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8839434 | 13087447 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: accessing, by an analysis console, information related to a first file received at a first host of a plurality of hosts, each host running a corresponding set of malware detection processes, the information comprising: an identifier of the first file, the identifier generated by the first host, the identifier usable by each of the plurality of hosts to determine whether a second file comprises content substantially equivalent to content of the first file; a time limit for completing a further malware analysis; data indicating a first result of the first host applying the set of malware detection processes to the first file, the first result being inconclusive as to whether the first file contains malware; and a reason indicating why the first file is suspected of containing malware; performing, by the analysis console within the time limit, the further malware analysis of the first file based at least in part on the first result; generating, by the analysis console, a first output based at least in part on the first result, the first output comprising: the identifier of the first file; a second result indicating conclusively whether the first file comprises malware based on the further malware analysis, the second result usable by each of the plurality of hosts to determine whether the second file comprises malware based on a determination that the second file comprises content substantially equivalent to content of the first file; and propagating the first output to the plurality of hosts. |
20060095292 | 11297476 | 0 | 1. A system for generating a model of unknown values of several rate series at specified times for use in analyses based on the modelled unknown values, the several rate series having unconditional rate dynamics characterised by a parametric model type in several dimensions, each rate series having at least one known value, the system comprising at least one computing device configured to: receive input indicative of the parametric model type of the unconditional rate dynamics; receive input indicative of a known or unknown rate value for each rate series and for each specified time; generate the values of the known rate changes; generate an unconditional multidimensional probability distribution of the known and unknown rate changes; generate a multidimensional probability distribution of the unknown rate changes conditional on the known rate changes taking their known values; and provide an output constituting the model or values derived therefrom. |
8972320 | 14169013 | 1 | 1. A system for managing content comprising: an interface to receive an event associated with an instance of a smart container, wherein the smart container comprises a logical structure configured using a definition to manage associated content; a processor configured to: execute a policy based on the event associated with the instance of the smart container; and a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions. |
20090063988 | 11849132 | 0 | 1. A system comprising: an application data retriever configured to request application data; a mapping data handler configured to request a set of mapping data which is associated with at least a selected user interface (UI) view; a customizing data handler configured to request a set of customizing data associated with the selected UI view; a UI data aggregator configured to combine, at least, the mapping data and the customizing data into a UI view generation data set; and a UI generator configured to generate a UI view utilizing, at least in part, the UI generation data set from the UI data aggregator and the application data. |
9430359 | 14073351 | 1 | 1. An apparatus for performing one or more corrective actions with respect to an unresolved issue in a software component, the apparatus comprising: a processor; and a computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to: obtain data describing one or more characteristics of an unresolved issue with a software component from an issue tracking system, obtain data describing one or more characteristics of one or more resolved issues with the software component from the issue tracking system, identify at least one resolved issue that is similar to the unresolved issue from the one or more resolved issues based upon the characteristics of the unresolved issue and the characteristics of the one or more resolved issues, identify, based upon data maintained by a version control system, a plurality of changes that were made to the software component in order to resolve the at least one resolved issue, wherein the version control system maintains a version control graph for the software component that identifies the plurality of changes made to the software component and relationships between the plurality of changes, determine a similarity between the plurality of changes that were made to the software component in order to resolve the at least one resolved issue, and perform one or more corrective actions with respect to the unresolved issue based upon the similarity between the plurality of changes to the software component by providing a recommendation identifying changes to the software component that are similar to one another. |
20090319175 | 12362093 | 0 | 1. A portable electronic device, comprising: a positional component for receiving positional information as a function of a location of the portable electronic device; a directional component that outputs direction information as a function of an orientation of the portable electronic device; and a location based engine that processes the positional information and the direction information to determine a subset of points of interest relative to the portable electronic device as a function of at least the positional information and the direction information. |
7676486 | 10716093 | 1 | 1. A method for integrating legacy data into a content management system computer, comprising: analyzing a set of legacy data residing in a legacy data repository on a persistent data source computer connected to said content management system computer over a network; generating a set of content types to represent the set of legacy data in the content management system based on the analysis of the legacy data, wherein at least one of said set of content types is defined by a user through a graphical user interface of a client computer connected to said content management system computer over said network, wherein one of the content types comprises a policy annotation, and wherein the policy annotation comprises management information for putting content instance objects created from the content type through a workflow associated with the content type; saving the set of content types in a memory of said content management system computer; generating a set of content type objects corresponding to the set of content types, wherein a content type object is an instantiation of a content type embodied in the content management system; generating a set of content instance objects from the content type objects, wherein each content instance object is an instantiation of a content instance and is associated with a content type object or a content type; associating each of the set of legacy data with at least one of the content instance objects, wherein at least one of the content instance objects is associated with two or more datum of the set of legacy data, each of the datum residing in a distinct data storage device on said network; and managing the set of legacy data residing in the legacy data repository on said persistent data source computer using the content instance objects generated by the content management system computer, wherein the two or more datum are managed by said content management system over said network as a single entity using the at least one content instance object. |
9454308 | 14317219 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: identifying a set of uncompressed pages in a primary memory storage; assigning to each uncompressed page in the set of uncompressed pages a class from a pre-determined set of classes; compressing a plurality of uncompressed pages assigned to a same class and an uncompressed page assigned to a different class into a single logical page; determining a page weight factor for the single logical page; and storing the single logical page in a secondary memory storage; wherein: the page weight factor is made up of component weight factors assigned individually to classes of pages within the single logical page. |
9100418 | 12195737 | 1 | 1. A method for authenticating messages received at a receiver device, said method comprising: establishing a belief level for senders of messages that are received at the receiver device as to the messages validity; assigning the belief level to a scale where one end of the scale indicates a bona fide sender or message that will be accepted and the other end of the scale indicates a malicious sender or message that will be discarded; selecting an authentication mode based at least in part on the belief level, wherein one authentication mode includes a blind accept mode for a belief level at or around the bona fide end of the scale, a discard mode for a belief level at or around the malicious end of the scale and at least one mode therebetween; and performing an authentication process on the message depending on which mode is selected, wherein the at least one mode between the blind accept mode and the discard mode includes modes for validating a PKI signature, validating a lightweight signature and/or performing a consistency check based on local information, and wherein the PKI signature mode is selected if the belief level is near the malicious end of the scale and the lightweight signature mode is selected if the belief level is near the bona fide end of the scale. |
20180011785 | 15712475 | 0 | 1. A method to retrieve data from memory, the method comprising: iteratively applying a series of partial program pulses to each memory cell of a plurality of memory cells; after the application of the series of partial program pulses, reading each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells; determining, based on the reading, a sequence in which each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells switches from a first value to a second value; determining, based on the sequence, a rank vector; and retrieving data written in the plurality of memory cells by processing the rank vector. |
8608485 | 12778434 | 1 | 1. A method of making a learning application, said method comprising: providing a content database comprising reusable digital objects, wherein at least a portion of said reusable digital objects are deposited to said content database by a registered contributor and said portion is identified as contributed by said registered contributor; registering a user as a developer user, thereby providing said developer user with access to said content database, wherein said developer user withdraws one or more of said reusable digital objects from said database, wherein at least one reusable digital object was deposited by said registered contributor; forming said withdrawn reusable digital objects into a learning application; depositing said learning application into the content database for use by another user; calculating a compensation value for said registered contributor; and compensating said registered contributor based on said calculated compensation value wherein at least one of said withdrawn one or more reusable digital objects comprises a learning application that the developer user modifies. |
20010032304 | 09808306 | 0 | 1. A processor, having a plurality of instruction slots each of which stores an instruction to be executed in parallel, wherein one of the plurality of instruction slots is a first instruction slot and another one of the plurality of instruction slots is a second instruction slot, the processor being characterized by: a special instruction stored in the first instruction slot being executed by a first functional unit that executes instructions stored in the first instruction slot and a second functional unit that executes instructions stored in the second instruction slot, while an instruction in the second instruction slot is executed by a third functional unit that executes instructions stored in the second instruction slot. |
20140337394 | 14444183 | 0 | 1. A method comprises: receiving, at a processing module of a distributed storage (DS) processing unit, a store data object request; receiving, at the processing module of the distributed storage (DS) processing unit, a first section of a data object that contains less than a full amount of the data object; determining, via the processing module of the distributed storage (DS) processing unit, that communication of the data object has been interrupted; determining, via the processing module of the distributed storage (DS) processing unit, whether to store the first section of the data object; and storing the first section of the data object in a DS network when determined to store the first section of the data object. |
