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20100063972 | ADDRESS BOOK CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION APPARATUS, ADDRESS BOOK CREATION METHOD THEREOF AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In an address book central administration apparatus, a data collector collects at least transmission logs from a plurality of image processing apparatuses connected to the address book central administration apparatus via a network, a destination data extractor extracts from the collected transmission logs, destination data pieces included in the transmission logs, and an importance level calculator calculates levels of importance of the destination data pieces. And then, destination data pieces having high levels of importance among those having the calculated levels of importance, are registered in address books. | 03-11-2010 |
20100070510 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RATING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - A system and method for rating an electronic document such as an advertisement. Rating information is received from one or more evaluators. A signal relevant to a criteria is received and a determination is made whether to deliver the document in response to the signal based on the criteria and the rating information from the one or more evaluators. | 03-18-2010 |
20100082637 | Web Page and Web Site Importance Estimation Using Aggregate Browsing History - Particular embodiments of the present invention are related to estimating the importance of web sites based on the aggregate browsing history of one or more users. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082638 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THRESHOLDS VIA WEIGHTED QUANTILE ANALYSIS - Methods and systems for determination of thresholds for time-series data. Data is transformed by reducing outliers, dividing the time series data into discrete time intervals, and taking parts of the data corresponding to the range that the thresholds will bound. If data cycles are known, they may be applied to the data and the resulting sets are weighted. Thresholds are then derived from the weighted means and variances of the sets of weighted data. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082639 | PROCESSING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD FOR LISTWISE RANKINGS - The present invention introduces a new approach to learning systems. More specifically, the present invention provides learned methods for optimize ranking models. In one aspect of the present invention, an objective function is defined as the likelihood of ground truth based on a Luce model. In another aspect, techniques of the present invention provide a way of representing different kinds of ground truths as a constraint set of permutations. In yet another aspect of the present invention, techniques of the present invention provide a way of learning the model parameter by maximizing the likelihood of the ground truth. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082640 | GUIDING USER MODERATION BY CONFIDENCE LEVELS - Methods for guiding user moderation at a topic page by confidence levels includes presenting a topic page in response to a query. The topic page includes a plurality of modules with content that match the query. The topic page is associated with a confidence level and with one or more page attributes that define the characteristics of the topic page and the modules included therein. One or more modifications to the topic page are received as part of customization of the topic page. The modifications include a plurality of page attributes that define the modification and a plurality of user attributes of a user performing the modification. The modifications are evaluated based on the page attributes and user attributes including confidence levels associated with the topic page and the user. The modifications are implemented based on the evaluation. The implemented modifications enhance the quality and confidence level of the topic page. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082641 | Analyzing Content to be Displayed - First content configured for generating a media item is identified; a portion of the first content as being configured to obtain second content for presentation on the page is identified; and at least one parameter associated with the identified portion is identified, including determining whether the presentation of the plurality of advertisements in the media item reflects the ranking order. | 04-01-2010 |
20100094878 | Contextual Targeting of Content Using a Monetization Platform - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for using a monetization platform server to associate sponsored content with contextual information relating to mobile content, and storing the sponsored content-contextual information association in a data facility for future use in optimizing the delivery of a sponsored content to a mobile communication facility based at least in part on a display datum associated with the mobile communication facility, wherein the display datum includes a contextual datum. | 04-15-2010 |
20100100554 | TECHNIQUES FOR MEASURING THE RELEVANCY OF CONTENT CONTRIBUTIONS - Techniques for measuring the relevancy of content contributions are provided. Relevancy measurements for components of a collection of content are obtained. The relevancy measurements, the components to which they relate, and the collection of content as a whole are organized into a graphical presentation for subsequent analysis of the components vis-a-vis the collect of content as a whole. | 04-22-2010 |
20100106730 | METHOD OF INTERMEDIATION WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORK OF USERS OF A SERVICE/APPLICATION TO EXPOSE RELEVANT MEDIA ITEMS - The present invention relates to a method where consumers, using an electronic networked terminal, play an active and crucial role in detecting, promoting, popularizing, accessing, performing financial transactions for and consuming content media items and/or their creators and/or any other linked information. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a method where a list ( | 04-29-2010 |
20100106731 | Determining Alternative Textual Identifiers Such as For Registered Domain Names - A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described that determines alternatives to a specified textual identifier, such as a domain name, by identifying and using words and phrases that are related to the identifier. A variety of types of related words can be used, such as synonyms and translations, and the related words can be determined in a variety of ways. One situation in which alternatives can be generated is after a user has requested to use or acquire an unavailable textual identifier, such as a request to register an already registered domain name, and the determined alternatives can then be presented to the user as possibilities for use or acquisition. When multiple alternatives are presented to the user, they can also be ranked as to relevance and ordered in a variety of ways. | 04-29-2010 |
20100114907 | COLLABORATIVE BOOKMARKING - A method and system for collaborating tags in a bookmarking system wherein the bookmarking system includes a plurality of tags applied to content items by a plurality of users, the method and system including, examining all the tags that are applied to all the content items, determining whether two tags have been assigned to the same content item, if two tags have been assigned to the same content item, computing the relative strength of each of the two tags with respect to each other. | 05-06-2010 |
20100114908 | RELEVANT NAVIGATION WITH DEEP LINKS INTO QUERY - Methods and computer-readable media for determining relevant search categories, such as images, videos, news, health, maps, products, etc., and subcategories that are associated with the search categories based on a query submitted by a user on a search page and displaying the relevant search categories and subcategories on an initial search results page. A query may be inputted by a user and may be received. A set of suggested refinement links, which may include search categories and subcategories, may be identified as being relevant to the query. Further, the subcategories, when selected, may return narrower search results than when a selection is made of a search category. Additionally, the initial search results page may be generated and may include the set of suggested refinement links determined to be relevant to the query, as well as search results. | 05-06-2010 |
20100114909 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED GRID PROCESSING - A method and system for improved processing of volumetric data. The method includes encoding the volumetric data into a plurality of blocks, wherein each block is associated with: a block topology denoting a relative location of the block within the volumetric data and a set of elements, and each element is associated with: an element topology denoting a relative location of the element within the associated block and a data value. The method includes encoding each block into a value table and an element bit-mask, wherein the value table stores element values, and the element bit-mask indicates non-zero element values. The method includes randomly accessing an element value, further comprising: determining a selected block containing the element value from the element coordinate, computing a value table offset from the element coordinate, and accessing the element value in the value table with the value table offset. | 05-06-2010 |
20100114910 | Blog search apparatus and method using blog authority estimation - A blog search method includes estimating authority scores of target blogs to be searched by using local information about the target blogs; calculating priorities of the target blogs based on the authority scores and the presence of documents satisfying a query; and sequentially searching the target blogs based on the priorities. The authority scores is estimated by using at least one of the number of neighboring blogs linked via trackbacks and the number of neighboring blogs linked via comments as the local information. | 05-06-2010 |
20100114911 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND SOFTWARE FOR CLASSIFYING TEXT FROM JUDICIAL OPINIONS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS - To reduce cost and improve accuracy, the inventors devised systems, methods, and software to aid classification of text, such as headnotes and other documents, to target classes in a target classification system. For example, one system computes composite scores based on: similarity of input text to text assigned to each of the target classes; similarity of non-target classes assigned to the input text and target classes; probability of a target class given a set of one or more non-target classes assigned to the input text; and/or probability of the input text given text assigned to the target classes. The exemplary system then evaluates the composite scores using class-specific decision criteria, such as thresholds, ultimately assigning or recommending assignment of the input text to one or more of the target classes. The exemplary system is particularly suitable for classification systems having thousands of classes. | 05-06-2010 |
20100121857 | Internet based method and system for ranking artists using a popularity profile - A set of data pertaining to artists and other content creators is retrieved periodically from various Internet-connected sources, the data being characterized as both quantitative and qualitative data. The data is analyzed through various means, including sentiment analysis, to produce quantitative information, including a score or set of scores, that is descriptive of an artist's popularity as well as the ranking of an artist among other artists within a category or set of categories. | 05-13-2010 |
20100121858 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A VIRTUAL JOB MARKET - The present invention relates to a method for providing a virtual job market on a network comprising an application server and clients and/or electronic message systems allowing to input and output information, wherein the method comprises the following steps: providing primary dimensions information on industries, career levels and functional areas; providing secondary dimensions information on salary ranges and/or geo-data and/or educational information and/or languages and/or special expertises, entering the primary and secondary dimensions information in a three dimensional data base on the application server; collecting information chunks of open jobs and candidate profiles, and placing the information chunks in a distinct cell or number of cells in the three dimensional database. Further, the present invention relates to a system for providing a virtual job market on a network comprising an application server and clients and/or electronic message systems including at least a first database comprising candidate profiles, a second database comprising salary information and a third database comprising job information, wherein the information available in the three databases is matched in a three dimensional database model. | 05-13-2010 |
20100121859 | WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT CONTROL PROGRAM - A workflow management system for managing a constructive workflow includes a storing unit, to which a user inputs a search condition to search for documents relevant to a target task and tasks neighboring to the target task, and which stores the input search condition in a query database by causing the condition to relate to the target task, a search condition obtaining unit which obtains a search condition to search for the documents relevant to the target task from the query database when the documents relevant to the target task are requested to be searched for, a restructuring unit which restructures the obtained search condition to a search condition having a predetermined format by considering a type and a weighting factor of the type included in the obtained search condition, and a searching unit which obtains a list of documents from a document database based on the restructured search condition. | 05-13-2010 |
20100121860 | Method and Apparatus of Generating Update Parameters and Displaying Correlated Keywords - Provided is a method of generating updating parameters. The method obtains search keywords used by users within a predetermined time period; counts the search keywords to obtain primary keywords, related keywords, co-search frequencies of each primary keyword and the respective related keywords being searched together, and search frequencies of the primary keywords being searched alone; computes first feature values based on the search frequencies of the primary keywords being searched alone; and then computes second feature values based on the first feature values and the co-search frequencies of the primary keywords and the respective related keywords. The second feature values serve as updating parameters for determining displaying modes of the related keywords. An apparatus of generating updating parameters, and a method and an apparatus of displaying related keywords according to the updating parameters are also provided. The solution keeps abreast with the user trends to allow a better user experience and improve computing performance and efficiency. For a service provider, no special secret algorithm is needed, and the operation is easy with a low development cost. | 05-13-2010 |
20100125585 | Conjoint Analysis with Bilinear Regression Models for Segmented Predictive Content Ranking - Information with respect to users, items, and interactions between the users and items is collected. Each user is associated with a set of user features. Each item is associated with a set of item features. An expected score function is defined for each user-item pair, which represents an expected score a user assigns an item. An objective represents the difference between the expected score and the actual score a user assigns an item. The expected score function and the objective function share at least one common variable. The objective function is minimized to find best fit for some of the at least one common variable. Subsequently, the expected score function is used to calculate expected scores for individual users or clusters of users with respect to a set of items that have not received actual scores from the users. The set of items are ranked based on their expected scores. | 05-20-2010 |
20100125586 | Parametric Analysis of Media Metadata - A method is disclosed that includes receiving a request to transmit a first multimedia file. The first multimedia file is associated with a first file descriptor. The method includes automatically generating a first generated content descriptor by analyzing the first multimedia file using a first set of analysis parameters. The method also includes comparing the first generated content descriptor to the first file descriptor and determining a first score based on a deviation of the first generated content descriptor from the first file descriptor. | 05-20-2010 |
20100138427 | METHOD OF ORGANISING CONTENT ITEMS - A method of organising content items includes obtaining information ( | 06-03-2010 |
20100145953 | Method and system for personalized health management based on user-specific criteria - The present invention relates to dispensation of health care, specifically to personalized management of an individual user's health care. The invention presents a method of integrating personal risk analysis of the user as well as the resources utilized by the health care industry, including insurers, medical services providers and manufacturers, care givers and other participants in the user's health care decision making. Utilizing various filters with specific and known health risk factors and user preference models for the individual consumer, the system and method of this invention provide comprehensive information, including products and services of interest to the consumer, user community or another one of interested parties listed above. | 06-10-2010 |
20100153404 | RANKING AND SELECTING ENTITIES BASED ON CALCULATED REPUTATION OR INFLUENCE SCORES - Ranking and selecting entities based on calculated reputation or influence scores is provided. In some embodiments, a method includes determining whether a first entity is a subject or an object; determining whether a second entity is a subject or an object; and generating a graph, in which a subset of the graph is a subject graph of subject nodes that includes at least one or more subjects (e.g., subject entities) linked to one or more other subjects, and in which the graph includes one or more objects (e.g., object entities) each linked to one or more subjects in the subject graph. In some embodiments, the graph includes directed and undirected links. In some embodiments, the graph includes one or more objects linked to one or more objects. | 06-17-2010 |
20100161618 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING KEYWORD RANKING USING COMMON AFFIX - A method and system for providing keyword ranking using a common affix is provided. The method for providing keyword ranking using the common affix includes: extracting a common affix using a keyword set; and providing keyword ranking which includes the extracted common affix. | 06-24-2010 |
20100169323 | Query-Dependent Ranking Using K-Nearest Neighbor - Described is a technology in which documents associated with a query are ranked by a ranking model that depends on the query. When a query is processed, a ranking model for the query is selected/determined based upon nearest neighbors to the query in query feature space. In one aspect, the ranking model is trained online, based on a training set obtained from a number of nearest neighbors to the query. In an alternative aspect, ranking models are trained offline using training sets; the query is used to find a most similar training set based on nearest neighbors of the query, with the ranking model that corresponds to the most similar training set being selected for ranking. In another alternative aspect, the ranking models are trained offline, with the nearest neighbor to the query determined and used to select its associated ranking model. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169324 | RANKING DOCUMENTS WITH SOCIAL TAGS - Technologies are described herein for ranking documents with social tags. A number ranking feature containing a number of times a document was tagged is received. A textual property ranking feature containing a union of each social tag associated with the document is also received. The number ranking feature is transformed into a static input value. Further, the textual property ranking feature is transformed into a dynamic input value. A document rank for the document is determined by inputting the static input value and/or the dynamic input value into a ranking function. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169325 | SEARCH RESULTS DISPLAY FOR WEIGHTED MULTI-TERM SEARCHES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for displaying search results for weighted, multi-term content searches. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for displaying search results for weighted, multi-term content searches is provided. The method includes specifying different weighted search terms for a content search and performing the content search for both content and content meta-data in a search engine. The method also includes retrieving search results for the content search and computing a relevance for each of the weighted search terms. Finally, the method includes presenting both the search results and also a relevance indicator for each computed relevance for each of the weighted search terms found in connection with each of the search results in a user interface to the search engine. | 07-01-2010 |
20100174722 | FILTERS FOR SHARED CONTENT IN AN ONLINE COMMUNITY - Online communities publish vast quantities of video content. According to YouTube, an average of ten hours of media is posted to its website every minute. According to some embodiments of the inventive subject matter, an online community allows users to rate offensiveness of content and to apply filters to the content when the ratings indicate offensiveness is above a threshold. Filters can disturb or obscure offensive content so that it is less viewable. For example, a filter may be applied to an offensive video. The filter can blur the video's images and reduce the quality of sound associated with the video. In addition, warning may be applied to a link to content that indicates the offensiveness of the content. The filter and warning can provide a visual warning to users before they decide to access the content. | 07-08-2010 |
20100179955 | Relational Pattern Discovery Across Multiple Databases - A system and method of identifying relational patterns across a plurality of databases using a data structure and the data structure itself. The data structure including one or more data node branches, each of the one or more data node branches including one or more data nodes, each of the one or more data nodes representing a data item of interest and corresponding data item support values for the data item across the plurality of databases in relation to other data items represented in the data node branch. The data structure can be used to mine one or more relational patterns considering pattern support data across the plurality of databases at the same time. | 07-15-2010 |
20100179956 | ANALYZING QUERIES TO GENERATE PRODUCT INTENTION RULES - A method to generate a first product intention rule is described. The method includes generating a keyword support value for a keyword in a query, the keyword support value representing a level of use of the keyword in one or more queries received at an e-commerce portal. A keyword confidence value is generated to represent uses of the keyword in the one or more queries associated with a purchase of a first product. A first product intention rule is generated based on the keyword support value transgressing a support threshold and the keyword confidence value transgressing a confidence threshold. The first product intention rule is stored in a database. | 07-15-2010 |
20100185623 | TOPICAL RANKING IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - An aggregate ranking model is generated, which comprises a general ranking model and one or more topical training models. Each topical ranking model is associated with a topic, or topic class, and for use in ranking search result items determined to belong to the topic, or topic class. As one example, the topical ranking model is trained using a set of topical training data, e.g., training data determined to belong to the topic, or topic class, a general ranking model and a residue, or error, determined from a general ranking generated by the general ranking model for the topical training data, with the topical ranking model being trained to minimize the general ranking model's error in the aggregate ranking model. | 07-22-2010 |
20100185624 | COLORBLIND ACCESSIBLE IMAGE SEARCH - Colorblind accessible image search technique embodiments are presented that re-rank the results of a relevance-ranked image search to account for the accessibility of the images to a colorblind person. This is accomplished by first computing a colorblind accessibility quantity for each image of interest in the search results. A colorblind accessibility quantity quantizes the degree to which color information is preserved when an image is perceived by a colorblind person viewing the image. It is computed by generating a colorblind version of an image that simulates how the image would appear to the colorblind person. An amount quantifying the loss of color information between the image and the colorblind version of the image is then estimated. This estimate is used to compute the colorblind accessibility quantity for the image. Once the colorblind accessibility quantities have been computed, the image search results are re-ranked based on these quantities. | 07-22-2010 |
20100185625 | System and Method for Evaluating/Determining Relationship Compatibility Among Members of a Social Network, and for Referring Compatible Members to Each Other - Disclosed, among other things, is a method for evaluating/determining relationship compatibility among a pool of individuals and for referring compatible members to each other for dating and/or other types of relationships. | 07-22-2010 |
20100185626 | DELEGATED AUTHORITY EVALUATION SYSTEM - The invention provides an evaluation system for reliably evaluating large amounts of content. The evaluation system is managed by a primary authority that designates one or more contributing authorities by delegating to each a specific quantity of authority. Each contributing authority may in turn designate and delegate authority to one or more additional contributing authorities, subject to the restriction that the total quantity of authority delegated does not exceed the quantity of authority the contributing authority was itself delegated. Each contributing authority, and optionally the primary authority itself, may evaluate one or more portions of content by associating a rating with each evaluated portion of content. A composite rating for a particular portion of content may then be determined based upon the ratings associated with the portion of content. Preferably, the ratings are combined in a manner that affords a higher priority to the ratings provided by contributing authorities to which a greater quantity of authority was delegated. | 07-22-2010 |
20100191739 | Structuring and searching data in a hierarchical confidence-based configuration - A method and a system are provided for structuring and searching data in a hierarchical confidence-based configuration. In one example, the system receives data and assigns a confidence quality tier to the data. The confidence quality tier is in a range that spans from a highest confidence quality tier inclusive to a lowest confidence quality tier inclusive. Data of a particular confidence quality tier is configured to be searched before data of a relatively lower confidence quality tier. The system organizes the data in a selected server of a server system according to the confidence quality tier. The selected server is in the range that spans from the highest confidence quality tier inclusive to the lowest confidence quality tier inclusive. | 07-29-2010 |
20100191740 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RANKING WEB SEARCHES WITH QUANTIFIED SEMANTIC FEATURES - A system and method for ranking web searches with quantified semantic features. A query for a web search is received from a user. The query is segmented and tagged into one or more linguistic segments using linguistic analysis. At least some of the linguistic segments are tagged with a linguistic type. A query execution plan is generated comprising the linguistic segments and, for each of the linguistic segments tagged with a linguistic type, at least one tag attribute comprising at least one domain specific feature of the linguistic type. A search is performed for documents matching the query. Each of the documents is scored for each of the linguistic segments of the query execution plan using the tag attributes of the respective linguistic segment. The documents are ranked using a function that uses the scores of the documents. A ranked list of the documents is transmitted back to the user. | 07-29-2010 |
20100191741 | System And Method For Using Banded Topic Relevance And Time For Article Prioritization - A system and method for using banded topic relevance and time for article prioritization is provided. Articles of digital information and at least one social index are maintained. The social index includes topics that each relate to one or more of the articles. Fine-grained topic models matched to the digital information for each topic are retrieved. The articles are succinctly classified under the topics using the fine-grained topic models. Each of the articles is relevancy scored within the topic under which the article was classified. The articles are arranged into discrete bands by relevance score. The articles are temporally sorted within the discrete bands. The articles are presented within the discrete bands. | 07-29-2010 |
20100191742 | System And Method For Managing User Attention By Detecting Hot And Cold Topics In Social Indexes - A system and method for managing user attention by detecting hot topics in social indexes is provided. Articles of digital information and at least one social index are maintained. The social index includes topics that each relate to one or more of the articles. Topic models matched to the digital information are retrieved for each topic. The articles are classified under the topics using the topic models. Each of the topics in the social index is evaluated for hotness. A plurality of time periods projected from the present is defined. Counts of the articles appearing under each time period are evaluated. The topics exhibiting a rising curve in the count of the articles that increases with recency during the time periods are chosen. Quality of the articles within the topics chosen is analyzed. The topics including the articles having acceptable quality are presented. | 07-29-2010 |
20100191743 | Contextual similarity measures for objects and retrieval, classification, and clustering using same - A method of comparing first and second objects in a context comprises: maximizing or minimizing a quantitative comparison of the first object and a mixture of the second object and the context respective to a weighting parameter that controls the mixture; and outputting a comparison value based on the value of the weighting parameter determined by the maximizing or minimizing. | 07-29-2010 |
20100198835 | Annotating Content With Context Metadata - A method of annotating content with context metadata comprising:
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20100198836 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALCULATING A JUST-IN-TIME REPUTATION SCORE - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating a just-in-time reputation score. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a user generated content item from a user, calculating an initial reputation score and retrieving a plurality of rules. The method then analyzes the user generated content item based on the rules and determines a just-in-time reputation score based on the analysis. Finally, the method displays the just-in-time reputation score and the content item to the user. | 08-05-2010 |
20100198837 | IDENTIFYING QUERY ASPECTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating aspects associated with entities. In some implementations, a method includes receiving data identifying an entity; generating a group of candidate aspects for the entity; modifying the group of candidate aspects to generate a group of modified candidate aspects comprising combining similar candidate aspects and grouping candidate aspects using one or more aspect classes each associated with one or more candidate aspects; ranking one or more modified candidate aspects in the group of modified candidate aspects based on a diversity score and a popularity score; and storing an association between one or more highest ranked modified candidate aspects and the entity. The aspects can be used to organize and present search results in response to queries for the entity. | 08-05-2010 |
20100198838 | MANAGING ADD-ONS - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing recommendations for an add-on to a base program operating on a computing device, thus allowing a user to make a more informed decision as to whether to allow the add-on to be installed or not. To make the recommendation, collection software is queried for information about an add-on when installation or instantiation of the add-on is detected on the computing device. Information about the add-on is collected by the collection software, which comprises one or more add-on detection programs. A recommendation for applying the add-on (or not) is generated using the collected information, where the recommendation comprises a ranking based on detection program prioritization. | 08-05-2010 |
20100205183 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SELECTIVE DECODING OF SEARCH RESULT MESSAGES - Methods and systems are provided that may be used to selectively decode results in messages received from child nodes for a particular search query. | 08-12-2010 |
20100211574 | Method and Apparatus for Obtaining Forensic Evidence from Personal Digital Technologies - A system and method for personal digital technology forensics. The system and method can provide for the forensic identification, preservation, acquisition, analysis, presentation, exportation, and correlation of evidence obtained personal digital technologies including that obtained from cellular phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and smart phones. | 08-19-2010 |
20100223266 | SCALING DYNAMIC AUTHORITY-BASED SEARCH USING MATERIALIZED SUBGRAPHS - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for processing a query is provided. The method includes generating a set of pre-computed materialized sub-graphs from a dataset and receiving a search query having one or more search query terms. A particular one of the pre-computed materialized sub-graphs is accessed and a dynamic authority-based keyword search is executed on the particular one of the pre-computed materialized sub-graphs. Nodes in the dataset are then retrieved based on the executing, and a response to the search query is provided which includes the retrieved nodes. | 09-02-2010 |
20100228738 | ADAPTIVE DOCUMENT SAMPLING FOR INFORMATION EXTRACTION - A method and apparatus for improved sampling documents for training sets input to information extraction systems is provided, which improves the recall and robustness of wrapper extraction. A passive sampling technique provides a list of documents to present for human annotation ordered by representativeness of the document based on structural and content statistics. Thus, the document with the most interesting attributes and which is most representative of the cluster of structurally similar documents to which the document pertains is presented for annotation first. The problem is mapped to classical ‘Set-Cover’ problem and solved using greedy approach. An active sampling technique refines and reorders the sample list produced by the passive sampling technique after initial annotations, based on the human annotation, spatial boundaries of the documents, and structural and content statistics. The proposed techniques work at a site level and perform page-level structural analysis using XPath-term frequency, XPath-document frequency, and XPath-importance. | 09-09-2010 |
20100228739 | Methods and Systems for Automatically Determining a Default Hierarchy from Data - This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for determining a natural hierarchy for a data set. The method determines one or more pair-wise combinations within the data set. The one or more pair-wise combinations each include a first field and a second field from the database. The method then determines a distinct count for each entry in the first field grouped by the second field of the one or more pair-wise combinations, and determines that the distinct counts for each entry has a value equal to one. The method further includes based on the determination that the distinct counts for each entry have a value equal to one, setting the first field in the pair-wise combination as the parent and the second field in the pair-wise combination as the child in a default hierarchy for the data set. | 09-09-2010 |
20100228740 | COMMUNITY PLAYLIST MANAGEMENT - System and method in tangible computer-readable media are disclosed for facilitating community interaction with a playlist. A host system communicates with a plurality of portable devices to transmit information about the items in the playlist. Users of the portable device queue additional selections or vote on media items in the playlist. Based on user voting the playlist is rearranged to accommodate the preferences of the community. Both registered and guest users participate in managing the playlist. Such a system and method can be particularly useful in a variety of social gathering situations. | 09-09-2010 |
20100235361 | Optimizing Questionnaires - Online and other electronic surveys are increasingly being looked upon as highly useful and versatile tools for gauging popular opinions in a variety of areas. Challenges continually arise in terms of optimizing questionnaires so as to maximize their effectiveness in mapping trends among a population over time. There is broadly contemplated herein, in accordance with at least one embodiment, of the invention, the automation of the usage of value dependencies by way of exposing and eliminating redundancy in survey or questionnaire databases. Dynamically, updated information can be used to continuously evolve a selection of questions, while fairness can be ensured in this selection by averting a situation of continual non-selection of certain questions. | 09-16-2010 |
20100235362 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RANKING UNCERTAIN DATA IN A PROBABILISTIC DATABASE - Methods and apparatus for ranking uncertain data in a probabilistic database are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises using a set of data tuples representing a plurality of possible data set instantiations associated with a respective plurality of instantiation probabilities to store non-deterministic data in a database, each data tuple corresponding to a set of possible data tuple instantiations, each data set instantiation realizable by selecting a respective data tuple instantiation for at least some of the data tuples, the method further comprising determining an expected rank for each data tuple included in at least a subset of the set of data tuples, the expected rank for a particular data tuple representing a combination of weighted component ranks of the particular data tuple, each component rank representing a ranking of the data tuple in a corresponding data set instantiation, each component ranking weighted by a respective instantiation probability. | 09-16-2010 |
20100235363 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MULTIMEDIA FILES - A method for displaying multimedia files via an electronic device using a first display program and a second display program to classify and rank the multimedia files. The first display program classifies the multimedia files to one or more categorized groups according to a first feature of each image file, and ranks the multimedia files in each categorized group according to a second feature of each image file. The second display program classifies the multimedia files to one or more categorized groups according to the second feature of each image file, and ranks the multimedia files in each categorized group according to the first feature of each image file. | 09-16-2010 |
20100241633 | METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING WEB PAGES AND ORGANISING CORRESPONDING CONTENTS - A method for classifying Web pages and organising their contents comprises a recording step of a plurality of Internet addresses, comprising executions of a plurality of automatic recording processes of the plurality of Internet addresses, and a selection step, for setting a corresponding pertinence value to said plurality of Internet addresses. The selection step sets the corresponding pertinence value to a pertinence value proportional to a hit thereof in the plurality of Internet addresses and selects the Internet addresses with pertinence value greater than a predetermined threshold value; the method further comprises a reduction step, which, starting from the Internet addresses with pertinence value greater than the threshold value, reduces the Internet addresses to the Internet addresses meeting one or more essentiality criteria, and a validation step for validating a subset of the Internet addresses meeting the essentiality criteria; the validation step comprises a human action. | 09-23-2010 |
20100241634 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF RANKING TRANSACTION CHANNELS ASSOCIATED WITH REAL WORLD IDENTITIES, BASED ON THEIR ATTRIBUTES AND PREFERENCES - A method and system for ranking transaction channels, for enabling transactions between two or more real world identities within one or more networks is provided. The real world identities have various transaction channels associated with them. Relationships between the real world identities and contexts are asserted by the identities, and also inferred by the system. Thereafter, a channel ranking score for each transaction channel is computed, based on the availability of the channel; and contexts and the relationships. The channels are ranked dynamically, and the most appropriate channel for transaction is selected based on the channel ranking scores. | 09-23-2010 |
20100250553 | Data display apparatus, method ,and program - A display apparatus includes: a first memory to store a plurality of contents and pieces of content information including a plurality of elements; an element selector to select at least part of the plural elements correspond to a first content; a determine unit to determine whether or not the selected element matches the plural elements correspond to the contents; a generator to generate corresponding information for each of the contents based on a result of the determination; a second memory to store pieces of the corresponding information; a content selector to select a second content; a calculator to calculate degrees of association to the second content; a deciding unit to decide a arrangement positions of the plural contents except the second content according to the degrees of association calculated by the calculator; and a display unit to display the contents at the arrangement positions decided by the deciding unit. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250554 | ADDING AND PROCESSING TAGS WITH EMOTION DATA - Emotion data is added to tags. The emotion data is generated by a user upon accessing content. The emotion data is obtained from measurable physiological parameters that reflect the user's emotions while accessing the content. The emotion data can be used to provide services. | 09-30-2010 |
20100262610 | Identifying Subject Matter Experts - Identifying subject matter experts including receiving, by an SME search engine from a user, a search request including text corresponding to a particular subject matter; finding, in one or more information repositories, in dependence upon the text of the search request, one or more resources, including determining for each resource a credibility rating; identifying one or more potential subject matter experts associated with the resources; calculating, for each of the potential subject matter experts, in dependence upon the credibility rating of the each resource, a weighted expert score representing an estimated level of expertise for each potential subject matter expert; and returning, to the user by the SME search engine as one more search results, the potential subject matter experts in order of the weighted expert scores along with resources associated with the potential subject matter experts. | 10-14-2010 |
20100262611 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE MATCHING OF USER PROFILES BASED ON VIEWING AND CONTACT ACTIVITY FOR SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP SERVICES - A method and system which adaptively recommends potential relationships to individual users based on a set of items that are known to be of interest to the user, such as a set of potential matches previously messaged by the user. The system generates the adaptive recommendations using previously-generated user activity that indicates the user's preferences of particular attributes. | 10-14-2010 |
20100274789 | OPERATIONAL RELIABILITY INDEX FOR THE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer program products for an operational reliability index (“ORI”) scoring system in the knowledge management system that is standardized and centralized across the channels and sub-channels in an organization. The ORI system scores the reliability or confidence of the channels, sub-channels, and applications in an organization. The ORI receives reliability data associated with one or more predictability factors related to a business application. The ORI determines predictability factor reliability scores for each of the one or more predictability factors based on the reliability data and weighted values assigned to the predictability factors. Weighted values are also assigned to the categories, applications, sub-channels, and channels. The ORI determines at least one of a category reliability score, application reliability score, business sub-channel reliability score, or business channel score based on the determined predictability factor reliability scores and the weighted values. | 10-28-2010 |
20100274790 | System And Method For Implicit Tagging Of Documents Using Search Query Data - A computer-implemented system and method for implicit tagging of documents using search query data is provided. A corpus of documents including electronically-stored digital data is identified. A search query including one or more query terms from a user is received. The search query is executed against the document corpus. Search results including an identifier for each of the documents in the corpus that matches at least one of the query terms are obtained. A selection of one or more of the identifiers by the user is captured. A set of click-through tags that each include the user, one of the selected identifiers, and the matching query terms is created. | 10-28-2010 |
20100274791 | WEB-BASED TOOL FOR DETECTING BIAS IN REVIEWS - One embodiment provides a computer system for detecting associations between a reviewer and an entity under review. During operation, the system estimates a relationship strength between the reviewer and the entity under review, and determines whether the relationship strength between the reviewer and the entity under review exceeds a predetermined threshold. | 10-28-2010 |
20100281033 | Ranking System - Ranking systems are described. In an embodiment a large scale data center has peta bytes of items and a query engine is provided to find the top k most frequently occurring items. In embodiments, samples are taken from the data center at least until a specified number of samplings is met, or until a stopping rule is met. In examples, the samples form a sample sketch which is used to find the top k most frequently occurring items without the need to examine every item in the data center. In other examples, the number of samplings or stopping rule is varied to provide ranks or frequencies. In other embodiments the ranking system operates on items having values to find separators which divide the items into bins such that the proportion of the items in each bin is different. For example, a data set may be apportioned to different types of processor. | 11-04-2010 |
20100281034 | Query-Independent Entity Importance in Books - A corpus contains information including text from books and metadata about the books. The book texts mention entities of various types, such as location, date, event, and person entities. An entity importance engine analyzes the information in the corpus to identify the entities mentioned therein, and ranks the entities using query-independent importance scores. The importance scores can be based in part on the contexts in which the entities are mentioned by the books. A presentation engine enables searching of the corpus to identify books satisfying a search query. The presentation engine presents information about a designated book. Entities mentioned in the book are presented in a style selected to enhance comprehension and utility. For example, location entities can be presented on a map with markers showing the locations of the entities. The number of entities presented are limited and ordered based on the query-independent importance scores. | 11-04-2010 |
20100287167 | ADAPTIVE RANDOM TREES INTEGER NON-LINEAR PROGRAMMING - A system and method for building segmented scorecards for a population is presented. A model of the population is built using a model builder computer, and one or more variables used by the model builder to build the model is stored in a repository. A scorecard is generated for each segment of the population based on the model and using an adaptive random tree computer program. Next, the scorecard for each segment is enhanced using a integer non-linear programming computer program to determine optimal score weights associated with the variables used by the model builder to build the model, and to generate an enhanced segmented scorecard for the population. | 11-11-2010 |
20100293168 | DETERMINING CONFIGURATION PARAMETER DEPENDENCIES VIA ANALYSIS OF CONFIGURATION DATA FROM MULTI-TIERED ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS - Configuration parameter name-value pairs are obtained for each of a plurality of component instances in a deployed software solution. A candidate set of configuration dependencies between different ones of the plurality of component instances in the deployed software solution is identified, based on the configuration parameter name-value pairs. The candidate set of configuration dependencies includes true dependencies and false dependencies. The candidate set of configuration dependencies is rank-ordered to obtain a rank-ordered list, such that a probability of the true dependencies getting a higher rank is greater than a probability of the false dependencies getting a higher rank. | 11-18-2010 |
20100318522 | METHOD OF SEARCHING MULTIMEDIA DATA - A method of searching multimedia data is disclosed in which a search for an image can re-performed by automatically updating weights of features and/or weights of feature elements in the respective feature in an image. | 12-16-2010 |
20100318523 | METHOD OF SEARCHING MULTIMEDIA DATA - A method of searching multimedia data is disclosed in which a search for an image can re-performed by automatically updating weights of features and/or weights of feature elements in the respective feature in an image. | 12-16-2010 |
20100318524 | Displaying Key Differentiators Based On Standard Deviations Within A Distance Metric - Systems and methods are provided to enable viewing and computation of differential data for an item or item subset when compared with other items or subsets. A score may be determined for an item or subset where standard deviations and distance metrics are computed to determine differentiators. In one aspect, a system for comparing data items is provided. The system includes a weighting component to determine a score for an item or subset of items. A differentiator component determines a comparison metric for the item or subset of items based in part on a distance metric to at least one other item or subset of items. A user interface can be provided to display the comparison metrics. | 12-16-2010 |
20100318525 | ATTRIBUTE EXTRACTION METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - Sets of strings of which the drawing positions are arranged in one direction are extracted from a document as attribute groups. An attribute name score is calculated for each attribute group to determine an extent to which each attribute group is a set of attribute names. Based on the attribute name scores, an attribute name group is selected out of the attribute groups. From among the attribute groups, an attribute group which includes a string which is the same as at least one string of the attribute name group and of which the drawing position is the same as that of the string of the attribute name group is selected. From the string at the same drawing position, an attribute name is extracted. From the other strings of the selected attribute group than those at the same drawing position, an attribute value corresponding to the attribute name is extracted. | 12-16-2010 |
20100325114 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING DOCUMENT FRESHNESS - A system determines a freshness of a first document. The system determines whether a freshness attribute is associated with the first document. The system identifies, based on the determination, a set of second documents that each contain a link to the first document. The system assigns a freshness score to the first document based on a freshness attribute associated with each document of the set of second documents or the freshness attribute associated with the first document. | 12-23-2010 |
20100332482 | Real time data collection system and method - A computer implemented real time method for demographic, population or census data collection including the steps of:
| 12-30-2010 |
20110004600 | DATA MANAGEMENT - There is proposed a method of side-loading content onto a mobile device, preferably using a WiFi connection, from a network content store and storing it on the device for viewing later. The method automatically determines when to delete stored content, and more importantly, what content should be transferred over the network in the first instance. The system comprises a content manager which takes into account various parameters to determine what should be transferred and, if required, what should be deleted from the device. The parameters used include user profiles, size of a potential download, as well as available storage space on the device and the predicted duration the device will be in range of a wireless hotspot or broadcast network. | 01-06-2011 |
20110010370 | Method of Generating a Publication - The present invention relates to generating a plurality of publications for a plurality of recipients. | 01-13-2011 |
20110016133 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SELECTING AN ANALYZING INSTRUMENT FOR USE IN A MEDICAL EXAMINATION - A device and a method for automatically selecting an analyzing instrument used for a medical test at medical institutions are provided. The device includes: a receiving unit which receives information about test items; a selecting unit which searches a database and selects from the database an analyzing instrument with which a test indicated by the received information is to be performed; and a display unit which displays the analyzing instrument selected by the selecting unit. | 01-20-2011 |
20110016134 | USING LINK STRUCTURE FOR SUGGESTING RELATED QUERIES - An approach is provided for determining related queries for a given search query based on the linking structure of electronic documents within a document set. Document titles are used to represent potential search queries and links between the electronic documents are used to determine relationships between the potential search queries. As such, the document set may be represented as a directed graph in which document titles (which represent potential search queries) are nodes and links are edges between the nodes. When a particular search query is received, a corresponding node is identified and related queries are determined by identifying other nodes having connections with that node. | 01-20-2011 |
20110022602 | Ranking Social Network Objects - An online social networking system can be used to rank social network objects of various different object types, each according to its type. The objects may comprise types such as users, communities, blogs, blog entries, events, forums, forum topics, postings, photographs, and/or images. The product comprises code for carrying out a method that begins with receiving ranking data about social network objects that comprises data about events performed on the social network. For each social network object, a ranking function is applied to ranking data about the social network object based on its type. In addition, the recency of an event on the social network related to the social network object is evaluated, in order to calculate the score for the social network object. A relative ranking for each of the plurality of social network objects based on its score is determined, and the score and relative ranking of each of the social network objects stored. | 01-27-2011 |
20110022603 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHORING AND DISTRIBUTING MULTIPLE APPLICATION VERSIONS BASED ON AUDIENCE QUALIFIERS - A computer system is used to create and distribute applications. An audience qualifier and a set of categories corresponding to the audience qualifier are selected. A master application template is selected. The master application template may be pre-certified. For each of the selected categories, an application instance is created from the master application template, where the modifications to the master application template for each category are determined at least in part by the characteristics of the category. Metadata describing the audience qualifier and category are associated with each application instance. The application instances and associated metadata are stored. The application instances may be certified. A request for an application is received specifying an audience qualifier and a category. An application instance matching the specified audience qualifier and category is selected from the stored application instances. The selected application instance is supplied in response to the request. | 01-27-2011 |
20110022604 | SCORING LOCAL SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON LOCATION PROMINENCE - A system may identify a first document associated with a geographic location within a geographical area and identify a second document associated with a geographic location outside the geographical area. The system may also assign a first score to the first document based on a first scoring function and assign a second score to the second document based on a second scoring function. | 01-27-2011 |
20110022605 | DOCUMENT SCORING BASED ON LINK-BASED CRITERIA - A method may include receiving a document and an initial score for the document; determining that there has been a decrease in a rate or quantity of new links that point to the document over time; classifying the document as stale in response to the determining; decreasing the initial score for the document, resulting in an updated score; and ranking the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. | 01-27-2011 |
20110022606 | PROCESSES FOR ASSESSING USER AFFINITIES FOR PARTICULAR ITEM CATEGORIES OF A HIERARCHICAL BROWSE STRUCTURE - A computer-implemented system provides a browse tree in which items represented within a database are arranged within a hierarchy of item categories. Each time a user selects an item, an amount of credit is cumulatively assigned to the ancestor nodes (categories) of the selected item. The amount of credit assigned to a particular category of the browse tree over time for a given user represents the user's predicted affinity for that category. The user's relative preferences for some or all of the categories are predicted by calculating differences between the user's predicted affinities for such categories and the predicted affinities of a population of users for such categories. Scores reflective of these relative category preferences are used to provide personalized recommendations or other personalized content to the user. | 01-27-2011 |
20110029540 | METHOD FOR MATCHING ARTISTIC ATTRIBUTES OF A TEMPLATE AND SECONDARY IMAGES TO A PRIMARY IMAGE - A method of automatically selecting a number of secondary images and a display template for display with a primary preselected image based on analyzing the primary image's attribute information and comparing the secondary images attribute information and the templates image attribute requirements. The attribute information is used to evaluate a compatibility of the images and template so that a best compatibility fit can be obtained when displaying the images. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029541 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTENT-DRIVEN SEARCH RESULT PRESENTATION - A system and method for intent driven search presentation. A system and method for intent driven search presentation. A query is received, over a network, from a user, wherein the query comprises at least one query token. The query is analyzed wherein at least one query keyword is identified in the query. The query is classified wherein the query is classified into at least one intent using query keywords. A plurality of data objects that match query keywords is identified. The data objects are ranked, wherein at least one intent is assigned to at least some of the data objects. A result is built using the ranked plurality of data objects, wherein the result comprises display entries wherein if a data object has been assigned at least one intent, such intent is used to construct the display entry for the respective data object. The result is transmitted over the network to the user. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029542 | DOCUMENT SCORING BASED ON DOCUMENT INCEPTION DATE - A system may determine a document inception date associated with a document, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the document inception date, and rank the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. | 02-03-2011 |
20110035383 | Advanced Text to Speech Patent Search Engine - An efficient and stress relieving patent, and non-patent literature database search system has been provided. The system allows for the processing of dynamic and focused search strategies. The user can input a plurality of search features into the GUI of the system and can assign their priority. One of them can be classified as focused/high priority search feature over others. The system also allows for inputting plurality of keywords into the GUI to help ranking of the result. In a preferred embodiment, keywords, or portions or complete sentences or paragraphs can be listened by utilizing text to speech conversion technology. This allows users to go through a long list of patents/publications without requiring to read them. The user can listen the text to speech converted keywords or portions of references in a relaxing and way by utilizing a headset. This provides a fast and very efficient way of studying references with little or no stress. User can select various soothing sounds to be played briefly before switching into another reference. Various keyboard key operations are used to switch between the key features of the search and references. | 02-10-2011 |
20110035384 | Location-Based and Time Control-Based Interactive Information Group and Distribution Platform - An information group is disclosed for enabling user to retrieve and modify information and interact with other user. An information group is defined by three attributes as location, time span and topic. User has to meet requirement on an information group's location and time span attributes in order to interact with information stored inside information group and communicate with other users inside the same information group. Information group dynamically adjusts its location and life span attributes based on its interaction with user. When multiple information groups are available to a user, they are ranked based on their location attribute and user information and presented to user in the ranked order. Several applications enabled by our invention are disclosed, including but not limited to transportation sharing, connecting users that share a common interests, event signing up, or service or product promotion. | 02-10-2011 |
20110035385 | Method and Apparatus for Managing Interpersonal Activities - An apparatus and method for managing interpersonal activities among subscribers. A processor picks two subscribers for a meeting, and assigns them matched face-to-face or virtual assignments that are either identical or complementary. Assignments are selected by a processor according to preferences previously received from the picked subscribers. A random factor may affect the assignment selection. The level of intensity and/or intimacy of assignments selected by the processor may be responsive to the number of previous meetings of the picked subscribers. | 02-10-2011 |
20110055222 | Energy-based wavelet thresholding - A data processing system, implemented as programming on a suitably-programmed device includes a data input module that supplies a data input; and a wavelet transformation and compression module coupled to the data input module. The wavelet transformation and compression module receives a representation of the input data. The wavelet transformation and compression module includes an input module having a wavelet basis function, a wavelet coefficient generator that computes wavelet coefficients based on the wavelet basis function and the representation of the input data, a ranking module that orders the n wavelet coefficients, a coefficient multiplier that computes an energy value for each wavelet coefficient, an adder that iteratively computes cumulative energy as a function of the number of coefficients, and a comparator that computes total energy of the data input to the iterative, cumulative energy and selects a number of coefficients whose cumulative energy is substantially invariant with additional coefficients, wherein the selected number of coefficients results in compression of the data input. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055223 | Internet based system and method for wagering on an artist - This invention relates generally to the field of applications for Internet based websites. Moreover, it pertains specifically to a system and method for wagering on an artist. In the preferred embodiment, system participants use an electronic exchange to place wagers related to the popularity profile of an artist. | 03-03-2011 |
20110060744 | Method and System for Dynamic Detection of Affinity Between Virtual Entities - A method and system are disclosed for detecting affinity between entities in a virtual universe (VU) using real time access to descriptions prepared from information about objective entities available in VU databases as well as descriptive information made available by the objective entities. Objective entities may be aggregations of virtual entities. Activators for affinity determinations are provided. The information on an objective entity is compared with descriptive information on a VU subject to determine affinity, and corresponding action of the VU subject. In this manner also the comparative affinities of different objective entities may determine actions of the VU subject. | 03-10-2011 |
20110060745 | Method and system for configurable index generation and application - A method system and computer having a database management system to apply a user-provided index authored by a programmer, wherein the user-provided index is accepted by the computer and the database management system applies the user-provided index and the user authored index descriptor in database searches. A user may select, generate, and direct the computer to generate, or input an index descriptor, or information used by the computer to populate an index descriptor. The computer may examine the index descriptor in response to receipt or generation of a search query, and determine a relevance of the user-provided index for use in processing the query. The database management system may include a plurality of indexes, and the computer may evaluate the index descriptor to determine a relevance of the user provided index relative to the plurality of indexes. The computer may optionally apply a sequence of indexes in processing a search. | 03-10-2011 |
20110066624 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING RELATED WORDS AND WORD CONCEPTS - a method and system for generating related keywords based by creating relationship maps using meta keyword appearing on web pages. The present invention also relates to filtering techniques that may be deployed to reduce the skew that may be caused by inserting unrelated meta keywords under web pages. | 03-17-2011 |
20110066625 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND MEMORY MEDIUM - An information providing apparatus includes: a communication unit to receive transmitted information containing first location information associated with a first communication apparatus; a registering unit to extract, from the transmitted information, one or more keywords and the first location information, and to register the first location information and the one or more keywords in a keyword database; a request interface to receive a request for information from a second communication apparatus and a second location information associated with the second communication apparatus; an extractor to reference the keyword database and to extract one or more keywords based on the second location information; and a search requesting unit to output a search request containing the one or more keywords extracted by the extractor, wherein the search request is output to another computer that executes a search to provide information to the second communication apparatus. | 03-17-2011 |
20110078154 | RECRUITMENT SCREENING TOOL - A recruitment screening tool is configured to generate a respective resume score for each of a plurality of candidate resumes based on a comparison of each resume to predetermined resume criteria by a candidate screener. The recruitment screening tool compares each respective resume score to a predetermined scoring scale having at least one scoring threshold. A candidate recruiter is notified of each resume having a respective resume score greater than the at least one scoring threshold. The recruitment screening tool is also configured to perform quality control functions with respect to the candidate screener. The tool is also configured to generate at least one statistic based on at least one analysis factor with respect to content of the candidate resumes. | 03-31-2011 |
20110078155 | 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. | 03-31-2011 |
20110078156 | TIME-WEIGHTED SCORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A time-weighted score accumulation system and method are provided herein. | 03-31-2011 |
20110082867 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ANALYZING DRUG INTERACTIONS - A method, system, and computer program product. A method includes receiving a patient profile, the patient profile including a patient substance profile identifying a plurality of substances consumed by a patient and at least one patient-specific gene variant. The method includes identifying a gene associated with a first one of the plurality of substances, and performing a weighing process to determine an interaction between the first substance and the gene. The method includes producing a summary by the data processing system according to the determined interaction. Another method includes identifying at least one additional substance that has a potential effect on the patient, presenting the at least one additional substance to a user, receiving and storing a change to the patient profile based on the at least one additional substance. | 04-07-2011 |
20110087672 | Determining and Displaying Application Server Object Relevance - In embodiments, the number of references to an object which is deployed into an application server framework may be determined by examining metadata extracted from configuration data sources within a multi-tier application framework. In embodiments, an object relevance value based on the extracted number of references to an object may be associated with the object. In embodiments, the number of references extracted from a data source may be weighted using a weight factor that is associated with the data source. In embodiments, the number of references to a source object may be extracted by traversing a source inheritance hierarchy and parsing the objects within the hierarchy. In embodiments, an object relevance display of a set of objects may be generated based in part on object relevance values of the set of objects. In embodiments, an object relevance display may be a molecular display, a flash tag cloud, and/or a source tree hierarchy. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087673 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATING TO RANKING FUNCTIONS FOR MULTIPLE DOMAINS - Methods and systems are disclosed that relate to ranking functions for multiple different domains. By way of example but not limitation, ranking functions for multiple different domains may be trained based on inter-domain loss, and such ranking functions may be used to rank search results from multiple different domains so that they may be blended without normalizing relevancy scores. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087674 | SELECTION OF PHOTOS BASED ON TAGGING HISTORY - Typical users may be interested in viewing photos of people with whom they maintain true social contact. In one example, a person's true social network may be inferred from photo tagging history. Social contacts tend to tag each other in photos, while other types of contacts (e.g., business contacts) are less likely to tag each other in photos. Thus, in order to determine what photos to show to a given user, people may be scored based on how often the user has tagged those people in photos, and also on how often those other people have tagged the user. Those people who have high scores may be presumed to be socially close to the given user. Photos containing people who have received high scores may be selected, and the selected photos may be shown to the user. | 04-14-2011 |
20110093472 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE AGGREGATED SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS - Some aspects include determination of a first relationship between a first entity and a second entity, determination of a first trust coefficient associated with the first relationship based on a first generation rule, determination of a second relationship between the first entity and the second entity, determination of a second trust coefficient associated with the second relationship based on a second generation rule, and determination of a trust value of an aggregated relationship between the first entity and the second entity based on the first trust coefficient and the second trust coefficient. In some aspects, it is determined that the trust value exceeds a threshold, the aggregated relationship is presented to the first entity, a confirmation of the aggregated relationship is received from the first entity, and at least one of the first generation rule and the second generation rule is changed based on the confirmation. | 04-21-2011 |
20110093473 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STAGED CONTENT ANALYSIS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example network device having a controller to receive multiple streams of content for portions of a multimedia work (MMW), perform a high level analysis for features in each of the streams for the MMW, perform a specialized analysis on the portion having a detected general feature to generate a content analysis output, correlate the content analysis output with other content analysis of the MMW, and output a weighted content description based on the correlation function. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 04-21-2011 |
20110093474 | System and Method for Tracking and Scoring User Activities - A system for tracking user activities on a computing network and generating a peer-group score based on those activities may be implemented in hardware and software that when executed performs steps for receiving at a server information including a device identifier, a user score associated with the device identifier, and content provider information from a content provider, the device identifier being based on one or more of user-configurable and non-user-configurable parameters of a user device used to access network-accessible content of the content provider, categorizing the content provider as belonging to one or more classes of service based on the received information, retrieving from a database one or more provider-generated user scores belonging to an identical one of the one or more classes of service and being associated with an identical device identifier, and generating a peer-group score for the received device identifier based on the received user score and the one or more retrieved provider-generated user scores. | 04-21-2011 |
20110093475 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE BROADCAST CONTENT AND SCHEDULING IN A BROADCAST SYSTEM - A broadcast system, method and apparatus providing content on demand. In one embodiment, the disclosed broadcast system includes a server that broadcasts meta-data to a plurality of clients. The meta-data describes a plurality of data files that are to be broadcast or potentially broadcast later by the server. Each client receives the broadcasted meta-data from the server and updates and maintains a local meta-data table and a content rating table. Based on the meta-data, previous access habits of the user and optional user classifications, the client system selectively receives and/or stores the data files that are later broadcast by the server. In one embodiment, the client systems transmit back to the server ratings of each one of the data files described by the meta-data based on the user's previously accessed data files and optional user classifications. The server then determines the data files to be broadcast and the broadcast schedule based on the ratings received from the clients. | 04-21-2011 |
20110106816 | Method and Apparatus for Generating a Web Page - A method, apparatus and computer readable medium generate a webpage using keywords identified from user input and user email communications. The keywords are identified, ranked, and transmitted to a server where a search engine uses one or more of the keywords to identify items of interest such as articles or videos. A web page is generated using selected items of interest or links to the items of interest which may then be displayed to a user as the user's homepage. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106817 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING UNKNOWNS IN COLLABORATIVE FILTERING - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for determining unknowns in rating matrices. In one embodiment, a method comprises forming a rating matrix, where each matrix element corresponds to a known favorable user rating associated with an item or an unknown user rating associated with an item. The method includes determining a weight matrix configured to assign a weight value to each of the unknown matrix elements, and sampling the rating matrix to generate an ensemble of training matrices. Weighted maximum-margin matrix factorization is applied to each training matrix to obtain corresponding sub-rating matrix, the weights based on the weight matrix. The sub-rating matrices are combined to obtain an approximate rating matrix that can be used to recommend items to users based on the rank ordering of the corresponding matrix elements. | 05-05-2011 |
20110113038 | SEARCH TERM SECURITY - As indicated above, the present invention transparently inserts search arguments/terms (referred to as noise) into a search string so that the search arguments themselves would not be clearly evident when a user is searching. The inserted noise terms are related to the underlying search terms. This would confuse a mining program and/or hacker looking for sensitive material (such as intellectual property). When the search results are returned, any “hits” resulting from noise will be removed transparently from the overall results. The insertion and removal under the present invention provides a more secure level of searching, yet is completely transparent to the end user. The inserted random search arguments are germane contextually to the search string. | 05-12-2011 |
20110113039 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SEARCHES FOR TELEVISION CONTENT USING REDUCED TEXT INPUT - A method and system are provided for identifying a television content item desired by a television viewer from a set of television content items. Each of the television content items has one or more associated descriptors. The system receives from the television viewer a reduced text search entry directed at identifying the desired television content item. The search entry is a prefix substring of one or more words relating to the desired television content item. The system dynamically identifies a group of one or more television content items from the set of television content items having one or more descriptors matching the search entry as the television viewer enters each character of the search entry. The system then transmits the names of the one or more television content items of the identified group to be displayed on a device operated by the television viewer. | 05-12-2011 |
20110119275 | System and Method for Increasing Search Ranking of a Community Website - A system for increasing search ranking of a community Website includes a link code application module residing on and executable from a digital medium, a link verification module residing on and executable from the digital medium, and a member feedback module residing on and executable from the digital medium for providing feedback about link quality and for distributing rewards to persons using the system. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119276 | SUBMISSION CAPTURE, AUTO-RESPONSE AND PROCESSING SYSTEM - A method of capturing end-user data includes receiving end-user data. The method also includes validating the end-user data. The method also includes assigning a score to at least some of the end-user data based on the validation. The method also includes performing at least one of a plurality of different actions in relation to the end-user data based on the assigned score. | 05-19-2011 |
20110125758 | Collaborative Automated Structured Tagging - A collaborative automated structured tagging method, apparatus, and computer readable medium generate tags for an asset based on context items and the content of the asset. The tags are then ranked and stored until requested by a user or system. Users viewing the asset and the ranked tags can select tags indicating that the tags correctly define the asset. Users can also enter new tags for assets. The user input is then used to re-rank the tags associated with the particular asset. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125759 | Method and system to contextualize information being displayed to a user - Provided is a system and related methods for collecting and storing in a local storage the information extracted. The information stored in this step may include data extracted from the user's navigation on websites, data pushed to the user via his subscriptions to social networks, rss feeds, emails, and data representing the interaction of the user with the web browser and its content. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125760 | USING TAGS IN AN ENTERPRISE SEARCH SYSTEM - An interface can allow for associating documents with tags. A search system can use connections between the tags and documents to determine search-independent rank values for the documents. The search-independent rank values can be combined with term matching indications to get a total relevance of the document. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125761 | AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF SEMANTICS FROM TEXT INFORMATION - The present invention provides systems, methods and computer program products for extracting semantic information from text data having metadata associated therewith. A method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes selecting an ordered set of scale values for a plurality of scales and, for each of the scale values, determining one or more subset of metadata information related to the scale value. For each of the scales and associated subsets, a statistic on occurrences of content associated with the metadata in each subset is determined and the statistics are aggregated for each scale and associated subsets to determine a semantic level for the content. The scales and associated subsets having content with a semantic level above a threshold may be determined to extract semantic information across multiple time frames with the ordered set of scale values for the plurality of scales. | 05-26-2011 |
20110131215 | PROCESS APPARATUS, DATA SCHEDULING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF FOR A DATA SCHEDULE - A process apparatus, a data scheduling method, and a computer readable medium thereof for a data schedule are provided. The process apparatus comprises a storage, a receiving interface, and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is respectively electrically connected to the storage and the receiving interface. The storage is configured to store a data scheduling structure which is constructed of a plurality of data items in an execution sequence. The receiving interface receives an input data item. The microprocessor retrieves at least one relevant data item from the data items according to the correlation information of the input data item. The microprocessor further performs a weight calculation according to the at least one relevant data item and the input data item, so as to generate at least one weight calculation result. The microprocessor further inserts the input data item into the data scheduling structure according to the at least one weight calculation result, so as to form an updated data scheduling structure. | 06-02-2011 |
20110131216 | AUTOMATICALLY LINKING DOCUMENTS WITH RELEVANT STRUCTURED INFORMATION - A method of associating a given text document with relevant structured data is disclosed. The method receives as inputs a text document, and structured data in the form of a relational database. The method then identifies terms in the text document, and searches and queries the structured data using the terms to identify fragments of the structured data that are relevant to the document. Finally, the text document and the identified fragments of structured data are output to a user. | 06-02-2011 |
20110137918 | Methods and Systems for Customized Content Services with Unified Messaging Systems - Profile information and other information about users are received from information sources into a unified messaging platform. Multimedia messages and files for users are converted to text using approximation algorithms. Text and multimedia messages and files for users are analyzed using confidence scores and thresholds. Profile information, file keyword information and message keyword information are used to identify and transmit a limited amount of information about users to information consumers and content service providers. Information consumers and content service providers can customize their content that is presented to users. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137919 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR KNOWLEDGE GRAPH STABILIZATION - A method for stabilizing a knowledge graph includes: generating a knowledge graph in which same entities in a semantic relation list between entities provided as an input are represented as a single node based on names and types of the entities; computing, on the knowledge graph, semantic similarities between all potential entity pairs of same entity types by comparing, for each potential entity pair, a type of relation associated with an entity in the entity pair and an opponent entity to the entity; and selecting, based on the semantic similarities, a representative entity from each of semantically similar entity pairs on the knowledge graph and integrating an opponent entity to the representative entity into the representative entity. The method further includes computing relation weighted values between the entities by using a graph analysis and statistic information, and adding the weighted values to the knowledge graph. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137920 | METHOD OF MAPPING SONGS BEING LISTENED TO AT A GIVEN LOCATION, AND ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH SYNCHRONIZED LYRICS OR SUBTITLES - The invention pertains to song-related software applications. More specifically, the invention describes mapping songs being listened to in a given area, identifying users listening to those songs, and optionally selecting to follow the songs listened to by a specific second user. The invention allows charting the most popular songs according to geographical location. Additionally, the invention allows a user to select an internet radio station and be provided with the synchronized lyrics of the song playing. The invention allows translation of lyrics into various languages and synchronization of the translation during playback of the song. The invention also allows a user to synchronize subtitles of multimedia presentations, with the playback of the presentation. | 06-09-2011 |
20110145261 | EFFICIENT CALCULATION OF NODE PROXIMITY ON GRAPHS WITH SIDE INFORMATION - In a computerized data mining context, user input relating to positive and negative information is incorporated into node proximity measurements on a weighted, directed graph. Random walk results are updated without a full matrix inversion by using selective update to a low rank approximation and to inversion results. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145262 | MEASURING NODE PROXIMITY ON GRAPHS WITH SIDE INFORMATION - In a computerized data mining context, user input relating to positive and negative information is incorporated into node proximity measurements on a weighted, directed graph. Starting from a source node, links are added to nodes for which positive feedback is received. Where negative information is received, a sink node is substituted for nodes receiving negative information. Nodes neighboring that sink node have links added to the sink. These changes yield an altered graph. Afterwards, proximity information is determined from the altered graph. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145263 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, CONTENT RECOMMENDATION METHOD, CONTENT RECOMMENDATION APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - A content recommendation system includes: an attribute value storage means which stores one or more attribute values of attributes for each content; a preference distribution storage means which stores a user preference degree for each attribute value; an attribute value acquisition means which acquires an attribute value of at least one attribute for each content; a preference distribution update means which updates the storage contents in the preference distribution storage means in accordance with the acquired attribute value; a condition determination means which selects an attribute value of one or more attributes in accordance with probability based on the user preference degree stored in the preference distribution storage means and determines the condition of the attribute value of the one or more attributes in accordance with the selected attribute value; and a content selection means which selects some or all of the contents in accordance with the determined condition. | 06-16-2011 |
20110153618 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MEDIA ADVERTISING ENTERPRISE DATA - A system and method for managing media advertising enterprise data. An enterprise data management (EDM) module can be configured to include a set of rules at an enterprise level to manage disparate and disconnected records. A scoring function with respect to each record can be computed based on the rules to determine the highest priority. The rules in association with the scoring function can be stored locally in an EDM database. A matching process can then be performed to accurately match similar records regardless of manual input, location, and format of the records in a distributed system. Each record can then be assigned with a parent enterprise advertiser. Such an optimization mechanism can interactively manage and report records at the enterprise level in a simple and efficient manner. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153619 | PERSONALIZED CONTENT LINKS - Content with personalized content links are published at a server. The content and specified content characteristics of the content are received at the server. In addition, potential reader's personalization indicators are received by the server. The content is linked with the specified content characteristics and the potential reader's personalization indicators. The content is then published at the server. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153620 | Method and apparatus for improving the transcription accuracy of speech recognition software - A virtual vocabulary database is provided for use with a with a particular user database as part of a speech recognition system. Vocabulary elements within the virtual database are imported from the user database and are tagged to include numerical data corresponding to the historical use of the vocabulary element within the user database. For each speech input, potential vocabulary element matches from the speech recognition system are provided to the virtual database software which creates virtual sub-vocabularies from the criteria according to predefined criteria templates. The software then applies vocabulary element weighting adjustments according to the virtual sub-vocabulary weightings and applies the adjustment to the default weighting provided by the speech recognition system. The modified weightings are returned with the associated vocabulary elements to the speech engine for selection of an appropriate match to the input speech. | 06-23-2011 |
20110161329 | TAG CLOUD BUDDY LIST FOR MESSAGING CONTACTS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for tag cloud buddy lists. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for tag cloud buddy list management can be provided. The method can include loading a list of contacts in a messaging system executing in memory by a processor of a computer, rating each of the contacts in the list according to at least one criteria, and visually emphasizing each of the contacts differently in a buddy cloud for a user interface to the messaging system according to different ratings applied to each of the contacts. Optionally, contacts with ratings failing to exceed a threshold value can be filtered from the buddy cloud. In this regard, the threshold value can be selected with a slider control displayed in the messaging system. | 06-30-2011 |
20110173210 | IDENTIFYING A TOPIC-RELEVANT SUBJECT - The present technology is related to identifying, from within a corpus of documents, a subject (e.g., person, location, date, etc.) that is relevant to a topic and that is usable to enhance a topic-describing document. Documents within the corpus of documents share a link structure, such that some documents include hyperlinks that enable navigation to the topic-describing document, and the topic-describing document includes hyperlinks that enable navigation to other documents. Text of documents within the corpus is parsed to identify the subject, and a context of the subject suggests a degree of relevance of the subject to the topic. An enhancement type of the subject is determined, and a version of the topic-describing document is enhanced to include a presentation of the subject. | 07-14-2011 |
20110179041 | MATCHING SERVICE ENTITIES WITH CANDIDATE RESOURCES - A method comprises using a processor to list candidate resources that may be matched with a plurality of service entities. The method also comprises eliminating at least one possible match between the candidate resources and the plurality of service entities. The method further comprises, for each of the plurality of service entities, rating the candidate resources. The method still further comprises ranking the plurality of service entities. The method still further comprises matching each of the plurality of service entities with at least one of the candidate resources. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179042 | Object Modeling For Exploring Large Data Sets - Techniques are described for facilitating performing computer-implemented financial analysis. A metric that transforms one or more time series into an output object is identified. The one or more time series are determined based on one or more input objects. The metric is applied using the one or more time series, thereby generating a particular value for the output object. One of the metric and the particular value for the output object is stored in a physical storage device. | 07-21-2011 |
20110179043 | Double Weighted Correlation Scheme - A method is provided for determining a correlation between a reference user and another user on the basis of two sets of ratings, where each rating is associated with a respective user. In response to a trigger,user ratings associated with the reference user and user ratings associated with the other user are collected, and all co-rated items of these two sets are correlated in the basis of an adjusted cosine correlation function which is weighted by a first and a second weighting function. The correlation is then stored and may be repeated for a plurality of users. The stored correlations may be used e.g. for ranking purposes. | 07-21-2011 |
20110184957 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR ADDING DATA TO MESSAGES - The invention relates to a solution for adding a data item, e.g. advertisement information, to a message. The solution comprises a server ( | 07-28-2011 |
