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| 20160078531 | AGGREGATION ENGINE FOR REAL-TIME COUNTERPARTY CREDIT RISK SCORING - Techniques are disclosed for computing a real-time credit risk score. In one example, the method comprises at least one processor generating a computation graph comprising static computation nodes, dynamic computation nodes, and computation edges. The computation graph is a tree. Before receiving the real-time trade, the processor determines a pipeline kernel in the computation graph and computes the respective static information in the pipeline kernel. After computing the static information, the processor receives the real-time trade. The real-time trade is associated with a current exchange of assets for which a real-time credit risk score may be determined and comprises real-time information for use in computing the real-time credit risk score. The processor computes, based on the real-time trade and the computed static information, the dynamic information in the pipeline kernel and computes, based on the computed dynamic information, the real-time credit risk score. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160078532 | AGGREGATION ENGINE FOR REAL-TIME COUNTERPARTY CREDIT RISK SCORING - Techniques are disclosed for computing a real-time credit risk score. In one example, the method comprises at least one processor generating a computation graph comprising static computation nodes, dynamic computation nodes, and computation edges. The computation graph is a tree. Before receiving the real-time trade, the processor determines a pipeline kernel in the computation graph and computes the respective static information in the pipeline kernel. After computing the static information, the processor receives the real-time trade. The real-time trade is associated with a current exchange of assets for which a real-time credit risk score may be determined and comprises real-time information for use in computing the real-time credit risk score. The processor computes, based on the real-time trade and the computed static information, the dynamic information in the pipeline kernel and computes, based on the computed dynamic information, the real-time credit risk score. | 03-17-2016 |
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| 20140207377 | LANE DETERMINATION BASED ON SPATIAL DATA FROM LOCAL SOURCES - A method, computer program product and system for determining an optimal lane recommendation of a road having a plurality of lanes for a primary vehicle within an optimal guided route to a destination. The steps including retrieving local environment data comprising real-time spatial data directly from at least one local source, the at least one local source comprising at least one sensor in an other vehicle; determining an optimal recommended lane of the road from the plurality of lanes of the road to minimize travel time for the primary vehicle, based on the directly retrieved environment data from the at least one source within a specific distance from the primary vehicle; and displaying the optimal recommended lane of the road for travel of the primary vehicle within the optimal guided route to the destination through an interface to a user. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140222791 | AUTHORITY BASED CONTENT FILTERING - A method and associated system for filtering content received from a search of information. Documents are received from the search. The search is based on a search request received from a requester. A subject of each received document is determined. A contributor associated with each document received as a result of the search is determined. Credentials of each contributor are received. For each received document, a determination is made of (i) a credential score for each credential of the contributor with respect to the subject of the document and (ii) a ranking score of the contributor on the subject of the document. The ranking score is determined based on the credential scores. The received documents are filtered, by using the ranking scores, to remove at least one document from the received documents, resulting in a set of remaining documents. The set of remaining documents are returned to the requester. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20150046543 | Real Life to Digital Life Event Correlation - A method and system for correlating events with social media is provided. The method includes retrieving from a social network, social network data associated with users of the social network. The social network data is associated with event data associated with a user of the users. Temporary actions associated with a social network account of the user are enabled and a notification is transmitted to a group of users. In response, confirmation data associated with enabling the temporary actions is received from the group of users and permanent actions associated with the temporary actions are enabled. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150058459 | GENERATING A SERVICE-CATALOG ENTRY FROM DISCOVERED ATTRIBUTES OF PROVISIONED VIRTUAL MACHINES - A method and associated system of automatically generating an entry of a service catalog of a cloud-computing environment as a function of discovered attributes of a virtual machine provisioned in a non-cloud computing environment. A cloud-management platform of the cloud-computing environment analyzes and compares results of infrastructure-discovery and application-discovery tools that describe a business application or a virtual service provisioned on the virtual machine. The cloud-management platform, or a related service-catalog generating entity, uses these analyzed and compared results to automatically generate a service-catalog entry that represents or describes a cloud business application or service associated with the virtual machine, and enters the automatically generated entry into the service catalog. When a user of the cloud-computing environment requests the cloud business application or service, the cloud-management platform may then offer the business application or service as a function of the automatically generated entry. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150199229 | PERSONALIZING ERROR MESSAGES BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR - An approach is provided for personalizing an error message for a user. Corrective actions performed by the user are monitored. The corrective actions cause a resolution of an instance of a problem within a computer system. Based on the monitored corrective actions, sources of information accessed by the user to resolve the instance of the problem are determined. After resolution of the instance of the problem, another instance of the same problem is detected. In response to detecting the other instance of the problem, the error message is augmented with a summary of the sources of information and/or hyperlinks that access the sources of information. The augmented error message is presented to the user. | 07-16-2015 |
