081681 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING AND COMPARING SIMILAR DOCUMENTS USING BASE TEMPLATES - A computer implemented method and apparatus for classifying and comparing similar documents using base templates. The method comprises accessing a document; extracting metadata from the document; matching the metadata to at least one base template of a plurality of base templates; and storing the document with one or more similar documents, wherein the one or more similar documents are documents that match the at least one base template. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081682 | Method and System for Filtering Search Results - A method of filtering the results of a search of an electronic database includes receiving a plurality of keyword fragments and at least one specified relationship applicable to the plurality of keyword fragments, such as proximity between the keyword fragments. The keyword fragments are used to retrieve a group of potentially responsive records from the electronic database. The keyword fragments and the relationships between and among them are also used to script a parsing expression, which is applied to the group of potentially responsive records to identify those that best match the user's query. The parsed results can be output as a rank-ordered subset of the group of potentially responsive records. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081683 | RANKING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON WORD WEIGHT - Ranking search results, comprises retrieving search results that include target strings that relate to a query string; segmenting the query string and each of the target strings; pairing segments in the query string with respective segments in the target strings to form combinations; retrieving weights that correspond to the combinations; and determining a weighted word length based on the weights corresponding to each of the target strings; and ranking the target strings based on their respective weighted word lengths. Alternatively, ranking search results includes determining a minimum weight of each inserted word with respect to segments in the query string; determining a minimum weight of each deleted word with respect to segments in the target strings; determining a total edit distance for each target string; and ranking the target strings based on the total edit distances. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081684 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO SHARE AN APPLICATION WITH ANOTHER DEVICE - A technique for sharing an application between devices is discussed. Embodiments of the present invention transmit information about an application from a source computing device to a target computing device. An application sharing service on the target computing device then automatically searches the target computing device for a resident corresponding application or its equivalent and if a corresponding application is not found, searches an application store or repository for the corresponding application. If the application or its equivalent is found in the application store or repository, a user may be prompted to download the application or the application may be downloaded automatically. If the corresponding application was found on the target computing device originally, a check may be performed to determine if the most recent update is installed and, if the most recent version is not installed, it may be downloaded from the application store. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081685 | INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method generates and displays an interactive space-filling graphical representation of a model based at least in part on a dataset having data items. The space-filling graphical representation may have a plurality of segments arranged to realize a type of visualization and sized in proportion to a number of data items represented by the segment to convey particular information about the dataset. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081686 | Default Structured 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 nodes corresponding to a page currently accessed by a first user, generating one or more structured queries, where each structured query comprises a reference to the identified node and one or more edges that are connected to the identified node, and transmitting one or more of the structured queries to the first user for display on the page. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081687 | System and method for user-generated similarity ratings - In this universal comparison project tentatively called “Claaang,” users rate the relationship, e.g. likeness, similarity, sameness, semblance, or resemblance, between two or more things. Ratings are determined subjectively by individual users. Claaang keeps comparisons as simple as possible by representing each one with a single number. Some existing websites allow users to make consumer comparisons, but do not allow users to rate the relationships between items. Additionally, some sites provide a user the ability to compare naturally similar things only. Claaang allows for any combination of objects to be given a rating, whether they are commonly or naturally similar or not. This may reveal insights about human perception. Claaang accepts user input or votes about similarity, uses votes to adjust overall similarity ratings, and displays current ratings when prompted. Claaang is best implemented from a single server on the internet, so that it is a worldwide project. | 03-19-2015 |
20150088870 | Systems and Methods for Diagnosing Inherited Retinal Diseases - A method for automatically diagnosing inherited retinal disease includes receiving a plurality of dissimilar types of data and pre-processing at least one of the plurality of dissimilar types of data to generate a feature vector descriptive of a patient. Further, the method includes, for each of the plurality of dissimilar types of data: (i) comparing portions of the respective type of data or a corresponding feature vector to data in a mutation proven database; (ii) generating a ranked list of matches between the patient and the plurality of patients with known diagnoses; and (iii) storing the ranked list of matches in an output database. A diagnosis routine then aggregates a plurality of ranked lists of matches in the output database to generate a ranked list of genetic diagnoses corresponding to the patient and sends an indication of the ranked list of genetic diagnoses to the end user device. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088871 | LOW-DIMENSIONAL INFORMATION DISCOVERY AND PRESENTATION SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD - A search system configured to predict further search intents of a user and to perform exploratory further searches and produce a number of search features and associated relevances and divergence quantifiers for displaying by user equipment at least two-dimensional so as to allow the user to identify relationship of various diverging search terms and to rapidly direct the searching towards information the existence of which may have been previously unknown to the user. Some of the search features can be concealed and shown to the user only if the user magnifies the corresponding area on a display showing the search features returned by the search engine. Files matching to varying degree with the present and predicted further searches are shown to the user with respective lists of search features. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088872 | Social Static Ranking for Search - In one embodiment, one or more computing devices receive, from a client device of a first user, a query from the first user. The computer devices search a social graph to identify one or more nodes of the social graph that are relevant to the query. The computer devices obtain a static rank for each identified node. The static rank is based at least in part on a number of edges of a particular edge type that are connected to the node in the graph or attributes of edges connected to the node in the graph. The computer devices send to the client device of the first user for display, a search-results page responsive to the received query. The search-results page includes reference to one or more nodes having a static rank greater than a threshold rank. | 03-26-2015 |
20150095318 | SYSTEM FOR SCORING AN ORGANATIONAL ROLE CAPABILITY - Systems and methods for quantifying a user capability in accordance with an organizational role are disclosed herein. In an aspect, a role capability assessment is deployed to a user comprising at least one question whereby the user selects at least one answer that corresponds to the at least one question and the at least one answer conveys information to determine the capability of the user to perform an organizational role. In another aspect, a set of answer data associated with the at least one answer is received whereby the set of answer data correlates to the capability of the user to perform a role within an organization. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095319 | Query Expansion, Filtering and Ranking for Improved Semantic Search Results Utilizing Knowledge Graphs - Presented are systems and methods, as well as computer-readable media, for obtaining search results according to an expanded search query that is automatically generated from the received search query. An expanded search query is generated according to the received search query, the related entity data, and the determined search model. According to various embodiments, in response to receiving a search query, an entity is identified from the search query. Related entity data that is related to the identified entity is obtained. A search model for obtaining search results for the identified entity is determined. An expanded search query is generated for the received search query. Search results matching the expanded search query are identified and a search results presentation is generated according to the matching search results. The search results presentation is returned in response to the search query. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095320 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCORING THE RELIABILITY OF ONLINE INFORMATION - The apparatus, systems and methods dynamically provide the reliability of multimedia documents by applying a series of intrinsic criteria and extrinsic criteria by pre-calculating a reliability score for at least a set of multimedia documents of at least one pre-selected source of multimedia documents, and by providing, in response to a request, the multimedia documents from the pre-selected sources associated with the score and the multimedia documents from the other sources associated with a score conditionally calculated. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095321 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING APPLICATION INSTALLATION LIKELIHOOD BASED ON PROBABILISTIC COMBINATION OF SUBORDINATE METHODS - A method for providing a scored list of applications for use in recommending applications to a user includes receiving at a cloud computing service a request to provide a composite scored list of applications for a user, where the cloud computing service provides a set of available applications to each user and receives input data for determining the composite scored list of applications. The cloud computing service initializes a plurality of independent scorers, which each take as input a portion of the input data and outputs a scored list of applications, and normalizes the scored list of applications outputted by each independent scorer. The cloud computing service constructs the composite scored list of applications, where the composite scored list of applications is a function of the normalized scored list of applications and a weighting value assigned to each independent scorer, and outputs the composite scored list of applications. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095322 | USER EXPERIENCE AND USER FLOWS FOR THIRD-PARTY APPLICATION RECOMMENDATION IN CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEMS - A cloud computing system identifies when to recommend applications to a user and what recommendations to make. When the user makes a request related to the applications associated with the user, the cloud computing system identifies the subject of the request. The cloud computing system identifies criteria for recommending applications based on the subject, scores applications available to the user based on the identified criteria, and filters applications based on their scores to recommend applications to the user. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095323 | Audio Content Search in a Media Playback System - Embodiments are described herein that provide searches, including a multi-dimensional search, a cross-source search, or both in a media playback system. The search can be initiated by way of a selection of a location on user interface of a controller. The location corresponds to one or more metadata that is used in the search. Results are sorted and displayed. In some embodiments, the one or more metadata is used to filter and/or sort the results. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095324 | Social Discovery and Ranking of Pages - In one embodiment, a social-networking system accesses a social graph with a plurality of user nodes and a plurality of location nodes, receives a search query with location parameters, identifies a set of location nodes based on the search query, and determines a value for each location nodes in the set based on the edges connected to the location nodes in the social graph. | 04-02-2015 |
20150100569 | PROVIDING A SEARCH RESULTS DOCUMENT THAT INCLUDES A USER INTERFACE FOR PERFORMING AN ACTION IN CONNECTION WITH A WEB PAGE IDENTIFIED IN THE SEARCH RESULTS DOCUMENT - A computer device is configured to identify a document; determine that the document includes an annotation, the annotation describing a user interface that is to be visually displayed in connection with information identifying the document when the information identifying the document is included in a search results document, the user interface including a user interface element that, when selected, causes an action to be performed in connection with the document, and the action being performed without obtaining the document after the user interface element is selected; determine information relating to the user interface based on the annotation; and store, in a search index, the information relating to the user interface in association with the information identifying the document. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100570 | Excerpted Content - A system and a method are disclosed for finding content uploaded by users of a computing system. The method search receives a search term, retrieves content, identifies instances of the search term in the retrieved content, scores the retrieved content, ranks the scored content, and selects content from the ranked content. The uploaded content is created by a method where received text files are processed to remove formatting, tags, and non-printing characters. Uploaded content may be further associated with attributes used to narrow searches for content. The processed content is searched and may also be used as a source for excerpts for summarizing, representing, or otherwise embodying the content. | 04-09-2015 |
20150106360 | VISUALIZING CONFLICTS IN ONLINE MESSAGES - Visualizing social media conflict is provided. Textual messages by a set of human users connected via a network regarding a particular topic are collected. Active users in the set of human users authoring a number of textual messages regarding the particular topic more than a threshold number of textual messages are selected. Keywords are selected that occur more than a threshold number of times within the textual messages regarding the particular topic. A sentiment score is computed for each of the keywords occurring more than the threshold number of times within the textual messages using a keyword co-occurrence graph. A sentiment of each of the active users is determined based on the computed sentiment score of each of the selected keywords that are authored by a particular active user. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106361 | GENERATING MEMBER PROFILE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON COMMON CONNECTION DATA IN A SOCIAL GRAPH - Systems and methods for generating recommendations based on data derived from a social network are described. For example, a first indirect connection of a source member profile may be identified. The first indirect connection is a member profile connected to the source member through a first connection path. A second indirect connection of the source member profile is also identified. The second indirect connection is a member profile connected to the source member through a second connection path. A selection is made between the first indirect connection and the second indirect connection based on a comparison of common connection scores calculated for the indirect connections. The selected indirect connection is then surfaced to a client device associated with the source member profile. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106362 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR CONTENT RANKING USING REAL-TIME DATA - Methods, systems, and media for content ranking using real-time data are provided. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a method, implemented on a processor, for ranking content is provided. The method can include, among other things: receiving real-time information from a plurality of sources; supplementing the received real-time information with historical information and user influence information; analyzing the supplemented real-time information from the plurality of sources to determine real-time trend information; receiving a plurality of content snippets from a content provider; detecting similarities between each of the plurality of content snippets and the determined real-time trend information; ranking the plurality of content snippets based on the detected similarities; and displaying the ranked plurality of content snippets. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106363 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - When plural processing programs for generating post-processing data which is a source of services to be provided are present, a relationship between post-processing data and a data group which is a source of the post-processing data is managed. The processing units acquire pre-processing data, execute given processing, and generate post-processing data as a result of the processing. At an opportunity to acquire the pre-processing data, a process ID indicative of ordering of the acquisition, and not updated before and after the given processing is allocated to acquired pre-processing data. The generated post-processing data is stored, and in extracting the post-processing data satisfying the given data search condition, the post-processing data having a process ID equal to or before the process ID that is latest in the post-processing data and oldest among the respective processing units is extracted from the post-processing data that satisfies the data search condition. | 04-16-2015 |