20110191351 | Method and Apparatus for Using Monitoring Intent to Match Business Processes or Monitoring Templates - Methods and apparatus are provided for using monitoring intent to match business processes or monitoring templates. One or more business processes and monitoring templates are identified by obtaining at least one business process or monitoring template, wherein at least one of the obtained business process or monitoring template has an associated monitoring intent comprising one or more monitoring keywords; obtaining a user-specified monitoring intent from the user, the user-specified monitoring intent comprising one or more search keywords; assigning a score to at least one of the obtained business process or monitoring template, wherein the score is based on a matching of one or more of the monitoring keywords from the associated monitoring intent with the search keywords of the user-specified monitoring intent; and identifying the one or more of the plurality of business processes and the plurality of monitoring templates based on the assigned score. The business processes and monitoring templates each have a plurality of keywords and a weighted score is optionally assigned to each of the plurality of keywords. The assigned score is based, for example, on a weighted score of matching keywords. A ranked list is optionally generated. | 08-04-2011 |
20110196875 | SEMANTIC TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR SEARCH RESULTS - A table of contents is generated for search results in response to a search query by identifying semantic concepts as topics for inclusion within the table of contents. When a search query is received, a search is performed to identify search results. The search results are compared to an ontology of topics to identify relevant topics. Additionally, search results are compared to an ontology of partial topics to identify relevant partial topics, which are named. Independent key-phrases are further generated from search results and identified as key-phrase topics. The identified topics, named partial topics, and key-phrase topics are ranked, and topics are selected for inclusion within a table of contents. A search results page is returned in response to the search query that includes search results and the generated table of contents. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196876 | ORDERING DATA ITEMS PERTAINING TO CONTACTS ACCORDING TO RELEVANCE OF THE CONTACTS - There is provided a system and method for providing an ordered arrangement of data items pertaining to contacts. The order of the arrangement may be determined based on a comparison of ranks of the contacts. An exemplary method comprises registering communications between the user and the contacts. The communications may include active communications originating from the user and terminating at a contact and passive communications originating from a contact and terminating at the user. The exemplary method also comprises determining a rank of a contact based on a comparison of occurrences of the active and the passive communications between the user and the contact. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196877 | WEIGHING APPARATUS - A weighing apparatus includes a conveying unit, a weighing unit, a detecting unit, a first storing unit and a presenting unit. The conveying unit is configured to convey an item. The weighing unit is configured to measure a weight of the item conveyed on the conveying unit. The detecting unit is configured to detect an item interval related to a distance between a plurality of items supplied to the conveying unit. The first storing unit is configured to store a plurality of item intervals acquired by the detecting unit during a predetermined period of time. The presenting unit is configured to provide, based on the item intervals stored in the first storing unit, guidance related to a change in an item conveying speed of the conveying unit. | 08-11-2011 |
20110208748 | Foreign-Key Detection - This patent application relates to foreign-key detection. One implementation obtains a set of data tables. This implementation automatically determines foreign-key relationships of columns from separate tables of the set. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208749 | Identifying Top Content Contributors In Online Social Networks - One particular embodiment accesses a plurality of user profiles corresponding to a plurality of users and a plurality of content objects; ranks the users in descending order based on a number of content objects each of the users has contributed to the social network; represents in log space ranks of the users versus in log space numbers of content objects contributed by the users; determines a threshold rank based on an increasing rate of the ranks of the users, a decreasing rate of the numbers of content objects, and a predetermined value in the log space; and identifies from among the users, those users ranked at and above the threshold rank as high-volume content contributors for the social network. The users belong to a social network; and each of the users has contributed at least one of the content objects to the social network. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208750 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, IMPORTANCE CALCULATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including: a storage unit that has an attribute table storing attribute values given to a plurality of contents; and an importance calculation unit that calculates an importance to a specific attribute of content with respect to one or more attributes other than the specific attribute of content using attribute values stored in the attribute table, wherein the importance calculation unit calculates the importance using a decision table with the specific attribute as a decision attribute and the one or more attributes as condition attributes. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208751 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products For Generating Reference Geocodes For Point Addresses - Systems and methods are provided for generating a reference location data set, such as a reference longitude and latitude point, for each of a plurality of point addresses. A reference location data set can be determined for a point address based on a history of prior geocode samples, such as GPS readings, that have been obtained using a portable computing device during a prior delivery to or pickup from the point address. A location data service collects such geocode samples and processes the samples to generate a reference location data set, such as a reference longitude and latitude and a zone of confidence around the reference longitude and latitude, for each unique point address. To determine whether an item is being delivered to a wrong address, current location data obtained during a delivery can be compared against the reference location data generated by the location data service for the delivery address. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208752 | Method and Apparatus for Default Rating Estimation - A method of estimating a default rating of a rated dataset is provided, where the dataset comprises at least one series of ratings associated with at least one user and each series comprise ratings associated with at least two items. For a reference user and an item for which a rated value is missing the item's average rating, i | 08-25-2011 |
20110213785 | Social Data Ranking and Processing - Social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Orkut, are changing our communication habits by introducing new tools that simplify and increase on-line interaction. The exemplary embodiments present methods for measuring the social strength among contacts on the basis of users' on-line interactions, which may be significantly used in real-time collaborative task management (e.g., inviting contacts for collaboration, selecting suitable tools for communication, prioritizing information flow). Moreover, exemplary embodiments provide a framework for developing new mobile social networking applications (social search client, smart dialer or contact applications) by extending the use of social ranking of contacts. Exemplary embodiments aggregate contact information from different communication sources and then harness the interaction patterns together with social strength between contacts, for instance by using communication history (interaction logs) and process mining techniques, to build an aggregated social graph that describes a user's communication habit. | 09-01-2011 |
20110225169 | Virtual Reader for Scoring Applications - A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for the automated processing and scoring of applications. Application reader resources are selected to read and score individual categories of the application. The difference between the respective reader scores and an average delta value for each category of each application that the selected readers have previously score is calculated. The standard deviation of the average delta value for each category is calculated. If the selected reader's score for that category is not within one standard deviation of the average delta value, then the selected reader's score is adjusted the least amount necessary to be so. An additional application reader is selected to read and score the application. Reading and scoring operations are continued until at least two reader scores are within one standard deviation of the average of the adjusted scores. Final scoring of all applications is performed and the scored applications are ranked in descending order. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225170 | ADAPTABLE RELEVANCE TECHNIQUES FOR SOCIAL ACTIVITY STREAMS - A social networking activity reporting system (“SNARS”) and techniques are used for notifying a user of a client-side electronic device about updates (“activity items,” or “AIs”) from the user's social network. A relevance formula, which includes at least one time-dependent portion and at least one time-independent portion, is used to calculate a relevance score for an AI. For each AI, the time-dependent portion includes at least one factor based on a dynamic relationship between the user and the AI (for example, the relationship between the user or others in the user's social network and the publisher; or the amount of interaction the user or others in the user's social network have had with the item or subject). The AIs are presented in ascending or descending order based on the relevance scores. The relevance formula may be updated and re-applied to the same or a different set of activity items. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225171 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PUBLISHING SYNTHESIZED DATA TO FACILITATE PROVIDING INFORMATION AS A SERVICE - Aspects are disclosed for synthesizing data to facilitate providing information as a service. Data contributions from disparate sources are aggregated in which at least a first data contribution is combined with a second data contribution to create a data combination. A consumption of the data combination is then tracked, and a contribution value associated with at least one contributor to the data combination is ascertained based on the consumption. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225172 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR SEEKING REPRESENTATIVE IMAGES IN IMAGE SET - Disclosed are a system, a method, and a computer-readable medium for seeking representative images in an image set. The method comprises a text feature extracting step of extracting text features of each of the plural images; a diversity data obtaining step of obtaining diversity data of the image set based on the text features; a representative score calculating method of calculating a representative score of each of the plural images based on the diversity data; and a representative image selecting step of selecting one or more of the images in the image set based on the representative score of the corresponding images. | 09-15-2011 |
20110231405 | Data Structures for Collaborative Filtering Systems - Data structures for collaborative filtering systems are described. In an embodiment sketches which extremely concisely represent a list of items that a user has rated are created and stored for use by a collaborative filtering system to recommend items. For example, the sketches are created by using several versions of a cryptographic hash function to permute the item list and store a minimal value from each permutation in the sketch together with a user rating. In examples the sketches are used to compute estimates of similarity measures between pairs of users such as rank correlations including Spearman's Rho and Kendall's Tau. For example, the similarity measures are used by a collaborative filtering system to accurately and efficiently recommend items to users. For example the sketches are so concise that massive amounts of data can be taken into account in order to give high quality recommendations in a practical manner. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231406 | MULTICAST ADDRESS SEARCH INCLUDING MULTIPLE SEARCH MODES - An information handling system (IHS) includes a network adapter having a hardware address store that stores multicast addresses and a device driver that stores multicast addresses in a software address store. When there is no more storage space available in the hardware address store for multicast addresses, the device driver stores multicast addresses in the software address store. When the IHS receives a multicast information packet, the network adapter searches the hardware address store for a multicast address corresponding to that multicast information packet. If the search of the hardware address store does not find that multicast address, then the device driver searches the software address store for that multicast address. The IHS may prioritize the multicast addresses in the hardware address store and the software address store on a most frequently used basis, a most recently used basis or a most popular basis. For example, the hardware address store may store addresses that are more frequently used than those in the software address store. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231407 | DYNAMIC CONTACTS LIST MANAGEMENT - Contacts lists are dynamically managed in association with communication and collaboration applications and devices. Automated and user defined factors are determined based on information from various resources such as user profile, contact information, past communication information, application/device types, and comparable ones. Factors may be weighted and employed to prioritize contacts lists under different circumstances. Prioritized contacts lists may be provided to a user, stored, updated, or otherwise processed. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231408 | PRIVACY PROTECTION DEVICE, PRIVACY PROTECTION METHOD, AND LIFE LOG MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A privacy protection device includes an attribute update frequency management unit configured to calculate and record therein an update frequency of each attribute included in a life log of a user in response to storing of the life log; a static attribute extraction unit configured to calculate a threshold value of a change frequency on the basis of a static attribute, an attribute the update frequency of which is less than or equal to the calculated threshold value of the change frequency, the update frequency being recorded by the attribute update frequency management unit; and a notification request reception unit configured to extract the number of users satisfying the notification condition of the notification request, accept the registration of the notification request from the service provider when the extracted number of users exceeds the limit number of persons. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231409 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING MEETING SUBJECTS, LOGISTICS, AND RESOURCES - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for predicting the subject, logistics, and resources of associated with a communication event. Predictions and suggestions can occur prior to, during, or in response to communication events. The user can confirm the prediction or suggestion via user input such as a click or a voice command. The system can analyze past behavior patterns with respect to the subject, logistics and resources of communication events, followed by preparing ranked listings of which subjects, logistics, and resources are most likely to be used in a given situation. The predicted logistics may then include people to invite, time and date of the meeting, its duration, location, and anything else useful in helping potential participants gather together. The resources may include files attached, files used, communication event minutes, recordings made, Internet browsers and other programs which may be utilized by the user. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231410 | MARKETING SURVEY IMPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Tabular survey data may be automatically imported into a marketing database, including determining a multi-factor score for each column of data. The multi-factor score rates a relative likelihood that a given column represents survey question and/or survey response data, as opposed to respondent-identifying data. | 09-22-2011 |
20110238670 | CROWD-SOURCING AND CONTEXTUAL RECLASSIFICATION OF RATED CONTENT - A content evaluation system is described herein that empowers end users and organizations to share their interpretation of an automatically generated sentiment score. The system provides a control that a user can move to indicate agreement or disagreement with an automatic score. The system adds metadata to a revised score based on the user's feedback that tracks information about the user to consider different demographic contexts. The system performs rescoring with the user-provided scores with contextual consideration, and then exposes the rescored values on context specific endpoints. The system provides a crowd-sourcing approach that scales extremely well, adds more accuracy because individuals within known demographic categories/contexts do the scoring, and generates value-added data products that can be sold/re-sold. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238671 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY DETERMINING PRIORITY OF DATA IN A DATABASE - A method and apparatus for determining priority of data in a database managed by a computing device are provided. The data comprises a list of events, the computing device comprising a processing unit interconnected with a memory device and a display device. Context data is processing at the processing unit to determine a priority ranking for each of the items, wherein processing the context data to determine a priority ranking comprises at least one of processing attendance data, location, event data, and telephone record data. Respective areas of the display device are controlled to provide visual representations of each of the events, each respective area controlled according to the priority ranking. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238672 | COST AND POWER EFFICIENT STORAGE AREA NETWORK PROVISIONING - Various embodiments for efficiently provisioning a storage area network (SAN) are provided. In one embodiment, SAN information is provided to an engine for optimization. The SAN information includes at least one of SAN configuration information, SAN usage information, at least one cost profile, and at least one chargeback model. Based on the SAN information, those of an available plurality of storage resources not meeting at least one storage criterion are filtered. The filtered storage resources are ranked on a cost basis. A resource configuration graph is constructed based on the ranked storage resources. The resource configuration graph is traversed to obtain a plurality of possible SAN configuration plans. At least one power profile is applied to the plurality of possible SAN configuration plans to rank the plurality of possible SAN configuration plans by energy consumption. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238673 | RANKING COMMUNICATIONS EVENTS - To ensure that contacts (and other information) are presented to the user of a communications terminal in a manner that approximates the perceived relative importance a human user might assign, there is described a method for ranking contacts relative to one another on the basis of a ranking value that has been generated from timeline activities (such as tweets, blog posts, RSS feed, emails/SMS etc.), and/or status information (presence, location etc. of the contact) and/or trends in such activities/status values. This ranking method may be supplemental to more conventional rankings such as alphabetic ordering of contacts or ordering by edit date. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238674 | System and Methods Thereof for Mining Web Based User Generated Content for Creation of Term Taxonomies - A system for creation of term taxonomies by mining web based user generated content according. The system includes a network interface enabling access to one or more data sources; a mining unit for collecting textual content from the one or more sources and generating phrases, the generated phrases include sentiment phrases and non-sentiment phrases; an analysis unit for generating at least associations between a non-sentiment phrase and a sentiment phrase based on the generated phrases, wherein an association between a non-sentiment phrase and at least one corresponding sentiment phrase is a taxonomy; and storing the taxonomies in a data warehouse storage connected to the network wherein responsive to a query the system provides a sentiment to a non-sentiment phrase provided in the query. | 09-29-2011 |
20110246481 | Apparatus and Method for Query Prioritization in a Shared Nothing Distributed Database - A shared nothing distributed database system includes a master node and a set of shared nothing nodes. Each shared nothing node includes a node state table stored in memory that characterizes various statements and multiple processes implementing each statement, target resource consumption rate for each process and process activity information. A monitor module executed by a central processing unit processes information in the node state table and adjusts values in the node state table in accordance with priority criteria specifying individual user priority ascribed to a statement. A query associated with a statement is processed in the shared nothing distributed database system in accordance with the priority criteria. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246482 | AUGMENTED AND CROSS-SERVICE TAGGING - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for cross-service tagging is provided. The method includes creating connections to multiple applications, each application having multiple entities. Relationships are determined between the entities within a single application and between entities across multiple applications. A tag is associated with a selected one of the entities in a first one of the multiple applications. Entities in other applications besides the first application are identified that are related to the selected entity, based on the determined relationships. The tag is propagated across multiple applications by associating the tag with the identified entities in the other applications. According to a second embodiment of the present invention, a method for inferring tags suggestions is provided. This method includes analyzing email messages to create keywords from text analysis, from bringing content and tags from other email messages or directory applications. Tags suggestions from the various sources are merged and weighed according to an algorithm. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246483 | Pattern Detection and Recommendation - In one or more embodiments, one or more methods and/or systems described can perform receiving a pattern; determining that components of the received pattern match corresponding components of patterns that have not been rated by a user but have been rated by other users in the user's community; calculating multiple predictive ratings corresponding to the patterns; ranking the patterns based on the predictive ratings; and recommending one or more of the top-ranked patterns to the user. In one or more embodiments, calculating multiple predictive ratings corresponding to the patterns can include calculating multiple correlation coefficients. In one example, calculating multiple correlation coefficients can be based on the other users' ratings of the patterns. In another example, calculating multiple correlation coefficients can be based on the other users' ratings of one or more components of the patterns. | 10-06-2011 |
20110252040 | SEARCHING DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL ELEMENTS BY ATTRIBUTE ORDER PRIORITY - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for searching for elements of a document based on an order priority of attributes of a query expression. According to one embodiment, a method of searching a plurality of objects of a document, such as elements of a DOM document, can comprise generating a query expression with attributes related to a target object of the document. For example, the expression can comprise an XPath expression. The attributes of the query expression can be parsed into one or more attribute groups, each comprising at least one attribute, based on logical operators between the attributes. Each one or more attribute groups of each expression can be weighted and a search can be performed for the target object in the document based on the weighted one or more attribute groups of the query expression. | 10-13-2011 |
20110252041 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING RELEVANT TEXT IN A WEB PAGE - Disclosed is a method and computing device that receives a web page and locates text elements in the web page, where each text element includes a set of one or more characters or symbols. For each text element found, the computing device assigns a weight value to the each text element. The computing device then stores the text from the each text element in a relevant text storage if the weight value for the each text element is above a threshold weight or similar in layout or content to elements above the threshold weight. | 10-13-2011 |
20110252042 | MAKE AND MODEL CLASSIFIER - Systems and methods for assigning a product category and/or classification to user data based on a taxonomy of makes and models is provided. User data is received and converted to plain text. A taxonomy is provided, having a plurality of categories corresponding with product descriptions based on product makes and models. Rules are associated with the categories in the taxonomy and used to generate a category score for categories in the taxonomy. The category scores are used to assign at least one category from the taxonomy to the user data. A product class may also be assigned to the user data based on the assigned product category. | 10-13-2011 |
20110252043 | ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION CONTROL - An electronic communication control system including a communication transfer component for temporarily storing at least part of an electronic communication from a sender to an intended recipient; a communication analyser associated with the communication transfer component for analysing the stored part of the electronic communication to determine at least two sender attributes of the sender and at least one intended recipient attribute of the intended recipient; a database for storing data records having a score and being associated with at least two sender attributes and an intended recipient attribute; and a database manager in communication with the communication analyser for creating a data record in the database associating the sender attributes with the intended recipient attribute and having a score based at least in part on information received from the message analyser. | 10-13-2011 |
20110258200 | System and Method for Identifying Persons Having Socially Unacceptable Behavior - A system and method includes hosting a social networking website for identifying persons having socially unacceptable behavior. Users of the social networking site are enabled to anonymously submit documentation regarding a person having socially unacceptable behavior. Strength of the documents is rated based on types of documents. The documentation is stored in a database. Location specific reports regarding persons having socially unacceptable behavior are generated. Access to the documentation is enabled for making informed decisions regarding the person. Transmission of at least part of the documentation between the users, individuals and networks is facilitated. Reporting of at least part of the documentation to government authorities is enabled. Rebuttal of the documentation is enabled. Users are enabled to post responses to submitted documentation for viewing by all users. Communication between the users is enabled. A user is enabled to introduce a friend to multiple users. | 10-20-2011 |
20110258201 | MULTILEVEL INTENT ANALYSIS APPARATUS & METHOD FOR EMAIL FILTRATION - A method for filtering email which contains links to uniform resource identifiers which disguise the content and identity of spam sites by multiple serial redirection. | 10-20-2011 |
20110270845 | Ranking Information Content Based on Performance Data of Prior Users of the Information Content - Methods and apparatus are provided for ranking information content based on performance data of prior users of the information content. Information content is ranked by receiving a search request specifying search criteria; identifying a preliminary document list by searching a corpus using the search criteria; identifying content elements in documents in the preliminary document list; assigning a value to at least one document in the preliminary document list based on a score for each content element in the at least one document, wherein the score is based on a performance measure of one or more related users that accessed one or more documents having a given content element; and providing search results based on the assigned values. The score can be assigned, for example, based on a regression model between the performance measure and one or more of the content elements and/or one or more social network metrics. The social network metrics can comprise, for example, graph entropy; outdegree; betweenness; network constraint and/or number of managers. The performance measure can comprise, for example, one or more of revenue generated by the related users and/or a performance rating of the related users. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270846 | ELECTRONICALLY LINKING AND RATING TEXT FRAGMENTS - In one embodiment, a first text fragment is made available for copying from a fragment repository. The first text fragment is electronically linked to a second text fragment that is a copy of the first text fragment, the second text fragment included in a container external to the fragment repository. A rating is provided for a derivative of the second fragment created within the container. A third text fragment that is a derivative of the second text fragment is received at the fragment repository. The first and third text fragments are electronically linked, and the third text fragment is made available for copying. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270847 | Method and system for appraising the extent to which a publication has been reviewed by means of a peer-review process - A method and system appraises the extent to which an article has been reviewed by means of a peer-review process such that a user conducting a search with a search engine via an internet connected electronic device can infer the quality of the publication in relation to other publications returned in the search results displayed on the electronic device. A peer review score is calculated from the metadata of the article. The peer review score is displayed next to a link to the article returned in the search results from the search engine. The peer review score indicates the relative thoroughness of the peer review process that the article underwent. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270848 | Method and System for Video and Film Recommendation - An artificial intelligence video analysis recommendation system and method is provided that allows video viewers to discover new videos and video producers to evaluate the potential success of a new project as well as to understand the perceptual factors beneath audience ratings. The system and method accomplish these tasks by analyzing a database of video in order to identify key similarities between different pieces of video, and then recommends pieces of video to a user depending upon their video preferences. An embodiment enables a user to evaluate a new video's similarity to videos already established as commercially valuable. | 11-03-2011 |
20110282885 | Processing Exception Handling - In accordance with an embodiment, a method for exception handling comprises accessing an exception type for an exception, filtering historical data based on at least one defined criterion to provide a data train comprising data sets, assigning a weight to each data set, and providing a current control parameter. The data sets each comprise a historical condition and a historical control parameter, and the weight assigned to each data set is based on each historical condition. The current control parameter is provided using the weight and the historical control parameter for each data set. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282886 | TOOLS DISCOVERY IN CLOUD COMPUTING - Disclosed are methods and systems for recommending tools to a user based on the verbs and nouns in the user request and a context of the user. The method involves receiving a user request, the user request including a search query with one or more keywords, identifying one or more verbs and nouns in the one or more keywords, based on the one or more verbs, nouns and a context of the user executing the search query to obtain list of tools, ranking the list of tools based on the identified nouns and the context of the user and displaying the list of tools. | 11-17-2011 |
20110289094 | INTEGRATING MEDIA CONTENT DATABASES - Media content databases are integrated by comparing metadata from records and determining that the metadata are a match based on the comparison. Alphanumeric strings are generated and assigned to the metadata, and the alphanumeric strings and fields of the records are stored in a data structure. | 11-24-2011 |
20110289095 | AGENT RANK - The present invention provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for searching and ranking linked information sources. The techniques include receiving multiple content items from a corpus of content items; receiving digital signatures each made by one of multiple agents, each digital signature associating one of the agents with one or more of the content items; and assigning a score to a first agent of the multiple agents, wherein the score is based upon the content items associated with the first agent by the digital signatures. | 11-24-2011 |
20110295859 | Technique For Multi-Dimensionally Determining Strength Of An Item In A Weighted List Based On Tagging - A weighted list may be visually shown on a website, e.g., as a tag cloud, object cloud, etc. The font size of each item in the weighted list may indicate its strength relative to the other items in the same. The strength of a weighted list item is determined based at least on multi-dimensional weights accorded to applications by users of a given tag to an object. For example, each multi-dimensional weight may be an aggregate of weight measures of two or more of quantity-based dimensions, time-based dimensions, social distance-based dimensions, semantic similarity dimensions, etc. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295860 | Managing Drill-Through Parameter Mappings - A mechanism is provided for creating drill-through parameter mapping candidates. A location of source metadata and target metadata is received as well as a set of parameter mapping candidates. The source metadata, target metadata, and parameter mapping candidates are analyzed in order to form analyzed metadata. A set of parameter mapping candidates are then generated using the analyzed metadata, which are then prepared for presentation to an agent. A sorted set of parameter mapping candidates is then returned to the agent. In addition, a location of the source metadata and the target metadata as well as the set of parameter mapping candidates is sent to a parameter mapping creation process. A request is sent to retrieve a created parameter mapping candidate from the parameter mapping creation process. A parameter mapping candidate is then displayed to a user and a gesture of the user is acted upon. | 12-01-2011 |
20110302172 | TOPICAL SEARCH ENGINES AND QUERY CONTEXT MODELS - Topical search engines can add contextual keywords to an input query to bias results toward a particular topic or domain. In one instance, query context models can be constructed to facilitate topical search. Upon receipt of one or more topic-relevant sites, a plurality of topical queries can identified automatically. Contextual keywords can be identified with respect to the plurality of topical queries as a function of lexical generality, among other things. Subsequently, a query context model, comprising the identified topical queries and related contextual keywords, can be employed to restrict query results to a particular topic. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302173 | OBJECT IDENTIFICATION BY ELECTOR - Techniques for identifying an object are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an object identification system includes a reference to an object acted on at a first time, an elector, and a elector manager. The elector is configured to provide an appraisal, at a second time, of whether a candidate object is the objected acted on. The elector manager is configured to determine whether the candidate object is object acted on based on a value of the appraisal. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302174 | CROWD-SOURCING FOR GAP FILLING IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method, system, and computer program product for gap filling in a social network are provided. The method includes providing details of one or more current online users in a game in which users are scored for their input. A person is selected from candidates for whom additional information is required in a social network, including: weighting candidates who have a strong relationship with a current online user in the game; and weighting candidates for whom there is little existing data in the social network. The method includes identifying the selected person to a current online user; receiving information input by a current online user relating to the selected person; and scoring the information input by a current online user. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302175 | CENTRAL SERVICE PLATFORM AND SERVICES FOR FLEET MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT - A service platform method in a central service platform system for enabling readiness and sustainability services for a fleet of deployed and fielded equipment units, comprising the steps of: receiving condition based operational status data dependent on equipment operational status data and dependent on predetermined relations between said equipment status data and predetermined weighting parameters from an on-board local service platform associated with an equipment unit; | 12-08-2011 |
20110307494 | Scoring Nodes in a Directed Graph with Positive and Negative Links - A method assigns a score to each node in a directed graph. Nodes in the graph represent autonomous entities, and links denote opinions entities hold of each other. Scores are assigned based on either a deterministic iterative method or a random walk. Both methods are able to take negative opinions into account by assigning negative reputation to a node in proportion to the positive reputation of the node that links to it with a negative opinion, and also assigning a separate kind of negative reputation to nodes that have a positive opinion of a node with either kind of negative reputation. The random walk method also solves the “rank sink” problem of previous methods by disallowing any single traversal from visiting any particular node more than once within a certain interval. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307495 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF HUMAN TRANSLATION THROUGH THE USE OF A GROUP OF HUMAN REVIEWERS - System and computer implemented method for evaluating the quality and accuracy of a human translation from a source language to a target language by a group of professional translation reviewers communicating in real-time. The system and method comprise a system computer with a database of profiles and credentials of reviewers; and the ability to communicate with groups of selected reviewers via a computer network. The computer system assigns evaluations and collects ratings returned by reviewers, and calculates a consensus rating for the group, while omitting statistical outliers. The system will also calculate a score for the reviewer as compared to the group, and use the score in selecting reviewers for future evaluations. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307496 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING VERIFIED CONTENT - A system and method for creating and utilizing content is described. Content is generated which includes a query and a response to the query. A primary query may be used to generate a plurality of variant queries which may be matched to a request. A content owner or curator may review a query, a response, and/or alternate queries, and may provide access to media which may be used to generate queries and responses. | 12-15-2011 |
20110314028 | PRESENTING DISPLAY CHARACTERISTICS OF HIERARCHICAL DATA STRUCTURES - Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods, and computer-storage media for providing a method of presenting display characteristics of data items organized in hierarchical data structures. In one embodiment, a hierarchical data structure includes a plurality of nodes. Each node of the hierarchical data structure has a node value. The weighted value of each particular node is determined based on the sum of the node value of each node and the node values of each descendant node of the particular node. Once display characteristics based on weighted values are associated with each node, the hierarchical data structure is presented. In particular, an indicator of at least a portion of the plurality of nodes is presented to include at least one display characteristic associated with the plurality of nodes within the hierarchical data structure. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314029 | RULE-BASED PRIORITIZATION OF SOCIAL DATA - A method of prioritizing feed items based on rules is provided. User input establishes one or more rules to prioritize a feed item, wherein at least one of the one or more rules incorporates the input data. Such user input may include user-created data or feed metrics. The one or more rules may be weighted. Additional user input configures one or more message cues. A plurality of feed items are prioritized based on the one or more rules. The plurality of feed items are associated with a plurality of feeds, wherein each feed is associated with an object stored in a database system. The plurality of feed items are then displayed in combination with the one or more message cues to a plurality of users of the database system. | 12-22-2011 |
20110320459 | TERM IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method of assigning an identifier to a mention of an entity in a document carried out by computing apparatus including a display and one or more user operable input devices. A plurality of candidate identifiers are received from a term identification module in respect of a mention of an entity in a document, each candidate identifier being a reference to an entity in connection with which entity property data is stored in one or more entity databases. A list is displayed in a first region of the display, the list having a plurality of user-selectable entries, each entry in the list concerning the entity referred to by one of the said plurality of candidate identifiers, each entry comprising properties of the respective entity. At least one of the said properties is retrieved from the said one or more entity databases. In response to the selection by a user of an entry in the list, additional properties of the entity which the selected entry concerns are displayed in a second region of the display, the additional properties being retrieved at least in part from the one or more said databases. Responsive to an identifier assignment instruction received from a user in connection with a selected entity which a list entry concerns, an identifier of the selected entity is assigned as identifier of the mention of the entity. Filters are provided to enable a user to restrict the entities in connection with which a list entry is provided to those which fulfil user specified criteria. The properties which are displayed in the first and second region of the display are customisable for different domains and applications. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320460 | EFFICIENT REPRESENTATION OF DATA LINEAGE INFORMATION - Presenting data lineage information by assigning a score to a data asset along a path between a data source and a data destination, where a predefined scoring function is applied to a characteristic of the data asset, and presenting via a computer-controlled output medium a description of the data source, the data destination, and the path between the data source and the data destination, where the description includes the data asset if the score meets predefined inclusion criteria. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320461 | CENTRALIZED WEB-BASED SOFTWARE SOLUTION FOR SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION - A system and method for modifying a parameter of a website in order to optimize an organic listing of the website at one or more search engines is described. Several embodiments include methods and systems for generating scored representations based upon different portions of data associated with a website, and then combining the scored representations to achieve a result. The result indicates a feature of the website that may be modified in order to optimize the organic ranking of the website at one or more search engines. | 12-29-2011 |
20120005215 | Resource Hubs For Heterogeneous Groups - An invention is disclosed for providing a digital resource gathering and dissemination system, method, or process that can accommodate digital resources of interest for heterogeneous groups and communities of online users for the same topic, demographic, or some other categories as provided by a particular classification scheme. Such a system, method, or process also provides a more reliable or otherwise representative selection of digital resources of interest to the population as a whole. | 01-05-2012 |
20120005216 | Providing Content by Using a Social Network - A method of providing content ( | 01-05-2012 |
20120011129 | FACETED EXPLORATION OF MEDIA COLLECTIONS - Exemplary methods and apparatuses are disclosed that may be used to provide or otherwise support extraction of objects and facets from one or more extraction corpora and ranking of said facets using multiple ranking corpora. | 01-12-2012 |
20120011130 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING CSEM DATA, PROGRAM, STORAGE MEDIUM, COMPUTER AND USE OF METHOD - A method of processing controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) data is provided for reducing the airwave contribution. CSEM data are acquired, for example using a conventional towed source ( | 01-12-2012 |
20120016885 | ADAPTIVE AND PERSONALIZED TAG RECOMMENDATION - Embodiments of the invention relate to techniques for personalized tag recommendation for enterprise social bookmarking systems. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method comprises computing at least one set of candidate tags for a document in accordance with at least one factor, and combining the at least one set of candidate tags from different factors into an overall recommendation list of candidate tags. At least one suggested tag from the overall recommendation list is returned as a result of the combination. At least one applied tag that is applied to the document by a user of a computer system is recorded, and the combination is adjusted based on the at least one applied tag. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016886 | DETERMINING A SEASONAL EFFECT IN TEMPORAL DATA - To determine a seasonal effect in temporal data, for each of a plurality of candidate seasons, the following is performed. An interval is defined for the corresponding candidate season. The interval is divided ( | 01-19-2012 |
20120023107 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MATCHING AND MERGING RECORDS - A system and method of matching and merging records is disclosed herein. Embodiments comprise receiving, a plurality of records from a feed, wherein a record in the plurality of records from the feed may be either partial or complete. A processor executes fuzzy matching logic to determine whether one or more records in the plurality of records from the feed match an existing record. The processor then executes a merged of the one or more matching records with the existing record to form a merged composite record. Finally, the merged composite record is stored. | 01-26-2012 |
20120023108 | SYSTEM TO DETERMINE PEER RANKING OF INDIVIDUAL IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system comprising a database containing information concerning uniquely identified entities. The database further contains a list of attributes describing the products, skills, or services provide by the entities. A server compares the desired referral of a first entity to one or more second entities having the desired product, skill, or service, and by evaluating the relationship between the first entity and second entities, presents those second entities in the order of their value as a referral. | 01-26-2012 |
20120023109 | Contextual processing of data objects in a multi-dimensional information space - A system and method is disclosed for contextual processing of data objects in a multi-dimensional information space. The system can be used to increase the efficiency and improve the interactive experience for the user of a GUI-based operating system or application. | 01-26-2012 |
20120023110 | Adaptive Processing for Sequence Alignment - Disclosed are various embodiments for adaptive processing for sequence alignment. In one embodiment, among others, a method includes obtaining a query sequence and a plurality of database sequences. A first portion of the plurality of database sequences is distributed to a central processing unit (CPU) and a second portion of the plurality of database sequences is distributed to a graphical processing unit (GPU) based upon a predetermined splitting ratio associated with the plurality of database sequences, where the database sequences of the first portion are shorter than the database sequences of the second portion. A first alignment score for the query sequence is determined with the CPU based upon the first portion of the plurality of database sequences and a second alignment score for the query sequence is determined with the GPU based upon the second portion of the plurality of database sequences. | 01-26-2012 |
20120023111 | WORD DECOMPOUNDER - A word is split into one or more first substrings. A morpheme is applied to the one or more first substrings to create one or more second substrings. The one or more first and second substrings are selected as one or more splittings, and a score is generated for each of the one or more splittings. One of the one or more splittings with a score higher than the other one or more splittings is selected as a keyword. | 01-26-2012 |
20120030215 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TELEVISION SEARCH ASSISTANT - A television guide search query is received from a user. A plurality of suggested search terms are selected. Each of the plurality of suggested search terms is assigned to, and is ranked within, one of a plurality of categories A number of suggested search terms to be returned to the user, n | 02-02-2012 |
20120030216 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Generating Data Quality Indicators for Relationships in a Database - The disclosed methods, systems, and computer-program products allow a business to generate data quality indicators for relationships in a database. In an embodiment, one or more relationships linked to a customer are retrieved from a database to form a set of relationships. A match confidence code is generated for each relationship based on a score generated by the comparison of customer data associated with the respective relationship and corresponding customer data obtained from an external industry database. A link confidence code is subsequently determined for the customer based on a score generated by the scores used to define the match confidence code for each relationship in the set of relationships and on internal data associated with each relationship in the set of relationships. | 02-02-2012 |
20120036135 | DATABASE ANONYMIZATION FOR USE IN TESTING DATABASE-CENTRIC APPLICATIONS - At least one quasi-identifier attribute of a plurality of ranked attributes is selected for use in anonymizing a database. Each of the ranked attributes is ranked according to that attribute's effect on a database-centric application (DCA) being tested. In an embodiment, the selected quasi-identifier attribute(s) has the least effect on the DCA. The database is anonymized based on the selected quasi-identifier attribute(s) to provide a partially-anonymized database, which may then be provided to a testing entity for use in testing the DCA. In an embodiment, during execution of the DCA, instances of database queries are captured and analyzed to identify a plurality of attributes from the database and, for each such attribute identified, the effect of the attribute on the DCA is quantified. In this manner, databases can be selectively anonymized in order to balance the requirements of data privacy against the utility of the data for testing purposes. | 02-09-2012 |
20120036136 | SECURING DATABASE CONTENT - A method for securing content in a database includes identifying a challenge column associated with a database column referenced in an update query. A challenge value for the challenge column may be received and resolved for a match with a corresponding value stored in the challenge column. In case of a match, the update query may be certified for execution on the database, otherwise, the update query may be prevented from executing. Challenge columns may be determined by an analysis of the database on the basis of discriminating power, description complexity, and/or diversity. | 02-09-2012 |
20120036137 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ACTIONABLE RELEVANT RECOMMENDATIONS - A method, a system and a computer program product for providing one or more actionable recommendations relevant to a need of a user and relevant to the user, are provided. A query is received for capturing the need of the user. Further, the need is analyzed to determine one or more characteristics corresponding to the need. Furthermore, the need is processed to generate one or more actionable recommendations. Moreover, the one or more actionable recommendations are provided to the user. The system also includes a processing module to process the need to generate one or more actionable recommendations. The system further includes a feedback module for iterative processing of the need. | 02-09-2012 |
20120036138 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION IN HIGH LEVEL SYNTHESIS - A method for automatically exploring a design space of an untimed high level language, comprising at least one of: (a) exploring automatically a set of local operations parsing an input source and assigning a set of attributes to each of the local operations; (b) exploring a set of global synthesis option that affects an entire design of a target circuit; and (c) exploring number and type of functional units allocated to the design. | 02-09-2012 |
20120041959 | EDITING A NETWORK OF INTERCONNECTED CONCEPTS - Systems and methods that create and edit a network of interconnected concepts are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semantic engine implements a method comprising receiving a primary term representing a first concept to be added to a network of interrelated concepts, receiving at least one related term related to the primary term, receiving at least one relationship between the first concept and a second concept, receiving a strength value associated with the relationship, and adding the first concept to the network. | 02-16-2012 |
20120047146 | VISUAL AID TO ASSIST MAKING PURCHASE BY TRACKING KEY PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS - The present invention is directed to methods and systems for assisting users in an ecommerce environment. The method includes displaying a user interface of including products. Each of the products have associated attributes. Each of the associated attributes are displayed in the user interface with an associated selection tool. The method further includes receiving one or more selections of the selection tools indicating selection of one or more of the associated attributes. The one or more selections provide a ranking of each of the selected attributes. For each of the products, the method calculates a real-time score total and displays the real-time score total within the user interface. The calculating includes determining a weighted value for each of the products based on an aggregation of each of the selected associated attributes of the product. Further, the method includes displaying a ranked list of the products based on the determined weighted values of each of the products. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047147 | DYNAMIC PLACE VISIBILITY IN GEO-SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - In one embodiment, a user of a social networking system requests to search for a place near the user's current location. The social networking system generates a list of places near the user's current location, select a sub-set from the list of places based on visibility and activity of the user and the user's social contacts for each place in the list, and returns the sub-set to the user. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047148 | Method for Generating Search Result and System for Information Search - The present disclosure discloses a method for generating a search result and an information search system. The method for generating a search result includes: receiving, by an information search system, a search request; obtaining, by searching, a plurality of pieces of matching information that match the search request; obtaining a respective amount of user response associated with each of the plurality of pieces of matching information and further obtaining a total amount of user response associated with a respective categories to which each of the plurality of pieces of matching information belongs; and ranking the plurality of pieces of information to generate a search result based on the total amount of user response associated with the respective category to which each of the plurality of pieces of matching information belongs. By using the above technical scheme, a result of more rational ranking of matching information can be displayed to a user when the user performs a search, thus improving experience of the user. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047149 | Document Key Phrase Extraction Method - A computer-implemented method of extracting key phrases from a document is disclosed comprising the steps of accessing a repository comprising linked subjects, the repository comprising first and second data structures representing the relationship between said subjects using different representation criteria; pruning the first data structure by removing links between subjects based on a further relationship between said subjects in the second data structure; matching phrases in said document to subjects in the pruned first data structure; further pruning the pruned first data structure by removing unmatched subjects that are not linked to matched subjects; determining a ranking for each matched subject; and selecting key phrases using the determined subject rankings. A computer program for implementing the steps of this method when executed on a computer is also disclosed. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047150 | MINING OF USER EVENT DATA TO IDENTIFY USERS WITH COMMON INTERESTS - A computer-implemented matching service matches users to other users, and/or to user communities, based at least in part on a computer analysis of event data reflective of user behaviors. The event data may, for example, evidence user affinities for particular items represented in an electronic catalog, such as book titles, music titles, movie titles, and/or other types of items that tend to reflect the traits of users. Event data reflective of other types of user actions, such as item-detail-page viewing events, browse node visits, search query submissions, and/or web browsing patterns may additionally or alternatively be considered. By taking such event data into consideration, the matching service reduces the burden on users to explicitly supply personal profile information, and reduces poor results caused by exaggerations and other inaccuracies in such profile information. | 02-23-2012 |
20120059829 | OBJECT CLASSIFICATION - A method and apparatus for processing an observation of an object to be classified, the method comprising using a particle filter in which an observation of an object to be classified is used to weight particles on a plurality of models for the object. The method may further comprise performing at least one further iteration of using the particle filter to weight the particles on the plurality of models for the object using a further observation of the object to be classified. The method may further comprise providing respective classification probabilities that each respective model corresponds to the object based on the weightings of the particles of the respective model. Each of the respective particles may be divided into a respective plurality of sub-particles. | 03-08-2012 |
20120066230 | Object sharing and search system - This invention is related to an object sharing and search system (OS3) that allows users to create and share computational content of any sort in a multi-user computing environment. It considers user, domain and document as three basic and interacting classes of objects, and allows users to create domain hierarchies, to create objects within a domain, to specify the accessibility of an object in a domain, etc., and it controls the access of an object by another object in a domain. It also allows users to search objects in a domain and recommend the ranking for a search. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066231 | DYNAMIC PROFILE SLICE - Systems and methods are provided for maintaining a dynamic profile slice of a user profile of a user. In one embodiment, a real-time user-generated context of the user is monitored over time to accumulate keywords in the dynamic profile slice of the user that are representative of dynamic interests of the user. Weights are assigned to the keywords in the dynamic profile slice using a time and/or location weighting function. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066232 | VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A vehicle navigation system having a database configured to store map data. The database includes links corresponding to road segments and attributes associated with the links. The map data includes at least some links associated with a curvature attribute. A mean absolute curvature ( | 03-15-2012 |
20120072428 | ACTION CLUSTERING FOR NEWS FEEDS - One embodiment selects from a plurality of actions performed by one or more users of a social networking system a first action and one or more second actions, wherein each action has one or more attributes; computes a score for each second action by comparing the one or more attributes of each second action with the one or more attributes of the first action; ranks the one or more second actions according to the score computed for each second action; and selects from the one or more second actions one or more highest-ranking second actions as being related to the first action. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072429 | PUBLIC RELATIONS AND REPUTATION MINING VIA SEMANTIC ANALYTICS - A method, information processing system, and computer readable storage medium manage public relations queries using semantic analysis. A public relations query expressed in natural language is received from a user. A set of relevant topics and subjects associated with the query are identified. A set of information sources are identified that comprise data associated with the set of topics and subjects based on the set of topics and subjects. A set of data from the set of information sources is identified that satisfies the query. A set of weights are assigned to the set of data that has been identified. A set of data elements within the set of data that comprises a set of weights above a given threshold are identified. A response to the query is generated using the set of data elements that has been identified. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072430 | System for Managing Moveable Assets Using Automatic Identification and Data Capture Technology, and Method for Operating Same - A Movable Asset Management System using Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) Devices and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The movable asset management system using AIDC technologies includes: AIDC devices storing information about movable property and/or movable property collateral and transmitting the same to an external device; information posted on the movable property and used to specify such movable property; location information of the movable property; and/or information identifying a owner of the movable property, and information about the movable property including current status of usage and/or information identifying an obligor and a secured creditor, when security interest is created thereon; information on the secured credit amount and maximum amount of the security interest, if necessary; and/or information about the movable property collateral including, but not limited to, the cause of registration, date, existence period and a serial number of registration, when the security interest has been registered; a mobile reader receiving the information about the movable property and/or the movable property collateral, transmitted from the AIDC devices, and transmitting the information about the movable property and/or the movable property collateral to a database system via networks. The database system includes: a communication unit receiving the information about the movable property and/or the movable property collateral from the mobile reader; a database storing the information about the movable property and/or the movable property collateral; a control unit storing the information about the movable property and/or the movable property collateral, received from the mobile reader, in the database and managing the database; a display unit connected to the control unit and displaying the information about the movable property and/or the movable property collateral, received by the communication unit; and an input unit connected to the control unit, which is operated by a user to retrieve and search the information about the movable property and/or the movable property collateral, stored in the database. This system of the present invention manages an individual movable property or collective movable properties with AIDC devices attached thereto (or embedded therein) and to provide the systematic asset/facility management services by utilizing the database in an efficient manner by means of computers and the Internet. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072431 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING FULFILLMENT MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the invention include a method of implementing fulfillment management. The method includes receiving order information, wherein the order information includes one or more order lines, selecting at least one of the one or more order lines, scoring the one or more selected order lines, and accessing one or more rules assigned to the one or more order lines. The method further includes based on the assigned rules, defining a priority rank of each of the one or more selected order lines, specifying fulfillment of inventory based on the priority and scoring of each of the selected one or more order lines, and assigning inventory based on the specified fulfillment. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072432 | FACET-BASED FILTERING OF SOCIAL NETWORK UPDATE DATA - A network update interface is presented to a user on a network to display network updates from other users of a mutual social-networking site. The network updates shared by the other users are gathered in a stream and supplied to a facet-filtering system including a network update interface. The user controls the display of certain network update items according to facet-filter characteristics enabled in facet-filter selection panels in the network update interface. The facet-filter characteristics are used by a facet filter to select certain network updates for display to the user in the network update interface. Trending links to further articles with content corresponding to the facet-filter characteristics are displayed to the user according to greatest popularity among the other users. Links to the profiles of the users sharing the articles are also provided in the network update interface. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072433 | Identifying the Unifying Subject of a Set of Facts - A method and system for identifying a subject of a document and facts included within are described. A source document that includes facts and linking documents that include hyperlinks to the source document are identified. The anchor texts of the hyperlinks are identified and candidate labels are generated based on the anchor texts. One of the candidate labels is selected as the unifying subject of the facts. An information set, distinct from the source document, is stored in a facts database, wherein the stored information set includes the unifying subject, and source document information associating the source document with the information set. | 03-22-2012 |
20120078916 | RANKING SEARCH RESULTS BY SOCIAL RELEVANCY - A location based service with enhanced searching functionality that considers social relevancy in searching for nearby places and analyzing ratings of nearby places. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078917 | Methods And Apparatus For Selecting Updates To Associated Records To Publish On An Information Feed Using Importance Weights In An On-Demand Database Service Environment - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for selecting updates to associated records to publish on an information feed in an on-demand database service environment. In one embodiment, one or more updates associated with a data record are stored in a database. One or more criteria are applied to the one or more updates to generate an importance weight associated with each update. The one or more importance weights are compared with a designated threshold. When one or more importance weights are identified as meeting or exceeding the designated threshold, the one or more updates associated with the identified one or more importance weights are provided as one or more candidates for publication on an information feed associated with the data record, where the information feed is capable of being displayed on a display device. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078918 | Information Relation Generation - For generating a word space, manual thresholding of word scores is used. Rather than requiring the user to select the threshold arbitrarily or review each word, the user is iteratively requested to indicate the relevance of a given word. Words with greater or lesser scores are labeled in the same way depending upon the response. For determining the relationship between named entities, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is performed on text associated with the name entities rather than on an entire document. LDA for relationship mining may include context information and/or supervised learning. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078919 | COMPARISON OF CHARACTER STRINGS - A computer-readable, non-transitory medium storing a character string comparison program is provided. The program causes, when executed by a computer, the computer to perform a process including splitting a first character string and a second character string into words; acquiring information including a semantic attribute that represents a semantic nature of each of the words and a conceptual code that semantically identifies said each of the words, from a storage device; identifying a pair of the words having a common semantic attribute between the first character string and the second character string; comparing the conceptual codes of the specified pair of the words between the first character string and the second character string; and generating a comparison result between the first character string and the second character string based upon a comparison result of the conceptual codes. | 03-29-2012 |
20120084297 | Network-Resource-Specific Search Assistance - One embodiment identifies a set of network resources relating to a search query; determines one or more sets of query suggestions for one or more network resources from the set of network resources, respectively, wherein each one of the one or more sets of query suggestions is related to a corresponding one of the one or more network resources; and provides the one or more network resources and the one or more sets of query suggestions in response to the search query, wherein each one of the one or more sets of query suggestions is provided in association with its corresponding one of the one or more network resources. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084298 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTRIBUTION INFORMATION EVALUATION SYSTEM, CONTRIBUTION INFORMATION EVALUATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a range of activity information acquisition unit which acquires information of the range of activity that is an area that a user who contributes contribution information on a facility visits, and a reliability level evaluation unit which evaluates the level of reliability for the contribution information based on the information of the range of activity. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084299 | MATCHING INFORMATION OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE - This disclosure provides methods and systems for processing and matching information of a chemical substance, and a storage system. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of processing information of a chemical substance comprises obtaining substructures of a chemical structural formula of said chemical substance; determining a featured substructure of said chemical substance from the obtained substructures; and storing said featured substructure of said chemical substance. The technical problem to be solved by one aspect of this disclosure is to provide a method and system capable of processing and/or matching information of a chemical substance independent of the existing various nomenclatures. One aspect of this disclosure provides a method and system for efficiently and comprehensively indexing and/or inquiring about information of a chemical substance using a featured substructure, and a storage system of the same. | 04-05-2012 |
20120089613 | TECHNIQUE FOR IDENTIFYING KEY FOR ASSOCIATING MESSAGES - A method for identifying a key for associating messages include: extracting attribute values for a first attribute, which are included in messages, and appearance times of the messages, from a message storage unit storing messages, each including one or plural attribute values for one or plural attributes, and appearance times of corresponding messages; calculating, for each of the extracted attribute values for the first attribute, a difference between an earliest appearance time and a latest appearance time among the appearance times of the messages including a corresponding attribute value; determining whether or not a ratio of differences that are shorter than a predetermined period is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold; and upon determining that the ratio is not less than the predetermined threshold, storing data representing the first attribute is a candidate of a key for associating the messages stored in the message storage unit. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089614 | Computer-Implemented Systems And Methods For Matching Records Using Matchcodes With Scores - Systems and methods are provided for generating matchcode scores for a record. In one example, a record is received that includes one or more fields, each field having an associated field type. One or more alternative forms of the record are generated based on variations of the one or more fields of the record. A frequency score is identifying, from stored frequency information, for each variation of the one or more fields of the record, wherein each frequency score relates to a frequency of use for a text string included in a field. Using the frequency scores, overall scores are generated for the record and the one or more alternative forms of the record. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089615 | NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDE FOR SEMANTIC SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD TO SUPPORT LOCAL POI DISCOVERY - A neighborhood guide system, related method and associated database for providing information about businesses and other locations to a vehicle driver, or other user, in a more natural and informative manner than traditional IVR systems. When interacting with the user, the neighborhood guide system typically will only provide choices for the user to select from based on a user request that are in the particular vicinity of the user. Further, the neighborhood guide system provides usable information about the selected business by the user, such as hours of operation, cost, ratings, parking, etc. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING PERSONAL EXPERIENCE EVENT REPORTS FROM USER GERNERATED INTERNET CONTENT - A method for retrieving Internet posts, implementable on a computing device, includes analyzing Internet posts to define segments in the Internet posts, where the segments at least contain terms consistent with user generation of a personal experience event report associated with a pre-defined search subject, and scoring each of the segments, where the score indicates a likelihood that the Internet post associated with the segment represents a user generated the personal experience report associated with the pre-defined search subject. A method for detecting personal experience event reports from user generated content on the Internet includes filtering a collection of Internet posts to include only Internet posts containing personal experience terms, and further filtering the filtered Internet posts by removing the Internet posts with non-personal experience terms. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089617 | ENHANCED SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON ENTITY RANKING - Enhanced search system and method based on entity ranking that accepts votes for online and offline users and calculates rankings for user attributes that are used to provide highly valued search results. An input is received from a user indicating an opinion of another user or plurality of other users. In one embodiment, reputation scores are weighted by the reputation scores of voters. In another embodiment, weights are derived from voter reputation scores in the domain in which the voting took place. In another embodiment, reputation scores are adjusted according to a plurality of factors, including, but not limited to, user demographics or user behavior. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089618 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A PERSONAL VALUE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL - A method and apparatus for generating a personal value for a user are disclosed. For example, the method collects data associated with the user, wherein the data that is collected comprises social connection data, enhances the data that is collected, receives a request, and generates a response to the request by using a personal value for the user, where the personal value is generated from the data that is enhanced. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089619 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING DOCUMENT FRESHNESS - A system determines a freshness of a first document. The system determines whether a freshness attribute is associated with the first document. The system identifies, based on the determination, a set of second documents that each contain a link to the first document. The system assigns a freshness score to the first document based on a freshness attribute associated with each document of the set of second documents or the freshness attribute associated with the first document. | 04-12-2012 |
20120096009 | COLLABORATIVE FILTERING WITH HASHING - Systems, methods, and machine readable and executable instructions are provided for collaborative filtering. Collaborative filtering includes representing users and objects by rows and columns in a binary ratings matrix having a particular dimensional space. Unknown values in the binary ratings matrix are weighted with a weight matrix having the particular dimensional space. The binary ratings matrix and the weight matrix are hashed into a lower dimensional space by one of row and column. The hashed binary ratings matrix and the hashed weight matrix are low-rank approximated by alternating least squares. A result of the low-rank approximation for the one of row and column is updated using the binary ratings matrix and the weight matrix. A recommendation of one of the objects can be generated for one of the users based on the updated result. | 04-19-2012 |
20120096010 | ADAPTIVE OBJECT IDENTIFICATION - A adaptive object identification mechanism provides an object description of an object of an application that is executed by a processor, where the object description is based on attributes associated with the object. When an operation on the object is detected, the attributes of the object are sampled at the time of the operation and compared with the object description to assess whether the attributes have changed. The object description is then adjusted based on the assessment. | 04-19-2012 |
20120096011 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISCOVERING ARTISTS - A musician discovery system is provided. The musician discovery system includes a first interface for displaying a plurality of musicians organized according to a musical characteristic. The system includes a second interface for presenting multimedia information about a first musician from the plurality of musicians displayed on the first interface. The system includes means for comparing a second plurality of musicians with the first musician using the multimedia information presented on the second interface about the first musician. Furthermore, the system includes a third interface for recommending a second musician from the second plurality of musicians based on the comparing means. | 04-19-2012 |
20120096012 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND INTERFACES FOR AGGREGATING AND PROVIDING INFORMATION REGARDING LEGAL PROFESSIONALS - A method for determining legal experience including determining a count of times each attorney of a plurality of attorneys is identified as an author of at least one document of a plurality of documents, each document of the plurality of documents has a date associated therewith; applying a weight to the count based on the date of each document used to determine the count to yield a weighted count, a more recent date corresponds to a greater weight; determining a legal experience indicator for each attorney based on the weighted count; and ranking each attorney of the plurality of attorneys according to the legal experience indicator; providing a list of the plurality of attorneys according to the ranking. | 04-19-2012 |
20120102043 | Data Driven Metric for Service Quality - A data processing system establishes a mapping between each of a plurality of plurality of internal data sources within a service organization and a respective one of multiple service quality factors. The data processing system determines a mathematical transformation of internal service quality data obtained from the plurality of internal data sources to obtain a customer satisfaction value. The data processing system estimates and reports a service quality delivered by the service organization by applying the mathematical transformation to at least some of the internal service quality data obtained from the plurality of internal data sources. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102044 | CLUSTERED SEARCH PROCESSING - Methods and apparatus for searching data and grouping search results into clusters that are ordered according to search relevance. Each cluster comprises one or more data type, such as images, web pages, local information, news, advertisements, and the like. In one embodiment, a search term is evaluated for related concepts indicating categories of data sources to search. Data sources may also be identified by context information such as a location of a client device, a currently running application, and the like. Search results in each cluster are ordered by relevance and each cluster is given a score based on an aggregate of the relevance within the cluster. Each cluster score may be modified based on one or more corresponding concepts and/or context information. The clusters are ordered based on the modified scores. Content, including advertisements, may also be added to the ordered list to appear as another cluster. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102045 | AUTOMATIC DISAMBIGUATION BASED ON A REFERENCE RESOURCE - A novel system for automatically indicating the specific identity of ambiguous named entities is provided. An automatic disambiguation data collection is created using a reference resource. Explicit named entities are catalogued from the reference resource, together with various abbreviated, alternative, and casual ways of referring to the named entities. Entity indicators, such as labels and context indicators associated with the named entities in the reference resource, are also catalogued. The automatic disambiguation collection can then be used as a basis for evaluating ambiguous references to named entities in text content provided in different applications. The content surrounding the ambiguous reference may be compared with the entity indicators to find a good match, indicating that the named entity associated with the matching entity indicators is the intended identity of the ambiguous reference, which can be automatically provided to a user. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102046 | FEATURE EXTRACTION DEVICE AND FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD - A feature extraction device is provided with a searching means for searching a document tree, and sequentially detecting elements as search elements; a distance calculation means for calculating an inter-element distance between an extraction target element within a plurality of elements of the document tree and a search element; an exclusive element confirmation means for referring to an exclusive element name and generating exclusivity information indicating, for an exclusive target element, whether the search element is the exclusive element; an element feature vector calculation means for calculating, based on an inter-element distance and the exclusivity information, a weight for a word included in an element corresponding to the element, and for relating and calculating, for each search element, based on weights, an element feature vector having a plurality of dimensions and such that each dimension uniquely corresponds to a predetermined word; and a partial document feature vector calculation means for calculating, based on the element feature vector, a partial document feature vector of a partial document related to the extracted target element. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102047 | Rating and Novelty Decay - Application servers and methods of operating the same are provided for generating a personalized recommendation of items to a first user. An updated rating value N(t) of an initial rating value N(0) is determined for each rated item based on an age of each rating. The updated rating value N(t) is based on a difference between the value of the initial rating N(0) and a neutral rating value R, and on a predetermined half-life of the ratings. The updated rating value N(t) converges towards the neutral rating value R with an increase in the age t for each rating. | 04-26-2012 |
20120109971 | Rules Based Playlist Generation - A playlist can be generated based on a chart or list including ranked media items, e.g. songs, videos, etc., by automatically including the highest ranked media items to the playlist, but only adding some of the lower ranked media items to the playlist. A particular lower-ranked media item can be pseudo-randomly excluded from the playlist if that media item has a ranking in a current version of the chart that is lower than its ranking in a previous version. Once the desired number of media items has been added to an intermediate list, the intermediate list can be inverted, and station identifiers can be interspersed between the media items. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109972 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SIMILAR MOLECULES - A vectorization process is employed in which chemical identifier strings are converted into respective vectors. These vectors may then be searched to identify molecules that are identical or similar to each other. The dimensions of the vector space can be defined by sequences of symbols that make up the chemical identifier strings. The International Chemical Identifier (InChI) string defined by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is particularly well suited for these methods. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109973 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING AGE OF A USER BASED ON MASS DATA - A method and a system for determining age of a user based on mass data are provided. The method includes: obtaining basic age data of the user, configuring an initial weight for the basic age data; obtaining an age weight of the user in different kinds of basic age data according to the initial weight and an age similarity of the user in the different kinds of basic age data; and searching the basic age data for an age with a largest age weight, determining the age with the largest age weight as an estimated age of the user. The method and system for determining age of the user based on mass data is able to improve accuracy of the determination of the age of the user. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109974 | Acronym Extraction - Disclosed is a system and computer-implemented method for extracting an acronym and one or more corresponding expansions of the acronym from a document represented in a markup language. The computer-implemented method comprises: identifying at least one acronym contained in the document; determining one or more expansions of the at least one identified acronym based on a portion of document located proximate the identified acronym; determining a ranking for each determined expansion based attributes of the document; and selecting one or more expansions for an identified acronym using the determined rankings. | 05-03-2012 |
20120117082 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION OR SEARCH USING DISCRETE WORDS - A method of operating a computerized document search system where information is matched against a database containing documents in response to user queries includes receiving a query identifying a source document that has information content related to the documents within the database. Important words within the source document are detected automatically, where at least one of the important words has been processed using at least two dictionary functions consisting of Derived Words, Acronym, Word Capitalization, and Hyphenation. An importance value is generated for important words in a processed document using a WordRatio and at least one of a selected set of values. A score is generated for a processed document based partly on the importance value of at least one important word in that document. A document list is created for identifying documents that are related to a source document. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117083 | COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING ENGINE - A method, a data aggregation tool, and a set of instructions are disclosed. A data storage | 05-10-2012 |
20120117084 | Data Processing System and Method - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a data processing method comprising the steps of processing a first sample set associated with first results of tracking a target in a number of image frames using a first object classifier arranged to operate according to a first feature and processing a second sample set associated with second results of tracking the target in said number of image frames using a second object classifier arrange to operate according to a second feature, and using at least one of the first and second tracking results to influence at least one particle filter adapted to influence at least one of subsequent first and second tracking results. | 05-10-2012 |
20120124057 | EXTERNAL USER IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION USING REPUTATION DATA - In a system and method for user identification and verification using reputation data, a processor-implemented feedback component receives feedback data pertaining to a user of a network-based community in response to a transaction in which the user is a party. A processor-implemented tracking component tracks transaction data and metadata associated with the transaction data and the feedback data. A processor-implemented aggregation component aggregates the received feedback data and the tracked data and metadata to yield an aggregated set of data pertaining to the user. A processor-implemented reputation component generates a reputation value for the user from the aggregated set of data. If the reputation value is greater than a predetermined threshold value, the user is considered trustworthy, and if the reputation value is not greater than the predetermined threshold value, the user is not considered trustworthy. | 05-17-2012 |
20120124058 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RATING ITEMS WITHIN THE ARTS - A system and method provides for judging the fine arts in a graded fashion. Information is stored in one or more fields including literature, cinema, plays, art, music and television in at least one database on at least one computer system. A database of experts is maintained in the computer system in one or more areas including literature, cinema, plays, music, art or mental health. A set of one or more categories within each of the fields is created and stored in the database. A set of one or more facets associated with each of the categories is created. The facets for each item of the categories in the fields stored in the database are rated by an expert associated therewith and stored within the at least one database. The ratings of the items are transmitted over the Internet for view by others for determining the merit or negative attributes of a given item. | 05-17-2012 |
20120124059 | ADDRESS BOOK AUTOFILTER - A mechanism is provided for filtering an address book. Contacts are read of the address book of a user. An operative connection is maintained to a social networking site related to the user. Social networking communication data of the user is extracted from the social networking site. The contacts are ranked in the address book based on the social networking communication data of the user. | 05-17-2012 |
20120124060 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF IDENTIFYING ADJACENCY DATA, METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GENERATING A DATASET FOR MAPPING ADJACENCY DATA, AND AN ADJACENCY DATA SET - A method of creating a dataset having an adjacency list of a graph mapping a plurality of predicate edges connecting among a plurality of vertexes each set for another of a plurality of entities. The method is based on a list having a plurality of predicate triplets and a plurality of inverted predicate triplets extracted from the graph, each the triplet and the inverted predicate triplet having a subject entity and an attribute entity from the plurality of entities and a predicate edge, from the plurality of predicate edges. | 05-17-2012 |
