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20100057806 | Method and Apparatus for Managing Updates to a Catalog - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for managing updates to a catalog based on a reference electronic catalog. The reference catalog has a reference format and a plurality of items, each with associated characteristics and the second catalog has a second format and a plurality of items, each with associated characteristics. The reference catalog is maintained with updates and revisions to the items and associated characteristics and the second catalog is maintained by repeating the mapping of at least a portion of the reference catalog into the second catalog after maintaining the reference catalog. Preferably, the maintenance times for both catalogs are recorded and the second catalog is maintained by comparing the recorded times and mapping only portions of the reference catalog that have been maintained into the second catalog. | 03-04-2010 |
20100063969 | OPERATOR, DEVICE AND PLATFORM INDEPENDENT AGGREGATION, CROSS-PLATFORM TRANSLATION, ENABLEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF USER ACTIVITY CATALOGS - Implementations relate to generating an operator, device, and platform-independent aggregation, cross-platform translation, enablement, and distribution of user activity catalogs. Users of a cellular telephone, a personal computer, or other devices or services can register to a database that collects transaction and other activity for the user. The user can designate one or more groups of users with whom to share collective activity data. The activity feeds can include recommendations, transactions, and other information generated when group members conduct retail or other activity. In one example, the activity feeds transmitted can be automatically translated and configured based on service operator and/or recipient device type. In another example, a user visiting a Website can be presented with a context-sensitive drop-down list of transactions conducted at that site by members of user's designated group(s) in the past. The platform permits users to mutually and transparently suggest products, services, or content to each other. | 03-11-2010 |
20100070505 | Classification of Data in a Hierarchical Data Structure - Embodiments of the invention are generally related to data security, and more specifically to data classification. The nodes of a hierarchical data structure may be displayed in a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI may be configured to receive selection of a data classification type. Upon receiving a selection of a data classification type, a probability of a node containing data objects that may be classified as the selected data classification type may be displayed adjacent to the node, thereby allowing efficient location and classification of the data objects. | 03-18-2010 |
20100070506 | Query Expansion Method Using Augmented Terms for Improving Precision Without Degrading Recall - A query expansion method that improves the precision without degrading the recall, uses augmented terms. The method steps expand an initial query by adding new terms that are related to each term of the initial query. The query is further expanded by adding augmented terms, which are conjunctions of the terms. A weight is assigned to each term so that the augmented terms have higher weights than the other terms. | 03-18-2010 |
20100076979 | PERFORMING SEARCH QUERY DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS ON HETEROGENEOUS STRUCTURED DATA BASED ON RELATIVE DENSITY - A method is provided for responding to user search requests with suggested categories and attributes that have a high probability of being useful to the user for refining the search. The method is described in the context of a shared search engine platform in which multiple vertical domain repositories reside. The common search engine can search all of the repositories in a single search. The multiple vertical domain repositories can be heterogeneous in type, size, and semantics. Choosing search hints in the face of such diversity of content can be a challenge. The approach uses a “relative density” measure to determine which categories and attributes to recommend and overcomes the problem of repositories with more content dominating the chosen search terms that are returned to the user. | 03-25-2010 |
20100082628 | Classifying A Data Item With Respect To A Hierarchy Of Categories - To classify an input data item, a hierarchy of categories is provided. A classifier is used to identify, from a set of data items, neighboring data items of the input data item. According to metric values relating the neighboring data items to the input data item, it is determined whether at least one category is assignable to the input data item from among the hierarchy of categories. The determining involves processing the hierarchy from more specific categories to less specific categories. | 04-01-2010 |
20100094874 | Method and an apparatus for retrieving additional information regarding a patient record - A method and an apparatus retrieve additional information regarding a patient record. Applying the subject-matter of the present invention clinical experts, such as doctors, can be provided with domain specific background knowledge, and can, hence, be supported in making decisions regarding the treatment of patients. Said additional information can be structured and visualised, which makes the retrieved information understandable also for persons without advanced knowledge regarding data processing. The retrieval of additional information is accomplished by a comparison of data being stored in the patient record and data being stored in a predefined textual resource, such as a ontology, and an identification of further terms describing attributes of the patient record. This finds application in supporting the diagnosis of patients and healthcare related information retrieval tasks. | 04-15-2010 |
20100106726 | HIERARCHY MODIFICATION - A hierarchy of nodes is created, each node being one of associated with an item retrieved according to a condition and associated with a category of information including the item. It is determined whether at least one of the nodes is redundant in the hierarchy. The at least one of the nodes is pruned from the hierarchy if the at least one of the nodes is redundant. | 04-29-2010 |
20100114895 | System and Method for Administering Data Ingesters Using Taxonomy Based Filtering Rules - A method, system, and article are provided for management of a data ingester and associated content collected by the data ingester. The computer system is configured with a taxonomy together with rules and policies for ingesting and classifying the collected data. Based upon the classification of the collected data with respect to the taxonomy, the data is assigned to a location in the taxonomy. | 05-06-2010 |
20100131509 | SYSTEM FOR FOLDER CLASSIFICATION BASED ON FOLDER CONTENT SIMILARITY AND DISSIMILARITY - A computerized method of representing a dataset with a taxonomy includes obtaining a dataset containing a plurality of records; initializing a folder-set containing a plurality of folders; assigning labels to folders within the folder set; and classifying the plurality of records into the plurality of folders according to a predetermined entropic similarity condition. | 05-27-2010 |
20100131510 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LISTING ITEMS GLOBALLY AND REGIONALLY, AND CUSTOMIZED LISTING ACCORDING TO CURRENCY OR SHIPPING AREA - A method to facilitate network-based commerce includes determining a site that a user accesses, the site being one of multiple sites operated by a network-based commerce facility. A category list available for the site is retrieved, the category list identifying categories of offerings available via the site. The category list is communicated to the user. The site is a regional site, and the category list is a region-specific category list. | 05-27-2010 |
20100131511 | Computer-Implemented Electronic Diary to Enter Locked Legal Notes for Historical Archival - A system for the entry of legal notes, wherein the legal notes, after submission, are stored is non-editable form and are locked in a database for historical archival. In one scenario, the entered legal notes are editable and can be deleted for a pre-set time period, wherein, after the expiration of the pre-set time period, the entered legal notes are stored is non-editable form and are locked in a database for historical archival. Filters can be used to categorize and render the stored legal notes based on a set of categories. | 05-27-2010 |
20100138422 | Image processing system, particularly for use with diagnostic images - An image processing system particularly for use with diagnostic images, comprises at least one processing unit, which receives digital images acquired by one or more imaging apparatus and provides output images, processed by means of an image processing program loaded in the memory of the processing unit and executed thereby, characterized in that it consists of a central service unit, comprising an interface to be accessed by remote users, which connect to said central unit by remote communication means. | 06-03-2010 |
20100153401 | DATA CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - A system for classifying information comprises a group of at least four impact factors that includes confidentiality, legal applicability, integrity, and availability ( | 06-17-2010 |
20100179951 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAPPING ENTERPRISE DATA - Systems and methods for mapping enterprise data are described. Information associated with an enterprise is obtained from a plurality of sources and transformed to obtain formatted data. The formatted data is orchestrated and relationships between portions of the formatted data are determined from which business intelligence related to the enterprise is obtained. A plurality of analytics is performed on the formatted data and business intelligence. | 07-15-2010 |
20100179952 | METHOD FOR DEFINING DATA CATEGORIES - A method for the definition of data categories is described. The method uses logic templates and may be used in database processing. One embodiment of the method comprises: selecting a plurality of attributes from a group of attributes, each attribute describing a possible data item in a set of data; selecting a logic template from a group of logic templates, each logic template comprising a predetermined logic expression containing one or more variables; and assigning one or more selected attributes to each variable within the selected the logic template to produce a logic expression defining the data category. A computer program product and a user interface for achieving this method are also described. | 07-15-2010 |
20100191735 | Systems and methods for classifying and screening biological materials for use for therapeutic and/or research purposes - Systems and methods collect and screen a biological material to facilitate its selection and use for therapeutic and/or research purposes. The systems and methods take into account both objective and semi-objective attributes manifest in a biological material, such as genetic, phenotypic, clinical, and genealogic attributes. The diverse array of the objective and semi-objective attributes enhances the level of confidence that the biological material can be best matched with a particular research or therapeutic purpose. | 07-29-2010 |
20100191736 | Computer-Implemented Electronic Diary to Enter Locked Medical Notes for Historical Archival - A system for the entry of medical notes, wherein the medical notes, after submission, are stored is non-editable form and are locked in a database for historical archival. In one scenario, the entered medical notes are editable and can be deleted for a pre-set time period, wherein, after the expiration of the pre-set time period, the entered medical notes are stored is non-editable form and are locked in a database for historical archival. Filters can be used to categorize and render the stored medical notes based on a set of categories. | 07-29-2010 |
20100191737 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SEARCHING FOR CLASSIFYING USER ACTIVITY PERFORMED ON A COMPUTER SYSTEM - The invention is directed to a system and method of managing information associated with user actions. A monitoring system may gather and store information associated with user actions. Relationships may be inferred between user actions based on time or other criteria. A user may define classifications of user actions. These classifications may be used to retrieve information associated with user actions. | 07-29-2010 |
20100205179 | SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A social networking system allows users to upload information about themselves to a remote database, preferably over the Internet. Users are able to connect to other users thus establishing links. These links may be categorized based on the relationship between the users, e.g., family, friends, co-workers, etc. The uploaded information may also be categorized using the same categories of relationships. The information of each user may then only be sent to users having a connection category that matches the information category. | 08-12-2010 |
20100205180 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING AND CLASSIFYING QUERY INTENT - Linguistic analysis is used to identify queries that use different natural language formations to request similar information. Common intent categories are identified for the queries requesting similar information. Intent responses can then be provided that are associated with the identified intent categories. An intent management tool can be used for identifying new intent categories, identifying obsolete intent categories, or refining existing intent categories. | 08-12-2010 |
20100217765 | Community Health System - A system of machines, databases, user interfaces, graphical displays and data input systems produces comparisons of community health conditions, recommendations to achieve community health improvements and other tangible outputs. The creation, selection and evolution of promising health practices and best health practices is facilitated and continuously reported. | 08-26-2010 |
20100223265 | Method and device for clustering categorical data and identifying anomalies, outliers, and exemplars - One aspect of the invention is a method for assigning categorical data to a plurality of clusters. An example of the method includes identifying a plurality of categories associated with the data. This example also includes, for each category in the plurality of categories, identifying at least one element associated with the category. This example also includes specifying a number of clusters to which the data may be assigned. This example additionally includes assigning at least some of the data, wherein each assigned datum is assigned to a respective one of the clusters. This example further includes, for at least one of the clusters, determining, for at least one category, the frequency in data assigned to the cluster of at least one element associated with the category. Further, some examples of the invention provide for detecting outliers, anomalies, and exemplars in the categorical data. | 09-02-2010 |
20100235358 | TIME BASED PROFILE MANAGEMENT ON PALMTOP COMPUTER - A personal information manager or other software program, preferably residing within a palmtop computer, uses a time of day profile to establish a default data category. When the user wishes to enter or edit data or retrieve data, the personal information manager or other software program inspects a real-time clock to determine the time of day. The personal information manager or other software program then establishes a default category based upon the time of day profile established by the user. The user is given the opportunity to modify the default category at any time. In this manner, for example, the user can establish a default business category during business times in days and a personal category during personal times in days. This provides the advantage of correctly categorizing data in an automated manner under most circumstances. | 09-16-2010 |
20100250545 | Drug fractional system using generic group code and universal drug number and method thereof - A drug classification system using a generic group code and a universal drug number is developed to determine whether the drug comprises a single formulation or a composite formulation using the generic group code, understands an administration type, dose and/or formulation type of the drug, registers a universal drug number for the drug in association with the generic group code, traces back the generic group code from the universal drug number, and identifies a company name and a trade name of the drug which in turn rapidly and easily recognizes the drug; and, in addition, a drug classification method using the same. The system may manage the generic group code and the universal drug number in association with the company code, thereby enabling quick and exact management of drug information. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250546 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING BANDWIDTH EFFICIENCY IN A COMPUTER NETWORK - A method for operating a server to improve bandwidth efficiency in a computer network is disclosed. The server is operable to transmit files between a memory of the server and destinations on the computer network through a communication link having a finite bandwidth. The files are distinguishable by type and the server is provided with a rule set for prioritizing transmission of files by type. The method comprises monitoring a bandwidth usage of the communication link, and triggering application of the rule set when the bandwidth usage exceeds a threshold amount. The threshold amount is determined relative to the finite bandwidth. The method further comprises distinguishing between the files according to type, and prioritizing transmission of the files according to type and according to the rule set. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250547 | System for Automatically Generating Queries - A method, system and article of manufacture therefor, are disclosed for automatically generating a query from document content. | 09-30-2010 |
20100262605 | IMAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - The attribution information of a plurality of pieces of image data photographed by a plurality of photographing apparatus is obtained. The image data is classified into a predetermined time period on the basis of a photographing date and time obtained from the attribution information. The number of the photographing apparatus photographing the image data classified every predetermined time period is discriminated, and the image data classified into the time period in which the number of the pieces of image data is larger than a threshold value is extracted. The extracted image data is discriminated from the other image data to be displayed. Thereby, even if a plurality of pieces of still image data and moving image data photographed by a plurality of digital cameras and video cameras exists, a candidate of the image data relatively significant among them can be extracted easily. | 10-14-2010 |
20100287161 | SYSTEM AND RELATED TECHNIQUES FOR DETECTING AND CLASSIFYING FEATURES WITHIN DATA - An information processing system and method for gathering and interpreting information includes capturing information from at least one of a plurality of information streams/sensors wherein the information includes video, audio, seismic, radio frequency (RF), and/or text then applying a standardized tag to an event at a predetermined time or over a predetermined period of time and storing the standardized tag in a repository which can be interrogated rapidly for situation/scene understanding. The information processing system and method include providing a plurality of segmentation algorithms, determining the type of information to be processed and selecting one or more of the segmentation algorithms to process the information based upon the type of information to be processed. | 11-11-2010 |
20100287162 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TEXT SUMMARIZATION AND SUMMARY BASED QUERY ANSWERING - A method and system for generating answers to questions based on electronic data summary which is itself derived on context and semantics of a corpus of authoritative documents and its subsequent usage is disclosed. The method and system provides for generating a taxonomy of concepts, assigning unique-identifiers and weights to the taxonomy concepts using a given corpus of electronic data, using the taxonomy to identify the semantics of the document to be summarized, generating an ontology from a summarized authoritative text, having the ontology generation and the summary generation in a feedback loop, selecting text from a given document based on the weights of unique-identifiers in the taxonomy/ontology, sentences as a summary and pruning of the list based upon an entropy threshold, and the presence of a probability distribution, publishing of the summary in a known format on server or any other software/hardware platform with or without monetization for consumption, usage of the summary to generate answers which can be configured using an ontology and thus prevent denial of information/information overload. | 11-11-2010 |
20100287163 | COLLABORATIVE ONLINE CONTENT EDITING AND APPROVAL - A collaborative online content editing and approval system for creating an automated workflow process for editing and approving content before displaying in public domain. Content and data document including information of the content is received. Content and information of the content is then compared with editor information for selecting an editor. Further, a selected editor is automatically alerted to participate in the online content editing. | 11-11-2010 |
20100306199 | USER-DEFINED HIERARCHICAL CATEGORIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING OPERATIONAL METRICS - The present invention provides a method, system and apparatus for categorizing information in a user-defined hierarchical category structure. Association of the information with a category additionally results in categorization of the information in all superior parental categories that are linked to the category. The present invention is also capable of generating metrics reports using the categorized information. | 12-02-2010 |
20100312769 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SOFTWARE FOR ANALYZING THE CONTENT OF MICRO-BLOG MESSAGES - Methods, systems and software are described for analyzing micro-blog messages to detect abnormal activity of interest. The system includes a clusterer for clustering micro-blog messages received over a first period of time, a classifier for scoring the clustered messages; a knowledge base, a rule generator for generating classification rules from the knowledge base; and a matcher for matching the scored messages to information requests. Methods for operating the system and its components are described. | 12-09-2010 |
20100318517 | Method, system and device for associating content with a category - A method for associating content with a category is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: receiving a request for associating content with a category, where the request carries a content reference; obtaining a category according to the content reference, and associating the content reference with the category. A system and device for associating content with a category are also disclosed by the embodiments of the invention. With the embodiments of the invention, the association request function provides a content reference in an association creating request; the association management function obtains a category according to the content reference, and associates the content reference with the category. In this way, it is possible to associate the content with the category based on only the content information when there is a lack of a category. Therefore, the existing association information may be fully utilized to optimize association relationship and save data flow. | 12-16-2010 |
20100325112 | METHOD FOR RESPONDING TO A PLURALITY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A method is disclosed for acting on a plurality of electronic messages. The method includes the step of receiving the plurality of electronic messages. Each of the plurality of electronic messages is then portioned into a plurality of message components. Each of the plurality of message components is then grouped into common-themed sets. Once grouped, the method allows the viewing of one of the common-themed sets to determine an appropriate response to each of the plurality of messages having one of the plurality of message components grouped in the common-themed set. | 12-23-2010 |
20100325113 | AUTOMATIC CATEGORIZATION OF ENTRIES IN A CONTACT LIST - Entries within a participant list of an electronic communications system may be categorized automatically into one or more groups based on attributes of users represented in the participant list. Categorizing users includes maintaining a list of identifiers that are selected by a first user and for which online presence information is made perceivable through the list. The list includes one or more categories into which the identifiers are categorized. At least one attribute associated with an identifier for which online presence information is to be made perceivable through the list and attributes stored relative to at least one of the categories are accessed. The attributes associated with the identifier are compared to the stored attributes. Based on results of the comparison, at least one category within the list that corresponds to the identifier is identified, and the identifier is categorized into the identified category. | 12-23-2010 |
20110004596 | HIERARCHICAL ITEM IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (HIIS) - An electronic commerce system for categorizing products and services using item types in order for the products and services to be posted to online marketplaces or advertising websites. The item types are associated with a plurality of categories from a number of online marketplaces and online advertising websites. Each item type can be general or specific and have propeny/value pairs, the property/value pairs either being required or optional. Each specific item type is associated with a generic item type, wherein all specific item types are associated with the generic item type include property/value pairs of the generic item type. | 01-06-2011 |
20110016131 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING OMNIBUS VIEW OF ONLINE AND OFFLINE CONTENT OF VARIOUS FILE TYPES AND SOURCES - An online service provider (OSP) operates online data centers to store members' data objects relating to various online member services of the OSP. An aggregated catalog lists members' data objects residing in the online data centers and also those residing in member computers' local storage. An aggregator monitors contents of the online storage facilities to detect new storage of prescribed types of data objects owned by the members, and also communicates with member computers to identify prescribed types of data objects newly stored in the respective local storage. The aggregator updates the aggregated catalog to list the newly stored data objects. Responsive to a request by a member, a finder searches the aggregated catalog and utilizes results of the search to provide, for display at the requesting member's computer, a consolidated listing of online data objects and locally stored data objects owned by the requesting member. | 01-20-2011 |
20110029535 | DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A computer implemented system for processing selected data from a raw data file having a plurality of data sets arranged according to a repeating fixed format includes a plurality of processing sequences. A first sequence creates output files, each corresponding to a data set and having a common format, by sequentially processing the data sets according to a first meta-program. A second sequence generates a first data structure by processing each output file according to a second meta-program, the first data structure including data arrangements corresponding to the output files. A third sequence generates a second data structure by processing the first data structure according to a third meta-program, the second data structure including a tabular arrangement of data including data from each data arrangement. A fourth sequence processes the second data structure and provides an output configured to facilitate analysis of the data. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029536 | System And Method For Displaying Relationships Between Electronically Stored Information To Provide Classification Suggestions Via Injection - A system and for providing reference documents as a suggestion for classifying uncoded documents is provided. A reference set of electronically stored information items, each associated with a classification code, is designated. Clusters of uncoded electronically stored information items are designated. One or more of the uncoded electronically stored information items from at least one cluster is compared to the reference set. At least one of the electronically stored information items in the reference set is identified as similar to the one or more uncoded electronically stored information items. The similar electronically stored information items are injected into the at least one cluster. Relationships are visually depicted between the uncoded electronically stored information items and the similar electronically stored information items in the at least one cluster as suggestions for classifying the uncoded electronically stored information items. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029537 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR CATEGORIZING CONTENT - A method, device, and system for categorizing content are provided. The method for categorizing content includes the following steps. A content categorization request is received, in which the content categorization request carries a first content reference and a second content reference. The content is categorized according to the first content reference and/or the second content reference. A method for categorizing content is further provided, which includes the following steps. Content categorization method information is sent to a content categorization requester. A content categorization request determined by the content categorization requester according to the content categorization method information is received. The content to be categorized is categorized according to the content categorization request. A device and system for categorizing content are further provided. A content category can be obtained with multiple content references, and a content categorization requester can fully know categorizing ability of the content categorization provider, thereby determining the content categorization request. | 02-03-2011 |
20110035378 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING WEB CONTENT - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method of processing Web activity data. The method includes obtaining a database of Website organizational data. The method also includes generating a data structure from the database of Website organizational data comprising an Item identifier and a Website category corresponding to the item identifier. The method also includes generating a reduced-rank classification structure from the data structure, the reduced-rank classification structure including a category grouping corresponding to one or more of the Website categories. | 02-10-2011 |
20110035379 | PROBABILISTIC CLUSTERING OF AN ITEM - A clustering and recommendation machine determines that an item is included in a cluster of items. The machine accesses item data descriptive of the item. The machine accesses a vector that represents the cluster and calculates the likelihood that the item is included in the cluster, based on the item variable and the probability parameter. The machine determines that the item is included in the cluster, based on the likelihood. The machine also recommends an item to a potential buyer. The machine accesses behavior data that represents a first event type pertinent to a first cluster of items. The machine calculates a probability that a second event type pertaining to a second cluster of items will co-occur with the first event type. The machine identifies an item from the second cluster to be recommended and presents a recommendation of the item to the potential buyer. | 02-10-2011 |
20110035380 | Means For Navigating Data Using A Graphical Interface - A computer-implemented graphical apparatus and method for navigating a collection of data such as a database by exploring or drilling down through a database without needing to enter a text-based keyword search; and navigating a database using a graphical interface that presents structured options to users rather than relying on user knowledge to direct the navigation process. | 02-10-2011 |
20110035381 | METHOD - A method, and associated apparatus, that allows online posts to be automatically analysed and classified such that they can then be appropriately monitored or actioned. The classification method comprises analysis of the contents of the online posts, for example keyword extraction, the affinity of one poster to comment on the posts of a further poster and the relationship between one poster and their posts with other posters and their posts. | 02-10-2011 |
20110047160 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT THROUGH A SINGLE APPLICATION - Automatic capturing and recording of data in a single application is provided. The data can be obtained from multiple sources and over a short time or over an extended time. Personalized notations can be annotated with the data to provide a user with more personal information relating to why the particular data was captured and recorded. Selection of the single application can be a function of a type of the data, a user preference, or combinations thereof. | 02-24-2011 |
20110047161 | Query/Document Topic Category Transition Analysis System and Method and Query Expansion-Based Information Retrieval System and Method - An information retrieval system and method, and more particularly, a query/document topic category transition analysis system and method in which a query topic category of a query input from a user as an information retrieval keyword and a document topic category of a document which a user regards as relevant and selects from information retrieval results are classified to analyze transition between the query topic category and the document topic category, and a query expansion-based information retrieval system and method using query/document topic category transition analysis in which a query input from a user is expanded using a topic category transition analysis result, and corresponding information or documents are retrieved using the expanded query are provided. The query expansion-based information retrieval method using query/document topic category transition analysis, includes: in a state in which a topic category transition map is generated as a result of analyzing topic category transition between a user query and a relevant document, and corresponding documents are generated as pseudo documents according to each topic category for the user query and the relevant document, determining a corresponding query topic category based on query/document text information for an input query input from a user; allocating a relevant document topic category for the classified query topic category based on the topic category transition map; ranking representative keywords for the query topic category and the relevant document topic category based on the pseudo documents; expanding the input query using the ranked representative keywords; and retrieving corresponding documents using the expanded query. | 02-24-2011 |
20110047162 | HANDHELD DEVICE AND KIOSK SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED COMPILING AND GENERATING ITEM LIST INFORMATION - A portable handheld electronic device is in communication with a stationary kiosk device. The portable device provides automated compiling and categorizing of items and generating of categorized item lists in accordance with user-defined preferences including user-defined categories, and includes a memory for storing the assortment data, and categorizing means adapted for assigning respective predetermined and/or user-selected categories to the assortment data. Generating means compile and synchronize selected categories, and generate the item list relative to one or more user-selected categories that is further displayed and printed at request of the user. A signal receiving circuit of the kiosk device communicates with a signal generating circuit of the portable device and generates received categorized item list data in accordance with a received item list signal, and a human user interface generates a human readable display representative of the categorized item list information in accordance with the received categorized item list data. | 02-24-2011 |
20110055216 | TEMPO SPATIAL DATA EXTRACTION FROM NETWORK CONNECTED DEVICES - A computer implemented data processing system for estimating an amount of people situated in a specific location and their geo-demographic classification within time range is provided herein. The system is combined of a collector that is configured to collect data on signals and each signal is given a unique ID; an association module configured to associate each signal with a respective location, namely, place of origin; a processing unit configured to calculate total number of users subscribed to a specific network service provider situated in a specific location and time range; calculate a dynamic ratio by research and statistical data; and an estimation module configured to estimate the amount of people originated from a specific location and the overall amount of people in a location within a time range, by applying the calculated dynamic ratio, that was calculated to each time stamp separately. | 03-03-2011 |
20110072022 | METHOD OF MANAGING LIFE STORIES - System, method, and apparatus for users in an online computer system to write and keep in perpetuity their life Stories, Legacies, and Memorials and tie them together with relationships within social networks. A computer system collects data in the form of text or uploaded files entered by an individual who in turn can indicate other individuals to whom they have a relationship and include them in networks. The individual may cross reference chronological chapters with categories for referencing. The individual may select Guardians to control their data after they are deceased or otherwise incapacitated. A separate Foundation ensures storing the data in to ensure there is enough money to store the data in perpetuity. | 03-24-2011 |
20110078147 | SEGMENTATION OF SEARCH TOPICS IN QUERY LOGS - A system identifies the tasks that a user is attempting to perform when submitting a series of search queries. A task may be categorized hierarchically into a mission and a goal in order to classify a series of queries and determine the user's intent. The user's mission may be an extended task and the user's goal may be a specific task. A pair of queries may be analyzed to determine whether those queries have the same mission and/or the same goal. For a series of queries, boundaries may be identified between the queries to identify where a user has changed her goal or changed her mission. The identification of goals, missions and boundaries may be automated based on an analysis of features of the queries that are compared. | 03-31-2011 |
20110087669 | COMPOSITE LOCALITY SENSITIVE HASH BASED PROCESSING OF DOCUMENTS - Reliable identification of highly similar documents allows such documents to be treated as identical for purposes of document analysis. Identification of highly similar documents can be based on a composite hash value or other value for which the likelihood of two documents having the same value is high if and only if the documents have a high degree of similarity. Prior to performing content based analysis, the composite hash value for the current document is determined and compared to composite hash values of previously analyzed documents. If a match is found, the results of the analysis of the previous document can be applied to the current document. If no match is found, the current document is analyzed. | 04-14-2011 |
20110106808 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT ORGANIZATION AND DELIVERY - The present disclosure provides novel systems and methods for providing multi-dimensional categorization within a multi-tenant database system (“MTS”). Data items in entities stored in a MTS may be categorized along one or more category dimensions. A search query may include one or more selected categories in one or more category dimensions. Categorization methodologies include multi-selection, multi-position, and combinations thereof. Users of the MTS may also be categorized along one or more category dimensions. A filter may present a subset of data items relevant to a user in accordance with their categorization. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106809 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION APPARATUS AND MOBILE TERMINAL - Information in which a user is interested when viewing a program and a situation and a behavior of the user are to be associated with each other. A keyword dictionary defining program information and a user behavior model are provided, and thereby the scene interesting the user is registered and stored, and information on the interesting scene is presented in a situation optimal to the user. | 05-05-2011 |
20110113034 | Apparatus, method and system for effecting information access in a peer environment - An apparatus, method and system to catalog, mark, facilitate searches, transfer, and validate information across a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. The present disclosure teaches how to discern and associate content referenced by a DOI with substantively similar copies of said content. Content that does not contain a DOI reference may be marked with its discerned and associated DOI to facilitate P2P transactions. By discerning that copies of said content across a P2P network are related to a publisher's DOI referenced content, the availability and/or quality of content in a distributed network is improved. This improvement may be achieved by verifying that content obtained from search queries on a P2P network is the same as a publisher's DOI referenced content. This results in content that is discerned and/or more easily discernable; i.e., it is easier to discern that any copies of originating content are of sufficient fidelity to be substantively related as compared to the originating content. The present disclosure further teaches that digital rights management may be enhanced by such discerned content by encouraging the propagation of content with embedded digital rights management materials when so desired by the publisher. As a result, the disclosure enables the distribution and propagation of a more uniform collection of content across a communications network. Furthermore, the disclosure enables standard DOI systems to operate in a P2P environment where multiple peers not controlled by content owners may affect the availability and access of content in either or both the handle system and P2P network. | 05-12-2011 |
20110119273 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING RELEVANT CATEGORIES AND MEASURES FOR USE IN DATA ANALYSES - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive a relevancy parameter. The relevancy parameter is searched in a category ensemble including a set of categories, where the category ensemble overlies a dataset. A first order of the set of categories is created based on the relevancy of the relevancy parameter to each category in the set of categories, where the relevancy is a degree of match to the relevancy parameter. A second order of the set of categories is created based on the merit of each category to partition the dataset. The first order and the second order are combined into a final order, which is returned. A measure in the category ensemble is searched based on the relevancy parameter. The measure is returned as a selected measure, where the selected measure is a codomain of a visualization depicting a portion of the dataset. | 05-19-2011 |
20110125752 | Network security data management system and method - A system for compiling security data from an information network includes at least two network components ( | 05-26-2011 |
20110125753 | DATA DELIVERY FOR A CONTENT SYSTEM - A computer-implemented system and method for enabling data delivery in a content browsing and recommendation system are disclosed. The system and method in an example embodiment include: gathering available content information related to particular items of content from a plurality of content sources via a data network; processing the content information, using a data processor, to associate particular items of content information with content catalogs; storing the processed content information into a database with information identifying associated content catalogs; and providing a service, accessible via the data network, to enable a user platform to search the processed content information in the database based on a content catalog identifier. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125754 | Reverse Dynamic Filter-Linked Pages System And Method - Systems and methods for linking to attribute or category pages from a product landing page are described. The landing pages are dynamic filter linked pages (DFLL). Reverse DFLL links specifications in the product landing page back to a result set for an attribute or category using the links. An index builder (one for each category) analyzes the product record data to identify the entire set of values for a category. The index builder then generates category metadata based on this analysis that identifies all of the values within an attribute and/or category. When a request for a particular page is received by the web application, the reverse DFLL links are created for that product page (i.e., the links are created in real time). The specification values for the requested product are compared to the category metadata. If a match is identified, a link is created for that specification in the product landing page that links back to the attribute or category. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125755 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THUMBNAIL MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of various systems, methods, and computer readable media are disclosed herein for a system for managing media content. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125756 | PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION BASED ON CURRENT ACTIVITY - Data elevation architecture for automatically and dynamically surfacing to a user interface (UI) context-specific data based on specific workflow or content currently being worked on by a user. Data is broken down into data elements and stored at a data element level in a data catalog using metadata, attributes, and relationships. Data elements are automatically selected from a comprehensive collection of the data catalogs based on relevancy and correlation to the current user task. The data catalog stores and relates the data elements and metadata based on criteria specified by content matching based on business terms or specified in a business process in predefined relationships between forms or specified by the user as correlated. The UI displays the data automatically in forms dynamically selected, populated, and presented at the point of focus or user activity so that the user can interact or take action immediately. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125757 | DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE GENERATION SYSTEM - System and method related to a distributed collaborative knowledge generation system are disclosed. The distributed collaborative knowledge generation system includes one or more databases configured to store content information related to the distributed collaborative knowledge generation system, a search services module configured to search for the content information, a web services module configured to retrieve and gather the content information, a presentation services module configured to share the content data with multiple users, and a data services module configured to manage the content information by providing interfaces between the one or more databases, the search services module, the web services module, and the presentation services module. | 05-26-2011 |
20110131210 | GUIDED NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A navigation system is used in combination with a data retrieval system to more effectively locate the correct answers or information in search content. The navigation system provides taxonomies that identify different information categories and sub-categories (facets). Classifiers automatically classify the search content by identifying the content corresponding with associated facets. The facets, in conjunction with the associated classifiers, provide robust classification and correlation between both structured and unstructured content. Rules can be used in conjunction with the facets and classifiers to automatically control different navigation operations. The navigation system can also leverage ontologies to dynamically create taxonomies and provides unique facet expansion and intra-document classification operations. | 06-02-2011 |
20110137904 | CLICKSTREAMS AND WEBSITE CLASSIFICATION - One embodiment is a method that receives a seed Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that represents a category for website classification. Clickstream data generated from the seed URL and additional URLs are analyzed to determine whether the additional URLs belong to the category. The method selects one or more of the additional URLs to represent the category. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137905 | USE OF INFERENCE TECHNIQUES TO FACILITATE CATEGORIZATION OF SYSTEM CHANGE INFORMATION - Methods, systems, and articles for receiving, by a monitor server, change data associated with a change captured on a target host, are described herein. In various embodiments, the target host may have provided the change data in response to detecting the change, and the change data may include one or more rules, settings, and/or parameters. Further, in some embodiments, the monitor server may analyze the change data in order to group the change data into clusters. Once the change data have been classified as clusters, a report may be generated providing classification or categorization and cluster information for the various changes. In various embodiments, the generating may comprise generating a report to the target host and/or to an administrative user. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137906 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING SENTIMENT-BASED TOPICS - A method for analyzing sentiment comprising: collecting an object from an external content repository, the collected objects forming a content database; extracting a snippet related to the subject from the content database; calculating a sentiment score for the snippet; classifying the snippet into a sentiment category; creating sentiment taxonomy using the sentiment categories, the sentiment taxonomy classifying the snippets as positive, negative or neutral; identifying topic words within the sentiment taxonomy; classifying the topic words as a sentiment topic word candidates or a non-sentiment topic word candidate, filtering the non-sentiment topic word candidates; identifying the frequency of the non-sentiment topic words in each of the sentiment categories; identifying the importance of the non-sentiment topic word for each of the sentiment categories; and, ranking the topic word, wherein the rank is calculated by combining the frequency of the topic words in each of the categories with its importance. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137907 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD OUTPUTTING INFORMATION ON MOVEMENT OF PERSON - In a position history analysis unit for analyzing a position history to acquire movement history information such as places of stay, a speed history computation unit refers to the position history to determine a speed occurring at each point of time and to obtain a speed history. A categorization unit organizes a time axis in the position history, and, ultimately, data for position coordinates occurring at respective points of time, into segments of stay and segments of movement, by checking the speed history against a threshold value. A merge unit detects segments of stay which occur at different points of time but which are identified as indicating stays in the same place, by feeding the time flow, categorized into segments of stay and segments of movement by the categorization unit based on the speed, back to the position coordinates in the respective segments. The merge unit merges the segments of stay as needed. An information generation unit evaluates a set of position coordinates and speed values in each segment of stay and in each segment of movement thus obtained and derives predetermined information on each segment. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137908 | ASSIGNING INTO ONE SET OF CATEGORIES INFORMATION THAT HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO OTHER SETS OF CATEGORIES - Techniques are described for assigning, to target categories of a target scheme, items that have been obtained from a plurality of sources. In situations in which one or more of the sources has organized its information according to a source scheme that differs from the target scheme, the assignment may be based, in part, on an estimate of the probability that items from a particular source category should be assigned to a particular target category. Such probability estimates may be based on how many training set items associated with the particular source category have been assigned to the particular target category. Source categories may be grouped into clusters. The probability estimates may also be based on how many training set items within the cluster to which the particular source category has been mapped, have been assigned the particular target category. | 06-09-2011 |
20110145250 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING RELATED CONTENT TO AN ELECTRONIC TEXT - The exemplary embodiments provide methods and systems for automatically identifying content related to an electronic text. Aspects of exemplary embodiments include linking topic categories, psychological states, demographic profiles, and additional content using one or more databases; in response to receiving content of an electronic text, analyzing by a software component executing on a computer the content and assigning one or more of topic categories to the content; automatically identifying at least one the psychological states of a user caused by the content and the demographic profiles whose members would be interested in the content that are linked to the one or more topic categories assigned to the content; and presenting a portion of the additional content that is linked to at least one of the identified demographic profiles and the psychological states. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145251 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING NAMED ENTITY DICTIONARY - A system and method for constructing a named entity dictionary are disclosed. The method includes analyzing a structure of collected Web text, extracting tabulated or listed information from the Web text, extracting a named entity from the tabulated or listed information, categorizing the extracted named entity, and registering the categorized named entity in a named entity dictionary. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145252 | SHOPPING CONTEXT ENGINE - A system receives context data associated with a context and a user. The system then associates the context data to a user identifier and retrieves data associated with the context. The system then filters the data according to the context data to create result data. In another embodiment, the system also receives context data from a plurality of users, where the context data pertains to one or more attributes of a context. The system then using the context data ranks the one or more attributes of the context to create ranked data and generates a user interface based on the ranked data. In yet another embodiment, the system communicates context data associated with a context and a user to a server, and receives result data created by the server filtering data retrieved based on the context data. The system then generates a user interface based on the result data. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145253 | DOMAIN INDEPENDENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATING DATA AGGREGATION - A computer automated method and system of presenting data. The method may include the steps of inputting a set of user-defined instructions into a remotely located computer database system via a public network connection, inputting a user query into the computer database system via the public network connection, mining the computer database system for data relevant to the user query, creating a data set comprising the data relevant to the user query, and aggregating data in the data set using domain metrics selected based on any of predefined and configurable rules and past user usage. The aggregation may further include tagging all data attributes in the data set based on database metadata and inputs from a user, wherein the data attributes comprise any of data identifications (IDs), data grouping attributes, and data measure attributes. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145254 | DOMAIN INDEPENDENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATING DATA AGGREGATION - A computer automated method and system of presenting data. The method may include the steps of inputting a set of user-defined instructions into a remotely located computer database system via a local network connection, inputting a user query into the computer database system via the local network connection, mining the computer database system for data relevant to the user query, creating a data set comprising the data relevant to the user query, and aggregating data in the data set using domain metrics selected based on any of predefined and configurable rules and past user usage. The aggregation may further include tagging all data attributes in the data set based on database metadata and inputs from a user, wherein the data attributes comprise any of data identifications (IDs), data grouping attributes, and data measure attributes. | 06-16-2011 |
20110153611 | EXTRACTING DATA FROM A REPORT DOCUMENT - Disclosed are systems and methods for extracting data from a report document for analysis. A report document is retrieved from a group of report documents. Data present in the report document may include fields and associated metadata. The fields and the associated metadata present in the report are categorized as corresponding data source parameters. The data source parameters are rendered on a user interface, to receive a user definition of a scope for analyzing the data present in the report document. The data source parameters associated with the user definition are qualified to rendered result objects for each associated data source parameter. Based upon the result objects, a query is generated to define the data for analyzing the report document. Based upon a user input to the query, the data present in the report document associated to the query is extracted to generate a multi-dimensional result data. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED APPLICATIONS ON DIFFERENT DEVICES - A method for providing a customized application on different requesting device types of a user is provided. The method enables, firstly, receiving requests made by the user using the different device types over multiple communication channels. Secondly, the method enables assigning a rank to the user based on requests received and one or more rules. Further the method enables determining personalization information based on the ranking. Finally, the method enables rendering a customized application on the different device types based on the personalization information and configuration information stored in a central data repository. The configuration information is related to the application and features thereof based on the user's subscription profile. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153613 | INFORMATION SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD USING LOCATIONAL/SOCIETAL RELATION-BASED AUTOMATIC CATEGORY GENERATION - Disclosed herein is an information search method using automatic category generation, which automatically generates a category related to a keyword entered by a user, constructs an ontology for processing menu information based on the searched results, and provides a customized menu suitable for the use of the keyword. More particularly, the present invention relates to an apparatus and method for automatically generating keyword-related categories, which automatically classifies menu information related to the results of search of information using a keyword entered by a user on the basis of locational/societal relations. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153614 | INVENTORY CONTROL SYSTEM PROCESS - The inventory control system process includes storing product information in a database. Location information is also accepted and stored in the database in association with the product information. The system receives a command associated with the database and analyzes the command for an instruction and one or more keywords. Next, the database is searched for one or more products associated with the one or more keywords. A list of products related to the one or more keywords is then displayed. The system then accesses, modifies, retrieves, or deletes database information in response to the instruction. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153615 | DATA CLASSIFIER SYSTEM, DATA CLASSIFIER METHOD AND DATA CLASSIFIER PROGRAM - A data classifier system of the present invention selects a plurality of classifications correlated to data groups so as to output classification axes based on hierarchical classifications and data groups. The data classifier system includes a basic category accumulation means, a classification axis candidate reduction means and a priority calculation means. The basic category accumulation means accumulates classifications serving as basic categories used for desired classifications in advance. The classification axis candidate reduction means selects a plurality of classifications from among classifications descendant from each basic category so as to create classification axis candidates, thus reducing classification axis candidates subjected to calculations based on data quantity of classifications and hierarchical distances of classifications. The priority calculation means calculates priority in displaying classification axis candidates, the number of which is reduced by the classification axis candidate reduction means. | 06-23-2011 |