20150112975 | CONTEXT-AWARE SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD - A context-aware search apparatus and method are disclosed. The context-aware search apparatus includes a storage configured to store information about personal raw data collected from a routine activity of a user and life log information of the user, a communicator configured to communicate with a user equipment apparatus, and a controller configured to, in response to receiving a search request of the user through the communicator, extract a keyword from the search request, search the storage for information associated with the keyword based on the life log information of the user, and transmit a result of the search to the user equipment apparatus. Thus, the context-aware search apparatus provides a search result appropriate for a user based on personal raw data collected from a routine activity of the user. | 04-23-2015 |
20150112976 | RELEVANCY RANKING INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a system and method of using the same for a relevancy ranking information retrieval system. In an embodiment, the system is configured for ranking hits in text string searching. A search query for one or more hits relevant to an investigation is received from, as an example and not a limitation, a user. A set of attributes and features of each attribute are extracted related to metadata for each of the one or more hits. A score of each attribute is calculated based on the metadata features, although not limited to ‘metadata’ information as typically defined in digital forensics. Further, weights are assigned to each of the one or more attribute features and a relevancy rank is generated for each of the one or more hits based on assigned weights and the attribute score by using a predefined relevancy-ranking algorithm that may be adjusted by user input. | 04-23-2015 |
20150112977 | TECHNIQUES FOR RANKING CHARACTER SEARCHES - Techniques for asynchronous rendering are described. An apparatus may comprise a character set converter application, an index server, and a ranking application. The character set converter application may receive a search string comprised of one or more first character set characters, and convert the search string to one or more second character set characters that are different than the first character set. The index server may execute a search on the converted search string to obtain ranked individual search results. The ranking application may compare any first character set characters in the ranked individual search results to the first character set characters in the search string and sub-rank the ranked individual search results based on the strength of any matches. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 04-23-2015 |
20150120712 | Customized News Stream Utilizing Dwelltime-Based Machine Learning - Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for selecting news articles for presentation to a user. One method includes an operation for measuring dwelltimes for a first set of news items, where the dwelltime for a news item is based on the amount of time that the news item is displayed to a viewer. Further, the method includes an operation for training a classifier of news items based on the measured dwelltimes and based on features associated with the first set of news items. Additionally, the method includes an operation for ranking with the classifier a second set of news items for presentation to the user, the ranking also using the profile of the user for delivery of customized news to the user. The ranked second set of news item is then presented to the user. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120713 | Systems and Methods for Determining Influencers in a Social Data Network - A system and method performed by a server for determining at least one user account that is influential for a topic: obtaining the topic; determining a plurality of user accounts within a social data network that are related to the topic; representing each of the user accounts as a node in a connected graph and determining an existence of a relationship between each of the user accounts; computing a topic network graph using each of the user accounts as nodes and the corresponding relationships as edges between each of the nodes; ranking the user accounts within the topic network graph to filter outlier nodes within the topic network graph; identifying at least two distinct communities amongst the user accounts within the filtered topic network graph, each community associated with a subset of the user accounts; identifying attributes associated with each community; outputting each community associated with the corresponding attributes. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120714 | TEMPORAL-BASED PROFESSIONAL SIMILARITY - A system and method for temporal-based professional similarity are provided. In example embodiments, a request to identify, from among a plurality of member profiles of a social network service, a profile that is similar to a source profile, is received. Profile data of the source profile and a candidate profile are accessed from the social network service. Profile features are extracted from the profile data. The profile features include source features extracted from the profile data of the source profile and candidate features extracted from the profile data of the candidate profile. Respective profile features correspond to temporal data included in the profile data. Data structures are generated by structuring the profile features according to the temporal data. The data structures include a source data structure generated using the source features and a candidate data structure generated using the candidate features. A profile similarity score is determined by comparing the candidate data structure with the source data structure. The profile similarity score indicates the similarity between the candidate profile and the source profile. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127637 | REAL-TIME SEARCH TUNING - Embodiments are directed to dynamically tuning search result rankings to control how the search results are presented in a user interface and to dynamically updating search result rankings based on tuning inputs. In one scenario, a computer system receives search results with associated search result attributes. The search results are displayed within a user interface according to each search result's determined ranking. The computer system then receives a tuning input at the user interface. The tuning input indicates that a search result ranking model is to be adjusted for various specified search result attributes. Moreover, the search result ranking model determines how each search result is ranked. The computer system then dynamically updates the displayed search results as the search result ranking model is tuned for the specified search result attributes. The dynamic updating includes repositioning, adding and removing search results according to the determined ranking for each search result. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127638 | AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF AN INTERMEDIATE DATING LOCATION - In an example, a system and method are disclosed for providing functionality for two users of a matching service, such as an online dating service, to identify a midpoint at which they may conveniently meet. User locations may be based on exact coordinates, or may be more generalized, such as by zip code or city. A midpoint is identified, which may be a geographic center, or which may be a relatively-centralized place of interest. In some cases, a plurality of potential meeting locations are displayed and are ranked for the user. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127639 | GRAPHICALLY REPRESENTING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN REFERENTS AND STORIES - Systems and methods are provided for graphically representing associations between one or more stories and one or more referents of interest. In some embodiments, a score may be determined for each of a set of stories based at least in part on a number of associations between the given story and one or more referents of interest. A graphical representation of the stories may then be presented for display. The graphical representation may include indicia, where each indicium graphically indicates the strength of association between a given story and the one or more referents of interest. The strength of association for a given story may be determined, for example, based at least in part on the determined score for the story. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127640 | REFERENT BASED SEARCH SUGGESTIONS - Computer-implemented methods for providing suggestions for a search based on previously viewed content are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving information on previously viewed content, and receiving a request to enter a query into a search field subsequent to receiving the information on the previously viewed content. The method also includes identifying, based on the content, at least one entity referred to in the content, and providing an identifier of the at least one entity for display with the search field. Systems and machine-readable storage media are also provided. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127641 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING ON MOBILE TERMINAL - Methods and systems for searching on a mobile terminal are provided herein. In an exemplary method, a matching box can be provided on the mobile terminal in response to a click on a search box on the mobile terminal. An operation of a user can be determined. The operation of the user can include selecting a matching item from the matching box or inputting a keyword in the search box. The selected matching item can be used as a keyword to search on the mobile terminal when the user selects the matching item from the matching box. Alternatively, the inputted keyword in the search box can be used to search on the mobile terminal. | 05-07-2015 |
20150134647 | CONTROL SYSTEM DATABASE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The embodiments described herein include one embodiment that provides a control method that includes connecting a first controller to a control system; receiving control system configuration data from a database, in which the configuration data comprises holistic state data of a second controller in the control system; and configuring operation of the first controller based at least in part on the configuration data received. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134648 | USER-SPECIFIC SEARCH OVER PROTECTED CONTEXTUAL DATA - Methods and arrangements for facilitating a display of search results. A search query is received from a user having a predetermined access level. A search is executed based on the search query and, based on the executed search, initial search results are produced. Sensitive information is redacted from the initial search results, based on the predetermined access level. The redacted search results are filtered and re-ordered to forestall an inference of the redacted sensitive information. The filtered and re-ordered search results are displayed to a user. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134649 | Inquiry method and system, inquiry search server and inquiry terminal - The disclosure relates to the communication field and disclosures an inquiry method, an inquiry system, an inquiry search server and an inquiry terminal. The method includes that: after receiving an inquiry request from an inquiry terminal, an inquiry search server acquires a keyword related to the inquiry request, determines a given number of other inquiry terminals as a target inquiry terminal group according to the keyword and relevant information of the other inquiry terminals, and sends the inquiry request to each target inquiry terminal in the target inquiry terminal group. The disclosure enables the users of inquiry terminals to inquiry of each other about a question and to obtain a corresponding answer, which undoubtedly facilitates the operation of the users and contributes to promoting the technical solution of the disclosure, moreover, the disclosure truly pools the wisdom of the masses to achieve an excellent inquiry-and-answer effect. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134650 | MINING PATTERNS IN A DATASET - Accessing data in a database includes receiving, from a first user, a first query for a dataset stored in a database. A first set of patterns is provided in the dataset. For each pattern in the first set of patterns, a significance value is provided in response to the received first query. A set of tags is provided for flagging a pattern of the first set of patterns, the set of tags indicating at least two data categories describing the pattern. Input information received from the first user indicates tags of at least a first subset of patterns of the first set of patterns, wherein each tag of the tags is selected from the set of tags. The significance values of the first subset of patterns are adjusted based on the tags. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134651 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SURROUND VIEW BASED SEARCH - According to various examples, a surround view can be used as a visual search query for an object to be searched and this surround view can be compared to a database of three dimensional models. A determination can then be made about whether any of the three dimensional models match the visual search query. Based on how closely the three dimensional models match the visual search query, matching objects can be provided in various formats such as ranked lists. | 05-14-2015 |
20150142785 | GENERALIZED GRAPH, RULE, AND SPATIAL STRUCTURE BASED RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - One embodiment of the present invention provides a recommendation system. During operation, the system receives context information associated with the user, updates a plurality of user models based on the received context information, and identifies at least one spatial data structure that stores a plurality of items. A respective item is stored within the spatial data structure based on a vector value associated with the item. The system then queries the spatial data structure to obtain a first set of recommendable items that have vector values within a predetermined range, calculates a score for each item within the set of recommendable items based on the plurality of the user models and a characterization vector associated with each item, ranks the items within the set of recommendable items based on calculated scores, and recommends one or more top-ranked items to the user. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142786 | MODIFICATION OF CLOUD APPLICATION SERVICE LEVELS BASED UPON DOCUMENT CONSUMPTION - An approach for modifying cloud application service levels based upon analysis of documents is provided. The approach performs automated ingestion of documents to determine criticality and needs of certain applications, and develops an understanding of existing cloud environments and service level agreements. The approach may further suggest or automatically reassign applications to the cloud infrastructure to meet the needs of an application. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142787 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCH REFINEMENT - A search refinement method and system to select items from a plurality of items using a user device connected via the internet to a server apparatus. The server apparatus includes a database of items and item attributes. Images of a first subset of the items are transmitted to the user device where they are presented on a display. A change indication selected by a user of the user device is received by the server apparatus, the change indication including at least one of an attribute selection and a reference item selected from the first subset. Responsive to receiving the change indication, an item score is computed for each of the items based on the item's attributes and the change indication. Images of a second subset of the items are presented on the user device. Each time the user initiates a change indication, another subset is presented on the user device, and the user can iteratively refine the search by finding items similar to the items represented by the change indication. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142788 | Repair Information Management Apparatus, Repair Information Management System, and Repair Information Management Method - A database stores a parts list, a tools and materials list, a repair information list, and an equipment list. The parts list and the tools and materials list are associated with regulation information, which indicates that the parts, the tools, and the materials are subject to a regulation, and updated every time a new regulation is imposed. The repair information list is associated with an indicator which indicates whether a repair is compliant with the regulation, and updated every time a repair is performed. The equipment list is associated with an indicator which indicates whether equipment is compliant with the regulation, and updated every time one of the parts list, the tools and materials list, and the repair information list is updated. Those which are not compliant with the regulation are extracted from each list stored in the database, and displayed on a regulatory compliance check screen. | 05-21-2015 |