20130181996 | 13787597 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a set of objects for connection; creating, by a computing device, a moving object within the set of objects; displaying, by the computing device, visual connection cues on objects in the set of objects; adjusting, by the computing device, the visual connection cues of the moving object and a target object in the set of objects; identifying event propagation precedence; and connecting the moving object with the target object based on the identified event propagation precedence. |
20140254251 | 13787938 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: controlling a temperature within a chamber, wherein a device including a memory array is located in the chamber; applying a magnetic field to the memory array; and testing the memory array during application of the magnetic field to the memory array at a target temperature. |
20150160785 | 14103499 | 0 | 1. A method implemented by one or more computing devices, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of inputs, each of the inputs being received from a respective one of a plurality of optical sensors; and classifying each of the plurality of inputs using machine learning as to whether the inputs are indicative of detection of an object by a respective said optical sensor. |
9606866 | 14221117 | 1 | 1. A method of defining a layout mapping function for a parity distributed RAID array comprising a plurality of target objects, the layout mapping function defining the mapping of a stripe group-address space to a target-address space in the array and comprising a matrix defining a unit space across the plurality of target objects, the matrix comprising columns defining the plurality of target objects and rows defining equally-offset sequential units on the plurality target objects, the method comprising: specifying, on a computing apparatus, P target objects, where P>1; specifying, on a computing apparatus, A target objects as spare space, where A<P and A>1; defining, on a computing apparatus, a sub-matrix of P′ columns, where P′=P−A; defining, on a computing apparatus, a layout of stripe groups across the P′ target objects in the sub-matrix, each stripe group comprising a plurality of data units and a plurality of parity units; adding, on a computing apparatus, A columns, representative of the A spare space target objects, to the sub-matrix to form a complete matrix defining the layout mapping function; and implementing, on a computing apparatus, the layout mapping function on the target objects of the RAID array. |
20160063019 | 14475948 | 0 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a memory operable to store a plurality of conversion rules associated with converting scripts; and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to: receive a first script; determine a first type associated with the first script; determine a plurality of variables included in the first script; determine a first layout associated with the first script; determine, based at least in part upon the type, that at least one conversion rule of the plurality of conversion rules should be applied; determine a second type based at least in part upon the at least one conversion rule and the first type; determine a second variable based at least in part upon the at least one conversion rule, the second type, and at least one variable of the plurality of variables; determine a second layout based at least in part upon the at least one conversion rule, the second type, and the first layout; and generate a second script associated with the second type and the second layout, the second script comprising the second variable, the second script executable against a database comprising a plurality of database processors, wherein: each database processor of the plurality of database processors is operable to communicate directly with every other database processor of the plurality of database processors; a capacity of the database corresponds to a number of database processors in the plurality of database processors; and the database is operable to: receive a query; divide the query into a plurality of sub-queries; and process each sub-query of the plurality of sub-queries, wherein each sub-query is processed by a different database processor of the plurality of database processors. |
7512595 | 11325144 | 1 | 1. A method for utilizing configuration information associated with a storage area network, the method comprising: receiving a query including at least one parameter value; based on receipt of the query, initiating a search in a data structure of records sorted according to multiple parameter values associated with each respective record, each record in the data structure including a grouping of multiple parameter values, each of the multiple parameter values of a respective record in the data structure indicating a corresponding unique type of resource associated with a storage area network configuration identified by the respective record; in response to initiating the search, identifying a set of at least one record in the data structure including the at least one parameter value included in the query; utilizing results of the search to determine whether a respective portion of a given storage area network configuration, as identified by the at least one parameter values in the query, is acceptable for use in a corresponding storage area network environment; and wherein initiating the search includes initiating a multi-dimensional search to identify whether the given storage area network configuration is acceptable for use in a respective storage area network environment, a first dimension of the multi-dimensional search being performed to identify which records in the data structure includes a first parameter of the at least one parameter in the query, a second dimension of the search being performed to identify which of the records including the first parameter also includes a second parameter value of the at least one parameter value in the query. |
20150286588 | 14744191 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device from a portable device comprising a processor and a display, an application that is executable on the portable device; determining, by the computing device, whether the received application is a static application or an interpreted application; in response to determining that the received application is a static application, executing, by the computing device, the received application using a hardware virtualizer; and in response to determining that the received application is an interpreted application, executing, by the computing device, the received application using a dynamic translator. |
9104312 | 13583840 | 1 | 1. A method, performed using one or more processors and a memory, for data input, the method comprising: receiving, through an input device and using the one or more processors, a first user input as part of a gesture, wherein the gesture comprises at least a first input selection that represents less than an entire word and a second input selection; and wherein the gesture is a continuous stroke across a virtual keyboard from a first simulated key across one or more other simulated keys; identifying, in the first user input, a bend from the first input selection to a current input location along the gesture; determining that the bend indicates a third input selection that represents a portion of the word between the first input selection and the second input selection; assigning to the bend a directional classification from a discrete set of directional classifications; determining one or more candidates for the third input selection based on the candidates for the third input selection being in a direction, relative to the first input selection, corresponding to the assigned directional classification; determining, using the one or more processors, one or more possible word suggestions based upon the first input selection and the one or more candidates for the third input selection, wherein the one or more possible word suggestions are determined prior to receiving the second input selection; and providing, using a display, the possible word suggestions to the user. |
20140101604 | 14046017 | 0 | 1. An interfacing device for providing a user interface (UI) exploiting a multi-modality, the device comprising: a multi-modality recognizer to recognize at least two modality inputs for controlling the scene; and a scene control information generator to generate scene control information based on the at least two modality inputs. |
20070100618 | 11589165 | 0 | 1. An apparatus for dialogue speech recognition using topic domain detection, comprising: a forward search module performing a forward search in order to create a word lattice similar to a feature vector, which is extracted from an input voice signal, with reference to a global language model database, a pronunciation dictionary database and an acoustic model database, which have been previously established; a topic-domain-detection module detecting a topic domain by inferring a topic based on meanings of vocabularies contained in the word lattice using information of the word lattice created as a result of the forward search; and a backward-decoding module performing a backward decoding of the detected topic domain with reference to a specific topic domain language model database, which has been previously established, thereby outputting a speech recognition result for an input voice signal in text form. |
20110242566 | 12753685 | 0 | 1. A processor implemented method for processing at least one page in a document, wherein the document is described using an interpreted page description language (“PDL”), the method comprising: parsing the PDL document to identify a function based operator in the PDL document; generating program code in a programming language, wherein the program code is functionally equivalent to the function based operator; compiling the program code to generate a shared object and dynamically linking to the entry point of the shared object; and invoking the shared object associated with the function based operator when the function based operator is processed. |
7665071 | 10733795 | 1 | 1. A management system for generation of a management object model including a structured hierarchy of objects representing hardware components of a computer system for performing management of the computer system, the management system comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises program instructions configured to implement: component modules operable to define mappings from instrumentation of the hardware components to objects representing those hardware components, wherein one of said component modules for a hardware component identifies an instrumentation module defining a source of instrumentation for the hardware component, and wherein the instrumentation module comprises a general part and a specific part, the general part being operable to communicate with the specific part via a private interface to obtain instrumentation data, and the specific part being configured to interface with instrumentation for the hardware component to obtain said instrumentation data; and configuration modules operable to configure associations between the component modules for the generation of the management object model. |
20160277424 | 14664285 | 0 | 1. A method for updating a trust score, the method comprising: accessing, using processing circuitry, a database storing data associated with a network community, the data identifying paths from a first entity to a second entity; calculating, using the processing circuitry, a network connectivity score based on the identified paths; receiving data about the second entity from a remote source; calculating, using the processing circuitry, a ratings score based on the received data from the remote source; calculating, using the processing circuitry, a trust score for the second entity by calculating a weighted sum of the network connectivity score and the ratings score using a first set of weights; receiving an indication of an activity to be performed in the future together by the first entity and the second entity; selecting a second set of weights corresponding to the activity to be performed in the future, the second set of weights being different than the first set of weights; and recalculating, using the processing circuitry, the trust score using the second set of weights. |
20060004802 | 10841216 | 0 | 1. An apparatus for publishing streaming data, comprising: a server including: a process engine to process streaming data; a Java messaging service; a publisher interface coupled to said Java messaging service for publishers to publish streaming data; and a subscriber interface coupled to said Java messaging service for subscribers to listen to streaming data; wherein real time data from at least one streaming data source may be provided via Java messages. |
20120272032 | 13534259 | 0 | 1. A system, comprising: a memory; and a plurality of configurable function blocks that are allocated portions of the memory, each of the function blocks including: a first unit to store values that define a range in the memory by the function block, and a second unit to track usage of the range. |
9262694 | 14364467 | 1 | 1. A dictionary learning device comprising: a score calculation unit that calculates a matching score representing a similarity-degree between a sample pattern which is a sample of a pattern which is likely to be subjected to a pattern matching processing and a degradation pattern resulting from a degrading processing on the sample pattern; and learning unit that, based on the calculated matching score and the degradation pattern, learns a quality dictionary which is used in a processing to evaluate a degradation degree of a matching target pattern of being target to be subjected to the pattern matching processing. |
