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9405598 | 13954993 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method of event processing, said method comprising: providing, via a processor, an event processing pattern language, the event processing pattern language to support patterns comprising streaming events and retrospective historical patterns, the retrospective historical patterns comprising a time window set backwards from a present time to a previous time; extending, via the processor, the event processing pattern language with a primary context and a secondary context, the primary context and the secondary context to enable analyzing past events from the time window while simultaneously analyzing streaming events, wherein the secondary context is to partition the primary context; and writing, via the processor, the primary context and the secondary context in the same event processing pattern language for simultaneously analyzing the retrospective historical patterns and the streaming events, wherein each partition of the primary context is analyzed using the retrospective historical patterns and a combination of the partitions are analyzed using a modal pattern. |
7519589 | 11497199 | 1 | 1. A method to enable improved analysis and use of sociological data, the method comprising: identifying causal relationships between a plurality of documents; identifying a plurality of characteristics of a communication, including a modality used, actors involved, proximate events of relevance and a tone used by an actor in the communication; and enabling a user to query based on all of the characteristics available. |
9552479 | 14708951 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: installing, using a computer processor, on one or more computing devices, a single benign malware indicator file resembling a piece of evidence resulting from a genuine malware infection, wherein the benign malware indicator is an inert, harmless or non-functional file, or a modification to an existing file, and wherein the benign malware indicator is a copy of evidence resulting from a genuine malware infection, or an imitation of evidence resulting from a genuine malware infection; monitoring, using the computer processor, the one or more computing devices for the benign malware indicator; responsive to determining that the benign malware indicator is no longer detected as present on at least one of the one or more computing devices, sending a notification, using the computer processor, indicating that the benign malware indicator is no longer detected as present on the at least one of the one or more computing devices; responsive to detecting removal of the benign malware indicator from the at least one of the one or more computing devices, identifying, using the computer processor, a plurality of software programs installed on the one or more computing devices; comparing, using the computer processor, each of the plurality of software programs to a list of approved software programs to identify one or more unauthorized software programs installed on at least one of the one or more computing devices; and sending, using the computer processor, a notification indicating that the one or more unauthorized software programs are installed on the at least one of the one or more computing devices, wherein the plurality of software programs installed on the one or more computing devices comprises one or more antivirus programs installed on the one or more computing devices, wherein the list of approved software programs comprises one or more approved antivirus programs, and wherein the notification indicates an unauthorized antivirus program is present. |
8799239 | 12062926 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a first query instruction; in response to receiving the first query instruction, determining a compression ratio of a first compression value for a first query result decision diagram and a second compression value for a compressed query result set, the first compression value being indicative of a data size of the first query result decision diagram and the second compression value being indicative of the data size of the compressed query result set; comparing the compression ratio to a threshold ratio; and causing transmission of the first query result decision diagram or causing transmission of the compressed query result set based upon a result of the comparison of the compression ratio to the threshold ratio. |
9430565 | 14161158 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: indexing, by use of a processor, each content identifier for content received in a search result to content data, wherein each content comprises related content identifiers comprising video content elements comprising a content length, a content description, a content channel, and a search query; iteratively retrieving content for the indexed content identifiers and indexing the related content identifiers for the retrieved content until all related content identifiers for all the indexed content identifiers are indexed; calculating a relevance value for each video content element; calculating a relevance score RV as RV i =Σk i CEF i where k i is a first nonzero constant for a specified content element i and CEF i is one (1) when an instance of a search query element is found in the specified content element i; identifying relevant content based on the relevance score, wherein the video content is relevant content in response to a relevance score exceeding a relevance threshold; flagging the relevant content; determining whether a relevance confirmation for the relevant content exceeds a confirmation threshold, wherein the relevance confirmation is calculated as an engagement score, wherein the engagement score ES is calculated as ES=(a*ACR)+(b*NC) where ACR is an average content rating for the relevant content, NC is a number of comments for the relevant content, and a and b are non-zero constants; modifying the first nonzero constants for the relevant content in response to the relevance confirmation not exceeding the confirmation threshold; recalculating the relevance score in response to the relevance confirmation not exceeding the confirmation threshold; sorting the flagged relevant content based on the relevance score; and providing the relevant content. |
8526597 | 13426645 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for monitoring and guiding agents of call centers, the method comprising: receiving by a computer-implemented call analysis system, during an interaction call between an agent and a customer, real-time data associated with the interaction, wherein the real-time data results from voice analysis performed on audible information enunciated during the interaction between the agent and the customer; retrieving by the call analysis system, a performance profile of the agent, the performance profile being stored in a quality monitoring database; using the performance profile of the agent and the real-time data associated with the interaction to determine whether a corrective action alert should be sent to the agent; and generating and transmitting the alert to a terminal of the agent during the interaction if so determined. |
7680852 | 11735057 | 1 | 1. A search processing method, comprising: providing a system that includes an index search controller, a string pattern matching controller, an index search unit to carry out an index search using a search index before a document update, a string pattern matching unit having document contents after said document update, and a storage device; said index search controller to cause said index search unit to carry out said index search relating to a search request, and obtaining and storing into said storage device, a first list of document IDs of pertinent documents; said string pattern matching controller to cause said string pattern matching unit to carry out a character string pattern matching relating to said search request for said document contents after said document update, and obtaining and storing into said storage device, a second list of document IDs of pertinent documents; said string pattern matching controller to generate a search result for said search request by removing from said first list, document IDs of documents updated by said document update, to generate a third list of document IDs obtained by said removing, and to generate a sum-set of said second list and said third list, wherein said search result includes said sum-set of said second list and said third list; and said string pattern matching controller to output said search result. |
8781841 | 13155250 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a first request of a dial-in user to join a communication session from a telephonic device; presenting the dial-in user with an option to opt-out of presenting voice data for use in identifying a name associated with the dial-in user; if the dial-in user does not opt-out of presenting voice data, receiving voice data from the telephonic device in response to an audio prompt requesting a voice input from the dial-in user; interpreting the voice data to identify a particular name associated with the dial-in user; and presenting the particular name in a graphical user interface associated with the communication session, the presentation of the particular name identifying that the dial-in user has joined the communication session. |
20130282691 | 13845651 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing system having at least one processor, a first request to analyze at least one of: a website and a network document, the first request including an identifier of the at least one of the website and the network document; in response to the first request, analyzing, by the computing system, the at least one of the website and the network document according to one or more search engine algorithms; generating a display of a first scoring analysis including a first score of the at least one of the website and the network document; receiving a second request to view a second scoring analysis of at least one of a webpage and a second network document in the at least one of the website and the network document, wherein the at least one of the webpage and the second network document includes at least one link contributing to the first scoring analysis; in response to the second request, performing the second scoring analysis and generating a display of results of the second scoring analysis including a second score of the at least one of the webpage and the second network document, wherein the display of the results of the first scoring analysis includes at least one factor contributing to the first score and wherein the display of the results of the second scoring analysis does not include the at least one factor contributing to the first score; receiving a third request to view a third scoring analysis of the at least one link, wherein the third scoring analysis includes an evaluation of one or more traffic-independent attributes of the at least one link, wherein the one or more traffic-independent attributes of the at least one link is different from attributes of a network destination specified by the at least one link; and in response to receiving the third request, performing the third scoring analysis and generating a display of results of the third scoring analysis of the at least one link including the one or more traffic-independent attributes. |
9892744 | 15430771 | 1 | 1. A method for monitoring a plurality of machines located in an operating environment, the method comprising: receiving, from a sensing device over a network to a computing system, a first acoustic signal readings and their respective detecting locations; generating, by the computing system, a first acoustic signal spatialization map containing characteristic data signatures, based on the first acoustic signal readings and their respective detecting locations, each of the characteristic data signatures being associated with one or more of the plurality of machines; receiving, from the sensing device over the network to the computing system, a second acoustic signal readings and their respective detecting locations; generating, by the computing system, a second acoustic signal spatialization map containing characteristic data signatures, based on the second acoustic signal readings and their respective detecting locations, each of the characteristic data signatures being associated with one or more of the plurality of machines; determining, by the computing system, that there are one or more differences, that exceed a predetermined threshold value, between one or more characteristic data signatures in the first acoustic signal spatialization map and corresponding one or more characteristic data signatures in the second acoustic signal spatialization map; identifying at least one of the plurality of machines that are associated with the determined differences; identifying, by the computing system, a corrective action to perform on a machine of the plurality of machines, based on the determined one or more differences in the generated first and second acoustic signal spatialization maps; and transmitting, by the computing system, to a corrective action module in the operating environment, commands to cause the corrective action module to perform the identified corrective action. |
6128905 | 09191735 | 1 | 1. A method for regulating the energy efficiency of a power plant subsystem comprising the steps of: monitoring a calculated generator output as a function of a measurable condition; comparing the calculated generator output with power consumption of a subsystem affecting the measurable condition; and adjusting the subsystem to run more energy efficiently wherein the step of monitoring power consumption further comprises monitoring fluctuations in power consumption of a subsystem influencing the measurable condition; the step of monitoring calculated generator output further compromises monitoring fluctuations in a generator output of a power plant generator as a function of fluctuations in a measurable condition; the step of comparing power consumption to generator output further comprises comparing the fluctuations in power consumption of the subsystem to the fluctuations in the calculated generator output; and the step of adjusting the subsystem further comprises adjusting the subsystem to substantially equalize fluctuations in the power consumption of the subsystem with fluctuations in the calculated generator output. |
