23rd week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 62 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110137800 | PRIVACY PRESERVING ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEM - Identifying anomalous products in a supply chain includes maintaining a set of anomalous patterns of events products in the supply chain. At least one of the anomalous patterns of events is transmitted to nodes of the supply chain. Messages are received from nodes at a third party and indicate whether an event of the product in the supply chain at the node matches an event in the anomalous pattern of events that has been transmitted to the node. Messages indicating that an event at the node matches an event in the anomalous pattern of events are securely encrypted, based on a key that is unknown to the third party, prior to transmission to the third party. A determination is made whether the product is an anomalous product, based on the messages from nodes indicating that a sequence of events occurring at one or more nodes matches a sequence of events in the anomalous pattern of events. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137801 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORDERING GOODS, SERVICES AND CONTENT OVER AN INTERNETWORK USING A VIRTUAL PAYMENT ACCOUNT - A virtual payment system for paying for goods, services and content ordered over an internetwork is disclosed. The virtual payment system includes a commerce gateway. Buyers and sellers becomes registered participants by applying for virtual payment buyer and seller accounts. Once an account is established with the commerce gateway, a digital certificate is stored on the registered participant's computer. A buyer can then order a product, i.e., goods, services or content from a seller and charge it to the virtual payment account. When the product is shipped, the seller notifies the commerce gateway, which applies the charges to the buyer's virtual payment account. The buyer can settle the charges using a prepaid account, a credit account, or by using reward points earned through use of the virtual payment account. A buyer may create sub-accounts. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137802 | PURCHASE TRANSACTION SYSTEM WITH ENCRYPTED PAYMENT CARD DATA - Systems and methods are provided for securing payment card information. A user may present a payment card such as a credit card to point-of-sale equipment. The point-of-sale equipment may encrypt the payment card information. An encryption algorithm may be used that takes as inputs a first part of the payment card information, a tweak formed by a second part of the payment card information, and an encryption key. The encrypted payment card information may be conveyed to a gateway over a communications network. The gateway may identify which encryption algorithm was used in encrypting the payment card information and may re-encrypt the payment card information using a format preserving encryption algorithm. A network-based service may be used to remotely perform functions for the gateway. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137803 | SECURE ELECTRONIC RECEIPT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The present disclosure relates to secure electronic receipt systems and methods. The present invention removes the need for paper-based receipts while preserving security through use of a digital signature on each electronic receipt verifying the transaction and other data related to the transaction. In an exemplary embodiment, the present invention includes a trusted email server, an authentication server, a point-of-sale (POS) terminal or the like, and a smart card or the like. A buyer can utilize the smart card to instruct the terminal to provide an electronic receipt. The terminal can utilize the trusted email server and the authentication server to digitally sign the electronic receipt with credentials trusted by the buyer, and these credentials can later be utilized to verify the electronic receipt. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137804 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPROVING TRANSACTIONS - In a transaction between a merchant and a payer, approval of the transaction may be provided by a payment processing system using authentication information provided from a mobile device of the payer. The authentication information may include a location of the payer mobile device which may be compared to a location of a merchant payment device such that the transaction is approved if the payer mobile device is within a defined distance of the merchant payment device. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137805 | INTER-CLOUD RESOURCE SHARING WITHIN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - The present invention provides a system and method for establishing inter-Cloud resource sharing agreements and policies such that dynamic expansion/contraction of Cloud resource requests can be seamlessly addressed without requiring physical build-out of the primary Cloud infrastructure and advertising the need for additional resources or the offer to provide additional resources can be brokered through an established marketplace. The financial transaction will support a symbiotic bi-lateral fair-share method that better aligns with an alternating supplier/consumer business model. Using this system and method will decrease the amount of time needed to respond to a given Cloud service request while advantaging a resource sharing model amongst established Cloud providers. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137806 | INTERNET-BASED METHODS OF OFFERING ADVERTISING - The present invention provides methods of offering advertisements on the Internet, and systems for implementing these methods. These methods offer users an accrued financial incentive to purchase products and services from advertisers. In some embodiments, a method of offering advertisements on the Internet comprises: providing one or more advertisements at an Internet site; allowing for a user to click or view the advertisements; increasing the user's account balance after an advertisement is viewed; and offering cash or a non-cash equivalent to a winning user having the highest relative value of an account balance within a selected pool of account balances. Certain embodiments of this invention relate to an Internet business known as Mascot Race. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137807 | MODEL-BASED CUSTOMIZED ECO SYSTEM AND DESIGN METHOD THEREOF - A model-based customized eco system includes: a work distribution unit for managing a download of a developed work of an embedded software platform; a shared asset management unit for managing a users' upload of a modified version of the developed work; a user support unit for receiving users' opinions about the developed work; and a repository management unit for managing information on the users and the developed work. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137808 | ANALYZING SURVEY RESULTS - Systems and method for analyzing results of an automated survey are disclosed herein. According to some implementations, a computer implemented method comprises receiving survey result information, where the survey result information includes information extracted from an automated survey offered to a survey recipient. The computer implemented method also comprises performing an analysis of the survey result information and determining if the analysis of the survey result information warrants one or more follow-up actions with a customer. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137809 | ESTABLISHING SECURE TUNNELS FOR CUSTOMER SUPPORT - The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus of establishing a secure tunnel to provide customer support to a customer site. One example method of operating may include transmitting a help request from a customer device to a support server. The method may also include establishing a first portion of the communication tunnel between the customer device and the support server, transmitting credentials to a third party support worker device, and establishing a second portion of the communication tunnel between the third party support worker device and the support server based on the credentials. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137810 | Initial Product Offering System and Method - A system and method for making an initial product offering of tangible products and services. A price for a product may be determined by calculating an aggregate customer history factor by aggregating customer history factors of potential purchasers in a buying group, calculating a cumulative demand for a product as a function of (i) expected purchase quantities of the product indicated by the potential purchasers in the buying group and (ii) the aggregate customer history factor, and setting a price of the product as a function of the cumulative demand for the buying group. The tangible products and services may be offered at the determined price. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137811 | NETWORK BASED REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION PORTAL SYSTEM AND METHOD - According to one aspect, the invention provides a data processing system that includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores information concerning real estate, buyers, sellers and third party service providers. The information includes a buyer profile and at least one searchable buyer request that includes property-related buyer preferences; a seller profile and at least one searchable seller listing that includes information about a property; and a service provider profile and at least one searchable real estate-related service. The processor accesses and provides information in response to one or more queries from one of a buyer, a seller, or a 3 | 2011-06-09 |