20110167067 | CLASSIFICATION OF APPLICATION COMMANDS - Methods for classification of application commands are described. An application command associated with a classification parameter is generated by an application in a first device. A classification value is determined for the application command based on the classification parameter. The classification value is associated with the application command and is sent to a second device for processing. | 07-07-2011 |
20110167068 | CATEGORIZED DOCUMENT BASES - A method of managing information comprises generating a categorized document base. Generating the document base comprises providing a pre-existing classification of things other than documents, providing a source collection of documents, and automatically assessing the documents using Information Retrieval techniques to assign at least some of the documents to one or more taxa of the classification. For each taxon in the classification one or more numerical scores are assigned, based at least in part on a composition, makeup or constitution of the documents assigned to the taxon of the categorized document base. | 07-07-2011 |
20110173202 | Systems and methods for utilizing organization-specific classification codes - Systems and methods for classifying a document are provided. In exemplary embodiments, an organization specific classification code (OSCC) is used to classify the document or data. The OSCC is a classification code based on an information type and an organization. In some embodiments, one or more policies may be associated with the OSCC. | 07-14-2011 |
20110179037 | DATA CLASSIFIER SYSTEM, DATA CLASSIFIER METHOD AND DATA CLASSIFIER PROGRAM - A data classifier system of the present invention selects a plurality of classifications correlated to data groups so as to output classification axes based on hierarchical classifications and data groups. The data classifier system includes a basic category accumulation means, a classification axis candidate creation means and a priority calculation means. The basic category accumulation means accumulates classifications serving as basic categories used for selecting desired classifications in advance. The classification axis candidate creation means creates classification axis candidates based on combinations of classifications each correlated to at least one data among descendant classifications of each basic category. The priority calculation means calculates priorities with respect to the classification axis candidates created by the classification axis candidate creation means based on hierarchical distances of classifications in the classified hierarchy. | 07-21-2011 |
20110184954 | DATABASE AND INDEX ORGANIZATION FOR ENHANCED DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL - A customized, specialty-oriented database and index. of a subject matter area and methods for constructing and using such a database are provided. Selection and indexing of articles is done by experts in the topic with which the database is concerned. As a result, articles are indexed in a manner that allows facile, rapid retrieval of highly relevant articles with few or no false positives with much reduced database maintenance cost through frugal limitation of number of documents in the database, number of terms in a Master Index, and number of codes assigned to each document. A thesaurus allows indexing and search in accordance with terminology familiar to different anticipated groups of users (e.g. doctors, patients, nurses, technicians, and the like). Key articles collections and rapid access to documents therein are also provided. Additional classifications may be applied to articles or documents and searched as an additional search criterion such as a potential use. The context of key word(s) included in the search query can be specified from the hierarchical list of key words without requiring additional classification of articles/documents. Search results may also be filtered and/or sorted based on components included in the articles/documents. | 07-28-2011 |
20110184955 | ORGANIZING DATA - Organizing video data [ | 07-28-2011 |
20110196871 | Targeting Online Ads by Grouping and Mapping User Properties - A method and a system are provided for targeting online ads by grouping and mapping user properties. In one example, the system receives user data associated with one or more users. The system identifies user properties for a user. The system eliminates unacceptable user properties associated with the user. The system identifies permutations of the user properties associated with the user. The system eliminates unacceptable permutations of the user properties associated with the user. Valid permutations remain. The system attaches a weight of importance to each valid permutation. A weight quantifies a level of importance of a valid permutation for the user with respect to buckets. A bucket is an ad category. The system grades each valid permutation relative to a bucket. The system calculates a final grade for each bucket. The system then assigns the user to zero or more buckets based on the final grade for each bucket. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196872 | Computational Method for Comparing, Classifying, Indexing, and Cataloging of Electronically Stored Linear Information - A computational method and system for the comparison and analysis of different objects of information within a database or collection. All objects are compared in a pair-wise fashion so the relative similarity between each object to every other object in the collection is known. A generalized alignment-free method is described for comparing whole genome (coding and non-coding) DNA sequences is used to investigate the relationship among placental mammalian genomes. Differences in word feature frequency profiles (FFP) are used to derive distance and infer evolutionary relationships. | 08-11-2011 |
20110202536 | KNOWLEDGE PORTAL FOR ACCESSING, ANALYZING AND STANDARDIZING DATA - A method and system is provided to access one or more historical incident databases, for example, CDC, CPSC, DTI, AAPCC and the like, for standardizing the potentially differing categories and coding among the databases. The standardizing includes recoding of the categories by providing a unified set of categories reflective of similar categories found among the one or more databases, if any. Submission of search queries allows users to obtain unified data across the databases so that incident history statistics for one or more products tracked by commonly available databases may be easily acquired. The resulting reports and statistics may be used by various entities to understand historical incidents from multiple perspectives including, for example, injury and fatality statistics as a function of age group, type of injury, time periods, diagnosis, injury outcome, severity, and the like. Data may be presented in standardized formats or in any of the native database formats. | 08-18-2011 |
20110208742 | Text Extraction for Determining Emerging Issues in Vehicle Warranty Reporting - A method is provided for detecting trends in service repairs for vehicles. Service repair verbatims are accessed from a warranty database that includes information relating to an identified concern with the vehicle. A thesaurus of service repair related terms is provided. The service repair related terms are each associated with at least one of a component category, a concern category, a cause category, and a correction of repair category. Key terms are identified in each service repair verbatim that have an association with the service repair related terms in the thesaurus. The key terms are extracted from each of the service repair verbatims. A user selectively generates a report based on a key term in the component category and at least one other key term from at least one other category. The report identifies an aggregate number of service repair verbatims associated with the key terms selected by the user. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208743 | MACHINE DATA WEB - Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide the ability to organize and build understandings of machine data generated by a variety of information-processing environments. Machine data is a product of information-processing systems (e.g., activity logs, configuration files, messages, database records) and represents the evidence of particular events that have taken place and been recorded in raw data format. In one embodiment, machine data is turned into a machine data web by organizing machine data into events and then linking events together. | 08-25-2011 |
20110213777 | Method and Apparatus of Text Classification - The present disclosure provides a technique of text categorization to simplify and optimize the classification. In one aspect, a method parses a given text into one or more words; determines a word vector in a spherical space model for one of the one or more words, a number of dimensions of the spherical space being equal to a number of categories, each category corresponding to a spherical space category vector; for each category, determines a distance between a sum of word vectors of the one or more words and the respective category vector; and classifies the text into one or more categories with the shortest distance. The present disclosure also provides an apparatus used to implement the method. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213778 | Processor Implemented Systems and Methods for Using the Catalog Part of an SQL Identifier to Expose/Access Heterogeneous Data - Systems and methods are provided for providing data from a plurality of databases stored on a plurality of disparate servers. A query is received for data from a plurality of databases stored on a plurality of disparate servers. An address for a first server is resolved that stores a first database identified by the catalog field in the query using a logical name-to-connection metadata map. A first sub-query is transmitted to the first server based on the received query, and a first sub-query response is received from the first server. The resolving, transmitting, and receiving are repeated for a second server. The first sub-query response and the second sub-query response are combined to generate a query response according to the received query, and the query response is transmitted. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213779 | METHOD FOR INDEXING IMAGES AND FOR READING AN INDEX OF AN IMAGE - The present invention relates to a method for generating an index of Data Units of a Variable Length Coded (VLC) image. The method comprises categorizing Data Unit lengths, DU-lengths, as non indexed DU-lengths, categorizing DU-lengths not categorized as non-indexed DU-lengths as indexed DU-lengths, generating a value indicating the number of subsequent DU-lengths categorized as non-indexed in a sequence of subsequent DU-lengths categorized as non-indexed, generating a value indicating the number of subsequent DU-lengths categorized as indexed in a sequence of subsequent DU-lengths categorized as indexed, generating data representing the DU-length of each DU in the sequence of DU-lengths categorized as indexed, storing said generated values and data in the index of Data Units, and associating said index of Data Units with the VLC image. Further the invention relates to a method for retrieving Data Unit lengths, DU-lengths, from an image associated with an index of DU-lengths. This method comprises linearly reading data from the index, when the data is a value indicating a number of subsequent Data Units categorized as not having indexed DU-lengths then these Data Units is sequentially processed from the image for retrieving the length of each data unit, and when the data is a value indicating a number of subsequent Data Units categorized as having indexed DU-lengths then the corresponding number of DU-lengths are retrieved from the index. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213780 | VEHICLE BATTERY CHARGING SITE REGISTRATION DEVICE AND METHOD - A site registering device that registers a site allowing charging where a vehicle battery can be charged, the device including: a position acquisition unit that acquires position information on a charging site where charging of the battery has been conducted; and a registering unit that specifies, on the basis of an actual charging result in the charging site, a category to which the charging site belongs among a plurality of categories, associates the charging site with the specified category and the position information, and registers the thus associated charging site as the site allowing charging. | 09-01-2011 |
20110219004 | Determining word information entropies - Determining and using word information entropies includes: determining one or more categories that correspond to a plurality of queries; sorting the plurality of queries into one or more groups based at least in part on the determined categories of the plurality of queries; segmenting queries that correspond to each of the one or more groups into a first plurality of phrases, wherein each phrase includes one or more words; determining occurrence probabilities for the plurality of phrases; and determining word information entropies for the plurality of phrases based at least in part on the determined occurrence probabilities. | 09-08-2011 |
20110219005 | LIBRARY DESCRIPTION OF THE USER INTERFACE FOR FEDERATED SEARCH RESULTS - Methods and computer-readable media are provided for performing a federated search using a library description file to locate multiple data sources. For a federated search, a library description can be used to describe a set of data sources searched, and may further be used to describe how search results should be presented to a user. The format of such a library description file can include multiple elements, some of which provide information on how to display the library and others that define which data sources are included in the library. The library description file can be created according to library description template. | 09-08-2011 |
20110219006 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONICALLY PUBLISHING INFORMATION ON A COMPUTER NETWORK - Methods and apparatus for electronically publishing information on a computer network are disclosed. A computer connected to a computer network is provided to host a database. The computer is configured receive a request from a user to electronically publish information on the computer network. The computer then may accept and store input from the user in a database. The computer may then electronically publish the user input by making information stored in the database freely accessible on the computer network. | 09-08-2011 |
20110225161 | Categorizing products - Categorizing products includes: extracting titles for a plurality of products from acquired data; segmenting the titles into phrases; determining respective scores for the phrases; composing a first word sequence for a first one of the plurality of products with at least one of the phrases based at least in part on the determined respective scores for the phrases; comparing the first word sequence to a second word sequence for a second one of the plurality of products; and combining the first one and the second one of the plurality of products into a category of products based at least in part on the comparison. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225162 | Assigning Tags to Digital Content - Assigning tags to content on a page stored within a digital document environment is described. An activity log is received for a document including data indicating search queries resulting in the location of the document by a search engine. One or more keywords are determined from the activity log, and the document is tagged with a tag associated with the keywords. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225163 | Assigning Tags to Digital Content - Assigning tags to content on a page stored within a digital document environment is described. An activity log is received for a document including data indicating search queries resulting in the location of the document by a search engine. One or more keywords are determined from the activity log, and the document is tagged with a tag associated with the keywords. | 09-15-2011 |
20110231401 | ENABLING CATEGORY-BASED FILTERING - A category may be associated, in a personal information manager (PIM) application, with a data item by associating a category pattern with the data item. Where the PIM application already associates keyword patterns with data items for enabling keyword searching, the category pattern may have a format of an ordered plurality of elements that satisfies at least one rule for the format of the keyword patterns. Optionally, the first element of the ordered plurality of elements may be an element predetermined to be specific to pluralities of elements associated with categories. Advantageously, this approach to the association of a category with a data item allows for the association of more than one category with a single data item. Such an allowance provides for more accurate synchronization with a PIM application on a desktop that also allows the association of more than one category with a data item. Given the allowance of the association of multiple categories with a single data item, the user may filter a list of data items by one or more categories. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231402 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CATEGORIZING NETWORK TRAFFIC CONTENT - A method for categorizing network traffic content includes determining a first characterization of the network traffic content determining a first probability of accuracy associated with the first characterization, and categorizing the network traffic content based at least in part on the first characterization and the first probability of accuracy. A method for use in a process to categorize network traffic content includes obtaining a plurality of data, each of the plurality of data representing a probability of accuracy of a characterization of network traffic content, and associating each of the plurality of data with a technique for characterizing network traffic content. A method for categorizing network traffic content includes determining a characterization of the network traffic content, determining a weight value associated with the characterization, and categorizing network traffic content based at least in part on the characterization of the network traffic content and the weight value. | 09-22-2011 |
20110238665 | CATEGORY MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS - A method and system analyze data associated with a marketplace category. In some embodiments, a query is received that identifies a marketplace category from multiple marketplace categories associated with an electronic commerce marketplace. Data associated with the marketplace category is accessed and analyzed to identify multiple keywords used to identify listings in the marketplace category. A user interface is generated to display the analysis results, including at least a portion of the multiple keywords used to identify listings in the marketplace category. | 09-29-2011 |
20110246468 | Apparatus and Method for Perusing Selected Vehicles Having a Clean Title History - A system and method for allowing a consumer to search a database containing used vehicles from a variety of sellers that can be queried to provide search results that include only vehicles having clean title histories. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246469 | TECHNIQUES TO CAPTURE CONTEXT AND LOCATION INFORMATION AND UTILIZE HEURISTICS TO TURN LOCATION TRACKED OVER TIME AND CONTEXT INFORMATION INTO SEMANTIC LOCATION INFORMATION - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising capturing context information of a user and using heuristics based on a common knowledge database to turn location tracked over time combined with the context information into semantic location information. Embodiments of the present invention may further provide creating and identifying said heuristics and wherein trace data of GPS coordinates are obtained continuously throughout the user's day and first clustered to identify interesting locations, then up-leveled to a street address or business name and then semantically interpreted in one of several categories. | 10-06-2011 |
20110258194 | NAMED ENTITY MARKING APPARATUS, NAMED ENTITY MARKING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A named entity marking apparatus, a named entity marking method, and a computer program product thereof are provided. The named entity marking apparatus comprises a processor and a storage unit, wherein the processor is electrically connected to the storage unit. The storage unit is stored with an electronic document and a named entity database. The processor marks the electronic document into a first marked document by a first set of the named entity database. The processor decides a second set of the named entity database according to the first marked document. The processor re-marks the electronic document into a second marked document by the second set of the named entity database. | 10-20-2011 |
20110258195 | Systems and methods for automatically reducing data search space and improving data extraction accuracy using known constraints in a layout of extracted data elements - A method of automatically narrowing data search space and improving accuracy of data extraction using known constraints in a layout of extracted data elements for classified documented is provided. The method includes: analyzing each document to classify it within a document category, each category having a corresponding set of expected layouts; analyzing each electronic document to automatically extract images and text features; automatically constructing a data structure including a layout of the extracted features and layout relationships amongst the extracted features, wherein each of the extracted features in the layout maintains a reference to neighboring features and wherein closely related features are merged to form a combined feature; automatically narrowing data search space by detecting and removing parts of the layout that are not associated with any data elements using the data structure; and automatically detecting data using the extracted feature layout and the layout relationships amongst the extracted features. | 10-20-2011 |
20110264663 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BEHAVIOURAL AND CONTEXTUAL DATA ANALYTICS - A server arrangement for managing observation data of wireless devices, including data input logic for obtaining observation data from wireless devices, the obtained data including behavioral and contextual raw data relative to the wireless devices, data mining logic for establishing a number of derived data elements, on the basis of processing and analyzing the obtained observation and optional supplementary data, the processing and analyzing incorporating aggregation procedures. At least one derived data element includes usage metrics with contextual dimension relative to applications or other features of wireless devices and users, data storage for storing the obtained data and the number of derived information elements, and a data distribution logic providing derived data. The distribution logic may serve a data query constructed by an external entity through provision of derived information from derived data elements according to the query parameters. A corresponding method for execution by the server arrangement is presented. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270840 | Device and Application for the Retrieval of Catalog Information - An improved device and application for the retrieval of catalog information enables a physical dimension or other characteristic of an object to be measured or otherwise assessed by the device, and from the physical dimension or other characteristic the application retrieves from the catalog an identification or of the object. | 11-03-2011 |
20110276573 | JOURNAL EVENT CONSOLIDATION - Journal event consolidation extracts events occurring between two predetermined point in time on data volume, categorizes the events into categories of events, and consolidates the events in the categories of events. | 11-10-2011 |
20110276574 | Presenting Content Built Around Word Phrases Selected for Profitability - A computing device receives, over a network, information regarding word phrases (e.g., search terms) and determines longevity values associated with content built around the word phrases. The computing device selects, based on the longevity values, a first phrase from the word phrases. Content is built or created around the first phrase, and the built or created content is presented or published over a network such as the Internet. | 11-10-2011 |
20110282878 | GENERATING A TAXONOMY FOR DOCUMENTS FROM TAG DATA - A method and system for generating a taxonomy for documents from tag data are provided. The method includes obtaining tag data in the form of tags on documents with tag weightings for a document and clustering the tags using the tag weightings for documents, wherein each cluster is an identified subject. The documents are associated with each identified subject and the subjects are compared to identifying relationships between subjects to build a taxonomy of subjects. A tag weighting for a document is the number of times the tag is applied to the document with a user rating of the relevance of the tag to the document. The steps are carried out automatically without user intervention. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282879 | METHOD AND SUBSYSTEM FOR INFORMATION ACQUISITION AND AGGREGATION TO FACILITATE ONTOLOGY AND LANGUAGE MODEL GENERATION WITHIN A CONTENT-SEARCH-SERVICE SYSTEM - Various embodiments of the present invention include information-aggregation-and-classification components of content-search-service systems which acquire information from information sources, aggregate and normalize the acquired information, and classify the acquired information prior to storing the normalized and classified information for use by language-model-builder components and ontology-builder components of the content-search-service systems. Additional embodiments of the present invention include the ontology-builder components, which builds ontologies from the normalized and classified information for specific dates, date/times, date ranges, or date/time ranges and for specific categories. | 11-17-2011 |
20110289089 | Negative space finder - Search engines rely on complex algorithms to search for what is available on the internet. When a query is input, the engine will find matches to the user's search terms and return those matches in ever-expanding circles of relevance. When searches do not return a “true” result that meets the user's needs, the lack of information is ignored. A method for mining unfulfilled searches from search result data and indexing these unfulfilled results in a methodical, way, and a system for such, are disclosed herein. Also disclosed is a method for associating and grouping those unfulfilled searches to specific categories. This results in a database of what is being searched for and not being found. This database can be used for a variety of purposes including, but not limited to, identifying news areas, new product initiation and prioritization, enhanced customer support, and lead generation. | 11-24-2011 |
20110289090 | CLASSIFYING LOCATIONS FOR AD PRESENTATION - This specification describes technologies relating to content presentation. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving data from a plurality of users within a geographic region associated with a location; analyzing the received data to derive a category for the location; annotating the location with the category; and using the category to boost candidate content items for delivery to users in the location in response to future content item requests. | 11-24-2011 |
20110302169 | IDENTIFYING ACTIVITIES USING A HYBRID USER-ACTIVITY MODEL - In a user-activity identification technique, a user's actions are monitored while the user is using a computer. While these user actions are associated with user activities, the user activities are initially unspecified, so the tracked user actions constitute unsupervised data. Then, the tracked user actions are aggregated into subsets (for example, using clustering analysis), and user-activity classifications for the subsets (such as activity labels) are provided by the user, so the subsets constitute supervised data. Subsequently, when additional user actions (which are associated with one or more initially unspecified current user activities) are tracked, they can be associated with one or more of the classified subsets. For example, information about the additional user actions can be mapped in real time (or near real time) to one or more of the subsets using a supervised learning technique. In this way, the one or more current user activities can be identified. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302170 | UTILIZING SEARCH POLICIES TO DETERMINE SEARCH RESULTS - Methods for factoring search and browse policies and content preferences into Web search results are provided. Such search and browse policies and/or content preferences generally are provided by a parent, an employer, or other company representative and specify to whom they apply. Upon receiving a search query from a particular user, it is determined whether one or more search and browse policies and/or content preferences apply to the received search query. Upon determining that one or more search and browse policies and/or content preferences apply to the received search query, at least one of the received search query and any search results determined as satisfying the search query are analyzed in accordance with the one or more applicable search and browse policies and/or content preferences applying to the user. Any necessary modifications are made to the search results before the results are presented to the user. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302171 | Apparatus and Method for the Automatic Discovery of Control Events from the Publication of Documents - A method and system for discovering a control event from electronically published documents and received data streams is provided, in which a computer control program identifies electronically published documents and data stored in a plurality of network servers which potentially contain control events relevant to the control of goods and/or services, the control events identified by reference to user interest identifiers. Identified material is analyzed by a classification program to determine whether control events are present. A control event classification is assigned to documents and received data determined to contain at least one discovered control event, the assigned control event classification and information identifying the associated document and data is stored in a classification database, and a report of discovery of documents and data containing control events is be provided to a user. The report may includes a link to the control event classification and/or its associated document or data. | 12-08-2011 |
20110307488 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A behavior index indicates a development of occurrence of events included in log data by a connection of a plurality of nodes, and includes a branching node connecting to two or more subsequent nodes and an integrating node connected to two or more preceding nodes. When a regular expression converting part inputs a search condition indicating an event appearance order from a client, a search automaton retaining part generates a state transition table in accordance with the search condition. While a node type determining part determines the node types of the respective nodes of the behavior index, a state evaluating part analyzes the respective nodes to determine the states of the respective nodes, and determines whether or not a state transition pattern matches the state transition table. Regarding a branching node, the respective nodes of each of branching routes branching from the branching node are analyzed. Regarding an integrating node, the respective nodes of each of upstream routes merging into the integrating node are analyzed. | 12-15-2011 |
20110314023 | Online Stratified Sampling for Classifier Evaluation - To determine if a set of items belongs to a class of interest, the set of items is binned into sub-populations based on a score, ranking, or trait associated with each item. The sub-populations may be created based on the score associated with each item, such as an equal score interval, or with the distribution of the items within the overall population, such as a proportion interval. A determination is made of how may samples are needed from each sub-population in order to make an estimation regarding the entire set of items. Then a calculation of the precision and variance for each sub-population is completed and are combined to provide an overall precision and variance value for the overall population. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314024 | SEMANTIC CONTENT SEARCHING - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed that provide for document retrieval where a user can identify key attributes of potential target documents that are desirable (e.g., have a particular semantic content for the user). Further, relevant documents that comprise the desired semantic content can be retrieved. Additionally, the user can provide feedback on the retrieved documents, for example, based on key semantic concepts found in the documents, and the input can be used to update the classification. For example, this process can be iterated to improve the retrieval and precision of documents found through machine learning techniques. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314025 | DATABASE AND INDEX ORGANIZATION FOR ENHANCED DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL - A customized, specialty-oriented database and index. of a subject matter area and methods for constructing and using such a database are provided. Selection and indexing of articles is done by experts in the topic with which the database is concerned. As a result, articles are indexed in a manner that allows facile, rapid retrieval of highly relevant articles with few or no false positives with much reduced database maintenance cost through frugal limitation of number of documents in the database, number of terms in a Master Index, and number of codes assigned to each document. A thesaurus allows indexing and search in accordance with terminology familiar to different anticipated groups of users (e.g. doctors, patients, nurses, technicians, and the like). Key articles collections and rapid access to documents therein are also provided. | 12-22-2011 |
20110320455 | HINT SERVICES FOR FEATURE/ENTITY EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for extracting a feature of an entity. A data record that includes the feature may be received. The feature may be characterized. Data related to the feature may be retrieved from a data source. The feature may be recharacterized based on the retrieved data. The data source may be updated with an association between the recharacterized feature and the retrieved data. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320456 | TIPS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR MANAGING ORGANIZATION-WIDE KNOWLEDGE TIPS - The invention provides a method, a system, and a computer program product for managing and distributing knowledge tips in an organization. A member of the organization submits a knowledge tip and one or more data points corresponding to the knowledge tip in a Tips Management System (TiMS). The member associates the knowledge tip with at least one predefined category. A member selects knowledge tips by defining a criterion in TiMS. The member selects category(ies) and/or projects(s) and provides delivery parameters for planning the delivery of knowledge tips to the at least one member. The TiMS delivers the selected knowledge tips to the each member as per the delivery parameters. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320457 | METHOD FOR CREATING AND USING AFFECTIVE INFORMATION IN A DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEM - An image file for storing a still digital image and metadata related to the still digital image, the image file including digital image data representing the still digital image, and metadata that categorizes the still digital image as an important digital image, wherein the categorization uses a range of levels and the range of levels includes at least three different integer values. | 12-29-2011 |
20120005212 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MONITORING AND CONTROLLING APPLICATION FILES - A system and method for updating a system that controls files executed on a workstation. The workstation includes a workstation management module configured to detect the launch of an application. A workstation application server receives data associated with the application from the workstation. This data can include a hash value. The application server module can determine one or more categories to associate with the application by referencing an application inventory database or requesting the category from an application database factory. The application database factory can receive applications from multiple application server modules. The application database factory determines whether the application was previously categorized by the application database factory and provides the category to the application server module. Once the application server module has the category, it forwards a hash/policy table to the workstation management module. Upon receipt of the hash/policy table, the workstation management module applies the policy that is associated with the launched application to control access to the application on the workstation. | 01-05-2012 |
20120011125 | MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTATION, EXECUTION, DATA COLLECTION, AND DATA ANALYSIS OF A STRUCTURED COLLECTION PROCEDURE WHICH RUNS ON A COLLECTION DEVICE - Method embodiments for performing a structured collection protocol by utilizing a collection device comprise collecting one or more sampling sets of biomarker data, wherein each sampling set comprises a sufficient plurality of sampling instances recorded over a collection period. The methods further include determining compliance with adherence criteria for the sampling instances, wherein noncompliance with adherence criteria is recorded as an adherence event, classifying sampling instances as primary samples or secondary samples, wherein primary samples, which do not have corresponding recorded adherence events, are sampling instances utilized in the calculations performed by the processor that yield therapy results for a diabetic person, and secondary samples are sampling instances not utilized in the calculations, unless one or more secondary samples are promoted to primary samples, and performing at least one additional task if one or more sampling instances is a primary sample with a corresponding recorded adherence event. | 01-12-2012 |
20120016880 | DATA ELEMENT CATEGORIZATION IN A SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE - A method and system for specifying categories of data elements during a service specification phase of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) life cycle defined in a service modeling methodology like Service-Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA). A Unified Modeling Language based SOA modeling tool for SOMA methodology includes a middleware based integration plug-in that categorizes retrieved service-specific data elements as transaction elements, optional controller elements, glue elements, optional extension patterns, extension elements and core Common Information Model entities, and associates the categorized data elements with corresponding operations of the service being modeled. A user interface provided by the plug-in enables input of the data elements into the categories and input of the associations between the categorized data elements and corresponding operations of the service being modeled. Furthermore, the plug-in generates and initiates storing of a service specification based on the categorization of the data elements. | 01-19-2012 |
20120023104 | SEMANTICALLY ASSOCIATED TEXT INDEX AND THE POPULATION AND USE THEREOF - The construction of a semantically associated computer search database is disclosed. A text catalog containing the text particulars and contents of a plurality of electronic documents, a term association database which joins text search terms with their semantic meanings or definitions, and a content association database which contains records associating text search terms and their contextual definitions in respect of individual electronic documents are used to in conjunction provide a text index in which it is possible to search based upon the actual definitions or meanings of certain text or terms within the electronic documents, reducing or refining query search result sets. A method of operating a search engine with the index in question, as well as other e-commerce methods employing the index as a refining tool are also disclosed. | 01-26-2012 |
20120030207 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTENT PROCESSING - A mobile communication terminal and a method of processing content thereof are disclosed. The terminal and method analyze inputted commands to generate condition data used to automatically executed the inputted commands when the condition for the command occurs. The mobile communication terminal includes a pre-work setting unit to set a combination condition which includes a search condition, a predetermined-operation identification information, and source data; a condition variation monitoring unit to monitor whether an actual condition satisfies the search condition, and a post-processing management unit to process the source data, if the actual condition satisfies the search condition, and to execute a predetermined operation according to the predetermined-operation identification information, if the actual condition satisfies the search condition. | 02-02-2012 |
20120041954 | System and method for providing conditional background music for user-generated content and broadcast media - A system and method for providing conditional background music for user-generated content and broadcast videos. The method includes: detecting that a particular song is specified to serve as background music for a particular media content; searching for the particular song to serve as background music for the particular media content; and checking whether an end user of the particular media content has rights to the particular song and that the particular song is available. When the particular song is available, the particular song is returned for playback as the background music to the particular media content. When the particular song is not available, searching is conducted for another song as a substitute song based upon preferences of both an author and the end user of the particular media content. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 02-16-2012 |
20120041955 | ENHANCED IDENTIFICATION OF DOCUMENT TYPES - A method for document management includes automatically extracting respective features from each of a set of documents. The features are processed in a computer so as to generate respective vectors for the documents, each vector including elements having respective values that represent properties of a respective document. A similarity between the documents is assessed by computing a measure of distance between the respective vectors. The documents are automatically clustered responsively to the similarity so as to identify a cluster of the documents belonging to a common document type. Similar methods may be used in supervised categorization, wherein documents are compared and categorized based on a training set that is prepared for each document type. | 02-16-2012 |
20120047144 | HIERARCHY MODIFICATION - A hierarchy of nodes is created, each node being one of associated with an item retrieved according to a condition and associated with a category of information including the item. It is determined whether at least one of the nodes is redundant in the hierarchy. The at least one of the nodes is pruned from the hierarchy if the at least one of the nodes is redundant. | 02-23-2012 |
20120066226 | SOCIAL MEDIA ORGANIZER FOR INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA - A social media organizer for instructional or educational content may maintain one or more media clips relating to used-defined educational or instructional topics. In one implementation, a device may maintain user-created sets of media clips, where the media clips in a set of media clips include instructional media clips that relate to a particular subject. The device may further receive rankings from users relating to a quality of the sets of media clips and determine one or more of the sets of media clips that match a user search request. Additionally, the device may provide an interface that provides commands for the user to control playback of the media clips. | 03-15-2012 |
20120072424 | Developing a Knowledge Base Associated with a User That Facilitates Evolution of an Intelligent User Interface - Developing a knowledgebase associated with a user interface is disclosed. Development of the knowledgebase includes cataloging local data associated with a user, collecting remote data associated with the user, recording information associated with verbal input received from the user, tracking acts performed by the user to determine user idiosyncrasies, and updating the knowledgebase with the cataloged local data, the collected remote data, the recorded information, and the user idiosyncrasies. The updated knowledgebase is then provided to a component of a user interface. | 03-22-2012 |
20120078912 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVENT CORRELATION - A method for event correlation includes receiving events from a network of systems and classifying the events into itemsets, where each itemset includes a set of frequently correlated events. The method also includes calculating a confidence value for each of the itemsets, identifying itemsets whose confidence values conform to a confidence criterion, and varying the confidence criterion to reduce the number of the identified itemsets. A computer program product and data processing system are also disclosed. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078913 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCHEMA MATCHING - A system and method for matching one or more source schemas with one or more target schemas is provided. The matching between source and target schemas is performed by gathering inputs pertaining to the source and target schemas, wherein the inputs comprises a set of details in a predefined format. Thereafter, the gathered inputs are processed by comparing the source schemas with the target schemas. The processing is performed to identify a set of matches between the source and target schemas based on the linguistic similarity, structural similarity and functional similarity and relationship between the source and target schemas. Subsequently, the identified matches are stored. | 03-29-2012 |
20120096004 | TRANSACTION CLASSIFICATION RULE GENERATION - A method, executed by a processor, for generating a transaction classification rule that can be applied to unclassified transactions. The method includes receiving an identification of an existing unclassified transaction upon which the classification rule will be based; generating identification rules to identify subsequent unclassified transactions as similar to the existing unclassified transaction; generating the classification rule using the identified transaction; and storing the classification rule for application to the subsequent unclassified transactions. Application of the generated classification rule to the subsequent unclassified transactions produces transactions classified according to the classification rule. | 04-19-2012 |
20120102038 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CATEGORIZING ITEMS IN BOTH ACTUAL AND VIRTUAL CATEGORIES - Systems and a method are described. The method includes identifying and presenting a plurality of data items comprised of receiving a selection that identifies a parent category; identifying a first plurality of categories based on the parent category, the first plurality of categories including a first category, the plurality of data items not being user-classifiable under the first plurality of categories; identifying the plurality of data items based on a link from the first category to a second category, the second category being included in a second plurality of categories that are respectively associated with the first plurality of categories, the plurality of data items being user-classified under the second category; and communicating, over a network, a user interface response to the receiving the selection, the user interface including the plurality of data items. | 04-26-2012 |
20120109965 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC SEMANTIC-BASED MINING - The present invention relates generally to a system for automatic semantic-based mining that enables web mining for populate semantic artifacts data to be carried out with minimal user interaction. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109966 | CATEGORY-BASED CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - Techniques for category-based content recommendation are described. Some embodiments provide a content recommendation system (“CRS”) configured to recommend content items (e.g., Web pages, images, videos) that are related to specified categories. In one embodiment, the CRS processes content items to determine entities referenced by the content items, and to determine categories related to the referenced entities. The determined entities and/or categories may be part of a taxonomy that is stored by the CRS. Then, in response to a received request that indicates a category, the CRS determines and provides indications of one or more content items that each have a corresponding category that matches the indicated category. In some embodiments, at least some of these techniques are employed to implement a category-based news service. | 05-03-2012 |
20120117069 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - The present invention aims to provide a data processing device that provides a result of categorization that is satisfactory to a user, even when user data includes an object specific to the user. The data processing device stores therein model data pieces each indicating detection counts of feature amounts; judges, for each target data piece, whether the target data piece is a non-categorization data piece including an uncategorizable object, using the model data pieces and the detection count of each of at least two feature amounts detected in the target data piece; when, as a result of the judgment, two or more of the target data pieces are judged to be non-categorization data pieces, specifies at least two feature amounts that are each included, and detected the same number of times, in a predetermined number or more of the non-categorization data pieces, and newly creates a model data piece based on the at least two feature amounts that have been specified, using a class creation method, and stores the model data piece into the storage unit. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117070 | EXPERTISE IDENTIFICATION USING INTERACTION METRICS - An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented method to identify expertise using interaction metrics receives a user identity to form an identified user, receives usage information associated with the identified user to form received information and identifies usage patterns in the received information to form identified usage patterns. The computer-implemented method further applies assessment factors to the identified usage patterns and received information, calculates a ranking for the identified user to form a calculated ranking and assigns the calculated ranking to the identified user. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117071 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a user specified attribute value which is an attribute value specified by a user from a plurality of attribute values of an attribute assigned based on a characteristic amount of content, and a category determining unit configured to determine a recommended category which is a category which recommended content belongs to based on compatibility of a plurality of categories and the user specified attribute value in compatibility information which shows compatibilities of a plurality of categories for categorizing content and the plurality of attribute values. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117072 | Automated Product Attribute Selection - Product data for a product is received by an attribute selection module. The product data includes product image data and product text data. This product data is used to generate a plurality of probability distributions for a category. The category includes a plurality of attributes, and the probability distribution includes a plurality of probabilities indicating the likelihoods that attributes of the category are applicable to the product. The plurality of probability distributions for the category are weighted and summed to generate a combined probability distribution for the category. An attribute label is determined by selecting an attribute from the category that is indicated to be most likely applicable to the product based on the combined probability distribution for the category. The attribute label is associated with the product. The attribute label enables other services to search for and retrieve the product based on the attribute. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117073 | PERSONAL MASHUPS - In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method for automated creation of a mashup is provided, the method comprising: receiving data needs of a user; identifying sources of data to satisfy the data needs by comparing the data needs to available data sources; retrieving metadata relating to the identified sources of data from a source metadata store; identifying services to satisfy the data needs by comparing the retrieved metadata to available services; retrieving metadata related to the identified services from a service metadata store; and generating a plan for supplying data from the identified sources of data to the identified services based on the retrieved metadata from the source metadata source and the retrieved metadata from the service metadata source. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117074 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING MEDIA PROGRAM DATABASES - A method, apparatus, article of manufacture for providing list of a plurality of media programs responsive to a user search query is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of accepting an general search query from a user computer, identifying a synonym for the general search query, identifying a category for the general search query according to the identified synonym, performing a categorical search of a media program database using the identified synonym and the identified category to obtain a search result, and transmitting the search result to the user computer for presentation on a display communicatively coupled to the user computer. | 05-10-2012 |
20120124052 | Contextual Assignment of an External Descriptive and Informative Quality to a Person and/or an Object Located within a Temporal Framework - A phenomenological framework of the human perception of time identifies the Future, Past, and Present perspectives of mind. The framework is visualized as a triangle, with Future, Past, and Present mental constructs serving as an anchor at each of the three corners. The triangular plane between them represents a continuum of relative intensity for each of the constructs. Each blend of intensity in the three constructs itself corresponds to a unique set of the fundamental values and behavioral characteristics that are driven by the mental characteristics. Within this temporal framework, there is a contextual assignment of an external descriptive and informative quality to any person, group, or object—based on relative and/or absolute intensities of each mental construct—that can be used with a high level of confidence in any number of ways to interact better with the object. | 05-17-2012 |
20120131007 | System and Method for Publishing - Computer implemented system and method for publishing evaluated information comprising collecting one or more sets of data from one or more users, generating one or more sets of augmented collected data by augmenting the one or more sets of data collected from the one or more users, wherein the augmenting the one or more sets of data includes implementing a typesetting function configured to associate identifier information with the collected one or more sets of data, detecting a request from the one or more users, providing at least one additional user at least a portion of the augmented collected data, wherein at least a portion of the provided augmented collected data includes identifier data associated with the one or more users, and assigning a recognized number to the augmented collected data. | 05-24-2012 |
20120136866 | ASSISTING USERS TO INTERACT APPROPRIATELY TO CONFORM TO THE NORM OF THE SOCIAL NETWORKING GROUP - A method, system and computer program product for assisting users to interact appropriately in social networking groups. Content posts in a social networking group are scanned and parsed in order to identify the events that led to these content posts. Each event is categorized and assigned a level of importance based on various factors, such as age, the number of comments and the environmental factors. These categorized events are grouped based on importance. A baseline of normal social acceptable behavior for the social networking group is established based on these grouped categorizations. Once a baseline of normal social acceptable behavior for the social networking group has been established, the user's content posts are analyzed in light of this baseline so that the user may be informed of potential faux pas in the social networking group and provided assistance to conform to the norm of that social networking group. | 05-31-2012 |
20120136867 | CONTENT NOTIFYING DEVICE, NOTIFYING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A program search device is configured to extract a program using search condition attribute information of the program. The device includes a unit storing information concerning the storage condition, and a display control to control display of a list that includes both search condition information and a program list. The display control highlights a search condition as most recently stored in the storing unit. | 05-31-2012 |
20120143872 | Computer Algorithm for Automatic Allele Determination from Fluorometer Genotyping Device - The present invention provides methods and systems for an automated method of identifying allele values from data files derived from processed fluorophore emissions detected during the observation of fluorophore labeled nucleotide probes used in analyzing polymorphic DNA are provided. These methods are used in the rapid and efficient distinguishing of targeted polymorphic DNA sites without control samples. | 06-07-2012 |
20120150860 | Clustering with Similarity-Adjusted Entropy - Data-mining software initializes a loop by (a) assigning the messages in an online discussion on a website to a single logical cluster that is one of a group of logical clusters and (b) determining a measure of similarity-adjusted entropy for the group of logical clusters. Then the data-mining software randomly reassigns one of the messages to another logical cluster that is randomly selected from the group of logical clusters and again determines a measure of the similarity-adjusted entropy for the group of logical clusters. If the subsequent measure of similarity-adjusted entropy is greater than or equal to the earlier measure of similarity-adjusted entropy, the data-mining software undoes the reassignment. If the subsequent measure of similarity-adjusted entropy is less than the earlier measure of similarity-adjusted entropy, the data-mining software replaces the earlier measure with the subsequent measure. The data-mining software repeats the operations of the loop until convergence is reached. | 06-14-2012 |