20040153994 | 10692115 | 0 | 1. An algorithm to improve efficiency of editing source code, comprising (1) recognizing that source code has been edited; (2) identifying a program construct having the edited source code; (3) constructing a construct list of at least one other construct having similar and/or related code; (4) determining the similarity between the at least one other construct and the program construct having the edited source code; (5) if equal to or beyond a threshold of similarity, then notifying the owners of the at least one other construct determined to be similar. |
7827480 | 10375083 | 1 | 1. A method for processing a transactional unit comprised of transactional subunits that are executable, the method comprising: receiving an identifier of a transactional unit along with parameters for the transactional unit, wherein the transactional unit is comprised of transactional subunits; determining the transactional subunits for the transactional unit using a markup language file for the transactional unit, the markup language file including predefined subunit tags which identify the transactional subunits associating at least one parameter for the transactional unit with a transactional subunit; and executing the transactional subunits and storing an indication of which transactional subunits have completed execution. |
20070168343 | 11334659 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method for automatic identification and notification of relevant program defects, the computer implemented method comprising: responsive to receiving a program defect description from an end user, opening the program defect description; extracting each word and phrase contained within the program defect description to form at least one of an extracted word and extracted phrase; searching a plurality of defect databases for each extracted word and phrase; and calculating a word relevancy percentage for each extracted word and phrase found in each of the plurality of defect databases to determine if the word relevancy percentage for each extracted word and phrase exceeds a threshold. |
20170277676 | 15081590 | 0 | 1. A machine implemented method, comprising; accessing narrative data, the narrative data comprising a sequence of words arranged in sentence patterns; reading a semiotic square function data table for each verb in the sequence of words, each semiotic square function data table classifies at least one verb in each sentence pattern as a functional type and includes one or more words in a semiotic square relationship to the verb classified, the functional type applying a symmetrical relationship between a first actor and a second actor in the narrative data; parsing each sentence which includes a verb matching a functional type to match sentence subjects and objects to an event template; storing data from each subject and object in a sentence as an event record; and outputting an analysis of the narrative data to a user perceptible device relative to a common story theme based on a sequence of event records. |
10074012 | 15624475 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: collecting image data relating to one or more real-world objects or persons from a scene while collecting audio data relating to the one or more real-world objects or persons from the same scene, the audio data being used to derive one or more sound objects corresponding to the one or more real-world objects or persons, the image data being used to derive one or more video objects corresponding to the one or more real-world objects or persons; generating, based on the one or more sound objects and the one or more video objects, one or more candidate salient objects; selecting a salient object from among the one or more candidate salient objects and performing one or more perceptual enhancement operations on the salient object; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices. |
20100115348 | 12461023 | 0 | 1. A system for assisting a computer user receiving a display message on a networked computational device: a message detection executable module, located and executed on said user's computational device, said message detection module receiving message information from said display message; a display emulator executable module, located and executed on said user's computation device, wherein when said display emulated load display information and presents a virtual display message with all the features of said display message with at least the addition of an activation button, wherein said when a user chooses said activation button, an outside network engine is contacted by sending said message information to said outside network engine; a networked data collection server connection to said outside network engine, including with an issues database, for storing message information detected from said message information; an issue weighting module, executable on said networked data collection server; said issue weighting module counting error types from said message information and rearranging data within said issue database after receiving said message information, including a compilation of said message information; a networked web server for providing assistance data to said user, for displaying said re-weighted information to said user on said user's computation device. a data storage for display information. |
10019456 | 15197689 | 1 | 1. A computer comprising: a nonvolatile storage device; a plurality of objects stored on the nonvolatile storage device; a plurality of entities stored on the nonvolatile storage device, wherein each entity includes one or more of the stored plurality of objects, wherein at least a first entity and a second entity of the plurality of entities can share objects; a processing system comprising a processing unit and a memory, the processing system configured to: in response to creating the first entity comprising a first set of the objects, generate a first probabilistic data structure representing inclusion of the first set of the objects in the first entity; in response to creating the second entity comprising a second set of the objects, generate a second probabilistic data structure representing inclusion of the second set of the objects in the second entity; and in response to deleting the second entity, for each object in the second set of the objects: for each entity of the plurality of entities, apply a probabilistic data structure of the entity to the object to determine if the object likely is included in the entity, and in response to a determination that the object is not likely included in any entity in the plurality of entities, delete the object. |
9990398 | 14033285 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: storing a query that references multiple tables; analyzing operations the query specifies on the multiple tables to detect at least one of: two particular tables of the multiple tables could be dimension tables by detecting a join of the two particular tables of said multiple tables that does not comprise an equijoin, or one or more particular tables of the multiple tables could be fact tables by detecting at least one of: a minimum operation, a maximum operation, an average operation, a summation operation, an online analytical processing (OLAP) function based on a table of said multiple tables, or a group by operation based on multiple columns of a table of said multiple tables; identifying one or more candidate dimension tables of the multiple tables at least in part by determining, based at least in part on content of the query, that a particular candidate fact table of the multiple tables appears in one or more equijoins with the one or more candidate dimension tables; based at least in part on determining which of the multiple tables could be fact tables, generating an execution plan for the query, the execution plan operating on the particular candidate fact table and the one or more candidate dimension tables; wherein the execution plan, when performed, processes at least some data from at least one dimension using at least one of the one or more candidate dimension tables before processing at least some data from the particular candidate fact table; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices. |
20120130997 | 12951815 | 0 | 1. One or more computer-storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method for utilizing a hybrid-distribution system for identifying relevant documents based on a search query, the method comprising: allocating a group of documents to a segment, the group of documents being indexed by atom in a reverse index and indexed by document in a forward index; storing a different portion of the reverse index and the forward index on each of a plurality of nodes that form the segment; accessing the reverse index portion stored on each of a first set of nodes to identify a first set of documents that is relevant to the search query; and based on document identifications associated with the first set of documents, accessing the forward index portion stored on each of a second set of nodes to limit a quantity of relevant documents in the first set of documents to a second set of documents. |
8020126 | 12366054 | 1 | 1. A method of verification and validation of an electronic circuit design comprising the steps of: defining operational requirements for the electronic circuit; defining hardware architecture to support said defined operational requirements; defining software architecture to support said defined operational requirements; defining a test matrix to test said defined hardware architecture and said defined software architecture; defining at least one applet consisting of an independent data processing application to be performed by the electronic circuit corresponding to said defined operational requirements; defining at least one chain consisting of a transaction between at least two portions of said defined hardware architecture; testing said defined hardware architecture and said defined software architecture according to said test matrix for each of said at least one chain as implemented on said defined hardware architecture and said defined software architecture; if said testing fails, redefining said hardware architecture and repeating said testing step; if said testing passes, fabricating a system on chip (SOC) electronic circuit corresponding to said defined hardware architecture and providing production engineering tests for said SOC. |
9330410 | 13298186 | 1 | 1. A method for providing color selection comprising: employing one or more computers to perform a plurality of operations in conjunction with a computer queryable database, the operations comprising: retrieving a first color from said database; displaying said first color; and fine-tuning a characteristic of the first color by accessing a color data structure associated with the first color and retrieving a fine tuned color, said fine tuned color being specified in the color data structure. |
20070005574 | 11171154 | 0 | 1. A method of accessing information in a distributed database system having one or more data servers, comprising: establishing a plurality of lattice structures configured to store data elements having inter-related information; formulating a data query in a selected data server that includes selected data attributes; processing the data query to generate a query product; searching the plurality of lattice structures to identify data elements corresponding to elements in the query product; accessing pertinent metadata and data files located within another data server that corresponds to the data query and generating a result; and transferring the result to the selected client. |
9979744 | 14953607 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: interacting, via a medium for information exchange, with a device associated with a user; receiving or initiating a request to engage in an activity during the interaction; determining, by a processor, an activity trust threshold for the activity; determining, by the processor an initial identity trust score for the user based at least in part on identifying information collected during the interaction, wherein the initial identity trust score is an identity trust score at a time the activity is requested; comparing the initial identity trust score with the activity trust threshold to determine whether to allow the user to engage in the activity; based on the comparison of the initial identity trust score with the activity trust threshold, performing one of: allowing the user to engage in the activity during a session, the session being a continuous dialogue, collecting additional identifying information until a revised identity trust score meets or exceeds the activity trust threshold, or rejecting the request to engage in the activity; and wherein when the user is allowed to engage in the activity: receiving a request to continue the session via a second medium for information exchange, dynamically updating the identity trust score with information collected during the session, and continuing the session via the second medium for information exchange when the updated identity trust score meets or exceeds the activity trust threshold in connection with the second medium for information exchange. |
20130178289 | 13810531 | 0 | 1. A virtual world processing apparatus for enabling interoperability between a virtual world and a real world or interoperability between virtual worlds, the virtual world processing apparatus comprising: an input unit to receive an input of sensed information sensed by a bio sensor relating to biometrics of a user in the real world; and an adapting unit to adapt the sensed information in accordance with a sensor capability associated with the bio sensor. |
6041177 | 08928501 | 1 | 1. A program analyzing apparatus for analyzing a program and outputting the analysis result of the variables used in the program, comprising: extracting means for extracting an assignment expression including a plurality of variables from the program: detecting means for detecting at least one of a range of data which is to be referred by the assignment expression and a range to which data is to be assigned by the assignment expression; and categorizing means for categorizing the plurality of variables according to the range detected by said detecting means. |