7747449 | 10860123 | 1 | 1. A method of providing a cost estimate for a data processing system, the method comprising: selecting, by a central processing unit, application programs, from a set of application programs, each application program having objects; entering, by a central processing unit, load profile data for the selected application programs, wherein the load profile data comprises a total number of orders to be processed per year by means of the selected application programs on the data processing system, an average number of items per order, an average number of concurrent users, and an average retention time of an object before archiving; retrieving, from a database, sets of sizing coefficients for the objects of the selected application programs, the number of retrieved sets of sizing coefficients for the objects of the selected application program corresponding to the number of selected application programs, and the retrieved sets of sizing coefficients being unique and assigned to a particular selected application program among the selected application programs; estimating, by the central processing unit, hardware requirements for the data processing system for the objects of the selected application programs by entering the sizing coefficients and the load profile data into a sizing model; entering the hardware requirements for the objects of the selected application programs into a cost estimation component to generate cost estimates for the objects of the selected application programs; calculating, by the general processing unit, the total hardware requirement by adding the hardware requirements for the objects of the selected application programs; calculating, by the central processing unit, a total cost estimate for the data processing system by adding the cost estimates for the objects of the selected application programs; and outputting the total cost estimate. |
9037562 | 14303596 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: indexing received data; storing the indexed data in at least one data storage device; determining whether an amount of indexed data stored for a particular project in the at least one data storage device has reached a data volume limit associated with the particular project, the particular project among a plurality of projects, each project in the plurality of projects having an associated data volume limit; in response to a determination that the amount of indexed data for the particular project has reached the associated data volume limit, ceasing storage of indexed data for the project in the at least one data storage device; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices. |
7800933 | 11496986 | 1 | 1. A method for changing and sensing data states for a nonvolatile memory cell, the method comprising: switching semiconductor material from a first stable resistivity state to a second stable resistivity state, the second resistivity state lower resistivity than the first resistivity state; switching the semiconductor material from the second stable resistivity state to a third stable resistivity state, the third resistivity state higher resistivity than the second resistivity state; and sensing the third resistivity state as a data state of the memory cell, wherein: the memory cell comprises a portion of a first conductor, a portion of a second conductor, and a switchable memory element comprising the semiconductor material, the semiconductor material is selected from silicon, germanium, or an alloy of silicon and/or germanium, the switchable memory element is disposed between the first and second conductors, the semiconductor material in the first stable resistivity state has a first resistivity when a read voltage is applied to the semiconductor material; the semiconductor material in the second stable resistivity state has a second resistivity when the read voltage is applied to the semiconductor material; the semiconductor material in the third stable resistivity state has a third resistivity when the read voltage is applied to the semiconductor material; the first resistivity, the second resistivity, and the third resistivity are different from each other; the semiconductor material is a doped polycrystalline material that comprises a plurality of grain boundaries; at least some dopant atoms move away from at least some of the plurality of grain boundaries, during switching the semiconductor material from the first stable resistivity state to the second stable resistivity state; and at least some of the dopant atoms move to at least some of the plurality of grain boundaries, during switching the semiconductor material from the second stable resistivity state to the third stable resistivity state. |
9747111 | 13911272 | 1 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for managing execution of a security patch on a managed node communicatively coupled over a network to a management controller, the instructions, when executed by the management controller configured to: determine an estimated time needed to execute the security patch on the managed node; determine an execution policy for the security patch to be executed on the managed node based on the estimated time, the execution policy comprising: a minimum battery life of the managed node required for the execution of the security patch; and a required residual battery life of the managed node following the execution of the security patch, wherein the required residual battery life of the managed node adjusts based on a criticality of the security patch; receive system information data from the managed node, wherein the system information data comprises network connectivity information and estimated availability time of the managed node, wherein the network connectivity information indicates time or duration of network connectivity of the managed node to the network, and wherein the estimated availability time of the managed node is determined based on a remaining battery life of the managed node; based on the received system information data, determine if the received system information complies with the execution policy by: comparing the received system information data to the execution policy; and determining if the received system information allows execution of the security patch based on the execution policy; based on the estimated availability time and network connectivity information of the managed node allowing execution of the security patch based on the execution policy, schedule the security patch on the managed node for execution. |
20150326245 | 14704128 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: selecting a compressed format for storage of a matrix based on a computation to be performed using the matrix and architecture of a storage compute device to which the matrix is stored; storing data of the matrix on the storage compute device according to the compressed format; and performing the computation using the data via a computation unit that resides within the storage compute device. |
3987419 | 05529861 | 1 | 1. A high speed information processing system, comprising: an associative processor having a memory section maintaining a plurality of bit-comprised words of data and having an identical arithmetic logic circuit associated with each such word for performing arithmetic and logic operations on said plurality of data words simultaneously; a magnetic memory disc, having a plurality of concentric associative storage tracks thereon, separate and distinct from the data processor, wherein bulk storage of data words is maintained; and means interconnecting the associative procesor and the memory disc to affectuate data word transfers therebetween. |
8533236 | 13559302 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: obtaining, by a computer system, information that identifies interactions among users of a social network; generating, by the computer system, a graph that is based at least in part on the obtained information and comprises i) nodes that represent the users of the social network and ii) edges that connect the nodes and that represent relationships between the users; assigning, to at least a portion of the nodes in the graph and for one or more labels, initial label values that indicate levels of interest of users associated with the portion of the nodes in content associated with the one or more labels; determining, for the nodes in the graph, label values for the one or more labels based on iterative propagation of the initial label values among the nodes using the edges of the graph, wherein iterative propagation comprises, for a particular node from the nodes in the graph, determining particular label values for the particular node at each of a plurality of iterations by combining, at each of the plurality of iterations, neighboring label values for neighboring nodes that are connected to the particular node by a portion of the edges of the graph; and identifying, by the computer system for a particular label from the one or more labels, one or more users to provide with particular content that is associated with the particular label, wherein the one or more users are identified based on the determined label values for the particular label. |
7757081 | 12005569 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: verifying an initiating logical processor of a system; validating a trusted agent with the initiating logical processor if the initiating logical processor is verified including measuring and authenticating the trusted agent at a predetermined address, broadcasting information to enable a plurality of processors of the system to validate the trusted agent, and thereafter validating the trusted agent with the plurality of processors of the system using the broadcasted information; and launching the trusted agent on the plurality of processors of the system if the trusted agent is validated. |
20150350061 | 14288338 | 0 | 1. A method implemented by a network device in a network having a plurality of nodes, the method to compute a loop free alternative (LFA) next hop as a backup for a primary path next hop for an interior gateway protocol (IGP), where the method enables an administrator to control LFA selection for a destination node using a tag and a weight, the method comprising the steps of: selecting a next candidate node from a set of neighbor nodes in the network to perform LFA computation; determining whether an interface of the next candidate node towards a source node provides an LFA for the destination node; checking whether the interface of the next candidate node has a tag with a tag value matching a tag value of a primary SPF path for the destination node; checking whether the destination node has any LFA; checking whether a stored tag differs from the tag value of the primary SPF path for the destination node; checking whether the interface of the next candidate node is preferred based on a comparison of a weight value of the interface of the next candidate node and a stored weight; and replacing a stored LFA for the destination node with the next candidate node, a stored weight with a weight of the interface of the next candidate node, and a stored tag with a tag of the interface of the next candidate node. |
9817888 | 14955146 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method of supplementing structured information within a data system for entities based on unstructured data comprising: analyzing one or more documents with unstructured data pertaining to the entities of the structured information and identifying from the unstructured data one or more relationships between the entities of the structured information; extracting attribute values from the unstructured data for one or more of the entities of the structured information, wherein extracting attribute values from the unstructured data includes: extracting attribute values based on a comparison of the unstructured data with one or more dictionaries each including values for a corresponding attribute of an entity within the data system; retrieving entity records with structured information from the data system based on the extracted attribute values; constructing entity references for corresponding one or more of the entities of the data system based on a comparison of the retrieved entity records and the extracted attribute values; linking the entity references to the corresponding one or more entities within the data system, wherein the entity references include extracted attributes from the unstructured data for corresponding linked entities, and wherein linking the entity references includes: inserting the entity references into one of the data system and an external data source based on a comparison of matching scores for the entity references with corresponding thresholds; defining new relationships in the data system between the entities within the structured information corresponding to the one or more relationships between the entities identified from the unstructured data; creating the new defined relationships between the entities in the data system by linking the entities of the structured information to each other within the structured information based on the one or more relationships between those entities identified within the unstructured data; and processing a query for the data system to retrieve at least one entity of the structured information including the entities linked to the at least one entity based on the defined new relationships and the corresponding unstructured data of the linked entity references. |