20120158730 | AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY OF METADATA - This is directed to processing stored data to automatically generate metadata for the stored data. In particular, this is directed to identifying metadata associated with stored data, and identifying other data that relates to the stored data from one or more sources. A processing module can identify other data sharing some of the identified metadata, and can extract additional metadata associated with the identified other data. The extracted metadata can then be associated with the user's stored data. The processing module can extract additional metadata from any suitable source, including for example local application data, social networks or blogging sources, and other remote sources. In some embodiments, an electronic device can retrieve data from other users for a particular event based on metadata associated with the user's data for the event to form a master collection of data. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166441 | KEYWORDS EXTRACTION AND ENRICHMENT VIA CATEGORIZATION SYSTEMS - Techniques for determining a set of keywords associated with a document are provided. A document is received that may be classified into a taxonomy that includes a plurality of categories. A categorization ranking is determined for each category for the received document. A set of categories of the taxonomy having highest categorization rankings is determined for the received document. Documents representing the set of categories having highest categorization rankings are combined together into a cumulative representative text that includes a plurality of terms. A cumulative term corpus importance score is determined for each term in the cumulative representative text. The cumulative term corpus importance score for a particular term indicates an importance of the particular term in a context of the cumulative representative text. A set of terms of the cumulative representative text having highest cumulative term corpus importance scores is selected to be keywords for the received document. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166442 | CATEGORIZING DATA TO PERFORM ACCESS CONTROL - Systems and methods categorize data to perform access control. A system receives first data, where the first data comprises at least a portion of data to be categorized. The system analyzes the first data to determine Whether the first data belongs to a first category. If the first data belongs to a first category, the system applies a first access control set to actions on the data to be categorized. Further, if one or more of the actions on the data to be categorized has an access control status of pending after applying the first access control set, the system receives second data, where the second data comprises at least a portion of data to be categorized. The system analyzes the second data to determine whether the second data belongs to a second category. If the second data belongs to a second category, the system applies a second access control set to at least one of the actions having the access control status of pending. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166443 | EASILY QUERIABLE SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES - Tables are created in such a way that allows rich querying using standard database routines and other tools. Developers and repository users are provided with a set of schema guidelines that describe how the software related items are to be categorized in the tables and how to use such tables for rich querying. For example, one such guideline provides for course-grained versioning of items (e.g., artifacts, metadata, etc.)—as opposed to the fine grained object principle of unit change found in most repository systems such as the entity-property-value scheme. The developers or providers then use these guidelines to optimally categorize, in a natural way, their metadata and other software related items for storing copies thereof in the repository. | 06-28-2012 |
20120173533 | MINING GLOBAL EMAIL FOLDERS FOR IDENTIFYING AUTO-FOLDER TAGS - Embodiments are directed towards identifying auto-folder tags for messages by using a combinational optimization approach of bi-clustering folder names and features of messages based on relationship strengths. The combinational optimization approach of bi-clustering, generally, groups a plurality of folder names and a plurality of features into one or more metafolders to optimize a cost. The cost is based on an aggregate of cut relationship strengths, where a cut results when a relationship folder name and feature are grouped in separate metafolders. Furthermore, the plurality of folder names and the plurality of features are obtained by monitoring actions of a plurality of users, where the folder names are user generated folder names and features are from a plurality of messages. The metafolders may be used to tag new user messages with an auto-folder tag. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173534 | AUTOMATED DETERMINATION AND/OR PROCESSING OF INFORMATION - A data processing system and method for automated retrieval and/or processing of information from a plurality of available data sources in a computer network, whereby the information is input or will be input in objects structured in modules, at least one property related to the information is assigned or will be assigned to the information in the modules of the object (property assignment), a comparison is performed of at least two objects (object comparison) by comparing at least one of the modules of a first object of at least two objects with at least one module of at least one other object of at least two objects, and the result of the comparison of the objects is presented as information. | 07-05-2012 |
20120179685 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, TERMINAL APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention is associated with an information providing apparatus and method, a terminal apparatus and an information processing method, and a program that are configured to provide users with registered information without locational restrictions. A recognition device | 07-12-2012 |
20120179686 | METHOD FOR SORTING AND DISPLAYING DATA ON A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of sorting and displaying data on a portable electronic device includes: determining geographical coordinates of the portable electronic device, providing search criteria to the portable electronic device, performing a search in a database based on the search criteria resulting in a list of database records, determining a search area of the portable electronic device and displaying selected records from the list of database records on a display screen of the portable electronic device. Each of the selected records is located within a search radius, which originates at the geographical coordinates of the portable electronic device, and within the search area, which is determined based on a pointing direction of the portable electronic device. | 07-12-2012 |
20120185483 | System and method for tree creation - Tree creation systems and methods are disclosed. An example of a method includes building a system tree in computer-readable medium, the system tree having a plurality of nodes, each node in the system tree representing a desired range of characteristics of a component of a system under consideration. The method also includes identifying probable nodes in other trees that satisfy the desired range of characteristics of the component of the system under consideration. The method also includes creating in computer-readable medium at least one new tree for the system under consideration by replacing at least one of the nodes in the system tree with at least one of the probable nodes from the other trees. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185484 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SELECTING RESPONDERS - A system and method of directing queries to human assistants who may be users of an information search system is described. An area of interest of a user is identified based on queries and/or other activities of the user. When a request is received analysis of available human assistants is performed to determine a suitable human assistant to aid in production of a response includes directing a task to a user associated with the type of request received. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185485 | Techniques for Personalized and Adaptive Search Services - Techniques are presented that include sending a query to one or more information sources associated with a category comprising one or more terms, wherein said one or more information sources are identified by a ranked list of information sources, and wherein said ranked list is generated by ranking a plurality of information sources based on scores for results returned by said plurality of information sources in response to a ranking query generated from said category, and obtaining results from said one or more information sources. | 07-19-2012 |
20120191716 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KNOWLEDGE RETRIEVAL, MANAGEMENT, DELIVERY AND PRESENTATION - The present invention is directed to an integrated implementation framework and resulting medium for knowledge retrieval, management, delivery and presentation. The system includes a first server component that is responsible for adding and maintaining domain-specific semantic information and a second server component that hosts semantic and other knowledge for use by the first server component that work together to provide context and time-sensitive semantic information retrieval services to clients operating a presentation platform via a communication medium. Within the system, all objects or events in a given hierarchy are active Agents semantically related to each other and representing queries (comprised of underlying action code) that return data objects for presentation to the client according to a predetermined and customizable theme. This system provides various means for the client to customize and “blend” Agents and the underlying related queries to optimize the presentation of the resulting information. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191717 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A DATA DICTIONARY - There is provided an ecommerce method and system to generate a data dictionary for searching data items stored in a database. In one embodiment, the system comprises a candidate list generator module to generate a list of keywords from search query information and generate a set of token pairs including a keyword from the list of keywords and a token, the token being a synonym of the keyword. Demand information retrieved from query logs maintained for user-provided query entries is used to apply candidate selection rules to token pairs. The system also comprises a validation module and a data dictionary module to receive validated token pairs as entries in a vocabulary. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191718 | GENERATING A TAXONOMY FOR DOCUMENTS FROM TAG DATA - A method and system for generating a taxonomy for documents from tag data are provided. The method includes obtaining tag data in the form of tags on documents with tag weightings for a document and clustering the tags using the tag weightings for documents, wherein each cluster is an identified subject. The documents are associated with each identified subject and the subjects are compared to identifying relationships between subjects to build a taxonomy of subjects. A tag weighting for a document is the number of times the tag is applied to the document with a user rating of the relevance of the tag to the document. The steps are carried out automatically without user intervention. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191719 | CONTENT AGGREGATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ON-LINE PURCHASING SYSTEM - The method comprises processing plural product information records from the product information sources into one or more groups based on which product information records are likely to correspond to the same product, correlating a unique product ID corresponding to the product associated with each of said groups to identify the product, comparing each identified product to categories of a taxonomy to determine a category for the identified products in the taxonomy, and determining attributes for each categorized product based on the product information records corresponding to each group, creating product specifications based on the determined attributes and storing the product specification in the corresponding determined categories of the taxonomy. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191720 | RETRIEVING RADIOLOGICAL STUDIES USING AN IMAGE-BASED QUERY - The invention relates to a system ( | 07-26-2012 |
20120197896 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING, COLLECTING, ANALYZING, AND COMMUNICATING EVENT-RELATED INFORMATION - A system and method involves detecting operational social disruptive events on a global scale, assigning event staging and warnings to express data in more simplistic terms, modeling data in conjunction with linguistics analysis to establish responsive actions, generating visualization and modeling capabilities for communicating information, and modeling propagation of events for containment and forecasting purposes. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197897 | METHOD OF DEFINING A COLLECTION OF DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT - A method for defining a collection of digital media content for playback using a digital media player where (a) the collection is defined using specific criteria; and (b) the collection is not static but can alter or grow even after being made available to the digital media player; and (c) the said digital media files form a subset of a catalogue of digital media files available for the digital media player to play. | 08-02-2012 |
20120203783 | PROCESSING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES ACCORDING TO SENDER CLASSIFICATION - A computer-implemented method of sorting electronic messages can include identifying at least one recipient of an electronic message and retrieving a classification scheme of the recipient. An identifier can be included within the electronic message. The identifier can specify a tag selected from the classification scheme of the recipient. The electronic message, including the identifier specifying the selected tag, can be sent. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203784 | MAINTAINING A DATA STRUCTURE WITH DATA SET NAMES AND POINTERS TO A PLURALITY OF CATALOGS - A plurality of catalogs are maintained, and wherein each catalog of the plurality of catalogs includes data sets and attributes of the data sets. An indication that a new data set is to be defined is received. A selected catalog is determined from the plurality of catalogs, wherein the selected catalog is suitable for including the new data set and attributes of the new data set. An entry that indicates a data set name corresponding to the new data set and an index to the selected catalog is inserted in a group table. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203785 | ITEM AND USER TRACKING - A computer system is used for tracking data, the computer system including a data collection system for identifying events of categories such as reception events, storage events, and association events. The system further includes an item module containing index data for an item. The system further includes an end user facility module for recording the reception events that are to be assigned to the item and the storage events that are to be assigned to the item. The system further includes a provider module for assigning the association events to a provider. The system further includes an end user module for recording the association events that are to be assigned to the end user and to the item. The system further includes a reporting system for generating reports. The item has a unique index value and the end user has a non-unique index value. | 08-09-2012 |
20120209852 | REAL-TIME DATA MINING - A significant recent trend in the internet and mobile telephony has been the dominance of user generated content. As such, in mobile technology have permitted users to upload content onto the internet, whereby sites provide an easily accessible and manageable medium for users to share their thoughts and form a portal for media-rich exchanges. It has been found that much of what is exchanged by users in such settings is context-sensitive, ranging from users' moods and opinions, to communication about users' plans. Broadly contemplated herein, in accordance with at least one embodiment of the invention, is the employment of data mining in information repositories settings to efficiently classify an information stream in real-time and thereby discern user intent. | 08-16-2012 |
20120215782 | Computer-Assisted Abstraction for Reporting of Quality Measures - Methods and systems are disclosed for tracking quality measures in abstracted documents. Embodiments include, determining, based on the abstracted content, a quality measure category, obtaining a quality measure definition corresponding to a quality measure included in the determined quality measure category, determining, based on keywords corresponding to the criterion, whether a portion of the abstracted content satisfies a criterion, recording, in association with the criterion, a reference to the portion of the abstracted content that satisfies the criterion; and selectively generating, a report including the query corresponding to the criterion, a query response, and the portion of the abstracted content satisfying the criterion. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215783 | CATALOG TAXONOMY FOR STORING PRODUCT INFORMATION AND SYSTEM AND METHOD USING SAME - Systems for organizing product information in accordance with a catalog taxonomy including: a database storing product information, and a processor configured to receive input of product information associated with a plurality of products, store at least one of the plurality of products in a catalog, associate at least one first tier attribute with a first tier category, the first tier attribute being common to products in the first tier category and being inherited by products in a second tier category, associate at least one second tier attribute with the second tier category, the second tier attribute being common to the products in the second tier category, retrieve second tier attributes of at least two second tier categories, determine at least one common attribute of the second tier categories, generate a first tier attribute group, and associate the at least one common attribute with the first tier attribute group. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215784 | SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING A DISTRIBUTION OF MESSAGE CONTENT CATEGORIES IN SOURCE DATA - A method of computerized content analysis that gives “approximately unbiased and statistically consistent estimates” of a distribution of elements of structured, unstructured, and partially structured source data among a set of categories. In one embodiment, this is done by analyzing a distribution of small set of individually-classified elements in a plurality of categories and then using the information determined from the analysis to extrapolate a distribution in a larger population set. This extrapolation is performed without constraining the distribution of the unlabeled elements to be equal to the distribution of labeled elements, nor constraining a content distribution of content of elements in the labeled set (e.g., a distribution of words used by elements in the labeled set) to be equal to a content distribution of elements in the unlabeled set. Not being constrained in these ways allows the estimation techniques described herein to provide distinct advantages over conventional aggregation techniques. | 08-23-2012 |
20120221575 | Apparatus and Method for Categorical Filtering of Data - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to retrieve a dataset from a data source, where the dataset includes a first set of categories. A data structure that represents the dataset is built. A first set of merit values for the first set of categories is calculated. The first set of categories is ordered based on a criterion. The first set of categories is returned. | 08-30-2012 |
20120226697 | SCALABLE ENGINE THAT COMPUTES USER MICRO-SEGMENTS FOR OFFER MATCHING - User data and a plurality of micro-segment definitions such that each micro-segment definition in the plurality of micro-segment definitions corresponds to one or more offers in an offer provider campaign are received. Further, a dispatcher dispatches a first subset of the user data and a first subset of the plurality of the micro-segment definitions to a first node in a network. In addition, the dispatcher dispatches a second subset of the user data and a second subset of the plurality of the micro-segment definitions to a second node in the network. Parsing and compiling are performed at each node. Further, parallel processing is performed at a scalable evaluation engine at each node to apply micro-segment condition rules to user data to determine matches to micro-segments. Computation of micro-segments occurs in parallel and resulting micro-segment assignments are collected, filtered to remove duplicates, then ranked to produce a final set of micro-segments that can be used to find offers. | 09-06-2012 |
20120233169 | Alert Notification Distribution Tool - An alert notification distribution tool is disclosed. In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving raw data from a first data source in a first format and converting the raw data to conditioned data. The method also includes selecting, based on user input, a first category of a plurality of categories included in the conditioned data. The method also includes selecting, based on user input, one or more values from a plurality of values associated with the selected first category and generating a distribution group based on the selected first category and the selected one or more values associated with the selected first category, the distribution group including one or more contact addresses. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233170 | CONTENT AGGREGATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ON-LINE PURCHASING SYSTEM - The method comprises processing plural product information records from the product information sources into one or more groups based on which product information records are likely to correspond to the same product, correlating a unique product ID corresponding to the product associated with each of said groups to identify the product, comparing each identified product to categories of a taxonomy to determine a category for the identified products in the taxonomy, and determining attributes for each categorized product based on the product information records corresponding to each group, creating product specifications based on the determined attributes and storing the product specification in the corresponding determined categories of the taxonomy. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233171 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND UPDATING DATA FROM A NUMBER OF SOURCES FOR A PROJECT - The disclosure relates to a system and method for managing data from a number of systems. The method comprises: defining a set of objects for the data; defining a set of classes for the data; maintaining a catalog for each instance of the data; in the catalog identifying each instance's source system and its level of harmonization with other data; applying a set of harmonization rules to identify from the data a group of related data and an owner of the group; identifying differences in instantiations within the group; and initiating update requests to affected systems having the identified differences. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233172 | SYSTEM TO CATALOG AND SEARCH POINT-IN-TIME INSTANCES OF A FILE SYSTEM - A system to catalog and search point-in-tine instances of a file system is disclosed. A catalog engine takes backups of file data generated by a storage system and catalogs the backups of file data into a searchable catalog of independent metadata records. The metadata is represented by baseline structure and delta files. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233173 | DETERMINING PREFERRED CATEGORIES BASED ON USER ACCESS ATTRIBUTE VALUES - Determining one or more preferred categories for a user is disclosed, including: determining a plurality of access attribute values corresponding to a plurality of types of access attributes associated with an access of the website by the current user; determining a plurality of categories corresponding to the plurality of access attribute values based at least in part on stored corresponding relationships between categories and access attribute values, wherein at least a portion of the determined plurality of categories comprises one or more preferred categories from which one or more products are configured to be recommended to the current user; and presenting product information associated with the one or more preferred categories. | 09-13-2012 |
20120239656 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MESSAGE CLASSIFYING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY MEDIUM - A tied server includes a first storage unit that stores appearance patterns of messages having a transaction identifier to identify a transaction. The tied server also includes a second storage unit that stores messages executed on the transaction DB server having the transaction ID by the application server and communicated between an application server and a DB server. The tied server classifies the messages stored in the second storage unit with respect to each transaction based on the appearance patterns of the messages stored in the first storage unit. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239657 | CATEGORY CLASSIFICATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - A category classification processing device includes a search unit that stores, as a search keyword log assembly, Q&A examples, which are actually referred to by a client, together with keywords; and a category extracting unit that obtains keyword storage frequencies expressing a number of times each of the keywords, which are recorded together with the Q&A examples in the search keyword logs, is stored for each of the Q&A examples, extracts, as category candidates of each of the Q&A examples, an m number of top keywords (m being a positive integer) in a descending order of the keyword storage frequency, uses the extracted category candidates as categories, and associates the categories with the Q&A examples. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239658 | HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURED ABSTRACT DATA ORGANIZATION SYSTEM - A method in a data processing system and apparatus for organizing files, web pages, or web site members organized in a traditional first hierarchical file structure that is on a recordable medium of a data processing system. A user-defined metalabel is assigned to each of the electronic files, web pages, or web site members. The electronic files, web pages, or web site members are organized as a function of the metalabels into a second hierarchical file structure existing simultaneously with the first hierarchical file structure on the recordable medium of the data processing system. The files, web pages, or web site members can be organized or grouped by the metalabels for efficient searching or following conversations of group members on social networking sites. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239659 | CUSTOMER-CENTRED LITERATURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A library classification scheme, based on customer preferences, is provided. The scheme is based on user-friendly categories, sub-categories and subjects, along with a unique customer-friendly code. The classification scheme is used in conjunction with a database system that incorporates a database of information comprising bibliographic information of items of literature, unique codes, and codes associated with a second classification scheme. In addition, there are a plurality of identifiers to assist customers in locating a given item of literature based on the library classification scheme. | 09-20-2012 |
20120246165 | SEARCH ASSISTANT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed is a system and method for presenting content in response to receiving a portion of a search query. A computing device receives, over a network from a user computer, a portion of a search query submitted by a user in a search query entry area. The computing device receives, from a search suggestion module, one or more search suggestions related to the portion of the query. The computing device transmits, to the user computer, the one or more search suggestions for display in a search suggestion region, the search suggestion region displayed differently than a search results area. The computing device transmits a search suggestion of the one or more search suggestions to a rich content module. The rich content module generates rich content related to the transmitted search suggestion. The computing device transmits, to the user computer, the rich content for display in the search suggestion region. | 09-27-2012 |
20120254185 | METHOD OF CATEGORIZING AN INVENTION WITHIN AN INVENTION LANDSCAPE - A computer-based method is described for categorizing inventions within the context of an invention landscape. A set of key phases is employed based upon the likelihood that the description of the invention to be categorized will share these key phrases with the descriptions of similar inventions from within the invention landscape. The results are ranked in such a way as to enable a tentative assignment of the target invention to one or more categories, and to optionally estimate the value of the invention. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254186 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RENDERING CATEGORIZED LOCATION-BASED SEARCH RESULTS - An approach is provided for rendering categorized location-based results. The approach involves determining a distribution of one or more entities over a geographical area. The approach further involves receiving an input for specifying one or more categories of the one or more entities. The approach also involves processing and/or facilitating a processing of the distribution to generate one or more clusters of the one or more entities with respect to the one or more categories. The approach further involves determining one or more geographical locations associated with the one or more clusters, the one or more entities, or a combination thereof. The approach also involves causing, at least in part, rendering or one or more graphical presentations of the one or more geographical locations, the one or more entities, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the one or more clusters. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254187 | METHOD OF CATEGORIZING AN INVENTION WITHIN AN INVENTION LANDSCAPE - A computer-based method is described for categorizing inventions within the context of an invention landscape. A set of key phases and/or semantic properties is employed based upon the likelihood that the description of the invention to be categorized will share these key phrases and/or semantic properties with the descriptions of similar inventions from within the invention landscape. The results are ranked in such a way as to enable a tentative assignment of the target invention to one or more categories, and to optionally estimate the value of the invention. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254188 | CLUSTER-BASED IDENTIFICATION OF NEWS STORIES - Methods, systems, and techniques for cluster-based content recommendation are described. Some embodiments provide a content recommendation system (“CRS”) configured to recommend news stories about events or occurrences. In some embodiments, a news story about an event includes multiple related content items that each include an account of the event and that each reference one or more entities or categories that are represented by the CRS. In one embodiment, the CRS identifies news stories by generating clusters of related content items. Then, in response to a received query that indicates a keyterm, entity, or category, the CRS determines and provides indications of one or more news stories that are relevant to the received query. In some embodiments, at least some of these techniques are employed to implement a news story recommendation facility in an online news service. | 10-04-2012 |
20120259857 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GATHERING, ANALYZING AND DISSEMINATING MIND-BASED PERCEPTIONS - Data pertaining to mind-based perceptions is gathered from numerous sources via computer and, using statistical techniques, mind-based perceptions that are commonly occurring are identified. By considering mind-based perceptions from multiple sources that are repeated with a frequency above a certain threshold level, investigators can focus on events that are commonly-appearing at any given time, thereby filtering out much of the “noise” that could be associated with one-time or reoccurring-but-not-specific. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259858 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING OMNIBUS VIEW OF ONLINE AND OFFLINE CONTENT OF VARIOUS FILE TYPES AND SOURCES - An online service provider (OSP) operates online data centers to store members' data objects relating to various online member services of the OSP. An aggregated catalog lists members' data objects residing in the online data centers and also those residing in member computers' local storage. An aggregator monitors contents of the online storage facilities to detect new storage of prescribed types of data objects owned by the members, and also communicates with member computers to identify prescribed types of data objects newly stored in the respective local storage. The aggregator updates the aggregated catalog to list the newly stored data objects. Responsive to a request by a member, a finder searches the aggregated catalog and utilizes results of the search to provide, for display at the requesting member's computer, a consolidated listing of online data objects and locally stored data objects owned by the requesting member. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259859 | METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING BEST INFORMATION IN REAL TIME BY APPROPRIATELY OBTAINING GIST OF WEB PAGE AND USER'S PREFERENCE - Disclosed is an information recommendation method for providing a construction method for a classified word database capable of rapidly accommodating changes in associations between words. The disclosed information recommendation method basically is based on the finding that, by analyzing occurrence frequency information of an arbitrary word in a Web site having an arbitrary classified word in real-time and obtaining the real-time degree of similarity between the classified word and the arbitrary word, it is possible to construct a database that is capable of being sensitive in responding to changes in associations between words. The disclosed information recommendation method relates to a method of extracting classified words indicating a main idea of text included in a Web page, accumulating the classified words, and constructing a real-time tag database; an information recommendation method for using the tag database to reflect the main idea of the Web page in real-time; and an information matching method of advertisements for using the tag database to reflect the main idea of the Web page and tastes of users in real-time. | 10-11-2012 |
20120265759 | FILE PROCESSING OF NATIVE FILE FORMATS - A computer-implemented method for processing electronic documents having different native file formats is provided. The method is implemented in a computer system comprising one or more processors configured to execute one or more computer program modules. The method includes (a) receiving electronic documents in different native file formats; (b) identifying the native file format for each received electronic document; (c) retrieving a stored configuration data for the identified native file format, the configuration data includes a mapping of regions of interest in the electronic document with the identified native file format and their associations with output fields; and (d) processing the electronic documents using their retrieved configuration data to extract data from the electronic documents. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265760 | Random Walk on Query Pattern Graph for Query Task Classification - A classification process may reduce the computational resources and time required to collect and classify training data utilized to enable a user to effectively access online information. According to some implementations, training data is established by defining one or more seed queries and query patterns. A bi-partite graph may be constructed using the seed query and query pattern information. A traversal of the bi-partite graph can be performed to expand the training data to encompass sufficient data to perform classification of the present search task. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265761 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR BUILDING A CATALOG USING VISUAL OBJECTS - A method comprising, clustering a plurality of records, each record comprises at least one object image and at least one textual field associated with the object, to yield a plurality of clusters such that the object images in each cluster exhibit between them a visual similarity above a specified value; associating each cluster with a label by applying a dictionary function to the textual fields of each cluster, wherein the label reflects a common semantic factor of the textual fields of each cluster, and the factor has a value above a specified threshold. Accordingly, the visual similarity provides a measure of resemblances between two visual objects that can be based on at least one of: the fit between their color distribution such as correlation between their HSV color histograms, the fit between their texture, the fit between their shapes, the correlation between this edge histograms, and face similarity. | 10-18-2012 |
20120271829 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HOT TOPIC IDENTIFICATION AND METADATA - According to some embodiments, systems, apparatus, methods and computer program code are provided for receiving data from a plurality of remote data sources, the received data being associated with a plurality of search terms, analyzing the received data to identify at least a first trending search term, comparing the trending search term with a database of topical terms to determine whether the trending search term is relevant to a predetermined topic, querying a content database using the trending search term to identify a caption to be associated with the trending search term, and storing the trending search term and the caption in a database. | 10-25-2012 |
20120271830 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - Disclosed is a data processing device including a data acquisition unit for acquiring data from a medium, an integrated database for integrating the data acquired by the data acquisition unit thereinto, a data analysis determination unit for analyzing the data integrated into the integrated database, a display control unit for creating an image of a side view of and an image of a bottom view of a solid expressing the data integrated into the integrated database on the basis of an analysis result acquired by the data analysis determination unit and the data, and a display unit for displaying the images created by the display control unit. | 10-25-2012 |
20120278330 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEDUCING USER INFORMATION FROM INPUT DEVICE BEHAVIOR - User selections entered in the media application or any user input device behavior with user devices may be recorded as clickstream data. The clickstream data may be used to deduce information about the user or a media item being consumed. The clickstream data may be used to define a plurality of behavior patterns. Portions of the media item may be identified based on the user's interaction and/or behavior with the user devices. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278331 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEDUCING USER INFORMATION FROM INPUT DEVICE BEHAVIOR - User selections entered in the media application or any user input device behavior with user devices may be recorded as clickstream data. The clickstream data may be used to deduce information about the user or a media item being consumed. Users may be grouped based on their respective clickstream activity during the consumption of one or more media items. Based on the user grouping, information may be derived about a media item being consumed by a user of the group. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278332 | CATEGORY-SENSITIVE RANKING FOR TEXT - Provided are methods, systems and apparatus which include computer program products, for generating topic models for text summarization In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first document of text that is associated with one or more category labels and that includes one or more sequences of one or more words, determining a category label that represents a first category associated with the first document, sampling the one or more sequences to determine a topic and a co-occurrence relationship between the topic and the category label, where a topic represents a subdivision within a category, sampling the one or more sequences to determine a co-occurrence relationship between a sequence in the first document and the topic, and generating a category-topic model that represents the co-occurrence relationships. | 11-01-2012 |
20120290581 | MESSAGING MODEL AND ARCHITECTURE - A system, architecture and model for facilitating extensible messaging and interaction are provided. The message system may use a messaging architecture that includes a domain message model, and open message model and a wire format. The wire format may implement primitive data types that may be used by the open message model to define additional and/or more complex data formats. The open message model may further specify interaction paradigms, generic messages, and message and transport attributes. The generic messages may include payload data whose meaning and context may be defined using the domain message model. The domain message model may include a content definition model and an item type model for building data and object types and specifying data context and relationships. As such, the message system may use generic messages and formats to create different message and item types. | 11-15-2012 |
20120296910 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING INFORMATION - A method of retrieving information regarding an information resource, has the steps of: providing an information resource with a plurality of information instances from a first memory unit; providing a knowledge model with a plurality of type categories and a relationship between at least two type categories from a second memory unit; providing a multi-dimensional context model with a plurality of context categories and a number of dimensions corresponding to a number of the context categories from a third memory unit; annotating an information instance by one of the type categories; mapping at least one type category and/or annotating at least one information instance by one of the context categories; and; assigning a context variable to one of the context categories, the context variable determining a value of a context distance between the context category and the information instance mapped to the context category. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296911 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA FOR AN INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a keyword display module, a selection module and an information-retrieval module. The keyword display module is configured to display at least two keywords. The selection module is configured to select a keyword from the at least two keywords displayed by the keyword display module. The information-retrieval module is configured to retrieve information by using the keyword selected by the selection module. The keyword display module is further configured to display one or more keywords belonging to a preset category, as at least one of the at least two keywords. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296912 | VIRTUALIZED WORKSPACES FOR STANDARDIZATION OF ACCESS TO DATA - A system and method for bridging between various operating systems, applications, file formats and file structures and the like is described. The system and methods described include the creation of a virtual workspace transparent to a user that allows the user to access information stored on an accessible computer readable medium in a manner that is compatible with the user's system, even where the requested data may reside on a system having an operating system or file structure that is incompatible with the user's system or application. | 11-22-2012 |
20120303624 | DYNAMIC RULE REORDERING FOR MESSAGE CLASSIFICATION - Embodiments are directed to generating a customized classification rule execution order and to identifying optimal ordering rules for previously processed data. In an embodiment, a computer system fingerprints a message received via a computer network. The fingerprinting identifies specific characteristics of the message. The computer system compares the message's fingerprint to various stored message fingerprints generated from previously received messages. The comparison determines that the fingerprint does not match the stored fingerprints. The computer system applies classification rules to the message according to a predetermined rule execution order to determine a classification for the message. The computer system then generates a customized classification rule execution order to order those classification rules that optimally identified the message's class at the top of the customized classification rule execution order. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303625 | MANAGING HETEROGENEOUS DATA - Methods of managing data. A master catalog of properties may be generated. An object model catalog containing a plurality of object models may be generated, each object model including at least one property listed in the master catalog. A data set including a plurality of data objects may be defined, each data object an instantiation of a respective object model from the object model catalog. Data may be collected in accordance with the data set definition. Data collection may be performed, at least in part, by an automatic data collection system. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303626 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING GEO-TAGGED ITEMS - A recommender system for recommending items to a user based on geo-Tagged information related to him, in which items associated with a GeoTag are stored in a database. Feedback regarding the various items is obtained from the user and the provided rating of items is propagated to closely located items based on their associated GeoTags. A user-to-user similarity matrix is calculated and a predicted score is assigned for each user and item, using a recommendation server. All the items in the catalog of items are sorted according to their predicted scores as calculated for the user, and all items that have been already rated by the user are filtered out. Then, items from the catalog of items are presented to the user, according to their scores. | 11-29-2012 |
20120310940 | FACETED SEARCH WITH RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CATEGORIES - Method, system, and computer program product for faceted search with relationships between categories are provided. The method includes: having a document set of multiple documents, each document having associated categories to which it belongs; grouping multiple categories associated with a document into a category set based on a relationship between the multiple categories; associating the category set with the document; and indexing the category set for retrieval of documents from categories sharing a category set. Wherein indexing the category set includes: having an index entry of a textual representations of a category, wherein the index entry includes a single occurrence for each document to which the category is attached; adding a payload to a document occurrence of a serialization of an identifier of the category sets to which the category belongs associated with the document. Indexing the category set further includes: adding an index entry for category set data, wherein the index entry includes a single occurrence for each document, wherein a document occurrence includes a payload of a serialization of an identifier of category sets associated with the document, and an identifier of the categories belonging to the category sets. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310941 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEB-BASED CONTENT CATEGORIZATION - A web mapping system and method are described. The web map system receives a content pointer and provides a category result associated with the content pointer. The category result is determined by successively selecting and applying one of a plurality of categorization algorithms that each attempt to provide a category result for a URL based on a plurality of rules. If no category result is determined, the content pointer may be passed to a categorization manager to generate a rule for the content pointer so that subsequent categorization requests for the content pointer will result in a category result. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310942 | QUEUING CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS BY CATEGORY - A method for queuing conference participants by category includes, with a physical computing system, receiving requests from a number of conference registrants to attend a conference, with the physical computing system, placing each of the registrants into a number of queues based on a category assigned to the registrants, and with the physical computing system, allowing a number of the registrants from the queues to attend the conference such that the conference comprises a number of participants from each of the queues so as to meet predefined criteria. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310943 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONDUCTING AN INFORMATION BROKERING SERVICE - A system and method is provided that provides an early indication of consensus of opinion among a number of users regarding an event or observation indicated by a user. Such an opinion may be interesting to an information consumer, who may be interested in determining the outcome of the consensus relating to the event or observation, or may otherwise desire to perform surveillance or survey of a particular issue or subject. Such recognition of early events or observations may be useful in different areas, such as healthcare, finance, etc., where initial observations, if provided early, allow resulting decisions to be made much earlier. The opinion may, for instance, be used as an early indicator of problem with a product, company, etc. that would permit an information consumer to perform an action at a much earlier point than if he/she relied on traditional sources of information. Opinion information may be invaluable as a tool for monitoring events. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310944 | DICTIONARY CREATION DEVICE - A boundary word identification unit ( | 12-06-2012 |
20120317120 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MINING CATEGORY ASPECT INFORMATION - In various example embodiments, systems and methods for providing category aspect information by mining historical data is provided. In example embodiments, historical data is compiled. The historical data comprises user behavior data based on actions performed with past queries by users. Listing data is accessed. The listing data includes aspect data for each listing. The historical data is then joined with the listing data and a determined category of the listing to create joined data. Demand scores based on the joined data are determined. The determined demand scores is then sorted to determine at least one relevant aspect name for a category. | 12-13-2012 |
20120323921 | DICTIONARY FOR HIERARCHICAL ATTRIBUTES FROM CATALOG ITEMS - A plurality of items included in a catalog may be obtained, each item associated with an item category. Brand indicators may be obtained, each brand indicator associated with the item category. Brand indicators associated with each of the items may be determined, and the each item may be assigned to a partition group associated with the brand indicator that is associated with the each item. Correlated string tokens that are correlated, greater than a predetermined correlation threshold value, with the brand indicator associated with the partition group that is associated with the each one of the items, the correlated string tokens associated with the each one of the plurality of items, may be determined. A dictionary hierarchy may be generated based on the one or more correlated string tokens. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323922 | DATA ELEMENT CATEGORIZATION IN A SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE - An approach is presented for specifying categories of data elements during a service specification phase of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) life cycle defined in a service modeling methodology like Service-Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA). A Unified Modeling Language based SOA modeling tool for the service modeling methodology includes a middleware based integration plug-in that categorizes service-specific data elements as transaction elements, glue elements, core Common Information Model (CIM) elements, and elements extending the CIM elements, and associates the categorized data elements with corresponding operations of the service being modeled. | 12-20-2012 |
20120330960 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAPPING A VALUE TO A NEW DOMAIN - Source values are mapped to new user-defined categories. The new user-defined categories are stored in a new user-defined field. In an embodiment, a user-selection of an existing field is received. Based on a data type of the existing field, a specific mapping interface is displayed. The interface guides the user through specification of the new field and categories, and identification of the source values to map to the new categories. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330961 | Method and Apparatus of Determining Product Category Information - A user may submit product title information to a server. The server may generate a phrase based on the product title information. The server may then search a database to find relevancies between the phrase and product categories corresponding to multiple nodes in a product category tree. Based on the relevancies, the server may select a node from the multiple nodes. The server may associate the product title information with the node corresponding to a product category when the node is a leaf node of the product category tree. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330962 | Method and Apparatus of Providing Suggested Terms - The present disclosure discloses a method of providing suggested terms. The method includes: receiving an initial query input from a user, and obtaining corresponding suggested queries based on the initial query; determining at least two categories corresponding to the suggested queries and at least two clickable regions usable for looking up the suggested queries; separately determining a category weight associated with each obtained category in each clickable region for the suggested queries, and a click attribute weight associated with each clickable region; computing a degree of confidence of each category for the suggested queries; and separately determining target categories for the suggested queries based on the degree of confidence of each category for the suggested queries. As such, the user may quickly identify his/her search intention based on the target categories corresponding to the suggested queries, thereby effectively improving the speed of information searching. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330963 | ANNOTATION SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND RETRIEVING MEDIA AND METHODS RELATING TO SAME - The invention described herein is generally directed to a method and apparatus for creating and retrieving audio data. In one implementation the invention comprises an annotation system configured to record, store, and retrieve media. The annotation system contains a set of client-processing devices configured to capture media for subsequent playback. Each client-processing device typically contains a record button to initiate the capture and is configured upon performing the capture operation to trigger an association of a unique ID with the media. The client-processing devices are further configured to upload the media and a unique ID to a server for purposes of storage. The server obtains the media and unique ID for subsequent retrieval and provides the media and the unique ID to at least one client-processing device from the set of client processing devices. | 12-27-2012 |
20130006997 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CLIENT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND CLIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a storage, a log receiver and a merge module. The storage stores a plurality of log data, and first index data corresponding to the plurality of log data. The log receiver receives first log data and second index data from a client apparatus connected via a network, the second index data corresponding to the first log data. The merge module generates third index data by merging the first index data and the second index data. The storage stores the plurality of log data, the first log data and the third index data. | 01-03-2013 |
20130013613 | STRUCTURED REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT - A requirements management tool, where each requirement is defined by one or more design element values. Each of the design element values is a unique value and is a member of a group of design element values defined for the project. As each requirement is created, the design element values for the requirement are selected from the group of design element values, or alternatively, a new design element value may be entered by a user, and the new design element value will be added to the group of element values. Each design element value corresponds to a category that each of the requirements are broken down into. Design element values in the created requirement are compared to design element values in existing requirements, and results of this duplication check are presented to a user of the requirements management tool. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013614 | Identifying Software - Software installed on a computer network is often inconsistently, or even incorrectly, identified. The same software may be identified in different ways. A catalogue of standardised identifiers is provided. The actual identifiers of software installed on the network are accessed and they are mapped to the standardised identifiers of the catalogue. The standardised identifiers are used to manage the installed software, monitor license compliance and/or, monitor maintenance agreements amongst other uses. Data relating to the use of the software may also be obtained and associated with the identification data. The usage data together with the standardised identifiers allows managers to more reliably manage software on the network. For example un-used software may be un-installed and licenses cancelled or reallocated. | 01-10-2013 |
20130018887 | Image Viewer SystemAANM Silva; Octavio CesarAACO USAAGP Silva; Octavio Cesar US - The invention, the Image Viewer system, represents a new way to store and access medical images such as scans and X-rays. The invention is comprised of the web portal design, including the web browser layout, and the software application. A patient's medical images, created during an imaging session, are stored at a central location, a web portal, by medical personnel who catalog and code the images using the software application or a web browser. The images stored at the portal can be accessed by any networked device with a web browser or the software application from any connection to the Internet. The connection to the Internet can be wired or wireless, such as WiFi or cellular. Networked devices include PCs, tablets, laptops and smart phones. Physicians with a network device can retrieve images and enter data in the web portal, including diagnoses and personal information. Patients with a networked device can access the portal to download images or to enter their personal profile. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018888 | ANALYZING SOFTWARE-USAGE INFORMATIONAANM JOHN; PETERAACI NeckargemuendAACO DEAAGP JOHN; PETER Neckargemuend DE - Various embodiments of systems and methods for analyzing software-usage information are described herein. Traffic numbers are obtained from data stored in a database using measurement objects that are associated with one or more keys. The measurement objects output the traffic numbers and the one or more keys are related to elements of the data. Identifiers and categories are assigned to the measurement objects. The categories represent attributes of a software product. A data structure comprising the identifiers, the traffic numbers, and the categories is generated and stored. The stored data structure and a header comprising one or more fields are used to generate a report. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024454 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORGANIZING DATA OF A SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION FEED - Techniques for organizing data of an information feed. An information feed including one or more feed items is displayed in a presentation on a display device. An indication that a portion of data of the one or more feed items of the information feed as being in a category is received. An identification of the first category is stored in a database system along with the portion of data. The identification and the portion of data may be evaluated, searched, modified or presented using various techniques. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024455 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY CONSOLIDATING APPLICATIONS TO A MACHINE USING RESOURCE UTILIZATION DATA - A system and method of selectively consolidating applications on a machine comprises retrieving resource utilization data for a plurality of applications over a plurality of cycles for designated resource dimensions. A representative utilization profile is calculated on each application for each resource dimension. Load mean and variance values of the applications are calculated for each resource dimension. Each application is assigned to a class based the mean and variance values. A consolidation algorithm is computed on each application for each resource dimension to determine if resource consumption of the consolidated applications potentially exceed an available capacity in a machine. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024456 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CATEGORY BASED NAVIGATION - Embodiments of the invention relate to a category based navigation system obtaining user data related to a plurality of users relevant to the primary user. The method further comprises obtaining entity data associated with an entity in a plurality of entities. The category based navigation system then determines one or more entities relevant to the primary user, and determines an initial order of relevance of a set of relevant entities. The method further comprises categorizing and displaying the set of relevant entities with an initial categorization on a user device to the primary user. The category based navigation system may then obtain, via the user device, user feedback, adjust the initial categorization and initial order of relevance based on the user feedback; and display the adjusted categorization and adjusted order of relevance of the set of relevant entities to the primary user on the user device. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024457 | Automatic Frequently Asked Question Compilation From Community-Based Question Answering Archive - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) data are generated using Community-based Question Answering (CQA) data. A thematic hierarchy generation module receives multiple data sources and generates a thematic hierarchy of the data source, where a data source has one or more topics and a topic has one or more themes. A feature classifier classifies multiple CQA data into one or more themes based on the thematic hierarchy, where a CQA data contains multiple question-answer pairs. A selection module selects multiple question-answer pairs from the CQA data based on the classification, measures the quality of the selected question-answer pairs and generates FAQ data using the selected question-answer pairs of the CQA data. | 01-24-2013 |