9383992 | 13683625 | 1 | 1. A computer program product for software version recommendation, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory computer recordable-type media containing computer executable program code stored thereon, the computer executable program code comprising: computer executable program code for receiving information from an updates agent operating at a target machine that specifies a current state of installation of a software instance operating at the target machine and other software components installed and active at the target machine; computer executable program code for analyzing the received information using, in combination, at least one predefined machine-specific rule specified with conditions by which to request the updates agent operating at the target machine to enforce a state upon the software instance at the target machine responsive to the updates agent capturing a startup attempt, and a set of available updates metadata specified for a combination of the target machine and the updates agent operating at the target machine; computer executable program code for identifying information pertinent to the combination of the target machine and the updates agent in accordance with the analyzed received information; computer executable program code responsive to a determination to send the identified information as a recommendation to the combination of the target machine and the updates agent, for sending the recommendation to the combination of the target machine and the updates agent, and where the pertinent information identifies a fix to the software instance to ensure consistent performance across a set of target machines, the recommendation further comprises requesting the updates agent to prevent operation of the software instance until the fix is installed; and computer executable program code responsive to a determination to not send the identified information as the recommendation to the respective target machine, requesting the updates agent on the respective target machine to perform specific operations, comprising requesting the updates agent on the respective target machine to cache a rule outcome locally on the respective target machine and invalidate a cache on the target machine on one of a specified event and a predetermined scheduled basis. |
20140215984 | 14169644 | 0 | 1. A method for adjusting work parameters of a combine harvester ( 10 ) comprising steps of: (a) providing an electronic map with characteristics of a field ( 304 ) in an electronic control device ( 54 ) of the combine harvester ( 10 ); (b) deriving at least one work parameter of the combine harvester ( 10 ) in a harvesting operation by the electronic control device ( 54 ), taking into consideration a characteristic of the field ( 304 ) taken from the electronic map for a harvesting position; (c) adjusting an actuator ( 36 , 38 , 42 , 84 , 48 , 50 ) of the combine harvester ( 10 ), with the aid of the derived at least one work parameter, by the electronic control device ( 54 ); (d) determining a finely adjusted work parameter by the electronic control device ( 54 ), with the aid of a result of step (b) and using a sensor ( 46 , 52 , 58 ), taking into consideration a measurement value of the harvesting operation that can be influenced by the actuator ( 36 , 38 , 42 , 84 , 48 , 50 ), and/or a connection that is determined with the aid of an operator input, between a work parameter determined in step (b) and a work parameter that is to be adjusted, and a repetition of step (c) with the finely adjusted work parameter; characterized in that: (e) identifying sections along a path ( 302 ) of the combine harvester ( 10 ) over the field ( 304 ) in which characteristics of the field ( 304 ) are homogeneous, within predetermined limits and distances that lie above a threshold value for the length, with the aid of the electronic map by means of the electronic control device ( 54 ); and (f) determining calibration data for the sensor ( 46 , 52 , 58 ) and/or parameters for a fine adjustment of the work parameter and/or the operator input for step (d) when travelling over and harvesting at least some stretches identified in step (e) and are used in the following steps (d). |
20140006339 | 14012088 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for identifying reference data tables in an extract-transform-load data integration process comprising: identifying, by operation of one or more computer processors, at least a first reference data operator in the process, wherein the first reference data operator references one or more tables; and evaluating at least a first table referenced by the reference data operator to determine whether the first table is a reference data table by assigning a score to the first table, wherein the score is indicative of the likelihood that the first table is a reference data table, wherein a reference data table contains a set of values that describes other data. |
5466910 | 08338763 | 1 | 1. A method of testing large volume, coarse-grain size weld seams during a welding operation, comprising the steps of: (a) applying a layer on a weld seam in a workpiece; (b) scanning a surface of the layer as it is formed with an eddy-current probe coil, wherein the workpiece is at a temperature of up to 350.degree. C.; (c) determining a location of defects in the first layer from an output signal of the probe; (d) applying an additional layer to the weld seam; and (e) repeating steps (b), (c) and (d) until the weld is completed. |
8478077 | 13052097 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: acquiring a facial image of a person; and via software executed by a processor of a system, using a discriminative face alignment model to align a generic facial mesh to the facial image to facilitate locating of facial features of the facial image, the discriminative face alignment model including a generative shape model component and a discriminative appearance model component, the discriminative appearance model component having been trained with training data to estimate a score function that is a function of a shape parameter of a given image and that seeks to minimize an angle between a gradient direction of the score function for the shape parameter and an ideal alignment travel direction for the shape parameter. |
20090012969 | 11772705 | 0 | 1. A method of accessing webpages, the method comprising: receiving one or more query terms from a user; identifying one or more user attributes of the user; evaluating a set of webpages based at least in part on the one or more query terms and a webpage score associated with each webpage of the set of webpages, wherein the webpage score is based at least in part on ratings from users with at least one user attribute that corresponds to at least of the user attributes of the user; determining a list of results based on the evaluation of the set of webpages, wherein the list of results includes one or more of the webpages in the set of webpages; and transmitting the list of results. |
9438618 | 14673642 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: under the control of one or more computer systems that execute instructions, determining a set of introspection points in a distributed computing system of a computing resource service provider, the set of introspection points having a first type of introspection point and a second type of introspection point determined based at least in part on a type of identifying characteristics accessible at individual introspection points of the set of introspection points; measuring, at the individual introspection points, the identifying characteristics; generating a graph representing a set of nodes based at least in part on the identifying characteristics measured, with individual nodes of the set of nodes corresponding to individual elements of the distributed computing system, and edges in the graph corresponding to measurements of the identifying characteristics correlating the individual elements to other individual elements; and evaluating a rule based at least in part on the graph by at least: determining that one or more measurements that correlate an individual element to another individual element in the graph are in noncompliance with the rule; and performing a security action based at least in part on the noncompliance. |
20110004860 | 12829096 | 0 | 1. A design method for designing electronic circuits on a printed circuit board, comprising: assembling a plurality of self-contained, pre-designed domains in the printed circuit board, wherein each of the domains is a module chosen from a pre-composed architecture library, comprising self-contained pre-designed electronic modules represented by logical architecture and corresponding physical architecture, and wherein the assembling is performed using a computing device, wherein the self-contained, pre-designed domains are associated with one of: a support domain, a processing domain, an I/O domain, a power domain, and a human-machine-interface domain. |
20120282916 | 13520596 | 0 | 1. A radio terminal having a function to collect and report measurement information to be indicated by a radio network, comprising: receiver that receives collection/reporting control information related to execution of at least one of the collection of the measurement information and the reporting of said measurement information to the radio network by the radio terminal; and controller that executes at least one of said collection and said reporting based on said collection/reporting control information when execution determination information related to at least one of the collection and the reporting of said measurement information by its own terminal satisfies a predetermined determination criterion. |
6138119 | 09300778 | 1 | 1. A method including: generating a descriptive data structure in a first data processing device characterized by a first security aspect; specifying information in the descriptive data structure, including information relating to the first security aspect, a first rule, and a second rule; associating a third rule with the descriptive data structure, the third rule at least in part controlling use of at least a portion of the descriptive data structure; transmitting the descriptive data structure to a second data processing device; at the second environment, retrieving from the descriptive data structure the information relating to the first security aspect, the retrieval being governed at least in part by the third rule; and determining whether to use the first rule or the second rule based on the information. |
9009644 | 14136057 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: applying, at a computer device, a plurality of preliminary via definitions to an integrated circuit test design to identify a set of candidate via definitions; generating and storing at the computer device data representing a set of selected via definitions based on a comparison of the candidate via definitions to a set of design rules, the set of selected via definitions to be used by a design tool for design of an integrated circuit device; and generating at the computer device a layout of the integrated circuit device based on the data representing the set of selected via definitions; wherein generating the data representing the set of selected via definitions comprises: generating the data representing the set of selected via definitions by ranking the set of candidate via definitions based on a design-for-manufacturability (DFM) characteristic; wherein ranking the set of candidate via definitions comprises: identifying, for each of the set of candidate via definitions, a set of offsets where a corresponding preliminary via definition can be used without violating any of the set of design rules; and ranking the set of candidate via definitions based on the DFM characteristic and the identified set of offsets for each of the set of candidate via locations; and wherein each of the set of candidate via definitions includes a corresponding preliminary via definition and offset, and herein generating the set of selected via definitions comprises: establishing a set of links between the preliminary via definitions of the candidate via definitions and their corresponding offsets; assigning a preliminary weight to each of the set of links based on the corresponding preliminary via definition's corresponding DFM characteristic; adjusting the preliminary weight of at least one of the set of links based on the preliminary via definition associated with links having the highest total weight to identify a set of adjusted weights; and generating the set of selected via definitions based on the set of adjusted weights. |
20120289806 | 13556142 | 0 | 1. An apparatus including a glucose meter, comprising: a housing having a display unit disposed thereon; a strip port coupled to the housing; and a controller unit coupled to the housing, the controller configured to process one or more signals associated with data received from the test strip, the controller further configured to determine a bolus dosage based on the data received from a test strip received by the strip port. |
20050266858 | 11196814 | 0 | 1. A method implemented by a computer-based search engine, comprising: receiving a search query; receiving information related to current location of a user; processing the search query as a function of the current location of the user; and transmitting search results to the user. |
9942316 | 15048669 | 1 | 1. A method in a wireless device, the method comprising: receiving, prior to group formation of a peer-to-peer (P2P) group, persistent information for the P2P group, wherein the persistent information comprises a Persistent Group Information field providing information about a persistency of the P2P group; and forming the P2P group based on credentials subsequent to receiving the persistent information, wherein the wireless device enables persistency in the P2P group if the Persistent Group Information field indicates support of persistency. |