20120131012 | Method and apparatus for autonomic discovery of sensitive content - A data loss prevention (DLP) system provides a policy-based mechanism for managing how data is discovered and classified on an endpoint workstation, file server or other device within an enterprise. The technique described herein works in an automated manner by analyzing file system activity as one or more endpoint applications interact with a file system to build a statistical model of which areas of the file system are (or will be deemed to be) active or highly active. Using this information, scanning to those areas by the DLP software is then prioritized appropriately to focus compute resources on scanning and classifying preferably only those files and folders that are necessary to be scanned, i.e., the file system portions in which the user is applying the majority of his or her activity. As a result, the technique limits scanning to only those areas that have meaningful activity (thereby conserving compute resources with respect to files or folders that have not changed), improving scanning efficiency. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131013 | TECHNIQUES FOR RANKING CONTENT BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA METRICS - Techniques to rank content based on social media metrics are described. In some embodiments, a method rank content based on social media metrics may include selecting a plurality of content contained on one or more web servers, requesting social media trending information for the plurality of content from one or more social media servers, calculating a social metric score for each of the plurality of content using the social media trending information and ranking the content based on the social metric score. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131014 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERPOLATING ALTERNATIVE INPUT SETS BASED ON USER-WEIGHTED VARIABLES - Embodiments relate to systems and methods for interpolating alternative input sets based on user-weighted variables. A database can store sets of operational data, such as financial, medical, climate or other information. For given data, a portion of the input data can be known or predetermined, while for a second portion can be unknown and subject to interpolation. The interpolation engine can generate a conformal interpolation function and interpolated input sets that map to a set of target output data. The operator can access a view or dialog on the set of known (or interpolated) input data to manually select different weights to be applied to one or more variables in the various input sets. By applying different groups of weights, the operator can study or simulate the effects of changing the relative importance of different inputs, and generate a series of different inputs and outputs based on those varying weights. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131015 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RATING A WRITTEN DOCUMENT - A system and method for rating an essay writing using a statistical system so it can be applied on any language with very few changes. The system comprising multiple modules capable of providing a style score, a punctuation score, a spelling score, a quotation score, an enrichment score, a syntax analysis score, a focus score, an idea score and a cohesion score. The scores are then combined to provide a final overall rating of the essay. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131016 | EVIDENCE PROFILING - Evidence profiling, in one aspect, may receive a candidate answer and supporting pieces of evidence. An evidence profile may be generated, the evidence profile communicating a degree to which the evidence supports the candidate answer as being correct. The evidence profile may provide dimensions of evidence, and each dimension may support or refute the candidate answer as being correct. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131017 | TAG INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, TAG INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND TAG INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A tag information management apparatus for managing tag information indicative of an attribute relating to content data, comprising: an extraction unit that extracts existing tag information assigned to the content data; a generation unit that generates new tag information associated with the existing tag information extracted by the extraction unit; and an assignment unit that assigns the new tag information generated by the generation unit to the content data. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131018 | Item Selecting Apparatus And Method, And Computer Program - A favorite item set making section makes a favorite item set. A first rate calculating section calculates, with respect to a first set of items, a first rate of the number of items satisfying recommended item conditions to the number of all items. A user characteristic value calculating section calculates a user characteristic value by using the first rate. An item selecting section selects, from items in the favorite item set, a plurality of items including items satisfying the recommended item conditions to make a result item set. When the user characteristic value satisfies prescribed conditions, the rate of the number of items in the result item set which satisfy the recommended item conditions to the number of all items in the result item set is greater than the first rate and smaller than 1 except for a case where the first rate is 1. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131019 | INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS, INFORMATION ACQUIRING PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION ACQUIRING METHOD AND INFORMATION ACQUIRING SYSTEM - There is provided an information acquiring apparatus which, when the user searches for information using a plurality of keywords, can facilitate an operation of selecting a plurality of keywords by means of a touch panel and improve the operability. The information acquiring apparatus makes an input means ( | 05-24-2012 |
20120136875 | PREFETCHING RDF TRIPLE DATA - Query requests for RDF triples are obtained, wherein the query request(s) contain(s) at least one triple pattern; for each triple pattern, the corresponding elementary pattern is determined, and each triple pattern is converted to a weighted elementary pattern. The occurrence frequency of each elementary pattern is computed based on the weighted elementary patterns; at least one elementary pattern is chosen at least according to the occurrence frequency; and the RDF triples corresponding to the chosen at least elementary pattern are prefetched into the buffer. The corresponding apparatus is also provided. With the above method and apparatus, the frequently accessed RDF triples can be determined and prefetched into the buffer, which improves the query efficiency. | 05-31-2012 |
20120143878 | ELECTRONIC MAP GENERATION - A method of generating a customised map comprises: taking first, map data for generating a map; taking second, asset data, the asset data comprising a plurality of asset locations on the map and the locations having a label associated therewith; and applying the asset data to the map data to produce an initial labelled map. One or more predetermined rules is applied to the labels to determine whether any group of labels on the initial labelled map is in conflict. For those groups of labels determined to be in conflict, an algorithm is applied to move one or more of the labels in the pair or group to remove or reduce the conflict. | 06-07-2012 |
20120150870 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE CONTROLLED RESPONSIVE TO SHARING BREADTH - A digital image display device for displaying a collection of digital media assets, comprising: a display screen; a processor; a network connection for communicating with a network; an image memory; and a processor-accessible program memory. The processor-accessible memory stores executable instructions for causing the processor to execute the steps of: receiving a plurality of digital media assets using one or more different origins; determining an importance value for each of the received digital media assets responsive to an associated sharing breadth; and performing an operation using at least one of the received digital media assets responsive to the determined importance value. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150871 | Autonomous Mobile Blogging - An autonomous blog engine is implemented to enable the autonomous generation of a blog. The autonomous blog engine receives media objects that are captured by an electronic device during a trip session. The autonomous blog engine determines a place of interest based on photographs selected from the media objects. The autonomous blog engine then generates textual content using one or more pre-stored knowledge items that include information on the place of interest. The autonomous blog engine further autonomously publishes a blog entry on the place of interest that includes one or more photographs from the photograph cluster and the textual content. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150872 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CLASSIFY AND APPLY BEHAVIORAL STIMULI POTENTIALS TO DATA IN REAL TIME - A system and method for digitally classifying and analyzing exposure to behavioral influencers to probabilistically determine behaviors likely to be demonstrated by an individual or cohorts of individuals based on a combination of demographic and psychographic attributes. The system and method transforms raw data into useful data elements having associated exteroceptive values and other metadata that is useful for further evaluation, analysis, integration into a model, or other behavioral data utilization. | 06-14-2012 |
20120158737 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL LAYERED RECONSTRUCTION - HTTP layered reconstruction is disclosed. A database is queried to identify a location of a previously reconstructed HTML artifact file or packet data of a HTML file in a repository that stores packet data captured from a network. The reconstructed HTML file is analyzed. Links to external files are identified and the database is queried to identify a location of previously reconstructed artifact files or packet data of associated external files. The external files are reconstructed, as needed. A web page is then reconstructed based on the reconstructed HTML file and reconstructed external files, presenting a view of the web page as it originally appeared to a user. A user may specify which external file types to include and/or not include. New versions of external files may be obtained and indicated in the reconstructed web page when associated artifact files or packet data are not stored within the repository. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158738 | Inference Indexing - Methods, systems, and media are provided for facilitating generation of an inference index. In embodiments, a canonical entity is referenced. The canonical entity is associated with web documents. One or more queries that, when input, result in a selection of at least one of the web documents are identified. An entity document is generated for the canonical entity. The entity document includes the identified queries and/or associated text from the content of a document or from an entity title that result in the selection of the at least one of the web documents. The entity document and corresponding canonical entity can be combined with additional related entity documents and canonical entities to generate an inference index. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158739 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - A system and method for information retrieval are disclosed. The method includes querying a multimedia collection with a first component of a multimedia query (e.g., a text-based part of the query) to generate first comparison measures between the first component of the query and respective objects in the collection for a first media type (e.g., text). The multimedia collection is queried with a second component of the multimedia query (e.g., an image-based part of the query) to generate second comparison measures between the second component of the query and respective objects in the collection for a second media type (e.g., visual). An aggregated score for each of a set of objects in the collection is computed, based on the first comparison measure and the second comparison measure for the object. This includes applying an aggregating function to the first and second comparison measures in which a first confidence weighting is applied to the first comparison measure and a second confidence weighting is applied to the second comparison measure. The first confidence weighting is independent of the second comparison measure. The second confidence weighting is dependent on the first comparison measure. Information based on the aggregated scores is output. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158740 | CACHING WEB DOCUMENTS IN TWO OR MORE CACHES - A system and method is described herein that cache web documents in two or more caches in an optimized manner. The web documents result from a plurality of queries presented to a web search engine. Each web document has a tier score indicating a position of the web document in the caches. The tier scores are modified in a manner that rearranges the web documents in caches. This rearrangement of the web documents in the caches can advantageously improve the retrieval time for the web documents. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158741 | COLLABORATIVE FILTERING WITH HASHING - Systems, methods, and machine readable and executable instructions are provided for collaborative filtering. Collaborative filtering includes representing users and objects by rows and columns in an ordinal ratings matrix having a particular dimensional space. Values in the ordinal ratings matrix are weighted with a weight matrix having the particular dimensional space. The weight matrix is hashed into a lower dimensional space by one of row and column by multiplying a projection matrix by the weight matrix. The ordinal ratings matrix is hashed into a lower dimensional space by multiplying the projection matrix by an element-wise product of the weight matrix and the ordinal ratings matrix to form a reduced ratings matrix, and element-wise dividing the reduced ratings matrix by the hashed weight matrix. The hashed ordinal ratings matrix and the hashed weight matrix are low-rank approximated by alternating least squares. A result of the low-rank approximation for the one of row and column is updated using the ordinal ratings matrix and the weight matrix. A recommendation of one of the objects can be generated for one of the users based on the updated result. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158742 | MANAGING DOCUMENTS USING WEIGHTED PREVALENCE DATA FOR STATEMENTS - In an embodiment, respective strengths are determined for respective relationships in respective statements. Weights are decreased for the respective statements in proportion to respective amounts of time since the respective statements were added to documents. The weights are increased for a subset of the statements that were modified in a subset of the documents. Weighted prevalence data is calculated for respective time periods for the respective statements to be a sum of the weights for the respective statements in the time periods for those statements that have the respective strengths. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158743 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING CONTENT BETWEEN SOURCES - In a method and system for matching content between content sources, a first set of metadata describing a first content item is compared to a second set of metadata describing a second content item. Based on the comparing, an accuracy score is generated. The accuracy score indicates an amount of similarity between the first set of metadata and the second set of metadata. The accuracy score is compared to a predetermined accuracy threshold value. Based on the accuracy score being greater than or equal to the predetermined accuracy threshold value, a determination is made that the first content item and the second content item are a match. Based on the accuracy score being less than the predetermined accuracy threshold value, a determination is made that the first content item and the second content item are not a match. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158744 | RANKING AND UPDATING OF CONTACT INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES - Collecting contact information for a plurality of contact entities from various sources and ranking the contact information based at least on the sources. The ranking of the contact information is determined based on the reliability of the sources. The ranked contact information is shared with users subject to privacy settings. The privacy setting allows the users or the contact entity to share certain contact information with others while keeping certain contact information privately or sharing the contact information with a limited number of users. After a change in the contact information from a reliable source is detected, the change may be propagated to other sources or client devices of the users. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158745 | Semantic Discovery and Mapping Between Data Sources - An apparatus and method are described for the discovery of semantics, relationships and mappings between data in different software applications, databases, files, reports, messages, or systems. In one aspect, semantics and relationships and mappings are identified between a first and a second data source. A binding condition is discovered between portions of data in the first and the second data source. The binding condition is used to discover correlations between portions of data in the first and the second data source. The binding condition and the correlations are used to discover a transformation function between portions of data in the first and the second data source. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158746 | GEOSPATIAL OBJECT PROPERTY ASSESSMENT APPARATUS, ASSESSMENT SYSTEM, EDITOR APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ASSESSING PROPERTY OF A GEOSPATIAL OBJECT - A geospatial object property assessment apparatus comprises a processing resource ( | 06-21-2012 |
20120158747 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING AUTHORITY BASED CONTENT SEARCHING - Systems and methods for performing authority based content searching are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving user queries containing authority keywords and relevancy keywords and ranking a set of search results on the basis of the authority of the authors of entries within the search results. The authority of each author is expressed in an authority quotient which is calculated by determining an authority keyword score, a name score, a domain name score and a credential score based on the authority keyword provided by the user. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158748 | RANKING REAL ESTATE BASED ON ITS VALUE AND OTHER FACTORS - Real estate ranking computation is calculated to sort real estate properties. Such computations use available information regarding real estate properties in any local markets and may help the real estate buyer to identify real estate properties with various ranked financial values. Suitably, a relatively small geographic area can be used based on the real estate buyer's specified criteria, and the real estate ranking computation is able to handle interactions among predictor variables, possesses suitable predictive confidence, and includes the capability for dynamically adjusting the underlying ranking computation as new patterns of real estate market emerge over time. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158749 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TAG-BASED RELEVANCE RECOMMENDATIONS OF BOOKMARKS IN A BOOKMARK AND TAG DATABASE - A method comprises identifying a first user having stored in a database a set of first bookmarks associated with a topic of interest; determining a level of relatedness of a second user to the first user by comparing a first number of overlapping bookmarks that were stored in the database by the second user and that overlap the set of first bookmarks; determining a level of value of the second user to the first user by comparing a second number of related nonoverlapping bookmarks that were stored in the database by the second user that, relate to the topic of interest, and that do not overlap the set of first bookmarks; and presenting at least a portion of the related nonoverlapping bookmarks to the first user. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158750 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO MEDICAL INFORMATION - Various aspects and embodiments of the present invention relate to providing a medical application with access to medical information from validated medical information experts. The medical information experts can be validated by scoring attributes of a purported medical information expert, generating a rank based on the score, and comparing the score to a pre-set threshold. The medical information from validated medical information experts can be stored in a knowledge database. A request from a medical application can be received and used to search the knowledge database to generate a response to the request that includes part of the medical information. The response can be provided to the medical application in a format that can be customized by the medical application. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166449 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SPORTS RELATED INFORMATION - A system and method for managing sports related information in real-time are provided. The system comprises a user interface module configured to receive data pertaining to one or more sports and sports related persons; a repository module configured to store the collected data; and a sports module configured to process the collected data to generate sports related information using predetermined algorithms, the generated information being stored in the repository module and being accessible via the user interface module. The sports module comprises a registration module configured to register one or more users; a validation module configured to validate information pertaining to users; a player information module configured to provide player information to users; a recommendation module configured to generate recommendations related to one or more players, teams or coaches; and a selection module configured to facilitate selection of at least one of players, teams and coaches. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166450 | SEARCH SYSTEM AND SEARCH METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING REDUCED QUERY - A search system includes a non-transitory computer-readable storage device, and a computing device. A term extracting unit causes the computing device to extract multiple terms from an input query, a weight computing unit causes the computing device to compute a weight for each of the multiple terms, and a reduction query recommending unit causes the computing device to remove at least one term from the multiple terms, based on the weight, and to provide at least one reduced query using remaining terms. A search method that uses a computing device to provide a reduced query, the method includes extracting multiple terms from an input query; computing, by the computing device, a weight of each of the multiple terms; and removing at least one term from the multiple terms, based on the weight, and providing at least one reduced query generated using remaining terms out of the multiple terms. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166451 | Use of Associate Memory Learning Agent Technology to Identify Interchangeable Parts in Parts Catalogs - The present invention provides a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for identifying interchangeable parts in parts catalogs. In one illustrative embodiment, a set of catalogs is searched for first attributes for a set of parts using an intelligent agent. The intelligent agent compares the first attributes for the set of parts to a set of second attributes for a selected part. A weight is assigned to each of the first attributes based on whether each of the first attributes is correlated to an attribute in the set of second attributes. Each part in the set of parts is ranked using the weight assigned to each attribute in the first attributes. A set of interchangeable parts is identified using the ranking for each part in the set of parts. | 06-28-2012 |
20120173542 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING RANKING OF KEYWORDS FOR EACH USER GROUP - Provided are a system and method for determining rankings of keywords according to a user group. The keyword ranking determining system includes a data grouping unit to group data of a weblog according to a predetermined theme, a weight application unit to calculate a document concentration that denotes a concentration degree, with respect to the theme, of a document corresponding to the data grouped according to the theme and to apply a weight corresponding to the document concentration to the data, a data set generation unit to generate at least one data set by grouping the data applied with the weight according to a search intention and a ranking determination unit to determine rankings of the at least one data set according to the theme, and a main keyword determination unit to determine a main keyword representing each of the at least one data set. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173543 | Criteria-Specific Authority Ranking - Disclosed is a method of ranking linkable nodes based on intrinsic scores assigned to the nodes. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173544 | AUTHORITATIVE DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION - A system determines documents that are associated with a location, identifies a group of signals associated with each of the documents, and determines authoritativeness of the documents for the location based on the signals. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173545 | STATISTICAL RECORD LINKAGE CALIBRATION FOR MULTI TOKEN FIELDS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR HUMAN INTERACTION - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, calculating parameters used to determine whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method utilize blended field weights to account for certain types of partial matches. The system and method apply iterative techniques such that parameters from each linking iteration are used in the next linking iteration. The system and method need no human interaction in order to calibrate and utilize record matching formulas used for the linking decisions. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173546 | AUTOMATED CALIBRATION OF NEGATIVE FIELD WEIGHTING WITHOUT THE NEED FOR HUMAN INTERACTION - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, calculating parameters used to determine whether records and entity representations should be linked. Such parameters may be set as negative to account for fields that do not match. The system and method apply iterative techniques such that parameters from each linking iteration are used in the next linking iteration. The system and method need no human interaction in order to calibrate and utilize record matching formulas used for the linking decisions. | 07-05-2012 |
20120179692 | System and Method for Visualizing Sentiment Assessment from Content - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, provide visualizations of sentiment assessments derived from content published online. In one or more aspects, a method includes: obtaining sentiment scores and associated data, the sentiment scores assigned to entities based on emotional tone detected in obtained content; obtaining input defining a subset of the sentiment scores and associated data to present; and outputting a visualization corresponding to the subset of the sentiment scores and associated data. In addition, obtaining the input can include receiving a definition corresponding to company relationships used to filter the sentiment scores and associated data. The definition can include an indication of which relationship types indicate the company relationships, and parameters that govern filtering by the indicated company relationships. The relationship types can include supply chain relationship, credit relationship and common director relationship, and the company relationships can include company-company relationships, company-individual relationships and individual-individual relationships. | 07-12-2012 |
20120179693 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DIGITAL CONTENT - A computer implemented process encompasses the following steps: Identify the user's current media content library/ies; Analyse the content of those libraries, deriving a “taste signature” for the user from that analysis; Match the derived “taste signature” to other media content and to other users; and provide the user with recommendations based on that automatic matching process. | 07-12-2012 |
20120179694 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING A SEARCH REQUEST - The invention provides a method and system for transforming a search query before it is sent to a search engine. The search query, written in a language potentially not mastered correctly by its writer, can comprise typos corresponding to the alphabetic representation of a sound in the writer native language. The search query is first interpreted so as to identify a sequence of phonemes corresponding to its pronunciation by the writer in its native language. The sequence of phonemes is then analyzed so as to determine the corresponding words. | 07-12-2012 |
20120179695 | SEARCHING THROUGH CONTENT WHICH IS ACCESSIBLE THROUGH WEB-BASED FORMS - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates searching through content which is accessible though web-based forms. During operation, the system receives a query containing keywords. Next, the system analyzes the query to create a structured query. The system then performs a lookup based on the structured query in a database containing entries describing the web-based forms. Next, the system ranks forms returned by the lookup, and uses the rankings and associated database entries to facilitate a search through content which is accessible through the forms. | 07-12-2012 |
20120185488 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND UPDATING A PRE-CATEGORIZED SONG DATABASE FROM WHICH CONSUMERS MAY SELECT AND THEN DOWNLOAD DESIRED PLAYLISTS - Apparatus, methods, systems, and data structures for providing a music-subscription service customer with a portable music device that has been preloaded with customer-selected music. A music-subscription service provider receives a customer order to purchase a portable music device, and also receives the customer's selection of less than all of the music available on the music-subscription service provider's music database. The music-subscription service provider uses a computer to download the customer-selected music to the portable music device ordered by the customer. The music-subscription service provider then provides to the customer the portable music device that has been preloaded with the customer-selected music. The steps may be performed over the Internet and/or at a retail location. | 07-19-2012 |
20120191725 | DOCUMENT RANKING SYSTEM WITH USER-DEFINED CONTINUOUS TERM WEIGHTING - An information retrieval system allows the user to identifying not only search terms but also a weighting system for determining document relevance. The weighting systems may implement human-like weighting by the use of continuous curves whose features may be flexibly controlled by the user on the display screen providing interactive yet quantitative manipulation of the curves. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191726 | RECOMMENDATION OF GEOTAGGED ITEMS - A system, method and computer program product are disclosed for presenting geotagged items to an end user. A location fix and heading are obtained and candidate items are identified in the vicinity of the location fix. A plurality of factors, including proximity to the location fix and proximity to a predicted trajectory determined from the heading, are used to calculate a set of scores for each candidate item. The sets of scores are used to select a candidate item to be presented to the end user. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191727 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING EXTRA CRANIAL VENOUS FLOW ANOMALIES - A system for detecting extracranial flow anomalies in a patient, for example for the purposes of the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis comprises:—a detection source (TCCS, ECD) to detect venous hemodynamics parameters representative of extracranial venous flow in a patient and generate corresponding signals, and—a processing device (PC) to receive said signals from the detection source (TCCS, ECD), configured ( | 07-26-2012 |
20120191728 | SITE MEMORY PROCESSING - A system is provided for presenting users with relevant personalized and/or customized information whenever a visitor visits a website or performs an Internet search. The described system described herein advantageously provides for the saving (clipping) of website information as an integrated part of a visitor's browsing experience. The user may be presented with either a suggested list of notebooks and/or a suggested list of tags for the website informationa. The content of the website information that is clipped may be advantageously controlled by a website owner/publisher. Using website clips, identified as “notes,” previously stored by a visitor, currently displayed website content may be accordingly modified in connection with identified relevant notes and/or a notification may be displayed on the current website for a particular visitor identifying stored relevant notes of the visitor. | 07-26-2012 |
20120197902 | DATA INGEST OPTIMIZATION - Methods and systems for optimizing the retrieval of data from multiple sources are described. A slot map including slots for the storage of data elements can be obtained. The data elements associated with the slots can be prioritized by weighting values with costs of retrieving the data elements from respective data sources. Each value can be associated with a different data element and can indicate a respective degree of importance of the associated data element. Further, the systems and methods can direct the retrieval of data elements from the respective data sources in an order in accordance with the priority of the data elements to optimize the quality of data obtainable within a critical time constraint. In addition, the retrieved data elements can be stored in corresponding slots on a storage medium. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197903 | OBJECTIVE-FUNCTION BASED SENTIMENT - A system and article are disclosed for objective-function based sentiment. In one example, the system includes a set of domain information, and a computer programmed with executable instructions which operate a set of modules. The modules include a sentiment polarization module for identifying a domain-aspect opinion-word pair within a set of domain data, and assigning a sentiment polarity score to the domain-aspect opinion-word pair based on an objective function which includes sentiment data from the domain information. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197904 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOMINANCE RANKINGS - This disclosure describes systems and methods for dominance rankings. The disclosure describes a novel approach for determining dominance rankings between competing interacting objects. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197905 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL USING SUBJECT-AWARE DOCUMENT RANKER - Subject matter described herein is related to determining a document score, which suggests a relevance of a document (e.g., webpage) to a search query. For example, a search query is received that is comprised of one or more terms, which represent a subject. An equivalent subject is identified that is semantically similar to the subject. The document score is determined by accounting for both a subject frequency and an equivalent-subject frequency. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197906 | Systems and methods for capturing profession recommendations, create a profession ranking - Systems and methods are used in a web application that analyzes a user's online presence to estimate their professional skills and those of their connections. These are used in order to ask them to decide who is better at a specific skill between two people they know. The answers are used to build a professional ranking by skill and expertise for every person | 08-02-2012 |
20120203788 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND ACCESSING QUALITY OF SERVICE ISSUES WITHIN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A network management system ( | 08-09-2012 |
20120209856 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING, ACCESSING AND MODIFYING DATA - A system is provided for use with a data providing portion and first, second, and third user devices. The data providing portion can provide initial data having a plurality of data entries. The system includes a first processing portion that can generate a ranking of the data entries based on a weighting factor; a second processing portion that can provide the first user device with a first level of access and which can generate a second ranking; a third processing portion that can provide the second user device with a second level of access to one of the ranking and the second ranking; and a fourth processing portion that can provide the third user device with a third level of access to one of the ranking and the second ranking. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209857 | DUAL WEB GRAPH - Scoring a document is disclosed. One or more metrics is determined in a forward direction. One or more backwards metrics is determined. The document is scored based at least in part on a combination of the metrics. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209858 | DETERMINING CONCEPTS ASSOCIATED WITH A QUERY - Determining one or more concepts associated with a query is disclosed. A query is received. A list of concepts and associated scores is received. The concepts fit within a concept hierarchy. A density function is used to evaluate the received concepts. One or more concepts are associated with the query based at least in part on the results of the density function. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209859 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO PROFILE INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS, AND TO EVALUATE CULTURE FIT - Methods and systems to construct and analyze a cultural profile of an entity, and to organize and analyze a social network profile of an entity. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209860 | EVENT SCHEDULING DEVICE AND METHOD - A method and device are provided for scheduling an event. Text is detected in a text application of a computing device. The detected text includes at least one keyword from one or more types of keyword. At least one event associated with a user of the computing device to be scheduled based on the detected text is determined. The at least one event is automatically scheduled based on the detected text. | 08-16-2012 |
20120215790 | System and Method for Determining an Objective Measure of Human Quality of Life - An objective measure of human QOL is determined by a QOL quantification system. The QOL quantification system comprises a QOL rules engine, a QOL measure datastore, a score data archive, a user computing device, and a network. The QOL measure datastore comprises quantifiable measures of QOL of a QOL factor. The QOL rules engine comprises instructions for receiving user data indicative of a plurality of attributes of a selected QOL factor of the user, obtaining measures of QOL from the QOL measures datastore associated with the selected QOL factor, evaluating the user data against the QOL measures of the selected QOL factor, determining a user score indicative of the QOL of the selected QOL factor of the user, storing the user score in the score data archive, and comparing the user score to a score stored in the score data archive. The QOL rules engine may also suggest change options to one or more QOL factors to improve the user score. The suggested change options may be presented as an ordered listed organized by a relative cost benefit measure. | 08-23-2012 |
20120221578 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING EVALUATION SCORE ON CONTENTS BY USING USER FEEDBACK - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for calculating an evaluation score of content by using user feedback. According to one aspect of the present invention, the method for calculating an evaluation score of content by using user feedback includes: calculating an evaluation score of each of a plurality of components constituting the content on the basis of the user feedback with respect to the plurality of components; and adding up evaluation scores of at least some of the plurality of components to calculate an evaluation score of the content. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221579 | SELF-MONITORING OBJECT-ORIENTED APPLICATIONS - A computer-implemented method for monitoring an object-oriented application is disclosed. A transaction-representative-digraph is built based upon a real-time running of the application, and the digraph contains nodes of a plurality of replaceable classes. A key node is selected based upon invocation relationships between the nodes. A monitor program is instrumented at the selected key node. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221580 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROBABILISTICALLY QUANTIFYING AND VISUALIZING RELEVANCE BETWEEN TWO OR MORE CITATIONALLY OR CONTEXTUALLY RELATED DATA OBJECTS - In one embodiment a method for probabilistically quantifying a degree of relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects, such as patent documents, non-patent documents, web pages, personal and corporate contacts information, product information, consumer to behavior, technical or scientific information, address information, and the like is provided. In another embodiment a method for visualizing and displaying relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects is provided. In another embodiment a search input/output interface that utilizes an iterative self-organizing mapping technique to automatically generate a visual map of relevant patents and/or other related documents desired to be explored, searched or analyzed is provided. In another embodiment, a search input/output interface that displays and/or communicates search input criteria and corresponding search results in a way that facilitates intuitive understanding and visualization of the logical relationships between two or more related concepts being searched is provided. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221581 | Automatically Generating Nodes and Edges in an Integrated Social Graph - In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining a data store of nodes and edges and for each of one or more users: scanning items of content associated with the corresponding user node; identifying a candidate item of content; searching for matches between the candidate item of content and existing nodes; determining whether or not a match between the candidate item of content and an existing node exists; and when it is determined that at least one match exists, generating an edge from the user node to the existing node for which the best match is determined; and when it is determined that no match exists, generating a new node based on the candidate item of content, and generating an edge from the user node to the new node. | 08-30-2012 |
20120226700 | SEQUENTIAL ENGINE THAT COMPUTES USER AND OFFER MATCHING INTO MICRO-SEGMENTS - User data and a plurality of micro-segment definitions are received. Each micro-segment definition in the plurality of micro-segment definitions corresponds to one or more offers in an offer provider campaign. Further, a micro-segment parser parses each micro-segment definition from the plurality of micro-segment definitions into a plurality of parsed expression segments that indicate a plurality of micro-segment condition rules. In addition, a compiler compiles the plurality of parsed expression segments into an executable object that indicates a plurality of instructions to determine if the user data matches the plurality of micro-segment definitions. Each micro-segment definition is also serially processed, with a sequential evaluation engine, to apply the plurality of micro-segment condition rules to the user data to determine a match of a user belonging to a micro-segment. Further, the sequential evaluation engine assigns a score to indicate the strength of each match. In addition, the process ranks, with the sequential evaluation engine, each match according to the score for each match. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226701 | User Validation In A Social Network - A computer implemented method and system is provided for validating a user associated with one or more social networks. A validation platform associated with the social networks is provided. The validation platform identifies a user for the validation from the social networks. The validation platform retrieves social information of the identified user from the social networks. The social information comprises relationship information of and between the identified user and social contacts of the identified user on the social networks. The validation platform acquires feedback on the identified user from one or more of the social contacts. The validation platform generates one or more validation scores, for example, an evaluation score, a feedback authentication score, a user authentication score, a composite score, etc., for the identified user based on the retrieved social information and/or the acquired feedback. The generated validation scores enable validation of the user associated with the social networks. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226702 | Data Query System and Constructing Method Thereof and Corresponding Data Query Method - Disclosed is a data query method, which includes: a client sending a client request to a query component agent; the query component agent selecting a query component according to a load balance principle and returning the query component to the client; and the query component processing the client request and returning a processing result to the client. Correspondingly, the present invention further provides a data query system and a method for constructing the same. The query component in the present invention does not have a logical uniqueness any more and has a high scalability, which allows dynamic addition of query components, thereby greatly improving the availability of the data query system. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226703 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An information processing device | 09-06-2012 |
20120233177 | RANKING IMPORTANCE OF SYMBOLS IN UNDERLYING GROUPED AND DIFFERENTIATED FILES BASED ON CONTENT - Methods and apparatus identify groups of files based on symbols corresponding to an underlying data stream of original bits of data that are determined to be informationally important. The resulting symbols of a selected group are ordered according to how effectively each symbol characterizes the selected group of interest. The subset of symbols is used to find similar files from a general population of files to the files in the group of interest. Additionally, groups of common files can be identified from a general population of files and a group selected therefrom for use in identifying a subset of symbols which characterize the selected group for use as a filter to identify further like files. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233178 | Generating Improved Document Classification Data Using Historical Search Results - A server system accesses, respectively, historical query information for queries that have search results corresponding to first information items and second information items and classification data of the first information items. Initially, the first information items are classified and the second information items are unclassified. Based on the classification data of the first information items and the historical query information, the server system generates classification data for the second information items and stores the generated classification data therein. In response to requests for service from client devices, the server system provides customized services to the client devices using the second information items and the corresponding classification data generated for the second information items. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233179 | System, Method and Apparatus for Tagging and Processing Multimedia Content with the Physical/Emotional States of Authors and Users - A system, method and apparatus which enables the tagging of multimedia content with the physical and emotional states of authors and users thereby making it searchable by emotion or physical state. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233180 | SELECTING A DATA ELEMENT IN A NETWORK - One embodiment of the disclosure can represent within a K-partite graph, weighting factors between a set of identifier elements and a set of data elements. The K-partite graph can also represent weighting factors between the set of identifier elements and a set of metadata elements. In the K-partite graph, the set of identifier elements, the set of data elements, and the set of metadata elements are independent and disjoint sets such that no two vertices within a same set are adjacent. A score vector can be calculated that ranks each data element in a set of data elements. The score vector can be calculated from the weighting factors. At least one data element from the set of data elements can be selected using the score vector and a predetermined selection criterion. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233181 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SEARCHING WITHIN A SUB-DOMAN BY LINKING TO OTHER SUB-DOMAINS - The present invention may provide a system, method and computer program for searching a sub-domain that involves linking to other sub-domains. In particular, the present invention may provide a sub-domain search that ranks and/or weighs search results based on relevance, such relevance being determined by a calculation operating on a broader range of domain and/or sub-domains than a single sub-domain. The present invention may weight and score a search of web pages in a sub-domain based on the content of web pages in other sub-domains. | 09-13-2012 |
20120233182 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ADAPTING A DATA MODEL TO A USER INTERFACE COMPONENT - A display of a source data model on a user interface component being associated with a target data model is provided. The source data model and the target data model comprise a collection of data types (class/object), each including a set of name and type attributes. For each source data type of the source data model, a matching target data type is determined among said target data types in the target data model. Said source data type is linked to said matching target data type. A display of said source data model using said link between a source data type and a target data type. | 09-13-2012 |
20120239665 | REPUTATION ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND REPUTATION ANALYSIS METHOD - Described are a reputation analysis device, reputation analysis method, and reputation analysis-use program capable of suitably analyzing temporal changes in reputation for an object indicated by a keyword. The disclosed reputation analysis device is provided with a voluntary activity description extraction means for extracting descriptions representing voluntary activity related to an object indicated by a keyword that has been input from within a plurality of documents; and a reputation chronological data estimation means for counting the number of occurrences of voluntary activity at each time point wherein the voluntary activity expressed by a description representing the voluntary activity related to the object has been performed, and estimating reputation chronological data for chronologically representing evaluations for the object by the agents of the voluntary activity. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239666 | FORENSIC SYSTEM, FORENSIC METHOD, AND FORENSIC PROGRAM - Embodiments of the inventive concept can extract digital document information related with a specific individual to achieve a work load reduction associated with evidentiary material preparation for litigation. Recorded digital information can be displayed and user-specifying information can be set for each of a plurality of document files. The user-specifying information shows which user contained in user information one or more document files is related with. A recording unit can record the set user-specifying information. At least one user is selected, and a document file where user-specifying information which corresponds to the selected user was set is searched. Additional information showing whether or not the searched document file is related with the litigation is set via a display unit. A document file which is related with litigation is outputted based on the additional information. | 09-20-2012 |
20120246170 | MANAGING COMPLIANCE OF DATA INTEGRATION IMPLEMENTATIONS - A system and associated processes which permit organizations to objectively evaluate compliance levels for data integration implementations and other application development platforms. An implementation scorecard analytics feature is provided to the user to permit analysis and computation of a score representing a level of maturity and/or compliance of the code being analyzed. Also disclosed are a system and process for evaluating mapping complexity in a data integration implementation and a transformation, session, and workflow attribute configuration management system, which provides a more granular level reporting for transformation, session, and workflow attributes to diagnose variations in implementations. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246171 | POSITIONAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GROUPS OF FILES - Methods and apparatus teach a digital spectrum of a file for use in determining positional relationships between groups of files. The digital spectrum is used to reveal distances between the files to sort into groups of related files. Representatively, files determined by a nearest neighbor method to be related are sorted into groups of related files. In turn, the groups of related files are determined to be related, or not, according to positional location in N-dimensional space. A centroid location for each group of related files is determined, and a distance value from that centroid location to each member file of the group of related files is determined. In turn, centroid-to-centroid distance values are determined between each group of related files and rank-ordered. Comparing the centroid-to-centroid distance values and the distance values between centroid locations and files of the groups of related files reveals relatedness, or not, of groups of files. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246172 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING INFORMATION SEARCHING ON ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A method and system for facilitating information searching for a user of an electronic device is provided. Facilitating searches involves obtaining information about the user interests, identifying potential data of interest to the user, extracting data related to said data of interest to the user, and collecting the extracted related data for presentation to the user on the device. | 09-27-2012 |
20120254195 | SELF-PRESENTING REPORT - A method, system and computer program product may identify information of interest to form identified points of interest using a report specification, create a master detail relationship using the identified points of interest, apply an order to the identified points of interest, apply annotations to the identified points of interest, apply highlighting to the identified points of interest, generate an enhanced report specification based on at least the order, annotations, or highlighting of the identified points of interest, and execute the enhanced report specification. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254196 | SYSTEMS FOR EVALUATING DIETARY INTAKE AND METHODS OF USING SAME - Systems and methods for ensuring that a child receives proper nutrition specific to the child's developmental stage or pre-existing condition are provided. In a general embodiment, the present disclosure provides systems including a client device having at least one database, which has stored food consumption information and child characteristic information. The database further includes stored nutrient and food group recommendation information, and a rating system. Processors are used to calculate an average daily nutrition value of a child based on the food consumption and child characteristic information, compare the average daily nutrition value to the nutrient and food group recommendation information, and output a rating score based on the comparison. | 10-04-2012 |
20120259864 | OPTIMIZATION OF WORK SITE UTILIZATION - Embodiments of the invention provide for optimizing work site utilization within a business entity or the like. Work site optimization is realized by ranking a predetermined group of leased work sites relative to their feasibility for exiting and making decisioning based on the rankings. The ranking is based on an automated and qualitative scoring of the work sites. Additionally, embodiments of the invention account for the potential use of off-work site employees and, as such, the optimization rankings that are provided serve to predict future work site needs. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259865 | AUTOMATED CORRELATION DISCOVERY FOR SEMI-STRUCTURED PROCESSES - A computer-implemented method, system, and article of manufacture for determining a set of correlated data among heterogeneous computer applications. The method includes providing a computer system having software modules, receiving statistics on data relating to a first event and a second event, generating a confidence score for an attribute set, where the attribute set includes an attribute from the first event data and an attribute from the second event data, and selecting the attribute set as a set of correlated data if the confidence score is within a threshold value. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259866 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY EVALUATING CONTRIBUTOR PERFORMANCE - A computer system automatically evaluates the performance of a content generator using content created by the content generator and user and content generator interactions with the content. Specifically, the system analyzes data regarding the content, e.g., a peer-review quality score, and analyzes data regarding user and/or content generator interactions with the content, e.g., website comments regarding the content. In addition, the system considers user and content generator interactions with the content on third-party websites, e.g., the number of Facebook® “likes” or other social media actions. The system applies rules to assign values to various data points (e.g., a value of 0.3 may be assigned for each Facebook® “like” by a user). The rules may also define weighing components to incentivize particular actions. Weighed values are summed to evaluate each content generator. The scores for each content generator may be compared to create a content generator ranking. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259867 | DATA CLASSIFICATION TOOL USING DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF ATTRIBUTE WEIGHTS - An analysis tool for causing a computer to use information gain of attributes and a classification algorithm to classify new records in a set of data by taking into account the predictive value of the attributes and the effect of the new record. | 10-11-2012 |
20120265767 | METHOD FOR SEARCHING RELATED DOCUMENTS BASED ON AND GUIDED BY MEANINGFUL ENTITIES - One embodiment provides a system for searching related documents. During operation, the system receives a source document. The system then searches related documents based on semantic entities extracted from the source document. Next, the system receives user-adjusted search criteria and updates search results of related documents based on the user-adjusted search criteria. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265768 | ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIMEDIA SIGNATURES - A method for encoding a descriptor of multimedia content, in which the descriptor includes a plurality of components describing respective parts of the multimedia content comprises processing the descriptor to determine a priority of the plurality of components, and encoding the components of the descriptor based on the determined priority. A method of decoding the descriptor comprises decoding a predetermined number of the plurality of components, by decoding each of the components in the priority order. Advantageously, the encoding and decoding techniques enable fast, scalable searching. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265769 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DIGITAL ASSETS - A digital asset management method and system are responsive to user interactions with digital assets. Rankings are generated to reflect the value of the digital assets to a user, based in part on the access frequency and recency, and the number and types of uses of the digital assets. A storage access hierarchy is derived from the ranking, wherein higher ranked digital assets are more easily accessed than lower ranked digital assets. The digital assets can include any of digital images, audio files, and Uniform Resource Locators. The invention can distinguish between different types of uses, e.g. passive viewing or playback, file sharing, transport, and editing, wherein some types of uses imbue an asset with greater value than others. The user may assign subjective values to digital assets that can be factored into the ranking independently of usage patterns. A volatility-dampening attribute may moderate volatility in the access hierarchy. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265770 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED JOB SEARCH, RECRUITMENT AND PLACEMENT - A computer system operation method for electronically screening job applicants for an electronic job posting which includes granting the job applicant access to an application process to the job when an eligibility score exceeds an eligibility threshold is described. Also described is a computer system operation method for facilitating online job searching which includes retrieving an audio-visual description of aspects of the job. Also described are computer readable storage media having stored thereon instructions for causing a computer to perform the computer system operation methods described above. Also described is a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions for presenting a description of an electronic job posting in which the information is presented in a scrollable loop. | 10-18-2012 |
20120271834 | MANAGING EXPERIENCE STATE TO PERSONALIZE DESTINATION VISITS - A method for managing distribution of entitlements, such as personalized or enhanced experiences at a destination such a theme park. The method includes receiving a request for experience state management from an experience system that defines an experience provided by the experience system and identifies a single or multiple visitors. The method includes accessing an experience state associated with the identified visitors. The experience state defines experiences the visitor is entitled to receive and a ranked or prioritized listing of these experiences. The method includes responding to the experience system indicating whether the visitor is eligible to receive the defined experience based on their experience state and, when there are two or more eligible visitors, arbitrating amount the members of this eligible group. A feedback loop causes the experience states to be updated to modify the prioritized listings and to update an experience history for use in later arbitrations. | 10-25-2012 |
20120271835 | USER REQUEST BASED CONTENT RANKING - A content recommendation method and system including providing a plurality of content items, a number of items in including the plurality of content items designated as N, symbolically representing each of the N content items as a unique point on a two-dimensional plane, thereby associating an x and y coordinate with each one of the content items, associating, as an initial condition, a weight of zero with each point on the two-dimensional plane, incrementing the weight associated with the unique point associated with one of the N content items each time the one of the N content items is accessed, changing the x and y coordinate of the unique point based on a plurality of user requests for other content items besides the one of the N content items, determining a distance between the unique point and a multiplicity of points corresponding to a multiplicity of other content items, returning at least a first content recommendation to a user, the at least a first content recommendation including a content item associated with a point closer than any other point to a point associated with the content item presently being viewed by the user. Related methods and apparatus are also described. | 10-25-2012 |
20120278336 | REPRESENTING INFORMATION FROM DOCUMENTS - Systems and techniques are disclosed for representing information included in unstructured text documents into a structured format. The systems and techniques identify events and information associated with the events in unstructured documents, classify the identified events and information, and represent the identified events and information in a structured format based on a computed classification score. The systems and techniques may also assign a confidence score to identified events, compare the confidence score associated with events to a confidence score associated with a trained confidence model, and represent the identified events and information associated with the events in a structured format based on the comparison. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278337 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AUTOMATED TAGS FOR VIDEO FILES - Techniques for generating automated tags for a video file are described. The method includes receiving one or more manually generated tags associated with a video file, based at least in part on the one or more manually entered tags, determining a preliminary category for the video file, and based on the preliminary category, generating a targeted transcript of the video file, wherein the targeted transcript includes a plurality of words. The method further includes generating an ontology of the plurality of words based on the targeted transcript, ranking the plurality of words in the ontology based on a plurality of scoring factors, and based on the ranking of the plurality of words, generating one or more automated tags associated with the video file. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278338 | PRESENTING SEARCH RESULTS FOR GALLERY WEB PAGES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for classifying web pages as gallery web pages, and for presenting search results for gallery web pages. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a web page that includes text and one or more images, evaluating one or more characteristics of the web page against predefined criteria, generating a score for the web page based on evaluating the characteristics of the web page against the predefined criteria, and classifying the web page as a gallery web page or as not a gallery web page when the score meets or does not meet a predefined threshold, respectively. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278339 | QUERY PARSING FOR MAP SEARCH - Implementations for computer-based systems, apparatus and methods for map search based on user query parsing. For example, a computer-implemented map search method is provided to include parsing an input entry from a user for map search into a location part indicating location information in 5 the input search entry and a query part indicating a search target associated with the location part in the input entry; and conducting a map search to obtain a geographic area or location based on the location part and to search for information on one or more entities that are associated with the query part and that are located at, within, or near the obtained geographic area or location. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278340 | DATABASE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LINKING RECORDS AND ENTITY REPRESENTATIONS WITH SUFFICIENTLY HIGH CONFIDENCE - Disclosed are a system for, and method of, determining whether records correspond to the same individual. The system and method provide such a determination with a known minimum level of confidence. That is, the system and method provide an indication that records correspond to the same individual along with an associated confidence level. The system and method may be used to link records in a database that correspond to the same individuals, creating entity representations in the database. | 11-01-2012 |
20120284282 | RANKING AND SELECTING ENTITIES BASED ON CALCULATED REPUTATION OR INFLUENCE SCORES - Ranking and selecting entities based on calculated reputation or influence scores is provided. In some embodiments, a method includes determining whether a first entity is a subject or an object; determining whether a second entity is a subject or an object; and generating a graph, in which a subset of the graph is a subject graph of subject nodes that includes at least one or more subjects (e.g., subject entities) linked to one or more other subjects, and in which the graph includes one or more objects (e.g., object entities) each linked to one or more subjects in the subject graph. In some embodiments, the graph includes directed and undirected links. In some embodiments, the graph includes one or more objects linked to one or more objects. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284283 | Information Processing Method, Apparatus, and Computer Program - Scores of respective content information pieces are calculated. The scores are the degrees of conformity between the content information pieces and a narrowing condition, respectively. Appropriate ones are selected from the content information pieces on the basis of the narrowing condition. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284284 | BIOMETRIC CODING - A database stores a number N of biometric data representatives which correspond to a set of characteristics of said biometric data. Acquired biometric data is obtained. Then, transformed biometric data is obtained by transforming the acquired biometric data according to said set of characteristics. Next, N deviation values are obtained by applying a comparison between the transformed biometric data and the N representatives in the database. Finally, a vector representing the acquired biometric data is obtained, the representation vector having a number of components less than or equal to N, said components being determined in relation to said N deviation values. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284285 | KEYWORD FILTER - A system and method for filtering keywords. The method may include receiving a first set of keywords. The method may include determining a first set of numbers associated with a first metric relating to the first set of keywords and a second set of numbers associated with a second metric relating to the first set of keywords. The method may include receiving at least one metric rule relating to the first and the second metric. The method may include determining a respective combination number for each keyword in the first set of keywords based on the first set of numbers, the second set of numbers, and the metric rule. The method may include filtering the first set of keywords based on the respective combination numbers to produce a second set of keywords. | 11-08-2012 |
20120290585 | AUTOMATED DETECTION OF NULL FIELD VALUES AND EFFECTIVELY NULL FIELD VALUES - Disclosed are systems for, and methods of, automatically detecting and treating field values of a particular field as null field values in records of a database. The system and method provide automatic treatment of these field values as null field values by calculating a critical frequency for the field. Based on the critical frequency of the field, the system and method treats field values that occur more than the critical frequency of the field as null field values and treats field values that occur less than the critical frequency as non-null field values. | 11-15-2012 |
20120296917 | ADJUSTING RESULTS BASED ON A DROP POINT - Provided are techniques for providing entities. For a keyword, historical data is used to generate a list of entities, wherein a recommendation score is associated with each of the entities. The entities are ranked based on the recommendation score associated with each of the entities. A drop point that is associated with an entity whose recommendation score is low is determined. One or more additional entities are identified for at least one of the entities having a high recommendation score in the list. The one or more additional entities are inserted above the drop point in the list. The list is stored with the keyword. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296918 | Credibility Information in Returned Web Results - The subject disclosure is directed towards using credibility-related data in conjunction with servicing a web request such as a search query or a request for page content. The credibility-related data may be used to convey information to a user indicative of a level of credibility, such as to view credibility information with each search result, or in association with returned web page content. The credibility-related data may be used to rank, re-rank and/or filter search results. Also described is extracting credibility-related feature data from search-related data and web pages, and using the feature data with a dataset of credibility-rated pages to learn/train relative feature weights in a credibility model used by the search engine. | 11-22-2012 |
20120303635 | System and Method for Computing and Displaying a Score with an Associated Visual Quality Indicator - A system and method for computing and transforming (1) a rating and (2) an indicator of the quality of the rating into (3) a new visual indicator which may be stored or output. A rating, also known as a score, can be the result of a survey or come from any other source. An indicator representing the quality of a rating can include a series of different colors, individual icons, a series of multiple icons, or written text. A new visual indicator is created from the combination of the rating and quality indicator. The system can analyze available data or accept human input and create an indicator of the quality of each rating or adjusted rating. The invention can create a new visual indicator by combining supplied or computed ratings and their computed quality indicators. The visual indicator may be stored as data elements or output on any capable device. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303636 | System and Method for Web Content Extraction - A method and system for extracting Web content is disclosed. In one embodiment, Web content in a Webpage is extracted by identifying paragraphs in the Web content based on line-break node determination. A range of text-body associated with the identified paragraphs is then identified using a maximum scoring subsequence. Further, the identified text-body is refined using a heuristic rule of substantially horizontal alignment. Furthermore, one or more titles and one or more images associated with the Web content are extracted. Moreover, the Web content including the identified paragraphs, the one or more titles and the one or more images are outputted. | 11-29-2012 |
20120310949 | MATCHING A USER TO A CONVERSATION - A method for matching a user to a conversation includes, for each of a plurality of documents, mapping the document to one or more of a plurality of topics. The document is associated with a user. For each user, the user is mapped to each of the plurality of topics that are mapped to documents with which the user is associated. One of the users is matched to a conversation according to the mappings of the users to those of the plurality of topics that are also mapped to the conversation. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310950 | TEXT MINING SYSTEM, A TEXT MINING METHOD AND A RECORDING MEDIUM - In case plural pieces of data are analyzed, parts of these pieces of data including a difference which should be compared and analyzed with priority are analyzed exhaustively, with suppressing a cost of analyzing. | 12-06-2012 |
20120317123 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS - Systems and methods are described for providing content recommendations by maintaining preference values indicative of a user's preference (e.g., degree of like or dislike) for different assets and updating these preference values based on observed events and known relationships between events and content elements. Also disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing content recommendations using polarity scores, which represent how much user preferences for certain content differ from the average user preference for that content. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317124 | DATABASE PARTITIONING BY VIRTUAL PARTITIONS - A database may be virtually partitioned into virtual partitions. The virtual partitions are mapped to physical databases of a database. Data records added to the database are each assigned to a virtual partition and stored in the physical database mapped to the assigned virtual partition. The identifier generated for a data record includes an identifier of the assigned virtual partition. When additional databases are created, virtual partitions are remapped to the larger space of physical databases. | 12-13-2012 |
20120323928 | AUTOMATED GENERATION OF SUGGESTIONS FOR PERSONALIZED REACTIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system and method for automatic generating suggestions for personalized reactions or messages. A suggestion generation module includes a plurality of collector modules, a credentials module, a suggestion analyzer module, a user interface module and a decision tree. The plurality of collector modules are coupled to respective systems to collect information accessible by the user and important to the user from other systems such as e-mail systems, SMS/MMS systems, micro blogging systems, social networks or other systems. The information from these collector modules is provided to the suggestion analyzer module. The suggestion analyzer module cooperates with the user interface module and the decision tree to generate suggested reactions or messages for the user to send. The suggested reactions or messages are presented by the user interface module to the user. The user interface module also displays the original message, other information about the original message such as others' responses, and action buttons for sending, discarding or ignoring the suggested message. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323929 | COMPRESSION AWARE PHYSICAL DATABASE DESIGN - A plurality of indicators representing a plurality of respective candidate database configurations may be obtained, each of the candidate database configurations including a plurality of database queries and a plurality of candidate database indexes associated with a database table. A portion of the candidate database indexes included in the plurality of database indexes may be selected based on skyline selection. An enumeration of the portion of the plurality of the candidate database indexes may be determined based on a greedy algorithm. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323930 | TEXT SUGGESTIONS FOR IMAGES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving image data corresponding to an image, processing the image data to identify one or more features within the image, generating one or more keywords based on each of the one or more features, transmitting the one or more keywords to a computing device for displaying a list of the one or more keywords to a user, receiving text, the text comprising at least one keyword of the one or more keywords, that at least one keyword having been selected by the user from the list, and transmitting the image and the text for display, the text being associated with the image. | 12-20-2012 |
20120330968 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING COMMENT DATA TO TEXT DATA - Methods and comment association systems for associating one or more comments with one or more primary electronic documents are described. In one aspect, the method comprises: identifying, at a comment association system, one or more key terms from at least a portion of the one or more primary electronic documents; identifying, at the comment association system, one or more comments associated with the identified key terms; determining, at the comment association system, whether an identified comment is sufficiently related to the one or more primary electronic documents by calculating one or more relation score for that identified comment and comparing the relation score to one or more threshold; and if the identified comment is sufficiently related to the one or more primary electronic documents, then associating the identified comment with the one or more primary electronic documents at the comment association system. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330969 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING DOCUMENT CLUSTERS - Document cluster ranking systems and methods of ranking document clusters are described. In some example embodiments, the method comprises: obtaining, at a document cluster ranking system, a value associated with a first feature for each of a plurality of document clusters; based on the values associated with the first feature, automatically generating, at the document cluster ranking system, a plurality of first feature bins, each first feature bin defining a range of values and a bin identifier; and obtaining a score for one of the document clusters, by: i) identifying the first feature bin having a range of values which includes the obtained value associated with the first feature for that one of the document clusters; and ii) determining a score for that document cluster based on the first feature bin identifier for the identified first feature bin. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330970 | System and method for optimizing web searching and scheduling of service providers - A system for optimizing web searching and scheduling of service providers which has three main characteristics: a system and method for search optimization that automatically aggregates service providers and their services; checks, in real time, the availability information for the service providers; and proposes one or more optimized series of services for which there is availability. First, service providers and their services, including schedule are aggregated. Second the system checks, in real time, the availability information for the service providers. The availability is used as a criterion for the schedule optimization. Finally, the system proposes one or more optimized series of services for which there is availability, and that will take place in a given period of time. The optimization process aims at scheduling this succession of events under various constraints. An optimization algorithm assigns a score to each series of services that can thereby be ranked. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330971 | ITEMIZED RECEIPT EXTRACTION USING MACHINE LEARNING - A method, including retrieving a transaction receipt, wherein the transaction receipt includes unstructured data. Features indicating details of the transaction are extracted from the unstructured data, and using a receipt language model, weights are applied to the features. Based on the features and the weights, labels are associated with tokens in the receipt, and the receipt language model is updated with the extracted features, the applied weights and the associated labels. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330972 | DATA INGEST OPTIMIZATION - Methods and systems for optimizing the retrieval of data from multiple sources are described. A slot map including slots for the storage of data elements can be obtained. The data elements associated with the slots can be prioritized by weighting values with costs of retrieving the data elements from respective data sources. Each value can be associated with a different data element and can indicate a respective degree of importance of the associated data element. Further, the systems and methods can direct the retrieval of data elements from the respective data sources in an order in accordance with the priority of the data elements to optimize the quality of data obtainable within a critical time constraint. In addition, the retrieved data elements can be stored in corresponding slots on a storage medium. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING AND PROCESSING DATA - A system and method for collecting and processing data over a communications network. A data mining marshaller module associates each plugin to a particular data source and manages the plugin to periodically retrieve unstructured data from the data source based on a plurality of data items to be monitored on behalf of a plurality of users. The plugins convert unstructured data received from the data sources to structured data and the data marshaller module stores the structured data in a database. This enables the system and method to aggregate and display the structured data in multiple graphical representations according to the user's preference. | 12-27-2012 |
20130007009 | Expertise Tagging and Project Membership Suggestion - Automatically tagging individual users for identifying expertise or other relevant skills associated with the individual users based on various sources of information used or interacted with by the users is provided. After expertise tags are established for an individual user, the expertise tagging and other information about the user's profile and computing activities may be used for automatically suggesting a user for membership in one or more other project groups or workspaces that may be a good fit for the user's expertise or other relevant skills. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007010 | REQUIREMENTS EXTRACTION FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES FOR SOFTWARE LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for software requirements extraction from external sources for software development. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for software requirements extraction from external sources for software development includes retrieving content from over a computer communications network pertaining to a product. The content can include by way of example, a Web page, e-mail message, instant message, blog posting or social network posting, to name only a few. Within the content, a modal verb can be identified and text extracted that is proximate to the modal verb. Thereafter, a requirement can be generated for a revision of the product based upon the extracted text. Optionally, the requirement can be ranked according to the modal verb, for example, an imperative modal verb can correspond to a higher ranking than a suggestive modal verb. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007011 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN ORDERING METRIC FOR A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONTEXTUAL QUERY - An approach is provided for providing an ordering metric for a multi-dimensional contextual query. An ordering platform determines a multi-dimensional query associated with at least one user device, wherein the multi-dimensional query specifies, at least in part, one or more personas, one or more contexts, or a combination thereof associated with the at least one user device. The ordering platform further causes, at least in part, an execution of the multi-dimensional query on at least one context-sensitive database to generate one or more results. The ordering platform further determines at least one ordering metric for the one or more results based, at least in part, on one or more user contextual attributes of the at least one user device. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007012 | Systems and Methods for Determining Visibility and Reputation of a User on the Internet - An apparatus comprises a visibility module configured to derive a hit visibility score for one or more hits from an information source, wherein the one or more hits are directed to a target entity, and wherein the hit visibility score indicates a likelihood that a corresponding hit is found by a searcher after the searcher searches for the target entity in the information source; a sentiment module configured to derive a hit sentiment score for at least one of the one or more hits, wherein the hit sentiment score indicates a sentiment about the target entity conveyed by the at least one of the one or more hits; and a reputation module configured to derive a reputation for the target entity based on the hit visibility score and the hit sentiment score. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007013 | MATCHING USERS OVER A NETWORK - Various embodiments are disclosed that relate to negatively matching users over a network. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method including storing a plurality of user profiles corresponding to a plurality of users, each user profile in the plurality of user profiles including one or more user attributes, and receiving a request from a user for a list of one or more suggested negatively matched other users. In response to the request, the method further includes ranking each of a plurality of other users based on a magnitude of a difference between one or more user attributes of the user and corresponding one or more user attributes of the other user, and sending a list of one or more negatively matched users to the exclusion of more positively matched users based on the ranking. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007014 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING VISIBILITY AND REPUTATION OF A USER ON THE INTERNET - An apparatus comprises a visibility module configured to derive a hit visibility score for one or more hits from an information source, wherein the one or more hits are directed to a target entity, and wherein the hit visibility score indicates a likelihood that a corresponding hit is found by a searcher after the searcher searches for the target entity in the information source; a sentiment module configured to derive a hit sentiment score for at least one of the one or more hits, wherein the hit sentiment score indicates a sentiment about the target entity conveyed by the at least one of the one or more hits; and a reputation module configured to derive a reputation for the target entity based on the hit visibility score and the hit sentiment score. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007015 | COLLABORATIVE CONTENT EVALUATION - In an example embodiment, a system for evaluating published content is provided. The system includes at least one processor and a plurality of components including instructions executable by the at least one processor. The components include a reporting component and an evaluation component. The reporting component is to receive a communication from one of a plurality of users of a network-based system, the communication identifying content accessible via the network-based system as objectionable. An evaluation component is to evaluate the identified content based on a reputation value of the one of the plurality of users to determine an action to take with respect to the identified content. The reputation value is based at least in part on a history of objectionable content reporting by the one of the plurality of users. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007016 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE PREFETCHING - A cache server prefetches one or more web pages from an origin server prior to those web pages being requested by a user. The cache server determines which web pages to prefetch based on a graph associated with a prefetch module associated with the cache server. The graph represents all or a portion of the web pages at the origin server using one or more nodes and one or more links connecting the nodes. Each link has an associated transaction weight and user weight. The transaction weight represents the importance of the link and associated web page to the origin server and may be used to control the prefetching of web pages by the cache server. The user weight may be used to change a priority associated with a request for a web page. The user weight and transaction weight may change based on criteria associated with the origin server. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007017 | Rules Based Playlist Generation - A playlist can be generated based on a chart or list including ranked media items, e.g. songs, videos, etc., by automatically including the highest ranked media items to the playlist, but only adding some of the lower ranked media items to the playlist. A particular lower-ranked media item can be pseudo-randomly excluded from the playlist if that media item has a ranking in a current version of the chart that is lower than its ranking in a previous version. Once the desired number of media items has been added to an intermediate list, the intermediate list can be inverted, and station identifiers can be interspersed between the media items. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007018 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND SERVER FOR MANAGING FRIENDS' FEED IN NETWORK - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and server for managing the friends' feeds in the network. Specifically, the method includes: receiving a friends' feeds viewing instruction; obtaining friends' feeds corresponding to a viewing user identity comprised in the friends' feeds viewing instruction, and determining friend intimacy degrees corresponding to the viewing user identity; sorting the obtained friends' feeds according to the friend intimacy degrees and one or multiple update properties comprised in the obtained friends' feeds, and outputting the sorted friends' feeds. It can be seen that the scheme provided by embodiments of the present invention can satisfy the requirements that the user pay different attentions to different friends. | 01-03-2013 |
20130013620 | METHOD OF OPERATING A NAVIGATION SYSTEM TO PROVIDE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION INFORMATION - A computer implemented method of operating a navigation system to provide geographic location information is provided. The method comprises receiving a query text string representing a query for a geographic location from a user and obtaining data records that represent a plurality of candidate geographic locations. The method computes a text matching score that indicates how much of the query text string matches a record text string of the candidate geographic location and applies a usage pattern weight to the text matching score to obtain an overall score value for the candidate geographic location. The candidate geographic locations are ranked based on the overall score values. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013621 | Entity Display Priority in a Distributed Geographic Information System - A system for ranking geospatial entities is described. In one embodiment, the system comprises an interface for receiving ranking data about a plurality of geospatial entities and an entity ranking module. The module uses a ranking mechanism to generate place ranks for the geospatial entities based on the ranking data. Ranked entity data generated by the entity ranking module is stored in a database. The entity ranking module may be configured to evaluate a plurality of diverse attributes to determine a total score for a geospatial entity. The entity ranking module may be configured to organize ranked entity data into placemark layers. | 01-10-2013 |
20130018892 | Visually Representing How a Sentiment Score is ComputedAANM Castellanos; Maria G.AACI SunnyvaleAAST CAAACO USAAGP Castellanos; Maria G. Sunnyvale CA USAANM Ruiz; PerlaAACI HermosilloAACO MXAAGP Ruiz; Perla Hermosillo MXAANM Dayal; UmeshwarAACI SaratogaAAST CAAACO USAAGP Dayal; Umeshwar Saratoga CA USAANM Dekhil; MohamedAACI Santa ClaraAAST CAAACO USAAGP Dekhil; Mohamed Santa Clara CA US - A method of visually representing how a sentiment score is computed comprises, with a sentiment scoring device, determining a number of sentiment scores for each of a number of attributes within a forum, writing a visualization file in a database based on metadata representing the sentiment scores, and outputting, to an output device, a representation of how the sentiment score was computed based on the visualization file. A system for displaying to a user how a sentiment score is computed comprises a sentiment scoring device, a forum source communicatively coupled to the sentiment scoring device, and an output device communicatively coupled to the sentiment scoring device, in which the sentiment scoring device obtains text from the forum source, determines sentiment scores for a number of attributes within the text, and outputs, to the output device, a representation of how the sentiment score was computed. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018893 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A USER'S BRAND INFLUENCE - A method for identifying an influencer of a brand is disclosed. The method embodiment includes scanning social media objects published by at least one social networking entity to identify a first social media object posted by a first user and relating to a brand associated with a product, an enterprise, a service, a person, a concept, and/or a trackable object. The social media objects include messages, video and audio clips, and/or image files posted by a plurality of users. The method also includes calculating a brand influence score for the first user based on a plurality of influence factors. The brand influence score for the first user is compared to a threshold influence score, and the first user is identified as a brand influencer when the first user's brand influence score is greater than the threshold influence score. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018894 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SENTIMENT DATA GENERATION - A method, computer-readable medium, and a computer system for automatically generating sentiment data are disclosed. One or more portions of at least one document may be determined to be associated with at least one sentiment of one or more other portions of the at least one document. One or more scores associated with the at least one sentiment may be automatically determined based on at least one respective attribute of the one or more portions. The at least one respective attribute may include a positive category, a negative category, a neutral category, a degree associated with a positive sentiment, a degree associated with a negative sentiment, some combination thereof, etc. In this manner, data associated with sentiment of one or more portions of at least one document may be generated. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018895 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING MEANING FROM SPEECH-TO-TEXT DATA - Systems and methods are provided for simulating an interactive conversation with a recorded subject. In accordance with an implementation, a server receives a text string corresponding to a query spoken by a user during the interactive conversation, and subsequently obtains information associated with a plurality of candidate queries posed to the recorded subject. The obtained information may include, for corresponding ones of the candidate queries, a primary keyword, at least one of a contextual keyword or a qualifier keyword associated with the primary keyword, and synonym data. The server may generate scores for the candidate queries based on the text string and at least one of the keyword data or the synonym data. Based on the candidate query scores, the server may select one of the candidate queries that corresponds to the text string and video content that responds to the spoken query. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018896 | Topic and Time Based Media Affinity Estimation - An affinity server estimates an affinity between two different time based media events (e.g., TV, radio, social media content stream), between a time based media event and a specific topic, or between two different topics, where the affinity score represents an intersection between the populations of social media users who have authored social media content items regarding the two different events and/or topics. The affinity score represents an estimation of the real world affinity between the real world population of people who have an interest in both time based media events, both topics, or in a time based media event and a topic. One possible threshold for including a social media user in a population may be based on a confidence score that indicates the confidence that one or more social media content items authored by the social media user are relevant to the topic or event in question. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018897 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MEDIA RELATED TO A LOCATION - A system and method for distributing media related to a location. The physical location of a media presentation device is received over a network. The physical location of a plurality of end users are identified, via the network, wherein each of plurality of users is associated with a user device capable of storing media files. At least one of the end users is identified who is located in such proximity to the media presentation device that the user can perceive media that presented on the media presentation device. At least one media file that is currently being presented on the media presentation device is identified and transmitted over the network to each of the identified end users. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024462 | ACADEMIC ACTIVITY STREAM - A method and computer-readable medium for generating an activity stream is provided. The activity stream includes a ranked set of objects that are presented to one or more users. The ranking of objects is updated to reflect events associated with objects. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024463 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR INNOVATION FARMING - Systems, methods, and computer-readable code stored on a non-transitory media for assessing an entity's innovation level by one or more computing devices include gathering information relating to an entity's performance in plural disciplines; capturing strengths and opportunities of the entity based on the gathered information; generating an innovation score of the entity; analyzing the innovation score to generate an innovation report; and returning the innovation report to the entity | 01-24-2013 |
