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20130328858

13481912

1. Apparatus for generating a three dimensional representation based upon a continuum of image data, the apparatus comprising: a processor in digital communication with one or more storage devices and executable computer code stored in the one or more storage devices and executable upon demand to cause the processor to; receive multiple captured image data sets of a subject, wherein the image data sets comprise image data captured by multiple adjacent image capture devices from disparate points along one or more continuums; and generate a composite three dimensional image of the subject by aligning two or more image data sets comprising the subject.

20150117766

14459242

1. A method for feature transformation of a data set comprising: receiving a data set including original feature samples with corresponding class labels; splitting the data set into a direction optimization set and a training set; using the direction optimization set to calculate an optimum transformation vector that maximizes inter-class separability and minimizes intra-class variance of the feature samples with respect to corresponding class labels; using the optimum transformation vector to transform the rest of the original feature samples of the data set to new feature samples with enhanced discriminative characteristics; and training a classifier using the new feature samples, wherein the method is performed by one or more processors.

9912576

15099648

1. A method for detecting normalization of forwarding behavior of a router in a core routing area, comprising following steps: obtaining data flow received by ports of a to-be-detected core router which are directly connected to peripheral network equipment; generating a data flow state table initially, and performing matching check to the data flow according to the data flow state table; if the data flow does not match the data flow state table, checking state of the data flow to obtain characteristic parameters of the data flow to calculate a state check result S(i); determining whether the data flow state table needs to be updated, if yes, updating the data flow state table; and determining whether the state check result S(i) is a trigger state, if yes, using the to-be-detected core router together with the peripheral network equipment to calculate state r of the forwarding behavior of the to-be-detected core router, and determining whether the forwarding behavior of the to-be-detected core router is abnormal according to the state r of the forwarding behavior of the to-be-detected core router, if yes, generating an alert log.

8734360

14054280

1. Apparatus for use with a subject who is undergoing respiration, the apparatus comprising: a motion sensor configured to sense motion of a subject; a control unit comprising a breathing pattern analysis unit that is configured to: analyze components of the sensed motion that result from the subject's respiration, designate respiration cycles as being double-movement-respiration-cycles by determining that each of the cycles defines two inspiration-expiration subcycles, and identify a double-movement-respiration-cycle event by detecting that the subject has undergone a plurality of double-movement-respiration-cycles, the control unit being configured to generate an output that is indicative of the subject having used accessory muscles in breathing, in response to identification of the double-movement-respiration-cycle event; and a user interface configured to display the output.

20130086154

13631693

1. A system for providing asynchrony in web services, comprising: an application server that includes one or more asynchronous web services which can be accessed by other systems using message requests; one or more request/response processors, and a plurality of request/response queues, for use in queuing and processing the requests; and wherein the application server is configured to process the requests from one or more clients directed to the one or more asynchronous web services, and provide appropriate responses to the client.

9529860

14557067

1. A keyword frequency analysis system, comprising: a memory operable to store a plurality of sets of records, wherein each set of records is associated with a dimension and comprises a first keyword and a second keyword; an interface operable to: receive the plurality of sets of records; receive a request to determine whether the first keyword is a selected one of overrepresented or underrepresented in a first set of records, the request comprising a selection of a method to calculate an expected frequency of the first keyword; one or more hardware processors communicatively coupled to the interface and the memory and operable to: determine a frequency of the first keyword in each set of records; determine a frequency of the second keyword in each set of records; determine the method to calculate the expected frequency of the first keyword based on the selection of the method in the request to determine whether the first keyword is a selected one of overrepresented or underrepresented in the first set of records; calculate the expected frequency of the first keyword in the first set of records associated with a first dimension using the method, the expected frequency of the first keyword being a number of times the first keyword should appear in the first set of records, the expected frequency of the first keyword based on the frequency of the first keyword and the frequency of the second keyword; determine a difference between the frequency of the first keyword and the expected frequency; compare the difference to a threshold, the threshold indicating whether the difference is large enough to determine one of a selected group of overrepresentation or underrepresentation; in response to determining that the difference is not greater than the first threshold, communicate a message indicating that the first keyword is not overrepresented and not underrepresented; in response to determining that the difference is greater than the first threshold: determine whether the frequency of the first keyword is less than the expected frequency; in response to determining that the frequency of the first keyword is less than the expected frequency: determine that the first keyword is underrepresented in the first set of records; determine a degree of underrepresentation by comparing the threshold and the difference between the frequency of the first keyword and the expected frequency; translate the frequency of the first keyword, the frequency of the second keyword, the degree of underrepresentation, and the expected frequency into the keyword report, the keyword report comprising the expected frequency, the degree of underrepresentation, and the determination that the first keyword is underrepresented in the first set of records; and communicate the keyword report for display.

20040123300

10324625

1. A method comprising: creating a predicate object having at least one instruction for performing at least one diagnostic test; determining whether a first component and a second component can participate in an interaction with each other based upon at least one result obtained from at least one of the first and the second components executing the at least one instruction; and initiating the interaction when the determining indicates that the first component and the second component can participate in the interaction.

4881270

06546755

1. A method for the automatic classification of the image of a ship comprising the steps of: scanning the ship to generate a two-dimensional image thereof represented by a matrix wherein the values of the elements thereof correspond to energy received from portions of the ship, the elements of the rows of the matrix corresponding to such portions spaced substantially horizontally and longitudinally of the ship and the elements of the columns of the matrix corresponding to such portions spaced substantially vertically; summing predetermined elements of a plurality of said columns to generate a first vector in which the components thereof correspond individually to the columns of said plurality; performing a discrete Fourier transform on the components of said first vector and squaring selected coefficients resulting from said transform to generate a feature vector which is the power spectrum of the first vector and which corresponds to said ship; obtaining a plurality of such feature vectors under relatively ideal scanning conditions, the feature vectors of said plurality thereof corresponding individually to images of a ship of a predetermined class at a plurality of aspect angles and at a predetermined range; deriving from said plurality of feature vectors a decision rule corresponding to said class; obtaining such a feature vector from such an image of a potential target ship; and comparing the feature vector from the image of the potential target ship with said decision rule to classify said target ship as being in said class or as being outside said class.

20080183345

12052790

1. A method for determining a mission plan for a powered system having at least one primary power generating unit when a desired parameter of the mission plan is at least one of unobtainable and exceeds a predefined limit, the method comprising: creating a mission plan; identifying a desired parameter in the mission plan that is at least one of unobtainable and exceeds a predefined limit; determining whether to at least one of temporarily exceed the predefined limit, identify an obtainable parameter proximate the desired parameter, alert at least one of an operator and a remote monitoring facility for feedback on a course of action to take.

9092958

14020231

1. A computer-implemented method of processing alarms, comprising: receiving, by a processor, machine-readable alarm information having a plurality of formats from a plurality of facility monitoring systems; converting, by the processor, the machine-readable alarm information into normalized machine-readable event information having a common format and being free of vendor-specific alarm information, the normalized event information representing temporal occurrences of multiple alarm messages included in the machine-readable alarm information that correspond to common exception conditions detected by at least one of the plurality of monitoring systems; and providing, by the processor via a user interface, user access to the normalized event information independently of the alarm information.

8024804

11369733

1. A method for detecting application level attacks and for protecting web applications, comprising: receiving a plurality of attack indications based on data transmitted on the network, wherein the attack indications are generated in response to violation of at least a plurality of profiles of a protected web application, the attack indications comprise an anomaly, and wherein the anomaly is a deviation from at least a normal behavior profile of a protected web application, the plurality of attack indications being of at least one of a maximal average latency (MAL) profile, a maximal latency (ML) profile, and a maximal access rate (MAR) profile of the protected application; iteratively applying a set of correlation rules to correlate the plurality of attack indications by applying a first rule of the set of correlation rules to the attack indications to obtain a first result; and if the first result does not indicate on a potential attack applying a next rule in the set of correlation rules until a result indicating on a potential attack is detected or all rules in the set of correlation rules are applied, wherein the set of correlation rules corresponds to the particular type of an application level attack, to determine if the MAL profile and ML profile are violated, the MAL profile and the MAR profile are violated, or the ML profile and the MAR profile are violated; generating an alert if at least one rule of the set of correlation rules applied on the plurality of attack indications indicate that at least a violation occurred; wherein the application level attack comprises at least one of a directory traversal attack, a cross site scripting attack, an automatic reconnaissance attack, a search engine hacking attack, and an application denial of service attack.

7512985

12112069

1. A system for implementing search- and retrieval-compatible data obfuscation, comprising: an annotator for identifying sections or fractions in the data, metadata, and relationships that are privacy sensitive, the annotator annotating the identified sections or fractions according to application-specific rules, the application-specific rules including privacy levels ranging from a lowest level of least sensitive to a highest level of most sensitive; a first database in communication with the annotator for storing annotated data, metadata, and relationships; an indexing server in communication with the first database, the indexing server indexing the annotated data, metadata, and relationships according to privacy policies, the privacy policies specifying rules for permitting and restricting access to the annotated data, metadata, and relationships based upon the annotated privacy levels and user profiles; a second database in communication with the indexing server for storing the indices of the data, metadata, and relationships, in a second database according to annotated privacy levels; and an obfuscation server in communication with the second database, via a search engine, and the first database, the obfuscation server defining the user profiles and privacy policies for users of the first and second databases, the user profiles together with the privacy policies specifying data entitlement and access rights for each of the users; wherein, in response to receiving a search request from a user the obfuscation server forwards the search terms in the request, along with a privacy level determined from a user profile of the user and the privacy policies, to a search engine, the search engine searching indices of the second database having the privacy level in the request, and returning to the user only the links to the data, metadata, and relationships which match the search term and the privacy level.