7487292 | 11214871 | 1 | 1. A magnetic disk apparatus having a RAID configuration in which the same data is written on two disks, comprising: a read command issuance section that selects an algorithm from a first algorithm that relates to the size of a load on a fiber channel (FC) loop and a second algorithm that relates to the size of a load applied to the magnetic disk apparatus and issues read commands to data stored in the two disks, respectively, according to the selected algorithm; and a data acquisition section that adopts, as read data, the data that has been read first by the read commands that the read command issuance section has issued to the two disks. |
8291495 | 11835923 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, with a network device, a first packet flow within a network from a client to a server; performing an initial identification of a type of software application and communication protocol associated with the first packet flow, to determine a first type of software application for the first packet flow; applying a first set of patterns to the first packet flow to determine whether the first packet flow represents a network attack, wherein the first set of patterns are associated with the determined first type of software application and the communication protocol; buffering the first packet flow to store at least a connection request by the client; forwarding the first packet flow to the server; receiving, in response to forwarding the first packet flow to the server, a second packet flow from the server; associating the first packet flow and the second packet flow as a communication session between the client and the server; using the first packet flow and the second packet flow, reevaluating the initial identification of the type of software application and protocol associated with the communication session, to determine a second type of software application for the first packet flow; selecting a second set of patterns based on the determined second type of software application for the first packet flow and the reevaluated communication protocol; and after receiving the second packet flow from the server, applying the second set of patterns to the buffered connection request of the first packet flow to re-determine whether the first packet flow represents a network attack. |
8401838 | 12659686 | 1 | 1. A system for multilanguage text input in a handheld electronic device, the system comprising: a multilanguage text input application implemented in the handheld electronic device; at least one additional application implemented in the handheld electronic device; a plurality of language databases containing language data from a plurality of different languages usable by the multilanguage text input application; and an interface communicating with the multilanguage text input application and the at least one additional application, the interface providing the multilanguage text input application, at the time of multilanguage text input, with data from more than one of the plurality of language databases in response to a single request for data from the multilanguage text input application to the interface, the interface further providing the at least one additional application with data from at least some of the language databases accessed for the multilanguage text input application. |
20040122794 | 10325715 | 0 | 1. A method for multicolumn ordering, comprising: applying key prefixes to column data values of a plurality of data columns to form a set of prefixed data values; ordering said set of prefixed data values in a first compound column; and selecting from said ordered set a subset for further processing. |
20130067364 | 13228104 | 0 | 1. One or more computer-readable storage media having embodied thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor in a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method of facilitating presentation of search result items having varied prominence, the method comprising: referencing a search result item to be presented within a search results page in response to a search query; determining that a size prominence of the search result item is to be modified based on at least one result attribute associated with the search result item and at least one result attribute associated with one or more other search result items within the search results page; and adjusting the size of the search result item in accordance with the determination that the size prominence of the search result item is to be modified. |
20090052366 | 11815023 | 0 | 1. A communication method in an ad-hoc network in which a plurality of communication devices perform ad-hoc communication, comprising: a step in which the communication devices determine a unique communication device in the ad-hoc network; a step in which the communication devices measure hop counts from the unique communication device; and a step in which the communication devices propagate a maximum hop count out of the hop counts, in the ad-hoc network. |
7968524 | 12121731 | 1 | 1. A method comprising the steps of: (a) administering to a mammal an effective amount of a pharmaceutical agent which inhibits Gpr12 activity in the mammal; (b) providing training to the mammal under conditions sufficient to produce an improvement in performance by the mammal of a cognitive task; (c) producing a long-lasting performance gain in the mammal relative to the performance of said cognitive task achieved by training alone; wherein said pharmaceutical agent comprises an effective amount of a Gpr12 siRNA molecule or an effective amount of a biologically active Gpr12 antisense fragment. |
20100036790 | 12556349 | 0 | 1. A method for performing facet analysis of input information selected from a domain of information in accordance with a source data structure, the method comprising: discovering at least one of facets, facet attributes, and facet attribute hierarchies of the input information using pattern augmentation and statistical analyses to identify patterns of facet attribute relationships in the input information. |
9946749 | 15260136 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: generating, for an original attribute of a relation maintained in a database system, a respective auxiliary attribute for each interval size of a plurality of interval sizes, each interval size corresponding to a different respective power of a particular exponent base; computing, for each data entry of the relation and for each interval size of the plurality of interval sizes, a respective interval number for the interval size to which an original attribute value of the data entry belongs; storing each respective computed interval number for each data entry in the database system as an auxiliary attribute value of a corresponding auxiliary attribute for the data entry; receiving, by a query rewriter of a user device in communication with the database system, an original query having an inequality expression for the original attribute; generating a new query that replaces the inequality expression with multiple equality expressions, wherein each equality expression references a different respective auxiliary attribute, each auxiliary attribute representing a different respective interval size for values of the original attribute; providing, by the user device to the database system, the new query having the multiple equality expressions instead of the original query; and receiving, by the user device from the database system, query results that satisfy the inequality expression for the original attribute. |
20110321131 | 12823200 | 0 | 1. A method for accessing data, the method comprising: receiving a workflow model described in a workflow language and configured to declare security requirements of a composite application integrating protected data from two or more external network resources, the composite application executing on at least one host server computer according to the workflow model; and executing an authentication service on at least one secure server computer, the authentication service configured to conduct user authentication and authorization to access the protected data at the external network resources on behalf of the composite application. |
9158865 | 12795212 | 1 | 1. A computer process for displaying an assembly of objects of a product lifecycle management (PLM) database stored on a server, the process comprising: using a computer processor: providing an access to a server hosting the PLM database; selecting, on a client computer, the assembly of objects in the database; identifying, on the server, a plurality of viewpoints on said assembly; computing, by the server, rays passing through the identified viewpoints and the objects of the assembly of objects; identifying, on the server, one or more bounding volumes for each respective object of the assembly of objects intersecting the computed rays; retrieving, by the server, from the database geometries of a set of objects of said assembly according to the plurality of identified viewpoints on said assembly and the identified one or more bounding volumes for each respective object, the geometries of the set of objects being retrieved according to the plurality of identified viewpoints and the one or more bounding volumes for each respective object and not according to any certain model; computing, at one time by the client computer, a model of said assembly for all the retrieved geometries of the set of objects; and displaying, by the client computer, a view of the model, any displayed views being computed locally on a client computer starting from the geometries of the objects retrieved at the retrieving step. |
6099317 | 09173617 | 1 | 1. A computer program product, comprising: a computer storage medium and a computer program code mechanism embedded in the computer storage medium for causing a computer to monitor events in a computer system, the computer program code mechanism comprising: a first computer code device configured to identify a target application; a second computer code device configured to intercept events performed by the target application; a third computer code device configured to record the events intercepted by the second computer code device; and a fourth computer code device configured to perform one of: (1) replaying the events recorded by the third computer code device on said computer and (2) sending the events recorded by the third computer code device to a remote computer for execution. |
8706298 | 12725740 | 1 | 1. A temporal robot controller, comprising: a sensor module for receiving data corresponding to a location of at least one object in a robot environment, the robot environment corresponding to an occupancy grid with which the location of the at least one object is associated; a storage module operatively coupled to said sensor module, said storage module configured to store at least one of data processed from data received by the sensor module or a priori data; a temporal control module operatively coupled to said storage module, the temporal control module configured to temporally estimate a plurality of alternative future locations in the occupancy grid of the at least one object based on data retrieved from the storage module; and a temporal simulation module operatively coupled to said storage module and said temporal control module, the temporal simulation module configured to use the data stored by the storage module and the temporally estimated alternative future locations in the occupancy grid to temporally simulate multiple robot control hypotheses for future robot state planning, wherein iterating of the temporal simulation of the multiple robot control hypotheses by the temporal simulation module is performed asynchronously with respect to iterating of the temporal estimation of alternative future locations in the occupancy grid of the at least one object by the temporal control module and wherein the temporal simulation module is configured to predict actions of the at least one object based on predicted reactions of the at least one obiect to the state of the robot. |
20110275432 | 12962828 | 0 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a machine readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions that when executed causes a computing device to perform a method comprising: receiving a first wager by a first player on an outcome of a first poker game; determining a first set of hold cards for the first poker game; presenting the first set of hold cards to the first player; receiving a second wager by the first player on only the flop of the first poker game, in which the second wager may be won and lost independently of the first wager, in which the second wager includes a wager that the flop will include at least one characteristic; determining the flop of the first poker game; presenting the flop to the first player; determining whether the second wager is a winning wager based on whether the flop includes the characteristic; presenting an indication of whether the second wager is a winning wager; determining whether the first wager is a winning wager; and presenting an indication of whether the first wager is a winning wager. |
