20th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 49 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160140172 | Method and Apparatus for Optimizing the Evaluation of Semantic Web Queries - A semantic query over an RDF database is received with RDF database statistics and access methods for evaluating triple patterns in the query. The semantic query is expressed as a parse tree containing triple patterns and logical relationships among the triple patterns. The parse tree and access methods create a data flow graph containing a plurality of triple pattern and access method pair nodes connected by a plurality of edges, and an optimal flow tree through the data flow graph is determined such that costs are minimized and all triple patterns in the semantic query are contained in the optimal flow tree. A structure independent execution tree defining a sequence of evaluation through the optimal flow tree is created and is transformed into a database structure dependent query plan. This is used to create an SQL query that is used to evaluate the semantic query over the RDF database. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140173 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REPRESENTING SEARCH QUERY REWRITES - Various embodiments include systems and methods for generating query rewrite records which may be used to generate standardized query rewrites for a search engine. Such records may identify rewrite triggers as well as constraints and other metadata flags which may be associated with certain rewrites in query rewrite identification (QRIL) records. In certain embodiments, such records may be analyzed with other QRIL records or rewrite information to prevent rewrite conflicts and to generate standardized rewrites. This information may then be used by a search engine to generate responses to user queries. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140174 | DATA DRIVEN MULTI-PROVIDER PRUNING FOR QUERY EXECUTION PLAN - According to an aspect, a system includes a query engine configured to obtain a multi-provider query model for a query specifying a filter to be applied on provider partitions. The obtained multi-provider query model incorporates a pruning plan. The query engine includes a query optimizer configured to execute the pruning plan during optimization of the multi-provider query model. The pruning plan determines if each of the provider partitions includes content that is required to execute the filter based on pruning information. The query optimizer configured to reduce a scope of the query by excluding at least one provider partition that is determined as not required to execute the filter. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140175 | INTEGRATION OF CALCULATION MODELS INTO SQL LAYER - According to an aspect, a database system for integrating calculation models into execution plans includes a first engine configured to parse a query to be applied on a database. The first engine is configured to invoke a second engine during query compilation. The second engine is configured to instantiate a calculation model based on the query, and the second engine is configured to derive a converted calculation model by converting the calculation model into a format compatible with the first engine. The first engine is configured to incorporate the converted calculation model into an execution plan during the query compilation and execute the query on the database according to execution plan. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140176 | QUERY TUNING IN THE CLOUD - Tuning a production database system through the use of a remote mimic. In response to receipt of a query tuning request against a database system, information about that system is obtained and a mimic of the system is set up in a remote system environment. The mimic aims to imitate the database system in all relevant ways with respect to the tuning request. A tuning analysis is then performed on this mimic system such that there is substantially no impact to operations of the original database system. Tuning results are then applied to the original database system. The entire process takes place with little or no human intervention. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140177 | QUERY TUNING IN THE CLOUD - Tuning a production database system through the use of a remote mimic. In response to receipt of a query tuning request against a database system, information about that system is obtained and a mimic of the system is set up in a remote system environment. The mimic aims to imitate the database system in all relevant ways with respect to the tuning request. A tuning analysis is then performed on this mimic system such that there is substantially no impact to operations of the original database system. Tuning results are then applied to the original database system. The entire process takes place with little or no human intervention. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140178 | CONTEXT SENSITIVE INDEXES - Context-sensitive index visibility is used to reduce the number databases indexes that are considered and evaluated as an access path by query optimization. For a database statement that references or otherwise requires access to a set of database tables for which a DBMS defines a set of database indexes, context-sensitive index visibility limits the selection of database indexes. A query context comprises query context attributes, each of which is associated with a requested execution of a database statement. Query context attributes dictate whether a database index can be considered for query optimization. An example of a query context attribute is database user of a database session in which a database statement is issued. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a query context attribute is a session attribute stored as part of a session state of a database session. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140179 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING A SYMMETRICALLY ENCRYPTED DATABASE FOR CONJUNCTIVE KEYWORDS - A system and method for searching a symmetrically encrypted database for conjunctive keywords is provided. More particularly, the system and method provides means for searching a symmetrically encrypted database for conjunctive keywords by utilizing an encrypted index table and a Bloom filter. The encrypted index table contains encrypted keywords and their associated index pairs while the Bloom filter contains elements that represent encrypted identity-keyword pairs of the database. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140180 | HYBRID EXECUTION OF CONTINUOUS AND SCHEDULED QUERIES - Techniques for implementing the hybrid execution of continuous and scheduled queries are provided. In some examples, a query engine may be initialized with relational data from at least a first source. For example, the first source may include a database or other system that can provide historical data. Additionally, the query engine may be enabled to provide query results based at least in part on the relational data from at least the first source and streaming data from at least a second source. In some examples, the second source may be a data stream. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140181 | Displaying Drill-Down Event Information Using Event Identifiers - A method, system, and processor-readable storage medium are directed towards generating a report derived from data, such as event data, stored on a plurality of distributed nodes. In one embodiment the analysis is generated using a “divide and conquer” algorithm, such that each distributed node analyzes locally stored event data while an aggregating node combines these analysis results to generate the report. In one embodiment, each distributed node also transmits a list of event data references associated with the analysis result to the aggregating node. The aggregating node may then generate a global ordered list of data references based on the list of event data references received from each distributed node. Subsequently, in response to a user selection of a range of global event data, the report may dynamically retrieve event data from one or more distributed nodes for display according to the global order. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140182 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARSING SEARCH QUERIES - Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for parsing search queries. In accordance with some embodiments, search records including character strings are retrieved, and search query templates are generated comprising sequences of categories corresponding to character substrings of the character strings. Also, in accordance with some embodiments, search queries are parsed into character substrings and matched with a search query template. The search query template may then be used to associate categories with the character substrings. A search engine may use the categories to focus or otherwise refine a search based on parsed search query. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140183 | DESCRIPTION BASED MODEL SEARCH - Methods for product data management and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving a model library comprising a plurality of library objects, identifying a plurality of relevant words and a plurality of word tuples from the description sentences in the plurality of library objects, determining a word frequency for each of the plurality of relevant words in the model library, determining a tuple frequency for each of the plurality of word tuples in the model library, determining a conditional probability for a first relevant word to occur in a description sentence with a second relevant word for each of the plurality of relevant words, and creating a controlled vocabulary for the model library. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140184 | DATA SOURCE BINDING USING AN ODATA MODEL - The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing pattern-based data source binding in OData services. One design-time computer-implemented method includes receiving an OData request from a requestor, traversing, by a computer, a rule table to determine whether an exact match for the received OData request exists in the rule table, upon a determination that an exact match for the received OData request exists in the rule table, forwarding the OData request to a bound data source specified in the rule table, and transmitting a result to the requestor following processing of the OData request by the bound data source. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140185 | AGGREGATING INTERACTIONS FOR CONTENT ITEMS - In one aspect, a method is provided, including the following method operations: receiving a request to generate a first post data item for display at a first location, the first post data item including a reference to a content item located at a second location; determining, based on the reference to the content item, a content identifier associated with the content item; associating the content identifier with the post data item; retrieving one or more post data items based on the content identifier and displaying the one or more post data items at the second location, the one or more post data items including the first post data item. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140186 | Identifying Subject Matter Experts - Methods of identifying subject matter experts are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a search profile corresponding to a particular subject matter. Resources including content describing the particular subject matter are retrieved. One or more potential subject matter experts associated with the resources are identified. An expert score representing an estimated level of expertise for each potential subject matter expert is calculated. By retrieving one or more social media repositories, an impact rating for each potential subject matter expert is calculated with regard to the particular subject matter. The potential subject matter experts are subsequently ranked in dependence upon the expert score and in dependence of the impact rating assigned to a potential subject matter expert. The potential subject matter experts are eventually returned in the order of this ranking. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140187 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANSWERING NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTION - Provided are a system and method for answering a natural language question which show improved information retrieval performance. The system includes an index unit configured to analyze text of previously stored irregular documents and classify and index the irregular documents according to meanings of sentences or paragraphs, a database configured to receive and store the irregular documents indexed according to the meanings and transmitted from the index unit, a retrieval unit configured to extract an index word by semantically analyzing an input question and search the database for documents related to the extracted index word, and a provision unit configured to generate a correct answer to the question by analyzing the documents searched by the retrieval unit and provide the search results and the correct answer. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140188 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR SEARCHING TABULAR DATA - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for searching a tabular database. According to certain embodiments, search parameters for searching a tabular database are received from a user device and a row of a tabular database that corresponds to the search parameters is determined. In certain embodiments, the row may be determined by comparing the search parameters with a plurality of stored exemplar search queries, each of the plurality of stored exemplar search queries comprising a search query associated with a row and a column of the tabular database. A column of the tabular database that corresponds to the search parameters is determined by comparing the search parameters with the plurality of stored exemplar search queries. In certain embodiments, at least one cell of the tabular database is determined. The determined cell may be located at the intersection of the determined row and the determined column. A data element associated with the at least one cell is sent to the user device for display. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140189 | USER INTERFACE AND A METHOD FOR SEARCHING A MODEL - A method that may include receiving or generating a first search result that comprises a first set of representations of three dimensional objects; wherein multiple representations of the first set are virtually segmented to parts; receiving a search query that identifies a given part of one of the representations of the set; and generating, in response to the given part, a second search result | 2016-05-19 |
20160140190 | DATA REPRESENTATION - Apparatus for generating a representation of data in a dataset, the apparatus including one or more processing devices that receive a search request including an indication of parameter values from a client device via a communications network, generate a query using the parameter values, apply the query to one or more datasets to obtain retrieved data, process the retrieved data to generate results data compliant with one or more criteria, generate a representation of the results data and provide the representation of the results data to the client device via the communications network. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140191 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF TIME STAMPED BLOCKS OF DATA - Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable storage media for time-based storage and retrieval of data items. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving a point-in-time data request. Using metadata associated with data items stored in a secondary data repository, the method provides determining a mapping between the point-in-time data request and one or more of the data items. The method further includes providing the one or more data items in response to the point-in-time data request. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140192 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR SEARCHING FOR EVENTS FROM A COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED CALENDAR - Provided are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for searching for events from a computer-implemented calendar in accordance. A search interface is provided in a user interface element in response to a user selection to create a new calendar event. A search query and selected event categories are received from the search interface and search results responsive to the search query are provided in the user interface element. A selection to save a search result item is received, and an event details interface is provided. After event details are submitted by the user, a new calendar event is created based on the selected search result item. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140193 | User Interface for Predictive Model Generation - A dataset is searched using inclusion set criteria to produce an inclusion set and exclusion set criteria to produce an exclusion set. A set of unique content elements is identified from the inclusion set and the exclusion set. Metrics are derived from the inclusion set, exclusion set, and set of unique content elements, such as a measure, for each unique content element, of the absolute value of the difference between the percentage of records in the inclusion set containing the unique content element and the percentage of records in the exclusion set containing the unique content element. The unique content element set may be sorted and displayed in decreasing order of the above-referenced absolute value. The content element set may be filtered. Individual content elements may be excluded from the content set. A predictive model may be generated based on the resulting version of the content element set. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140194 | DATA MIGRATION SYSTEM AND DATA MIGRATION METHOD THEREOF - A data migration system and a data migration method thereof are provided. The data migration system comprises a transmission unit, a storage unit and a processing unit. The transmission unit is configured to connect with a client and a legacy storage system. The processing unit is configured to: receive a first data request from the client via the transmission unit, wherein the first data request indicates a required data; determine that the required data is missed in the storage unit; retrieve the required data from the legacy storage system via the transmission unit; copy the required data in the storage unit; and transmit the required data to the client via the transmission unit. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140195 | CUSTOM PARALLIZATION FOR DATABASE TABLE LOADING - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with custom parallelization on a per load operation basis are described. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a first load operation that loads first data into a first database table, determining a first level of parallelization with which to execute the first load operation, and storing the first level of parallelization for use in future execution of the first load operation. The method includes identifying a second load operation that loads second data into a second database table, determining a second level of parallelization, different from the first level of parallelization, with which to execute the second load operation, and storing the second level of parallelization for use in future execution of the second load operation. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140196 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROCESSING METHOD - A non-transitory, computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a processing program causes a computer to execute a process including reconstituting a specific portion of received data, based on reference information specifying a referenced portion of the received data for selecting processing data from the received data, the processing data being subject to a query processing; determining whether to discard the received data, based on the specific portion of the received data and a selecting condition for selecting the processing data; and reconstituting the received data when the determining determines not to discard the received data. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140197 | CROSS-SYSTEM SYNCHRONIZATION OF HIERARCHICAL APPLICATIONS - A method, device, and system that relate to synchronization of objects from a Source System and objects in a Target System by a Synchronization Engine situated on the Target System according to a user generated request. A Network handles the user generated request, which includes a selection of a Source System and search criteria, to synchronize the Source System and the Target System. The Synchronization Engine executes synchronization by comparing the hierarchical backend object models of relevant objects in the Source System and in the Target System. The Synchronization Engine provides the user with Search Results detailing the distinctions among the relevant objects. The synchronization process automatically includes objects dependent upon user-selected objects to avoid errors in applications running the synchronized configurations. Consistency checks performed as part of the synchronization ensure that synchronization is properly performed so that the Target System configuration is always in a sound state. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140198 | CONTEXT-AWARE COPYING OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA CELLS - A system may include presentation of one or more measure values, each of the one or more measure values corresponding to a member of each of one or more dimension, reception of a first instruction to copy one of the one or more measure values, storage, in response to the first instruction, of the one measure value and a corresponding member of each of one or more dimensions, reception of a second instruction to paste the stored one measure value to a local application, and, in response to the second instruction, writing of the stored one measure value and corresponding member of each of one or more dimensions to the local application. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140199 | INTELLIGENT SCHEDULING FOR REMOTE COMPUTERS - A method of protecting data on a mobile computing device using a storage network by deploying to the mobile computing device, a synchronization agent and then associating a synchronization policy with the synchronization agent. The mobile computing device is monitored for at least one threshold event. Its determined that the threshold event has occurred which causes a request to initiate a data synchronization event to be transmitted. The response to the request is synchronizing the mobile computing device with the storage network. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140200 | DYNAMIC INTEGRATION OF DISPARATE DATABASE ARCHITECTURES FOR EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES IN AN ON-DEMAND SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating dynamic integration of disparate database architectures for efficient management of resources in an on-demand services environment in a multi-tenant environment according to one embodiment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes receiving, at a first database platform, a job request in a first programming package, transforming the job request from the first programming package to a second programming package, transmitting the job request in the second programming package to a second database platform for processing. The job request may be processed at the second database platform that is independent of the first database platform. The method may further include receiving an output relating to the processing of the job request. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140201 | FACILITATING DISTRIBUTED DELETES IN A REPLICATED STORAGE SYSTEM - A data storage system includes multiple zones that comprise separate geographic storage locations and store replicated copies of data items. Upon receiving a delete operation at a local zone at a time t | 2016-05-19 |
20160140202 | ASYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention relate to asynchronously replicating data in a distributed computing environment. To achieve asynchronous replication, data received at a primary data store may be annotated with information, such as an identifier of the data. The annotated data may then be communicated to a secondary data store, which may then write the data and annotated information to one or more logs for eventual replay and committal at the secondary data store. The primary data store may communicate an acknowledgment of success in committing the data at the primary data store as well as of success in writing the data to the secondary data store. Additional embodiments may include committing the data at the secondary data store in response to receiving an instruction that authorizes committal of data through an identifier. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140203 | ONTOLOGY DECOMPOSER - Technologies are generally described for methods and systems effective to store a source ontology that is effective to represent first explicit data and second explicit data. In an example, a processor may evaluate the source ontology to identify the first explicit data and the second explicit data. The processor may also identify a relationship between the first and second explicit data. The processor may also partition the source ontology into first decomposed data and second decomposed data based on the relationship between the first and second explicit data. The first decomposed data may include the first explicit data, and the second decomposed data may include the second explicit data. The processor may also store the first decomposed data in a first concealment module. The processor may also store the second decomposed data in a second concealment module that may be different from the first concealment module. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140204 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EFFICIENT DATA MAPPING REQUIREMENTS ESTABLISHMENT AND REFERENCE - The current invention can provide methods and systems for creating and referencing data mapping requirements in a highly efficient, effective manner by providing functionality needed at the beginning, ending, and throughout the life of a data warehousing project. This can be accomplished through the ability to: prioritize fields of interest, provide visualization of the data mapping, set the ETL rules, provide progress and filtering functionality based on current status, provide learned intelligent tips for the next needed functionality, provide source comparisons per applied learning, apply learning for product enhancement, provide data profiling, provide data lineage, and have all of this functionality work together to achieve these capabilities. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140205 | QUERIES INVOLVING MULTIPLE DATABASES AND EXECUTION ENGINES - Described herein are techniques for handling a query that uses first data from a first database and second data from a second database. The first database is accessible via a first execution engine, and the second database is accessible via a second execution engine. A sub-query of the query can be sent to the second execution engine for execution on the second database. Streaming results of the sub-query can be received by the first execution engine. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140206 | MECHANISM TO RUN OLTP WORKLOAD ON IN-MEMORY DATABASE UNDER MEMORY PRESSURE - Techniques are provided for maintaining data persistently in one format, but making that data available to a database server in more than one format. For example, one of the formats in which the data is made available for query processing is based on the on-disk format, while another of the formats in which the data is made available for query processing is independent of the on-disk format. Data that is in the format that is independent of the disk format may be maintained exclusively in volatile memory to reduce the overhead associated with keeping the data in sync with the on-disk format copies of the data. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140207 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AGGREGATING INFORMATION-ASSET CLASSIFICATIONS - The disclosed computer-implemented method for aggregating information-asset classifications may include (1) identifying a data collection that includes two or more information assets, (2) identifying a classification for each of the information assets, (3) deriving, based at least in part on the classifications of the information assets, an aggregate classification for the data collection, and (4) associating the aggregate classification with the data collection to enable a data management system to enforce a data management policy based on the aggregate classification. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140208 | Fast Grouping of Time Series - In some examples, a time-series data set can be analyzed and grouped in a fast and efficient manner. For instance, fast grouping of multiple time-series into clusters can be implemented through data reduction, determining cluster population, and fast matching by locality sensitive hashing. In some situations, a user can select a level of granularity for grouping time-series into clusters, which can involve trade-offs between the number of clusters and the maximum distance between two time-series in a cluster. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140209 | CATEGORISING SOFTWARE APPLICATION STATE - A method for categorising a state of operation of a software application in execution in a virtualised computing environment, the application having associated a set of software components being operable to access data associated with the application, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a set of software application state definitions, each state definition including a definition of an application characteristic having associated criteria based on one or more formal parameters; identifying a set of hypothetical states for the application from the set of state definitions based on the data, wherein the data is used to formulate a set of one or more actual parameters corresponding to formal parameters for criteria associated with one or more of the states in the set of hypothetical states; for each of the states in the set of hypothetical states, in response to a determination that criteria associated with a current state is fully evaluable in the negative, removing the current state from the set of hypothetical states; selecting a candidate state from the set of hypothetical states based on a level of satisfaction of criteria associated with each state in the set of hypothetical states, the candidate state having associated one or more absent formal parameters for which no actual parameter is included in the set of actual parameters; and determining if a level of satisfaction of criteria associated with the candidate state fails to meet a threshold level of satisfaction, and in response to the determination undertaking the steps of: a) adjusting the set of software components such that the set of software components is operable to obtain an improved set of actual parameters associated with the application, the improved set of actual parameters including at least one actual parameter corresponding to an absent formal parameter; and b) repeating the removing, selecting and determining steps. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140210 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL MATERIAL FACTS IN DOCUMENTS - Systems and methods to identify potential material fact sentences in electronic legal documents obtained from electronic repositories are disclosed. A system includes a processing device and a storage medium in communication with the processing device. The storage medium includes programming instructions that cause the processing device to obtain a document and parse text within the document to determine whether each paragraph in the document is a fact paragraph, a discussion paragraph, or an outcome paragraph based on at least one of a heading associated with the paragraph and features of the paragraph. The storage medium further includes programming instructions that cause the processing device to extract each sentence in the fact paragraph, direct a trained sentence classifier to determine whether each sentence is a potential material fact sentence or a non-material fact sentence based on features of the sentence, and identify potential material fact sentences. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140211 | SEGMENTATION AND STRATIFICATION OF DATA ENTITIES IN A DATABASE SYSTEM - A stratified or segmented composite data structure can be formed by selecting a group of data entities, stratifying or segmenting them according to attributes, and assigning relative weights to the components based on their stratified or segmented positions. The attributes are selected from a universe of possible values. Further positive and negative biases can be applied at any arbitrary point or position, including to individual data entities, groups of arbitrarily selected data entities, or arbitrary positions. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140212 | DATA OBJECT CLASSIFICATION USING FEATURE GENERATION THROUGH CROWDSOURCING - In a computing device that implements a data object classification tool, a method for classifying data may include detecting change in spatial coordinates for each of at least two of a set of data objects within a canvas space. Each of the data objects may be associated with a vector of features. A rule set may be generated based on the vector of features associated with each of the at least two data objects. The rule set may use feature(s) that explain the changed spatial coordinates. The data objects may be selectively rearranged within the canvas space by applying the generated rule set to any remaining data objects among the set of data objects so as to assign spatial coordinates to the remaining objects. For each of the data objects, the spatial coordinates may be stored as new semantic feature(s) within the vector of features for that data object. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140213 | SEARCH DEVICE, SEARCH METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A search device includes a suggestion word presentation unit that presents a suggestion word based on the presentation priority by acquiring a suggestion word according to an input search string and a presentation priority from a suggestion word database, the suggestion word database storing the suggestion word and the presentation priority of the suggestion word associated to be searched by the input search string, a time information management unit that calculates time difference between a time when a search is performed and a time when a predetermined purchase operation or purchase preliminary operation is performed on a product which is related to the search and a priority management unit that updates the presentation priority stored in the suggestion word database to raise a presentation priority, which is associated with a suggestion word used for a search, higher as the time difference is smaller. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140214 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTING A SEARCH QUERY - System and method for augmenting a search query by identifying at least one visual element suggestion for the search query is disclosed. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140215 | EXTERNAL ACTION SUGGESTIONS IN SEARCH RESULTS - Methods for suggesting in search results an action that is to be performed in an external application based on a previous search query are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from an application on a device, a search query that was previously submitted by a user or another user, and providing, as a result of the search query, an interface to perform an action to launch an external application on the device, wherein the action was previously selected by the user or the other user in response to previous results of the search query. Systems, graphical user interfaces, and machine-readable media are also provided. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140216 | Adjusting Fact-Based Answers to Consider Outcomes - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for adjusting fact-based answers provided by a question/answer (QA) system. A user submits a question to the QA system, where it is categorized into a question type. The QA system then processes the question to generate an answer. The QA system then generates an answer adjustment if it is determined that the question type and answer meet a predicted undesirable outcome. The answer adjustment may include a warning, a disclaimer, a recommendation, an alternative fact-based answer, a referral to an assistance service, or any combination thereof. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140217 | TEXT MATCHING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND TEXT CLASSIFICATION DEVICE AND METHOD - [Object] To provide a system for automatically and reliably collecting information belonging to a given category, and matching the information appropriately in a timely manner. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140218 | DYNAMIC LANGUAGE MODEL - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for speech recognition. One of the methods includes receiving a base language model for speech recognition including a first word sequence having a base probability value; receiving a voice search query associated with a query context; determining that a customized language model is to be used when the query context satisfies one or more criteria associated with the customized language model; obtaining the customized language model, the customized language model including the first word sequence having an adjusted probability value being the base probability value adjusted according to the query context; and converting the voice search query to a text search query based on one or more probabilities, each of the probabilities corresponding to a word sequence in a group of one or more word sequences, the group including the first word sequence having the adjusted probability value. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140219 | Targeted Message Response - A tool for targeting a message response. The tool monitors reactions of a user to message subject lines, message content, and social networks. The tool analyzes user interest data and calculates a user interest rating per keyword. Rated keywords are stored in association with the user. When a user drafts a message addressed to a recipient, the tool compares rated keywords within the recipient's log with the subject line and message content. The tool suggests an alternative subject line likely to elicit a faster and more detailed response from the recipient. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140220 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC THEMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF A DIGITAL TEXT FILE - A thematic classification method for a digital text file from an encyclopedic database comprising a category graph. A thematic classification model is developed during a learning phase. For each category node, all articles directly linked to the category node is grouped to obtain, for each category node, a “bag of words.” A term-frequency vector characteristic of the category node is determined. At each category node the term-frequency vector, directly connected thereto, with term-frequency vectors of more specific nodes are combined. During the production phase, the term-frequency vector of the digital text file is calculated. N category nodes in the thematic classification model having the closest term-frequency vectors to the term-frequency of the digital text file are selected. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140221 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUMMARIZING OF DOCUMENT - A display apparatus including a communicator configured to perform data communication with a content server and to receive at least one of a main document and a sub document related to the main document; a document analyzer configured to extract a keyword having a high frequency of occurrence from the main document and to determine a head keyword for generating a summarized document from the extracted keyword with reference to the received sub document; and a processor configured to determine a reliability of each sentence of the main document based on the head keyword, extract a sentence that matches a predetermined condition with reference to the determined reliability, and analyze a structural format of the extracted sentence so as to re-configure a word that forms the sentence and generate a summarized sentence, thereby generating a summarized document where information and logical cohesion have been obtained. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140222 | EXAMPLE-BASED ITEM CLASSIFICATION - Item classification rules are created based on examples selected by a user, such as by selecting a subset of emails, and the rule is used across a larger set of items to obtain automatic classification of similar items according to the rule. Based on an analysis, a candidate classification rule is generated identifying text-based features shared among the items of the subset. The user can review the candidate rule as well as a resultant subset of items generated by the rule, and either accept the candidate rule or make an adjustment to the examples and then perform one or more iterations of the analysis to refine the rule. Adjustments can be made by removing items incorrectly included in a resultant subset and/or adding items incorrectly excluded from a resultant subset, and using the adjusted subset in a next iteration. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140223 | "AT LEAST" OPERATOR FOR COMBINING AUDIO SEARCH HITS - System and method to search audio data, including: receiving audio data representing speech; receiving a search query related to the audio data; compiling, by use of a processor, the search query into a hierarchy of scored speech recognition sub-searches; searching, by use of a processor, the audio data for speech identified by one or more of the sub-searches to produce hits; and combining, by use of a processor, the hits by use of at least one combination function to provide a composite search score of the audio data. The combination function may include an at-least-M-of-N function that produces a high score when at least M of N function inputs exceed a predetermined threshold value. The composite search score employ a soft time window such as a spline function. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140224 | CONTENT PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SEGMENT OF VARIABLE SIZE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A content processing device is provided. The content processing device includes a receiver configured to receive a content, an audio processor configured to extract an audio signal by decoding audio data included in the content, a processor configured to determine a characteristic section in the audio signal based on a ratio of music information of the audio signal, and detect a segment corresponding to the characteristic section in the audio signal; and a communicator configured to transmit the segment to a music recognition server, and a size of the segment is determined variably within a threshold range. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140225 | MUSIC RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM OF VEHICLE AND METHOD THEREOF - A music recommendation system of a vehicle includes: a sound source analysis unit that analyzes music characteristic information of a plurality of sound source files, respectively, generates a matching table including pieces of music metadata based on the analyzed music characteristic information of the plurality of sound source files, analyzes music characteristic information of a plurality of sound source files, respectively, included in a music list played by a driver of the vehicle, and generates an analysis table based on the analyzed music characteristic information of the plurality of sound source files included in the music list; an input unit that receives a music recommendation request from the driver; and a sound source recommending unit that extracts music characteristic information from the matching table similar to music characteristic information in the analysis table and generates a recommendation list based on the extracted music characteristic information. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140226 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SEARCHABLE CUSTOMER CALL INDEXES - A system and method is provided for providing searchable customer call indexes. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, a system may receive call information associated with telephone conversations between callers and a vendor, the call information including an audio recording or transcript for each telephone conversation. The system may also identify one or more keywords from the audio recordings or transcripts and index the call information into one or more indexes based on the identified keywords. Finally, the system may determine search results responsive to a search query based on the indexing. In some embodiments, changes to customer service may be identified based on the search results. | 2016-05-19 |
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. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140228 | REFORMATTING QUERIES FOR SEARCH ENGINES AND DATA REPOSITORIES - The specification relates to providing a reformatted search query to a specific back end search engine or data repository. The search query is reformatted by identifying a domain of a search query. Based on the domain, a specific back end search engine or data repository associated with the domain is chosen to receive the reformatted query. The reformatting of the query is performed using a set of rules for the chosen back-end server. The reformatted query is sent to the at least one back-end server. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140229 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZING, SEARCHING, FINDING, AND FILTERING INTERNET CONTENT BASED ON CONTENT RELEVANCY THROUGH DATA CATEGORIZATION LIVE AND IN REAL TIME, WITHOUT TIME DELAY - A method and system for organizing, searching/finding and filtering internet content based on content relevancy through data categorization by use of metadata. The present invention furthermore describes the presentation and feed of live data content to a search engine. An infrastructure of interconnected servers hosting a software to organize data, called web operating kernel (WOK), allows users to supply smart data (metadata) to describe original web content. Smart data consist of a title, description of content and its context, location or URL of the original underlying content and may include additional file attachment such as image files, audio and video files etc. This data is used by the WOKs integrated search engine software to search and find the most relevant content pertaining to a particular search term. As a results, the preferred embodiment of the present invention described how humans add information to content as opposed to the conventional search engine practice of computer algorithms extracting information from existing content to form metadata. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140230 | Implicit Collaborative Searching Based on Search History Database - A collaborative search system enables collaborative web searches by customer support agents or other user groups with common information needs. When a solution to a technical support problem is not found in the knowledgebase, customer support agents may conduct searches on the Internet to find a solution. A search history database is used to maintain a record of web searches conducted by customer support agents. Users may recommend web pages providing solutions to technical support problems. When a new search is conducted, it is compared to previous searches stored in the search history database and recommended web pages associated with similar queries representing the same or similar information need are output to the user. The collaborative search system enables customer support agents to more quickly find solutions to technical support problems and to recommend web pages providing solutions to those technical support problems to other persons in the technical support community. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140231 | TERM SELECTION FROM A DOCUMENT TO FIND SIMILAR CONTENT - Methods, devices, and systems are described for creating and implementing search query vectors for knowledge base articles or other formal articles, the query vectors automatically created from informal correspondence such as a service request email to an information technology (IT) department. Term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) scores are calculated for rarewords in the correspondence with respect to a corpus of other service requests. High scoring terms with the same neighbors as those in the corpus of formal articles are added to the search query vector, while high scoring terms that do not share the same neighbors are thrown out. The query vector is then used to run a search of the knowledge base for relevant articles. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140232 | System and Method of Expanding a Search Query - A method and apparatus is provided for expanding a search query that fails to full specify an information need. When a current search query from a user is received, a set of candidate search query patterns are identified based on the keywords in the search query. One or more missing components in the candidate patterns are identified. The search query is expanded to include keywords corresponding at least one of the missing components in one of the candidate search query patterns. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140233 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING SEARCH QUERY REWRITES - Various embodiments include systems and methods tier processing query rewrite records to generate standardized query rewrites usable by a search engine. Such systems and method may involve analysis of query rewrite input language (QRIL) records to identify relationships and conflicts between multiple QRIL records, and to resolve these relationships and conflicts to generate a standardized rewrite in a semantic language recognizable by the search engine. Such systems and methods may gather QRIL records from a QRIL record database, process the QRIL records using precedence rules, and then communicate a set of standardized and optimized query rewrites to the search engine. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140234 | Method and Computer Server System for Receiving and Presenting Information to a User in a Computer Network - A method for receiving and presenting information to a user in a computer network or a computer device, comprising: the step of receiving at least one text from the computer network or the computer device, said text being tagged with a text information intensity indicator; the step of determining a user channel capacity indicator; the step of comparing said channel capacity indicator with said text information intensity indicator; and the step of presenting said text or a representation of said text to said user on said device or an a device in said computer network, wherein said presentation of said text or said representation of said text is modified by using the result of said comparison. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140235 | REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED IN MEMORY SEARCH ARCHITECTURE - Disclosed here are distributed computing system connection configurations having multiple connection bandwidth and latency tiers. Also disclosed are connection configurations including a suitable number of network segments, where network segments may be connected to external servers and clusters including search managers, analytics agents, search conductors, dependency managers, supervisors, and partitioners, amongst others. In one or more embodiments, modules may be connected to the network segments using a desired bandwidth and latency tier. Disclosed here are hardware components suitable for running one or more types of modules on one or more suitable nodes. One or more suitable hardware components included in said clusters include CPUs, Memory, and Hard Disk, amongst others. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140236 | KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AGENT SYSTEM - A system and method for processing information in unstructured or structured form, comprising a computer running in a distributed network with one or more data agents. Associations of natural language artifacts may be learned from natural language artifacts in unstructured data sources, and semantic and syntactic relationships may be learned in structured data sources, using grouping based on a criteria of shared features that are dynamically determined without the use of a priori classifications, by employing conditional probability constraints. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140237 | SEARCH SYSTEM WITH QUERY REFINEMENT AND SEARCH METHOD - A search system and method for searching for electronic documents, and providing a search result in response to a search query. In one embodiment, the search system includes a processor, a user interface module adapted to receive a search query from a user that includes a search query term, a search engine that electronically searches for electronic documents that satisfy the search query term, and a query processing module that identifies at least one alternative term for the search query term, and provides the alternative term to the user interface module for display to the user, and also provides the alternative term to the search engine to search for electronic documents that satisfy the alternative term. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140238 | Normalization of Time Stamps for Event Data - Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide the ability to organize, index, search, and present time series data based on searches. Time series data are sequences of time stamped records occurring in one or more usually continuous streams, representing some type of activity. In one embodiment, time series data is organized into discrete events with normalized time stamps and the events are indexed by time and keyword. A search is received and relevant event information is retrieved based in whole or in part on the time indexing mechanism, keyword indexing mechanism, or statistical indices calculated at the time of the search. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140239 | Influence Business Benefit from User Reviews and Cognitive Dissonance - An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager identifies first opinion phrases included in a first review that the knowledge manager displays on a display. The knowledge manager locates contradictory reviews that include second opinion phrases that contradict the first opinion phrases and, in turn, displays the contradictory reviews on the display. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140240 | Influence Personal Benefit from Dynamic User Modeling Matching with Natural Language Statements in Reviews - An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager receives a review request from a user to review an item. The knowledge manager identifies importance factors corresponding to the user and locates reviews of the item that include opinion phrases corresponding to the user's importance factors. In turn, the knowledge manager displays the set of located reviews on a display. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140241 | DECOUPLING FILTER INJECTION AND EVALULATION BY FORCED PUSHDOWN OF FILTER ATTRIBUTES IN CALCULATION MODELS - According to an aspect, a system for moving a filter in a query model to ensure query semantics includes a query engine configured to obtain a query model for a query to be executed on a database. The query engine includes a query optimizer configured to instantiate the query model by merging the query with the query model. The query optimizer includes a filter mover configured to move a filter to a point within the instantiated query model such that semantics for the query within the instantiated query model is ensured. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140242 | MULTI-DIRECTIONAL SEARCH - Methods for providing a multi-directional search using an electronic computing device are presented, the method including: causing the electronic computing device to provide a multi-directional search bar; displaying a number of audience selections to whom the multi-directional search is directed; selecting any of the number of audience selections; entering a multi-directional search query; and returning a response to the multi-directional search query based on both the selected audience and the search query. In some embodiments, methods further include: providing a number of privacy settings corresponding with the selected audience selection; and selecting one of the number of privacy settings, where the selected privacy setting is selected from the group consisting of: a private search and a public search. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140243 | SCOPED SEARCH ENGINE - A scoped search engine is disclosed. The scoped search engine includes a memory unit storing reference data records. The scoped search engine also includes a data comparison unit that searches the reference data records using different searches. The scoped search engine further includes a match analysis unit that combines result data from the different searches and determines a scope for a subsequent search based on the combined result data. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140244 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONNECTING NATIVE LANGUAGE SPEAKERS AND SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS ACROSS A NETWORK - A method is described herein including a plurality of client applications providing an electronic interface for receiving personality information and conversation preference information of corresponding users, wherein each client application of the plurality of client applications runs on a corresponding computing platform. The method includes one or more applications running on a processor of a remote server receiving the personality information and conversation preference information from the plurality of client applications, the one or more applications using the personality information and conversation preference information to match a first user of a first client application with a second user of a second client application. The method includes the one or more applications establishing a communications coupling between the first client application and the second client application, wherein the communications coupling comprises a communication session. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140245 | Identifying Relationships in an Online Social Network - In particular embodiments, a method comprises accessing, from a first user of an online social network, profile information of the first user comprising personal information of the first user and a visibility preference specified by the first user, wherein the visibility preference specifies a degree of separation preference and determines a flow of the first user's profile information to users of the online social network and a flow of information to the first user, identifying relationships between the first user and one or more second users of the online social network based on the personal information and the visibility preference of the first user, and further based on personal information of the one or more second users, and updating a member database with the identified relationships between the first user and one or more of the second users. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140246 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING BUDDIES TO A CLIENT USER - According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, an electronic device analyzes shared contents of all members in a circle created by a client user and generates feature information of the circle. The electronic device analyzes shared contents of each member in a buddy list created by the client user and generates feature information of each member in the buddy list. The electronic device calculates a similarity between the feature information of each member in the buddy list and the feature information of the circle, generates a similarity set, and generates a recommended buddy of the circle based on the similarity set. The electronic device prompts the recommended buddy of the circle to the client user. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140247 | USING CONTENT IDENTIFICATION AS CONTEXT FOR SEARCH - Techniques for using contextual information relating to content presented by a television as part of a search query for an information search are presented. A search management component, at a given moment in time during presentation of television-related content by a communication device in or associated with a television, identifies contextual information associated with a section of the television-related content and generates a content identifier timestamp associated with the contextual information and the section of television-related content. A search component augments a search query using the contextual information to facilitate customization of a subset of search results based on the contextual information. The contextual information in the search query can facilitate disambiguating the search query or promoting a search result over another search result in the subset of search results, based on the contextual information, to facilitate customization of the subset of search results. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140248 | GUIDED BROWSING EXPERIENCE - Methods and systems of providing a guided navigation experience are described. According to various embodiments, a first type of use case may be determined for a first use of a website by a user. The first type of use case may be determined amongst a plurality of types of use cases. A first navigation recommendation may be determined based on the determined first type of use case. The first navigation recommendation may comprise a recommendation for the user to navigate to a first content on the website. The first navigation recommendation may be caused to be displayed to the user. In some embodiments, the plurality of types of use cases may comprise at least one of viewing an update of a profile of another user, viewing an event associated with the profile of another user, performing a job search, and participating in or viewing a discussion. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140249 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR E-BOOK READING PROGRESS INDICATOR AND INVOCATION THEREOF - Displaying e-book reading progress in a non-intrusive manner based on an exit action of a user. The exit action is received with regard to a last-read page of e-book content displayed, the e-book content being paginated in accordance with a series of digitally constructed pages including a start page and an end page. The last-read page is interposed between the start and end pages. An indicium of the e-book pages is displayed, with demarcation of a finished portion from an unfinished portion of the content. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140250 | DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF ELEMENTS OF A DOCUMENT - Technologies are described herein for providing dynamic adjustment of elements of a document. A document having code defining an element is received and rendered at a first rendering scale. One or more techniques are used to determine if a dimension of the element is greater than a dimension of a display area. If the dimension of the element is greater than the dimension of the display area, a second rendering scale is determined based on the dimension of the display area. The second rendering scale is then applied to the element by wrapping the element in a container. The element is then scaled based on the second rendering scale. In some configurations, a negative margin-bottom is applied to other content of the document to reposition the other content of the document relative to the positon of the element. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140251 | DATA CONSUMPTION BETWEEN HETEROGENEOUS WEB APPLICATIONS - A system includes reception of first Web application code for a first Web page from a first Web server, reception of second Web application code for the first Web page from a second Web server, execution of the first Web application code to register a first data model in a container of the first Web page, and execution of the second Web application to query the container of the first Web page for data models, request the first data model from the container, receive the first data model from the container, extract first data from the first data model, and present the first data in the first Web page. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140252 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PAGE FLIP INTERFACE - A method for providing a page flip interface on an electronic personal display is provided. The method includes receiving a request to enter a page flip mode from a user, determining a first page of an e-book displayed as a full page, adjusting a size of the first page of the e-book such that the size is not the full page and displaying a second page of the e-book simultaneously with the first page of the e-book. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140253 | Platform for Continuous Graph Update and Computation - A continuous stream data (e.g., messages, tweets) is received by ingest nodes of a platform. The ingest nodes may analyze the data to create a transaction of graph updates, assign a sequence number to the transaction, and distribute the graph updates with the sequence number to graph nodes of the platform. The graph nodes may store graph updates from ingest nodes, and then the ingest nodes may report graph update progresses in a progress table. A snapshot may be taken based on the progress table, and then graph-mining computation may be implemented. Tolerate failures and decaying may be supported and incremental expansion may be allowed to cope with increasing update rates and computation needs. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140254 | IDENTIFYING AND STRUCTURING RELATED DATA - Some examples include displaying a user interface that includes attributes and entities that are determined to be related to an input entity identified by a user. Further, some implementations include displaying a structured data table that identifies attribute values associated with the input entity and selected related entities. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140255 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODELING DEFORMABLE BODY BY FUSING SURFACE PARTICLES AND INTERNAL SKELETAL STRUCTURE - Provided is a method and corresponding apparatus to model a deformable body. The method includes obtaining a material property corresponding to an internal skeletal structure of a deformable body. The method calculates a displacement amount of the skeletal structure according to a motion of the deformable body, based on a boundary condition of the skeletal structure, and the material property. The method further calculates displacement amounts of surface particles on a surface of the deformable body, based on the displacement amount of the skeletal structure, and models the deformable body based on the calculated displacement amounts of the surface particles. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140256 | COMPUTER-AIDED MODELING - A modeling application is provided with functionality that adds a bend between two flat sheets. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140257 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SMART HOME MAPPING - Methods and systems are described for mapping a living space. An example computer-implemented method for mapping a living space includes receiving information about an exterior perimeter of the living space, receiving information about a plurality of interior boundaries of the living space, receiving information about a location for each of a plurality of barriers of the living space, and generating an electronic map of the living space using the information about the exterior perimeter, the plurality of interior boundaries, and the location of each of the plurality of barriers. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140258 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DESIGNING PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS - A method for designing a photovoltaic (PV) system is implemented by a design automation computer system. The method includes receiving a set of site data, receiving a system type selection, receiving a plurality of system component selections, receiving a plurality of PV layout preferences, determining a PV module layout by iteratively applying a first layout algorithm to the set of site data and the plurality of PV layout preferences, the PV module layout defining a placement of a plurality of PV modules of a PV system, determining a structural layout, an electrical design, and an electrical layout based on the PV module layout, determining a bill of materials based on the PV module layout, the structural layout, and the electrical layout, and designing the PV system using the structural layout, the electrical design, the electrical layout, the PV module layout, and the bill of materials. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140259 | OPTIMIZED PLACEMENT DESIGN OF NETWORK AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMPONENTS - Approaches presented herein enable optimization of a network and component configuration in a dense server environment. Specifically, an approach includes: constructing a plurality of populated racks, each selected so as to contain an optimized size and configuration of components constrained according to a set of user-selected requirements that specify a type, a quantity, and one or more characteristics of at least one of the set of components; optimizing a configuration of the populated racks to minimize a cable length between populated racks, the configuration adhering to, e.g., power requirements, cooling requirements, and weight requirements for the populated racks; and optimizing a position of a set of cable trays and corresponding junctions by reducing a number of cable tray channels associated with the cable length between populated racks. Taken together, these elements provide a repeatable approach for optimizing the number of cables, quantity of multiplexed connections, cable lengths, and switch/component placement. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140260 | DETERMINING WIND LOADING OF STRUCTURES THROUGH WIND FLOW SIMULATION - A method, system, apparatus, article of manufacture, and computer readable storage medium provide the ability to automatically simulate a wind load. An analytical model is converted into a solid model. A wind flow on the solid model is simulated to determine pressures on structural elements of the solid model. The simulating is repeated until the pressures converge. The pressures are converted to loads on the structural elements. Load cases are generated with equivalent loads on the structural elements. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140261 | LEAN PRODUCT MODELING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A lean product modeling system (LPM system). The LPM system includes a plurality of modeling objects representing multiple perspectives of the product, a plurality of corresponding modeling object properties identifying characteristics of those product modeling objects which are used to configure product simulations, and a plurality of corresponding modeling object property data items that define those characteristics and are reflected in product simulations and analyses. All product modeling objects may be linked in an integrated product knowledge model that reflects ontological characteristics of the product or the application as a service and a corresponding operational environment. The integrated product knowledge model defines an authoritative source for any specific corresponding modeling object within the plurality of corresponding modeling objects. The LPM system further includes a device for use in manufacturing the product or implementing the application as the service based on a product design created by the LPM system. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140262 | Predicting Performance Regression of a Computer System with a Complex Queuing Network Model - An approach is provided for predicting system performance. The approach predicts system performance by identifying a Queuing Network Model (QNM) corresponding to a clustered system that handles a plurality of service demands using a plurality of parallel server nodes that process a workload for a quantity of users. A workload description is received that includes server demand data. Performance of the clustered system is predicted by transforming the QNM to a linear model by serializing the parallel services as sequential services, identifying transaction groups corresponding to each of the server nodes, and distributing the workload among the transaction groups across the plurality of nodes. The approach further solves analytically the linear model with the result being a predicted resource utilization (RU) and a predicted response time (RT). | 2016-05-19 |
20160140263 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE CURRENT AND FUTURE STATE OF HEALTH OF A POWER TRANSFORMER - A system includes a power transformer diagnosis and prognosis device having memory circuitry storing a plurality of models. Each of the plurality of models comprises correlations between potential combinations of operational and non-operational power transformer data and potential conditions of one or more subsystems of a power transformer and include a physics-based model and an empirical model. The system includes communication circuitry configured to receive a particular combination of operational and non-operational power transformer data related the power transformer. The system includes processing circuitry configured to provide the particular combination of operational and non-operational power transformer data as inputs to the plurality of models, determine a diagnosis for the power transformer from outputs of the plurality of models, determine a prognosis for the power transformer from the outputs of the plurality of models, and display the diagnosis and the prognosis for the power transformer on a display device. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140264 | OPTIMAL OPERATION PATTERN SELECTION METHOD FOR MOTOR, OPTIMAL OPERATION PATTERN SELECTION PROGRAM FOR MOTOR, AND MOTOR SELECTION DEVICE - In an optimal operation pattern selection method, a plurality of selectable motors is selected and an optimal operation pattern from among the motor operation pattern defined by positioning time to rotate a motor output shaft of the motor to rotate a load by a positioning angle and stop time to stop the motor output shaft is suggested. The optimal operation pattern selection method includes a comprehensive determination step of calculating a comprehensive determination result according to an adaptable item, and storing the comprehensive determination result linked to each of the motors; and a list display step of displaying a list of the motors to enable to receive selection of one of the motors, together with the comprehensive determination result stored in the comprehensive determination step. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140265 | METHOD FOR GENERATING PLANT TOPOLOGY MODEL DATA - A method for generating model data of a plant having at least one sub-part involves: providing at least one respective diagram of an HMI interface for a respective sub-part, which contains topology information thereof; transferring the respective diagram, if necessary, into a computer readable form; importing the respective transferred diagram into a data storage of a computer and preferably automatically extracting model data of the respective sub-part therefrom, wherein the model data describe at least in part the topology of the respective sub-part; and providing the model data to an interface of the computer, wherein extracting model data from a diagram involves: detection of plant objects; and detection of plant object connections. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140266 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MODEL OBJECTS INCLUDING PARTICLES - A method and corresponding apparatus to model objects includes detecting an overlapping area between first and second objects each comprising particles. The method and corresponding apparatus also calculate, in the overlapping area, an action force between the first and the second objects. The method and corresponding apparatus model the first object and the second object based on the action force. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140267 | PROCESS BASED METROLOGY TARGET DESIGN - Methods and systems for automatically generating robust metrology targets which can accommodate a variety of lithography processes and process perturbations. Individual steps of an overall lithography process are modeled into a single process sequence to simulate the physical substrate processing. That process sequence drives the creation of a three-dimensional device geometry as a whole, rather than “building” the device geometry element-by-element. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140268 | Prediction Using Method, Apparatus and Program Product - Technology for predictions of a value over time which relies upon and implements a topologic space and surface analysis enabling insertion of future times and generation of more accurate predictive values for resource demand and other values of interest for analysis. The topological surface is generated on a cylindrical coordinate system. A polynomial equation is generated for the surface analysis by regression to enable forecasting. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140269 | STRUCTURAL TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION DESIGN METHOD - A structural topology optimization design method is provided. A structural topology optimization question is defined to determine at least one set of load and restriction condition and a parameter of lower limit of volume capacity related to a design space model. This model is divided into mesh grids for performing finite element analysis (FEA). Strain energy of each element after FEA is obtained according to the established load and restriction condition and used as a basis for calculating sensitivity of each element. A part of elements is removed or retained according to the degree of sensitivity of each element, and the structural profile and the total volume capacity and total strain energy of residual elements of the structural profile are recorded after each loop was completed. A display interface is used to sequentially show the structural profile and a relationship diagram of structural volume capacity vs structural strain energy. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140270 | METHOD OF DETERMINING WAVE PROPAGATION IN A MEDIUM - A method including the steps of: defining an original parent polygon representative domain of interest, an origin corresponding to a wavesource position within the parent, a wavesource wavefront geometry, and a maximum wavefront extent; determining one or more valid parent polygon sides; defining cutting lines from the vertices of each valid parent side to the extent; reflecting the parent about the respective valid side defining a child polygon; discarding portions of each child polygon lying beyond a cutting line from the respective parent side; redefining each child as a parent, and repeating the second to fifth steps for each parent filling the area within the extent; projecting onto the polygons within the extent, a wavefront having the wavefront geometry spaced from the origin by a specified distance; and reflecting the child polygons along the respective sides of their respective parents projecting the child polygons and wavefront onto the original parent. | 2016-05-19 |
20160140271 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MODELING METHOD - A method of modeling an integrated circuit comprises generating a schematic of an integrated circuit comprising a first circuit component. The schematic comprises a first representation of the first circuit component. The method also comprises replacing the first representation with a second representation of the first circuit component. The second representation includes resistive capacitance information (RC) for the first circuit component. The RC information is based on first RC data included in a process design kit (PDK) file and second RC data included in a macro device file. The second RC data is based on a relationship between the first circuit component and a second circuit component. The method further comprises selectively coloring the second representation of the first circuit component in the schematic based on the RC information. The coloring of the second representation is indicative of whether the integrated circuit is in compliance with a design specification. | 2016-05-19 |