49th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 69 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140358832 | Personalized Activity Stream Discovery System, Method, and Device - A personalized activity stream system, method, and device delivers a recommendation that is contextualized basis a selected item in an activity stream and that is personalized for a recommendation recipient consistent with an inference of the recommendation recipient's interests. Contextualization and personalization may be based on an automatic analysis of usage behaviors and/or content. The recommendation may be informed by an inference of an expertise level, and an explanation for the recommendation may be delivered to the recommendation recipient. The recommendation may be in accordance with an automatically determined geographic location associated with a location-aware portable device, as well as environmental conditions proximal to the portable device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358833 | DETERMINING AN ANOMALOUS STATE OF A SYSTEM AT A FUTURE POINT IN TIME - A prediction technique to predict an anomalous state of a processing environment at a future point in time. One or more values of one or more metrics of the processing system are obtained. For the one or more metrics, one or more predicted values are determined for one or more points in time in the future. Based the predicted values, one or more change values for one or more points in time are determined, and based on the one or more change values, a determination is made as to whether an anomalous state exists within the processing system. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358834 | SYNAPSE CIRCUIT AND NEUROMORPHIC SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A synapse circuit to perform spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP) operation is provided. The synapse circuit includes a memristor having a resistance value, a transistor connected to the memristor, and the transistor configured to receive at least two input signals. The resistance value of the memristor is changed based on a time difference between the at least two input signals received by the transistor. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358835 | RANGE CLASS ESTIMATION FOR RADIO FREQUENCY DEVICES - Implementations are disclosed for obtaining a range state of a device operating in an indoor environment with radio frequency (RF) signal sources. In some implementations, windowed signal measurements obtained from RF signals transmitted by an RF signal source are classified into range classes that are defined by threshold values obtained from a RF signal propagation model. A range class observation is obtained by selecting a range class among a plurality of range classes based on a percentage of a total number of windowed signal measurements that are associated with the range class. The range class observation is provided as input to a state estimator that estimates a range class that accounts for process and/or measurement noise. The output of the state estimator is provided as input to a state machine. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358836 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS WITH A LOCATION-BASED SERVICE - A mobile application is provided that provides intelligent recommendations based on the knowledge of where the user has been, and what venues the user would like to visit. Further, such an application may be capable of determining where people in a user's social network have been and what venue locations these related users would like to visit. Also, in another implementation, the application may be capable of determining where people with similar tastes have been, and where they would like to go. Some or all of this information may be used by a mobile application that provides recommendations to a user. For instance, in one implementation, a user having a mobile device such as a cell phone wishes to locate a venue based on one or more parameters, and some or all of this information may be used to order or rank recommendations within the interface. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358837 | Searching Apparatus Utilizing Sub-word Finite State Machines - An apparatus that searches an input stream having a sequence of N-bit wide data words for a pattern using a plurality of small FSMs is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of sub-word FSMs and a combiner. Each sub-word FSM has an input word size less than N-bits. Each FSM processes a corresponding segment of the N-bit words and generates a match output indicative of a possible match to the pattern when one of the input words to that FSM is received and that FSM moves to a predetermined match state. The combiner receives the match outputs from all of the sub-word FSMs and generates a pattern match output if all of the sub-word FSMs indicate a match to the pattern. The pattern is a variable pattern. In one embodiment, the FSMs are single bit FSMs. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358838 | DETECTING ELECTRICITY THEFT VIA METER TAMPERING USING STATISTICAL METHODS - A system and method for detecting anomalous energy usage of building or household entities. The method applies a number of successively stringent anomaly detection techniques to isolate households that are highly suspect for having engaged in electricity theft via meter tampering. The system utilizes historical time series data of electricity usage, weather, and household characteristics (e.g., size, age, value) and provides a list of households that are worthy of a formal theft investigation. Generally, raw utility usage data, weather history data, and household characteristics are cleansed, and loaded into an analytics data mart. The data mart feeds four classes of anomaly detection algorithms developed, with each analytic producing a set of households suspected of having engaged in electricity theft. The system allows a user to select households from each list or a set based on the intersection of all individual sets. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358839 | DETECTING ELECTRICITY THEFT VIA METER TAMPERING USING STATISTICAL METHODS - A method for detecting anomalous energy usage of building or household entities. The method applies a number of successively stringent anomaly detection techniques to isolate households that are highly suspect for having engaged in electricity theft via meter tampering. The system utilizes historical time series data of electricity usage, weather, and household characteristics (e.g., size, age, value) and provides a list of households that are worthy of a formal theft investigation. Generally, raw utility usage data, weather history data, and household characteristics are cleansed, and loaded into an analytics data mart. The data mart feeds four classes of anomaly detection algorithms developed, with each analytic producing a set of households suspected of having engaged in electricity theft. The system allows a user to select households from each list or a set based on the intersection of all individual sets. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358840 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RISK INDICATOR CALCULATION FOR DRIVING BEHAVIOUR AND FOR RECONSTRUCTING A VEHICLE TRAJECTORY - A first aspect relates to an apparatus, system and method for calculating a driving behaviour risk indicator for a driver of a vehicle. Said aspect involves obtaining a count of events occurring in each of a plurality of predetermined categories based on inputs from an inertial unit mounted on the vehicle, the inertial unit including a 3D inertial sensor with 3D gyroscope functionality, each event being indicative of at least one of dangerous and aggressive driving; and calculating a driving behaviour risk indicator based on the number of events in each category. According to a second aspect, an apparatus and method for reconstructing a vehicle trajectory is provided. Said aspect includes updating a sensor error model. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358841 | VEHICLE BEHAVIOR PREDICTION DEVICE AND VEHICLE BEHAVIOR PREDICTION METHOD, AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE - In order to provide a vehicle behavior prediction device and a vehicle behavior prediction method, and a driving assistance device that uses said vehicle behavior prediction device, which enables vehicle behavior to be predicted in a highly accurate manner, a vehicle control device is installed in a vehicle. This vehicle control device is provided with a distribution calculation unit and a vehicle behavior prediction unit. The distribution calculation unit determines, on the basis of driving condition information that has been collected, probability distributions for when deceleration behavior occurs and does not occur. The vehicle behavior prediction unit determines the relative positional relationships between the driving speed and acceleration of vehicles ahead with respect to the probability distributions, and, on the basis of the relative positional relationships that have been determined, predicts the behavior of a vehicle that is subject to prediction. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358842 | Content-based Expertise Level Inferencing System and Method - A content-based expertise level inferencing system and method analyzes content such as text-based content that is associated with a user and infers an expertise level of the user that is associated with a topic. Language-based analytic techniques may be applied in inferring the expertise level, including the application of domain-specific vocabulary and frequency analyses. The expertise level may be further inferred based on usage behaviors of the user and/or other users. Calibration information may be applied in generating the inference of the expertise level. Recommendations may be generated based on the inferred expertise level, and explanations for the recommendation and/or the inference may be generated for delivery to a recommendation recipient. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358843 | Determining Related Data Points from Multi-Modal Inputs - Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for determining related data points from multi-modal inputs. A method includes collecting multiple items of multi-modal data comprising at least one dimension from multiple data sources, wherein said at least one dimension comprises a geographic dimension, a temporal dimension and/or an event-related dimension, determining a window of relevance for each of the multiple items of multi-modal data with respect to the at least one dimension, and identifying two or more of the multiple items of multi-modal data as related, by determining an overlap of the window of relevance corresponding to each of the two or more items of multi-modal data with respect to the at least one dimension. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358844 | WORKFLOW CONTROLLER COMPATIBILITY - Aspects of the disclosure relate to workflow controller compatibility for in order to format workflow data such that communication between incompatible workflow controllers is facilitated. A compatibility processing module may execute one or more processes to format a workflow such that communication between previously incompatible workflow controllers is facilitated. A first workflow controller is configured with a compatibility processing module and receives a large number of data points. The compatibility module executes one or more processes on a workflow such that the processed workflow is compatible with a second workflow controller. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358845 | DATA WAREHOUSE COMPATIBILITY - A compatibility processing module, for executing one or more processes to format and manipulate data, such that communication between previously-incompatible data warehouses is facilitated. In particular, a first warehouse is disclosed, wherein the first data warehouse is configured with a compatibility processing module, for receiving a large number of data points, and for executing one or more processes on a stored portion of the received data points such that the resulting processed data points are compatible with formatting conventions of a second data warehouse. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358846 | Apparatus and Method for Harmonizing Data Along Inferred Hierarchical Dimensions - A server includes a data processing module with executable instructions executed by a processor to produce a first inferred data type from first received data and a second inferred data type from second received data. The first inferred data type is utilized to augment the first received data with computed values that aggregate the first received data along a first hierarchical dimension. The second inferred data type is utilized to augment the second received data with computed values that aggregate the second received data along a second hierarchical dimension. The first hierarchical dimension and the second hierarchical dimension are harmonized to a lowest common unit value. A first visualization of the first received data is provided based upon the lowest common unit value. A second visualization of the second received data is provided based upon the lowest common unit value. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358847 | Method and System for Document Update - Method and system for document update are provided. Information related to document update in the database is obtained. A stochastic model is generated based on the obtained information. An update sequence is determined based on the stochastic model. The update sequence indicates at least one document that needs to be updated in a time slot. One or more documents are retrieved from the database based on the update sequence. The retrieved one or more documents are updated in the time slot. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358848 | INTERCONNECT PARTITION BINDING API, ALLOCATION AND MANAGEMENT OF APPLICATION-SPECIFIC PARTITIONS - Systems and methods for operating a database in system memory within a virtual partition are described. One system includes one or more host computing systems, each host computing system including at least one execution core and a system memory. The system includes a plurality of virtual partitions executing on the one or more host computing systems and including a first partition having at least a portion of the system memory associated with at least one of the one or more host computing systems and configured to store a database therein. The system also includes an interconnect layer communicatively connecting the plurality of virtual partitions, the interconnect layer providing a programming interface by which direct memory access operations between partitions are coordinated. In response to database commands received at the first partition, the data stored in the database is provided to a requesting partition a direct memory access operation. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358849 | DATABASE SYSTEM AND METHODS THEREFOR - A control module for controlling data stored in at least one database is disclosed. The control module comprise at least one memory and at least one processor configured to extend the at least one database in accordance with at least one predetermined rule stored in said at least one memory, and populate the records of said extension of said database automatically in dependence on said at least one predetermined rule. The at least one predetermined rule may comprise inserting a null indicator in a record of said extension when no actual data is available. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358850 | OPEN FEEDBACK APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - An open feedback apparatus and a method of operating the same are disclosed. The open feedback apparatus includes a storage unit, an improved content management unit, a reliability review unit, and a version management unit. The storage unit stores content based on open source. The improved content management unit registers improved content modified based on the content by a developer with the storage unit or updates the content stored in the storage unit with the improved content. The reliability review unit generates information about the reliability of the improved content using the result value of reliability review performed based on the improved content. The version management unit assigns a version to the improved content based on the reliability information. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358851 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNIVERSAL STORAGE AND PRESENTATION OF DATA - A method includes receiving, on an electronic device, one or more logical entities from a storage system having a universe of data. The one or more logical entities encapsulate data from the universe of data on the storage system. Each of the one or more logical entities belong to one of a plurality of logical-entity types defined by a universal representation format. The method additionally includes, for each of the one or more logical entities, rendering a representation of the logical entity on a spatial interface, the spatial interface comprising a plurality of spatial components. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358852 | METHOD OF SYNCHRONIZING DATA WITHIN DATABASE CLUSTERS - A database cluster is provided. The database cluster includes a plurality of nodes. When a change is implemented at a first given node of the database cluster, the change is communicated to other nodes of the database cluster to synchronize data between the nodes. For this purpose, the first given node generates information by applying a hash function to a database key indicative of where the change is to be implemented. Subsequently, the first given node includes the information generated by the hash function into the change, and communicates the change along with the information to a second given node of the database cluster. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358853 | Optimistic Concurrency Utilizing Distributed Constraint Enforcement - Optimistic concurrency is effectuated to manage constraints in a synchronization environment at multiple computing device endpoints in a consistent fashion without utilizing concentrated centralized constraint logic. Implemented data synchronization constraints that identify false violation scenarios may be automatically resolved without user intervention by using an etag system directed by a master component to assist computing device endpoints to maintain data synchronization among them. Data entries defining each file hierarchy component to be synched are generated and shared with the master component and each computing device endpoint in a synchronization environment. Individual computing device endpoints can use the data entries generated locally with those generated by other computing device endpoints to locally resolve identified false violation scenarios. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358854 | Live Upgrade - A method and corresponding system upgrades a live computer system. The method begins with migrating a copy of data from a first system to a communicatively coupled second system at a first time. Next, at one or more subsequent times, a copy of changed data is migrated from the first system to the second system until a threshold is reached. Finally, in response to reaching the threshold, a copy of the remaining changed data is migrated from the first system to the second system. A further embodiment of the method comprises: disabling access to the first system during the migration of data at the first time, enabling and maintaining access to the first system at the one or more subsequent times during the migration of the copy of changed data, and disabling access to the first system during the migration of the copy of the remaining changed data. In this manner, the system being upgraded is still highly available throughout the upgrade process. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358855 | REPLICATING DATA TO A DATABASE - Techniques for replicating data to a database include determining a change to at least one database value in a database table on a source repository; updating, based on the change to the at least one database value, a snapshot value associated with the change to the at least one database value stored in a log table; incrementing a commit value associated with the snapshot value stored in a commit table, the commit table comprising a plurality of commit values associated with a plurality of corresponding snapshot values; initiating replication of the database from the source repository to a target repository; determining a maximum commit value of the plurality of commit values; and replicating the database value in the database table from the source repository to the target repository based on the commit value associated with the snapshot value being less than or equal to the maximum commit value. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358856 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - The present invention concerns one of the plurality of first storage apparatuses, prior to a file migration to the second storage apparatus, notifies to the second storage apparatus of file migration information being information relating to the file migration, the second storage apparatus calculates an increment of a load on the second storage apparatus that is generated by the file migration based on information written in the file migration information, the second storage apparatus determines whether the file migration is allowable based on a current load on the second storage apparatus itself and the increment, the second storage apparatus notifies the determination result to the one of the plurality of first storage apparatuses that has notified the file migration information, and the one of the plurality of first storage apparatuses determines whether to migrate the file to the second storage apparatus based on the determination result. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358857 | DE-DUPLICATION WITH PARTITIONING ADVICE AND AUTOMATION - Migrating a sub-volume in data storage with at least two de-duplication domains, each of the domains having at least one sub-volume. A first sub-volume is assigned to a de-duplication domain and a first content summary is computed for the first sub-volume. Similarly, a second sub-volume is assigned to a second de-duplication domains and a second content summary is computed for the second sub-volume. A first content affinity is calculated between the first sub-volume and a third sub-volume, and a second content affinity is calculated between the second sub-volume and the third sub-volume. A domain placement is selected for the third sub-volume based on comparison of the first content affinity and the second content affinity. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358858 | Determining A Schedule For A Job To Replicate An Object Stored On A Storage Appliance - A technique includes queuing jobs to replicate object data stored on a storage appliance. The technique includes, for at least one of the jobs, selectively regulating when the job appears in the schedule based at least in part on a number of failed attempts to complete the job. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358859 | FILE SHARING SYSTEM AND FILE SHARING METHOD - In a computer system according to an embodiment of the present invention, a first slave server includes copy management information associating a master file system identifier with an identifier of a slave server including a copy of the master file system identified by the master file system identifier. The first slave server acquires a copy of a part of a master file system. The copy includes a stub-state object (file or directory). The first slave server searches the copy management information for a slave server to be queried regarding information for materializing the stub-state object. If the slave server to be queried includes the information for materialization, the first slave server materializes the stub-state object using the information for materialization acquired from the queried slave server. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358860 | Sync Framework Extensibility - Embodiments described herein may involve enabling applications to cooperate with a system-level sync framework. The sync framework may provide system synchronization of files between user devices and a cloud storage service. Arbitrary applications on a user computing device can communicate with the sync framework to temporarily suspend synchronization of a specified file by the sync framework. The application can register functions with the sync framework that the sync framework can invoke in relation to suspending synchronization, continuing to provide system-level access to the file for arbitrary applications, and resuming synchronization. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358861 | MANAGING A MULTI-VERSION DATABASE - Managing different versions of a data record is provided. A mapping is maintained between a version-independent logical record identifier and a version-dependent physical record row identifier that correspond to each data record within a plurality of data records of a data table using a logical record identifier to physical record row identifier indirection mapping table. Entries within leaf pages of an index associated with the data table are updated to point to the version-independent logical record identifier corresponding to a data record instead of pointing to the version-dependent physical record row identifier corresponding to the data record. The logical record identifier to physical record row identifier indirection mapping table is updated in response to performing an operation on the data record instead of updating the entries within the leaf pages of the index associated with the data table. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358862 | AUTOMATIC MOBILE DEVICE BACKUP - Embodiments of systems and methods for automatic backup of a user's data stored on a mobile device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes storing a user information from a memory of a mobile communication device into a database; determining a status of the mobile communication device; and when the status indicates that the mobile communication device requires replacement, notifying a user of an availability of the user information from the storage facility for creation of a replacement device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358863 | TIERED-ARCHIVE MAINTENANCE - Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products for managing a tiered archive. In some embodiments, a method is provided that includes: (a) providing an archive having two or more tiers for storing data, where each of the two or more tiers is assigned an image quality value, and wherein the image quality value assigned to each of the two or more tiers of the archive is different; (b) managing the archive based on a schedule for managing the data or on one or more rules, wherein managing the archive comprises: (1) storing data in a first of the two or more tiers based on the image quality value assigned to the first tier; and (2) storing data in a second of the two or more tiers based on the schedule and the image quality value assigned to the second tier. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358864 | POLICY BASED POPULATION OF GENEALOGICAL ARCHIVE DATA - An approach for managing a family tree archive is provided. The approach includes creating an electronic archive based on a family tree. The approach also includes automatically discovering Internet-based data associated with at least one member of the family tree. The approach additionally includes adding the Internet-based data to the archive. The approach further includes storing the archive at a storage device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358865 | PROCESSING A TECHNICAL SYSTEM - Rules of a rule base are transformed in an automated fashion in order to be able to conduct consistency checks and generate explanations and thus classify and correct existing rules. This is beneficial in particular in large systems with existing rule bases, e.g., wherein each rule is associated with at least a diagnostic task of a component of a technical system, e.g., a power system. The task can be subject to fault detection, fault isolation, predictive diagnosis or reporting. The solution presented provides an overview of large sets of rules and thus allows determining which rules are suitable and which are not. The invention is applicable for all kinds of technical systems, e.g., industry and automation systems, in particular power systems. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358866 | FULL FILE REPAIR USING SCHEDULE DESCRIPTION FRAGMENT IN EMBMS - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus determines that a file of interest is transmitted within a service, determines a failure to download the file of interest, and triggers a repair procedure of the file of interest at a time corresponding to an end of a file delivery event, wherein the time is derived from one or more information elements included in broadcast schedule description. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358867 | DE-DUPLICATION DEPLOYMENT PLANNING - Assignment of files to a de-duplication domain. Address space of data files is divided into multiple containers. For each of the containers, a file metadata scan is performed to obtain file system metadata, which is aggregated and summarized in a content feature summary. A content feature summary prediction measurement is measured between containers from the generated content feature summary, and files from each container are assigned to a de-duplication domain based upon the content similarity predication measurement. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358868 | LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT OF METADATA - The program code assigns a first record to a first object having a first life cycle and a second record to a second object having a second life cycle, wherein the first object is associated to the second object, and wherein the assigning is based on configurable predefined rules. In response to receiving a request to perform a delete action on at least one of the first object and the second object, performing the delete action when the at least one of the first object and the second object has a life cycle that is in a destroy phase. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358869 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCELERATING MAPREDUCE OPERATION - Provided are a system and method for accelerating a mapreduce operation. The system for accelerating a mapreduce operation includes at least one map node configured to perform a map operation in response to a map operation request of a master node, and at least one reduce node configured to perform a reduce operation using result data of the map operation. The map node includes at least one map operation accelerator configured to generate a data stream by merging a plurality of data blocks generated as results of the map operation and establish a transmission channel for transmission of the data stream, and the reduce node includes at least one reduce operation accelerator configured to receive the data stream from the map operation accelerator through the transmission channel, recover the plurality of data blocks from the received data stream, and provide the recovered data blocks for the reduce operation. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358870 | DE-DUPLICATION DEPLOYMENT PLANNING - Assignment of files to a de-duplication domain. Address space of data files is divided into multiple containers. For each of the containers, a file metadata scan is performed to obtain file system metadata, which is aggregated and summarized in a content feature summary. A content feature summary prediction measurement is measured between containers from the generated content feature summary, and files from each container are assigned to a de-duplication domain based upon the content similarity predication measurement. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358871 | DEDUPLICATION FOR A STORAGE SYSTEM - A method and system for deduplication of data to be stored on a storage system. A deduplication system performs a method that includes the steps of: segmenting a storage object into a plurality of data segments; generating a content similarity key indicative of a content of a data segment as well as associating a physical position on the storage medium for the data segment with the generated content similarity key; storing the association in deduplication index information; and using the stored associations for optimizing the deduplication. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358872 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING DEDUPLICATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH HOST DEVICE AND STORAGE DEVICE - Provided is a method for performing deduplication in conjunction with a host device and a storage device, and a storage system therefor. The host device includes a brief examination device which is configured to briefly examine whether data to be stored is duplicated or not based on a hash value of the data to be stored, and a data transmission device which is configured to transmit the data to be stored with an examination request or a data storage request to the at least one storage device according to a result of the examination. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358873 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Scheduling Processing to Achieve Space Savings - A method performed in a system that has a plurality of volumes stored to storage hardware, the method including generating, for each of the volumes, a respective space saving potential iteratively over time and scheduling space saving operations among the plurality of volumes by analyzing each of the volumes for space saving potential and assigning priority of resources based at least in part on space saving potential. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358874 | COMPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A plurality of lines of data from a file are stored in a cache. The lines of data typically come from a file that is being compressed. The process gets an additional line of data to compress. Based on a compression level, the additional line of data is compared with the lines of data in the cache to determine if there is a best matched line of data from the plurality of lines in the cache. In response to determining the best matched line of data, the additional line of data is compressed with a first compression algorithm based on the best matched line of data to create a compressed line. The compressed line is written to the file. In response to not determining the best matched line of data, the additional line of data is written to the file. The additional line of data is stored in the cache. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358875 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FONT COMPRESSION USING SELECTABLE ENTROPY ENCODING - A request for a font file including a first font table and a second font table is received. A first entropy encoder is selected, based on characteristics of the first font table, front among a plurality of entropy encoders. A second entropy encoder is selected, based on characteristics of the second font table, front among the plurality of entropy encoders. The first entropy encoder is applied to the first font table. The second entropy encoder is applied to the second font table. Compressed data corresponding to the first and second font tables are combined to generate a compressed font file. The compressed font file is transmitted. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358876 | MANAGING A MULTI-VERSION DATABASE - Managing different versions of a data record is provided. A mapping is maintained between a version-independent logical record identifier and a version-dependent physical record row identifier that correspond to each data record within a plurality of data records of a data table using a logical record identifier to physical record row identifier indirection mapping table. Entries within leaf pages of an index associated with the data table are updated to point to the version-independent logical record identifier corresponding to a data record instead of pointing to the version-dependent physical record row identifier corresponding to the data record. The logical record identifier to physical record row identifier indirection mapping table is updated in response to performing an operation on the data record instead of updating the entries within the leaf pages of the index associated with the data table. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358877 | METHOD AND SYSTEM HANDLING IMAGES ON A MULTI-TOUCH DEVICE - Disclosed is a system and method for gesture-based content-object rendering. The present disclosure provides for optimized display of a high-resolution image upon receiving input, such as a spread gesture, from a user respective of a displayed low-resolution image. The low-resolution and high-resolution image are subdivided into content objects or blocks and stored in a content database. Upon receiving the user input, the input areas respective of the image is identified, and the high-resolution image block is displayed. Subsequently, adjacent blocks corresponding to the input area are then displayed to effectuate an efficient download of the high-resolution image. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358878 | Maintaining Database Consistency When Nearing the End of a Database Recovery Log - Log records are generated by a computer system and stored in a computer readable storage area for recording changes to database objects responsive to receiving transaction requests, wherein the locators for the log records are of a predetermined maximum size that provides a maximum trackable size limit of the storage area. A computer system estimates an amount of time for the storing of the generated log records to fill the storage area up to the maximum trackable size limit. A computer system sets a soft limit to the storage area that is smaller than the maximum trackable size limit, including setting the soft limit based on the estimated amount of time. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358879 | SEARCH ENGINE SUGGESTION - A search engine suggestion method, apparatus, and non-transitory article of manufacture embodying computer readable instructions for data search. The method includes: obtaining a query input by a user; obtaining a query suggestion set for the query for each of a plurality of different search engines, the query suggestion set including at least one query suggestion; determining a match degree between each of the search engines and the query based on the query suggestion set and background association information of the query; and suggesting among the plurality of different search engines based on the match degrees. By use of the solutions proposed by this application, it is possible to suggest the user a more appropriate search engine(s) for data search. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358880 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TEAM SEARCHES IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - Techniques for team searches within a social graph are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a search request initiated by a searching member profile is received. The search request includes search criteria. A team membership connection between the searching member profile and a team profile is then detected. Based on the detected team membership connection, profile connections between member profiles and teammates of the searching member profile are identified. The teammates are member profiles with team membership connections to the team profile. Then, matching member profiles are identified by matching the member profiles with the identified profile connection with the search criteria. The matching member profiles are then communicated to the searching member profile. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358881 | Search Infrastructure Supporting Identification, Setup and Maintenance of Machine to Machine Interactions - A technique in which autonomous machine-to-machine interactions are identified, setup and maintained between machines by utilizing a registry that may be searched to identify a registered machine. The search may be for a particular target machine or for content. By identifying a target machine, the registry may provide an address to connect two machines for the two machines to interact, such as the download of content stored on one of the machines. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358882 | DEVICE CONTENT USED TO BIAS A SEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE - Biasing of search query inputs based on local content, device profile and/or activity information. In various embodiments, biasing operations are performed on a search input to a client device in order to improve search result relevancy. The biasing operations produce additional search query elements/context options based on locally-hosted content or other information that may not be readily available to a search engine. The local content may include, for example, images, text, audio/video files, documents, code, applications, social media, etc. One or more of additional search query elements/context options produced by the biasing operations are then utilized in a search query communicated to a search engine. In various alternate embodiments, device activity data extracted from a user's device (such as data generated by device sensors) may likewise be employed to refine search queries. In further embodiments, searching and biasing operations may be performed by an intermediary or proxy device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358883 | SEMANTICALLY ASSOCIATED TEXT INDEX AND THE POPULATION AND USE THEREOF - The construction of a semantically associated computer search database is disclosed. A text catalog containing the text particulars and contents of a plurality of electronic documents, a term association database which joins text search terms with their semantic meanings or definitions, and a content association database which contains records associating text search terms and their contextual definitions in respect of individual electronic documents are used to in conjunction provide a text index in which it is possible to search based upon the actual definitions or meanings of certain text or terms within the electronic documents, reducing or refining query search result sets. A method of operating a search engine with the index in question, as well as other e-commerce methods employing the index as a refining tool are also disclosed. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358884 | SYSTEM SAND METHODS FOR SEARCHING ITEMS OF FASHION AND OTHER ITEMS OF CREATION - Systems and methods according to the invention make feature-based and visual search possible. They allow users to provide us a visual representation that we can apply against available items of creation and return items that are like the visual representation in terms of features and other parameters that user can specify. More generally, the invention relates to searching items using visual representations. In particular it provides visual features of an item of creation and methods for recognizing images in terms of those features, and converting the deduced knowledge in a form that is searchable against a database of items of creation. Thus, for example, one aspect of this invention provides for creation of the framework in which an item of creation can be represented visually. This framework can be of many types. A canvas, if we are to draw an image akin to what an artist draws. Or a touch-sensitive computer screen if we are the give the user the ability to pick and choose the image that wants to be inferred and so on. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358885 | Trending Topic Identification From Social Communications - Systems and methods for identifying trending topics from social communications are presented. Social communications from one or more social networking sites are obtained. Links within the social communications are extracted. In various embodiments, the extracted links are filtered such that the linked content corresponding to the extracted links that can be categorized as news are retained. Topic descriptors for the retained links are generated and the topic descriptors are stored in a trending topic data store as trending topics. According to various embodiments, the topic descriptors are stored in the trending topic data store with the extracted links. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358886 | INTERNAL SEARCH ENGINES ARCHITECTURE - A pipeline of memory banks is configured to store and retrieve a forwarding address by distributing portions of the address across the memory banks and subsequently searching for the distributed values. A first value of the address is recoverable by searching for a value, stored by a first memory bank, by consuming a predetermined number of bits of a data unit from a data packet. If present, a subsequent value of the address is recoverable by searching another memory bank of the pipeline for a value of the address contained by a node of a linked list. The pipeline recovers the address by combining value found at the first memory bank with the value found by the node of the linked list at the other memory bank. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358887 | APPLICATION CONTENT SEARCH MANAGEMENT - A search service accesses application content accessible via one or more enumerated applications. The search service ranks the accessed application content in combination with non-application content to produce a combined ranking. Responsive to a search query, the search service provides one or more search results based on the combined ranking. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358888 | Method, System, And Computer Program Product For Monitoring Online Reputations With The Capability Of Creating New Content - The present invention provides the capability to quickly and easily determine the online reputation a target, and to quickly and easily take steps to improve the online reputation of the target. For example, a method of monitoring and affecting online reputation may comprise gathering information potentially related to an online reputation of a target, filtering the gathered information to eliminate information not related to the target, computing a reputation score for the filtered information based on both positive and negative information related to the target, generating positive information relating to the target, and distributing the generated positive information relating to the target to a plurality of online locations. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358889 | NATURAL LANGUAGE SEARCH RESULTS FOR INTENT QUERIES - Systems and methods provide natural language search results to clear-intent queries. To provide the natural language search results, a system may parse a document from an authoritative source to generate at least one heading-text pair, the text appearing under the heading in the document. The system may assign a topic and a question category to the heading-text pair and store the heading-text pair in a data store keyed by the topic and the question category. The system determines that a query corresponds to the topic and the question category, and provides the heading-text pair as a natural language search result for the query. In some implementations, the text portion of the heading-text pair may be a paragraph or a list of items and the natural language search result may be provided with conventional snippet-based search results in response to the query. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358890 | QUESTION ANSWERING FRAMEWORK - Described herein is a technology to facilitate automated question answering. In one implementation, an input question is first received. Different search strategies may be used to search multiple types of data from multiple types of knowledge databases to generate one or more candidate answers to the input question. The one or more candidate answers are evaluated to generate a final answer to the input question. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358891 | SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING, CALCULATING, AND RANKING INTEREST IN INFORMATION IN REAL TIME - A method of measuring multiple digital social interactions around a topic or news story for the purpose of providing real-time insight on which topics are of greater importance to a particular audience. The invention provides the apparatus and structure to collect information deemed to be a topic, to take a set of references to the topic and integrate that into a thread and to place the thread into a pulse category, to calculate the amount of interest in the thread and the growth of interest in the thread as well as the rate of change of the growth of interest and to formulate a rank of the interest which is displayed visually to a consumer by pulse topic. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358892 | SINGLE-POINT METADATA DRIVEN SEARCH CONFIGURATION, INDEXING AND EXECUTION - Systems and methods for application search configuration, indexing, and execution. A method includes receiving a metadata definition for search and indexing configuration and generating a transfer mode definition to export objects for indexing. The method includes identifying objects to be indexed according to the metadata definition and extracting data according to the transfer mode definition. The method includes indexing the extracted data. The method can include executing queries according to the meta definition. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358893 | RULES-BASED KNOWLEDGE-DRIVEN SEARCH FILTERS - Methods for product data management and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method for rules-based knowledge-driven search filters includes receiving metadata for a plurality of searchable objects, the metadata including at least one of an object type definition and object properties. The method includes defining search filter rules based on user properties and data conditions. The method includes performing a search according to a rule-based configuration, the rule-based configuration including filters for object properties and filter ordering rules. The method includes displaying search results according to the rule-based configuration. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358894 | OPTIMIZING QUERY STATEMENTS IN RELATIONAL DATABASES - Optimizing query statements in relational databases including determining filtering performance for each of at least two complex predicates in a predetermined layer of the query statement based on a result of a query performed on predetermined data records by using only the complex predicate. The results are ranked based on the filtering performance and re-ordered so that a complex predicate with a higher filtering performance is ranked before a complex predicate with a lower filtering performance. These techniques produce shortened data query response times and improved execution efficiency. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358895 | EIGENVALUE-BASED DATA QUERY - Embodiments relate to an eigenvalue-based data query. An aspect includes receiving a query request that includes a query statement. Another aspect includes calculating eigenvalues of key component elements in the query statement. Another aspect includes matching eigenvalues of nodes in an execution plan of a historical query statement to the eigenvalues of the key component elements. Yet another aspect includes based on determining success of matching the eigenvalues of the key component elements to the eigenvalues of the nodes in an execution plan of the historical query statement, generating an execution plan of the query statement. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358896 | Centrally Managed Driver and Vehicle Ratings System Updated Via Over-the-Air Communications With Telematics Units - A system and method are described herein for acquiring and maintaining, in a centralized repository, driver and vehicle information for the purpose of rendering a rating for individual drivers and vehicles in accordance with established criteria and standards. A driver rating indicates the relative desirability of the particular driver given the expected wear and tear upon a vehicle arising from driver's use of the vehicle. A vehicle rating indicates the relative desirability of the particular vehicle given the use and maintenance history. Additional information is also maintained in the centralized repository that could be used to indicate an event for which a surcharge or discount is applicable. Thereafter, specified filtering criteria are applied bi-laterally to determine a set of rated vehicles that can be used by a particular rated driver. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358897 | LOCATION AWARENESS USING LOCAL SEMANTIC SCORING - Systems and methods are provided for determining continuous scoring models that describe one or more features regarding a geographic area. The scoring models can be fit to incorporate information from both point sources as well as area information. Based on the scoring models, a user can obtain feature values for the one or more features at any desired location or for a desired geographic area. Because the features are represented by a continuous function, comparisons of feature values for arbitrary geographic areas and/or combinations of features to form secondary values can also be performed. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358898 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING MEDIA TO USERS - An approach is provided for determining at least two associated users who are presented media items based on respective playlists of media items. The approach further involves analysing media items in the respective playlists to determine similarity information for the media items in the respective playlists. The approach further involves causing insertion of at least one further media item in the respective playlists of the at least two users at least in part based on the determined similarity information. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358899 | On-The-Fly Calculation Scenario Provision During Query Runtime - A query is received by a database server from a remote application server. The query encapsulates an on-the-fly calculation scenario that defines a data flow model that includes one or more calculation nodes. Thereafter, the database server instantiates the on-the-fly calculation scenario. The database server then executes the operations defined by the calculation nodes of the instantiated calculation scenario to result in a responsive data set so that the database server can provide the data set to the application server. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358900 | Search Systems and Computer-Implemented Search Methods - Search systems and computer-implemented search methods are described. In one aspect, a search system includes a communications interface configured to access a plurality of data items of a collection, wherein the data items include a plurality of image objects individually comprising image data utilized to generate an image of the respective data item. The search system may include processing circuitry coupled with the communications interface and configured to process the image data of the data items of the collection to identify a plurality of image content facets which are indicative of image content contained within the images and to associate the image objects with the image content facets and a display coupled with the processing circuitry and configured to depict the image objects associated with the image content facets. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358901 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND SEARCH RESULT DISPLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus including an input unit configured to receive a keyword, a display configured to display a screen based on search result received from a plurality of sources, and a controller configured to control the plurality of sources to perform search based on the keyword, receive a plurality of search result screens corresponding to the search result searched from the plurality of sources, and display the screen on the display. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358902 | FACETED SEARCH RESULTS - A data processing system receives a first user input comprising a search query. The data processing system displays in a search interface accessible across a plurality of computer application programs, a plurality of results matching the search query. The results are categorized into a plurality of categories and only a first subset of all results are displayed for each of the plurality of categories. The data processing system receives a second user input comprising a selection of one of the plurality of categories. In response to the second user input, the data processing system displays, in the search interface, a second subset of results, wherein the second subset is categorized into one or more subcategories of the selected category. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358903 | Search-Based Dynamic Voice Activation - A method, apparatus, and electronic device for voice navigation are disclosed. A voice input mechanism | 2014-12-04 |
20140358904 | SYNONYM IDENTIFICATION BASED ON SELECTED SEARCH RESULT - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for evaluating terms that are candidate substitute terms for query terms, and revising search queries to include substitute terms. When search results are returned in response to a search query, text associated with a search result is examined to identify a particular term that is not found in the search query. The association score for the particular term as a substitute for a query term is incremented. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358905 | System and Method for Answer Aggregation - A system and method of answer aggregation that receives a querying user supplied question, provides the user supplied question to multiple responding users, receives one or more answers to the question from responding users, performs an answer aggregation algorithm to generate a collective answer, and displays the collective answer. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358906 | QUERY SUGGESTIONS BASED ON SEARCH DATA - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating query suggestions based on search data. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by one or more computers, a first query, determining query refinements based on the first query, generating, from the query refinements, refinement clusters, each refinement cluster corresponding to a particular topic and each refinement cluster including query refinements that are determined to belong to the particular topic to which the refinement cluster corresponds, ranking the refinement clusters, and selecting the refinement cluster that is highest in the ranking relative to other refinement clusters in the ranking as a first search refinement cluster for the first query. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358907 | METHOD FOR CLUSTERING RESULTS FROM A SAME CHANNEL - An initial plurality of search results is obtained based on a search query pertaining to a topic of interest. A determination is made of whether to perform clustering on the initial plurality of search results. Upon determining not to perform clustering on the search result, a user interface with the initial plurality of search results is provided. Upon determining to perform clustering on the initial plurality of search results, a user interface with a modified plurality of search results is provided. The user interface is to position a first result in the modified plurality of search results adjacent to a position of a second search result in the modified plurality of search results. The first search result is associated with a channel and the second search result is associated with the channel. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358908 | MINIMIZATION OF SURPRISAL CONTEXT DATA THROUGH APPLICATION OF CUSTOMIZED SURPRISAL CONTEXT FILTERS - A method, system, and computer program product for minimizing surprisal context data. The method includes the steps of: identifying characteristics of a data event; receiving an input of rank of at least two identified characteristics of the data event; generating a hierarchy of ranked, identified characteristics based on the rank of the identified characteristics of the data event; and comparing the hierarchy of ranked, identified characteristics to a repository of characteristic context patterns. If at least one reference artifact of the characteristic context pattern matches the hierarchy of ranked, identified characteristics, the characteristic context pattern is broken into pieces, storing the pieces that matched the hierarchy. The stored pieces are then combined into a surprisal context filter pattern with context determined to be probabilistically present within a specified degree of certainty in a data input and compared to a data input of data events to detect anomalous events. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358909 | SEARCH RESULT CONTEXTS FOR APPLICATION LAUNCH - A search service executes on one or more computing systems and searches at least one index associated with content accessible through an application based on the at least one portion of the search query to provide search results associated with the application. A search results interface returns one or more search results from the search. At least one of the search results is associated with an application identifier identifying the application. The search service ranks the search results associated with the application with other search results from at least one other search of other content based on the search query. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358910 | INTEGRATED SEARCH RESULTS - A storage management system receives at a computing system one or more search results from a search operation based on a search query. The search operation had performed a first search on content in a database accessible through an application, a second search on local to the computing system content, and a third search on Web content. At least one of the search results from the first search is associated with an application identifier identifying the application. The storage management system further ranks the search results from the first search, the second search, and the third search in aggregation. A search results integrator presents the ranked search results from the first, second, and third searches in an integrated view. The search results integrator further groups a subset of the ranked search results from the first search, the second search, and the third search into a subgroup within the integrated view. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358911 | SEARCH AND DISCOVERY SYSTEM - A system for search and discovery of information in a real time network, comprising: means for gathering data indicative of a message posted in an real time network, the data comprising information identifying a uniform resource locator, URL and textual information associated with the URL; means for indexing the gathered data; means for querying the indexed data; and means for ranking the queried data. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358912 | Identifying Event-Specific Social Discussion Threads - Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for identifying event-specific social discussion threads. A method includes identifying a spatial relationship and one or more additional relationships across two or more topical clusters derived from a text source, extracting one or more temporally evolving discussion sequences across the two or more topical clusters, identifying at least one social discussion thread across the two or more topical clusters by identifying a correlation between the one or more additional relationships and the one or more temporally evolving discussion sequences, and to identifying a geographically-constrained social discussion thread among the at least one identified social discussion thread by identifying a correlation between the spatial relationship across the two or more topical clusters and the at least one identified social discussion thread. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358913 | HIERARCHICAL ENTITY INFORMATION FOR SEARCH - A fast browsing architecture for exploring hierarchical lists of entities through a search user interface. A graphical UI operates to handle the hierarchical lists and sub-lists in different ways for different scenarios such as a hierarchical level is zero (only one list of entities associated with a query and the list cannot be further drilled down), a second scenario where the hierarchical level is one (a list of entities associated with the query and these entities can be further drilled down to a number of sub-lists) and the sub-lists cannot be further drilled down, and a third scenario where the hierarchical level is more than one (a list of entities associated with the query and these entities can be further drilled down to a number of sub-lists), sub-lists can be further drilled down to a number of lists, until there is no more drill down lists to be found. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358914 | SEARCH METHOD, SEARCH DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed are a search method, a search device and a storage medium. The method comprises obtaining all relevant documents of information to be sought; calculating a relevancy between each relevant document and the information to be sought based on a word matching algorithm and a semantics matching algorithm; performing sequencing processing on all the relevant documents according to the relevancy obtained through calculation, and displaying a sequencing result. Further disclosed is a search device. The present invention comprehensively considers matching between words, and matching of the semantics relationship between words, obtains an accurate relevancy calculation result, provides an ideal search result to a user, and improves satisfaction of the user. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358915 | DETERMINATION OF A SERVICE DESCRIPTION MOST CLOSELY MATCHING A SPECIFIED SERVICE NAME - A method and system for determining a service description most closely matching a service name provided by a user. It is determined that the service name provided by the user is not an exact match to a service name in a service registry that comprises service names and associated service descriptions. A ranked service name is generated and includes at least one alternative service name and a respective rank of each alternative service name. The respective rank indicates how closely the alternative service name associated with the respective rank resembles the service name provided by the user. It is ascertained that a service description associated with a service name in the service registry that either matches the highest ranked alternative service name in the service name list or matches the next highest ranked alternative service name in the service name list. The ascertained service description is communicated to the user. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358916 | PERSONALIZED PRIORITIZATION OF INTEGRATED SEARCH RESULTS - A search management system receives at a computing system one or more search results from a search operation based on a search query. The search operation performed a first search on content in a database accessible through an application, a second search on local to the computing system content, and a third search on Web content. At least one of the search results from the first search is associated with an application identifier identifying the application. A search results integrator ranks the search results from the first search, the second search, and the third search in aggregation according to historical search behavior collected about a user and presents the ranked search results from the first search, the second search, and the third search in an integrated view. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358917 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE IMAGE ORGANIZATION AND ANALYSIS - A system for remote image organization and analysis. The system includes at least one remotely-accessible computer including a processor, and a software program stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium accessible by the processor. The software program is operable to access at least one multi-dimensional library of image data stored on a storage medium, supplement the library by adding at least one new image to the library, share at least one image in the library between a plurality of users, wherein at least one user remotely accesses the computer, and perform at least one computational or analytical function related to an image in the library. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358918 | Method and Apparatus for Handling Data-Related Requests - A method and a request distributor ( | 2014-12-04 |
