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9031825 | 13437815 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method for statistical circuit simulation, comprising: providing descriptions of a circuit for simulation, wherein the descriptions include variations of statistical parameters of the circuit; partitioning the circuit into groups of netlists according to variations of statistical parameters of the circuit, wherein partitioning further comprises forming the groups of netlists according to proximity of variations of statistical parameters of the circuit, and wherein proximity of variations of statistical parameters comprises variations of threshold voltage of a transistor in a sub-threshold region, variations of threshold voltage of the transistor in a linear region, and variations of threshold voltage of the transistor in a saturation region; simulating the groups of netlists using a plurality of processors in parallel to generate a plurality of output data files, wherein the plurality of processors include a plurality of graphics processing units and a plurality of central processing units; and storing the plurality of output data files in a memory. |
20170272306 | 15073543 | 0 | 1. A method for managing networked node transactions, said method comprising: determining multiple classifier digital fingerprints, wherein each of the classifier digital fingerprints comprises a bit sequence that is associated with a respective result classifier; receiving transaction event entries generated by an event log, wherein the transaction event entries contain message text associated with a transaction between two or more nodes; generating a digital fingerprint for each of the transaction event entries, wherein each of the generated digital fingerprints comprises a bit sequence that is associated with an identity of at least one of the two or more nodes, and wherein said generating a digital fingerprint includes, for each bit position in the bit sequence, determining whether the message text includes a specified text pattern; and setting the bit position value based on the determination of whether the message text includes the specified text pattern; and for each of the generated digital fingerprints, grouping the generated digital fingerprint into one or more event classification sets that each correspond to one of the result classifiers based, at least in part, on pattern matching the generated digital fingerprint with the classifier digital fingerprints. |
8817902 | 13674222 | 1 | 1. A receiving device, comprising: a receiver configured to receive an OFDM symbol that is modulated by phase shift keying; an FFT processor configured to apply an FFT process to the received OFDM symbol to obtain a subcarrier signal; a demapping unit configured to demap the subcarrier signal to generate a bit string; a norm calculator configured to calculate a norm of the subcarrier signal; a weighting factor generator configured to generator a weighting factor by taking statistics of the calculated norm; and a weighting unit configured to obtain a soft decision value by weighting the bit string after demapping based on the weighting factor, wherein the weighting factor generator is configured to generate the weighting factor so that a greater a variation of the norm calculated by the norm calculator, a smaller a likelihood of the soft decision value. |
20100328452 | 12758507 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for matching objects, the method being executed by at least one processor, comprising the steps of: receiving at least two images wherein one of the at least two images has a first target object and a second of the at least two images has a second target object; extracting at least one first patch from the first target object and at least one second patch from the second target object; constructing a distance-based part encoding between each of the at least one first patch and the at least one second patch based upon a corresponding codebook of image parts including at least one of part type and pose; warping a viewpoint of one of the at least one first patch to a viewpoint of the at least one second patch; and applying a parts level similarity measure based on the view-invariant distance measure for each of the at least one first patch and the at least one second patch to determine whether the first target object and the second target object are the same or different objects. |
9769313 | 13285080 | 1 | 1. A method for connecting a communication session comprising: receiving, from a first user, communication acceptance criteria for communications based on a personal identification number (PIN) that is associated with the first user, the communication acceptance criteria comprising a list of accepted users who are members of a predefined class of users, the PIN configured to expire after a predetermined number of uses; receiving a request from a second user to initiate a communication session with the first user based on the PIN associated with first user; determining, based on the communication acceptance criteria, whether a communication session initiated by the second user based on the PIN is permitted between the first user and the second user, wherein the determining includes determining whether the PIN has expired; and responsive to determining the communication session is permitted, (i) initiating the communication session between the first user and the second user by requesting a first communication link to a first communication device associated with the first user and requesting a second communication link to a second communication device associated with the second user and (ii) reducing a number of remaining uses associated with the PIN, wherein, when the request for the first communication link is denied, the second user receives an alternative voicemail greeting, the alternative voicemail greeting being different from a primary voicemail greeting that would play when the first communication device is contacted directly. |
9064216 | 13842909 | 1 | 1. A method of predicting component failure, the method comprising: receiving, by a communication protocol and with a virtual network controller that includes an analytics plane to analyze operations of a plurality of components in one or more virtual networks, a first parameter set from each of the components, wherein a parameter set from a component includes one or more quantitative parameters that each describes a state of the component; receiving, by the communication protocol and with the virtual network controller, an indication of detected component failure for one or more of the components; training, with the virtual network controller and using the first parameter sets and the indication of detected component failure, a trainable automated classifier to develop a classifying structure that distinguishes between component parameter sets that logically associate with a detected component failure and component parameter sets that do not logically associate with a detected component failure; receiving, by the communication protocol and with the virtual network controller, a second parameter set from each of the components; and predicting, with the virtual network controller using the trainable automated classifier and the classifying structure, a failure of a first one of the components. |
9792801 | 15228789 | 1 | 1. An apparatus, configured to be attached to a wrist of a person in a vehicle system, comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code that, when executed by the at least one processor and when it is determined that the person has initiated driving a vehicle, causes the apparatus to at least: obtain, using at least one sensor comprising at least a bio-signal sensor, physiological status data of the person driving the vehicle, wherein the at least one sensor comprises a heart activity sensor, and wherein the physiological status data comprises cardiac activity data of the person, wherein the cardiac activity data comprises cardiac activity history data of the person; determine, based on the cardiac activity history data, a cardiac activity of the person related to a first threshold alertness level for driving the vehicle; determine, based on real-time cardiac activity data, current cardiac activity of the person being indicative of a current alertness level of the person; determine, by comparing the current cardiac activity of the person to the cardiac activity of the person related to the first threshold alertness level, whether the current alertness level of the person is below the first threshold alertness level for driving the vehicle; and cause a wireless output of a control signal as a response to the determination that the current alertness level is below the first threshold alertness level, wherein the control signal is at least for the vehicle system to take control of driving operation of the vehicle. |
20100030119 | 12511038 | 0 | 1. A method for generating a plurality of movement impairment indices from one or more kinematic signals obtained from one or more kinematic sensors, said method implemented in a digital computer with one or more processors in order to characterize movement disorders, said method comprising: (a) collecting said kinematic signals from said kinematic sensors; (b) processing said kinematic signals to reject artifacts and noise resulting in enhanced kinematic signals; (c) finding a measure of power spectral density of said enhanced kinematic signals; (e) calculating a plurality of impairment indices from said measure of power spectral density. |
20150348276 | 14720074 | 0 | 1. A method for processing a video frame in a video sequence, comprising: for each predetermined numerical value of one or more predetermined numerical values, comparing the video frame with a video frame spaced prior to the video frame by the predetermined numerical value of frames to obtain a first inter-frame difference; comparing the video frame with a video frame spaced after the video frame by the predetermined numerical value of frames to obtain a second inter-frame difference; and for each pixel of the video frame, obtaining a confidence map associating the video frame by the predetermined numerical value based on a smaller value of the first inter-frame difference and the second inter-frame difference; and determining, at least based on a value of each pixel in one or more of the confidence maps associated with a corresponding predetermined numerical value, whether the pixel belongs to a foreground. |
20150278065 | 14592978 | 0 | 1. A health monitoring apparatus in an aeronautic system, the apparatus comprising: a health monitoring manager configured to receive a sensed error from an aeronautic system control apparatus, and to activate one of a process level monitor, a partition level monitor, and a module level monitor according to an error level of the sensed error; and a monitor unit comprising the process level monitor, the partition level monitor, and the module level monitor that are integrated into one system by a partitioning method, wherein the one of the process level monitor, the partition level monitor, and the module level monitor that is activated by the health monitoring manager performs error handling and provides an error processing method suitable to the sensed error to the aeronautic system control apparatus. |
9792065 | 14885902 | 1 | 1. A memory controller, comprising: a request queue that stores requests provided by an external device; a scheduler that calculates a score for each of the requests stored in the request queue and determines a processing order of the requests based on the scores for the requests; and a weight generation circuit that generates a weight vector including weights used to calculate the scores, wherein the scheduler calculates the score by combining a plurality of variables and the weight vector, the plurality of variables varying with a request, the weight vector being common to the requests, wherein the scheduler determines values of the plurality of variables according to a state of the request queue or a state of each of the requests, and wherein the weight generation circuit adjusts the weight vector based on an operation state of the memory controller or a weight control signal when information of the request queue is updated. |
20070182547 | 11510332 | 0 | 1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor configured to receive from a Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) agent a request for position estimates for a SUPL enabled terminal (SET), to start a location session with the SET, to obtain a position estimate for the SET for each of at least one reporting event during the location session, and to send the position estimate obtained for each reporting event to the SUPL agent. |
20110292409 | 13151351 | 0 | 1. A reprographic system, comprising: at least one sensor, providing a sensor signal; at least one actuator, responsive to an actuator signal; and a control unit for generating the actuator signal for the at least one actuator in dependence on the sensor signal of the at least one sensor, said control unit comprising a signal processing module configured to generate the actuator signal based on at least one sensor signal with involvement of a probabilistic network. |
