| 10th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 81 |
| Patent application number | Title | Published |
|---|
| 20140067744 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A VALUE OF INFORMATION METRIC FROM A POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTION GENERATED THROUGH STOCHASTIC INVERSION - A system and a computer implemented method for determining a value of information are described herein. The method includes drawing a plurality of synthetic prior earth models from one or more prior distributions for a plurality of well locations and generate from each prior distribution synthetic data; and drawing a plurality of posterior earth models from a posterior distribution for the plurality of well locations, the posterior distribution being generated through stochastic inversion from the synthetic data and the plurality of posterior models are drawn from each of the plurality of prior earth models. The method further includes calculating a difference or a ratio between a weighted value prior and a weighted value posterior and calculating a sum over a plurality of well locations of the difference or the ratio to obtain the value of information. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067745 | TARGETED AGRICULTURAL RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - Methods, apparatuses and computer program products are provided for providing targeted recommendations of agricultural inputs based on a given localized usage context. Methods are provided that include receiving one or more indications of the localized usage context, determining one or more suggested agricultural inputs based on the usage context, and causing the one or more suggested agricultural inputs to be provided. In the context of a further method, a plurality of usage scenarios may be presented for selection, each of the usage scenarios being associated with one or more additional indications of the localized usage context. According to an additional method, probabilities of achieving target and minimum acceptable yields may be determined and presented along with the usage scenarios, thereby allowing a user to select one or more usage scenarios in order to receive the input recommendations based thereon. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067746 | APPARATUS FOR MANAGING USER-CENTRIC CONTEXT AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for managing user-centered context, the apparatus including a sensor level unit including a plurality of sensors to transmit respective pieces of first context collected from the plurality of sensors, a domain level unit including a plurality of domain context management modules (domain_U-CoUDE) to produce a first inferred context by aggregating and inferring a corresponding second context among the respective pieces of first context by use of a context model and transmit the produced first inferred context, and a user level unit including a plurality of user context management modules (user_U-CoUDE) to produce and transmit a second inferred context by aggregating and inferring the first inferred context by use of the context model, so that different forms of context generated from various domains are converted into a standardized from, thereby providing and using the context in a more efficient manner. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067747 | OBJECT BASED METHOD TO EVALUATE RULES - Aspects of the invention provide for a method of evaluating rules for validating, constructing, or configuring multi-level collections of business objects. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a request including a multi-level collection of business objects; processing each object in the collection of business objects by determining whether the object satisfies at least one rule condition and a relationship between the object and at least one other object; executing at least one rule behavior based on satisfying the at least one rule condition; and returning a response based on the processing and the executing. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067748 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OCEAN OBJECT DETECTION - System and method for discriminating buried clutter from munitions through exploitation of unique clutter/target signatures and characteristics detected from advanced acoustic and magnetic sensors. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067749 | METHOD OF EVALUATING GENOMIC SEQUENCES - Methods of calling genomic sequence values in complex calling regions are disclosed. Following a preliminary sequence alignment a complex calling region may be identified where no sequence values satisfy preliminary alignment criteria. Potential hypotheses may be formulated for the complex calling region and the probability of each hypothesis representing a correct alignment may be calculated by evaluating the probability of each hypothesis being correct for the reads and the probability of each hypothesis occurring. The hypothesis best satisfying hypothesis selection criteria may be selected. The method may include an evaluation of possible indels in the complex calling region. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067750 | Cross-Platform Compiler for Data Transforms - Techniques for automatically partitioning a multi-platform data transform flow graph to one or more target output platforms are provided. The techniques include performing type inference on a transform graph, wherein the transform graph comprises one or more data transforms, automatically partitioning the transform graph to one or more target output platforms based on one or more policies, performing an optimization of the partitioned transform graph, and generating code, from the partitioned transform graph, for each set of the one or more data transforms based on the one or more target output platforms. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067751 | COMPRESSED SET REPRESENTATION FOR SETS AS MEASURES IN OLAP CUBES - A cardinality of an incoming data stream is maintained in real time; the cardinality is maintained in a data structure that is represented by an unsorted list at low cardinalities, a linear counter at medium cardinalities, and a PCSA at high cardinalities. The conversion to the linear counter makes use of the data in the unsorted list, after which that data is discarded. The conversion to the PCSA uses only the data in the linear counter. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067752 | AVAILABLE-TO-PROMISE ON AN IN-MEMORY COLUMN STORE - A system and method of determining an earliest delivery date for a demand on the basis of a fact table stored in a database, where the demand indicates both a desired date and a desired quantity for items from a stock, where a fact time series is comprised by and/or deducible from the fact table, and where the fact time series comprises fact tuples indicating both a fact date and a change in quantity of stock items that occurred on this fact date. The method includes generating an aggregated time series from the fact time series by defining and/or obtaining discrete time intervals, and generating, for at least one discrete time interval, an aggregated tuple indicating both its corresponding discrete time interval and the aggregated change in quantity of stock items that occurred in its corresponding discrete time interval. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067753 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, TRAIL COLLECTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a sample extracting unit, a trail information memory, a trail acquisition instructing unit, a trail accepting unit, and a trail determining unit. The sample extracting unit extracts samples from a population. The trail information memory stores information about trails. The trail acquisition instructing unit provides an instruction to acquire a trail for a sample extracted by the sample extracting unit. The trail accepting unit accepts trails. The trail determining unit determines, every time the trail accepting unit accepts a trail, whether the accepted trail is valid or invalid in accordance with the information stored in the trail information memory. If the trail determining unit determines that the accepted trail is invalid, the trail acquisition instructing unit provides again an instruction to acquire a trail. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067754 | PERSONALIZED NETWORK SEARCHING - Personalized network searching, in which a search query is received from a user, and a request is received to personalize a search result. Responsive to the search query and the request to personalize the search result, a personalized search result is generated by searching a personalized search object. Responsive to the search query, a general search result is generated by searching the general search object. The personalized search result and the general search result are provided to a client device, an advertisement is selected based at least in part upon the personalized search object, and the advertisement, the personalized search result, and the general search result are displayed. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067755 | TIME-BOUND BATCH STATUS ROLLUP FOR LOGGED EVENTS - Techniques for time-bound batch status rollup for logged events are provided. A status for each action defined in a database log is resolved during a configured interval of time. The statuses for the actions are aggregated at the end of the interval of time and then joined back into the log. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067756 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING EMAIL DOMAINS TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF NAME AND POSTAL ADDRESS MATCHING - Improvement of the quality of name and address matching processes using e-mail domains is provided. A distinction is made between e-mail domains designed to be used by employees of an entity and domains designed to be used by individuals or organizations who aren't employees of the domain owner entity. By analyzing domain names in conjunction with known relationships between e-mail addresses and names of companies, it is possible to differentiate between employee-use domains and public-use domains and maintain a collection of employee-use domains that are associated with the domain owner's business name. When performing a name and address matching process, the e-mail domains of the input records can be checked against the collection of employee-use domains and the records for the input name and address can be supplemented to include the domain owner's name and address as alternative information. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067757 | Method and System for Clustering Data Points - Systems and methods for clustering a group of data points based on a measure of similarity between each pair of data points in the group are provided. A pairwise similarity function can be estimated for each pair of data points in the group. A clustering algorithm can be executed to create clusters and associate data points with the clusters using the pairwise similarity function. The algorithm can be iterated multiple times until a stopping condition is reached in order to reduce variance in the output of the algorithm. The pairwise similarity function for each pair of data points can be updated between iterations of the algorithm and the results of each iteration can be aggregated. The data in each data point associated with a cluster can be consolidated into a consolidated data point. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067758 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING EDGE-BASED INTEROPERABILITY FOR DATA AND COMPUTATIONS - An approach is described for providing edge-based interoperability of data and computations. An edge computing platform causes, at least in part, a colocation one or more data records with one or more computations as one or more computation closures. The one or more computations are for processing the one the one or more data records. The edge computing platform also causes, at least in part, a storage of the one or more computation closures at one or more nodes of at least one cloud computing architecture for servicing one or more queries. The one or more nodes include, at least in part, one or more edge nodes, one or more regional nodes, one or more core nodes, or a combination thereof. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067759 | REPLICATING DATA ACROSS DATA CENTERS - The present techniques prioritize transmission of feature information associated with data copies in data transmission, and selectively transmit the data copies when necessary. As the size of the feature information is small compared with the data copies, and as feature information is transmitted using prioritized messages, delays caused by congestion in the network are reduced. Based on the use of prioritized messages, the present techniques provide solutions for replicating data across data centers when conducting various data operations including reading, writing, and modifying data. The present techniques also replicate data across data centers while providing consistency, access locality, and disaster tolerance. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067760 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BATCH PROCESSING OF DATA RECORDS IN AN ON-DEMAND SYSTEM - Systems and methods are provided for batch processing of data records in an on-demand system. A marker is stored that identifies a node in an on-demand system and identifies a most recent data record processed in a relational database management system by the node. The marker is used to query the database management system to identify a batch of records for the node to process. The batch of records is processed by the node to update a client of data changes reflected by the batch of records. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067761 | LOGGING MODIFICATIONS TO A VARIABLE IN PERSISTENT MEMORY - A log entry is created in persistent memory that represents a modification to a variable that resides in persistent memory. A log entry is created in persistent memory that represents a synchronization operation. A program-order based dynamic ordering relationship is created between two successive log entries within an execution entity. A synchronization-order based dynamic ordering relationship is created between two log entries corresponding to synchronization operations in concurrently executing distinct execution entities of said execution instance. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067762 | DATABASE CONTROLLER, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR STORING ENCODED TRIPLES - A database controller controls a database for storing graph data encoded as triples, each triple having a subject, a predicate, and an object, and each stored within a data item among a set of data items ordered according to the triple stored within. Each data item is stored on a storage node from among a plurality of storage nodes distributed in a network. The database controller includes a storage request receiver configured to receive a request to store a triple in the database, and a data item generation module configured to generate two or more data items each having a different version of the triple. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067763 | TECHNIQUES FOR RECOVERING A VIRTUAL MACHINE - Techniq ues for recovering a virtual machine are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for recovering a virtual machine comprising the steps of selecting a first backup copy of a virtual machine in a first data store, selecting a second data store; enabling use of the virtual machine by reading from the first data store and writing to the second data store, selecting a second backup copy of the virtual machine, and migrating the virtual machine from the second backup copy to the second data store. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067764 | STUBBING SYSTEMS AND METHODS IN A DATA REPLICATION ENVIRONMENT - Stubbing systems and methods are provided for intelligent data management in a replication environment, such as by reducing the space occupied by replication data on a destination system. In certain examples, stub files or like objects replace migrated, de-duplicated or otherwise copied data that has been moved from the destination system to secondary storage. Access is further provided to the replication data in a manner that is transparent to the user and/or without substantially impacting the base replication process. In order to distinguish stub files representing migrated replication data from replicated stub files, priority tags or like identifiers can be used. Thus, when accessing a stub file on the destination system, such as to modify replication data or perform a restore process, the tagged stub files can be used to recall archived data prior to performing the requested operation so that an accurate copy of the source data is generated. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067765 | Archiving-Safe Replication of Relational Data - A computer-implemented method for archiving information includes: executing a first application in a first process; determining that the first application is an archiving application configured to archive information stored in a transactional system; assigning, based on the determination, an archiving mode to the first process; receiving, from the first process and after assigning the archiving mode, a request to delete information; and processing the request to delete information according to the archiving mode. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067766 | PROPAGATING PER-CUSTODIAN PRESERVATION AND COLLECTION REQUESTS BETWEEN EDISCOVERY MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS AND CONTENT ARCHIVES - A method, computer program product, and system for defining custodianship of content in an electronic discovery management system, and maintaining custodianship definitions in an external content archive, the custodianship specifying at least one parameter of a first custodian to associate the content with the first custodian. Responsive to receiving a request to perform an operation on the content associated with the first custodian, the request is modified with the at least one parameter of the first custodian and at least one property of the content in the content archive, the at least one parameter and at the least one property being consumable by the content archive. The modified request is sent to the content archive, which is configured to, responsive to receiving the modified request, perform the operation on the content associated with the first custodian. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067767 | GENERATING AND APPLYING REDO RECORDS - Techniques for maintaining a cascading index are provided. In one approach, one or more branch node compression techniques are applied to the main index of a cascading index. In an approach, a Bloom filter is generated and associated with, e.g., a branch node in the main index. The Bloom filter is used to determine whether, without accessing any leaf blocks, a particular key value exists, e.g., in leaf blocks associated with the branch node. In an approach, a new redo record is generated in response to a merge operation between two levels of the cascading index. The new redo record comprises (a) one or more addresses of blocks that are affected by the merge operation, (b) data is that being “pushed down” to a lower level of the cascading index, and (c) one or more addresses of blocks that are written to storage as a result of the merge operation. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067768 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENT ASSOCIATION AND HISTORY TRACKING IN VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY - A machine-implemented method includes establishing a virtual or augmented reality entity, and establishing a state for the entity having a state time and state properties including a state spatial arrangement. The data entity and state are stored, and are subsequently received and outputted at a time other than the state time so as to exhibit a “virtual time machine” functionality. An apparatus includes a processor, a data store, and an output. A data entity establisher, a state establisher, a storer, a data entity receiver, a state receiver, and an outputter are instantiated on the processor. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067769 | STRING SUBSTITUTION APPARATUS, STRING SUBSTITUTION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method includes: unifying plural types of substitution tables in each of which a substitution source string and a substitution destination string are mapped to each other into a single substitution table; constructing a prefix tree to incorporate the substitution source string registered in the single substitution table, a string in the prefix tree represented by characters of a label assigned to plural branches on route from a root node to a certain node is identical to the substitution source string mapped to the substitution source string; performing addition of a link failure directing from a first node to a second node for all nodes included in the prefix tree under a certain condition; and searching the substitution source string included in the target string by repeating migration between nodes in the prefix tree based on a certain condition to record identification information assigned to a node before migration. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067770 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENT MANAGEMENT - A method and apparatus for content management are provided. The method and apparatus efficiently manage content so as to provide a convenient user interface in an electronic device supporting content playback, browsing and storage. The method includes obtaining attribute information of a content item from a storage device, registering the attribute information in a content database, determining content items to be played back by a content player using the attribute information registered in the content database, creating a content list on the basis of the determined content items, displaying the content list, and playing back a content item selected by a user from the content list. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067771 | Management of a Scalable Computer System - A method and system for remotely managing a scalable computer system is provided. Elements of an associated tool are embedded on a server and associated console. A service processor for each partition is provided, wherein the service processor supports communication between the server and the designated partition. An operator can discover and validate availability of elements in a computer system. In addition, the operator may leverage data received from the associated discovery and validation to configure or re-configure a partition in the system that support projected workload. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067772 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ACHIEVING EVENTUAL CONSISTENCY BETWEEN A KEY VALUE STORE AND A TEXT INDEX - An apparatus for reconciling data inconsistencies between indexes may include a processor and memory storing executable computer code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including retrieving first metadata from a key value store in response to receipt of a request for data associated with a user. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to retrieve second metadata from a text index in response to querying the text index for the second metadata. The second metadata may correspond to the first metadata of the key value store. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to evaluate the first metadata of the key value store and the second metadata of the text index to determine whether there are any differences between the first metadata and the second metadata. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067773 | TRANSIENT DETECTION FOR PREDICTIVE HEALTH MANAGEMENT OF DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with transient detection for predictive health management are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a health signal from a data outlet. The health signal corresponds to a derivative variable derived from a combination of data processing system metrics not exposed beyond the data outlet. A transient is detected in the health signal. In response to detecting the transient, the method includes performing a corrective action. The example method may also include detecting the transient in a health signal from a data processing system by collecting historical values of the health signal; selecting a first statistical model that best fits the historical values; receiving a present value of the health signal; and applying the first statistical model to the present value of the health signal to determine whether the present value of the health signal is a transient. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067774 | SOCIAL NETWORK RECOMMENDATIONS THROUGH DUPLICATE FILE DETECTION - The present disclosure relates generally to the field of social network recommendations through duplicate file detection. In various examples, social network recommendations through duplicate file detection may be implemented in the form of systems, methods and/or algorithms. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067775 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONDITIONALLY PERFORMING DE-DUPING ON DATA - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for conditionally performing de-duping on data. These mechanisms and methods for conditionally performing de-duping on data can enable increased resource efficiency, optimized data analysis, faster report generation, etc. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067776 | Method and System For Operating System File De-Duplication - When one considers all of the servers at an organization, the exact same operating system and application files will appear on many of them. Thus, there is an opportunity for saving an enormous amount of disk space for the organization as a whole by de-duplicating stored files. The present invention addresses the above needs by providing a method and system for saving at least one copy of a duplicate file in a location on a common storage system accessible to all relevant server computers and then removing the duplicates from the storage allocated to each server. Whenever the operating system on a server whose duplicate file has been removed requires access to the file, then the method redirects the operating system to access the file from the common storage system file location. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067777 | COMPRESSION OF TIMING DATA OF DATABASE SYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENTS - Timing data associated with a database or database system can be stored in a reduced or compressed form which can be decompressed back to a full or original form. In doing so, timing data can be compressed by using a subset of a full set of possible values (e.g., a determined range which is more likely to occur) instead of using a full set of possible values. Timing data can also be compressed by eliminating redundant, insignificant duplicate and/or common values, for example, between one or more components (e.g., start and end times of a period of time) of the timing data. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067778 | SELECTIVE OFFLINING STORAGE MEDIA FILESYSTEM - A method of operation of a storage control system includes: configuring a state change policy on a data server, the state change policy including an online duration for a storage device; activating the storage device based on the state change policy; mounting the storage device based on the state change policy; and scheduling a filesystem maintenance task to be performed on the storage device based on the state change policy. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067779 | PREDICTIVE INFORMATION TOPOLOGY MODELING AND VISUALIZATION - A system and method of ensuring usage-based compliance based on a predicted model topology are disclosed. The system includes an information topology that extracts information from at least one information object, a daemon that operates to monitor interactions with at least one information object, an analyzer that performs a statistical-based pattern analysis using the monitored interactions, and a compliance policy that receives input from the information topology. The compliance policy is adjusted based on the analyzer and any new rules, and compares the actual state to the desired state. The method includes monitoring a file system to capture user interaction with the file system, performing statistical-based pattern analysis on the captured interactions, adjusting a compliance policy based on the statistical analysis and any new rules, inputting an information topology into the compliance policy, and comparing the actual state to a desired state that is based on the adjusted compliance policy. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067780 | Simultaneous maintenance of multiple versions of a web-based business information system - A method, system, computer program product, and related business methods for phased rollout of an upgraded version of a web-based business information system are described. URLs associated with client requests remain the same even where the target subscriber accounts have been upgraded. Client requests for both upgraded and non-upgraded accounts are received by a common set of web servers. Client requests representing external entry points are trapped, and the receiving web server accesses a login router database to determine whether the target subscriber account is upgraded or non-upgraded, and then transfers the request to an appropriately-versioned application server. Application server sets are mapped to database sets according to system version, allowing the upgraded system database schema to be substantially different than the non-upgraded database schema. An early adopter program business method leveraging the abilities of such web-based business information system is also described. Applications to environments other than phased rollout are described, such as URL-agnostic differentiation and routing of client requests according to class-of-service of the target subscribing account. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067781 | Graph Query Language API Querying and Parsing - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing one or more graphs stored in one or more data stores, each graph comprising one or more nodes arranged in a hierarchical format, each node representing one or more data items, each data item having a particular one of a plurality of data types; generating a first query requesting a data structures of a specific data type; retrieving the data structure of the specific data type from the graphs; generating a second query requesting one or more specific data items having the specific data type, the second query being expressed in a format corresponding to the retrieved data structure of the specific data type; and retrieving the specific data items from the graphs. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067782 | SOCIAL NETWORK RESPONSES TO QUERIES - The process of posing a query to a search engine and to other people may be combined into a unified user experience. In one example, a user enters a query into a search engine on the user's device. The query is forwarded to the search engine, and the search engine returns results. Additionally, the user may post the same query (or an edited version of the query) on social networks. The search engine may be notified that the user has posted the query (or a version of the query) on social networks and may monitor the social networks for people's responses. When people response to the query, the search engine may cause the user to be notified that new human responses to the query are available. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067783 | IDENTIFYING DISSATISFACTION SEGMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH IMPROVING SEARCH ENGINE PERFORMANCE - Technologies pertaining to automatically identifying sets of query attribute values that are highly correlative with user dissatisfaction with a search engine are described. Dissatisfied queries are automatically identified through analysis of search logs, wherein a dissatisfied query is a query submitted to a search engine by a user, wherein the user was dissatisfied with search results provided by the search engine responsive to receipt of the query. Sets of query attribute values that are highly correlated with dissatisfied queries, and thus user dissatisfaction, are automatically identified based at least in part upon the identifying of the dissatisfied queries. Subsequent to identifying a set of query attribute values, a segment-specific ranker is learned that is configured to rank search results responsive to receipt of a query with the set of query attribute values, wherein the segment-specific ranker outperforms a general purpose ranker for queries having the set of query attribute values. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067784 | WEBPAGE INFORMATION DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present application provides web information detecting method and system. The method according to the present application comprises: pre-extracting keywords from a web page; storing a corresponding relationship between the extracted keywords and a URL of the web page in a database; obtaining a source file of a web page to be detected; searching the database for keywords that have the same URL as that of the web page to be detected; comparing the searched keywords to the source file information of the web page to be detected; and determining the existence of information of the web page to be detected according to a matching degree. The present application increases the accuracy of web information detection. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067785 | USING REPUTATION MEASURES TO IMPROVE SEARCH RELEVANCE - A system and method for determining relevancy for dynamic data sets is disclosed. A specific embodiment for use in an internet marketplace is presented wherein the relevancy for a descriptive factor associated with an item is increased when a user selects that item. To prevent abuse of the relevancy determination system, various embodiments incorporate abuse prevention measures. In one embodiment, a user's selection of the user's own items does not affect the relevancy system. In one embodiment, only a first selection of a particular item by a user will affect the relevancy system and any additional selections of that item will have no effect. In another embodiment, the size of the changes made due to the selections of particular user to the relevancy system are correlated to that user's reputation score. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067786 | ENHANCING PRODUCT SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS USING USER CLICK HISTORY - In an example embodiment, previous search queries and clicked-on results are retrieved. This results in one or more pairs, each pair containing a query from the search term database and a first set of search engine results from the click database. Then a score is calculated for each feature within the one or more pairs, and a second set of search queries is boosted using the scores for the features. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067787 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IDENTIFY MACHINE-READABLE CODES - A method and a system to identify machine-readable codes using a web crawler are provided. Machine-readable codes include, but are not limited to, Universal Product Codes (UPC), quick response (QR) codes, stock-keeping units (SKUs) and international standard book number (ISBN) codes. A web crawler downloads pages from the World Wide Web. A determination module accesses the downloaded pages and identifies a machine-readable code corresponding to a product description included in the downloaded pages. The machine-readable code is included in a downloaded page of the downloaded pages. The determination module further extracts the product description from the downloaded page. A code database stores a record of the machine-readable code and the product description. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067788 | System and Method for Contact Information Integration with Search Results - A system for contact information integration with search results, comprising a queue manager; an enterprise communications system; and a search engine. Upon receipt of search query from a user, the search engine submits a request to the queue manager. The queue manager: obtains from the enterprise communications system a communications status comprising an estimated wait time; sends a notification to the search engine advising the search engine of the estimated wait time for service; and upon receiving from the search engine a request to generate a callback to the user from the enterprise of a specific communications type, directing an enterprise communications system of the enterprise that is associated with the specific communications type to initiate a callback to the user from whom the search engine query was received in response to the callback request received from the search engine. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067789 | OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE OF GENERALIZED DISJUNCTIVE SEMI/ANTI JOIN - A method, apparatus, and stored instructions are provided for transforming a query representation by unnesting a predicate condition that is based on whether or not a result exists for a subquery of the predicate condition. An initial query representation is received. The initial query representation represents an initial query that includes an EXISTS-equivalent predicate or a NOT-EXISTS-equivalent predicate and at least one other predicate in a disjunction. The initial query representation is transformed into a semantically equivalent transformed query representation that represents a transformed query. The transformed query includes, instead of the EXISTS-equivalent predicate or a NOT-EXISTS-equivalent predicate, a join operator that references the data object. The transformed query representation, when used for execution, causes the at least one other predicate to be applied separately from a join operation caused by the join operator such that execution of the initial representation is semantically equivalent to execution of the transformed representation. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067790 | TECHNIQUES FOR CONSTRUCTING MINIMUM SUPERSETS OF TEST DATA FROM RELATIONAL DATABASES - A computer-implemented method is provided for constructing a minimum superset of data that complies with referential completeness as well as other specified data relationships. Given extraction criteria for the data, an iterative process analyzes the database for records to be included in the minimal superset. The iterative process includes: selecting a given table from a listing of tables implicated by the extraction criteria; identifying tables in the relational database having either a parent or a child relationship with the given table; evaluating concurrently and asynchronously each of the identified tables; and repeating these steps for each of the tables in the listing of tables. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067791 | Automatic Denormalization For Analytic Query Processing In Large-Scale Clusters - A system and method for improving performance of join operations is disclosed. The method in one embodiment includes building a graph of vertices and edges, which represent the tables and join conditions for a particular database schema. The method then traverses the graph to find a set of candidate join operations. The method further includes selecting from the set of subset of join operations that makes the best use of a given amount of memory, which means finding a collection of denormalizations which when residing in memory provide the most benefit and the least cost for the given amount of memory. The method then deploys the denormalizations so that current queries in a query processing system can use them instead of actually performing the joins. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067792 | Apparatus and Method for Operating a Distributed Database with Foreign Tables - A system includes a coordinator node and worker nodes in communication with the coordinator node. Each worker node stores data blocks. Each data block has data in a semi-structured format and each data block has an associated foreign table declaration specifying conversion of the data in the semi-structured format into a tabular format interpretable by a query language. A query processor executed by the coordinator node produces a distributed query plan in response to a query language query. The distributed query plan includes sub-queries. The sub-queries are executed by selected worker nodes of the worker nodes. The selected worker nodes use foreign table declarations to convert data in semi-structured formats into tabular formats of a distributed database to provide tabular data in response to the query language query. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067793 | Query Optimization for SPARQL - The present invention relates to computer implemented methods and system for creating and executing an query plan for SPARQL Protocol And Query Language (SPARQL) queries. The methods and systems are designed to accept as input a query in SPARQL syntax, convert this query to semQA2 and generate a parse tree, perform filter pushdown, generate an efficient query plan potentially using a cost function, and execute this query plan against data sources complying to or modeled as Resource Description Framework (RDF). The result of these methods and of the systems implementing these methods is a set of triples contained in the data sources that comprise a solution of the SPARQL query provided. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067794 | DATABASE GROUPING SET QUERY - Embodiments relate to a method, system, and computer program product for processing database grouping set query. The method includes receiving a grouping set query request; the grouping set query request including a plurality of groups and determining via said grouping set query request a plurality of to be assigned child tasks for parallel processing. Subsequently, one or more of the groups are assigned as child tasks to be parallel processed based on logical relationship among the groups and the number of available parallel child tasks determined and the parallel child tasks are executed to generate grouping set query result. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067795 | MULTI-FUNCTION SEARCHING AND SEARCH-RELATED TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED SEARCH RESULTS AND ENHANCED ANALYSIS AND DECISION-MAKING - A machine-controlled method may include a data store storing textual information, numerical information, belief information, estimates, or any combination thereof, and a machine executing a user-initiated or group-initiated query against the stored information. The processor may apply preferences, targets and thresholds by asserting a user-specified query conditions against the information. Responsive to multiple results of the querying, the processor may apply an importance by asserting a user-defined importance condition against the results of the query and may provide an indication of a ranking corresponding to at least one of the results. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067796 | Optimizing Result Presentation of a Database Operation - Techniques for optimizing result presentation for a database query. A database query is received. The database query is performed with a clause indicating one or more offset values to be used in displaying results from the database query. The one or more offset values indicate a subset within the results from the database query to be presented. An order is imposed on the results from the database query. The subset is presented as determined by the one or more offset values. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067797 | DETERMINING RELEVANT CONTACTS BASED ON EXPERTISE AND AVAILABILITY - A method for identifying knowledgeable and available contacts in a given instant messaging system for possible communication purposes. The method includes a computer receiving a keyword and searching for the keyword in correspondence files of users of the instant messaging system. Based on the results of the search, the computer identifies users that have used the keyword in their correspondence. The computer determines the availability of each of the identified users and ranks the identified users based on predefined criteria, which includes at least the determined availability. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067798 | SCORING RECORDS FOR SORTING BY USER-SPECIFIC WEIGHTS BASED ON RELATIVE IMPORTANCE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product for managing records in a storage device. Responsive to receiving a search query, a computer determines a result set for the search query including one or more one records from a record storage device, and determines whether the one or more records contain a link to a profile associated to an individual in a corporate directory. Responsive to determining that the one or more records contain the link to the profile associated with the individual in the corporate directory, the computer accesses the corporate directory and determines a corporate standing of the individual in the corporate directory. Responsive to determining the corporate standing of the individual in the corporate directory, the computer determines a relevancy score for the corporate standing of the individual in the corporate directory. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067799 | TECHNIQUES TO TRACK MUSIC PLAYED - Techniques to track and store music played at venues are described. A computer implemented application may create venue profiles for one or more venues. A venue profile may comprise a venue name, venue address, and one or more music genres indicative of the type of music played at the venue. The computer implemented application may collect, in real-time, music data from the one or more venues. The music data may comprise venue data, a song title, an artist name, and a date, the music data indicative of music played at the one or more venues. The computer implemented application may store the venue profiles and music data in a database where the data may be mined. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067800 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING AND PREDICTING AUTOMOTIVE DATA - Computerized systems distribute storage and analytical tasks between multiple storage devices and processors to analyze large amounts of automotive data. Reception of huge amounts of fine automotive data from large amounts of users and delivery of real-time and predictive analysis of the data can be handled across a distributed architecture. Configured storage devices can retain a universe of all reported/collected automotive data and advanced analytics can be performed on the data, before and after storage. The analyses can include real-time data extraction, batch-type complex predictive analysis, data management, machine learning on useful analytics, etc. The large and real-time data input may not interfere with analysis on the universe of accumulated data, permitting users and/or third-parties to readily access results of such analyses in real-time. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067801 | GEOTAGGING BASED ON SPECIFIED CRITERIA - A method of geotagging based on specified criteria is described. The method may include analyzing a data stream indicating a variable parameter associated with an object to determine data within the data stream satisfying a specified criteria. The method may also include obtaining geospatial information for the object or another object corresponding to a time the data was generated. Relevant data collected at the time the data satisfies the specified criteria may be tagged with the geospatial information. Related systems are also described. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067802 | META DATA DRIVEN FEED ARCHITECTURE - A feed management system is provided that includes a first application module receiving from a user a plurality of fields for processing. The first application module reads meta data from one or more database servers so as to form configuration data for extracting information from the one or more database servers. A generic feed program receives the configuration data and invokes a plurality of extractions of feed data from the one or more database servers. The generic feed program generates one or more feed files associated with the extractions of feed data. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067803 | Data Enrichment Using Business Compendium - Embodiments relate to enrichment of a data warehouse utilizing a business compendium. Embodiments may employ a process comprising data standardization and cleansing, de-duplication of entries, and matching and enrichment, followed by manual review of an enriched record by a user. During standardization, data may be transformed into consistent content, placing correct data elements into appropriate fields, removing invalid characters, and/or standardizing names and addresses. Duplicate records are then detected and marked. During matching and enrichment, the existence of an entity (such as a supplier), may be verified by progressive matching against the business compendium. Enrichment may provide additional information regarding the entity (e.g. related to risk, diversity, and bankruptcy). The enriched record is available for manual review, allowing the user to change duplicates, matches, and parent/child linkages. Feedback from the user review may enhance accuracy of subsequent enrichment by self-learning aspects, reducing over time a need for manual review. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067804 | WORKFLOW GENERATION SERVER AND METHOD OF GENERATING WORKFLOW - There is provided a history database for recording a history of a data operation with respect to a database. A workflow generation server quantifies a relation between the multiple data operations that are recorded in that operation history. A data definition and a history of an operation schedule on data in the database are used for this quantification. Then, a workflow is generated based on a numerical value that results from the quantification. Then, the workflow generation server compares the generated workflow and workflow data in a workflow database and performs recommendation of the workflow that has to be newly defined and recommendation of an amendment to the existing workflow, based on the result of the comparison. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067805 | Cloud-based information exchange using identifiers such as QR codes - Document capture and tracking is simplified using coded information that may be printed on the document. In one embodiment, the coded information is scanned. As a result, the information of the document or a pointer thereto is retrieved or stored from a server (i.e., from the cloud). Preferably, the information of the document is in XML format such that one or more interested programs may process the information intelligently. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067806 | Retroactive Search of Objects Using K-D Tree - In one embodiment, a method includes at time t | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067807 | MIGRATION OF TAGS ACROSS ENTITIES IN MANAGEMENT OF PERSONAL ELECTRONICALLY ENCODED ITEMS - A method performed on an electronic device for migrating tags across entities. The migration of the tags is performed following an analysis of one or more personal electronically encoded items associated with a previously created perspective or album associated with the previously created perspective, responsive to a user decision the creation of a new perspective, a new album associated with one of the previously created perspectives, or a new perspective and a new album associated with the new perspective, responsive to a user decision to treat the previously created perspective or album as an individual entity, and association of the previously created perspective or album with the new perspective or new album. The tags are respectively migrated from the new perspective or the new album to the associated previously created perspective or the previously created album and to associated ones of the one or more personal electronically encoded items. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067808 | Distributed Scalable Clustering and Community Detection - Techniques, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for distributed scalable clustering and community detection. A method includes generating a label for each node in a graph, wherein said label identifies a community in which a node participates, propagating each label locally within two or more segments of the graph based on a participation percentage of each node in at least one identified community within the graph, and deriving at least one cluster of nodes in the graph that corresponds to the at least one identified community based on said propagating. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067809 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION CLASSIFICATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes: accepting a search keyword; retrieving, from information items posted by users, a posted information item including the accepted search keyword, each of the posted information items including at least either of a text information item and an image information item, and acquiring posted information items which are within a predetermined chronological range with respect to the posted information item including the search keyword; and classifying, as image information items related to the search keyword, some of image information items included in the posted information items that have been acquired, and performing first determination of, for each of the classified image information items, whether or not a user who posted an information item including the classified image information item took an action related to the search keyword. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067810 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PARTITIONING DATA - A method for data partitioning method includes defining a set of category levels associated with a plurality of entities stored within a first database, wherein the set of category levels is hierarchical (e.g., proceeding from higher to lower levels). Each of the plurality of entities is assigned to a category level within the set of category levels. One or more partition keys are defined for at least one of the category levels. The plurality of entities are then copied to a second database based on the set of category levels and the one or more partition keys. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067811 | Robust Adaptive Data Clustering in Evolving Environments - A computer-implemented method for automated data clustering and analysis. A computer takes a database having multiple entries and transforms the entries in the database into a set of intrinsic attributes for each entry. The computer then receives data defining one or more clustering trials to be run on the attributes from the entries in the database, each clustering trial being defined by a set of relevant intrinsic and extrinsic attributes. The computer automatically identifies the most significant intrinsic and/or extrinsic attributes of the entries being clustered for each clustering trial, and runs a clustering script to cluster the attributes in accordance with the significant attributes. The computer forms hierarchical linkages of the profiles and automatically calculates the cophenetic correlation coefficient for the linkages in each clustering trial. The invention then automatically calculates linkage threshold values for the linkages in each trial, creates cluster groups based on the threshold values, and outputs dendrograms and maps showing the results. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067812 | 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. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067813 | PARALLELIZATION OF SYNTHETIC EVENTS WITH GENETIC SURPRISAL DATA REPRESENTING A GENETIC SEQUENCE OF AN ORGANISM - A method, system, and computer program product for parallelization of updating synthetic events with genetic surprisal data comprising dividing the synthetic event into cohort parts and assigning the cohort parts to one of a plurality of computer processing elements. Within each processing element: searching data records of patients for genetic surprisal data; generating a cluster comprising a centroid by populating the cluster based on all of the matches of the data records; calculating a new centroid for each cluster; calculating a Euclidean distance in multiple dimensions for each match of data records to the new centroid for each cluster; reassigning each match of data to the new centroid of each cluster based on the shortest calculated Euclidean distance to the new centroid for each cluster; and determining at least one cohort part from the clusters and recombining the cohort parts into updated synthetic events based on the metadata. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067814 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING A TOPIC FOR A TEXT - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable storage media for identifying a topic for a text. In some implementations, one or more servers maintain a plurality of data entries in one or more database tables storing text data, each data entry of a first portion of the data entries including: a text sequence, a topic, and a text-to-topic association score indicating a number of times that the text sequence appears in a processed text associated with the topic, each data entry of a second portion of the data entries including a total word score indicating a number of times that a respective text sequence appears in one or more processed texts. The one or more servers may receive an incoming text and identify a topic for the incoming text by processing the text sequences of the incoming text in relation to the data entries in the database tables. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067815 | Labeling Product Identifiers and Navigating Products - The present disclosure provides example methods and apparatuses of labeling product identifiers and methods of navigating products. Description information of one or more products is extracted. The description information of the products is clustered into a text. A subject analysis is applied to the text by using a text analysis method based on subject models to obtain one or more subjects and definition names for the subjects. A subject that is correlated to the description information of the product is used as an identifier of the product to label the product. The present techniques label the products with identifiers that have one or more user dimension attributes so that users may easily and intuitively find their desired products. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067816 | SURFACING ENTITY ATTRIBUTES WITH SEARCH RESULTS - In an effort to enhance computer user engagement with a search results page, systems and methods are presented which are configured to identify an entity as being the subject matter of a user's search query. If the entity is a known entity, i.e., entity information is stored in an entity store for the identified entity, a subset of entity attributes are identified and a representative entity attribute question is obtained for each of the attributes in the subset of entity attributes. The representative entity attribute questions are identified according to the probability that they are formed linguistically correct. The representative entity attribute questions are included in a search results page that is generated in response to the user's search query. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067817 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOMMENDING SOCIAL NETWORK CONNECTIONS - Methods and systems for recommending social networking connections are disclosed. Information is received from a mobile device relating to software applications that are installed on a first user's mobile device. A weight for each software application is calculated based on usage information and each software application is designated to at least one category. A priority is calculated for each category based at least in part on respective weights of software applications designated to the category. A second user, who is not connected to the first user, is detected, wherein the second user has a predetermined number of categories that are the same as the first user's categories, and wherein priorities corresponding to the second user's categories are within a predetermined range of priorities corresponding to the first user's categories. A recommendation to connect with the second user is provided to the first user. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067818 | PUSHING SPECIFIC CONTENT TO A PREDETERMINED WEBPAGE - A method and an apparatus for pushing specific content for a predetermined webpage, and a website server. The method for pushing specific content for text content on a predetermined webpage comprises: subjecting text content on a predetermined webpage to emotional analysis; determining a matching degree between a result of the emotional analysis and an emotion expressed by specific content to be pushed; and responding to that the matching degree determined above satisfies a predetermined condition, combining a part of the text content with the specific content to be pushed, thereby forming content to be pushed specific for users. By using the technology of the present invention, user can be avoided from feeling disgust for content to be pushed and accuracy of push can be enhanced. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067819 | EFFICIENT XML TREE INDEXING STRUCTURE OVER XML CONTENT - A method and apparatus are provided for building and using a persistent XML tree index for navigating an XML document. The XML tree index is stored separately from the XML document content, and thus is able to optimize performance through the use of fixed-sized index entries. The XML document hierarchy need not be constructed in volatile memory, so creating and using the XML tree index scales even for large documents. To evaluate a path expression including descendent or ancestral syntax, navigation links can be read from persistent storage and used directly to find the nodes specified in the path expression. The use of an abstract navigational interface allows applications to be written that are independent of the storage implementation of the index and the content. Thus, the XML tree index can index documents stored at least in a database, a persistent file system, or as a sequence of in memory. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067820 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PHONETIC SEARCHING OF DATA - A method of phonetically searching media information comprises receiving a plurality of search queries from one or more client systems and providing a phonetic representation of each search query. One or more search jobs are instantiated, each search job comprising a plurality of tasks, each task being arranged to sequentially read a block from an archive file. The archive file is stored within a distributed filing system (DFS) in which sequential blocks of data comprising the archive file are replicated to be locally available to one or more processors from a cluster of processors for executing the tasks. Each block stores index files corresponding to a plurality of source media files, each index file containing a phonetic stream corresponding to audio information for a given source media file. Each task obtains phonetic representations of outstanding search queries for a block and sequentially searches the block for each outstanding search query. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067821 | STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF SENSOR DATA AND COMPUTED PARAMETERS FOR USE IN CONDITION BASED MAINTENANCE SYSTEMS - A system and method for storing and accessing data in an embedded system of an aircraft extracts identifiers from headers in stored data, and stores the identifiers in a separately indexable array. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067822 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVE INDEXING OF CONTENT - Provided are a system and method for selective indexing of content. The system includes an indexing mode identifier to identify an indexing mode of content in a storage device selected by a user, and a content indexing unit to index the content, based on the indexing mode. By providing multiple indexing modes, the system can provide multiple options of indexing the content based on speed of indexing and level of detail of the indexing. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067823 | Textual Search for Numerical Properties - A textual search index is used to identify data objects that have numerical properties that satisfy search queries. As described herein, a search index contains search index entries, each of which specifies a reference string and a set of data object identifiers. When an original search query is received, the search query is transformed into a transformed search query such that numerical comparison query elements in the original search query are transformed into equivalent textual comparison query elements. The search index is then used to identify ones of the data objects that satisfy the transformed search query. A list of the identified data objects may then be provided in response to the original search query. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067824 | DATABASE TABLE FORMAT CONVERSION BASED ON USER DATA ACCESS PATTERNS IN A NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - An approach for conversion between database formats (e.g., from a relational database format to a hash table or a “big table” database format) based on user data access patterns in a networked computing environment is provided. A first set of database tables having a first format is identified based on a set of access patterns stored in a computer storage device. A second set of database tables having a second database format corresponding to the first set of database tables may then be provided (e.g., accessed, augmented, and/or generated). A mapping between the first set of database tables and the second set of database tables may then be created. A column set may then be generated based on at least one condition of the set of queries. The column set may then be used as a key for the second set of database tables. | 2014-03-06 |
| 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. | 2014-03-06 |
| 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. | 2014-03-06 |
| 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. | 2014-03-06 |
| 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. | 2014-03-06 |