20130031101 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING COMMUNICATIVE VALUE - A method of determining which users are experts and which tags are appropriate without some of the disadvantages of the prior art is described. The level of a user's expertise is determined based on previous tags, the categorization of one or more tags, and the rating of the tags previously left by the user. The appropriateness of a tag is based on previous tagging of information by the user, by the number of times a user has tagged information with the same categorization, and the rating of a user. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031102 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTENT CATEGORIZATION - The invention discloses a method and system for content categorization, which aims at reducing the processing burthen of the content categorization as well as the network transmission traffic. The method comprises: transmitting, by a content categorization requester, a content digest of a content to be categorized to a content categorization provider; and performing, by the content categorization provider, content categorization according to the content digest. The device for requesting content categorization comprises: a digest operation determination component, adapted to determine whether it is necessary to obtain a content digest of a content to be categorized; a digest obtaining component, adapted to obtain the content digest of the content to be categorized when the digest operation determination component determines it necessary to obtain the content digest of the content to be categorized; and a first transmit component, adapted to transmit the content digest obtained by the digest obtaining component. | 01-31-2013 |
20130036121 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING BLOG - Provided is a system and method for recommending a blog. The blog recommendation system includes a segmentation unit to classify blogs according to at least one category of age and gender of a user, an extraction unit to extract a plurality of search terms retrieved by a user corresponding to the category, a cluster unit to learn the search terms into a document in the classified blogs and to group the search terms into at least one cluster, a generation unit to generate a blog pool related to the search terms included in the cluster, and a recommendation unit to provide the user with at least one blog in the blog pool as a recommended blog. | 02-07-2013 |
20130041903 | Categorization of Digital Media Based on Media Characteristics - Digital media categorization can include receiving information including a plurality of media objects and a metadata tag descriptive of at least a first media object; comparing the first media object with a second media object; and selectively associating the first media object's metadata tag with the second media object based on a result of the comparison. Each media object can include a digital image. | 02-14-2013 |
20130046764 | Coordinating Problem Resolution in Complex Systems Using Disparate Information Sources - Mechanisms for correlating reported problem data from a plurality of sources of information are provided. A report of a problem in a computer system is received to thereby generate a reported problem in a problem management system. Data is collected from a plurality of sources of information in accordance with data collection rules. Content classification is performed on the collected data to classify the collected data into pre-determined classes of collected data in accordance with classification rules. Correlation of the classified data into sets of correlated data in accordance with correlation rules is performed. Each set of correlated data corresponds to a different reported problem in the problem management system. A representation of the reported problem in the problem management system is updated based on a set of correlated data corresponding to the reported problem and classifications of data within the set of correlated data. | 02-21-2013 |
20130054605 | DATA MAPPING ACCELERATION - A data mapping acceleration system may include a syntactic profile module to generate a syntactic profile of a data source to be mapped. A semantic classification module may generate a semantic classification of the data source. A similarity module may evaluate the syntactic profile and semantic classification to determine an overall similarity between attributes of data from the data source for mapping the data source. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054606 | SPATIAL PROCESSING SYSTEM, SOFTWARE AND METHOD - A system, software and method which enable the analysis of a spatial database. | 02-28-2013 |
20130066875 | Method for Segmenting Users of Mobile Internet - Domains supported by websites accessible to mobile network users over the Internet are classified into pre-defined categories based on domain content. A network intelligence solution (NIS) taps a stream of IP (Internet Protocol) packets traversing a node in the network between mobile equipment employed by network users and remote web servers. The NIS performs deep packet inspection to aggregate Internet usage so that a distribution of frequency of access by the network users to each of the classified domains may be calculated. Clusters encompassing one or more of the categories are specified based, at least in part, on the access frequency distribution. Each network user is assigned to one or more clusters based at least on observations of the user's frequency of access to the classified domains. Clusters are specified to meet a target homogeneity of access frequency for each encompassed category and further to meet a target heterogeneity across clusters. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073555 | Method and system for improving interaction between participants of online networks - The present invention presents a system and method for improving interaction between participants of Online Networks increasing the probability of a match connecting Online Networks and Marketplace Participants, using conventional retrieval technology. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073556 | AUTOMATIC CATEGORIZATION OF ENTRIES IN A CONTACT LIST - Entries within a participant list of an electronic communications system may be categorized automatically into one or more groups based on attributes of users represented in the participant list. Categorizing users includes maintaining a list of identifiers that are selected by a first user and for which online presence information is made perceivable through the list. The list includes one or more categories into which the identifiers are categorized. At least one attribute associated with an identifier for which online presence information is to be made perceivable through the list and attributes stored relative to at least one of the categories are accessed. The attributes associated with the identifier are compared to the stored attributes. Based on results of the comparison, at least one category within the list that corresponds to the identifier is identified, and the identifier is categorized into the identified category. | 03-21-2013 |
20130080438 | Systems and Methods for Wine Ranking - An exemplary method comprises describing a plurality of wines, each wine of the plurality of wines being described using descriptors, receiving at least one predetermined intensity value associated with each descriptor, storing the descriptors within a wine database, generating a consumer wine preference profile that includes a plurality of user preference intensity values, at least one of the plurality of user preference intensity values being associated with at least one of the descriptors, selecting at least one wine from the plurality of wines by correlating at least a subset of the plurality of user preference intensity values with at least a subset of the predetermined intensity values, and providing identification of the selected at least one wine from the plurality of wines. | 03-28-2013 |
20130091138 | Contextualization, mapping, and other categorization for data semantics - Semantic categorization of data includes submitting obtained data values to a data enhancement service which has a semantic criterion for incoming data. A response from the service indicates whether the submitted data values meet the criterion, and is used to assign a likelihood that the values belong to a semantic category matching the criterion. Other semantic categorization operations do not necessarily use a data enhancement service. Some are based on which device was used to collect the data values, on a subject heading in which data was published, and/or on syntactic patterns. A semantic taxonomy shows semantic categorizations for one or more datasets and connections between datasets, possibly filtered per user request. Different versions of the taxonomy are stored for respective different users. Similarity between the data values can be assessed using semantic categorization. Taxonomies can be federated to allow exploration and understanding across multiple repositories. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091139 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO AUGMENT VEHICLE DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES FOR VEHICLE DIAGNOSIS - A document may be received at a processing module. One or more tags may be applied to the document, each tag applied to a term, each tag representing a part of speech. One or more terms may be extracted from the document based on the tag. A weighting assignment parameter may be determined for each of the one or more extracted terms. Based on the weighting assignment parameter associated with each of the extracted terms, it may be determined whether the domain ontology includes the one or more extracted terms. If the domain ontology does not include the one or more extracted terms, the domain ontology may be augmented such that the domain ontology comprises the one or more extracted terms. | 04-11-2013 |
20130097171 | AUTOMATIC STORAGE MEDIA CONTENT CATALOGING - Described is a technology by which a user is able to determine the content of a storage device, including when the storage device is non-operational. A user may use a device and/or program to provide a wirelessly-read identifier to query a repository that maintains cataloged data for the user's storage device. The query to the repository returns the cataloged data for that storage device in response, which is output to the user and the user knows the storage device's contents. Alternatively, the user may obtain a list of storage devices from the repository, and select one to view its cataloged data. When the storage device is operational, the persistent repository is updated with any changes to keep the cataloged data synchronized with the stored content. | 04-18-2013 |
20130103690 | Associative Memory Technology for Analysis of Requests for Proposal - A system for analyzing a request for proposal. The system includes an associative memory including a plurality of data having a plurality of associations. The system also includes an input device in communication with the associative memory. The input device is configured to provide the request for proposal to the associative memory in a format understandable to the associative memory. The associative memory is configured to digest the request for proposal to be included within the plurality of data, wherein a digested request for proposal is formed. The system also includes an analyzer in communication with the associative memory. The associative memory is configured to analyze the digested request for proposal by receiving a query comprising one or more terms, creating relationships among the plurality of data in the associative memory based on the query, and returning an output that includes requirements or other attributes presented in the digested request for proposal based on the query. | 04-25-2013 |
20130110839 | CONSTRUCTING AN ANALYSIS OF A DOCUMENT | 05-02-2013 |
20130110840 | ENVIRONMENT CLASSIFICATION AND SERVICE ANALYSIS | 05-02-2013 |
20130117269 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONBOARDING AN ITEM COLLECTION - In various example embodiments, a system and method for onboarding a collection of items is provided. In example embodiments, image data containing images of a plurality of items from a client device is received. The image data is parsed to distinguish an item of the plurality of items. The item is then identified. In some embodiments, the item is identified by determining at least one catalog item that matches an identifying feature of the item, providing a verification request indicating the at least one catalog item, and receiving a verification response confirming the identity of the item. An inventory list is compiled by including the identified item in the inventory list. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117270 | CATEGORY-PREFIXED DATA BATCHING OF CODED MEDIA DATA IN MULTIPLE CATEGORIES - Innovations for category-prefixed data batching (“CPDB”) of entropy-coded data or other payload data for coded media data, as well as innovations for corresponding recovery of the entropy-coded data (or other payload data) formatted with CPDB. The CPDB can be used in conjunction with coding/decoding for video content, image content, audio content or another type of content. For example, after receiving coded media data in multiple categories from encoding units, a formatting tool formats payload data with CPDB, generating a batch prefix for a batch of the CPDB-formatted payload data. The batch prefix includes a category identifier and a data quantity indicator. The formatting tool outputs the CPDB-formatted payload data to a bitstream. At the decoder side, a formatting tool receives the CPDB-formatted payload data in a bitstream, recovers the payload data from the CPDB-formatted payload data, and outputs the payload data (e.g., to decoding units). | 05-09-2013 |
20130117271 | Method and Apparatus for Automatically Classifying Application in Mobile Terminal - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for automatically classifying an application in a mobile terminal. The method includes: obtaining classification attribute information in a configuration file of a mobile terminal application; and adding the mobile terminal application into an application set of a class corresponding to the classification attribute information of the mobile terminal application. Through the embodiments of the present invention, automatic classification of mobile terminal applications can be implemented, and an installation process of the application is simplified. | 05-09-2013 |
20130124528 | NAVIGATION OF HIERARCHICAL DATA SETS - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a hierarchical data set may be displayed in a database view in a content window of a program or graphical user interface. A filter panel may display one or more categories of information about the hierarchical data set including one or more filterable items that may be selected by a user. In response to a user selection, filtered contents of the hierarchical data set may be displayed in the database view according to the selection to allow a user to navigate the hierarchical dataset via the database view. In one or more embodiments, the hierarchical data set may comprise a file system. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124529 | SEARCH AUGMENTED MENU AND CONFIGURATION FOR COMPUTER APPLICATIONS - Providing for search to facilitate discovery or access to configuration functions of a computer application is described herein. By way of example, metadata can be appended to configuration functions of the computer application. A matrix correlating subsets of metadata with related configuration functions can facilitate distinguishing respective configuration functions, or groups of related configuration functions based on the subsets of metadata. User search data can be referenced against the subsets of metadata. Respective subsets of metadata that satisfy a condition defined by a data matching function can be returned as a match, and configuration functions associated with matching metadata can be output in response to the search data. In some aspects, user-appended metadata is provided for user customization of configuration function searching, and in other aspects machine learning can be employed to derive user preferences from usage activity and search history, and tailor search results to predicted user preferences. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124530 | Blood-Type Matching System - An interactive website, preferably hosted on a secured server, fashioned to simplify and expedite the dating process by matching individuals to other individuals of the opposite sex based primarily on the compatibility of the individuals' blood-types. With respect to the online service of the present invention, blood-type matches are suggested based on the compatibility of a hypothetical blood donation flowing from male to female. Knowledge of one's blood-type is required to become a user. Other characteristics may be implemented to help narrow search results, which may be edited on a user's profile page, distinguishing individuals by preferences, qualities, and appearance. | 05-16-2013 |
20130132395 | MOBILE SOCIAL GROUPS - Expanding a user's social connections to include mobile contacts includes: receiving a user's call logs for call/text transactions from a mobile device; deriving usage information from the call logs to determine social pairs; ranking the social pairs based on strength of connectedness; and merging the ranked social pairs with the user's contacts from on-line social networks. | 05-23-2013 |
20130138656 | Method and Device for Expiration Date Weighted Food Inventory System and Meal Planner - A method and device comprising a food inventory system that enables food inventory control as well as meal planning Food items are entered into a software controlled means for storing food inventory data and meal recipes. Meal planning is enabled whereby recipes are proposed based on inventory levels and/or food expiration or spoilage times, as well as nutrient and dietary information. Shopping lists are created that reflect inventory levels, recipe needs, and/or food expiration or spoilage dates. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138657 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CLASSIFICATION OF OBJECTS - In accordance with various example embodiments, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided. A method comprises accessing a gallery comprising a plurality of classes, determining distances between classes of the plurality of classes, and determining thresholds for one or more classes of the gallery for classifying test objects in the classes, wherein threshold for a class is determined based on at least one distance of the class from at least one remaining class of the plurality of classes. The apparatus comprises at least one processor and at least one memory, configured to, cause the apparatus to perform accessing a gallery comprising a plurality of classes, determining distances between classes of the plurality of classes, and determining thresholds for classes of the gallery for classifying test objects in the classes, wherein threshold for a class is determined based on distances of the class from remaining classes of the gallery. | 05-30-2013 |
20130151531 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCALABLE TOPIC DETECTION IN SOCIAL MEDIA - Embodiments generally relate to systems and methods for detecting topics in social media data. More particularly, the systems and methods can extract a concept hierarchy from a set of data, wherein the concept hierarchy comprises a plurality of layers. Further, the systems and methods can train topic models based on the content in each of the layers. Still further, the systems and methods can select the most appropriate topic model for social media data by balancing the complexity of the model and the accuracy of the topic detection result. Moreover, the systems and methods can use the most appropriate topic model to detect topics in social media data. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151532 | Methods, Apparatuses, and Computer Program Products for Preparing Narratives Relating to Investigative Matters - An apparatus categorizes knowledge elements that an investigator derives from source materials into issue categories. The issue categories may be predefined based on the type or nature of the investigative matter or user-defined as circumstances dictate. The apparatus also allows for preparation of a narrative based on the knowledge elements and source materials. A hopper allows a user to view and access the categorized knowledge elements during preparation of the narrative. Accordingly, through this collaboration process, investigators may produce a narrative more accurately and efficiently. Further, the apparatus links the text in the narrative back to the knowledge elements and the source materials which may be easily accessed via the links to enable them to be reviewed to determine whether the relevant text in the narrative is firmly based thereon. Thus, review of the work product created with the apparatus may be simplified. | 06-13-2013 |
20130159314 | PERSONALIZED BOOKMARKS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM ACTIONS BASED ON USER ACTIVITY - A social networking system provides a personalized set of bookmarks to a user based on the user's interactions with the bookmarks and/or the items associated with the bookmarks. The personalized set of bookmarks is grouped by category, and the categories are ordered in accordance with rankings for the categories. The rankings for the categories are determined based on the highest ranked item from each category of item, and the ranking of the items is determined based on the user's interactions with the bookmarks and/or associated items. | 06-20-2013 |
20130166562 | Renaming Multiple Files - Techniques for renaming multiple files. A system establishes a rename state for a first file in a collection of files and, in the rename state, receives user input specifying a name for the first file. In response to the user input specifying the name, the system renames the first file according to the name and establishes a rename state for a second file in the collection of files. In the rename state, the system can display both the current name of the file and the file extension associated with the file. The system can protect the file extension such that the user cannot change the file extension in the rename state. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166563 | Integration of Text Analysis and Search Functionality - Example systems and methods of integrating text analysis and search functionality are presented. In one example, a plurality of documents, as well as search information comprising search terms for a search category, are accessed. Each of the documents that include at least one of the search terms is identified. The identified documents are analyzed to determine those of the identified documents that are logically associated with the search category. Each of the documents determined to be logically associated with the search category are tagged with the search category. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166564 | PROVIDING INFORMATION RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON DETERMINED USER GROUPS - Classifying a user into a user group is described, including: obtaining action record information associated with a user with respect to a plurality of information categories; determining a preference value for at least one of the plurality of information categories based at least in part on the action record information; determining a demand preference dispersion value for the user based at least in part on the preference value, wherein the demand preference dispersion value represents a degree to which the user has dispersed interest across the plurality of information categories; and determining whether the user is to be associated with a demand-focused user group based at least in part on the demand preference dispersion value. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166565 | INTEREST BASED SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM - A system and method provide an interest based social network defined by a community of users who share the same topic interests. The methods and systems provide a collection of webpages based on a category of topics. Users may generate notes and ratings for each topic, which are then displayed on and integrated into the topic webpage. Users may also relate different topics, such that related topics will be provided in user searches of the topics. The method and system includes a category of topics hierarchy, with each topic being associated with a plurality of categories and sub-topics. The method and system additionally allow mapping of user comments and notes into the interest based social network from external social networks, and mapping of user comments and notes from the interest based social network to external social networks. | 06-27-2013 |
20130173624 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY ORGANIZING AND CLASSIFYING BUSINESSES ON THE WORLD-WIDE WEB - A method and search engine for classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network, includes steps of electronically receiving a document, based on the document, determining a source which published the document, and assigning a code to the document based on whether data associated with the document published by the source matches with data contained in a database. An intelligent geographic- and business topic-specific resource discovery system facilitates local commerce on the World-Wide Web and also reduces search time by accurately isolating information for end-users. Distinguishing and classifying business pages on the Web by business categories using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes is achieved through an automatic iterative process. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173625 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY ORGANIZING AND CLASSIFYING BUSINESSES ON THE WORLD-WIDE WEB - A method and search engine for classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network, includes steps of electronically receiving a document, based on the document, determining a source which published the document, and assigning a code to the document based on whether data associated with the document published by the source matches with data contained in a database. An intelligent geographic- and business topic-specific resource discovery system facilitates local commerce on the World-Wide Web and also reduces search time by accurately isolating information for end-users. Distinguishing and classifying business pages on the Web by business categories using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes is achieved through an automatic iterative process. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173626 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY ORGANIZING AND CLASSIFYING BUSINESSES ON THE WORLD-WIDE WEB - A method and search engine for classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network, includes steps of electronically receiving a document, based on the document, determining a source which published the document, and assigning a code to the document based on whether data associated with the document published by the source matches with data contained in a database. An intelligent geographic- and business topic-specific resource discovery system facilitates local commerce on the World-Wide Web and also reduces search time by accurately isolating information for end-users. Distinguishing and classifying business pages on the Web by business categories using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes is achieved through an automatic iterative process. | 07-04-2013 |
20130185304 | RULE-DRIVEN RUNTIME CUSTOMIZATION OF KEYWORD SEARCH ENGINES - Described herein are methods, systems, apparatuses and products for rule-driven runtime customization of keyword search engines. An aspect provides a method for rule-driven customization of keyword searches, including: receiving by a computer an input keyword query; determining from the input keyword query and a dataset to be queried at least one rule selected from the group consisting of: a re-write rule; a category ranking rule, and a category grouping rule; and applying the at least one rule to generate search results based on domain knowledge of the dataset. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185305 | KEYWORD ASSIGNMENT APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A keyword assignment apparatus includes a feature value extraction unit, a classification unit, a classification frequency measurement unit, and a keyword assignment unit. The feature value extraction unit is configured to extract a feature value vector, which consists of feature values, from an input image. The classification unit is configured to perform classification to the feature value vector extracted by the feature value extraction unit. The classification frequency measurement unit is configured to measure a frequency of the classification classified by the classification unit. The keyword assignment unit is configured to assign keywords to the input image based on the classification classified by the classification unit and the frequency measured by the classification frequency measurement unit. | 07-18-2013 |
20130191395 | SOCIAL MEDIA DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for analyzing data to determine an activity around a product is provided. The system includes a user interface configured to enable one or more data analysts to provide input data and an acquisition module coupled to user interface and configured to retrieve social media data in response to the input data. The social media data is received from one more social media platforms. The system further includes processing circuitry coupled to the acquisition module and includes an analysis module configured to analyze the social media data to generate processed data and classify the processed data based on a plurality of criteria and a visualization module coupled to the analysis module and configured to generate a plurality of visual representations of classified data. | 07-25-2013 |
20130198193 | MONITORING CONTENT REPOSITORIES, IDENTIFYING MISCLASSIFIED CONTENT OBJECTS, AND SUGGESTING RECLASSIFICATION - Provided are a computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for organizing content objects in an enterprise content management system. Auditing of the content objects is performed to identify one or more content objects that are to be re-classified. A content object is selected. A first category associated with the content object is obtained. A relevancy score is obtained for the first category. A list of candidate categories and relevancy scores for each of the candidate categories are obtained. In response to determining that the first category does not correspond to a candidate category or that the relevancy score does not exceed a threshold, the content object is identified as improperly categorized, and the candidate categories that have associated relevancy scores that exceed the threshold are provided in an audit report. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198194 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESERVING PRIVACY OF A DATASET - A method and a system for preserving privacy of a dataset are provided. In the method, a k-anonymity value with respect to a sensitive data field is determined according to at least one first quasi-identifier. Data entries in each group have the same value in the one or more fields of the first quasi-identifier and data entries in different groups have different values in the one or more fields of the first quasi-identifier. A first group and a second group among the plurality of groups are determined according to the reference number Kr, where the first group and the second group are merged into a merging group. The number of data entries in the merging group is not less than a reference number Kr. One or more fields of at least one first quasi-identifier is masked for the merging group. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198195 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING ONE OR MORE RESUMES BASED ON A SEARCH QUERY USING WEIGHTED FORMAL CONCEPT ANALYSIS - A system for identifying one or more resumes from a set of resumes matches a search query using a resume identifying tool is provided. The system includes a memory unit that stores a database and a set of modules, a display unit, and a processor. The set of modules includes (a) a keyword extraction module extracts at least one keyword from the search query, (b) a disambiguation module disambiguates the at least one keyword based on weighted formal concept analysis, and (c) and a resume identification module identifies the one or more resumes by matching (i) the at least one keyword associated with the search query, and (ii) at least one category associated with the at least one keyword with (i) at least one disambiguated keyword associated with each resume of the set of resumes, and (ii) at least one category associated with the at least one disambiguated keyword. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198196 | SELECTIVE FACT CHECKING METHOD AND SYSTEM - 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. The fact checking system is able to operate selectively, for example, only fact checking information after detecting a trigger. | 08-01-2013 |
20130212108 | SYSTEM, A METHOD AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT - A system, a computerized method, and a computer program product for classification of items based on their attributes and on a classification scheme that is defined based on information pertaining to each item of a set of items, and which is indicative of: (a) a quantity of occurrences of the item in a sample; (b) a quantity of successful occurrences of the item in the sample; and (c) at least one attribute of the item with regard to at least one variable out of a set of variables. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212109 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING CONTENT - In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium includes code to cause a processor to send a signal representing a first question and a set of pictogram answers associated with the first question and a second question, different from the first question, and a set of pictogram answers associated with the second question. The first question and the second question can define a health-related survey such as a health-risk assessment. The non-transitory processor-readable medium includes code to receive a user selection of a pictogram answer associated with the first question and receive a user selection of a pictogram answer associated with the second question. The non-transitory processor-readable medium includes code to define a health-related user profile based on the user selection to the first question and the second question. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212110 | System and Method for Association Extraction for Surf-Shopping - The present disclosure is directed to a computer system and method performed by a selectively programmed data processor for providing data to a Web page such that items are presented to the user in a way that imitates a real world shopping experience. Various aspects of the disclosed technology also relate to systems and methods for calculating product or category associations using associative relation extraction. Additional aspects of the disclosed technology relate to automatic topic discovery, and event and category matching. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212111 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEXT CATEGORIZATION BASED ON ONTOLOGIES - A system for text categorization based on ontologies comprising data collector software modules; a categorizer software module; and a database comprising an indexed database of documents and their categorizations, and further comprising a plurality of ontologies, each ontology comprising a plurality of hierarchical taxonomies and each hierarchical taxonomy comprising a plurality of taxons. The data collector software modules receive a document to be classified and submit them to the categorizer software module; and the categorizer performs the following steps to categorize each document: splitting the document into sentences; selecting words or phrases that are present in ontologies stored in the database server; selecting a plurality of subtrees from the ontologies based on the presence of specific subcategories in the document; determining a weight for each subcategory; pruning subcategories having a weight below a threshold; and for each of the plurality of modified subtrees, computing a conditionality coefficient. | 08-15-2013 |
20130226925 | INTELLIGENT PRODUCT FEEDBACK ANALYTICS TOOL - A method for improving the usability of product feedback data can begin with the receipt of product feedback search parameters by an intelligent product feedback analytics tool. The product feedback search parameters can represent a product or a group of products. Product feedback search results having a rating value and/or textual feedback content can be obtained for the product feedback search parameters. For each product in the search results, a composite rating value can be synthesized from the rating values contained in the search results. For each product in the search results, the product feedback search results can be analyzed for analytic parameters using natural language processing techniques. An analytic parameter can represent a commonality within a subset of the search results. The product feedback search results, composite rating values, and analytic parameters can be presented within a user interface, providing context for the composite rating value. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226926 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING EVENT INFORMATION ON DEMAND - An approach for enabling mobile device users to acquire information regarding events in their proximity on demand is described. An event determination platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of captured data (e.g., images, audio, video, etc.) that depict, at least in part, one or more events to determine one or more characteristics of the one or more events, the captured data, or a combination thereof. The event determination platform further causes, at least in part, an identification of one or more events based, at least in part, on a comparison of the one or more characteristics against one or more other characteristics associated with one or more registered events. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226927 | DOCUMENT ANALYSIS, COMMENTING, AND REPORTING SYSTEM - A document analysis, commenting, and reporting system provides tools that automate quality assurance analysis tailored to specific document types. As one example, the specific document type may be a requirements specification and the system may tag different parts of requirements, including actors, entities, modes, and a remainder. However, the flexibility of the system permits analysis of any other document type, such as instruction manuals and best practices guides. The system helps avoid confusion over the document when it is delivered because of non-standard terms, ambiguous language, conflicts between document sections, incomplete or inaccurate descriptions, size and complexity of the document, and other issues. | 08-29-2013 |
20130232148 | CONTENT MAPPING - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for mapping content to a carousel interface in a manner that allows a user to more intuitively navigate through and/or interact with such content. The carousel interface may be associated with a domain (e.g., a map directions domain, a news domain, etc.). One or more categories associated with the domain may be identified (e.g., a sports news category, a health news category, etc.). In one example, entities (e.g., a Professional Sports Team and/or other proper nouns) and/or topics (e.g., 2012 Olympics) may be identified for respective categories. In this way, content associated with the one or more categories, entities, and/or topics may be retrieved and/or populated within one or more carousels of the carousel interface in an intuitive manner (e.g., sports articles may be populated within a sports carousel, health articles may be populated within a health carousel, etc.). | 09-05-2013 |
20130232149 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOCUMENT AND MATERIAL MANAGEMENT - In various embodiments, an exemplary system for viewing a content object through a web-based interface comprises a content object management module, an import/export module, a conversion module, and a GUI module. The content object management module may be configured to manage storage of the content object in the system. The import/export module may be configured to receive the content object from a database or an application external to the system, index the content object for viewing access by a user, and provide the computer readable material to the content object management module for management. The conversion module may be configured to convert the content object, received through the importation module, from a native format to a format viewable by the user through the system. The GUI module may be configured to present the content object to the user, through the web-based interface, in the viewable format. | 09-05-2013 |
20130232150 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND VIEWING OF CALENDAR DATA - The present document describes systems, methods and apparatuses relating to managing and viewing calendar data. A server or a client device, may receive and/or classify calendar data associated with a user, and store the data in a database. Statistics data is generated as a function of classified calendar data. The client device may present personalized views of at least a portion of the statistics data, including statistical and/or analytical information. One or more search categories and a type of data presentation may be received as user input. The server or the client device may generate the statistics data as a function of the received analysis criteria. Calendar data for multiple users may be collected and centrally processed, for example, at the server. | 09-05-2013 |
20130246431 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DATA PROTECTION WORKFLOWS IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example and includes receiving sets of metadata elements and corresponding category information representing objects of a data storage location that are classified based on a category. The method further includes generating a summary of a subset of the classified objects and initiating a protection task for objects of the subset. In more specific embodiments, the protection task includes applying a remediation policy to the objects of the subset. Another protection task includes registering the objects of the subset. In other specific embodiments, the summary includes at least one of a total count and a total size of the objects in the subset. In yet other more specific embodiments, the method includes creating an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) data structure to represent the sets of metadata elements and the corresponding category information with the summary of the subset being generated from the OLAP data. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246432 | PROVIDING CONTENT BASED ON ONLINE TOPICAL TRENDS - One or more criteria are determined for a trending topic. A search is performed to determine content items that satisfy the one or more criteria. Portions of at least some of the content items are provided in, or made accessible from, a medium that is specific to a subject category that is based on the one or more criteria. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246433 | Data-Record Pattern Searching - A record-pattern expression of a record pattern of data records is translated to a character-pattern expression of a character pattern. A data-record series of data records is converted to a character string in which each character in the character string corresponds to a respective data record in the data-record series. Pattern instances of the character pattern in the character string are searched to identify ordinal character positions in the character string of characters in the character pattern instances. Data records at ordinal record positions in the record series of data records corresponding to the ordinal character positions are reported. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246434 | POPULATION CLUSTERING THROUGH DENSITY BASED MERGING - A method and/or system for analyzing data using population clustering through density based merging. | 09-19-2013 |
20130254207 | Method and apparatus for managing a playlist by metadata - Techniques for managing a playlist in a multimedia system are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, the playlist is structured to be able to include as many items as desired. To facilitate the manageability of such playlist, the playlist is built with a plurality of items. Each of the items is associated with metadata that includes information related to, for example, artist, album, genre, composer, and track number. The metadata for each item may be parsed, updated or logically operated upon to facilitate the management of the playlist. In another embodiment, each of the items is either a single item or a group item. A single item contains metadata of a corresponding source. A group item contains metadata of accessing other constituent items, which again may be single items or group items. As a result, the playlist can accommodate as many items as desired in a limited memory space without compromising the manageability of the playlist. Each of the items can be removed from, added to, or moved around in the playlist without concerning that an item may further include many items therein. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262468 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control the communication unit to receive a plurality of pieces of post information sent from a first user, to obtain a plurality of pieces of evaluation information of another user with respect to the received plurality of post information, to classify the plurality of pieces of post information into a plurality of clusters, and to determine, as an advantage cluster of the first user, a cluster with the highest evaluation in the plurality of pieces of evaluation information out of the plurality of clusters. | 10-03-2013 |
20130268533 | GRAPH-BASED SEARCH QUERIES USING WEB CONTENT METADATA - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating search query metadata for a graph search query for use in selecting web pages relevant to the graph search query. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a graph search query specifying user-selected graph search elements; generating graph search query metadata representing the graph search elements of the graph search query and relationships of the graph search elements; comparing the graph search query metadata to content metadata sets, wherein each content metadata set represents content elements of a content item presented on a respective web resource and relationships of the content elements; determining similarity scores between the content metadata sets and the graph search query metadata based on the comparison; and selecting web resources on which the content items are presented based on the similarity scores of the respective content metadata sets. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268534 | APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC THEME DETECTION FROM UNSTRUCTURED DATA - This apparatus provides a system and method of determining significant repeating themes in a collection of documents. The apparatus operates unsupervised and leverages a natural language processing mechanism supported with lexicon, synonym and taxonomy dictionaries to determine themes and establish their relevance using a two-level hierarchical structure. The apparatus also assigns meaningful names to identified themes and determines a set of rules that describe the theme such that it can be applied to categorize other documents outside of the collection as well. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268535 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING DOCUMENT, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a document classification apparatus includes an extraction unit, a clustering unit, a classification unit, and a label assignment unit. The extraction unit is configured to extract feature words from documents. The clustering unit is configured to cluster the feature words into clusters so that a difference between the number of documents each including any one of the feature words belonging to one cluster and the number of documents each including any one of the feature words belonging to another cluster is equal to or less than a predetermined reference value. The classification unit is configured to classify the documents into the clusters so that each document belongs to the cluster to which the feature word included in the each document belongs. The label assignment unit is configured to assign a classification label to each cluster as a word representative of the corresponding feature words. | 10-10-2013 |
20130275433 | CLASSIFICATION RULE GENERATION DEVICE, CLASSIFICATION RULE GENERATION METHOD, CLASSIFICATION RULE GENERATION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In a document classification device | 10-17-2013 |
20130282725 | AUTOMATION-ASSISTED CURATION OF TECHNICAL SUPPORT INFORMATION - A system is disclosed for automation-assisted curation of technical information from technical support tickets into a technical information knowledge base. In one example, a method includes mapping information from a plurality of fields of a support ticket in a technical support reporting tool to a plurality of corresponding fields of a structured information file. The method further includes rendering the structured information file in a user-editable format in a user interface; saving user inputs to the structured information file, thereby generating a curated structured information file that incorporates the mapped information and the user inputs; and saving the curated structured information file to a searchable technical support information data store. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282726 | GROUPING IDENTITY RECORDS TO GENERATE CANDIDATE LISTS TO USE IN AN ENTITY AND RELATIONSHIP RESOLUTION PROCESS - Provided are a method, system, and computer program product for determining entity relationship information for identity records to add to an entity database. For each selected identity record of a plurality of identity records, an individual query on selected attribute values of the selected identity record is applied against at least one set of entity records to determine a candidate list of the entity records in the at least one set determined to be related to the selected identity record based on the selected attribute values of the selected identity record. Entity relationship information on entity records from the candidate list that are determined to be related to the selected identity record are stored in the entity database. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282727 | UNEXPECTEDNESS DETERMINATION SYSTEM, UNEXPECTEDNESS DETERMINATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - The present invention more suitably determines whether a combination of words is an unexpected combination by the use of a smaller corpus. Disclosed is an unexpectedness determination system provided with: category identifying means which identifies a category to which a word belongs; category co-occurrence frequency identifying means which identifies a category co-occurrence frequency between two categories; unexpectedness index calculating means which calculates an index representing a degree of unexpectedness of a combination of two words. The category identifying means identifies a first category, to which an inputted first word belongs, and a second category, to which an inputted second word belongs, the category co-occurrence frequency identifying means identifies the category co-occurrence frequencies between the first category and categories other than the first category, and the unexpectedness index calculating means calculates an index representing the degree of unexpectedness of a combination of the first word and the second word on the basis of the category co-occurrence frequency identified by the category co-occurrence frequency identifying means. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290339 | USER MODELING FOR PERSONALIZED GENERALIZED CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS - Users receive content recommendations from a personalized, generalized recommendation service that aggregates and selects content of high personal relevance to each individual user from a large pool of both personal and public content. The received content is filtered and the content determined to be relevant is cached. When a user request for content is received, the cached content is rescored and the content determined to be most relevant based on satisfaction of a relevance threshold is selected and forwarded to the user. Feedback methodologies are also implemented so that a user's actions are taken into consideration in real time and can affect subsequent recommendations to the user. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290340 | Providing Control Over a Personalized Category of Information - Embodiments disclosed herein relate to providing control over a personalized category of information. In one embodiment, a personalized category of information is determined based on stored information associated with the use of an electronic device 110. In one embodiment, user feedback on the personalized category of information is received. If the user feedback comprises a rejection of the personalized category of information, the personalized category of information is discarded. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290341 | MAINTAINING A DATA STRUCTURE WITH DATA SET NAMES AND POINTERS TO A PLURALITY OF CATALOGS - A plurality of catalogs are maintained, and wherein each catalog of the plurality of catalogs includes data sets and attributes of the data sets. An indication that a new data set is to be defined is received. A selected catalog is determined from the plurality of catalogs, wherein the selected catalog is suitable for including the new data set and attributes of the new data set. An entry that indicates a data set name corresponding to the new data set and an index to the selected catalog is inserted in a group table. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290342 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING AND CLASSIFYING QUERY INTENT - Linguistic analysis is used to identify queries that use different natural language formations to request similar information. Common intent categories are identified for the queries requesting similar information. Intent responses can then be provided that are associated with the identified intent categories. An intent management tool can be used for identifying new intent categories, identifying obsolete intent categories, or refining existing intent categories. | 10-31-2013 |
20130297612 | SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING EXPERT-BASED COMPUTERIZED ANALYSIS OF A SET OF DIGITAL DOCUMENTS AND METHODS USEFUL IN CONJUNCTION THEREWITH - An electronic document analysis method receiving N electronic documents pertaining to a case encompassing a set of issues including at least one issue and establishing relevance of at least the N documents to at least one individual issue in the set of issues, the method comprising, for at least one individual issue from among the set of issues, receiving an output of a categorization process applied to each document in training and control subsets of the at least N documents, the output including, for each document in the subsets, one of a relevant-to-the-individual issue indication and a non-relevant-to-the-individual issue indication; building a text classifier simulating the categorization process using the output for all documents in the training subset of documents; and running the text classifier on the at least N documents thereby to obtain a ranking of the extent of relevance of each of the at least N documents to the individual issue. The method may also comprise evaluating the text classifier's quality using the output for all documents in the control subset. | 11-07-2013 |
20130304741 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC ASSIGNMENT OF IDENTIFIERS TO A GRAPH OF ENTITIES - Method, system, and programs for providing identifiers to objects. Input data representing a plurality of objects is received and categorized into a plurality of entity categories. A first graph of entities is generated using the plurality of entity categories. The first graph of entities are matched with a second graph of entities. A comparison of object pairs is then made, in which each object pair includes a first object from the first graph of entities and a corresponding second object from the second graph of entities. Identifiers are assigned to each object based on comparing the object pairs. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304742 | HARDWARE-ACCELERATED CONTEXT-SENSITIVE FILTERING - Various technologies related to hardware-accelerated context-sensitive filtering are described. Compact filter rules can implement powerful filtering functionality via concept rules and weightings. Superior performance can be achieved via hardware acceleration. A variety of scenarios such as search, document filtering, email filtering, and the like can be supported. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304743 | KEYWORD ASSIGNMENT DEVICE, INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE, AND KEYWORD ASSIGNMENT METHOD - A keyword assignment device includes a class determination section that determines a corresponding class when a plurality of keywords are classified into a plurality of classes that are distributed in first to Nth hierarchies, a classification frequency calculation section that calculates a classification frequency of each class, a reference target hierarchy determination section that determines a reference target hierarchy, and a keyword determination section that determines the keyword of the corresponding class in the final reference target hierarchy to be a display keyword. The reference target hierarchy determination section determines a kth hierarchy to be the next reference target hierarchy when it has been determined that it is necessary to refer to the kth hierarchy that is higher than a jth hierarchy based on the classification frequency of the corresponding class in the jth hierarchy. | 11-14-2013 |
20130311474 | Generating Mappings Between a Plurality of Taxonomies - A method, a system and a computer program product create mappings between taxonomies in which documents are classified from a category of a taxonomy to one or more categories within a master taxonomy based on a statistical model and classification score values. The document classifications are analyzed to determine a mapping between the taxonomy category and a corresponding category of the master taxonomy, where the category is mapped to the corresponding category in the master taxonomy in response to sufficient classification score values for the documents. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311475 | Generating Mappings Between a Plurality of Taxonomies - A method, a system and a computer program product create mappings between taxonomies in which documents are classified from a category of a taxonomy to one or more categories within a master taxonomy based on a statistical model and classification score values. The document classifications are analyzed to determine a mapping between the taxonomy category and a corresponding category of the master taxonomy, where the category is mapped to the corresponding category in the master taxonomy in response to sufficient classification score values for the documents. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311476 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ON-THE-FLY CATEGORIZATION AND OPTIONAL DETAILS EXTRACTION FROM QUESTIONS POSTED TO AN ONLINE CONSULTATION SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention further provide systems and methods for automatically categorizing and extracting details in real-time from questions submitted by users to an online consultation system. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311477 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A CLASS REFERENCE DATA RECORD FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF VALUE DOCUMENTS - A method and apparatus for determining a class reference data record for classifying documents of value includes creating a class reference image using a multiplicity of reference images of already classified documents of value in the same class; and creating a class reference data record having at least one class reference parameter using the class reference image. The pixel and intensity values of the respective pixel in the class reference image are a function of the pixel values of the relevant pixels in the multiplicity of reference images of already classified documents of value in the same class. The method includes determining at least one quantitative property of a document of value to be classified; and classifying the document of value to be classified on the basis of a comparison between the quantitative property of the document of value to be classified and the class reference data record. | 11-21-2013 |