10096177

14990006

1. An electronic control unit comprising: an abnormality determiner configured to determine an abnormality of a vehicle by performing an abnormality diagnosis; a first storage configured to store a readiness information, the readiness information (i) indicating that the abnormality determiner has performed the abnormality diagnosis for all of a plurality of abnormality diagnosis items and (ii) indicating that the readiness information is complete; and a second storage configured to store a history of the abnormality diagnosis, the history of the abnormality diagnosis including information of whether a normal history exists indicating that a normal condition of one of the abnormality diagnosis items is satisfied, wherein the abnormality determiner is further configured to determine whether the history of the abnormality diagnosis including the information of existence of the normal history is stored in the second storage when the abnormality determiner performs the abnormality diagnosis, use a relaxed condition in place of the normal condition for the abnormality diagnosis item during the abnormality diagnosis when the history of the abnormality diagnosis including the information of existence of the normal history is stored in the second storage, wherein when the abnormality determiner uses the relaxed condition during one or more controls being performed in the vehicle while performing the abnormality diagnosis, the abnormality determiner completes and stores the readiness information more quickly using the relaxed condition than when the abnormality determiner uses the normal condition while performing the abnormality diagnosis, wherein the relaxed condition has fewer items and/or more easily completed items than the normal condition.

20060225040

11093517

1. A method for performing conditionalized N-way merging of source code, comprising: collecting differential information for each of N versions of an original source code program, the original source code program having lines of text; constructing a merge data structure from the differential information; and merging the N versions into a merged source code program using the merge data structure, the single, semantically correct, unified program using preprocessing conditionals to capture the differences between the N versions.

8005687

10966530

1. A computer-implemented method for estimating medical treatment costs, comprising: storing medical service cost data from a plurality of geographic regions and at least one health plan provider in an electronic database, wherein the stored medical service cost data comprises: a plurality of episode class codes, wherein each episode class code is associated with an episode of care that includes all medical services associated with a particular disease, condition, procedure, or test; and an average amount billed by health care providers and an average amount collected by healthcare providers for each episode class code under one or more health plans provided by the at least one health plan provider, wherein the average amount billed and collected for each episode class code are respectively the summed average amount billed and summed average amount collected for all medical services in the associated episode of care; storing a geographic adjustment factor for each of the plurality of geographic regions in the electronic database, wherein the geographic adjustment factor for each region is calculated based upon relative utilization of a plurality of selected common medical services in each of the plurality of geographic regions; using a computer processor programmed to: receive an electronic query input by a user via a computerized input device, wherein the query includes a geographical region and a selection by the user of a disease, medical condition, procedure, or test; identify the stored episode class code associated with the selected disease, medical condition, procedure or test; retrieve from the stored average medical service cost data the average amount billed and average amount collected for the identified episode class code; adjust the retrieved average amount collected and the average amount billed for the identified episode class code using the stored geographic adjustment factor corresponding to the geographic region input by the user to generate an adjusted average amount collected and an adjusted amount billed for the selected disease, medical condition, procedure or test; and estimate a user medical treatment cost for the selected disease, medical condition, procedure or test using the adjusted average amount billed and the adjusted average amount collected; and displaying on an electronic user interface the estimated user medical treatment cost for the selected disease, medical condition, procedure or test.

20140101604

14046017

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.

8689336

12891229

1. A method for real-time threat monitoring, the method comprising: identifying, by a processing device, two or more real time vulnerabilities, each associated with one or more objects of an enterprise; correlating, by the processing device, the two or more real-time vulnerabilities to each other, thereby resulting in a correlated real-time vulnerability; applying, by the processing device, an exposure tiering model to the correlated real-time vulnerability, thereby classifying the correlated real-time vulnerability into one or more of a plurality of exposure tiers based at least in part on whether the correlated real-time vulnerability is associated with exposure of non-public information and whether the correlated real-time vulnerability is associated with exposure originating external to the enterprise, wherein the exposure tiering model comprises a first tier having a first priority of action, a second tier having a second priority of action, a third tier having a third priority of action and a fourth tier having a fourth tier having a fourth priority of action, wherein: the correlated real-time vulnerability is applied to the first tier if it is associated with non-public information and is associated with exposure originating external to the enterprise; the correlated real-time vulnerability is applied to the second tier if it is not associated with non-public information and is associated with exposure originating external to the enterprise; the correlated real-time vulnerability is applied to the third tier if it is associated with non-public information and is not associated with exposure originating external to the enterprise; the correlated real-time vulnerability is applied to the fourth tier if it is not associated with non-public information and is not associated with exposure originating external to the enterprise; and the first priority of action is greater than each of the second priority of action, the third priority of action and the fourth priority of action; and the method further comprising: initiating, by the processing device, an alert based at least in part on the correlated real-time vulnerability and the one or more exposure tiers into which the correlated real-time vulnerability is classified.

20090263011

12421949

1. A computer-implemented method for detecting whether a suspect image has been digitally altered, the method comprising: identifying a set of quantized DCT blocks that represents the suspect image, each quantized DCT block including a plurality of AC modes and each AC mode corresponding to one of a plurality of quantized DCT coefficients, the plurality of quantized DCT coefficients having a one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of AC modes, each AC mode being located at a consistent position within each of the quantized DCT blocks in the set; computing a first digit for each of the quantized DCT coefficients corresponding to one of a pre-determined number of AC modes in each quantized DCT block; creating a feature vector using the first digits computed for each quantized DCT block, the feature vector representing a first digit distribution over the pre-determined number of AC modes for the suspect image; inputting the feature vector to a set of classifiers; and determining a result for the suspect image based on an output from the set of classifiers.

8744982

13471294

1. A method of predicting a result of genetic mutation, comprising: determining differences between (i) values of a first plurality of features, of amino acids encoded by a variant of a wild-type polynucleotide sequence, and (ii) values of a second plurality of features, of amino acids encoded by the wild-type polynucleotide sequence; wherein the features of the first plurality are the same as the features of the second plurality; and by a processor and based on the differences, determining a predicted phenotype severity of the variant.

9183564

13538902

1. A method comprising: automatically identifying, by at least one processing unit, a fault diagnosis technique for analyzing an online marketplace, where the fault diagnosis technique comprises procedures and measurements for analyzing the online marketplace and diagnosing an issue of the online marketplace, the analyzing the online marketplace comprising analyzing the online marketplace's profitability; automatically evaluating, by the at least one processing unit, the procedures and the measurements of the fault diagnosis technique for the procedures' and the measurements' effectiveness in analyzing the online marketplace and diagnosing an issue of the online marketplace, the evaluating comprising evaluating the effectiveness of the procedures and the measurements of the fault diagnosis technique in analyzing the profitability of the online marketplace; automatically prioritizing, by the at least one processing unit, the procedures and the measurements of the fault diagnosis technique according to at least the evaluation of the procedures' and the measurements' effectiveness in analyzing the online marketplace, the prioritizing comprising prioritizing the procedures' and the measurements' according to their effectiveness in analyzing the profitability of the online marketplace; executing, by the at least one processing unit, at least one of the procedures and the measurements of the fault diagnosis technique according to the prioritization of the procedures and the measurements to analyze the online marketplace including analyzing the online marketplace's profitability; electronically storing, by the at least one processing unit, diagnostic information resulting from the execution of the at least one of the procedures and the measurements; automatically generating, by the at least one processing unit, a remedy according to at least the diagnostic information; executing, by the at least one processing unit, the remedy; and automatically evaluating, by the at least one processing unit, remediation information resulting from the execution of the remedy, the evaluating comprising using the remediation information in determining whether or not to automatically update the remedy.

20060005079

10881193

1. A method for testing the conformance of a computer system with at least one requirement, comprising the steps of: translating a first encoding of software commands into a second encoding of software commands for use with a test-automation tool; and processing the second encoding of software commands in the test-automation tool to simulate at least one user interaction with the computer system.

20140089132

13627896

1. A method for user profiling comprising: evaluating a plurality of textual actions of a user; for each textual action of the plurality of textual actions identifying one or more concepts by identifying at least one entity corresponding to the textual action; identifying two or more concept candidates for at least one of the identified entities; and selecting one of the identified two or concept candidates as one of the identified one or more concepts according to a user profile of the user; generating an interest profile for the user according to the identified one or more concepts.

20130124157

13734820

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining a first separation direction for separating a first component of a three-dimensional assembly of components from a second component of the assembly of components, wherein determining the first separation direction comprises: determining a respective occlusion measure for each of a plurality of occlusion views, wherein each occlusion view represents the first and second component in a different respective viewing direction and identifies a region where the first component is physically blocked from movement along the respective viewing direction by the second component; selecting an occlusion view of the plurality of occlusion views based on the respective occlusion measures, wherein the respective occlusion measure of the selected occlusion view satisfies a criterion; selecting the respective viewing direction associated with the selected occlusion view as the first separation direction; and updating a rendering of the assembly to show the first component spatially separated from the second component by positioning one of the first component and the second component along the first separation direction.

20170166889

15431660

1. A method for creating a library of polynucleotides, comprising the steps of: providing multiple sets of initial probes, wherein each set of the initial probes comprises an initial forward probe, wherein the initial forward probe (i) is affixed to a bead or a solid surface, and (ii) comprises a sequence complementary to a first subsequence of a first target sequence and one of at least 1,000 unique barcode sequences; introducing the multiple sets of the initial probes into a plurality of compartments, under conditions selected such that more than a half of the plurality of compartments contain one or less than one set of the initial probes; and synthesizing polynucleotides by hybridizing the initial forward probe with the first subsequence of the first target sequence in the plurality of compartments, thereby generating the library of polynucleotides, wherein each of the polynucleotides comprises one of the at least 1,000 unique barcode sequences.