20150149450 | DETERMINING PROBLEM RESOLUTIONS WITHIN A NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided for determining problem resolutions within a networked computing environment. The method includes retrieving, by one or more computer processors, event data from within a networked computing environment. The method includes determining, by the one or more computer processors, a characteristic of a database within the networked computing environment, the database storing a plurality of problem resolutions. The method includes determining, by the one or more computer processors, a search query corresponding to the event data and to the characteristic of the database. The method includes performing, by the one or more computer processors, a first search of the database using the search query and then refining, by the one or more computer processors, the search query. The method then includes performing, by the one or more computer processors, at least one additional search of the database using the refined search query. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149451 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR INTEGRATED WORLD WIDE WEB QUERY CLASSIFICATION - Implementing query classification includes executing a reductionist module on a query to extract a core term, which term is used to search a hash table that maps core terms to corresponding categories; deriving a first result including one of the categories from the search; and executing an enrichment module on the query to yield a second result. The enrichment module includes searching an index of terms that are mapped to documents and corresponding categories. Upon determining the core term is present in the hash table, a weighted average is calculated for values of the first and second results based on training data. Upon determining the core term from the query is not in the hash table, and also that a probability score of the category in the index for the second result meets a minimum confidence value, the core term and the corresponding categories are stored in the hash table. | 05-28-2015 |
20150293919 | OBTAINING DESIRED WEB CONTENT FOR A MOBILE DEVICE - Methods and systems to obtain desired web content for a mobile device are disclosed. Users access web pages with mobile devices such as smart phones in addition to their non-mobile devices. In order to conveniently display information on mobile devices having smaller screens, mobile versions of web pages offering abridged content are available as well as non-mobile versions. When a web page is selected from search results provided from a query in a web search, the mobile or non-mobile versions of the web page may be delivered. By delivering a web page version to a mobile device based on relevance rankings determined for the non-mobile and mobile versions of the web page, desired content is more efficiently delivered. In this manner, a search experience may be improved by reducing deliveries of mobile versions of web pages to mobile devices where an alternative non-mobile version of the web page is preferred. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293941 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN IMAGE REPOSITORY FOR PATHOLOGY - Systems and methods for managing an image repository for pathology. In an embodiment, a search request is received. One or more digital slide images are identified from an image repository based on the search request. A user is provided access to the identified digital slide images. In addition, each of a plurality of collections of digital slide images are associated with a search rating, and a value for each of the plurality of collections is computed based on the associated search rating and a size of the collection. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293996 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR SEARCHING FOR VIDEO CONTENT - Methods, systems, and media for searching for video content using integrated content sources are provided. In some embodiments, a system for searching for video content is provided, the system comprising: at least one hardware processor that is configured to: receive a search query including at least one search term; identify a plurality of video segments that match the search query, wherein each of the plurality of video segments is associated with a transcript that includes the search term; select a first set of video segments from the plurality of video segments; generate a first composite video by combining the first set of video segments; and cause the first composite video to be presented. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293999 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC BOOK AND CLOUD SERVER - A method for providing an electronic book and a cloud server are provided. The method comprises S1: receiving a query; S2: performing a search according to the query; and S3: generating the electronic book according to a search result responsive to the search. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294016 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PREPARING DATA FOR ANALYSIS - A method of preparing data for analysis, comprising the steps of receiving an initial data set including a plurality of records, each of the plurality of records including an identifier attribute and an associative attribute that identifies a further one or more records; receiving the further one or more records identified by the associative attribute in each of the plurality of records; and associating the further one or more records with the initial data set to form a final data set. | 10-15-2015 |
20150302097 | SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING CHARACTERIZED INFORMATION - A computerized method for searching one or more information sources and identifying and reporting characterized information can comprise searching one or more data sources for a user-provided search target. The method can also comprise receiving one or more data results from the search of the one or more data sources. Additionally, the method can comprise classifying the one or more data results based upon the association of the user-provided search target with a derogatory attribute. The derogatory attribute can be determined based upon the content within each of the one or more data results. The method can comprise displaying an indication of at least a portion of the classified one or more data results with an indication of a cumulative ranking for each of the one or more data results. | 10-22-2015 |
20150310022 | SEARCHING DOCUMENTATION ACROSS INTERCONNECTED NODES IN A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK - 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. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310095 | INPUT CORRECTION ENHANCEMENT - An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an input device, user input having a string of characters; determining, using a processor, one or more potential errors in the string of characters; identifying, using a processor, a character location of a highest ranked error of the one or more potential errors within the string of characters; and positioning, on a display, a visual indication associated with the location of the highest ranked error within the string of characters. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 10-29-2015 |
20150317357 | Searchable Index - Systems and techniques are disclosed for generating entries for a searchable index based on rules generated by one or more machine-learned models. The index entries can include one or more tokens correlated with an outcome and an outcome probability. A subset of tokens can be identified based on the characteristics of an event. The index may be searched for outcomes and their respective probabilities that correspond to tokens that are similar to or match the subset of tokens based on the event. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317387 | Collaborative Iterative Design - Apparatus, systems, and methods to enable collaborative iterative development of an idea and/or design through the use of acyclic directed graphs. For each graph, an initial node may be established, containing a starting idea or invention. Additional nodes may then be added by users, where each node may be a revision of its direct predecessor, and may have zero, one or multiple direct successors. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317399 | ELECTRONIC COMMERCE WEB PAGE MANAGEMENT - Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward a method, a system, and a computer program product for displaying a change event for a web page. The method includes receiving a change event location located on a web page in a pre-deployment environment. The method includes querying a database to return a plurality of change events for the change event location within a duration period. The duration period includes a start time and an end time. The method includes displaying the plurality of change events from the query. The method includes prioritizing the plurality of change events from the query. The method includes selecting an active change event from the plurality of change events based on the priority. The method also includes displaying the active change event to a user. | 11-05-2015 |
20150324365 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING RANKED SEARCH RESULTS - A method and system for ranking images in response to a user presenting search criteria on a user interface of a computing device, comprising (1) searching a first database to locate a set of pertinent images satisfying the search criteria, (2) extracting a set of suggested color palettes from the set of images, (3) processing each color palette from the set of suggested color palettes by iteratively performing the following operations: (a) identifying a next color palette, (b) identifying a set of images from which the next color palette is extracted from, (c)) determine a set of parameters of a first set of operations, and (d) ascertaining an image rank measure for each image from the set of images by performing the first set of operations, and (4) generating a ranked display of the set of images based on the image rank measure. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324368 | HIERARCHICAL RANKING OF FACIAL ATTRIBUTES - In response to a query of discernable facial attributes, the locations of distinct and different facial regions are estimated from face image data, each relevant to different attributes. Different features are extracted from the estimated facial regions from database facial images, which are ranked in base layer rankings as a function of relevance of extracted features to attributes relevant to the estimated regions, and in second-layer rankings as a function of combinations of the base layer rankings and relevance of the extracted features to common ones of the attributes relevant to the estimated regions. The images are ranked in relevance to the query as a function of the second-layer rankings. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324409 | SERVER, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING RANKINGS OF SEARCH TERMS WHOSE POPULARITIES INCREASE RAPIDLY - A method of generating popularity rankings of search terms includes generating a ranking value table including ranking values corresponding to rankings of search terms, determining first ranking values corresponding to previous rankings of a plurality of search terms and second ranking values corresponding to current rankings of the plurality of search terms by using the ranking value table, and obtaining difference values based on differences between the first ranking values and the second ranking values of the plurality of search terms, respectively, and determining popularity rankings of the plurality of search terms by using the difference values. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324455 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE SEARCH FOR VARIABLES - A method for natural language search for variables is provided. The method may include searching an index using key words from a user's natural language question and the context of the user's question. The index may reference variables and/or web service calls in a domain model. The method may also include saving documents obtained in response to the search. The method may also include mapping each of the documents as a node into an object graph. Each node may be associated with a parent node, except when the node is a root node. The method may also include identifying the root node of each document. The method may also include identifying the path of each node from the node to the node's root node. The method may also include identifying matching paths. Each matching path may provide an answer to the user's question. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324460 | LONG TAIL MONETIZATION PROCEDURE FOR MUSIC INVENTORIES - A system and method for constructively providing a monetization procedure for a long tail demand curve of market goods, services or contents in the music industry through a channel such as the Internet or mobile devices, for which there exists a source providing economic scoring (sales, downloads, streaming time, etc.). Using only the scorings for a few reference items and a quantitative concept of similarity between the songs, a procedure is provided that constructively distributes the preference score from the reference items to the non-ranked ones, yielding the full scoring curve adjusted to a long tail law (power law). In order to build preference scores for non-ranked items, the method recursively defines relative preferences between songs based on their similarity, thus constructing a utility-like function. The preferences are then used within an iterative Elo-like tournament strategy between the items. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324471 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO EXTRACT AND UTILIZE TEXTUAL SEMANTICS - Systems and methods to extract and utilize textual semantics are described. The system receives item information that describes an item for publication on a network-based publication system and analyses the item information to generate application information that identifies a plurality of applications. The plurality of applications includes a first application that further includes the item as a first component of the first application. The system stores a listing in a database that includes the application information and the item information and publishes the listing on the network-based publication system. | 11-12-2015 |
20150331865 | MANAGEMENT OF ONLINE COMMUNITY MERGE EVENTS - A method includes selecting community groups having a first community from a plurality of communities and a second community from the plurality of communities. The method includes collecting a plurality of community factors that each describe the first community and the second community. The method also includes determining a plurality of correlation values, for each community factor from the plurality of community factors, between the first community and the second community. The method also includes calculating a community merge score from the plurality of correlation values. The method also includes merging the community group in response to a community merge score threshold being met by the community merge score. | 11-19-2015 |
20150331866 | RANKING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON ENTITY METRICS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for ranking search results. A search system may determine several metrics based on search results. The search system may determine weights for the metrics, wherein the weights are based in part on the type of entity included in the search. The search system may determine a score by combining the metrics and the weights. The search system may rank search results based on the score. | 11-19-2015 |
20150331867 | ADAPTIVE SHORT LISTS AND ACCELERATION OF BIOMETRIC DATABASE SEARCH - A system for comparing a biometric sample against a biometric dataset is provided. In one embodiment, a system for comparing a biometric sample against a biometric dataset comprises a database storing at least one biometric dataset. The system may also comprise a comparison module configured to iteratively provide a comparison score for each record in the biometric dataset, wherein the comparison score indicates a likelihood of match between an individual record in the biometric dataset and the biometric sample; wherein, during each iteration. The steps in the iteration may comprise retrieving a model of each of the plurality of records. The steps in the iteration may also comprise comparing the model of each of the plurality of records against the biometric sample. The steps in the iteration may also comprise generating the comparison score for each of the plurality of records. The steps in the iteration may also comprise iteratively compare the biometric sample against a plurality of records. The steps in the iteration may also comprise wherein the resolution of the retrieved model increases with each iteration, and where the iterative process continues until a final list of potential match candidates is determined. The system may also comprise a processor configured to receive data indicative of the biometric sample and iteratively engage the comparison model such that results of the first iteration are provided as an input to a second iterator. | 11-19-2015 |
20150331868 | DETERMINATION OF A DESIRED REPOSITORY FOR RETRIEVING SEARCH RESULTS - A system receives a search query from a user and searches a group of repositories, based on the search query, to identify, for each of the repositories, a set of search results. The system also identifies one of the repositories based on a likelihood that the user desires information from the identified repository and presents the set of search results associated with the identified repository. | 11-19-2015 |
20150331930 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFICATION OF MEDIA BASED ON METADATA - An approach is provided for processing and/or facilitating a processing of metadata associated with one or more media items to determine one or more observed values for one or more classification parameters, wherein the one or more classification parameters include, at least in part, a number of captured media items per day, a distance of one or more capture locations from at least one home location, or a combination thereof. The approach involves causing, at least in part, a comparison of the one or more observed values against one or more references values for the one or more classification parameters. The approach also involves causing, at least in part, a classification of the one or more media items as being associated with at least one multi-day event based, at least in part, on the comparison. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334141 | Collaborative Peer Review System and Method of Use - Disclosed is a system and method for providing poll-based reviews of various businesses and service providers. In particular, a reviewer provides a review by answering poll-based review questions and/or adding new poll-based review questions to provide the most relevant feedback. The review questions can be ranked in order of relevance and/or importance to each reviewer. The data from the review is summarized and presented so that information related to each reviewee is presented in order of preference to the reviewer. Additionally, the present invention gathers data from each reviewer by using polls to tailor suggestions for new reviewees to the reviewer. | 11-19-2015 |