20130031104 | RECOMMENDATION JITTER - A method for selection of items for one or more users includes performing each of a set of steps to determine the items. Performing the steps includes introducing a controlled variation into a result of each of multiple of the steps. The items for the one or more users are then selected according to the results of the steps. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031105 | Automated Ranking of Entities Based on Trade References - Some embodiments perform automated entity ranking to accurately portray the influence that each ranked entity holds within a particular field, industry, region, or some combination thereof. The ranking is primarily derived based on the number of trade references obtained for a particular entity and the influence of those trade references. The rankings can be sold as informational commodities and can be compiled to produce lists of the most influential entities within a particular field, industry, region, or some combination thereof. | 01-31-2013 |
20130041905 | Sentimental Information Associated with an Object Within a Media - Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer readable media, for receiving user input data that includes a sentimental identifier and an indication of at least one of an amount of pressure and an amount of time used to select a sentimental input. The user input data is associated with a media, and the associated media includes a plurality of objects. For each user input data, the user input data is associated with a portion of the associated media. The user input data is aggregated based upon the portion of the associated media. An average sentiment value is determined based upon the sentimental identifier and the indication of at least one of the amount of pressure and the amount of time used to select a sentimental input for at least one of the displayed objects. | 02-14-2013 |
20130046768 | FINDING A TOP-K DIVERSIFIED RANKING LIST ON GRAPHS - A method, system and computer program product for finding a diversified ranking list for a given query. In one embodiment, a multitude of date items responsive to the query are identified, a marginal score is established for each data item; and a set, or ranking list, of the data items is formed based on these scores. This ranking list is formed by forming an initial set, and one or more data items are added to the ranking list based on the marginal scores of the data items. In one embodiment, each of the data items has a measured relevance and a measured diversity value, and the marginal scores for the data items are based on the measured relevance and the measured diversity values of the data items. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046769 | MEASURING THE GOODNESS OF A TOP-K DIVERSIFIED RANKING LIST - A method, system and computer program product for measuring a relevance and diversity of a ranking list to a given query. The ranking list is comprised of a set of data items responsive to the query. In one embodiment, the method comprises calculating a measured relevance of the set of data items to the query using a defined relevance measuring procedure, and determining a measured diversity value for the ranking list using a defined diversity measuring procedure. The measured relevance and the measured diversity value are combined to obtain a measure of the combined relevance and diversity of the ranking list. The measured relevance of the set of data items may be based on the individual relevance of each of the data items to the query, and the diversity value may be based on the similarities of the data items to each other. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046770 | Sending Notifications About Other Users With Whom A User is Likely to Interact - To provide more contextually and temporally relevant information to its users, a social networking system may surface relevant information about a target user with whom an recipient user is likely to interact. The social networking system predicts whether the recipient user is likely to be in contact with a target user, either currently or in the near future. If contact is predicted, the system determines information about the target user that that the recipient user may find of interest for their interaction. To determine what information may be of interest, the system determines a relevance score for information items about that target user. The system can then use the relevance scores to decide whether and which information items to surface to the recipient user, e.g., in the form of notifications. | 02-21-2013 |
20130054613 | AUTOMATIC SORT AND PROPAGATION ASSOCIATED WITH ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - Techniques for automatic sort and propagation of information relating to electronic documents are presented. With regard to an electronic document, such as an incoming message, an enhanced information management component (EIMC) can analyze the document to identify a file folder associated with a subject to which the document relates. Based on interaction with or tagging of the document in a first user interface (UI) and predefined user preferences, the EIMC can propagate information relating to the subject and/or document to a second UI. The EIMC can archive the document in the identified file folder automatically or in response to as little as one UI control manipulation. The EIMC can analyze audio or video content to facilitate tagging and archiving of such content using the first UI and propagation of information relating to such content and/or related subject to a second UI. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054614 | Presenting Intelligent Tagging Suggestions For A Photograph - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for presenting intelligent tagging suggestions for a photograph are provided. Embodiments include identifying, by a tagging module, contextual information indicating circumstances in which the photograph was taken; based on the contextual information, selecting, by the tagging module, candidate profiles from a plurality of friend profiles associated with a profile of a user; and suggesting, by the tagging module to the user, the selected candidate profiles as potential friends to tag in the photograph. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054615 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATIC HIGH-VALUE LISTING FEEDS FOR ONLINE COMPUTER USERS - A system and method for providing automatic high-value listing feeds for online computer users is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes obtaining publisher information corresponding to a plurality of publisher content items from a plurality of publisher sites; obtaining merchant information including value information corresponding to the plurality of publisher content items; using a processor, the publisher information, and the merchant information to generate a set of high-value feeds for transfer to the plurality of publisher sites, the set of high-value feeds each being ranked corresponding to a quality score computed for each listing item of each high-value feed; and transferring the set of high-value feeds to corresponding publisher sites of the plurality of publisher sites. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054616 | System and Method for Finding Mood-Dependent Top Selling/Rated Lists - A system and method for determining a rank aggregation from a series of partial preferences is presented. A distribution is learned over preferences from partial preferences with sparse support. A computer receives a plurality of partial preferences selected from two or more preference lists. Weights are assigned to each of said plurality of partial preferences, resulting in multiple ranked lists. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054617 | Linking Browser Content to Social Network Data - Abstract Social networks contain a wealth of personal data when a user is accepted as a trusted contact by a second user. This data can be used to mine server accessed internet content to highlight information related to a user's trusted contacts. Here an application extracts information from server accessed content, correlates it to information taken from social networking and alerts the user to information in the content related to their trusted contacts. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054618 | DYNAMIC PROFILE SLICE - Systems and methods are provided for maintaining a dynamic profile slice of a user profile of a user. In one embodiment, a real-time user-generated context of the user is monitored over time to accumulate keywords in the dynamic profile slice of the user that are representative of dynamic interests of the user. Weights are assigned to the keywords in the dynamic profile slice using a time and/or location weighting function. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054619 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING APPLICATION PROTOCOL - In an embodiment, the method of identifying an application protocol includes classifying a data packet to be detected into an individual traffic flow, searching for keywords in a valid payload of the traffic flow based upon a keyword database of identifiable application protocols, and determining a keyword weight vector of the traffic flow. The weight of a keyword is related to a location of the keyword in a valid payload of a traffic flow. Similarities between the keyword weight vector of the traffic flow and feature keyword weight vectors of the identifiable application protocols are determined; and an application protocol corresponding to a feature keyword weight vector with the highest similarity to the keyword weight vector of the traffic flow as the application protocol of the traffic flow is determined if a condition is satisfied. | 02-28-2013 |
20130060784 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING WORD SEARCHING INSIDE OF VIDEO FILES - Techniques for generating automated tags for a video file are described. The method includes receiving one or more manually generated tags associated with a video file, based at least in part on the one or more manually entered tags, determining a preliminary category for the video file, and based on the preliminary category, generating a targeted transcript of the video file, wherein the targeted transcript includes a plurality of words. The method further includes generating an ontology of the plurality of words based on the targeted transcript, ranking the plurality of words in the ontology based on a plurality of scoring factors, and based on the ranking of the plurality of words, generating one or more automated tags associated with the video file. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060785 | KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCORPORATING CUSTOMIZATION - Techniques for analyzing and synthesizing complex knowledge representations may utilize an atomic knowledge representation model including an elemental data structure and knowledge processing rules stored as machine-readable data and/or programming instructions. The elemental data structure may include a universal kernel and one or more customized modules. The universal kernel may represent knowledge that is generally applicable to a population, and the customized modules may represent knowledge that is specifically applicable to individual data consumers. | 03-07-2013 |
20130066884 | EVALUATING AN ITEM BASED ON USER REPUTATION INFORMATION - Evaluating an item based on user reputation information is disclosed. Sharing event data is received. A graph is materialized from the received sharing event data. User reputation scores are determined based at least in part on the graph. A score is assigned to the item based at least in part on the user reputation scores of users associated with the item. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066885 | System and Method for Scoring the Popularity and Popularity Trend of an Object - A system and method for generating a Popularity Score for content objects in computer information systems based at least on user input. The system and method is functional in both binary (likes/dislikes) and ranked (numbered, star) rating systems. The Popularity Score utilizes the percentage of users that expressed a favorable opinion of the content object, as well as the total number of expressed user opinions to provide a more meaningful measure of the overall user likeability or appeal of the content object than systems that simply utilize user “likes” and “dislikes”. The system and method also generate Popularity Score Trends over various flexible time ranges that allow users to search, sort, and/or list content objects based on popularity over the selected date ranges. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073561 | RANDOM SAMPLING FROM DISTRIBUTED STREAMS - Described herein are methods, systems, apparatuses and products for random sampling from distributed streams. An aspect provides a method for distributed sampling on a network with a plurality of sites and a coordinator, including: receiving at the coordinator a data element from a site of the plurality of sites, said data element having a weight randomly associated therewith deemed reportable by comparison at the site to a locally stored global value; comparing the weight of the data element received with a global value stored at the coordinator; and performing one of: updating the global value stored at the coordinator to the weight of the data element received; and communicating the global value stored at the coordinator back to the site of the plurality of sites. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073562 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED WEIGHTED TREE SEARCH - Methods for resolving ambiguity in a search of a tree data structure are provided. Ambiguity occurs when a searched value occurs at two or more nodes of the tree data structure. Weighted distances between a context node and two or more candidate nodes are determined where each of the candidate nodes contains the searched value. The weighted distance between the context node and each candidate node equals the number of downward steps from the context node to the candidate node multiplied by a first constant plus the number of upward steps from the context node to the candidate node multiplied by a second constant. The node having a desired weighted distance is selected and information from the selected node is returned. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073563 | ELECTRONIC COMPUTING DEVICE AND IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - An electronic computing device includes a database in which for multiple objects, data combining a first property value and a second property value representative of properties of images of each of the objects is accumulated by respectively changing the first property value and the second property value by given values; an acquirer that acquires image data; and an application processor that searches the database, extracts from the acquired first image data, a combination of the first property value and the second property value, and searches the database based on the extracted combination. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073564 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a first set generating unit that generates a first set of states reachable by following ε-transitions in a forward direction and a reverse direction among states included in a finite state automaton; a second set generating unit that generates a second set representing a set of states included in each of a plurality of first sets connected by one transition that is not an ε-transition and the first set that is not connected to another first set by one transition that is not an ε-transition; a combination generating unit that obtains, among combinations of ε-removal patterns to be respectively applied to the ε-transitions in the second set, a combination with which the number of transitions after removing ε-transitions is the smallest; and a removing unit that removes ε-transitions in the second set by the removal patterns included in the obtained combination. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073565 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DIGITAL SHEETS - The claimed invention enables digital asset management that is responsive to a user's interactions with digital assets. Based on the user's interaction, the invention generates a ranking of the digital assets that is intended to reflect the value of the digital assets to the user. The ranking is based in part on the access frequency and recency, and the number and types of uses of the digital assets. An access hierarchy is derived from the ranking that stores the digital assets so that the higher ranked digital assets are more easily accessed than the lower ranked digital assets. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073566 | CONTEXTUAL SEARCH OF A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - Techniques are provided for using bonds, which reflect relationships between items, to facilitate searches against the items. The degree of separation between any two given searchable items is based on the minimum number of bonds that have to be traversed to arrive at one of the two searchable items when starting at the other of the two searchable items. The bonds are used to respond to a search request, performing a search relative to a particular searchable item. For example, the search may involve only those searchable items that are within a particular degree of separation of the particular searchable item. As another example, the search may involve determining the order in which searchable items are compared against search criteria of the search request based on the degree of separation of the searchable items from the particular searchable item. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073567 | Method and Apparatus for Staged Content Analysis - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example network device having a controller to receive multiple streams of content for portions of a multimedia work, perform a high level analysis for features in each of the streams for the multimedia work, perform a specialized analysis on the portion having a detected general feature to generate a content analysis output, correlate the content analysis output with other content analysis of the multimedia work, and output a weighted content description based on the correlation function. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 03-21-2013 |
20130080444 | Chart Recommendations - Chart recommendations may be provided. First, a summary of a dataset may be determined and each column and row in the dataset, based on the summary, may be classified into classifications. Next, based upon the classifications of each column and row in the dataset, the dataset may be mapped to a plurality of chart types. Each of the plurality of chart types may then be ranked. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080445 | MEDIA CONTENT VOTING, RANKING, AND PLAYING SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for receiving a plurality of metadata associated with a plurality of media items. Each metadata includes a ranking score and a resource locator of the media item. Queuing media item identifiers based on the plurality of metadata and ordering the queue based on the ranking scores. Retrieving a portion of a highest-ranking unplayed media item and providing the portion to a content playback device. Receiving vote indications for an unplayed media item. The ranking score of the unplayed media is updated item based on the received vote indications. The unplayed media items are reordered in the queue based upon the updated ranking score of the unplayed media item. Retrieving a portion of a highest-ranking unplayed media item in the reordered queue and providing the portion to a content playback device. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080446 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DIGITAL SHEETS - The claimed invention enables digital asset management that is responsive to a user's interactions with digital assets. Based on the user's interaction, the invention generates a ranking of the digital assets that is intended to reflect the value of the digital assets to the user. The ranking is based in part on the access frequency and recency, and the number and types of uses of the digital assets. An access hierarchy is derived from the ranking that stores the digital assets so that the higher ranked digital assets are more easily accessed than the lower ranked digital assets. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080447 | System for Targeting Advertising Content to a Plurality of Mobile Communication Facilities - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 03-28-2013 |
20130086076 | REFINEMENT AND CALIBRATION MECHANISM FOR IMPROVING CLASSIFICATION OF INFORMATION ASSETS - Techniques are described for refining the manual classification of assets classified or categorized using the terms of a business glossary. A semantic refinement mechanism is used to refine the manual classification of such assets, as well as subsequently evaluate the refined asset classifications. Further, the refined asset classifications may be used as a training set for a machine learning classifier. That is, should the classification of an asset contributing to a refinement change, the refinement based on that classification may be undone, at least in some cases. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086077 | Method and Apparatus for Associating Commenting Information with One or More Objects - An approach is provided for presenting a user interface and associating one or more commenting information with on one or more content items detected in one or more media items. Further, a user may associate one or more commenting information related to a point of interest/object wherein one or more content items associated with the point of interest/object may be retrieved and aggregated with the one or more commenting information. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086078 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATION OF A DYNAMIC SOCIAL PAGE - The present disclosure includes methods and systems for dynamically rendering a social page of the user based on the visiting user's interests. When a visiting user visits another user's social page, the visiting user will be presented with information from the user's social page related to interests for which the visiting user has exhibited an interest. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086079 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR INTERACTING WITH AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED USER PROFILES - A robust knowledge-based management and sharing system organized by context for context-based searching and retrieval of relevant information is disclosed. The described embodiments and techniques are used to automatically generate user profile data and organize it around one or more contexts associated with users such as their projects, products, or customers; or around users' expertise such as their competencies, knowledge, and experience. At least certain embodiments include a graphical user interface that is configured to display the automatically generated user profiles categorized based on a given expertise or context associated with the end-user. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086080 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION DISCLOSURE STATEMENT MANAGEMENT AND PRIOR ART CROSS-CITATION CONTROL - The present inventive subject matter relates to document management, more particularly to a system and method for information disclosure statement management and prior art cross-citation control. Various embodiments of the present inventive subject matter include systems and methods for controlling the cross-citation and propagation of prior art reference documents from one patent case to another. Some embodiments may include propagation control user interfaces which display to a user sets of patent cases as potential source documents of prior art. In some embodiments, characteristics of the prior art may be identified and used as the basis for selecting and controlling the cross-citation of prior art. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086081 | DYNAMIC CLIENT SIDE NAME SUGGESTION SERVICE - A method for providing Internet domain name suggestions includes parsing a web page; obtaining at least one keyword from the parsing, generating a first query from the at least one keyword; and determining, based at least on the first query, if at least one name suggestion is available. The method also includes, if at least one name suggestion is available, generating at least one domain name suggestion based at least on the first query and displaying the at least one domain name suggestion. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086082 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZATION SERVICE BASED ON PERSONAL TENDENCY - A personalization recommendation service providing method and system, based on a personal tendency provides a personally targeted recommendation list by re-ranking a candidate recommendation list obtained through a predetermined recommendation technique, by acquiring a user tendency profile and the candidate recommendation list, re-ranking the candidate recommendation list according to the user tendency profile, and generating the targeted recommendation list based on recommendation contents by the re-ranking of the candidate recommendation list. | 04-04-2013 |
20130091142 | KEYWORD ASSESSMENT - Methods, systems, and techniques for keyword management are described. Some embodiments provide a keyword management system (“KMS”) configured to determine the effectiveness of multiple candidate keywords. In some embodiments, the KMS generates multiple candidate keywords based on an initial keyword. The KMS may then determine an effectiveness score for each of the candidate keywords, based on marketing information about those keywords. Next, the KMS may process the candidate keywords according to the determined effectiveness scores. In some embodiments, processing the candidate keywords includes applying rules that conditionally perform actions with respect to the candidate keywords, such as modifying advertising expenditures, modifying content, or the like. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091143 | BIGRAM SUGGESTIONS - A method for generating a bigram database may include receiving domain names, tokenizing the domain names, generating token bigrams from the tokenized domain names, filtering the token bigrams, ranking the token bigrams, and storing the filtered and ranked token bigrams in a bigram database. A method for suggesting alternative domain names may include receiving a requested domain name, tokenizing the requested domain name to divide the requested domain name into a series of tokens, retrieving token bigrams for tokens of the requested domain name, generating alternative domain name suggestions based on the token bigrams and the requested domain name, ranking the alternative domain name suggestions, and outputting at least one of the alternative domain name suggestions. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091144 | Combinators to Build a Search Engine - A method of counting items in a database system. The database system having nodes comprising processors and memory where the memory stores programs to be executed by the processors. Identifying and counting M unique number of items. Determining and storing a logcount for M unique items. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091145 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING WEB TRENDS BASED ON ISSUE TEMPLATE EXTRACTION - An apparatus analyzes web trends based on issue template extraction. The apparatus includes a web document collector to collect web documents provided through web, a web document filter to filter useless documents from the collected web documents, and an issue detector to detect new issues in the filtered documents. Also, the apparatus further includes an issue template extractor to extract detailed attribute values of issue templates with respect to the detected new issues, an issue template integrator to integrate the extracted issue templates based on an identical entity and an identical event, and an issue monitor configured to monitor information on changes on a time axis using the integrated issue template. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091146 | DETERMINATION OF MOBILE USER PROFILE AND PREFERENCES FROM MOVEMENT PATTERNS - Content can be provided to mobile computing devices based on device location and demographic values associated with the mobile device and the location. A demographic or other user profile is stored, and, upon report of a user location in a covered venue, the user profile is queried and suitable content selected for delivery. The user demographic profile can include indications of one or more of user age, user gender, user educational background, user marital status, user income level, user ethnicity, user postal code and user price sensitivity. User profiles can be obtained based on user movement in a venue using demographic values associated with venue locations, and venue location profiles can be established based on user movement in a venue and the associated user demographic profiles. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091147 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF DISTRIBUTED DIGITAL CONTENT - A method for evaluating the impact of distributed digital content, including identifying content produced by a publisher on a first domain, determining user activity data associated with the content on one or more social networks, calculating an instantaneous score for each of the social networks for the content based on the user activity data associated with the content on the respective social network, calculating a velocity score for each of the social networks for the content, the velocity score comprising a rate of change of the instantaneous score for the respective social network, calculating a social value score for the content based on the velocity scores of the one or more social networks, and sending the social value score to a computer associated with the publisher. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091148 | INFRASTRUCTURE AND ARCHITECTURE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND EXECUTION OF PREDICTIVE MODELS - A system that enables development and execution of predictive models comprises a centralized data management system, a data extraction tool a model validation tool and a model execution tool. In embodiments, a data management system includes a data management server that can be accessed via a web browser that stores data in the form of a flat file. An extraction tool extracts data. A model validation tool validates a model by scoring an analytical environment data set and a production environment data set. A model execution tool allows a user to select when and how often a model is scored. | 04-11-2013 |
20130097176 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA MINING OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO DETERMINE AN EMOTIONAL IMPACT VALUE TO MEDIA CONTENT - A computer system provides access to a corpus of social media content; extracts from the corpus of social media content one or more ratings of an item of media content; identifies the author of each of the one or more ratings; analyzes the content of each of the one or more ratings of an item of media content and assigns a value to each of the one or more ratings; analyzes the corpus of social media content and assigns an impact coefficient to the author of each of the one or more ratings; aggregates the values of the one or more ratings, weighted by the assigned impact coefficients of the author of each of the one or more ratings, and determines therefrom an aggregated value; and based on the aggregated value, assigns an emotional impact value to the item of media content. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097177 | SUGGESTING ALTERNATE DATA MAPPINGS FOR CHARTS - Data mapping alternatives for creating a visual representation of a set of data are presented. A set of data is identified for analysis. The identified set of data and properties associated with the identified set of data are analyzed. Based on the analysis, data mapping alternatives for the identified set of data are determined. The determined data mapping alternatives for the identified set of data are ranked. The determined data mapping alternatives are presented in an order according to the ranking of the determined data mapping alternatives. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097178 | Question and Answer Forum Techniques - Techniques for unsupervised management of a question and answer (QA) forum include labeling of answers for quality purposes, and identification of experts. In a QA thread, a ranking of answers may include an initial labeling of the longest answer in each thread as the best answer. Such a labeling provides an initial point of reference. Then, in an iterative manner answerers are ranked using the labeling. The ranking of answerers allows selection of experts and poor or inexpert answerers. A label update is performed using the experts (and perhaps inexpert answerers) as input. The label update may be used to train a model, which may describe quality of answers in one or more QA threads and an indication of expert and inexpert answerers. The iterative process may be ended upon convergence or upon a maximum number of iterations. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097179 | CROWD-SOURCED PROBLEM SOLVING - A device includes an input device configured to receive a plurality of user inputs including a predetermined user input. A display device is configured to display a graphical user interface. A memory device is configured to store device information. A help application is in communication with the input device, the display device, and the memory device and is configured to detect the predetermined user input and, in response, populate the graphical user interface with a list of selectable solutions associated with the device information in accordance with a performance rank associated with each solution. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097180 | Ranking Objects by Social Relevance - In one embodiment, a system includes one or more computing systems that implement a social networking environment and are operable to access stored information including a plurality of nodes including a first set of user nodes that each correspond to a respective user and a second set of concept nodes that each correspond to a respective concept. The system may generate a match coefficient for the user and concept, representing the degree of relevance of a particular concept node to a particular user node. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097181 | VISUAL SEARCH USING MULTIPLE VISUAL INPUT MODALITIES - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for web-scale visual search capable of using a combination of visual input modalities are provided. An edgel index is created that includes shape-descriptors, including edgel-based representations, that correspond to each of a plurality of images. Each edgel-based representation includes pixels that depicts edges or boundary contours of an image and is created, at least in part, by segmenting the image into a plurality of image segments and performing a multi-phase contour detection on each segment. Upon receiving a search query having a visual query input, the visual query input is converted into shape-descriptors, including an edgel-based representation, and the shape-descriptors, including the edgel-based representation, of each of the plurality of images is compared with the shape-descriptors, including the edgel-based representation, of the visual query input to identify at least one image of the plurality of images that matches the visual query input. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097182 | Method for calculating distances between users in a social graph - The present invention discloses a method for calculating distances between users in a social graph. The relations in the social graph are assigned weighting factors. The distances between two users are calculated from the weighted relations on the paths connecting the two users. In addition, the propagation of relations across neighboring users may be attenuated according to a propagation coefficient. Using the calculated distances, the social search may be performed in the order of non-decreasing distances from the source users. Moreover, clusters may be created from a social graph based on the calculated distances. The search in a dense social graph may be converted to a search in the generated clusters. Therefore the performance of social search across neighbors is improved. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097183 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING A ROOT CAUSE OF A SERVICE IMPACT IN A VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT - A dependency graph includes nodes representing states of infrastructure elements in a managed system, and impacts and events among the infrastructure elements in a managed system that are related to delivery of a service by the managed system. Events are received that cause change among the states in the dependency graph. An event occurs in relation to one of the infrastructure elements of the dependency graph. Each individual node that was affected by the event is analyzed and ranked based on (i) states of the nodes which impact the individual node, and (ii) the states of the nodes which are impacted by the individual node, to provide a score for event(s) which is associated with the individual node. Plural events are ranked based on the scores. The root cause of the events with respect to the service is provided based on the events which were ranked. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097184 | AUTOMATIC UPDATING OF TRUST NETWORKS IN RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS - Trust networks in a recommender system are automatically updated in response to user feedback on recommendations provided by the trust network. In response to a user request, a set of referrals is generated, with some of the referrals being recommended based on judgment data received from members of the trust network. If the user evaluates the recommended referral, a trust parameter for at least one of the trust network members is updated based on the evaluation. | 04-18-2013 |
20130103695 | MACHINE TRANSLATION DETECTION IN WEB-SCRAPED PARALLEL CORPORA - Various technologies described herein pertain to detecting machine translated content. Documents in a document pair are mutual lingual translations of each other. Further, document level features of the documents in the document pair can be identified. The document level features can correlate with translation quality between the documents in the document pair. Moreover, statistical classification can be used to detect whether the document pair is generated through machine translation based at least in part upon the document level features. Further, a first document can be a machine translation of a second document in the document pair or a disparate document when generated through machine translation. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103696 | Suggesting and Refining User Input Based on Original User Input - Systems and methods to generate modified/refined user inputs based on the original user input, such as a search query, are disclosed. The method may be implemented for Roman-based and/or non-Roman based language such as Chinese. The method may generally include receiving an original user input and identifying core terms therein, determining potential alternative inputs by replacing core term(s) in the original input with another term according to a similarity matrix and/or substituting a word sequence in the original input with another word sequence according to an expansion/contraction table where one word sequence is a substring of the other, computing likelihood of each potential alternative input, and selecting most likely alternative inputs according to a predetermined criteria, e.g., likelihood of the alternative input being at least that of the original input. A cache containing pre-computed original user inputs and corresponding alternative inputs may be provided. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103697 | Systems and Methods for Ranking Points of Interest - Systems and methods are provided for ranking points of interest (POIs). According to one implementation, a computer-implemented method may be provided that includes receiving geographic information from a user device, and selecting a plurality of points of interest within the geographic region. The method may also include generating an initial ranking of the selected points of interest based on voting information received from the user device, viral input from a user's social network, and/or additional input based on searches for maps and travel directions for traversing a route. In addition, the method may include calculating a modified ranking of the selected points of interest. | 04-25-2013 |
20130110847 | Proactive User-Based Content Correction And Enrichment For Geo Data | 05-02-2013 |
20130110848 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS IN A MEDIA RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM | 05-02-2013 |
20130117277 | AGGREGATING DISTRIBUTED SOURCES OF APPLICATION GUIDANCE INFORMATION - A product guidance system is described herein that provides consistent methods and processes to aggregate product guidance from different online (and potentially local) sources, to ensure that the guidance aggregation is done with proper quality criteria (e.g., content/author reputation), to define how guidance is aggregated and presented appropriately for the context (e.g., a novice user may see different UI experience and different content than an advanced user), and to specify how the guidance is delivered within the product surface itself. The system defines a consistent information asset type meta-model, applies a semantic approach and algorithms to aggregate guidance content from varying sources and deliver through consistent interfaces, and provides an asset and user interface composition model to present the retrieved information following flexible categorization and navigation schemes. Thus, the product guidance system helps product teams deliver the right information, within the right context, and within the product surface. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117278 | METHODS, COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM AND SYSTEMS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AND INTERFERENCE WITH NETWORKED DATA, FOR EXAMPLE, IN A FINANCIAL SETTING - Networked data can, e.g., define connections between similar entities. Such data can be valuable for, e.g., improving business revenue opportunities (e.g., increasing sales, reducing customer attrition/churn, etc.) as networked data can capture similarities that can be often hard to encapsulate in traditional variables such as, e.g., socio-demographics. For example, related research has generally focused on the case where social network data was obtained directly or indirectly from online data, or from offline call logs in a telecommunication setting. Results can be implemented when inferring the values of target variables over the networked data. Methods, computer-accessible medium and systems according to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure for creating privacy-friendly pseudo-social networked (PSN) data from off-line banking data can be provided. Exemplary PSN in accordance with certain exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure can be used, e.g., for a variety of networked data-mining applications for banks and other financial institutions to increase revenue or manage risk, for example. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117279 | Systems and Methods for Dynamic Conversation Management - Certain embodiments herein relate to generating profiles associated with users and comparing the profiles to determine which contributions, such as conversations, in which the users should participate. User profiles may be based on a user's historical activities, such as browsing certain web pages or generating ideas that may be shared by others, as well as a user's personality profile. Each profile may be scored based at least in part on the user's historical activities and personality profile, as examples, to identify other users who should be invited to participate in conversations with the user. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117280 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VISUALIZING AND INTERACTING WITH DECISION TREES - A decision tree model is generated from sample data. A visualization system may automatically prune the decision tree model based on characteristics of nodes or branches in the decision tree or based on artifacts associated with model generation. For example, only nodes or questions in the decision tree receiving a largest amount of the sample data may be displayed in the decision tree. The nodes also may be displayed in a manner to more readily identify associated fields or metrics. For example, the nodes may be displayed in different colors and the colors may be associated with different node questions or answers. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117281 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA ADVISOR FOR RETENTION AND TREATMENT (SMART) - A method and apparatus are implemented in one or more processors for processing various social media data received over a network for collection, analysis, and application to business logic and/or business applications. Based on personally identifying information of an account holder, social media data regarding the account holder is retrieved from one or more social media sources or a clearing house over the network. The retrieved social media data is processed (i.e., parsed and/or filtered, and validated) via certain criteria. A usefulness score for the social media data is computed based on various factors including at least one of an identity match value, a truth confidence value, and a context data relevance value. The social media data and its computed usefulness score can be presented to a user and business applications for further processing and treatment of the account holder. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117282 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DNS TRAFFIC ANOMALIES - Systems and methods for analyzing domain name system lookup data are disclosed. The method may include: calculating traffic scores for a network address based on a set of DNS lookup data associated with the network address, where the set of DNS lookup data includes a plurality of query records having one or more queried network addresses; calculating a first variance and a second variance for the network address based on the traffic scores for the network address; and determining a rank of the network address based on the first and second variances. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117283 | DYNAMIC IDENTITY MATCHING IN RESPONSE TO THREAT LEVELS - A dynamic identity matching facility that enables an operator to determine the status of an individual based on identification information contained on an identification record provided by the individual. The operator scans the individual's identification information from the identification record using a scanning device. The facility decodes the scanned identification information and identifies a number of candidates based on the decoded identification information. For each identified candidate, the facility generates a candidate score. Based on the candidate score of each identified candidate, the facility selects a number of the identified candidates for display. The facility displays the selected candidates to the operator along with the candidate's criminal or other acts. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117284 | USE OF SOCIAL RANKS TO FIND PROVIDERS OF RELEVANT USER-GENERATED CONTENT - A social rank service is provided to a consumer. The social rank service enables the consumer to compare social ranks of contributors who generate and distribute user-generated content regarding a topic. The social ranks of the contributors are based on the volume of content on the topic generated by the contributors. The social ranks of the contributors are also based on the credibility of the contributors. In this way, the consumer may be able to identify contributors who regularly generate credible content on the topic. | 05-09-2013 |
20130124532 | Analyzing and repairing documents - Techniques for analyzing and repairing documents are described, including evaluating a document at a first location using a first application, the document comprising one or more parameters and being formatted using a document standard, identifying a problem associated with the document by comparing the one or more parameters to the document standard, presenting a status associated with the document, wherein the status is associated with the one or more parameters, and repairing the problem a second location using a second application by modifying at least one of the one or more parameters associated with the document. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124533 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING SONG PLAYLISTS BASED ON RECEIVED USER RATINGS - Methods, apparatuses, and computer programs are presented for updating song playlists based on received rating inputs from user devices. One method includes receiving information associated with songs in an initial playlist from a host device by a server. The server generates a rating interface for the initial playlist, which is associated with an image code. The image code for the rating interface is sent to the host device so that the user devices can access the rating interface via the image code. After one or more user devices provides rating inputs to the songs in the initial playlist, the received one or more rating inputs are analyzed to produce an adjusted playlist. The method further includes transmitting the adjusted playlist to the host device to be executed. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124534 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION ACCESS, SEARCH, RANK AND RETRIEVAL - An apparatus and method for quickly searching and ranking related documents in a database, and an interactive window that allows a user to dynamically reselect a priority of a score among a plurality of scores for re-ranking documents. In operation, the search engine | 05-16-2013 |
20130124535 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING INTIMACY - An apparatus calculates an intimacy. The apparatus includes an information extraction unit to extract one of more communication logs to communicate with contact numbers in contact number information in a mobile terminal and a weight setting unit to set a weight on each communication log and each contact number. The apparatus further includes a time importance setting unit to set time importance in each communication log on the basis of service execution time of each communication log and an intimacy calculating unit to calculate an intimacy in each communication log on the basis of the time importance and the contact number with the weight, and calculate an intimacy between a user of the mobile terminal and each dialogist corresponding to the contact number using the intimacy in each communication log. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124536 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a difference applying unit that obtains, according to difference feature information indicating a difference between first feature information characterizing an action of a target user and second feature information characterizing another action performed by the target user after the foregoing action is performed and third feature information characterizing an action newly performed by the target user, fourth feature information; and a target extracting unit that extracts information based on the fourth feature information. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124537 | Process and Apparatus for Selecting an Item from A Database - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for selecting database items from a database, where the database items are indexed by a list of item identifiers. The item identifiers may be in the form of text. An initial display is generated which includes one or more parts of the item identifiers. Selection of the one or more parts may be made and results in the generation of a display of a further one or more parts for selection. The further one or more parts may be selected in order to add to the selected one or more parts to build a larger part or whole of an item identifier. Selection from a large list of item identifiers may be carried out in a relatively short time period. | 05-16-2013 |
20130132401 | RELATED NEWS ARTICLES - Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing internet content, such as related news articles. One method includes an operation for defining a plurality of candidates based on a seed. For each candidate, scores are calculated for relevance, novelty, connection clarity, and transition smoothness. The score for connection clarity is based on a relevance score of the intersection between the words in the seed and the words in each of the candidates. Further, the score for transition smoothness measures the interest in reading each candidate when transitioning from the seed to the candidate. For each candidate, a relatedness score is calculated based on the calculated scores for relevance, novelty, connection clarity, and transition smoothness. In addition, at least one of the candidates is selected based on their relatedness scores for presentation to the user. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132402 | QUERY SPECIFIC FUSION FOR IMAGE RETRIEVAL - Systems and methods for image retrieval include constructing a plurality of graphs including a first graph for candidate images retrieved based upon holistic features of a query image and a second graph for candidate images retrieved based upon local features of the query image, wherein constructing includes weighting connected images based upon a Jaccard similarity coefficient. The plurality of graphs are fused to provide a fused graph. Candidate images of the fused graph are ranked, using a processor, to provide retrieval results of the query image. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132403 | TENANT PLACEMENT IN MULTITENANT CLOUD DATABASES WITH DATA SHARING - A method for tenant placement in a multi-tenant system is shown that includes creating a weighted graph of tenants and sharing relationships between tenants, where a weight for each tenant and each sharing relationship represents an associated degree of resource consumption; and adding one or more tenants to a database using a processor based on said weighted graph and a database capacity, such that the combined weight of the added tenants and the sharing relationships belonging to the added tenants are within the database capacity. If a tenant cannot be added to the database without exceeding the database capacity, a new database is created and the one or more tenants are added to the new database, subject to a new database capacity. The adding and creating steps are repeated until all tenants have been added to a database. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132404 | TENANT PLACEMENT IN MULTITENANT CLOUD DATABASES WITH ONE-TO-MANY DATA SHARING - Methods for generating a data fetching plan in a multi-tenant system include placing tenants in consecutively allocated databases according to a weighted graph of tenants and sharing relationships between tenants, where at least one sharing relationship includes multiple accessing tenants accessing a given set of data from a provider tenant. For each sharing relationship, if a current database has one or more accessing tenants and does not have the provider tenant, data is fetched from the latest-allocated database prior to the current database that has accessing tenants, if such a database exists; if a current database has the provider tenant, data is provided to the earliest-allocated database after the current database that has accessing tenants if such a database exists. The fetching and providing steps are repeated for each allocated database. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132405 | Dynamically Associating Different Query Execution Strategies with Selective Portions of a Database Table - A query facility for database queries dynamically determines whether selective portions of a database table are likely to benefit from separate query execution strategies, and constructs an appropriate separate execution strategies accordingly. Preferably, the database contains at least one relatively large table comprising multiple partitions, each sharing the definitional structure of the table and containing a different respective discrete subset of the table records. The query facility compares metadata for different partitions to determine whether sufficiently large differences exist among the partitions, and in appropriate cases selects one or more partitions for separate execution strategies. Preferably, partitions are ranked for separate evaluation using a weighting formula which takes into account: (a) the number of indexes for the partition, (b) recency of change activity, and (c) the size of the partition. | 05-23-2013 |
20130138661 | SYSTEM AND METHOD EMPLOYING A MINIMUM DISTANCE AND A LOAD FEATURE DATABASE TO IDENTIFY ELECTRIC LOAD TYPES OF DIFFERENT ELECTRIC LOADS - A method identifies electric load types of a plurality of different electric loads. The method includes providing a load feature database of a plurality of different electric load types, each of the different electric load types including a first load feature vector having at least four different load features; sensing a voltage signal and a current signal for each of the different electric loads; determining a second load feature vector comprising at least four different load features from the sensed voltage signal and the sensed current signal for a corresponding one of the different electric loads; and identifying by a processor one of the different electric load types by determining a minimum distance of the second load feature vector to the first load feature vector of the different electric load types of the load feature database. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138662 | Method for assigning user-centric ranks to database entries within the context of social networking - A method is provided for assigning user-centric importance ranks to database entries within the context of social networking. A database entry is assigned an importance rank with respect to a user based on the experiences of the user's social relations reachable in social graphs with the database entry or its related database entries. The assigned rank is dependent on the closeness of the user's social relations with the user and their authorities on the database entry. The closeness of relation between users is determined using information from social networking services. Importance ranks calculated from other methods may serve as initial estimates for the user-centric importance ranks. Moreover, a user may acquire more information about a database entry by either communicating with users having experiences with the entry or obtaining information from social networking services. The method improves search relevance and provides more personalized search results. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138663 | System or Apparatus for Finding Influential Users - Embodiments of the invention disclose a method, identifier and a computer program product for identifying influential users among a group of users associated with a communication network. The disclosed method includes selecting two or more ranking models from a plurality of ranking models such that each ranking model provides scores to the users in the group based on a usage data of the users, calculating a weighing factor for each of the selected ranking models, generating an aggregate score for each user using the weighing factor and the score provided by each one of the selected model such that based on the aggregate score, the influential users among the group of users are identified. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138664 | Distributing Personalized Content - The invention provides a method and system for distributing personalized content to potentially large numbers of recipients. A pool is selected, from among all content available for distribution, of those content elements that will be made available for simultaneous distribution, and personalized content is selected for distribution from that pool. The content of the pool can change with new selections over time. For each individual recipient, content elements in the pool are examined to determine if they are predicted to be of sufficient interest to that recipient for distribution, and if so, those content elements are distributed. If not, successive content elements in the pool are examined, relaxing the standard for sufficient interest, until at least one content element is found and distributed to the individual recipient. | 05-30-2013 |
20130144886 | METHOD FOR MANAGING EMAIL - This disclosure includes method for managing email that includes providing a list of topics, a reference associated with the topics, and a defined importance value for each reference. The method also includes preparing a topic relevance algorithm for each topic, each topic having associated attributes, and each topic relevance algorithm formed by estimating a relationship value between a topic and its associated attributes based on defined relevance of reference. The method further includes preparing an importance algorithm having a weighted importance attributes formed by estimating a weight for each of the importance attributes based on defined importance of the reference, assessing a target mail using the topic relevance algorithms to determine a topic relevance and against the importance algorithm to determine an importance and determining that a target mail has a threshold importance for a particular topic relevance. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144887 | INTEGRATIVE PATHWAY MODELING FOR DRUG EFFICACY PREDICTION - An integrative pathway modeling approach and ranking/evaluating algorithms based on disease-specific pathway models can predict drug efficacy for patients based on their gene expression profiles. A disease-specific pathway model is first constructed with proteins and drugs important to the disease by using computational connectivity maps (C-Maps). Through the pathway model-based ranking algorithm, ideal drugs or optimized drug combination can be discovered for a patient to modulate the gene expression profile of this patient close to those in healthy individuals at pathway-level. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144888 | DYNAMIC NETWORK ANALYTICS SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention is directed to a dynamic network analytics system capable of receiving and analyzing queries sent in data messages from data requesters. The queries contain a request from the data requester as to a risk level associated with an interaction conducted by a user. The dynamic network analytics system can determine an optimized process for determining the risk level of the interaction, based on an analysis of past interactions by the user and past interactions by users similar to the user. The dynamic network analytics system can retrieve data from internal and external data sources to generate a response to the query. The dynamic network analytics system conducts the optimized process and uses the retrieved data to generate risk assessments and risk scores in response to the query from the data requester. | 06-06-2013 |
20130151536 | Vertex-Proximity Query Processing - A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for processing a random-walk based vertex-proximity query on a graph. The method includes computing at least one vertex cluster and corresponding meta-information from a graph, dynamically updating the clustering and corresponding meta-information upon modification of the graph, and identifying a vertex cluster relevant to at least one query vertex and aggregating corresponding meta-information of the cluster to process the query. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151537 | ALIGNING RECORDS FOR VISUAL COMPARISON - Various embodiments of systems and methods for aligning records for visual comparison are described herein. In one aspect, the method includes identifying a plurality of records. A reference record is selected from the plurality of records. One or more non-reference record is merged into the reference record to generate a merged reference record. The merged reference record includes one or more fields missing in the reference record. The missing fields are included as blank fields from the non-reference records. The merged reference record is merged into a non-reference record to generate the merged non-reference record. The merged non-reference record includes fields missing in the non-reference record. Missing fields are included as blank fields. The merged records are displayed on a user interface in a card view. | 06-13-2013 |
20130159317 | HIGH PRECISION SET EXPANSION FOR LARGE CONCEPTS - A set expansion system is described herein that improves precision, recall, and performance of prior set expansion methods for large sets of data. The system maintains high precision and recall by 1) identifying the qualify of particular lists and applying that quality through a weight, 2) allowing for the specification or negative examples in a set of seeds to reduce the introduction of bad entities into the set, and 3) applying a cutoff to eliminate lists that include a low number of positive matches. The system may perform multiple passes to first generate a good candidate result set and then refine the set to find a set with highest quality. The system may also apply Map Reduce or other distributed processing techniques to allow calculation in parallel. Thus, the system efficiently expands large concept sets from a potentially small set of initial seeds from readily available web data. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159318 | Rule-Based Generation of Candidate String Transformations - Candidate string transformations may be generated from applying applicable transformation rules from a rules index. Candidate string transformations may be eliminated based on a score associated with the candidate string transformation. The score may be based on probabilistic values associated with the applied applicable transformation rules. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159319 | LIKEFARM DETERMINATION - A plurality of web documents that include indicators corresponding to one or more selectable like objects may be obtained. A corresponding web domain associated with each of the plurality of obtained web documents may be determined. A domain total like object count of the indicators corresponding to the one or more selectable like objects may be determined for each one of the obtained plurality of web documents, for each determined corresponding web domain. A candidate group of the corresponding web domains may be determined based on a comparison of a predetermined first threshold value with one or more of the domain total like object counts. A likefarm domain confidence score may be determined for each one of a second group of the corresponding web domains based on a decision tree function that is based on a plurality of domain attributes. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159320 | CLICKTHROUGH-BASED LATENT SEMANTIC MODEL - There is provided a computer-implemented method and system for ranking documents. The method includes identifying a number of query-document pairs based on clickthrough data for a number of documents. The method also includes building a latent semantic model based on the query-document pairs and ranking the documents for a search based on the latent semantic model. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159321 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING ACCESS PATH IN DATABASE - Apparatuses and methods for optimizing access path are provided. Execution of a query statement is sampled to obtain the information about a plurality of executing instances, the information about each executing instance comprises the literal value of the query statement in the instance and the filter factor corresponding to the literal value. The plurality of instances are grouped into a plurality of groups based on the filter factors corresponding to the literal values. The average filter factor of each group and the occurrence frequency of the group are obtained. The candidate access path created for the average filter factor of each group is accordingly obtained, and by taking the occurrence frequencies as weights, the weighted execution cost of each candidate access path is calculated for each group. The candidate access path with the minimum sum of the weighted execution costs for all groups is determined as the optimal access path. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159322 | CONTACT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM FOR A USER COMMUNICATION - Techniques are described for allowing a first user to efficiently send contact information to a second user using a messaging application such as email programs, instant messaging programs, social media websites, or chat rooms. The messaging application may maintain a name database that stores names relevant to a first user. When the first user then inputs a name into a user communication (e.g., an email, instant message, or voice message), the messaging application provides the first user with the names stored in the name database that match the name in the user communication. Additionally, the messaging application may use ranking data associated with each matched name to order the names according to relevance. The first user can then select the correct name (if there are multiple matched names) which prompts the messaging application to automatically send contact information to the intended recipient of the user communication. | 06-20-2013 |
20130166570 | COMPUTER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to appropriately select a volume or the like to be allocated to a host computer, thereby decreasing work efficiency. Upon being inputted with a precondition (for example, a user ID, a host ID and a work label ID) based on information inputted from a user, a management server | 06-27-2013 |
20130166571 | EVALUATING TYPEABILITY OF DOMAIN NAMES - Methods and systems are disclosed for assessing an identifier. The method comprises receiving, via an interface, a string of characters making up the identifier and determining a keyboard type for a keyboard. The method further comprises calculating, by a calculator module, a typeability score for the identifier based on the string of characters and the keyboard type, wherein the typeability score signifies a difficulty of typing the identifier on the determined keyboard type. In certain embodiments, the method further comprises determining a finger positioning corresponding to a position of a typer's fingers on the keyboard, and the typeability score is further based on the finger positioning. In some embodiments, the finger positioning is based on the typer's typing habits. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166572 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR EXTRACTING ABNORMAL EVENT FROM MEDICAL INFORMATION - An abnormality score calculating means calculates abnormality scores which are information indicating abnormality of medical data, based on specificity of the medical data. An abnormality score vector generating means creates at least one or more abnormality score vectors which are information obtained by integrating the abnormality scores. Further, a side effect detecting means which decides a likelihood of a side effect indicated by the abnormality score vector, based on a predetermined rule, and detects an abnormality score vector the likelihood of which is set in advance and which satisfies conditions as information indicating the side effect. | 06-27-2013 |
20130173633 | Social Discovery and Ranking of Pages - In one embodiment, a social-networking system accesses a social graph with a plurality of user nodes and a plurality of location nodes, receives a search query with location parameters, identifies a set of location nodes based on the search query, and determines a value for each location nodes in the set based on the edges connected to the location nodes in the social graph. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173634 | IDENTIFYING FILES STORED ON CLIENT DEVICES AS WEB-BASED SEARCH RESULTS - Methods for leveraging a user's social network connections to search files stored on client devices are provided. Upon receipt of a search query, it is determined that the searching user is a social network connection of at least one user of a social networking application having files on their client device designated for sharing. Those designated files are searched to determine if any of them match the received search query. Client device files associated with users of the social networking application that have been designated for public sharing also are searched. Any files shared publicly or with social network connections of the sharing user that are stored on a client device and determined to match the received query may be presented to the searching user independent of the algorithmic search results or may be integrated into the algorithmic search results, as desired. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173635 | VIDEO SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE - A system and method identifies a video file in response to a video based search query. A video imaging device in a mobile device captures a video file, and sends the video file to a search engine. A database associated with the search engine stores pre-indexed metadata of pre-indexed frames of video. A video analyzer separates the received video file into individual frames, analyzes the individual frames received from the mobile device by converting the individual frames into metadata, and compares the metadata to the pre-indexed metadata of the pre-indexed frames stored in the database. The video analyzer then sends a message containing information about the identified pre-existing video back to the mobile device based on the comparison of metadata. The metadata of the file and/or the metadata in the database may include one or more of pixel information, histogram information, image recognition information and audio information for each individual frame. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173636 | DETERMINING A SCORE FOR A PRODUCT BASED ON A LOCATION OF THE PRODUCT - A method, computer-readable storage medium, and computer system are provided. In an embodiment, a request is received from a requestor. The request specifies a search term and a plurality of weights of a plurality of criteria. A plurality of products are found that satisfy the search term. A plurality of locations where the plurality of products are located are determined. A plurality of scores of the plurality of locations are calculated based on the plurality of weights of the plurality of criteria and a plurality of ratings of the plurality of criteria at the plurality of locations. A best product of the plurality of products located at a best location with a best score of the plurality of scores is selected. In an embodiment, a supplier of the product that is not selected as the best product is notified of the score. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173637 | METHOD, SERVER, AND TERMINAL FOR RECOMMENDING AN APPLICATION BASED ON APPLICATION USAGE - A server, terminal, and method are provided for recommending an application according to application usage. The server includes a recommendation database that stores application usage information and additional information of a user terminal; a statistic processor that compiling statistics of applications using the stored additional information and generates an application statistic list from the compiled statistics; and a controller that determines a rank for the generated application statistic list using the application usage information, generates a candidate list based on the determined rank, and stores the generated application statistic list and the generated candidate list in the recommendation database. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179453 | Hawkeye Graphical Search Interface - Some embodiments of the invention provide a graphical user interface as a means of inputing search parameters to database search engines. In some embodiments two or three dimensional projections spatially represent relationships between search parameters, located along the periphery of the projections and search hits whose significance are represented by position relative to the center of the projection and comparative distance from each of the search parameters. As the user manipulates the overall shape of the search projection, the weighting of search parameters adjusts, reconfiguring the search. The invention also provides, in some embodiments, an intuitive means of assimilating search parameter weightings based on peer or social network preferences with global search results. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179454 | AUDIENCE PLATFORM - An audience platform is disclosed. In a first example case, a first question is received. A preference event associated with the first question is received. A score is determined for the first question based at least in part on the preference. In a second example case, indications of a first and second potential interviewee are received. Preference events associated with the first and second potential interviewees are received. Scores are determined for the first and second potential interviewees based at least in part on the received preference events. A designated interviewee is selected based on the first and second scores. In a third example case, indications of a first and second potential awardee are received. Preference events associated with the first and second potential awardee are received. Scores are determined for the first and second potential awardees based at least in part on the received preference events. | 07-11-2013 |
20130185306 | Entity Matching Using Machine Learning - Techniques for information retrieval include receiving a plurality of data records, each data record including data fields associated with a business enterprise, the data fields including a name of the business enterprise; updating a plurality of database records associated with the received plurality of data records stored in a database, each database record including attributes including the name of the business enterprise and an alias associated with the name of the business enterprise; receiving a query for a particular database record, the query including at least one of the name of the business enterprise or the alias associated with the name of the business enterprise; and preparing for display, in response to the query, one or more of the database records based on at least one of the name of the business enterprise or the alias associated with the name of the business enterprise. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185307 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF SUPERVISED LEARNING OF SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS - A method of evaluating a semantic relatedness of terms. The method comprises providing a plurality of text segments, calculating, using a processor, a plurality of weights each for another of the plurality of text segments, calculating a prevalence of a co-appearance of each of a plurality of pairs of terms in the plurality of text segments, and evaluating a semantic relatedness between members of each the pair according to a combination of a respective the prevalence and a weight of each of the plurality of text segments wherein a co-appearance of the pair occurs. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185308 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTION OF OFF-TOPIC PART FROM CONVERSATION - A system and method extract off-topic parts from a conversation. The system includes a first corpus including documents of a plurality of fields; a second corpus including only documents of a field to which the conversation belongs; a determination means for determination as a lower limit subject word a word for which IDF value for the first corpus and IDF value for the second corpus are each below a first certain threshold value; a score calculation part for calculation as a score a TF-IDF value for each word included in the second corpus; a clipping part, for sequential cutting out of intervals from text data that are contents of the conversation; and an extraction part for extraction as an off-topic part an interval where average value of the score of words included in the clipped interval is larger than a second certain threshold value. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185309 | DATA QUALITY ANALYSIS - The present subject matter relates to systems and methods for determining quality of data. In one implementation, the method comprises identifying at least one column of the data repository based on an importance index associated with the at least one column, wherein the importance index is indicative of the criticality of the data stored in the at least one column; and retrieving at least one data quality analysis rule associated with the at least one column. The method further comprises assigning a rule weightage parameter to each of the at least one data quality analysis rule and a column weightage parameter to each of the identified columns and analyzing the data stored in the identified columns based on the at least one data quality analysis rule. Based in part on the analysis a data quality score, indicative of the quality of data stored in the data repository is computed. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185310 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HUMAN JOINT TREATMENT PLAN AND PERSONALIZED SURGERY PLANNING USING 3-D KINEMATICS, FUSION IMAGING AND SIMULATION - The present document describes a method for producing a knee joint treatment plan and/or surgery plan for a patient, the method comprising: obtaining 3D kinematic data of the knee joint in movement; determining, from the 3D kinematic data, scores characterising the joint function of the patient, the one or more scores being relative to one or more criteria; and comparing the scores to data in a database which characterize a plurality of treatment plans and/or surgery plans to generate the list of one or more treatment plans and/or surgery plans which match the scores. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185311 | EMAIL SUGGESTOR SYSTEM - The email suggestor system and method provide an efficient and effective way to capture a user identifier, such as an email address of a consumer in a retail environment. The email suggestor system generates one or more suggested first text portions based on input data, outputs at least one of the suggested first text portions, and receives a selection of a first text portion. The email suggestor system generates one or more suggested second text portions of a user identifier based on the input data, outputs at least one of the suggested second text portions, and receives a selection of a second text portion. The email suggestor system generates a user identifier including the selected first text portion and the selected second text portion. The email suggestor system uses received feedback response to refine and/or train one or more models with which it generates the suggested text portions. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185312 | GENERATING SIMULATED CONTAINMENT REPORTS OF DYNAMICALLY ASSEMBLED COMPONENTS IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) uses a simulated containment report generation mechanism to generate a simulated containment report for elements in the repository based on logged properties that represent potential use of the element during dynamic content delivery that are not represented in formal relationships in the content management system. Properties such as probability, popularity, and recent usage that are not explicit relationships between parent documents and child elements are logged and used to determine which document maps may potentially reuse a selected element. In this manner a simulated containment report can be created for an element that allows the user to see the document maps that are most likely to include the element. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185313 | GENERATING SIMULATED CONTAINMENT REPORTS OF DYNAMICALLY ASSEMBLED COMPONENTS IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A content management system (CMS) uses a simulated containment report generation mechanism to generate a simulated containment report for elements in the repository based on logged properties that represent potential use of the element during dynamic content delivery that are not represented in formal relationships in the content management system. Properties such as probability, popularity, and recent usage that are not explicit relationships between parent documents and child elements are logged and used to determine which document maps may potentially reuse a selected element. In this manner a simulated containment report can be created for an element that allows the user to see the document maps that are most likely to include the element. | 07-18-2013 |
20130191397 | LOCATION BASED APPS RANKING FOR MOBILE WIRELESS COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATING DEVICES - Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for presenting applications to a user, via a mobile wireless communication device (user equipment), that are selected and ranked based on context information describing a location and type of motion of the user equipment, and/or a time that the ranking request was made, compared to context information describing the applications. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191398 | Method And System For Identifying And Accessing Multimedia Content - Methods, systems, and subsystems for identifying and accessing multimedia content are provided. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed for identifying and accessing video files from a network based on information about contents of the video files. The system includes instructions stored on computer readable media, and the instructions perform the following steps when executed by a processor: (a) automatically entering subject matter data from the network into an encyclopedic database; (b) automatically distilling data from the encyclopedic database to create a user library content file; (c) allowing multiple clients to search data in the user library content file to identify at least one video file on the network and to access the at least one video file on the network using at least one reference file; (d) restricting the clients from accessing the encyclopedic database; and (e) restricting search results based on profile settings for each of the clients. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191399 | System and Method for Content Distribution - A system and method that selects content data from a set of content data for broadcast is provided. The system includes a content database that stores the set of content data therein, the set of content data including a plurality of content data files, each of the respective content data files being provided by a respective user. A communication interface receives ranking data from users for content data files within the set of content data. A control processor is coupled to the communication interface and generates an aggregate content rank for each of the content data files based on the ranking data received by the communication interface and selects a subset of content data files from the content database having the greatest aggregate content rank for inclusion in a broadcast playlist. A broadcaster broadcasts the subset of content data files in the broadcast playlist based on the aggregate content rank. | 07-25-2013 |
20130198203 | Bot detection using profile-based filtration - Methods and apparatus for bot detection using profile based filtration are disclosed. A statistical profile describing attributes of automated-origin content request activity for a network content provider is built. A plurality of content requests of unknown origin in terms of similarity to the attributes is scored. A likelihood of automated-origin content request activity based on the scoring is indicated. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198204 | SYSTEM AND METHOD DETERMINING ONLINE SIGNIFICANCE OF CONTENT ITEMS AND TOPICS USING SOCIAL MEDIA - A set of content items is identified that is relevant to a topic. The communications provided with a plurality of social networking mediums are processed to identify individual communications that reference content items from the set. A score is determined for each of the one or more content items. The score of each of the one or more content items can be based at least in part on a number of instances in which that content item is referenced by the communications of the social networking mediums. A presentation can be provided that identifies a plurality of content items, as well as the score for each of the plurality of content items. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198205 | DYNAMIC INFLUENCE TRACKING ENGINE AND METHOD - An engine and method for tracking the influence of an entity operating within a social network are presented. A query containing social network content is received. A database for entries referencing the social network content is searched, and interactions between an entity participating within the social network and the social network content are identified. A dynamic interaction network (DIN) of a plurality of the entities is identified and a dynamic influence score for an entity in the query specific DIN is calculated. | 08-01-2013 |
20130204880 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LIST FILTERING BASED ON KNOWN ENTITY MATCHING - Methods and systems are disclosed for implementing data matching techniques. In some embodiments, methods and systems may be implemented for filtering a received record associated with at least one record attribute against an entity record. The methods and systems comprise, for example, applying a record attribute weight to the at least one record attribute associated with the received record, performing at least one matching technique that compares the at least one record attribute of the received record against the entity record, wherein the at least one matching technique is associated with a corresponding matching technique multiplier, calculating a matching score based on a result of the at least one matching technique and the multiplier associated with the at least one matching technique, and comparing the matching score to a threshold to determine whether the received record represents a suspect entity. | 08-08-2013 |
20130212113 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AUTOMATED TAGS FOR VIDEO FILES - Techniques for generating automated tags for a video file are described. The method includes receiving one or more manually generated tags associated with a video file, based at least in part on the one or more manually entered tags, determining a preliminary category for the video file, and based on the preliminary category, generating a targeted transcript of the video file, wherein the targeted transcript includes a plurality of words. The method further includes generating an ontology of the plurality of words based on the targeted transcript, ranking the plurality of words in the ontology based on a plurality of scoring factors, and based on the ranking of the plurality of words, generating one or more automated tags associated with the video file. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212114 | Academic Activity Stream - A method and computer-readable medium for generating an activity stream is provided. The activity stream includes a ranked set of objects that are presented to one or more users. The ranking of objects is updated to reflect events associated with objects. | 08-15-2013 |
20130218902 | SHARED DIRECTORY SYSTEM - A directory system aggregates and synchronizes contact information across users, devices, and services. The directory system may aggregate contact information globally or across groups or organizations. The directory system may synchronize contact information for different users and resolve conflicts between inconsistent entries for a given entity. The directory system also may provide user-customized views of aggregated and synchronized contact information and list search results according to different attributes or based on relationships the search results may have with the user performing the search. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218903 | PROGRAM ANALYSIS APPARATUS, PROGRAM ANALYSIS METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - It is to provide: a generation unit configured to generate one or more reference relationship pairs with reference certainty information of “uncertainty” as presentation information based on first reference relationship information showing whether it is “certain” for the reference data to refer the referenced data or it is “uncertain” for the reference data to refer the referenced data, every reference relationship pair formed with reference data and referenced data; and a conversion unit configured to convert the first reference relationship information into second reference relationship information using an input of a reference relationship for presentation information and reference dependence relationship information showing a dependence relationship between reference relationship pairs. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218904 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFERRING REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS FROM A CONTACT DATABASE - A system and method for inferring reporting relationships from contact records. Contact records from a single company are identified, and each record is ranked based on the title. A probabilistic analysis is used to compare the number of contacts on the current level with the number of contacts on a lower level, and make a guess as to reporting relationships between contacts on the different levels. If a confidence score of a guessed reporting relationship is high enough, the reporting relationship is accepted, and contact records updated. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218905 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION FOR GROUPS - A method and apparatus for joint profiling for identifying one or more common interests of members of a group and recommending items accordingly. The method comprises receiving a user profile for each member, the user profile comprising a set of one or more topics of interest to that member; automatically mapping at least one topic from each of the profiles to a concept; deriving a group profile, in dependence upon the concepts and the topics; and generating a list of recommended items for the group based on the group profile. Also presented is a method and apparatus for joint profiling wherein a joint weight for each topic is calculated by: for each user, calculating the reciprocal of a weight associated with the topic for that user; calculating the sum of the resulting reciprocals; and calculating the joint weight as the reciprocal of the resulting sum. | 08-22-2013 |