4012838

05545305

1. A method for producing a denture comprising: forming a generally U-shaped assembly of prosthetic teeth, bonding said U-shaped assembly of teeth into a generally u-shaped hard base structure; providing a terminus of said hard base structure disposed a short distance rearwardly of the incisor areas of said assembly of prosthetic teeth; bonding a soft deflectably formable layer onto said hard U-shaped base; inserting said hard U-shaped base and deflectably formable layer into a patient's mouth and finger forming said deflectably formable layer into close proximity to the edentulous area of the patient's mouth; then removing said base and deflectably formed layer and placing a hardenable orally curable material in impressionable form on the soft deflectably formed layer; then unitarily reinserting the base and layer and curable material into the human individual's mouth and impression forming the curable impressionable material into impression conformance with said edentulous gum area of the patient's mouth and allowing the curable impressionable material to cure over the deflectably formable layer and bond thereto, to form a liner which conforms intimately to the features of the edentulous gum area of the mouth, thereby forming a fitted denture module; then making a first impression model of one side of said fitted denture module; then making a second impression model of the opposite side of said fitted denture module; then removing the impressionable material and soft deflectably formed layer from the hard U-shaped base assembly of prosthetic teeth; then casting uncured denture base resin in a formable form between said second impression model and with said first impression model with the U-shaped hard base structure imbedded therein; and allowing said uncured denture base resin to cure in bonded relationship to said hard base structure to form said denture.

20140358892

14033959

1. A method for application search configuration, indexing and execution, the method performed by at least one data processing system and comprising: receiving a metadata definition for search and indexing configuration; generating a transfer mode definition to export objects for indexing; identifying objects to be indexed according to the metadata definition; extracting data according to the transfer mode definition; and indexing the extracted data.

20150067776

14015248

1. A security appliance operatively coupled to a network, the security appliance comprising: at least one memory; at least one processor operatively coupled to the at least one memory, the at least one processor configured to: select a subpattern from each pattern in a set of one or more regular expression patterns based on at least one heuristic; generate a unified deterministic finite automata (DFA) using the subpatterns selected from all patterns in the set; generate at least one non-deterministic finite automata (NFA) for at least one pattern in the set, a portion of the at least one pattern used for generating the at least one NFA, and at least one walk direction for run time processing of the at least one NFA, being determined based on whether a length of the subpattern selected is fixed or variable and a location of the subpattern selected within the at least one pattern; and store the unified DFA and the at least one NFA generated in the at least one memory.

20060167654

10541455

1. Apparatus for analysis of a complex system comprising elements, to determine the effective elements of a system in carrying out a given task, the apparatus comprising: a sampler for sampling a system to which successive silencing operations comprising silencing elements and combinations of elements of the system are applied under said given task to obtain sampling results, a predictor for providing predictions for predicting results for the given task for further element silencing combinations, and a contributions calculator for using said measured results and said predicted results to generate Shapley value predictions for said elements as indicators of an effectiveness of a respective element in carrying out the given task.

10157393

15291422

1. A method for generating a trust factor indicator based on historical performance the method comprising: performing using code executed by a processor: determining an objective historically based prediction accuracy measure, wherein the prediction accuracy measure represents a relationship between a predicted event outcome and an actual event outcome; determining an objective historically based prediction bias measure, wherein the prediction bias measure represents a positive or negative difference between the predicted event outcome and the actual event outcome; combining the accuracy measure and bias measure to generate a trust factor indicator; determining a quantified trustworthiness of forecast data based on the trust factor indicator; and providing the quantified trustworthiness for display by a computer system.

7813888

11459617

1. A system for operating one or more vehicles, comprising: a position reference system including a plurality of cameras operatively disposed along at least a portion of a perimeter of a control volume, the position reference system being configured to repetitively measure one or more stability and control characteristics of the one or more vehicles at least in part using the plurality of cameras as the one or more vehicles operate within the control volume; a control architecture configured to receive the repetitively measured one or more stability and control characteristics from the position reference system, to determine corresponding command signals based on the repetitively measured one or more stability and control characteristics from the position reference system, and to transmit the corresponding command signals to the one or more vehicles operating within the control volume to control the one or more stability and control characteristics of the one or more vehicles in a closed-loop system; and a simulation component configured to simulate one or more simulated vehicles via the control architecture, and to determine the corresponding command signals based at least in part on a simulated characteristic of the one or more simulated vehicles.

8260839

11778101

1. A method comprising: receiving a message at a client, the message including a message body; parsing the message body into parts of the message body using a natural language processor, wherein a first part of the message body is associated with a second part of the message body; comparing the parts of the parsed message body with a parameter to determine whether information provided in the parts is sufficient to identify a service and a backend system to process the message body, wherein the parameter includes a condition and a field for the identification of the service and the backend system; requesting additional information to identify the service and the backend system included in an additional message body if the information provided in the parts of the message body is not sufficient to identify the service and the backend system, the additional information requested in a conversation mode and provided with a second parameter; interpreting the parts of the message body; identifying the service and the backend system to process the message body based on the interpreted parts of the message body; creating a model based on the information, the additional information, the identified service, and the identified backend system; and invoking the service to process the message body from the backend system based on the information and the additional information from the created model.

20150269121

14733129

1. A method for performing an arithmetic operation in a data processing unit, the method comprising: the data processing unit iteratively computing an approximate result of the arithmetic operation; concurrently with the iteratively computing, the data processing unit computing at least two supplementary values of the approximate result of the arithmetic operation; and the data processing unit selecting a final result of the arithmetic operation from among a set including the approximate result and the at least two supplementary values depending on a result of a last iteration of the iteratively computing.

7805510

11565490

1. A method for providing information regarding an application, comprising: generating application runtime data based on execution of an application, the execution is responsive to at least one client providing a request to the application; classifying the application runtime data according to a hierarchy, thereby providing classified application runtime data, the hierarchy comprising different levels which characterize the interacting, the classifying includes obtaining at least one component from the request, comparing the at least one component to definitions in a set of definitions, identifying a matching definition in the set of definitions, the matching definition being associated with one level of the hierarchy, and traversing a tree which represents the hierarchy to identify a next higher level and a next, next higher level in the hierarchy; and providing an output using the classified application runtime data.

4561075

06454403

1. A method for processing incoming seismic-trace signals acquired during seismic prospecting utilizing plural initiations of a seismic source, comprising the steps of: improving the signal to noise ratio in incoming seismic trace signals by selecting an exponent from a group of exponents including 0, 1, 2, 4 and 8, for use with a remotely deployed field recorder for inverse power weighting the incoming seismic trace signals based on the ratio of the expected level of true earth response seismic signals, which can include reflections, refractions or ground roll, and the expected level of ambient noise, which can include burst noise; dividing each incoming seismic-trace signal into a series of component seismic-trace signals each within a time window of a predetermined length, each component seismic-trace signal comprised of samples of the incoming seismic-trace signal; calculating a respective weighting value for each respective component seismic-trace signal based on the selected exponent; applying the respective weighting values to the respective component seismic-trace signals; and summing the corresponding weighted component seismic-trace signals from plural initiations of the seismic source for forming a composite seismic-trace signal.

9189958

13577429

1. A method for providing a predictive driver assistance system for a vehicle, comprising: making information available about an expected route course by a provider in a driver assistance system of an assistance system application; creating, by the provider a planning table that contains the information that comprises at least one of: an expected route course and data provided as a function of the expected route course and assigned to an expected position of the vehicle; extracting the information from the planning table to be made available to the assistance system application based at least in part on a vehicle's current position; calculating the information to be incorporated into the planning table by distributed computing power to a plurality of computing devices provided by one or more of: the provider, at least one component of the driver assistance system, and a system communicatively connected to the driver assistance system; distributing the computing power to the plurality of computing devices when less than a definable minimum quantity of the information can be provided by the planning table about a most probable path of the vehicle, wherein each of the plurality of computing devices calculates a possible path of the vehicle; and providing the information to the assistance system application by extracting the information from the planning table and at least partially directly calculating the information at a time of provision.

7581165

11257855

1. A system for facilitating information exchange, the system comprising: a server that has at least one database and that is in communication with a network, and a client computer, wherein the server is configured to: receive a request from the client computer to retrieve at least one supporting document stored within the at least one database, wherein a collaborative group that includes a plurality of users is defined within the at least one database, wherein the collaborative group has access to a spreadsheet operatively associated with the at least one supporting document; retrieve the at least one supporting document from the at least one database in response to receiving the request; and provide the client computer with access to the at least one supporting document that is operatively associated with the spreadsheet such that the at least one supporting document is displayed along with the spreadsheet at the client computer; wherein the client computer is configured to provide a screen view that is displayed separately from the spreadsheet; and wherein the screen view conveys a submission status of the spreadsheet, provides information concerning a hyperlink to the at least one supporting document and provides a direct link to an email/message posting wizard.

20120046872

12989951

1. A method of controlling a measuring system, comprising steps of: providing a database including information about measurement objects in association with corresponding measurement data and relations between or among items of the measurement data; acquiring measurement data using the measuring system; automatically evaluating the acquired measurement data to derive relations between or among items of the acquired measurement data; making at least one inquiry to the database having criteria based on at least one of the acquired measurement data and the relations between or among items of the acquired measurement data and retrieving information from the database about acquired measurement objects; and controlling the operation of the measuring system in accordance with the retrieved information about acquired measurement objects.