20130318088 | Management of Class of Service - According to one embodiment of the present invention, classification of objects in a directory service may be managed. An object is identified in a directory service. Classification information associated with the object is received from a reference database. Using a processor, a rule that specifies a value that corresponds to the classification information is accessed. The accessed value is based on a power of two classification model. Using the processor, the class of service attribute is created using the value. The class of service attribute is associated with the object listed in the directory service using the processor. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318089 | CATALOG PERFORMANCE AND INTEGRITY ANALYSIS - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing catalog information that can include tracking and reporting search terms used for catalog items searches. According to one embodiment, a procurement application can maintain a log of unique search phrases which returned no search results. For example, the log can maintain records from a specific time period. A count can be maintained to capture how many times a phrase was used for search within the specific time period, and used to rank the frequency of the search phrases. Search phrases that exceed that time period may be purged. The accumulated counts and associated search terms can be provided to the managers periodically and/or upon request in the form of a summary or other graphical and/or textual report or presentation. | 11-28-2013 |
20130325866 | Community Profiling for Social Media - Embodiments of the invention relate to modeling communities associated with groups of data items. Tools are provided to iteratively assign data items to communities and to update topic and participant distribution in the assigned communities. As the distributions are updated, the characteristics of the communities are updated. Each activity area is defined from the perspective of a single user. Participants in a community are connected to a user, but not necessarily to each other. The combination of formations of communities and the statistical aspect of evaluating characteristics of the communities provides a multi-facetted organization of connections between data items and associated participants. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325867 | IDE INTEGRATED CATALOG AND DDIC-BRIDGE FOR IN-MEMORY DATABASE VIEWS - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for providing a homogeneous data model based on in-memory database views. One computer-implemented method includes creating an application view field associated with an application view, indicating a base database field in a base database table for the created application view field, collecting additional information associated with the indicated base database field, determining at least a data element and a domain associated with the indicated base database field using the collected additional information, determining, by operation of a computer using the collected additional information, that multiple determined catalog entries associated with the indicated base database field exist in a catalog, and proposing names for the application view field, wherein the proposed names are presented from most specific to least specific. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325868 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM FOR CLASSIFYING A PLURALITY OF DATA - An information processing apparatus classifies a piece of content data as a first or second category in response to a user operation while outputting the content data for a predetermined time. When the user operation is not performed from the start of the output of the content data to the termination, the information processing apparatus automatically classifies the content data as a third category. When there is a shortage of the number of pieces of content data classified as the first or second category, the information processing apparatus adds a piece of content data classified as the third category. | 12-05-2013 |
20130332459 | MULTI-FUNCTIONS AXIS-BASED INTERFACE - A method, device, interface and systems thereof is hereby presented to facilitate interactions between sets of attributes and workflow steps with corresponding graphical arrangements of associated documents. Interactions are generally facilitated through an interaction tool having input and output capabilities. Documents can be classified by associating documents with an interaction element from the interaction tool. Conversely, selecting an interaction element is used as a basis to display documents corresponding to the attributes associated with the selected interaction element. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332460 | Structured and Social Data Aggregator - Information is obtained from the Internet is combined with processed and rated information from social networking services by a structured and social data aggregator providing highly relevant search results. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a product information crawler, which crawls the Internet in search of web pages relevant to a requested subject or product. The product information crawler conveys captured web pages to a structured data extractor, which extracts product information. A social networking crawler crawls social networking services in search of social network information to the requested subject or product. The processed product information and processed social network information is conveyed to an information aggregator, which merges the information and stores it in a data store that can be queried by a user. A user would then be able conduct a single search about a subject or product, and retrieve highly relevant structured product information enhanced by social networking information. | 12-12-2013 |
20130339363 | DYNAMIC VISUALIZATION GENERATION AND IMPLEMENTATION - Embodiments are directed to selecting and applying data-specific presentations, to adaptively selecting visual presentations based on historical data and to providing rendering hints for data presentations. In one scenario, a computer system receives an indication that a visual presentation is to be applied to a specified portion of data. The computer system analyzes the specified data to determine which of a plurality of data presentations is most relevant for the specified data. The relevance is based on relevancy factors including one or more of the following: end-user profile, structure of the specified data and patterns within the specified data. The computer system then applies the determined appropriate visual presentation to the specified data. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339364 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING RELATED CONTENT TO AN ELECTRONIC TEXT - The exemplary embodiments provide methods and systems for automatically identifying content related to an electronic text. Aspects of exemplary embodiments include linking topic categories, psychological states, demographic profiles, and additional content using one or more databases; in response to receiving content of an electronic text, analyzing by a software component executing on a computer the content and assigning one or more of topic categories to the content; automatically identifying at least one the psychological states of a user caused by the content and the demographic profiles whose members would be interested in the content that are linked to the one or more topic categories assigned to the content; and presenting a portion of the additional content that is linked to at least one of the identified demographic profiles and the psychological states. | 12-19-2013 |
20130346413 | System and Method for Recording and Sharing Music - A method includes the steps of electronically storing a plurality of songs on a server; allowing a first user to select one of the plurality of songs; allowing the first user to play the one of the plurality of songs and record a user-generated track while the one of the plurality of songs is playing; and saving the user-generated track on the server separate from the one of the plurality of songs. An electronic system that allows the first user to perform the method is also disclosed. | 12-26-2013 |
20140006408 | IDENTIFYING POINTS OF INTEREST VIA SOCIAL MEDIA | 01-02-2014 |
20140006409 | DYNAMIC FILTERING IN APPLICATION SEARCH | 01-02-2014 |
20140012854 | METHOD OR SYSTEM FOR SEMANTIC CATEGORIZATION - Methods and/or systems are provided that may be utilized to rank categories of an entity based at least in part on relevance. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012855 | Systems and Methods for Calculating Category Proportions - Systems and methods are provided for classifying text based on language using one or more computer servers and storage devices. A computer-implemented method includes receiving a training set of elements, each element in the training set being assigned to one of a plurality of categories and having one of a plurality of content profiles associated therewith; receiving a population set of elements, each element in the population set having one of the plurality of content profiles associated therewith; and calculating using at least one of a stacked regression algorithm, a bias formula algorithm, a noise elimination algorithm, and an ensemble method consisting of a plurality of algorithmic methods the results of which are averaged, based on the content profiles associated with and the categories assigned to elements in the training set and the content profiles associated with the elements of the population set, a distribution of elements of the population set over the categories. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012856 | SERVICE DESIGN AND ORDER FULFILLMENT SYSTEM WITH DYNAMIC PATTERN-DRIVEN FULFILLMENT - A system that provides a provider function is provided. The system defines a structured set of metadata for the provider function. The system further defines a transformation sequence including customizable process logic for the provider function, where the customizable process logic is structured within stages. The system further dynamically generates a runtime process flow for the provider function based on the metadata and the transformation sequence. | 01-09-2014 |
20140025681 | Apparatus and Method for Perusing Selected Vehicles Having a Clean Title History - A system and method for allowing a consumer to search a database containing used vehicles from a variety of sellers that can be queried to provide search results that include only vehicles having clean title histories. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025682 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION CLASSIFICATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes: acquiring posted information items, each of the posted information items including at least either of a text information item and an image information item; generating text information items including text items in such a manner that image information items are removed from the posted information items, and classifying the text items into first categories; generating image information items including images in such a manner that text information items are removed from the posted information items, and classifying the images into second categories; associating the classified text items and the classified images with each other on the basis of the first and second categories to obtain results; and outputting the text items and the images for each of the results. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025683 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING COMMUNITY-UPDATEABLE DATA - A method of managing crowdsourced data includes storing contact information regarding a plurality of contacts within a community-updateable repository accessible by a plurality of users, receiving a plurality of discrepancy reports associated with a selected contact of the plurality of contacts, extracting fact data regarding the selected contact from the plurality of discrepancy reports, determining an action to be taken based on the fact data and a fact model applied to the fact data, and performing the action to modify the community-updateable repository. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032558 | CATEGORIZATION OF MULTI-PAGE DOCUMENTS BY ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION - A computer implemented system and method are provided for refining category scores for pages of a sequence of document pages that potentially includes document boundaries. The method uses initial category scores provided by a categorizer that considers one page at a time or concatenated pairs of pages (called bipages). The category scores represent the probability that a page belongs to a particular category. The method uses anisotropic diffusion to refine the initial page category scores using the scores of neighboring pages as a function of the probability that there is a boundary between the pages. The method may be performed iteratively. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032559 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING PROCESS INFORMATION - The present invention discloses a method and a device for displaying process information, which belongs to the field of computer technologies. The method may include: scanning a memory of a device for running processes; categorizing and ranking the scanned running processes according to a preset process display format; and displaying each process category after categorization and running processes within each process category, and displaying information related to the process category and the running processes within the process category; and/or displaying ranked running processes, and displaying related information corresponding to the ranked running processes. In the present invention, by presetting a process categorization format, the processes are displayed according to categorization and ranking when a user views the process information, thereby improving the user's understanding of the running processes in the device, making the management of the running processes more efficient, and further enhancing the security of the system. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032560 | Machine, Computer Readable Medium, and Computer-Implemented Method For File Management, Storage, and Display - File management machines, computer readable media, and methods of file management, are provided. An exemplary file management machine includes a file management server configured to receive or retrieve user files through an electronic communication/computer network to provide categorical organization and establishment of albums. The file management server can also function to create member user and visitor accounts. The visitor accounts can be provided individual custom access by the member user to provide individualized tailored access to a subset of the files uploaded by the member user. The visitor accounts can be used as to gather information about the file unknown to the member user. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032561 | SEARCHING FOR TRANSIENT STREAMING MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES - A software and/or hardware facility is described that enables searches for transient multimedia resources that are contained in real-time multimedia streams. Because real-time data streams are not archived for subsequent access, transient resources contained in the streams are preferably quickly identified, characterized in a database, and indexed so that the facility can locate transient resources that are responsive to search queries. Stream listeners are disclosed that are configured to monitor data streams and identify transient resources within the streams based on associated metadata. Various techniques are disclosed to optimize the operation of the stream listeners. In response to a search query, search results are generated by the facility that include transient multimedia resources that are accessible via a network at the time that the search query is received. | 01-30-2014 |
20140040271 | CATEGORIZING SEARCH TERMS - A system and method are disclosed for categorizing search terms. The system accesses search history for the search terms. The system also categorizes each of the search terms based on the number of times that the respective search term appears in the search history. If the number of times the search term appears in the search history exceeds a first threshold, a search result of the search term is determined and the search term is categorized as a type that is provided for registration to a user with recognized association with the search term or a type that is excluded from registration, where the categorizing based on a ratio of a number of times the search result was selected subsequent to receiving the search term to the number of times that the search term appears in the search history. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040272 | Disambiguation and Tagging of Entities - Tagging of content items and entities identified therein may include a matching process, a classification process and a disambiguation process. Matching may include the identification of potential matching candidate entities in a content item whereas the classification process may categorize or group identified candidate entities according to known entities to which they are likely a match. In some instances, a candidate entity may be categorized with multiple known entities. Accordingly, a disambiguation process may be used to reduce the potential matches to a single known entity. In one example, the disambiguation process may include ranking potentially matching known entities according to a hierarchy of criteria. | 02-06-2014 |
20140046946 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING GEO-TAGGED ITEMS - A recommender system for recommending items to a user based on geo-Tagged information related to him, in which items associated with a GeoTag are stored in a database. Feedback regarding the various items is obtained from the user and the provided rating of items is propagated to closely located items based on their associated GeoTags. A user-to-user similarity matrix is calculated and a predicted score is assigned for each user and item, using a recommendation server. All the items in the catalog of items are sorted according to their predicted scores as calculated for the user, and all items that have been already rated by the user are filtered out. Then, items from the catalog of items are presented to the user, according to their scores. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046947 | CONTENT REVISION USING QUESTION AND ANSWER GENERATION - A method for question/answer creation for a document is described. The method includes importing a document having a set of questions based on content in the document. The method also includes automatically creating a candidate question from the content in the document. The method also includes automatically generating answers for the set of questions and the candidate question using the content in the document. The method also includes presenting the set of questions, the candidate question, and the answers to a content creator for user verification of accuracy. The method also includes storing a verified set of questions in the document. The verified set of questions includes the candidate question. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046948 | DATABASE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method are disclosed wherein a data collection server performs a database dump to a network server. The dumped database provides some item subject identification data, such as place and date, but need not contain any. A scanning program checks through the dumped database items seeking for other filtering information and saving that information with the database item in association with which it was discovered to provide an improved database. A user can select one or more subject categories from the improved database and select filters to refine down what Items are displayed in a timeline 94 according to filter categorized. The user can manipulate, introduce and change items within a timeline to the user's choice. The user can communicate their selection to others. | 02-13-2014 |
20140052730 | MANAGEMENT OF DATA GROUPS AND DATA SETS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product for managing data sets. According to one aspect of the present invention, a data group of one or more related data sets is reorganized. Utilizing one or more specified criteria, data sets that should be cataloged in the data group are identified and cataloged in the data group such that they are arranged in a chronological order and are named with appropriate generation numbers. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052731 | MUSIC TRACK EXPLORATION AND PLAYLIST CREATION - The invention enables music tracks in a playlist to be explored using a unique music genogram data format. The invention further enables a user to map an emotional trajectory on the emotion wheel as a basis for the generation of the playlist with music tracks. The invention provides for a unique visualization of the playlist using the emotional wheel representation. A user will be given the option to specify an initial mood and a destination mood. The trajectory between the initial mood and the destination mood may be steered through the emotions falling in-between. The thus obtained mood trajectory is then populated by music tracks to form a playlist. | 02-20-2014 |
20140059050 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS WITH DATABASE-SELECTION AIDS - A method for enabling a user to search database profiles includes receiving user input categorizing an information need, and determining whether the user input corresponds to a first or a second type of category. In response to determining that the user input corresponds to the first category type, the method includes requesting user input defining a first query, and in response to receipt of the query, and executing the defined first query against a set of one or more databases based on the user input categorizing the information need. In response to determining that the user input corresponds to the second category type, the method includes requesting additional user input regarding the information need. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059051 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR AN INTEGRATED RESEARCH LIBRARY - A process for automated generation and storage of an organized form of comparisons amongst research resources on a set of user defined categories. The process creates an organized cross reference for resource annotations by their source and comparison category. User input enables the program to create, read, update, and destroy resources, comparison categories, and resource annotations and their associated information. The process eliminates redundancy in creation of physical and digital storage and organization systems for research resources, comparison categories, and annotations. | 02-27-2014 |
20140067816 | SURFACING ENTITY ATTRIBUTES WITH SEARCH RESULTS - In an effort to enhance computer user engagement with a search results page, systems and methods are presented which are configured to identify an entity as being the subject matter of a user's search query. If the entity is a known entity, i.e., entity information is stored in an entity store for the identified entity, a subset of entity attributes are identified and a representative entity attribute question is obtained for each of the attributes in the subset of entity attributes. The representative entity attribute questions are identified according to the probability that they are formed linguistically correct. The representative entity attribute questions are included in a search results page that is generated in response to the user's search query. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067817 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOMMENDING SOCIAL NETWORK CONNECTIONS - Methods and systems for recommending social networking connections are disclosed. Information is received from a mobile device relating to software applications that are installed on a first user's mobile device. A weight for each software application is calculated based on usage information and each software application is designated to at least one category. A priority is calculated for each category based at least in part on respective weights of software applications designated to the category. A second user, who is not connected to the first user, is detected, wherein the second user has a predetermined number of categories that are the same as the first user's categories, and wherein priorities corresponding to the second user's categories are within a predetermined range of priorities corresponding to the first user's categories. A recommendation to connect with the second user is provided to the first user. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067818 | PUSHING SPECIFIC CONTENT TO A PREDETERMINED WEBPAGE - A method and an apparatus for pushing specific content for a predetermined webpage, and a website server. The method for pushing specific content for text content on a predetermined webpage comprises: subjecting text content on a predetermined webpage to emotional analysis; determining a matching degree between a result of the emotional analysis and an emotion expressed by specific content to be pushed; and responding to that the matching degree determined above satisfies a predetermined condition, combining a part of the text content with the specific content to be pushed, thereby forming content to be pushed specific for users. By using the technology of the present invention, user can be avoided from feeling disgust for content to be pushed and accuracy of push can be enhanced. | 03-06-2014 |
20140074846 | MULTI-INPUT PLAYLIST SELECTION - A computer-implemented process comprises identifying, by a computer server system, a base topic for a personalized media stream for a user of a computer system; identifying, with the computer server system, a plurality of media items associated with the base topic using a plurality of different and independent categories of media categorization data, wherein each of the categories of media categorization data is assigned a weighting; building a collection of candidate media items from the identified plurality of media items; ordering the collection of candidate media items to form a personalized media stream; and providing the ordered collection of candidate media items for playing to the user. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074847 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DEVIATIONS FROM MAP DATA - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for identifying discrepancies in digital map data, comprising selecting one or more candidate locations as a subset of locations within positional data relating to the movement of a plurality of devices with respect to time in an area, allocating each of the candidate locations to one or more predetermined categories based upon a distribution of travel directions of the devices at each candidate location and comparing the candidate locations against a database of map data and identifying locations of possible discrepancies in the digital map data based upon the category of each candidate location. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074848 | DYNAMIC FRAMEWORK FOR PSYCHOMETRIC TESTING - A method of psychometric testing is disclosed. Input from a plurality of users is received. The input is indicative of first and second psychometric variables, where the first and second psychometric variables are independent. The input allows classifying users into at least four classes using a first classification threshold for the first psychometric variable and a second classification threshold for the second psychometric variable. The classification thresholds are adjustable so that the classification of users into classes is altered so that a user is re-classified to a different class. The questions in the input questionnaire may also be changed, and they may e.g. be translated to another language. Furthermore, the system generates textual output based on the classification, and the users may be allowed to vote on the output descriptions. | 03-13-2014 |
20140081978 | FACILITATING DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING FOR DYNAMIC AND EFFICIENT GENERATION OF SEARCH RESULTS IN AN ON-DEMAND SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating distributed data processing for dynamic and efficient generation of search results in a multi-tenant environment according to one embodiment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes receiving, at a data processing platform, extracted data occurrences from a database coupled to a server computing device, where each data occurrence may be assigned a classification according to a category. The method may further include mapping values to the data occurrences based on classifications of the data occurrences, mapping prefixes to the data occurrences based on identifying names of the data occurrences, and generating search data based on the mapped values and mapped prefixes, where the search data may represent autosuggestions. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089313 | SEMANTIC NOTE TAKING SYSTEM - A semantic note taking system and method for collecting information, enriching the information, and/or binding the information to services is provided. User-created notes are enriched with labels, context traits, and relevant data to minimize friction in the note-taking process. In other words, the present invention is directed to collecting unscripted data, adding more meaning and use out of the data, and binding the data to services. Mutable and late-binding to services is also provided to allow private thoughts to be published to a myriad of different applications and services in a manner compatible with how thoughts are processed in the brain. User interfaces and semantic skins are also provided to derive meaning out of notes without requiring a great deal of user input. Linking physical objects to notes are also provided, such as through QR codes. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089314 | FUNCTION-PRESENTING SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE, PROGRAM AND FUNCTION-PRESENTING METHOD - A server device acquires input information input into a terminal device, recognizes the input information with reference to a dictionary file, the dictionary file serving as a voice-recognition dictionary describing an identifier representing a category, the category being determined based on a meaning of a registered character string, and specifies an input character string and the first identifier, the first identifier representing a category of a registered character string included in the input character string. The server device transmits the specified character string and first identifier to the terminal device. The terminal device selects, with reference a function-selection file describing a correspondence between the first identifier and a category to which a function to be presented belongs, a category to which a function corresponding to the first identifier belongs, and presents a plurality of functions belonging to the selected category in a predetermined presenting manner. | 03-27-2014 |
20140095508 | EFFICIENT SELECTION OF QUERIES MATCHING A RECORD USING A CACHE - A method is provided for constructing a cache for storing results of previously evaluated queries in a binary tree based on a cache key. The cache is searched, by a processing device, for a node representing a set of previously evaluated queries that match a given record using an instance of the cache key. In response to finding a representative node that matches the instance of the cache key, the method performs processing associated with the set of previously evaluated queries. In response to finding no representative nodes, the method creates a new node using the instance of the cache key. The method of the invention then updates the cache by classifying the compatibility of newly registered queries with the cache key and evaluating whether compatible newly registered queries match the record. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095509 | METHOD OF TAGGING CONTENT LACKING GEOTAGS WITH A LOCATION - A method including: at a system, determining a set of user accounts associated with a first user for each of a set of social networking services, an event timeframe for an event, and an event location for the event; receiving, at the system, a set of digital content generated by the set of user accounts during the event timeframe; in response to detection of a first digital content lacking a geographic location information within the digital content set, associating the event location with the first digital content; and in response to receipt of a query comprising an identifier for the event from a device, sending the first digital content to the device. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095510 | Information Presentation Method, System, Client and/or Server - Systems and methods are provided for presenting information. For example, a trigger command is acquired; one or more first points of interest are selected based on at least information associated with the trigger command; a first zone associated with the first points of interest is acquired from an electronic map, the electronic map being divided into a plurality of second zones including the first zone; a predetermined number of third zones are acquired from the plurality of second zones, the first zone being included at a center area of the third zones; one or more first messages published in the third zones and one or more first geographic positions corresponding to the one or more first messages are acquired; and the first messages published in the third zones and the corresponding first geographic positions are presented according to certain embodiments. | 04-03-2014 |
20140101163 | KEYWORD GENERATION - This specification describes technologies relating to generation of keywords. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include receiving structured data describing a content item, the structured data indicating a category for the content item. The methods may further include searching domains associated with the category using a first query, formed based on data elements in the structured data, to identify resources associated with the identified domains. The methods may further include determining one or more queries based on data reflecting past search queries, where each of the one or more determined queries resulted in one or more of the identified resources being returned as part of a search result, and determining keywords based on the one or more determined queries. The methods may further include transmitting or storing the keywords for use in impression allocation decisions. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101164 | EFFICIENT SELECTION OF QUERIES MATCHING A RECORD USING A CACHE - A method is provided for constructing a cache for storing results of previously evaluated queries in a binary tree based on a cache key. The cache is searched, by a processing device, for a node representing a set of previously evaluated queries that match a given record using an instance of the cache key. In response to finding a representative node that matches the instance of the cache key, the method performs processing associated with the set of previously evaluated queries. In response to finding no representative nodes, the method creates a new node using the instance of the cache key. The method of the invention then updates the cache by classifying the compatibility of newly registered queries with the cache key and evaluating whether compatible newly registered queries match the record. | 04-10-2014 |
20140108410 | SOFTWARE SYSTEM TEST CASE CREATION - A test case generation system includes a processor, a process residing on the processor and configured to extract descriptions from document artifacts, extract a first set of keywords from the descriptions, categorize the descriptions to a first set and a second set, extract a second set of keywords that occur in the second set and generate a test case from the second set of keywords. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108411 | Computer Algorithm for Automatic Allele Determination from Fluorometer Genotyping Device - The present invention provides methods and systems for an automated method of identifying allele values from data files derived from processed fluorophore emissions detected during the observation of fluorophore labeled nucleotide probes used in analyzing polymorphic DNA are provided. These methods are used in the rapid and efficient distinguishing of targeted polymorphic DNA sites without control samples. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108412 | PRODUCT INFORMATION SYSTEM CONSULTABLE FROM SEVERAL MANUFACTURING SITES, BASED ON CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT - Provided is an information system relating to commercial products, consulted from several sites, this information being classed according to types of object, including items that make up the product, sites, characteristics; tables of links called configurations making it possible to view links between a parent object and child objects, including configurations between an item and characteristics. It contains a new object denoted site item. And items contain shared configurations directly linking the parent item to characteristics shared by all the sites, and specific configurations linking the parent item to specific characteristics of each site via a global specific configuration which directly links the parent item to site items, each site item being linked to the specific characteristics by specific configurations of its site. | 04-17-2014 |
20140114979 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING COMMODITIES ON E-COMMERCE PLATFORM - Disclosed are a method and apparatus for classifying commodities on an e-commerce platform. The method includes: setting a classification for each commodity according to a property of the commodity; setting one or more attributes for each classification according to the category; setting at least one attribute value for each attribute according to the attribute; generating a category map according to a category map generation sequence, and a mapping relationship between the classification and attribute value, and categories and sub-categories in the category map, and using the category map as a commodity classification result. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, by setting a classification-attribute system on the background of an e-commerce website, a category map is adaptively constructed; in this way, the category map is adaptively generated according to the classification and attribute value. | 04-24-2014 |
20140122496 | USING DATA FROM WEARABLE MONITORS TO IDENTIFY COHORTS - The methods and systems described herein may involve determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and delivering content to at least one individual based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing a game, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one player of the game, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and affecting the game play based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing an interactive space, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual in the space, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and modifying at least one attribute of the space based on the analysis. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122497 | COLLECTING AND CLASSIFYING USER INFORMATION INTO DYNAMICALLY-UPDATED USER PROFILES - Systems and methods for collecting, classifying and organizing user information into a dynamically-updated user profile are provided. Information pertaining to a user is obtained from one or more data sources, and the information is then classified into specific categories using field mapping and other techniques, after which it is organized into a user profile and securely stored in a database. The user profile is dynamically-updated by automatically detecting and storing updates to the information in the user profile based on user interactions, communications and other online or electronic activities. Information is instantaneously collected from user-completed electronic form input fields which is mapped back to the user profile. The user profile is a single, comprehensive source of user information that is securely stored and available to the user in any location and for any purpose, such as automatically and instantaneously populating fields of an electronic document, form or web-based application. | 05-01-2014 |
20140129561 | RISK ANALYSIS USING UNSTRUCTURED DATA - Unstructured data is received from a plurality of sources to facilitate risk analysis. The unstructured data comprises a plurality of bodies of text. Each body of text from the unstructured data is deconstructed into individual terms. The individual terms from each body of text are converted into a structured form. The individual terms in the structured form are categorized according to a comparison of the structured form to another structured form. The individual terms in the structured form are quantified according to at least the categorization of the individual terms. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129562 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CATEGORIZING AND PRESENTING PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT DATA - The field of the invention relates to systems and methods for data mining and processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for automating content from performance assessment data. In one embodiment, an automated notes and categorization system may include a primary database comprising performance assessment data. The primary database is operatively coupled to a computer program product having a computer-usable medium having a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor, causes said processor to execute a process that analyzes and converts raw performance data into automated content that presents data in readable user friendly form to facilitate human understanding. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129563 | MEDIA CATALOG SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT USEFUL FOR CATALOGING VIDEO CLIPS - Embodiments disclosed herein provide a new way to catalog digital assets derived or otherwise created from an original source such as a video, clip, movie, film, or the like. In one embodiment, time-based metadata, along with technical metadata and business metadata can be captured within a video and collected locally at a client device running media catalog client software. The collected information can be communicated to a media catalog server at the back end. The media catalog server can create a new asset based on the collected information and store the asset in a database. Multiple assets may be created to describe and reference the same video. However, the video itself is not modified and no variation of the video is created in anyway. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136540 | QUERY DIVERSITY FROM DEMAND BASED CATEGORY DISTANCE - A system and method of determining the level of diversity for a search query are described. Distances between leaf categories in a hierarchical category tree are determined using co-click counts between the leaf categories for a query. Coordinate representations of the leaf categories are determined using the distances between the leaf categories. A diversity score for the query is determined using the coordinate representations. The diversity score represents a degree of variability in what different users find relevant to the query. In some embodiments, determining distances between leaf categories comprises determining the distances using a normalization of the co-click counts that uses co-impression counts between the leaf categories for the query. In some embodiments, a manifold learning algorithm is used to determine the coordinate representations. In some embodiments, multi-dimensional scaling is used to determine the coordinate representations. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136541 | Mining Semi-Structured Social Media - Methods and apparatus for analysis of semi-structured social media are described. A method comprises classifying a plurality of user-generated content entries into a plurality of categories based at least in part on an analysis of respective structured components of at least a subset of the plurality of entries. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on an analysis of additional components of entries of a particular category, a set of representative content elements of entries of the particular category, and generating a report that comprises one or more representative content elements of the particular category. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136542 | System and Method for Divisive Textual Clustering by Label Selection Using Variant-Weighted TFIDF - A computer implemented method includes accepting a corpus of documents organized in categories. Labels are selected for the categories based upon author frequency-inverse document frequency criteria that measures the total number of authors who utilize a given term within a category in comparison to the total number of authors who utilize the term both inside the category and outside the category. Clusters within each category are created based upon the labels. Each document in a cluster contains the term selected as a label for the cluster. | 05-15-2014 |
20140143254 | Category and Attribute Specifications for Product Search Queries - Systems and methods can determine categories for product searches. One or more computing devices can receive a product query of search terms. The product query can be classified to identify a product category. The search terms may be verified against an ambiguous term list for the product category. The search terms may also be verified against an attribute list for the product category. The product query may be classified as fully understood in response to all of the search terms matching either the ambiguous term list or the attribute list for the product category. A product search may be performed on the product query. The product search may be informed by the product category when the product query has been classified as fully understood. Search results may be generated and returned according to the product search. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143255 | STORAGE SYSTEM, CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A cloud storage system that includes at least one interface that connects the cloud storage system to a data network, at least one non-volatile mass memory, and at least one control unit connected to the interface and to the at least one mass memory and arranged to 1) receive requests from a user with regard to data objects from the interface according to a data transmission protocol, 2) store data objects transmitted according to a write request in the at least one mass memory and 3) retrieve data objects requested according to a read request from the at least one mass memory, wherein a predetermined storage period is assigned to each data object, stored in the at least one non-volatile mass memory by a write request, at the latest upon receiving the write request, and the stored data objects in a predetermined group cannot be changed by subsequent requests according to the protocol via the interface before expiration of the assigned storage period. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149417 | CAUSAL TOPIC MINER - Causal topic mining can include incorporating non-text time series data with a number of articles based on a time relationship and analyzing the incorporated non-text time series data and the number of articles at a particular time to determine a causal relationship. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149418 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING SOCIAL INFLUENCE AND RECEPTIVITY OF USERS - Systems and methods are disclosed for characterizing one or more users accessing a plurality of web pages. In an embodiment, a social sharing graph is generated based on the one or more log records. The one or more log records are indicative of the one or more user activities. A first and a second score are assigned to preferably each of the one or more users in the social sharing graph based on the one or more log records. Finally, the one or more users are categorized in a first category and a second category based on the first score and the second score. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149419 | COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR REFERRING TO TABLE WITHIN EXTERNAL DATABASE AS EXTERNAL REFERENCE OBJECT - Provided is a complex event processing apparatus referring to a table within an external database as an external reference object. The complex event processing apparatus includes a query language analysis unit; a meta information management unit; a query language generation unit; a query language storage unit; and an external interface unit. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149420 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - An information processing device includes: a storage unit; a first display control unit; and a demanding unit. The storage unit that stores attribute data representing specified attribute of contents and category data representing a category of the attribute correlated to each other. The first display control unit that provides controls for displaying information for a selected attribute and for displaying, in a categorized state, information for related attributes correlated to the same category as that of the attribute on a correlation display screen. The demanding unit that demands data search by referring to the correlated attribute selected corresponding to information selected from among those displayed on the correlation display screen to an information provision device. | 05-29-2014 |
20140156666 | Method for Automated Scaling of a Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) Database - A massively parallel processing (MPP) database can be re-partitioned/re-balanced while remaining on-line through a staged migration procedure. Staged migration may include a first stage and a second stage. During the first stage, entries in an existing partition are reallocated to the new partition, and the catalog is updated to associate the re-allocated entries with both the existing partition and the new partition such that queries for the re-allocated entries are directed toward the existing partition and the new partition. During the second stage, the re-allocated entries are migrated from the existing partition to the new partition, and after the migration is complete, the catalog is re-updated to associate the migrated entries with the new partition such that new queries are directed toward the new partition. | 06-05-2014 |
20140164385 | Method And System For Categorizing Users Browsing Web Content - The present invention discloses a method and a web analytics server to categorize a plurality of users browsing one or more web pages. A tracking application module is provided to receive at least one log record, the at least one log record corresponding to one or more user activities from a predefined group of user activities for the plurality of users. Further, a probability generator module is provided to generate a probability data that defines a transition from a current user activity to another user activity in the predefined group of user activities for the plurality of users, and an analytics module is configured to profile the effect of a current user activity to another user activity and to categorize the plurality of users into a plurality of categories based on the probability data. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164386 | INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE INSTALLATION - A computer system determines a category of users to which a user of a computer belongs. The computer system determines a relationship between the category of users and at least one program available for installation from the computer system. Based on the determined relationship, the computer system determines that at least one feature of the at least one program are of potential interest to the user of the computer. The computer system notifies the user of the at least one feature of the at least one program of potential interest. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164387 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A DATA DICTIONARY - Systems and methods for generating data dictionaries are disclosed. In one example, a system comprises a candidate list generator module to generate a list of keywords from search query information, a validation module to validate candidate token pairs based on a divergence value wherein candidate token pairs having divergence values exceeding a divergence threshold are valid token pairs, and a data dictionary module to receive the validated token pairs as entries in a vocabulary, and provide the validated token pairs in response to a search query containing a keyword corresponding to at least one entry in the vocabulary. | 06-12-2014 |
20140172859 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRADE INTERACTION CHAIN RECONSTRUCTION - The subject matter discloses a method for trade interaction chain reconstruction comprising: identifying a swap deal, the swap deal includes two or more of the received interactions and involves two or more participants; selecting a first interaction of the received interactions, said first interaction involves at least two participants of the two or more participants, said first interaction is stored on a computerized device; obtaining a first plurality of interactions of the received interactions that involve the at least two participants of the two or more participants; determining a first plurality of relevance scores between the first plurality of interactions and the first interaction; and associating interactions of the first plurality of interactions to be relevant to the swap deal according to the determined first plurality of relevance scores. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172860 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a collection information obtaining unit configured to collect information stored in a plurality of apparatuses so as to obtain collection information assigned to predetermined category groups, and a display controller configured to control display of the collection information. The category groups include first and second category groups. The display controller controls display of an image including a first category group display region which displays categories of the first category group, a second category group display region which displays categories of the second category group, and a content display region which displays concrete content of the collection information which corresponds to one of the categories selected in the first category group and which corresponds to one of the categories selected in the second category group. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172861 | VISUALIZING A RELATIONSHIP OF ATTRIBUTES USING A RELEVANCE DETERMINATION PROCESS TO SELECT FROM CANDIDATE ATTRIBUTE VALUES - For plural categorical values of a first attribute, more relevant categorical values of a second attribute are selected from among candidate categorical values of the second attribute, where the selecting uses a relevance determination process that considers frequencies of occurrence of respective pairs of the categorical values of the first and second attributes. A visualization that includes groups of cells corresponding to the respective pairs of categorical values of the first and second attributes is generated. At least one of the groups includes cells assigned visual indicators based on values of a third attribute. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172862 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SORTING APPLICATIONS - In a method for sorting applications of an electronic device, different application categories, time types, and area types are defined. A first association between the application categories and the time types and a second association between the application categories and the area types are defined. If the applications are sorted by time, a current date, a time type of the current date, and an application category corresponding to the determined time type are determined. Applications classified into the determined application category are displayed on a display screen ahead of the other applications. If the applications are sorted by area, a current location of the electronic device, an area type of the current location, and an application category corresponding to the determined area type are determined. Applications classified into the determined application category are displayed on the display screen ahead of the other applications. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172863 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORYTELLING ON A COMPUTING DEVICE VIA SOCIAL MEDIA - Disclosed is a method and system for enabling storytelling on a computing device. A processor: (a) analyzes a first set of media items associated with the user, each media item having associated metadata; (b) identifies one or more related characteristics among the media items in the first set; (c) forms a cluster of media items associated with an event based on the identified one or more related characteristics; (d) repeats steps (a) and (b) for a second set of media items, each media item in the second set having associated metadata and related to a social connection of the user; (e) adds media items in the second set, from a social media site associated with the second set, to the cluster; (f) edits selected media items in the cluster to fit into selected templates; and (g) creates a mixed-media module comprising the templates organized into a desired sequence. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172864 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING HEALTH ANALYTICS - Health-related information is gathered from a variety of sources, and organized in a platform that is context aware. The health data is correlated and displayed using visualization tools including timelines, tasks or graphical images. Health data input sources can include healthcare providers, users, lab reports, and typically any entity that develops health related data. The health data is categorized, analyzed and processed according to individualized or context-oriented algorithms. The health data can be correlated with various contexts via users, curators, automated systems and other organizing tools. A user can view health data in relation to progress, trends and contextual data that is derived from the correlations. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172865 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION OF UNSTRUCTURED DOCUMENTS - A computer-implemented system and method for processing and distribution of unstructured documents are disclosed. The apparatus and method in an example embodiment includes receiving an unstructured document; obtaining information from the document; storing portions of the information obtained from the document in a data set corresponding to the document; using a portion of the information obtained from the document to obtain an identifier of an enterprise record corresponding to the document; recording a specified behavior category for the document; and using the data set and the specified behavior category to dispatch the document to a recipient or an enterprise. | 06-19-2014 |