20130226933 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING AND RANKING NEWSWORTHINESS - A system and method for determining a newsworthiness score for a news story, including the steps of receiving data describing a news story from a client, comparing the data describing the news story to a set of pre-determined factors, locating the factors that are present on the set of pre-determined factors in the data, adding pre-calculated values to a running total, the newsworthiness score, for each factor found in the data. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226934 | Efficient Electronic Document Ranking For Internet Resources in Sub-linear Time - The subject disclosure is directed towards ranking electronic documents in sub-linear time complexity. An advertising provider may perform such a ranking in order to identify one or more electronic document to advertise a product or service. A ranking mechanism may execute a number of random walks around the Internet by navigating the electronic documents via embedded links from a starting document and an ending document that are within a pre-determined distance. After finishing the random walks, an estimate of rank contribution information associated with each electronic document is provided. The estimated rank contribution information is used to determine an exposure level with respect to a network for one or more of the electronic documents. The exposure value of an example electronic document may correspond to a ranking value that may be computed using a sample of the rank contribution information related to that document. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226935 | Context-based Search Query Formation - Searching is assisted by recognizing a selection of text from a document as an indication that a user wishes to initiate a search based on the selected text. The user is provided with query suggestions based on the selected text and the query suggestions are ranked based on a context provided by the document. The user may select the text by using a mouse, drawing a circle around the text on a touch screen, or by other input techniques. The query suggestions may be based on query reformulation or query expansion techniques applied to the selected text. Context provided by the document is used by a language model and/or an artificial intelligence system to rank the query suggestions in predicted order of relevance based on the selected text and the context. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226936 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING RELATED TERMS - In a method for searching for related terms, one or more query terms are received from a client computer. The method determines hyponym terms of each query term, merges all the hyponym terms of the query terms into a set of the hyponym terms, and calculates a weight factor of each hyponym term in the set of the hyponym terms. The method further determines a specified number of hyponym terms according to the weight factor of each hyponym term, adds the determined hyponym terms into related terms of the query terms, and performs a search operation based on the hyponym terms of the query terms, the related terms of the query terms, and the query terms. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226937 | Matching a First Location Profile with at Least One Other Location Profile | 08-29-2013 |
20130238633 | EVALUATING AN ITEM BASED ON USER REPUTATION INFORMATION - Evaluating an item based on user reputation information is disclosed. Sharing event data is received. A graph is materialized from the received sharing event data. User reputation scores are determined based at least in part on the graph. A score is assigned to the item based at least in part on the user reputation scores of users associated with the item. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238634 | EVALUATING AN ITEM BASED ON USER REPUTATION INFORMATION - Evaluating an item based on user reputation information is disclosed. Sharing event data is received. A graph is materialized from the received sharing event data. User reputation scores are determined based at least in part on the graph. A score is assigned to the item based at least in part on the user reputation scores of users associated with the item. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238635 | DYNAMIC SUBMISSION AND PREFERENCE INDICATOR - Indicating preference for a content contribution is disclosed. A request for information associated with the content contribution is received from a first entity. The status of the content contribution is determined. A response is provided to the first entity. Determining the status of the content contribution includes determining whether a submission of the content contribution was previously received. | 09-12-2013 |
20130246439 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING AN INFORMATION SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method and system for ranking information in an information system comprising linked objects is disclosed. The computer-implemented method comprises computing a prior ranking of all objects in the linked database, obtaining at least one source object, determining the probability of reaching an object taking a step in random walk with restart in the at least one source object(s) based on the adjacency between objects in the information system, and determining a ranking of objects in the information system using the determined probability and applying a correction factor inversely proportional with the computed prior ranking of the objects. An output based on the determined ranking is provided. The present invention also relates to a computer-implemented method and system for providing probable functional relations between at least one source object and a target object, as well as computer-related products therefor. | 09-19-2013 |
20130254213 | TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTIFYING AND PRESENTING CONNECTION PATHS - Techniques for analyzing a social graph of a social network service to identify and then present connection paths connecting various entities are described. With some embodiments, subsequent to a user selecting or otherwise identifying two entities represented as nodes in a social graph, the social graph is analyzed to identify connection paths connecting the nodes representing the two entities. The social graph is implemented with a graph data structure having nodes and edges representing entities and associations between entities, respectively. With some embodiments, the nodes represent people, companies, educational institutions (e.g., schools, universities, etc.), and groups. After identifying the connection paths, the connection path or paths having the highest path scores, as derived by aggregating edge scores assigned to the edges, may be presented. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254214 | People Engine Optimization - Some embodiments promote website credibility and the optimization of websites for people by automatedly quantifying various elements of a website into component credibility scores. In some embodiments, a set of encoded credibility scoring rules are used to compute each of the component credibility scores, wherein the credibility scoring rules are derived based on factors that have been identified by a grouping of people that preferably represent a primary demographic of users that consume the content of a particular classified type of website. In some such embodiments, the credibility scoring rules are derived from commonality that is identified from a sample set of known credible and/or non-credible websites of a particular classification. Once the credibility scoring rules are defined, the system applies the rules to other websites having the same classification as those from which the rules are derived to automatically generate credibility scores for the other websites. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254215 | Supplementing User Web-Browsing - An apparatus and method of providing a user with a web-browser supplement is disclosed. One method includes providing access to a focal group, wherein the focal group includes at least one member having at least one association with the user. Access is provided to information associated with the at least one member having relevance to the focal group. Web browsing by the user is supplemented by the information of the members of the focal group. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262473 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR REVIEWING FILE MANAGEMENT - Systems, apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture provide for reviewing the management of one or more business files. According to some embodiments, methods may include determining a plurality of file review criteria, determining a plurality of file review questions, determining a respective maximum potential review score for each file review question, determining respective responses for the file review questions, adjusting (if necessary) one or more of the maximum potential review scores, and/or determining at least one review score for each file review question answered. Some embodiments may provide for determining a respective review score for a file for each of one or more predetermined file review criteria. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262474 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FACILITATING LOCATION AND RETRIEVAL OF HEALTH INFORMTION IN A HEALTHCARE SYSTEM - An apparatus is provided for retrieving information associated with one or more patients. The apparatus includes at least one memory and at least one processor configured to receive queries from devices of health care systems. The queries include data requesting information associated with patients that corresponds to specified items of information indicated in the queries. The queries also indicate a predetermined threshold to determine whether the requested information corresponds to respective patients. The processor is further configured to analyze stored patient information to determine items of the patient information that correspond to the specified items of the information. The processor is further configured to detect a subset of the items of the patient information related to health data that is determined to correspond to a respective patient(s) based on a determined value that equals or exceeds the predetermined threshold. Corresponding computer program products and methods are also provided. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262475 | Prioritizing Tasks - Techniques for providing a prioritized task list to a mobile device including identifying a user profile in a portal that includes one or more associations between the user profile, associated with a user, and one or more content sources; comparing, for each task of one or more tasks, the content source associated with the task and the associations stored by the user profile, the content sources providing the tasks; ranking, based on the comparison, the tasks to define a ranked list of tasks; and preparing a subset of the ranked list of tasks for display on the mobile device. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262476 | Prioritizing Feed Content - Techniques for providing prioritized content to a mobile device include detecting, for each feed of a number of feeds delivered to the mobile device through a portal, one or more associated tags, each tag comprising a keyword; comparing the one or more tags associated with the feeds to one or more properties associated with a user profile of a user in the portal; ranking, based on the comparison, the feeds to define a ranked list of feeds; and preparing a subset of the ranked list of feeds for display on the mobile device. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262477 | USING OBSERVATIONS OF A PERSON TO DETERMINE IF DATA CORRESPONDS TO THE PERSON - Systems and methods to store data obtained from observations and to determine a correspondence of certain data to a particular person. In one approach, a method includes: receiving or making a plurality of observations for a person (e.g., data extracted from e-mails sent to the person); storing the observations in a repository (e.g., a database on a server); and determining whether data in a first observation of the observations corresponds to the person, wherein the determining is based on the plurality of observations. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262478 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING ITEMS - Recommending one or more items among a plurality of items to a first user by generating a weighted data set by applying a weight factor to each of a plurality of user event data sets each derived from a previous user event of a second user of the recommendation system. Each of the user event data sets includes a user identifier of the second user, an item identifier of an item involved in the previous user event, and time information regarding a time of the previous user event. The weight factor is derived from the time information of the corresponding previous user event. One or more recommended items are determined based on an algorithm using the weighted data set. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262479 | POINTS OF INTEREST (POI) RANKING BASED ON MOBILE USER RELATED DATA - Methods, systems and apparatus for ranking potential points of interest (POIs) of a user stay are disclosed. One system includes an upstream server connected through a network to a mobile device. At least one of the upstream server and a controller of the mobile device is operative to estimate a location of a user stay of the mobile device, access a database of POIs, and parameters of the POIs, and generate a ranking score for a plurality of POIs based on a weighted comparison of each of the parameters of the POIs with corresponding parameters of the user stay. | 10-03-2013 |
20130268539 | INHERITED USER RATING - A method, a computer-readable medium, and an online system for determining ratings of users of the online system. The online system enables each user to directly assign rating scores to other users of the online system and to assign rating scores to content items created by other users. The method comprises retrieving a first score indicative of rating scores directly assigned to a user of the online system by other users of the online system; retrieving a second score indicative of rating scores assigned to content items by other users of the online system, wherein the content items are created by the user; and determining a rating of the user based on the first and second scores. Each content item created by the user represents one of an online content published by the user in the online system and an activity initiated by the user within the online system. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268540 | BIASING GEOCODING OF QUERIES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a search query originating from a user device, the search query including a geographic feature name; receiving data identifying one or more candidate point-of-interests, each candidate point-of-interest comprising data that identifies a corresponding candidate geographic entity, each candidate point-of-interest having an initial relevance score; generating one or more biasing boxes, wherein each biasing box defines a geographic region, and each biasing box is defined based on location information associated with the user device or a user using the user device; using the biasing boxes to generate respective adjusted relevance scores for the candidate point-of-interests; selecting a point-of-interest from the one or more candidate point-of-interests according to the respective adjusted relevance scores of the candidate point-of-interests; and using the selected point-of-interest to identify a location relevant to the search query. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268541 | Learning Measurement and Analyzer Method - A method for measuring the student learning by utilizing accuracy of a response, time taken to respond and utilization of help feature on a website. The website presents to the students a range of predefined set of questions that are associated with a concept being learned by the student and is the subject of learning measurement. The student has an option of utilizing one or more help features before answering. The method utilizes monitoring the accuracy, time taken to respond and the help features utilized to generate a score for student and provides a set of analytics to teacher/course administrator to measure the student learning as well as effectiveness of the content. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268542 | Searching and Storing Data in a Database - Nodes in a tree data structure are associated with respective node keys. At least some of the nodes are associated with at least one respective node rank. The structure is searched to attempt to identify a preferred prefix-matching node on the basis of attempting to find a prefix-matching node that has a prefix match with a search key and which has a preferred node rank relative to a node rank associated with a node which may have a longer prefix match. If the prefix-matching node is identified, a dependent node rank identifier associated with the prefix-matching node is used to determine that the prefix-matching node has the preferred node rank. The dependent node rank identifier indicates at least a node rank of a node which may have a longer prefix match than the prefix-matching node. The prefix-matching node is selected, if identified, as a preferred prefix-matching node. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268543 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING CONTENT - A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product provide the ability to recommend content to a particular user. Two content recommendation techniques are implemented and generated different content recommendation scores that are relative to a particular piece of content and the particular user. The two scores are reconciled to generate an overall content recommendation score for the particular piece of content and the particular user. | 10-10-2013 |
20130275437 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CRAWLING A WEBSITE BASED ON A SCHEME OF THE WEBSITE - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for crawling a website based on a scheme of the website. In use, a difference between a first content and second content of a website is identified. Additionally, a scheme of the website is identified based on the difference. Furthermore, the website is crawled based on the scheme. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275438 | DISAMBIGUATING AUTHORS IN SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS - A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for mapping authors across multiple forums. The method includes creating a database that contains publicly observable information pertaining to multiple authors from multiple forums, generating a mapping between at least a first one of the authors from one of the forums and at least a second one of the authors from another of the forums in the database based on a comparison of structured information, unstructured user generated content information and network information, and generating a score of mapping between the first and the second authors by considering a weighted sum of the number of times the structured information, the unstructured user generated content information and the network information match between the first and the second authors. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275439 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING NUTRITIONAL SUBSTANCES TO INDICATE ADULTERATION - An information system for nutritional substances obtains information regarding a nutritional substance from the creation of the nutritional substance, the preservation of the nutritional substance, the transformation of the nutritional substance, the conditioning of the nutritional substance, and the consumption of the nutritional substances. The information system stores and provides this information to the various constituents of the nutritional substance supply system. Of particular interest is adulteration with horsemeat, and provisions are described for determining, monitoring and alerting based on detection of such adulteration. | 10-17-2013 |
20130282733 | PROFILE NOISE ANONYMITY FOR MOBILE USERS - Embodiments are directed towards collecting, aggregating and indexing unique and non-unique user data from a plurality of users. The result for a query of this indexed aggregation of user data is provided in a plurality of sub-sets of aggregated user data. Each subset of aggregated user data corresponds to a particular portion of the plurality of users. Also, each of these particular portions of the users is set at least large enough to provide general anonymity for the individual users. User data may be collected by one or more user data suppliers and provided to a user data aggregator. In some embodiments, user data may be collected as unique user data, non-unique user data, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, user data may be aggregated by zip code, expanded zip code, and/or one or more attributes. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282734 | PREDICTIVE CONVERSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The item can be included in a category of items. Information for other relevant items of the category is available through network query and historical data, among others. Respective information for the other items of the category is available to the method. The system and method includes discovering available information of the item of interest, extracting certain of the available information of the item, analyzing the certain information for the item by comparing the information to other item information for the category of items, weighting the information for the commercial item in comparison to other items of the category, calculating a predictive score for the commercial item of interest, and presenting the information of the commercial item of interest ranked according to the predictive score as compared to other items of the category. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282735 | SYSTEM FOR COMPUTERIZED EVALUATION OF PATENT-RELATED INFORMATION - A computerized reference analysis tool utilizes a prior art reference collection process to create a relatively smaller set of relevant references, together with a computerized reference ranking engine that ranks the set of harvested references for relevance with respect to the entirety of a claim set for a patent or patent application. The results of the computerized reference analysis tool harvesting and ranking this smaller set of prior art references can be presented to a user as an aggregated relevance listing, together with a visually or graphically displayed representation of the relevance ranking of the prior art references relative to individual claims and/or to individual claim elements. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290347 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING DATA-DRIVEN DOCUMENT SUGGESTIONS - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing at least one document suggestion from a computer system using at least one information source, the method comprising storing in the information source a plurality of associations, each of which includes a numeric coefficient that corresponds to at least one action of a user and at least one document; receiving a triggering action related to the at least one action of the user; comparing the numeric coefficients stored in the information source with a suggestion threshold based on the triggering action; and for each numeric coefficient that exceeds the suggestion threshold, identifying the corresponding at least one document as a suggested document. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290348 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CHARACTERIZING AN INDIVIDUAL BASED ON MUSICAL PREFERENCES - Each of a plurality of media clips accessed by a user is scored by analyzing metadata associated with the media clips. A representative subset of the media clips is selected based on the scoring. A visual representation of the representative subset of the media clips is displayed. | 10-31-2013 |
20130297617 | Enhancing Enterprise Service Design Knowledge Using Ontology-based Clustering - Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for extending a knowledge base, implementations including receiving an enterprise service signature (ESS) associated with an enterprise service (ES), the ESS being stored in a computer-readable repository, segmenting the ESS to provide a segmented ESS, identifying one or more unknown terms from the segmented ESS, determining that at least one unknown term of the one or more unknown terms comprises at least one of a specialization and a new entity, and extending the knowledge base in view of the at least one of the specialization and the new entity. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297618 | SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE - A social intelligence system is presented that streams information from a source, queues the streamed information, analyzes/scores the queued data, and stores the analyzed/scored data in an analysis database. The analyzed/scored data can then be retrieved from the database for post-processing and stored in a client specific database for further reporting. By streaming the data into various message queues and scoring the data before storing in the analysis database, large volumes of data can be efficiently processed and analyzed for a particular person and/or entity. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297619 | SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILING - A system is presented that profiles authors and social media data across different media platforms and is capable of determining the author's overall social impact. In one aspect, this is accomplished by using a data retrieval service to trawl various web-sites and social media platforms for information about authors which can then be associated with those authors in a profile database. In one example, an author may post an entry on his/her blog and the data retrieval service can access the profile information of the author, on the blog, where various aspects of the profile information (e.g., real name, employee information, home address) can be matched with candidates in a profile database. From the information gathered, authors can be linked across multiple, different platforms, and an overall social impact of each of the authors can be determined. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297620 | System and Method for Evaluating Scholarly Productivity - The present invention is directed to a method whereby scholarly activities of graduate students, including medical school residents, can be objectively evaluated. Using the present invention, research activities can be converted into scholarly activity points that are then weighted to reflect the degree of challenge and investment in the scholarly activity. A website interface is utilized by participants to enter scholarly activities. This data can be used and manipulated for multiple purposes, not limited to ratings, rankings, and comparisons. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297621 | DECOMPOSABLE RANKING FOR EFFICIENT PRECOMPUTING - Methods and computer storage media are provided for generating an algorithm used to provide preliminary rankings to candidate documents. A final ranking function that provides final rankings for documents is analyzed to identify potential preliminary ranking features, such as static ranking features that are query independent and dynamic atom-isolated components that are related to a single atom. Preliminary ranking features are selected from the potential preliminary ranking features based on many factors. Using these selected features, an algorithm is generated to provide a preliminary ranking to the candidate documents before the most relevant documents are passed to the final ranking stage. | 11-07-2013 |
20130304747 | CHARACTERISTIC-BASED SELECTION IN A NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention relate to an approach for characteristic-based (e.g., color) selection of items (e.g., clothing) in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment). Specifically, at least one computer storage device will be populated with a first set of items. The first set of items may be associated in the at least one computer storage device with a first set of corresponding characteristics. A computer data structure may then be generated that comprises compatibility scores of the first set of items to one another. A second set of items may then be received in the at least one computer storage device. The second set of items may also be accompanied by a second set of corresponding characteristics. A set of matches between the first set of items and the second set of items may then be generated according to one or more criteria. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304748 | SELECTION AND DELIVERY OF INVITATIONAL CONTENT BASED ON PREDICTION OF USER INTEREST - Systems and methods are provided for selecting invitational content for users based on their short-term and their long-term features. In operation, responsive to a request from a user terminal for a content package a journal of events associated with a user. Thereafter, short-term and long-term features in the journal are identified and tagged with pre-defined tags indicating a type of content associated with the patterns. The tags are then used to select invitational content by selecting content based on tags for the identified short-term features associated with a threshold level of activity or tags for the identified long-term features. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304749 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED SELECTION OF INTERSTING CONTENT FOR PRESENTATION TO FIRST TIME VISITORS OF A WEBSITE - Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for automatically identifying content that may be interesting visitors of a website in the absence of any information on the visitors interest or preferences. | 11-14-2013 |
20130311483 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCURATE MEDICAL-CODE TRANSLATION - The current application is directed to methods and systems for translation of medical codes, including translation of codewords from one medical-concept code to another. The method and systems to which the current application is directed employ a multi-step translation process to translate a source codeword to a corresponding target codeword, associating the source codeword with underlying medical concepts which are, in turn, used to identify candidate target codewords of another medical-concept code. A variety of different weighting-based and filter-like criteria are then employed to select a target codeword from the candidate target codeword. The methods and systems to which the current application is directed provide for more accurate and reliable translations than would be obtained using naive, simple table-based translation. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311484 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL CREDIT SCORING - A method for calculating a social credit score based on online activity of a user is provided. Online activity may be monitored and processed to calculate an indicant of user activity and its influence on other users to obtain a social credit score of the user. Social credit scores may be used to stimulate users to be more active in their online socializing, share their content, and provide information. Social credit scores may be a source of information for advertisers, employers, bankers, and others. Information on social credit scores may be analyzed to determine users with high scores to distinguish top score users and mark them with special prizes, titles, or symbols. Additionally, a list of top scorers may be published via a social networking engine or otherwise as an additional factor of stimulation for other users. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311485 | METHOD AND SYSTEM RELATING TO SENTIMENT ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC CONTENT - Users receive information which must be filtered, processed, analysed, reviewed, consolidated and distributed or acted upon. Prior art tools automatically processing content to assign sentiment to the content are ineffective as essential aspects such as context are not considered. Embodiments of the invention provide automatic contextual based sentiment classification of content in terms of both sentiments expressed and their intensity. Further a content set is analysed to rapidly establish an “at-a-glance” type assessment of the key topics/themes present within the content set and sentimentally annotate each. Importantly embodiments of the invention also provide for a user to establish the basis for the sentiment associated with an item of or set of content, i.e. make it explainable. Further embodiments of the invention provide for the establishment of psychological tone to sentiments where the sentiments and psychological tones to be tuned from the context or domain of the content. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311486 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AUTOMATED SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENTS - Systems and methods of generating automated social interactions for users in a social networking environment are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of receiving data items associated with users of a social network, identifying sets of data items associated with a user, and comparing a first set of data items to other sets of data items to identify commonalities between the first set of data items and the other sets of data items. The method further comprising automatically selecting a second user associated with a second set of data items and a first electronic social interaction for the first user to pursue with respect to the second user based on the identified commonalities between the first set of data items and the second set of data items. | 11-21-2013 |
20130318098 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ANALYZE EMAIL ADDRESSES - Website and newsletter operators may only have users' email addresses but not their person names. It can be beneficial for such operators to derive additional information about the email address owners so they can improve their services. However, there is no easy way to retrieve owners' information based on only email addresses. The present disclosure provides information such as the owners' names, professional profiles and aggregated statistics with only a list of email addresses as the input. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318099 | COMMENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND A METHOD AND A PROGRAM FOR OPERATING THE COMMENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - In the conventional technology, a flag, which is for processing non-display of a certain comment according to existence or number of counts of deletion requests, is given to the comment in server side and distributed to the respective terminals. Therefore, there is a deficiency that comments with flags are not displayed in all users' terminals without exception. In order to solve the above deficiency, the present invention provides a comment distribution system, where a score is given to a comment to be distributed, the score is reduced in the distribution server according to registrations of inappropriate word from users as viewers, and a threshold is given with respect to each reproduction terminal and the score and the threshold are compared, thereby determining whether the comment is reproduced. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318100 | Method and Apparatus for Maintaining and Navigating a Non-Hierarchical Personal Spatial File System - A self-organizing personal file system is disclosed that evaluates the “importance” of terms and phrases in a document in a personal corpus relative to usage in a reference corpus. A personalized term weighting scheme assigns a weight to terms or phrases based on the frequency of occurrence of the corresponding term or phrase in a reference corpus. Documents are positioned in a visual file space associated with a personal corpus by storing each of the documents with an indication of the term weight for terms appearing in the corresponding document. A singular value decomposition is performed based on the term weights to position a given document in the visual file space based on a relative frequency distribution of terms of the document compared to the occurrence of such terms in a reference corpus. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318101 | PRODUCT SEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present application relate to a search method, a system for searching, and a computer program product for searching. A search method is provided. The method includes receiving a query word string, retrieving a plurality of various product information entries related to the query word string, extracting, from a memory, a first core product word from the query word string, extracting, from the memory, second core product words from the various product information entries, for each second core product word, checking a list of candidate product words relating to a key product word for a presence of the each second core product word, in the event that the each second core product word is present, reducing a weighting of the product information entry corresponding to the each second core product word, and sorting the product information entries according to the adjusted weightings of the product information entries. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318102 | Data Handling in a Cloud Computing Environment - The present invention relates to a method for data handling in a computing environment. A data access request is generated to access data by a requesting VM. VMs of an ordered list are sequentially checked for data cache hit corresponding to the data in an order given by a ranking. The data is read from the checked VM in response to at least one data cache hit of a checked VM being found, and thereafter a ranking value of the checked VM is updated, thereby updating ranking based on the ranking value. The data is requested from the at least one storage server in response to no data cache hot being found. | 11-28-2013 |
20130325875 | Systems and Methods for Delivering Tailored Content Based Upon a Consumer Profile - The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for aggregating a consumer profile, identifying tailored content (e.g., in response to a trigger event and/or based upon a consumer profile), and/or tailoring a digital destination. For example, the systems may receive direct data indicating an interest in receiving specific content, aggregate that data into a consumer profile, compare the consumer profile to content, and/or identify tailored content based upon the comparison. Further, the systems may communicate the tailored content to a web client associated with a consumer, receive a transaction request from a web client, and/or receive bids associated with tailored content. In addition, these systems may prioritize tailored content comprising a plurality of tailored offers and/or forecast a budget for an upcoming experience. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325876 | METHOD OF RANKING AND DISPLAYING CERTIFIED CONTENT - A method of displaying and ranking certified and user-generated content from an individual user against content from other users. The user is prompted to input user-generated information and various related information and at least one visual recording is received and associated to create a user single trophy entry in a remote database. The user single trophy entry is ranked relative to other trophy entries in the remote database, and is displayed with a determined rank. Overlay data may be automatically received and associated based on the user-generated information and the related information. To create certified user single trophy entries a list of certification partners may be displayed and used. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325877 | Uses Of Root Cause Analysis, Systems And Methods - Sentiment-based and root cause-based analysis and recommendation engines are presented. The engines are preferably capable of leveraging a sentiment root cause for multiple purposes including integration with CRM applications, guiding search results, or recommending changes to documents. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325878 | COMMUNITY PLANNING SYSTEM WITH SENSORS AND SOCIAL MEDIA - An interactive, computerized system for community planning includes one or more databases storing a computer-generated community plan and supporting data associated with a geographical area. The system includes sensors providing data related to the geographical area, and a feedback module configured to receive feedback from a plurality of persons or entities associated with the geographical area or the community plan. The feedback may comprise social media activity data collected from one or more social media outlets. The system includes a scoring module to determine scores related to criteria associated with the community plan based upon the sensor data and the activity data. The system is configured to utilize the scores in the development, implementation, maintenance, or control of the community plan. The system includes a notification module to transmit or display a notification upon the occurrence of a suggested change to the community plan or a trade specification. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325879 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING MEDIA PROGRAMS BASED ON CORRELATED USER FEEDBACK - A method and apparatus for recommending a media program of a set of media programs to a user of a set of users is disclosed. The method and apparatus computes a measure w | 12-05-2013 |
20130332468 | User Reputation in Social Network and eCommerce Rating Systems - A rating system provides a mechanism whereby users can submit objects to be rated (ROs), and whereby users can submit ratings (ARs) regarding the ROs of other users. In a first novel aspect, each AR is multiplied by a weighting factor to determine a corresponding effective rating (ER). The weighting factor that is used to determine an ER from an AR is a function of the reputation RP | 12-12-2013 |
20130332469 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND CONTENT REQUESTING TERMINAL - There is provided an information processing device including a recommender list obtaining unit obtaining a recommender list in which a recommender of content is associated with an evaluation score of the recommender for on a per-genre basis, a recommended content selecting unit selecting recommended content based on the recommender list, and a sending unit sending the recommended content. | 12-12-2013 |
20130339372 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXUAL RANKING OF INFORMATION FACETS - The present disclosure relates to a system and method for dynamic and contextual ranking of information facets of multi-dimensional data. In one embodiment, one or more information facets or dimensions are ranked based on the context of the user and state of the information being observed. The context of observer defines how the user attention will be distributed across multiple facets of information based on the intent, goal and responsibility. The state of the observer is represented by a User Attention vector that is computed offline for multiple users based on the profile of the users and stored in a directory. The state of the information being observed is defined by value or level of significance of various facets of information and is represented by Perspective of value vector (POV) that is computed independent of the users. | 12-19-2013 |
20130346420 | Method And System For Identifying Aberrant Wireless Behavior - A behavior analysis system analyzes large volumes of records that report on telecommunications events associated with wireless terminals. The behavior analysis system filters the large volume of available records based on investigation-specific rules, resulting in a set of candidate wireless terminals. The illustrative embodiment determines a pattern of behavior for each candidate. Each candidate is measured for how precisely it satisfies the investigation-specific rules. Each candidate is further analyzed for aberrations, if any, relative to the established pattern of behavior. An aberration tends to prove or disprove whether a candidate is more likely to be a true suspect in the given investigation. The illustrative embodiment ranks the set of candidates based on (i) a measure of how precisely each candidate wireless terminal satisfies the investigation-specific rule(s), and (ii) a measure of the aberration in behavior of each candidate wireless terminal relative to the respective pattern of behavior thereof. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346421 | TARGETED DISAMBIGUATION OF NAMED ENTITIES - A targeted disambiguation system is described herein which determines true mentions of a list of named entities in a collection of documents. The list of named entities is homogenous in the sense that the entities pertain to the same subject matter domain. The system determines the true mentions by leveraging the homogeneity in the list, and, more specifically by applying a context similarity hypothesis, a co-mention hypothesis, and an interdependency hypothesis. In one implementation, the system executes its analysis using a graph-based model. The system can operate without the existence of additional information regarding the entities in the list; nevertheless, if such information is available, the system can integrate it into its analysis. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346422 | DATA STORAGE, RETRIEVAL, MANIPULATION AND DISPLAY TOOLS ENABLING MULTIPLE HIERARCHICAL POINTS OF VIEW - Systems and methods for data storage, retrieval, manipulation and display provide search engines and computer-based research tools for enabling multiple hierarchical points of view. Category definitions in the hierarchical data structures can include lists of set members, like word arrays of set members, generative descriptions for determining set members, and fitness functions for determining fitness of a presented item for being a member of a set. Significance and interest values can be assigned to search categories to set threshold confidence levels for returning search results and for weighting the results, respectively. A user interface can present results in the form of browsing multiple hierarchical representations, wherein matching categories are differentiated from non-matching categories. Peer ratings can represent the ranking of search term results with relation to results using other search terms, providing an indication of the fitness of the search terms for returning satisfactory results. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346423 | Determining Location and Direction of Travel Using Map Vector Constraints - Systems, methods, and computer program products for determining the location and direction of travel of a mobile device using map vector constraints is disclosed. | 12-26-2013 |
20140006414 | Method and System of Location-Based Content Organization and Content Suggestions | 01-02-2014 |
20140006415 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING AND SHARING MEDIA | 01-02-2014 |
20140006416 | PROJECT RESOURCE COMPARISON VIEW | 01-02-2014 |
20140006417 | Method and Apparatus to Generate Ratings for a Tangible or Non-Tangible Object by Comparing Against Other Tangible or Non-Tangible Objects | 01-02-2014 |
20140006418 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANKING APPS IN THE WIDE-OPEN INTERNET | 01-02-2014 |
20140006419 | IDENTIFICATION OF NULL SETS IN A CONTEXT-BASED ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT SEARCH | 01-02-2014 |
20140006420 | PROVIDING STREAMS OF FILTERED PHOTOGRAPHS FOR USER CONSUMPTION | 01-02-2014 |
20140006421 | COLLABORATIVE FILTERING OF A GRAPH | 01-02-2014 |
20140006422 | ENTROPY-BASED MIXING AND PERSONALIZATION | 01-02-2014 |
20140012859 | PERSONALIZED DYNAMIC CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM - Methods and systems are disclosed for delivering content to users. In one embodiment, a computer system obtains text associated with a content item, where the text comprises: text from a transcript associated with a content item, when available; text from a web feed (e.g., an RSS feed, etc.) associated with the content item, when available; text from a webpage associated with the content item, when available; and text that is returned from a call to an application programming interface (API) of a provider of the content item, when available. The computer system then determines a set of entities based on the obtained text. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012860 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SORTING PHONEBOOK CONTACTS BASED ON CONTEXT WEIGHTAGE AND INCENTIVES - The method and system for sorting the phonebook contacts by finding the weight of contacts for each application based on contact incentives and sorting the applications by measuring the weight of the applications based on application incentives is provided. The contact incentives can be identified for each application and the method calculates weight of contacts for each application. The method identifies the application incentives, and calculates the weight of each application. Based on the weight of contacts and the weight of application, the method normalizes sorts the contacts in phonebook. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012861 | METHOD OF SCHEDULING AND DOCUMENTING EVENTS - A platform and method configured to display and rank trophy entries using a database and schedule and document events using a mobile device. Specifically, the platform is directed to a database for storing information, a ranking module for ranking information stored in the database, and an output module for outputting the information stored in the database to a social media user interface. The method is directed to displaying at least one individual page entry icon, prompting a user to selected an individual page entry icon, receiving the user's selection, displaying the user's selection, acquiring overlay data, and storing the overlay data in the memory storage of the mobile device. | 01-09-2014 |
20140019458 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A LOG PARSER GIVEN A SAMPLE LOG - An approach is presented for generating a log parser. A tokenized log comprising elements is generated by delimiting a sample log based on a token. Matches between elements and attributes of fields of the sample log are determined. Positions of the matched elements are determined. Based on the matches, a ranking of the token is determined, which indicates a first likelihood that the token is a delimiter that delimits parts of the sample log. Another ranking of another token is determined, which indicates a second likelihood that the other token is the delimiter. A parser is generated based on the positions, the matches and the token. Based on the first likelihood exceeding the second likelihood, a result of parsing the sample log using the parser is presented without presenting another result of parsing the log using another parser based on the other token. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019459 | Methods And Apparatus For Selecting Updates To Associated Records To Publish On An Information Feed In An On-Demand Database Service Environment - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for selecting updates to associated records to publish on an information feed in an on-demand database service environment. In one embodiment, one or more updates associated with a data record are stored in a database. One or more criteria are applied to the one or more updates to generate a score associated with each update. The score is compared with a designated threshold. When the score is identified as meeting or exceeding the designated threshold, the one or more updates are provided as one or more candidates for publication on an information feed associated with the data record, where the information feed is capable of being displayed on a display device. | 01-16-2014 |
20140025686 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING ORGANIZATIONAL HIERARCHY FROM BUSINESS CARD DATA - A system and method for determining organizational hierarchy from contact data. A phrase having multiple terms representing a job title is received and converted to lower case, then concatenated with a symbol to separate the terms. The phrase is compared to a training set of predefined normalized phrases representing known job titles. If a match is found, a data record is created or updated with organizational hierarchy information associated with the matched phrase in the training set. If a match is not found, a term is removed from the phrase and the comparison repeated. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025687 | Analyzing a report - A report analyzing system ( | 01-23-2014 |
20140025688 | DETERMINING, DISTINGUISHING AND VISUALIZING USERS' ENGAGEMENT WITH RESOURCES ON A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for displaying top fan status information relating to selected content in a social network. An item of content is selected in a social network application. An engagement score is determined for each of one or more first users. Each engagement score is based on interactions of each of the one or more first users with the selected item of content. A subset of the one or more first users that has interacted with the item of social content the most is identified and displayed. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032570 | Discriminative Learning Via Hierarchical Transformations - Techniques for discriminative learning via hierarchical transformations. A method includes obtaining a model of a first set of data, two or more data transformations, and a second set of data, evaluating the two or more data transformations to determine which data transformation will most effectively modify the second set of data to match the model, and selecting the data transformation that will most effectively modify the second set of data to match the model based on the evaluation. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032571 | Discriminative Learning Via Hierarchical Transformations - A system and an article of manufacture for discriminative learning via hierarchical transformations, which includes obtaining a model of a first set of data, two or more data transformations, and a second set of data, evaluating the two or more data transformations to determine which data transformation will most effectively modify the second set of data to match the model, and selecting the data transformation that will most effectively modify the second set of data to match the model based on the evaluation. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032572 | RECOMMENDATION AGENT USING A ROUTINE MODEL DETERMINED FROM MOBILE DEVICE DATA - A user's context history is analyzed to identify transitions between contexts therein. The identified transitions are used to build a routine model for the user. The routine model includes transition rules indicating a source context, a destination context, and, optionally, a probability that the user will transition from the source context to the destination context, based on the user's historical behavior. A customized recommendation agent for the user is built using the routine model. The customized recommendation agent selects recommendations from a corpus to present to the user, based on the routine model and the user's current or predicted future context. | 01-30-2014 |
20140040277 | PREDICTING SHARING ON A SOCIAL NETWORK - A non-transitory computer-readable storage device includes instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to calculate a score for an article, from a source, using the average number of times other articles belonging to the source were shared on a social network (“t-density”). The processor are further caused to predict, using the score, a number of times the article will be shared on the social network. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040278 | RATING ITEMS BASED ON PERFORMANCE OVER TIME - A process can establish respective ratings for items in a list by determining respective measurements of performance of the items during each of a series of time windows. For each of the items and each time window, the process can adjust the rating of an item using multiple adjustments that are respectively associated with competing items in the list. Each of the adjustments may depend on the rating of the item, the rating of the competing item, and whether the measurement of performance of the item is higher than the measurement of the performance of the competing item. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040279 | AUTOMATED DATA EXPLORATION - A method for automated data exploration including selecting a plurality of analytic flows from an analytic flow pattern, executing a task, wherein the task is tracked by the plurality of analytic flows, receiving feedback for each of the plurality of analytic flows, determining a performance score for each of the plurality of analytic flows, and adjusting the flow according to the performance score. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040280 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SIMILAR MEDIA OBJECTS - The systems and methods described create a mathematical representation of each of the media objects for which user ratings are known. The mathematical representations take into account the subjective rating value assigned by a user to the respective media object and the user that assigned the rating value. The media object with the mathematical representation closest to that of the seed media object is then selected as the most similar media object to the seed media object. In an embodiment, the mathematical representation is a vector representation in which each user is a different dimension and each user's rating value is the magnitude of the vector in that dimension. Similarity between two songs is determined by identifying the closest vectors to that of the seed song. Closeness may be determined by subtracting or by calculating the dot product of each of the vectors with that of the seed media object. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040281 | DISCOVERING AND RANKING TRENDING LINKS ABOUT TOPICS - A system and a method for discovering and ranking trending links about topics are presented. The method comprises steps of receiving a plurality of messages from a social networking server, identifying a plurality of trending objects from the plurality of messages, generating at least one trending score for each trending object of the trending objects, and presenting a list of the trending objects based on the trending scores. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040282 | SATELLITE SCHEDULING SYSTEM USING CROWD-SOURCED DATA - Examples of satellite scheduling systems are provided that use crowd-sourced data to generate image acquisition events for a network of imaging satellites. A crowd-sourcing system may utilize crowd-sourced data (e.g., messages generated by users of social network services) to determine events of interest and geographic locations of such events. Event data may then be used to create or update image acquisition tasks and/or task priorities which are automatically provided to a scheduling system to facilitate timely and responsive acquisition of overhead images of the geographic location of the event. The scheduling system can utilize a directed acyclic graph to increase or maximize a utilization function, which can lead to determination of optimal or near-optimal schedules in a relatively quick and efficient manner. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040283 | PREFETCHING RDF TRIPLE DATA - Query requests for RDF triples are obtained, wherein the query request(s) contain(s) at least one triple pattern; for each triple pattern, the corresponding elementary pattern is determined, and each triple pattern is converted to a weighted elementary pattern. The occurrence frequency of each elementary pattern is computed based on the weighted elementary patterns; at least one elementary pattern is chosen at least according to the occurrence frequency; and the RDF triples corresponding to the chosen at least elementary pattern are prefetched into the buffer. The corresponding apparatus is also provided. With the above method and apparatus, the frequently accessed RDF triples can be determined and prefetched into the buffer, which improves the query efficiency. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040284 | SELF-MONITORING OBJECT-ORIENTED APPLICATIONS - A computer-implemented method for monitoring an object-oriented application is disclosed. A transaction-representative-digraph is built based upon a real-time running of the application, and the digraph contains nodes of a plurality of replaceable classes. A key node is selected based upon invocation relationships between the nodes. A monitor program is instrumented at the selected key node. | 02-06-2014 |
20140046954 | SOFTWARE TOOL FOR CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DOCUMENT REFERENCE TEMPLATES - A software tool is described in which a document authentication software engine is tightly integrated with software for creating and managing reference templates for identifying different types of security documents, such as passports and driver's licenses. This integration allows an operator to test each individual change as a document reference template is being created to shorten the creation time and improve the accuracy of the template. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046955 | MEDIA CONTENT RECEIVING DEVICE AND DISTRIBUTION OF MEDIA CONTENT UTILIZING SOCIAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL CIRCLES - Devices and methods for receiving sections of media content and receiving ranked content and caching sections of content are disclosed herein. Media content can be received by a device and filtered as a function of relevance to user interest. In an aspect, the device can receive sections of the content ranked based at least in part on popularity and respective sections of the media content can be cached based on the ranking. In another aspect, the device can present subset of the cached media content sections to users belonging to social circle networks and social circles. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046956 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC ON-DEMAND CONTEXT SENSITIVE CLUSTER ANALYSIS - Embodiments of apparatus, systems and methods facilitate performing on-demand cluster analysis on a multi-dimensional data set comprising a plurality of dimension members. In some embodiments, the method comprises: selecting a subset of the plurality of dimension members based on a current context associated with the multi dimensional data set; computing a plurality of dimensional scores for a plurality of dimension members in the selected subset, wherein each dimensional score is associated with a distinct dimension member and measures the dimensional influence of the associated dimension member on a metric associated with the multi-dimensional data set; and ranking the plurality of dimension members in the selected subset based on the dimensional score. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046957 | Alerting Users to Items of Current Interest - Disseminating to a participant an indication that an item accessible by the participant via a network is of current interest is disclosed. An indication that the item is of current interest is received in real time. The indication is processed. The participant is informed that the item is of current interest. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046958 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods for content management are provided herein. In some instances, a method may include receiving content comprising end user opinions regarding third parties, calculating a score for each of the third parties from the end user opinions, the score representing whether the end user opinions are positive or negative, publishing a profile for a user to a first website if the score of the one or more third parties is determined to be positive, and publishing a profile for a user to a second website if the score of the one or more third parties is determined to be negative. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046959 | Labeling Samples in a Similarity Graph - Particular embodiments of a social-networking system maintain one or more data stores storing a social graph comprising user nodes, concept nodes, and edges connecting the nodes. Particular embodiments may determine a confidence score with respect to a user node and a concept node, wherein the confidence score is based at least in part on affinity scores associated with the edges along a sequence of nodes between the user node and the concept node in the social graph. The confidence score may be based on an overall probability that a random walk starting at the user node will end at the concept node. This overall probability may be determined by calculating, for each edge in the random walk, the probability of taking that edge during the random walk, based on the affinity score associated with that edge. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046960 | COMMUNITY AUTHORING CONTENT GENERATION AND NAVIGATION - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for creating socially authored, or community authored, summaries of documents and/or for navigating a forum comprising such summaries. In one embodiment, at least some of the summaries are generated automatically when a document is written and/or discovered (e.g., by a web crawler), for example. In another embodiment, the documents are created by users of the forum. A plurality of summaries of a document may be created (e.g., by different users), and users can provide feedback, such as comments or ratings, that may assist other users in identifying which summary or summaries better describe the document. Moreover, the users can navigate the forum and retrieve summaries by browsing categories (and subcategories) to identify a topic of interest and/or by performing a search based upon user inputted search term(s). | 02-13-2014 |
20140046961 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RE-RANKING DISPLAYED CONVERSATIONS - System and method for storing a plurality of conversations are provided. Each such conversation has a corresponding conversation identifier and one or more messages sharing a common set of characteristics that meet predefined criteria. Information is sent to a remote computer identifying the conversations and providing sufficient information to rank them in accordance with a date/time value of a most recently received message of each conversation thereby causing a first conversation to be ordered before a second conversation. Subsequently, a first message that is deemed to belong to the second conversation is obtained and added to the second conversation. Information is resent to a remote computer identifying the plurality of conversations and providing sufficient information to rank the plurality of conversations in accordance with a date/time value of a most recently received message of each respective conversation thereby causing the first conversation to be ordered after the second conversation. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046962 | INTER-CLASS MOLECULAR ASSOCIATION CONNECTIVITY MAPPING - Methods, systems, devices and/or apparatuses are provided for computationally deriving molecular association connectivity maps for the study of inter-class molecular associations in toxicogenomics and drug discovery applications. The inter-class molecular associations can be between at least one bio-molecular entity and at least one therapeutic agent. The methods, systems, devices and/or apparatuses apply integrated molecular interaction network mining and text mining techniques. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046963 | Dynamic Search Processor - The present invention provides systems and methods in which user-created and user-selectable personas are used to enhance a search string for submission to a search engine. The persona information can also be used to filter or rank search results. A given user can combine multiple characteristics in various ways to produce different persona, and can choose among different as desired for a given search. Software to capture, maintain, store, and use persona information can be physically spread out across multiple computers operated by different companies, with a third party hosting the persona capturing interfaces. | 02-13-2014 |
20140052738 | Crowdsourced multimedia - To align media files from different users embodiments of the invention:
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20140052739 | DISTRIBUTED FEATURE SELECTION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Embodiments are directed to generating feature values for selectable features using feature recombination. In one scenario, a computer system accesses a set of selectable features where each feature includes one or more feature values. The computer system encodes the accessed set of selectable features, so that the feature values are available for selection by various different users. The computer system generates a first population of feature values from the encoded set of selectable features and ranks each feature value in the first population of feature values based on which feature values are selected by the users. The computer system also generates a second population of feature values by recombining the feature values proportional to the ranking, and further generates subsequent populations of feature values by recombining the values across multiple iterations of expression of preference by different users. These feature values then converge on a subset of preferred feature values. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052740 | TOPIC AND TIME BASED MEDIA AFFINITY ESTIMATION - An affinity server estimates an affinity between two different time based media events (e.g., TV, radio, social media content stream), between a time based media event and a specific topic, or between two different topics, where the affinity score represents an intersection between the populations of social media users who have authored social media content items regarding the two different events and/or topics. The affinity score represents an estimation of the real world affinity between the real world population of people who have an interest in both time based media events, both topics, or in a time based media event and a topic. One possible threshold for including a social media user in a population may be based on a confidence score that indicates the confidence that one or more social media content items authored by the social media user are relevant to the topic or event in question. | 02-20-2014 |
20140059055 | System and Method for Combining Multiple Recommender Systems - A system and method for recommending items to a user is provided. The system could combine recommendations provided by multiple recommenders by: a) calculating for each recommender j a maximum score P | 02-27-2014 |
20140067825 | AIDING DISCOVERY OF PROGRAM CONTENT BY PROVIDING DEEPLINKS INTO MOST INTERESTING MOMENTS VIA SOCIAL MEDIA - A computerized method, system for, and computer-readable medium operable to: retrieve program details data about at least one media program. Retrieve social media posts involving the at least one media program. Match the retrieved program details data with the retrieved social media posts to find matching locations. Store time offset data corresponding to the matched locations within the at least one media program into at least one micropost. Rank the at least one media program by the number of microposts corresponding to the at least one media program. Present the at least one media program, each of the at least one media program with at least one micropost, wherein the at least one micropost comprises a link to the original social media page hosting the social media post and a video deeplink that plays a time off-set video, the time off-set video starting from the stored time offset data. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067826 | RECOMMENDING USERS TO ADD TO GROUPS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Based on information associated with users, a social networking system recommends one or more groups for a target user to join or to create. Characteristics of the target user, characteristics of users connected to the target user, characteristics of candidate groups in the social networking system may be used to identify groups for recommendation. The social networking system may provide questions to the target user and recommend a group to the target user based on received answers to the questions. For example, the answers to the provided question identify one or more characteristics of the target user, which are used to select a group for recommendation. Additionally, the social networking system may recommend additional users for the target user to add or invite to a group based on characteristics of the target user, the additional users, and/or the group. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067827 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING MUSIC PLAYLISTS BASED ON AN IMPLICITLY SELECTED SEED - A method for generating a playlist may include automatically selecting a plurality of seed songs from a music library based on at least one selection criteria associated with song popularity. The at least one selection criteria may be selected (e.g., randomly) from a plurality of available selection criteria. One of the plurality of seed songs may be selected (e.g., randomly). A first playlist with a plurality of songs from the music library may be generated. The plurality of songs in the first playlist may be automatically selected to be similar to the selected one of the plurality of seed songs. The at least one selection criteria may include one or more of a highest song rating, frequency of song playback within a determined time period, recent song purchase, and social media posting by a user regarding a song from the music library. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067828 | Sharing Television and Video Programming Through Social Networking - In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system determine identities of one or more users in proximity to a display device and query a social graph of the social-networking system for social content associated with the determined identities. The social graph includes nodes and edges connecting the nodes. The nodes include user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system identify, using the social content, recommended media content for the one or more users in proximity to the display device and provide a playlist for display on the display device. The playlist includes the recommended media content for the one or more users in proximity to the display device. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067829 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROBABILISTICALLY QUANTIFYING AND VISUALIZING RELEVANCE BETWEEN TWO OR MORE CITATIONALLY OR CONTEXTUALLY RELATED DATA OBJECTS - In one embodiment a method for probabilistically quantifying a degree of relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects, such as patent documents, non-patent documents, web pages, personal and corporate contacts information, product information, consumer to behavior, technical or scientific information, address information, and the like is provided. In another embodiment a method for visualizing and displaying relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects is provided. In another embodiment a search input/output interface that utilizes an iterative self-organizing mapping technique to automatically generate a visual map of relevant patents and/or other related documents desired to be explored, searched or analyzed is provided. In another embodiment, a search input/output interface that displays and/or communicates search input criteria and corresponding search results in a way that facilitates intuitive understanding and visualization of the logical relationships between two or more related concepts being searched is provided. | 03-06-2014 |
20140074856 | SOCIAL CONTENT SUGGESTIONS BASED ON CONNECTIONS - A system and method for recommending content to a user in a social network, including: logging user activity for the user in the social network; categorizing the user activity across all the user's networks, wherein each category is assigned a score based on relevance to the user; assigning weights to the user activities; calculating a social index score as a function of the weighted user activity categories; logging user content into categories; scoring the user content; and generating a content social index by weighting the content scores. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074857 | WEIGHTED RANKING OF VIDEO DATA - A method, system, and computer program product for weighted ranking of video data are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A weight is assigned to an aspect of the video data. A weight is assigned to a person expected to feature in the video data. A weight of the video data is computed, the weight of the video data being a factor of the weight assigned the aspect and the weight assigned the person. A ranking of the video data is computed using the weight computed for the video data. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074858 | PERCENT-CONSUMED WEIGHTED CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the performance of percent-consumed weighted content recommendation. According to various embodiments, input data for performing media content recommendation analysis may be identified. The input data may describe the presentation of a plurality of media content items in association with a plurality of content management accounts. The input data may comprise a plurality of data points. Each of the data points may identify a respective portion of a respective one of the media content items presented in association with a respective one of the content management accounts. For each or selected ones of the data points, a respective weighting factor may be applied based on the respective portion of the respective media content item presented in association with the respective content management account. The weighted input data may be numerically modeled to produce a plurality of media content recommendations. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074859 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RATING AUDIENCES OF NETWORK-BASED CONTENT OF MULTIPLE CONTENT PUBLISHERS - Embodiments of a system and method for rating audiences of network-based content of multiple content publishers are described. Embodiments may include, for each of multiple users, receiving usage information specifying one or more attributes of the user's content consumption activity with respect to network-based content. The usage information received for at least some of the users may be associated with network-based content from multiple different content publishers (e.g., different websites that host content portals). Embodiments may also include determining a subset of the multiple users that share one or more characteristics (e.g., demographic characteristics). Embodiments may also include generating a report based on a portion of the received usage information that is specific to the subset of the multiple users. The report may specify one or more aggregate attributes of the subset's content consumption activity. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074860 | DISAMBIGUATOR - In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include identifying at least one ambiguous concept; collecting a first set of labels for a term, the first set of labels representative of a first context of the term in a document; collecting, for the at least one ambiguous concept, a second set of labels, the second set of labels representative of a second context of the at least one ambiguous concept in a knowledge base; determining a similarity value between each of the first labels and the second set of labels; and selecting, based on the determined similarity value, the at least one ambiguous concept, when the determined similarity value exceed a threshold, the selected at least ambiguous concept being related in meaning to the term. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074861 | System and Method for Combining Inputs to Generate and Modify Playlists - Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums are provided for selecting a media content object for a user using a combination of inputs. A media input seed associated with a user is obtained. A plurality of channels of media content objects is obtained. At least one of the plurality of channels is associated with the media input seed. Also, in some embodiments, each media content object of each of those channels has a score specific to that channel. A combination score for a respective media content object is calculated based at least in part on that respective media content object's channel specific score for each of at least two of the plurality of channels. Then at least some of the media content objects are ranked based at least in part on their respective combination scores. Finally, at least one ranked media content object is then selected for transmission. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074862 | Hawkeye Graphical Search Interface - Some embodiments of the invention provide a graphical user interface as a means of inputting search parameters to database search engines. In some embodiments two or three dimensional projections spatially represent relationships between search parameters, located along the periphery of the projections and search hits whose significance are represented by position relative to the center of the projection and comparative distance from each of the search parameters. As the user manipulates the overall shape of the search projection, the weighting of search parameters adjusts, reconfiguring the search. The invention also provides, in some embodiments, an intuitive means of assimilating search parameter weightings based on peer or social network preferences with global search results. Finally, the invention provides a means of using search output itself as an input for refinement of search. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074863 | GENERATING AN IMPLIED OBJECT GRAPH BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR - An online system generates implied links between objects distributed by the online system based on a plurality of users' behaviors with respect to the objects. For a behavior of a user with respect to an object that satisfies a link criterion, the online system identifies a connection between the user and the object. Local object graphs are generated to represent the relationships between the objects connected to each user, and the local object graphs are merged into a global object graph. An adjacency matrix is extracted from the global object graph as a representation of the strength of relationships between the objects distributed by the online system. The online system may then apply graph analysis techniques to the adjacency matrix, thereby analyzing the relationships between the objects without relying upon explicit links between the objects. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074864 | METHOD FOR ROBUST COMPARISON OF DATA - The present invention provides relatively robust comparison of bioinformatic data, such as gene expression data, by providing a computer-implemented method, a computer program product and a computer readable medium, that analyzes data according to the appended patent claims. The invention provides stability with respect to re-sampling of data. | 03-13-2014 |
20140081987 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TIME-STAMPING MEDIA FOR MULTI-USER CONTENT RENDERING - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided in order to capture and share audio and/or video content in a multi-user environment. In the context of a method, audio and/or video content is captured and selected to be uploaded to be shared with other users. The method may assign and verify global timestamps for captured content and cause the content and verified timestamps to be uploaded to a multi-user content server. The method uses the verified timestamps to synchronize multi-user content to a common timeline in an efficient manner, allowing for rendering of content that is to be shared with other end users. A corresponding apparatus and a computer program product are also provided. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081988 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN USERS RECEIVING A COMMON MEDIA ASSET - Methods and systems are described herein for providing a media guidance application that identifies users accessing the same media asset, determines which users desire to communicate with each other, and provides an asset-integrated notification to each of the users desiring to communicate, facilitating communication between the users. For example, other users with a desire to communicate with an initial user that are accessing the same media asset as the initial user may be indicated by inserting a media element representative of the other users directly into the media asset watched by an initial user. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081989 | WAVEFRONT MUXING AND DEMUXING FOR CLOUD DATA STORAGE AND TRANSPORT - Security on data storage and transport are important concerns on cloud computing. Wavefront multiplexing/demultiplexing process (WF muxing/demuxing) embodying an architecture that utilizes multi-dimensional waveforms has found applications in data storage and transport on cloud. Multiple data sets are preprocessed by WF muxing before stored/transported. WF muxed data is aggregated data from multiple data sets that have been “customized processed” and disassembled into any scalable number of sets of processed data, with each set being stored on a storage site. The original data is reassembled via WF demuxing after retrieving a lesser but scalable number of WF muxed data sets. In short, the WF muxed data storage solution enhances data security and data redundancy by, respectively, creating a new dimension to existing security/privacy methods and significantly reducing the storage space needed for data redundancy. In addition, WF muxing/demuxing methods enable a monitoring capability on the integrity of stored data. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081990 | MANAGING USER RATINGS IN A WEB SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods for managing user ratings in a web services environment. A method includes storing a comment associated with a web service and storing an influence rating associated with an author of the comment. The method also includes transmitting information associated with the web service, the comment, and the influence rating to a user. Additionally, the method includes receiving feedback from the user, and determining an updated influence rating based upon the feedback and the influence rating. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089319 | ONLINE MEDIA SHARING WITH ACTIVITY BALANCING AND INCENTIVES - Activity is balanced in a media sharing environment. To balance the activity, a computer determines the uploading activity of a plurality of members of a media sharing environment, as well as the tagging activity of the plurality of members. The computer compares the uploading activity to the tagging activity and determines a scoring coefficient responsive to the comparison. The computer determines a member score for one of the plurality of members based on the scoring coefficient. The computer can subject the member to discipline if the member score violates a low threshold, or to a reward if the member score violates a high threshold. The scoring coefficient can be determined to induce the plurality of members to favor either one of the uploading activity and the tagging activity over the other. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089320 | GENERATING EVENT SUGGESTIONS FOR USERS FROM SOCIAL INFORMATION - A social networking system suggests events for a target user based on stored data in the social networking system related to the target user and to events. The social networking system may suggest events based on the target user's affinity for, connections with, or interactions with objects in the social networking system connected to or otherwise associated with the events. For example, an event is suggested to a target user if users connected to the target user already accepted an invitation to the event. As another example, an event organized by a particular entity is suggested to the target user because of interactions between the target user and other content provided by the entity. Invitations to suggested events may be presented to the target user via a client device, allowing the target user to easily join a suggested event. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089321 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO RECOMMEND RECIPES - Disclosed is a recipe recommendation system and method which builds and maintains user and recipe profiles, which matches user and recipe profiles to recommend recipes, which changes recommended recipes based on season and other factors, which adjusts user profiles based on explicit and implicit feedback, which integrates mobile computing and grocery delivery services, and which offers a complete service. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089322 | System And Method for Ranking Creator Endorsements - A system and method for ranking content creators are described. The method for ranking content creators may comprises collecting endorsements associated with a content creator; qualifying the authors of the endorsements; building a creator network, applying an endorsement weighting function to the endorsements; assigning a score to the content creators; and ordering a collection of content items based on the items' assigned score. The identities of content creators are verified by matching content creators in a database to a publicly available online profile. Creators are entered into a creator network consisting of an edges and nodes graph and a weighting function is applied, resulting in a fixed-point score for each creator in the network. These fixed-point scores are inherited by content items produced by the creators and may be used to order a collection of content items pulled from a database. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089323 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING INFLUENCER SCORES - Methods and systems for generating influence scores are disclosed. A plurality of opinions of a selected topic are retrieved from a database. Influencers each associated with at least one opinion from the plurality of opinions are determined using the processor. A score is automatically generated for each influencer using the processor, the score related to the selected topic. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089324 | Proximity-Based Method For Determining Concept Relevance Within A Domain Ontology - Embodiments are directed towards providing a device and method of identifying media items from a media library maintained by a media server that are similar to a designated media item. The media server stores an ontology, which is represented as a hierarchically linked set of nodes wherein a node is either a concept or a placeholder, and a library of media items. Each media item corresponds to a record in the media library and the record includes at least one metadata field with assigned keywords. The media server receives a designation of a media item from a user computer, retrieves the corresponding keywords, obtains all related concepts from the ontology, computes node weights for the related concepts, queries the media library using the node weights, to identify similar media items and provides the results to the user computer. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089325 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE FOR AFFILIATE GROUP SEARCHING - A method for allowing an information seeker to utilize affiliate group searching involving human searchers who are members of particular information affiliate groups. Each affiliate group has an area of expertise in which they are particularly skilled. In at least one embodiment, the method includes accepting designation of an affiliate group for providing information searching and presenting search results produced by a member of the affiliate group to an information seeker. | 03-27-2014 |
20140095513 | COLLECTION AND REPORTING OF CUSTOMER SURVEY DATA - The embodiments may provide a system for managing survey data including a survey metadata handler configured to receive survey metadata for a survey type, and a survey result handler configured to receive one or more completed or partially completed surveys providing one or more answers to questions corresponding to the survey type, a calculating unit configured to calculate one or more weighted answers based on the question weights and the one or more answers, and a satisfaction score for each completed or partially completed survey based on the one or more weighted answers, a category determining unit configured to determine a satisfaction category for the survey type based on the satisfaction scores and satisfaction category information mapping satisfaction categories to satisfaction scores for the survey type, and a database configured to store the survey metadata, the survey results, and the satisfaction category information, as a layered data model. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095514 | Ordinal Positioning Of Content Items Based On Viewport - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adjusting ordinal positions for content item slots in response to determining that a content item slot with a highest slot ordinal position relative to the other content item slots in a resource is not within a viewport area. Adjusting the adjusting ordinal positions of either the content item slots or content items to be served in the content item slots ensures that a content item slot in the viewport displays a content item with a highest respective ordinal position in a ranking relative to other content items is rendered in the content item slot within the viewport area. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095515 | REAL TIME SINGLE-SWEEP DETECTION OF KEY WORDS AND CONTENT ANALYSIS - A system and method are provided for real-time analysis of text. During a single sweep through the text, a detection tree is used to identify a sequence of characters in the text from a large dictionary of keywords. When a keyword is detected a rule tally database is updated. An intermediate score may be available during the sweep and a final score of the text may be available substantially immediately upon finishing the single sweep. A second text may be analyzed immediately using the same score buffer and rule tally database without updating the rule tally database. | 04-03-2014 |
20140101168 | TECHNIQUE FOR RECYCLING MATCH WEIGHT CALCULATIONS - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, recycling field value weights as computed for database linking purposes. Such field value weights may be used for a search operation. In some embodiments, such weights may be used for a search operation prior to their values stabilizing during an iterative linking operation. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101169 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing device according to the present technology includes an action recognition unit that recognizes an operation action of a user based on sensor information, and an action representation generation unit that analyzes operation action data showing the operation action of the user recognized by the action recognition unit to generate an action segment represented by a meaning and content of the operation action from the operation action data. | 04-10-2014 |