20140358919 | Automatic Isolation and Selection of Screenshots from an Electronic Content Repository - Automatic isolation of screenshots from other captured content items stored in an electronic content repository is provided. When a screen capture is performed on an electronic device, such as a smartphone, screen resolution information for the capturing device is stored with the captured content item (e.g., screenshot). When a user subsequently desires to recall a given stored captured screenshot, the resolution associated with each stored content item may be used for isolating screenshots from other stored content items like photographs, text items, clip art, and the like by comparing the resolutions of any of the stored content items with a screen resolution of the user's device or with known screen resolutions of various devices that may be used for capturing screen images. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358920 | RESOLVING PAIRWISE LINKS TO GROUPS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for resolving pairwise links to groups. Embodiments of the invention use an iterative algorithm to transform a collection of pairwise links to groups of records that correspond to the same entity. The algorithm can be stopped after any number of iterations for an increasing accurate approximation result. The algorithm essentially guarantees a correct solution for groups of size up to the number of iterations. This algorithm scales linearly on the size of the record set, with little impact from the number of links. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358921 | DELEGATING RESEMBLING DATA OF AN ORGANIZATION TO A LINKED DEVICE - A computerized method for pooling objects in a computerized system having a storage for objects, comprising identifying in the computerized system objects having an at least one common metadata entity associated with the objects, and including the identified objects in a pool of objects, and an apparatus for performing the same. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358922 | Routing of Questions to Appropriately Trained Question and Answer System Pipelines Using Clustering - Mechanisms for selecting a pipeline of a question and answer (QA) system to process an input question are provided. An input question is received and analyzed to identify at least one feature of the input question. Clustering of the input question, with one or more previously generated clusters of questions, is performed based on the at least one feature of the input question. Based on results of the clustering, a matching cluster, of the one or more previously generated clusters, is identified with which the input question is associated. A QA system pipeline associated with the matching cluster is identified and the input question is processed using the identified QA system pipeline to generate one or more candidate answers for the input question. Each cluster in the one or more previously generated clusters has an associated QA system pipeline. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358923 | Systems And Methods For Automatically Determining Text Classification - A software product and a method a method determines classification of text displayed within a browser on a computer. A processor within a server is used to generate a consolidated index of tokens contained within the text. The processor is used to identify a first classification of the text by matching each of one or more terms of a first association defined within a rule set with the tokens of the consolidated index. The first association associates the one or more terms with the first classification. The first classification is indicated with the text by interacting with the browser. The server may continually receive characters from a communication stream and report any matched classifications therein. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358924 | DATA ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a heterogeneous data cluster generation apparatus and method and a data clustering method and apparatus, and more particularly, to a data clustering method and apparatus which cluster data measured by different sensors into a number of groups. Aspects of the present invention provide an apparatus and method for generating clusters by putting together heterogeneous data which are values measured by different types of sensors. Aspects of the present invention also provide an apparatus and method for generating clusters by setting indices in order to effectively cluster multi-dimensional data, massive data, or scattered data. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358925 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING CONTENT ON A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for grouping a plurality of content files in content delivery network (CDN) for easier storage and access. In one embodiment, the CDN may store related files in one or more container files within the CDN to reduce the number of stored files. In addition, a manifest provided to the requesting device relating to the content may be altered to point to the container files rather than the separate content files within the container. The manifest may also provide information to the requesting to extract and process the content files within the container file in the proper order for playing on the requesting device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358926 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL TEMPORAL AND RELATIVE DATA MINING FRAMEWORK, ANALYSIS & SUB-GROUPING - The present invention relates to a system, method and computer program product that is a multi-dimensional data mining environment and that operable to apply a series of temporal and relative rules (i.e., STDM | 2014-12-04 |
20140358927 | OVERRIDE OF AUTOMATICALLY SHARED META-DATA OF MEDIA - An override of automatically shared meta-data of media method and apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a server device includes automatically populating a hierarchy using a play-list history data associated with a media data of a client device, and modifying the hierarchy based on a user override. The hierarchy may be a hierarchy of the play-list history data of certain items associated with the media data of the client device. A modified hierarchy may be generated based on an addition, deletion and/or an adjust modifying operation of the user override on the hierarchy, and may be automatically populated on a new mark-up language file. A new compatibility rating may be determined between the user and the other users based on the similar attributes between the modified hierarchy and the other hierarchies, and each user may be enabled to view mark-up language files of the other users. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358928 | Clustering Based Question Set Generation for Training and Testing of a Question and Answer System - Mechanisms for selecting questions for a cluster of questions to be used with a question and answer (QA) system are provided. An input question is received and analyzed to identify at least one feature of the input question. Clustering of the input question with one or more other questions in a cluster of questions based on the at least one feature of the input question is performed. Based on results of the clustering, a determination is made as to whether to include or reject the input question as part of the cluster of questions. In response to determining to include the input question as part of the cluster of questions, the cluster of questions is updated to include the input question. The updated cluster of questions is stored in a storage device associated with a data processing system. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358929 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SOFTWARE FOR ANALYZING THE CONTENT OF MICRO-BLOG MESSAGES - Methods, systems and software are described for analyzing micro-blog messages to detect activity of interest. The system includes a clusterer for clustering micro-blog messages received over a first period of time, a classifier for scoring the clustered messages; a knowledge base, a rule generator for generating classification rules from the knowledge base; and a matcher for matching the scored messages to information requests. Methods for operating the system and its components are described. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358930 | CLASSIFYING MESSAGE CONTENT BASED ON REBROADCAST DIVERSITY - A computer system running a program of instructions may classify content of a message. The message may be re-broadcasted in whole or in part by one or more re-broadcasters. An amount of time interval diversity may be determined in the time intervals between each successive pair of re-broadcasted messages. An amount of re-broadcaster diversity may be determined in the number of times the message has been re-broadcasted by each of the re-broadcasters. The content of the message may be classified based on the amount of time interval diversity and the amount of re-broadcaster diversity. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358931 | Product Record Normalization System With Efficient And Scalable Methods For Discovering, Validating, And Using Schema Mappings - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating a normalized record from an import record, the normalized record having attribute-value pairs corresponding to a native schema. In import records, a plurality of attribute-value are identified each having an attribute label not found in a native schema. One or more attribute labels in the native schema having as possible values one or more values corresponding to the values of the plurality of attribute-value pairs are also identified. The computer system generates one or more normalization rules relating one or more attribute labels of the plurality of attribute-value pairs to at least a portion of the one or more attribute labels in the native schema. Normalization rules may be validated by crowdsourcing. Normalization rules may be applied by identifying implicated rules by classifying the import record and identifying rules applicable to the classification. | 2014-12-04 |