20140181112 | CONTROL DEVICE AND FILE DISTRIBUTION METHOD - In a file distribution method using a control server in connection to file servers, file categories are preset and the file servers are classified into the file categories. When a file is received, a file category of the received file is determined, and the received file is distributed to a target file server according to the determined file category. The method determines a load value of each of the file servers according to a number of files to be processed in each of the file servers. A specified file server whose load value is equal to a threshold value is determined, and an overload file server having a greatest load value is determined. The method distributes files to be processed in the overload file server to the specified file servers according to a predetermined percentage. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181113 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING RECEIVED FILES - A method for managing a file receiving operation includes, receiving a file from an external source, displaying information of the file, classifying the file into a group according to metadata corresponding to the file, and providing a user interface for selecting the group. A method for managing a received file includes classifying the file into a group, displaying the group comprising the file for selection along with information corresponding to the group, identifying an application capable of operating with the file for selection, and executing the selected application. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181114 | PROCESSING OF AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING THE DOCUMENT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM CONTAINING COMPUTER EXECUTABLE INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROCESSING THE DOCUMENT - In a method for processing an electronic document, a local database is used to extract information relating to the document, and a super ordinate database is used to extract information relating to the document if a predefined condition is met. An apparatus, a computer program product and a storage medium can execute the method. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188886 | USER CLASSIFICATION BASED ON DATA GATHERED FROM A COMPUTING DEVICE - Data regarding user actions on a user device is gathered from the user device (and/or from another computing device) by a server. The data is analyzed to make a decision. The decision is sent by the server to the user device (e.g., directly or via another computing device) and then used by the user device to implement a new action on the user device. This process may be automatically repeated in order to provide real-time customization of the user device. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188887 | CONTEXT-BASED DATA GRAVITY WELLS - A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product defines multiple context-based data gravity wells on a context-based data gravity wells membrane. Non-contextual data objects are associated with context objects to define synthetic context-based objects. The synthetic context-based objects are parsed into an n-tuple that includes a pointer to one of the non-contextual data objects, a probability that a non-contextual data object has been associated with a correct context object, and a weighting factor of importance of the synthetic context-based object. A virtual mass of each parsed synthetic context-based object is calculated, in order to define a shape of multiple context-based data gravity wells that are created when synthetic context-based objects are pulled into each of the context-based data gravity well frameworks on a context-based data gravity wells membrane. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188888 | ASSIGNING SHARED CATALOGS TO CACHE STRUCTURES IN A CLUSTER COMPUTING SYSTEM - An apparatus, system, and method for assigning a cache structure to a catalog. The apparatus includes an identification module configured to identify a catalog for sharing in association with a coupling facility. The coupling facility includes a plurality of cache structures for catalogs of a cluster computing system. The coupling facility is configured to facilitate data sharing among a plurality of host systems of the cluster computing system. The apparatus includes a selection module configured to select a cache structure of the plurality of cache structures for the catalog based on one or more usage status indicators according to an assignment policy. The apparatus includes a storage module configured to store catalog information of the catalog in the cache structure in response to the selection module selecting the cache structure. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188889 | Predictive Selection and Parallel Execution of Applications and Services - User input is entered or selected, and in response, the user input can be analyzed to determine a characteristic of the user input. The characteristic can describe the format, type, or content of the user input. The user input can be further analyzed to determine a category with which the user input is related. In response to the determined category, a set of predetermined or dynamically determined relevant applications can be determined. The set of the relevant applications can be based on user preferences, crowd-sourcing, and advertisements. The set of applications can then be executed in parallel, using the user input as input, such that results from the application are obtained quickly without user additional user input. The relevance of the results of the applications can be determined, and versions of the results can be displayed to a user in a ranked order according to the relevance of the results. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188890 | ORGANIZING MEDIA ITEMS BASED ON METADATA SIMILARITIES - A media item selection application is provided for use with computing devices. The media item selection application is configured to identify media items that have significant similarities in metadata values, such as location and time period. The media item selection application is further configured to visualize similar media items as a group, depicted as a section within a collection or gallery, in which each group is a suggestion for a natural collection of media items representing an event. Where media items do not fall within a group of a particular size with significant similarities, groups are consolidated to create a second type of collection which covers a time-period between two significant groups. Further, the media item selection application is configured to depict media items that show extraordinary similarity as a virtual stack of all such media items. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195540 | EXPEDITIOUS CITATION INDEXING - Methods and systems for indexing patent related prior art citations are disclosed. Electronic documents can be obtained from one or more patent information systems. An OCR process can be performed on some of the electronic documents. Citations within the documents can be identified and compared to a trusted records list. The citations can be associated with one or more predetermined categories. For example, citations can be categorized into groups such as when a reference is cited (e.g., with original filing, pre and post allowance), who provided the reference (e.g., cited by the applicant, or the examiner), and how the reference is characterized (e.g., statutory basis, combination of references). The citations and corresponding categories can be output to a user or made available for subsequent processing. | 07-10-2014 |
20140201210 | AUTOMATIC MODEL SELECTION FOR ASSISTANCE DATA GENERATION BASED ON APRIORI INFORMATION - Various embodiments are described herein for improving relevancy and accuracy of assistance data (AD) generation from a set of floor plan map data based on contextualizing parameters in the set of floor plan map data to other related floor plan maps. The relevancy and accuracy of assistance data derived from a floor plan map may be improved by contextualizing or matching the floor plan map to other related floor plan maps where associated assistance data is already recorded. In some embodiments, floor plan maps may be identified which are closely related to the new floor plan map to be analyzed, and then the measurements of the closely related floor plan map as assistance data for the new floor plan map may be reused. In some embodiments, a relationship tree graph may be used to organize the floor plan maps into a logical relationship between each other. | 07-17-2014 |
20140207785 | Associating VIsuals with Articles - A method and system for associating a visual graphic with an article in a list of articles, to assist the user in identifying and distinguishing different articles in the list. Associated visuals may be selected from visuals embedded within the article, or may be retrieved from a visual pool via text-matching of article titles and text to text stored with the visuals in the visual pool. Embodiments of the invention provide methods for selecting a unique visual for each title in the list, even when the articles do not contain any illustrating visuals and even when illustrating visuals are duplicated among several different articles. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207786 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION GOVERNANCE OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - An information governance system comprising a plurality of classifiers which employ cutoffs for classifying at least a portion of a population of incoming documents as documents to be retained and documents to be discarded in accordance with a corresponding plurality of pre-defined retention schedules; training apparatus for training said classifiers based on relevance inputs provided by a human information governance expert regarding a training set of documents within a universe of documents to be governed; and apparatus operative to automatically cause any classified document to be retained and subsequently discarded in accordance with its pre-defined retention schedule including discarding only documents that (a) have been classified as documents to be discarded and (b) have not been classified as documents to be retained, and to automatically cause any document which could not be classified, to be retained as gray area data until further notice. | 07-24-2014 |
20140214843 | Method For Chronicling Legacy Using Social Networks - Disclosed herein is a social networking system aimed at creating a reviewable legacy for users. The described social network allows subscribers and public users to contribute events that previously occurred and discuss the significance of these events to themselves and others. Through the use of a plurality of subscribers and the public alike, the contributed events to the social network will create a searchable history of society. Additionally, the submitted events will include the impressions of the people who experienced them providing a zeitgeist record uncontaminated by subsequent historical impressions. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214844 | MULTIPLE CLASSIFICATION MODELS IN A PIPELINE - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for updating a merchant database with new items automatically or with minimal human involvement. In operation, methods and systems disclosed use a pipeline of classification models to quantify new product information and create an accurate classification for the new product item. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214845 | PRODUCT CLASSIFICATION INTO PRODUCT TYPE FAMILIES - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for updating a database with new products by classifying the new products within a hierarchy, and then using the hierarchy to improve the classification by including other product types within the classification for the new products. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214846 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF DYNAMIC CONTENT ANALYSIS - Methods and systems of dynamic content analysis for categorizing media contents are provided. Data regarding the media contents that a user is watching on one or more devices is obtained, and the environment in which the user is watching the media contents may be captured. Metadata categorizing the events and the media contents can be generated, and the metadata may be further associated with a corresponding event. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214847 | INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON MESSAGE CONTENT - The present disclosure provides an information recommendation method and system based on message content. The method comprises the following steps: when a message is viewed at a user side, providing a guiding option to a user; if the user triggers the guiding option, then performing single-level classification or multi-level classification on the message to obtain category information; and a server returning information related to the category information to the user side. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214848 | MEDIA SYSTEM FOR GENERATING PLAYLIST OF MULTIMEDIA FILES - Disclosed is a method and system for dynamically generating a playlist of multimedia files for a user based upon a mood of the user. The system comprises a mood detection module, a tag allocation module, and a playlist generation module. The mood detection module is configured to determine the mood of the user based upon the one or more emotion tags allocated to records of the user. The tag allocation module is configured to categorize the at least one multimedia file under one or more emotion tags based upon the weights assigned to the one or more emotion tags. The playlist generation module is configured to dynamically generate the playlist of multimedia files based upon the mood of the user and the categorization of the at least one multimedia file under one or more emotion tags. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214849 | CORRELATING CATEGORIES OF ATTRIBUTES OF CONTENTS WITH CLASSIFICATION ELEMENTS - An information processing apparatus that performs processing for editing information on contents includes: an acquisition means for acquiring attribute data classification information in which a plurality of attribute data indicating predetermined attributes of contents is correlated with category data indicating categories for classifying the plurality of attributes; a selection means for selecting predetermined attribute data from the attribute data included in the attribute data classification information acquired by the acquisition means; and a correlation means for newly correlating the attribute data selected by the selection means with category data other than the category data, which is correlated in the attribute data classification information acquired by the acquisition means, in response to a user's instruction. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214850 | CATEGORY-BASED CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - Techniques for category-based content recommendation are described. Some embodiments provide a content recommendation system (“CRS”) configured to recommend content items (e.g., Web pages, images, videos) that are related to specified categories. In one embodiment, the CRS processes content items to determine entities referenced by the content items, and to determine categories related to the referenced entities. The determined entities and/or categories may be part of a taxonomy that is stored by the CRS. Then, in response to a received request that indicates a category, the CRS determines and provides indications of one or more content items that each have a corresponding category that matches the indicated category. In some embodiments, at least some of these techniques are employed to implement a category-based news service. | 07-31-2014 |
20140222819 | CONTENT CREATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The present application provides a system for creating content for a first entity. In one aspect of the application, content creation and management system defines a virtual content channel, wherein the virtual content channel comprises content sources in the combined set of content sources that are above a similarity threshold based on the similarity score. The virtual content channel is defined by ( | 08-07-2014 |
20140222820 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR VEHICULAR CHARACTERISTIC MONITORING AND CATALOGING - The present disclosure is directed to a mobile device for reporting at least one characteristic of at least one vehicle. The mobile device includes at least one input device, at least one transmitting device configured to transmit the at least one characteristic of the at least one vehicle to a second device, at least one storage device for storing data, and a module stored on the at least one storage device, the module executable by the mobile device and configured to accept user inputs from the at least one input device and catalog each user input with respect to an identified vehicle by causing the apparatus to perform the steps of: generating a first user interface (UI) at least including a field to input an identification data of the identified vehicle; receiving characteristic data from the input device relating to the at least one characteristic of the identified vehicle; and transmitting the characteristic data with reference to the identified vehicle to a database. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222821 | CATEGORIZING SOCIAL NETWORK OBJECTS BASED ON USER AFFILIATIONS - Groups of users of a social networking system are categorized based on their association with a type of malicious activity. A set of predetermined malicious groups is identified. Users associated with the malicious groups are selected based on their level of interactions with the malicious groups. Other groups associated with the selected users are identified as being potentially malicious groups. The potentially malicious groups are further analyzed based on occurrences of keywords associated with the type of malicious activity and manual verification by experts. The potentially malicious groups are either classified as being malicious or non-malicious or assigned a score based on their likelihood of being associated with the type of malicious activity. The methods and system disclosed can be used for categorizing other types of social network objects based on their association with a type of malicious activity, for example, users, events, and content. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222822 | CONTENT REVISION USING QUESTION AND ANSWER GENERATION - A method for question/answer creation for a document is described. The method includes importing a document having a set of questions based on content in the document. The method also includes automatically creating a candidate question from the content in the document. The method also includes automatically generating answers for the set of questions and the candidate question using the content in the document. The method also includes presenting the set of questions, the candidate question, and the answers to a content creator for user verification of accuracy. The method also includes storing a verified set of questions in the document. The verified set of questions includes the candidate question. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222823 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING JOURNEY OF LIFE ATTRIBUTES OF A USER FROM USER INTERACTIONS - Embodiments of the invention relate to managing user interactions and, more particularly, to performing analysis on data generated by user interactions. Embodiments of the invention use text mining to extract personal information of users from user interactions automatically. A topic model is used to reduce the number of dimensions required to represent the text, yet all the information of interest is highly pronounced. This enables a lower dimensional representation of the data leading to significantly faster computations. | 08-07-2014 |
20140236953 | Methods using social topical adaptive networking system - A machine-implemented social networking system builds up and repeatedly refreshes a hierarchy tree containing topic nodes. New nodes are added as new topics emerge in online public forums. Each topic node can link to an on-topic real time chat room whose occupants are currently discussing the topic of the node. A chat room can be pointed to by more than one node if the room is discussing multiple topics. Rooms can migrate from node to node as room topic dynamically changes. A system user who explicitly or inferentially wishes to be invited into a chat room which is on-topic with what the user is currently focused upon can do so by use of a node-seeking automated process. The process operates in the background and seeks out nodes of the hierarchy tree that currently have topics appearing to be the same as or similar to what topics the user appears to have in mind. Content browsing experience of the user is enhanced by addition of an invitations displaying subsystem that automatically invites him or her to co-compatible chat rooms currently discussing the topic(s) the user appears to have in mind. One of the many topics that a user may inferentially have in mind is that of being at a given location as reported by the user's GPS and wondering what best to do at that location and time. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236954 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING CATEGORIZATION AND AGGREGATION OF CONTENT FROM NETWORK SITES - A plurality of content items are retrieved from multiple network sites. Content from each content item is programmatically analyzed in order to associate that content item with one or more categories. The one or more categories may be part of a larger set of predefined categories. A network page is assigned to one or more corresponding categories in the set of predefined categories. At least some content is provided on the network page using one or more content items that were associated with the one or more categories assigned to that network page. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236955 | COMPUTER READABLE ELECTRONIC RECORDS AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - Classifying an electronic document in a computer-based system is disclosed. For each classification instance in a plurality of classification instances, a confidence data indicating a degree of confidence that the electronic document is associated with that classification instance is determined. A classification, based on a first classification instance in the plurality of classification instances, is assigned without human intervention to the electronic document if the confidence data associated with the first classification instance exceeds a first threshold. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236956 | DIGITAL CONTENT SYSTEM, DIGITAL CONTENT DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON DIGITAL CONTENT DISPLAY PROGRAM - A digital content display system includes a content acquisition unit which acquires a plurality of digital content belonging to the category of the received category identification number through a network, and an information transmission unit which transmits summary information of the plurality of acquired digital content and information for causing the software to display the summary information in a predetermined order to the display apparatus, and causes the display apparatus to display detailed information of a selected digital content according to selection information of digital content selected by the user from the summary information of the plurality of digital content | 08-21-2014 |
20140244651 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH DATA DRIVEN CATEGORY LABEL CREATION MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a navigation system comprising: storing information including to a plurality of search query; counting each of the plurality of search query stored; ranking each of the plurality of search query based upon an aggregate count of each of the plurality of search query stored; identifying a category label based upon the ranking associated with each of the plurality of search query; and updating a category label list for displaying on a device. | 08-28-2014 |
20140250128 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SELECTING EVENTS OR LOCATIONS BASED ON CONTENT - Systems and methods of returning location and/or event results using information social media content are provided. One or more social networking servers are accessed to retrieve social media content. One or more items within the social media content are then identified. These items may then be categorized. Information about the categories of the one or more items are stored in a database storing information about locations or events. A search query for a location or event may be received, and results for the search query may be selected by accessing the database and utilizing the information about locations or events as well as the information about the categories of the one or more items. The results may then be returned to a user device for display. | 09-04-2014 |
20140258303 | REFORMULATING QUERY TERMS IN STRUCTURED SEARCH - Search history data such as browse trails are collected over time. The browse trails, including associated queries and domains, are processed to identify free tokens of the queries that are also modifiers. Attribute value pairs of a structured data source that correspond to the modifiers are determined based on the search history data and a frequency of the attribute value pairs in the structured data source. When a subsequent query is received, modifiers in the query are identified and replaced with the determined combinations of attribute value pairs that correspond to the modifiers in a structured query that is generated from the received query. The structured query is used to identify items and/or services in the structured data source that are responsive to the received query. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258304 | ADAPTABLE FRAMEWORK FOR ONTOLOGY-BASED INFORMATION EXTRACTION - A warranty database stores service repair verbatims. An ontology database that specifies relationships between service terms includes linking relationships between vehicle terminology and cluster categories. The ontology database is reconfigurable for allowing a user to add, delete, and modify contents within the ontology database. A verbatim extraction tool extracts service repair verbatims from the warranty database as function of user selected parameters and a user selected ontology. The user selected ontology is a subset of the ontology database. The service verbatims are segregated into a plurality of cluster categories as a function of the selected parameters and the user selected ontology. A report generating device selectively generated reports based on segregating service verbatims into a plurality of cluster categories. Each respective cluster category includes associated service repair verbatims that are selected as a function of the linking relationship of terms within the service verbatim and the user selected ontology. | 09-11-2014 |
20140280171 | CUSTOMIZING A COMMON TAXONOMY WITH VIEWS AND APPLYING IT TO BEHAVIORAL TARGETING - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for generating a taxonomic view from a standard taxonomy and generating audience segments for targeting using a formal grammar. A manually-tagged subset of categories of the standard taxonomy is provided to a server. Each category in the subset of categories is tagged based on an entity's own legacy taxonomy. A taxonomy slicer is applied to the subset of manually-tagged categories to determine parent/child relationships for each category in the subset, and to assemble the categories into the taxonomic view. The taxonomic view maintains interoperability with the standard taxonomy, and with other entities using views of the standard taxonomy. Further, a formal grammar is defined for specifying online behaviors for targeting, and is applied to extracted categories of the standard taxonomy and/or taxonomic view. The formal grammar may be programmatically applied during behavioral targeting. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280172 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED CATEGORIZATION - A generic categorization method may include receiving interaction data on a distributed computing system operating on a plurality of computing nodes. The distributed computing system may distribute the received interaction data across the plurality of nodes. On each node, categorization rules may be applied to the interaction data via parallel processing. The results, which may include a category associated with each interaction, may be written to a distributed storage system. A user interface may allow a user to define the categorization rules and schemas of interaction data. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280173 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT OF BEST-ESTIMATE QUALITY LEVELS WHILE REVIEWING CLASSIFIED OR ENRICHED DATA - A system, method and computer program product for validating a document classification process, including a document collection; a document classification process performed on the document collection; a random selection module configured to automatically generate a random validation set of documents from the document collection; and a document review process performed on the random validation set of documents to validate results of the document classification process. The system, method and computer program product are configured to dynamically and in real-time measure and display on a computer display device a best case estimate of a quality of the results of the document classification process based on the documents that are validated, and given a size of a total data set of the document collection. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280174 | Interactive user-controlled search direction for retrieved information in an information search system - The present invention presents a system and method for providing an ability to define a Session of searches and allow the Searcher full control over what is included in that Session and the overall what is included as a Category definition. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280175 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING PRODUCT SEARCH WITHIN AN ELECTRONIC PRODUCT CATALOG - An user interface for a general product category has an interactive product informational section which presents a plurality of first level product categories for product within the general product category and a plurality of user interface elements for use in expanding and collapsing each of the plurality of first level product categories to thereby provide selective access to a second level of product information for product within the corresponding first level product category. The second level of product information is in the form of a table in which is listed characteristic information for individual products within the corresponding first level product category. Each row within the table includes characteristic information for individual products within the corresponding first level product category and has an associated user interface element for causing a display of more detailed information for a corresponding one of the individual products. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280176 | PERSON-TO-PERSON VIEWING OF RECOMMENDED ITEMS AS GROUPED INTO CATEGORIES - A system that allows individuals to maintain lists of items of interest in an account, such as books, restaurants, hotels, clothes, etc. An individual can mark items in their account as recommended, after which other individuals in their sharing network can view the recommended items as grouped into categories. Items are displayed with action links (e.g. for purchasing, reservations, mapping, etc.) In an explore view categories are displayed for all of the combined recommended items from all of the individuals in the viewer's sharing network. When a category is selected from the explore view, an indication is provided for each item as to the individual who marked the item as recommended. An individual viewing a recommended item may also save the item to their own account as one to try later. The distribution of items between individuals through recommendations can be temporally and geographically mapped to identify patterns of interest. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280177 | INFORMATION TERMINAL - An information terminal, which is mounted on a vehicle and executes multiple applications, includes a categorizer, a selector, and an executer. The categorizer categorizes the applications into categories. The selector selects a priority application to be executed with high priority from each category according to a driving situation of the vehicle. The executer executes the priority application selected by the selector. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280178 | Systems and Methods for Labeling Sets of Objects - Systems and methods for labeling sets of objects using a taxonomy in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, an object labeling server system includes a processor configured to obtain a set of object data including a set of keywords, score the object data based on a taxonomy including resource data, category information, relationships between the category information and resource data, and relationships between the category information, cluster the object data into groups of object data based on the scores, determine category data for at least one of the groups of object data based on the taxonomy, and generate a label for at least one of the groups of object data based on the determined category data for the group of object data. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280179 | System and Apparatus for Information Retrieval - Systems and methods are provided for inputting dimensional articulation for search queries and providing multidimensional relevance for artifacts within an information retrieval system. Various examples relate to systems and methods for information retrieval (IR), specifically those used for search engines. These kinds of systems and methods can variously be described as being related to facilitating database searching; facilitating the creation of queries and terms related to database searching; facilitating the understanding of queries, terms and results related to database searching; facilitating the presentation or display of queries, terms and results related to database searching; and facilitating human-machine interaction with queries, terms and results related to database searching. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280180 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTING WITH VIRTUAL MAPS - The disclosed system provides a computerized map system with map elements represented by markers. The system arranges map elements by category and subcategory, with each type of marker corresponding to a category. The system may divide the geographic area based on neighborhood and city area. The system also provides the user with controls to search the objects, to display results in layers, to navigate the objects, and to quickly compare information about the objects using standardized positions for similar kinds of information. The system also enables users to memorialize searches and browsing by pinning map objects that the user is interested in. In an embodiment, a number of tiers of advertising are also provided, such that business owners as clients can pay for advertising content and customizability appropriate for their businesses. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280181 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR GENERATING PLAYLISTS - Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for generating a playlist. An application programming interface (API) receives a request to generate a playlist, where the request includes a set of rule-primitives. A playlist engine evaluator evaluates a rule corresponding to each rule-primitive in the set of rule-primitives across a catalog of media content, calculates a cost associated with each item in the catalog of media content, and generates a playlist based on the items of the catalog having the lowest costs. | 09-18-2014 |
20140289253 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGEMENT OF SENTIMENTS AND METHODS THEREOF - Systems and methods for improved management of sentiments over conventional approaches are disclosed. Supervised approach is used to augment the rule-based approach for classification. Initially, sentiment evaluation is performed by the system using a rule based approach and an interface is provided to the user to give feedback on the correctness of evaluated sentiment. This feedback is used by the sentiment evaluation system to update the set of rule-based and also apply the supervised approach to train the classifier for evaluating complex posts. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289254 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PRESENTING CONTENT - Methods and apparatuses are described for organizing audio/visual content and prefetching selected audio/visual content configured to be displayed to a user. In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses for presenting content identifies a preference corresponding to a user; detects a current display window; and prefetches at least one audio/visual content in response, in part, to the current display window and the preference. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289255 | APPLICATION OF COMMUNITY-DEFINED DESCRIPTORS TO MOBILE CONTENT - A method of organizing mobile content in a network environment is provided that includes providing pieces of mobile content on a database, selecting one of the pieces of mobile content, receiving a descriptor to be associated with the selected piece of mobile content from user activity, and associating the descriptor to the selected piece of mobile content. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289256 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING FACETED DATA - A method, system and computer-readable medium for performing hybrid processing of prescribed and dynamically defined attributes for one or more entity instances is provided in one or more implementations of the present invention. The inventive architecture of the present invention including a data structure having a dynamic object abstraction layer configured to: provide for storage and retrieval of facet data independent of one or more prescribed database structures and proprietary object definitions; provide facet attributes in an application object model; provide for defining a number of fixed fields for one or more entities; and, provide for defining and storing one or more dynamic fields for each instance of the one or more entities. The present invention further provides for an application object model being independent of application storage. | 09-25-2014 |
20140297646 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING NOTES - At least some aspects of the present disclosure feature systems and methods for managing notes. The note management system includes a note source, a note recognition module, a note extraction module, and a note labeling module. The note source is a visual representation of a scene having a note. The note recognition module is configured to receive the visual representation and determine a general boundary of the note from the visual representation. The note extraction module is configured to extract content of the note from the visual representation based on the determined general boundary. The note labeling module is configured to label the note with a category. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297647 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AND MANAGING UPDATE INFORMATION - A method and an apparatus for update information management is provided. One or more pieces of update information related to at least one category from a plurality of categories are stored in a storage unit of the user terminal. One or more pieces of notice information regarding the one or more pieces of the update information are displayed within a first information region of a screen of the user terminal. The one or more pieces of the update information related to the one or more pieces of the notice information are displayed within a second information region of the screen of the user terminal, when an input is received requesting the update information related to the one or more pieces of the notice information | 10-02-2014 |
20140297648 | Quantitative Comparison of Image Data Using a Linear Optimal Transportation - A method performed by one or more processors includes retrieving a set of images; selecting, based on the images retrieved, a reference template; calculating optimal transportation plans between the reference template and each of the images in the set; and calculating, using the optimal transportation plans, a linear optimal transportation metric between at least two images in the set. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297649 | Method and System for Providing and Managing Information of Prefabricated Construction Components between Manufacturers and Architects - The present invention discloses a method ( | 10-02-2014 |
20140304270 | Systems and Methods for Genomic Annotation and Distributed Variant Interpretation - A computer-based genomic annotation system, including a database configured to store genomic data, non-transitory memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor coupled with the memory, the processor configured to implement the instructions in order to implement an annotation pipeline and at least one module filtering or analysis of the genomic data. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304271 | Method To Identify An Object And A System For Doing The Same - Various embodiments relate to a method to identify an object comprising: receiving an image, the image having an object in front of a background; segmenting the image into a segmented image using a segmentation technique, the segmented image having a foreground component showing at least a part of the object and a background component showing at least a part of the background; determining at least one property of the foreground component of the segmented image; and matching the at least one property of the foreground component with a database of identified objects having the corresponding at least one property to identify the object. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304272 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING WEB HISTORY THEREOF - A method for displaying web histories in an electronic device includes displaying at least one webpage through a web browser in response to a user input, and displaying a list of web histories for previously displayed webpages when receiving a request for a webpage visit record, wherein the web history is generated by sorting webpages by each category. | 10-09-2014 |
20140310284 | GENERATION OF CONTENT BASED ON PREDICTED INDIVIDUAL TYPE - The methods and systems described herein may involve determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and delivering content to at least one individual based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing a game, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one player of the game, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and affecting the game play based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing an interactive space, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual in the space, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and modifying at least one attribute of the space based on the analysis. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310285 | KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR BUSINESS PROCESS AND CASE MANAGEMENT - Data can be categorized into facts, information, hypothesis, and directives. Activities that generate certain categories of data based on other categories of data through the application of knowledge which can be categorized into classifications, assessments, resolutions, and enactments. Activities can be driven by a Classification-Assessment-Resolution-Enactment (CARE) control engine. The CARE control and these categorizations can be used to enhance a multitude of systems, for example diagnostic system, such as through historical record keeping, machine learning, and automation. Such a diagnostic system can include a system that forecasts computing system failures based on the application of knowledge to system vital signs such as thread or stack segment intensity and memory heap usage. These vital signs are facts that can be classified to produce information such as memory leaks, convoy effects, or other problems. Classification can involve the automatic generation of classes, states, observations, predictions, norms, objectives, and the processing of sample intervals having irregular durations. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310286 | Automatic Categorization of Email in a Mail System - A sender-driven framework for enhancing the categorization of emails, wherein the sender is able to create or define rules that refine or augment those at the receiver's end. Particularly, the sender is enabled, in accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention, to add information relating to the context of an email, which can help streamline categorization at the receiver's end. | 10-16-2014 |
20140317122 | AUTOMATIC CATEGORIZATION OF ENTRIES IN A CONTACT LIST - Entries within a participant list of an electronic communications system may be categorized automatically into one or more groups based on attributes of users represented in the participant list. Categorizing users includes maintaining a list of identifiers that are selected by a first user and for which online presence information is made perceivable through the list. The list includes one or more categories into which the identifiers are categorized. At least one attribute associated with an identifier for which online presence information is to be made perceivable through the list and attributes stored relative to at least one of the categories are accessed. The attributes associated with the identifier are compared to the stored attributes. Based on results of the comparison, at least one category within the list that corresponds to the identifier is identified, and the identifier is categorized into the identified category. | 10-23-2014 |
20140324871 | DECISION-TREE BASED QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RECORD CLASSIFICATION - Systems and methods are disclosed for classifying records by sorting records based on both quantitative and qualitative information at a node in a decision tree. Technologies are also disclosed for determining whether records are linked together by applying quantitative and qualitative information at the same nodes in a decision tree. Furthermore, improvements to decision trees are disclosed in terms of the generation and/or training of decision trees that harnesses additional information in the quantitative and qualitative aspects that a unit of data relevant to a single node, and/or the relationships between these aspects, may provide a machine learning algorithm. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324872 | ADDRESS BOOK MAINTENANCE METHOD AND GROUP ADDRESS BOOK MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - Disclosed are an address book maintenance method and platform. The method includes: creating at least one group address book, and assigning a group ID to the at least one group address book; and upon receiving a request for downloading and updating a user address book form a user equipment, updating the user address book according to the at least one group address book. With the technical solutions, users are capable of quickly and conveniently managing and updating address books. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324873 | METHOD, DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR MANAGING APPLICATION ICON - In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to efficiently manage an app icon to be displayed on a screen of the apparatus without receiving a user input, thereby improving user convenience by determining a group for the app icon according to a predetermined classification rule and controlling the app icon to be displayed according to the determined group. | 10-30-2014 |
20140330831 | Platform System - In the case of a web-based platform apparatus for collecting and editing information, which platform apparatus can be networked to a plurality of subscribers that can be identified by means of a tag, new editing options and information assessments are rendered possible in that the information on the platform is formed by a plurality of dual units, wherein a dual unit respectively comprises a memory location, associated with a prescribeable topic and provided with an identifier, and also a prescribeable criterion, associated with the memory location and in the form of an information filter, for input of a piece of information into the memory location. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330832 | Universal Idea Capture and Value Creation Apparatuses, Methods and Systems - The UNIVERSAL IDEA CAPTURE AND VALUE CREATION APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“UIC”) transform user idea input requests using UIC components into idea categorization and valuation inputs. In some implementations, the disclosure provides a processor-implemented method of transforming a user idea input request into an idea matching and trigger update message and processor implemented method of determining a corresponding match for need want structures. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330833 | DEVICE CLASSIFICATION METHOD, DEVICE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM, AND DEVICE - A device classification method that includes: receiving a first action performed on a first device in the device group, for classifying the first device as belonging to the coordinated operation group; setting, when the first action is received, each of one or more devices in the device group other than the first device to a classifiable state in which the device is classifiable as belonging to the coordinated operation group; receiving a second action performed on a second device in the device group that is set to the classifiable state, for classifying the second device as belonging to the coordinated operation group; and classifying, when the second action is received, the first device and the second device as belonging to the coordinated operation group. | 11-06-2014 |
20140337348 | USER PREFERENCES BASED ON CATEGORIES OF IMAGES - Methods and systems receive an image-processing request relating to user images from a user. Such methods and systems classify the user images into user-request image-element categories. Such methods and systems also retrieve previously stored user-specific preferences for the user-request image-element categories from a computer storage, when the previously stored user-specific preferences for the user-request image-element categories are maintained in the computer storage. However, when the previously stored user-specific preferences for the user-request image-element categories are not maintained in (are absent from) the computer storage, such methods and systems obtain additional user-specific preferences for the user-request image-element categories. Such methods and systems can then processes the image-processing request by altering renditions of the user images according to the previously stored user-specific preferences and/or the additional user-specific preferences. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337349 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION METHOD - In a document classification method being executed by a processor of an electronic device, documents to be classified and categorical descriptions of the documents are received. Each document is classified into one or more categories according to a similarity between the document and each category specified in the categorical descriptions. The one or more categories into which each document is classified are outputted to an output device. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337350 | MATRIX VIEWING - Disclosed are various embodiments of systems, methods and computer readable mediums for matrix viewing. In one embodiment, among others, a system comprises at least one computing device and an application executable in the at least one computing device. The application comprises logic that searches and gathers a plurality of item representations based at least in part on a search query retrieved from a client computing device. The application further comprises logic that encodes a network page for rendering by the client computing device. The network page provides a matrix view of at least a portion of the item representations. Also, the matrix view includes a plurality of streams. At least one of the streams comprises a moving progression of the item representations across at least a portion of the network page. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337351 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A category highly relevant to a keyword combination including a plurality of keywords is extracted. An information processing apparatus extracts a category where the number of times when the category is specified as a search condition along with a first keyword is greater than or equal to a first threshold value from among a plurality of categories that are hierarchized in a tree structure. Subsequently, from among categories corresponding to descendants of the extracted category, the information processing apparatus extracts a category where the number of times when the category is specified as a search condition along with a second keyword is greater than or equal to a second threshold value as a category relevant to a combination of the first keyword and the second keyword. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337352 | Single Device with Multiple Personas - A single device that receives communications, resources, data, and/or other information intended for a user having multiple contact addresses is provided. The single device can receive various information intended for multiple telephone numbers, email aliases, screen names, aliases, other means of contact, or combinations thereof. The device can selectively forward the information to the user based on a current user role, user preferences, contact information, or based on other criteria. If information is to be forwarded to the user at substantially the same time as receipt, automatic means of notifying the user of the role for which the communication is intended are provided. | 11-13-2014 |
20140344280 | Real Time Management of Data Relating to Physiological Control of Glucose Levels - Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data and insulin delivery data are used to generate more reliable projected alarms related to a projected glucose levels. A memory stores endogenous data related to measurements of glucose level in a patient, and also stores exogenous data, such as insulin on board, both of which are used by a processor to create projected alarms. Profiles of CGM data are created for use in tuning patient-specific insulin data, such at basal rate, carb ratio, and insulin sensitivity. A processor searches for patterns in the data profiles and if found, recommended changes to patient-specific insulin data are provided to permit more accurate control over a patient's glucose levels. | 11-20-2014 |
20140351256 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING METADATA FOR A RECORDED SESSION - System and method for completing metadata for a recorded session. A recorder may initiate a recording of a session to produce a recorded session. The recorder may mark the recorded session as an incomplete or bad session. The session may be inserted into a bad sessions list. The bad sessions list may be examined and metadata related to sessions included therein may be used to update an operational database. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351257 | VOTING AND EXPIRING SYSTEM TO RANK INTERNET CONTENT - A method and system for delivering highly relevant content, and removing irrelevant content, to a community of users over a conversational network platform. The embodiments of the present disclosure allow user-submitted content to be dynamically organized by “most trending” or “most important” by aggregating and evaluating user votes. User votes may expire according to a specified period of time to allow the system to determine relevancy of the content. An embodiment provides a forum for users to view and contribute content specifically tailored to individual entities, such that every instance of system content (including comments and votes) is related to one specific entity. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351258 | DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM WITH USER-DEFINED RULES - Machines, systems and methods for classifying documents, the method comprising: classifying a document from among a plurality of documents in a first class, in response to applying statistical analysis to data associated with the document; classifying the document in a second class, in response to determining that a rule from among a plurality of rules applies to the document, wherein a proposed rule is added to the plurality of rules, in response to determining that application of the proposed rule to one or more of the plurality of documents to which the rule is applicable does not diminish accuracy of overall classification for the plurality of documents. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351259 | GENERATING RECOMMENDATION CLUSTERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Techniques for generating recommendation cluster within a social network service are described. Consistent with some embodiments, sample members in a social network service are identified. The sample members may be associated with prior member activity involving a source member. A cluster category this then selected based on a member attribute shared by a plurality of the sample members. In turn, a recommendation cluster is generated based on the selected cluster category. Generating the recommendation duster may involve selecting member profiles that match the cluster category. The member profiles selected in this way form the recommendation cluster. One or more of the member profiles of the recommendation cluster are then surfaced to a client device operated by the source member. | 11-27-2014 |
20140358930 | CLASSIFYING MESSAGE CONTENT BASED ON REBROADCAST DIVERSITY - A computer system running a program of instructions may classify content of a message. The message may be re-broadcasted in whole or in part by one or more re-broadcasters. An amount of time interval diversity may be determined in the time intervals between each successive pair of re-broadcasted messages. An amount of re-broadcaster diversity may be determined in the number of times the message has been re-broadcasted by each of the re-broadcasters. The content of the message may be classified based on the amount of time interval diversity and the amount of re-broadcaster diversity. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358931 | Product Record Normalization System With Efficient And Scalable Methods For Discovering, Validating, And Using Schema Mappings - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating a normalized record from an import record, the normalized record having attribute-value pairs corresponding to a native schema. In import records, a plurality of attribute-value are identified each having an attribute label not found in a native schema. One or more attribute labels in the native schema having as possible values one or more values corresponding to the values of the plurality of attribute-value pairs are also identified. The computer system generates one or more normalization rules relating one or more attribute labels of the plurality of attribute-value pairs to at least a portion of the one or more attribute labels in the native schema. Normalization rules may be validated by crowdsourcing. Normalization rules may be applied by identifying implicated rules by classifying the import record and identifying rules applicable to the classification. | 12-04-2014 |
20140365495 | Systems and Methods for Storing and Identifying Connections Between People, Places, and Things - The present subject discloses computer implemented systems and methods including: a processing engine embodied in a processor that is in operable communication with a user interface, wherein the processor receives data elements including a plurality of categories and a plurality of connectors, wherein each category represents a person, a place, or a thing, and each connector represents a connection between two categories, wherein the processing engine acts on the categories and connectors received to determine a closed-loop series of categories and connectors and, in response to the determination of a closed-loop series of categories and connectors, the processing engine automatically generates a notification of the closed-loop through the user interface. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365496 | MENU CONFIGURATION METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SMART DEVICE - The present invention relates to a method and a system for configuring a menu in a smart device, which configure a menu of an application in a smart device, and the method of configuring a menu includes: collecting, by a smart device, information about one or more of a keyword, a title, and a tag of an application, and determining the collected information as a keyword for searching for a semantic menu, classifying the keyword determined by the smart device as a semantic menu, and displaying the classified semantic menu on the smart device. According to the present invention, there is an effect in that menu operability of a user and. user convenience in searching for an application may be improved, and a user may manage an application based on User experience (UX). | 12-11-2014 |
20140365497 | DOCUMENT HANDLING IN A WEB APPLICATION - A unique document handling facility on the scale of a Lotus Notes document. Preferably, the documents are stored in a relational database and served-up using Java servlets, with provisions for handling document content and group level security. | 12-11-2014 |
20140372446 | EMAIL CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND VISUALIZATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product to manage and visualize email content using metadata tags. In an embodiment, the method comprises a computing device receiving an email message that is addressed to a recipient and includes a metadata tag; associating the metadata tag with a predefined category and/or subcategory; transmitting a predefined category and/or subcategory to be displayed using at least a pie chart icon that includes a circular chart divided into sectors that illustrate a numerical portion of the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory associated with a metadata tag, wherein each sector includes an arc length that is proportional to a quantity of email messages received that have a metadata tag associated with the sector; and generating an object associated with the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory, wherein in response to a user interacting with the object an action is generated. | 12-18-2014 |
20140379722 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MAXIMIZE SERVER RESOURCE UTILIZATION AND PERFORMANCE OF METADATA OPERATIONS - An MDS (metadata server) in a distributed storage system includes data servers (DSs) storing file contents and one or more MDSs performing metadata operations in response to metadata requests of different types, the MDS including a controller having a processor and a memory, the MDS storing file system metadata. The controller is configured to: classify the metadata operations into different categories, which include a normal category and one or more special categories different from the normal category, the normal category having a primary stage which does not involve communication between the MDS and a component external to the MDS; for each special category, partition each metadata operation into a plurality of stages at least one of which involves communication between the MDS and a component external to the MDS; and dynamically assign resources to each of the partitioned stage based on monitored workloads of the different types of metadata requests. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379723 | AUTOMATIC METHOD FOR PROFILE DATABASE AGGREGATION, DEDUPLICATION, AND ANALYSIS - A computing system may obtain first information from a first source of information relating to each of a plurality of entities. The first information may then be processed to identify a set of entities. Information about entities in the set may be used to search a second source of information to obtain second information relating to one or more of the entities in the set. The first information and second information collected for each of the plurality of entities may be processed to create a database of profiles of each of the plurality of entities. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379724 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DETERMINING PRODUCT CATEGORY INFORMATION - A user may submit product title information to a server. The server may generate a phrase based on the product title information. The server may then search a database to find relevancies between the phrase and product categories corresponding to multiple nodes in a product category tree. Based on the relevancies, the server may select a node from the multiple nodes. The server may associate the product title information with the node corresponding to a product category when the node is a leaf node of the product category tree. | 12-25-2014 |