| 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. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067830 | Method and Apparatus for Performing Similarity Searching - A system and method for performing similarity searching is disclosed wherein programmable logic devices such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can be used to implement Bloom filters for identifying possible matches between a query and data. The Bloom filters can be implemented in a parallel architecture where the different parallel Bloom filters share access to the same memory units. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067831 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RATING A CONTENT BASED ON TRENDS - A system for and method of rating a content is presented. The method may include receiving first user data associated with one or more contents for a first predetermined time period and second user data associated with the one or more contents for a second predetermined time period. The method may also include determining a first average of the first user data associated with the one or more contents for the first predetermined time period and a second average of the second user data associated with the one or more contents for the second predetermined time period. The method may further include determining a variance between the first average of the first user data associated with the one or more contents, for the first predetermined time period and the second average of the second user data associated with the one or more contents for the second predetermined time period. The method may additionally include determining trend value of the one or more contents based at least in part on the variance between the first average of the first user data associated with the one or more contents for the first predetermined time period and the second average of the second user data associated with the one or more contents for the second predetermined time period. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067832 | ESTABLISHING "IS A" RELATIONSHIPS FOR A TAXONOMY - Disclosed are methods for returning to a user an answer to the question “what is .” Concepts and classes to which the concepts belong are determined from a corpus, such as taxonomy. The concepts are mapped to categories according to the structure of the taxonomy. Homonyms for words are collected and scored according to likeliness of use. Concept vectors are assembled for the identified concepts based on articles in the corpus and social media usage. Words are evaluated for generic-ness and a generic score is associated therewith. In responding to a query, the generic-ness of the terms of the query is evaluated and additional context solicited if the terms are generic. Candidate homonym concepts for a string in the query are selected according to context vectors for the homonym concepts. One or more homonym concepts are selected and the one or more categories corresponding to these concepts are returned. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067833 | USER-BASED CONTENT FILTERING - This document describes techniques of user-based content filtering. The techniques receive content of a selected category from one or more sources, filter the content received from the one or more sources based on predefined settings for the user, and present at least some of the filtered content in a portion of a single user interface. By so doing, users can quickly and easily access filtered content via the single user interface. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067834 | Experience Analytic Objects, Systems and Methods - A remote experience system is presented. The inventive subject matter provides apparatus, systems and methods in which one can use an experience feed analysis engine to gain better understanding of how experience feeds are viewed, processed, interacted, created, broadcasted, or otherwise managed by means of experience objects and generating experience metrics that can help analyze viewing patterns, broadcasting attributes, event management characteristics, among other features that can help improve and analyze remove viewing experience. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067835 | SEARCH EXTENSIBILITY APPLICATION FRAMEWORK IN A HOSTED SEARCH - A search extensibility application framework enables a hosted web search experience to be extended so that apps which are related to a search query can be presented to a user of a client computing device such as a smartphone. In various illustrative examples, a hosted search app is implemented using HTML5 code generated at a remote search provider server. Responsively to a user query at the search app's user interface (“UI”), the server returns an HTML5 payload including meta tags specifying criteria including app extension categories, actions, and known apps that support search terms in the query. Apps that are installed on the client device which match the criteria can then be displayed and launched through the UI to advantageously enable the users to complete a task specific search. JavaScript interfaces are provided to enable apps to update their install state and to be injected into the hosted search app. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067836 | VISUALIZING REPORTING DATA USING SYSTEM MODELS - Methods, computer-readable media, and computer systems for visualizing reporting data using system models. Reporting data from multiple data sources is extracted and mapped to a common language reporting. The mapped reporting data is correlated to elements of system models. Visualization options to present the mapped reporting data correlated to the system models are identified. The mapped reporting data is presented according to the visualization options in response to receiving a request for reporting data. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067837 | IDENTIFYING USER-SPECIFIC SERVICES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH USER-PRESENTED ENTITIES - User-specific services are presented to users together with associated entities. Initially, providers of services provide information about such services, including a name of the service, action that correlates the service to an entity being presented to the user, identification of entities with which the service is correlated, and further information to which the user can be directed. Subsequently, a user can identify those services to which they have a connection, derive the benefits of, or are otherwise associated with. Collections of entities can be reviewed to determine whether any entities are associated with services that the user has identified as having a connection thereto and those entities having such an association can be presented with indicia of such an association. An action is presented to the user, and user action directed thereto provides additional information in the form of a pop-up window, a separately presented collection of information, or both. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067838 | ANALYSIS MODULE, CLOUD ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - An analysis module is provided in the invention. The analysis module is connected with a database containing several data. The analysis module comprises an analysis unit and a database managing system. The analysis unit is developed by a development software to combine HHT algorithm and an automatic data-loading program. The database managing system is integrated in the analysis unit and connected with the database. The data are transferred to the analysis unit by the database managing system, and the analysis unit is used to load the data by the automatic data-loading program and analyzes the data. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067839 | DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL APPARATUS, DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A document retrieval apparatus includes a switching section that switches an operation mode between a first mode and a second mode, a processor, a storing section, and a retrieval section. In the first mode, when a document-related operation of a certain type is performed, the processor performs a process corresponding to the operation, and the storing section stores information indicating the operation and a document being a target or a result of the process into a memory so as to associate the information with the document. In the second mode, when the operation is performed, the retrieval section does not perform the process, and retrieves the document which was a target or a result of the process on the basis of data stored in the memory. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067840 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING INFORMATION - A system for retrieving information includes at least one database ( | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067841 | SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A CROWDSOURCED SEARCH FOR SOURCES OF INFORMATION RELATED TO A SUBJECT - Disclosed is an information collection system to collect sources of information relating to a subject from a plurality of users. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067842 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The invention belongs to the field of text information processing, and discloses an information processing method including: acquiring a first text-based chat record; extracting at least two of topics contained in the first chat record; acquiring a second text-based chat record, the second chat record being associated with at least one of the extracted topics; displaying that the first chat record and the second chat record are in an association relationship. The invention also discloses an information processing apparatus. With the information processing method and apparatus disclosed by the invention, text exchange organized by topics can be realized, and efficiency of text-based communication can be improved. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140067843 | Comparison of Multi-Dimensional Datasets - Methods, systems, and apparatuses for comparing multi-dimensional datasets are provided. A multi-dimensional dataset comparison includes receiving a plurality of datasets, each including a plurality of coordinates, wherein a subset of coordinates defines a geo-fence. For a coordinate within a geo-fence of one of the plurality of datasets, determining analogous coordinates in each of the other datasets, the analogous coordinates defining a coordinate input set, and performing in parallel an operation on the coordinate input set to determine whether an entry is present at a coordinate of the coordinate input set. | 2014-03-06 |