20150339273 | VISUALIZING FONT SIMILARITIES FOR BROWSING AND NAVIGATION - Font graphs are defined having a finite set of nodes representing fonts and a finite set of undirected edges denoting similarities between fonts. The font graphs enable users to browse and identify similar fonts. Indications corresponding to a degree of similarity between connected nodes may be provided. A selection of a desired font or characteristics associated with one or more attributes of the desired font is received from a user interacting with the font graph. The font graph is dynamically redefined based on the selection. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339363 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND INTERFACE TO FACILITATE CHANGE OF AN EMOTIONAL STATE OF A USER AND CONCURRENT USERS - A method, system and device for enabling a user to achieve modification or transformation of his emotional states are disclosed. The method utilizes a mapping of one or more of behavioural, sensory-visceral, attentional-perceptual, cognitive, and meta-cognitive states associated with an emotional state and on the user's understanding of the neurophysiological states and mechanisms underlying his emotional states to produce a blueprint that enables the user to use his understanding of his brain and other physiological states associated with an emotional state to effect the desired changes in his emotional state. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339700 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING PROMOTION INFORMATION - The present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus and a system for processing promotion information. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure introduce a PS, which is used to characterize the quality of promotion information, into an eCTR as a new calculation factor, and therefore ensure the consistency between calculation logics of the PS and a RS, and can avoid the problem of inconsistency between the quality of the promotion information and the position of presenting the promotion information caused by the inconsistency between the calculation logics of the PS and the RS, thereby improving the effectiveness of pushing the promotion information. | 11-26-2015 |
20150347407 | DYNAMIC CURRENT RESULTS FOR SECOND DEVICE - Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for providing at least one dynamic current result to a second device, such as a mobile phone, where the at least one dynamic current result is related to content that is active on a first device such as a television. The dynamic current result may be generated based on a search query. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347530 | UNIT CONVERTER WITH SORTED LIST OF RESULTS - Unit conversion methods and systems that use an auto-scaling algorithm to sort conversion results. A plurality of unit conversion results, which represent a conversion of an input value in an input unit, are sorted into a sorted list based on the scale of the values in the results and the sorted list is presented (e.g. displayed) to a user. In one embodiment, the sorting is done without regard to the units in the conversion results and values between zero and one are transformed before sorting. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347544 | Online Platform for Design, Creation, Maintenance, and Information Sharing of a Garden - An online platform for design, creation, maintenance, and information sharing of a garden is disclosed. A user interface is generated for receiving information from a user relating to a garden. In response to receiving information from the user, a selection of plant varieties is generated based on garden geotagging and environmental information. At least one, dynamically maintained plant database of user created garden knowledge is provided. Identification searches are performed by using geometry-based botanical properties in a visual search. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347590 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A PATTERN MATCHING SEARCH - A method including the steps of: receiving a search query containing search terms from a user device; retrieving from one or more data storage devices, search configuration information in response to the received search query, wherein the search configuration information comprises a designated field set; generating a plurality of query partitions based on the received search query; generating one or more internal query clauses based on all possible combinations of sub-phrases of the plurality of query partitions and fields from the designated field set; executing a query on a database based on the one or more internal query clauses; generating query results based on the executed query; calculating match metrics for all query results; determining query results having match metrics that satisfy configured match constraints as legitimate matches; and detecting patterns based on corresponding matched terms and fields of the legitimate matches. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347599 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS - An electronic health record system includes a query translation engine in communication with a user interaction module to transform query phrases from the user interaction module into formalized database queries of the extracted data from a data organization module. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356089 | Weighting Search Criteria Based on Similarities to an Ingested Corpus in a Question and Answer (QA) System - A mechanism is provided, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory configured to implement a question and answer (QA) system, for weighting search criteria based on similarities to an ingested corpus in the QA system. A set of question characteristics found in a received input question are compared to a set of data characteristics respectively describing data in each corpus of a corpora. For each question characteristic in the set of found question characteristics, a first weight is assigned to the corpus within which data associated with the data characteristic resides in response to the question characteristic being more related to a data characteristic; otherwise a second weight is assigned, where the first weight is greater than the second weight. A selective search is then performed for an answer to the received input question in one or more corpora with a higher weighting. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356090 | System and Method for Dynamically Constructing Theatrical Experiences from Digital Content - A system and method can automatically and dynamically construct scripts for live theatrical experiences from online content by automatically forming and managing queries and filters to retrieve and select appropriate content from a variety of online sources, and assembling the content so identified in order to produce interesting theatrical experiences. The resulting scripts can be relayed dynamically to actors for presentation in live theatrical performances. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356156 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LIMITING SHARE OF VOICE OF INDIVIDUAL USERS - In various example embodiments, a system and method for limiting shares of voice of individual users in a result set are provided. In example embodiments, an entity providing each entry in a result set of a search is identified. Sorting criteria including a distance rule that includes a distance value defining a minimum distance between entries from a same entity are retrieved. A sorted result set is generated in compliance with the sorting criteria by shifting a listing from the same entity down one or more positions in order to satisfy the sorting criteria. The sorted result set is provided to a searching user. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356182 | BANDWIDTH EFFICIENT PROCESSING AND FILTERING ACROSS DISTRIBUTED DATABASES - A central node sends a query indicating at least one key performance indicator (KPI) and a first KPI filter criterion to one or more edge nodes causing each edge node to cache subscriber data from each subscriber having a KPI value corresponding to the KPI. The central node receives subscriber data, responsive to the query, and aggregates the subscriber data according to each subscriber and the corresponding KPI value to yield an aggregated initial subscriber dataset and sends a subsequent query to each edge node that (for each edge node) indicates a subscriber from the initial subscriber dataset not returned by the edge node. The central node receives subsequent subscriber, responsive to the subsequent query, and aggregates the subsequent subscriber data with the initial subscriber dataset to yield a final subscriber dataset that indicates a total KPI value for each subscriber. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363397 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTENT ON-BOARDING - The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for generating a recommendation to on-board a candidate document to an on-line research system, which comprises receiving from an electronic device, a set of data items associated with a candidate document, the candidate document being a document that is a candidate to be made available via the on-line research system and storing the set of data items in a memory. The systems and methods of the present disclosure then automatically analyze the set of data items using a computer program stored in the memory and generate a recommendation as to whether to obtain or not obtain the candidate document. A signal is then generated and transmitted to the electronic device, the signal based upon the recommendation. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363401 | RANKING SEARCH RESULTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing ranked search results responsive to a query. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a user device, a query specifying an entity, determining two or more resources each of which provide media content related to the entity, for each of the resources, determining an effectiveness measure that is a measure of the effectiveness of the resource to present, to a user of the user device, the media content related to the entity, ranking the resources using, at least in part, the respective effectiveness measure, and providing, to the user device, a presentation of search results for the ranked resources. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363402 | Statistical Filtering of Search Results on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query from a first user of an online social network and identifying a set of objects associated with the online social network that substantially match the query. The method also includes calculating, for each identified object, multiple scores corresponding to multiple scoring axes, respectively, each scoring axis having a threshold score that is statistically determined for the scoring axis. The method further includes filtering one or more of the identified objects from the set of objects based on the calculated scores, where each filtered object is associated with one or more scores for one or more scoring axes, respectively, below the threshold score of the respective scoring axis. The method also includes generating one or more search results corresponding to one or more of the identified objects remaining in the set of objects, respectively. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363403 | CONTEXTUAL SUGGESTIONS OF COMMUNICATION TARGETS - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing contextual suggestions of communication targets. One example method includes identifying a communication, semantically analyzing the identified communication to identify at least one keyword or topic associated with the identified communication, comparing the identified at least one keyword or topic associated with the identified communication to a semantic index of communication targets associated with pre-defined keywords and topics, identifying a set of communication targets associated with the identified at least one keyword or topic associated with the identified communication, and presenting the identified set of communication targets as suggested communication targets. Presenting the identified set of communication targets as suggested communication targets may include ranking the identified set of communication targets based on at least one ranking parameter and identifying a subset of the relatively higher ranked communication targets. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363405 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ORDERED USER EXPERT LISTS FOR A SHARED DIGITAL DOCUMENT - A computer implemented method and apparatus for generating ordered user expert lists for a shared digital document. The method comprises accessing a digital document, wherein the digital document relates to one or more topics; generating a list of expert students, wherein the expert students have authored one or more annotations relating to a topic similar to a topic in the digital document; ordering the list of expert students according to a rank, wherein the rank identifies a level of expertise of the expert students; and presenting the ordered list of expert students, where the ordered list comprises a pre-defined number of expert students with a level of expertise meeting a predefined threshold. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363443 | PREDICTIVE PLACEMENT OF COLUMNS DURING CREATION OF A LARGE DATABASE - Methods and arrangements for predictively placing columns of a large database in a multi-tier storage system. Aspects include receiving a database to be stored in the multi-tier storage system, wherein the database comprises a plurality of columns and the multi-tier storage system comprises at least two storage devices and evaluating one or more attributes of each of the plurality of columns of the database. Aspects also include storing each of the plurality of columns of the database on one of the at least two storage devices, wherein a determination of which of the at least two storage devices to store each of the plurality of columns is based on the one or more attributes of each of the columns, a predictive model based on the weighted columnar relationship graph, and the characteristics of the storage devices. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363470 | INDEX MERGE ORDERING - Method to order query results, by processing a received query at least in part using a composite key index, wherein the composite key index comprises at least two key columns, wherein the at least two key columns comprise at least one pre-ordering column and an ordering column, wherein the query specifies ordering criteria to order a result set based on values of the ordering column, wherein the processing comprises receiving, from the composite key index, an ordering column value for each unique pre-ordering column value in the composite key index, identifying a first ordering column value as being ordered first according to the ordering criteria, and returning the first ordering column value as being responsive to the query. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363495 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING SEARCH EXTRACT TITLE - System and method for providing search results are disclosed. The methods of the present disclosure relate to displaying results of a search operation comprising at least one search extract and a title to the search extract, such that, the presentation semantics of the title is different from the rest of the extract. | 12-17-2015 |
20150370800 | MANAGING STREAMS OF TUPLES - A plurality of streams of tuples is received by processing elements operating on computer processors, the processing element having one or more stream operators. A first stream of tuples is processed at a receiving stream operator. A streaming condition is then identified. The streaming condition is determined to be satisfied and an alternate stream of tuples is processed at the receiving stream operator. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370803 | AUTOMATIC POSITIONING OF ELEMENTS IN A COMPUTER-BASED DOCUMENT - Positioning an element in a computer-based document by determining, for each of a plurality of positions of a target element displayed in a plurality of computer-based documents, a first performance value associated with the target element, and a second performance value associated with a non-target element displayed in the plurality of computer-based documents, selecting one of the positions that meets predefined selection criteria as applied to the performance values, determining, for a position factor associated with the target element, a position factor value associated with the selected position, and assigning the position factor value to the position factor. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370861 | Methods and Systems for Searching Enterprise Data - Methods and systems for searching enterprise data are provided. The method is for searching data and includes identifying edges associating data and/or people. The method also includes assigning a resistance value to an edge based on strength(s) of association, the resistance value being inversely related to the strength of the association. The method further includes forming a resistance graph connecting the user with the data and the people based on the values of the edges. Additionally, the method includes providing results for a search query from a user based on the resistance graph with lower resistance values being prioritized for the user. | 12-24-2015 |