8527973

13214336

1. A method comprising: receiving an instruction associated with an application; commencing parallel processing, associated with the application, using a unit of execution, the unit of execution operating with one or more other units of execution when performing the parallel processing associated with the application; sending a query to a destination, the query being: related to the parallel processing, sent after the unit of execution has commenced parallel processing, and sent from the unit of execution; receiving an answer to the query, the answer being: associated with the query, received at the unit of execution, and received after the query is sent; modifying the parallel processing when the answer is received, the modifying being: related to the instruction, and based on the answer; and generating a result using the unit of execution, the result including at least one of: executable code, or data generated by the unit of execution, the receiving the instruction, the commencing, the sending, the receiving the answer, the modifying, and the generating being performed by one or more computers.

10054925

14768270

1. A field device to determine or monitor a process variable in automation technology, with the field device meeting safety standards required by a set safety-critical application, comprising: a sensor working according to a defined measuring principle; a control/evaluation unit that processes and evaluates the measuring data provided by said sensor along at least three redundant and/or diverse measuring channels in an uninterrupted measuring operation of said sensor; and at least two redundant reconfiguration controls assigned to said control/evaluation unit, wherein: one of said redundant reconfiguration controls reconfigures a faulty measuring channel of said redundant and/or diverse measuring channels dynamically or partially dynamically if a malfunction occurs in one of said redundant and/or diverse measuring channels; two digital measuring channels are provided and said two reconfiguration controls are arranged on a dynamically FPGA chip (FPGA) which consists of a plurality of configurable logic blocks arranged in a mainly right-angled matrix consisting of columns and rows; said reconfigurable logic blocks of the FPGA chip are divided into four sub-groups which are mainly arranged symmetrically to each other, with a first sub-area and a second sub-area having said two digital measuring channels arranged in them, and a third sub-area and a fourth sub-area having said two reconfiguration controls arranged in them; said first sub-area with said first digital measuring channel and said third sub-area with said first reconfiguration control are arranged relative to each other in such a way that they are reconfigured jointly; and said second sub-area with said second digital measuring channel and said fourth sub-area with said second reconfiguration control are arranged relative to each other in such a way that they are reconfigured jointly.

9336570

14714112

1. A computer-implemented demosaicking method, comprising the steps of: receiving an image at a demosaicking processor, wherein the image comprises four or more band images that each correspond to an unique spectral band obtained by a multi-spectral band camera; performing spectral clustering of the four or more band images to identify a plurality of clusters with a clustering module, wherein the clustering module is implemented in a computer system that comprises instructions stored in a machine-readable medium and a processor that executes the instructions; for each of the plurality of clusters, determining a cluster weight by computing correlations between each of the unique spectral bands in each cluster with a weights module, wherein the weights module is implemented in a computer system that comprises instructions stored in a machine-readable medium and a processor that executes the instructions; and performing super-resolution for each of the unique spectral bands utilizing the cluster weights from the weights module with a super-resolution module, wherein super-resolution is applied iteratively for each of the unique spectral bands and a value for each unique spectral band is updated after each iteration, and wherein the super-resolution module is implemented in a computer system that comprises instructions stored in a machine-readable medium and a processor that executes the instructions.

20070265907

11827699

1. A method for providing a financial analysis for an enhanced wireless communications service, the method comprising: accepting user-specific input into a computer relating to an existing wireless communications service and the enhanced wireless communications service, wherein the user-specific input includes a wireless application selection for selecting at least one wireless application supported by the enhanced wireless communications service and a market data input interface for entering existing data about the existing wireless communications service; accessing a reference database including general market data applicable to the enhanced wireless communications service and a standard adoption curve for adoption of the enhanced wireless communications service, wherein the reference database further includes a first set of cost data values associated with a wireless infrastructure deployment cost and a second set of cost data values associated with an operations and maintenance cost for the enhanced wireless communications service, wherein the reference database further includes a revenue data value associated with the existing wireless communications service; adjusting the standard adoption curve to obtain an adjusted adoption curve based on the accepted user-specific input; estimating at least one potential revenue value associated with the at least one wireless application, wherein estimating comprises generating at least one revenue estimate based on the accepted user-specific input, the revenue data value, the general market data and the adjusted adoption curve to generate at least one revenue estimate, and wherein estimating further comprises generating at least one cost estimate based on the first set of cost data values, the second set of cost data values and the adjusted adoption curve; and presenting a graphical depiction of a financial analysis based on an evaluation of the at least one potential revenue value, the adjusted adoption curve, the general market data, the first set of cost data values, the second set of cost data values and the revenue data value.

20160364519

14736692

1. A system, comprising a processor to: split a netlist or cross section of a circuit into sub-circuits; generate a timing model for each sub-circuit and build a timing graph by combining the timing models of the sub-circuits; determine a full set of dependencies based on each sub-circuit's dependent configuration parameters and configuration parameters that a load and inputs of the circuit are dependent on; generate a sample plan for each sub-circuit with dependencies based on the full set of dependencies; receive results from a simulation for each sub-circuit based on the sample plan for each sub-circuit; generate algebraic forms for an early delay, a late delay, and a slew by curve fitting the results from the simulation across the configuration parameters; determine a piecewise-linear minimum and a piecewise-linear maximum for each of the algebraic forms of arrival times from segments arriving at a common node in the timing graph and propagate the arrival times and slew in algebraic forms throughout the timing graph; and evaluate checks based on selected projections from the timing graph or over a complete set of configurations to determine a configuration with a worst slack.

20150026579

13942989

1. A method for processing one or more crowdsourced tasks, the method comprising: in at least one computing device: converting an audio input received from a crowdworker to one or more phrases by one or more processors in the at least one computing device, wherein the audio input is at least a response to a crowdsourced task, a mode of the audio input being selected based on one or more parameters associated with the crowdworker; and presenting the one or more phrases on a display of the at least one computing device by the one or more processors, wherein a phrase from the one or more phrases is selected by the crowdworker as a correct response to the crowdsourced task.

20120280798

13512091

1. An object tracking apparatus, which is provided to track a location of an object by communicating with a plurality of sensors, comprising: an interface receiving sensor information and object information from sensors communicated with the object; a first storing part successively storing the sensor information in chronological order; a second storing part storing the neighborhood graph displaying the object space; and a location determining part determining a location of the object using the sensor information and the neighborhood graph.

20040017863

10207490

1. A method for decoding a received signal comprised of many interfering user signals, consisting of multi-user interference, to obtain symbol estimates for each user signal, the method uses a multi-user decoder based on an algorithm defining a tree diagram having a number of levels equal to the number of user signals, with the first/highest order term of the metric being assigned to the first/root level of the tree, the second/next highest term of the metric being assigned to second level of the tree, and so on, and the method for decoding interfering signals comprises the steps of: (a) assigning the received, interfering signals being decoded to the levels of the decoder tree based on the power level of each received signal; and (b) decoding the signals to determine symbol estimates for each of the signals.

8484173

13398469

1. A method for comparing documents, comprising: repeatedly identifying sets of matching elements and associated locations of the matching elements in a first document and a second document until there are no further matches; determining instances of unchanged elements between the first and second documents; determining instances of moved elements between the first and second documents, wherein the determination of the instances of moved elements is based on a relative location difference of the identified matching elements in the first and second documents; assigning identifiers to instances of the set of matching elements, wherein the identifiers identify a relationship for the corresponding instances of the set of matching elements, and wherein assigning the identifiers comprises: assigning an identifier indicating unchanged elements to instances of the set of matching elements in the second document when the associated location of the set of matching elements is the same for both the first document and the second document, and assigning an identifier indicating moved elements to instances of the set of matching elements when the associated location of the set of matching elements is different for both the first document and the second document, and displaying the first document and the second document with context information based on those portions of the second document that are associated with the identifier indicating unchanged elements, the identifier indicating moved elements, or both.

20110254664

13087354

1. A process for detecting conditions within a sensor cloud and triggering events using an RFID system having a plurality of read zones, comprising: obtaining the spatio-temporal state of a plurality of sensors within the sensor cloud using the RFID system, where the spatio-temporal state of each sensor includes sensor information, a time stamp, and a spatial location specified independently of the read zones of the RFID system; storing the spatio-temporal state of the plurality of sensors within a spatio-temporal database; applying at least one filter to the spatio-temporal data to detect the presence of at least one condition; and triggering at least one event based upon the detection of the at least one condition.

10060756

15636895

1. A method, carried out on a server system, for incorporating a new place of interest (POI) as a destination, the method comprising: configuring, on the server system, a trip definition including a delay factor indicating an acceptable delay for an arrival at a destination; determining, on the server system, a proposed POI for the trip definition based upon: the trip definition, and a collection of potential proposed POI instances; and issuing, by the server system through a mobile wireless network link to an in-vehicle user device, the proposed POI for presentation to a vehicle occupant; wherein during the determining, the server system processes the collection of potential proposed POI instances, to render the proposed POI, by: establishing POI ratings for individual ones of the collection of potential proposed POI instances, the POI rating for each individual POI of the collection of potential proposed POI instances being based at least in part upon: the delay factor, and an estimate of additional delay associated with the individual POI; and establishing a rank ordering of the individual ones of the collection of potential proposed POI instances based upon the POI ratings; and rendering the proposed POI from the rank ordering of the individual ones of the collection of potential proposed POI instances, wherein POI instances are categorized within the server system by POI type, and where the determining the proposed POI further comprises identifying a particular locality, and establishing a group POI at the locality by selecting a POI type-specific POI instance for each one of a plurality of categories.

20130037565

13652978

1. A method for configuring portion control for a dispenser apparatus, comprising: associating a plurality of product ingredients with the dispenser apparatus, wherein a plurality of selectable products may be formed from the plurality of product ingredients; receiving input comprising one or more preferences associated with portion control; accessing stored information associated with at least one of the plurality of selectable products; and determining at least one portion control for the at least one of the plurality of selectable products based at least in part on at least a portion of the received input and at least a portion of the accessed information.