20140180052 | 14108118 | 0 | 1. A fully integrated neural amplifier of neural signals, comprising: (a) a working electrode and a counter electrode both connected to a DC block capacitor Cin; (b) a capacitive feedback circuit for setting a gain of said neural amplifier as the ratio of said input capacitor (Cin) and a feedback capacitor (Cf); and (c) a folded-cascode (FC) amplifier with a gain booster; (d) wherein said gain booster comprises two common-source (CS) amplifiers; (e) wherein said first common-source (CS) amplifier is formed by a differential pair with diode-connected load; (f) wherein the differential outputs of said first common-source (CS) amplifier are connected to two gates of current source transistors of said folded-cascode (FC) amplifier, respectively, which are used as the second common-source (CS) amplifier; and (g) wherein said second common-source (CS) amplifier is embedded into the folded branch of said folded-cascode (FC) amplifier for the purpose of minimizing current consumption. |
20100076813 | 12236982 | 0 | 1. A method for assessing a geographic region, the method comprising: collecting transaction data from a transaction involving a business and a consumer; associating a geographic-location identifier with the transaction data; storing the collected transaction data and associated geographic-location identifier in a database; receiving an instruction that defines the geographic region to be assessed; obtaining from the database the transaction data associated with the geographic-location identifiers that correspond to the geographic region; and generating a report that assesses the geographic region based on the transaction data obtained from the database. |
20180004706 | 15690692 | 0 | 1. A method performed on a System on Chip (SoC) module that comprises a processor subsystem and field programmable gate array (FPGA) fabric in communication with one another, the method comprising: directing an event message to at least one of: an event-driven process that is executable by a processor of the processor subsystem; or an event-driven hardware logic module of the FPGA fabric; when the event message is directed to the processor, executing, at the processor, the event-driven process responsive to the processor receiving the event message; and when the event message is directed to the event-driven hardware logic module of the FPGA fabric, triggering the event-driven hardware logic module responsive to receiving an indication that the event message is directed to the event-driven hardware logic module. |
20110302006 | 13214588 | 0 | 1. A system for analyzing sentiment trends based on term taxonomies of user generated content, comprising: a network interface enabling access to one or more data sources through a network; a mining unit for collecting textual content from the one or more sources and generating phrases, the phrases including sentiment phrases and non-sentiment phrases; a data warehouse storage connected to the network; and an analysis unit for generating at least associations between a non-sentiment phrase and a sentiment phrase based on the generated phrases, an association between a non-sentiment phrase and at least one corresponding sentiment phrase is a term taxonomy, wherein generated term taxonomies are saved in the data warehouse, the analysis unit further periodically statistically analyzes the stored term taxonomies to determine at least a statistical trend of at least one non-sentiment phrase with respect of the respective sentiment phrases, the analysis unit stores results of the at least statistical trend in the data warehouse storage, wherein the stored results are available upon receiving a request to generate a trend report regarding the at least statistical trend. |
8972473 | 13479040 | 1 | 1. A method for efficient computation of results for mathematical functions, the method comprising: receiving, by user of a processor, a mathematical function call, the call comprising a plurality of arguments for which a range of computable results for the mathematical function of the function call varies with respect to the values for the arguments; determining whether executing the mathematical function using the plurality of arguments will produce a result within the range of computable results; and aborting the mathematical function call prior to initiating execution of the mathematical function in response to determining that the values for the plurality of arguments produce a result outside the range of computable results. |
20090270166 | 12428305 | 0 | 1. A computer system for transmitting media data, associated real-time data, and contextually related asynchronous data for presentation to an end user, the system comprising: a time synchronization module adapted to: receive the media data; receive the associated real-time data; combine the media data with the associated real-time data based on a correspondence of temporal data to generate an integrated data feed; and output the integrated data feed for presentation to the end user; an asynchronous data storage adapted to store asynchronous data; a contextual relating module adapted to: receive the integrated data feed; identify asynchronous data stored by the asynchronous data storage as contextually relevant to the integrated data feed; output the contextually relevant asynchronous data for presentation to the end user; and store the integrated data feed in association with the contextually relevant asynchronous data for subsequent presentation to the end user. |
10026145 | 15377498 | 1 | 1. A method for operating a graphics processing unit (GPU), the method comprising: allocating resources of a shader processor of the GPU for a first thread of a first shader based on a first resource footprint of the first shader; receiving information from a driver identifying a second shader; receiving an indication that a second resource footprint of the second shader is smaller than the first resource footprint of the first shader; determining whether one or more processing elements of the shader processor is available based on the resources allocated for the first thread; and based on the determination that one or more processing elements are available and the indication that the second resource footprint is smaller than the first resource footprint, executing a second thread of the second shader while using the resources allocated for the first thread of the first shader on the shader processor without reconfiguring the resources allocated for the first thread of the first shader. |
20130262739 | 13799666 | 0 | 1. A system, comprising: a controller; and a plurality of memory modules in communication with the controller over a bus; wherein the controller is configured to: manage the association of a global logical address space with a physical address space: wherein each memory module has a physical address range and the global logical address range is mapped to a physical address range; the global logical address range being greater or equal to the sum of the physical address ranges; and wherein when a memory module is replaced with a memory module having a larger physical address range, the additional physical address range is mapped to a previously unmapped range of the global logical address range. |
20060206306 | 11054113 | 0 | 1. A method of extracting key terms from text comprising: receiving unstructured text documents; detecting boundaries between sentences in the unstructured text documents to generate a sentence list; extracting key terms from the unstructured text documents to generate key terms with weightings; re-counting the extracted key terms to generate key terms with more accurate weightings. |
8295328 | 11548528 | 1 | 1. A method of controlling a generalized Rake (G-Rake) spread spectrum receiver based on a frequency shift of a received, despread signal, said method comprising: obtaining by an offset shift estimator, the frequency shift of the received signal; and calculating by a controller, G-Rake combining weights based on the frequency shift, wherein the calculating step includes utilizing the frequency shift for: controlling a channel estimation algorithm; determining a number of unique channel estimations per slot; and controlling an update rate of an impairment covariance matrix utilized to produce impairment correlation estimates for different fingers of the G-Rake receiver; wherein the step of controlling the channel estimation algorithm includes: determining by the controller, a low-rate channel estimation of the received signal; determining by the controller, a plurality of high-rate channel estimations of the received signal; and selecting by the controller, either the low-rate channel estimation or the high-rate channel estimations based on the frequency shift; and wherein, when the frequency shift is less than or equal to a first threshold value, the step of calculating G-Rake combining weights based on the frequency shift also includes: selecting the low-rate channel estimation; computing the impairment covariance matrix once per slot; and computing one set of combining weights per slot. |
20130080300 | 13458421 | 0 | 1. A method of using a formula to execute periodic transfers in a hierarchal accounting structure, the method comprising: receiving a transfer formula, comprising: a source account; a target account; an offset account; an account characteristic; and a formula for determining a first amount of the source account based on the account characteristic; accessing a multidimensional data cube, comprising: a hierarchal arrangement comprising the source account, and the target account; and aggregated balances for each level of the hierarchal arrangement; generating a transfer scenario by transferring the first amount to the aggregated balance for the target account according to the transfer formula; generating one or more accounting journal entries corresponding to the transfer scenario; posting the one or more accounting journal entries to a general ledger associated with a relational database; and updating, using the relational database, the multidimensional data cube to reflect the transfer scenario. |
7535383 | 11776430 | 1 | 1. A method for creating an enhanced multi-layer bitstream, said method comprising: a) receiving a scalable, multi-layer representation of a video sequence; b) determining a first bitrate characteristic of a layer of said sequence, wherein said first bitrate characteristic relates to a non-scalable, single-layer representation of said layer as encoded with a first entropy encoder; c) determining a second bitrate characteristic of said layer of said sequence, wherein said second bitrate characteristic relates to said non-scalable, single-layer representation of said layer as encoded with a second entropy encoder; and d) attaching a bitrate characteristic message characterizing said first characteristic and said second bitrate characteristic to said scalable, multi-layer representation to form an enhanced scalable representation. |
20060224884 | 11099811 | 0 | 1. A control key for controlling the dispatching of a data packet across a plurality of software modules running on an integrated network security device, the control key being appended to the data packet, the control key comprising an operations section for encoding operations, the operations being basic security software modules applied in an invariable order, the encoding being performed using bits; and an application section for encoding in binary the sequence of advanced security software modules to be applied in a programmable and variable order to a given packet, the software modules being the applications to be encoded. |
20120330646 | 13166933 | 0 | 1. A method comprising the following steps: receiving, by a computer system, an image; performing character recognition, by the computer system, on at least a portion of the image to yield a recognized character string as text data; choosing a first further data processing program which is stored on a software storage device; inputting at least a portion of the recognized character string to the first further data processing program; processing input data, by the first further data processing program, with the input data including at least a portion of the recognized character string; and receiving output data resulting from the data processing step. |
20110306027 | 13156607 | 0 | 1. An e-learning delivery system, comprising: a licensing/reporting server; a network-side content player operably coupled with each of the licensing/reporting server and a content delivery network comprising stored e-learning content; and a proxy comprising coded instructions stored on a non-transitory computing device-readable medium at the network-side, wherein the proxy instructions identify a specific instance of licensed content, and wherein the proxy instructions are configured when executed on a client-side computing device to enable a user to access and interact with the licensed content via a browser of the computing device and are further configured to report a status of the user's interaction with the content to one or both of the licensing/reporting server and a learning management system (LMS). |