20150379057 | UNDERSTANDING TABLES FOR SEARCH - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for understanding tables for search. Aspects of the invention include identifying a subject column for a table, detecting a column header using other tables, and detecting a column header using a knowledge base. Implementations can be utilized in a structured data search system (SDSS) that indexes structured information, such as, tables in a relational database or html tables extracted from web pages. The SDSS allows users to search over the structured information (tables) using different mechanisms including keyword search and data finding data. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379120 | Prompting Subject Matter Experts for Additional Detail Based on Historical Answer Ratings - An approach is provided for evaluating a potential post based on historical data. In the approach, historically highly rated attributes that to previously received highly rated posts are identified. The process receives a potential post from an online Subject Matter Expert (SME). The process analyzes the potential post, using a Natural Language Processing (NLP) routine performed by computer processors. The analysis identifies a lack of one or more of the historically highly rated attributes in the potential post. The process then notifies the SME, based on the analysis, regarding the lack of one or more of the historically highly rated attributes in the potential post. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379121 | COMPLEX SERVICE NETWORK RANKING AND CLUSTERING - Offline functionality-based co-ranking and clustering is carried out on a knowledge base that characterizes a heterogeneous information technology services network including a plurality of services, a plurality of providers, and a plurality of attributes. Results of the functionality-based co-ranking and clustering are stored as annotations of the services and the providers in the knowledge base, to obtain an annotated knowledge base. A service requirement is obtained from a customer requiring information technology services. The annotated knowledge base is queried, based on the service requirement; and an ordered list of at least given ones of the services, based on the querying, is returned to the customer. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379131 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CONNECTION STRENGTH IN A RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for determining connection strength for users of a relationship management system is described. The method may include receiving a request from a first user of a relationship management system user for a connection strength score associated with a relationship management system account. Furthermore, the method may include determining connection strength scores between each of the plurality of contacts in the account and the organization based on communications exchanged between each of the plurality of contacts with users of the relationship management system. The method may also include selecting a subset of contacts from the account based on the determined connection strength scores, and presenting the selected subset of contacts from the account to the first relationship management system user. | 12-31-2015 |
20160004745 | DATA SEARCH METHOD AND DATA SEARCH SYSTEM - A data search method and system are provided in which data including a suitable reply to a query can be retrieved through a concept search. A data search method for searching for a text group that is similar to an inquiry text from data storing a plurality or text groups into which a plurality of texts are grouped includes: obtaining first information that is likely to be a search object and an appearance frequency of the first information with respect to each of the text groups and classifying the first information as second information that is a search object if the appearance frequency of the first information is less than or equal to a predetermined frequency; extracting third information included in the inquiry text; searching for the third information from the second information with respect to each of the text groups; and outputting the identifiers of a predetermined number of text groups with a higher number of hits on the third information included in the inquiry text. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004766 | SEARCH TECHNOLOGY USING SYNONIMS AND PARAPHRASING - The present invention is a method and a system of organizing information searches in electronic text corpora and displaying the search results in the user interface. The system and the method enable searches not just for words or word combinations, but also for specific lexical meanings of words, where a lexical meaning is a realization of a word's semantic meaning in a particular language. The completeness of search results is bases on incorporation synonyms and paraphrases in the search. The method also includes searching for fragments matching the query in electronic text corpora, estimating the results and the displaying the results ranked to the user. | 01-07-2016 |
20160012047 | Method and Apparatus for Updating Speech Recognition Databases and Reindexing Audio and Video Content Using the Same | 01-14-2016 |
20160012053 | Generating A Content Stream Including Content Items From Multiple Applications Executing On A Client Device | 01-14-2016 |
20160012059 | SCALING DYNAMIC AUTHORITY-BASED SEARCH USING MATERIALIZED SUBGRAPHS | 01-14-2016 |
20160019215 | ASSIGNING SCORES TO OBJECTS BASED ON SEARCH QUERY RESULTS - Systems and methods for assigning scores to objects based on evaluating triggering conditions applied to datasets produced by search queries in data aggregation and analysis systems. An example method may comprise: executing, by one or more processing devices, a search query to produce a dataset comprising one or more data items derived from source data; and responsive to determining that at least a portion of the dataset satisfies a triggering condition, modifying a score assigned to an object to which the portion of the dataset pertains. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019219 | SEARCH RESULT RANKER - A computerized method for optimizing search result rankings obtained from a search result ranker has the steps of retrieving a first set of query-document pairs, each query-document pair of the first set having an associated post-impression features vector; generating a weight vector having a number of weights corresponding to a number of post-impression features in each of the post-impression feature vector of the first set; generating a target function by using the weight vector and the post-impression features vectors of the first set; using a performance metric associated with the target function, optimizing the weights of the weight vector using the first set of query-document pairs to obtain an optimized target function; optimizing the search result ranker using the optimized target function; and using the optimized search result ranker to rank search results. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019297 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLONING A TARGET LIST - A computing device (e.g., a server or other type of computer) electronically receives multiple target records from a client and determines which records of the target list matches records of a database. The matched records of the database include one or more additional fields that are not contained in the target records received from the client. The computing device models the relationship among the matched records of the database with respect to the one or more additional fields. In one implementation, the computing device carries out this modeling by performing stepwise linear regression on the matched records of the database with respect to the one or more additional fields. The computing device uses the output of this modeling process in order to identify which of the one or more additional fields has a significant impact on the matching between the records of the target list and the records of the database. | 01-21-2016 |
20160026629 | QUESTION ANSWER SYSTEM USING PHYSICAL DISTANCE DATA - A question relating to an individual is received and context from the question is extracted. Subject matter criteria can be identified from the context of the question. A database containing history data that includes recorded positional data for physical objects relative to the location of the individual at the time of recording can be accessed and relevant physical objects from the history data can be identified based upon the subject matter criteria. A set of answers can be generated for the question from a corpus of data and ranked based upon the identified physical objects and physical distance between the individual and the relevant physical objects. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026642 | INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING AND REPRODUCING INFORMATION, IN PARTICULAR FOR USE IN THE WORKSHOP SECTOR - An information system, for a motor vehicle workshop, has a user input unit for a use to input at least one feature; a database contains data sets and at least one link table having fields for linking the data sets, each data set including at least one feature and at least one first allocation list having at least one allocation list element linking the data set with at least one field in the at least one link table; a selection unit to select from the database at least one data set having at least one of the features inputted as the first data set; and an allocation unit to evaluate the first allocation lists of the data sets and to select as second data sets those data sets whose first allocation list contains at least one allocation list element linking the respective data set with a field in the link table that is linked with the first data set by at least one allocation list element in the first allocation list of the first data set. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026695 | SUGGESTING ALTERNATE DATA MAPPINGS FOR CHARTS - Data mapping alternatives for creating a visual representation of a set of data are presented. A set of data is identified for analysis. The identified set of data and properties associated with the identified set of data are analyzed. Based on the analysis, data mapping alternatives for the identified set of data are determined The determined data mapping alternatives for the identified set of data are ranked. The determined data mapping alternatives are presented in an order according to the ranking of the determined data mapping alternatives. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026712 | PREFIX MATCHING USING DISTRIBUTED TABLES FOR STORAGE SERVICES COMPATIBILITY - Technology is disclosed for enabling storage service compatibility. The technology can enable sorting of data stored across partitions, and provide for key splitting, e.g., to respond to data updates and additions. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034455 | MEDIA OBJECT MAPPING IN A MEDIA RECOMMENDER - A method of matching media objects comprises identifying an unknown media item as being the same media item as one of a plurality of known media items by comparing identifying information of the unknown media item with identifying information of one or more known media items. Comparing the identifying information comprises generating a match score for the unknown media item and at least one of the plurality of known media items by comparing the identifying information and determining that the media items match if the match score exceeds a fuzzy match threshold score. If the match score is below the fuzzy match threshold score but above a weak match threshold score, a crowdsource determination of whether the media items match is generated by receiving from two or more users a user determination of whether the media items match. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034510 | INDEXING AND SEARCHING LOG RECORDS USING TEMPLATES INDEX AND ATTRIBUTES INDEX - A computer partitions a log stream into records having defined intervals. For each of the records, the computer selects a template from among a set of templates in a templates index repository based on an identifier for the record being associated in the templates index repository with the template, identifies an attribute contained in the record based on the template, and stores the attribute associated with an identifier for the record and an identifier for the template in an attributes index repository. The attributes index repository and the templates index repository are used to retrieve records responsive to search queries. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034542 | INTEGRATING VARIOUS SEARCH AND RELEVANCE PROVIDERS IN TRANSACTIONAL SEARCH - Search parameters are generated from search tokens that are entered within a transactional search context. A data provider is selected from a plurality of different data providers for executing a search, using the search tokens. Relevance calculators that calculate the relevance of matching search results, and sorting systems, that sort the search results, can also be selected from a plurality of different relevance calculators and sorting systems. The sorted search results are then displayed. | 02-04-2016 |
20160042060 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, SEARCH SUPPORT METHOD, SEARCH SUPPORT APPARATUS, AND RESPONDING METHOD - A search support apparatus includes a receiving unit, a determining unit, and an output unit. The receiving unit receives a question containing a character string and extracts a keyword for specifying a question object and a keyword for specifying a question type from the character string contained in the question. The determining unit determines a display mode of an output of a response to the received question in accordance with the keyword for specifying the question type. The output unit outputs a search result based on the keyword for specifying the question object, in the display mode of the output. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042067 | Blending Search Results on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query from a user of an online social network and searching multiple verticals to identify multiple sets of objects in each vertical, respectively, that match the search query, and wherein each vertical stores one or more objects associated with the online social network. The method also includes ranking, for each set of identified objects from a vertical, each identified object in the set of identified objects. The method further includes blending the multiple sets of identified objects from each vertical to form a set of blended search results that includes a threshold number of identified objects, the blending including an iterative process performed at least the threshold number of iterations. Each iteration of the iterative blending process includes determining a blender score for each top-ranked identified object in each set of identified objects. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048510 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATION AND OPERATION OF ANALYTICS WITH STRATEGIC LINKAGES - The present invention relates to a system, method and medium for associating portions of advocational documents with portions of tribunal decisions in view of common or similar characteristics that are identified between the associated entities. In addition, the associated advocational document portions are imparted with certain characteristics resulting from such an association, such as inheriting the topic of the associated tribunal decision portion or inheriting general characteristics of the decision such as judge or jurisdiction. This allows for the subsequent retrieval of advocational documents in view of various criteria associated with a decision or portion thereof. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048527 | FILTERING SUGGESTED STRUCTURED QUERIES ON ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an text query inputted by a first user from a client device of the first user, generating a set of structured queries based on the text query, each structured query in the set corresponding to a grammar of a context-free grammar model, wherein each structured query is based on a natural-language string generated by a grammar of the context-free grammar model and comprises one or more tokens, wherein one or more of the tokens of each structured query correspond to one or more objects associated with the online social network, respectively, filtering the set to remove one or more structured queries from the set, each removed structured query having a quality score less than a threshold quality score, and sending one or more of the structured queries from the post-filtered set to the client device of the first user for display. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048592 | Systems and Methods for Providing Search Results - A method includes generating search results in response to a user query, where at least one of the search results includes a group of links. The group of links may represent links to web pages within a same web site and may be identified based on at least one factor associated with the links. The method may also include providing the search results to the user. | 02-18-2016 |
20160055163 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENTERPRISE-LEVEL FILTERED SEARCH - A method for a secure search in a computerized system having a storage, comprising searching for objects in the storage of the computerized system according to search criteria provided by a user wherein the criteria comprise at least one attribute of the objects, identifying objects that meet the criteria and displaying representations respective of identified objects that are accessible to the user, and an apparatus for performing the same. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055212 | AUTOMATIC JOINING OF DATA SETS BASED ON STATISTICS OF FIELD VALUES IN THE DATA SETS - A computer system processes arbitrary data sets to identify fields of data that can be the basis of a join operation. Each data set has a plurality of entries, with each entry having a plurality of fields. For each pair of data sets, the computer system compares the values of fields in a first data set in the pair of data sets to the values of fields in a second data set in the pair of data sets, to identify fields having substantially similar sets of values. Given pairs of fields that have similar sets of values, the computer system measures entropy with respect to an intersection of the sets of values of the pair of fields. The computer system can recommend fields for a join operation between any pair of data sets in the plurality of data sets based on such statistical measures. | 02-25-2016 |