20170337247 | 15162007 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a search string comprising search parameters; retrieving, from profile data in a database of the network platform, results for users that correspond to the search parameters, the identifiers including an identifier of a user; determining, via one or more processors of a machine, an affinity metric of the user based on social graph data associated with the identifier, the social graph data indicating social links between the user and one or more network objects of the network platform, the affinity metric describing a network interaction level for the user; determining, via the one or more processors of the machine, a match metric of the user based on corresponding user profile data from the the network platform, the user profile data comprising profile parameters for the user that are accessible through the network platform, the match metric describing a correlation between the profile parameters of the user and the search parameters of the search string; determining that the affinity metric is lower than the match metric; and responsive to the determination, transmitting one or more items of content that are associated with the network platform for display on a user device of the user. |
20100082349 | 12240458 | 0 | 1. A method for selectively synthesizing speech based on a text string, the method comprising: parsing through the text string and selecting a first subset of text for which to synthesize speech, and a second subset of text for which not to synthesize speech; and with respect to only the first subset of text, determining a first set of phonemes in a native language of the text string and converting the first set of phonemes into a second set of phonemes in a target language, the second set of phonemes dictating how to render speech based on the first subset of text. |
20100030064 | 12476976 | 0 | 1. A method for registering a three-dimensional model of a body volume to a real-time indication of a sensor position comprising: collecting reference data on a body volume; creating a three-dimensional model of said body volume; inserting a sensor into a body lumen and recording location data from said sensor; processing said location data to form a three-dimensional shape corresponding to space within said lumen; comparing said three-dimensional shape to said three dimensional model to establish at least an initial registration between said three-dimensional model and said real-time indication of a sensor position. |
20060133388 | 11021310 | 0 | 1. A method for facilitating data communications, comprising: utilizing at least one OFDM symbol structured with at least one pilot respective of a network ID for communicating the network ID between entities. |
20110137997 | 13029060 | 0 | 1. A computer accessible non-transitory memory medium comprising program instructions for operating a social network, wherein the program instructions are executable to: receive location information of a first member of the social network, wherein the first member is associated with a second member in the social network; provide the location information of the first member of the social network to a client device of the second member for display by the client device. |
20100302247 | 12455192 | 0 | 1. A method of target extraction from a physical space, the method comprising: receiving depth data representative of the physical space; converting the depth data into a point cloud and extracting at least one surface from the point cloud; identifying a target in the physical space from the at least one surface associated with the point cloud; generating a model of the target in real time with respect to the receipt of the depth data; and displaying a visual representation of the model in real time. |
9886246 | 14797650 | 1 | 1. A method for dynamically assembling a mobile application, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of artifacts from a programmer, wherein the plurality of artifacts comprise elements of mobile applications, and further wherein each of the plurality of artifacts comprises less than an entire mobile application, and further wherein two or more of the plurality of artifacts can be assembled on-demand into a plurality of different mobile applications; storing the received plurality of artifacts in an artifacts database; receiving, from a user, a request for a dynamically assembled mobile application, the request comprising plurality of parameters defining a desired output of the dynamically assembled mobile application; identifying, using the received plurality of parameters, a template for a mobile application configured to achieve the desired output, comprising the steps of: (i) weighting one or more of the received plurality of parameters; (ii) identifying a dependency relationship between two or more of the received parameters; and (iii) choosing the template for the mobile application based on a predetermined association between a parameter and a weighted element with the greatest assigned weight, and on the identified dependency relationship; searching a profile database for a profile associated with the user; retrieving, from any identified profiles, a characteristic of the user; identifying, using the identified template and based at least in part on the retrieved characteristic of the user, a plurality of the artifacts stored in the artifacts database, wherein the plurality of artifacts are associated with the at least one parameter; assembling the identified plurality of artifacts into a mobile application comprising an installable file, wherein the assembled mobile application was previously not available to the user; and making the installable file available to the user. |
8170969 | 12246894 | 1 | 1. A method for automatically providing an overall semantic similarity score value among named entities, comprising: calculating, for each pair in at least a selection of pairs of the named entities, a pair semantic similarity score value according to a classifier using at least one electronic information source; calculating, for each of the pairs in the selection of the pairs of the named entities, a further pair semantic similarity score value according to a further classifier using the at least one electronic information source; and calculating, for each of the pairs in the selection of the pairs of the named entities, an overall semantic similarity score value as a first function of the pair semantic similarity score value and the further pair semantic similarity score value corresponding thereto. |
8897528 | 13174461 | 1 | 1. A method for iteratively reconstructing image data, comprising the steps of: accessing an initial image; defining a plurality of image element subsets of the initial image, wherein some or all of the plurality of image element subsets correspond to voxels aligned in z such that they share the same (x,y) location; iteratively generating updates to the initial image or a subsequent updated image based on the respective image element subsets, wherein at least one of the updates is generated by directly inverting a respective Hessian matrix or an approximation of a respective Hessian matrix associated with a corresponding image element subset; and terminating the iterative generation of updates upon satisfaction of a completion criterion. |
20130159325 | 13528029 | 0 | 1. A system for verifying a user as an expert relative to a querying user, the system being implemented on a digital computer network, the system comprising: a computer coupled to the network; a profiles database stored in memory associated with the computer; a user interface coupled to the computer and enabling user profile information to be entered and stored in the profiles database; a collaborative filtering algorithm associated with the profiles database, said collaborative filtering algorithm: (a) locating other users having profiles in the database based on a similarity among the profiles of a querying user and the other users based on at least one of explicit and implicit profiles, (b) locating other users based on their expertise to define verified experts for the keyword provided by the querying user and prioritizing the verified experts with most expertise for the keyword, (c) determining scores of the other users located in steps (a) and (b) indicative of how well the other users match the querying user, (d) locating items used by a best matching subset of the other users located in steps (a) and (b) based on the scores, and (e) returning the items located in step (d) for consideration by the querying user; and a dynamic expert verification algorithm associated with the collaborative filtering algorithm, the expert verification algorithm being adapted to verify qualifications of the other users as experts relative to the querying user, the expert verification algorithm comprising logic used to objectively score at least one of a depth and a frequency of the user's activity related to a topic area. |
20130121433 | 13735172 | 0 | 1. A method for modifying a signal transmitted from a mobile modifying communication device to a feedback communication device, comprising: perturbing in the mobile modifying communication device a transmit diversity parameter from its nominal value at a perturbation rate by modulating the transmit diversity parameter with respect to the nominal value in a first direction for a first feedback interval and then modulating the transmit diversity parameter with respect to the nominal value in a second direction for a second feedback interval; receiving from the feedback communication device a feedback signal according to a communication protocol, the feedback signal including feedback information relating to the perturbed signal as received at said feedback communication device; and based at least on said feedback information, adjusting at the mobile modifying communication device the nominal value of the transmit diversity parameter by increasing, decreasing, or preserving the nominal value. |
5410681 | 08284196 | 1 | 1. A testing system for testing a target computer system, the target computer system having a display for displaying a plurality of user interface objects, the plurality of user interface objects having a plurality of states, the testing system comprising: a host computer system coupled to said target computer system, said host computer system interpreting a sequence of instructions to test said target computer system, the sequence of instructions containing a plurality of instructions from a predefined language, the predefined language including a first set of instructions and a second set of instructions; said host computer system interpreting instructions from the first set of instructions to cause the host computer system to issue a first series of commands to said target computer system; said target computer system emulating user activity on said target computer system responsive to said first series of commands, wherein at least one state of said plurality of states is changed responsive to said target computer system emulating user activity; said host computer system interpreting instructions from the second set of instructions to cause the host computer system to issue a second series of commands to the target computer system; said target computer system transmitting to the host computer system data indicative of the state of a specified user interface object of said plurality of user interface objects responsive to the second series of commands. |
20110131491 | 12954997 | 0 | 1. An apparatus for providing help information, comprising: a microprocessor coupled to a memory, wherein the microprocessor is programmed to obtain dynamic help to covey to a user of a software application, independent of the code of the software application, by implementing: a receiving unit that receives at least one operation of a user and obtains an operation history associated with the user, wherein said operation history includes said at least one operation; a determining unit that determines appropriate help information based upon the obtained operation history; and an information obtaining unit that obtains said help information from a help repository that stores help information associated with the software application. |
8441926 | 11949008 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: detecting, by a system including a processor, a setup packet of a set of flows associated with at least one of a transport layer of a transmission control protocol (TCP) flow or a session layer of a user datagram protocol (UDP) flow; and in response to detecting the setup packet, blocking, by the system, one or more additional flows of the at least one of the TCP flow or the UDP flow in response to a link utilization of the set of flows being determined to satisfy a predetermined criterion without reserving bandwidth for the one or more additional flows. |
20120166459 | 12980170 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method performed by at least one processor, the method comprising the following operations: receiving a request to apply a predefined transformation rule to a portion of a consumer service; in response to at least the request, identifying the predefined transformation rule from a plurality of predefined transformation rules included in a business model, each of the plurality of predefined transformation rules configured to update at least one service independent of generating code in a service layer; and assigning the predefined transformation rule to the portion of the service. |
8478777 | 13280582 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a search system, (i) a pixel map corresponding to one or more characters that have been drawn on a display of a client device and (ii) data identifying one or more other characters that were previously recognized by the search system using one or more other pixel maps; recognizing, by the search system, the one or more characters that correspond to the pixel map based on the received pixel map and the one or more other characters; formulating, by the search system, a search that includes the one or more characters and the one or more other characters as a query term; and communicating, by the search system, (i) one or more search results for the search, (ii) data identifying the one or more characters that correspond to the received pixel map, and (iii) data identifying the one or more other characters to the client device that were previously recognized by the search system using the one or more other pixel maps. |