20120116819 | 12941348 | 0 | 1. A method for visualizing a traffic collision incident comprising: presenting within an interface a mapping data of a location associated with an incident, wherein the incident is a traffic collision, wherein the interface is associated with an automobile incident application, wherein the application is executing within a computing device; performing a visualization of the incident within the interface, wherein the visualization is a computer generated graphic re-creation of the incident, wherein the visualization indicates at least a starting location and a collision location of at least one object model, wherein the object model is a graphical representation of a vehicle; receiving a user input during the visualization, wherein the user input is manipulating the position of at least one object model presented upon the mapping data, wherein the manipulation is at least one of a translation, rotation, and scaling, wherein the object model is associated with visualization data, wherein the visualization data links the object model with at least one of a heading and a track of the object model; responsive to the receiving, visually presenting an appropriate heading and track of the at least one object model within the interface. |
20020126545 | 09896145 | 0 | 1. A system for caching multi-dimensional data from a data store, the system comprising: a cube manager module for receiving a query requesting the data from the data store; a compilation module, coupled to the cube manager module, for determining a set of canonical addresses from the query and a set of cubelet addresses from at least one of the set of canonical addresses; a data cache for storing at least one cubelet including the requested data and data for nearby cells, the cubelet identified by at least one of the set of cubelet addresses; and an execution module, coupled to the compilation module, for requesting the data from the data cache in accordance with the at least one of the set of cubelet addresses. |
20030056082 | 10034438 | 0 | 1. A method of controlling free space distribution by key range within a database, the method comprising: creating a data structure, wherein said data structure comprises key ranges of a plurality of database tables and indexes, and free space parameters associated with said key ranges; redistributing rows within a plurality of page sets of the plurality of database tables and indexes, wherein said redistributing references the key ranges of the data structure and the free space parameters associated with said key ranges. |
8995389 | 12307397 | 1 | 1. A method of operating a re-direct policy decision function for policy decision point discovery for a mobile terminal roaming in an Internet protocol network, comprising: the re-direct policy decision function storing a mapped address between an address of the mobile terminal and an address of a first policy decision point; the re-direct policy decision function receiving a request from a second policy decision point for the mapped address; and the re-direct policy decision function providing the mapped address to the second policy decision point wherein the second policy decision point discovers the first policy decision point associated with the mobile terminal, and wherein the first policy decision point is a serving policy decision point and the second policy decision point is an anchor policy decision point. |
20110037763 | 12988305 | 0 | 1. An apparatus for 3D mesh compression based on quantization, comprising: a data analyzing unit for decomposing data of an input 3D mesh model into vertices information, property information representing property of the 3D mesh model, and connectivity information between vertices constituting the 3D mesh model; a mesh model quantizing unit for producing quantized vertices and property information of the 3D mesh model by using the vertices, property and connectivity information; and a decision bit encoding unit for calculating a decision bit by using the quantized connectivity information and then encoding the quantized vertex information, property information and connectivity information by using the decision bit. |
20140095831 | 13631071 | 0 | 1. A processor comprising: gather setup logic to execute one or more gather setup operations in anticipation of one or more gather operations, the gather setup operations to compute a gather state to be used by subsequent gather operations; and gather logic to execute the one or more gather operations to gather vector data elements using the gather state computed by the gather setup operations. |
9992604 | 15325366 | 1 | 1. An error model-based multi-zone sound reproduction method, comprising the following steps: Step 1): arranging a speaker array, and setting control points for a bright zone and a dark zone; wherein, the bright zone is a zone requiring the generation of an independent sound source, and the dark zone is all zones not requiring the generation of an independent sound source; Step 2): establishing a distribution model of speaker frequency response errors; Step 3): according to the distribution model of speaker frequency response errors of Step 2) and the speak array, deriving expected average sound energy expressions and frequency response consistency constraint expressions of the bright zone and the dark zone with speaker frequency response errors existing; Step 4): according to the expected average sound energy expressions and the frequency response consistency constraint expressions of Step 3), and according to a time-domain sound energy contrast control criterion of the frequency response consistency constraint, calculating a time-domain impulse response filter signal of each channel. |
20120005596 | 12827728 | 0 | 1. A method for saving and restoring collaborative applications to a selected earlier time, comprising: saving, by a processing device, content for each collaborative application of a plurality of collaborative applications as a user uses each of the collaborative applications; restoring, by the processing device, each collaborative application to the selected earlier time in response to the selected earlier time being selected by the user; and presenting, by the processing device, the content of each collaborative application at the selected earlier time to the user in response to each collaborative application being restored to the selected earlier time, wherein each collaborative application is presented in an original context from the selected earlier time. |
20080034056 | 11459326 | 0 | 1. A system for collecting, correlating and aggregating syndicated-format edited content with non-edited content, said system comprising: an infolet for receiving syndicated-format edited content, said syndicated-format edited content comprising standard source system attributes, an access gateway for receiving non-edited content, said non-edited content comprising non-text content; a content processor that converts at least a portion of said non-text content into a text content, said content processor creates a set of description schema attributes, said description schema attributes being based on user-supplied input or information extracted from the non-text content; a content database that stores said non-text content, said text content and said description schema attributes, said content database establishes non-text content pointers for the stored non-text content and text content pointers for the stored text content; a blog infolet that provides a syndicated-style data presentation of a first user's web blog, said syndicated-style data presentation comprises at least one of said non-text pointers and said text pointers; and an aggregator infolet that correlates said syndicated-format edited content and said syndicated-style data using said standard source system attributes and said description schema attributes, into a correlated cluster set according to a second user's query, said aggregator infolet produces said correlated cluster as an aggregated syndicated-style data feed. |
20100185694 | 12357428 | 0 | 1. A computerized apparatus comprising: an interface for receiving a first database query, said first database query comprises a fetch command; and a data generation module for generating at least one data record; the at least one data record satisfies at least a portion of a second database query associated with the fetch command. |
20130245853 | 13893996 | 0 | 1. An apparatus for managing an energy consuming load in a group of energy consuming loads comprising the load and a plurality of other loads, the apparatus comprising: (a) a transmitter configured to transmit a set of load state data generated from the load; (b) a receiver configured to receive sets of load state data generated from the other loads; (c) a processor configured to generate the set of load state data from the load, to compile the set of load state data from the load with the sets of load state data from the other loads, and to process the compiled sets of load state data in order to make an enablement state decision for the load, wherein the enablement state decision reflects an enablement state of the load, wherein the enablement state is either a load enabled state or a load disabled state, wherein the load enabled state is a state where the load is capable of operating even when the load is not actually operating, and wherein the load disabled state is a state where the corresponding load is not capable of operating; and (d) a controller for implementing the enablement state decision. |
8755943 | 13396514 | 1 | 1. A method for controlling power consumption of a cooling system of a building space during a limited power period of a day, comprising: using a controller of the cooling system to observe cooling power use resulting from a temperature setpoint trajectory of a first day, wherein the temperature setpoint trajectory of the first day comprises a pre-cooling period and a limited power period; using a controller of the cooling system to calculate a deferred cooling power use resulting from a temperature setpoint trajectory of a first day, wherein the deferred cooling power use is identified by comparing the observed cooling power use to an expected cooling power use for a constant temperature setpoint during the limited power period of the first day; finding a target deferred cooling power use for a second day; finding a linear operator that transforms the deferred cooling power use observed during the limited power period of the first day to the target deferred cooling power use; and applying the linear operator to a changing temperature setpoint trajectory of the first day's limited power period to create a temperature setpoint trajectory of a second day. |
8940265 | 12857553 | 1 | 1. A system for sustainable economic development, the system comprising: an extraction component, wherein the extraction component is configured to extract elemental carbon from a biomass using dissociation; and an energy component, wherein the energy component is configured to harness energy from a renewable energy source; the extraction component configured to receive energy from the energy component; the energy component comprising at least a portion of the extracted elemental carbon, forming an autogenous energy cascade within the system. |
20120310416 | 13486430 | 0 | 1. A control system, comprising: a memory that stores computer-executable components; a processor, communicatively coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the computer-executable components, the computer-executable components including: a user interface component configured to receive a selection of a set of user commands related to at least one setting of a set of energy consuming devices; and a feedback component configured to: in response to reception of the set of user commands, generate feedback data related to and in conjunction with the at least one setting of the set of energy consuming devices. |
9471632 | 14057118 | 1 | 1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing instructions, which when executed by one or more processors, performs operations for optimizing query execution, comprising: determining an original runtime for each of multiple execution plans for a query; if execution of the query overlaps with one or more virtual machine (VM) mirroring operations: modifying each of the original runtimes of the execution plans based on time required to perform the mirroring operations if the query were executed according to the execution plan, wherein the time required to perform the mirroring operations is determined based on an estimated number of memory pages that would become dirty and a cost to flash the dirty memory pages, selecting one of the execution plans based on the modified runtimes, and executing the query according to the selected execution plan; and if execution of the query does not overlap with any VM mirroring operations: executing the query according to the execution plan with the fastest original runtime. |
20020129376 | 09802632 | 0 | 1. An interactive television, comprising: a television tuner; a display communicating with the tuner for displaying broadcast television signals; at least one virtual channel memory communicating with the display, the virtual channel memory storing Web pages associated with virtual channel numbers, the virtual channel numbers being selectable for presentation on the display, the Web pages being periodically received in the virtual channel memory; and at least one user data input memory, the user data input memory storing at least some user demographic information, the user demographic information being at least partially used to establish the Web page stored in the virtual channel memory. |
20020031212 | 09917914 | 0 | 1. A method for priming a call assistant that responds to a call request from a user log-on in a data network, comprising: receiving the call request; and forwarding information associated with the user log-on to a call assistant device. |