4417305

06300133

1. Method for evaluating boolean expressions in a computer system comprising: forming a first constant from the expression to specify rearrangement of the variables, setting said first constant into a work area, translating said first constant in said work area using the variables as a translate table, forming a second constant from the expressions where the second constant functions to change the values of the variables to position numbers having values one less and two less than the position number of the variable and where the second constant changes the zeros between variables into position numbers which point to previous positions in the result string containing values of previously evaluated subexpressions, logically combining said translated first constant with said second constant using an exclusive OR operation, and translating the result of the exclusive OR operation using the result as the translate table as the result is changing during the translation, the result from last translation in the result being the value of the boolean expression being evaluated .

7878810

11972411

1. A computer implemented method for analyzing user performance data from multiple sources, and for providing evaluation and feedback regarding user performance, the method comprising: receiving performance data for evaluating the user with a computer, the performance data resulting from the user performing a first task for evaluating a cognitive ability of the user and a second, different task for evaluating a non-cognitive ability of the user; analyzing the performance data with the computer using mathematical models related to the first and second tasks; wherein the analyzing performance data comprises: identifying construct models as the mathematical models related to the first and second tasks; identifying model-specific evaluation functions for each of the construct models; transforming the performance data onto score scales using the model-specific evaluation functions, resulting in model-specific scaled score data; transforming the model-specific scored scaled data and previously stored model-specific scaled score data into construct-level scores; identifying score scale partition categories based on the construct-level scores; retrieving category-specific diagnostic feedback based on the identified score scale partition categories; generating an evaluation and diagnostic feedback with the computer based upon the analyzing; generating a report regarding user performance using the diagnostic feedback and the evaluation; and transmitting the report.

8853618

13014383

1. A method for estimating at least one parameter of interest of a material in a volume of interest, comprising: using a processor for estimating at least one parameter of interest using a slope of a time-dependent ratio curve at at least one point, the time-dependent ratio curve based on information acquired from at least one neutron detector and a second detector, wherein the information relates to neutrons and wherein a portion of the information is acquired before a thermalization period associated with the neutrons.

9171480

13245075

1. A kit for use in performing learning activities, said kit comprising a three or more manipulator devices, wherein each manipulator device comprises a singular, non-detachable, substantially elongated and flat body formed of flexible material, wherein said body comprises a first flap, a second flap, a center portion, wherein said first flap and said second flap are foldable in relation to said center portion, wherein said first flap, said second flap, and said center portion are of equal size, and wherein said body is at least partially stuffed to resemble a bean bag, and each manipulator device having at least two attributes identifiable by children and allowing said children to associate said plurality of devices into subsets according to shared types of said attributes, and wherein one of said attributes is a manipulator attribute such that each one of said devices may be manipulated from one state to any one of four distinct states selected from the group consisting of: 1) wherein the first and second flap are in the open position; 2) wherein the first flap is in the open position and the second flap is in the closed position; 3) wherein the first flap is in the closed position and the second flap is in the open position; and 4) wherein the first and second flaps are in the closed position: wherein the closed position comprises a flap overlapping the center portion in full, wherein the open position comprises a flap not overlapping the center portion, wherein at least one of said attributes identifiable by children is concealed when the first flap or the second flap is in the closed position, wherein said manipulator attribute comprises a fastener for holding said first flap and said second flap in the closed position, and wherein at least a first one of said devices is adapted to be manipulated in an identifiably different manner from at least a second one of said devices such that said children can distinguish said first device from said second device based upon said manipulator attribute.

9367449

14024028

1. A method comprising: receiving, by one or more computers, a request to delete a data object, the data object being represented in a record in a data table, wherein an object identifier data field of the record stores a representation of the data object, and a parent identifier data field of the record stores a representation of a parent object of the data object; marking the record for deletion from the data table; and sweeping the data table in a plurality iterations including a first iteration and a second iteration subsequent to the first iteration, wherein the first iteration comprises: deleting, from the data table, each record marked for deletion; deleting each data object represented in an object identifier field of the deleted record; and then marking, for deletion from the data table in the second iteration, each record for which a parent identifier data field stores a representation of the deleted data object, wherein the second iteration comprises deleting each record marked for deletion by the first iteration, and wherein the one or more computers perform the iterations until an exit condition is satisfied.

20090055184

11845015

1. A method comprising: for each of a plurality of speech applications, parsing a corpus of terms to produce a first output set, in which expressions identified in the corpus are replaced with corresponding grammar tags from a grammar that is specific to the application; for each of the plurality of speech applications, replacing each of the grammar tags in the first output set with a class identifier of an application-generic class, to produce a second output set; and processing collectively the second output sets or data derived from the output sets with a statistical language model (SLM) trainer to generate an application-generic class-based SLM.

7664717

11423174

1. A computer-implemented method for building skills in accurate text comprehension and the use of comprehension strategies in a student, utilizing a computing device to present stimuli and to record responses, the method comprising: providing a stimulus passage set comprising a plurality of stimulus passages, wherein each stimulus passage comprises one or more pages; via a display on a computing device, presenting a page from a stimulus passage from the stimulus passage set to the student; via the display, asking the student a question regarding the page; textually presenting a plurality of answers to the student on the display, wherein one of the answers is a correct answer to the question; requiring the student to employ a pointing device on the computing device to select an answer from the plurality of answers to answer the question; determining, via the computing device, if the student selected the correct answer; and performing said presenting the page, said asking, said textually presenting the plurality of answers, said requiring, and said determining for each page of the stimulus passage; repeating said performing for each stimulus passage in the stimulus passage; set in a specified order in an iterative manner to build skills in accurate text comprehension and the use of comprehension strategies in the student.

7995862

12118515

1. A system for deriving three-dimensional coordinate data comprising: a computer which accepts a two-dimensional single image of an object, wherein the single image includes image data and is associated with an image geometry model (IGM); an analyzer that derives at least one set of three-dimensional metadata from the single image; a measurement utility that measures dimensions of the object by performing a projection measurement and a shadow measurement for the object, wherein the projection measurement is based at least in part on one or more of an IGM, height distance of the object, point-to-point distance of the object, line-of-sight distance of the object, volume, and bearing, and further wherein performing said shadow measurement includes determining a length of the shadow of the object based on a height of the object and an altitude of the sun; and a model generation utility that derives three-dimensional coordinate data based at least in part on the projection, the shadow, and the three-dimensional metadata.

20100030894

12495771

1. A method of estimating Internet traffic, the method comprising: taking a size and demographic composition of a target population; identifying a group of participants within a target population; determining demographic information for each member of the group of participants; receiving click-stream data at a host processing facility from the group of participants that connotes Internet activity of individual members of the group of participants; and producing, at the host processing facility, an estimate of a target population's Internet activity by scaling the data for each member of the group of participants to the relative size and demographic composition of the target population and the group of participants, wherein scaling comprises applying a weight to the clickstream data in view of the demographic information.

8473354

12271593

1. A method, comprising: using a computer implemented facility to collect and store a plurality of records from public transactional sources for a plurality of buyers and a plurality of suppliers; determining an inferred entity identifier for each of the plurality of records; detecting groups of inferred entity identifiers that each connote a common entity, based on a similarity of data in the records associated with each of the inferred entity identifiers; for each group of inferred entity identifiers, merging the records of the group into a common entity record set; aggregating the transaction records for the common entity record sets; and rating the common entity based on analysis of the aggregated transaction records.

20160119939

14705669

1. An evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB) operating in a radio access network (RAN) anchored multi-radio heterogeneous network, the eNB comprising: a link aggregation transmitter configured to: receive data traffic transmitted over a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) bearer; determine a proportion of the data traffic to be transmitted over an LTE link and a proportion of the data traffic to be transmitted over a wireless local area network (WLAN) link; and split the data traffic among between the LTE link and the WLAN link based on the determined proportions.

20100042816

12419644

1. A method for setting elements in a result vector based on an input vector, comprising: receiving the input vector, wherein the input vector includes a set of N elements; determining a location of a key element in the input vector; and generating a result vector, wherein generating the result vector involves setting one or more elements of the result vector based on the location of the key element in the input vector.

20090319891

12214818

1. A computer-implemented method of generating marks in a graphical view, comprising: receiving a first user request to associate a first set of data samples with a first visual mark property; in response to the first user request, displaying area marks in a graphical view, wherein respective area marks correspond to respective data samples in the first set; receiving a second user request to associate the first set of data samples with a second visual mark property; and in response to the second user request, displaying point marks in the graphical view, wherein respective point marks correspond to respective data samples in the first set.

20030229641

10167844

1. A decision tree system, comprising: a module to read the data, a module to create a histogram of the data, a module to evaluate a potential split of the data according to some criterion, using said histogram, a module to select a split point randomly in an interval around the best split found using said histogram, a module to split the data, and a module to combine multiple decision trees in ensembles.

20130238385

13867310

1. A system for solving supply chain planning problems, comprising: a database that stores data representing a planning problem of a supply chain network; and a computer coupled with the database and configured to: access the planning problem of the supply chain network stored in the database; model the planning problem as a network of nodes and edges; generate a hierarchical linear programming solution of the planning problem; apply advanced heuristics to the generated hierarchical linear programming solution to obtain an integer feasible solution; formulate a mixed integer program based on the integer solution to generate an optimized global hierarchical solution; and store the generated optimized global hierarchical solution in the database.