20030128153 | 10042902 | 0 | 1. A method of determining the approximate shapes, sizes and locations of one or more objects based on range measurements of a plurality of range sensors, said method comprising the steps of: (1) obtaining from said sensors a plurality of range measurements; (2) correlating said range measurements of said plurality of sensors to generate a list of potential objects, each of said objects being based on a plurality of range measurements; (3) for each potential object on said list, calculating a plurality of locations of said object assuming said object has a plurality of predefined shapes, respectively; (4) for each potential object, calculating an error metric for each of said calculated locations, said error metrics indicative of a difference between said corresponding calculated location of said object and said range measurements upon which said object is based; and (5) for each potential object on said list, determining that said potential object has the shape corresponding to the lowest error calculated in step (4). |
10063776 | 15142943 | 1 | 1. A method for controlling operation of a camera, comprising: receiving, from one or more sensors of the camera, sensor data; determining a confidence value associated with an alternative operation mode for operating the camera based at least in part on the received sensor data, the confidence value indicating a likelihood of the alternative operation mode being preferred by a user to capture an event; while the camera is operating in an initial operation mode in which an image sensor captures images according to an initial capture mode and an image processor reads the captured images from a buffer of the camera and encodes the captured images according to an initial encoding mode: responsive to determining that the confidence value exceeds a first threshold, transitioning the camera to a priming operation mode in which the image sensor captures images according to an alternative capture mode and the image processor reads the captured images from the buffer of the camera and encodes the captured images according to the initial encoding mode; and while the camera is operating in the priming operation mode, responsive to determining that the confidence value subsequently exceeds a second threshold greater than the first threshold, transitioning the camera to the alternative operation mode in which the image sensor captures images according to the alternative capture mode and the image processor reads the captured images from the buffer of the camera and encodes the captured images according to an alternative encoding mode. |
7941744 | 11412195 | 1 | 1. A system including a processor for generating and providing at least one electronic form to a user, the system comprising: a file management sub-system for receipt and management of at least: a first standard form including a first location thereon in which data of a first type is to be inserted to generate a first filled form and a second location thereon in which data of a second type is to be inserted to generate the first filled form; and, a second standard form including a third location thereon in which data of a third type is to be inserted to generate a second filled form and a fourth location thereon in which data of a fourth type is to be inserted to generate the second filled form; a first user sub-system for selection of a desired form from the at least a first standard form and the second standard form, the first user sub-system comprising at least a first memory location at which data of the first type is stored, a second memory location at which data of the second type is stored, a third memory location at which data of the third type is stored and a fourth memory location at which data of the fourth type is stored and a first printer; a first print engine communicatively coupled to the first printer; a second user sub-system for selection of a desired form from the at least a first standard form and the second standard form, the second user sub-system comprising at least a fifth memory location at which data of the first type is stored, a sixth memory location at which data of the second type is stored, a seventh memory location at which data of the third type is stored and an eighth memory location at which data of the fourth type is stored and a second printer; a second print engine communicatively coupled to the second printer; a mapper sub-system running mapper software for mapping of: the first standard form into a first digital form file identifying graphical and/or textual elements of the first standard form, a first pre-defined data input field for receipt of data of the first type to be placed on the first standard form, and a location on the first standard form for the first pre-defined data input field, a second pre-defined data input field for receipt of data of the second type to be placed on the first standard form and a location on the first standard form for the second pre-defined data input field; and, the second standard form into a second digital form file identifying graphical and/or textual elements of the second standard form, a third pre-defined data input field for receipt of data of the third type to be placed on the second standard form and a location on the second standard form for the second pre-defined data input field; a delivery sub-system operably connected to the file management sub-system, the mapper sub-system, the first user sub-system and the second user sub-system, the delivery sub-system being configured to: retrieve from the first user sub-system an indication of a desired form selected from the first and second standard forms and a first delivery address for electronic delivery of a digital form file mapped from the desired form, the delivery sub-system including a mechanism for creation of a script reflective of the desired form including the digital form file mapped from the desired form, and a mechanism for execution of the script to electronically deliver the digital form-file mapped from the desired form to the first user sub-system at the first delivery address; and, retrieve from the second user sub-system an indication of a desired form selected from the first and second standard forms and a second delivery address for electronic delivery of a digital form file mapped from the desired form, the delivery sub-system including a mechanism for creation of a script reflective of the desired form including the digital form file mapped from the desired form, and a mechanism for execution of the script to electronically deliver the digital form file mapped from the desired form to the second user sub-system at the second delivery address; and, wherein the first print engine is configured to: when an indication is received from the first user sub-system that the first standard form is the desired form, merge the data stored at the first and second memory locations with the electronically delivered first digital form file to generate a first output file to the first printer which is configured to print a filled form including the data stored at the first memory location in the first pre-defined data input field at the location on the first standard form for the first pre-defined data input field and the data stored at the second memory location in the second pre-defined data input field at the location on the first standard form for the second predefined data input field; and, when an indication is received from the first user sub-system that the second standard form is the desired form, to merge the data stored at the third and fourth memory locations with the electronically delivered second digital form file to generate a second output file to the first printer which is configured to print a filled form including the data stored at the third memory location in the third pre-defined data input field at the location on the second standard form for the third pre-defined data input field and the data stored at the fourth memory location in the fourth pre-defined data input field at the location on the second standard form for the fourth pre-defined data input field; and, wherein the second print engine is configured to: when an indication is received from the second user sub-system that the first standard form is the desired form, to merge the data stored at the fifth and sixth memory locations with the electronically delivered first digital form file to generate a third output file to the second printer which is configured to print a filled form including the data stored at the fifth memory location in the first pre-defined data input field at the location on the first standard form for the first pre-defined data input field and the data stored at the sixth memory location in the second pre-defined data input field at the location on the first standard form for the second pre-defined data input field; and, when an indication is received from the second user sub-system that the second standard form is the desired form, to merge the data stored at the seventh and eighth memory locations with the electronically delivered second digital form file to generate a second output file to the second printer which is configured to print a filled form including the data stored at the seventh memory location in the third pre-defined data input field at the location on the second standard form for the third pre-defined data input field and the data stored at the eighth memory location in the fourth pre-defined data input field at the location on the second standard form for the fourth pre-defined data input field. |
20150304879 | 14740062 | 0 | 1. A system of transmitting of data packets within a network comprising: at least one device transmitting at least one short communication message; at least one network router comprising a chirp receiver for the at least one short communication message; wherein said chirp receiver accepts said short communication message during an access function of said router without interrupting other communications; and wherein said router further comprises an uplink function connecting said least one router to an external ip-based network using intermediary routers; a downlink function connecting said least one router to other routers within said network; and a scanning function. |
20030023475 | 09916951 | 0 | 1. A method for monitoring the efficacy of a marketing project for a product of a business, the method comprising the steps of: providing a customer database for storing information about the customers of the business; providing a number of marketing project parameters; applying the number of marketing project parameters against the information in the customer database to identify selected customers; notifying at least some of the selected customers about the product; determining which of the customers that were notified about the product actually purchased the product; and determining a marketing project efficacy indicator by noting which of the customers that were notified about the product actually purchased the product. |
20040078320 | 10441534 | 0 | 1. A credit application and routing system comprising: a processor having and executing a program and operational to: selectively receive credit application data associated with respective applicants from at least one applicant terminal device; selectively forward the credit application data to at least one funding source terminal device; and selectively forward funding decision data from the at least one funding source terminal device to the respective at least one applicant terminal device; and coupling means for coupling said central processor to a communications medium to thereby enable the sending and receiving of the credit application data and the funding decision data over the communications medium. |
20150199957 | 14669280 | 0 | 1. A method of converting components of a web page, having a plurality of HTML components, to voice prompts for a user, comprising: using an identifier and selecting a voice attribute file from a plurality of existing voice attribute files to be associated with a particular web page, the voice attribute file containing a plurality of voice attribute components that may be selectively enabled, the enabled voice attribute components in the selected voice attribute file determining which specific HTML components of the plurality of HTML components of a web page associated with the file are to be transformed for voice prompts; selecting a voice attribute component; determining whether the selected voice attribute component is enabled; in response to a determination that the selected voice attribute component is enabled, determining whether an HTML component of the plurality of HTML components is associated with the selected voice attribute component; in response to a determination that an HTML component of the plurality of HTML components is not associated with the selected voice attribute component, converting the selected voice attribute component to a parameterized component; and forwarding the parameterized component to a mobile system, the mobile system configured to play a speech dialog using voice prompts based upon the parameterized component. |
20030065535 | 10138068 | 0 | 1. A method of processing test data, comprising: determining an estimate for one or more hypothesis-conditional probability density functions p(x|H k ) for a set X of the test data conditioned on a set H of hypotheses relating to the test data; determining a set of prior probability density functions p(H k ) for each hypothesis of the set H; and determining a set of posterior test-conditional probability density functions p(H k |x) for the hypotheses conditioned on a new data x; wherein the p(x|H i ) estimates include a global estimate produced in accordance with the uncertainties in the statistical characteristics of the test data relating to each hypothesis-conditional pdf p(x|H k ). |
20140342695 | 14282645 | 0 | 1. A method for logging phone calls, the method comprising: receiving a user request to make a phone call to a client; receiving, from a first server, contact information associated with the client; causing the phone call to be made based on the received contact information; receiving a user input of content relating to the phone call; creating at least one note based on the received user input; in response to determining that the phone call has been terminated, transmitting information about the phone call and the created note to the first server; causing the information about the phone call and the note to be stored in association with the client by the first server; causing the information about the phone call and the note to be transmitted from the first server to a second server, wherein the information and the note are stored in an electronic medical record on the second server that is associated with the client; receiving a user request for analytical information relating to the client; receiving, from the first server, an analysis of a plurality of phone calls associated with the client over a period of time, wherein the analysis is based at least in part on a total duration of the plurality of phone calls during the period of time and a plurality of notes associated with the plurality of phone calls; and causing the analytical information to be presented based on the received analysis. |