20140108422 | Method and System of Online Collaboration Between Multiple Users - In a method of online collaboration between multiple users, a subject for debate (e.g. a problem to be solved) is posted on a website. A number of keywords are assigned to the subject to categorize it (e.g. economics, healthcare, politics, hospitals). Proposals for the subject (e.g. possible solutions) are submitted by users and posted on the site. Other users give their opinion of these proposals through a rating system that allocates points to the proposal, the rating being based on a number of factors. These include but are not limited to: the opinion of the user rating the proposal (e.g. good, bad, great, very bad); and the points attained by that user's own proposals in related subjects. Thus, ratings submitted for proposals reflect demonstrated expertise of users, giving a more meaningful result. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108423 | DATA STORE ORGANIZING DATA USING SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION - Data stores that store content units and annotations regarding the content units derived through a semantic interpretation of the content units. When annotations are stored in a database, different parts of an annotation may be stored in different tables of the database. For example, one or more tables of the database may store all semantic classifications for the annotations, while one or more other tables may store content of all of the annotations. A user may be permitted to provide natural language queries for searching the database. A natural language query may be semantically interpreted to determine one or more annotations from the query. The semantic interpretation of the query may be performed using the same annotation model used to determine annotations stored in the database. Semantic classifications and format of the annotations for a query may be the same as one or more annotations stored in the database. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108424 | DATA STORE ORGANIZING DATA USING SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION - Data stores that store content units and annotations regarding the content units derived through a semantic interpretation of the content units. When annotations are stored in a database, different parts of an annotation may be stored in different tables of the database. For example, one or more tables of the database may store all semantic classifications for the annotations, while one or more other tables may store content of all of the annotations. A user may be permitted to provide natural language queries for searching the database. A natural language query may be semantically interpreted to determine one or more annotations from the query. The semantic interpretation of the query may be performed using the same annotation model used to determine annotations stored in the database. Semantic classifications and format of the annotations for a query may be the same as one or more annotations stored in the database. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108425 | VISIBLE PERSONALIZATION - A system for effectively rating and/or dynamically generating one or more electronic media files with respect to information associated with a user, the user's preferences, and/or the user's past behavior with respect to electronic media. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108426 | INTERACTIVE SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING, DISPLAYING, AND RANKING ITEMS BASED ON QUANTITATIVE AND TEXTUAL INPUT FROM MULTIPLE PARTICIPANTS - A system for interactive visualization of items in an online environment based on textual and quantitative properties of those items is described. End-users of the system are humans and items can be any objects such as songs, books, and other users. One aspect of the system is a process used to map an item's quantitative and textual data into a position in the visualization, e.g., a two or three dimensional space. Using transformation matrices canonical correlation analysis (CCA) and a specific item's quantitative and textual data, the system projects an item onto the visualization and uses ratings and spatial positions to assign reputation values to each end-user and their textual responses to facilitate efficient browsing and rating of items and viewing of patterns, trends, and insights as they emerge. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108427 | MINING OF USER EVENT DATA TO IDENTIFY USERS WITH COMMON INTERESTS - A computer-implemented matching service matches users to other users, and/or to user communities, based at least in part on a computer analysis of event data reflective of user behaviors. The event data may, for example, evidence user affinities for particular items represented in an electronic catalog, such as book titles, music titles, movie titles, and/or other types of items that tend to reflect the traits of users. Event data reflective of other types of user actions, such as item-detail-page viewing events, browse node visits, search query submissions, and/or web browsing patterns may additionally or alternatively be considered. By taking such event data into consideration, the matching service reduces the burden on users to explicitly supply personal profile information, and reduces poor results caused by exaggerations and other inaccuracies in such profile information. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108428 | Ranking Social Network Objects - An online social networking system can be used to rank social network objects of various different object types, each according to its type. The objects may comprise types such as users, communities, blogs, blog entries, events, forums, forum topics, postings, photographs, and/or images. The product comprises code for carrying out a method that begins with receiving ranking data about social network objects that comprises data about events performed on the social network. For each social network object, a ranking function is applied to ranking data about the social network object based on its type. In addition, the recency of an event on the social network related to the social network object is evaluated, in order to calculate the score for the social network object. A relative ranking for each of the plurality of social network objects based on its score is determined, and the score and relative ranking of each of the social network objects stored. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108429 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING PERSONAL EXPERIENCE EVENT REPORTS FROM USER GENERATED INTERNET CONTENT - A method implementable on a computing device for scoring segments of Internet posts is disclosed. The method includes defining a set of indicating factors where each indicating factor is associated with a possible feature in the segments, and where possible features affect a likelihood that the Internet posts represent a user generated product personal experience event report associated with a pre-defined search subject. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108430 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING PERSONAL EXPERIENCE EVENT REPORTS FROM USER GENERATED INTERNET CONTENT - A method implementable on a computing device for detecting personal experience event reports from user generated content on the Internet is disclosed. The method includes filtering a collection of Internet posts to include only the Internet posts containing personal experience terms. The method additionally includes further filtering the filtered Internet posts by removing the Internet posts with non-personal experience terms. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108431 | CORRELATED INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION - Method and apparatus for information recommendation are provided. In one aspect, a method for information recommendation uses correlated information combinations to improve recommendation accuracy. Upon receiving data from a client indicating a visited information type, the method obtains correlated information types related to the visited information type from stored records. The correlated information types providing one or more correlated information combinations each including at least two correlated information types. For each of the one or more correlated information combinations, the method computes a degree of correlation between the correlated information combination and the visited information type. The method selects a target correlated information combination with a satisfying degree of correlation, and recommends the target correlated information combination to the client. | 04-17-2014 |
20140114981 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND INTERFACE FOR PROVIDING A SEARCH RESULT USING SEGMENT CONSTRAINTS - A method for providing a search result includes receiving a user query and determining, in response to receiving the user query, a set of segment candidates based on the user query and an indexing structure. The indexing structure is associated with at least one segment constraint. The method further includes ranking the set of segment candidates and providing a result associated with the set of segment candidates. Another method includes ranking each segment within the set of segment candidates based on a set of prioritized features. Another method has the at least one segment constraint including at least one of a critical keyword and an exclusionary keyword. Another method further includes excluding a segment based on the at least one segment constraint comprising the exclusionary keyword. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114982 | AUTOMATIC TAXONOMY MERGE - A method for merging two taxonomies is disclosed. Top levels of first and second taxonomies are merged. For the second taxonomy nodes are evaluated and selectively merged with nodes of the first taxonomy according to comparison of scores for these nodes with a threshold. The score for a node of the first taxonomy is a combination of one or more of a lineage quality score, Jaccard distance, string edit distance, and category depth score. After an iteration, mergings between nodes of the first and second taxonomies may be reversed if child nodes of the merged nodes were not likewise merged. Iterations may be repeated until no nodes are merged in an iteration. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114983 | Interactive Expert System For Recommending Chemicals And Method - An interactive expert system and method is disclosed for providing ranked specific chemical product recommendations based upon general application properties information selected by a user and specific application requirements provided by a user. The interactive expert system and method assists users in the selection of chemical products based upon key desired chemical product characteristics and specific application requirements for the desired chemical product that are provided by the users. The interactive expert system and method preferably uses a ranking system that intelligently ranks the results of searching based upon the desired chemical product characteristics and the specific application requirements to order the search results. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114984 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER AUTHENTICATION - A method and computer system for providing a measure of confidence of the identity of a user of a remote computer system. Information from the remote computer system about the purported identity of the user is received. A plurality of images of street scenes located within a geographical area of a neighbourhood surrounding a physical address associated with the user is collected along with the plurality of images of street scenes located outside of the geographical area. Signals are sent to the remote computer system allowing it to display the users of the streets scenes and asking the user to select those images which are in the geographical area. Information about the user's selection is received and a rating of confidence that the purported identify of the user is correct is made as a function of the user's selection. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114985 | PERSONALIZED MEDIA STATIONS - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for generating an internet radio media station based on metadata available on the user's media library. The media station can be generated in response to a subscription request to an internet radio service. In one example, the media station is generated without a user seed. Metadata related to the user's media library is analyzed and format rules are selected and configured according to the analysis. The format rules are associated with slots in a media station that define the playback sequence of the media station. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114986 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLICIT TOPIC EXTRACTION USED IN AN ONLINE CONSULTATION SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention further provide systems and methods for automatically identifying and extracting topics implicit in the content under analysis. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114987 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF BIOLOGICAL PERTURBATIONS - Systems and methods are described for quantifying the response of a biological system to one or more perturbations. First and second datasets corresponding to a response of a biological system to first and second treatments are received. A plurality of computational network models that represent the biological system are provided, each model including nodes representing a plurality of biological entities and edges representing relationships between the nodes in the model. A first set of scores is generated, representing the perturbation of the biological system based on the first dataset and the plurality of models, and a second set of scores representing the perturbation of the biological system based on the second dataset and the plurality of computational models. One or more biological impact factors are generated based on each of the first set and second set of scores that represent the biological impact of the perturbation on the biological system. | 04-24-2014 |
20140122500 | DETERMINING OEM OF REBRANDED DEVICE - Methods and systems obtain manufacturer data from a device being evaluated. The manufacturer data includes a system description, a system object identification, and a device-type description. The system description includes a serial number having a format. The system object identification includes a standards manufacturer field established by a standards organization. The methods/systems evaluate the standards manufacturer field to identify the manufacturer, and rank multiple system object identifications based on the quantity of data within each system object identification. Additionally, the methods/systems match the format of the serial number to known manufacturer serial number formats. The foregoing allows the methods/systems to determine the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of the evaluated device based on the manufacturer appearing in the data string, the rank for each system object identification, and the manufacturer appearing in the serial number format match. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122501 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BUILDING AN ENTITY PROFILE FROM EMAIL ADDRESS AND NAME INFORMATION - An entity-profiling system obtains an electronic identifier for a target entity, such as an email address at which the target entity can be reached, and parses the electronic identifier to determine a name for the target entity. The system also parses the electronic identifier to determine a domain with which the target entity is associated. The system then obtains one or more Internet web pages associated with the target entity based on the entity's name and the domain, and generates a profile for the target entity based on the obtained Internet web pages. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122502 | FEEDBACK LOOP CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the performance of feedback-based weighted content recommendation. According to various embodiments, input data for performing media content recommendation analysis may be identified. The input data may describe the presentation of a plurality of media content items in association with a plurality of content management accounts. The input data may comprise a plurality of data points. Each of the data points may identify respective feedback data for a respective one of the media content items previously recommended for presentation in association with a respective one of the content management accounts. The feedback data may identify a viewer reaction to the recommended media content item. For each or selected ones of the data points, a respective weighting factor based on the feedback data for the respective media content item presented in association with the respective content management account may be applied. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122503 | Method and Apparatus Using Historical Influence for Success Attribution in Network Site Activity - User actions prior to, and associated with, an online success event may be considered participating actions that may have influenced the user toward the success event. A previously measured success influence metric for the participating actions may be used to determine a historical influence score for each participating action leading up to the success event. Each participating action may be assigned a current success influence score based on that event's historical influence score as a percentage of a combined historical influence score of all the participating actions for the success event. Additionally, the assigned current success influence scores may be combined with the previously measured success influence metric for use as historical influence scores for success attribution regarding further instances of the success event. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122504 | Systems and Methods for Collection and Automatic Analysis of Opinions on Various Types of Media - Systems and methods for collection and automatic analysis of opinions of media are provided. A representative method includes: receiving, from a user, media for review; automatically distributing the media to a pool of reviewers based on reviewer profiles; receiving, from the reviewers, information corresponding to opinions pertaining to the media; automatically generating a report based, at least in part, on the information received from the reviewers; and providing the report to the user. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122505 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A work flow is extracted based on data operation history data. Main data, which is major data within data that constitute the extracted work flow, is estimated and extracted. A name string that expresses an access path for accessing the extracted main data is analyzed, and a character string of a target element is estimated and extracted from the name string. A work flow name, which is the name of the work flow, is determined using a connection of a character string of the extracted target element. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122506 | MACHINE OPTIMIZATION DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS - A method, system, computer program product and computer readable media for matching using degree distribution information are disclosed. An embodiment of the method can include performing b-matching on a graph data structure expanded using degree distribution information in order to identify neighbors of a selected input node. The b-matching can be performed using belief propagation. The belief propagation method is adapted to use a compressed message update rule and to be suitable for use with distributed processing systems. An embodiment can also include enhancing a matching result by applying degree distribution information to a first matching result to generate a second matching result. Embodiments for online advertisement/search term matching, product recommendation, dating service and social network matching, auction buyer/seller matching and resource allocation, among other, are disclosed. | 05-01-2014 |
20140129569 | ADDRESS EXTRACTION FROM A COMMUNICATION - Systems and methods to extract a string from a communication. A method includes: receiving a communication comprising a plurality of strings; assigning a score to each of the strings, wherein the score assigned to each of the strings corresponds to a frequency of usage of the respective string for a first function relative to an overall frequency of usage of the respective string; determining a respective total sum for each of a plurality of sequences in the communication, the respective total sum determined as a sum of the scores for each string in the respective sequence; and extracting a first sequence of the sequences from the communication based on the total sum for the first sequence. In one embodiment, the total sum includes an additional score for each of a starting word and an ending word of the first word sequence, wherein each respective additional score is associated with a probability that the starting (or ending) word is used as the first (or last word) of an address. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129570 | Crowdsourcing Supplemental Content - Methods and systems for sourcing supplemental content are disclosed. Secondary devices may be used to identify content streaming on first screen devices and to generate supplemental data for the content. In this manner, users may be leveraged to create various data for a variety of content. The data may be collected and organized so that users watching content at a later time may have access to the data. Methods and systems for using second screen devices to access metadata created by the crowd are also disclosed. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129571 | ELECTRONIC MEDIA SIGNATURE BASED APPLICATIONS - A method for processing media data includes receiving metadata associated with media data; identifying another metadata associated with another media data, wherein the size of the media data is smaller than the size if the another media data; determining a score based on the metadata and another metadata, wherein the score is within a threshold level; and presenting information associated with a product or service associated with the another media data. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129572 | PLATFORM AND METHOD OF TAGGING RECREATIONAL LAND - A platform and method configured to allow individuals to list recreational land for sale with verified recreational data related to such recreational land. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a platform and method of tagging recreational land for sale with recreational activities including wildlife associated activities. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136546 | SOCIAL NETWORK AWARE SEARCH RESULTS WITH SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION PRESENTATION - A user is provided with both identification of individuals who have authored content responsive to a user's search query and the authored content itself. A user's social network is referenced to identify those individuals to whom the user maintains human connections. Content authored by those individuals is searched and individuals authoring such content are identified, together with the authored content. Additionally, content authored by individuals having unique experiences, perspective, or specialized information is searched to identify responsive content and individuals authoring such content are also identified. An initial identification of responsive individuals comprises a portion of such content and user action directed to an identification of an individual results in additional authored content being presented, thereby enabling the user to recognize the reason for which such an individual was identified in response to the user's search query. Options for establishing interpersonal communications are also provided. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136547 | Determining Potential Enterprise Partnerships - Techniques, a system and an article of manufacture for determining potential enterprise partnerships. A method includes constructing an interaction graph for a set of multiple enterprises based on information pertaining to each of the enterprises and information pertaining to transactions conducted among the enterprises, and determining at least two candidate partnership teams among the set of enterprises based on at least one attribute of the graph, wherein each candidate partnership team comprises two or more of the enterprises. The method also includes computing a compatibility score for each pair of enterprises in each candidate partnership team based on at least one enterprise parameter, computing a compatibility score for each candidate partnership team based on an aggregation of the compatibility score for each pair of enterprises in each candidate partnership team, and outputting a suggested candidate partnership team based on selection of the highest compatibility score among the candidate partnership teams. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136548 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RANKING MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES - A method of ranking a plurality of regulated data sources and a plurality of non-regulated data sources for a data field is provided. The method evaluates consistency and assigns a ranking for a regulated data source based upon records having identical values and records having non-identical values for the data field in the regulated data source compared to other regulated data sources under analysis. The method further evaluates consistency and assigns a ranking for a non-regulated data source based upon records having identical values compared to other non-regulated data sources under analysis. | 05-15-2014 |
20140143258 | ACTION CLUSTERING FOR NEWS FEEDS - One embodiment selects from a plurality of actions performed by one or more users of a social networking system a first action and one or more second actions, wherein each action has one or more attributes; computes a score for each second action by comparing the one or more attributes of each second action with the one or more attributes of the first action; ranks the one or more second actions according to the score computed for each second action; and selects from the one or more second actions one or more highest-ranking second actions as being related to the first action. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143259 | Identification and Ranking of News Stories of Interest - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for ranking news articles. A plurality of news articles referenced in one or more hub pages are identified, where each of the hub pages include respective references to one or more of the news articles. A score component is derived for a news article from a measure of a prominence of the news article in the hub pages that includes a reference to the news article. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149424 | TIME WEIGHTED CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the performance of time-viewed weighted content recommendation. According to various embodiments, input data for performing media content recommendation analysis is identified. The input data may describe the presentation of a plurality of media content items in association with a plurality of content management accounts. The input data may comprise a plurality of data points. Each of the data points may identify a respective time viewed for a respective one of the media content items presented in association with a respective one of the content management accounts. The time viewed may identify a date or time of day that the media content item has been presented in association with the content management account. For each or selected ones of the data points, a respective weighting factor may be applied based on the respective time viewed for the respective media content item. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149425 | VIEW COUNT WEIGHTED CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the performance of view-count weighted content recommendation. According to various embodiments, input data for performing media content recommendation analysis may be identified. The input data may describe the presentation of a plurality of media content items in association with a plurality of content management accounts. The input data may comprise a plurality of data points. Each of the data points may identify a respective view count for a respective one of the media content items presented in association with a respective one of the content management accounts. The view count may identify a number of times that the media content item has been presented in association with the content management account. A respective weighting factor may be applied based on the respective view count for the respective media content item presented in association with the respective content management account. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149426 | AUTO SUGGESTION TOOL - A method includes populating an auto suggestion field with objects of the same type based upon the type of object selected in the main area of the application. The auto suggestion field is set to have N levels. The method further includes placing a recently used object in a first position of the N levels of the auto suggestion field. Succeeding objects are placed in other positions of the N levels in the auto suggestion field, wherein the succeeding objects are ordered based upon recency and frequency of use and the populating is executed by at least one processor. | 05-29-2014 |
20140156673 | MEASURING AND ALTERING TOPIC INFLUENCE ON EDITED AND UNEDITED MEDIA - Methods and arrangements for measuring and utilizing media topic influence. A publically disseminated media transmission is received. Public influence of the media transmission is measured via: identifying one or more media sources used to disseminate the media transmission; and obtaining one or more predetermined influence values associated with the one or more media sources. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156674 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVELOPING A SOCIAL HIERARCHY - A method and apparatus for developing a social hierarchy for a user from a plurality of contacts includes, for each contact, tracking communications occurring between the user and the contact; determining, from the tracked communications, a rate of change for communications between the user and the contact; and identifying, based on the rate of change, a position in the social hierarchy for the contact. Another method and apparatus includes tracking communications occurring between the user and a contact in the plurality of contacts, wherein tracking a communication comprises identifying a method of communication and a time the communication occurred; determining, from the tracked communications, that repeated communication attempts were made between the user and the contact; and identifying, based on the repeated communication attempts, a position in the social hierarchy for the contact. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156675 | PRESENTING A USER PROFILE - A first user of a presentation machine may be a recruiter that initiates an action in reference to a first user profile. The first user profile may describe a first candidate for a job. The presentation machine may identify the first user profile and determine a similarity score that indicates a degree of similarity between the first user profile and a second user profile that describes a second candidate for the job. The presentation machine may also access a volatility score that indicates a likelihood that the second candidate is receptive to a proposal that the second candidate be employed by an employer. Based on the similarity score and on the volatility score, the presentation machine may determine a rank of the second user profile. Based on the determined rank, the presentation machine may present the second user profile to the first user. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156676 | CONTENT SUGGESTION ENGINE - Systems and methods for content selection and processing in an information system are described herein. In one example, a content suggestion engine operates to select, suggest, or recommend content to human users. The selection of content may be suited to a goal or set of goals set by a human user (for example, content recommendations used to assist the human user with achieving a personal health goal). The content suggestion engine may evaluate information to help determine the appropriateness of the content suggestions, considering factors such as a psychological profile, medical conditions, lifestyle, demographics, and goals. The content may be further filtered and weighted to select a subset of content and suggested actions most relevant to the human user. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156677 | ORDERING CURATED CONTENT FOR ACCESS VIA A PLAYPACK - A presentation order of curated media items that are represented by meta data in a playpack is determined by evaluating a platform score, a viewer score, a content popularity score, a content quality score, and a scatter algorithm. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156678 | IMAGE BASED SPAM BLOCKING - A fingerprint of an image identified within a received message is generated following analysis of the message. A spam detection engine identifies an image within a message and converts the image into a grey scale image. The spam detection engine analyzes the grey scale image and assigns a score. A fingerprint of the grey scale image is generated based on the score. The fingerprint may also be based on other factors such as the message sender's status (e.g. blacklisted or whitelisted) and other scores and reports generated by the spam detection engine. The fingerprint is then used to filter future incoming messages. | 06-05-2014 |
20140164392 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO SAMPLE DATA CONNECTIONS - Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to sample signed weighted updates. Example methods disclosed herein include identifying a first key associated with a data update obtained by sampling a stream of data received from a plurality of nodes in a network, the first key being representative of a first node in the plurality of nodes, adjusting a first value associated with the first key based on a weight associated with the data update, the weight being positive when the data update corresponds to opening of a new data connection with the first node, the weight being negative when the data update corresponds to closing of an existing data connection with the first node, and estimating a status of the first node based on the first value. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164393 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE DEVICE FOR CLIQUE BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING AND SOCIAL GRAPHING - A method, system, and storage device for clique based social networking and social graphing allowing users to create one or more networks each containing one or more connections, create postings or other information that trickles down to other users according to a set of rules wherein certain connections must be present to be in-network to a primary user. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164394 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVING ELECTRONIC CONTENT - A system and methods are provided for serving content in response to content queries or requests. When a request is received, for content to be presented to a specified user, candidate content items are identified, possibly based on matches between attributes of the specified user and attributes of the items' target audiences. For each item, a history indicating the frequency (e.g., total number) and/or recency with which impressions of the candidate item (and/or related items) were previously presented to the specified user is retrieved and used to filter out candidate content items and/or collections of content items that have been already been served to the specified user a threshold number of times. Each remaining item's estimated value is computed, the results are ranked and the top-ranked item(s) are served. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164395 | EFFICIENT SORTING OF LARGE DIMENSIONAL DATA - Various embodiments sort data. In one embodiment, a matrix D including a set of data values is received. A matrix Q is received, and includes a set of columns and a set of rows. The matrix Q further includes a sorting of each column of the matrix D. Each of these rows corresponds to a sorting. Each of a set of values in each of the set of columns in the matrix Q identifies a row in the matrix D. At least one sub-matrix D′ of the matrix D is identified. A set of columns of the sub-matrix D′ is restricted to one or more columns of the matrix D. A processor sorts the sub-matrix D′ by rows based on the sorting of the set of columns of the matrix D as given in the matrix Q, and based on the set of data values in the matrix D. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164396 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods customizing electronic communications. A future event associated with a first user may be determined, and a second user that is associated with the first user may be identified. A plurality of communications involving the first user and the second user may be analyzed. A selection rule may be applied based on the analyzed plurality of communications, the selection rule identifying content from the database. Content from the database may be selected based on the application of the selection rule. An electronic message may be provided to the first user identifying the future event, and the selected content may be provided to the first user. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164397 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING INFORMATION - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for searching information. The method is for, in response to receipt of a keyword from a search user of a plurality of users, searching in an information repository to obtain one or more information items to be returned; and returning the information item to the search user based on an importance of each information item of the one or more information items. With the method, it is possible to fully leverage various objective internal relationships between search users, information items and creators and thus improve the search accuracy. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164398 | SOCIAL MEDIA CONTRIBUTOR WEIGHT - A system and method is disclosed for measuring contributor weight or influence in social media. Content posted by a user on one or more social media platforms is identified. The identifying the content posted by the user includes searching the one or more social media platforms for content posted by the user with identifying information. Downstream content associated with the content posted by the user is identified. Metrics measuring a contributor weight of the user based on the downstream content are calculated. | 06-12-2014 |
20140172873 | Method and Apparatus For Personal Characterization Data Collection Using Sensors - A processor-based personal electronic device (such as a smartphone) is programmed to automatically respond to data sent by various sensors from which the user's activity may be inferred. A wireless communication link may be used by the device to obtain data from remote sensors which may be worn by the user. A personal “scorecard” may be generated from the raw data and from data concerning other users. Personal, raw characterization data may be computed into personal statistical data by averaging over time. Then, it may be sent (anonymously) to a server that receives such data from many (or all) users. The server may return personal statistical positioning to enable comparison of the user to other participants. In certain embodiments, the generation of a personal scorecard from the personal position in the group statistics may be performed in the user's device. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172874 | INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS QUEUE CONSTRUCTION - A method of processing content files may include receiving the content file, employing processing circuitry to determine an identity score of a source of a portion of at least a portion the content file, to determine a word score based for the content file and to determine a metadata score for the content file, determining a composite priority score based on the identity score, the word score and the metadata score, and associating the composite priority score with the content file for electronic provision of the content file together with the composite priority score to a human analyst. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172875 | ARRANGING STORIES ON NEWSFEEDS BASED ON EXPECTED VALUE SCORING ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system generates a newsfeed for a user to view when accessing the social networking system. Candidate stories associated with users of the social networking system are selected and an expected value score for each candidate story is determined. An expected value score is based on the probability of a user performing various types of interactions with a candidate story and a numerical value for each type of interaction. The numerical value for a type of interaction represents a value to the social networking system of the type of interaction. Based on the expected value scores, the candidate stories are ranked and the ranking used to select candidate stories for the newsfeed. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172876 | DIVERSITY ENFORCEMENT ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM NEWSFEED - A social networking system generates a newsfeed for a user to view when accessing the social networking system. Candidate stories associated with users of the social networking system are selected and attributes of each story are determined. The candidate stories are ranked so that the ranking of a candidate story having one or more common attributes with another candidate story is modified. This reduces the likelihood of the newsfeed presenting candidate stories with common attributes proximate to each other. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172877 | BOOSTING RANKS OF STORIES BY A NEEDY USER ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system generates a newsfeed for a user to view when accessing the social networking system. Candidate stories associated with users of the social networking selection are selected for inclusion in the newsfeed. Based on data associated with users associated with candidate stories, the social networking system determines a neediness value for the users associated with the candidate stories. The neediness value of a user indicates a degree of assistance by the social networking system to distribute content associated with the user. For users indicated as “needy users” based on their neediness values, the social networking system modifies the location of candidate stories associated with needy users in a ranking of the candidate stories. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172878 | INTELLIGENT EVIDENCE CLASSIFICATION AND NOTIFICATION IN A DEEP QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM - System, method, and computer program product to identify changes in evidence used to answer questions by a deep question answering system, by identifying a first evidence related to a feature, the deep question answering system having identified the feature as being relevant to answering a first type of question of a plurality of types of questions, and responsive to: (i) detecting a change in the first evidence, and (ii) determining that a confidence score of a first response generated for a first question, of the first type of question, exceeds a confidence threshold, generating an updated response for the first question based on the changed first evidence. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172879 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FEATURE MERGING FOR SUPPORTING EVIDENCE IN A QUESTION AND ANSWERING SYSTEM - Method, system, and computer program product to analyze a plurality of candidate answers identified as responsive to a question presented to a deep question answering system, by computing a first feature score for a first feature of an item of evidence, of a plurality of items of evidence, the first feature score being based on at least one attribute of the first feature, the item of evidence relating to a first candidate answer, of the plurality of candidate answers, and computing a merged feature score for the first candidate answer by applying the first feature score to a second feature score for a second feature of the item of evidence. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172880 | INTELLIGENT EVIDENCE CLASSIFICATION AND NOTIFICATION IN A DEEP QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM - System, method, and computer program product to identify changes in evidence used to answer questions by a deep question answering system, by identifying a first evidence related to a feature, the deep question answering system having identified the feature as being relevant to answering a first type of question of a plurality of types of questions, and responsive to: (i) detecting a change in the first evidence, and (ii) determining that a confidence score of a first response generated for a first question, of the first type of question, exceeds a confidence threshold, generating an updated response for the first question based on the changed first evidence. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172881 | Facial Recognition With Social Network Aiding - A facial recognition search system identifies one or more likely names (or other personal identifiers) corresponding to the facial image(s) in a query as follows. After receiving the visual query with one or more facial images, the system identifies images that potentially match the respective facial image in accordance with visual similarity criteria. Then one or more persons associated with the potential images are identified. For each identified person, person-specific data comprising metrics of social connectivity to the requester are retrieved from a plurality of applications such as communications applications, social networking applications, calendar applications, and collaborative applications. An ordered list of persons is then generated by ranking the identified persons in accordance with at least metrics of visual similarity between the respective facial image and the potential image matches and with the social connection metrics. Finally, at least one person identifier from the list is sent to the requester. | 06-19-2014 |
20140181120 | ONLINE COMMUNITY ADVOCACY MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - Within an online community (e.g., a social network website), brands (e.g., companies) desire to connect with users (e.g., advocates, audience, customers) in a manner that allows them to evaluate and promote content generated by or in collaboration with users based on “buzz”. The techniques herein, implemented as an app, tab, or plug-in to a social media site, provide user interface and back-end mechanisms to identify people over time in a community-up (not content-down) manner that weights current actions based on the accumulated value of past actions of all involved users, such as by granting users levels of advocacy points/badges for creating or curating content that drive response and action from the audience, with immediate social validation. Value may be measured algorithmically based on first and second tier activities driven by a user action. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181121 | FEATURE EMBEDDING IN MATRIX FACTORIZATION - In various embodiments, systems and methods are provided for enhancing media content recommendations by using feature vectors. An enhanced-matrix having a first portion and a second portion is received. The first portion of the enhanced-matrix includes a user-item matrix and the second portion of the enhanced-matrix includes a feature-item matrix. Each entry in the feature-item matrix is item metadata. An item-stem vector is determined based on a weighted sum of each of the feature vectors associated with the item. An item-latent-trait vector is generated based on the item-stem vector and an item-offset vector. The item-offset vector is an item vector for the item in the user-item matrix. One or more recommended-media content derived based on the item-latent-trait vector is provided. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188894 | TOUCH TO SEARCH - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying a query for selected content. In one aspect, a method includes receiving gesture data specifying a user gesture interacting with a portion of displayed content. A subset of the content is identified based on the gesture data. A set of candidate search queries is identified based on the subset of the content. A likelihood score is determined for each candidate search query. The likelihood score for a candidate search query indicates a likelihood that the candidate search query is an intended search query specified by the user gesture. The likelihood score for each candidate search query is adjusted using a normalization factor. The normalization factor can be based on a number of characters included in the candidate search query. One or more of the candidate search queries are selected based on the adjusted likelihood scores. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188895 | DETECTING ANOMALIES IN BEHAVIORAL NETWORK WITH CONTEXTUAL SIDE INFORMATION - Various technologies described herein pertain to detecting contextual anomalies in a behavioral network. Label propagation can be performed to construct contexts and assign respective context membership scores to users. Each context can be a respective subset of the users expected to have similar resource usages. The contexts can be constructed and the context membership scores can be assigned by combining behavioral information and contextual side information. The behavioral information can specify respective resource usages by the users within the behavioral network. Moreover, respective contextual anomaly scores for the users can be computed based on the respective context membership scores assigned to the users and the contextual side information. Further, the contextual anomalies can be detected from the contextual anomaly scores. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188896 | DISCOVERING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DATA PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT COMPONENTS - A method, system, and computer program product for discovering relationships between data processing environment components are provided in the illustrative embodiments. Whether a log entry in a set of log entries references a combination of the data processing environment components is detected. The combination of components includes a first component and a second component present in the data processing environment. A type of the log entry is determined. A weight is assigned to the log entry according to the determined type. the weight of the log entry is combined with a second weight of a second log entry to form a cumulative weight. A strength level for which the cumulative weight qualifies is determined. The strength level is assigned to a relationship between the combination of components. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188897 | CrowdChunk System, Method and Computer Program Product for Searching Summaries of Mobile Apps Reviews - System, method, and computer program product (e.g. mobile App) and/or web-based service to enable users to research reviews written online to assess the performance and functionality of mobile applications. The system extracts reviews from multiple online sources comprising: mobile Apps “stores”, blogs, online magazines, websites, etc.; and, utilizes sentiment analysis algorithms and supervised machine learning analysis to present more informative summaries for each App's reviews. Summaries may comprise: a sentence that encapsulates a sentiment held by many users; the most positive and negative comments; and a list of features with average scores (e.g. graphics, fun, easy to use, etc.). Additionally, the user may view a separate review detail page per App that provides further summaries, such as a short list of other Apps that the same reviewer gave a very positive review for the features. The user is then able to purchase and download the App via a link. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188898 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FAST DATA SEARCHING - Apparatus and method searching data in a multi record data structure with at least first and second criteria where criteria are selected for search to preferentially select criteria for speeding search based on criteria from other records. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195546 | Selective Push System For User Data And Confidential Information Management With High Precision Matching - A computer implemented selective push system and method for user data and confidential information management with high precision matching based on user-defined values. The process is carried out by a user using a computer having a central processor unit, memory, a graphics user interface, input device, and communication device. A user enters and ranks data and information and selected targeted destinations to which data and information is to be submitted; the system analyzes and confirms the entered data and information, locates and matches destinations, and pushes the data and information to the highest ranked target destinations defined by the user, and generates a notification of the submission to the user. The user may define pushing times, dates, priorities, importance, customize data submission options, and history and retention and forwarding options, and specify which data elements are confidential to selected target destinations and for selected purposes. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195547 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING AND RANKING NEWSWORTHINESS - A system and method for determining a newsworthiness score for a news story, including the steps of receiving data describing a news story from a client, comparing the data describing the news story to a set of pre-determined factors, locating the factors that are present on the set of pre-determined factors in the data, adding pre-calculated values to a running total, the newsworthiness score, for each factor found in the data. | 07-10-2014 |
20140201214 | CREATING A FILE DESCRIPTOR INDEPENDENT OF AN OPEN OPERATION - A server computer system receives a file access request for accessing a file in a file system. The file access request includes a file handle for the file. The server computer system assigns a value as a file descriptor for the file. The assignment is performed without issuing a file open request to open the file. The server computer system associates the file descriptor with the file handle in a data store accessible to a storage subsystem and provides the file descriptor for accessing the file to the storage subsystem according to the file access request. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201215 | INDICATING LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE IN DIGITAL CONTENT - Rating content of a digital file includes analyzing, by a computer, data associated with content of the digital file based on predetermined criteria defining a confidence level in the content of the digital file. Each predetermined criterion includes a range of values and at least one threshold delineating a lower confidence level and a higher confidence level. Different confidence ratings are assigned to different segments of the content based on determining that the different segments correspond to different thresholds of the predetermined criteria. The computer associates the different confidence ratings to the different segments. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201216 | CREATING USER SKILL PROFILES THROUGH USE OF AN ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORK - Systems and methods to generate user skill profiles through use of an enterprise social network are disclosed. An example method may include linking hash tags and people tags with access to at least one topic-based discussion space in the enterprise social network. The method may also include assigning a topic authority score to a user in the enterprise social network. The method may also include matching the user to a skill profile based on the topic authority score of the user. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201217 | Unified Semantic Scoring of Compositions of Ontological Subjects - The present invention discloses methods, systems, and tools for unified semantic scoring of compositions of ontological subjects. The method breaks a composition into a plurality of partitions as well as its constituent ontological subjects of different orders and builds a participation matrix indicating the participation of ontological subjects of the composition in other ontological subjects, i.e. the partitions, of the composition. The method, systematically, enables the calculation of the semantic scores/ranks, value significances of ontological subjects of different orders and/or calculating and obtaining adjacency data of their visual graphical representations, and/or the association strengths between the ontological subjects of different orders of the composition. Various systems for implementing the method and numerous applications and services are disclosed. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201218 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING RANKED DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive information about an application design plan. The application design plan can be associated with at least one deployment criterion. One or more available infrastructure resources can be identified based on the information about the application design plan. A plurality of deployment options can be determined based on the one or more available infrastructure resources. The plurality of deployment options can be determined to be compliant with the at least one deployment criterion. The plurality of deployment options can be ranked to produce an ordered set of deployment options. | 07-17-2014 |
20140207790 | MAPPING AND BOOSTING OF TERMS IN A FORMAT INDEPENDENT DATA RETRIEVAL QUERY - Aspects of the present invention provide a tool for retrieving data in response to a query in any format. In an embodiment, each query term of the query is analyzed to determine whether it corresponds to either a domain keyword or a formula designator. If a formula designator is retrieved, each formula term associated with the formula designator is mapped to a domain keyword. Each of the domain keywords, the formula designators, and the mapped formula terms are boosted. A dataset is searched using a structured search query that includes all boosted terms, as well as any remaining query terms that do not correspond to one of the boosted terms. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207791 | INFORMATION NETWORK FRAMEWORK FOR FEATURE SELECTION FIELD - Systems and methods are disclosed to facilitate real time feature selection. Some embodiments of the invention describe a framework for feature selection via an iterative probabilistic graph learning approach. A feature dataset can be collected and transformed into an information network in a star schema layout, respecting feature type differences. Features can then be simultaneously ranked in the network, both with respect to feature types and the central feature. Feature selection is then performed, allowing for both the identification of valuable features, and, if dealing with labeled data, the ability to construct predictive rules for future data records based on the ranked and selected feature set. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207792 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING REGULAR EXPRESSIONS FOR DATA FIELD EXTRACTIONS WITH NATURAL LANGUAGE EDITING - Embodiments are directed towards automatically generating extraction rules for extracting fields from event records. An extraction rule application receives field data describing the fields to be extracted (including one or more examples) and a collection of event records that may be a representative sample set from a larger set of events records. The extraction rule application generates extraction rules based on the event records and the field data. These extraction rules may be ranked using a determined quality score. Quality scores for extraction rules may be determined based on various metrics related to the operation of the extraction rules and the resultant extracted values. Preferred extraction rules may be determined by ranking the extraction rules based on their quality scores. Also, natural language expressions may be used to create, edit, or modify extraction rules. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207793 | SPONSORED RECOMMENDATION IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system presents suggestions to a user of a social networking system to use or install one or more applications accessible in the system. The social networking system offers suggestions by ranking candidate applications for a particular user and selecting applications to recommend based on the rankings. Advertisers associated with some applications may bid to boost the rankings of an application, making it more likely to appear for a given user. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207794 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONDUCTING A SEARCH BASED ON CONTEXT - An approach is provided for enabling a search to be performed based on the context of the requesting user. A query processing platform receives a query from a user at a device. The platform then determines to select and then transmit the query to one or more other users based on context information associated with the user or the device, a relevancy of the one or more other users to the query, or a combination thereof. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207795 | SEARCHING AND DETERMINING ACTIVE AREA - The present disclosure discloses an example method and server for searching and determining an active area. A search request is received by a server. An active area corresponding to the search request is searched in accordance with the search request. Information of the active area is returned. According to the present techniques, the active area found by the server is determined objectively based on the obtained related information. The present techniques avoid increasing search times of the server, prevent waste of resources and bandwidth of the server, and improve the accuracy and reliability for searching the active area. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207796 | COMPUTING SYSTEM WITH CORRELATION ESTIMATION MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A computing system includes: a sensor configured to receive an input observation including a sample count for processing an original content; and a control unit, coupled to the sensor, configured to: generate a covariance estimate based on the input observation for identifying the original content associated with the input observation for implementing a linear estimation mechanism, and calculate a weight combination based on the covariance estimate for identifying the original content. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207797 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR GENERATING SENTIMENTAL INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH MEDIA CONTENT - In accordance with some embodiments, a method for generating sentimental information associated with media content is provided, the method comprising: receiving user input data corresponding to a user; identifying a portion of the media content item based on the user input data; determining a sentiment based on the user input data, wherein the sentiment is one of a positive sentiment which indicates that the media content item was liked by the user or a negative sentiment which indicates that the media content item was disliked by the user; determining an amount of the sentiment based on the user input data; associating the amount of the sentiment with the portion of the media content item; and generating, for the media content item, sentimental information that indicates the amount of the sentiment associated with at least one portion of the media content item. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207798 | CLIENT APPLICATION FINGERPRINTING BASED ON ANALYSIS OF CLIENT REQUESTS - Processes are disclosed for fingerprinting and identifying client applications based on the analysis of client requests. In an HTTP-based embodiment, a fingerprint is constructed based on the presence and order of HTTP headers included in a request from a client application or device. This fingerprint may then be compared to known fingerprints associated with particular client applications to identify the particular client application and/or to assess whether the client application is malicious. The results of this analysis may, for example, be used to determine how to respond to the current request and/or subsequent requests. | 07-24-2014 |
20140214857 | PUBLISHING RDF QUADS AS RELATIONAL VIEWS - A method, system, and computer program product for transforming RDF quads to relational views. The method commences by receiving a named graph, the named graph comprising at least one RDF quad, and analyzing the named graph to produce analysis metadata. The method uses the analysis metadata to generate relational views. The method further comprises publishing a relational view in the form of a SPARQL query. The quality of the results can be quantitatively measured and reported by calculating a goodness score based at least in part on aspects of the relational view definitions. Several variants for transformation include generating relational view definitions formed using a named-graph strict variant, or a named-graph relaxed variant, or a named-graph agnostic variant. The transformations can form outputs responsive to characteristics or properties such as a number of classes, a number of single-valued properties, a number of nullability properties, or a number of type-uniformed ranges. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214858 | SEMANTICS GRAPHS FOR ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Building a semantics graph for an enterprise communication network can include calculating a distance metric between a first signifier and a second signifier associated with an enterprise communication network, wherein the distance metric includes a plurality of relationships defined based on a frequency of co-occurrences of the first signifier and the second signifier, and building a semantics graph for the enterprise communication network using the calculated distance metric. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214859 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PUSHING ASSOCIATION KNOWLEDGE - The disclosure provides a method for pushing association knowledge, comprising: determining ID information of a user when the user accesses resources; retrieving knowledge having ID information coincident with the ID information of the user in the resources; and pushing knowledge with the highest weight among the retrieved knowledge to the user. The disclosure also provides a device for pushing association knowledge, comprising: an ID module configured to determine ID information of a user when the user accesses resources; a retrieval module configured to retrieve knowledge having ID information coincident with the ID information of the user in the resources; and a pushing module configured to push knowledge with the highest weight among the retrieved knowledge to the user. According to the disclosure, it is able to improve the user experience. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214860 | DATA GENERATION DEVICE, CONTENT REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a data generation device including a content specifying unit configured to specify content, a period estimation unit configured to estimate a period in which the content specified by the content specifying unit attracts interest, and a metadata generation unit configured to associate as metadata the period estimated by the period estimation unit with the content. | 07-31-2014 |
20140222830 | SELECTING CONTENT FOR A USER - Systems and methods for selecting content for a user. A computer system may received from a user device associated with the user a request for a content search and a first search factor describing motion of the user. The computer system may also receive a second search factor describing an environment of the user. The computer system may select at least one content item to be provided to the user based on at least the first search factor and the second search factor; and transmit an indication of the at least one content item towards the user device. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222831 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERSONALIZED DELIVERY OF MEDIA CONTENT - In one exemplary embodiment, a system includes a social media tag-cloud generator. The social media tag-cloud generator obtains a user's social media feed and generates a topic tag cloud. The topic tag cloud includes a weighted key term representing a topic that occurs in the user's social media feed. A media-content source module obtains a first metadata about a first media-content episode. The media-content source module obtains a second metadata about a second media-content episode. The first metadata includes information to identify the first media content episode and to locate the first media content episode in a computer network. The second metadata includes information to identify the second media content episode and to locate the second media content episode in the computer network. A media-content scoring module determines a first score for the first media-content episode. The first score includes a first value judgment based on the weighted key term. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222832 | Searching methods using genetic responsivity measurements - Methods and apparatus for using an energy emanating device that finds a person ( | 08-07-2014 |
20140222833 | Trusted Social Networks - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for trusted social networking. Embodiments of the invention include a trusted social network that adds value by sharing information that is both of interest to a user (e.g., based on needs, preferences, and time and place) and is from trusted sources (e.g., friends). Tips associated with the trusted social network can be created (as well as presented) and viewed through a client program that provides an interface to the trusted social network. In some embodiments, the client program is used to present the user interface and handle interactions with the trusted social network. In other embodiments, web based constructs are used to present the user interface and handle interactions with the trusted social network through a web browser. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222834 | CONTENT SUMMARIZATION AND/OR RECOMMENDATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with summarization and recommendation of content are disclosed herewith. In embodiments, an apparatus may include a content processing engine to process content. The content processing engine may include a summarization engine to score constituent parts of the content, and to generate a plurality of summaries from a plurality of points of view for the content, based at least in part on the scores of constituent parts. The summaries may be formed with constituent parts extracted from the contents. In embodiments, the apparatus may further include a recommendation engine and/or a user preference learning module. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222835 | Detecting Social Graph Elements for Structured Search Queries - In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving an unstructured text query, parsing the text query to identify n-grams; determining a score that the n-grams correspond to particular nodes and edges from a social graph, identifying those nodes and edges with a score greater than a threshold score, and then generating structured queries that include references to the identified nodes and edges. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222836 | DETERMINING DEPENDENCIES DURING MACRO EXPANSION - In certain embodiments, a parser parses a formula to yield one or more functions, at least one function comprising a dependent value of a dependent object. One or more macro handlers configured to execute the functions are determined. At least one macro handler is instructed to register with one or more dominant objects on behalf of the dependent object, where the dominant objects are used to evaluate the dependent value. | 08-07-2014 |
20140236964 | Systems And Methods For Ranking A Plurality Of Documents Based On User Activity - Systems and methods for ranking a plurality of documents based on user activity are disclosed. A method includes receiving first user activity data and second user activity data. A first user activity point value is associated with the first user activity. A second user activity point value is associated with the second user activity. The method further includes identifying a first data item based on the first user activity data, identifying a second data item based on the second user activity data, updating a first score of the first data item based on the first user activity point value, updating a second score of the second data item based on the second user activity point value, identifying the plurality of documents based on the first data item and the second data item, and ranking the plurality of documents based on the first score and the second score. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236965 | FEATURE GENERATION AND MODEL SELECTION FOR GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELS - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with feature generation and model selection for generalized linear models are described. In one embodiment, a method includes ordering candidate features in a dataset being considered by a streamwise feature selection process according to an inclusion score that reflects a likelihood that a given candidate feature will be included in the GLM. The ordered candidate features are provided to the streamwise feature selection process for acceptance testing. In one embodiment, the method also includes selecting penalty criterion for use in the acceptance testing that is based on characteristics of the dataset. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236966 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO ESTIMATE QUERY RESPONSES BASED ON DATA SET SKETCHES - Methods and systems for estimate derivation are described. In one embodiment, a query may be received with a predicate for sets over a collection of items. Associated samples associated with the query may be accessed. Items of an associated sample may be accessed from the collection of items. A determination of whether the predicate is an attribute-based selection from a union of at least some sets may be made. Available items of the particular associated sample may be selected from the items. Identified items may be identified among the available items in the associated sample that satisfy the predicate. An adjusted weight may be assigned to an item based on a weight of the item and a distribution of the associated samples. An estimate may be generated based on the adjusted weight of the identified items of the associated samples that satisfy the predicate. Additional methods and systems are disclosed. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236967 | Information Processing System, Information Processing Method, Information Processing Device and Communication Terminal, and Method and Program for Controlling Same - An information processing device assists generation of social communication, based on user communication information exchanged through a network. The information processing device includes: a communication information collection unit that collects the communication information; a life log information extraction unit that extracts life log information included in the collected communication information; a life log information storage unit that stores the extracted life log information in a configuration capable of being searched at least on an individual user unit basis, the life log information storage unit memorizing scores of a plurality of indexes while associating the scores with the life log information, the indexes indicating degrees of contribution of the life log information to new social communication generation; and a life log information management unit that manages the life log information stored in the life log information storage unit, based on a combination of the scores of the indexes. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236968 | Discrete Wavelet Transform Method for Document Structure Similarity - Examples of the present disclosure may include methods, systems, and computer readable media with executable instructions. An example method for determining document structure similarity can include segmenting path sequences ( | 08-21-2014 |
20140244658 | OPTIMIZING USER SELECTION FOR PERFORMING TASKS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Embodiments of the invention relate to optimizing user response rate in social media. One embodiment includes generating a statistical model for modeling a likelihood of social media user response from data collected from social media using a set of available features. The social media users are ranked in an estimation set based on the statistical model. The ranked social media users are placed in a rank ordered list. A sub-interval on the rank ordered list is selected for maximizing the response rate. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244659 | Customized Content Consumption Interface - A content processing device may be operable to analyze activity information associated with particular content identified in a content library associated with a user account. One or more entities associated with the particular content may be identified by the content processing device. The content processing device may collect, from various sources, information related to each of the identified one or more entities. The content processing device may determine, based on one or both of a result of the analysis and the collected information, update information for the particular content. The content processing device may then add, based on one or more ranking factors, item information comprising the particular content along with the determined update information to a list of items associated with the user account. Upon receiving an indication from a data processing device, the content processing device may communicate the list of items to the data processing device. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244660 | RANKING MEDIA CONTENT SOURCES - A processing device identifies a plurality of media items that have been accessed by a user. The processing device determines a plurality of annotations in the plurality of media items that identify a plurality of media content sources. The processing device calculates scores for the plurality of media content sources, wherein a score for a media content source of the plurality of media content sources is calculated based at least in part on a quantity of the plurality of annotations that identify the media content source. The processing device ranks the plurality of media content sources based on the calculated scores. The processing device the provides one or more ranked media content sources for presentation to the user. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244661 | Pushing Suggested Search Queries to Mobile Devices - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication of a location of a mobile-client system of a user, determining an intent of the user based on the location of the user, generating one or more suggested queries based on the determined intent of the user; and transmitting a notification to the mobile-client system of the user that includes one or more of the suggested queries. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244662 | USE OF DISCOVERY VS SEARCH AS A MEANS TO UNDERSTAND USER BEHAVIOR, INTERESTS AND PREFERENCES - Methods and systems may involve identifying source content associated with an activity of is user with respect to a rust media source. Discovery content may be captured from one or more additional media sources based on the source content, wherein the discovery content may be presented to the user if at least a portion of the discovery content is tangential to the source content. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244663 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STAGED CONTENT ANALYSIS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example network device having a controller to receive multiple streams of content for portions of a multimedia work, perform a high level analysis for features in each of the streams for the multimedia work, perform a specialized analysis on the portion having a detected general feature to generate a content analysis output, correlate the content analysis output with other content analysis of the multimedia work, and output a weighted content description based on the correlation function. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 08-28-2014 |
20140250132 | AUTOMATED HIGHEST PRIORITY ORDERING OF CONTENT ITEMS STORED ON A DEVICE - A method and device relate to prioritizing content items stored on a device and, more particularly, relate to automatically ordering highest priority content items stored on a device according to multiple criteria. The method and device enabling presentation, on a display of the device, the high priority content items in order of their total priority. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250133 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY - Provided are methods and systems for knowledge discovery utilizing knowledge profiles. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250134 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TARGETING QUERIES BASED ON LOCATION - A system and method for management of location based requests is described. A responder for a request may be selected based on a location associated with a request and a ranking or rating of a responder for a location. A location may be associated with a responder based on requests accepted by the responder, submitted by the responder, and/or otherwise associated with a location and a responder. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250135 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ADAPTING A DATA MODEL TO A USER INTERFACE COMPONENT - A display of a source data model on a user interface component being associated with a target data model is provided. The source data model and the target data model comprise a collection of data types (class/object), each including a set of name and type attributes. For each source data type of the source data model, a matching target data type is determined among said target data types in the target data model. Said source data type is linked to said matching target data type. A display of said source data model using said link between a source data type and a target data type. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250136 | TIMELINE VIEW FILTERED BY PERMISSIONS AND AFFINITY TO VIEWER - The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on whether the viewing user has permission to view them. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by time. The timeline view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user. | 09-04-2014 |
20140250137 | QUERYING FEATURES BASED ON USER ACTIONS IN ONLINE SYSTEMS - Online systems, for example, social networking systems store features describing relations between entities represented in the online system. The information describing the features is represented as a graph. The online system maintains a cumulative feature graph and an incremental feature graph. Feature values based on recent user actions are stored in the incremental graph and feature values based on previous actions are stored in the cumulative graph. Periodically, the information stored in the incremental feature graph is merged with the information stored in the cumulative feature graph. The incremental graph is marked as inactive during the merge and information based on new user actions is stored in an active incremental feature graph. If a request for feature information is received, the feature information obtained from the cumulative feature graph, inactive incremental feature graph and the active incremental feature graph are combined to determine the feature information. | 09-04-2014 |
20140258308 | Objective Application Rating - Example apparatus and methods concern objective ratings for an application. The application may have been downloaded to a plurality of devices from a server or other device. One example method includes acquiring objective data about the application and then computing an objective rating for the application from the objective data. The objective data will be collected in electronic form. A portion of the objective data may be collected by a member(s) of the plurality of devices when the application is run on the member(s). The objective rating may be determined on a device that downloaded the application, on a device from which the application was downloaded, in a cloud service, or in other locations. The objective rating may be provided as electronic data that can be displayed by a computer, tablet, smart phone, or other device capable of processing and displaying electronic data. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258309 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A REVIEW PLATFORM - A method for personalizing reviews for a user on a social network, comprising the steps of: receiving from at least two or more users a rating and a recommendation for a reviewable item, wherein the rating is numerical value in a rating scale, and wherein a recommendation is a binary endorsement; receiving a request from a user to view the ratings and recommendations for one or more reviewable items; determining a combined rating and an combined recommendation for all users of the social network at one or more social degrees for the one or more reviewable items; and displaying, by a user interface, the combined rating and combined recommendation for all users of the social network at one or more social degrees for the one or more reviewable items. | 09-11-2014 |
20140280202 | IN-DATABASE CONNECTIVITY COMPONENTS ANALYSIS OF DATA - A method determines the connectivity components defined by a set of relations over a set of data elements. For each first data element of a selected subset of data elements, a second data element that is linked to the first data element by a path of relations is selected as its representative, using a randomization process. A new set of relations is created by replacing each first data element of the subset by its representative in at least part of the set of relations. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280203 | IDENTIFYING A STALE DATA SOURCE TO IMPROVE NLP ACCURACY - In some NLP systems, queries are compared to different data sources stored in a corpus to provide an answer to the query. However, the best data sources for answering the query may not currently be contained within the corpus or the data sources in the corpus may contain stale data that provides an inaccurate answer. When receiving a query, the NLP system may evaluate the query to identify a data source that is likely to contain an answer to the query. If the data source is not currently contained within the corpus, the NLP system may ingest the data source. If the data source is already within the corpus, however, the NLP may determine a time-sensitivity value associated with at least some portion of the query. This value may then be used to determine whether the data source should be re-ingested—e.g., the information contained in the corpus is stale. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280204 | Document Provenance Scoring Based On Changes Between Document Versions - A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product is provided for optimizing a document change or provenance scoring system by weighting sections of a document, scoring the changes for each section, and then combining the change scores for each section to generate an overall change score. An associated report may also be generated that catalogs all of the various scoring elements. The weighted score is stored in a document management system and provides a human document reviewer a level of detail to evaluate document changes. Accordingly, the weighted score reveals whether a document's changes require a brief or detailed review before the document's changes are approved for a next document version. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280205 | COMPUTING NETWORK NODE ADJUSTMENTS - A method of computing relative rankings for multiple course trajectories may include accessing a data structure. The data structure may include a first node that may represent a first course and a plurality of nodes that may represent courses that are available after completing the first course. Each of the plurality of nodes may be associated with a weight, and the plurality of nodes may include a second node representing a second course. The method may also include receiving a first grade for a student for the first course and receiving a second grade for the student for the second course. The method may additionally include adjusting the weight associated with the second node using the first grade and the second grade. The method may further include providing a ranking of the plurality of courses using the weights of the plurality of courses. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280206 | SOCIAL CACHE - Various embodiments relating to a social cache replacement policy are described. The techniques of the present invention disclosed utilize social network properties to guide a cache replacement policy executed by a social networking platform system. In one embodiment, a method is provided for determining a queue location to cache a data item based on a popularity score computed from social network properties. In one embodiment, a method is provided for computing the popularity score by incorporating a user's social network properties and the user's friends' social network properties. In embodiments, the popularity score may be computed using a plurality of social network properties, which may include social network properties associated with (i) the user, (ii) the consumer(s), and/or (iii) the data item(s). In embodiments, a plurality of popularity scores are maintained in a user-score database, where the plurality of popularity scores are periodically updated using historical data. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280207 | MAILBOX SEARCH ENGINE USING QUERY MULTI-MODAL EXPANSION AND COMMUNITY-BASED SMOOTHING - A retrieval method on a database of documents including text and names of participants associated with the documents includes: receiving a text query facet of keywords and a persons query facet of participant names; computing an enriched text query as an aggregation of the text query facet, a monomodal expansion of the text query facet based on the keywords, a cross-modal expansion of the text query facet based on the participant names, and a topic expansion of the text query facet based on a topic model associating words and topics; computing an enriched persons query as an aggregation of the persons query facet, a monomodal expansion of the persons query facet based on the participant names, a cross-modal expansion of the persons query facet based on the keywords, and a community expansion of the persons query facet based on a community model associating persons and communities. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280208 | System and Method for Remote Activity Detection - A system and method is disclosed for a remote activity detection process using an analysis of data streams of an entity such as an end user and/or a customer. In an embodiment, the detection process uses the data stream analysis to evaluate an entity's potential involvement in an activity based on individual measures for the entity such as comparison of the entity's data stream to the entity's peers, comparison of the entity's data stream to historical information for the entity, and/or comparison of the entity's data stream to data streams for a known second entity involved in the activity. The detection process may also use other information available which may impact the data points in a data stream, such as premises attributes associated with an entity, demographic attributes for the entity, financial attributes for the entity, and system alerts. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280209 | Method, A System and a Computer Program Product for Scoring a Profile in Social Networking System - A method, system and a computer program product for scoring a profile in a social networking system. The method comprises at least one Fan profile, at least one Talent profile and at least one Business profile, comprising a computer that has access to the social networking system. The computer is configured to receive information of the number of sharing actions the profile has introduced to the social networking system; receive information of the number of commercial actions the profile has executed in the social networking system; receive indication of interest from the profile, wherein each indication of interest is an action taken by the profile that shows that the profile has interest in the Talent profile or the Business profile; and calculate based upon the number of sharing actions and the number of commercial actions score metrics representing the profile's influence for the Talent profile or the Business profile. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280210 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING - Systems and methods are provided for natural language processing. A method in a server includes storing a graph data structure (GDS) of nodes, each node associated with an entity data value, and links, wherein each link connects two nodes and is associated with a relationship data value and evaluation criteria-rating pair values, receiving an input for response from an electronic device, parsing the input to identify entity data values and relationship data values, populating the GDS with the identified entity data values, and the relationship data values, wherein the populating includes applying evaluation criteria-rating pair values, traversing the GDS to identify problems indicated by the evaluation criteria-rating pair values, in response to the traversing, determining changes to the GDS to satisfy identified problems, if the determination is affirmative, populating a solution GDS that satisfies identified problems, and transmitting, to the electronic device, a response to the input. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280211 | DEVICE AND RELATED METHOD FOR APPLICATION IDENTIFICATION - A function is provided for identifying computer applications running on a network. Information obtained from frames having content associated with computer applications is examined and compared to information stored on the network. The stored information is obtained from a plurality of mechanisms including computer application signatures. An application identification engine of the function compares examined content with the known application information and determines an indication of the likely computer application associated with the examined frames. The determination output may include a level of confidence in the accuracy of the determination. The function includes an application programming interface to allow the introduction into the engine of custom mechanisms for application identification. The different mechanisms may be weighted. The function may be provided in one or more devices of the network including a standalone appliance. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280212 | Video Optimizer for Determining Relationships Between Events - There is provided a system and method for a video optimizer for determining relationships between events. The method comprises receiving a total number of events for a plurality of contents over a period of time, receiving a first number of events of a first content of the plurality of contents over the period of time, receiving a second number of events of the plurality of contents over the period of time, and determining a relationship between the first content and the second content based on the first number of events, the second number of events, and the total number of events. A second relationship may be determined by utilizing a first time of event by a user of the first content, a second time of event by the user of the second content, and a weighed correspondence. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280213 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCORING AND RANKING DIGITAL CONTENT BASED ON ACTIVITY OF NETWORK USERS - Systems and methods for delivering personalized content streams over a variety of devices and networks are disclosed. A user's preferences, customizations, and content are made available to the user through specialized clients for home, car, office, and portable environments. In order to enable personalized content streams on devices that are intermittently connected or that make use of network bandwidth during off-peak hours, the system prescribes a distributed content sequencing engine and a distributed, synchronized user profile and station/channel definitions. The system is also designed to support players connected via unidirectional or asymmetric connections such as satellite radios with or without an upstream data link. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280214 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-PHASE RANKING FOR CONTENT PERSONALIZATION - Embodiments of the present teachings disclose method, system, and programs for a multi-phase ranking system for implementation with a personalized content system. The disclosed method, system, and programs utilize a weighted AND system to compute a dot product of the user profile and a content profile in a first phase, a content quality indicator in the second phase and a rules filter in a third phase. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280215 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TWO-TIERED QUESTIONNAIRE ANALYSIS - A system and method for using a two-tiered weighting algorithm for analyzing answers given for a particular questionnaire. In various awards shows, sporting events, or contests with categories and multiple candidates for winning various categories, users of the system may make a set of predictions for each category. The predictions may include predictions ranked according to the user's belief in likelihood of winning. Thus, the choice a user believes is most likely to win may be ranked in a first position, the choice the user believes to be the second most likely to win may be ranked in a second position and so on. Then, each category may be assigned a weighted value for the category as well as weighted values for positions in which the user predicted the winner. Thus, an overall two-tier weighted score for the set of predications may be calculated. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280216 | AUTOMATED RANKING OF CONTRIBUTORS TO A KNOWLEDGE BASE - A system and method is provided to rank contributors to a knowledge base. In an automated operation, a ranking value is calculated for each of a plurality of knowledge-based contributors based both on document information and on personal network information pertaining to the respective contributor. The document information identifies relationships being documents in the knowledge base and the particular contributor, indicating, for example, whether the contributor authored the document, read the document, or rated the document. The personal network information indicates personal connections in the knowledge base between the respective contributors. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280217 | Custom Score Generation System and Methods - Some embodiments provide a custom score generation system by offering third parties access to data from a shared database that they can merge with their own proprietary data for the purpose of defining and producing new data services. The system provides interfaces for selecting data elements from the shared database, attributing weights to the selected data elements, and defining scoring rules or parameters to automatically evaluate the significance of the data element values. Additionally, conditions may be specified to include different sets of the selected data elements, to attribute different weights to the different sets of the selected data elements, and to define different scoring rules according to which conditions are satisfied. The system then automatically formulates the algorithm to produce the custom score in conformance with the provided inputs and based on values for the selected data elements that are specific to different entities. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280218 | TECHNIQUES FOR DATA INTEGRATION - Techniques for data integration are provided. Source attributes for source data are interactively mapped to target attributes for target data. Rules define how records from the source data are merged, selected, and for duplication detection. The mappings and rules are recorded as a profile for the source data and processed against the source data to transform the source attributes to the target attributes. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280219 | IDENTIFYING AVAILABLE EXERCISES FOR CUSTOMIZING AN EXERCISE SESSION - System, apparatuses, and methods can provide customized exercise sessions and customized videos corresponding to the exercise session. Exercise components that are available to a user for an exercise category can be determined based on a user rank in the category and a rank of the components in the category. Certain available components can be selected to include in a customized session. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280220 | SCORED STORAGE DETERMINATION - A method of determining a storage device on which to store received data is provided. Data is received. A score indicating a value associated with the received data is computed. A storage device is determined from a plurality of types of storage devices on which to store the received data based on the computed score. The received data is sent to the determined storage device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280221 | TAILORING USER EXPERIENCE FOR UNRECOGNIZED AND NEW USERS - A system stores a table mapping users to attributes, and stores a second table mapping the users to products associated with a source domain. The system determines a set of top scoring products for each of the attributes, and creates, using the top scoring products, a model that is predictive of an activity in a target domain, the target domain being separate from the source domain. The system detects a behavior from a particular user accessing the target domain, and generates a personalized prediction for the particular user based on the model, in response to the detecting the behavior. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280222 | IDENTIFYING A SOCIAL LEADER - There are disclosed systems and methods for calculating the “social score” of users of social websites to determine who the “social leaders” are. The activities of users of social websites are monitored and activities weighted. The combined scores for the user's activities provide an absolute score for the particular user. The absolute score from a single social website, or combined absolute scores from a plurality of social websites, can be used. In either instance, the absolute score obtained of a user is compared to the absolute scores of other users and a relative score is obtained. The relative score provides a ranking of each user as compared to the rest of the user population. In this manner, social leaders, e.g., the top ten percent in relative score can be identified. Social leaders are of interest to various entities to provide targets for advertising, product test marketing, and the like. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280223 | MEDIA RECOMMENDATION BASED ON MEDIA CONTENT INFORMATION - Disclosed are the method and apparatus for recommending media objects based on media object metadata. The technology generates media content metadata that relate to contents of a plurality of media objects from a plurality of web documents. The web documents reference one or more of the media objects. The technology further determines feature vectors of the media objects. The elements of the feature vectors comprise values of the media content metadata. The technology then calculates a distance in a feature vector space between a first feature vector of a first media object of the media objects and a second feature vector of a second media object of the media objects, and transmits a recommendation of the second media object based on the distance between the first and second feature vectors. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280224 | Systems and Methods for Recommending Relationships within a Graph Database - Systems and methods for relationship recommendations systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. In one embodiment, a relationship recommendation server system includes a processor wherein a relationship recommendation program configures the processor to obtain a graph database including a set of nodes including node attribute data and a set of edges including edge attribute data and describing relationships between nodes in the set of nodes, determine a set of motif data, where the motif data describes at least one subgraph including a subset of the nodes and a subset of the edges within the graph database, obtain a search node, generate additional edges between the search node and a subset of the nodes within the graph database, where the additional edges form subgraphs including the search node that are isomorphic to a subset of the motif data, and recommend relationships based on the generated additional edges. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280225 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR GRADING AND DISTRIBUTING INFORMATION - An automated program that is implemented by a data processing computer is provided with one or more Attributes that applies to each Asset to be routed for application of governance and business rules and then disseminated. An attribute can be supplied by the Innovator, a Consultant, or by the Consumer. Some Attributes are static, others are generated by the system automatically, and others are dynamic in that they depend on events that are not static. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280226 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HARMONIZED RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON AN INTEGRATED USER PROFILE - In certain implementations, a system may receive attribute data corresponding to attributes of a plurality of users and to one or more venues for which the plurality of users has an affinity. A user personality matrix may be calculated for one or more of the plurality of users based on interrelational nodal link strengths between the one or more users and the venues. The user personality matrices may be merged to calculate a combined personality matrix representing a unified taste profile for the one or more users. A candidate list of venues having the highest link strength with the combined personality matrix may be determined. One or more recommended venues from the candidate list of venues that have the strongest links to the combined personality matrix may be determined, and recommendation data corresponding to the recommended venues may be output. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280227 | REAL-TIME ASYNCHRONOUS EVENT AGGREGATION SYSTEMS - A real-time asynchronous event aggregation system, method, and network device are configured to capture real-time asynchronous events, and to pass them as input to one or more aggregation engines to determine a reputation for a target. The aggregation engine(s) may then send out notifications where a reputation category changes for a target, indicating that an action may be taken to inhibit spam messages from the target, highlight a display of content from the target, or the like. As such, the event-driven aggregation engines may be designed to capture real-time asynchronous events, such as reputation reports for a wide variety of activities, including, but not limited to spam and/or not-spam messages, determining a reputation on a posting of comments to a movie, a blog posting, a play list posting, or the like. In one embodiment, a reputation of the sender of the reputation event may also be determined. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280228 | Semantic Mapping of Topic Map Meta-Models Identifying Assets and Events to Include Weights - A method, computer program product and computer system for assigning a weight to an association between an event and an asset. To assign a weight, a first topic map meta-model is created that identifies assets and events in a topic map based index with instance ontology based on a topic map meta model that identifies assets and a topic map meta-model that identifies events. An identification is assigned in the first topic map meta-model to at least one association between at least one asset of the topic map meta-model that identifies assets and at least one event of the topic map meta-model that identifies events and a second topic map meta-model being created that identifies at least one association between at least one asset and at least one event in a topic map based index and instance ontology with weights assigned to the at least one association in various scopes. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280229 | GENERATING DESCRIPTIONS OF MATCHING RESOURCES BASED ON THE KIND, QUALITY, AND RELEVANCE OF AVAILABLE SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE MATCHING RESOURCES - Techniques are provided for generating descriptions of matching resources in a manner that takes into account the kind, quality, and relevance of the available sources of information about the matching resources. For example, after the search engine identifies matching resources based on the query terms, the search engine determines the kinds of available sources of information about each matching resource. For each matching resource, based on the kinds of available sources of information about the matching resource, one of a plurality of processes is selected to generate a description for the matching resource. Using the content-sensitive description generation techniques described herein, a single result set may include abstracts that were generated using several different processes, where the difference in process corresponds to a difference in the kind, quality, and relevance of the available sources of information about each matching resource. | 09-18-2014 |