9218408 | 13100264 | 1 | 1. A method for creating a data mart in a business intelligence server environment, said method comprising: maintaining data in a plurality of data sources, said data sources including at least a relational database and a multidimensional database; providing, on a business intelligence server, a virtual semantic model, wherein the virtual semantic model is a presentation layer to a user and is logically mapped to a plurality of physical models, each said physical model representing entities in a said data source; receiving, via the virtual semantic model from the user, a plurality of levels for aggregating data that span two or more of the plurality of data sources and a selection of a said data source for storing aggregated data, wherein said levels are identified by analyzing runtimes of queries on the two or more said data sources, wherein at least one said query reduces runtimes thereof by aggregating the data at said levels; creating an aggregate matrix that includes said levels, wherein the aggregate matrix is operable to perform data aggregation only at said levels by creating for each said level, in the said data source, a single aggregate table that contains columns at the each said level and at higher levels in a dimension hierarchy, and creating for each fact table a single aggregate table that includes columns corresponding to primary keys at the each said level; creating, by the business intelligence server, a multidimensional cube that contains the aggregated data in the aggregate tables and storing the multidimensional cube in the said data source. |
20140219108 | 14090540 | 0 | 1. A method in a first transceiver for use in a cellular access system, wherein the first transceiver sends and receives data blocks to and from a second transceiver in the cellular access system, the first transceiver being a reporting party with respect to the second transceiver, the method comprising: sending a transmission comprising a report to the report receiving party, said report comprising information on whether or not data blocks have been received successfully, wherein said report is sent together with data to the report receiving party or to another party in the cell, deciding contents of the report using at least one of the following priority rules: data blocks which are identified as having a lower delay tolerance than other data blocks are given priority; data blocks which have been detected as received in error, and whose status has not been reported since the error was detected are given priority; and data blocks are given priority according to their sequence numbers, with lower sequence numbers having priority over data blocks with higher sequence numbers. |
8155662 | 11753536 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a wireless signal transmitted by a transceiver device; storing a signal strength indication for the received wireless signal; determining a location of each one of a plurality of air monitors; and determining a location of the transceiver device by correlating the determined location of one of the plurality of air monitors with a corresponding retrieved signal strength indication for the transceiver device, the correlating comprising: commanding each of the plurality of air monitors to broadcast a probe signal; storing, by each of the plurality of air monitors, probe signal strength indicators of received probe signals transmitted by each other of the plurality of air monitors; and generating a profile based on the probe signal strength indicators and the determined locations of each of the plurality of air monitors. |
20050086592 | 10684508 | 0 | 1. A method of determining a hybrid text summary comprising the steps of: determining discourse constituents for a text; determining a structural representation of discourse for the text; determining relevance scores for discourse constituents based on at least one non-structural measure of relevance; percolating relevance scores based on the structural representation of discourse; determining a hybrid text summary based on discourse constituents with relevance scores compared to a threshold relevance score. |
8095561 | 12428491 | 1 | 1. A computing device for data processing, the computing device comprising: a memory; a data store; a processor coupled to the memory and the data store, the processor being arranged to manage a plurality of components in conjunction with instructions stored on the memory device for data processing, the components comprising: a definition component for defining exchange of data between entities of an application and data locations of a database employing a configuration file for defining entity information that defines an entity name, an associated entity schema file, entity import information, entity export information, an entity order sequence, an import method, and an import interface, wherein the exchange is defined in the configuration file by the entity definitions and entity schemas; a modular interface component for processing one or more modules that facilitate the exchange of the data between the entities and data locations based on the configuration file; and a batch component for dividing exported data into batches suitable for consumption by consumers of the exported data, wherein each batch includes a pre-determined size limit of data per batch. |
9384262 | 14666423 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: clustering hierarchical database records into a first set of clusters having corresponding first cluster identifications (IDs), wherein each hierarchical database record corresponds to an entity representation, each hierarchical database record comprising a plurality of fields, each field configured to contain a field value, and each field value assigned a field value weight corresponding to a specificity of the field value in relation to all field values in a corresponding field of the hierarchical database records, the clustering based at least in part on determining similarity among corresponding field values of the hierarchical database records; determining parent-child hierarchical relationships among the hierarchical database records; associating related hierarchical database records by applying a hierarchal directional linking process, the hierarchal directional linking process comprising selecting and applying at least an upward process based on the determined parent-child hierarchical relationship wherein the upward process comprises: determining, from the parent-child hierarchical relationships, similarity among a plurality of child records having initial separate parent records; in response to determining a threshold similarity among the plurality of child records, inferring that the initial separate parent records correspond to the same entity; and linking, responsive to the inferring, the initial separate parent records as inferred common parent records; re-clustering at least a portion of the database records into a second set of clusters having corresponding second cluster IDs, the re-clustering based at least in part on the associating related hierarchical database records and on the determining similarity among corresponding field values of the database records; and outputting database record information, based at least in part on the re-clustering. |
7941333 | 10610191 | 1 | 1. A system for identifying and categorizing past due telecommunication service orders, the system comprising: an automated routing and completion unit that receives telecommunication service orders for the establishment of new telephone service for a customer; a data storage device that maintains at least one history file of received service orders and a record of completed service orders; an analyzer that classifies service orders in the at least one history file, the classifying comprising: determining whether a service order is past due; scanning for, based upon messages found in the service order, a classification for the service order, in response to determining that the service order is past due; responsive to identifying the classification for a past due service order placing the past due service order in a first queue based on the classification assigned to the past due service order; responsive to a determination that the past due service order does not have a previously determined classification: placing the past due service order in a second queue containing only past due service orders determined to have no classification; parsing the past due service order in the second queue to assign a new classification to the past due service order; placing a classification code on the past due service order corresponding to the new classification assigned to service order; placing the past due service order in the first queue based on the classification code assigned to the past due service order; and removing the past due service order from the second queue. |
9076041 | 14257959 | 1 | 1. A motion event recognition and video synchronization system comprising: at least one motion capture element configured to couple with a user or piece of equipment or mobile device coupled with the user, wherein said at least one motion capture element comprises a memory; a sensor configured to capture any combination of values associated with an orientation, position, velocity and acceleration of said at least one motion capture element; a radio; a microcontroller coupled with said memory, said sensor and said radio, wherein said microcontroller is configured to collect data that comprises sensor values from said sensor; store said data in said memory; analyze said data and recognize an event within said data to determine event data; transmit said event data associated with said event via said radio; a mobile device comprising a computer; a wireless communication interface configured to communicate with said radio to obtain said event data associated with said event; wherein said computer is coupled with wireless communication interface, wherein said computer is configured to receive said event data from said wireless communication interface; analyze said event data to form motion analysis data; store said event data, or said motion analysis data, or both said event data and said motion analysis data; obtain an event start time and an event stop time from said event data; request image data from a camera comprising a video captured at least during a timespan from said event start time to said event stop time; display an event video on a display comprising both of said event data, said motion analysis data or any combination thereof that occurs during said timespan from said event start time to said event stop time and said video captured during said timespan from said event start time to said event stop time; and, wherein said computer is further configured to discard at least a portion of said video outside of said event start time to said event stop time and store said event video without said portion of said video outside of said event start time to said event stop time to a server computer external to said computer. |
8291402 | 11947469 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: sorting a list of installed hardware and software components of a computer system; creating a fingerprint from the sorted list of installed hardware and software components to represent a current state of the computer system; searching a data store of a plurality of precomputed upgrade plans for a precomputed upgrade plan that matches the fingerprint, each precomputed upgrade plan providing instructions to change a system configuration from a first consistent configuration comprising a first subset of a set of software packages to a second consistent configuration comprising a second subset of the set of software packages, the data store indexed by fingerprints; executing a dependency resolution procedure to create an upgrade plan if no precomputed upgrade plan matches the fingerprint and executing the created precomputed upgrade plan to update the current state of the computer system; and executing the matching precomputed upgrade plan to update the current state of the computer system without executing the dependency resolution procedure if a precomputed upgrade plan matches the fingerprint. |
8090583 | 11929060 | 1 | 1. A system for providing a spoken dialog interface to a website in at least one of an HTML markup language and an XML markup language, the system comprising: a first module controlling a processor to compute a summary for each respective node in the website based on a list of anchor texts, each anchor text in the list of anchor texts being in a hyperlink of another webpage that points to each respective node, each anchor text selected according to a term density associated with a percentage of salient words within a phrase relative to a total number of words in the phrase; a second module controlling the processor to identify hyperlinks associated with each respective node and a weight associated with each respective hyperlink, wherein the weight relates to a percent of salient words in the anchor text of the respective hyperlink relative to total words in anchor texts of the hyperlinks associated with each respective node; and a third module controlling the processor to use the hyperlinks, weights, and the summary for each respective node to enable the spoken dialog interface to interact with a user in a live spoken dialog, wherein nodes in the website are matched with open-ended user spoken input and prompts from the spoken dialog interface seeking the open-ended user spoken input are independent of the nodes in the website. |
8127239 | 11760561 | 1 | 1. One or more computer storage media storing instructions that are executable by a processing device, and upon such execution cause the processing device to perform operations comprising: receiving a selection of an object item in a three-dimensional display environment, the three-dimensional display environment having multiple walls perpendicular to each other, the object item being associated with an executable object and having a first appearance of being attached to a wall of the three-dimensional display environment; in response to the selection, moving the object item away from the wall to a foreground of the three-dimensional display environment, such that the object item has a second appearance of not being attached to any wall of the multiple walls, wherein during movement of the object item, the object item is scaled in size through a plurality of intermediate successive transitioning states; and when the scaled object item reaches a threshold, replacing the object item using an instance of the executable object wherein the scaling is completed with the instance of the executable object. |