20120263376 | 13085329 | 0 | 1. A method for classification of samples comprising: (a) providing a trained statistical model based upon a set of initial samples; (b) receiving a set of first samples; (c) training a first statistical model based upon said first set of samples, said first statistical model being of the same class as said trained statistical model; (d) receiving a set of second samples; (e) training a second statistical model based upon said second set of samples, said second statistical model being of the same class as said trained statistical model; (f) wherein said trained statistical model, said first statistical model, and said second statistical model, are independent of each other and collectively used to classify another sample. |
20120124353 | 13330429 | 0 | 1. A method for configuring processing engines to process event streams generated by sensors devices, the method comprising: receiving, at one or more computer systems, information identifying a set of one or more processing components, each processing component in the set of processing components having a set of inputs and a set of outputs; receiving, at the one or more computer systems, information defining a set of one or more states associated with a state machine, each state in the set of states identifying how event data in the events streams generated by the sensor devices that satisfies selection criteria is to be handled by one or more designated processing components in the set of processing components; receiving, at the one or more computer systems, information defining a set of entry points into the state machine, each entry point identifying how event data in the event streams generated by the sensors devices that satisfies selection criteria is to be handled by one or more designated processing components in the set of processing components; generating, with one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, a specification that configures a processing engine to process the event streams generated by the sensor devices according to the state machine based on the information identifying the set of one or more processing components, the information defining the set of one or more states associated with a state machine, and the information defining the set of entry points into the state machine; and storing, in a storage device associated with the one or more computer systems, the specification generated for the state machine. |
9886289 | 13381359 | 1 | 1. A label and tag printer comprising: hardware; firmware configured to control functions of the label and tag printer, the firmware including first source code to perform an initial function of the label and tag printer, the initial function being a function to print a first format of an image on a label, and second source code to perform an extended function of the label and tag printer, the extended function comprising at least a function to print a second format of an image on a label; a first memory storing an application program, at least one application program interface configured to directly interface with the firmware, the application program including a first software command to instruct performance of the initial function and a place holder, the extended function being formatted as the at least one application program interface, wherein boot code is stored in the first memory and is executed during a boot-up process of the label and tag printer; a processor which is configured to: call the first source code, in accordance with the first software command; perform the initial function, by controlling the hardware in accordance with the called first source code; introduce a second software command to instruct performance of the extended function to the place holder; call the second source code, in accordance with the introduced second software command; perform the extended function, by controlling the hardware in accordance with the called second source code, build an image buffer on the second memory after the boot-up process of the label and tag printer, generate print data corresponding to the image, by executing the application program on a virtual machine, render the print data to image data, corresponding to the first format and the second format, based on the first source code and the second source code, respectively, write the image data on the image buffer, control the hardware to print the image corresponding to the image data on the image buffer, and purge the application program from the second memory and download the application program to the first memory after operation of the label and tag printer is concluded; and a second memory having a higher operation speed than that of the first memory, wherein the processor is further configured to expand and write the application program, the at least one application program interface, the virtual machine, and the firmware, which are stored in a compressed format in the first memory prior to the boot-up process of the label and tag printer, on the second memory in an uncompressed format, after the boot-up process of the label and tag printer. |
8990171 | 13223484 | 1 | 1. In a computing environment, a method performed at least in part on at least one processor, comprising, re-optimizing a partially deduplicated file having at least one undeduplicated portion-into a fully deduplicated file, in which the partially deduplicated file further has at least one deduplicated portion that is maintained in a chunk store and is referenced by metadata associated with the partially deduplicated file, the re-optimizing including processing each undeduplicated portion of the file to determine at least one chunk, committing the at least one chunk to a chunk store, and modifying metadata associated with the file to include a reference to each chunk that is committed to the chunk store. |
9165566 | 13749431 | 1 | 1. A method of operating a computing device, the method comprising: receiving a speech input comprising an indefinite quantitative term; determining a mapping of the indefinite quantitative term to a first definite quantity; applying the first definite quantity to an action performed via the computing device in response to the speech input; receiving a follow-up speech input that requests performance of an additional quantity of the action performed; and modifying the mapping of the indefinite quantitative term to a second definite quantity based upon the follow-up speech input. |
9039572 | 14490283 | 1 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform operations comprising: processing input specifying a plurality of athletic activities; processing input specifying a heart rate threshold for a particular one of the activities; generating an electronic training script including the heart rate threshold for the particular activity and defining a sequence in which to perform the plurality of activities; measuring a physiological characteristic of a user during the plurality of athletic activities; and prompting the user to perform a next activity in the sequence based on a measurement of the physiological characteristic indicating completion of a previous activity in the sequence. |
9348669 | 14101305 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: detecting, at a dispatcher within a user interface framework, an event emitted from a user interface element contained within a document object model node associated with a controller, wherein the document object model node includes an attribute defining a module and specifying that the module be loaded prior to instantiating the controller; requesting the module associated with the controller; instantiating the controller, wherein instantiating the controller includes automatically constructing the controller in response to a first occurrence of the event; and providing the event to the controller. |
20090157607 | 11955129 | 0 | 1. A method of detecting web pages belonging to at least one similarity class from a plurality of web pages, the method comprising: determining clusters of the plurality of web pages based on characteristics of the content of the web pages; determining, for each of the determined clusters, at least one metric indicative of similarity among resource locators associated with the web pages of that cluster; and determining the web pages belonging to the at least one similarity class based on the determined clusters and the determined similarity metrics. |
20170357722 | 15589650 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: collecting, by a network device comprising a processor, geographic location data reported by a mobile communication device associated with a member of a situational awareness system; analyzing, by the network device, the geographic location data to identify a topic of interest for the member; prompting, by the network device, the member to update profile data associated with the member to reflect the topic of interest; receiving, by the network device, an indication that the member's profile data has been updated to add the topic of interest; accessing social media data associated with the member and assigning a query priority for the member relating to the added topic of interest based on the member's social media data: receiving, by the network device, a situational awareness request related to the added topic of interest from a requester other than the member; and providing, by the network device, situational awareness information to the requester including data relating to the member. |
9875740 | 15187251 | 1 | 1. A computing system, comprising: a device processor; a memory device including instructions that, when executed by the device processor, cause the computing system to: receive first audio input data from a voice-enabled communications device, the first audio input data corresponding to a first utterance of a user received by a microphone of the voice-enabled communications device; identify a first volume level of the first audio input data; identify a first search query from the first audio input data by performing automated speech recognition on the first audio input data; identify a set of categories associated with the first search query, the set of categories including two or more categories, each of the two or more categories being ranked according to respective relevance scores to the first search query; identify a first set of results associated with a first category of the set of categories, the first category having a largest relevance score to the first search query; cause the first set of results to be transmitted to the voice-enabled communications device, the first set of results being presented to the user of the voice-enabled communications device; receive second audio input data from the voice-enabled communications device, the second audio input data corresponding to a second utterance of the user received by the microphone of the voice-enabled communications device; identify a second volume level of the second audio input data; identify a second search query from the second audio input data by performing automated speech recognition on the second audio input data; determine that the first category is incorrect by: calculating a voice volume difference by comparing the first volume level and the second volume level; and determining whether the voice volume difference is above a volume difference threshold, the volume difference threshold indicating whether the volume level of the second utterance is at least a predetermined amount louder than the volume level of the first utterance; decrease the relevance score of the first category for the first search query when the voice volume difference is determined to be above the volume difference threshold; identify a second category of the set of categories associated with the first search query; and increase the relevance score of the second category for the first search query when the voice volume difference is determined to be below the volume difference threshold. |
20140250141 | 14275266 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving data indicative of a location; receiving a search term; identifying a first geographical coordinate and a second geographical coordinate corresponding to the location; combining, using a processor, the first geographical coordinate and the second geographical coordinate into a single dimensional location value; and combining, using the processor, the single dimensional location value and the search term into a vector. |