20140289259 | Social Cue Based Electronic Communication Ranking - A set of electronic communications of different types that the user has sent and/or received, such as email messages, text messages, instant messages, and so forth is obtained. The set of electronic communications can be obtained in various manners, such as by searching the electronic communications of the user for those electronic communications that satisfy user provided search criteria. The electronic communications in the set of electronic communications are ranked according to various social cues that provide an indication of how the user interacts with individuals that are the senders or recipients of the electronic communications. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289260 | Keyword Determination - Examples disclosed herein relate to keyword determination. In one implementation, a processor determines a summary of a text and identifies a keyword related to the text based on a comparison of the summary of the text to the remaining portion of the text. The processor may output the identified keyword. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289261 | CALCULATING TRUST SCORE ON WEB BASED PLATFORM - A method for calculating trust level of a user on social networking sites, comprising: consolidating information related to users operatively associated with at least a web based social platform; assigning weight to each of the consolidated information; computing aggregated score for at least an information; computing weighted average of the aggregated scores of the information; and calculating trust score based on the weighted average score. It further comprises assigning a trust level to the users based upon the trust. The method enables a user to create web of trust for social contacts or friends on the web based social platform wherein the web of trust comprises of most trusted friends, average trusted friends and least trusted friends. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289262 | GENERATING AN ORDERED LIST OF MANAGED TARGETS - An apparatus generates an ordered list of managed targets. A list generating hardware unit generates a list of managed targets. A list displaying hardware unit displays, on a display device, the list of managed targets. The list generating hardware unit further acquires, from a predetermined storage device, history information relating to a session for each managed target from the list of managed targets, where the history information includes information for identifying a session executor who executed the session at a session time. The list generating hardware unit is further configured to determine, using acquired history information related to the session for each managed target from the list of managed targets, an order of the managed targets in the list of managed targets according to rules that are set based on a content of managed information for each managed target. | 09-25-2014 |
20140297655 | Content Presentation Based on Social Recommendations - The disclosed subject matter presents a method of using social connections to provide a content region definition that priorities the display of content on a user device based on information obtained from the social connections of the user. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297656 | MEDIA DEVICE AND USER INTERFACE FOR SELECTING MEDIA - A media device and user interface for selecting media. In one embodiment, the media is selected based upon a desired relationship measure between at least two media files. In another embodiment, the media is selected based upon a skip command control functions. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297657 | PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION FOR MEDIA MERCHANDIZING - Embodiments are directed towards modifying when to publish content to a channel for distribution based on monitored actions associated with previously published content. A plurality of publishing slots may be determined from a plurality of time slots. Each publishing slot may indicate a time to publish content to the channel. Content may be published to the channel at each of the plurality of publishing slots. User actions associated with the published content may be monitored. The plurality of publishing slots may be ranked based on these monitored actions. At least one of the plurality of publishing slots may be modified to a different time slot based on the rankings of the publishing slots. The publication of content at a publishing slot may be delayed based on a success of other content published at a previous publishing slot being above a threshold. | 10-02-2014 |
20140304276 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING BASED ON NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES - The invention relates to methods and systems for social networking based on profile characteristics (e.g., including phenotypic information) and/or genetic sequence information. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304277 | RECOMMENDER AND MEDIA RETRIEVAL SYSTEM THAT RECORD GROUP INFORMATION - A recommender system provides recommendation scores based on stored ratings for media items, for example to assist control of selection of a media item for rendering by a terminal. Data representing stored rating values for media items is stored in a storage system for use to compute the recommendation scores. A processing system record an input rating value for a first one of the media items in the storage system, based on measured activity or input of a user. Furthermore information is acquired about a group of users in the company of which the input rating value applies for the user. This information is recorded in combination with the rating value. The processing system may compute a recommendation score for a second group of users from the stored rating values, dependent on a comparison of the second group of users and the recorded information about the group for which it applies. | 10-09-2014 |
20140310288 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES - A system and method for allocating resources including responders for responding to a request is described. A resource may be allocated based on a request, a user, availability of a responder, availability of a paid responder, a value associated with responding to a request, and a type of resource which is used to respond. Resources may be directed to a request based on expected success, popularity of a request, expected and/or actual reuse of a request, a type of request and a type of information sought. | 10-16-2014 |
20140317124 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PROBE DATA - An approach is provided for providing a unified extensible platform for overall probe data and storage. The approach comprises causing, at least in part, a storage of probe data in one or more information spaces, one or more namespaces of the one or more information spaces, or a combination thereof. The approach further comprises determining one or more nodes for processing the probe data based, at least in part, on one or more context criteria, the one or more nodes associated with the one or more information spaces. The approach also comprises determining to provide access to the processed probe data via the one or more information spaces, the one or more namespaces, or a combination thereof. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317125 | PATENT CLAIM SCOPE EVALUATOR - Systems and methods for calculating a patent claim scope rating are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a method of calculating a patent claim scope rating includes identifying patent references cited in examination of a subject patent and storing the identified patent references as an applied art list, identifying first backward references for the patent references in the applied art list and storing the first backward references as a first backward list, identifying second backward references for the first backward references in the first backward list and storing the second backward references as a second backward list, identifying forward references for the patent references in the applied art list and storing the forward references as a forward list. A patent claim scope rating is based on a calculation including at least a partial combination listing of the applied art list, the first and second backward lists, and the forward list. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317126 | DETERMINING MEASURES OF INFLUENCE OF USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and system for evaluating the reputation of a member of a social networking system is disclosed. Consistent with an embodiment of the invention, one or more attributes associated with a social networking profile of a member of a social network are analyzed. Based on the analysis, a ranking, rating or score is assigned to a particular category of reputation. When requested, the ranking, rating or score is displayed to a user of the social network. | 10-23-2014 |
20140324883 | Generating a Summary Based on Readability - A technique to generate a summary of a set of sentences. Each sentence in the set can be evaluated based on a criterion, such as informativeness of the sentence. The sentences may also be evaluated for readability based on a readability measure. Sentences can be selected for inclusion in the summary based on the evaluations. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324884 | RECOMMENDING MEDIA ITEMS - This is directed to recommending media items of a user's media library. In particular, this is directed to transferring a portion of the user's media library to an electronic device so that the user may discover the portion of the media library. The library can recommend particular media items to the user using any suitable approach, including for example based on one or more preference profiles. The user can accept or reject recommended media items as they are played back to further adjust the user's preference profile, and to revise the selection of recommended media items stored on the device. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324885 | COLOR-BASED RATING SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention are directed to apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for generating a rating score based on color. In some embodiments, the apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are configured to: receive at least one input, wherein the at least one input comprises at least one of a first numerical value, an emoticon, a color, or at least one keyword; process the at least one input; and generate a second numerical value based on processing the at least one input. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324886 | 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. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324887 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING COMMUNICATIONS - The invention provides a system and method for analyzing a collection of communication messages. The communication messages may be any one of a collection of electronic mail messages, voicemail messages, instant messaging dialogues and other forms of communications. The collections of communications, such as electronic mail messages, may be selected by a user and then subsequently processed to determine the identity of any of the user's contacts within the communications. The contacts may then be arranged in a relative priority arrangement whereby contacts which have been identified as engaging in prior reciprocal communications with the user are given higher priority. Higher priority may also be given to contacts which engage in more recent communications with the user. Specific contact relationships may be inferred from the communications depending on whether specific contacts are repeatedly mentioned within the communication messages. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324888 | Method and Apparatus for Identifying a Gesture Based Upon Fusion of Multiple Sensor Signals - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to permit improve gesture recognition based on fusion of different types of sensor signals. In the context of a method, a series of image frames and a sequence of radar signals are received. The method determines an evaluation score for the series of image frames that is indicative of a gesture. This determination of the evaluation score may be based on the motion blocks in an image area and the shift of the motion blocks between image frames. The method also determines an evaluation score for the sequence of radar signals that is indicative of the gesture. This determination of the evaluation score may be based upon the sign distribution in the sequence and the intensity distribution in the sequence. The method weighs each of the evaluation scores and fuses the evaluation scores, following the weighting, to identify the gesture. | 10-30-2014 |
20140330841 | Method, system and apparatus for facilitating discovery of items sharing common attributes - In accordance with example embodiments, the present application discloses at least a method, a system and an apparatus apt to facilitate the browsing, the discovery, and the usage of items. In one embodiment, items share a plurality of common attributes and can be arranged and displayed according to degrees of commonality. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330842 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING RELEVANT INDIVIDUALS BY CROSS-SEARCHING SOCIAL DATA STREAMS - In providing a help service, a server: receives a help request from a help seeker; matches the help request to potential helpers using a scoring model; sends a list of potential helpers to the help seeker; receives selections of potential helpers; sends the help request to each selected potential helper; receives from potential helper indication of willingness to respond to the help request; and sends to the help seeker information on the potential helpers. The server may further: search an external platform for posts seeking help; import the post to the help service; and send a response from potential helpers to post on the platform. The server may further: analyze keywords in the help request; determine it a candidate for sponsored answers; routes the help request to specialists; receives answers from specialists; and sends the answers to the help seeker. The server may further provide a safety net strength score. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330843 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MINING TEMPORAL PATTERN - An apparatus and a method for mining temporal pattern are provided. A method for mining temporal pattern includes generating a data pattern group comprising data patterns from sequential data, generating a candidate pattern group comprising candidate patterns from the data pattern group, calculating a support value for a candidate pattern in a candidate pattern group based on a discrepancy value of the candidate pattern, and determining whether the candidate pattern satisfies a predetermined pattern requirement, based on the calculated support value. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330844 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUALITY RANKING OF MEDIA - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprises a processor configured to monitor a user's quality parameter preference to determine a quality parameter for a reference media, update the quality parameter of the reference media, and adapt the quality parameter of the reference media. | 11-06-2014 |
20140337356 | Identifying Communities Within A Social Network Based on Information Propagation Data - Methods and systems for identifying communities based on information propagation data are described. One of the methods includes receiving a social graph, which includes nodes and relationships between the nodes. The method further includes receiving a number of the communities to find within the social graph, receiving data regarding propagation of information between the nodes, and calculating a probability of formation of a link between a first one of the nodes and a second one of the nodes based on the data. The link provides a direction of flow of media between the first and second nodes. The method includes calculating a probability that media will be accessed by the second node based on the data. One of the communities includes the first node, the second node, and the link. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337357 | DOCUMENT TAGGING AND RETRIEVAL USING PER-SUBJECT DICTIONARIES INCLUDING SUBJECT-DETERMINING-POWER SCORES FOR ENTRIES - Techniques for managing big data include tagging of documents and subsequent retrieval using per-subject dictionaries having entries with subject-determining-power scores. The subject-determining-power scores provide an indication of the descriptive power of the term with respect to the subject of the dictionary containing the term. The same term may have entries in multiple dictionaries with different subject-determining-power scores in each of the dictionaries. A retrieval request for one or more documents containing search terms descriptive of the one or more documents can be processed identifying a set of candidate documents tagged with subjects and optional terms, and then applying subject-determining-power scores from the multiple dictionaries for the search term to determine a subject for the search term. The method then selects the one or more documents from the candidate documents according to the subject. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337358 | INFERRING ENTITY ATTRIBUTE VALUES - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for inferring missing or ambiguous attribute values for entities based on partial information about such entities and/or information about other similar entities as extracted from multiple information sources for generating Web ranking signals for online search. A plurality of heterogeneous input data sources are ingested and combined to produce output data having information content that is more than the sum of its parts. A generic platform is provided where multiple data sources having information content related to entity attributes can be plugged-in without additional changes being necessary to the platform. This generic plugin model for extracting and inferring entity attribute values makes it easy to leverage new data sources as they become available to improve the final inferred attribute data. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337359 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATION AND APPLICATION OF CAUSAL PEER INFLUENCE EFFECTS - The present disclosure describes systems and methods for quantifying causal peer influence within a social network for improved business intelligence. Influencers of a group, or individuals with a greater amount of influence on the group, may be identified and their amount of influence on the group or a subset of the group estimated. The analysis may provide actionable insights into the group, allowing improved marketing or advertising results, prioritization of offers, improved design and execution of A/B tests, or other such features. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337360 | DYNAMIC STORAGE BLOCKS TIERING - Storage management for database access, in which selected data blocks are associated with particular business operations, and in which those data blocks are disposed in response to an assessment of which of those business operations are more important, more urgent, or have a greater need to be reliable. This has the effect that overall transaction performance is improved without significantly increasing infrastructure cost. Noting the relative importance of those particular business transactions and the relative probability that those data blocks will be needed by those particular business transactions, and assuring that data blocks associated with relatively important business transactions are moved to relatively superior storage in advance of requests for access. | 11-13-2014 |
20140344286 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING WEBCAST ROOMSS - Methods and apparatus for displaying webcast rooms are provided therein. An exemplary method can be implemented by a computer system. A weight corresponding to each webcast room of a plurality of webcast rooms and an anchor-account weight corresponding to an anchor account of the each webcast room of the plurality of webcast rooms can be obtained. The weight corresponding to the each webcast room and the anchor-account weight can be pre-stored. A webcast room to be displayed can be determined from the plurality of webcast rooms, according to the weight corresponding to the each webcast room and the anchor-account weight. The webcast room to be displayed can be displayed. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344287 | DATABASE CONTROLLER, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR MANAGING A DISTRIBUTED DATA STORE - Embodiments include a database controller for a database of information encoded as a set of data items, the database controller comprising: a segment control module configured to divide the set of data items into a series of segments, each segment comprising each of the data items falling within defined lower limit and upper limit values of an ordering metric used to place the data items in order; and an adaptive segment locator module configured to manage the distribution of the series of segments among a plurality of storage units, including selecting which segments from among the series of segments to co-locate on the same storage unit based on historical data representing read operations performed on the database. | 11-20-2014 |
20140351263 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING INFORMATION FEED BASED ON CONTEXTUAL DATA - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for generating an information feed based on contextual data. User contextual data associated with a user is retrieved. The user contextual data identifies entities associated with the user. Data objects may be identified based on the retrieved user contextual data. Data object contextual data associated with the data objects may be retrieved. Feed items may be generated based on the data objects and the retrieved data object contextual data. A weight associated with each of the feed items may be generated. The weight may be generated based on the retrieved user contextual data and the retrieved data object contextual data. An information feed including at least some of the feed items may be generated. The information feed may arrange the at least some of the feed items based on the generated weight associated with each of the at least some of the feed items. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351264 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RANKING IMAGES USING SEMANTIC AND AESTHETIC MODELS - A method, a system, and a computer program product for extracting one or more images from a storage medium. A search model is selected based on the availability of a semantically related aesthetic model. A search model includes a generic aesthetic model if the semantically related aesthetic model for query is not available. A semantic score and an aesthetic score are computed based on the selected search model. The images are further ranked based on the semantic and aesthetic score. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351265 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING WEIGHT OF ITEMS FOR TRANSPORT - An approach is provided for organizing items into receptacle categories based, at least in part, on physical properties of the items. The property platform determines an acquisition of at least one item by at least one user. Next, the property platform causes, at least in part, a querying for at least one physical property value for the at least one item. Then, the property platform determines an organization of the at least one item into one or more receptacle categories based, at least in part, on the physical property value. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351266 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR GENERATING HEADLINES - An apparatus, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented method for generating a headline includes identifying a content section of a document, selecting a sentence in the content section based at least in part on a determination that the sentence exhibits one or more characteristics correlated with headline performance, extracting a portion of the sentence based at least in part on a trigger attribute within the sentence, and generating the headline based at least in part on the portion of the sentence. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351267 | Overlapping Community Detection in Weighted Graphs - The disclosure includes a system and method for detecting communities in a weighted graph. The community detection module includes a tagset data aggregator, a counts statistics engine, a weighted graph generator, a coherence engine, a community detector and a tag recommendation engine. The tagset data aggregator receives tagset data. The counts statistics engine determines counts statistics for the tagset data. The weighted graph generator generates and denoises weighted tag occurrence graph based on the counts statistics. The coherence engine determines importance score for all tags and coherence score for all tagsets in the tagset data. The community detector determines maximally coherent communities in the weighted tag co-occurrence graph. The tag recommendation engine recommends tags in real time using the maximally coherent communities. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351268 | DYNAMIC ARRANGEMENT OF CONTENT PRESENTED WHILE A CLIENT DEVICE IS IN A LOCKED STATE - A client device selects content items associated with various applications executing on the client device and dynamically lays out the selected content items for presentation while the client device is in a locked state. To present the selected content items, the client device selects a page template including slots specifying sizing and relative positioning of content items based on user attributes, geographic information, client device characteristics, and content item attributes. Content items associated with various applications are associated with each slot in the selected page template, and when the client device is in a locked state, the content items are presented with relative sizing and positioning determined by the slots in the selected page template. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351269 | ABILITY BANKS IN A MODULAR LEARNING SYSTEM - An apparatus and method are disclosed for generating ability banks in a modular learning system. Learning applications, each associated with metadata describing scoring metrics, are stored in the modular learning system. Performance items based on the scoring metrics are also stored in the modular learning system, each associated with a learning user and a learning application. The modular learning system receives an ability bank generation request specifying a set of learning users, and generates an ability bank for the specified set by summing performance items associated with the learning users of the set. In one embodiment, the modular learning system generates ability banks for a plurality of sets of learning users and a relative ranking of the sets based on the plurality of ability banks. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351270 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing method is disclosed which includes the steps of: (a) calculating levels of similarity between a standard form vector as a comparison basis vector and each of a plurality of item characteristic vectors of the standard form which are characteristic of a plurality of items, the standard form vector being made up of N components individually representative of N attributes of each of the plurality of items, N being an integer of at least 1, step (a) further determining as the items to be recommended to a user a plurality of items corresponding to the item characteristic vectors of which the level of similarity satisfies a first condition; (b) determining one of the N attributes of the plurality of recommended items determined in step (a) as a common recommendation reason common to the plurality of recommended items when the determined attribute satisfies a second condition; and (c) controlling presentation to the user of either the plurality of recommended items determined in step (a) or information about the recommended items, together with the common recommendation reason determined in step (b). | 11-27-2014 |
20140358939 | LIST HYGIENE TOOL - A computer-implemented method of assessing the veracity of a list of email addresses for use with an e-mail messaging campaign is described. The method comprises: receiving the list of email addresses; categorizing and marking any email addresses from the received list of email addresses which are considered to have predetermined email address problems; each marked email address being assigned a category of problem; associating each marked email address with a score, wherein the score is dependent on the severity of risk associated with the assigned category; calculating a cumulative score of all of the marked email addresses; and determining, in view of the cumulative score of the marked email addresses, whether the list of email addresses is safe for use for the email messaging campaign. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358940 | Query Suggestion Templates - Methods and apparatus related to identifying a query template that includes one or more terms and a member of an entity category and ranking the query template. Query suggestions may be determined based on the query template. The ranking of the query template may be utilized to determine if the query template is a valid query template. The ranking of the template may be based on at least a count of occurrences of one or more of the entities of the entity category in past queries that conform to the query template. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358941 | MINIMIZATION OF SURPRISAL CONTEXT DATA THROUGH APPLICATION OF A HIERARCHY OF REFERENCE ARTIFACTS - A method, system, and computer program product for minimizing surprisal context data. The method comprising the steps of: identifying characteristics of a data event; receiving an input of rank of at least two identified characteristics of the data event; the computer generating a hierarchy of ranked, identified characteristics based on the rank of the at least two identified characteristics of the data event; and comparing the hierarchy of ranked, identified characteristics to a repository of reference artifacts arranged in characteristic context patterns. If at least one reference artifact arranged in characteristic context patterns from the repository matches the hierarchy of ranked, identified characteristics, the characteristic context pattern is stored as a surprisal context filter and compared to a data input of data events to detect anomalous events. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358942 | INFERRING GENDER FOR MEMBERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - Systems and methods for determining a member of a social network service is of a certain gender, and performing various actions associated with the determined gender, are described. For example, the systems and methods may access information from a social network service that is associated with a member of the social network service, and determine a gender for the member of the social network service that is based on characteristics of the accessed information. The systems and method may then perform an action for the member that is associated with the determined gender. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358943 | Method and System for Determining Suitability and Desirability of a Prospective Residence for a User - Novel tools and techniques for determining suitability and/or desirability of a prospective residence for a user. In some embodiments, a computer might receive a list of real estate listings, each pertaining to, and including a plurality of attributes about, an available home. The computer might collect information about factors relating to a user, generate a user profile based at least in part on the factors, and infer a prioritized list of real estate listing characteristics to satisfy the user based on a prioritized list of user criteria. The computer might subsequently generate and prioritize a list of potential homes from the list of real estate listings, based on comparisons, and at least in part on matches, between the prioritized list of real estate listing characteristics and attributes of at least some potential homes in the listings. The computer might subsequently display the prioritized list of potential homes to the user. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358944 | ASSESSING USER PERFORMANCE IN A COMMUNITY OF USERS OF DATA STORAGE RESOURCES - According to certain aspects, a method of assessing users of a data storage system can include receiving configuration information relating to a deployed configuration of a first data storage cell and including number of installed data storage hardware and/or software components, the first data storage cell comprising a plurality of client computing devices and being configured to create and store one or more secondary copies of primary data generated by the plurality of client computing devices. The method may also include receiving information relating to an incident opened by a user of the first data storage cell. The method may further include updating a performance metric associated with the user to a new value to reflect a negative impact on the performance metric resulting from the opening of the incident by the user, wherein the degree of the negative impact is based at least in part on the configuration information. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358945 | Systems and Methods for Matching Users - Systems and methods are provided for matching users. For example, a user list that includes multiple users to be matched is maintained; one or more first users are retrieved from the user list; one or more first user groups including the one or more first users are retrieved, the one or more first user groups containing a predetermined number of users from the user list; one or more first matching degrees are calculated for the one or more first user groups; a second user group associated with a highest first matching degree is selected from the one or more first user groups; and the second user group is returned. | 12-04-2014 |
20140365502 | Determining Answers in a Question/Answer System when Answer is Not Contained in Corpus - Mechanisms are provided for generating an answer for an input question when the answer is not directly present in a corpus of information. An input question is received from a computing device and analyzed to determine whether the input question is requesting an answer that is calculable. In response to a determination that the input question is requesting an answer that is calculable, one or more constituent data values are retrieved, from a corpus of information, for calculating the requested answer to the input question. A value corresponding to the requested answer is calculated based on the one or more retrieved constituent data values and is then output as the requested answer to the input question. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365503 | ESTIMATION OF CLOSENESS OF TOPICS BASED ON GRAPH ANALYTICS - Embodiments relate to estimating closeness of topics based on graph analytics. A graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges is accessed. Each node in the graph represents a topic and each edge represents a known association between two topics. A statistical traversal experiment is performed on the graph. A strength of relations between any two topics represented by nodes in the graph is inferred based on statistics extracted from the statistical traversal experiment. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365504 | ESTIMATION OF CLOSENESS OF TOPICS BASED ON GRAPH ANALYTICS - Embodiments relate to estimating closeness of topics based on graph analytics. A graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges is accessed. Each node in the graph represents a topic and each edge represents a known association between two topics. A statistical traversal experiment is performed on the graph. A strength of relations between any two topics represented by nodes in the graph is inferred based on statistics extracted from the statistical traversal experiment. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365505 | Harvesting Addresses - Some embodiments of the invention provide an address harvester that harvests addresses from one or more applications executing on a device. Some embodiments use the harvested addresses to facilitate the operation of one or more applications executing on the device. Alternatively, or conjunctively, some embodiments use the harvested addresses to facilitate the operation of one or more applications executing on another device than the one used for harvesting the addresses. In some embodiments, a prediction system uses the harvested addresses to formulate predictions, which it then provides to the same set of applications from which it harvested the addresses in some embodiments. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365506 | VIDEO SEARCHING - Method and processor for searching for a target within video data comprising the steps of receiving a target selected from within video data. Identifying a current selection of target matches for the selected target within further video data. Ranking the current selection of target matches. Receiving a signal confirming or rejecting one or more of the ranked target matches. Identifying a further selection of target matches for the confirmed target matches from the further video data. Indicating portions of the further video data containing the further selection of target matches. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365507 | Generating a Feed of Content Items Associated with a Topic From Multiple Content Sources - A newsfeed generation system generates feeds of content items related to specific topics. The newsfeed generation system receives content items from one or more content sources, and matches the content items to topics based on a measure of affinity of each content item for one or more objects in a database that are associated with various topics. Content items associated with an object associated with a topic are included in a feed of content items associated with the topic. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365508 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCORING GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS AND FOR PROVIDING RELATED SEARCHING TOOLS - Systems and methods for scoring geographic locations and for providing related searching tools are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method includes receiving one or more property identifiers. The method also includes receiving geographic attributes for the one or more property identifiers. Further, the method includes assigning, for each of the one or more property identifiers, a weighting to each geographic attribute based on a distance of a property associated with the property identifier from a location of the geographic attribute. Further, the method includes assigning, for each of the one or more property identifiers, a score to the property identifier based on one or more weightings to the geographic attributes for the property identifier. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365509 | Smart Address Book - An apparatus, method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for maintaining contact information associated with a contact. In some embodiments a request associated with a contact may be received. Contact information may be obtained from one or more external or internal sources. One or more confidence scores may be generated for the obtained contact information and for one or more values received with the request. Based on the confidence score(s), one or more values associated with the contact may be incorporated in one or more data stores. In some embodiments, suggestions for contact related information may be generated. Responses to the suggestions may be used to update the generated confidence score(s). | 12-11-2014 |
20140372451 | DISCOVERING AND SCORING RELATIONSHIPS EXTRACTED FROM HUMAN GENERATED LISTS - A computer-implemented system and method for extracting Human Generated Lists from an electronic database is described. The system searches for objects of the same class within a context window to identify Human Generated Lists and stores them to an archive. The archive may be used to generate a relationship network. The system generates variable length data vectors to represent the relationships between the objects within each Human Generated List. This relationship network can then be queried to discover relationships between the objects in the Human Generated Lists and to provide related objects as recommendations. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372452 | MANAGING CHANGES TO ONE OR MORE FILES VIA LINKED MAPPING RECORDS - A method for managing changes to one or more files via a link is associated with the changes that result in an updated version of the one or more files. A changed section determiner determines which sections associated with the one or more files have changed. The changed section operator further determines metadata regarding the nature of the changes to the sections. Based on the metadata a metrics generator generates a first weight associated with each of the changed sections. A mapping record generator generates a mapping record for each of the changed sections. A first mapping record comprises data associated with the first weight. The first mapping record is associated with a particular version of the one or more files and is linked to mapping records associated with other changed sections using the link. | 12-18-2014 |
20140379729 | ONLINE SOCIAL PERSONA MANAGEMENT - Embodiments utilize a framework for modeling user's social roles in online self-expression tools such as blog or social networking, via semantic modeling techniques. The different ways users engage with content when stating explicit interests in their profile and via social expressions in a community are modeled. Certain themes guide the patterns users follow for expressing their interests in this community. An embodiment allows users to track how their posts and comments reflect with their online behavior. An embodiment infers the needs of the online community and makes suggestions or recommendations or sends alerts to users. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379730 | MULTIMODALITY-BASED IMAGE TAGGING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Embodiments provide a multimodality-based image tagging apparatus and a method for the same. The image tagging apparatus includes: a score generating unit configured to generate, for an inquiry image, multiple groups of first scores about all tags in an tagging dictionary by using a training image and multiple modalities of an image; a late-fusion unit configured to fuse the obtained multiple groups of scores to obtain final scores about all the tags; and a tag selecting unit configured to select one or more tag(s) with relatively large tag scores as tag(s) of the inquiry image according to the final scores about all the tags. With the embodiments, multiple modalities may be effectively fused, and a more robust and accurate image tagging result may be obtained. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379731 | VIDEO SEARCH - Provided is a computer-implemented method of performing a video search. A search query is analyzed to identify a first set of query terms. The first set of query terms are used to query a knowledge repository, wherein the knowledge repository is a collection of electronic documents. An electronic document corresponding to the first set of query terms is identified and parsed to obtain a second set of query terms. Query terms present in the second set are ranked and top N ranked query terms are provided to a video search engine. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379732 | Automatically Generating Music Marketplace Editorial Content - Example apparatus and methods concern automatically creating editorial content for albums that are to be recommended in a computerized music marketplace. An album may be selected for recommendation after analyzing consumption data (e.g., sales, downloads, samples), and popularity data (e.g., chart rankings, critical reviews). The popularity data may also include data mined from sources including search engines and social media sites. An overall recommendation score may be a weighted function of consumption data and popularity data. A customized recommendation score may be a weighted function of the overall recommendation score influenced by regional considerations, demographic considerations, and other considerations. The editorial content may include art and text and may be customized based on regional considerations, demographic considerations, and based on other art or text that will appear at the same time as the editorial content. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379733 | EFFECT ANALYSIS METHOD, AND MANAGEMENT DEVICE - An effect analyzing program causes a management device that manages a plurality of resources to perform an operation to acquire, from a database that is used during an operation, the information on the resource and the information on a user who uses the resource, analyze the effect on a user due to a task during the task on the resource based on the acquired information on the resource and the acquired information on the user, and output the analyzed degree of effect, the acquired information on the resource and the acquired information on the user, whereby it is possible for an operator to efficiently determine the effect on a user due to a task performed on a resource. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379734 | RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - Techniques of the disclosure may include a method comprising receiving a first request for a recommendation to configure input data for output, determining, based at least in part upon templates, an object class corresponding to the first request, determining, based at least in part on input data and the templates, one or more output objects and one or more scores, wherein the output objects comprise configurations of the input data for the determined object class, and where each of the output objects is associated with a score. The method may further comprise outputting a indication of the output objects having an associated score that exceeds a specified threshold value, responsive to receiving a second request to resolve a specified output object, determining, based at least in part on the one or more templates and the second request, a resolved output object and outputting an indication of the resolved output object. | 12-25-2014 |
20150012545 | TOOL TO QUANTIFY INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL USERS - A method and system for scoring individuals within a community, for instance an online forum, based on the individual's contribution to the community in terms of not only quantity but quality. The score is determined by analyzing the activity of the individual, including replies other individuals have made to the individual's activity, and may weigh each reply based on a score of the individual making said reply. Analysis may also consider factors such as number of topics or comments, number of views or subscriptions by other individuals, and/or duration of time since the individual joined the community, among other possibilities. Once all factors are determined, the values of the factors are multiplied by associated weights, then summed for a score. The score may be standardized on a fixed scale as a final operation. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012546 | SHARING USER DISTRIBUTED SEARCH RESULTS - A universal distributed search system allows users to find and distribute search results (possibly including advertisements) to those with whom they communicate. The search results can be easily distributed by the user via a simple interface that allows the search results to be easily added to the user's content. Search queries entered by the user or search results received from search components may be automatically refined by the system. | 01-08-2015 |
20150019564 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING INSTABILITY WHEN UPGRADING SOFTWARE - A system and a method of rating software bugs using a bug scoring and tracking system is presented. The system and method may use automated scoring of the bugs to determine the impact of the bug. The system and method may connect to one or more databases to determine the extent of the deployment of the software, the impact of the bug, and/or the history of the bug. Scoring is used to prioritize the bugs and the scoring is extensible and adjustable allowing easy addition of new parameters and allowing the system to be modified for different bug types, software, or customers. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019565 | Method And System For Scoring Credibility Of Information Sources - A method for classifying information sources and content based on credibility, reliability, or trust. A content item describing an event is retrieved from an information provider and parsed for links. Each link is evaluated and attributed a sentiment score. The same event is identified in a set of know sources and an event score is calculated based on the credibility of each of the known sources. Finally, the content item is ranked based on the event and sentiment scores. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019566 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUALIFYING KEYWORDS IN QUERY STRINGS - A method and system for qualifying keyword(s) or phrase(s) to formulate a query string for submitting a search request when the query string contains one or more keywords that may have multiple meanings associated therewith. Database information containing keywords and associated meanings or forms of the keywords is maintained and a requester is prompted to identify one or more of the meanings of a keyword when building the query string. One or more advertisements pertaining to the associated meanings or forms of the keywords in the query string is presented to the requester submitting a search request. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019567 | PROVIDING HISTORY-BASED DATA PROCESSING - Providing data processing methods is disclosed, including: receiving a request to provide a plurality of data processing methods to a user; obtaining historical data associated with a plurality of historical user selections associated with the plurality of data processing methods, wherein the plurality of historical user selections is associated with the user; determining a plurality of data processing fingerprint aggregate scores corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of data processing methods based at least in part on the historical data; and providing the plurality of data processing methods based at least in part on the plurality of data processing fingerprint aggregate scores. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019568 | IDENTIFYING WORD-OF-MOUTH INFLUENCERS USING TOPIC MODELING AND INTERACTION AND ENGAGEMENT ANALYSIS - A method includes receiving information related to user generated content within a plurality of social networks and categorizing the information. The method further includes, using the categorized information, identifying relationships between a first user and a plurality of second users, scoring each relationship between the first user and a respective one of the plurality of second users, and providing a list of recommended users of the plurality of second users. Categorizing the information may include weighting the information. The method may further include identifying affinities of the second users for a product or category of products using the categorized information. The method may further include calculating a recommendation score for each of the plurality of second users based on the score for each relationship and the affinities, wherein the list of recommended users is based on the recommendation scores of the plurality of second users. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019569 | INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION OF BIG DATA SETS AND MODELS INCLUDING TEXTUAL DATA - Systems and processes are disclosed for advanced text analysis in the field of big data analytics and visualization: Users can now factor text into their predictive models, alongside regression, time/date and categorical information. This is ideal for building models where text content may play a prominent role (e.g., social media or customer service logs). Multiple data types, including text fields, may be combined together in datasets and models, and may be presented in various interactive visualization displays. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019570 | System For Estimating Age Of A User Based On Mass Data - An initial weight is configured for each kind of basic age data, an age weight of the user in different basic age data is obtained according to the initial weight and age similarity of the user in different kinds of basic age data, and the age with the largest age weight is determined as the age of the user. | 01-15-2015 |
20150026192 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TOPIC FILTER RECOMMENDATION FOR ONLINE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS - The technology disclosed relates to applying collaborative filtering methods to generate topic profiles or filters that can be applied to a social feed. In particular, similar users are identified based on existing topic profiles or aggregations of existing topic profiles. As the user constructs a new topic profile, the word cloud is presented that assists the user in selecting terms to include in the topic profile. Word cloud is constructed from keywords used by the similar users in their topic profiles. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026193 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PROVIDE REPUTATION SCORES FOR A SOCIAL NETWORK MEMBER - A method and system to provide reputation scores for a social network member is described. An example system comprises an access module, a unit score generator, and a combined reputation score generator. The access module accesses a member profile, and the unit score generator generates reputation scores for one or more units of the member profile. The member profile represents a member of an on-line social network. The combined reputation score generator generates a combined reputation score for the member profile based on the respective reputation scores for the one or more profile units. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026194 | FINDING A BEST MATCHING STRING AMONG A SET OF STRINGS - A method for finding a best matching string among a set of strings for a reference string includes representing, for each of the set of strings paired with the reference string, a dynamic programming problem for calculating a final alignment score as a matrix of cells, and calculating a current optimal alignment boundary threshold. The method also includes executing, for each string of the set of strings, a calculation of a prospective final alignment score of a candidate alignment of the each of the set of strings and the reference string for each cell. Based on determining, that prospective final alignment score improves the current optimal alignment boundary threshold, the method includes calculating a final alignment score for the string of the set of strings associated with the cell. Otherwise, the method includes aborting the calculation of a candidate alignment covering the string associated with the cell. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026195 | RANKING DEVICE, RANKING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A device, a system, a method, and a program are realized which are capable of predicting the order of the feeling and the preference of a subject to products which are the research objects, for marketing research and others. The images of a plurality of research objects are presented a plurality of times as visual stimuli in order to measure the brain wave. A brain wave data of an event related electrical potential for the research objects which the subject has selected as a target immediately after the stimulus presentation, is processed by a linear discriminant analysis to quantitatively represent with a single index, in order to rank the research objects. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026196 | LOCATION-AWARE CONTENT DETECTION - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for location-aware content detection. In particular, content may be grouped into topic clusters (e.g., images, articles, and/or websites may be grouped into a football cluster, an earthquake cluster, etc.). A topic of a cluster may be assigned a global ranking (e.g., based upon an importance of a topic on a global scale) and/or local rankings for local regions (e.g., based upon importance of a topic to various local regions). A local ranking may be based upon user interaction with content associated with the topic (e.g., many users from Japan may be reading about the earthquake). In this way, content may be provided to users based upon global rankings and/or local rankings (e.g., content from around the world about the earthquake may be presented to users in Japan and/or other areas that have expressed interest in the earthquake). | 01-22-2015 |
20150032760 | Evaluating Coincident Interaction Indicators - Disclosed are embodiments for determining the impact of one or more latent factors on user interaction metrics based at least in part on an impact model. The embodiments identify a value for a user interaction metric, the user interaction metric measuring interaction with content and identify an impact for a latent factor on the user interaction metric, the impact determined based at least in part on a model providing a relationship between the user interaction metric and the latent factor. Additionally, embodiments may involve adjusting an attribute of the electronically provided content based at least in part on the impact of the latent factor on the user interaction metric. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032761 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WEIGHTED SAMPLING - Techniques provided herein allow for a plurality of weighted samplings without replacement to be performed in O(n) time. According to some embodiments, the weighted sampling without replacement may be performed on a data set X of data elements {x | 01-29-2015 |
20150039630 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCURATE LOCALIZATION OF POINTS OF INTEREST - Geo-referenced and oriented media items may be used to determine a location of one or more points of interest depicted by the media items. A difference between an actual capture location and orientation and a reported location and orientation may be modeled according to one or more distributions, which distribution(s) may be used to assign one or more weights to each location in the world where such weight(s) may be considered to be a likelihood that a point of interest might have been seen by a capturing device. A density map may be acquired by superimposing the derived likelihoods, and a maximum, e.g., local maximum, may be determined to represent a location of a point of interest. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039631 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCURATE LOCALIZATION OF POINTS OF INTEREST USING A WORLD SHAPE - Geo-referenced and oriented media items may be used to determine a location of one or more points of interest depicted by the media items. A difference between an actual capture location and orientation and a reported location and orientation may be modeled according to one or more distributions, which distribution(s) may be used to assign one or more weights to each location in the world where such weight(s) may be considered to be a likelihood that a point of interest might have been seen by a capturing device. A density map may be acquired by superimposing the derived likelihoods, and a maximum, e.g., local maximum, may be determined to represent a location of a point of interest. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039632 | Media Tagging - The invention relates to media tagging of a media content. At least one media tag is determined on the basis of obtained context recognition data formed prior to and after a time point of capturing of the media content. Determined at least one media tag is associated with said media content. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039633 | DUPLICATE STATION DETECTION SYSTEM - Embodiments are disclosed for identifying duplicate stations in a radio station network. An example method includes identifying stations within a radio station network, determining which of the stations are duplicate stations, and selecting, via automated operated content management devices or user input directed to manually operated content management devices, which of the duplicate stations to show and which of the duplicate stations to suppress from being presented to a user. The example method further includes selectively displaying a selected duplicate station of a group of duplicate stations depending on a radio network's contractual agreements with various partners. | 02-05-2015 |
20150046467 | RANKING CONTENT ITEMS USING PREDICTED PERFORMANCE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for ranking content items. In one aspect, a method includes identifying, for a content item, a bid value specifying an amount a content item provider is willing to pay for user interaction with the content item. A predicted performance measure is identified for the content item. The predicted performance measure is adjusted based on a weighting factor for the content item. The weighting factor for the content item is indicative of confidence that the predicted performance measure will match an actual performance measure for the content item and can be different than a weighting factor for another content item identified for inclusion in a ranking with the content item. A rank score is determined for the content item using the bid value and adjusted predicted performance measure. The content item is provided based on the rank score. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046468 | RANKING LINKED DOCUMENTS BY MODELING HOW LINKS BETWEEN THE DOCUMENTS ARE USED - Systems and methods are provided for ranking linked documents (e.g., web pages on the Internet) by modeling how users are expected to use links between the documents. One embodiment is a system that includes a memory and a controller. The memory stores probabilities for documents that each indicate a likelihood of using a link at a document to view another document. The controller is able to assign an initial value to each document, and for each document that has a value greater than a cutoff amount, to diffuse the value from the document to other documents based on the probabilities. The controller is further able to rank the documents based on an amount of value that was diffused from each document, and to process the documents based on their ranks. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046469 | CONTENT RETRIEVAL AND REPRESENTATION USING STRUCTURAL DATA DESCRIBING CONCEPTS - A method for retrieving and representing media items in a communication network having a plurality of media items. In the embodiment, first at least one media item is retrieved from the communication network. Then, said retrieved media item is normalized. After normalizing, said retrieved media item is classified over a set of concepts, where each concept is associated with at least one description. Later, this classified media item may be compared with a description of information need. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046470 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMMUNITY SERVICE - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for providing a community service. The apparatus includes a content analysis unit configured to generate a plurality of content figures representing a plurality of pieces of content, and generate connection relationships of the plurality of content figures according to connection relationships among the plurality of pieces of content, a content management unit configured to set a size value of an upper content figure based on lower content figures, from among the plurality of content figures, connected to lower hierarchies of the upper content figure, and a content transmitter configured to transmit connection relationships of the plurality of content figures and size data that includes the size value to a user terminal connecting to an on-line community. Accordingly, an overall trend may be noticed at a glance, and it may be possible to prevent content spamming because meaningless content would fall behind. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046471 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATION OF WINE CHARACTERISTICS - A method comprises: receiving wine evaluations of wines from wine panelists, each wine evaluation including intensity values describing a plurality of wine characteristics for each of a set of wines, each wine evaluation generated by a wine panelist; generating a global intensity value from particular intensity values describing a particular wine characteristic of a particular wine, the particular intensity values being from the wine evaluations; comparing a selected intensity value generated by a selected wine panelist describing the particular wine characteristic for the particular wine against the global intensity value to determine an accuracy deviation; comparing the accuracy deviation against an accuracy deviation threshold to determine whether the selected intensity value is deemed inaccurate based on the comparison; updating the global intensity value for the particular wine characteristic for the particular wine based on the accuracy determination; and storing the updated global intensity value in a wine database. | 02-12-2015 |
20150052151 | SCORING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ENTITIES BASED ON PROXIMITY IN SPACE AND TIME - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for determining a relationship score between a first entity and a second entity. A first computer-readable representation of a first spatial region containing the first entity is generated. A second computer-readable representation of a second spatial region containing the second entity is generated. The first computer-readable representation and the second computer-readable representation are compared at decreasing resolutions until a matching condition is reached. A relationship score is assigned to one or more of the first entity and the second entity based on the resolution at which the matching condition is reached. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052152 | LOCATION DATA INTEGRATION AND MANAGEMENT - A system and associated methodology manages localization data. According to one embodiment of the present invention a primary set of data associated with one or more specific locations is imported and matched to a predefined format. Thereafter external, secondary, data associated with each of the localities listed in the primary data set is collected from a plurality of third party location service providers. With the collected secondary data matched to the same predefined format a comparison is made between the plurality of secondary data sets and the primary data set. Differences between the data sets are identified and the primary data set modified as necessary. Thereafter, normalized data from the modified primary data set is exported to the third party location service providers to enhance consistency and reliable of locational data. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052153 | Identifying One or More Relevant Social Networks for One or More Collaboration Artifacts - Methods, products, apparatus, and systems may provide for identifying a set of users associated with one or more collaboration artifacts. Additionally, a set of networks including a plurality of candidate social networks may be identified. Moreover, a relationship strength may be determined between the set of users associated with the one or more collaborations artifacts and each of the candidate social networks to identify one or more relevant social networks from the candidate social networks. Determining the relationship strength may include calculating a similarity metric. In addition, at least one member affiliated with the one or more relevant social networks may become aware of the collaboration artifact. | 02-19-2015 |
20150058357 | RATINGS WEIGHTED OR FILTERED BY CONTEXT - The subject technology discloses configurations for accessing one or more entries of rating information for a place associated with a geographical location; identifying, using one or more criteria, a type of user that authored each of the accessed one or more entries of rating information for the place; for a user viewing the one or more entries of rating information for the place, identifying, using one or more criteria, a type of user that is viewing the accessed one or more entries of rating information for the place; filtering the accessed one or more entries of rating information for the place according to the type of user that authored each of the accessed entries and the type of user that is viewing the accessed entries; and providing for display the filtered one or more entries of rating information for the place. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058358 | PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL DATA FOR SELECTED LINK UNITS - Link units include a keyword or words that, when selected, cause a client device to display a landing page having one or more content items related to the selected link unit. The use of contextual data in addition to the keyword or words of the selected link unit may further assist in selecting relevant content items to populate the landing page. The contextual data may include the unselected keyword link units and/or other keywords in a group from which the selected keyword link unit was selected. The contextual data may include assigning weights to the selected keyword link unit, the unselected keyword link units, and/or the other keywords in the group from which the selected keyword link unit was selected. The group may be identified using a unique token associated with the group and the selected keyword link unit. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058359 | VISUALIZATION CREDIBILITY SCORE - One embodiment of the present invention discloses a method, computer program product, and system for a method of determining the credibility of a visualization. Visualization data is received from an electronic device. The visualization data is compared to a plurality of visualization credibility criteria to determine a level of credibility for each of the visualization credibility criteria. The credibility of the visualization is rated based on the level of credibility for each of the visualization credibility criteria. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058360 | INDICATING LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE IN DIGITAL CONTENT - Rating content of a digital file includes analyzing, by a computer, data associated with content of the digital file based on predetermined criteria defining a confidence level in the content of the digital file. Each predetermined criterion includes a range of values and at least one threshold delineating a lower confidence level and a higher confidence level. Different confidence ratings are assigned to different segments of the content based on determining that the different segments correspond to different thresholds of the predetermined criteria. The computer associates the different confidence ratings to the different segments. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058361 | SYNTHETIC AUDIOVISUAL DESCRIPTION SCHEME, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MPEG-7 - A method and system for description of synthetic audiovisual content makes it easier for humans, software components or devices to identify, manage, categorize, search, browse and retrieve such content. For instance, a user may wish to search for specific synthetic audiovisual objects in digital libraries, Internet web sites or broadcast media; such a search is enabled by the invention. Key characteristics of synthetic audiovisual content itself such as the underlying 2d or 3d models and parameters for animation of these models are used to describe it. To represent features of synthetic audiovisual content, depending on the description scheme to be used, a number of descriptors are selected and assigned values. The description scheme instantiated with descriptor values is used to generate the description, which is then stored for actual use during query/search. | 02-26-2015 |
20150066948 | Influence Scoring for Social Media Authors - Techniques for influence scoring for social media authors are described. Generally, an influence score indicates a relative level of influence that a particular social media author has in a social media environment, such as compared to other social media authors. According to various embodiments, events correlated to social media authors on different social media platforms are used to determine influence scores for the authors. To enable events that are correlated to social media authors to be quantified for purposes of determining influence, various metrics are defined that correspond to the events. An influence score for a social media author can be calculated using values for a group of metrics associated with the author. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066949 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING - A social networking system according to an embodiment of the invention may gather, manage, and order information, such as users' posts. Posts may be organized in objects called “streams” or “currents”, and users may discuss streams, posts, and/or other discussions. The system may keep track of users' actions, and use these actions to score, e.g., posts, streams, discussions, and/or users. In embodiments of the invention, these scores may be used, e.g., for rankings, and these rankings may be used, e.g., to recommend posts, streams, discussions, and/or users to users of the system. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066950 | SENTIMENT SCORING FOR SPORTS ENTITIES AND FILTERING TECHNIQUES - In an embodiment, a data processing method comprises displaying, in a social network system, an entity and an entity sentiment value for the entity where the entity sentiment value corresponds to user sentiments in regards to the entity and where a higher value indicates a more positive sentiment; displaying other entities where all the entities are related to a team entity; receiving a particular sentiment value that is for the entity; in response to receiving the particular sentiment value, recalculating the entity sentiment value and calculating the team entity sentiment value; redisplaying the entity sentiment value. In another embodiment, a data processing method comprises displaying, in a social network system, user comments related to an entity; receiving a selected range of sentiment values related to the entity; in response to receiving the selected range of sentiment values, causing displaying only user comments that have an associated user sentiment value within the selected range. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066951 | COMBINED DETERMINISTIC AND PROBABILISTIC MATCHING FOR DATA MANAGEMENT - A method for data management. The method includes a computer selecting a first data record and a second data record. The computer determines whether the first data record and the second data record share a deterministic matching category. Responsive to determining the first data record does not share a deterministic matching category with the second data record, the computer determines whether the first data record and the second data record share a probabilistic matching category. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066952 | Content Personalization System - A system for personalizing content for presentation to a user. The system using: a keyword dictionary, being a database containing words and information on the relatedness of words, as a resource for identifying related words in words associated with each of the content and the user; a database containing inferred behavioural indices to predict user behaviour; and a popularity index containing popularity indices for items within the content. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066953 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING ISSUES IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - A computer system identifies and prioritizes issues in electronic documents from electronic social media sources and/or from traditional media sources. The computer system includes a communication network linked to one or more of the sources and a computer server in communication with the communication network. The computer server is configured to receive electronic documents from the sources via the communication network. The computer server has memory and a processor, the memory including processor executable instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor. The instructions comprise data collection instructions, topic modeling instructions including instructions for weighing and instructions for indicating a distribution for identified issues within each of the retrieved documents, issue assignment instructions, instructions for determining, and instructions for ranking. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066954 | CONTENT ANALYSIS AND SCORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and related methods for analyzing and generating a score for web sites containing content, and providing recommendations and guidance for content modifications and additions. The system provides and receives content survey results from users or viewers of a site, aggregates the content survey results, integrates metrics for multiple content types and domains, and generates a content score for each content type and domain. A summary or aggregate score based upon the scores for each content type and domain also is calculated. The scores can be presented or displayed in a dashboard, graphic interface, report, or other means. | 03-05-2015 |
20150074118 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR MANAGING AND INCENTIVIZING DATA ENTRY - Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media for managing and incentivizing data entry are described. A data management system may include a plurality of user profiles associated with system users capable of entering data entry records into the data management system. The data entry records may be scored to indicate a correlation between the data entry record and at least one data entry goal, such as timeliness, completeness and/or accuracy. The scores may be used to encourage, motivate or otherwise incentivize system users to enter data entry records that conform to the goals of the data management system. The scores may be ranked and made accessible by system users, for example, so that each user may be compared among his peers. In addition, the scores may be used as part of a reward/penalty system administered, for example, by an operator of the data management system. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074119 | Name Variant Extraction from Individual Handle Identifiers - A method and apparatus for name variant extraction from individual handle identifiers uses a sequential extraction process to construct contextual information. Last name data, first/middle name data, initials, nicknames, and vanity names, along with numerical information indicating dates, may all be captured in extracting information about an individual associated with a particular handle. When multiple possible interpretations result from the analysis, those interpretations are ranked using optimality rules. The resulting data may be used to look up additional information in a consumer database in order to structure a targeted marketing message to the individual associated with the handle. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074120 | Interactive Expert System for Recommending Chemicals and Method - An interactive expert system and method is disclosed for providing ranked specific chemical product recommendations based upon general application properties information selected by a user and specific application requirements provided by a user. The interactive expert system and method assists users in the selection of chemical products based upon required, optional, or excluded chemical product characteristics and application requirements for the desired chemical product that are provided by the users. The interactive expert system and method preferably uses a ranking system that intelligently ranks the results of searching based upon the desired chemical product characteristics and the specific application requirements to order the search results. It optionally is capable of provide the user with one or more similar chemicals for any selected one of the recommended chemicals. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074121 | SEMANTICS GRAPHS FOR ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Building a semantics graph for an enterprise communication network can include calculating a distance metric between a first signifier and a second signifier associated with an enterprise communication network, wherein the distance metric includes a plurality of relationships defined based on a frequency of co-occurrences of the first signifier and the second signifier, and building a semantics graph for the enterprise communication network using the calculated distance metric. | 03-12-2015 |
20150081721 | Method for video data ranking - This Invention deals with data processing methods. This method involves the receipt of video data from a video camera and transmission of ranked video data to a user and/or to storage via communication links. Received live video data is first segmented based on at least one object and/or event; then, each segment is analyzed for characteristics that are critical for the priority estimate of a segment and/or used to search for segments in the storage. Each segment is prioritized based on its characteristics. Segments are ranked based on their priority estimates; the resulting priority queue of segments or one segment of the highest priority is transmitted to a user and/or recorded into storage. This Invention reduces load imposed on limited bandwidth communication links and improves video data processing without sacrificing video quality. 25 subclaims; 4 figures; 3 tables. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081722 | ELECTRONIC MAIL CREATION RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A computer is disclosed that performs an electronic mail creation process. The computer creates an electronic mail by referring to a storage part in which received electronic mails are stored, using at least one electronic mail of the received electronic mails stored in the storage part, the at least one electronic mail selected based on a criteria being set beforehand, and changing at least one of header information and a body text of the at least one electronic mail. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081723 | System and Method for Analyzing and Synthesizing Social Communication Data - A system and method are provided for analysing and communicating social data. A method performed by a computing device or server system includes obtaining the social data from one or more sources. The method includes composing a new social data object derived from the social data and transmitting the new social data object. The method also includes obtaining at least one feedback associated with the new social data object that is transmitted and computing an adjustment command using said feedback. Accordingly, executing the adjustment command adjusts at least one of steps of obtaining, composing, and transmitting for subsequent social data objects in dependence upon said feedback. | 03-19-2015 |
20150088904 | PROGRESSIVE SPATIAL SEARCHING USING AUGMENTED STRUCTURES - A location associated with a user of a computing device and a prefix portion of an input string may be received as one or more successive characters of the input string are provided by the user via the computing device. A list of suggested items may be obtained based on a function of respective recommendation indicators and proximities of the items to the location in response to receiving the prefix portion, and based on partially traversing a character string search structure having a plurality of non-terminal nodes augmented with bound indicators associated with spatial regions. The list of suggested items and descriptive information associated with each suggested item may be returned to the user, in response to receiving the prefix portion, for rendering an image illustrating indicators associated with the list in a manner relative to the location, as the user provides each successive character of the input string. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088905 | Information Search Method And Server - A method for searching for information. The method includes obtaining page information of network services of users and storing the page information in a user page database; receiving a search request including a keyword from a search user; searching a full amount inverse database for a common webpage entry according to the keyword and obtaining a page score of the common webpage entry; searching the user page database for a friend webpage entry of all friends of the search user according to the keyword and obtaining a page score of the friend webpage entry; and sorting the common webpage entry searched out and the friend webpage entry searched out in descending order according to the page scores and feeding back the sorted webpage entries to the search user. | 03-26-2015 |
20150095348 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC MAPPING FOR LOCALITY AND BALANCE - To dynamically map nodes for locality and balance, computer implemented methods, systems, and computer readable media, in an embodiment, may compute histograms for nodes in a first partition. Histograms may be computed for nodes in a second partition. The second partition may be selected as a candidate partition for a set of nodes in the first partition based on the histograms for the nodes in the first partition. The first partition may be selected as a candidate partition for a set of nodes in the second partition based on the histograms for the nodes in the second partition. At least a portion of the set of nodes in the first partition may be mapped to the second partition and at least a portion of the set of nodes in the second partition may be mapped to the first partition based on load balancing. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095349 | AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING MATCHING RECORDS FROM MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES - A system identifies matching records from two or more different data sources. The system applies a scoring algorithm to identify potential matching pairs of records. A score is provided for each candidate pair of records. Records are pre-filtered based on predefined attributes. The scoring algorithm is applied to the filtered records. A set of potential matches are provided with a corresponding score. The set of potential matches are presented in a descending score order. A decision may be made for a best match based on the scores. | 04-02-2015 |