8176063 | 12549800 | 1 | 1. A method for data mapping, comprising: loading an input object in a data processing system, the input object including a plurality of elements; loading a mapping control file in the data processing system; processing the input object and the mapping control file to produce a result set including a plurality of result documents; combining multiple ones of the plurality of result documents, by the data processing system, according to inheritance data defined in the mapping control file to produce a combined result, the inheritance data including an inheritance graph for each result document that defines how to combine the result documents; and storing the combined result in the data processing system. |
7921392 | 11967184 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: creating, by a computing apparatus, an initial state of nodes and nets representative of a circuit netlist of elements of an integrated circuit, wherein the initial state includes first locations of one or more of the nodes, and wherein the nodes are represented by state variables comprising position, velocity, and mass; generating, by the computing apparatus, a system of equations representative of motion of the nodes and nets resulting, at least in part, from a first plurality of forces on the nodes and nets; evolving, by the computing apparatus, the system over time to determine second locations of one or more of the nodes; generating, by the computing apparatus, a placement of the elements of the integrated circuit in accordance with the determined second locations; and modifying, by the computing apparatus, routing of the integrated circuit via a second plurality of forces based, at least in part, on densities associated with a portion of the nodes. |
20100122151 | 12291515 | 0 | 1. A method on a computer for enabling a user to view and interact with a visual map in an external application, the method comprising: retrieving visual map data, wherein the visual map data is retrieved by a visual mapping application; and creating a file in the visual mapping application, wherein the created file includes (i) the visual map data and (ii) software code capable of being executed by the external application to display the visual map and enable visual mapping functionality in the external application. |
8523652 | 12938839 | 1 | 1. A system for providing a right to a time sensitive ticket to one or more players of one or more gaming devices configured to play a game, play of said one or more gaming devices resulting in one or more defined triggering events, said system comprising: a host computer; a data structure storing data corresponding to a set of time-sensitive tickets, said data associating to one or more tickets a value and a termination date after which said tickets become substantially valueless, said data structure accessible to said host computer; a communication network providing communication between said gaming devices and said host computer; apparatus for said gaming devices to accept wagers by players to play said gaming devices; a display at said one or more gaming devices, at least one of said gaming devices and host computer configured to display to said players at said one or more displays an association between an event and one or more tickets where said prize corresponds to said associated value of one or more of said tickets; and one or more of said gaming devices and host computer configured to award a right to said one or more tickets to a player upon an occurrence of a triggering event and to deplete said set of said tickets corresponding to said award. |
20170235549 | 15041470 | 0 | 1. A method for generating object model validation rules, comprising: receiving, by one or more computer processors, an object model; generating, by one or more computer processors, based, at least in part, on said object model, a first field structure; generating, by one or more computer processors, based, at least in part, on said generated first field structure, a second field structure; and generating, by one or more computer processors, based, at least in part, on said generated second field structure, a set of validation rules. |
8868349 | 12772030 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method comprising: analyzing quantitatively concordance between two or more microarray data sets, wherein the two or more microarray data sets comprise data from independent microarray experiments based on a plurality of replicate microarray chips, and wherein said analyzing step comprises: (1) updating chip definition files in each of the two or more microarray data sets, wherein the updating comprises scanning the chip definition files into a computer memory; and using a computer processor to compare information from the chip definition files with updated information for chip definition files, and to update a relationship between probes, probe sets, and gene definitions in each of the two or more microarray data sets; (2) evaluating outlier probe values in each of the two or more microarray data sets using a computer processor, wherein the evaluating comprises: (i) applying data transformation on each of the two or more microarray data sets to satisfy underlying assumptions for statistical analysis, wherein the assumptions for statistical analysis are normality of error variance and homogeneity of error variance across the range of signal intensities; (ii) applying data normalization to correct for global differences in fluorescence levels among microarray chips, (iii) removing data from replicate microarray chips from the analysis that contain a percentage of outlier probe values for that microarray chip greater than a defined threshold, (iv) reiterating steps (i)-(iii) whenever the data from a replicate microarray chip is removed in step (iii) until there are no more chips with a percentage of outlier probe values above the defined threshold, and (v) masking the data on all remaining microarray chips by removing from further analysis the values of all replicates of probes that include at least one outlier; (3) determining a gene expression score for the remaining probes of each probe set in each of the two or more microarray data sets; (4) evaluating treatment effects by performing a statistical analysis of gene expression scores between two or more groups in each of the two or more microarray data sets; and (5) determining concordance between the two or more microarray data sets. |
20070056026 | 11221630 | 0 | 1. A data processing system for role-based access control management for multiple heterogeneous application components comprising: at least one business role descriptor associating a business role with a plurality of different application roles for corresponding, disparate application components; at least one access policy associating a user with said business role; and, policy deployment logic comprising program code enabled to process said access policy to assign said user to said different application roles in said disparate application components. |
9575945 | 13866493 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving an unstructured document comprising a plurality of primitive elements, wherein each of the plurality of primitive elements is a character; performing a plurality of different processes for analyzing and manipulating the unstructured document in order to generate a structured document from the unstructured document; and storing a plurality of references associated with the plurality of primitive elements, wherein each of the references refers to a different primitive element of the plurality of primitive elements, wherein at least some of the references are stored in a separate memory space from the plurality of different processes and are shared by at least two different processes of the plurality of different processes, wherein the two different processes access the plurality of references by use of objects that refer to the plurality of references, wherein the plurality of references are not replicated by the two different processes. |
8718809 | 12778457 | 1 | 1. A method for determining a group of semiconductor manufacturing process steps that have a similar influence on individual semiconductor products, the method comprising: obtaining a first table including time stamps of the manufacturing process steps for the individual semiconductor products; creating a second table including Q-times based on the first table, the Q-times referring to time differences between every pair of the time stamps; forming a dependency table by grouping the Q-times with similar dependencies together; identifying groups of the similar dependencies; and extracting semiconductor process steps belonging to the groups, wherein a processor coupled to a memory device is configured to perform: the obtaining, the creating, the forming, the identifying and the extracting. |
20020156710 | 10112825 | 0 | 1. A method for determining a state of personal finances, the method comprising: establishing a personal finance code; determining a set of budgetary guidelines associated with said personal finance code, said set of budgetary guidelines associated with at least one time period; deriving a comparison between said set of budgetary guidelines and a set of fiscal behaviors, said set of fiscal behaviors associated with said at least one time period; projecting said comparison over at least one subsequent time period to determine a projected effect; and comparing said projected effect to said personal finance code thereby determining a state of personal finance. |
20110072382 | 12883330 | 0 | 1. A dynamically linked graphical messaging system for use in a process control system of a process control plant, the dynamically linked graphical messaging system comprising: a computing device in communication with the process control system, the computing device having a processor, a memory and a display; computer-executable instructions for a dynamically linked graphical message provider, the computer-executable instructions stored on the memory of the computing device and executable by the processor to: create a dynamically linked graphical message, the dynamically linked graphical message including a hyperlink and an electronic sticky note image, the electronic sticky note image including a field; store a content of the field of the electronic sticky note image in an entry of a centralized database that is accessible to the process control system; associate the content of the field of the electronic sticky note image with a process control object that is configured in the process control system; establish, during a run-time of a display view on the display, the hyperlink between the content of the field and the process control object, the display view including a representation of the process control object; and present, in conjunction with the representation of the process control object on the display view, the electronic sticky note image including the content of the field. |
10026235 | 13989506 | 1 | 1. A method for detecting an irregularity on a sports track during a race, comprising: providing a first set of at least two track segments, each of the track segments of the first set being adjacent to at least another one of the track segments of the first set such that the first set of at least two track segments extends completely across a width of the sports track; providing a second set of at least two track segments, each of the track segments of the second set being adjacent to at least another one of the track segments of the second set such that the second set of at least two track segments extends completely across a width of the sports track, the second set of at least two track segments occurring at a different position along the sports track than the first set of at least two track segments; starting the race after providing the first set of at least two track segments and the second set of at least two track segments; monitoring the race using monitoring equipment used for time monitoring a race after starting the race and before an end of the race; detecting with a processor that is coupled to the monitoring equipment, after starting the race and before the end of the race, passage of participants of the race for each of the track segments of the first set of at least two track segments and the second set of at least two track segments to obtain corresponding first track segment passage results and second track segment passage results, the passage of participants of the race being detected for each of the track segments separately for each of the first set of at least two track segments and the second set of at least two track segments, and the first track segment passage results including a number of participants having passed each track segment of the first set of at least two track segments within a first particular time interval, and the second track segment passage results including a number of participants having passed each track segment of the second set of at least two track segments within a second particular time interval; comparing with the processor, after starting the race and before the end of the race, the first track segment passage results with the second track segment passage results, the first track segment passage results including a first distribution profile comprising a distribution in location across the width of the sports track for the track segments of the first set of at least two track segments, the second track segment passage results including a second distribution profile comprising a distribution in location across the width of the sports track for the track segments of the second set of at least two track segments, and the first distribution profile representing a number of expected participants for each track segment of the second set of at least two track segments; detecting and outputting with the processor, after starting the race and before the end of the race, an irregularity on the sports track when the first track segment passage results deviate by at least a deviation margin from the second track segment passage results; and generating, after starting the race and before the end of the race, an alert signal in response to detecting the irregularity; and ending the race. |