20160062995 | SELECTING ADAPTIVE SECONDARY CONTENT BASED ON A PROFILE OF PRIMARY CONTENT - A content adaptation method includes: obtaining a primary metadata profile associated with a particular time point of primary content; obtaining secondary metadata profiles each associated with corresponding secondary content of a plurality of secondary content; identifying one of the plurality of secondary content associated with a secondary metadata profile having a desired similarity value with the primary metadata profile associated with the primary content; and matching the identified secondary content with the particular time point of the primary content. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063065 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A RANKING BASED RECOMMENDATION - One or more of the systems, apparatuses, or methods discussed herein can include a quality score for a plurality of item listings or collections of item listings. Data sparseness can be avoided, as the quality score is based on inherent properties of the listing. An item listing can be recommended to a user based on the quality score. In one or more embodiments, a method can include determining a plurality of quality scores including a quality score for each of a plurality of item listings or a plurality of collections of item listings, the quality scores determined independent of a user's attributes and independent of the user's contextual information, the contextual information corresponding to details of the user's access to a website, and recommending an item listing or collection of item listings to a user based on the quality scores and the contextual information. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063112 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING AN ELECTRONIC GRAPHICAL SEARCH SPACE OF A DATABASE - Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling Internet users to interact with a graphical search interface. One method includes receiving an analytic to be queried; generating an analytic parameter, based on the received analytic; receiving a search parameter; generating a multi-dimensional search space, based on the generated analytic parameter and the received search parameter, wherein the multi-dimensional search space has a perimeter defined by the generated analytic parameter and the received search parameter; transmitting a graphical interface projecting the multi-dimensional search space, along with one or more user elements by which the user may adjust a weighting of one or more of the generated analytic parameter and the received search parameter by interacting with the one or more user elements; and transmitting a plurality of search results automatically updated in real time based on the user-adjusted weighting of the generated analytic parameter and the received search parameter. | 03-03-2016 |
20160070704 | Mobile Application Search Ranking - Disclosed is a technique for providing a linkage between applications, or other digital content, of an application store by assigning values to users of the digital content with respect to a particular user who is submitting a query for particular digital content. The technique involves receiving a query and identifying a subset of digital content based on the query and a word matching technique. For each identified digital content, users who have installed or downloaded the digital content may be determined. A reputation score, corresponding to a user's influence, and a trust score, corresponding to a degree of separation between the user who submitted the query and other users who have installed the digital content, may be computed for each of the users. A list of recommended applications may be generated based on the word matching technique, the reputation score, and the trust score. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070708 | GUIDED KEYWORD-BASED EXPLORATION OF DATA - A method for guided keyword-based exploration of data stored in a database includes providing, with a processing device, valid query templates for the data, wherein the provided valid query templates include static parts and dynamic parts; selecting those of the provided valid query templates that match a user-provided keyword; generating valid queries from the selected valid query templates using the data; and querying the data using a user-selected valid query selected from the generated valid queries. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070783 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING AMBIGUOUS, MULTI-TERM SEARCH QUERIES - In accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention, a method and system are provided of processing a search query entered by a user of a device having a text input interface with overloaded keys. The search query is directed at identifying an item from a set of items. Each of the items has one or more associated descriptors. The system receives from the user an ambiguous search query directed at identifying a desired item. The search query is a prefix substring of each of at least two words relating to the desired item. The system dynamically identifies a group of one or more items from the set of items having one or more descriptors matching the search query as the user enters each character of the search query. The system outputs identification of the one or more items of the identified group to be displayed on the device operated by the user. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070794 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MASKING AND FILTERING WEB CONTENTS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A method and a system for filtering a plurality of search results in a web page and a computer program product therefor are provided. The method includes, receiving search results corresponding to a search request, and classify the plurality of search results to a plurality of group according to contents of the plurality of search results, wherein the plurality of search results having the same content are classified to the same group. The method also includes generating and storing an identification value corresponding to each of the groups. The method further includes displaying the plurality of search results and marking search results belonging to the same group according to the identification value, and executing a shield operation on at least one search results among the plurality of search results. | 03-10-2016 |
20160078016 | INTELLIGENT ONTOLOGY UPDATE TOOL - Systems, methods and computer program products to automate the process of ontology updates in radiology software are provided. In one aspect, the present disclosure analyzes the textual data describing the radiology exams and identifies terms that are not defined in the existing ontology. It then extracts various types of statistical patterns, such as neighboring concepts, from the textual data, and infers which concepts the unrecognized terms belong to. Finally it presents rank-ordered ontology updating suggestions to the user for final confirmation. The system, methods, and computer program products of the present disclosure are an effective way in updating ontologies, requiring the users to have little, or no prior experience in ontology management or understanding of the underlying ontology structure. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078086 | Query Rewriting Using Session Information - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for natural language processing. One of the methods includes receiving a search query from a user during a user session; obtaining a plurality of prior search queries by the user received during the user session; generating a plurality of candidate query rewrites, wherein the candidate query rewrites are derived from the search query and the plurality of prior search queries by the user; scoring each candidate query rewrite, wherein scoring each candidate rewrite includes determining a quality of each candidate query rewrite based on an analysis of search results responsive to the candidate query rewrite; selecting a candidate query rewrite having a score that satisfies a threshold value; and providing search results responsive to the selected candidate query rewrite. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078108 | VISUALIZATION OF SOCIAL NETWORK METRICS - Embodiments describe a system and method for presenting a data visualization using, at least in part, social network metrics. The social network metrics can include components such as a social connection score, a social content score and a social conversation score. Further details and values of the metrics can include a number of social network connections that an individual has in their social network, a number of content followers of the individual, a number of social network spaces to which the individual belongs, an indication of how a human resource interacts with others within a social network, a number of bookmarks shared, a number of tags added to particular areas of interest, a number of tags added to certain areas of expertise, and others. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078139 | MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORK FOR SHARING MEDIA CAPTURED RECENTLY - A mobile social network is provided for sharing media captured recently. The mobile social network includes an application server that receives, from a downloader mobile device, a request for media associated with a requested location. The application server sends a media inquiry to one or more uploader mobile devices near the requested location. The media inquiry includes information from the request for media. The application server receives a digital media file in response to the media inquiry. The digital media file includes metadata having an authentic capture time of the media associated with the location. The application server generates a results summary, including a status of the digital media file based on the authentic capture time of the media. The application server sends the results summary to the downloader mobile device. | 03-17-2016 |
20160085754 | ROBUST SELECTION OF CANDIDATES - Selecting candidates from a set of candidates by receiving a set of input parameters about a single aspect of the candidates and applying multiple scoring methods to those input parameters to compute a candidate score via each scoring method. A subset of zero or more candidates is then selected from the set of candidates by applying one or more selection criteria to the set of scores. There is not necessarily a value for every input parameter of every candidate. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085760 | METHOD FOR IN-LOOP HUMAN VALIDATION OF DISAMBIGUATED FEATURES - Methods for providing in-loop validation of disambiguated features are disclosed. The disclosed methods may include disambiguating features in unstructured text that may use co-occurring features derived from both the source document and a large document corpus. The disambiguating systems may include multiple modules, including a linking on-the-fly module for linking the derived features from the source document to the co-occurring features of an existing knowledge base. The system for disambiguating features may allow identifying unique entities from a knowledge base that includes entities with a unique set of co-occurring features, which in turn may allow for increased precision in knowledge discovery and search results, employing advanced analytical methods over a massive corpus, employing a combination of entities, co-occurring entities, topic IDs, and other derived features. The disclosed method may use validation to provide input to the system for disambiguating features. | 03-24-2016 |
20160092557 | TECHNIQUES FOR SIMILARITY ANALYSIS AND DATA ENRICHMENT USING KNOWLEDGE SOURCES - The present disclosure relates to performing similarity metric analysis and data enrichment using knowledge sources. A data enrichment service can compare an input data set to reference data sets stored in a knowledge source to identify similarly related data. A similarity metric can be calculated corresponding to the semantic similarity of two or more datasets. The similarity metric can be used to identify datasets based on their metadata attributes and data values enabling easier indexing and high performance retrieval of data values. A input data set can labeled with a category based on the data set having the best match with the input data set. The similarity of an input data set with a data set provided by a knowledge source can be used to query a knowledge source to obtain additional information about the data set. The additional information can be used to provide recommendations to the user. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092595 | Systems And Methods For Processing Graphs - Systems and methods are provided for organizing and processing information in a graph having a number of nodes interconnected by a number of edges. An array E lists neighboring nodes for nodes of the graph that have at least one neighboring node in a determined order of the nodes. Positions in array E of a last neighboring node listed in array E for respective nodes are listed as corresponding entries in an array V based on the determined order of the nodes. In various aspects, array E and array V are used to determine information for the graph, including degrees or neighboring nodes of one or more given nodes of the graph. The system and methods disclosed herein are applicable for determining relative ranks for the nodes of the graph. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098408 | TRIGGERING AND RANKING OF NATIVE APPLICATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining when to search a native application corpus for native applications and insert native application search results into a set of general web search results in response to receiving a query. | 04-07-2016 |
20160103833 | RANKING QUERY RESULTS USING BIOMETRIC PARAMETERS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing query results using biometric parameters. One of the methods includes providing a search result in response to receiving a search query. If one or more of biometric parameters of a user indicate likely negative engagement by the user with the first search result, an additional search result is obtained and provided in response to the search query. | 04-14-2016 |
20160103834 | FOOD RECIPE SCORING AND RANKING SYSTEM - According to an aspect, food recipes are scored and ranked based on one or more culinary objectives. A general dish specification includes a selected dish type, a selected cuisine type, and one or more culinary objectives. Candidate ingredient types are identified based on recipes of the selected dish type and the selected cuisine type in a recipe database. A number or range of ingredients are computed for each candidate ingredient type based on a frequency of occurrence of ingredients of each candidate ingredient type. A recipe closeness score is computed for a plurality of the recipes of the selected dish type and the selected cuisine type in the recipe database based on the culinary objectives, a bill of ingredients, and parameters for the recipes stored in the database. The recipes are ranked based on the recipe closeness scores and a ranked list of the recipes is provided. | 04-14-2016 |
20160103839 | FOOD RECIPE SCORING AND RANKING SYSTEM - According to an aspect, food recipes are scored and ranked based on one or more culinary objectives. A general dish specification includes a selected dish type, a selected cuisine type, and one or more culinary objectives. Candidate ingredient types are identified based on recipes of the selected dish type and the selected cuisine type in a recipe database. A number or range of ingredients are computed for each candidate ingredient type based on a frequency of occurrence of ingredients of each candidate ingredient type. A recipe closeness score is computed for a plurality of the recipes of the selected dish type and the selected cuisine type in the recipe database based on the culinary objectives, a bill of ingredients, and parameters for the recipes stored in the database. The recipes are ranked based on the recipe closeness scores and a ranked list of the recipes is provided. | 04-14-2016 |
20160103840 | Social Static Ranking for Search - In one embodiment, one or more computing devices receive, from a client device of a first user, a query from the first user. The computer devices search a social graph to identify one or more nodes of the social graph that are relevant to the query. The computer devices obtain a static rank for each identified node. The static rank is based at least in part on a number of edges of a particular edge type that are connected to the node in the graph or attributes of edges connected to the node in the graph. The computer devices send to the client device of the first user for display, a search-results page responsive to the received query. The search-results page includes reference to one or more nodes having a static rank greater than a threshold rank. | 04-14-2016 |
20160103892 | Systems and Methods for Implementing Predictive Archetypes - A system and method for creating a set of objects correlated with a query. For each element of the set, calculating one of a relevance or a correlation between the element and other elements of the set, constructing an archetype comprising a list of elements of the set for which the relevance or the correlation satisfies a threshold and associating the list of elements with a probability and sorting the list of elements by the probability, wherein the elements having a greater probability are first. | 04-14-2016 |
20160103896 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND DISSEMINATING INFORMATION OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK - The apparatus comprises at least one database for storing digital information associated with at least a first user and a second user, at least one links module for the first user and for the second user, at least one manipulations module and at least one display device for respectively displaying at least said linked digital information wherein said linked digital information associated with said first user is automatically updated on at least said display device of said second user when that information is manipulated, and wherein said linked digital information associated with said second user is automatically updated on at least said display device of said first user when that information is manipulated. | 04-14-2016 |