| 20150199615 | PERSONALIZING ERROR MESSAGES BASED ON USER LEARNING STYLES - An approach is provided for personalizing an error message for a user. The usage of help content by the user to resolve error condition(s) is monitored. Attributes of the usage are determined. A learning style of the user is determined based on the attributes. An error condition is detected. The error message is augmented (i.e., personalized) with a communication and/or hyperlink that is compatible with the learning style of the user, and that is configured to assist the user with resolving the detected error condition. The augmented error message is presented to the user. | 07-16-2015 |
| 20150278062 | INCREASING THE ACCURACY OF SERVICE QUALITY MANAGEMENT METRICS - According to embodiments of the present invention, one or more computer processors determine a source for a performance indicator of a target service element is known. The one or more computer processors select, at run time, a source for the performance indicator that has a least amount of information gaps. The one or more computer processors determine information associated with the performance indicator from the source. The one or more computer processors determine whether the determined information associated with the performance indicator is more current than a quality indicator periodicity value that is associated with the target service element. In response to determining that the determined information associated with the performance indicator is more current than a quality indicator periodicity value that is associated with the target service element, the one or more computer processors selecting the performance indicator. | 10-01-2015 |
| 20150326949 | DISPLAY OF DATA OF EXTERNAL SYSTEMS IN SUBTITLES OF A MULTI-MEDIA SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method for displaying data from external computing systems in subtitles of a multi-media system is provided. The computer-implemented method comprises analyzing data of an incoming media stream from at least one external computing system, wherein the data is analyzed to identify at least one of a text-based data, a voice-based data, or a video-based data of the least one external computing system that is associated with the multi-media system. The computer-implemented method further comprises augmenting at least one subtitle of the multi-media system with the identified and converted at least one of the text-based data, the voice-based data, or the video-based data. The computer-implemented method further comprises generating at least one annotation of the multi-media system with the identified and converted at least one of the text-based data, the voice-based data, or the video-based data. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150363489 | ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY GENERATION - A method and system for generating summary details is provided. The method includes retrieving event data of associated with a user. Attributes are extracted from the event data and the event data is segmented into logical groups of related activities performed by the user. Key information and associated attributes of each logical group are identified and in response the user is evaluated. The logical groups of related activities are ranked and presented to the user. In response, an engagement summary associated with the user and the logical groups is generated. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365291 | USAGE POLICY FOR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - A tool for a computing service using a computing usage policy. The tool receives by one or more computer processors, a configured usage policy. The tool validates, by one or more computer processors, the configured usage policy. The tool determines, by one or more computer processors, one or more rules governing the configured usage policy. The tool executes, by one or more computer processors, the one or more rules governing the configured usage policy. The tool manages, by one or more computer processors, one or more cloud service resources according to the configured usage policy. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150378751 | MANAGING CHANGE IN AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT - In a method for managing change in an information technology (IT) environment, in response to an open change ticket, identifying one or more components of the IT environment that are associated with at least one change operation included in the change ticket. The method further includes identifying information associated with the identified one or more components of the IT environment. The method further includes determining a listing of allowable change operations for the identified one or more components of the IT environment in the change ticket based on the identified information associated with the identified one or more components of the IT environment. The method further includes receiving a user requested change operation. The method further includes determining whether the received user requested change operation is included in the determined listing of allowable change operations. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150382056 | VIDEO COMPOSITION BY DYNAMIC LINKING - A computer receives one or more media content source locations. The computer determines two or more media content items associated with the one or more received media content source locations. The computer negotiates digital rights associated with the two or more media content items. The computer pre-fetches the two or more media content items from the one or more media content source locations. The computer determines at least one digital characteristic of a first media content item of the two or more media content items does not match at least one digital characteristic of a second media content item of the two or more media content items. The computer resamples the first media content item of the two or more media content items. The computer publishes a composition of the two or more media content items to appear as one linked asset with uniform digital characteristics. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160027442 | SUMMARIZATION OF AUDIO DATA - Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, a service, and a system for generating a summary of audio on one or more computing devices. The method includes one or more processors retrieving an audio recording. The method further includes one or more processors identifying supplemental information associated with the audio recording, wherein the supplemental information includes information associated with content in the audio recording and information associated with one or more speakers of the audio recording. The method further includes one or more processors converting the audio recording to a transcript of the audio recording. The method further includes one or more processors generating a summary of the transcript of the audio recording based at least in part on the identified supplemental information. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160036655 | GENERATING A SERVICE COST MODEL USING DISCOVERED ATTRIBUTES OF PROVISIONED VIRTUAL MACHINES - A service cost model for services offered in a cloud-computing environment is generated by discovering cost-related attributes in a service catalog of provisioned virtual machines and applications provisioned thereon. The set of cost-related attributes includes at least one of the following: outage frequency, time to repair, cost of repair information, and time claimed by each resource type to fix past outages. The generated service cost model is tracked and adjusted against actuals periodically to reflect the true cost of offered services. Further by federating with other cloud service providers, the costs of a same service are compared between the different providers, and accordingly a recommendation for a provider based on the costs is proposed. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160057691 | SYSTEM AND METHOD EN-ROUTE WIRELESS NETWORK ACCESS - A method, a computer program product, and a computer system for en-route wireless network access are provided. A server receives from a mobile device information of a route along which the mobile device moves. The server determines registered wireless access points along the route. The server sends information of the mobile device and user credentials to one or more providers of the registered wireless access points. From the one or more providers, the server receives connection information of the registered wireless access points. The server sends the connection information to the mobile device. Based on the connection information, the mobile device establishes connectivity with respective ones of the registered wireless access points en-route. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160065420 | INCREASING THE ACCURACY OF SERVICE QUALITY MANAGEMENT METRICS - According to embodiments of the present invention, one or more computer processors determine a source for a performance indicator of a target service element is known. The one or more computer processors select, at run time, a source for the performance indicator that has a least amount of information gaps. The one or more computer processors determine information associated with the performance indicator from the source. The one or more computer processors determine whether the determined information associated with the performance indicator is more current than a quality indicator periodicity value that is associated with the target service element. In response to determining that the determined information associated with the performance indicator is more current than a quality indicator periodicity value that is associated with the target service element, the one or more computer processors selecting the performance indicator. | 03-03-2016 |
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| 20140189810 | NETWORK SECURITY AS A SERVICE USING VIRTUAL SECURE CHANNELS - Disclosed are methods, devices, and systems to provide an end-to-end secure transaction over a network. In one embodiment, a machine-implemented method comprises opening an in-band channel or an out-of-band channel over the network; authenticating, through the control plane of a switch managing the network, a user of a resource over the in-band channel or the out-of-band channel; authorizing the user, through the control plane, access to the resource over the in-band channel or the out-of-band channel; and accounting for a transaction conducted by the user accessing the resource, through the control plane, over the in-band channel or the out-of-band channel. In another embodiment, a switch to manage the network and to implement the method described herein is disclosed. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189811 | SECURITY ENCLAVE DEVICE TO EXTEND A VIRTUAL SECURE PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT TO A CLIENT DEVICE - Disclosed are methods and devices to provide a transaction over a network. In one embodiment, a machine-implemented method includes: opening, through an enclave device, an in-band channel or an out-of-band channel over the network; authenticating, through the enclave device, a user of a resource over the in-band channel or the out-of-band channel; facilitating, through the enclave device, an authorization of the user to access the resource over the in-band channel or the out-of-band channel; and accounting for a transaction conducted by the user accessing the resource, through the enclave device, over the in-band channel or the out-of-band channel. | 07-03-2014 |