9383365 | 14473871 | 1 | 1. A system for generating a report identifying at least one therapeutic agent for an individual with a cancer comprising: a. at least one device configured to assay a plurality of molecular targets in a biological sample to determine molecular profile test values for the plurality of molecular targets, wherein the plurality of molecular targets comprises EGFR, KIT, TOP1, MLH1, PTEN, PDGFRA and ERRB2; and b. at least one computer database comprising: i. a reference value for each of the plurality of molecular targets; and ii. a listing of available therapeutic agents for each of the plurality of molecular targets; c. a computer-readable program code comprising instructions to input the molecular profile test values and to compare each of the molecular profile test values with a corresponding reference value from the at least one computer database in (b)(i); d. a computer-readable program code comprising instructions to access the at least one computer database and to identify at least one therapeutic agent from the listing of available therapeutic agents for the plurality of molecular targets wherein the comparison to the reference values in (c) indicates a likely benefit of the at least one therapeutic agent; and e. a computer-readable program code comprising instructions to generate a report that comprises a listing of the molecular targets for which the comparison to the reference value indicated a likely benefit of the at least one therapeutic agent in (d) and the at least one therapeutic agent identified in (d). |
20050038643 | 10884175 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving an input string in a source language; detecting at least one of a noun phrase and a prepositional phrase in the input string; generating a translation in a target language for said at least one of the noun phrase and the prepositional phrase; and generating a translation of the input string in the target language including the translation for said at least one of the noun phrase and the prepositional phrase. |
7689634 | 11163819 | 1 | 1. A method of maintaining attribute information for a plurality of files, said method comprising: storing on a hardware storage said plurality of files in a file system, said file system providing for a first set of fields and a second set of fields corresponding to each of said plurality of files, said first set of fields identifying locations on said hardware storage to store content corresponding to each file and said second set of fields storing a set of attributes corresponding to each file according to a convention which permits addition of new types of attributes for files of interest, wherein each attribute in said set of attributes is contained in a set of attribute types currently supported by said file system, wherein said storing stores a continuation flag for each attribute in a corresponding sub-field on said hardware storage according to said convention, wherein said continuation flag has a first value to indicate that the attributes information for a corresponding file are continued at some other location which is not stored continuous with the attributes of the corresponding file, said continuation flag having a second value otherwise, wherein a first file is stored associated with a first set of attributes according to said convention upon creation of said first file, wherein said first file is contained in said plurality of files and said first set of attributes is contained in said plurality of sets of attributes, wherein each of said first set of attributes has the continuation flag set to said second value; receiving, after said storing, a first attribute of a new attribute type for said first file, wherein said first attribute is not contained in said first set of attributes and said new attribute type is not contained in said set of attribute types upon creation of said first file; and adding said first attribute of said new attribute type to said second set of fields corresponding to said first file in said file system on said hardware storage according to said convention, whereby said file system on said hardware storage permits addition of new types of attributes not previously supported for files in said file system. |
20010037195 | 09842416 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: recording a number of input sound source signals by a number of sound input devices, the number of sound input devices at least equal to the number of input sound source signals, to generate a number of sound input device signals at least equal to the number of input sound source signals, the number of input sound source signals including a target input sound source signal and acoustical factor signals; and, applying a number of reconstruction filters to the number of sound input device signals according to a convolutional mixing independent component analysis (ICA) to generate at least one reconstructed input sound source signal separating the target input sound source signal from the number of sound input device signals without permutation, the number of reconstruction filters taking into account a priori knowledge regarding the target input sound source signal, one of the at least one reconstructed input sound source signal corresponding to the target input sound source signal. |
8714970 | 13497117 | 1 | 1. A combustion control system, including: a first set of sensors for generating sample data including data representing a sequence of detected images of different samples of a fuel made up of solid particles wherein the first set of sensors are positioned within visible range of samples of the fuel entering a combustion system; a fuel analysis module for controlling a processor of a computing device to: (i) determine attributes for one or more predetermined physical characteristics of the particles in each said sample based on the sample data, and (ii) generate a combustibility index value for each said sample based on said attributes, said combustibility index value representing a rate of combustibility and an energy content of the particles in each said sample; and a combustion control module for controlling a processor of a computing device to adjust one or more parameters for controlling a combustion process based on changes to said combustibility index value over time. |
20070067617 | 11470307 | 0 | 1. A method of booting up a system using a secure boot framework, the system comprising a computational engine and a secure environment operating within the computational engine and isolated from one or more programs, functions and resources operating outside the secure environment, the method comprising: executing a secure enforcement function located outside the secure environment, said secure enforcement function configured to ensure that only authorized program modules are executed on the system; and executing at least one program module using the secure enforcement function, if the program module is authorized prior to execution. |
20020091714 | 09963435 | 0 | 1. A method of communicating function calls or event notification between two applications, said method comprising passing an event port number and a command port number from a first application to a second application, wherein the port numbers are stored in a memory accessible to the second application. |
20120093266 | 12904622 | 0 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a processor; and memory including computer program code, said memory and said computer program code configured to, with said processor, cause said apparatus to perform at least the following: construct a trellis representing a transmitted signal formed from a plurality of symbols transmitted by a number of transmit antennas, each symbol having a constellation size, said trellis being formed of columns representing said number of transmit antennas and rows representing values of said plurality of symbols with nodes at intersections thereof; form a log likelihood ratio at said nodes of said trellis as a log-sum of a number of exponential terms corresponding to a hypothesized transmitted bit value of 0 or 1 of said plurality of symbols, said number of exponential terms being limited by a function of a number of most likely paths of said trellis extending from each node of said trellis and said constellation size; and form a list at each node of said trellis of a size limited to said number of said most likely paths of said trellis extending from each node of said trellis. |
8484119 | 13026860 | 1 | 1. A system for graphically representing in a space data representing at least one portfolio, comprising: a memory arrangement storing a Multi-Criteria Financial Optimization (“MCFO”); and a processor solving the MCFO based on at least one input condition to generate data corresponding to a set of portfolios, the processor selecting vertex points corresponding to a set of components of the portfolios, the processor defining coordinates of the vertices on a chart, the processor defining a projection vector-function using coordinates of the vertices and selecting a subset of the portfolios on the chart, the processor computing coordinates for the portfolios in the subset using the projection vector-function and a weighting corresponding to the portfolios, the processor plotting points corresponding to the portfolios in the subset on the chart using the computed coordinates. |
8943584 | 13568023 | 1 | 1. A method for managing one or more enumerated devices associated with a computing device that includes a plurality of central processing units (CPUs), the method comprising: receiving, from an operating system included in a plurality of operating systems residing within the computing device, a request to access an enumerated device associated with the computing device, the operating system being associated with a first CPU included in the plurality of CPUs; determining that the operating system has permission to access the enumerated device; determining whether a location associated with the enumerated device is mapped to a corresponding location within an address space related to the operating system; and if the location associated with the enumerated device is mapped, then: allowing the operating system to access the enumerated device; or if the location associated with the enumerated device is not mapped, then: mapping the location associated with the enumerated device to the address space related to the operating system; and allowing the operating system to access the enumerated device. |
7684891 | 11890384 | 1 | 1. A method of correlating tools associated with a cutting machine and tools specified by a program executed by the cutting machine to form a part, the method including the steps of: identifying source tools specified by the program; comparing each source tool with defined tools associated with the cutting machine; designating matched tools, which are defined tools that match the source tools during the comparing step; and replacing source tool references in the program with references to corresponding matched tools. |
20120089307 | 13378967 | 0 | 1. A work vehicle control device, comprising: a rotation speed control unit that controls a rotation speed of an engine in correspondence to an accelerator pedal operation quantity indicating an extent to which an accelerator pedal is operated; a speed ratio detection unit that detects a speed ratio of a speed at an input shaft and a speed at an output shaft of a torque converter, which is disposed between the engine and wheels to transmit rotation of the engine to the wheels; a decision-making unit that makes a decision that a fuel efficiency deteriorating condition exists if the torque converter speed ratio detected via the speed ratio detection unit is less than a predetermined value or if the torque converter speed ratio detected via the speed ratio detection unit is equal to or greater than the predetermined value and a target engine rotation speed corresponding to an operation of the accelerator pedal is greater than a preset value; and an informing unit that informs results of the decision made by the decision-making unit. |
20090220175 | 12276907 | 0 | 1. An adaptive optical character recognition (OCR) system for a book having at least one page with known and unknown fonts comprising: the entire book, wherein the entire book is scanned and OCR of the entire book is performed; a verification process applied for the known fonts, wherein the unknown fonts are clustered by shape; at least one sure word separated out from at least one error words, wherein the sure words and error words are sent to an OCR training, wherein outliers are determined, wherein the unknown fonts are manually classified, wherein the manually classified fonts are sent to OCR training and the manually classified fonts are processed through the verification for known fonts and the sure words are separated out from error words; manually classified results are processed to a quality evaluator; wherein the sure words are placed in a depository if they meet a predetermined quality criteria and sure words, error words and manually classified fonts are processed as required using an iterative process until all fonts meet the predetermined quality criteria. |
10135931 | 14993534 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: by a computing device, accessing geolocation data indicating a current geolocation of a client device of a user; by the computing device, identifying one or more categories of interest to the user based at least in part on actions of the user on a social-networking system with regard to one or more content objects associated with the category of interest; by the computing device, identifying one or more content objects stored on the social-networking system based at least in part on the current geolocation; by the computing device, identifying information associated with one or more of the content objects that is based at least in part on activity on the social-networking system with regard to the content objects; by the computing device, determining one or more recommendations for the user based at least in part on an interest value of each identified object, wherein the interest value is determined based at least in part on the identified categories of interest to the user and the current geolocation, and wherein the recommendations comprise one or more of the content objects and the information associated with the content objects; and by the computing device, providing the recommendations for transmission to the client device, wherein the recommendations comprise one or more of the identified objects. |
