31st week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 64 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140214788 | ANALYZING UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORS - Methods for analyzing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and apparatus for performing such methods. The methods include parsing the URL into text segments and generating n-grams from the text segments. The methods further include generating annotations, each annotation corresponding to one of the n-grams and comprising a match value for its corresponding n-gram, a description of its match value, and a score. The methods still further include selecting a subset of the annotations. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214789 | CALCULATING A CONTENT SUBSET - A method for calculating a content subset can include crawling a number of webpages for content, determining a relevance to a particular domain of the content, determining a penalty value for each of the number of webpages; and calculating, utilizing a data tree-based model, a subset of the content to analyze based on the relevance and the penalty value. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214790 | ENHANCING SITELINKS WITH CREATIVE CONTENT - Methods and systems for enhancing online content with creative text relevant to the online content are provided. A plurality of candidate sitelinks is identified in response to a user search for online content. Each sitelink has associated with it a plurality of candidate creatives with which the sitelink may be presented to the user. The creatives are canonicalized to form clusters of candidate creatives. The sitelinks are also canonicalized. The creatives are matched to the candidate canonicalized sitelinks so as to provide enhanced sitelinks having increased relevance to the user search. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214791 | GEOTILES FOR FINDING RELEVANT RESULTS FROM A GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED SET - Architecture that utilizes geotiles to return locally relevant results across a geographically distributed set of locations. As applied to retail operations the business entity may have a retail presence in many different geographical areas (e.g., regions) of a country. Each retail presence is processed to obtain the associated geographical coordinates, which are then utilized to select one or more geotiles of a mapping system. The geotile(s) for those geographical coordinates are than identified and related to the location. The business entity may be associated with a deal (offer) that is queried using a search engine. The relationships of the deal, retail stores, geographical coordinates of the retail stores, and related geotiles are memorialized in a feed document. Thus, when a query is made for the deal, the search engine accesses the feed document and returns the geotiles for visual presentation of the associated retailer as part of the search result. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214792 | IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHODS THEREOF - Embodiments of a method and apparatus of image search are provided. An exemplary method of image search includes: receiving a request and returning a web page, where the returned web page allows uploading an image and adding annotation content for the image; receiving and storing the image and the annotation content for the image; and providing the annotation content for the image as a search index to an image search engine. Using the disclosed method and server, more searches related to information in an image can be provided. Moreover, because more information related to merchandise in an image can be provided to a viewer, it is believed that more online transactions can be facilitated. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214793 | Cost-Effective Data Layout Optimization Over Heterogeneous Storage Classes - A system to optimize layout of database objects in a relational database management system stored on a plurality of storage classes each characterized by a price and a storage capacity includes a time-based query optimizer and a layout recommender coupled to the time-based query optimizer to estimate a total cost of operation (TCO) for a query workload on each data layout. The layout recommender includes an auxiliary object selection comprising database objects that include auxiliary objects that are optional to place with auxiliary object candidates being given from an auxiliary object recommender component. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214794 | JOIN OPERATION PARTITIONING - Partitioned join operations are performed between a first database object and a second database object by determining an agent group for an agent in response to the agent receiving rows of the second database object to process; partitioning the rows to determine a target hash table for each row and adding the partitioned rows to work to be performed by the agent group; and distributing the work for the group to agents of the group by assigning to a single agent all the rows associated with a particular hash table to perform a join operation on the assigned rows. Each partition is assigned a first counter value indicating an upper bound of a task id range that is most recently assigned to an agent in the agent group for processing, and a second counter value indicating the highest task id that has been processed for that partition. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214795 | DYNAMICALLY DETERMINING JOIN ORDER - A weight is determined for each of a plurality of join predicates for a join between one or more first database objects and one or more second database objects based on a join selectivity for each of the plurality of join predicates. The plurality of join predicates are sorted based on the determined weights. The join operation is performed joining the one or more first database objects with the one or more second database objects in accordance with an order of the sorted plurality of join predicates. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214796 | EFFICIENT JOIN WITH ONE OR MORE LARGE DIMENSION TABLES - Embodiments of the invention relate to processing queries that utilize fact and/or dimension tables. In one aspect, a pre-join filtering phase precedes a star join. The necessary conditions for the pre-join filtering are considered for a given SQL query, including an estimated size of the hash table exceeding a threshold and presence of a local predicate either on the fact table or one or more dimension tables that is not a large dimension table. Once the necessary conditions are satisfied, the execution of the query exploits the pre-join filtering to build a pre-join output filter from columns of a reduced fact table that joins with each large dimension table. Thereafter, all the dimension tables and the fact table are joined in a star join while exploiting each pre-join filter. Accordingly, the order of when joins occur is changed in order to reduce the size of the fact table and to work from the fact table to reduce the size of large dimension tables. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214797 | TECHNIQUE FOR FACTORING UNCERTAINTY INTO COST-BASED QUERY OPTIMIZATION - A technique for factoring uncertainty into cost-based query optimization includes: determining the degree of uncertainty involved in the cost estimates for the query, determining the degree of sensitivity the query has to that uncertainty, and determining if there is an access path that performs well across the range of possible conditions that could occur at execution time, reducing the risk of performance spikes and performance volatility. If such an access path exists, select that access path; if not, perform parametric query optimization or query re-optimization. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214798 | Resource Estimation For A Query Optimization Process - Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for performing resource estimation for query optimization. An embodiment operates by generating a subplan for which an optimization process may be invoked, predicting performance and resource consumption for optimizing the subplan by measuring similarity between a hypergraph of the subplan and one or more etalon queries having known performance and resource consumption properties, selecting an algorithm for optimizing the subplan from a plurality of optimization algorithms based on the performance and resource consumption properties, and generating an optimized access plan using the selected algorithm. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214799 | Enhancing Parallelism in Evaluation Ranking/Cumulative Window Functions - According to one aspect of the invention, for a database statement that specifies evaluating ranking or cumulative window functions, an execution strategy based on an extended data distribution key may be used for the database statement. In the execution strategy, each sort operator of multiple parallel processing sort operators computes locally evaluated results of a ranking or cumulative window function based on a subset of rows in all rows used to evaluate the database statement, and sends the first and last rows' locally evaluated results to a query coordinator. The query coordinator consolidates the locally evaluated results received from the multiple parallel processing sort operators and sends consolidated results to the sort operators based on their respective demographics. Each sort operator completes full evaluation of the ranking or cumulative window functions based at least in part on one or more of the consolidated results provided by the query coordinator. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214800 | Data-Aware Scalable Parallel Execution of Rollup Operations - According to one aspect of the invention, for a database statement that specifies rollup operations, a data distribution key may be selected among a plurality of candidate keys. Numbers of distinct values of the candidate keys may be monitored with respect to a particular set of rows. Hash values may also be generated by column values in the candidate keys. The data distribution key may be determined based on results of monitoring the numbers of distinct values of the candidate keys as well as the frequencies of hash values computed based on column values of the candidate keys. Rollup operations may be shared between different stages of parallel executing processes and data may be distributed between the different stages of parallel executing processes based on the selected data distribution key. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214801 | System and Method for Enterprise Asset Management and Failure Reporting - An information (ERP/EAM) system and equipment taxonomy for representing and managing of equipment, equipment subunits and component parts thereof across an enterprise that maps materialized physical objects to functional physical objects within a hierarchy of functional locations within the enterprise for all enterprise assets in accordance with applicable industry standards. The ERP/EAM system and the equipment taxonomy also provide multi-leveled failure reporting. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214802 | Corrected optical property value-based search query - A corrected optical property value of an optical property of interest captured within a digital image is determined. A search query based on the corrected optical property value is determined. A database is searched using the search query to determine search results for the search query that have appearance attributes with optical properties at least similar to the corrected optical property value. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214803 | DISPLAYING RECOMMENDED ENTITIES IN A RELEVANCE MAP - According to an example, data pertaining to a plurality of entities recommended for a user may be accessed, in which the data identifies relationships between the plurality of entities with respect to each other. In addition, a relevance map for the user that displays graphical representations of the plurality of entities over a substantially optimized use of space available for display of the graphical representations in the relevance map may be generated, in which the graphical representations of the plurality of entities are arranged in the relevance map according to a predetermined arrangement scheme. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214804 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR A MULTI-RESOLUTION VISUAL CROSSTAB - Methods, systems, and computer program products for visually representing and displaying data are described. One or more cells may be selected from a plurality of displayed cells in a crosstab, wherein the subset of cells has a context defined at least by one or more rows and one or more columns. An effect may be selected to apply on the subset of cells, wherein the effect includes an embedded query including parameters drawn from context of the subset of cells. A selected effect on a subset of the plurality of displayed cells may be applied. Effects may include lens effects, brush effects, and box-in/box-out effects. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214805 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SELECTING A MACHINE TO PROCESS A CLIENT REQUEST - A method includes consulting a database that includes a first entry indicating amounts of time that a first service provider machine takes to perform individual actions of the plurality of actions and a second entry indicating amounts of time that a second service provider machine takes to perform individual actions of the plurality of actions; generating a first estimate for the amount of time the first service provider machine is expected to take in processing the requested service, wherein generating the first estimate includes summing times associated with the plurality of actions from the first entry; and generating a second estimate for the amount of time the second service provider machine is expected to take in processing the requested service, wherein generating the second estimate includes summing times associated with the plurality of actions from the second entry. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214806 | INFREQUENCY CALCULATING DEVICE, INFREQUENCY CALCULATING METHOD, INTEREST DEGREE CALCULATING DEVICE, INTEREST DEGREE CALCULATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An infrequency calculating device includes: an keyword obtaining unit configured to obtain a target keyword from a content item; a target content counting unit configured to count the number of target content items which satisfy a condition corresponding to the target keyword, among a plurality of content items including the content item; a specific content counting unit configured to count the number of specific content items including the target keyword, among the target content items; and an infrequency calculating unit configured to calculate an infrequency of appearance of the target keyword based on the number of target content items and the number of specific content items. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214807 | METADATA TRACKING FOR A PIPELINED SEARCH LANGUAGE (DATA MODELING FOR FIELDS) - Embodiments are directed towards determining and tracking metadata for the generation of visualizations of requested data. A user may request data by providing a query that may be employed to search for the requested data. The query may include a plurality of commands, which may be employed in a pipeline to perform the search and to generate a table of the requested data. In some embodiments, each command may be executed to perform an action on a set of data. The execution of a command may generate one or more columns to append and/or insert into the table of requested data. Metadata for each generated column may be determined based on the actions performed by executing the commands. The table of requested data and the column metadata may be employed to generate and display a visualization of at least a portion of the requested data to a user. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214808 | SEARCH DEVICE, SEARCH METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A search device comprises a memory device for storing document data containing search target character strings to which delimiting characters are appended at both ends; an acquirer for acquiring keywords; a generator for generating a search character string by appending delimiting characters to both ends of the keywords; a designator for designating appearance positions where those extracted partial strings from the search character string appear in the search target character string of the document data; a determiner for determining the frequency with which partial strings common to the partial strings of the search character string appear with a positional relationship similar to the search character string in the search target character string; an evaluator for evaluating the degree of similarity between the search target character string and the search character string; and an output device for outputting the search target character string. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214809 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUERY TRANSFORMATION FOR MANAGING INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE DATASETS - A method and system for users to connect, extract, query and transform data from multiple databases, independent of their format, type, and location. The system comprises a setup portion, a meta database, and a user portion. The setup portion establishes datasets for use by the system with the user portion. The meta database stores the datasets. The user portion allows a user to input a query and processes the query to gather information from at least one data source and generate a response. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214810 | SEARCH SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - To provide a search system for requesting a user to select any of a plurality of options and searching based on a result of selection by the user, capable of assisting the user so as to readily select an option. A selection screen display control unit ( | 2014-07-31 |
20140214811 | SEARCH SYSTEM, DISPLAY UNIT, RECORDING MEDIUM, APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHOD OF THE SEARCH SYSTEM - Provided is a method comprising: maintaining forward network structure information that, with stages arranged in a multilayer structure and each stage including one or more nodes associated with one or more words and associated in whole or in part with a point, connects nodes included in different layers with each other, in order from a higher layer toward a lower layer in a network state; acquiring one or more search word to use for a search; acquiring a node including all or part of the acquired search words and converting the acquired search words into a point; and using the forward network structure information to calculate points by sequentially adding together in a manner to inherit points, in node units of each layer, the points associated with the acquired node along all paths connected by these points from a topmost layer to the node of a predetermined layer. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214812 | SOURCE CODE PRIORITY RANKING FOR FASTER SEARCHING - A system is disclosed for using features of source code to provide more relevant search results in a timelier manner. The system includes at least one processor and a memory storing instructions configured to cause the system to calculate a priority score for each file in associated with a code repository. The priority score is based on at least one of a version score, a build status score, a momentum score, and a social score. The instructions may cause the system to store the priority score in a memory. The instructions may also cause the system to receive a search query, use the stored priority scores to identify files in the code repository responsive to the query, and generate data used to display the identified files. The display may include depictions of the scores used to calculate a priority score for the identified files. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214813 | ADJUSTING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON USER SKILL AND CATEGORY INFORMATION - An approach for adjusting ranked search results based on user data is provided. An approach includes: receiving a search query from a search user; generating a ranked result set based on the search query; generating an adjusted ranked result set by adjusting the ranked result set based on a skill rating of the search user; and providing the adjusted ranked result set to the search user. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214814 | RANKING SEARCH RESULTS USING DIVERSITY GROUPS - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a plurality of search results based on a search query from a user. A computing system determines a plurality of scores for each search result, each score generated by applying a distinct scoring function of a plurality of scoring functions to the search result. The computing system generates a plurality of diversity groups, each diversity group corresponding to a scoring function of the plurality of scoring functions, each diversity group including at least a subset of the plurality of search results ordered according to the scores generated by applying the scoring function to the at least the subset of the plurality of search results. The method further includes selecting at least one of the plurality of search results from each diversity group and sending the selected search results to the user. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214815 | DISPLAYING RESULTS OF QUERIES FOR INFORMATION WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Systems and methods for searching for information within social networks are described. In some examples embodiments, a search assist system receives a query, such as a partial query, identifies two or more categories of data that include information satisfying the query, ranks the identified categories of data based on various selection criteria, and presents suggested search terms based on the rankings. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214816 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RELATIONSHIP DATASTORE MANAGEMENT - A system and method of discovering provider contact data is provided. Provider connectivity data can be built and maintained in a data-store. Once a query is received for identifying a provider contact's data, connectivity data for the querying data is also built. Then the provider connectivity data is searched on the basis of the seeker connectivity data. One or more provider contacts are identified based on query criteria. The provider connectivity data includes a first level provider association data and a first level provider relations data. The seeker connectivity data includes a first level seeker association data and a first level seeker relations data. The connectivity data can be obtained from a variety of sources including contacts databases and third party service providers. Third party service providers include social networks and information aggregators. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214817 | RANKING ALGORITHM FOR SEARCH OUERIES - In various embodiments, a method of prioritizing search results in an electronic environment is disclosed. The method includes selecting a plurality of equivalent keywords responsive to a search query from an end-user, determining a rank of each of the plurality of equivalent keywords, selecting a plurality of most highly ranked keywords from the plurality of equivalent keywords, and preparing a response including the plurality of most highly ranked keywords. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214818 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HYBRID SOCIAL SEARCH MODEL - An approach is provided for determining the intent of a question and determining an appropriate audience to answer the question based on the intent of the question. The approach comprises processing and/or facilitating a processing of a query to cause, at least in part, a determination of one or more topics of the query based, at least in part, on one or more user preferences. The approach also comprises processing and/or facilitating a processing of the query to cause, at least in part, a determination of a classification of the query, The approach further comprises determining an audience comprising one or more candidate audience members for the query based, at least in part, on the classification of the query and the one or more topics of the query. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214819 | Correlating Social Media Data with Location Information - Techniques for correlating social media data with location information are described. In at least some embodiments, social media data is gathered from a social media platform, and the social media data is processed to determine correlations between topic information from the social media data and locations. The correlations can be aggregated to generate a database of social media information. The database can be searchable with various search terms to determine interest levels at different locations for topics associated with the social media data. Results of such a search can be provided in a variety of ways, such as via maps, tables, and so on. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214820 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CREATING A SEACH QUERY - A system and method for disambiguation of a query is provided. The system and method identifies elements of a query which may be ambiguous and assists a person to resolve any ambiguous elements. Algorithmic processing may provide auxiliary information which may be selectively presented with a query and/or a response to a query. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214821 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE TEXT RECOMMENDATION - Network system provides a real-time adaptive recommendation set of documents with a high statistical measure of relevancy to the requestor device. The recommendation set is optimized based on analyzing text of documents of the interest set, categorizing these documents into clusters, extracting keywords representing the themes or concepts of documents in the clusters, and filtering a population of eligible documents accessible to the system utilizing site and or Internet-wide search engines. The system is either automatically or manually invoked and it develops and presents the recommendation set in real-time. The recommendation set may be presented as a greeting, notification, alert, HTML fragment, fax, voicemail, or automatic classification or routing of customer e-mail, personal e-mail, job postings, and offers for sale or exchange. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214822 | SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Systems and methods for searching for information within social networks are described. In some examples embodiments, a search assist system receives a query, such as a partial query, identifies two or more categories of data that include information satisfying the query, ranks the identified categories of data based on various selection criteria, and presents suggested search terms based on the rankings. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214823 | VIRTUAL VISITOR'S CENTER APPLICATION FOR THE DIGITAL COMMUNITY - Systems and methods for providing a social media tool that permits users to identify “what to do” in a particular geographical area in real-time. This is accomplished by utilizing the rate of support (or “likes”) localized topics receive from users in a particular geographical area. A topic can be a place, activity, event, concept, value, brand, etc. A user may operate an application on a computing device to see a list of popular topics in their area. The area may be any defined geographical area, such as a city, stadium, event, etc. The users can like topics, add new topics, add photos, comments, or other content to topics, and subscribe to (or “follow”) their favorite topics. Users can view topics in any geographical region, but they can only contribute likes or content for the particular geographical area in which they are present. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214824 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ADDING INFORMATION OF FRIENDS - Provided is a method, device and computer storage medium for adding information of friends, and said method includes following steps: acquiring a user ID of a user and a friend ID of a friend of the user from a first network relationship list; according to said user ID and said friend ID, acquiring second correlation information corresponding to said user and said friend from several second network relationship lists; according to said second correlation information, determining first correlation information corresponding to the user and the friend in said first network relationship list, and adding said first correlation information into said first network relationship list. The method and device for adding information of friends provided in the present disclosure can accurately recognize the correlation information corresponding to the user and the friend on the basis of existing network relationship lists, and automatically add remark information for friends of the user. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214825 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING DOCUMENTS BASED ON CITATION HISTORY - Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions described herein generally relate to increasing user productivity in reviewing query results by surfacing a set of documents ranked by their relative value calculated as a tabulation of how often they are cited for a specific purpose. A database management system can access an index of metadata corresponding to a set of content items in a corpus/corpora of electronically stored content. A sub-system is configured to receive a query request entered by a user in said interactive GUI. A computer machine is configured to receive said query as computer machine input; automatically determine at least one concept contained within said query; automatically normalize said at least one concept contained within said query thus creating at least one normalized concept; automatically compare said at least one normalized concept to a set of metadata comprising at least one document centric concept profile associated with said set of content items in said corpora; and automatically surface a set of documents, comprising at least one first document, matching said document centric concept profile via said GUI wherein said set of documents are ranked according to a reference value assigned to each document for a normalized concept. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214826 | RANKING METHOD AND SYSTEM - Various embodiments provide ranking methods and systems. The ranking method can be implemented by a computer system. In an exemplary method, real-time data can be obtained. A total user number of the real-time data can be counted. A distribution pattern of user number in one or more data value intervals can be obtained from the real-time data. The total user number and the distribution pattern can then be stored as intermediate data. A ranking query request of a user and an actual data value of the user can be received. A ranking of the user can be calculated according to the actual data value of the user and the intermediate data. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214827 | Data Caveats for Database Tables - A method for storing data caveats for databases is described. The method includes storing at least one record in at least one content table in a database. The method includes storing at least one data caveat having a relationship to the content table in at least one record in a caveat table. A data caveat has a relationship to the content table when the data caveat applies to: a record in the content table or the content table in entirety. The method also includes storing, in a memory device, an indication of the relationship. Articles of manufacture are also described. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214828 | DATA CAVEATS FOR DATABASE TABLES - A method for storing data caveats for databases is described. The method includes storing at least one record in at least one content table in a database. The method includes storing at least one data caveat having a relationship to the content table in at least one record in a caveat table. A data caveat has a relationship to the content table when the data caveat applies to: a record in the content table or the content table in entirety. The method also includes storing, in a memory device, an indication of the relationship. Articles of manufacture are also described. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214829 | IMPLEMENTING ENTERPRISE LEVEL BUSINESS INFORMATION NETWORKING - Systems, apparatus, and methods for implementing enterprise level social and business information networking are provided. Users can receive relevant information about a database system and its users at an appropriate time. Users can then use this relevant information to reduce errors and limit redundant efforts. For example, an update of a record in the database can be identified, and a story created automatically about the update and sent to the users that are following the record. Which updates have stories created and which stories are to be sent to which users can be configured. Other events besides updating of records can also be tracked. For example, actions of a user that result in an event can be tracked, where such tracking can also be configurable. Subscriptions to follow an object can be automatic, and access checks can be used to ensure that unauthorized users do not see certain data. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214830 | METRICS-BASED ACCESSING OF SOCIAL THREADS - A method of accessing feeds based on metrics is provided. Feeds, each associated with an object stored in a database system, are provided to users of the database system. Inferential user interaction data captures implicit user behavior of users of the database system, wherein the data is generated in relation to a feed. Feed metrics are determined based on the user interaction data, wherein a feed metric is based upon statistics comprising user consumption, user responsiveness, content proliferation, and feed life. Finally, an action is executed in relation to at least one feed based on the feed metrics, wherein the action comprises discontinuing the feed, characterizing a feed, determining that a feed can be monetized, determining that a feed should be cached, or determining that intervention in a feed is advisable. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214831 | INTEGRATING SMART SOCIAL QUESTION AND ANSWERS ENABLED FOR USE WITH SOCIAL NETWORKING TOOLS - Embodiments include a program product and a method for providing responses to questions provided on a social media site. The method includes receiving, via a processor, a user question from a social networking site and decomposing and filtering the user question so that it can be further analyzed. The method also includes generating a list of most closely matched potential responders based on analysis of the user question and sending the most closely matched potential responders the user question. Upon receiving responses back from the most closest matched potential responders, these responses are aggregated by the processor in a final response format. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214832 | INFORMATION GATHERING VIA CROWD-SENSING - Methods and arrangements for gathering and managing crowd-sourced information. An event is identified using crowd-sourced information, and component parts of the event are identified using the crowd-sourced information. Information missing from the event is identified using the crowd-sourced information. Individuals associated with the event are identified, and additional crowd-sourced information on the event is harvested from the individuals. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214833 | SEARCHING THREADS - Searching threads can comprise extracting a number of keywords from a number of threads inside a discussion forum in response to a search query, clustering the number of keywords utilizing thread titles and thread content from the within the number of threads, and searching for a thread from within the number of threads that is relevant to the search query based on the clustering. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214834 | CLUSTERING SIGNIFIERS IN A SEMANTICS GRAPH - Clustering signifiers in a semantics graph can comprise coarsening a semantics graph associated with an enterprise communication network containing a plurality of nodes into a number of sub-graphs containing supernodes; partitioning each of the number of sub-graphs into a number of clusters; and iteratively refining the number of clusters to reduce an edge-cut of the semantics graph, based on the number of clusters. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214835 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CLASSIFYING DOCUMENTS - A system and method for automatically classifying documents using an annotated topic tree is provided. A set of topics may be extracted from a document corpus such that each document in the document corpus is associated with a topic model. A sample set of documents may be selected from the document corpus during a current sampling round. The topic models associated with the sample set of documents may be annotated by human reviewers with coding information. Each coded document may be coded as ‘responsive’, ‘non-responsive’, ‘arguably responsive’, ‘null’, and/or for other codes or issues, which are related to the topic model associated with that document. An annotated topic tree may be formed based on the annotated topic model. One or more machine learning algorithms may be used to project the information in the annotated topic tree to the rest of the document corpus. A voting algorithm which may comprise a plurality of machine learning algorithms may also be used to project the sampling judgments to the rest of the document corpus. To continuously enhance the performance of automatic classification of documents, the projection results may be analyzed after each sampling round. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214836 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING AN INDIVIDUALS PREDICTED TYPE AND CONTEXT FOR BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION - The methods and systems described herein may involve determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and delivering content to at least one individual based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing a game, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one player of the game, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and affecting the game play based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing an interactive space, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual in the space, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and modifying at least one attribute of the space based on the analysis. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214837 | AUTOMATICALLY ANALYZING OPERATION SEQUENCES - An automatic analysis method for operation sequence and a system thereof are disclosed. The method comprising: receiving at least one operation sequence containing at least one operation record, the operation record including an operation of switching from a previous user interface to a post user interface, an interval time of switching from the previous user interface to the post user interface; forming time-dependent operation record groups of respective operation sequences based on the interval time and a first time threshold, wherein the time-dependent operation record group includes operation records whose interval time is less than the first time threshold; comparing time-dependent operation record groups of respective operation sequences to obtain identical time-dependent operation record groups; and calculating a frequency that identical time-dependent operation record groups occur in the operation sequence to obtain the identical time-dependent operation record groups having high frequency. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214838 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA - A method of processing data by creating an inverted column index is presented. The method entails categorizing words in documents according to data type, generating a posting list for each of the words that are categorized, and organizing the words in an inverted column index format. In an inverted column index, each column represents a data type, and each of the words is encoded in a key and the posting list is encoded in a value associated with the key. In some cases, the words that are categorized may be the most commonly appearing words arranged in the order of frequency of appearance in each column. This indexing method provides an overview of words that are in a large dataset, allowing a user to choose the words that are of interest to him and “drill down” into contents that include that word by way of queries. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214839 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A SORTED LIST OF ITEMS - An electronic device and method for automatic generation of a sorted list of items related to a seed item comprises a relatedness determinator to compare the seed item with a plurality of further items and to determine a relatedness value for each further item with respect to the seed item. The device also has a clustering engine to cluster the further items by determining a relative relatedness between (among) the further items. Each further item is assigned to one cluster. The device also has a list generator to generate a sorted result list by sorting the further items according to both, their relatedness value and their belonging (or membership) to a cluster in that once an item is added to the sorted list, the relatedness value depending ranking of the further items in that cluster is at least momentary lowered so as to promote adding items of further clusters. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214840 | Name Disambiguation Using Context Terms - Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for disambiguating names in a document corpus. In an aspect, a method includes generating context term lists for a person name, each context term list being a list of context terms from a resource for the person name; clustering the context term lists into a plurality of clusters, each of the clusters of context term lists including context term lists that are most similar to the cluster relative to other clusters; for each of the clusters, selecting a representative term for the cluster; receiving the person name as a search query; and generating a plurality of query suggestions from the search query and the representative terms for the clusters, each query suggesting being a combination of the person name and one representative term. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214841 | Semantic Product Classification - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for updating a merchant database with new product items and placing the new product items within a hierarchy of existing merchant product offerings. In operation, the new product is represented by a title and description that can be semantically classified using a plurality of classification models and reviewed by users for accuracy. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214842 | SUMMARIZATION OF SHORT COMMENTS - A method and a system for summarization of short comments are provided. The system comprises a memory to store a comments collection. The comments collection stores a plurality of comments for later access. The comments respectively include an overall rating and at least one phrase. The system also includes one or more processors to implement an aspect module to map a portion of the plurality of comments to a first aspect corresponding to an attribute of the entity. The one or more processor also implementing a rating module to determine an aspect rating corresponding to the first aspect based on the respective overall rating of the portion of the plurality of comments. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214843 | Method For Chronicling Legacy Using Social Networks - Disclosed herein is a social networking system aimed at creating a reviewable legacy for users. The described social network allows subscribers and public users to contribute events that previously occurred and discuss the significance of these events to themselves and others. Through the use of a plurality of subscribers and the public alike, the contributed events to the social network will create a searchable history of society. Additionally, the submitted events will include the impressions of the people who experienced them providing a zeitgeist record uncontaminated by subsequent historical impressions. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214844 | MULTIPLE CLASSIFICATION MODELS IN A PIPELINE - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for updating a merchant database with new items automatically or with minimal human involvement. In operation, methods and systems disclosed use a pipeline of classification models to quantify new product information and create an accurate classification for the new product item. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214845 | PRODUCT CLASSIFICATION INTO PRODUCT TYPE FAMILIES - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for updating a database with new products by classifying the new products within a hierarchy, and then using the hierarchy to improve the classification by including other product types within the classification for the new products. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214846 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF DYNAMIC CONTENT ANALYSIS - Methods and systems of dynamic content analysis for categorizing media contents are provided. Data regarding the media contents that a user is watching on one or more devices is obtained, and the environment in which the user is watching the media contents may be captured. Metadata categorizing the events and the media contents can be generated, and the metadata may be further associated with a corresponding event. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214847 | INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON MESSAGE CONTENT - The present disclosure provides an information recommendation method and system based on message content. The method comprises the following steps: when a message is viewed at a user side, providing a guiding option to a user; if the user triggers the guiding option, then performing single-level classification or multi-level classification on the message to obtain category information; and a server returning information related to the category information to the user side. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214848 | MEDIA SYSTEM FOR GENERATING PLAYLIST OF MULTIMEDIA FILES - Disclosed is a method and system for dynamically generating a playlist of multimedia files for a user based upon a mood of the user. The system comprises a mood detection module, a tag allocation module, and a playlist generation module. The mood detection module is configured to determine the mood of the user based upon the one or more emotion tags allocated to records of the user. The tag allocation module is configured to categorize the at least one multimedia file under one or more emotion tags based upon the weights assigned to the one or more emotion tags. The playlist generation module is configured to dynamically generate the playlist of multimedia files based upon the mood of the user and the categorization of the at least one multimedia file under one or more emotion tags. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214849 | CORRELATING CATEGORIES OF ATTRIBUTES OF CONTENTS WITH CLASSIFICATION ELEMENTS - An information processing apparatus that performs processing for editing information on contents includes: an acquisition means for acquiring attribute data classification information in which a plurality of attribute data indicating predetermined attributes of contents is correlated with category data indicating categories for classifying the plurality of attributes; a selection means for selecting predetermined attribute data from the attribute data included in the attribute data classification information acquired by the acquisition means; and a correlation means for newly correlating the attribute data selected by the selection means with category data other than the category data, which is correlated in the attribute data classification information acquired by the acquisition means, in response to a user's instruction. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214850 | CATEGORY-BASED CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - Techniques for category-based content recommendation are described. Some embodiments provide a content recommendation system (“CRS”) configured to recommend content items (e.g., Web pages, images, videos) that are related to specified categories. In one embodiment, the CRS processes content items to determine entities referenced by the content items, and to determine categories related to the referenced entities. The determined entities and/or categories may be part of a taxonomy that is stored by the CRS. Then, in response to a received request that indicates a category, the CRS determines and provides indications of one or more content items that each have a corresponding category that matches the indicated category. In some embodiments, at least some of these techniques are employed to implement a category-based news service. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214851 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND INDEX MANAGING METHOD - An electronic device records access records when a social network was accessed by the electronic device and operation records of operating the electronic device, acquires a first keyword from the access records and the operation records, creates an index based on the first keyword and an index item that records a relationship between the index and the corresponding files. The electronic device receives a search term from a user, creates a second keyword based on the search term, searches an index item corresponding to the second keyword from index items created by the index managing module and provides corresponding files according to the index item. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214852 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AND USING A RECURSIVE INDEX OF SEARCH ENGINES - The present invention pertains to extraction of text from an index of a search engine starting at an arbitrary position in the text, and to analysis of texts for co-occurrence of words, and to the use of said extraction and analysis for inferring implicit (causal, associative, etc) relationships among objects in sequences thereof. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214853 | SEQUENTIAL CHAIN REGISTRY - Systems and methods are disclosed for tracking an object as it traverses a sequential chain. The relationships between the object, its movement through space and time, and the entities associated with the object at a discreet point of time are captured by a sequential chain. A unique identifier may be created that is continuously modified as the object traverses the sequential chain. The unique identifier may be used to capture relationship information between the object and its related entities and movements. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214854 | EXTRACTING METHOD, COMPUTER PRODUCT, EXTRACTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD, AND INFORMATION CONTENTS - An extracting method includes storing to a storage device: files that include character units; first index information indicating which file includes at least one character unit in a character unit group having a usage frequency less than a predetermined frequency and among character units having common information in a predetermined portion, the usage frequency indicating the extent of files having a given character unit; second index information indicating which file includes a first character unit having a usage frequency at least equal to the predetermined frequency and among the character units having common information in a predetermined portion; and referring to the first and second index information to extract a file having character units in the first and second index information, when a request is received for extraction of a file having the first character unit and a second character unit that is included in the character unit group. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214855 | REDUCING COLLISIONS WITHIN A HASH TABLE - Collisions in hash tables are reduced by removing each empty bucket from a hash table and compacting the non-empty buckets, generating a map of the hash table indicating a status of the buckets of the hash table, and accessing data in the hash table by applying a hash key to the generated map to determine a corresponding bucket containing the data. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214856 | PROVIDING A CONTENT PREVIEW - A content preview of a content item stored in an online storage system can be viewed on a client device without the content item itself being downloaded to the client device and without the use of software associated with the content item being installed on the client device. Furthermore, data storage and processing requirements can be minimized by creating and storing only one content preview for each unique content item. The content item can be identified by using the content item as a hash key in a hashing algorithm. The resulting unique identifier can be used to search a preview index that lists all created content previews and their location. A content preview is only created if one does not exist. The unique identifier can be used to locate the content preview and return it in response to a preview request by a client device. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214857 | PUBLISHING RDF QUADS AS RELATIONAL VIEWS - A method, system, and computer program product for transforming RDF quads to relational views. The method commences by receiving a named graph, the named graph comprising at least one RDF quad, and analyzing the named graph to produce analysis metadata. The method uses the analysis metadata to generate relational views. The method further comprises publishing a relational view in the form of a SPARQL query. The quality of the results can be quantitatively measured and reported by calculating a goodness score based at least in part on aspects of the relational view definitions. Several variants for transformation include generating relational view definitions formed using a named-graph strict variant, or a named-graph relaxed variant, or a named-graph agnostic variant. The transformations can form outputs responsive to characteristics or properties such as a number of classes, a number of single-valued properties, a number of nullability properties, or a number of type-uniformed ranges. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214858 | SEMANTICS GRAPHS FOR ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Building a semantics graph for an enterprise communication network can include calculating a distance metric between a first signifier and a second signifier associated with an enterprise communication network, wherein the distance metric includes a plurality of relationships defined based on a frequency of co-occurrences of the first signifier and the second signifier, and building a semantics graph for the enterprise communication network using the calculated distance metric. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214859 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PUSHING ASSOCIATION KNOWLEDGE - The disclosure provides a method for pushing association knowledge, comprising: determining ID information of a user when the user accesses resources; retrieving knowledge having ID information coincident with the ID information of the user in the resources; and pushing knowledge with the highest weight among the retrieved knowledge to the user. The disclosure also provides a device for pushing association knowledge, comprising: an ID module configured to determine ID information of a user when the user accesses resources; a retrieval module configured to retrieve knowledge having ID information coincident with the ID information of the user in the resources; and a pushing module configured to push knowledge with the highest weight among the retrieved knowledge to the user. According to the disclosure, it is able to improve the user experience. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214860 | DATA GENERATION DEVICE, CONTENT REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a data generation device including a content specifying unit configured to specify content, a period estimation unit configured to estimate a period in which the content specified by the content specifying unit attracts interest, and a metadata generation unit configured to associate as metadata the period estimated by the period estimation unit with the content. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214861 | PROXY CACHE AGGREGATOR - A social data aggregator generates entries of action data describing actions taken by users of a social networking system. The entries are archived in a number of remote data hosts, with a portion of the entries stored in an action cache to expedite retrieval. The action cache is modified to include relevant entries of action data by selecting the most relevant entries from proxy data aggregators, which identify sets of entries from remote data hosts coupled to the proxy data aggregators based on the relevance of the entries in the remote data hosts. The relevance of an entry is based on an associated engagement score indicating a likelihood of a user requesting content interacting with a notification based on an entry. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214862 | AUTOMATED ATTRIBUTE DISAMBIGUATION WITH HUMAN INPUT - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for performing classification of documents or performing other tasks based on rules. The rules may include context rules that define a mapping that relates a value and context in a document to an attribute to which the value corresponds. Products are selected for labeling with attributes by identifying patterns, e.g. values and contexts that are not covered by a current rule set. Those products having a highest score are selected for labeling in a crowd sourcing forum, where the score is based on the number of non-covered patterns and a frequency of occurrence of the non-covered patterns in a document corpus. Proposed rules are generated for frequently occurring patterns and submitted to analysts for one or both of completion and validation. Proposed rules may include a proposed attribute for a frequently occurring value and corresponding context. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214863 | SELECTING DATA ITEMS FOR DISPLAY THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ENTITIES THAT HAVE REPRESENTATIONS PLACED IN A SELECTED STATE - A plurality of entities are each associated with a corresponding set of data items. A representation is assigned to each entity in the plurality of entities. The representation of any one or more entities in the plurality of entities can be placed in a selected state with user input. Data items from the collection can be filtered based on the representations that are placed in the selected state. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214864 | METHOD FOR COLOR AND SIZE BASED PRE-FILTERING FOR VISUAL OBJECT SEARCHING OF DOCUMENTS - A method for pre-filtering visual objects on a document is disclosed. A selection of a template visual object with constituent components from a subsection of the document is received. Then, a feature set is derived, including a color list of colors defining the object components, a bounding definition of the object components, and an ancillary raster component intersection flag. A subset of pre-filtered visual objects is generated from the visual objects on the document. These match a predefined criteria based on the color list, live hounding definition, or the ancillary raster component intersection flag. A pre-filtered document raster image is then generated from the document, where the pixels corresponding to the pre-filtered visual objects are included. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214865 | MEASURING AND DISPLAYING FACETS IN CONTEXT-BASED CONFORMED DIMENSIONAL DATA GRAVITY WELLS - A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product measures and displays facets in context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells. Conformed dimensional objects and synthetic context-based objects are parsed into n-tuples. A virtual mass of each parsed object is calculated, in order to define a shape of multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells that are created when data objects that are pulled into each of the context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well frameworks on a context-based conformed dimensional gravity wells membrane. Data from the multiple context-based conformed dimensional data gravity wells then populates nodes in a data model. A displayed appearance of the particular context-based conformed dimensional data gravity well is dynamically adjusted according to the how closely each of the multiple parsed synthetic context-based objects matches said at least one context object and/or at least one dimension object. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214866 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DATABASE ACCESSING METHOD - In a database accessing method using an electronic device having a database, character fields and corresponding attributes are predefined. An entity object including the character fields is generated and provided to a client device for inputting business data. After receiving an encapsulated entity object from the client device, the business data including selected character fields, corresponding character data, and an operation request for the database are acquired. When the database includes a data table and the data table includes the character fields corresponding to the selected character fields, the selected character fields and the character data of the selected character fields are verified. When the selected character fields and the character data of the selected character fields are valid, character data of the character fields corresponding to the selected character fields are updated using the character data of the selected character fields according to the operation request. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214867 | Framework for Generating Programs to Process Beacons - In one embodiment, a method receives an object model determined from a specification for processing beacons. The method determines first information for a beacon object referenced in a basefact object to determine which beacon objects are applicable for the basefact object. Second information is determined for the structured data fields referenced in the basefact object to determine which output fields map to which structured data fields and third information is determined for a set of transformations for a set of input fields in the set of composite objects for the beacon to determine how to perform transformations to transform the set of input fields to the set of output fields. The method then generates instructions for a target program to process the beacons to transform the set of input fields to the set of output fields and map the set of output fields to the structured data fields. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214868 | METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING UNIQUE ENTITIES ACROSS DATA SOURCES AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and data manager computing device comprises obtaining a plurality of entity profiles from one or more sources. The obtained plurality of entities are transformed to one or more standard formats. Further, the related and unrelated entity profiles are determined based on a comparison of the transformed entity profiles against each other and the determined related and unrelated entity profiles are provided. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214869 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING AND IDENTIFYING INTERESTS AMONG TENANTS FOR FOSTERING COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS - A system and method of managing interests and activities of residents and potential residents in a multi-unit building are provided. The method comprises: creating and maintaining a first set of records in the database for tenants, each record in the first set of records including fields for a name, contact information, building and interests; creating and maintaining a second set of records in the database for buildings, records in the second set including fields for a building name, address and amenities; creating and maintaining a third set of records in the database for activities, records in the third set including fields for an activity name, organizer, site, participants and activity details; analyzing the database to identify a set of tenant records in the first set of records that match an activity in the third set; and generating and sending notifications using contact information in the set of tenant records relating to the activity. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214870 | FINDING TIME-DEPENDENT ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS VARIABLES - Embodiments of the invention relate to arrangements for ascertaining time-dependent associations between inputted comparative effectiveness research (CER) variables from patient data are. Each CER variable is represented via at least one unit time series, and a similarity metric with respect to pairs of CER variables is determined. The determining includes comparing at least one unit time series from each of at least two CER variables. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214871 | GENERATION OF SYNTHETIC CONTEXT FRAMEWORKS FOR DIMENSIONALLY CONSTRAINED HIERARCHICAL SYNTHETIC CONTEXT-BASED OBJECTS - A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product derives and utilizes a context object to generate a synthetic context-based object. A context object for a non-contextual data object is derived by contextually searching a document that contains multiple instances of the non-contextual data object. The non-contextual data object is associated with the derived context object to define a synthetic context-based object, where the non-contextual data object ambiguously relates to multiple subject-matters, and where the context object provides a context that identifies a specific subject-matter, from the multiple subject-matters, of the non-contextual data object. The synthetic context-based object is then associated with at least one specific data store, which includes data that is associated with data contained in the non-contextual data object and the context object. A dimensionally constrained hierarchical synthetic context-based object library for multiple synthetic context-based objects is then constructed for handling requests for data stores. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214872 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR DETERMINING SOCIAL COMPATIBILITY USING A SELECTED GROUP - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for determining social compatibility using a selected group are disclosed. According to one method, the method occurs at a computing platform. The method includes receiving, via a communications interface, interaction information about a first person. The interaction information is associated with at least one member of a selected group. The method also includes determining, using the interaction information, whether the first person is compatible with a second person. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214873 | USING INDIVIDUALS PREDICTED TYPE TO AID IN CONTENT SELECTION - The methods and systems described herein may involve determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and delivering content to at least one individual based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing a game, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one player of the game, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and affecting the game play based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing an interactive space, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual in the space, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and modifying at least one attribute of the space based on the analysis. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214874 | PREDICTED TYPE AND CONTEXTS IN ASSESSMENTS - The methods and systems described herein may involve determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and delivering content to at least one individual based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing a game, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one player of the game, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and affecting the game play based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing an interactive space, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual in the space, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and modifying at least one attribute of the space based on the analysis. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214875 | NODE SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD USING PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE COMMUNICATION MIDDLEWARE - Disclosed herein are a node search apparatus and method. The apparatus includes a communication unit, a node search execution unit, and publish-subscribe communication middleware. The communication unit receives information about a child node of a root node in a node tree and a target node from a task distribution unit. The node search execution unit performs a search for the target node on the child node and the lower nodes of the child node. The publish-subscribe communication middleware publishes information about a visited node, which belongs to the child node and the lower nodes of the child node and which is determined not to correspond to the target node by the node search execution unit, to a global database. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214876 | Virtual physician office systems and methods - Electronic records are formatted according to recipient addresses. When an electronic database record is received by a server or other device, the electronic database record has any formatting, herein termed a legacy format. The electronic database record is destined for delivery to device identified by a recipient address. The recipient address is associated with a software agent that reformats the legacy format into a different format. The electronic database record is thus reformatted according to software agent associated with the recipient address. A reformatted database record is thus sent to the recipient address, and the reformatted database record has the different format. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214877 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND USING AN INTEREST GRAPH - Methods and apparatuses are provided for generating, updating, and using an interest graph. A plurality of interests representing a plurality of subjects' affinities towards a plurality of topics may be obtained. A processing device may generate an interest graph based on the obtained interests. The generated interest graph may include: (i) at least two nodes, each of the at least two nodes representing an interest of the obtained interests, wherein the obtained interests are free of any personally identifiable information associated with the plurality of subjects and (ii) at least one link connecting a first node to a second node of the at least two nodes, the at least one link representing a relatedness of the interest represented by the first node to the interest represented by the second node. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214878 | PROVIDING RELEVANT NON-REQUESTED CONTENT TO A MOBILE DEVICE - A system and method are directed towards providing non-requested content to a mobile terminal based on characteristics of, and tracked usage of the mobile terminal to request content through an online portal service, which provides access to content in multiple subject areas. A mobile user profile is created from the characteristics and patterns of the tracked usage. The tracked usage information includes the time, location, frequency at which the content was requested. Based on the mobile user profile information, content related to previously requested content is provided to the mobile terminal upon a trigger that is related to the requested content. The trigger event may include the mobile terminal returning to a location from which certain content was previously requested. The non-requested content may further be based on a related general user profile that indicates usage of an alternate electronic device to access content through the portal. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214879 | PERSON-BASED INFORMATION AGGREGATION - Techniques are described for aggregating person-based information on a computing device. The computing device includes a display device and one or more processors. The processors are configured to determine a context of the computing device, and identify a contact associated with the currently-executing application and a plurality of contact identifiers associated with the contact. The processors are configured to receive, from two or more different sources and based on at least one contact, information associated with the contact that includes a respective portion of information received from each of the different sources, determine, based on the context of the computing device, a respective priority value for each of the portions of the information, select, based on the respective priority value, one or more portions of the information, and output, for display, a graphical user interface including at least the selected one or more portions of the information. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214880 | System and methods for Predicting Query Execution Time for Concurrent and Dynamic Database Workloads - Systems and methods for predicting query execution time for concurrent and dynamic database workloads include decomposing each query into a sequence of query pipelines based on the query plan from a query optimizer, and predicting an execution time of each pipeline with a progress predictor for a progress chart of query pipelines. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214881 | IDENTIFYING MISSING CONTENT USING SEARCHER SKILL RATINGS - An approach for identifying missing content is provided. An approach includes: receiving a search string; determining a skill rating associated with a searcher that generated the search string; and searching a database using the search string. The approach also includes: updating at least one of a first score associated with the search string and a second score associated with the database based on the skill rating; and generating an alert based on one of the first score exceeding a first threshold and the second score exceeding a second threshold. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214882 | SEGMENTING DOCUMENTS WITHIN A FULL TEXT INDEX - A system, method and computer program product for searching documents within a collection includes partitioning the collection into a plurality of document segments based on a range of values for a document attribute. Each document segment is associated with a different value range for the document attribute and includes documents each with a value for the document attribute within the associated value range. The system, method and computer program product also determines one or more document segments to search based on one or more search criteria within a search request pertaining to the document attribute. The system, method and computer program product further searches the determined one or more document segments for information satisfying the search request. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214883 | KEYWORD TRENDING DATA - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributing content. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a set of keywords for one or more content items that are included in a content distribution campaign. Keyword trend data for the set of keywords are obtained. The keyword trend data specify, for each of one or more keywords in the set of keywords, a query volume indicative of a number of matching search queries that have been received, at a search system, over a specified period. For a particular keyword from the set of keywords, a determination is made that the keyword trend data meets a distribution parameter change condition. In response to determining that the keyword trend data meets a distribution parameter change condition, a distribution parameter that controls distribution of at least one of the content items is adjusted. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214884 | MANAGING AND IMPROVING QUESTION AND ANSWER RESOURCES AND CHANNELS - Methods and arrangements for handling user queries. Submitted queries are accessed, and there are identified queries as being insufficiently addressed. A priority is estimated for the identified queries, and the identified queries are ordered based on the estimated priority. A priority-ordered list of queries is provided as output. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214885 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING EVIDENCE VIDEO - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for generating evidence video. The apparatus includes a video object indexing unit, a video object search unit, and an evidence video generation unit. The video object indexing unit recognizes an object by storing and analyzing videos received from multiple surveillance cameras, extracts the features of the recognized object, and then generates object metadata. The video object search unit compares received search conditions with the object metadata, and then outputs search results, including the feature information of at least one object, which corresponds to the search conditions. The evidence video generation unit generates an evidence video by aggregating only videos including a specific object selected from the search results. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214886 | ADAPTIVE MULTI-CLIENT SAAS DATABASE - Methods and systems for Elastic Parallel Relational Database Management Systems. More particularly, systems, methods, technologies and mechanisms are provided herein for providing virtualization of data in a database through the mechanism of adaptive multi-client database objects. Applications define databases and objects that are either client-private, multi-client or system-wide. Transparent manipulation of these objects is provided including addition, querying, deletion, and truncation of data, and seamless manipulation of the objects themselves through creation, modification, and deletion. Schema decorations and query modification techniques ensure each client application only sees the data that it should be seeing. | 2014-07-31 |
20140214887 | EXTENSIONS TO GENERATIONAL DATA DISTRIBUTION METHODS - An elastic parallel database system where metadata is specified out-of-band during database operations via a set of augmentation rules. The rules are used to augment or modify commands received, and indicate whether they are to be used for specific connections on which they are received, for all client connections, or some other scope. | 2014-07-31 |