20050098848 | 10704586 | 0 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a circuit element having a given value of a characteristic property and comprising: at least two individual elements, each having an individual value for the characteristic value thereof, the individual values including an error portion that is substantially statistically uncorrelated, the individual elements disposed solely for contributing to the values of the characteristic property. |
7739073 | 12110732 | 1 | 1. A tangibly embodied computer program product for measuring physical characteristics within a data center, the tangibly embodied computer program product comprising: a storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising: contemporaneously measuring by a plurality of sensors at least one physical characteristic of an environment within the data center, the plurality of sensors being located on a framework, the plurality of sensors collectively defining one three-dimensional unit cell at the framework within the data center; storing the measurements of the at least one physical characteristic on a data-storage device; moving the framework through the data center at a set of defined incremental locations corresponding to one or more dimensions of the one three-dimensional unit cell such that the sensors are located at increments of the one three-dimensional unit cell within the data center to measure the at least one physical characteristic of the environment; storing, based on moving the framework, location information of the framework within the data center on the data-storage device, wherein the location information corresponds to the set of defined incremental locations. |
9270789 | 14260480 | 1 | 1. A method of implementing an entertainment service on computing devices comprising: downloading an activity client to a computing device; selecting and registering with an entertainment service; loading a set of event information related to a location of the computing device to the activity client, wherein the location determines the set of event information to be loaded, further wherein the location determines a geographic-specific schedule of events, wherein the set of event information includes a schedule of available events, further wherein the schedule of available events includes a name of a television event, identification of an activity to be played with the television event, a television network and local channel offering the television event, a duration of the television event and information relating to nature of a prize related to the television event; selecting an event from the activity client to participate in by a user from a list of possible events; downloading a set of activity-specific information related to an activity from a server to the computing device; and executing an interactive application corresponding to the event on the computing device. |
7797169 | 11549527 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: obtaining information from a plurality of unrelated individuals; automatically, by a computer, determining candidate information recipients as a function of ancestral relationships to the unrelated individuals; non-volatily storing the information under conditions designed to preserve the informational integrity of the information for multiple generations; maintaining the information in confidence while storing the information; providing the information as corresponds to a given one of the plurality of unrelated individuals to respective descendants of the given one who are candidate information recipients; such that successive generations of the descendants have sequential access to the information as corresponds to their respective ancestors while the information remains unrevealed to others. |
7930262 | 11874382 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method for performing analysis on a plurality of data stored in a database, the computer implemented method comprising: generating a first cohort from the plurality of data; generating an optimal control cohort from the plurality of data, wherein generating is performed based on the first cohort and at least one constraint, and wherein a mathematical process is used to derive the optimal control cohort; generating a first inference based on a comparison of the first cohort to the optimal control cohort, wherein the first inference is absent from the database; storing the first inference; receiving an I th query at the database regarding an I th fact, wherein I is an integer reflecting how many times a recursion process has been conducted, wherein the I th fact becomes a compound fact that includes multiple sub-facts on a subsequent iteration of the recursion process; establishing the I th fact as a frame of reference for the I th query based on the first cohort and based on the optimal control cohort; applying an I th set of rules to the I th query, wherein the I th set of rules is determined for the I th query according to a J th set of rules, wherein J is equal to I−1, wherein the I th set of rules determines how the plurality of data are to be compared to the I th fact, and wherein the first set of rules determines an I th search space for the I th query; executing the I th query to generate a second inference, wherein the second inference is determined from comparing the plurality of data according to the I th set of rules; storing the second inference; and evaluating a hypothesis within a research study based on the first cohort, the optimal control cohort, the first inference, and the second inference performed by a processor. |
20140173726 | 13720869 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for detecting a phishing attack by a referring website, the method comprising: identifying a referral from a referring site to a destination site; obtaining information from, or relating to, the identified referring site; determining whether the referring site is a phishing site based on the obtained information; and providing a warning indicating that the referring site is a phishing site when it has been determined that the referring site is a phishing site. |
20130174666 | 13825340 | 0 | 1. A method for dynamically measuring viscoelasticity of material samples using shear wave induced resonance, the method comprising: mounting at least one material sample to a rigid sample holder; selectively inducing resonance to the sample by applying selected shear waves induced by the vibrations of the rigid holder; measuring the resonance of the sample in the rigid holder to obtain at least one of: displacement, velocity and acceleration spectra as a function of excitation frequency; and deriving the viscoelastic properties of the sample from the measured spectra and from sample's geometrical shape and precise dimensions. |
20100250545 | 12591129 | 0 | 1. A drug classification system using a generic group code and an universal drug number, the system comprising: a user equipment ( 2 ) that connects to a drug classification server ( 4 ) through a data network, displays information in association with generic group codes which are pre-registered in the server by applying known generic group codes and/or universal drug numbers, displays detailed drug names in associated with the known generic group codes or, otherwise, inputs a specific drug name into the server in order to display corresponding generic group codes and universal drug numbers; a drug classification server ( 4 ) that automatically assigns a generic group code and a universal drug number corresponding to a new drug information, registers the assigned generic group code and universal drug number corresponding to the drug information, combines a company code into the universal drug number, receives an information regarding a certain generic group code, universal drug number or drug name, and then, extracts a corresponding information from the registered drug-related information, and transports the extracted information to the user equipment ( 2 ); and a database ( 6 ) for storing drug-related information. |
20020118379 | 09996271 | 0 | 1. A system for processing a multimedia data file to provide information supporting user navigation of multimedia data file content, comprising: a content parser to identify text and image content of a data file; an image processor for processing said identified image content to identify embedded text content; a text sorter for parsing said identified text and said identified embedded text to locate text items in accordance with predetermined sorting rules; and memory for storing a navigation file containing said text items. |
20040167921 | 10738924 | 0 | 1. A method for maintaining a representation of a history of operations performed on documents in a data processing environment comprising: maintaining a Document Distribution Path representation, the representation including entries that comprise (i) an identifier of one or more source documents, (ii) an identifier of at least one destination document; (iii) a relationship descriptor representative of the manner in which the one or more source documents were used to generate the destination document; sensing access events that possibly affect the relationships between documents, the step of sensing access events being carried out by a monitor process located within an operating system kernel of a user client computer device; in response to sensing an access event in which a new source document is created, or in which a relationship descriptor for an existing document has changed, creating a new entry in the Document Distribution Path representation to reflect the affect of that access event on the history of operations; and if the relationship descriptor cannot be determined from the sensed access event, querying the destination document against a database of existing documents to determine an appropriate relationship descriptor. |
4821181 | 06947520 | 1 | 1. A method for computer-converting a loop comprising statements to be iteratively executed included in a source program written in a high-level language, to an object program including vector instructions to be executed by a vector processor, comprising: (a) a first step of detecting a set of first to third statements said first statement indicating execution of first data processing to refer to at least one element of array data comprising an ordered set of elements each having an element number; said second statement being executed after said first statement and indicating whether or not branching is to be done, in accordance with a value of a certain condition expression included in the second statement; said third statement being executed in a predetermined one of two cases, when branching is indicated by said second statement and when not, and indicating execution of second data processing to define a value of a larger-numbered element of the array data than the element number of the at least one element of the array data referred to in a same loop iteration by said first statement; (b) a second step of generating, in response to the detection by the first step of the set of first to third statements, a set of vector instructions for executing first to third vector processing; said first vector processing producing vector data comprised of vector elements, wherein an i-th vector element thereof has a value which the condition expression included in said second statement takes at an i-th iteration of the loop; said second vector processing either executing or not executing said second data processing designated by said third statement for at least one element of the array data depending on a value of an element of the vector data having a same element number as said at least one element of the array data; said third vector processing executing said first data processing to each element of the array data after said second vector processing. |
20170195491 | 15362728 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented system for assigning call agents to callers, comprising: two or more devices, each device comprising one of a conventional telephone handset, portable handset, and computer; and a speech recognition server comprising a central processing unit, memory, input port to receive voice samples from callers and agents via one or more of the devices, and output port, wherein the central processing unit is configured to execute modules comprising: an analysis module to analyze at least one of the voice samples from one of the callers; a trait module to identify traits of the caller from the analyzed voice sample, to determine that at least one of the identified traits comprises characteristics of multiple populations for that trait, and to define the at least one identified trait as a percentage of each population comprised in that trait; a comparison module to compare the caller traits to traits associated with each active agent within the call center; and an assignment module to assign to the caller the agent with the traits most similar to the caller traits. |