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| 20110174488 | ACCELERATED START-UP IN SAGD OPERATIONS - A method of initiating or accelerating the establishment of fluid communication between horizontal wells located in a formation of very limited fluid mobility, such as an oil sand at original temperature or an infill well completed in an immobile hydrocarbon region located between surrounding well patterns in which a gravity-dominated recovery process is or has been operated. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20120217005 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING LINER SLOT PLUGGING TENDENCIES - A slotted liner having straight-cut liner slots with a wall roughness which does not exceed 1 μm. A slot cutting method to produce smooth slots using a specified blade configuration, rotational speed, and feed rate. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120325470 | PENTANE-HEXANE SOLVENT IN SITU RECOVERY OF HEAVY OIL - An integrated thermal recovery process using a solvent of a pentane or hexane or both as an additive to, or sole component of, a gravity-dominated process for recovering bitumen or heavy oil from a reservoir. A pentane-hexane specific solvent fraction is extracted at surface from a diluent stream. That pentane-hexane solvent fraction is then injected into the reservoir as part of a gravity-dominated recovery process within the reservoir, and when that solvent fraction is subsequently produced as part of the oil or bitumen blend, it is allowed to remain within the blend to enhance the subsequent blend treating and transportation steps. Meanwhile, the remainder of the diluent from which the solvent stream had been extracted is utilized at surface as a blending stream to serve as an aid in treating of produced fluids and also to serve as a means of rendering the bitumen or heavy oil stream pipelineable. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130081808 | HYDROCARBON RECOVERY FROM BITUMINOUS SANDS WITH INJECTION OF SURFACTANT VAPOUR - A process of increasing recovery rate of hydrocarbon from a reservoir of bituminous sands is disclosed. The process comprises softening bitumen in a region in the reservoir to generate a fluid comprising a hydrocarbon, to allow the fluid to drain by gravity from the region into a production well below the region for recovery of the hydrocarbon; and providing vapour of a compound to the region, and allowing the compound to disperse and condense in the region. The compound is represented by | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130105145 | APPARATUS FOR REDUCING OPERATIONALLY INDUCED DEFORMITIES IN WELL PRODUCTION SCREENS | 05-02-2013 |
| 20140116682 | MICROBIAL PROCESSES FOR INCREASING FLUID MOBILITY IN A HEAVY OIL RESERVOIR - Methods are provided for increasing overall fluid mobility in a near-wellbore region in an oil sands reservoir, for example in a reservoir having an inter-well region between a first well and a second well of a well pair in which at least a portion of the near-wellbore region is within the inter-well region. The methods may involve inoculating the near-wellbore region with a microorganism, wherein the near-wellbore region comprises a hydrocarbon phase and an aqueous phase, the viscosity of the hydrocarbon phase being greater than the viscosity of the aqueous phase. Conditions may be maintained in the near-wellbore region so that the microorganism metabolizes at least a portion of the hydrocarbon phase so that saturation of the near-wellbore region by the hydrocarbon phase decreases and saturation of the near-wellbore region by the aqueous phase increases. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140216738 | BOTTOM-UP SOLVENT-AIDED PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR HYDROCARBON RECOVERY - Solvent may be injected into a hydrocarbon reservoir at an increasingly elevated vertical level to allow vapor of the solvent to contact and mobilize viscous hydrocarbons in the reservoir, for producing mobilized hydrocarbons. Solvent may be injected into a mobile zone below a viscous hydrocarbon zone, to allow solvent vapor to ascend to mobilize viscous hydrocarbons in the viscous hydrocarbon zone. A vertical or slanted injection well may be used to inject the solvent into the reservoir, and a production well spaced horizontally apart from the injection well may be used to produce fluids from the reservoir. A bottom-up solvent-aided process may comprise injecting water and liquid solvent into the mobile zone, and then injecting heated water and solvent into the mobile zone. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140251596 | SINGLE VERTICAL OR INCLINED WELL THERMAL RECOVERY PROCESS - The present disclosure describes a single well predominantly gravity-dominated recovery process for producing viscous hydrocarbons from a subterranean oil sands formation. The process operates a single vertical or inclined well within a formation, the wellbore having an injection means and a production means, the injection means being positioned in the wellbore closer to the surface than the production means. The process provides an area of high mobility adjacent the production means. A mobilizing fluid is injected through the injection means into the formation to mobilize the viscous hydrocarbons in the formation while substantially concurrently producing hydrocarbons through the production means. The gravity dominated process may be SAGD and the present process may be a single vertical or inclined well SAGD process. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140251608 | SINGLE VERTICAL OR INCLINED WELL THERMAL RECOVERY PROCESS - The present disclosure describes a single well predominantly gravity-dominated recovery process for producing viscous hydrocarbons from a subterranean oil sands formation. The process operates a single vertical or inclined well within a formation, the wellbore having an injection means and a production means, the injection means being positioned in the wellbore closer to the surface than the production means. The process provides an area of high mobility adjacent the production means. A mobilizing fluid is injected through the injection means into the formation to mobilize the viscous hydrocarbons in the formation while substantially concurrently producing hydrocarbons through the production means. The gravity dominated process may be SAGD and the present process may be a single vertical or inclined well SAGD process. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140345859 | HYDROCARBON RECOVERY FACILITATED BY IN SITU COMBUSTION - A process for hydrocarbon recovery from an oil sands deposit includes injecting an oxidizing gas into an oil sands reservoir through an injection well. The oxidizing gas supports in situ combustion (ISC) in the reservoir. A generally horizontal well pair is used that is in fluid communication with the injection well to recover hydrocarbons mobilized by the ISC. The well pair includes: a generally horizontal segment of a hydrocarbon production well, and a generally horizontal segment of a combustion gas production well. The generally horizontal segment of the combustion gas production well is generally parallel to and spaced vertically above the horizontal segment of the hydrocarbon production well. The segment of the oxidizing gas injection well is spaced generally above the segment of the hydrocarbon production well and generally above the segment of the combustion gas production well. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20150101794 | HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION APPARATUS - An apparatus is disclosed for use in a hydrocarbon production well that includes a casing extending from a segment of the production well to a wellhead. A production conduit extends inside the casing, from a first end in the hydrocarbon production well to a second end at the wellhead. A receptacle includes a bottom spaced from the first end of the production conduit and at least one sidewall extending around a portion of the production conduit proximal the first end such that the receptacle extends around the first end of the production conduit. The receptacle includes an opening for liquid to pass into the receptacle to separate liquids from gases. A submersible pump is disposed in the production well and includes a motor outside the receptacle and coupled to a pump body inside the receptacle to pump the liquid from a pump inlet in the receptacle, through the production conduit to the second end. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150144345 | WASTE HEAT RECOVERY FROM DEPLETED RESERVOIR - Described herein is a method of producing heated water from a hydrocarbon reservoir. The method includes injecting water into at least a portion of the hot bitumen-depleted zone to heat the water; and producing the heated water from a heated water production well. The method can includes generating the hot bitumen-depleted zone using steam-assisted gravity drainage, in situ combustion, steam flooding, cyclic steam stimulation, a solvent aided thermal recovery process, electric heating, electromagnetic heating, or any combination thereof. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150308246 | HYDROCARBON RECOVERY PROCESS - A process for hydrocarbon recovery from a hydrocarbon-bearing formation utilizing an injection well for the injection of a mobilizing and displacing fluid, such as steam, into the formation and a production well, spaced from the injection well, and through which hydrocarbon is recovered. The process includes injecting a surfactant and a gas into the production well for a first period of time to thereby emplace or form foam to an extent sufficient to modify the path of flow in an inter-well region between the injection well and the production well and in an area spaced from the inter-well region of the reservoir, which area is in fluid communication with at least one of the injection well and the production well. The process also includes injecting fluid into the injection well to cause the flow of hydrocarbon in the formation and recovering the hydrocarbon through the production well. | 10-29-2015 |
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| 20130096394 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING AN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNAL - A method of evaluating an electrophysiological signal is disclosed. A mathematical reconstruction over at least one cycle of the electrophysiological signal is used to identify an abnormal substrate. A non-transitory computer readable medium is also disclosed. The nontransitory computer readable medium has stored thereon instructions for identifying a pathological substrate from a mathematical reconstruction of an electrophysiological signal, which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform steps comprising using a mathematical reconstruction over many cycles of the electrophysiological signal to identify a pathological state. A system for evaluating an electrophysiological signal includes a processor configured to identify a pathological condition from a mathematical reconstruction of the electrophysiological signal. The system also includes a data input coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with the electrophysiological signal. The system further includes a user interface coupled to either the processor or the data input. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20150133803 | NONINVASIVE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC METHOD FOR ESTIMATING MAMMALIAN CARDIAC CHAMBER SIZE AND MECHANICAL FUNCTION - The present disclosure generally relates to systems and method of a noninvasive electrocardiographic (ECG) technique for characterizing cardiac chamber size and cardiac mechanical function. A mathematical analysis of three-dimensional (3D) high resolution ECG data may be used to estimate chamber size and cardiac mechanical function. For example, high-resolution mammalian ECG signals are analyzed across multiple leads, as 3D orthogonal (X,Y,Z) or 10-channel data for 30 to 1400 seconds to derive estimates of cardiac chamber size and cardiac mechanical function. Multiple mathematical approaches may be used to analyze the dynamical and geometrical properties of the ECG data. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150216426 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS FROM SINGLE CHANNEL DATA - Methods to identify and risk stratify disease states, cardiac structural defects, functional cardiac deficiencies induced by teratogens and other toxic agents, pathological substrates, conduction delays and defects, and ejection fraction using single channel biological data obtained from the subject. A modified Matching Pursuit (MP) algorithm may be used to find a noiseless model of the data that is sparse and does not assume periodicity of the signal. After the model is derived, various metrics and subspaces are extracted to characterize the cardiac system. In another method, space-time domain is divided into a number of regions (which is largely determined by the signal length), the density of the signal is computed in each region and input to a learning algorithm to associate them to the desired cardiac dysfunction indicator target. | 08-06-2015 |