8774835 | 12494964 | 1 | 1. A processor-implemented method, comprising: receiving rich media related to at least one business entity from a user mobile device; determining user location information based on the received data from the user mobile device; determining a data format of the received rich media; identifying a plurality of candidate recognition procedures associated with the data format; selecting an identified recognition procedure from the plurality of candidate recognition procedures based on the data format; extracting a business identifier string of the at least one business entity from the received rich media in accordance with the selected recognition procedure; forming via a processor a contact information search query based on the extracted business identifier string of the at least one business entity and the determined user location in a business database; retrieving contact information related to the at least one business entity from the business database based on the search query; storing in a user profile information about the search query, including the at least one business entity, geographic, temporal and demographic criteria; analyzing a plurality of user profiles of users to extract statistical information about business entities associated with the users; storing the extracted statistical information about the business entities in Ad profiles associated with the business entities; and providing the retrieved contact information related to the at least one business entity to the user mobile device. |
8429002 | 12415566 | 1 | 1. A machine-implemented method for assisting a user, the method comprising: identifying, using a processor, for each software tool in a plurality of software tools to be considered for performing a particular task, a plurality of characteristic values, wherein each of the plurality of characteristic values identifies a number that reflects how much said each software tool supports a particular characteristic in a plurality of characteristics; wherein the plurality of characteristics comprises: a first characteristic on interoperability of said each software tool with software applications from a first vendor; a second characteristic on interoperability of said each software tool with software applications from a second vendor; and a third characteristic on support provided by a company providing said each software tool; wherein the particular task is one of performing testing simulations, managing data persistently, or maintaining electronic records; computing a score for said each software tool, wherein the score is based on the characteristic values, of the plurality of characteristics; transmitting, to a client having a user interface, display data that describes how to render, on the user interface, a pictorial representation of the scores associated with the plurality of software tools, wherein the pictorial representation depicts a relative measure of how appropriate said each software tool is for the particular task; wherein each of the first characteristic, the second characteristic and the third characteristic is a child characteristic of another characteristic in the plurality of characteristics hereinafter referred to as parent characteristic; wherein a weight is associated with the child characteristic; in response to receiving input that changes the weight associated with the child characteristic, causing the display of the pictorial representation to be updated dynamically to reflect a change associated with the child characteristic thereby to cause information about the characteristic value associated with the parent characteristic to change. |
7630829 | 11231216 | 1 | 1. A flight deck display system for an aircraft, comprising: a processor adapted to receive identification data from an aircraft identification database, the identification data representative of an aircraft during a ground maneuver, the processor operable, in response thereto, to determine a zone of protection about the aircraft and supply one or more image rendering display commands; and a display device coupled to receive the image rendering display commands and operable, in response thereto, to render an image of an envelope encompassing the aircraft that is representative of the zone of protection. |
20100277765 | 12834811 | 0 | 1. A printing system including a printing apparatus and a chasing management server connected to an information processing apparatus via a communication medium, wherein the information processing apparatus comprises: a print data transmission unit that transmits print data to be printed by the printing apparatus to the printing apparatus; and a chasing data generating unit that generates chasing data for the chasing management server, wherein the chasing management server comprises: a setting unit that sets extraction information to instruct the information processing apparatus to extract data which is able to identify content of the print data as the chasing data, and wherein the chasing data generating unit generates the chasing data based on the extraction information set by the setting unit. |
20050137463 | 10743582 | 0 | 1. A method for generating a medical diagnosis comprising the steps of: creating a conversion table and storing said table in a computerized storage media of a computerized system, wherein said conversion table converts medical test data into numeric analyte values; creating a sub-diagnosis database and storing said sub-diagnosis database in said storage media, said sub-diagnosis database including a plurality of rules, each rule of said plurality of rules being identified by at least one diagnosis parameter; inputting at least one test result of a patient in said computerized system; converting said test result to at least two numeric analyte values by said conversion table; searching said rules in said sub-diagnosis database for at least one target rule having at least one of said diagnosis parameters corresponding to at least one of said numeric analyte values; and saving said target rules identified in said searching step. |
6070140 | 09190691 | 1 | 1. A computer system having a power-down mode to conserve energy, comprising: a speech transducer for capturing speech; a low power wake-up indicator coupled to said speech transducer, said wake-up indicator detecting speech directed at said speech transducer and asserting a wake-up signal to a powered-down processor, the low power wake-up indicator having a low pass filter and a power comparator coupled to the low pass filter; and a voice recognizer coupled to said speech transducer and said wake-up signal, said voice recognizer waking up from the power-down mode when said wake-up signal is asserted. |
9069956 | 14130665 | 1 | 1. A method for scanning files, comprising: enumerating unscanned files; obtaining attributions of the unscanned files from the enumerated files one by one, and transmitting to a server the attributions; comparing the attributions with features that are stored in the server, obtaining the features that are consistent with the attributions and types that the features belong to; generating a mapping relationship between the unscanned files, the attributions and the types according to the features that are consistent with the attributions and the types of the features, and recording the mapping relationship in a first scanning result; determining locally unscanned files for a local scanning according to the first scanning result; locally scanning the unscanned files, and obtaining a second scanning result; and integrating the second scanning result and the first scanning result, to generate a third scanning result. |
9618569 | 13402439 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: measuring an electrical parameter of a device under test (DUT) and measuring, using a temperature sensor, a corresponding temperature of the DUT one or more times; determining coefficients, in a pre-constructed model based on a plurality of measured values of the electrical parameter and corresponding measured temperatures, to characterize a relationship of the electrical parameter of the DUT to the temperature of the DUT, wherein the pre-constructed model characterizes a relationship of the electrical parameter to the temperature of a circuit type corresponding to the DUT, and the coefficients are DUT-dependent variables of the DUT; and determining a fitness of the DUT to meet a specified performance requirement based on the pre-constructed model and a limit value of the electrical parameter at a specified temperature. |
4314339 | 06019925 | 1 | 1. A well logging method of producing a representation mapping the relative arrangement of subsurface earth formation beds with respect to a subsurface characteristic measured with a well logging device, comprising: (a) producing initial well logging measurements for particular depths in the formation derived from measurements taken in a well in the formation with the well logging device over a given depth interval; (b) producing a trial variation of the subsurface characteristic, said trial variation varying in discrete steps corresponding to discretely-boundaried subsurface earth formation beds, said boundaries being based on measurements of the subsurface characteristic; (c) generating, by a computer, a new well logging measurement for a particular depth level for which there is an initial well logging measurement, by applying the approximate response characteristic of the logging device to the trial variation of the subsurface characteristic; (d) comparing, by a computer, the new well logging measurement at the particular depth level to the initial measurement value at that depth level; and (e) modifying, by a computer, the trial variation of the subsurface characteristic in accordance with the comparison to thereby produce a visual or a stored representation mapping the relative arrangement of discretely boundaried subsurface earth formation beds. |
9853962 | 15298422 | 1 | 1. A method for building and using a secure index to service queries for a plurality of secure data stores, the method comprising: crawling, by a computer system, the plurality of secure data stores residing on a plurality of different computer systems; generating, by the computer system, an index of a plurality of documents from across the plurality of secure data stores, wherein each of the plurality of documents is associated with one or more security requirements from a corresponding one of the plurality of secure data stores; storing, by the computer system, in the index, for each document in the plurality of documents, the corresponding one or more security requirements; receiving, by the computer system, a query and user identification information from a client device; providing, by the computer system, the user identification information to at least one of a plurality of identity management systems, wherein each of the plurality of identity management systems receives the user identification information through a respective Application Program Interface (API); validating, by the computer system, a user against at least one identity management system in the plurality of identity management systems; in response to receiving the query, obtaining, by the computer system, security information for the user of the client device; selecting, by the computer system, each document in the index that is responsive to the query and where the corresponding one or more security requirements are satisfied by the security information of the user; and transmitting, by the computer system, links to each selected document in the index as a result set to the client device to service the query from the client device. |
20080082550 | 11888680 | 0 | 1. A method for creating a virtual community comprising: allocating a subscriber one or more sibling identifiers with corresponding units to be distributed to other persons; associating the one or more sibling identifiers with the subscriber's identifier; and recognizing, in response to a use of a unit with a sibling identifier, a community to which a user of the unit with the sibling identifier belongs on the basis of the association. |
6065130 | 08980732 | 1 | 1. In a processing system having a plurality of functional blocks which detect a plurality of events, a general purpose counters block (GPCB) comprising: a plurality of programmable counters, each of said counters being separately programmable to count an assigned event; means for receiving indications from the functional blocks when events are detected; and means for incrementing each programmable counter when an indication is received in the GPCB that the assigned event for that counter has been detected. |
20050155004 | 11009094 | 0 | 1. A simulation model for design of a semicon-ductor device, comprising: calculating a drain current I ds of a MOSFET by using a surface potential model according to the following equations based on a drift-diffusion approximation: I ds = W g L eff - L red μ C ox ( V gs - V th ) 2 2 ( 1 + δ ) ( 1 - α 2 ) where W g is a gate width of the MOSFET, “L eff −L red ” is a distance from a source terminal to a pinch-off point, μ is a carrier mobility, C OX is a capacitance of a gate oxide film per unit area, V gs is a gate-source voltage, V th be a threshold voltage, so is a surface potential at a source terminal in a channel, φ sL is a surface potential at a drain terminal in the channel, and δ is a bulk coefficient, α = 1 - 1 + δ V gs - v th ( ϕ SL - ϕ SO ) ; and substituting the calculated drain current I ds into the following relational expression for a thermal drain noise spectrum density which is obtained from a Nyquist theorem equation: S id = 4 kT Leff 2 I ds ∫ g ds 2 ( ϕ s ) ⅆ ϕ s where k is a Boltzmann constant, T is an absolute temperature, L eff is an effective channel length of the MOSFET, g ds is a channel conductance, and φ s is a silicon surface potential, thereby calculating an equation effective for all voltage conditions which is expressed as γ = ∫ g ds 2 ( ϕ s ) ⅆ ϕ s L eff 2 * I ds * g ds 0 |
