| 45th week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 44 |
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| 20210349845 | Interconnect Repeater Planning and Implementation Flow for Abutting Designs - A method including creating a first bus guide and a second bus guide of a plurality of bus guides for an integrated circuit is disclosed. The method includes routing the first bus guide and the second bus guide through a plurality of layout blocks of the integrated circuit. The method includes annotating the first bus guide or the second bus guide to identify a plurality of areas for placing a plurality of repeaters within the first bus guide or the second bus guide. The method includes, based on the annotated first bus guide and the second bus guide, generating, by at least one processor, a plurality of guidance directories corresponding to a plurality of routes through the plurality of layout blocks for placing the plurality of repeaters at the plurality of layout blocks on the identified plurality of areas on the first bus guide or the second bus guide. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349846 | EMBEDDED FILE NETWORK SERVER BASED ON SEISMIC DATA STREAM - An embedded file network server based on a seismic data stream includes a broadband power management module, a main control unit, a serial-port-to-RS232 module, a PHY bridge layer, an SD card, and a network interface. The main control unit includes serial port, an SDIO interface, an internal RAM, DMA units, and a MAC drive layer. The main control unit performs seismic data interaction with an external device through the serial port, and receives seismic data through an internal interruption, and the received seismic data stream is stored in the internal RAM. The internal RAM transfers the received seismic data stream to the SDIO interface and MAC driver layer through the DMA units. The SDIO interface stores the seismic data stream in the SD card for data backup. The MAC driver layer is coupled to the PHY bridge layer for inputting and outputting the seismic data stream. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349847 | Embedding Rings on a Toroid Computer Network - A computer comprising a plurality of interconnected processing nodes arranged in a toroid configuration in which multiple layers of interconnected nodes are arranged along an axis; each layer comprising a plurality of processing nodes connected in a ring in a non-axial plane by at least an intralayer respective set of links between each pair of neighbouring processing nodes, the links in each set adapted to operate simultaneously; wherein each of the processing nodes in each layer is connected to a respective corresponding node in each adjacent layer by an interlayer link to form respective rings along the axis; the computer programmed to provide a plurality of embedded one-dimensional logical paths and to transmit data around each of the embedded one-dimensional paths in such a manner that the plurality of embedded one-dimensional logical paths operate simultaneously, each logical path using all processing nodes of the computer in a sequence. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349848 | SCALAR CORE INTEGRATION - Methods and apparatus relating to scalar core integration in a graphics processor. In an example, an apparatus comprises a processor to receive a set of workload instructions for a graphics workload from a host complex, determine a first subset of operations in the set of operations that is suitable for execution by a scalar processor complex of the graphics processing device and a second subset of operations in the set of operations that is suitable for execution by a vector processor complex of the graphics processing device, assign the first subset of operations to the scalar processor complex for execution to generate a first set of outputs, assign the second subset of operations to the vector processor complex for execution to generate a second set of outputs. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349849 | HANDLING OF DATA ARCHIVING EVENTS IN A REPLICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods include detection of deletion of a record of a database table due to a database transaction, creation of a log entry including one or more key field values of the record of the database table, an identifier of a user associated with the database transaction, and an indicator of a delete operation, determination of whether the identifier identifies an archiving user, and, in a case that the identifier identifies an archiving user, change the indicator to an indicator of an archive operation to create a changed log entry. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349850 | MANAGING SNAPSHOTTING OF A DATASET USING AN ORDERED SET OF B+ TREES - A current state of a dataset is represented by a mutable B+ tree, while each snapshot of the dataset is represented by an immutable B+ tree. An ordering of B+ trees in the ordered set logically arranges those B+ trees into layers, with the mutable B+ tree representing the current state of the dataset being logically arranged as an upper layer, and with immutable B+ trees representing snapshots of the dataset being progressively arranged as lower layers with the oldest snapshot being a lowest layer. Each B+ tree stores dataset records with a strong or a weak reference state; strong records are independent of any lower-layer record, while weak records are dependent on at least one lower-layer record. A snapshot deletion includes merging the snapshot's corresponding B+ tree with its highest neighbor B+ tree, including merging overlapping records based on their weak vs. strong reference state. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349851 | Intelligent Cloud Operations - Embodiments control software hosted by cloud providers and private clouds. Operational data received from the software correlates: •a time, •a user at the time, and •a software component accessed by the user at the time. The operational data relates to resources (e.g., storage, computational, network) that are consumed. Experiential data characterizing a quality of user interaction, is also received. The experiential data may be derived from operational data (e.g., inferred from time lags), or received separately as feedback. Operational data and experiential data are processed according to a ruleset or a neural network. Based upon the result, which optimizes towards costs, experience data (e.g., time lags) or policies (e.g. security constraints), a command causes an actuator to act upon the software. The actuator may trigger movement to a different host (e.g. different cloud provider). The move functionality, if applied to many customers at once, embodies a cloud provider switch service. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349852 | IDENTIFICATION OF RESTRICTORS TO FORM UNIQUE DESCRIPTIONS FOR GENERATION OF ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS - Provided are a method, system, and computer program product in which operations are performed to receive a question that includes a descriptor and an indication that indicates that a unique answer to the question is expected. A determination is made of instances of matching descriptors and descriptor targets from a set of documents. The determined descriptor targets are compared for consistency. In response to determining that the determined descriptor targets are inconsistent, more restrictive descriptors are iteratively generated via a selection model based on metadata associated with the question until the descriptor targets are consistent. An answer to the question is returned from consistent descriptor targets. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349853 | ASYNCHRONOUS DELETION OF LARGE DIRECTORIES - A request to delete a directory from a storage is received. The directory is unlinked from a parent metadata object. A success confirmation that the directory is unlinked from the parent metadata object is provided. After the success confirmation is provided, one or more metadata objects of the directory are marked for deletion, and the one or more marked metadata objects and at least one of their descendant metadata objects are identified and deleted. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349854 | BATCH PROCESSING - An example operation may include one or more of receiving a plurality of transactions by an agent node, selecting, by the agent node, transactions from the plurality of the transactions that are the most likely to be conflicting based on common factors, combining, by the agent node, the selected transactions into a batch, and reordering the selected transactions within the batch to increase a success rate. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349855 | METHOD OF DATA STRUCTURING FOR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OLD AND NEW DATA AND DEVICE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a method of data structuring for difference between old and new versions of data and a device thereof, when generating and transmitting the difference to update software data comprising programs, kernels and filesystems installed on client devices such as autonomous vehicles and smartphones, provided are a data structuring method and a device necessary for generating and transmitting the difference data representing differential parts between old and new versions of software data. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349856 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING METADATA TO ENHANCE DATA IDENTIFICATION OPERATIONS - Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or more storage devices. In various embodiments, such processing of the index and storing of the metadata can facilitate, for example, enhanced data management operations, enhanced data identification operations, enhanced storage operations, data classification for organizing and storing the metadata, cataloging of metadata for the stored metadata, and/or user interfaces for managing data. In various embodiments, the metabase can be configured in different ways. For example, the metabase can be stored separately from the data objects so as to allow obtaining of information about the data objects without accessing the data objects or a data structure used by a file system. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349857 | ACCESSING A FILE SYSTEM USING TIERED DEDUPLICATION - An illustrative pseudo-file-system driver uses deduplication functionality and resources in a storage management system to provide an application and/or a virtual machine with access to a locally-stored file system. From the perspective of the application/virtual machine, the file system appears to be of virtually unlimited capacity. The pseudo-file-system driver instantiates the file system in primary storage, e.g., configured on a local disk. The application/virtual machine requires no configured settings or limits for the file system's storage capacity and may thus treat the file system as “infinite.” The pseudo-file-system driver intercepts write requests and may use the deduplication infrastructure in the storage management system to offload excess data from local primary storage to deduplicated secondary storage, based on a deduplication database. The pseudo-file-system driver also intercepts read requests and in response may restore data from deduplicated secondary storage to primary storage, also based on the deduplication database. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349858 | MANAGING INCREMENTAL SNAPSHOTS FOR FAST LEADER NODE BRING-UP - Methods, systems and computer program products for computer system data management. A leader node that is in a leader-follower relationship with a follower node is deployed to manage metadata across a plurality of interconnected computing nodes of the computer system. Upon a failure of any sort that results in a loss of operation or a disconnection of the leader node, the followers undertake steps to bring up a new leader. Such steps to bring up a new leader include electing a new leader to replace the lost or disconnected leader and initializing the data state of the new leader node by causing the leader to request incremental snapshots from followers. Additional metadata that might have changed since closing the incremental snapshots can also be retrieved from the followers. The metadata that might have changed since the time of closing the incremental snapshot is subjected to verification using a consensus algorithm. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349859 | CLONING VIRTUALIZED FILE SERVERS - Examples described herein include virtualized file servers which may include cloned instances of the virtualized file server. Cloning a virtualized the server may allow for testing of new and/or revised features, disaster recovery plans, or other configurations while maintaining availability of the parent (e.g., source) virtualized file server. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349860 | ASSIGNMENT OF QUORA VALUES TO NODES BASED ON IMPORTANCE OF THE NODES - Embodiments described herein are generally directed to techniques for avoiding or mitigating shared-state damage during a split-brain condition in a distributed network of compute nodes. According to an example, a number, N, of nodes within the distributed computing system is determined. During normal operation of the distributed computing system, a unified state is maintained by synchronizing shared state information. The nodes are ordered by increasing importance to an application from 1 to N. A quora value, q | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349861 | DATABASE SETUP USING A MASTER COPY - A system and method to receive, by a cloud infrastructure database service provider, a request for a new database service from an entity external to the cloud infrastructure, the request including an indication the requested database service is to be created using a master copy of a database service; create, in response to the request, a partially initialized database service and a recovery job to access a resource external to the cloud infrastructure; receive, by the partially initialized database service, a master copy of the requested database service from the external resource, the master copy including data content; and fully initialize the database service using at least some of the data content included in the master copy of the requested database service. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349862 | DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND DATA ANALYSIS METHOD - A data analysis method includes steps of: obtaining at least one data table; wherein the data table includes a plurality of fields, and each of the fields stores field data; analyzing the field type according to the field data; determining a field category for each of the fields; calculating the similarity between the fields in different tables; determining the correlation between each of the fields according to the similarity; generating a field data description file according to the field type, the field categories and the correlations; and determining whether the field data description file is abnormal. A data analysis system is also disclosed. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349863 | RECORD-BY-RECORD LIVE MIGRATION USING A LOCK STORE - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for record-by-record live migration using a lock store are disclosed. Migration of a data set comprises acquiring a migration lock from a lock store for an individual record being migrated. An instance of the record is then stored in the destination, and the record is deleted from the source. Subsequently, the migration lock is deleted from the lock store or otherwise released. During the migration, a rate at which insert requests are directed to the destination is dialed up. During the process of updating an insert treatment configuration across a distributed set of migration router instances, an insert lock is acquired from the lock store for each record being inserted. Also metadata is stored indicating a determined location for the record being inserted. Any subsequent requests to insert a record with a same key are inserted at the indicated determined location. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349864 | OPTIMIZED DATABASE MIGRATION FOR LARGE SYSTEMS BETWEEN PLATFORMS WITH DIFFERENT ENDIANNESS - The disclosure describes a method for database migration including: identifying, during an uptime of a source database system, one or more increments between a back-up copy of the source database system and the source database system, the source database system comprising: one or more datafiles encoding data objects, and tablespace data encoding table/index data, restoring, in parallel and during the uptime of the source database system, the one or more datafiles from the back-up copy to a target database system that uses a different endian format; in response to determining that a downtime for the source database system has arrived, sequentially performing, during a downtime of the source database system: setting the tablespace data to read only; recovering datafiles on the target database system in accordance with the one or more increments; and setting the tablespace data to read and write; and activating the target database system to go live. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349865 | DATA MIGRATION SYSTEM - A device may receive a request to migrate source data, associated with a source platform, to a target platform. The device may select a target template associated with the target platform based on the request; obtain target information based on the target template; and generate a target mapping based on the source data and the target information. The device may analyze the target mapping to identify an unmapped element in the target mapping and determine, using a migration analysis model, a candidate mapping, for the unmapped element, between a set of the source data and a target element of the target elements. The device may provide a notification that identifies the candidate mapping, to permit a user selection associated with verifying the candidate mapping. The device may receive the user selection and migrate the source data to the target platform according to the target mapping and the user selection. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349866 | Deduplication-Adapted Casedb For Edge Computing - Disclosed is a data deduplication method for an edge computer. The method is performed in a key-value store, and may include receiving a compaction request occurred from the key-value store to a metadata layer, checking whether deduplication for removing duplicated data is required when compaction of a metadata file is performed in response to the received compaction request, and removing the duplicated data by checking whether the deduplication is required. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349867 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR RECEIVING, PROCESSING AND STORING RICH TIME SERIES DATA - Provided for is a system for processing rich time-series data. Such a system may comprise an Application Programming Interface (API) subsystem, the API subsystem providing an interface for a third-party data source to transmit data. The system may further include a data receiver subsystem, the data receiver subsystem configured to verify the incoming data, said verification comprising authenticating whether the incoming data is rich time-series data. Further, the system may include a data processor subsystem, a database subsystem configured to store data, and a monitoring subsystem configured to transmit one or more alerts. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349868 | Suppression and Deduplication of Place-Entities on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system, a search query, identifying a plurality of place-entity nodes matching the search query, determining that one or more of the identified place-entity nodes are low-quality place-entity nodes based on the place names of the place-entity nodes having anomalous language characteristics, filtering the plurality of identified place-entity nodes to exclude the determined low-quality place-entity nodes, and generating one or more search results corresponding to the plurality of filtered place-entity nodes. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349869 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING NETWORK COMMUNICATION BY MEANS OF OPC UA - The disclosure includes a method for retrieving information stored in a cloud capable database. —A user has an OPC UA client, which is connected for communication with an OPC UA server, wherein the OPC UA server is used for the creating, aggregating and conforming of information models, wherein the OPC UA server interacts with an API for accessing the database, including: creating and loading a user-specific information model into the OPC UA server by using the configuration module, wherein the user-specific information model defines one or more pieces of information to be queried from the database; querying information defined in the user-specific information model from the database using the API and transferring the information from the API to the OPC UA server; converting the queried information into OPC UA-conforming structure data; and sending the structure data from the OPC UA server to the OPC UA client. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349870 | Assigning Access Control for Flat Data Structure - A distribution network may efficiently communicate items/item details in a private manner, with different access rights tailored to various tenants residing within a same or different customer landscape. A first input comprising a flat file with items/item details, is received. A second input comprising permissions entries for per-user, per-item direct access rights (e.g., view, read, write, delete) is also received. The first and second inputs are recursively processed to find nearest ancestors having the direct access rights, with a hash maintained including the nearest ancestors. An effective permitted structure (e.g., tree comprising root and leaf nodes) is generated by recursively adding descendant items having inherited access rights, to the nearest ancestors. Ultimately, descendant item(s) are privately distributed to a user with an access right according to the effective permitted structure. Embodiments may be particularly suited to the private distribution of analytics content (e.g., dimensions, stories, views) to various tenants. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349871 | MANIPULATING SETS OF HIERARCHICAL DATA - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for manipulating hierarchical sets of data are disclosed. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349872 | CREATING INDEX IN BLOCKCHAIN-TYPE LEDGER - A method and an apparatus for creating an index in a blockchain-type ledger, and a device are disclosed. According to one implementation, a method may include obtaining, by a centralized database server, a data record, wherein the data record is stored in a blockchain-type ledger, and wherein the data record comprises a service attribute and a sequence number; determining location information of the data record in the blockchain-type ledger, wherein the location information comprises a block height of a data block comprising the data record, and an offset of the data record in the data block; establishing a mapping relationship between the service attribute, the location information, and the sequence number; and based on the sequence number, writing the mapping relationship to an index. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349873 | USING BORDER DATA STRUCTURE WITH INDEX - A data structure that includes border data structures that appear at the respective interfaces between each of at least some of the segments in the data structure. The border does not conform to a data format for any of the elemental data types of the elemental data items represented within the data structure, and does not represent a size of any of the neighboring segments. Second, the data structure also includes an index. When writing the data structure, the writer tracks the position of each of the regions. When all segments and regions have been written, the writer can then write an index that represents the position of each region. The reader can then use that index to quickly read from only those regions of interest, and quickly skip over regions not of interest. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349874 | AUTOMATED DATABASE INDEX MANAGEMENT - A database index management system uses one or more machine learning models to analyze a query log in relation to a database. A machine learning model may identify a query pattern and/or a change in the query pattern from the query log, identify a column associated with the query pattern, and identify an addition, removal, or modification of an index related to the identified column. The database index management system may perform one or more additions, removals or modifications of indices of the database based on query patterns identified in the query log. The database index management system continuously improves database performance in response to changing database usage patterns over time. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349875 | Text-Based Search of Tree-Structured Tables - Embodiments are provided that include receiving a search query that represents a particular table of a plurality of tables contained in a database and that includes an additional criterion. Records are contained within the tables, which are organized in a tree structure. An index of the database contains a plurality of entries, each corresponding to a respective record in the plurality of tables. A particular entry in the index includes a path string that is indicative of a location, within the tree structure, of a table that contains a record that corresponds to the particular entry. The embodiments also include determining whether the entries in the index satisfy the search query by: (i) determining that the path string of the particular entry begins with a further path string of the particular table, and (ii) responsively determining whether a particular record that corresponds to the particular entry satisfies the additional criterion. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349876 | DIGITAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIERARCHICAL TABLE STRUCTURE WITH CONDITIONAL LINKING RULES IN COLLABORATIVE WORK SYSTEMS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for implementing conditional rules in a hierarchical table structure are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve maintaining for presentation on a viewable interface a higher-level table structure having first rows, first columns and first cells at the intersections of the first rows and the first columns; maintaining for presentation on the viewable interface a lower-level table structure having second rows, second columns and second cells at the intersections of the second rows and second columns; linking the lower-level table to a specific first cell in the higher-level table; storing a specific conditional rule associating the specific first cell with a plurality of second cells of the lower-level table; receiving qualifying information from each of the plurality of second cells; and triggering the specific conditional rule to thereby update milestone information in the specific first cell of the higher-level table. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349877 | DIGITAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLUMN AUTOMATION RECOMMENDATION ENGINE IN COLLABORATIVE WORK SYSTEMS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for associating a plurality of logical rules with groupings of data are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve at least one processor configured to: maintain a table containing columns; access a data structure containing the plurality of logical rules; access a correlation index identifying a plurality of column types and a subset of the plurality of logical rules; receive a selection of a new column to be added to the table; perform a look up in the correlation index for logical rules typically associated with a type of the new column; present a pick list of the logical rules typically associated with the type of the new column; receive a selection from the pick list; link to the new column a second particular logical rule associated with the selection from the pick list; and implement the second particular logical rule. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349878 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a display controller that controls display of a display image, which is formed of a reduced image of a document by adding an accompanying image. The display controller controls display of the display image in a manner that when a display magnification of the display image is changed, the accompanying image is resized in a first direction in accordance with a magnification identical to the display magnification and resized in a second direction that differs from the first direction in accordance with a magnification that differs from the display magnification. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349879 | Processing Consistency Validations of Conditional Foreign-Key Relations - Configuration data is received characterizing configuration information of at least one application process executing on a target system. The configuration data includes a first table, a second table, and a third table. The first table includes a first conditional dependency on the second table and a second conditional dependency on the third table. The receiving is performed prior to transmission of the configuration data to the target system for application of the configuration data to the target system. At least one validation definition including a header and table elements specifying the first conditional dependency and the second conditional dependency is determined using the configuration data. Whether to validate the configuration data to ensure consistency within the target system is determined using the at least one validation definition. The determination of whether to validate the configuration data is provided. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349880 | DATA READINESS ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND DATA READINESS ANALYSIS METHOD - A data analysis system is provided in the invention. The data analysis system includes a storage device, a field-data-description-file generating module, and a general data readiness analysis module. The storage device stores a plurality of raw data. The field-data-description-file generating module generates the field-data-description files corresponding to the raw data. The general data readiness analysis module obtains a score of the consistency indicator of the raw data according to the field-data-description files. The general data readiness analysis module obtains the data of the category which needs to be analyzed from the raw data according to the category of each field-data-description file. The general data analysis module obtains the score of the completeness indicator, the score of the accuracy indicator, the score of the validity indicator, and the score of the compaction indicator which all correspond to the data of the category which needs to be analyzed. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349881 | DATA VERIFICATION IN A DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - A verification device operates to evaluate consistency of input values from a client device used by a server to execute a task. In an example the task may be installation of software into the client device, and the consistency evaluation of the input values may involve evaluating whether identifiers used to obtain attribute values of components of the client device for the installation apply to the same client device. To initiate execution of the task, the client device commands a plurality of data source servers to supply the attribute values. The data source servers return response messages defining the attribute values associated with the identifiers supplied by the client device. The client device supplies the response messages to the server for use in the execution of the task. Before executing the task, the server supplies information from the response messages to a verification device, the information defining a combination of the identifiers of the response messages, as well as the combination of data source servers that have defined attribute values associated with the identifiers. The verification device performing a consistency evaluation on said combination of identifiers, dependent on whether said combination of identifiers is consistent or inconsistent with previously stored combinations of identifiers for said combination of data source servers stored for previously executed tasks and/or whether values of a corresponding further attribute associated with the identifiers in the data source servers in the combination of data source servers are consistent. The server selecting between executing the task or not dependent on a result of the consistency evaluation. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349882 | ESTABLISHING DECENTRALIZED IDENTIFIERS FOR ALGORITHMS, DATA SCHEMAS, DATA SETS, AND ALGORITHM EXECUTION REQUESTS - Techniques are described that enable client computer systems to request an attestation provider server to execute a given algorithm as identified by a decentralized algorithm identifier on the blockchain, using a specific data set. In some embodiments, the owners of the algorithms, data schemas, and data sets use their private key to sign/register each of these decentralized identifier structures, which includes a copy of the owner's public key. Ownership of these decentralized identifiers can be validated by verifying the digital signatures on the blockchain. In some embodiments, only the owner can replace or delete (retire) these identifiers by creating a cancellation transaction on the blockchain for each of these identifiers. In some scenarios, the decentralized identifier structures may include payment options for requesting the execution of an algorithm upon a given appropriate data set. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349883 | AUTOMATED, USER-DRIVEN CURATION AND COMPILATION OF MEDIA SEGMENTS - An example method performed by a processing system includes computing a time series based on user consumption records for an item of media content, wherein the time series indicates, for each time segment of a plurality of time segments of the item of media content, a corresponding level of user interest, detecting a plurality of outliers in the plurality of time segments, based on the time series, and compiling a subset of the plurality of outliers into a single stream of events, wherein a duration of the single stream of events is shorter than a duration of the item of media content. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349884 | AUTOMATED DATASET DESCRIPTION AND UNDERSTANDING - A processing system may generate a first dataset according to a first policy set, record first metadata for the first dataset, generate a first enhanced dataset from the first dataset and a second dataset, according to a second policy set to associate the first and second datasets, and record second metadata including information regarding the second policy set that is applied to associate the first and second datasets, generate a second enhanced dataset derived from the first enhanced dataset and a third dataset according to a fifth policy set to associate the first enhanced dataset with at least the third dataset, the first and second datasets from a first domain and the third dataset from a second domain, record fifth metadata including information associated with the fifth policy set to associate the first enhanced dataset with the third dataset, and add the second enhanced dataset to a dataset catalog. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349885 | DOCUMENT AGGREGATION IN A DIGITAL TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - An electronic document service provides an interoperable network in which entities can come to agreement as peers. Entities can create a network of trusted accounts, enable sharing and collaboration within the network, enforce process settings of shared transactions, and enable customized levels of visibility into transactions for all entities involved. In embodiments, an agent server receives documents from suppliers to be executed within a network of the electronic document service. Each document corresponds to signing requirements and collection requirements. The agent server combines the documents into a single signing package based on the signing requirements associated with each document. The agent server provides the signing package for execution, and receives the executed signing package. The agent server extracts the individual signed documents from the executed signing package. Based on the collection requirements associated with each document, the agent server provides each extracted signed document to the corresponding supplier. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349886 | TRACKING INTERMEDIATE CHANGES IN DATABASE DATA - Systems, methods, and devices for tracking a series of changes to database data are disclosed. A method includes executing a transaction to modify data in a micro-partition of a table of a database by generating a new micro-partition that embodies the transaction. The method includes associating transaction data with the new micro-partition, wherein the transaction data comprises a timestamp when the transaction was fully executed, and further includes associating modification data with the new micro-partition that comprises an indication of one or more rows of the table that were modified by the transaction. The method includes joining the transaction data with the modification data to generate joined data and querying the joined data to determine a listing of intermediate modifications made to the table between a first timestamp and a second timestamp. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349887 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SUGGESTING REMOTE QUERY PARAMETERS BASED FOR CUSTOMIZED DATA INTEGRATION PROCESS - An information handling system operating an automated data set query suggestion system may comprise a processor executing code instructions for identifying a data set through an API query, a GUI receiving a user-selected query object, and the processor generating a natural language sentence describing a suggested API query, based on node and edge values for a previously executed query database describing previously executed API queries. The suggested API query may have include a suggested query object, a suggested query operator, or a suggested API to be queried, associated in the previously executed query database with the user-selected query object. The GUI may receive a user instruction to perform the suggested API query, the processor may automatically generate a set of code instructions for future execution of the suggested API query, and a network interface device may transmit the code instructions for future execution by a runtime engine for execution at a remote location. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349888 | Personalized Spelling Correction - A content management system generates a personalized vocabulary for a user by analyzing content items associated with a namespace of the user. The content management system receives a query. The content management system determines that the at least one search term does not occur at least a threshold number of times in the personalized vocabulary. The content management system identifies a prefix of the at least one search term. The content management system parses the personalized vocabulary based on the prefix to identify a set of search term options. The content management system generates a personalized ranking of the search term options based on (a) an edit distance; (b) a frequency of each search term option's occurrence in the personalized vocabulary; or (c) a combination of (a) and (b). The content management system presents at least a top ranked search term option to the user. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349889 | SEMANTIC SEARCH SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A DISTRIBUTED DATA SYSTEM - Methods and systems are provided for searching information in a distributed data processing system. A system for processing a semantic search query where the system may include a memory and a processor coupled to the memory being configured to, receive a structured search query, process the structured search query to deconstruct into query elements, identify a set of connected elements that define a data source associated with the received structured search query based on a processed query element, process the query elements to determine one or more command data element types associated with the received structured search query, and process data associated with the defined data source according to a command data element type to develop a semantic search query resultant data set. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349890 | DIGITAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-BOARD MIRRORING WITH AUTOMATIC SELECTION IN COLLABORATIVE WORK SYSTEMS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating higher level summary tablature based on lower level tablature are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve at least one processor configured to: receive a selection of at least one item contained on both a first board and a second board; detect a first type of information; detect a second type of information; detect a third type of information; detect a fourth type of information; analyze characteristics to ascertain that the first type of information is aggregable with the third type of information, and that the second type of information is aggregable with the fourth type of information; present the at least one item on a third board; and aggregate on the third board, the first type of information with the third type of information, and the second type of information with the fourth type of information. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349891 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATION AND GRADUATED VISUALIZATION OF USER GENERATED SOCIAL POST ON A SOCIAL MAPPING NETWORK - Systems and methods for receiving information associated with posts to a social network are described. Posts may be associated with a location. Symbols, portions or posts, or multiple symbols may be shown on a client device in an area of a map indicating a location associated with a post. Posts may be represented by symbols, which may include shapes, and such shapes may include emojis. An amount of symbols, posts, or portions of posts displayed on a client device may be determined at least in part by an area of a map displayed on a client device. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349892 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING SEARCHING OF STORED DATA - Described is a computer-implemented method for presenting a search session of a storage tree and associated collection of data items to a user. A search query is received from a user containing one or more terms or non-term conditions for searching the storage tree and associated data items. A search tree representation of the storage tree and associated data items is created, which contains a set of nodes including a first parent node representing the search query. A search query modification request is made, and the search tree representation is modified to add a first tier first child node to the set of nodes which represents the first search query modification. The search tree representation is further modified to add a first-tier unsorted child node to the set of nodes which represents the search query less the first search query modification and then the search tree representation is output. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349893 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYTIC BASED CONNECTIONS AMONG USER TYPES IN AN ONLINE PLATFORM - Introduced here are various embodiments for selectively assigning a query to an expert. A network-accessible server system may receive a query from a client device indicating a question or project proposal. The query text may be parsed and attributes of the query may be determined by inspecting the parsed query text. The query attributes may be compared with attributes associated with a pool of experts with various specialties and expertise in various fields. The network-accessible server system may match the query attributes with attributes associated with a first expert with a similarity that exceeds a threshold similarity level to identify that an expertise of the first expert matches the requested expertise in the query. The first expert may be assigned to the query and prompted to provide a response to the query. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349894 | DIGITAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SMART TABLE FILTER WITH EMBEDDED BOOLEAN LOGIC IN COLLABORATIVE WORK SYSTEMS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for automatically filtering data in complex tables are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve at least one processor that is configured to display multiple headings including a first heading and a second heading, receive a first selection of a first cell associated with the first heading, wherein the first cell may include a first category indicator, receive a second selection of a second cell associated with the first heading, wherein the second cell may include a second category indicator, receive a third selection of a third cell associated with the second heading, wherein the third cell may include a third category indicator, generate a logical filter for the complex table, and, in response to application of the logical filter, to cause a display of a filtered collection of items from the first group that contain the third category indicator. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349895 | AUTOMATIC ONLINE LOG TEMPLATE MINING - Methods and systems for log message aggregation include determining a first similarity distance score for a first incoming message by comparing the first incoming message to one or more stored templates. It is determined that the first incoming message imperfectly matches a matched template of the one or more stored templates, based on the first similarity distance score. A token in the imperfectly matched template is replaced with a wildcard, to reduce the first similarity distance score. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349896 | SERUM OF TRUTH - A computer implemented method for topic-based data mining, cataloging and aggregation through a computer readable program. The method is initiated with a determination of an industry type of a user and collection of the data pertaining of the determined industry. An encryption type of the collected data is determined and a timeframe of the data collection is associated with the user's input. The method then cleanse a duplicate data, white spaces and errors in the collected data and the data verification for an individual, a company and an information is performed. The verified data is then mapped with a plurality of resources to determine a propagation of data over time and a report is generated on the basis of the trustworthiness of the data. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349897 | ANOMALY DETECTION SYSTEM - Aspects of the present invention disclose a method and system for anomaly detection for a data source. The method includes one or more processors identifying unexpected values of monitoring measurands in a monitored time series utilizing an anomaly detection algorithm. A data source provides sensor data, including values of a first group of measurands, which include monitoring measurands. The method further includes determining that values of a second group of one or more of the measurands of a subset of sensor data indicates an anomaly utilizing the anomaly detection algorithm. The method further includes sending anomalous data indicative of the subset of sensor data to a root cause analysis system and receiving corresponding feedback that is indicative of a result of a root cause analysis of the subset of sensor data and comprises a third group of the measurands. The method further includes adapting the anomaly detection algorithm. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349898 | USE OF FILES FOR EFFICIENT ANALYSIS AND STORAGE OF TIME-SERIES - An approach to time-series data handling involves use of a logical data file structure within a multi-layer file storage. Client systems may ingest time-series data to this logical data file structure by writing or appending the time-series data to at least one file in the logical data file structure and adding metadata describing contents of the at least one file to a metadata catalog. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349899 | ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM FOR STREAM STORAGE AND PROCESSING - A method, system and computer program product for orchestrating stream storage and processing is disclosed. The method, performed by one or more processors, may comprise receiving a query specifying a change to a first transformer of a data processing pipeline, the first transformer receiving an existing data stream of data records from a first data source and providing transformed data records to a first data sink. The method may also disclose identifying at least a first and second type of change to be implemented by the query and implementing the change specified in the query dependent on the identified first or second change type. The implementing may comprise one of: changing the first data transformer in accordance with the query and providing transformed output to the first data sink; and deploying a second transformer, being a changed version of the first transformer as specified in the query, for operating in parallel with the first transformer, and providing its transformed output to a second data sink. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349900 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING COMPUTING EFFICIENCY, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSING A DATA BASE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUERYING A DATA BASE AND DATABASE - A system for increasing computing efficiency is disclosed. The system includes a memory that stores at least one tabular constraint. The tabular constraint contains a finite array of symbols, with each symbol representing a value thereby creating a relational symbol (r-symbol), or a potentially infinite set of values, with such a symbol thereby creating a quasi-finite symbol (QF-symbol). The system includes a program configured to compress and to query the tabular constraint. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349901 | SERVERLESS DATA LAKE INDEXING SUBSYSTEM AND APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE - Methods, systems and computer program products are described herein that provide a serverless, multi-engine, multi-user data lake indexing subsystem and application programming interface. Indexes are defined as derived datasets and stored on the data lake in a universal format that enables disparate engines to create and/or discover indexes for workload optimization. Embodiment of indexes enable stateful control and management of an index via metadata included in the index and stored on the data lake. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349902 | DATABASE QUERY PROCESSING - Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: examining an invoked database query for execution on a database; scanning zone data from at least one data node of the database in dependence on the examining, the at least one data node of the database having a storage system and storing in the storage system table data of a table, wherein security tags are associated to respective rows of the table, and wherein the zone data specifies attributes of storage of the table within respective storage system extents of the storage system; identifying, using the zone data, at least one excludible extent of the storage system extents; and excluding the at least one excludible extent from an IO data access operation in processing of the invoked database query. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349903 | ROW SECURE TABLE PLAN GENERATION - Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: identifying an invoked database query for execution on a database, the invoked database query being associated to a user; generating an execution plan for executing the database query on the database; wherein the generating the execution plan for execution of the database query on the database includes establishing an ordering of first and second tables, the ordering of the first and second tables being in dependence on an access privilege attribute of the user in respect to the first table; and executing the database query according to the execution plan. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349904 | DIFFERENTIAL INDEXING FOR FAST DATABASE SEARCH - Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for improving search speed and quality using differential indexing. One method includes an operation for building a first index for a database, the first index being for first tokens resulting from normalizing words in input data. Further, the method includes building a second index for the database, the second index being for second tokens comprising words of the input data eliminated from the first index during the normalizing. The method further includes operations for receiving a raw query for a search of the database, and for generating a search query based on tokens of the raw query. The search query comprises a combined search of the first index and the second index. A search is performed based on the search query, and results of the search are returned for presentation on a display. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349905 | QUERYING DATA IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM - Examples are disclosed that relate to querying data in a distributed storage system. One example provides, at a front-end node, a method comprising receiving a query regarding data stored in an object, obtaining information identifying data nodes at which blocks of the object are stored, sending, to a first data node, a query regarding data in a first block, and receiving results for the query regarding the data in the first block comprising an incomplete record. The method further comprises sending, to a second data node, a query regarding data in a second block comprising the incomplete record, the second block being stored on a different physical device than the first block, and receiving results for the query regarding the data in the second block. The method further comprises outputting the results for the queries regarding the data in the first block and the data in the second block. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349906 | ENFORCEMENT OF A SET OF QUERY RULES FOR ACCESS TO DATA SUPPLIED BY AT LEAST ONE DATA PROVIDER - A query processing system operates by determining a set of query rules, receiving a query from a requesting entity, and generating compliance data by determining whether the query complies with the set of query rules prior to an execution of the query. When the compliance data indicates the query complies with the set of query rules: generating a query result by facilitating the execution of the query against a database system; and transmitting the query result to the requesting entity. When the compliance data indicates the query does not comply with the set of query rules: foregoing facilitation of the execution of the query. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349907 | SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE USING SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGE QUEUES - A social intelligence system is presented that streams information from a source, queues the streamed information, analyzes/scores the queued data, and stores the analyzed/scored data in an analysis database. The analyzed/scored data can then be retrieved from the database for post-processing and stored in a client specific database for further reporting. By streaming the data into various message queues and scoring the data before storing in the analysis database, large volumes of data can be efficiently processed and analyzed for a particular person and/or entity. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349908 | SEARCH RESULT OPTIMIZATION USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS - Systems and methods are provided for search result optimization using machine learning models. A search system uses machine learning models generate a target vector based on query features of a search query and a set of listing vectors based on listing features of listings identified as part of the search query. The target vector represents an estimated optimal listing for the search query and each listing vector represents a corresponding listing identified as part of the search query. The search system determines distances (e.g., Euclidian distance) between each listing vector and the target vector. The determined distances indicate how similar each listing is to the estimated optimal listing for the search query. The search system ranks the listings based on the distances such that listings that are similar to the estimated optimal listing are ranked higher than listing that are not similar to the estimated optimal listing. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349909 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CREATING, DISTRIBUTING, ANALYZING AND OPTIMIZING DATA-DRIVEN SIGNALS - Provided for herein may be a system for optimizing data-driven signals, comprising a database subsystem configured to retrieve rich time-series data, a signal scheduler subsystem configured to trigger a signal generator subsystem time interval, a data aggregator subsystem configured to retrieve and process data from the database subsystem, a signal generator subsystem configured to create a data-driven signal from data aggregated by the data aggregated subsystem, a signal sender subsystem configured to send object data, a data downloader subsystem; and a data analyzer subsystem configured to analyze and provide analysis on data in the database subsystem. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349910 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPARK LINEAGE DATA CAPTURE - Systems and methods for SPARK lineage data capture are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for lineage data capture may include: (1) receiving, at a lineage engine and from a listener service, a decisive logical plan for a job; (2) extracting, using a plan parser, lineage data from the decisive logical plan; (3) producing, by a job lineage builder, job lineage data and job attribute data from the lineage data; (4) extracting, by the job lineage builder and from the job lineage data and the job attribute data, attribute information, transformation information, and estimate information for the job; and (5) storing, in a database, the attribute information, the transformation information, and the estimate information. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349911 | AUTOMATIC HOT AREA DETECTION IN HEAT MAP VISUALIZATIONS - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for automatically detecting hot areas in heat map visualizations. One example method includes identifying a two-dimensional heat map. The identified two-dimensional heat map is converted to a one-dimensional heat map. Cells of the one-dimensional heat map are clustered using a density-based clustering algorithm to generate at least one dense region of cells. A mean value of cells in each dense region is calculated and the dense regions are sorted by mean value in descending order. An approach for identifying hot areas is selected and the selected approach is used to identify at least one dense region as a hot area of the one-dimensional heat map. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349912 | REDUCING RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN CLOUD-BASED DATA SERVICES - In an approach to reducing resource utilization in cloud-based data services, one or more computer processors select a dataset for upload to a server. One or more computer processors determine a data transformation scheduled to be applied to the dataset by the server. One or more computer processors perform a dataset read on the dataset. One or more computer processors perform the data transformation on the dataset. One or more computer processors upload the transformed dataset to the server. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349913 | VISUALIZING SPARSE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATA - A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for visualizing sparse multi-dimensional data. A multi-dimensional dataset (“dataset”) is converted into a three-dimensional architecture and the remaining dimensions, if any, are arranged into one or more planes. The sparse numeric data of the dataset is converted into multiple planes based on partitioning the three-dimensional architecture by the most sparse dimension and aligning the remaining two-dimensions as two-dimensional planes. Colors or shades of colors are assigned to these planes based on the density quantum of the data present in the planes. Furthermore, planes of the dataset are constructed using the assigned colors or shades of color and the defined opacity values of the planes. The constructed planes are mapped to the dataset in the form of a cube(s) and possibly two-dimensional planes, where the darkest color and the least translucent section(s) of the dataset are positioned in the center of the cube(s). | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349914 | GRAPH-BASED DISCOVERY OF GEOMETRY OF CLINICAL DATA TO REVEAL COMMUNITIES OF CLINICAL TRIAL SUBJECTS - Methods and systems for graph-based discovery of geometry of clinical data are provided. An example method includes receiving vectors of outcomes of trial subjects, generating, based on the vectors of outcomes, a plurality of metric graphs, each of the metric graphs including a set of nodes corresponding to the vectors of outcomes and a set of edges, performing an automatic search to identify communities of nodes in the optimal graph, displaying a graphical representation of the optimal graph and highlighting nodes in the graphical representation, the nodes corresponding to the community of nodes. Generating the set of edges includes selecting metrics and projection rules to obtain projections of the vectors of outcomes, and selectively connecting nodes based on determination that projections of corresponding vectors of outcomes belong to the same domain of a set of overlapping domains and a certain cluster within the domain. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349915 | GENERATING VARIED-SCALE VISUALIZATIONS OF MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATA - This disclosure relates to methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that generate and render a varied-scale-topological construct for a multidimensional dataset to visually represent portions of the multidimensional dataset at different topological scales. In certain implementations, for example, the disclosed systems generate and combine (i) an initial topological construct for a multidimensional dataset at one scale and (ii) a local topological construct for a subset of the multidimensional dataset at another scale to form a varied-scale-topological construct. To identify a region from an initial topological construct to vary in scale, the disclosed systems can determine the relative densities of subsets of multidimensional data corresponding to regions of the initial topological construct and select one or more such regions to change in scale. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349916 | COPY EXECUTION WITHIN A LOCAL DATABASE - The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for managing data replication between different source sections and target sections in response to received copy instructions associated with copy profiles. In response to evaluating statistical metadata identifying whether data records in relation to at least one client are included for a table from a first set of tables, a first subset of tables from the first set of tables is determined. In response to evaluating update metadata defining latest updates of tables from the first subset of tables, a second subset of tables from the first subset of tables is determined that defines tables that include updated data records relevant for copying. The second subset tables are iteratively evaluated to define corresponding operations to be performed for tables at the target section and at the source section in the database in relation to the requested copy operation. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349917 | REPLICATING DATA CHANGES THROUGH DISTRIBUTED INVALIDATION - A computer-implemented method for replicating data changes through distributed invalidation includes receiving, by a distributed database system, an instruction to change a data element in a table. The distributed database system includes at least a first server and a second server. A first copy of the table is stored on the first server, and a second copy of the table is stored on the second server. The method further includes in response to the instruction, determining that the data element is secured by a replication key that is stored on a shared key management system that is accessible by the first server and by the second server, wherein the replication key is unique to the data element. The method further includes invalidating the replication key and modifying the first copy of the table on the first server according to the instruction that is received. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349918 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PARTITION A DATABASE - Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to partition a database are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to identify a first variant associated with a request query received from a source, select a first partition based on the first variant, the first partition storing first data associated with the request query, identify a second variant associated with the request query, select a second partition based on the second variant, the second partition storing second data associated with the request query different from the first data, cause execution of a first query on the first partition, cause execution of a second query on the second partition, aggregate data associated with the request query based on a first result of the first query and a second result of the second query, and return the aggregated data to the source. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349919 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING FEATURE SETS FOR A PLURALITY OF EQUIPMENT TO A USER - A system and a method for recommending feature sets for a plurality of equipment to a user. The method includes creating a library of contextual and preprocessed feature sets in a hierarchical manner for recommending features sets to a user. The method also includes compiling a plurality of hierarchical feature sets with a last feature set in a hierarchy being generated using an output of a module and incrementally adding the generated feature sets using different modules to the feature sets generated by the module. The method includes validating the generated feature sets to remove errors and using the validated feature sets as labelled data for previous feature sets and using attributes to categorize the labelled data corresponding to the contextual and pre-processed feature sets. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349920 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTPUTTING INFORMATION - A method and an apparatus for outputting information are provided. The method may include: acquiring feature data of a user, where the feature data includes a user identifier, values of feature variable, and label values corresponding to the user identifiers; determining a discrete feature variable and a continuous feature variable in the feature variables; determining sets of values of the discrete feature variable corresponding to different label values, and determining sets of values of the continuous feature variable corresponding to the different label values; determining sets of values of the feature variables corresponding to the different label values based on the sets of values of the discrete feature variable corresponding to the different label values and the sets of values of the continuous feature variable corresponding to the different label values; and outputting the sets of values of the feature variables corresponding to the different label values. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349921 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING QUESTIONS OF USERS OF A DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods are disclosed. An example method may be performed by one or more processors of a system and include retrieving case data indicating, for each respective case of a number of cases, one or more documents retrieved to assist a system user associated with the respective case, generating, from the case data, a case matrix including a plurality of rows each corresponding to a respective case of the number of cases and a plurality of columns each corresponding to the documents retrieved to assist the system user associated with the respective case, and identifying groups of similar cases among the plurality of cases based on a clustering process performed on at least a portion of the case matrix. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349922 | METHOD OF RECOGNIZING AN OBJECT IN AN IMAGE USING iMaG AUTOMATED GEOREGSTRATION SYSTEM GENERATED MULTI-ORBIT SATELLITE IMAGERY WITH A CADSTRAL DATA BASED IMAGERY BASE - A method of generating a Virtual Geospatial Information System (VGIS) database for recognizing an object in an image. At least two images are input to the system, one of the images being a base image for scene registration. At least one orthoimage is generated with corresponding digital elevation model (DEM) data in a Virtual Earth Coordinate (VEC) System domain. The at least one orthoimage is registered to produce a registered image set. Georegistered imagery with scene content signatures is output for automated scene content analysis and automated change detection. In another embodiment, the method of generating a VGIS database for recognizing an object in an image includes the steps of: inputting at least two images, one of the images being a base image for scene registration; registering the at least one image in the virtual Earth or no-coordinate domain to produce a reduced drift geo-aligned image set; and outputting the geo-aligned imagery comprising at least one item chosen from a set of items consisting of: scene content signatures; signature libraries of the base images and the registered image set; georegistration variance score map; georegistration drift score database; and change detection. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349923 | HIGH DEFINITION MAP AND ROUTE STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES - High definition maps for autonomous vehicles are very high resolution and detailed, and hence require storage of a great deal of data. A vehicle computing system provides multi-layered caching makes this data usable in a system that requires very low latency on every operation. The system determines which routes are most likely to be driven in the near future by the car, and ensures that the route is cached on the vehicle before beginning the route. The system provides efficient formats for moving map data from server to car and for managing the on-car disk. The system further provides real-time accessibility of nearby map data as the car moves, while providing data access at optimal speeds. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349924 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING AN AUTOMATIC DATA INGESTION MODULE - Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing an automatic data ingestion module for automatically making data ingestion agnostic to source format are provided. A database stores a plurality of entity data each having a different file format. A processor configures each entity data accessed from the database via a communication network; automatically parses each of the configured entity data; splits and converts the parsed entity data of different file formats into a single file format; and translate the single file formatted entity data into a graph database form for further processing and analysis. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349925 | System and Method for Retrieving Results and Responses with Context Based Exclusion Criteria - A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for processing a search query that includes context based exclusion criteria. A search query is analyzed as to a subject, topic, noun phrase and query intent. Negative exclusion context and emphasis of the search query are determined with a filter word list to refine the query intent. A knowledge graph is created based on the search query. A set of branches of the knowledge graph is determined from which information is retrieved. Negative intent branches are identified based on the exclusion context and pruning is performed on the negative intent branches from the knowledge graph. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349926 | METHOD OF PRESENTING EXCLUDED KEYWORD CATEGORIES IN KEYWORD SUGGESTIONS - A server can receive a seed keyword to generate additional keywords relevant to the seed keyword. The server can identify, using a semantic relationship graph, keyword categories. Each keyword can have a semantic distance from the seed keyword less than a threshold. The server can generate, for each keyword of the keyword categories, a keyword-seed affinity score based on a frequency of the keyword occurring with the seed keyword on an information resource. The server can determine, for each keyword category, a category-seed affinity score based on the keyword-seed affinity scores for each of keyword in the keyword category. The server can compare each category-seed affinity score a threshold. The server can transmit, for display, the keywords. One keyword category can be indicated as selected and another keyword category can be indicated as unselected based on the comparison. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349927 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING ENHANCED DOCUMENTS FOR PERFECT AUTOMATED PARSING - The disclosed enhanced document creation and parsing systems deal with enhanced documents that allow for the presentation of document content in a preferred visual manner, while ensuring that the document content can be captured accurately by an automated parser with nothing being discarded or misrepresented. The enhanced document creation system may create an enhanced document by encoding document content in accordance with a defined schema, optionally encrypting the resulting structured data into an encrypted byte string, and embedding the encrypted byte string as non-visible metadata in a rendered document. The resulting enhanced document can be completely and accurately parsed by an enhanced document parsing system that is capable of extracting, decrypting and decoding the embedded document metadata. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349928 | PATENT EVALUATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A patent evaluation method and system thereof are provided. The method includes collecting patent documents, and further includes the following steps: generating technical points and patent-affiliated technical points; generating technical clusters and patent-affiliated cluster; performing a patent evaluation in each of the technical clusters. The patent evaluation method and system proposed in the present invention aggregates the patents in a technical cluster mode through natural language processing and complex network algorithms, gives patents scientific and technological attributes, and places the patents in a global same industry for evaluation. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349929 | RECURSIVE AGGLOMERATIVE CLUSTERING OF TIME-STRUCTURED COMMUNICATIONS - An example method of method of document cluster labeling comprises: selecting a current document cluster of a plurality of document clusters; initializing a label associated with the current document cluster; selecting a term from a list of terms comprised by the document cluster; appending the term to the label associated with the current document cluster; responsive to determining that the label is found in a label dictionary, iteratively selecting a next term from the list of terms comprised by the document cluster and appending the next term to the label associated with the current document cluster; responsive to failing to locate the label in the label dictionary, inserting the label into the label dictionary; and associating the label with the current document cluster. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349930 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING A MEDIA FILE - A first method and system for customizing a file comprising at least one of audio or video content comprises receiving a baseline file comprising at least one of audio or video content, receiving a first file, and generating a customized file comprising at least one of audio or video content comprising the first file and the baseline file comprising at least one of audio or video content. A second method and system for customizing a media file comprises receiving a first baseline media file, receiving a first customization file, generating a first customized media file comprising the baseline media file and the first customization file, determining one or more customization preferences, and customizing a second baseline media file using the one or more customization preferences to generate a customized second media file in response to a triggering event. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349931 | SYSTEM FOR OBJECT IDENTIFICATION - A multidimensional system for generating a multimedia search engine is provided. A computer device identifies a plurality of independently separable aspects of a multimedia file. The computing device provides at least one independently separable aspect of the plurality of independently separable aspects as input into an object detection model. The computing device receives, from the object detection model, an identification of at least one object and a corresponding level of confidence that the object is present in the multimedia file. The computing device classifies the object as either confident or not confident, based on whether the level of confidence meets a threshold level of confidence. The computing device generates a multimedia search engine based, at least in part, on the object and the classification. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349932 | USER-SPECIFIC MEDIA PLAYLISTS - A media recommendation system may score media items according to user recommendations, popularity, and/or recency. The scores may be weighted to produce an overall score for each media item. Media items may be added to a pool for a specific user, from which media items are selected for playback. The contents of the pool may be modified based upon user feedback and other data. The pool may be modified dynamically and/or in real time as media items are consumed or rated by the user. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349933 | FARM WORK SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND FARM WORK SUPPORT SYSTEM - Provided is a farm work support device including a reception unit configured to receive designation of plants to be cultivated, a retrieval unit configured to retrieve a vegetation design which is a vegetation combination proper for construction of a mixed and dense growth state of the designated plants, and an output unit configured to output the retrieved vegetation design. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349934 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image display system is configured such that an image display device and an image processing device are connected to each other through a network. The image display device is provided with an instruction information generation unit for generating instruction information pertaining to image-processing to be performed on an image input signal; an image signal transmission unit for transmitting the instruction information to the image processing device; a corrected signal reception unit for receiving a corrected image input signal obtained through image-processing performed by the image processing device on the basis of the instruction information; and a display signal output unit for outputting an image output signal based on the corrected image input signal, to an object where an image is to be displayed. The image processing device receives the image input signal connected through the network and performs image-processing on the image input signal according to the instruction information. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349935 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR STORING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH CONTENT PRESENTED ON A MEDIA PRESENTATION DEVICE - Methods, systems, and media for performing personalized actions on mobile devices associated with a media presentation device are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: determining that a mobile device is associated with a media presentation device over a communications network, wherein the media presentation device is in an operating mode that presents a sequence of images; receiving a user command that indicates interest in an image from the sequence of images being presented on the media presentation device; determining metadata associated with the image from the sequence of images being presented on the media presentation device; causing the metadata associated with the image to be stored with a representation of the image from the sequence of images and a user account identifier corresponding to a user of the mobile device; receiving a request to review saved image information corresponding to one or more images in which the user command indicative of interest has been received; and in response to receiving the request, causing a user interface element to be presented that allows a user of the mobile device to navigate through the saved image information, wherein the user interface element includes at least the representation of the image from the sequence of images and information relating to the image from the sequence of images. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349936 | Predictively Presenting Search Capabilities - Example techniques and systems may obtain one or more search types associated with a geographic location of a computing device. In one example, a technique may include determining, by a mobile computing device, a geographic location of the mobile computing device and obtaining one or more search types associated with the geographic location. Responsive to obtaining the one or more search types, the technique may also include outputting, by the mobile computing device and for display, a graphical user interface comprising at least an indication of the one or more search types associated with the geographic location. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349937 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DIGITAL FILES - A computer-implemented method of associating digital tags with digital files comprises storing a plurality of digital files having embedded therein content data and metadata including tags; receiving, via a user interface device of a client device, a first tag label containing alphanumeric text created and inputted by a user of the client device; modifying, using a controller device, a selected first one of the tags of the metadata in a first of the digital files to include the first tag label; receiving, via the user interface device or another user interface device, an instruction to search for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; responsive to receiving the instruction, automatically searching for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; and displaying, on a video display device associated with the client device, a first indication of the first tag label. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349938 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND MANAGING AUDIO CONTENT - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for generating and managing audio content, such as blogcast episodes. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that includes operations performed by at least one processor including retrieving a plurality of stored snippets of media content related to a blogcast episode, the plurality of stored snippets of media content including one or more snippets of user-contributed content. The method also includes receiving snippet metric data associated with one or more snippets of user-contributed content. In addition, the method includes selecting two or more snippets of the plurality of stored snippets of media content including at least one snippet of user-contributed content and generating a blogcast episode comprising the two or more snippets of the plurality of snippets of media content. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349939 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VEHICLE LOCALIZATION VIA AMPLITUDE AUDIO FEATURES - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for vehicle localization via amplitude audio features. In this regard, an amplitude audio signature of audio data received from one or more audio sensors of a vehicle is determined. Location data associated with the vehicle is also determined. Based on the location data for the vehicle, at least a portion of an audio feature map is selected. The audio feature map stores amplitude audio signatures associated with road noise in relation to respective locations. Furthermore, the amplitude audio signature of the audio data is compared with the amplitude audio signatures of the audio feature map. Based on the comparison between the amplitude audio signature of the audio data and the amplitude audio signatures of the audio feature map, a location of the vehicle is refined to generate updated location data for the vehicle. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349940 | VIDEO CLIP POSITIONING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This application discloses a video clip positioning method performed at a computer device. In this application, the computer device acquires a plurality of video frame features of a target video and a text feature of a target text using a video recognition model to determine a candidate clip that can be matched with the target text. The candidate clip is finely divided based on a degree of matching between a video frame in the candidate clip and the target text to acquire a plurality of sub-clips, and a sub-clip that has the highest degree of matching with the target text is used as a target video clip. According to this application, the video recognition model does not need to learn a boundary feature of the target video clip, and during model training, or precisely label a sample video, thereby shortening a training period of the video recognition model. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349941 | ASSIGNING CASE IDENTIFIERS TO VIDEO STREAMS - A process mining system performs process mining using visual logs generated from video streams of worker devices. Specifically, for a given worker device, the process mining system obtains a series of images capturing a screen of a worker device while the worker device processes one or more tasks related to an operation process. The process mining system determines activity labels for a plurality of images. An activity label for an image may indicate an activity performed on the worker device when the image was captured. The activity label is determined by extracting information from pixels of the image and inferring the activity of the worker device from the extracted information. The process mining system generates event logs from the visual logs of worker devices and uses the event logs for process mining. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349942 | SYSTEMS METHODS AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIA FOR COLLECTING AND PROCESSING PROGRESSIVISTIC METADATA - Systems, methods and computer readable storage media for collecting and processing progressivistic metadata are described; a structure of files comprising a progressivistic metadata and implementational aspects of various uses thereof are further described. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349943 | AN APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - The embodiments relate to a method comprising receiving visual data in a file format compatible with ISO base media file format; processing the visual data to detect one or more content elements; storing the detected one or more content elements and information on the used process as a metadata; and including the metadata to the media file in association with the visual data. The embodiments also relate to a technical equipment for implementing the method. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210349944 | Relevance-Based Image Selection - A system, computer readable storage medium, and computer-implemented method presents video search results responsive to a user keyword query. The video hosting system uses a machine learning process to learn a feature-keyword model associating features of media content from a labeled training dataset with keywords descriptive of their content. The system uses the learned model to provide video search results relevant to a keyword query based on features found in the videos. Furthermore, the system determines and presents one or more thumbnail images representative of the video using the learned model. | 2021-11-11 |