20160110360 | PROVIDING NUMERICAL ANSWERS TO QUERIES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing numerical answers to queries. One of the methods includes identifying one or more text portions each corresponding to a numerical sentence or sentence fragment in text associated with search results that are responsive to a query. A text score is determined for each text portion based on one or more criteria. Text portions are grouped by a number included in each text portion. A group score is determined for each group based on respective scores of text portions in the group. A particular text portion is selected based on group scores of each group. A response is provided in response to the query that includes a number from the particular text portion. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110361 | Collection and Storage of a Personalized, Searchable, Unstructured Corpora - An approach is provided for utilizing unstructured corpora in a Question and Answer (QA) system. A question is received at the QA system. A private corpora is generated with the private corpora being associated with the user. The private corpora is generated from private data stores associated with the user as well as private data stores associated with other users. Access to the other user's private data sources is provided to the user by the other users. The system retrieves data responsive to the question from the private corpora. The responsive data is ranked based on its relevance to the question. Likely answers are identified based on the ranked responsive data and the likely answers are provided back to the user. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110449 | Method, System and Device for Connecting Similar Users - Methods, systems and devices for automatically connecting similar users wherein similarity is based on live audio listening information. The method comprises receiving and storing audio listening information at a server for a plurality of users and identifying the audio the user is currently listening to. The server uses the stored information to automatically generate a list of users similar to a particular user. The similarity between users can be based on audio users are currently listening to, so that the list of similar users comprises a list of users currently listening to the same audio as the particular user. The server filters the list of similar users to a specific geographic area, such as a town. The server then provides the particular user with information on the similar users which may enable the particular user to communicate with the similar users publicly or privately. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110450 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PAIRING MUSIC AND FOOD SELECTIONS - A system and method enable the selection of musical recordings for pairing with a food serving, possibly an appetizer, a main course, a dessert or a beverage, for the purpose of increasing the enjoyment of a given meal. A plurality of factors for specific meal components such as entree, including protein type, method of cooking, amount of spice, side dish component and type of sauce are used to determine a specific numerical value for a meal; appetizer including protein type, bread and dough content, method of cooking and spice level; dessert, including content of cacao, sweetener and content of sweetener, ambient temperature at service and dairy content; and beverage, including but not limited to alcohol content, acidity, body, dryness, lingering quality, and IBU. A specific numerical value for a musical recording is also determined based on a plurality of factors, including genre, tempo, dynamics, and primary instrument. The numerical value assigned to the meal and the numerical value assigned to the musical recording are preferably as nearly identical as possible. The musical recording enhances the perception of the flavor, texture, and overall experience of the food. The process may be facilitated through use of a dedicated mobile application, or may be performed manually by a user. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110459 | Realtime Ingestion via Multi-Corpus Knowledge Base with Weighting - An approach is provided for updating corpora in a Question and Answer (QA) system. Ingestion of a first set of sources into a first corpus and a second set of sources into a second corpus with the second set of sources including updates to the first set of sources. A question is received. The system identifies candidate answers to the question using the sources included in the corpuses. Each candidate answer has a weighting. The system determines whether the first and second corpuses have an overlapping source from which two candidate answers were identified. If an overlapping source is found, the candidate answer from the overlapping source in the first corpus is assigned a lower weighting than the candidate answer from the second corpus. Likely answers are selected from the candidate answers based on the weighting and returned to the requestor. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117327 | COMBINED ONLINE AND OFFLINE RANKING - Approaches are described for ranking multiple products or other items, such as products obtained in response to a search request submitted to a server. The ranking system determines a ranking score for the products based on both data available online and item data that must be computed offline due to longer computation time or unavailability of data. The ranking score can be used to rank the products and determine which products are the most relevant to the user. A hybrid boosting method is used to first train an online ranking function to produce an online ranking score for the item. In the second phase, an offline ranking function is trained to produce a second ranking score for the item. The online rank score is combined with the offline rank score at query time to produce a combined rank for the items in the search results. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117331 | Providing a Search Results Document That Includes a User Interface for Performing an Action in Connection with a Web Page Identified in the Search Results Document - A computer device is configured to identify a document; determine that the document includes an annotation, the annotation describing a user interface that is to be visually displayed in connection with information identifying the document when the information identifying the document is included in a search results document, the user interface including a user interface element that, when selected, causes an action to be performed in connection with the document, and the action being performed without obtaining the document after the user interface element is selected; determine information relating to the user interface based on the annotation; and store, in a search index, the information relating to the user interface in association with the information identifying the document. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117393 | Combinatorial Business Intelligence - Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for providing information about a sector and geographic focus of a company and enables user to identify the top product/brands of a company. Trademark records can be leveraged and combined with other sources of data, which can be presented to a user in an integrated graphical user interface, to facilitate combinatorial business intelligence for one or more companies. Analytical data associated with trademark records corresponding to the company included in the search can be generated to provide a ranked list of trademarked names/brands for the company and a combined or integrated view can be generated in a graphical user interface that includes the ranked list of the trademarked names/brands for the company and also includes the recent news or other information related to the trademark names/brands. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117397 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING EXPERTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA - A system and method for identifying experts on social media and more specifically to systems and methods for identifying experts, topics and followers in social media networks that may be used to engage or track a wide and relevant audience for message targeting. | 04-28-2016 |
20160124947 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENTERPRISE DATA SEARCH AND ANALYSIS - A system and method for enterprise searching of documents. The system comprises a computing system configured to receive one or more search terms, and responsively analyze a group of documents to return analysis results. A method for enterprise searching includes indexing the group of documents, determining relevant terms and measuring the context between terms. Relevant portions of documents, also called passages of interest, are determined as part of the analysis process. The analysis also uses a calculated importance value of terms as part of the analysis process. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124954 | Using Synthetic Events to Identify Complex Relation Lookups - An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager analyzes a corpus of documents based upon relations corresponding to entities in a structured resource and constructs a natural language context associated with a set of the relations. The knowledge manager maps the natural language context to a database query and, in turn, invokes the database query when the knowledge manager matches a question to the natural language context. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124960 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING VISUALIZATION SUGGESTIONS - Techniques of providing visualization suggestions are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a current visualization of at least a portion of data of a dataset is determined to be displayed to a user in a graphical user interface of a device, a plurality of visualization candidates is generated based on an application of transition rules to the current visualization, a corresponding score for each one of the plurality of visualization candidates is generated based on a corresponding level of data variance for the data of the corresponding visualization candidate, a ranking of the plurality of visualization candidates is generated based on the scores, at least one of the plurality of visualization candidates is selected based on the ranking, and a plurality of selectable visualization suggestions corresponding to the selected visualization candidates is caused to be displayed to the user in the graphical user interface of the device. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124966 | Apparatus and Method for Efficient Identification of Code Similarity - A method for identifying similarity between query samples and stored samples in an efficiently maintained reference library may include receiving a binary query sample and processing the binary query sample via operations including producing a query sample fingerprint from the binary query sample, scoring the query sample fingerprint with each previously stored fingerprint in the reference library to produce a matching score, and for each previously stored fingerprint for which the matching score meets or exceeds a predetermined threshold, reporting a corresponding reference sample unique identifier associated with the previously stored fingerprint and the matching score. Each previously stored fingerprint in the reference library has been determined, prior to storage, as not being duplicative of another fingerprint in the reference library. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124968 | CREATING NEW DOCUMENTS BASED ON GLOBAL INTENT AND LOCAL CONTEXT - An approach is provided for creating a new document. Keywords specifying a subject matter of the new document are received. Metadata of documents is determined to match keyword(s) included in the received keywords and the documents are retrieved. Based on a section being created in the new document, a ranked list of the retrieved documents is generated. A selection of a document included in the ranked list is received. The selected document is added to the new document. The keywords are refined based on the added document. Based on the subject matter and the refined keywords, the new document is completed by repeating the steps of determining the metadata, retrieving the documents, generating the ranked list, receiving the selection, and adding the selected document. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124994 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPLOADING AND RANKING PHOTOGRAPHS - System and methods allow participants to upload their best photographs and determine what other participants around the world think of them. As a non-limiting example, the present invention can be a system and associated methods in a social networking app. A participant is anyone who downloads the app. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125020 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING CONTACT INFORMATION - Systems and methods for managing and presenting contact information to users of display terminals are presented herein. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving a request to display contact information associated with a contact stored in an address book associated with a first user, wherein the stored contact information includes a plurality of address entries, and displaying at least some of the plurality of address entries for the contact, wherein at least one displayed address entry is visually distinguishable from at least one other displayed entry for the contact based on a recentness score associated with each of the plurality of address entries. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125042 | USING AN APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) DATA STRUCTURE IN RECOMMENDING AN API COMPOSITE - An application programming interface (API) exploration data structure is used in presenting an API composite to a first entity. A query associated with a topic is received from the first entity. A portion of the data structure is accessed. The accessed portion includes nodes that represent entities, nodes that represent APIs, and edges that represent relationships between nodes. A similarity score is calculated for each entity using a comparison to the first entity. Each similarity score is then compared to a threshold. A first network including each entity that has a similarity score above the threshold is generated. An API group including each API that has a relationship with the first network is generated. The API composite is identified based on the topic. As identified, the API composite includes an API of the related API group. The API composite is presented to the first entity. | 05-05-2016 |
20160132572 | COLLECTING, ORGANIZING, AND SEARCHING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT A DATASET - Techniques for organizing knowledge about a dataset storing data from or about multiple sources may be provided. For example, the data can be accessed from the multiple sources and categorized based on the data type. For each data type, a triple extraction technique specific to that data type may be invoked. One set of techniques can allow the extraction of triples from the data based on natural language-based rules. Another set of techniques can allow a similar extraction based on logical or structural-based rules. A triple may store a relationship between elements of the data. The extracted triples can be stored with corresponding identifiers in a list. Further, dictionaries storing associations between elements of the data and the triples can be updated. The list and the dictionaries can be used to return triples in response to a query that specifies one or more elements. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132591 | COGNITIVE MATCHING OF NARRATIVE DATA - A computer-implemented method for cognitive matching of narrative data may include collecting a set of data for a party and determining, by analyzing the set of data, an identifiable event for the party. In addition, the method may include identifying, using the identifiable event, a relevant feature of a corpus and providing an output corresponding to the relevant feature. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132641 | SEQUENCE-CENTRIC SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - According to various embodiments, aspects of the invention provide a highly efficient meta-analysis infrastructure for performing research queries across a large number of studies and experiments from diverse sequencing technologies as well as different biological and chemical assays, data types and organisms, as well as systems to build and add to such an infrastructure. The methods, systems and apparatuses described enable combining orthogonal types of data and available public knowledge to elucidate mechanisms governing normal development, disease progression, as well as susceptibility of individuals to disease or response to drug treatments. | 05-12-2016 |
20160140127 | Dynamic Menus for Multi-Prefix Interactive Mobile Searches - 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 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. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140186 | Identifying Subject Matter Experts - Methods of identifying subject matter experts are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a search profile corresponding to a particular subject matter. Resources including content describing the particular subject matter are retrieved. One or more potential subject matter experts associated with the resources are identified. An expert score representing an estimated level of expertise for each potential subject matter expert is calculated. By retrieving one or more social media repositories, an impact rating for each potential subject matter expert is calculated with regard to the particular subject matter. The potential subject matter experts are subsequently ranked in dependence upon the expert score and in dependence of the impact rating assigned to a potential subject matter expert. The potential subject matter experts are eventually returned in the order of this ranking. | 05-19-2016 |