20140081583 | 14029669 | 0 | 1 ) A method to evaluate the service life of a product within a system based upon its specification and operating conditions comprising steps of: a) determining a product design intent; b) generating a design intent profile, said profile being a graphical representation of the interface parameters and the product state and the system state; c) identifying key performance factors (KPF) of the product and system operating stress factors; d) generating a Key Performance Factor Topography (KPFT) for each KPF; e) developing a Parameterised Stress Model (PSM) for each operating stress factor; f) developing a Parameterised Sensitivity Model by testing how changes in the component's design parameters affect the end of life; and g) generating a stress-life model for the product. |
8880548 | 12706719 | 1 | 1. A system, comprising: a hardware processor; and hardware storage storing computer-readable instructions which, when executed by the hardware processor, cause the hardware processor to: obtain an input search query from a user, the input search query comprising an input search term, identify instances where other users have used the input search term in other search queries and added additional search terms to the other search queries to obtain refined search queries, wherein the refined search queries were previously entered by the other users, organize the refined search queries that were previously entered by the other users into at least multiple first refined search queries associated with a first topic and multiple second refined search queries associated with a second topic, estimate a first relative likelihood that an intent of the user matches the first topic, estimate a second relative likelihood that the intent of the user matches the second topic, the first relative likelihood being greater than the second relative likelihood, cause the multiple first related refined search queries that were previously entered by the other users to be displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) concurrently with the multiple second refined search queries that were previously entered by the other users, the multiple first refined search queries being displayed relatively more prominently than the multiple second refined search queries to show that the first relative likelihood that the intent of the user matches the first topic is greater than the second relative likelihood that the intent of the user matches the second topic, and responsive to a scrolling action of a user input device, display additional first refined search queries associated with the first topic on the GUI while continuing to display the multiple second refined search queries associated with the second topic, wherein the additional first refined search queries were also previously entered by the other users by adding further additional search terms to the input search term. |
20140143238 | 13679033 | 0 | 1. A method for retrieving information, comprising: receiving, in a non-World Wide Web (WWW) corpus, a search query for a media author; identifying, within the non-WWW corpus, search results for the search query; generating a score for each of a plurality of media authors identified in the search results, wherein: the score for a corresponding one of the plurality of media authors is based on a combined media popularity score for a plurality of media items authored by the corresponding one of the plurality of media authors; and ranking the search results based on the generated score for each of the plurality of media authors. |
7716687 | 11170396 | 1 | 1. A method for sharing resources among multiple applications, the method comprising: presenting a web page, the web page comprising a plurality of web applications, including a first web application and a second web application, a plurality of indicators, wherein each indicator identifies selectable resources in the web applications, identifies drop zones on the web page where a resource can be accepted, and indicates one or more functions to be performed on the resource when it is accepted; wherein the plurality of indicators include a first indicator that identifies a resource associated with the first web application, and a second indicator that identifies a drop zone associated with the second web application; accepting, by a draggable resource component, input indicating a selection of the resource associated with the first web application and the drop zone associated with the second web application; and in response to the selection providing, by the draggable resource component, the resource associated with the first web application to the second web application, and implementing on the second web application, by a resource acceptance module, the resource associated with the first web application wherein the implementation is particular to the second web application. |
20150356230 | 14301010 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method, performed on at least one computing device, of modeling at least one feature in an integrated circuit (IC) layout for an inter-level effect, the method comprising: building a set of shape measurement regions each connected with an edge of the at least one feature; determining a set of shape parameters for each shape measurement region in the set of shape measurement regions; and creating a column vector representing each shape measurement region using the set of shape parameters, the column vector representing the inter-layer effect of the at least one feature, wherein the inter-layer effect includes a physical relationship between the at least one feature and another feature on a distinct level of the IC layout. |
9058346 | 14295135 | 1 | 1. A machine implemented method for preparing an inverted index for storage on a storage medium, the method comprising: scanning items containing terms from which an inverted index is prepared; inserting the items into the inverted index in an order based on a characteristic of each item; and in response to receiving a query from a requestor, presenting items matching the query to the requestor on an output device, the matching items from the inverted index and a live index of scanned items containing terms, wherein the live index is stored on a network storage device and is separate from the inverted index. |
8068384 | 12719984 | 1 | 1. A method for processing synchronous array seismic data comprising: a) acquiring seismic data from a plurality of sensors to obtain synchronized array measurements; b) selecting seismic data without reference to phase information of the seismic data; c) applying a reverse-time data process using a processing unit to the synchronized array measurements to obtain a dynamic particle parameter associated with each of a plurality of subsurface locations; and d) storing the value of the obtained dynamic particle parameter associated with each of the plurality of subsurface locations only if the dynamic particle parameter value is greater than any previous value associated with the subsurface location for the reverse-time data process. |
20170208554 | 15326008 | 0 | 1. A terminal comprising: a reception processing section that receives a control signal including a TPC (transmission power control) command selected from among a plurality of candidate values; and a transmission control section that controls a first transmission power for an uplink data signal for a base station, using a first correction value corresponding to the received TPC command, and that controls a second transmission power for a signal for direct device-to-device communication using the first correction value or using a second correction value corresponding to the received TPC command, wherein: the first correction value and the second correction value are set for each of the candidate values; and the second correction value is set lower than the first correction value for at least one of the candidate values. |
4796466 | 07015739 | 1 | 1. A system for monitoring fluid pipelines or pressure vessels to determine the probability of a break, leak or rupture therein using a procedure in which two or more different sets of pressure or velocity measurements, each of said different sets containing a different number of readings, are compared statistically to detect a trend in the readings that would be indicative of a break, leak or rupture, which system comprises: (a) a fluid characteristic measuring means for monitoring a characteristic of a fluid in the pipeline, and which measuring means provides an output signal that is proportional to the characteristic being monitored; (b) statistical analyzer means receiving the output signal from a measuring means and providing a statistical analysis of the data from a transducer means to determine by a statistical analysis the probability of a break, leak, or rupture in said pipeline, said probability being expressed as an output signal to a display device. |
9858311 | 14230510 | 1 | 1. A method for compressing heteroscedastic data, said method comprising: obtaining said heteroscedastic data; applying said heteroscedastic data to a combined Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA)-Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) model, wherein said ARIMA is modified by GARCH predictions to generate heteroscedastic predictions; transforming at least a portion of said heteroscedastic data and said heteroscedastic predictions to a reversible format, independently of prior knowledge about possible values of said heteroscedastic data and said heteroscedastic predictions, wherein residuals between said heteroscedastic data and said heteroscedastic predictions have a lower entropy than said heteroscedastic data and wherein said heteroscedastic data is rebuilt substantially without a loss of precision, based on said heteroscedastic predictions and said residuals; and compressing parameters of said ARIMA-GARCH model and said residuals using entropy encoding to generate compressed residual data, wherein said compressed residual data is one or more of stored, transmitted and processed. |
7630955 | 10915133 | 1 | 1. An apparatus for identifying resources associated with a computer process, the apparatus comprising: a storage device storing executable code; a processor executing the executable code, the executable code comprising: an origination module that derives an initial member of a logical application that implements a business process from a business process identifier received by the origination module, wherein the business process identifier is provided by a user and is a file name for an executable file; a monitoring module that collects trace data, the trace data comprising a port number for a port and a process that opened the port; a determination module that stores the candidate resources in an eXtended Markup Language (XML) file, the XML file comprising a logical name for the business process and each candidate resource, a frequency rating indicating how often each candidate resource is employed by the business process, and a confidence value comprising a combined probability; an evaluation module that applies one or more heuristic routines to the trace data associated with the logical application, each heuristic routine deriving a set of candidate resources and assigning a plurality of probabilities to each candidate resource of the set indicating a likelihood that the candidate resource is a file used to implement the business process, a first heuristic routine assigning a high probability value to a first probability for each candidate resource that is used within a selected time interval after an initial execution of the logical application, a second heuristic routine assigning the high probability value to a second probability for each candidate resource within all directories owned by the initial member, a third heuristic routine assigning the high probability value to a third probability for each candidate resource within each parent directory of each resource used by the initial member, and a fourth heuristic routine assigning the high probability to a fourth probability for each candidate resource within directories owned by the initial member, the evaluation module combining the probability values assigned to the candidate resource by each heuristic routine by calculating a product of the probability values to define the combined probability for the candidate resource; an identification module that identifies the candidate resource as a member of the logical application in response to the combined probability satisfying a threshold value. |
20090144033 | 11947859 | 0 | 1. An object processing method comprising: adapting a universal mixture model including a plurality of universal mixture model components to a first object to generate a first object mixture model including a plurality of first object mixture model components having one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of universal mixture model components; performing component-by-component comparison of the plurality of first object mixture model components and a plurality of second object mixture model components obtained by adaptation of the universal mixture model to a second object and having one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of first object mixture model components; and generating a similarity measure for the first and second objects based on the component-by-component comparison. |
20080178294 | 11946003 | 0 | 1. A malware detection and mitigation system, comprising: a plurality of monitors operably adapted to scan network communications for a plurality of events; a detection agent operably adapted to communicate with at least one of said plurality of monitors, to correlate said plurality of said events to detect a malware attack, and to communicate an attack indication when said malware attack is detected; and a mitigating agent operably adapted to communicate with said detection agent and to trigger a mitigating action in response to said attack indication. |