20150012541 | 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. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012542 | CLASSIFICATION OF AMBIGUOUS GEOGRAPHIC REFERENCES - A location classifier generates location information based on textual strings in input text. The location information defines potential geographical relevance of the input text. In determining the location information, the location classifier may receive at least one geo-relevance profile associated with at least one string in the input text, obtain a combined geo-relevance profile for the document from the at least one geo-relevance profile, and determine geographical relevance of the input text based on the combined geo-relevance profile. | 01-08-2015 |
20150019559 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING CATEGORIES WITH EXTERNAL CONTENT OBJECTS IN AN ON-DEMAND ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for identifying a category associated with a persistent object in an on-demand database service. The persistent object can represent a content object stored in an external content management data source so that the content object can be represented in a social layer of the on-demand database service by the persistent object. One or more categories, such as topics or hashtags, can be associated with the persistent object. In some implementations, identification of the one or more categories can be based at least in part on the contents of the content object, metadata associated with the content object, the social layer in which the persistent object is provided, and user interaction data associated with the persistent object. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019560 | CONTENT ACTIVITY FEEDBACK INTO A REPUTATION SYSTEM - Various embodiments provide an evaluation module that is configured to monitor activities of new users and ascertain, from monitored activities, a reputation associated with the new users. In at least some embodiments, the evaluation module comprises an activity store and/or a reputation service. The activity store can monitor different types of actions associated with new users. For example, the activity store can monitor content-based actions that pertain to particular pieces of content and/or user behaviors associated with new users. The reputation service, which may or may not comprise part of the evaluation module, can ascertain from information provided from the activity store, information, such as a reputation category, associated with content-based actions and/or user behaviors associated with new users. Based on a new user's information, e.g. reputation category, the new user can be assigned an activity type which, in turn, defines allowed and disallowed activities for the new user. | 01-15-2015 |
20150026185 | CONTENT CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND CONTENT REPRODUCTION APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PERFORMING THE METHOD - A tag-based content classification method of classifying content based on a custom tag defined using user taste-based category information and a content reproduction apparatus to perform the method. The content classification method includes: analyzing content, and classifying the content based on whether the content comprises a first custom tag, the first custom tag and a second custom tag, the first custom tag, the second custom tag, and a tag, or the first custom tag and the tag. | 01-22-2015 |
20150032755 | Categorizing An Object - An object may be categorized upon distribution of the object from a sender system to a recipient system. The object may be assigned to at least one recipient category in a recipient category hierarchy according to a first predefined mapping from a sender category hierarchy to the recipient category hierarchy. The object is initially assigned to a sender category in the sender category hierarchy. There is applied to the object a second predefined mapping from the recipient category hierarchy to the sender category hierarchy. It is determined whether the first and second predefined mappings converge. If the first and second predefined mappings do not converge, there may be executed a rule-based reassignment algorithm to make the first and second predefined mappings converge. | 01-29-2015 |
20150039620 | CREATING PERSONALIZED AND CONTINUOUS PLAYLISTS FOR A CONTENT SHARING PLATFORM BASED ON USER HISTORY - A method for creating personalized and continuous playlists for a content sharing platform based on user history is disclosed. The method includes grouping content items into groups based on whether users access the content items close together in time and whether the content items appear together in search results and are both selected by the users, the groupings representing a relatedness between pairs of the content items, determining probabilities that the users transition between the groups when viewing the content items, assigning, for a user of the users, a score to each group in a subset of the groups, wherein the scores represents preferences of the user for viewing the content items of the subset, selecting, for the user, a group in the subset based on the assigned scores and the probabilities, and providing a content item from the selected group to include in a playlist generated for the user. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039621 | METHOD FOR CAPTURING THE MOMENT OF THE PHOTO CAPTURE - A method for storing digital images is presented. The method includes capturing an image using a digital camera system. It also comprises capturing metadata associated with the image or a moment of capture of the image. Further, it comprises storing the metadata in at least one field within a file format, wherein the file format defines a structure for the image, and wherein the at least one field is located within an extensible segment of the file format. In one embodiment, the metadata is selected from a group that comprises audio data, GPS data, time data, related image information, heat sensor data, gyroscope data, annotated text, and annotated audio. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039622 | Webpage Form Optimization - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems parse a form from a webpage to identify a plurality of input areas and corresponding input types. A multi-sequence form including a plurality of stages is generated. Each stage of the multi-sequence form is to be displayed and submitted independently of other stages of the multi-sequence form. Each stage of the multi-sequence form corresponds to a subset of the parsed form including one or more of the identified input areas. One of the plurality of identified input areas is identified to be of an input type categorized as having a higher likelihood of being completed and submitted by a user. The multi-sequence form is ordered such that the identified input area is ordered first. An updated version of the webpage is generated including the generated multi-sequence form in the determined order in place of the parsed form. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039623 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING DATA - Disclosed is a method for integrating multiple data sets in a single operation. The method comprises categorizing one or more dimensions and/or attributes from each data set into a context category list. Further, the method includes defining relationships between dimensions and/or attributes in the context category list into related sets. Furthermore, the method includes feeding the data sets and context category list to a computing device. Moreover, the method includes computing deterministically unique identifier from the values of the dimensions and/or attributes in the context category list for each tuple in each data set. Also, the method includes storing the identifier and original tuple in an identifier-tuples list. Thereafter, the method includes merging all tuples with identical identifiers with matching values for dimensions and/or attributes in the context category list. Finally, the method includes creating defined target data set structure from all entries from the identifier-tuples list. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039624 | DECISION TREE INSIGHT DISCOVERY - Techniques for presenting insight into classification trees may include performing a grouping analysis to group leaf nodes of a classification tree into a significant group and an insignificant group, performing influential target category analysis to identify one or more influential target categories for the leaf nodes of the classification tree in the significant group, and presenting one or more insights into the classification tree based on the grouping analysis and the influential target category analysis. Techniques for presenting insight into regression trees may include performing a grouping analysis to group leaf nodes of a regression tree into a high group and a low group, performing unusual node detection analysis to detect one or more outlier nodes in the high group and in the low group, and presenting one or more insights into the regression tree based on the grouping analysis and the unusual node detection analysis | 02-05-2015 |
20150046460 | SOCIAL NETWORK POSTING ANALYSIS USING DEGREE OF SEPARATION CORRELATION - A degree of social network separation of a social network user that generated expressive content of a social media posting is identified relative to a specified social network user for each of a group of social media postings. Social media postings with an equivalent identified degree of social network separation relative to the specified social network user are grouped. Differences between the expressive content of the grouped social media postings at different degrees of social network separation are determined. The determined differences between the expressive content of the grouped social media postings at the different degrees of social network separation are rendered. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046461 | System and Method of Sharing Cultural Information - A system and method for sharing cultural information through a user interface such as a website, wherein a user account and a plurality of other user accounts are registered on the website. The user account can link to the plurality of other user accounts such that a plurality of media content can be shared among the linked user accounts. The plurality of media content files includes images, videos, music, and text. Each of the plurality of media content files includes a category tag and a nationality tag. As a result, the user account can search for a desired media content file by searching for the category tag or the nationality tag. Additionally, the user account can also electronically message the plurality of other user accounts which is linked to the user account. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046462 | IDENTIFYING ACTIONS IN DOCUMENTS USING OPTIONS IN MENUS - Documents such as web pages may be regarded as offering various actions; e.g., a website for a movie theater may offer options for viewing movie listings and purchasing tickets. A user may wish to view the set of actions available for a particular document, and/or the performance of an action. However, it may be difficult to identify available actions with acceptable accuracy in an automated manner, and the set of documents (such as the entire worldwide web) may be too voluminous for human identification. In order to identify available actions, the document may be searched for menus containing options, and identifying the actions associated with each option according to an option score. Additionally, documents may be grouped into document categories (e.g., websites for movie theaters and websites for musicians) to facilitate the association options in similar documents with similar sets of actions that are often provided for such documents. | 02-12-2015 |
20150052143 | ITEM LISTING CATEGORIZATION SYSTEM - Techniques for categorizing item listings based on parsing item listing titles are described. According to various embodiments, listing titles of one or more item listings on a marketplace website are accessed, the item listings being associated with a particular product category in a product category structure of the marketplace website. Words in each of the listing titles may then be converted to semantic tokens in a token symbol space, based on a tokenization process. Thereafter, n-gram modeling may be performed on the tokens corresponding to each of the listing titles of the item listings in the particular product category. One or more dominant n-gram models associated with the listing titles of the item listings in the particular product category may then be identified. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052144 | COMPUTER SYSTEM STORING CONTENT INTO APPLICATION INDEPENDENT OBJECTS - Computer systems (useful primarily for personal and workgroup productivity) storing content into application independent objects organized in a hierarchical structure where each object is associated with one or more hierarchical nodes and is linked to a set of characteristics including attributes and applications that can be invoked to perform defined actions on the object's content. An application programming interface (API) is provided for the development of applications aimed at performing actions on the objects. Objects are preferably stored as records in database repositories which can be locally or remotely (e.g., cloud) located. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052145 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD CAPABLE OF SEARCHING APPLICATION - A method of operating an electronic device. The method includes receiving application group information including information on at least one interested application, and transmitting the received application group information to a server so that another electronic device can utilize the information. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052146 | CAMERA-TO-CAMERA INTERACTIONS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods of delegating media capturing functionality from one device to another are presented. A first device configured with an object recognition engine captures a media representation of an environment and identifies an object within that environment. Then based on matched object traits from a database, the engine selects a delegation rules set, and delegates certain media capturing functionality to a second device according to the selected delegation rules set. | 02-19-2015 |
20150058348 | ASSOCIATION OF VISUAL LABELS AND EVENT CONTEXT IN IMAGE DATA - A first set of contextual dimensions is generated from one or more textual descriptions associated with a given event, which includes one or more examples. A second set of contextual dimensions is generated from one or more visual features associated with the given event, which includes one or more visual example recordings. A similarity structure is constructed from the first set of contextual dimensions and the second set of contextual dimensions. One or more of the textual descriptions is matched with one or more of the visual features based on the similarity structure. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058349 | IDENTIFYING AND CLASSIFYING NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS IN TEXT - A device may obtain text to be categorized, and may determine rules for categorizing portions of the text. A rule may specify text patterns to be used to categorize the portions of the text into a category, and may specify a relationship, between at least two text patterns, to be used to categorize the portions of the text into the category. The device may determine that the text patterns and the relationship between the at least two text patterns exist in a text portion. The device may categorize the text portion into the category based on determining that the text patterns and the relationship between the at least two text patterns exist in the text portion. The device may provide an indication of an association between the text portion and the category based on categorizing the text portion into the category. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058350 | REPORTING INCLUDING FILLING DATA GAPS AND HANDLING UNCATEGORIZED DATA - A reporting system is described herein that allows a report author to declare data reporting structures that specify to a reporting application how to dynamically categorize data with changing or potentially unknown characteristics. The reporting system may extend RDL and the data grouping provided by Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services by adding new elements to the XML-based RDL schema. The reporting system allows the report author to specify for the system to fill gaps in the data, so that the report has a similar layout even as data changes from period to period. The reporting system also allows the report author to specify whether data that does not fit any predefined group bucket is displayed in a report. Thus, the reporting system allows unsophisticated database users to define reports that group data consistently regardless of missing values or other changes in the underlying data. | 02-26-2015 |
20150066940 | PROVIDING RELEVANT ONLINE CONTENT - Systems and methods for providing relevant online content may include evaluating an action performed by a user identifier to determine the user's opinion regarding a topic. Content related to the topic may be selected and provided to an electronic device associated with the user identifier. | 03-05-2015 |
20150074113 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - A first database file stores scene list data includes caption data of captions and time data indicative of time to display the captions. A second database file stores keywords. The keywords indicate character strings of the caption data of a program currently being viewed. When an order to display the keywords is input, a keyword list generator reads a plurality of keywords from the second database file and generates a keyword list for display. When an optional keyword is selected, the scene list generator generates scene selection items. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074114 | TAG MANAGEMENT DEVICE, TAG MANAGEMENT METHOD, TAG MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING SAID PROGRAM - A tag management device includes an acquisition unit, an evaluation unit and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires a category of a target item. The evaluation unit extracts use information corresponding to the category of the target item from a storage unit that stores use information indicating use of a tag already assigned to an item, and evaluates a tag assignable to the target item based on the use information. The output unit outputs an evaluation result by the evaluation unit to a terminal of an offerer of the target item. | 03-12-2015 |
20150081716 | Computer-Assisted Abstraction for Reporting of Quality Measures - Methods and systems are disclosed for tracking quality measures in abstracted documents. Embodiments include, determining, based on the abstracted content, a quality measure category, obtaining a quality measure definition corresponding to a quality measure included in the determined quality measure category, determining, based on keywords corresponding to the criterion, whether a portion of the abstracted content satisfies a criterion, recording, in association with the criterion, a reference to the portion of the abstracted content that satisfies the criterion; and selectively generating, a report including the query corresponding to the criterion, a query response, and the portion of the abstracted content satisfying the criterion. | 03-19-2015 |
20150088897 | AUTOMATIC REMOVAL OF INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for automatically removing inappropriate content. One example method includes: identifying a report of inappropriate content received from a user, the report identifying a content item the user has identified as inappropriate and an identification of the user, determining whether to automatically remove the content item based at least in part on the identity of the user, and removing the content item upon determining that the content should be removed. In some instances, the user is associated with a report weight. The report weight can be based, at least in part, on a business role of the user. Determining whether to automatically remove the content item may include determining that the user or a business role of the user is associated with an automatic removal rule, and removing the content item upon determining that the report is associated the user. | 03-26-2015 |
20150095338 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CATEGORIZING EXCEPTIONS AND LOGS - Techniques for categorizing exceptions and logs are described. For example, exception data of an exception that occurred on a machine is accessed. The exception data includes a stack trace of the exception. A determination is made that the exception is unique based on the stack track of the exception. Responsive to the determination that the exception is unique, the exception is categorized, by a machine including a memory and at least one processor, into one or more categories based on the stack trace of the exception. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095339 | IDENTIFYING MEMBERS OF A SMALL & MEDIUM BUSINESS SEGMENT - A system, apparatus, computer-program product and method are provided for identifying members of a particular user segment. One particular user segment of interest includes members who work for employers having a number of employees within a predetermined range. Members of an online service provide data purporting to identify their employers and/or other personal or professional attributes. The data entries are normalized by standardizing terms, removing superfluous or unneeded terms, and/or performing other processing. The members are then clustered according to their normalized employer names, and members within clusters that have sizes within the range are added to the user segment. Invalid employer names (e.g., fictitious companies, non-existent entities) may be filtered out. Within a cluster, a professional social networking site (or other site) may be analyzed to determine if the clustered members have developed relationships; if not, the cluster may be cancelled. | 04-02-2015 |
20150100585 | PROCESSING OF CATEGORIZED PRODUCT INFORMATION - Data processing includes accessing a product category tree, the product category tree comprising a plurality of hierarchical levels. A leaf category level of the plurality of hierarchical levels comprises a leaf category node. The leaf category node includes product information. The product information comprises a plurality of product attribute parameters. The plurality of product attribute parameters comprises standard product information. Data processing further includes selecting, among the plurality of product attribute parameters that correspond to the leaf category node, a representative product attribute parameter that is representative of the product information; and partitioning standard product information of the leaf category node to obtain a plurality of sets using the representative product attribute parameter, wherein each of the plurality of sets includes at least some of the standard product information. | 04-09-2015 |
20150106377 | Calculating Effective GPA of Students in Education Platforms - An online educational publishing platform generates an effective grade point average for respective users of the platform by aggregating data describing educational activities of the users. The educational activity data includes users' interactions with pages of content distributed by the online educational platform, as well as data retrieved from user profiles of the users and external databases. The educational activity data is filtered into a plurality of categories and scored based on scoring metrics associated with the categories. Using the scored user activity data, the publishing platform generates the effective grade point averages. Each user may have multiple eGPAs whose value depends on how the eGPA was generated. Accordingly, an eGPA provides a quantitative representation of a student's academic engagement, achievements, and experiences. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106378 | Document Categorization By Rules and Clause Group Scores Associated with Type Profiles Apparatus and Method - Legacy documents of an enterprise are scanned and analyzed to determine best practices and rules for each category. Clauses and groups of clauses are assigned scores for relative value. Each category of documents has a profile of the clauses and groups of clauses which establish a norm against which proposed new documents may be scored. A document is analyzed for clauses and groups of clauses. A score is determined for each document to measure its fit with a document category. An absence of an expected clause within group of clauses results in a lower score. An absence of a group of expected clauses results in an even lower score. A high score reflects that a document is substantially standard with its category. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106379 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPARING AND ASSOCIATING OBJECTS - Computer-implemented systems and methods are disclosed for comparing and associating objects. In some embodiments, a method is provided for associating a first object with one or more objects within a plurality of objects, each object comprising a first plurality of properties, each property comprising data reflecting a characteristic of an entity represented by the object, the associated objects comprising matching data in corresponding properties for a second plurality of properties. The method may include executing, for each object within the plurality of objects and for the first object, the following: creating a slug for the object, the slug comprising the second plurality of properties from the object; and inputting the slug for the object into a Bloom filter. Further, the method may include creating for a bin within the Bloom filter corresponding to the slug for the first object, an association between objects whose slugs correspond to the bin if the slugs for those objects match. | 04-16-2015 |
20150120739 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING AGGREGATION PROCESS FOR EACH PIECE OF RECEIVED DATA - An aggregation processing system includes a data transmission unit for transforming data which is a target of an aggregation process into a format of a tuple having a key and for transmitting the tuple to a data processing unit, and the data processing unit for performing an aggregation process of a tuple which has been transmitted. When a tuple transmitted from the data transmission unit is received, the data processing unit invokes an operator and performs an aggregation process. In the aggregation process, aggregated data is generated based on the tuple received by the data processing unit and a related input table, and writing to an output table or generation of an output tuple is performed based on the generated aggregated data. A plurality of aggregation processes are implemented by combining processes by the operators, and the plurality of aggregation processes are performed as one transaction. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120740 | FILE SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING WRITE ONCE READ MANY (WORM) - The embodiments deal with files that are already present in a storage when mounting the storage in a file system and files created after the mounting as different groups. (Metadata of) the files is classified. The files are each divided into metadata (index) and a file main body and are recorded on different storage areas, that is, an index partition (IP) and a data partition (DP), associated with each other. This file system is effective in a storage format in which a new file is merely written and an already written file is not updated or deleted (for example, a tape medium used in the LTFS). The embodiments implement a WORM file system by rejecting a request to update or delete a file that is present at mounting as a WORM file and permitting update or deletion of a file that is created after mounting until the storage is unmounted. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120741 | FILE SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING WRITE ONCE READ MANY (WORM) - The embodiments deal with files that are already present in a storage when mounting the storage in a file system and files created after the mounting as different groups. (Metadata of) the files is classified. The files are each divided into metadata (index) and a file main body and are recorded on different storage areas, that is, an index partition (IP) and a data partition (DP), associated with each other. This file system is effective in a storage format in which a new file is merely written and an already written file is not updated or deleted (for example, a tape medium used in the LTFS). The embodiments implement a WORM file system by rejecting a request to update or delete a file that is present at mounting as a WORM file and permitting update or deletion of a file that is created after mounting until the storage is unmounted. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120742 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING RECOMMENDED TARGET SOFTWARE - A method and a system for processing recommended software are disclosed. A cluster analysis module performs a cluster analysis for users based on software using information reported by the users, and determines a software list corresponding to each user cluster, and sort software in the software list according to using condition of the software. A recommendation module determines a user cluster that is the most relevant to a specific user based on software using information of the specific user, and selects top N pieces of software from a software list corresponding to the user cluster to recommend the selected top N pieces of software to the specific user, where N is a predefined value. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120743 | Organizing Messages in a Messaging System Using Social Network Information - A messaging system receives a message that is intended for a recipient, who is a user of a social networking system. An object associated with the message is identified based on the message content and/or metadata associated with the message. The messaging system accesses a social networking system database to obtain social information about a relationship between the recipient and the identified object. The message is then indexed using the social information, wherein an entry for the message is stored in a message index based on the social information. This process may be repeated for each received message, and multiple different message indexes may be generated for received messages to track different types of social information. A user interface for viewing messages uses the message index to organize the messages, such as to filter, categorize, and/or sort the messages in the display. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120744 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC ORGANIZATION, INDEXING AND VIEWING OF INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES - A computer data processing system including a central processing unit configured with an integrated computer control software system for the management of data objects including dynamic and automatic organization, linking, finding, cross-referencing, viewing and retrieval of multiple objects regardless of nature or source. The system provides an underlying component architecture having an object-oriented database structure and a metadata database structure which stores only one instance of each object while linking the object to multiple collections and domains for grouping into and retrieval from any of the collections. The system employs configurable, extensible attribute/properties of data objects in metadata format, and a user-configurable interface that facilitates information management. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127653 | Systems and Methods for Behavioral Segmentation of Users in a Social Data Network - There is provided methods and systems for analyzing data from a plurality of users within a social networking platform, comprising: receiving a query for a topic associated with the social networking platform; determining a set of users having at least one social networking behaviour on the social networking platform related to the topic; selecting, for each user from the set of users, a pre-defined number of posts and associating each of the pre-defined number of posts with the respective user; segmenting the selected posts for each user to determine a likelihood of each of the selected posts among the set of users; and, clustering the selected posts for each user to define a plurality of clusters and determining a mapping from each user to at least one of the plurality of clusters, each cluster comprising representative topics indicating frequently used topics within the cluster for the pre-defined number of posts between the set of users. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127654 | METHOD FOR MANAGING USER INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - An apparatus and method for storing and displaying user information in an electronic device is provided to categorize information and designate importance. The method includes identifying a plurality of user information, extracting overlapped common information from the plurality of user information, and storing information which is not overlapped among the plurality of user information to be included in a first category and storing the common information to be included in a second category. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127655 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a comment collection unit that collects comments on a submission target that progresses with the passage of time, a comment selection unit that selects comments to be presented from collected comments to a user based on the characteristics of the user, a display control unit that controls the display of the selected comments so that the user is able to give evaluations for the selected comments, and an evaluation collection unit that collects the evaluations given by the user. | 05-07-2015 |
20150134667 | Concept Categorization - Systems, methods, and computer-readable and executable instructions are provided for categorizing a concept. Categorizing a concept can include selecting a target concept with a number of surrounding textual contexts. Categorizing a concept can also include determining a number of candidate categories for the target concept based on the number of surrounding textual contexts. Categorizing a concept can also include selecting a predefined number of articles, each with a desired relatedness to the number of candidate categories. Furthermore, categorizing a concept can include calculating a relatedness score for each of the number of candidate categories based on a relatedness with the number of articles. | 05-14-2015 |
20150142813 | LANGUAGE TAG MANAGEMENT ON INTERNATIONAL DATA STORAGE - According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for language tag management includes: accessing a standardized language tag repository to identify changes in repository language tags; searching records of a data source categorized using language tags to identify language tags present in records of the data source; determining whether the language tags present in the records of the data source are inconsistent with the repository language tags; responsive to determining that the language tags present in the records of the data source are inconsistent with the repository language tags, determining a language tag update policy for the data source; and performing a language tag update process for the records according to the language tag update policy to re-categorize the records based on the repository language tags. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142814 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OBJECT INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET - Providing object information on the Internet includes configuring a plurality of front-end categories for a plurality of network objects and a plurality of screening conditions for screening the plurality of network objects, where each of the plurality of screening conditions uniquely corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of the front-end categories. Providing object information further includes receiving object information pertaining to a network object, the object information including a screening condition for the network object; storing the object information in a back-end category, determining a front-end category to which the network object belongs, according to the screening condition and storing correlation information of the object and the front-end category, wherein the back-end category is separate from and different than the front-end category. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142815 | CATEGORIZING SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS BASED ON USER CONNECTIONS TO OBJECTS - When a social networking system receives a report of malicious activity, the social networking system calculates disabled connectivity score for a user reporting the activity or identified by the report. The disabled connectivity score indicates how strongly the user is associated with other objects that have been disabled by the social networking system. Hence, the disabled connectivity score provides a measure of the user's trustworthiness that is used to determine a type of action to be taken in response to the report. Examples of actions that may be taken when a report is received include ignoring the report, further reviewing the report, or taking remedial action by disabling or deleting an object maintained by the social networking system that is the subject of the report. | 05-21-2015 |
20150149467 | Determining a Task Template and Associating a Task Completion Step with the Task Template - Methods and apparatus related to associating a task completion step with a task template based on one or more task completion steps of tasks that conform to the task template. A task template may include one or more terms, entities, and/or category of entities. A Task conforms to the task template when the task includes the one or more terms, entities, and/or an identifier of an entity that is a member of the entity category. In some implementations, a task that is associated with a task completion step is identified as conforming to the task template and the task completion step of the conforming task is associated with the task template. In some implementations, the task template may be utilized to associate a task completion step with a task that conforms to the task template. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149468 | Hierarchy Similarity Measure - Hierarchy similarity measure techniques are described. In one or more implementations, categories in a hierarchy of categories are assigned to each of at least two objects. A similarity score may be calculated for the at least two objects that takes into account the categories assigned to the objects. To compute the similarity score for the objects, a distance in the hierarchy between the categories assigned to the objects may be used. Further, a number of siblings in the hierarchy of the categories assigned to the at least two objects may be used to compute the similarity score for the objects. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149469 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING INTEREST TAGS WITH MEDIA ITEMS BASED ON SOCIAL DIFFUSIONS AMONG USERS - An approach is provided for associating interest tags with media items based on social diffusions among users. The media tagging platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of one or more user profiles to determine one or more interest tags relating to one or more users, captured at one or more user devices to determine one or more frequencies of the one or more signals. Next, the media tagging platform determines one or more social diffusions of the one or more media items among the one or more users. Then, the media tagging platform causes, at least in part, an association of the one or more media items with the one or more interest tags based, at least in part, on the one or more social diffusions. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149470 | CONFORMED DIMENSIONAL AND CONTEXT-BASED DATA GRAVITY WELLS - A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product defines multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells on a context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells membrane. Conformed dimensional objects and synthetic context-based objects are parsed into n-tuples. A virtual mass of each parsed object is calculated, in order to define a shape of the multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells that are created when data objects that are pulled into each of the context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks on a context-based conformed dimensional gravity wells membrane. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149471 | REPORTING INCLUDING FILLING DATA GAPS AND HANDLING UNCATEGORIZED DATA - A reporting system is described herein that allows a report author to declare data reporting structures that specify to a reporting application how to dynamically categorize data with changing or potentially unknown characteristics. The reporting system may extend RDL and the data grouping provided by Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services by adding new elements to the XML-based RDL schema. The reporting system allows the report author to specify for the system to fill gaps in the data, so that the report has a similar layout even as data changes from period to period. The reporting system also allows the report author to specify whether data that does not fit any predefined group bucket is displayed in a report. Thus, the reporting system allows unsophisticated database users to define reports that group data consistently regardless of missing values or other changes in the underlying data. | 05-28-2015 |
20150293916 | Dynamic and Personalized Filtering of Media Content - The present disclosure provides techniques for creating a filter for a set of content items based on a common attribute identified in the set of content items and a user history. A method may include obtaining a plurality of content item identifiers. One or more common attributes associated with each of a plurality of content items may be identified and each of the plurality of content items may be identified by one of the plurality of content item identifiers. A first filter may be created based on a first attribute from among the one or more common attributes and a user history. Next, a first user interface may be displayed comprising the first filter and the plurality of content item identifiers. The first filter may be displayed among the plurality of content item identifiers and may have the same visual format as one of the content item identifiers. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293992 | CLUSTER PROCESSING AND RANKING METHODS INCLUDING METHODS APPLICABLE TO CLUSTER DEVELOPED THROUGH DENSITY BASED MERGING - The described invention provides a method and/or system for analyzing data using population clustering through density based merging, and a method for guiding clustering strategy through entropy-based ranking score. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293994 | ENHANCED GRAPH TRAVERSAL - In one implementation, graph traversal method identifies a quantity of nodes within a graph, traverses a portion of the graph, and aborts traversal of the graph in response to a determination that a node-access counter satisfies a condition relative to the quantity of nodes within the graph. At least one edge of the graph is not considered during traversal of the graph. | 10-15-2015 |
20150302077 | META-DIRECTORY CONTROL AND EVALUATION OF EVENTS - Techniques for meta-directory control and evaluation of events are provided. Disparate events from heterogeneous processing environments are collected as the events are produced by resources within the processing environments. The events are filtered and organized into taxonomies. Next the filtered and organized events are assigned to nodes of a Meta directory, each node defining a relationship between two or more of the resources and policy is applied. Finally, additional policy is evaluated in view of the events and their node assignments with other events, and one or more automated actions are then taken. | 10-22-2015 |
20150310070 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Integrating Human Observations Into Analytics Data - A computer-implemented system and method for integrating user observations into operational data is provided. A database maintains notes each having received from a user and comprising a subjective observation. Operational data including workflow data of an objective nature is defined. Each of the notes is associated with one or more tags. The note associated with the tags is further maintained in the database. Criteria for retrieving the note are defined for the workflow data and forming a query for each of the workflow data. The query to select the note associated with the tags is executed for the workflow data based on the criteria and the selected note is integrated into the workflow data. The workflow data with the integrated note is displayed on a display. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310088 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR, COLLECTING AND GENERATING MOLD SPORE DATA FOR MOLD REPORTS USING CLIMATE CODES - A system is disclosed for obtaining historical mold spore data. The system may have a computer with a processor. At least one database may be used which contains information correlating subregion codes of a geographic area with ones of predetermined climate classification codes associated with each of the subregion codes. The database further may have available historical mold spore data for the subregion codes and be configured to receive an input indicating a target subregion code that identifies an area falling within the geographic area; to identify a specific one of the codes that is associated with the target subregion code; and to obtain portions of the stored historical mold spore data which is associated with ones of the subregion codes falling within the geographic area that have the specific one of the codes associated therewith. | 10-29-2015 |
20150317380 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO CURATE MEDIA COLLECTIONS - Disclosed is a service which obtains media directly from users and from online sources, which obtains events and anniversaries from online sources, which obtains location and date information associated with photographs, which dynamically provides users with a selection of automatically curated collections of photographs based on the then-current location of the user, based on and relevant to personal and publicly recognized anniversaries and holidays (with dates obtained directly from the users and from online sources), based on specific people or locations associated with dates, events, and anniversaries, and which presents intelligently organized location-based collections which can be quickly re-organized by a user. | 11-05-2015 |
20150324359 | GROUPING RECORDS IN BUCKETS DISTRIBUTED ACROSS NODES OF A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEM TO PERFORM COMPARISON OF THE GROUPED RECORDS - Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for grouping records in buckets distributed across nodes a distributed database system to perform comparison of the grouped records. Upon receiving a record, data in the received record is processed to determine at least one containing bucket having attributes matching those of the received record, wherein the at least one containing bucket comprises at least one of a plurality of buckets, and wherein the buckets are assigned to the local node and the external nodes. A determination is made of at least one of the containing buckets assigned to at least one of the external nodes. At least a portion data in the received record is forwarded to each of the determined at least one external node to perform comparison matching with other records in the containing bucket at the external node. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324449 | CLUSTER-BASED IDENTIFICATION OF NEWS STORIES - Methods, systems, and techniques for cluster-based content recommendation are described. Some embodiments provide a content recommendation system (“CRS”) configured to recommend news stories about events or occurrences. In some embodiments, a news story about an event includes multiple related content items that each include an account of the event and that each reference one or more entities or categories that are represented by the CRS. In one embodiment, the CRS identifies news stories by generating clusters of related content items. Then, in response to a received query that indicates a keyterm, entity, or category, the CRS determines and provides indications of one or more news stories that are relevant to the received query. In some embodiments, at least some of these techniques are employed to implement a news story recommendation facility in an online news service. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324472 | System and Method of Reduction of Irrelevant Information During Search - A system including a context-entity factory configured to build a data model defining an ontology of data objects that are context-aware, the model further defining metadata tags for the data objects. The system further includes a storage device storing the data objects as stored data objects, the device further storing associated contexts for corresponding ones of the stored objects. The system further includes a reduction component configured to capture a current context value of a first data object defined in the ontology, the component further configured to compare the current context value of the first data object with stored values of the associated contexts, and wherein when the current context value does not match a particular stored value of a particular associated context, the component is further configured to remove a corresponding particular stored data object and the particular associated context from the stored data objects. | 11-12-2015 |
20150331933 | System and method for Rhythmic and Polyrhythmic Pattern Search and Publishing - The present invention provides systems and methods that automates the presentation of e-content in a high quality, magazine-like manner, and are customizable to the taste of individual users and/or the audience. | 11-19-2015 |
20150331940 | MEDIA SELECTION - Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for receiving a first taste profile of a first user based on at least a first profile criteria and receiving a second taste profile of a second user based on at least a second profile criteria. An area of interest may be determined based on the first and second taste profiles. A playlist containing one or more media items (e.g., audio, video, text, etc.) may be generated based on the determined area of interest. | 11-19-2015 |
20150339300 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING ARTISTIC MEDIA BASED ON COGNITIVE ASSOCIATIONS WITH PERSONAL MEMORIES - A system and method for cognitive media association including a tracking unit configured to track an output of media over time for a particular user and create a list of the output media for the particular user, a link generation unit configured to generate a link between the media and at least one of a person, a place, an event, an era, an emotion, a theme, a photo, a video, or a social media post, an events recording unit configured to create a comprehensive experience of a specific event including at least one of music played at the specific event, photos displayed at the specific event, videos played at the specific event, social media posts about the event, people present at the specific event, or any combinations thereof. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339338 | COMPUTER READABLE ELECTRONIC RECORDS AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - Classifying an electronic document in a computer-based system is disclosed. For each classification instance in a plurality of classification instances, a confidence data indicating a degree of confidence that the electronic document is associated with that classification instance is determined. A classification, based on a first classification instance in the plurality of classification instances, is assigned without human intervention to the electronic document if the confidence data associated with the first classification instance exceeds a first threshold. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339374 | Generating Activity Summaries - A system and method for generating activity summaries for users. User activity information is received by a user activity information receiver module. Once enough data is received and processed, the data is analyzes and segmented to determine and create an activity summary or story. Content is selected. The selection of the content includes selection of content items, such as multimedia items, e.g. pictures and videos. Secondary information, such as user activity information or location information is analyzed. A story is generated based on the selected content, including the selected content. The story is represented by a display of the selected media and other information associated with the media. | 11-26-2015 |
20150347563 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS - An information providing apparatus providing an information item to a user includes a generated information obtaining portion, a category determination portion, a priority setting portion, a selection portion, and a providing portion. The generated information obtaining portion obtains generated information items that are generated by executions of multiple applications, respectively. The category determination portion determines a category of each of the generated information items. The priority setting portion sets a priority order based on the category of each of the generated information items. The selection portion selects a providing information item to be provided from the generated information items obtained by the generated information obtaining portion according to the priority order. The providing portion provides the selected providing information item to the user. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347573 | Information Processing Device and Method Therefor, and Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium - An object is to flexibly perform data control of display, output or registration or the like without depending on an application or tool. An information processing device according to one aspect of the present invention comprises a database and a control executor. The database stores at least one instance of a control metaclass defining; a target category attribute that specifies an arbitrary category expressed as a metaclass; and a control attribute that defines control to be performed to an attribute defined in the category specified by the target category attribute. The control executor executes the control defined by the control attribute to the attribute of the category specified by the target category attribute, according to the Instance of the control metaclass. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347575 | CATEGORY-BASED LEMMATIZING OF A PHRASE IN A DOCUMENT - A processor receives a string of binary data that represents an initial phrase that includes multiple words and is associated with a specific category. The processor removes one or more letters from an end of a word in the initial phrase to form an initial truncated version of the phrase. The processor runs a TF-IDF algorithm on the initial truncated version of the phrase, and lemmatizes subsequent truncated versions of the initial phrase by recursively removing remaining letters from the end of the word. The processor runs the TF-IDF algorithm on subsequent truncated versions of the initial truncated version of the initial phrase until a highest TF-IDF value is identified. The processor defines a breadth of a lemma for a lexeme based on the specific category of the phrase, and assigns the specific truncated version having the highest TF-IDF value to the specific category. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356150 | Cognitive Session Graphs - A method, system and computer-usable medium for providing cognitive insights comprising receiving streams of data from a plurality of data sources; processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, the processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources performing data enriching to provide enriched data; generating the cognitive session graph, the cognitive session graph being associated with a session, the cognitive session graph comprising at least some enriched data; and, processing the cognitive session graph to provide a cognitive insight, the cognitive insight being related to the session. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356151 | Cognitive Session Graphs - A method, system and computer-usable medium for providing cognitive insights comprising receiving streams of data from a plurality of data sources; processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, the processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources performing data enriching to provide enriched data; generating the cognitive session graph, the cognitive session graph being associated with a session, the cognitive session graph comprising at least some enriched data; and, processing the cognitive session graph to provide a cognitive insight, the cognitive insight being related to the session. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356176 | CONTENT ITEM USAGE BASED SONG RECOMMENDATION - Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide techniques for recommending a song to a user based on the user's application usage information. A method may include receiving an indication of playback of a first song, by a first user, in a media application operating on a first device. It may be determined that a first content item is active on the first device during playback of the first song. An association may be stored of the first content item with the first song. Next, an indication may be received that the first content item is active on the first device. As a result, a second song associated with the first content item, based on the association of the first content item with the first song, may be recommended to the first user. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356196 | CLASSIFYING UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORS - A target domain name is classified using hash strides including domain name components. The hash strides are fed into a set of bloom filters programmed to identify pre-determined domain name categories. A programmable mapping table is provided for selecting one of many probable classifications. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363482 | METHOD OF VISUALLY REPRESENTING REPEATING DATA SETS - A method of displaying repeating data with improved intelligibility includes identifying sequential and non-sequential data in a data collection. The method further includes assigning data categories from the sequential data. The method further includes determining frequency of non-sequential data elements via software executing on a computer. The method further includes identifying affiliations between the non-sequential data elements and the data categories via software executing on a computer. The method further includes displaying the data categories on a chart in positions based on their sequential order via software executing on a computer. The method further includes displaying the non-sequential data elements on the chart in positions based on their affiliation with the data categories via software executing on a computer. The method further includes displaying a visual indicium of the frequency of each of the data elements via software executing on a computer. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363491 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING BIOMETRICS TO PREDICT AND SELECT MUSIC PREFERENCES - Systems and methods for using biometrics to select music preference are provided. A system for using biometrics to select music preferences for a user in a vehicle, comprises a music selection module electrically coupled to at least one biometric sensor in the vehicle, wherein the at least one biometric sensor senses a characteristic of the user and outputs data for the sensed characteristic to the music selection module, and wherein the music selection module selects a music selection for the user based on the sensed characteristic data, and a controller module electrically coupled to the music selection module to control playing of the music selection, wherein the controller module receives an output including the music selection from the music selection module. | 12-17-2015 |