9183459

14270553

1. A method for detecting one or more target objects, the method comprising: obtaining 2-dimensional imaging information of a target zone; obtaining 3-dimensional point cloud information of the target zone; determining a ground plane in the 3-dimensional point cloud information and removing the ground plane to generate modified 3-dimensional information; identifying a set of 2-dimensional candidate objects from the 2-dimensional imaging information, each 2-dimensional candidate object having associated therewith a corresponding 2-dimensional confidence measure; identifying a set of 3-dimensional candidate objects from the modified 3-dimensional information by clustering proximal points from the modified 3-dimensional information into object groups, each 3-dimensional candidate object having associated therewith a corresponding 3-dimensional confidence measure; determining, for each of at least some of the 2-dimensional candidate objects, a corresponding 3-dimensional candidate object from the set of 3-dimensional candidate objects; and modifying the 2-dimensional confidence measure for each of the at least some of the 2-dimensional candidate objects based on whether the 2-dimensional candidate object corresponds to a 3-dimensional candidate object, to generate fused confidence measures using the 2-dimensional confidence measures for each of the at least some of the 2-dimensional candidate objects and the 3-dimensional confidence measures of the determined corresponding 3-dimensional candidate objects, whereby the fused confidence measure filters out false objects from the 2-dimensional candidate objects to identify with a high degree of confidence a set of target objects.

20120320066

13161286

1. A computer-implemented method for handling a modification of an animation having a constraint, the method comprising: detecting a user modification of an animation that involves at least first and second objects, the first object constrained to the second object during a constrained period and non-constrained to the second object during a non-constrained period; based on the user modification, selecting one of at least first and second compensation adjustments for the animation based on a compensation policy; and adjusting the animation according to the selected compensation adjustment.

20100319069

12813961

1. A computer system for providing security in a computer network, the system comprising: a global sensor device configured to determine potential threats to the computer network; a global threat manager device configured to determine identification information associated with the potential threats; and a local security device configured to detect the existence of the potential threats based on the identification information and to take remedial action in response to the potential threats.

9171124

14139023

1. A method of parasitic extraction for multi-patterning in an integrated circuit design, the method comprising: determining resistance solutions and capacitance solutions for a netlist of the integrated circuit design using a processor; performing a first parasitic extraction of the resistance solutions and the capacitance solutions to generate a first set of parasitic values comprising mean values for the resistance solutions and the capacitance solutions; modifying at least one geometrical value to a new value for each vector of parameters identified within the integrated circuit design based on a shift in value attributable to multi-patterning for a given layer of the integrated circuit design; performing a second parasitic extraction of the resistance solution and the capacitance solution based on the modified at least one geometrical value, to generate a second set of parasitic values; determining a difference between the first set of parasitic values and the second set of parasitic values to generate sensitivities for each captured source of variation to a respective vector of parameters based on the shift in the value attributable to the multi-patterning; and generating as output statistical parasitics in at least one of a vector form and a collapsed reduced vector form, wherein the statistical parasitics are determined by multiplying each of the resistance solutions and the capacitance solutions by the generated sensitivities, wherein the integrated circuit design is configured to be implemented to manufacture integrated circuit devices with a multi-pattern process.

20040153290

10357787

1. A method for generating a skill sheet for a user participating in a medical emergency response simulation program, the simulation program comprising a model for simulating the response of a simulated subject to the input of the user, the method comprising: (a) providing a simulation scenario; (b) choosing a skill sheet template, wherein the skill sheet template comprises a plurality of line items; (c) determining which line items of the plurality of line items are relevant; (d) evaluating each relevant line item; and (e) generating a skill sheet according to said evaluating in (d).

20180018310

15292510

1. A computing system implemented method for efficiently learning new forms in an electronic document preparation system, the method comprising: receiving form data related to a new form having a plurality of data fields; gathering training set data related to previously filled forms, each previously filled form having completed data fields that each correspond to a respective data field of the new form; generating, for a first selected data field of the plurality of data fields of the new form, candidate function data including a plurality of candidate functions; generating, for the first selected data field, grouping data by forming a plurality of groups from the training set data based on respective categories and assigning each of a plurality of the previously filled forms to a respective one of the groups based on the categories; generating, for the first selected data field, sampling data by selecting one or more previously filled forms from each group; generating, for each candidate function, test data by applying the candidate function to a portion of the training set data corresponding to the sampling data related to the candidate function; identifying, from the plurality of functions, an acceptable function for the first selected data field by comparing the test data to the training set data and identifying test data that matches the training set data within a selected tolerance; and generating and outputting results data indicating the acceptable function for the first data field of the new form.

8521725

10726345

1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising: obtaining, in a server device, a plurality of first search results responsive to a first search query, the plurality of first search results being ranked in an order; generating a second search query comprising the first search query and a synonym of a term in the first search query; obtaining a plurality of second search results responsive to the second search query; determining that a particular first search result responsive to the first search query appears within a threshold number of highest-ranked second search results responsive to the second search query; determining that the particular first search result in the first search results responsive to the first search query is not within a threshold number of highest-ranked first search results of the first search results responsive to the first search query; in response to determining that the particular first search result responsive to the first search query appears within the threshold number of the highest-ranked second search results responsive to the second search query and the particular first search result in the first search results responsive to the first search query is not within a threshold number of highest-ranked first search results of the first search results responsive to the first search query, modifying the order of the plurality of first search results by moving the particular first search result within the plurality of first search results from an original position in the order to a second, different position in the order, wherein the second position is higher than the original position; and providing the modified plurality of first search results in response to the first search query.

20060106875

11269260

1. An information collection system, in which a terminal device and an information collection device connected to the terminal device, wherein the terminal comprises: a reception unit, which receives question information, as questions the responses to which are to be provided to the information collection device, from a question information storage section which stores question information; an output unit, which, after power to the terminal device has been turned on or based on a state of use, outputs question information received by the reception unit; an input unit, which inputs response information, as responses to question information output by the output unit; and a transmission unit, which transmits response information input by the input unit to the information collection device; and wherein the information collection device comprises: a question information storage section, which stores question information; a question information request reception unit, which receives question information transmission requests from the terminal device; a question information transmission unit, which, according to question information transmission requests received from the terminal device by the question information request reception unit, reads question information from the question information storage section, and transmits question information to the requesting terminal device; and a response information reception unit, which receives response information, as responses to question information transmitted by the question information transmission unit, from the terminal device.

9684773

13282930

1. A method comprising: determining one or more device identifiers associated with one or more devices; determining one or more variations of one or more user interface elements to be presented in at least one user interface of the one or more devices, wherein the one or more variations for each of the one or more user interface elements are assigned randomly and wherein the one or more variations correspond to respective one or more values of respective digits of a unique user interface identifier represented by the one or more user interface elements; linking the unique user interface identifier to the one or more device identifiers; and installing the one or more variations of the one or more user interface elements at the one or more devices, wherein a rendering of the one or more variations at the one or more devices facilitates, at least in part, a determination of the one or more device identifiers based on the unique user interface identifier.

20140143217

14163862

1. At least one machine-readable medium comprising a set of instructions that, in response to being executed on a computing device, cause the computing device to: group a plurality of application objects into a dataset based on application object data for each of the plurality of application objects; assign an application policy to the dataset; and implement the application policy on each of the plurality of application objects and on each of a plurality of underlying storage objects for the plurality of application objects.

9195760

14066107

1. A method comprising: receiving, from a user system at a host system having a processor system including at least one processor and a memory system, user input for conducting a search, the user input including one or more input terms; automatically searching, by the processor system, a storage area in the memory system at the host system for stored search strings recorded from prior searches that are similar to the user input, the search strings each having one or more search terms; identifying a subset of the stored search strings that are similar to the user input, as a result of the searching; automatically determining, by the host system, a score for each of the search strings in the subset, the score being a value that indicates an expected likelihood that the user will be interested in the search string, wherein the score for each of the search strings is based on a plurality of factors including: a count of a number of the input terms in the user input that are the same as the one or more the search terms in the search string, a relevancy of a collection of documents found when a search is performed using the search string, and how often users have chosen the search string when suggested by the host system; ranking the search strings in the subset, in accordance with the determined scores; and sending, from the host system to the user system, the search strings in the subset, listed in order of the ranking as search suggestions.

8144863

12124625

1. A method comprising: generating a near end signal and a far end signal; generating an echo signal from the far end signal; generating a target signal by mixing the echo signal and the near end signal; generating an approximate echo signal from the far end signal, a correlated buffered far end signal, and an error signal between a first signal and a second signal, wherein the first signal corresponds to a correlation function between the far end signal and the target signal, and the second signal corresponds to a correlation function between the far end signal and the approximate echo signal; generating an echo cancellation signal by mixing the approximate echo signal and the target signal; and applying a correlation coefficient to the echo cancellation signal.

7783558

11023685

1. A computer-implemented method for providing market updates in an electronic trading environment, the method including: receiving by a gateway a definition for an event, wherein the definition for the event includes a predefined time period; receiving by the gateway market data from an electronic exchange, wherein the market data is related to a tradeable object being traded at the electronic exchange, wherein the market data includes market depth information for the tradeable object; generating by the gateway a first market update to be sent to a client entity, wherein the first market update includes a first set of market depth levels, wherein each market depth level in the first set is based on the market depth information and includes a quantity available for trading the tradeable object at a price level, wherein the first set includes a first number of market depth levels; sending by the gateway the first market update to the client entity; determining by the gateway whether the event has been detected, wherein the event is detected when the current time is within the predefined time period defined for the event; generating by the gateway a second market update to be sent to the client entity, wherein the second market update includes a second set of market depth levels, wherein each market depth level in the second set is based on the market depth information and includes a quantity available for trading the tradeable object at a price level, wherein the second set includes a second number of market depth levels, wherein the second number of market depth levels is determined based on detection of the event, wherein the second number of market depth levels is different from the first number of market depth levels in response to the event being detected; and sending by the gateway the second market update to the client entity.