20100063859 | 12283121 | 0 | 1. A method for capturing research decision flow in a Research and Development (R&D) activity, the method comprising: defining an objective of the R&D activity; determining one or more requirements for fulfilling the objective of the R&D activity; identifying a set of risks associated with failure to satisfy the one or more requirements; developing a task plan to perform at least one of; satisfying the one or more requirements; and mitigating one or more risks of the set of risks; and linking the objective, the one or more requirements, the set of risks and the task plan, to generate a linked information record. |
7800507 | 12418134 | 1 | 1. A matching system comprising: a first monitor configured to transmit first identification information to a presence detector; a second monitor configured to transmit second identification information to the presence detector; the presence detector configured to receive the first identification information and the second identification information and to send the first identification information and the second identification information to a server; the server storing a first profile associated with the first identification information and a second profile associated with the second identification information and the server is configured to receive the first identification information and the second identification information and compare the first profile and the second profile to determine whether the first profile and the second profile match according to matching criteria; wherein, in response to matching the first and second profiles, the server is configured to generate and send a first matching attribute to the first monitor and a second matching attribute to the second monitor; wherein the first matching attribute is unique to the second monitor and presented on the first monitor being at least one of outwardly visible or audible so as to be informative to a person other than a user of the first monitor of the match and the second matching attribute is unique to the first monitor and presented on the second monitor being at least one of outwardly visible or audible so as to be informative to a person other than a user of the second monitor of the match. |
20090033745 | 12220354 | 0 | 1. An apparatus for the analysis of a sequence of captured images covering a scene having a background, for detecting and tracking of moving and static objects and for matching the patterns of object behavior in the captured images to object behavior in predetermined scenarios, the apparatus comprising the elements of: at least one image sequence source for transmitting a sequence of images to an object tracking program; and an object tracking program comprising: a pre-processing application layer for constructing a long term difference image between a currently captured video frame and a long term reference image, the long term reference image showing the background of the scene, and for constructing a short term difference image between the currently captured video frame and a short term reference image, the short term reference image showing the background of the scene and at least one static object within the scene; an object clustering application layer for generating at least one new or updated object from the long term difference image and the short term difference image; and a background updating application layer for updating the long term reference image and the short term reference image with background changes prior to processing of a new frame. |
7990283 | 12614834 | 1 | 1. An accident avoidance system using an infrastructure system to convey location information between vehicles, comprising: a first vehicle approaching or traveling on a roadway comprising: a position determining system onboard the first vehicle that receives satellite positioning signals from a plurality of satellites and determines location information for the first vehicle based on the satellite positioning signals, a transmitter onboard the first vehicle that transmits the location information for the first vehicle to the infrastructure system, a receiver onboard the first vehicle that receives location information for a second vehicle from the infrastructure system, and an accident risk warning system onboard the first vehicle that alerts an operator of the first vehicle of a risk of an accident involving the first vehicle based on the location information for the first vehicle and map data representing the roadway including edges or lane boundaries of the roadway; and the second vehicle comprising: a position determining system onboard the second vehicle that receives satellite positioning signals from the plurality of satellites and determines a location of the second vehicle based on the satellite positioning signals, a transmitter onboard the second vehicle that transmits the location information for the second vehicle to the infrastructure system, a receiver onboard the second vehicle that receives the location information for the first vehicle from the infrastructure system, and an accident risk warning system onboard the second vehicle that alerts an operator of the second vehicle of a risk of an accident involving the second vehicle based on the location of the second vehicle and the map data representing the roadway including the edges or lane boundaries of the roadway. |
20150220376 | 14170656 | 0 | 1. A method for detecting irregularities of one or more application programmer interface (API) entities comprising: receiving a request for data of one or more API entities, monitoring said data from at least one server, detecting irregularities in the data, and displaying information pertaining to the irregularities to a user. |
9159164 | 13959406 | 1 | 1. A microprocessor based method comprising: receiving two or more different views of a structure, the views being in the form of digital images; assigning, by the microprocessor, points from each view that represent a shape of the structure; associating, by the microprocessor, corresponding points from the different views; deriving height data from the points by performing a transform that produces radial point patterns for the assigned points from each view; and generating, by the microprocessor, a three-dimensional model of the structure from the points and the height data. |
20100042570 | 12192055 | 0 | 1. A method for displaying messages, comprising: in response to a first user action at a first client device, displaying at the first client device a first subset of a first plurality of messages, the first subset ordered by a first importance score calculated using a first importance predictive model; in response to a second user action at a second client device, displaying at the second client device a second subset of a second plurality of messages, the second subset ordered by an second importance score calculated using a second importance predictive model; wherein the first and second pluralities of messages comprise messages in a single user account of a respective user; and wherein the first and second importance predictive models are distinct. |
9612351 | 13545467 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for attenuating incoherent noise in seismic data representative of a subsurface region of interest, the method comprising: a. receiving, at a computer processor, the seismic data which contains incoherent noise that varies spatially and temporally; b. transforming, via the computer processor, the seismic data into a domain wherein the seismic data have a sparse or compressible representation and the incoherent noise is represented by a peak in a histogram of coefficients to create transformed seismic data; c. dividing the domain into windows wherein the windows represent known spatio-temporal locations that are a subset of spatial and temporal locations in the seismic data; d. determining, via the computer processor, statistics of the transformed seismic data to define a noise level in each window; e. determining, via the computer processor, a filter for each window based on the statistics of the transformed data; f. applying, via the computer processor, the filter for each window to the transformed seismic data in each window to create filtered transformed seismic data that accounts for spatial and temporal variation in strength of signal and noise in the seismic data; g. performing, via the computer processor, an inverse transform of the filtered seismic data to create filtered seismic data; and h. processing the filtered seismic data to allow interpretation of subsurface features for exploration and development of hydrocarbon reservoirs. |
6108696 | 08970735 | 1 | 1. A transducer for transforming a set of syntactic and sampled data from a general purpose system to control a special purpose system, the transducer comprising: a first transducer module operationally coupled to the general purpose system for receiving the syntactic and sampled data from the general purpose system, and transforming the received data into a different set of syntactic and sampled data; and a second transducer module operationally coupled to the first transducer module for receiving the syntactic and sampled data generated by the first transducer module, and transforming the received data into another set of syntactic and sample data that are different from the other two sets of syntactic and sampled data to control the special purpose system; wherein at least one transducer module is separated into two parts, with one part being translated into a programming language, and with the two parts later merged after the translation. |
9824197 | 15112469 | 1 | 1. A classifier training method, comprising: acquiring, by a processor of an identity authentication server, a training sample set, each training sample in the training sample set comprising a user identity attribute and a feature value corresponding to a preset classification condition feature; determining, by the processor of the identity authentication server, a classification condition at a root node according to one preset classification condition feature, performing classification on the training samples in the training sample set according to the classification condition at the root node, and acquiring a classification subset corresponding to a child node of the root node; and using the child node of the root node as a current node; determining, by the processor of the identity authentication server, a classification condition at the current node according to another preset classification condition feature, performing classification on training samples in a classification subset corresponding to the current node according to the classification condition at the current node, and acquiring a classification subset of a child node of the current node; using, by the processor of the identity authentication server, the child node of the current node as a current node, continuously performing the step of determining a classification condition at the current node according to another preset classification condition feature, performing classification on training samples in a classification subset corresponding to the current node according to the classification condition at the current node, and acquiring a classification subset of a child node of the current node, until feature values corresponding to the same preset classification condition feature of training samples in the classification subset corresponding to the current node are respectively the same, or a layer number of the current node reaches a designated layer number; and determining, by the processor of the identity authentication server, a user identity classification result at the current node according to a user identity attribute corresponding to the maximum number of training samples in the classification subset corresponding to the current node, and acquiring a decision tree classifier; wherein the determining a classification condition at a root node according to one preset classification condition feature comprises: counting the number of training samples, in the training sample set, in which a user identity attribute corresponding to each feature value of each preset classification condition feature is a legal user, and determining the classification condition at the root node according to corresponding preset classification condition features corresponding to feature values having the maximum counted number in the training sample set; and the determining a classification condition at the current node according to another preset classification condition feature comprises: determining residual preset classification condition features corresponding to the current node except for the preset classification condition feature used for determining the classification condition at a node of a current path, counting the number of training samples, in the classification subset corresponding to the current node, in which a user identity attribute corresponding to each feature value of each residual preset classification condition feature is a legal user, and determining the classification condition at the current node according to residual preset classification condition features corresponding to feature values having the maximum counted number corresponding to the current node. |