20150100587 | Identifying Similar Content on a Digital Magazine Server - A digital magazine identifies content items for recommendation to a user by determining the address information of one or more content items. The address information of a content item identifies a source from which the content item was received and additional information describing the content item. Representations of content items are generated from the address information for each content item. Additionally, representations of content items previously presented to the user are generated from the address information for the previously presented content items. A measure of similarity between a representation of a content item and a representation of a previously presented content item is determined and used to select content items to present to the user. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100588 | Optimized Data Visualization According to Natural Language Query - An optimal visualization format for a data corpus is automatically selected and generated based upon a natural language query or statement about the data corpus from a user by accessing the subject data corpus; receiving the query or statement from the user a natural language expression; identifying symbols in the query or statement through natural language processing; mapping the symbols to weights for a plurality of visualization formats; scoring the visualization formats; and generating a visualization of the subject data corpus according to the scores. Optional metadata, such as row and column labels, database field labels, and XML DTD's may be mined for symbols, as well. The new tool may generate the visualization as a digital image file, a digital document file, a digital movie file, a digital three-dimensional model file, or a combination of these. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100589 | Location Source Ranking for Determining Device Location - Techniques for location source ranking for determining device location are described. A location source generally refers to a source of position information (e.g., GPS coordinates, latitude and longitude, street addresses, and so forth) that can be used to determine a geographical location of a device. According to one or more embodiments, location sources and/or combinations of location sources can be ranked based on various criteria. Thus, when a location is requested for a particular device, a highest ranking available location source or combination of location sources can be selected to determine a location of the device. Location source rankings, for instance, can be maintained on a client device and/or via a remote location-related service. According to various embodiments, a location of a device can be determined to enable emergency assistance to be provided at the location. | 04-09-2015 |
20150106383 | Automatic Flagging of Frequently Accessed Data Objects for Business Application - Embodiments relate to management of data accessed from a database. A usage tracking engine of an application layer overlying a database, may automatically track (e.g. with a time stamp) access to specific data objects by particular users. This automatic tracking may be based upon one or more of the following: frequency of access, recency of access, user geographic location, and user calendar events. Based upon this data, the tracking engine applies an algorithm to automatically identify those data objects meriting special handling for quick access (e.g. for placement in a “shelf” or other construct readily accessible to the user). A heuristic learning module may generate a data object ranking based upon the usage data, and communicate that ranking to the usage tracking engine to determine a data object's eligibility for placement on the “shelf”. Such ranking may consider personalized settings, and/or a user's past manual shelf placement of data object(s). | 04-16-2015 |
20150106384 | SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING AN APPLICATION FOR TABLET COMPATIBILITY AND QUALITY - Applications that have been designed for a smaller format device such as a smartphone and simply ported to a larger format device such as a tablet can be discerned from applications designed specifically for the larger format device. An application can be evaluated based on tablet compatibility criteria and can be assigned a tablet compatibility score. The application can be evaluated based on quality criteria and can be assigned a quality score. The compatibility score and the quality score can be used to help find and rate any number of applications. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106385 | Transformation of Documents To Display Clauses In Variance From Best Practices and Custom Rules Score Apparatus and Method. - Documents are scored and displayed with annotations for best practices, and variances from normal ranges of clauses and clause groups. Custom rules developed for an industry or for an enterprise further distinguish which documents need further review or approval by senior staff because of higher risks or commitments than standard terms and conditions. A display provides the document transformed with annotations about the scores or rules triggered by each group of clauses and accepts comments and approval or objections to acceptance of the document. The absence of best practices clauses for the category is noted for reference. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106386 | EYE TRACKING - The description relates to eye tracking. One example can identify a location that a user is looking. The example can also identify content at the location. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106387 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF REPRESENTING CONTENT INFORMATION USING SECTIONAL NOTIFICATION METHOD - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for representing content information. The method and apparatus for representing content information according to embodiment of the present invention notifies the user employing a mobile environment (mobile terminal or smart terminal) in a tactile, auditory, or visual manner about existence of contents having a score larger than or equal to a particular score within a predetermined distance to represented contents in a predetermined order and enables the user to perform a search for the contents desired by the user based on the user's input, providing such an advantage that the user can find the contents of interest intuitively without examining searched contents one after another. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106388 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED ACCESSIBILITY OF UPLOADED MEDIA - The present invention relates to systems and methods for enhancing accessibility of content uploaded on a media sharing site. A user may interface with a computer system to identify a unique keyword. The unique keyword is not associated with any media on the media sharing platform. The unique keyword includes a hashtag preceding the keyword. Media is uploaded to the media sharing platform. The unique keyword is entered into the title and description fields for the uploaded media, while the tag field remains empty. The user may share the unique keyword to promote the uploaded media. Likewise, the user may access the media sharing platform to generate analytics. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106389 | METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AUDIO OR VIDEO CONTENT - The disclosed technology generally relates to methods for identifying audio and video entertainment content. One claim recites a method comprising: receiving data representing audio uploaded to a network server, the audio having been transformed prior to receipt; analyzing the data representing audio with a fingerprint generator to yield fingerprint data; determining whether the fingerprint data incurs a potential match in a fingerprint data repository, the potential match indicating an unreliability in the match below a predetermined threshold; upon a condition of unreliability in the match, and via an application program interface, issuing a call requesting at least a first reviewer and a second reviewer to review the data representing audio; receiving results from the first reviewer and results from the second reviewer through the application program interface; weighting results from the first reviewer differently than results from the second reviewer in determining whether to allow public access to the data representing audio. Of course other combinations and claims are provided. | 04-16-2015 |
20150113001 | ANALYZING NETWORK CONFIGURATION COMPLEXITY - Techniques are provided for generating a network complexity score. In one approach, a plurality of node configurations that includes a first node configuration and a second node configuration are analyzed. A network complexity score is generated for a network based, at least in part, on one or more of (a) a degree of similarity between the first node configuration and the second node configuration or (b) a dependency between the first node configuration and the second node configuration. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113002 | System and Method for Multi-Dimensional Profiling of Healthcare Professionals - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for ranking healthcare professionals, including: receiving healthcare information submitted by a user; launching search delegators to search respective channels of social media based on the healthcare information; receiving meta search records from the search delegators; scoring the meta search records based on the healthcare information as well as the channel of social media where the meta search record was found; filtering the meta search records based on the corresponding scores; and providing the filtered meta search records to the user. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113003 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL DEVICE, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information retrieval device includes a degree-of-association information storage unit capable of storing an item(s) of degree-of-association information indicating a degree of association between each of an item(s) of first information and each of an item(s) of second information; an accepting unit that accepts a query including an item(s) of query information which is/are an item(s) of information used for retrieval of content; a query converter that obtains, by using an item(s) of first information corresponding to each of the item(s) of query information, and the item(s) of degree-of-association information, an item(s) of second information whose degree of association with the item(s) of first information is greater as a predetermined condition is better satisfied; and a retrieval unit that retrieves content by using the item(s) of second information obtained by the query converter. Accordingly, content necessary for a user can be retrieved. | 04-23-2015 |
20150113004 | ASYMMETRICAL MULTILATERAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM - A system and methodology which can effectively provide decision makers with a better means of making decisions in a way that greatly improves the availability, reliability, and relevance of the information which they provide and use to make decisions. The system and methodology facilitates maximizing mutual utility in the context of a mutual decision between multiple users and groups of users identified generally as Parties and Counterparties and performs user specified actions based on meeting mutual threshold parameters. The system provides significant technical advantages over the prior art in that it uses helps Parties and Counterparties identify optimal arrangements and configurations with less errors, fewer computational cycles, less storage medium, and a smaller amount of time than would be possible using prior art systems. | 04-23-2015 |
20150120755 | DECODERS FOR PREDICTING AUTHOR AGE, GENDER, LOCATION FROM SHORT TEXTS - Disclosed are systems and methods for predicting demographics about authors of social media. A dataset relates features from social media messages to known demographic information about authors of the social media messages. The social media messages and known demographics may be retrieved from different social media services. Adjustable weights are associated with alternative demographic values for the features. The dataset is used to predict unknown demographics of users based on the adjustable weights associated with the alternative demographic values for extracted features from social media messages. A confidence level may be output for a predicted demographic that corresponds to a difference between a sum of weights associated with the predicted value and another demographic value. The predicted demographic value may be output when the confidence level exceeds a threshold. The weights may be updated when the confidence level is below the threshold even when the prediction is correct. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120756 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING A CHARACTER STRING FOR A POINT OF INTEREST - Computerized systems and methods are provided for identifying a character string for a point of interest. In accordance with some embodiments, point of interest information, including a universal resource locator (URL) is received, and a document associated with the URL is retrieved. The document is parsed to identify a set of character strings. A subset of character strings from the set is isolated. A character string is identified from the subset of character strings and associated with the POI information to thereby enable improved processing of queries and POI information retrieval. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120757 | Contact Management and Valuation for Inter-Organizational Relationships - Contacts between organizations with large numbers of individuals associated with the organization can be managed by scoring communications between the individuals within the scope of their work with their organization. The types of communications scored may be emails, cell phone calls, VoIP phone calls, conventional telephone calls, instant messages, social media platforms, and face-to-face meetings. One or more type of communication may be scored higher or lower than other types of communication based upon the value different types of communication bring to the relationship between the organizations. A score for a communication may also be determined based upon the role of individuals involved within their respective organizations, the timing of the communication, the number of recipients of the communication, or any other criteria that impacts the value of the communications to the relationship between the organizations. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120758 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING OF DATA RECORDS - Embodiments relate to distributed processing of data on a distributed database computer system. An aspect includes distributing rows of an arbitrary matrix to all of a plurality of processing units, wherein a number of the rows is equal to a number of the processing units, wherein one row of the arbitrary matrix is stored in each storage memory. Another aspect includes executing a first user defined function (UDF) on each processing unit, wherein a Cartesian product of each processing parameter matrix and the row of the arbitrary matrix is calculated on each processing unit and the matrix set is stored in the processor memory of each processing unit; and executing a second UDF on each processing unit having at least one data record after the executing of the first UDF, wherein all data records stored in the storage memory of the each processing unit are processed one by one. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120759 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ITEM AND ITEM SET MATCHING - A matching system and related methods for matching an input item or input item set with stored items and/or stored item sets, and methods for manufacturing and using same. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127659 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DOCUMENT DATA EXTRACTION TEMPLATE MANAGEMENT - User acceptance of a given data extraction template and the number of data fields that the data extraction template can extract accurately is used to calculate data extraction template ranking, or a ranking score, to be associated with the data extraction template. Then the data extraction template having the highest data extraction template ranking score is used in a first attempt to extract data from a source documents of the source document type associated with the data extraction templates. As more data extraction templates associated with a given source document type are received, data extraction template ranking scores are updated/modified, and, in one example, the data extraction templates having the lowest data extraction template ranking scores are detected/eliminated. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127660 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING RANKS AND TRUST LEVELS FOR DATA SOURCES - An approach is provided for determining one or more attributes associated with extracting data from one or more data sources. The approach further involves processing and/or facilitating a processing of the one or more attributes to cause, at least in part, a ranking of the one or more data sources, and/or a calculation of one or more trust levels for the one or more data sources. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127661 | RAPID CLOUD-BASED IMAGE CENTRALIZATION - A system for a mass centralization approach to full image cloning of multiple computing devices is provided. The system includes a plurality of computing devices and a server. The server includes a processor programmed to receive, from the plurality of computing devices, metadata for files stored on the plurality of computing devices, determine, from the received metadata, an importance level for each of the files, instruct the plurality of computing devices to send a copy of the files to the server in a defined order, the defined order based on the importance level for each of the files, and store the copy of the files on the server. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127662 | DWELL-TIME BASED GENERATION OF A USER INTEREST PROFILE - A method is provided for building a user interest profile, including the following method operations: identifying features of each of a plurality of articles; for a given user, logging views of one or more of the plurality of articles; for each view, measuring a corresponding dwell time for the view by the given user; applying a weight to each view based on the corresponding measured dwell time; determining user interest scores for features of the one or more of the plurality of articles based on the weighted views; generating a user interest profile for the given user based on the user interest scores. | 05-07-2015 |
20150134673 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING SYNOPSIS FOR MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - A system and method for creating a synopsis or summary for a multimedia content object is described. A set of metadata objects may be associated with a respective set of segments of the multimedia content object. Portions or segments of the multimedia content object may be associated with rank values or ratings based on the metadata objects. A system and method may select to remove a portion of the multimedia content object based on an associated rank to produce a synopsis for the multimedia content object. A system and method may select portions of the multimedia content object to include in a synopsis of the multimedia content object. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134674 | AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS - Technologies for selecting a media representation out of a plurality of representations of the same media offered by a media provider wherein the selected representation is a preferred representation and the selecting is based on metadata of the media representations evaluated against scoring criteria. | 05-14-2015 |
20150142823 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING MATCHES BETWEEN USERS IN A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT - Finding a match for an end user on an online social platform is not a trivial task. To improve match making, various methods and systems are disclosed which are configured to compute heuristics for various end users, which help to predict the likelihood that two end users would ultimately engage in some form of communication with each other. The heuristics are used in an algorithm (i.e., a statistical/predictive model) for providing a set of matches to an end user. These heuristics may be computed based on varying forms of communication which indicate different levels of engagement between end users, and/or based on some other indication of how an end user may react to another end user. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142824 | Situational Content Based on Context - Situational awareness is determined to retrieve related content. Historical usage of a mobile device is analyzed to generate a rich mapping of different contexts to different categories of content and other interests. At any time the mapping may be consulted to determine the user's historical interests for the same operational context. Categories of content may then be retrieved and displayed, thus bring forth relevant, contextual content at its moment of need. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142825 | CONVERTING PROCEDURAL TEXT TO AN ACTIONABLE KNOWLEDGE FORM - Disclosed is method and system for converting text used to perform an operation to reusable actionable knowledge form. Procedural knowledge available in run books is converted into reusable actionable knowledge form. The method comprises structuring the text by performing merging, grouping, editing, removing statements and marking statements present in structured text into action segments, predicates, and comments, by parsing technique and rule based reasoning. Predicate comprise conditions, action segment comprise actionable statements executed upon fulfilling conditions. Actionable statement is used to perform a task of the operation. Action segments are mapped with predicates to generate predicate-action pairs, standard operators relevant to each of conditions of predicate and actionable statements of action segment are selected, and score for standard operators is determined, and a standard operator having highest score is linked with conditions and actionable statements of the predicate-action pair, thereby converting predicate-action pair in reusable actionable knowledge form. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142826 | Systems and Methods for Management and Improvement of Romantically Linked Relationships - A system and method for managing and improving a romantically linked relationship allows each partner in the relationship to self-report and enter quantitative measures related to various dimensions of their relationship. The quantitative data entered by both the partners is used to compute the romantically linked couple's relationship satisfaction scores based on a statistically derived algorithm. Each partner may also be allowed to embed digital media content related to their relationship from their pre-existing social media accounts to further contextualize their relationship information. The relationship information provided by each partner is combined and preserved in the couple's online relationship chronicle that can be referred back and viewed by both partners. The relationship satisfaction scores, along with their component parts, are charted on a chronological scale such that the scale provides trending information, enabling further analysis related to the couple's relationship dynamics. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142827 | QUERY SUGGESTION FOR E-COMMERCE SITES - Query suggestions are provided using a query log including a number of user sessions that comprise training data. The training data includes a sequence of a plurality of sets of queries, some of the sets of queries including query transitions followed by a purchase related event. From a cleaned and normalized query log stationary scores and transition scores of at least some of the plurality of sets are generated. A set of query suggestions is built and similarity scores are computed for at least some of the set of query suggestions to determine whether individual ones of the at least some of the set of query suggestions meet a predetermined assurance level. Those that meet the assurance level are included as elements of the set of query suggestions. The set of query suggestions is mixed and ranked according to a user behavior that is sought to be influenced. | 05-21-2015 |
20150149482 | Using Live Information Sources To Rank Query Suggestions - Methods and apparatus related to identifying one or more representative features of a live information source and ranking query suggestions based on the representative features. In some implementations the representative feature may be identified directly from the live information source. In some implementations the representative feature may be identified based on association of content of the live information source with the representative feature in a database. In some implementations additional factors related to the live information source may be utilized to rank the query suggestions. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149483 | PERFORMING SUB-SYSTEM ATTRIBUTE MODIFICATION - A tool and technique are employed to distill and prioritize multiple organizational (sub-system) capabilities based on ranked customer requirements or desires. A translational matrix is employed to organize preferences of the sub-system with respect to the customer requirements or desires. Relative importance scores are input into the matrix to reflect prioritized input versus prioritized capabilities. An adjusted relative importance score of the sub-system is automatically calculated and a resultant re-prioritization of sub-system attributes is created for application to new designs, services, or processes. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149484 | GRAPH-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS SERVICE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A recommendation engine may provide recommendations by obtaining a compact graph representation representing a recommendations graph comprising of nodes and weighted edges. Each node is associated with type metadata indicating that it represents a recommendable item or a non-recommendable item. Each weighted edge is associated with edge-weight metadata. The compact graph representation can be stored in primary memory. When servicing a request for an item recommendation, the recommendation engine selects an entry node based at least in part on context metadata associated with the request, and traverses only a highly-weighted portion of the compact graph representation that is proximate to an entry node to select paths leading respectively to potential recommendation nodes. Each path is scored based on the edge-weight metadata of all segments, and at least one recommendation node is selected based at least in part on the path scores. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149485 | PERFORMING SUB-SYSTEM ATTRIBUTE MODIFICATION - A tool and technique are employed to distill and prioritize multiple organizational (sub-system) capabilities based on ranked customer requirements or desires. A translational matrix is employed to organize preferences of the sub-system with respect to the customer requirements or desires. Relative importance scores are input into the matrix to reflect prioritized input versus prioritized capabilities. An adjusted relative importance score of the sub-system is automatically calculated and a resultant re-prioritization of sub-system attributes is created for application to new designs, services, or processes. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149486 | PROMPTING SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS IN A NEWSFEED TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL USER PROFILE INFORMATION - A social networking system presents questions to a user on an interface associated with the social networking system to elicit information about the user that is missing from the user's profile or is otherwise outdated. The questions are selected based on a number of factors, such as the need for or value of the information item, probability of a response, or cost of collecting the information item. In presenting the selected question, the social networking system prompts a user for information about the user in a an interface associated with a page from the social networking system, an application external to the social networking system, or using a push notification or prompt. The questions may be formatted in various ways, such as an explicit question, confirmation, a selection of responses, or social context to encourage the user to respond to the question. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149487 | Integrating Online Search Results and Social Networks - A method includes receiving a search query from a client system associated with a first user, and obtaining one or more candidate identifiers associated with the first user. The method also includes identifying a social network set of search results matching the search query and social network criteria for the first user. The social network criteria is satisfied for a respective search result when the respective search result is authored or annotated by one or more author identifiers, and at least one author identifier of the one or more author identifiers is associated with at least one candidate identifier of the one or more candidate identifiers associated with the first user. The method also includes providing to the client system a list of search results including at least a subset of the social network set of search results. | 05-28-2015 |
20150293920 | AUTOMATIC LOG RECORD SEGMENTATION - Methods and arrangements for segmenting log records. A log file is received. Candidates for a sequential pattern within the log file are automatically discerned, and, for each candidate, a likelihood is estimated that it represents a boundary within the log file. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293924 | User Validation In A Social Network - A computer implemented method and system is provided for validating a user associated with one or more social networks. A validation platform associated with the social networks is provided. The validation platform identifies a user for the validation from the social networks. The validation platform retrieves social information of the identified user from the social networks. The social information comprises relationship information of and between the identified user and social contacts of the identified user on the social networks. The validation platform acquires feedback on the identified user from one or more of the social contacts. The validation platform generates one or more validation scores, for example, an evaluation score, a feedback authentication score, a user authentication score, a composite score, etc., for the identified user based on the retrieved social information and/or the acquired feedback. The generated validation scores enable validation of the user associated with the social networks. | 10-15-2015 |
20150301728 | DATA OUTPUT CONTROL APPARATUS AND DATA OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD - A data output control apparatus includes a memory unit storing a plurality of data being output and values respectively associated with the data, the plurality of data and the values being corresponded respectively, a display control unit displaying a slider bar on a display unit, the slider bar receiving selection of a specific value from a range of the corresponded values, an input unit receiving an input of a select value selected by the slider bar displayed on the display unit, and an output control unit reading data corresponding to the data input by the input unit from the memory unit, the data being corresponded to the select value selected by the slider bar. | 10-22-2015 |
20150310015 | BIG DATA ANALYTICS BROKERAGE - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a query. A target confidence level is established for the query, the target confidence level representing a requested level of accuracy for a result of the query. At least one individual confidence level is assigned to each of a plurality of analytics engines. One or more analytics engines are queried based on the query. A group of the analytics engines are selected, by a computer processor, where the analytics engines in the selected group have query responses to the query that are deemed to be similar to one another, and where the selection of the selected group is at least partially based on the target confidence level. The query responses from the selected group of analytics engines are summarized into a final result, where the final result is an answer to the query. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310021 | BIG DATA ANALYTICS BROKERAGE - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a query. A target confidence level is established for the query, the target confidence level representing a requested level of accuracy for a result of the query. At least one individual confidence level is assigned to each of a plurality of analytics engines. One or more analytics engines are queried based on the query. A group of the analytics engines are selected, by a computer processor, where the analytics engines in the selected group have query responses to the query that are deemed to be similar to one another, and where the selection of the selected group is at least partially based on the target confidence level. The query responses from the selected group of analytics engines are summarized into a final result, where the final result is an answer to the query. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310031 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRIORITIZING FILE UPLOADS - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for uploading data to a cloud system. A plurality of files on a client system is identified for uploading to a cloud system. The plurality of files is associated with metadata, and a respective score is evaluated for each file in the plurality of files by applying a ranking scheme to the metadata. An upload process is initiated for each file in the plurality of files based on each file's respective score. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310059 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ONLINE ENTITIES - Provided are a system and method to determine similarities. The method includes gathering metadata from at least one posting by a First User on a first Social Network to define at least one First Field associated with at least one First Entity, each associated First Field having a value. The method evaluates responses to the posting by at least one Third Party, and in response to the Third Party using one or more of the First Fields, increments the value of each used First Field. An indication of the values of each First Field associated with each First Entity is provided, the indicated values permitting a determination of similarity to at least one Second Entity. An associated system for determining similarity is also disclosed | 10-29-2015 |
20150317317 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING QUERY SUGGESTIONS INCLUDING ENTITIES - Methods, systems and programming for providing query suggestions including entities. In one example, a prefix of a query is first received. A plurality of query suggestions are then identified based on the prefix of the query. The plurality of query suggestions include at least one entity. Scores of each of the plurality of query suggestions are computed using a first model. The first model includes an adjustable parameter used for computing the score of the at least one entity. The plurality of question suggestions are ranked based, at least in part, on the scores. | 11-05-2015 |
20150324361 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING USER SATISFACTION WITH RESPECT TO A USER SESSION - Methods, systems and programming for evaluating user satisfaction with respect to a user session are presented. In one example, one or more queries in a use session are received from a user. Information about one or more user activities is obtained. Each user activity is related to manipulation of a content item associated with one of the one or more queries. A score associated with the user session is computed based at least partially on the one or more user activities. User satisfaction with respect to the user session is determined based on the score. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324398 | CONTINGENCY TABLE GENERATION - A method of creating a contingency table is provided. Whether or not a variable level list exists for a second variable in tree data is determined. When the variable level list exists for the second variable in the tree data, a first node memory structure is determined for the second variable from the variable level list, a first value of a first variable is determined using a first observation indicator and the tree data, and a first counter value is added to the contingency table in association with the first value of the first variable and a first value of the second variable. The first node memory structure includes the first value indicator, the first counter value, and the first observation indicator. The first value indicator indicates a first value of the second variable. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326688 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SEGMENT-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - An approach is provided for determining user profiles with respect to content items based on segments of the content items. In an example embodiment, a segment-based user profile platform determines rating information associated with one or more segments of one or more content items corresponding to at least one user, wherein the one or more segments are discrete portions of the one or more content items. The segment-based user profile platform further processes the rating information to determine at least one profile of the at least one user. | 11-12-2015 |
20150331893 | Method And Apparatus For Developing A Social Hierarchy - A method and apparatus for developing a social hierarchy for a user from a plurality of contacts includes, for each contact, tracking communications occurring between the user and the contact; determining, from the tracked communications, a rate of change for communications between the user and the contact; and identifying, based on the rate of change, a position in the social hierarchy for the contact. Another method and apparatus includes tracking communications occurring between the user and a contact in the plurality of contacts, wherein tracking a communication comprises identifying a method of communication and a time the communication occurred; determining, from the tracked communications, that repeated communication attempts were made between the user and the contact; and identifying, based on the repeated communication attempts, a position in the social hierarchy for the contact. | 11-19-2015 |
20150339335 | Ranking Social Network Objects - An online social networking system can be used to rank social network objects of various different object types, each according to its type. The objects may comprise types such as users, communities, blogs, blog entries, events, forums, forum topics, postings, photographs, and/or images. The product comprises code for carrying out a method that begins with receiving ranking data about social network objects that comprises data about events performed on the social network. For each social network object, a ranking function is applied to ranking data about the social network object based on its type. In addition, the recency of an event on the social network related to the social network object is evaluated, in order to calculate the score for the social network object. A relative ranking for each of the plurality of social network objects based on its score is determined, and the score and relative ranking of each of the social network objects stored. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339365 | VISUAL OBJECT PRIORITIZATION - A system, method and program product for prioritizing visual objects for a configurable interface. A system is provided that includes a computer system having: a grouping system for defining a group of members and for assigning weights to members of the group; a behavior analysis system for collecting behaviors of the members of the group; and a prioritization system that prioritizes visual objects based on the collected behaviors and weights assigned to the members of the group. | 11-26-2015 |
20150347580 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING ONLINE VIDEOS - Systems and methods for evaluating online videos. One method includes receiving a URL; determining a URL type; detecting whether the URL includes one or more videos; determining at least one of a size of the video, a position of the video on a web page of the web page URL, whether the video is set to autoplay, and whether the video is set to mute; computing a score based on one or more of the size of the video, the position of the video on the web page of the web page URL, whether the video is set to autoplay, and whether the video is set to mute; obtaining at least two frames of at least part of the video, wherein each frame is obtained at one or more predetermined intervals during playback of the video; and classifying each detected video based on the at least two frames. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347606 | CAREER PATH NAVIGATION - In various example embodiments, a system and method for career path navigation are presented. A request to identify a set of positions sequentially related to an origin position may be received. The request may be associated with a user of a social network service. Member profiles from among a plurality of member profiles of the social network service may be identified based on the origin position. A plurality of positions may be extracted from the identified member profiles. The set of positions may be determined from among the extracted plurality of positions based on a sequential relationship between the origin position and respective positions of the extracted plurality of positions. At least a portion of the set of positions may be caused to be presented to the user. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356083 | DETERMINING RELEVANCE OF POINTS OF INTEREST TO A USER - Methods and apparatus related to determining points of interest based on content of one or more sources associated with a user. Relevance scores are determined for the points of interest based on additional information associated with the user and the content. Point of interest information that is related to the points of interest is provided based on the determined relevance scores. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356085 | Guided Predictive Analysis with the Use of Templates - A technique is described that simplifies the process for applying predictive analysis to a dataset. The technique can recommend multiple templates to a user. Each recommend template contains algorithms which can be applied to the dataset. When a template is selected, the technique can rank the available algorithms of the selected template based on factors such as values in the dataset, characteristics of the dataset, and the usage history of the dataset or the algorithms in prior instances. The technique can automatically select the highest ranked algorithm and apply it to the dataset. In some examples, input parameters used to configure the algorithm can also be automatically selected. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356088 | TILE-BASED GEOCODER - A geocoding architecture that generates and associates one or more tile documents with geocoded tiles. When connected entities are defined, the connected entity attributes are collected in a single tile document so that tile-document terms are attributes of all connected entities. These terms later serve as keys that enable search for tiles relevant for a given query. Entity documents are created that are an aggregation of entity attributes. Like the entity document, the tile document serves as an aggregator for all the geospatial entities within a pre-determined surface area. Search is then performed on the content of tile and entity documents. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356093 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATING TO RATINGS - As a result of a lack of meaningful generic rating methods and systems within the Internet most enterprises, political organizations, media providers, etc. maintain their use of the traditional prior art pre-Internet techniques for establishing user feedback. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to provide users with a means of rapidly and easily providing ratings on anything that they see, view, play, read, etc. across a wide range of websites, social media platforms, etc. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356094 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF DATA PLATFORMS - In system for analyzing large data sets, document/file format can be discovered by attempting to parse the file using several parsers to generate a schema, assigning a score to each parsing, and selecting a parser based on the assigned scores. Schema element attributes, such as statistical parameters, can be derived and used in identifying schema elements associated with other files. Attributes of identified schema elements can be used to substitute missing data values with values based on such attributes. Data values corresponding schema elements can be selected and highlighted, and schema elements and/or attributes thereof can be highlighted based on selected data values. From a cluster of files, a lineage relationship between file pairs, indicating whether one file is derived from another, can be determined for several files. In reducing/compacting data, utilization of all available reducers can be optimized according to current utilization of one or more reducers. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356177 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM - A method operates an infotainment system in order to provide an overview of audio data records detected by a music output device. An evaluation device arranges the detected audio data records into an audio data record group according to a selection criterion, e.g. the artist. The evaluation device determines a value of a predetermined user-relevant evaluation variable for each audio data record. On the basis of the respective values, the evaluation device then determines a ranking list of the audio data records in each audio data record group. The evaluation device generates a digital image for each audio data record and assigns the images of those audio data records that are combined into an audio data record group to an image group. The position of the images in an image group depends on the position of the respective associated audio data record in the ranking list. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363406 | ONLINE PLATFORM FOR MAINTAINING MULTIDISCIPLINARY SPORT PERFORMANCE STATISTICS AND COMPUTING PERFORMANCE FORECASTS - The present disclosure describes a platform that allows individual users to maintain personal performance statistics, which, collectively, are used to determine and update difficulty ratings for various multi-stage sport courses. Ratings are determined for each leg of a given course. The platform enables a user to predict his or her performance on an unfamiliar course based on course ratings and the user's historical performance on other courses. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363431 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION SHARING IN AN ENTERPRISE - A collaboration system for information sharing in an enterprise is disclosed. The collaboration system includes a monitoring module configured to monitor a communication for one or more parameters. The collaboration system further includes an information management module configured to select one or more data items from one or more databases based on the one or more parameters, wherein each of the data items includes an associated score. The collaboration system further includes a ranking module configured to score the one or more selected data items. The collaboration system further includes a database management module configured to update the one or more databases with the score of the one or more selected data items. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363481 | Systems, Devices, and/or Methods for Managing Information - Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a method and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, automatically generating a story regarding a predetermined topic from a plurality of assertions. | 12-17-2015 |
20150370797 | RANKING RELEVANT DISCUSSION GROUPS - Messages are collected and processed to determine topic identifiers that correspond to discussion groups. Queries are received and multiple discussion groups that are relevant to the query are determined based on the messages that are associated with the discussion groups and the topic identifiers associated with the discussion groups. The relevant discussion groups are ranked using a group preference model that simulates the behavior of a hypothetical seeker that considers discussion groups by selecting a message author who is an authority in a particular group, and exploring the discussion groups that are preferred by the selected author. The behavior of the seeker is simulated using a stationary Markov process and is used to generate a probability distribution that is used to rank the relevant discussion groups. The ranked relevant discussion groups are provided in response to the query. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370798 | Ranking and Filtering Groups Recommendations - In one embodiment, a set of user groups of a social-networking system may be accessed. A first subset of the user groups may be determined for a particular user of the social-networking system, based on one or more filtering criteria. A number of recommendation-source processes may be applied to the first subset to determine a number of second subsets of the first set. Each recommendation-source process may represent a particular recommendation source. The second subsets may be combined into a list of user groups. The list of user groups may be ranked, and sent to the particular user. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370807 | RANKING VIDEOS FOR A USER - In one embodiment, a method includes determining by a computing device a set of videos that a user may watch. For each video, a coefficient value is determined for each of one or more coefficient factors. At least one of the coefficient factors has a value that would be coincident with the user watching the video. A video coefficient for each video is calculated based on the coefficient values of its coefficient factors, and the videos are ranked based on their video coefficients. The rankings are then provided for presentation to the user. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370830 | RANKING AND SELECTING IMAGES FOR DISPLAY FROM A SET OF IMAGES - Implementations generally relate to ranking and selecting images for display from a set of images. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes providing selected images for display, including examining characteristics of a plurality of images, where the examined characteristics include two or more of: visual capture characteristics, visual content characteristics, and social popularity characteristics of the images. The method determines individual scores for the respective examined characteristics of the images, determines overall scores of the images based on a combination of the individual scores for the examined characteristics of the images, and determines a ranking of the images based on the overall scores. The method selects one or more images based on the ranking of the images, and causes a display of the one or more selected images. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370837 | MANAGING STREAMS OF TUPLES - A plurality of streams of tuples is received by processing elements operating on computer processors, the processing element having one or more stream operators. A first stream of tuples is processed at a receiving stream operator. A streaming condition is then identified. The streaming condition is determined to be satisfied and an alternate stream of tuples is processed at the receiving stream operator. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370918 | Directory Generation and Messaging - Contacts information is received from user devices that are associated with different users, the contacts information for each user device comprising one or more contact entries. Lookup information is identified for each contact entry of a plurality of contact entries using the contacts information. For each of the plurality of contact entries, a messaging directory associated with the same enterprise as the contact entry is identified using the identified lookup information, and the identified messaging directory is generated using information in the contact entry. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370921 | EMOTION VISUALIZATION DEVICE, EMOTION VISUALIZATION METHOD, AND EMOTION VISUALIZATION PROGRAM - An emotion visualization device includes an operation log organization unit | 12-24-2015 |
20150378997 | ANALYZING DOCUMENT REVISIONS TO ASSESS LITERACY - A system and method for receiving a document from a document storage, the documents having multiple revisions. Conducting an analysis of the document by comparing the multiple revisions to identify differences between the revisions and attributing a set of revisions to an author of the document and analyzing text of the set of revisions to determine literacy metrics for the author, is provided. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379086 | USING IMAGE FEATURES TO EXTRACT VIEWPORTS FROM IMAGES - Aspects of the disclosure provide for selecting viewports. A viewport is a sub-portion of an image. For example, a request to select a viewport for a particular image may be received. A set of potential viewports are identified within the particular image, and features are identified within the viewports of the set of potential viewports. A score is calculated for each given viewport of the set of potential viewports based at least in part on a weight vector having a set of feature weights and the identified features within that given viewport of the set of potential viewports. A viewport of the set of potential viewports is selected based on the calculated scores. The selected viewport is then provided in response to the request to select the viewport for the particular image. | 12-31-2015 |
20160004702 | MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS IN DISTRIBUTED DATABASES - Embodiments of the present disclosure set forth methods for selecting a preferred data set from distributed databases including a first database having a first probability attribute and a second database having a second probability attribute. One example method may include receiving a first data set from the first database and a second data set from the second database. The first data set includes a first monotonic attribute. The second data set includes a second monotonic attribute. It may further include selecting a candidate data set from one of the first data set and the second data set based on a comparison of the first monotonic attribute and the second monotonic attribute and determining whether the selected candidate data set is the preferred data set. | 01-07-2016 |
20160012151 | USING VERTEX SELF-INFORMATION SCORES FOR VERTICES IN AN ENTITY GRAPH TO DETERMINE WHETHER TO PERFORM ENTITY RESOLUTION ON THE VERTICES IN THE ENTITY GRAPH | 01-14-2016 |
20160026635 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING LIFE CYCLE INTEGRITY OF KNOWLEDGE ARTIFACTS - The present disclosure relates to a method, knowledge management computing device, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for determining lifecycle integrity of one or more knowledge artifacts. In one embodiment, life cycle integrity is determined by determining one or more parameters such as technology governance index, process governance index, corporate governance index, future change governance index of the knowledge artifacts. By determining the life cycle integrity of the knowledge artifacts, the system is able to continuously monitor and record the changes happening during the life cycle of the knowledge artifacts and also implements definite controls, checks and balances in the knowledge management. Further, the Knowledge management system is capable of adapting itself to the future changes or needs and also ensuring that the processes are being followed in line with standard protocols followed on the Knowledge trade. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026662 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRESENTING APPLICATION PROGRAMS - A method for presenting a plurality of application programs for use in a device, includes: acquiring, for each of the plurality of application programs, at least two parameter factors indicating application information about the application program within a set time period; determining, for each of the plurality of application programs, a sorting factor based on the at least two parameter factors acquired for the application program; and sorting the plurality of application programs according to the sorting factors of the application programs, respectively, and presenting the sorted application programs. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026710 | USING ONTOLOGY TO DISCOVER API REQUIREMENTS - An embodiment of the invention is provided for use in discovering a specified API service capability. The embodiment includes generating a search statement related to the specified API service capability. The embodiment further includes constructing a data structure, wherein the data structure includes one or more characteristic nodes that are each associated with data describing a particular API characteristic, and the associated data for respective characteristic nodes is ordered in accordance with one or more API service ontologies. The search statement is used to selectively search the data structure. The embodiment determines whether the search finds a match between data included in the search statement, and particular ontological data associated with one or more of the characteristic nodes of the data structure. | 01-28-2016 |
20160033369 | MONITORING OF A FIRST EQUIPMENT OF A FIRST TECHNICAL INSTALLATION USING BENCHMARKING - In situations where first equipment of a first technical installation could hitherto not be monitored based on condition data of the first equipment from the first equipment alone, it is proposed that a first sensor measures first condition data of the first equipment and that art additional sensor measures additional condition data of an additional equipment of an additional technical installation. The first condition data and the additional condition data are transmitted to a sorting unit and processed by the sorting unit into a ranking list. A corresponding sorting unit and a system as well as a corresponding computer program and a computer program product are also disclosed. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034467 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GENERATING DATA QUALITY INDICATORS FOR RELATIONSHIPS IN A DATABASE - The disclosed methods, systems, and computer-program products allow a business to generate data quality indicators for relationships in a database. In an embodiment, one or more relationships linked to a customer are retrieved from a database to form a set of relationships. A match confidence code is generated for each relationship based on a score generated by the comparison of customer data associated with the respective relationship and corresponding customer data obtained from an external industry database. A link confidence code is subsequently determined for the customer based on a score generated by the scores used to define the match confidence code for each relationship in the set of relationships and on internal data associated with each relationship in the set of relationships. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034494 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING POINTS OF INTEREST - Systems and methods are provided for ranking points of interest (POIs). According to one implementation, a computer-implemented method may be provided that includes receiving geographic information from a user device, and selecting a plurality of points of interest within the geographic region. The method may also include generating an initial ranking of the selected points of interest based on voting information received from the user device, viral input from a user's social network, and/or additional input based on searches for maps and travel directions for traversing a route. In addition, the method may include calculating a modified ranking of the selected points of interest. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034543 | GENERATING ITEM LISTINGS ACCORDING TO MAPPED SENSOR DATA - In various example embodiments, a mapping system and method for generating product listings for machine sensed and user specified criteria are presented. In example embodiments, sensor data about an object, and user characteristic information are received. Physical characteristics are extracted from the sensor data and mapped with the user characteristic information and related characteristics to create mapped characteristics. Based on the mapped characteristics, item listings are identified, ranked and presented to the user. The user can subsequently refine the search criteria by adding, subtracting or reweighing the characteristics. | 02-04-2016 |
20160041979 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD OF CONTENT EXCHANGE - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is provided for storing computer program instructions that cause a computer to implement a method of exchanging content. The method includes connecting to an information processing apparatus, and transferring a ID of the computer to the information processing apparatus when a connection to the information processing apparatus is detected. The method further includes storing content and data related to the content transmitted from the information processing apparatus, transferring the data corresponding to the content stored in the computer, and reproducing the stored content. The content is automatically transferred to the computer when the computer is judged to be a predetermined device. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041984 | SELECTING CONTENT USING QUERY-INDEPENDENT SCORES OF QUERY SEGMENTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for responding to queries. A first user query is received. The first user query is processed including identifying one or more segments in the first user query, a segment representing a word or a phrase. A stand-alone score is determined for each segment of the first user query, wherein the stand-alone score is an indication of a likelihood that the segment represents a stand-alone query and that the segment represents a main topic of the first user query. A historical log of queries is processed to determine query-independent scores for segments that are included in queries represented by the log. The final query-independent scores are used to determine the stand-alone score for each segment of the first query. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042384 | Linear Programming Approach for Querying a Trie Data Structure - The present invention provides a method and system for querying a trie data structure. The method and system include constructing a pool of linear programming problems for a trie data structure, storing the pool of linear programming problems in a memory, receiving a request, setting variables in one linear programming problem to unity, sending the one linear programming problem to a solver, wherein the solver sets a p variable corresponding to each path to 0 or 1, iterating through p variables corresponding to one or more paths, considering at most n paths, selecting one path from the n paths, assigning same values as that of one or more variables of the unknown value type nodes that are present in the selected one path, and reselling variables in the one linear programming problem to zero that was previously set to unity. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048516 | Collaboration and Analysis System for Disparate Information Sources - An advanced relational database and user interface system used for the evaluation, analysis and generation of specialized reports in any of a plurality data analysis environments. The database and analysis system can be utilized for many purposes, but particularly and preferably to support the analysis of patent claims and more specifically claim construction, infringement, written description, invalidity and/or patentability, among other matters of intellectual property litigation and analysis. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048520 | AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF RECORD HEADER TAGS - Methods, devices and apparatuses pertaining to identifying record header tags are described. A method may involve parsing a URL document to identify multiple candidate record header tags and determining scores of an individual candidate record header tag of the multiple candidate record header tags based on record header tag criteria. The method may also involve cumulating the scores to obtain a total score for the individual candidate record header tag. The method may further involve selecting a candidate record header tag of the multiple candidate record header tags as a record header tag for the URL document based on the total score of the individual candidate record header tag. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048546 | DETERMINATION OF PROMINENT PHRASES IN MULTI-CHANNEL INTERACTIONS BY MULTI-FEATURE EVALUATIONS - A method for determining prominent keyphrases in interactions, comprising, receiving keyphrases of numerous interactions received via a plurality of channels that comprise apparatuses for conveying the interactions according to the media thereof, quantitatively evaluating each keyphrase by a plurality of different metrics thereby yielding a corresponding plurality of values, and linearly combining the plurality of the values with a corresponding plurality of coefficients associated with a channel via which an interaction having said keyphrase is received, thereby providing a score of said keyphrase, and based on a condition related to the scores of the keyphrases, selecting at least one keyphrase as an at least one prominent keyphrase, wherein the method is at least partially performed by an at least one computerized apparatus configured for interfacing with the apparatuses of the plurality of the channels. | 02-18-2016 |
20160055236 | Personalized experience scores based on measurements of affective response - This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products that may be used to provide crowd-based scores for experiences, which are computed based on measurements of affective response of multiple users who had the experiences. The measurements of affective response may be collected using a wide array of sensors that measure physiological signals and/or behavioral cues. Additionally, the scores may be personalized for a certain user based on similarities between a profile of the certain user and profiles of the multiple users. | 02-25-2016 |
20160062998 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARTITIONING DATA FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - Systems and methods are disclosed for partitioning data into n partitions in a database used for information retrieval. According to certain embodiments implemented with at least one processor, a perceived load is determined for each of a plurality of substrings, each of the substrings corresponding to one or more entries in the database. The plurality of substrings are ordered from highest to lowest perceived load. Data associated with each of the first n substrings is assigned to a separate partition, wherein n is greater than one. Moreover, data associated with each of the remaining substrings is assigned to the n partitions based on a score. The score is computed by calculating, for each partition, a load variance and an entropy weight for the candidate substring. The load variance and the entropy weight are combined, and the candidate substring is assigned to the partition that has the lowest combined score. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062999 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRECISE QUANTILE DETERMINATION - A system for precise quantile determination derives a maximum relative error value ε that guarantees that an exact result for every quantile can be determined in no more than two passes. The system computes a quantile summary of the datapoints, that specifies lower and upper bounds of the quantile ranks for selected datapoints, and determines for each quantile rank, the lower and upper bounds for values between which the quantile must occur. The system filters out in a second pass those datapoints that are not within the bounds to provide subsets; and computes from the quantile ranks and the subsets, the precise quantiles. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063000 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF RELATEDNESS IN POOLS OF ENCRYPTED DATA - A pool of files are analyzed for relationships between the files. At least some of the files in the pool are encrypted files. The relationships are represented by distances between the files plotted on a graph in two or more dimensions. A point on the graph representing a particular file. The graph includes an interactive interface, such that points or clusters of points can be selected for re-analyzing and re-plotting on a refreshed graph for just those selected points or clusters. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063093 | Keyword Search Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a client system of a first user an unstructured text query. The method includes parsing the text query to identify one or more n-grams. At least one of the n-grams is an ambiguous n-gram. The method includes searching a plurality of keyword generators to identify one or more keyword suggestions matching the ambiguous n-gram. The method further includes calculating a keyword score for each identified keyword suggestions and generating one or more suggested queries including one or more n-grams identified from the text query. The one or more identified keyword suggestions having a keyword score greater than a threshold keyword score. The method includes sending one or more of the suggested queries to the client system of the first user for display. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063094 | Spelling Correction of Email Queries - Techniques and constructs to facilitate spelling correction of email queries can leverage features of email data to obtain candidate corrections particular to the email data being queried. The constructs may enable accurate spelling correction of email queries across languages and domains based on, for example, one or more of a language model such as a bigram language model and/or a normalized token IDF based language model, a translation model such as an edit distance translation model and/or a fuzzy match translation model, content-based features, and/or contextual features. Content-based features can include features associated with the subject line of emails, content including identified phrases, contacts, and/or the number of candidate emails returned. Contextual features can include a time window of subject match and/or contact match, a frequency of emails received from a contact, and/or device characteristics. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063135 | TARGET TRACKING SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses for identifying a track for a target are disclosed herein. In a general embodiment, trees for targets are identified. Each tree in the trees includes observations that are connected to each other by branches and each observation has a score. A selected track in a tree is identified within the trees with an observation having a highest score. A group of branches is added to the selected track from other trees other than the tree having the selected track to form the track for a target, enabling reducing processing resources used to identify the track. | 03-03-2016 |
20160070710 | EVALUATING TYPEABILITY OF DOMAIN NAMES - Methods and systems are disclosed for assessing an identifier. The method comprises receiving a string of characters making up the identifier and determining a keyboard type for a keyboard. The method further comprises calculating, by a calculator module, a typeability score for the identifier based on the string of characters and the keyboard type, wherein the typeability score signifies a difficulty of typing the identifier on the keyboard type. In certain embodiments, the method further comprises determining a finger positioning corresponding to a position of a typer's fingers on the keyboard, and the typeability score is further based on the finger positioning. In some embodiments, the finger positioning is based on the typer's typing habits. | 03-10-2016 |
20160078142 | Customer Management System - A system and method are disclosed for scoring an interaction over one or more channels by an end user and an entity by monitoring the communications over the channels and assigning penalties and scores based on topics associated with the communications. | 03-17-2016 |
20160085812 | METHOD OF MANAGING CONTENT IN ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS CONTROLLED ACCORDING TO THE METHOD - A method of managing content and an apparatus implementing the method are presented. The method of managing content includes obtaining content by an electronic apparatus; and executing an operation corresponding to a category related to the obtained content. The method of managing content enables an easy management of content obtained, by using the electronic apparatus, capable of obtaining content, which may conveniently manage content by automatic execution of an operation without direct executing an operation related to each of content by a user of the electronic apparatus. | 03-24-2016 |
20160092449 | DATA RATING - Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can receive, at a rating system, a request for a data rating of data, determine a rating type for the data, receiving rating logic for the rating type, and rate the data using the rating logic. The rating logic for the rating type is included in a dedicated rating database. Also, the rating logic may separate from the rating system and the rating logic can be updated without having to update the rating system. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092450 | DISPLAYING CONVERSION CANDIDATES ASSOCIATED WITH INPUT CHARACTER STRING - A method, executed by an electronic apparatus, includes retrieving, in response to input of a character string by a user, conversion candidates associated with the input character string, each conversion candidate having a first rank. The method also includes displaying, when a plurality of the conversion candidates are present, the plurality of conversion candidates within a corresponding plurality of regions on a map wherein conversion candidates that have a higher first rank occupy larger regions on the map. A corresponding computer program product and corresponding computer systems are also disclosed herein. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092556 | GENERATION OF DATA FOR A DENDROGRAMMATIC TREE DATA STRUCTURE - Methods and systems which can be used to create data for one or more nodes of a tree data structure by searching through another data structure containing, for example, metadata that describes digital assets such as apps (applications) available through an app store. | 03-31-2016 |
20160099856 | FUSING ONLINE MEDIA MONITORING DATA WITH SECONDARY ONLINE DATA FEEDS TO GENERATE RATINGS DATA FOR ONLINE MEDIA EXPOSURE - Methods, apparatus, systems, storage media, etc., to fuse online media monitoring data with secondary online data feeds to generate ratings data for online media exposure are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein to determine ratings data for online media exposure include accessing timestamps included in monitoring data obtained by monitoring exposure to online media. Such example methods also include searching a secondary online data feed using the timestamps included in the monitoring data for data entries associated with exposure to the online media. Such example methods further include fusing the data entries from the secondary online data feed with the monitoring data to generate the ratings data for online media exposure. | 04-07-2016 |
20160110353 | API FOR IMPLEMENTING SCORING FUNCTIONS - This invention relates generally to data assembly and analytics, as can be used in the personal finance and banking field, and more particularly to the field of lending and credit notification methods and systems. Preferred embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for creating objects which can be used in multiple implementations to generate scores. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110445 | IDENTIFYING POSSIBLE CONTEXTS FOR A SOURCE OF UNSTRUCTURED DATA - Potential clues are identified from an unstructured data source. The potential clues are each associated with one or more contexts. A first set of potential contexts for the unstructured data source are determined based on the potential clues. A confidence value for each potential context in the set of the potential contexts is calculated based on the potential clues. A second set of potential contexts is returned from the first set of potential contexts. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117394 | CLIENT APPLICATION FINGERPRINTING BASED ON ANALYSIS OF CLIENT REQUESTS - Processes are disclosed for fingerprinting and identifying client applications based on the analysis of client requests. In an HTTP-based embodiment, a fingerprint is constructed based on the presence and order of HTTP headers included in a request from a client application or device. This fingerprint may then be compared to known fingerprints associated with particular client applications to identify the particular client application and/or to assess whether the client application is malicious. The results of this analysis may, for example, be used to determine how to respond to the current request and/or subsequent requests. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117591 | Dynamic Business Rule Creation Using Scored Sentiments - A method for analyzing and implementing sentiments includes sorting data from the data stream into sorted data by using a corpus builder. The sorted data is then input into an opinion mining platform where selected content is obtained based on the identification of keywords present in the sorted data. A sentiment extraction program generates sentiment metrics based on analysis of the selected content. A rules extractor program determines, based on the sentiment metrics satisfying rules, if actions are to be performed by a business rules engine. | 04-28-2016 |
20160124946 | MANAGING A SET OF DATA - Aspects of the disclosure include managing a set of data associated with a corpus. By analyzing the corpus, a domain is established to characterize the subject matter of the set of data. A user identifier is generated for a portion of the set of data. Based upon a credibility computation, a quality factor for a portion of the set of data is determined. The credibility computation includes using both the domain and the user identifier to determine the quality factor for the portion of the set of data. The quality factor for the portion of the set of data is compared with a threshold. In response to a quality factor for a portion of the set of data exceeding the threshold, the portion of the set of data is selected. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124956 | QUANTIFYING SOCIAL CAPITAL - For each of a group of nodes including a node corresponding to a first member and a plurality of nodes corresponding to members with which the first member is directly connected in a social graph, a plurality of reputation scores may be calculated for a node in the social graph, and the plurality of reputation scores for the node may be averaged into an importance score for the node. A keyness score for each of the plurality of nodes corresponding to members with which the first member is directly connected in the social graph can be calculated, the keyness score for each of the plurality of nodes being based on a connection strength for a connection between the node and the node corresponding to the first member and based on the importance score for the node. The keyness scores may be selected, averaged, and saved as a social capital score. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124957 | Managing Big Data for Services - Techniques are presented herein to monitor a plurality of big data sources in order to dynamically identify keywords. The big data sources are analyzed to classify the keywords as related to either a technical problem or to a solution to the technical problem. In addition, data associated with the keywords is weighted based on one or more attributes of the data and stored in a database in a problem-solution format. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124976 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ADAPTIVE SAMPLING FOR VEHICULAR CROWD SENSING APPLICATIONS - A crowd sensing system includes a central entity and remote entities. The remote entities receive queries from the central entity and transmit data to the central entity in response to the query. The sample data obtained from the queried remote entity is analyzed and an average value for the sample data is determined for a current time interval. The central entity determines whether a difference between the average values for the current time interval and a previous time interval is greater than a predetermined threshold. The central entity increases the number of entities in response to the difference being greater than the predetermined threshold, and decreases the respective number of remote entities sampled in response to the difference being less than the predetermined threshold. The central entity queries a number of remote entities in the plurality of regions equal to the adjusted number of samples identified by the central entity. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125013 | EVALUATING PASSAGES IN A QUESTION ANSWERING COMPUTER SYSTEM - According to an aspect, a processing system of a question answering computer system determines a first set of relations between one or more pairs of terms in a question. The processing system also determines a second set of relations between one or more pairs of terms in a candidate passage including a candidate answer to the question. The processing system matches the first set of relations to the second set of relations. A plurality of scores is determined by the processing system based on the matching. The processing system aggregates the scores to produce an answer score indicative of a level of support that the candidate answer correctly answers the question. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125034 | Annotate Apps with Entities by Fusing Heterogeneous Signals - A system and method of annotating an application, including obtaining input signals associated with a target application, wherein the input signals are obtained from a plurality of sources, obtaining first annotation data from the obtained input signals, generating second annotation data in a machine-understandable form based on the first annotation data, and associating the second annotation data with the target application. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125072 | USER NAVIGATION IN A TARGET PORTAL - User navigation in a target portal with at least two portal pages. At least one query is created that includes uniform resource locators (URLs) of selected portal pages as search terms in a first search level; repeating until a certain abort criterion is reached: Receiving and analyzing search results of the at least one query including external websites containing search terms as part of their content; selecting a set of uniform resource locators from the received search results; creating a node in a graph-like-model for each selected URL if not already contained in the graph-like-model and associating the node with the selected uniform resource locator; creating and issuing a further search query including selected uniform resource locators of external websites in an additional search level; and in case the certain abort criterion is reached, performing a number of actions. | 05-05-2016 |
20160140157 | AESTHETICS DATA IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION - Evaluating aesthetics of image data is disclosed. Evaluating aesthetics of image data can include identifying a first set of aesthetics data from a first set of image data. Evaluating aesthetics of image data can include generating an aesthetics evaluation score for the first set of image data, the aesthetics evaluation score generated based on the first set of aesthetics data and a first set of aesthetics data rules. Evaluating aesthetics of image data can include determining that the aesthetics evaluation score achieves an aesthetics threshold. Evaluating aesthetics of image data can include endorsing the first set of image data in response to determining that the aesthetics evaluation score achieves the aesthetics threshold. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140227 | CUSTOMIZED MEDIA - The discussion relates to visitor-driven, venue-specific media. One implementation can obtain a venue media profile of a venue and obtain visitor profiles of visitors at the venue. This implementation can generate a playlist of visitor-driven, venue specific media based on both the venue media profile and the visitor profiles. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140292 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SORTING A PLURALITY OF DATA RECORDS - A system and method is provided for sorting a plurality of data records. The method includes the steps of collecting a plurality of data entries from a data record of the plurality of data records. The method further assigns each data entry of the plurality of data entries with a unique entry ID. An initial state of a given data entry of the plurality of data entries is also identified, and a given state is assigned to the given data entry. A change in state of the given data entry is determined from the initial state to the given state. The given data entry is sorted according to a first criteria and a second criteria, with the sorting comprising assigning a score to the given data entry. The given data entry is prioritized based on the score assigned to the given data entry respective of a score assigned to each remaining data entry of the plurality of data entries. An output representing a prioritized list of the plurality of data entries is generated based on a respective score that can be displayed in a display. | 05-19-2016 |
20160147754 | OFFLINE EVALUATION OF RANKING FUNCTIONS - The claimed subject matter includes techniques for offline evaluation of ranking functions. An example system includes a first module configured to receive production log data, the first module to pre-process the production log data to generate an exploration data set. The example system also includes a second module configured to perform offline estimation of online metrics for ranking functions using the exploration data set. The example system also includes a third module to evaluate a proposed ranking function by comparing the estimated online metrics to a set of baseline metrics of a baseline ranking function and detecting that the estimated online metrics of the proposed ranking function exceed, are lower than, or are within a predetermined range of the baseline metrics. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147757 | Applying Level of Permanence to Statements to Influence Confidence Ranking - An approach is provided to identify permanence data corresponding to terms included in a corpus of a question answering (QA) system. Based on the identified permanence, a time-based confidence of each of the terms is established. Terms are identified as a plurality of candidate answers to a question posed to the QA system. Each of the plurality of candidate answers are scored with the scoring being at least partially based on the time-based confidence established for each of the terms. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147764 | NORMALIZATION OF CONFIDENCE THRESHOLDS IN FEDERATED ENVIRONMENTS - Embodiments of the present invention provides methods, computer program products, and systems for normalizing confidence score thresholds across systems in a federated environment. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to calculate normalization factors for participating hubs in a federated environment to normalize confidence score thresholds applied by those hubs and improve search results obtained therefrom. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147771 | UTILIZING SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR PROBLEM SOLVING - A computing device receives information detailing a question. The computing device divides the question into at least a first question segment and a second question segment. The computing device transmits the first question segment and second question segment to at least one social network contact, wherein the at least one social network contact is selected based on expertise of the at least one social network contact. The computing device receives a first response corresponding to the first question segment and a second response corresponding to the second question segment. | 05-26-2016 |
20160154854 | TOP-K Prefix Histogram Construction for String Data | 06-02-2016 |
20160162490 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCORING ARTICLES IN AN ON-DEMAND SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - A method for scoring and ranking knowledge articles in an on-demand service environment in a database network system. The scoring allows users to have input into the scoring to determine relevancy and authenticity to solve particular problems. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162551 | Application Recommending Method and System, and Server - Embodiments of the present disclosure are applicable to the field of communications technologies, and provide an application recommending method and system, and a server. The method includes receiving data reported by at least one terminal, where the data includes static data and first application behavior data that are collected by the at least one terminal, and the static data is used to identify a type of a terminal; obtaining an activity index of each application on terminals of different types according to the first application behavior data; and receiving an application list request sent by a first terminal, querying, according to the application list request, an activity index of each application on terminals that are of the same type with the first terminal, and recommending an application with an activity index greater than a preset first activity index threshold to the first terminal. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162578 | TRANSITIVE TRUST SOCIAL-NETWORK SYSTEM - In one embodiment, a system comprises a processor to maintain a skills database including different skill tags, each skill tag having an associated description, and a plurality of different subjects, each of the subjects being associated with a person, receive an endorsement for a first one of the subjects from a second one of the subjects endorsing a first one of the skill tags of the first subject, create a link linking the first subject with the first skill tag in the skills database, and based on receiving the endorsement, assign, in the skills database, a first expertise level to the first skill tag of the first subject, the first expertise level being dependent at least on one of the skill tags of the second subject and on a second expertise level assigned to the one skill tag of the second subject. Related apparatus and methods are also described. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162601 | INTERFACE FOR CONTEXT BASED COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT - Methods, computer-readable media and apparatuses for presenting a first relationship graph are disclosed. A processor calculates a communication priority score for each of a number of contacts of a user. The communication priority score is based upon a communication priority score factor and a weighting. The processor determines a subset of the plurality of contacts having communication priority scores above a threshold, and generates the first relationship graph including an icon representing the user and a plurality of shapes overlapping the icon representing the user. Each shape is associated with one of a plurality of social groups of the user. Each shape includes a second icon representing a contact of the subset of the plurality of contacts that is a member of a social group that is associated with a shape. The processor presents a graphical input field for changing the weighting of the communication priority score factor. | 06-09-2016 |
20160170994 | SEMANTIC ENRICHMENT OF TRAJECTORY DATA | 06-16-2016 |
20160170996 | Crowd-based scores for experiences from measurements of affective response | 06-16-2016 |
20160170998 | Crowd-Based Scores for Locations from Measurements of Affective Response | 06-16-2016 |
20160171057 | NON-EXCLUSIONARY SEARCH WITHIN IN-MEMORY DATABASES | 06-16-2016 |
20160179811 | SCORING ATTRIBUTES IN DEEP QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS BASED ON ALGORITHMIC SOURCE CODE INFLUENCES | 06-23-2016 |
20160179862 | SCORING ATTRIBUTES IN DEEP QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS BASED ON ALGORITHMIC SOURCE CODE INFLUENCES | 06-23-2016 |
20160179899 | METHOD OF PROVIDING CONTENT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS PERFORMING THE METHOD | 06-23-2016 |
20160188705 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRECISE QUANTILE DETERMINATION - Precise quantile determination in a distributed environment is provided where data is distributed among worker nodes, one of which functions as a coordinator node. Each worker node has local data for precise quantile determination. The coordinator node derives a maximum relative error value ε which guarantees an exact result for every quantile can be determined in two passes with optimal memory consumption on this node. The worker nodes perform a distributed computation of quantile summaries of datapoints, that specify lower and upper bounds of quantile ranks for selected datapoints. The coordinator node merges the quantile summaries and determines, for each quantile rank, lower and upper bounds for values between which the quantile must occur. The worker nodes filter out, in a second pass, those datapoints that are not within the bounds and stream the qualifying data to the coordinator node. The coordinator node computes precise quantiles from the qualifying data. | 06-30-2016 |
20160196268 | PRIORITIZING VIDEO SURVEILLANCE MEDIA | 07-07-2016 |
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20160378765 | CONCEPT EXPANSION USING TABLES - Concept expansion using tables, such as web tables, can return entities belonging to a concept based on an input of the concept and at least one seed entity that belongs to the concept. A concept expansion frontend can receive the concept and seed entity and provide them to a concept expansion framework. The concept expansion framework can expand the coverage of entities for concepts, including tail concepts, using tables by leveraging rich content signals corresponding to concept names. Such content signals can include content matching the concept that appear in captions, early headings, page titles, surrounding text, anchor text, and queries for which the page has been clicked. The concept expansion framework can use the structured entities in tables to infer exclusive tables. Such inference differs from previous label propagation methods and involves modeling a table-entity relationship. The table-entity relationship reduces semantic drift without using a reference ontology. | 12-29-2016 |
20160378836 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS USING SENSOR MONITORING - A method and apparatus are provided for using data collected from personal sensors, such as those used to monitor health-related factors, to quantify fitness of human relationships. This is done by correlating the sensor data e.g. heart rate, accelerometer, GPS location, from personal electronic devices of users in a relationship, whether romantic, professional or otherwise, and using this data to represent the activities of the users and to characterize the physiological linkage and the emotional impact of those activities on each other. This data can be statistically analyzed to generate a relationship scorecard. By looking at trends of activities, such as stressful conflicts or pleasurable moments, it enables users to improve the quality of their relationships whether professional or personal or romantic. | 12-29-2016 |
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20180025360 | Customer Management System | 01-25-2018 |
20190147056 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING EPHEMERAL CONTENT ITEM COLLECTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM | 05-16-2019 |
20190147057 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING EPHEMERAL CONTENT ITEM COLLECTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM | 05-16-2019 |
20190147062 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING CROWD SOURCING TO SCORE ONLINE CONTENT AS IT RELATES TO A BELIEF STATE | 05-16-2019 |
20220138212 | BLOCKCHAIN IMPLEMENTING RELIABILITY DATABASE - An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request to modify a reliability value of an off-chain data source to generate a modified reliability value, determining whether a consensus on the modified reliability value has been received among a plurality of peer nodes, and in response to a determination that the consensus has been received, updating a storage to reflect the modified reliability value associated with the off-chain data source, and storing an identification of the modified reliability value within a block among a hash-linked chain of blocks on a distributed ledger shared among the plurality of peer nodes. | 05-05-2022 |
20220138263 | ADVICE PRESENTATION SYSTEM - An advice presentation system that combines functions of a terminal such as a smartphone, advice data such as famous or wise sayings that have been stored in a database, and functions such as a communications channel together, and provides appropriate advice according to the emotions of a user at that time. Firstly, emotion-related data pertaining to the emotions of the user is entered from the terminal. The advice presentation system connects to a web server via Internet connection, and emotion data corresponding to the entered emotion-related data is selected and extracted from an emotion database by using an emotion data selection means for an application server. At least one piece of advice data stored in an advice database is selected and extracted by an advice data selection means for the application server, on the basis of the selected emotion data. The selected advice data is sent to the terminal of the user, and famous or wise sayings, etc., are presented from an advice display means as advice data. | 05-05-2022 |