20150370799 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLUSTERING AND PRIORITIZING EVENT MESSAGES - The current document is directed to methods and systems for processing, classifying, and efficiently storing large volumes of event messages generated in modern computing systems. In a disclosed implementation, received event messages are assigned to clusters based on metrics computed for the event messages. In addition, a significance value is determined for each received event message. When the significance value exceeds a threshold value, one or more actions are taken, including marking an event record corresponding to the event message, storing an event record corresponding to the event message in a significant-event log, and generating a notice or alarm. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370884 | LIST ACCUMULATION AND REMINDER TRIGGERING - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for list accumulation and reminder triggering. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, at a data processing apparatus, a first input comprising a plurality of terms; determining, by the data processing apparatus, that one or more of the terms in the first input specify an item that belongs to a reminder category, the reminder category being associated with a collection of items that belong to the category and for which reminders may be generated; and in response to the determination, storing data that associates a reminder type with the item specified by the one or more terms. | 12-24-2015 |
20150379067 | MAINTAINING A DATA STRUCTURE WITH DATA SET NAMES AND POINTERS TO A PLURALITY OF CATALOGS - A plurality of catalogs are maintained, and wherein each catalog of the plurality of catalogs includes data sets and attributes of the data sets. An indication that a new data set is to be defined is received. A selected catalog is determined from the plurality of catalogs, wherein the selected catalog is suitable for including the new data set and attributes of the new data set. An entry that indicates a data set name corresponding to the new data set and an index to the selected catalog is inserted in a group table. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379110 | AUTOMATED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CALCULATING HARD THRESHOLDS - This disclosure is directed to automated methods and systems for calculating hard thresholds used to monitor time-series data generated by data-generating entity. The methods are based on determining a cumulative distribution that characterizes the probability that data values of time-series data generated by the data-generating entity violate a hard threshold. The hard threshold is calculated as an inverse of the cumulative distribution based on a user defined risk confidence level. The hard threshold may then be used to generate alerts when time-series data generated later by the data-generating entity violate the hard threshold. | 12-31-2015 |
20160004761 | PERSON-BASED DISPLAY OF POSTS IN SOCIAL NETWORK - Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing a Graphical User Interface in a social network. One method includes an operation for generating post groups for a plurality of user posts. The user posts are to be presented to a user of the social network, and each post group includes user posts created by social contacts in the social network. Additionally, the post groups are sorted according to the post time of the most recent user post within the post group. The method further includes an operation for defining, for each post group, the number of user posts to be displayed for each post group. The post groups are displayed in the order determined by the sorting, where the defined number of user posts is displayed for each post group. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004771 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A SCHEDULING ORDER PER CATEGORY IN A MUSIC SCHEDULING SYSTEM - A system and method for controlling a scheduling order per category is disclosed. A scheduling order can be designated for the delivery and playback of multimedia content (e.g., music, news, other audio, advertising, etc.) with respect to particular slots within the scheduling order. The scheduling order can be configured to include a forward order per category or a reverse order per category with respect to the playback of the multimedia content in order to control the scheduling order for the eventual airplay of the multimedia content over a radio station or network of associated radio stations. A reverse scheduling technique provides an ideal rotation of songs when a pre-programmed show interferes with a normal rotation. Any rotational compromises can be buried in off-peak audience listening hours of the programming day using the disclosed reverse scheduling technique. | 01-07-2016 |
20160019208 | PROCESS FOR MATCHING PAINT - The invention relates to a computer implemented process for matching a paint to the visual appearance properties of a painted substrate surface comprising the steps of a) selecting a potentially matching first candidate paint based on a first paint recipe comprising one or more colour and/or effect imparting toners, b) applying the first candidate paint to a test panel to obtain a first painted test panel c) visually comparing the appearance properties of the painted substrate surface and the first painted test panel under more than one viewing angle, wherein the visual comparison comprises c1) selecting a visual appearance category wherein the appearance of the painted test panel most prominently deviates from the painted substrate, wherein the categories are selected from a number of pre-defined visual appearance categories displayed on an output device of a computer, c2) inputting the selected visual appearance category in an input device of the computer, c3) visually determining the visual appearance difference of the painted test panel and the painted substrate in the selected appearance category, d) entering the determined visual appearance difference in an input device of the computer, e) optionally, entering only the types of toners of the candidate paint in an input device of the computer, f) providing a paint recipe modification advice consisting an advice of increasing or reducing one or more of the toners in the recipe, or adding an additional toner to the recipe or, on an output device of the computer, wherein the computer software provides the modification advice on the basis of i) the entered visual appearance difference and ii) a database in which only visually determined appearance properties of available toners under two or more viewing angles are stored, with the aim to minimize the appearance difference, g) preparing a second candidate paint based on the recipe modification advice, h) applying the second candidate paint to a test panel to obtain a second painted test panel, and i) repeating steps c) to h) until the visual comparison in step c) indicates that the candidate paint sufficiently matches the appearance properties of the painted substrate surface. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019236 | DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM USING CONSENSUS NODES - A cluster of nodes in a distributed file system may include; at least two namenodes, each coupled to a plurality of data nodes and each configured to store a state of a namespace of the cluster and each being configured to respond to a request from a client while other(s) of the namenodes are responding to other requests from other clients; and a coordination engine coupled to each of the namenodes. The coordination engine may be configured to receive proposals from the namenodes to change the state of the namespace by replicating, deleting and/or adding data blocks stored in the data nodes and to generate, in response, an ordered set of agreements that specifies an order in which the namenodes are to change the state of the namespace. The namenodes are configured to delay making changes thereto until after the ordered set of agreements is received from the coordination engine. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019250 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ENTERPRISE USER GROUP - According to an exemplary embodiment, a method for generating an enterprise user group is provided. The method may include receiving a set of attributes for an enterprise network user; receiving one or more enterprise group member identification rules including a similarity distance threshold and a set of target attributes; calculating, using a hardware processor, a similarity assessment score based on the set of target attributes and the set of attributes; and determining, using the hardware processor, whether the enterprise network user is an enterprise group member based on the similarity assessment score and the similarity distance threshold. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019268 | USER-INTERFACE FOR PROVIDING A STACK VIEW OF AN E-BOOK COLLECTION - A criterion for defining a collection is determined based on user input or data contained on the computing device. The content items that are part of a user library and which are part of the collection are identified based at least in part on the criterion. A stack representation of the collection is displayed. A content for a foreground of the stack representation is also selected, where the content selected for the foreground is specifically relevant to the collection. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019282 | DISCOVERY MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method and system are provided for discovery management. The method involves specifying a set of categories; receiving a collection of records; separating the collection of records into at least a first portion of records and a second portion of records; classifying the first portion of records using supervised machine learning; and classifying the second portion of records by other than supervised machine learning. The method further involves creating a certification test set by drawing a simple random sample from the collection of records; manually labeling the certification test set by associating each record in the certification test set with a desired category for that record; and comparing the category assigned to each record of the certification test set by the classifying of the collection with the category assigned to each record of the certification test set by the manual labeling of certification test set. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019285 | DEVICES AND METHOD FOR SCORING DATA TO QUICKLY IDENTIFY RELEVANT ATTRIBUTES FOR INSTANT CLASSIFICATION - A method for allowing a computer to classify an input containing data. A list of categories is received. A sub list of categories is selected, wherein the sub-list comprises those categories in the list that have corresponding distinct correlation scores above a predetermined value. Input data that tends to over correlate to the classification system is received. A truncated snapshot is generated, the truncated snapshot comprising only attributes from the plurality of input attributes that have corresponding input categories that match categories in the sub-list of categories. The data is classified using the truncated snapshot and the classification system. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019287 | QUERYING A DATABASE USING RELATIONSHIP METADATA - Categorizing data in an on-demand database environment is provided. The categorized data is accessed to provide results based on statistical likelihood that records provide a desired result of a query. The categorization of the data includes organizing queries based on semantic terms, with categorization based on a multidimensional categorization of data in the database environment. The generating of results includes accessing relationship metadata both for individual records and for categories. Relationships along the same category, or among categories can provide records that may answer the query. The relationships and statistics are updated based on usage of the results data. Records and relationships identified as being used to solve the query, or being a desired solution to the query, can be weighted more heavily, thus increasing the likelihood of providing the most relevant data for subsequent queries. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019315 | Building a Social Graph Using Sharing Activity of Users of the Open Web by Updating an Edge Representing a Category Type - A social graph is built which includes interactions, sharing activity, and connections between the users of the open Web and can be used to improve ad targeting and content personalization. Sharing activity between two users will affect ads or content that both users will be presented while surfing the Web. This sharing activity includes sending of links, sending of videos, sending of files, cutting and pasting of content, sending text messages, and sending of e-mails. For example, the sharing activity can include receiving first activity information for a sender of a message to a recipient by a collection resource at a Web site, the collection resource adding a link to the message, and receiving second activity information when the recipient accesses the link. Building of the social graph can include creating or updating an edge in the social graph that is representative of a particular category type. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019611 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ALLIED PRODUCTS - The method comprises processing plural product information records from the product information sources into one or more groups based on which product information records are likely to correspond to the same product, correlating a unique product ID corresponding to the product associated with each of said groups to identify the product, comparing each identified product to categories of a taxonomy to determine a category for the identified products in the taxonomy, and determining attributes for each categorized product based on the product information records corresponding to each group, creating product specifications based on the determined attributes and storing the product specification in the corresponding determined categories of the taxonomy. | 01-21-2016 |
20160026634 | Corpus Quality Analysis - A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for corpus quality analysis. The mechanism applies at least one filter to a candidate corpus to determine a degree to which the candidate corpus supplements existing corpora for performing a natural language processing (NLP) operation. Responsive to a determination to add the candidate corpus to the existing corpora based on a result of applying the at least one filter, the mechanism adds the candidate corpus to the existing corpora to form modified corpora. The mechanism performs the NLP operation using the modified corpora. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026706 | CONSENSUS SEQUENCE IDENTIFICATION - An example method comprises receiving historical information of episodes, constructing event sets from the historical information, categorizing each event with general labels and synthetic labels, learning an event metric on the events by using the general and synthetic labels to perform dimensionality reduction to associate a vector with each event and to determine an angle between every two vectors, determining an event set metric using distances between each pair of event sets, deriving a sequence metric on the episodes, the sequence metric obtaining a preferred match between two episodes, deriving a subsequence metric on the episodes, the subsequence metric is a function of the event set metric on subsequences of each episode, grouping episodes into subgroups based on distances, for at least one subgroup, generating a consensus sequence by finding a preferred sequence of events, and the episodes of the subgroup, and generating a report indicating the consensus sequence. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026723 | GENERATING RESOURCES FOR SUPPORT OF ONLINE SERVICES - A system and method is provided to analyze a database of concepts organized into categories, wherein each concept is an online textual document, to determine a numerical relationship between the concepts and to determine a hierarchy for the categories. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034459 | CURATING MEDIA FROM SOCIAL CONNECTIONS - Media files may be curated for a user based on a location of a client device associated with the user. A user carrying a client device may arrive at a particular location on a given day. A computer-implemented process may include determining whether the given day and/or the particular location is “unique” to the user in some fashion, which may be based on one or more criteria used to quantify or otherwise evaluate uniqueness of the day or location. At least partly in response, media file sharing service may be queried to identify shared media files that were created at the particular location, wherein the shared media files are associated with one or more entities having social connections to the user. A curated subset of the identified media files may be automatically created and a notification may be issued to the user. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034516 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYSIS OF AN OBJECT - Methods, systems, and computer products for analyzing an object to determine contents of the object. The methods, systems, and computer products include a procedure having one or more groups that segment the object to be analyzed. One or more items are assigned to the groups, and each item includes one or more attributes that are associated with the item. Further, a predefined sequence for evaluation of the items is associated with the procedure. Each item is then displayed in accordance with the predefined sequence for evaluation of each attribute associated with the items. To this end, an attribute field associated with each attribute is presented and can be electronically interacted with in order to indicate evaluation of the attribute. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034562 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZING MESSAGES AND REPORTING STATISTICS FOR MESSAGES IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method for organizing messages and reporting statistics for messages in a social network, the social network communicatively coupling a user's data processing system to one or more supporters' respective data processing systems over a communications network, the method comprising: using a processor, selecting a category for a message from among a predetermined group of categories; posting the message to the social network under the category, the message including an identifier of the category under which the message was posted; after the message is posted, determining a total number of messages posted under the category by the user and a total number of messages posted by the user; determining a percentage of the total number of messages posted under the category by the user to the total number of messages posted by the user; and, presenting the percentage on a display. | 02-04-2016 |
20160041992 | DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - A data management apparatus includes a storage unit which stores a first database for retaining structured data in which a plurality of data features are structured based on attributes and attribute values, and a second database for retaining unstructured data in file units, and a control unit which combines the structured data and the unstructured data and manages the combination as virtual structured data which is accessed during an execution of a search query to the second database, uses attribute values of virtual attributes of the virtual structured data as values that were extracted from files of the second database based on predetermined information extraction rules, and updates the attribute values of the virtual attributes of the virtual structured data when the files of the second database including the unstructured data are updated. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042050 | In-Application Recommendation of Deep States of Native Applications - A method includes receiving a request from a user device executing a native application. The request indicates an accessed state of the native application to which the native application is set. The method includes identifying one or more categories of the accessed state of the native application and recommended application resource identifiers based on features of the accessed state. Each of the recommended application resource identifiers references a different state of a native application, When a native application is selected by the user, the method includes setting the native application to the different state. For each of the application resource identifiers, the method includes identifying one or more recommended categories of the state referenced by the recommended application resource identifier and determining whether to recommend the different state referenced by the recommended application resource identifier based on features of the accessed state and features of the state of the application. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042062 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - In a data processing method of determining a class to which each of a plurality of input data items belongs, a distance between input data and each of a plurality of representative data items is calculated, a distance calculation method is selected based on the input data, and the input data is allocated to a class to which representative data, from which a shortest distance has been obtained out of the calculated distances using the selected distance calculation method, belongs. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048563 | PROCESS-LEVEL METADATA INFERENCE AND MAPPING FROM DOCUMENT ANNOTATIONS - A user annotation entered in association with a content document of a workflow process executed in association with a metadata context-driven processing system is detected. The user annotation entered in association with the content document is analyzed according to a process-level context associated with the content document within the workflow process. Process-level metadata of the workflow process is inferred based upon the analysis of the user annotation according to the process-level context. The inferred process-level metadata is stored as part of the process-level context of the workflow process. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048574 | PROCESS-LEVEL METADATA INFERENCE AND MAPPING FROM DOCUMENT ANNOTATIONS - A user annotation entered in association with a content document of a workflow process executed in association with a metadata context-driven processing system is detected. The user annotation entered in association with the content document is analyzed according to a process-level context associated with the content document within the workflow process. Process-level metadata of the workflow process is inferred based upon the analysis of the user annotation according to the process-level context. The inferred process-level metadata is stored as part of the process-level context of the workflow process. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048596 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DATA - A method for managing data in a system includes a data filtering. Value information is quantized for each of one or more different filters according to a Quality of Information (QoI) assessment of data and related to a corresponding one of the filters. Data amount filtering information is determined for each of the value information indicating an amount of information to be filtered. Filter information is provided for each of the filters being used for filtering, the filter information including the determined data amount filtering information and category assignment information, wherein the category assignment information indicates an assignment of a respective one of the filters to a respective one of a plurality of predefined, appropriate data categories. Current importance category information is provided for at least one of the data categories and a common calculation procedure is applied for the filters. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048634 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENOMIC ANNOTATION AND DISTRIBUTED VARIANT INTERPRETATION - A computer-based genomic annotation system, including a database configured to store genomic data, non-transitory memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor coupled with the memory, the processor configured to implement the instructions in order to implement an annotation pipeline and at least one module filtering or analysis of the genomic data. | 02-18-2016 |
20160055164 | NEWS ALERT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for receiving social media data from multiple social media websites, categorizing the social media data, scoring the social media data, creating clusters of social media data and scoring and ranking the clusters of social media data. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055232 | Gesture-based on-chart data filtering - On-chart data filtering on computing devices such as, e.g., touch-enabled mobile devices can be enabled by methods, systems, and computer programs that facilitate detecting a filtering gesture performed on an axis element (such as a value range, category label, or category-label row) of a data chart displayed on-screen and, in response to the filtering gesture, filtering data associated with the axis element and updating the displayed data chart based on the filtering. | 02-25-2016 |
20160063087 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING LOCATION SCOUTING INFORMATION - A location scouting tool ( | 03-03-2016 |
20160063090 | Analyzing Frequently Occurring Data Items - Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining frequently occurring data items are disclosed. These include, counting distinct categories of a plurality of data items using an ordered set of counters, wherein each of the counters is associated with one of the distinct categories and represents a quantity of the data items in the associated one of the distinct categories, and wherein the counting includes updating counters in the ordered set and a global decrement counter when one of the data items fails to match at least one of the distinct categories associated with the counters of the ordered set and when the ordered set is full. These further include, reporting, for each of the counters in the ordered set, a lower bound for the associated one of the distinct categories, wherein the lower bound is based upon a value of the counter and the global decrement counter. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063098 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER FOR CLASSIFYING USERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA - A computer system and method to classify a plurality of users in a plurality of clusters in social media associating a text profile and text content with each user. The method comprises: generating a content feature vector for each of a portion of users on the basis of content associated with the portion of users; generating mapping the plurality of clusters, and the plurality of clusters and the portion of users, on the basis of the content feature vectors; generating a first profile feature vector for each of the plurality of clusters on the basis of the profiles associated with the portion of users mapped to each cluster; and classifying each of the other users excluding the portion of users in a plurality of clusters on the basis of the profiles associated with the other users and the first profile feature vectors. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063099 | Range Map and Searching for Document Classification - Document classification includes a range map and corresponding search tree. The map defines a collection of one or more ranges of possible values. The search tree divides the map into searchable entities. The ranges correspond to image characteristics found in one or more documents. An unknown document fits or not within one of the ranges of values and becomes classified. Embodiments typify range types, addition or removal of ranges, applications of algorithms, searching within a tree, and imaging device execution, to name a few. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063113 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Discovering Electronic Devices - Methods, systems, and products self-identify an electronic device to a remote control. The remote control queries the electronic device, and the electronic device sends a response. A collision avoidance mechanism allows difference devices to respond to the remote control. | 03-03-2016 |
20160070689 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANNOTATING A DASHBOARD - A dashboard generation system generates a dashboard that displays an annotation to key performance indicator information. The dashboard generation system uses a business database, an intermediate table, an annotation associated with a dimension category, and formatting data to generate a dashboard. The dashboard generator determines a dimension category and renders the intermediate values and annotations in the corresponding desired graphical format. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070775 | AUTOMATED CREATION OF AUDIENCE SEGMENTS THROUGH AFFINITIES WITH DIVERSE TOPICS - A method, apparatus and computer readable media for automated creation of audience segments through affinities with diverse topics. A collection of documents having assigned topics is received, wherein, for any given topic, only a minority of the collection has that topic. A first set of documents in the collection that are in a target category is determined. A second set of all documents in the collection having a threshold number of differentially frequent occurring topics that are differentially frequent in the first set, but where such documents are categorized expressly as not belonging in the target category is determined. Topics occurring frequently in the first set but seldom in the second set are designated as anchors. Topics occurring frequently in both the first set and the second set are designated as tethers. For each tether, the anchor(s) with which it has a strong co-occurrence tendency are assigned as anchor(s) therefore. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070777 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT COLLECTION, CATALOGING, AND COLLABORATION - Mobile and Web applications for the collection of digital media (photos, video, audio, documents, etc.), cataloging (using metadata in the form of tags), and collaborating (using storage and collaboration software). The applications allow an individual to collect digital content by using the native capabilities on their mobile device, or by uploading content already captured (in storage) and associating it with Events and Sessions. Additionally, individuals may capture or upload digital media without associating it with either Events or Sessions at the time of capture or upload, to later make these associations. Events, Sessions, and digital media are automatically (by the application) tagged with date, time, user, and location, while also allowing other stored and/or newly created tags to be added at the time of capture or upload, or later, as desired. Other individuals may be given permission to view or modify Events and/or Sessions, and to view digital media by the owner or contributor of the Event or Session. While accessing a Session, other individuals may be invited to participate in a live collaboration and view all content, as well as participate/contribute via their computer or a mobile device, and participate in a one-to-many video conference. All content is stored in the cloud, and audited through the use of Activity logs which capture all adds/changes/deletes to the database. | 03-10-2016 |
20160078121 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF MATCHING AN OBJECT TO BE DISPLAYED - A method and an apparatus of matching an object to be displayed are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a plurality of search keywords and released product information and grouping each of the plurality of search keywords with the released product information to form a plurality of search keyword and released product information pairs, with each search keyword and released product information pair comprising a respective search keyword and the released product information; determining and matching a plurality of features for the plurality of search keyword and released product information pairs according to a constructed first decision tree; and determining respective correlation classes of the plurality of search keyword and released product information pairs based at least in part on a result of determining and matching of the plurality of features. The disclosed method and apparatus are able to accurately and conveniently determine a matching degree between a search keyword and released product information. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078122 | GEOSPATIALLY SELF-LOCATING AND SELF-LIMITING SEARCH ENGINE - The present invention provides methods for converting data in a database into geospatial data and geoindexing the geospatial data. Methods may further include receiving a query for a geospatial location via at least one web platform and presenting a geospatial dashboard for the geospatial location. Methods may also include receiving a query for information via the geospatial dashboard, searching the database for data relevant to the query, finding the relevant data, and presenting only the relevant data associated with the geospatial location. | 03-17-2016 |
20160085814 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a control section that provides, to a terminal of a user, a relationship among a plurality of keywords each as an element constituting a facet that is used as an index for searching for a content, as a facet map, and a facet selection environment that is based on at least one keyword addable to the facet map as a new element of the facet, calculates a usage frequency of each of the keywords in the terminal, and adds a keyword whose calculated usage frequency satisfies a predetermined condition to the facet map as the new element of the facet. | 03-24-2016 |
20160085869 | SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT ANALYSIS AND OUTPUT - A computer implemented method comprising: storing a set of social media objects, each social media object comprising at least one word. The method comprises identifying a subset of relevant social media objects from the set of social media objects by: storing at least one content article, extracting at least one keyword from at least one content article, ranking each extracted keyword with an importance value, searching each of the social media objects for each extracted keyword with an importance value that is higher than a predetermined value, and adding each social media object which comprises an extracted keyword with an importance value that is higher than the predetermined value to a subset of relevant social media objects. The method further comprises outputting the subset of relevant social media objects to a user. | 03-24-2016 |
20160092499 | OBJECT MAPPING USING INTRINSIC PERSISTENCE METADATA AND PATTERN-BASED RULES FOR MAPPING TRANSFORMATION - The present disclosure relates generally to a data integration system that may provide techniques for capturing definitions from business entities and how the business entities are implemented in a set of tables. This enables the data integration system to transform a data flow defined using business entities into code that may be used to transform the underlying tables and columns. Additionally to generate tables, classes and APIs to provide persistence of and manipulation for the definitions of these business entities. Additionally to dynamically generate a GUI editor for an object model of arbitrary complexity while maintaining GUI usability. This reduces development time and supports editing of an arbitrary object model. A dynamically generated GUI may be generated from an object model definition that is received from a user and/or is derived from the user's code. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092513 | KNOWLEDGE GATHERING SYSTEM BASED ON USER'S AFFINITY - A system, method, and processor readable medium for processing data in a knowledge management system gathers information content and transmits a work request for the information content gathered. The information content may be registered with a K-map and assigned a unique document identifier. A work queue processes the work requests. The processed information may then be transmitted to another work queue for further processing. Further processing may include categorization, full-text indexing, metrics extraction or other process. Control messages may be transmitted to one or more users providing a status of the work request. The information may be analyzed and further indexed. A progress statistics report may be generated for each of the processes performed on the document. The progress statistics may be provided in a record. A shared access to a central data structure representing the metrics history and taxonomy may be provided for all work queues via a CORBA service. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092551 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING FILTERS FOR SOCIAL DATA TOPIC CREATION - Disclosed is a system, method, and computer program product for performing semantic analysis and creating topics with regards to social data. A user interface is provided that allows the user to view and interact with to view and control the process/mechanism or creating topics. The user interface allows the user to create one or more text-based filters and metadata filters based on which social data for each topic is filtered. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092598 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING TEMPORAL DEMAND OF QUERIES AND METADATA TO GIVE BETTER AUTOCOMPLETE QUERIES AND IMPROVED SEARCH RESULTS - Embodiments describe systems and methods for identifying temporal demand for queries and using metadata to modify autocomplete results. In one embodiment, a record of historical queries is stored by a system and analyzed to identify periodic or repeated events where demand for autocomplete results associated with one or more categories deviates from normal demand. A temporal model based on this record is used to adjust autocomplete search results during subsequent time periods associated with the repeated events. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098474 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT INFORMATION GATHERING AND ANALYSIS - A system and method for intelligent information gathering and analysis. Information is gathered from plurality of open sources such as markets, investigations, government databases, internet intelligence, and public records. The gathered information is parsed and linked based on marketplace activities including threats. The parsed and linked information is sent to a database where queries can be applied to produce dossiers on entities. A client may add his own information to enrich a dossier and reports may be made based on the dossiers. Alerts may be generated when certain predefined conditions are met. These alerts can be used to drive various actions. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098482 | METHOD OF ORGANIZING USER-CUSTOMIZABLE CONTENT ADAPTATION OBJECT, USER-CUSTOMIZABLE CONTENT ADAPTATION OBJECT ORGANIZING SERVER PERFORMING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING THE SAME - A method of organizing a user-customizable content adaptation object being performed on a user-customizable content adaptation object organizing server, the server being coupled to a user terminal, the method includes: (a) classifying at least one resource based on a context category; (b) selecting at least one classified content adaptation object based on a context to associate the at least one classified content adaptation object with an object collector, the at least one classified content adaptation object respectively corresponding to a computer-executable object, and being capable of receiving a remote response by the user terminal or being applied to the user terminal; (c) generating a collector layout page including the at least one content adaptation object in the object collector; and (d) providing the generated collector layout page to the user terminal. | 04-07-2016 |
20160103924 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING INFORMATION DIGEST - A method and an apparatus for acquiring an information digest, which belong to the field of the Internet. The method includes: acquiring, according to user information of a user and attribute information of each piece of network information, a click-through rate of clicking a keyword corresponding to each piece of network information by the user ( | 04-14-2016 |
20160110371 | In-Place Records Management With Dynamic Records Handling - In-place records management can include in-place declaration of records in which a document within a document library or other first file structure associated with a content management system or application can be declared as a record such that records management controls are set for the document. The setting of the records management controls can include placing a record marker in the first file structure while the content object containing content and metadata of the document now designated as a record is relocated to a second file structure associated with a record management system or application. The record marker allows users of the content management system or application who had access to the document prior to its designation as a record to be able to access the corresponding record from within the content management system or application. Additional features can include dynamic record declaration and dynamic record handling. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117338 | SPATIAL INFORMATION SHARING SERVICE SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE IDS AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a system and method for providing a spatial information sharing service by using multiple IDs. The a spatial information sharing service method includes receiving spatial information in association with a user ID of a first user from a first user terminal; and associating and storing the user ID of the first user, an object ID, and the spatial information with one another, wherein the spatial information comprises position information and corresponds to a pair of the user ID and the object ID. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117380 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING INTERACTIVE META-CONTENT - A system and method for creating interactive content from primary content is disclosed, whereby the user can use interactive meta-content in lieu of interacting with some or all of the primary content. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117386 | DISCOVERING TERMS USING STATISTICAL CORPUS ANALYSIS - Software that extracts contextually relevant terms from a text sample (or corpus) by performing the following steps: (i) identifying a first term from a corpus, based, at least in part, on a set of initial contextual characteristic(s), where each initial contextual characteristic of the set of initial contextual characteristic(s) relates to the contextual use of at least one category related term of a set of category related term(s) in the corpus; (ii) adding the first term to the set of category related term(s), thereby creating a revised set of category related term(s) and a set of first term contextual characteristic(s), where each first term contextual characteristic of the set of first term contextual characteristic(s) relates to the contextual use of the first term in the corpus; and (iii) identifying a second term from the corpus, based, at least in part, on the set of first term contextual characteristic(s). | 04-28-2016 |
20160117404 | IDENTIFICATION OF CONTENT BY METADATA - Systems and methods for identifying content in electronic messages are provided. An electronic message may include certain content. The content is detected and analyzed to identify any metadata. The metadata may include a numerical signature characterizing the content. A thumbprint is generated based on the numerical signature. The thumbprint may then be compared to thumbprints of previously received messages. The comparison allows for classification of the electronic message as spam or not spam. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119429 | MULTI-SERVICE CLOUD STORAGE DECISION OPTIMIZATION PROCESS - A method for storage management of client files in a multi-service cloud environment is provided. The method includes receiving a mapped list of available cloud storage services of the multi-service cloud environment. The method further includes receiving categorization of the client files. The method further includes performing a qualitative analysis of the received mapped list of available cloud storage services and the categorized client files, to generate a decision data structure representative of cloud storage preferences of a client. The method further includes storing the client files in the multi-service cloud environment. The method further includes determining whether to encrypt the stored client files. The method further includes tagging individual files of the stored client files, or groups of client files of the stored client files, or a combination of the individually stored client files or the groups of client files for encrypting the stored client files. | 04-28-2016 |
20160125068 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED MISSION CRITICAL ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT - The present approach provides methods and processes for comprehensive management of the Mission Critical Ecosystem. Mission critical information management includes information from an entity's facilities, especially the critical facilities. The methods and processes disclosed herein allow for assessing and managing dependencies between assets, which may provide valuable insight into, for example, risk relationships for planned and unplanned events, and mitigation planning and management for incidents. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125095 | LIGHTWEIGHT TEMPORAL GRAPH MANAGEMENT ENGINE - A method and system are provided. The method includes storing, in a memory, temporal data for a temporal graph. The memory includes a temporal graph storage structure having a set of buckets. The temporal data stored in the buckets includes respective data segments implemented using graph edges. Each of the graph edges has a start time and an end time associated therewith. The method further includes the methods, performed by a processor, of: forming an index that categorizes the graph edges based on the end times of the graph edges; positioning the graph edges within respective ones of the buckets for storage using the index such that the graph edges are positioned in the respective ones of the buckets in a chronological order that is based on the end times; and accessing the temporal graph storage structure using the index responsive to a temporal graph query. | 05-05-2016 |
20160132582 | METHOD FOR REBALANCING DATA PARTITIONS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for rebalancing partitioned data based, at least in part, on one or more characteristics of the plurality of database partitions. The computer updating characteristics, wherein the one or more characteristics include one or both of a) an average number of records per partition, and b) an average number of unique limit key values per partition. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132586 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION BASED ON DETECTED BIOMETRIC EVENT DATA - A system and method is provided for processing and storing captured data in a wireless communication device based on detected biometric event data. The captured data may be acquired through a data acquisition system with devices or sensors in an integrated or distributed configuration. The captured data may include multimedia data of an event with time, date and/or location stamping, and captured physiological and behavioral biometric event data in response to the event. The captured data may be dynamically stored in a data binding format or as raw data in a local host device or communicated externally to be stored in a remote host or storage. At least one user preference may be specified for linking a biometric event data to the mapped, analyzed, categorized and stored captured data in a database. Captured data may be retrieved by matching biometric event data to at least one user preference from the database. | 05-12-2016 |
20160140130 | Method of Naming Query Clusters - A method and apparatus is provided for naming a query cluster. Previous search queries performed by a group of users are stored in a search history database. The search queries in the search history database are grouped to form one or more query clusters. For each query cluster, keywords from the search queries in the query cluster are selected. A naming template is then selected from a group of pre-defined naming templates based on the selected keywords. A cluster name is generated by applying the selected template to the selected keywords. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140209 | CATEGORISING SOFTWARE APPLICATION STATE - A method for categorising a state of operation of a software application in execution in a virtualised computing environment, the application having associated a set of software components being operable to access data associated with the application, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a set of software application state definitions, each state definition including a definition of an application characteristic having associated criteria based on one or more formal parameters; identifying a set of hypothetical states for the application from the set of state definitions based on the data, wherein the data is used to formulate a set of one or more actual parameters corresponding to formal parameters for criteria associated with one or more of the states in the set of hypothetical states; for each of the states in the set of hypothetical states, in response to a determination that criteria associated with a current state is fully evaluable in the negative, removing the current state from the set of hypothetical states; selecting a candidate state from the set of hypothetical states based on a level of satisfaction of criteria associated with each state in the set of hypothetical states, the candidate state having associated one or more absent formal parameters for which no actual parameter is included in the set of actual parameters; and determining if a level of satisfaction of criteria associated with the candidate state fails to meet a threshold level of satisfaction, and in response to the determination undertaking the steps of: a) adjusting the set of software components such that the set of software components is operable to obtain an improved set of actual parameters associated with the application, the improved set of actual parameters including at least one actual parameter corresponding to an absent formal parameter; and b) repeating the removing, selecting and determining steps. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140220 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC THEMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF A DIGITAL TEXT FILE - A thematic classification method for a digital text file from an encyclopedic database comprising a category graph. A thematic classification model is developed during a learning phase. For each category node, all articles directly linked to the category node is grouped to obtain, for each category node, a “bag of words.” A term-frequency vector characteristic of the category node is determined. At each category node the term-frequency vector, directly connected thereto, with term-frequency vectors of more specific nodes are combined. During the production phase, the term-frequency vector of the digital text file is calculated. N category nodes in the thematic classification model having the closest term-frequency vectors to the term-frequency of the digital text file are selected. | 05-19-2016 |
20160147775 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF CONTEXTUAL SEARCH STRING SYNONYMS - Searches for content may be improved with unique reserved phrases. Reserved phrases may direct queries to specific preselected section of content. Synonyms may be generated and associated with a reserved phrase such that even when queries do not include reserved phrases, the synonyms may be used to map queries to the reserved phrases and the associated content. Synonyms may be generated and filtered such that a synonym is only associated with one reserved phrase thereby reducing search ambiguity. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147793 | IMAGE RETRIEVING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image retrieving apparatus is equipped with: an image obtaining unit for obtaining a plurality of images; a category obtaining unit for obtaining a category to which each of the obtained images belongs; a basic searching unit, for searching a specific image including a specific object, from the obtained images; a counting unit for counting the number of the specific images for each category obtained; a determining unit for determining whether or not an additional search for the specific image is necessary for each category, based on the counted number of the specific images of each category; and an additional searching unit for searching the specific image from among the images which belong to the category for which it has been determined that the additional search is necessary and from which the searched specific image has been excluded. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147839 | Automated Check-ins - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving user input that includes an indication that the user is generating social-network content. The social network includes a number of nodes and a number of edges connecting the nodes, with at least one node corresponding to the user. The method includes accessing information about one or more places corresponding to a location of the user and automatically generating a check-in to one of the one or more places for the user. The method includes automatically associating the check-in with the content. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147869 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INDEXING, RELATING AND MANAGING INFORMATION ABOUT ENTITIES - Systems and methods for use in association with a master entity index system may allow data records to be grouped together into various entities, where each of the entities may represent a logical or physical item. These entities may also be associated with one another in a manner such that relationships between entities may likewise be represented. In one embodiment, an interface may be provided for use in conjunction with the master entity index system such that these various entities and relationships may be better managed, manipulated or visualized. This interface may allow a user to search for or otherwise obtain an entity, where a representation of this entity and one or more associated entities may be presented to the user along with representations of the relationships between these entities. | 05-26-2016 |
20160154874 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONDITION OF CATEGORY DIVISION OF KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR, AND COMPUTER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREFOR | 06-02-2016 |
20160154876 | USING CONTEXT TO EXTRACT ENTITIES FROM A DOCUMENT COLLECTION | 06-02-2016 |
20160162568 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FORMING GROUP USING COMMUNICATION HISTORY INFORMATION - When a communication occurs in an electronic device, groups are automatically generated according to the user's situation by: storing a communication history in a database; generating a first group from the database on the basis of the time and location information stored in the database at a predetermined time; retrieving a transmission list from the database and generating a second group from the database on the basis of an identifier of an opposing party included in the transmission list; retrieving a reception list from the database and generating a third group from the database on the basis of an identifier of an opposing party included in the reception list and the identifier of the opposing party included in the transmission list; and generating a fourth group on the basis of the information commonly included in at least two groups of the first group, the second group and the third group. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162571 | Remote Server System for Combining Audio Files and for Managing Combined Audio Files for Downloading by Local Systems - A web-based method of combining time coded audio files, having the following steps: (a) a local operator using a web-based interface displayed on a local computer system to access a library of audio files stored on a remote system; (b) the local operator using the web-based interface to select a plurality of the audio files from the library; (c) the local operator using the web-based interface to request the remote system to combine the selected audio files into a single combined audio segment comprising the selected audio files commencing play at audio cue markers; (d) the remote system generating the single combined audio segment by combining the plurality of selected audio files; and (e) the local operator using the web-based interface to download or stream the single combined audio segment. | 06-09-2016 |
20160170982 | Method and System for Joint Representations of Related Concepts | 06-16-2016 |
20160170983 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD | 06-16-2016 |
20160171076 | DISPLAYING AT LEAST ONE CATEGORIZED MESSAGE BASED ON A PERCENTAGE | 06-16-2016 |
20160171078 | System and Method for Triggering an Event in Response to Receiving a Device Identifier | 06-16-2016 |
20160171084 | AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION VIA CONTENT ANALYSIS AT STORAGE TIME | 06-16-2016 |
20160171097 | METHOD TO ASSESS AND ENHANCE VALUE CHARACTERISTICS OF PUBLISHED EMPIRICAL LITERATURE | 06-16-2016 |
20160179924 | PERSONA BASED CONTENT MODIFICATION | 06-23-2016 |
20160179927 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPARING AND ASSOCIATING OBJECTS | 06-23-2016 |
20160179929 | CLASSIFYING UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORS | 06-23-2016 |
20160188582 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING HOSTS AND STORAGE DEVICES IN A STORAGE SYSTEM - A system and method for monitoring hosts and storage devices in a storage system includes a memory containing machine readable medium comprising machine executable code having stored thereon instructions for performing a method of managing application performance and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to execute the machine executable code to detect a first datasource for a storage device, determine one or more first storage identifiers associated with the storage device, record the first storage identifiers, detect a second datasource for a compute resource, determine a file system used by the compute resource, determine a second storage identifier associated with the file system, and in response to determining that the second storage identifier matches one of the first storage identifiers, record a first association between the file system and the compute resource and record a second association between the file system and the storage device. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188609 | System and Method for Model-based Search and Retrieval of Networked Data - A method for processing a query includes parsing the query into part of speech (POS) tokens, categorizing the POS tokens into content tokens and context tokens, and mapping the content tokens to a first set of model elements. The method also includes mapping the context tokens to a second set of model elements, mapping the first and second sets of model elements into a set of combined model elements, and producing a set of extensible markup language (XML) schema definition(s) (XSD) files from the first, and second sets of model elements, and the set of combined model elements. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188709 | MANAGEMENT, CATEGORIZATION, CONTEXTUALIZING AND SHARING OF METADATA-BASED CONTENT FOR MEDIA - A computer system for identifying and associating metadata across related media with the same content. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188711 | QUANTIFICATION BASED CLASSIFIER - Methods, computing systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include selecting a dataset that includes instances, each of the instances having respective features, and determining an expected distribution of the instances among multiple categories. A first classification is generated that includes, for each of the instances based on their respective features, one or more first categories and a corresponding confidence score for each of the one or more categories. One or more of the instances classified into the given category are allocated to each given category, based on their respective confidence scores, using the allocated one or more instances, a second classification is generated. | 06-30-2016 |
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20160196327 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | 07-07-2016 |
20160196329 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MINING CATEGORY ASPECT INFORMATION | 07-07-2016 |
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20160378846 | OBJECT BASED STORAGE CLUSTER WITH MULTIPLE SELECTABLE DATA HANDLING POLICIES - Methods and systems to configure an object-based storage cluster with multiple selectable data handling policies, including to map an object to a storage device/node of the cluster based on the policy associated with the object. In an embodiment, each policy is associated with a respective one of multiple rings, partitions of which are mapped to storage devices of the same cluster, objects are associated with buckets/containers, and each bucket/container is associated within a user-selectable one of the policies, such as with a metadata-based policy index, and an object is mapped to a storage device/node of the cluster based on the ring associated with the policy index of the object's container. | 12-29-2016 |
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20180025059 | RECORD MATCHING SYSTEM | 01-25-2018 |
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