20150227796 | 14692234 | 0 | 1. A device for identifying and displaying additional information relating to an item of interest, the device comprising a processor for executing one or more modules comprising: an image acquisition module for acquiring a first query image including the item of interest; a feature descriptor generation module for extracting a plurality of first query image feature descriptors associated with the first query image; a fingerprint generation module for: generating a first query fingerprint based on the extracted first query image feature descriptors; and transmitting the first query fingerprint to a server, wherein the first query fingerprint enables the server to perform, based on the first query fingerprint, a similarity search in a database storing a plurality of reference image feature descriptors and to acquire one or more candidate images associated with at least one of the reference image feature descriptors based on a result of the similarity search; and an image matching module for determining whether the first query image matches with at least one of the one or more candidate images; wherein the determination at the image matching module enables acquisition of additional information associated with at least one of the one or more candidate images for displaying as additional information relating to the at least one item of interest to the user. |
6061654 | 08771356 | 1 | 1. A method of recognizing an identifier entered by a user, the identifier including a first plurality of predetermined characters, wherein the characters are selected from a first set of characters, the first set of characters having a first total number of characters, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing a recognized identifier based on the entered identifier, the recognized identifier comprising a second plurality of predetermined characters; b) providing a plurality of reference identifiers, each one of the plurality of reference identifiers comprising a different plurality of predetermined characters, each one of the different plurality of predetermined characters belonging to the first set of characters; c) providing a first arrangement of character recognition probabilities, the first arrangement of character recognition probabilities encompassing a second set of characters having a second total number of characters and is a superset of the characters of the first set of characters; d) producing a constrained arrangement of character recognition probabilities by constraining the first arrangement of character recognition probabilities to encompass a third set of characters constituting a subset of the second set of characters; e) obtaining, for each character position in at least one of the reference identifiers and each character position in the recognized identifier, from the constrained arrangement of character recognition probabilities, a probability that a character in the at least one reference identifier is recognized as a character found in the corresponding character position in the recognized identifier; f) determining an identifier recognition probability based on the obtained probabilities; g) repeating steps e) and f) for every reference identifier in the plurality of reference identifiers, each one of the plurality of reference identifiers being associated with a corresponding identifier recognition probability; and h) selecting the reference identifier most likely matching the entered identifier based on the plurality of obtained recognition probabilities. |
8311829 | 13312799 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for processing language input in a system that includes a mobile computer, the mobile computer including a microphone and a display and a text input device operable by a user, the method comprising operations of: (a) responsive to the mobile computing device receiving via the microphone voice input comprising multiple discrete utterances from a user, converting the voice input into a digital sequence of vectors; (b) the mobile computing device creating an initial N-best list of words corresponding to each of the utterances by conducting speech recognition operations including matching the vectors to potential phonemes and matching the phonemes against a lexicon model and a language model, the operation of creating each initial N-best list of words further considering context of the corresponding utterance with respect to words of N-best lists corresponding to others of the received utterances, said context including subject-verb agreement, proper case, proper gender, and numerical agreement; (c) for each of said utterances, the mobile computing device visually displaying a best word from the initial N-best list of words corresponding to said utterance; (d) responsive to implied or explicit user selection of one of the displayed best words, said selected word being from a given N-best list of words corresponding to a given utterance, the mobile computing device causing the display to present additional words from the given initial N-best list of words; (e) during said presentation of the additional words, the mobile computing device receiving via the text input device hand-entered input from a user, and responsive to said text input, constraining said presentation of the additional words to exclude words of the given initial N-best list that are inconsistent with the textual input; (f) responsive to said presentation of the additional words being constrained to a resultant word, displaying the resultant word instead of the selected word; (g) the mobile computing device updating the initial N-best lists of others of the utterances besides the given utterance to provide subject-verb agreement, employ proper case, use proper gender, and exhibit numerical agreement when considered in context of the resultant word; (h) for each of the utterances having an updated N-best list, the mobile computing device causing the display to present a best word of the updated N-best list of words for that utterance; and (i) for each of the utterances without an updated N-best list, the mobile computing device causing the display to present a best word of the initial N-best list of words for said utterance. |
20050225552 | 10880549 | 0 | 1. A method for scalable computer animation, comprising: identifying parallelizable animation tasks; identifying non-parallelizable animation tasks; and for a given animation frame, subdividing animation tasks for the animation frame into parallelizable animation tasks and non-parallelizable animation tasks. |
9830386 | 14586049 | 1 | 1. A method, performed by a computing system, for identifying comparatively trending topics, comprising: receiving, by the server, as post parameters to an interface of the computing system, one or more parameters that distinguish social media postings; obtaining, by the server, over a network and based on the received post parameters, two groups of posts; generating, by the server, a first ranked list of topics for a first group of the two groups of posts by: identifying, by the server, as first group topics, topics from the first group of posts wherein members of the first group topics each comprise one or more words; and computing, by the server, a first rank score for each of the topics of the first group topics; generating, by the server, a second ranked list of topics for a second group of the two groups of posts by: identifying, by the server, as second group topics, topics from the second group of posts wherein members of the second group topics each comprise one or more words; and computing, by the server, a second rank score for each of the topics of the second group topics; associating, by the server, with a selected one of the first group topics from the first ranked list of topics, a difference score computed, by the computing system, as a difference between: the rank score for the selected one of the first group topics, and a corresponding rank score determined based on the second ranked list of topics; comparing, by the server, the difference score to a specified threshold; in response to determining that the difference score is above the specified threshold, identifying, by the server, the selected one of the first group topics as a comparatively trending topic. |
10061571 | 15273511 | 1 | 1. A method for link time optimization, the method comprising: receiving a customized linker script; parsing, by a compiler, intermediate representation files to determine what symbols are present in the intermediate representation files; providing the symbols determined by the parsing to a linker; creating, by the linker, a symbol use tree of all the symbols that are present in the intermediate representation files and other symbols in binary code received by the linker; discarding, by the linker, any received objects for which no use can be identified and all dependencies of the objects; providing, from the linker to the compiler, after the discarding, a preserve list of symbols, the preserve list comprising a list of: only symbols in both the intermediate representation files and the binary code that are proven used by the objects and the intermediate representation files, and any additional symbols specified by the customized linker script; compiling the intermediate representation files and the objects based on the preserve list of symbols, and deleting, by the linker, any remaining unused objects. |
20070006236 | 11173885 | 0 | 1. Apparatus, comprising: an interface module to receive event management data related to an event type from at least one host device driver, the interface module to send the event management data; an event routing service to receive the event management data from the interface module; and at least one capability module coupled to the event routing service to receive event management data for events characterized by event ids that the at least one capability module has subscribed to. |
20170177878 | 15371392 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method of controlling execution of computer-executable commands, the method performed by one or more hardware processors, comprising: intercepting, automatically by a computer-implemented agent process running on a first computer, a command issued from the first computer to execute on a target computer prior to invocation of the command on the target computer by at least capturing an application invocation signal and intercepting user input to the application; retrieving a server profile built for an application running on the target computer that supports the command; dynamically constructing a risk enforcement policy at least based on the server profile and change policy; determining based on the risk enforcement policy, one or more computer-executable enforcement actions to perform prior to sending the command to the target computer for execution; and based on executing of one or more of the computer-executable enforcement actions, transmitting the command to execute on the target computer or preventing the command from executing on the target computer to prevent error. |
20130167124 | 13447952 | 0 | 1. A method of identifying at least one custom parameter in a request uniform resource locator (URL), the method comprising: identifying at least a first portion of source code of a Web application that typically consumes the at least one custom parameter provided in the request URL; via a processor, instrumenting the Web application at the first portion of the source code; receiving by the Web application the request URL and executing the Web application with the instrumented source code; identifying at least one run-time value consumed by the second portion of the source code; comparing the run-time value to the request URL to the determine whether the run-time value intersects with the request URL; responsive to determining that the run-time value intersects with the request URL, identifying the run-time value as the custom parameter; and generating a custom parameter rule based on the comparison. |
9385780 | 14054552 | 1 | 1. A customer premises equipment (CPE) apparatus comprising: an embedded noise analysis engine implemented by a modem chipset that collects information regarding a noise affecting communications to and from the CPE apparatus and classifies the noise according to dimensions of frequency, time, and persistence, wherein the noise is classified as one from the group consisting of: a narrowband interferer and a wideband interferer, and is further classified as being one from the group consisting of: impulsive and continuous, and wherein the embedded noise analysis engine further tracks the appearance and disappearance of the classified noise, and wherein the classification in the persistence dimension further includes classifying the noise as one from the group consisting of: permanent, intermittent, and evolving. |
20160220173 | 14609529 | 0 | 1. A method for estimating teeth wear, comprising steps of: receiving a 3D digital model of teeth; segmenting the 3D digital model of teeth to identify individual teeth within the 3D digital model of teeth; selecting a digital model of a tooth from the segmented 3D digital model of teeth; predicting an original shape of the selected tooth to obtain a digital model of a predicted original shape; and comparing the digital model of the tooth with the digital model of the predicted original shape to estimate wear areas in the selected tooth. |
5557720 | 08303286 | 1 | 1. A method for determining whether an editing step of a document tree results in a weakly valid document structure, the weakly valid document structure being a document structure that is extendable into a valid document structure that satisfies a grammar, the method comprising the steps of: producing the document tree having a plurality of nodes labelled with symbols of the grammar; examining selective nodes of the document tree to determine whether the selective nodes are weakly valid to extend into the valid document structure that satisfies the grammar; and performing the editing step to obtain the weakly valid document structure if the selective nodes are determined to be weakly valid. |