9547942 | 14374731 | 1 | 1. A medical cardiac imaging system, comprising: a data store configured to store a pre-contrast T 1 image map generated prior to the injection of a contrast agent and a post-contrast T 1 image map generated after injection of a contrast region, each image map being co-registered and with different contrast; one or more processors configured to: cluster T 1 values of pairs of corresponding voxel pairs of the pre-contrast and post-contrast image maps in a scatter plot which plots T 1 values of the pre-contrast image map with T 1 of the post-contrast image map to identify clusters corresponding to each of a plurality of tissue types, the tissue types including healthy myocardium, blood, infarct, and grey zone, the grey zone including pre-infarct and heterogeneous infarct; assign one of the tissue types to each voxel pair, calculate a volume of the infarct and a volume of the grey zone; and a display device configured to display a diagnostic image with each classified tissue type depicted in a different contrast or color, the volume of the infarct, and the volume of the grey zone. |
8161484 | 12129113 | 1 | 1. A system for preventing deadlock in a distributed computing system, the apparatus comprising: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory and programmed to implement the following steps: receiving as input a sorted set of containers defining a unique global sequence of containers for servicing process requests; populating at least one table based at least in part on off-line analysis of call graphs defining corresponding transactions for a given order of the containers in the sorted set, wherein the at least one table comprises a first table for maintaining at least a transaction identifier and a thread identifier for a given allocated thread, a second table for maintaining at least a transaction identifier and a reservation counter for a given reserved thread, and a third table for maintaining at least a transaction type, a portion of the call graph specifying at least one path taken by a given transaction between two or more containers and a number of threads to reserve in each container specified by the given transaction; storing within each container at least a portion of the at least one table; and allocating one or more threads in a given container according to at least a portion of the at least one table stored within the given container. |
20150206004 | 14600402 | 0 | 1. An object tracking method comprising: an obtention step of obtaining a grayscale image sequence and its corresponding depth image sequence; a prediction step of predicting a candidate target region of a tracking object in at least one of a current grayscale image and it corresponding depth image; a determination step of determining a depth weight image of the candidate target region, wherein, the depth weight image includes depth weight information of each pixel, and the depth weight information of each pixel refers to depth information based on this pixel and a probability of this pixel belonging to the tracking object; an acquirement step of acquiring a target template, wherein, the target template is expressed by a probability density distribution of features; an expression step of expressing, by a probability density distribution of features, a candidate target whose position moves in the candidate target region, wherein, in a process of estimating probability densities of features of the candidate target, each pixel is weighted based on both color space information and the depth weight information of this pixel; a calculation step of calculating, based on a probability density expression of the target template and a probability density expression of the candidate target, a similarity between the target template and the candidate target, so as to get a confidence level image of the candidate target region; and a location step of locating, based on the confidence level image of the candidate target region, a position of the tracking object in the corresponding current image. |
9671768 | 14282018 | 1 | 1. A smart building management system ( 1 ) for managing a building ( 2 ), comprising: a graphic user interface ( 11 ), receiving requests from a user in an authority limit of a user account, and providing functions and data of the authority limit; an account manager ( 12 ), connecting with the graphic user interface ( 11 ), managing the user account registered by the user, and setting the authority limit of the user account; a building equipment control module ( 15 ), connecting with a plurality of hardware devices ( 41 ) through an industrial control system (ICS) ( 4 ) in the building ( 2 ) in order to be a connecting interface between the smart building management system ( 1 ) and the plurality of hardware devices ( 41 ); a building management sub-system ( 13 ), connecting with the graphic user interface ( 11 ) and the building equipment control module ( 15 ), receiving data and equipment statuses replied by the hardware devices ( 41 ), analyzing maintenance statuses of the hardware devices ( 41 ) and a total energy consumption of the building ( 2 ), and displaying on the graphic user interface ( 11 ), the building management sub-system ( 13 ) comprising: an energy management sub-system ( 132 ), collecting operating timing of the hardware devices ( 41 ), and analyzing the energy consumption and loading statuses in order to gather statistics of the total energy consumption statuses of the building ( 2 ); a maintenance management sub-system ( 133 ), collecting down time data, maintenance time, and maintenance flow charts of the hardware devices ( 41 ), receiving the data and the equipment statuses replied by the hardware devices ( 41 ) so as to analyze maintenance statuses of the hardware devices ( 41 ) and send a notice when maintenance is needed; a quality of service management sub-system ( 134 ), gathering statistics of the requests from the user, and analyzing an achieved percentage and quality of a service provided by the smart building management system ( 1 ) for the requests; a planning and optimization sub-system ( 131 ), connecting with the energy management sub-system ( 132 ), the maintenance management sub-system ( 133 ) and the quality of service management sub-system ( 134 ), the planning and optimization sub-system ( 131 ) executing optimization of the smart building management system ( 1 ) according to the requests of the user, the maintenance statuses of the hardware devices ( 41 ), and the total energy consumption of the building ( 2 ), and planning an energy-saving strategy, wherein the energy-saving strategy comprises the plurality of tasks that are executed by a task execution module ( 14 ); and a building configuration sub-system ( 136 ), connecting with the planning and optimization sub-system ( 131 ), recording and managing an amount and a sort of the hardware devices ( 41 ), and an installment position of the hardware devices ( 41 ) in the building ( 2 ); a task execution module ( 14 ), connecting with the building management sub-system ( 13 ) and the building equipment control module ( 15 ), making schedules to a plurality of tasks established by the building management sub-system ( 13 ) and executing the plurality of tasks according to the schedules; and a database ( 17 ), connecting with the building equipment control module ( 15 ) and the hardware devices ( 41 ), storing the data and the equipment statuses replied by the hardware devices ( 41 ), and being accessed by the building management sub-system ( 13 ) and the task execution module ( 14 ) through the building equipment control module ( 15 ), wherein an analyzing result of the quality of service management sub-system ( 134 ) is stored in the database ( 17 ) and displayed by the graphic user interface ( 11 ), and the building management sub-system ( 13 ) establishes the plurality of tasks based on the maintenance statuses of the hardware devices ( 41 ) and the requests from the user, and the task execution module ( 14 ) executes the tasks to adjust the hardware devices ( 41 ), so that the total energy consumption of the building ( 2 ) meets an energy-saving target set by the user. |
8165901 | 12148916 | 1 | 1. A system for providing a medical treatment program comprising: a first module executing on one or more servers for receiving data about a patient and for receiving an identification of one or more exercises selected for inclusion in the program; a second module executing on said one or more servers for displaying at least one of said exercises in said program to the patient and for collecting feedback information on said at least one exercise from the patient, said feedback information comprising one or more of the following: a perceived level of difficulty by the patient, a perceived level of pain by the patient, or a time that feedback on said exercise was entered; a database for storing said program and said feedback information; and a third module for comparing exercise information on said at least one exercise to said feedback information to determine the likelihood that the patient performed said at least one exercise correctly, said exercise information on said at least one exercise comprising one or more of the following: a time that said exercise was displayed, an anticipated level of difficulty for said exercise, an anticipated level of pain for said exercise, or an anticipated amount of time required to perform said exercise properly; and said third module determining the likelihood that the patient performed the at least one exercise correctly based on one or more of the following: comparing the anticipated level of difficulty for said exercise with the perceived level of difficulty, comparing the anticipated level of pain for said exercise with the perceived level of pain, or comparing the anticipated amount of time required to perform said exercise properly with a difference between the time said exercise was displayed and the time that the feedback on said exercise was entered. |
9888248 | 14937277 | 1 | 1. An apparatus for decoding a current block in a current frame by using an inter prediction, the apparatus comprising: a decoding unit configured to extract a first identification information from a bitstream, wherein the first identification information indicates whether motion information of the current block is set as one of a plurality of motion information candidates, wherein the motion information includes a motion vector of the current block and a reference frame index of the current block, and reconstruct a quantized frequency residual block of the current block from the bitstream; a dequantization and inverse transform unit configured to dequantize and inversely transform the quantized frequency residual block to reconstruct a residual block of the current block; an inter prediction unit configured to perform the inter prediction by, when the first identification information indicates that the motion information of the current block is set as one of the plurality of motion information candidates, generating the plurality of motion information candidates of the current block from neighboring blocks of the current block, wherein the neighboring blocks are adjacent to the current block and are located in the current frame, selecting a motion information candidate from the plurality of motion information candidates based on a second identification information, the second identification information being decoded from the bitstream, reconstructing the motion information of the current block as the selected motion information candidate, and generating an inter-predicted block of the current block by using the reconstructed motion information of the current block; and an addition unit configured to add the inter-predicted block to the residual block so as to reconstruct the current block, wherein when the first identification information doesn't indicate that the motion information of the current block is set as one of the plurality of motion information candidates, the inter prediction unit is configured to perform the inter prediction by generating the inter-predicted block of the current block by using a decoded motion information of the current block, wherein the decoded motion information of the current block has been extracted from the bitstream and decoded, wherein the plurality of motion-information candidates are generated by using motion information items of the neighboring blocks of the current block, wherein the motion information items include each motion vector of each of the neighboring blocks and each reference frame index of said each of the neighboring blocks, and wherein the neighboring blocks include a neighboring block including a sample located just above a left sample of a top-left sample of the current block, and a neighboring block including a sample located on a right side just above a top-right sample of the current block. |
7912469 | 11876529 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: deploying a plurality of access ports in a facility using a published layout configuration that depends on a type of the facility, wherein the layout is selected from a set of published layouts; receiving at least one parameter from at least one of the plurality of access points; and dynamically determining settings of the plurality of access points based on the at least one parameter. |
20120041799 | 13028739 | 0 | 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a difference calculation module that calculates a difference between a first information amount that is generated between a first person in charge and a second person in charge when a business that constitutes a business process is finished and a second information amount that is estimated to be generated between the first person in charge and the second person in charge when the business that constitutes the business process is finished; an addition module that adds the differences calculated by the difference calculation module in a combination of the first person in charge in the business process and the second person in charge in the business process or in other business process related to the business process; and an output module that outputs the sum of the differences calculated by the addition module as risks of the business processes. |