7784023 | 10568504 | 1 | 1. A program creating apparatus for creating a research program which performs a research on the basis of a predetermined research content including a plurality of research items at a predetermined point of research by using a mobile terminal device carried with a researcher, said mobile terminal device including a display unit for displaying a work screen in which a plurality of input interfaces are formed to input an answer to said plurality of research items of said predetermined research content when executing said research program, a position information acquiring unit for acquiring a position information of said device, and a photographing unit for photographing a designated object, comprising: a screen information storing unit which holds screen information that forms an input screen including a component setting region to accept information as a parameter required to create said research program to form a component for forming a plurality of research item designating regions to display information representing said plurality of research items of said predetermined research content, and a research result input region in which said plurality of input interfaces are formed to input an answer to said plurality of research items, or a component for designating that said position information acquiring unit or said photographing unit of said mobile terminal device is used, said information being input by a user, a component adding operation button group to accept an instruction to add said component of a type selected from a plurality of types of said component by allowing said user to select a type suitable for said research item added to said work screen, said component adding operation button group being used in the case of adding said research item to said work screen, and a producing button to instruct that a source code is produced by using information required to form said components depending on said type which is input by said user operation, said plurality of research item designating regions and said research result input region being displayed on said work screen displayed on said display unit of said mobile terminal device when said mobile terminal device executes said research program, and which produces information to form said input screen in which each of said component setting region is formed to accept information as said parameter required to form said component depending on said selected type, said information being input by said user, every time said component adding operation button group is operated, the parameter representing a question to be displayed on a display of a predetermined terminal device when the program is executed; a providing unit which provides said screen information to a setting apparatus connected through a network; an accepting unit which accepts the parameter input on the input screen displayed on the basis of said screen information from said setting apparatus through said network, said input screen including a plurality of said component setting regions to input said plurality of parameters for forming said plurality of components suitable for said plurality of research items on said work screen; a model storing unit which holds a program code for forming said respective components as a plural types of models using said parameter as an argument in association with said type information which specifies said type of said component; a producing unit which produces a source code of said research program by selecting a plurality of models from said model storing unit for forming respective components corresponding to said type information of said plurality of components to combine said models and setting said parameter in said argument of said model on the basis of respective type information of said plurality of components corresponding to said plurality of research items included in said plurality of parameters accepted by said accepting unit, and upon completion of production of the said source code, which outputs the effect as a source code completion notification; a compiling unit which compiles said source code of said research program produced by said producing unit to create said research program that can be executed by said mobile terminal device; and an instructing unit which instructs said compiling unit to compile said source code in response to said source code completion notification which is output from said producing unit. |
20160292064 | 14673575 | 0 | 1. A method of testing a software program, the method comprising: generating a test driver by assigning concrete values to input variables of the software program; assigning symbolic source set elements to the input variables of the software program to generate a data structure based on the symbolic source set elements; symbolically executing, with data source analysis, a current instruction of the software program based on the concrete values and symbolic source set elements assigned to the input variables of the software program; and based on the symbolic execution with data source analysis, determining whether the software program meets one or more predetermined requirements. |
8990062 | 13233165 | 1 | 1. A method for evaluating a probability of memory access conflict of different bus masters while a program expressed in a simulation model is in operation, in a heterogeneous system in which the different bus masters include a processor, an accelerator, and a controller that can access a memory, the method comprising the steps of: measuring, for the simulation model, an execution time and a number of memory accesses for each simulation step for each of the different bus masters of the heterogeneous system or preparing measurement values in advance; determining a processor utilization factor for each of the different bus masters of the heterogeneous system; calculating a utilization factor of a memory bandwidth for each of the different bus masters of the heterogeneous system using the execution time and the number of memory accesses; and calculating the probability of memory access conflict among the different bus masters of the heterogeneous system using a formula including the processor utilization factor and the product of the utilization factors of the memory bandwidths of the different bus masters; wherein a UML-based model simulation is used to calculate the utilization factor of the memory bandwidth and the processor utilization factor. |
20120331014 | 13205135 | 0 | 1. A method of administering a knowledge repository, the knowledge repository comprising a plurality of information objects, at least one of said information objects including at least one text element, said method comprising the steps of: providing at least one knowledge base from a memory unit, the knowledge base including a plurality of concepts and a plurality of relationship between said plurality of concepts; providing a data analytics module, the data analytics module assigning at least one of at least one of said plurality of concepts and at least one of said plurality of relationships to at least one text element of at least one of said plurality of information objects; providing a semantic knowledge processing component, the semantic knowledge processing component calculating a type and degree of at least one of said plurality of relationships between concepts assigned to at least one text element of at least one of said plurality of information objects; providing a textual input module, the textual input module being adapted to amend or add one of said plurality of information objects by at least one input text element; providing a display module, the display module being adapted to display a list of information objects included in said knowledge repository, each information object being displayed by a caption of said information object; providing an interaction module, the interaction module emphasizing at least one information object in the display module, each of at least one emphasized information object having a semantic relationship with the contents of said textual input module, the semantic relationship being inferred by said type and degree of relationship; and; providing an annotation module, the annotation module linking one of said input text element by a reference to an emphasized information object. |
20130185235 | 13713787 | 0 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to function as: a learning data acquiring unit that acquires learning data; a memory unit that performs machine learning using the learning data about cluster division where Markov chains of transition via a link from a node to a node on a network formed from a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links connecting the plurality of nodes to each other are divided into a plurality of clusters each of which is indicated by a biased Markov chain, and calculates a steady state of each biased Markov chain indicating each cluster of the learning result so as to obtain and store attribution degree information indicating an attribution degree of each node on the network to each cluster of the learning result; a search condition receiving unit that receives a search condition from a user; a cluster extracting unit that extracts clusters suitable for the search condition on the basis of a node group matching with the search condition received from the user and the attribution degree information; a partial network cutting unit that cuts a partial network formed by a node group belonging to the clusters extracted by the cluster extracting unit from the network; and an importance calculating unit that calculates importance of each node on the partial network by executing an operation of a personalized PageRank algorithm having the node group matching with the search condition as a seed vector for the cut partial network, and generates a search result to the user regarding the search condition on the basis of the calculated importance. |
7693683 | 11791705 | 1 | 1. An information classifying device, comprising: distance calculating means for calculating distance information between each of an arbitrary number of pieces of sample information and center of gravity of each of an arbitrary number of populations including said pieces of sample information, using a distance evaluation function; statistical information calculating means for calculating statistical information using mean of sample distances and variance of sample distances with the mean of sample distances being the center, based on each group of distance information constituted by said distance information calculated by said distance calculating means, associated with each said sample information belonging to each said population; degree of assignment relevancy evaluating means for evaluating degree of assignment relevancy, by calculating distance between the center of gravity of each said population and sample information as an object of classification using said distance calculating means, normalizing said distance using said statistical information calculated by said statistical information calculating means on said calculated distance and performing a statistical test; assignment destination determining means for determining to which population said piece of information as the object of classification is to be assigned, according to the degree of assignment relevancy evaluated by said degree of assignment relevancy evaluating means; and sample information classifying means for assigning and classifying said piece of sample information as the object of classification to the population determined by said assignment destination determining means. |
9436467 | 14561459 | 1 | 1. A method of executing a machine instruction in a central processing unit, the method comprising: obtaining, by a processor, a machine instruction for execution, the machine instruction being defined for computer execution according to a computer architecture, the machine instruction comprising: at least one opcode field to provide an opcode, the opcode identifying a Vector Floating Point Test Data Class Immediate operation; a first register field to be used to designate a first register, the first register comprising a first operand; and a second register field to be used to designate a second register, the second register comprising a second operand; and a mask field; and executing the machine instruction, the executing comprising: determining properties of a chosen element of the second operand, wherein the mask field indicates whether one or more elements of the second operand are to be included in the determining; selecting from an input to the machine instruction a selected data unit representing the properties of the chosen element, the input including one or more data units to represent one or more properties; checking whether the selected data unit is set to a particular value; and based on the checking, setting an element in the first operand that corresponds to the chosen element of the second operand, the setting based on whether the selected data unit is set to the particular value. |
20090063134 | 11846866 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method of characterizing a textual corpus state comprising: selecting a set of initial text publishers comprising at least one text publisher; defining a textual corpus comprising at least one textual output from a text publisher of the selected set of initial publishers; and deriving a characterized textual corpus state comprising: a set of word characterizations; each word characterization comprising: a word and; an associated word frequency of occurrence value within the defined textual corpus; and a set of word pair characterizations; each word pair characterization comprising: a word pair, each word of the word pair being a member of the set of word characterizations, and; a first associated word pair frequency of co-occurrence value within a first defined text length of the defined textual corpus. |