9426025

14061796

1. A controller device for configuring one or more network elements of a software-defined network, the controller device comprising: a data interface that receives relation data items and action policy rules, each relation data item expressing a pair of entities of the network and a relationship between the entities, and each action policy rule expressing a network-related event and one or more network-related actions to be carried out in response to the event; a network interface that transmits and receives data to and from the network; and a processor that generates configuration data for the one or more network elements, wherein the processor is configured to: derive and store implicit relation data items expressing implicit relations between pairs of the entities on the basis of the received relation data items, whereby a first one of the implicit relations is derived using a combination of first and second ones of the relation data items, the first one of the relation data items expressing a relationship between first and second ones of the entities, the second one of the relation data items expressing a relationship between the second one and a third one of the entities, and the first one of the implicit relations being derived such to express a relationship between the first and third ones of the entities, generate and store the configuration data for the one or more network elements on the basis of the relation data items, the action policy rules, and the derived implicit relations, and cause the network interface to transmit, as network data receivable and operable by the one or more network elements, the configuration data to the one or more network elements.

8830292

13646554

1. A computer-implemented method for controlling a telecommunication session, the method comprising: recognizing a first engagement gesture performed by a first user from one or more images; in response to the first engagement gesture, providing control of the telecommunication session to the first user; and recognizing a disengagement gesture performed by the first user; and in response to recognizing the disengagement gesture performed by the first user, providing control of the telecommunication session to a second user.

20150088456

14142054

1. An apparatus for extracting a feature point to recognize an obstacle using a laser scanner, the apparatus comprising: a laser scanner installed at a front of a traveling vehicle and configured to obtain laser scanner data having a plurality of layers in real time; and a controller configured to separate the laser scanner data obtained by the laser scanner into a plurality of layers to extract measurement data present in each layer and determine feature points of the measurement data to classify a type of obstacle based on a plurality of stored feature points.

20120188074

13066382

1. A robust, all-weather security system especially configured to meet the needs of specific classes of regular and emergency visitors to an industrial site where large quantities of toxic-fluid substances are handled and which substances might be released by accident or terrorist attack comprising: (a) wind-direction-pointing element including a “sail” of sufficient size and shape to be reliably pivotable under the influence of local wind currents, the pointing element being mounted for rotation upon bearings enclosed in protective housings and fixed to a vertical mast positioned near the site entrance; (b) the “sail” being generally in the form of a smooth-surfaced, wing-like polygon having a plane of symmetry and whose cross-section is a symmetric airfoil, the “sail” further having sufficient span, chord and camber to develop a center of pressure at about its quarter-chord position sufficient to rotate the pointing element quickly into alignment with the instant local wind vector; (c) the mast having a central axis and being of sufficient strength and stiffness to support the pointing element a distance of 1-5 m above a cleared area adjacent the entrance, the mast being sufficiently rigid to support the pointing element without permanent deformation under extreme wind velocities of up to 40 m/sec; (d) the lateral surfaces of the pointing element being provided with one or more regulatory-compliant, retroreflective exterior signs indicating in text, colors, icons and special QR-type digital graphics, certain information on characteristics of the substances and the site, the QR codes providing password web access by the visitor's personal smartphone to predetermined additional sensitive data, including layout diagrams; and (d) the lateral surfaces of the mast and/or bearing housings being provided with at least one secure, robust RFID-tag device facing in the direction from which visitors approach and which can be accessed using a visitor-carried, secure reader to obtain critical or sensitive data on particular aspects of the site; whereby a visitor, having the use of a secure portable tag reader and/or smartphone, is informed prior to allowance of entry into the site, of the direction vector of predicted wind-dispersion plumes from a possible or likely toxic release points and afforded immediate password-secure access to predetermined, selected data relative to health risks, personnel safety measures and other intelligence as might be needed to expedite the planned activity of the specific visit.

7813421

11521182

1. An input module coupled to at least one antenna, configured to receive a message from a wireless communication channel, the message including data and a plurality of training fields, the plurality of training fields having been generated based on a steering matrix P; a computation module configured to recursively compute equalizer parameters based on the plurality of training fields, the steering matrix P, and a channel estimation matrix, wherein the computation module recursively computes the equalizer parameters as the plurality of training fields is being received; and an equalizer module configured to apply the equalizer parameters to the data of the message to recover user data.

5586311

08196412

1. A system for accessing and analyzing data through a central processing unit, said system comprising: a non-modal user interface for providing a user access to the system; a plurality of application analysis objects for creating an analysis network, said analysis network comprised of user selected nodes and user interactively created connections where the nodes and connections determine the analysis of a selected database and including cross-orientation selection means for reanalyzing a new view of data at the same aggregate level and for generating a new analysis network path in response to the reanalysis; a plurality of application graphics objects for interactively manipulating the plurality of analysis objects through the non-modal user interface; and a plurality of application data access objects for accessing databases and for generating structured query language in response to the analysis network.

8316054

12564687

1. A method of performing risk assessment of a dataset from a source database containing information identifiable to individuals, the method executed by a computer processor comprising: retrieving the dataset comprising a plurality of records from a storage device; receiving a selection of variables from a user, the selection made from a plurality of variables present in the dataset, wherein the variables are identifiers that are associated with personal information to identify one or more individuals from the one or more of the plurality of records; receiving a selection of a risk threshold acceptable for the dataset from a user; receiving a selection of a sampling fraction wherein the sampling fraction defines a relative size of the dataset to an entire population represented by the source database; determining a number of records from the plurality of records in the dataset for each equivalence class for each of the selected variables present in the dataset; calculating a re-identification risk of one or more records of the dataset using the selected sampling fraction and the determined number of records for each equivalence class, wherein the re-identification risk is calculated by [expmuo*power(μ o , λ)]/[λ!*(1−expmuo)] with an increasing index λ, starting at 1 and increment by 1, until the re-identification risk is greater than or equal to 0.1 where μ o =sampling fraction/risk threshold, expmuo=exp(−μ o ), power(μ o , λ)=μ o λ , and seqv=size of the smallest equivalence class in the dataset; displaying the calculated re-identification risk relative to the selected risk threshold; and wherein the re-identification risk is defined as the risk of matching a record stored in the dataset with a record stored in a public database thereby providing identifying information of a person associated with the record.

20070219974

11378202

1. A system for the prediction of a target slot value of a user goal, comprising: a user data store that stores information regarding user behavior; and, an argument model that employs statistical modeling and the information stored in the user data store, the argument model is applied to each of a set of slot values to predict the target slot value.

20110010327

12546255

1. A method for performing an incremental quantile update using a data value of a received data record, comprising: determining an initial distribution function comprising a plurality of initial quantile estimates and a respective plurality of initial probabilities associated with the initial quantile estimates; updating the initial distribution function to form a new distribution function based on the received data value, wherein the new distribution function comprises a plurality of quantile points identifying the respective initial quantile estimates and a respective plurality of new probabilities associated with the initial quantile estimates; generating an approximation of the new distribution function by, for each pair of adjacent quantile points in the new distribution function, connecting the adjacent quantile points using a linear approximation of a region between the adjacent quantile points; determining a plurality of new quantile estimates associated with the respective plurality of new probabilities using the approximation of the new distribution function; and storing the new quantile estimates and the new probabilities associated with the new quantile estimates.

5489247

08226749

1. An adaptive control system for controlling at least partially automated implementation of selected shifts of a vehicular mechanical change gear transmission system comprising a controlled fuel throttle controlled engine (E), a multi-speed change gear mechanical transmission (10) having an input shaft (16) and an output shaft (90) adapted to drive vehicular drive wheels, said input shaft having a determinable expected acceleration during an upshift into a target gear ratio, a master friction clutch (C) drivingly interposed between the engine and the input shaft, a first sensor (98) for providing a first input signal indicative of transmission input shaft (16) rotational speed, a second sensor (100) for providing a second input signal indicative of vehicle speed, a third sensor (DL/152) for providing an input signal indicative of engine torque and a transmission actuator (112, 70, 96) for controlling shifting of the transmission, said control system including means for: determining selection of an upshift from a currently engaged transmission ratio to a target gear ratio; determining as a first function of at least said input signals indicative of (i) current engine torque and (ii) current vehicle acceleration, an expected vehicle acceleration (A.sub.0) under current vehicle operating conditions and at zero engine torque to the drive wheels; determining as a second function of (i) the expected vehicle acceleration (A.sub.0) under current vehicle operating conditions and at zero engine torque to the drive wheels, (ii) the gear ratio of the selected target gear ratio, and (iii) the expected input shaft acceleration during an upshift into the target gear ratio, feasibility or infeasibility of achieving substantially synchronous conditions for engagement of the target ratio if the selection of an upshift is implemented; and causing the initiation of a selected upshift only upon a determination of feasibility of achieving substantially synchronous conditions for engagement of the target gear ratio; and means effective, after initiation of a selected upshift and upon sensing failure to achieve substantially synchronous conditions for engagement of the target gear ratio, for modifying at least one of said first function and said second function to cause at least one of an increase in the expected input shaft acceleration during a gear ratio change operation and a decrease in the expected vehicle acceleration under current vehicle operating conditions and at zero engine torque to the drive wheels for subsequent selections of upshifts.

8626693

13007270

1. A method of determining node similarity for component substitution, the method carried out by program code stored on non-transient computer-readable medium and executed by a processor, the method comprising: determining similarity metric values between nodes of a target system tree associated with a target system and nodes in other system trees respectively associated with other systems, wherein each system comprises components and nodes of each system tree represent respective ones of the components of the associated system, wherein the determining comprises comparing nodes of the target system tree with respective nodes of the other system trees by applying at least one of domain based rules and attribute based similarity metrics to attributes of the system components represented by the nodes being compared, and assigning a similarity score to each node of the other system trees compared to a respective one of the nodes of the target system tree based on results of the comparing; and for at least one of the nodes of the target system, identifying replacement ones of the nodes of the other system trees based on their respective assigned similarity scores.