20160147755 | DIVERSIFYING SEARCH RESULTS - Disclosed are a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for generating search results. A data access module accesses search results data indicative of a plurality items and that is indicative of ranking values of the plurality of items. A controller module generates page data based on the search results data. The controller module selects a first item from the plurality of items. A diversification module accesses a first rule of the page data. The diversification module determines a deviance value and a reordering-cost value of a second item from the plurality of items. The controller module can select, based at least on a first combination of the deviance and the reordering-cost values of the second item, the second item for placement ahead of the first item on the page data. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147759 | MANAGEMENT OF CONFIGURATIONS FOR EXISTING STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE - The method for managing one or more standard configurations includes calculating a plurality of configuration fingerprints for a plurality of storage systems. The configuration fingerprint is a numerical value that represents information about a configuration for one or more components of a storage system. The method also includes building a result set that includes the plurality of configuration fingerprints for the plurality of storage systems. The method also includes identifying a plurality of standard configurations for the plurality of storage systems from the result set based on the plurality of configuration fingerprints. The method also includes determining that a first storage system from the plurality of storage systems meets a standard configuration from the plurality of standard configurations. The method also includes creating metadata within the first storage system that describes the standard configuration. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147762 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORAGE RETREIVAL - A method for storage retrieval, including receiving a request for application content. The request includes a first field identifier. The method further includes submitting a query to a content repository, for each asset including the first field identifier, receiving a first asset including the first field identifier and a second asset including the first field identifier, and extracting a first variability tag from the first asset and a second variability tag from the second asset based on the first asset having a matching asset property value to the second asset. The first asset and second asset are scored based at least on the first variability tag and at least on the second variability tag to obtain a first and second score, respectively. The method further includes selecting the first asset based on the first score and the second score, and transmitting the first asset as the application content. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147765 | Techniques for Using Similarity to Enhance Relevance in Search Results - Techniques include receiving a search query from a user device, performing a search for software applications using the search query, and generating a preliminary set of one or more software applications identified during the search. The techniques further include generating a similarity set of one or more software applications that are each similar to at least one of the one or more software applications of the preliminary set, generating a modified set of one or more software applications based on the preliminary set and the similarity set, and transmitting the modified set to the user device. In some examples, generating the modified set based on the preliminary set and the similarity set includes one or more of increasing a rank value of an existing software application included in the preliminary set, and adding a new software application not included in the preliminary set to the preliminary set. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147792 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND DEVICE - Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a device for displaying an image through the recognition of an object displayed on the screen of an electronic device, wherein the device for displaying an image includes: a storage unit storing a plurality of image files; a display unit displaying an image, corresponding to each image file stored in the storage unit, on the screen of the electronic device and changing an image, currently displayed according to an input by an input unit or the setting of an automatic screen change function, to another image stored in the storage unit; and a control unit enabling images, not including a selected object from among images of a plurality of image files stored in the storage unit, to not be displayed on the display unit, according to the selection of a specific object in an image displayed on the screen. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147887 | OPTIMIZING FACETED CLASSIFICATION - In an approach to faceted classification, a computer receives a search query. The computer creates a first table of facet value ranges, based on the search query. The computer fetches a first search result corresponding to the search query. The computer retrieves a first facet value associated with the first search result. The computer maps the first facet value to a first facet value range. The computer determines whether the first facet value range is in the first table of facet value ranges. The computer inserts the first facet value range into the first table of facet value ranges. The computer determines whether a number of facet value ranges in the first table of facet value ranges is below a pre-defined threshold. The computer creates a second table of facet value ranges. The computer identifies a second facet value range that includes the first facet value range. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147895 | OPTIMIZING FACETED CLASSIFICATION - In an approach to faceted classification, a computer receives a search query. The computer creates a first table of facet value ranges, based on the search query. The computer fetches a first search result corresponding to the search query. The computer retrieves a first facet value associated with the first search result. The computer maps the first facet value to a first facet value range. The computer determines whether the first facet value range is in the first table of facet value ranges. The computer inserts the first facet value range into the first table of facet value ranges. The computer determines whether a number of facet value ranges in the first table of facet value ranges is below a pre-defined threshold. The computer creates a second table of facet value ranges. The computer identifies a second facet value range that includes the first facet value range. | 05-26-2016 |
20160150029 | SERVICE DISCOVERY USING A LOCATION DATABASE - Methods, systems and computer readable media for building and using a location database for service discovery are described. In some implementations, the method can include detecting, at a location engine, a connection between a client and a new service within a wireless network, and receiving an RF fingerprint of the client. The method can also include determining a location of the client and the new service based on the RF fingerprint, and querying a location database using the RF fingerprint as a key. The method can further include determining whether a location database entry exists corresponding to the RF fingerprint. The method can also include, when there is no database entry corresponding to the RF fingerprint, adding a new record to the database corresponding to the RF fingerprint and the new service. The method can further include, when there is database entry corresponding to the RF fingerprint, computing a rank for the new service and updating the database entry corresponding to the RF fingerprint corresponding to the RF fingerprint. | 05-26-2016 |
20160154804 | PRESENTING SEARCH RESULT INFORMATION | 06-02-2016 |
20160154971 | System and Method for Confidentiality-Preserving Rank-Ordered Search | 06-02-2016 |
20160162484 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING PATH ACCORDING TO SELECTION CONDITIONS - A system and method for selecting a path according to a plurality of selection conditions are disclosed, where a vehicle traveling history data stored in the plurality type of driving data recorder (DDR) databases established previously are analyzed, and then a plurality type of DDR databases are screened out by further referring to a plurality of type ratios provided by the user are screened out, and then a desired path is selected. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162487 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING AND PROVIDING RELATED CONTENT - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can identify a source content item for which related content is to be provided. A set of candidate content items associated with the source content item can be selected. The set of candidate content items can be ranked based, at least in part, on a set of engagement signals associated with the set of candidate content items. A subset of highest ranked candidate content items out of the set of candidate content items can be provided as the related content for the source content item. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162491 | Static Rankings for Search Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a data set comprising a list of objects matching a query, a pre-determined static-rank for each object calculated based on a static-scoring algorithm, and a final-rank for each object calculated based on a final-scoring algorithm, and revising the static-scoring algorithm based on a comparison of the static-ranks and the final-ranks of each object listed in the data set, where the static-scoring algorithm is revised in order to reduce a difference between the static-ranks and final-ranks of the objects listed in the data set. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162492 | Confidence Ranking of Answers Based on Temporal Semantics - A mechanism is provided, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory configured to implement a question and answer system (QA), for providing confidence rankings based on temporal semantics. Responsive to receiving an input question, a set of candidate answers is identified from a knowledge domain based on a correlation between an identified one or more predicates and an identified one or more arguments to the knowledge domain. A confidence score is associated with each of the candidate answers and each confidence score associated with each candidate answer is refined based on a set of temporal characteristics identified in the input question. A set of temporally refined candidate answers is then provided to the user. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162503 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PAGE RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to determine seed content items based on interests of a user. Candidate content items can be determined for potential presentation to the user based at least in part on the seed content items. Features associated with the candidate content items can be processed to generate probabilities that the user will perform interactions with the candidate content items. Values can be assigned to the candidate content items based on the probabilities that the user will perform interactions with the candidate content items and the importance of the interactions. The values can be provided as bid values to an auction system to determine constraints regarding presentation of the candidate content items. Presentation of the candidate content items can be optimized. | 06-09-2016 |
20160170979 | Method and System to Generate and Deliver Auto-Assembled Presentations Based on Queries of Multimedia Collections | 06-16-2016 |
20160170989 | Identification and Evaluation of Lexical Answer Type Conditions in a Question to Generate Correct Answers | 06-16-2016 |
20160171043 | TEMPLATE GENERATION IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | 06-16-2016 |
20160171044 | Methods And Systems For Using Community Defined Facets Or Facet Values In Computer Networks | 06-16-2016 |
20160171055 | DATA QUERY INTERFACE SYSTEM IN AN EVENT HISTORIAN | 06-16-2016 |
20160171115 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOMAIN INVENTORY INDEX GENERATION FROM DISPARATE SETS | 06-16-2016 |
20160179805 | CALCULATING EXPERTISE CONFIDENCE BASED ON CONTENT AND SOCIAL PROXIMITY | 06-23-2016 |
20160179810 | CALCULATING EXPERTISE CONFIDENCE BASED ON CONTENT AND SOCIAL PROXIMITY | 06-23-2016 |
20160179818 | DETERMINING SEARCH RESULT RANKINGS BASED ON TRUST LEVEL VALUES ASSOCIATED WITH SELLERS | 06-23-2016 |
20160179820 | Generating Contact Suggestions | 06-23-2016 |
20160179893 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT FEATURE MATCHING | 06-23-2016 |
20160179954 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CULLING SEARCH RESULTS IN ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY | 06-23-2016 |
20160188598 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING VISUALIZATION EXPLANATIONS - In some example embodiments, an indication of a selected data point of a current visualization can be received. A context of the selected data point can be determined based on a dimension of the data point, and explanation candidates can be generated based on the context of the selected data point. Each exploration candidate can have a different dimension context that is within the context of the selected data point and a corresponding value for the dimension context. For each one of the explanation candidates, a corresponding score can be generated based on a difference between the value for the explanation candidate and an average value of all the values of the explanation candidates. The explanation candidates can be ranked based on the scores. At least one of the explanation candidates can be selected based on the ranking, and selectable explanation(s) for the selected explanation candidate(s) can be displayed. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188659 | DETERMINING SEARCH RESULTS USING SESSION BASED REFINEMENTS - Techniques for determining search results based on session based refinements are presented herein. A method is disclosed that includes receiving a query in a user session, the query comprising one or more search parameters, detecting, in the user session and after receiving the query, a user event associated with a property of an item, updating a record in a table that associates the query with the property, the table comprising a plurality of records that associate the query with respective item properties, the record comprising the query, the property, and a score, and ranking search results for a subsequent query based on the associated properties indicated in the plurality of records, the subsequent query including the one or more search parameters. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188660 | DETERMINING SEARCH RESULTS USING SESSION BASED REFINEMENTS - Techniques for determining search results based on session based refinements are presented herein. A method is disclosed that includes receiving a query in a user session, the query comprising one or more search parameters, detecting, in the user session and after receiving the query, a user event, updating, for each previous query in the user session that includes one or more of the search parameters, a record in a table for the query, the record storing a count of user events that match the user event, updating a score for each of the previous queries based on the count of user events, the respective records further storing the score, and ranking search results for a subsequent query based on the scores in the table, the subsequent query including the one or more search parameters. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188666 | VERTICAL-BASED QUERY OPTIONALIZING - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query from a client system; modifying the search query by removing a first search term associated with a first object type from the search query; retrieving search results responsive to the modified search query from a first data store storing objects of the first object type; and sending one or more of the search results to the client system. | 06-30-2016 |
20160196313 | Personalized Question and Answer System Output Based on Personality Traits | 07-07-2016 |
20160203140 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND USER INTERFACE FOR EXPERT SEARCH BASED ON CASE RESOLUTION LOGS | 07-14-2016 |
20160253174 | INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT-BASED REPOSITORY SEARCHING IN A NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | 09-01-2016 |
20160253323 | Semantic Data Generation | 09-01-2016 |
20160253324 | PREDICTIVE MODEL SEARCH BY COMMUNICATING COMPARATIVE STRENGTH | 09-01-2016 |
20160253326 | PRIORITIZATION OF RETRIEVAL AND/OR PROCESSING OF DATA | 09-01-2016 |
20160253328 | Information collection method and device | 09-01-2016 |
20160253329 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LOCATION BASED GROUP "MEET-UP" VENUE/TIME RECOMMENDATION AND POLL | 09-01-2016 |
20160253393 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STORING AND SEARCHING DATA IN A CUSTOMER CENTER ENVIRONMENT | 09-01-2016 |
20160378764 | RELEVANCE-WEIGHTED AND RANKED RESULT SETS - The disclosure generally describes methods, software, and systems, including a method for generating search results. A search query for querying information from an information source, including business objects, is received from a user. Features associated with the user and business objects are identified for which result items are to be boosted using business knowledge associated with the user and information source. For each identified feature, query terms in the received search query applicable to a particular feature are identified. Weights based on the business knowledge are identified for feature-value pairs associated with each query term. A weighted search query is generated that includes weighted query parts that are a function of a respective query term and associated weight. The weighted search query is executed to produce a ranked result set that includes result items ranked according to the weights. The ranked result set is provided. | 12-29-2016 |
20160378768 | Ranking Search Results - Content items and other entities may be ranked or organized according to a relevance to a user. Relevance may take into consideration recency, proximity, popularity, air time (e.g., of television shows) and the like. In one example, the popularity and age of a movie may be used to determine a relevance ranking. Popularity (i.e., entity rank) may be determined based on a variety of factors. In the movie example, popularity may be based on gross earnings, awards, nominations, votes and the like. According to one or more embodiments, entities may initially be categorized into relevance groupings based on popularity and/or other factors. Once categorized, the entities may be sorted within each grouping and later combined into a single ranked list. | 12-29-2016 |
20160378855 | ENTITY-CENTRIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY - A user interface of an entity-centric knowledge discovery system presents an entity profile including a mix of structured and unstructured data relating to an entity. As a user refines the entity profile based on information gathered from various sources, the changing entity profile can be used as a substantially continuously updating query to search, retrieve, and rank new and pertinent information specifically relevant to the profiled entity. The platform described herein provide an active loop for refining an entity description and searching for additional information in which human input and machine-based algorithms can cooperate to more quickly build a comprehensive description of an entity of interest. | 12-29-2016 |
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