20110137812 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONETIZING AND TRADING ENERGY OR ENVIRONMENTAL CREDITS FROM POLYMERIC MATERIALS - The present invention is a system and method for monetizing and trading value in polymeric materials, forming polymer energy credits and/or polymer environmental credits. The system promotes the highest and best use and disposition of polymer waste, scraps and used material. The new types of credits have a value which can be bought, sold and traded in a market exchange. A polymer manufacturer can assign predetermined credit value to polymeric material sent into commerce which can be realized upon disposition of polymeric material in a predetermined or prescribed manner and credited to the manufacturer and/or user of the polymeric material. Alternatively, a verification authority may be implemented to review claims of entitlement to credits and may take into account factors relevant to the polymeric material to assign value to verified polymer energy or environmental credits and/or to certify various entities engaged in the process. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137813 | Providing a Map Indicating Locations of Users in a Social Network - Systems, methods, apparatus and software have been discovered for use by individual users to monitor the geographic location of other people or assets with some relationship to the user. Once some manner of location information is determined, users have the ability to describe that location in various ways and control how that information is shared with other users. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137814 | Social Networking System which Provides Notification of User Location Based on Distance - Systems, methods, apparatus and software have been discovered for use by individual users to monitor the geographic location of other people or assets with some relationship to the user. Once some manner of location information is determined, users have the ability to describe that location in various ways and control how that information is shared with other users. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137815 | AUTOMATED COMMISSION PROGRAM WITH STATIC TITLED ROOM ASSIGNMENT - A commission program can include a static titled room assignment to implement a go-forward bonus that is paid on an ongoing basis, regardless of advancement of distributors. An upline assignment summary can store upline assignment information in a compact footprint to increase performance. A sponsored distributor can be assigned to titled rooms of upline distributors at the time the sponsored distributor is sponsored. Sustainability of the program and ongoing compensation can be balanced to achieve superior motivation and compensation to participating distributors. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137816 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A COLLABORATION RECOMMENDATION - In a recruitment context, it can be difficult to determine the best third-party recruiter to help fill an open job. The disclosed system includes a recommendation engine that determines the best recruiter to help fill an open job, either for another recruiter to collaborate in a split-fee placement or for an employer having the opening. For a given candidate or job opening that becomes available and that is represented by a given user, the system analyzes disparate work information from users' transactional systems, including various criteria about their past transactions (job placements, geography, timeliness, etc.) and their current candidates to produce a recommendation. The user representing the subject candidate or job opening may then be notified of potential other users, and connected with them through an online system, in order to complete a collaborative placement. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137817 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND DISSEMINATING PERSONAL DATA - A computer-implemented method of aggregating and disseminating personal data is provided. The method includes establishing a user account for a user, wherein establishing the user account includes receiving identifying information of the user from the user. A user identifier is associated with the user account. A request for the user identifier is received from a remote application server, and an identifier request authorization is received from the user or the remote application server to provide the user identifier to the remote application server. The user identifier is provided to the remote application server in response to receiving the identifier request authorization. Personal data of a user associated with the user identifier is received from the user. A request for the personal data of the user associated with the user identifier is received from the remote application server. A data request authorization is received from the user to provide the user personal data, and the user personal data is provided to the remote application server in response to receiving the data request authorization. A system for aggregating and disseminating user personal data is further provided. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137818 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES - Systems and methods for recommending third party products and services. The method includes the steps of ranking the third party products and services based on one or more factors, and generating a user profile based on one or more user-related factors. Next, the method determined appropriate third party products and services based on the user's geographical location and filters the third party products and services based on the user profile and the user's geographical location. These filtered results are dynamically ranked based on the user profile, and personalization of the third party products and services. Finally, the method provides the ranked results pertinent to the end user's preferences, and the geographical location. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137819 | TOOL FOR CREATING AN INDUSTRY BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE MODEL - A system creates and maintains an industry business architecture model (IBAM) over a network. The IBAM has a component business model, process model, service model, and information model. It also may include a reference architecture, demos and other knowledge assets, and collateral. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137820 | GRAPHICAL MODEL-BASED DEBUGGING FOR BUSINESS PROCESSES - A system and method to for debugging a business process in a GUI are described. In various embodiments, breakpoints are attached to business process elements and business process context parameters are received after a breakpoint is reached. In various embodiments, commands are provided to navigate through a business process and explore elements of the business process. In various embodiments, temporary breakpoints are created to service some of the commands. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137821 | Calculating predictive technical indicators - A suite of predictions is defined to model the financial data commonly used to calculate technical indicators one or more periods in the future. Neural networks are trained to make these predictions. The predictions are then integrated with the standard technical indicator calculations to produce predictive technical indicators which are superior because they lead more and lag less. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137822 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED PATTERN CHARTING - A method of transforming the standard O.H.L.C. (open, high, low, close) bar chart into a new advanced chart that diagrams value changes occurring within the charted period, disclosing the sequence of occurrence of value extremes (highest price or value compared to lowest price or value) as well as the direction and momentum of value changes during the ending portion of the period. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137823 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING COLLABORATION BETWEEN ADVISORS AND CLIENTS - A common collaboration tool enables advisors, their clients and other participants to interact in a coordinated manner in various areas of interest. A client authorizes selected advisors as well as other participants to view, discuss, modify and perform other operations in response to the client's request for services. A client defines the scope of authorization for advisors and/or other participants for security and confidentiality reasons. Advisors (and/or participants) access information submitted (or authorized) by the client to collaborate as a cohesive team in sharing information, devising a plan, addressing client's concerns, drafting (or modifying) a document and performing other services for the client. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137824 | CREDIT PORTFOLIO BENCHMARKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A portfolio benchmarking system comprises a repository of trade data, a repository of consumer data, a build computer, and a benchmarking query application. The repository of trade data comprises a plurality of data items regarding trade lines. The repository of consumer data comprises a plurality of data items regarding consumers, wherein at least some information in the consumer data is not in the trade data and at least some information in the trade data is not in the consumer data. The build computer periodically generates at least one data file comprising a plurality of data items, each data item combining information from the trade data and the consumer data, such that searches can be performed on the combined data without joining trade data and consumer data at query run time. The benchmarking query application executes queries on the data file generated by the build computer. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137825 | HEDGING EXCHANGE TRADED MUTUAL FUND OR OTHER PORTFOLIO BASKET PRODUCTS - A system for pricing and/or determining a basket of financial instruments for hedging investment risk in actively managed traded funds is described. The system uses a trusted computer system and includes a computer storage medium storing a computer program product. The product determines a basket of hedging instruments by applying statistical or economic based factor analysis to estimate the NAV or provide a hedging basket to rack actual NAV of an actively managed traded fund. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137826 | SYNCHRONIZING A COST ESTIMATE ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for synchronizing a cost estimate on an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining an estimated usage by an electronic device. The method also includes obtaining an estimated rate. The method further includes estimating, on the electronic device, a bill for a period-to-date to produce an estimated bill. The method also includes determining, on the electronic device, whether to synchronize. The method further includes synchronizing, on the electronic device, the estimated bill using actual bill information for the period-to-date if it is determined to synchronize. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137827 | Irrigation water management system - The efficiency of an irrigation system on a property is determined as a difference between the actual water usage at a property and the irrigation water need of the plant on the property. Data for the property are received including at least the location and irrigation area of the property. A reference evapotranspiration value for the property is determined using the solar radiation data derived from the location of the property. The irrigation water need of the property is then calculated from the reference evapotranspiration value and area. The irrigation water need is compared to the actual water use at the property to determined the efficiency of the irrigation system operating thereon. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137828 | Method for Assessment of Force Properties Generated by the Fiber Tip - A method for assessment of force properties generated by the fiber tip of one or more fibers, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a fiber sample of one or more fibers, the fiber sample having a free portion and an end; (b) suspending the fiber sample over a tactile sensor at least 0.1 mm away in the vertical direction from the tactile sensor; wherein the fiber sample or the tactile sensor is connected to a means for vertically moving either the fiber sample or the tactile sensor toward each other; (c) surrounding the free portion of the fiber sample with a cover which surrounds the free portion over some length of the free portion and stably positioned; wherein the cover guides the direction of the free portion in a more or less vertical orientation through the steps hereof; (d) vertically moving the fiber sample or the tactile sensor such that the end of the fiber sample contacts the tactile sensor; (e) providing the tactile sensor with means for measuring the distribution of force vectors generated by the contact of the end of the fiber sample; and (f) assessing the force properties based on the distribution of force vectors. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137829 | Method for Selecting Neighborhoods of Training Points for Local Learning - A method selects a subset of training points near a query point from a set of training points. The subset of training points near the query point is determined from a the set of training points such that a cumulative similarity is maximized, wherein the cumulative similarity measures a similarity of the query point to each point in the subset and a similarity of points in the subset to each other. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137830 | FRAMEWORK FOR FINDING ONE OR MORE SOLUTIONS TO A PROBLEM - In an embodiment, information for use in identifying a plurality of sub-solvers may be acquired. The plurality of sub-solvers may be used in a first attempt to find at least one solution to a problem that may be defined in the acquired information. At least two of the sub-solvers in the plurality of sub-solvers may be of different sub-solver types. The sub-solvers may be identified based on the acquired information. One or more starting points for the identified sub-solvers may be identified and transferred to the identified sub-solvers. One or more outputs, that indicate one or more results associated with the first attempt to find at least one solution to the problem, may be acquired from the identified sub-solvers. One or more sub-solvers may be identified, based on the acquired one or more outputs, for use in a second attempt to find at least one solution to the problem. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137831 | LEARNING APPARATUS, LEARNING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A learning apparatus includes: an interpolating section which interpolates data missing in time series data; an estimating section which estimates a Hidden Markov Model from the time series data; and a likelihood calculating section which calculates the likelihood of the estimated Hidden Markov Model. The likelihood calculating section calculates the likelihood for normal data which does not have missing data and the likelihood for interpolation data which is interpolated data in different conditions and calculates the likelihood of the Hidden Markov Model for the time series data in which the data is interpolated. The estimating section updates the Hidden Markov Model so that the likelihood calculated by the likelihood calculating section becomes high. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137832 | RELATIONAL BAYESIAN MODELING FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE - The present invention provides a language, method and system to formulate and evaluate relational Bayesian networks in an e-commerce environment. The present invention employs a specific language for constructing synthetic variables used to predict events in the Bayesian networks. The present system and language allow for efficient and accurate representation, inference, and discovery of the synthetic variables used to model web visitor behavior. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137833 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - The data processing apparatus includes a state series generation unit and a computing unit. The state series generation unit generates a time series data of state nodes from a time series data of event. The state transition model of the event is expressed as a stochastic state transition model. The computing unit computes the parameters for the stochastic state transition model of events by computing parameters of time series data corresponding to an appearance frequency of the state nodes, the appearance frequency of transitions among the state nodes and the like. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137834 | LEARNING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PREDICTION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A learning apparatus includes: a location acquiring section for acquiring time series data on locations of a user; a time acquiring section for acquiring time series data on times; and learning section for learning an activity model indicating an activity state of the user as a probabilistic state transition model, using the respective acquired time series data on the locations and the times as an input. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137835 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes an acquisition unit acquiring a viewing log including information representing content of an operation for viewing content and time of the operation, a learning unit learning, based on the viewing log acquired by the acquisition unit, a viewing behavior model which is a stochastic state transition model representing a viewing behavior of a user, a recognition unit recognizing, using the viewing behavior model obtained through learning by the learning unit, a current viewing state of the user, a prediction unit predicting, using the viewing behavior model, the viewing behavior of the user after a predetermined period of time with the current viewing state of the user recognized by the recognition unit as a starting point, and a display control unit displaying information relating to content predicted to be viewed through the viewing behavior predicted by the prediction unit. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137836 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING HISTORY OF BEHAVIOR - Disclosed are method and system for generating history of behavior that is capable of simplifying input of a behavior content of a human behavior pattern determined from data measured by a sensor. A computer obtains biological information measured by a sensor which is mounted to a person and accumulates the biological information, obtains motion frequencies from the accumulated biological information, obtains time-series change points of the motion frequencies, extracts a period between the change points as a scene which is a period of being in the state of an identical motion, compares the motion frequencies with a preset condition for each extracted scene and identifies the action contents in the scene, estimates the behavior content performed by the person in the scene on the basis of the appearance sequence of the action contents, and generates the history of the behaviors on the basis of the estimated behavior contents. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137837 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus that prepares a processing method for data, that calculates an evaluation value of output data obtained in a case data is processed by the prepared processing method, by using an evaluator for calculating the evaluation value from the data, the evaluator being automatically created by using a plurality of data sets including data and an evaluation value of the data and performing a learning process based on a genetic algorithm, that repeatedly updates the processing method and calculates a processing method by which the evaluation value to be calculated will be higher, and that outputs, in a case the evaluation value of output data obtained in a case data is processed by the calculated processing method satisfies a predetermined condition, the output data, a combination of the output data and the processing method, or the processing method. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137838 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, OBSERVATION VALUE PREDICTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a predictor construction unit that creates, by machine learning based on a genetic algorithm and by combining processing functions prepared in advance, a plurality of feature quantity extraction formulae for extracting, from an observation value observed before a predetermined time, feature quantities of the observation value, and creates a prediction formula for predicting an observation value at the predetermined time based on the feature quantities calculated by the plurality of feature quantity extraction formulae, and a prediction unit that predicts an observation value at a time t from an observation value observed before the time t, by using the prediction formula created by the predictor construction unit. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137839 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR APPLYING GENETIC OPERATORS TO DETERMINE SYSTEM CONDITIONS - Disclosed are methods, systems, and/or processor program products that include generating a population of genotypes, the genotypes based on at least one stimulus to a system, measuring at least one response of the system upon providing the population of genotypes to at least one model of the system, and, based on the measured at least one response of the system, performing at least one of: (a) applying at least one genetic operator to at least some of the population of genotypes, and iteratively returning to generating a population of genotypes, and (b) associating a condition of the system with at least one of the population of genotypes. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137840 | COMPREHENSIVE IDENTITY PROTECTION SYSTEM - A system and method for protecting identity fraud are disclosed. A system includes a detection subsystem to identify applications and/or accounts at risk of identity fraud, and a disposition subsystem to process data provided by the detection system and to determine whether identity fraud exists in the applications and/or accounts. According to an implementation, one or more neural network models are defined, each neural network model being configured to handle a class of cases related to the subject and a specific data configuration describing a case of the class. The one or more neural network models are run to generate data requests about the subject's identity, and the data requests are passed to a detection system that monitor transactions associated with the subject. Additional data associated with the transactions is requested until a threshold certainty is achieved or until available data or models are exhausted. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137841 | SAMPLE CLASS PREDICTION METHOD, PREDICTION PROGRAM, AND PREDICTION APPARATUS - To predict the class of an unknown sample, a) a discriminant function for assigning each training sample to class 1 or class 2 is obtained, b) the discriminant score of each training sample and an unknown sample are calculated using the function, c) it is determined whether the score of the unknown sample is either not smaller than the largest score or not larger than the smallest score taken among all of the training samples, d) if the determination in c) is affirmative, the class of the unknown sample is determined based on the score of the unknown sample, e) if the determination in c) is negative, then the training samples having the largest score and the smallest score are removed to form a new training sample set from remaining training samples, and f) a) to e) are repeated. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137842 | METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING A TREE OF LINEAR CLASSIFIERS TO PREDICT A QUANTITATIVE VARIABLE - A method for using predictive modeling of a physical process in order to determine and implement a solution to the physical process. The method includes analyzing the physical process to determine the relevant physical relationships, observations, data, and outcome probabilities associated with the physical relationships of the physical process, and storing representations of the relevant physical relationships, observations, data and outcome probabilities in a memory of a computer. The method also includes recursively analyzing the stored representations by the computer, and generating at least one tree structure that models the physical process, the tree structure including at least one root node, a plurality of decision nodes, and a plurality of end nodes. The method further includes partitioning observations at each decision node into probable outcomes using target partitioning, generating a plurality of other decision nodes based on the target partitioning, determining a solution to the physical process based on criterion variables, by the computer using the tree structure of the physical process to arrive at an end node, and implementing a physical solution to the physical process. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137843 | Circuits and Methods Representative of Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity of Neurons - A neuromorphic circuit performs functions representative of spiking timing dependent plasticity of a synapse. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137844 | Avatar-Based Technical Networking System - A virtual technical networking architecture is disclosed that allows a user to locate resources, seek expertise and collaborate with identified experts located within a virtual city in order to mentor, teach and resolve problems or fill a need. The virtual city offers a gaming technology environment to users, wherein the users and experts are depicted as avatars within the virtual city and different levels of expertise and different affiliations are identified by different avatar accessories. The virtual city connects users for learning and problem resolution and also recognizes the accomplishments of experts and memorializes these accomplishments in the virtual city. Accordingly, an entire city of experts in a wide variety of fields can be built, that brings large groups of people and resources together for intellectual capital and knowledge management. The virtual city can then be used to educate, train and disseminate information. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137845 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REAL TIME SEMANTIC FILTERING OF POSTS TO AN INTERNET SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and apparatus for real time processing for mediating Social Media posts to a Social Media Network wherein a Semantic Filter Algorithm is provided. The Semantic Filter Algorithm is an application of Shannon's Entropy algorithm that functions to assess comparative contextual relationships between linguistic signifiers in a multiple of databases. Social Media posts are received by the Social Media Network and are automatically directed to Semantic filtering in multi-passes through the Semantic Filter Algorithm. The posts are automatically processed and an output is generated. Responsive to the output the posts are automatically allocated according to category and prioritized. Metatags are attached to the posts to control further processing regarding the various categories. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137846 | UBIQUITOUS MONITORING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF PERFORMING INTEGRAL MONITORING FOR SMART OBJECTS - There is provided a ubiquitous monitoring system comprising a plurality of sensing nodes; one or more monitoring agents receiving and transmitting sensing data of the sensing nodes; a monitoring module receiving the sensing data from the one or more monitoring agents and managing the sensing data for each type and time; an analysis module deducing one of function information, performance information, and status information for each of smart objects in a ubiquitous space, based on the sensing data, deducing one of function information, performance information, and status information of a ubiquitous service performed by coupled smart objects, and transmitting a result of deduction; and a monitoring viewer displaying the result of deduction to a user. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137847 | CAUSAL MODELING FOR ESTIMATING OUTCOMES ASSOCIATED WITH DECISION ALTERNATIVES - A method and system for estimating potential future outcomes resulting from decision alternatives is presented to enable lenders to make lending related decisions. The estimation is based on a propensity score variable that encompasses an effect of multiple covariates associated with one or more individuals for whom the estimation is being performed. For consistency with empirical testing, the estimation approach assumes conditions of unconfoundedness and localized common support. According to the unconfoundedness assumption, for a given variable, the potential outcomes are conditionally independent of the decision alternatives. According to the localized common support assumption, an overlap is ensured between individual accounts that are categorized together as potentially having the same future outcome. The outcomes and an effect (e.g. comparison) of the outcomes may be displayed graphically. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137848 | GENERAL PREDICTION MARKET - Methods evaluating propositions about timeseries are provided. A service accepts a proposition about one or more timeseries, and the service monitors those timeseries. A proposition can reference multiple timeseries with different time intervals and different units. When new data is available, the service evaluates the proposition to determine if the proposition is true, false, or neither. The service automatically performs unit conversions and selects relevant, previously observed values before evaluating a proposition when new data is available. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137849 | Adaptive Experimentation Method and System - A computer-implemented adaptive experimentation method and system is described that automatically selects and executes information gathering actions. The adaptive experimentation method and system integrates value of information considerations, experimental design, and inferences from experimental results. The experimental results may include behaviors of users of a computer-based system. The process enables an automatic, adaptive process for attaining additional information and applying the attained information in making subsequent experiment decisions. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137850 | VISUALIZATION RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON MEASURE METADATA - A system includes reception of metadata associated with one or more measures, determination of a compatibility of the two or more measures based on the metadata, and determination of a first score associated with a first visualization based on the compatibility. Some aspects include determination of a second score associated with a second visualization based on the compatibility, comparison of the first score and the second score, and recommendation of one of the first visualization or the second visualization based on the comparison. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137851 | BIOMARKERS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING AND MONITORING INFLAMMATORY DISEASE ACTIVITY - Biomarkers useful for diagnosing and assessing inflammatory disease are provided, along with kits for measuring their expression. The invention also provides predictive models, based on the biomarkers, as well as computer systems, and software embodiments of the models for scoring and optionally classifying samples. The biomarkers include at least two biomarkers selected from the DAIMRK group and the score is a disease activity index (DAI). | 2011-06-09 |
20110137852 | Sepsis Monitoring and Control - A computer-implemented sepsis alerting method is disclosed. The method involves automatically extracting with a computer system, from records maintained for a patient under care in a healthcare facility, information from a electronic medical record, and obtaining with the computer system information about real-time status of the patient. The method also involves using the information from the electronic medical record and the information about the real-time status to determine whether the patient is likely to be suffering from dangerous probability of sepsis, using information from the electronic medical record to determine whether treatment for sepsis is already being provided to the patient, and electronically alerting a caregiver over a network if it is determined that a potentially dangerous level of sepsis exists and that treatment for sepsis is not already being provided. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137853 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REPORTING A CAUSE OF AN EVENT OR EQUIPMENT STATE USING CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP MODELS IN A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A computerized method for evaluating and reporting a cause of a performance change in a building management system is shown and described. The method includes receiving an indication of a fault for building equipment of the building management system and determining a root cause for the fault by traversing a causal relationship model including the building equipment and other devices of the building management system. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137854 | SYSTEM FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF FILES - The invention concerns a system and a procedure for the administration of files by using electronical data processing equipment that are connected with each other by a network. In order to provide a unitary system to solve all modern office- and communication tasks instead of using a multitude of programs, systems and devices, it is suggested with the invention that at least one data processing installation features a user-related container file system whose function is based on the fact that the files of a particular user are collected into one single data file, wherein the access to the files of the data file occurs depending on access rights and wherein an automatic comparison of the data files with a replica existent within the system is being performed. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137855 | MUSIC RECOGNITION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON SOCIALIZED MUSIC SERVER - A music recognition method and system for retrieving metadata based on content associated with a media file. The system includes a music recognition plug-in module associated with a music management unit that communicates with a centralized music repository. The unknown media file may be scanned for collecting a snippet and sent to the music repository in response to a user request for identifying metadata associated with the unknown media file. The music management unit responds to the user with a matching set of standardized metadata, one or more potentially matching sets of data, or an indication that no match is made. The unidentified media file can be made available to the user via a Web interface associated with a socialized music server in order to populate the repository with the standardized metadata. A rating indicative of the user response to identify the metadata associated with the unknown media file can be provided in order to attract the user to contribute for the unknown media file identification. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137856 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AGGREGATING AND TRANSLATING REAL-TIME USER INFORMATION TO UPDATE SOCIAL NETWORK PROFILES - A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for automatically updating social network profiles are disclosed. For example, the method receives one or more inputs from a subscriber, processes the one or more inputs in accordance with a policy defined by the subscriber to produce an update about the subscriber and publishes the update about the subscriber on one or more social network profiles associated with the subscriber. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137857 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus includes a creating unit that creates a plurality of files different in file format from identical setting information stored in a storage unit of the apparatus, a receiving unit that receives at least one of the created plurality of files, a determination unit that determines a file to be used among the plurality of received files according to at least one of the file formats of the plurality of files and dates of updates of the plurality of files, and an updating unit that updates the stored setting information using the determined file. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137858 | HARMONIZING WEBPAGE INFORMATION - A descriptive webpage about an entity is harmonized with other electronically published information about the entity. A descriptive webpage, which includes an entity profile about an entity, is located. Other electronically published information about the entity is retrieved. The descriptive webpage is harmonized with the other electronically published information by updating the entity profile with the other electronically published information about the entity. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137859 | Staged Data Conversion - A device to convert data from a first format to a second format includes a conversion module and a synchronization module. The conversion module converts first production data from the first format to the second format. The synchronization module incrementally loads second production data to the first production data to generate finalized production data. The finalized production data is in the second format. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137860 | Method for providing managing function of storage service - A method for providing a managing function of the storage service is disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, since a console database is synchronized with at least a portion of a catalog database, both a function that is provided by a storage manager and an additional function that is not provided by the storage manager may be provided to refer only the console database. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137861 | Methods for Achieving Efficient Coherent Access to Data in a Cluster of Data Processing Computing Nodes - A coherency manager provides coherent access to shared data by receiving a copy of updated database data from a host computer through RDMA, the copy including updates to a given database data; storing the copy of the updated database data as a valid copy of the given database data in local memory; invalidating local copies of the given database data on other host computers through RDMA; receiving acknowledgements from the other host computers through RDMA that the local copies of the given database data have been invalidated; and sending an acknowledgement of receipt of the copy of the updated database data to the host computer through RDMA. When the coherency manager receives a request for the valid copy of the given database data from a host computer through RDMA, it retrieves the valid copy of the given database data from the local memory and returns the valid copy through RDMA. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137862 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PARALLEL EDIT TO EDITABLE OBJECTS - Apparatus holds a replica of the original object that is editable by apparatuses equivalent to a computer. The apparatus creates a packet of editorial contents to the replica, send the packet to a server or other apparatuses, and receives a packet of editorial contents to another replica held by another apparatus. The apparatus judges an order of packets by information from a server, and updates the replica by each packet. When apparatuses use same initial replicas, same sequence of packets and same updating procedure, replicas of them synchronize each other on common axis that is a sequence of packets. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137863 | STORAGE SYSTEM, NAS SERVER AND SNAPSHOT ACQUISITION METHOD - A storage system including: a storage device for storing a file; a plurality of file systems for managing the file; and a plurality of NAS servers that control access from a client to the file systems via a global namespace formed by grouping local namespaces for the one or more file systems; wherein, each NAS server includes a memory to store global namespace management information including global paths of the file systems; one NAS server of the NAS servers accepts a request to obtain snapshots of the file systems from external of the storage system; the one NAS server instructs itself and the other NAS servers to obtain snapshots of the file systems; the one NAS server and the other NAS servers obtain the snapshots of the file systems, and inform the one NAS server of snapshot identifiers and of local paths of the snapshots; the one NAS server makes snapshot management information including global paths of the snapshots based on each of the snapshot identifiers received from the other NAS servers and each of the global paths of file systems corresponding to the snapshots, included in the namespace management information so that both the global paths of the file systems and the global paths of the snapshots are configured on the same global namespace simultaneously, with a directory configuration of the snapshots being same in configuration layout as a directory configuration of the file systems; and the one NAS server informs the other NAS servers of the snapshot management information. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137864 | HIGH THROUGHPUT, RELIABLE REPLICATION OF TRANSFORMED DATA IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Provided are techniques for, in response to a source object being changed by a local transaction, generating log records, wherein each of the log records includes a sequence identifier, a source system entity modification timestamp, a target key, a target partition identifier, and values of source properties, wherein the source properties are identified using a target key indicator. The log records to process are selected based on a phase value of each log record, wherein the phase value is one of submitted, in-flight, and source system entity state change complete. One or more disjoint partitions are assigned to each of multiple processing instances. Under control of each of the multiple processing instances, it is determined whether to transmit a log record in the one or more disjoint partitions assigned to said processing instance and, in response to determining that the log record is to be transmitted, the log record is transmitted. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137865 | Method for managing storage service - A method for managing a storage service wherein checking and updating a result of a backup task are facilitated by analyzing a backup end log. In accordance with the method, the result of the backup task is determined by comparing the parameter of the backup end log with that of the backup script and is updated based on user input to obtain reliable statistics of the backup task. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137866 | Method for generating backup script - A method for generating a backup script is disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, since the backup script is generated using a backup script generating logic, errors in the backup script may be reduced, and the backup script may be easily modified or complemented even if administrative policies or users are changed. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137867 | Storage system and control method for the same - When updating the data in each generation's logical units, the snapshot processing unit writes the update data in accordance with the update as forward differential data | 2011-06-09 |
20110137868 | STORAGE SWITCH AND STORAGE AREA SIZE CHANGE METHOD - A storage switch includes: a section | 2011-06-09 |
20110137869 | FLEXIBLE DATA ARCHIVAL USING A MODEL-DRIVEN APPROACH - The present invention provides a system and methods for flexible data archival using a model-driven approach. The data archive system and method of the present invention provides the operation of moving data from original data repository into archive data repository. Users can specify archive conditions describing which portions of the data will be moved. The method may have steps such as analyzing application content, defining an archive model, transforming the model by generating an archive specification based upon the modeling result and building an application based upon the archive model and deploying the new model and archive application. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137870 | Optimizing Data Storage Among a Plurality of Data Storage Repositories - Machines and methods for optimizing data storage among a plurality of data storage repositories are provided. The method comprises processing a data request submitted for storing data on one or more data storage mediums; determining whether duplicate copies of the data are to be maintained on more than one storage medium so that established quality of service requirements are met; and managing duplicate copies of the data on said one or more data storage mediums to meet the established quality of service requirements while servicing the data request. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137871 | PATTERN-BASED AND RULE-BASED DATA ARCHIVE MANAGER - The present invention relates to a method or system of data archival using a pattern-based and rule-based data archive manager for a flexible, generic archive solution. The method and system allow for the user to create rules and allow for the system to archive based upon those rules input by the user and to select data to be archived against the facts about the data. The system has a rule based data archive manager having a pattern matcher, a decision scheduler and a rule executor, a fact meta-data storage for storing facts, and a rule library storage for storing user input data about rules. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137872 | MODEL-DRIVEN DATA ARCHIVAL SYSTEM HAVING AUTOMATED COMPONENTS - The present invention relates to a method or system of data archival using model-driven and automated components. It provides a data archiving solution by using model-driven, automated components, such as a transformation component, for a flexible, generic data archive solution. Other components may include a testing component for testing the data archive, a deploying component for deploying the data archive specification model and a feedback component for receiving archive results, observing the archive results and feeding back the archive results for archive model optimization. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137873 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PROFILING DATA FOR INTEGRATION - The present invention is generally directed to systems and methods for gathering information about nonnative data, comparing nonnative data elements to information defining nonnative data, comparing native data elements to information defining native data, establishing transformation rules, and integrating the nonnative and native data. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137874 | Methods to Minimize Communication in a Cluster Database System - An ordering of operations in log records includes: performing update operations on a shared database object by a node; writing log records for the update operations into a local buffer by the node, the log records each including a local virtual timestamp; determining that a log flush to write the log records in the local buffer to a persistent storage is to be performed; in response, sending a request from the node to a log flush sequence server for a log flush sequence number; receiving the log flush sequence number by the node; inserting the log flush sequence number into the log records in the local buffer; and performing the log flush to write the log records in the local buffer to the persistent storage, where the log records written to the persistent storage comprises the local virtual timestamps and the log flush sequence number. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137875 | INCREMENTAL MATERIALIZED VIEW REFRESH WITH ENHANCED DML COMPRESSION - An incremental refresh of a materialized view may be simplified, and therefore made more cost efficient, by reducing the number of DML operations being merged with the materialized view during the incremental refresh. Specifically, subsequences of sequences of data manipulation language operations that have been recorded for a particular row of a base table may be inspected to determine whether the subsequences conform to particular patterns of data manipulation language operator types. If a subsequence conforms to one of the particular patterns, the subsequence may be replaced with a single substitute: either a single data manipulation language operation, or null. Refresh operations that are generated based on the simplified sequences of data manipulation language operations are more simple, and therefore, less costly to perform. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137876 | DATA QUALITY ENHANCEMENT FOR SMART GRID APPLICATIONS - A method, in one embodiment, can include encoding knowledge about a topic domain into a data modeling technique. Additionally, a set of candidate conditional functional dependencies can be generated based on a data set of the topic domain. Moreover, the set of candidate conditional functional dependencies and the data modeling technique encoded with the topic domain knowledge can be applied to the data set to obtain a plurality of data quality rules for the data set. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137877 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND MANAGING PERSONALIZED SERVICES IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus for creating and managing personalized services includes: a pre-processing unit for converting vendor- and device-specific sensor data into a normalized form; an analysis unit for determining a current state of entities being managed based on the normalized sensor data to thereby determine whether current services and/or resources that have been allocated to a user are being satisfied or not; and a personalization unit for examining state-related context data to determine what action to take. The personalization of the services and/or resources provided to a user or set of users is managed by context-sensitive policy rules. In addition, a set of abstractions, in the form of preferences, profiles, and subscriptions, are collectively used to determine the set of services and/or resources, as a function of context, that a user or set of users are entitled to receive. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137878 | Data Consistency Validation - An entity to be validated for consistency is loaded into the buffer of the consistency service, a signal to verify the existence of a specific data set of an IT system is then sent by the consistency service to the IT system holding the entity to be validated for consistency, and the consistency validating information is stored in the output means, said consistency validating information depending on the signal being sent back to the consistency service. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137879 | DISTRIBUTED LOCK ADMINISTRATION - Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to grant a renewable lease synchronization lock to a node for a file having copies distributed among a group of nodes that is unsynchronized and for which no write lock has already been granted. The synchronization lock disables modification of the file, and enables synchronization of a file copy on the requesting node to a synchronization master copy on another node in the group. A renewable lease write lock can be granted to a node in the group when the file is synchronized and when the write lock has not already been granted. The write lock disables granting the synchronization lock, and enables file modification. The synchronization lock and write lock are maintained until their respective leases expire. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137880 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING A DATABASE - A GUI (Graphical User Interface) is used to display items at a user terminal. Each item is user selectable and representative of a search category. A user selects one of the items to generate a query with no other user input required to generate the query. The query includes an identifier of the selected search category and a location identifier. A search for elements associated with the selected category are is performed. A geographical area is defined using the location identifier and a determination is made as to which elements are within the geographical area. The elements that are within the geographical area are then sent to the user terminal. The elements may contain information on establishments such addresses and contact information together with a distance from a central position. In some implementations, the elements are displayed in ascending order of distance of respective establishments from the central position. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137881 | Location-Based Searching - In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and programs for providing location-based information. A geographical location of a mobile computing device is received at a server system. A request for content is received at the server system and from the mobile computing device. A search area that corresponds to the geographical location is selected by the sever system. The search area is selected from among a collection of search areas that correspond to the geographical location. At least one of the search areas in the collection is geographically nested within at least one other of the search areas. A search result that is most-relevantly ranked for the selected search area is determined by the server system. Content that represents the determined search result is provided by the server system and for receipt by the mobile computing device. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137882 | Search Engine Device and Methods Thereof - A search engine is operable to receive keyword information and semantic information that gives meaning and context to the keyword information. The search engine searches a keyword database with the keyword information to determine a set of links to web pages. The search engine also searches a semantic database with the semantic information, and ranks the set of web links based on the search. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137883 | COMPARATIVE WEB SEARCH SYSTEM - A system and method for a comparative web search engines, search result summarization, web snippet processing, comparison analysis, information visualization, meta-clustering, and quantitative evaluation of web snippet quality are disclosed. The present application extends the capabilities of web searching and informational retrieval by providing a succinct comparative summary of search results at either the object or thematic levels. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137884 | TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATICALLY INTEGRATING SEARCH FEATURES WITHIN AN APPLICATION - Techniques for automatically integrating search features within an application are provided. Text is collected and used as a background search while a user enters the text into an application for purposes of acquiring related results. The related results are obtained from previous information entered by the user or received by the user within the application. Moreover, the related results are dynamically presented in a portion of the application as the user continues to enter the text into another and different portion of the application. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137885 | Adaptive Selection of a Search Engine on a Wireless Communication Device - A wireless communication device communicates with a web site over an established communication link. The device includes a controller that automatically detects whether the website provides a search engine for use by a user. If the web site provides search engine, a controller at the device configures an adaptive, context-sensitive search function of the browser to receive user input, and to perform a search based on the user input. A user interface includes a display to display the results of the search. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137886 | Data-Centric Search Engine Architecture - Described is a data-centric web search engine technology/architecture, in which document metadata, including offline-extracted metadata, is used as part of a search indexing and ranking pipeline. A web data management component receives crawled documents and extracts document metadata from the documents. An indexing component uses the document metadata to build an index for the documents. A serving component uses the index and the document metadata to serve content, e.g., search results. Also described is the use of query metadata extracted from queries of a query log for use in the pipeline. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137887 | Constraint Processing - Constraint processing for a relational database generates primary (e.g., based on primary key values) and constraint index records (e.g., based on foreign key values) during table load operations that are then sorted in a manner that rapidly and unambiguously identifies rows that fail the specified constraint test. Rows so identified may be deleted to maintain the constraint (e.g., referential) integrity of a child table. In one case, child table row data may be processed in constraint key order, eliminating the need first load the child table with row data and then delete those rows that subsequently fail the integrity test. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137888 | INTELLIGENT CACHING FOR REQUESTS WITH QUERY STRINGS - An intelligent caching system is described herein that intelligently consolidates the name-value pairs in content requests containing query strings so that only substantially non-redundant responses are cached, thereby saving cache proxy resources. The intelligent caching system determines which name-value pairs in the query string can affect the redundancy of the content response and which name-value pairs can be ignored. The intelligent caching system organically builds the list of relevant name-value pairs by relying on a custom response header or other indication from the content server. Thus, the intelligent caching system results in fewer requests to the content server as well as fewer objects in the cache. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137889 | System and Method for Prioritizing Data Storage and Distribution - Various systems and methods for prioritizing data storage and distribution by a data prioritizer device are provided. For example, the data prioritizer device may receive from a consumer a registration that includes one or more record identifiers, which identify one or more data records in which the consumer is interested. The data prioritizer device may receive from a producer a data record identified by a record identifier and store the data record when the record identifier is among the one or more record identifiers, thereby storing the data record when the consumer has indicated an interest in the data record. The data prioritizer device may queue the data record in a consumer queue allocated for the consumer and provide the data record to the consumer from the consumer queue. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137890 | Join Order for a Database Query - In an embodiment, a portion of the execution plan is executed to produce a portion of records in a partial result set. If a first join of a table is performed that eliminates more than a first threshold number of records from the partial result set, a determination is made whether an estimated cost of a forced primary join is less than an estimated cost of a star join. If the estimated cost of the forced primary join is less than the estimated cost of the star join, then the table is moved first in a join order in the execution plan, the portion of the records in the partial result set is discarded, and the execution is re-started with a different portion of the execution plan to produce a different portion of the records. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137891 | CLIENT AND DATABASE PROBLEM DETERMINATION AND MONITORING - Provided are techniques for collecting client information for client applications running on a client computer, wherein the client information includes a client application identifier for each client application that issues queries to a database along with text of each of the queries that the client application issues; collecting database monitoring information that includes text of each query issued against the database and performance information for each query; combining the client information and the database monitoring information based on the text of the queries to obtain combined information that provides the client application identifier and the performance information for each of the queries; and identifying a problem query and at least one client application that has issued the problem query using the combined information. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137892 | Process, Program and Apparatus for Displaying an Assembly of Objects of a PLM Database - This invention is directed to a process, computer program and apparatus for displaying an assembly of objects of a product lifecycle management database. The method according to the invention aims at providing an access to the database, selecting the assembly of objects in the database, identifying a plurality of viewpoints on said assembly, retrieving from the database a set of objects of said assembly according to the plurality of identified viewpoints, computing a model of said assembly for all the retrieved objects of the set of objects, and displaying a view of the model, any displayed views being computed locally starting from the objects retrieved at the retrieving step. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137893 | CUSTOM RANKING MODEL SCHEMA - A customizable ranking model of a search engine using custom ranking model configuration and parameters of a pre-defined human-readable format. The architecture can employ a markup language schema to represent the custom ranking model. In one implementation, the schema developed utilizes XML (extensible markup language) for representing the custom ranking model. Weights for dynamic and static relevance ingredients can be altered per ranking model and new relevance ingredients can be added. Additionally, features are provided for improving relevance such as adding terms to a thesaurus for synonym expansion, for example, the ability to deal with single terms either as compounds, and/or using custom word breaking rules. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137894 | CONCURRENTLY PRESENTED DATA SUBFEEDS - When presenting a news feed (e.g., statuses of contacts in a social media network), it may be inefficient to display the data items in a single column according to a single filter, such as a designated group of contacts. Rather, from the data feed, a set of at least two data subfeeds may be generated based on different filters, and the at least two data subfeeds may be currently presented to the user (e.g., as two or more vertically aligned columns, each presenting a different set of data items based on a different filter.) The user may prefer the concurrent presentation due to the contextual separation of the data items according to different filters, and may more easily administrate the filters and groupings; e.g., dragging data items from one column to another column may alter the filters to achieve a more preferred sorting of data items in future presentations. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137895 | Hybrid Use of Location Sensor Data and Visual Query to Return Local Listings for Visual Query - A visual query is received from a client system, along with location information for the client system, and processed by a server system. The server system sends the visual query and the location information to a visual query search system, and receives from the visual query search system enhanced location information based on the visual query and the location information. The server system then sends a search query, including the enhanced location information, to a location-based search system. The search system receives and provides to the client one or more search results to the client system. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137896 | Information processing apparatus, predictive conversion method, and program - Provided is an information processing apparatus including an input portion, a metadata acquiring portion, a data forming portion, and a predictive converting portion. The input portion receives selection of content from a user. The metadata acquiring portion acquires metadata including a word indicative of information concerning the content whose selection was received by the input portion. The data forming portion extracts the word from the acquired metadata and forms predictive conversion data for each of the words. The predictive converting portion carries out predictive conversion of a word with respect to input data from the user using the formed predictive conversion data. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137897 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA ANALYSIS - A method for data analysis according to various aspects of the present invention generally includes selecting a conclusion from a plurality of conclusions for one or more test data sets by generating discriminators from one or more threshold indicators associated with the conclusion, selecting a portion of the discriminators, ranking the discriminators in a sequence, and applying the sequence of discriminators to one or more test data sets to select the conclusion. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137898 | UNSTRUCTURED DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION - A document classification method comprises: (i) classifying pages of an input document to generate page classifications; (ii) aggregating the page classifications to generate an input document representation, the aggregating not being based on ordering of the pages; and (iii) classifying the input document based on the input document representation. A page classifier for use in the page classifying operation (i) is trained based on pages of a set of labeled training documents having document classification labels. In some such embodiments, the pages of the set of labeled training documents are not labeled, and the page classifier training comprises: clustering pages of the set of labeled training documents to generate page clusters; and generating the page classifier based on the page clusters. | 2011-06-09 |
20110137899 | PARTITIONED LIST - Initial items can be partitioned into a plurality of partitions. The partitions can be stored in a partitioned list in computer storage. An index to the partitions can be generated. One or more initial items can be invalidated, and additional items can be appended to the partitioned list in a storage space previously occupied by the invalidated initial items. The index can be updated to omit references to the invalidated items, and to include references to the additional items. Also, a slice of an application call tree can be generated from a partition loaded into memory from a log. A representation of the slice can be displayed on a computer display, even before the entire application call tree is generated from the log. | 2011-06-09 |