9817804

14619145

1. A device implementable in a web site design program, said device comprising: a component based version comparer to compare at least two versions of a website, said at least two versions having components in a set of hierarchies, wherein said components are at least one of a visual component, a container and a non-visual site element, and to generate a difference tree representing the differences in said components between said at least two versions of the same website, wherein said version comparer preprocesses said components in each single version of said at least two versions of said website to determine at least one of internal geometric, semantic, content and attribute relationships before comparing said components and said relationships between said at least two versions of said website using at least one of semantic, geometrical, content and attribute analysis; and wherein said hierarchies and said difference tree are trees and wherein said trees comprise nodes representing said components, said components having attributes; and wherein said component based version comparer comprises: a structural version comparer to compare nodes of said at least two versions of said website through comparison of their geometrical, content and semantic relationships; an order based version comparer to compare said nodes of said at least two versions of said website based on the order of said nodes and to pre-match said nodes according to an internal said website design system identifier; a semantic matching comparer to perform semantic classification on said nodes of said at least two versions of said website and match them according to their semantic classes and geometrical parameters; a comparison selector and coordinator to provide selection and coordination between said structural version comparer, said order based version comparer and said semantic matching comparer based on at least one of the structure and attributes of said components; a difference tree generator to generate said difference tree based on a combination of the results of said structural version comparer, said order based version comparer and said semantic matching comparer; a version merger to create an integrated version of said two versions of said website based on said difference tree; and a processor and a memory unit, said processor to activate said component based version comparer and said version merger.

20120084312

12896507

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving an electronic representation of one or more human voices; recognizing words in a first portion of the electronic representation of the one or more human voices; sending suggested search terms to a display device for display to a user in a text format, wherein the suggested search terms are based on the recognized words in the first portion of the electronic representation of the one or more human voices; receiving, from the user, a search query that includes one or more of the suggested search terms that were displayed to the user.

4724543

06774286

1. A digital image processing system for detecting specific shapes, comprising: (a) image gathering means for providing a series of electronic signals representing a series of visual images; (b) conversion means for converting each of said electronic signals to a digital representation and for modifying said digital representation according to external commands; (c) memory means for storing each said digital representation as an array of pixels, each of said pixels including a value representing gray shading for a unit of said visual image; (d) processing means coupled to said memory means and to said conversion means for issuing said commands to said conversion means and for detecting and analyzing changes in successive said digital representations; (e) processing means further comprising means for transforming each said digital representation by: (i) dilating said digital representation by a series of first structuring elements to provide a dilated digital representation; (ii) subtracting said dilated digital representation from said digital representation, for identification of high contrast portions of said visual image; (iii) threshold comparison of said high contrast portions by comparing the gray value of each of said pixels of said high contrast portions with a first reference value, replacing the gray values for each of said pixels whose value exceeds or equals said first reference value with a first fixed gray value and replacing the gray values for each of said pixels whose value is less than said first reference value with a second fixed gray value to provide a first threshold image; (iv) performing an annulus transformation on said first threshold image to create an annulustransformed image by: (1) determining a numerical value for the degree of coincidence between pixels having said first fixed gray value in said first threshold image and masks having annular patterns of pixels, said numerical value representing a degree of ring closure, and (2) storing in said memory means the numerical value for said degree of ring closure and coordinates corresponding to the center of each of said annular masks; (v) performing a ring-toss transformation on said annulus-transformed image to create a ring-toss transformed image by: (1) generating a pattern of pixels by dilation of said annulus-transformed image by a second annular structuring element, and (2) subtracting said dilated annulustransformed image from said annulustransformed image; (vi) generating a second threshold image by threshold comparison of said ring-toss transformed image by comparing the gray value of each of said pixels of said ring-toss transformed image with a second reference value, replacing the gray values for each of said pixel whose value exceeds or equals said second reference value with a third fixed gray value and replacing the gray values in each of said pixels whose value is less than said second reference value with a fourth fixed gray value; (vii) storing said second threshold image in said memory means; (f) means for comparing successive second threshold images of said transformed digital representations to detect appearances of said specific shapes.

20070016383

11525380

1. A method for achieving a desired optimal function of a comprehensive biochemical reaction network in a living cell comprising: (a) representing a listing of the biochemical reactions in the network in a computer; (b) using optimization methods to calculate the optimal properties of the network; (c) altering the list of reactions in the network and re-computing the optimal properties; and (d) repeating c) until the desired optimal function is reached.

9674154

14860435

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: maintaining, by a first computer system, one or more media access control (MAC) addresses and corresponding associations of the MAC addresses with one or more masking profiles, the one or more masking profiles indicating purchasing behavior of a segment of users associated with an electronic marketplace; receiving information, from a user device, indicating that the user device has entered a geo-fence associated with a location of a retailer; selecting, by the first computer system, a particular MAC address of the one or more MAC addresses and a corresponding masking profile of the one or more masking profiles based at least in part on the information; providing, by the first computer system, the particular MAC address, the corresponding masking profile, and training information associated with the corresponding masking profile to the user device, the particular MAC address configured to be utilized by the user device when communicating with a network associated with a second computer system of the location of the retailer rather than a default MAC address associated with the user device, the training information configured to be provided to the second computer system and utilized by a machine learning algorithm implemented by the second computer system of the location; and receiving a recommendation that is configured to be provided to the user device, the recommendation generated based at least in part on the masking profile associated with the particular MAC address and including a promotional offer for use by a user associated with the masking profile at the location of the retailer.

20140086780

14033350

1. A method of manufacturing a plurality of orthopedic implant components, the method comprising: providing a design for a first implant component having at least one dimension that is based on patient-specific information and a design for a second implant component having at least one dimension that is based on patient specific information; creating a build plan that includes a position and orientation for at least each of the first and second implant components within a build chamber of a solid freeform fabrication machine and with respect to a platform of the build chamber; and producing the implants included in the build plan by executing a build run of the solid freeform fabrication machine based on the build plan.

7539246

10398540

1. An image coding apparatus for coding an image in a unit of a block comprises: first arithmetic operation means for calculating value of a parameter representative of complicacy of the block, wherein the first arithmetic operation means determines, when the value of the motion vector residual is higher than a predetermined threshold value set in advance, the threshold value as the value of the motion vector residual; storage means for storing the value of the parameter calculated by said first arithmetic operation means; and second arithmetic operation means for calculating a weighted average of the value of the parameter stored by said storage means and calculating a quantization index of the block based on the weighted average.

3986002

05576486

1. A multi-purpose, hand-holdable laser computer in the form of a circular slide rule, comprising: a. an opaque circular stator having a front face, a rear face, a geometric center, a diameter, and a plurality of different preselected scales suitably disposed in arcuate configuration on said front face and on said rear face at predetermined fixed locations thereon, wherein said plurality of said different preselected scales at predetemined fixed locations on said front face of said circular stator include, from the most radially remote inward toward said geometric center of said stator: 1. an outermost scale (A) of logarithmic graduations in units for use in calculations involving incident intensity, peak intensity, ideal flux, incident energy fluence, total absorbed energy, received power, received sensor power, laser power, multiplication, logarithms, squaring, and trigonometric functions; 2.

8478261

13093542

1. A system for providing advanced voice services in a cellular telephone network, comprising: a cellular telephone network for making calls between mobiles; at least one real-time exchange that interfaces to the cellular telephone network to perform advanced voice services, the advanced voice services including an instant two-way half-duplex voice call within a group of users of the cellular telephone network; wherein an originating mobile transmits an event trigger to the real-time exchange, and the real-time exchange transmits a wakeup message to one or more terminating mobiles of predicted participants, in order to transition the terminating mobiles of the predicted participants from a dormant state to an active state prior to a call being setup with the terminating mobiles of the predicted participants; and wherein the terminating mobiles of the predicted participants are identified by a predictive wakeup mechanism before the originating mobile sends a list of one or more terminating mobiles of actual participants to the real-time exchange.

20080320550

11766212

1. A method for managing a policy, the method comprising: determining a presence of a conflict; and in response to determining the presence of a conflict, determining a semantic equivalence between a component of a policy rule and at least one other component of at least one additional policy rule.

20030172284

10296677

1. A personal identity authentication process comprising the steps of: using linear discriminant analysis (LDA) to derive a class-specific linear discriminant transformation a from N vectors z j (j=1,2... N) defining respective training images, there being m different classes of said training images with the i th class &ohgr; i containing a respective number N i of said training images such that 35 N = ∑ i = 1 ⁢ m ⁢ N i, projecting a vector z p defining a probe image onto said class-specific linear discriminant transformation a i, comparing the projected vector 36 a i T ⁢ z p with a reference vector for the i th class &ohgr; i and evaluating authenticity of the probe image with respect to the i th class in dependence on the comparison.

20120115509

13355329

1. A receiver unit in a wireless communication system, the receiver unit comprising: a first receiver configured to receive and process first signals from a first system; a second receiver configured to receive and process second signals from a second system; and a processing unit coupled to the first and second receivers and configured to: obtain an initial position estimate for the receiver unit, obtain a set of measurements using at least one of the first signals or at least one of the second signals, or at least one of the first signals and at least one of the second signals, determine measurement elements from the initial position estimate, obtain observation values for the set of measurements, and update the initial position estimate based on the measurement elements and the observation values to obtain an updated position estimate for the receiver unit.