20170201851 | 15192750 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: by the one or more computing devices of an online social network, accessing a social graph of the online social network, the social graph comprising a plurality of entity nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the entity nodes, each edge between two nodes establishing a single degree of separation between them, the plurality of entity nodes comprising: a plurality of place-entity nodes corresponding to a plurality of place-entities, respectively, each place-entity being associated with a particular geographic location, each place-entity having a place name comprising one or more n-grams; and a plurality of user nodes corresponding to a plurality of users of the online social network, respectively; by the one or more computing devices, generating a heterogeneous graph based on the social graph, the heterogeneous graph comprising the plurality of nodes and edges of the social graph and further comprising a plurality of n-gram nodes corresponding to a plurality of n-grams, respectively, wherein: each place-entity node is connected by one or more edges to one or more respective n-gram nodes, each n-gram node corresponding to an n-gram within the place name of the place-entity; and each place-entity node is connected by one or more edges to one or more user nodes, each edge between a user node and a place-entity node representing a social-networking interaction by the user corresponding to the user node with the place-entity corresponding to the place-entity node; by the one or more computing devices, assigning, for each place-entity node of a first set of place-entity nodes within the label graph, an initial quality-score to the place-entity node; by the one or more computing devices, calculating, for each place-entity node of the heterogeneous graph, a final quality-score for the place-entity node based on the initial quality-scores of the first set of place-entity nodes, wherein the final quality-scores are calculated by iteratively propagating the initial quality-scores through the place-entity nodes, n-gram nodes, and user nodes of the heterogeneous graph until the sum of the quality-scores associated with the place-entity nodes, user nodes, and n-gram nodes reach convergence. |
20100106714 | 12519953 | 0 | 1. A method of obtaining a set of probabilistic functions for configuring a search algorithm for solving a combinatorial-optimization problem, the search algorithm including one or more procedural components, the method employing for each procedural component a corresponding data structure representing options for configuring the procedural component, each data structure comprising a plurality of nodes associated together in a tree structure, a plurality of said nodes being traversal split nodes representing respective choices which are to be made to configure the corresponding procedural component, the traversal split nodes being associated with respective ones of the probabilistic functions, said method comprising: (a) selecting current probabilistic functions; (b) producing one or more candidate algorithms, each candidate algorithm being produced by traversing the tree structures by performing a traversal algorithm in which a plurality of said nodes are labeled successively as a current node, and, upon the current node being a traversal split node, performing the associated current probabilistic function to make the choice represented by the current node; (c) an evaluation step of evaluating the candidate algorithms; and (d) obtaining modified probabilistic functions and returning to step (b) until a termination criterion is met. |
8335871 | 12238592 | 1 | 1. A memory system comprising: a first memory device connected to a system bus and comprising a first control sequencer that receives, stores and executes first microcode to control operation of the first memory device; a second memory device connected to the system bus and comprising a second control sequencer that receives, stores and executes second microcode to control operation of the second memory device; a host connected to the first and second memory devices via the system bus, the host comprising a top control sequencer that receives, stores and executes main microcode to control operation of the first and second control sequencers; and a system direct memory access (DMA) that transfers the first microcode to the first control sequencer, the second microcode to the second control sequencer, and the main microcode to the top control sequencer via the system bus. |
20160321134 | 15007686 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: partitioning a page into a plurality of cache lines, the page based on a memory space designated for error correction; a plurality of pages defining a context; storing corresponding cache lines of the pages of the context in a first memory area, the first memory area responsive to a parity operation for computing a parity value for the corresponding cache lines, a parity value for the context based on the plurality of pages; applying the parity operations to the cache lines stored in the first memory area; and iteratively replacing the cache lines in succession with other cache lines of the plurality of cache lines from a second memory area for applying the parity operation to each of the cache lines until the parity operation has been applied to all cache lines of the pages in the context, the second memory area sufficiently large for storing the entire context wherein iteratively replacing the cache lines and applying the parity operations decouples a required size of the first memory from the size of the page. |
20140250421 | 12193833 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method comprising: receiving a portion of code for a multi-state object, the portion of code comprising a plurality of statements specifying any subcomponents and attributes of the multi-state object, a statement of the plurality of statements specifying that a first subcomponent is included in the multi-state object when the multi-state object is in a first state; determining that the multi-state object includes the first subcomponent when in the first state based on the statement specifying that the first subcomponent is included in the multi-state object when the multi-state object is in a first state; determining that the multi-state object excludes the first subcomponent when in a second state; and providing a piece of content comprising the multi-state object, wherein in the first state, the multi-state object comprises the first subcomponent and, in the second state, the multi-state object does not comprise the first subcomponent. |
20070094661 | 11255828 | 0 | 1. A computer-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for determining a task to be performed by a participant, wherein execution of the one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the steps of: receiving task data that indicates a plurality of tasks to be performed by a plurality of participants; receiving quorum data that indicates a particular participant set of one or more participants of the plurality of participants to participate in a particular task of the plurality of tasks; receiving personal interruptibility data that describes, for a participant among the particular participant set, a particular communications medium through which the participant can be interrupted while performing a current task set of one or more tasks that the participant is currently performing, wherein the particular task is not included in the current set; and determining a particular time interval to perform the particular task based at least in part on the personal interruptibility data. |
20130346084 | 13531042 | 0 | 1. A method for enhancing a user presence status determination, the method comprising: receiving visual data from a depth camera configured to be arranged within a three-dimensional space; determining a current user presence status of a user in the three-dimensional space based on the visual data; and responsive to determining the current user presence status of the user, transforming a previous user presence status of the user to the current user presence status. |
6058362 | 09107824 | 1 | 1. A method for masking quantization noise by spectrally weighting transform coefficients of an input signal having a given bandwidth and produced by a transform processor, comprising: calculating a masking spectral threshold in a quasi-logarithmic scale that approximates critical bands of a hearing model by applying triangular decays to spectral peaks; computing plural spread masking thresholds in each critical band as a maximum of contributions from the triangular decays; and adjusting the spread masking thresholds to produce an absolute threshold. |
8724423 | 13712782 | 1 | 1. A memory operative to provide concurrent two-port read and two-port write access functionality, the memory comprising: a memory array, the memory array comprising a first plurality of single-port memory cells, a second plurality of single-port memory cells operative as spare memory banks, and a plurality of checksum modules, the first and second pluralities of single-port memory cells being organized into a plurality of rows of memory banks, each of the plurality of checksum modules being associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of rows of memory banks; a first controller coupled with the memory array, the first controller and at least a subset of the first and second pluralities of single-port memory cells being operative to enable the memory array to support two-port read or single-port write operations; a plurality of mapping tables; and a second controller operative to receive read and write access requests supplied to the memory, and to map a logical memory bank identifier and a spare memory bank identifier to corresponding physical memory bank identifiers via the mapping tables for resolving access conflicts in the memory to thereby emulate concurrent two-port read and two-port write access functionality in the memory. |
20060236397 | 11105978 | 0 | 1. A method for scanning files on a protected computer for pestware comprising: scanning a plurality of files in at least one file storage device of the protected computer; identifying an obfuscated file from among the plurality of files in the at least one file storage device, wherein one or more potential pestware processes running in memory are associated with the obfuscated file; analyzing the obfuscated file so as to identify, from among a plurality of processes running in the memory, the one or more potential pestware processes running in memory that are associated with the obfuscated file; retrieving information from at least one of the one or more potential pestware processes running in memory; and analyzing the information from the at least one of the one or more potential pestware processes running in memory so as to determine whether the one or more potential pestware processes running in memory is pestware. |
20110296385 | 12789655 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: probing a virtual machine of a computer system, the virtual machine to run a software program; accessing compiler-generated output at a storage medium of the computer system, the compiler-generated output having debug information relating to the virtual machine; obtaining the debug information from the compiler-generated output; generating backtracing information of the software program using the debug information; and providing the backtracing information for debugging of the software program. |
9824465 | 14920789 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: accessing a plurality of images; identifying a filter to apply to the images; scaling a set of images obtained from the plurality of images to a thumbnail resolution; requesting one or more thumbnail canvases from a texture repository, the thumbnail canvas request associated with the filter and the thumbnail resolution, the texture repository configured to generate a canvas responsive to the filter and thumbnail resolution when the filter and thumbnail resolution does not exist in a stored plurality of canvases, wherein requesting the one or more thumbnail canvases from the texture repository comprises: generating, at an image manipulation application, a first request for a first thumbnail canvas to be applied to a first thumbnail image, the first request specifying a first target resolution corresponding to a first resolution of the first thumbnail image and a first target texture identifier, and subsequent to the first request, generating, at the image manipulation application, a second request for a second thumbnail canvas to be applied to a second thumbnail image, the second request specifying a second target resolution corresponding to a second resolution of the second thumbnail image and a second target texture identifier, the first target resolution equal to the second target resolution; filtering the scaled set of images using the filter by applying the one or more thumbnail canvases to the scaled set of images; providing a user the filtered set of images using a display; selecting a filtered thumbnail image from the filtered set of images responsive to a user input; identifying the image in the plurality of images associated with the selected filtered thumbnail image; requesting a full size canvas from the texture repository, the full size canvas request associated with the filter and a resolution associated with the identified image size; and filtering the identified image using the image filter by applying the full size canvas to the identified image. |
8532863 | 12892048 | 1 | 1. A method for unattended detection of a current terrain to be traversed by a mobile device, comprising the steps of: receiving, from a visual sensor, visual input of the current terrain for a plurality of positions; receiving audio input corresponding to the current terrain for the plurality of positions; fusing the video input with the audio input using a classifier; and classifying the type of the terrain with the classifier. |
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